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This week, UKIP leader Nigel Farage admitted visiting a lap-dancing club; according to the Guardian, he told journalists "I thought bloody hell, this is really good". Mumsnet blogger and author Rosie Fiore, who blogs over at Wordmonkey, is under-impressed.
"So this image popped up on Facebook yesterday, complete with a plethora of LOLs and likes. It seems loads of women think stripping would be a fun lifestyle choice, if only their boobies were perky enough.
And then a few hours later, I read that Nigel Farage, UKIP leader, ex-City metals trader and the UK's 'least unpopular political leader' (!?) has come under fire for admitting that he has visited lap-dancing clubs in the past and enjoyed it. He says it"s because he's honest and, unlike other political leaders, is not living in a 'PC world'. He insists that this admission is not evidence that he is anti-women.
When the accusation was put to him, he apparently laughed it off. 'That's really rather silly,' he said. 'I have to tell you, if I'd been anti-women, then the whole of my adult life would have been just that much simpler.' Don't know how to tell you, Nige, but gay and anti-women - not the same.
So both things got me thinking about strip clubs and lap-dancing clubs, possibly one of the oddest cultural phenomena I can think of. After all, the notion that a group of people of one gender goes to sit in a room, while members of the other gender take off their clothes to display their secondary sex characteristics - well, it's a bit damned odd, is it not? Here's what Camille Paglia, the redoubtable post-feminist theorist had to say about it.
'That's what the strip clubs are about; not woman as victim, not woman as slave, but woman as goddess.'
While I've always been fascinated by Ms Paglia and think a lot of what she has to say is ground-breaking, this one has never rung true for me. This is why. In 1991, when I was fresh out of university, I worked in a strip club in my home town of Johannesburg, South Africa.
I had graduated with a drama degree and every expectation of a glittering career on the stage and screen, but six months later I was working in a restaurant, and the stage and screen seemed to be getting along just fine without me. I rang my agent and expressed my frustration, and, probably just to get me off the line, he made a suggestion which changed my life forever. 'Write a play about out-of-work actresses working as strippers,' he said. The idea caught flame, and I decided to do just that. But in order to write, I needed to experience, so aged 21, I took a job as a food and beverage manager in one of Johannesburg's most notorious strip clubs.
In the few weeks that I worked here, these are some of the examples of 'goddess worship' I experienced in that fine emporium.
- Girls as young as 17 stripping completely naked (then illegal in South Africa, still allegedly illegal in the UK)
- Women stepping offstage and being paid their fee in cash, then instantly spending the same money in the club on food, alcohol and drugs
- Women working the lunchtime shift and then leaving to work as prostitutes in nearby hotels
- The manager threatening both strippers and patrons with a gun on more than one occasion
- A girl who worked in the club fell pregnant by the owner's son. He procured her an (illegal) abortion, and then insisted she go straight back to work. I saw her pack her vagina with tampons and cotton wool, swallow painkillers, then go on and dance. In between dances, she would curl up on the sofa and read comic books and giggle. She was eighteen years old.
So, not so much with the Goddess worship. While clubs vehemently deny that they encourage prostitution, a report commissioned by London Metropolitan University found that alcohol, drug addiction and pressure from punters mean that women often need to offer sexual favours to make the work pay.
It's not as lucrative as you might think, either - and there is zero job security. Generally, the girls pay a fee to the clubs in order to work, and only get paid if they are hired to dance. If there are too many girls (as there frequently are), they may earn nothing - but must still pay to be there. A study by the University of Leeds found that 70% of women had left a shift without any money because of the fees and fines they had had to pay the club.
So call me judgmental, but it seems to me that the very notion of the strip club or lap-dance club as it currently exists is anti-women, and that men that visit them and perpetuate the set-up are condoning it.
And even if you leave the whole sex industry thing aside, where does Mrs Farage come into the whole equation? There is a Mrs Farage by the way - a second wife, Kirsten, mother of Farage's two young daughters. Her views on the issue are not recorded, but I know I'd be less than thrilled if my husband's night out included a little light crotch-grinding with a woman he'd paid for. On the continuum of infidelity, that's pretty damned close to the danger zone.
So let's go back to Farage's assertion that he is not 'anti-women'. The accusation that he was sexist was levelled by ex-UKIP MEP Marta Andreasen, who left the party two months ago, citing Farage's gender discrimination and bullying. She has since joined the Conservatives. Her stance is particularly notable because she was the only female MEP UKIP had, since Nikki Sinclaire was expelled from the party in 2010. Even David 'Calm Down Dear' Cameron can boast a few women in his cabinet. UKIP now has precisely zero.
It seems to me, Mr Farage, that you're okay with the exploitation of women, you're happy to visit a 'sex encounter establishment' even when you're married, and your party can't field a single candidate who represents 52% of the population. And in my view, if a man's idea of a fun night out is paying £20 to stare at the vulva of a young woman who has no job security, no employment rights and the constant threat of sexual harassment, he's certainly not pro-women. Just saying."
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Sausage I would have assumed that if Brooke Magnanti was so keen on getting to the bottom of the numbers she would have reported male and female numbers separately and she would have identified stranger and non-stranger rapes. She also does a false comparison with Lambeth borough figures on the basis that there are no clubs in Lambeth. However, as far as I know, one does not need to be a resident of Camden to be allowed entry to a strip club and Tottenham Court Road (part of Camden) is the same distance from Hampstead (part of Camden) as it is from Lambeth. The distinction between the Boroughs is flawed.
