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NEWSBYTES - December 19, 2001
Net Obscenity Provisions Revocation Sought NEWSBYTES By David McGuire http://www.NEWSBYTES.com December 19, 2001, Washington, DC -- A small civil liberties group has asked a federal judge in New York to revoke what remains of an Internet pornography law that was gutted by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1997. In a complaint filed in a New York City Federal Court [http://www.USCourts.gov ] last week, the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom [https://ncsfreedom.org ] argued that the court should overturn the provisions of the Communications Decency Act (CDA) that prohibit Web sites from displaying obscene material online. "Many people are unaware that one of the most powerful censorship provisions of the Communications Decency Act [http://EPIC.org/cda] is still in place. Even fewer realize the dangerous effect it could have in the hands of an overzealous administration and attorney general,"NCSF spokesperson Susan Wright said in a prepared statement. Passed by Congress and signed into law by President Bill Clinton in 1996, the CDA drew a barrage of criticism from industry groups, publishers and civil-liberties advocates. In addition to prohibiting online obscenity -- which was already illegal in physical form -- the law called for Web site operators to be held criminally responsible if they allowed children to view constitutionally protected "indecent" material online. Only the most graphic pornography and sexually explicit material meets the legal standard for obscenity. Milder sexually explicit material -- nude photos, erotic stories and the like -- may be considered indecent. But such material is protected under the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. A broad coalition of public interest groups -- including the American Library Association [http://www.ALA.org], the American Civil Liberties Union [ http://ACLU.org ] and the Center for Democracy and Technology [http://CDT.org ] challenged the indecency provisions of CDA, on grounds that it could crimp the rights of adults to view constitutionally protected speech online. The groups convinced a lower court to freeze those provisions; that decision eventually was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court. But the NCSF, which promotes sexual freedom and counts as members many operators of sexually explicit Web sites, maintains that the remaining online obscenity ban in CDA has a chilling effect on Web site operators who want to post sexually explicit materials. The NCSF specifically argues that the "community standards" test in federal obscenity law is meaningless in global world of the Internet. The obscenity ban in CDA is based on a decades-old obscenity…
San Francisco Bay Guardian - January 14, 2002
Techsploitation By Annalee Newitz San Francisco Bay Guardian, January 14, 2002 HERE'S YET ANOTHER wacky fact you probably didn't know about the Communications Decency Act ole Bill Clinton signed into law way back in 1996: the good citizens of some small town in Arizona or southern California might have the power to send you to jail if they think the contents of your Web site are "obscene." The CDA contains a section that makes it illegal for people to make or post on the Internet "any comment, request, suggestion, proposal, image, or other communication which is obscene, knowing that the recipient of the communication is under 18 years of age, regardless of whether the maker of such communication ... initiated the communication." There are two major problems with this part of the CDA. First, it assumes that people on the Internet can control who sees what they post on a Web site or in newsgroups. Right now it's just not technically possible to screen Web surfers by age or anything else. Second, and more disturbingly, the CDA doesn't define what "obscene" might be. The only definitions offered refer to "local community standards," a phrase drawn from previous Supreme Court decisions that relied on the values of particular geographic regions to define "local community standards." Obviously, this definition is meaningless on the Internet, where Skippy from Massachusetts might post a picture of himself humping his kitchen appliances on a Web server operated out of Florida, which would then be downloaded by an eager Betty Crocker fetishist in Idaho. Translated into a real-life scenario, the CDA language in question here means that somebody like New York artist Barbara Nitke (www.barbaranitke.com), whose Web site displays her erotic art, could be sent to jail if somebody under 18 happens to visit her Web site. This is precisely the scenario members of the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom in Washington, DC, fear most. To prevent the Ashcroft court from setting repressive precedents with this little-known section of the CDA, the NCSF and Nitke have gone on the offensive: in mid December they filed a legal complaint with the 1st U.S. District Court in southern New York that argues that the language about "obscenity" in the CDA is unconstitutionally vague and will have a chilling effect on free speech. As NCSF executive director Judy Guerin told me last week, this case is just…
San Francisco Frontiers - January 23, 2002
Communications Decency Act A Lingering Coup de Grace? By Tim Kingston January 23, 2002 You may dimly recall the Communications Decency Act of 1996, which unsuccessfully attempted to define and proscribe "indecency" on the Internet. That law's legal core--its indecency provision--was immediately challenged and rapidly struck down as unconstitutional by free- and electronic-speech advocates. But, what many may not know is that another portion of the law, prohibiting "obscene" materials on the Internet as defined by the Supreme Court, remains standing. That is something that the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom (NCSF) and Barbara Nitke, a New York artist whose sexually charged photographs could be subject to the law, intend to change. Judy Guerin, the group's executive director, hopes this is a final coup de grace to that law. On Jan. 29, a federal court in New York City will be hearing preliminary arguments in a case that is likely to wind up before the U.S. Supreme Court--due to the fact that appellants have an automatic and expedited right of appeal. "Obscenity is tied to community standards," asserted Guerin. "We feel that community standards are not defined and what has been previously thought of as community standards in a geographic area is not applicable to the Internet. It could mean that the most restrictive community standards in the country could apply." The problem that Guerin cites was equally problematic with the original attempt to outlaw "indecency" on the Internet. Essentially, Guerin and other civil-liberties proponents worry that the federal government could go "venue shopping" until they found a community with standards restrictive enough to guarantee a conviction. As she pointed out, Utah has a "porn czarina" who thinks that the women's magazines Redbook and Vogue are "obscene." Given that definition, it would not be outrageous to say that every queer publication on the Internet is at risk. Guerin, whose group is a coalition of 22 different organizations representing some 10,000 members, added, "This is an important issue for all, from [those concerned about] sex education, to anyone who talks about any kind of sexual issue on the Internet. It is certainly something the LGBT movement should be very concerned about, become very proactive about and [be] aggressive against [U.S. Attorney General John] Ashcroft." "We feel [the law] has a chilling effect because people do not know what is and what is not allowed on…
Ynot News - January 2, 2002
Can David Beat Goliath in the Battle of Obscenity? Part 2 By Judd Handler Ynot News, January 2, 2002 Last week's editorial featured an interview with John Wirenius, lead counsel for the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom and Barbara Nitke, an adult content photographer. Wirenius, on behalf of the NCSF and Nitke, filed a lawsuit on December 11 against Attorney General John Ashcroft seeking to overturn Internet obscenity laws as they relate to the Communications Decency Act (CDA), a statute, which is littered with extremely vague and archaic obscenity provisions. For this week's editorial, I spoke with Susan Wright, spokeswoman for the NCSF, and Nitke, who began her professional adult photography work on the sets of hardcore films in New York City during the 1980s. When exploring the members of the NCSF's individual websites as well as Nitke's, it seems that most of the content is less risque© than most other hardcore porn sites. I spoke with Wright and Nitke to see why they decided to legally challenge the federal government and why they view the CDA as a threat to the online adult industry. The NCSF is a Washington, DC-based political advocacy-lobbying group, comprised of educational and social organizations. Established in 1997, this cohesive group consists mostly of S&M and fetish groups. Mainstream online adult webmasters could learn how to effectively form a lobbying group like the NCSF has done. While it may not seem necessary to some webmasters to become politically cohesive, for the NCSF members, it is a matter of life or ... a life that might as well be a dead, meaningless one. Many live in fear because of the moral minority's attacks on alternative lifestyles, and the lack of vocal and political support from those that approve of or actually engage in alternative sexual expression. According to Wright, the Kinsey Institute in 1990 conducted a study, which concluded that five to ten percent of adults (up to 25 million people!) engage in alternative sexual expression such as bondage, cross-dressing, S&M and other fetishes. "That's a lot of people," says Wright. "Millions of adults in the U.S. engage in fetishes ... They are your teachers, bus drivers, doctors, professionals and blue collar workers." Adds Wright, "These people don't talk about what they do and they don't come out about it; yet they're everywhere." Because of the lack of support,…
Ynot News - December 20, 2001
Can David Beat Goliath in the Battle of Obscenity? By Judd Handler Ynot News, December 20, 2001 One would think it would take the giants of the industry to force the government to rethink existing, not-applicable-to-the-Internet obscenity laws. On the contrary, the little players may be the ones who are successful in getting the federal government and the Supreme Court to throw out irrelevant local community standards when applied to the Internet. As a result, new guidelines better suited for the cyber community may be formulated. The National Coalition for Sexual Freedom and one if its members, an adult content photographer named Barbara Nitke are an example of those little players who aren't afraid to challenge the government. NCSF is a Washington, DC-based organization committed to protecting freedom of expression among consenting adults. A large portion of NCSF's members practices "an alternative sexual lifestyle," namely S&M, bondage and other fetishes. NCSF, according to its website, "mobilizes diverse grassroots communities to help change antiquated and unfair sex laws, and to protect free speech and advance privacy rights." NCSF indeed does just that. On December 11, the NSCF and Nitke filed a lawsuit seeking to overturn Internet obscenity laws. The defendant in the case: John Ashcroft and the Federal Government. Why would an organization such as NCSF and a relatively unknown photographer (outside the S&M community) try to battle a behemoth such as the Federal Government and what do they hope to accomplish? I spoke with John Wirenius, the plaintiffs' lawyer (of the firm Leeds, Morelli & Brown, www.lmblaw.com), Susan Wright, the spokesperson for the NCSF and Nitke. This week, I will focus on my conversation with Wirenius. Next week, I will provide the insights of Wright and Nitke. "The Supreme Court meant what it said in 1997, [that] they are drawing a distinction between indecency and obscenity, and that should put all adult webmasters on guard," said Wirenius. "Unless they can prove their work has literary, artistic, social, and political merit, they are at risk for prosecution." Wirenius discussed with Susan Wright how to advance the NCSF's legal agenda and what was the best approach to raise the issues concerning free expression. Hence, the lawsuit. "One of the biggest concerns the NCSF's constituency had was the right to communicate with each other," said Wirenius, who mentioned the problem with censorship is that how…
Wired - December 12, 2001
New Suit Targets Obscenity Law By Julia Scheeres Wired, December 12, 2001 A national organization that promotes sexual tolerance and an artist who photographs pictures of couples engaged in sadomasochism filed a lawsuit Tuesday seeking to overturn Internet obscenity laws. The National Coalition for Sexual Freedom and photographer Barbara Nitke argue that the obscenity provision of the Communications Decency Act (CDA) is so broad that it violates free speech. The suit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, names as plaintiffs Attorney General John Ashcroft and the U.S. government, and aims to blot out the remaining censorship provisions of the CDA, a measure passed to protect minors from online pornography. Violators of the act face fines of up to $250,000 and two years in prison. The CDA was first attacked in the 1997 case Reno v. ACLU, when the Supreme Court struck down provisions related to indecency, ruling that the law harmed constitutionally protected free speech. The act's obscenity provisions are targeted by the new challenge. The murky semantics of the terms "obscenity" and "indecency" have long been the bane of First Amendment lawyers. (For the ACLU's take on the debate, click here). The CDA defined indecent material as "any comment, request, suggestion, proposal, image, or other communication that, in context, depicts or describes, in terms patently offensive as measured by contemporary community standards, sexual or excretory activities or organs." The Supreme Court ruled in the Reno v. ACLU case that this broad definition unfairly criminalized speech about a variety of benign topics related to sexual health, such as contraception. The Supreme Court ruled that obscene speech -- which is not protected by the First Amendment -- must meet the following three criteria: 1) it must be prurient in nature, 2) it must be completely devoid of scientific, political, educational or social value, and 3) it must violate local community standards. The lawsuit filed Tuesday claims that the obscenity provision outlined in Section 502 of the CDA is so vague and arbitrary that it could violate speech that should be protected. The sticky words here are the so-called "local community standards," said John F. Wirenius, the plaintiffs' legal counsel and an attorney for civil rights firm Leeds, Morelli & Brown. "Obscenity is unprotected speech, but not all material is obscene from jurisdiction to jurisdiction," said Wirenius. "Material may be considered obscene in Utah,…
Spectator Magazine - January 11, 2002
STANDING UP TO BE COUNTED: BARBARA NITKE CHALLENGES JOHN ASHCROFT ON S/M AND INTERNET OBSCENITY By David Steinberg Spectator Magazine, January 11, 2002 "No matter how we're wired to express love, freedom is having the courage to be who we are." - Photographer/plaintiff Barbara Nitke On December 11, Barbara Nitke and the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom brought suit in New York City's Federal District Court, seeking to have the last remaining censorship provision of the 1996 Communications Decency Act declared overbroad, vague, and therefore unconstitutional under the First Amendment. The suit, which will be heard this spring by a three-judge panel headed by Judge Richard Berman, is a sequel to the 1997 action by the American Civil Liberties Union, Reno v. ACLU, that resulted in the Supreme Court unanimously striking down the provision of CDA that criminalized indecent, "patently offensive" material broadcast over the Internet. The aim of Nitke v. Ashcroft is to have the ruling extended to CDA's criminalization of obscene material as well. The Communications Decency Ac was the first Federal statute attempting to regulate sexual material broadcast over the Internet. CDA makes it a Federal crime to transmit any obscene or indecent "comment, request, suggestion, proposal, image, or other communication" over the Internet, if such material can be viewed by people under 18. The question of what is obscenity or indecency has always been a complex one. The current Federal definition of obscenity, the Miller test, stems from a 1973 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in the case of Miller v. California. Under the Miller test, material is legally obscene only if it is sexually explicit, patently offensive according to "local community standards," and lacks any "serious literary, artistic, social, educational, or scientific value. "Sexually explicit material that does have serious social value, but is still offensive according to local community standards, falls into the legal category of indecency, even though it is not obscene. As a result, it can legally be subjected to some degree of government regulation. The supreme Court has ruled, for example, that the times when indecent material can be broadcast on television can be limited to certain late night hours, when it is presumably less likely to be seen by children. The community standards provision of the Miller ruling allowed the Supreme Court to acknowledge that material considered obscene or indecent in a small town in rural Kansas may nonetheless be quite…
