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The business of Lincoln Jeffries was first established in Birmingham's Gun Quarter in the year 1873 at 31 Whittall Street by George Lincoln Jeffries. George and his brother Arthur had arrived in Birmingham from Norwich in around 1866 having both worked for their father, also named George Jeffries, who was a highly skilled established gun maker and had premises in Golden Ball Street and Orford Hill, Norwich.
From his premises in Whittall Street Lincoln Jeffries produced sporting rifles and also award winning single and double barrelled shotguns. In 1888, he relocated to a large premises, at 48 Whittall Street and Lincoln Jeffries began designing and manufacturing air rifles. With the company increasing in stature, they were able to again move to a much larger premises at 121 Steelhouse Lane, from where he produced his world famous 'Lincoln Air Rifle'.
Lincoln Jeffries continued their production of air rifles, and in the early 1900's started producing a range of lead pellets, and steel flighted darts under the names 'Lincoln', 'Target', 'Match', and 'Bisley'. The name 'Bisley' refers to the Bisley Rifle meeting of 1905, where His Majesty the King examined the Lincoln Patent Air Rifle, pronouncing it 'very ingenious'.
After the retirement of George Lincoln Jeffries in 1912, air rifle pellets continued to be made by his sons, however it was not until the 1930's that two of his grandsons, Lincoln 'Len' and Arthur Jeffries began to produce air rifle pellets under the brand names 'British Marksman', later becoming known as 'Marksman'. Alongside these brands they also started producing a smooth sided air rifle slug, packaged under the name 'Target'.
Len and Arthur Jeffries continued to produce air rifle pellets in calibres .177, .22 and .25 from their premises in Whittall Street and Steelhouse Lane, located in the heart of Birmingham until 1960, where due to the redevelopment of the city were forced to relocate to a new factory in Summer Lane.
Throughout the 1950's and 1960's, Marksman air rifle pellets were being sold not only in the United Kingdom, but all around the world with huge quantities being distributed to Canada, Australia and South Africa.
By the 1970's, production figures of 25 million pellets a week were required such was the popularity of the Marksman brand of air rifle pellets in their distinctive red, white and blue boxes of 100's, 200's and 500's, and tins of 500.
Production of the Marksman pointed pellets began in 1983 with the .22 calibre, followed by the .177 version in 1987.
Marksman Airgun Pellets continue to be manufactured at the Lincoln Jeffries factory located in Summer Lane, supplying customers both in the United Kingdom, and all around the world.


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Study recommends EU action to protect atypical workers
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A recent study explored 'Temporary contracts, precarious employment, employees' fundamental rights and EU employment law', commissioned by the European Parliament's Policy Department for Citizens' Rights and Constitutional Affairs at the request of the Committee on Petitions. The findings have implications for journalists, as atypical and precarious employment has been tied to media industries and digitisation.
The study emphasises that precarious employment is a fundamental rights issue of enormous weight and significance within the EU's normative order. Some groups, such as women and younger workers, are more affected by precarious employment.
Self-employment, which affects many freelancers and journalists, is discussed in the study as it compares the rights of employees and self-employed. The study finds that self-employed people are entitled to just 4 of the 26 rights granted to employees, and lack basic rights including minimum wage, parental leave, and sick pay.
The study identifies a range of gaps that may reinforce precarious employment. These "protective gaps" include gaps in employment protection, representation and enforcement. Protective gaps are a result of deficiencies in EU secondary law, self-restraint by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), and limited effectiveness of EU law due to inadequate transposition and enforcement of labour standards at EU member state level.
The study argues that a reduction of precarious work is more likely to be achieved in societies where more inclusive, equal and effective labour standards are upheld. There are links between working time, such as minimum hours, and precariousness. In addition, the study identified a relationship between atypical forms of work and the regulation of the employee's right to know of the conditions applicable to their contract or employment.
Recommendations made by the study are based on the assumption that the socially-progressive goal of reducing precarious work in the EU should be pursued on the basis of inclusive, equal and effective labour standards. Recommendations include:
Extension of employment protection coverage through the adoption of a broader definition of "worker" that applies across all EU labour law directives.
Promotion of the role of multi-level collective bargaining
Addressing the time- and organisation-based dimensions of precariousness through revising the Atypical Work Directives and the Working Time Directive
Developing more holistic mechanisms for ensuring effectiveness of labour standards, including improved access to information about employment conditions and access to justice.
Despite these recommendations, however, the study notes that the legal system may be two-sided in its dealings around precarious employment, as on the one hand it may lessen the risk of precariousness in increasing employment protection coverage, but at the same time this may limit collective bargaining. Therefore, there is a need for holistic action as the target constantly moves.
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* Diplomatic relations between Qatar and Peru were established on November 7, 1989 and set to commemorate 25th anniversary next year.
* The President of Peru visited Qatar in 2014.
* MoU signed between Qatar Holding, and the Peruvian agency Proinversion. Also, another MoU between Qatar Mining and the Ministry of Energy and Mines of Peru.
The upcoming official visit of His Highness the Amir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani to Peru is very important for both Qatar and Peru, the ambassador of Peru told Gulf Times.
"It will be the first time that the heads of both states meet personally to discuss the ways and means to strengthen the bonds of friendship and cooperation. I expect a very busy agenda for both leaders and delegations, as there are many issues to be addressed," said Carlos Velasco Mendiola, ambassador of Peru.
"The agenda of discussions will include issues of bilateral and multilateral interest, as well as regional and global matters.The mutual dialogue among the two leaders will centre around the ways of strengthening the cooperation in different fields, such as political, economic and commercial (improving bilateral trade), investment opportunities, air connectivity between both countries, cultural, youth and sports, as well as cooperation in multilateral forums," explained Mendiola.
According to the envoy, there are positive expectations in the economic and entrepreneurial circles of Peru about the official visit of HH the Amir of Qatar. Cabinet ministers will also meet with the delegation to deal issues of their respective sectors.
The Peruvian ambassador also highlighted that diplomatic relations between both the counties are entering into the 25th anniversary. "Diplomatic relations between Peru and Qatar were established on November 7th, 1989, which means that next year we will commemorate the 25th anniversary. Since that date, the bilateral relations between the two countries have been developing positively and gradually. Today, we have a solid legal framework of the relations, created during the successful official visit of His Highness the Father Amir, Sheik Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani in February 2013, reciprocated by the president of Peru in 2014," noted the official.
The envoy maintained that the government of Peru is committed to continue and enhance the relations with Qatar. "We have great expectations in the future development of the bilateral relations. We are both modern societies and developing countries with abound natural resources in our own regions. Therefore, I believe that the cooperation in economic, trade, financial, educational and scientific and technological fields will secure this purpose. Particularly, the cultural domain can bring both countries closer together and allow to know each other better," he hoped.
