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Heavenly 1st pitch after a tricky pull at the start! (dangerous for Andy seconding after pulling the gear flicking out!) Found the mantel shelf quite tricky with a bag on, on the 2nd pitch. Great climb, but the relentless heat was getting to me! Stanners - AltLd O/S - 03/Sep/14 with Andy G
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Couldn't get onto the route we wanted due to the sea (abseiled in onto a lone block out amongst the waves... took a long time to get to the start!)
I took first pitch (typical swanage start) Chris took second. Nice move near the top!DaveGarrity - AltLd O/S - 29/Sep/13 with Chris Evans
Nice route. A touch intimidating for the grade.Felix Ottey - AltLd O/S - 14/Oct/12
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as always co-writer poppana. the genius behind Rose. writer of Fly away and learn to fly
The real twist of the day came up at health education. Rose hated this class. Usually it was just one hour a day of rolling condoms on cucumbers and that was always followed by a speech of how abstinence was the right choice for high school students. It had stopped being awkward and embarrassing a long time ago, and now most of the students spent their time avoiding the teacher's words.
"Today we are going to begin a very exciting new project," the teacher said, resting her hands on her enormously pregnant belly. "As you all know, the school's official stance is abstinence, and we would love for you to get a small taste of parenthood. So next time you think about getting intimate with that special someone, you will remember this little project and think twice, alright? Does that sound like fun?"
She didn't get much attention from the class, but Rose did hear somebody comment on how this particular teacher was unmarried and pregnant, yet still saw fit to preach about this stuff to them. What did end up catching the full attention of the class was the horrifying, gut-wrenching screech of a baby. For a second there Rose thought the teacher had given birth, but no, the belly was still in place, and on her arm the woman was holding a plastic baby in a blue onesie.
"You will be divided into pairs of one boy and one girl, and each pair will receive their own little bundle of plastic joy, and you will take care of these little ones for an entire three weeks. The babies will need to be fed, burped, changed, and if you neglect these duties, they will scream."
After a short explanation of the sensors inside the toys, she began to read out the pairs. Rose was glad for Romy for getting to do this project with Kevin, they would do it well. And when they picked up their little baby, they were already bickering about names. Rose was so concentrated on Romy and Kevin that she missed her own name, and was surprised when a plastic baby boy was slammed onto her desk, startling her.
"So," a deep voice said, and Rose could practically hear the smug grin in his voice. It sent shivers of horror down her spine. "Looks like we get to spend some time together again."
Romy smiled from next to Kevin as they sat down in health class. They usually tried to freak the other out with the goat balls in a jar and the pictures of genitals and what not and they were doing that till there was a loud bang on a table catching everyones attention. There on the front table was a doll dressed in a blue onsie. Romy looked at Kevin and smiled knowing what was to happen next.
"Okay people be careful with these babies or else you will be sorry. I don't wanna hear that the mothers did all the work. Guys you need to be dads."
Babies were passed out and just with Romy and Kevin's luck they got a little girl.
"Keeva." Kevin said.
"Ramona." Romy said at the same time as Kevin.
"That is to common." Kevin protested
"That is to odd. MY daughter will NOT be named Keeva."
"Lock. Simple and...." Kevin started
They were to busy arguing that they didn't realize class was over. Romy grabbed her fake plastic baby and walked toward the door with Kevin right behind her just as frustrated as her.
"So what do you wanna name it?" Ben asked, throwing an arm around Rose's shoulders. She had managed to escape from him right after health ed, but now at lunch hour she didn't really have a choice.
Cradling the baby in her arms, Rose glared up at him. "He, not it. And I was thinking maybe River or Sheldon."
Ben scoffed. "Don't be ridiculous," he laughed. "It's gotta be something powerful like Pro or Kyle or something. Kyle it is!"
Rose sighed. "Fine, whatever. Just, I'll have him today and you can have him tomorrow."
"No," Ben shook his head. "No I think it's better we do this together. You know, spend some time together. Hey we have a son, don't we, we owe it to him to get to know each other a little better." He slid his hand down her back and when it came dangerously close to her butt, she flinched. Instinctively she looked around the cafeteria for her sister, but Romy was right across the room and deep in conversation with her friends and baby daddy.
"Please don't do that," Rose said, holding the plastic doll a little closer to her chest when Ben's hand traveled up her bare leg; this was a bad day to wear a skirt.
"What do you say you come over after school, yeah? I'll see you at the parking lot at three. We still have to write that essay, and with my way of working, it's going to take us all week."
Rose knew there was absolutely no way of getting away from him; it was true, they had to write an essay together. However, she wanted to do it somewhere where she could at least have somebody she trusted close. "My house," she said and got up from the table when the baby started to cry. "I'll go change him. Excuse me."
Lunch flew came alot faster than expected with a room full of babies crying full blast during history. Benjamin even had the balls to say out loud, "Even the babies think this class sucks."
Kevin held the girl in her stained pink onsie well Romy thought up names that they would hopefully both like.
" I like the name Leniah." Romy said hoping to not start another argument.
"Locklyn. A mix of both that we like."
"I love it." Romy said looking at Kevin and his goofy smile.
"She needs a new outfit. This one is just to stained." Kevin said looking down at the doll.
Romy spent no time wasting as she fed and changed her infant fake baby who kept crying. . Kevin had given it a shot and tried to sooth her but had no luck whats so ever.
"I told you we were gonna have extra fun today." Romy teased as the rest of the group walked up.
Vandol held his 'daughter' in his jacket as he sat down with Sage. Max was doing the same with his son as he sat down opposite Romy and Kevin.
"Meet.... Suril." Vandol said pointing at his chest.
"And Liam." Max said pointing at his own.
"Locklyn." Kevin said point at the baby in his lap.
"So you ready to die Kev?" Max asked, scooping food in his mouth.
"Well Romy with a baby walking in her home where a homicidal maniac lives is not a good thing when YOU'RE the father. You wont be alive long enough for Romy to explain that it is a fake baby."
Rose didn't even know what she was doing there. Her hand hovered above the door knob of Duncan's bathroom, and she hesitated. This was too wrong. She knew what he did, yet she hardly even cared. Romy had told her about Duncan, and their dad would absolutely freak out if he knew what sort of a person she was socializing with... But then again. She was already blowing off a gym class for this, might as well go through with it.
She entered the bathroom, and she wasn't surprised to find that there was nobody there. Rose had no idea when Duncan had his business hours, so this was kind of a long shot. Sighing, the blonde girl turned to leave the bathroom and instead of a door, she found herself facing Duncan.
"What are you doing here?" Duncan asked after a moment of awkward silence. He passed by her, hopped onto the counter with the sinks and laid down his backpack. He was still wearing the same clothes as he had on the night of the dance; his beanie, hoodie and jeans looked as shabby as they had then, and actually the only difference was the match in the corner of his mouth that he was chewing.
