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What Do David Lynch's Movies Say About Sex?
ByLauren Carroll Harris
on September 16, 2015 in Movies
[Pete and Alice are having sex]
Pete: "I want you!"
Alice: [whispers in his ear] "You'll never have me."
– Lost Highway
Of all the terrifyingly true things David Lynch has said, this rings the loudest bells for me: "Sex is a doorway to something so powerful and mystical, but movies usually depict it in a completely flat way…" He's dead right. Despite the ubiquity of sexual imagery and objectified women, sex is still one of our biggest taboos, and its representation in mainstream and even much independent film still so unsophisticated, so uniform, so unlike the experience and diversity of the real thing.
Lynch's strange, disorienting, and often downright creepy take on sex – a background but essential part of his trademark – is set to haunt our screens and psyches again with the new iteration of Twin Peaks, written and directed by the man himself, to start shooting in September for the Showtime network.
Back when The Simpsons Movie lampooned the Disney stereotype of on-screen sex, it revealed a more far-reaching series of instantly recognisable conventions. Homer and Marge find themselves alone in a timber cabin in the snowy mountains of Alaska. As night falls, Homer presents Marge with a bouquet of flowers, but as he goes to draw the curtains, in flies a magical crew of tiny forest animals drawn in a typical early 20th Century Bambi-like style, who take it upon themselves to tastefully undress husband and wife. As the parents take each other's hands and approach the bed, the camera steers away from them to the innocent menagerie of birds and baby deer. As a cartoon mockery, the scene rings true, partly because in the animated canon, The Simpsons is antithetical to Disney, and partly because the scene's critique applies beyond cartoons – so much sex of film is purely and politely euphemistic. The way in which soap operas like The Bold and The Beautiful present sex is equally ridiculous – typically, a white man and white woman, hairless from the eyebrows down as The Wolf of Wall Street's Jordan Belfort might say, embrace before a log-fire on a leopard-print rug, red roses in the foreground just out of focus. Next thing you know, it's morning and we've cut to a scene of ruffled pastel bedsheets.
But again, this kind of scene rings true beyond the soapie format – think how many cinema sex scenes have been timidly evoked in this way, a dominant alpha male leaning over a submissive and adoring woman invariably wearing matching lingerie (yet another silly cinematic conceit. Women readers – think about this, how often do you actually wear matching lingerie?), the next-morning scene involving the woman in her man's shirt bringing him a cup of fresh coffee as he wakes. Of course, censors have historically conflated onscreen sex with porn. But filmmakers have missed something too. Cinema's coming of age during a time of censorship and before the 1960s and 70s women's and pride movements demands for sexual equality and openness has made a mark; perhaps we are still in the shadow of that early censorship culture. When was the last time you saw someone smile or laugh or be playful or kind in a film sex scene?
Sherilyn Fenn as Audrey Horme in Twin Peaks pilot 1990
The problem is not that sex in cinema lies squarely in the realm of fantasy. Maybe that's as it should be, and the world of fantasy on film is a key reason that the medium seduces all of us: cinema is something that keeps our inner worlds replenished. The problem is that much cinema lazily recycles one, repeating fantasy, limiting and ill-fitting of the multitude of sexual experiences that we've all had. We're not seeing fantasy, we're seeing cliché. The adjectives people use to describe Audrey from Twin Peaks, one of the most prototypical and sexy Lynch women, best exemplifies the weird clichés we attach to women on screen: nymphette, temptress, vixen. Audrey's sexiness is so dream-strange, so internalised, so disinterested in others' approval and so not about conforming to a stock-standard 'SEXY!' female image – think of her dancing, alone, on tiles of the Double R Diner – it's as if people just couldn't get a handle on it.
Lynch's great skill has always been to imbue the fantastically banal with the fantastical taboo, to paint the home as a hostile place – indeed, that's how David Foster Wallace so astutely explained the very term 'Lynchian'. Lynch himself has said that "the house is a place where things can go wrong". This is our first clue about what Lynch's films say about sex. Because they're art-films so uniquely of their own genus, it's easy to forget that they're also mostly crime films. And in them, sex is almost always central to the crimes committed and the things going wrong. Lynch's most stereotypically sexy film, Wild at Heart, is also his most stereotypical crime genre film. At this basic level of genre, Lynch entrenches his antithetical stance between sex and love.
It begins with Eraserhead. While his first feature is free of the violent sexual imagery of later Lynch, there's a strong sense of sexual anxiety in the woes of its protagonist, the baffled father Henry Spencer. The surprise arrival of his mutant baby is what forces Henry to marry his girlfriend Mary X, and all his other encounters with women confuse and hurt him, from Mary's mother's attempt to kiss him, to his impossible longing for the Beautiful Girl Across the Hall. A scared, stunted sexuality is background, yet dominant, in the film, to the point that writer David Skal has described its portrayal of "human reproduction as a desolate freak show, an occupation fit only for the damned". When Lynchian sex is not outright fearful, it is just plain bewildering.
