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This journal has a title.
and a subtitle.
16 December 2012 @ 06:51 pm
Blinding progress.
Got more stuff done today. Went to put up the new blinds in the living room yesterday, drill battery died while predrilling holes. Don't know where other battery is; it wasn't on the charger. New battery to charger, resume subsequent day.
Got holes predrilled, discover I don't have the arm or wrist for manually driving the screws for the mounts...and the drill wasn't going to fit in there. Trip to Home Depot to get a shaft extension.
It's easily the handiest tool I've puchased. Between that and a screw guide, getting the blinds up was almost a piece of cake; the second set certainly was.
Then come to discover I had the right drill bit for tightening some loose screws in the new chairs...and the shaft extension made that easy to handle. So crank down the torque, tighten the screws in all the chairs. The chairs are nice and rigid again.
Finally, picked up a couple toggle bolts and an L bracket...got a cabinet affixed safely and securetly to the plaster wall. Incidentally, I always know where the furnace ducts are, now...they're wherever I'm about to drive a 5/8" paddle bit in preparation to deploy a toggle bolt.
Tick tock. Tick tock.
I'm loving the sound of our mechanical clock.
Tick-tock.
It just sits there, in the background, a soothing rhythmic noise. And not as offensive to other people as dubstep.
https://soundcloud.com/mikemol6453/clock
Yeah, call me "ripper".
Logs of good stuff got done today. A friend came over and helped me with a bunch of labor.
First, got the carpet in Marcus's old room ripped up and thrown out. Smelled of dog pee. What's left is a hardwood floor in dire need of refinishing, but at least the room is now usable, and we can start doing things with it.
Second, got definitive "rough opening" measurements on the side door. Involved a little demolition.
Third, ripped down the drywall ceiling in the basement. Found some mold, found some terrible electrical work, and found that at least three floor joist channels had been cold air returns for the floor above. The entire basement is now a cold air return. Thanking God I've got an inline MERV13 and a supplemental HEPA system pulling all that dust and crap out of the air. I don't think the cables running through there were plenum rated, either. Well, more stuff to fix and yank when it comes time to replace the electrical service. Need to get someone to come by and remove 80 lbs or so of torn-down drywall and other refuse. Probably going to leave the ceiling open, just because of how much more open it feels. Might take the time to drive some nails between the floorboards from below to see how much I can reduce squeaking.
Fourth, got the replacement side door ordered.
What's left on the TODO list? A lot of things. But seeing this much progress in one day makes me feel very, very good. It's like its own vacation. Just being able to see the shoddy electrical work gives me more confidence that it can be dealt with. More knowns, fewer unknowns. Feelings like that make me ambitious about tearing apart and rebuilding the house floor by floor...but I need to spread that out over time. It's rather important to have a livable house. ^^
Games on Linux
Every person who tells me Linux doesn't have games strikes me as ignorant.
Let's ignore WINE, and the thousands of Windows games it allows you to play reasonably well. (Some of those games can now only be played under WINE, since they no longer run on current versions of Windows)
Let's ignore the web browser, and the *millions* of small web-based games a billion or so people play every day.
Let's ignore Linux-native ports of every id Software game released. Let's ignore that Valve software is actively porting Steam and some of their games to Linux.
Let's ignore the hundreds of games that run equally well on Linux and Windows...nobody's heard of them, since nobody spent a hundred million dollars marketing them.
Let's ignore the thousands of games that were originally developed on Linux or other UNIX variants, and still run just fine. Again, since nobody's ever heard of them, since nobody ran a huge marketing campaign for them.
Let's ignore things like console emulators, making available tens of thousands of games (if you can find the ROMs) from NES, SNES, Sega Genesis, Sega 32X, Playstation, PS2 and a dozen handheld systems. Further, let's ignore that the user experience of those games is often better under emulators, for reasons ranging from more ergonomic or convenient controls to being able to save game state in games that didn't originally support it.
Ignore all that, and you might be able to say Linux has no games. But I doubt it. What you mean is that Linux doesn't have any games you've ever heard of.
I've been playing games on Linux for over ten years. What games? Call me a hipster, but you probably never heard of them...
20 November 2012 @ 11:37 am
Software, ethics and licenses
Saw this on Facebook today, and it struck a chord:
Back in the day, my dad bought a license. Just like me, he believes that one should adhere to the license if one use a certain piece of software.
