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Here in the United States, we are facing such a crush of problems that it is hard to give each the attention it deserves.
I do want to highlight one especially dangerous and disturbing action by the president. He is deploying federal employees into US cities to act as law enforcement without the permission of the mayors and governors who have legal jurisdiction. By law, policing is a matter for local and state governments. The National Guard, which is a branch of the US Military though its roots go all the way back to 1660's Massachusetts militias, is sometimes mobilized to deal with a disaster or civil unrest, but it is the governor of the state who usually orders it, not the president. As I have discussed before, the president can use the Insurrection Act to use federal forces over the objections of governors, but there is no basis to declare that an insurrection is underway.
Federal forces have been deployed to Portland, Oregon, ostensibly to protect federal buildings. Disturbingly, these federal officers have been on the streets without wearing insignia identifying them and have detained people who are not causing harm. They have also teargassed peaceful protestors. According to local officials, the presence of these federal forces has worsened the situation, not calmed it. The president is also sending or planning to send federal agents to other US cities.
While the president says he needs to establish "law and order" in these Democrat-led cities, the real motivation may be to project a "tough guy" image to shore up his base of supporters. His poll numbers have been dropping, even in states where he won by large margins in 2016.
I think it is possible that some of the president's supporters are disturbed that he is using federal forces within US cities. The tenth amendment to the Constitution recognizes policing as a state function; many Trump supporters are not fans of the federal government and prefer state/local control as much as possible. Some would rather not have government involved in their lives at all.
There are already inspectors general investigations into the use of federal forces in Washington, DC and Portland. If there are deployments in other cities, there will surely be court cases brought, as well.
Meanwhile, voters need to remember that unidentified, armed federal personnel do not belong on the streets in US cities and towns. It's the kind of authoritarian tactic that the United States has often decried in other countries.
Author Joanne CoreyPosted on July 26, 2020 July 25, 2020 Categories current events, government, musingsTags authority, Constitution, Donald Trump, federal, law, local, military, police, Portland, state, United States, violenceLeave a comment on federal force
One-Liner Wednesday: Presidents
"Stated simply, the primary takeaway from the past 250 years of recorded American history is that Presidents are not kings. This means that they do not have subjects, bound by loyalty or blood, whose destiny they are entitled to control."
~~~ U.S. District Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson in her 120-page opinion that former White House Counsel Donald McGahn must comply with a Congressional subpoena
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Author Joanne CoreyPosted on November 27, 2019 November 27, 2019 Categories blogging, current events, government, One-Liner Wednesday, quoteTags #1linerWeds, Congress, Don McGahn, history, Judge Jackson, law, lawyer, president, United States, White HouseLeave a comment on One-Liner Wednesday: Presidents
I can't even count how many times during the Trump campaign and presidency I have heard historians, policy experts, and commentators say that we are in "uncharted territory." It's bewildering as each new scandal breaks, only to be swallowed up by the next one.
The story that has been breaking over the last few days is that a whistleblower from the intelligence community went to the inspector general with an issue of concern. The inspector general found the issue credible and urgent and, as statute dictates, told the (acting) Secretary of Homeland Security who was supposed to send the information on to the House and Senate Intelligence Committees, who have oversight duties. Instead, he brought the concern to the executive branch, in this case to the White House and the Department of Justice. He is now refusing to pass the information on to the committees because the person under question is not part of the intelligence community, even though the statute is clear that the information must be handed over regardless of who is the subject.
Partial information about the case has been sussed out by the press. Apparently, the whistleblower was alarmed by a pattern of behavior by the president toward Ukraine. Part of the problem seems to be that Trump pressured the president of Ukraine to launch an investigation of former vice-president Joe Biden and his son; Joe Biden is one of the top tier Democratic contenders vying to run against Trump for the presidency in 2020. Trump now admits discussing the matter with the president of Ukraine, although he says he didn't "pressure" him. If, however, the allegation is true that DT did pressure the Ukrainian president, he could be investigated for extortion, campaign finance violations, and courting foreign influence in a US election. He could also be charged with obstruction for not turning over evidence in a Congressional investigation.
And this new issue is on top of the possible obstruction of justice acts described in the second half of the Mueller report.
And the emoluments case wending its way through the courts and under investigation by the House.
And keeping members of his cabinet and staff, present and former, from cooperating with document requests and testimony, which is also obstruction.
And he hasn't turned over tax returns for himself and his businesses, despite valid Congressional requests and New York state court subpoenas.
This is not a complete list.
The level of corruption is staggering.
What is needed at this point is for Congressional Republicans to step up and hold the president accountable for his actions. It is their duty to uphold the laws of the United States. So far, almost no Republicans have supported Congressional investigation which could lead to impeachment and removal from office. You can be sure that if a Democratic president had engaged in any of the actions that Trump appears to have taken, the Republicans would have investigated and impeached him/her long ago. During the 2016 campaign, there were Republicans saying that they would file articles of impeachment immediately after Hillary Clinton was sworn in as president, although it isn't clear what grounds they thought they had. That Congressional Republicans are failing to hold Trump accountable only because he is a Republican is unconscionable and un-American.
What happens next? Who knows?
We are in uncharted territory.
Author Joanne CoreyPosted on September 23, 2019 September 23, 2019 Categories comment, current events, governmentTags Congress, corruption, Democrats, Donald Trump, HIllary Clinton, impeachment, investigation, Joe Biden, law, Republicans, Ukraine, United States5 Comments on uncharted territory
marriage, family, and immigration
Millions and millions of people watched press coverage of the recent wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. Meghan, a United States citizen by birth, is now the Duchess of Sussex.
I am very happy for them as they begin their married life in the United Kingdom, but I am sad that British immigration law makes it so much more difficult for other non-citizen spouses to join their British counterparts. The complex immigration laws of the United Kingdom and the United States, both currently in flux under their current governments, are conspiring to keep ABC, my dual-citizen granddaughter, from being with both her parents for the majority of her first two years. She is always very excited to video-visit with her daddy when she is in residence with us and her mom here in the States, but it is, of course, not the same as being there in person.
Still, at least they can see each other and have access to a process that will enable them to be together long-term, unlike the families seeking asylum in the United States who are being subjected to new procedures by the Trump administration. Children as young as one year are being separated from their parent(s) and put into foster care. Unconscionably, some of the parents are being charged with human trafficking of their own children. Such treatment of asylum seekers is both immoral and illegal under international law. I'm hoping that legal challenges filed on behalf of these families will find justice among federal judges, even though it is the Justice Department in Washington that has implemented these new draconian policies.
Update June 1: This post gives more information and ways to speak out in defense of children and parents.
Author Joanne CoreyPosted on May 28, 2018 June 1, 2018 Categories current events, family, government, musingsTags asylum, children, courts, Donald Trump, immigration, justice, law, marriage, separation, United Kingdom, United States3 Comments on marriage, family, and immigration
US Healthcare Update
Overnight, the Senate defeated the Affordable Care Act repeal bills. It wasn't pretty, with 49 Senators willing to take health insurance away from millions of Americans, but 51 Senators stood up for us.
Now, we need Congressmembers from across the spectrum to engage with each other to craft legislation that improves and expands the Affordable Care Act so that everyone has access to affordable, quality health care. There are already some bill drafts that do that available as a starting point.
Author Joanne CoreyPosted on July 28, 2017 Categories blogging, comment, current events, government, medical careTags ACA, bill, Congress, health care, House of Representatives, insurance, law, legislation, Senate, United StatesLeave a comment on US Healthcare Update
US health care update
While I write about US political issues sometimes, I haven't been recently, not because there hasn't been a lot to write about, but because there has been too much – and not enough time, as I have been dealing with multiple family health issues.
