the popularity of women's pantsuits triggered a strange backlash in the late 1980s by male rule-makers. They resented women abandoning skirts, the traditional symbol of submission and easy sexual access. I was banned from powerful private clubs where masters of the universe cut deals because I was wearing a pantsuit. In a demented attempt to help misguided women foolish enough to commit this fashion faux pax, one establishment offered me a wrap-around gingham skirt that I could don over my slacks and thereby gain entrance to the power brokers' dining room.
If you weren't yet born, Gen-Y women, you won't recall what we had to do to get through that gate.
We had to sue them.
What we should have done was to say, "excuse me sonny, but I have a business meeting in there," and walked right in. What were they going to do? Call the police? "Officer, we have a woman here disturbing the peace. She's wearing a pantsuit."
Yet women are still expecting that the boys will cut us into their pie, knowing we're bad at claiming any part of that pie for ourselves, expecting us not to negotiate and not giving a flying hamburger whether they retain or promote us. For whatever set of optmistic views about the human race they harbor, women continue to believe that the AmLaw has an interest in making itself a meritocracy.
What is left of women's trust in the AmLaw's good faith should evaporate while reading Above the Law's piece on a no-offer to a law student who not only believed she was being asked for an actual evaluation of the firm's summer program when asked by the Powers That Be, she gave PTB a truthful answer, incurring the wrath of ATL's hyper-masculine followers for being such a clueless schmuck.
On a more mature and therefore a more telling note, ATL shared a conversation among its staff about just how compliant summer associates should be in the face of misbehavior by firm's Big Shots.
The social science researchers remain busy proving to us what we already know. If the game is rigged in any primate's favor (for that's what we are, folks) we will puff up our chests, stretch out our legs, and, treat our underlings as undeserving. Not only do we feel entitled, we lose any empathy for the unentitled and eventually believe that we're better than our hobbled competition even if we know we were given an unfair head start.
Here's how New York Magazine described the game proving the rule.
One of the players, a brown-haired guy in a striped T-shirt, has been made "rich." He got $2,000 from the Monopoly bank at the start of the game and receives $200 each time he passes Go. The second player, a chubby young man in glasses, is comparatively impoverished. He was given $1,000 at the start and collects $100 for passing Go. T-Shirt can roll two dice, but Glasses can only roll one, limiting how fast he can advance.
The deck is stacked and the only way to win it is to change the rules. For those inexperienced in activism, here's how you change the rules.
mentorship, sponsorship, and negotiation, rainmaking and networking training, preferably "off campus."
If your coalition of top law students from the country's top law schools can't get genuine commitments in writing at the commencement of your legal careers, guess what? To paraphrase a particularly great piece of screenwriting in Heathers, you are playing Barbies with Betty Finn. You are a Bluebird. You are a Brownie. You are a Girl Scout Cookie.
They will not give you economic power. They will not change the rules of their game to make it a meritocracy. They will use you fully but casually. They will toss you like a used kleenex into what they believe is the non-Am-Law trash can.
You want power, ladies? Organize and take it. Demand it. Do not wear the gingham wrap-around of the day. You're a lawyer now. But you will never have more power than you do the day before you voluntarily sell youself to the highest AmLaw bidder.
As Hugh McLeod says, "I do the work for free. I get paid to be afraid." He also says, "if you're not creating trouble, you're not creating much."


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Writing Point of View – Part 2
By Bryan Davis on June 1, 2015 • ( 6 )
In last week's post, I covered the basics of point of view (POV) and included an explanation of omniscient POV. Today I will describe third-person-limited and first-person POV.
Third-person-limited POV is similar to omniscient in that the writer employs third-person pronouns (he, she, it, they, them) for all characters, including the POV (focal) character. It is called "limited," because the writer describes only what the scene's focal character sees, hears, smells, touches, or knows about.
For example, the following is the beginning of a scene written using this type of POV with Adrian as the focal character.
Adrian dropped to his knees and laid Marcelle on the ground. As he panted, cold air swirled, and light drizzle added wetness to his sweat-drenched tunic. Wallace and Shellinda, their sleeves now covering their arms, plopped down beside him. Both tilted their heads upward and opened their mouths to catch the tiny drops and quench their thirsts.
"Take your time and get as much as you can," Adrian said. "We'll rest here awhile."
Wallace laid the sword on the ground. "Want me to carry her? You need a break."
Adrian rubbed an aching bicep. As he pressed a thumb deeply into the muscle, it loosened a bit, enough to ease the pain. "I'll be all right. Thanks anyway."
Notice that the scene begins with the character's name and describes something he does in order to signal readers that they will experience this scene through this character's senses. Beginning a scene this way is not an essential element of this kind of POV, but it is helpful to situate the reader.
Through Adrian's senses, readers feel the swirling cold air, the drizzle, and the sweat. Then, through Adrian's eyes, readers see two characters sit and drink from the falling rain.
Like the omniscient option, this POV can allow readers to become intimately acquainted with multiple characters, but only if the author switches POV among those characters. Some stories have a single POV character throughout, while others switch among characters from time to time.
If an author wants to tell a story from multiple viewpoints, it is better to wait for the end of a scene to switch the viewpoint from one character to another. If the viewpoint switches within a scene, readers might become confused about which character they are seeing the story through.
"Want some buttermilk?" July asked, going to the crock.
"No, sir," Joe said. He hated buttermilk, but July loved it so that he always asked anyway.
"You ask him that every night," Elmira said from the edge of the loft. It irritated her that July came home and did exactly the same things day after day.
"Stop asking him," she said sharply. "Let him get his own buttermilk if he wants any. It's been four months now and he ain't drunk a drop—looks like you'd let it go."
She spoke with a heat that surprised July. Elmira could get angry about almost anything, it seemed. Why would it matter if he invited the boy to have a drink of buttermilk? All he had to do was say no, which he had. (Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove)
The first perspective we notice is Joe's. We get an explanation of why he asked for buttermilk, which comes from his point of view. Then we get a dose of Elmira's perspective. We learn that she is irritated about July coming home. We couldn't know this unless the story is being told in her perspective. Then we get a glimpse from July's perspective. We wouldn't know that the heat surprised July unless the story is being told in July's perspective.
As you can see, some writers switch POV frequently. This is often called head-hopping, which can be jarring to readers.
If a mid-scene switch is absolutely necessary, then show the break with white space or a symbol to let the reader know that a shift is occurring.