Now, of course, we all use 7zip, which does the job just fine.
Oh, and for the record: last week I bought my first copy of Windows 7 (Hehe, yes, I did that on purpose, even though 8 was out) because my brother in law lives with us and I do not want illegal software on my network. Since his PC had a not-so-legal version of 7 on it and it needed a reinstall anyway, I coughed up the dough for it. It's a matter of principle.
Strange, you bring it up: Just yesterday, I thought of posting a status like "The availability of free software made me buy more software, because you get more aware of the ethics".
-- Jorg Willekens
Damn you, Google!
Damn you, #google, thanks to your new #gmail compose feature, I've watched a LUG mailing list go from mostly-bottom-or-inline posting to almost entirely top-posting. Those that have avoided top-posting simply don't quote anything, making context difficult to figure out.
#fixit. Jeez!
"noreply" needs to die
Seriously. How often have you received a message from noreply@example.com, without a custom "Reply-To" field?
Typically, such messages will have, somewhere in them, "Do not reply to this message. If you have any questions, contact <contact details>"
This is absolutely retarded! They've sent you an email, often as part of a specific process. The email likely contains a transaction number or an incident number, enough to be part of a traceable sequence of events.
But rather than allow a response via email, they push you to a web form, or to a phone call. There's no need for this! All that's necessary is for them to use a transaction-unique email address in the Reply-To: field, and they can ensure any response gets routed to the proper destination. They can use some unique, randomized string as part of that response, to avoid spammers. Facebook does this, and I love it; most of my interaction with Facebook is via email. Or they can use a common reply address, and keep the identifying string in the subject line. Atlassian JIRA does this to attach emails as comments to bug reports.
Bottom line: If you're a developer building systems for dispatching email notification, fix your system so that email replies can be routed back as part of the process! If the next stage in the system doesn't have support for receiving routed responses that way, at least leave allowances in your portion of the system to be able to plug it in.
"noreply" needs to die.
bcrypt as an Anti-SPAM Measure.
Spam is incredibly common because it's dirt cheap, right? So let's make it more expensive.
What we're doing...
Our goal here is to make sending bulk email just slightly more expensive than it is, in terms of CPU consumption. It's not a bother to someone if their laptop takes a tenth of a second longer to send an email, but that same computation requirement applied to a bulk mailer who's trying to pump out several hundred thousand messages per minute? Consider that it currently would only take them perhaps a few thousandths of a seconds' worth of CPU to sling out a spam email, and a tenth of a second of CPU per email just raised their costs by a couple order of magnitude. Holy ouch!
Imagine a system where sent emails include three additional headers:
X-BCrypt-Hash
X-BCrypt-Salt
X-BCrypt-Rounds
These all relate to bcrypt, which is a hashing algorithm whose computational expense can be linearly scaled by repeating a portion of the algorithm a configurable number of times. In our case, we store this scaling factor in X-BCrypt-Rounds.
bcrypt also requires a salt...which we keep in X-BCrypt-Salt. Being a hashing algorithm, bcrypt's output is a hash of its input data...which we'll store in X-BCrypt-Hash.
For input data, we'll use the concatenation of the subject and body of the message. It's not necessary to use the attachments, and we probably wouldn't want to; too many systems strip attachments before relaying messages, and the hash, subject and body are likely sufficient for our purposes.
Further, it should probably be a requirement that the value in X-BCrypt-Salt correspond to one of the listed recipients in the email. This helps ensure someone can't simply calculate the hash once and reuse it for ten thousand emails. If the X-BCrypt-Salt value doesn't correspond to a listed recipient, the server should return a permanent failure.
All three headers, X-BCrypt-Hash, X-BCrypt-Salt and X-BCrypt-Rounds must be present and valid if any are present. If any are present, and some of the three are either missing or invalid, then the server should return a permanent failure.
This time, it's for real...
As technology improves and CPUs get faster, we can increase the the value of X-BCrypt-Rounds, to increase the CPU requirements for calculating the hash for each message. Low-volume systems (so, human-driven ones) will be less affected than high-volume systems (bulk mailers and spammers).
Let us negotiate...
So, let's say both the sender and recipient servers implement this idea, but the sender is skating by with some very small scaling factor, such as '2'. Perhaps the administrator of the sending server wants to cut down on the amount of bulk mail he receives, and is insisting that senders use a scaling factor of '10'.
