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Must-win games and the Wellington Phoenix go hand-in-hand as they attempt to turn their stuttering A-League season around.
Despite some horror results, and even worse performances, the Phoenix are still only four points out of the top-six play-offs.
After the 5-0 shellacking by league leaders Central Coast Mariners, coach Ricki Herbert has to turn it around before the Phoenix play the Brisbane Roar at Suncorp Stadium on Sunday.
With the Roar just a point ahead of the Phoenix, the game is vital.
At home, the Roar are heavily favoured. In the just-completed 20th round, all matches were won by the home team. In the two earlier clashes this season, the Phoenix, at home in round three, drew 1-1 with the Roar while on New Year's Day at Suncorp, Brisbane won 2-1.
In between those two games Rado Vidosic was sensationally dumped as the Roar coach, replaced by Mike Mulvey in an interim appointment.
Herbert, seemingly safe as head coach at the Phoenix until at least the end of the season when he might move to another role at the club, has joined the transfer market securing the services of speedy Fulham striker Corey Gameiro, 20, until the end of the season.
Gameiro, who has been playing on loan at Dutch second division club FC Eindhoven, is expected to be cleared this week to play against Brisbane on Sunday.
Elsewhere, All Whites midfielder Michael McGlinchey continues to impress at Central Coast Mariners to the extent he has signed a two-year contract extension with the club for which he has now played 110 games.
All is not well at Sydney FC despite their recent revival which included Sunday's 2-1 home win over Brisbane Roar.
Coach Frank Farina left former Socceroos midfielder Jason Culina out of the squad for the win over the Roar with suggestions Culina might not play again following a training pitch spat. It is a different story with Sydney's marquee signing Alessandro Del Piero who seems set to stay for a second season at the club.
Former Wellington Phoenix chief executive Tony Pignata, now in the same role at Sydney, denied suggestions the Italian star was off to join Brazilian club Flamengo saying he expected the deal to keep Del Piero at Sydney will "be wrapped up in the next fortnight".
Sydney will, however, be without Brett Emerton and Ali Abbas for Saturday's home game against Adelaide after both copped their fifth yellow cards of the season in the win over Brisbane in which Del Piero and Peter Triantis netted.


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Borders looking bad, Powell's layoffs, Mystery Bookstore and Diesel's Malibu branch closing (both will be missed, and best of luck to all of their displaced employees and readers!)… bookstores have had a little bit of a scary month so far. KPCC's Patt Morrison has a great, positive segment on the state of the business – including a call from an old Vroman's employee.
Check it out here.
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The Euro/USD continued to decline and yesterday this exchange rate took another hit and fell by over 1%. Furthermore, the Aussie dollar and several other currencies such as the GBP also tumbled down against the USD. The safe haven exchange rate Yen appreciated against the U.S dollar. Gold and silver prices changed direction again and rose on Wednesday; finally, oil price (WTI) plunged as well to its lowest level since October 2011.
Here is a summary of the changes of major currencies for May 30th:
Forex Market:
The Euros to US Dollar tumbled down by 1.09% to 1.2367 – the lowest level in over two years; during the month, the EUROS/USD plummeted by 6.59%. Furthermore, the Australian Dollar to US Dollar also took a hit and fell by 1.45% to 0.9705.
The U.S dollar to Canadian dollar rose by 0.79% to 1.03. During the month so far the USD/CAD exchange rate increased by 4.36%.
The GBP to USD also plunged by 1.04% to 1.5479; from the beginning of the month the GBP to USD decreased by 4.65%.
Finally, the U.S Dollar/ Yen fell by 0.52% to 79.08.
Commodities Market:
Gold price changed direction and rose on Wednesday by $14.7 to $1,565. During the month, gold price declined by 5.92%.
WTI oil price also plunged by 3.24% and reached $87.82 per barrel; during the month so far the WTI fell by 16.26%.
A Summary of the Changes in Exchange Rates for May 30th:
The table below includes: closing prices, daily percent change, and daily changes:
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The only thing truly wonderful about "RV" is that Robin Williams has decided to be funny again. After a long succession of serious movies ("What Dreams May Come," "Insomnia," "30 Minute Photo," "Final Cut"), the great comedian is going for full-blown laughs.
And he gets them....even though "RV" is a lame retread of the Chevy Chase "Vacation" movies and Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz's "The Long, Long Trailer." This is despite direction by "Men in Black's" Barry Sonnenfeld.
The problem is that Geoff Rodkey's script is too derivative of the aforementioned films. We feel like we're seeing a sequel when it's the first in what could be a franchise.
Still, Williams as beleaguered father/white-collar executive Bob Munro inserts his own comic asides and uniqueness to keep "RV" from completely running aground. For example, he launches into an hilarious hip-hop rap to deflect some parker park bullies from beating on his undersized teen son, Carl (Josh Hutcherson). Such a moment is the reason why Hollywood hires Robin Williams.
The best bit in "RV" comes in the opening sequence where as a small child, daughter Cassie Munro (Jo anna "JoJo" Levesque) pledges to always be daddy's girl and never get married. Cut to years later and bored teenager Cassie couldn't be more disrespectful and less loving of dear old Dad, who's fallen far from his Ivory Tower. When Dad says, "I have good news," Cassie's hopeful retort is, "I'm being adopted?"
Worried that he's losing his job to a younger man, Bob cancels a longawaited family trip to Hawaii, buys an ugly humongous RV and tells the disappointed family that they're going experience real togetherness on a road trip to Colorado. In fact, he must deliver an all-important sales pitch there to stave off unemployment.
On the trip, it's a predictable laundry list of mishaps, including the overflowing RV septic tank, raccoons in the kitchen and out-of-control brakes on big mountains. The saving comedic grace is the seemingly "trailer trash" Gronicke family, headed by father Travis (Jeff Daniels), which the Munros try endlessly to snub and avoid. The Gronickes are the flip side to the Randy Quaid redneck relatives in Chase's "Vacation." They are closet high class, but simply beating the system by staying mobile. The Munros finally realize their "value" at the film's finale, which hits a false positive note.
If you're up for a light summer comedy, check out "RV" - Robin Williams' return ride on the road to hilarity.


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Michael Kinsley is on the phone from the back of a cab in New York City. "Sure," he says in his tentative-sounding intellectual's voice, "I'll be happy to talk on Monday. Any time you want. I'll be unemployed."
Kinsley may not be a household name in the UK, but in Los Angeles he has polarised polite society in a manner reminiscent of the discord a Parisian intellectual might provoke on the Left Bank.
For 15 months, Kinsley, 54, was the editorial and opinion page editor of the Los Angeles Times, provoking consternation by pushing for an end to anonymous editorials, giving over the front page of the Sunday opinion section to a cartoon and, notoriously, launching the wikitorial, an interactive endeavour that ended within days when some readers went online to insert rude words into the lofty thoughts of the paper's leader writers.
But the fun and games associated with Kinsley's tenure came to an end following a terse meeting with the paper's owner. On September 13, staff received a jaunty email from Kinsley. "Hi," he began. "In case you haven't already heard, the publisher is announcing this morning that I'm leaving the Los Angeles Times."
Clean break
The announcement, when it came, was less about Kinsley and more about his successor, Andrés Martinez, one of Kinsley's deputies. "Mike and I had discussions about his management responsibilities and other possible roles," said the president, chief executive and publisher of the paper, Jeffrey Johnson. "I concluded that it was best to make a clean break and I wish him well."
Kinsley, who thought he was negotiating a new role for himself, now realises that he was being propelled towards a "clean break". "I thought that we were going to come to some agreement unless I decided to go," he says. "So when he said we should cut the cord, I said, maybe, you might be right. But then ... I started to feel unwanted. At first I felt he really has handled this badly, but actually he handled it very well."
Johnson became publisher in March this year, promoted by Tribune Publishing, owners of 11 daily newspapers, including the LA Times, the Chicago Tribune and Newsday, a host of TV and radio interests, and the Chicago Cubs baseball team. By the summer, LA Times editor John Carroll had announced his resignation, and was succeeded by another staffer, Dean Baquet. But along with all the personnel changes came a restructuring of the chain of command at the paper: the opinion and editorial page editor would no longer report to the editor of the paper, but to the CEO of the company.
