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"In the past scientists have answered the chicken/egg puzzle by relying on evolution.
According to this model, two animals which were similar to, but not, chickens interbred and the egg that was laid contained what was to become the first definitive chicken.
Now researchers found that the formation of egg shells relies on a protein that is only found in a chicken's ovaries.
Therefore, an egg can only exist if it has been inside a chicken - thereby proving chickens must have come first.
The protein - called ovocledidin-17 (OC-17) - acts as a catalyst to speed up the development of the shell.
The hard shell is needed to house the yolk and its protective fluids while the chick develops inside.Scientists now believe that before an egg can be formed it must have needed the OC-17 protein which is only found in the ovary of a chicken.
Dr Colin Freeman, from Sheffield University's Department of Engineering Materials, said: 'It had long been suspected that the egg came first but now we have the scientific proof that shows that in fact the chicken came first.'"
Bob Gilmore, of Jackson, Mississippi's Cal-Maine Foods (CALM), the only publicly-traded egg producer in the United States, was not surprised with the findings.
In an interview with Minyanville, Gilmore said:
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Creative Europe
Small-scale Cooperation projects
Project Call
Project dates
30 Sept 2015 – 30 Sept 2017
Lead organisation
Municipality of Cividale del Friuli, Italy
Ljubljana Puppet Theatre, Slovenia
Títeres Etcétera, Spain
Academy of Arts in Osijek, Croatia
Elisabetta Gottardo
Press kit:
Cividale del Friuli
All Strings Attached: The Pioneers of European Puppetry Behind the Scenes is an attempt to change how heritage of European puppetry is experienced and perceived. It is valuable because it is a reflection of our society. In general, awareness of protecting our puppet heritage is poor and many puppet stories are still waiting to be reinterpreted. In order to increase interest in our past, we're creating a new way of telling the history of the greatest puppet masters. We believe we can display their lives differently – beautifully, accessibly and conversationally.
All Strings Attached is a unique cooperation bringing together four partners active in the puppetry field – Comune di Cividale del Friuli, Ljubljana Puppet Theatre, Títeres Etcétera and the Academy of Arts in Osijek – to improve awareness and encourage greater appreciation of European puppetry's cultural richness and diversity.
The aim of the project is to spread knowledge of European puppetry of the first half of the 20th century by highlighting selected figures, such as Vittorio Podrecca from Italy, Milan Klemenčič from Slovenia and Hermenegildo Lanz from Spain. Over two years (2015–2017), a travelling exhibition will visit Slovenia, Croatia, Spain and Italy and numerous events, such as puppet shows, professional workshops and lectures will be developed for the larger public.
Presenting puppetry as a total work of art, the project aims also to increase the transnational mobility of cultural operators active in the field of puppetry (artists, puppeteers, technicians, restorers) through the exchange of best practices and by offering opportunities to younger generations working in contemporary puppetry.
All Strings Attached: The Pioneers of European Puppetry Behind the Scenes is co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Commission.

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Measures of Center and Variability
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The Way To Start A Week
I lived in Albuquerque, New Mexico for a brief couple of years in the early '90's. During that time I fell in love with the Southwest and with Byrd Baylor's books, The Way To Start A Day, being one of my favorites. This last weekend, due to school budget cuts, ended up being a three-day weekend. Since we had Monday off and since rain was forecast for later that afternoon, the Significant Other and I decided to try something new. We avoided the ease and predictability our beloved greenway and ventured forth on the open road. It was an excellent choice for so many reasons. I've documented our ride in words and pictures, with Baylor's book as my inspiration. I'm calling this The Way To Start A Week.
The way to start a week
is to get up early on Monday morning while others sleep,
and greet the sunrise with a smile and a cup of coffee; cream, no sugar.
Revel in in the cloudless blue of the early morning sky,
feel the chill March morning air,
inhale the fresh scent of dew and cedars.
Give thanks for being alive and having the ability to enjoy it.
Take your time dressing, but not too much time, the day awaits.
Find your favorite bike shorts and
slip on the Bontrager tights that were well worth
the hundred bucks you spent on them.
Slip into the cold weather gear given to you by a friend
since she saved you hundreds
and extended your riding season significantly.
Fill the water bottle,
grab the camera,
select the playlist,
and with your favorite riding buddy, find a road you haven't traveled before.
Venture forth.
As you ride, be glad that you can.
Even if it is cold. Even if it is hard, with the cold air biting through your
Balaclava, freezing your nasal passages and numbing your fingertips through gloves.
After about a mile stop,
take some pictures,
and take off the first outer layer.
Things heat up fast on two wheels.
After about 4 miles, stop for more pictures, a water break and to take more pictures. You're in no hurry.
Decide to head to a historical old town.
It isn't far now.
You're over halfway there and feeling good.
The hills that you could climb a year ago are nothing to you now
You're stronger and less fearful.
The occasional car whizzing by no longer intimidates you.
You can do this.
And you enjoy it.
select a place to enjoy a leisurely lunch while gazing out the window at passersby.
Laugh and enjoy the fact that you have overcome
caring about how you look in public places when
wearing padded pants
and sporting helmet hair, though you still quickly check
the rear view mirror of the nearest car to make sure
you don't have bugs in your teeth.
During your meal, you laugh and smile,
enjoying delicious sandwiches with thirst-quenching beverages.
The miles make them taste all the better.
You observe the retired ladies, dressed up for lunch…
they must be in their 70's or 80's.
You think of your grandmother, who always dressed up
It's not a given, but you're on the right path.and you hope you live long enough to do the same.
so you decide to live life…
to the fullest of your ability and today is part of that plan.
On the way home, you skip the easy road,
and you opt for the one ahead
that sports a rather long hill.
You take it.
You make it. And you're not even riding your fastest bike.
A year ago, you had to walk up stuff less daunting than this.
Not this time.
You feel the burn…
you inhale each breath and
experience the pounding of your heart
growing stronger with each rotation of your pedals.
Nothing feels better.
You're healthier than you were.
You're happier than ever.
You are your own person.
At the top, you celebrate this realization.
You take in the valley you call home.
The rest of the ride is almost entirely
a straight drop down to your doorstep.
It's Monday.
You're riding in the right gear,
no matter what the road
and it is an exhilarating adventure.
This, you whisper to yourself as you ride up to your home,
is not just how you start a week…
It's how you live a life.
New Year's Resolutions, Revised
I'm a great one for setting goals and New Year's Resolutions are no exception. Back in the day, I'd write them down making sure they were measurable and achievable. Most of the time, back in the day, I was able to realize all these goals I so dutifully recorded. Things sure have changed. Oh, I still set goals, alright, but with each passing year, the goals seem more difficult to achieve. I'm lucky if I can set one priority a year and make it happen.
In 2010, I made it my goal to purchase my bike. I achieved that goal.
In 2011, it was my goal to put a thousand miles on my bike. I didn't meet this goal until February of 2012, but I got close. That was good enough.
This year, my priority, is losing 50 pounds by my 50th birthday, which is in June. My mantra has been "50 Less By 50."
Well, it was my priority, until, the first week of January.
Sometimes life has a way of circumventing the most noble objectives.
