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Neighbors in South Roanoke is a non-profit organization started in the 1980s as a way for South Roanoke residents to have a collective voice on matters important to our neighborhood. The boundaries of the organization extend to Route 220 to the north and west, Walnut Avenue, the Roanoke River and Fishburn Parkway to the east, Peakwood Drive SW, Bosworth Drive SW, and Southmont Drive SW to the south. The South Roanoke neighborhood consists of rolling hills with large trees lining the streets and residential properties.
The South Roanoke Village located on Crystal Spring Avenue SW along with businesses, restaurants, churches, convenience stores, and city parks are scattered throughout the neighborhood along with other amenities including easy access to downtown Roanoke, the Roanoke River, and the city's greenway trail network.
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Members receive the Neighbors newsletter, updates on issues, and notification of meetings.
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Question 1: What are the functions of URBRA?
The functions of the Authority are to: Regulate and supervise the establishment, management and operation of retirement benefits schemes in Uganda, in both the public and private sectors; License retirement benefits schemes; license Custodians, Trustees, Administrators and Fund managers of retirement benefits schemes; Approve an Actuary and Auditor of any retirement benefit scheme; Protect the interests of members and beneficiaries of retirement benefits schemes including the promotion of transparency and accountability; Improve understanding and promote the development of the retirement benefits sector; Promote the stability and integrity of the financial sector through ensuring stability and security of retirement benefits schemes; Ensure sustainability of the retirement benefits sector with a view to promoting long term capital development; Advice the Minister on all matters relating to the development and operation of the retirement benefits sector; Implement Government policy relating to relating to retirement benefits schemes;\ Promote public awareness of the retirement benefits sector; and any other function conferred upon it under the Act.
Question 2: What is Uganda Retirement Benefits Regulatory Authority (URBRA) Act 2011?
Answer: An Act to: Establish the Uganda Retirement Benefits Regulatory Authority (commonly referred to as URBRA or Authority), an institution that will regulate the establishment, management and operation of retirement benefits schemes in Uganda in both the private and public sectors; To supervise institutions which provide retirement benefits products and services; and to protect the interests of members and beneficiaries of retirement benefits schemes.
Question 3: How is URBRA Financed?
Answer: Section 19 of the URBRA Act states the funds of the Authority shall consist of: Compulsory levies; License fees. Money appropriated by Parliament for the purposes of the Authority; Grants, gifts or donations from Government or other sources made with the approval of the Minister; and Any other fees charged for services and activities rendered by the Authority under this Act.
Question 4: Who are the service providers and what are their functions?
Answer: The service providers in the retirement benefit sector include: Custodians; Trustees; Administrators; and Fund managers.
Question 5: Why does URRBA charge a Levy to Schemes?
Answer: In order for the Authority to be independent and effectively regulate the sector, Parliament set a provision for levying in the view that over the longer term the Authority should be able to finance its operations.
Question 6: Is URBRA another scheme like National Social Security Fund (NSSF)?
Answer: No. URBRA is not a fund or a retirement benefits scheme, it is the Regulator of retirement benefits schemes. The NSSF, on the other hand, is a retirement benefits scheme and must comply with the URBRA Act and the regulations made under the Act. URBRA regulates the NSSF.
Question 7: Who is a Fiduciary?
Answer: In the context of the retirement benefits sector, Trustees and all other service providers are fiduciaries and must, in the management of retirement benefits schemes: Act with due care, skill, diligence, good faith and prudence, and shall avoid misleading and deceptive acts or representations; Act in the best interest of the scheme members and beneficiaries; Ensure that all decisions regarding the scheme comply with scheme rules; and Act with impartiality in respect of all members and beneficiaries of the scheme.
Question 8: The URBRA Act advocates for separation of roles of fund management, custody and administration, all these service provision comes at a cost, wont these costs erode members contribution?
Answer: To ensure transparency and accountability, its good practice to separate the roles in the management of retirement benefits schemes for adequate reporting. The Board of trustees, as the governing body of a retirement benefits scheme, should ensure that the scheme is managed in the best interests of the members and beneficiaries. This requires the trustees appointing service providers on a transparent and competitive basis to perform specific functions to specific standards in an effective and efficient manner. As a result of the good governance that arises from this arrangement members and beneficiaries can expect: Proper safe keeping of members savings and assets of the scheme by the custodian; Prudent investment management of scheme assets by professional and experienced Fund managers; Efficient administration and accurate record keeping by the Administrators or those managing the scheme; and Independent reporting on the management and financial aspects of the scheme (Auditor, Actuary). Evidence from other jurisdictions has shown that the benefits of segregating the roles far outweigh the cost resulting in better performance and reduced fraud and hence increased benefits to the members contributing to a retirement benefits scheme.
Question 9: What is URBRA doing to reduce the cost of administration of Retirement Benefits Schemes?
Answer: There are reforms taking place in the retirement benefits sector that seek to enhance competition. In future, individual members will be able to assess the performance and cost of different schemes, and transfer their savings and contributions to a scheme of their choice. This will result in members choosing those schemes that are well managed and provide value for money. Another initiative that is being spearheaded by URBRA is the umbrella arrangement, where schemes, employers and individuals choose to save under a pooled arrangement, thereby benefiting from economies of scales. This means that individual entities do not each have to setup retirement benefits schemes and appoint service providers, and thereby reducing costs. This arrangement is particularly beneficial to small schemes and employers where the cost of administration can be extremely high compared to the level of contributions.
Question 10: Will schemes be required to seek prior approval from the Authority when paying benefits to individual Members?
Answer: No. URBRA is the Regulatory Authority for the industry and will not be involved in the day-to-day running of the affairs of schemes, it only supervises the overall framework through which these schemes are run. The payment of benefits should be in line with the scheme rules approved by URBRA.
Question 11: What is the distinction between Regulation and Supervision?
Answer: Regulation refers to the legal framework that govern the retirement benefits sector, such as the URBRA Act and regulations made thereunder; whereas supervision is the activity of enforcing compliance with the legal framework.
Question 12: Why does URBRA need to regulate and supervise the Retirement Benefit Sector?
Answer: Saving for retirement is an important and long-term commitment and individual savers need to be assured that their life long-term savings are safe and secure. URBRA supervises and regulates the sector on behalf of and in the best interest of savers. Supervising the sector ensures that schemes are managed properly, savers have access to timely and relevant information, reduces the risk of fraud.
Question 13: How are Retirement Benefits funds supposed to be invested under the URBRA Act?
Question 14: Why is it necessary to have investment regulations and guidelines?
Answer: The URBRA Act provides general rules and regulations in the sector while the guidelines and policies are developed to implement the URBRA Act and they provide guidance and govern the operations of the sector. Investment regulations and guidelines therefore only provide maximum exposures for the broad asset classes that a scheme can invest in. These regulations and guidelines are only meant to ensure adequate diversification and they do not mandate investment in a particular asset class. Schemes are free to choose which particular broad asset classes they invest in or which to exclude, depending on their specific liability profile. Further, the schemes retain full discretion as to which investments to make within any particular asset class.
Question 15: Who says I will consume my money if it is paid to me? I am perfectly capable of investing the money myself and catering for myself in retirement thank you very much!
Answer: Surveys carried out show that many people who are paid their benefits when they change jobs utilize them on consumption expenditures such as cars, household goods, weddings etc. Statistics also show that accessing benefits when changing jobs, results in many workers having very low benefits at retirement despite having saved for 30 to 40 years. Further, individuals are unlikely to have any knowledge of investment management and are unlikely prudently invest their own savings.
Question 16: How do I submit a complaint to URBRA and what do I expect?
Answer: A complainant is advised to come to URBRA Offices and fill a complaint form with assistance with URBRA staff, and submit supporting documents. A complainant may get someone else to lodge the complaint on his/her behalf for example a lawyer, accountant or trade union representative, or a friend or family member so long as they have the complainant's written consent to represent him/her. The process is as follows once the complaint has been lodged: i. The Authority receives all documents required and opens a file for the complainant; ii. The Authority writes to the complainant acknowledging receipt of the complaint and supporting documentation; iii. The Authority also writes to the party the case is being brought against and sends a copy to the complainant; iv. The complainant will receive a copy of any further communication between the Authority and the party the case is being brought against; v. In some cases the Authority seeks the guidance of the Solicitor General to give an opinion on legal issues involved. vi. The authority works out appropriate mechanisms for resolving the complaint in the most expeditious way including conducting meetings between the parties involved or simply providing the appropriate information. Please note that this process is transparent and free of charge.


