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4. DELIVERY TIMES : Delivery times quoted to Customers are guidelines only, and delays shall not entitle the Customer to cancel the sale, to refusethe goods or to claim damages. The delivery will be possible only if the Customer is up to date with its obligations towards the Company. When an Order is unexpectedly high compared to the Orders usually placed by the Customer, our Company reserves the right to refuse to deliver part of the said Order. In order to avoid any delivery delay, the quantities will be corrected to the nearest packaging unit.
5. FORCE MAJEURE AND FORTUITOUS EVENT PREVENTION AND SHORTAGE : Our Company's delivery obligations shall be suspended by any fortuitous event or "force majeure" and generally by any cause beyond its control such as strikes, failure or delay on the part of any supplier, delay or lack of transportation, fire, mechanical or other breakdown of equipment, failure on the part of our temporary employment providers,... In the same way, our responsibility should not be engaged in case the Products sold have been carried or stocked by the Customer under conditions either unusual or incompatible with the nature of the Products.
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—Liberation Collective
A man's most sensitive skin is at the tip of his ego
By libcollective
Feminism, Liberal Intersectional Feminism, Misogyny, Phallosophy, PIV, Privilege, Rape, Women's Liberation
Guest post by Solveig Lehmann
Everyday feminism wants the women's liberation movement to be terribly worried by the alleged anti-feminist harm done by little penis jokes.
Once again, they have confused feminism with women spending all our time wondering if our words make men feel bad. No. Men feeling that it's abusive for women to not be nice enough about their penises is just patriarchy, if not outright men's rights activism.
Men's performance of anxious masculinity, especially efforts to publicly overcompensate for insecurity through displays of aggression and dominance, can often be observed to have nothing to do with the actual shape of any part of their bodies. Though it's certainly centered on the penis, and often phantasmic fears that theirs is too small.
We can know that men obsess over the size of their genitals in particular because they tell us. Oh, how often they tell us. Most women learn to see the particular intensity and quavering fear underlying male genital self-obsession from a mile away. They may even talk instead about honor, or respect, but they'll make it painfully clear to the women in their immediate vicinity that all these words stand for is a demand that we be considerate of their penis.
It may not be nice to make fun of people, but this article simply encourages men to continue putting their insecurity at the forefront of women's concerns, and to demand that women be even more reverent and accommodating towards them. This is a perpetuation of patriarchy.
It's ignorant and arrogant to equate the crusade to invade private spaces with the Civil Rights Movement
Biology, Feminism, Gender Critical, History, Law/Legal, Legislation, Misogyny, Patriarchal Institutions, Privilege, Rape, Transcritical, Transgenderism, Women's Liberation
Guest post by Keely Emerine-Mix
Under no circumstances, ever, at any time, is it appropriate to compare the legitimate, factual, courageous, moral imperative that spurred the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s with the attempts by transwomen to access intimate female spaces. Ever.
Do not conflate Jim Crow and the segregation of public spaces by whites against Black people with attempts to open women's bathrooms, shelters, prisons, locker rooms, and other female-only spaces to male-born people. Don't cry that this is "the New Civil Rights frontier!" Don't suggest that the injury to men correctly barred from women's private spaces is anything even remotely like the humiliation, hatred, and hurt caused to people of color during the years of legal public segregation. And whatever you do, do not suggest that the preening belligerence displayed by men who demand entry into women's spaces is really just the same bedrock courage, dignity, passion, and righteousness of those who occupied lunch counters and public toilets to win for others basic civil rights.
It's not simply incorrect. It's delusional; more than that, it's ignorant in the extreme and criminally, obscenely, arrogant.
The men are they, The women are we.
Misogyny, Rape, Sisterhood, Transcritical, Transgenderism, Women's Liberation
Guest post by k8 monsta
Editor's Note: Horton is a Women's Holiday Centre set up in England in 1979. It offers low-price holiday accommodation, in a friendly and supportive environment, for women and children who were otherwise restricted by their circumstances. It was made possible by donations from women and many hours of women's volunteer time. Thousands of women, children and groups have used the house and it has become a well-established and well-used resource for women in the north of England and beyond. The House has been sustained successfully since then through a combination of income from visitors, donations and fundraising, and many hard working volunteers.
As a women's holiday centre, Horton's policy says "we are able only to welcome women born women and living as women." So it is unsurprising that it has attracted the attention of those who support "trans women" i.e. men, who want to be able to go there. A petition has been created which states "We are 65 women who have either visited or would potentially like to visit the Women's Holiday Centre, and who feel strongly that you should change your Gender Identity policy."
This has sparked much discussion on Horton's Facebook group. This post is based on a comment by woman about her views about Horton and the need for truly women-only space.
Here we have a woman saying that these men are "more of a woman than me"…
I'm thinking of the Brit guy, the bloke who was a boxing promoter for twenty years… He was a father to several kids, a husband, obviously a son and quite possibly a brother…
Trying to get my head around this geezer being "more of a woman than me"….
Are we plumbing new depths of masochistic self abnegation here?
Is this altruism raised to a new power of lunacy?
Transparent Contempt for Dyke Culture
Lesbian, Lesbian Community, Misogyny, Privilege, Sisterhood, Women's Liberation
Guest post by Karen Thompson; cross-posted on Listening to Lesbians
Editor's note: This post by Karen Thompson is in response to an episode of the television program Transparent, which disdainfully and contemptuously parodied the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival and the women – mostly lesbians – who called it home for 40 years.
(1) One of the things about festival that is so fucking amazing is the sheer magnitude of female competence. The stages, the sound, the tents, the everything is put together with such care and consciousness and that everything — made out of spit and bandaids — can look like something so polished, so professional, so ON POINT. It's not that we make nutloaf; it's that we make nutloaf for THOUSANDS OF WOMEN over OPEN FIRES in all weather. For free.
So the general fucking HINKINESS of the look of the "Idlewild" shit pissed me off because it looked jacked up and like someone threw a camping party in someone's backyard instead of the sheer magnitude and scale of ability that is demonstrated at fest the minute you walk in the gate. And that lack of attention to that sort of detail (when the slickness and smoothness of everything else on that show is never skimped on), once again ignored female competence and what we can do without males.
Which was one of central liberatory aspects of Festival for me.
On the Indigo Girls Boycotting the 2014 Michigan Womyn's Music Festival
Lesbian, Lesbian Community, Lesbian Feminism, Sisterhood
Guest post by Syd Mutschler, cross-posted on Listening to Lesbians.
Editor's Note: This commentary by Syd Mutschler is originally from June 2014, not long after the Indigo Girls reneged on an agreement to play at MichFest in August of 2014. At the time, they made quite a public show of their sudden boycott of an event that the Indigo Girls as a group and Amy Ray individually had played many times. They gave the organizer of the event very little notice that they were pulling out and did so well after brochures, posters, and other materials had been printed and women had bought tickets expecting to hear them at the Festival. Treating women who had supported them financially and in other ways over many years this badly would be ugly enough, but they undertook this boycott after many years of the exact same controversy, yet it hadn't stopped them from playing and spending time at the Festival at any time in the past. This was very likely a decision based purely on finances (they were afraid that they would be boycotted, yet they continued to play at a venue with an owner with extremely questionable ethics), not deeply-held beliefs about "inclusivity."
As the yearly debate about the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival heats up, I have been having a lot of thoughts around boycotts, artists pulling out from the line-up, or artists who have stated they will not play again until the intention of the festival is changed from a gender/sex separate space to only a gender separate space. Artists and trans activists such as Red Durkin have made a lot of statements about why they will not play or why the festival should be boycotted, but I find them to be vague, condescending, emotionally manipulative, and intentionally inflammatory.
Who gets to decide?
By Noanodyne
Gender, Language, Motherhood, Reproduction, Reproductive Rights, Transgenderism
I just read more commentary about the midwife controversy over who gives birth and breastfeeds babies, while having to look at the arrogant mug of the breastfeeding transman who has attacked women for wanting to use the word "woman." It reminded me of Elizabeth Hungerford's brilliant three points about "if transwomen are women" and I decided to adapt it.
The maxim "trans men are men" is either a false equivalency or we're going to have to re-write every dictionary and encyclopedia and medical textbook and pretty much all of recorded human history, science, and language.
I maintain that the maxim is false, for at least these three reasons.