"Um... I'm not entirely sure, actually;" Rose admitted. Now that he was there, she actually felt quite nervous. She wasn't afraid of him like she was of Ben, but Duncan had this strangely intimidating aura about him.
"You wanna buy something or?"
Rose shook her head. "No, nothing like that. I don't... It's so bad for your skin. And my dad... Well, whatever," she rambled.
"What's up with the kid?" Duncan asked, nodding his head at the plastic baby on Rose's arm.
Rose remembered the plastic baby and explained: "It's a school project. You know, take care of a baby for a week, it's supposed to teach you stuff about abstinence and things..."
"How's that working out for you?"
Rose sighed. She knew what he meant. Of course, he meant her little outburst at the dance about how she lost her virginity. He sat with his back against the mirror, and Rose walked to the sinks as well. Duncan watched her as she set the baby down on the counter and dropped her purse from her shoulder to the elbow. "I'm doing the project with Ben," she said after hesitating. She wasn't sure why she was talking to him, but he seemed... Well, easier. "It was assigned partners. My sister gets to do it with her boyfriend, of course."
"Yeah from what I've heard, it's not the only thing they're doing," Duncan laughed. "It's a shame she's wasting her time on that dick, your sister's hot."
Rose glanced at him in surprise. "You think so?" She felt a strange pang of jealousy. Nervously she pushed a strand of hair behind her ear. "I mean not that it's any of my business but... Is that like your type?"
"Why do you want to know?"
Rose shrugged. "No reason. Well, umm, I just wanted to thank you I guess. For taking me home from the dance. It was really a sweet thing to do."
"Sweet?" Duncan repeated. He spat out the match he was chewing and it hit the floor, disappearing under the door of a stall. Rose suddenly realized where she was, and she stared at Duncan with wide eyes. This was so weird. Why was she in a school bathroom with a 16 year old drug dealer?!
"I really need to go," she announced, picking up the baby. "I'll see you around."
"Rose!" he called after her, and something, she didn't know what, compelled her to stop and turn to him. "You wanna have lunch tomorrow?"
Nervously, Rose brushed back her blonde hair. "Uh... I really don't know. And our lunch hours might not even be at the same time, I mean... I'd love to, but..."
Duncan hopped down from the counter. "Tell you what, I'll be here all day tomorrow. You come here, we'll have lunch, or you don't come and that's fine too. Whatever you want. Oh, but... Don't bring the kid."
Rose left the bathroom in a hurry after that. Have lunch with him? And what, eat a sandwich he's sneaked some cocaine into? Then again...
Well, the idea of having lunch with Duncan made her stomach swirl in that very good way that made her smile. The only thing that could ruin that feeling was the knowledge that after school, she'd have to deal with Benjamin.
Romy and Kevin had gone back to her place to shock the cap out of her dad after they made a quick stop at a baby's R us for a cheap onsie to replace the crap one that the school had on the doll. the baby even got her own cheap blanket. As soon as Romy and Kevin opened the door Gerard was right there waiting.
"Why are you holding a baby?" He asked as his nose started to flair.
"Well.... We are...."
"You knock up my daughter you sick bastard!" Gerard yelled at Kevin as he went to grab him by the collar. His nose was flaring and the vein on the side of his head was now thumping. the magical muscles he never had even showed up to help him kill Kevin.
"No. This a school project dad." Romy interjected as she hopped between her dad and guy friend. "Don't kill my baby daddy. I need him to help with the report that we need to write together to get a passing grade.
"Don't lie to ME Romy." Gerard's face was now turning redder and redder.
"Max was right." Kevin smiled not aware of the danger he was STILL in.
"It is a health class thing dad. Rose has one too. We both have babies right now and you will have to deal with or I'm going to mothers." Romy said dramatically.
"You're gonna take a test." Gerard said walking to the kitchen and getting his keys. "I'm gonna go buy it right now."
"Can you say over-dramatic?" Kevin asked taking the doll from Romy. "He didn't even ask for his grand kids name."
"He's gonna kill you if you keep that up. Seriously he is not one to mes with."
True to his word Gerard had come back home withseveral tests of different brands and went on the hunt for his daughter only to see his other daughter in the kitchen with some guy he did not reconize right away.
"Dad.... Shhhh. Come here." Romy whispered from the hall way.
Gerard walked over to her and gave her the bag of pregnancy tests and was about to bark orders to take them when Romy tugged his shirt down to silence him.
"You let HIM hear us and I will personally slap you dad. I don't trust him and so far I have prevented him from trying to feel her up. So shush up." Romy snapped quietly.
Gerard's attention went to Rose and the huge football player in the dining room typing up something well the jock leaned on a plastic baby similar to the one Romy had earlier. He stormed over and was gonna yell at Rose but a grunt interupted him. Romy had sent him death glares so all he could do was sit in the main kitchen area and watch his daughter interact with the dumb jock who now noticed the crazy dad was home and kept his hands to himself.


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Search Motor Optimization, popularly acknowledged as Search engine optimization, is the way of attracting additional and more visitors to a internet site and hence escalating rank of the web page. As its name suggests, lookup engine optimization is generally connected with lookup engines. There are a lot of search engines around the net. Google, Yahoo, Bing and so forth are some of the largely utilised research engines. Suppose, you want to research about dental hospitals about the USA utilizing Google. When you research you will recognize that plenty of backlinks have appeared. There could be 1000's or hundreds of thousands of search engine optimization sites related to dental hospitals close to the USA. But it is not achievable that all the internet websites look in the very first page. Generally for Google, 10 links or sites look in just about every web page. You may wonder why it is critical for a internet site to appear in the first few pages.
This is a actuality that persons have a tendency to click on internet websites that look in the 1st handful of pages. It is unusual that a particular person will search about five hundred pages and then click on on the link of your site there. So, web sites that search engine optimization appear in the first several pages get most of the site visitors. We all know that the much more you get traffic the much more you have the likelihood to shine in world wide web marketing and advertising. Web promoting has turn out to be a world wide organization now-a-days. So, it is really crucial for you and for the expansion of your small business that your internet site seem in the initial number of pages.
Now the concern might occur what you can do to location your web site in the very first couple of pages or, possibly, in the very first page. The following the Search engine optimisation works. seo The primary objective of Search engine optimization is to optimize your websites in these a way that your web page look in the initially few pages. So, we may possibly say that the internet sites that are optimized very well appear in the 1st webpage. There are some points to comply with if you are to optimize your web site effectively.
