Iona College acknowledged Tuesday that its former provost had, for nearly a decade, manipulated and misreported student-related data to government officials, accrediting bodies, bond rating agencies, and others.
"I do think there probably is a pattern" in the case at Iona and other recent incidents involving law schools at the University of Illinois and Villanova University, Clemson University's reporting to U.S. News and World Report, and even the grade-changing scandal in the Atlanta public schools, said Jane Robbins, senior lecturer in innovation, entrepreneurship, and institutional leadership at the University of Arizona.
While making clear that she did not in any way excuse the "egregious" individual behavior on display at Iona, Robbins said the situation reflects the intense pressure and "perverse incentives" in an "intensely competitive system" in which colleges are often deemed worthy or excellent based on standardized test scores and the giving rates of their alumni.
"It's the kind of thing that if everybody was audited, we might see a lot more of it," said Robbins.
As the table below from Inside Higher Ed shows, there were some significant differences between reported data and reality, particularly in relation to overstated SAT scores, SSRs, completion rates and alumni giving.
Could it happen in the UK? Whilst some creative reporting was feasible in the early days of league tables (I have heard of at least one institution which adopted a somewhat over-optimistic view when much of the data was self-certified), the rigorous data collection standards of HESA, Hefce, DeLHE etc make such wilful misreporting extremely difficult these days. The system though remains intensely competitive and the perverse incentives undoubtedly exist in relation to data which contribute to league table positioning.
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Spain Literature Part III
by mysteryaround|Published January 3, 2022
Overall, the second half of the 1970s saw a vigorous and booming narrative flourish. Previous trends have matured: the novelists of the previous generation now offer a mature work, while the younger ones, who had made their first tests at the turn of the two decades, find inspiration and tools for writing novels in the climate of freedom., even without expressing a generational rejection, they represent a peculiar problematic dimension, more characterized by the new situation and the new conditions in which they appear. In short, there was no break, but the progressive enrichment of a narrative method open to evolution. In the second half of the decade, the literary landscape is affected by a peculiar and significant phenomenon: many young storytellers enter the scene, as never seen in the past. The female presence emerges not as a group or tendency, but as defined individualities, which flank, with specific writing and problems, the few and still active writers of previous decades (R. Chacel; C. Martín Gaite, n.1925). The young storytellers publish novels inspired by women, but also feminists, which could never have come out just a few years earlier. In general, these are family and social stories, in which morbid atmospheres predominate, steeped in eroticism (up to lesbian eroticism) and man-woman relationships in which the psychological, educational and historical tensions of the Spanish bourgeoisie explode. Among the most significant titles they should at least be reported, the young storytellers publish novels inspired by women, but also feminists, which could never have come out just a few years earlier. In general, these are family and social stories, in which morbid atmospheres predominate, steeped in eroticism (up to lesbian eroticism) and man-woman relationships in which the psychological, educational and historical tensions of the Spanish bourgeoisie explode. Among the most significant titles they should at least be reported El mismo mar de todos los verano (1978) and El amor es un juego solitario (1979) by E. Tusquets (b. 1936); Tiempo de cerezas (1977) by M. Roig (1946-1991); Burdeos (1980) by Spain Puértola Villanueva (b. 1947); Te trataré como una reína (1979) by R. Montero (b. 1951).
At the beginning of the Eighties, after the chaotic and tense phase of the immediate post-Francoism, along with political stability, the Spain experienced an accelerated economic development and consequent well-being. In a few years the whole town changed its face, manifesting an intense and articulated cultural vitality. Even the literary panorama undergoes gradual significant changes: the experimental novel inexorably declines, especially in its most exasperated and aggressive forms; and after some initial difficulties, the writers of the seventies set out in the direction of a more traditional, good quality fiction, writing works in which interest in the story told, in the analysis of the story and in the coherent thematic development is reborn..
But the real turning point is not given by the return to the classic and traditional novel of well-known and established authors, but by the appearance of a new generation of young writers, who present marked cultural, expressive and thematic peculiarities, and which constitute the most relevant novelty of the the eighties. These are the so-called " new narrators ", individualistic, free and cosmopolitan who, programmatically, intend to turn their backs on the Spanish literary tradition, breaking polemically with the themes, problems and forms that fed the work of previous generations. They seek inspiration, influences and models outside their country, without being blocked by borders and traditions and without any need to represent typically Spanish realities and problems. Thus they produce a narrative in which urban themes predominate (the life of the big cities, its signs, symbols, languages, the middle classes, man-woman relationships, sex, drugs, music); in short, every space in which masses of men and women flock becomes the setting for their stories, as an expression of a general condition of the times rather than as a specific issue of a country. Furthermore, the treatment of these themes does not start from any attempt to denounce or reflect, but from a sort of pessimistic and fatalistic acceptance of a factual reality, represented with ironic, skeptical and often humorous veins.
According to healthvv, the foreign literary tradition appears to these young writers as an object of personal and subjective recreation: from this derives the presence in their works of a variety of styles, trends, genres that coexist with apparent great ease. They dedicate themselves with passion and enthusiasm to composing well-constructed novels, working on the narrative structures and laws of the genre. It is a generation of writers who have decided to get out of literary autarchy, preferring to move away from themselves and their environment to the point of making what is " foreign " a peculiar problematic feature, a foundation of style and a distinctive sign. His literary cosmopolitanism is the fruit not of some international mentality.
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Understanding the European Integration in the Asylum Policy: State-of-the-Art and Avenues for Future Research
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This commentary reviews the literature on European integration in the asylum policy area and offers a roadmap for future research. Whereas early studies explain integration through a state-centred approach, recent studies rely on the theory of institutionalism to address the circular causality in the European process. The Council has so far been at the heart of decision-making in this policy area. However, there are still important dimensions of the Council´s dynamics unexplored in the literature. Therefore, this commentary proposes a research agenda to better understand not only the member states' negotiation behaviour, policy preferences and positions in the Council; but also the interplay between the EU institutions and its impact on the European integration.
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Conservation SA is pleased that the Government will source 25% of its electricity from renewable sources that can dispatch energy on demand to complement existing solar and wind.
Chief Executive Craig Wilkins said: "Adding renewables that either have storage (such as solar thermal and batteries) or that can be switched on and off as needed will mean we don't have to buy expensive electricity from our gas plants as often.
"This is the direction we need to go in for all electricity customers. The more South Australia can develop on demand renewables to complement our variable ones, the more electricity costs for all consumers will reduce over time.
"For this reason, we urge the Government to take the next step and ensure the remaining 75% of its electricity supply is also focused on ensuring the SA grid transitions away from fossil fuels as quickly as possible," he said.
The State Government has announced today a tender process for 25% of its electricity supply. However, there is still no word as yet about the remaining 75%. The number of competing bids for this remaining share includes a plan for solar thermal and storage at Port Augusta.
"Today's announcement is another good step along our journey to clean up and smarten up our electricity supply," said Mr Wilkins.
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FBI Agent Accusing "Synagogue Bombers" Previously Pressured a Wounded Boy to Finger an Innocent Man as a Terrorist, Causing that Guy to be Tortured - Washingtons Blog
FBI Agent Accusing "Synagogue Bombers" Previously Pressured a Wounded Boy to Finger an Innocent Man as a Terrorist, Causing that Guy to be Tortured
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The FBI agent with a high-profile role in yesterday's arrests of four men for plotting a terror attack in New York has a pretty interesting -- and controversial -- track record.
Special Agent Robert Fuller, whose name appears at the top of the federal criminal complaint in the case, had a hand in the FBI's failure to nab two of the 9/11 hijackers, had one of his informants set himself on fire in front of the White House, and was involved in misidentifying a Canadian man as a terrorist leading to his secret arrest and torture -- a case that is now the subject of a major lawsuit.
As if that isn't bad enough, it turns out that Fuller pressured (and perhaps tortured) a wounded boy prisoner into wrongfully identifying the Canadian guy as a terrorist:
Fuller was involved in the earlier Canadian case as the man who interrogated a wounded Afghani teenager named Omar Khadr ... Under Fuller's interrogation, Khadr dubiously identified a Canadian citizen named Maher Arar as someone he had seen in Afghanistan. Arar was then shipped to Syria where he was imprisoned and tortured for a year. It's now been proven that Arar could not have been in Afghanistan when Khadr, under intense pressure from Fuller, said he saw him there.
In January, Fuller took the witness stand in Khadr's trial at Guantanamo Bay. He testified that during the interrogation at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan, Khadr identified Arar from a photo and said he had seen him in Afghanistan.
Under cross examination, though, Fuller disclosed that Khadr didn't actually identify Arar. Instead, he first said Arar "looked familiar," and then "in time" he felt he recognized the man in the photo, according to Fuller's testimony....
According to Steven Watt, one of Arar's lawyers now with the ACLU, Khadr's identification should have been treated as highly suspect... "Khadr would have been about 14, blind in one eye and suffering from serious wounds," Watt says. "It was totally ridiculous."
Fuller also dropped the ball before 9/11:
Fuller was also on the team that was tasked to track down two of the 9/11 hijackers in August, 2001, prior to the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon.
The New York Observer reported that after the CIA told the FBI that the two hijackers, Khalid al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hamzi were in the United States, Fuller was assigned to bring them into custody on Aug. 23, 2001, 19 days prior to the attacks.
A fellow agent, the Observer reported, had labeled the lead "routine," meaning that Fuller had 30 days to catch them. Fuller went through local databases, checked Mihdhar's New York hotel and then let it drop. Standard procedure, the papers said, held that he also should have search commercial databases, but he did not.
He later claimed that he consulted ChoicePoint database on Sept. 4 or 5, but the 9/11 Commission later concluded that the FBI did not consult that database until after the attacks, the newspaper said.
Given his track record, why should anyone believe Fuller about anything?
Of course, the fact that the "mastermind" of the terrorism plot was a self-confessed "pothead" , another was a crackhead, and that they were all semi-retarded also calls into question the seriousness of the threat.


