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Brian Mull | NCAA.com | October 28, 2016
Nine of the most unique nicknames in college sports
What's in a nickname? More than it seems, sometimes. Sure, plenty of colleges and universities play it down the middle. There are, after all, 76 U.S. college teams known as the Eagles. Tigers was the right call for another 46 schools and Bulldogs fit for 40. Solid, sturdy and safe is one route to take.
But today we're focusing on those who chose to live on the fringes when they named their teams. Birds of a different feather who have drawn attention to their school by taking a chance and picking a name that makes a sports fan look twice and ponder the meaning.
We scoured Divisions I, II and III and picked nine of our favorite nicknames. Disclaimer: This list is 100 percent subjective and was selected using a loose criteria of intrigue and humor. As always, we aim to entertain, enlighten and inform.
Arkansas Tech Wonder Boys and Golden Suns
Arkansas Tech started playing football in 1911 and was called the Aggies (a nickname shared by eight college teams today) until a game on Nov. 17, 1920, according to the school's official history.
The name Wonder Boys first appears as a proper noun in reference to the Arkansas Tech football team in the Arkansas Gazette after a 13-0 win over what is now Henderson State University. The name Wonder Boys quickly gained popularity and star quarterback John Tucker came tobe known as "The Original Wonder Boy." Tucker went to work at Tech in a variety of roles,including coach, teacher, athletic director, chemistry teacher and director of student affairs, between 1925 and 1972.
When the school began fielding women's sports, they became the Golden Suns. Arkansas Tech, located in Russellville, is a Division II program and charter member of the Great American Conference.
Campbell University has been a Division I program since 1977. It competes in the Big South Conference and is located in tiny Buies Creek, North Carolina, (population 2,942 in 2010), which is 30 miles south of Raleigh. There isn't a native camel in sight and not many nearby, including the N.C. Zoo which is 90 minutes west. Tall tales abound regarding the origin of the nickname, which Campbell shares with one other U.S. school. Thanks to Campbell associate AD for sports communications Stan Cole and a local historian, we can straighten out the story.
According to J. Winston Pearce, author of "Campbell College, Big Miracle in Little Buies Creek," the nickname's origin perhaps stretches back to the turn of the century when all but one of the school's original buildings were destroyed by fire. In the aftermath, Z.T. Kivett visited the school's founder and president, Dr. James Archibald Campbell, at his residence.
As Dr. Campbell bemoaned the fate of the institution he had worked 13 years to build, Mr. Kivett encouraged him, "Your name's Campbell; then get a hump on you! We've got work to do." Dr. Campbell thought that Mr. Kivett said, "You're a camel, get a hump on you." Hence the nomadic nickname.
The school was known as the "Hornets," "Campbells" and "Campbellites" until the humped friend from the desert became the official nickname and mascot in late 1933 or early 1934.
Centenary College Ladies and Gentlemen
The Gentlemen and Ladies may be forgotten, but they're not gone. Teams from the school in Shreveport, Louisiana, competed in Division I from 1959-2011 as an independent and as members of the Atlantic Sun and Mid-Continent conferences. Robert Parish played center at Centenary before he anchored the Boston Celtics world championship frontcourt. Centenary moved to Division III in 2012, and of course there's a story regarding the origin of their original nickname, according to the university's website.
First established in the fall of 1921 by then-Centenary President George Sexton, it seems the football team had been in a fight the previous game, and Sexton sat the team down before the next game and told the players, "...from now on, you will all act like gentlemen."
With the majority of Centenary men also soldiers, the moniker "Gentlemen" or "Gents" was a logical choice. A tongue-in-cheek account that first mentioned the new nickname appeared in the 1923 Yoncopin (Centenary's yearbook) in the football summary.
"...there was some doubt on the eve of the first game. Reports from the Marshall (Texas) camp had them recruiting from the boiler factories and we were made to believe that the Marshall team was coming to Shreveport to mop-up with the 'Gentlemen.' Well, we put on our best manners, but just couldn't help running up a 77-0 score..."
When the school started fielding women's teams in the 1960s, they naturally became known as the "Ladies."
Fort Wayne Mastodons
A stocky elephant-like creature, the Mastodon, 10 feet tall and tusked, roamed the southern Great Lakes region of North America 10,000 years ago, per the Fort Wayne website. In 1968, local farmer Ortie Routsong uncovered unidentified fossil remains and called in the IPFW geology department, which recovered many parts of the large beast's bones and skull.
Fast forward two years and the university was trying to select a name for its athletic teams. Student body president Steve Pettyjohn made the case for Mastodons in an editorial in the school newspaper.
...it sounds different, strange, and even ickey (as one female student put it). That's exactly why. It's different and yes, even strange. I'm tired of slavishly copying what Bloomington, West Lafayette, and other big schools do. And I'm tired of these high school attitudes and high school nicknames…For God's sake, let's have the courage to be a little different.
With strong support from the Geology Club, the nickname passed, ensuring Fort Wayne's inclusion on lists of unique nicknames for years to come.
Missouri-Kansas City Kangaroos
The fine Midwestern destination Kansas City is known for delicious barbecue, passionate sports fans and a vibrant downtown framed by the Missouri River to the north. But when seeking a nickname for its debate team in the 1930s, UMKC selected an animal endemic to Australia — with a little help from Walt Disney.
According to university history, the discussion started in 1936, triggered by the arrival of two baby kangaroos to the Kansas City Zoo. Yearbook editors, however, felt the nickname was an inappropriate representation.
Just as the criticism began to mount and support for the kangaroo was beginning to wane, famed cartoonist Walt Disney came to the rescue. In April 1937, a leading KCU political group, the CO-OP Party, won a landslide election with "Kasey the Kangaroo" as its insignia. "Kasey," the group stated, fit KC.
The same month, the first issue of the KCU humor magazine The Kangaroo was published. Six months after the first kangaroo appeared on the cover, another kangaroo was featured, this time alongside Mickey Mouse. The artist of this drawing was the famous Disney, and support for the kangaroo mounted. In a matter of a few years, The Crataegus folded and The Kangaroo became the school's yearbook.
UMKC is a Division I program with 16 teams that compete in the Western Athletic Conference. According to the UMKC website, SUNY-Canton and Austin College in Sherman, Texas, are the only other U.S. colleges known as Kangaroos.