Firstly, the contents of your site should be related. You should have some idea how you can appeal to the readers about a distinct factor or item. Suppose, you want to provide digital areas on the internet. So, your website should include enough information about the digital parts you intend to promote. Apart from, the keywords ought to not be irrelevant. It frequently misleads people and they get irritated by this form of issues. You want to generate back links to distinct high ranked websites and therefore entice far more and a lot more site visitors. It will assist the rank of your internet site to develop up. Search engines can go through only texts. So, it is far better not to use photographs, video clip or flash player to illustrate about your product. Even so, what is most significant is the title of your website. The title should be related to your business. It will increase the likelihood of getting in the first page for your site. The URL of the web page need to not be far too very long to grasp. It should also be pertinent with the company you want to enlarge.
These are the basic principles of Search engine marketing or Lookup Motor Optimization. If you are fascinated about Search engine marketing you will need to learn about the pros and disadvantages of Search engine optimisation. Hope, the short article will assist you learn about look for engine optimization and mature up your company.
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There is a steady rise in the number of folks making their individual ecommerce web-sites or on the net organizations since they know there is great money from them. These also introduced about new and a myriad of providers that help these companies realize their objectives. And one particular of these are corporations supplying various search engine optimisation services. It is a reasonably younger sector and thus most of these businesses are beneath a ten years aged. But that does not signify they do not know what they are doing.
When your small business is primarily based on a website and relies search engine optimization seriously on the web to get your conversions or to get individuals to discover you, certainly you need to have the support of research engine optimization or seo. In particular in the natural benefits in which most of the genuinely great targeted traffic actually will come from. If you want to do well in your very own on the net enterprise, you surely want to rank at the leading of these effects.
But reaching it is not uncomplicated specially if you are in a very competitive business or what they generally named a area of interest. You require all the enable that you can get. If seo you know up coming to nothing at all about search engine optimization, you can teach oneself about it through cost-free and paid out implies. But it is very best that you leave the process of carrying out your website's seo to a superior web optimization business who has the knowledge and the experience to get the job performed for you. You pay out an added for this but feel of it as a good investment and from which you will be reaping equally good benefits for the a long time to arrive.
Listed here are a couple of of the search engine marketing services that you can expect to get search engine optimization from your search engine optimization company.
Key phrase Research
Key phrases are the starting up point with any research engine optimization. You want to know what keywords you really should be concentrating on to enable you get a higher position in the organic and natural look for results. You need to have to know what key phrases your probable consumers will be searching for and undoubtedly intention for those search phrases. Your web optimization business do this seemingly wearisome method for you and arrive up with the best key phrases for your internet site or organization. On this aspect, you may well have to cooperate with them so they can have seo a far better understanding of your small business and from there perform out the preliminary sets of keywords and phrases where they will be basing their study.
Website link Making
If search phrases are the ones that start off your search engine marketing campaign, it is the link building that fuels your lookup motor optimization. Since the best way for your site to rank for a certain keyword to have a very good hyperlink constructing method built for it. It is all about the anchor text that carries your keyword. It is all about linking to applicable websites. It is all about acquiring inbound links seo from trustworthy websites and so on and so forth. Your search engine optimization company must be ready to supply you an successful website link developing campaign to give your internet site the improve it demands.
Social Press Advertising
The world wide web is all about connecting with other individuals and generally this is referred to as the social press. Much more and a lot more search engine marketing organizations today are presenting social media in addition to their other typical web optimization providers. Discover an search engine marketing corporation that has a superior grasp of World wide web two. and the social media and has a monitor report of functioning in that sphere.
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Look for Engine Optimization is a incredibly strong type of targeting paid out or no cost website traffic for your internet site if it really is accomplished rightfully. For your site or site to be optimized or even be in a domination of a particular keyword by your links or internet pages showing on the very first web page of the major ranked research engines requirements gratifying tactics of advertising campaigns. Genuine encounter might be redundant especially on Internet Advertising and marketing but the appropriate expertise or tutorial guidance techniques must be taken for doing a adequate work in get to earn a revenue from your internet site. There are a lot of beneficial factors to optimize your website or site and 1 of them is of study course, 'promoting your website or weblog small business for a focused audience.' Search Engines are really impartial in position internet websites or weblogs for their greatest worth of link level of popularity they possess. So high quality back-links is what you will need to develop for your internet site.
There are billions of web site pages and sites that are indexed to show up on the hyperlink crawlers of the search engines. So usually it takes time for a web-site to get indexed by the engines like Google or other top rated ranked engines on the Internet in purchase to lastly start off obtaining cost-free specific site visitors search engine optimization , or even paid targeted traffic. It could get somewhere around six months to crank out free of charge website traffic from Google and other look for engines, but you could see efficient final results in four months if you are super-energetic in your marketing and advertising work, but that wont be the circumstance if you're utilizing paid marketing. Laziness is a very impractical thing and a quite conversant rationale why some others fail to even generate cost-free focused traffic at all on all net and website promotional methods. Your accomplishments are determined by your steps, if you're far too lazy to operate, evidently your result will be none but failure.
For this selected opportunity seo tools you will be doing work at home which is one of the benefits you have on the first hand, but the most largest edge is that after obtaining that excellent automated no cost focused visitors you can even sit down and even snore whilst your internet site or blog's earnings rise. I do not even believe there is one more totally free internet site promotional system that can get you the total of cost-free website traffic you can accomplish from the search engines. Everything website primarily based is searched employing the lookup engines, even if you have uploaded videos on social press websites, they will look primarily on the lookup effects of Google, Bing, etcetera. search engine optimization You have to make confident you use key phrases that are mostly searched on the engines by Online users on a day-to-day foundation, but also pick very low competitive key phrases on the subject material of your internet site.
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I wanted to introduce the feministing community to one of the amazing artists that I had the honor of being in residency with while in Italy last month. Her name is Sharlene Khan–a young South African artist who wrestles with themes of identity, work, race, class, gender, community, and so much more in the many genres that she works in.
Her work, in her own words:
My work (which comprises of oil paintings, installations and mixed media drawings) hopes to bring to the fore this sector of society that is so sadly ignored, to depict the 'humanness' of these people we pass by daily – their dreams, hopes, struggles, wit and dignity. My work also combines oil painting and ink drawing to portray this 'lower class' society in what once was an upper class indulgence and to continue to question these attitudes towards the 'fine arts', by turning oil paintings into functional everyday objects e.g. clothes, bedspread, curtains, haircut salons. My work is a visual representation of my identity and all the influences upon it. Needlework in my paintings, as well as the depiction of Indian mehndi designs, biblical scriptures and poetry are meant to reflect my African, Indian, Chrisitan, female identity as well as my early apartheid education, and later tertiary education.