The ambassador also pointed out that Peru observes the leadership of the government of Qatar with great attention in the field of international diplomacy and conflict resolution, as well as mediation in different parts of the world and at the regional level. "There is ample coincidence between foreign policies of Peru and Qatar on issues of the global agenda under the framework of the United Nations Charter, the respect of international law and the peaceful solution of conflicts, as well as in the fight against international terrorism, promotion and defence of human rights and protection of environment," he added.


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A digital existentialist struggling to understand why the bright future we were promised took an unexpected detour?
I see the government has rumbled one ruse, reportedly used by schools to 'get extra funding and inflate their position in new-style rankings' and that's to label as many pupils as possible with 'Special Educational Needs'. Apparently, in some schools, as many as half of pupils are now diagnosed with learning difficulties or behavioral problems, it was revealed, just weeks after a cross-party group of MPs criticised schools for being too quick to label children with poor reading skills as dyslexic.
Given the enormous pressure placed on schools to improve their results by the government, I'm not surprised at this or in fact any other gambit being used to show an annual league table improvement and in many ways, it mirrors the pressures being applied to hospital trusts in showing constant improvement or to conceal what often appears to the man-in-the-street, to be a steady decline in overall standards which are contradicted by statistics.
The reality of the matte…
With the risk of a terrorist incident now raised to the level of 'Severe', I've come out from under my desk long enough to write this short blog entry, before returning to cover my windows in brown paper.
What this heightened state actually means in real terms is hard to fathom and the Home Secretary doesn't appear to be any wiser either. What he can't say of course is who might be responsible or indeed, whether 'they', whoever 'they' might be, may have returned from any recent adventure holiday break to Pakistan or Yemen or Somalia.
I'm pretty sure though, that if you went down to the bookmakers and placed a bet, call it risk profiling if you like, based on actual incidents over the last ten years, you would get pretty short odds on the suspects, leaving one to wonder why Auntie Mabel really needs to experience the indignity of airport body scanning, now she's passed the age of seventy.
So for now, we all have to treat each other with equal…
A Bite of the Apple
Today, I finally joined the massed ranks of Apple's iPhone users, swapping out my Blackberry 9000 for the first batch of the popular smartphones to ship out of Vodafone.
I've been patiently for a year now, as O2 users have had the device for rather a long time and have delighted in showing me how limited the Blackberry, which is powerful in its email capability, is when it comes to 100,000 iPhone 'apps'.
I mentioned that I gave my wife one of the HTC Google Android devices for Christmas and to be honest, it's much easier to install than the iPhone and given its powerful integration with the expanding Google product platform, possibly a better device. However, the iPhone has all the aviation and business apps that haven't yet appeared on the Android and from my point of view, it's apps library has some 80,000 more compelling applications available than Google's but I'm sure that will soon change.
In my view however, if you are looking for one of the…
Gesture Politics
Up to the big city today and the large amount of snow on the ground past Herne Bay towards London came as a surprise to me; as did the presence of British Transport Police on the train. Where the former was concerned this illustrated how much Thanet benefits from its micro-climate and the latter, well I've been corresponding with the Chief Constable of British Transport Police in conjunction with Thanet North MP, Roger Gale and I'm delighted to see they have a series of operations running on the trains between here and Faversham. With luck, an occasional police presence will deter the teenage element that I frequently see causing problems between Margate and Herne bay when I'm travelling.
I did notice today an initiative from Gordon Brown to put PCs into the hands of more deprived children and their families, a laudable objective. In fact, when he did this first time around at the beginning of the decade, I was still working with the present Government through the Cabinet…
Fishy Story
It's a bit quiet out there this morning. The road in from Birchington is almost empty, on account of both the A28 and the Thanet Way being closed by accidents, effectively cutting-off the island from the outside world until cleared. We appear to have escaped the worst of the snow as usual, having warmer sea temperatures on both sides and the further west you go, I hear the worse it is.
I'm trying to get to a meeting at the council offices in Margate today so rather than risk the icy roads; I plan to walk along the seafront, as it's a pleasant if rather brisk day. Neither one of my small dogs is prepared to volunteer for arctic sled work and earlier, the older one arbitrarily decide to turn around and head for home after experiencing the bitter wind chill on the beach at 8am.
Wednesday, was one more exciting day in politics with what appears to have been a failed attempt by Geoff Hoon and Patricia Hewitt, to unseat Gordon Brown from his 'Scotsman –like' grip on the …
I'm not convinced that Schools Secretary, Ed Balls and I share the same planet. After watching his interview on BBC Breakfast this morning, I'm even more concerned that he's 'lost the plot' in a fog of well-meaning and wide-eyed socialist zeal.
To cut a very long story short, Ed, like everyone else, wants the best possible education for all our children to give them the best possible start in society and to deliver the best possible skills to the economy of tomorrow. It's a laudable aspiration shared by every politician regardless of party.
The Schools Secretary however believes that he can legislate for such success, increasing the education budget and guaranteeing parents that if their child falls behind, then one-to-one teaching will be made available. It's a little more detailed than this of course but I think you will grasp the broad picture.
Strangely enough, even his BBC interviewer appeared a little incredulous. After all, you may throw large amount…
History Reminds Us
It occurs to me that Britain's' future security won't so much be determined by what happens on the playing fields of Eton rather than the mountains of Yemen.
I was invited to the country five years ago by the UN to speak at a conference in the capital, Sana'a. I really wanted to visit as this is one part of the Arab world that I have yet to set foot in but with it being a hotbed for Islamic terrorist groups, I decided to give the British Ambassador a call for her opinion on whether it was a safe choice of destination. As she only ventured out in the company of an armoured Range Rover and a handful of Special Forces bodyguards, her answer was quite unequivocal. So I asked the UN if they were able to guarantee my personal safety and the reply was an equally unequivocal 'No', so I politely declined the invitation.
In the week that saw the release of IT consultant Peter Moore, from long captivity in Iraq as well, I'm rather glad that I didn't take-up the o…
Postmans' Knock
The postman had to remind me this morning that it wasn't Sunday. "It's OK," he said, "I almost forgot as well" and so thankfully, I avoided waking the family up in time for church.
After a while, the Christmas holiday starts to resemble the film, 'Groundhog Day'. There's still half a Christmas pudding left under cling film and the cream is reaching its sell-by-date and so someone has to make that final gesture of selfless courage and eat it. The two bottles of good Irish whiskey present me with a rather more difficult challenge before work starts on Monday.