Magnanti's report is so flawed and her agenda so palpable, that I'd need to hear a response from the authors of Lilith before accepting it is a zombie. If the numbers in Lilith are correct or incorrect but still meaningful, that supports a ban on strip clubs but that report is far from the only reason for a ban and therefore even if they are wrong, that is not the end of the story. There are other reasons to ban strip clubs as already pointed out in the thread.
Flora I would love for the report writers to answer the questions as well. Strangely when asked there has never been a reply. So guess it will never happen. And yes the distinction of boroughs is flawed would like to ask the authors about that as well as it was a key argument in writing the report.
So we can take the issue about rape out of the equation as Lilith holds no value as you have pointed out. So we then get to the other issues.
Objectification as it is called or sexual desire as the average person would view it is fairly natural and occurs with or without clothes and will remain so as long as human beings choose mates for reproduction. Our whole lives we are viewed as objects... titles like employee, wife, mother these are all labels that take away from our individuality (and for the men yes the labels can apply to both sexes). Throughout life we will be objects it is part of how the world is. Sexual object just relates to the desire to reproduce.
Dancers are trafficked. Well no strip club was raided during Pentameter or Pentameter II so guessing that statement is inaccurate.
The dancers do it as they can't do anything else. Actually 87% of dancers have some form of higher education and around one third of dancers are funding their way through university rather than end up with crippling debts.
The dancers are exploited. In the same way that anyone earning a living is exploited, unfortunately to earn money people work and most jobs cause exploitation of some sort. The dancers now have the option though of joining either Equity or the GMB so at least there is representation. Plus the councils issue guidelines that clubs need to follow to look after the dancers.
The strippers are prostitutes grinding on men's laps. This fallacy is one that occurs because of the word lapdance, in the past it was true but now the guidelines say that dancers can't touch the customer and obviously the customer can't touch the dancer so quite how something sexual happens with no contact I am not sure.
Thank you TonyN for the information from the blog I have borrowed a lot of your arguments. And at this point I will stop with one last question to everyone who is commenting about wanting to close the clubs
Why do you believe you have the right to decide for 10,000 women their choice is wrong and yours is right.
No we can't take the rape / sexual assault issue out. Just because the Lilith report may be flawed or even if it is flawed does not mean the problem does not exist.
I would dispute most of your other "evidence" on the points but getting to your last point, all legislation is a removal of choice to some extent. This is very nature of a society governed by the rule of law. There are a number of theories around why we legislate including prevention of harm (either to individuals, particular groups or to general society) and to create the type of society that we want to live in. All of these decisions affect or remove choice from some or all of us, including in the way we work.
Some of these laws recognise that consent or choice is not straightforward and can be flawed by other pressures. For example, we recognise that poverty and an imbalance of power in an employment situation are more important than the "rights" of individuals to choose to work for less than the minimum wage or to work without minimum safety requirements or for a pregnant woman to work up to her due date. You and I cannot agree that I will remove your kidney because I am not a surgeon but even if I was the most skilled surgeon in America, I could not remove your kidney in the UK.
In other situations, we don't allow people to make choices we think might be harmful to them, such as wearing seatbelts or taking illegal drugs or harmful to society in general, such as drink driving.
We also create a society we want to live in e.g. broadcasting and advertising standards, fair trading standards, competition laws.
Advertising laws already recognise that sexual and objectified images of women demean women in general:
Some of these laws affect some people disproportionately. For example, a large man with a tolerance for alcohol might be a safe driver even with a few drinks over the limit whereas someone like me would not be a safe driver even a little below the limit. So laws can have disproportionate effects on some people.
There are lots of reasons why some people oppose stripping - some believe that the women themselves are harmed or a significant number of them are harmed though perhaps not all, some believe women in general are harmed, some believe society is better without it. In any event, we live in a democracy and we are entitled to make decisions that affect other people's (and our own) choices where we believe this is the right thing to do.
That's a very thoughful post, FloraFox.
My minor contribution is to try to answer the question about 'who gets to decide' another way.
Perhaps, just perhaps, I campaigned hard and got democratically elected as a local politician and was then voted on my city's Licensing Committee and am thus able to vote on SEV policy and applications.
Perhaps I read threads like this and see the SEV apologists twist and turn and I wonder how the industry really works and is constructed and who is making the real money.
I have looked at the stats for two unitary authorities including my own with regard to SEV policies and the numbers of women sitting on Licensing Committees and the voting patterns; and it does seem that women who have the power to vote do not want to vote for SEVs as much as the men with the power to vote want to vote for them.
err objectification is not sexual desire.
how could anyone think that objectification and sexual desire are the same thing unless they have a very warped sexuality which is indeed synonymous with objectifying the opposite sex and then projects that peculiarity onto the rest of us.
What Flora says! Bear in mind that TonyN and the other contributors to that blog have an agenda of their own (and they really hate posters on MN who disagree with them!) When they claim it is all about the dancers and how they are protecting their choice, they are not simply doing that. They are protecting what they see as their 'right' to commodify a woman's body and [a narrow, male-defined version of] sexuality (basically, to see tits'n'arse when they fancy it). To ignore the wider effects on society by reducing it to the dancers' choice alone is to grossly simply the issue.
Also they frame it as if having laptops is a default and not having them is some kind of militant censorship, talking about taking away women's choices, when what they mean is that we'd take away men's choices to go to places where their desire to objectify women is validated.
What about the fact that by having these places, our choice to live in a society where we are considered full human beings, is taken away? Why do they feel so strongly, that we need clubs where women are objectified, that somehow freedom would be taken away if we stood up and said "actually, women are human beings, not masturbatory aids and we're going to take away one of the places which encourage men to forget that"?