As the receiving server is receiving the email, it should look for the X-BCrypt-Rounds header. If it finds one, and if the value listed in that header is lower than the server demands, then the server should return a 3xx error code indicating the minimum-required value.
Now, there is a catch. The receiving server needs to go through the same calculations as the sender in order to verify the hash matches. If the receiving server didn't go through the effort, then a sender can cheaply make up any value it wants for the X-BCrypt-* headers, and not get caught!
At the same time, this does raise costs on the receiving server. A server might be tempted to forgo calculations for an email with an onerously high scaling factor. For example, let's say some joker decided to set an onerously high scaling factor, such as 1337455. Until the server has completed all of the bcrypt rounds, it can't know that the joker just provided a garbage value for X-BCrypt-Hash. Instead, the server administrator can configure an upper limit on the number of rounds it will accept.
If the sender sends a message with a too-high X-BCrypt-Rounds value, the server should return a 3xx error code indicating the maximum-allowed value. (Gee, maybe it'd help if the server simply stated up front what the parameters should be? I Don't know SMTP all that well, but maybe that'd make more sense.) The sender can then turn around and re-hash the message with a lower-than-too-high X-BCrypt-Rounds value.
A measured response...
This opens up a huge number of dynamic configuration possibilities, too. Let's say you're using an assessment heuristic such as spamassassin. After receiving the message (but before calculating X-BCrypt-Hash), the receiving server can pass the message into the analyzer and get a confidence value back. If you think the message may be spam, then you can tell the sender to re-send with a higher X-BCrypt-Rounds value. How much higher? Use whatever spamassassin told you its spam factor was. The more suspect the message, the heavier the burden you can place on the sending server.
I think so. You're never going to get rid of all spam, but the more expensive you make it, the less worthwhile it will be for the senders. Even zombie botnets qualify as limited resources for the people who are paying for their use, and you can make the botnet less valuable per-message.
But what about people who don't use it?
Well, there's the rub. In order for it to be really effective, there does need to be a significant number of people using it. At least, for starters, you can get some mileage out of telling spamassassin that messages which provide X-BCrypt-* are more likely to be ham, and that messages received after a successful up-negotiation of X-BCrypt-Rounds are more likely to be ham; this gives valid senders reason to implement X-BCrypt-*. (And if the hash calculates out correctly, senders might even be able to peek their way out of DNSBLs, despite having naughty network neighbors!)
(No, I don't expect to be the one to implement this. I don't have the time. But perhaps I'll manage to inspire someone who does have the time and motivation.)
So, going to put together a minimal HA cluster.
Key principle: Redundant everything.
Only thing I have really worked out is storage, so far. Storage is going to consist of two units with these characteristics:
Four disks combined in RAID10. Probably using hardware RAID
Atom processor.
Redundant PSUs
RAID array is a unit in a DRBD setup
NFS server serving up the content from the array.
Two NICs
Both boxes will have the same IP address (going with IPv6 for the smaller header size) and MAC spoofing. Two switches, with a cable each to each storage box, and a cable each to the VM hosts. Jumbo frames enabled.
Beyond that, still working out a lot of details.
The VM hosts are probably going to run XCP. Linux-HA is what's been recommended to me for handling failover of the VM hosts.
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Holiday Fun: The Nutcracker at the Puppet Co.
Guest Blogger: Erin Gifford, Director of Communications and Development at the Puppet Co.
Well, it's that time of year again. There's shopping to be done, parties to attend, and shows to be seen. You're probably going to see one of the many productions of "The Nutcracker" by a ballet company in the D.C. metropolitan area. And although the music is quite beautiful and really gets you in the holiday spirit, it's probably not Dad's favorite time of the year to go to the theater. Sitting through a two-and-a-half ballet is not his idea of a good time. It's not too much fun for the kids either.
But wait – the Puppet Co. is here to save the day! We have a version of this infamous holiday production that Dad and the kids will definitely enjoy. It's a puppet version that is only 50 minutes long, featuring marionettes and larger-than-life costume characters. All your favorite Tchaikovsky tunes are there, accompanying Clara-Marie and Fritz as they play with the toys given to them from Godpapa; as the Nutcracker and his toy soldiers fight off the Mouse King and his minions; and as Clara-Marie and the Nutcracker venture to the Land of the Sugarplum Fairy to watch a dancing donkey, a glittering dragon and of course, waltzing flowers!