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Red Seas under Red Skies
Publié par Patrick on Sunday, May 20, 2007
I'm well aware that many of you have been eagerly awaiting this book review. As was the case with me, I'm persuaded that most of you are curious to see if this one lives up to the expectations generated by its predecessor, The Lies of Locke Lamora. Hence, let me put your mind at ease. With Red Seas under Red Skies, Scott Lynch lives up to readers' high expectations!
And by that I mean that if you enjoyed Lynch's debut, you'll undoubtedly like this second volume in The Gentleman Bastard sequence. To me, Lynch's books are like summer blockbuster movies. They're big productions with plenty of action, all in all quite the roller-coaster ride. They'll never win an Oscar, but in terms of fun and entertainment they pack a sure KO punch! If you're looking for a grand fantasy epic, don't bother. But if another imaginative and convoluted caper is your cup of tea, then buckle up and enjoy the ride! Think of it as an original cross between Ocean's Eleven and Pirates of the Carribean.
Locke and Jean's newest set of misadventures are sure to thrill fans of The Lies of Locke Lamora. Having screwed up things as bad as humanly possible in Camorr, both were forced to flee and eventually settled in Tal Verrar. Interestingly enough, that's where the Sinspire, the most exclusive and notorious gambling house, can be found. Orchestrating their most perfect crime, Locke has his sight set on the Sinspire's fortune. Unfortunately, Locke's plans have a tendency to go awry, and both he and Jean somehow find themselves among pirates on the Sea of Brass. Mix the Gentlemen Bastards and piracy on the high seas, and you find yourself with a recipe for one fun-filled adventure!
As was the case with the author's debut, worldbuilding doesn't play much of a role in Red Seas under Red Skies. Even less so than in The Lies of Locke Lamora, truth be told. Although the action was more or less restricted to the city of Camorr in the first volume, Lynch created a veritable living and breathing locale as the backdrop for his story. Camorr sort of became a character in and of itself. The imagery wasn't quite the same with Tal Verrar, Port Prodigal and the other locations where the action takes place in this sequel.
The aspect which elevates this novel to another level is the characterization. Red Seas under Red Skies is a character-driven book, and Locke is once again the heart and soul of the tale (though Jean ups his game considerably in this one). The relationship between both characters is further fleshed out, making them even more endearing. Although he can craft an exciting, action-packed story, with witty dialogues throughout, I feel the characterizations remain Scott Lynch's bread and butter. He truly excels in that department. Which is why, I believe, I was a bit disappointed by the supporting cast. There are too many clichéd "tough chicks" for my taste, and what feels like an inordinate amount of female pirates (ferocious, every last one of them, of course). Somehow, that rang a little false. I'm all for strong female characters, but other than Ezri Delmastro I found the rest too clichéd in comparison.
The pace is brisk for the better part of the novel, though the rhythm becomes a bit sluggish in certain instances while the boys are at sea.
Kudos go out to Lynch for closing the show in unexpected fashion! Once more, Red Seas under Red Skies is an extremely entertaining adventure. Conventional wisdom says that the author will likely not be able to maintain this level of interest with a different caper in every volume of this seven-book cycle. And yet, conventional wisdom said that the James Bond franchise couldn't last. Still, Lynch's style ensures that this tale remains fresh in a genre that is too often known for its stagnancy. In any event, there are some hints of an overall and more ambitious story arc, so I'm curious to see what Lynch has in store for us in the forthcoming Republic of Thieves.
You can safely pre-order this one!:-) Red Seas under Red Skies may not be the best fantasy novel you'll read this year, but I doubt you'll have more fun reading anything else!
Ed S. said...
I do love that US cover. Much better than the Gollancz UK one although alas the Gollancz is first out of the gate.
Nice review Pat. Can't wait to read this one. Lies kicked ass!
Scott Marlowe said...
Great review! Looking forward to picking up my own copy. I received Lies as an ARC... maybe I'll luck out with this one, too.
Definitely can't wait for this one. It's up there with Harry Potter on my summer list.
Josan said...
Unfortunately, this review makes me want to read this book all the more. Why do we have to wait until August? Oh, well, they say delayed gratification is good for one...rather like cod liver oil!
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A unique variety, once cherished by the Lakota Sioux, and distinctly pear-shaped. The skin color is a variegated green and orange, although some fruit will be entirely orange and others entirely green. The fine-grained orange flesh has a sweet and nutty flavor. Has baking qualities similar to Hubbard squash. The crimson-orange flesh is also delicious when raw � grated in salads or slaw � but also good in chili.
Lakota is a red heirloom from the American Midwest and is also called the Red Lakota. They make for a delightful display when mixed with their Blue Lakota cousins.
Growing: This is a vining Hubbard type squash that grows to about 7-8 lbs. and will normally have 3-5 squash per plant. It does very well in Northern climates where many other squash have a hard time reaching maturity. This squash is an excellent climber and is recommended for growing on a lattice or fence.
California: Hardy and grows well.
Ohio: Great yield, grows well.
Texas: Large plant, grows well.
Massachussets: Grows well in the climate.
South Carolina: Low yield, low heat tolerance.
Utah:Grows well in hot climate.
North Michigan:Grows well, great producer.