I can't bring myself to try to elucidate the increasingly alarming tangle of DT's campaign, transition, and administration with Russian government and oligarchs, Cypriot banks, Turkey, surveillance, investigations, and the firing of justice officials, but I do want to comment on the failure of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) repeal.
The ACA has been an important law that has had a positive effect on my family and on many millions of Americans. We have all benefited from provisions that all insurance cover a suite of important health care provisions without deductible and copayments, that there be no annual or lifetime caps on coverage, and that pre-existing conditions must be covered. While premiums have increased as projected, the rate of increase has been lower than in the years before the ACA and the subsidies based on income have kept pace with the premium increases to keep insurance affordable for most people.
There have been some problems, the biggest being the gap caused when some states chose not to expand Medicaid eligibility as designed in the original legislation, a provision that was overturned by the Supreme Court. This left low-income folks in those states without a path to get subsidies for their insurance.
If Congress had been functional, the ACA would have been amended to deal with the various problems and to enhance the programs for the benefit of the public, as happened with other large programs, such as Social Security.
However, Congress has not been functional for years. The Republican leadership has refused to bring bipartisan legislation up for a vote, deciding that the ACA should be repealed in its entirety. Instead of enacting fixes and enhancements, the House voted dozens of times to repeal the ACA, a meaningless gesture as it would not pass the Senate and be signed by the President.
With DT's inauguration and the Republicans in the majority in both houses of Congress, many of us feared that the ACA would be repealed and a more expensive and less extensive health care insurance program be put in its place.
The bill that was proposed was even worse than we had feared, with projections that 24 million people would lose insurance coverage, even more than were without coverage before the ACA.
And then it got worse, due to wrangling among the Republicans. Even the essential benefits were put on the chopping block.
The people had not been silent during this whole debate. Congressional offices, which had already been flooded with calls, visits, town hall attendance, emails, letters, faxes, postcards, and the occasional delivery of pizza or baked goods with a message attached, experienced even higher volumes of contact, with pro-ACA messages outnumbering repeal/replace messages by margins of hundreds or thousands to one.
DT got involved, pressuring House members to vote yes. The vote, scheduled for Thursday, which was the seventh anniversary of the signing of the ACA by President Obama, was postponed until Friday morning, then Friday afternoon.
Then, at the time it was supposed to begin the voting process, the announcement came that the bill had been pulled.
There was a huge sigh of relief.
And a cloud of uncertainty.
The best outcome at this point would be for Congressional committees to consult with health care providers and policy experts to craft repairs and enhancements for the ACA to benefit public health and well-being and to pass those amendments into law.
Which many of us have been advocating for years.
Maybe the Republicans will finally cooperate in this process.
We, the people, will continue to demand that they do.
Author Joanne CoreyPosted on March 26, 2017 Categories blogging, current events, government, medical careTags ACA, activism, Congress, Donald Trump, health care, insurance, law, leadership, repeal, Republicans, United States2 Comments on US health care update
doomed to repeat history – or just doomed?
I haven't been using most of the (optional) prompts that have been provided for Just Jot It January, but I will start off using today's, which is history.
It begs the question, "Does DT know/understand any history?"
If he did, would he be spouting the slogan "America First" which has disturbing connotations from the World War II era?
Would he have signed an order to ban Syrian refugees on Holocaust Remembrance Day, inviting comparisons to the shameful and cruel turning away of Jewish refugees trying to flee Hitler?
Does he understand the separation of powers in the United States Constitution? In some instances at the airports, executive branch personnel refused to carry out the order of federal judges. There will be numerous lawsuits filed challenging the legality of the executive order. US immigration law prohibits discrimination due to national origin, which this executive order clearly violates.
It also disturbs me that DT reneged on the promises made to visa, refugee, and green card applicants. A local example: A staff member at my parents' retirement community is a long-time US resident and green card holder. He planned to leave in a few days to visit family in Iraq. Now, he won't be able to go. Even if he can get to the Consulate, which is several hours away, and is granted a waiver, he may be leery of leaving the country because the administration has already shown that they are not honoring his green card as equal to that of someone from France or China – or Saudi Arabia, the country from which most of the 9/11 terrorists originated.
I have written often about my fear of Trump, which I am trying to mobilize into energy to fight for social and environmental justice in the face of his threats and actions. These last two days make it even more difficult to not be afraid. Does DT think that he is above the laws of the United States? Does he think he makes the laws? The legislative and judicial branches need to assert their independent authority, as our system is designed. Sadly, only a few Congressional Republicans have spoken out against the executive orders on immigration.
Again, people power has been a source of hope. Protesters appeared at the airports where travellers were being detained despite their having valid visas and passports. Lawyers skilled in civil rights, Constitutional law, and immigration law rushed to help the affected people and filed emergency suits to keep them from being deported.
And this is only the second week of the administration.
I feel like a firefighter who is being summoned to multiple locations at the same time.
So much work to be done. So many people to try to protect.
Not knowing whence the next alarm comes.
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Author Joanne CoreyPosted on January 29, 2017 Categories blogging, current events, government, Just Jot It JanuaryTags airport, Congress, court, discrimination, Donald Trump, immigration, JusJoJan, law, protest, visaLeave a comment on doomed to repeat history – or just doomed?
reaction to the morning news
No torture. Not ever. Under no circumstance. It is immoral and illegal.
I can't believe I even have cause to write this.
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Any presidential candidate who claims s/he will ignore the recent Supreme Court decisions on marriage equality and/or the Affordable Care Act has obviously not thoroughly read the Constitution and does not understand that the judiciary is an independent branch of government over which the executive branch does not have precedence.
Such a person has no business running for president and should withdraw immediately.
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Some people in Aussie want to give religious school's the right to ban gay students, and it's so fucked
If a certain reccomendation from the review of religious freedoms in Aussie is taken seriously by the Federal Government, religious schools in Australia could be given the right to ban gay students from attending their schools.
Sydney's Morning Herald reported on said review, which outrageously stated that;
The Sex Discrimination Act should be altered to let religious schools bar prospective students based on their sexual orientation, gender identity, or even their relationship status.
How cooked is that?!
Some states in Australia do allow schools outside of the government system to do this, but the recommendation in the report would make sure this was a rule across the board nationally.
This was all put together by Liberal MP Phillip Ruddock during the marriage equality debate last year (legalising same-sex marriage in Aussie), as people became anxious of losing their religious freedoms.
The whole thing has caused insane backlash and we really hope nothing comes of it.
An education minister, Tanya Plibersek, said "as a human being and as a mother, the idea adults would be discriminating against or rejecting children seems to me pretty awful."
Yeah, very awful. SMH.
Info in this article was sourced from Pedestrian.

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The New Normal: Halloween in March
Let's talk about timing. Those of us who closely follow the descriptions of episodes were curious when NBC would eventually run the Halloween episode that was pre-empted because of SuperStorm Sandy last October. Sometimes, a comedy can hold over something like that, as holiday episodes tend to be in and of themselves. But, in this case, Goldie being pregnant won't work next season, so the storyline would be out-of-place anywhere it landed, though it might have made the most sense to just air it as soon after Halloween as possible. But, what's done is done... at least we finally see where Rocky and Jane first hit it off! Not only were they getting drinks, but they were doing so while trying to pass as cross-dressers! I found the Nicole Richie sequence odd... Bryan doesn't normally prance around with celeb friends, so why have her there?
The New Normal "Para-New Normal Activity" (S01E18): The first thing Bryan talks about is how you get to invite who you want to Halloween, which he sees as a "gay Christmas," only you invite your friends. [funny, as it winds up being the Thanksgiving episode where everyone struggles with their true families. another reason it would have been good to try to keep the true production order.] Bryan heads to a "celebrity pumpkin patch" with Nicole Richie, who then joins the family to carve pumpkins, as does Clay, who has shown up unexpectedly. [five on that couch is tight!]
