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DOHA, Qatar â?? A U.N. climate conference agreed Saturday to extend the Kyoto Protocol, a treaty that limits the greenhouse gas output of some rich countries but which will only cover about 15 percent of global emissions.
The extension was adopted by nearly 200 countries after hard-fought sessions and despite objections from Russia. The package of decisions also included vague promises of financing to help poor countries cope with climate change.
Though expectations were low for the two-week conference in Doha, many developing countries rejected the deal as insufficient to put the world on track to fight the rising temperatures that are raising sea levels. Some Pacific island nations see this as a threat to their existence.
â??This is not where we wanted to be at the end of the meeting, I assure you,â?ť said Nauru Foreign Minister Kieren Keke, who leads an alliance of small island states. â??It certainly isnâ??t where we need to be in order to prevent islands from going under and other unimaginable impacts.â?ť
The 1997 Kyoto Protocol, which controls the greenhouse gas emissions of rich countries, expires this year. It was extended through 2020 to fill the gap until a wider global treaty is expected to take effect.
However, the second phase only covers about 15 percent of global emissions after Canada, Japan, New Zealand and Russia opted out.
The U.S. never joined Kyoto, partly because it didnâ??t include China and other fast-growing developing countries.
Poor countries came into the talks in Doha demanding a timetable on how rich countries would scale up climate change aid for them to $100 billion annually by 2020 â?? a general pledge that was made three years ago.


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- Many state offices would be closed 11 weekdays - instead of the typical seven - each of the next two fiscal years. UW campuses probably would close on the day after Thanksgiving but not on the other three recommended days because doing so would interrupt scheduled classes on at least one campus. (JS)
- When you think of UW athletics, you don't think of Vince Sweeney, but UW's senior associate athletic director for external relations has played a vital role in the athletic department's growth over the last 20 years. Sweeney is leaving the department to become vice chancellor for university relations. (JS)
- The Obama administration is moving to simplify the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or Fafsa, a notoriously complicated form that asks students seeking financial aid for college as many as 153 questions. (NYT)
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Dr. Winslow Sargeant will be the new chief counsel for advocacy of the Samll Business Administration.
The Senate confirmed Sargeant today as President Obama's nominee for the position.
SBA's Office of Advocacy "advances the views and concerns of small business before Congress, the White House, the federal agencies, the federal courts and state policy makers," according to the department's website.
Sargeant has been serving as chief counsel since August of 2010 under a recess appointment. Under his leadership, the office has held more than 40 round-table discussion with small businesses, according to an SBA release.
"It is inspiring to witness this country's entrepreneurial spirit and it is an honor to represent small businesses every day," Sargeant said in a statement. "I would like to thank President Obama, the Senate, and the small business organizations and entrepreneurs who have supported my nomination."
Previously, Sargeant was managing director at Venture Investors, LLC, in Madison, Wis., providing seed money to health care and IT companies.


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Yes, I know Parallels Desktop 3 and VMware's Fusion are all the rage. But I don't like Windows sullying my pretty little Mac world, so it's Boot Camp for me, thank you very much. Boot Camp with Leopard will add the one feature I really care about: letting me copy files between my Mac and Windows partitions. I can say good bye to my USB drive (aka USBSNEAKERNET) once and for all.
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Being a printer guy, I've spent a lot of time over the years pondering the print dialog box. One thing has regularly confounded me: why can Microsoft can give me a (small) preview of what I'm about to print in Word or Excel, but I have to click a Preview button in the standard Print dialog box? I don't want to launch Preview to see the preview, especially because it's not really Preview, since I can't do anything other than preview. I want it inside the Print box. I'll need something new to complain about though, since Leopard gives me a nice big preview every time I go to print.
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Brian Fuentes has agreed to a two-year deal with Oakland. Fuentes posted a 2.81 ERA and 47/20 K/BB ratio over 48 innings between the Angels and Twins last season, and he absolutely kills lefties. Of course he's more than a lefty-specialist, having worked as a closer since 2005.
We've heard a lot about great the back end of the Yankees bullpen is going to be next year, but how about them A's? They already had Andrew Bailey, and now in the past couple of days they've signed Grant Balfour and Fuentes. Between the three of them, Bob Geren can do whatever the heck he wants in the late innings.
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The A's are setting up to win a lot of 1-run games this year, or at least try to. The expectation is that their offense is good enough to average 4.4 runs a game (don't laugh, last year they averaged 4.09. The rangers averaged 4.89). The A's gave up 3.86 runs per game, while cross-bay rivals and WS champs los Gigantes gave up around 3.55.
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– everyone stays healthy. Except for the bullpen, the A's have no depth. If a starter goes down, the replacement player is a big drop from the starter, and often the replacement player is also prone to injury.
The A's probably won't win 90 games, even with everyone relatively healthy. Even with the addition of DeJesus (career year), and Willingham (moving to pitchers park), there isn't enough to the offense to overcome a bad day by the starters, whereas Texas can do that.
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Critical Essay by Frances Bonner
SOURCE: "Difference and Desire, Slavery and Seduction: Octavia Butler's Xenogenesis," in Foundation, No. 48, Spring, 1990, pp. 50-62.
In the following essay, Bonner discusses how Butler portrays desire and rape in her Xenogenesis trilogy, and how the trilogy is still successful despite its lack of hope.
Octavia E. Butler's recently completed Xenogenesis trilogy (Dawn, Adulthood Rites and Imago) is a striking addition not just to her already fascinating body of work, but also to the field of s[cience] f[iction] trilogies generally. Too often it seems, especially when the first volume is published as "Book I of the whatever trilogy," the reader is prepared for the second-rate and the too heavy-handedly formulaic. The s[cience] f[iction] reader is often told that trilogies (and even longer sequences) are preferred by publishers because they enhance the predictability of sales, rather than being the result of authors desiring a particular format to enhance the exploration of specific themes or situations. Fortunately, with Xenogenesis, the lowering feeling is unnecessary, and indeed, given her predilection for connected novels evidenced in the Patternist books, perhaps should not have been felt at all. Yet reception of the second volume was characteristic of responses to the second in the less rewarding trilogies—disappointment and let-down, as if the pleasures of the first could not be sustained. My own first reading of Adulthood Rites was no exception, and it is part of my intention in this essay to explore why this may have been so (re-reading dispelled it) and where the pleasure in so downbeat a sequence lies, within a more general exploration of Butler's concerns.