While this may invoke fears of an overbearing proprietor among British journalists, in the US it is viewed through a different prism, and is already in practice at the New York Times and the Boston Globe. "We have this idea that there should be a Chinese wall between news and opinion," says Kinsley. "The news guy should be protected from the taint of opinion. The other Chinese wall you can have is between editorial and news on one side and the commercial side on the other. Who is more likely to influence whom?"
"Who whom" enraged some of Kinsley's detractors, led by the fair and balanced Fox News hatchet man Bill O'Reilly. Kinsley was derided from the right as the archetypal east coast liberal trying to patronise the uncouth Californians with hoity-toity Ivy League superiority. Some on the left detested him for the same reasons, charging that he ignored local issues and local writers.
Kinsley, his detractors will tell you, only had an apartment in LA, living in his main home in Seattle with his wife, who runs the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. While admitting that the commute was problematic, Kinsley points out in his defence that Seattle, where he has lived for a decade, is on the west not the east coast. He moved there to start the online magazine Slate for Microsoft after a distinguished career in newspapers and magazines, including spells at Harper's and the New Republic.
But his experience at Slate, he admits, did not prepare him for the challenge of introducing change at a large institution such as the Los Angeles Times. "I don't want to sound self-congratulatory," he says, "but I didn't realise what an advantage it was to start Slate from scratch."
The wikitorial experiment this summer was one attempt to bring the dynamic of the web to one of the titans of old media. It backfired."Having been there and moved backwards technologically, I was eager to move forwards again," he said at the time. "The nice thing about these web things is that you've got to try them out. I thought, what the heck, let's do it. We did the experiment and we were embarrassed."
Certainly the pace of some of his changes at the LA Times - which sells more than 900,000 copies during the week and 1.1m on Sundays - and his dispatching of some of its more venerable writers caused discomfort and could have been handled with more delicacy, something Kinsley himself admits. "I hope he is more sensitive," Kinsley says of his successor, whom he recruited to the paper. "There's no point in not having learned from my experiences. He's a much more diplomatic fellow than I am. He will find a path through the maze. I think he's going to continue some of the things I did."
But probably not all of them. Tribune's announcement of Martinez's appointment made use of phrases such as "critical issues . . . of importance to the Southern California region" and "the dynamic and vibrant culture of Los Angeles". The paper, its owners seemed to stress, would talk to its local audience.
National force
By contrast, the most substantive reform proposed by Kinsley in his time at the paper was the opposite, a blueprint for turning the paper, and indeed Tribune Publishing, into a national force. The paper could use the internet, he proposed, to gain a national voice. It already had the resources and the talent, but was squandering it on producing quality coverage of Washington DC and the world that was not read by anyone outside Los Angeles.
His strategy was outlined in several memos, notably a 6,000-word effort sent at the end of last year to the then publisher and the then editor bearing the title Do Newspapers Need Opinions (And Do Opinions Need Newspapers)?. Starting from the view that nobody bothers to read the editorial columns of newspapers and that they attract no advertising, he suggests they should be scrapped, a somewhat unlikely position for an editorial page editor. Failing that, opinion should be moved online, a much more satisfactory medium for the exchange of viewpoints. (From here, one supposes, came the wikitorial exercise.)
He also suggests a third way: the creation of an editorial board made up of outsiders. "In this country editorials don't have much influence, so it's hard to see what the point of them is. We ought to revamp them or just eliminate them."


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Carrie Sheehan pitched a two-hit shutout with five strikeouts to help Cimarron-Memorial's softball team defeat visiting Palo Verde 2-0 on Monday.
Sheehan allowed one walk for the Spartans, who remained a game behind Centennial and Shadow Ridge for the Northwest League lead.
Cimarron did its scoring in the fifth inning. Stephanie Kaplan doubled, took third on Starlyn Thomas's singled and scored on an error.
Nora Murphy's RBI single scored Thomas, who went 2-for-3.
Palo Verde's Missy McCormick struck out 11 while tossing a six-hitter.
Centennial 9, Cheyenne 1 — At Cheyenne, Lindsey Konopelko struck out 14, threw a five-hitter, hit a home run and had three RBIs to lead the Bulldogs over the Desert Shields.
Centennial's Johnna Brown was 3-for-4 with a homer and two RBIs, and Camille Castro went 3-for-4.
Arbor View 13, Mojave 0 — At Arbor View, Courtney Kinsel had two hits, four RBIs and a stolen base for the Aggies, who scored 10 runs in the second inning to beat the Rattlers in five innings.
Christine Callahan was 2-for-2 with an RBI and two steals, and Amanda Jones pitched a one-hitter with nine strikeouts and no walks.
Shadow Ridge 12, Legacy 3 — At Legacy, the Mustangs coasted past the Longhorns, taking a 10-0 lead with five runs in the first and third innings.
Rae-Ann Bohm and Mandy Harmon both had two hits and two RBIs for Shadow Ridge.
Sierra Pico went 2-for-4 with a triple for Legacy, and Kaylan Hanson was 3-for-3 with a RBI.
Silverado 2, Basic 0 — At Basic, Katie Devlin pitched a one-hitter with seven strikeouts and a walk as the Skyhawks blanked the Wolves.
Amanda Delgado's two-out single knocked in both runs.
Lacey Romo threw a two-hitter with nine strikeouts for Basic.
Tech 4, Del Sol 2 — At Del Sol, Amanda Roark struck out 12 in a two-hitter and was 2-for-4 with an RBI as the Roadrunners edged the Dragons.
Liberty 10, Coronado 3 — At Coronado, Francesca Foti was 2-for-4 with four RBIs as the Patriots defeated the Cougars.
Carson Cooper had two triples, an RBI and three runs for Liberty.
Coronado's Allie Amato went 3-for-4 with an RBI.
Bonanza 4, Spring Valley 0 — At Spring Valley, Courtney Spencer threw a three-hitter with four strikeouts as the Bengals shut out the Grizzlies.
Brittany Spencer (2-for-4) and Emily Osborn knocked in two runs each, and Nicolette Lind and Courtney Spencer also had two hits.
Spring Valley's Jasmine Wilson went 2-for-2 with a triple.
Clark 6, Pahrump Valley 5 — At Clark, the Chargers scored three runs in the sixth and beat visiting Pahrump Valley.
Elisa Dawson was 2-for-3 with a home run for Clark, and Julie Hagen (two RBIs) and J.J. Fukuda also went 2-for-3.
Durango 12, Bishop Gorman 0 — At Majestic Park, Nicole Herrera struck out 10 and doubled to help the Trailblazers beat the Gaels.
Jaexie Balilea had a home run and three RBIs for Durango. Claudia Franco tripled for Bishop Gorman.
Sierra Vista 18, Western 3 — At Western, Ashley Krumme was 4-for-5 with two doubles, five runs and three RBIs to carry the Mountain Lions past the Warriors.
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The final project in my living room!
There are tons of neat projects in this issue, a lot of them inspired from pins on Pinterest and items in etsy shops. I love that!
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Antonio Conte desperate for Juve return
Suspended Juventus coach Antonio Conte has broken his silence in a webchat with fans, revealing he is desperate to return to the Bianconeri bench.
Conte was handed a 10-month ban in August for allegedly failing to report two incidents of match-fixing while in charge of Siena, a decision that saw him barred from the touchline and denied him the chance to speak with the media.
The 44-year-old has been restricted to training the reigning Serie A champions during the week, with technical director Massimo Carrera and assistant manager Angelo Alessio taking charge on matchdays, but Conte will return on December 9 after having his ban reduced by six months on appeal.
Conte made a perfect start as Juventus boss, leading the Turin giants to a first Scudetto since 2003 and a long-awaited return to the Champions League, with his team also going through an entire season unbeaten in the league.
That impressive run was ended by Inter Milan last week, with Conte more eager than ever to return to the touchline and consolidate Juve's lead at the top.
"I miss it very much. My training workload has tripled in the last three months because I used to be able to issue instructions during matches. Now that is impossible," he said in a webchat with fans, quoted on Gazzetta.it. "But I have been lucky to have good people working with me, as well as a responsible bunch of players."
Conte said he has "managed to stay in the players' heads."
"But I really miss being able to take my place on the bench, not being near the grass, my players, the opposition, the fans, or anybody else," he said.