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How to Choose the best PoE Farming Maps
Path Of Exile / Guides Date: Oct/12/20 04:50:29 Views: 1774
The Path of Exile allows you to find many useful suits, legendary weapons, accessories, Currency, etc. All of these allow you to inject characters and have a fun time. Some gamers play out of their love of the game, while others seek to improve the tools for further fighting in the PVP arena. In any case, for everyone, the first task is to instill characters and find high-quality game items.
Many players tend to use PoE Atlas game cards, especially at high levels. They allow you to open areas where you can find packages with outstanding skills and modifiers. This level is suitable for most advanced gamers because the gameplay requires selecting a set of scenes and building for locations so that you can quickly and competently eliminate your opponents and obtain excellent loot.
Exile map feature path
The game provides its own "chips," which provide the ability to grow cards based on the gameplay's certain characteristics. They allow you to obtain legendary weapons, armor, currency, and accessories from players in open locations, allowing you to significantly improve your character and obtain the improvements and modifications needed to defeat difficult bosses and monsters.
The higher the level of the location, the more the player can cultivate the treasure. But at the same time, the complexity of their achievements is increasing. There are also such maps that have no opponents at all, such as the Baal Pyramid. Other maps provide extra experience points when crossing the territory of the location and fighting with NPCs.
There are several types of game cards:
White: simple, provides a not too high level for ordinary opponents, ordinary loot;
Blue: magic, great difficulty;
Yellow: You can browse locations above level 72;
Unique: They open the door to the most difficult places through high-quality farming.
Color: white, yellow, and red. Determine the level of the monster.
The unique map provides access to the area where monsters with unique abilities are located. This type of level can also provide passage time, after which the character will respawn at the control point. Before visiting these locations, you need to research these locations first, because when you open the map, you can traverse them and pick up the loot once.
PoE Atlas map and field rules
It is recommended to grow game cards through high-level, pumped, and well-equipped characters. It is best to choose a set based on the location type. Also, players can visit the territory with friends, but there are also places to play alone. An easy way is to buy such cards in the game market, but they are costly, so beginners will have to decide whether to use the game currency for cards or weapons, suits.
Before visiting the level, it is important to prepare for battle with opponents living in the monster territory. Therefore, the "Tornado of Chaos" card provides a stealth effect because the local enemy in the battle gains resistance to stun, parry attacks, and player damage. Compared with conventional farming, rewards for completing 200-400% of game items, loot, and improvement levels.
The most popular map is Shore, which represents the territory where pirates live. After defeating them, they left the boxes and game accessories to the player, who can pick them up. When opening the box, the player needs to fight the Tomb of the Immortal. When his health reaches 90% in the battle, the Tomb of the Immortal will disappear. After the victory, players may receive certain types of divination cards.
Unidentified game map
You can obtain cards in the Path of Exile by searching for levels and exchanging cards with NPCs. In the city, you can contact merchants who need to provide 3 recognized cards and the field of alchemy. Then provide the player with an unidentified premium card. Therefore, players do not always need to look for lower rankings, as these cards are not necessarily needed when passing. You can replace unnecessary items with more expensive and necessary game items.
For players who have no friends and play the game alone, the best farm map becomes the best choice because you will have the opportunity to choose good things, equipment, furnishings, weapons, and improvements. For higher-level gamers, this is the best way to spend a fun time in addition to fighting, farming, and traveling in the game world in the PVP arena.
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To all Rattan and Rapier Combatants that are attending War of the Roses, please pray attend.
There will be "Pennsic like" authorization and inspection points at War of the Roses this year.
The process will work the same as it does for Pennsic. Combatants will have their armor and weapons inspected by the marshals. Once that is done, they proceed directly to the MOL, where their authorization card is checked. They will then receive a sticker for their helm/mask. This will allow the marshals on the field to know who has been authorized and approved, and if there is someone who has not.
Please make sure to bring your authorization card with you to make the process as smooth as possible. The Points will be open during the published authorization and inspection times, and will extend during some fighting times as well. This process is going to help keep the combatants of the East Kingdom safer, and help the marshals do their jobs more effectively.
The Authorization and Inspection Point process is already planned for NRWC as well. We hope to do the same for SRWC, GNEW, and 100 Minutes War.
I look forward to a fun and successful summer. See you at Roses!


