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The recent repeal of the US military policy of "Don't ask, don't tell" is far from being the human rights advancement some are touting it to be. I find it intellectually dishonest, in fact, illogical on any level to associate human rights with any military, let alone one that is currently dehumanising two populations as well as numerous other victims of it's clandestine "security" policies. Placing this major contention aside, the enactment of the bill might be an institutional step forward in the fight for "equality"; however institutions rarely reflect reality. Do we really think that the US congress vote to repeal the act and Obama signing the bill is going to stop the current systemic harassment of gays in the military?
-- Peace Mom Cindy Sheehan, "Don't Go, Don't Kill" (Al Jazeera).
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Among these are why did left media outlets such as commondreams, alternet, counterpunch Znet and others devote relatively little attention to the protest in the days leading up to it, even when it was already clear that it would be a major act of civil disobedience that needed, and deserved to be, reinforced by thousands of others. As for well known left writers such as Thomas Frank, Barbara Ehrenreich, and Katrina van den Heuvel why did they fail to write pieces in support of it, or even mention it, within the high profile platforms they have access to, thus getting the word out to many thousands some of whom were sure to have participated?
We can only infer the answers to these questions. But for at least two members of what might be called the "left establishment" we now have some grounds for making inferences. These are based on a recent initiative which attempted to move some of these figures from their prior positions of support, albeit highly critical support, of the administration into active opposition. Thus, in his reaction to the initiative (which he characterized as "weirdness") Tom Hayden described the demonstration as "somewhat jusfified" while expressing doubts as to whether "it was a smart idea to begin with." In short, an event of relatively little consequence, though Hayden did mention that civil disobedience could be "healing" for those participating in it.
In his reaction, Bill Fletcher made no comment on the demonstration confining his remarks to the observation that he was a strong critic of the administration.
It should be noted in this connection that while failing to mention the Dec. 16th event, even when specifically requested to do so, Fletcher has been actively involved in Washington demonstrations since the Obama administration took office, most notably the union- sponsored One Nation rally on October 5.
The differences between the two protests could not be more stark and are highly revealing.
First, one was a rally held at the Lincoln Memorial some distance from the White House while the other centered around civil disobedience at the White House fence.
-- John Halle, "Why Johnny Can't Protest: Reflections on Dec. 16th" (Corrente).
Yes, we're late but it's holiday schedule. Along with Dallas, here's who helped on this edition:
We thank them all. And here's what we came up with:
Another one for Peace Mom.
Censorship on the left doesn't exist, right? Right?
Editorial: Don't Gush, Don't Praise
We're all for equality and, in fact, if equality had been written into the measure Congress passed, we'd be much more joyful. But it wasn't. It's another Plessy v. Ferguson, a way to extract money and work product from inequality.
TV: Water Cooler Set Confesses and Kills
Ava and C.I. This is the must-read this edition. When we started writing, I thought there would be a rival for Ava and C.I.'s piece but time ran out. Next week, Ava and C.I. steer the edition. For those wondering about Naomi Wolf, she will be addressed next week. Also, I'd guess that Ava and C.I. will post on time and then some.
I (Jim) like this roundtable. If your problem is the lack of Ava and C.I., I intended to come back to them but we ran out of time.
Fashion and Natural disasters
Rebecca, Betty, Stan, Ty and Marcia wrote this and we thank them for it.
They can't silence her, so they try and hide her
Keep the news of Lynne alive.
Ground the Drones (San Fran, January 4th)
An action in San Francisco that Cindy Sheehan's taking part in and we'll do our part to note it.
That's what we got. There will be a new edition next week. Some of us (me, Dona and Ty) will be off. Happy New Year.
As Cindy Sheehan notes in her Al Jazeera column on the pulling of Don't Ask, Don't Tell, "While I am a staunch advocate for equality of marriage and same-sex partnership, I cannot - as a peace activist - rejoice in the fact that now homosexuals can openly serve next to heterosexuals in one of the least socially responsible organisations that currently exists on earth: The US military." And do you really think equality is what the defense industry was after?
Or, more likely, did they get on board to close another avenue to discharges?
For all of Barack Obama's talk, during the signing ceremony, of steps towards equality, reality, if you're straight and you die serving, your spouse gets benefits. If you're gay? Forget it. Even if you were married in a state that recognizes marriage equality, even if you married in that state and reside in it.
There's nothing equal about what Barack did. Now, true, once upon a time, Plessy v. Ferguson was praised too. Didn't promote or provide equality, but it was praised.
Even worse, Peter Certo (Foreign Policy in Focus) reports on how to push the removal through, the Congress agreed no Guantanamo 'detainees' would be transferred to US soil -- for trial or imprisonment.
Equality did not happen last week. The measure the Congress passed did not even mention equality. It did not affirm the rights of all US citizens. It only wiped Don't Ask, Don't Tell off the books.
That's reality.
Barack Obama and the Congress could have led. To the surprise of only the Cult of St. Barack, they elected not to.
If you want to applaud anyone, applaud Adm. Mike Mullen, the Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who went beyond band-aids and actually spoke about equality. He deserved applause and your sure sign of that was the clinging-bitterness of Barack that surfaced when Mullen's was being applauded ("He already has enough power. Don't -- ").
Tis the season for giving but who expected David Bianculli to remember us this Christmas? There he was, last week on Fresh Air (NPR), justifying everything we've ever said about today's predominately useless TV critics.
He'd included AMC's stale and sexist Mad Men on his list of 'greats' and was explaining why, how it really didn't have an audience, "But what it is that it's in the conversation, wherever you turn. If you turn to the Internet and you're reading Huffington Post, it's on there. If you're reading national magazines, it's there. If you're doing -- if you're on network television and the morning shows, it's on there."
We told you, kids, for years now, they're not covering what's good, what's entertaining, they're writing about the 'buzz.'
That's not a TV critic's role. A TV critic is not supposed to be enthralled with the buzz, a TV critic is supposed to puncture it, penetrate it. But such is our ineffectual Water Cooler Set that not only do they attempt to find an easy ('hot') topic to write about, they foolishly cop to it public, not realizing how much they're damning their own work.
David was on to look at TV and, still in a snit fit over our past criticism of how he refused to include women, Daves wanted to note The Good Wife and 30 Rock. He had 12 best ofs for 2010 (13 after Terry whined) and only those two shows could be described as female led. When listing his top 12, 30 Rock should come first if he says he's going by alphabetical order (and he did say he was going alphabetically) because the title is "30 Rock" and not "Thirty Rock" but, like a dee jay in the sixties afraid to play more than one 45 an hour by a woman, he buried it deep in the mix.
We listened bored as he listed all the Water Cooler Conventions and marveled over his bitchiness. Like many in the Water Cooler Set, David saw himself in 2009 as Conan O'Brien's wife (The Bad Wife) and he still feels the need to play that role and attack Jay Leno even if his statements contain no logic at all, "So am I happy that Leno is back on Tonight and more successful, you know, than CBS, which had Letterman, who was gaining on Conan when he was at The Tonight Show? No, because people had liked Leno and settled for Leno before, so they were settling for Leno again."
Okay, Conan replaces Leno and loses a portion of the audience. Leno returns and not only brings that portion back but brings in new viewers and, according to David Bianculli, the audience is "settling for Leno"? Uh, no, it would appear the viewers actually prefer Jay.
You may not like it (we personally don't care), but the verdict is in: Most viewers prefer Jay Leno. Those are facts. Established ones. Another fact is that Jon Stewart is a comedian. He is not a journalist. But David couldn't get that right either as he insisted that, because Jon interviews people, he's a journalist. Yeah, right up there with Merv Griffin and Arlene Dahl.
Then there was this, "It's not only one of the best family dramas on television now, it's one of the best family dramas that's ever been on television." Really? Is he dropping back to Gilmore Girls? What, do tell, is the best family drama ever on television? We're sure it's a representative show, right?
Of course not. He's talking about Friday Night Lights.
A show about high school football. That's universal in David's mind because he always wished he could have played football in high school and been a "normal" boy. Because of boys whose names were never called, we're all stuck with a bad, moralizing and, yes, sexist TV show presented as groundbreaking and "the best family drama ever on television." As David babbled on and on, listeners would be forgiven for thinking that women had no regular roles on TV since he never named even one actress on a TV series. Michael J. Fox, Dennis Leary and others may be well known; however, they are not three time Emmy winner, five time Academy Award nominee Glenn Close.
Close, for those who don't know, stars in Damages. Bianculli noted the show, if not the actress, "Yeah, Rescue Me and another FX program, which didn't make my top 12 or 13 or 10, or whatever this is was Damages - I mean, just really good shows that are not getting the attention that they deserve. Rescue Me with Denis Leary has done some really strong stories, some spectacular acting, and Michael J. Fox was one of the guest stars this year, and a great performance." Time and again, when an actress could have been mentioned, she wasn't. And then he whines that Damages is "not getting the attention" but he can't even be bothered noting Glenn or co-star Rose Byrne?
Terry wasn't just sitting there silent, as we noted. The woman who wouldn't have a career were it not for the then-emerging National Public Radio's efforts at gender equity, saw an omission on the list, didn't notice that she presented another year-in-review of TV hour which failed to mention one TV series actress by name. No, she had another 'concern.'
GROSS: I don't mean to sound critical, David.
BIANCULLI: It's okay.
GROSS: You stretched the 10 best to a 12 best, and yet...
BIANCULLI: And yet what did I not put in?
GROSS: "The Colbert Report."
BIANCULLI: Again, again, I know, and I should have remembered that last year you slapped me around for "The Colbert Report." I know. I know. But I sort of figure Jon Stewart is sort of like grandfathering a little bit the spirit of Colbert.
GROSS: That's not fair to Colbert. I'm sorry.
Her big concern was the same as it is every year: a man. A man being overlooked. Ten of Bianculli's 12 shows are dominated by males but The Good Wife and 30 Rock were two-too-many women for Terry. She needed another man in there and quickly. (As she books, so she thinks.)
If, like Terry and David, you think women do nothing on TV week after week, it may have been a semi-satisfying discussion. Especially if you didn't know facts. Facts would make you question David's claim that Friday Night Lights suffered because NBC didn't have hits to pair it with or promote (the same fall 2006 that Friday Night Lights debuted, so did Heroes and Heroes was an immediate hit).
Unlike David, we don't see it as a bad thing and worthy of whining about that people stream online. No technophobes we, online streaming is actually liberating. We also think 2010 was one of the better years since we started covering TV here.
The fall saw the debut of Raising Hope (a great cast headed by Martha Plimpton who is amazing), ABC has added Better with You to their solid Wednesday night comedy line up and The Event has only improved with each episode.
This when network TV already boasts the enticing Fringe, the amazing Cougar Town, Patricia Heaton's should-be-career-defining performance in The Middle, a rejuvenated Chuck, a refocused Brothers & Sisters, The Good Wife, Parks And Recreations -- the latter of which returns to NBC next month -- and a strong final season from Medium that found Patricia Arquette and company still refusing to coast.
That's eleven shows right there. Those aren't the only strong shows on network TV. We also think there are many non-network shows that are strong including Damages (which will now air on Direct TV's satellite channel The 101 Network), there's Eddie Falco's strong work in Nurse Jackie (Showtime), Toni Collette's Emmy award winning performance in The United States of Tara (Showtime), Archer (the best animated program, FX) and, most of all FX's Justified (returns February 9th) which should net Timothy Olyphant an Emmy.
TV has an impact. It's foolish to pretend otherwise. Whether you personally watch it or never turn it on, it still has an impact. It is where, even today, society gathers around the campfire to pass on ideas, dreams, fears, mores and more. Which is why Terry Gross and David Bianculli's are so damaging. You can't talk about 2010 without noting the year saw the loss of the decade's funniest sitcom.
Unlike Will & Grace or Friends, The New Adventures of Old Christine is a creation of the '00s. It began and finished its run this decade. When the laugh out loud sitcom got the axe last May, Kari Lizer (creator of the show) explained what had just taken place, "As far as what happened at CBS, we've suffered from a serious lack of support from them since the beginning. I hate to say it, but I'm afraid they don't care much for the female-of-a-certain-age point of view over there. How else do you explain them squandering the talents of Julia [Louis-Dreyfus] and Wanda [Sykes]?" Kari is correct. She'd be even more correct if she'd point out that the lack of interest was also to be found in the Water Cooler Set. For example, Entertainment Weekly is nothing but critics and their TV pages post updates multiple times daily; however, Ken Tucker couldn't note the show in all of 2010 until right before it got the axe.
To his credit, he did at least note it. Putting him far ahead of his peers. But this is why it matters what Terry discusses. She's listened to and her show could have impact. She chooses to ignore that and she chooses to serve up ten critics and only one of them a woman (she covers books and, no, Terry doesn't devote an hour to year-in-books). The masculine-identified Terry Gross is a huge part of the problem. This year, she saw an omission: Bianculli left a man off the list!
Women don't just disappear, they are disappeared. For an hour, Terry and David chewed the fat over TV and never once did they mention by name a single actress in a TV series.
It matters a great deal. In the spring of 2009, NBC had to pick what shows to keep and which ones to kill -- more pruning than usual was required due to the fact that in the fall of 2009, NBC would be turning over the last hour of prime time Monday through Friday to Jay Leno's talk show. Monday nights offered three hour long shows: Chuck, Heroes and Medium. Of the three, the one netting the biggest audience was Medium. Heroes was cratering and the creator was unable to accept the feedback for why the show was failing. (It would become an outright failure the following season.) Chuck was in flux. Which show did NBC cancel?
Medium. (CBS picked it up.) NBC was clear why the gave it the axe: Yeah, it had an audience, but it didn't have a "buzz." The Water Cooler Set just didn't care about it.
Nothing would give it "buzz" with the Water Cooler Set. Not astounding production values, not amazing acting, nothing. The series could -- and did -- feature notable guest stars and even that didn't mean a thing. David Morse, Kelly Preston, Neve Campbell, Molly Ringwald, Eric Stoltz, Jeffrey Tambor, Laura San Giacomo, Thomas Jane and Rosanna Arquette were among those doing outstanding work and Anjelica Huston gave an amazing performance as Cynthia in season four and season five. But even that wasn't enough for the Water Cooler Set.
You want to know a dirty secret that the Water Cooler Set doesn't? Network execs are in a panic more than ever before. Two decades ago, you axed a show and that was that. Today? You face an outcry online. So? So, if you cut a popular show and your new shows aren't performing, you really don't need the stockholders being reminded of what got the axe to make way for the new flops. A devoted following (no matter the size of it) have extended a show's life.
So it does matter when Terry Gross and her all male posse decide that women don't matter, it does matter when the Water Cooler Set ignores and dismisses women. And they contribute to the network suits inability to drive forward since they're always studying the rear view mirror instead.
For example, four new shows have been pitched to the big three network (one of which also was pitched to Fox). All four share a horror premise. The best of the four is best termed erotic horror and reads like an interesting gamble. But women are prominent in the story and it has no teensies. ABC's The Gates had teensies and they're sappy angst ensured that the show sank. The Vampire Diaries has yet to overcome its reputation of never-ending-foreplay (leading it to be dubbed in the industry "Thursday Tease"). By contrast, True Blood (Showtime) has found an audience via an adult take on horror. Whether or not it could be another True Blood, it surely could match the best in horror turned out by Hammer Films and yet the reservations over the project, the hesitation, stems from the fact that women are front and center. That's what it's come to, the Water Cooler Set and their built-in sexism mean that a project that all three big networks agree is "interesting" and "promising" can't get a greenlight out of fear that it just won't attract the 'buzz.'
Jim: The last time we did a roundtable, I had to cut it off before we could get to Ava and C.I. I said I'd be slaughtered in the e-mails for that and I was. Like that roundtable, this also is a grab bag e-mail roundtable working in some e-mail topics. Our e-mail address is thirdestatesundayreview@yahoo.com. Participating in this roundtable are The Third Estate Sunday Review's Dona, Ty, Jess, Ava, and me, Jim; Rebecca of Sex and Politics and Screeds and Attitude; Betty of Thomas Friedman Is a Great Man; C.I. of The Common Ills and The Third Estate Sunday Review; Kat of Kat's Korner (of The Common Ills); Cedric of Cedric's Big Mix; Mike of Mikey Likes It!; Elaine of Like Maria Said Paz); Ruth of Ruth's Report; Trina of Trina's Kitchen; Wally of The Daily Jot; Marcia of SICKOFITRDLZ; Stan of Oh Boy It Never Ends; Isaiah of The World Today Just Nuts and Ann of Ann's Mega Dub. Betty's kids did the illustration.
Jim (Con't): First up, we'll go to Ava and C.I. I'll start with C.I. for a historical take. An e-mail came in this week stating that there are many women pioneers in film that do not receive credit from Ava and C.I. C.I.?
C.I.: Ava and I took over the series on Jane Fonda here. It started with all of us and then Ava and I were asked to finish it. That was back in the lead up to the release of Monster-in-Law which was Jane Fonda's return to films. The film was a comedy so, each week, we would offer an analysis on Jane's many comedy roles. Why am I bringing that up? That's the only writing Ava and I have done for movies here. There are movie pieces and movie roundtables that we've all done but in terms of what Ava and I write, that's the only movie piece we did. I know who sent that e-mail and I asked him to. He e-mailed me last week, he's a historian, and he feels horror films -- specifically women in horror films -- have been ignored here. I readily copped to that and told him to e-mail in. Primarily, what bothered him was a piece -- and I asked him to tell me when it ran and he couldn't remember -- that was on female directors. It wasn't a piece on female directors. It was my comments in one of our "Movie roundtables" [Isaiah found it] which is apparently my comments on women working for the studios and women nominated for Academy Awards for directing -- that includes shorts and documentaries. That was my scope. In the late sixties and early seventies, Stephanie Rothman directed a number of B-pictures with The Velvet Vampire being one of the better known. Amy Jones directed the B-movie The Slumber Party Massacre in 1982. She went on to direct Halle Berry in The Rich Man's Wife and Ally Sheedy in the 80s classic Maid To Order. She also worked on the screenplays for both and she wrote the script for Indecent Proposal and Mystic Pizza among others. Those are two women who are pioneers -- Amy is still working, Rothman isn't with horror film connections. My friend argues that horror has offered much more opportunities for women. I've argued he should take a break from heavy history and do a book on film history to enlighten us and I'm not being sarcastic. That's not an area -- or an argument -- that's received a great deal of serious attention. I think it would make for a wonderful book.
Jim: And now for Ava. Put on your creative cap, Ava, because reader James wants to know what kind of film Sharon Stone has to make now "to save her career. She's my favorite actress."
Ava: The perfect film for Sharon Stone? She needs to grow her hair to shoulder length and do a spooky film. Where a lot of scenes take place at night. It's sexual but not The Entity. Probably more sexual tension than sexual. Gothic. She's being driven mad by persons living or dead. That's the sort of film that would create a buzz around Sharon. She got into a rut of proving she was an actress. She's a very strong actress. She's not my favorite but, like James, I do enjoy her acting. She needs to play a role that's more mythical than real. You can see her walking around a spooky house in the dark, a breeze coming through and blowing her hair and the loose white gown she's wearing. It should also be pointed out that the perfect movie and perfect role often never arrives. I think Sharon Stone's done quite well with what's been offered because it's not like there have been these huge, wonderful roles for women that's she's been avoiding.
Jim: Alright. Betty, as the year ends, what are you thankful for?
