You know, I'm writing a paper right now. Actually, I'm reading a paper at this very moment. So of course procrastionation tassels are happening.
So, I haven't been taking a lot of pictures lately. This past winter, I have been reading and writing rather than making. I didn't feel I had the energy to just stay up all night sewing most of the time. And I also did not feel like tackling huge projects. I went months without taking a single nice picture, without even noticing it.
Sometimes I wonder if I'm doing too many things. Or rather attempting to … and not really getting anywhere with anything as a result of that. But even if my priorities currently are somewhere entirely different, the sewing machine still comes out regularly. And so do my pencils and paint and brushes. Being creative and making things, actually using my hands, is something I need. I just haven't figured out what all of this means with my life having changed so much in these past 3 years.
But who knows, right? I might wake up tomorrow and start to sew daily again. Or not. probably not, we'll see.
I'm still not in the mood to take pictures, but I have a new project. I learned how to tie proper bow ties recently, so I set out to sew a bunch of them. Or rather: A friend taught me how to tie those things, and then we made some together. Crafting (or sewing, or painting, or …) with friends are always a wonderful way to spend a day. Or a night. Or, you know, a good excuse to chat and cook and stay up way past everyone's bedtime. And bow ties have been on my "to sew" list for years, so yay for that.
No pictures of actual bow ties. Because nobody took a singe presentable picture so far. But this is the pattern I came up with.
My method is not perfect yet – I think I will have to just get out of my comfort zone and try sew-in interfacing. While iron on works like a charm, I think it doesn't make for the most durable end product. But I have a working pattern now. And some prototypes which range from wearable to really great, so I'm considering it a success.
And all bow ties were sewn on Eleonore. She makes the most beautiful tiny little stitches. My new Singer's stitch pattern doesn't even come close, so I guess that's another success. I've always dreaded sewing sliders onto 700 layers of tiny slippery strap bits, but the heft of Eleonore's full metal body made it a joy to assemble the ties.
And you know what? I just remembered that I did in fact sew a spontaneous winter coat in December. That first coat I have been afraid of sewing for so many years because I was so sure I would mess it up (I didn't). And that I didn't even end up take pictures of … Oh well. Maybe that's another post for another day.


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Discussion in 'Politics, Religion, Social Issues' started by jnpy!$4g3cwk, Oct 20, 2014.
When Bryan Stevenson was in his 20s, he lived in Atlanta and practiced law at the Southern Prisoners Defense Committee.
One evening, he was parked outside his apartment listening to the radio, when a police SWAT unit approached his car, shined a light inside and pulled a gun.
They yelled, "Move and I'll blow your head off!" according to Stevenson. Stevenson says the officers suspected him of theft and threatened him — because he is black.
The incident fueled Stevenson's drive to challenge racial bias and economic inequities in the U.S. justice system.
In one of his most famous cases, Stevenson helped exonerate a man on death row. Walter McMillian was convicted of killing 18-year-old Ronda Morrison, who was found under a clothing rack at a dry cleaner in Monroeville, Ala., in 1986. Three witnesses testified against McMillian, while six witnesses, who were black, testified that he was at a church fish fry at the time of the crime. McMillian was found guilty and held on death row for six years.
Stevenson decided to take on the case to defend McMillian, but a judge tried to talk him out of it.
I thought this was a really interesting, wide-ranging interview.
The new statistic from the Justice [Department] is really disheartening: The Justice Department is now reporting that 1 in 3 black male babies born in the 21st century is expected to go to jail or prison. The statistic for Latino boys is 1 in 6. That statistic was not true in the 20th century. It was not true in the 19th century. It didn't become true until the 21st century. That means we have enormous work to do to improve our commitment to [a] society that is not haunted and undermined and corrupted by our legacy of racial inequality.
what are teens doing? beating up people, just for FUN.
SOME of what? What is it above?
there is a reason why SOME end up in jail, large numbers of morons out beating people just for fun is one of them.
teens & assorted morons having "fun"
knocking people out is just a "game".
Seriously. You REALLY think there is a significant population of teenagers just beating the **** out of people for fun to the point where it is a signifier of how the overall teen population in the country behave?
keywords being "significant" & "overall". how many would qualify as "significant" to you? I would say there was a "significant" number at the Kroger attack; as for "overall"? no, of course not, already posted the pertinent links, you are free to overlook them as you wish.
Thing is, this "knockout game" does not appear to be a pervasive feature of the national urban landscape, it seems to be something more like a three-off, as it were. It is just not an issue, so the bigger a deal you try to make of it, the more your cred gets eroded by the outgoing tide of meh.
In the summer of 2012, a Walmart in Jacksonville, Florida, was mobbed by 300 people who entered the store and destroyed the security system, according to CNN affiliate WJXT.
Police said the group destroyed an electronic anti-shoplifting security scanner that cost about $1,500, WJXT reported. The massive crowd descended on the store after a party that was broken up nearby. No arrests were made.
black/brown/poor are still treated like criminals by police for seemingly no reason, but plenty of morons who obviously DESERVE to be behind bars does not make things easy for the rest who do not engage in that stupidity.
Consume that for a couple of hours and then get back to me.
For every 1 instance of true black injustice there is probably 100 instances of a black person digging their own hole.
I beg to differ, plenty if morons in different colors on that site.
Riighhttt. And Idaho is a diverse state.
Typical America, blame it on the nearest black guy... We are nowhere near the glass ceiling Rosa Parkes tried to crash through. I don't know how you can live in a country with that many ongoing social issues against people purely because of the colour of their skin.
Hey now, it's not just race, we also don't give a **** (policy wise) about anyone making less than $100,000. Don't be so discriminatory.
Some people are smart enough to understand there is a difference between profiling, social inequality, police brutality, and the effects of white privilege compared to having out of wedlock kids to thugs, drug dealing, knock out games and an overall cultural acumen that favors being a victim of their own circumstance and criminality.
I'm still trying to figure out where "The opposite of poverty is justice" came from.
can you please elaborate? what policy are you talking about?
Yes, and skin colour should never make any of that an issue... I am a person who is completely skin colour ambivalent having no strong feelings what so ever about the issue and I don't understand how this is so difficult to understand, or accept.
I don't like in Arkansas though, so I can't think about how you people deal with the issue.
Are you serious? Do you really want me to cite every law that gives more power and wealth to the already wealthy, to cite every example of corporate rule?
We're going to be here a while.
your post was rather vague, kind of a catch all, I was just wondering if you had specific a policy in mind.
The opposite of poverty is wealth.


