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The air was thick with the sweet cool decay of fire bright leaves dangled and fallen on the mushy forest floor. As the path snaked narrowly through a thicket of depleted underbrush, I couldn't help but stop and turn towards the amber yellow sun as it gifted a warmth that felt like a baby blanket. The afternoon was ours to savor. In silence and solitude, taking a nap or riding a bike, whatever we did or didn't do, the purpose was to spend time in the presence of God.
So after taking to the trees that ran along the Fox River, my deer path at best blended into a well worn low gravel trail that paralleled the water. Sunny, mid fifties, dry with a slight breeze. It doesn't get much better than that on a fall day.
It was towards the end of our free time, this was a spiritual retreat after all. But there appeared on the left side of the road a weathered deep grain wooden bench that stood guard not more than 5 feet from the water's edge. It held out it's hands like a child, and said, "Just 5 minutes". So I heeded its call.
Looking down on the small smooth sandy riverbank, the water was so calm that as it lapped on shore it never extended more than two inches. Here was this massive force of nature, carrying millions of gallons of water south with surgical precision. But it looked like nothing was happening.
The presence of God feels like that at times. A massive life force that we've heard of and seen for ourselves, that nevertheless seems to be barely moving. With elections going one way for some and another way for others, mass shootings that somehow we've gotten used to seeing, and our own fullness of life that many times lacks purpose. Why does the river of eternal life, this geyser of greatest goodness, our friend and Savior, Jesus, move so imperceptibly?
At first glance nothing seemed to be going on, but then just below the surface a wilted leaf passed by at a deliberate pace. Then a twig. Then a fish. Then the river bottom itself swayed like a Hawaiian hula dancer. The river was moving, and it was shifting everything in and around it. I just needed that bench to show me.
Jesus has provided each of us a well-worn bench to sit and watch him at work. We call it the Holiday Season. A resting place where we enjoy good food, tell stories, and relax in the company of those we love. And through that experience we see something happen. We behold the transformative love of God actually move.
At the end of the seventeenth Psalm it reads, "As for me, I shall behold your face in righteousness; when I awake I shall be satisfied, beholding your likeness." There is nothing more satisfying than seeing the face of God. It is big, full of contours and smooth crisp edges, and it turns to you this Holiday Season so that you might feel whole and at peace. Like that tranquil majestic river Jesus is moving in the ways that we need. All we have to do is sit, watch, and trust.


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Veronica entered a bakery to purchase a cup of coffee for her husband, waiting for her with their baby at an outdoor event.
She had paid for the coffee and went to get cream and sugar for the coffee as was her husband's preference.
His preference was actually soy milk and agave nectar however neither were available and so she went with his preferences from amongst what was available.
A young girl, having joined her father for coffee and cocoa, was playing with the small containers of creamer.
Veronica gently said, "Excuse me, is it okay if I get in there?" while indicating the creamer assortment.
Veronica reached past the girl, still playing with the creamers, and grabbed a couple of creamers.
While the man gave her dirty looks, she poured the cream into the coffee and heard the man mutter under his breath as he left.
The man behind the counter apologized for her having to endure the rude father's behavior, and then she joined her husband and baby who were quite happy to see her.
Great story, Gordon! So visceral and so real — and SO RUDE! I am amazed by people who just wait to explode on a stranger for no reason whatsoever.
That's right, David. Maybe you have a bad day — why take it out on someone who does the slightest "wrong" to you?
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DAD'S AGONY Dad, 38, killed himself just weeks after court banned him from seeing his daughter
by naslam | Dec 8, 2019 |
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/9765673/dad-killed-himself-court-banned-daughter/ A DAD killed himself just days after being banned from seeing his daughter, an inquest heard. Daniel Donnelly, 38, was found dead at home in Hull, Humberside, in February, 20 days after a...
Judge apologises to loving father as he bans him from seeing his children who are 'alienated' from him after their mother spent years 'demonising' him
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7604799/Judge-apologises-father-bans-seeing-children.html A father has been permanently banned from seeing his children after their mother waged a vicious campaign 'demonising' him and 'alienating' them from him. Family...
Devastated father tells inquest how he begged social services for FOUR years to protect son, seven, from the abusive mother who later murdered him – just WEEKS after his final complaint
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7673245/Father-tells-inquest-begged-social-services-FOUR-years-protect-murdered-son-seven.html The father of a seven-year-old boy strangled by his mother pleaded with social services to protect his son four years earlier -...
Tearful father withdraws contact application after 7 year dispute
The case will no doubt be seen by some as a damning indictment of the family justice system, which clearly failed this father (who, as Judge Bellamy pointed out, had done more than many fathers would do to try to establish a positive relationship with his son) and,...
UK Dads are being airbrushed out of existence by family courts favouring and bankrolling Mums
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https://inews.co.uk/opinion/uk-fathers-airbrushed-existence-family-courts-favouring-bankrolling-mothers-513674 Men on the receiving end of Non Molestation Orders are faced with the process of self-funding their case against a mother effectively bankrolled by the state...
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A picture today in Aljazeera of the Green Square (1) in Tripoli struck me, it had a caption "People gather near a portrait of Gaddafi in Tripoli's Green Square on Friday, before the explosions [Reuters]". This news picture showed a huge street painting or print of Gaddafi and what seems to be a dwindling crowd around it. There is a fence around the picture that must be something like 50 by 250 meter in size. On the inside of the fence once sees guards posted at regular intervals. The picture shows Gaddafi in one of his hundreds of outfits, possibly the uniform of an air marshall he wore when visiting the Italian president Berlusconi in June 2009. On the right side of his uniform jacket Gaddafi wears a gallery of medals and on the left the a photograph has been pinned on his uniform. The photograph shows the martyr of Libyan resistance Omar Mukhtar, the "Lion of the Desert", on the day before he was hanged by his Italian colonial masters in 1931. A provocative statement for his host Berlusconi, who hugged him nevertheless as he was about to make some big business deals with the Libyan leader.
The people around the fence at the Green Square in Tripoli in July 2011 look at the picture of this moment of theatrical revenge on the former colonial power, a picture that shows the leader completely, from his golden adorned cap to this shoes, with a saintly light blue glowing aura all around him. If one would not trust the strict editorial rules of Aljazeera and Reuter's photo agency, it could have been a photoshopped picture.
This made me think of the frontispiece of the book by Thomas Hobbes "Leviathan" published in the mid 17th century during the English Civil War, which describes the necessity of a sovereign authority to be accepted by all, to avoid 'the state of nature', everybody for themselves, a 'war of all against all' (Bellum omnium contra omnes).
For the sake of peace, the people, so did Hobbes argue, had to make a social contract with an absolute ruler, best in the form of a king. The ruler in 1651 is depicted as an embodiment of 'the people'. There is a crowd that marches from a landscape into the body of the ruler. The ruler has a sword in one and a crosier s used by priests in the other hand, showing he is in command both of state and church.
The display of the picture of the ruler as if he was a landscape, one could walk in, at the Green Square in Tripoli, has a similar function: Gaddafi as embodiment of the Libyan nation. Only, the aerial photograph unveils that it is but a meagre crowd assembled around their leader. It expresses how the maximum leader has inflated himself disproportionally to the feelings of embodiment by 'his people'. In mathematical terms one can even speak of an 'inverse proportionality', the more his popularity shrinks, the bigger his pictures.
The 17th century theory of state of Hobbes can still be used today, to understand the prolonged rule of dictators. There is some form of common interest, expressed in a social contract, by the ruler and his subjects. (2) How such a two dimensional state of affairs – ruler and ruled – may become a more diverse structure where more people can participate in the affairs of state, is apparently not well understood. The attempts of outsiders – like the Western coalition forces under NATO command – to kill the ruler have failed until now. Aerial bombing, even under the title of a UN mandate to protect civilians from attacks by their own ruler, are counterproductive. To deliver the idea of democracy to a nation does not work, or at least it takes many generations to wear off the effect of long distance destruction perpetuated by outside forces in one's own country. (3) Interventionist regime change – as we witness for a few months now – does do little to empower the common people. Meanwhile, the ranks of the opposition forces are more and more filled with former supporters of the Gaddafi regime that try not only to evade the eminent purges after Gaddafi's downfall, but also are preparing to continue the old rule, hidden under new revolutionary slogans.
The inflated picture on the pavement of the square of revolution in Tripoli of the dictatorial ruler Gaddafi, serves more than one purpose. It glorifies him and at the same time it shows him as an ancient non-heriditary king who knows his days are counted when he hears the song in the streets: "the king must die". (4) The ruler as scapegoat to cleanse the history of a nation. The 'effigy of Gaddafi' may serve an extra purpose, as a painting to be trampled on by thousands of feet in a direct release of anger , thus avoiding or diminishing the acts of revenge that accompany any change of regime.
(2) This phenomenon is explained in another way one century earlier (1548) – and with more foresight – by Etienne de la Boétie in his "Discours de la servitude volontaire" (The Politics of Obedience: The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude). Boétie notes that "…the best and most virtuous man would not remain so if he ruled alone…" See also the study of David Lewis Schaefer "Freedom over servitude: Montaigne, La Boétie, and On voluntary servitude", page 40, partly available at GoogleBooks.