Leaving Liberal Feminism
Feminism, Gender, Gender Critical, Liberal Intersectional Feminism, Privilege, Women's Liberation
Guest post by Kate Leigh
I couldn't honestly tell you when I started following a liberal intersectional feminist philosophy. It was simply part of my thought process and by extension, my life, online and off. I followed all the blogs and pages. I contributed comments and shares. I told people to check their privilege and men need feminism too. Liberal feminism was the only feminism of which I was aware. In fact, I never called myself a liberal feminist while I held those views. I called myself a "Feminist" without realizing there were other types.
With a fresh memory of what went through my own mind as I held these beliefs, I endeavor to describe my experience of the liberal feminist point of view in the next section. In the final section, I explain how and why I changed my mind.
The Liberal Intersectional Feminist Mindset
LGBTI – is the L silent?
Abuse, Lesbian, Misogyny
Guest post by Liz Waterhouse
When an article on Germaine Greer was posted by the Star Observer recently, I noticed that the comments were aggressively misogynistic. Distressed by how much this excluded and insulted women in the LGBTI community, I asked posters to stop using such hurtful and upsetting language. As a lesbian, I expected that my community would be a relatively safe place, and I expected a degree of solidarity. What resulted was hours of increased insults, ridicule and finally personal abuse. It left me wondering why the community would attack a request for basic respect and why any woman would speak out if this is how they were treated.
Most responders were male and they used crude, aggressive and dismissively sexist language to attack first Greer, and then me, in post after post, correctly assuming that their comments would be tolerated by other posters.
Eventually, the Star Observer intervened and deleted the worst of the comments, but there remained a steady stream of insulting posts, eventually escalating to personal messages of abuse and lesbophobia.
Particularly upsetting were comments like this one:
Why I have no time for Allies
Feminism, Women's Liberation
Modern feminism is increasingly focused on the concept of allies, both within mainstream feminism, and even within some elements of radical feminism. In mainstream feminism, women often proudly declare themselves allies to women of colour or to Trans people. In radical feminism, being an ally takes a slightly different course: men are encouraged not to see themselves as radical feminists, but as allies who support radical feminists in their work.
The aim of declaring yourself an ally often, although not always, comes from a well meaning place. It is usually motivated by a desire to support the fight against oppression that another group experiences when you are not a member of that group. But it is, at heart, a neo-liberal philosophy. Read More
Redefining Realness by Janet Mock: A Book Review
By smash
Children, Feminism, Gender, Gender Critical, Media/Entertainment, Medical, Misogyny, Patriarchal Institutions, Pornstitution, Rape, Reproduction, Transcritical, Transgenderism, Transmisogyny, Transsexual, Violence, Women's Liberation
-Janet Mock, Author of Redefining Realness-
Janet Mock is a transwoman author who has strong opinions on gender and the sex industry shared in this memoir. Mock discusses many topics, but this review will cover five: essentialism, the term "cis", the term "fish", hormone blockers for children, and the sex industry.
Pro-choice means pro-female, regardless of identity. #profemaleprochoice
By Elizabeth Hungerford
Gender, Gender Critical, Reproduction, Reproductive Rights, Women's Liberation
Huffington Post and Autostraddle both ran articles on January 27th, 2014 about the hashtag #protransprochoice and a petition started by three young adults: Beck Martens, Alice Wilder, and Calliope Wong–a transwoman who caused a media flurry in 2013 about being denied application for enrollment at a female-only college while Wong was still legally and anatomically male. The Autostraddle article is entitled #ProTransProChoice: Launching A New Reproductive Rights Movement. That's right, a whole New Movement to accommodate gender identities! I consider this a particularly disturbing example of conflating 'gender identity' with physical sex and a stark reminder of what "sex not gender" means.
The #protransprochoice call for a New Reproductive Rights Movement demands that NARAL and Planned Parenthood spend their precious, limited funds[1] on media campaigns that explicitly cater to the gender identities of trans* people:[2]
The rhetoric of the pro-choice movement is typically based around the assumption that only folks who identify as women are hurt by restrictions on reproductive health care – such as abortion and contraception. #StandWithTexasWomen took the stage in 2013; "Trust Women" has been the mantra of this movement for decades. This language excludes trans* and gender non-conforming (GNC) people and thus, the movement has failed to address our reproductive and sexual health needs.
The offense is that speaking of "women" generally does not affirm or validate the identities of trans* people. Referring to abortion as a "woman's" issue is unacceptable because, one, it does not include reference to female-born transmen who might need abortions and, two, not all "women" have vaginas. It makes trans* people feel unimportant and left out of the conversation. The #protransprochoice hashtag is just the latest iteration of on-going attempts from the pro-trans lobby to de-sex the way we speak about reproductive rights.[3]
Sex or Gender: Does the Form of Transition Matter?
Women's Liberation
This post is based on a comment to another post, but because the commenter didn't even bother to make it about sexual orientation (which is the topic of the post where it came in as a comment), I'm not addressing it there. I am addressing it because this person demands that we "stop conflating transsexuals with transgenderism." While that is a divergence from the very common, "trans women are women, so just get over it" variety of counter-argument, the support for that demand is no less full of lazy reliance on tropes and common, but discredited beliefs:
TransSEXuals do not transition to gender roles. They transition their SEX.
Here is the real-world, scientific definition of "sex" when applied to humans:
"The sum of the characteristics that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive function and either of the two categories, male or female, into which organisms are placed on this basis."
Why Do I Write on BDSM?
BDSM, Feminism, Liberation Collective, Media/Entertainment, Misogyny, Patriarchal Institutions, Violence, Women's Liberation
Many feminists object when I say that the sexualization of dominance is anti-liberation. While I analyze BDSM practices through a feminist lens, they see me as stomping into their bedrooms and wagging my finger.
But none of my writing or conversing on the topic is done with the goal of "shaming" people who practice BDSM, though I am frequently infuriated by men who use BDSM culture to push women beyond their stated limits.
Rather, I am compelled to analyze the sexualization of dominance and submission through a feminist lens because radical analysis is as I see it central to dismantling oppressive systems of power. Read More
A Gender Critical Response to: A Statement of Trans-Inclusive Feminism and Womanism
Gender, Gender Critical, Transcritical, Transgenderism, Transmisogyny
This is my response to the reactionary and misguided "A Statement of Trans-Inclusive Feminism and Womanism" (The Statement) posted at FeministsFightingTransphobia.wordpress.com.
We can all agree, I think, that people's actual lives are more important than theoretical abstractions– including those related to "identity." This is precisely why, as feminists, we demand acknowledgement for the lived realities and material conditions of women's lives, including the social mechanics of sex-and-gender-assignment that ultimately give rise to women's oppression. But beyond this, there are a truly alarming number of misrepresentations, inconsistencies, and logical errors in The Statement. I will address many of them below.
First things first, I want to point out that characterizing gender critical feminists as "transphobic feminists" remains unsupported where "transphobia" is not defined. Repeated use of this term to demonize a certain kind of political speech or political actor is clearly intended to be insulting rather than instructive; it serves as a way to shame us and any of our potential supporters into silence. Personally, I have no intention of insulting other feminists and escalating hostility by using similar epithets to describe them or their political views.
Throughout this response I will refer to myself and others who share my general view of gender as gender critical feminists (no acronym). Because that's what we do. We are feminists who criticize gender as a harmful social construct that distributes power unequally.
There is No T in Lesbian
Butch/Femme, Children, Feminism, Gender, Gender Critical, Lesbian, Lesbian Community, Lesbian Feminism, Liberation Collective, Medical, Misogyny, Transcritical, Transgenderism, Transmisogyny
In a recent anti-radical feminist screed, published prominently on several leftist blogs, a trans* activist attempted to equate gender critical analysis with homophobia. This is the latest twist on the conflation of the lesbian and gay rights political movement with the trans* political movement. And it's the latest indication that it will be lesbians, other women, and girls who are most harmed by that conflation.
Though there are claims that our groups have reason to have a strong political alliance, it's arguable that Gay, Inc. – the large, well-funded and influential political groups – created this conflation simply to increase funding and reach. There doesn't seem to have been a period of time where lesbians and gay men were allowed any discussion or input about this decision. But there are obvious reasons to question the unholy alliance.
The Shame of Menstruation
By Lesley Smith
History, Medical, Reproduction, Reproductive Rights
The media was horrified when Christina Aguilera appeared on stage in 2012, with what appeared to be menstrual blood running down her leg during a performance at Etta James' memorial service. The barrage of tweets that followed described the incident as gross, embarrassing or speculated that it was really fake tan. But whether the comments were negative or supportive, the uniform assumption was that any woman would be embarrassed to have menstrual blood running down her leg in public. And yet, this would not always have been the public view.