Because Bryan doesn't like everyone choosing their own costumes (because Rocky went as the mother from Precious once, now David is subjected to playing characters like Russell Brand to Bryan's Katy Perry), he decides that they should go as Honey-Boo-Boo's family: David as Sugar Bear, Bryan as Mama June, Shania as Honey-Boo-Boo, and Goldie as Chickadee. [hahahahaha!] But, David thinks they should go as a sports team and refuses to conform, formulating his own Tom Brady costume. And, Rocky is assigned to be Matt Lauer. [haha as Lisa Ling and Lucy Lui getting mixed up!] After dressing up, Shania doesn't like the idea, thinking a Frankenstein family would be better because it's "stitched together." [don't get me wrong... I love how smart that kid is, but this is ridiculous.] David maintains sticks with Tom Brady and Rocky chooses to go as Serena Williams. Jane, immune to Bryan's reign, shows up as Endora from Bewitched, though Goldie, Clay, Shania, and Bryan go with the Frankenstein theme. [I totally wasn't going to get Endora without more eye makeup and the voice, LoL.]
Other things this episode? One of the guys' friends' sons wants to go as Bruce Vilanch or a fairy, but his father doesn't want him to be teased and suggests a Ninja Turtles costume. In the end, father and son dress as fairies. [awww!] Clay teaches Shania to throw eggs at people's houses, then decides to drop the custody case because the "right thing" is for Shania to be with her mother in California, not him in Ohio. [mature! but what was with the knock at giving fruit instead of candy??]
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Oxygen iodine laser kinetics and small signal gain
Author(s): Willy L. Bohn; Keith A. Truesdell; W. Pete Latham; Petras V. Avizonis
A simple model for predicting the small signal gain as a function of flow direction will be presented. The small signal gain was measured on the Weapons Laboratory Rotocoil 02/I* gain medium. The characteristics observed in the experiment show a decrease in the small signal gain as a function of distance from the nozzle exit plane. Further results indicated that the small signal gain decreased with time and that the gain increased when the cold trap was turned on. All of these effects suggest a temperature dependence of the small signal gain. The approach presented in this paper is to develop a simple model which includes a simplified kinetics model and the gas dynamics for the flowing medium. An analytic solution to the model equations is also derived. These models account for the reduction in small signal gain in the flow direction due to heat release into the cavity when compared to the Rotocoil small signal gain data. The results show that the rise in gas temperature in the flowing 02/I* medium is primarily due to water deactivation of the I* and the O2(1Δ) plus I* pooling leading to water deactivation of 1Σ. Such temperature rise in the flowing medium causes the small signal gain to decay substantially in the flow direction due to the square root of the temperature dependence in the stimulated emission cross section, the shift in the equilibrium constant with temperature and the decrease in density which is inversely proportional to the temperature.
Date Published: 1 June 1990
Proc. SPIE 1225, High-Power Gas Lasers, (1 June 1990); doi: 10.1117/12.34703
Willy L. Bohn, Air Force Weapons Lab. (United States)
Keith A. Truesdell, Air Force Weapons Lab. (United States)
W. Pete Latham, Air Force Weapons Lab. (United States)
Petras V. Avizonis, Air Force Weapons Lab. (United States)
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Can we talk about fruit punch? And, let me be clear: I'm not talking about a punch made of fruit, logical as that would be. I mean that classic American drink flavor, 'fruit punch', which tastes less like any actual particular fruit and more like the general idea of fruit, sweet and a little floral and a little tart and really really RED. I haven't actually had any in years, but I definitely grew up drinking Kool-Aid Tropical Punch, which is the canonical fruit punch in my mind. It's not quite Proust's madeleine, but I can still distinctly taste its sweet-tart flavor and feel it prickling at the back sides of my tongue.
One very common agua fresca, agua de jamaica, has a similar profile to fruit punch: sweet, tart, and really red. And what's the English word for 'jamaica'? Hibiscus, of course.
Bryant Terry's Afro-Vegan: Farm-Fresh African, Caribbean, and Southern Flavors Remixed (which I adore) includes a recipe for a Roselle-Rooibos Drink, pulling together the roselle of the Caribbean with the rooibos of South Africa for a trans-Atlantic treat which is (you guessed it) sweet, tart, and really red. Not surprising, once you realize that roselle is just another word for hibiscus.
So all signs pointed to the hibiscus flower, but I had one more problem to solve: all that sugar. Every recipe I read called for roughly the same proportions: about a cup per half-gallon. (Incidentally, the same ratio as Kool-Aid, so: consistency.) Sometime in the past couple decades my taste buds took a weird turn, and I just can't stomach that much sweetness in drinks anymore: my tongue feels furry, and it just isn't appetizing to me. So a succession of test batches had me teeter-tottering lower and lower, trying to bring down the sweetness without either letting the tart flowers pucker my lips or watering the whole thing down to insipidness.
In the end, I settled on a drink that's flavorful without being overpowering, with just enough sweetness to bring it into balance and some strong spices to punch it up a bit. (Get it, 'punch'? Ha.) If you like a very sweet summer drink, I recommend you try one of the linked recipes in the headnotes below. But if you're like me and want a summer chiller that doesn't leave your tongue all furry, I think you may have found your match.
Infusions of hibiscus flowers are common throughout Latin American and West Africa, as well as many parts of Asia. They're not as common in the United States, which is a bit of a shame: they make a delicious drink that's quick and refreshing (and have a good dose of vitamin C and anthocyanins, if that's something you're interested in). My version differs from the mainstream a good bit in being surprisingly unsweet, simply because that's how I like it. If you're used to very sweet summer drinks, give this one a try for a change and see how you like it. And if you're a fellow dry-drink lover: welcome, pull up a chair, and have some of this barely sweet fruit punch.
Not sure where to find hibiscus flowers? Check health food stores and Latin markets, where you may see them listed as Flor de Jamaica. Or of course, there's always our friend the Internet.
Combine the hibiscus flowers, spices, ginger, and honey in a heatproof vessel. Pour in the boiling water and stir to combine. Let steep 10 minutes.
Strain out the solids, and add the ice water.
With the lower amount of honey, this is just barely sweet, and I like it that way. But if you find it too tart (or if you already know that you like sweet drinks), aim for the higher amount, or beyond. If you're trying to add honey to the already-chilled mixture, you'll probably find it most successful to combine the additional honey with a small amount of the punch in a small jar, and shake the heck out of it. Then add the sweetened mixture back to the pitcher.
With a soda siphon: If you have a soda siphon that allows you to fizz up non-water liquids — not, notably, a SodaStream — you can carbonate the chilled beverage directly.
With plain sparkling water: Instead of adding the 4 c of ice water, allow the strained concentrate to cool to room temperature, then combine 1 part concentrate with 1 part sparkling water over ice.
I'm not drinking a lot of alcohol right now, so I haven't tried this, but screams out for rum, if that's your style. A white or a gold rum, I think — a dark rum would overwhelm it. Cachaça would be very tasty, too.
If you happen to be in the Southern Hemisphere right now, or if you have a bit of a scratchy throat, you may be interested to try this hot: it's equally lovely.


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Set on a ghostly landscape in Ireland, By the Bog of Cats is the story of a woman who's had a lifetime of abandonment and decides to lay claim to everything that's hers on a day when her world's being torn in half. Not only did her mother run off when she was a girl, but today the great love of her life, with whom she has a seven-year-old daughter, is marrying into a family that wants her kicked off the land. She has no one to turn to except local misfits, who are part of a community filled with outrageous, funny, terrible people. It's one day in the life of a woman pushed beyond the limits of human endurance as she is forced to make a final horrible, self sacrificing decision. Mossman says of the play, "Think Greek tragedy on an Irish Bog. Just as tragic but twice as funny and pure poetry, in the great Irish tradition."
