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Consent - is it a meaningful concept?(324 Posts)
On the recent 'Invisible Men' thread, the concept of consent came up and was discussed. I posted referring to the following quote from Catharine MacKinnon in which she questions whether consent in male female sexual relations, within the context of a patriarchal society which is founded on dominance /submission is a meaningful concept; and she concludes that it is not. Which is quite a statement.
Quite a few posters expressed an interest in having a thread on the subject of consent and MacKinnon's analysis of it. I have been meaning to start the thread for a while, so here it is.
Here is the quote from MacKinnon. It is from her book "Toward a Feminist Theory of the State", specifically from the chapter 'Rape: On Coercion and Consent' which you can read Rape: On Coercion and Consent here (It does help to read the whole chapter which is a searing piece of feminist analysis from an utterly brilliant woman. )
"The deeper problem is that women are socialized to passive receptivity; may have or perceive no alternative to acquiescence; may prefer it to the escalated risk of injury and the humiliation of a lost fight; submit to survive. Also, force and desire are not mutually exclusive under male supremacy. So long as dominance is eroticized, they never will be. Some women eroticize dominance and submission; it beats feeling forced. Sexual intercourse may be deeply unwanted, the women would never have initiated it, yet no force may be present. So much force may have been used that the woman never risked saying no. Force may be used, yet the woman prefer the sex - to avoid more force or because she, too, eroticizes dominance. Women and men know this. Considering rape as violence not sex evades, at the moment it most seems to confront, the issue of who controls women's sexuality and the dominance/submission dynamic that has defined it. When sex is violent, women may have lost control over what is done to them, but absence of force does not ensure the presence of that control. Nor, under conditions of male dominance, does the presence of force make an interaction nonsexual. If sex is normally something men do to women, the issue is less whether there was force than whether consent is a meaningful concept."
Another text which was brought up in the discussion was the section on sexual intelligence by Andrea Dworkin in the chapter "The Politics of Intelligence" from her book "Right-Wing Women".
Here is a link to a pdf of the book, I'm afraid the quality isn't great. The relevant section starts on page 50 of the pdf (page 54 of the book).
I can't select the text due to the format so have typed up a section from my copy of the book – please forgive any mistakes! The entire chapter and book is brilliant feminist analysis so I urge women to read it – it is one lightbulb moment after another and wonderfully written, Dworkin's pace is incredible and her clarity of thought exceptional. (I have added some paragraphs in order to make it easier to read.)
"Sexual intelligence asserts itself through sexual integrity, a dimension of values and actions forbidden to women. Sexual intelligence would have to be rooted first and foremost in the honest possession of one's own body, and women exist to be possessed by others, namely men. The possession of one's own body would have to be absolute and entirely realised for the intelligence to thrive in the world of action. Sexual intelligence, like moral intelligence would have to confront the great issues of cruelty and tenderness; but where moral intelligence must tangle with questions of right and wrong, sexual intelligence would have to tangle with questions of dominance and submission.
One preordained to be fucked has no need to exercise sexual intelligence, no opportunity to exercise it, no argument that justifies exercising it. To keep the woman sexually acquiescent, the capacity for sexual intelligence must be prohibited to her; and it is. Her clitoris is denied; her capacity for pleasure is distorted and defamed; her erotic values are slandered and insulted; her desire to value her body as her own is paralyzed and maimed. She is turned into an occasion for male pleasure, an object of male desire, a thing to be used; and any wilful expression of her sexuality in the world unmediated by men or male values is punished. She is used as a slut or a lady; but sexual intelligence cannot manifest in a human being whose predestined purpose is to be exploited through sex.
Sexual intelligence constructs its own use: it begins with the whole body, not one that has already been cut into parts and fetishized; it begins with a self-respecting body, not one that is characterized by class as dirty, wanton and slavish; it acts in the world, a world it enters on its own, with freedom as well as with passion. Sexual intelligence cannot live behind locked doors, any more than any other kind of intelligence can. Sexual intelligence cannot exist defensively, keeping out rape. Sexual intelligence cannot be decorative or pretty or coy or timid, nor can it live on a diet of contempt and abuse and hatred of its human form. Sexual intelligence is not animal, it is human; it has values; it sets limits that are meaningful to the whole person and personality, which must live in history and in the world.
Women have found the development and exercise of sexual intelligence more difficult than any other kind: women have learned to read; women have acquired intellect; women have had so much creative intelligence that even despisal and isolation and punishment have not been able to squeeze it out of them; women have struggled for a moral intelligence that by its very existence repudiates moralism; but sexual intelligence is cut off at its roots, because the women's body is not her own.
Okay. The OP is pretty huge so I will leave it at that and post my own thoughts in subsequent posts. This one is just meant to provide the material for discussion. I suppose this thread should really be in the feminist theory section of MN but I don't really agree with the existence of that section so here it is in the regular feminist hang out!
Would agreement be at least a start instead of consent? It seems more like the parties start on an equal footing.
I must admit I was completely lost on this thread until the poster made the comparison with medical consent and that struck me as completely relevant. I do not "consent" to dh doing sex to me. Not at all. It's an activity we do together when we both feel like it, a state that is communicated through actions and body language in a type of personal code refined throughout our marriage. This type of intimate personal code does not exist in casual encounters and new couplings or in relationships where communication has broken down or was always poor and I think this does make "consent" or whatever you want to call it more problematic in those situations.
Rosabud your teenager analogy really works for me.
The issue of consent as acquiescence / letting something happen is at the heart of patriarchal culture. Women as the subjugated sex class. It pervades our culture from princesses wanting to be rescued to the notion of women having rape / BDSM fantasies. I very much agree with grennie that choices are made within a cultural context. (One of the reasons I don't place much value on "choice" as a desired outcome of feminism.)
In this context, women and men eroticise women's submissive role. I don't mean that men and women are acting out 50 shades type crap every time they have sex. However the idea of woman as passive, waiting for her man is still prevalent in our culture although perhaps not to the same extent it was 40 years ago.
I can see some seeds here for "sex positive" thinking as a way to liberate women from this culture of submission, to be actors rather than consenters. However, I don't believe that behaviours which derive from the culture of subjugation and objectification (e.g. stripping, pornography, prostitution, etc) can be "reclaimed" in a meaningful feminist way. It's no coincidence that "consent" is always used to defend or uphold these activities. I agree with beach re consent to medical procedures - something that you would prefer not to have happen to you.
You are on a roll Beachcomber
Thinking not academically but from personal experience now, (too tired to think coherently, first day at uni today [sleepy emotion]) where there is domestic violence can there ever be meaningful consent? I'm not talking about rape but where a women actively or even enthusiastically engages in sex with a partner who she is afraid of. Of course there could be times when she is in actual fear and has some anxiety about provoking attack but there might be no immediate fear. I'm not certain I can get my head around it, partly because a very good friend was a victim of DV and she was besotted with her abuser. How could this be?
Great thread.