As you are writing, if essential mid-scene switches become too common, then consider using omniscient POV instead of third person limited.
First-person POV is similar to third-person-limited in that the author describes only what the focal character sees, hears, smells, touches, or knows about. With first-person POV, the focal character is the storyteller, and the writer employs first-person pronouns (I, we, us, our) for that character and third-person pronouns for other characters.
The death alarm sounded, that phantom punch in the gut I always dreaded. I touched the metallic gateway valve embedded in my chest at the top of my sternum—warm but not yet hot. The alarm was real. Someone in my territory would die tonight, and I had to find the poor soul. Death didn't care about the late hour. Reapers like me always stayed on call.
Every sensation comes through the "I" character–visuals, feelings, and even thoughts. Stories written in first-person POV usually do not shift to another character throughout the story. The "I" character is the main character and storyteller, so shifting to a different character skews the idea that this character is really the storyteller. I think an author needs to have an excellent reason to shift to a different character when using this POV, but such reasons do exist.
Beginning next week, I will go into detail about implementing POV in ways that will help readers attach to your characters intimately and become engrossed in your story.
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June 1, 2015 • 7:47 pm
Looking forward to the continuation of this series! 🙂 I sense some helpful tips coming our way.
I am liking you're writing tips so far. They're really helpful.
I have a question about this post, though. When you say, "If a mid-scene switch is absolutely necessary, then show the break with white space or a symbol to let the reader know that a shift is occurring.", what does 'white space' mean? Is it a new paragraph?
That's a good shot of Boromir, by the way. 🙂
White space is one or more blank lines. In a published book, you will usually see a symbol of some kind instead of white space.
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Murderers
CSI: Las Vegas Main Characters
Main Character: Las Vegas
Name Raymond Langston
Family James Langston (father, deceased)
Gloria Parkes (ex-wife)
Nora Parkes (former mother-in-law)
City Las Vegas
Job Medical Doctor (formerly)
Rank CSI Level 2
Specialty Forensic Pathology
Status Alive
Portrayed By Laurence Fishburne
Dr. Raymond "Ray" Langston, M.D. was a Crime Scene Investigator working for the Las Vegas Crime Lab. He was a Level 2 CSI and a former medical doctor.
Ray was born in Seoul, South Korea. His father, James Langston, was an American soldier fighting in the Korean War. When returning to the U.S., James, now an alcoholic who physically abused Ray, had found that he loved fighting during the combat and would regularly go to bars and enter fights simply for fun. It was suggested during season ten that Ray is afraid that he has inherited his father's love of violence. It was further revealed in season eleven that Ray, like his father, carries the MAO-A gene, a gene said to cause a predisposition towards violence. In 2000, James died of lung cancer.
In Ray's first appearance, he is a Medical Doctor (M.D.) specializing in Forensic Pathology--one of his former co-workers at Delaware General Hospital, Dr. Michael Webb, was an "angel of death" who killed 27 patients by injecting ethylene glycol into their IVs before killing himself the same way, presumably because the authorities took notice of his high fatality rate. Langston saw all the evidence but "was unable to connect the dots", as recounted by Grissom. Eventually he, by his own account, broke protocol and started autopsying the victims personally.
He later wrote a book on the case, Before My Eyes, which Grissom read and said he liked. The book has made him something of a celebrity in medical and criminological circles. Dr. Tom Loman (from CSI: Miami) also expressed a great deal of admiration for Langston for writing it. Serial killer Nate Haskell also read it and claimed not to have liked it.
Ray taught a course on serial killers. He is at first reluctant to help, and upset that law enforcement "hijacked his class for their investigation." He then reconsiders and begins to assist in the investigation, and aid Gil Grissom. He eventually connected Grissom as a third party to a call he receives from a serial killer in prison, which allows Grissom and the Las Vegas Police Department to find the grave of one of his victims. (19 Down...)
This, as well as his other advice, leads the CSI team to find Thomas Donover, a student of Ray that was an accomplice of Nate Haskell. Tom was gunned down by the SWAT team just before he killed his victim. As Grissom was departing, he offered a job to Ray, who gladly accepted.
In the Season Finale, Ray is given a package from a Gloria Parkes, who found some of Langston's father's stuff while cleaning out the attic and thought he might want them back, he also starts to use a gun and when a suspect, who was shot in the leg was found, with a gun, he foolishly disarms the suspect while Riley pointed hers at the suspect and reluctantly calls an ambulance. At the end of the episode when a waitress was murdered, the husband who killed her tries to shoot Langston with a revolver but Langston soon fires one shot and the husband was killed.
In Season Ten, the shooting review board cleared Langston, he got promoted to Level 2 and decided not to continue using a gun. Ray faces a difficult challenge trying to catch a killer surgeon known as "Dr. Jekyl". In the episode Irradiator, Ray ends up finding Dr Jekyll and chases him all the way through a hospital which concludes with Ray getting knocked over the head falling unconscious and with Jekyll stealing his ID. After he recovers from his head injury, Ray decides to break protocol and start his own investigation on Jekyll's tracks. Ray soon gets a phone call from former serial killer Nate Haskell (who was seen in 19 Down) saying that he knows who Dr Jekyll is. They then ship Haskell over to the police station to get some answers.
Eventually they do find out who Jekyll is and this leads up to a gun fight with Nick Stokes being shot in the arm. Thankfully Nick had enough energy to get up and shoot Jekyll before he shot Ray. Later on Ray goes back to Haskell and tells him that they are wrapping up the Jekyll Case, But just as Ray is about to leave he ends up being stabbed by Haskell and falling to the ground.
After being brutally stabbed by Nate Haskell, Raymond is rushed to hospital. Although he starts having a hallucination about Nate trying to kill him again, he does indeed survive but loses a kidney after his operation. When three explosives are detonated at a policeman's funeral (who died in "Meat Jekyll"), Ray still helps in the investigation while he is still in the hospital. Later, Doc Robbins gives Ray a cane to help him recover. When a new serial killer known as "Sqweegel" begins a spree, Ray learns the killer offers his victims a chance to confess their sin, but if they don't, he viciously murders them. "Sqweegel" remains at large.
In All That Cremains, Gloria, who is revealed to be Ray's ex-wife, comes to Vegas to inform Ray that she was getting married and that he should meet the fiance. They invite him to their wedding and he accepts and before leaving, Nick tells him to remove the wedding ring he still had on before going.