The Nutcracker and his toy soldiers battle the Mouse King and his minions in the Puppet Co.'s "The Nutcracker." Photo credit: Christopher Piper.
Now, Dad, you are probably thinking, "Puppets?! Puppets are for kids." Yes, this is a production for children. But this show brings out grandparents and even young couples on dates! It's such a magical experience with lots of special effects that we promise to "wow" moms, dads, grandparents, teens and kids alike. You will walk away knowing the story of "The Nutcracker" better than you ever have before. And you will even come back year after year, as many of our patrons do. Even after the kids are all grown up.
So come on down, Dad. It is a truly a treat for the WHOLE family.
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Patty Barron
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Military Community and Family Policy
Mrs. Patricia "Patty" Barron was appointed as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Military Community and Family Policy in January 2021.
Mrs. Barron is currently responsible for a broad portfolio that includes policy, advocacy, and oversight of all community support to service members and their families, including quality-of-life issues; key legislative and policy issues affecting military families; family, child, and youth programs; the Military OneSource program and non-medical counseling resources; military spouse career advancement; morale, welfare, and recreation; defense resale policy for commissaries and exchanges; and family advocacy programs. Her oversight also includes casualty and mortuary affairs, and military funeral honors.
Prior to joining Military Community and Family Policy, she served as the Director of the Family Readiness Directorate at the Association of the United States Army and supported all AUSA family programs and events by providing management and oversight to all directorate activities. Previously, she served as the Director of Outreach, Military Family Projects, at Zero to Three and also worked as the Director of Youth Initiatives at the National Military Family Association where she oversaw NMFA's Operation Purple Camp program.
As an Army spouse for 30 years, she has been involved in myriad efforts to support military families. She served on the Department of Defense Military Family Readiness Council, Zero to Three's "Coming Together Around Military Families" Advisory Committee, the Sesame Workshop "Talk, Listen, Connect; Phase Two" Advisory Panel, the National Child Traumatic Stress Network Advisory Board, the Child Care Aware of America Advisory Board, and the Boys & Girls Clubs of America National Military Leadership Council.
Mrs. Barron earned a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of San Francisco, a Master of Science in Education from Long Island University, an Executive Certificate in Nonprofit Management from Georgetown University, and an Executive Education Certificate from The Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Mrs. Barron is married to retired Army Col. Michael Barron. They have three adult children: Michael, Megan, and Joseph; a son-in-law, Vance; and two granddaughters, Sofia and Violet.
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Lucia Contini Anselmi ( - après 1913) est une pianiste et compositrice italienne.

Biographie
Elle nait à Verceil en 1876. Elle étudie le piano avec Giovanni Sgambati et la composition avec Alessandro Parisotti au Conservatoire de Rome. Après avoir terminé ses études, elle effectue une tournée en tant que pianiste de concert. Elle a reçu une médaille d'or pour Ludentia au Concours international de compositeurs à Pérouse en 1913.

Œuvres
Elle a composé pour orchestre, piano solo, violon et violoncelle.
 Prélude
 Gavotte
 Menuet
 Sonate pour piano en do mineur
 Sibylla Cumaea
 Ludentia
 Inno guerresco

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Pianiste italienne
Pianiste classique italien
Compositeur italien de la période romantique
Compositrice italienne de musique classique
Naissance en octobre 1876
Naissance à Verceil
Date de décès non renseignée (XXe siècle)

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Any Torontonian wondering what he or she should be angry about next, wonder no longer: the Niagara Parks Commission has released a couple of ads suggesting that there might be some downsides to spending the summer in the city, and that some of us might enjoy a weekend away. George Smitherman, with "simmering anger," lays down the law in a Cnews piece: nobody but nobody talks about his city that way.
The candidate says in the letter he once served in the provincial cabinet and worked hard to build links between Niagara and Toronto, pointing to investments the McGuinty government made to GO Train service, a new convention centre and the NPC's People Mover shuttle buses.
Colour us un-enraged. A slapfight between Toronto and Niagara Falls over whether Toronto might be crowded or suffer from the occasional incident of property crime is the kind of thing that makes a mayoral candidate—and a former deputy premier—look silly. Shouldn't Toronto be above this?
Besides, everyone knows that Niagara Falls is tacky.
There are 100's of great things in Toronto. Niagara has the falls, Maid of the mist, white water walk, wineries and the whirlpool jets after that there is not much else to talk about. Clifton Hill is one of the most touristy areas anywhere.