Following a summer of revelations and investigation, the Italian Football Federation (FIGC) found Conte guilty of not reporting information relating to match-fixing that allegedly occurred during two Siena games in the 2010-11 season.
A first appeal failed, but Conte finally managed to have his lengthy suspension reduced to just four months by the National Court of Arbitration for Sport.
"I have gone through some difficult times," he added. "I've never managed to understand why it happened to me, I've strived to work it out. The support of my family and president Andrea Agnelli has been invaluable.
"I only hope that those who have decided I'm guilty have to live through one day as a guilty man when they are innocent."
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Manhattan woman missing, may be with murder suspect
A Manhattan woman may be with a man suspected of murder.
A Manhattan woman may be with a man suspected of murder.
Graco is recalling more than 25,000 car seats because the harness webbing can break in a crash and may not keep children restrained.
A judge says he will allow evidence that a Kansas man watched hours of violent pornography at his upcoming sexual assault trial.
Former KU player Josh Jackson pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor traffic violation for backing into a car and driving away.
A Kansas man has pleaded no contest to putting his infant stepdaughter in an apartment complex trash compactor.
Police issued a warrant Tuesday for 38-year-old Steven Harris on one count of murder and one count of attempted murder.
The House was debating a proposal Wednesday afternoon to phase in a $280 million increase in education funding.
President Donald Trump's proposal to slash food stamps by a third will be a hard sell in Congress.
There will be no fine for Stephen Colbert's risque joke about President Donald Trump.
Stroke is the #2 cause of death worldwide behind heart disease and the leading cause of disability.
President Donald Trump and Pope Francis met at the Vatican on Wednesday
Police and intelligence agencies arrested three more suspects Wednesday in connection with the Manchester suicide bombing.
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Leah is wanted by the Sedgwick County Sheriff's Office for PROBATION VIOLATION FOR CRIMINAL THREAT.
Markis McDuffie decides to return to Wichita State for his junior season.


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Good news for freedom lovers.
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) is considering going back on the ballot.
In an interview on "The Sean Hannity Show" Tuesday, the 2008 vice presidential candidate indicated she might throw her hat in the ring to become one of Alaska's U.S. Senators.
"I've considered it because freedom seeking people have requested me considering it, and in this great land of ours where we need to win back freedom from the freedom taker-away-ers a possibility for running is something that many are watching with fervored interest," Palin said, after Hannity mentioned rumors of a potential Senate run.
"I'm still waiting to see, you know, what the lineup will be and hoping that, there again, there will be some new blood, new energy, new enthusiasm and a return to basic American values and values in the spirit of liberty which this nation has generated itself on -- not just kind of picking from the same old politicians in the state, you know, the usual ones," Palin continued.
Palin also took the opportunity to swipe at Sen. Mark Begich (D-Alaska), who she believes "if we value freedom, I mean truly value freedom as our great Founding Fathers like George Washington and John Stuart Mill wrote about with great patriotic passion while reserving their vitriol for those who sought to take away our freedom with stamps and taxes and placing British spies in our midst, has got to be replaced."
"[Begich] has not done what he has promised to do for the people of Alaska and that was to represent what it is that the nation needs in terms of energy development and so many other issues like freedom reclaiming and preservation of our hard-earned tax money spent on development issues that are near and dear to an Alaskan's heart," Palin said. "Because he's on the wrong side of the aisle. Which is a real shame. That's a waste of opportunity for our nation because getting on the right side of the aisle means being true to this nation's exceptional standing without kowtowing to the demands of Putin and entitlement groups that have gotten away with too much and with wrong-side-of-the-aislers - those who exist on the dark side with those entitlement groups and what have you - have been catering to in ways that affect all Americans living in this great country."
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Anticipation Springs Eternal: Sarah Palin Weighs Alaskan Senatorial Bid
Original post made by Where Has My Country Gone?, Another Pleasanton neighborhood, on Jul 10, 2013
Like this commentPosted by Cholo
a resident of Livermore
on Jul 10, 2013 at 5:39 pm
Like this commentPosted by ah geez
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Jul 10, 2013 at 10:34 pm
You can tell by the lack of comments that Palin is not well thought of.
Geez, she has a big need for attention. Sad.
Like this commentPosted by Joanna
a resident of Downtown
on Jul 15, 2013 at 2:41 pm
"...the freedom-taker-awayers"?! Really?
Like this commentPosted by Cholo
a resident of Livermore
on Jul 17, 2013 at 6:29 pm
Sarah Palin is O V E R but that doesn't mean that she can't still see Russia from her back porch! tee hee...


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The Black & Red Feminist History archive is moving, taking its place as part of the Libertarian Labyrinth archive at lafrondeuse.org.
La Frondeuse
anarchist and socialist feminism — texts and translations
Thursday, January 1, 2015
Nelly Roussel, "What is 'Feminism'?" (1906)
Nelly Roussel
No French word is more often badly understood and falsely interpreted than the one that designates the ensemble of our demands.
And I do not fear to affirm that some men, and men women, are "feminists" without knowing it, all while rejecting the title.
Some—despite the evidence—persist in seeing in "feminism" only a masculinization of woman, a servile and grotesque copy of the male by his envious companion.
Others believe they have discovered there a disturbing tendency to invert the roles, to replace masculine domination with an equally unjust, equally abusive feminine domination, and to reduce the former "lords and masters" to slavery.
The first of these ideas is, on the part of men, somewhat vain. We do not have such a profound admiration for these gentlemen that we would want to resemble them in every respect. We prefer to be ourselves. We aspire to something other than the role of imitators.
The second attributes to us desires for revenge that are foreign to us, and that would be, moreover, very clumsy. Experience has taught us that there is no harmony possible between the master and the slave. As long as any part of humanity will claim to dominate the other, and believe that it has rights over it,…tyranny will be inevitable and revolt will be legitimate.
We no more approve of gynocracy (government by women)—which, if we must believe the scholars, has existed in very ancient times—than the fiercely masculinist society of today.
The "feminist"—let us repeat it without ceasing—proclaims the natural equivalence and demands the social equality of the two factors of the human race.
Some will objet that they are different. All the more reason to admit that they complement one another, and that no perfect work is possible without their close collaboration.
They will also say that woman is, by reason of her very nature, unsuited to certain functions. That matters little to us. We do no pretend to oblige all women to do such and such a thing. We only demand for them the freedom to choose, judging that every human being knows better than anyone what is suitable for them. We do not know the Woman, a vague abstraction. We see around us women, concrete creatures with very diverse skills, tastes, tendencies, and temperaments. And without being unaware of the differences between the sexes, we want to take account of the differences, no less great, between individuals.
Feminism is also a doctrine of justice. It aspires to balance between duties and rights, compensations and cares. It refuses to accept that a creature can be at once minor and major—minor with regard to rights, major with regard to failings—and that woman, as worker, housewife, or génératrice (sometimes the three at the same time), representing a social value at least equal to that of her companion, should be subordinated to him, and treated as an accessory, always by the laws and often by customs.
Feminism is, finally, a doctrine of harmony. It dreams of the human couple, united by heart and mind—and not only by the senses and especially by interest—composed of two unities equally conscious and free, and sustaining one another mutually; and side by side, hand in hand, always marching towards more love, more light, more beauty!...
L'Almanach Féministe, 1906.
[Working translation by Shawn P. Wilbur.]
Wednesday, December 31, 2014
Suzanne Voilquin, "Suicide of Claire Démar and Perret Desessarts" (1855)
of Claire Démar and Perret Desessarts.