Good point re the medical comparison. Personally I am jolly grateful to the medical professionals who have looked after me... but consenting to a medical procedure involves passivity, lying there and keeping still while unpleasant things are done to you (albeit for your own good). Also, there is an unequal power balance. In no way is the experience comparable to mutually enthusiastic and loving sex.
In the DV case, Mini, I don't think it's meaningful consent if the woman doesn't feel she can say no. There is a wider issue of course about traumatic bonding too... it's a well-established phenomenon.
Having a weird moment where it feels like someone's downloaded my rambly thoughts and written them out in a brilliantly coherent way.
Will write more tomorrow when my brain is functioning again.
I'm so glad this is speaking to people. Really glad.
It's a bit late so am going to read posts and hopefully we'll continue this discussion tomorrow.
I was talking about a past DV (EA) relationship of mine the other day. In the early days I wanted sex, but as it went on it became another control mechanism and I stopped wanting it. I still consented, sometimes I even enjoyed it once it got started, but I barely ever wanted it.
If that makes sense I think that is probably the crux of it. It's totally possible to consent to something that you don't want, but sex should be something that's wanted on both sides. I don't think that you can not-consent to something you want really can you?
I do think the PIV argument is hugely relevant here as well. Hugely. Because you can want (and, evidently, consent to) say, cuddling, or kissing or touching or oral and yet not want PIV. But because of the cuddling and kissing and/or oral you are assumed to have consented to PIV. With a man who respects sexual boundaries then sure, you can stop things and say "Actually no I just want to do X right now" and he will stop, but it would be considered strange to do this more often than some of the time. Some men would certainly feel hard done by. And then there's a kind of guilt about getting him worked up (anyone else felt this?) and a sense of "Oh, well it's gone this far, might as well finish it" but mostly, it's that feeling that once you've consented to one thing it means you consent to everything, as long as it falls under a "vanilla" kind of umbrella or even under the umbrella of "things you have wanted to do before".
And there are times when you get caught up in the moment and genuinely do change your mind about what you want, but I'm not talking about that, I'm talking about the times when you don't really want to continue onto PIV and you're faced with that choice of whether to ask him to stop or just go along with it.
I have been reading, but I am no good at the theoretical side only personal experience.
Having been in a sexually abusive relationship, there were certainly still times when I thought I had 'properly' consented and sometimes even initiated sex. But it was always in a period when my partner was being seemingly nice to me and I was in total denial about how shit it could be at other times. I am not sure that I wanted sex exactly at these times, there was an underlying expectation, but I did often enjoy it when it once it was happening.
However, at other times consent was undeniably meaningless. If I said no, he would pester and pester, repeating the same request for sex, until it drove me nuts and the easiest thing was to give in and say 'ok' - as at least if I 'consented' I would get to go to sleep afterwards rather than be kept awake by his constant demands. But that wasn't really consenting in the true sense, obviously. Also, if I tried to complain at all, or gave any indication afterwards that I was angry or upset because I had not in fact wanted sex, it would be thrown back at me that I had agreed to sex so I could not complain about it.
And then in the end there were other times when I was pestered for sex and afraid of him, and I knew that he was going to do it anyway regardless of what I said or did, so the easiest thing in that situation was to 'consent'. That was easiest all round, because then we both knew that he would not end up forcing himself on me and it would not feel afterwards as if he had raped me.
It is so completely fucked up really, and I am very glad I am no longer in such a mess of a relationship.
Marking my place with a wee anecdote.
Years ago when asked by a young lad who was just embarking on his first sexual relationship for some advice, I told him this
"Never enter her early on, hold off and hold off, tease and touch and caress in every way you can until her nails are digging so hard into your arse to pull you into her that your in danger of having new holes in your bum."
They are still together 10 years later and have two kids now so I think she appreciated my advice
Yoni I once knew a woman who had a generalised fear of intimacy. It became for her a 'russian doll' (the dolls that stack within one another) problem that locked her out of intimate experience sometimes at all levels, unless she were able to get 'caught up in the moment' and so managed to give herself permission to pass to a deeper level of intimacy. Sometimes she could not even enjoy holding hands because she wondered if it would lead to an embrace, which might lead to a kiss, which might lead to being fondled, which might lead to being undressed, which might lead to oral sex, which might lead to intercourse.
It was about what she wanted for herself. While she could recognise on an intellectual level that 'sometimes a kiss is just a kiss' she could not give herself permission to enjoy it because of the possibility of other dynamics being in it, her own dynamics more than mine I think. You say 'there are times when you get caught up in the moment and genuinely do change your mind about what you want'. She was locked into simultaneously hoping yet fearing she might (or might not) get caught up in that moment. She said she had not suffered any specific abuse (although she could have concealed that from me) but had arrived in her paralysing situation because she had 'consented' too often to PIV sex she did not want to have. I begged her to seek counselling but unfortunately she would not.
Dad, I don't think that woman is unique.
Conjugal rights and so on are a bit of a cliche and it's by no means "all men", of course, but it's baked into our culture that only PIV sex is real sex and men prefer PIV sex and think something is missing without it. See, for example, the joke in Friends about how kissing is like the comedian warming the crowd up before the rock concert for men - "you like the comedian but he's not why you bought the ticket."
Even Herrena's anecdote, which sounds like good advice, is acknowledging that PIV is the ultimate "goal".
I don't like Herrena's anecdote, because it assumes all women want the same kind of sex, when they don't.
The fact someone is married for 10 years with 2 kids does not mean that they are having great sex - or that they ever did have.
So many massive assumptions in that post.
I agree Moderately. I think this is horrendously common, actually. It might not be "specific abuse" but it is certainly a sexually abusive and entitled attitude from a previous partner which has brought this fear upon her.
There is a thread about once a week or more on relationships where the poster admits (if not straight away, at some point) she does not even want to kiss her DH for fear that he will take it as a green light for sex.
It is very sad. In my experience as well the disconnect from sex never truly leaves you once you get into the pattern of dissociating from it.
Plus this whole scenario then feeds back into the "men like/need sex more than women" or even "women don't really like sex but they do it to please their man" myths. Aaargh!
So sorry to hear of those who have been in abusive relationships, thanks for sharing. That sort of ongoing situation is such a good example of the sort of thing we are talking about - the woman 'consents' and the sex is had, but she didn't want it. And, yes, it is assumed that the sex will be PIV.
And, yes to this Flora;
The issue of consent as acquiescence / letting something happen is at the heart of patriarchal culture. Women as the subjugated sex class. It pervades our culture from princesses wanting to be rescued to the notion of women having rape / BDSM fantasies. I very much agree with grennie that choices are made within a cultural context. (One of the reasons I don't place much value on "choice" as a desired outcome of feminism.)
Yes, I see the goal of feminism as 'liberation'; not choice. Real choice (if it even exists within human society) can only come with liberation.