Betty: Two more years. Only two more years of Barack. I don't see how he can get a second term but I felt the same about Bush so who knows. But what I am thankful for is that in two years, there's a good chance Barack will be leaving the White House. Please God.
Jim: And you're completely serious.
Betty: And I'm completely serious. Barack's been the worst thing for Black people. On every level.
Jim: Elaborate. This is an argument you began making in 2007. So provide some examples.
Betty: The most obvious is the huge unemployment rate for Black men. If it weren't Barack in the White House, you better believe Al Shaprton would be screaming his head off. But just in terms of allowing us to one day finally have a Black president, Barack's screwed it up. He had to get your vote in 2008, the narrative went, so that America wouldn't be racist. And now we get the cries of he must get a second term or that would be racism. All that does is piss people off. And it should. If he's a president, he's a president. He needs to be judged the same way anyone else would be, held to the same standards. If he's not, you damn well better believe that in 2020, when ___ is running and people are saying, "Should we vote for him or her?" it will be pointed out that they're Black and, "You know, even if they do an awful job, we're going to be stuck with them for two terms or have to hear 'Racist! Racist!'" I can't believe how this bi-racial man has managed to do so much harm to the future of Black America.
Cedric: I agree with Betty. And as Jim just pointed out, Betty was sounding the alarms before anyone was. I think that's because Betty's realistic whereas a lot of us in the African-American community let go of common sense and of our own real and long struggle for equality to put a mixed preppie into the White House.
Jim: Thank you and Barbara e-mailed to ask that question. I'm tossing to Dona now.
Dona: Last week's "Nicole Colson forgot to write Third" was almost our most popular piece for the week. Almost. New and newer readers were glad to see the m.o. of the site pointed out, older readers were already aware of it. One reader, Marley, wanted to know how you reject being male-identified? She wrote that she was 15 and wanted to do her part.
Elaine: Can I grab? Okay, in that piece, it notes that Rebecca, C.I. and I all went to college together. We -- Rebecca and I -- saw what C.I. did. She brought women into the classroom even when they weren't the assigned reading and that's what you have to do. Marley's going
to have to do that. It's a lot of work. But you will be having an impact. Certainly, C.I. did on Rebecca and I but it was true on the make up of every class. By raising the issue and following up, she underscored it, she made us all think and she expanded what the scope was.
Rebecca: And the best example online would be what a lot of sites do which is quote Bob Dylan endlessly. I'm not saying "Never quote him!" I am saying that you need to break from the pack and start emphasizing women. We determine what and who is remembered by what we emphasize. So if you're looking for a song quote, go to Carly Simon's work or Joni Mitchell's or Janis Ian's or Lady GaGa or whoever. In the answer C.I. was giving, regarding women in horror genre, she was pointing out that it's little explored. So much of women's work is. If you want to make a difference, do your part to highlight women.
Dona: Gillian wrote Friday to say she was charting C.I. at The Common ills and over "the last seven days, she's highlighted Tracy Chapman, Joni Mitchell, Melanie, Carly Simon and Tina Turner. I often enjoy the songs but I never noticed until the article at Third how this was done. I wish more people did that. It's very depressing to be at a website run by a woman or women and they post a video of some 'great' song that's really a sexist song and a song the whole world knows because it's by a man. I wish we all took more time to note the art women create."
Jim: Alright. Ty, anything stand out in the e-mails you read?
Ty: A number of things, actually. One is a piece we need to write about spines. The other is a number of readers noting that Ruth and C.I. addressed the latest on Lynne Stewart and it was hoped that others would as well especially now that the only radio program that regularly covered Lynne is off the air, Taking Aim.
Mike: I'll talk about this topic. Once upon a time, people appeared to care about this story -- people like Amy Goodman and others. But then, over the summer, there was a re-sentencing and we saw how little coverage there was. Workers World, Taking Aim and a few otehrs covered it. Most of what you would consider independent media ran from it. Has The Progressive written a word on Lynne Stewart in the last ten years? I don't think so. The Nation did a bad column in 2003 or 2004 by chicken s**t Georgetown professor, we know who he is, and that's really it. It's rather amazing. Lynne's not accused of killing anyone. She broke no law -- she's convicted of breaking a 'guideline' -- and she's imprisoned at her age, over 70, with a history of cancer and where's the attention? It's disgusting. I really think a lot of people were comfortable calling out the mistreatment of Lynne when Bush occupied the White House but now that Barack's in there, they just don't want to be reminded.
Marcia: I so agree with that. And I think it's a real shame and a real indictment of the left. We will get outraged about Mumia Abu Jamal but we don't have time for Lynne? I support the Free Mumia movement and I believe he's innocent. But my point here is, Lynne's not even accused of crime, not even convicted of one. There's no law on the books that anyone can point to and say, "See, Congress passed this and she broke it!" All she broke was a guideline and when she did Janet Reno and Bill Clinton didn't think it was worth pursuing. Then Bush is swept into the White House and they go after Lynne for something that took place before they were in office. Where is the outrage? My Black ass'll play the race card here, is it because she's White? I think that's part of it. I think a lot of White people on the left are very comfortable seeing the victimization of Blacks -- even when it doesn't exist -- but have a hard time seeing or admitting that they too are victims of the same system. I also think a lot of it has to do with the fact that Lynne's a woman and the left is notoriously sexist.
Ann: Marcia that's a strong point. Several but I'm thinking about the victimization. You can't be an aware Black person and not notice how Amy Goodman, et al is forever seeing Black victims -- never Black strength -- and seeing it whether it exists or not -- and 'improving' on it by ignoring many facts -- but that there is a real desire not to see the same on the part of Whites. They don't want to admit -- people like that -- how they are just as at risk in a police encounter as we are. They prefer to present themselves as the SUPER STRONG only at risk from the executive branch of the government. I also agree that it's the female thing. Lynne's got a vagina and we all know how that frightens so many lefty men. I think if Lynne offered to remove her vagina and leave it in prison if she could be freed, you'd see a huge movement of lefty men and self-hating women chanting: "Free Lynne!" I'm using hyperbole but there's truth in that. I agree with those who wrote in that Lynne is a serious issue. She's a political prisoner and if we're okay with that, then we should be silent. If we're not, then we need to speak up.
Jess: The thing about Lynne is, why the silence? The Nation? Okay, it's a crappy little magazine, accused of being a CIA front since the 60s. No real surprise that the cowardly magazine wouldn't do a damn thing. But -- and this is something several friends of C.I. were raising as the re-sentencing was approaching -- what the hell with the NLG? The NLG should have been leading on this but they were ignoring it -- and, to be clear, there were NLG members complaining about the silence -- and you have to wonder what do they think happens if it's them? "Oh, we'll be silent on Lynne, but we'll go to the mat to defend you." No, that's not how it's going to go. And I don't care if you're a little known attorney or Michael Ratner. When your ass is the next targeted by the government, you better grasp how little the organization's going to do for you.
Isaiah: I was especially put-off by Goodman's silence, Amy Goodman, when you consider that her framing of an interview she did with Lynne can basically be seen as causing the re-sentencing. I think having grand standed on the issue in columns and speeches and brought the anger of the unfair justice system back onto Lynne, it was incumbent upon Goodman to cover this in something more than a one day headline. She didn't do that. I see Goodman as nothing but an ambulance chaser. With her rhethoric, she invited all that followed and she didn't have the courage to cover it.
Jess: And Isaiah's not the only one who feels that way. Some simple statements by Lynne were inflamed by Goodman. That is something that the grown ups on the left -- there are a few of us left -- discuss.
Jim: Alright, that's everyone but Ruth, Wally, Trina and Kat. Trina, I have a question specific to you. Wally, Kat and Ruth, why don't you cover Iraq?
Kat: Ruth, you want to start?
Ruth: Sure. Last Tuesday, the Parliament signed off on Nouri al-Maliki's partial Cabinet. It is being hailed as a success. But would a success really be a partial cabinet? He was named, read the press coverage, prime minister-desginate November 10th. But they played with the truth and said that he was not really declared that until November 25th. So they gave him 15 extra days and he still could not put together a full Cabinet. I would say that is very telling.
Kat: I would argue the same. I would also point out that there is only one woman named and that is disgusting. I'd further note that not only did he get 15 extra days but since elections were held March 7th and since he's insisted he was the winner since that date, Nouri actually had months to put together a cabinet. His inability to do so is really shameful.
Wally: And he's named himself to several posts. Supposedly temporarily.
C.I.: There's been very little coverage of the SOFA -- two major articles bothered to mention it. Neither pointed out that Nouri has given himself the posts -- supposedly just temporarily -- that would presumably sign off with his post of prime minister on the US military leaving or staying. That's one of the factors the press hasn't wanted to tackle. Sorry to jump in, Wally.
Wally: No, that's fine. I was wondering about that, wondering why he couldn't fill these largely security posts. Didn't he claim that security was going to be his top priority?
C.I.: Yeah and then that was also the topic for Iraq's first Parliamentary meeting after they approved Nouri's partial Cabinet.
Wally: The other thing I would add about Iraq is that Barack Obama's silence on the persecution of Iraqi Christians is appalling. I was -- and still am -- home for the holidays and this is big news in Florida, everyone's talking about the targeting of Iraqi Christians and they're also talking about how Barack Obama won't speak out on the topic and that this is the man who's never at a loss for words or beer for any problem real or imagined.
Kat: I saw that as well. I went to Midnight Mass on Christmas Eve -- so did Mike and Trina in Boston and they might have seen the same or different -- but here in the Bay Area, there was huge anger that Barack has still not spoken out on the issue. Hillary has, Joe Biden has. But Barack, always eager to add his two cents, always eager to speak on any attack, won't say one damn word about Iraqi Christians.
Trina: I did hear that. Mike actually heard it even more than I did. But I heard it often enough to know it was a problem for the White House that is not going to just vanish.
Mike: Yeah. There's real anger among Catholic men my age -- or was at our Church -- and there's more disbelief among older people. So people talking to my mother were more likely to be, "I can't believe . . ." while people my age, especially guys, were more likely to just vent the anger and there's a lot of anger out there over this.
Jim: And Trina is Mike's mother for any who don't know. And Trina, we come to the last question. I did have one for Ava and one for C.I. but we don't have time. So Trina, you get the last word. The question comes from chris in Wisconsin who wants to know: "What the hell are these so called economists talking about when they say there's been no inflation?"
Trina: Chris, I don't know what the hell they're talking about. I'm assumign taht the Krugmans don't do their own grocery shopping. Here we've done plenty of features and I my site I post on this issue frequently. But here, we've noted the increase in the price of name brand soda, fo rexample. Bread's up, the price of milk's up. I don't think these men actually have to make a grocery list. Equally true, they all have so much money that fifteen cent to a quarter more for everything on the list doesn't even make them blink wherease it's a huge difference for so many other people. Clearly prices have gone up. My friend Juantia was telling me about Ramen and I hadn't noticed that because I hadn't purchased any in a while but that's gone up as well. Inflation is taking place and anyone who denies that is uninformed or a liar.
Jim: And that's the last word. This is a rush transcript.
High Yellow and Gimp Eyed She-Hulk wanted to wish you . . . Well they wanted you to notice them at least.
Gimp Eye thought if she covered the right eye with her hair, she'd be perfect. Maybe if she were an 18-year-old attending her first Hugh Hefner party. Did she really think that nothing said class like a dress that rode so high she was sporting ass?
And what's with the bacon collar? Did She-Hulk sew up that little number herself from a set of Oval Office curtains? After grabbing some tree ornaments for ear rings?
That anyone ever thought Michelle Obama might be classy or rival Jacqueline Kennedy just goes to show how few know what class actually is.
And then there's Barack. Wearing a new shade of lipstick, with a darker hair color (a rinse or permanent?) and lisping "willy" for "really," he will always provide the laughs.
It's laugh or cry, right?
So when a US president declares he has "no greater honor than serving" as Commander-in-Chief and democracy and the public just took a hit, just laugh. Just laugh and say, "Oh, that idiot Barack."
And when Michelle's shocked to discover that some families are single-parents . . . in the military, just shake your head and laugh and think, "Oh, Michelle, Sears has a whole inventory of madras plaid slip covers with your name on it."
And, click here, laugh especially as you notice how, from 1:20 and 1:40, Michelle has to be repeatedly reminded to smile. For the bulk of the 'message,' she and Barry just purse their lips and wonder why some see snobbery in the class-free White House.
This piece written by Rebecca, Betty, Stan, Ty and Marcia.
US political prisoner Lynne Stewart has been 'relocated' by the US government to keep her as far away from her family as is is possible. From her website:
Letter from Lynne 12/19/10
12/19/10; 12:03pm
Dear Folks:
Some nuts and bolts and trivia
1 New Address
Federal Medical Center, Carswell
53504 – 054
Unit 2N
Fort Worth TEXAS 76127
2 Visiting is very liberal but first I have to get people on my visiting list Wait til I or the lawyers let you know. The visits are FRI, SAT, SUN AND MON for 4 hours and on weekends 8 to 3. Bring clear plastic change purse with lots of change to buy from the machines. Brief Kiss upon arrival and departure, no touching or holding during visit (!!) On visiting forms it may be required that you knew me before I came to prison. Not a problem for most of you.
3. One hour time difference
4. Commissary Money is always welcome It is how I pay for the phone and for email. Also need it for a lot that prison doesn't supply in terms of food and "sundries" (pens!) A very big list that includes Raisins, Salad Dressing , ankle sox, mozzarella (definitely not from Antonys–more like a white cheddar, Sanitas Corn Chips but no Salsa etc. To add money, you do this by using Western Union and a credit card by phone or you can send a USPO money order or Business or Govt Check. The negotiable instruments (PAPER!) need to be sent to Federal Bureau of Prisons , 53504-054, Lynne Stewart, PO Box 474701, Des Moines Iowa 50947-001 (Payable to Lynne Stewart, 53504-054) They hold the mo or checks for 15 days. Western Union costs $10 but is within 2 hours. If you mail, your return address must be on the envelope. Unnecessarily complicated ? Of course, it's the BOP !)
5. Food is vastly improved. Just had Sunday Brunch real scrambled eggs, PORK sausage, Baked or home fried potatoes, Butter(sweet whipped M'God !!) Grapefruit juice Toast , orange. I will probably regain the weight I lost at MCC! Weighing against that is the fact that to eat we need to walk to another building (about at far as from my house to the F Train) Also included is 3 flights of stairs up and down. May try to get an elevator pass and try NOT to use it.
6. In a room with 4 bunks(small) about two tiers of rooms with same with "atrium" in middle with tv sets and tables and chairs. Estimate about 500 on Unit 2N and there are 4 units. Population Black, Mexicano and other spanish speaking (all of whom iron their underwear, Marta), White, Native Americans (few), no orientals or foreign speaking caucasians–lots are doing long bits, victims of drugs (meth etc) and boyfriends. We wear army style (khaki) pants with pockets tee shirts and dress shirts long sleeved and short sleeved. When one of the women heard that I hadn't ironed in 40 years, they offered to do the shirts for me. (This is typical of the help I get–escorted to meals and every other protection, explanations, supplies, etc. Mostly from white women.) One drawback is not having a bathroom in the room—have to go about 75 yards at all hours of the day and night –clean though.
7 Final Note–the sunsets and sunrises are gorgeous, the place is very open and outdoors there are pecan trees and birds galore (I need books for trees and birds (west) The full moon last night gladdened my heart as I realized it was shining on all of you I hold dear.
Love Struggle
From Cindy Sheehan's site:
JANUARY 4th, 7:00 pm
Where: AFSC, Quaker Meeting House, 65 9th St., San Francisco (Near Civic Center BART)
RESISTANCE TO DRONE WARFARE: MOBILIZING AGAINST DRONES AND ENDLESS WAR.
Everything you ever wanted to know about drone warfare but were afraid to ask.
As the Pentagon and CIA continue to wage endless war, the use of unmanned planes for
reconnaissance and missile attacks are increasingly the vehicle of choice. Since these drone
attacks and targeted assassinations result in no American casualties, in the short term they lesson
public outcry to our failed foreign policies. In the long run, because of high civilian casualties,
they create more enemies and ultimately a more insecure world, as drone technology is
being propogated around the world without serious oversight into the ethical ramifications.
- Find out about the current status of ACLU lawsuits on U.S. drone warfare,
- Learn the latest about drone technology and why we need to halt it in it's tracks.
- Discover all the many ways drone technology is an attack on our very freedoms.
- Hear report back from recent CodePink trips to Creech and Beale Airforce Bases and the Creech 14 Trial.
- Find out about the growing collaborative drone resistance and anti-militarism campaign
and be inspired to join us soon at a military base near you! Monthly Beale vigils/protest already in progress: Dec. 29, Jan. 18.
(Sponsors include: Bay Area CodePink, Grandmothers Against War, AFSC SF, Peace Center of Nevada County and Sacramento VFP)
Informative videos, slideshows
Singer/songwriter Betsy Rose will lead us with inspirational singing throughout the evening. Learn the latest drone
resistance songs and sing some of our old time favorites.
Speakers to include:
Michael Thurman, IVAW member and ex-military who was stationed at Beale AFB, the northern California control center
for the main intelligence gathering drone, the Global Hawk. Michael will give us a perspective from an insider's experience.
Cindy Sheehan, Peace activist and mother of Casey Sheehan, who was killed in the Iraq War. Cindy has been outspoken
and active in the citizen resistance to drone warfare. Cindy will discuss the need for collaboration in the peace movement to
build organized, ongoing, sustained protests at military bases to encourage war resistance and to halt drone warfare.
Other speakers still being confirmed.
Refreshments included, please bring something to share. Donations welcome.
For more info/questions:
Toby Blome, ratherbenyckeling@comcast.net 510-215-5974
Martha Hubert, mhubert7@earthlink.net 415-647-1119
This piece is written by Rebecca of Sex and Politics and Screeds and Attitude, Cedric of Cedric's Big Mix, Kat of Kat's Korner, Betty of Thomas Friedman is a Great Man, Mike of Mikey Likes It!, Elaine of Like Maria Said Paz, Ruth of Ruth's Report, Marcia of SICKOFITRADLZ, Stan of Oh Boy It Never Ends, Ann of Ann's Mega Dub and Wally of The Daily Jot. Unless otherwise noted, we picked all highlights.
"Iraq snapshot" -- when C.I. wrote in the newsletters that there wouldn't be an "I Hate The War" on December 23rd, a number of us wondered what would end up being the most requested highlight? Turns out it was still C.I. This one went viral among Third readers for C.I.'s discussion of what's needed and where it's at.
Isaiah's The World Today Just Nuts "Not Quite There" -- Isaiah weighs in on Nouri and democracy.
"The silence of 'feminists' Law Professors and Guerilla Women," "Blogging and the hatred of women," "Betty's sister Faye," "fraudist naomi wolf," "naomi wolf gets called out," "Sin City Siren," "Dingbat Digby," "Iraqi Christians and Idiots of the Week goes to ...," "Links, rape deniers, sexist Terry Gross," "join the call to denounce naomi wolf," "Yes, Naomi Wolf has become Camile Paglia," "Thoughts on World Can't Wait," "No, Naomi Wolf is not an expert on sexual assault" and "Iraq snapshot" -- some of last week's coverage of the trashing of two women by Assange groupies.
"Who hired this man?" and "THIS JUST IN! THIS IS INTELLIGENCE?" -- Part of intelligence is knowing what just happened. This won't make you feel any safer.
"movies," "Comic and in general on movies," "Salt," "Brief," and "Action films?" -- Rebecca and Stan talk movies.
"Libbyliberal, stop being a DAMN FOOL" -- Marcia's must-read.
"Bully Mama" -- Isaiah dips into the archives for this one.
"Truthout can't handle the truth" -- Kat explains too much truth is more than Truthout will let out.
"White Melissa Harris Lacewell tries so hard to be Black" -- White Like Melissa.
"Food safety" -- Trina covers the issue of food safety.
"Specter leaves the Senate (thank goodness)" -- As Ruth notes, Arlen is now out of the Senate.
"Free Press, Barack screwed you" -- Kat addresses the FCC outcome.
"John Halle gets banned" -- Ruth highlights John Halle's experience at Common Dreams.
"Greta Garbo returns!" and "THE RETURN OF THE ANGRY LITTLE BITCH!" -- Cedric and Wally chart the return of the I-Want-To-Be-Alone drama queen.