In brief, my life was clicking along just great. In December, I was called back to have further images taken after a routine mammogram revealed some areas of concern. On January 6, I found myself lying prone while I endured what I now know is a stereo-tactic needle biopsy. On Valentine's Day, I was in the hospital for a wire-isolated lumpectomy, the results of which revealed ductile carcinoma in situ, or DCIS…cancer. At the time of writing, I'm awaiting an additional surgery which will likely be followed up with radiation.
No chemotherapy.
No free boob job.
I'm not contagious.
And…given that DCIS is completely curable…I'm likely not going to die. At least, not right now, from this.
My overriding emotion these days?
This is really messing with my 50 Less By 50 plan.
Actually, that's not entirely true. My overriding emotion is gratitude. You see, cancer, in particular breast cancer, is not the death sentence it used to be. Even so, cancer, really is no laughing matter. I know this. I know people who've suffered and died from some form of cancer. I have immediate family members who have suffered through cancer. It is not a pretty nor is it humorous and were it not myself involved, I'd definitely refrain from the gallows humor. I'll go off on how early detection is critical, and how women should absolutely make sure they keep up on their exams at a later time, but right now I'd just like to take a moment to be grateful.
Cancer caught me by surprise, and as any potentially life-threatening disease will do, it has forced me to re-prioritize my life. Yes, I still have my 50 Less By 50 Plan as a priority, but somehow it just isn't the most important thing these days. In the last three months, I've learned a great deal about breast cancer and some of the approaches we now have available to treat and cure it. That I live in a day and age when I can benefit from so much research and the medical advancements made just in my lifetime, doesn't even begin to scratch the surface of the many, many things I am grateful for.
As I take the next step in this interesting journey through 2012, each day I find myself revising my New Year's Resolutions. 50 Less By 50 is still a priority, in fact, even more so since exercise and healthy eating reduce one's risks. But, if I don't quite make it by my birthday, or if I just need to allow myself some time to rest, I'm going to give myself permission to do it.
Two days after my surgery, I was on my bike. Of course, it was inside on a trainer. I made it two miles, in just under 10 minutes before I just couldn't go any further. Two days before my surgery, I'd completed a ride that logged me almost 40 miles for the week. Yeah. This thing is really messing with my workout plans and my riding goals.
I just have to let that be alright for now.
I am going to make it.
Cycling In Portland,Oregon
Recently, Huffington Post carried an article about the 20 Most Bike-Friendly cities in the U.S.. They pulled their information from Bicycling.com's list of America's Top 50 Bike Cities. I was very pleased to note that Portland, Oregon placed second on this esteemed list of bike friendly cities. If you have ever had the opportunity to bike around Portland (and I do mean bike, not run or drive, because that's a different experience) then you also understand how bike friendly the Rose City is.


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Who doesn't want someone to open the door for you as you enter or leave your home? You don't have to be a member of the Top 100 wealthiest to live like one when you live the easy life of high rise living. Literally doors open for you when you live in an environment designed specifically for your ease of living. Collectively speaking, when the design of your living space is based on the greatest amount of comfort and aesthetic appeal possible, the outcome is generally one of high appeal.
Beauty and Stress Free in High Rise Living
Aside from magnificent fresh floral arrangements which seem to magically appear in hallways and foyers throughout the building on what seems to be on a daily basis, there always seems to be a genuine feeling of camaraderie between the people who live quietly around you. Graciousness usually abound in a high rise because people generally don't have much stress in their lives when they're enjoying the easy life of high rise living. They're not worried about the endless to-do list which accompanies living in a house. Not to mention, the angst which derives from living on a block where each home competes for the best and greenest lawn.
Sense of Equality in High Rise Living
When you live the easy life of high rise living there is no competition amongst the neighbors who live in the same building. Their house isn't bigger or smaller, their yard isn't more or less manicured, the cars parked in the driveway are not cleaner or shinier then yours. When you live in a shared environment at least in the common areas, there is a sense of equality that creates commonality amongst all who live together under one big shared roof. When you see a neighbor in a hallway or share an elevator ride, which in fact doesn't happen very often, it's almost a surprise and you welcome the small and sincere interaction. The doors may be all the same, but the people behind them are as varied as the flowers in a botanical garden.
High rise living often begets built in accommodations such as a library room, business office or conference room. Beautiful lobbies often accompany today's high rises which almost have exquisite sitting areas where one can relax in what could be described as a grand parlor. It's not quite all yours, but a small section of that sofa is.


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No more objets d'art or interiors. Let's talk about the always popular florals for springs done up to the millionth level.
When the city's getting you down, your clothes will show you the way.
Accidental colorblocking in aerial views of perfect fields.
Or maybe we go under the sea.
Life is beautiful.


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Friendship, The Shawshank Redemption, And A Strange Case Of Cinematic Stubbornness
By TK Burton | Think Pieces | March 13, 2013 |
By TK Burton | Think Pieces | March 13, 2013 |
It started in college.
Frank Darabont's The Shawshank Redemption, based on Stephen King's short story "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption," was released in 1994. I never caught it in the theater. A year or two later, during a summer vacation, one of my very good friends mentioned it in passing. I told him I'd never seen it.
"You've never seen Shawshank?"
"You gotta see it. Really good movie."
And then we went about our lives.
Another couple of years passed. We graduated, we both moved back to Massachusetts, where we continued our friendship. One day, at a video store, it came up again.
"Aw, man. Shawshank Redemption. So good. I almost feel like watching it again."
"Yeah? I've never seen it."
(incredulous) "WHAT? Still? You gotta see it."
"Yeah, I'm not really in the mood right now. How about Big Trouble In Little China for the 53,000th time?"
Time passes. We eventually became roommates. One day, he comes home from work, videotape in hand.
"I rented Shawshank! You're absolutely going to watch it this weekend."
"Sounds good. Let's get blind stinking drunk." (Not my exact words, but definitely my intent)
We go on a weekend-long bender, and the movie is never watched.
But now, the die has been cast. One of my many, many flaws is my unreasonable, frustrating, and inexplicable stubbornness on really random issues. It drives my wife crazy. There are some things that I just despise with no good reason, or with reasons that only make sense in the dark, buzzing corners of my brain. One of those things is being told that I have to do something, or that I absolutely will like something. I dig my heels in and squinch my eyes shut and that's the end of it.
And so here we are, 19 years after the release of The Shawshank Redemption. It was nominated for seven Academy Awards and two Golden Globes. It made the (revised) AFI's 100 Movies... 100 Years list. This very week, it was mentioned on this very site on one of our great Seriously Random Lists. It is near-universally beloved. It is available to rent for $1.99 on Amazon Instant, a far cry from the days of renting it for $5.00 from Blockbuster. It is a mere click away, the cost of a candy bar or a bottle of water. I wouldn't even need to rise from my seat, from the very seat I sit in as I type this.
But no. It is 2013, and I still haven't seen The Shawshank Redemption. It feels foolish now. An irrational, childish bullheadedness. It's embarrassing. When I tell people nowadays, they look at me like I told them I that I like to expose myself in front of nuns -- disgust, with a touch of bafflement. And yet... I still haven't seen it. Watching it now feels like it would be caving in, capitulating, almost as silly as not watching it all these years. I know, OK? I know. There's no logic or reason to this. It is almost certainly a wonderful film that I would doubtless appreciate. But this refusal to bend, to break, to overcome my own obstinacy has become a part of me now, a strange and enduring piece of me that I for some odd reason simply cannot change. This is made all the more ridiculous given who I am... someone who loves -- honestly and truly loves -- movies. Yet this peculiar hobgoblin, this particularly foolish consistency, refuses to leave me. So perhaps that's who I am now. A comic book geek, a movie buff, a lover of books and music and games and the outdoors, a husband, a father, and a friend. Who has reluctantly, shamefully, come to admit that he is missing out on one of the great cinematic achievements, for no good reason other than a 20 year-long vendetta against being told what to do.
