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Today, 1st of July, Pravind Jugnauth, will submit his resignation as the Minister of Technology, Communication & Innovation to the President of the Republic. He intends to wait for the verdict of the appeal trial he signed up for after he was judged guilty in intermediary court pertaining to the Medpoint Affair.
Pravind Jugnauth, in the company of his wife, during the press conference. Photo credits: l'Express.mu
Pravind Jugnauth provided justifications for his decision yesterday night at 21h00 during a press conference at his place at Vacoas. While his colleagues among the MSM wished otherwise, he decided to resign. Nando Bodha and Showkutally Soodhun from the MSM had also held a press briefing yesterday at 19h00. They had urged their leader not to resign. But, the latter had already met with the Prime Minister to inform of his resignation.
He announced that he would only join the cabinet again after the issue of the verdict of the Supreme Court. He affirmed that he had always been "guided by principles", and that his decision was motivated by his "respect towards the institutions, specially the judicial ones".
Just after the verdict of the intermediary court was announced yesterday, he had expressed his great disappointment. In the press conference of last night, he related that he was even more disappointed when he read the verdict in detail.
Furthermore, he stated that he would not assist the proceedings of the political bureau of the MSM scheduled for today. He explained that from then on, he would focus on his court appeal while carrying out his duties as the leader of the MSM.
He also seized the opportunity to extend his thanks to Xavier-Luc Duval and Ivan Collendavelloo for their solidarity.

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tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-05:287423 labingi labingi labingi 2017-07-21T05:02:23Z tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-05:287423:141588 Parenting: A Gender Moment 2017-07-21T05:02:05Z 2017-07-21T05:02:23Z public 5 I was just reading veleda_k's great post on gender in The Lego Movie and commenting on how I worry about how messages like this affect my kids, but it put me in mind of a more hopeful recent gender moment with my son.

I've been reading him The Lord of the Rings, and we came across some line (I don't remember exactly) like whoever has the Ring, it will corrupt "him":

Son: Who's "him"?

Me: Whoever gets the Ring, whoever possesses it.

Son: But it could be a woman.

Me: That's true, but this older English from a time when "he" meant any random person, including women.

(Son looks at me like both I and the world are insane.)

Me: One day I will show you the Blake's 7 episode where Avon uses "he" (actually "his") to refer to a group of one man and two women.

(Son looks even more dubious.)

(Mom's heart is profoundly encouraged.)

 comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-05:287423:141323 Reflections on Kagetora's Self-Analysis in Mirage 15.6 2017-07-08T16:43:39Z 2017-07-08T16:43:39Z public 0 I've been rereading Mirage 15, and there is much to love, but I'm going to zero in on Kagetora's thoughts about his own psyche, which capture so magnificently how the human mind works. (And with apologies, there will be some comparison to my own life by way of exemplifying the text's realism. Yes, God help me, my life is like Mirage of Blaze—sometimes.)

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 comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-05:287423:140729 Happy 4th of July, 2017 2017-07-05T00:12:51Z 2017-07-05T00:12:51Z public 0 Happy 4th of July in a year with little to recommend it for America. On such a 4th, here are some things I am grateful for about America:

* The US Constitution. It is clunky in some ways and arguably suffers from being so much the prototype of modern democracies and, thus, less polished than some systems that came later. It's the first concept album of Les Mis version of a modern democratic republic, but if we didn't have it, we would currently be living under a dictatorship--and we're not. So bless the Constitution.

* The American belief in freedom of speech, not only as enshrined in the First Amendment, but as a cultural assumption. Yes, it has been abridged at times. Yes, it is under assault now. And, yes, it is very often used to voice idiocy very loudly.

But I truly believe that Americans are so deeply culturally tied to expressing their own voices that true diversity of discourse would be hard to radically suppress. America will not soon be North Korea. That is, perhaps, my favorite American cultural characteristic, for all its downsides.

* The grassroots resistance. It's only just getting started, but it's getting started in a big way. The pendulum is swinging left, and the serious move to reclaim democracy from corporatocracy is beginning.

 comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-05:287423:139677 Blessings Be on Robert Burns 2017-05-15T03:12:12Z 2017-05-15T03:12:12Z public 0 Here was I feeling angry and self-righteous when Robbie Burns reminded me of this:

Then gently scan your brother man,
Still gentler sister woman;
Tho' they may gang a kennin wrang,
To step aside is human;
One point must still be greatly dark,--
The moving Why they do it;
And just as lamely can ye mark,
How far perhaps they rue it.