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Twitter Suspends Numerous Accounts for Tweeting: "I Hired Donald Trump to Fire People Like Yovanovitch"
On Friday thousands of Trump supporters tweeted out: "I Hired Donald Trump to Fire People Like Yovanovitch."
This was after Yovanovitch testified before the Schiff sham and admitted she did not speak with President Trump == EVER — and that she cannot think of a single crime he committed.
However, the Democrat fake news media ran with headlines that her testimony was devastating.
Later in the day Twitter deleted accounts that tweeted the phrase.
Anything to help Democrats.
Journalists don't want you to know that you agree with the sentiment "I hired Donald Trump to fire people like Yovanovitch." Apparently only bots tweet it out. Right.
I made a shirt. https://t.co/lYhePcsZnU pic.twitter.com/VE76SRQpAt
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) November 15, 2019
The more you tweet the phrase "I hired Donald Trump to fire people like Yovanovitch" the more upset journalists become. What a shame. pic.twitter.com/IXetZFqLua
Buzzfeed reported:
"The phrase "I hired Donald Trump to fire people like Yovanovitch" trended on Twitter on Friday morning as Marie Yovanovitch, former US ambassador to Ukraine, testified in front of the impeachment inquiry held by the House Intelligence Committee. And while it may have seemed like a spontaneous outcry from the president's supporters, the phrase has spread at a rate consistent with the coordinated inauthentic behavior expected from a network of bots or sock puppet accounts.
To be sure, many human users are sharing the phrase, including Donald Trump Jr., who tweeted a version of the phrase an hour after the first tweet surfaced: "America hired @realDonaldTrump to fire people like the first three witnesses we've seen. Career government bureaucrats and nothing more."
The way the phrase has spread does not appear to be completely authentic. At least 7,320 tweets (including retweets) were posted that included the words posted in the first 45 minutes, according to an analysis conducted by BuzzFeed News. Within that time period, 83 accounts tweeted or retweeted the phrase over 10 times each.
A representative for Twitter told BuzzFeed News that the company was looking into whether the activity was coordinated. Later in the day, several accounts in BuzzFeed News' data set were suspended.
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Google Analytics prepares for life after cookies
As consumer behavior and expectations around privacy have shifted — and operating systems and browsers have adapted to this — the age of cookies as a means of tracking user behavior is coming to an end. Few people will bemoan this, but advertisers and marketers rely on having insights into how their efforts translate into sales (and publishers like to know how their content performs, as well). Google is obviously aware of this, and it is now looking to machine learning to ready its tools like Google Analytics for this post-cookie future.
Vidhya Srinivasan, VP/GM, Advertising at Google. Image Credits: Google
Last year, the company brought several machine learning tools to Google Analytics. At the time, the focus was on alerting users to significant changes in their campaign performance, for example. Now, it is taking this a step further by using its machine learning systems to model user behavior when cookies are not available.
It's hard to underestimate the importance of this shift, but according to Vidhya Srinivasan, Google's VP and GM for Ads Buying, Analytics and Measurement who joined the company after a long stint at Amazon two years ago (and IBM before that), it's also the only way to go.
"The principles we outlined to drive our measurement roadmap are based on shifting consumer expectations and ecosystem paradigms. Bottom line: The future is consented. It's modeled. It's first-party. So that's what we're using as our guide for the next gen of our products and solutions," she said in her first media interview after joining Google.
It's still early days and a lot of users may yet consent and opt in to tracking and sharing their data in some form or another. But the early indications are that this will be a minority of users. Unsurprisingly, first-party data and the data Google can gather from users who consent becomes increasingly valuable in this context.
Because of this, Google is now also making it easier to work with this so-called "consented data" and create better first-party data through improved integrations with tools like the Google Tag Manager.
Last year, Google launched Consent Mode, which helps advertisers manage cookie behavior based on local data-protection laws and user preferences. For advertisers in the EU and in the U.K., Consent Mode allows them to adjust their Google tags based on a user's choices and soon, Google will launch a direct integration with Tag Manager to make it easier to modify and customize these tags.
How Consent Mode works today. Image Credits: Google
What's maybe more important, though, is that Consent Mode will now use conversion modeling for users who don't consent to cookies. Google says this can recover about 70% of ad-click-to-conversion journeys that would otherwise be lost to advertisers.
In addition, Google is also making it easier for bring in first-party data (in a privacy-forward way) to Google Analytics to improve measurements and its models.
"Revamping a popular product with a long history is something people are going to have opinions about — we know that. But we felt strongly that we needed Google Analytics to be relevant to changing consumer behavior and ready for a cookie-less world — so that's what we're building," Srinivasan said. "The machine learning that Google has invested in for years — that experience is what we're putting in action to drive the modeling underlying this tech. We take having credible insights and reporting in the market seriously. We know that doing the work on measurement is critical to market trust. We don't take the progress we've made for granted and we're looking to continue iterating to ensure scale, but above all we're prioritizing user trust."
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Key plays from Giants vs. Packers
1) Bradshaw bursts for 59 yards. After a month of spinning their wheels, the Giants needed a spark on offense or they would be in danger of losing their third straight game. Bradshaw delivered exactly that on the fourth play of the game when he caught a screen pass and rumbled down to the Packers' 2-yard line. The 59-yard gain was the longest play of the night for the Giants, leading to Andre Brown's touchdown on the opening drive.
2) Nelson slips by the Giants. As quickly as MetLife Stadium came to life on the first drive, the breath was taken away just as easily when Jordy Nelson broke free down the right sideline on the ensuing possession. Green Bay quarterback Aaron Rodgers hit his wide receiver in-stride for a 61-yard score, and just like that, the game was tied back up. For the time being, it appeared a shootout was in the making. But Corey Webster would redeem himself later in the first quarter with an interception that led to a Lawrence Tynes field goal.
3) Manning lowers the boom. There comes a certain level of toughness with 130 consecutive starts in the NFL, and Eli Manning showed it on Sunday night. On third-and-7 at Green Bay's 34, Manning scrambled for a first down but wanted more. He chose not to slide and lowered his shoulder to pick up a few more yards. The 13-yard run kept the drive alive and resulted in his 16-yard touchdown pass to Rueben Randle.
4) Osi strips, JPP scoops. Osi Umenyiora, the master of the strip-sack, used his patented move on Rodgers late in the first half as he came around and knocked the ball out of the quarterback's hand. Jason Pierre-Paul scooped it up and returned it 10 yards down to Green Bay's 23. Umenyiora's 74th sack and 32nd forced fumble led to Ahmad Bradshaw's touchdown and a 31-10 lead.
5) Manning hits 200. Entering the game with 197 passing touchdowns, Manning needed three more to break Phil Simms' team record. The throw to Randle made it 198. The touchdown strike to Victor Cruz tied it up. And leave it to Hakeem Nicks to make the record breaker the most dramatic. On third-and-13, Nicks caught a pass over the middle and stretched out toward the goal line. The play was initially called just shy of the end zone, but Tom Coughlin threw his first challenge flag of the year. He and the Giants would be successful as the play was reversed and ruled a touchdown.


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GoAir to start Kannur-Abu Dhabi flight services from March 1
New Delhi, Jan 29 (PTI) Adding Abu Dhabi as its fourth foreign destination, GoAir on Tuesday announced that it will start flight services from Kannur to the UAE capital from March 1.
Published: January 29, 2019 4:11 PM IST
New Delhi, Jan 29 (PTI) Adding Abu Dhabi as its fourth foreign destination, GoAir on Tuesday announced that it will start flight services from Kannur to the UAE capital from March 1. Also Read - Indian Fan Complains of Racism at Sydney Cricket Ground During Third Test Between India and Australia
"GoAir will operate four direct flight services per week between Kannur-Abu Dhabi-Kannur and bookings are now open at an attractive all-inclusive one-way fare starting from Rs 6,099," the airline said in a statement. Also Read - PM Modi Announces Rs 1,000-Crore 'Startup India Seed Fund'
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Jeh Wadia, Managing Director, GoAir on Tuesday said, "We are tremendously excited to be launching direct flight services to Abu Dhabi. Commercial and cultural links between India and the UAE are flourishing and GoAir is committed to contribute in facilitating and enhancing the growth of trade and the strong demand for tourism." On the domestic front, GoAir currently connects Kannur to Bengaluru, Chennai and Hyderabad.
On the international front, the airline has recently introduced direct daily connectivity to Phuket from Mumbai, Delhi and Bengaluru.
It also operates four direct weekly flights on the Mumbai-Male route, three weekly flights on the Delhi-Male route and two weekly flights on the Bengaluru-Male route.
Last Thursday, Aviation veteran Ronojoy Dutta was appointed as the chief executive officer (CEO) of GoAir's rival, IndiGo, for a period of five years as the latter plans a major international expansion this year.
Published Date: January 29, 2019 4:11 PM IST