I am from Niagara (grew up in the good part, out in the vineyards), now happily live in Toronto. I agree with the ads that very few people in Niagara have to chase down transit or worry about having their bikes stolen, but that's only because transit there is horrible and everyone has to drive everywhere, which is usually walmart or kelsey's.


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1485 Henry becomes King after defeating Richard III of York at the Battle of Bosworth Field. The Wars of the Roses are ended.
1486 Henry marries Elizabeth of York, thereby uniting the houses of York and Lancaster.
1487 Henry crushes a revolt by the Earl of Lincoln on behalf of Lambert Simnel, a claimant to the throne, at Stoke.
1491 Henry invades France but at the Treaty of Etaples agrees to withdraw English forces in return for a large sum of money
1492 Perkin Warbeck an impersonator who claims he is Richard the younger of the Princes in the Tower attempts to overthrow Henry, but is defeated and put to death in 1499.
1492 Christopher Columbus crosses Atlantic and lands in San Salvador, Cuba and Haiti which he calls the 'West Indies' in the belief that he has sailed around the World to India.
1497 John Cabot sails west from Bristol on the Matthew and discovers New-found-land. He believed it was Asia and claimed it for England.
1499 Perkin Warbeck is hanged in the Tower of London. The Earl of Warwick is also executed.
1501 Catherine of Aragon, daughter of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain, marries Prince Arthur, Henry's eldest son.
1502 Prince Arthur dies, and Prince Henry (the future Henry VIII) becomes heir to the throne, later marrying Arthur's widow, Catherine of Aragon.
1503 Margaret, Henry's daughter marries James IV of Scotland. The marriage gives James' descendants a claim to the English throne.
1503 Death of Elizabeth of York, Henry's wife.
1509 Henry VII dies at Richmond Palace, at the age of 52.
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Q: How to use insecure web script on SSL pages I have used SSL to secure my pages, but one of my scripts has stopped working.
I was using on page to show visit count on this website.
It was working fine earlier without SSL but now shows the error message:

blocked insecure content.

A: When using secure connection, all content should be loaded using secure connections. That includes images, scripts, iframes, stylesheets, swf and other media from both your server as well third-party ones.
Some browsers allows changes in configuration so they can fetch and display this content, but you can't force your users to change their configurations (especially for less secure one).
If this service does not provide it's api through SSL, you may have to change it for another one or resign from this counter on secured pages.

A: its a deliberate security feature to prevent a page looking secure which then uses resources from less secure sites.
See if you can host the script under your ssl domain, or you could proxy the response if its an api for example.
Be aware though that you are circumventing a security feature and you should be confident that you trust the resource.

A: This feature was enabled by default in Firefox 23 recently. That's probably the reason it stopped working now (Chrome has been doing this longer), but it's always been bad practice because of several security implications: if the page itself is protected from being tampered, it gives the end user a false sense of security if he sees the connection is encrypted with HTTPS. After all, the insecurely served script could still be tampered with through a MitM attack, and for example introduce password sniffing callbacks, or redirect form postback targets.

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Chino Hills man killed after crashing into bus…
Chino Hills man killed after crashing into bus on 71 Freeway
CHINO HILLS >> Members of the San Diego Christian College basketball team escaped injury early Sunday, but the driver of a car was killed as his vehicle rear-ended the team's charter bus and caught fire in Chino Hills.
The motorist was later identified as Xujun Lu, 26, of Chino Hills, according to the San Bernardino County Coroner's Office. A passerby pulled Lu from his car before it caught fire, the coroner said, but Lu was pronounced dead at the scene.
The 1:30 a.m. crash was on the southbound 71 Freeway near Grand Avenue.
Lu, driving a 2014 Volkswagen Jetta, had been going south at about 50 miles per hour in the number three lane and "due to circumstances still under investigation," the California Highway Patrol reported, the front end of his Jetta struck the rear of the 2012 tour bus.
Video showed a charred VW Jetta wedged under the left rear side of the bus, both reduced to their charred metal frames.
CHP officers said everyone on the bus, 9 members of the San Diego Christian College basketball team and the driver, evacuated and no one on it was hurt.
The team had been returning from a Saturday game in Bakersfield to the small college in the San Diego suburb of Santee.