The New Year is hardly hours old before all the political parties are starting their pre-election campaigns. I caught the LibDems Chris Hulme this morning taking a thinly disguised class-war swipe at David Cameron over Conservative plans for inheritance tax reform, suggesting it was a cynical ploy to pander to his rich friends and George Osborne's.
Curiously enough though, the BBC ran a p…
A Tale of Two Digits
Reading today's papers, one story in particular struck me as one with a deep interest in both education and technology.
Reportedly, a group of eight primary school head teachers have spent £32,000 of taxpayer's money on a three-week training course in Australia, which involved visiting 12 Australian schools. This was apparently an 'investment', or as the trip head teacher Lauren Connor said: 'We want to learn more about how they are using ICT as a delivery mechanism for the whole curriculum. "We made a short film to present to the Australian Education Department in Sydney, and we are looking forward to establishing closer links with schools down under."
To be honest, I can't really see what can be achieved from a trip of this kind 'down-under' as head teachers are pretty much locked-in to our own national curriculum and their own tight budgets. In recent months, I've been on a university course and have also been in school, observing how …
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^ c: The original Famicom featured two hardwired game controllers and a single port for additional input devices. See game controllers section.
^ e: The NES was the overall best-selling system worldwide of its time. In Japan and the United States, it controlled 85 to 90 percent of the market. It was not as successful in Europe, where it was at most in ten to twelve percent of households. Nintendo sold 61.9 million NES units worldwide: 19.35 million in Japan, 34 million in the Americas and 8.5 million in other regions.
^ g: Atari broke off negotiations with Nintendo in response to Coleco's unveiling of an unlicensed port of Donkey Kong for its Coleco Adam computer system. Although the game had been produced without Nintendo's permission or support, Atari took its release as a sign that Nintendo was dealing with one of its major competitors in the market.
^ h: Donkey Kong Jr. Math and Mach Rider are often erroneously included in lists of launch titles. In reality, neither title was available until later in 1986.
^ In Hangul, 현대 컴보이 (Hyeondae Keomboi).
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Enterprise resource planning (ERP) is for most, a daunting and overwhelming consideration - more so for the mid-market or medium-sized organisation.
So says Heath Huxtable, head of consulting and software integration at Vox Telecom, who notes that the reality is that ERP is difficult to get right.
"ERP is not only a costly undertaking, but brings a layer of complexity that is often grossly under-estimated," says Huxtable.
According to Huxtable, the complexity of an ERP deployment and implementation is due largely to the fact that an organisation will be dealing with the entire business operation - sales, procurement, marketing, stock management and everything in between.
"All of these units are businesses in their own rights, and to try and get a cohesive view of exactly what that requirement is, and to actually resolve it, is massive."
According to independent ERP research conducted by Panorama Consulting Services, 30% of ERP projects fail because of a lack of change management, lack of user involvement, training, user and high-level adoption.
Keith Fenner, chief sales officer at Sage X3, says as Africa's mid-sized enterprises expand across the continent and other parts of the world, so should they look at putting in place ERP platforms that will allow them to seamlessly manage multiple legislative environments, currencies and languages.
"Many companies in Africa are still running their businesses on home-grown legacy systems or even using manual processes," says Fenner. "In many cases, they don't have the appetite for the time, risk, and cost attached to rolling out a complex, high-end platform. For that reason, we're seeing a lot of demand in the market for systems that can be rapidly deployed to address the growing pains of a company on a global expansion drive."
He adds enterprises should be looking for alternatives to the monolithic ERP packages of the past, since the global environment demands that they evolve quickly in response to changing laws, regulations, and business conditions.
"Today's enterprise applications must be flexible and modular to cater for the complexities of a global business," says Fenner.
Huxtable says increasingly, organisations are looking to cloud-based ERP solutions. He stresses that cloud-based solutions simplify the ERP cost and complexity conundrum.
"And companies in the mid-market that are not 100% convinced of the benefit of a full-scale ERP deployment have additional routes that they can consider - it no longer needs to be an all or nothing discussion.
"Move the ERP deployment into the cloud or implement a CRM solution that can integrate ERP tool sets as required. No organisation should ever feel like there is a one-size-fits-all, cookie-cutter approach to ERP, or in fact CRM."


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I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution by Emily Nussbaum
June 24, 2019 July 12, 2019 balletbookwormLeave a comment
From The New Yorker's fiercely original, Pulitzer Prize–winning culture critic, a provocative collection of new and previously published essays arguing that we are what we watch.
From her creation of the first "Approval Matrix" in New York magazine in 2004 to her Pulitzer Prize–winning columns for The New Yorker, Emily Nussbaum has known all along that what we watch is who we are. In this collection, including two never-before-published essays, Nussbaum writes about her passion for television that began with stumbling upon "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"—a show that was so much more than it appeared—while she was a graduate student studying Victorian literature. What followed was a love affair with television, an education, and a fierce debate about whose work gets to be called "great" that led Nussbaum to a trailblazing career as a critic whose reviews said so much more about our culture than just what's good on television. Through these pieces, she traces the evolution of female protagonists over the last decade, the complex role of sexual violence on TV, and what to do about art when the artist is revealed to be a monster. And she explores the links between the television antihero and the rise of Donald Trump.
The book is more than a collection of essays. With each piece, Nussbaum recounts her fervent search, over fifteen years, for a new kind of criticism that resists the false hierarchy that elevates one form of culture over another. It traces her own struggle to punch through stifling notions of "prestige television," searching for a wilder and freer and more varied idea of artistic ambition—one that acknowledges many types of beauty and complexity, and that opens to more varied voices. It's a book that celebrates television as television, even as each year warps the definition of just what that might mean.
I'm not really much of a television watcher these days – for some reason multi-episode stuff isn't doing it for me – but I do love criticism about it. I'm not going to get to most of the television shows I'd maybe like to watch – there are only so many hours in a day and after working most of them I have to share my leisure time with books and movies and cats and knitting and (occasionally) spending time with other humans – so I don't mind getting spoiled for something I haven't been watching and perhaps only plan to watch after the whole thing is done.
I'd read a number of Emily Nussbaum's The New Yorker essays previously so I already knew that I would enjoy I Like to Watch immensely. Some essays are more reviews of a show's season or finale, some are more of a critical look back. Two of the essays are completely new – which in my opinion was too few. I would have loved a better balance of older pieces and new cross-topic pieces. Out tomorrow!
Dear FTC: I read a digital galley of this book from the publisher via Edelweiss.
Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language by Amanda Montell
The word "bitch" conjures many images for many people but is most often meant to describe an unpleasant woman. Even before its usage to mean a female canine, bitch didn't refer to gender at all—it originated as a gender-neutral word meaning genitalia. A perfectly innocuous word devolving into a female insult is the case for tons more terms, including hussy, which simply meant "housewife," or slut, which meant "untidy" and was also used to describe men. These words are just a few among history's many English slurs hurled at women.
Amanda Montell, feminist linguist and staff features editor at online beauty and health magazine Byrdie.com, deconstructs language—from insults and cursing to grammar and pronunciation patterns—to reveal the ways it has been used for centuries to keep women form gaining equality. Ever wonder why so many people are annoyed when women use the word "like" as a filler? Or why certain gender neutral terms stick and others don't? Or even how linguists have historically discussed women's speech patterns? Wordslut is no stuffy academic study; Montell's irresistible humor shines through, making linguistics not only approachable but both downright hilarious and profound.
Wordslut is an interesting overview of the English language and the ways that words have shifted meaning over time to become more or less genered, patririarchal, racist, bigoted, etc. There's a really great chapter on uptalk and vocal fry and one on whether there is a "gay voice". Lots of sources cited on the page.
Dear FTC: I started reading a digital galley, but it expired and I had to borrow a copy from the store to finish it.
The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games by Ebony Elizabeth Thomas
May 21, 2019 July 11, 2019 balletbookwormLeave a comment
Stories provide portals into other worlds, both real and imagined. The promise of escape draws people from all backgrounds to speculative fiction, but when people of color seek passageways into the fantastic, the doors are often barred. This problem lies not only with children's publishing, but also with the television and film executives tasked with adapting these stories into a visual world. When characters of color do appear, they are often marginalized or subjected to violence, reinforcing for audiences that not all lives matter.
The Dark Fantastic is an engaging and provocative exploration of race in popular youth and young adult speculative fiction. Grounded in her experiences as YA novelist, fanfiction writer, and scholar of education, Thomas considers four black girl protagonists from some of the most popular stories of the early 21st century: Bonnie Bennett from the CW's The Vampire Diaries, Rue from Suzanne Collins's The Hunger Games, Gwen from the BBC's Merlin, and Angelina Johnson from J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter. Analyzing their narratives and audience reactions to them reveals how these characters mirror the violence against black and brown people in our own world.
In response, Thomas uncovers and builds upon a tradition of fantasy and radical imagination in Black feminism and Afrofuturism to reveal new possibilities. Through fanfiction and other modes of counter-storytelling, young people of color have reinvisioned fantastic worlds that reflect their own experiences, their own lives. As Thomas powerfully asserts, "we dark girls deserve more, because we are more."
The Dark Fantastic is a very thought-provoking examination of race in media and young adult speculative fiction through the lens of the "Dark Fantastic" (spectacle, hesitation, violence, haunting, and emancipation). Thomas uses four key Black characters – Rue from The Hunger Games, Gwen from BBC's Merlin, Bonnie from CW's The Vampire Diaries, and Angelina Johnson from Harry Potter – to explore this cycle and how fan-fiction and counter-storytelling are changing these characters in the fandom. This monograph sits between popular lit-crit and academic theory so be ready for a more formal argument.
What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker by Damon Young
March 27, 2019 July 7, 2019 balletbookwormLeave a comment
From the cofounder of VerySmartBrothas.com, and one of the most read writers on race and culture at work today, a provocative and humorous memoir-in-essays that explores the ever-shifting definitions of what it means to be Black (and male) in America
For Damon Young, existing while Black is an extreme sport. The act of possessing black skin while searching for space to breathe in America is enough to induce a ceaseless state of angst where questions such as "How should I react here, as a professional black person?" and "Will this white person's potato salad kill me?" are forever relevant.
What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker chronicles Young's efforts to survive while battling and making sense of the various neuroses his country has given him.
It's a condition that's sometimes stretched to absurd limits, provoking the angst that made him question if he was any good at the "being straight" thing, as if his sexual orientation was something he could practice and get better at, like a crossover dribble move or knitting; creating the farce where, as a teen, he wished for a white person to call him a racial slur just so he could fight him and have a great story about it; and generating the surreality of watching gentrification transform his Pittsburgh neighborhood from predominantly Black to "Portlandia . . . but with Pierogies."
And, at its most devastating, it provides him reason to believe that his mother would be alive today if she were white.
From one of our most respected cultural observers, What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker is a hilarious and honest debut that is both a celebration of the idiosyncrasies and distinctions of Blackness and a critique of white supremacy and how we define masculinity.
What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker is one of the new Discover titles at the store. Young uses the form of the essay to both tell his own story of growing up black in Pittsburgh AND write about the culture around him. He has a sharp turn of phrase and a dry humor that I really enjoyed. There is a lot to think about here, from ripping culture, to masculinity, to use of the N word in black culture, to his lack of an driver's license and how that impacts employment, to his new identity as a parent. I really appreciated how he constructed the chapter about his mother's illness and death then commented on how the white medical establishment views black women's pain and bodies; very well-crafted.
What Doesn't Kill You Doesn't Make You Blacker is out now in the US.
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Dead Girls: Essays on Surviving an American Obsession by Alice Bolin
June 25, 2018 November 7, 2018 balletbookwormLeave a comment
A collection of poignant, perceptive essays that expertly blends the personal and political in an exploration of American culture through the lens of our obsession with dead women.
In her debut collection, Alice Bolin turns a critical eye to literature and pop culture, the way media consumption reflects American society, and her own place within it. From essays on Joan Didion and James Baldwin to Twin Peaks, Britney Spears, and Serial, Bolin illuminates our widespread obsession with women who are abused, killed, and disenfranchised, and whose bodies (dead and alive) are used as props to bolster a man's story.
From chronicling life in Los Angeles to dissecting the "Dead Girl Show" to analyzing literary witches and werewolves, this collection challenges the narratives we create and tell ourselves, delving into the hazards of toxic masculinity and those of white womanhood. Beginning with the problem of dead women in fiction, it expands to the larger problems of living women—both the persistent injustices they suffer and the oppression that white women help perpetrate.
Sharp, incisive, and revelatory, Dead Girls is a much-needed dialogue on women's role in the media and in our culture.
This is an interesting collection of essays. Parts 1 ("The Dead Girl Show") and 3 ("Weird Sisters") are the strongest sets of essays examining the culture's obsession with The Dead Girl in TV/film/books and how a living female body is harder to handle ("Just Us Girls" about the B-horror flick Ginger Snap is excellent). Part 2, which is largely about LA and Bolin's connection with Joan Didion was fine, but the writing didn't feel as strong to me.
Dead Girls is out June 26.