The Adventurer Club provides home and church programs for parents with 6- through 9-year-old children. It is designed to stimulate the children's curiosity and includes age-specific activities that involve both parent and child in recreational activities, simple crafts, appreciation of God's creation, and other activities that are of interest to that age. All is carried out with a spiritual focus, setting the stage for participation in the church as a Pathfinder.
The church elects the club director and associates. (See pp. 104, 172.) Additional staff members are selected by the administrative staff of the club. The director is a member of the Adventist youth ministries committee. Resource materials are available from the conference youth ministries director.


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It can also react with hydroxyl- and amino-groups present in some organic compounds leading to covalent attachment of methacryloyl moieties. These functional groups could be successfully used either in subsequent polymerisation or reactions with thiols. For example, chitosan modified by methacryloylation exhibits better ability to adhere to mucosal surfaces (mucoadhesion) due to its reactivity with thiols groups present in cysteine domains of mucins ).

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March 10, 2019 Tailon & Brittany said their vows and became husband and wife at the CKE chapel. Their wedding ceremony was performed by Curtis who is also a JP. After the wedding ceremony, Curtis shot photos of the newlyweds. Curtis is also a professional photographer and for a very small amount of money you can add a photo shoot to create some extra memories of your wedding ceremony. Here are our favorite photos from their wedding ceremony.
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(L-R): Keri Hilson, Katy Perry, and Jennifer Nettles during the opening number of VH1 Divas Salute The Troops. Photo: Getty Images/VH1.com
Sugarland's Jennifer Nettles helped VH1 Divas Salute The Troops in last night's (12/5) television special. She joined pop, rock and hip-hop stars Katy Perry, Keri Hilson, Nicki Minaj, Paramore and Grace Potter & The Nocturnals for the show taped primarily last week at San Diego's Marine Corps Air Station Miramar.
The stars donned military-inspired wardrobe for much of the evening, including Nettles, Hilson and Perry in World War II-era uniforms for a cover of the 1940s classic "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy." More here.
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When folded up, the Beagle 2 lander resembles a very large pocket watch. This is the state in which it passed the long journey to Mars.
As soon as it came to a halt on the Martian surface, however, Beagle 2's outer casing was due to open to reveal the inner workings.
However, Beagle 2 failed to communicate after it was due to land on Mars on Christmas Day 2003, and was declared lost on 6 February 2004. What follows is a description of intended events, had the lander been able to carry out its mission.
First, solar panels would unfold: they catch sunlight to charge the batteries which would power the lander and its experiments throughout the mission. Next, a robotic arm would spring to life.
Attached to the end of the arm was the Beagle's Payload Adjustable Workbench (PAW) where most of the experiments were situated. These included a pair of stereo cameras, a microscope, two types of spectrometer (Mössbauer and X-ray) and a torch to illuminate surfaces. The PAW also housed the corer/grinder and 'the mole', two instruments for collecting rock and soil samples for analysis.
The robotic arm would have stretched and rotated to give the two stereo cameras a good panoramic view of the landing site. After taking some shots, the cameras would take close up images of nearby soil and rocks as potential candidates for further analysis.
When a suitable rock was chosen, the PAW would rotate until the grinder was in position to grind away the weathered surface. The PAW could then reposition for the microscope or spectrometers to analyse the freshly exposed material.
When a rock looked particularly interesting, a sample would have been drilled out with the corer and taken to the gas analysis package (GAP) inside the shell of the lander by means of the robotic arm. 'The mole', carried on the back of the PAW, would also collect soil samples and return them to the GAP.
Gas analysis package
This is where investigations most relevant to detecting past or present life would have been conducted. The instrument has twelve ovens in which rock or soil samples can be heated gradually in the presence of oxygen. The carbon dioxide generated at each temperature would be delivered to a mass spectrometer which would measure its abundance and the ratio of carbon-12 to carbon-13.
The mass spectrometer would have also studied other elements and look for methane in samples of atmosphere. The temperature at which the carbon dioxide is generated would reveal its nature, as different carbon bearing materials combust at different temperatures.
A variety of tiny sensors scattered about the Beagle 2 lander would measure different aspects of the Martian environment including: atmospheric pressure, air temperature and wind speed and direction; ultraviolet radiation; dust fall-out and the density and pressure of the upper atmosphere during Beagle 2's descent.
Two stereo cameras
These cameras would provide digital pictures from which a 3D model of the area within reach of the robotic arm may be constructed. As the PAW cannot be operated in real time from Earth, this 3D model would be used to guide the instruments into position alongside target rocks and soil and to provide information on the geological setting of the landing site.
The microscope would pick out features a few thousandths of a millimetre across on rock surfaces exposed by the grinder. It will reveal the texture of the rock, which will help determine whether it is of sedimentary or volcanic origin.
The Mössbauer Spectrometer
This would investigate the mineral composition of rocks by irradiating exposed rock surfaces and soil with g-rays emitted by a isotopic source (cobalt-57), and then measuring the spectrum of the g-rays reflected back. In particular, the nature of iron minerals in the pristine interior and weathered surface of rocks would have been compared to determine the oxidising nature of the present atmosphere.
This would measure the elements in rocks by bombarding exposed rock surfaces with X-rays from four radioactive sources (two iron-55 and two cadmium-109). The rocks would emit lower energy X-rays, characteristic of the elements present. Rock ages could be estimated using the property that the isotope potassium-40 decays to argon-40. The X-ray spectrometer would provide the potassium measurement and the GAP would measure argon trapped in rocks.
This instrument would be able to crawl up to several metres across the surface at the rate of 1 centimetre every six seconds. Once it has reached a boulder, it would burrow underground to collect samples in a cavity in its tip. Alternatively, the PAW could have been positioned so that 'the mole' can burrow vertically underground to collect samples possibly one metre below the surface.
Corer/grinder
This is a drill bit that could either be moved over a surface to remove weathered material or be positioned in one spot to drill a core of a hopefully pristine sample.
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Q: cd to user defined path in python I was wondering if you could help me with my new python program. I recently added a browse button to the GUI to make things more "user-friendly." I told python to only accept *.pvt files when the user is asked to browse for a file... Now, I am left wondering how to tell python to take the path the user browsed to and open a cmd window[using subprocess.Popen("cmd.exe")] and cd to that user defined path.. any ideas???