New York Press - August 28, 2002
What's Obscene in Podunk By John Strausbaugh New York Press, August 28, 2002 Barbara Nitke is a well-known and much-seen photographer in her field. She's president of the New York Camera Club and teaches a course in darkroom technique at SVA. A nice, neat, sweet individual, she's the very very last person in New York City you'd suspect of being a pornographer. Which she's not, not exactly. She's more an arty photo-documentarian of porn -she shot an enormous number of stills on the sets of porn shoots in the 80s and 90s-and of the activities of people of "alternative sexuality" (read: s/m). You can see a sampling of her work at barbaranitke.com. Some portion of the erotic photography you encounter elsewhere on the Internet is also her work. And that, plus the fact that she's the very antithesis of the sleazy, trashy, drug-damaged porn professional, makes her the perfect person to front a legal challenge to current obscenity law. Which she's doing in a case with the simple yet grandiose name Nitke v. Ashcroft. Nitke knows about obscenity prosecutions from close personal observation. Her ex-husband Herb produced porn in the 70s, including, she says, an uncredited role in financing The Devil in Miss Jones. During the movie's several obscenity trials, "He was always the guy on trial," she recalls. "So my free-speech thing goes way back." It was when she was putting together her website, a gallery of selected photos culled from 20 years on porn sets and in s/m dungeons, that Nitke began to worry about her possible legal exposure. "I was really proud of getting my website up, but also really concerned," she says. "There were some very scary laws that got on the books when Clinton was in power, but they never got enforced. With Ashcroft coming in, these laws were about to be enforced, I thought. A person like me, if I get hit with an obscenity suit, it's an immediate go into bankruptcy, plead guilty. There's no way I'd have the resources to fight it... I started calling around to lawyers and anybody who'd have any legal advice for me." One lawyer she spoke with was John Wirenius, a partner at Leeds, Morelli and Brown, on Long Island (they used to have an office in the WTC as well), a firm that specializes in civil rights and civil liberties.…
New York Newsday - July 25 2005
New York judges refuse to say Internet obscenity law is unconstitutional By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press Writer, July 25, 2005, 7:58 PM EDT NEW YORK -- A special three-judge federal panel on Monday refused to find unconstitutional a law making it a crime to send obscenity over the Internet to children. The Communications Decency Act of 1996 had been challenged by Barbara Nitke, a photographer who specializes in pictures of sadomasochistic sexual behavior, and by the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom, a Baltimore-based advocacy organization. They contended in a December 2001 lawsuit brought in U.S. District Court in Manhattan that the law was so broad and vague in its scope that it violated the First Amendment, making it impossible for them to publish to the Internet because they cannot control the forum. A judge from the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals and two district judges heard the facts of the case and issued a written decision saying the plaintiffs had provided insufficient evidence to prove the law was unconstitutional. The panel noted that evidence was offered to indicate there are at least 1.4 million Web sites that mention bondage, discipline and sadomasochism but that evidence was insufficient to decide how many sites might be considered obscene. The judges said the evidence also was insufficient for them to determine how much the standards for obscenity differ in communities across the United States. The court said it was necessary to know how much the standards vary to decide if those creating Web sites would be graded for obscenity unfairly when compared with those who market traditional pornography and can control how they distribute the material. As the law stands, a communication is obscene if according to each community's standards it appeals to the prurient interest, depicts or describes sexual conduct in an offensive way and lacks serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value. The law requires that those sending the communications take reasonable actions to restrict or prevent access by children to obscenity, sometimes by using a verified credit card, debit account or adult access code as proof of age. Nitke, who has exhibited her work for more than 20 years, said she will appeal the ruling. "I'm appalled," she said. "I think it's vitally important to keep the Internet free for education, the arts and open discussion on sexual targets." The National Coalition for Sexual Freedom also was disappointed with the…
New York Daily News - July 15, 2002
Fotog vs. Feds in Obscenity Law: Files suit to keep photos on Web by Veronica Vera New York Daily News, July 15, 2002 Photographer Barbara Nitke is used to being behind the lens, but if legal matters heat up, she may soon find the government focusing on her. Nitke is ready to step into the foreground as the chief plantiff in Barbara Nitke and the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom vs. John Ashcroft and the US Government in a challenge to the Communications Decency Act, which governs obscenity on the Internet. The lawsuit was filed on Dec. 11 in Manhattan Federal Court of New York; the government moved to dismiss, and the plaintiffs have moved for an injunction. The case continues to make its way through the courts. Nitke, whose photo show "20 Years" opened on Friday at the Art at Large Studio in Manhattan, began her career in 1982 as a still photographer on movie sets. But since 1994, her emphasis has been on chronicling the intimate lives of couples. She has gained a considerable reputation as a fine-art photographer and is on the faculty of the School of Visual Arts. Photojournalist Mark Peterson, who attended the packed opening, commented, "There is a beauty and ethereal quality to her work that forces people to look at it in a different way than they might have when they walked into the room." He compared her work with that of Robert Mapplethorpe, who stirred controversy with his erotic photos. Nitke's involvement in the civil liberties lawsuit began when she decided to create a website on which to show and sell her work. Aware that her photographs are highly provocative, she consulted several lawyers regarding obscenity laws, only to discover that under the Communications Decency Act, obscenity is a gray area determined by community standards. A 1997 Supreme Court ruling struck down half of the act, the "indecency" section, when it determined that if a work is indecent but still can be found to have redeeming social value, it can be displayed in public. But the "obscenity" portion of the act still stands. Among the lawyers Nitke consulted was John Wirenius, legal counsel for the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom. The members of the coalition, "a national organization committed to protecting freedom of expression among consenting adults," were also concerned about obscenity statutes and decided to pursue a proactive stance and challenge…
Nerve - December 11, 2001
Nerve December 11, 2001 Photographer Barbara Nitke and the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom (NCSF) filed a lawsuit today, claiming the Internet censorship provision of the Communications Decency Act (CDA) violates the First Amendment right to free speech. The provision stipulates that "local community standards" will judge whether or not something is indecent. Yet attorney John Wirenius argues that "By allowing the most restrictive jurisdiction to define what speech can be banned as obscene from the Internet, the CDA allows one community to limit what the entire nation is allowed to discuss, to read or to view. The First Amendment does not allow any one locality to impose its morality on the nation." Artists like Barbara Nitke fear that their artwork could be targeted by John Ashcroft, who has promised to enforce obscenity laws.
CNN - December 20, 2001
Lawsuit targets last scraps of Net-obscenity law By Sam Costello (IDG News) CNN, December 20, 2001 The National Coalition for Sexual Freedom (NCSF) and artist Barbara Nitke have filed a lawsuit challenging the remaining provisions of the Communications Decency Act, much of which was struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1997. The act, or CDA, was passed in 1996 and was the first U.S. law designed to allow the regulation of Internet content. The remaining provision of the law bars the publication of material online that is deemed obscene under "contemporary community standards." The lawsuit, filed last week in Federal District Court in New York, challenges that aspect of the law saying it is so broad and vague that it violates the First Amendment freedom of speech protection and could prohibit frank sexual discussion among adults on the Internet. Under the law, obscenity is determined using local community standards. But applying that standard to the Internet means asking the question whether the local community is the one where the Web site is hosted or the one where it is viewed, said Susan Wright, spokesperson for the NCSF. This existing CDA provision balances on the narrow difference in the legal definitions of the terms "obscenity" and "indecency." In its CDA ruling, the Supreme Court allowed that the government could investigate and prosecute obscene speech, that is, speech with no redeeming merit. Those obscenity provisions are too broad and vague in the view of the NCSF. "What is the local community standard," Wright asked. "Is it where you live? Where the Web site is? Is it the most restrictive community in America? The least?" The rest of the CDA should be overturned, she said, as it isn't right for members of a small, rural town to be able to determine the community standards of cities like New York or San Francisco. The NCSF filed the suit because "the CDA could have a dangerous effect on the Internet in the hands of an overzealous administration and this attorney general," Wright said. Attorney General John Ashcroft indicated a willingness to pursue CDA prosecutions when he met with a number of conservative groups earlier this year, Wright said, noting that the NCSF had obtained copies of information those groups had sent to their members after the meetings. Ashcroft has come under fire from some groups for his expansion of government surveillance powers after…
Adult Video News - February, 2002
NCSF Tackles "Community Standards" For The Web By Mark Kernes Adult Video News, February Issue Washington, DC The National Coalition for Sexual Freedom may not be a household name, even in the adult entertainment industry, but if their recently-filed lawsuit succeeds, they may go down in history as the first group to secure Americans' core constitutional speech rights. NCSF is based in the nation's capital [~] in fact, only a few blocks northwest of the Capitol itself [~] and their objective is to protect freedom of expression among consenting adults, which for them includes a large number of citizens who practice "alternative sexual lifestyles." The group, and one of its members, Barbara Nitke, filed suit on December 10 to challenge one portion of the 1996 Communications Decency Act (CDA) that the ACLU never got around to [~] some would say, "didn't have the balls to consider" [~] challenging when they filed their suit in 1997, which suit resulted in the term "indecent" being struck from the law as an unconstitutional restriction on Internet free speech. But the CDA also criminalized Internet "obscenity," and that taboo remains in the law. And as far as plaintiffs' attorney John F. Wirenius is concerned, that's equally unconstitutional. "Obscenity is unprotected speech, but not all material is obscene from jurisdiction to jurisdiction," Wirenius told Wired News. "Material may be considered obscene in Utah, for example, but not in New York. Whose standards are supposed to be applied to the Internet?" The problem is the Supreme Court's Miller test for obscenity, which may or may not be implicated in the Child Pornography Prevention Act (COPA) case which was argued by the ACLU before the high court in late November. In order for a work to be obscene, it must appeal to the prurient interest of the average citizen; be completely devoid of any literary, artistic, political or scientific value; and must offend the standards of the community in which the work is being prosecuted, which for most jurisdictions is the state in which the charges are brought. The trouble with the test is, the Internet has no "community" [~] or, to put it another way, it is its own worldwide community, a "problem" faced by every country whose government finds offensive some material on some Website based abroad and out of that government's control. For instance, it is universally agreed among adult webmasters that no matter…
ABC News - July 29, 2002
Love or Obscenity? S/M Photographer Challenges Internet Decency Standards By Dean Schabner ABCnews.com, July 29, 2002 When Barbara Nitke wanted to put her photographs of loving couples on the Internet, she thought she should check into the laws first. That's because Nitke's recent photographs have been focused on how some couples express their love through sado-masochism. What Nitke found after reading up on Internet law and talking to lawyers was that the remnants of the Communications Decency Act of 1996, much of which was declared unconstitutional in 1997, could conceivably put her in hot water if her work was considered obscene in some communities. She feared she could be charged with a crime and be forced to take the work down. So Nitke, along with the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom, a group described on its Web site as "committed to protecting freedom of expression among consenting adults", filed suit against Attorney General John Ashcroft and the U.S. government, challenging the CDA's use of "local community standards" to define what can be considered obscene on the Internet. To respond to this article, write to: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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MANILA, Philippines - Speaker Feliciano Belmonte Jr. said yesterday he is in favor of the Anti-Political Dynasty Bill but admitted the measure could face rough sailing in the House of Representatives with a number of its members belonging to political clans.
Belmonte issued the statement after the House committee on suffrage and electoral reforms unanimously approved the bill, which seeks to ban relatives of incumbents up to the second degree of consanguinity from running in the same elections.
It was the first time that such a bill was passed in 12 years. The Constitution bans political dynasties but requires an enabling law to enforce it.
"I'd like to make a stand... I'm in favor of it. I think we ought to be happy that it has passed a committee, it seeks to comply with a provision that is contained in the 1987 Constitution," Belmonte told reporters.
"We've advanced to a point where we have never advanced before, I think that's already a positive achievement."
Several members of the House have relatives who are in other elected or appointive posts.
The Speaker said that while he favors the bill, he would not pressure other lawmakers to support the landmark measure as the House is a collegial body.
"I believe it will experience rough sailing but I could be wrong, we've put up a big stone in one day, and I think that is something to be happy about but it's a long way (to final passage)," he said.
Belmonte said the chamber has over 280 members so it would be hard to predict how the measure would fare in the plenary.
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Q: Localization of R Let p be prime ideal in the ring R. I want to show that there is a bijection between the set of prime ideals of R and the set of prime ideals of localization of R.
I am quite confused about the localization of a ring. How do the elements of localization of R look like and how do its prime ideals look like?

