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Weekly Playboy Japan asks 100 Japanese girls about their fetishes and perversionsWritten by: Tadashi Anahori on February 12, 2015 at 12:05 am | In Erotic Japan Blog | Discuss »
We've just discovered this great spread that Weekly Playboy (Japan) magazine ran in October 2013.
It features the lovely naked talents of Mana Sakura and her body. Mana Sakura, as readers of this blog will surely know, is one of Japan's top porn stars.
She and her curvy flesh are lusciously photographed to illustrate a survey done on sex habits.
As we love these kinds of sex surveys — and love pictures of naked Japanese girls — we couldn't resist, despite it being a bit old now.
Indulge us!
Weekly Playboy asked 100 amateur (i.e. not professional porn stars) Japanese girls about their perversions (hentai).
Q1: Where is it hentai (perverted) to get tied up?
47 people answered: shibari (rope bondage) is always perverted.
Others specified certain body parts which would apparently define you as a pervert.
Q2: What would a pervert use to tie someone up?
Most answered ropes or handcuffs, though the second highest number (31 girls) said electrical cables, which is more original.
Q3: What kind of items is it perverted to use during sex?
The highest answers were mobile phone, liquids, and vegetables. Massagers and vibes also scored quite high.
Q4: Is it perverted to rip panties when having sex?
Yes: 41
No: 35
Neither yes nor no: 24
Q5: Is it perverted to expose yourself outdoors?
Yes: 62
No: 34
Neither yes nor no: 4
Surprisingly high number of "no"s here!
Q6: Is it perverted to do cosplay (costume play) during sex?
No: 65
Yes: 28
Neither yes nor no: 7
Proof! Cosplay is totally normal in Japan!
Q7: Is having sex in a car perverted?
No: 71
Yes: 21
Neither yes nor no: 8
Q8: Where is it perverted to lick during foreplay?
Some highlights…
Anus: 65
Armpit: 28
Q9: What kind of "play" is perverted?
Scat: 82
Strangulation during sex: 80
Anal sex: 70
Filming yourself: 64
The lowest result here (21) was an interesting one: having sex without having a bath first. This might not even occur to Europeans and Americans but in Japan is a common act of foreplay. Since Japan has such a big bathing culture, it also associates cleanliness and water with sex.
Love hotels always have nice baths and couples usually like to take a bath first before getting down to business. However, it doesn't seem taboo not to have a shower or bath, though some girls are very prudish about this. (Be warned! Try to go down on a Japanese girl who hasn't had a bath and she will go livid!)
Tags: Fetish, Hentai, Surveys
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Natsu no Himegoto Threesome Onahole: Two adult doujin anime sisters togetherWritten by: Tadashi Anahori on February 6, 2015 at 12:15 am | In Product Releases | Discuss »
"Natsu no Himegoto" is an anime that pushes the boundaries of what would be legal in other countries.
Only in Japan would you get an adult doujin anime like this with two sisters who look so young.
There's no official English translation that we know of — bootlegs exist, of course — but it often goes by the name "The Secret in Summer". As the name suggests, it's set in an old Japanese house during the dog days, the sound of the cicadas buzzing while you enjoy the delights of two youthful Japanese girls.
Needless to say, it's been a big hit locally, with 35,000 downloads in Japan alone.
And as with all the best stuff, there's a tie-in onahole on its way to your life.
The ">Natsu no Himegoto Threesome Onahole is as awesome as it sounds: both Wakaba and Futaba together!
We see a lot of tie-in masturbator toys but the design for this one is pretty awesome, and pays tribute well to the spirit of the original.
As Kanojo Toys puts it:
The two young Japanese girls are rubbing their naked bodies against each other, meaning you can slide into either lady one after the other without having to change position. You can hold onto their hips or stroke their butts. Of course, these are two different girls so their holes also feel different inside.
Excuse us while we go and escape the winter with these ladies!
Tags: Anime, Hentai, Masturbator, Onaholes
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Fetish Festival (Feti-Fes) in Tokyo: Photo reportWritten by: Tadashi Anahori on January 26, 2015 at 12:06 am | In Hands-on Reports | Discuss (3) »
Fetish Festival (Feti-Fes) was held in Tokyo on Sunday January 25th at an inconspicuous venue near Harajuku.
There were 96 booths, including cosplayers, idols, bondage artists, and more, spread out over six seriously packed floors, plus a basement showing the "Underground Fetish Film Festival" screenings.
Feti-Fes was first held in January 2013, since then it has been held eight times around Japan. This festival — the fifth in Tokyo — was the biggest so far and there seemed to be hundreds of visitors by our estimate.
Due to legal reasons, there was no nudity allowed in the venue, nor could you touch the performers. However, all this really meant was that most of the idols were effectively naked, with their nipples covered by tape and wearing the skimpiest of swimsuits. Some opted for corset-style costumes, with appropriately explosive bust results.