Squeezed: Why Our Families Can't Afford America by Alissa Quart
Families today are squeezed on every side—from high childcare costs and harsh employment policies to workplaces without paid family leave or even dependable and regular working hours. Many realize that attaining the standard of living their parents managed has become impossible.
Alissa Quart, executive editor of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, examines the lives of many middle-class Americans who can now barely afford to raise children. Through gripping firsthand storytelling, Quart shows how America has failed its families. Her subjects—from professors to lawyers to caregivers to nurses—have been wrung out by a system that doesn't support them and enriches only a tiny elite.
Interlacing her own experience with close-up reporting on families that are just getting by, Quart reveals parenthood itself to be financially overwhelming, except for the wealthiest. She offers real solutions to these problems, including outlining necessary policy shifts, as well as detailing the do-it-yourself tactics some families are already putting into motion, and argues for the cultural reevaluation of parenthood and caregiving.
Written in the spirit of Barbara Ehrenreich and Jennifer Senior, Squeezed is an eye-opening page-turner. Powerfully argued, deeply reported, and ultimately hopeful, it casts a bright, clarifying light on families struggling to thrive in an economy that holds too few options.
We were all told that college was the path to success, right? Go to college, get a nice 9-to-5 job, buy a house in the suburbs, and you're good. Right? Nah, probably not anymore. Now you've probably got $50,000 in student loans, two jobs (because neither job has enough hours to qualify for a healthcare plan), and an apartment.
Squeezed is a sort-of Nickel and Dimed but for struggling and/or downwardly-mobile middle-class, educated, under-employed families. It is very well-researched. Although Quart stays primarily within the confines of two-partner M/F families and single moms (rarely, single dads) there is a lot to think about. It would have been nice, though, if the subjects had been less homogenous. Fair warning: if you already have a lot of anxiety about debt, income, future earnings, job stability etc., Squeezed will probably exacerbate that, it's not a calming book.
Squeezed is out on June 26.
90s Bitch: Media, Culture, and the Failed Promise of Gender Equality by Allison Yarrow
The close of the 20th century promised a new era of gender equality. However, the iconic women of the 1990s—such as Hillary Clinton, Courtney Love, Roseanne Barr, Marcia Clark, and Anita Hill—earned their places in history not as trailblazers, but as whipping girls of the media. During this decade, American society grew increasingly hostile to women who dared to speak up, challenge power, or defy rigid expectations for female behavior.
Deeply researched yet thoroughly engaging, 90s Bitch untangles the complex history of women in the 1990s, exploring how they were maligned by the media, vilified by popular culture, and objectified in the marketplace. In an age where even a presidential nominee can be derided as a "nasty woman," it's clear that the epidemic of casting women as bitches persists. To understand why we must take a long, hard look back at the 1990s—a decade in which female empowerment was twisted into bitchification and exploitation.
Yarrow's thoughtful, clear-eyed, and timely examination is a must-read for anyone seeking to understand gender politics and how we might end the "bitch epidemic" for the next generation.
I liked 90s Bitch – it's a good overview of how conservative backlash and media marketing strategies worked against very high profile women in politics (Monica Lewinsky), entertainment (Courtney Love), and crime (Marcia Clark). There are some rough transitions between subjects that I think could have been done better. I also think that some areas could have been fleshed out with more examples – there is a conspicuous absence of Janet Jackson (how can anyone forget her 90s release "Janet"? The "If" video, lordt) and Daria (and there was an easy opportunity when talking about Girl Power and the "self-esteem" remedy, which Daria tackled head-on).
Addendum: this book, while the author tries to cover some culture related to people of color – mostly rap culture/Living Single, and Anita Hill, of course – and LGBTQ+ it is very white and heteronormative, just FYI.
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Invisible: How Young Women with Serious Health Issues Navigate Work, Relationships, and the Pressure to Seem Just Fine by Michele Lent Hirsch
March 6, 2018 March 12, 2018 balletbookwormLeave a comment
Sum mary from Goodreads:
An exploration of women navigating serious health issues at an age where they're expected to be healthy, dating, having careers and children.
Miriam's doctor didn't believe she had breast cancer. She did.
Sophie navigates being the only black scientist in her lab while studying the very disease, HIV, that she hides from her coworkers.
For Victoria, coming out as a transgender woman was less difficult than coming out as bipolar.
Author Michele Lent Hirsch knew she couldn't be the only woman who's faced serious health issues at a young age, as well as the resulting effects on her career, her relationships, and her sense of self. What she found while researching Invisible was a surprisingly large and overlooked population with important stories to tell.
Though young women with serious illness tend to be seen as outliers, young female patients are in fact the primary demographic for many illnesses. They are also one of the most ignored groups in our medical system–a system where young women, especially women of color and trans women, are invisible.
And because of expectations about gender and age, young women with health issues must often deal with bias in their careers and personal lives. Not only do they feel pressured to seem perfect and youthful, they also find themselves amid labyrinthine obstacles in a culture that has one narrow idea of womanhood.
Lent Hirsch weaves her own harrowing experiences together with stories from other women, perspectives from sociologists on structural inequality, and insights from neuroscientists on misogyny in health research. She shows how health issues and disabilities amplify what women in general already confront: warped beauty standards, workplace sexism, worries about romantic partners, and mistrust of their own bodies. By shining a light on this hidden demographic, Lent Hirsch explores the challenges that all women face.
This spring is bringing a small crop of books focussed on women's health and/or marginalized groups' health. I reviewed Doing Harm a few days ago and Ask Me About My Uterus is also out today (I didn't get a galley, so I'll be checking that out later). Today is Invisible's turn.
Michele Lent Hirsch used her own experience as a queer woman with chronic pain and illness as a jumping off point to both a) research societal and medical attitudes toward young women with chronic illness and b) interview women all across the spectrum of gender identity/expression and race to give us a taste of what women with chronic illness experience. Chronic illness affects whether or not a woman is able to maintain her personal and professional relationships after symptom onset or diagnosis. It affects whether she can even acquire new relationships. It affects whether she is believed when reporting symptoms.
Invisible is the most intersectional book I've ever read. Hirsch has clearly made an effort to create a truly inclusive cohort of female-presenting interview subjects: straight women, gay women, women of color, queer women of color, women who are single, women in relationships, women with children, women without children. A qualitative researcher could take her notes and write a scientific paper about the common themes found in those women's words. Her information is that good. The only other thing I can say is that the subtitle speaks for itself and this should be required reading for everyone. I think Hirsch could have done more summation or wrote a conclusion to tie all the books' chapters together. Or perhaps not – maybe we deserve to hit the end of the book and sit there with our thoughts because chronic illness and its effects on women's lives really has no end or conclusion.