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What makes my "N" chimes ring?
January 17, 2023 knottyalcohol, Chelsy Davy, Courteney Cox, Cressida Bonas, Cupid, drugs, ex, Instagram, King Charles III, kismet, Martha Stewart, Meghan Markle, n chimes, narcissists, Prince Harry, quick sales, seduction, Spare, warnings Leave a comment
Last night, I was plowing through more of Prince Harry's "bombshell" book, Spare. As is my custom sometimes, I decided to share a few excerpts from the book for a few friends. I realize that a lot of people are already sharing excerpts from Spare. Now, having gotten through about 80 percent of the book, I know the bits being shared are mostly about Harry's relationship with Meghan Markle. No one seems to be sharing the rest of the book, which I've mostly found compelling and enjoyable.
I will probably finish reading Spare today. I might start a review today, or maybe I'll get to it tomorrow. One thing I do know is that this book is probably going to spawn a few posts. I'm wading through Harry's relationship with Meghan Markle and it's very triggering for me. Many of the behaviors he describes– from the rush of the early relationship, to the way he describes frequently finding her sobbing and inconsolable, to the way she bullies him into psychotherapy– are very familiar to me. They make my "N" chimes ring.
What are "N" chimes, you ask? "N", of course, equals narcissism. Chimes alert us to something in need of attention. Yesterday, I wrote about my husband's ex wife, whom I think is a narcissist. Actually, I am SURE she is a narcissist, but I'm not qualified to diagnose anyone, so I hesitate to make that statement. I also realize that I could be wrong. That's one of the many differences between Ex and me.
Likewise, I don't know for certain that Meghan Markle is a narcissist. If I'm to go only on what I've read in his book so far, Harry thinks Meghan is the most wonderful, fantastic person ever born. And if that's really true, then I am very happy for him. He's apparently found the perfect woman. But, I think we all know that perfect people don't exist. So, the fact that Meghan can apparently do no wrong in Harry's eyes is one of the loudest "N" chimes.
I started to get that familiar feeling as I read about how Meghan and Harry met. Leading up to that point in the book, Harry had written about other girlfriends. In the years before he knew Meghan, Harry dated Chelsy Davy, a lovely young woman from Zimbabwe. Of the women he writes about, Harry seemed most compatible with Chelsy, but they broke up over lifestyle differences.
There were several other women, to include Cressida Bonas, a friend of Princess Eugenie's. According to Harry, those women either weren't compatible or were frightened off by the paparazzi. Harry notes that Cressida, in particular, managed to get him to "open up" and cry, following the death of Harry's mother, Princess Diana. But Cressida apparently wasn't exciting enough for Harry.
Meghan, on the other hand, excited Prince Harry from the moment he laid eyes on her. The way he describes it, seeing Meghan on Instagram was kismet. Below is Harry's description of seeing Meghan for the first time…
I was sitting around Nott Cott, scrolling through Instagram. In my feed I saw a video: My friend Violet. And a young woman. They were playing with a new app that put silly filters on your photos. Violet and the woman had dog ears, dog noses, long red dog tongues hanging out. Despite the canine cartoon overlay, I sat up straighter. This woman with Violet…my God.
Harry, The Duke of Sussex, Prince. Spare (p. 267). Random House Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
Harry sees Meghan on Instagram. Boom! Cupid shot him straight through the heart. That theory makes my "N" chimes ring. It wasn't an accident that Harry saw Meghan and his friend on Instagram. Oh, I suppose it's possible, but I highly doubt that's what really happened. In my experience, narcissistic types are experts at seduction. They seem to have a special talent for knowing what a person wants or needs. Just like the best cult leaders, they figure out what their victim is seeking and they deliver… or, they make it seem like they're delivering. Harry thinks he fell in love by chance, but to me, it seems like the whole meeting was contrived. And Harry, poor lad, was ripe for the picking.
Just before he and Meghan met, Harry describes being at several house parties in Los Angeles. Harry was at Courteney Cox's house drinking tequila and consuming certain controlled substances. He didn't know Courteney before he turned up at her house. He had a "trip" in her bathroom– the toilet and the trash can both turned into "heads", complete with mouths. The next day, he went to another party, where he was smoking weed and apparently enjoying other substances. He met the man who wrote "Genie in a Bottle" for Christina Aguilera and made lots of money. Then, after yet another party, he went back to Courteney Cox's house, where he seemingly had another drug induced trip– one that he apparently thinks of as an "epiphany", of sorts. From the book:
Then I stared directly at the moon. It was speaking to me. Like the bin and the toilet. What was it saying? That the year ahead would be good. Good how? Something big. Really? Big. Not more of the same? No, something special. Really, Moon? Promise. Please don't lie to me. I was nearly the age Pa had been when he'd got married, and he'd been considered a tragically late bloomer. At thirty-two he'd been ridiculed for his inability or unwillingness to find a partner. I was staring thirty-two in the face. Something has to change. Please? It will. I opened my mouth to the sky, to the moon. To the future. Aaaah.
Harry, The Duke of Sussex, Prince. Spare (pp. 263-264). Random House Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
Based on the above passage, I know that Harry was actively looking for a woman to marry. I'll bet he was lamenting to his "mates" about being single, too. Violet was one of his friends. She probably knew he was looking for a spouse. Meghan was single and available, and Meghan was looking, too. And, if I'm right about Meghan, she probably clued into the fact that Harry was feeling undesirable. She's also from California and has obvious show business ties, even though she was working in Canada when she and Harry met. Perhaps someone who was with Harry at those house parties said something about Harry's despondency about being bereft of a wife.
It seems very plausible to me that some people worked behind the scenes to make sure Harry saw Meghan on Instagram. He seems to think it's "kismet", but somehow I doubt it was. Add in Harry's liberal use of hallucinogens and tequila at house parties, and the theory of Harry as a target becomes even more plausible to me. This certainly wasn't a case of "ask and ye shall receive." Moreover, illegal drug use and excessive alcohol consumption in strangers' homes isn't exactly the stuff of good decision making. Being under the influence of drugs and alcohol, and taking it seriously when one gets a "message" from the moon, also seems like questionable judgment to me.
Later, Harry further describes how he felt when he first saw Meghan, and all he got from that first look at her on Instagram. From the book…
But this woman's beauty, and my response to it, wasn't based merely on symmetry. There was an energy about her, a wild joy and playfulness. There was something in the way she smiled, the way she interacted with Violet, the way she gazed into the camera. Confident. Free. She believed life was one grand adventure, I could see that. What a privilege it would be, I thought, to join her on that journey. I got all of that from her face. Her luminous, angelic face. I'd never had a firm opinion on that burning question: Is there just one person on this earth for each of us? But in that moment I felt there might be only one face for me. This one.
Again, it sounds like Cupid shot Harry in the heart. He was smitten by Meghan, gobsmacked by her beauty and "wild joy". He could tell "she believed life was one grand adventure." Harry got all of that from an Instagram video! But he didn't even know her. This was more akin to infatuation than love. He asked Violet about Meghan. From the book…
I sent Violet a message. Who…is…this…woman?
She answered straightaway. Yeah, I've had six other guys ask me.
Great, I thought. Who is she, Violet?
Actress. She's in a TV show called Suits.
Meghan certainly is an attractive woman. It's very possible that six other guys really did ask Violet about her. Telling Harry that six other guys had asked about her, especially since he apparently hadn't asked, seems like a manipulative move to me. It's as if Violet was warning Harry to act now, or forever lose his chance with Meghan. But at that point, he'd only seen a video of her!
It's like a salesperson setting up the illusion of scarcity by telling consumers that supplies are limited. I'm reminded of Martha Inc., a made for TV movie about Martha Stewart. Martha was selling pies, but she only had a couple set out on her table. Sure enough, people quickly bought them. She then set out more pies, but only a couple. Martha was pushing the idea that the pies were in high demand and supplies were limited, so those pie seekers had better act fast, or risk losing out!
I sense a similar dynamic between Harry, Violet, and Meghan. Violet works for Ralph Lauren and probably knows a thing or two about sales. Harry was shopping for a wife. Meghan was shopping for a husband. Violet connected them, and told Harry that other men were also looking. It may or may not have even been true. But Harry clearly got the idea that "supplies were limited"; moreover, he'd already lost out on other attractive women. Harry was determined to act fast, so he wouldn't miss out on hooking Meghan. And Meghan and Violet, being savvy about sales, probably realized that. Meghan, after all, is an actress, and she's obviously had to "sell herself" to get roles. She's done commercials. She gets the concept of sales.
Harry implies in his book that, before he met Meghan, he was aimless and despondent. He'd dated several beautiful young women, but none of them were "the one". He was 32 years old, and had seen his friends find spouses. He remembered how his own father, King Charles III, was 32 years old when he finally married barely 20 year old Diana. People had made fun of Charles for being single for so long. Charles actually needed to find a wife, because he needed to produce an heir to the throne. He couldn't marry Camilla back then, so he "settled" for Diana, who was completely incompatible. We now know how that worked out for him. Likewise, Harry worried that he would never find a wife, even though the pressure to marry was probably much less for him than it was for Charles.
Harry also explains that in the palace, married couples are more prestigious than single people are. From the book…
Behind all this hand-wringing about me was something more substantive than "tittle-tattle." It went to the whole underpinning of the monarchy, which was based on marriage. The great controversies about kings and queens, going back centuries, generally centered on whom they married, and whom they didn't, and the children who issued from those unions. You weren't a fully vested member of the Royal Family, indeed a true human being, until you were wed.
So, based on the above passage, it's clear that Harry was feeling the pressure to find someone to marry. He wasn't a "fully vested member of the Royal Family", because he was single. I hesitate to agree with his assertion that his family didn't see him as a "true human being" because he was unwed. But obviously, the point is, he felt he was getting too old to be single. He was desperate to find "the one". Meghan showed up at the right time. Boom! Cupid magically fired his dart. Bullshit.
In my experience, when someone feels that kind of pressure, they become vulnerable to a quick sale. That's actually how Bill and I wound up living in our last house. If you've been following my blog, you probably know that in spite of the little voice in my head telling me to steer clear, we moved into a home in which the landlady was a bit narcissistic. We had to sue her to get our deposit returned. If we hadn't been feeling so pressured to find a house, we might have avoided that situation. But we settled for a quick sale. Former landlady saw us coming… She told us other people were looking, which was probably a "white lie". Other people probably were looking, but they'd wisely passed. Under different circumstances, we would have passed, too. Hopefully, next time, I'll listen to that voice in my head.
Is Harry in a similar situation as Bill and I were back in 2014 (and Bill was with his ex wife)? Obviously, I don't know Harry personally, so I don't know for sure. But the signs are pretty clear to me. The "N" chimes are sounding. I'm very rarely wrong when I hear those chimes. I've ignored them before and been very sorry. Hopefully, I'm wrong in Harry's case, because I don't want him to be unhappy. I like Prince Harry, and I'm enjoying his book, even though I've learned more about his penis than I ever thought I would (more on that in a later post). Moreover, I don't cheer for people to have bad relationships. I just know the signs and symptoms of manipulative behaviors.
Time to wrap up this post, although I am definitely not finished writing about Spare. I'm only writing about my "N" chimes because of last night's discussion, and because I know I have friends who are apparently offended by my impressions of Harry and Meghan. I don't mean to offend. I'm being honest about how I feel. If there's one thing I've learned from my dealings with abusive, manipulative, narcissistic people, it's that they want their victims to suffer in silence. They thrive on secrecy. So I'm not going to be silent. If I'm wrong, I'll say so and apologize. But unfortunately, I don't think I'm wrong about this.
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A review of No Filter: The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful, by Paulina Porizkova…
December 29, 2022 knottyAmerica's Next Top Model, beauty, being famous, Czech Republic, Dancing With The Stars, excellent books, fame, former Soviet Union, Instagram, James Taylor, Justine Bateman, Kathryn Walker, Marjorie Conrad, memoirs, modeling, models, No Filter, Paulina Porizkova, reality TV, Ric Ocasek, Soviet Union, Sweden, The Cars, Tyra Banks Leave a comment
Those of you who read this blog regularly, probably know that I grew up in the 1980s. As a child of that era, there are certain cultural phenomenons that are etched in my personal history. Personally, I think the 70s and 80s were great decades for coming of age. Most of us were too young to remember Richard Nixon. We got to be kids at a time before everybody was so plugged in to their electronic devices. We had a lot of freedom to come and go– I can remember running all over my neighborhoods— even when I was very young— and exploring to my heart's content. And there was some really great– non auto-tuned— music in that era, to include an iconic band called The Cars, fronted by the late Ric Ocasek.
Ric Ocasek was 80s model Paulina Porizkova's long time husband. When Ocasek died in September 2019, they were in the beginning stages of getting a divorce. Although they were splitting up when he died, Ric and Paulina still shared the house they purchased together when they first got married in August 1989. Paulina had envisioned them staying close and being "best friends", maybe living in apartments near each other. But it was not to be. As Ric recovered from surgery for "stage 0 cancer", he suddenly and unexpectedly died in the bedroom he and his third wife used to share. He'd also been suffering from heart disease and emphysema.
It was Paulina who discovered him, as she carried a cup of coffee to his sickbed at about 11:00 AM. It was made just the way he liked it, with three quarters of a teaspoon of sugar and just enough milk in it to turn it a very specific shade of beige. This part of the story resonated with me. My husband, Bill, knows how I like my "beige" coffee, too, although I prefer half and half over milk.
My sisters read fashion magazines regularly, but as an adolescent, I spent most of my time in a barn, tending to my horse. I've never had the figure, the bank account, or the desire to wear high fashion. I will admit that I used to like to watch America's Next Top Model, and I did learn about models and fashion in the process of watching that show. But I really watched ANTM more for the drama, not because I care about haute couture. When Paulina Porizkova became a Top Model judge during Cycle 10, she quickly became one of my favorite people on the show. I liked that she was down-to-earth, intelligent, and basically kind… or as kind as she was allowed to be, anyway. As a music fan, I admired The Cars, and thought it was cool that Paulina was married to one of the co-founders of that band. I was pissed off when Paulina was fired from ANTM after Cycle 12. I thought it was a huge mistake. In my opinion, the show went downhill after she left. Paulina was also very briefly on Dancing With the Stars, but she was voted off very early. I didn't watch her on that show.
I don't know why she was voted off… This was a great performance, in my opinion.