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THE story of Catalina de Erauso. The fighting nun.
Catalina de Erauso (Engraved from her portrait by Pacheco, 1630.)
Catalina de Erauso alias Francisco Loyola (* 1592 in Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain; † 1650 in Cuitlaxtla, New Spain, today Mexico) was a Basque noblewoman who lived as a man for several decades ("The nun lieutenant").
Catalina de Erauso. The fighting nun.
THE story of Catalina de Erauso, the Spanish nun who became famous as a soldier and fought with great courage in the wars in Chile and Peru in the 17th century, has been a theme of inspiration for several writers. De Quincey described her adventurous career; it was dramatized in Spain, and her interesting story was told in Spanish verse by Jose Maria de Heredia in 'La nonne alferez,' and translated into French in 1894.
She had the distinction of being promoted to the rank of ensign on the field and was the first woman to be granted permission by a Pope to wear masculine attire.
She is said to have been born in San Sebastian in 1592, her father being Captain don Miguel de Erauso and her mother Dona Maria Perez de Galarraga y Arce. At an early age she was sent to a convent of Dominican nuns to be educated. She had three brothers in the service of the State, Miguel, the eldest, being an officer in the Army. After serving a year as a novice she was received into the community under the name of Catalina de Aliri. Later she fled from the convent, and, dressing herself as a man, she set off on her adventures. After serving as a page to Don Carlos de Arellano, a gallant soldier, she eventually made her way to Seville and enlisted in one of the galleons bound for the Spanish Main. On landing she joined the army under the name of Alonso Diaz Ramérez de Guzman and served through the campaigns against tho Indians in Chile and Peru. She was under the command of Diego Braho de SarabÍa for over two years and afterwards was attached to the company of Captain Gonzalo Rodriguez, on whose recommendation she "vas promoted to the rank of ensign for distinguished service on the field.
She next served under Captain Guillén de Casanova, who commanded the garrison holding the fortress of Araoco, and was wounded at the battle of Puren. During the whole period of her service in Chile and Peru she preserved the secret of her sex and her disguise was never penetrated, not even by her brother, Ensign Miguel de Erauso, with whom she served unrecognized. In action she was conspicuous for her courage and daring, while her gambling propensities involved her in many brawls and fights. In one of these, when she was severely wounded and lay in a serious condition, she disclosed the secret of her sex to the Bishop of Guamanga. This ended her career as a soldier, and under the name of Antonio de Erauso she returned to Europe in 1624. Such briefly is her story.
According to the narrative of her life written by herself, Catalina made up her mind to leave the convent after a quarrel and conflict with ' a brawny nun who laid violent hands' on her. This she deeply resented, and she determined to escape from the community; while the nuns were rising from the midnight mass she managed to get hold of the convent keys and shut the doors of the building for the last time. She had made no special plans as to the route she should take, so she took shelter in a grove of chestnut trees outside the town to consider what she should do next. The first thing was to disguise herself, and she decided to dress in men's clothes in order to escape recognition. She cut out and made herself a pair of breeches from a blue cloth skirt she was wearing and from her linsey petticoat she fashioned a doublet and garters. She then cut off her hair and, arraying herself in the male garments she had made, set out on the third night, skirting the villages and keeping to the roads. She at length reached Vitoria, having eaten nothing but the herbs she found by the wayside.
At Vitoria she sought refuge with a doctor named Don Francisade Cerralta, a professor who had married a first cousin of her mother's. He treated her with kindness and gave her clothes, and during the three months she stayed with him he taught her Latin. When she made up her mind to leave him she borrowed some money from the doctor, obtained a lift in a carrier's cart, and went to Valladolid, where she soon obtained employment as a page. While there she heard that her father had come in search of her, but she did not see him, so quickly packing up her things and with but eight doubloons in her pocket she set out for Bilbao. Later she went on to Estelle where she got work as a page again, but soon left for Passage, where she boarded a ship sailing for Seville. There she enlisted as a boy on a galleon that formed part of the armada which had been fitted out for Punta de Araya, Caribbean, and sailed for America.
Landing at Panama she left the ship and took service with Captain Juan de Ibarra, Controller of the Treasury, and remained with him for three months.
Then Catalina's restless spirit asserted itself again; she met with a merchant of Trujillo called Juan de Urquiza, and sailed with him in a frigate bound for Paita, Peru. There for a while she took charge of a shop for him, but in a brawl in which she was engaged she killed a man and afterwards fled to Lima. Now, having determined that fighting was her forte she enlisted as a private in one of the six companies recruited for service in Chile, to form an army of 1600 men.
Arrived at Concepción, Chile, she carne across her brother, whom she had never seen, as he had gone to America before she was born. When he heard she had come from his native province in Spain he became greatly interested in her and got her transferred to his company. She served under him for three years without disclosing her identity.
At Concepción she led the rollicking life of a soldier, and later marched out with the army to the plains of Valdivia to engage the Indians who had massed there, find inflicted severe losses on the Spaniards. In one battle they attacked the ensign and captured the flag. Although wounded in the leg Catalina pursued them and with great bravery recaptured the flag and brought it back to the company. The Governor presented her with the flag she had saved and she was promoted to ensign in Alonso de Moreno's company.
Catalina served as an ensign for five years and was present at the battle of Purén, where her captain was killed and the company put under her command. She led it for six months, during which period they had many encounters with the Indians, and she received several arrow wounds. In one engagement she found herself in combat with a powerful Indian chief and unhorsed him in the fight; he surrendered, but Catalina lost her temper, and had him hanged from a tree. Through this action she got into trouble with the Governor, who ordered her back to Nacimiento.
Catalina de Erauso (1585 or 1592 in Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain; † 1650 in Cuitlaxtla, New Spain, today Mexico)
Now in disgrace, she was involved in several quarrels, and then set out for Tucumán, Argentina, on foot. At length, nearly exhausted by fatigue and hunger, she was given shelter at the house of a wealthy Indo-Spanish woman who treated her with great kindness and asked her to remain on and manage her household. This woman took a great liking to Catalina, and even wished her to marry her daughter, but she describes her as being 'very black and as ugly as the devil.' Catalina postponed the marriage under various pretexts until it became impossible for her to stay any longer, so she fled from her benefactor and the farm and went to Piscobamba, Peru. She stayed the night at the house of a friend, and after supper one evening joined in a gambling gane with a Portuguese who was a great ruffian. Catalina won, but a quarrel arose and she dashed her cards in her opponent's face. They both drew their rapiers, but the onlookers intervened and held them back, and eventually the Portuguese paid up his losses and calm was restored.
'Three nights later,' says Catalina, 'at about eleven o'clock, when I was going home, I noticed a man standing at a street corner. I swung my cloak over my left shoulder, drew my rapier and went towards him. As I approached, he dashed at me, thrusting and calling out: "Cuckold! Rascall' I knew his voice and ran my point into him and he fell dead. I then went to my friend's house, held my tongue and got into bed.
'Early next morning the Corregidor Don Pedro de Meneses came, roused me and walked me off. I reached the jail and was put in irons. About an hour after the Corregidor came with a notary and took my statement. I denied all knowledge of the business. Then they tortured me but I denied everything. When the case came on, witnesses I had never seen were produced and sentence of death was passed on me. I appealed, but an order to execute was issued. A monk came to hear my confession. I refused, and a cataract of monks was let loose on me.