Presbyterian Blue Hose
Give the sportswriters credit for this unusual handle. The Presbyterian teams wore blue stockings and nimble headline writers often shortened "Stockings" to "Hose." Here's the rest of the story from the school's athletics website:
Coincidentally enough, former college PR guy Ben Hay Hammet's 1982 centennial history of PC noted that blue-stocking Presbyterians also referred to "Presbyterians with strong puritan leanings."
"At any rate," Hammet wrote, "the sports nickname was shortened to 'Blue Hose' in 1954 — presumably under the assumption that it sounded somewhat fiercer to carry onto the field of athletic battle."
The student body adopted the nickname as the official school nickname in the 1950s.
Presbyterian became a full member of Division I as a Big South member in 2011.
Texas A&M International Dustdevils
In my mind, a dustdevil is what swirls around on the hardwood floor after we turn on the ceiling fan. A gentle reminder to vacuum, if you will. But down in the south Texas town of Laredo, the term is used to describe a weather phenomenon created when warm air interacts with cool air under clear skies. These vertical whirlwinds of sand and such are relatively harmless.
From the official website:
Dusty is a traditional cowboy hat pulled down low over its forehead as is necessary for anyone stuck in a swirling dustdevil or sandstorm environment. The Star of Texas adorns the center of the hat, paying homage to the Lone Star State. Dusty's bandana is tied tight around its face, protecting its features from the vortex it lives within.
Dustdevils became the official nickname in 2002. When Texas A&M International became a full Division II member six years later, it planned to seep up original mascot "Dusty" and sent him off to that wastebasket in the sky, but eventually decided to stick with him.
UC Santa Cruz Banana Slugs
I'm not picking favorites, but this is my favorite. Who doesn't love a slimy yellow mollusk who slithers on the floor of the Redwood Forest?
Former UC Santa Cruz chancellor Robert Sinsheimer, for one. In 1980, he changed the university's official nickname to Sea Lions, and while one was painted on the floor of the basketball arena, those stubborn students kept cheering for the Slugs. Crazy college kids. In 1986, the university administration relented. It was an excellent decision.
The Banana Slug has attracted a good deal of national attention over the years. In 2008, ESPN named it one of the 10 best college basketball mascots. Four years earlier, Reader's Digest named it the best. People magazine once dedicated a full-page spread to the Santa Cruz Banana Slug movement. The National Directory of College Athletics named it the best college mascot and Sports Illustrated once named the Banana Slug the nation's best college nickname.
Webster Gorloks
Here's a certain path to carving out a unique space in the world of nicknames: Make one up.
That was the tact taken in 1984 by the creative students and staff at Division III Webster University in Webster Groves, Missouri. How did they concoct such a moniker? They took it from the local intersection of Gore and Lockwood Street.
Even better is the lovable mascot they invented. It has the paws of a cheetah, the horns of a buffalo and the face of a St. Bernard
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Someone it may argue that in this way we are going back, but in my opinion we are moving forward instead! We have today more abilities and an higher technological level than before to build long-lasting products and to create a virtuos loop in which materials flows again and again, re-borning each time to a new life.
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Cuomo Signs Police Reform Bills Into Law
(Kevin P. Coughlin _ Office of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo)
June 12, 2020 By Michael Dorgan
Governor Andrew Cuomo signed a package of police reform bills into law Friday that seeks to improve relations between cops and the general public.
The legislation, which was hurried through the state legislature earlier this week, will make police disciplinary records public, ban cops from using chokeholds on civilians and classifies false race-based 911 calls as hate crimes.
The governor also issued an executive order requiring local governments and the NYPD to modernize police strategies and programs.
The killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis cop last month coupled with a series of recent NYPD beatings at protests prompted officials to make law changes.
Cuomo said that relations between cops and civilians needs to be repaired and that police reform is long overdue.
"There is no trust between the community and the police, that's what the protests have said," Cuomo declared at a press briefing.
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Cuomo also designated State Attorney General Letitia James the power to conduct independent prosecutions for any in-custody civilian deaths.
Longtime civil rights activist Al Sharpton, who accompanied Cuomo at the signings, praised the governor for the latest round of reforms.
"Andrew Cuomo has raised the bar, and I hope every governor in this country will be asked today whether or not they're going to do what he just did," Sharpton said.
However, the head of the city's largest police union slammed Cuomo and claimed the new laws would prevent cops from doing their jobs.
"We will be permanently frozen, stripped of all resources and unable to do the job," Patrick Lynch, President of the Police Benevolent Association said.
"We don't want to see our communities suffer, but this is what Governor Cuomo and our elected leaders have chosen."
COCED June 18th, 2020
what a crock! "make police disciplinary records public" – why not make everyone work history public? "ban cops from using chokeholds on civilians" – but it's ok to use it on military and clergy? "classifies false race- based 911 calls as hate crimes"- better report any crime you see as "pale individual did it"
#alshaptonisafraud June 17th, 2020
Who is the fat lady with the pen? Oh, that's Al Sharpy Sharpton, the crook. Nice going, Cuomo: first you kill the elderly in nursing homes and now you suck up to Sharpton.
ASensibleMan June 15th, 2020
"classifies false race-based 911 calls as hate crimes"
So now an error of judgement is a crime. The only logical outcome of this incredible stupid legislation is that people will simply ignore reporting any crimes that they see occurring.
AltWrong June 18th, 2020
Stop calling the cops on every minority that you see walking down the street.

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Hannah is someone who would have struggled anywhere. And the American abroad is simplified—"Hannah of Boston"—whereas Hannah's experience is labrynthine. Perhaps it's perverse of me to think this, but the entire novel could have taken place in her apartment—and it would have been as riveting, claustrophobic, and mysterious. It's written in first-person and present tense, yet the distortions of Hannah's perceptions play a strange game with time, a game over which Chaffee has such authorial control that Hannah's unraveling feels unpredictable to the reader (and, at least to this reader, a literary relief of sorts, due to the tension that builds). We're reminded that it's difficult to be alive. The most basic actions of a life—to eat, to consume, to sustain our bodies—become horrendously complicated, and even if you've never had an eating disorder, you'll be immersed in its seductive logic. I don't claim to fully understand its logic—I know just enough to say that it isn't articulable.
Which brings us to the limitations of language—and I will claim that this is the heart of the novel—a wrestling with language, not purely the psychologized self, not women's bodies, not young Americans loitering abroad, though it is all of that, in beautifully written spades, too.