Paulina Porizkova talks about being a new judge on ANTM in 2009.
As someone who grew up at a time when a lot of us were terrified of being invaded by the Soviet Union, I also find Paulina Porizkova's personal history very interesting. Paulina was born on April 9, 1965 in Prostějov, Czechia, which was at that time, Czechoslovakia. In 1968, when she was three years old, the Soviet Union invaded and occupied her country. Her parents, Anna and Jiri, did not like the idea of censorship, being forced to work menial jobs for little pay, or standing in line for hours for a loaf of bread. So they left the country on a motorcycle and settled in Sweden, leaving Paulina behind in Czechoslovakia with her grandmother.
Life was difficult in Paulina's homeland. The Soviets decided the house her grandfather had inherited was too large for one family. They divided it into three apartments and moved in a single lady and another family. There was one toilet for the whole house, and it was on the veranda. Meanwhile, Paulina's parents were making a lot of noise about their daughter, who was separated from them. The sympathetic Swedish press wrote a lot of stories about Paulina, causing her to become famous. Still, Paulina didn't mind, because she didn't know what she was missing. She loved her grandmother, and wanted to be a good communist, as she was being taught in school. She even had aspirations of visiting Lenin in his tomb, and becoming a "Young Pioneer", complete with a red kerchief. Below is an anecdote of something she and her cousin did in an attempt to win one of those red kerchiefs…
There are quite a few funny anecdotes like this in Paulina's book.
When Paulina was seven, her pregnant mother, Anna, came back to Czechoslovakia in disguise. She wore a wig and glasses. The police found out who she was, and she was jailed. But she was seven months pregnant, and the Swedish press continued to put pressure on the Czech government. Anna was then given house arrest with her family. The police moved into an apartment across the street, so they could watch her and make sure no one visited. Anna told everyone in the family about the good life in Sweden, which was diametrically opposed to everything the Soviets reported. Anna spoke of how clean, beautiful, and safe the country was, and how she could eat a banana or an orange anytime she wanted one. Paulina wasn't sure if she should believe her, but she soon found out firsthand, as the Czech government deported Anna, Paulina, and her baby brother from the country. She was told she could never return to her homeland, and was forced to leave her beloved grandmother behind. Then, when she got to Sweden, her father decided to leave the family and marry his girlfriend.
Life in Sweden was also challenging for Paulina. She was bullied in school because she was different. Unlike the blonde girls whose families had plenty of money, Paulina was tall with dark hair. She wore outdated clothes from thrift stores. Some of her classmates called her a "dirty Communist". One Swedish girl, in particular, was especially mean to fourteen year old Paulina, who one day dared to wear new clothes she'd bought with her own money after working hard all summer. I wonder how that Swedish girl felt the following year, when fifteen year old Paulina was invited to Paris by model scout, John Casablancas, and launched her career as a bonafide top model. I hope she felt like the dumbass she obviously was.
Modeling was a lucrative career for Paulina, but she didn't particularly enjoy the job. Sexual harassment toward the models was rampant among the photographers and clients. She had to wear hot clothes when it was hot outside, or strip down to nothing when the weather was freezing. She saw a lot of beautiful young girls wash out of the business before they even got started, many times owing a lot of money to the agencies who had paid for them to get their teeth fixed or skin issues treated by dermatologists. Paulina was fortunate, as she was successful and made a lot of money. And, in 1984, when she was 19 years old, actor Timothy Hutton, who was directing The Cars' music video for their hit song, "Drive", cast her as the love interest. That was how she met Ric Ocasek, who was married to his second wife, Suzanne, at the time.
My God, she was gorgeous! No wonder Ric was taken with her.
Paulina was struck by Ric's turquoise eyes, which she describes in great detail, as he often wore dark shades that hid them from public view. She writes reverently about his naturally slender body and extreme height, and his shocking mop of black dyed hair against his pale skin. She immediately noticed his Czech surname, even translating it for readers. It was more poetic than her own surname, which she also sort of translates, as much as possible, anyway. She agreed to date him, even though he was married and had two young sons at the time… as well as two older sons with his first wife. She was still in her prime when they married in 1989, but she decided to mostly give up her career to be Ric's wife and the mother of their two sons, Jonathan Raven and Oliver. She would occasionally model and take approved acting gigs, always approved by Ric, and never interfering with his schedule. Even though she made a lot of money when she was a model, she let him be the breadwinner… and they did not sign prenuptial agreements, even though their financial advisors strongly recommended it. That decision came back to bite Paulina firmly in the ass when Ric suddenly died, having disinherited her for "abandoning him", as well as his two eldest sons. She had to go to court to get what was hers and, for a time, was left quite destitute and dependent on friends as she rebounded, now as a woman of 54.
I found No Filter to be a very quick and engaging read. I managed to finish this book in less than two days, and yet I came away with a lot of fresh thoughts and new perspectives. Paulina's story has given me a lot to think about for many reasons. I could relate to much of her story, simply because of the time I've spent in Europe and the former Soviet Union, and because, like her, I'm now a woman of a certain age. 😉 I realized in reading Paulina's book that we really aren't that different, even if no one wants to take pictures of me in the nude. 😀 Also, she displays a fine sense of humor, and provides some comic relief in the form of wry anecdotes that are very disarming and show her humility. I do not get the sense that Paulina is vapid or arrogant, at all. In fact, she seems to be quite the opposite!
Paulina Porizkova has an evocative writing style, and she uses a lot of vivid and vibrant language to bring her story to life. In fact, even though I don't typically read a lot of novels anymore (with the recent exception of A Stopover in Venice, by James Taylor's second ex wife, Kathryn Walker), I decided to download Paulina's novel about modeling, A Model Summer. I actually think she might be even better at writing novels. She uses a lot of colorful imagery and descriptive devices such as similes and metaphors to figuratively "paint" a picture in readers' minds. I suspect A Model Summer might also be revelatory, because I have a feeling it's based on her story, just as A Stopover in Venice is obviously based on Kathryn Walker's marriage to James Taylor.
I remember on Cycle 12 of America's Next Top Model, a very successful contestant named Marjorie Conrad commiserated with Paulina, as Marjorie is originally from France. Other contestants would rag on Marjorie, and fellow European contestant, Elina (from Ukraine), for being too "negative". Paulina understood why they were like that, as she's Czech, with dual U.S. and Swedish citizenship. And, having lived in Europe/the former Soviet Union for about fifteen years of my life, I kind of understand it, too. Europeans have a different mindset than a lot of Americans do. They aren't as "toxically positive" about everything, and take a more realistic, and often pessimistic, view of most things. I mention this, because I noticed that Paulina is often quite negative in this story about her life, in spite of all of the money, fame, and success she's had.
Again, life was legitimately hard for Paulina as a poor little girl in Czechoslovakia. It was hard for her as a transplant in Sweden, where she stood out for being too tall, too dark haired, too poor, and coming from a "commie" country. It was hard for her as a model, who was quite successful, but didn't really enjoy the industry that much for a lot of reasons. It was always "just a job" for her, and not a very interesting one, at that. She caught a lot of shit for frankly stating that, too. I'm sure Americans, in particular, think she should appreciate having been a model, even though she was expected to tolerate egregious and outrageous sexual harassment and very personal and often negative comments about her body. Below is a quote from early in the book:
How sick is this?
Life was also hard for Paulina as Ric's wife, as it turns out that he had some rather controlling behaviors that young Paulina had misconstrued as love. She was very young and inexperienced with men when they met. She'd had a tumultuous and difficult childhood that was fraught with abandonment, poverty, and abuse. She probably would have been better off going to college and finding work in which she could use her formidable brain. Instead, she fell into work that exploited the genetic jackpot she inherited by sheer chance. At one point in the book, Paulina writes about how people will usually encourage children who are smart and/or talented to develop and use their gifts. A smart child will often be encouraged to study hard and earn higher degrees, for instance. A musical or artistic child will be encouraged to improve their techniques so that their arts can be shared with the world. Beautiful women, though, are often judged harshly for using what they have, especially when they are "older". Below is a quote Paulina got from a follower on her Instagram:
Easy for you to complain about the system now that you aren't an "it" girl—but you had no problem making millions of dollars, enjoying your celebrity, and making millions of young girls feel ugly and unworthy for decades. NOW you are aware of how fragile self-image is???? You played a big role in creating the machine that makes people feel worthless if they aren't "magazine beautiful," and now you are crying because the system is making you feel like you made everyone else feel. The hypocrisy is incredible.
Porizkova, Paulina. No Filter (p. 97). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
In her chapter, "The Responsibility of Beauty", she writes:
People seem to understand that being beautiful is neither an accomplishment nor a fault. It is a gift. Generally, if you are given a gift or something of great value, your responsibility is to make use of it. When a person is born with an athletic or artistic ability and becomes a celebrated athlete or artist, we don't shame them for using their gift. If a child is intelligent, we encourage them to get an education, to study hard, to develop their gift of intelligence as much as possible, and then use that gift out in the world. Developing their gift is seen as their responsibility. Wasted talent is a waste of potential. But when your gift is beauty, developing it is considered vain and narcissistic. Trying to maintain it is likewise shameful, whereas in athletics it's practically heroic. An older athlete who strives to maintain their athleticism and compete with younger athletes is regarded as brave. An older model who strives to maintain their beauty and compete with younger models is often regarded as unnatural, embarrassing.
Porizkova, Paulina. No Filter (pp. 99-100). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
I think the above commentary is very astute. It's true that Paulina Porizkova was part of an industry that causes a lot of girls and young women heartbreak and misery. When she was in that industry, Paulina was, herself, young and arrogant, and unaware of her "responsibility" as a model. She writes about a reporter who asked her what she thought her "responsibility" should be. Would she model fur, for instance? Or "blood diamonds", just for the money? At the time the question was asked, young Paulina didn't know how to answer. Over thirty years later, the question still haunts her, but in spite of being a "dumb" model (which she obviously never was), she manages to write some very intelligent commentary about the subject. I found it very intriguing, so I'm including a few samples below:
I had become a model at fifteen and made a great deal of money because people thought I was beautiful. I was also an arrogant asshole. Give a teenager loads of money, no rules, and lavish praise for her ability to look stunning and fit into sample-size clothing, and moral responsibility probably isn't what she spends most of her days thinking about.
…somewhere along the way, we pick up the message that we can't be beautiful and intelligent. That if we want to be taken seriously for our intelligence, we have to downplay our beauty. Right before I moved to Paris, I thought of myself as ugly and smart. Once I started working as a model, I was suddenly beautiful and stupid. When I called my dad to tell him I was staying in Paris to model full-time, he said, "Oh, now you're going to be a dumbass." When I arrived in Paris I got a reading list from a university and decided to read all the books listed in the English literature syllabus, not because I necessarily liked them or would choose them on my own, but because I wanted to make sure people knew I was intelligent.
She continues…
I struggled with shame across my forty-plus-year career as a model. While a woman seeing a photo of me in an ad might have felt shame for not looking like me, I had been shamed for not having the body of Elle Macpherson. And the boobs of Cindy Crawford. And the teeth of Christie Brinkley. When the standard you are being held to is physical perfection, none of us can compete. I just quietly envied those other models and decided I surely had other, more important attributes. I was smarter, I could play the piano and draw, and I was certain I read way more books. I cut other women down in my mind so I could feel, if not superior, at least equal. I turned around and shamed those women after feeling shamed myself.
In my experience, no one shames a woman as often and as effectively as other women. We are all in the same boat, wanting to go the same way, yet instead of working together to get there, we knock one another off the boat. Do we not understand that the fewer of us there are to paddle, the slower we advance?
Porizkova, Paulina. No Filter (p. 102). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
Yeah… this is not a dumb woman, at all! I can see why Paulina is sometimes negative about her life. She's being honest, but a lot of Americans can't respect honesty. They'd prefer bullshit. I also loved what she wrote about fame, and how people want to project themselves onto famous people. She explains that famous people are very well known, and yet very few people actually know them at all. Reading her comments reminded of how, when I was at James Taylor's concert last month, some guy yelled out that his father "loved" him, and James reminded the guy that his father didn't even know him. I got the sense that, like Paulina, James might be uncomfortable with people calling him by name and acting as if they're somehow friends. If you think about it, it really is pretty weird, because we only know about the "famous" parts of these well-known people. We don't actually have a personal knowledge of them at all, other than how what they do makes us feel. Paulina also reminds us that people in the press often make up or embellish things to sell their wares. I was also reminded of actress Justine Bateman's book about her experiences with fame and how strange it must actually be for famous people… at least the ones who aren't complete narcissistic assholes. Below are a few more quotes from the book to highlight what I mean…
Yes, this all spoke to me.
On the other hand, Paulina Porizkova is also a believer in palm readings, tarot cards, and psychics, and she writes a bit about her experiences with her beliefs in her book. I don't judge her negatively for that, especially since, in her experiences, they've actually been correct. Or, at least that's what she claims. I know some people will probably think that's kind of dumb or sacrilegious, though… or too much "woo". And I know some will also judge her for being "the other woman", and for the fact that she dated another man while she was still technically married. But, in fairness, Ric was also seeking the company of other women.
To sum things up…
I'm sure you can tell that I really enjoyed Paulina Porizkova's book, No Filter. I am probably a bigger Paulina fan now, than I was when she was on ANTM. I hope this book helps her make some money, since she was left in quite a legal pickle when Ric Ocasek suddenly died. I still admire him as a musician and love his music, but now I think he was a bit of a narcissistic jerk. It's too bad Paulina didn't use her formidable common sense to protect herself from the situation he left her in when he died in 2019, but she trusted him and, sadly, he got to her when she was very naive and inexperienced.