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Diwali is a festival of lights. Lights dispel darkness—around us and within us. CHANGING TOMORROW brings to you THREE stories of light in people's lives.
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First visually impaired IAS
"We should never be defeated, and never give up," said Pranjal Patil, the young woman who is India's first visually challenged woman IAS officer. She lost her vision at the age of six but that did not deter her from appearing for the civil services exam, one of country's toughest and most coveted examination.
She cracked the CSE, conducted by the Union Public Services Commission (UPSC) and sometimes referred to as UPSC, in her first attempt in 2016. She secured a rank of 773. Ironically, and was refused a job in the Indian Railway Accounts Service on the grounds that she was blind.
The woman from Ulhasnagar, Maharashtra, took the exam again the next year to improve her rank. In 2017, she secured 124th rank and was selected for the Indian Administrative Service (IAS). As her first posting, Patil was posted as assistant collector in Ernakulam, Kerala, in 2018. This grabbed headlines.
On October 14 this year, she took over as the sub-collector in Thiruvananthapuram in the presence of District Collector K Gopalakrishnan and staff at the District Collectorate. Biju Prabhakar, special secretary of the social justice department, who was present during the event, termed her assumption of office as an auspicious moment for the district of Thiruvananthapuram. Earlier, the district collector handed her a bouquet.
Patil's friends remember her as an extremely determined and hard-working student in her college days. "Pranjal was extremely determined. It was a big deal for some of us to even reach an early lecture in college, but Pranjal would make her way on time," M Saraswathy, her classmate from college, was quoted by a newspaper as saying.
"She actively participated in all discussions at our political science class in St Xavier's in Mumbai. And we both studied on the same campus – she at JNU (Jawaharlal Nehru University) and I at the Indian Institute of Mass Communication. Even there I saw the same determination, no hand-holding attitude," Saraswathy added in the newspaper report.
Patil told The Indian Express about her loss of vision. "I had high powered glasses since I was a child, and then I lost sight in both my eyes in quick succession," she said. "Despite that, I was carrying on with my daily activities as usual, and because I was young, it didn't impact me as such," the IAS officer added.
She studied at the Kamala Mehta Dadar School for the blind in Mumbai. Being a Marathi medium school, she faced a challenge here but worked hard to overcome these challenges. She then went on to do her graduation in political science at St Xavier's College in Mumbai where a well-established support system in the form of the Xavier's Resource Centre for the Visually Challenged helped her.
She did not take any coaching for the UPSC exam as she thought it would put unnecessary pressure on her. She solved mock papers and attended discussions.
Her posting is highly motivating for the blind community in Kerala, which is thrilled to have her serve in the state. "She waited for a second attempt to come out in flying colours. This shows that nothing is impossible and the extent to which a person can achieve their dreams if they have the will and determination," said Husna Ameen, a blind computer trainer in Thiruvananthapuram.
Azadi in Iran
More than 3,000 Iranian women crammed into a special section of a Tehran stadium to watch a World Cup qualifier against Cambodia, after they were allowed to buy match tickets for the first time in four decades. The Azadi stadium opened its doors to women after 40-year exile—women have been banned from matches since the Islamic revolution in 1979.
Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the international governing body of association football, and human rights campaigners have been asking the Iranian Football Association to let women into games. The pressure increased after Sahar Khodayari, 29, set her on fire outside a stadium last month. She killed herself when she learnt that she might face six months in jail for trying to sneak into a match, reportedly disguised as a man.
Until the death of Khodayari, FIFA and the Iranian FA were getting away with dragging their feet on opening the stadiums of Iran to women. The world governing body looked the other way for decades as its rules on discrimination and human rights were broken in the West Asian country.
According to reports in international media, FIFA president Gianni Infantinowrote letters to the Iranian FA, most recently in June, requesting clear timeline and assurances that women wanting to attend the qualifiers would be able to do so. This was after March 2018 when 35 women were arrested outside the stadium inside which Infantino was hosting the Tehran derby between Esteghlal and Persepolis.
The tickets for the women-only block in the 78,000-seat stadium were released on October 3 and they sold out within minutes. Amnesty International said women attending this single event seemed more of a "cynical publicity stunt", but those who were inside the stadium on October 10 posted pictures of their prized purchases on social media, celebrating the moment: they were watching football match for first time in decades. Authorities had quadrupled the number of tickets on sale. Those lucky enough to get tickets included a sports reporter who said she was shaking with excitement.
Ironically, while Azadi reverberated with cheering women, though they accounted for less than 5% of seats, the male stands were mostly empty. The women's section was packed with women draped in, or waving, the national flag, some wearing face paint and wigs in Iran's red, white and green.
Last October, around 100 "handpicked" Iranian women entered Azadi for a friendly against Bolivia. But a day later, the prosecutor general warned there would be no repeat, saying it would "lead to sin".
The decision in Iran coincides with women enjoying new freedoms in Saudi Arabia. The ruling monarchy recently lifted restrictions on females travelling alone. The authorities announced in August this year that women "can be granted passports and travel abroad without the consent of their male guardians" and "can also register a birth, marriage or divorce".
For decades, Saudi women have been unable to make major decisions without the permission of a male "wali" – an official guardian, typically a father, brother, uncle or husband – in what Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called "the most significant impediment to realising women's rights in the country".
First All-Woman Spacewalk
Astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir complete the first all-woman spacewalk on October 18. This was the 221st spacewalk in support of the International Space Station's maintenance and assembly, fourth for Koch and first for Meir.
Spacewalk is a roughly six-hour crawl on the exterior of the space station to install new batteries. The first woman to do a spacewalk was Svetlana Savitskaya, who achieved this feat in 1984. After that, women have participated in 42 spacewalks. Of the 15 women who have done spacewalks, 14 have been NASA astronauts. But this is the first time that two women carried out spacewalk.
The first such mission was planned in March but had to be cancelled because there weren't enough spacesuits available on the station for both of them. The space agency had only one medium-sized suit. Because of the spacesuit flub, the historic mission was aborted. Traditionally male-dominated NASA's failure to be adequately prepared was denounced in some quarters but the US space agency
Earlier this month, NASA unveiled two new spacesuits tailored for future moonwalking astronauts. One suit of orange fabric will be worn by astronauts when inside the spacecraft, NASA announced. The new suits come as a much-needed upgrade to NASA's astronaut wardrobe.
The spacewalk, which officially began once both astronauts switched to battery power in their spacesuits, was guided by veteran NASA astronaut and capsule communicator (CAPCOM) Stephanie Wilson on the ground and fellow astronauts Luca Parmitano and Andrew Morgan located on the space station.
The station relies on solar power but is out of direct sunlight for much of its orbit and therefore needs batteries, and the battery charge/discharge unit (BCDU) regulate the amount of charge that goes into them.
Koch and Meir replaced a faulty BCDU during the spacewalk. They joined the NASA's astronaut corps in 2013. Their astronaut class, nicknamed the 'Eight Balls' had the highest percentage of women of any group of astronaut candidates to date.
During the historic spacewalk, the two astronauts received a call from the White House. While speaking to US President Donald Trump, Meir said: "We hope that we can provide an inspiration to everybody, not only women, but to everybody that has a dream, that has a big dream, and who is willing to work hard … this is my first flight and my very first spacewalk, so it is a pretty incredible feeling I'm sure you can all imagine, and it's one I will never forget."
President Trump congratulated the astronauts.
As to why two women have not completed a spacewalk before Ken Bowersox, the acting administrator for NASA's human exploration division and a former astronaut, said that "there are some physical reasons that make it harder sometimes for women to do spacewalks. It's a little bit like playing in the NBA, you know I'm too short to play in the NBA and sometimes physical characteristics make a difference in certain activities, and spacewalks are one of those areas where just how your body is built in space, it makes a difference in how well you can work the suit."
#women First All-Woman Spacewalk First visually impaired IAS Sahar Khodayari
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Q: Unable to click buttons with HtmlUnitDriver but able to click buttons with FirefoxDriver I have a code using Selinium HtmlUnitDrive. I'm able to access the website and click the except cookies but I can't seem to click the play demo button. I don't what is a problem because I can click all buttons using FirefoxDriver.
Before I could not access any elements using HtmlUnitDriver until I used WebDriver driver = new HtmlUnitDriver(BrowserVersion.FIREFOX, true);
Can someone assist because I'm looking to use HtmlUnitDriver.