Florence is there to make the pain vividly reflect off the page. Anyone who's seen a Florentine cookbook will know how exquisite the food is, and surely it is easy to understand why people travel there solely with the purpose in mind to fall in love with the cuisine—pork, pecorino cheese, schiacciata, heavy, hand-rolled pasta, thick sauces with wild boar folded in—all manner of refined and rustic food with a history dating back to the Medicis.
It's more than complicating to pose Florentine cuisine as the atmospheric backdrop for a character with an eating disorder—it's torturous. I mean that quite literally—for Hannah, chewing into the thick cords of an oyster feels like torture. The local ingredients of Florentine cuisine are intensely aesthetic, but they show up disfigured through Hannah's rituals. How much easier would it have been to write a novel with a narrator that indulges in Florence on every level—the art, the food, the men?
I'm so happy to have read a novel that doesn't take the easy route and rewards us with rich language that makes us long to read it again to uncover further subtleties, as we do when we revisit a familiar, haunting work of art. Hannah, who has previously worked at an art museum in Boston, has a great deal of language at her disposal when she describes art, as when looking upon Giovanna degli Albizzi's portrait:
She is in profile, her hair coiled along the back of her head, curls framing her face, her neck long and pale. But it's her gown that sets her apart – doves and sunbursts swirling over a gold background, a brooch at her bust picking up the magenta of her cape.… I'm intrigued, but I still go back to the beautiful stone face of Giovanna, drawn in by the promise that seems to find its home in beauty (67).
Hannah's language for the beauty of the place keeps us dreaming on, page to page.
Where Hannah's language begins to drown and choke us is with the language of addiction. On the most basic level, Hannah struggles to assert herself with consistency. This is a problem of the language of refusal, often a difficulty for young women who are blessed and cursed with introverted sensitivities combined with contrarian toughness of the spirit. However, the limitations of language reach further—can she explain the volatility within her to the people closest to her? Her sister back home, her lover, her new boss?
The language of the saints provides a hypnotic cadence and an intricate philosophy of euphoric self-erasure in which Hannah can take shelter. She uses the language of the saints to find her old friend—an addictive relationship, anorexia and bulimia, purging, obsessive counting and documenting of her daily intake of food, and yes, this is her dearest friend who has been present with her from the beginning. Is there a wickedly coarse irony in Hannah battling her demons by researching the saints? No—it's sincere, and the novel is better for it.
The answer to the problem of language is, as the novel suggests, compassion. Luca, Hannah's lover, understands her war-torn body. He unlocks Florence for Hannah, though she is adept at exploring both its "green oases of cypresses" and negative space. She is able to tell him, towards the very end of the novel, in plain terms, that she hasn't been able to eat for a while. Though her attempt at articulating her condition isn't complete, it is more accurate and detailed than ever, and she courageously continues because she is with someone who doesn't require her to hide and to lie. A language reserved for the interiority of a serious self-destructive condition is, then, a language that can be coaxed away from its corrosive edge in the presence of authentic love. It's certainly a hypothesis worth fighting for.
Darley Stewart
DARLEY STEWART is a Scottish-Korean fiction writer based in Brooklyn. Her work has appeared in Tin House, Joyland Magazine, Funhouse Magazine, The Ocean State Review, Flapperhouse, The Brooklyn Rail, The Battersea Review, Electric Literature, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of a 2016 Fiction International Fellowship from Seoul Art Space and 2015 Ocean State Fiction Scholarship from The University of Rhode Island. An alumnus of Brandeis University and The University of Edinburgh, she has recently completed a residency at Seoul Art Space. As the Founder of The Strong Women Project, she curates panels and gives presentations at the intersection of feminism, media, cultural narrative and the arts. Please see more at www.darleystewart.com.


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People v Bruder
NOTE: May 19, 2017 – Snopes.com has picked up on this case and even credited Crescent City Times with filing this report.
May 17, 2017 – The Del Norte District Attorney's Office announced that Nolan Bruder (20) of Crescent City was sentenced this afternoon by the Honorable William H. Follett to the low term of three years, with all but 240 days (at half time in county jail) suspended in favor of a grant of probation for Rape of an Intoxicated Person. The victim in this case was Bruder's sixteen year old sister who he gave high-potency marijuana "dabs" to smoke after she repeatedly resisted his sexual advances until she reached the point of no longer recognizing him as her brother. Bruder pleaded guilty earlier this month.
In the wake of the case involving Stanford swimmer Brock Turner, the Legislature changed the law to make such crimes ineligible for probation. Bruder benefited from the fact that his crimes pre-dated the change in the law and allowed Judge Follett to grant him probation. "In a lot of ways, this case is more egregious than Brock Turner. This defendant took advantage of a position of trust as this victim's big brother. He knew she didn't want to have sex with him. She told him that repeatedly. So he got her stoned on dabs he gave her until she didn't even recognize him in order get what he wanted," said Del Norte District Attorney Dale P. Trigg.
At the sentencing hearing, Deputy District Attorney Annamarie Padilla argued that Judge Follett should follow the Probation Department's recommendation to send Bruder to state prison for six years. She quoted from the legislative history section of the amendment to the current law requiring that probation now be denied on such cases: "Under this interpretation of the law, a perpetrator at a college party who chooses to forcibly rape a conscious victim will go to prison. However, a different perpetrator at the same party who chooses to watch and wait for a victim to pass out from intoxication before sexually assaulting her may get probation. Whether penetration is accomplished through physical aggression [force] or predatory behavior is a distinction without a difference. Both perpetrators seek prey that are vulnerable; disadvantaged by his/her capacity to resist."
Judge Follett noted that the victim in this case took her own clothes off and was not unconscious. The legislative changes and the policies behind them, however, apply equally to situations where a victim cannot consent due to intoxication or due to being unconscious. Judge Follett also questioned whether there was sufficient evidence upon which a jury could convict Bruder, even though Bruder had given a video-taped confession following the disclosure of the crime by his sister.
Judge Follett believed that the "stigma" of this conviction along with mandatory sex offender registration requirements would sufficiently deter this Defendant and others in the community. "I could not disagree more," said Trigg. "The message that this sends to our community is that sexual predators who get their juvenile siblings stoned enough can have sex with them without any meaningful consequence. That is not the message I want to send to our community," said Trigg.
Del Norte Sheriff's Office Sergeant Richard Griffin investigated the case.
62 Responses to People v Bruder
Hahaha hope you get some good time f_ _ker hopefully you get what you deserve punk.