There's a lot more to this book that I didn't cover, in spite of the long length of this article. So, if I have piqued your interest, I would highly recommend reading about Paulina Porizkova's life. She's led a very interesting one, so far… And I do hope that she will, one day, find that true love and acceptance she thought she'd had with Ric Ocasek. There are still some very good men out there. I know, because I managed to marry one myself, even though I am definitely no model. Like Paulina knew how Ric loved his coffee, my Bill knows how I love mine. I bet he's not the only guy out there who's like that… I think Paulina deserves someone who will fix her some coffee the way she likes it, and appreciate her very fine mind over her still gorgeous body.
celebrities, Ex, mental health, narcissists, psychology
The latest big dream "job"…
August 30, 2022 knottyautism, being used, big dreams, blogging, bullshit, crowdfunding, ex, exploitation, Instagram, Italy, Jennette McCurdy, making money as a blogger, narcissism, narcissists 4 Comments
The featured photo is one I took when Bill and I visited Venice, back in 2013… Ex probably could have had that herself, if she hadn't been so hellbent on "punishing" Bill for not dancing to her tune.
It's Tuesday, and once again, I'm finding myself reluctant to write too much about current events. I've been consuming all kinds of "news"/infotainment about politics, and the aftermath of Trump's time as our "POTUS". I just don't feel like going there today. My mind is still on Jennette McCurdy's book, and how much it resonated with me. I am fortunate, in that my own mom wasn't like Jennette McCurdy's mom was. It resonated with me, because I think Bill's ex wife is a lot like Jennette's mom was.
A really good interview about Jennette McCurdy's book, I'm Glad My Mom Died.
No, none of Ex's kids have been professionally involved in show business. But I do remember when the kids were young, we would hear stories about her hopes for them to enter showbiz. We'd hear about her wanting ex stepson or one of Bill's daughters to audition for movies, or get involved in the performing arts. Recently, she's been tweeting celebrities about her youngest daughter wanting to become an actress and hoping to go to a "conservatory". I think I've included those tweets in earlier posts here, so I'm not going to repost them in this entry. But yes, she's posted about that, and she's included comments about how she wants one of her daughters to marry Keanu Reeves or someone similar. She is fixated on fame and what she thinks is "quick money". Bonus if it's someone else doing the work, while she enjoys the benefits of being the "mom".
Recently, Ex has gotten back to posting on Instagram. A few days ago, she posted a few new agey "positive" memes. On the surface, the memes appear to be very nice and edifying. I'm sure the strangers who look at them, and know nothing about her, think she's just this really kind, loving person. Below are a few recent examples:
She should practice what she preaches.
There would be a lot of rotting fruit… plus, trees don't give fruit all year.
Also true. Glad we can do this, no thanks to her.
Somehow, I doubt Morgan Freeman ever said this.
True enough. Ex has gone woke.
I don't pay a lot of attention to Ex's Instagram, although sometimes, I do check out the comments. I definitely stopped in my tracks when I read the comments on the one about traveling before retirement… Behold:
Now… there's nothing wrong with dreaming about travel. I did it for years, before Bill and I could finally make the dream come true. However, given the life that I have with her ex husband, it does strike me as crazy that Ex is now posting pictures of memes that reference Italy, and wistfully commenting about how much she'd love to travel with her youngest child, who has "severe autism". She has repeatedly posted that he runs away, and for that reason, she needs a fence for her backyard. More than once, in this year alone, she has posted crowdfunding attempts to get money to finance building a fence. She has posted repeated claims that no local charities can help her, and no gadgets or gizmos designed to stop her son's escapes have worked.
It's possible that Ex's post about wanting to travel is just "shit" she posted** for whatever reason** just to get a reaction– any reaction at all– from her followers. Still, I can't help but pause. She's commenting that she'd like to travel the world with her son, who has severe autism and, she claims (falsely, I think), that he doesn't speak at all. Someone suggests that she start a blog about traveling with her autistic son. Her response is, "Yes… I've been giving it serious thought… but I need money to make it happen."
I smell another kickstarter… and probably one that will go as far as her fence fund has.
I reflect on the stories I've heard from Bill and younger daughter, about the money Ex pisses through, buying worthless crap online, or taking road trips, often to see her unsuspecting victims. Then, she will try to grift, as she did last spring, when she brought Bill's older daughter to his stepmother's house and asked for money and "heirlooms". Bill's dad died in November 2020, so his stepmother has been grieving. I'm sure she's pretty vulnerable right now. To her credit, she did tell Ex that she couldn't help her with money. That was when Ex gave her boxes to put things in that she'd like to "pass down". My guess is that anything Ex got from SMIL would end up on eBay.
Let's also not forget that the only reason she even knows SMIL is because of Bill, yet she completely denied Bill any access to his daughters, from 2004 onwards. It's only been a few years since he and his younger daughter reconnected online. He has managed to see her in person just once since then– in March 2020, just before the pandemic hit with a vengeance. He has met his older two grandchildren. Both he and his daughter CRIED when they reunited, and younger daughter explained that she was forced to send a letter disowning Bill. She says her mother literally stood over her and dictated what she would be writing. And she removed all traces of Bill from their possession, and goaded them into legally changing their names when they turned 18. But there she is on Instagram, posting memes about what speaking kindly to a human can do. The cognitive dissonance is astounding.
It's hard to know where the truth lies regarding anything Ex says. She posts these "lovey" comments about her son, and how much she adores him. Then she posts about how he breaks her heart and makes her life difficult. She posts about how her son needs a fence to stop him from escaping home. Then she posts about how she wants to take him around the world and write about how he sees it. And she doesn't post as if it's a pipe dream, per se. She actually states that if she could fund it, she'd do it…. again, with a teenaged boy with severe autism whom, she claims, runs away?
Based on what we've heard, it's true that her son runs off. That was confirmed by a more truthful source. So how awesome would it be if she and her son went to– say– Venice, Italy, and he decided to run off into the many vast crowds that descend there? It would definitely make for an adventure. Maybe it would be one she could write a good story about… Would the stress be worth it? I don't think so, but I'm not Ex. We clearly have vastly different priorities in life.
Bill told me that Ex has always had a lot of "big dreams". She often starts working on her dreams, using money and resources from other people. Bill did, for example, fund Ex's forays into Mary Kay and Nutrisystem. He said she actually was doing okay with Mary Kay for awhile, but then abruptly decided the organization exploits women. So she quit selling Mary Kay, and she sold her inventory back to the company, at a substantial loss. The same thing happened with Nutrisystem. She decided after buying the food that it was too much about victimizing women. More money down the drain.
This would all be fine if it only affected Ex. But, as you can see, there are other people in Ex's life who are impacted by her whimsical decisions. Four of her five children are legal adults now, but one is still in that gray time period between adolescence and adulthood, when someone can vote, but not drink a beer. Two of the three other adult children have moved out on their own, but one still stays at home and figuratively wipes Ex's ass for her. And then there's the baby of the family, the lad with autism, who is the star of so many of Ex's pleas for money and assistance.
Speaking of assistance… what about the therapy dog she's been posting about? More than once, she's written about how pricey therapy dogs are, and how she can't wait to train one to serve her son. If they're jetting off to Italy so she can be an autistic mommy travel blogger, won't it be difficult to get a dog and train it? Yes, therapy dogs are used in Europe, but they aren't as widespread here as they are in the US. Moreover, there are places here where therapy dogs– even the ones that are genuinely certified, and not just "emotional support animals"– are not allowed.
I'm sure that Ex has heard, or maybe has even seen, the lifestyle Bill and I enjoy. We seem to have a lot of what she wants, except we don't have children. It's mainly because of her that we don't have children, since she convinced Bill that he should give up his fertility because pregnancy was so "hard" for her. Obviously, it wasn't that hard, since she subsequently had two more kids with her third husband. And she's never going to change. She'll always be chasing her dreams at other people's expense. Or her dreams will abruptly change, and she won't feel like she should answer for that.
Jennette McCurdy has said that her mother had wanted to be an actress. Jennette's grandparents wouldn't put her mom in acting when she was a child, nor would they support her career aspirations. So, when she was a helpless child at age six, Jennette's mom decided that her daughter would be an actress, whether she wanted to be or not. Jennette happened to have the looks and talent to make her mother's dream a reality. And she was put upon to keep working to keep the dream going, so mom could enjoy the perks and the money that came in. I see Ex as very similar to Debra McCurdy. Someone with big dreams that she can't really fulfill… but is always looking for someone out there to make something happen for her. And then, inevitably, it won't be enough, and she'll have no qualms about tearing that person to shreds. Meanwhile, she'll put it out to the masses what a "great" loving mother she is… and what a fantastic empathic humanitarian she would like to be. It's one hundred percent bullshit, isn't it?
I just hope the damage to Ex's children won't be too severe, as it was to Jennette McCurdy when her mother died, and she realized the truth.
politicians, politics, Trump
Kacey Musgraves exercises her right to free speech. Trump supporters lose their damned minds.
April 5, 2020 knottycountry music, Dixie Chicks, Instagram, Kacey Musgraves, stupidity, Trump 4 Comments
I've had kind of a rough morning. Arran woke us up at about 4:00am by puking all over the bed. It's now 8:37am, and I'm still not quite done washing the bedding. I decided to wash everything, though, since the mess– mostly stinky smelling watery fluid– was turning my stomach. Indeed, I sympathy retched along with Arran. So now I'm tired and cranky, and a little hungry and worried. Arran seems fine now, though.
This morning, I noticed a news article about Kacey Musgraves on my Google homepage. I don't follow Kacey Musgraves. I think I saw her on DCC: Making the Team a couple of years ago. I've heard she's a popular country singer, and apparently, she doesn't like Donald Trump. In my view, that makes her more intelligent than the average country music fan. I certainly wouldn't fault her for it. In fact, I don't really go to celebrities for my politics, although I am getting to a point at which I think most Trump supporters are willfully ignorant, at best.
Kacey Musgraves talks to the DCC. They're so image conscious, though, that I doubt they'll have her back after this…
So anyway, in that very modern method of connecting with the people, Kacey Musgraves vented on Instagram about Trump, after Trump tweeted:
What a moronic fuckhead Trump is… This is NOT the way a leader should be behaving during a worldwide crisis!
Exercising her First Amendment rights to freedom of speech and expression, Musgraves posted on Instagram– "Donald Trump is a fucking tool!"
Naturally, this comment made a bunch of people melt down. Many folks compared her to the Dixie Chicks, whose music was boycotted back in 2003 when lead singer Natalie Maines criticized then President George W. Bush at a show they were doing in London. I remember when that happened… and boy, what I wouldn't give to have W. in office now. Compared to Trump, he's a fucking genius! Of course, I'd actually rather have someone other than W. as president, but my point is that for all the criticism George Bush got back in the day, he's still a hell of a lot better than Trump is.
So anyway, lots of people are now saying on Facebook that Kacey Musgraves can expect a similarly swift rejection by country music fans, many of whom are Trump supporters. Some of them– family values loving Christians, I presume– are being pretty profane about it. Personally, I don't understand this reaction from Trumpers. Aren't they all about personal freedoms and small government? One especially vitriolic guy who looks like he's dwelling in his mother's basement and breathing from his mouth referred to Ms. Musgraves as an "entitled little b*****"." (the asterisks were his– I don't understand why he used them, since it's obvious what his sentiments are.) I'll bet the floor around his computer is sticky.
A screenshot of one of the photos of "Trump" (Alec Baldwin) that appeared in that thread.
The same guy went on to complain, "She just think [sic] she's all that I was rolling her eyes and making faces what other country stars are doing their thing she just thinks the universe revolves around her. Snobby little pain in the A**!!!!" Um… my guess is that Kacey could buy and sell this dude and he's jealous because she's younger, more attractive, and wealthier… and people care what she thinks and says.
Another mentally gigantic person– male, of course– wrote this: Oh ,kacey made some money now she's going to start calling our President names and loosing her fan base , completely ignorant to make the kind of money she is for being a ok singer ,but now wants to start badmouthing our President, that's just stupid. She will find out [sic]
As usual, I'm left shaking my head at the worshipful attitude some people have toward Trump. They like him because he's plain spoken and speaks up for them… however, he doesn't do anything that would benefit them. He's not interested in anyone but himself. He might have some regard for people who can do something for him, but as soon as a person no longer has any value, he dumps them.
One woman wrote this: Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. That's what I hear when you open your mouth. You are a miserable person and it shows all over you. You will never have the class that the other women in country music have.
Class, huh? At least Kacey keeps her clothes on for the camera, which is more than I can say for Mrs. Trump. And Kacey probably doesn't try to grab anyone by the genitals because "she's a star". Seriously… do these people not pay any attention to what Trump actually says and does? There must be some serious cognitive dissonance going on with some of these folks. They act like Trump is this God fearing Christlike man, but in reality, he's a liar, cheater, thug, and abuser. He's as indecent as they come. He doesn't care about Christ or his teachings. He worships money and pussy… probably in that order, followed by Big Macs and golf clubs.
Another highbrow image from that exploding thread…
I still don't know much about Kacey Musgraves. I don't regularly listen to her music. I might like her music if I did choose to listen, and since she has expressed herself in a way that has gotten my attention, maybe I'll make a point of listening to a few of her songs. The fact that she thinks Trump is a fucking tool just elevates her in my mind. But above all else, she's an American and she has the rights to her opinions, freedom of expression, and freedom of choice. Stop listening to her if you want to. You have the right to choose, too. But I wouldn't worry too much about what's going to happen to her career. Like Natalie Maines and the rest of the Dixie Chicks, Kacey Musgraves has talent and many people don't give a shit about what she puts on Instagram.
And for those who think the Dixie Chicks' careers were "ruined" by their comments about Bush, I suggest taking a look at what the Chicks are doing these days. You might be surprised. They have talent and a base that includes more than Trump supporting mental midgets who only believe in freedom for certain people who share their myopic views. America is supposed to be the land of the free… more people need to act like it. Artists, writers, and musicians must especially enjoy the right to express themselves. Years from now, people will be looking at their creative expressions to grasp what these times were like for us.