Socialization Matters: Why "Identity Libertarianism" is Failed Politics
Femicide, Feminism, Gender, History, Law/Legal, Legislation, Media/Entertainment, Misogyny, Patriarchal Institutions, Pornstitution, Rape, Transcritical, Transgenderism, Women's Work
IDENTITY VERSUS SOCIALIZATION
I want to explore what "woman" means when male-born persons can be "women" just the same as female-born persons.
Most significantly, the term "woman" must be disconnected from the socio-historic context that gives the term coherency in the first place. Without any material or experiential framework "woman's" origin becomes irrelevant; she can be anything or nothing at all.
When male-born persons can be "women" just the same as female-born persons, the skin-deep veneer of social identity is being substituted for the complex, lifelong process of class-based socialization. This is neoliberal individualist choice-theory masquerading as the politics of liberation.
Trans-abled: Just Another Disability?
By rainsinger
Medical, Transcritical, Transgenderism
Guest Post by DragonDyke
A trans-abled person is someone who wishes they had a particular disability, and, as much as possible, lives their life as if they actually had that disability. This could mean using a wheelchair whilst being capable of walking, not using a limb that feels alien or any other number of variations. Often individuals will think of self-harm or actually attempt it in the hopes of bringing about the desired disability and some trans-abled people seek surgery from professionals.
Those who see themselves as trans-abled believe they have the right to live as if they had the disability they want. This is viewed as their right to personal freedom which doesn't harm anyone else. They also point to the condition of Body Integrity Identity Disorder (BIID) – described as a psychological condition where an individual would feel happier e.g. living as an amputee – as a reason for their condition.
Misogyny and Thatcherism
Feminism, Sisterhood, Women's Work
Margaret Thatcher has died. The very famous Conservative British Prime Minister enacted a number of controversial policies from 1979 – 1990. She was rightly criticised for, amongst other things, destroying the British coal mining industry, weakening the trade unions through various legislation, and increasing unemployment to over 3 million people.
She is not a likeable woman. But this is not justification or excuse for those in the left to spew misogynistic insults. The word bitch is being frequently used to describe Thatcher. Memes and videos stating "Ding Dong the Witch is Dead" are being shared over Facebook and insults used such as "ugly cow." And it is not simply men reveling in sex-specific insults. Radical feminists are also using words like witch, reblogging misogynistic memes, or excusing others who choose to do so.
Women give men implicit permission to use misogynistic insults against Margaret Thatcher when we do this.
Lesbian BDSM, part 3: BDSM and the Prevention of Revolution
Abuse, BDSM, Butch/Femme, Gender, Images, Media/Entertainment
Guest re-post by Maggie H.
This post is the final part of a series of posts based on some of the RadFem Reboot 2012 presentation talk that I gave in Oregon recently on the patriarchal takeover of women's sexuality.
Definition: As this is the final part here, I would like to make it clear by what I mean by BDSM for the purpose of this series. BDSM is 'Bondage, Discipline, Sadism and Masochism (formerly known as 'sadomasochism'); a form of patriarchal sexuality involving the eroticisation of the symbols of slavery, misogyny, captivity, rape and torture. It is a sexuality that involves the most egregious dynamics of domination and subordination (a.k.a. 'dom/sub') and the sexualisation of pain and/or danger.'
So what happened to the woman-identified woman nowadays? Let me first go back to the origins and causes of the mainstreaming of BDSM within contemporary lesbian culture and communities. I will then elaborate more on how BDSM prevents revolution.
Back in the 1970's, Radicalesbians released a statement saying that "a lesbian is the rage of all women condensed to the point of explosion" as a feminist call for woman-loving lesbianism. During the 1990's, the lesbian pornographic magazine On Our Backs gave this statement an odd twist with proclaiming that "a lesbian is the lust of all women condensed to the point of explosion." This was the beginning of lesbianism being socially defined solely on sexual terms. This was the end of woman-loving lesbian feminism.
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Thief in the Night
Composers: Mick Jagger, Keith Richards & Pierre de Beauport
Recording date: March-July 1997
Recording location: Ocean Way Recording Studios, Los Angeles, USA
Producers: Don Was & The Glimmer Twins
Chief engineers: Rob Fraboni & Dan Bosworth
Mixers: Rob Fraboni & Pierre de Beauport Performed onstage: 1998-99, 2003
Drums: Charlie Watts
Bass: Darryl Jones
Acoustic guitar: Keith Richards
Electric guitars: Keith Richards, Ron Wood & Waddy Wachtel
Lead vocal: Keith Richards
Background vocals: Bernard Fowler & Blondie Chaplin
Piano: Keith Richards
Electric piano: Pierre de Beauport
Wurlitzer piano: Pierre de Beauport
Saxophone: Joe Sublett
Trumpet: Darrell Leonard
Tambourine: Blondie Chaplin
Percussion: Jim Keltner
All the way, all the way
I miss your touch baby, yeah
Like a thief in the night
It can't be right (Like a thief)
I know where your place is, yeah, yeah
And it's not with him
I'm the one who's out here, baby
Out here, just looking in
He ain't going to like it at all, no, no - that's good
(Just you wait there in the dark) In the dark, baby
Yeah, how his dog can bark
(Like a thief in the night)
You're going to steal what's mine
Ah, I'm going break the laws (Ooh, ooh-ooh)
Oh but I'll get through your door (Ooh, ooh-ooh)
But you wait and see (Ooh, ooh-ooh)
Yeah, I'm going to get you, get you free (Ooh, ooh-ooh) (Set you free)
(Like a thief)
I found out where he keeps you, mm-mm
I've even been inside
You check under your pillow, baby
Yeah, you'll get the message
If I see you at your window, mm-mm
Well then I'll know (No one)
Can separate us - separate us (Separate us, separate us)
Yeah, you can set me up (Ooh, ooh-ooh)
You can turn me in or burn me, baby (Ooh, ooh-ooh)
Well but you are in my skin (Ooh, ooh-ooh)
The only reason I'm breaking in - I'm coming in, yeah, I'm breaking in (Ooh, ooh-ooh) (Breaking in)
Come on - yeah, oh yeah (Come on)
Like a thief in the night (Come on, come on)
Oh baby, you know what I'm talking about
(Come on) Come on
(Like a thief now) You can call the police on me, baby
Set me up and bust me
(Like a thief) Come on
(Come on, come on) I dare you, baby, come on, come on - I'm going to take the drop for you
(Like a thief now) Ooh soften the blow
(Come on, come on) Yeah
(Like a thief) Baby, baby, baby, baby
(Come on, come on) Baby, you know what I mean
(Like a thief now) Nothing I can do
(Come on, come on) About it
(Come on, come on)
(Like a thief now) It's the power of it
(Come on, come on) Come on
(Like a thief) Like a thief
(Like a thief now)
TrackTalk
That was a riff that Pierre (de Beauport, Keith's guitar technician) had for a while. He was playing it with Charlie in the studio and Keith came and said - Hey, what's that? And Pierre said, Oh, it's something that I've been working on... Keith added a lot of stuff to it. But that basic riff came from Pierre, which is great, and it's nice that he got credit for it.
- Rob Fraboni, 1997
I got the title from the Bible, which I read quite often; some very good phrases in there. It's a song about several women and actually starts when I was a teenager. I knew where she lived and I knew where her boyfriend lived, and I would stand outside a semi-detached house in Dartford. Basically the story goes on from there. Then it was about Ronnie Spector, then it was about Patti and it was also about Anita.
- Keith Richards, Life (2010)
I worked a lot on (Thief in the Night and How Can I Stop) with Bernard Fowler and Blondie Chaplin, building the backing vocals from the ground up so they were an integral part and not just wedged in.
- Keith Richards, September 1997
Mick put a vocal on the song, but he couldn't feel it, he couldn't get it, and the track sounded terrible. Rob couldn't mix it with this vocal, so we tried to fix it one night with Blondie and Bernard, barely able to stand from fatigue, snatching sleep in turns. We came back and found the tape had been sabotaged in the meantime. All kinds of skulduggery went on. Eventually Rob and I had to steal the two-inch master tapes of the half mixes of Thief in the Night from Ocean Way studios in LA, where we'd recorded it, and fly them to the East Coast, where I had now returned homewards to Connecticut. Pierre found a studio in the north shore of Long Island where we mixed it to my liking for two days and two nights, with my vocal.