WRT to 'sex positivism' (a concept which for me has a whole bunch of problems, but I won't go into that just now), I can't take it very seriously as there is so very little analysis of what sex is for women. Of what the female perspective is. I also think it is an exclusionary movement as 'sex positivism' is an utter nonsense to so many women, it just isn't on their radar. How are trafficked women, pimped prostitutes, girls and women in unwanted arranged marriages, women with no access to contraception, women with no access to abortion, etc. supposed to feel about such a movement? Or even just us women who simply do not want to be defined by sex as it is the thing via which we are oppressed.
Mini, this is exactly what MacKinnon is getting at when she says; When sex is violent, women may have lost control over what is done to them, but absence of force does not ensure the presence of that control. (Good luck with uni!)
And Mooncup's point is a good one too when you say; I don't think it's meaningful consent if the woman doesn't feel she can say no. MacKinnon also talks about that in her lecture. She asks where is the agency or how valid is the 'choice/consent' if the women does not feel that she can say no or is in circumstances that cut off the opportunity for her to say no because she does not have real alternatives.
Also, so true what you say Yoni about how consenting to (or wanting) a cuddle or other forms of touching very often being taken as implied consent for PIV.
This brings me back to what Dworkin says here;
Sexual intelligence asserts itself through sexual integrity, a dimension of values and actions forbidden to women. Sexual intelligence would have to be rooted first and foremost in the honest possession of one's own body, and women exist to be possessed by others, namely men.
And it was why I disagreed with DasWasHere when he said that he thought this notion was old. Women all over the world today are living this experience of it being assumed and expected that our bodily integrity can be encroached upon and that that is normal because 'it is sex'. It is just sex. And women are expected to have sex and of course what we mean by that is PIV.
Like what Matilda says about pestering. Pestering is an expectation that women exist to be possessed by others. It is nagging at a woman to stop withholding something the man feels is his right - her body.
Lots to think about here. Thanks for all the great posts, especially those generous enough to share personal stuff. I'm sorry if this is raking up painful memories for anyone.
But yoni, I don't think a woman has to have been with a previously abusive partner to have internalised messages about PIV being the goal, don't be a cock tease, men give love to get sex whilst women give sex to get love, if you loved me you would, blue balls, Judy Blume's Forever - "once you've done it, you can't go back to holding hands"- with my body I thee worship, a marriage can be annulled if it's not consummated and so on and so on ad infinitum.
All cultural messages are, if you go to bed and don't have PIV, it's like taking your partner's plate away halfway through dinner. Whereas perhaps it should be more like a buffet, sometimes you pick this and sometimes that.
I have come across a few women on the net, who have male partners, have a sexual relationship, but don't have PIV. One has never had PIV. I and others, were very surprised that such relationships existed. And that says it all really. PIV is an expected part of the package of sex. When it should just be part of a menu of choices.
I read somewhere about a survey that showed women self reporting that they were far more likely to orgasm through other kinds of sex than PIV. If there was to be a female sexuality, these other kinds of sex would make more sense as the "goal" than PIV.
And another thing! I seem to have lots to say today...
The idea that there is something wrong with a woman who doesn't want 'sex' AKA PIV.
I remember going through a sustained period of not wanting sex after my first child was born. All the usual stuff, I was knackered, sleep deprived, breastfeeding, learning how to look after a baby, fairly isolated and felt totally 'touched out' by the constant physical contact with my baby. I had also just spent nine months being pregnant and had given birth - with all that entails WRT to hormones, pain, tiredness, etc, plus all the being touched by other people that happens to a woman during pregnancy and childbirth.
At first I expected to feel like this but then as the months went on I began to wonder if there was something 'wrong' with me. I was quite happy without sex so why was I asking myself if there was something 'wrong'?
There was nothing wrong, my feelings were completely normal. It lasted for about a year I think and then gradually (especially after I stopped breastfeeding) desire came back.
And this is where I get cross with contraception sometimes and I think it is very much part of this debate. Yes contraception protects women from unwanted pregnancies and that is a good thing. However, contraception also exposes women to unwanted sex.
It is normal for a woman who has a small baby to not want PIV because she doesn't want to get pregnant again. My body was telling me that and I was listening to it - however contraception falsifies this situation because it is possible to prevent a pregnancy.
I hate that effing 6 week check up thing where someone checks out the woman's undercarriage and gives her the green light to 'get back to normal relations'.
Your fanjo has just about repaired itself so you can (should) get back to some good old PIV action.
This is what I mean about the male perspective being dominant in sexuality. (Yes I know there are some women who want to have intercourse at this point if not before.)
I have a friend who was treated for vaginimus i.e. the vagina closing up and preventing PIV. The assumption of everyone, including herself, was that she needed treatment so she could have PIV. Nobody ever suggested that she obviously didn't want PIV, so didn't have to have it.
Yoni the myth you mentioned that women don't like sex and do it to please their man is, I'm sure, responsible for a lot of very unhealthy "consensual" sex within relationships.
A very good friend of mine always worried her boyfriend would leave her and had very low self esteem. He was the only person she'd slept with and was with him for 7 years.
She once told me she feels very low and emotional after sex and asked if I did too, she opened up and it turns out her man was obsessesed with porn and would make her watch it, tie her up, cover her face and humiliate her - acting out his dark fantasies every time they did it - since she was 15 years old. She went along with this to please him, as she felt that's what all women do and that he'd leave her if she didn't do what was expected. I was heartbroken and furious but eventually helped her LTB.
She always seemed insecure and unsure of her self but I would never have guessed she was going through this every day. I wonder how many other women are going through similar. Consent is totally meaningless when society has convinced you that your body is not your own.
Good point about contraception, Beach.
PIV is the goal because it's how you make a baby. But I guess around 80% of the PIV that happened in developed countries last night was nothing to do with making babies (insert your own % guess above, but I'm sure it's more than 50%)
So, men and women know this, on a conscious level. PIV is just one of the ways to reach orgasm and show physical love.
In the "bases" mentioned above, I'm sure most teenagers involved in getting to fourth base would rather not conceive either.
So why is it so often the goal?
Why is it so often the goal?
Because it is the kind of sex men enjoy?
Because it involves men dominating women?
I know I've always been told by men that there's a scale, going from wank < hand job < blow job < PIV (with anal coming either above or below PIV or sometimes below oral depending on the man's preference)
Just because of the physical feeling, apparently this is the scale of how nice it is. With a penis being less complex than female sex organs it seems to make sense. Although how much is this socialised as well? With the idea that for women their preferences vary wildly with what they prefer as the "best" thing but men apparently all like the same things?
Also YY, funny when you think about it, that the "ultimate goal" is the same as the "top sexual act for men"
This is where I get confused. Surely PIV isn't socialised into us, surely it's a base evolutionary instinct?
The enjoyment if it, when sex is really "good" is (I think) in surrendering to your primitive instinct without "thinking" or social norms, particularly for men who run no risk of conception themselves.
Avoiding PIV for contraceptive reasons is "being sensible" which is never as freeing as just letting go.
I don't see why it can't be both? I can see the argument that the base instinct leans towards PIV as a goal.