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Neil Patrick Harris returning to host Emmycast
NEW YORK (AP) -- CBS says Neil Patrick Harris is hosting the Emmys again.
It's the second go-around for the TV, film and stage star. He last did the honors at the "Prime Time Emmy Awards" in 2009.
CBS will air the Emmycast live from Los Angeles on Sept. 22.
But for viewers who just can't wait to see Harris in emcee mode, he'll preside over "The 67th Annual Tony Awards" on CBS on June 9. It's Harris' fourth time hosting that show, which salutes the best of Broadway.
Harris currently stars on the hit CBS sitcom "How I Met Your Mother."
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An ordinary winter evening in the Legation Quarter of Peking, where foreign embassies and consulates were located, January 7, 1937. Cold. The heavy sound of Japanese armored cars, out on patrol down the busy shopping streets that flank the Forbidden City. (Japan would occupy the city seven months later.) The martial sounds and the crowds seem not to distract a couple of teenage girls as they make their plans to go skating for an hour or so, under the arc lights of the newly constructed French ice rink. They leave open the question of where they might meet later in the evening. There are parents to be alerted, supper to be eaten. Notes have been exchanged, hints dropped. Perhaps there will be time, a little later, for a girl to have a bit of an adventure with some fellow students, or perhaps with a few older men, who seem to think this is a good evening for a diversion.
Certainly that would be a change from the girls' accustomed rhythms, dictated by the prescribed curriculum of Latin texts and the polite tyranny of their dowdy boarding school uniforms. But even with all the knowledge they have managed to store up in their short lives so far, none of this little group could have had the faintest idea how bad things were going to get. And least of all, perhaps, a girl called Pamela, destined within the next few hours to be savagely bludgeoned to death.
Over the last century and a half, scores of books have been written about the foreigners who chose—or tried—to live in China: they include teachers and financiers, traders and political agents, diplomats and musicians, scientists and military specialists, missionaries and surgeons.
However there were other sojourners who had settled in Peking during the 1930s and created new lives for themselves, even if lives of a fragile or fleeting kind, on the edges of society, or else below it altogether.
Lodgings did not necessarily determine social class or comparative wealth: some "lived in well-appointed apartment buildings" and "others in cheap flophouses." Others chose not to have their lodgings known, or lived in both zones, depending on necessity or chance. They could be from anywhere in the world, but perhaps most were American, British, Canadian, or Italian. We meet an American dentist who lived in a luxury apartment in the Legation Quarter, after his wife had left him, taking their three children with her. There was an Italian doctor, kept busy by squads of unruly Italian sailors. The quarter was technically reserved for diplomatic or administrative personnel, but no one could control what happened at the parties there. And if one wanted greater privacy, there were also temples in the beautiful Western Hills that could be rented, with no questions asked, and no prying eyes. Increasing numbers of women who originally had been White Russian fugitives from the Bolsheviks or Jewish refugees from Germany and Central Europe were feeding on the opportunities in China as the rest of the world grew grimmer.
Edward Werner, Pamela's father, was born in New Zealand in 1864, to a Prussian father and an English mother. His childhood was filled with travel and adventures, and he became at home in several languages. After his father's death and several years in the academically excellent Tonbridge School, Werner sat for the British foreign service examinations, earning a scholarship for two years of intensive study in Peking as a student interpreter. Excelling at Chinese, Werner was appointed to a series of China postings during the 1890s and 1900s, the most prestigious of which was as the consul general of Fuzhou on the east China coast. He retired from the service in 1914, at the age of fifty.
During his close to thirty years of consular service in China, Werner developed a mixed reputation in the various Chinese ports and commercial cities where he served, and his transfers between posts were often close to being demotions, for he was clearly unpopular and at times downright exasperating or stubborn, and the mediocrity of the cities or river towns where he served is a kind of roster of potential failure; loneliness and depression often came with such postings.
Nevertheless, instead of returning at once to England and the quiet life of a former diplomat, as most of his contemporaries had done, Werner married in 1911 and subsequently moved with his wife Gladys to a rented house in Peking, determined to concentrate on a life of Chinese scholarship. In 1919, the couple was still childless, and decided to adopt a child. They chose a little girl from a Western birth mother, who had been raised in a Peking orphanage, whom they named Pamela. According to the birth certificate issued by the British consulate, Pamela's estimated date of birth had been February 7, 1917.
Gladys herself soon fell seriously ill, and was sent to the United States for treatment, but with no effect. She died after returning to Peking in 1922 (according to her doctors, from meningitis). Pamela was then just five. Again, Werner did not attempt to leave China for life in Europe or the United States but instead decided to stay in China with his daughter, to enroll her in local Peking schools—her Chinese-language skills were already considerable—and to continue with his own ambitious program of travel, research, and writing about China.
His courtyard house, rented from a Chinese landlord, was elegantly (if rather heavily) furnished, with spacious grounds and gardens. It stood on a quiet street quite near the British Legation Quarter, but outside the perimeter protected by the British.
Father and daughter lived there together for many years, and it was not far from this rented home, in a deserted stretch of wasteland below the southeast watchtower of the old city wall protecting the former imperial city, that a scholarly Chinese dawn stroller taking his caged songbird for a walk saw Pamela's dead body lying in a ditch. Her face and body had been so hideously mutilated that the identity of the corpse could only be established by means of her ripped clothing and her expensive and elegant wristwatch, suggesting that she was not killed for material gain. It was just one month before what would have been her twentieth birthday. Werner was seventy-two.
That the case was never officially solved seems remarkable, especially in view of the savagery of the crime, Werner's status as a retired diplomat and consul, his reputation as a prominent scholar, his excellent knowledge of the Chinese language, and his intimate knowledge of the city, through which he took long walks almost every day. Also, though Pamela's circle of friends was still comparatively limited, she would have been a striking sight in Peking because of her blond hair and gray eyes. Like her adoptive father, she too was adventurous, was fluent in Chinese, knew the worlds of street vendors and stall owners, and had boldly ridden her bicycle even in the unlighted lanes and byways of the old city quarters.
Thus she could indulge smaller whims without a thought: for example, having enjoyed her skating at the new French rink, she had at once taken out a membership. The blood-stained member's card was subsequently found near her body. Somewhere along the line, she had also become familiar enough with the world of grown-up maneuvering to leave or receive little notes held in her name by the concierges of the nearby luxury hotels like the Grand Hôtel des Wagons Lits in walking distance from the Peking railway station.
As for Pamela's father, he made a self-insulating cult of his loneliness. It may indeed have been true that he disliked most people he met, and that he made no attempt to conceal it. His rudeness was sincere, and life had not been easy for him. Werner spent much of his life with his Chinese texts in his spacious study, tracking, in his case, the arcane terms in early texts on Chinese mythology, his great passion, and carefully collating their variants and shifting popular and scholarly usages. Werner made long treks on his own to China's border regions, seeking linguistic clues and filling in the gaps in his knowledge, leaving Pamela alone at the house—albeit with several trusted servants and her own former amah—a combination nanny and maid—to keep an eye on her.
Though Werner's scholarly work was acknowledged by contemporary Chinese university colleagues, and he may have been pleased by some local recognition, he nevertheless seems to have been a loner in a broad sense, unable to look past his and his daughter's current lives to view the scenes beyond.
Werner seems to have made no attempt to mingle with the other members of the loose-knit community of China scholars in the Legation area, even though they had regular meetings to discuss scholarly problems that might have interested him. He could have walked there in under half an hour, or rented a rickshaw for almost nothing. If Werner had wanted even a faint whiff of politics, then by a small but strange coincidence the house two down the street from his and Pamela's had been rented by the ebullient journalist Edgar Snow, who had allowed it to be used for Communist Party meetings, and whose absorbing accounts of Mao Zedong's long march were just dominating the world's headlines.
However we define him, Werner was not the kind of man who made people want to help when he was in trouble. He infuriated the British, failed to get in close touch with the Chinese officers assigned to the case, gave his own contradictory press conferences on the steps of the regional substation, and rooted around the probable crime scenes without permission. One can find many reasons for his attitudes, but the fact remains that it was only when the case had grown cold that Werner was willing to make the deep commitment to bring his linguistic and scholarly skills to the fore, and to concentrate his energies on reassembling the broken shards of evidence left lying around by incompetent bureaucrats or duplicitous police officers.
The case back in January 1937 seemed so clear that surely the guilty killers would be caught and punished. But that has not happened. Werner stayed on in China until 1951, when he was almost ninety. If historians have a paradise maybe he is there, his ghost arguing still, and irritating everyone, for the right reasons.