Who made the heart, 'tis He alone
Decidedly can try us;
He knows each chord, its various tone,
Each spring, its various bias:
Then at the balance, let's be mute,
We never can adjust it;
What's done we party may compute,
But not know what's resisted.

And I am rightly schooled. Thank you, Rab.

 comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-05:287423:138523 When I hate being American (most of the time actually...) 2017-04-06T17:10:18Z 2017-04-06T17:10:18Z public 5 Medicaid renewal hell has just opened for the year. I've just spent 2 hours doing my preliminary renewal application for myself and my kids, assembling about 10 pages of supporting financial documents, and starting a "paper trail" (detailing on what date I did exactly what in this application process) against the next several months of ensuing tug-of-war as the Oregon Health Plan repeatedly mails me to say my coverage has been cancelled because they never received the documents I sent them several times. (Bright spot: their forms are actually better this year and fewer documents are asked for, so maybe that won't happen for the third year running.)

This year I'm actually near the income cutoff for coverage (though maybe not once deductions are figured). (The cutoff for being poor enough to qualify is around $26,000 for a family of 3.) We'll see how they compute things. However, even if we keep our coverage this year, this will be a problem if I ever manage to have a career that pays a livable income. My employer has few health insurance slots and only for people who always work over half time--and I have yet to work a year there where I've been offered over half time for a whole year. The marketplace will be expensive. My partner currently has no insurance through his work (a contract position likely to end in 3 months), so he can't cover us on employer-based insurance. (He has ACA insurance now.) And this is the status quo: who knows what the Republicans might do.

Really, really tired of most Democrats not even mentioning Medicare for All. No wonder it's not part of that national conversation.

 comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-05:287423:136796 Linkspam of Proactive Things, Mostly for the Climate 2017-02-08T05:17:52Z 2017-02-17T21:58:59Z public 0 Crappy day. In addition to the Trump Administration's daily attempts to end the world as human civilization has known it, my best friend's brother-in-law unexpectedly died. I'm going to respond to all this by taking a leaf out of umadoshi's book and doing an inspiring linkspam (though short by her standards).

How to search for a socially responsible credit card. (Word to the wise: It ain't Credo/Working Assets. They sold out to Bank of America a long time ago.)

CarbonNeutralNow.org: the United Nations' program allowing individuals and businesses to purchase carbon offsets, supporting green projects in the developing world. Bloody awesome!

Carbon Offset Program in the Philippines. I attended a meeting featuring a speaker who had been on-site observing this reforestation program. It seems legit.

Green-e Energy: helping individuals and businesses buy into green energy. I never knew this existed till today and haven't fully vetted it, but I see no immediate complaints through the BBB or just posted online. My first impression is it's legit.

Top 25 Retail Electricity Providers in the US: not solely geared toward green energy, but this list does include the company's green energy options as well as regions served and other info.

Donate directly to the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe: now more than ever, they need it.

 comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-05:287423:114176 Happy Belated Downfall of Sauron Day 2014-03-27T22:02:31Z 2014-03-27T22:02:31Z public 0 It is a measure of my complete scatteredness that I completely missed Downfall of Sauron Day this year. I attribute that to three things:

1) It's usually closely associated in my mind with my spring trip home to California, which got cancelled this year for my adoption, then put back on at the last minute due to adoption delays, so I did get to Cali, but not for DS Day and in a last-minute rush.

2) The adoption: pretty much everything in my life since January has been measured in adoption timelines and bureaucratic delays. I've been on about 3-week watch to travel to Haiti for about 3 months now, and it does drive out most else.

3) Film scheduling: this has been taking up a lot of my brain power and has driven out other dates.

Anyway, I have nothing brilliant to say to DS Day this year. I really need to reread The Lord of the Rings. It's been way too long. And going into my second full year of intense reading frustration, it's probably a good time to go back and revisit a dependably good book.

 comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-05:287423:111668 A True Christian: Thanks from an Agnostic Niece 2013-09-24T23:58:10Z 2013-09-24T23:58:10Z public 4 Recently my uncle, Bill Sanford, passed away at eighty-two years old. Bill was a minister in the Methodist Church. He was also one of the most purely positive role models in my life. I am grateful to Bill in countless ways for his loving presence, but I want to focus on the impact he had as a Christian on me as a lifelong agnostic. What a beautiful example he is of living the loving teachings of Jesus.