A: Possibly it's a typo as there are no blank spaces between Pl and ay. Effectively, you code block would be:
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Parents in Malaysia! Beware! If your son likes to wear V-neck shirts, it's because he's gay and wants to show off his body to other boys!
And your daughters, if they prefer the company of only some girls, but not all girls, look out - they're lesbian!
Yes, the Malaysian government is at it again. It's all over the news in Asia, but also getting attention with some Western press and bloggers.
I wrote about efforts in Malaysia to revive reparative therapy techniques to turn ladyboys into real men, so I won't recover all of that. But it seems the Malaysian government is really paranoid about having gays within the populace and is soliciting the help of parents and teachers in spotting this scourge so something can be done about it.
As I've said before, it would all be laughable if it weren't so freaking real. The seminars being hosted in Penang, which has been known to have a lively gay scene, are the fourth conducted in the country. Despite that lively scene in Penang, a friend of mine who lives there is absolutely scared to death to have anyone find out he is gay.
Buddhism is about refuge and I have found the Buddha's teachings to be excellent support for gay practitioners. Yes, there are Buddhist commentators and teachers who adopt homophobia as part of their doctrine, but that's their doctrine, not the Buddha's. When I launched this blog a little more than three years ago, I wrote about how our coming out process was a liberating experience very much like the liberating feeling we experience when we encounter the Dhamma.
I hope our family in Malaysia remains strong throughout this, regardless of their religious point of view. Some meditative sessions on loving kindness are probably in order. And the more musclely straight men who wear colorful V-necks and carry big satchels, the better.