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Home World Brittany Howard finds freedom after Alabama Shakes
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Image caption Brittany Howard: "If I was going to make a solo record, I knew it had to be something true."
In the middle of making her new album, Brittany Howard decided to record the air conditioner.
Holding a microphone to ceiling, she captured the unit's electromagnetic pulse, turned it into a tape loop, then transposed it onto a keyboard.
"In the end, I think we were overly ambitious," she reflects. "Because it turned out to be terrible."
The experiment may have been scrapped, but it illustrates the sense of freedom Howard felt as she made her first solo album.
"I actually made some music the way I hear it," she says. "No-one tells me they don't like it, no-one says they don't like this bass part, or this arrangement's too crazy. It was just up to me to make my own mistakes."
Image caption The singer was raised on a junk-yard in rural Alabama, and was a postal worker before Alabama Shakes hit the big time
Howard was last seen as the frontwoman of Alabama Shakes, the roots-rock revivalists who won an armful of Grammys for their debut album, Boys & Girls, and its 2015 follow-up, Sound & Colour.
But by the time they finished their most recent tour, in 2017, the singer-songwriter felt drained and exhausted. Facing 30, she was also considering what another decade in the band might look like.
A lightbulb flickered into life during a long drive through the plains of Oklahoma with her wife, musician Jesse Lafser.
"I thought, 'What do I want for the rest of my career?' And I said, 'Well, it'd be cool if I did something on my own'.
"I just felt unwilling to give things away any more."
Once she decided to go it alone, the band were the first people she called.
"We sat in a circle and we just talked about it. It was bittersweet, for sure, because we've grown up together, we've changed our lives together – but I think everyone walked away from the room knowing that it wasn't necessarily so much an ending as it was like, 'OK, here's a new beginning'."
'Banging my head'
Howard set about writing her debut solo album in Topanga, California, in the middle of a heatwave – playing all the instruments herself in a "sweaty greenhouse" no bigger than a double bed.
"Topanga is a really beautiful mountain area with flowers and bees and birds – but I was just absolutely miserable when I first got there, banging my head against the wall going, 'I can't think of any new songs. I can't think of anything, I can't do anything.'
"But once I stopped trying, the songs came, and they came really complete. I could just hear all the parts."
Freed from the constraints of working with a band, she indulged her wildest musical ideas – mixing decades worth of P-Funk, psychedelic blues, hard rock, Southern soul and gospel with free-wheeling imagination.
In lesser hands it would be a mess, but Howard has a firm grip on song structure, never allowing musical complexity to get in the way of a melody; while her vocals, always the highlight of Alabama Shakes' albums, are typically soulful and nuanced.
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The emotional territory she covers is just as broad and uncompromising.
Georgia is an undulating R&B ballad about falling in love with an older woman; while He Loves Me discusses her relationship with God ("I don't go to church any more/I know He still loves me") over a lurching Benny & The Jets rhythm.
'There's a racial line'
Her most striking lyrics come on Goat Head, as she discusses growing up as the child of a poor, interracial couple in rural Alabama.
"When I was born – or rather when my sister was born in 1984 – that was like the first wave of mixed babies, little brown babies," she says.
"My mama would go around town, pushing my sister and I in a cart to the grocery store, and people would actually come up to her and lecture her. They would say, 'Do you know what you've done?'"
In the song, she recalls an incident that happened when she was a baby, but was told about later, where "someone cut off a goat's head, and they put it in the back of my dad's car and slashed his tyres, and smeared blood all over his car".
"It's always been a part of me, that story," says Howard. "Because Athens was a beautiful, peaceful country place, where people are neighbours and we really care about each other. But there's a racial line, or there was at least, and that's why I wanted to write that song. Just to explain where I was coming from."
She recalls happier childhood experiences on Stay High – an ode to her father, and the joyous nights of games and music he'd instigate when he got home from the "grind and hustle" of his day job.
"My family didn't have a lot of money, so music was a free activity," she says. "We could dance or we could sing with it, or we could play on buckets with it."
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Her older sister Jaime was her role model, playmate and idol, she recalls. More importantly, she inspired her to play piano.
"She learned by ear and she'd try to play Beethoven pieces and things like that. And I would just sit in this blue chair in my grandmother's living room, and I would turn round and round and round and listen to her play, and I'd go, 'Do it again, do it again'. We could sit with that piano for hours and make it so entertaining."
But Howard's world was torn apart when Jaime died of retinoblastoma, a rare of form of eye cancer, when she was just 13.
"My whole family was devastated," she says. "We had prayed and she didn't make it. It was like, 'How could God do this to a child? How could he do this to our family?'"
They stopped going to church. Howard's parents divorced. And, because the family house had burned down during Jaime's illness, the singer lost almost every trace of her sister.
Although her new album isn't about Jaime, it carries her name, "so it would no longer bring me sadness," Howard says.
"She was my first teacher. She was the one who taught me to love music, and who taught me to be imaginative and creative. She left me with all those things I hold near and dear to me, so it only felt appropriate to put her name on there – because I feel like I didn't do it alone."
Image caption "I got bills like everybody else," says the star
Just as Jaime was crucial to her musical education, Howard had help in the studio as she fleshed out her album – with jazz drummer Nate Smith, keyboardist Robert Glasper and Alabama Shakes bassist Zac Cockrell turning her demos into a full-band affair.
"I'd tell them, 'I want you to stick to the song, but I want you to do it your way. Do what moves you'. And because they're so emotive, it made the whole process very simple and wonderful."
The adventurous approach didn't stop with the air conditioner – Smith plays the drums with chopsticks on Stay High – and Howard rails against the modern trend for auto-tuned technical perfection.
"You know, you don't need the best gear, the most expensive stuff, to make something wonderful. In fact, it's a lot more fun, being creative with things that are kind of worthless junk," she says.
The record, which was released last Friday, has already received glowing reviews. Rolling Stone magazine called it "strikingly bold" while Allmusic's Stephen Erlewine said repeated listens would prove "profound and nourishing".
For Howard, who finished the album last year, it's just a relief to finally get it out there.
"I've been like a chicken with a giant egg," she laughs. "I've been sitting on this forever."
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Sexy Little Fantasies: Victoria's Secret's Guide to the Male Libido
Posted by richard | August 25, 2011
If you're trying to figure out what really makes men tick, put down Cosmo, turn off The Talk, and head straight to Victoria's Secret.
As a public service to men and women everywhere, the lingerie retailer has just unveiled its latest catalogue of bedroom costumes, appropriately called Sexy Little Fantasies™. And believe me, there's probably no better barometer of what stokes the male libido these days than this parade of sexy stereotypes.
The bad news is that much of this year's SLF™ collection is same-old, same-old — a predictable lineup of archetypes from the depressingly unimaginative collective male psyche. Sexy sailor? Check. Tarty maid? Check. Coy ballerina? Check.
If you look a bit deeper, though, you'll see Victoria's Secret has made some revealing edits to last year's SLF collection, and added a few new pieces to keep everyone up to date on the latest trends in male horniness.
For instance, if you're planning to surprise your BF with a naughty nurse scenario tonight, forget it: the Sexy Little Nurse outfit has been dropped from the VS collection — a decision they will rue the next time one of their execs takes ill and has to explain to his nurse why she doesn't fit the sexy little mold any longer. Likewise, last year's Sexy Little Valentine outfit is gone, which sort of makes sense given that pretty much everything in a Victoria's Secret store could pass for a Valentine's costume.
But enough teasing; what's new now? Victoria's Secret has added five new designs to the SLF™ collection, which should help you win points from trend-conscious BFs and significant others.
For starters, there's the collection's nicest piece, the Sexy Little Showstopper (top photo), a lace-and-mesh bodysuit that comes with a silly hat, feather wand, veil and bowtie. It's inspired by the growing interest in all-things-burlesque and suggests that, while last year's film of the same name might not have lit up the box office, it probably inspired more than a few raunchy amateur nights at home. (Oddly, the SL Showstopper is unrelated to the new Victoria's Secret collection of seamless bras that bear the same name. Maybe they're running out of catchy titles?)
Also new are a Sexy Little Pirate get-up to help your guy channel his Johnny Depp impersonation and — most interesting — a Queen of Hearts casino-inspired set. If you're one of millions of women whose partners are more turned on by Texas Hold'em than anything else these days, this could catch his attention once his poker buddies have gone home.
Most curious of all, though, might be Victoria's Secret's decision to include a Sexy Little Police Officer costume in this year's collection — complete with a set of play handcuffs. If your guy fantasizes about hooking up with a cop, he's probably spending way too much time with the wrong crowd. Then again, this could prove helpful in reminding him who's the real authority in the family.
Finally, there's a cute Sexy Little Devil set (complete with pitchfork!) in the new batch, which is a bit obvious: all guys love a bad girl, even if she's just pretending.
Altogether, the Sexy Little Fantasies™ set is a harmless and utterly impractical assortment that should deliver some one-time thrills. Just keep in mind that these things have a pretty brief shelf life. No one's going to get excited by your Sexy Little Stewardess get-up a second time and, let's be honest, the Sexy Little Ballerina outfit is borderline creepy to begin with, especially if your neighbors have kids in dance class.
The exceptions to this rule are the French Maid set (unchanged from last year), which remains an enduring fixture in the male libido despite the political sensitivities arising from the DSK rape nightmare in New York; and the Sexy Little Cowgirl outfit which, quite frankly, isn't much different than what the kids are already wearing to Gilley's on Friday nights these days.
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Environmental Studies and the Alden Library present the sixth year of the Sustainability Film Series, working in partnership with the Athena Cinema and many other sponsors including the Global Arts Festival, April 1-5.
Our vision and goal are those of years past: to offer attendees the opportunity to acquire a deeper understanding of the current issues related to global environmental and sustainable challenges and solutions. We aim to bring together students, faculty and regional community members. The program recognizes the strength of this integration, coming together and learning from each other.
Following each screening we invite audience members to join us for a panel discussion hosted by faculty members, students and community members. Please join us for a conversation following these beautiful, thought-provoking and timely films. All admissions free.