To explain Bill's influence on me, it's necessary to talk a little bit about me. I have always been an agnostic. I learned agnosticism at my parents' knees as others learn Catholicism or Judaism. If I asked my parents if God existed, they would reply with "I don't know." This belief system was ingrained in me by the time I was five years old. In the years since, my sense of what agnosticism means has grown more complex, but I have never had the desire to be anything other than agnostic.

Being an Agnostic Kid in the United States

Compared to many countries, the United States, blessedly, has a high degree of religious freedom. But it is a nation culturally dominated by Christianity, and it is not always easy to be an agnostic child among a Christian majority. Here are a few of my childhood experiences:

In kindergarten, I had a Jehovah's Witness friend. While she and her family were always nice to me, I was not allowed to play with her outside of school: my mother explained to me that they thought I was a bad influence because I wasn't a Christian.

When I was five or six and playing with a friend at my house, I mentioned that I didn't believe in God. My friend burst into tears and started walking for home (three miles away). As I followed her down the road, she explained, sobbing, that she couldn't play with me because I worshipped Satan. Finally I told her I did believe in God, which cheered her up. I think this is the only time I have ever flat-out lied about it.

At eleven, my lifelong best friend, a Catholic, noted offhandedly that I was damned. There was no malice in the statement: it was just a fact. I wasn't a Christian, and only Christians are saved. (I should note that today's Catholic Church has a more nuanced view than this child's understanding.)

With such experiences, reinforced by cultural narratives like televangelists', it is perhaps not surprising that as a child I was afraid of churches and resistant to Christian teachings. My mother dragged me to church once or twice for my cultural literacy. I remember sitting in Sunday School, being forced to sing "Jesus Loves Me" with a feeling of dark detestation at the fact that I was supposed to believe Jesus loved me because "the Bible tells me so," as if we should believe everything we read!

But these negative impressions of Christianity were not my only childhood experience.
( My Uncle the Minister )

 comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-05:287423:108023 Sunset on the Sycamores 2013-06-17T04:15:13Z 2013-06-17T04:15:13Z public 0 Today I saw a stand of sycamore trees bathed in the yellow summer twilight like a painting my Maxfield Parrish. I'm on vacation in the California Central Valley with my father and back in the land of spreading trees.

It reminds me how from time to time I think about what I want my life to be like when I'm very old and in my final years. I always, always picture myself sitting in the sunlight. I'm always in California, in my wine country home. Of course, in my visions, the weather is always perfect, which California isn't. It's warm--warm enough to sit very still and still feel warm, but it's not too hot. It might be spring or summer or fall (or one of those crazy, global warming winter days--by the time I'm very old, maybe winter will be the only season when I can sit outside like that without frying). There are always oak trees and grass and quiet. And there's time at last to watch the light and birds and insects.

This tells me a lot about myself, about what I let myself miss in these years when life seems dedicated to rushing through life, as if rushing itself were a virtue.

Much of the rush is framed as the need for money. And I hope that when I'm very old, I will have money enough to sit in the sun and not have to work till I drop or find myself locked desitute in a cubicle in a convalescent hospital (like my grandmothers). I hope climate change will not have completely destroyed my oaks. I hope civilization will be intact enough that our lands will not be denuded and overrun by hungry masses. But I suspect that even if the world itself is in crisis, as seems likely, that beauty will persist and quiet moments if I look as I looked this evening.

 comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-05:287423:107460 Haitian Cooking Adventures 2013-06-12T06:50:18Z 2013-06-12T06:50:48Z public 0 I had my second adventure in Haitian cooking with my fellow parent-adopting-from-Haiti and neighbor, M. We had pretty good luck a couple of weeks ago making rice balls and this week made potato and beet salad, which also turned out well. I would never do such involved cooking on my own, but it's a great chance to get together and talk.

Earlier in the day, I was a grip on a film shoot for a sitcom pilot by Ariel Castle and Maurice Welch. It was fun to be out in the world of film production again. It makes me look forward to production on The Eater.

 comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-05:287423:105975 The power of a kind word 2013-04-09T19:14:01Z 2013-04-09T19:14:01Z public 2 I was grading essays outside Starbucks when a woman came up to me and said, "Thank you for being a teacher and taking the time to comment on papers." This almost brought tears to my eyes.

At a time when I'm looking at a high likelihood of losing one of my two jobs (the convenient one) after this term due to budget cutbacks and I'm one term with no class away from losing health insurance, when I get low pay and large classes, in a culture that doesn't bother to even include the humanities (including writing) in its "STEM" educational goals, hearing these words of appreciation moved me deeply. I told her so!