'I was rigged out in a taffeta suit and hoisted on to a horse. They took me down unfrequented streets until we came to the gibbet. They placed the rope round my neck-but at this moment a messenger galloped in from La Plata. He was sent by the Secretary under orders from the President Don Diego de Portugal and had an order to suspend my execution and transfer me
to the High Court, twelve leagues away. The reason for this was extraordinary and a manifest mercy of God.
'I was sent under escort to La Plata and in twenty four days was released.'
After this narrow escape Catalina set out again for Lima, where the Dutch were attacking the city with eight men-of-war. There she joined one of the five ships sent out from Callao to fight them.
'In the engagement,' she says, 'they hammered our flagship so heavily that she sank and not more than three contrived to escape by swimming. The three were myself, a barefooted Franciscan monk, and a soldier. All the rest perished.'
At Cuzco, later, Catalina again became embroiled in a fight in a gambling den and in the fray killed a notorious man called 'the Cid.' She was severely wounded, being stabbed in the left shoulder and deeply cut in the thigh. She was carried to her house and put to bed. A monk was called and she made her confession as she was afraid she was going to die. After she had received the Holy Viaticum she began to get better and gradually recovered, after being ill for four months.
A friend now came to her assistance and gave her a thousand pesos, three negroes and a mule, and thus accompanied she took the road to Guarnanga (today Huamanga, Peru). When she came to the bridge of Apurimac she was stopped by a constable who said: "You are arrested." Eight other constables came up and endeavored to seize her, but Catalina resisted, drew her rapier and attacked them with vigour. During the fierce contest one of her negroes was killed and the constables, having lost three of their number, retreated, and Catalina proceeded on her way without further molestation.
On arriving at Guarnanga she put up at an inn where she stayed for a time. Soon she began to frequent the gambling houses again, and one day when she was playing the Corregidor came into the room. He looked hard at Catalina and asked her where she had come from. She replied: "From Cuzco." He paused for a moment, then laid his hand on her, saying: "I arrest you." Catalina jumped up and her rapier flashed out as she got between him and the door. He called for help, but there was such a rush to the door that she could not get out, so she drew her pistol. A way was made for her and she ran off as fast as she could.
She lay low for a few days and then thought it would be better to change her lodging. She left the inn at nightfall, but had not gone far when she was challenged by two men. They tried to seize her, but she drew her rapier and on hearing the men call out: "Help in the name of the law! " a crowd gathered and there was a great uproar. The Corregidor came out of the Bishop's house with several constables and called on his men to seize her. Catalina drew her pistol, fired and shot one of them, but at that point the Bishop, accompanied by four torch-bearers, came out and pushed their way into the middle of the crowd. As he reached Catalina he called out: "Ensign, give me your arms. "
"I am surrounded by enemies, my Lord," she replied.
"Give them up," he cried. "You are out of harm's way with me and I pledge my word to see you safe out of this whatever it costs me."
"Most Illustrious Lord," Catalina answered, "when we reach the cathedral I will kiss your Lordship's feet."
'At this,' she continued, 'four of the Corregidor's slaves took hold of me and I had to use my hands to floor one of them. The Bishop caught me by the arms, took my weapons from me and led me along to his house. He had my wound attended to, gave me supper and a bed, then gave orders for me to be locked in.
'Next morning about ten o'clock, his lordship had me brought into his presence and asked me who I was, where I came from, and all about my life. Seeing the saintly man he was and feeling that I was in the presence of God, I said to him: "My Lord, the truth is I am a woman,' Then I gave him an account of my life.
'While my story lasted, the Bishop sat in amazement, and when I had finished shed scalding tears. He then sent me to rest. Next morning he was convinced on the evidence of two matrons that I was a maid entire. His lordship embraced me tenderly, and later placed me in the convent of St. Clare at Guamanga.'
On the death of the Bishop, Catalina left the town for Lima. She was carried in a litter accompanied by six priests, four nuns, and six armed men. When they arrived she was taken to the Palace to see the Viceroy and later continued her journey to Santa Fe de Bogota. Everywhere the people thronged to catch a glimpse of the now famous 'Nun Ensign' whose story had been spread abroad.
She embarked for Spain and arrived at Cadiz on 1 November 1624. When she landed she was still wearing her military uniform, and aroused great interest wherever she went. Having been granted a pension by the King she set off on a pilgrimage to Rome. Her journey was an eventful one and she was arrested at one place and accused of being a Spanish spy. She was robbed of her money, her clothes were taken away, and she was put into irons for a fortnight. When she was liberated she resumed her journey and reached Rome on 6 June 1626. She is described at that time as being 'tall and burly for a woman, artificially flat-chested, not plain in feature and yet not beautiful, showing signs of hardship rather than of age. Her black hair was cut like a man's and hung in a mane as was customary at the time. She dressed in Spanish fashion, wore a sword tightly belted, her head inclined forward and her shoulders slightly stooped, more like a fiery soldier than a courtier. She gesticulated with her plump, fleshy but massive and powerful hands, in a manner vaguely suggestive of her sex.'
She was lionized in Rome and Pope Urban VIII granted her special permission to continue to wear men's clothes and thus attired her portrait was painted by Francesco Crescentis. After staying about six weeks in Rome she went to Naples in July 1626. 'One day when sauntering on the quay,' she says, 'my attention was drawn to the guffaws of two wenches who were gossiping with a couple of youngsters and staring at me. I looked at them and one of them said: "Whither away my Lady Catalina?" I replied: "To give you a hundred thumps on the scruff of your necks my lady strumpets, and a hundred slashes to anyone who defends you!" They were silent and slunk off.'
At length, tiring of the monotony of city life, Catalina resolved to go abroad again, and she sailed for America in 1630. After her arrival she commenced business as a carrier and owned a number of negroes and mules
Nicolas de Renteria, who saw her at Vera Cruz in 1645, says: 'She was regarded as a person of great courage and skilled in the use of arms. She dressed as a man and wore a rapier and dagger with silver mountings. She then looked about fifty years of age and was of good stature and stoutish build, with a dark complexion and a few hairs representing a moustache.
While returning to Vera Cruz after a journey, she was taken ill at Cuitlaxtla, where she died in 1650. All the notables of the district came to her funeral, and she was buried with great pomp by the Church, for the story of Catalina de Erauso who had fought so bravely for her country had not been forgotten.
Erauso's sexual orientation is unclear. Her autobiography never evokes a physical desire for a man. On the other hand, she recounts at least one affair with a woman: at the end of chapter 5, the autobiography evokes how, in Lima, Peru, an innkeeper caught Erauso fooling around with one of the girls by "playing between her legs" while the young woman asked her to go get money for them to get married.
Later, Erauso quarrelled with her brother Miguel about a woman. Happy to have met another Basque so far from the country, Miguel, to whom Erauso did not reveal her sexual assignment, introduced her to his mistress. But Erauso comes back to see her in secret and Miguel finds out: the affair ends with a fight. She is also approached on several occasions by mothers who saw her as a good match for their daughters, situations that she seems to have used mainly to obtain gifts and dowries rather than with the intention of actually marrying a woman.
Source: The mysteries of sex: women who posed as men and men who impersonated women by C. J. S. Thompson. London: Hutchinson, 1900.
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Q: How to overwrite local history with remote? Recently I had to squash commits due to several bad commits. Simply doing git pull --rebase origin master worked for me but my teammate already had merged new history on top of old history. So I want to know is if it is possible to overwrite local history?
Let's say there are three timelines in branches remoteNew, localOld and localNew has hour old commit.
Following works and completely overwrites old history with new history. Though thing to note here is, oldHistory had no new commits after newHistory was created.
git checkout localOld
git pull --rebase origin remoteNew