The cleverest thing oppressors do, is to re-frame their oppression as the choice of the oppressed. Remember that editorial in the Times in c19 about how every man has the right to starve in the street if he wants to? They weren't keen on any other right for homeless men, but the right to starve in the street - ooh yes, they were very keen on that one. Pah.
Flora So there is no proof of rape/sexual assault being linked to striptease without the Lilith report so it becomes a point of view and if you look at say Newquay where rape halved after the introduction of a club I certainly can't see any correlation. So okay point of view with nothing to validate it.
As you point out legislation can limit choice, however striptease is not illegal in this Country so the choice is valid legally. If the law changes then fine but till then a valid legal choice.
So your point of view is stripping will be negative on women, that is your point of view and while I don't agree I can respect it. However I would suggest you take time to talk to a dancer or two to find out what they think.
Still I doubt that people will talk to dancers, they will judge from the comfort of their own chairs.
Best view on Objectification I have seen is GirlWritesWhat on youtube. She can exlain it better than I can.
At this point we are going to talk in circles so going to bail out as we are now just locked on points of view. So long as Lilith isn't pointed at as a valid argument I am happy just letting everyone have their points of view as I have made mine.
Sausage I have friends who were strippers and prostitutes, one of whom stayed with me for a while at the time she was dancing. I realise you may want to think of yourself as edgy and open-minded because you have a friend who is a stripper but don't assume those of us who are against it are sitting at home clutching our pearls.
I suggest you check back with your friend after she stops dancing and ask her what she thinks looking back on it. Ask her how empowered she felt when a guy told her her arse was too fat for him or her tits were too small. Ask her how much money she had to pay the club for the privilege of being allowed to work and how often she went home with fuck all to show for her efforts. Ask her if she had to pay tax and NI on her earnings would she still have done it. That is, if she can even bear to talk about it.
Flora I will. Considering though there are 10,000 women estimated dancing at the moment as you said one or or two opinions would not even be a statistical bump either way. Although considering striptease has been going since 1958 I would have thought any issue with dancers would have shown by now if there was something major.
What I do want to do is kill the other Zombie stat that pops up about Bristol. There is a report that was produced by Bristol Fawcett that showed a high number of sexual crimes occurred in the vicinity of of 3 strip clubs. What the people who got the report neglected to do was point out that the clubs were in the same area as all the major night clubs in what the council and police call a crime impact zone. In the 2011 review of licenses whilst the location was acknowledged NO BLAME was assigned to the strip clubs.
Think the issues with assigning blame to clubs when they are located in the same area as nightclubs, bars and restaurants is difficult unless there is some sort of bench mark. Got a good example of this with the clubs in Stockport. One is deep in the heart of the night time economy and another is less than a mile away. Not surprisingly the one in the night club area is surrounded by violent crime (rape and sexual crimes are listed as violent when using the police.uk website). However the other one has practically nothing based on the figures for 2011. These figures are based on the same research principles as the Bristol Fawcett figures.
Anyway I must stay away unless I see the Zombies rearing their heads and munching into peoples brains.
Have you actually read this one or is this another re-spout from a punter's blog?
Still, keep up the good work, eh?
Actually I read the council minutes which I was sent a link to.
Zombies are out there.
Having read through Lilith these past few days, I feel any report that has such 'shock factor' trigger words embedded deserves naught but the shredder.
'performances in which the breasts, genitalia and excretory organs are exposed'
How strip dances are described within the opening pages. Excretory organs... really?
I believe the writer got a bit carried away in trying to stir up outrage.
What is more of shame is that she used the name Lilith, arguably a fine example for feminists everywhere (if you miss out the baby snatching, which was probably only put in to demonise her).
Isn't the arse part of the excretory organs then?
Oops, sorry, it's the bit Nigel Farrage talks through, forgot.
<Boom, boom>
Sorry, I'll get me coat.
If you're lucky a gentleman will hold it for you.
Most 'excretory' organs are well hidden. Unless she's deliberately exposing them... whch I don't think is really part of most dances.... unless you pay more perhaps.
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A four-match home-stand kicks off with a midweek matchup against Iona on Wednesday, Oct. 24. Saint Peter's and Manhattan come to town the following weekend, Oct. 27-28. Siena wraps up the home-stand, and the Red Foxes' 2012 home slate with a match on Saturday, Nov. 3.
Marist closes out their regular season on the road with a trip to Loyola (Md.) and Rider on the weekend of Nov. 10-11.
The 2012 MAAC Tournament will be hosted by Fairfield. The semifinals will take place on Friday, Nov 16 with the championship match being played on Sunday, Nov. 18.
"I am excited to have 13 home matches this season, including the return of our Volley in the Valley tournament," Hanna said. "We have played well at home over the last few seasons and hope that we can make McCann a home court advantage for us this year.
"Our non-conference schedule will have us well prepared for the MAAC season. We will be facing teams that should be similar to the top teams in the conference, along with a few teams that are traditionally stronger than what we will see in MAAC play. I think we have a well-balanced schedule this season."
The Red Foxes are coming off of a 2011 season that saw them finish with a 13-15 overall record and 10-8 in the MAAC. They just missed the MAAC Tournament, tying for fourth in the conference. Canisius won the tie-breaker, by scoring the point differential matchup in the teams' two head-to-head meetings, and received the final playoff spot.