Khan describes her distaste with the word diaspora: "It chiefly recognises similarities at the expense of equally important localised differences. I don't really consider myself as part of such a diaspora, I am a South African Indian who is very located in this specific country at this specific juncture in time. And while I realise that the sense of 'Indianness' is probably a valid one among many migrant communities, in South Africa it was promoted by the apartheid government to ensure that Indians in this country were made to feel like outsiders. Indians have been in SAfrica since the 1820′s."
Her work is bold, controversial, deeply emotional, and truly original. A couple more examples are featured after the jump.


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The Perfume Lover
A Personal History of Scent
Denyse Beaulieu
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I'd have never imagined that some day I'd be telling Bertrand Duchaufour about my nights in Seville. When we first met in a radio studio in May 2008, I hadn't even liked him much.
I'd only been writing about fragrance in earnest for a year at that point and I'd been very much looking forward to meeting Duchaufour. His off-beat, deeply personal compositions for edgy fashion labels like Comme des Garçons or the pioneer niche house L'Artisan Parfumeur had earned him star status among perfume aficionados as well as a reputation for artistic integrity. He was one of the people who'd eased fragrance out of its traditional set of references as projections of feminine or masculine personae: many of his compositions were olfactory sketches capturing the spirit of the places to which he'd travelled: Sienna in winter; a seduction ritual in Mali; a Buddhist temple in Bhutan; the Panamanian rainforest; a church in Avignon …
With his rectangular glasses, shaven pate and forthright demeanour, the forty-something perfumer certainly looked more like one of my artist friends than the sibylline master of a secret craft, and I was sure we'd get on fine. I was mistaken. Throughout the broadcast, Duchaufour was gruff and snappy. The host's faux-naïve questions seemed to irk him; he let on that self-styled critics like myself or our fellow guest, the perfume historian Octavian Coifan, had better leave the thinking to the pros. It turned out he had good reason to be annoyed. He'd been led to believe he'd been invited to speak about his work. Minutes before going on the air, he was told that the topics of the day would be the high price of perfume and the absence of proper fragrance reviews. I understood why he was disgruntled and respected the fact that he didn't try to ingratiate himself with us or the public, but I was disappointed just the same. Clearly, we weren't going to be buddies. Still, the man made great perfumes and that was all that mattered. I didn't have to like him personally to appreciate his work, and I certainly didn't need him to like
So when I spotted him the following November at the raw materials exhibition organized by the Société Française des Parfumeurs where I had just been accepted as a member, I wondered whether I should even bother to say hello. But since we'd met, I'd managed to slip a foot in the door of a few labs: some of his colleagues seemed to think I was worth talking to. And more significantly, I'd fallen in love with his recent work. I felt he was shifting towards a more sensuous style I could actually connect with, and I'd just written a review of his latest fragrance, Al Oudh, an ode to Arabian perfumery pungent with sexy animal notes. 'I love it when a man plays that kind of dirty trick on me,' I'd concluded teasingly. It hadn't occurred to me that he would ever read those words.
Duchaufour recognized me as I walked by: I
somewhat conspicuous with my apple-green coat and silver bob. Much to my surprise, he grinned and kissed me on both cheeks before congratulating me on the accuracy of my review. I hadn't written it to please him, but I wasn't about to let such an opportunity pass me by, so I instantly improvised a white lie. I was teaching a perfume appreciation course at the London College of Fashion in a month's time, I told him (which was the truth), and I intended to discuss his work (also the truth, as of one second ago). It was the very first time I was to teach the course, which I'd been offered on the strength of my writing and talks I'd given to students in Paris. At first, I'd felt pretty confident I could swing it, but as the time to shut myself inside a classroom for three days with fifteen eager perfume lovers drew nearer, I was feeling a little jittery. I kept that to myself, but I did tell Duchaufour I'd appreciate his input (if anything, I'm a quick learner). Much to my relief, he nodded, still grinning:
'You're ready to learn more. Come over to the lab whenever you want!'
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I wrote to him the very next day to take him up on his offer. After we'd exchanged a couple of emails, he suggested the use of the more familiar French form of address,
slyly adding, 'It sounds more serious.' So here I am, six months after our first, inauspicious encounter, perched on a chair in his tiny lab above L'Artisan Parfumeur's flagship store and very ready indeed to learn more. The staid sandstone façade of the Louvre looms across the street; the searchlights of a
sweep from the Seine over the Pont des Arts. A three-tiered array of neatly labelled phials, each containing one of the hundreds of raw materials of the perfumer's palette, throws amber, topaz and emerald glints under the desk lamp. A paper sheet lies next to a small electronic scale: the forty handwritten lines of the formula he is currently working on. At his feet, three shopping bags bulge with dozens of discarded phials – less than one per cent of his work, he says, ever makes it to the shop shelves. I've just tucked into my handbag a tiny atomizer of a scent of his due to be launched next spring, a tuberose perfume whose working title is 'Belle de Nuit'. Though it was conceived long before we met, it feels like a sign: the tuberose resonates deeply with my life and loves, though he can't possibly know it …
The churlish man who'd snubbed me has turned out to be warm, friendly and almost disconcertingly straight-talking; an intensely focused listener given to boyish bursts of enthusiasm. About the story of Seville I've just told him, for instance. He loves it, he says it would make a good perfume, but I don't know him well enough to ascertain whether he's the type to follow through or if this is just a perfumer's version of a chat-up line. And certainly not well enough to ask him straight out if he'll do it. Why would he bother with what must be, for him, just one of a hundred different ideas? On the other hand, why wouldn't he? His ideas
have to come from somewhere. I didn't tell him my story because I thought it would inspire him. It just came up as we were swapping tales of far-flung journeys. But now this idea is hovering between us and I realize I want this perfume to happen more than I've wanted anything in a very long time. Why couldn't I be a perfumer's muse? I've come such a long way in the realm of scent, Bertrand, you couldn't ever know … In fact, I was never really meant to poke my nose into it.
Text © Denyse Beaulieu 2012
DENYSE BEAULIEU is a Paris-based translator, fragrance writer, perfume editor for
Citizen K,
and industry consultant who established herself as one of the foremost bloggers in the field with Grain de Musc. Her expertise has been acknowledged by at the London College of Fashion where she teaches an intensive "Understanding Fragrance" course, and the Société Française des Parfumeurs, where she is lecturer.
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Tallinn Old Town is full of life but if you elevate to one of the rooftops you'll find a completely new world of shapes, colours and habitat.
This incredible door resides in St Andrews, Scotland. What energy it must release every time one enters!
If you get to drive around Speyside make time to visit Abelour (at the confluence of the rivers Lour and Spey near Ben Rinnes.). A detailed tour in this 1826 founded gem is followed by an extensive tasting with 6 drams! So stay the night, walk it off or make sure you're nor the designated driver like I was :)
Incredible #autumn weather in #Finland this weekend. On top of that it's apple season in the northern hemisphere so I've been busy climbing trees, which used to be my favourite pastome as a kid. No broken bones, all good!