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Duane Buck's Lawyer Discusses How Future Dangerousness Taints Texas Death Penalty System
Thirty years ago, filmmaker Errol Morris, who directed the documentary "The Thin Blue Line," helped to exonerate Texas death-row prisoner Dale Adams, falsely accused of murdering a police officer. During the course of making the film, Morris met the notorious Texas prosecution psychiatrist, Dr. James Grigson, who routinely testified that capital defendants—including the innocent Mr. Adams—posed a risk of future dangerousness.
Morris recently interviewed Christina Swarns (pictured, center), litigation director for the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, about the case of Duane Buck and the hazards of Texas's continued use of the concept of future dangerousness in sentencing defendants to death. Swarns argued Buck v. Davis in the U.S. Supreme Court, a case tainted by the testimony of Dr. Walter Quijano, a psychologist who told the jury that Buck was more likely to commit future crimes because he was black.
On February 22, 2017, the Supreme Court overturned Buck's death sentence, saying "Our law punishes people for what they do, not who they are." Swarns said "[t]he introduction of evidence linking race to dangerousness — like that which was presented in the Duane Buck case — was an inevitable product of future dangerousness in the capital punishment system in Texas." With a death penalty system already "contaminated and corrupted by racial bias," she said, Duane Buck's death sentence "was a predictable outcome of that mess."
Swarns called the future dangerousness requirement "insane," saying "The business of predicting future dangerousness without becoming corrupted by the various factors that are so tied to human functioning is impossible. It's an absurd requirement." She added that Buck's perfect disciplinary record in his more than 20 years in prison is evidence that predictions of future dangerousness are unreliable.
On August 19, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals granted Jeffery Wood a stay of execution to litigate his claim that the testimony Dr. Grigson presented in his case claiming that Wood was certain to pose a future danger to society if he was not executed was false and scientifically baseless. While the Supreme Court did not address the issue of future dangerousness determinations in its Buck decision, Chief Justice Roberts, writing for the majority, sharply condemned the racially biased testimony from Buck's trial. "When a jury hears expert testimony that expressly makes a defendant's race directly pertinent on the question of life or death, the impact of that evidence cannot be measured simply by how much air time it received at trial or how many pages it occupies in the record. Some toxins can be deadly in small doses," Roberts wrote.
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E. Morris, Who Is Dangerous, and Who Dies?, The New York Times, June 7, 2017.
Note — at the time of publication, Christina Swarns was a member of DPIC's Board of Directors.
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Update January 5, 2017: Thanks for your interest, folks! All our positions are currently full, please check back in a few months to see if there are any new availabilities.
Does working in the video production or marketing industry interest you? Are you wondering what sort of jobs exist in these fields or what local companies have to offer? We're often approached with inquiries about what kind of jobs exist at Blueforest Studios, and while we aren't hiring any full-time employees at the moment, we wanted to take a moment to let anyone who's interested know about what kind of opportunities exist in this market.
Creative Director – This is a vital role in the product development process. Creative directors must have a creative vision and the ability to lead their team of artists. They must also have a head for business and be able to direct activities of the company to maintain a standard of creative excellency, timeliness, and profitability while meeting the clients' needs.
Video Producer – This person coordinates all the different aspects of a video's production. A video producer works with both clients and the production staff. He or she plans and executes video shoots as well as post-production tasks and sometimes makes key editorial decisions.
Audio Producer – An audio producer must be familiar with the technology and equipment needed to record, mix, and produce sound on videos. This may include adding sound effects, voiceovers, or background music. They may also be responsible for operating audio equipment on shoots.
Illustrator / Animator – This person uses their creative visual skills to communicate a story, message or idea. This could include producing drawings, diagrams, or other images that help make a client's message more attractive or easier to understand.
Account Executive – An account executive serves as the direct link between a company and its clients. This person builds sales by prospecting for new clients and generates future profits by nurturing existing customer relationships.
We are not currently accepting additional interns, check back in summer 2017. These individuals would have the opportunity to learn the ins and outs of working in the respected positions for a video production company.
Sales and Marketing interns would assist in the creation and distribution of marketing materials, perform analysis of marketing and sales data, and provide support to social media efforts. This person should have excellent written and verbal communication skills and knowledge of the Web and social media. We are looking for applicants who are willing to commit to a minimum of 3 months.
A video intern would assist with the daily operations of video production and work alongside our experienced video producers. Ideally, this person would have some familiarity with basic video practices such as editing. Additionally, they should be able to take direction well and learn new tools quickly.