My soul painfully gripped by the dismal drama that has just played out before our eyes, I can, today, only deplore the loss of these two victims of the social and religious anarchy of the century, and share the reflections that this sad event has engendered in me. But, above all, I must seek to destroy a calumny that all the newspapers have been pleased to repeat. All have made known, coldly citing the event, that intimate relations existed between Claire and Desessarts. For those who have sounded the depths of the human heart, this act remains unbelievable. If they had loved, if love, that creative fire, had animated their souls, they would have had faith in one another, and they would still be among us. For isn't love, taken in its most noble, most elevated, most extended expression, a belief? Isn't it a religion? Isn't it life? And it is, on the contrary, because they no longer lover, because the sweet and invigorating sentiments no longer circulated in their hearts, which were as if petrified by struggle and doubt, that they were discouraged by the cold and colorless existence, and would employ the rest of their energy to finalize the association of the tomb…. It was during the night August 4, in the year [185]5 that they would execute that deadly resolution; that double suicide displays a group of arrangements that proclaim an extraordinary sang-froid and vigorous strength. Perret Désessarts, age 25, had recently left Grenoble, the city of his birth. Already haunted by an obsession with suicide, he came to Paris around the beginning of that year; it was also at that time that he saw, for the first time, Claire Démar. That woman, still young, with an agreeable exterior and a strongly tempered soul, had the courage to accept poverty, and to cast far away a position that was comfortable, but suspect and without respect, glory to her! By that act, she had climbed back to the rank of woman, since that determination was free and spontaneous. It is then that she saw Désessarts. Both loved and sought glory; they understood each other. The analogy that existed between their characters made them friends. Since, in that capacity, they often met and associated their efforts of propagation. Some very interesting letters that they have written as a final farewell (which will probably be made public), only affirm that simple liaison. So let doubt not be raised before the assertion statement of the casket!
These unfortunate victims of skepticism needed, in order to accept life as it is, and not consider it a great foolishness without any solution, they need, I say, for poetry, for religion to come and revive their souls. They looked around them: everything, in these great ruins of Christendom, morals, cult, dogma, everything seemed to them lackluster, dead. This society of the nineteenth century, so cold, so selfish, only cast over their enthusiasm a frosting of mockery and disdain.
Their understanding darkened by doubt, they came then to demand of the new religion the guiding thread of life, the truth. But, wounded and fatigued by the struggle they had to maintain with the world, they could not look without fright at the numberless obstacles that selfishness, that profound evil that gnaws at the heart of all of society, brought to bear against their efforts. Despairing of easing so many sorrows, they fell into the most absolute despondency, doubted themselves and renounced their mission. It was thus that they would reproduce the drama of the young [Victor] Escousse and his friend; like them, they would demand of death the poetry of a beautiful departure; taking one another's hands, they would fall together, finding a sort of horrible delight in this fraternity of the tomb. The young man wrote to some of his friends, a few moments before his death: "I wish you, my friend, in order to die with calm and happiness, to find, as I have, a friend to accompany you to the place where doubt is no longer possible."
To die, failing to find your place in life!... What an energetic protest against that which exists. To die exhausted by the struggle! What despair is as great as the one that proves itself by death? Unfortunate Claire! Poor Desessarts! Would that you could be reborn in more harmonious times! When the great, beautiful religion that we proclaim, and that is now still only a faint point on the horizon, will have grown enough to shine in the eyes of all and serve as a flambeau to all of humanity, oh! then, the cold poison of skepticism will no longer freeze your young hearts from your childhood. You believe in God, for you feel the harmony, your place, which you have not been able to find now, will be for you; for then there will be a social and maternal providence that will ensure your individual development.
Journalists, people of the world, a woman and a man who, in the prime of life, die from lack of belief, are not pallid individualities of whom we may speak lightly; respect, then, these two caskets
As for us, who should not only limit ourselves to recording this fatal event, but who must see in it the indication of a great progress to be accomplished, this misfortune will bring us closer together; we will feel the need to mutually sustain each other, to join ourselves more and more by the link of a religious fraternity, and to make it so that the women who, in order to adopt more completely the new faith, break with the old world, are not led, by isolation and the lack of support they find among us, to despondency and death.
Believe it well: for that to happen it is not enough to call women to liberty, and to leave them then to struggle alone with this selfish world, which has money as its sole regulator and only God; this cold, immature world that laughs with pity at any enthusiasm, for apart from the religious sentiment that the new faith seeks to establish in minds, to what anchor of salvation could the women who sense the future attach themselves? Is it liberty, so poorly understood by all those who desire it? But we still only have the right to pronounce this magic word, which makes so many hearts resonate, in this French society, the most advanced of all societies, under the patronage of men and on their behalf; the most intelligent of the republicans still has yet to include woman in it, or to feel that justice, that right, that God is equally in our cause.
If, turning our gaze on ourselves, I ask myself: Is there in our belle France a woman capable, by her position, of lending support to all the others? Who can represent the unity of our rights? Can those most elevated in dignity, like that placed on the dernier echelon? What are they? Legally speaking, they are nothing; all are sheltered behind a name, a place, a social position that they received passively at the good pleasure of another. Alas! The French have one queen, but women have no mother!
With thoughts oppressed by ideas of the future, ideas as immense as the world, since they tend to encircle it, what are the means of propagation left to women in order to attempt to cultivate or bring closer that future? Whatever their moral strength, what can they do alone? Wear themselves out in useless attempts, and then…, think of Claire Démar...
Therefore, our hope of emancipation rests entirely on that family of men dispersed almost everywhere throughout the world, preaching our rights, our equality. But it is especially when the propagation of these ideas could be combining and made by group, by complete family, that they will gain force and activity; it is not advice that I hazard; I even believe that it would still be premature to try that attempt: the thought, the desire that has long dominated me, and that I naively express today, could also have troubled other hearts; it is good that we reflect on it….. But before that link can be formed, new believers, think about what duties your faith commits you to, all you who call yourself the apostles, the companions of woman; by the privileges attached to your sex, you are still in possession of the immense power to direct opinion; let the moral support that springs from it be lavished on all, and principally on those who have the courage to descend into the arena and take an active part in the action. Strong man, devoted as far as the sublime! Say to all those who hear you and who love you that the essential notion, the accomplishment of which has been confided to the religious men of our era, is the elevation of woman, it is her place, acknowledged, and finally her complete liberty and her rights assured to her by the whole world.
Oh! Doubtless it is useful and just that the devotion of men be brought to light, and I applaud with my whole heart every work that aims at this result; but before the world worships and recognizes in the divinity the attributes of a God that is both good and bonne, father and mother of the human family, and does not reclassify itself according to that divine thought, it is still more just and more useful, that transitorily the action of man be regarded as secondary to that of woman. Thus, to contribute with enthusiasm to facilitate any work that would glorify man alone would be, in my opinion, to take the detail for the whole, to put the accessory in relief and the principal in shadow. So, courage! The most beautiful crown is for those who reach the goal!
August 11, 1855. Suzanne.
[Working translation by Shawn P. Wilbur.]
Sunday, April 27, 2014
Amilcare Cipriani, "A Woman" (1902)
Nature had been kind in bestowing her gifts on her; beauty, goodness, strength, will and energy, she possessed all these in the highest degree. She might have been happy, she chose instead to embrace and devote herself, to the "cause" which spreads fear amongst cowards and governments.
Life had just commenced to smile on her, when the Italian war of Independence broke out.
Three of her brothers took up arms to deliver their enslaved motherland.
She had already been asked in marriage, but refused. "I cannot think of marriage," said she, "while my brothers are risking their lives on the battlefield." And she valiantly remained at home to take care of her mother, her father, and her fourth brother who was blind.
She preferred celibacy to a rich marriage, poverty to luxury, solitude to the empty noise of society, sufferings to the joys which so often prove false in life.
She worked to help her parents, nor ever forgot her brother who was imprisoned and persecuted. She buried her old parents and became the "Antigone" to her blind brother, to whom she was as a mother all her life.
Her love for her brothers, the supervision of their correspondence, their trial, and the many incidents or their lives, became her only care; she embraced their principles with enthusiasm, and became a. Socialist after she had dispersed every vestige of belief in a religion she had learnt to abhor.
Monarchy could not strike at her directly: it took revenge on her remaining brother by throwing him into its prison cells.
She found herself thus alone between the prisons which enclosed her beloved brothers. Known as an Atheist, a Socialist, a revolutionist, government spies forced their way into her house on every occasion, searched everywhere, upset, smashed everything, in the hope of finding compromising papers—which she knew better than to keep.
To terrify and force her into submission, these ignoble searches were, throughout 40 years, carried out during night-time. Ill or Well, she was made to get up; they shook her bedding, knocked about her furniture, in order to search for correspondence from her persecuted brother.
All this only added fuel to her hatred against monarchy, the priests and the bourgeoisie, and increased her attachment to the social cane.
Her home, once filled with a numerous and happy family, had been depopulated by death and persecution. A lonely woman, she calmly withstood the implacable enmity of the monarchy's secret spies, who respect neither virtue nor honesty, nor sorrow, nor illness, nor death.