A desolate freak show. From Eraserhead, the pattern is set – the best Lynchian sex is illusory or the product of an ill-fated relationship. Why is the most joyful sexual relationship in his films – Lula and Sailor's in Wild at Heart – the least convincing? Why are the purest romantic relationships in his work – Dale and Anne and Ed and Norma in Twin Peaks – the least sexual in terms of what we as viewers see, and the least physically expressed? Why are the most authentic and explicit sexual relationships in his films the most destructive and traumatic? Why is Lynchian love and romance so hopeful and Lynchian sex so hopeless?
Sex is never simple, nor are the messages of Lynch's films. He has always been disinterested in the traditions of linear narrative and more inclined to follow mood, imagery and rhythm in music and editing. Indeed, his move into filmmaking was predicated by a frustration with the still images he was creating at art school in Philadelphia. Where his debut film seemed to spring fully formed and without precedent from some other planet, Lynch's short films give us the biggest clues as to what the man is really all about: they are moving images in the purest sense – paintings brought from stillness to life. The mood sustained across his films has much in common with that of the 20th century's titan painters Luc Tuymans and Gerard Richter: that same everyday violence thing, that same disturbed energy. Where Tuymans and Richter's violence is soft, latent and located in historical interrogation (Tuymans' deceptively anodyne and monochromatic work Gaskammer [1986] is all the more shocking for the revelation of the subject matter in its title), in Lynch's work the eeriness always manifests directly in evil, with an accompanying sexual encounter, in the home and in dreams. The title of Lynch's 1966 short art film, "Absurd Encounter With Fear," says more than anybody has ever said about Lynch's work – is there any richer, pithier summation of the feel of his films, of his typical depiction of sex and the strange muddy feelings that surround our experiences of it? The message we get from his films is that sex is scary and there's no such thing as 'just sex'.
What's more, Lynchian sex is mostly abusive, manipulative and humiliating – either non-consensual or barely so. His female characters are rarely murdered without being raped first. Laura Palmer's young life is ruined by sexual abuse derived from within her family. Most of the sex in Blue Velvet is completely power-mad – almost never on equal terms, and with pleasure derived from humiliation. The whole story might even be summarized as Jeffrey (Kyle McLachlan's) sexual awakening via trauma – the innocence he experienced with Laura Dern's Sandy can never be truly recovered. Dennis Hopper's Frank and Isabella Rossellini's Dorothy use their bodies as weapons of control: the most sexualized characters in the film are leading the most fearful lives. The same goes for the central couple in Lost Highway. Played by Patricia Arquette and Bill Pullman, they are married but strangers to one another, their crucial sex scene starting off creepy and ending downright murderously. Perhaps this is why Jonathan Rosenbaum wrote that Blue Velvet leaks a sense of "disgust" about sex. "Without its irony, Blue Velvet, resembles the lurid, confused imaginings of a sheltered 12-year-old boy wondering about sex between his parents; with the irony it can be taken as something more grown-up – the cynical scoffing of an adult at his own puerile notions." In Mulholland Drive, Naomi Watts' character's relationship with Laura Harring's seems almost straightforwardly adoring. Their sex scene early on in the film is not played for easy objectification – it seems to really mean something to them both. Later, the identity-switch between the characters is revealed and we realise the earlier sex scene is a fantasy with no real-world bearing at all: the worst kind of broken-hearted sex.