Thru - Apr 15, 2017
Thursdays: 7:30pm
Fridays: 8:00pm
Saturdays: 8:00pm
Sundays: 3:00pm
Show Type: Comedy/Drama
Running Time: 2hrs, 15mins; one intermission
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By the Bog of Cats Reviews
Average Rating based on 9 reviews
Somewhat Recommended
Chicago Tribune - Recommended
"...The ghosts here aren't only in memories. Hester's dead half-brother, Joseph (Kieran O'Connor) shows up bearing scars of their last encounter. (A "ghost fancier," played by John LaFlamboy, does feel like a bit as if Carr is gilding the mystical lily). The show opens with a potent portent - Hester dragging a dead black swan onstage. The local eccentric/seer, Catwoman, the Tiresias of the tale, offers dark prophecies in between snacking on mice and lapping up wine at the wedding banquet. (Caroline Dodge Latta's cagily comic but relatively understated performance, enhanced by Zach Wagner's inspired coat of tatty fur, is a highlight.)"
- Kerry Reid
Chicago Reader - Highly Recommended
"...Catastrophic events follow, but there's also dark humor and old-timey wisdom, courtesy of ghosts and the bog's resident seer, Catwoman (Caroline Dodge Latta). The show possesses an otherworldly atmosphere of magical realism; as Josie, Wolf brings much-needed cheerfulness to the tragedy and beautifully sings its folksy soundtrack."
- Marissa Oberlander
Windy City Times - Highly Recommended
"...At the center of the inexorable conflict is Kristin Collins, whose portrayal of the obsessed Hester propels us through a dizzying range of visceral responses arising from the clash of unyielding convictions accelerated by Frank Nall and Jane DeLaubenfels, playing the autocratic patriarch Cassidy and stifling widow Kilbride. From the first moments, we can only watch, like the innocents caught in the crossfire, as the course of True Love Thwarted comes to its inevitable conclusion."
- Mary Shen Barnidge
ChicagoCritic - Highly Recommended
"...Fans of Greek tragedies as well as fans if Irish drama together with dedicated theatre patrons will enjoy this play. By the Bog of Cats is a a polished, well staged and finely acted drama that begs to be seen. Once more The Artistic Home proves that they are among Chicago's finest theatre troupes."
- Tom Williams
NewCity Chicago - Highly Recommended
"...Centering the play is the abandonment and alienation that pervades Hester's life, from the mother who left when she was seven to the overt and hidden disdain for tinkers. Hester is clear-sighted but powerless in a society that has always rejected her, unable to transform suffering into love."
- Irene Hsiao
Irish American News - Highly Recommended
"...Artistic Home have struck fool's gold with this play. It has no material value, but it gives us insight into ourselves, if we let it, and that's the acid test of true art. We must commend this theatre for having the courage to perform a work that exposes the glitter in our self-satisfied world for not being the genuine article. The Xavier Cassidy of Carr's play is alive and well, peddling lies via twitter, and social media. If you do not fear the 'truth', go see this wonderful work. It will unsettle you in the best possible way."
- Terry Boyle
Third Coast Review - Recommended
"...By the Bog of Cats is notable for fine performances by Collins as Hester, Latta as the Catwoman and Niall as Cassidy. Elise Wulf is a likable and precocious Josie. Director Mossman sets his story on a spare Artistic Home stage. The rear wall is painted with a scene of plants and grasses in blues and grays. Hester's "caravan" sits at one side opposite the cottage. The scenic design by Anders Jacobson and Judy Radovsky is minimal but atmospheric. Claire Sangster handles lighting design and Petter Wahlback is responsible for sound. Zach Wagner's costume designs include several "wedding" dresses and the Catwoman's coat of what looks like cat fur studded with cat paws and eyes."
- Nancy Bishop
Our Urban Times - Highly Recommended
"...The Artistic Home ensemble, formed in 1998, has received many Jeff Awards in the past, this production should certainly receive high marks from this year's Joseph Jefferson Awards Committee members."
- Elaine Coorens
Picture This Post - Highly Recommended
"...Hester struggles to keep her life together as it feels like everyone in her life has abandoned her - her mother, Carthage, and even at times her own daughter. As the outside forces take control, the story comes to a close and you leave the theater satisfied and perhaps almost in tears. It will haunt you for weeks to come."
- Alexis Bugajski
By the Bog of Cats Photo Gallery
This show has been Jeff Recommended*
*The designation of "Jeff Recommended" is given to a production when at least ONE ELEMENT of the show was deemed outstanding by the Joseph Jefferson Awards Committee.
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Q: Deleted entry from strings.xml is getting displayed My App supports different languages and English is the default one and saved in strings.xml, and according to this link
If the supported language strings.xml misses any string value, android always loads the missing strings from default strings.xml file i.e values/strings.xml

So it is mandatory that the default stings.xml file should contains all the string values that app uses. Other wise the app will crash with Force Close error.

So, i set the system language locale to Deutsch an and deleted the following entry from strings.xml of both of English and Deutsch
<string name="activity_login_validate_button" formatted="false">Login</string>

and when I run the App, I expected it to crash as stated earlier in the quoted text, but it runs normally without a crash.
Would anyone please explain how the App displayed the word "Login" normally despite it is deleted from the strings.xml of English"default" and Deutsch?
Note:string.xml of other languages contains complete string values

A: Once you entered string and run the project, all string values can stored in background. To remove that just uninstall previously installed app and clean your project and run again. All removed values are cleaned.

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Find out where and what you'll eat on the best food tour in Rome…and the World.
The Roman Food Tour's Prati District at Sunset tour has been named #1 on Trip Advisor's list of the top food tours* around the world and we've got the inside scoop.
"Remember, what grows together goes together", our guide Jess tells us, her hands visibly shaking as she dribbles balsamic vinegar from Modena onto bite-size squares of Parmigiano Reggiano.
The Roman Food Tour focuses on some of the best of these venues in the Prati district, a bourgeoisie neighborhood with wide avenues and elegant buildings that set it apart from the fast-paced frenzy of central Rome. Despite its close proximity to Vatican City, the area is quieter, calmer, less touristy than the Centro Storico. There isn't a selfie stick seller in sight.
Having never been to Prati, I'm looking forward to exploring new territory.
The first stop on the best food tour in Rome brings us to a popular gourmet grocer specializing in salumi, formaggi, and vino. Here, I eat only with my eyes. Legs of prosciutto, salumi hanging from the ceiling, over 300 types of cheese, and fresh handmade pasta whet my appetite for the tastings to come.
Our guide Jess gives our diverse group of ten (food lovers from Australia, Wales, Canada and the USA) a quick lesson in Italian certifications. Acronyms like DOP (Protected Designation of Origin) and IGP (Protected Geographical Indication) guarantee certain foods are produced, processed and packaged in a specific geographical zone and according to tradition. Each step, from production to packaging, is regulated to ensure authenticity and quality.
The eating begins in earnest at the next stop, a companion restaurant to the award-winning salumeria I've just left behind.
Here, I taste three types of prosciutto in what turns out to be a fascinating side-by-side comparison. The first is from Parma where the pigs are farm-raised and fed whey from locally produced Parmigiano Reggiano. The prosciutto di Parma is soft and moist and tastes faintly of cheese. The second is from Tuscany where the pigs roam the countryside eating whatever they can find. The prosciutto di Cinta Senese is drier than the ham from Parma and tastes much saltier. The third is Pata Negra, a prosciutto that comes from black Iberian pigs that feed naturally on grass, herbs, and acorns. Not surprisingly, the Pata Negra has a slightly nutty taste, presumably from the acorns.