All visitors were ID'd for their age upon entry. For certain demonstrations, they even made you sign an agreement saying you wouldn't engage in sexual activities. I guess they are scared of police shutting the place down. The crackdowns have been severe recently, with a string of sex clubs and other venues being hit by raids, including major bondage clubs.
Most booths had an additional charge on top of the ¥3,000 entry ticket for taking pictures, hence the scarcity of ours here. Likewise most performances and screenings cost extra.
The lovely ladies of Sugar White. You could pay to get kicked by them.
We challenge anyone to find a single location in Japan that had more fetishes represented under one roof. We tried to keep track but lost count in the end: pocchari chubby idols, omorashi (seeing a girl wet herself), panchir (you can pay to get a photo of a girl up her skirt), wet t-shirt bust (where you could pay to shoot a water pistol at a girl in a white t-shirt), zentai all-body suits, vacuum pack fetish, rope and whip bondage, kick idols (getting a Thai kick from a cute girl), hairy armpit girls, manaita (flat-chested) idols, schoolgirl and nurse cosplay, funoshi cosplay, and so much more…
The shibari demo booth was very popular.
Likely the most obviously mainstream was a booth for nonsummerjack, where the gyaru model non sat on a bed showing off her jaw-dropping body in a bikini that left almost nothing to the imagination. Seriously, her body had to be seen to be believed, it was that good.
Maybe the prize for most esoteric goes to the "twintail whip" booth. As we know, twin tails (pigtails) are a fetish in Japan. Here you could pay to have a young lady with twin tails "whip" you in the face with each of her bunches. To each his own.
Demonstrating the catholicism and inclusive nature of the Japanese erotic world, there were lots of otoko no ko and other transsexual cosplayers. Although the visitors were mostly male, it wasn't all just otaku and geeks. There were gays and lesbians, couples and girls, and lots of cosplay (people used the toilets to change), including people wearing some really unusual masks, and cross-dressers.
There were also booths for adult retailers, extreme fetish porn, bondage and shibari clubs, and other fetish bars. Most people were selling their merchandise or products, either as individual artists or as idol units with staff.
At a steam punk gear booth, Black Mamba posed for us in his costume.
Not all exhibitors were overtly erotic either. There was lot of gothic subculture too. There was also zombie cosplay, blood-drinking play, wound play, insect fantasy, and even mini "eyeball" art accessories.
There was even hypnosis!
Performers in the stage area included foreign cross-dresser idol Ladybeard (who is SUPER popular now) and Luchino Fujisaki. We planned to attend the latter but the line was too much to handle. Likewise the fetish film screenings looked awesome but we had to escape the crowds after an hour of taking in booths.
Our only real gripe is that the venue, though a lot of fun with all the maze of different rooms filled with booths and various kinds of exhibitors (even in the kitchen areas), had very narrow corridors and stairways, which often became intolerably crowded.
We can't wait for the next Fetish Festival!
Tags: BDSM, Bondage, Cosplay, Costumes, Fetish, Gay, Hentai, Idols, Otoko no ko, Shibari, Transgender
Category: Hands-on Reports
Other categories: Erotic Japan Blog, Product Releases
Amazon Japan raided by police for selling child pornWritten by: Tadashi Anahori on January 24, 2015 at 11:56 am | In Erotic Japan Blog | Discuss »
Amazon got busted!
Not even the biggest online retailer in the world is safe from the cops.
The Japanese police have raided the Amazon Japan office on suspicion of assisting the sale of child pornography.
On Friday, cops raided the Tokyo headquarters of Amazon Japan, plus the distribution center in Chiba Prefecture (ironically, you can spot it on the way to Disneyland).
The charges are that Amazon let products be sold on its website which broke laws against child pornography. The photo books featured nude girls under 18 and police suspect Amazon knew what the products were — and should have stopped them.
This follows the arrest of two men in September last year in Aichi in connection with selling books with underage girls on Amazon. Of course, Amazon sells millions of products but the police claim the retailer cannot claim ignorance in this case.
It has already seen another distribution center in Kanagawa Prefecture raided in November last year. It was surely only a matter of time before the main distribution center was hit.
Japan banned the production of child pornography in 1999, which led to a surge in popularity of "junior idol" DVDs with the genitals technically covered. However, last June the laws were strengthened so that the possession of child pornography is now illegal (at the time the bill passed, it was noted by the international media that Japan was probably the last developed nation to do this).
Amazon Japan also has guidelines banning the sale of all illegal products, as well as stolen items and sex-related goods, including child pornography. Adult toys are sold on Amazon Japan for domestic customers, though they are marked as "joke goods" and you have to click through a warning page filter.
Tags: Crime, Hentai, Police crackdown
Category: Erotic Japan Blog
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Mystery solved for naked Taisho University instructor: Student lover made him take off clothes!Written by: Tadashi Anahori on January 13, 2015 at 11:11 am | In Erotic Japan Blog | Discuss »
Over the weekend we reported on the bizarre case of the 55-year-old lecturer found completely naked on the campus of Taisho University, where he worked. It was at 3pm that students stumbled across the man in a corridor without any clothes on.