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Sidmouth Chiefs suffer tough baptism at higher level with defeat at Cleve
Published: 11:39 AM September 12, 2019 Updated: 7:09 PM November 7, 2020
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Sidmouth Chiefs were given clear notice that rugby in the South West League West is a big step up from last year after they went down 36-15 at Cleve on matchday one of the new term, writes Terry O'Brien.
They made a bright start with two excellent tries scored in the first quarter but were eventually worn down by a bigger side which was adept at retaining possession for long periods. However, two tries in injury time did inflate the final score-line.
Cleve took the early initiative when they kicked a penalty into the Sidmouth 22. They kept possession for multiple phases but could not break down the well-organised and determined Sidmouth defence.
A knock on eventually ended the siege and the Chiefs worked their way upfield. From a scrum just inside the Cleve half, Ethan Mead came from the blindside wing to join the line between the centres. He cut clean through and timed his pass well to send Luke Wells-Burr sprinting over in the left corner. The try was unconverted.
The Chiefs were soon back on the attack and scored a second try when Matt Farrington turned over possession at a breakdown inside the Cleve 22. The ball was moved quickly along the backline to an overlap on the left for Chris Higgs to touch down. Dan Retter added the conversion.
The lead was comfortably maintained until two minutes before halftime, when an attempted clearance kick was charged down inside the Sidmouth 22. Cleve regained the ball and maintained pressure until the fly half dummied his way through to score under the posts. The try was converted to make the halftime score 15-7.
Cleve started the second half with a short kick off, catching the Sidmouth players off guard. They regained the ball and set up an attack finished off by the left winger sprinting over in the corner. The unsuccessful conversion left the scores tied.
A Dan Retter penalty regained the lead, but by the hour mark, Cleve were beginning take control.
They took the lead when the hooker peeled off a lineout maul to dive over for an unconverted try.
They extended it a few minutes later, when a forward forced his way over from close range after a long period of pressure on the Sidmouth line. The conversion opened up a nine-point lead.
There was still hope of gaining a bonus point when a good handling move took play into the Cleve half with 10 minutes to play.
When James Powell was tackled, a fight broke out resulting in a player from each side being sent to the sin bin.
With the game entering injury time, Cleve won a scrum against the head ten metres from the Sidmouth line and the number eight powered his way over to end any hopes of a revival.
From the restart kick, the Chiefs were awarded a scrum on the Cleve 22. With the Sidmouth scrum going backwards, the ball squirted out the side and was scooped up by the home scrum half.
He sprinted into the Sidmouth half where he found support from his fellow backs to set up a move finished off by the number eight scoring his second try. The successful conversion was followed by the final whistle.
Tomorrow (Saturday) the Chiefs begin their home fixtures of the new league campaign with the visit to the Blackmore of a Crediton side that were promoted with the Chiefs at the end of last season. Kick-off is at 3pm.


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Rolling In It
I recently reviewed a scholarly book, The Sexuality of History: Modernity and the Sapphic, 1565-1830, by Susan Lanser. As the author shows, "woman + woman" (primary relationships between women) were described during the period under discussion as 1) impossible (especially if they included any activity that could be called "sex"), 2) new and "modern," despite the general belief that the poet Sappho, from the Island of Lesbos (circa 600 BC) was the original foremother, and 3) a dangerous epidemic that could destroy civilization. This book includes evidence of "the sapphic imaginary," including much speculation by anxious conservatives about the debauched practises of women who supposedly had too much freedom.
There needs to be a book about the "slut imaginary," and maybe there is. At various times in my life, most of the people closest to me have accused me of "wanting it all the time," and even of doing it all the time, presumably with no breaks for eating or sleeping, let alone earning money by holding down a non-sexual job. According to some men (e.g. my late ex-husband), too many women are Biblical demons who have no other function except to tempt men to spill their seed.
Accusations of sluttery are often motivated by political bias other than contempt for women in general. Queen Jezebel in the Old Testament wasn't necessarily an adulteress or a nymphomaniac. According to the story, she was the foreign wife of a Hebrew king named Ahab, and she brought the worship of "false gods" to her husband's people. In the centuries since her story was first written down, it has been assumed that such a "pagan" woman would be a slut. Most visual images of her focus on her lush, sinful curves.
Skip ahead to the late 1700s, when Queen Marie Antoinette of France was still known to her enemies as "the Austrian woman," a foreign invader who married the dauphin of France when she was a teenager. On the eve of revolution, written stories about her "furious womb" (uncontrollable need for sex) circulated widely.