I don't even have a good reason for writing this, other than the cathartic release of finally trying to put it out there for all to see. We all have these foibles, I suspect. My wife has never seen "Firefly," despite my insistence that she'd love it (she totally would, you guys). We started watching it once together, three years ago. She fell asleep, and that was the end of it. I'm sure many of you are scoffing and harrumphing and judging, and that's fine. But I'm willing to bet that each and every one of you has something like this, some version of The Shawshank Redemption that has been with you for so long, regardless of thought or logic or reason, that it's now simply a part of you, even as you acknowledge that you might be all the better without that part. Maybe it's not just the movies we've seen that forge common bonds. It's OK. Feel free to talk about it in the comments, if you like. Others might judge you. For once, I will not.
That friend who recommended it? He's still around. We hang out, we go camping, we have the occasional adventure/mishap. He came to South Africa to be the best man in my wedding, and I went to Mississippi to be the best man in his. He had his first child six weeks after I had mine, guaranteeing that our friendship will continue into the next generation. We still talk about music and movies and comic books and video games. Every now and then he shakes his head at me, bemused by my stubbornness. And I'll be honest -- that's part of who we are now. And I guess I'm OK with that.


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Silent Retreats Scheduled For Fall
But oh! God is in his holy Temple! Quiet everyone—a holy silence. Listen!
--Habakkuk 2:20 MSG
Conference Director of Discipleship Chris Kindle has scheduled two silent retreats in different locations for this fall: October 11-13 at Jumonville, near Uniontown, and November 1-3 at Olmsted Manor Retreat Center, in Ludlow, PA.
Silence does not come easy. "There is something counter-cultural in our intentional silence," Kindle said, noting that when the first retreats were scheduled last year, many greeted the idea with skepticism. But the response of most who participated was to ask when the next one would be held.
"The beauty of a Silent Retreat is its simplicity," Kindle said in a blog post last year. "It is not simply being silent. It is giving our agenda to God and asking for Him to fill it. In the silence, we are able to recognize our own agenda is larger than our desire to be with God. We feel as if the time spent in silence is wasted, but it is actually an invitation to prayer.
"As we remain in the silence, the contents of our hearts are revealed – good and bad. Continuing in silence, the inner noise and chaos of our lives quiets. Our capacity to enter into the presence of God grows and we find ourselves in places not easily found amidst the din of everyday life," he added.
God invites us to be silent to hear words of guidance, hope, correction, and love, Kindle explained.
Each cellphone-free retreat begins at 7 p.m. on Sunday with worship, prayer and communion. The time of silence then begins, continues through Monday and concludes on Tuesday morning with worship and an opportunity to discuss the experience. The cost is $100.
Register for either retreat.


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A textured lightweight V-neck for between-seasons wear; the yarn is wonderfully soft and comfortable. Pattern Price: $8.00
You'll need:
Yarn: Eight to eleven 50-gram balls (187 yards each) Taj Mahal, Le Fibre Nobili by Filatura Cervinia, 70% virgin wool, 22% silk, 8% cashmere. Eight balls makes the small size; add a ball more for each larger size. Finished sizes are: Chest S (37.5"), M (42"), L (46"), XL (50")' and length (from back of neck): S (21.5"), M (22.5"), L (24") XL (25")
Hook: H-8 (5 mm) or size to obtain gauge and 7 (4.5 mm) or one size smaller than hook used to obtain gauge.
Gauge: With larger hook in pattern 17 sts = 4" (4.25 sts = 1")
A light-as-a-feather oversized pullover with raglan shoulder, worked from the neck down. Pattern Price: $ 8.00
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Yarns: Four 50-gram balls (437 yds ea) Misti Alpaca 2-ply Lace 100% baby alpaca, Color RJ-2105. Total 1,748 yds.
Hook: G-7 (4.5 mm)
Gauge: 5 shells = 4" (measured at top or wide part of shells)
The directions make a sweater that will fit sizes M through XL. To make smaller or larger sizes, stop increasing sooner or continue increasing until it is as large as you would like. It can also be made longer, if you don't want a cropped look. If you are making a 2-4XL, you will need five balls of yarn.
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Sunday, June 28, 2009
Saturday afternoon photo shoot
Labels: art, CubaoX, fashion, photography, photomanipulation
4 comments:
Awesome photos! How long have you been into photography? Daphne was my classmate once, she's so down-to-earth. I bet she's easy to work with.
- Sunday, June 28, 2009 at 7:34:00 PM GMT+8
- Raleene said...
Thank you! I've been into it since 3rd year high school. Never took formal lessons, just a seminar.
Yeah easiest model to work with so far! :)
- Sunday, June 28, 2009 at 8:11:00 PM GMT+8
- arielle said...
HOY! i was checking out your stunning photography work i thought u'd like to note i mentioned you on my tumblr
- Wednesday, July 1, 2009 at 1:45:00 AM GMT+8
- Raleene said...
thanks! i'll checkit out :)
- Wednesday, July 1, 2009 at 6:42:00 AM GMT+8
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'Disruptive innovation' is a term coined by Clayton Christensen in 1997.
In this very interesting video, James McQuivey, VP at Forrester Research, argues that the term itself has become disrupted by the digital era.
Under the 'old disruption', very few people could disrupt because it required a tremendous amount of capital with the final product being used only by a small number of people. In the new digital era, by contrast, many people can participate in innovation because it costs so little and the ideas themselves multiply and spread with tremendous speed.
The future is not about looking at things as products or services, but as relationships with customers.
As usual, all feedback and comment very welcome.
Take care.
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Hey folks, just a quick one to let you know that we'll be appearing at the London MCM Expo this Saturday and Sunday. We're on a table with the awesome Neill Cameron, (whose DFC Library book comes out today - get it HERE!) so stop by, pick up a copy of Monkey Nuts, or Malcolm, or our Giant Sketchbook, get it signed and have a chat!
Oh, and if you want a sketch in your book (like the one below), be sure to come see us on the Saturday, as I won't be there on the Sunday!
See you at the show!


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Deadspin pretty niftily shows how public funding for private arenas and stadiums has increased over the years with this animated infographic, which, at its core, shows that 186 stadiums built since 1900 cost $53.0 billion in 2012 dollars, of which $32.2 billion — or 61% — was publicly financed. That's a heckuva lot of taxpayer money. My friends at Field of Schemes ought to love this one.