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/usr/local/lib/libsuperlu.so -> libsuperlu_4.3.so
/usr/local/lib/libsuperlu_4.3.so -> libsuperlu.so.2 <-- wrong file name
- Fix library installation
- Mark MAKE_JOBS_UNSAFE, fails spectacularly with -j8
Cleanup plist
Update the default version of GCC in the Ports Collection from GCC 4.7.4
to GCC 4.8.3.
Part II, Bump PORTREVISIONs.
Tested by: antoine (-exp runs)
Approved by: portmgr (implicit)
- Stagify
- Upgrade to 4.3
Changelog at <http://crd-legacy.lbl.gov/~xiaoye/SuperLU/changes.html>.
PR: ports/193069
Submitted by: pfg
Reset maintainership for ports not staged with no pending PR
With hat: portmgr
Modernize LIB_DEPENDS
With hat: portmgr
Remove indefinite articles and trailing periods from COMMENT, plus minor
COMMENT typos and surrounding whitespace fixes. A few Makefiles where not
included as they contain Latin-1 characters that break the Phabricator
workflow. Category M.
Approved by: portmgr (bapt)
Update the default version of GCC used in the Ports Collection from
GCC 4.6.4 to GCC 4.7.3. This entails updating the lang/gcc port as
well as changing the default in Mk/bsd.default-versions.mk.
Part II, Bump PORTREVISIONs.
Supported by: Christoph Moench-Tegeder <firstname.lastname@example.com> (fixing many ports)
Tested by: bdrewery (two -exp runs)
Convert all USE_FORTRAN=yes to "USES=fortran, USE_GCC=yes". In most cases
USE_GCC=yes has been omitted though.
Remove USE_FORTRAN handling from bsd.port.mk and bsd.gcc.mk.
Minor cleanups in some ports like USE_GMAKE, NOPORTDOCS,...
Exp-run: bdrewery
Approved by: portmgr (bdrewery)
Update to libmpc version 1.0.1 which brings the following fixes:
- Switched to automake 1.11.6, see CVE-2012-3386.
- #14669: Fixed extraction of CC from gmp.h.
- Fixed case of intermediate zero real or imaginary part in mpc_fma,
found by hydra with GMP_CHECK_RANDOMIZE=1346362345.
This is on top of the following changes from version 1.0
- Licence change towards LGPLv3+ for the code and GFDLv1.3+ (with no
invariant sections) for the documentation.
- 100% of all lines are covered by tests
- Renamed functions
. mpc_mul_2exp to mpc_mul_2ui
. mpc_div_2exp to mpc_div_2ui
Add NO_STAGE all over the place in preparation for the staging support (cat:
Better handling of shared lib.
Submitted by: Oliver Hartmann <email@example.com>
Fix pkg-plist.
Submitted by: erwin
Feature safe: yes
also build shared object instead of only the static archive
Submitted by: Oliver Hartmann <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Feature safe: yes
also build shared object instead of only the static archive,
and bump portrevision.
Submitted by: Oliver Hartmann <email@example.com>
Feature safe: yes
adjust linking and comments in dependent ports after the math/atlas update;
math/atlas-devel will be updated to use the same constructs at a later date
Approved by: miwi (portmgr)
Feature safe: yes
- Get Rid MD5 support
Fix build with gotoblas.
Feature safe: yes
Bump PORTREVISION for everything that sets USE_FORTRAN=yes which now
implies lang/gcc44 up from lang/gcc43.
Approved by: portmgr
Bump PORTREVISION due to change of USE_FORTRAN=yes to GCC 4.3.
Enhancements to math/superlu [1] add a knob for
GotoBLAS/ATLAS/reference BLAS.
Submitted by: "Pedro F. Giffuni" <firstname.lastname@example.com> [1]
Maual has been updated recently (November 2007).
Submitted by: erwin
Now we use USE_FORTRAN=yes to use FORTRAN compiler.
* Use gfortran42 only and not gcc42.
* Bump portrevision.
* We can choose (automatically) math/blas or math/atlas
Make fetchable.
Submitted by: thierry
Use blas instead of atlas
Submitted by: Pedro F. Giffuni <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Remove USE_REINPLACE from ports starting with M
Make fetchable
Submitted by: fenner's distinfo check
Update to 20060201 version of SuperLU
Submitted by: Pedro F.Giffuni
Approved by: krion@
Update to 20041202
contents of distfile has changed while filename is unchanged:
diff is just adding fortran interface of other than double
precision, and trivial cleanups and home site of superlu
announces that superlu has updated at 2004/Dec/02.
Submitted by: Pedro F. Giffuni <firstname.lastname@example.com>
BROKEN: Size mismatch
make replaced the defined command by our ${ARCH}.
Approved by: portmgr (marcus).
BROKEN on 5.x: Broken by changes to make(1)
Approved by: portmgr (self)
a) unbreak. silent distfile update
distfile has been updated at 2004/April/10th
and according to http://crd.lbl.gov/~xiaoye/SuperLU/
o Include "symmetric mode"
b) change portversion
Submitted by: kris via bento
update to 3.0
Noticed by: pav (long long ago) and Ricardo <email@example.com>
Submitted by: trevor
- Unbreak checksum, user guide was updated to October 2003 revision.
(forced commit)
distfile is subjected to change.
it is just adding BSD like license
notice and one example file.
Pointed out: kris
Pointy hat to: myself
distfile (superlu_2.0.tar.gz) is updated
Submitted by: bento's log
Fix for unfetch
Reported by: bento
1. correct pkg-plist
2. documetation came with tarball is old.
replaced by new one.
Forgot to add files/patch-make.inc
Honor CFLAGS, CC and so on.
1. using ATLAS, faster blas implementation.
2. correct build
3. maintainer ship transfered to maho
Submitted by: Pedro F. Giffuni <email@example.com>
upgrade to 2.0.20030221
Update the checksum (2.0.20021113 -> 2.0.20021126). In this repack,
there were only header and typedef changes.
Submitted by: bento
upgrade to 20021113
Submitted by: Mark Linimon <email@example.com>
Update to superlu 2.0.20020923 (lots of code changes, no vendor
version bump)
tarball change :
- add new source files
- update docs
Submitted by: Oliver Braun <email@example.com>
Chase the checksum. Minor code nits, some doc changes, and addition of some
temporary (.old) files that probably got left in by accident when the tarball
was re-rolled.
- PORTDOCS police - DOCSDIR support to some - Brush out some lint
Distfile changed - makefile, documentation and code changes. Bump
Convert category math to new layout.