Father, in the name of Jesus, I confess your word concerning healing. As I do this, I believe and say that your word will not return void, but will accomplish what it says it will. Therefore I believe in the name of Jesus that I am being healed as I hear the Word of God. It is written in your Word that Jesus himself took our infirmities and bore our sicknesses; therefore with great boldness and confidence I say on the authority of the written Word of God that I am redeemed from the curse of sickness and I refuse to tolerate its symptoms.
Satan, I speak to you in the name of Jesus and say that your principalities and powers, your spirits of darkness and your spiritual wickedness in heavenly places are bound from operating against me in any way. I am the property of the Lord Jesus Christ. I am a child of God and I give you no place in me. I dwell in the secret place of the Most High God. I abide, I remain stable and fixed under the shadow of the Almighty. His power is in me and no foe can withstand me.
Now, Father, because I reverence and worship you, I have the assurance of your Word that the angel of the Lord encamps round about me and delivers me from every evil work. No evil shall befall me. Neither plague nor calamity shall come near my dwelling. I confess that the Word of God abides in me and produces in me perfect soundness of mind and wholeness in body and spirit, from the deepest parts of my nature in my immortal spirit, even to the joints and marrow of my bones. That the Word of God is medication and life to my flesh, for the law of the spirit of life operates in me and makes me free from the law of sin and death.
I have on the whole armor of God and the shield of faith protects me from all the fiery darts of the wicked one. Jesus is my high priest who hears my confession and I hold fast to this confession of faith through the Word of God. I stand immovable and fixed and in full assurance that I have health and healing in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, that my healing has been purchased through the blood of Jesus Christ and that as I hear these healing scriptures, the anointing power of the Lord is being released into my life to bring me divine health.


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Q: What is the meaning of SimpleJdbcCall being "multi-threaded"? The doc for SimpleJdbcCall says says:

A SimpleJdbcCall is a multi-threaded, reusable object representing a
call to a stored procedure or a stored function.

Take the following code:
class A{

   private SimpleJdbcCall call;

   public void doSomething(){
       call = new SimpleJdbcCall(dataSource).withProcedureName("getColleges");
       SqlParameterSource in = new MapSqlParameterSource().addValue("id", 2);
       Map<String, Object> out = jdbcCall.execute(in);
   }

   public void doAnotherThing(){
       call = new SimpleJdbcCall(dataSource).withProcedureName("getClasses");
       SqlParameterSource in = new MapSqlParameterSource().addValue("name", "Rahul");
       Map<String, Object> out = jdbcCall.execute(in);
   }

}

Now, suppose a class calls doSomething() and the variable call is initialized with the procedure "getColleges". Before control moves to the next line of this method, doAnotherThing() gets called the call variable gets re-initialized to the procedure "getClasses". Next, control executes the next line of doSomething() and tries to set the id parameter, but since call is now associated with the "getClasses" proc (which doesn't have the id parameter), the operation would fail.
Does being "multi-threaded" mean that the above race-condition won't happen for SimpleJdbcCall?

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Kitchen Tune-Up Gives New Owner "Control of My Own Future"
After years of spending every workday staring at a computer screen, Howard Rosenman was ready for a big change. Then the pandemic forced his hand: He worked as director of operations for a company developing software for the event industry—an industry "ravaged" by pandemic restrictions, Rosenman says.
The time was right to leave his career. He wanted to be his own boss and get out from behind a desk. "I also needed to expand my horizons and get over the 'worker bee' mindset, [and start] relying on myself to take control of my own future," Rosenman notes. The answer? Kitchen Tune-Up.
Rosenman is the new owner of Kitchen Tune-Up Bothell, WA, serving communities in the Bothell, Mill Creek, Lynnwood and Kenmore area. His interest in franchise ownership started years ago, he says.
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"I had researched franchising many years ago in Florida but decided not to make the move back then," Rosenman says. "When I started to look for my 'next act' I revisited the idea and was quickly drawn to the culture of Kitchen Tune-Up. I've led teams for my employers over the years, but this time it's my business and my team, which makes it both more challenging and more rewarding."
This time around, he spent another six months investigating franchises before choosing Kitchen Tune-Up. What was it about Kitchen Tune-Up that drew his attention? "Rather than being geared towards extracting every last dollar from every customer and every franchisee like other companies, the Kitchen Tune-Up team made it clear they encourage and support new business owners," Rosenman says.
Knowing what you don't want as a potential business owner is important, he notes. "I knew I didn't want to own a business that dealt with food or employed teenagers. Working with homeowners to improve their homes backed by the support and encouragement of the home office seemed like a good fit."
Improving kitchens is something he takes personally. "We have lived in a few homes, a couple with great kitchens, and one with a terrible kitchen, and we know the difference it makes!" Rosenman says.
The steepest part of his learning curve has been realizing "I can't be an expert overnight," Rosenman says. He had expected to do most sales himself, but now knows he needs to find and hire salespeople as well as experienced, talented technicians. "I can't do it all," he adds.
"There are days of fulfillment, and days of sheer panic as something doesn't go as expected. I have been trying to celebrate the former and ride through the latter," Rosenman says.
Rosenman and his wife, Heidi, moved to the Seattle area in 2016 from Florida. His three adult stepchildren and young grandson joined them. The family enjoys spending time in the beautiful Pacific Northwest and traveling the region with hopes of seeing even more, he says.
To learn more about the new team in Bothell, visit their website today.


