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Archive for the 'Education' Category
Last night, Gov. Scott Walker, (R-WI), went 'on the record' with Fox's Greta van Susteren:
One of the first things that Gov. Walker touted was the positive impact Act 10 has had on education:
GOV. WALKER: People claimed that public education would fall apart. Instead, by getting rid of seniority and tenure, we empowered school districts to put their best and their brightest in the classrooms by hiring based on merit and pay … Today, our schools are better. Our graduation rates are up. Our third-grade reading scores are up. Our ACT scores are the second best in the nation.
Thus far, we've watched DC pundits and British blowhards ask trivial questions of Gov. Walker about such non-pressing importance like whether he believes in evolution or whether he thinks President Obama is a Christian.
When Gov. Walker didn't play their gotcha games, the media acted like they'd been scandalized. What'd happened was that Gov. Walker essentially told them, politely, was that he wanted to talk about important things, not the gotcha stuff they wanted to talk about. Thank God for that.
Other than the DC blowhards, nobody gives a rip about Gov. Walker's thoughts on evolution or President Obama's faith. What they care most about is what he'll do to fix the messes that President Obama has created. The people understand that the next president will have to deal with a defiant Vladimir Putin, a terrorist nation that's expanding its reach and a regulatory regime that's crippling innovation and job creation.
GOV. WALKER: You'll appreciate this, Greta. I was in Green Bay, WI, this afternoon. I was at 2 of the leading job creators talking about opportunities for people with disabilities and somebody in the press at the end of the event asked a question about this very subject and I said "I challenge you to go out and walk with me down the streets of Green Bay, WI, and ask 100 people on the street what they really care about. I'm certain not a one of them will talk about the issues we heard about in Washington.
That's a perfect way to deal with the Gotcha Media. Gov. Walker didn't respond this aggressively initially but he's catching on quick. The thing he already understands that Jeb Bush never will is that the press will back down a bit (not a lot but a little) if they're worried about some timely sharp elbows to keep them on the straight-and-narrow.
Think of it like a Bob Gibson fastball past your head or into your ribs if you showboated after hitting a home run off of him.
The thing that Gov. Walker now understands is that the Gotcha Media that cover the campaigns need him more than he needs any one of them. It isn't that he needs to constantly pick fights with the reporters covering his campaign. It's that he needs to remind them that he'll give preferential treatment to people who don't ask gotcha questions. If reporters ask tough, policy-oriented questions, he should answer respectfully.
It won't take long for the reporters to figure out, and adapt to, the ground rules.
Technorati: Scott Walker, Gotcha Media, Evolution, Act 10, School Districts, ACT Scores, Graduation Rates, Jeb Bush, Republicans, Election 2016
God bless John McCormack for highlighting the lie in Gail Collins' column. Check this out from Collins' column:
Mainly, though, The Speech was about waging war on public employee unions, particularly the ones for teachers. "In 2010, there was a young woman named Megan Sampson who was honored as the outstanding teacher of the year in my state. And not long after she got that distinction, she was laid off by her school district," said Walker, lacing into teacher contracts that require layoffs be done by seniority.
All of that came as a distinct surprise to Claudia Felske, a member of the faculty at East Troy High School who actually was named a Wisconsin Teacher of the Year in 2010. In a phone interview, Felske said she still remembers when she got the news at a "surprise pep assembly at my school." As well as the fact that those layoffs happened because Walker cut state aid to education.
The title of Collins' article is "Scott Walker Needs an Eraser". I'd argue that it's Ms. Collins that needs either an eraser or an editor. Ms. Sampson didn't lose her job in 2010 because Gov. Walker "cut state aid to education."
The reason McCormack highlighted that part of the paragraph is because Scott Walker didn't take the oath of office as Wisconsin's 45th governor until January, 2011, which means that Ms. Sampson lost her job because of Democrat Gov. Jim Doyle's budget cuts to education.
McCormack's article actually highlights this:
Emily Koczela had been anxiously waiting for months for Wisconsin governor Scott Walker's controversial budget repair bill to take effect. Koczela, the finance director for the Brown Deer school district, had been negotiating with the local union, trying to get it to accept concessions in order to make up for a $1 million budget shortfall. But the union wouldn't budge.
"We laid off 27 [teachers] as a precautionary measure," Koczela told me. "They were crying. Some of these people are my friends."
On June 29 at 12:01 a.m., Koczela could finally breathe a sigh of relief. The budget repair bill?—?delayed for months by protests, runaway state senators, and a legal challenge that made its way to the state's supreme court?—?was law. The 27 teachers on the chopping block were spared.
With "collective bargaining rights" limited to wages, Koczela was able to change the teachers' benefits package to fill the budget gap. Requiring teachers to contribute 5.8 percent of their salary toward pensions saved $600,000. Changes to their health care plan?—?such as a $10 office visit co-pay (up from nothing)?—?saved $200,000. Upping the workload from five classes, a study hall, and two prep periods to six classes and two prep periods saved another $200,000. The budget was balanced.
Here's the difference between Jim Doyle, who supposedly supports teachers, and Scott Walker, who supposedly hates union workers: Scott Walker's reforms saved jobs, Jim Doyle's status quo policies would've led to teacher layoffs or major property tax increases.
Gail Collins' editors either don't give a shit about the truth or Gail Collins doesn't give a shit about the truth. Either that or liberal 'journalists' are only interested in pushing the progressives' agenda. Either that or it's all of the above.
Technorati: Agenda Media, Gail Collins, New York Times, Jim Doyle, Teacher Layoffs, Democrats, Scott Walker, Union Reforms, Collective Bargaining, Republicans, Election 2016
There's only one conclusion that can be drawn after reading this article. Milwaukee will soon experience a substantial outmigration in population because the tyrants running the Milwaukee Public Schools are a) running failing schools and b) doing everything possible to prevent the opening or expansion of charter schools. First, here's some foundational information:
In 2013, St. Marcus, a highly regarded school that accepts voucher students through the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program, needed to add a second campus.
Its classrooms, from the K3 program serving 3 year olds through those for its oldest students in eighth grade, were full. The school had a waiting list of more than 300 students whose parents were eager for them to attend. There were plenty of vacant MPS school buildings available. There still are, as a new report from the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty documents.
The Democrats' attempts to stifle school choice are breathtaking:
Tyson set his sights on the building that previously housed the Malcolm X Academy. The 170,000-square-foot property would provide St. Marcus with plenty of room to grow. Tyson contacted then MPS Superintendent Greg Thornton about the building. "He expressed an interest in selling and told me to write to the school board," Tyson said. "I did."
Then he waited.
After three months of waiting, Tyson finally received a response. "I got a single line response that said they weren't willing to sell us the building," Tyson said.
Get yourself a cup of hot chocolate or a cup of coffee because we're just getting started with the Democrats' chicanery:
"Milwaukee officials have chosen to block the expansion of choice and charter schools into unused and underutilized buildings. This hostility comes in many forms: local administrative policies that ban sales of facilities to certain non-MPS schools, the failure of MPS to keep a public list of what buildings are empty and underutilized, Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett's insistence of charging a 'school choice tax' as a condition on selling or leasing empty buildings, and the creation of last-minute 'deals' done solely to thwart the sale of facilities to schools in the choice program in high demand by Milwaukee families," the report asserts.