I'm amazed at just how different each prosciutto tastes. Jess asks us which one we like the most. Based on its reputation as the most expensive ham in the world, I expect the Pata Negra to be the clear winner. Not so! The majority of tasters in our group prefer the silky prosciutto di Parma.
Stop number three is the tiny shop where this article began.
As I sip on a glass of Greco di Tufo, a DOCG certified wine from the Campania region in southern Italy, Jess presents a selection of tastings to illustrate that what grows together goes together. Pecorino with truffle paté, aged balsamic with Parmigiano Reggiano, buffalo mozzarella with sun-dried tomatoes. I love them all equally, that is until I nibble on a piece of pecorino with a thin ribbon of truffle running through the center. THIS is the cheese I want to be served at my last supper.
By the way, I liked Jess the moment I met her. Passionate, personable and a true foodie, she is the kind of girl who is ecstatic when her friends chip in and buy her a bottle of 25-year barrel-aged balsamic for her birthday. She tells me she has the same response at home when she pours the vinegar, her hands tremble as she rations it drop by precious drop.
Stop number four is the famous Pizzarium, Rome's number one pizzeria. The owner, Gabriele Bonci, has been called everything from a Roman pizza god to the Michelangelo of pizza. He's clearly a master of his craft.
The pizza here is al taglio – pizza by the slice that is cut with scissors into squares or rectangles then sold by weight. I listen intently as Jess describes some of the toppings and my head starts to spin – tripe, cod livers, caviar, foie gras, peaches with chicory – there are over 80 daily variations. She orders a selection for us to try. I like the simplest ones, like potato with rosemary, the best. The light, airy crust reminds me of focaccia and I love it.
At stop number five, we're served a three-course meal at a family-run restaurant.
First, I am treated to Carciofi alla Giudea, a Jewish-style fried artichoke that is a specialty of Rome's ghetto. The artichokes are fried twice in olive oil until they turn a beautiful golden brown, their crisp petals blooming like a rose. This is easily the most addictive thing I've eaten all day.
The pasta course is followed by a slice of handmade apple strudel, a dessert I had eaten many times while traveling through Austria. Initially, I'm surprised at the choice, but I shouldn't be. Apple strudel is the defining dish of Italy's Trentino-Alto Adige region.
The tour ends at Fatamorgana where we try some of Rome's best artisanal gelato. I choose a zingy lemon curd and my lips pucker while Jess gives us her best tip for spotting fake gelato. Look for the banana flavor. If it's bright yellow, you're in the wrong place.
Since I haven't experienced them all, I can't say if this is the best food tour in Rome…or the world…but I can say it's a don't miss experience that should be at the top of your list of things to do in the Eternal City!
*TripAdvisor ranked the best food experiences using a proprietary algorithm which considers bookings, traveler reviews, and traveler ratings.
Disclosure: I'd like to thank The Roman Food Tour for hosting me. Although I was their guest, the honest opinions expressed here are my own.
Laura, great post as always, packed with good information. We called Prati home for a 6 weeks stay in Rome a couple of years ago and loved it. You are making me want to hop a plane right now and go there.
Thanks, Dina! I'm glad you enjoyed it. Let's go back to Rome!


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Chicago Cubs Winner To Be Picked This Week
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CHICAGO, Jan 6 (Reuters) – The winning bidder in the long-awaited sale of the Chicago Cubs baseball team will be identified this week, three sources close to the process said on Tuesday. "Bidders have been told a single party to negotiate with will be chosen this week," said one source, who asked not to be […]
Were Tech Buyouts Better?
PEI Staff
Erin Griffith lists 49 PE deals that went Chapter 11 in 2008, up from just two in 2007. Wow! But, not one technology deal made the list. (Wow again?) Leveraged buyouts in the technology sector are not new, as firms like Welsh Carson, TA Associates, GA and Warburg Pincus have been at it for over 25 years. But when the tech bubble burst and the IPO market became terminally ill back in 2000, these old-line firms were joined by a rush of overfed VCs (Battery, NorthBridge, Insight), generalist buyout shops and several new tech-focused PE firms – all of whom went on a remarkable fund-raising and shopping spree. The new breed of tech-focused PE firms were lead by names like Silver Lake, Francisco, Golden Gate, Vista and Vector. Many of these firms were built on tech banking talent that spent the 1990's taking companies public. With the public markets dominated by hedge funds, day traders and regulators – these PE firms focused taking their old banking clients private. Like all LBO activity – the velocity and amplitude to tech buyout deals were dramatically enhanced by free credit and peaked in Q2 of 2007, when Kronos was taken private by Hellman and JMI for $1.8b, or 17x EBITDA.
Yellowstone Landscape Adds On
Yellowstone Landscape Group, a portfolio company of Gridiron Capital, has acquired Austin Outdoor, a Bunnell, Fla.-based provider of landscaping services in Florida and The Bahamas. No financial terms were disclosed.
Goody's To Liquidate Stores
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Goody's Family Clothing, a privately held apparel retail chain which emerged from bankruptcy in October, plans to liquidate its remaining stores as the U.S. economic recession has undermined its ability to continue operating. "The company is in the processes of obtaining bids to liquidate substantially all collateral and inventory," said Cathy […]
Innkeepers USA Buyout Doomed, Analysts Estimate
Add one more bruise to the growing list of battered Apollo management investments. Analysts at Stifel Nicolaus believe Inkeepers USA, a hotel REIT investment made by the firm's publicly traded BDC, is heading for default in '09. For background, Apollo Investments is a BDC traded on NASDAQ under the ticker AINV. It makes equity, debt and senior secured loan investments across a variety of sectors and has a $1.34 billion market cap. You may remember the fund's CEO, John Hannan, resigned in November; he's been replaced by COO James Zelter. The fund took Innkeepers USA Trust private in April 2007 for $1.5 billion. According to the analyst report, the deal brought Innkeepers from 4x leverage to an estimated 10x proforma expected 2008 EBITDA (page nine has a nice before and after cap structure chart). The report states that the investment is "significantly underperforming," and likely to see a rocky '09.
Total Safety Adds On
Total Safety U.S. Inc., a Houston, Texas-based portfolio company of DLJ Merchant Banking Partners, has acquired Wholesale Radio Rental Inc., a provider of portable communication devices for use in the petroleum, oil and gas and petrochemical industries. No financial terms were disclosed.
Macrovision Terminates TV Guide Deal with One Equity Partners
Macrovision (Nasdaq: MVSN) has terminated its agreement to sell the TV Guide Network to One Equity Partners for $225 million, after reaching a $255 million agreement to sell TV Guide Network and TV Guide Online to Lionsgate (NYSE: LGF).
Yankee Hill Buys Great Western Products
Yankee Hill Management has acquired a majority stake in Great Western Products Co., a Hollywood, Ala.-based maker of movie theater concessions and equipment, according to LBO Wire. No financial terms were disclosed, except that PNC Financial Services provided senior debt and South Franklin Street Partners provided mezzanine debt. www.gwproducts.com
PE-Backed Merger in the Thermoformed Sector
Penda Corp., a Portage, Wis.-based maker of thermoformed solutions, has agreed to merge with Durakon Industries Inc., a provider of thermoformed automotive components. No financial terms were disclosed. Penda is a portfolio company of Resilience Capital Partners, while Durakon is a portfolio company of Littlejohn & Co. Both private equity firms will be the shareholders of the combined company.