But this strong-hearted woman gave way to nothing, bent low before no one; neither the ferocious persecutions directed against and which reflected upon her, nor the misery, nor the solitude, nor even death itself, drew a complaint or a tear from her brave soul.
She did cry, however, but with joy; it was on the day when she embraced her brother after an absence of 30 years spent in battle, in prison, in exile. They had parted as children, they met when old.
In her youth—and even in her last days—her dream was to fight and die for the social cause side by side with her brothers.
But her brothers will not have the consolation of seeing her a standard-bearer in the great fight which is preparing everywhere!
On December 12th of this sad year now drawing to a close, she died.
She died smiling and tranquil, for her blind brother had been by her side day and night.
The Romagnol Socialists, who adored her, gave her a funeral worthy of her virtues, her strength, her courage, and her Socialist convictions, which she retained to her last breath.
Here name was Amelia Cipriani.
She was my sister.
Amilcare Cipriani
(Translated from La Petite Republique for Justice.)
Amilcare Cipriani, "A Woman," Freedom 16 no, 167 (April-May, 1902):13-14.
Monday, March 31, 2014
Pauline Roland, Have Women the Right to Labor? (1851)
A Letter from Pauline Roland
We extract from the Espérance a letter of a courageous and intelligent woman, a martyr of modern times, a heroine of Socialism, dead fighting for Progress and for Humanity.
Pauline Roland is no more—and yet she still fights among us, with the drops of her blood as with the pearls of her thought, she shakes the scourge at the heads of the reactionaries, revolution in the faces of the civilized?
Have Women the Right to Labor? [1]
A Simple Question
Addressed by a captive to the citizen Emile de Girardin,
editor of the Bien-Etre universel
Prison of Saint-Lazare, April 1851
I just read the first issues of your new publication, and I must confess, one article among those that it contained attracted my attention in a very particular manner. So permit me to chat with you about a subject that, no doubt, concerns as much as it does me.
If, in what you wrote on the subject of my sex, you were moved by serious moral considerations and the love of truth, deign to give some clarifications to a woman who finds herself in prison for having believed that labor is the right of every human being, and that women are human beings just like men, equal to them, and having roughly the same rights and the same duties.
Let us see, then, and respond in good faith: you have enough wit to admit when you are wrong. I cite your words:
"The first and supreme function of women is to bear strongly constituted, healthy and robust children, to feed and raise them.
"It is thus for men to labor,
"For the woman to administer her household.
"She must only do what she can without leaving the paternal roof when she is a child; the conjugal roof when she is a wife; the cradle of her children when she is mother."
That is, in all its simplicity, the law of the life of woman as you will decree it if tomorrow, which God forbid, citizen Emile de Girardin, should call you, like the Bérards or Armand Marrasts, to produce some Constitution for us: you would give us the right to idleness, which we do not want, by holding us under a perpetual tutelage, which we equally reject; for, as the popular song says:
Labor is liberty.
But let us continue.
Does woman have a soul? wondered the doctors of Mohammedanism, as, before them, had wondered a certain bishop of the Council of Macon, whose question, according to Gregory of Tours, was drowned in the general disapproval of his colleagues.
Has woman a life of her own, or is she only an appendix of the life of man? Is she a free, equal being, existing as a member of Humanity, independent of the functions that are assigned to her? As a human being, does she have the right, as much for herself as in the interest of the family of which she is a part, of the society of which she is a member, of acquiring all the physical, moral, and intellectual development of which she is susceptible? That, citizen, is the moral question that in three lines – tossed out a bit absent-mindedly, allow me to say – you have resolved in the negative. If the thing had occurred under some Council of Macon, they would not have let you pursue it, and I doubt that you would have been more fortunate if you had posed it at a conference of doctors the new faith, of which you proclaim yourself a follower.
Here, allow me to tell you a little anecdote, very truthful, the principal character of which is one of the most illustrious physiologists of our times, doctor Lallemand. One day, in Montpellier, that learned man having to examine an aspiring doctor, he asked him what the role of woman was in the life of Humanity. – "To charm our existence by making herself love, then to reproduce the species and nurse the children," the candidate responded immediately. – "And that is all?" – "Yes, Monsieur!" – "All! The whole role of woman?" – "Without any doubt." – "Young man, do you have a mother? – "Yes, Monsieur." – "How old is she? – "Fifty." – Well! You must drown her!'', responded the doctor, sharply. And, in truth, if your system prevailed, that would be true.
But let us take up the debate seriously again.
No doubt woman is a mother, and it is a holy law of nature that that long confides the child to her tenderness. No doubt it is desirable for society that the son she gave birth to developes a robust constitution—to which you would have added a solid soul, if universal well-being did not reside for you in life and government at the lowest price. No doubt she must, when possible, nourish the baby with her milk, and in any case watch over its crib. She also needs to educate it, together with the father and society. But, in good faith, is that the occupation of a lifetime? Many women do not have children. The average maternity may be three per household. By greatly extending the cares of food and primary education, the only cares, certainly, we deign to confide solely to the mother, we would have ten years from an active life which can be about sixty years. The rest will go to dressing up, knitting socks, playing the piano, cleaning pans, or playing a game of whist. Thank you for your generosity, citizen, but we prefer real work to this boring leisure, and we affirm that the household will only be better when it is no longer our only business.
Moreover, citizen, even though woman should accept the lot you want to make for her, is that by confining her to the gynaeceum, which never takes long to become the harem or the slaves' quarters, that you will make her the robust generatrix that you depict; the healthy nurse, the sensible educator that you want for your son? Some examples drawn from antiquity can illuminate the question.
The Athenian women lived at the back of the women's quarters, and one can not doubt, it seems to me, that the terrible corruption that Plato and Plutarch depict, just like Aristophanes, comes, among the most gifted people on earth, from the absence of women in all transactions of civil and political life. As feminine types, the City of Arts and leaves us Xantippe and Aspasia: the nagging housewife, the shameless courtesan.
On the contrary, the Spartan girls took part in the games of the gymasium indeed even the struggles by which adolescents of the austere city gave a prelude to the combats; and the ideal of the mother of the citizen, if not the citizen woman, still remains today the Spartiate.
Finally, let us see some features of the portrait of the virtuous woman, according to the famous book of Proverbs attributed to Solomon:
'"Who will find a valiant woman? Because her price surpasses many pearls. The heart of her husband is assured in her ... She knows to do good every day of his life, and never evil. She seeks wool and flax, and she does what she wants with her hands. She is like the merchants' ships, she brings her bread from afar... She considers a field and acquires it, she plants a vineyard with the fruit of her hands. She girds her loins with strength and strengthens her arms... She makes cloth and sells it; she makes belts that she to gives the merchant... She contemplates the progress of her house, and eateth not the bread of idleness."
I know, citizen, that you could tell me that you do see any harm in the woman as Solomon paints her, since she still seems a bit confined in the household; however, to be consistent, you must reject several of the verses that I quoted. I also would respond that I myself have too much faith in the holy law of progress to satisfy myself with an ideal conceived twenty-eight centuries ago, any more than the virtue of the Spartan woman.
The life of the modern woman must be superior to both, because the progress of Humanity profits the woman like the man. And if we have gained in value, we should have gained equally in right.
So I summarize, and to the four propositions advanced by you, and cited at the beginning of my letter, I respond:
Woman is a free being, equal to man, whose sister she is. Like him, she has to fulfill some duties towards himself, by preserving, out of reach, her individual dignity, by developing herself in virtue, by making her life, not from the labor, the love, and intelligence of another – be that other her father, her husband or her son –, but of her own labor, her own love, and her own intelligence. Like man, she has to fulfill some duties to her family, which are the sweetest reward of the other labors, but cannot absorb her, even when the man, as happens to often, no longer fulfills towards the family other duties than that of provider of material bread. Finally the woman is a citizen, by right, if not in fact, and as such, she must be involved in the life outside, in the social life, which will only be normal when the entire family is represented there.
There, citizen, is my response to your first proposition.
As for the second and third, which, properly speaking, are only one, I would say: woman has the right to work like man, and to a productive, independent work, which frees her from all guardianship. She has a right to choose her own work, as much as the man, and no one can legitimately confine her to the home, if she feels herself called otherwise.