A few minutes later, she stopped by my table again and gave me a Starbucks gift card to show her thanks for my work. I was speechless. Thank you, lady I will probably never see again! And I'm glad I got a chance to say thank you and see your smile right then and there.

 comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-05:287423:105399 Happy Downfall of Sauron Day! 2013-03-25T17:04:25Z 2013-03-25T17:04:25Z public 0 Happy Downfall of Sauron Day once again!

Once again, I have managed to make it back to California for the day, and (unlike the past couple of years) the weather has been lovely. It gives me a profound sense of spring, and I have been lucky to spend a great deal of time outside, as I hope to today. I think Middle-earth folk would approve. With the possible exception of Dwarves, they pretty much all like it outside on a nice day. I don't have anything in particular to say about LOTR this year. I should reread it.

 comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-05:287423:105098 General Update 2013-03-02T02:44:13Z 2013-03-02T02:44:13Z public 0 Many thanks to astrogirl2 for a very thoughtful review of The Hour before Morning.

In HBM movie news, we finished our Kickstarter interview video, which I hope to have posted soon (a bit before the Kickstarter itself). The movie is in picture lock and off to the audio guy (for another round).

In other writing news, I seem to have moved toward posting my fic directly to AO3 and bypassing DW and LJ. For anyone who's interested, my first fic to get this treatment is "On Liberty and Love", a slashy Les Mis gen fic of about 3500 words.

In reading news, I got a Kindle and am loving it so far!

In life news, I'll be moving in a few weeks (just across the river) to the house where I intend to settle in and nest for some years with the kids once they arrive from Haiti (another several months hence). I also got a local class to teach this spring, which makes me happy. :-)

 comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-05:287423:104804 A Heads Up 2013-02-13T07:35:27Z 2013-02-13T07:35:27Z public 3 I will likely be drifting away from LJ/DW.

I have been less active on LJ and DW than I once was for some time, and most of the core group of fellow fangirls I bonded with back around 2004 has moved on to disparate things, etc., so I don't really feel much community here anymore. I rarely comment on others' journals these days and, unsurprisingly, receive almost no comments myself, and it feels a bit like shouting into the wind.

Therefore, I have been and will probably be more actively transitioning to other outlets. My fic will probably become more centered on AO3 (where I'm also labingi). My fannish meta will likely stay here for now, but if AO3 continues to support essays, my more serious fan essays will probably drift there too. Reviews or more general meta will likely end up on my blog at Goodreads or my more formal posts at the Geek Girl Project. Daily life stuff and movie updates are mostly going to Facebook. This feels very fragmented, but it seems to be how things are panning out in terms of fitting the right material to the right audience.

I expect I'll continue at least posting links to other platforms here for quite a while, and I'll update as my move evolves. This is just my first heads up.

 comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-05:287423:98002 Synchronicity 2012-10-01T00:22:33Z 2012-10-01T00:22:33Z public 0 In church today, the sermon started with Esther ch. 1 and the seldom told tale of Vashti, rebellious queen. This struck me as particularly ironic since today was the day I'd set to reread part 1 of "The Machine Stops" (which I've assigned for my writing class), wherein the main female character's name is... Vashti. There may nothing to it, but it's an interesting coincidence.

 comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-05:287423:96996 Comments on Romney's Comments 2012-09-18T22:45:04Z 2012-09-18T22:46:35Z public 0 Thoughts on Romney's statements...

Romney: "There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what."

Boy, I hope so.

Romney: "All right, there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government..."

Of course, we're dependent on government. A population of over 130 million people is far too large to organize without its being managed through some kind of government. Does Romney really believe we have no dependence on government, i.e. we need no government? Is he, in fact, an anarchist? If so, why is he running for President of a government he feels is not necessary?

Romney: "... [47 percent] who believe that they are victims..."

I do to an extent. It depends on what you mean by victim. I certainly feel victimized by a social structure that enriches a tiny majority with ridiculous profits at the expense of funding for things like my--socially very important--job so that I'm underpaid and constantly in fear of losing my job. I feel victimized by living in one of the richest nations in the world but being alone among developed nations in having no reliable access to a doctor, in having my access to a doctor contingent on staying in job that is underpaid and I may lose anyway in a few years because my other immediate options would certainly provide no benefits.