Pandora Books Adds On
UK private equity group, Key Capital Partners (KCP), announced on Tuesday that its portfolio company, Pandora Books, which supplies books to UK schools, has bought competitor, Badger Publishing, from EDCO, the Irish educational publishing division of Smurfit Kappa Group. Although no deal value was disclosed, the combined turnover of the new company will be […]
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Why are hundreds of thousands of people traveling overseas every year to receive plastic surgery or other medical services?
Medical tourism is often purely a financial decision; most people cannot afford the cost of a $35,000 hip replacement surgery or in the case of socialized medicine cannot wait four years to receive surgery.
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Traveling for a "medical holiday" also provides an opportunity for those with limited vacation time to have both medical services and a vacation with their family or partner.
No matter what your reason is for traveling the most important consideration should always be the quality of care you will receive. This is why at SSI we only use those doctors that are the most experienced and respected within their field. Our goal has always been to give you the best doctors and surgeons in the country, not the least expensive.
Although people have been traveling to receive medical services for years, it can be intimidating for those who have never considered it.
We understand and are dedicated to providing you with as much information about the doctors, hospitals, procedures and your follow-up care, so that you can make the decision that is right for you.
Are you aware of the growing trend of medical tourism? If not, consider this, have the vacation adventure of a lifetime in an exotic country, with sun, sea and pristine white beaches. Your personal assistant awaits you at the airport, accompanied by car and driver. You are whisked away to a luxury beach hotel where you are warmly greeted and everything has been made "just right" for your arrival. Sound great so far? Now add world class plastic surgery. Got your interest?
The kicker, the price tag! This "lifestyles of the rich and famous" treatment will run you half the cost of staying home and having just the surgery. Yes, you heard right half the cost of staying home and having just the surgery! Imagine all this and medical treatment or plastic surgery performed by some of most qualified surgeons in the world. No wonder hundreds of thousands of people annually are exploring the advantages of medical tourism.
A well-known Dallas socialite who travels every year to have "a little work done" said "Why in the world would I pay double the money for half the quality?" That's a good question. She went further adding, "I could never afford the top surgeon in Dallas , but abroad I can, and would I really want to trust my face or body to my second choice because my wallet couldn't stretch far enough?
Plastic surgery and medical tourism trends continue to grow every year. Medical tourism is expected to be a global $2 billion dollar market by 2012. Countries where medical tourism is being actively promoted include South Africa , India , Malaysia , Philippines Singapore and South America . The latter, South America is known for being home to arguably the best plastic surgeons in the world.
The worldwide demand for plastic surgery rises every year and as more individuals who desire a "Nip/Tuck" realize they can afford VIP treatment with a top surgeon in another country they're packing their bags and heading to the airport!!


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Ministry Fulfils Commitment to Remove Asbestos Material
Posted on August 15, 2012 July 8, 2019
The Ministry of Local Government & Community Development has seen to the removal of asbestos material from the Poor Relief building at 65 Hanover Street, Kingston. Additionally, estimates have been received for the replacement of the roof with alu steel sheeting and work is expected to begin shortly.
Following the discovery of the hazardous material in April of this year, Minister of State (MoS), Honourable Colin Fagan, along with members of the Technical Services Department of the Ministry, visited the site to assess the situation and plot the way forward. The State Minister gave his assurance then that the team would be moving with alacrity to resolve the problem as the health and safety of the staff and patrons were of utmost importance.
The technical team was directed to source and acquire the services of a specialist in asbestos removal. Notch Line Traders Limited, one of only four (4) registered specialists was contracted in accordance with the GoJ procurement guidelines and the removal was carried out on Saturday, August 11, 2012.
Minister of State, Fagan has expressed satisfaction with the work that has been done, 'we had hope to have the harmful material removed in as short a time as possible but given the procurement guidelines and the fact that this is a very specialized area it could not have been done any sooner', he said.
"It is imperative that our officers, who provide a critical service to society, are able to do so in a safe environment", he added.
The Ministry also directed the removal of asbestos from the Trench Town fire station on July 28, 2012 and a contract should be in place for the same procedure to be effected at the Port Royal Fire station by next month.


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NASA sees heavy rain in Hurricane Hilda, south Of Hawaii
by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
GPM revealed that storms north of hurricane Hilda's eye were dropping rain at a rate of over 149.4 mm (5.9 inches) per hour and reached over 16.5 km (10.2 miles). Credit: SSAI/NASA/JAXA, Hal Pierce
Hurricane Hilda has been on a weakening trend and by August 12 it weakened to a Tropical Storm. When it was still a hurricane though, NASA satellite data showed that the northern side of the storm contained towering thunderstorms that were dropping heavy rainfall.
Hilda had winds of about 80 knots (92 mph) when the GPM core observatory satellite passed above on August 11, 2015 at 0411 UTC (August 10, 2015 at 6:11 p.m. HST). Rainfall data from GPM's Microwave Imager (GMI) and Dual-Frequency Precipitation Radar (DPR) instruments were combined with an infrared image of clouds from NOAA's GOES West satellite taken at 0400 UTC on August 11. The combined image showed the cloud extent and rainfall within the storm. GPM's DPR revealed that storms north of hurricane Hilda's eye were dropping rain at a rate of over 149.4 mm (5.9 inches) per hour.
At NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland that data from GPM's radar data (DPR Ku band) were used to make a 3-D image that showed the heights of the thunderstorm tops within Hilda. The highest cloud tops were found near altitudes of over 16.5 km (10.2 miles) in powerful storms in the northwestern side of Hilda's eye wall.
As Hilda neared the big Island of Hawaii, NOAA's Central Pacific Hurricane Center posted a tropical storm watch for Hawaii County.
At 11 a.m. EDT/5 a.m. HST/1500 UTC on Wednesday, August 12, Hilda's maximum sustained winds had dropped to 45 mph (75 kph) and further weakening was forecast. The center of Tropical Storm Hilda was located near latitude 17.5 north and longitude 152.0 west. Hilda was moving toward the northwest near 5 mph (7 kph) and is expected to turn west through August 13.
Hilda is forecast to be a tropical depression tonight (August 12) or Thursday (August 13) and a remnant low by Thursday night.
NASA stares Hurricane Hilda in the eye
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UMD admin resigns amid enrollment, budget woes
by Brian Edwards
Amid slumping enrollment, financial struggles and lawsuits, a high-ranking University of Minnesota-Duluth administrator announced her resignation on Tuesday.
In an email to faculty members Tuesday, Executive Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Andrea Schokker said she was proud of her time at the school but felt it was best to leave the position.
"After serious consideration I have decided it is time for me to step away from the EVCAA position," she said in the email. "This is my decision after careful consideration of my work and home life and values," she said, adding that she was not asked to step down.
Schokker started in the position in 2012 and oversaw academic programs, admissions and financial aid, among other areas, according to a UMD press release.
UMD is facing a recurring deficit of about $4 million, said Rep. Jennifer Schultz, D-Duluth.
"I don't think this resignation is going to solve any of the budget problems," she said.
In October, 13 former UMD students sued the University after a paperwork error by the school prevented them from receiving their teaching licenses.
Schokker's resignation comes as faculty members at UMD were prepared to hold a no confidence vote in Schokker and Chancellor Lendley Black next week, said John Hamlin, president of the University Education Association.
"The process by which decisions get made on campus is always questionable," he said. "There is not any trust."
But, he said the group will suspend the vote to see if the resignation changes how administrators deal with issues at the school.
"I accept Dr. Schokker's resignation with regrets but respect her decision," Black said in an emailed statement. "I will work quickly to name an interim before beginning a national search to fill the position permanently."


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Millennials change and challenge body art industry
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By Hannah Perry / NM News Port /
For Albuquerque millennial, Amanda Luna, body art is a form of self expression.