A: Anything that's not in $p$ becomes invertible in $R_p$, so any ideal $a$ with $a \not\subseteq p$ disappears (it becomes the whole ring, since it contains units). Most importantly, any ideal $a$ with $a \supsetneq p$ disappears, which means that $p$ is a maximal ideal, and in fact the only maximal ideal. The localization therefore creates a local ring (funny how that works). Any ideal contained in $p$ is still there, intact, though.
In some sense, when looking at ideals, it's the opposite of the quotient $R/p$, where all ideals that are left are the ones that contains $p$, while in the localization, all ideals that are left are the ones contained in $p$.

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No medal for David Boudia, but 5th place puts him on track for 2020 Tokyo Olympics
IndyStar
For the first time since 2005, David Boudia is leaving a World Championships without a medal.
However, the 30-year-old father of three took a step toward what he hopes can be a fourth Olympics and another podium.
In his first World Championships on 3-meter springboard, the former Purdue diver from Noblesville finished fifth Thursday night at Gwangju, South Korea.
The other American in the final, former Indiana University diver Michael Hixon, was seventh.
Boudia had the lowest degree of difficulty among 12 finalists and has acknowledged he needs to perfect harder dives to be a medal contender at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. He won world medals on 10-meter platform, individual or synchro, in 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013 and 2015.
"My expectations have been exceeded," Boudia told USA Diving. "I was very far from the medals, but with extremely low degree of difficulty compared to the rest of the field, I'm pleased with where I'm at.
"This offseason I've got a lot of work to do, and I was glad I was able to get top eight so I can be competitive at World Series events next year."
Boudia, a four-time Olympic medalist on 10-meter, took about one year off after the 2016 Rio Olympics. He transitioned to springboard after enduring a concussion in February 2018 when he smacked the water on a practice dive off platform.
Xie Syi of China repeated as 3-meter world champion with a score of 545.45. Cao Yuan of China, gold medalist at the 2016 Olympics, took silver with 517.85.
Great Britain's Jack Laugher, who had 31-point lead with one dive to go, botched his last one and dropped to bronze with 504.55.
South Korea's Woo Haram was fourth with 478.80 to Boudia's 458.10. Hixon's score was 449.95. Hixon next heads for the Pan American Games at Lima, Peru.
"There's a lot of things we know we can improve on," Hixon said. "Everything we need to change, we know we can do. I'm looking forward to getting home and making those changes."
Elsewhere Thursday, Indianapolis' Sarah Bacon finished 14th in semifinals of women's 3-meter and did not make Friday's final. She was sixth in preliminaries. Bacon, a Cardinal Ritter graduate, won a silver medal Saturday on 1-meter to become the first U.S. female diver to win an individual world or Olympic medal since 2005.
"I hit one dive out of my five, which is frustrating since I've been practicing on 3-meter very well," Bacon said "On a positive, I'm four points out of 12th, four points out of the final so I'm taking that away from this."
On Wednesday, Delaney Schnell added another medal for American women when she took bronze on 10-meter. Amy Cozad Magana of Indianapolis finished 11th.
Katrina Young and IU's Andrew Capobianco won bronze Tuesday in the mixed 3-meter/10-meter team event.
In open water swimming Thursday, IU's Michael Brinegar won a bronze in anchoring the United States in the mixed 5,000-meter relay. The 19-year-old from Columbus nearly overtook Germany (gold) and Italy (silver) in a photo finish.
TYR signs Lilly King
TYR Sport announced it has signed new pro Lilly King to an endorsement contract.
King, the former IU breaststroker from Evansville, won two gold medals at the 2016 Olympics and four at the 2017 World Championships. She was the first woman to sweep both breaststrokes four times at NCAA Championships.
Her signature event, the 100-meter breaststroke, has prelims and semifinals Monday at the World Championships.
Other TYR-sponsored swimmers include Katie Ledecky, Simone Manuel, Ryan Lochte and former IU breaststroker Cody Miller.
Contact IndyStar reporter David Woods at david.woods@indystar.com or call 317-444-6195. Follow him on Twitter: @DavidWoods007.