Now, if by "victim" one means a mindset in which one does not put one's back into hoeing one's row (however horrible the soil), then I hope I'm not a victim. I do work very hard and dream hard, too, about possibilities for building a life I'd like. I'm like most Americans I've met in this.

Romney: "... [47 percent] who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it. That that's an entitlement. And the government should give it to them. "

"You-name-it," of course, has no content. To this list, I would add "education." Beyond that, I can't think of anything I feel financially entitled to, except perhaps fair remuneration for seizures for eminent domain or of property by the police.

I sincerely wish I lived in a country in which 47 percent of the population believed in these entitlements. If I did, we might be well on the way to a genuine social democracy, in which all people are granted a basic right to life with basic dignity. Alas, I don't believe Romney's numbers are correct here. I encounter comparatively few Americans who really believe in this piece of common sense (even in my mostly Democratic town, in my mostly Democratic state).

Romney: "These [47 percent] are people who pay no income tax."

Here's an interesting article on why people don't pay income tax.

The statement that this 47 percent is identical to those who believe in entitlements is false: I pay income tax and I believe in entitlements.

(Romney text via Mother Jones)

 comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-05:287423:96689 In Japan: Hiroshima 2012-09-14T22:15:42Z 2012-09-14T22:21:32Z public 0 From Kyoto, we went to Hiroshima. Hiroshima was… fun, which, from my American perspective, is not what I was expecting. The small part of the city we saw is beautiful. We stayed at a hotel right by the train station and river, and our room had a lovely view of river-park land. The train station itself seems a lot more barren than the other big city stations we've been in. The underground is mostly large concrete halls with few ads or decorations and reminded me slightly of a nuclear bunker, though that may say more about my brain than the place itself.( Specifics and a few Pics )

 comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-05:287423:96305 In Japan: Kyoto 2012-09-13T22:16:45Z 2012-09-13T22:21:23Z public 2 Kyoto was a whirlwind. We, alas, only had time to see two sights: Higashi Hongan-ji (down the street from our hotel) and the aquarium.

Temple

We stumbled upon Higashi Hongan-ji (temple), which is undergoing renovation but is still partly open to the public. It's interesting to spy the pre-renovated temple under the scaffolding vs. the part that's already completed; they're doing an amazing job at cleaning and brightening it.

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 comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-05:287423:95923 In Japan: Inuyama 2012-09-09T14:19:22Z 2012-09-09T14:31:16Z public 2 Yesterday, we went to Inuyama, a smallish town near Nagoya, with my old friend, Toshio, and his fiancée, Yumi, who is from Inuyama. Yumi and her family were very gracious in having us over as guests and feeding us. Then, Yumi drove us around to various local sites, including the Meiji-mura Museum and fishing with cormorants.

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 comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-05:287423:95675 In Japan 2012-09-07T20:13:14Z 2012-09-07T20:13:14Z public 0 I am a couple of days into my visit to Japan. I have nothing groundbreaking to say, but here are some impressions...

The people, of course, are very nice, and I feel embarrassed that they speak English to me by default in their own country, but the fact is I can't figure out anything they say in Japanese. My listening skills are atrocious. I can figure out a little bit more reading, and that's been kind of fun and occasionally even helpful to my much more travel savvy but less Japanese knowing travel companion.( Read more... )

 comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-05:287423:92806 Random Updates 2012-07-14T06:18:04Z 2012-07-14T06:24:17Z public 0 The Hour before Morning
Met with Matt today about The Hour before Morning. We actually didn't discuss the film much because it's getting on toward done. We did chat about trailers and marketing, which it was kind of exciting. Matt also showed me some of his color correction, which helps the look of the film a lot!

We picked a song from the score for the trailer. Grayson's score is haunting and just right, and haemony sings the Ash'torian chant beautifully, almost androgynously.

The Crow
While fish-sitting for a friend today, I saw part of The Crow on his Netflix. (I missed it when it came out.) It's not a great movie, but it did make me miss enjoying stories with that tone: dark fantasy, angst. If anyone knows any such that are well written (i.e. not a just rehash of the usual tropes), I'm open to rec's.

The Geek Girl Project
I have started writing for The Geek Girl Project, a blog by geeky girls (or "firls" as Kitty would have me type), looking at media, tech, writing, etc. It's a great group of people and lots of fun.

Another Good Review Blog
Check out Nye Joel Hardy's science fiction, fantasy, and other book reviews.