Xenogenesis tells of the activities of an alien race of gene-traders, the Oankali, and the remnants of humanity they salvage after a global nuclear war for use in their incessant quest for incorporable genetic diversity. The first volume, Dawn, is from the point-of-view of Lilith, an Afro-American survivor of the war, who is chosen to train the first group of humans to be returned, with their Oankali mates, to the restored but mutated Earth. Adulthood Rites, the second, recounts the early life of Lilith's first son, the human-Oankali construct Akin, as he comes to realize, and then to convince others of, the need for the humans who resisted breeding with the Oankali to be given a chance to continue the (unhybridized) human race, despite the Oankali certainty that humanity is doomed. The last, Imago, is the story of another of Lilith's children, Jodahs, the first construct ooloi—the third Oankali sex, whose members are the actual gene manipulators. His acceptance by the polity signals the absorption of humanity into the Oankali (there is no question of equal partnership) and the eventual complete destruction of the Earth. The Oankali rescue neither humanity nor their/our planet, they merely delay our demise.
One of the more unusual aspects of the trilogy is that it has no triumphal conclusion. Humanity has lost before the story begins, has still lost and is disappearing as it ends, and their/our short (and we are assured, temporary) victory occurs, as it were offstage, between Adulthood Rites and Imago. Even more disturbing from a feminist writer is, as Rachel Pollack's review of Dawn points out, the centrality and apparent acceptance of rape. This is no easy read; or to put it more precisely, it is quite an easy read, since stylistically it is even less challenging than the Patternist books (the point-of-view only changes between volumes), but it is no easy ingestion. The pleasures are not just fugitive, they are thorny as well, but, to continue the metaphor, once they have hooked in, you cannot readily stop worrying away at them.
Despite a quite ludicrous review in Publishers' Weekly which claimed that in Adulthood Rites "the author gives us a brief ecstatic experience of this utopian alternative to human society", there is nothing utopian about the societies in Xenogenesis, even for the alien Oankali driven by their need to "trade" for genetic diversity. Butler has herself quite explicitly denied utopian intentions. In an interview given at the time she was finishing writing Dawn, she claimed "I don't write utopian science fiction because I don't believe that imperfect humans can form a perfect society." And it is the imperfections that interest, even obsess, her. A recurrent concern, especially of the Patternist books, is with child abuse and child murder (generally explained there as resulting from the pressures of uncontrolled telepathy) and in the interview just quoted she says that the Oankali's diagnosis of what is wrong with humanity is hers too—intelligence and hierarchical behaviour (which latter she believes inborn) is a potentially lethal combination. Not only would it be impossible reasonably to consider Butler's work without reference to her race, it would be improper to do so given her foregrounding of it. The specificity of the Afro-American experience is basic to the Patternist books and the one-off Kindred, and central to Xenogenesis. The general absence of black s[cience] f[iction] writers (and readers) has not infrequently been a matter for comment. Kathleen L. Spencer's aside in her review of a combined Starmont guide to the work of Butler, Suzy McKee Charnas and Joan D. Vinge, that Butler was "one of only three Black s[cience] f[iction] writers to date and the only Black woman" led both to protesting letters about the possible existence of "unknown" black s[cience] f[iction] writers and readers and Spencer's admission that she should have written "three recognized Black S[cience] F[iction] writers", but to no new names (the other two given were Samuel R. Delany and Steven Barnes) and not even a comment on Butler's being the only black woman.
Butler has explained the absence of black s[cience] f[iction] writers as derived from the way the lack of black characters in the literature limits its appeal to black readers (and writers of s[cience] f[iction], arguably even more than other genres, come from devoted s[cience] f[iction] readers). Compounding this has been the tendency of editors and publishers to regard the inclusion of black characters as a distraction, acceptable only if the focus of the story is on racism. Even so, there has been the belief that aliens can substitute as all-purpose Others. One big blue extra-terrestrial whose humanity is revealed and accepted can be metaphorically substituted for an examination of any number of actual social divisions, as witness many past discussions on the absence of women/non-Caucasians/homosexuals/disabled people from s[cience] f[iction]. This very point was at the centre of Butler's response in 1980 to a question addressed by Future Life to a number of writers: "What role can and should science fiction writers play in working with America's major corporations in planning for the future of society?"
Adele S. Newson has said that the myth that blacks are uninvolved in s[cience] f[iction] is "fed by the notion that they cannot afford to indulge in fantasy" which may help explain why it is that Delany has to keep defending himself against charges by whites that he is not "black enough". It is not, however, a suggestion he advances in his exposition which, no doubt not fortuitously, chimes very well with Butler's exasperation with expectations that the traces of blackness in black writing will be stereotypical and deal unrelievedly with racism.
Concerned as she is with the specificity of the Afro-American experience, it is unsurprising that Butler again and again explores the phenomenon of slavery, in particular the initial stage in which the self—body, soul and subjectivity—is stolen and declared an item of exchange. While most obvious in Wild Seed and Kindred, people are appropriated by others in virtually all her writings. Furthermore after the appropriation there are usually the issues both of forced reproduction and of love for the captor—the former of these at least, characteristic of the Afro-American slave experience.
It is worth recalling that part of the point of Delany's famous discovery late in his reading of Heinlein's Starship Troopers that one of the characters was Filipino was that it had been possible even for a black reader to assume that the character was white. It is unlikely that any reader could get far into Butler's novels in ignorance of the race or ethnicity of any but the most incidental character. To some extent this is a function of the times and the abjuring of the integrationist model. If only in her assertion of the importance and value of difference, Butler is as post-modern as s[cience] f[iction] writers come. In stylistic concerns it is another matter altogether. She is a traditionalist. She is the absent case in Maria Minchin Brewer's suggestion that male writers of what she terms "surviving fictions" are post-modern only in their experimental style, but not in their attitudes and concerns. (Brewer, who I suspect has not read Geoff Ryman, to name just one male writer who should escape her accusation, cites various canonical feminist s[cience] f[iction] works as escaping into thoroughgoing post-modernity. I am not entirely convinced here either, except, of course, for Joanna Russ.) As well as her insistence on difference, her concern with survival in a (post-)nuclear world and, as I intend to demonstrate later, her attitude to the Oedipal conflict, are characteristically (female) post-modern.