"My tattoos help identify who I am," she said.
The 22-year-old has half of her right arm and shoulder covered with ink, featuring delicate flowers, swirls, books, and more. Luna is passionate when talking about their meanings, for example, how each flower represents a member of her family.
"The meaning behind my tattoos gives insight as to who I am as a person and my own artistic representation. Everyone has a different style and that gives way to their personality," Luna said.
Luna is one of the growing number of young people choosing permanent body art, causing the number of body art shops in Albuquerque and New Mexico to rapidly increase.
New data from the New Mexico Department of Workforce Solutions (NMDWS) shows there's been a 40% increase in establishments practicing body art over the last ten years.
New Mexico's Department of Regulation and Licensing (NMDRL) released data that supports this trend, showing an 80% increase in tattoo artists and a 48% increase in body piercers over the last ten years.
Noah Babcock, the Head Piercer at Albuquerque's Evolution Body Piercing, says his side of the body art industry has also felt the increase in demand for body modification services.
Babcock credits a generational shift in attitudes toward piercings and tattoos.
Albuquerque millennial, Amanda Luna, shows her ear piercings, pierced by Evolution Body Piercing. Photo by Hannah Perry/ NM News Port
"It just comes down to time," Babcock said. "Remember that back when this was not socially accepted, it was primarily the younger people that were doing these things. Well, now we're all old. Now we're all in our 30s, 40s and 50s," Babcock laughed.
With millennials leading the social norm of body art, Babcock said this acceptance carries over into the workplace.
"When I started doing this in 1995, it was a tricky to get a job with facial piercings. Now, that's not so much the case, there are many places that are happy to employ people with piercings," Babcock said. "You can see a bank teller with a nose piercing."
Luna agrees and said her tattoos and piercings have never interfered with her job. Luna has been a nurse for 4 years, working at many different clinics and facilities. Now she works for an insurance company.
"All the places I've worked at, they don't care," Luna said. "Me personally, I like to cover my tattoos while I'm at work. They're mine, I didn't get them for anyone else but me."
Pablo Martinez, a tattoo artist at Albuquerque's Stay Gold Tattoo, thinks social media plays a part in the industry increase.
"It (body art) is definitely trendy, and social media has a big part with that," Martinez said. "You got Pinterest, you got Instagram, even Facebook and other social media networks that are out there."
Martinez says that social media is helpful with sharing ideas for body art, but experimentation with new styles has brought artistic challenges.
"It's been a challenge with the newer generation of tattooing, what's 'in' now compared to what was 'in' five years ago," Martinez said.
Fine lines, soft colors, and life-like tattoos are the current art style of choice and Martinez says most millennials don't realize the quality and freshness of these types of tattoos won't last as long compared to a more traditional style of tattoo art.
"The trends changed and the style of tattooing now won't hold up in five to ten years," Martinez said. "A lot of this photorealism with no outlines that are super soft and pastel… as human beings, our body ages and the ink ages with it, quickly losing its composure."
From a customer's perspective, Luna also thinks social media serves as a communication tool with body art.
"If you want to check out an artist, you go to their Instagram site," Luna said. "It is very social media driven because that's how you discover all these artists that are here."
Last year, the body art industry generated $1.6 billion in revenue, according to the market research firm IBISWorld. The industry is expected to continue to grow 7.7% annually over the next decade.
With more body art being practiced, there's also more potential for regret. It's not an uncommon case for someone to later question their tattoos and piercings.
The American Academy for Dermatologic Surgery reports that 687,450 tattoos have been removed since 2010. Since this is a tiny fraction of all tattoos in the United States, it might be partly explained by how involved and expensive the removal process is.
Using lasers to break up ink, temperatures reach as high as 1,652 degrees Fahrenheit with rapid pulses of light. Most tattoo removals require between three to 12 sessions, but it all depends on skin tone, ink color, and ink placement.
Luna says that even though not all of her tattoos have meaning, she doesn't regret any of them.
"Every tattoo that you get, at that moment in time you were going to get it. It represents something that was happening in your life at that point in time," Luna said. "Even if it's not my favorite tattoo, I look back at it and remember what I was going through at that time… and that's a piece of me."
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Wilfrid Laurier's Lindsay Shepherd Disavows The Left For Giving 'White Nationalists' a Bad Name
The National Post's favourite alt-right teaching assistant has officially gone off the deep-end
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Sounds like Lindsay Shepherd's 15 minutes of fame are up.
Shepherd, the infamous Wilfrid Laurier University teaching assistant who vaulted into the national imagination thanks to Canada's right-wing National Post, managed to shoot herself in the foot this weekend after releasing a video complaining "white nationalism" gets a bum rap from "the Left" these days.
Last week, Shepherd organized an event at Laurier giving ex-Rebel Media host Faith Goldy a platform to ramble about immigrants and the collapse of the white race.
Goldy was fired from Rebel Media after she attended a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, praised a manifesto demanding an "ethno-state" for the "Aryan" race and later appeared on a neo-Nazi podcast.
In a "video statement" published Friday on YouTube, the alt-right campus activist disavowed "the Left" for what she feels is unfair criticism of "white nationalism" – a blatantly racist belief that Canada should become a whites-only nation-state.
"Faith Goldy, to my understanding," Shepherd says, is "not a white supremacist and she's not a neo-Nazi," before criticizing "the Left" for lumping white nationalists in with white supremacists .
"The Left," Shepherd claims, has "removed the nuance" explaining "the difference between white nationalism and white supremacy."
Still, even after reflecting on "the nuance" between racial purity and racial superiority, it remains unclear why Shepherd has chosen this hill to die on.
Here's how the Anti-Defamation League defines "white nationalism":
"A form of white supremacy that emphasizes defining a country or region by white racial identity."
And here's how the Southern Poverty Law Center defines it:
"Adherents of white nationalist groups believe that white identity should be the organizing principle of the countries that make up Western civilization … These racist aspirations are most commonly articulated as the desire to form a white ethno-state."
In fact, in an article published in Maclean's, Shepherd herself claimed Goldy wants Canada to become a "white ethno-state" – Shepherd needs more "nuance" than that?
However, the video appears to be motivated in response to local anti-racist groups who have been circulating photos of Shepherd and Goldy guarded by an entourage of white nationalist thugs.
"An image like this would be very damaging for someone who wants to get a job in government or social services or who wants to work with children," Shepherd says about the photos circulating on social media.
"If this image is out there of you it's going to be damaging to your career."
More immediately, the photos could be damaging to Canada's right-wing pundits, who frequently point to the alt-right activist as a hero of the culture wars.
Shepherd was vaulted onto the national scene in November 2017, thanks largely to an ideologically-driven campaign led by the National Post – the newspaper and its Postmedia affiliates dedicated more ink to Shepherd's fight with WLU than any other outlets in Canada.
Not only was her story first reported by the National Post's Christie Blatchford, but the National Post's entire stable of opinion columnists co-opted the story to rail against "social justice" and "feminism" on campus for the next month.
Rex Murphy nonsensically compared Shepherd to the fallen war heroes honoured on Remembrance Day while Barbara Kay called for "the establishment of the Lindsay Shepherd Students' Bill of Academic Rights."
In the video, Shepherd vehemently denies she has a "right-wing agenda" and points to the fact she does not own a car as proof of her "lefitst" street cred, before her recent rebrand.
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Ontario PC Leader Doug Ford Claims He'll Cut CBC Even Though CBC is Not Provincially Funded
Um, does Doug Ford even know what job he's applying for?
The new leader of Ontario's PCs thinks he can cut funding for something Ontario doesn't actually pay for?