In Targets of Obsession, Haskell is put on trial for attempting to kill Ray. During the proceeding, at which Haskell represents himself, he bases his defense on having the MAO-A gene. Raymond is put on the stand to refute his claims that it definitively leads to a predisposition towards violence. Haskell attempts to discredit his knowledge on the matter by remarking that Ray doesn't have any knowledge about genetics or brain chemistry. Ray reveals that, like Nate, he was abused by an alcoholic father and carries the MAO-A gene, genuinely baffling Haskell and getting him convicted.
In the season finale, In a Dark, Dark House, Ray kills Haskell after beating him bloody for abusing Gloria. Gloria's mother, Nora came to Vegas, hoping to transfer her daughter to Baltimore, she tries to have someone to kick Langston out of the hospital. It was revealed that they divorced because he feared he was going to have a child with her. Before seeing I.A., Langston went to see Gloria and Nora, who apologizes for being furious at him and tells him she wants Gloria to come home to Baltimore, to heal. The season ends in a cliffhanger as he is asked by I.A. whether Haskell's death was an act of self-defense or murder.
In season 12, Ray has left the lab after being let off the hook by Internal Affairs, and moved back to Baltimore to be with Gloria. He was subsequently replaced by Morgan Brody, who he met while investigating his ex-wife's husband's death. The consequences of his actions caused Catherine and Nick to be demoted and D.B. Russell to be hired as the new Night Shift supervisor.
Season 9 - - - - - - - - X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X N/A 16
Season 10 X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X N/A 23
Season 11 X X X X X X X X X - X X X X X X X X X X X X N/A 21
CSI:NY
Season 6 - - - - - - X - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - N/A 1
Season 8 - - - - - - X - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - N/A 1
His log in is raymondlangston@lvpdcsi.com (Cello and Goodbye)
He is a fan of Greek playwright Aischylos (The Descent of Man)
He is a fan of Astro Quest (A Space Oddity)
He sometimes works pro bono at a medical clinic (All In)
Langston may have been named after Laurence Fishburne's oldest son, whose first name is Langston.
His weapon was a Kimber TLE II.
He wears a size 13 1/2 shoe. (Lover's Lanes)
He is 6'1 and weighs aprox. 200lbs. (Cello and Goodbye)
In Fracked he suggests that fracking sounds like a SciFi expletive. It actually is: its the remake of Battlestar Galactica's version of fuck.
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Whew! Another Blog Book Done!
I just ordered another Blog2Print book. This one was for all blog entries for 2007. Previously I had purchased blog books for 2005 and 2006 plus one of all posts tagged "Family" and another of posts for the 2009 holiday season. That last one was actually the first book I ordered so I kept it short because it was experimental. These books can be expensive, after all. Each book has been a learning experience.
Edit your blog before starting. Scan all the posts that you plan to publish. You can mark some as Draft if you want them to disappear and not be included. Pictures that are missing should be replaced or edited out.
Turn off the copyright notice temporarily. I forgot to do this again, and it takes up space because it gets printed under every post.
Allow more time than you think you'll need or so you can edit carefully.
After the initial creation of the book, delete the table of contents to save space (unless you really need it). Pages cost money.
Have some full-size photos ready for the covers.
Use discounts when available from their Facebook feeds or emails.
If you start over, give the book a different title so you don't confuse the versions later.
I spent hours on this book. My blog had over 500 posts so this is a large book. It still has a few errors. But it's basically a photo album for my personal collection, so it doesn't have to be perfect. And it beats mounting hundreds of photos in an old-fashioned photo album, plus it has a narrative and the pictures won't fall out.
P.S. I discovered that my Older Posts link is not showing up in the Firefox browser (on Mac), making it hard to page through the archives. Also, the Blog2Print application for selecting certain posts to leave out of the book is not working in Firefox. There must be a simpler way to do this!
A little while ago I was sitting on the sofa browsing the web from my laptop when suddenly Whoomp! A beagle landed on my shoulder! He hunkered down and made himself comfortable.
What could I do? I opened PhotoBooth and used the Macbook's built-in camera to take some pictures.
This dog can jump high and dash around quickly. That's why Lynn named him Flash.
A young squirrel showed up on our deck, smaller than the one who usually visits. He seemed timid and unsure of what to do. When Flash barked at him, he sat frozen in place, afraid to move.
or see all posts tagged Squirrels.
In October there was a petting zoo in conjunction with the Harvest Festival in Mount Jackson. These turkeys were pretty tame. The children enjoyed getting a close look at them.
It's my older daughter's birthday. These pictures are from a couple of decades ago. It's hard to believe she's been grown up for so long!
Yeah, goofy-looking pictures are a tradition in my family. It helps to keep us humble. But anything published should be funny, not humiliating. I think these fill the bill.
For this picture I was standing in a church parking lot which is along Senedo Road (VA 42) in Shenandoah County. In the far distance is Great North Mountain.
A few weeks ago I noticed that the trees across from the recycling center in Orkney Springs were very colorful. Since I had my camera in the car, I walked across the road and took this photograph.
Frank mentioned that he saw it online: the disgraced former head of United Way of America had died. William Aramony was 84 and had been out of jail since 2002.
I was an executive secretary and before that an administrative coordinator at UWA. There were nice things about working there but pay was not great for support staff and eventually I realized there was no upward career path for me unless I wanted to work in Aramony's office, which I could not imagine doing because of his temper and his reputation for shameless womanizing. He was one of those people who felt his success entitled him to pretty much whatever he wanted. And that was his downfall.
It happened long after I had left UWA for a more promising job. He was convicted of stealing from the organization and brought great embarrassment to the United Way movement. It was sad because he was talented and brilliant in some ways. Yet he ruined much of what he had accomplished and brought other people down with him.
Read John Glaser's book, The United Way Scandal if you want the inside story. For a thoughtful blog viewpoint, see William Aramony and the Fallen Hero Dilemma.
About the photo: I took the picture when Ronald Reagan visited United Way of America to support the "Second Century Initiative" circa 1987.
Lynn has started a blog and has resurrected her homepage. I hope she'll post regularly. She has interesting things to say.
Meanwhile, my other daughter is in Tasmania, sharing her travels on her "Maries World Tour" site.
There aren't too many nice days left before winter so I try to get outside while I still can. Last week we went to Warren County so I convinced Frank to go for a walk in Eastham Park, which I had discovered in September next to a boat landing in Front Royal.
There's a brand new trail which had just been paved. It runs along the South Fork of the Shenandoah behind Skyline High School. Across the river is the community of Rivermont.