Plastic show jumps, poles and fillers are very hard wearing and easy to maintain. However, there are still things that you can do to ensure that they remain in good condition for as long as possible.
To get the best from your plastic poles keep out of direct sunlight and store flat and straight after use. Do not stand them up against a building for example as plastic can warp in the heat.
You will get some fading on some colours when left outside red, pink, brown for example.
We do not recommend using Jumping poles as trotting poles.
To get the best from your plastic jump wings keep them out of direct sunlight. You will get some fading on some colours when left outside red, pink, brown for example. You can clean down your wings with hot water, detergent, a sponge and good old-fashioned elbow grease! We do not recommend using a pressure washer on fillers and wings with graphic designs on.
Any fillers or items with graphics on, items such as the tower markers with digits on for example, after each use ensure the faces are clean of debris especially sand as if you stack the tower markers as this will scratch the digits, Freshly adhered graphics to our fillers will require a minimum of 48 hours to ensure adhesion before use.


There are many different ways to make yogurt. As long as you fulfill a few conditions, how you want to actually implement the process is largely up to you. Today I want to share my favorite method: making yogurt in my dehydrator. Although making yogurt is one of those things that can seem really intimidating (it was for me, at least!), once you get the hang of it it's really a simple process.
This recipe is specifically for "GAPS yogurt." All that means is that the yogurt is fermented for twenty-four hours in order to give the bacteria enough time to consume all of the lactose in the milk. If you don't need lactose-free yogurt, feel free to ferment your yogurt for a shorter period of time.
Here is my basic method, followed by a few notes to explain why I do particular things the way I do.
Pour the milk into four clean, quart-sized mason jars, leaving a couple of inches of airspace at the top of each jar.
Line the bottom of a stockpot with a dishcloth or small towel. (This helps keep the jars from rattling.) Place jars into the stockpot.
Fill the stockpot with water until the water level is a few inches beneath the rim of the jars. Clip a thermometer to the side of one of the jars so you can measure the temperature of your milk.
Heat the pot over medium heat until the water is boiling, then turn it down to a simmer. Continue heating until your milk reaches 180 degrees Fahrenheit.
Remove the jars of milk from the pot and allow them to cool on the counter. If you're busy and don't want to deal with the milk for an extra long time, you can slow the cooling process by leaving the jars to cool in the hot water.
Check on the milk regularly until it cools down to about 110 degrees Fahrenheit. If you're using yogurt as your starter, add two tablespoons of yogurt to each quart of hot milk. Stir each jar well to combine the starter yogurt with the milk.
If you're using a powdered yogurt starter, spoon out a tablespoon or so of hot milk from one jar into a smaller jar. Add your powdered yogurt starter to the smaller jar. (Consult the package of the powdered starter to find out how much starter for one quart of yogurt.) Stir the milk and starter vigorously to dissolve the powdered starter. Add the milk/starter mixture back to the jar and mix to combine. Repeat for the next three jars.
Cap jars, then place them into your dehydrator. Set the dehydrator at 115 degrees. Allow the yogurt to culture in the dehydrator for twenty-four hours.
After twenty-four hours have elapsed, remove jars from dehydrator and store in the fridge.
Although this recipe makes a gallon of yogurt, you can really make as much or as little as you want. I like to make a gallon at once so I don't have to repeat the process for a while.
I buy organic, grass-fed, non-homogenized whole milk for this recipe. Raw milk would also work, but I pay $13.20/gallon for raw milk here so I only use it for my kefir. Any other type of commercial milk will work as well, of course, but I'd see if you can possibly find/afford grass-fed milk as your yogurt will have a lot more nutrients than if you make it with grain-fed milk.
I'm not really sure how long the pre-incubating part of this process takes as I've never actually measured it. I find it works well to work on something else nearby while heating and cooling the milk so that I can check on everything periodically, but for the most part you won't need to devote your full attention to the process.
I don't know if dehydrators vary in temperature at all, but to be safe you may want to take some extra precautions if you've never used your dehydrator for yogurt before. I'd recommend sticking a thermometer in your yogurt a few times while it's culturing to make sure that the temperature is right. The yogurt needs to be between 90 and 110 degrees for incubation to occur.
Our favorite way to eat yogurt is topped with some frozen blueberries or other frozen fruit. (Fresh fruit would probably also be delicious, but we like the frozen fruit because it gives the whole thing an icy texture.) You can also add it to a smoothie or just eat it plain.
Still Scared to Try Making Yogurt?
If you still feel intimidated about making yogurt, I highly recommend checking out Kitchen Stewardship's yogurt post. Her highly detailed notes and pictures were what finally got me to start making yogurt even though I was really nervous about the process.
Do you make your own yogurt? What's your favorite method?
Thanks Meghan, this looks so easy! I have the internal debate - buy the yogurt maker or just go for the dehydrator. Is your dehydrator the 9-tray? Just for grins: I tried a home rigged light in a cooler - with thermometer inside. I am pretty sure it got too hot and my yogurt separated.
Yes, I have the 9-tray. I love it! It's great that it's useful for so many different things.
How long does the yogurt typically last?
I'm not sure, Jessyka. You could probably find out by Googling, though. I have kept mine for more than two weeks and never had it go bad on me, for what it's worth.
I made yogurt in my new Excalibur and it got too hot at 115 degrees. So then I read information saying to set it to between 95 and 100 degrees (it tends to run about 10 degrees warm). My first 3 or 4 batches came out just fine. But my most recent 4 batches have all separated and had to be thrown out! UGH! Also did a sour cream that separated and had to be thrown out. And I've had 2 batches of each have crunchy pieces in it. I don't know what I could possibly be doing wrong. Even tried new starter yogurt each time and different brands. I'm at my wits end with doing GAPS and not having yogurt or sour cream turning out. I don't know if the dehydrator being in our basement and the temperature fluctuating down there at this time of year (anywhere between 60 and 68) is impacting things. I have done a lot of troubleshooting and batch after batch is not turning out. I dehydrated 2 batches of different nuts recently and they took around 36 hours to get "crispy" rather than the approximately 12 to 24 hour time frame.
I have been making yogurt for many years now. Initially I used a yogurt maker that had little cups-but it was not enough for my family. Now I make 4 litres at a time. I heat the milk in a pot, let it cool add milk powder (this makes it super creamy and thick-like greek yogurt) and the yogurt culture. I heat my oven-at the lowest setting it can go to--then turn it OFF. I heat a large towel and a cast iron frying pan in my oven for a few minutes and then put my pot in the cast iron frying pan and wrap everything up in the towel and place it in the oven. I turn ON the oven light and leave everything for the yogurt culture to do its stuff and presto! I have yogurt delicious and creamy. I leave it in the oven for approximately 8 hrs, unless I forget about it or get busy. I have left it in for 12 hours sometimes.
To keep the milk from sticking to the pot? Try rinsing it in COLD water before adding the milk. (pour in cold water, swirl it around and dump it out) Do NOT dry the pot, just pour in the milk you are using. Not sure why it works but it definitely helps.
Thanks for the tip, Dawn! I will try it next time.
I'm reading this recipe cuz it says it's lactose-free yogurt. I'm not afraid to make yogurt, but I am afraid of eating it. I'm very intolerant of lactose, will have a lot of pain if I do eat even the smallest amount of lactose. Has any severely lactose intolerant people tried this recipe with good (and pain free) results?