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Jim McKay was an actor who had a successful Hollywood career. In 1961, he hosted ABC's influential "Wide World of Sports." In 1994, he was the studio host for the FIFA World Cup coverage. In 1950, he hosted a variety show for CBS in New York. In 1955, he hosted the NBC game show "Make the Connection." In 1947, he joined the TV station WMAR-TV in Baltimore. McKay began his entertainment career acting in films like the comedy "The World's Greatest Athlete" (1973) with Tim Conway. He appeared in a number of television specials, including "The Dorothy Hamill Special" (1976-77), "The Kentucky Derby" (ABC, 1985-86) and "The Preakness Stakes" (ABC, 1985-86). In the eighties, McKay devoted his time to various credits, such as "The Calgary Olympic Holiday Special" (ABC, 1987-88), "U.S. Figure Skating Championships" (ABC, 1987-88) and "100th Tournament of Roses Parade (ABC/89)" (ABC, 1988-89). He also worked on "101st Tournament of Roses Parade (ABC/90)" (ABC, 1989-1990). Additionally, he could be seen on a variety of television specials like "World Figure Skating Championships Presented by MasterCard" (1995-96), "The 11th Annual Academy of Television Arts & Sciences' Hall of Fame" (CBS, 1995-96) and "The 123rd Kentucky Derby" (ABC, 1996-97). He also appeared in "The 122nd Preakness Stakes" (ABC, 1996-97) and "The 125th Kentucky Derby" (ABC, 1998-99). McKay last acted in the dramatic sports film "Miracle" (2004) with Kurt Russell. McKay passed away in June 2008 at the age of 87.


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Forever in My Heart is Mira Jewelry Design's newest line of handmade memorial jewelry that launched last November. The line was designed by an established jeweler, Mira Alicki, who has more than 20 years of experience in designing and jewelry making. Alicki is a European trained goldsmith and jewelry design and creation is her lifelong career. She works closely with customers to create unique designs they can love and treasure for years to come.
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The Practice of Appreciation Posted on December 28th
In the New York Times the other day, Roberta Smith wrote an article titled What We Talk About When We Talk About Art about the obtuse and pretentious language in art criticism today. Smith takes issue with three words: privilege, reference (both used as verbs) and the term practice used to describe what artists do. Smith seems particularly uncomfortable with the word "practice," claiming that it characterizes art-making as a white-color activity, that it implies that artists need license to practice (of which she disagrees) and, most interestingly, that "practice" indicates that art is ultimately a problem-solving activity. Here's how Smith puts it:
Second is the implication that an artist, like a doctor, lawyer or dentist, is trained to fix some external problem… Art rarely succeeds when it sets out to fix anything beyond the artist's own subjective needs.
Smith's issue with the word practice is less interesting than the bold claim it leads her to about the purpose of art. She seems to believe that art is most successful when it doesn't try to tackle any problem outside the artist's psyche or aesthetic aims. Sunil Gangadharan at Art and Perception wrote an insightful response that makes the point that art often draws attention to global problems, perhaps encouraging "the viewer to think about (and in the ideal case, acting to alleviate) a problem hitherto unknown or underrepresented"–thereby tackling an "outside" problem. Certainly this would be the goal of most political art.
I have never thought of art as a problem-solving activity, outside of the inherent problem-solving in bringing an intention to realization. Art may gesture towards problems in the world, but I agree that the best art does not aim to "fix" anything. The purpose of art will always be debated, but my natural response is that art, rather than solving problems, is a means to a greater valuing of the world, problems and all. The best art is a sophisticated and distinctive appreciation of the world, and the best art criticism is a sophisticated and distinctive appreciation of art.
Without art, what we would appreciate in the world would be limited. We would no doubt appreciate food, water, shelter, family, and any personal relationships that benefited us. But our pleasures would likely be restricted to only what contributed to our survival and immediate happiness, and our way of ordering the world would probably consist of a simple dichotomy: good and bad. Good things help us survive or feel good, and bad things impede our survival and hurt. Art, however, gives us the ability–and the permission–to appreciate the unclassifiable details of the world. For instance, without art, we might find the natural world beautiful, or we might be drawn to a hard-to-read feature in someone else, like a sardonic yet shy smile. The appreciation of such things perhaps existed before art, but it is art that encourages us to dwell in and value these perceptions.
Art is also a supreme comfort because it gives credence, by its very attention, to the various moods and modes of being. Joy, triumph, contentment all seem real to us because these are the things we want to feel as real, and suffering is real because of the vividness of pain. But the more subtle states of being–bittersweet melancholy, self-amusement, mischievousness–these states and every other, art argues, are just as real and just as capable of being valued.
When I find art or literature moving, I feel as if the art is elaborating on something I once felt briefly. For instance, Hawthorne's "My Visit to Niagara" explores the numbness and intimidation and loss of self we sometimes feel in the presence of natural phenomena. I felt, when reading "Niagara" that I also had this experience in the presence of nature (my visit to the Andes in Peru was one example). But like so many sensations throughout the course of life, I let myself be swept along to the next experience without pausing on the significance and singularity of that moment. Good art slows the world down and shows us the dimensionality in even the most transient of experiences. Art is perpendicular to life: if a lifetime is a horizontal and forward-moving, art is vertical–showing us the heights and depths in moments from which we are compelled to move on. Art may not fix the problems of the world, but it shows us the fullness of what's at stake.Trackback URL
Some Responses to "The Practice of Appreciation" :
Art certainly is "perpendicular to life". It is a time out from life as we usually live it, and when it is good enough, the "supreme comfort" McFawn talks about is there to enjoy. Roberta Smith makes quite a few good points too, until her last paragraph, where she blows it by conceding that she, like many many others since Leo Casteli exhibited a fake Fountain in the 50s, no longer demands to see art. It is as if the very lack of discipline Smith "refers to" ultimately consumed her own experience of art.
About Hawthorne's visit to Niagra, I think it would be very hard to make outdoor scullpture if I lived in the Rocky mountains, say around Gunnison. Not because of "numbness" but because it would feel like what's the use when you can see a landscape like that everyday.
And finally, one the web site for the school of art at the University of Illinois, it says that the studio curriculum prepares students for careers in social activism. (! ?) They forgot to note whether or not jobs in social activism come with fringe benefits, but the way it was presented could lead one to expect they do. Theirs is a good example of the enlightened, 21st century art department doing what it does best - putting an academic wrapper around the multi-thousand year old instinctual activity we label art.
"Art is perpendicular to life" is brilliant! It's going down in my quotes to remember.


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Have any of the other contributors ever experienced fishing a venue on which the lakebed has become 'tainted' to such an extreme that the older 'original' fish no longer seem happy to feed. It seems to sometimes occur on waters that suffer from really serious algae blooms or those that are unfortunate enough to receive an influx of really dirty (filthy) floodwater.
I remember reading about Savay after the big floods that occurred in October 1987 that caused the Colne to flood (exacerbated by fallen trees) and massive volumes of contaminated floodwater entered the lake from the sluices and later rendered that area largely unproductive. The same thing happened on White Swan. A few waters had terrible algae issue last year and the originals seemed to have stopped coming out on one that I fish in the Colne Valley (at least that's what I think is going on).
Really good topic this from my old mucka Lew. Yes, I've experienced that exact situation with 'tainted lakebeds' many times. You mentioned Dinton's White Swan Lake, so I'll start there as I was also fishing it during the summer of '07 when that nasty floodwater came in. It's probably worth pointing out that Dinton has always been prone to flooding, it's just that on this occasion it was particularly bad as it happened in the warmer months, and as such it's likely that fertilisers and other undesirables went into the mix.