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Applicants for the Accelerated Second Degree Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSNA) program need to take the Assessment Technologies Institute (ATI) Test of Essential Academic Skills (TEAS®) exam and submit a score report. The TEAS measures basic essential skills in the academic content areas of reading, mathematics, science, English, and language usage. A score of 70% or better (within the Proficient range) is required in order to be considered for acceptance into the program. The exam must be taken within nine months of the coursework deadline and is required before acceptance into the BSNA program. The applicant is allowed to take the exam twice to achieve the 70% or better, but a wait time of 30 days is necessary after the first attempt.
In order to take the TEAS Exam, the applicant will need to make an account with ATI, and from there the applicant can register for and schedule the exam at a convenient time and location.
The 60 credit nursing requirement includes 35 credits of classroom - based courses including clinical experiences, and 25 credits of online nursing courses. All nursing courses will be completed through the W. Cary Edwards School of Nursing. These courses will be taken as a full-time student and cannot be taken out of sequence. Because of the rigorous nature of the program, outside employment is strongly discouraged.
*Three graduate courses, NUR-529 Health Policy, NUR-531 Nursing Informatics: Concepts and Issues, and NUR-582 Financial Management in Nursing Practice, will be completed by all BSN degree students as part of the professional nursing requirements. These nine graduate credits will apply to MSN degree requirements at Thomas Edison State University on acceptance to that degree program. Students planning on advancing their degree into the MSN program must get a B or better in both of these courses. Accelerated 2nd Degree BSN students may apply to the MSN program after successful completion of the BSN program and passing the NCLEX.
In addition to course exams, clinical requirements and other assignments, students will be required to take a subject matter ATI exam in each of the classroom-based clinical theory courses. Only one course in the program may be repeated one time. A second failure in any course will result in dismissal from the program.
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A criminal background check, drug screen, health and immunization verification, malpractice and health insurance, and CPR certification are required during the first course. Students must pass the criminal background check in order to sit for NCLEX as per NJ Board of Nursing regulation.
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How do you create a positive road culture?
In 1998 there were thirty-three million vehicles on India's roads, and one out of ten was in New Delhi. Aside from cars, trucks, and buses, Delhi has about two million non-motorized vehicles: horse drawn carts, handcarts, bullock carts, cycle rickshaws, and bicycles. Despite the growing number of accidents (80,000 people die every year on India's roads), there has been no comprehensive attempt to change the road culture. Rohit Baluja is training drivers, engineers, traffic police, and reaching out to all the various professions that have some stake in vehicles and roads to change this attitude. Through defining good road use, writing training manuals, and inventing law enforcement tools, he is working to make the streets safer, and saner.
Baluja has combined education and technology to spearhead a movement that enables citizens, police, and businesses to improve all aspects of road culture in India. His work with police moves them beyond surface road safety issues to deeper disciplines of road management, road engineering, and, last but not least, the psychology of road usage. At the citizen end, he uses competitions, awards, and volunteer projects to build awareness among bus drivers, truck drivers, and students (typically the villains of Indian roads). Baluja has set up the country's first interactive drivers' training school in New Delhi and authored an exhaustive multi-disciplinarian handbook on safe driving. Already, the trainings and technologies generated by IRTE are on the road in more than six states in the country.