Saturday (November 12) was a busy day in Basye. There was a flea market/ gift sale at the rescue squad, a homeowners meeting in the ski lodge, and a children's program at the library.
The kid's program featured search and rescue dogs, followed by a craft session and Miss Mona reading dog stories. The search dogs were brought from Harrisonburg by Miss Laurel of All-Phase K-9. Everyone enjoyed seeing the talented dogs demonstrate their skills.
These are just a few photos of the event. For more, click here for a series I posted on Facebook.
Here we are looking northwest from Shenandoah County Route 611. For a summer view taken close to this spot, see this photo of low-hanging clouds.
When I think of West Virginia, I think of mountains. Of course, the state has valleys too. And then more mountains!
The river names in eastern West Virginia are confusing to me. Back home in Virginia, the North Fork and South Fork refer to headwaters of the Shenandoah, but over the mountains to the west, the headwaters of the Potomac have similar names. As far as I can tell, the river that runs through the town of Cabins is the North Fork of the South Branch of the Potomac.
On October 20 we made one of several autumn drives to West Virginia . The weather was not as nice as the forecast had predicted, but I was glad we went even though it was cloudy. The visitors center at Seneca Rocks was closing for the season in a few days.
It's near the intersection of WV 55/28 and US 33. There are exhibits but the main attraction is the view of Seneca Rocks. As you might notice in the vertical photo, access to the patio was closed for repair work.
The dramatic rock formation is the best known of a number of razorback ridges made of Tuscarora quartzite. Another example is nearby Champe Rocks.
Of course, this has nothing to do with the picture of Smokey. He's modeling a souvenir shirt and I thought he was cute.
In October we drove into West Virginia via the Brock's Gap route (described here) for some foliage viewing. My destination was Germany Valley. We had lunch in Moorefield and stopped to view Seneca Rocks. By the time we reached Germany Valley, rain was moving in so the only photos I took were at this site, the location of a Civil War skirmish near the small town of Riverton.
At this site on March 2nd, 1862, Union forces numbering forty were attacked by local Confederate infantry and two units of cavalry. In the skirmish that resulted, Union troops rallied forcing the Confederates from the field. Two local men, Perry Bland and Thomas Powers were killed in the battle.
This little video is simply to show the location of the site, which is on the road to Seneca Caverns.
I picked up a copy of The Villager newspaper in Harrisonburg. An article celebrates the 40th anniversary of the creation of Massanutten Resort. It tells that the inspiration of that resort was Bryce Resort. Well, that explains similarities between the two places. Both are four-season resorts in the mountains of Virginia with skiing and golf.
Massanutten Resort is east of Harrisonburg at the southern end of the Massanutten Range. Bryce Resort is an hour northwest of there in the foothills of the Alleghenies. We happen to live in Bryce and we enjoy the combination of beautiful mountain scenery and the civilized amenities of a resort.
That's Massanutten Mountain rising like a colorful wall in the background. What you can't see here is the North Fork of the Shenandoah (behind the trees and down the hill on the right) and the end of the mountain (off-screen on the left). Both the river and the road wind around the end of the mountain and continue on to Front Royal.
Looking Southeast Toward Massanutten Mtn.
We went to a Founders Day event in Strasburg, Virginia. The town is now 250 years old. A concert was held at the high school, which is south of the historic hotel on Holliday Street.
In these photographs we are looking toward Signal Knob. The high school's sports teams are called the Rams.
The maples have put on quite a show this fall. They started changing color a month ago here in the mountains and are still bright in the lowlands.
This fine library in Winchester, Virginia was opened in 1913. It was built with funds left to the city by John Handley of Scranton, who did not live in Virginia but had visited the area. Handley also provided funds for a school, now Handley High School.
This mansion was used as headquarters by Union General Milroy in 1863 and later by Gen. Phil Sheridan in 1864. It's now a retail store called Kimberly's. It was from here that Sheridan began his famous ride to Cedar Creek.


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Broadway hit 'Hamilton' returning to Cleveland in 2020
By: Drew Scofield
<p>"Hamilton," is a hip-hop retelling of America's first treasury secretary Alexander Hamilton, has been both a cultural and financial phenomenon since opening on Broadway in the summer of 2015.</p>
CLEVELAND — If you missed Hamilton when it was in Cleveland last year, you have another chance in 2020 when it returns for a six-week engagement.
The award-winning show set to take the stage from Sept. 22 to Nov. 1 next year.
According to Playhouse Square, the show features a "score that blends hip-hop, jazz, R&B and Broadway, HAMILTON has taken the story of American founding father Alexander Hamilton and created a revolutionary moment in theatre—a musical that has had a profound impact on culture, politics, and education."
A limited number of season ticket packages that include Hamilton will go on sale Nov. 11 at 10 a.m. The five-show package includes Hamilton, Anastasia, Jesus Christ Superstar, My Fair Lady and Disney's Frozen. Tickets range from $295 to $495. You can purchase the packages by heading to playhousesquare.org or by calling 216-640-8800.
Individual tickets are expected to go on sale in summer 2020. Current season ticket holders will have a chance to buy individual tickets earlier during an exclusive pre-sale event in the spring.
"My absolute favorite question that people ask me is will 'HAMILTON' ever come back?" says Gina Vernaci, Playhouse Square President and CEO. "Yes! For the rest of our lives 'HAMILTON' will be coming back! We were one of the first cities to see it and one of the first cities to get the return for the most in-demand show of a generation."
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Zelnik ist der Familienname folgender Personen:

 Friedrich Zelnik (1885–1950), österreichischer Regisseur, Schauspieler und Produzent
 Jerzy Zelnik (* 1945), polnischer Schauspieler
 Yoni Zelnik (* 1975), israelischer Jazzmusiker

Siehe auch:
 Zelnick

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaWikipedia


OK, it's got to be done. Michelle Obama. Yes or no? Did she work it or was yesterday a monumental fashion nightmare from which it will take four years of hard work by Barack to recover?
Well, first things first. There were no major screw-ups. There are some who might say that the incoming First Lady could wear a bin-liner to an inauguration and it wouldn't have any particular effect on world peace, or climate change, or the looming depression, but they are, of course wrong.
If the new First Lady were to appear in a bin liner it would send a Message. It would be interpreted, in the American media and beyond, as a big two-fingered salute to the world, her husband's new office, the million people who took the trouble to show up to watch. It would suggest that the First Couple weren't taking things seriously. It would be a Big Deal, and not in a good way. Plus, she might catch a cold and a wife with the flu would distract the new President from his inaugural duties.