Finally as soon as the woman reaches the age of maturity, she is entitled to do with her life as she sees fit. The paternal roof should be a refuge for her, not a prison from which she can escape only to pass into another prison. The marital home is her home, her property, at the same time it is that of the man and within the same limits. She is no more forced to remain there than he is, if her conscience calls her elsewhere. Finally, her arms being the natural cradle of her children, she carries wherever seems good to her, and we can imagine nothing more beautiful, more respectable in the future, and that the woman adorned with all her duties, of her virtues, of her loves, taking part as a human being, in industrial and civil life.
All of this, citizen, was discussed twenty years ago in Saint-Simonianism; and it seemed to me that the cause of the emancipation of women was so well won that, when someone began to cut and thrust to gain the equality of the sexes, I used to laugh, saying that it didn't seem necessary to me to break down open doors. You and the citizen Proudhon have just shown me that unfortunately we still must fight again!
I appear weak, almost unarmed, before such illustrious champions, but I stand with faith, remembering the outcome of the struggle of David with Goliath. Those who fight for the truth have no need of armor.
Awaiting your response, whatever it may be, I pray you, citizen, accept my fraternal greetings.
Pauline Roland
[1] Also published as "Does Woman have a Right to Liberty?"
[Working translation by Shawn P. Wilbur]
Friday, February 7, 2014
André Léo in Pierre Leroux's "Revue Sociale"
It's certainly no surprise to find work by André Léo in Pierre Leroux's journal La Revue Sociale. The prolific writer, whose real name was Victoire Léodile Béra, was married to the editor, Grégoire Champseix. But much of her literary output was later, after Champseix's death, and despite all the very interesting material that I have pulled from La Revue Sociale, I'll admit that I have never been able to steal the time to give the journal all the attention I'm sure it deserves. So it was nice to find that members of L'Association André Léo have identified a number of contributions, under the pseudonyms Victor Léo and Léo, as also being the work of this woman with so very many names. I started my workday with a quick translation of the shortest of them:
This is the time when the wild rose and honeysuckle bushes extend fragrant garlands, when a thousand wonders frail blossom in the grass, under the foliage, in the hollows of rocks. This is the time when amidst the wheat the cornflower shines; when the wild thyme, with its soft color, lines the edges of the roads.
How sweet it is to tread the carpet meadows, when every step brings forth a perfume!
How sweet is the shade of the trees, from which we hear, stretched out on the moss, the song of the birds and the call of the cicada!
When nature lulls with a monotonous voice her voluptuous daytime sleep.
What fragrance does that breeze carry?... My spirit has leapt like the exile at the song of their homeland. – Let us go to the country; Let us worship God.
So said the young girl from the city; but they respond to her: "Custom shuts up your life." - And, crying, she went to sit before the cage of her favorite bird, which each day she fills with seed and fresh biscuit.
"You cry," Said the bird. "Your breast swells with indignation because they refuse you, O daughter of infinity, air and space. - And yet I, whose wings travel farther in an hour than your steps will take you in a week, you hold me in this narrow cage, far from the flowers and the sun."
— Thus, absorbed in ourselves, we do not find in our own misfortunes a feeling for those of others. Mutually, at every opportunity, we shatter our destinies; in our hands, space has become a prison. The body lacks air and the spirit love. We suffer without understanding; and each complains by striking.
Thursday, January 16, 2014
Jenny d'Héricourt, A letter from America (1868)
I've been working on the remaining untranslated portions of Jenny d'Héricourt's Woman Affranchised, which has included a number of pleasant surprises, including some borrowings from her adversary Proudhon that suggest she was a close and careful reader of much of his work. I also made another search through the online archives for material I hadn't seen and ran across this letter to La Solidarité: journal des principes, a journal published by Charles Fauvety, who was both a friend of Héricourt and an old collaborator of Proudhon's. Fauvety was also indirectly connected, through association with Alphonse-Louis Constant, aka Eliphas Lévi, with Flora Tristan, whose posthumous work, The Emancipation of Woman, or Testament of the Pariah, I should be able to present in English translation soon. (Here's a taste.) The letter hints at all sorts of contexts that I cannot supply at present, and which make the final section, on "reparation," hard to translate precisely. Did she believe that she had been a "tyrant"? There were certainly some who had accused her of "masculine" prejudices, though they were mostly men, who saw nothing much wrong with them than their unfitness for her sex. And we have Juliette Adam's account of her dismissive attitude toward the younger woman. (Proudhon's critics seem to have been pretty hard on each other.) I'll certainly be digging to see if there is more to this correspondence, but, for now, we can certainly say that we see flashes of Jenny d'Héricourt's larger-than-life personality throughout the letter. Along with the apparently penitent moments, there also moments of colossal pride, which recall Constant's characterization of Flora Tristan: "Flora Tristan is the splendid personification of the most complete and most implacable pride. Milton's Satan must be dead of bitterness since she came into the world." There are other connections between the two remarkable women, including a shared interest in the sort of secular religion which Fauvety was exploring. More about that as the relevant texts get translated...
Chicago, May 27, 1868.
Dear sir,
By way of our friend Faisandié, I have received the issue of la Solidarité where you recall to the public, and in particular to Mr. Montanier, la Femme affranchie and its author. I come to thank you for it. Before settling down to that subject, allow me to thank you for your article against materialist morality. Another article also gave me great pleasure, signed Pérès. Finally, we arrive then at the true foundation of ontology! From the beginning, the being is thus an appetite, force pursuing a finality; so the finality is the cause of all movement, of all determination in the being, from its first, atomic stage to its last, terrestrial stage, when it feels, knows itself, and wants—when it is a human being. Compliment Mr. Pérès for me, if you think that a compliment from me would be agreeable. It is a great satisfaction to always find myself in the same current of ideas and feeling as the one I followed in your midst; it even happens that I have drawn closer to you since our separation, for I have worked for a year on the preparation of a volume where the science of being and the solidarity of man with himself in the past and the future, his solidarity with all nature, are based on the positive sciences. My claims are irrefutably established by laws and facts; but a work, in order to make a durable impression, must, you know, foresee and resolve all the negations and objections of the adversaries; it is always my method of criticizing without mercy first before making assertions. Now, that preliminary work cannot be made in America: for that I need Paris, the readings by opponents, your conversations of thinkers and philosophers; all that is lacking here, and I do not have the time to read enough. This grips my heart so much, that it takes all my reason not to spend the end of July and August in Paris; but I hope that I will not give in to a temptation that would perhaps delay my definitive return by a year or two, the hope that in five years you will count one more champion in the ranks of the army of solidarity. In the meantime, if some articles would be agreeable to you, I am at your service; I will find a few hours to write them.
You end les Femmes médecins by saying that I have found in America the justice that I did not find in France. No, dear sir, women find only obstacles everywhere. Whatever their good will, whatever their aptitudes, they will always see ordinary men supplant them, either because the prejudice of intellectual inferiority is raised against them because of their sex, or because all men wanting women to remain subordinate, and using their unfitness as an excuse, do not want, for anything in the world, give any emphasis to a woman who is the incarnate refutation of what they want to convince themselves of. I have had to fight like ten men. If I was an average, clever man, I would probably have made my little fortune; but I am a woman, and if I had only had my individual value, without a nearly superhuman persistence and a courage, I would be dead of hunger. I make money, I am busy; but, I repeat, a woman of ordinary courage would not have been able to undergo the trial, and, thank the gods, I have sustained it and done so with dignity: the respect and esteem of a whole great city surrounds me today. I don't complain; these terrible four years of my life have tempered my character: I have less passion, but the firmness of steel. I am not embittered, I have just learned to know my species and my sex; and I said to myself that my present life being with connected my previous existence, I must submit to logic under its terrible form of reparation. If I had the odious prejudices of the males, if I had been a tyrant, I should condemn myself to return in order to atone and suffer: there would be no point in rebelling, but to bow my head and bless a trial that improves and sets things right. Moreover, apart from some difficulties inseparable from my sex, what have I to complain of? My health is vigorous, I am ten years younger and two years stronger than in France; I have lost none of my intellectual faculties and aptitudes; I have honorably earned more than my living, and I posses an honorable independence made by myself alone; my character is honored, and a complete confidence surrouns me: haven't I had a happier fate than thousands of other worthy beings?