The evidence is stacking up: most of the key Lynch women have never known happiness in their sex lives. Except for Lula Palace Fortune – Laura Dern in Wild at Heart, Lynch's on-the-run lovers' pulp film that borders the genres of melodrama and crime. Lula is forthright and liberated – in love and in bed with her man Sailor (Nicholas Cage). But if the happiest sex in the Lynch body of work belongs to the couple in Wild at Heart, then the most flatly depicted sex also belongs to them. Their sex scenes are mostly in divey motels and surrounded by the dialogue like, "You got me hotter than Georgia asphalt," and "Man, I had a boner with a capital O". Nonsense! Again, when it comes to sex that's not borderline clinically insane, Lynch reverts to the same flatness he criticizes. It just doesn't feel real. Where's the interiority, the complexity? Lynch chickens out. He can't depict romantic sex without pulpy irony. Only when Lula is threatened by a sociopathic crime lord, only when sex is disturbing, does the film convince. Bobby Peru (peak Willem Dafoe) extracts the deepest shame possible from her, by making her plead for him to fuck her. "Say it!" he hisses, "I'll tear your fuckin' heart out, girl!" (The quietest voice is always the most intimidating one.) She finally whispers "Fuck me," as he sexually assaults her, and he finally reinforces his own power by faux-rejecting her: "No, thanks, I don't have time today!…Don't cry, everything will be ok." Without her Sailor, she is powerless, and it is awful. Even without the intrusion of Bobby Peru, Lula and Sailor's chemistry follows the Lynchian rule of leading to bloodshed and trauma. Even their final happy reunion is cloaked in the visual language of illusion: it rings hollow. It's oddly opposite to Twin Peaks, in which sexual violence is counterpointed with a buttoned-up sexiness among the female characters. Unlike Lula, Audrey, Norma, Donna and Shelley are not overtly sexualized; they're all about pleated skirts and cable-knit jumpers, wavy bobs and small-town diner uniforms, full brows and defined lips – a quiet, romantic view of women without the complexity of actual sex thrown in. Sexiness without the sex. Hence Agent Cooper's description of Audrey: "I entered only to find Audrey Horne, an astounding eighteen-year-old woman—though tonight, she seemed much more like a child to me."
And yet, from Lynch's public interviews, there's no way you could surmise the man has a pessimistic worldview – he's all about transcendence and higher consciousness and inner fields of endless joy. Perhaps the key to understanding Lynchian sex lies in the remainder of his earlier quote about the flatness of most cinematic sex: "…Being explicit doesn't tap into the mystical aspect of it either in fact, that usually kills it because people don't want to see sex so much as they want to experience the emotions that go along with it. These things are hard to convey in film because sex is such a mystery."
The apparent need to find a new way to depict sex in the first part of the quote gives way to a need to shun it – just as Eraserhead's Henry Spencer is both fascinated and terrified of sex and the feelings it forces. Instead, sex in the Lynch universe becomes totally caught up in the madness of America rather than its possible liberation. While romantic love is asexual, sex becomes the source and the result of horror – sex and love are divorced, and the world divided into innocents and psychos. Life is simpler that way. It seems to me that just as he derided identifying Laura Palmer's murderer as "killing the goose that was laying golden eggs", Lynch wants a similarly avoidant approach to positive sex on screen: going for opacity and evasiveness to retain the mystery. And that's where the impasse arrives: that's how Lynch's films can have such an optimistic vision of love, and a troubled vision of sex. Which could be the most Lynchian paradox of all.
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Lauren Carroll Harris is a writer and artist, published in Bright Wall/Dark Room, Guardian Australia and Indiewire, and the author of Not at a Cinema Near You: Australia's Film Distribution Problem (Platform Papers, 2013).
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One of the earliest mythological battles is between the God Osiris and his brother Seth (or Set). Osiris dies and becomes King of the underworld. His son Horus avenges him, but Seth cannot be destroyed, only contained.
Seth tricks Osiris, just as Loki, in the Norse tradition, tricks the Aesir Gods, leading to the death of Baldur. In the biblical tradition the brothers Cain and Abel fight, and Abel is slain.
Much wisdom is enclosed within these tales, depending on the context in which they are seen.
The divisive principle represented variously by Seth, Cain and Loki is a necessary part of dwelling in duality, where illusion reigns and evil has sway for a time. The challenge for mankind as a whole - represented by the embalmed Osiris - is to deal with this duality and return intact, to unity with the Divine principle.
But another truth is also hinted at. Often mythological tales draw on distant history. In these stories, the possibility that elements of mankind have dabbled in the darkest of arts is suggested. The God Seth is considered as one of the earliest of the Egyptian deities, a God of the desert regions, and the fiery element. Unlike the other principle deities of the Egyptian pantheon, he is represented with a fantastical head rather than a human head. With Seth comes chaos. With Loki comes trickery. When those committed to a spiritual life, pervert their calling, real darkness enters the world. The darkness is deepest when it is knowingly sought by those who understand spiritual verities and ignore them. These are indeed the Children of Set. They are always present but not always in the ascendency. They like Cain, introduce death, for the conscious awareness and certainty of spiritual immortality is lost. But death itself is a symbol.
The death of Osiris is the entry into physical life. The Egyptian Book of the Dead is also entitled the Book of Coming forth by Day. Much of Egyptian mythology is in effect dealing with how the soul or life principle can return to its pristine state. The same stories suggest that there are those - Sets followers - who would hold the soul captive within duality. They have given themselves over entirely to power in the temporal reign and power over others.
It can be easily seen that when such people and such ideas hold sway in a civilisation, then it eventually falls. Egypt degenerated more than once and was restored. We live in a time when spiritual truth holds little influence in the world at large and temporal power, whether by religious groups or secular governments and corporations, define much of what is accepted as real. Horus still fights with Seth. Cain still slays Abel and Loki tricks wherever he can.