First, Tom Barrett was the Democrats' candidate against Scott Walker in the recall election in 2012. There's more to the Democrats' chicanery:
School board president Michael Barnes unveiled an ambitious and convoluted plan for the building. Malcolm X would be sold to a real estate developer who would convert part of it into apartments and the rest into a community resource center. MPS would then lease and eventually buy the community resource center.
The WILL report describes this deal as "a sham transaction done solely to prevent St. Marcus from obtaining the building." This was an opinion held by many at the time, particularly after it was revealed the developer had not secured the financing needed for the project.
Calling this a "sham transaction" is an insult to scam artists. Still, we aren't done with the Democrats' corruption:
Tyson continued his talks with city officials. A price of $880,000 for the building was agreed to and St. Marcus was also set to pay a PILOT — payment in lieu of taxes — for the property, since as a private school it would be exempt from property taxes. "We agreed to that because we understand that any property in the city, even one owned by a nonprofit, uses city services," Tyson explained.
The PILOT was expected to be $204,151.
The next obstacle appeared at what Tyson thought was going to be the final meeting with the city officials to set the terms of the sale. "This second obstacle was hilariously tragic," Tyson recalled with a rueful laugh. "The mayor's assistant gave me a piece of paper with a second PILOT on it. They wanted us to pay an additional $1.3 million to cover what they said the city would lose by students using vouchers to go to our school," he said.
That the unions and other Democrats are doing everything possible to undermine charter schools isn't surprising. Likewise, it won't be surprising when people start voting with their mortgages and start leaving Milwaukee. In fact, it's inevitable.
Frankly, I'd love to hear that the Republican majority do something to entice Milwaukee charter school parents to leave Milwaukee for cities with lots of charter schools.
Technorati: Milwaukee Public Schools, Democratic Culture of Corruption, Tom Barrett, Teachers Union, Democrats, School Choice, Charter Schools, Education Reform, Scott Walker, Republicans
When I first skimmed this NY Times article, I thought it was a decent article, in part because of this analysis:
Nonetheless, there will be demand for an alternative to Mr. Bush, even from within the so-called Republican establishment. Since Friday, attention has focused on Mitt Romney, who said in a meeting of top advisers and donors that he was considering a third run.
But the more compelling challenger may be Scott Walker, the battle-hardened governor of Wisconsin. He has made moves toward running, and on paper, he's the type of candidate who should deeply concern Mr. Bush.
A study of the 2012 election suggests that Jeb Bush has nothing to fear from moving to the right during the primary season.
Unlike the flawed but better-known conservatives, Mr. Walker has the potential to have broad appeal throughout the Republican Party. Mr. Walker, born in Colorado Springs, is an evangelical Christian who defeated public employee unions in a high-profile battle over collective bargaining rights and who made big budget cuts in a state that has voted for Democrats in seven consecutive presidential elections.
First, I disagree that Gov. Bush "has nothing to fear from moving to the right" during the primaries. He isn't a conservative anymore. Admittedly, he had a reasonably conservative record as governor but he's wandered quite a bit since leaving office almost a decade ago.
The analysis is right in that Gov. Walker's appeal is substantial for quite a few reasons, starting with the fact that he's taken on some rather large challenges and won. It's also because Gov. Walker's supporters across the nation feel passionately about him and would run through brick walls for him. That's something that other GOP presidential candidates can't tout, including Rand Paul.
Ron Paul's supporters were willing to run through walls for him but Rand Paul isn't like his father. He's a polished politician, not the conscience of the Libertarian Party.
Yet unlike most conservative heroes, Mr. Walker has the record, résumé and temperament of a candidate who could attract significant support from the establishment.
In short, Gov. Walker has a substantial list of conservative accomplishments. Many of those accomplishments are reforms that Wisconsin's needed for years. People think that Gov. Walker's only accomplishment is union reform. Few people talk about his expansion of charter schools and school choice options.
Those are accomplishments that translate well to the national stage.
This is where they went wrong:
Some question whether he has the charisma to distinguish himself in a crowded field. He could end up like the former governor Tim Pawlenty, another Midwesterner, who was thought to be a strong challenger to Mr. Romney in 2012 but who ultimately failed to gain traction in Iowa.
Gov. Walker is nothing like Gov. Pawlenty. Gov. Pawlenty's biggest accomplishment wasn't really an accomplishment. Gov. Pawlenty prevented the DFL from raising taxes through the roof. It's the right thing to do but it isn't an accomplishment.
The other difference between Gov. Pawlenty and Gov. Walker is that people supported Gov. Pawlenty but Gov. Walker's supporters would run through walls for him. Simply put, the charisma argument isn't credible.
In 2012, the DFL campaigned on the promises of taxing "the rich" to pay for "middle class property tax relief" and to increase funding on education. By April of 2013, then-Speaker Thissen issued this statement. Here's the heart of that statement:
The House DFL Education Budget invests in what works: fully funding all-day, every day kindergarten and investing $50 million in early learning childhood scholarships. All-day K and early childhood education are proven tools to improve test scores, close the achievement gap, and prepare students for future academic success. The House DFL Education Budget also increases the basic funding formula for K-12 schools by four percent over the biennium, an increase of over $315 million, or $209 per pupil. The school shift payback will be included in the House Taxes bill.
"The House DFL education plan will boost our economy for generations to come," said Representative Paul Marquart (DFL–Dilworth), Chair of the House Education Finance Committee. "Building the world's best workforce will bring jobs, new innovation and economic growth, but to get there we have to invest in efforts and strategies with a proven record of success, set benchmarks, and help our schools succeed while also holding them accountable."
The House DFL Education Budget also contains a new strategy to close the revenue equity gap and reduce property taxes. The bill enhances the equity formula guaranteeing all districts at least $300 per student of equity and referendum revenue, and raises and indexes operating referendum levy equalization factors to reduce property taxes.
Notice how Rep. Thissen's statement predicted that the DFL's "education budget" would "reduce property taxes." Thissen's prediction was spin, a DFL specialty. I wrote this post to highlight how the St. Cloud School Board raised property taxes:
St. Cloud school district has imposed its largest tax levy increase in six years for 2015. The district's property-tax levy will increase by $3.3 million, or 14.75 percent, to nearly $26 million. The school board voted unanimously Thursday night to approve the 2015 levy.
District officials say the increase is needed to pay for a spate of improvements to facilities.
I wrote this post to highlight the Princeton School Board raised property taxes:
The Princeton School Board, in a split vote on Dec. 16, increased the school district tax levy by 25.16 percent for taxes payable 2015 to fund the 2015-16 school year.
This was a departure from the board's originally proposed 33.87 percent hike. The total levy will be a little more than $6.091 million, a $300,000 increase over this year's levy. The original proposal would have increased the levy $724,000.
Taxing the rich didn't provide middle class property tax relief. It just raised taxes on "the rich."