A comparison of Butler's and Delany's treatments of slavery is instructive, for both of them explore the intermingling of slavery and desire in the sexual relationships between slave and owner. The complex meditations on pleasure in perversity, the sado-masochistic game-playing and role reversals of the Nevèryöna series is not for Butler—he is neither that kind of adult writer, nor that kind of postmodern. She is also constrained by different literary allegiances, especially ones which hold her in some ways closer to the mundane world. Not only does she locate her settings geographically closer to home (and usually on Earth), but temporally they are closer too. The far future is not her domain. Nor does she perceive what she writes as fantasy. Indeed the only one of her books she refers to as fantasy is Kindred—the one marketed as mainstream, the one most readily perceived as subject to requirements of historical accuracy.
It may be that it is her gender which is of greater importance to the question of desire, if it is this that results in the various investigations of forced reproduction. In both Wild Seed and Mind of My Mind, Doro breeds "his" people, without regard for their own wishes; in Kindred, the time-travelling twentieth-century heroine, Dana, fears her existence depends on her keeping the nineteenth-century white slave owner Rufus alive to father her grandmother on the black servant/slave Alice; in Survivor the alien Garkohn steal humans to breed hybrids; and in Xenogenesis the sole purpose of the Oankali's salvaging of humanity is for breeding, to incorporate some of their genes into the next manifestation of the Oankali. But these are not stories of undiluted outrage. As pleasure and fetishism mut(at)e the power relations in Delany's novels, so love enters Butler's. But love rarely effects her power relations. The moral difficulties such unequal love creates are solved to some extent in Xenogenesis by the announcement that love is chemical. The element of choice has disappeared. Where the slave or captive may have had no choice about bearing the captor's child (or little, if male, in impregnating the designated woman), loving him had been another matter. The Oankali ooloi however create a chemical bond between human and alien. There is still a degree of equivocation however, for while breeders may blame the bond, not all humans succumb. The resisters reject chemical entrapment, even at the cost of infertility and avoidable ill-health.
It is probably fatuous to ask whether gender is less important than race in Butler's work. Possibly it is, and given the comparative scarcities of black and female s[cience] f[iction] writers, who would want to suggest it should be otherwise? The conjunction however is what matters; gender articulates race in a most illuminating way. The point is perhaps best made by Adele S. Newson who says that in Lilith's struggle to remain on terms with the Oankali and her fellow humans, the plot of Dawn parallels "the historical, albeit self-imposed, function of the Afro-American woman". As mediator, Lilith must bear the odium of her fellows as well as her own guilt over the collaboration, tempered only by her belief that without her, things would be worse. That this too is nothing new for a Butler heroine is revealed by Ruth Salvaggio's comment about the heroines of Wild Seed and Survivor: "Anyanwu closely resembles Alanna, accepting the constraints of her world and trying to make something decent and productive out of the indecent situation in which she finds herself." The particular articulation can also be seen in the importance of food and the domestic—not just a sign of the female, but, with for example the emphasis on yams, cassava and African agricultural practices, a sign of the black female of African origin.
That we should privilege the viewpoints of the subjugated, and specifically those of women of colour, has long been the argument of the primatologist and historian of science. Donna Haraway. This is not because they are immune from criticism, but because they are more likely to be aware of the various tricks of the dominant in asserting the adequacy, indeed sufficiency, of its knowledge. Haraway argues most persuasively for situated knowledge, for the acknowledged partial perspective rather than for implicit assertions of universalism. In the specificity of the acknowledged position from which Butler writes, she provides just such an example, and Haraway implicitly accepts this in her most recent work which includes an analysis of Dawn.
I have already indicated that Butler's works repeatedly assert the value of difference. Haraway too sees this as one of Butler's main themes, saying that Dawn, like many of Butler's other fictions "is about resistance to the imperative to recreate the sacred image of the same", and adding that "from the perspective of an ontology based on mutation, metamorphosis and diaspora, restoring the sacred image can be a bad joke". The explicit raison d'être of the Missionaries of Survivor is to maintain the sacred (human) image of the Creator. Likewise, Lilith's name, that of Eve's uppity predecessor, while linking her to the Oankali whose tentacles are often referred to as snakes, emphasises her repudiation of the (human) Creator. The transitions of the mutant Doro's people and their descendants, the Patternists, during which they reveal their psychic powers, foreshadow the metamorphoses of the Oankali and their genetic constructs during which their gender is revealed. Both groups are diasporic. Difference is not just a given that is accepted, it is something which is intensified, enhanced and valued, even if not unequivocally—it is, after all, most desired by Doro and the Oankali whose viewpoints the narratives, but not necessarily the narrative intentions, endorse. The shifting points-of-view themselves also present difference.
Haraway notes one point on which difference is not explored, saying that heterosexuality is not questioned.
The different social subjects, the different genders that could emerge from another embodiment of resistance to compulsory heterosexuality and reproductive politics do not inhabit this Dawn.
Yet perhaps she is being too harsh. A concentration on forced reproduction leaves limited space for the non-heterosexual, but the unease of Tino, the human male with his male Oankali mate (the mixed families of Xenogenesis have five members: one male and one female human and a male, female and ooloi Oankali) raises, even if it does not explore, the issue. It may also be that readers find it explored in the relationship between the part-human ooloi, Jodahs, and his male human mate, Tomas. Although the pronoun "it" is used throughout to refer to an ooloi, and this linguistic choice foregrounded by reference to the impossibility of doing so in languages lacking neuter pronouns, the tendency to read as male a character unmarked by specific gender may result in a perception of Jodahs as a male and hence of Tomas's eagerness for sex with it, as homosexual. Certainly with this mating the question of rape does not occur.