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Born in Kensington, London, Paul Nash studied at the Slade School of Art (1910–11). He served with the Artists' Rifles during the First World War and in 1917 he was appointed an Official War Artist, acclaimed for his paintings of shattered landscapes in France and Flanders. In the 1920s Nash moved to Rye, Sussex, painting bleak and ominous landscapes of the area. He began travelling abroad, visiting France regularly. In 1931 he visited New York, Washington and Pittsburgh. He founded the Unit One group in 1933 and participated in the 'International Surrealist Exhibition' (London, 1936). In the Second World War Nash became an Official War artist to the Air Ministry and Ministry of Information. He died in Hampshire in 1946.
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height: 38.50 cm, width: 47.00 cm
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An affordable fun-filled beach break, this tour showcases the most beautiful islands El Nido has to offer. This short trip is great for families, group of friends and young travellers who are looking for a clean, warm and most importantly, budget accommodation.
This tour package includes the popular El Nido Island Hopping Tours with the opportunity to see some of the pristine islands, secret lagoons and dramatic limestone cliffs on Bacuit Bay.
Meet at El Nido airport before noon, then transfer to your hotel. Check in after 2.00pm.
Proceed for about 45 minutes through rural countryside to the spectacular Nacpan Beach.
Nacpan is a four-kilometer-long unspoilt stretch of powdery golden sand and pristine azure waters. Nacpan is the perfect place to spend some leisure time – here you can enjoy sun bathing, swimming or laze under a shade of the coconut trees or trek up hill and see the magnificent sights of Calitang Twin Beach.
After sunset transfer to your hotel.
With El Nido tour A, you will visit the following islands and beaches: Miniloc Island, Big Lagoon, Small Lagoon, Secret Lagoon, 7 Commandos Beach and Shimizu Island.
A picnic lunch will be served on the beach.
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With El Nido tour B, you will visit the following islands and beaches: Pangulasian Island, Pinagbuyutan Island, Snake Island, Cathedral Cave and Codugnon Cave.
Continue the exploration of Bacuit Bay. El Nido is surrounded by many beautiful islands and beaches and each one of them has something different to offer.
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Craig T. Nelson gives "Incredibles 2" his thumbs up as Pixar thanks fans for record debut
Disney(NEW YORK) — In a tweet featuring a drawing of the super-powered Parr family on a Post-It, Disney/Pixar thanked fans for showing up in droves to this weekend's debut of Incredibles 2.
The animated sequel, which hit theaters 14 years after the Oscar-winning original, raked in $180 million, the best debut ever for an animated feature and among the top 10 best openings in box office history.
Mr. Incredible himself, Craig T. Nelson, tells ABC Radio even he was impressed by the finished product. "I loved it," he enthused. "I mean, it was a complete surprise and it was so much fun to do. It was — just you know, it's as much fun doing it as it is watching it, which is really neat."
Nelson explained the process of bringing the Parr family together onscreen — his animated onscreen wife, played by Holly Hunter, as well as the rest of the family, didn't record their scenes together.
"It's very specific," Nelson says of his time in the recording booth. "You have a certain amount of time to say the line in. There's room for experimentation and all that. But it's really — they're just as good and doing an editing conversation that's actually overlapping as they are animating. I mean, Pixar is just amazing. So when you watch it you think, 'Oh, heck, they had to have been together,' but they're not!"
Samuel L. Jackson, Sophia Bush, and Better Call Saul Emmy-winner Bob Odenkirk also lend their voices to Incredibles 2.
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please help me? we' re 5 children. my mom and her husband(my step dad) had a fight and it' s not the first one. each time they fight she moves out and stay with one of us. the minute she moves in she starts being rude. she shout at our kids she always wants to sit with the remote and watch her programs. she has a way of farting while we' re all sitting together and laugh about it without excusing her self. she use vulgar language in front of my kids of which the little one picks up a lot of words. and when she and her husband reconcile she does not even thank us when she leaves. she just packs up and go back to him behind our backs and return when they have another fight. my one sister asked her to leave then she treaten to commit suicide and she' s been threatening us with this since we where kids but never had an attempt. she now moved in with me and my 2 children and her behaviour just continue she even discuss our private life' s and problems with the rest of the family and her colleges at work. I am suffering from bipolar 2 and am really struggling to cope with this situation at the moment. it also affect my 16yr old she always complained about her granny shouting of farting or swearing. how can I asked my mom to leave without her being bitter ?