Check back later today to learn more about how the DFL lies on other issues.
Technorati: Tax Increases, Tax the Rich, Property Taxes, K-12 Education, Paul Thissen, Paul Marquart, School Shift, School Districts, DFL, Election 2012, Election 2014
Mark Sommerhauser's article is additional proof that the DFL was full of BS when they said that taxing "the rich" would provide property tax relief to the middle class:
St. Cloud school district has imposed its largest tax levy increase in six years for 2015. The district's property-tax levy will increase by $3.3 million, or 14.75 percent, to nearly $26 million. The school board voted unanimously Thursday night to approve the 2015 levy.
District officials say the increase is needed to pay for a spate of improvements to facilities.
I'll give it to the DFL in the sense that they come up with appealing chanting points. I just wish they put a priority on telling the truth. Unfortunately, they don't. The DFL's highest priority is to say whatever they need to say to win elections, then spin their asses off when they brake their campaign promises.
The DFL knew that they couldn't stop property tax increases. The DFL knew it because property taxes are set at the local level. The DFL just used that excuse to raise taxes elsewhere.
This shows, too, that the DFL's boasting about making "historic investments in education" were campaign spin, too. I'm not disputing that K-12 spending increased. That's indisputable fact. What I'm saying is that the money didn't get spent on things that improved educational outcomes. Most of the increased spending was Education Minnesota's wish list. It won't do a thing to close the achievement gap. In fact, the DFL's "investments" will short rural school districts.
What's worst is that the taxpayers who get punished by these property tax increases don't have a say in the matter. The school board can write itself additional funding whenever it wants. That's just wrong.
Board chair Jerry Von Korff said he doesn't expect a taxpayer backlash in response to the increase. One taxpayer attended Thursday's board meeting to protest the tax hike. "We always do everything we can to keep taxes to a minimum," Von Korff said. "We've got a ton more students and we're adding on to buildings. The vast majority of this increase is to pay for those buildings."
Von Korff emphasized at Thursday night's meeting that the increase isn't covering operating expenses. Instead, it will be used almost entirely for the building projects, he said.
This legislature must repeal the law that gives school board virtually unlimited spending and taxing authority because it's stripped that authority from the taxpayers. The taxpayers must have the authority to stop out-of-control career politicians from taxing the taxpayers into submission.
Taxpayers literally had a say in these decisions for decades. Now they don't. That must change ASAP.
Next, it's disgusting that Von Korff thinks that the school board can do whatever they want. It's exceptionally disgusting that the school board doesn't think that their first responsibility is to serve the people. With that arrogant statement, Van Korff told St. Cloud that he isn't a public servant. Van Korff declared that members of the school board aren't public servants.
Finally, it's time that a) school board elections happen on election night in even numbered years and b) we make school board elections partisan elections. The DFL's stranglehold on school boards isn't a secret. It's time to make these elections partisan.
Technorati: Jerry Von Korff, School Board, Property Taxes, Education Minnesota, Paul Thissen, Education, DFL
In 2013, the DFL said that they were raising taxes on "the rich" to pay for property tax relief for the middle class. I wrote here about how that failed…miserably:
The Princeton School Board in a split vote on Dec. 16 increased the school district tax levy by 25.16 percent for taxes payable 2015 to fund the 2015-16 school year.
This was a departure from the board's originally proposed 33.87 percent hike. The total levy will be a little more than $6.091 million, a $300,000 increase over this year's levy. The original proposal would have increased the levy $724,000.
A 25% increase in property taxes isn't property tax relief for the middle class. That's a gigantic, crippling middle class tax increase. Thank God the Princeton School Board exercised some restraint. If they hadn't, the property tax increase would've been almost 34%.
I wrote this post to question why this historic property tax increase was needed in light of the DFL's constant reminder that they paid back the school shift and raised per pupil spending. If I had $5 for every time the DFL, ABM or the Dayton campaign ran an ad talking about making an "historic investment in education", I'd be wealthy. Either the DFL's "investment in education" isn't as historic as they've repeatedly said or the Princeton School Board is spending money recklessly.
Actually, there is another possibility. It's quite possible that the DFL's historic investment in education shafted outstate schools to pay for increased education spending in urban and suburban school districts. It wouldn't be the first time the DFL shafted outstate school districts. Just ask Rocori if they've gotten fair treatment. (Hint: they haven't.)
This fall, the DFL insisted that it didn't shortchange rural Minnesota. The DFL insisted that they'd paid off the school shifts while increasing education funding. The DFL insisted that they'd raised taxes on "the rich" so they could cut property taxes for the middle class. The article in the Princeton newspaper is proof that a) the DFL still shortchanged rural Minnesota, b) the DFL's tax-the-rich policy didn't lead to middle class property tax relief and c) the DFL's supposedly historic investment in education is more campaign rhetoric than reality.
Finally and most importantly, the DFL's spending spree didn't shrink the achievement gap nor did the DFL increase accountability in education. The DFL eliminated the requirement that teachers pass a basic skills test that the GOP first passed.
Rep. Thissen said that the DFL legislature should be called the education legislature. I've got a better idea. Let's call them the 'they shafted us again legislature.' After all, the DFL's spending did nothing to improve educational outcomes.
When I wrote this post, I forgot something that needs highlighting. Last fall, the DFL constantly reminded us that they'd paid off the school shifts and that they'd increased funding for education.
Apparently, the Princeton School Board didn't get the memo. That's odd because the DFL budget went into effect July 1…of 2013. If the DFL increased K-12 funding and paid off the school shifts, Princeton shouldn't need to raise their property taxes. The Princeton School District especially shouldn't need to raise their levy by 25.16%.
Then-Speaker Thissen issued this statement about the DFL's "historic investment" in education:
The House DFL Education Budget invests in what works: fully funding all-day, every day kindergarten and investing $50 million in early learning childhood scholarships. All-day K and early childhood education are proven tools to improve test scores, close the achievement gap, and prepare students for future academic success. The House DFL Education Budget also increases the basic funding formula for K-12 schools by four percent over the biennium, an increase of over $315 million, or $209 per pupil. The school shift payback will be included in the House Taxes bill.
After reading that statement, it's amazing that the Pope didn't declare Speaker Thissen a candidate for sainthood.
Seriously, let's summarize. The DFL raised taxes by $2,100,000,000 initially with the intent of paying for property tax relief for the middle class and to make "historic investments in education."
What Minnesotans got in return were some middle class tax increases, virtually nothing in terms of property tax relief and big property tax increases to pay for K-12 funding. Minnesotans didn't see the achievement gap close. Minnesotans didn't notice a change in school boards' spending habits, either.
The harsh reality is that Minnesotans got ripped off by the DFL's tax increases, the DFL's paying off the K-12 school shifts or from the DFL's "historic investments in education."
Technorati: Property Taxes, School Shift, K-12 Education, Achievement Gap, Tax Increases, Middle Class Tax Increase, Mark Dayton, Paul Thissen, DFL, Election 2014
The DFL's insistence that they'd delivered property tax relief is BS. It always has been. This article is additional proof that the DFL was lying about property tax relief:
The Princeton School Board in a split vote on Dec. 16 increased the school district tax levy by 25.16 percent for taxes payable 2015 to fund the 2015-16 school year.