So it matters. And no, there weren't any major screw-ups. Let us look at the dress and coat ensemble on Capitol Hill. It wasn't too expensive (fat-cat, banker, I-knew-people-at-Lehmans connotations) or too cheap (see bin-liner remarks above). It wasn't too red or blue, guaranteed to upset half the population who care about political colour connotations. It wasn't too short (tarty) or long (inappropriate). It didn't invite wardrobe malfunctions. It didn't make her noticeably shiver. It could be seen from the cheap seats. It passed.
Beyond that, everything else is just minor fashion cavilling. But then, that is what we do, and there is a lot else.
The colour has aroused some controversy, but it shouldn't. It was different, original, unexpected. It showed up. It suited Michelle, and it wouldn't have suited many women. Perfect. Well done, First Lady. Tick in the box. Choice of designer: inspired. American (patriotic), fashion forward (exciting, and every commenting fashionista can hug herself that she'd heard of Isabel Toledo when 99% of the viewing public hadn't).
Accessories: sheer genius. JC Crew, accessible gloves in an interesting colour to contrast nicely with the Lincoln Bible in the photos. And almost-matching Jimmy Choos. No right-minded woman (or fashion-conscious man) is going to begrudge a woman her Jimmies, even if the colour is, frankly, weird. She thought about them. She loves them. All power to her.
Then we come to choice of fabric, fit and detailing. And we throw up our hands and wail. What was with the chiffon cardi-thingy AND the diamante neck thingy AND the bow thingy AND the scarf effect? Or was it an actual scarf? I was never sure. Too much going on, Michelle. Think Jackie. Think Carla Bruni. Think your own styling of your two impeccably dressed daughters. Colour blocks. Simplicity. Brave and hopeful, yet modest. Stand-out perfection. Imagine you're styling Malia and then do you.
By the evening, we'd had time to recover from all the lemongrass and frou-frous and we were ready for Round Two. And once again, Michelle proved that she is totally astute when it comes to the choice of designer (Jason Wu, young, relatively unknown, impeccable fashion credentials among the cognoscenti – she's just given him a million dollars' worth of marketing and he'll be grateful for the rest of his life). Also, she has great upper arms, which are the body part of the moment. See Kate Winslet at any recent award ceremony/premiere and most other girls at the Golden Globes.
Once again, colour was OK. Not earth-shattering, a bit safe, but it looked good beside Barack's white-tie ensemble. It will age well. The one-shoulder style will date her, but then, she probably won't mind being dated to January 2009. It will be the best month of her life.
Then we come to style. Michelle, you are a tall, graceful woman, and you need a tall, graceful dress. One that will look good in sneaked camera-phone photographs that will be embedded in the internet for the rest of your life. Not one that's embellished with net and bits and pieces we can't identify but that, pixellated, give the impression that you were pelted with cotton-wool balls before your appearance at the Neighbourhood Ball.
Enough with the frou-frous. I bet they looked great from two feet away, but they were just messy to the rest of us. Where was your waist? Again – what would you have put Malia in? Nothing so little-girlish, I'm sure. And your hair. Jill Biden's blonde locks were styled to perfection, but yours looked like you'd just about dragged a comb through it in the limo. Get a proper hairdresser, woman. You deserve it. We deserve it.
However, you got three things right. Your husband plainly adored you in your yellow/white ensemble. And, partly thanks to you, he happened to be President at the time, and The Most Popular Man In The World. And you looked better than Beyoncé (in her verging-on-hideous silver shiny shiny satin sheath thingy with diamante … oh no I can't bear to go on). And not many women can say that.
You have four years to get it very, very right. You've shown you're experimental, confident and a brilliant stylist of under-twelve-year-olds. You have an interesting eye for colour, you're attractive and you look after your body. You're aware of the effect you'll have on the designers you choose and you'll become a fairy-godmother of fashion to the emerging talent in your great country. We stand here, hopeful, waiting for you to guide us forward towards a better future. Michelle Obama, we salute you. And dig the cute husband. Go, girl.
Written the first novel. Getting some interest. Working on the second. Writing articles. Drinking a lot of cappuccino. Welcome to my world.


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Kandi has a team of employees that assist her in managing her business. Her team includes a marketing manager that manages all advertising activities. She also has an office manager who ensures the back-end office is taken care of. Lastly, she has an assistant that manages all other activities allowing Kandi to be out in the field taking care of her buyers and sellers.
A exceptional photography and strategic, targeted marketing.
Social media marketing that is above and beyond any other Realtor.
Marketing on over 800 web sites.
Likewise, when clients come to her looking to buy, Kandi helps them identify their ideal location and then works to match them with the perfect home.
Kandi prides herself on being hardworking, confidential, knowledgeable and ethical. She works to help her customers every step of the way -- from contract to close. One hundred percent of Kandi's customers come from referrals, and she works hard to ensure all of her customers are happy. With more than 30 years of marketing and selling experience, even in the most challenging of markets, Kandi's clients are highly satisfied with her work.
has been inducted into Berkshire Hathaway's Honor Society, which is one of the highest award levels that can be reached at Berkshire Hathaway World Wide.
If you are considering a Real Estate change, please contact Kandi for a free, no obligation Real Estate transition plan. She welcomes the opportunity to represent you in the sale or purchase of your home.
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"If you want to sell your home in a tough market, work with Kandi."
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HOW to close the deal.
We sold my house in a quick two weeks at a very good price!
We signed the contract on a Saturday to sell the house.
Three days later, on Monday, Kandi and her team staged it beautifully -- I almost didn't want to move!
That week photos of our house and a virtual tour made my modest home look fabulous on the web.
Sunday, eight days from the signed contract, we held our first open house to a great response. People were practically breaking down the doors to see it.
One week after the first open house we had a signed Purchase and Sale at a very good price.
Kandi's professionalism, enthusiasm, dedication, hard work, follow through and sheer joy made the task of selling our house of 17 years go very smoothly. I was extremely impressed at how easy and fun a lot of hard work could be. Kandi not only staged and presented my house wonderfully, but rolled up her sleeves and helped mulch and move furniture to make the house stunning for show.
Kandi has a whole team of expert house cleaners, electricians and construction people who can help out quickly if you need to hire folks for last minute work. She was tenacious about follow-up with potential buyers and creatively put together a very good deal. Even my teen-age son loved working with Kandi. I couldn't have asked for a better or more satisfying experience.