Responding to Ontario's 2018 budget Wednesday, Doug Ford raised fresh questions about his basic understanding of the issues when he offered reporters a nonsensical suggestion about how he could save Ontario money: cut funding for the CBC.
Only problem with that idea? The Province of Ontario doesn't fund the CBC – that's the federal government's job.


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Labels: Alice White, Edward Everett Horton, Lionel Barrymore, Loretta Young, Movie Reviews, Pre-Code, Warner Archive
With a wave of new releases, it is clear that Warner Archive has not forgotten its promise to keep pre-code fans satisfied, despite the end of its Forbidden Hollywood series. Here are six titles making their DVD debut:
Broadway Babies (1929)
For a while in the late twenties and early thirties, it looked like Alice White was shooting to big screen stardom. With big eyes, fluttering eyelashes and bubbly charm, this blonde Clara Bowish-pixie confidently made the transition to talkies, as can be seen here in her screen musical debut. She had a limited talent though; her appeal was more of the featured player variety. Money demands, audience disinterest and scandal contributed to her woes and eventually she returned to her secretarial roots.
Here White is at her best, holding the screen with marginal dancing and singing talent, but managing to be mesmerizing nevertheless. As a showgirl who drops her boyfriend for a bootlegger and shares a room with two other aspiring stars (the adorable Sally Eilers and Marion Byron), she trots out all the tropes that would become standard in years of films to come. The film is at its best when the trio of showgirls is together; their energetic interplay is always fun to watch. Unlike those notorious early screen musicals with leaden choreography and awkwardly-paced numbers, here the many songs are light-hearted and entertaining, with fleet-footed tapping and pleasing production design.
Playing Around (1930)
Here White plays the daughter of cigar counter manager, who is bored with her childhood sweetheart (William Bakewell) and looking for excitement. You can't blame her, as the eternally startled-looking boyfriend orders buttermilk when he goes to a nightclub and scolds her constantly. Sleek, playful gangster Chester Morris seduces her with his sense of fun and she doesn't bother to ask him how he makes his living. She soon learns the truth about him in the worst way, when one of his crimes affects her family.
You hope White will eventually search for an option three as both Bakewell and Morris are no good for her. She's fun to watch and Morris seems to be getting a kick out of adding weird touches to his sleazy, but stimulating character.
Big Business Girl (1931)
In one of her early "vulnerable, but not so innocent" roles, 18-year-old Loretta Young plays a socialite in debt who goes to work while her musician husband (Frank Albertson) skips across the pond for a Parisian gig. She works her way up in an ad office, from secretary to copy writer (sound familiar Mad Men fans?). With his signature wolfish grin, boss Ricardo Cortez goes after Young and she is diplomatic for the sake of her career, much to the irritation of Albertson when he returns. The thing is, he has also compromised himself romantically to get ahead. Joan Blondell appears in a small part, she doesn't make an appearance until the last fifteen minutes of the film, but she gives the proceedings so much life that it is worth watching the film to see her.
She Had to Say Yes (1933)
This drama is based on a concept that was surely icky at the time and which has become downright repulsive over the years. In Busby Berkeley's directorial debut, Loretta Young is a secretary in a clothing manufacturer's office who is pressured to entertain out-of-town buyers for a "bonus". As one dame in the steno pool notes, "a bonus is only one of the things you can get from an out-of-town buyer." The film plays lightly with sexual harassment and assault, presenting women as objects to be ogled and offered for sale. Young finds herself in an impossible position, expected to remain honest and pure while her self-absorbed beaux demand the freedom to do as they please. While there is no chance Young will remain single at the end of it all, it is dispiriting to see her abandon her standards with an air of inevitability. Depressing as it is, this is an excellent portrayal of the limitations women endured and continue to face today in a male dominated world.
Edward Everett Horton gets to play a rare romantic leading role in this farcical comedy about an ambitious phonograph company employee who finds himself in the crosshairs of two amorous ladies (Louise Fazenda, Patsy Ruth Miller). He doesn't seem to care for their kind, even quipping at one point, "I never spoiled a reputation in my life…male or female." The cast is full of gum-snapping, wise-cracking supporting characters that play to the back row like seasoned vaudevillians. As Horton's patient maid, Louise Beavers comes off better than her character is written; crackling with her unique, wide-eyed charisma.
While the performers have pep and there's an amusing absurdity to it all, the film becomes a long hour in the end.
The Washington Masquerade (1932)
Lionel Barrymore is an idealistic lawyer who wins a senate seat and sets his sights on cleaning up Washington. Instead he falls for and marries Karen Morley's glittering society dame, who is seeing the dangerously pretty Nils Asther on the side and plotting her husband's corruption. These elements play out as expected: with Barrymore hooking his thumbs into his vest and mulling each noble word, Morley talking sweet on one side and dirty the other and Asther always looking up to no good, as he does.
Alongside the predictable, there are many subtle delights in this film that give it more punch than you'd expect. It's filmed with care, with beautifully composed shots and evocative lighting. Barrymore is framed at a distance, beneath an enormous doorway and you feel how he is in over his head. There is also the fascinating interaction between Morley and Barrymore; she was such an intelligent actress and he seems to respond to her, letting her excise the ham from his performance in their scenes together (he lets loose the rest of the time). As Barrymore's concerned daughter, Diane Sinclair makes much of what would normally be an unsympathetic, if noble role, telegraphing her profound worry without a hint of the jealousy or pettiness that could have threatened the depth of her performance.
Many thanks to Warner Archive for providing copies of the films for review. These are Manufacture on Demand (MOD) DVDs. To order, visit The Warner Archive Collection.
Erich Kuersten said...
"Barrymore hooking his thumbs into his vest and mulling each noble word," - man, you nailed it. Much as I love Morley, that sounds like quite a six film slog you endured. But it made good readin'
Thanks Erich. That means a lot coming from you! I love your flick round-ups. Guess I have complicated feelings about this bunch. Some of them were rough going, but I wanted more once I finished the last disc. Such are pre-codes.
I saw Wide Open at a festival (Cinesation or Cinevent) and while I agree it has some early talkie creak, I enjoyed it and really enjoyed a number of lines which seemed to be jokes for those in the know about Horton being gay in real life.
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Syracuse apologizes for 'mistakenly sent' tweet about Jim Boeheim's future
Jeff Eisenberg
When a student blogger at a community college in Syracuse reported Wednesday that Jim Boeheim had been asked to retire at the end of the season, most Orange fans surely were smart enough to judge the credibility of the story with a highly skeptical eye.
Only after Syracuse University's official twitter account legitimized the blog by citing it and linking to it did the story begin to circulate.
The above @SyracuseU tweet was deleted within minutes, but by then it had already hit Deadspin and spread on social media. As a result, a spokesman for the Syracuse athletic department had to deny there was any truth to the story and the @SyracuseU account had to issue a hasty apology.
Why would Syracuse link to the story in the first place? Well, it probably doesn't help that the university lets students run its official Twitter feed, a choice that has led to mistakes in the past as well.
In Oct. 2011, a student tweeted via the @SyracuseU account that the Orange had received a commitment from elite recruit DaJuan Coleman, a minor violation of NCAA rules since the high school senior couldn't sign his letter of intent for another couple weeks. Another student did the same thing via the @Cuse account last June when he named a committed football recruit who had yet to sign.
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Those mistakes, which at worst resulted in secondary violations, were not as serious from a PR standpoint as Wednesday's Boeheim blunder.
Maybe the student in question meant for the tweet to come from his or her personal account. Maybe he or she just exhibited poor judgment. Whatever the reason, it shows the danger of not either training students in charge to be more social media savvy or having a full-time employee to be in charge of protecting and cultivating the school's brand.
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