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Anyone looking for churros, hot chocolate, Lakers Girls and a reason to run — but not necessarily in that order — can find all those things at Six Flags Magic Mountain on Saturday. HandsOn Santa Clarita still has spots available for its 5K/10K Holiday Run Fundraiser, its biggest of the year, this weekend at the popular Valencia theme park. Every year, the nonprofit agency welcomes runners, in costume or in running attire, to take part in the run through Magic Mountain, and this year the path courses through the neighboring Hurricane Harbor, as well. "This is our only fundraiser for the year, and it helps with all of our programs," said Seema Shah, executive director of HandsOn Santa Clarita, "which go primarily to other nonprofits." Participants often come in a variety of pretty ornate costumes, she added, although the costume is optional. There are still spots available for those interested in running or volunteering to help with the run, she added. HandsOn Santa Clarita provides support and resources to Santa Clarita Valley nonprofit organizations through a variety of means, working with volunteers, groups and businesses to meet the needs of the community, according to the group's website. One of the nonprofit's goals each year is to help other nonprofits to make sure they have enough volunteers and resources for their needs. Before the run, a pre-race morning "Winter Wonderland" includes some entertainment and drinks from HandsOn's event partners, including Starbucks, and a chance to meet the world famous Laker Girls. The holiday-themed race also allows runners to enjoy the festive spirit of Magic Mountain's "Holiday in the Parks," including a few backlot sections, according to organizers. Highly discounted park ticket offers are also available to those who register for the run. The price of the race, which goes toward HandsOn Santa Clarita's programs, is $45 for the 5K and $55 for the 10K. For information about the time of the race, and registration information, click here, or for more information, call (661) 257-1997.


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De wetenschappelijke naam van de soort is voor het eerst geldig gepubliceerd in 1859 door Jean Baptiste Boisduval.

De soort komt alleen voor in Nieuw-Caledonië en Vanuatu. Hij staat op de Rode Lijst van de IUCN als niet bedreigd.

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Dario Santacroce is a sculptor exploring time as a metaphor, theory, experience, and idea through the use of simple forms and stone.
At age 16 he began working as apprentice to Carlo Ambrosoli, one of the professors at The Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome. There he discovered that the boundaries of the explained and unexplained are blurred into shifting shades of grey.
Continuing his apprenticeships with Manuel Neri, Robert Gove, and Lode Tibos, he acquired the marble carving techniques needed for the realization of works that range in scale from small and intimate to monumental and imposing.
Santacroce is now established in his own sculptural universe, a world rich in symbols and archetypes with stone as the central metaphor of temporal perception. For Santacroce, the exploration of perception as a fluid and changing experience became a driving force, and one that pushed him toward stone as a material. The same impulse has now led him to the use of superior technological tools to create his visions.
Santacroce's work has been exhibited across Europe and in the United States.


I was recently asked if I would be interested in joining some lovely crafty ladies in contributing to the new blog "And So We Craft".
Of course, I said yes. I've been a fan of their work and individual blogs for some time.
I haven't contributed anything yet (just my profile stuff), but will soon… once I figure out how to use the wordpress blogging platform.
It will be a fun blog to visit for tutorials, swaps, craft groups and your daily crafty fill.
There is still time to enter the "Name Game Swap" which is due to begin in January 2012.
Click the button below which will direct you straight to the sign up post.
That new blog sounds great, you'll enjoy being part of a great team.