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If I Give Youtube My Phone Number Will The Constant Contact Me
Constant Contact, Inc., an online marketing company, is based in Waltham, Massachusetts. It also has offices located in Loveland (Colorado) and New York (NY). Constant Contact has a variety of email marketing tools, but its most popular service is newsletters. It is also popular with companies looking to create a consistent flow of messages for their customers. There are many reasons Constant Contact is a good choice. However, you might want to consider the following before you make a decision about whether Constant Contact is right for your company.
Constant Contact's ease-of-use is one of its greatest strengths. Constant Contact features an easy-to-use email editor and many templates. It also provides reports to help you track the performance of your email campaigns. You can also send emails to new subscribers on specific days of the week, such holidays. Constant Contact allows you to manage and send newsletters to specific groups. Constant Contact allows you to use a variety of email templates to target your contacts.
Constant Contact is a highly popular email marketing tool. Constant Contact's affordable price allows for professional email marketing templates and automation campaigns. It also helps to nurture customer relationships. It also offers discounts for annual and six-month contracts. It integrates with over 1,500 applications, making managing a business's email marketing easy. Once you've gotten your email marketing up and running, you'll feel confident about your success. Constant Contact makes this easy!
Constant Contact also allows you to view real-time statistics about your email marketing efforts. It tracks new and lost subscribers, the email open rate, bounce rates, and more. You can also see how many people opened your emails and how many people clicked on links. Constant Contact also allows you to personalize your email materials to suit any theme. Constant Contact's EventSpot lets you choose from a range of themes that will work with most themes.
Once you've signed up for Constant Contact, you'll be directed to your dashboard. You can add, delete, and segment your contact lists from this dashboard. You can also create new campaigns, view your most recent campaigns, and manage subscription lists from the dashboard. Constant Contact stores data on your customers, which is crucial for creating segmented campaigns, personalizing content, and implementing trigger emails. This will help you target your email marketing efforts effectively.
The free plan allows you to test the Constant Contact platform for 60 days. You can cancel your Constant Contact platform within 30 days if you aren't satisfied. In addition to the free plan, you can also sign up for Constant Contact's Website Builder Only Plan. This plan includes free website hosting, list-building tools, e-commerce features, social media marketing, and more. Constant Contact offers various plans and is highly flexible.
Constant Contact offers many features that will help your ministry communicate effectively. It offers real-time response tracking, easy-to-use design templates, and other features to expand your audience. Constant Contact bills based on the number of email addresses in your account, as well as the number of emails you send. Education and nonprofit organizations can also qualify for discounts. Constant Contact also offers prepaid plans and nonprofit discounts for educators. Before you decide on the package that suits your needs, it is a good idea to read through the features.
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Mariposa's Tales MARIPOSA'S TALES: I Conquered 2009!
I got an award from Nancy at More Than Conquerors! What a nice way to start a year. WOOT!
Yay, I did conquer 2009 with grace! At least that is how I'd like to think. ;) I'm sharing this award to everyone. Obviously we did all conquer 2009 to make it here now!
And here is my first Unconscious Mutterings for 2010!
365 :: 365 days of joy and laughter!
Tombstone :: R. I. P.
Dumb :: ... and Dumber!
Intrusive :: This annoys me alot!
Shopkeeper :: ...at the bookstore.
Love, LOVE your tombstone association.
Great award...I'm grabbing this one for my blog for the very first one this year....thanks!!!!
Hah, we matched on #3!
Happy mutterings and Sunday to you. What a great award. Conquering with grace is a great accomplishment.
Ah, planned vacation rather than the childbirth ones - good! - I should have come up with year planner considering what I've just got around to adding to the wall!


MORNING service was conducted by the minister the Revd Jim Mullin. Joyce, Alan and Bob were the musicians. Joy welcomed everyone and gave out the notices and Happy Birthday was sung to Joy and Stephen. A sketch with Myra, Elizabeth, Joy and Stuart followed about Zacchaeus and Jim then spoke to the children about the release of the prisoner, Norman Kimber. Ben and Stuart took up the offering, while the children gave out flowers for Mothers Day as we sang the next hymn. The theme for Jim's sermon was "Created to become like Christ". Prayer followed and the service closed with singing.


Bet you thought swimming was a form of exercise. That it is, and a good one too. It works all the muscles simultaneously, stretches heart and lungs and (poorly-executed dives aside) is impact-free. How it might be a form of cultural expression is less clear, but only according to how narrowly the term 'culture' is interpreted.
In Culture Shock, a recent paper from think tank Demos, author Samuel Jones dissects the meaning of the term 'culture', and argues for a re-evaluation of the state's role in relation to it. The paper has been written at a time when the Department for Culture Media and Sport, already one of the smallest departments, is facing a severely curtailed budget, as well as a time of political upheaval: the new administration's focus is on society by participation rather than dictation. In line with that, a more sophisticated (but less elitist) understanding of what we might mean by that word culture, and therefore what the supporting policy needs are, would be well-timed.
The debate here has often been reductive, simply arguing for and against 'funding cuts for the arts', wondering 'will the philanthropists step in?' etc. But we're missing the much longer-term point. Culture, as a social continuum, is not something that will suddenly cease to exist if some of its institutions are no longer subsidized (although that would undoubtedly have an effect on some qualities of culture). A focus on the institutions is limiting and prescriptive. More than just visiting museums and art galleries; culture encompasses our common social practices, that by which we leave our mark for future generations to inherit and interpret.
That includes many varied things. It includes one of my friends' participation in a netball league. It includes the hundreds of open-mic nights and backroom gigs I have attended in support of another. It includes the fact that I am enabled to write and publish this. All of the above make an interesting and telling historical tapestry of 21st century 'culture'.
So back to swimming. What does it signify that today, in Britain, I would squeeze into 90 minutes in between work and whatever other activity I have planned for the evening, a regimented and solitary recital of lengths in my local, council-run swimming pool? The fact that I do so is motivated partially by the desire for self-improvement and anxiety about an otherwise sedentary day. And it is a solitary activity, but one nonetheless shared with other swimmers.
At another time, or in another place, partaking in an activity of central importance to a community, I might have spent an entire morning roving between rooms and pools of different temperatures, focussed partly on the corporeal, partly on the cerebral – perhaps talking with other bathers, or even playing chess. My goal may still have been the improvement of the mind and body, but in a much more approximate way, one that we might not even recognise today.
A different context again: I have a friend who lives by the mediterranean and swims every afternoon, following a hot and manic lunchtime bar-shift. The idea of swimming indoors in chlorinated water is bizarre, and untenable, to his mind. Not because it wouldn't be exercise, but because it would signify some very different things. Swimming for him is rarely social, it is about a long-standing connection with the place he lives. I would be far too scared, but he has no qualms about duck-diving to the seaweedy depths, out of light and sight, and reappearing with some little artefact of marine life.
By comparison, my option, on the face of it, sounds dull and impoverished. But often when I'm ploughing up and down I hold many of these other possibilities in my head, not least because there is something about the insulating and introverting effect of being underwater, in a semi-weightless medium, that puts the mind to work in different ways. Imagination is integral to swimming, bodily and mental states are linked. For me, there is something of the romantic about it because of these connotations; it is a deeply significant activity. Wherever I am in the world, I'll be the first into the water because the opportunity to swim represents the opportunity to tack on another layer to my own personal history. It is also often a re-enactment of something. There is an element of ritual: each new venturing into the sea represents a tiny re-conquering of some childhood fear.
Arguably I am lucky to be able to make some of these mental connections: not everyone has had the opportunity to visit Vals (the top trumps of spas). But the fascination with swimming all started with lessons at the local leisure centre, or playing mermaids with one of my friends on a Saturday afternoon, and perhaps a bit of basic primary school history ('what the Romans did').
I have also recently discovered I am not alone in taking swimming as more complex than pure exercise. This should be no great surprise, given the cultural significance of other sports – football being the obvious one. But the solitude of swimming renders it a slightly different psychological vehicle. It has in fact been the subject of psychoanalytical musing by greater thinkers than me, very neatly summarised in a recent Radio 3 feature on the meaning of swimming. This programme referenced a rather odd but intriguing film starring Burt Lancaster called 'The Swimmer', based on a short story of the same name. The story equates one man's attempt to swim home, leapfrogging through the chain of backyard pools of his Californian neighbours, to his ultimate psychological unravelling.
The programme also discussed writers and poets, and such record holders as Martin 'Big River Man' Strel – who recently swam the length of the Amazon in 66 days; and long before him, Captain Matthew Webb, whose most daring stunt dive – into Niagara Falls – turned out to be his last. As with any physical feat, it is interesting to imagine what motivated these men. Is there any thread linking their exploits and what drives me to Kentish Town Baths on a Monday night?
Culture, then, is the things that we do and the values we attach to them. Cultures can be personal or collective. They are what makes life meaningful and hopefully more pleasant. I am not arguing that everyone should learn to swim (although it does come in useful). But, as with the fact that someone had the money and inclination to refurbish Kentish Town Baths, thus making them a pleasant and affordable place to swim, the role of the state and policy is in supporting our capabilities to participate in ways that we find meaningful. And that, far from being relegated to the underfunded DCMS, should be of concern to all government departments.
Hi Joss…. having just returned home from swimming I was delighted to return home and find your latest piece! Some of what you said sums up perfectly my thoughts/state of being whilst ploughing (well, maybe 'ploughing is too strong a word here for me!) up and down. Oh, and by the way, I (not you!) am always the first in the pool/sea when away!
Dear Joss. Im an architectural student busy with my masters dissertation. The thesis deals with the act of swimming as a cultural form, closely related to memory and imagination. the radio 3 link is not available. Any other links relating to these subjects would be smashing. Really enjoyed your article though, you shall be quoted.