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Романтик Блядь Коллекшн — третий сольный альбом петербургского автора-исполнителя Стаса Барецкого. Альбом был выпущен в ноябре 2011 года. Официально разрешено бесплатное скачивание альбома в Интернете. На песню «Нойз, ты пидор» Барецкий самостоятельно снял музыкальный клип, пользовавшийся популярностью в интернете.

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Рецензент проекта «Афиша» Александр Горбачёв в целом положительно оценил альбом, отметив «артистическую харизму» Барецкого и то, что в песнях «хватает дикостей». Альбом вошёл в список «театр года». Негативно оценил альбом и творчество Барецкого в целом Алексей Мажаев: «матерный и предельно неприятный шансонообразный рэп»; тексты альбома автобиографичны, для них характерны «зловещие интонации» и «однообразная мрачность».

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The complaints of 'sexual harassment' is filed by a group of women who have been working as casual FM presenters (Radio Jockeys) with All India Radio FM.
The National Commission for Women on Thursday sought an Action Taken Report from the Chairman of Prasar Bharati Board on complaints of 'sexual harassment' filed by a group of women who have been working as casual FM presenters (Radio Jockeys) with All India Radio FM.
The complaint before the Commission alleges that the current Deputy Director General (station director) has been "using harsh words" and "yelling at the presenters" apart from changing their shift timings without giving notice.
The presenters claim that orders were issued to remove all casual presenters over 35 years of age, in a bid to get rid of the complainants. The order was stayed by the I&B Ministry after widespread protests by presenters across the country.


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Premierul Uniunii Sovietice sau Președinte al Sovietului Comisarilor Poporului al URSS  (Председатель Совета Народных Комиссаров СССР) (1923-1946) și Președinte al Consiliului de miniștri al URSS (Председатель Совета Министров СССР) (1946-1991), a fost șeful guvernului în Uniunea Sovietică.

Adevărata putere se afla însă în Politburo al Comitetului Central al Partidului Comunist al Uniunii Sovietice. După moartea lui Lenin, poziția principală în Politburo și în țară a fost Secretarul General. Unii lideri sovietici au avut amândouă funcțiile în același timp.

În presa occidentală, Secretarul General al Partidului Comunist era denumit "premier al uniunii Sovietice" indiferent dacă același personaj deținea sau nu funcția de prim-ministru. De exemplu, Leonid Brejnev a fost deseori numit "premier" deși el nu a deținut niciodată această funcție.

Președinte al Sovietului Comisarilor Poporului al URSS
 Vladimir Ilici Lenin (1923-1924); de asemenea Președinte al Sovietului Comisarilor Poporului al RSSFR (1917-1924)''
 Alexei Ivanovici Rîkov (1924-1930)
 Viacheslav Mihailovici Molotov (1930-1941)
 Iosif Vissarionovici Stalin (1941-1946)

Președinte al Consiliului de miniștri al URSS
 Iosif Vissarionovici Stalin (1946-1953)
 Gheorghi Maksimilianovici Malenkov (1953-1955)
 Nikolai Aleksandrovici Bulganin (1955-1958)
 Nikita Sergheevici Hrușciov (1958-1964)
 Alexei Nikolaevici Kosîghin (1964-1980)
 Nikolai Aleksandrovici Tihonov (1980-1985)
 Nikolai Ivanovici Rîjkov (1985-1991)

Primul-ministru al URSS
 Valentin Pavlov (14 ianuarie 1991-22 august 1991)
 Ivan Silaev (24 august 1991-26 decembrie 1991)

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Marxist reading of the reality show Big Brother, and Social Capital
Christian Patterson	analysis, culture	 2019-02-06 2019-02-06 7 Minutes
Usually, the tv show Big Brother is analyzed from a psychological perspective. A lot of this analysis is focused on things like surveillance, the Stanford Prison Experiment, and Lord of the Flies. But I've never read a Marxist analysis of the show, and since Celebrity Big Brother is going on right now, I will do my best to describe the game of Big Brother using a Marxist grammar / system of understanding. Truthfully, there's little direct parallels to draw between Marxist analysis and the mechanics of Big Brother. But I will go over ways one can do a Marxist analysis, and then talk about the idea of social capital, which is an idea in a lot of Marxist theory that best applies to Big Brother.
Competitions as Big Brother's means of production
A good first step in Marxist analysis is to identify the material stakes at play. In Big Brother, the tangible motivation is the winner gets $500,000. But, the game would work the same no matter what the prize was. If the Big Brother house is analogous to the world as we know it, then the $500,000 is analogous to an afterlife. Marxism doesn't answer why people and history are materially motivated, as in "I'm motivated by God to do X", or "I'm motivated by CBS producers to do X". Instead, Marxism answers how people's motivation for material things have manifested itself throughout history.