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I love the details on this machine, the fact that it'll share parts with my other domestic machines and that I got to save it from the metal recycling bin.
These are photos as it arrived in my garage, but I'll post more when it is cleaned up and tuned .
I scanned the manual last night. I'd rather not tear the already flimsy paper version and I can read it on my computer now!
Thank you so much for the manual, my grandmother just gave me hers still in the cabinet. Its in perfect condition but I had no clue how to thread it. Thanks to you, now I do! Thank you!!!
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December 18, 2018 December 18, 2018 David Yamane
UPDATED: Residue of Gun Culture 0.0 in Charleston, South Carolina, 2018
UPDATE: A Facebook follower commented that this Charleston Rifle Club is a rifle club in name only. There is no shooting facility on the site. It is essentially a social club. Although this doesn't make its rejection of an African American member any more palatable to me, it does mean this event doesn't tell us anything (good or bad) about Gun Culture 0.0, 1.0, or 2.0. (H/T A.L.)
Sad news coming out of Charleston to end 2018. The Charleston Rifle Club — founded in the antebellum confederate state of South Carolina in 1855 — considered 14 individuals for membership and accepted 13. The one member rejected is a US Naval Academy graduate and retired Navy physician, Melvin Brown.
Melvin Brown is African American.
Although the population of Charleston, like the State of South Carolina, is approximately 30% African American, Brown would have been the first African American among the Charleston Rifle Club's 800 members.
Reading beyond the headline, however, reveals a more promising story line which is unlikely to get as much press. An online petition (see screen cap below) reads:
As a private club, the Charleston Rifle Club can choose to exclude people based on their race, but the vast majority of the Charleston Rifle Club's members find that to be an abhorrent and immoral choice and inconsistent with what we believe the club is.
Furthermore, we believe that this action is supported by a tiny fraction of the club's membership. The current system allows for this small group to control the membership process. Six members, out of more than 800, can alone choose to exclude a prospective member.
Here's hoping that the Gun Culture 1.0 members of this club succeed in overcoming the Gun Culture 0.0 members to allow Gun Culture 2.0 to stake a claim there.
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Wow. That's a pretty lame excuse for a club if six members can exclude someone on the basis of their race. I say that as a board member of my own shooting club, speaking for myself (but most likely also speaking for virtually all of our members).
To be clear, not all members are at fault but club policy allows the club to be downwind of the fan. Its obvious from the petition that a lot of members oppose this act by a few officers. What needs to happen, other than voting in new officers, is changing club governance and putting in explicit language preventing this from happening in the future. Or, that club may be forming a metaphorical circular firing squad.
I am no scholar of private clubs, but I would not be surprised if many private clubs' by-laws weren't set up precisely to be undemocratic. And many organizations generally may follow suit — thinking of the challenge of the membership having influence with the NRA.
Agree that this is an interesting turning point for that particular club. Will be interested to see what comes of it.
As far as most members not influencing policy, i.e., the NRA. I had a similar run in with the League of American Bicyclists when I tried to run for the board. The existing board cherry-picks prospective board members. If you are not one of the picked cherries, you can petition the general membership to run as a board member. I tried that and the League did everything it could to make that more difficult such as not releasing the membership list. So it was hard to get the required number of signatures. But almost got the required signatures anyway after several of us sent out email and blog blasts to every bike list we could think of!
I hope they get this right. Would be sad to see a gun club get run over by a bus of its own making.
ARL says:
It sounds like the rest of the membership need to modify the club's rules so that 6 of 800 members don't have a veto.
Will be interested to see how the organization is constituted — whether the by-laws have some provisions that will allow such change. The club is definitely being scrutinized right now, but will the offended members stay and fight or just leave? Exit can be a less costly form of protest than voice.
Interesting update.


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• Nike will debut the Nike Pro Hijab in Spring 2018.
• It is made out of mesh fabric with tiny, strategically-placed holes for breathability.
• It's also the first Nike product geared towards Muslim female athletes.
Female Muslim athletes around the world can finally look forward to representation in professional sportswear after Nike announced it will launch the Nike Pro Hijab.
The product was first teased in the Swoosh's viral video campaign, titled "What Will They Say About You?," and is set to be released in spring 2018.
"The Nike Pro Hijab may have been more than a year in the making, but its impetus can be traced much further back, to an ongoing cultural shift that has seen more women than ever embracing sport," a statement from Nike read.
The Pro Hijab will be made from a lightweight mesh fabric that features tiny, strategically-placed holes for optimal breathability.
Though Nike has long been committed to diversity and inclusively (it launched a plus-size range just last week), this is the first time it has released an item specifically for Muslim female athletes.
"The Nike Pro Hijab was designed as a direct result of our athletes telling us they needed this product to perform better," Global Nike Spokeswoman Megan Saalfeld told Al Arabiya English. "We hope that it will help athletes around the world do just that."
In other news, find out how Nike ranked in Forbes' annual most reputable companies list.


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All The Ways Game Of Thrones Set Up An Epic Final Battle For The Iron Throne
By Laura Hurley published 6 May 19
Spoilers ahead for Episode 4 of Game of Thrones Season 8.
Game of Thrones aired one of its most intense episodes to date last week with "The Long Night," featuring the Battle of Winterfell. As much as it may have seemed that there was no way the show could build to a potentially even more epic fight for the Iron Throne, the fourth episode of the final season indicates that the best and most terrifying could be yet to come.
The board is set for the final stage of the game of thrones, and as Cersei said way back in Season 1, you win or you die in this particular game. Let's take a look at all the ways the fourth episode set up the climax of the entire series.
Cersei Controls The Capital
Cersei has held control of King's Landing for a while now, but it's been a long time since her grip has been so tight, and it's all thanks to her gamble regarding the army of the dead.
When she decided to gather the Golden Company and Euron Greyjoy to herself rather than send her forces North, she ran the risk of the North falling and the army of the dead -- now greater than ever thanks to the Northerners, Unsullied, Dothraki, and dragons who fell at Winterfell -- sweeping what remain of the Seven Kingdoms. Instead, the North won the day at great cost. Dany's forces are seriously depleted, and Cersei is sitting pretty in the sunny capital city.
Thanks to the support of the Iron Bank, Cersei has her 20,000 sellswords bought and paid for, and all signs point toward her not needing those elephants anyway if it comes to a field battle between Dany's forces and her own. The Golden Company will be fresh and ready for a fight; as Sansa pointed out when Dany was itching to leave Winterfell ASAP, their forces needed time to recover from the Battle of Winterfell.
Throw in the long land journey from Winterfell to King's Landing, and the Golden Company may have all the advantages in a field battle. Admittedly, Dany destroyed the Lannister army last season when she unleashed Drogon and the Dothraki, but she can't rely on dragon support like she once did. She lost her second dragon in Episode 4 thanks to Euron Greyjoy.
While Dany and Co. were gearing up to fight the dead in the first few episodes of Season 8, Cersei and Euron (presumably with some substantial help from Qyburn) were outfitting the Iron Fleet and the walls of King's Landing with huge scorpion weapons that fire bolts with enough force to pierce a dragon's skin.
The scorpions have been updated since the first, when Bronn managed to kinda sorta hurt Drogon. Euron easily took down Rhaegal with several massive bolts through his body, and there's no question that Rhaegal was going to die even before he sank to the bottom of the ocean. Yara may have retaken the Iron Islands, but the fleet belongs to Euron, and Dany discovered too late that he is not to be underestimated. She's down to one dragon.
Maybe Jon should have ridden Rhaegal after all! As if all that isn't enough, Cersei proved herself the master manipulator as ever, by drawing the civilians of King's Landing into the walls of the Red Keep, ostensibly for their protection from the invading Dragon Queen. Her real goal, of course, is filling the Red Keep with innocents to either prevent Dany from roasting her within its walls or force Dany to kill a whole bunch of people as part of her quest to take the Iron Throne.
Oh, Cersei. You may be doomed, but you're sure as hell putting up a good fight.
Daenerys Wants To Burn Them All
Well, in case there was any doubt that Dany is truly the daughter of The Mad King, I'd say Episode 4 was proof that she has more in common with her dear old dad than any in the Seven Kingdoms should be comfortable with.