Photo from Sandy at The Reluctant Entertainer.
The trip mentioned in this post was sponsored by Harry & David. All opinions are my own.
This Fall I had the fun privilege of attending a blogger event in Southern Oregon sponsored by Harry & David. Being a "home blogger" I don't often get to go on "foodie type" events. In fact, I had never been to one, heheh. I wasn't sure what to expect but it.was.amazing. My friend Sandy from Reluctant Entertainer invited us to her home for dinner. The meal was SO good, and the company and setting was as lovely as I imagined after all these years of knowing Sandy. Her home and style is so gracious and warm, it was a treat to be invited.
Honestly I could barely carry on a conversation with anyone because I was so mesmerized by all the beauty in her backyard and on the table. Every detail was delightful, right down to the sweet chalkboard and pear centerpieces!
Can you find me right there in the middle of all those awesome food bloggers, looking like I belong? They were all so nice and I consider them my new friends. I am even a fan of food blogs now, because they are written by really cool people! If you want to find out more about them and follow their food adventures, I'll put a link to them all at the bottom of the post.
Honestly, it was one of the most fun trips I have been on! My husband got to go with me and we enjoyed a few days in the southern Oregon sun. The weather was perfect and gorgeous! We fell in love with the little town we stayed in called Ashland, which is famous for Shakespearean festivals. My husband and I had wanted to go there for years! Even though we had lived in Portland (just a few hours away) most of our lives, we had never been to Ashland until this trip. I will have to do an "out to sea" Ashland post at some point because it was a fun little town and I have more pictures to share!
If you ever have a chance for a getaway with friends or romantic weekend with your spouse, I would highly recommend Ashland! Look at this adorable little bed & breakfast where we stayed, the Winchester Inn. It was not only cuuuuuteeee, but THE BREAKFAST every morning was incredible. Everywhere we went on this trip the food was amazing.
One of my favorite excursions was to Penny & Lulu's Florist Studio in Medford. The two spunky owners set up an amazing space for lunch. We had so much fun checking out the props as well as all the food and centerpiece artistry on the table! It was beautiful. (I stole a few pics from Michael and Sandy because I got a new computer and can't figure out how to find all my pictures edited and moved over yet).
Harry & David is best known for its signature product (and one of my favorite Christmas gifts!), Royal Riviera® Pears, which require special climate and soil found in only a few places in the world. We enjoyed a tour of their beautiful orchard and learned all that goes into growing the perfect pears! No wonder they are SO GOOD!
We had so much fun on a tour of their facility. We even went to the Harry & David chocolate factory to paint pretty chocolate leaves. And they even had their very own Charlie at the H&D Chocolate Factory to teach us, heheh.
One of the really fun things we were able to do while at the Harry & David facility was to package a gift basket, make a bow and send the basket off to someone! The Harry & David gift baskets have been a favorite of mine for years. My grandparents sent us a basket of pears or the Tower of Treats every year for Christmas and we loved it so much that we have carried on the tradition. It's a gift everyone loves!
Our trip was so much fun and I am so grateful to Harry & David for including me (and my husband!) in on the experience. Truly, I felt blessed to be a part of it. It was an amazing trip!
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How cool to be invited to something like that! Wow! Looks like an amazing time and fantastic company.
Nice to see So Oregon get some love! I lived in Portland for years without ever visiting. My husband recently accepted a job offer here and we made the jump. We live in Jacksonville now (north of ashland, home to the McCully house you and your friends are standing in front of) and just love it. Now I have to go look at your pictures again! Those chalkboard boxes with pears and greenery are so cute!
Loved the time with you and Jerry, here, Melissa. Thanks for a beautiful recap!
It was so good to see you again, Melissa! I loved Ashland and seeing the Harry & David facility and orchards so much!


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This displays a red dot at the location I want, but I want to use Latitude and Longitude versus the meter units used above to make Point p.
Is there a way to create a map that uses Decimal Degrees so I can create a point using Latitude and Longitude? Do I need to do unit conversions?
Thank you for the response. I used the following lines of code to convert the coordinates, which were placed in the OnStatusChanged method within onCreate(). Hope this helps others in the future.
You can just using Project methond on GeometryEngine class. This is the correct way to do spatail reference convertion. For instance, if your spatial reference of map is WGS1984 WebMercator(wkid3857) and you want to convert the coords to latitude and longitude, just set the in sr=3857 and out sr=4326(WGS1984).


