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Here's Your Revolution
I am convinced that Anti-Hillary Clinton conspiracy theories are where the Tinfoil-Hat Left meets the Tinfoil-Hat Right, in the middle of a deeply paranoid, misogynistic Venn Diagram.
Via Jill Abramson, writing at The Guardian:
"For decades [Hillary Clinton has] been portrayed as a Lady Macbeth involved in nefarious plots, branded as "a congenital liar" and accused of covering up her husband's misconduct, from Arkansas to Monica Lewinsky. Some of this is sexist caricature. Some is stoked by the "Hillary is a liar" videos that flood Facebook feeds. Some of it she brings on herself by insisting on a perimeter or "zone of privacy" that she protects too fiercely. It's a natural impulse, given the level of scrutiny she's attracted, more than any male politician I can think of."
And yet, despite being perceived as the least honest candidate, Clinton is the most truth-telling of all 2016 presidential candidates.
That being said, I know substance, competence, and honesty aren't as compelling as a bird on a podium, so. Here we are.
#I'mWithHermione
Labels: Election 2016, Fauxbjectivity, Well-behaved women, Welp
Femslash Friday: The Women of Sense8
All I'm going to say here is that in Season 1 of Sense8, this happened:
I'd ship it.
Which, fine. That's cool. Nomi gets all the guys in the hot tub.
So, um, when is our companion scene with Nomi and the rest of women? Season 2, I hope.
Just once? It's only fair.
Preferred quad: Nomi/Sun/Kala/Riley
Labels: Bisexuality, Femslash Friday, Flicky Flicky Thump Thump, Gay Vibes, HotPants, Many Skills, Stuff Lesbians Like, TV
The Moral of the Story
A woman has to be exponentially more competent, more careful, more intelligent, more conciliatory, better groomed, and more thoughtful than a man in order to be a serious contender for President. And meanwhile, a man can be an exponentially worse person by nearly all measures compared to a woman and still be a serious contender for the same job.
That's basically the shitty-ass take-away from this article. It asserts that women disproportionately dislike Donald Trump and men disproportionately dislike Hillary Clinton.
Could you even imagine a female candidate existing and being viable whom men actually had legitimate reasons to disproportionately dislike on the basis of gender? One who, say, regularly expressed misandry in the way that Trump expresses his misogyny? Who maybe went on obsessive rants about her male critics being creepy, disgusting, flaccid pencil-dicks - and who still did well in elections?
Labels: Election 2016, Hellmouths, Nope No Bigotry Here, Welp
Just a Quick Post
To say: remember how Sharon Stone was in The Quick and the Dead?
I feel like her character was kind of badass, and also pretty hot. In the movie, I always thought of her as the main character, although it's sort of an ensemble cast where all the other main characters were men. That's always a major missed opportunity with that small fan base known as "women," "lesbian/bisexual women," and "men who also appreciate films with multiple women.'
So, that's today's deep thought. Aren't you so glad you read my blog today?
Ghost Lady Friday
It is a truth universally-acknowledged by TV/film writers and producers that any show with a lesbian or bisexual woman must be in want of her to be killed off eventually. (And yes, today's post was brought to you by the mess that was The 100's handling of Lexa. More here, if you're curious.).
Perhaps I don't have to explain this trend to most of you, but here goes anyway: queer characters make up a tiny share of TV/film characters. So, while ideally, they would get the same treatment any other character would get, including the possibility of death, it seems that lesbian and bisexual female characters in particular are killed off in disproportionate numbers. So, we are already barely represented in media, and then when we are, this representation decreases further when these characters are killed off.
(I have no idea if this is also a thing for queer men. Whatever the case, I don't see them critiquing the phenomenon as much. Or maybe I just don't pay as much attention. Anyway).
I dedicate today's post to these lesbian and bisexual characters, an assemblage of which can be found at Autostraddle. (Addendum: Without getting pedantic about it, I would have included Xena on this list. Which means Lucy Lawless could have been on this list 3 times. Which makes me feel very confused, to be honest. I love that she's playing lesbian/bi, but for once would love to see her get a happy ending doing so! Also, if movies were included in this list, this list would have been quite a bit longer, as lesbian/bi characters in movies get similar treatment as in TV).
HOWEVER, to end on an upbeat note, I think it's important to add that it is a rare lesbian/bisexual character death that I accept as canon. In my head, despite their tragic ends, all of these characters are now somewhere happier. Together. Like getting down with their bad selves at a Dinah Shores Afterlife.
Or, perhaps, canoodling in a secret password-protected vault of stories at A03.
I am quite sure of this.
Imagine:
Dana Fairbanks (The L Word) is alive, giving Samantha Krueger (Ascension) free tennis lessons, just because Samantha reminds her of a "soup chef" she once knew. It is precisely as adorkable as you think it would be.
Tara Thornton (True Blood) and Tamsin (Lost Girl) are generally in charge of things in this 'verse, and are even more badass when their powers are combined (and yes, I mean "when their powers are combined" in the dirtiest manner possible).
And then, what would happen if we mixed the authoritarian Helena Cain (Battlestar Galactica) with free spirit Jenny Schecter (The L Word)? Yes, please.
The possibilities are endless, really, and at this point, they belong to the fans.
Labels: Bisexuality, Femslash Friday, HotPants, Stuff Lesbians Like, There I Fixed It, Xena
Here's a Thought
[Content note: anti-trans bigotry]
If one's opinion on the issue of restroom accessibility for trans people is best summarized by a non-argument retort that's some variation of "That's whack!" then that opinion doesn't actually count and deserves as much respect as it dishes out, which is to say, none.
Just your regular reminder that Rod Dreher's bizarre loathing and mocking of trans people continues. At the link, he mocks a sign announcing the existence of an all gender restroom at a conference, the existence of which, in his esteemed gender-expert opinion, is "garbage."