2012 Marist Volleyball Schedule
Aug. 24 Providence
Aug. 25 Hofstra
Aug. 25 Farleigh Dickinson
Sept. 1 NJIT
Sept. 1 HARTFORD
Sept. 2 FORDHAM
Sept. 5 ARMY
Sept. 7 Texas-Arlington
Sept. 8 Southern Mississippi
Sept. 8 Northwestern State
Sept. 15 CANISIUS*
Sept. 16 NIAGARA*
Sept. 22 Manhattan*
Sept. 23 Saint Peter's*
Sept. 26 FAIRFIELD*
Sept. 29 Siena*
Oct. 6 Iona*
Oct. 7 Fairfield*
Oct. 13 RIDER*
Oct. 14 LOYOLA*
Oct. 20 Niagara*
Oct. 21 Canisius*
Oct. 24 IONA*
Oct. 27 SAINT PETER'S*
Oct. 28 MANHATTAN*
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Nov. 10 Loyola*
Nov. 11 Rider*
Nov. 16 MAAC Championships (at Fairfield)
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Is he reading an Open Thesaurus? ;>
Haha! That's hilarious. Completely with you 100 percent. I just hope the commonfolk don't make this a popular website where all of the votes go to abhorrently drawn cute animals. Because unfortunately for us, the masses never have the same opinions that you do. Unless you like cute animals of course...
databit wrote:Sorry about the reject... That would be hard to label without text... Maybe you could put a symbol of some DNA splitting or an amoeba splitting or something. But I think the idea would still be difficult to convey.
You could just do a goofy sheep that a flock of sheep are backing away from or something.
I don't understand this rejection- "Text is permitted this week."
SarahPants5 wrote:Oh geez, I hate when the filters filter something I didn't mean...*face palm*
I don't need another baby blue shirt*
dude, some of these filters make no sense to me. the O. M. G. one is my favorite.. Oggling my goat? greatness. but the others i just dont get....
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My favorite. Captures the theme like no other. But I guess it has too much depth for the average childish woot-voter who seems to prefer cute little critters...
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I usually check the site but haven't bought anything yet. Hoping this wins though, as I do want it... it's just purely epic.
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ugh.... so sad! i loved this one. Please-- if you somehow print this on your own, let us Dimitri lovers know. I'd buy one.
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Before the derby rolls I just want to thank everyone for their support! Didn't want to jinx the entry this week so I thread-stalked.
R.I.P Scurvy and viva carnivorous bunnies!
I'm so sad this lost...
If it was posted somewhere else,
I would definitely buy it!
SavedChristian wrote:Actually, "homophobe" literally means someone who is fearful of homosexuality. "Phobe" is used to indicate a "phobia."
And yes, I always get defensive when any political debate begins a name-calling match. Why is that our standard political tool? You don't agree with me, so I will attack you personally. I just wish that we were a country (a world) where we could debate issues through discussion. Instead of attacking someone who disagrees with you, what would our country look like if you took time to explain where you stand, tried to persuade someone based on reason? Why would anyone want to change their opinion because someone threw a derogatory name in their direction?
From reading the comments, it looks you have started the 'attack posts', oops >.<
ablatman wrote:Actually, I find that the ones who attack vehicles (with keys, knives, and/or bricks) are generally liberals. Conservatives generally have what is called "respect for the property of others."
That isn't to say that there aren't oddballs in any group, just that you seem to have things backwards.
My liberal stickers have been keyed, but its pretty hard to pin vehicle attacks on a particular group. Not all conservatives have a so called "respect for the property of others" and not all liberals have the same.
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I must have this shirt
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I so wanted this shirt to win!!
Soleil22 wrote:ugh.... so sad! i loved this one. Please-- if you somehow print this on your own, let us Dimitri lovers know. I'd buy one.
Perhaps it will end up as an Editor's Choice (hint, hint!), but if not, please PLEASE let us know if this will be printed!
AdderXYU wrote:blogged for not only not sucking, but being actually good.
Wow, thanks Adder!
Awesome shirt, I'll be first suckering this one if it gets through.
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i haven't liked most of the woot shirts in a long while, but today's bunny one and this are right up there. this had better be tomorrow's (or sunday's) shirt because it's pretty cool.
copykatz09 wrote:awww! I love the little blue one!
catz07b wrote:dude, some of these filters make no sense to me. the O. M. G. one is my favorite.. Oggling my goat? greatness. but the others i just dont get....
You're thinking about them in the wrong way, then. Try thinking backwards. Sometimes the filter is merely a replacement for the acronym, but other times the filtered word is a comment on the ones Woot! replaces it with (Rollerball (2002) = sh~t), or a possible reply to the Woot!-phrase (Ever just think about breadsticks? = W.T.F.), or a Synonym-homonym of the word (lamé), an antonym (!diot), or a comment that makes fun of the type of person that would use the filtered word.
Woot!s creative use of word filters is one of the reasons I love this site.
SailorButterfly compiled an alphabetical listing of Woot! filters.
re: birds of a feather don't always flock together
What a neat design! I wish you had won the derby. Normally I think the Woot designs are just too elaborate or serious. But this has simplicity AND humor. Nice job!
I really want this t-shirt! And thanks for the desktop jpg. :-)
Re: Identical Individuality
Have you thought of posting this at threadless?
Or even at http://www.cafepress.com/ ?
Re: Marching is for the Birds
thanks everyone!
Sweet jezus, how evah did you meet mah bunneh? She is indeed the most carniverous beast going, this design is by all accounts, bang on! right down to the saturated paws....
oh my!
Love this one!
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Do you think you will try to sell this design somewhere else? I just love it.