I bid you adieu, shaking your hand fraternally.
Jenny P. d'Héricourt.
La Solidarité : journal des principes 2 no. 8 (July 1, 1868): 127.
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`Dogs Rally Spoiled by Roadrunners
April 10, 2013
By Theresa Kurtz
By Theresa Kurtz
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. - Fresno State softball rallied for two runs in the seventh inning after Michelle Solomon hit a two-run blast over the left field fence, but CSU Bakersfield ruined the rally with a walk-off single to win 5-4.
The Bulldogs(22-18, 3-3 MW) recorded nine hits in the midweek match up. Vonnie Martin, Kapri Angotti and Stesha Brazil recorded a multi-hit game against the Roadrunners with two hits each.
CSU Bakersfield took an early 1-0 lead after three hits in the first inning. The Roadrunners added another run in the third inning extending their to 2-0 over the `Dogs. The Bulldogs stopped the Runners momentum in the third inning with a double play. Fresno State has 16 double plays on the season.
In the fourth inning, Stesha Brazil hit a solo home run to center field to start the inning. A double from Martin, a single from Whitney Smith and a walk by Maria Sio loaded the bases for Angotti. She drove in the tying run with single as the `Dogs headed to the fifth inning tied 2-2.
The Roadrunners regained the lead with one run on two hits in the fifth inning. The lead lasted only half an inning before Solomon hit her fourth home run of the season giving the `Dogs a 4-3 advantage.
In the bottom of the seventh inning the Roadrunners tied the game with a RBI double and a single brought in the winning the run.
Freshman Jill Compton recorded five strikeouts in four innings of work.
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Dear Critical Lady,
The other night, we decided to spend some time as a family and get out of the house for dinner. Given my daughter's passion for noodles, we ended up going somewhere that serves noodle dishes....which is probably the same reason you were there.
Who doesn't love noodles?
As I gave my three year old Sweet Pea two choices of noodles, you somehow felt it necessary to say "Or something healthy". At first, you probably saw a look of surprise on my face as I was trying to figure out why the Diet Police was not in costume (eating there herself, mind you). That quickly spread to a look of anger as I tried to conjure some fists to come springing out of my eyes and punch you in your throat or to Jedi mind trick you into punching yourself in the face and saving me some energy.
However, sadly, neither worked.
So you followed up with "Just putting it out there".
In my quest to teach my children to be decent human beings (something your parents obviously skipped with you), I chose to NOT knock you off your seat. I chose to let you go on eating your WHITE pasta with pesto and I decided you are a judgmental douchecanoe (seriously...how close did I get to actually describing you perfectly!?!).
I let you ruin my family time. I even let you make me cry when we left. That's a flaw in my character. Here's what you need to know about yours:
Sometimes, It does NOT take a village. Or if it does take a village, I equate that village to the team I would pick while playing Red Rover as a child. I would pick the strongest people who will hold my hand the tightest and form a united line against the "other side".
You are the "other side".
You see nowhere in my daily decisions of what is best for MY children, do I consider you important, or even consider you at all. You decided to inject yourself into my parenting, like a poison. Your words, dripping with judgment, were neither helpful or warranted.
If you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all.
I don't feel the need to explain to you exactly how balanced I make sure my children's meals are. That's MY business. What I feed MY children is MY business. The decisions I make for MY children are MY decisions to make because they are MY children. See the pattern here? Nowhere in that is YOU.
I don't pretend to be perfect. Fake it til you make it, right?. Sometimes, I go to bed patting myself on the back because "I GOT THIS"...other days, I am less than kind to myself. I go through those motions, without your judgement. Being a mom is hard enough.... but that is where MY village comes in. My children are surrounded by so much love with family and friends that you really shouldn't ever feel the need to HAVE to say something to me.
No really, you shouldn't.
If I fail, and I am going to MANY MANY times, there is such a net of support.
SUPPORT: noun To keep from weakening or failing; strengthen.
Don't you worry your gray little hairs about us.
AND DO NOT for one second assume that because I am not a single digit size, I feed my children like crap. I struggle with food. It's evident when you look at me. People who have issues with food wear their problems for everyone to see, and I guess you think because you see it, you can judge me and my parenting.
Before you judge me, make sure you are perfect.
Now excuse me, while I go prepare my child's lunch of potato chips, chocolate cake, fried oreos or whatever else it is that you assumed I feed her regularly.
the mom who no longer gives a damn what you think...
Sometimes It Doesn't Take A Village- An Open Letter
Dear Critical Lady,
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Here is "Petrified" about 90% done. I still need to work on details in the background trees and pop the color on the tiger but that shouldn't take long.
The elephant has moss growing on the parts of it that are turning into trees.
It's still all taped-up along the edges to keep them crisp, but here is a detail of the subtle clouds in the sky- I was relieved by how effortlessly they came out.
And here is a comic I started late the other night- it's going to be pretty surreal and twisted. Don't try to make any sense of it yet- it's all out of order and very rough for now.
And here are a few close-ups of the roughs for the comic.


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According to a report from Chris Botta of the Sports Business Journal, the NHL is considering Gillette Stadium for a future Stadium Series game between the Bruins and Canadiens.
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What a wonderful new beginning.
It was over a year ago and I felt that my life going nowhere. I was alone and the marriage I vowed to the end of this life was gone. It seemed everything I tried to do turned out wrong and ended in despair. As a Christian, I could not give up on life. I was desperately in need of help. It was then that I turned to my lord and asked for guidance and direction. A short time later, I awoke in the middle of the night when I sensed a voice in the form of thought waves in my brain.
Shortly thereafter, I found and decided to join Catholic Mingle. Not that I had much faith in internet dating, but I figured "why not". I read this one particular lady's profile. She stated it was her birthday that day and she stated her age. I was compelled for some reason to respond to her. Much to my surprise, she responded and thanked me for the birthday wishes. We corresponded for 3 months and decided to meet. We had talked about so many things.
I made the 2000 mile trip to meet her. We had decided to meet at a railroad station in Chicago. It was chilly that day when I walked into the station to meet this lady that I had grown to know so well. I recognized her by the pictures I had of her as she did me. It was as though I had known her for years and I was coming home from a business trip. We hugged, but walked out of the station before we kissed. Before that afternoon had ended, we were engaged and had a license to be married. The very next day, we drove to the court house in downtown Chicago and had to walk 2 blocks in the rain and were married within 20 minutes.
We had a wonderful Thanksgiving and Christmas together and then I returned to the West Coast to sell my home and make plans for us to be together.
We have had some mountains to climb.
Four months ago, we said goodbye thinking that in a couple of months we would be together. We did not plan on this economic disaster. I have finally sold my property and it looks like we will be in our new home shortly. We have placed our faith in the lord. We have had some unbelievable incidences in our time together which had to be inspired by god. For example, the 2 blocks we had to walk/run in the rain to get married? I didn't think of it at the time, but later I asked my wife if she had gotten wet from the rain and like me, she could not recall being wet when we got back to the car.
We are happily married and certainly want to thank you and the lord for a wonderful new beginning.


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The joy of love,
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Status: Finished
Genre: Romance
The joy of love,
love is the most wonderful feeling,in the world. love is a complete thought, love is food for the heart,
love is a kind of compatibility,to another,love is a physical and mental chemistry, and sometimes a mystery,
love is a very special touch of butterflies,deep within ur soul. Love can make u sing, love can make u do just about anything,
Love is a beautiful rose garden with the most perfect smell, and pure rich taste of sugary nectar,love is joy and the sweetest passion,known to man.
Love is when ur lips and eyes can speak without saying a word, love is like the chirping birds like in the garden of eden,love is comfort and ,
the surrendering of ur self to another, unconditionally, love is shameless, nameless, but endless posibilities,a desire of fire that burns within,
love in a million ways and one is the cure for loneliness,love in so many words is just what i needed its my weakness.
the joy of love is happiness like the rain from the heavens sometimes.
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I asked Akasa to send me its latest power supply for testing, so I was really surprised when this 650W power supply turned up, as upon initial inspection it seemed identical to a model reviewed in our last group test.