Oh, did I say "esteemed" and "expert" in connection with Rod Dreher on gender issues? Because I meant precisely the opposite.
Labels: Civility, Ha Ha Nope, Hellmouths, Trans* Issues
Income Inequality in Sanders' Campaign
Oh, pardon me, I thought Sanders' campaign was premised on addressing income inequality.
And yet:
"Of Sanders's highest-paid [campaign] employees, 10 are male and zero are female"
I'm not surprised by this finding, although I am disappointed. Income inequality is his signature issue and I've found some of his rhetoric, specifically his seeming conflation of poverty and race, to be uninformed or, shall we say, lacking appropriate nuance.
Frankly, Sanders hasn't been put under a microscope for decades, unlike Hillary Clinton, and I think he's benefited greatly from the assumptions of good faith, enlightenment, and ideological purity his supporters are putting in him. I question whether he's deserving of these assumptions.
Perhaps the number one reason I haven't been "feeling the Bern" this election season is that I've been getting whiffs, as one does from many brogressives, of Sanders' "revolution" being more like a "change in management" than a revolution for all.
Labels: Election 2016, Welp
Femme Friday
So, this happened (possibly NSFW?):
As previously discussed, I have an appreciation for butch women who are HAF. But a femme woman strutting it up to "Pony"? Yes, please.** (This post is about the first half of the video).
To take a step back and think about things from a feminist perspective, here is what I like. First off, she is emulating her husband's performance as a male stripper in Magic Mike. Although undoubtedly also appreciated by hetero men, her performance of "male stripper" implicitly caters to the female and queer male gaze.
For instance, her clothes: She's wearing sweatpants, sports bra, tank top, and a baseball cap. Women do not typically get to wear such clothing on TV, especially when they are trying to be sexy for the hetero male gaze. Yet, go to many a gathering of queer women and that is often standard attire.
And then, relatedly - my gods, listen to the women in the audience screaming! Watch the DJ watching her. They are loving her. And, I love everything about it.
A society that centers male (hetero)sexuality has a pervasive myth in which women as a class are uninterested in sex. Men (as women's "opposite") are in contrast framed as rabid horn-dogs who must trick/cajole women into sex in order to get any. Women's desires, if they are admitted to exist at all, are not viewed as legitimate.
Meanwhile, in reality, women have been sharing their sexual fantasies, as well as reading, watching, and writing stories that turn them on, since forever. These are widely accessible on the Internet. Unfortunately, two things happen.
One, men's desires, particularly their sexual ones, are promoted, mainstreamed, and catered to. Rape culture narratives, as well as socially conservative ones, structure gender dynamics around aggressive male horniness and demand that women and society take measures to contain it. When male desires are treated as all-encompassing, there is no room for women's desires.
And two, when women's desires are acknowledged, the things and people women desire are often dismissed, mocked, and trivialized - for if predominately women like something, then it has the DUN DUN DUN taint of feminine inferiority! Think about it: 50 Shades of Grey. Justin Beiber. *ahem* Magic Mike. Romance novels. Erotic slash fanfiction. How do many men (and even some women) characterize these? As unimportant. Not legitimate forms of their respective media. Silly. Not serious in the way that men's desires, and the art that represents their desires, are serious business.
(**FYI - I agonized over this post more than you will ever know, because being a lesbian feminist in a society that simultaneously sexually degrades women and degrades/fetishizes lesbian sexuality is.... complicated).
Labels: Femslash Friday, HotPants, Stuff Lesbians Like, TV
Republicans Attack Duckworth
[content note: disablism]
Yesterday, somebody Tweeting for the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) made an unfortunate choice to attack US Senate candidate Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), saying that she "has a sad record of not standing up for our veterans."
Duckworth's policies should be fair game for critique. However, she herself is a veteran and lost both legs while serving in the Iraq War, making the word choice within the Tweet suspect at best and reprehensible disablism at worst. Was this Tweet the result of some communications intern's use of poor judgment? Did an actual professional intend it as a snarky jab at her disability?
Whatever the case, someone at NRSC quickly deleted the Tweet. As, I suppose, one does when one supremely fucks up and can't even muster a non-apology apology.
And then, this gem, via the above-linked Politico article:
"Republicans have criticized Duckworth for an ongoing lawsuit about her time at the Illinois Department of Veterans Affairs and for allegations that she used her position to build her political career."
So, here's a question: What aspiring politician doesn't make employment choices in furtherance of their future political career?
Ohhh, right.
It's another can't-win double standard in which women are penalized for having ambitions, especially ambitious in which they are competing with men, while men are rewarded for making "strategic career choices" that benefit their political ambitions.
What next, an indictment of that ever-so-objective assessment of her "likeability"? You see, while male Republican politicians can successfully run for office on platforms of "who can be the worst person ever," it is essential that women remain sufficiently likable to all people everywhere.
In response to the NRSC Tweet, Tammy Duckworth re-Tweeted the following:
#I'mWithHerToo
Labels: Election 2016, Ha Ha Nope, Hellmouths, Politics, Well-behaved women
Femslash Friday: Robots
Today's Femslash Friday extravaganza can be a tricky one.
Fembots are somewhat of a trope in science fiction. Yet, to what extent does sex and gender differentiation tangibly exist for robots? Isn't it primarily something their designers build into them? Can mechanical beings have a sex or a gender?
My short answer: It depends on the 'verse?
Longer answer: When fembots exist in a given 'verse, their relation to male robots sometimes parallels that of how human men relate to the human women: That is, male writers sometimes (often?) create both female human and robot characters in a way that suggests men are the default, women are the deviation.
But sometimes, the robots are badass, nuanced, flawed, awful, cool, assholes, beautiful, and/or awesome. Sometimes, robot characters are written so that they are more human-seeming and multi-dimensional than some of the human women character roles that exist for many women actors (See also: "A Producer is Tweeting Descriptions of Women from Movie Scripts and It's Hilariously Awful.")