MICHAEL ROBERTS Reply
Whats wrong with our system? You have people self medicating going to prison. Someone steals something goes to prison. But child molesters/rapist get a slap on the hand and another chance to go ruin more lives. First offence – castrate them. Second offence – kill them on the spot. THAT'S JUSTICE. OUR SYSTEM NEEDS TO PULL THEIR HEADS OUT OF THEIR ASSES.
Webmaster Reply
go to: Change.org. The petition name is "Remove Judge William H. Follett from his seat."
Brian Sanders Reply
Someone from the area please get the 411 on his parents. where were they? stoned also?
Robert Kurtz Reply
Brock Turner's judge got removed. Here's your chance to help remove Follett:
https://www.change.org/p/state-of-california-justice-department-remove-judge-william-h-follett-from-his-seat
Fact checker Reply
@ Robert Kurtz. Wrong! Judge Persky (Brock Turner case) voluntarily stepped down from handling criminal cases. He is still a judge but now handles only civil cases and other non-criminal matters. Judge Persky was in fact cleared of any judicial misconduct. http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/19/us/judge-aaron-persky-misconduct-investigation/
B. Bennett Reply
Mr. Wlm. H. Follett should himself go before a judge and jury to review with justice and ethics and morality, the decision on this case of RAPE. They, the brother and sister, are both victims.
On Probation? Are you kidding me? Keep him out of my town. Get him and HER some major counseling that HE should pay for- continually. And a sagway here, who do you suppose he voted for president?
This is deplorable.
F Provost Reply
Obviously, the rapist-in-chief protector and defender, Hillary Clinton.
TC Reply
This judge deserves to be a registered sex offender as well.
Brooks Reply
This is absolutely ridiculous that someone would get such a lenient sentence for this crime. This judge needs to be fired!! Prayers for the victim of this haneous crime.
Shannon Wheeler Reply
This is easier then common sense. He violated another human being. Send him to jail! 6 years is nothing in comparison.
Debra Alvarado Reply
Once again a judge seems clearly unfit for the bench.
Lisa Reply
That young lady needs justice. How terrible that our judicial system has failed her.
Mark Kirkland Reply
I am a Public Health student and standing up for those less fortunate is the foundation off being a Public servant, but thus judge did not do his job at protecting those that have been assaulted and mistreated. Not only should this young man be sentenced for the lewd act against his own sister, but he also administered medication without a license with a premeditated intent to sexually assault a girl. Throw this judge off the bench and put him under investigation.
Kim Holland Reply
HOW can you let this kid off?? What if he had done this to a 5 year old? I wonder why the judge doesn't think this is a disgusting act? Let's give this victim some real justice.
Janice Reply
This judge is not close to honorable! Rape is rape and deserves life! Especially in this case. 6 years would have been a joke but this is a mockery of the justice system. Get this guy off the bench now before he let's another rapist off the hook!
Brenda Reply
tenia que ser un hombre, cobarde usando su poder como juez para ser daño, pobre niña, ni el perdón de Dios merecen ninguno de los dos… (Per Editor….which my rough English translation is… He had to be a man, cowardly using his power as a judge to be hurt, poor child, nor deserve God's forgiveness neither.)
Da'Shanay Clark Reply
What if that was his daughter, niece, granddaughter, etc?! Would he be that nice to the "poor boy" then? How can anyone have any sympathy for someone who would do that let alone to their own sister? Yet the judge is concerned about how a real sentence would effect HIM?…I am in disbelief that something like this would happen before or after the Brock Turner case.
Friend of the family Reply
According to friends and family members present at the sentencing, the information being reported about Nolan Bruder is based on a biased press release written by Dale Trigg, District Attorney. Mr. Trigg was not even in the courtroom at the time of sentencing. The information he included in his press release was cherry-picked and taken out of context. He also left out very critical facts regarding the incident, and statements made to the court by the victim herself and numerous family members. All of which are not included in this post. However, Judge Follet expressed serious concern about a guilty plea to a crime that he had doubts about whether it could be proved at trial. Judge Follet had the defense attorney explain the reasoning behind a guilty plea to a defensible rape charge. Nolan Bruder's attorney said that a lot of time was spent trying to convince Mr. Trigg to agree to a plea bargain to two other counts charged in the complaint but Mr. Trigg would not listen to reason. The defense attorney went on to explain that Nolan Bruder was steadfast in his decision to forego a jury trial because he did not want to put the victim nor his family through such a humiliating spectacle. The defendant fell on the proverbial sword, to spare the victim and his parents any further pain and embarrassment that a trial would cause. Judge Follet recognized this dilemma and rightly considered it, among other relevant facts. The sentence given was fair in light of the unusual circumstances. The victim pleaded with the court not to send the defendant to prison. She expressed her forgiveness and her continued love and support for him. As did many other family members. Judge Follet did not justify the sentence based on the fact that the victim was conscious and took her own clothes off. A comment to that effect by the Judge was uttered during an exchange between the Deputy District Attorney and the Judge regarding the dissimilarities between the Brock Turner case and Nolan Bruder's case. Mr. Trigg's rendition of the facts and the reasoning behind the Judge's decision was anything but an accurate picture.
Sad for her situation Reply
Still seems like a mucked-up boy regardless. And some weird dynamics in that family (drugs? incest? feeding drugs to lead to incest?). Any insights/guidance are appreciated.
Curious Potter Reply
He raped her while she was incapacitated. Many, many, victims of violence, abuse, and screwed up relations try to protect their abusers – especially youth. This event did not happen in a vacuum. He didn't "mistakenly" give her drugs and rape her. The judge's job is to protect the public and determine justice for the crime. No matter what folks wanted – nobody got justice- especially the next girl.
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Melanie manning Reply
At the very least the boy should be in a detention center with psychological care. What he did is reprehensible. The judge completely lacks any understanding of how crimes deserve a comparable punishment.
Found what I'm 99% sure is the poor girl's Facebook page. Now that we know what we know, the cover photo is creepy. Poor girl. Prayers for her recovery and what is probably a pretty dysfunctional home she's been in.
Jane Reply
What's her page?
Family Friend Reply
Why would you even look for it? Doesn't the girl deserve privacy? She removed her fb account months ago so no, you didn't find her. You should be ashamed for trying to out her – Dale Trigg already threw her under the bus.