Butler's dealing with homosexuality is characteristically oblique. In Wild Seed, the shape-shifting Anyanwu spends many years married to a white woman, who is however aware that her husband is really a black woman. Although Denice, the wife, appears only as a photograph, Anyanwu explains to Doro that they married not only to save Denice (who saw ghosts) from an asylum, but also "because after a while, we started to want each other". Earlier, however, Amber in Patternmaster quite cheerfully announces her bisexuality. Haraway's comment about Dawn does however retain its force for women, not just in that book but in the trilogy as a whole. Women are not there allowed to opt out of heterosexuality and they escape forced reproduction only by accepting no reproduction at all.
Difference is not however Butler's dominant theme. That is power. Slavery is after all the most dramatic manifestation of unequal power. Butler has commented on the effect of her fascination with power. "I began writing about power because I had so little." Writing before the publication of Clay's Ark or Xenogenesis, Sandra Y. Govan remarked how in each of the novels to that point "the implicit struggle for power revolves around explicit conflicts of will and the contests of survival a heroine endures." Certainly this is Lilith's story too and, and if it is modulated a little when the heroine is replaced by her male and ooloi children, then that serves to emphasise how central the gender articulation is.
I referred above to Butler's endorsement of her Oankali creations' perception of hierarchical behaviour as at the root of humanity's problems. Yet, just because the Oankali claim to have avoided hierarchies, it does not mean they have eschewed power. As Haraway says "hierarchy is not power's only shape." They deny humans choice as a matter of course. The exceptions are moments to remark, or are freighted with such negative consequences that they verge on the suicidal. The Oankali know best. As Rachel Pollack notes "this recalls that favorite White American fantasy, the benefits of slavery for the happy Blacks." Yet as Pollack also emphasises, Butler is not pointing an easy ethical lesson, she is examining a "terrible conundrum": at times the Oankali seem right, for the humans have destroyed their planet by their foolishness. The core of the conundrum, and one suspects the crunch for Pollack, is the question of rape.
Other writers on Butler do not foreground the issue; indeed until Xenogenesis (with the notable exception of Kindred) neither did Butler—it is subsumed under forced reproduction. In Dawn, however, the practice is named, but in circumstances that echo oddly. Lilith, using her Oankali-improved strength, saves one of the women she is preparing to return to Earth from rape by a newly awoken man. The woman questions whether the enhanced Lilith is really human after all. Lilith dismisses the question "If I weren't human, why the hell would I care whether you got raped?" Yet one of the things for which she is preparing her charges is enforced mating with the Oankali. Pollack's paralleling of the ooloi Nikanj's knowing that Lilith's lover Joseph "really" wants to have sex with it, despite his inability to say "yes", with the typical male defense to rape charges, is telling. The unimportance of human verbal consent to Oankali behaviour (and their privileging of what they read the body desiring) recurs when Nikanj makes Lilith pregnant. In a central moment, when asked if she had really wanted a child, Lilith replies "Oh, yes. But if I had the strength not to ask, it should have had the strength to let me alone." The Oankali may have power over the choices of the humans, but over their own mating urge, they are powerless (or choose to declare themselves so). Butler has them revealed as driven by their need to "trade" for genetic diversity as humans are by their hierarchical behaviour.
Yet it remains unclear whether Butler is engaging in her characteristic equivocating, or does not herself regard Oankali sexual behaviour as rape. She certainly calls it by other names. "Rape" is used only of humans—not just on the occasion just quoted, but also intermittently in Imago where it serves as part of the revelation of the degeneration of humanity in the absence of Oankali. As far as the aliens are concerned, it seems to me quite reasonable to apply it to the early instances of inter-species sexual activity, when they drug the humans into insensitivity, even insensibility, and submission (the very figures of "white" slavery). Yet the language used would not be all that inappropriate at a getting-to-know-you party. A quite disquieting moment occurs in Dawn just after that to which Pollack refers. Nikanj has once again drugged Joseph because it "knows" he really wants to repeat the experience (on the first occasion he did not even get the opportunity to refuse, being anaesthetized at the moment consent could have been asked) and Lilith, instead of joining in the experience which is supposedly better with three, sits back and watches. "She was patient and interested. This might be her only chance ever to watch up close as an ooloi seduced someone." Throughout the trilogy much is made of Nikanj's powers of seduction (in Adulthood Rites a human male even makes a friendly joke about it), but this is also our first opportunity to observe an ooloi "seduction" and I for one certainly find the scene, in which a drugged man is subjected not just to casuistry but to a "poor little me" turn from a misunderstood alien, a little hard to take. I wish in some ways that I could say I found it utterly repellent; it would be so much easier. There are points of identification with Nikanj available; the idea that any human would be preferable to the loveable sensitive alien is touching. If only there were not the drugged removal of volition!
It is I think particularly notable that Butler presents this scene with the male rather than the female human and indeed does not show us the scene in which Nikanj first rapes/seduces Lilith at all. It occurs between the first and second sections of Dawn and is not even recalled in memory. It is however a most telling absence. With Lilith there to assure the reader that the sexual experience is pleasurable and something she is all too willing to engage in herself, rape more easily masquerades as seduction. Her own first encounter, devoid of any such commentary, would be difficult to present convincingly as a desirable experience.
The problem of Oankali rape/seduction echoes that in the Patternist books of the sexual activity of Doro and his daughters. The incest is muted not only by Doro's endorsement of it as part of his breeding plans, but by his "wearing" different bodies—the body which sleeps with the daughter is not the one which engendered her. The paedophilic aspect is blurred by the imprecision about the age at which it occurs. The only one of which we are certain is late teenage, but there is a suggestion that this may have been unusual restraint on Doro's part. That the children are not averse, having been brought up to expect it and having a semi-mystical regard for their father, removes accusations of rape. Certainly Butler presents Doro as a monster and yet there are oddities about the general presentation of sexual relationships between beings of unequal power bubbling away beneath the surface of Butler's fictions. One of the problems I have is in determining the extent to which they are in the books' unconscious or hers.