Life Post-Trigun
It is very restful to be done with Trigun. I've been pondering a final cleanup post of miscellaneous thoughts, but I probably won't do that right away. I think it may be time to obsess on Mirage of Blaze again for while. (MoB looks oddly gentle and comforting after Trigun.)

 comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-05:287423:89041 RL 2012-05-16T06:06:55Z 2012-05-16T06:06:55Z public 2 Ugh, Dad fell and had to have stitches, but he will be okay. It made for a slightly panicky evening.

 comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-05:287423:87053 Random Update 2012-04-21T02:03:50Z 2012-04-21T02:03:50Z public 0 Am having trouble getting through Soseki's Sorekara, despite the fact it's quite a good novel, because I keep getting distracted by Trigun manga. Had I world enough and time, there might be a quite a lot of Trigun fan fic in me; there are certainly many avenues. And happily the fandom is big and old enough that a lot of good stuff has been written. As it is, there's no way I'll time/energy to sit down and do any such thing in the future. I can't even find the time to load my old fic onto AO3. I probably will post more meta, though, when I've read more.

 comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-05:287423:86462 Norwescon 2012-04-09T23:32:45Z 2012-04-09T23:32:45Z public 2 Went to Norwescon with sixish this past weekend and tabled at the session for indie writers and publishers put on by the indefatigable Bob Boyd of The Written Wyrd.

I played the rough cut of The Hour before Morning on my laptop, which went over quite well as a marketing approach. It generated some good conversation, and I got to swap business cards with a number of interesting writers and editors.

sixish got to have a chat about the gaming industry with some fellow industry insiders.

All in all, it was a very satisfying experience, though we didn't see much of the rest of the con: a lot of good Doctor Who outfits though, including Five, which I don't often see.

The next day we went to Kinokuniya and spent too much on Japanese pop culture.

AND the weather was good. How about that?

 comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-05:287423:84767 An Open Letter in Response to ACTA et Al. 2012-03-21T23:35:30Z 2012-03-21T23:38:02Z public 5 To ACTA and Its Handlers:

You can slow us, but you will not silence us. If you deny us the internet, we still trade stories; we will listen to music; we will create vids and fics and share images. We will do so through 'zines, through CDs, on sketchpads or typewriters or photocopiers. We will return to the post office. And if you compel the post office to censor our mail, we will leave parcels in the trunks of trees or behind garbage bins. We will blog on leaflets. We will hold our illegal public showings of films in people's houses by word of mouth. Our technical experts, who are legion, will still rip DVDs for us so that we can be about the human business of artistic creation.

And you will lose our money because, by eliminating or gravely restricting our use of the internet, you will have removed our incentive to go online and pay for our Netflix, our Hulu, to watch the ads your sponsors pay you for, which today so many of us choose to do because we understand that creative outlets need revenue.

But we will not consent to forgo any access to art you have priced out of reasonable means or deemed not legally available in our country or not legal at all because it pays tribute to some preexisting piece of art--as all art from the dawn of human civilization has done. We will not blind and deafen ourselves to pacify your fear of us. And if you do not behave reasonably toward us, we have no moral obligation to show obedience to you.

I am an American. And much of the time I'm ashamed to be. That my corporate government is one of the prime proponents this assault on the intellectual work of civilization makes me ashamed. Yet there remain precepts of America to which I adhere: that a people should not lightly undertake a revolt against their government, "But when a long Train of Abuses and Usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a Design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their Right, it is their Duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future Security."*

I do not mean to overstate the case, to call you George III or accuse you of enacting tyranny against me. Up to now, the tightening of the copyright noose has caused me no more than annoyance. Up to now, you have not silenced my voice or deleted my art or blocked my eyes and ears from more than a handful of works of art I love. You have not denied me the internet I daily use for work and information and entertainment. You have not bankrupted me with fines or imprisoned me at taxpayer expense. You have not done so yet. But if you do, then revolt will be my duty.

* I did not need the internet to find this quote. I found it in a book. We will still have our books.