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Ali Nestor dropped from Denis Coderre's team due to allegations
The boxer was forced to withdraw from Ensemble Montréal because he has been accused of assault and sexual assault.
T'Cha Dunlevy • Montreal Gazette
May 15, 2021 • June 22, 2021 • 2 minute read • Join the conversation
Ali Nestor had been announced as Denis Coderre's potential special adviser on public security, youth and diversity before being dropped from the Ensemble Montréal party. Photo by Pierre Obendrauf /Montreal Gazette
(Please see correction appended to this story.)
No sooner had he been announced, boxer Ali Nestor was forced to withdraw from Denis Coderre's Ensemble Montréal party on Friday, due to allegations of assault and sexual assault.
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"I'm shocked," said Coderre, who Friday morning had touted Nestor as his special adviser on public security, youth and diversity, should he be elected mayor in November. A complaint was filed against Nestor with Repentigny police in March. No charges have been filed.
"I know that charges have not been laid, but it is necessary that Ali Nestor withdraw from our team," Coderre said in a statement. "In any case, justice will follow its course."
Nestor and photographer Heidi Hollinger were among the new recruits announced by Coderre, along with lawyer Alba Stella Zúñiga Ramos and environmentalist Emilia Tamko.
"I think the messengers are the message," Coderre said. "People talk about diversity, saying we need to study diversity. We are diversity. I think that's the most important thing we're showing today."
Nestor is a former pro boxer and mixed martial arts fighter who has served as Coderre's fitness coach for the past several years, helping the former mayor undergo what he calls a physical and mental transformation . Nestor is founder and general director of youth organization Ali et les Prince*sse*s.
"He's my life coach, my brother, who saved my life," Coderre said, before news of the allegations broke.
Hollinger will run as a candidate in the Sud-Ouest borough district of Saint-Henri-Est—Petite-Bourgogne—Pointe-Saint-Charles—Griffintown.
"I share (Coderre's) vision of an inclusive Montreal, where people live together, help each other, love each other and where diversity is a positive," said the photographer, author and TV host, who has lived in Moscow and Cuba.
McGill grad Zúñiga Ramos, who arrived here from Colombia at 15, is running for councillor in the district of Louis-Riel in Mercier—Hochelaga-Maisonneuve.
"Each day, thousands of immigrants in Montreal are working hard, as I did, to build a better future," she said. "I share (Ensemble Montreal's) vision of a Montreal that is inclusive, with durable development and dynamic cultural communities."
Tamko is co-founder and director of l'Université dans la nature, a non-profit organization that seeks to find ways to help populations reconnect with nature. Originally from the Paris suburbs, she is running for councillor in the district of Maisonneuve-Longue-Pointe, also in Mercier—Hochelaga-Maisonneuve.
"The ecological transition can't be done while increasing inequalities," she said. "That's why I got involved with Ensemble Montréal."
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Correction: Due to a translation error, an earlier version of this article incorrectly quoted Montreal mayoral candidate Denis Coderre regarding allegations of assault and sexual assault against political advisor Ali Nestor, who on Friday was named and then quickly withdrew from his role as a special advisor to Coderre and his Ensemble Montréal party. The quote has been corrected in the story above. The Montreal Gazette regrets the error.
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Scott B and Beth B (also known as Scott and Beth B, Beth and Scott B or The Bs after B Movies) were among the best-known New York No Wave underground film makers of the late 1970s and early 1980s.