One obvious seat of power is the family, yet, in common with other feminist writers, Butler is concerned with examining alternatives to the nuclear family, at least in part to relocate power. In the Patternist books, children are often adopted to remove them from actual or potential child abuse, and domestic groupings tend to be larger than currently regarded as normal. In Xenogenesis, Butler goes into considerable detail about the human-Oankali families and their operation. Because the Oankali extend life-spans, particularly the reproductive portion of them, the number of children is great, especially as there are two females both giving birth. (In Imago, late in Lilith's life, an aside informs us that in view of her and her mates' age, they are now having "only" a pair of children a decade. Since she is at least 100 and quite possibly 200 or so at this time, the size of her family can only be conjectured.) In any case, Butler avoids Oedipal constructions, with their power determinations, by all the means at her disposal. The incest taboo is rejected both by Doro and by the Oankali, who customarily mate brother and sister through unrelated ooloi. The acceptance of the wandering male, refusing monogamy and family involvement, in both Patternist books and Xenogenesis, not only makes Oedipal passages problematic, but reflects the characteristic asserted to be typical of Afro-American males and in fact increasingly common of males in Anglo-Celtic dominant cultures generally. As a third blow to Freudian normality, in Xenogenesis gender is physically determined by affinity with the same-sex parent, not psychically through rivalry and thwarted desire, or the establishing of Otherness. Although Butler is not one of the female writers of "surviving fictions" that Maria Minich Brewer considers, her comment that they
link the nuclear narrative to a politics of gender that thoroughly displaces the Oedipal narrative-of-conflict with the system by inventing new forms of non-hierarchical mediation and community.
certainly applies. (The term "nuclear narrative" here should not be read in a limiting way; Butler's post-nuclear stories are indisputably such narratives.)
My comments so far have been concerned to demonstrate Butler's common concerns in the Patternist and Xenogenesis books. Yet there are discontinuities too. The webs of connectedness that Govan identified as central to the Patternist books, and evident in Kindred too, are not so important. Controlled creation has overtaken the mix of attempted control and the operation of chance; mutation in Xenogenesis ceases to be accidental. Because, as Haraway points out, the Oankali differ from humans by engaging in self-formation not through non-living technologies, but on life itself, there is an absence of Oankali art. This is not characteristic of Butler—Anyanwu's Igbo pots and Jan's learning blocks and paintings (in Mind of My Mind) testify to this—but it is not an accidental omission. A sustained passage in Adulthood Rites details Akin's Oankali-derived distaste for myths and any stories not based on fact; we are repeatedly told how bare the Oankali living spaces are and how only the humans (indeed only women, though this may not be a meaningful exclusion) paint and draw; for quite some time the Oankali deny Lilith even writing materials. In case readers could get to the end of the trilogy still deluded that Butler was depicting an utopia, they should be warned that the society depicted would have no use for the depiction; s[cience] f[iction] along with all the other "lies" (Akin's term for fiction) would disappear.
I said at the beginning that I would attempt to explore my initial disappointment with Adulthood Rites and where the pleasure in so downbeat a trilogy lies. I trust I have done the second already; the pleasures in teasing out the patterns and preoccupations of Butler's work are considerable, as is the hard work of reconciliation, I suspect that one of the reasons for my initial personal disappointment with Adulthood Rites was something which is not uncommon in Butler's novels, which I think of as the disappearing heroine. Readers of the Gollancz paperback edition graced with John Varley's comment that Dawn "Gives us the best heroine I've met in a long time", are likely to be particularly disappointed, for Adulthood Rites gives us little of her. I agree with Varley; Lilith is a wonderful heroine—strong, competent, flawed, moody, fighting to make the best of a situation over which she has virtually no control. Childlike, I wanted to read more about her in the second book and watch her win out, but Butler is not concerned with satisfying childish longings in adults. Adulthood Rites is from her son's point-of-view and Lilith becomes a comparatively minor character. With Imago the shift in point-of-view to the ooloi, Jodahs, and the continuation of Lilith in a minor role is not unexpected. The change is not as startling however as that from Wild Seed to Mind of My Mind where Anyanwu/Emma not merely becomes a minor character, but also alters in moral evaluation (from heroine-saviour to minor nuisance). Relevant here however are the disjunctions in chronologies—of narration, writing and publication—that do not apply to Xenogenesis. In narrative chronology Wild Seed precedes Mind of My Mind and is followed by Clay's Ark, Patternmaster and Survivor, yet the publication order is Patternmaster (1976), Mind of My Mind (1977), Survivor (1978), Wild Seed (1980) and Clay's Ark (1984), while Survivor, although revised extensively in the light of Patternmaster and Mind of My Mind, was initially written considerably before.
The problems of disjunctive chronologies have been referred to (though not under that name) by Delany in a complaint about publishers' impositions of narrative chronology on collections of works in a series in a way which obscures if not obliterates the writer's self-critical dialogue with her- or himself. This may give an extra clue as to why series, which may lack pre-determined structures, are often more satisfying intellectually than the more predictably-structured trilogies. Nonetheless a comparison of the reappearance of, for example, Lessa in Anne McCaffrey's Pern series with the reappearance of Lilith in the two later Xenogenesis volumes is an indication that trilogies are not always less surprising. (It is, incidentally, hard to imagine anything more heretical than an authorial re-evaluation of Lessa, who even when not the main focus of a novel can never be other than the dominant character in any scene in which she appears.)
I cannot resist concluding with another quotation from Donna Haraway. No reader, one trusts, could leave Octavia E. Butler's work believing she valued the fixity of the Natural. Whether by mutation, transmutation or direct manipulation, in her fictions nature changes. The most negatively valued groups of humans are those who, like the Missionaries in Survivor, attempt to stop variation. Even Xenogenesis's resister humans are only allowed to start breeding again on a transformed Mars. As in so many other instances, I concur with Haraway when she says "I am not interested in policing the boundaries between nature and culture—quite the opposite, I am edified by the traffic." Reading Butler is part of such an edification.
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Pretty women. Which one will infect you?
Malware which opens pictures of attractive women to entice its victims has been around for some time. Last month there were more than usual, so I decided to research malware that pretends to be a regular picture, and the results are pretty interesting.