Although Game of Thrones may not go full Mad Queen Daenerys with Dany, who believes it her destiny to free the world from tyrants, she seems as willing to "burn them all" to achieve her goals as Aerys was. Her goals are just somewhat less demented. Oh, incest. The gift that keeps on giving.
Already frustrated by the delay in taking the fight to King's Landing, Dany refused to allow the troops time to rest before marching and/or sailing south. The first half of the episode went to great lengths to show the isolation getting to Dany in the far North, as the Northerners rallied around Arya and showed their love and support for Jon Snow... the kind of love and support she only ever won for herself on the other side of the Narrow Sea.
Jon resisted her attempts to rekindle their romance -- presumably because he was raised a Stark and Starks aren't all-in on the incest like the Targaryens -- and told Dany he wanted to tell his sisters the truth about his identity. She begged him not to, which should make the "betrayal" sting all the more when she finds out. She was finding herself without trusted allies by her side, and it showed in some very poorly timed ways after news of Jon as Aegon started to circulate. But more on that later.
Losing Ser Jorah was already a big blow, and she lost one of the greatest tempering influences. In Episode 4, Cersei managed to get her hands on Missandei after Euron destroyed her fleet. Although Cersei stated that she was willing to let Missandei live if Dany surrendered unconditionally, I for one was reminded of Ramsay with Rickon. Missandei was doomed as soon as Cersei got her hands on her, and when negotiations went south, Cersei had The Mountain behead Missandei.
It was a heartbreaking scene that will undoubtedly impact both Dany and Grey Worm in some dangerous ways. Dany has lost her two closest and most trusted advisors, and Jon won't return her love the way she wants. The losses of Rhaegal and Missandei in Episode 4 could push her over the edge, and she's showing increasing willingness to roast any and all within King's Landing if it means taking the city and the Iron Throne. Learning that Tyrion knew of Cersei's pregnancy without mentioning it won't get him back in her good graces.
Hey, at least Missandei got as badass an exit as possible, considering she was shackled. Her final word? "Dracarys." R.I.P. Missandei.
A New Contender For The Iron Throne
Unsurprisingly, Jon does not want the Iron Throne for himself, and learning that he's technically ahead of Dany in the line of Targaryen succession didn't change his mind that she should be ruler of the Seven Kingdoms. The problem? Not everybody else shares his opinion.
He insisted on telling his sisters the truth about his identity, despite Dany literally begging him not to. Both Stark women promised not to tell before he confided in them, and Arya seems likely to keep that promise. As for Sansa... well, she really doesn't want Dany to rule the Seven Kingdoms, and discovering that even Tyrion is afraid of Dany convinced her that the secret shouldn't stay between the few people who already knew.
So, Sansa told Tyrion, and Tyrion told Varys. Tyrion and Varys were then put in a delicate position of considering whether Daenerys really should be the Targaryen destined for the Iron Throne. Varys seems to be on Team Jon just because Jon is less likely to roast the realm for hate of Cersei, and he went so far as to talk treason with Tyrion after Dany dismissed his concerns about attacking the city. Although he didn't make any overt moves against Dany in Episode 4, we can probably count Varys as Team Jon/Aegon.
Tyrion is a bit more complicated. He is scared of Daenerys, and his best hope for the situation is for Jon and Dany to marry so that Jon could temper her more extreme impulses. He's still behind Dany, but he could probably be convinced to switch sides if the evidence is compelling enough and Dany begins to show more shades of Aerys.
As Varys pointed out, Jon may not be willing to marry his aunt, even if everything else goes perfectly. If Dany is furious at Tyrion for keeping the secret about Cersei's pregnancy, perhaps that will be enough to sway Tyrion. Or perhaps Dany doing something to Varys could do the same. Either way, Jon is a key player in the game of thrones, even though he's technically still on the road to King's Landing and doesn't want the throne.
Honestly, a happy ending for Jon at this point might be surviving to go live beyond The Wall with Tormund and Ghost.
Jon And Ser Davos Are On The Way
Jon was hardly in Episode 4 beyond the first chunk of the episode, when he dropped the "Aegon" bomb on his sisters/cousins, said his goodbyes to Tormund and Sam, sent off Ghost without nearly enough emotion for me to accept, and hit the road with the remaining Northern soldiers, Dothraki, and Unsullied.
Ser Davos is by his side, and all rode horses. Jon cited Rhaegal's need to heal as the reason why he was traveling on horseback; everybody who wants to take down Cersei may come to regret that decision. Dany is down to one dragon. Hopefully Jon and Ser Davos arrive in a timely fashion without losing many men along the way. Poor Jon may arrive to discover that half of Team Dany has become Team Jon!
Sansa Holds The North
Sansa stayed behind to hold the North as the lady of Winterfell, and it seemed like her job was going to be to rebuild Winterfell, help the surviving Northerners, and watch Brienne and Jaime explore their relationship further. Instead, word came down that Euron's fleet ambushed Daenerys and took down Rhaegal, which gave Sansa the reason -- or perhaps excuse -- to enter the game herself. Not necessarily as a contender for the throne, but definitely somebody who should have a say.
She is after all the one who set the pieces in motion for Jon to have a shot at the throne, and Tyrion and Varys both realized that Sansa declaring for Jon would mean the loss of the North and the Vale as Dany's allies. Will Sansa stay in Winterfell, where it's safe but she can only work her political magic via raven? Or head south to play a more proactive role? Only time will tell, but I'd say she's definitely not out of the game yet. As she told the Hound, she's not a "little bird" any more.
Arya And The Hound
Both Arya and the Hound found themselves out of place following the end of the Battle of Winterfell. Neither a fan of crowds, both had unfinished business elsewhere. Arya refused Gendry's bold proposal -- A+ for effort there, Gendry -- and the Hound turned away the attentions from some ladies who were happy to be alive. He began his journey south on horseback, then was surprised and pleased in his own way when Arya turned up to join him. The travels of Arya and the Hound 2.0 commence!
The odds are that the Hound is heading south to go after what remains of his brother, which is good news for fans who have been holding out hope for CleganeBowl. As for Arya, Cersei is still on the top of her list of names, and unlike Beric and the Hound, Cersei's not getting off her list until she's dead. I still think one of the Lannister brothers will take out Cersei, but Arya is definitely a possibility, especially if she starts stealing faces again.
By the end of the episode, there are some key pieces moving around that could go in a number of directions. Bronn returned to the action, having conveniently missed the Battle of Winterfell. He had both Lannister bros at his mercy, but decided that betting on Cersei was a big gamble, and he would rather see what Tyrion and Jaime had to offer. Cersei offered Riverrun; Tyrion offered Highgarden. Bronn accepted, but he's still a wild card.
As for Jaime, he was all set up to stay behind in Winterfell and live a reformed life. I was honestly shocked when Jaime and Brienne turned overtly romantic, as I was sure one of them would die before they got a love scene. Of course, now I'm more convinced that ever that one or both will die, especially considering how he left Winterfell.
Upon learning of the all-but-certain doom heading toward his sister, Jaime fell back into old habits and declared that he was as hateful as his twin, and he left Brienne in tears. He's just off-kilter enough that I could believe that he'd kill Cersei, especially if Brienne dies somehow going after him.
Euron is firmly Team Cersei, and he was thrilled when she announced that she was pregnant with their child in their first scene together in the episode. Unfortunately for Cersei, Euron is presumably capable of doing some basic math, and he was by her side when Tyrion announced to all listening that Cersei was pregnant.
Now, unless Euron believes that Tyrion has some supernatural ability to tell when women are pregnant from a great distance, he might have to wonder if Cersei has been pregnant longer than they've been sleeping together. Tyrion was last with Cersei in the Season 7 finale, before Euron slept with Cersei. Even he could connect the dots; could he turn on Cersei and get violent if he realizes that he was about the be Robert Baratheon-ed and told he was the father of Jaime Lannister's child?
Then we have Gendry. Oh, Gendry. When Gendry was just trying to leave the feast to chase after Arya, Daenerys shocked him (and me) by legitimizing him and declaring him Gendry Baratheon, Lord of Storm's End. Gendry was thrilled at the unexpected turn of events, and took the good news to Arya.
He used his new standing to propose to her in a grand gesture that pretty clearly was going to fall flat. She told him that he's going to be a great lord and make another woman a fine lady, but that's not her. As somebody who was rooting for these two crazy kids, I still have hope that there's more for them.