Following does not work as I would want. Instead of overwriting local history, it creates a merge with conflicts.
git checkout localNew
git pull --rebase origin remoteNew

I believe this is happening because local has new commit. Though what I really want is git push --force like result but for pull. Other way would be to just replace master branch with new branch and rename it. Any other option to overwrite local history?
Note: Would like to clear that this is old repository but team isn't working on it yet, we are in initial stage of adopting git and finalizing workflow before entire team starts working on it.

A: To overwrite local history with remote history, will remove all files, where are only on local history. So be carefully!
git fetch --all
git reset --hard <remote>/<branch-name>

So with git fetch you download the latest remote history. With git reset you reset the branch to that what you just fetched.
For more information, look at this similar question: How do I force "git pull" to overwrite local files?

A: git pull --rebase ... will run a rebase of your work on top of the remote branch ; a rebase may well trigger conflicts, and you will need to fix them if you want to proceed.
As long as the rebase isn't completed, localBranch will still point to your branch unmodified,  you can inspect the history of localBranch and origin/remoteBranch to see what changes have landed on the remote, and may potentially conflict with your local changes :
git log --graph --oneline localBranch origin/remoteBranch

If you want to complete rebasing your local work on top of the remote branch :

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*inspect and fix the conflicts in conflicting files,

*run git rebase --continue to proceed

If you want to cancel the rebase :

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*run git rebase --abort

In any case, the remote branch is now updated.
If you canceled the rebase, you may re-run git rebase origin/remoteBranch from your localBranch at any time.