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(Note: Stay tuned for my annual ranking of bowl swag, which is one of the blogs I enjoy writing most. Here's last year's installment.) In the meantime, though, SI.com's Stewart Mandel ranks all the bowls. With the MAC's seven bids, there's some good and some bad. (Rankings are out of 35.) 5. Orange Bowl (Northern Illinois vs. Florida State): This could be another Boise State-Oklahoma, or it could turn into another Georgia-Hawaii. Either way, it's a chance to see Huskies star Jordan Lynch, a quarterback who has run for 1,771 yards, test himself against an elite D. 13. GoDaddy.com Bowl (Kent State vs. Arkansas State) 21. Independence (Ohio vs. Louisiana-Monroe) 22. Military (Bowling Green vs. San Jose State) 24. Idaho Potato (Toledo vs. Utah State) 31. Beef O'Brady's (Ball State vs. Central Florida) 34. Little Caesars (Central Michigan vs. Western Kentucky)
As a sale of the Dolan family's SportsTime Ohio network appears to be imminent — here's our print story this week (subscriber only), and here's why I'm staying away from most things baseball — here's a good baseball trend story for mid-market teams: Instead of skyrocketing TV revenues, those teams must rely on attendance, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch writes. "I think it points to our need to develop our own players and not rely on free agency for players, but more to use it as a way to complement our team and fill out our team," DeWitt said. "The goal for us is to draft, develop, and play our own players and then retain them. Historically we've been fortunate to keep many of the core players with us as they hit free agency."
On Monday, I wrote about the rising number of schools doing naming rights and other sponsorship deals, after Lakewood City Schools and First Federal Lakewood inked a $320,000 deal. From a reader in Cincinnati: The district I reside in, Loveland City Schools, has benefited greatly from private gifts. Covering most of the 45140 zip code, the district has approx. 4,400 students, 1,500 at the high school level. The Loveland Boosters have put thousands into the middle school athletic facility field and have since covered the installation of the high school's $550,000 new artificial turf field. Five years ago, only the private high schools and top districts had turf; now (almost) everyone has it. In addition, the boosters are currently building a new $575,000 weight room for the high school, a great upgrade to say the least. In Greater Cleveland, I've seen a ton of high school facilities through my work as a freelancer covering high school sports; it's true, many, many schools have turf now, including plenty of public schools. It's an expensive proposition, but it does save on maintenance costs and eventual headaches when grass fields are mush by the end of fall sports.
If you're not following me on Twitter, what are you waiting for? And, I trust you're listening to Crain's podcasts? And, of course, email me with any news tips you see fit for this space.


text: Share: Comments Print October 4, 2013 at 9:14 PM Ground searches for 2 missing hikers planned Saturday Posted by The Associated Press The Associated Press An air search for a young Oregon woman hiking the Pacific Crest Trail in Southwest Washington has expanded into a new county, while a separate air search farther south found no signs of a missing Portland man. Alejandra Wilson's father reported the 23-year-old Portland woman overdue for a check-in Monday. A search of the trail in Skamania County found no trace of her, so the search moved Friday to Yakima County. Yakima County sheriff's Sgt. George Town says hopes were raised when tracks were spotted in the snow in the Goat Rocks Wilderness about 15 miles south of White Pass. A Coast Guard helicopter crew landed Friday and talked to a male hiker, who said he'd encountered four other hikers in the area — none of them Wilson. Town says more than 20 "experienced mountaineering folks" plan a ground search Saturday in the Goat Rocks area. Skamania County Undersheriff Dave Cox says a helicopter searched crevasses and tree wells Friday in the Big Lava Beds area of the Gifford Pinchot National Forest, where 31-year-old Kristopher Zitzewitz was last seen Sept. 28. Cox said another ground search was planned Saturday in "very rugged" areas of the lava beds. Comments | More in General news, The Blotter, Weather Beat | Topics: Big Lava Beds, Gifford Pinchot National Forest, Goat Rocks


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My Wandering Wednesday Series are dedicated to the flight of my imagination now and then, captured by my camera lens. And then, songs and movies simply fill in the gaps for the right captions! I try to give you the back story of the picture too. Perhaps you may see a tale hidden there. Check the previous posts here.
Sometimes, a whole lot of things may not seem too right. They may seem to clutter your thoughts in a way that clarity seems distant. The overall outlook is messy, perhaps. Confusion may blind your perception. But disorder doesn't always have to be ugly. A wrong doesn't always have to be made right. Dividing your world in black and white is not a wise option, especially, when the world is in techni-colour. When things go wrong, believe that your Eureka moment is around the corner. So get out of that pitiful bathtub and remember to keep a towel handy.
This was shot at Jim Jam Diner at Versova. If you are in the vicinity, you must visit this place. It is AWESOME! The decor goes all topsy turvy and you feel that the things are gonna come tumbling down any minute. And yet, everything is in place and there is a place for everything. A jukebox plays melodies on request, and you have board games to keep you occupied till your grub arrives. What's more, they also have free Wi-Fi! A look at this place and it would represent the state of our mind, at any random point. And hence I say, there is some method in madness and it is a fab accessory. Flaunt it!


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Tangled. Gnarled. Twisted.
Twisted is the word that better describes the current expression of American (by that I mean USA) nationalism. Perhaps, not American nationalism, but white American nationalism.
For generations USAmerican Christians have experienced a civil religiosity that have allowed them to live their Christian values in comfort. Yet, now it has become evident that the civil religiosity have given way to a misshapen christianity, one really robed is xenophobia, patriarchy and perversion of all those who do not fit in the mold pushed on us by the current political administration.
The words claiming "America first" and the executive orders that perversively brand Mexicans and Muslims as the monsters to be protected from cannot be ignored by baptized Christians who are called, initiated, sent, to work for justice and seek that the dignity of every human is respected. Whether or not they are white, whether or not that speak Spanish, or Arabic, whether or not they are Christians or Muslims.
The questions to answer (with loud words and even louder actions) in the days, weeks, months and years to come is how does we live into the radical and politically challenging Baptismal Covenant with its renunciations of evil and its affirmations toward justice.
I know what it means to me. To oppose and resist every government sanctioned oppressive word and action. To help others remember the mysteries of mercy, compassion, grace and justice. To host spaces and celebration of deep respect, curiosity and openness.
Being a Christian demands by virtue of the mystery of Incarnation that we engage in physcical acts of justice, mercy and compassion. To Christians means that we continue in that guild, the fellowship and teachings of those early followers of Jesus by embracing the embodied truth of the commonwealth of God intruding in our time and space. The commonwealth of God is supranational, global. Those who follow Jesus take upon themselves the task, the mission, to rehearse and live into the possibility of wholeness, healing, justice and embrace for all.
The concept of America first is an affront and mockery to the what Christianity stands for – the unbreaking of God's goodness in the world above, through and beyond the fiction of national identities.
The message of "America first" is twisted and perverted.


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This is a 9-month appointment with the possibility of summer instruction. The position will start in September, 2019. We are looking for a colleague who will serve as Program Director for the Undergraduate Program in Human Physiology. This position will be a strategic hire that will allow us to build upon the College's tradition of excellence in the health sciences and its commitment to diversity and inclusion.
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Today was one of those days when a meal out was necessary…younger brother was at a party over lunchtime and it was too cold to take a picnic for 'Big Fuss Pot' to eat while he was there. We therefore decided to 'risk' eating at Carluccios having heard lots of good things on Twitter from fellow coeliacs.
I drew the short straw and got to go to the birthday party (in case you are reading this Katy…I actually thought it was great!), while my husband got to have a civilised meal with his daughter! When I asked her about it afterwards this was the conversation we had:
Big Fuss Pot – "I had pasta and pesto…it was yummy. The pasta was a bit chewy."
Me – "is chewy a good thing?"
BFP – "yes"
Me – "better than at home?"
BFP – "oh YES"
Me – note to self, cook the pasta for less time in the future!