Rakul Preet Singh is an Indian film actress and model who has worked mainly in the Telugu film industry. Check out this biography to know about her childhood, family life, achievements and fun facts about her.
Rakul Preet Singh is an Indian film actress and model who has worked mainly in the Telugu film industry. Along with Telugu industry, she has also appeared in few Tamil, Kannada and Hindi movies. When Rakul was in college she started her career as a model. In 2009, she made her debut in Kannada film 'Gilli'. She is popular for her movies like 'Venkatadri Express', 'Loukyam', 'Kick 2', 'Dhruva' and many others. In 2011, she took part in the Femina Miss India pageant where she was placed fifth. She has also won 'Miss India People's Choice' pageant title. In 2014, she made her debut in Bollywood with the movie 'Yaariyan'. Her performance was well-appreciated by audience. In a short span of time, she has established herself as a successful actress in the South Indian film industry. In 2016, she started her own gym F45 in Hyderabad. Also, she has bought a new house in Hyderabad worth ₹3 crore where she lives with her parents.
Rakul Preet Singh was born on 10 October 1990, in New Delhi, India. She was born in a Punjabi family and completed her schooling from Army Public School in Dhaula Kuan.
She has studied Mathematics at Jesus and Mary College from University of Delhi. Also, she has played golf at national level and has been an active player.
Rakul Preet Singh always dreamt of seeing herself as an actress. She began her career through modelling. At the age of 18, she started modelling along with attending college.
In 2009, she debuted with a Kannada film 'Gilli'. When she signed the film, she had little idea how big the South Indian film industry was. In her words, the reason why she signed the movie was 'with the aim to earn a little extra pocket money'.
She was praised and appreciated by the audience as well as critics. Then she went on to complete her studies and finished her degree.
In 2011, she competed for Femina Miss India pageant. She won four subtitles at the pageant: Pantaloons Femina Miss Fresh Face, Femina Miss Talented, Femina Miss Beautiful Smile, and Femina Miss Beautiful Eyes. In addition to this, she also won the Miss India Poll.
In 2011, she returned back to films with the movie 'Keratam' and was seen opposite Siddharth Rajkumar. She got little screen space in the movie and it was noted by some critics. Apparently, the film was also made in Tamil with the title 'Yuvan' with the same cast but a different director. The film is yet to be releaded.
In 2012, she was seen in a supporting role in the Tamil movie 'Thadaiyara Thaakka'. Next year she appeared in two films, 'Puthagam' which was in Tamil, and 'Venkatadri Express' which was in Telugu and was a huge commercial success. 'Venkatadri Express' helped her earn her first Best Actress nomination at the Filmfare Awards South.
In 2014, she made her debut in Hindi film industry with Divya Kumar's directorial debut 'Yaariyan'. Her role was well-appreciated. After her Bollywood debut, came her third Tamil film 'Yennamo Yedho'.
In 2014, she had signed four films and was working simultaneously in all the four Telugu films. The movies were directed by Sriwaas, G. Nageswara Reddy, Srinivas Reddy, and Gopichand Malineni.
In 2014, she starred in Sriwaas' 'Loukyam' and G. Nageswara Reddy's 'Current Theega'. She was praised for both the movies and received positive response.
From 2015 onwards, Rakul Preet Singh has starred in high profile Telugu films, such as Surender Reddy's 'Kick 2', Srinu Vaitla's 'Bruce Lee', Sukumar's 'Nannaku Prematho' and Boyapati Srinu's 'Sarrainodu'. For the movie 'Nannaku Prematho' she had dubbed herself and was highly praised.
In 2016, she signed the film 'Jaya Janaki Nayaka' for a whooping 1.5 crore rupees. In February 2016, she got the opportunity to star opposite Ram Charam for the second time when she signed Surender Reddy's 'Dhruva'.
In March 2016, Gopichand Malineni signed her for a film opposite Sai Dharam Tej. Along with this, in July 2016, she signed a film opposite Mahesh Babu with the title 'SPYDER'. The film was made by A R Murugadoss in two languages.
In September 2016, she signed another Telugu film Telugu film titled 'Rarandoi Veduka'. The movie was released on 26 May 2017 and was a big hit.
In December 2016, she signed another movie 'Theeran Athikaram Ondru' and was paired against Karthi. Her next Telugu movie 'Jaya Janaki Nayaka' is under process and will be released soon. The movie is directed by Boyapati Srinu and Rakul Preet Singh will be paired against Bellamkonda Sreenivas.
Rakul Preet Singh has taken up a gym franchise named Functional 45 and has opened up two gyms in Hyderabad; one in Gachibowli and the other in Kokapet.
One of her notable movies is 'Nannaku Prematho' where she dubbed for her role as Divyanka. She was nominated for Filmfare Award for Best Actress – Telugu for the film.
She is also known for her movies like 'Venkatadri Express' and 'Loukyam' for which she was nominated for Filmfare Award for Best Actress.
In 2016, Rakul Preet Singh won SIIMA Award for Best Actress –Telugu for the movie 'Nannaku Prematho'.
Rakul Preet Singh has been in limelight due to her work, but never due to her relationships.
She Singh bought a new apartment worth 3 crore rupees in Hyderabad where she resides with her parents.
Her favourite actor is Shah Rukh Khan and her favourite movies are 'Kal Ho Na Ho', 'P.S. I Love U', 'The Devil Wears Prada' and 'Hangover'.
Once she beat a guy while in college as he was trying to take her pictures.
She is also a fan of India's badminton ace, Saina Nehwal.