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Whatever case Special Counsel Robert Mueller intends on bringing against President Donald Trump, it does not look like it will be a collusion-with-Russia case.
So far, Special Counsel Robert Mueller has not brought a case against anybody from the 2016 Trump campaign for assisting Russia with hacking the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and John Podesta emails and putting them on Wikileaks.
In short, that Russia hacked the Democrats, put the emails on Wikileaks, and Trump helped, or so the allegation goes.
Since that time, Mueller has brought two cases on election interference by Russia, for purchasing Facebook ads, and to be certain, for hacking the DNC and Podesta emails and putting them on Wikileaks.
But nobody from the Trump campaign is named in those indictments. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, in announcing each of these indictments, took great pains to remind everyone that neither case named Americans.
And, to be sure, "There is no allegation in this indictment that any American was a knowing participant in this illegal activity," nor did the activities alter the outcome of the election.
And again, "There is no allegation in this indictment that any American citizen committed a crime," nor did the hacks alter any votes or the outcome of the election.
All this, despite the fact that one of the documents that began the counterintelligence investigation into the Trump campaign in 2016 by the FBI, the infamous DNC and Clinton campaign-paid for Christopher Steele dossier, alleged that the campaign had "full knowledge" of the hack and the Wikileaks publication.
Meaning, there is no collusion case that will be brought by Mueller against Manafort. As for Page, he has not been charged with anything. And as far as such a case against President Trump for colluding on the hack, forget it. It might not be happening after all. It appears to be a pipe dream.
So, if there's a case to be brought, then, it will be a process crime. So far, Michael Flynn and George Papadopoulos have pleaded guilty to charges of lying to federal investigators. Not for colluding with Russia, but for forgetting the dates of things happening and that sort of thing. If Mueller ever interviews Trump, he might bring a case in that direction. Probably a good reason not to sit down with Mueller at all.
Or, Mueller might pursue a charge of obstruction of justice. That, perhaps by professing his innocence to a crime, a crime that Mueller via Rosenstein is already saying neither Trump nor any American committed, that somehow Trump obstructed justice.
Is saying you're innocent obstruction? What about hiring a lawyer to mount a defense or defending your rights at a trial, a process that can take weeks, months or years? Is that obstruction, too? After all, justice delayed is justice denied.
It's absurd. Without collusion, in that case, there is no obstruction.
So, then, it will have to be a case of obstructing not the Russia collusion probe, but something else.
There, the President is accused by former FBI Director James Comey that by suggesting he drop any potential investigation of former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, Trump was impeding or attempting to impede Comey's investigation into Flynn.
Flynn, as readers will recall, was fired after he did not fully account for his Dec. 2016 conversation with Russian ambassador Sergei Kisylak about potentially lifting sanctions on Russia after Trump came into office to then-Vice President Elect Mike Pence, who later appeared on television saying sanctions had not been discussed after Flynn's conversation, which sounded highly classified, was apparently illegally leaked to the press.
Flynn was later charged with lying to federal investigators, but not about anything to do with the hack or collusion, just his conversation with the ambassador, which appears was otherwise legal and a normal part of presidential transitions as the incoming national security team makes contacts with their counterparts overseas.
Here, again, Trump would be accused of obstructing an investigation into a crime, in this case Flynn allegedly lying to investigators, that might not have even happened.
But leaving that part aside for a moment, by Comey's own account, the conversation was the day after Flynn was fired. Comey is suggesting Trump told him not to investigate Flynn. It raises the question of whether Trump fully aware there was an investigation into Flynn at the time?
Later Trump's lawyer at the time, John Dowd, who has since resigned, claimed he was responsible for the tweet.
That part could be exculpatory. Let's say Dowd made up the part about sending the tweet and that the President really was responsible for the tweet.
Leaving that aside, even if Trump was aware Flynn had been questioned by the FBI and that there was a discrepancy in his answers, Trump's suggestion to not pursue the investigation then appears to be Trump interjecting himself and settling an ongoing discussion or even a dispute between Justice Department officials and the White House that came up in the process of terminating Flynn.
Had Flynn lied to investigators or not? Was there an ongoing discussion about this that needed settling in the President's eyes? Those are matters of record. Something that should be available to both Mueller and Trump's lawyers.
Perhaps the President, agreeing with the investigators who did not think Flynn had lied, simply felt Flynn had not committed a crime by talking to the Russian ambassador and that the discrepancy in his questioning was not a case of criminal deception but simply forgetting what had been discussed.
Flynn's guilty plea to the contrary notwithstanding, the fact remains that, as the House Intelligence Committee reported, the investigators did not think Flynn had lied. Dowd appears to confirm that was a part of the discussion at the time Flynn got fired.
But even if it wasn't, perhaps Trump was telling Comey to go easy on Flynn because he thought it was just all a great big misunderstanding that he as President could settle. Which would fall squarely in the scope of the President's Article II powers to execute the laws and direct investigations. If he felt strongly enough about the matter, surely President Trump could have ordered Comey to halt the investigation. But he didn't.
Comey even acknowledged elsewhere in his own testimony the President's power to order investigations or to direct him, when he warned the President not to order Comey to investigate the Steele dossier being a fake, telling Congress, "During the dinner, the President return ed to the salacious material I had briefed him about on January 6, and, as he had done previously, expressed his disgust for the allegations and strongly denied them. He said he was considering ordering me to investigate the alleged incident to prove it didn't happen. I replied that he should give that careful thought because it might create a narrative that we were investigating him personally, which we weren't, and because it was very difficult to prove a negative." Comey never told the President that he lacked the authority to direct such an investigation, just that it might not be a good idea to pursue such an investigation.
The point is, it does not really matter why the President thought the Flynn matter ought not be pursued — or why he fired Comey, for that matter — because he is the President. Ultimately, this boils down to the President's powers to execute the laws and as the head of the executive branch. He has prosecutorial discretion, just like Comey had at the time and federal prosecutors have. And the fact remains, by Comey's own account, Trump never ordered him to stop the Flynn investigation. By Comey's account, Trump made a suggestion.
Trump at the time and today has a seat at that table to determine what investigations his Justice Department should be pursuing. And if he truly believes that Flynn was wrongly prosecuted, he could escalate the matter and simply pardon him and that would not be criminal obstruction either. Like it or not, as President he has that power.


Are We There Yet??: Life's Expectations ... Dashed?
From the email bag, this one is a little more risqué than what I usually post but I thought it was kind of cute, in a sad sort of way!
A father asked his 10-year old son if he knew about the birds and the bees.
The boy sobbed, 'When I was six, I got the 'There's no Easter Bunny' speech.
Your post about Tequila and an accidental coinciding with history led to my post today.
Well, I think I'll have to stop coming here if this is what I can expect from now on! Kidding, of course.
Oh my!! That's one smart little kid!
Heh heh heh...that's a cute one!
It's so early in the morning (4am) and this post makes me laugh! ^_^ Thanks!