Guide to Reggio Calabria province ancestry, family history and genealogy: birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, parish registers, and military records.
Most of your genealogical research for Reggio Calabria, Calabria will be in two main record types: civil registration (registri dello stato civile) and church records (registri ecclesiastici). This article will teach you methods for locating and searching these two record groups.
1784-1943 - Italy, Reggio Calabria, Civil Registration (State Archive), 1784-1943, free, index.
1784-1943 - Italy, Reggio Calabria, Civil Registration (State Archive), 1784-1943, free, browsable images. Records will eventually be indexed online.
a. Click on this link to see a list of records for Italy, Reggio Calabria.
b. Click on "Places within Italy, Reggio Calabria" and a list of towns and cities will open.


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Q: Simple real life problem Let say my girlfriend makes $2000$ Euros per month and I make $3400$ Euros, let say all our living costs sum up to $1540$ Euros.
How can i calculate how much each of us must pay (off the $1540$ Euros) so as our participation is proportional to our income?
Thanks

A: Your net income per month is 5400 euros so since she make 2000 euros that is 37% of your total income so she should pay 37% of your total expenses. $1540*.37 = 570.37$ per month as her portion of the expenses your portion would be $3400/5400 = .63$, $ 1540*.63 = 969.62 $. If you sum the two together you can then see it works out  $570.37 + 969.62 = 1539.99$ ( 1 cent got lost to rounding).

A: Write down the equations that must be satisfied. Let $x$ be the amount you pay and $y$ the amount your girlfriend pays.
One equation is simple: $x+y=1540$, since you must pay the whole costs. The other equation comes from the proportions that must be satisfied:
$$x:y = 3400 : 2000$$
Which can also be written as $$\frac xy = \frac{3400}{2000}$$

A: The total income is $2000 + 3400 = 5400$ euros.  Since your girlfriend makes only $2000$ euros (sexist!), she makes $\frac{2000}{5400} = .37...$ (roughly $37 \% $) of the income, which means she should only pay $37 \% $ of the rent.
Then, she should only pay $1540 *.37 = 569.80 $ euros, roughly.


Every room in your home should reflect you. Your rooms should be functional enough to take on your beautifully chaotic and wonderfully messy, everyday - as well as flexible enough to cater to future plans - like a family. Each month we'll be highlighting a different room in the home and providing you with tips and tricks to help ensure your home is the best reflection of...you! With May freshly in front of us: let's tackle the bedroom.
Your bedroom, it's your place to recharge, relax and - if you're lucky - connect with your partner. Cater to these moments and refresh your bedroom with a couple of updates that encourage relaxation and connection in ways that appeal to your senses.
Truly relax in your bedroom by catering to your senses. When looking to calm and relax the mind and body, focus on the larger pieces of furniture: your lighting setup, dresser, and the bed.
In our bedroom, we love to take time to ourselves, settle in, open up a great book, and get lost in the words. We may even fall asleep doing so. It's a relaxing ritual for our minds, bodies, and surprisingly...eyes!
Soft, layered lighting allows for diffused, ambient light to fill the room and sets the mood. This romantic setting sends signals to your body and mood, allowing for ultimate relaxation.
Tip For Today: Look around and check out your current lighting setup. Make small adjustments catered to you and your habits. Do you read in the evening? Angle a light source towards the spot which you read. Smart, directional lighting encourages certain behaviors in specific areas of the room.
Tip For Tomorrow: When revamping your lighting, think broad; then, hone in on the specifics. What is the largest light source in your room? Is it a big, inviting window? Take that sunlight and diffuse it with lightly colored, sheer curtains or window panels! Diffused light minimizes harsh, stark shadows and easily brightens up an entire room. After you've catered to the largest light source in your space, move on to the next in size!
Scent is powerful - actually, amazing. We're obsessed with it. We know, it's obvious from...well, nearly all our posts, but it's for a good reason! Scents are able to transport the mind. When you breathe deeply into a bouquet of flowery scents like geranium, lavender, and patchouli, you're transported to a dewy, citrus-y paradise - without even leaving your home. Bring this experience with you into the bedroom. Use scent not only to help you relax and rest, but to refresh as well.
Tip For Today: Make yourself a Lavender Bedtime Spray that can also be used to freshen up any exposed linens. Before heading out for the day, spritz a fine mist over any exposed linens in your room. Bed sheets, curtains, rugs, etc. Anything that's showing! When you return, you will be met with a fully refreshed bedroom!
Tip For Tomorrow: Tackle a large surface - preferably one that is mostly flat (Unusual, we know. But trust us: this is going somewhere!). Clear the surface and create a scent station for yourself. This doesn't have to be extravagant - just a spot where you can cater to your olfactory senses! Here, you can keep a small vase of fresh flowers, a scented candle, or diffuser.
If you're like us, your bed is where you spend at least 8 hours (if you're not, you should) of your day recharging. You may even spend extra time in bed lounging with a good book, eating breakfast-in-bed, or doing other things like...yoga (between the sheets).
Your bed is your everyday sanctuary. Treat it as such!
Tip For Today: A made bed makes going to sleep feel like pleasure versus habit. Before you leave for the day, pay special attention to your bed. Are the sheets rumpled? Smooth them out. Pillows looking a little flat? Fluff 'em up!
Tip For Tomorrow: Natural textures like cotton and linen feel great against the skin and create softness and coziness. Next time you're out looking for a new outfit for yourself, stop by the Home and Bedroom section of the department store and pick up some natural textiles!