Invisible is out now!


An infographic by Manchester-based designer Omid Kashan displays data of the Big Bang. Timeline of the Universe uses data from Wikipedia, and.
Infographics (information graphics) as the name derives are visual representation of data, information or knowledge.
Required to organize 100 pieces of data into a static print piece, I chose 100 pieces of flute music that are in my performance repetoire.
Infographics as marketing: This chart on Tablet adoption is interesting and professional. A sponsored bit of data on VentureBeat.
The urge to sell when markets dip may be a common one, but this infographic shows why you might want to hang onto your investments when stocks sink.
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Since the horrific terrorist attack on Manchester last week, shows of support and togetherness have been seen across the country; this was no more evident than at MHSG's London Supper Club on Thursday 25th May.
Held at The Caledonian Club in Mayfair, the annual event brings alumnae from across the generations together to network and celebrate the long-standing friendships that were formed at Manchester High School for Girls.
Naturally, their home town of Manchester was at the forefront of everybody's minds and Head Mistress, Claire Hewitt, led the gathering in a moment of reflection.
She commented: "We have received numerous messages of concern and support from our alumnae community across the globe and I know Manchester is in all of your hearts. At Manchester High we spend the days empowering our girls, telling them they can go anywhere they wish and be anyone they want to be; this was a direct attack on that."
Helen Robinson (Class of 1981) revealed what really happened to her form room window!
With true Manchester grit and the resolute style of Manchester High girls, the event progressed with much laughter, great conversation and many a shared memory. Indeed, Helen Robinson from the Class of 1981 and Managing Director of The Lady magazine revealed in her welcome speech that she had once broken her form room window in a particularly hazardous game of conkers!
Following a drinks reception in the club's Library, guests were treated to a gourmet dinner in The Morrison Room, noted for its magnificent works of art. Before a delicious dessert, Head Mistress, Claire Hewitt, took to the floor to share news from the School, including an update on Project Pankhurst, our Sixth Form mentoring scheme and the 'Insight Into...' careers evenings which are designed to help students prepare for the world beyond academia.


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27 August 2017	Last Updated at 6:23 pm National
After Modi, Niti Aayog Pitches For Simultaneous Lok Sabha, Assembly Polls
Outlook August 27, 2017 18:23 IST After Modi, Niti Aayog Pitches For Simultaneous Lok Sabha, Assembly Polls
The Niti Aayog has favoured synchronised two-phase Lok Sabha and Assembly elections from 2024 to ensure "minimum campaign mode disruption" in governance.
The government think tank said it would be in the national interest to hold simultaneous elections to the Lok Sabha and state Assemblies, and suggested formation of a group of experts to devise how it could be done.
"We may begin work towards switching to a synchronised two-phase election from the 2024 election to the Lok Sabha. This would require a maximum one-time curtailment or extension of (the tenure of ) some state assemblies," it said.
Noting that it is in the national interest to hold simultaneous polls, the Niti Aayog said a focused group of stakeholders comprising constitutional and subject matter experts, think tanks, government officials and representatives of various political parties should be formed to work out appropriate implementation related details.
"This may include drafting appropriate Constitution and statutory amendments, agreeing on a workable framework to facilitate transition to simultaneous elections, developing a stakeholder communication plan and various operational details," it said in its "Three Year Action Agenda, 2017-18 to 2019-20".
It has suggested making the Election Commission the nodal agency to look into the suggestion and set a "timeline" of March 2018 for this purpose.
The Aayog's recommendation comes after Prime Minister Narendra Modi and former president Pranab Mukherjee made a strong pitch for simultaneous elections to the Lok Sabha and state Assemblies.
Modi has repeatedly spoken in its favour, saying if the proposal was not suitable, it could be rejected, but there should be a debate on it.
At the Diwali Milan event organised by the BJP last year, Modi said, "There will be hesitation for some time. But, despite such dilemma, the public discourse should continue."
He had, however, insisted a decision on this cannot be imposed by the government.
Mukherjee, in his speech on the eve of this year's Republic Day, too, had favoured it.
"The time is also ripe for a constructive debate on electoral reforms and a return to the practice of the early decades after Independence when elections to the Lok Sabha and state assemblies were held simultaneously.
"It is for the Election Commission to take this exercise forward in consultation with political parties," the former president had said.
Modi had said again in February that simultaneous elections would "cause some loss to all, including us" but political parties should not look at the idea through the narrow prism of politics.
"One party or a government cannot do it. We will have to find a way together," the PM had said.
Elections are held all the time and continuous polls lead to a lot of expenditure, he had said replying to the debate in the Lok Sabha on the Motion of Thanks to presidential address.
Modi had said that more than Rs 1,100 crore was spent on the 2009 Lok Sabha polls and the expenditure had shot up to Rs 4,000 crore in 2014.
Over one crore government employees, including a large number of teachers, are involved in the electoral process causing maximum harm to the education sector, he had said.
Security forces also have to be diverted for the electoral work even as the country's enemy keeps plotting against the nation and terrorism remains a strong threat, Modi had said.
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Fantasy Baseball: April Dynasty Stock Report
Yordan Alvarez (picture by Stacy Jo Grant)
By Matt Eddy
Prospects surprise us each season, both for better and worse.
To help fantasy players make sense of prospect performance in April, Baseball America unveils its inaugural dynasty stock report. In this installment we focus on performance by minor league prospects at each position in April.
For each position, we highlight a Standout player, who should be viewed as that month's prospect all-star, a Surging player, who is a lower-profile prospect who is playing well and could be worth tracking, and a Slumping player, who is a prominent prospect who has underperformed.
Struggling players are included not to pile on, but rather to highlight players for whom you may be able to buy low.
Key to the abbreviations used. Those with a plus sign (+) are index statistics in which the player is compared with league average and 100 average.
RAA = runs above league average (based on wOBA and R/9 for pitchers)
OPS+ = on-base and slugging percentage (not yet adjusted for ballpark)
XB+ = weighted extra bases divided by batted balls
SBA+ = stolen base attempts divided by times on first base (estimated)
FIP = fielding-independent pitching, e.g. strikeout, walk and home runs rate expressed as ERA
Standout: Sam Huff, Rangers (13.7 RAA)
While he's repeating low Class A Hickory to open the season, Huff has loud power and arm strength. He led all minor league catchers in runs above average in April, and while making contact has been an issue, he impacts the ball when he does connect, as evidenced by his 250 OPS+ and 361 XB+.