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DJ barred from clubs over tattoo
He says he comes in peace, literally – but Gold Coast clubs still won't let him in, and he's fuming.
by Kirstin Payne
1st Jan 2021 7:15 AM
HE says he comes in peace, literally - but Gold Coast clubs still won't let him in.
For years, swim schoolteacher, PT and club DJ Felipe Mattos has sported a large neck tattoo that reads 'Peace.'
It was only when he arrived on the Gold Coast that it became a problem, he says.
In the past nine months the 32-year-old Broadbeach resident said he had been denied entry to at least three different venues and now is calling out what he believes is discrimination.
"I've lived in Sydney, Darwin, all over Australia but I have never had any issue until I came to the Gold Coast," he said.
Felipe De Mattos Pinheiro has a visible neck tattoo that reads 'Peace'.
"The Gold Coast is meant to be a big tourism centre but they are picky with who they welcome depending on how they look - everywhere else had moved with the times.
"Having tattoos doesn't make me a criminal. I work with children, I have been a government employee but yet I am treated like a trouble maker."
Mr Mattos said his most recent knock back was at the popular Burleigh Pavilion in early December.
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The rule isn't unique to the pavilion with a number of other clubs on the Gold Coast employing the same dress code, including - for example - Cocktails and The Bedroom nightclubs and the Star's casino gaming floor all ruling against visible neck and face tattoos.
"The latest incident happened at Burleigh Pavilion a few weeks ago, it was the second time I had been denied entry there. Yet I had been allowed in before, so it was all about picking and choosing," Mr Mattos said.
Felipe De Mattos Pinheiro said he has been discriminated against becuase of his tattoos.
"I was told by security it was because of the bikies, but there are bikies without tattoos, there are murderers without tattoos.
"He said the boss doesn't like the look. It is humiliating.
"I don't turn people away from my gym because of how they look, why is it only ok in a pub.
"It deeply hurts me, I am a nice guy, it is one tattoo but I continue to be judged by it.
"Maybe if it said something like 'f**k the police', I would understand, but it says peace."
Burleigh Pavilion owner Ben May said he was not likely to change his rules.
"They are our standards and we are sticking to them," he said.
The current anti-discrimination act in Queensland prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex, relationship status, pregnancy, parental status, breastfeeding, age, race, impairment, religious belief or religious activity, political belief or activity, trade union activity, lawful sexual activity, gender identity, sexuality, family responsibilities.
Tattoos are not covered by it.
Gold Coast nightclub scene veteran and Surfers Paradise Licensed Venues Association president Tim Martin said they rules were at the discretion of owners but had become a more contentious issue over time as tattoos become more popular.
"In general clubs don't allow visible hand, neck or face tattoos. This did come about and was widely introduced at most venues because of the tough period of bikie violence on the Gold Coast.
"Like any dress code the rule vary from place to place, but this isn't out of the ordinary or uncommon."
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Q: Virtualization performance after Windows reinstall I have a laptop with core i7 7700hq, 16gb RAM, 512 GB PCI-e SSD.
Perfomance of virtual machines was great. Android emulators through genymotion were blindingly fast, windows guests on virtual box, mac os guests on virtual box were fine too. I had an old Windows 10 which wasn't updated for a long time and couldn't for some reason.
I've installed new Windows 10 from Microsoft's Media Creation Tool.
And suddenly everything is painfully slow. Not only VirtualBox, but also Visual Studio's Android emulator. All of them slower, I think, by 10 times!
I've checked BIOS to make sure virtualization is still enabled.
Selected high performance mode in Windows's Power Settings.
HAXM is installed too.
VirtualBox says "VTx is Active".
Visual Studio's Android emulator says HAXM is active and running at full speed.
I don't know what else to check. Any ideas?