We looked for executable samples with two distinct characteristics: 1. .jpg in their name, and 2. no older than the last three months. About 6,000 unique files which matched this criteria were found. From these samples, we noticed that pretending to be an image is not a family specific criteria but we identified that Win32:Zbot is represented more than other malware e.g. MSIL:Bladabindi-EV, Win32:Banker-JXB,BV:Bicololo-CY, etc.
The important message is that most of these samples are distributed by scams which are sent by email or posted on social media sites. An example of an email scam is pictures below. If you are interested in what the social media scam looks like and how to protect yourself, you should read one of our previous blog posts.
Research buzz: Undercover technology
Question of the week: What is the antivirus setting called DeepScreen?
DeepScreen is a new technology inside avast! Antivirus 2014. When you are about to run a suspicious program which is not yet known to the other core antivirus technologies, DeepScreen is invoked. Its task is to simply distinguish between good and bad software. Although it seems obvious and simple, it is not.
How DeepScreen uses The Force for good
This (magic) technology is served by two software components (the Jedi, if you will) which work hand-in-hand. One of them is well known from the past: The avast! Sandbox.
When a file is "DeepScreened," it is actually run in the Sandbox, which is mainly responsible for keeping things isolated while watching for various high-level events and behavior of the program running. For example, it monitors the system call invocation and overall behavior of the program which is being executed. This seems to be just enough to distinguish between the Dark Side and the Light Side of the Force, but unfortunately, it is not that simple.
Firstly, how can you tell good and bad behavior apart? There are plenty of legitimate software products that use "weird" techniques to protect themselves. On the other hand, there is a bunch of malware samples that look innocent and behave well.
Secondly, malware is used to hiding away from the vigilant eyes of the Sandbox. The most common and powerful technique is encryption. In fact, there are more ways of encrypting and packing these well - known bad guys and rendering them undetectable than there are distinct malware samples.
SafeMachine: The new Jedi Order
Now, let me introduce you to our new good guy: SafeMachine 2, a dynamic binary instrumentation tool and generic unpacker. Yes, a real Jedi Knight!
With the latest version of avast! Antivirus 2014, this technology is fully involved in fighting the bad guys. Whenever DeepScreen runs something in the Sandbox, it also performs binary instrumentation of the process.
Going to the Olympics? Prepare to be hacked
If you are one of the thousands of visitors headed to Sochi, Russia for Friday's 2014 Winter Olympics opening ceremony then you will be hacked. Richard Engel, from NBC news, reported that it's not if you get hacked, it's when, and he discovered that it starts from the moment you turn on your device.
In an experiment conducted by NBC Nightly News, their just out-of-the-box computer and smartphone were hacked in seconds while in Sochi. "The State Department warns that travelers should have no expectation of privacy; even in their hotel rooms. And as we found out, you are especially exposed as soon as you try and communicate with anything," reported Engel.
"As tourists and families of athletes arrive in Sochi…if they fire up their phones at baggage claim, it's probably too late to save the integrity of their electronics and everything inside them. Visitors to Russia can expect to be hacked," said NBC's anchorman Brian Williams as he introduced the report.
Watch the video report of NBC's experiment (there's an ad first, so give it a few seconds):
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UPDATE: NBC has taken some criticism for the story since this report, with claims that it was misleading and promoted scaremongering. The experts they worked with released a white paper describing how each new device, without the protection of antivirus software, was compromised. NBC responded by stating that their experiment was designed to "show in general how easily a non-expert can fall victim."
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Malformed FileZilla FTP client with login stealer
Beware of malformed FileZilla FTP client versions 3.7.3 and 3.5.3. We have noticed an increased presence of these malware versions of famous open source FTP clients.
The first suspicious signs are bogus download URLs. As you can see, the installer is mostly hosted on hacked websites with fake content (for example texts and user comments are represented by images.)
Malware installer GUI is almost identical to the official version. The only slight difference is version of NullSoft installer where malware uses 2.46.3-Unicode and the official installer uses v2.45-Unicode. All other elements like texts, buttons, icons and images are the same.
The installed malware FTP client looks like the official version and it is fully functional! You can't find any suspicious behavior, entries in the system registry, communication or changes in application GUI.
The only differences that can be seen at first glance are smaller filesize of filezilla.exe (~6,8 MB), 2 dll libraries ibgcc_s_dw2-1.dll and libstdc++-6.dll (not included in the official version) and information in "About FileZilla" window indicates the use of older SQLite/GnuTLS versions. Any attempt to update the application fails, which is most likely a protection to prevent overwriting of malware binaries.
WhatsApp bogus email tries to install Zeus Trojan on your computer
Have you received an email from WhatsApp? No? That's because the company usually sends their users messages directly via the app itself, typically notifying them of updates. If you have received an email from WhatsApp recently, we urge you to not open it and to delete it immediately. The email is a hoax that contains malware.
Within the last few days, an email with the subject line "Missed voice message" has spread with the sender name "WhatsApp Messenger." The message asks recipients to "please download attached file," a file named "Missed-message.zip."
Our antivirus lab expert, Peter Kálnai, told us, "It has never been WhatsApp's strategy to send you missed voice messages in an email and they haven't started to do so now. Instead of a voice message, it includes a zipped attachment with an executable file under the same name missed-message.exe. This file is able to download any malware attackers want to load onto their victim's computer, including the Zeus Trojan, also known as one of the most dangerous banking trojans."
Zeus lies silently on users' computers until they log on to a banking website. Once on a banking site, Zeus collects the users' personal data and online banking information. Read more about how avast! Antivirus blocks Zeus Trojans.
The popular mobile messaging service, WhatsApp, recently announced they now have more than 430 million Android and iPhone users. This is a great success for WhatsApp, but at the same time makes it an attractive target for cybercriminals, as the amount of potential victims is huge.
Does avast! Antivirus protect against the WhatsApp malware?
Yes! AVAST detects the executable files spread in the ZIP file in different versions and protects all of its more than 200 million users from this threat. Besides using AVAST, we recommend users use common sense and think twice when they receive an email from an app that usually never chooses to address its users via email. Also, in general, trustworthy companies don't send attachments unless you have requested specific documents, so do not open any email attachments if you haven't requested them, and always use caution when downloading files from the Internet.