Upon closer inspection however, we see a subtle difference. This is an FH model rather than an FF, which also carries the "IQ†moniker. The difference isn't initially very obvious until you put the two units next to each other, where it sticks out at you – literally. Akasa has had the great idea of bolting an extra 80mm fan on to the outside of the PSU. As previously discovered, this was already a noisy and over-sized unit, so adding another 80mm seems like a bad idea. If Akasa had bothered to redesign it, they would have replaced the antiquated 80mm fan with a low RPM 120mm fan, which would cool just as well while bringing noise levels down. Instead they've taken the quick fix approach and stuck another fan on and a new sticker. The end result? Increased size, more noise.
The PSU is touted as SLI and dual CPU ready, which seems perfect for any high-end workstation or gaming machine. The power supply is a quad rail design, with 13,18,16 and eight amperes on each rail respectively. The second rail is the largest and quite rightly so as this is used to power the PCI-E connectors and the four pin connector for the CPU. I would have sooner seen the PCI-E connectors on 12V3 instead, as 18A is not a lot to power two graphics cards and part of a CPU.
The cables are nicely braided and nine molex connectors are useful, especially as they provide two molex to three pin fan adapters. The four S-ATA connectors run off their own rail, so adding more hard drives should be a painless affair.
During testing all the voltages were within specification and stayed pretty consistent across each load. Efficiency was a little on the low side at just under 80 per cent, but at least it stuck to what it says on the box. When pushing 12V2, it failed at anything over 18A. The nature of analogue signals is that there should be a certain amount of tolerance to take fluctuation in to account. I think Akasa have made the cut-off a bit too fine. I imagine if you were running a fairly loaded system that occasional trip-outs might be noticed. This could be irritating, or you could lose hours of work.
At £83.97 this is a fairly reasonable asking price for a 650W power supply that delivers the goods. However, it is very noisy and I'd certainly struggle to use it day to day. The almost digital-like cut-off above 18A was nice and safe, but I think it could cause problems on a powerful system. The noise and the overloaded second rail prevents this from earning an award.


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Re: st: Question on interpreting interactions in linear regression models
Maarten buis <email@example.com>
Re: st: Question on interpreting interactions in linear regression models
Tue, 15 Dec 2009 08:03:20 -0800 (PST)
--- On Tue, 15/12/09, Padmakumar Sivadasan wrote:
> I was reading a paper in which the authors are interested
> in studying whether the effect of a continuous variable
> (X) on a continuous outcome variable (Y) varies between
> two periods (P=0 and P=1). They test this using interactions
> with the following linear regression model Y=b1+b2X+b3P+b4XP
> They find that b2 is significantly different from zero,
> while b4 and (b2+b4) are not significantly different from
> zero. The authors conclude that X has an influence on Y in
> the first period (i.e. when P=0) because b2 is significant.
> Further, they state that the influence of X in the second
> period (i.e. when P=1) is given by (b2+b4) and this is not
> significantly different from zero, implying that X has no
> influence on Y in the second period. Thus, the effect of X
> on Y varies between the two periods.
If the authors want to say something about the change, then he
should look at the interaction effect alone. The fact that a
effect is significant in one period and insignificant in another
is in itself no proof that a change has occured. See for example
this article from The American Statistician:
Hope this helps,
Maarten L. Buis
Institut fuer Soziologie
Universitaet Tuebingen
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Those are the K version's...OB's don't apply or can they but aren't as good??
Not that I don't want to sell you speakers, but you can just use some series resistance on those BetsyKs to bring the effective Qts up to OB territory. I'd look at extremely small magnet wire for speaker wire, low ohm resistors, or even maybe L-pads wired as variable resistors. The BetsyK won't have quite as much Xmax as the Betsy, but that shouldn't stop you.
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Creating a Stone Step Pad Off Deck
Hey guys I am new to the forum and I am looking for some help on an upcoming project. The wife and I want to put a step down off our deck to the ground and have an idea and would like to know how to pursue it. We have a TON of flat rocks of all sorts, shapes, and sizes and she would like to make a pad out of these rocks with concrete/mortar filling in the cracks to make it look like they all match and fit together. The pad wont be much wider then the steps coming off the deck which are 36" wide I believe and maybe just as deep. We live in Maryland so freezing is an issue here. What should I do to complete this?
Thanks in advance for all your help!
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Also it's best to add your location to your profile instead of just mentioning it in your post.
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Sorry but this is the best picture I have right now to show you were it will go...
Bump for some help please....
I would proceed just as I would with flagstone patio, since that is essentially what you are creating. There are many many tutorials online. Base preparation is the most crucial step.
Excavate enough to build up a ~4-6" base of compacted gravel, 1" bedding sand course, and the thickness of your stones.
This isn't a difficult project, and it's a very manageable size to get done in a weekend. Digging everything out will be the most time consuming step.
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Yes right below that step for a pad.
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As one of the few women studying at Harvard Law School in the 1950s, Ruth Bader Ginsburg was asked to justify taking a place in the class that could be filled by a man. Despite her outstanding academic record, law firms refused to hire her, and a justice of the U.S. Supreme Court would not employ her as his clerk solely because of her sex.
Despite these obstacles, she became one of the nation's foremost legal scholars and a highly effective advocate for the equality of the sexes. She argued a series of historic cases before the Supreme Court, establishing the equal citizenship rights of men and women. Since 1993, she herself has sat on the nation's highest court, ruling on the issues of constitutional law that define the rights of all Americans.
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Posted: December 6, 2010
The guidance outlines recommendations for restoration and protection of riparian forest buffers that are useful in mitigating or controlling point and non-point source pollution to surface waters. The primary purpose of this guidance is to assist DEP staff in developing general buffer recommendations for regulatory, voluntary, and grant programs. It will also serve to assist any interested entities (municipal, regional, state, federal, and others) in understanding the functions and values of riparian forest buffers, the importance of sustaining and enhancing riparian forest buffers, and in developing appropriate science-based guidelines or policies.
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The controversial, critically-acclaimed, bestselling book that kickstarted the third wave of feminism is now available with a new introduction and a new look.
In 1990, Naomi Wolf published The Beauty Myth - a book that catapulted Wolf into the international spotlight and onto bestseller lists everywhere (88 straight weeks on The Globe and Mail bestseller list). The effects it had on feminist discourse can still be felt today (and in some ways are even more relevant), and the author's new introduction will help put all the controversy, debate, and media it inspired in context for the next millennium.
About the Author
Naomi Wolf graduated from Yale in 1984 and won a Rhodes Scholarship to study at Oxford University. The Beauty Myth was published in 14 countries (over 66,000 copies sold in paperback in Canada to date) and became an instant bestseller. Wolf has appeared on many talk shows and speaks to college audiences across North America.
"Being a woman. . .makes you hungry, weak, and sick," says Wolf, a British scholar, journalist and poet who argues that the contemporary myth (meaning false ideal) of beauty - youthful, slender, flawless - was invented by a male power structure in order to prevent women from fulfilling the feminist ideals of the 70's. According to Wolf, a whole generation of women (by which she means white, educated, professional, childless, probably single), crippled by a male-generated myth of beauty that does not apply to them, are hungry (the woman who earns a $100,000 a year "has a bodily income of 1,000 calories a day"), sexually deprived, physically mutilated, and addicted to beauty rituals that leave them feeling anxious and unfulfilled. Along with masses of undifferentiated statistics (90% of women surveyed say they weigh too much), imaginative displacements (men having sexually enhancing cosmetic surgery), and perceptive analyses of cosmetic advertising (creams, shampoos, conditioners with sexual attributes substituting for failed relationships with men), Wolf, an immensely talented and resourceful writer, offers some controversial, certainly memorable analyses of contemporary female behavior: a college campus, for example, resembles "the Holocaust" - "a vast number of emaciated bodies starved not by nature but by men." This repeated shifting of responsibility to men for what women look like, or eat, or how they feel, Wolf says, is itself a denial of the autonomy that women as human beings should have, and that, as feminists, they seek to define only in an economic and political sphere. In spite of the anger, the generalization, the hortatory tone, the shifting from the implicative "you" to "we," this book should be read by men who are bewildered by women and by women who are too busy raising children, or earning a living, or creating a life to deal with this finally tangential and avoidable non-issue. Powerful, angry, and maybe influential. (Kirkus Reviews)
Audience: General
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 352
Published: 2nd November 1993
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Country of Publication: GB
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