They went on to form an independent film production company called B Movies (a pun on B movies), which made the feature film Vortex on 16-mm film, starring Lydia Lunch (of Teenage Jesus and the Jerks) with James Russo, Bill Rice, Haoui Montaug, Richard Prince, Brent Collins, and Ann Magnuson, among others. Beth B is the daughter of painter Ida Applebroog, who has collaborated on two of her films.

Study and work history
During the late 1970s and early 1980s, Scott B and Beth B were among the most significant proponents of the punk bohemia, No Wave, no-budget style of underground punk filmmaking that was concerned with issues of simulation typical of postmodernism. Beth studied art at the School of Visual Arts and Scott was an exhibiting sculptor. They married and became associated with Colab (Collaborative Projects) and worked out of New York City's East Village area in conjunction with performance artists and noise musicians. They created a series of noisy, scruffy, deeply personal short Super 8 mm films in which they combined violent themes and darkly sinister images to explore the manner in which the individual is constrained by society.

The Bs' 8mm films were full of downtown obsessions: terror politics, torture, sexual domination and submission, and punk rock music. The brief length of these films allows them to effectively assault the viewer in a hit-and-run, belt-in-the-gut manner. They would cast musicians and other popular downtown personalities in their films. The Bs cleverly used the scene's social energy with weekly film shoots that were quickly edited and then screened as film serial episodes at music clubs such as the Mudd Club and Max's Kansas City.  These films are at once contemplative and confrontational, penetrating and politically loaded. Films like this are virtually impossible to criticize because they glory in carefully DIY style of simulated amateurism.