"...what business does not have a mission or value statement? Enron had a corporate value statement, as did WorldCom, Tyco, and countless other firms that have ultimately been devastated by violations of their own code of conduct. None of these value statements functioned as adequate checks to exceeding abuse of power......that's the difference between good ideas and governing ideas. Ideas move from good ideas to governing ideas when they become the foundation of an organisation's system of governance - that is, when they become a source of decision-making power. Having lofty value statements obviously doesn't necessarily empower people to speak out against practices that violate values. Real governing ideas must be married to processes and norms that enable people to live the organisation's values and purpose......establish ways that people can challenge executive actions effectively, embedded in a culture that both respects and generally challenges authority. Otherwise, people can only do so by putting themselves at personal risk, which means that corrections inevitably occur too late. Most value and mission statements combined with traditional authoritarian government structures are worse than useless - they breed cynicism and become a smoke screen for business as usual. Discovering governing ideas et al generate real meaning and building the commitment to translate them into how we live and work together is hard work..."


Edward John Jones (18 January 1935 – 15 October 1999) was a British science fiction illustrator; initially known as a fan artist, he later became a professional freelancer. He illustrated numerous science fiction book and magazine covers, some under the pseudonym S. Fantoni, and provided interior illustrations for books and magazines. Jones was active in the field from 1953 to 1985, and reprints of his artwork continued to appear on book covers until his death in 1999.
In 1969, he became the art editor for Vision of Tomorrow, a short-lived British SF magazine. Although probably best known for his Star Trek covers for Bantam Books and almost fifty covers for Sphere Books, much of his output was for German publishers, including more than 100 covers for Bastei Lübbe's science fiction imprint and over 500 for Terra Astra magazine.
The Science Fiction Writers of America described Jones as "the precursor to a generation of artists that helped define the look of early '70s SF illustration". He was nominated for a Hugo Award for Best Professional Artist in 1970 and 1971. In Larry Niven's short story "Singularities Make Me Nervous", from Convergent Series, the protagonist, speaking in the future, describes his apartment as containing "Eddie Jones originals".
^ "A Brief Biography of Eddie Jones (1935-1999)". SFandFantasy.co.uk. 13 March 2016. Retrieved 9 July 2016.
^ "Eddie Jones ( -1999)". SFWA. 21 October 1999. Archived from the original on 22 August 2007. Retrieved 27 July 2014.