BFP "I had chocolate ice cream for pudding!
Me – "oh yum, was it good"
BFP "yes"
Me "so what would you score the pasta and pesto"
BFP "ten out of ten…and ten out of ten for the ice cream too"
So there you have it. It is official. The gluten-free pasta and pesto at Carluccios scores a whopping ten out of ten and so does the ice cream!! She was obviously in a very good mood today!
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Just to note after a few days, my lo did suffer a reaction to eating out again so if you are a super-sensitive coeliac then probably best to avoid…as I am sure you already know!


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Families are invited down to Worden Park in Leyland to enjoy a series of outdoor theatre shows this summer.
Every week, Pendle Productions' the Storytellers Theatre Company, supported by South Ribble Council, are rolling into town with their season of family-friendly theatre productions.
This year is the 30th anniversary of Pendle Productions and to celebrate they have put together a season of shows that brings something new, as well as reviving some of their most popular productions.
Setting up near the Arts and Crafts Centre, the actors are set to put on a variety of shows, which kicked off with Martha the Magical Cat.
On Monday, August 3, it's a tale of life on the riverbank in the ever-popular Wind in the Willows.
Toad takes to the road and causes havoc in this madcap musical adventure with Badger, Ratty and Mole.
And who can fail to be delighted by Frances Hodgson Burnett's magical The Secret Garden on August 10?
This production introduces Mary Lennox and takes us from the heat of India to the West Yorkshire Moors as Mary discovers all the delights of the gardens and meets a few unexpected guests at Misselthwaite Manor.
Pinocchio, set for August 17, is the penultimate show of the season starting in Geppetto's little workshop before following the wooden puppet's many adventures in his quest to become a real boy.
The season is finished in real style by celebrating the 150th anniversary of Lewis Carroll's literary masterpiece Alice in Wonderland on August 24, in this musical adventure that will have people dancing on the lawns and clapping along at the same time.
Pendle's artistic director, Tim Lince, said: "Performing at Worden Park is like coming home. The actors have always commented on how fantastic the audiences are in Leyland."
Families are encouraged to take picnics for the occasion, which will be staged under a covered marquee if the weather doesn't look too good.
Individual tickets are £7 for children and adults, but one adult goes free with a family ticket of at least two children (£14). A season family ticket can be bought for £60.
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Stephen Colbert had a stern message for those Americans who want to move to Canada after Donald Trump was elected president.
But before that, he opened Wednesday's taping of "The Late Show" by saying what he thought Americans really needed to do over the real-estate mogul's presidential term.
"I just want to say freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, First Amendment," he said. "The most important things we can do together. Don't stop speaking up, don't stop speaking your mind, don't ever be cowed by whatever happens in the next four years."
As much as he's in a fighting spirit now, Colbert acknowledged that he didn't sleep well and described the shock he felt after Trump was elected.
"We have to accept that Donald Trump will be the 45th president of the United States," the host said, as the audience moaned. "No, I get that feeling completely. I just had to say it one more time. I just want to keep saying it until I can say it without throwing up in my mouth a little bit. It feels like a little bit of a dream state. All day I've had to remind myself this isn't a dream. I'm not on a peyote trip on the hunt of the great deer. This is real."
Even before the presidential election, many Americans said they would move to Canada if Trump were elected. Many were pretty serious about researching the move — enough to crash Canada's immigration website on Tuesday night. But Colbert had strong words for those people.
"I can understand why Canada is so attractive," Colbert said. "You've got the free healthcare and a prime minister who looks like the prince from 'Tangled.' But listen up, everybody out there who's saying, 'I'm gonna move to Canada': You don't get to flee when things get rough here. Being an American citizen is like family. You're in it whether you like it or not."
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As a founding member of the Swiss Structured Products Association SSPA/SVSP, our emphasis is on quality. With more than 100'000 products in Switzerland, Europe (Germany, Italy, Benelux and Nordics) and APAC (Singapore/ Hong Kong). Vontobel Financial Products is a market leader in Switzerland and Europe and has won several awards for its products. We also offer services relating to securities, forex and precious metals.
The international GTP "Trading and Engineering" contains four modules including one international stage and is primarily focused on an integrated training program within financial products as well as placements within the bank.
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- Is passionate about motorsports as a viewer, but drives as often as possible on his own
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During my internships at some bigger Swiss Banks, I quickly experienced that trading was my area of interest. Other Swiss Banks only had a few open position in a career start role available plus it was always in a dedicated field like Fixed Income or FX with little to no possibilities to catch some experience outside of this particular field. When I discovered Vontobel's GTP in Financial Products, I found my match. It offered the missing possibilities to get insights into FIRC- and Equity-Trading as well as Structuring. Plus I could gather some experience in fields like Business Development and Advisory.
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I Read Things
(FOREWARD: This is a rambling mess of a post. I wrote it raw and will probably not edit it before I hit publish. I may from time to time put up raw reactions like this simply to let things out that would have no place on my regular blog at Sadly, No! But that means I will not spend the amount of time or care on these works that I would something I was putting there.
So don't say I didn't warn you if it turns out to be a half-coherent slog.)
In the course of my day, I read things, usually a few silly things, like webcomics or a few snark sites in order to begin my day. And in the course of reading such things, I sometimes encounter things that just sort of needle under my skin.
I mean, they aren't badto be exact. I mean, the authors who write them are sometimes people whose work I usually respect (as is the case this time) and let's be frank, in my usual blog I frequently encounter way worse.
But it's annoying in its own respect, because these small little annoyances. These things that aren't so bad, nonetheless can be as illustrative as the great big examples the modern right gives us on the socio-political landscape that we call home.
So I dust off the musty covers of this old journal and allow it some small use in covering something that I would never in a million years use for a post on the main site.
And it's quite probable that this won't be the last post to revive this dead journal.
Today's post is about a tumblr post. This tumblr post, to be exact,, which is part of a tumblr blog I like called Shittiest Editorial Cartoon of the Moment that usually rips into hacktacular editorial cartoons. Which yeah, small target, easily glossed over, completely forgettable.
But it needles and so we are here.
One piece of context in the brewing of this piece has to be that it is on tumblr and tumblr blogs have a reputation that echoes its way across our great internets. A reputation I've often felt ill at ease about.
Cause see, tumblr is seen as the den of "crazy lefty activists", the "unreasonable" ones who spout "far-out" theories and demand absolute perfection in allies. It's cited as a prime example of how liberals are frustrating and how activists are their own worst enemy. It's battle cry is "check your privilege" and it's everything that one hates about an anti-war protest if you know what I mean, hint hint…
And that bugs me quite a bit, because the usual examples they cite to show this is that tumblr posts are often very focused on trans* activism and mental health activism (specifically about depression and lowering discrimination against that) often with an aggressive nature that refuses to accept bullshit, babysit people's education, and so on.
Which 1) yeah, it's kind of awkward when my human rights as a trans* person and being treated with full respect is seen as some "out there" thing that is completely unreasonable.
And 2) "out there" people are critical for any activist movement. A movement without radicals pushing the bounds and demanding the impossible is a movement that is not going anywhere or is often going backwards. Movements that have silenced the "radicals" demanding the impossible often find themselves losing ground on the politically acceptable, simply because there is not the push towards something more in order to remind the gazelle-like moderates that your moderate request really is something small.