At this point, though, I'm really hoping Thrones explains what exactly Gendry's going to do in Storm's End. I love the guy, but was he ever even given the chance to learn how to read, let alone govern?
Only time will tell if he lives long enough to prove whether he literate. He's obviously going to be loyal to the woman who legitimized him, and that could complicate things if a conflict arises between Dany and Jon's sides for the Iron Throne. And what about that quick mention early in the episode about Dorne having a new prince?
What will happen with the next episode, considering these new twists and all the wild cards? We'll have to wait and see. Be sure to tune in to HBO on Sundays at 9 p.m. ET for the final episodes of Game of Thrones. Not a lot of time is left, and a lot of people are probably going to die before the final credits roll.


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CES: RCA to launch portable TVs that pick up standard and mobile DTV channels
Jan. 4, 2011 5:19 PM PT
RCA said at Tuesday's CES Unveiled event in Las Vegas that it would launch a line of portable TVs that could pick up both standard over-the-air and mobile digital signals.
Mobile DTV was a major theme of last year's CES, but few manufactures ended up releasing mobile DTV products. Spokesman Chris S. Lee said the RCA devices would ship to Radio Shack in the first quarter, then to other retailers.
RCA's portable viewers -- a line of three TVs along with a mobile DTV receiver to be used in automobiles -- make use of the mobile DTV standard overseen by the Open Mobile Video Coalition, as well as standard broadcast channels, the company said in a statement.
The portable TVs, which will be offered in 3.5-inch and 7-inch screen sizes, will be battery operated.
Mobile DTV so far has failed to gain much traction, though RCA seems to believe there is a market for such products.
In October, a rival digital TV standard known as Flo TV was canceled by San Diego's Qualcomm Inc., known for its processors for the telecommunications industry.
Flo TV was a subscription-based mobile TV service that used broadcast signals to bring cable and network content to its mobile devices. Qualcomm also halted production of its 3.5-inch-screen Flo TV that sold for $249. The device was on the market for about a year. Flo TV programming is set to end sometime this spring.
RCA said each of its three mobile DTV sets features a signal strength indicator, closed captioning, 'easel-back' stand and English or Spanish display options. The product line includes:
3.5-inch Hybrid Portable Television -- Model DMT335R (suggested retail price $109) features a LED-backlit LCD screen and runs on AA batteries.
3.5-inch Hybrid Portable Television -- Model DMT336R (suggested retail price $149), has a widescreen LED-backlit LCD display, FM radio reception and an internal battery.
7-inch Hybrid Portable Television -- Model DMT270R (suggested retail price $169), features an 800x480 'high resolution' widescreen LCD display, an internal battery and a 360-degree adjustable antenna.
Pocket Mobile DTV Car Tuner Receiver -- Model DMT3BR (suggested retail price $119) is 'smaller than a deck of cards,' powered by a car charger, uses a monopole antenna and comes with a remote control.
CES: Netflix button coming to remote controls
CES: Samsung and RealD want to sharpen 3-D TV with new panel
-- Nathan Olivarez-Giles
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Photos from top: RCA Model DMT270R 7-inch mobile DTV set, RCA Model DMT335R 3.5-inch mobile DTV set, RCA Model DMT336R 3.5-inch mobile DTV set; RCA Model DMT3BR car reciver. Credit: RCA


What does it mean to be deaf, for me, in a hearing world? I've thought about it from a political perspective, from an access perspective, from a deaf community perspective, and even from the perspective of hearing people.
But what does it mean to me personally? I can't really step back from all those issues surrounding deafness, or extricate myself from the culture I am in.
But for me, it is a sensual thing, something that is always part of me, something it took a while to accept as part of ME, but which is wrapped up in my identity nontheless. For me it means smell, sight, touch, connection, lip reading, reading, writing, watching and recognition of other deaf people. Smell, because it is something that affects me very much, my moods and how I recognise things and how comforted I feel. I love perfume, I love the smell of many things, some things synthetic and other things that occur everyday, and at special occasions (xmas has a smell, so does easter and birthdays).
Sight is how I, and most deaf people, access the world. Whether by watching sign language, watching body language, watching lips, watching what is going on in a situation. My eyesight, although I have to wear contacts and glasses now (such is the effect of too much reading…), is very sensitive, even when asleep. I can tell when light changes, and what kind of light it is (like, if the light has been turned off when I am asleep or if the sun is coming up). I love art, and photographs and visual spectacles. I am affected by visual mediums, far more than I am affected by audio.
Yet, for me, I have a family who have brought me up with music. I love music, many different kinds, with many different meanings. I can't hear anything without my hearing aids, so I flit between a world of silence and a world of sounds. Hearing aids don't make your hearing "normal" whatever that is. They amplify sounds to a certain extent, so I can hear certain music with what residual hearing I have left. Describing how I "hear" music is difficult. It sounds like music and a voice singing, but I can't actually hear the exact words. So I look up lyrics all the time (sometimes I'm disappointed, but I still like the sound of some songs despite their rubbish lyrics..). I find it hard with music that is high pitched or doesn't have a bass line, but it really depends on the song.
But then again, I know I'm not an "exception". I know deaf people who love music, and they can't "hear" it, but they feel it, they turn up the volume high to feel vibration through their bodies. Also, seeing music is so exciting – through sign song or through dance or through actual visual displays (on computers or with lights or something). Everyone always seems surprised when I say I love music. They think I'm an exception. How do they know? I think people assume things far too much.
Recently, I have been thinking hard about learning BSL (British Sign Language) properly, so I can begin signing and communicating properly with deaf people whose first language is BSL. Unwittingly, I have cut myself off from the deaf community, from being able to communicate back to them. I find it surprisingly easy to understand what some of my friends who use BSL are saying via sign because they express themselves through facial expressions and their bodies. But I don't yet have the confidence or fluency to let myself go properly. People think sign language is inferior or not as good as English. I say that is a load of rubbish. English is a language in a sea of many. I love English, I love words and meaning that can be conveyed through it. But it doesn't make another language any less important or interesting, or expressive.
Touch, again, is something I enjoy – I love different textures and the feel of different fabrics and surfaces. I like mixing different textures and patterns. I love stroking our three cats and feeling them purr like car engines, and lick my hands with their rough tongues (usually when I'm eating chocolate – they seem to love chocolate or cheese..). I like walking around barefoot (I always have, which has had some bad accidents!) and I can feel vibrations of people walking around the house or music playing.
So, I've always thought that reading and writing are not necessarily oralist dictates. Writing and reading are visual and physical things. I feel that forcing a deaf person to talk, rather than teaching them to write and read and understand the meanings of things, is far more important than speech. I find speech difficult at times, and find eloquency flows more easily when I write. For signers, sign is their expression, their way of being eloquent. I find it so awful that governments and schools force deaf people to speak, to the detriment of understanding, of reading and writing, of sign language.
Speech isn't the best way to measure achievement. This is why I am angry at a hearing world that thinks being deaf is just "not hearing" or being "deaf and dumb". No, we are not dumb if we have sign language and can write and read. The word dumb implies stupidity. It makes me angry. Silence isn't the worst thing in the world. It is a different experience, not an inferior one.
Yet there are things about the hearing world that I love dearly and will always love. I think both worlds need to meet in the middle somewhere. I wish that difference was accepted, that everyone would recognise that everyone has a different experience. We also have commonalities.
Lip reading is exhausting. That is why I want to learn sign language. I only have my BSL stage one certificate, and even that was years ago. I get headaches and feel frustrated and sometimes very angry that I have to constantly say "what?" or "Pardon?" or "can you repeat that please?". More and more I keep asking people to use their hands (some of my friends and family can fingerspell and know a few signs), especially when I'm tired.
So this dissertation, all the reading I am doing and have done, are really affecting me in a big way. Its been a journey, and one that I will probably continue for a long time.
I've also come across surprise from some that I can hear music — and the idea that a hearing-aid 'fixes' your hearing. I wonder if it hasn't affected the volume of my voice… maybe it's the hearing-aid that makes me think my own voice is so loud. Perhaps you've come across discussions of that?
I so wish I knew ASL. My hearing impairment is really premature old age hearing. I got my first aids at 32…and they were awful! My lower registers are normal and my high frequencies (some speech sounds, phone rings, fire alarms…) are gone. Those early aids just made everything louder.