Los Pilones Cantina Mexico in Amsterdam offers some authenthic dishes and añejo tequilas with a decor to match. A very loud and cheerful crowd so not a quiet date night spot ;)
The White Hart Inn is the oldest pub in Edinburgh. Soon celebrating its 500th anniversary, respect! Unfortunately fairly touristy so please go to the BOW BAR nearby for a better selection.
#Casino roof in Dundee, Scotland. Brings back many good #Amiga memories! :)
Moray Golf Club in Lossiemouth, Scotland comes with beautiful views and two 18-hole links courses.
Lovely view over the River Ness in Inverness on a late-July evening. Surprisingly no rain either! ;-)
#Trädgården open-air club in #Stockholm has a unique ambience and setting. Fully packed on a Wednesday, gotta love Sweden!
Porvoon Paahtimo in the historic old part is a great summer spot if you get to visit Porvoo (Borgå). An excellent selection of brewskies in the BAR CAFÉ and a nice outside floating (!) terrace next to the river will keep you chilled.
In a low carb / no carb world one can't help to indulge in some artisan breads at the Noordhoek Farm Village's Foodbarn Deli. Left out the danish and other sweet things to keep you from drooling.
Lovely sign at the Kommetjie Surf shop. The Green Room next doors serves some excellent sandwiches, burgers and thai food (Jack Black on tap), so pop in if you're in the area.


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Despite the sad news for the area that a cabinet manufacturer has resigned — possibly just temporarily — its interest in expanding its facility into the city due to a failing economy nationwide, there's still hope for Galax and the Twin Counties through alternatives, like The Crooked Road, to keep the local economy moving forward.
Sixty new jobs will be created for Grayson County through a planned $1.7 million expansion by Nautilus, Inc., when it adds production for a cardio exercise equipment line.
Gov. Tim Kaine announced on Thursday the plans by Nautilus to expand. Virginia successfully competed with Oregon and China for the project, the governor said.
SPARTA, N.C. –– Bubba Bowen scored with a minute left to give Grayson County a one-point lead and sank two foul shots with four seconds remaining to ice the win as the Blue Devils edged Alleghany in a nondistrict game Wednesday night.
Alleghany (1-6) controlled the tempo and took a 25-22 halftime lead. Grayson County was able to pick up the pace with 19 third-quarter points, leading 41-40 entering the final period.
SALTVILLE –– Justin Hash scored 18 points, including four 3-pointers, as Galax whipped Chilhowie 56-48 Monday in the first round of the Greever Crouse Tournament at Northwood High School.
Galax (4-1) trailed 25-23 at halftime before taking charge with a 13-4 run in the third period.
Scott Alouf added 11 points for the Maroon Tide. Andrew Russell scored 16 points for the Warriors (0-3).
Chilhowie 8 17 4 19––48
Galax 12 11 13 20––56
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HILLSVILLE –– When Carroll County found itself trailing by three points with less than 90 seconds remaining in its game Monday against Patrick County, it's a good bet the Cavaliers' strategy wasn't to clank a bunch of free throws.
But hey, if it works…
The Cavaliers hit just 5-of-14 from the foul line in the final minute and 23 seconds but were still able to rally for their first victory of the year, knocking off the Cougars 46-44 for a nondistrict win.
CHILHOWIE –– Though the varying level of competition has been a big factor in the up-and-down start to Galax's girls' basketball season, and though Chilhowie can most certainly provide a stiffer test than a couple of earlier opponents, the Maroon Tide is still waiting to string two strong outings together.
Tuesday, Galax led going into the second quarter before a pair of lengthy scoreless streaks led to a 59-31 nondistrict loss to the host Warriors in the first round of the Greever Crouse Tournament at Chilhowie High School.
The Crooked Road initiative, launched along U.S. 58 in Southwest Virginia in 2002, has brought in nearly 264,000 visitors to the region so far this year and the economic impact totals $23 million each year, according to a 2008 assessment of Virginia's heritage music trail that was presented at a press conference Dec. 9 at the Rex Theater in Galax.
The historic theater's stage is one of the music venues on the trail.
Dismissal of a civil case was upheld Wednesday against a Carroll County dog kennel owner whose 63 dogs were seized by the state last month.
Carroll Circuit Judge Brett Geisler ruled that a lower court had acted properly when it dismissed the case against David Winesett of Coulson Church Road, who once served as Carroll's chief dog warden.
The dogs had been in the care of the Angels of Assisi animal rescue group in Roanoke after their confiscation by Virginia State Police due to what authorities called "deplorable" conditions.
Coming off a disappointing showing the night before against George Wythe, Galax girls' basketball coach Jamie Dotson felt that the less said before a Friday bout with Craig County, the better.
Dotson should write down what she didn't say in her pre-game non-speech, and remember to non-use it again at a key moment in the future.
After getting the silent treatment, the Maroon Tide let its play do the talking as it rolled over the Rockets 61-27 in a nondistrict game Friday.
HILLSVILLE — Administrators at Carroll County Public Schools don't expect a threat to schoolchildren here as a result of Tuesday morning's violence in Draper, but have asked individual schools to remain vigilant at their facilities.
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Spare Change: Reader Submissions Edition
Published on - November 16th, 2011 (by J.D. Roth)
When I returned from Peru, my inbox had nearly 1000 messages to be processed. That actually wasn't so bad — I was expecting more. Still, as you might imagine, it takes days to answer 1000 messages, and I'll be working on e-mail until Thanksgiving, I'm sure. (I've finished the easy emails and have the inbox down to 378 messages now.)
Some of the e-mail contained great stories and tips from GRS readers. You folks also sent me a ton of links to financial articles around the web. Today's edition of Spare Change is devoted to these reader submissions.
First up, Kris sent me and amazing story from Business Insider. Ben Milne, who is only 28 years old, has built Dwolla, an online service for processing financial transactions without a credit card. Naturally, the credit card companies (who stand to lose tons of money) aren't happy about it — but consumers should be.
Next, friend of GRS Mark Gavagan pointed to a New York Times story about how a financial pro lost his house. The article (which was written by another friend of GRS, Carl Richards from Behavior Gap), describes the author's personal experience with the housing bubble — and what he learned from it. It's a fascinating read.
Next, Jeff pointed to an article at The Startup Toolkit in which the author describes how his father taught him cashflow with a soda machine. Not every GRS reader wants to be an entrepreneur, but for those that do, this is a fun story.