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Gingerbread in a mug
It all started with Gingerbread Friends by Jan Brett.
We borrowed it from the library, which lead us to a fun sensory experience.
And since there's a recipe in the book for Gingerbread cookies, we ended up making Gluten Free Ginger Molasses Cookies for our church potluck.
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Trim Healthy Pizza Salad
Hello there!
This is my first post since before the Holidays & I'm anxious to see how everyone did with all the temptations out there. Let's just say that I could've done a whole lot worse.
We had family in town for Christmas, then I did some traveling for New Year's. We also had my Dad come & stay after New Year's for a bit. He just left yesterday which means I'm getting back to my Trim Healthy Mama life style. I found myself thinking that next year should be totally different. Next year I should be so used to the lifestyle that I won't have to even think about what to eat. It'll just come naturally. Right?
On to my recipe… I made Pizza Casserole for the kids last night & decided to make a Pizza Salad for myself while the casserole was in the oven. You see, my Dad closed down his pizza shop on New Year's eve. Therefore, my freezer is full of pizza sausage, pepperoni, mozzarella cheese, pizza sauce… You get the picture? Pizza Casserole only made sense. 🙂
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Trim Healthy Tuesday {December 17th, 2013}
Happy Tuesday to you!
I have been struggling along with Trim Healthy Mama for quite some time now. I really have a problem "following the rules." And I know this is not a diet, but a change of lifestyle. Yet I still cave to temptations that are no good for me. Therefore I've been yo-yoing back & forth with no real weight loss. Every once in a while I would hint at my husband that maybe he could read THM & give me his thoughts on it, maybe help me figure it out better. And he meant to do it, but there are just so many other things he needs to do.
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SUNDAY night I made this…
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Creamy Cauliflower Soup {Trim Healthy Tuesday}
Soup. I love soup. I have acclimated my children to love soup because I love it so much. It's definitely one thing I look forward to when the weather turns cold. Warm drinks & hot soup. Mmmmm
The recipe I'm sharing today is Cream of Cauliflower Soup. It's very similar to the Loaded Fotato Soup in the Trim Healthy Mama book.
Doesn't Loaded Fotato Soup sound so much better? Kudos to Pearl for coming up with that. 🙂
1 Head of cauliflower, cut up
1/4 c chopped onion
1 stalk of celery, chopped
1 – 2 cloves of garlic
4 – 6 cups of chicken broth
1/4-1/2 tsp salt
pinch of pepper
2 wedges of Laughing Cow Swiss Cheese or cream cheese
a wee bit of Worcestershire Sauce (optional)
sour cream
green onions
crumbled bacon (the real thing)
Add cauliflower, onion, celery, garlic and chicken broth to a 3 quart saucepan. Bring to boil, reduce heat & let simmer until veggies are soft enough to blend.
Once veggies are soft add to a large Magic Bullet cup with a bit of the broth and the cheese. Don't overfill! Pulse until nice & smooth. (At this point you could also pulse in some xanthan gum or glucomannan to thicken it up.)
Return to saucepan and mix with remaining broth. Then add your salt, pepper, and Worestershire to taste.
Ladle into a bowl, add your toppings and enjoy!
I eat this as an S meal because I love me some bacon!
How about you, do you love soup… hate it?
Thanks for stopped by today.
Creamy Warm Chai Smoothie -S- {Trim Healthy Tuesday}
There's frost on our car this morning. Yep.
So I'm done with icy cold drinks and on to warm tea for the next
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One of my favorite drinks over the summer has been The Shrinker which was posted on Trim Healthy Mama's fb page. I would make this, add it to a quart sized jar, fill it with ice and sip on it all morning.
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Muffin in a Mug {Trim Healthy Tuesday}
I love me some Muffin in a Mug. And I tell you what, they are really filling! If you are hitting that afternoon wall & want to start eating everything in sight, you need to try one of these. There are so many versions out there like… Lemon Poppy Seed, Chocolate, Coconut Macaroon, peanut butter, Fudge Brownie, Zucchini… oh heck, you should just check out my Pinterest THM Desserts board. Even better, you should check out Trim Healthy Mama's S Desserts board!
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Grassroot Grannies Activities
The Grassroot Grannies are excited to start another year of fundraising for The Stephen Lewis Foundation.
On May 13th, 2017, 8 am to 1 pm, at 93 Knudson Drive, Kanata, we will be hosting our 11th annual
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Often as the Foundation staff travel across Canada they are frequently asked if the SLF was having any influence at the international level in amplifying the voices of African community-based organizations and ensuring additional support for them.
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The Foundation is organizing a speaking tour around the country for May. If you have some Australian friends who are interested in getting involved in the Grandmothers Campaign and would want to attend the speaking tour, please email
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Early this year, GRAN announced the decision to look at its three issues, education, access to medicines and violence against women, through the lens of how they impact older women in sub Saharan Africa in the future.