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Yes, Nate Silver, You Are a Gay Statistician
12/21/2012 07:23 pm ET Updated Feb 02, 2016
This year Out has named Nate Silver its man of the year. This is very cool.
I had no clue Silver was gay. He's got a nice, interchangeably Jewish name, which, in the context of politics and journalism, just seemed normal. Therefore, I assumed he was "normal" for that job in most other ways: mid-50s, white, heterosexual.
But he's not. He's 34 and gay, which is awesome. The "Out 100" has, for most of its history, been dominated by performers (most of whom came out well into their careers) and activists working to promote gay rights -- professional gays or folks in gay professons. So now, at long last, we have a dude who's doing something unrelated to homosexuality who killed it this year. Good for us, no?
Well, no, actually. "To my friends, I'm kind of sexually gay but ethnically straight," Silver says in the Out feature. He is also said to consider "gay conformity as perfidious as straight conformity."
"He recalls a series of flagpoles in Boystown in Chicago memorializing various gay Americans. 'There was one little plaque for Keith Haring, and it was, like, "Keith Haring, gay American artist..." and I was like, Why isn't he just an American artist? I don't want to be Nate Silver, gay statistician, any more than I want to be known as a white, half-Jewish statistician who lives in New York.'"
So is identification with homosexuality dehumanizing to us? Does it turn us from individuals into a lumped-together mass of stereotypes? Not remotely. Silver's refusal to fully participate in gay identity is the real problem. I'm not saying he's a bad guy but that we must acknowledge the cultural forces that allow a person to participate in homosexual sex while feeling like the concerns, bigotries and culture that surround homosexuality do not apply to them.
I've previously argued that the distinctive qualities of homosexuality as a marginalized status are our relative invisibility in society, our diffusion and isolation within the population and the construct of us as frivolous. Silver's discomfort identifying with gay culture is reflective of the forces that help impose that isolation.
One of the key requirements of being gay is having someone else to be gay with. Gays aren't (usually) born to gay families, so we don't grow up with organic connections to other gays. We also look just like everyone else, so we can't easily identify our potential sexual partners or members of our community. The only way we can meet guys or girls, and thereby be gay, is finding each other. It's also how we become politically powerful enough to protect ourselves and our rights. It's how we become whole as people. We live in a culture that was built to stop us from externalizing our homosexuality, primarily by keeping us scared of hatred and retribution from heterosexuals if they could identify us, but also by making us fear associating with our own kind.
Nate Silver is participating in a continued construct of homosexuality as a behavior rather than a culture, perspective or neurological atypicality. It is not uncommon for people to say, "Gay is something I do, not who I am." We are able to conceive of race and gender as aspects of a person's identity without overwhelming it, but we, as a culture, persist in a terror that any cultural identification with homosexuality overwhelms and displaces all other aspects of one's being.
One reason our culture prefers perceiving homosexuality as a behavior and not an identity is severability. Homosexuality as an act can be a sin or a crime. You can ask forgiveness for it. You can serve your time. You can resign from Congress and go back to your wife, and everyone still gets to act like you're a regular "real" man.
The basic fact is that if you are attracted to people of the same biological sex, you will see the world differently and need some different cultural institutions to go about your life. Being gay means you understand people of the same sex and opposite sex differently than most people do. Being gay means you need to have ways of finding gay people to have sex and relationships with. It also means an increased risk of alienation from your parents (until recently), growing up without conceiving of the possibility of legally marrying someone you're sexually attracted to and being rejected by most traditional Western religions. Though we are spread throughout the population and look just the same as heterosexuals, gays have things in common.
Silver's point about being ethnically straight is undercut by his own words. He prefers the gay life in Chicago because New York's homo scene is "too diffuse," and he speaks fondly of a nightclub in Chicago with "good house music and good strong drinks." Silver recognizes the advantage of a city where gay guys are congregating based on sexuality instead of "just being people." As I've said, how to find other gays is one of the core questions our culture has to answer. Gayborhoods may be ghettos, but they also answer that question. We also have to get full-grown men tipsy to flirt with them, so we need stronger drinks than a bar that's structured for men to get women drunk enough to make bad decisions. Silver may not realize it, but he needs gay culture just as much as it needs him.
So why the refusal by many, gay and straight, to define gay men and women as a culture or subculture?
When I was 17, like a good, politically minded Jewish boy, I read Benjamin Netanyahu's book A Place Among the Nations. In it he explained that the Palestinians were not a people, just Jordanian tenant farmers with no distinct culture. I believed him. Then, a few years later, I was reading an article from Germany in the 19th century that explained that Yiddish wasn't a real language, just corrupted German, a jargon. I started to realize that denying the existence of a culture is a really great way of denying the needs of that culture. Yiddish isn't the language of a people, just bad German. Palestinians aren't a distinct culture, just some people who should move out of Israel. Gay bars and Grindr aren't the cultural tools of a people, just trashy behavior.
Keeping gays from identifying as a group is a great way of keeping us from supporting each other and our rights. But even the people who would deny our rights still acknowledge that we have shared culture. Any schoolyard bully or gender policing frat boy knows what a fag is. We have litanies of stereotypes for "fags" and "dykes," and they're just all kinda bad. So we want to define homosexuality as an act, define a culture associated with homosexuality, but insist upon the right of people committing homosexual acts to distance themselves from that culture.
So what's wrong with that? Why does Nate Silver have to be "gay"? When Ricky Martin, Ellen or Anderson Cooper were playing the glass closet game, people kept asking, "Why do we have to know? Why does it matter?" Can't Nate Silver just be a statistician?
No. Here's why.
There's a generalized presumption of heterosexuality in our society. If Nate Silver doesn't identify as gay, it will allow everyone to do what I did: presume that he's straight. We would thereby continue to define math as a thing straight people do. Gays and lesbians pretty much look like everybody else; we have names that are (mostly) just like everybody else's. Neil deGrasse Tyson challenges people's notions of what a black man and a scientist are when he shows up on TV, is visibly black and talks about science. Gays cannot be passively visible in the same way. We must be audible. If we want people to understand that gay people are just like everyone else, we can't just be like everyone else. A quiet gay or lesbian mathematician, postal worker or pro football player will be assumed straight, because everyone knows gays and lesbians are just florists and women's gym teachers. We need to make it safe for a person to be out in a non-traditionally gay field and not have it affect his or her work. Nate Silver being a gay statistician will help that.
Gay experiences are frequently ignored by society. White, heterosexual male perspective is integrated into all aspects of society, and any stuff that comes from a different perspective is viewed as tainted or a niche product. We need to accustom people to the idea that gays are more than a slutty parade and bathroom sex so that we can allow our perspective to enrich all disciplines. We need to make it safe for a statistician to be gay and have it affect their work, because some people are gay, some people are black, some people are women and all of those perspectives can enrich all fields. Nate Silver being a gay statistician will help that.
We cannot ignore that gays are a traditionally marginalized, stigmatized group. It's still illegal to be gay in most of the world. We elected our first gay senator this year. It's illegal for us to get married in 41 states. No NFL, MLB, NHL or NBA player has ever come out while playing. It is still hard to be gay, so deciding not to identify with gay culture cannot be seen as just another choice. It is the choice to avoid the bad thing. It is distancing yourself from all the negative stereotypes of gay culture. We can't behave like Nate Silver's choice to distance himself from gay culture is just another choice. It is the choice our society has engineered him to make, and him making it will engineer future gay men and women to make similar choices.
Look, gays are bad at identifying as a group. We're born to (usually) heterosexual parents, and we don't figure out we're gay until we're teenagers. We spend a long time not being gay before we are. If you're a white boy, it's easy to convince yourself that identity politics are for other weird, bad people. If you're not white, you spend a lot of years inhabiting a different identity that can feel incompatible with being gay. Despite Silver's concerns about gay conformity being as bad as straight conformity, the problem isn't that we allow ourselves to disappear into homosexuality as an identity; it's that we're terrified and terrible at it.
And homosexuality is intimidating. It is a sexual minority group. That means that our compatriots are also our sexual objects. We are usually more concerned with finding sexual parters than forming a group identity or protecting our collective rights. Imagine how much harder it would have been for Martin Luther King to organize African Americans if everyone at the AME church had been drunk and dressed kind of slutty. The sexual aspect of homosexuality involves a necessary aspect of danger and rejection that makes forming a supportive group culture really hard.
These problems are integral components of our identity and must be managed, but there's a bigger problem with gay group identity that's just the result of a homophobic culture: the construct of gays as vain, frivolous and embarrassing. Both Nate Silver and Out seem to be endorsing the idea that being simultaneously gay and a serious mathematician is unthinkable. Let's think about this for a second. There aren't really that many famous mathematicians in modern life, but undoubtedly two of the most famous are Alan Turing, the father of modern computer science, and John Nash, the Nobel Prize winner on whom the movie A Beautiful Mind was based. What do you think these boys had in common with ol' Natie?
Both of them had sex with dudes. The two most famous mathematicians we've got were both gay or bisexual, but somehow Nate Silver can't imagine being culturally gay and a serious mathematician. It's not his fault; it's our culture, and we've got to change it.
Gay men are men and, as such, do many of the things stereotypically associated with men. We like science, engineering and games about shooting people. Just about every gay guy I know read science fiction novels and played with action figures when he was in grade school. Yeah, we're more comfortable sharing women's interests than straight men are, but it doesn't change the fact that we are still, chemically, men. Gay men go into all professions, but we are only allowed integrated identities if we go into traditionally gay (or female) professions. Choreographers, stylists and playwrights are allowed to be out gay men. NFL players, governors, Navy SEALs and mathematicians can and do have sex with other men, but they can't talk about it.
Hey, remember A Beautiful Mind? We sure saw John Nash with his wife, didn't we? But we didn't really see him having any relationships with men, because it "got in the way" of his story. That's because our culture won't let homosexuality be an integrated part of a man's life unless that life is risible. What was "don't ask, don't tell" but a legal regime to keep homosexuality dissociated from a way of life considered serious, important and masculine?
You might notice that the trend here is to define things that are serious and important as masculine. It's clear that the gender policing of gay men is a subset of a larger problem of institutionalized misogyny. If we let Navy SEALs admit that they smoke pole, we might have to realize that women can be serious scientists, too. We might have to admit that all those choreographers, stylists and playwrights of either sex might have something valuable to contribute to society.
So we have to keep gay men psychologically broken.
A few months ago, Todd Glass, a well-established comic, came out of the closet on the popular comedy podcast WTF With Marc Maron. I'd been a fan of Glass for a decade. He's a quick, rough, electric performer, the kind of guy other comics love. I had no clue he was gay -- not that he said he was "gay" precisely. On the podcast he said he has sex with men and he is in a long-term relationship with a man, but that he doesn't identify as "gay." He said he doesn't want to be associated with everything that word is associated with. Glass said he wouldn't let his coming out change his approach to comedy, and he'd continue to never mention it onstage.
Later in the podcast, Todd started making jokes about the jealousy and resentment he feels when he sees young heterosexual couples holding hands in public. It was great, harsh and funny, precisely what I love about Todd Glass. It was also something I have felt. Todd Glass is a talented, amazing comic who has amazing insight on my life and perspective but who vows not to share those observations. It made me really sad. I want to hear Todd Glass's jokes about being gay.
When Todd Glass said he wouldn't change what he does onstage, the host of the podcast, the nice, liberal, broad-thinking Marc Maron, said, "Yeah, I don't think you'll be touring with Scott Capurro any time soon." Scott Capurro is a well-regarded comic who's been out for all of his career, but a comic who isn't nearly as successful as Todd Glass is, in part because he's been out for all of his career. The conversation was clearly defining that Scott Capurro was a "gay comic" and Todd Glass was a "good comic." Todd won't change; he won't become a "gay comic"; he'll stay a "good comic."
So what the hell am I?
I am working my hardest to be a good gay comic. Nate Silver should be doing his best to be a stellar gay statistician.
When Phillip Roth started writing, he was a Jewish novelist, because real novelists didn't write books about masturbating with a beef liver. When Toni Morrison started writing, she was a black novelist, because real novelists don't have hair like a maid. In the intervening years, enough Jews wrote awesome, dirty books that Phillip Roth is now just a novelist. Toni Morrison still has to be a black novelist, but at least she's done enough work that when someone sees an 80-year-old black woman with silvery locks, they realized that "Nobel Prize winner" is one of her possible professions.
So, yes, Nate Silver, Barack Obama has to be a black president, Tammy Baldwin has to be a lesbian senator and you have to be a gay statistician. Otherwise, people will never learn.
Queer Life Nate Silver