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Crowned By Gods; A Glorious Of The Momentum!
In one of my posts lately, in which the pharaoh Amenhotep II is standing between Horus and Thoth, purifying by deity water, could be a reference to a baptismal ceremony associated with his accession, is described as 'the third at his accession. And now we have here another deity act, this time by Horus and Seth, crowning Ramses III. It should show the duality between Upper and Lower Egypt Gods.
Naydler explains:
"In a possible reference to a baptismal ceremony associated with his accession, the king is described as 'the third at his accession.' As a third, he would be between Horus and Seth (or Horus and Thoth), standing on either side of him and pouring baptismal water over him. The position of the king between the dual gods, receiving blessings from both, symbolizes his union of their opposing natures within himself."(pages 305-306)
And Wilkinson means: Giving examples of when 'two' actually represents 'four', "in a classic study of the royal purification ritual, Sir Alan Gardiner showed that the two gods usually depicted performing the act of lustration – Horus and Thoth (ill. 124) – actually represented the four gods of the cardinal points Horus, Seth, Thoth, and Anti who transferred to the king a portion of their power as the divinities of the four quarters of the world. Private representations of funerary purifications (which were symbolically parallel) actually show four priests performing the rite. Still, the royal depictions of this ritual almost always depict only two of the deities, perhaps for purposes of symmetry and representational balance. Whatever the reason, once again, we see two representing four and thereby carrying the connotation of the extended number, though the use of the two deities Horus and Thoth (paralleling the common use of Horus and Seth) may also have connoted the dualism of Upper and Lower Egypt." (from _Symbol and Magic in Egyptian Art_, by Richard H. Wilkinson, page 139) Joanlansberry.com
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Anyway, it remains (as usual) an unsolved riddle from this magic land. Though, we still have our brilliant Marie Grillot to read the description of all these fascinating discoveries.
via égyptophile
Horus and Seth crown Ramses III with the white crown
Statuary group representing Ramses III between Horus and Seth – red granite – 20th Dynasty
discovered in the lacunar state by Georges Daressy in 1895-1896 at Medinet Habou
Egyptian Museum in Cairo – JE 31628 – CG 629 – museum photo
The founder of the XXth Dynasty, Pharaoh Sethnakht, died in 1184 BC. J.-C. – after a short reign (two to four years, according to the sources)… To succeed him, he designated his son: aged about forty, who will reign under the name of Ramses III. If he is in charge of state affairs upon his father's death, his actual coronation will not occur until 200 days later…
Indeed, he must first observe the time necessary for the mummification of the deceased king, organize his grandiose funeral in the royal necropolis (KV 14) and finally respect a precise calendar ritual… Thus, it is "the day after the great feast of Sokar which marked, by the death and the symbolic resurrection of the god, the renewal of nature "that the sovereign came" to Karnak, near Amon, to seek this investiture… He was purified in the court which separated the VIIth and the VIIIth pylon: four priests playing the roles of the gods Horus, Thoth, Seth and Dounânouy, wielding ewers of precious metal, came to sprinkle his body with lustral water, pronouncing consecrated formulas" specifies Pierre Grandet in the work he devotes to the monarch.
The long protocol connects a series of rituals, of which the coronation is probably the climax: it is one of the phases of this ceremony that this red granite statuary group reproduces.
1.69 cm high – therefore almost "life-size" – it was discovered by Georges Daressy in 1895-1896 in the magnificent temple of millions of years that the king had built at Medinet Habou on the West Bank of Thebes.
On a rectangular base bearing the pharaoh's cartouche on the left, the composition reserved for the three standing "characters" displays a perfect balance. Horus on the left and Seth on the right are in profile, while Ramses III, in the centre, is represented from the front. He is in the conventional attitude of walking, left leg forward. His body is that of a mature man. He is dressed in a pleated shendyt loincloth held at the waist by a beautifully crafted hanging belt. His arms are hanging along the body; his right hand squeezes the sign of life-ankh while the left firmly holds the "mekes" scroll (papyrus containing the "testament of the gods" or "testament of Geb", text confiding Egypt to the king).
Ramses III in the statuary group representing him between Horus and Seth – red granite
20th dynasty – discovered in the lacunary state by Georges Daressy in 1895-1896 at Medinet Habou
Egyptian Museum in Cairo – JE 31628 – CG 629
His face, perfectly symmetrical, is imbued with serenity. Finely arched fingertips surmount his almond-shaped eyes, his nose is well-proportioned, and his lips are delicately hemmed. His chin is adorned with a horizontally streaked false beard, and a large pectoral hangs from his neck. He majestically wears the white "hedjet" crown of Upper Egypt with the royal cobra coiled in the middle of the forehead, which has just been affixed to him.
"The statues of the gods, Horus and Seth, are in the same posture with the left leg forward; they each hold the sign of life-ankh and wear the Egyptian pectoral and the loincloth-shendyt. Each god has placed a hand on the crown of the king, performing the coronation of Ramses III," specifies the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.
Horus in the statuary group representing him with Seth surrounding Ramses III – red granite – 20th dynasty
This solemn act was repeated for the various crowns whose wearing had to be legitimized by the gods. Thus, Pierre Grandet specifies: "The king appeared several times at the door of the naos, wearing, in turn, the various crowns that we usually see him wearing on the reliefs of the monuments".
For Abeer El-Shahawy (The Egyptian Museum in Cairo): "Seth, to the right of the king, and Horus, to the left, were the mythological representations of the two powers of the country who had settled their differences. Now reunited and reconciled, they crown the Seen together; they were believed to unite the two lands of Upper and Lower Egypt, thus enabling the king to rule over an orderly and peaceful land. In crowning the king, they symbolically gave him the two halves of their world"…
It should be noted, however, that when it was discovered, the statuary group was incomplete. Thus, in the catalogue he devotes to "Statuen und Statuetten von Königen und Privatleuten im Museum von Kairo", Ludwig Borchardt presents it under n° 629 as "Remains of a group standing between two gods who crown it". It indicates that: "The king stood in the middle on an elongated rectangular platform, on which only a few toes of the right foot remain and the beginning of a narrow dorsal pillar. To his right is Horus, with his head of a falcon, facing the king"… He also adds that "The statue of the king was later found in the store" (the place where the mission stored the discoveries). According to the photo published then, we note that the lower part of his face had suffered a lot (nose, right cheek, mouth, chin and beard)…
discovered in the lacunar state by Georges Daressy in 1895-1896 at Medinet Habou – Egyptian Museum in Cairo – JE 31628 – CG 629
published here in the "General Catalog of Egyptian Antiquities of the Cairo Museum
Statuen und Statuetten von Königen und Privatleuten im Museum von Kairo, Nr. 1-1294″ by Ludwig Borchardt
There is no mention of the god Seth… This fact does not fail to challenge Edwin C. Brock ("The Valley of the Kings", Gründ): "This group from Medinet Habou presents an unusual composition where Horus and Seth crown the pharaoh. Preserved in the Cairo Museum, the statue has been restored. The presence of Seth is unusual, whereas Thoth, present in the coronation scenes, could logically have replaced him".
Seth in the statuary group representing him with Horus surrounding Ramses III – red granite – 20th Dynasty
Unless fragments of fingers have survived on the crown, the position of the hands of the deities (one is missing and the arms of the other are absent), and therefore the gesture they performed, cannot seem perhaps not clearly defined before the restoration… Thus in his "Visitor's Guide to the Cairo Museum, 1902", Gaston Maspero rather saw there a scene of purification by water: "King Ramses III standing between Horus and Typhon, received the effusion of life-giving water which they poured on him; Typhon disappeared, but Horus remained almost intact as well as the king".
This recomposed "triad" is exhibited on the Tahrir Museum's ground floor, registered in the Entry Journal JE 31628 and the General Catalog CG 629.
Marie Grillot
Statue of Ramses III between Horus and Seth https://www.egyptianmuseumcairo.com/egyptian-museum-cairo/artefacts/statue-of-ramses-iii-between-horus-and-seth/ http://www.globalegyptianmuseum.org/detail.aspx?id=14750
Pierre Grandet, Ramses III. History of a reign, 1993 (Pygmalion editions) https://responsable-unige.ch/assets/files/Lettre%2039/grandet-vanoyeke.pdf?fbclid=IwAR1ZSLlYJWTnP4cW2vRQZBVGJteDhYd2dUoX_FtvCpOuRGIElsljQR21aOc
Abeer El-Shahawy, The Egyptian Museum in Cairo, Matḥaf al-Miṣrī
Kent Weeks, "The Valley of the Kings", Gründ, 2001
General Catalog of Egyptian Antiquities in the Cairo Museum – Statuen und Statuetten von Königen und Privatleuten im Museum von Kairo, Nr. 1-1294, Borchardt Ludwig, Berlin Reichsdruckerei, 1925 http://www.gizapyramids.org/pdf_library/borchardt_statuen_2.pdf
Gaston Maspero, Visitor's Guide to the Cairo Museum, 1902, French Institute (Cairo) https://archive.org/details/guidemuseecaire00masp/page/n6/mode/2up
Daressy Georges. The latest excavations in Egypt. In: Sphinx: critical review embracing the entire field of Egyptology, vol. 1, 1897. pp. 81-86; doi; https://doi.org/10.3406/sphin.1897.1915 https://www.persee.fr/doc/sphin_2003-170x_1897_num_1_1_1915
Florence Maurejol, Pharaons, the ABCdaires, IMA, Flammarion, 2004,
Ginger & Rosa; A Dramedy!
The individuation; Anima and Animus. Carl Jung (P. 2)
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I love Egyptian mythology and art. Thanks for sharing this, Aladin. I'm grateful for the fine Egyptian collections in New York City and learned so much by spending time with these collections, but I have no idea how much of the sacred beauty was stolen. Fortunately, the stories are ours to share. Also, the small Egyptian temple in a glass room at the Metropolitan Museum of Art was given to the museum to save the temple before the Nile was flooded by a dam.


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Tan Twan Eng | Podcast
Tan Twan Eng & John Freeman
Tan Twan Eng speaks to Granta's John Freeman about the art of shakkei and being shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.
Tan Twan Eng is the author of The Gift of Rain and most recently, The Garden of Evening Mists, which is currently shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Set during the Japanese occupation, the novel tells the story of a young law graduate who seeks respite in the plantations of the Cameron Highlands, where she discovers Yugiri, the only Japanese garden in Malaya, and its secretive owner, Aritomo. Here Tan Twan Eng spoke to John Freeman about the of the art of shakkei or 'Borrowed Scenery' and being shortlisted for the Booker.
The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng is published by Myrmidon.
Photograph © Newcastle Centre for the Literary Arts
Tan Twan Eng was born in Penang and lived in various places in Malaysia as a child. His first novel, The Gift of Rain, was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize and has been translated into Italian, Spanish, Greek, Romanian, Czech and Serbian. The Garden of Evening Mists is his second novel and is currently short-listed for the Man Booker Prize.
Books I Read This Year
Various Contributors
A selection of Granta contributors discuss the books they read in 2012.
The Island of Hawkers
'Suspecting (rightly) that you have been eating diluted, unauthentic versions of the real thing, you realize you have to go to Penang, the best place to eat street food in Malaysia.'
My Writing Playlist
Ed Vulliamy on the nine best songs to listen to while you write.
Sandra Newman
'While you're still arguing you still have hope.'
Art & Photography | Issue 129
Diego Collado
'The viewer has to pour their own unconscious into interpreting these images, make them their own, allow themselves to be encouraged by the existence of a void.'
A Garden of Illuminating Existence
Kanitta Meechubot
'Witnessing her death, I understand the meaning of love.'


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Didinium – rodzaj protistów z rodziny Didiniidae zaliczany do typu orzęsków.

Organizm drapieżny, potrafi pochłonąć na drodze fagocytozy równego sobie wielkością (ok. 250 μm długości) pantofelka.

Rzęski didinium układają się w charakterystyczne okręgi, w tym jeden wokół cytostomu. Na didinium i pantofelku wykonywano klasyczne eksperymenty ekologiczne dotyczące układu drapieżca/ofiara. Jest protistem cudzożywnym, groźnym w swojej klasie wielkości drapieżnikiem. Odżywia się bakteriami lub innymi organizmami jednokomórkowymi.

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Graduated of biology, Naturalist, passionate with photography and working as a teacher (in Haute Savoie), I stride across the Alpes and Jura seasons after seasons to capture the one perfect landscape, flower and animal.
I also travelled all around Africa, North and South America in Borneo and all through Europe with my camera.
I used to shoot in medium format (Chamber Arca F-Line) or in full-frame analog but now my pictures are only digitals (NikonD200).
The Bios Agency has been faithfully distributing the major part of my pictures since 1991!
In 2002, I published Les Metamorphoses de l'Alpe edited by Glenat, that illustrates the constant transformations of the mountain landscapes through the seasons (Award of the mountain pictures book of Passy in 2003). My pictures also illustrated 5 calendars through the years.