This was a departure from the board's originally proposed 33.87 percent hike. The total levy will be a little more than $6.091 million, a $300,000 increase over this year's levy. The original proposal would have increased the levy $724,000.
The disgusting thing about the DFL's property tax increase is that voters didn't get to approve the increase. Thanks to some legislative trickery a few years ago, this property tax increase was passed by the Princeton School Board.
What's especially disgusting is the rate increase hike. The Princeton School Board trimmed down the tax increase from 33.87% to 'just' 25.16%. Raising people's taxes by $300,000, especially in a small community like Princeton, will get noticed. Hopefully, regular people in Princeton will run for the school board to replace these taxaholics:
School board members Deb Ulm (chair), Eric Minks, Chuck Nagle, and Howard Vaillancourt voted yes.
It's time for Princeton to take control of their schools again.
Darrell Downs' article is must reading for the House and Senate Higher Ed committees, the MnSCU Board of Trustees, Gov. Dayton, Commissioner Pogemiller and every taxpayer whose son or daughter is attending to thinking about attending a MnSCU university. Here's the opening of the article:
The icy standoff between campus faculty and the leadership of the Minnesota State College and Universities (MnSCU) needs to end — but let's first get to the root of the problem.
MnSCU has been leading an experiment to change campuses into quasi-private franchises for years. Producing more degrees more quickly and more cheaply has been its hallmark. Never mind that the quality of the education may suffer when change is put in the hands of political appointees and corporate advisers.
To gild the lily of misguided privatization, MnSCU also pays for multimillion-dollar consultants, such as McKinsey and Co., to manage system planning, regardless of faculty and student objections. And it's only a matter of time before we learn how much is being spent on consultants to "rebrand" the system.
It's long past time for MnSCU leadership to step outside of its ivory towers. I've followed the higher ed reform beat for the better part of 4 years. I've seen documentation that verifies as fact that none of the MnSCU Trustees has ever held a townhall meeting in their congressional district. They certainly haven't met with faculty members.
It's foolish to think that an outside consultant is better equipped to suggest improvements and implement changes than are the people within the system. If the people that make up the system aren't qualified for that initiative, then that's a management failure to hire high quality administrators.
For the record, I'm positive that some of the universities' administrators are more than qualified for putting a plan together while working with faculty and listening to students' concerns. It's just that Chancellor Rosenstone picked the wrong people for putting the reform package together and implementing that package.
Instead, Chancellor Rosenstone brought an adversarial attitude to the project. That attitude led to him secretly hiring McKinsey's consultants, which spent $2,000,000 that shouldn't have been spent. Chancellor Rosenstone decided that Charting the Future was the right initiative without meaningful input. Then he hired expensive consultants to implement his initiative.
Isn't it a bit ironic that a reform initiative is implemented by doing what past administrators have done for decades? When the CEO of MnSCU puts the 'reform' package together, why should I think that he's on the right path?
Downs is exactly right in highlighting expensive consultant-driven 'reforms'. Nothing about that process sounds like a process that produces thoughtful, forward-looking reforms. Check back to LFR on Sunday for Part II of this series.
Technorati: Steven Rosenstone, MnSCU Board of Trustees, Administrators, Charting the Future, McKinsey and Company, Consultants, Reforms, Universities


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Mohamed Danawi StudioErotica // Tuesday, September 16, 2014
Mohamed Danawi Studio was established in 1994. Some of his clients include: Psychology Today, Redbook, Kodak Canada, Royal Bank of Canada, and Hawker jets. He worked as the illustration Department Chair at Savannah College of Art and Design from 1997 to 2002 and is currently a Professor of Illustration. Savannah College of Art as well.
George Rennie's Carved CupidErotica // Tuesday, September 16, 2014
No one did erotica like the Greeks and Romans, and this sculpture by George Rennie depicts the boy-gods responsible for the birth of erotica itself. An incredibly rendered marble statue of Cupid and a young man is entitled "Cupid Rekindling the Torch of Hymen," circa 1831. We'll leave the rest of the myth to you.
Oscar Delmar: Sexual HealingErotica // Tuesday, September 16, 2014
'Desire is the ultimate sating of our emotions, the one that answers no false prejudice, no gender difference. A satisfied desire can justify any means to obtain it. Our desires are an allegory of our lives, of our freedom... '
MOU.TURBOErotica // Monday, September 15, 2014
Mou.turbo is an annonymous illustrator based in Monterrey, MX. The artist has a sketchy, pen and ink style, emulating very provocative and rather pronographic imagery. Most of the pieces showing off sexy girls in a sort of alien world setting, Mou.turbo most definitely makes an annonymous name for himself in the illustration circle...
Conrad Roset: The Art of the MuseErotica // Monday, September 15, 2014
Historically, the relationship between an artist and their muse can range from a complex, private and intimate connection to, in our world of new media, one of pure visual stimulation and inspiration, without physical benefits or complications. Since the beginning of time, muses have been present in the visual arts, driving the creative process and enhancing it for many notable artists...
Amanda Manitach's T-Shirt GirlsErotica // Monday, September 15, 2014
Amanda Manitach is a curator and artist in Seattle and her drawings and watercolors are ethereal and foreboding. In a recent series, she dresses her macabre, erotic characters in cheeky T-Shirts.
Fearless Fantasy: Works by David SeguinErotica // Monday, September 15, 2014
David Seguin, an illustrator and graphic designer from Montreal, Quebec, Canada, focuses beautifully on stylized, figurative-intriguing illustrations...
Red-Hot: Dani GoldsteinErotica // Friday, September 12, 2014
Dani Goldstein is the visual artist behind PICS BY DANI. Dani was made in New Jersey and established in Boca Raton, FL; raised between palm trees and beautiful people. Her passions have always been rooted around traveling, live music and artistic expressions...
Erin M. Riley: Sex and WeavingErotica // Friday, September 12, 2014
As your typical, curious being, I can certainly side with some of the interesting spectator commentary and possible benefits that may go along with this influx. Artist Erin M. Riley, who directly pulls from some of these images, has taken advantage of our current state of disrobed selfies in her often explicit, woven textiles...
The Work of Sarah WhalenErotica // Friday, September 12, 2014
The artwork of Sarah Whalen is an unfiltered portrayal of one of the most primitive interactions we can have with another human. Not only does she capture the moment so purely, through her toned style and palette, but by presenting the subject matter alone, so focused, it only heightens the passion of the work. But even looking past the content, the technique practiced in these pieces show off a talent that everyone should be keeping an eye on.

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Deck the Courtyard (NYC)
SGA wants you to join them in spreading holiday cheer from the Courtyard through the campus as they host the Winter Spectacular on December 3.
Student Government Association, Pace Hillel, Seidenberg, Dyson, and Lubin are partnering together to host the Winter Spectacular on Tuesday, December 3 from 4:30 p.m.–6:30 p.m. in the Courtyard on the NYC Campus.