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In Hollywood, wearing the wrong dress to a red carpet gets you snide remarks from TV presenters, and maybe some memes. In Egypt, the same thing can get you ... prison. That's what actress Rania Youssef faced year after she attended the Cairo Film Festival wearing the equivalent of a black swimsuit with a bedazzled fishnet over it. This was enough to get her charged with "inciting debauchery" and questioned for four hours.
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Egyptian law allows for any random citizen to make such a complaint against whoever they choose. This is how pop singer Shyma ended up being jailed for a year for "suggestively eating a banana" in a music video. Another singer was arrested for a pretty tame video whose title rhymes with an insult.
While the average Egyptian isn't losing any sleep over these things, some concerned citizens have made a career out of tattling on celebrities. In Youssef's case, it was two lawyers named Samir Sabry and Amr Abdel Salam, who gained notoriety for suing belly dancers and "potty-mouthed" puppeteers and publicly attacking foreign visitors for "insulting Egypt." Said foreigners were also women, in case you were starting to sense a pattern here.
The charges against Youssef were dropped after she apologized for her fashion crime. Matters were presumably helped when word got out to the international press and the lawyers behind it all became global laughingstocks. That's not to say you should go and seek your fortune by performing on the streets of Cairo with belly-dancing sex puppets any time soon.
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In the U.S., if a pop star hasn't dated and dramatically broken up with at least three other celebrities by their mid-20s, we assume they must be some kind of weirdo. In Korea, it's exactly the other way around. As a general rule, Korean idols are prohibited (or at least highly discouraged) from dating. Supposedly this is to "prevent scandals," but it probably has more to do with the idea that people are more likely to buy an album if they think they have a shot with someone depicted on the cover.
EMI Records, Ltd.It's why the Beatles kept Ringo around.
And if they're caught dating anyway? That's like spitting on their fans' faces, apparently. Taeyeon, the leader of the group Girls' Generation, had to apologize to her fans both through social media and in person after it came out that she was dating someone. Another idol apologized because fans thought she was dating one of the guys from BTS, based on a series of (completely unintended) "clues" found on her Instagram posts. K-Pop fans are even more frightening than Stanley Kubrick obsessives.
And it's not just Korea. When a member of the Japanese girl group AKB48 was seen leaving a boy's house, the effects were so extreme that she felt the need to shave her head and post a tearful apology video. Mind you, she was barely 20 at the time. Say what you will about how the West treats its pop stars, but at least they're usually past 25 when they reach the head-shaving meltdown phase.
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Telenovelas, our daily Spanish-language serving of steamy sexy drama, have become so popular in recent years that many now shoot in major U.S. cities, such as Los Angeles and Miami. For the actors, this means fame and ... uh, just fame, actually. Despite their devoted worldwide following, some well-known actors working in the U.S. have struggled to make ends meet between jobs. Take Pablo Azar of Mexico, who once went from attending an awards show full of adoring fans to driving for Uber on the same night.
Pablo AzarProof that the Universe also hires hacky writers.
For the longest time, telenovela actors were given almost no benefits or protection, because they're considered foreign shows by American networks such as Telemundo. Until last year, they didn't even have a recognized union. This means that they didn't get health insurance, overtime, residuals for the endless reruns playing somewhere in the world 24/7, or coverage for accidents on set. Like, what if your legs atrophy while pretending to be in a coma for 20 straight episodes? Tough luck, amigo.
Additionally, the whole "daily episodes" thing means the actors are often overworked, and the writers' love of plot twists means there's little job security for everyone but protagonists. Every other character can be killed off at any moment, or undergo plastic surgery and suddenly look like a whole other actor. Fortunately, things are starting to change due to stars like Azar sharing their ironically telenovela-worthy stories with the media.
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BBC Stars Are Public Servants, And Everyone Gets To Know How Much They Make
Quick, how much does Seth Meyers make? The answer is "I don't know, who gives a crap?" But things are a little different in the UK, where talk show host Graham Norton was paid $757,000 last year, and half the country agrees that's an absolute outrage.
Radio TimesWait a minute, Captain America is a Benedict Arnold?!
That's because by far the UK's largest media producer is the BBC, which runs two of the three most popular TV channels, four of the five most popular radio stations, and possibly the most popular streaming service. If it ever starts making porn and magazines about steam locomotives, no British person will ever need to look elsewhere for entertainment.
Since the BBC is a publicly owned entity, this means that many UK TV and radio stars are technically public servants, and the government has recently started forcing the Beeb to disclose their pay. This, in turn, means that they receive a yearly torrent of abuse from people outraged that their money is being used on huge salaries for a bunch of London-based millionaires. The right-wing media in particular hates the BBC with a passion, and misses no opportunity to whip up outrage every time some DJ is caught buying his racehorse cocaine "with your money."
Left-wingers are equally outraged by the obvious gender imbalance among the top earners, meaning the BBC's annual report has more or less turned into a day where the whole country comes together to shout at Gary Lineker on Twitter.
In fairness, it's kind of understandable. Plenty of people hate Jimmy Fallon, but it's easier to shrug and ignore him when you can't be fined or imprisoned for refusing to fund his show.
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Bollywood Discriminates Against Dark-Skinned Actors
The Indian film industry has been known to shun actors who look too, uh ... Indian? A casting director once told dark-skinned actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui that he will forever be segregated from the "fair and handsome" folk because "it would look so weird" otherwise. Siddiqui gave a heartfelt response, although perhaps Twitter wasn't the best medium:
This effect also trickles down to members of the audience, who are encouraged to "scrub out that tan" in beauty salons. One might assume that this is a holdover from the bad old days of British colonialism, but nope. That occupation appears to have merely intensified an already existing system wherein everyone was of the opinion that dark equals bad. And now that the British are gone, celebrities have stepped in to fill the void, shilling for products that promise they'll make you look paler than a MMORPG-loving Nosferatu.
Via DesiBlitzIt seems like you could create the same pallor by ingesting some hookworm eggs.
There's now a growing outrage over the issue, which seems ... a little late? It actually took until 2014 for ads depicting darker women as inferior to be declared officially taboo, and the national obsession with changing one's natural tones remains. And American companies like Unilever, Johnson & Johnson, and Procter & Gamble will be there every step of the way to assist them in their epidermal bleaching needs.
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Homosexuality Is Banned In The Chinese Movie Industry
In 2016, China implemented a new set of rules intended to protect people from media content that "exaggerates the dark side of society." This includes smoking, drinking, adultery, and the ultimate vice, reincarnation. Oh, and homosexuality. Homosexuality has been decriminalized there for over 20 years, but watching other people be gay on TV is verboten. Any shows that have dealt with the topic have been kicked off the air. Fans believe the censors even forbade two actors from appearing together again, lest their new characters become possessed by their old ones via evil gay reincarnation.
This also affected Hollywood films. Call Me By Your Name was initially accepted into a Chinese film festival, but had to be pulled due to the new rules. Bohemian Rhapsody wasn't banned, but they cut any scene mentioning Freddie Mercury's homosexuality, plus the scene when the band dresses in drag for the I Want To Break Free video. At that point, why even bother showing the film at all? Just pop a Queen Live At Wembley DVD into the projector and pretend that's the movie.
But it's not just the government. A popular streaming service independently decided to start blurring out earrings worn by male celebrities on TV, making it look like they must have a dong growing out of their ear or something.
iQiyiMaybe it's a There's Something About Mary situation?
Of course, the public isn't fooled, and this censorship only makes some folks more curious about the stuff they're being "protected" from (which is easier to find than ever, thanks to the internet). Who knows, China might be raising its gayest generation ever.
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In Notes from a Small Island, Bill Bryson writes, "I suppose everybody has a piece of landscape somewhere that he finds captivating beyond words." For Bryson it's the Yorkshire Dales– he can't quite explain why they resonate with him so deeply. I know exactly what he means. Although I've seen more than my fair share of beautiful landscapes, there is one that might as well be in a locket around my neck: Scotland.
The geology of Scotland varies regionally, but I think my passion springs from one common phenomenon: wild, mysterious familiarity. Being from New England, I'm reminded of home whenever I visit southern Britain and parts of Ireland. I recognize the changeable weather, the rock walls and the lush ivy, can name the trees and match the uneven hills and disused farmland to scenes from my childhood. Even many of the place names are the same, thanks to homesick American colonists.
Visiting Scotland still feels a little like coming home, but to a home that's grown wild in an alternate universe. In this alternate universe, the land put up a better fight against the forces of man and nature than in mine, where it was almost completely subdued. New England hills slope gently where Scottish ones jut, New England boulders have shaken loose or worn down while Scottish ones have remained embedded in ragged crags, New England flora stretches and encroaches only when it's sure it will be allowed to survive, while Scottish flora runs completely amok, growing where it shouldn't survive. The Scottish landscape is Old and New Englands' rebellious sibling, the horse no one can break, veiled in mist and disorderly undergrowth and covered with rock formations so fiercely strange they spawned legends. Its comparatively sparse population and violent history imbue it with a somber air of abandonment and timelessness– you can't stand on the rocky coast or in one of its foggy valleys without feeling a ghostly raising of the hair on the back of your neck.
Just as my native language feels a bit exotic and intriguing and irresistible when spoken in a different Anglophone accent, so does the basic foundation of my home landscape feel exotic and intriguing and irresistible in Scotland. It teases my imagination with its stunning weirdness and my memory with its eerie similarity to places I know so well. It is indifferent, impossible to possess, and somehow more desirable for it.
Yeah I can't believe I caught this, either. Taken from a bridge between the mainland and the Isle of Skye.
Glencoe. Look it up and shiver.