Anonymous for a reason Reply
The difference between Bruder and Renner? Both had victims asking for leniency for the defendant. Both had "repentented". Renner had a Judge who read the Probation Recommendation and saw justice served. The victim was not outed by the District Attorney. The family named the victim on the record in open court, additionally, the facts haven't changed, just the narrative the family wants portrayed. Look at court records if you want the facts, not the spin the family is now putting in the media to protect their son. The DA's office works for justice for victims, even when they can't for themselves.
lacy Reply
whoever wrote this well your mindset is questionable. there is a big difference between the bruder case and renner. RENNER PREYED UPON 5 YEAR OLDS…who grew up and prosecuted…and yeah it is good you are anonymous…my bet is you work in DA OFFICE…..
Vanessa Julia Lutz Reply
(707) 464-8115 Judge William H. Follett, the number of the court he works for.
amy O Reply
This is how pathetic our justice system has become. And it sickens me. Judge follett is and always has been a pathetic excuse for a judge. Maybe now some will see this and realize that what was said about him all along was true. He should feel ashamed with himself but he won't, he is arrogant and if some would follow who he has passed down longer sentences to over the years will see exactly how racial he is.
D Reply
already posted his facebook page.
Bill Reply
To those that want the information and wish to dispense true justice, here is Nolan M. Bruder's personal FB profile: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100009410530708
Do as you wish.
Why would you try to throw people onto his account? What is wrong with you? Leave him and his family alone.
Monica Reply
You should be ashamed of yourself Mr. Follett. I refuse to give you the respect your position normally commands of me. As a victim of rape, you continue to delegitimize women and legitimize male dominated rape culture. I'm sure your mother is very proud of you. Too bad the people that you are sworn to protect are not. The most courageous thing you can do now is resign.
Jean Reply
It seems to be a horrible decision. The justifications I've read seem irrelevant. The rape of an intoxicated minor by a predatory adult who engineered the intoxication, where the victim must have felt violated enough to report the rape against all social taboos, and the assailant confessed on tape. It's hard to come up with a more perfect example of a winnable case.
DB Reply
There's no petition yet to get him removed from the bench? And this rapist sent to jail?
All Women Reply
Crescent City, PLEASE include a photo of Judge Follett so people know who he is when they see him around town! Google did not produce any results.
He pretty much looks and behaves just like this judge Tom Skerritt played on Law&Order SVU.
http://lawandorder.wikia.com/wiki/Poison_(SVU)
D. Anderson Reply
I'm glad to see that there is a judge that can be fair and impartial and able to make a good decision not based on popularity. This judge and this devastated family have my full support and understanding. The sister being only a few years younger…if she was unable to recognize him…maybe he was unable to recognize her. I also stand in support of both Nolan and his sister who's lives are forever changed because of a choice to use a substance that most of you want legalized.
Are you kidding?? Her life is ruined because her brother drugged and raped her, you moron. That makes him a victim? Are you from West Virginia?
Linda Sutter Reply
uh oh, there will be a new judge coming at next election…this one made national news reads…snopes.com and bluelivesmatter.com
I retract my statement. I stand by the Judge and his decision. what is egregious about Dale Trigg's release is he shamed the victim, the family, and wasn't even in the court room. He did this intentionally to make himself look like he is this great protector when in fact his whole motive is to run for judge. BEWARE. UNLESS YOU WERE IN THE COURT ROOM YOU DO NOT KNOW THE FACTS.
Jean Grey Reply
Two questions, no snark intended:
1. Were you in the courtroom?
2. What are the facts that changed your mind?
I cannot post on any public forum but if you want to meet in person I can explain in detail
wombat661 Reply
If you got information, share it, if not, don't mention it. Saying you got info but can't share it, so just trust me is not going to cut it. Sorry.
We all know dirty politics and dirty family secrets. Nothing is going to shock us in the internet age anyway.
Linda Sutter
yo wombat661 I promised I would not write an article about the particulars and the information was shared…based on that I cannot give the particulars…it is not a matter of shock factor…it is a matter of integrity and character in keeping my word…so…sorry if those things are not important to you…that's all.
I don't understand how the answer to the first question would reveal anything sensitive. It's a yes or no.
What doesn't seem to be in dispute is that the judge pointed out that the victim removed her own clothes and was not unconscious. If she was intoxicated to the point of not recognizing her own brother, she could not consent to having sex. Even if she had consented in the past, she did not consent in this instance.
Apart from any other detail of the case, the judge was out of line to bring these things up and should never be allowed to preside over a sexual assault case again.
If her brother, having been explicitly and repeatedly rejected by the victim, gave her drugs with the intent to bring her to a point of intoxication where she no longer recognized him, he committed rape. Full stop.
Are these things factual so far? If not, which parts are wrong? If they are accurate, there would have to be truly extraordinary mitigating circumstances.
I can understand if you are withholding details in order to protect the victim and her family – not everything should be public business. I also appreciate your offer to explain privately (although I don't see how telling people one at a time is more discreet than posting on a public forum). However, it is unreasonable to expect people to accept your word without further information.
G.E. Reply
Thank you for speaking my mind so clearly. All this angst and anger and ideation to protect this poor innocent girl–none of you were in the court room. None of you know the facts or the family. You are reacting out of assumption and after reading a highly biased newspaper article by a man who is using this case and these poor people to his advantage to politically slingshot himself into a postition as judge. Shame on you Dale Trigg. You have proved you are also a predator!!!
Jason Reply
Welcome to Short Bus News. Linda should we call you Dumb or Dumber?
YOU CAN CALL ME ANYTHING YOU LIKE BUT NEVER CALL ME LATE FOR DINNER
J Reply
Dale Trigg moved out of the area so how will he be running for Judge in Del Norte County? Your response sounds like it was forced upon you by the powers that be. Were they? You state you were told you could not explain or make further statements about the new facts you believe you were given. Was there a political gag placed upon you? Look at our County's history with corruption. "No Law North of Klamath" and "Behind the Redwood Curtain" are two phrases long associated with Del Norte County. I'm sad to see another victim of the County's good ol boy's threats. This is NOT the only case Follett has ruled poorly on! Throw a Good Ol Boy into the mix and see who isn't charged and who is attacked. I am speaking from personal experience in family court. Follett needs to go! He should NOT be allowed to go quietly as he hopes to do! He is hoping to evade prosecution by the current agency's investigation. He should not be allowed to run away from his crimes! He was paid a high salary for years because he was held to a higher standard. What exactly are this County's standards? We have to clean up this County!