A Fair Shot Campaign
Last year GRAN supported the Medicines Sans Frontiers (MSF) in its "A Fair Shot Campaign". With over 400,000 signatures MSF went to the Pfizer and GSK head offices with the petition and were delighted when Pfizer announced late last year that it was reducing the price of the pneumonia vaccine to $9.30 per treatment per child for humanitarian organizations working in emergency situations. Thanks everyone!
Global Partnership for Education
Looking to the future, GRAN is planning a new campaign to persuade the government to increase its contribution to the Global Partnership for Education in the next replenishment period. Education is key to achieving development, and influences all 17 of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), however in Sub-Saharan Africa, 55 million children and youth (ages 6-15) are out of school, 29 million are girls, and 50% of all primary classes have over 50 students. What if they were our precious grandchildren?
Plans are well under way for our Ride To Turn the Tide, and our Books and Breakfast Buffet, coming up in the Fall.
This event is organized by the Ottawa-Gatineau Region Grandmothers Network (O-GRGN).
We will be welcoming Stephen and Ilana and two grannies from South Africa. Mama Dalina Tywana and Eunice Mangwane will share with the Canadian grannies their stories of struggle and accomplishments.
Peggy Edwards, a founder of the O-GRGN and active grandmother group leader, is our keynote speaker. Seven workshops will be offered as well.
Close to 300 delegates and their guests have registered.
Just over a month after that UN declaration, in July 2016, South African grandmothers marched to the doors of the International AIDS Conference to deliver their
powerful statement demanding that the South African
and the international community guarantee the rights of grandmothers. Within days of that march, a senior minister in the South African government met with two grandmothers from the Gathering's organizing committee, and has had a second follow-up meeting to receive their demands and further discuss the urgent needs of grandmothers in their country.
It is these grandmothers in South Africa and the grandmothers in Uganda (who also gathered, marched, and delivered the Ugandan Grandmothers Statement 2015), and the grandmothers who will gather next year in Tanzania, and the thousands of others in sub-Saharan Africa, who are mobilizing for their rights.
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Bertha Takes a Drive: How the Benz Automobile Changed the World
By: Jan Adkins
A joyride across Germany in the world's first automobile
It's 1888 and Bertha Benz's husband, Karl, has invented the prototype Benz motorwagen. But the German government declares the vehicle illegal, and the church calls it the devil's work. Unbeknownst to her husband, Bertha steals away with her two sons and drives nearly one hundred miles to prove just how amazing the motorwagen is. Bertha's mechanical savvy gets the boys to Grandma's house safely, and the remarkable mother/son road trip reduces global concern about moving vehicles.
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Jan Adkins has written and illustrated many books for children, including What If You Met a Cowboy?; The Art and Industry of Sandcastles (Walker and Co.); What If You Met a Pirate? (Roaring Brook); and Line: Tying It Up, Tying It Down (Wooden Boat Publications). He currently lives in Gainesville, FL. .
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Over the river and through the woods, to grandmother's house we go; we steal father's car, we are going quite far, and mother cooks up the whole show. In the town of Mannheim in Germany, in 1888, Bertha Benz decides to take her husband's car, the Benz Motorwagen, to grandmother's house, 60 miles distant in the town of Pforzheim, on roads that were more suited for—to all intents and purposes likely made by—sheep, horses, goats, and cows. Emperor Wilhelm II and the church are not amused by the self-propelled Motorwagen, so Bertha is out to prove them wrong. Bertha and her two sons push the car out of the garage in the early morn, but as they motor along, they meet up with internal-combustion-engine problems that the ingenious Bertha—who had worked with her husband to build the car—solves: she invents the brake shoe along the way, made for her by a cobbler. Adkins tells the tale with brio and dash and illustrates it with nifty, time-gone-by details like roadside alms boxes (hello, toll roads), springs disgorging through gargoylelike face into basins to refresh weary travelers, and naphtha as fuel. The artwork is mostly pleasing, with 1888 European countrysides and villages. The characters' faces are often obscured by hat brims; when doffed, they often reveal unsettlingly wooden expressions. The story is a hoot of ingenuity and an exhilarating tip of the hat to unsung women heroes, and Adkins has a good time telling it. Even though grandmother meets the Motorwagen with the same disgruntlement as the emperor, everybody else cheers the contraption's epic voyage.
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Pitlochry Festival Theatre
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Imagine what might happen if a shop store Santa Claus started to advise
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vintage appeal, while Kirsty McLaren comes into her own as a grown-up
too soon Susan, who learns to believe again following a fantastical
birthday party in the toy department. It is James Smillie's turn as
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