The basic gameplay loop of Big Brother goes:
One player wins a competition to become Head of Household (HoH). The HoH then nominates two houseguests for eviction. Later in the week, the houseguests compete again for the Power of Veto. The Veto winner is able to remove one player from nomination, who is replaced by the HoH. The houseguests who are neither HoH or nominated, then vote one of the nominees out.
Based on this, we can determine that the materially valuable things in the game of Big Brother is HoH and the Power of Veto. Both of these powers are earned through competition. Any other power a player may receive is a one-off twist. This means that, besides exceptions, all material value is generated through competitions. In this way, competitions are the closest thing Big Brother has to the means of production. The means of production are that which is used to generate value. For example, under capitalism if someone owns a factory, they "own" the surplus value generated by labor in the factory.
The Metaphor of the Means of Production
If competitions are the means of production, then they are fundamentally different than the means of production in real world economic systems. For one, competitions aren't "owned" by any houseguest, so no one is passively accumulating value from them. If competitions in Big Brother operated like capitalism does, then one houseguest would automatically become HoH without even competing, and the winner would get something of a lesser value from the HoH.
Ultimately, this shows we can't glean a lot with regards to value generation (ie labor) and value distribution (ie the economic system) from Big Brother for a couple reasons. For one, value (ie power) in Big Brother is scarce and concentrated; two people a week get power. On the other hand, power is not controlled by anyone. In the real world, people of the dominant class have claimed anything that generates value as their own, especially value that is otherwise scarce (and consequently high in demand).
The more fruitful way of analyzing Big Brother from a Marxist lens is with regards to the idea of Social Capital. For Marx, economic capital is money that is circulated in the form of a commodity in order to make more money. Money spent on food is not capital, but money spent on farming equipment is capital. But, after the Critical Theory turn of Marxist analysis, the idea of Social capital became more common. The reason social capital is the most fruitful way of analyzing Big Brother is because, as we've seen, the elements of Big Brother as a game don't graph cleanly onto the elements of an economy. However, the one 'currency' in Big Brother that is transferable to the real world is social in nature.
Social capital is a metaphorical phrase, because social elements don't accumulate the way that money capital does. But the basic idea is that, ultimately, money signifies social relations. We must use money to relate to others in value exchange. If I helped a friend move in exchange for pizza, it would be a social exchange. However, I can't go to a stranger on the street and offer to trade pizza for moving. I can't go to a moving business and pay in pizza. Because of this, money is simply the commodity that facilitates a social exchange between people who have no interpersonal reason to exchange.
Social Capital in Big Brother
Now, understanding social capital and social currencies, we must look at how these ideas work in Big Brother, and how this relates to everyday life. Let's get into juicy examples, right?
In Big Brother 10, Bryan was in charge of the house the first week. He was allied with Dan. However, by the end of the week, everyone realized Bryan was in control, and they all decided to backdoor him. Dan, however, was the lone vote to keep Bryan to stay.
The next week, Jesse was HOH. Dan approached him and said "look, I know I voted against the house, but I promised him my vote, and I was loyal." Consequently, Jesse didn't target Dan.
This shows that Dan made a social investment in the form of loyalty, at the detriment of conformity. The investment metaphor is especially apt, because it functions like a capital investment: Dan invested his money (conformity) in the form of capital (loyalty). Conformity in Big Brother doesn't gain you anything, it simply sustains you. But the loyalty investment clearly paid off (Dan ended up winning this season).
In Big Brother 14, Dan returned. A classic example of Big Brother gameplay, was Dan's funeral. If you're curious, Dan himself wrote a long ass post explaining the whole thing himself. But I'll give a basic outline:
It was decided conclusively that Dan was going to be evicted. So he gathered everyone to Dan's "Big Brother funeral". He complimented all of them, saying what he'd miss. However, he stopped on Danielle, his only real ally in the house, and publicly called her out, saying she was dead to him. In the midst of this, Dan asked to speak to Frank, his biggest rival, alone. He claimed he had to apologize, giving him an excuse to speak to Frank alone. When meeting Frank, Dan disclosed that Ian was responsible for evicting Mike, Frank's ally. Dan then proposed a 4-way alliance of Dan, Frank, Danielle, and Jenn. Jenn had the veto, and to everyone's surprise, used it on Dan. Then, Frank, unable to nominate Ian, nominated Ian's closest ally Britney, who was evicted.
This is an example of a complex exchange of social capital. On a surface level, it seems like Dan created a convoluted mess that he was able to emerge from. But if you break it down, it really is just a series of social exchanges. Dan "cashed out" his relationship with Danielle publicly to get capital with the rest, and he "cashed out" his alliance investment with Ian to form one with Frank instead.