1) Women of Battlestar Galactica (BSG)
Battlestar Galactica is, for me, legit one of the most thought-provoking series I've ever seen. With three complete watch-throughs, I always find new threads and questions to turn around in my head. I see some of the characters slightly (and sometimes even much) differently on second and third viewings. Admiral Helena Cain, for instance, went from hard-core, unredeemable to, well.... life was complicated after the Cylon attack.
The humanoid Clyons - D'Anna Biers (Lucy Lawless), Six (Tricia Helfer), Sharon Valerii/Agathon (Grace Park), Tory Foster (Rheka Sharma), Ellen Tigh (Kate Vernon) - had conflicting loyalties among each other, the Cylons, the humans, and even among themselves.
Unlike series such as (*looks around nervously*) Lord of the Rings, that has a clear-cut villain who must be stopped by the readily-identified hero at all costs, BSG suggests that good and evil is not always clear cut. The cylons are an enemy to humans, but individual cylons have shifting loyalties to the humans, the cylons, and even themselves.
But here I am, not talking about femslash. On that note:
Pairings: D'Anna/Caprica Six (with Gauis Baltar nowhere in sight); Sharon "Boomer" Valerii/Starbuck. And, okay, if you insist: Ellen/President Roslin (for the power couple status).
2) Android (aka - the Zobot) - Dark Matter
Admittedly, I would watch Zoie Palmer in anything. In some ways, her portrayal of Android in Dark Matter seems a bit of an extension of the nerdy Lauren Lewis (Lost Girl).
And also, in one already-classic (for me anyway) episode Ruby Rose guest stars as an "Entertainment Model" (*eyeroll*) robot. While that veers into fembot territory ALERT ALERT ALERT, what it also means is that Zoie Palmer and Ruby Rose are both robots. Together. In the same episode. This is not a drill! Gleep Glorp.
In the episode, Rose plays a robot named Wendy. She is sexy, cooks really good food, has a cute accent, and has a variety of skills useful to the crew. So, naturally, Android gets jealous of the crew's attention to Wendy, leading to a character development arc for Android in which she realizes she might either have (a) human-like feelings, or (b) a software flaw.
Did I mention that the Zobot is adorable? She is. Watch a clip, here, and see for yourself.
Pairing: Zobot/Wendy. Obvs.
3) GLaDOS (Portal)
I have to admit, GLaDOS scared the piss out of me during my first play-through of Portal.
Like, you know when you're playing at first, and you're all, "Well, this is a nice-yet-challenging little puzzle game?" But, then you do some side exploring around the different levels and you literally start to see disturbing writing on the wall ("The cake is a lie!") and then GLaDOS' robot quotes keep getting meaner and creepier?
GLaDOS [to you]: Have I lied to you?
[pause]
GLaDOS: I mean, in this room?
But, also, if you squint, maybe it's kind of ..... (*looks around nervously again*)....... sexy?
Pairing: GLaDOS/Companion Cube
Labels: Bisexuality, Femslash Friday, Science Fiction, Stuff Lesbians Like, The Cake Is A Lie, TV
Treating Sick and "Troubled" People With Dignity
Is only remarkable if your default position is that such people don't deserve dignity.
My observation is in response to a glowing National Organization for [Heterosexual] Marriage (NOM) promotion of an article written by someone who supposedly witnessed Antonin Scalia being kind to a woman at his church who had "sores" on her body and who "behaved strangely, [and seemed like] a troubled person that you meet in large cities and quickly walk away from."
While we're on the topic, I'm mystified why purportedly great male leaders like the Pope always get big time props for, every now and again, being kind to people with leprosy. He's the fucking Pope. He should be nice to people.
Actually, I'm not mystified by the phenomenon at all. This is men we're talking about. Obviously the bar is very low for what behavior they can engage in while still being thought of as leadership material.
Chris Christie is all of us right now saying "WTF."
Just kidding. He's awful too.
Labels: Civility, Hellmouths, Hypocrisy and Double Standards, I Don't Even Know, National Organization for Marriage
Well Isn't That Clever
A man basically said what I said yesterday, approximately 12 hours after I said it here and on Twitter, but when he said it it got 80,000 likes and re-tweets on Twitter (and counting).
Alrighty then.
Labels: Welp
My Summary of Suffragette
Here is my paraphrase of Suffragette the movie, about the struggle for equal voting rights for women in the UK (Spoiler alert? Can/should there be spoiler alerts for historical events?). Anyway:
Women: If it please you good sirs, might have we have the vote?
Men: No.
Women: We deserve the vote. Can we please have the vote? [Women hold rally to garner support]
Men: No. [Men monitor the rally, report to authorities on dangerous lady organizing.]
Women: [Throwing a rock through a window on a crowded street] Give women the vote!
Men: Criminals! You don't deserve the vote! [Men arrest women]
Women: [Testifying before male lawmakers] Please sirs, can we have the vote?
Women: Vote for Women! [Woman throws herself in front of horse, eventually dying, in protest of unequal laws]. Can we have the vote now?
[Credits begin to roll, including a timeline of the dates women received the right to vote in various countries. 25 years after the events in the movie, women received the right to vote in the UK].
/Sob.
In all seriousness, that the film crops this particular segment of history - a group of working class women trying various tactics to achieve equality and ending with them, tragically, still not having the vote - serves three important purposes.
One, it counters the Great Man Theory of History whereby individual men (and it's almost always men) are entirely responsible for important historical events and movements. In Suffragette, no one person is presented as being predominately responsible for equality, including the female protagonist. Were this a movie about male advocates, we would been presented with a male main character who was explicitly heroic, as though he were almost single-handedly responsible for making history even if, in reality, success was achieved through many people's efforts.
Two, the movie shows that no matter where one's social justice tactics fall on the spectrum of civil to uncivil, a segment of one's opponents will always remain in opposition. In this case, a generation of men in power believed women shouldn't vote. Period. And so, women couldn't vote. The key seems to be to figure out which groups within the opposition are capable of changing their minds and saying to hell with the rest of the ones who will never change their minds. (When you figure out how to do that, let me know).