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Research shows students learn better when they're well nourished. Healthy eating has been linked to higher grades, better memory, more alertness, faster information processing and improved health leading to better school attendance. Conversely, unhealthy eating habits can negatively affect learning.
Skipping breakfast can have a negative impact on learning. It's also important to eat a high-quality breakfast that includes fruits, vegetables, nuts, and whole-grain breads and cereals. Research has shown that starting the day with a nutritious breakfast helps students stay alert and perform better in school.
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Kids who eat healthy are more likely to be in school and participating. Without proper nutrition and adequate calories, students often don't have enough energy to power the brain, resulting in fatigue and learning problems.
The Wellness Policy focuses on educating and supporting students and staff to make healthy choices with regard to nutrition and physical activity. Sizer School, a North Central Charter Essential School promotes life-long wellness through collaboration between curriculum, after-school activities, and community connections.
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Louis Cazamian, né le  à Saint-Denis de La Réunion et mort le  à Saint-Haon-le-Châtel, est un critique littéraire français. Spécialiste de la littérature anglaise, il est l'auteur d'ouvrages en français et en anglais.

Biographie
Louis Cazamian est le petit frère d'André Cazamian, un futur poète. Élève au lycée Henri-IV, il est étudiant de l'École normale supérieure dès 1896  puis il est reçu premier à l'agrégation d'anglais en 1900. Il enseigne ensuite au lycée de Brest (1900-1901) et il est titulaire d'un doctorat ès lettres de la faculté des lettres de Paris en 1903. Il continue d'enseigner en lycées à Nevers en 1904 puis à Lyon de 1904 à 1907. Lors de cette période, il débute également une carrière universitaire en étant chargé de conférence complémentaire à la faculté des lettres de Lyon et il y est maître de conférences en 1908. En 1907-1908, il est aussi maître de conférences à la faculté des lettres de Bordeaux. À partir de 1908, il est nommé à la faculté des lettres de Paris, où il est d'abord maître de conférences de langue et littérature anglaise, puis professeur sans chaire en 1921, et enfin professeur de littérature et civilisation modernes de la Grande-Bretagne de 1925 à 1948. En 1942, il est transféré à la chaire de littérature américaine.

Il a été le directeur de la Revue anglo-américaine dès sa fondation en 1923. Il a également collaboré avec plusieurs revues, dont la Revue bleue, la Revue critique, la Revue de l'enseignement des langues vivantes, la Revue historique et la Revue de Paris.

Le , il épouse Madeleine Clédat (1884-1979), avec laquelle il séjourne aux États-Unis à plusieurs reprises. Tous deux seront professeurs d'anglais à la Sorbonne.

Distinctions
 Officier de la Légion d'honneur le .

Publications
 Le roman social en Angleterre, thèse, 1903.
 Kingsley et Thomas Cooper, thèse complémentaire, 1903.
 L'Angleterre moderne, son évolution, 1911.
 Études de psychologie littéraire, 1913.
 Carlyle, 1913.
 La Grande-Bretagne et la guerre, 1917.
 L'évolution psychologique et la littérature en Angleterre, 1920.
Histoire de la Littérature anglaise, en collaboration avec Émile Legouis, Paris, Éditions Hachette, 1925, 1286 p.
 The development of English Humour, part I, 1930.
La Grande-Bretagne, 1934.
 La poésie romantique anglaise, 1939.
 L'humour anglais, 1942.
 L'humour de Shakespeare, 1945.
 Symbolisme et poésie : l'exemple anglais, 1947.
 A history of French literature, 1955.

Notes et références

Annexes

Bibliographie
 « Louis Cazamian », in Jean-Pierre Mouchon, Dictionnaire bio-bibliographique des anglicistes et assimilés, Marseille', Terra Beata, 2010 (cédérom).

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Professeur français
Professeur de lettres
Critique littéraire français
Agrégé d'anglais
Élève du lycée Henri-IV au XIXe siècle
Étudiant de la faculté des lettres de Paris
Professeur à la faculté des lettres de Paris
Enseignant à l'université Lyon-II
Littérature anglaise
Docteur honoris causa de l'université de Durham
Docteur honoris causa de l'université de St Andrews
Docteur honoris causa de l'université d'Oxford
Officier de la Légion d'honneur
Naissance en avril 1877
Naissance à Saint-Denis (La Réunion)
Décès en septembre 1965
Décès dans la Loire
Décès à 88 ans


PREMIER LEAGUE analyst Daniel McCulloch (@DMcCulloch1984) shares his thoughts on Super Sunday's showdown between Crystal Palace and Manchester City at Selhurst Park.
This encounter amuses me in that, if Manchester City were a relegation candidate this would be viewed as precisely the kind of fixture they would want: Crystal Palace are – barring a mathematical miracle – certain of Premier League status next season but have little to no chance of European football so the theory would be that they are 'on the beach'.
However, as City are in a title race this is presented as a really tough game. In my view, it is closer to the latter as Palace are a side with a genuine attacking threat and have – rather incredibly – already beaten City this season. The Eagles have also secured a draw at Old Trafford and knocked Tottenham out of the FA Cup.
Under Roy Hodgson, Palace have generally given the Big Six a tough afternoon but eventually come unstuck. In 21 league games under the former England manager they've lost nine by a single goal, so the bet that gets my attention is Manchester City to win by a single goal at 14/5 with Boylesports.
The Eagles have already lost in this manner at home to Tottenham and Chelsea this season and I expect a third defeat on the way on Sunday. The more adventurous of you may like the 0-1 or 1-2 scorelines but I'll stick to the winning margin.