That particular year at Dinton things were going really well, and in big carp terms it was one of the best waters in the country. The stock was truly mind-blowing, not just big fish but really good lookers too. From memory there were three fifty pounders: Bruno, Sid, and The Twin, with another, The Dustbin knocking on the door. Add a long list of forties into the equation and remember that this is going back almost a decade, and you can see that it was a very special lake indeed.
I remember that just prior to the floods I was fishing the big gravelly swim on the bend, just before the river bank at the wider end of the lake, and over the previous couple of trips I'd been lucky enough to get on a bit of a roll, catching Sid at 51lbs, and the stunning mirror known as Apple Slice at 42lbs.
That trip it rained and rained and then rained some more, but the fish were in that corner and at one point I actually saw Bruno swim right into the margins just to the left of where I was fishing. She was tight and looked as fit and healthy as could be, as was everything else that was swimming around in there at that time, but once the floodwater came in things definitely went a bit pear shaped.
I was at home the day the river flowed in, but I drove straight back as soon as I heard, more than anything to help out with the rescue operation as a lot of fish had escaped onto surrounding land. In all we rescued over thirty carp that day, and what ones we missed went on to be recovered from a nearby pond further down the line. As far as I remember I don't think anything was actually lost in the floods, certainly not any of the known big 'uns anyway, but even so, those Dinton fish didn't do so well for a while after that.
I carried on fishing it but it was clear that the bottom of the lake had changed in a big way, and getting takes became very difficult indeed. Baits would come in stinking of rotting eggs and it was as though the bottom was constantly releasing gas. Whole weedbeds lifted up off the bottom, forming huge rafts at either end of the lake, and for several weeks on the bounce this is where the carp were doing most of their feeding, not on the rancid bottom but amongst the surface weed which was absolutely stuffed full of snails. You'd see the carp tenting beneath the weed all the time, day and night, but fishing for them was virtually impossible. I even remember trying a bagging waggler type rig, basically a clear bodied sub float with a short hooklink and a handful of groundbait moulded around the hookbait, so that I could underarm it through the surface weed, but it was really hard work and I only remember catching a couple more carp from the lake despite continuing on for several weeks after the floods.
There wasn't a great deal caught by anybody for a long while after that, only Bernie Loftus who was really working his spots hard, and I remember him getting amongst some of the better fish a bit later in the year, but it was noticeable that they were dropping in weight, possibly because they didn't want to, or simply couldn't feed on the bottom anymore. A lot of those older, big fish have gone now, but Simon who looks after the fishing there has helped the stock to recover and nowadays it's well and truly on its way back to its former glory, certainly one to keep an eye on for the future.
I wrote a fair bit about poor water quality and rancid bottoms in another Rotary Letter a few months back, mainly based around one particular pool containing a very low stock of carp, somewhere I've done a lot of time over the past few years. This particular pool really is hard work, and having spent so much time on the place, and seeing the effects that different weather conditions have, I'm 100% certain it's down to poor water quality and the stagnant nature of the bottom. In this case it's caused by a high level of run-off from surrounding land, which in turn helps fuel the Ivy Duckweed which has all but taken over the pond. Seriously, in terms of difficulty, nowhere I've ever fished can compare to this place. At times I've seen the whole of the bottom covered in a thick mat of duckweed, and at other times the whole of the surface too.
Without going over the same stuff as that past Rotary Letter, basically no light results in a rancid bottom, and I've actually seen the most stagnant areas turn a milky white colour over a period of days, which is a sure sign of oxygen depletion. In short, it's a water quality nightmare, difficult for the wrong reasons, but you know what it's like, once you've put a lot of time and effort into something it's a hell of a job leaving without closure.
Last year I fished it hard through spring and summer, at times in really hot conditions when I knew that any chance of a take was incredibly slim, but I was stubborn and the place had really got under my skin. I remember thinking that we needed some nice cool, wet and windy weather to breathe some life into the place and as hoped for, that weather came around the middle of August.
Everything seemed perfect, I knew where the big 'un was living and I knew its route out into open water each evening, but for three mornings on the bounce that fish showed all over my baits and I failed to get a pick up. It didn't matter what I had out there, it just wasn't going to tip its head down onto that rancid bottom. Proper firm, clean spots were very few and far between, and in all honesty, what ones were there were only so because I'd kept them that way through regular baiting, and even then it was birds doing the cleaning, not fish.
I did get one last chance right at the end of the month when I got it feeding on a firmer shallow spot which I'd been baiting for months, but unfortunately, the smaller of the carp slipped up first (for a third time) and that was the end of that. Obviously with such a low stock you're always going to be up against it, but here it was much more than very few carp making things difficult, here it was all about poor water quality and a filthy bottom.


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storage spot in our upstairs bathroom.
It works.
OK. Disclaimer.
When I got up from my chair, I realized my bargain
hot water bottle leaked!
It looked to me as though it had never been used.
I have NO idea how old it was.
Maybe the water I used (though not boiling) was too hot?
It felt good while it lasted.
Now it only feels VERY wet.


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Erin!!!! Ask for help. Call your PP if need be and ask to be referred to someone you can talk to. Even call your clinic/hospital/medical group to find a support group or counceling so it doesn't cost you anything. I'm awful AWFUL about asking for help and boy I really SHOULD have many times. I've been bed ridden for months on end before barely conscious enough to watch my children grow. I wasn't able/allowed to even have my kids SIT on my lap for over 4 months! I've thought maybe the family would be better off if I just wasn't here being a burden. But, things will get better, but it is SO HARD to see that light when it can take SO LONG and you don't get the RELIEF you need. You really need to talk to someone who can help manage your pain via regular discussion and possibly meds.
You have to keep fighting those doctors and get some answers! Like Craig said, keep fighting! You are such a wonderful soul Erin, don't let this knock you down for long - get up and keep at those doctors for answers!!!!
Your depression CAN and WILL make this worse - trust me, I know from personal experience and from a family memeber who's undiaganosed depression caused her to be a bed-ridden hermit for 2 years (the physical problems she endured would blow your mind.) GET HELP - you are going through WAY TOO MUCH to handle this alone w/o more help!
Erin, I just "met" you thru this forum and I think you are awesome. I cannot imagine going thru school with all of this and you are doing it. So it takes years, you will get there. You need to take care of yourself and start by calling your doc. At one point my PCP gave me his personal office line because he knew I hated calling and getting the receptionist. He knew that I was depressed even though I fought that diagnosis and meds too. Finally I just gave up and trusted his judgment and now I feel better. I don't really like myself on antidepressants either but I don't spend hours every day contemplating what might have been.
i know that Craig will be very happy to read this post and what i have to say.
reality: i am not making physical improvements.
so my plan of action is the following:
i would rather be ill and happy than ill and miserable
so i am going into full Yoda mode, "either Do or Do not...there is no try..." StarWars can be very philosophical can't it???
i know i can not hold a part time job, so i will be DOING my specialty clinincal rounds starting in 2 weeks and volunteering @ the infusion center when i have extra time.
i'm just going to start. not going to think about what my body is like at the end of the day or how difficult it is to do things. and the only way i will not DO is if i get sent home by supervisors or something.
no more "letting my body take time to heal and take a break". i've been taking a break since May....and it ain't gettin any better.
i know this will get "me" back....which i feel will be the best healing of all.