A: It was goddamned Avast. Even disabling virtualization in its settings did not help! Only after full uninstall everything went back to normal. As I understand, AVG may cause same issues. I'll stick with Windows Defender from now on.


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#pragma once
#include <aws/workmail/WorkMail_EXPORTS.h>
#include <aws/workmail/WorkMailRequest.h>
#include <aws/core/utils/memory/stl/AWSString.h>
#include <utility>

namespace Aws
{
namespace WorkMail
{
namespace Model
{

  /**
   */
  class AWS_WORKMAIL_API CreateAliasRequest : public WorkMailRequest
  {
  public:
    CreateAliasRequest();

    // Service request name is the Operation name which will send this request out,
    // each operation should has unique request name, so that we can get operation's name from this request.
    // Note: this is not true for response, multiple operations may have the same response name,
    // so we can not get operation's name from response.
    inline virtual const char* GetServiceRequestName() const override { return "CreateAlias"; }

    Aws::String SerializePayload() const override;

    Aws::Http::HeaderValueCollection GetRequestSpecificHeaders() const override;

    /**
     *
The organization under which the member (user or group) exists.

     */
    inline const Aws::String& GetOrganizationId() const{ return m_organizationId; }

    /**
     *
The organization under which the member (user or group) exists.

     */
    inline bool OrganizationIdHasBeenSet() const { return m_organizationIdHasBeenSet; }

    /**
     *
The organization under which the member (user or group) exists.

     */
    inline void SetOrganizationId(const Aws::String& value) { m_organizationIdHasBeenSet = true; m_organizationId = value; }

    /**
     *
The organization under which the member (user or group) exists.

     */
    inline void SetOrganizationId(Aws::String&& value) { m_organizationIdHasBeenSet = true; m_organizationId = std::move(value); }

    /**
     *
The organization under which the member (user or group) exists.

     */
    inline void SetOrganizationId(const char* value) { m_organizationIdHasBeenSet = true; m_organizationId.assign(value); }

    /**
     *
The organization under which the member (user or group) exists.

     */
    inline CreateAliasRequest& WithOrganizationId(const Aws::String& value) { SetOrganizationId(value); return *this;}

    /**
     *
The organization under which the member (user or group) exists.

     */
    inline CreateAliasRequest& WithOrganizationId(Aws::String&& value) { SetOrganizationId(std::move(value)); return *this;}

    /**
     *
The organization under which the member (user or group) exists.

     */
    inline CreateAliasRequest& WithOrganizationId(const char* value) { SetOrganizationId(value); return *this;}

    /**
     *
The member (user or group) to which this alias is added.

     */
    inline const Aws::String& GetEntityId() const{ return m_entityId; }

    /**
     *
The member (user or group) to which this alias is added.

     */
    inline bool EntityIdHasBeenSet() const { return m_entityIdHasBeenSet; }

    /**
     *
The member (user or group) to which this alias is added.

     */
    inline void SetEntityId(const Aws::String& value) { m_entityIdHasBeenSet = true; m_entityId = value; }

    /**
     *
The member (user or group) to which this alias is added.

     */
    inline void SetEntityId(Aws::String&& value) { m_entityIdHasBeenSet = true; m_entityId = std::move(value); }

    /**
     *
The member (user or group) to which this alias is added.

     */
    inline void SetEntityId(const char* value) { m_entityIdHasBeenSet = true; m_entityId.assign(value); }

    /**
     *
The member (user or group) to which this alias is added.

     */
    inline CreateAliasRequest& WithEntityId(const Aws::String& value) { SetEntityId(value); return *this;}

    /**
     *
The member (user or group) to which this alias is added.

     */
    inline CreateAliasRequest& WithEntityId(Aws::String&& value) { SetEntityId(std::move(value)); return *this;}

    /**
     *
The member (user or group) to which this alias is added.

     */
    inline CreateAliasRequest& WithEntityId(const char* value) { SetEntityId(value); return *this;}

    /**
     *
The alias to add to the member set.

     */
    inline const Aws::String& GetAlias() const{ return m_alias; }

    /**
     *
The alias to add to the member set.

     */
    inline bool AliasHasBeenSet() const { return m_aliasHasBeenSet; }

    /**
     *
The alias to add to the member set.

     */
    inline void SetAlias(const Aws::String& value) { m_aliasHasBeenSet = true; m_alias = value; }

    /**
     *
The alias to add to the member set.

     */
    inline void SetAlias(Aws::String&& value) { m_aliasHasBeenSet = true; m_alias = std::move(value); }

    /**
     *
The alias to add to the member set.

     */
    inline void SetAlias(const char* value) { m_aliasHasBeenSet = true; m_alias.assign(value); }

    /**
     *
The alias to add to the member set.

     */
    inline CreateAliasRequest& WithAlias(const Aws::String& value) { SetAlias(value); return *this;}

    /**
     *
The alias to add to the member set.

     */
    inline CreateAliasRequest& WithAlias(Aws::String&& value) { SetAlias(std::move(value)); return *this;}

    /**
     *
The alias to add to the member set.

     */
    inline CreateAliasRequest& WithAlias(const char* value) { SetAlias(value); return *this;}

  private:

    Aws::String m_organizationId;
    bool m_organizationIdHasBeenSet = false;

    Aws::String m_entityId;
    bool m_entityIdHasBeenSet = false;

    Aws::String m_alias;
    bool m_aliasHasBeenSet = false;
  };

} // namespace Model
} // namespace WorkMail
} // namespace Aws

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Biography of Dr. Erin Watson Essay
Sarita Tamang
Professor A. P. Hoover
English 101, Section 92/ red
14th October 2009. Dr. Erin Watson is a woman who wants to be best in whatever she does. She is a determined person, always working to achieve what she wants. She's a person who moved to Louisiana from Seattle just for her graduate studies. There is nothing that can stop her. "I never wanted to be a lab technician in the crime lab, I wanted to be the expert" she says, but has worked with many state and federal agencies like the FBI. She sternly says, "Forensic science is a science, not the drama on Television. . . many students have the misconception that a forensic scientist does only the things shown on the TV . . .but it is rather different and complex." …show more content…
Most research findings at this stage will enhance the discipline. She has conducted many researches, but thinks that Louisiana's wild weather may be a hindrance in some researches. Currently, she is interested in many things. One of her interests is to establish development rates of carnivorous beetles of three common families that are associated with a crime scene. Secondly, she is also interested in studying the interactions of the invasive species- the hairy maggot blow fly. Finally, she also wants to study our native flies and beetle species which are being displaced by the aggressive blow fly. She plans to become a tenured-faculty member and climb the ladder at Southeastern. She further Adds, "I like being able to conduct research that I determine and teach some . . . I'd also like to stay in contact with the law enforcement agencies that I initially began my work with." She has always believed that being associated with a university is more credible than being a technician at a lab. She thinks that there is a great potential in using insects for determining PMI. Dr. Watson has always been a determined person and her own boss. "But, not having a boss can be bad sometimes because you may find yourself procrastinating or getting behind on all of your responsibilities if you don't push yourself!" she says. She has always been an independent person speaking for herself which made it
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