The first annual Pace Community tree lighting and lighting of the 8th light on the Menorah will feature music, food, holiday joy, and much more.
The beloved Wafels and Dinges truck will be outside serving up sky-high waffles covered in chocolate, fruit, their signature spekuloos spread, and whatever else your taste buds desire, and hot cocoa will be served.
Sons of Pitches, Pace's a cappella group, will be performing and holiday games include gingerbread decorations, gingerbread eating contest, Santa balloon shaving, ornament making, and more, so stop by and celebrate the season!
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Artists' Reception scheduled for May 17th, 2015
Juror: David J. Carol
The whole of a person caught within a single frame; portraits can be reactive, didactic, contemplative and illusive.
"Semblance" refers to the outward appearance something or in this case, someone. Portraits can be especially dynamic when certain characteristics of a person are highlighted, coaxed into the light and captured as prized specimens.
Juror David J. Carol states:
|Exhibit Calendar (subject to change)
|Submissions Close
|18-Mar-15 Midnight EST
|Juror' Choices Announced
|by 26-Mar-15
|On-Line Check-in Due
|Work Receipt Deadline
|Exhibit Opens
|Artists Reception
|17-May-15 5:00-7:00 PM
|Exhibit Closes
Submission Rules
Darkroom Gallery is calling for photographs that explore the portraiture genre. The semblance of a person can be but a whisper of true personality or a roar of honest, glowering character. We can't wait to fill our gallery walls with a newly visioned works - portrait as character and caricature.
Juror's Statement:
I was presented with the task of selecting a finite number of photographic portraits for a show in a gallery. Does that mean select the best photos? Does it mean to select a group of photos that make a cohesive show? Does it mean I should be cognoscente that there is an equal distribution of B&W, Color, Men, Women and Children? Does it mean I should be sure to include interiors, exteriors, daytime and nighttime images? The answer for me is yes and no.
Here's what I did. I selected what I felt were the most unique, compelling, curious, interesting, fun and/or any other attribute that made the photo stand out from the rest. This first set of images was approximately twice the size of where we needed to be for the show. Now the hard part. Break these photos down into a group that A) made sense together and B) stood on their own individually. In the end I had to remove images that were very good but didn't make sense to me for the flow of the show. Its always tough to cut a good image, but that's the reality of putting photos on walls in rooms.
|Untitled from "You Who Never Arrived"
Juror's Choice
Jennifer McClure
Astoria, NY USA
|Stand Up Straight - as triptych
Honorable Mention
Dana West
Chicago, IL USA
Honorable Mention
Jaclyn Cori Norman
Savannah, Georgia USA
|Cloud Nine. California series
Honorable Mention
Sandra Chen Weinstein
Lake Forest, CA USA
Aksel Coruh
Hopkins, MN USA
Bill Harbin
Rome, Georgia USA
|Avenue B
Bruce Berkow
New York, NY USA
Cody Bratt
San Francisco, California USA
Cody Bratt
San Francisco, California USA
|Man Staring at a Puddle
Darren Baldwin
Peacehaven, East Sussex Uk
|coffee in bed
Daryl Burtnett
montpelier, VT USA
Daryl Burtnett
montpelier, VT USA
Dave Levingston
Springfield, Ohio USA
|Turkey Man
Dave Levingston
Springfield, Ohio USA
|Portrait Within
Denise Trotier Johnson
Williston, VT USA
|Larry Hamel, Hardwick, Vermont
Edward L. Rubin
Los Angeles, CA USA
|the cocoon.
Elaine Suzanne Miller
Chicago, Illinois USA
|No. 17, Radiator conversations soaked in yellow lamplight
Forrest Wasko
Minneapolis, MN USA
Geoffrey Agrons
Kensington, CA USA
|Closed Eyes
Giovanni Savino
New York, NY USA
Hellen Gaudence
Tucson, Arizona USA
|chapter two: cameron
Jaclyn Cori Norman
Savannah, Georgia USA
James Graves
Plant City, Florida USA
ZARAGOZA, Not Required Spain
|The Mitchell Project, December 2011
Jeniva Quinones
New York, New York USA
|Lancaster, PA, August 2012
Jeniva Quinones
New York, New York USA
|Untitled from "You Who Never Arrived"
Jennifer McClure
Astoria, NY USA
|Untitled from "You Who Never Arrived"
Jennifer McClure
Astoria, NY USA
|Emotive Untitled # 1
Jill Shepherd
Kent, OH USA
Joan Brook
Austin, Texas USA
|Air and Space Museum
Joanne Rojcewicz
Sterling, VA USA
Joanne Rojcewicz
Sterling, VA USA
Joanne Rojcewicz
Sterling, VA USA
|The instrument repairman
John Padour
Oak Park, IL USA
Kathryn Oliver
|Sisters II
Kathryn Oliver
|Toy Soldier 2
Leif Carlson
Savannah, GA USA
|Mickey in Tub, Scranton, PA
Len Speier
New York, NY USA
|My real Mom and Dad, at Lake Oscawana, NY
Len Speier
New York, NY USA
|Missed the bus, again
Marc Lavergne
Gatineau, Quebec Canada
|Charles Ashana, Pflugerville, Texas 2015
Matthew Defeo
Austin, Texas USA
Michael Sullivan
Madison, WI USA
|Girl on a bicycle
Nataly Rader
Los Angeles, CA USA
|On State Street
Nima Taradji
Chicago, Illinois USA
|At The Museum of the Art Istitute of Chicago
Nima Taradji
Chicago, Illinois USA
|Man In The Tiger Shirt
Nima Taradji
Chicago, Illinois USA
|Michigan Avenue #57
Paul Matzner
Shorewood, WI USA
|Brady Street #27
Paul Matzner
Shorewood, WI USA
Pippi Ellison
Cambridge, MA USA
Ralph Hassenpflug
Camden, ME USA
|Ben in the snow
Rebecca Moseman
Purcellville, VA USA
|Alex in the garden
Rebecca Moseman
Purcellville, VA USA
|Portrait of Earl
Robert Moran
Bar Harbor, ME USA
|Shelean. San Francisco
Sandra Chen Weinstein
Lake Forest, CA USA
Sara Fields
Austin, TX USA
|Uncle David, 2012
Todd Danforth
Watertown, Massachusetts USA
|Waiting, McCammon, Idaho
Tracy Fish
Durham, NC USA
|Postcards, Newberry, South Carolina
Tracy Fish
Durham, NC USA
|Portrait of anonymous orthodox pilgrim in Poland
Velar Grant
London, UK
|Miami, 2012
Virgil DiBiase
Valparaiso, IN United States
|Venice, Italy 2014
Virgil DiBiase
Valparaiso, IN United States
- All selected entries are exhibited in our gallery and included in a full color exhibit catalog.
- Juror's Choice receives a 30x48" vinyl exhibit banner featuring their image, free entry into a future exhibition, a free exhibition catalog and a signed first edition of Edward L. Rubin's book Vermont: An Outsider's Inside View.