Very nice words, Craig!
Also, Erin, don't forget - you are doing wonders here on HW. You were really there for me when I started in here and were such a positive inspiriation with your kind and energetic words. I know it is not the same helping people face to face, but watch out, like Craig said, for getting in your own way!


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Mallory Keswick can't imagine how her life could possibly be better. She has a wonderful, fulfilling marriage to a man who loves, supports, and nurtures her. She has a lovely home and beautiful twins who bring joy to her days, all of which she devotes herself to wholeheartedly. Mallory feels she has finally found the elusive sense of family that never quite rang true in her own childhood - until an exceptionally cruel act of violence tears apart the fabric of her happiness.
Devastated, distraught, and wondering how she will ever go on, suddenly Mallory's spirit is being tested as never before, forcing her to discover new reserves of courage and strength to confront the darkness that has left her with nothing more to lose and...
Everything to gain.
©1994 Barbara Taylor Bradford (P)1995 Recorded Books, LLC
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BRITAIN will tough out the approaching winter of gloom despite growth
flatlining, the Chancellor predicted yesterday.
In a risky claim, George Osborne insisted we will "remain masters of our own
destiny" while other nations flounder.
It comes as some economists predict the world will slip into a "double dip"
recession by Christmas. Mr Osborne told Lloyd's of London: "We warned
repeatedly that the recovery would be choppy. We are not immune from what
happens on our doorstep."
But he added: "We set in train a plan that was comprehensive and clear in its
vision, but also flexible enough to withstand shocks along the way.
"It is the rock of stability upon which any sustainable recovery depends and
we'll hold to it. We had an emergency Budget last summer on our own terms —
not this summer on the market's terms — unlike so many other countries."
He claimed his hardline economic plan has left Britain "ahead of the curve".
It was his answer to critics' claims that spending cuts have snuffed out the
recovery. Refusing to change from Plan A in his speech to the City, he did
admit disappointing global statistics and a massive stock market wobble have
forced him to downgrade his own growth forecasts. He also dropped a strong
hint that he would back a new round of money printing by the Bank of England
to kickstart the economy.
Labour savaged the Government's record, saying it had "choked off" recovery.
MR Osborne shocked an awards ceremony audience last night with a lewd
joke about a solo sex act. It came as he was named Politician of the Year at
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Title: DEATH AND THE MAIDEN
Part of series: Classical Themes
Designed in: 2016
To be produced in: 2017
Material: multicolor composite 3D print
Print height: 60 cm
Edition: 8 unique pieces
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NOTE: The picture on this page is a render: a computer generated image of a sculpture to be 3D printed. In the actual 3D printed sculpture details, colors and print height may vary. All changes are at the discretion of the artist. Gallery prices will be, depending on the size of the piece, roughly between 2.000 and 6.000 Euro.
Death and the Maiden was a common motif in Renaissance art, especially in painting and music. It was developed from the Dance of Death, with an added erotic subtext. Dance of Death, also called Danse Macabre, is an artistic genre of late-medieval allegory on the universality of death: no matter one's station in life, the Dance of Death unites all.


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Q. What hours is the library most popular during the normal school year?
Hello! My name is Ben Higgins and I will be attending Curry as a freshman this Fall. I am taking an online PAL-summer course and was told to be sure to ask you a question. I don't need any kind of detailed response.
Hi Benjamin -
Welcome to Curry!
The library tends to be busy throughout the week in different ways. You will see a lot of students studying in the evenings while we teach most of our classes during the days. Perhaps this is more detail than you wanted, but we tend to get a lot of questions at the reference desk. Our busiest days are Mondays and tuesdays with the busiest time being 5-6pm. Our busiest time of the semester is during midterms.
Enjoy the rest of your summer and we look forward to seeing you on campus!
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One of the greatest loves of this beauty obsessed gal is eyeliner pencils. I am a HUGE eyeliner fan! Even if I have just a few minutes to get ready, an eyeliner is a must-have for me to look polished and put together. Not surprisingly, I'm the proud owner of a not-so-little eyeliner collection. My latest eyeliner entry is Osmosis Colour Water Resistant Eye Pencil
Water-resistant and long lasting wearability, the Osmosis Eye Pencils feature a creamy, quick drying formula. The soft-gliding application goes on smoothly without any drag or skipping. Smudge with an Eye Liner/Brow or Smudge Brush to diffuse the liners for a smoky eye or define your lash line.
Pro Tip: Apply liner inside the rim of the eyes. This makes the lash line look thicker and is also fantastic as a "liner application" for those with very little eyelid space.
I tried out 3 shades : Black, Plum and Charcoal
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Plum is a deep, matte purple shade.
Charcoal is a dark gunmetal-gray shade with slight shimmer
This eyeliner is super pigmented, delivering a rich color that is smudge-proof and wears strong throughout the day with no need to touch up. The soft & creamy formula glides on smoothly – no tugging or pulling at all. It smudges nicely too if you are going for a smoky eye look but sets very fast, making it not as easy to blend or "smoke" out on the lids or lashline than I would have like to have experienced. That's a good thing for longevity though as the formula doesn't budge easily!
The color stays put on my upper and lower lash line and even waterline! It does start fading off on waterline after about 7 hours of wear but that's the longest time any eyeliner has ever stayed put on my waterline! Also, I like that there's no migrating and settling into the fine creases under my eyes so no raccoon eyes. Here are the swatches :
Overall, I love the waterproof and stay-put formula of Osmosis Colour Water Resistant Eye Pencils. Not only are these eyeliners packed with color, they wear extremely well (even on my waterline!), and are also priced reasonably at $12 each. If you have a hard time finding eyeliners that stay put on the lower lashline/waterline, then you'll definitely want to check these out! Available for purchase at skincarebyalana.com and Blush.com


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Two wins in three days, scoring three goals each time, have lifted Pontefract Collieries to the top of Division One of the Toolstation NCE League.
Colls beat Dronfield Town 3-0 on Saturday after a 3-1 success against Rossington Main, also at home, in midweek and now have 19 points from their first eight league games with just one defeat so far.
In their latest game it took Ponte 40 minutes to open the scoring after a poor display initially, but they took control once Reece Hicks had netted.
Colls unveiled new boy Dean Wharam to the home fans with a proven goal scorer brought to the club and it meant more changes were made to the side.
Injuries continued to be a problem with Copping, Twibey, Kamara, Swift, and Whitehouse still out and others playing when not 100% fit. The list grew longer during the game with Radford limping off early in the first half and Catton following him half way through the second period. With Parry on maternity leave Luke Harling came back into the side and as usual proved a more than capable replacement.