Films

In G-Man, Scott B and Beth B attack society's power structures as they depict a cop who feels compelled to employ a dominatrix. No Wave Cinema maker and artist James Nares appears in it, among others. It developed out of the short video NYPD Arson and Explosions vs. FALN that was part of the Colab project of weekly aired television programs on cable called All Color News.

Black Box is the name of a torture contraption that was devised in the United States and used in foreign nations. In Black Box, a man played by Bob Mason is imprisoned in one such box, where he is tortured and the viewer endures his suffering. Black Box encapsulate all the Bs' major themes: crime, mind control, and sexual repression with the "minimal perfect-build" aesthetic of the man-sized vibrating containers Scott produced in his 1975 sculptor days. The plot is simple: a passive innocent leaves his tawdry room, neon Big Brother sign blinking ominously through the window, Mission: Impossible flickering on the TV, and amorous girlfriend draped across the bed, to be kidnapped Patty Hearst-style by a gang of punk thought-police. Menaced by an ogreish mad scientist, stripped, hung upside down, and tormented by surly, "shut up and suffer", Lydia Lunch, the passive innocent is finally crammed into the dread refrigerator, where he, and we, are bombarded by a 10-minute crescendo of sound and light. Appearing in Black Box is Bob Mason (the hostage), Kiki Smith, Lydia Lunch, Christof Kohlhofer, Harvey Robbins, and Ulli Rimkus. According to film scholar Gwendolyn Audrey Foster, Black Box is a "terrifying allegory of societal restriction of the individual."

Letters to Dad For 11 minutes No Wave personalities such as Pat Place, Arto Lindsay, Vivienne Dick, John Ahearn, Kiki Smith, Tom Otterness and William "Bill" Rice, read messages addressed to what appears to be a father figure. It emerges after a while, however, that these are in fact letters from the victims of the Jonestown massacre to guru Jim Jones shortly before their mass suicide.

The Offenders, also shot in Super 8 mm, is a punk savage satire about a kidnapping. The Offenders was originally presented as a series of serial screenings at Max's Kansas City and the Mudd Club. Appearing in The Offenders is John Lurie, G. H. Hovagimyan, Scott B, Judy Nylon, art critic Edit DeAk, and Lydia Lunch, among others. The full version was shown at Film Forum and other film houses during the height of the New York City crime wave.

Vortex, shot in 16 mm and made for $70,000 thanks to a National Endowment for the Arts grant via Colab, is a film noirish drama featuring frequent collaborator Lydia Lunch as a detective who becomes immersed in corporate chicanery and the exploitation of politicians by companies soliciting defense contracts. The soundtrack for Vortex contains noise music by Richard Edson, Lydia Lunch, Adele Bertei, Kristian Hoffman, and The Bs. Vortex has been called the last No Wave film made.

Post-Collaboration work history
In 1987, Scott B and Joseph Nechvatal collaborated on an art performance at Hallwalls based on the poetry of St. John of the Cross, Flaubert's Temptation of St. Anthony and works of Jean Genet and Georges Bataille called Not a Door: A Spectacle, which featured the actors Richard Edson and Mark Boone Junior.
 Beth B went on to direct such films as Salvation! and Two Small Bodies.

Scott B and Beth B filmography
G-Man (1978)
Black Box (1978)
Letters to Dad (1979)
The Offenders (1980)
The Trap Door (1981)
Vortex (1981)

Beth B solo filmography
1987: Salvation!
1989: Belladonna (short) (actor, co-director with Ida Applebroog)
1991: American Nightmare (short)
1991: Thanatopsis (short)
1991: Stigmata (short)
1991: Shut Up and Suffer (short)
1992: Amnesia (short)
1993: Two Small Bodies (co-writer, co-producer)
1993: Under Lock and Key (short)
1994: High Heel Nights (short)
1995: "Out of Sight/Out of Mind" (short)
1996: Visiting Desire (documentary) (cinematographer, producer, sound)
2013: Exposed
2016: Call Her Applebroog
2019: Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over

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Living people
Postmodern artists
Artists from New York (state)
American conceptual artists
American experimental filmmakers
American film producers
American screenwriters
American film directors
American theatre directors
Women theatre directors
New Wave
Punk people
American male actors
American actresses
American women film producers
Women experimental filmmakers
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American women
Women in punk

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Mahmoud Musa Arrested In Midtown Assault On Jewish Man
By CBSNewYork Team June 9, 2021 at 9:46 am
Filed Under:anti-Semitic, Antisemitism, Crime, Diamond District, Local TV, Manhattan, New York, Times Square
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Police have made another arrest in an attack on a Jewish man in the Diamond District.
He's believed to be part of a group that was seen on video beating Joseph Borgen in May, as pro-Israel and pro-Palestine protests turned violent in Times Square.
Police said Borgen was kicked, punched and beaten with crutches. The suspects also allegedly used an anti-Semitic slur.
(Credit: Joseph Borgen)
"They were macing me for like a minute straight," Borgen told CBS2. "Kicked me, punched me, beat me with crutches, hit me with flags."
He said he suffered a concussion and bruises all over his body.
Tuesday night, police announced the arrest of Mahmoud Musa, 23, of Staten Island. He faces gang assault and assault as a hate crime charges.
Two other suspects, 25-year-old Faisal Elezzi and 23-year-old Wasseem Awawdeh, have already been arrested on hate crime charges.
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After a nationwide search, Mayor John Dennis said the new superintendent starts at the end of this month.
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (WLFI) — The city of West Lafayette has a new parks and recreation superintendent. The position has been open since March of this year.
After a nationwide search, West Lafayette Mayor John Dennis said new superintendent Kathryn Lozano starts at the end of June. She is originally from Delphi.
"It really is a challenge trying to make sure that we keep the high standards that we've always had here in West Lafayette," said Mayor Dennis. "Our presumption is that Kathryn is going to be able to continue with the success that is our rec program and even grow it to where it's going to be."
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Q: SQL Server: How to add values to a table from an other table? I´m new to SQL and very mutch in need for help. I have two tables: Fact_Hours and DatePeriod.
I need to insert values to column YYYYMM in Fact_Hours table. Values come from DatePeriod table.
Here is the code I came up with but it´s not working. I get multiple errors.
INSERT INTO [dbo].[Fact_Hours]([YYYYMM])
 VALUES (SELECT [YYYYMM]
            FROM [dbo].[DatePeriod] d
            WHERE [dbo].[Fact_Hours].[CDate] = d.[Date])

The correct YYYYMM value is the one that has the same Date as CDate from Fact_Hours table in the same row.
I would really appreciate your help!

A: This is a common error. INSERT INTO with SELECT doesn't require the VALUES keyword
INSERT INTO [dbo].[Fact_Hours]([YYYYMM])
SELECT [YYYYMM]
            FROM [dbo].[DatePeriod] d
            WHERE [dbo].[Fact_Hours].[CDate] = d.[Date]

However the SELECT query need to join the Fact_Hours table, but we don't know on which field(s) we could establish the relationship between the two tables.
Here an EXAMPLE supposing that there is a column in both tables that could be used for joins named NameOfKeyColumn
INSERT INTO [dbo].[Fact_Hours]([YYYYMM])
SELECT [YYYYMM]
FROM [dbo].[DatePeriod] d INNER JOIN [dbo].[Fact_Hours] f
     ON f.NameOfKeyColumn = d.NameOfKeyColumn
WHERE [dbo].[Fact_Hours].[CDate] = d.[Date]

A: You can try this
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    SELECT [YYYYMM]
    FROM [dbo].[DatePeriod] dp INNER JOIN [dbo].[Fact_Hours] fh
    ON fh.[CDate] = dp.[Date]

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Auliapur is a village in Patuakhali Sadar Upazila of Barisal District of southern-central Bangladesh.

References

External links
 Satellite map at Maplandia.com
Populated places in Barisal District