Three, by ending with women still not having the vote and then rolling the credits of when women throughout the world have achieved the vote, the film suggests that the fight for women's equality is not over. Indeed, women are still achieving suffrage rights into the 2000s. Had the film ended on an uplifting scene of women celebrating their equal voting rights, I think it would be tempting for some to think, "Welp, women's equality has been achieved, Next issue, please."
In reality, any time certain populations are categorically excluded from suffrage, I think their exclusion will most immediately impact who is and isn't elected to office. Even after excluded populations achieve suffrage, their prior exclusion will also have lingering effects on conceptions of who is and isn't appropriate for political office based on historical models of "what elected officials/leaders look like."
Hmmm, seems like this concept might still be relevant today.
Labels: Media Reviews, Well-behaved women
Does Anyone Else Think
The ascension of Donald Trump to what looks like is going to be Republican contender for President is starting to feel a little "dystopia novel"?
And, I mean, I know in political writing people often make (bad) comparisons to 1984, but I also think all of the usual rules of Internet discourse should be re-thought in light of the being that is Donald Trump.
The Republican Party has created this monster though years of feeding into people's anger, racism, sexism, selfishness, mean-spiritedness, and general xenophobia. That Trump exhibits all of these traits is no surprise. His supporters love him not in spite of these attributes, but precisely because of them.
While Democratic candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders both engage in the act of "caring what various diverse constituents think about their positions," Trump seems to be playing a game of what he can get away with and still obtain widespread jerk support. His sexist remarks are commonplace. His "foreign policy" is absurdly macho and cartoonish. He has mocked a reporter with a disability. He's joked about being able to shoot someone and still get votes.
At this point, Donald Trump could literally say, "Starting in 2016, as punishment for political correctness gone too far, one boy and one girl will be chosen in a reaping ceremony each year and then taken to an arena to fight to the death for everyone else's entertainment." And, Trump's supporters would shrug and vote for him anyway. For a not insignificant portion of them, such a measure would just prove what a badass alpha he is.
Labels: Election 2016, Ha Ha Nope, Hellmouths, I Don't Even Know, Internet Culture, Science Fiction, Welp


According to renowned AT&T Bell Telephone Laboratories statistician John Tukey, "data may not contain the answer. The coordination of some data and an aching desire for an answer will not ensure that a reasonable one can be extracted from a given body of data." While Tukey (1915-2000) is correct in an important respect—one should not overvalue data per se—he was never exposed to today's Interactive Visualization, a term coined by Gartner.
The reality is that designers often fail to achieve both form and functionality, creating instead subpar visualizations—e.g., bar charts, steamgraphs, treemaps, Gannt charts, and scatter plots—that fail to serve their main purpose of communicating information. These are far from the ideal way to consume data. As a result, users responsible for driving actionable intelligence from their data are often overwhelmed and frustrated by the effort required to make sense of it all.
The answer is Interactive Visualization, which enables the display and intuitive understanding of multidimensional data, provides a variety of visualization chart types, and enables users to accomplish traditional data exploration tasks by making charts interactive. Interactive Visualization implies the use of heat maps, geographic maps, link charts, and a broad spectrum of special purpose visualizations that surround processes that are inextricably linked to an underlying analytics. Increasingly, this last feature will become a differentiator among vendors.


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The best hotels in Reykjavík city centre
Icelandair Hotel Reykjavik Marina is a funky choice in the up-and-coming harbour district.
Paul Sullivan, Destination expert
15 February 2018 • 9:00am
An insider's guide to the best hotels in Reykjavík city centre, including the best for funky design, well-equipped rooms with views, good-quality restaurants, cosy bars, gyms and spas, near the harbour, the Icelandic parliament, Austurvöllur Square, cathedral, Harpa Concert Hall and the Laugavegur.
Hotel Borg
The hotel is set on one of the most scenic and pleasantly landscaped squares in the city centre (Austurvöllur); esteemed neighbours include the Icelandic parliament and Reykjavik cathedral. It was the very first luxury hotel to be built in Iceland (in 1930) — and merges high-end Art Deco elegance with modern flair. There's a sauna with steam bath and sauna. Rooms have custom-made furnishings, armoires, Hastens beds, and stylish Bang & Olufsen televisions. The menu in the restaurant focuses on skillfully refined Icelandic dishes.
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Hótel Reykjavík Centrum
As the name suggests, the hotel enjoys a very central location in the heart of the city's downtown '101' area. At the hotel's Uppsalir bar-café you can order snacks and light meals. The rooms veer between cutesy-historic to more modern. All come with modern amenities like satellite televisions, small refrigerators and tea and coffee facilities. The split-level Junior Suites are lovely and spacious, as are the four bright apartments, which offer fully equipped kitchenettes.
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Kvosin Downtown Hotel
'Kvosin' is the name of the area that constitutes downtown Reykjavik so it's no surprise to learn that the hotel is right in the middle of the city. It has an upbeat Scandinavian feel with a minimal, modernist furnishings and documentary-style photos of local life. The hotel comprises 24 boutique apartments, with Nespresso coffee machines, designer linens, premium toiletries and kitchenettes. The front desk staff are incredibly helpful and accommodating.
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Loft Hostel
The Loft is one of Reykjavik's leading hostels, situated right at the end of Reykjavík's main shopping street, which means it is in easy proximity to just about everything. Offering a range of dorms, twins and private rooms, it has a modern, clean interior, a buzzy vibe at the weekends and a great location right in the middle of the city's bar, restaurant and café district. The hostel also host a slew of events, including concerts, weekly yoga, pub quizzes, poetry nights and more.