Big Brother as a social stock market
Another example of social capital is the most recent season, Big Brother 20. The main story of this season is Tyler was in control of his whole alliance, as well as most people outside his alliance. His closest ally, however, was Kaycee, who was primarily, mostly allied to Tyler.
In other words, Tyler had a lot of social capital spread out, in varying levels, to everyone in the house. Kaycee had a lot of social capital mostly in Tyler. And yet, Kaycee won that season, against Tyler. How does that happen, if Tyler has more social capital?
For this, we can look to Marx. Marx makes a clear delineation between "liquid" money and money in the form of capital. Capital is money that's tied up in corporate-property organs. The function of Capital is to generate more value – it is money that gets "processed" through labor and material, then sent to market, then converted into profit. In other words, Capital is money that's "working"; capital is money that is being used to make more money, but in order to do so, it must be in a non-spendable, and not able to "bring to market" and exchange as a commodity. Another way of seeing it is that Capital is money made into a machine to generate more money.
What we can gather from this is that, Capital, if you imagine it in the form of stocks or land, is money that currently has no exchange value, but is generating value. When money is generating itself, it can't be exchanged, and when money can be exchanged, it can't be generating itself.
Let's say you have a capital investment in a company, and then that company goes out of business. You cannot exchange that investment for liquid money anymore. You invested money into the company, so that it could become more money when you divest, but if you don't divest then it becomes nothing. Looking through the lens of social capital, this explains why Tyler didn't win: he didn't divest his investments in social capital, so ultimately didn't redeem the value of it.
Tyler had, metaphorically speaking, a much more diverse stock portfolio of social capital than Kaycee did. But he lost because he didn't liquidate those social assets. Think about it this way: when Tyler "invested" his social capital into most of the house, those people were also investing in him. However, all of these people also "invested" something in Tyler.
Isn't that how you "win" the game of social investment though? Get more out of your social investments than others? In a way, this is true. But, as mentioned earlier, Tyler didn't properly 'divest'. Scottie voted for Kaycee to win, even though he was closer to Tyler. This is an example of a "bitter juror", although Scottie denies voting bitterly.
But another way to conceptualize a bitter juror is with social capital. Tyler and Scottie both invested into each other socially. Tyler not only invested less than Scottie, but got a lot more from his investment. By Scottie voting for Kaycee, he's implicitly saying it wasn't a fair exchange of social capital – it's a non-recognition of Tyler's investment.
In these terms, it makes Scottie's reputation as a bitter juror justified, because his vote was the equivalent of someone losing a bet then refusing to give up their money.
Anyway, this is an abrupt ending, but I wrote all I had to say on the topic. I plan on writing more about Big Brother in a more constructed way soon!
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Boy's average height & weight (USA)
Let's check your height now.
Each child has different timing of its growth. If the growth period is slow, your height might be temporarily lower than average, but to set up the lifestyle, such as eating and sleeping, it can eventually increase.
Boys' Data
Boy's average height <0 year old>
average height(cm)
average weight(kg)
0 0 49.8 3.3
1 54.8 4.5
10 73.1 9.2
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Boy's average height < Teenage >
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Mechanism of Growth
There is a cartilage part, called epiphyseal line (also referred to as a growth line) on the both sides of a child's bone. Height extends as this epiphyseal line parts grow. However, when a person become an adults, the epiphyseal line becomes a hard bone, and the bone will not extend any longer. Epiphyseal line hardens when reaching a certain age, then height does not extend basically after that. Before epiphyseal line hardens, before the growth in height stops, please give children the best deal.
It is important for children to have proper nutrition, exercise and enough sleep to grow healthy.
Calcium gummy that Suku suku Noppo kun recommends is a nutrition functional food, which contains well-balanced nutrition, which tends to be insufficient, including calcium. Please also try this.
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Nutrients needed for growth are well-balanced mixed with low-calorie! "Calcium gummy" is recommended to add to the everyday meal!


Primus Valencia is an elegant hotel with cozy, bright, completely soundproofed, furnished in a modern style rooms. All rooms face the exterior and their décor is characterised by relaxing colours and elegant and warming furnishing.
Primus Valencia's restaurant proposes modern touches of Mediterranean dishes to its guests and the café offers a panoramic view over the covered garden. Enjoy the magnificent ATRIUM Lounge terrace. With an area of over 2,000 square metres, this is the best place to relax, take a morning coffee or an evening drink.
The Primus Hotel comes with a fully equipped spa, which can be accessed to guests above 16 years and available with an additional fee. The spa includes a dynamic pool, cold water pool, Jacuzzi, sauna, hammam, fitness centre, an exterior pool, open during summer, as well as cabins for massages and beauty treatments.