- Honorable Mentions receive free exhibition catalogs and free entry in a future exhibition.
- People's Choice gains free entry into a future exhibit.
- We offer free matting and framing of accepted entries for the duration of each of our exhibition, subject to standard sizes. Photographers set their own prices if they wish to sell their work and retain all rights to their photographs.
Juror: David J. Carol
David J. Carol is a photographer. He attended the School of Visual Arts and The New School for Social Research where he studied under Lisette Model. He was the first assignment photographer for The Image Bank photo agency (now part of Getty Images) at the age of 26. He currently works daily in the real world of commercial photography as the Director of Photography at Outfront Media (formerly CBS Outdoor). Yet he also loves giving other photographers a platform to share and discuss their work with the photographic community. He is able to do this as a contributing writer and contest judge for Rangefinder Magazine and PDN. He also serves on the Board of Advisers for the Center for Alternative Photography.
David is the author of three monographs, 40 Miles of Bad Road..., ALL MY LIES ARE TRUE... and "THIS IS WHY WE CAN'T HAVE NICE THINGS!". He recently completed a trilogy of books, "Where's the Monkey?", "Here's the Deal!" and "All My Pictures Look the Same." with Cafe Royal Books, London.


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Will it seed all over the place? I'd like to use it as an edging to a bed, but I really can't use anything that's going to reseed everywhere.
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A 'whopper' of a merger?
Stock prices of Tim Hortons Inc. and Burger King shot up this week after news the two companies will merge. A new Canadian address will allow Burger King to pay lower taxes on its international earnings. Burger King's strength in the U.S. and overseas may help Tim Hortons to expand in those markets.
The deal is likely to be controversial in Washington. Elected officials, both Republican and Democrat, have complained that too many U.S. companies are avoiding U.S. corporate income tax by creating nominal head offices in countries with lower tax rates. Since control of the merged restaurant chains will rest with the New York investment firm 3G Capital, (already the controlling shareholder of Burger King) the Canadian head office may be denounced as a flag of convenience and a tax-avoidance device.
Tim Hortons has enjoyed spectacular success providing coffee, doughnuts and other baked goods to Canadians. It long ago overtook McDonalds as the leading fast-food chain in Canada. It stands miles ahead of Starbucks as a provider of brewed coffee for Canadians. Growth in Canada has slowed, however, and the company has been relying on new products and new locations outside Canada to keep the growth going.
In its most recent quarterly report, Tim Hortons announced its same-store sales in Canada grew by 2.6 per cent from the corresponding quarter a year earlier. The number of transactions declined, but customers spent more at each visit because of its new breakfast and lunch products. The chain kept Canadian sales growing by opening new stores. In the U.S., by contrast, same-store sales grew by 5.9 per cent. System-wide sales growth (counting newly opened stores) was 5.9 per cent in Canada and 12.3 per cent in the U.S. These results suggested Tim Hortons was achieving gradual success in its expansion into the U.S.
Tim Hortons said it liked the merger deal with Burger King because of "the potential to leverage Burger King's worldwide footprint and experience in global development to accelerate Tim Hortons growth in international markets."
That was approximately the same reason given for the previous Tim Hortons merger with the Wendy's hamburger chain 18 years ago. That merger came unstuck 10 years later when a potential acquisitor of Wendy's concluded that it could achieve better results by selling Tim Hortons into the market as a standalone company. The new owners of Tim Hortons may come to the same conclusion, especially if the U.S. tax advantages for Burger King turn out to be less than they were counting on. Tim Hortons clearly knows how to expand in the U.S., even without Burger King holding its hand.
Tim Hortons gave Canada the term "double-double" as a name for its sugary, milky coffee. Its advertising tag line "R-r-roll up the r-r-rim to win" became a distinctive Canadian gag, able to raise a smile of recognition from Canadians overseas, but merely puzzling to non-Canadians. This was brilliant marketing, and Canadians can be proud of the success the firm has achieved within Canada and to a lesser extent in the U.S. and overseas.
The new owners are wisely keeping the Burger King and Tim Hortons brands clearly distinct. People don't line up for coffee at Tims because of its international feel. They line up because it has become part of their daily routines and their consciousness. Any attempt to remake Tims into something less Canadian is likely to damage the brand and hurt Canadian sales.
Burger King draws significant shares of its revenue from Latin America, the Caribbean, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Pacific Asia. The experience of expansion in these regions may give Burger King some basis for showing Tims how to sell coffee and baked goods in those same regions, but the results may take many years to appear. The quicker result, if it works, will be Burger King's tax break.
Editorials are the consensus view of the Winnipeg Free Press' editorial board, comprising Catherine Mitchell, David O'Brien, Shannon Sampert, and Paul Samyn.
Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition August 26, 2014 A8
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Work less, play more
Lucy Purdy writes for Positive News:
'Time is perhaps the most precious commodity of all. While we can buy more possessions and work new jobs, we can never make more time or recapture what has already been spent. But considering how much work dominates our lives, we question concepts around working and time relatively little.
While paid employment can provide security, for many, jobs are a means of putting "food on the table" within a work culture that feels more enslaving than natural or joyful. But now there is growing recognition that traditional working patterns no longer serve us. More and more people are searching for freedom from bosses, wages, commuting and consuming, seeking instead the lives we truly want to lead.'
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SM Gibson reports for Anti Media:
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The corporate soft drink giant, who has been trying to combat declining sales in the United States, has begun partnering with fitness experts and nutritionists to promote a mini-can of Coke as a 'healthy' snack. In February, the idea of drinking a mini-Coke for heart health was suggested on many nutrition blogs and even in major newspapers and websites.
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Algerians suffering from French atomic legacy, 55 years after nuke tests
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- Designer babies? It looks like racism and eugenics to me
- Science's Top 10 Breakthroughs of 2013: Human Cloning At Last
China's gender imbalance "most serious and prolonged in the world"
Xavier Symons writes for Bio Edge:
'China has by far the greatest gender imbalance of any nation in the world, with conservative estimates from 2014 putting the ratio at 115.8 males to every 100 females.
The peak body responsible for family planning in the country, the National Health and Family Planning Commission, this week made its strongest statement yet on the crisis.'
Why Animals Eat Psychoactive Plants
Johann Hari, author of Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs, recently published an excerpt from his book at Boing Boing:
'The United Nations says the drug war's rationale is to build "a drug-free world — we can do it!" U.S. government officials agree, stressing that "there is no such thing as recreational drug use." So this isn't a war to stop addiction, like that in my family, or teenage drug use. It is a war to stop drug use among all humans, everywhere. All these prohibited chemicals need to be rounded up and removed from the earth. That is what we are fighting for.
I began to see this goal differently after I learned the story of the drunk elephants, the stoned water buffalo, and the grieving mongoose. They were all taught to me by a remarkable scientist in Los Angeles named Professor Ronald K. Siegel.'