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Radisson Blu 1919 Hotel, Reykjavik
The hotel enjoys a good location in the centre of the city. A host of cultural and tourist sights lie within a mile away, including the Icelandic House of Parliament and Austurvöllur Square. Perks include a gym and free iPads for hire. Amenities in the rooms are fairly comprehensive, including TVs with video-on-demand, coffee and tea provisions and complimentary Wi-Fi. The breakfast buffet has plenty of international and local items, both hot and cold (salmon, eggs cooked to order, a variety of breads).
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One of Reykjavik's first-ever boutique hotels is still one of its best. It's situated in downtown Reykjavik, and the city's commercial and cultural offerings are pretty much right on the doorstep. The hotel is a riot of contemporary style that incorporates a cool palette of blacks, whites and slate-greys, antique and idiosyncratic furnishings, and a collection of artworks by local artists. Enjoy a drink at the long black glass bar or next to the fireplace in the lounge, and dine on Icelandic cuisine in the futuristic restaurant.
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Canopy by Hilton Reykjavik City Centre
A self-billed 'lifestyle hotel' that is excellently situated on Hverfisgata Street, which has been designated as Reykjavik's first Green Road, and is a short stroll from buzzy high street Laugavegur. It offers dapper and well-appointed rooms with large televisions, splashy local artworks, and touches like music boxes that play cute Icelandic lullabies. Amenities include a 24-hour fitness area, and staff are friendly and attentive throughout. The breakfast buffet is a varied and filling spread.
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CenterHotel Arnarhvoll
The hotel enjoys a fantastic location right on the harbour and close to the city centre. The Harpa Concert Hall is a two-minute hop across the street, and main shopping street Laugavegur is around the corner. The hotel's wellness centre isn't the biggest in town but manages to include a whirlpool tub, Turkish bath and Finnish sauna. Rooms have comfortable beds and all come with chic black and white en-suite bathrooms, minibars and televisions.
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Hotel Odinsve
This four-star boutique is steps away from cultural attractions like the National Theatre and the National Gallery of Iceland. There's a refreshing lack of pretension about the interior design here: think stylish comfort rather than hip design. Expect comfortable beds with high-quality Kronburg bedding, and bright, clean, white-tiled bathrooms. There's also a rooftop bar, and bistro-style restaurant that serves Icelandic and international cuisine for lunch and dinner.
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This funky hotel is set in a landmark historical building in Reykjavik's increasingly upscale harbor district; it enjoys good sea and mountain views, with cultural sights like Harpa Concert Hall a 10-minute walk. The impressive range of detailed eye candy includes colourful artworks, nautical knick-knacks and bright designer furnishings. Rooms have interesting Icelandic design and balconies looking over the city or the bay. In the evening, the swanky hotel bar offers regular events such as concerts, comedy shows, and even children's film screenings on Sundays.
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Apotek Hotel
This tasteful and intimate four-star boutique is just a five-minute walk from the Tjornin lake and 10 from Hallgrimskirkja. The hotel's striking five-floor historic shell was built in 1917 and housed the city's main pharmacy (Reykjavíkurapotek) from 1930 to 1999. Rooms are dotted with modern but comfortable furnishings and have chic, white bathrooms with rain showers. You'll get a television, minibar and in-room telephone whichever room you book. There's a connected (but independently-run) restaurant and bar too.
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Hotel Holt
This upscale four-star hotel enjoys a good location on a quiet street in downtown Reykjavik, located slap-bang between the main shopping street and the lovely Tjornin lake (both a five-minute stroll). There's a 24-hour reception, a small fitness space and a massage room. Guests also get free access to an off-site fitness centre and geothermal pool. Mod cons in the rooms include 26-inch flat screen televisions, work desks and minibars.
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CenterHotel Plaza
This breezy, functional three-star has a plum location right on the city's main central Ingólfstorg Square in the Old Town. The style of the hotel is fairly functional in places but there is enough warmth overall for it to work as a decent leisure option too. There's a bar and a secluded patio garden that guests can access for drinks. The breakfast buffet has a decent spread of hot and cold food. Rooms tick all the boxes for a comfortable stay. In-room amenities include a minibar, satellite TV and a kettle for making hot drinks.
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Escape into entertaining, unforgettable stories.
Welcome to the Reader's Digest Book Club, your trusted friend for stories that will make you laugh, cry, think and feel. We know just how important reading is, and as bona fide bookworms, we're sharing some of the most-anticipated books of the year with you, our fellow readers. Our monthly picks span genres—from mystery to romance to historical fiction and beyond—but the one thing they all have in common is a story that's unputdownable.
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SALLYNEE AMAWAT
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A native of Chicago, violinist Sallynee Amawat has enjoyed a career as performer and teacher in both Asia and North America. Having lived in Bangkok, Thailand for over a decade, Sallynee was a regular member of the classical music scene, performing, touring and recording with many ensembles, including the Bangkok Symphony and Chamber Orchestra. After returning to North America to pursue her studies, she received a Master's Degree in Performance and Suzuki Pedagogy at the Hartt School in Hartford, CT. Her love of early music and historical performance led her to Montreal where she attended McGill University and received both a Master and Doctor of Music in Early Music Performance. Sallynee is an active interpreter of early music in the US and Canada, performing with period ensembles such as the American Baroque Orchestra, Arion Baroque Orchestra, Pacific Baroque Orchestra, Ensemble Caprice, Haymarket Opera, Les Boréades des Montréal, and Studio de musique ancienne de Montréal (SMAM). She has also performed in festivals across the continent, including the Montreal Baroque Festival, Amherst Early Music Festival, the Boston Early Music Fringe Festival and EMA Young Performers Festival. In 2012, she founded Le Concert Montreal, an early music ensemble dedicated to outreach and performance practice, with their first concert and workshop held in Bangkok. She is also a founding member of ensemble Infusion Baroque, Grand Prize and Audience Prize winners of the Early Music America Baroque Performance Competition in 2014.