Surging: Alejandro Kirk, Blue Jays (7.4 RAA)
Kirk spent two seasons in Rookie ball before Toronto jumped the 20-year-old Mexican catcher to low Class A Lansing this season. He appears to be up for the challenge with a 178 OPS+, a high walk rate and tiny strikeout rate in April
Slumping: Keibert Ruiz, Dodgers (-3.9 RAA)
Repeating the Texas League seemed like it would be a piece of cake for Ruiz, a young but advanced switch-hitter. That wasn't the case in April. Ruiz posted a 61 OPS+.
Standout: Yordan Alvarez, Astros (10.6 RAA)
While Alvarez played more games in left field than first base, the latter is his best position. That's OK because he delivered 11 home runs, a 197 OPS+ and a Pacific Coast League-leading 220 XB+ in April.
Surging: Kevin Cron, D-backs (14.4 RAA)
The 26-year-old launched 11 home runs at Triple-A Reno with a 203 XB+, all while improving his walk and strikeout rates compared with last year.
Slumping: Nick Pratto, Royals (-6.8 RAA)
Nothing went right for the 2017 first-rounder at high Class A Wilmington in April. He hit .149 with 35 percent strikeouts, a 28 OPS+ and three extra-base hits, all doubles. Note that Pratto started slowly last year, too, before rebounding in the second half.
SECOND BASE
Standout: Cavan Biggio, Blue Jays (14.0 RAA)
The unheralded Biggio just keeps raking. At Triple-A Buffalo in April he hit .403 with a 217 OPS+, 134 XB+ and a 22-to-15 walk-to-strikeout rate.
Surging: Jose Caballero, D-backs (9.6 RAA)
A native of Panama, Caballero played for junior college power Chipola and was Arizona's seventh-round pick in 2017. A high-average hitter as an amateur and now as a pro, Caballero has shown roughly average power but an inclination to run with a 491 SBA+. Note: he has been playing more third base this season.
Slumping: Jahmai Jones, Angels (-9.3 RAA)
Shifting from center field to second base in 2018 was intended to pave the way for Jones, but it has not played out that way. He reached Double-A as a 20-year-old last year but made little impact. The same has been true in 2019 as he repeats the Southern League.
Standout: Ty France, Padres (14.8 RAA)
The natural corner infielder began seeing reps at second base at Triple-A El Paso because the Padres have splurged on free agents Eric Hosmer and Manny Machado. San Diego quickly made room for France after he launched nine home runs with a 220 OPS+ and 199 XB+ in April.
Surging: Dylan Busby, Pirates (8.5 RAA)
While Busby is a 23-year-old college player in the Florida State League, he cannot be entirely discounted because of his extreme power (406 XB+) and short track record (just 45 games last year). He is 2017 third-round pick from Florida State.
Slumping: Hudson Potts, Padres (-4.7 RAA)
Like Ty France at Triple-A, Potts is a Padres corner infielder who felt the ripple effect of the Hosmer and Machado signings. Potts began seeing time at second base at Double-A Amarillo. Though he struggled to do much in April, he did show average power (102 XB+)
Standout: Carter Kieboom, Nationals (8.3 RAA)
The 21-year-old had no trouble adjusting to Triple-A ball at Fresno (180 OPS+, 148 XB+) and promptly earned a callup.
Surging: Terrin Vavra, Rockies (8.0 RAA)
We attach a lot of caveats to Rockies prospects because of the hitter-friendly nature of the ballparks they play in. That's especially true for Vavra at low Class A Asheville, which plays as an extreme hitter's park in the neutral South Atlantic League. However, what we're seeing from Vavra in terms of secondary skills—16.5 BB%, 202 SBA+, 132 XB+—is encouraging. He was the Rockies' third-round pick last year out of Minnesota, where he was a first-team All-American.
Slumping: Luis Garcia, Phillies (-6.0 RAA)
With the caveat that he is one of the youngest players in the South Atlantic League, Garcia has really struggled in his full-season debut. He hit just .175 in April with limited power and a higher-than-expected strikeout rate. Garcia won the Gulf Coast League batting title last year, so if you're a believer, the price may never be lower.
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Standouts
• Luis Robert, White Sox (16.7 RAA)
Robert led all minor league hitters with nearly 17 runs above average in April, the result of hitting .446 with seven home runs at high Class A Winston-Salem. What should interest fantasy players is the power (292 XB+) and speed (297 SBA+) he displayed.
• Jarred Kelenic, Mariners (11.7 RAA)
Kelenic opened the year at low Class A West Virginia in a 2-for-25 funk. He quickly recovered to record a 206 OPS+ and 208 XB+.
• Jarren Duran, Red Sox (12.9 RAA)
A seventh-round pick last year from Long Beach State, Duran hit a scalding .402 and stole 11 bases (236 SBA+) at high Class A Salem in April. As RotoWire's James Anderson has noted on Twitter, Duran's game is geared on contact and hitting to the opposite field.
• Will Benson, Indians (9.5 RAA)
Benson is repeating the Midwest League and still making infrequent contact. However, when he does connect, he is doing extreme damage. His 367 XB+ rate ranked second in the minors in April (min. 75 PA), and he recorded a four-homer game on April 18.
• Heliot Ramos, Giants (6.8 RAA)
After scuffling through his full-season debut a year ago, Ramos got out of the gates quickly at high Class A San Jose, showing power (224 XB+), patience (16.9 BB%) and a 188 OPS+.
Slumping
• Connor Scott, Marlins (-7.9 RAA)
The Marlins rushed their top high school picks from last year's draft to low Class A Clinton, where both Scott and catcher Will Banfield had sluggish Aprils. The 13th overall pick a year ago, Scott hit just .123 but did attempt six stolen bases.
• Kyle Tucker, Astros (-6.2 RAA)
The heralded outfield prospect hit five homers and stole four bases in April—but did little else at Triple-A Round Rock. Tucker hit .165 with a 49 OPS+.
• Casey Mize, Tigers (14.3 RAA)
Mize looked every bit like the No. 1 overall pick in last year's draft with his performance, which included a no-hitter for Double-A Erie on April 29. An 0.26 ERA and 0.26 WHIP over 35 innings speaks to his mastery of minor league hitters.
• Wil Crowe, Nationals (9.7 RAA)
Crowe doesn't have overwhelming stuff (his 11.6 percent swinging-strike rate ranks about 16th in the Eastern League), but he has been commanding the strike zone at Double-A Harrisburg. The 2017 second-rounder out of South Carolina recorded an 0.96 ERA through 28 April innings.
• MacKenzie Gore, Padres (9.1 RAA)
Believe the hype when it comes to Gore, who recorded 13.0 strikeouts and 1.4 walks per nine innings in April at high Class A Lake Elsinore. He allowed only one home run in the California League, which helped him to a 1.45 FIP.