"Radicals" being unreasonable are also often the beginning of things that become no duhs. The first abolitionists, the first people to argue that women had the right to vote, the first people to speculate about a world without rape, or the first people to argue that gay people should not just hope to one day not be beaten and murdered but to actually live open lives with those they love and be connected with them with all the legal protections of anyone else.
These did not just "poof" into place, they were fought for, by people viewed as irrational and unhelpful.
And 3) The "take no prisoners" model of activism isn't actually worse than the "nice educator". People learn in different ways. Some people need a helping hand to babysit them through their ignorance. Others need someone who will simply assume the world as they'd like it to be who will remind them that it is your job to educate yourself and to learn about their world.
It's much like fuckups in daily life. Some people need massive tact to avoid stupid defensiveness and be able to hear what their loved ones are saying. Others just need to be called on their shit and made to realize that they've hurt someone they care about.
Activism is no different.
But anyways, our post du jour opens with an expansion of a theory.
Last week I raised the point that true revolutionaries work to create a world that won't need them, while many vocal activists seem more motivated with just making sure everyone knows how moral and committed to high ideals they are.
A stupid theory.
Cause, see, here's the thing. Such a posit of revolution and activism is one that is only true of being an ally activist. When one is an ally of a population needing a human right, then the final world they create will not need them. If you are a white ally of the black right to vote, then eventually you may create a world where you are no longer needed because everyone agrees with you and it is not questioned (though even with this example, we see that its a fiction as white allies are still needed to this day to help protect the right of people of color to vote as its still even decades after legalization, still under attack).
But though that's hardly true for even that, it's definitely not true for the populations who actually make up the majority of the activism. My role as a trans* activist is not to make a world where I am not needed. It's to make a world where I can live. Where I, as a trans* person, can be myself out and free without drifting to thoughts of those just like me, killed in cities inches away from me for being just like me, a mere handful of years ago (as in less than 5). Where younger versions of me will not have to suffer the discrimination I did. Where I can trust that people will know more about the basics of my life than they do hateful myths about how I am a dangerous thing and a satanic deceiver. Where me being a teacher is not viewed as a form of recruitment of someone's kids that must be prevented with force.
Where I can live, as cis people do without being afraid and feeling like a freak all the fucking time.
We in these communities fighting for rights and for human treatment by others are not trying to create a world where we can go home, thinking we did a good job, but one in which we can simply be ourselves and stop receiving buckets of trauma.
And ignoring that and positing the ally experience of being able to go home "after the fight" as the "real" activism, means he can slyly include those who are actually affected by laws into the "bad" category of those who just want to feel superior to poor widdle privileged wannabe allies instead of accomplish anything "real".
And this is probably not an intentional framing, but it is one that is demanded simply because our society treats as default those who are from dominant privileged groups and so it is easy for those in those groups to be blind to what their arguments actually say as the only experience they have personally is that of being dominant in our society.
In short (too late), one can essentially stumble into assuming a really twisted view of reality and create really insulting framings (and then use these bad framings to assume bad faith on the part of those criticizing you) without at all intending to.
In short, this is the problem with privilege, yo. And why many minority populations tend to have short fuses with this crap.
I mean, for fuck's sake, asshole is setting up a "my allyship is real activism and you just think you're better than me" pseudo-intellectualism based in straight up ignoring the lives of those most central to all forms of activism. That's the type of behavior that needles and puts minority populations on edge and makes them less likely to be kind to "good allies who just want to be better" in the future.
Sometimes this takes long-term things, such as the American Right's deathless fascination with communism, and sometimes change actually happens, such as the tidal wave of LGBT equality going on right now.
Yeah, funny that. Right-wing arguments tend to be decade-long counter-revolutions standing athwart history yelling stop, where as left-wing activism is dynamic and actually changes things that are then accepted as not nearly as big of a deal as they seemed to be at the time, as just… normal.
And left-wing activism is also dynamic in that it responds to what is true. I mean, where's the left-wing version of the "always repeating McCarthy"? Well, most of those died or might as well be dead. There is not much social support for "positive" eugenics, trans-exclusionary radical feminism, lesbian separatism, back to africa movements, or waiting for the communist revolution to magically fix everything.
And the reason being that those movements were fucking stupid and so the social support moved to other branches towards the eventual goal that were more inclusive, less problematic, etc… and they got that way through internal debate, argument, and the growth of other movements that informed activists more.
I mean, this is worth pointing out, because the author of the post is setting up a mythology of liberal activists as inflexible and more interested in being the "lone wolf activist who is righter than everyone else" over the reality of liberal activists as people who care and who try and who have been demonstrated by history to often be the people shifting to better arguments and better tactics as evidence has demanded.
Which is why even as he seeks to condemn liberal activists, he can only manage to use a right-wing example of inflexibility to demonstrate it.
But I notice that as gay and lesbian rights become more common and the fight isn't as… sexy as it once was, other struggles are being taken up. The most obvious is the fight for trans-equality,
Fuck you.
No seriously, fuck this horseshit. Trans* rights are not taking off because gay and lesbian rights are "no longer as sexy", but because it is a natural evolution. I mean, for fuck's sake, trans* people and activists were literally told by dominant gay and lesbian groups to put our shit on hold until the very public fights for gay marriage, the right to serve, and non-discrimination were largely won. And now, voila, they are all going in a really good direction and so yeah, a lot of the people who were asked to shut up and wait are taking about their life experiences and trying to get all those people who have been able to see the humanity in gay and lesbian people to also see the humanity in the other people in the community, such as trans* people.
And it's all amounts of dismissing and grating to hear of how a slight increase in visibility and recognition by cis people on how trans* people suffer and die every day is supposedly only occurring, because it's "fashionable" and other fights aren't "sexy". I guess all the trans* people who went before me should have tried to be "sexier" if they wanted to be viewed as a fad by privileged hipster douchebags.
which, almost overnight it seems, has given rise to the usage of the term 'cisgender.'
Cisgender has been in use for decades within the trans* community. It is pretty much as old as transgender and is so very well established in community that there is next-to-no debate about it, which given the greater trans* community is an astonishing thing to say the least.
Which kinda disproves the entire whine he is trying to make.
I mean, cisgender is new to him. He thinks it has been invented overnight because it is his first experience with it.
And that means that these angry trans* activists "jumping on a bandwagon" are not as he maintains, counterproductive in their aims, but wholly successful. Here was a term, crucial to the understanding of trans* people that was wholly alien to him, as must of been, much of the life experiences of trans* people and those angry activists educated him of it, educated him of the lives of trans* people, made him aware he needed to understand it and care about the inner-lives of such people.
That "in your face" activism, therefore, worked in its aim, better than any "go slow and don't spook anyone" attempt he would argue as "better".
Which means his entire post is disproved by the very defensive reason he tries to proffer in his defense. As it is every time a privileged dominant group member puffs up a whine about the "in your faceness" of minority group member activism.
And that's sort of the reason why privileged so-called ally defensive posts of this sort are taken with such a strong spoonful of salt when they are presented as obvious truths being ignored by people who are "clearly just wanting to think they are better than me" (which its worth noting that such phrasing could be more simply put as "uppity" without losing any of its accidental intent).
I fully support trans-equality,
A viewpoint I have no doubt you would not have nor even remotely understand what it means to do so if it were not for mean activists being vocal and upfront and making sure education on trans* terminologies and experiences were disseminated far and wide.