A dedicated teacher with over fifteen years of experience, Sallynee maintains an active teaching studio in Montreal, teaching both private and group lessons for students of all ages. For more information on lessons, click here.


Tia Robertson is Executive Vice President of Oscar Robertson Solutions. Tia has helped to grow the company into an innovative facilities, document, and knowledge management company. Tia has twelve years of solid sales, marketing, operational, and financial experience gained as she progressed through various positions of increasing responsibility within the company. Tia has worked with two Fortune 500 companies: Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner and Smith (Merrill Lynch) in Somerset, NJ, and the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD) in New York, NY.
Tia received her B.S. in Finance from the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona and is a graduate of Leadership Cincinnati. She is also a graduate of the Kellogg School of Management (Minority Development Program).
Tia also serves on the Board of Directors of The Yvonne and Oscar Robertson Family Foundation of the Greater Cincinnati Foundation. Ms. Robertson was also the Director of the Oscar Robertson Celebrity Golf Tournament.


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Lodeyshchik () is a rural locality (a village) in Pelshemskoye Rural Settlement, Sokolsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 1 as of 2002.

Geography
Lodeyshchik is located 50 km southeast of Sokol (the district's administrative centre) by road. Nizhnyaya Storona is the nearest rural locality.

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Rural localities in Sokolsky District, Vologda Oblast

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Court clears Yama of four election charges
The Madang District court has dismissed all four election related charges against Madang Governor Peter Yama that were in court since 2017.
These include two allegations of bribery, one count of perverting the course of justice and an allegation of conspiring to commit a crime. The Madang resident Magistrate Fredoline Kambibel in dismissing the case said all the allegations did not have evidence hence the decision to dismiss all four counts. The two bribery cases relate to the Rai Coast open seat, where Mr Yama is alleged to have bribed two electoral officials namely Nixon Kawo and John Tomaing.
His Lawyer Ben Lomai said "as for the bribery charges, counting for Rai Coast had already ended on the 4th of July and the alleged incident occurred on the 19th of July, that's 14 days later so where was the element that showed bribery, for what? Even in the National Court this ground was withdrawn before Justice Higgins. Therefore the Magistrate dismissed the charges.
As for perverting the course of Justice, James Yali had no case before the courts. If he has a case then the charge would be appropriate . This charge can be laid when you've started a court case but in this case there was none. As for conspiracy the wrong proposition was given to the court in which I assisted the court whereby the Magistrate agreed and all charges were dismissed.
Governor Yama outside the court said he knew all along that he was innocent and his arrest and charges were all politically related thus the decision by the courts. " All these are the last election cases that he had to overcome.
He hinted that he will be raising these concerns on the floor of parliament on the police involvement in his case where they are being used by other interests so that people who go through this can sue individuals rather then the Police Department or the State to curtail such abuses.
He plans to continue delivering services to the people of Madang now that all these hindrances' have been cleared by the Courts.
Others also arrested and charged in the same allegations including the acting provincial administrator Paul Amera and his Deputy Joe Kunda and a Joe Jeffery were also cleared by the court.
'I am Papua New Guinean'
Member for Madang Open Bryan Kramer said he was born in Madang and he is a Papua New Guinean and described the new attempt by Peter Yama to question is his citizenship status as "laughable".
Assembly questions Kramer's citizenship
The Madang provincial assembly has filed an application in the Waigani National Court seeking to question the eligibility of Madang Open MP Bryan Kramer's status as a PNG citizen.
Yama: Govt and churches need to work together
Development can only be achieved if there is partnership between the government and stakeholders, especially churches, says Madang Governor Peter Yama.


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THE POWER OF GOD. THE AMBITION OF MEN.***SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER***The Pope is dead. Behind the locked doors of the Sistine Chapel, one hundred and eighteen cardinals from all over the globe will cast their votes in the world's most secretive election. They are holy men. But they have ambition. And they have rivals. Over the next seventy-two hours one of them will become the most powerful spiritual figure on earth.________________Munich, Robert Harris's new spy thriller set in the days leading up to World War II, is available now.________________'Unputdownable' Guardian'Gripping'Sunday TimesImperium, the acclaimed play cycle based on Robert Harris's Cicero novels, is running in the West End in summer 2018 - tickets now on sale!
"Harris' superlative skill at depicting power politics makes this an irresistibly gripping papal page-turner." Sunday Times, BOOKS OF THE YEAR "Robert Harris is incapable of writing a substandard novel." -- Alan Johnson Observer, BOOKS OF THE YEAR "A master of producing thrillers of ever-tightening suspense, full of insider analysis of political power and the treatment of momentous events ... gripping ... more than a crime novel, it is also a psychological and political thriller ... Conclave is a triumphant addition to Harris' acclaimed output" -- David Grylls Sunday Times "I am about to use a word I have never knowingly used in any review of any book ever. During my 25-odd years of writing about books I have done my best to avoid cliches, slipshod summaries, oracular pronouncements and indeed anything else that might appear emblazoned on a book jacket. Nonetheless, there is only one possible word to describe Robert Harris's new novel, and it is this: unputdownable" -- Ian Sansom Guardian "Gripping ... like an ecclesiastical version of House of Cards" The Times "Well-researched, intelligently observed and highly credible ... Fast-moving and suspenseful, it's elegantly written entertainment from a first-rate storyteller." Mail on Sunday "Grips like a vice and manages to convey all the drama of an election without resorting to melodrama" -- Jake Kerridge Sunday Express "An electric read, like a shot of adrenalin to the heart ... rollicking and literate ... an insightful and witty thriller" -- Tim Stanley Literary Review "Britain's leading thriller writer" Daily Telegraph "A master of pace and entertainment" Observer
Robert Harris is the author of eleven bestselling novels: the Cicero Trilogy - Imperium, Lustrum and Dictator - Fatherland, Enigma, Archangel, Pompeii, The Ghost, The Fear Index, and An Officer and a Spy, which won four prizes including the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, and Conclave. Several of his books have been filmed, including The Ghost, which was directed by Roman Polanski. His work has been translated into thirty-seven languages and he is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He lives in West Berkshire with his wife, Gill Hornby.