- Intoxication: The Universal Drive for Mind-Altering Substances (Book)
- Graham Hancock: The War on Consciousness
- Citing Failed War on Drugs, World Leaders Call for Widespread Decriminalization
- How the War on Drugs and the War on Terror Merged Into One Disastrous War on All Americans
- 'It is time to end the war on drugs', says top UK police chief
Why We Need to Abolish Competition and Embrace Arguments: Interview with Margaret Heffernan
'Abby Martin interviews Margaret Heffernan, author of 'Willful Blindness' and 'A Bigger Prize', about the destructive impact of competition and alternative models of incentivizing people to work together for the greater good.' (Breaking the Set)
- Margaret Heffernan at TED: The dangers of "willful blindness"
- Margaret Heffernan at TED: Dare to disagree
- The Psychology of Our Willful Blindness and Why We Ignore the Obvious at Our Peril
- Wilful Blindness: Why We Ignore the Obvious (Book)
- A Bigger Prize: How We Can Do Better than the Competition (Book)
The secret history of Special Brew
'It was first brewed in honour of Winston Churchill. Today "Spesh" or, as it is often referred to in headlines, "tramp juice", is most commonly associated with getting drunk incredibly cheaply. Now Special Brew – which at 9% ABV contains 4.5 units of alcohol per can – will become less potent in 2015. Brewer Carlsberg says that it will sign up to a UK government-led pledge that no drink should contain more than four units, a man's maximum recommended daily intake.'
Why the modern world is bad for your brain
Daniel J. Levitin has an excerpt from his latest book, The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload, featured in The Guardian:
'Our brains are busier than ever before. We're assaulted with facts, pseudo facts, jibber-jabber, and rumour, all posing as information. Trying to figure out what you need to know and what you can ignore is exhausting. At the same time, we are all doing more. Thirty years ago, travel agents made our airline and rail reservations, salespeople helped us find what we were looking for in shops, and professional typists or secretaries helped busy people with their correspondence. Now we do most of those things ourselves. We are doing the jobs of 10 different people while still trying to keep up with our lives, our children and parents, our friends, our careers, our hobbies, and our favourite TV shows.
Our smartphones have become Swiss army knife–like appliances that include a dictionary, calculator, web browser, email, Game Boy, appointment calendar, voice recorder, guitar tuner, weather forecaster, GPS, texter, tweeter, Facebook updater, and flashlight. They're more powerful and do more things than the most advanced computer at IBM corporate headquarters 30 years ago. And we use them all the time, part of a 21st-century mania for cramming everything we do into every single spare moment of downtime. We text while we're walking across the street, catch up on email while standing in a queue – and while having lunch with friends, we surreptitiously check to see what our other friends are doing. At the kitchen counter, cosy and secure in our domicile, we write our shopping lists on smartphones while we are listening to that wonderfully informative podcast on urban beekeeping.
But there's a fly in the ointment. Although we think we're doing several things at once, multitasking, this is a powerful and diabolical illusion. Earl Miller, a neuroscientist at MIT and one of the world experts on divided attention, says that our brains are "not wired to multitask well… When people think they're multitasking, they're actually just switching from one task to another very rapidly. And every time they do, there's a cognitive cost in doing so." So we're not actually keeping a lot of balls in the air like an expert juggler; we're more like a bad amateur plate spinner, frantically switching from one task to another, ignoring the one that is not right in front of us but worried it will come crashing down any minute. Even though we think we're getting a lot done, ironically, multitasking makes us demonstrably less efficient.'
Why reading paper books is better for your mind
Naomi S. Baron writes for The Washington Post:
'[…] Over 92 percent of those I surveyed said they concentrate best when reading a hard copy. The explanation is hardly rocket science. When a digital device has an Internet connection, it's hard to resist the temptation to jump ship: I'll just respond to that text I heard come in, check the headlines, order those boots that are on sale.
Readers are human. If you dangle distractions in front of us (or if we know they are just a click or swipe away), it's hard not to take the bait.'
WHO: Ebola cases cross 20,000 in West Africa
'More than 20,000 people have been infected by Ebola in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea since the outbreak of the virus began, the World Health Organisation has said. Gregory Hartl, from the WHO, says urgent work will have to be done to bring down the number of cases.' (Al Jazeera English)
- Roche wins FDA emergency approval for Ebola test
- Efforts to stop Ebola are gaining ground, but the fight isn't won
- Surviving Ebola: 'It was the best Christmas present ever: the gift of life'
- US 'Ebola czar' defends CDC procedures in light of technician's potential exposure
- Ebola case confirmed in Glasgow hospital
John Perkins on Embracing Cuba, TPP Kiss of Death & Restoring the Life Economy
'Abby Martin interviews Author and Activist, John Perkins, discussing the economic impact of the US' new policy towards Cuba as well as the damage that international free trade agreements do to third world economies.' (Breaking the Set)
Cops are the most obese workers in America, study reveals
Tim McFarlan reports for the Daily Mail:
'Their job is to protect and serve – but it seems some police officers interpret this as an excuse to enjoy too many extra servings at the lunch table.
A study has revealed US cops have the highest rates of obesity among any profession in the country.
Along with firefighters and security guards, nearly 41 per cent of boys in blue are obese, according to a study in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.'
New Study Raising Alarms About 'Superbugs'
- Possible alternative to antibiotics developed – but skeptics remain
- Bacteria found in bees show potential as an alternative to antibiotics
- The Deep Harm of Antibiotics
- US to phase out antibiotics for fattening livestock
- Cranberries Cripple Bacteria
- Associate director at CDC: We've reached 'the end of antibiotics, period'
- CDC Threat Report: 'We Will Soon Be in a Post-Antibiotic Era'
Inside an internet addiction treatment centre in China
Chris Baraniuk writes for New Scientist:
'In China, if you are a kid who spends a long time online, you had better watch out. Your parents may send you off for "treatment".
At the Internet Addiction Treatment Centre in Beijing, children must take part in military-style activities, including exercise drills and the singing of patriotic songs. They are denied access to the internet. One of the first experiences internees undergo is brain monitoring through electroencephalography (EEG). The programme is run by psychologist Tao Ran, who claims the brains of internet and heroin addicts display similarities.'
- Internet addiction disorder
- Is Internet Addiction a Real Thing?
- Psychology Today on Web Addiction
- Internet Addiction: The Next New Fad Diagnosis
- Internet Addiction: What once was parody may soon be diagnosis
- Teenager's death sheds light on brutal discipline at military-style camps for internet addicts
- Behind "Web Junkie," a Documentary About China's Internet-Addicted Teens
- China's Web Junkies: Internet Addiction Documentary (NYT Op-Doc)
- Web Junkies: China's Addicted Teens (2013 BBC Documentary)
- Web Surfers Hooked On Using Mobile Devices (2013)
- Young men are hooked on the web – even in bed (2010)
- "Matrix" has you: hooked on the web end up in clinic (2009)
- Hooked on the Web: Help Is on the Way (2005)
Study: Vast Majority of Vegetarians and Vegans Return To Meat
'After decades of a growing appetite for meat, U.S. consumption is finally dropping after hitting "peak meat" a decade ago. But while many people are eating less meat, giving it up totally is much harder. Few people stick with their decision to become vegetarian or vegan.