Then there were few details so we could only speculate…
Now the truth has emerged and boy, is it good!
Media reports are now running stories explaining that the unnamed man, who has since resigned, was a part-time computer science lecturer who had taught at the college for a decade.
Why was he wandering the campus without his clothes?
Because he had a fight with his lover. And she was none other than a student at the college. They were living together, though she was a mere 21 to his 55.
Last Thursday the two argued at the university and she refused to calm down.
She told him: "Get naked if you want me to believe you."
Wow, that's harsh.
The meek teacher complied. But then she did something super mean. She grabbed his clothes and ran off!
"It was clear that the student was mentally unstable," said Masahiro Kashiwagi, head of the university's administration office.
Neither of the pair has been identified to protect their privacy, though the relationship was apparently not secret and had the consent of the girl's parents.
Kashiwagi says the university "sympathized with the instructor to some extent" but decided he should "take responsibility for what he did, which deviates from standards of decency and poses a threat to public order."
The girl is set to graduate in March and apparently faces no repercussions for ruining her older lover's career. Perhaps she will also graduate onto a new slave. A future in the dominatrix world is surely a must with skills like hers.
"We told the student that she needs proper medical treatment, and that she should try to lead a happy life with the man," Kashiwagi said.
The university website has published an apology by the teacher.
Tags: Hentai
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Taisho University middle-aged teacher strips off on campusWritten by: Tadashi Anahori on January 10, 2015 at 7:27 am | In Erotic Japan Blog | Discuss (1) »
A 55-year-old adjunct professor at Taisho University, a private college in the Sugamo area of north Tokyo, has resigned for stripping off on campus.
The university announced that one of its faculty staff has performed an act that was "counter to public morals" at around 3pm on January 8th.
The unnamed lecturer was swiftly taken into care by his colleagues. He was then apparently very repentant and handed in his resignation the same day.
What the hell happened? Why would a teacher at a respectable Tokyo college do such a thing? If this was Kabukicho, it would be business as usual — but Toshima ward?!
He was found outside on the Nishi-Sugamo campus, completely naked. When staff rounded him up, he was apparently docile and did not resist. The college is still investigating just where the instructor actually took his clothes off — and why.
He did not appear to be under the influence of drugs or alcohol, so the police were not called (there is actually a police box right by the college campus entrance).
Did the teacher have a breakdown a la Jason Russell?
Online, people have been speculating that the instructor was made to strip off and sit in the seiza position by a female student, but the college cannot confirm if this is true. So maybe the teacher was the victim of a cruel young female dominatrix?! Please let that be true!
The picture above has appeared online but the quality is pretty grainy. However, given the age of the man involved — that may be a good thing!
Tags: Hentai
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30-year-old male cyclist arrested for vomiting over women in HokkaidoWritten by: Tadashi Anahori on August 14, 2014 at 12:34 am | In Erotic Japan Blog | Discuss (2) »
Some men in Japan like to give women a "present". By this we mean bukkake, of course — squirting your juices all over their body, often their face.
Sure, there are some guys who would go further. Give her a golden shower, perhaps.
But this is a bit much.
A 30-year-old man who works in a restaurant in Sapporo City, Hokkaido, has been arrested by police on suspicion of putting (his) vomit over random women on the streets.
Toru Sugawara was arrested on August 13th, though he denies the charges. Between May and July there were four incidents in the area where women in their twenties and thirties were targeted for attacks in this way.
Sugawara's arrest in particular relates to vomit being thrown over a 23-year-old woman on the street in Hokkaido late at night in early June.
The victim says that Sugawara was riding a bike and they passed each other. He was then questioned on the street by the police after the incident, no doubt searching for cyclists matching his description in the area. His DNA was then found to match that of vomit left at the scene.
He has been charged with assault, since we suspect there isn't a section of the Japanese law that applies more accurately to this unique crime!
Tags: Crime, Fetish, Hentai
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Trending on Twitter in Japan: BDSM sex slave duct-taking of anime cover hug pillowsWritten by: Tadashi Anahori on July 30, 2014 at 12:15 am | In Erotic Japan Blog | Discuss (1) »
Forget Fifty Shades, sado-masochism infiltrates all walks of life in Japan, it seems. Including anime cover hug pillows.
Hug pillows (dakimakura) are of course the pillows designed to be "hugged" to help you through the night. Sometimes they are innocent enough (like comfort blankets) but often it's a euphemism for a type of sex doll, complete with slots for masturbator sleeves. And naturally, there are lots of cool covers to go on these hug dolls, especially moe ones of anime characters.
But the this month saw a strange trend sweeping the Twittersphere in Japan.
Turning your anime hug pillow into a sex slave. With duct tape.
Yes, those girls and boys have been taped up, revealing the dark side of hug pillows that many would not have known even existed. Oh, boy, does it exist all right.