Thank you Kandi and team!
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It is very hard to sell a home right after the economy crashes, but Kandi would not give up. She did not let one detail fall through the cracks. She chased down every lead and was able to get our home sold in a short time period. We would definably work with Kandi again.
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Czesław Miłosz: the moment his world turned upside down
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My review of Andrzej Franaszek's Miłosz: A biography (Harvard University Press) is in the current issue of the Times Literary Supplement. I also discuss the publication of the Nobel poet's fragmentary science fiction novel, Mountains of Parnassus (Yale University Press). Kudos to translators Aleksandra and Michael Parker for the former, Stanley Bill for the latter.
My piece, "Writing Not Fighting," is behind a paywall, alas. But you can read the first few paragraphs here. An excerpt:
It may be a cliché that the great poet gives everything to his art, but in [Czesław] Miłosz's case the platitude appears to have been agonizingly true. Miłosz: A biography by Andrzej Franaszek, abbreviated and translated from the 960-page Polish edition published in 2011 (TLS, November 25, 2011), describes Miłosz's unsparing choices. Literary ambition drove him to abandon the woman he called his "true and tragic love" in his native Lithuania in the 1930s (she may have been pregnant as well). After the Warsaw Uprising, he told friends that he would not take arms, because he must survive the war. His death would be meaningless: he must write, not fight.
At one shattering moment in his life, however, he rejected his vocation: on February 1, 1951, Miłosz, in Paris as a cultural attaché for the Stalinist government of Poland, stepped into a waiting taxi that took him to Maisons-Laffitte in the suburbs. The thirty-nine-year-old defector spent three and a half months in hiding at the offices of Kultura, an important émigré journal of politics and literature. He wrote: "my decision marks the end of my literary career". He had walked out on more than five years of service to the Communist government, most recently in the grim, barricaded Paris embassy where insubordinate employees were drugged and delivered to the airport, and where others never left the building for fear of being dismissed. He had longed for "a place on earth where I could wear a face and not a mask", but still believed he had turned his back on the future by defecting.
Miłosz was the first writer and intellectual of such distinction to defect from the Soviet bloc, and the first to give his reasons publicly, saying that a lie is the source of all crime and that "the paramount duty of a poet is to tell the truth". For this, he was subjected to vicious slander and attacks from old friends in Poland, the left-wing Parisian intelligentsia, and even other émigrés. Miłosz became an Orwellian un-person in his native land, and would not see his wife and two sons again for more than two years.
At Maisons-Laffitte, he spent his days shouting, pacing, chain-smoking and drinking as he skirted a nervous breakdown. He could not "shake off his attraction towards Stalinism, like a rabbit toward a snake", wrote Jerzy Giedroyc, the editor-in-chief at the publishing house Instytut Literacki as well as its journal Kultura. The émigrés who gathered round Kultura seemed to be history's has-beens, fighting a rearguard action for a cause that had long ago been lost. But the "future of history" may not go where we imagine, and the cause that looks lost may, in fact, have time on its side. Today, Giedroyc is a legend, along with Józef Czapski, Zygmunt Hertz and his wife Zofia, who shared the villa in Maisons-Laffitte.
Well, we've told some of that story in the Book Haven after our own visit to the villa in Maisons-Laffitte. Again, the full article is here.
Postscript: Oh, and we got a line on the cover of the issue. How cool is that?
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… Who as far back as she can remember, always had stomach issues after eating. Her parents didn't pay too much attention to it because it was the 80ies; a time when families were eating pizza pops and frozen dinners cooked in microwaves.
… who, as a life-long foodie, thought she was eating good food. She avoided processed foods and packages, made elaborate meals from scratch, and loved to cook, smothering things in butter, marinating in oils, stirring up rich gravies and sauces, adding salt and rich spices to everything.
… who spent years suffering with constant brain fog, low energy, depression, anxiety, digestive health issues, poor sleep, weight gain and insane sugar cravings! Her symptoms were so diverse she did not think they could all be connected. Constantly bouncing from diet to diet, trying new work-out plans and never getting results, life felt like a struggle. Andrea knew she was not living to her fullest potential.
Glyphosate is the active ingredient in the ubiquitous herbicide 'Roundup' that has infiltrated the majority of our food, water, air, and rainfall. It functions by blocking the production of proteins needed for growth in plants. In humans, it blocks amino acids including tryptophan, which is essential for hormone production. This causes a huge amount of problems for the human body and the environment.
Do you feel like you're doing your best to eat well, manage your stress, exercise regularly and avoid environmental toxins? Do you feel that even with this effort you are still feeling sluggish, foggy headed and pushing through the everyday?
Or, maybe you have more obvious deficiencies like eczema, frequent colds or digestive issues.


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Like many neurological conditions, chronic migraine is poorly understood and ripe with unmet needs. Improving the underlying knowledge of the disorder is crucial to relieving the misery experienced by sufferers and the financial costs for healthcare systems. Sally Turner finds out how the pharma industry is working to develop more effective therapies.
Migraine is the third most common health issue in the world (behind dental cavities and tension headaches), according to research collated by the Migraine Trust. With an estimated global prevalence of 14.7%, the condition affects around one in seven people. In the UK alone, absenteeism from migraine costs the economy £2.25bn per year, calculated on the basis of 25 million lost days.
With so many affected worldwide, it is no surprise that global sales of migraine medications are expected to grow to $8.7bn by 2026, at a compound annual growth rate of 10.3%, according to GlobalData. The US will likely continue to dominate with a 77% share of total sales by 2026, followed by Germany (5.6%) and Italy (5.2%).
Acute and preventative migraine treatments: a market overview
Migraine treatment falls into two categories: acute and preventative. Acute treatment aims to stop specific one-off migraines, while preventative treatments are long-term therapies aimed at reducing the frequency and severity of attacks.
Rahael Maladwala, a healthcare analyst at GlobalData offers an overview of common migraine medications: "For acute treatment the major drugs are triptans, all of which are now off patent, but sumatriptan (GSK), rizatriptan (Merck) and eletriptan (Pfizer) seem to be the mostly commonly prescribed."
Earlier this year, Amgen successfully trialled erenumab, a breakthrough preventative treatment set to transform how migraine is managed. The drug will be rolled out in collaboration with Novartis, building on a global neuroscience collaboration in Alzheimer's disease and migraine established in 2015 between the two companies.