Finally, my grade school chum Andrew forwarded a short, dense piece from The Economist about the concept of slow finance, the notion that investors should exercise caution and look for companies with sound financials instead of those that are taking risks to grow quickly. How novel! And yet it is…
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The article about the financial pro who lost his house really was fascinating. The statement about feeling "safer in a crowd" was interesting.
Re DWolla, I'm not sure if this is going to benefit consumers as much as it is going to benefit (small) businesses. My local coffee shop has complained to me about the costs of my reward credit card, and he has a good point. However, that fee they charge him, means I get a couple percentage back, and I have the ability to charge back, and I'm protected from someone stealing my card, and I double the manufacturer's warranty.
Visa really just crushes small businesses because they don't have the clout to fight back. The reason they don't have the clout to fight back is because Visa is so good to consumers.
Ultimately, I use a credit card when I shop at REI, and I use cash when I buy my coffee.
"The reason they don't have the clout to fight back is because Visa is so good to consumers. "
Businesses seem to always put the guilt trip of "Big mean visa is charging 2% per transaction!" on the customer, but meanwhile they get tons of extra business in the first place thanks to Visa. They don't fight Visa because they know this. So I tend not to feel bad about using my card.
A simple test of having store A as cash only and next to it, store B as having the credit card option, you can guess which business will do better.
I appreciate learning about these "off the beaten path" resources. I look forward to checking them out. Additionally, I enjoyed reading a magazing clip in the hair salon yesterday about how you and your wife divide up your financial resources. Fascinating that you don't share your incomes.
Wow! 1000 emails! That's success.
You had 1000 e-mails to be processed?!? I wonder how long you will take to catch up…
I think "As apart of this" should be "As a part of this".
I like the Richards article, but I'm not clear about the "losing his house" part. Didn't he voluntarily sell it?
If anyone goes to Dwolla to sign up, please let me know if you had this happen: They want you to sign in via Facebook, and when you click on the FB icon, up pops a "request for permission". And the request asks alot. Like being able to post on Facebook as me, and accessing info on people who share with me.
That's asking too much and is a deal breaker for me. Otherwise I think Dwolla appears to be a great business.
I signed up the other day and just completed linking up two checking accounts. I haven't had cause to test the service yet, but signup was painless.
I didn't sign up through facebook – I saw that message about permissions too, and so I just signed up with a username. I never play facebook games or use any facebook apps for the same reason, even though I imagine that 95% of the apps wouldn't abuse the privilege…
Having read the article, I have to wonder of the "Financial Pro", I have to wonder if the author has truly learned anything. It seems he has, but even as he finishes, he seems to still be on the fence.
One would think that as someone who tells others how to work their finances, that person would have a bit of a clue. Why would you not read and do your own work on whatever it is you are getting into?
But then it seems so very easy to get caught up in keeping up w/ everyone else in your cohort. I just do not understand following the herd off the edge.
I've learned that if the majority is moving in a particular direction, it is probably safer to move in a different direction. Evolutionarily this would not be sound, but in modern society, it seems to often be the better choice.
I also wonder if the house-losing financial planner really learned anything. He said "we have almost paid off all our debt" but probably isn't including the mortgage debt that was written off. Also he made statements like "I had to move" but you never have to do something. Everything is a choice – you just may not be willing to accept the consequences of choosing differently.
I read the article about the financial planner who "lost" his house a few days ago and was not impressed. I thought the comments on the article were, for once, extremely interesting. One thing I did take away from the article was that financial planners must be chosen carefully for they are usually unschooled and unprepared for the field (i.e. he applied for a security job on his way to the top). Reminds me of a women who called into the Dave Ramsey about her pile of debt and tearfully confessed that she and her husband were Financial Peace instructors at their local church.
(i.e. he applied for a security job on his way to the top)
It's even worse than that. The job he applied for was in securities. He didn't even know what the word meant, and assumed he was applying to be a security guard.
And they hired him.
I, too, read the financial planner's article and comments last week. The comments were especially thought-provoking (and generally far better than some of the ones that Glenn of "To Simplify" received after his story was published).
The comment that really hit me was the person who accurately pointed out that the writer really hadn't LOST anything. He put no money down, pulled cash out repeatedly to fund his lifestyle choices and then cried when he was "forced" to sell. Boo-hoo. He probably received far more ca$h from his house than he "lost". If he had been a renter, he still would have made monthly payments, but gotten no tax write-offs, no tax-free cash-out re-fis and had nothing when he moved out. What's the difference? And to think that some people may actually purchase his book based on this exposure. Sad.
I really liked the article about teaching cash flow by using the soda machine.
Saving, budgeting, and money management are great lessons, but a lot of people neglect to teach entrepreneurial skills to kids, and I think that omission is a glaring error. We want kids to be productive citizens, and building successful for-profit and non-profit ventures is a prime example of productivity.
Entrepreneurship is about taking action to solve problems and provide value to others. Those are basic skills that most kids have and develop, but the idea of starting your own business is daunting and foreign to many people–which is odd, because starting and running a business doesn't have to be complicated. It takes hard work, but it's not rocket science.
Teaching entrepreneurship is important because having your own business can give you financial freedom, greater flexibility, and the skills to be financially independent, rather than relying on a job for income. I think most parent would agree that they want their kids to be independent rather than dependent.
I started my consulting business nearly 5 years ago, and it's truly changed my life as well as my family's. I've seen my kids shift their thinking about what they want to be when they grow up, and now they're talking more about what kinds of businesses they want to have. That perspective is an amazing gift to be able to give my children.
Wow. Would anyone really use that financial planner? He rationalized walking away from his debts as a mere contractual obligation? His "behavioral gap" shows that he would just as likely favor his personal security over that of his clients, and rationalize it away.


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- 4 skinned and boned chicken breasts
- 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 large egg, beaten
- 2/3 cup Italian-seasoned breadcrumbs
- 1/4 cup olive oil
- 1 (6-oz.) package fresh baby spinach, thoroughly washed
- 1 large apple, thinly sliced
- 1/2 cup walnut pieces
- 1 (8-oz.) jar poppy seed dressing
- 1/2 cup sweetened dried cranberries
- 1/2 cup crumbled blue cheese
- 1. Dredge chicken in flour; dip in egg, and dredge in breadcrumbs.
- 2. Cook chicken in hot oil in a large skillet over medium heat 3 to 5 minutes on each side or until done; remove from skillet, and let stand 5 minutes. Cut chicken diagonally in 1/2-inch-thick slices.
- 3. Toss together baby spinach, apple slices, and 1/2 cup walnuts, and divide between 4 serving plates; top evenly with cooked chicken.
- 4. Stir together poppy seed dressing, cranberries, and blue cheese; serve with salad.