• Griffin Canning, Angels (8.5 RAA)
Canning earned a quick callup to Anaheim, where he generated 18 swinging strikes out of 82 pitches. He had no trouble mastering the Pacific Coast League, where he finished last year. He should have moments of brilliance in the majors this season.
• Nate Pearson (6.3 RAA)
One of the hardest-throwing prospects in the game is turning heads this season after missing virtually all of last year with a freak injury. Pearson moved rapidly from high Class A Dunedin to Double-A New Hampshire, where he will be tested. But his premium stuff and elite swinging-strike rate (21.4 percent) suggests he is up for the challenge.
• Zac Gallen, Marlins (17.9 RAA)
The Marlins might yet get a useful arm from their Marcell Ozuna trade with the Cardinals. Gallen looked like a new pitcher at Triple-A New Orleans in April by recording an 0.81 ERA in 33.1 innings with 10.3 strikeouts and 1.4 walks per nine innings. He mastered a cutter that is helping him miss bats and generate weak contact. His wide repertoire is chock full of average pitches and his command is excellent.
• Ryan Weathers, Padres (7.8 RAA)
The seventh overall pick last year, Weathers was not only ready for low Class A Fort Wayne—he was ready to dominate. He struck out 31 and walked three in 24.2 innings to go with a 1.82 ERA. Caveat: the Padres placed Weathers on the injured list in early May with a dead arm, though when healthy he sits in the low 90s with a plus changeup. His poise and feel for mixing pitches elevates him above other high school pitching prospects.
• Patrick Sandoval, Angels (-1.3 RAA)
Sandoval's 3.62 ERA and negative RAA are misleading and largely attributable to an uncharacteristically high walk rate. In fact, the lefthander recorded one of the highest swinging-strike rates and FIPs in the minors in April. Look for Sandoval to iron out his control at Triple-A Salt Lake. Some scouts say his changeup could be a 70-grade weapon.
• Taylor Widener, D-backs (-10.1 RAA)
Widener had been building momentum the past two seasons, but that progress was halted at Triple-A Reno in April. In five starts totaling 19.2 innings, he ran up a 10.53 ERA and 2.08 WHIP. Many scouts project Widener to the bullpen, so don't lose faith.
• Sean Reid-Foley, Blue Jays (-12.2 RAA)
Nothing went right for Reid-Foley at Triple-A Buffalo in April, when he walked 20 batters in 19 innings and served up four home runs. Like Widener, his future could be in relief, where he could dominate with his slider.
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Story was that I made some normal avatars for a forum (GameTrailers), and somehow my files got messed up (in size and dimensions), so I decided to try something. And this is what I got. The max kb was 40, that¨'s why there's just two colors lol. And for some reason, the file said 100x100, but as you can see, that's clearly not the case.
So a closed group I was in got exited when they saw it and used it themselves.
Then imagine roaming the public section, just acting normal. Then other people realized this and just used the avatar themselves.
It was kinda fun, since it ruined the site's visuals and other crap, I was banned, with I think 12 or so (which was 2/3 of us lol) in the closed group and I guess lots of others.
What have you been banned for and where was it?
Edit; Is there a way to show gifs here?
You just have to put ".gif" on the end of an imgur link of the picture and post it as a picture. Same with ".png" for static images.
I've never been banned on any forum besides this one by myself because I can't into computers.
I'll probably be banned from TSE forum if I'm not already. I haven't checked since yesterday.
I'm sure I was briefly persecuted under the Monty Reich at some point.
I'm far too used to being banned from things to even know where they were.
Pretty much every forum I've been banned from was simply due to hurting the feefees of veterans/moderators who took the internet too seriously and, in spite of their perpetually arrested adolescence, were far older than I am.
Funniest one I can remember was Geoff Mendicino being banned from the ScrewAttack for posting a 50TB image of space from NASA's website and crashing their entire server with it.
-Talking how Spoony could actually improve his Wrestle Wrestle videos and even talk about how much of a bad idea for Spoony to split his Wrestle Wrestle boards into 3 section (WWE, TNA, and miscellaneous) and merge them all back together, with literal response from fanboys was "its Spoony's board and videos, he can do what he wants"


A QUESTION about the naming of Bushey railway station prompted historian Dennis Rogers, of Oxhey, to write in. He writes: "Bushey and Oxhey station was originally called Bushey Station due to the fact more people from Bushey than Oxhey used it.
"Bushey had been well established by the time the railways began whereas Oxhey had many fewer dwellings.
"Later in the 19th Century housing started to be built in an area called New Bushey, adjacent to the railway lines. In the early years of the 20th Century Watford Urban District Council, which already included New Bushey in its area, wanted to include the whole of Bushey, so strengthening its case to become an urban district in 1906.
"New Bushey remained with Watford Urban and was subsequently renamed Oxhey in 1907 and later became Oxhey Village.
"Watford Urban never achieved county borough status. By 1908 the station was renamed Bushey and Oxhey after residents protested.
"By about 1970 British Rail decided to removate most of its stations. I was informed by a railway manager friend that in order to cut costs in producing many name plates for stations, it was decided to abbreviate wherever possible to the existing names.
"Therefore Bushey and Oxhey became just Bushey, without any reference to the residents or the local history of the area. Thus we have Bushey station surrounded by Oxhey only."
E.W. Hardy, of Watford, also wrote in: "Bushey and Oxhey railway station became just Bushey on May 6, 1974.
"The change came about as British Rail had decided that most stations would in future be known by one place name only. This applied to stations such as Hemel Hempstead and Boxmoor and Finchely Road and Frognal.
"Bushey was probably chosen as it was already well known for the Masonic School, film studios and artistic colony."
Are any readers aware of other local stations that have changed names?


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The CGIBD Research Day is held each year in conjunction with the visit of our External Advisory Board. Members of the External Advisory Board lead a breakfast discussion about academic skills including time management, work-life balance, promotion, publication and funding for junior faculty and fellows. A poster session provides an opportunity for students, postdocs and fellows to present their research. A prize is given to the best poster. A key note address provides a state-of-the-science presentation by a noted expert.
Each academic year the Center conducts a research competition. Three senior scientists judge the competition. Judges include basic and clinical scientists. Any undergraduate, graduate or postdoctoral fellow working in the lab of a CGIBD member is eligible to participate. The winner is awarded a travel scholarship to attend a national meeting. The runners-up presenters receive gift cards. Participants may submit their abstracts here.


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In this podcast, we talk about his most extraordinary assignments, the challenges of working on the world's best wildlife films, diving into rivers as a child, urban wildlife, technical innovations, and why sometimes it's good to be weird.
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