Olivia Benson Reply
This 'judge' should step down from trying any other cases. It is disgraceful and disgusting that Follett perpetuates Rape Culture with a slap on this rapists wrists.
Women on Northern California Reply
This judge should be removed immediately!!! We do not want ignorant people in such positions!! Disgusting ruling! This judge is NOW officially hated and dispised by ALL intelligent women!!!
Barbara Backyard Reply
Remove him from office. Lifetime ban.
M Collins Reply
Remove this judge and send the rapist to jail.
sarah smith Reply
How about the fact that incest in itself is illegal, and that she is a minor? What about the parents, are they not outraged at this?
Valerie Beck DeMartin Reply
This sentencing is utterly shameful. Shame on you Judge Follett! The fact that you have a confession from the perpetrator and he admits to drugging her should stand on its own, who cares that she took her clothes off by herself? She was not of sound mind and probably did not have the where-with -all to even know what she was doing she she was under the influence of some drug. This Judge should be stripped of all his duties and not be allowed to make decisions in such cases ever again. This is a disgrace. The victim will now not trust the people she thought she could count on to look out for her best interests. Her self esteem and confidence are ruined because she did not get any vindication for this terrible act that her brother committed.
John Q Public Reply
I find it bizarre that not a single photograph of this judge exists on the internet. Google is speechless. It seems as though he is hiding from the public.
You can go online and find out what he looks like. White male in his 70's, Gray with glasses 5'10″ish 180ish.
Kathleen Loonan Reply
I would like to see a photo of Judge Follett. I've always wondered what the devil looked like. Thank you.
Morgan McKinley Reply
What a pathetic excuse for a judge. He deserves to be disbarred and publicly humiliated.
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PCMag UK Reviews Consumer Electronics Digital Cameras Camera Accessories
Nikon Wu-1a Wireless Mobile Adapter
byJim Fisher May 03, 2013
Fair (2.5)
Adds Wi-Fi support to several Nikon cameras. Inexpensive. Easy to set up. Remote viewfinder support. Automatically converts Raw to JPG for transfer.
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Adds Wi-Fi support to several Nikon cameras.
Inexpensive.
Easy to set up.
Remote viewfinder support.
Automatically converts Raw to JPG for transfer.
Disables some camera functionality.
iPhone app not optimized for iPhone 5 screen.
Only works via a peer-to-peer connection with phone or tablet.
Adds a bit of bulk to the camera.
Flimsy connector.
The Nikon WU-1a Wireless Mobile Adapter ($59.95 direct) is a tiny adapter that plugs into the accessory port of many a recent Nikon camera to add Wi-Fi support. It works as advertised, allowing you to transfer photos from your camera to your iOS or Android device at full resolution. We tested it with the D5200 D-SLR, but it's compatible with a number of popular models including the Coolpix A and D3200.
The WU-1a has a sibling that is functionally identical, but is compatible with camera models with a different type of accessory port. The WU-1b is also $59.95 and can be used with the full-frame D600 and several models in the compact 1 series, including the J3, S1, and V2.
Either adapter plugs into the accessory port on a compatible camera. On the D5200 the WU-1a sticks out like a bump on the left side, and requires you to leave the flap that normally covers the ports open during use. When it's connected and enabled, you won't be able to review images on the camera's rear LCD, only on a connected smartphone, and Live View is disabled. It noticeably wiggles when touched; it's not an accessory I'd recommend leaving attached at all times.
Once you plug it in, a new Wi-Fi network is generated, identified as Nikon_WU and a string of numbers. There's no password, you just connect directly with your iOS or Android device from the network settings menu. Once you've paired the adapter with your phone or tablet you'll have to reset it to use another device, which prevents unwanted users from snooping through your shots or taking control of your camera. We tested the adapter and app using an iPhone 5, and Nikon has yet to update the application to provide full screen support for the larger 4-inch display.
When you launch the free Nikon Wireless Mobile Utility app you'll be presented with two options—Take Photos and View Photos. The former turns your phone into a remote viewfinder that has the ability to fire the camera's shutter. The current shutter speed and aperture are displayed, but you won't be able to adjust them. And I don't mean that you can't adjust them from the app—you can't adjust them from the camera either. The settings you have selected prior to launching the remote shooting mode are locked in. There are a few options you can set in the app—you can activate a self-timer, which is useful for taking group shots when using the remote viewfinder, and you can tell the adapter to automatically transfer a photo to the connected device after it's captured.
The Take Photos mode also shows you the current battery level and the number of photos left on the memory card. We started our tests with a 40 percent charge, but after only a few photo transfers and about ten minutes of remote viewfinder usage the charge had dipped below 30 percent. At this point the Live View feed to your phone is disabled. You can still fire the shutter remotely, you'll just be doing it blind.
The other mode, View Photos, is a bit more straightforward. It shows you all of the shots on your memory card. You can select the ones you'd like to download, and with a touch transfer them to your phone. It's simple and it works well, although it can be a bit slow. Each shot from the D5200 took about 15 seconds to transfer. If you shoot Raw, you'll be happy to know that a full-resolution JPG version of the Raw file will copy over to your phone, so you can share images on the go without resorting to storage intensive Raw+JPG shooting.
There's a lot of room for improvement with this adapter. Nikon's competitors are a bit ahead of them in terms of Wi-Fi implementation. The Canon EOS 6D gives you multiple choices on sharing images online, and can even send directly to Facebook and Twitter from the camera. Samsung's Smart Camera series, which includes the NX300 also gives you the choice of setting up the camera as an access point or connecting to a hotspot. And the Samsung Galaxy Camera runs Android and has built-in 4G cellular connectivity.
The worst part about using the adapter is losing access to camera controls while it's active. The idea of a remote release is great, but you should be able to adjust the settings on your D-SLR through the app and via the camera's physical controls with ease. If there's a silver lining to this, it encourages you to disconnect the adapter when not in use, which is a good idea when you consider the shaky connection between it and the accessory port. Nikon has dipped its toes into the water with putting Wi-Fi into cameras without requiring an adapter, but the company needs to play catch up on features and fix some issues before its Wi-Fi is ready for anything other than occasional use.
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Senior digital camera analyst for the PCMag consumer electronics reviews team, Jim Fisher is a graduate of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where he concentrated on documentary video production. Jim's interest in photography really took off when he borrowed his father's Hasselblad 500C and light meter in 2007.