Such a great shirt. Will you try to sell it anywhere else? I REALLY wish you would have won.
cwitt00 wrote:Such a great shirt. Will you try to sell it anywhere else? I REALLY wish you would have won.
will hope this makes it far in the 2nd chance derby or editors choice. but usually the ones i like don't make it there either.
I'm so sad you didn't pull off 3rd. Great design!
christermime wrote:hooray, more button-eyed expressionless animals.
How is that any different from the real animal... a Google image search of "hedgehog"
Re: The Original Blue Hedgehog
Exceptionally wonderful for hedgehog-lovers. Can be thought of without the game-connotation; awesome. I only wish I could get one; I think my hedgehog would have loved it too. :D
Really brilliant idea on the thumbnail!
Re: An Uncommon Marsupial
This is a great shirt. Excellent job!
re: the convenient tiny chair
I would soooo buy a couple of these!
kareokediva3 wrote:My first shirt woot entry! All feedback is appreciated.
Aww!! How cute!!! I love it!! I want one!
Re: Ripples
I didn't see this one until now since it got an HM.
It's well drawn, but i don't see the theme at all, even with the description. You mention ripples, but I see more arrows than anything.
TBH, it looks like something that you did previously on your own and created a description to make it fit the theme.
Please make this shirt available somewhere! I want this one!
jewelwing wrote:I had a couple people ask for a wallpaper of this design, so if anyone else wants it you can find it here
Thanks for the votes!
Great! Thanks!
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Humans have recognized the natural entity of galaxies for over ninety years. Dr. He initiated the concept of rational structure and applied it to the study of galaxy structure in 2001. The main reason is that galaxy arms trace their way on the galaxy disk plane elegantly so that the ratio of stellar density on the left side of the route to the one on the right is constant along the way. This is comparable to the elegant principle of natural selection. From now on, we call galaxy arms 'Darwin spirals' or 'Darwin curves' instead of calling them 'iso-ratio curves' or 'proportion curves'. If Dr. He's study is proved to be truth, then galaxy arms must be the disturbance to rational structure. The disturbance generates dust and gas which nurture human lives. This might be a clue to the important issue of life origin.
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It's about that time when we're all finishing up our annual spring cleaning and now, while sitting in your newly organized home, you might feel like something is missing. With the sunshine, blooming gardens, and green grass, I feel the need to make inside match the outside. I also feel the urge to craft, which is one of my favorite pastimes.
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Twig Candle Holder
This is probably the easiest of the three. You'll need a candle holder with flat sides (no curving), garden pruners, craft glue (E-6000 is always a good choice), and various twigs. A fun way to collect your twigs would be to pick them up on a hike. The whole process is just gluing the sticks to the candle holder. You can view the full tutorial here.
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This is such a great idea and picking out the fabric for it presents endless possibilities! Something floral would of course be great for spring, but you could choose anything you like. Other than the fabric, for this project you'll need a terracotta pot, mod podge, and a brush. The fabric wraps around the pot and the mod podge works as a glue and sealant. View the full tutorial here.
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One of the most striking elements to Universal's Creature From the Black Lagoon is its G rating. Granted, Universal was hardly gory in its monster masher business; the goons, vamps, wolfies and fishfaces were all the studio needed to evoke terror. Black and white especially made Dracula, Frankenstein, The Mummy, The Wolf Man and the Creature From the Black Lagoon all the creepier.
Can you imagine audiences back in the day and their reactions to this stuff? By the time 1954 came around, Universal had already enjoyed a legacy of menacing moviegoers to the point the original Frankenstein and its sequel The Bride of Frankenstein had staked reputations for unnerving people in their seats.
Today you can watch Creature From the Black Lagoon and compared to all of the bloodletting the horror genre flings at will, this film should be rated G. By modern standards, it's a timid but still rather effective popcorn film where a stubborn ichthyologist (Richard Carlson), his girlfriend Kay (the luscious Julie Adams) and their expedition seek out further evidence of a land and aquatic lifeform upon the discovery of amphibious skeletal remains in a cliffside. Their lagoon-crashed obsession invites the slippery shenanigans of our water-gurgling antagonist, referred to as "Gill-Man."
You pretty much know the film from there. Two actors portray "Gill-Man," Ben Chapman for the land sequences and famed underwater cinephotographer Ricou Browning for the underwater stalks and scrums. The creature's webby paw emerges off camera frequently while he swims in cat and mouse fashion waiting for playmates to wrestle with. Having attacked expedition crew on land and taking a shot at tormenting on a shipwide scale, "Gill-Man" kidnaps Kay and sets us up for a lot of harpoons to the torso, though not before squishing the project financier Mark Williams (Richard Denning) underwater.
The biggest criticism fronted to Creature From the Black Lagoon is an inferred lack of believability because of the "man in the rubber suit" aspect. Okay, if you're going to try that stunt today, you're going to get laughed and relegated to a 48-hour film festival with the hopes of scoring in the comedy bracket. In '54, however, this was fairly alarming stuff, though keep that G rating in mind. I was but 7 years old when I saw Creature for the first time, via a film projector in my elementary school. I remember vividly sitting between a fellow dude and dudette and we laughed as much as we sat in awe. Maybe not as distressing for the fifties folk, but undoubtedly "Gill-Man" left enough of an impact to warrant two sequels.
One facet to Creature From the Black Lagoon most forget is it was originally presented in 3-D. Now that three-dimensional films are en vogue once again in American pop culture, is there room (much less an existing print) of Creature in 3-D? I mean, come on, if they're going to plant "Gill-Man" on a Broadway stage for real-life consumption, let's get busy, Universal!