eNZees Foot Soothers provide all-natural blister prevention by cushioning and relieving hot spots. Natural lanolin in the wool also helps reduce friction while moisturizing the skin.
Sold as single Mini Pack, which provides 2-3 applications.
eNZees Foot Soother triple action helps prevent hot spots from developing into blisters by providing a soft cushion between your shoes, socks and skin. It not only allows your affected areas to breathe by drawing moisture away from your skin, it also offers a rich natural lanolin which serves to help moisturize the skin and reduce friction.
It's easy to use. Simply place the eNZees over the hot spot or likely pressure point on your foot, wrapping it around and between the affected toe(s) if necessary. Then carefully pull your sock back onto your foot, taking care not to dislodge your eNZees in the process. No tape required. eNZees weave their fibers into your socks as you walk, holding it into position. A simple, firm tug on your eNZees will cause the natural wool fibers to release from your sock. Good for 2-3 applications per Mini.
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I've been wanting to share this TV cabinet turned craft hutch project with you lovelies for quite some time now. This is actually an undertaking my husband & I worked on before I was even blogging so thankfully I was smart enough to take some "before" pics.
EEK! This old beat up thing was left behind by the previous owners & for quite some time it sat in our basement and served as my "Monica closet". Any old fans of the show "Friends" in the house?! Basically, any or every little thing I didn't know what to do with was shoved into this old TV unit.
Shortly after starting my own business on Etsy we realized we needed to remodel our home office to better accommodate all my shop's inventory but there was one little problem.......there was no storage or closet space in the room. That's when little Miss Ugly's life was spared! Why not convert the TV unit into a craft/office hutch to help store some of my supplies? And that's exactly what we my husband did!
Holy smokes! Who knew I was storing animals in this thing? So after clearing out the wild life my hubby sanded, painted, & added a peg board to the back of the unit & then we moved it up to the office.
I found a picture holder at Pier 1 & thought it was the perfect way to display some of my card designs on the side of the cabinet!
Now I have a fun and organized space for all my packaging materials, hole punches, ribbon, card stock, postal scale, & other business supplies. I can not express how much easier my life is with this storage unit! No more running room to room just to finish one order.
How do you organize your craft or business supplies?
Fantastic! I LOVE it!! And I am so jealous because I don't have a good organization system for my craft stuff. It is in the basement and I keep trying to ignore it but it's not going away.
Oh my goodness, this is the coolest makeover I have seen in a long time! And I SO want it! Great job, what a fun craft station!
You did an amazing job with the remodel of this tv cabinet! Beautiful. I need to do something like this to corral all of my messes!
That looks awesome! Good job. I need to do something like that.
i love how you recreated the hutch! great job and i bet it makes crafting and finishing orders a lot easier for sure!
Wow! That looks amazing! I love the inside pics. Monica's closet...you're so funny! That is such an awesome episode. I miss that show!
WHOA! This is amazing and I am super jealous of your space...how nice!!
That looks beautiful! You guys did such an amazing job!!
That's the perfect craft closet. You did an awesome job. Thanks for sharing at DIYbyDesign.
This hutch turned out so beautiful! I love how you gave it a specific function and made it work for you and your business. Brilliant!
That is a jaw dropping makeover! So beautiful. Love it!
What a great idea! And I love how light and bright the inside is. Well done!
What a great job! I have one exactly like this that I redid pre-blog. I made it into my "girly" cabinet. Yours turned out just great! I bet is't fun to have a cabinet devoted to crafting!
This is awesome! Have fun crafting in your cute, organized space! :) I found you through Lil' Luna. Thanks for sharing!
That's really cute! I am getting inspired to organize my crafting supplies... thanks for the ideas!
Arrived via Today's Creative Blog...cheers!
very beutiful shaped and painted.
Excellent job! Who would ever think that this stunning storage unit was once used as a television cabinet? Your husband is highly creative for transforming a television cabinet into a stunning storage unit like this. This will not only function as a place for keeping your things but also as a major accessory for your living room.
Now, that's a doozy! Who would have thought that on old TV cabinet can turn into a pretty crafting hutch. Talk about an appealing, functional, and space-saving storage/organizer.


Maya makes use of optionVars extensively throughout its UI, they are used to store information between Maya sessions. Every little bit of UI, settings, etc, are stored in optionVars when Maya shuts down so that everything is kept the same next time you load it up. When you start using them alot it can become cumbersome to query and debug the variables and their contents. This script helps by wrapping up the different useful operations into a nice UI. Start by typing a search string into the top input box and hit Search. It will show all optionVars that contain the string below. Selecting a variable in the top list will show its value(s) below. You can also add or delete variables with the two buttons at the top left. There are buttons to alter the contents of a variable at the bottom left; append adds a new item at the end, insert adds the item above the current selection, and remove removes the selected item. If you've got a non-array variable selected you can still use these commands and it will be changed into an array – be careful with this as any code that uses the variable will crash if it doesn't get the sort of variable it was expecting. Any suggestions or feedback, leave a comment.


At our latest meeting, we were able to meet with our director, Zachary Bortot. He's got a lot of good plans for organizing the different scenes and actors. He's also recruiting performers and plans on having auditions this fall, after he finishestheater obligations over the summer. We now have one assistant director, Josh McKinney, who volunteered his services assisting Zach with his activities and will likely also be a stage manager.
Bill Austin has been measuring flats. Turns out we have more than enough wood to work with: We need 350 feet of theater flats over 8 feet high for walls and the like. We have 445 feet that are 8 feet or higher. In addition, we have multpile 5, 6 and 7 foot flats we can use to construct the supports for the set.
The next step is getting everything organized and built. Pete Wright and Bill Austin plan on moving all construction materials from their storage areas to a good-sized couple of yards that can be borrowed for work on texturing the wood to match the church walls. The congregation and Youth Group will be asked to assist with preparations of applying glue and sawdust to prepare the surfaces before building. We estimate that it will take 17 gallons (!) of white glue, torn newspaper, sawdust, and two weekends of solid work to finish the texturing. Work parties are being planned. So, hey, if you're looking for a way to help out, think about stopping by for an hour or more to glue and sawdust some boards.
Nancy Eriksen, our costume designer, spoke about the need for the right kinds of cloth. People will be seeing these costumes close up, so we can't fake it with burlap and will need linen and wool. Tommy Booth had volunteered to donate cloth from his stored collection. Very shortly after our meeting, she went to see what was available. Thanks to him and to Rock Steady Productions, the budget for cloth has come down from $2,000 dollars to about $500. People have been incredibly generous donating supplies!
The costumes all have to be made, which means another opportunity for volunteers. Nancy will be holding one or more sewing meetings where folks can help cut out and sew the costumes. Most of them should be of basic construction: 33 AD was not known for complicated clothing designs.
Lighting presented a possible difficulty, since the tour will take place after dark and we are not using actual candlelight and torches to light those wood-and-sawdust sets. Fortunately, we have some folk who are serious about this stuff and they tell us that we can get the right look with LED's. Whew! And, yes, we will clear everything with the city fire department.
We still haven't found an animal coordinator yet. From what we've learned, it costs $400 dollars to rent the animals for All Saints annual Living Nativity. We're not planning on anything too big: Camels won't fit in our Jerusalem streets.
Look for our Props list, coming soon!
We'll be setting up a PayPal button on the website soon, and Caren is planning a "Quartermania" event for this Fall. We may also add a silent auction on the June 26th Ministry Fair.