In an attempt to move animal-free diets "from the margins more towards the center," the Humane Research Council just put out the first study to put numbers to the lapsed vegetarian phenomenon. Their main takeaway is essentially what people have said for years: getting people to reduce their meat and dairy intake will be more effective overall than demanding "purity," or complete elimination of animal products from their diet.'
BPA in Cans and Plastic Bottles Linked to Quick Rise in Blood Pressure
Anahad O'Connor reports for The New York Times:
'People who regularly drink from cans and plastic bottles may want to reconsider: A new study shows that a common chemical in the containers can seep into beverages and raise blood pressure within a few hours.
The research raises new concerns about the chemical bisphenol A, or BPA, which is widely found in plastic bottles, plastic packaging and the linings of food and beverage cans. Chronic exposure to BPA, as it is commonly known, has been associated with heart disease, cancer and other health problems. But the new study is among the first to show that a single exposure to the chemical can have a direct and fairly immediate impact on cardiovascular health.
The study found that when people drank soy milk from a can, the levels of BPA in their urine rose dramatically within two hours – and so did their blood pressure. But on days when they drank the same beverage from glass bottles, which don't use BPA linings, there was no significant change in their BPA levels or blood pressure.'
Prenatal Exposure to Common Chemicals Linked to Lower IQ in Kids
Agata Blaszczak-Boxe reports for Live Science:
'The children of women who are exposed to higher levels of chemicals called phthalates during pregnancy may have lower IQ scores than those whose mothers are exposed to lower levels of those chemicals, according to a new study. Phthalates are common in products such as plastics and the fragrances used in shampoos, air fresheners and dryer sheets.
In the study, researchers followed 328 women in New York City who were either African-American or Dominican-American, as well as their children, who were born between 1998 and 2006. The researchers measured the levels of four types of phthalates in the women's urine, and looked at the children's IQ scores at age 7.
They found that the children of mothers with the highest urine levels of two chemicals — called di-n-butyl phthalate (DnBP) and di-isobutyl phthalate (DiBP) — had IQ scores that were about 6 to 8 points lower than those of the children whose mothers had the lowest levels of those chemicals in their urine.'


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"Custome Is an Idiot"
Jacobean Pamphlet Literature on Women
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A co-winner of the Josephine Roberts Edition Award given by the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women (2005).
Six complete, annotated pamphlets on the role of women in 17th Century society. They give insight into debates within English culture on gossips, treatises against wife-beating, superiority of women, and cross-dressing.
Containing the complete and annotated texts of six pamphlets written between 1609 and 1620, "Custome Is an Idiot" makes an invaluable contribution to the scholarship on early modern British cultural history, specifically on competing opinions about the role of women in society.
During the early seventeenth century a fierce debate raged in British intellectual society regarding the role of women, how much is ordained by God, and how much is merely custom. The pamphlets that circulated at the time reveal a great deal about the terms of the debate, and these six constitute a significant body of primary literature, allowing the contending voices to be heard anew.
Included here are two pamphlets about gossips by Samuel Rowlands, William Heale's treatise against wife-beating, Christopher Newstead's argument for the superiority of women, and Hic Mulier and Haec Vir, two pamphlets that address the theme of cross-dressing. Introductions by Susan Gushee O'Malley place each pamphlet in a wider context, and detailed annotations shed light on the individual texts.
"We still have much to learn about the lives of women and the attitudes toward them in early modern England. Susan O'Malley's six texts make a valuable contribution to such a project and her careful editing and generous notations guide us in recovering an essential part of the culture." �Arthur F. Kinney, President, Renaissance English Text Society
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Two pals seeking to escape their dead-end Texas hometown learn that stealing from a centuries old vampire poses some truly terrifying risks in director Benjamin Wilbanks' sexy horror comedy. Joel S. Greco and Mathew Greer star. Jason Buchanan, Rovi
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Katy Perry is sounding off on all that controversy surrounding her big-bootied backup dancers. The 29-year-old singer got some heat earlier this summer for featuring backup dancers in her tour that were dressed as mummies with giant padded butts. Perry explains in the latest issue of Rolling Stone, "Look at someone like Kim Kardashian or Ice-T's wife, Coco. Those girls aren't African-American.
An astonishingly tragic year for air travel in Southeast Asia turned worse Sunday when an AirAsia plane carrying 162 people disappeared over stormy Indonesian waters, with no word on its fate despite several hours of searching by air and sea. AirAsia Flight 8501 vanished in airspace possibly thick with dense storm clouds, strong winds and lightning on its way from Surabaya, Indonesia, to Singapore. Searchers had to fight against heavy rain. The Malaysia-based carrier's loss comes on top of the still-unexplained disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 in March and the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 in July over Ukraine. At the Surabaya airport, shocked family members pored over the plane's manifest, crying and embracing when they learned the news. Nearly all the passengers and crew are Indonesians, who are frequent visitors to Singapore, particularly on holidays.
It's hard to believe that at one point Blake Shelton and Miranda Lambert were constantly slamming divorce rumors after seeing just how affectionate the two are with each other. The Voice coach and his country-crooning lady snapped a pic of themselves planting a fat smooch on the lips, which was later shared by Lambert on her Instagram. The photo, which mostly shows Blake's big blue eyes while enjoying that kiss from his wife, also features the pair supporting their fellow country singing pals Little Big Town by wearing hats that promote the band's latest song "Girl Crush." The single is currently blowing up the charts and has been selling 25,000 copies a week for almost a month.
Death-penalty states scrambling to find drugs for lethal injections are facing a new hurdle: two groups that represent compounding pharmacists have told their members to stop making the killer cocktails. The American Pharmacists Association voted Monday to oppose participation in executions, declaring that helping put prisoners to death violates the goals and oath of the profession. The move comes a week after the International Academy of Compounding Pharmacists adopted a similar stance.
Beyoncé, Drake and Kendrick Lamar are just a few artists who decided to go for the surprise album drop, which not only created a trend in the music industry, but also now causes fans to read into absolutely everything their favorite artist posts. A photo seeming to be the track list of Kanye West's upcoming album recently made the rounds on Twitter this afternoon, causing fans to freak out about a surprise release on the new streaming app Tidal that literally just launched. West's rep tells E! News the rapper didn't drop his album on Tidal. Fans will come to face this harsh truth after logging into streaming app and going to 'Ye's catalogue, only to find all of his previous albums but no So Help Me God. Sorry!
Amid rumors that former One Direction member Zayn Malik cheated on fiancée Perrie Edwards while touring in Asia, a Swedish model has stepped forward claiming she had also had a tryst with Malik during his engagement. Martina Olsson tells U.K's The Sun that the 22-year-old Malik picked her out of the crowd while she was dancing with friends at Seduction nightclub in Thailand earlier this month. According to Olsson, the ex-boybander had security guard Alberto Alvarez escort her to the VIP section for some quality time. Olsson adds that she saw Malik again at the club the following night, but that the British singer spent most of his time with Essex-native Lauren Richardson and the two disappeared for 30 minutes at point.
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