These taped-up bedroom prisoners are apparently not confined to either gender. There are male and female dakimakura being duct-taped.
We're not sure who or what or why, but some of these images appeared in quick succession around the middle of the month, and were promptly spread and retweeted like crazy.
Even poor Thomas wasn't safe.
The fire of this latest Twitter meme may burn out quickly, as so many are apt to do. But we hope not!
Tags: BDSM, Bondage, Dakimakura, Fetish, Hentai, Hug pillows, Twitter
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Self-proclaimed "vagina artist" Rokudenashi-ko arrested by police for making 3D printing of her genitalsWritten by: Tadashi Anahori on July 15, 2014 at 12:15 am | In Erotic Japan Blog | Discuss (3) »
Artist and manga-ka Megumi Igarashi is not afraid to shock, in spite of her innocent smiles. After all, this is a young woman whose artist name is Rokudenashi-ko (Good-for-nothing girl) and who calls herself a "deko-man" (decorated pussy) artist, a "pussy columnist" and who is a member of the "Japan Genitalia Art Association".
She held a solo show in May in Shinjuku that was a quite a talking point online, not least for its colorful pictures of vaginas with faces. She also claims to have made the world's first 3D "pussy boat".
And this is where the trouble starts.
As first covered by Tokyo Reporter, the 42-year-old artist used Campfire (a local version of Indie Go-Go) collected lots of money to enable her fund her outlandish projects. In the end she raised double her funding target of ¥500,000 ($5,000).
Tokyo Metropolitan Police on Monday announced the arrest of a 42-year-old woman for selling data that allows for the creation of a model of her genitals, reports the Sankei Shimbun (July 14).
On March 20, self-proclaimed artist Megumi Igarashi (@6d745), a resident of Setagaya Ward, allegedly sent a link containing image data that can be read by a 3D printer to a 30-year-old male company employee in Kagawa Prefecture.
The suspect, who was charged the distribution of obscene material electronically, has reportedly denied the allegations. "I do not acknowledge that (the work) is an obscenity," she told police.
The case is the first of its kind in Japan.
Which doesn't surprise us at all!
Her crime was officially one of online distribution of obscene images. She was just too prolific in her output! After all, Igarashi/Rokudenashi-ko has also published books, hosts workshops and more.
Her English profile has this to say:
As an artist, I focus on my own vagina as the motif for my art.
My work is against discriminative/ignorant treatment of the vagina
My artwork is shown on this blog.
My vagina was scanned by a 3D printer and was expanded to 2-meters size as the kayak which is titled "まんぼーと (The Vagina Boat)."
I was able to row in a boat modeled after my own vagina.
I make art pieces with my vagina, which I would rather call Manko(MK).
I thought it was just funny to decorate my vagina and make into a diorama,
but I was very surprised to see how upset people get when they see my works or even hear me say the word Manko.
Even when a TV station asked me to be on their show, they wouldn't dare let me say DECO-MAN because "MAN" is from the taboo word "Manko".
Why did I start making these kind of art pieces?
It's because I had never seen the vagina of others and I was too self-conscious of mine.
I did not know what a vagina should look like at the same time, so I thought mine was abnormal. Manko and vagina, have been such a taboo in Japanese society.
Penis, on the other hand, has been used in illustrations and has become a part of pop culture. But vagina has never been so cute.
Vagina has been thought to be obscene because its been overly hidden; although it is just a part of a woman's body.
I wanted to make vagina more casual and pop. That's how I came to make a vagina lampshade, a remote-controlled vagina car, vagina accessories, a vagina smartphone case, and so on.
Now that's what we call avant-garde.
Here is Rokudenashi-ko in her floating vagina mold (aka pussy boat).
While Rokudenashi-ko previously attracted the attention of The Huffington Post, perhaps now she will want to keep a low profile? Or perhaps she will attract Ai Wei Wei levels of support from the public?
Oh, ever wanted to know what Gundam looks like with a pussy? Now's your chance.
Tags: Crime, Fetish, Hentai
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Japanese university in Kansai stops being "kinky", changes name to KindaiWritten by: Tadashi Anahori on May 22, 2014 at 2:29 am | In Erotic Japan Blog | Discuss »
We all know that college students have a lot of sex (if they're lucky) and that it's an age when you explore things. After a few drinks you might even try some kinky stuff with your new partner.
Well, that's all going to stop at one Japanese university.
Kinki Daigaku used to call itself "Kinki University" in English, an apparently harmless reference to the name of its region. Well, maybe they were more innocent times back in 1949 when the university was founded and the English name decided.
However, being pronounced "kinky" and spelt almost the same, the name naturally causes a lot of mirth and embarrassment for staff who speak English or when pictures of the name appear online. And an away game for any of its sports teams in foreign countries is basically out of the question.
"The word kinky also means perverted," university dean Hitoshi Shiozaki told reporters. "We have no other choice than to change the English name because we are serious about pursuing a more international school culture."