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Some may be familiar with L'Altro Figlio (The Other Son) from the Taviani brothers' rendition of this Pirandello play in their beautiful film Kaos. If the play were a short story, it would be one of the best short stories ever written. This is a short clip. I wish the rest of this version could be found. For those who don't know 'the other son' (SPOILER) this woman is illiterate and has just learned that the reason her son in America never returns her letters is that the young woman scribing her letters is also illiterate and was just scribbling. The young woman says she is mad because her son lives in the village but she acts as if he doesn't exist even though he's kind and leaves her gifts of food from afar. Here the old woman explains why she can't bring herself to acknowledge this other son. He looks just like his father, a criminal released by the revolutionary Garibaldi when he liberated both good and bad from prisons, and who raped her and murdered her husband.


"There is a state of mind, known to religious men, but to no others, in which the will to assert ourselves and hold our own has been displaced by a willingness to close our mouths and be as nothing in the floods and waterspouts of God. In this state of mind, what we most dreaded has become the habitation of our safety, and the hour of our moral death has turned into our spiritual birthday. The time for tension in the soul is over, and that of happy relaxation, of calm deep breathing, of an eternal present, with no discordant future to be anxious about, has arrived. Fear is not held in abeyance as it is by mere morality, it is positively expunged and washed away."
-- William James, "Circumscription of the [Religious] Topic"
Last Wednesday, around 6:15pm at Rose Park track, as the long shadows of the afternoon had just faded into the half-light of evening, I had a religious experience.
Or at least I think I did.
[Editor's note:] I had just put on my flats for that most glorious of runner's runs, the October morning tempo. The brilliant fall leaves out my window brought to mind the flashing of spikes and the copper taste of hard effort that we runners associate with the season. I opened the door and was slammed by the stench of stale whisky. There was a bottle laying there with a note stuffed inside. In the bushes were scattered loose papers. Apparently the good doctor RVT had dropped by during his daily stupor and left me a gift.
"If Weldon and Robert are too shaken by our Fear fiasco where we had to tell Various lawyers to climb back in their ambulances and read up on Defamation law, we can always shop this piece down our Purple Cow pipeline to fellow Eph Tim Layden at Sports Illustrated. I'm sure they have a battery of lawyers bigger than Penn State's attorneys in the Paterno pool."
"In the great boardinghouse of nature, the cakes and the butter and the syrup seldom come out so even and leave the plates so clean. Indeed, we should view them with scientific suspicion if they do." --William James, "The Will to Believe"
One of the reasons I so admire James' view on things is that I think he's got his epistemology right. He understands that as knowers, thinkers, and understanders of reality we are vastly limited. Experience is pretty much chock full of uncertainty, vagueness, chance, and openness. Things hardly ever come out even or add up exactly. The truest confirmation of this fact is the feeling of pleasure that we get when our preconceptions about what's about to happen are actually fulfilled. If we were good predictors of the future and had a clear and firm grasp on reality, that satisfaction would be unwarranted.


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Entrepreneurial attitude boosts labelling business
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In March 2017, our new label manufacturing plant in India became fully operational in the northeastern state of Sikkim. Amar Chhajed, currently leading our labelling business, was responsible for setting up the unit, from conception to planning and final completion.
"I had, of course, the highly committed and capable team from our Parwanoo and Mahape plants to support me in executing the project tasks. Rahul Bhardwaj, who is now the operations head for Parwanoo and Sikkim, has been instrumental in establishing the new facility," Amar points out.
Originally, Amar began his career as an entrepreneur, founding Webtech Labels PVt. Ltd. in Mumbai in 1998 together with his cousins Rahul and Jitesh. The company became a subsidiary of Huhtamaki PPL in India in 2012, and subsequently merged with our operations this spring.
"Over the years, we have managed to build Webtech into India's largest manufacturer of pressure sensitive labels, and have constructed new factories in five different locations all over India. Each project came with a different set of challenges, and many lessons to be learnt. The most valuable lesson for the latest project was to keep reviewing timelines every week, and re-strategizing the work plans based on these reviews," Amar says.
Complete commitment
In Amar's view, the Huhtamaki label units are well placed to answer to the competition, as the focus has always been on quality and customer satisfaction.
"Very early on, we have aimed to achieve a zero-defect level in our labels, since this was crucial for our pharmaceutical customers. Initially, we inspected every single label manually. We then realized the need for automation to ensure 100% defect detection, and purchased India´s first completely automatic label defect detection system," Amar recalls.
The target was set on achieving complete customer satisfaction, with a team geared up and ready to meet any service requests, including delivering labels within few hours of receiving orders.
"I have personally driven to customers' factories even at odd hours of the day to deliver labels, ensuring that their production lines kept running uninterrupted. We were also extremely fast and responsive in developing new solutions for unique requirements."
Amar maintains that this commitment has helped to achieve a distinct advantage, setting a benchmark much higher than industry standards.
"Our innovation capabilities are second to none worldwide, with focus on low cost and simplicity in process. We continue to strive to maintain our lead on these fronts," he concludes.
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Burna Boy vows never to visit SA again in wake of attacks on Nigerians
(BBC)
Nigeria Afrobeat star Burna Boy has vowed never to set foot in South Africa again following fresh violence that has erupted targeted at foreign nationals.
In a series of tweets, the 28-year-old, who was Apple Music's "Up Next" artist in July, said that he had not been in the country since 2017 and would not do so again until the South African government woke up.
The South African Government would have to perform "a miracle because I don't know how they can even possibly fix this", the musician added.
South African police have arrested dozens of people involved in several days of violence against foreigners in Johannesburg, Pretoria and other cities. At least five people have been killed.