But enough of that reality, let's see your but.
but going back to what I've said about activism as motivated by a 'holier than thou' mindset, as the term 'cisgender' has become more commonplace in areas like Tumblr there's also been a concurrent rise in the expectation that everyone should already know what the term means and be up to date on all the travesties transgendered people have suffered and the legal and institutional burdens or barriers to equality in place.
Or for those in the community, it's been the case where it is common knowledge and one can feel awkward re-explaining the basics. I mean, I've noticed it myself in my writing. I'll use a bunch of LGBT terminology without stopping to define all of it in case of newbies, simply because I'm used to these terms a lot in my daily life and I forget to stop and educate every two feet.
And sometimes my readers actually appreciate that, because it helps maintain a casual tone and they can then go look up the term and come back, having learned something new without it seeming like a big new thing.
This mindset is often expressed in the phrase "It's not my job to educate you," as in "You should already know this," or "You should already know how to learn about this topic yourself."
Uh… no it's not.
I mean, not to interrupt your little martyr dance, but that's not actually what that phrase means.
"It's not my job to educate you" is not an expression of disbelief at ignorance, it's an expression of exhaustion. Cause, see, that's the thing about being an activist. It is fucking exhausting. It is tiring beyond belief to debate your very existence with people who are often hostile and when they aren't, are often panicky and looking for an excuse to run back to the comforts of ignorance to regain a sense of accustomed power for being lucky enough to be born privileged. Explaining for the nintieth time why it's not really cool to be treated as a slave to an inanimate object or why you don't deserve to be killed in the street like dogs or why you are not the violent murdering animal TV sells you to someone who may very well be another bad faith bigot is one of those things that burns activists out and makes you feel like everything is futile and painful.
So yeah, sometimes, when the demand to educate on some basic aspect of humanity is raised, especially as an intrusion to an already existing conversation, we say to do your own fucking homework.
And it's not because we are mean, but because it really isn't our job. We are not being paid to educate you on our lives or how to be less of a bigot. It is volunteered freely and thus we have a right to be tired or just not feel like doing it this time.
And yeah, it's worth noting here that privileged groups really do have boundary control with regards to minority group member time and energy. Often viewing it as the minority group members sole duty to drop everything and answer all manner of invasive or insulting question to their satisfaction without at all making them feel insecure or ill-at-ease. And if one does not feel like undergoing that often futile and painful task, it is our fault and proof that we don't care about our minority group members because this disrespectful, boundary-abusing asshole was totally going to become the bestest ally ever (even though all he seemed to want was credit for being an ally without doing any work or showing any respect) but now is going to be a bigot and its all our fault.
And the part that always baffles us is why we're supposed to believe your heart was ever in the education and being an ally when you took the first excuse you could to retain the more comfortable bigotries.
And there's a lot I hate about that phrase and the mentality behind it, but for now I'd like to just mention that I think a significant cause for that mentality is the conscious or otherwise understanding that you can only be the forerunner of a social movement in the beginning. People advocating for political or social issues are, presumably, attempting to bring more attention to their issue for the express purpose of getting more people to fight for it.
Yes. This is true.
When one is doing activism at the beginning of movements, it is often about education, bringing attention to an issue, and educating on how to be a good ally and so on.
Asexuality is a great example of a movement that is solidly in the education phase, where even those who will soon be supportive are just starting to learn what it's about and how to help with the discrimination and abuse occurring in the "benign vacuum" where there isn't an active campaign against the group yet, but there is passive discrimination and abuse.
But here's the thing.
1) That doesn't mean that asexuality activists should be seen as derelict if they are interacting with someone who wants to debate if asexuals even exist or arguing that asexuals couldn't be under threat for things like rape or who thinks Dan Savage is correct about asexual lives and decides, no fuck that. Or even, if they are tired and have a mythical good ally waiting to happen and decide no, just don't have it or even if they are in a shitty mood and are short with someone. Activists and minorities are people and do not owe ignorant people free educational services.
And 2) I'll note here he used the example of trans* rights before, not I. And here's the thing. Trans* rights are in no way shape or form in the "beginning" of their movement. There are prominent out trans* people popping up everywhere. There are established departments worth of academy researching their lives. There are go-to books about the experience that are well-liked by the community. There are celebrity activists. There are actual political victories and the beginning of national conversations that aren't just ignorance. Furthermore, and most importantly, there are dedicated movements against trans* people and for their discrimination and treatment as a hated population with enough understanding to be strongly vocal.
So yeah, acting like this is some "beginning movement" that has to be extra careful not to be shirty with anyone because allies might be few and far between is some rich ass bullshit.
When even the wingnuts doing their damndest to live in a hole understand the issue enough to know that it is a thing they hate for being different, you no longer have an excuse as a left-leaning politically minded person for being aggressively ignorant of even the basic terminology.
And that is kind of important to note, because he seems to be under the impression that these trans* people and activists suddenly "sprang up" to "be trendy" and invented a whole bunch of terms last tuesday and acting all hipster cool about how only they know what they mean and the reality is that trans* activism has been established for decades and is starting the push for real global acceptance (i.e. the big nightmarish slog up the hill to where gay rights currently reside).
And yeah, him being late to the party, doesn't mean that it's too indie for anyone to be aware of.
And that would dilute the specialness of having taken up the issue, wouldn't it?
Fuck this bullshit.
Even people who are not X minority group who fight for X minority group rights face a large amount of blowback for doing so. Look at the treatment of White Freedom Bus Riders during the 60s, current male allies of feminism, straight gay rights allies who have faced homophobic bullying and discrimination, or, to use a rather personal example, my girlfriend having a random guy yell verbal abuse at her for wearing a shirt supportive of asexuals.
It is not a pleasant action and even with the separation and pseudonymity of the internet, that shit can still take an emotional toll.
So this, oh, you're just trying to be cool when you call me out on my ignorance or privilege crap is actually just a tired version of an old counter-activism technique. Which is diminishing activism in order to reduce its impact. Look at right-wing arguments against anti-war protestors or the Occupy movement, arguing that the people facing down militarized police were just bored kids looking for something to do on a Saturday night. It's a handy tool for dismissing activists and activism as existing less or being less impactful than the actions because "reasons".
And fuck that noise, especially when disappearing into privilege is one of the laziest actions on the planet.
I mean, for fuck's sake, what he's defending is this: "Ungh, I totally want to support those equal rights for that group, but ungh, the group won't sit me down and educate me on everything and listen to all my possibly offensive questions. Instead they expect me, ALL BY MYSELF, to drag my poor finger all the way to the google bar and type something in, possibly spending upwards of a minute in searching and then READ something myself! Who has time for that?!? So, fuck that group, ignorance forever."
And we're supposed to think its the activists who are acting lazy and entitled?
Fuck that.
So instead of more often seeing people argue for limited but vital reform for this or that issue, taking pride in the baby steps, it's easier to call for the most wide-reaching, pie-in-the-sky total transformation of society and the world possible.
Yes, that's how activism works. That's how movements begin.
If in the imagining stage, the stage of activists on the ground, of just people and ideas, accept only what is viable from an immediate political perspective, then you have no hope of changing anything.
If you're, as people, not elected congresspeople, saying that we can only talk about and think about what could pass as a bill today, then there is no audacity or pressure to push things and by the time any activism built to the level of putting pressure on congress, then the political class will probably have already passed the law.