So in other words, they were literally advertising themselves as the university of hentai.
Apparently they worried that they were becoming a figure of fun — and that potential students were even being put off by the name. What? Going to a university called kinky or hentai would have been top of my list if I had known about it back when I was applying for college places!
The new English name is going to be the more innocuous Kindai, a contraction of Kinki (the Kansai area) and Daigaku (university).
This has actually been proposed for some time now but was finally confirmed this week. It will take effect in 2016 when the university's international studies faculty opens.
The government has made a lot of money available to Japanese colleges willing to make "international drives" in the near future. There is a scramble for the funds at the moment, with lots of colleges seeking to rebrand themselves as global institutions with international faculties ready to welcome armies of exchange studies and overseas researchers. This will no doubt lead to some cultural clashes, much more interracial sex, and the occasional issue of naming like this.
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Stuart Hall and the Rise of the New Left in Britain: Film and Discussion at Howard University on April 16March 31st, 2015 / Author: woodlanham
The Washington Socialist <> April 2015
By Carolyn M. Byerly
When filmmaker John Akomfrah decided to make a documentary about the legendary British intellectual and activist Stuart Hall a few years ago, it was because he saw Hall as the living embodiment of Britain's New Left movement of the 1960s and 70s. Hall died in 2014 of kidney failure at age 82, but he worked with Akomfrah to complete that film, The Stuart Hall Project, in his last days. The result is a brilliant production composed of footage from the BBC and other productions, still photographs, and new interviews with Hall and others who were part of the political and academic dynamics of those raucous years.
The Stuart Hall Project, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2013, will be shown and discussed at DSA's monthly Salon, 7-9 p.m., Thursday, April 16, in Room 118 of the C.B. Powell Building, at Howard University. The event is hosted by the Department of Communication, Culture and Media Studies at Howard. Carolyn Byerly, a member of DSA, chairs that department and has arranged to host the monthly Salon featuring Hall's work. She will be joined in leading a discussion after the film by Howard faculty and students. [ALERT: The film will begin promptly at 7:05 p.m., so please arrive on time.]
Stuart Hall, born in Jamaica, was of mixed racial heritage and middle class. When he was awarded a Rhodes scholarship to study at Oxford in 1952 to pursue a doctorate in English literature, he expected to be received as an intellectual equal among his peers. Instead, he ran head on into institutionalized racial and class attitudes cultivated by centuries of British colonialism. Hall had arrived in Britain with anti-imperialist views, but the ensuing years would radicalize and move him Left.
The dark skinned people of the Caribbean Islands were pouring into Britain in the '50s to rebuild the war-torn nation, and while Hall was part of this so-called "Windrush Generation" (named after the steamship that gave them passage), in that he, too, was of the Caribbean region, he was not of the laboring class. Still, Hall felt alienated from most of his university classmates who had joined the bebop era and other trivial pastimes and he began to take greater interest in his own people.
Hall found himself drawn to the West Indian workers who were marginalized into segregated, poor areas of London and other cities and were beginning to develop campaigns to demand their civil rights. He also found friendships among a few other disaffected students – an array of White British, Trinidadian, Jamaican, Syrian, and Sudanese – who were interested in expanding their radical consciousness. Hall remembered that he and his Leftist friends debated "with a fierce intensity" to move beyond the narrow binaries of the Cold War, i.e., Soviet-style communism and Western capitalism. The year 1956 became the year of "conjunctures" when certain events indicative of the two faces of the Cold War collided to suggest a new direction for Hall and his friends. The first was the Soviet suppression of the popular Hungarian Revolution with tanks and troops; the second, the British and French invasion of and efforts to regain the Suez Canal Zone.
In seeking a third political space, Hall and his friends aimed to meld political analysis to activism. Hall, who was more affiliated with what he called "an independent socialist tradition" than "communist humanism," would abandon his dissertation on Henry James at Oxford and assume editorship of what became the New Left Review. Hall was drawn to Gramsci's inclinations to "displace Marxism," and to confront Marx's opacities and omissions, as well as to champion Gramsci's notion of the "organic intellectual," i.e., the person whose wisdom is grounded in the daily lived experience.
In London, Hall supported himself with part time public school teaching and university lecturing, while he poured his energy into his new political and intellectual endeavors. All of the journal's writers were also engaging in organizing campaigns around a range of issues including racial discrimination, disarmament, and anti-imperialism, among others. Hall traveled around Britain, sleeping on friends' sofas and making friends among others who had already planted the seeds for a Leftist era – Raymond Williams, Edward and Dorothy Thompson, Richard Hoggart, Doris Lessing and others. Hall met Catherine Barrett, a feminist historian, in a nuclear disarmament campaign, in 1963, and they married a year later. Hall experienced racism at a particularly personal level in his new inter-racial relationship.