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Western Michigan Fans Crying Like Babies on Twitter After PJ Fleck Takes Much Better Job
PJ Fleck is off to Minnesota for a Power 5 job in the Big 10 and the same people he was supported by last week have turned on him this week.
PJ Fleck is off to Minnesota for a Power 5 job in the Big 10 and the same people he was supported by last week have turned on him this week.
Watch Gophers O-Lineman Quinn Oseland Make Epic Trick Shot With Expired Milk
There will be no criminal charges filed in an investigation of University of Minnesota wrestlers suspected of selling and using Xanax.
The Minnesota Gophers ended an 11 year bowl winning drought as they defeated Central Michigan 21-14 on Monday in the Quick Lane Bowl in Detroit.
The Sanford Pentagon once again hosted another great event for the city of Sioux Falls. The University of Minnesota and Oklahoma State University men's basketball teams faced off on Heritage Court.
South Dakota overcame Minnesota's game-tying tip-in at the end of regulation and a six-point deficit near the end of the first overtime to beat the Gophers 85-81 in double overtime Saturday in front of 10,754 at Williams Arena.
Here are some images and video from the Minnesota Gophers game against the Illinois Illini on Saturday at TCF Bank Stadium.
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I'm looking for some advice on selling the name privately. I want to unload it without drawing attention such that the 3-letter brand sends their lawyers after me once they know I'm selling.
I know there is an auction coming up at PubCon, and I'll be there, but I'm not sure that's right for this situation.
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But if it's a straight four letters, rather than nnn-m or n-mmm, then it is unlikely to be a problem as a domain name - it only would be as a site that plays on the similarity. So your 'sales pitch' could catch you out if you appear to encouraging such use.
If the domain's only 'value' is to someone who wants to misuse it, then your sale at an inflated price (compared to fhjbgfgnx.com, for example - a fictitious site, I hope), points the finger straight at you.
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- the rules controlling international trade heavily favour rich countries and multinational corporations. These rigged rules and double standards are stifling trade's potential to lift people out of poverty
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Marko is this website's Batman. He works as the General manager and the acting Editor-in-chief. From Helsinki, Finland, this marketing strategist loves games and they love him based on his trophy/achievement horde.
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Thomas is an avid blogger and writer. He is currently working on a second novel, having independently published his first. English Literature is what he studies and along with that he plays a massive amount of on a variety of platforms.
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As usual we get all this second hand. This is equal to reading a bible, all second hand info. What's so hard about coming up with the proof and then stepping back and letting us handle our own problems ? Where did all this "free will" talk come from anyway ? It's always used as a convenient excuse to a total fail. What ever happened to 'see a problem, fix a problem' ? I have enough faith in the evil hearts of men to know they don't need any assistance from some fantasy aliens. Good or bad, where's the harm in proving their existance, either way humanity will be forced to choose which fork in the road to take with or without assistance. Just knowing would open a whole world of advancement possibilities. More proof...less talk.
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i learned to ride a bike completely on my own when i was 7, not even my bike, in one night..seems irrelevant but sometimes when i'm reminded, i always think how i wouldn't want anyone to take that away.
you're right, a planet needs to learn how to get out there on its own, we were given the tools and although suppressed, its a head start we shouldn't of even had.
like the bike that taught me to ride, i didn't make it and it wasn't even mine.
i guess humans are lucky like that, but its up to us to do the right thing or have the courage to try to do things the right way with the things we are given..even a kid knows and has the courage to try to do the right thing or try to find out what the right thing is, the right thing here being a balance in which you don't fall.
problem is with the old generations and their old ways.
if we don't learn through massive death and bloodshed, we'll learn though the deaths of a few dozen geezers that are too bitter to care about the next decade..assuming immortal vampires aren't the ones in control.
in that case maybe we're screwed, and maybe thats the fate of earth...so many worlds out there in space, there has to be some for the sole purpose of a redundant greek tragedy.
maybe some souls spent an eternity in paradise on other worlds looking up to the souls taking up the flesh in places like earth, and this is their time to feel limitation.
seems its taboo to try to be yourself fundamentally, though it has been become more open..the media has been loosing its grip on the majority of minds.
maybe the purpose of being born here is to just witness how ridiculous everything can get when individual free will is manipulated.
maybe for some its to try to keep a positive anchor, by just existing..i know so many self destructive people that although they label me a conspiracy theorist, they still regularly request my presence.
maybe just a lesson in free will, to empower the will of an individual.
to some souls, this "modern" age must seem like a dark ages video game with swords and armor or a wild west flick.
who knows.
fact is everything in your life only spirals into chaos and eventually death..so thats what this world is for.
chaos and death, and whatever that can teach you.
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Thank you for posting that OP.
The anti-humanity, disempowerment messages coming from the channels have been eroding my abilities to stare vacantly at my computer screen. They almost motivated me to turn off the box and re-enter the real world!
Can you imagine?
Believing in something does not make it real, ...tard.
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Tips for avoiding asthma, allergy triggers this season
Holiday decorations, both old and new, can cause asthma attacks and allergic reactions, an expert says.
Joseph Leija, an allergist at Gottlieb Memorial Hospital in Maywood, Ill., warns that fresh Christmas trees, poinsettias and boxes that have been stored for months can stir up potential triggers like dust and mold.
"The dust from the boxes and on the decorations that have been packed away in dank basements or dusty attics is triggering reactions in my allergy and asthma patients," Leija said in a Loyola University Health System news release.