It'd be like delaying even the thought of arguing for gay marriage or thinking about the possibility of gay marriage until automagically we had arrived at this level of support.
Such actions would not have seen the rapid gain of support that gay marriage gained.
Instead, they needed people to be audacious and dream big. To go, in the midst of the AIDS crisis when politicians were literally cackling about how they loved to see gay people wither and die, our love should be treated as equal and real and we have as much right to be married as anyone else. Only then, by building it at that ludicrous level has it made it to the point of being a "no duh" that is inevitable.
And it's same with anything else. Feminists in the 70s who first started talking about rape and ending rape culture were seen as nutjobs. Hell, are still used as go-to examples of the "worst of feminism" and women who "went too far", but it's done wonders in starting national conversations about rape and consent and building better models for sexual interactions and getting help to survivors. Abolitionists in the 1700s began the conversation that ended that atrocious constitutionally-protected affair in the 1800s. And those in Lincoln's era who dared dream of a right to vote for women worked hard to make that a reality in the 1900s.
All these movements, these no-duhs, these things we are better for having, began as an audacious thought that flew in the face of everything.
And I'll even throw the moderate cheerleaders a bone and note that if all one has is radicals, that is no good either. One needs more "moderate" and those willing to compromise, especially in one's political class in order to gain important legal protections in the meantime we all have to live in while the radicals push us socially to where we should all be. The deal-maker can also build coalitions who can share in the activism and bring your concerns to larger audiences.
But you need both, the bomb-thrower and the deal-maker, the sell-out and the audacious dreamer in order to get anywhere and shutting out the radical because it threatens those from dominant groups (when you are a dominant group member) is just fucking stupid and cowardly and only ensures a code of laws that is just for some and injust for others.
Knowing that you'll never lose the moral superiority you've built for yourself in your head.
A great example of the last rant would actually be the state of trans* rights in this country. See, trans* people have been with the overall queer community for forever. Trans* people were among the principle fighters at Stonewall, have been members in high standing in early queer groups. Trans* people were instrumental in building founding notions of the queer community such as drag shows and Pride and helped create some of the breakout cultural landmarks that gay groups used to propel rights for gays and lesbians.
But trans* people were pushed out of the conversation. They were seen as too "weird" and too threatening to the more "accessible" gay rights and many positions of power in the queer movement ended up falling to gay male members who shaped it more in their favor. As such, trans* rights, which began in a very similar time, is about 20 years or so behind the rest of the queer movement and a lot of those queer activists who literally left them behind to sprint ahead are now needing to prove their bonafides in coming back for the people they tripped or simply become a force for the next round of bigotry.
So yeah, fuck the whole "moral superiority" bullshit in criticizing those trying to do right where a great wrong has occurred.
And the issue of trans-equality is just one example.
Yes. One very illustrative example of how much privileged whines like this are full of shit.
I can remember when Brave came out and a vocal group got outraged over the lack of non-Caucasian characters – and aren't they doing the same thing with Frozen? – because everybody knows that these predominantly white European countries have had minority populations for hundreds of years and the people at Pixar and Disney must have intentionally excluded any POC characters because that's how racist they are.
So… the argument is that because (bold text) everybody knows that European countries have always been lily white (until recent immigrants started running it over, donchaknow) largely because media depictions have shown it that way, no one should criticize that cinematic language still being used that way?
I mean, maybe I'm wrong and what he's citing is a bunch of hipster stereotypes going "I knew Europe wasn't always super white back before it was cool". I mean, there are, after all, zero links in this section.
But in the more likely case that people are bringing in the fact that Europe wasn't 100% white to criticize movies aiding disinformation by continuously depicting it as such, then yeah, people should bring that up and possibly angrily as people are going to be defensive and assume that that can't be true simply because media depictions shape a lot of what we view about the world.
And it's also worth noting, seeing as how he's already demonstrated his unreliable narrator role with trying to pretend that "cisgender" is some new gotcha, that what he's probably responding to is more people noting how Disney movies still are about close to 100% white stories that do not reflect our actual society nor the societies they depict within the movies.
But hey, I guess people were just trying to be cool about it.
And I'm thinking: I've never considered when non-white populations came to Europe, but it's not unreasonable to think of Scotland or Norway as being predominantly white to the point that the limited cast of each film could be Caucasian without raising an eyebrow. It's not like when a story set in modern-day Los Angeles has no Hispanic characters.
So, he has an inaccurate belief because of media depiction and even after encountering people en masse educating him otherwise, he still clings to his idea that these countries were 100% white simply because he is used to that media depiction and thus defends more media depictions like that.
And this isn't a good example of exactly what the people were trying to criticize and make note of (as well as a good argument for noting it loudly and dramatically in order to break through this inertia), because…?
Oh right, you as a white person are not negatively impacted from the social perception that stories are your stories by default and that non-white Europeans are to be treated as foreigners or at best, recent immigrants.
While I don't want to make the issue of "tone" more important than it is
Heh. Some education has definitely taken root, seeing as how he's aware that he's making a tone troll argument and that is a deep amount of bullshit.
(anger has its place, certainly), there's a lot to be said for having patience with people who don't understand your experience or don't have the knowledge you do. That is, if your goal is to actually educate and effect change.
Hey, anger can be educable, too and tone trolling is bullshit, but let me tone troll you anyways.
Fuck, this is especially galling, because I've had recent brutal education on the fact that not only can anger be a good education tool along with softly explaining things, but that just as anger can sometimes backfire, so can being gentle.
When I came out to my parents and told them of being trans* I took the mentality of going soft and gentle with them. I didn't go out of my way to be aggressively out or rush them to adopt a new name and in general, took each piece very slowly.
And it blew up. The gentle approach allowed them to slip into denialism and act like my transition wasn't happening and then use my trepidation and calm statements as proof that I was deluded and couldn't really be genuine. They pretended that I didn't come out when I did and their early support never happened and exploited my kindness to try and "tough love" me to change as they saw fit. Bigots also exploited the time by letting their passion against me sway my parents into thinking that that was the more correct response (I mean, if I'm begging and being forgiving and a bigot is being forceful and clear, then clearly they have the more investment and accuracy, right?)
I wasted a large part of my life with them to end up somewhere worse than if I had been as forceful and take no shit as I am online.
Worst of all, the trauma of all that has robbed me of my edge, because it all seems too big and too painful to fix or invest in fixing.
If all you want to do is scream at everyone online who doesn't share 100% of your views, striking a "more socially evolved than you" pose and wailing over how horrible everyone else for not being as conscientious as you are, then you can ignore this.
Because trying to create change isn't what's motivating you, is it?
Oh hey, Farmer Joe, whatcha doin' with yer strawman?
Oh… I see. Um, let me just give you a moment and I'll come back later.
But seriously, fuck this sort of privileged whine fest about having to encounter people trying to push the envelope forward on a group that it is currently "safe to hate".
Anger and forcefulness is a successful method of educating and frankly, can often be more successful than other methods, especially when one is working mostly with strangers (such as online).
And the defensive bitching about how hipster activists are thinking they are better for going out of their way to educate shows that its having a major impact in unsettling the inertia of privilege and the damage that does to society.
Cause as we've seen in examples such as the Grantland writer who drove a trans* woman to suicide because of his own aggressive ignorance and unchecked bigotry, it's not a neutral state of affairs.


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