The DSA Salon will highlight Hall's centrality and contributions to the formation of the New Left in Britain in these years, including his institutionalization of Leftist analyses during his years as the director of the Center for Contemporary Cultural Studies at Birmingham University, 1972-79. Hall became known as the "father of British Cultural Studies," but in fact, he was so much more than that. Hall also left his mark on the Open University, from 1979-1997, a television-based distance learning program, and later as chair of the International Centre of Visual Arts (Iniva) and other organizations.


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On a dark, damp Sunday, hundreds of women are massed in a city park. "Women united will never be divided! Migrants united will never be divided!" chant women in hijab, dipping and turning alongside others in hot pants.
"With this kind of solidarity, people can be heard," said Eni Lestari, chair of the International Migrant Workers Alliance. "More and more people are speaking out. But in terms of conditions, it's not getting better." The numbers of foreign domestic helpers, overwhelmingly female, have soared across the Asia-Pacific region. In 1992, Hong Kong had slightly more than 100,000; now there are three times as many. Malaysia has 1,25,000; in Thailand, 88,000 were registered in 2010. But the true numbers are thought to be far higher for all three. The Filipino and Indonesian diaspora have been joined by Myanmarese, Nepalese and Cambodians.
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Reports of exploitation are rife; rights are limited. While Singapore recently introduced a statutory weekly day off, campaigners say it is not being adequately enforced and employers can legally avoid granting it by increasing pay. Migrants in Taiwan have been fighting for the same right, without success.
Ms Lestari, from Indonesia, knows from experience how vulnerable workers can be. She said her first employers did not give her a single day off in four months; paid her only half her promised wages; insisted she eat pork despite her being Muslim; and banned her from talking to people outside the house.
"I ran away and an NGO helped me to find shelter," she said. First she learned about her rights; then she shared her new knowledge with others.
Domestic workers' organisations, and the new HK Helpers campaign supporting them, are seeking to end abuses by agencies who charge fees of as much as HKD$21,000 (£1,620) and confiscate workers' documents. The legal maximum is around HKD$400.
They also want maximum working hours legislation and an end to the "two-week rule" — giving workers just a fortnight to leave when their employment ends — and the insistence they live with their employer.
But even when workers speak out, officials in home and host countries turn a blind eye, said Ms Norma Kang Muico for Amnesty International. "Authorities disregard them because they are not voters and have no right to abode." — © Guardian Newspapers Limited, 2014


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Defense Department leaders who are worried about significant budget cuts and the accompanying uncertainties about the military's future are certain of one thing: They need more and better technology to make their long-term plans viable.
"There are areas where our adversaries will overcome our current technology overmatch, and we can adjust to that," said Lt. Gen. Keith Walker, deputy commanding general for futures and director of the Army Capabilities Integration Center, at the Defense One Summit in Washington on Nov. 14. "And then there are areas [looking toward] 2030 and 2040 that we need to adjust for just how different it will be."
Science and technology are at the heart of the future of defense, but they do not always receive consistent funding. During more than a decade of war, change has come through adaptation facilitated by the Pentagon's checkbook. But without the wartime flow of money, innovation must take over as a driver for change, Walker said.
In the Air Force, that will mean more reliance on drone programs and a smaller, more agile force, said Eric Fanning, acting secretary of the Air Force. Fanning said another round of sequestration could result in cutting as many as 25,000 people from the Air Force ranks and shrinking its fleet by 550 aircraft.
"We need to increase [spending on] technology; we need to focus on making drones more survivable for contested environments," Fanning said. "A lot of people think that as you draw down your armed forces, you can draw down your agility...but really in a small force, you need to be able to move them around and have more agility."
At the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, where some of the military's cutting-edge science and technologies are developed, the pressure to do more with less creates opportunities for innovation but also demands a look at broader defense policy.
"DARPA is not immune" to the uncertainty of sequestration, said DARPA Director Arati Prabhakar. "I think the really big issue is the need to fundamentally rethink the cost of the national security equation. We're not going to have much of a future...if we don't use innovation to change that cost equation."
Prabhakar highlighted work being done to support troops in the field, including the development and fielding of mobile apps that speed the delivery of data for a more complete operational picture. In recent years, much of DARPA's work has centered on current conflicts, but by its nature, the agency is poised for more forward-looking efforts.
"Some of it is what we would think of as conventional requirements, working to get that capability to the warfighter as fast as possible," she said. "Some of it is looking into [the next generation] and stepping through to what's on the other side. We have to continue to push the technology frontier. That is literally our job."
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Fifteen years ago, as the horror of genocide ripped apart Rwanda, Paul Rusesabagina became a hero. A humble hotel manager, he saved 1,268 people who had sought sanctuary from the machete-wielding mobs, an act of such courage it was rapidly immortalised in print and on screen. Rusesabagina spent days pleading with bands of killers to spare his charges, buying lives with alcohol when that failed, then spent nights on the one phone line that had not been cut off sending faxes to kings and presidents begging for international help to stop the butchery.