The Primus Valencia Hotel is 600 metres from the City of Arts and the Oceanographic of Valencia, opposite the Aqua Multiespacio shopping mall.
A bus stop to the city centre and to the beaches is just 75 metres from the hotel.
We kindly ask you to introduce your passport number in the Special Request Box.
A range of massage and beauty treatments are available at the hotel's spa for a surcharge. Guests are encouraged to book their SPA circuits before their arrival at the hotel.
Swimming suit, swim cap and footwear are required to enter the SPA. Guests must be aged over 16 years in order to access the spa.
During Christmas, the Spa and the restaurant have special opening hours.
Spa Technical Stop: Please note that every six months the spa is closed for a few days due to maintenance works. Contact the property in advance to confirm the availability if you are interested in using the spa facilities.
Swimming Pool opens all year long.


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Top 10 Most Popular Streaming Services, According to New Report
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Standing at an altitude of 4,205 meters (13,796 ft) above sea level, Mauna Kea mountain on the Big Island of Hawaii is the highest point in the Pacific Basin and the highest island-mountain in the world! According to the Hawaii tourism guild, its summit is actually 40 percent above the Earth's atmosphere! On top of the summit, it also hosts the world's largest astronomical observatory – The Mauna Kea Observatories.
Driving towards the summit, you will experience the in and out of the clouds, being both below and above them, a feeling of flying in an airplane! After reaching the summit, you will be rewarded with the most spectacular sunset and astonishing landscape. For a while you may think you are already out of this world and have landed on Mars! After the sunset, the crisp clear sky will also present you with probably the clearest and closest star/moon gazing experience on the planet.
Be advised that if you plan to get to the summit, a true 4 wheel drive (Jeeps are the most commonly rented ones) and warm winter jackets are a must, even in the summer, as it is windy and cold up there.
Folks should not underestimate how very cold and windy it gets up there, especially when its dark. You'll want your full winter clothes here -- gloves, parka, hat.
Beautiful photos, Dr.Y. Brings back many special memories!
Yes, the summit is actually 40 percent above the Earth's atmosphere!


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Singapore inflation picks up in May, with consumer prices rising 0.4%
Headline inflation rose partly due to a faster pace of increase in petrol prices, and a smaller year-ago fall in car prices following a rise in COE premiums.PHOTO: ST FILE
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Janice Heng
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SINGAPORE - Singapore's headline inflation rose in May with further increases expected over the course of the year.
The consumer price index (CPI) was up 0.4 per cent year on year, in line with economists' expectations and picking up the pace from April's 0.1 per cent rise, according to a Department of Statistics statement on Monday (June 25).
Core inflation, which strips out the cost of accommodation and private road transport for a better gauge of everyday expenses, rose 1.5 per cent year on year, a faster pace than the previous month's 1.3 per cent rise.
The increases in both headline and core inflation were largely due to a faster pace of price increases across all the major categories of the CPI basket, except food, said the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and the Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI) in a joint statement.
Contributing to headline inflation's rise was a rise in the cost of private road transport, which edged up 0.1 per cent in May, reversing April's 0.8 per cent decline. This was due to a faster pace of increase in petrol prices, and a smaller year-ago fall in car prices following a rise in certificate of entitlement premiums.
Services inflation rose to 1.6 per cent in May, compared to 1.3 per cent the previous month, largely due to a stronger pickup in holiday expenses and airfares, and a smaller year-ago decline in telecommunications services fees. Retail prices also saw a larger 1.3 per cent rise, compared to April's 0.9 per cent rise.
Food inflation, however, slowed to 1.3 per cent in May, down from 1.4 per cent in April, as price increases for non-cooked food items moderated. Prices of prepared meals rose at a similar pace as in the previous month.
Singapore consumer prices up 0.1% in April
The cost of accommodation continued to fall in May, but at a slowing rate, with prices down 3.2 per cent in May, compared to April's 3.6 per cent decline.
The MAS and MTI expect imported inflation to "rise mildly", pointing to how global oil prices have rallied since the start of 2018 and are expected to average higher for the full year than in 2017. Global food commodity prices are also projected to rise slightly.
Domestic sources of inflation are also expected to increase "alongside a faster pace of wage growth and a pickup in domestic demand", they said. "However, the extent of consumer price increases will remain moderate, as retail rents have stayed relatively subdued and firms' pricing power may be constrained by market competition."
Core inflation is expected to rise gradually over the course of 2018, averaging in the upper half of the 1 to 2 per cent forecast range, said MAS and MTI. Headline inflation is similarly projected to come in within the upper half of its 0 to 1 per cent forecast range for the full year.
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