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Has the NSA installed spyware on your new computer before you opened the box?
An article in German magazine Der Spiegel stated that the NSA is capable of installing backdoors on devices by Juniper Networks (firewall manufacturer), Cisco and Huawei (giant network device manufacturers), and also, Dell. According to the article, a special hacking team intercepted some new computer deliveries to secretly install spyware in these machines. Der Spiegel did not reveal how they got access to this information, although it's public that they have access to secret information leaked by the former NSA contractor, Edward Snowden.
The magazine has access to secret documents describing a method of direct attack on an end-user device called "interdiction." If a person was being investigated and bought a new computer, the Tailored Access Operations division (TAO) of the NSA could have access to it. They collect online information using a tool called XKeyscore, like the British journal The Guardian revealed last July. They also are able to redirect the internet traffic to their own servers. Der Spiegel said that this redirection occured with high success (50%) when people were browsing the professional network LinkedIn.
But I'm not interesting enough…
Ok. You'll say that you're not included in the "interesting" people to be investigated by the NSA. What you need to know, quickly, is that there are tons of spyware and behavior monitoring tools being distributed all over the world. Our team detected more than 6 million of them disguised as toolbars for browsers. These nasties monitor everything from your browser habits to your personal information.
Similar to NSA, some "security companies" do this dirty job of monitoring. Did you read about avast! BrowserCleaner yet? You can get rid of spyware toolbars using this tool inside avast! Antivirus products, or you can download the standalone version here. Learn more about it in this blog entry. And, of course, do not forget to alert your friends and family.
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Mobile malware a real threat in 2014
Security industry experts from around the world must have been looking in the same crystal ball to make their predictions for the new year, because everyone agreed that mobile exploits and malware would drive growth for the industry in 2014. Mobile attacks will include malicious software that steals data from legitimate apps, spyware, ransomware and software installed via NFC.
Ondrej Vlček, AVAST's Chief Technology Officer, agrees with the others, and has evidence to back it up, "We see nearly 2,000 new malware samples on Android every day, and this is up from maybe 50 a year ago. It's quite likely that the trend will continue." He explained in an article in SC Magazine that Android has reached a critical mass in terms of penetration and market share, therefore it's an attractive target for cybercrooks.
This news has not escaped security journalists, and many are recommending security apps to protect Android devices. TechAdvisor, powered by PC Advisor, the UK's number one technology magazine website, recently recommended avast! Mobile Security as one of it's Best Android antivirus: 6 best cheap and free Android security apps.
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AVAST scans what bugged us this year and will continue to buzz alarm in 2014
by Caroline James, AVAST Software's U.S. PR manager
The top three security trends of 2013 will only strengthen in 2014. Hackers abusing new payment options, browser toolbars spreading extensively, and new privacy issues have defined this year's trends of security threats and nuisances.
Online fraud goes viral on mobile
2013 has been the year of new payment methods, including SMS, WAP and NFC payment – and with these new options, hackers have increased their efforts to develop new ways to steal users' money.
AVAST detected an average of 1,839 new mobile malware samples a day, about 60 to 70% of which were designed to send and charge mobile users for premium SMS.
AVAST this year has also seen more targeted attacks where the goal is to steal users' financial transaction data and ultimately their money. This for example includes hacking specific banks by manipulating their Internet banking interfaces to steal the customer's personal data.
Unwanted toolbars cling like ivy to browsers
Another trend that snuck up on users in 2013 and strikes instant recognition among people who have experienced it, are browser extensions. The numbers AVAST has collected so far are enormous. The antivirus software company has identified more than 6.1 million different browser extensions for Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Chrome in just eight months.
Unwanted toolbars are a pain everyone can relate to and we would argue they are the first major consumer security outbreak since spyware.
Our experts at AVAST say that we are in the era of new 'spyware', but this time it's even more insidious especially since many players in the security space are actually in the game themselves by pushing the toolbars onto customers.
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For this "real-world" test, AV-Comparatives, together with the University of Innsbruck's Computer Science department, set up identical Dell computers with Windows 7, Office, Adobe Reader, Flash, Java, QuickTime, Firefox, and a constant internet connection – basically, like most of us have at home. Twenty-two products, of which only two were free, including avast! Free Antivirus, were tested. As you can see from the award, avast! Free Antivirus held it's own, so yes, this product is more than good enough to protect your computer.
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Christmas time! Do you want a malware present?
Christmas time is essentially connected with buying presents. There's a lot of stuff to be done and a lot of opportunities to buy a present in an e-shop to save time. Who doesn't know someone who buys a Christmas gift online?
The malware authors know and are very keen to take advantage of it. We see scam emails containing order or delivery details every day and they have a lot of common. In fact, it's nothing new. Such methods are used constantly during the year, it's nothing special connected to Christmas. However, Christmas is the reason why many people might be fooled. Let's look at them in detail.
Imagine you are customer waiting for a present to be delivered. You get anxious and check your email waiting for order details. You are probably the most vulnerable at this time. Then you get an email from DHL, the well-known parcel delivery service, with a notice saying that the shipping details are in an attachment. In that moment of relief, you click on the email attachment. It turns out to be a zip file containing a file named DHL-parcel.exe. The strange thing is the file extension looks like regular PDF file because it has the same icon. In fact, it is malware.


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So with American and British help and pressure, the Afghan government has beefed up the Major Crimes Task Force, designed to go after high level offenders in corruption, kidnapping, and organized crime cases. Despite being 10 months old, only the kidnapping portion of the task force is complete, according to task force officials.
"We're just beginning," says a task force official.
The corruption unit isn't fully trained, but it is prosecuting one major case so far that the half dozen Western officials interviewed for this article all concede is a test of the government's willingness to pursue anti-corruption charges.
Two colonels and one general from Kandahar's border police have been accused of graft and are currently in prison awaiting trial, says a task force member. Two other Kandahar border police officials have fled. The police commanders are the most senior officials – military or civilian – to be prosecuted for corruption, according to both Afghan and Western officials.
"We focus on the police, because there are a lot of problems there, and that's who most civilians interact with on a regular basis," says the task force official.
In addition, at least two ministers are under investigation for corruption.