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In Sustainability Index 2017, 7 Latvian enterprises received certificates attesting their rank in the Platinum Category. In comparison with the previous year, the highest performance was repeatedly demonstrated by Latvenergo, Ventspils nafta termināls, CEMEX and RIMI Latvia, as well as by newcomers, such as Latvijas mobilais telefons, SEB banka and Cēsu alus.
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Preview: Frankie Drake Mysteries digs for diamonds
November 12, 2018 Greg David	1 Comment
Diamonds and race horses and gardens, oh my! Whenever I see an image of Wendy Crewson dressed in Nora's finery I know we're going to be in for a treat. Frankie Drake Mysteries is jam-packed with great characters, and Nora's swagger takes it to another level. Plus, her constant back and forth with Frankie leaves me in stitches. Nora appears in Monday's new episode; here's what the CBC has revealed about "Diamonds are a Gal's Best Friend," written by Carol Hay and directed by Peter Stebbings:
What starts as a simple case of a missing horse leads the team into the gardens of Toronto's elite in pursuit of a murderous jewel thief.
And, as always, more tidbits from me after watching a screener.
Anastasia Phillips guest-stars
Phillips (above) most recently appeared on Reign and Grey's Anatomy, but I'll always remember her in two of the creepiest episodes of Murdoch Mysteries ever. Phillips portrayed Charlotte in "Me, Myself and Murdoch" and "The Incurables." Anyway, she drops by Frankie Drake Mysteries as Camille, the daughter of the farmer whose horse has gone missing. The delicate case calls for Nora to help. Keep an eye out for Cliff Saunders as the farmer, Christopher Morris as Count Johan, James Graham as Hank and Laurie Murdoch (Lachlan's dad) as the hotel manager.
Frankie and Trudy visit the wilds north of Lawrence Ave.
I live, no joke, a five-minute walk from Lawrence Avenue. That made the moment Frankie remarked it's not often cases take them that far such a hoot. Even better? She and Trudy are on a country road, surrounded by fields of corn, and drive by a sign marked "Forest Hill coming soon." The times have certainly changed.
Flo has eyes for…
I won't ruin the storyline. But it's hilarious. Speaking of Flo, I'm hoping she's able to break free of the city coroner. I'm tired of her being hemmed in by him and looked down upon. Give Flo her own business!
Frankie Drake Mysteries airs Mondays at 9 p.m. on CBC.
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This week's episode felt like it was supposed to be the aeason/series finale. Especially at the end when Nora and Frankie are talking.