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Treatment has never been more convenient than with our digital office and CAD/CAM dental laboratory sharing the same location. Patients can personally consult with our on-site team of lab technicians to ensure that the artists designing their smiles fully understand their aesthetic goals.
Many premier lodging options exist while visiting us for live learning events. Our facility is conveniently located to NY Metropolitan area if you wish to extend your stay and enjoy all New York City has to offer.
Our facility is easily reached from JFK and LaGuardia Airports as well as MacArthur Airport. Once you have landed on Long Island, you can easily reach your hotel and our facility using Uber, Supershuttle, or a local taxi.
Long Island's Gold Coast offers many historical landmarks, exceptional shopping locations, and superb dining opportunities. Access to Manhattan and all it has to offer opens the possibility to maximize your stay while undergoing treatment at integratedDENTAL.


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India Standard Time
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India Standard Time is 2 hours and 30 minutes ahead of Charlie Time Zone
10:00 am10:00 in IST is 7:30 am07:30 in C
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Best time for a conference call or a meeting is between 10:30am-6pm in IST which corresponds to 8am-3:30pm in C
10:00 am10:00 India Standard Time (IST). Offset UTC +5:30 hours
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Offset: IST is 5 hours and 30 minutes ahead Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and is used in Asia
Countries: It is used in following countries: India
Principal Cities: The largest city in the IST timezone is Mumbai from India with population about 12.692 million people. Other major cities in the area are Delhi, Bangalore, Kolkata, Chennai
Daylight Saving: India Standard Time (IST) is not adjusted for daylight saving therefore IST remains the same through out the year. This means, unlike some time zones where the clock is set forward by one hour every summer and backward by one hour during winter to adjust for daylight saving, India Standard Time remains the same
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IST representations, usage and related time zones
+0530 - sign character (+) followed by a four digit time providing hours (05) and minutes (30) of the offset. Indicates five hour and thirty minutes time differences to the east of the zero meridian.
IANA/Olson: Reflects IST time zone boundaries defined by political bodies, primarily intended for use with computer programs and operating systems
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Irish Standard Time - UTC +1
Israel Standard Time - UTC +2
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Wave Infratech, an established builder, has launched 1 BHK residential apartments at Wave Livork. The company is known for building residential and commercial projects in India. The project has 950 units with sizes ranging from 672 to 802 sq. ft. The project is located at Sector 32, Noida which has very good connectivity with other parts of the city. Wave Livork provides accessibility to leading banks, schools, multi specialty hospitals and colleges. Various amenities like supermarket, ATM, party hall, fiber optic connectivity and water recycling, along with location advantages makes Livork an appropriate project to invest in.


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Highland Park Michigan Family Vacations - Ideas on Hotels Attractions & Reviews
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The City of Highland Park, MI
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The city of Highland Park is located in the state of Michigan in Wayne County and has a population of 13,850 as reported by the census of 2010. The largest nearby city to Highland Park is Detroit, approximately 1 miles from the city center.
There are several family restaurants in or near Highland Park, including Mcdonald's Hamburger, Dakota Inn, Inuendo Llc, China Star and Bread Basket. For a larger selection of Highland Park restaurants select our Restaurants tab above.
Visitors and residents can enjoy nearby Highland Park Golf Courses, Arenas, Museums and/or Zoos, including the Piquette Plant, Motown Historical Museum, Detroit Institute of Arts, Palmer Park Golf Course and Michigan State Fairgrounds Coliseum - Wayne State University. For a more complete list of attractions in or around the city of Highland Park please click on the Attractions tab above.
The following 5 airports are located in or near Highland Park:
- Detroit Coleman A. Young Intl. Airport (DET)
- Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport (DTW)
- Detroit Willow Run Airport (YIP)
- Pontiac Oakland County Intl. Airport (PTK)
- Windsor Airport (YQG)
Highland Park, Michigan Climate and Weather
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Current Weather in Highland Park
In the month of July, Highland Park experiences an average high temperature of 85 degrees Fahrenheit. Low temperaturs in July are usually about 65 degrees with an average rainfall of inches.
The seasonal climate varies in Highland Park with daytime temperatures averaging 81 degrees in the summer, and 36 degrees in the winter months. Visitors can also expect Highland Park to receive an average of 0 inches of rainfall per/month during winter months and 0 inches of rainfall per/month in the summer months.
The temperature has been known to get as high as 102 degrees in the summer and as low as -17 degrees in the winter so visitors planning a vacation to Highland Park should check the weather forecast to determine proper attire prior to departure. Spring and Fall bring average daytime temperatures of 61 degrees, and nighttime lows of 43.
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Highland Park, Michigan Attractions
Chandler Park Golf Course - Detroit,
The Chandler Park Golf Course is an 18 hole public golf course in Wayne County Michigan. Built in 1999, this Detroit course is open mar 15 to nov 1. Tee times are accepted up to 7 days in advance and the pro shop phone number for reservations is 313-331-7755. The golf course dress code is as follows: Shirt and shoes required.
Address: 12801 Chandler Park Dr, Detroit, MI 48213
Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History - Detroit,
The Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History is a museum that is situated in the Cultural Center of the U.S. city of Detroit, Michigan. Founded in 1965, it holds the world's largest permanent exhibit on African American culture. In 1997, it moved into a 120,000 square foot facility on Warren Avenue. The Wright Museum has dual missions, serving as both a museum of artifacts and a place of cultural retention and growth.
Cherry Creek Golf Club - , Shelby Township,
The Cherry Creek Golf Club is an 18 hole public golf course in Macomb County Michigan. Built in 1995, this Shelby Township course designed by Lanny Wadkins is open apr 1 to nov 1. For tee time information call the pro shop at 810-254-7700. The golf course dress code is as follows: Collared shirt, no cutoffs, denim OK.
Address: 52000 Cherry Creek Dr, Shelby Township, MI 48316
Clarkston Creek Golf Club - Clarkston,
The Clarkston Creek Golf Club is an 18 hole public golf course in Oakland County Michigan. This course is located in the city of Clarkston, . Tee times are accepted up to 7 days in advance and the pro shop phone number for reservations is 248-625-3731.
Address: 6060 Maybee Rd, Clarkston, MI 48346
Clarkston Golf Club - Clarkston,
The Clarkston Golf Club is a 9 hole public golf course in Oakland County Michigan. This course is located in the city of Clarkston, . Tee times are accepted up to 1 days in advance and the pro shop phone number for reservations is 248-394-0020.
Address: 9241 North Eston Rd, Clarkston, MI 48348
Cobo Arena - Detroit,
Cobo Center, originally known as Cobo Hall, is a major convention center situated along Jefferson Ave. in downtown Detroit, Michigan in the US. It and the adjacent Cobo Arena are named for Albert E. Cobo, mayor of Detroit from 1950 to 1957. Designed by Gino Rossetti, both Cobo Hall and Cobo Arena opened in 1960. Expanded in 1989, the present 2,400,000 sq ft complex contains 700,000 sq ft of exhibition space.
Compuware Arena - , Plymouth Township,
The Compuware Arena is a multi-purpose arena in Plymouth Township, Michigan. Originally known as the "Compuware Sports Arena," its name was officially shortened on September 11, 2007, to better market the venue for non-sporting events it hosted.
Copper Creek Golf Course at Farmington Hills - , Farmington Hills,
The Copper Creek Golf Course at Farmington Hills is a 9 hole public golf course in Oakland County Michigan. Built in 1991, this Farmington Hills course designed by Stan Alderidge is open apr 15 to nov 15. For tee time information call the pro shop at 248-489-1777. The golf course dress code is as follows: No tank tops or cutoffs.
Address: 27925 Golf Pointe Blvd, Farmington Hills, MI 48331
Cracklewood Golf Club - Macomb,
The Cracklewood Golf Club is an 18 hole public golf course in Macomb County Michigan. Built in 1989, this Macomb course designed by Jerry Matthews is open apr 1 to dec 15. For tee time information call the pro shop at 810-781-0808. The golf course dress code is as follows: No dress code.
Address: 18215 24 Mile Rd, Macomb, MI 48042
Cranbrook Art Museum - Bloomfield Hills,
The Cranbrook Educational Community, a National Historic Landmark, in the US state of Michigan was founded in the early 20th century by newspaper mogul George Gough Booth. Cranbrook campus is in the Detroit suburb of Bloomfield Hills consisting of Cranbrook Schools, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Cranbrook Art Museum, Cranbrook Institute of Science and Cranbrook House and Gardens. The sprawling, 319 acre campus began as a 174 acre farm, purchased in 1904.
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Highland Park, Michigan Hotels
Days Hote Hazel Park Detroit N
1 West Nine Mile Road
Inn On Ferry Street
84 E Ferry St
25800 Dequindre Rd
Comfort Suites Warren
2020 Walter Reuther
Knights Inn Madison Heights Mi
Madison Heights, MI 48071
Red Roof Inn Detroit - Warren
Motorcity Casino Hotel
2901 Grand River Ave
Viking Motel Detroit
Plaza Hotel Southfield
16400 J.l. Hudson Dr
Highland Park, Michigan Restaurants
This is a list of Highland Park Family Restaurants with addresses and phone numbers, including Fast Foods & Carry Out, Burger Restaurants, Chinese Restaurants and Sandwich Shops. Happy Dining!
Dakota Inn
17324 John R Street
Highland Park, MI 48203
17740 Woodward Avenue
Mr Coney Island
Mcdonald's Hamburger
China Star
Inuendo Llc
744 East Savannah Street
BAHI Restaurant
524 West 7 Mile Road
Happiness Club
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Sour Watermelon Slices, a mild sour candy that is soft and chewy. Bold delicious watermelon flavour. The Allan Candy name, along with its trademark logo, are widely recognized in the Canadian confectionery marketplace and known for quality confectionery products. Made in Canada. Peanut Free.