Note that King Charles II, who ruled England from 1660 to 1685, was a famous "libertine." Historians estimate that he fathered between 12 and 19 children outside of marriage. (He had a wife, but she couldn't carry a pregnancy to term.) Apparently no one suggested that he was unfit to rule because of his prolific sex life. At the time, more of his Protestant subjects seemed shocked by rumours that the king was a closeted Catholic!
When I was still fairly young and horny, I learned from experience that no one can really do it "all the time." (I've also been accused of writing "all the time" as well as reading "all the time." If there are only 24 hours in a day, how can time be multiplied?) Males, in particular, have a disadvantage if they want to do it "all the time." Most guys, no matter how healthy and full of juice, need some reloading time after ejaculating before they can fire again. Girls/women are capable of multiple orgasms, but not for hours at a stretch. Human energy is limited.
The general Western (Christian?) fear of "excessive" sex really seems like fear of the impossible, much like a medieval fear of having one's crops or general well-being destroyed by a witch's curse. Nonetheless, I'm sure I wasn't the only girl whose parents recommended "therapy" of some kind (medical or psychiatric) to eliminate those inappropriate feelings. The only alternative to being a "fallen woman" who presumably wanted it all the time was to be a "nice girl" who was supposed to do it only with her husband, but not to like it.
The flip side of traditional fear and dread of uncontrolled lust (especially in women) is desire for unlimited pleasure. My earliest "porn" stories (as I thought of them) were about some other country – it might have to be on some other planet – where my sexual ability would be admired, not sneered at or punished. I could have high rank (i.e. be an earthier kind of Disney princess), be initiated into sex in some public ceremony, and not lose any status because of it. Au contraire; my "people" would love my sexual generosity.
The surrealistic plots of Lewis Carroll's fantasy novels, Alice in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-Glass (1872) seem like reactions to the Victorian social order, and even though they don't include any mention of sex, they do include a surprisingly assertive young heroine. In my fantasy story, "Becoming Alice," she accelerates through puberty by drinking a magic potion (one of the bottles labelled "Drink Me"), and then makes her debut, her presentation to the King and Queen, in a sexual sense. In Wonderland, this is all as it should be. (This story appears in my single-author collection, The Princess and the Outlaw, and in The Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica 13.)
For a brief time in the late 1960s and early 1970s, I thought a Sexual Revolution might really be on its way, and it would liberate people in general from undeserved guilt and shame. That revolution never arrived, and I probably won't see it in my lifetime, which is probably more than halfway over.
In the meanwhile, I can only imagine a world in which sex would never be considered a problem unless 1) it was forced on someone who didn't or couldn't give meaningful consent, or 2) it resulted in unwanted consequences (pregnancy, disease), or 3) it interfered with other aspects of life (eating, sleeping, working). Otherwise, an "oversexed" person could be considered an "overachiever," someone who accomplishes more than the rest of us.
Posted by Jean Roberta at 11:56 AM
Labels: conservatism, Jezebel, King Charles II, lesbianism, Lewis Carroll, Marie Antoinette, nymphomania, Pornography, psychiatry, Sex, Susan S. Lanser, the Sexuality of History, witchcraft
Daddy X May 22, 2015 at 9:39 PM
We must be of similar age, Jean. I also remember the idealism of the times.
But we didn't realize that although our attitudes were what defines those years, it really did encompass just a slim slice of our generation. After all, it's our peers who now wield power as bible-toting evangelists. Tea partiers are taking out their frustrations on hated systems which were set up in the Roosevelt-through-Carter years. And the pendulum swings.
Jean Roberta May 23, 2015 at 2:14 AM
True enough, the sexual revolutionaries were never a whole generation, but as time revealed, even the "radicals" of the 60s and 70s didn't all support the same platform. Second Wave Feminism arose largely from the disappointments of the young women of the counterculture who supported guys their own age in their rebellion against the worst aspects of a traditional male role (the draft that forced them to risk their lives in an unjust war and the expectation that they would become slaves to corporations to support wives & children). In most cases, the guys didn't support women's demands for equal job opportunities or a single standard of sexual morality or equal responsibility for children and housework. Many white "radicals" never really understood or challenged racism, and many of the offspring of middle-class parents didn't understand the systemic roots of poverty. I think the radicalism of the 1930s went deeper, but as you say, that's exactly what the right wing (incl the Tea Party) has been trying to root out ever since.