Today, Rusesabagina is once again calling for international action. Why, he asks, is Britain handing out so much aid to his nation when its ruler is fighting a proxy war in the Congo; when its elites are getting rich on stolen minerals; when democracy is a sham and dissent is stifled? "We know what happened in the past. But that does not mean we close our eyes to what is happening now," he told me this week. "I did not keep silent in 1994 and I cannot keep silent now. The British taxpayer is financing a proxy war. We need justice, not aid."
He is right to be alarmed. Britain is Rwanda's biggest donor, pumping in £52m this year in direct contributions, a form of aid-giving reserved for those that have proved good governance. But human rights groups are increasingly concerned by restrictions on freedom of speech in Rwanda; even the BBC has not escaped a ban on its local language service. And other major donors, including the Netherlands and Sweden, suspended direct aid after a UN report highlighted Rwanda's role in eastern Congo, where war has claimed the lives of six times as many people as the Rwandan genocide.
Paul Kagame, Rwanda's charismatic president, plays the guilt card with such skill that his regime has, literally, got away with murder. His defenders point to impressive economic growth rates, improved health and education, and the healing of some of the genocide scars. But the case of Rwanda illustrates a glaring problem with British foreign policy, most notably in Africa. And it is a problem that raises uncomfortable questions at a time of looming spending cutbacks.
Many of the issues revolve around the Government's golden child, the Department for International Development (Dfid), set up by Tony Blair in 1997 as a dramatic gesture of modernisation. Dfid is seen as the sexiest branch of Whitehall, attracting the brightest entrants who find the prospect of improving schools in Mozambique far more enticing than improving schools in Middlesbrough. Its staff were encouraged from the start not to play by the normal fusty rules of Whitehall.
Dfid behaves more like a charity than an arm of government, armed with soaring wealth and driven by its laudable, if rather ambitious, mission to eliminate poverty. Its first budget was £2.6bn, twice that of the foreign office. A decade later it was handed £5.3bn and next year, as the Government pushes on to meet its Gleneagles commitment to increase aid to 0.7 per cent of gross national income, it will be given just under £8bn. These budgets are set to keep on rising, whoever wins the next election.
This raises several problems. First, and most obviously, this torrent of money must be spent. People tasked with doling out aid rarely win promotion by finding reasons not to spend it. But there are only a finite number of countries that need aid, deserve aid and are not so shattered that it is like pouring water into a sieve. So when decisions are taken to back regimes, officials tend to stick by them.
As a result, there is no criticism of Kagame. And aid flows into Uganda, where Yoweri Museveni's regime has been accused of torture and repression. Britain increased total aid to Ethiopia even after Meles Zenawi, another poster boy for this supposed new wave of African leaders, oversaw a brutal clampdown following a blatantly rigged election and waged war on Somalia. A strange paradox seems to be emerging: the more money spent on aid, the less chance of criticism.
Second, despite soaring budgets, the number of full-time civil servants working for Dfid has actually fallen slightly since its creation. The number of staff appointed "in country" has also been reduced in recent years. This is commendable productivity. But it means more reliance on charities and consultants, more pressure to hand over aid directly and, inevitably, less effective scrutiny.
Third, money is power. Much of Britain's foreign policy in sub-Saharan Africa is now dictated by Dfid, not the Foreign Office as elsewhere in the world. The Foreign Office, of course, has a far from perfect record. But this sends out a sign that we see Africa as a place in need of salvation, rather than a complex continent of 53 nations deserving respect as our equals. And for all the honeyed words of ministers and officials, the result is too much emphasis on the ambiguous cause of development rather than relentless focus on good governance, human rights and long-term strategic issues.
The most outrageous example was in Kenya, where Dfid officials tried to prevent the British ambassador from speaking out against obscene corruption. Only last week I heard of a senior minister who, told he was signing agreements with one of Kenya's most corrupt politicians, glibly replied that he was less interested in the man's record than the desire to get children into education. Little wonder Kenya remains plagued by corruption.
Then there are wider issues about the effectiveness of our approach. Dfid has won global respect for its tenacity – and there can be no doubt British aid has led to improvements in the daily lives of thousands. But for all the new schools and clinics, justified questions remain over whether pouring in vast levels of aid help or hinder a country's long-term development. As Richard Dowden, director of the Royal African Society, says, it is noticeable that none of the most passionate advocates of aid are African – and some of its harshest critics are, such as the Zambian economist Dambisa Moyo.
Immense sums have been poured in over the decades and significant economic growth remains elusive. Studies have indicated that aid is subject to diminishing returns as it is increased, ceasing to be effective after it reaches 16 per cent of a country's gross domestic product. Africa was close to that level before Gleneagles – and by 2005 aid was already accounting for a quarter of Rwanda's GDP. On top of this, the sacred target of handing over 0.7 per cent of national income, first calculated more than four decades ago, appears increasingly arbitrary and outdated.