MORE: Christmas trappings can fan fire risk
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Leija offered the following tips to help people who suffer from asthma or allergies avoid flare-ups:
Choose an artificial tree. Fir and pine trees can worsen respiratory conditions, like asthma and allergies. These trees also contain dust, mites and other pollutants that can aggravate nasal passages. "The water in the tree holder also grows stagnant and collects mold, which is detrimental to those with allergies," Leija added.
Avoid scented candles and oil. These fragrances can irritate the sinuses and respiratory system making it harder for people with asthma and allergies to breathe.
Steer clear of fresh plants and flowers. "The moist soil encourages the growth of mold. And if there is mold in your house, you are breathing mold spores," Leija said. Breathing in mold spores restricts airflow and could cause a rash.
Be careful with the humidifier. "Get a gauge and keep the humidity no higher than 48 to 50 percent," Leija explained. "Too much humidity encourages the growth of mold, which triggers allergic reactions."
Store decorations in plastic bins. Large plastic containers help keep decorations dust-free during the offseason.
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Mixed Tape | Let's Get Physical
Did you know the average weight gain from Halloween through New Years is eight pounds? EIGHT POUNDS! Eight pounds on this bod would put me pretty close to the Mendoza Line. Google "Mendoza Line" and you'll understand my reference. It's not good people, not good. The other day I tweeted that I was tired of feeling sluggish and just plain gross on the inside followed by the hashtag #challenge25. My goal is to lose twenty-five pounds in the next six months. And it's gonna be a challenge because, well, I'm lazy.
But since I shared my weight loss goals with the Twitterverse – and now my fellow Tribers – it's time I make some changes. First, I'm tiptoeing into the world of clean eating. But we all know diet alone won't yield the results I'm looking for so I've also registered for the local "Turkey Trot" – a 5K race on Thanksgiving morning.
My "Couch to 5K" training begins immediately and I desperately need some jams to kick this booty into gear. So, I'll leave you with my personal list of heart-pumping-feet-pounding tunes. It's not the most sophisticated mix or even the coolest but I've found that this collection always motivates.
- Imma Be – Black Eyed Peas
- Good Vibrations – Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch
- In Da Club – 50 Cent
- The Pretender – Foo Fighters
- Make Some Noise – Beastie Boys
- The Choice is Yours – Black Sheep
- I'm A Slave for You – Britney Spears
- Groove Is In the Heart – Deee-Lite
- What Doesn't Kill You (Stronger) – Kelly Clarkson
- Lose Yourself – Eminem
- MoneyGrabber – Fitz and the Trantrums
- Promiscuous – Nelly Furtado featuring Timbaland
- Blue Orchid – The White Stripes
- Let's Get Back – No Doubt
- Raise Your Glass – Pink
- Give Me Everything – Pitbull featuring Ne-Yo
- Don't Cha – The Pussycat Dolls featuring Busta Rhymes
- Jackson – Waxapples
- Zero – Yeah Yeah Yeahs
- Hey Mr. D.J. – Zhane
Twenty songs, 1.2 hours. And now I'm headed out to dust off the treadmill. Who's up for joining me in #challege25? Too much? How about leave us with your top 5 best workout songs!
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Love this post! Inspired me to refresh my workout mix! Great photo at the top – think the guy in the white shorts is my fave! 🙂 Fantastic list of tunes! My top 5 would be:
1) I Gotta Feeling – Black Eyed Peas
2) Mr. Brightside – The Killers
3) Bonkers – Dizzzee Rascal
4) Sabotage – Beastie Boys
5) Beautiful Day – U2
Sabotage is a GOOD one!
Sabotage and Beautiful Day are both good ones. And I'm always a sucker for Black Eyed Peas.
BTW – Awesome you are doing the 5K!! Good for you!
Ah, we'll see. It will be more walk than run.
I'm so inspired. Love your picks! I realized I need super fast & angry songs to kick me in the tush and get my blood pumping. Some songs can better than caffeine!
Renegade of Funk – Rage Against the Machine
Rebel Yell – Billy Idol
The Rockafeller Skank – Fatboy Slim
Welcome to the Jungle – GNR
What You Waiting For? Gwen Stefani
Chop Suey! – System of the Down
Honey – Moby
Wish – NIN
State of Love & Trust – Pearl Jam
Breathe – The Prodigy
OMG, that Rage song is a good one. And I adore anything by Gwen Stefani (tick, tock, tick, tock).
We forgot! Foo Fighters/Deadmau5 remix.
I have a Gaga station on Pandora that i rock out to. I LOVE it. I should sign up for a 5K, but I'm too cheap to pay to go running 🙂 I need to eat better, trust me, after a weekend of drinking and hangover eating I need some HELP. The holidays are going to kill me. Let's DO IT!
Great songs! I added some of them to my workout mix, and have these to suggest:
1) LMFAO – Sexy and I Know It
2) Fort Minor – Remember The Name
3) Ice Cube – You Can Do It
4) Fabolous – You Be Killin Em
5) Christina Aguilera – Fighter
OK so I had to come back to this because I discovered another great workout song on my nano today I totally forgot about! "Are you gonna be my girl" by JET!! Love the song and great for motivation!! Had to share! 🙂


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Peter Lasagna's column appears in the June issue of Inside Lacrosse, available digitally and in print.
Navy's Jimmy Lewis accepts the Tewaaraton Legends Award at last week's ceremony in Washington, D.C. (Inside Lacrosse Photo: Casey Vock)
Few athletes dare to change their sport. From 1963 to 1966, Navy's innovative attackman Jimmy Lewis did exactly that. His feet, hands and brain operated in perfect synchronization at supersonic speed.