The new digital aids (with lip reading) brought my comprehension from 20% to 80%, but only under good conditions. I still miss a lot. And electronically transmitted sounds are a real problem. No movies, telephone answering machines and etc. for me.
What I hate is the dumb treatment. Because I can't hear, all too often I'm categorized as stupid. I have a phd, for goddess' sake! I'm not dumb, I just couldn't hear what was said.
Yet, there are advantages to being hearing impaired (strangely enough). I'm more attendant to the other senses (vision and olfactory, as mentioned). And I can take the hearing aids off when life gets too loud. It's quite nice, actually.
Bottom line: Don't pity me for being hard of hearing. And woe betide you if you treat me like I'm stupid! I'm likely to (nicely) hand you your head on a platter. Nicely.
I love when you post about this issue, Liz.


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Ubisoft Launches Ubisoft Connect, its Player Ecosystem Designed for a New Gaming Era
by Matt Donahue 10/21/2020 10/21/2020
Today, Ubisoft announced that its existing ecosystem of player services and loyalty program, Uplay and Ubisoft Club, will be refreshed and expanded as Ubisoft Connect. This new universal interface, through which players from all platforms will now interact with Ubisoft's in-game services, activities and community, will be releasing from October 29 this year, starting with Watch Dogs: Legion.
The Ubisoft Connect experience will be available with an intuitive and seamless in-game overlay in Ubisoft's latest and new titles. Ubisoft Connect is founded on Ubisoft's ten-year experience of operating online services on Windows PC via Uplay, as well as the Ubisoft Club loyalty program that has provided 1.1 billion rewards to players to date. While the PC experience will continue to improve with dedicated services, this expansion enables players to now access Ubisoft's in-game and social features, regardless of the platform they use, including consoles and cloud gaming services.
"A decade ago, Ubisoft was one of the first publishers to enhance players' experience with more services and social features. We wanted to build upon this legacy to fulfill Ubisoft's vision of a global community and bring these benefits to all our players," says Charles Huteau, Ubisoft's Creative Director on Ubisoft Connect.
Gathering millions of players, Ubisoft Connect is the ideal destination to connect with friends or participate in events and activities. Along with new exciting time-limited and community challenges, the service brings a cross-game loyalty system that lets players earn an unlimited amount of Units to spend on unique rewards, like weapons, outfits and consumables.
This more social and personalized gaming experience also comes with a newsfeed interface gathering friends' activities and achievements, while a brand-new "Smart Intel" feature brings players dedicated tips and video recommendations based on their game activities. Each player will have access to data on their personal stats and playstyle to keep improving or compare with select groups of friends through an improved leaderboard system.
Designed for a new gaming era, one where players expect to be able to play, progress and stay in touch with friends anywhere, Ubisoft Connect lays the foundation that will enable Ubisoft's games and services to live across platforms and make cross-platform features a standard moving forward*. As part of this commitment, full cross-progression, across all platforms and services, will be available with some of Ubisoft's most highly anticipated upcoming titles, including Assassin's Creed: Valhalla, Immortals Fenyx Rising and Riders Republic.
"Next-generation gaming goes beyond technological improvements and better graphics. To us, as a creator and publisher, it is about bringing more fluidity and versatility in the experience to have the freedom to play games on whatever device and with whoever you want," says Stephanie Perotti, Ubisoft's Vice-President of Online Services. "Ubisoft Connect is our take on a new seamless experience to not only ease the transition between generations and platforms, but also be the starting point for new services that further contribute to new, more player-centric ways of enjoying games."
To celebrate the launch of Ubisoft Connect and its improved loyalty program, more than 1,000 legacy Ubisoft Club rewards are unlocked today, for free, to all players. Regular updates will add more features and rewards to improve players' experience along the way.
With Ubisoft Connect, the Ubisoft experience is available via current and soon to be released platforms: Windows PC, Xbox One, Xbox Series X | S, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5 and Nintendo Switch. To offer the most seamless integration and adapt to new cloud gaming and streaming services, Stadia, Nvidia GeForce Now, and Amazon Luna will also offer some Ubisoft Connect features later this year**. Additionally, players can also access the ecosystem via the Ubisoft Connect mobile application, the desktop app and on ubisoftconnect.com.
For more information on Ubisoft Connect, please visit ubisoftconnect.com.
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WASHINGTON – On Friday, July 10, at 11:00 AM EDT, Vice President Biden, Secretary Sebelius and Director of the White House Office of Health Reform Nancy-Ann DeParle, along with several small business employers and employees from around the country, will hold a roundtable discussion on the rising costs of health care for people who work in small businesses and small business employers, and the impact those high costs have on middle-class families across America. This event is pooled for TV and open to print and still photographers.
Print reporters and photographers wishing to cover who do not have a hard pass should RSVP with their Date of Birth and Social Security Number to press@ovp.eop.gov by no later than 5:00 PM EDT on Thursday, July 9.


IJ Start Canon IVY Mini Photo Printer Configuration– It's easy to see the attractiveness of instant photography. It's undeniable to break the Polaroid camera and get new prints in a few minutes. Unfortunately, this means that you will never be able to use your favorite photos or even your best shots. You are finally at the mercy of fate for doing your best to hope that your next photo will give you a good result.
Mini photo Printers solve this problem. Lets you shoot your favorite photos from your Facebook, Instagram or camera roll. You can dig up your favorite selfie to find your favorite person, or take a dozen pictures. Once you've made your shots, you can start pressing as quickly as the camera is taken at any time.
And compared to an inkjet print, you're eliminating the need to completely deal with ink cartridges. If you don't pay big bucks, getting ink for color prints doesn't tend to be particularly economical. Mini photo Printers You can avoid this with a zero-ink design. All you have to worry about is changing the paper. And your paper consumption will inevitably be much more economical than the hit-miss-shot photos you get from instant movies.
Sometimes, good things come in small packages. The Ivy is Canon's smallest and lightest printer. Although it's not the first mini-photo printer on the market, it certainly sees what it's like to offer portable prints. For example, Ivy gives you the opportunity to be creative with your prints. You can apply stickers, photo frames, augmented reality distortions to your pictures. It's easy to use the built-in photo editing tools to add text or draw your photos.
This show doesn't disappear when you open it up to get a new piece of paper. The IDE uses a small structure of 4.7 x 3.2 x 0.7 inches, which should be straight and unobtrusive. It is very easy to store and transport the Ivy with a weight of only 5 on the top. And from the petite frame, it produces three photo prints with an ivy stick and a peel support. These pressures, like an ordinary printer, slip gracely beneath the ivy.
Internally, the IDE uses 64 MB of RAM to hold tabs in your print jobs. This is half the size you'll find on an ordinary desktop printer, but it's more than just the type of print that Ivy needs to do. You should work hard to encounter problems of 64 MB, but it can be done. For example, it is not advisable to try and print a dozen 4k photos at the same time. Needless to say, it would be quite pointless, given the two-to-three dimensions of the pressures.
Internally, the ENVY works with a 500mah lithium-ion battery. The full charge takes approximately 90 minutes at the standard 5v/A charging speed. However, the battery is disperses pretty quickly. You can print about 20 pages per charge, consisting of 10 full 10 packs each. This is not particularly restrictive, so unless you print a large collage, you probably won't encounter power concerns. Relatively fast charging time will not keep you waiting for long.
It's easy to see the attractiveness of instant photography. It's undeniable to break the Polaroid camera and get new prints in a few minutes. Unfortunately, this means that you will never be able to use your favorite photos or even your best shots. You are finally at the mercy of fate for doing your best to hope that your next photo will give you a good result.
Only being able to keep 10 sheets at a time is not a significant disadvantage. However, the IVY may have longer print times. Slower printing can be problematic when you plan to make multiple impressions in a row. For example, IVY prominently announces its ability to produce a collage consisting of 9 separate impressions. Creating this collage would require almost five minutes of print time, and this is not the worst possible scenario. It is not possible to approach the IVY hoping to get the same print speed as 10 seconds that you would obtain with an inkjet printer for Home Office.
There are some small concerns to be observed as well. Compared to a typical flatbed printer, the IVY has a slightly narrower operating temperature. It is built to operate between 59 and 89 °f. The ivy can be highly portable, but you wouldn't want to make your impressions in the Arctic winter. This limitation should not be a big concern for many people, but it is something you should keep in mind before attempting to make outdoor impressions on a sunny day.