Eli Lilly has also launched emgality (galcanezumab), a preventative self-administered calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) injection currently awaiting approval by the US Food and Drugs Administration (FDA).
Until Amgen launched erenumab, preventative treatment did not have any migraine-specific treatments
"Until Amgen launched erenumab, preventative treatment did not have any migraine-specific treatments," explains Maladwala. "It was only drugs repurposed from other indications. The most commonly prescribed classes were neurotoxins (botox), anti-depressants, antiepileptics and beta blockers. These had problems with safety, efficacy and tolerability, which meant a large section of the migraine patient population was not adequately treated."
Allergan's award-winning chronic migraine epidemiology study (CaMEO) will also inform how migraine medication is managed.
"Allergan's CaMEO study is the type of research needed to boost the education of physicians," says Maladwala. "By identifying subgroups of patients, they can see if these groups respond to specific medications better than others. They can then prescribe these therapies first, making the treatment algorithm more efficient."
Challenges in diagnosis and drug development
There are unmet environmental and clinical needs in the migraine market, which make drug development and patient management difficult. A lack of knowledge still persists with regard to accurate diagnosis, which can lead to the wrong drugs being prescribed. Research collated by the Migraine Trust suggests that migraine remains undiagnosed and undertreated in at least 50% of patients, and less than 50% of migraine sufferers consult a physician. Moreover, 'headache education' is not on the curriculum for approximately 75% of the undergraduate medical schools in England.
The plus-point of migraine development is its high prevalence
"Also, each drug has its weak points," continues Maladwala. "Preventative treatments have poor efficacy, safety and tolerability; acute treatments (triptans) are relatively clean, but they cannot be used for those with cardiovascular problems, and they are still not effective in some patients."
Drug development has been difficult because the underlying cause of migraine is not fully understood.
"The CGRP pathway looks promising though," says Maladwala. "The plus-point of migraine development is its high prevalence, which means that even with a low diagnosis rate, recruitment for clinical trial is relatively easy."
Products in the pipeline
The CGRP monoclonal antibodies (mAb) class is generating a lot of interest in the migraine market.
"Every key opinion leader (KOL) interviewed for the GlobalData PharmaPoint Migraine Report was extremely optimistic about these," continues Maladwala. "All four – Amgen/Novartis' erenumab, Eli Lilly's galcanezumab, Teva's fremanezumab, and Alder's eptinezumab – have posted similar safety and efficacy data."
The drugs were shown to reduce migraine days considerably and as all of these are migraine-specific preventative treatments, they address a significant gap in the market.
Outside of mAB developments, Eli Lilly is also making headway with lasmiditan, which is a neurally acting anti-migraine agent from the ditan class.
"This is an acute treatment, which has a similar efficacy to triptans," explains Maladwala. "However, it has no contraindications, which make it more attractive. Further down the line, Allergan has two gepants (ubrogepant and atogepant), which are orally administered drugs targeting the CGRP pathway."
Key opinion leaders are optimistic about these drugs as they act similarly to the monoclonal antibodies, but the route of administration is less invasive. There have, however, been safety concerns about the class after the failure of Merck's investigational migraine drug, telcagepant.
The drugs were shown to reduce migraine days considerably
Migraine and market growth
As the four CGRP mAbs have very similar efficacy and safety profiles, market share is likely to be decided by other factors, including route of administration, frequency of dosing, price and market entry position.
"Amgen/Novartis' erenumab is the first to market and is the only fully human mAb," says Maladwala. "Eli Lilly will be first to market in Japan, and Teva's fremanezumab and Alder's eptinezumab are dosed quarterly instead of monthly."
Amgen/Novartis' erenumab is the first to market and is the only fully human mAb
The main challenge though will be pricing. Amgen/Novartis, as first to market, was able to set the industry standard for the new preventative medications. "They set a lower than expected price at $6,900 when the estimated cost was thought to fall somewhere around $8,000 - $9,000," comments Maladwala. "This was well-received by payers."
Future research and development
As gepants are small-molecule drugs, they are likely to cost less to produce, resulting in a cheaper market price.
"It's very much a case of 'right place, right time' for the gepants," says Maladwala. "The mAbs will show the best current treatment for migraine is blocking CGRP and the gepants will be a cheaper, less invasive way of doing this. The gepants are expected to be launched in 2020 (ubrogepant) and 2022 (atogepant). The only factor that may hold them back is previous failures – in 2011 telcagepant was discontinued due to liver toxicity concerns. However, ubrogepant and atogepant haven't shown any adverse events in clinical trials up to now."
These new medications have the potential to transform the lives of millions of migraine sufferers, but they will only be given to patients who are correctly diagnosed.
"When the triptans came out GSK and Merck started educational programmes to train physicians. This needs to be done again – similar to the CaMEO study," concludes Maladwala.
Alongside drug development, physician education will be key in 'the race to cure migraine'.


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Guard dies in blast in military-style heist near Paris
Image caption A charred car could be seen in the area after the attack
Masked robbers posing as policemen have stormed a safe deposit centre in the Paris suburb of Orly, killing one guard and injuring two others.
After blocking the street with a burning car, they blew in the door of the centre, before blowing open the strong box inside, French media say.
When police arrived to investigate the car fire, they fled, apparently empty-handed, firing machine-guns.
A police representative described the gang as a "real combat unit".
Luc Poignant, from police trade union Unite-SGP Police, told Le Parisien newspaper that a safe deposit centre had not been targeted for several years, and Wednesday's assault took armed robbery "up a rung".
'Assault rifles'
The gang, said to number between four and six people and dressed in police "night intervention" dress, struck at 05:55 (03:55 GMT) as security guards were changing shifts at the centre, used by the security company Temis.
One of the guards behind the door had his legs blown off by the first explosion and died, while another two were injured by the blast wave. Other guards took refuge inside the centre.
When police arrived about five minutes after the robbery began, the gang exchanged fire with them using assault rifles, before fleeing to the A6 motorway in two cars.
At one point, they seized a passer-by as a hostage but released him unharmed after 10 minutes.
Following the robbery attempt, police sealed off a large area of Orly, deploying forensics and sapper teams, Le Parisian adds.
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The remedy would presumably be to move industry out of the towns, a four-hour day, and the rest of the time spent in agricultural work on one's own property—if such a thing could be realized.
In Switzerland it might be, given time.
they can come back to them if ever they should feel a need for them in later life.