BOTHELL, Wash. – The sun is shining, the birds are singing, which also means pothole season is in full swing. As temperatures begin to warm up, road crews across the region begin filling potholes that usually grow during cold snaps. Gov. Jay Inslee declared a state of emergency for dozens of counties across Washington to help them pay for the impacts of a nasty winter season.


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Let's raise the roof
At 6am this morning, the crane was ready in place, and the geodesic roof which was shipped to site in pieces and connected together in the base of the newly finished reservoir at Joyce Road, was to be raised and positioned into place, ready for connecting to the top of the tank. As with any major point in a project, several members of the team from Tiaki were at site to oversee this process. I am happy to announce that this was a success! Check out the video below the photos to get a perspective of the size of the crane lifting the roof - impressive!
Te ARAROA BRIDGE REPLACEment
Bridge It New Zealand in conjunction with Tiaki were awarded the contract from Gisborne District Council to replace the bridge at Haigs Road in Gisborne The new bridge has now been completed and increased the load capacity from one tonne to 44 tonnes! Click here to read the article in the Gisborne Herald about the newly completed bridge.
Site analysis - for the big jobs
Sometimes when we do geotechnical work, we can use smaller measurement tools to provide samples for an analysis of a site. But, when a project calls for samples of a larger nature, we bring in the big toys, and in this instance, a Drill Rig.. This machine can determine soil stability of the site and collect rock and soil samples that we can send off for analysis to see if the ground is suitable for whatever the client is proposing to do.
The photo below provides a bit of perspective as to the size of the rig in relation to our Tiaki SUV.
Joyce road reservoir update
The Reservoir project at Joyce Road is really moving along, now and we thought that you would like to take a look at some more updated photos to see the progress.
Joyce Road Reservoir from the air
The new reservoir that is being constructed at Joyce Road is really starting to take shape. The perfect conditions today allowed us to take some drone pictures of the site.
Pretty spectacular don't you think?
Rain, hail or shine - bowling green geotechnical investigation
Today, Cyclone Debbie has paid Tauranga a visit after having a spell in Australia, but unfortunately she has underestimated the commitment that our Geotechnical Team, Matt and Ryan have when it comes to getting the job done.
So in the pouring rain, they are completing the necessary work required to get this project underway.
Nice one guys - that's real commitment!
Wendy Tully
Office Manager
2019 Tiaki Engineering Consultants Ltd.
Level 1, 115 The Strand


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Saint Paul's Catholic Church
Plainfield, WI
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Our Family and Youth Ministry came out of our efforts and contributions from Advancing the Mission/From One Generation to the Nextto provide events for our young families to encourage them into rewarding relationships with one another and the parish.
Family and Youth Ministers: Mariette Booth, Michael Buechner, and Julie Senft
Movie and Pizza Meal
On Saturday, April 30, 2011, after our 4:30 p.m. Mass, our Family & Youth Ministry provided a pizza meal and movie for our parish families of all ages.
The movie is Toy Story 3.
Besides the movie and the pizza meal, theMinistry Team provided popcorn and beverages during the movie.A Diocesan Advancing the Mission grant defrayed the event's costs and helped to build our younger parish families' inter-family relationships and involvement in our parish life.
Family Movie Night on April 2, 2010
The Family and Youth Ministry announced a Good Friday Movie Night with free pizza for parents and teenagers: On Good Friday, April 2nd, beginning at 6:00 p.m., our parish's Family and Youth ministers presented the famous, award-winning Good Friday movie, The Passion of the Christ. The movie is based on the New Testament accounts of the arrest, trial, crucifixion, and resurrection of esus, events commonly known as The Passion. For box office returns and viewer numbers, the movie is one of the most successful ever. Movie producer Mel Gibson says, "The movie succeeds because it is about love, hope, faith, and forgiveness. Jesus loves us, died for all of us, and suffered for all of us, and the movie gets back to that basic message." The movie won more than 20 international awards. Our parents and youth were asked to consider bringing favorite cushions and pillows. Popcorn and beverages were served.
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Prior to installing a UPS it is important to understand which factors can have a negative impact on the unit and its components. Protecting your system from elements that adversely affect its capabilities should be a top priority, but other concerns, such as access and security can be equally important.
Your UPS should be installed in a temperature controlled room that does not contain any windows or experiences high amounts of moisture. An ideal state would allow for a temperature control system that operates independently from the rest of your facility's HVAC system. The unit has ventilation openings that should not be blocked, and allows for adequate air movement. Every UPS manufacturer has different fan placement on the unit depending the design consideration. Some UPS systems have robust, three phase blower fans that exhaust through the top of the system, while others are mounted on the front and are designed for clean, data center environments. Make sure to discuss location with your UPS provider to ensure that you are installing a system that can stand up to the everyday environment it will be installed in.
Batteries are the heart of the UPS as they are what provides power when the utility or input is not available. Valve Regulated Lead Acid (VRLA) batteries work best at a constant temperature of 25°C (77°F). Operating outside of this temperature can cause the batteries to rapidly lose their ability to maintain proper capacity. In fact, for every 15°F above 77°F, the lifespan of a standard UPS battery is cut in half. Battery life is rated in cycles, not years, but most VRLA Batteries often have a 3 – 5 year life expectancy when kept at optimal temperatures. Operating outside of recommended conditions will drastically reduce their lifespan and force premature replacement, adding to your maintenance costs.
Dirt and dust can clog fans and other components, leading to increased heat and reducing your system's ability to operate efficiently. The best way to combat this is to install the system in a hermetically sealed room, and schedule regular cleanings of components that tend to gather dust. Periodically inspect the filter on the front of your system and clean or replace on regularly scheduled intervals.
One of the leading causes of UPS failure is human error. In order to reduce this risk, it is always recommended to install the UPS in a part of your facility that does not receive unnecessary foot traffic. Only authorized personnel should be allowed to enter the room and operate the system in any way. In addition, make sure to consult a qualified professional prior to operating your UPS.
Following the above basic guidelines in addition to scheduling regular preventative maintenance will help you maximize the return on your investment and help you sleep soundly at night while your UPS ensures your loads are protected and continue to stay online. Please be sure to continue following our blog for more helpful tips from the team at Quality Power Solutions.
Location independence offers employees more flexibility in terms of where they live and how they spend their time. But this freedom can come with challenges concerning the logistics of a growing career . Employees who work under a flexible-hours schedule must be more intentional about their time. Without the structure of a 9-to-5 job in an office, they need to create their own system of accountability. Cornerstone habits such as taking a walk every morning or evening, for example, allows you to create healthy boundaries around your work time.


The PRS SE AX20E pairs mahogany back and sides with a solid spruce top for warm, balanced tone. When matched with traditional "X" bracing, which allows the top to vibrate while providing stability, the SE AX20E has a punch that stands alone beautifully or cuts through the mix. The Angelus Cutaway body shape delivers comfort and playability, well suited for picking and fingerstyle playing.
Plugged in, the Fishman GT1 pick up system delivers dynam- ic, organic tone and allows players to easily take this guitar from rehearsal to the stage. This electronics system features an undersaddle pickup and soundhole mounted preamp with easy-to-access volume and tone controls.


Yeates also said that – as a fan of Harry Potter – meeting J.K. Rowling was hugely inspiring, but understandably nerve-wracking!
"She's down to earth, she's funny, she's intelligent, she's open, warm, and again I was nervous about meeting her!
Given that Eddie Redmayne and David Yates and David Heyman have said that this movie will be a lot darker than the first instalment – a thriller rather than an adventure movie – we're excited to see new characters introduced to the mix, and complications begin to arise in old favourites!
Read the full interview here, and don't miss new footage from the film from A Celebration of Harry Potter, here!