Dronfield came to Ponte looking to end their dismal run of form since the clubs last met in the Cup. That desire to pick up points clearly showed for most of the first half as they put Ponte under the cosh.
Colls held firm, though, and Nigel Danby showed his class and experience by effectively snuffing out any attack that got into the box. When Dronfield did manage to by-pass him they found Harling to be in fine form with a number of point blank saves denying the visitors.
As the half wore on Ponte started to find their rhythm and started to play their neat passing game rather than the desperate long ball that had to be employed early on when Dronfield condensed play into the Ponte half. Gradually they managed to work a few chances on the counter as Arron Joseph started to control midfield along with his partner Hicks.
The pair combined perfectly on 40 minutes as Joseph beat three players to push the ball into the box for the onrushing Hicks to hammer home.
Managers Duncan Bray and Nick Handley clearly did their stuff at half-time as Ponte emerged in a much better frame of mind. They pressed Dronfield back and took control. Wharam started to show his quality up front as he and Rouse started to develop an understanding.
Ten minutes into the half an inch perfect ball cross field ball from Corbett dropped over the Dronfield defence and released Wharam. He then showed his quality by drawing the Dronfield keeper and lofting an inch perfect ball over his head and into the net to score his debut goal.
Dronfield refused to be beaten and continued to press for a goal but could find no way past Danby as he marshalled his defence.
Ponte put the icing on the cake bang on full-time as Dronfield failed to clear a corner and Rouse clipped past the stranded defenders for the third goal. In the end it was a good result for Ponte which took them to the top of the table as leaders Emley dropped points at Mansfield.
In midweek Colls had gone behind to an early goal and were forced to field a weakened team with several regulars injured, but hit back to run out comfortable 3-1 winners against Rossington Main.
With Kamara, Radford, Copping, Twibey, Whitehouse, Agus and Swift all out through injury and Rouse and Corbett both playing through injuries they were expecting a tough test, but produced a resilient display.
The long injury list forced manager Nick Handley (on his own for this game) to reshuffle the deck. New signing Iwan Heeley made his home debut on the right wing with Andy Catton on the opposite flank. Another new signing, Brad Riley, who had played 90 minutes for Frickley the night before, partnered Rouse up front.
Hicks was in midfield alongside Aaron Joseph in front of a back four of Craig Robinson, Nigel Danby, new boy Ryan Jennings and Josh Corbett with Craig Parry in goal.
The changes clearly affected Ponte and they took a while to settle, although the visitors had a lucky escape early on when Catton stormed into their box only to be bundled over by Zack Oakshott for a clear penalty. Having won the spot kick Catton claimed the right to take it, but this time his well struck effort was well saved by the keeper.
Things then got worse for Ponte as the experienced Lee Holmes showed why he is currently the division's leading scorer by exploiting the unfamiliarity between the Ponte central defenders. With a quarter of an hour gone Holmes spun off Jennings and galloped past a flat-footed Ponte defence to hammer the ball past Parry and give Rossington a lead against the run of play.
Ponte gradually picked themselves up, started to play some quality passing football and began to dominate.
They levelled on 24 minutes with a bizarre goal as a defender aimed to clear Corbett's free-kick from half-way only for the ball to cannon high into the air towards his own goal. What looked an easy claim for the uncontested Rossington keeper turned into his worst nightmare as the ball squirmed out of his grip and dropped gently into the net to make it 1-1.
Colls went on to dominate the second half and would have won by a greater margin had it not been for the visitors' keeper. But Catton did make it 2-1 on 61 minutes after fine inter-play between Robinson, Hicks and Joseph and a third goal came on 89 minutes when Matthew Marsden charged down an attempted clearance by the keeper and won the race for the loose ball to score into an open net.
This Saturday Pontefract are away to Yorkshire Amateur and they are also in action next Wednesday (7.45pm) when they host Louth Town (3pm).
Colls have enjoyed more success having won the NCE Division One Fair Play award for August 2014.


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Nearest star from Earth is Sun. And it emits huge amount of energy which is free. No surprise many people try to get most of it with minimal cost. Photovoltaic solar panels still have low efficiency and yet are quite expensive. Everyday we hear how their efficiency is increased by introducing new technologies. Anyway solar panels require direct Sun which in some regions doesn't appear very often. So how we can get this energy with almost no initial cost? The easiest way to do so is to build a solar thermal collector. You can find lots of high efficient commercial collectors. They look great and at some level works in winter time when Sun shines. I decided to go simpler. I need hot water only in spring, summer and fall. In winter time I burn wood to heat the house an so water. In summer time I usually heated water using electric boiler which generates nice bills at the end of month. No more…
So I started this project which is still in testing phase. But seems to work fine. Lets go through build process how I made a simple solar collector using old window frame. First of all I was lucky I've got this old window frame which area is about 1 square meter.
It has two glasses in both sides. I removed one glass and replaced it with OSB sheet. Then placed about 30mm of stone wool for thermal resistance:
Luckily the window frame opens like a book. Four screws holds it together. Depth from glass to the middle is about 30mm – enough space for insulation in one side and for placing heat carrier pipe on another. OK next step was to place a tin sheet which will accumulate Sun radiation energy.
Tin is reflective and reflects most of energy like a mirror. We need to absorb as much energy as possible. Best solution for this is to cover it with black paint. I covered it with non glossy paint so it would not reflect any light. The darker is better. I found that paint coating works great as it is non glossy.
After this is done we can proceed to pipe which will remove heat from black tin absorber. Here you can argue that metal pipe will work best (maybe copper or aluminum) if you have one around – use it. I had several meters of PP-R plastic aluminum 18mm diameter pipe (7 meters of it). Didn't want to waste money on new one so I used it. Painted it with same black color and bended it to form serpentine shape:
Painted non black spots at fixture places and covered with top part of window with glass.
Now fun part begins. I wanted to integrate solar collector it in to existing home water system. So I attached pipes to same water heater that works with home heater. I used three-way pipe connector with valves so I could disconnect any of it at any time. In summer time I just want only solar heater, so I disconnect boiler from house heating system and leave only solar to circulate hot water. I used 20mm plastic pipes to connect collector to boiler as they are cheap and easy to assemble:
We all know that best place to put solar collector is roof. Here it gets most of sun and is in safe place. I decided to go different way. When you put solar collector on the roof it is higher than water boiler. You will definitely need a water pump to circulate hot water down. I wanted natural flow when water from collector flows upwards without any pumps. So I decided to put it lower than boiler which is on the ground. You can see that pipes are going up from collector. I insulated hot water pipe to preserve hot water from cooling until it reaches water heater tank.
I found spot where sun sines most part of the day and is convenient to put. Still considering about flowers on the ground, but it seems that they don't have significant effect on collector. Might be I'll leave them for a while.
Set up is still fresh and in testing phase. Probably one collector won't be enough to heat 120L of water. There is another same size window frame lying in the garage so probably I will assemble another one to put aside. I will give updates on how it works pretty soon.