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By Jennifer Emert - bio | emailNovember 21, 2008
FITZGERALD, GA (WALB) - A Fitzgerald business is suspending operations leaving as many as 100 employees without a paycheck during the holidays. Every employee at Coachmen Industries must take a mandatory week without pay next week to help save cash.
Friday the company announced it's selling it's RV business to Forest River, but company officials blame the economic conditions for the suspension and hope to resume production once the economy strengthens.
It's another consequence of the downturn in the economy. Coachmen industries suspended operations in Fitzgerald because they say discretionary spending has basically stopped.
"Everyone is being conservative and consumer confidence is a little down so a lot of things are going on with each house hold and again they're watching what they spend," Coachman V.P. & Georgia Division General Manager Lawton Tinley.
While production has ground to a halt, the parts and service operation which includes 20 employees will remain open. The shutdown affects not only 100 employees, it affects the entire community including Sheryl Gibbs who own Henley's Flooring.
"Coachmen buys carpet from us to put in their homes so it's really affected us, it affects the economy because we're a small business owned," said Sheryl Gibbs, Henley's Flooring Owner.
Coachmen, a 37-year business partner in the community isn't the only business affected by the economic conditions, six months ago it was Shaw Industries. They hope to reopen after the first of the year, but the damage to the community may already have been done.
"I see people in court almost daily and a lot of it has to do with people who owe child support and they can't find jobs," says Judge Bobby Chasteen of the Cordele Circuit. "Course you have real need when children are in need of assistance but you have people that can't find work so it's very troubling and of course leads to other things, crimes increase."
Coachmen sees this temporary shutdown as a bump in the road and when they economy improves they hope to resume business.
"This industry will come back we know that and we know it's a great vehicle for retirees and in today's population folks are retiring younger, healthier, and with more money than ever before and they want to see America," Tinley said.
But how long that recovery could take is anyone's guess. Coachmen Industry stakeholders will meet next week to discuss the terms of the sale. Forest River is expected to acquire most of Coachmen's RV assets including the brand and product lines.
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The Town Council will be asked tonight, July 30, at its mid-summer meeting to make Barrington the first town in New England to ban plastic grocery bags.
The councilors also will be asked to repeal the $10 Barrington Beach pass fee for senior citizens.
And they will hold a public hearing on Planning Board-recommended amendments to the town's zoning maps, including a new type of zoning.
The councilors also will approve salaries for all non-union workers, including all department heads, about one month into the new fiscal year.
The meeting starts at 7 pm in the Council Chamber in Town Hall.
The plastic bag-ban proposal will be presented by its originator, Joshua Roberts, a member of the Barrington Conservation Commission, which has endorsed the proposal. See previous Patch story.
Roberts got some additional support for his proposed ban last week from Environment Rhode Island, an advocacy organization. The group presented a letter signed by 14 Barrington businesses and petitions shaped into reusable bags that were signed by 340 Barrington residents to Town Council President June Speakman and Town Manager Peter DeAngelis Jr.
The letter said, in part: "We are writing to express our support for a ban on single-use plastic checkout bags here in Barrington…Barrington and Rhode Island can be leaders for the environment and Narragansett Bay by getting rid of plastic bags."
Roberts, a political science professor at Roger Williams University, wrote up the proposal as an academic "white paper."
"Recycling simply does not work," said Roberts. "Recycling is not yet a viable option for the safe, effective disposal of these items. To that end, the most effective way to limit the problem in the environment is to reduce usage by eliminating the bags from the supply chain."
Key elements of the proposed ordinance:
- No retail store would be allowed to use the plastic bags at checkouts.
- Retail stores should make reusable bags available for purchase.
- Retail stores would be allowed to charge up to 5 cents per reusable bag.
Fines for violators would put some teeth into the ordinance. A first violation by a retail store would result in a $150 fine. A second violation within a year would be $300. A third violation would be a $750 fine.
Susan Tucker of Barrington has been opposed to the beach-pass fee for seniors since it was put into place by the Town Council last spring at the same time the Parks and Recreation Commission asked to boost the previous $20 beach pass fee for everyone else to $30.
Tucker will present a petition to the councilors with more than 50 names on it asking for a repeal of the fee.
The zoning map amendments would change the zoning for a package of properties in 15 areas. It also would introduce a new type of zoning: Conservation Development for the Nockum Hill area of Barrington.
Its goal is to protect at least 50 percent of a parcel of land as open space at no cost to a town, which in many instances is the only way to preserve land. See previous Patch story.
For the complete list of properties to be rezoned, click here and then click on Zoning Map Amendments to see a PDF.
The salaries for non-union workers were tabled early this month when Town Councilor Bill DeWitt asked the town manager to present a more complete picture of all salaries and benefits paid to these employees at tonight's meeting. See Patch story on the proposed ordinance that sets the salaries.


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For LGBT Orthodox Jews, Growth of Social Media Creates a Safe Space Online
Websites, blogs, Facebook groups, and online support groups offer the chance to connect without the risk of 'going public'
Growing up in an ultra-Orthodox family in Brooklyn in the 1970s, Moshe struggled with his homosexuality. "I went to yeshiva and there were no gay characters on television," said Moshe, who asked that we not use his real name. There was no discussion of gay issues at the yeshiva, either, he remembers: Everyone was implicitly taught that the only way to channel their sexuality was to get married—to women, of course. At 22, Moshe did just that, hoping he could "marry the gay away." "We dated for 12 days," he recalled. That was in 1994, before the popular advent of the Internet. At the time, Moshe didn't realize there were other Orthodox men grappling with their sexuality, too.
The online universe changed all that. A few years ago, he began reading blogs about other Orthodox gay men who were coming out. While he was still unable to confront his sexuality publicly, he felt he needed to connect with other people in similar situations—something the Internet allowed him to do without "going public." "I was able to see people expressing themselves—Orthodox friends of mine expressing themselves with their homosexuality, and I wanted that," he told me. "I needed that."
His therapist at the time, a prominent rabbi in Moshe's community, suggested he start his own blog to discuss his homosexuality anonymously. In June 2011, as a married father of four, he did. "I am a frum, gay & married male who feels compelled to share," he wrote in his first blog entry. "I could be a mispallel in your shul listening to the Rov talk about the perverts and mishkav zochornicks [homosexuals] supporting gay marriage. … I reiterate, I am lonely and in pain. … I am convinced there are other people like me out there. I want them to know that they are not alone. I want to have the opportunity to hear from them and share my experience with them."
Moshe wasn't the only one. Since the Internet boom and the more recent growing popularity of social media—from blogs to Facebook groups, dating sites to Twitter feeds, as well as official organizational websites—there has been a veritable explosion of sites and support groups for LGBT Orthodox Jews, a population that until now, hid in the shadows. The Internet has created a safe space for a population caught between the demands of faith and the demands of self—a population that didn't have a safe space before.