Daddy X May 23, 2015 at 10:55 AM
I have access to lots of old LIFE magazines that go back to the thirties. I't amazing that the articles about communism and other leftish thrusts are fairly (compared to the later venom of the fifties) objective in their approach, although definitely not totally on board. Of course, many of the Roosevelt reforms leaned sharply to the left. That's why the late 40's, the 50's and 60's worked so efficiently to create a large and influential middle class. Those reforms have been systematically chipped, chipped, chipped away by neo-conservative ideas, and presto! The middle class is pretty much drying up.
Sacchi Green May 23, 2015 at 10:49 AM
Your title "Rolling In It" made me think, of course, of the old saying "rolling in money," which is often said enviously, with a dollop of admiration and just a touch of criticism. In our current culture, "Rolling in Sex" would have the same connotations for men, but for women the envy would be well-hidden, the admiration almost non-existent, and the criticism vitriolic.
JP May 23, 2015 at 2:25 PM
It seems sexism is rampant in the Republican party - those guys don't want anyone - especially women - to enjoy sex. Women enjoying sex? They must be whores! 'Nuff to make you sick.
Annabeth Leong May 23, 2015 at 7:11 PM
"The general Western (Christian?) fear of "excessive" sex really seems like fear of the impossible"
I love this piece in general, Jean, and need to go look for that book you reviewed. The thing I quoted particularly struck me. It's helped me a lot to relax about my supposedly out of control appetites. Ironically, in my experience, struggling against them inflames them more anyway. I really don't think it's common for people to sink uncontrollably into the abyss, but I know you know the erotic narratives I'm talking about, and they were drummed into my head so much that it took a long time for me to see there might be another way.
I love your utopian visions. The idea of oversexed as equivalent to overachieving is so subversive and beautiful.
Jean Roberta May 26, 2015 at 7:50 PM
Thank you, Sacchi, JP, and Annabeth!
I've heard of male professional athletes who brag about the number of women they've boffed, assuming that more is better. I don't know of any culture in which women would be admired for making similar claims.
I supposed that's part of the reason we write: to describe things we haven't seen in the real world.
Lisabet Sarai May 28, 2015 at 9:37 AM
From now on, Jean, I'm going to tell everyone I am a sexual overachiever!
Ah, Bangkok!
Did that really happen?
"Hello Sunshine" A CuriousStory
Curiosity can still kill by J.P. Bowie
Oversexed (in three disparate parts)
Romanticide by Suz deMello
Oversexed Erotica?
What is this "over" sexed you're talking about?
"Did your father ever... touch you?"
"Night Games" An oversexed story
When is there too much of a good thing? by J.P. Bowie
Surviving Evidence
Letting Go of the Girl
Before the Smut
Ch-ch-ch-changes...good ones, I hope
Over the Hill on the Slippery Slope
Gateway Drugs And Possible Epiphanies


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Jeffrey Ranta
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Contact Jeffrey Ranta
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Dr. Ranta recently completed his Ph.D. in Mass Communication from the University of South Carolina. His dissertation defined instructional elements of strategic communication. Ranta also earned an M.A. in Journalism from Temple University and a B.A. in Journalism from the University of South Carolina. Upon attaining his undergraduate degree, he was immediately commissioned an officer in the United States Navy, serving 10 years in the surface warfare and public affairs communities. In addition to his decorated military service, Ranta has held leadership roles at public relations and marketing communications agencies representing various brands including: Chick-fil-A, Coca-Cola, Dodge, Ford, GM, Golden Corral, Honda, Polaris, Rubbermaid The National Hydrogen Association and others. He is a Plank Center Fellow, a winner of PRSA's Silver Anvil Award, founder of two professional marketing communications agencies and a recipient of the George Johnson lifetime Community Service award. Creator and architect of the award-winning, student-run communications firm, The Carolina Agency, students under Ranta's 12 years of leadership have earned several national championships in public relations and business communications including the highly-competitive Bateman Competition. His current research interests include communicating alternative energy solutions, green marketing/greenwashing and fostering professional self-efficacy via the student-run agency. He is a contributing author to several textbooks on student-run agencies and authored multiple articles on marine fishkeeping, public relations pedagogy and communications executive management.


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