He honed his writing skills at retailer B&H Photo, where he wrote thousands upon thousands of product descriptions, blog posts, and reviews. Since then he's shot with hundreds of camera models, ranging from pocket point-and-shoots to medium format digital cameras. And he's reviewed almost all of them. When he's not testing cameras and gear for PCMag, he's likely out and about shooting with …
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parentPort.postMessage(port2, [port2]);

Second type of worker just receive MessagePort and send data into port
// sub_worker.js
const { parentPort, MessageChannel } = require('worker_threads');

parentPort.on('message',  (port) => {
  port.postMessage('some data')
});

Main thread code
// main thread
const { Worker } = require('worker_threads');

const mw = new Worker('worker1.js');
mw.on('message', (port) => {
  for (let i = 0; i < 5; i++) {
    const w = new Worker('sub_worker.js');
    w.postMessage(port, [port]);
  }
})

The problem is error when I send one channel to multiple workers.
Error text: DataCloneError: MessagePort in transfer list is already detached

A: If anybody else is coming across this problem: it's not possible to do it the way you are trying. A channel is a one to one link between threads. So you've got two choices:

*

*Set up multiple channels, one per worker, and the main thread needs to post a message to each work individually

*Use a Broadcast channel. This is currently experimental.


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by Bernard MacLaverty ‧ RELEASE DATE: April 1, 2001
Booker-winner MacLaverty (Grace Notes, 1997, etc.) portrays the coming of age of three Belfast boys during the early 1970s.
Although it's pretty much the norm for adolescent boys the world over to feel cooped up and suffocated, in Northern Ireland this could be considered a rational understanding of the situation. Especially in the post-Beatles age, the provincial sectarianism of Belfast must have seemed rather galling to those who were just on the cusp of discovering the world for the first time. MacLaverty here takes us through the last year of high school with three Catholic boys who are all, in different ways, butting their heads against the same brick wall of complacent ignorance. Martin Brennan is the most sensitive of the three: a diligent but slow student, he is trying for the second time in two years to pass his examinations and qualify for a civil service job—but keeps coming back to the question of whether he should enter a religious order as a welcome escape from the harsh realities of life on the outside. Martin's friends Kavanagh and Foley are also products of Belfast, and they have similar frustrations seen from very different perspectives: Foley is a foul-mouthed rebel who scoffs at the Church and scorns Belfast ("A godforsaken backwater where they lock up the swings on a Sunday"), while Kavanagh has fallen in love with the Protestant Philippa Dobson, who not only refuses to sleep with him but wants him to accept Jesus as his savior. This is a leisurely old-fashioned Bildungsroman in which much of the attention is devoted to the discovery of new ideas, and the arguments that they engender among the young, and the sense of nostalgia is palpable from the start. By the end, Martin has changed as much as Belfast (and the world) has.
Pub Date: April 1, 2001
Publisher: Norton
Categories: LITERARY FICTION
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by Sally Rooney ‧ RELEASE DATE: April 16, 2019
A young Irish couple gets together, splits up, gets together, splits up—sorry, can't tell you how it ends!
Irish writer Rooney has made a trans-Atlantic splash since publishing her first novel, Conversations With Friends, in 2017. Her second has already won the Costa Novel Award, among other honors, since it was published in Ireland and Britain last year. In outline it's a simple story, but Rooney tells it with bravura intelligence, wit, and delicacy. Connell Waldron and Marianne Sheridan are classmates in the small Irish town of Carricklea, where his mother works for her family as a cleaner. It's 2011, after the financial crisis, which hovers around the edges of the book like a ghost. Connell is popular in school, good at soccer, and nice; Marianne is strange and friendless. They're the smartest kids in their class, and they forge an intimacy when Connell picks his mother up from Marianne's house. Soon they're having sex, but Connell doesn't want anyone to know and Marianne doesn't mind; either she really doesn't care, or it's all she thinks she deserves. Or both. Though one time when she's forced into a social situation with some of their classmates, she briefly fantasizes about what would happen if she revealed their connection: "How much terrifying and bewildering status would accrue to her in this one moment, how destabilising it would be, how destructive." When they both move to Dublin for Trinity College, their positions are swapped: Marianne now seems electric and in-demand while Connell feels adrift in this unfamiliar environment. Rooney's genius lies in her ability to track her characters' subtle shifts in power, both within themselves and in relation to each other, and the ways they do and don't know each other; they both feel most like themselves when they're together, but they still have disastrous failures of communication. "Sorry about last night," Marianne says to Connell in February 2012. Then Rooney elaborates: "She tries to pronounce this in a way that communicates several things: apology, painful embarrassment, some additional pained embarrassment that serves to ironise and dilute the painful kind, a sense that she knows she will be forgiven or is already, a desire not to 'make a big deal.' " Then: "Forget about it, he says." Rooney precisely articulates everything that's going on below the surface; there's humor and insight here as well as the pleasure of getting to know two prickly, complicated people as they try to figure out who they are and who they want to become.
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Publisher: Little, Brown
Review Posted Online: Jan. 23, 2018
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Feb. 1, 2018
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Title: Salient: Victoria University Students' Paper. Vol. 30, No. 7. 1967.
Gerard Curry
B.G.S.
Publication details: Victoria University of Wellington Students' Association, 15 June 1967, Wellington
Part of: Salient : An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z.
Salient: Victoria University Students' Paper. Vol. 30, No. 7. 1967.
Out of the sand?
Sirs.—Having only Just got around to reading the April 14 issue of Salient I notice that B.G.S. is still trying hard to poke his head out of the saund—I mean Shand—ah . . . sand.
We got some more of this self-deceptively, well-meaning crapulence about "The pursuit of truth" and the freedom students must have to make this pursuit.
This cliche is peddled out from time to time in order to try and preach to students what they should be at university for. These scrupulously truth-seeking masses are meant to be able to consume knowledge and express informed opinion to the "ignorant masses." Tills assumes a number of things about the attitudes of students and what their so-called studies involve.
Firstly, the editorial did not attempt to discriminate in any way; it implied that all students are pursuing truth! Secondly, it implied that the pursuit of truth is an integral part of studies at university. Both of these statements are bull . . . The examination of accepted standards and beliefs and the pursuit of ideals is a result of the striving of individuals and while being related to studies is not necessarily stimulated by them. The whole university, students, staff, department-heads, chancellor, the lot would have to pay more than lip-service to something more valuable, universally, than the acquisition of a meal ticket before this university could gain any stature as a place of learning and a creator of valid ideas.