The IVY includes a one-year warranty from Canon, which comes with free technical support. Canon technical support is really very good. Largely due to the use of U.S.-based technical support with offices nationwide. The Ivy also comes with 10 sheets of Zink photo paper to start with, a USB charging cable, quick start guides to help you get used to using the IVY.
Desktop photo printers usually have size limits and these limits are usually close to 3 × 5 or larger. IVY's unique 2 x 3-inch adhesive impressions are a cool way to add a personal touch to small photos and help bring your favorite digital memories to life. It is not very difficult to produce larger prints by combining two or more sheets of the Zink paper. Consequently, the IVY is much more versatile than its small form would initially lead you to believe.
It's not going to replace a conventional photographic printer, but the IVY certainly has something to offer. This makes it exceptionally easy to connect to your social media accounts.


Company Profile (excerpt from Reuters): Duke Realty Corporation, incorporated on March 12, 1992, is a self-managed real estate investment trust (REIT). The Company and Duke Realty Limited Partnership (Partnership) collectively specialize in the ownership, management and development of bulk distribution (industrial) and medical office real estate. It operates through three segments, the first two of which consist of the ownership and rental of industrial and medical office real estate investments. The operations of its industrial and medical office properties, as well as its rental operations, are collectively referred to as Rental Operations. The third segment consists of various real estate services, such as property management, asset management, maintenance, leasing, development, general contracting and construction management to third-party property owners and joint ventures, and is collectively referred to as Service Operations. Its Service Operations segment also includes its taxable REIT subsidiary (TRS), through which certain of the segment's operations are conducted. The Company maintains a Baa1 rating from Moody's Investor Service, Inc. and a BBB+ rating from Standard & Poor's Financial Services LLC.
Duke Realty Corp is suitable for the Enterprising Investor but not the more conservative Defensive Investor. The Defensive Investor is concerned with the low current ratio, insufficient earnings stability or growth over the last ten years. The Enterprising Investor is only concerned with the level of debt relative to the net current assets. As a result, all Enterprising Investors following the ModernGraham approach should feel comfortable proceeding with the analysis.
As for a valuation, the company appears to be Undervalued after growing its EPSmg (normalized earnings) from $0.24 in 2014 to an estimated $1.78 for 2018. This level of demonstrated earnings growth outpaces the market's implied estimate of 3.82% annual earnings growth over the next 7-10 years. As a result, the ModernGraham valuation model, based on the Benjamin Graham value investing formula, returns an estimate of intrinsic value above the price.
At the time of valuation, further research into Duke Realty Corp revealed the company was trading above its Graham Number of $9.72. The company pays a dividend of $0.77 per share, for a yield of 2.7%, putting it among the best dividend paying stocks today. Its PEmg (price over earnings per share – ModernGraham) was 16.14, which was below the industry average of 46.75, which by some methods of valuation makes it one of the most undervalued stocks in its industry. Finally, the company was trading above its Net Current Asset Value (NCAV) of $-7.03.
Duke Realty Corp performs fairly well in the ModernGraham grading system, scoring a B.


Students moving into Millor Hall in the fall will be the first to experience the "fresh look" renovations that will take place this summer in the building. The improvements to Millor will include new paint, carpet and bedroom and lounge furniture.
Consultants from Fresh Eyes Housing Consulting visited John Carroll last summer to offer some advice on how to improve residence life and on-campus housing. Lisa Brown, director of Residence Life, said that they took a look at all of the housing options on campus.
"They gave us an idea based on their understanding of campus as well as their knowledge of residence life and housing at other institutions, some suggestions that they had for us in terms of making us competitive as well as maintaining the uniqueness of John Carroll in that process," Brown said.
The consultants admired the beauty of the buildings on campus, but suggested ways to make them more modern.
Brown emphasized that one of the main priorities is to modernize the hall and make it look more up to date.
Brown said that Millor, which holds about 240 residents, was chosen as the first dorm to undergo these changes because it is one of the smaller dorms on campus, and there are already plans for maintenance and repair work, as well as work on heating and air conditioning for the summer, making it an ideal choice.
"In the future we will be looking at other buildings. [But right now, updating Millor is] a way to make a visible change at this point in time, but not a major renovation," Brown said.
Residence Life made sure to include the students in its decision-making process. Brown said that they invited future residents of Millor as well as the Student Union to look at the different furniture options and give feedback that will be used to make the final decisions.
The budget for this project is still in the works as the details have not yet been finalized, the final furniture selections have not been made, and the bidding for the work is still in progress.
Carol Dietz, associate vice president of facilities, said that the Facilities department is also working on the design for the replacement of the heating, ventilation and air conditioning system in Millor and adding thermostats to all of the rooms.
Brown said that the renovations will take place in other halls over time, and that one of the projects that Residence Life and Facilities hope to accomplish is making the dorms more handicap-accessible.


Home UncategorizedTHE BURNING QUESTION SERIES: What's Your Relationship to Excitement?
THE BURNING QUESTION SERIES: What's Your Relationship to Excitement?
I love Danielle LaPorte and her writing, she is a goddess of inspiration. That was why I decided to do her Burning Questions series on my blog, because she asks the right questions. However, since my leave of absence, I've fallen behind a bit, so I have quite a few questions to catch up on. Thus, this blog will be a little busier while I do that. Enjoy!
Question: What's your relationship to excitement?
Excitement is my internal compass. It is the thing that guides me in almost all of my decisions. If I don't feel excitement over a project or an idea, I know there's no point in pursuing it.
When I look for a new script, I need to feel excited, not just at the end, but throughout. If I'm still excited about it the next day, or the next week, I know it's a home run. I've been excited about My Name Is Rachel Corrie for four years, so I know that's a great project for me.
Excitement and I have a summer love type relationship. It's so easy and simple when it's just what it is, but the minute I try to make it into something more, excitement runs away. There are different levels and amounts of excitement, and it's important for me to see it for exactly what it is. It's almost like a garden squirrel. If I pretend I don't see it, it may come closer, it may get excited, but move towards it, force it in any way, and it runs away.
Unfortunately, and I've spoken to a few in the business about this, there's a certain amount of excitement that always need to be present, but any more than that and suddenly it's rude. You can't show your friends who are actors and writers and directors just how happy you are that you booked that commercial, or that show, or that tour. You don't want to upset them, or make them jealous, or seem like an amateur. So as an artist, you're forced to edit your emotions in public, both when you experience excitement and disappointment. This seems unhealthy to me. I always try to provide a safe space for my friends, to let them know that I don't judge them for being happy or sad. I like seeing excitement, of a real, genuine level. I like bringing it out in people, I like seeing it in the people I work with.
I've found in some of my projects that the 'talent' are the least excited people that I work with. They're plenty excited when I talk about hiring them, and for the first rehearsal or two. But then this cloak of 'realism' comes over them. Artists who've been told too many times to live in the real world. I love my technicians. I love the way my lighting designer describes his plans. The way the sound designer comes to me with a certain cue build. The way the costume designer beams when showing me what she's put on. And then the actors come out, a little sad and a little down, and ask me for the thousandth time how we're going to get bums in seats… I think they could do with a little more excitement.
Here's the thing though, if you want happier actors, you have to give them the room to be sad as well. But perhaps if they, if we, had a chance to get it out, we'd feel better and not carry it around like a rock in our stomachs. Perhaps if we could unleash some of this fear, and dread, and anger, there would be a little more room for excitement, and we'd all be happier about it.
Excitement, as much as I love it, and use it as my internal compass, is a double edged sword. Because disappointment is always lurking, especially in this industry.
How do you balance excitement and disappointment in your art?
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*Set the date for January 15 at 10 P.M.
*Orion with very bright stars Betelgeuse and Rigel od in the sky at this time.
*Set the date for March 15 at 10 P.M.
*Gemini, the twins , with the pair of similar stars Castor and Pollux comes in to view.
*Set the date for June 15 at 10 P.M.
*Leo, the lion, with the bright star Regulus is visible.
*Set the date for September 15 at 10 P.M.
*You will see Sagittarius, the archer , that looks like a teapot.
*Set the date for November 15 at 10 P.M.


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Q: ORM and SQL injections If i use a ORM (Eg: SQLAlchemy or the one that comes with Django ), does that mean my web application is protected from SQL Injections or i need to take extra precautions for that ?

A: I believe that it has a quoting system like most of ORM's (check the source), so you would probably be safe unless you override it.  It never hurts to take extra precautions, though you're never really 100% safe.

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