This majestic combination elevated Lewis to the rarest of air. The first three-time Turnbull Award winner claimed an equal number of national championships while averaging five points a game over his career in Annapolis. Lewis's permanent impact on his position and game make him a most deserving 2014 Tewaaraton Legends Award recipient. Lewis received the honor at last week's Tewaaraton ceremony at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C.
A basketball, baseball and sandlot football prodigy raised in Long Island's Uniondale, Jimmy and his older brother saw their initial lacrosse game through the fence at Hofstra. A captivated, 12-year-old Lewis fashioned his first stick from a broom handle, wire hanger and pillow case.
This Hall of Famer worked mythic magic with an unusually flat, high-bridged weapon. After taming a half-inch-deep, homemade cotton catcher, the store-bought version was a breeze.
Coach Willis "Bildy" Bilderback, architect of Navy's "Decade of Dominance," never saw Lewis play lacrosse. The recruit's dynamic point guard performance in the Nassau County hoops championship was enough.
Lewis's superb athletic gifts blended with his equally adept powers of split-second, situational analysis. He captured and influenced the entirety of each offensive and defensive chess piece around him, envisioning every next possibility two seconds ahead of anyone else.
Add a Top Gun pilot's devotion to fundamental preparation and a virtuoso Mt. Rushmore figure emerges.
"I played the game differently than other people were playing at the time," Lewis explains. "I always carried with my head up surveying the field."
The release point and balance differences of sticks crafted of wood, leather and catgut left few people of his era truly ambidextrous.
Lewis embodied the exception. "I knew I could always free my hands," Lewis states. "This allowed me to look past my man, see cutting lanes and manipulate off-ball defenders to gain an advantage," Lewis details with surgical precision. "The mental aspects were my biggest strengths, the most fun and interesting parts."
Navy teammate Dennis Wedekind answers, with a straight face, that he cannot recall "Lewy" ever scoring on him in practice. "Well," he yields with a laugh, "maybe once on extra man."
A three-time All-American and C.Markland Kelly, Jr. Award winner as the nation's outstanding goalie in 1963 and 1965, Wedekind watched Lewis routinely defy laws of physics and traditional constraint.
"Jimmy changed the game as much as the plastic pole vault transformed track and field," Wedekind says. "He took an ancient piece of equipment, carried it vertically and gave no hint when he would shoot or pass."
The master goalkeeper describes his low-key, modest friend as, "Consistently brilliant. Every practice, every game, Lewy was Lewy. There was nobody like him."
Wedekind and Lewis both credit the daily gladiatorial combat for the attackman's and the Blue and Gold's success. Says Lewis, "Each day I practiced against the best defensemen in the country." Indeed, from 1963-65, the Naval Academy produced Schmeisser Award winners Mike Coughlin, Jim Campbell and Pat Donnelly.
Most of these tenacious competitors also starred for Heisman Trophy winner and future Pro Football Hall of Fame inductee Roger Staubauch's superlative Navy football squads. "These were huge, fast, superior athletes," Lewis reminisces. "After a week fighting them, games were easy."
Dick Edell, one of the wisest sages of the sport, places his former peer's greatness in contemporary context.
"When I watch the game today, everyone puts their four best longsticks on the opponent's four best players," Big Man says astutely, "so what your two worst offensive players do vs. my two worst defensive players typically determines the outcome. Jimmy Lewis got his goals by beating the best defender on the other team, every game. He is as good a lacrosse player as has ever lived."
Echoing Edell's sentiments, a grown man recalls the idol of his 1960s Metro Baltimore lacrosse youth. "Everyone wanted to be Jimmy Lewis," remembers Jeff Wagner, a Brown University lacrosse great. "We would fight over his No. 22 in all sports and act out dramatic, game-clinching plays pretending to be Jimmy." Wagner and Baltimore buddies would travel to Navy-Marine Corps Stadium and the Mt Washington Wolfpack's nearby Norris Field to revel in and copy every Lewis masterpiece.
In his marvelous depiction of the 1965 Navy versus Johns Hopkins national title game, Sports Illustrated writer Robert Cantwell captures Lewis and his team's transcendent fire. With Wedekind and Donnelly protecting the rear, captain Brian Lantier in the midfield and Lewis at the front, Navy vaulted beyond the moment. "They were not merely beating Johns Hopkins," penned Cantwell. "They were beating the game of lacrosse."
Outstanding coaching and intimidating physicality flowed through these stellar Navy teams from 1960-70. At 5-9, 160 lbs., Jimmy Lewis's pioneering wizardry stood in front from 1963-66. His teams lost zero games over those years. He personified, to teammates and foes alike, the unshakable belief that each contest was won before it began.
After graduation, Lewis flew F-14 fighters in Vietnam. He tested jets for the Navy for 20 years. Never injured in college, Lewis's luminous playing career ended when he tore an ACL playing club ball in California in the 1970s.
One might expect a genuine hero to express regret at the relatively early exit from the game he influenced like few before or after him.
There is none.
In the matter-of-fact, friendly manner in which he narrates every chapter of his storybook life, this ultimate warrior invokes Beatles-connected images of true harmony to explain his sustaining core.
"One of the reasons we were so successful was that we were at peace with who we were and in love with the game and how we played," Lewis says.
Spoken as a true Tewaaraton Legend.
Peter Lasagna is the head coach at Bates College. The '94 DI Coach of the Year at Brown and '13 and '05 NESCAC Coach of the Year at Bates, he was recently inducted into the Greater Rochester Lacrosse Hall of Fame.