The attitude expressed in the editorial also assumes, that students are interested; in the pursuit of truth—more rubbish. Students in this country are encouraged to! specialise early and there are, many advantages in doing so. The Government will come clean with aU sorts of goodies to anyone who says he or she wants to be a teacher but they will be waiting for, and will make sure they get, one way or another, their pound of flesh—and the blood. The need for a well-rounded education is not stressed at any level and so emphasis is laid upon the students getting some qualification for a certain field of employment—and this is what they are interested in at university. If they are undecided about their future they still come to university but their mind is lust as closed as anyone else's when it comes to accepted values because these things are such a closed book at secondary school. How many people can remember discussions in class at secondary school about politics, religion, humanity, ethics or how small a part of education getting a meal ticket really is?
A good indication of the interest of students is demonstrated at tutorials when the broader implications of anything that is being discussed arise. How many students can actually relate what they are learning to the world which is so infinitely greater than the one in the tutorial room?
How many students do we observe who actually do try to form ideas of their own in a subject and how well is this received by other students and staff? How often do we realise that those in the tutorial that get the highest marks are those that have the least to say, disregarding shyness and similar inhibitions? I think one would probably find that the answers to these questions would reveal that there are many things within the organisation of the whole NZ education system that do not encourage students to think for themselves or learn to do so.
The whole system is oriented towards examinations. As a prerequisite to sitting these one must get a pass in class exercises, essays, term examinations and practicals and| one must attend tutorials which are often useless owing to lack of flow of ideas. These things do not produce education; they produce examination-passing which is a completely different thing. After producing an essay a week, or three essays every two weeks as some people have to, trying to keep up with notes and essential reading in order to be able to pass the term ex-animations, and doing three hours of practical each week, there is little time or mental energy left to become interested, in the fullest sense, in studies. With a continual pressure of work university becomes a drudgery which one has to keep justifying to oneself. This is best done in terms of the myth of the meal ticket, specially since most students are completely unaware of any other value of education as a result of the education they have already had so the whole worthless process becomes self-perpetuating.
Some lecturers I have spoken to find that classes in Adult Education are far more interested and receptive than university students. Their attitudes and interests are not influenced by examinations and the only pressure upon them is to learn and this is governed by themselves—not forced upon them. The pursuit of truth is possible under those conditions where there are no artificial spurs to try and force students to asorb and not much else.
While agreeing with most of the ideas in the editorial and disagreeing with Mr. Shand I can understand what prompted him to say what he did. He questioned the purpose we serve by hanging on to academic freedom when such a small percentage of students are interested in the pursuit of truth. Surely, to hang on to it at this stage would be a contradiction of common sense and we are rightfully expected to have that.
No, sirs, for students to claim a right to academic freedom they must be pre- pared and able to put it to its fullest use but under the present system and with the attitudes this system creates, there is not a dog's show of being prepared or able. With regard to the present situation Mr. Shand's opinion is, unfortunately, relevant and this, of course, pleases him and The Establishment as it relieves a great deal of pressure upon them. It is obvious that those who feel pressure as a result of academic freedom are going to take every opportunity of curbing it and that is exactly what Mr. Shand was attempting to do, even to the extent of threatening to cut the universities' money supply.
Clearly, BGS was the one guilty of "woolly thinking" because the ideas he advocated in his editorial are not as relevant to the present tendencies of university students as he made them out to be. While the present system remains, scrupulousness about academic freedom is a waste of editorial space. Only when he has some practical ideas about changing the structure of university education should he start prattling about academic freedom.
In the meantime Salient editors can stop brick-walling their brains out on the trivial and nebulous aspects of university such as "the pursuit of truth" and stick to writing about intensely important matters like how many "students" are in the University senior A rugby side. If BGS carries on along the lines indicated in the editorial I have discussed then GPC will only have to look as far as his co-editor for a perpetrator of another "great hoax."
It would appear my editorial is only peripheral to the argument the writer presents.
In my editorial I referred to academic freedom as "the freedom staff and students have to pursue the truth as they see fit." At no stage did I suggest all or any percentage made full use of this freedom.— B.G.S.
Bible on homosexuality
Sirs,—As a warning against taking it too literally, may I point out that the writers of the Bible, unlike Mrs. J. Gregorius. were ignorant of the process of ovulation in woman who they regarded merely as a well-equipped incubator for the male "seed." The "abomination" they "were very emphatic" about, lay in wasting this precious fluid which was believed to have had all the attributes of the fertilised ovum.
This was the reason that the "Holiness Code" of Leviticus took such drastic measures against the male homosexual and ignored the lesbian who had no "seed to waste. Again, the translators of the Bible, knowing nothing of inversion as an inherited trait, or as a condition due to psychological or glandular causes, read all vaguely unusual sexual activity as evidence of perversion.
When St. Paul referred to "men leaving the natural use of the woman" he could not have had knowledge of the genuine invert for whom women would have been an un-surmountable aversion. As a guide to Mrs. Gregorius I would recommend reading Homosexuality and the Western Christian Tradition by D. S. Bailey, of the Church of England Moral Welfare Council.
Barry Neels
Member of the committee of NZ Homosexual Law Reform Society (late Wolfenden Association).
Debate continues
Sirs,—Mrs. J. Gregorius has studied references in the Bible to homosexuality but has failed to see the matter in its proper perspective. It must be remembered that in the Old Testament many sexual practices such as adultery, masturbation and fornication were punishable by death, stoning or banishment. Circumcision. Kosher meat and animal sacrifices were also a way of life.
The modern Christian, however, relies on the New Testament for guidance rather than the Old. The Jewish people of the Old Testament considered propagation of the race of paramount importance and consequently anything that appeared detrimental to this was prohibited.
If this was the modern at-titude the Christian popula-tion would find itself with the poverty and overcrowding present in such places as India today.
Christ Himself made no direct mention of homosexuality. However, Matthew Chapter 19. verses 11 & 12, reveals that there will always be some people who physically or mentally are unable to enter into marriage.
St. Paul in Romans chapter 1 is obviously expressing a personal prejudice and examination of his writings will for instance reveal his low opinion of women.
Women who assert themselves by writing letters to newspapers would undoubtedly come under condemnation from him.
D. McMillan
What!
Sirs,—He who removes the panties from H.H. in Bolton Street Cemetery is surely performing an indecent act, what?
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