The mines minister, according to Western and Afghan anti-corruption officials, is being investigated for accepting a $30 million bribe in exchange for awarding a Chinese company a contract worth $3 billion. The allegation was first revealed by the Washington Post.
The minister for religious affairs, according to an Afghan anti-corruption official, is being investigated for trying to smuggle approximately $400,000 into Afghanistan from Dubai in boxes of crackers.
It is not yet clear whether the Karzai administration has decided to eliminate corruption entirely.
In one widely publicized case, last week the mayor of Kabul, Abdul Ahad Sahebi, was convicted and sentenced to four years in jail for improperly awarding a contract. But according to an Afghan government official, Karzai was asked whether the mayor should be jailed, and Karzai said the mayor should be allowed to return to work. The next day, the mayor was behind his desk, giving interviews to journalists.
Afghan anti-corruption officials argue that today there is a greater willingness by senior government officials to crack down on corruption than there ever was in the past.
"Nobody wants to be known as the leader of a corrupt country," says one.
Anti-corruption officials have increased their work and reveal they are working on other cases, the most prominent of which involves customs officials who have defrauded the government out of "billions" of dollars in customs fees by pocketing many of them, said one official, who would not give more details for fear of spoiling the ongoing investigation.
Western officials here hope that a few high profile arrests followed up with jail time can help convince Afghans that the government has decided to crack down on corrupt senior officials.
"You have to provide fear among the top circles," says a member of the High Commission on Oversight.
"Here's the idea: you get the big fish and you make an example of them," says one Western official. "Getting a few government ministers would prove there's a will by the president to clean things up."
But removing the high level offenders is not the final solution, Western and Afghan anti-corruption officials insist.


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In general if it's classic Parisian pomp you're after, you're headed to one of the big luxury hotels. This town has no shortage of them, and they're among the most opulent in the Western world. The boutique hotels tend to be more contemporary, often a bit minimalist — but one boutique in particular can out-classic the classics, and that's the Hotel Lancaster.
When the Lancaster opened its doors the phrase "boutique hotel" hadn't yet been invented — but that's more or less what it's always been. Back in the Emile Wolf days it was the sort of place you'd catch the likes of Grace Kelly or Noël Coward haunting its halls. Today, under the direction of the Spanish Hospes group, it's scarcely lost any of its glamour. In spite of a location just off the Champs-Elysées, the Lancaster is quiet, the way a classic hotel ought to be. Rooms are stocked with antiques, many of them collected by the original owner, and the marble bathrooms are decked out in a well-preserved Art Deco style.
The service is impeccable, erring more on the side of quiet discretion than overt solicitousness. La Table du Lancaster is the hotel's Michelin-starred restaurant, and the Thirties-inspired salon is an elegant step up from the typical hotel bar. Most magical, however, is the Lancaster's little garden, a rare bit of private outdoor peace in the heart of bustling Paris.
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Infrastructure projects provide some of the most promising areas for U.S. exports to Vietnam, according to the Commerce Department's U.S. Commercial Service.
The major industry sectors for project logistics activity in Vietnam are road and port construction; power generation, including hydroelectric, thermal, wind and coal-fired plants; mining, refining and petrochemical expansion; and steel plants, said Lim Siew Hua, regional general manager for BDP Project Logistics for Vietnam and Singapore.
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Thread: Fight the FEAR!
April 14th, 2013 #1
Fight the FEAR!
Hello, my name's Harry and this is my second post here at conceptart.org =) I posted something in the critique centre and I got an immediate response which left me more than happy =) [ If you want to get a better understanding of my background you can look for what I've posted in my profile's history, I had a couple of paragraphs in the critique post. )
With the creation of this textbook I target several goals:
- Overcome my fear of sketchbooks and start working loosely.
- Feedback- ! Yes, please! Critique as much as you can! =)) it will help me immensely =)
- A place where I can track my progress because almost all of the time I draw on everything I get my hands on and then lose it.. ;s
- Getting to know this forum's community better and perhaps make a friend or two =]]
So, here goes!
I'll try to upload daily ,if not possible then I'll try to post every other day =)
Here's a semi- reference, semi - imagination quick colour sketch:
... and again a large HELLO =) [wave]
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It was a pretty awful day in terms of weather and public transportation, but that didn't stop me ;d
A little bit of anatomy from Bammes today =)
This is actually from a couple of days ago, when I refilled my pen for the first time in two or three years and was doodling arond.
April 23rd, 2013 #3
Some quick poses from imagination.
Gosh, sorry for not entering anything in so long.. and I promised to myself.. grr.. =) anyway if you pass by, don't forget to leave a comment ^^ you critique and/or opinion is most appreciated!


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I have ridden both, prefer the WR. The KTM does have better suspension, but the motor is gutless compared to the WR, which acts like it has 50cc more displacement in comparison.
WR suspension is soft and mushy, but it easier to fix that than it is to fix the KTMs motor.
I heard the KTM does respond really well to a big bore though, and that the stock carb is a bit oversized. It all comes together a lot better with the bore kit. Sounds like your potential bike is all set up with that.
The little WR motor is absolutely indestructible, another plus. Get the KTM though. Your potential bike sounds good, and the orange mafia won't let you ride with them if you show up on blue. Don't ask how I know
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Get pregnant--naturally! The Fertility Diet reveals startling new research from the landmark Nurses' Health Study, which shows that the food you eat can boost your fertility. The book prescribes ten simple changes in diet and activity that can increase your chances of getting pregnant.These changes include: Cutting back on red meat and trans fats Getting protein and iron from veggies and nuts Choosing whole-fat milk and even ice cream Drinking coffee, tea, and alcohol in moderation Losing weight (if needed) and exercising The Nurses' Health Study exhaustively examined the effects of diet and other lifestyle changes on fertility among nearly 20,000 female nurses. Two of the study's lead researchers translate its groundbreaking findings into changes you can put into practice today, setting the stage for a healthy pregnancy and forming the foundation for an eating strategy that will serve you well for the rest of your life. The Fertility Diet also offers a week's worth of meal plans and delicious recipes that will make following the guildelines easy and tasty.
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