The Orthodox community has strict rules about homosexual behavior: Male homosexuality, colloquially known as mishkav zachor (literally, someone who lies with men), is explicitly forbidden in the Torah from Leviticus 18: "Do not lie with a male as one lies with a woman; it is an abomination." Lesbianism, while not explicitly forbidden, is equally frowned upon. From this narrow proscription of a sexual act, any behaviors or acts that could possibly be considered evidence of a homosexual lifestyle have also been widely condemned in Orthodox circles. Writing in the 1970s, Rabbi Moshe Feinstein, the most important halachic decider of the century, wrote: "To speak of a desire for homosexual intimacy is a contradiction in terms. … The evil inclination entices the person to rebel against the will of the Holy One, Blessed Be He." Some Orthodox rabbis continue to advocate "reparative therapy." But even while other, more mainstream Orthodox attitudes have become far more compassionate, they still rarely get more accepting than a love-the-sinner-hate-the-sin approach. "Halakhah sees heterosexual marriage as the ideal model and sole legitimate outlet for human sexual expression," stated a groundbreaking 2010 declaration signed by several Orthodox rabbis that advocated against reparative therapy—itself a relatively major shift in Orthodox thinking about homosexuality. "The sensitivity and understanding we properly express for human beings with other sexual orientations does not diminish our commitment to that principle."
Earlier this month, leading up to New York's Celebrate Israel Parade, a group of Orthodox rabbis signed a letter stating that since a group known by the initials of LGBT that was composed of several gay Jewish organizations had a "hidden agenda" of promoting homosexuality, Orthodox groups should pull out of the parade. "[It] is a brazen attempt to force Orthodox Jews to accept their way of life at the Torah's expense," the signatories wrote.
Faced with official condemnation and afraid to come out for fear of losing their religious community, many LGBT Orthodox Jews lived lives of quiet desperation until recently. According to several people I spoke with, many of the members of the oldest Orthodox LGBT group—Gay and Lesbian Yeshiva Day School Alumni, who meet monthly at the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Community Center in New York City—are still closeted to various degrees. However with the advent of the Internet and social media, according to activists and experts, more and more LGBT Orthodox Jews are finally able to find each other—online or in person—and bring both sides of their identity together at last.
"The Internet did what a million progressive rabbis couldn't do," said Mordechai Levovitz, the co-founder of Jewish Queer Youth and the LGBT Coordinator for the United Nations NGO Committee for Human Rights. "The key in surviving as an Orthodox LGBT is not feeling alone. This is the big mistake that a lot of people make about being Orthodox and LGBT is that there is a huge risk for suicide and self-harm, but not because of the prohibition in the Torah. It's because of loneliness and shame. People don't kill themselves because of a verse, they kill themselves because they feel alone. The Internet kind of saved people. It didn't make you any more wrong or right, but it stopped the isolation. You feel less shame when you're not the only one."
For Levovitz, the change happened when he discovered the website GayJews.net in 2001 as a student in Yeshiva University. Levovitz, 19 at the time, recalls it as some sort of dating website where you could specify religious orientation, from Reform to Orthodox. "This changed everything for me," he said. "I felt very isolated and alone at the time, and I predominantly wanted friends who understood me and where I was coming from."
Levovitz, who had already come out, began corresponding with other LGBT Jews who identified themselves as Orthodox. "Five of us who already knew each other decided to email everyone who put themselves as Orthodox Gay Jews, no matter where they were," he recalled. "We emailed a few hundred people. Not surprisingly a few hundred people didn't come—but 20 of us arrived at a little coffee shop in the West Village."
From there, Levovitz—who was a speaker at Y.U.'s controversial 2009 panel about homosexuality—and those who answered the email began holding regular events and expanded across the country. Currently they maintain a list of over 700 members and encompass groups for Jewish parents of LGBT children and workshops about increasing tolerance inside the Orthodox community. "The Internet has created the ability to have, first and foremost, this virtual online gay Orthodox community, which eventually became a non-virtual Orthodox gay community," said Jayson Littman, the founder of He'Bro, a company that organizes and promotes events for gay Jews in New York City.
Then again, the Internet itself is a source of consternation for many Orthodox Jews: A large anti-Internet rally held in Citifield in 2012, attended by more than 40,000 Ultra-Orthodox Jews, hammered home the resistance many Orthodox Jews have for such technologies. And in many ways, it was this kind of awareness of the lives of Orthodox LGBT that the organizers were striving against.
While there is no empirical statistical data about LGBT Orthodox Jews, for many the Internet provides a safe space to discuss their sexuality and take the initial step in dealing with who they are. "The Internet has changed our lives in a big way," said Miryam Kabakov, editor of the anthology Keep Your Wives Away From Them: Orthodox Women, Unorthodox Desires, and the co-executive director of Eshel, a group that works to promote Orthodox LGBT-inclusion. "For a group that's been hidden, it's been a great thing. You can still hide and not be alone. You can find a group that identifies the way you do and don't have to risk your life doing it."
Chaim Levin, a gay activist and blogger involved in the Orthodox community, said that the Internet helped him come out. "Someone who has a question can reach out anonymously," he said. "They have to get that going and take the first step. That's what happened to me and everyone else."
Oriol Poveda, a researcher in Sweden who is studying the effects of social media on LGBT Orthodox Jews, said that in the last few years a shift has occurred. He cited the 2001 documentary Trembling Before G-d, about homosexuality inside Orthodox Judaism, as a turning point. "[The film] depicted a lesbian and gay Orthodox scene (not a word of B or T) still dominated by feelings of shame, alienation, and secrecy, in which people were fighting on an individual basis and few were ready to expose themselves," he wrote via email. "The situation now is completely different, and I think that this coming out of the closet and becoming vocal would have been much more difficult without the Internet."
Poveda pointed to the Orthodox version of the "It Gets Better" series of videos, launched after a rash of suicides in the gay community in 2010. The Orthodox version has received close to 115,000 views, an astronomical number considering the population of Orthodox Jews.
Bonnie Rosenbaum, communication director for Keshet, a prominent grassroots organization that works for the full LGBT inclusion in Jewish life, said that she believed social media has helped gay Orthodox teens to find role models and find a way of life they didn't know existed. "Anytime you have a community that's been marginalized, has few role models, and is not supported and all of a sudden you have a place where you can go and find a vision of a life you're looking to lead," she said. "The first step is seeing gay men online wearing kippahs."
Once Orthodox people started discussing LGBT life online, activists told me, others in the Orthodox community were forced to deal with it. "People weren't able to push it under the rug anymore," explained Levin. "People started telling stories. They couldn't ignore it. Once the conversation starts, even if it's a negative conversation, it can't stop."
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