South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa and other African leaders have condemned the attacks.
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has sent an envoy to South Africa to "express Nigeria's displeasure over the treatment of her citizens."
The artist, who won Best International Act at the BET Awards in June, said the xenophobic violence went against everything he stood for – and made reference to the help the continent gave South Africans in their fight against white-minority rule from the 1960s until Apartheid ended in 1994.
"I understand that years of oppression has confused South Africans to the point where they see the people who came to their defence during their oppression as their enemies and then worship their oppressors," Burna Boy tweeted.
He added that some South Africans were "amazing, progressive African people"… but not many at all."
Ok. I have been away from social media personally until today. Ordinarily at a time like this, I should come here and say something to try and calm the situation because my Dream has always been to Unite AFRICA and make us realise that Together we will Literally rule the world…
— Burna Boy (@burnaboy) September 3, 2019
But Today After watching the Killing of my people in South Africa the same way we have all watched it happen a few times in the past. FUCK ALL THAT! I personally have had my own xenophobic experiences at the hands of South Africans and because of that…..
I have not set foot in SA since 2017. And I will NOT EVER go to South Africa again for any reason until the SOUTH AFRICAN government wakes the fuck up and really performs A miracle because I don't know how they can even possibly fix this.
This goes against everything I stand 4, but at what point do we take action? I understand that years of Oppression has confused South Africans to the point where they see the pple who came to their defence during their Oppression as their Enemies and then worship their oppressors
Lemme also say that there are some South Africans who are Amazing, Progressive AFRICAN people and I will forever Love them like I Love myself. But they are not many at all.
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Fight Over Sanctuary Cities Flares Up Again as White House Draws Line in Sand
By Josh Robin New York City
March 28, 2017 @1:13 AM March 28, 2017 @1:13 AM
The fight over so-called sanctuary cities is flaring up again, pitting the Trump administration against places like New York that have passed measures limiting cooperation with federal agencies over undocumented immigrants. Josh Robin filed the following report.
At a Manhattan conference, lawmakers from across the nation are brainstorming, thinking how they can protect undocumented immigrants in their cities.
"That is the goal, to continue to protect immigrant communities," said City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito.
At the same moment, at the White House, the Trump administration warns those very places.
"Countless Americans would be alive today, and countless loved ones would not be grieiving today, if these policies of sanctuary cities were ended," said Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
But many leaders in cities like New York say it's the Trump administration that's jeopardizing lives, discouraging people from cooperating with police for fear of being deported.
"So what the federal administration is doing is wreaking chaos in our community, making us less safe in the city of New York, and also making us less safe in this country. So this is a policy that has to be resisted," the City Council speaker said.
Resisted, possibly at a steep cost. The Trump administration is increasingly warning that if local law enforcement agencies don't cooperate with federal immigration officials, they could lose federal funding.
"A nation without borders is not a nation," Trump said.
It's been a Trump policy, signed in January in an executive order.
Attention lately is heightened after two Maryland high school students, including one here without papers, were accused of raping a classmate in a school bathroom. Henry Sanchez-Milian's lawyer says he is pleading not guilty.
Maryland lawmakers are considering a bill restricting how much local law enforcement can share with federal agencies.
"I would plead with the people of Maryland to understand that this makes the state of Maryland more at risk for violence and crime," Sessions said.
New York's rules limit cooperation with immigration agents. They don't end it. And its backers add the rules aren't just constitutionally sound, but make the city about the safest its been in generations.
Taking away federal funding jeopardizes that, they say. Not to mention, some of that money Trump is threatening to take helps protect his namesake tower.


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Herbs Vs Spices – How Enact They Vary?
Herbs and spices are odd substances in most of the Indian food objects. Every are passe to bring flavor to the food, and a few of them delight in medicinal advantages too. The bewitching aromas created by them can bring a varied dimension to food. Spices and herbs delight in some distance fewer energy when in comparison with the energy of more than a few food additions reminiscent of sauces, gravy, dressings, trimmings, and so forth. Many are now now not privy to the adaptations between herbs and spices. While cooks employ the terms interchangeably, there are some obvious variations between the 2.
The very well-known incompatibility between herbs and spices is that they are obtained from varied substances of a plant. Herbs are obtained from the leaves whereas spices attain from the seeds, bark and roots of a tree. With out a doubt, any fragment of a plant that's now now not a leaf, and could well well additionally be passe for seasoning, could well well additionally be thought about as a spice. Clear vegetation provide both herb and spice. Shall we embrace, coriander (seeds) and cilantro (leaves) belong to the same plant.
Herbs are passe dry or unique. Spices are now now not most often unique.
While herbs develop abundantly in varied substances of the sector, spices are more frequently cover in the Tropical and A ways East countries.
Herbs are thought to delight in more uses than spices. Rather than their utilization in cooking, herbs delight in a entire lot of medicinal properties and are a odd ingredient in a host of cosmetic products.
Herbs are labeled into varied kinds reminiscent of medicinal, sacred, culinary and americans which can perhaps be passe for pest management. Spices are primarily passe to paint and flavor food and a few delight in medicinal properties too.
While cooking, that you must perhaps well live the flavor of the herb from lowering by along with it in the previous couple of minutes of your cooking. On the varied hand, spices must always be added on the starting of cooking as moisture and warmth are required to launch their very well-known flavor in the dish.
Examples of herbs embody lavender, rosemary, coriander leaves, thyme, kava, peppermint, oregano, mint, parsley, marjoram, legend, basil, and so forth. Some examples of spices are coriander, mustard, fenugreek, fennel, mace, cinnamon, saffron, clove, asafoetida, ginger, cumin and turmeric.
Cooking with herbs and spices can remodel a bland dish into something scrumptious. Every are immensely treasured substances in the kitchen cupboard. Brilliant the adaptations between the 2 will procure you more privy to their efficient application in cooking and varied factors of on a typical foundation life.


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