Our approach to the continent is riddled with contradictions. We pour in billions in aid while erecting trade barriers that squeeze out African firms. We encourage land tenure in Africa, then drive farmers out of business by dumping cheap produce. We pay lip service to good governance, then prop up repressive regimes, do deals with despots and allow our banks to launder their plunder. We retain prohibitive drugs laws that are spreading chaos through some West African states, having wrecked parts of South and Latin America already. Then we complain when migrants flee the consequent poverty and unrest.
Few would argue for aid spending to be savaged. And emergency relief remains vital, not least since climate change will exacerbate Africa's difficulties. But our approach to aid, driven by pop stars and designed to appease domestic audiences, seems anachronistic. In the current economic climate, even some of those who helped create Labour's policy on Africa admit privately that it is hard to offer Dfid immunity from cuts based upon its effectiveness in encouraging lasting development. Maybe it is time to ignore the hype and end the hypocrisy.
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The catalogs are coming, the catalogs are coming!
Wow! The first seed catalogs of the season arrived yesterday from Stokes and Pinetree. I can remember when they didn't show up till after Christmas and now they're here when I've just barely gotten the garden put to bed for the winter. I can't decide if that's a good thing or a bad thing... :-)
The Pinetree catalog is really amazing. I'm so impressed by the depth of their offerings, especially vegetable seeds. And I love that its a Maine owned and operated company. No, this is not a paid advertisement. ;-0
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I'm a happy woman - Fedco came today. I order most of my seeds through them. I got Johnny's commercial and Stokes Monday. I requested a catalog from Carolina Seeds a few days ago and got it today. I'm set now. What I don't get from Fedco will come from Johnny's. I'm heading for the couch with the colored pens and start circling things I know I'll be ordering.
I got Seed Savers catalog yesterday. They specialize in heirloom seeds. A few days earlier I got Pinetree and Stokes. I definitely will be ordering some stuff from Stokes. I'm glad they increased the size of their catalog.
I guess I am going to have to request a Thompson & Morgan catalog. I bought several packets of their seeds last year, but it was off of a Thompson & Morgan seed rack in our local Longfellow's Greenhouse store. I may have the same problem with Johnny's. I bought a bunch of their seeds off the rack and placed no order through the catalog. Oh, well.
Maybe this year I will put more emphasis on ordering from catalogs. I really like to get seed catalogs in the mailbox. I just wish I had a bigger garden so I could try more new things.
"Seymour's Selected Seeds, Totally Tomatoes, Vermont Bean Seed Company, and McClure & Zimmerman"
I got all these catalogs at once, they are all the same format, and all seem to have been mailed from the same place -- are they all owned by the same corporation or is this just some way of producing and mailing catalogs more efficiently?
I don't know about Mc Clure & Zimmerman, but you're right about the other three. They, along with HPS, are all owned by the same parent company - Jung, if memory serves me. FWIW, a lot of folks on the tomato forum are concerned about the lack of accuracy in the TT descriptions.
G4, you aren't the only one with rocks! I've all but given up on carrots! LOL!
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LONDON – A powerful triumvirate of organizations repping European cinema exhibitors have written to member states ministers across Europe warning that ongoing attempts by the European Commission, the European Union's executive body, to influence film release schedules threaten the future of the European film industry.
In an open letter Tuesday (Dec. 11) to relevant ministers in EU member states – including the U.K. culture secretary Maria Miller and Germany's media and culture minister Bernd Neumann, the Union Internationale des Cinemas (UNIC), the Confederation Internationale des Cinemas d'Art et d'Essai (CICAE) and the Europa Cinemas network issued a clear warning.
The letter said that attempts by the European Commission to interfere with the "media chronology" - the practice of releasing films on different platforms according to consumer preferences - threaten the future of theatrical exhibition and the ability of EU member States to decide how best to support film and cinemas in their respective territories.
Written to each minister in his or her native tongue, the letter follows a previous missive to EU leaders strongly criticizing a new pilot support scheme set up by the MEDIA Program which encouraged distributors and international sales agents to experiment with day-and-date releases, eroding time given up to movie releases in cinemas.
UNIC CEO Jan Runge said the aim was to "raise awareness of the fact that EU policy makers are increasingly promoting their personal views on when, where and how the film sector "should" release its titles."
Runge said such ministerial views "differ significantly from those of a majority of film and cinema professionals in Europe" and that they are not based on evidence."
The European institutions are currently rethinking the systems in place used to promote the well-being of the European film and cinema sector around several areas including competition policy, copyright, digital distribution and support for the film and cinema sector.
Added Runge: "European cinema exhibitors wholeheartedly support EU attempts to foster the circulation of European works across borders. We also share the view that VOD should eventually become an important market for European films. Yet, restraining those that invest most into film and cinemas cannot be the answer to overcoming the challenges of the sector. Cinemas are key to the successful exploitation of films on all platforms and should therefore be granted the right to exploit titles exclusively at the beginning of the release schedule."
UNIC is Europe's trade association of cinema exhibitors and reps associations and companies in the European Union, Russia, Turkey and Israel.
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