Man, therefore, always runs the risk of discovering something that will destroy him if evilly used.
We have come very close to this with the atom bomb.


The University of South Australia is offering Vice-Chancellor and President's Scholarships, 2017 to two of the topmost Ph.D. recipients of each division.
The scholarships are open to both international and domestic students taking up Ph.D. degree at the University.
Applicants of Vice-Chancellor and President's Scholarships, 2017 in recipients of a Commonwealth or UniSA funded scholarships.
Candidates should be highly ranked when compared to other scholarship applicants.
Candidates applying for Vice-Chancellor and President's Scholarships, 2017 must be registered in a Ph.D. degree at the University.
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The research proposal of the candidate must be approved within 6 months or 12 months if specified by the home School and Division.


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Fossil Algae in India Found To Be From 1.6 Billion Years Ago [VIDEO]
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Update Date: Mar 18, 2017 11:15 PM EDT
A fossil from 1.6 billion years ago was found in phosphate-rich sedimentary rocks in Chitrakoot in Central India. Researchers and scientists say that this is the first two-celled organism fossil that has nuclei. The specimens found have structures like those of red algae.
Therese Sallstedt, a geobiologist at the Swedish Museum of Natural History said that plants have a major role for the study of life on Earth because it shows considerably how old the earth is which creates a ripple effect on the world's appreciation of the newly discovered life forms that is slowly appearing on the evolutionary scene.
Before the discovery of this new algae found to be from 1.6 billion years ago, the oldest plants known to have been discovered and have undergone a thorough study on its existence were of a 1.2 billion-year-old algae fossil that was discovered in the Canadian Arctic, the Reuters reported.
The algae's fossil structures matched the overall shape of the red algae which is a plant from long ago that thrives in the present times in coral reefs and marine settings. It also can be found in freshwater environments and is commonly called Nori, an ingredient that is almost always present in making sushi. Sallstedt joked in an interview that with the existence of these algae, people could have had sushi 1.6 billion years ago.
Plant fossils and early plant life on Earth were discovered and a study shows that it dates back from 3.5 billion years ago and also resembles the red algae just like the newly discovered fossil but only was dated back for 1.6 billion years then; yet only contained single-celled organisms lacking nuclei and organelles that are specialized cellular structures.
In an article of the Live Science, the specimens discovered were composed of robust structures and filaments which amazingly sprouted to be 400 million years older than previously studied fossil algae discoveries. According to the study researchers, discoveries just like of the fossil algae in India hints that multicellular life evolved on Earth earlier than most studies have thought of.
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Cowboy Builders Can Expect Stern Punishment - Court of Appeal Ruling
Cowboy builders who rip off householders are a well-known blight on society. As a Court of Appeal ruling showed, however, judges are well abreast of their activities and culprits can expect severe punishment, up to and including imprisonment.
The case concerned a man who approached a total of 16 homeowners, offering to carry out repair or refurbishment work. In some cases, he took money in advance but never started work. In others, he began jobs but the work was invariably unfinished and performed to a very poor standard. He was said to owe close to £50,000 to householders from whom he had extorted money.
After the local authority for the affected area launched proceedings, a judge ordered him to provide financial redress to his victims and to desist from any similar conduct in the future. The council sought his committal to prison for contempt of court on the basis that he had breached that order. Following a hearing, which he did not attend, a judge sentenced him to a nine-month jail term.
In dismissing his appeal against that outcome, the Court noted that he had, in similar circumstances, previously received a six-month sentence in respect of proceedings brought by the Office of Fair Trading. That punishment, however, had little or no deterrent effect. The more recent nine-month term was entirely justified and fell well within the reasonable band of sentencing decisions.
The man asserted that he had physical and mental health problems and had recently tested positive for COVID-19. The Court noted that it remained open to him to seek discharge or variation of his sentence on the basis that he was medically unfit to go to prison. Such a contention would, however, need to be supported by appropriate documentation or other evidence.
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Vox's Ezra Klein Defends "Kill All Men" Twitter Hashtag
Submitted by Mastodon on Thu, 2018-08-09 17:01
Article here. Excerpt:
'In yet another article from the Left insisting that old, racist tweets from recently hired New York Times writer Sarah Jeong aren't actually racist, Vox founder Ezra Klein veered off course into defending an old misandrist hashtag: #KillAllMen.
"A few years ago, it became popular on feminist Twitter to tweet about the awful effects of patriarchal culture and attach the line #KillAllMen," Klein wrote. "This became popular enough that a bunch of people I know and hang out with and even love began using it in casual conversation."
"They didn't want me put to death. They didn't want any men put to death. They didn't hate me, and they didn't hate men," Klein wrote. "'#KillAllMen' was another way of saying 'it would be nice if the world sucked less for women.' It was an expression of frustration with pervasive sexism. I didn't enjoy the way they said it, but that didn't mean I had to pretend I couldn't figure out what they meant. And if I had any questions, I could, you know, ask, and actually listen to the answer."
The problem with this kind of thinking is that it only ever applies to the Left when the person presenting the alleged offense is on their side. Those people are defended, while others are pushed out.'
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Listen to the answer?
The sentiment "Kill All Men" is self-describing and self-defining. If it isn't, then language is useless. If I say "2 + 4 = 10" and you say that's wrong, is it any righter if I explain that to say "2 + 4 = 10" is not meant to convey an actual mathematical truth but instead is a shorthand way of saying that mathematics is in a sense repressive because there is so little flexibility in it; an answer is either right or not -- and that we need to fight this reality so as to make it a better world for people who either find math hard or who for some reason just don't like it -- then indeed, you can make 2 + 4 = 10 be a courageous revolutionary act. Oy veh. This is how the Communists made up be down and right be wrong. Twisting and perverting language, when done to the point it becomes accepted, causes thought itself to become twisted and perverted. Language should be used, and is meant to be used, as an instrument of conveying thoughts. When you twist language around so that what is said does not represent what is meant but instead something else, the tail is now wagging the dog. It is a misuse of language and language, as Marxists/feminists know, becomes a means by which to shape and alter thoughts and thought patterns. In this way, the Ministry of Hate can be called the Ministry of Love and it ends up making a bizarre kind of sense.
It's this kind of thing feminists are about. Getting people to accept a tacit statement of hatred and a desire to commit mass-murder is justified by a non-sequitur interpretation that seeks to justify itself with victimology.
You practically need a PhD in clinical psychology to keep up with the madness of today's SJW crowd.
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