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Unzipping China's Lingerie Capital
Undergarment industry pads pockets in Guanyun County, but sex still a taboo topic for rural residents.
Wang Lianzhang
JIANGSU, East China — Even though all four of Lei Congrui's lingerie warehouses were flooded when a typhoon hit Guanyun County in August of 2012, he has one fond memory of that time: After the storm, he enlisted villagers to help him launder his drenched stock with their washing machines. They then laid the seductive garments out to dry on clothes lines strung above their corn stalks, turning their fields into a kaleidoscope of corsets, chemises, and camisoles.
"I climbed onto the roof of my warehouse and looked out over the countryside," Lei, now 27, tells Sixth Tone. "There was lingerie as far as the eye could see. I felt like it was my kingdom."
Wearing this lingerie, you might as well be wearing nothing, because every part of the body can be seen so clearly.
- Liu Yonglan, lingerie workshop employee
By then, Lei had already made a name for himself. He had pioneered lingerie production and e-commerce sales in Guanyun — a lucrative business that grew from practically nothing about a decade ago to 1 billion yuan ($150 million) in sales for the whole county in 2016. Guanyun has become China's largest lingerie production base, according to local government figures that claim 60 percent market share. Lei himself owns the county's largest business, employing some 200 people — many of them from farming families — in around 20 workshops that churn out sexy tops and bottoms around the clock.
One worker is 64-year-old Liu Yonglan, a retired public servant. One afternoon in December, she gently runs her hands over a leopard-print corset trimmed in black lace, snips off the loose threads, pairs it with a matching G-string, and carefully folds them into a bag to be shipped to a bedroom in China or abroad. "It's hilarious," Liu says, somewhat befuddled. "Wearing this lingerie, you might as well be wearing nothing, because every part of the body can be seen so clearly." Even though hundreds of similar garments pass through her fingers every day, Liu finds it hard to imagine who would buy what she considers impossibly small articles of clothing. "They are definitely indecent people," says Liu, the mother of two adult women. "My daughters would never wear that."
Despite their bemusement, Liu and her 20 or so colleagues — all women treadling sewing machines to produce baskets full of lace kimonos, sheer bralettes, and strappy bodysuits — are glad for the work. Lingerie production staff earn about 3,000 to 4,000 yuan per month, making it a more lucrative profession than county residents' traditional livelihood of growing wheat or rice. Rural residents' annual per capita disposable income in Guanyun was just over 5,000 yuan in 2008, according to government figures. In 2016, this number had risen to 13,000 yuan.
A sample lingerie piece is displayed at a workshop in Guanyun County, Jiangsu province, Dec. 27, 2017. Wu Yue/Sixth Tone
More than a decade ago, few people in Guanyun had heard of lingerie or e-commerce. In 2006, Lei, the factory owner, suggested his mother try online retail after her children's clothing store shut down. Together, they sold everything from clothes and cosmetics to condoms. But Lei grew suspicious that his suppliers were selling him fakes, so they decided to make their own products. Lei had learned that lingerie was easy to produce and even easier to sell. Business went smoothly, and Lei opened his own factory in 2009. The then-law student was just 17, and while his classmates were talking about their dream careers — becoming lawyers, prosecutors, judges — he had other ambitions: "I told them, 'I want to make 1 million yuan before I turn 25,'" he says. Just a few months later, he had achieved his goal.
When I talk to people from the big city, they think lingerie is something very normal that doesn't have to be concealed.
- Chen Xinhong, deputy head of Guanyun County
Guanyun now has more than 400 lingerie manufacturers that together employ some 20,000 workers and have spawned a host of related businesses to provide fabric, labels, and delivery. "This industry is thriving and has brought great monetary benefits to the local people," deputy county head Chen Xinhong tells Sixth Tone. The farmland is now dotted with workshops — the luxury cars of their young millionaire owners parked out front beside old tractors — and everyone has friends or relatives working in lingerie. During a regular meeting between businesspeople and local officials, Lei breezily greets most of the lingerie bosses, who are his neighbors, friends, and uncles. "Even my high school teacher called me, asking whether I could give his wife a discount for wholesale," Lei says.
In the early years, Lei and other manufacturers stuck to a simple design ethos — one material, one color, one size — so they could keep prices under 10 yuan per piece. Lei's most successful item was a black chemise, of which he sold some 10 million pieces in three years. As Lei tells it, the garment was easy to make: Take 1 square meter of black lace and cut a hole in the middle, sew on two shoulder straps, and you're done. "The rest of the [cut out] material is still enough to make two G-strings," Lei says.
Guanyun workshops operate their own online stores in addition to producing wholesale stock for other brands. They are increasingly looking to sell overseas, which now only accounts for about a tenth of the county's yearly output. But understanding the preferences of foreign customers remains an obstacle, according to Lei. "There's a huge gap in the aesthetics of different countries," he explains. Sexy cop costumes are popular in Brazil, which Lei says is because Brazilians don't like the police; French maid costumes don't sell well in Poland because, he theorizes, the two countries don't have a good relationship; and Japanese customers love any and all seductive outfits. The lingerie tastes of most European countries — except France and Italy — are still riddles to him. "Every collection that we deliberately designed has failed in their markets," Lei says. "Germany borders France, right? But their taste is the most difficult thing for me to figure out."
Lei Congrui poses for a photo at his lingerie warehouse in Guanyun County, Jiangsu province, Dec. 28, 2017. Wu Yue/Sixth Tone
In China, the lingerie industry has had to overcome taboos and ignorance. For people in Guanyun, sex is still something to be ashamed of. An 18-year-old employee at Lei's factory who produces countless G-strings on a daily basis is too shy to talk about her work. Sitting next to her is 38-year-old Meng Xia, who rescues her from Sixth Tone's questions. She explains that unmarried women such as her young colleague prefer to avoid sex-related topics. "I also felt ashamed to say I produced lingerie at first; instead, I would just say I made garments," Meng says. "It's a new thing to farmers — some old people even asked me whether a G-string was a mask." Chen, the county official, says that when he first saw a piece of lingerie in a workshop, it was smaller than he had imagined: "How could there be so little fabric?" he recalls wondering.
Official attitudes toward sex-related content and products have also shifted over the years. In the 1980s, the Chinese government regarded selling and producing sex-related items as criminal behavior. Though the official stance has softened as Chinese people have become more open-minded, authorities still occasionally crack down on sex-related businesses. In 1993, China's first known sex shop opened in Beijing — but a year later, a supplier of erotic products in the eastern province of Zhejiang was investigated for allegedly disseminating obscene goods.
This new trend that young people are willing to spend on will give us much more stable incomes in the long term.
- Sun Yubai, lingerie workshop employee
Sex shops and suppliers of sex toys, erotic attire, and related items are now commonplace in China, but they still operate in a legal gray area. In 2010, Taobao, China's largest e-commerce website, was told to reform its "adult products" category after being accused of spreading "vulgar" information. The nation's advertising law also puts limits on promoting sex-related products, and on Taobao, sellers are now discouraged from using the Chinese term for lingerie — qingqu neiyi — to describe their wares.
Lingerie manufacturers had a bad year in 2014, when a huge anti-vice campaign was launched in Dongguan — then China's unofficial capital of paid sex — in southern China's Guangdong province. Lingerie sales to sex workers, valued in the billions of yuan, disappeared practically overnight. Lei was hit hard, too; he still has outstanding payments of about 400,000 yuan today. Yet the crackdown also had a silver lining, Lei says, because the substantial media attention introduced the concept of sex products to the Chinese public.
People in Guanyun aren't too worried about the occasional bouts of disapproval from the government. "Certainly, the government used to have misgivings about promoting this industry," deputy county head Chen says, "but objectively speaking, when I talk to people from the big city, they think lingerie is something very normal that doesn't have to be concealed." Guanyun officials like Chen are in full support of lingerie businesses and plan to invite lingerie design and business management experts to visit the county. A lingerie-themed tourist town is under construction near the site of a planned high-speed train station. "In this town, we will have a museum-like exhibition center to show the history of lingerie," Chen says. "We will also develop a main street with various sex shops and love hotels." The government is even planning regular Victoria's Secret-like fashion shows to attract tourists. For the county's inaugural fashion show in July 2017, a dozen models — including four foreigners — were invited to walk the runway in lingerie produced at local workshops.
Lei Congrui (center) stands beside his wife at his lingerie warehouse in Guanyun County, Jiangsu province, Dec. 27, 2017. The couple brought their children to work on a busy day at the warehouse. Wu Yue/Sixth Tone
Lingerie production in the county has been so successful that there is currently a labor shortage, but Chen is confident that Guanyun natives working out of town — of which there are thousands — will soon be drawn back. "In a few years, there will be another 20,000 people who will join the lingerie industry," Chen estimates. Sun Yubai, 40, left her job at a state-owned company to work in one of Lei's workshops. She firmly believes in the future of lingerie: "Compared with making traditional clothing, this new trend that young people are willing to spend on will give us much more stable incomes in the long term," she says.
Despite the county's shift toward a new form of labor, residents haven't given up their traditional rural livelihoods. Several times a year during planting and harvesting seasons, many employees leave the factories to work on their families' farmland. Even though everyone knows that farmwork is less profitable, taking care of the land they have depended on for generations is a habit that seems hard to shake.
Even Sun, who says she learned how to sew clothes to avoid facing the harsh wind and rain while working in the fields, tells Sixth Tone that she leaves her job at the lingerie workshop for several weeks each year to help her family with planting and harvesting crops. She can't refuse her relatives: "The older generation here believes that they should harvest their own food from their own farmland," Sun says. "We should never betray that."
Editor: Kevin Schoenmakers.
(Header image: Local lingerie workshop employees pose for a photo in a field in Guanyun County, Jiangsu province, Dec. 28, 2017. Though lingerie has proven lucrative for the county, residents still work the fields they have depended on for generations. Wu Yue/Sixth Tone)
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Crossover Dreamer
In Mr. Ratburn's class
Re: Season 16
I confess. You topped me.
"Where's my Prince Charming?!"
JAO93
It's just another sign that the Arthur writers have run out of ideas.
To be honest, Arthur has been re-treading plots for a while now - I recall the "persona swap" being a device used often ("Popular Girls", "Buster's Best Behavior", and to a degree "It's a No Brainer"). One could argue most plot points/devices were used up as early as the 3rd season, though that's out to debate. I suppose when you run a fairly straightforward (and somewhat restricted) show for almost 20 years, these things happen.
When they start making crossover episodes with other TV programs on PBS, then they have run out of ideas.
"Arthur and Barney's Fantastic Fantasy Adventure" - don't even think of funding it!
Quote from: JAO93 on August 31, 2013, 06:39:44 am
Hasn't there been TWO episodes now that featured a plot in which D.W. had trouble getting rid of hiccups? I know it was a subplot in "Arthur Vs. the Piano", but it seems like one of the more recent seasons used it as the A-story of an episode.
Yes. You're thinking of "Hic or Treat" from season 11.
That tends to happen with children and family shows that air new episodes after 10 years. Plots being reused and so forth. Other shows like Spongebob, The Simpsons, and Sesame Street to name a few, have gone through the same exact situation and still are to this very day.
Lol. The only crossover I could ever see Arthur doing is one with Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood. Anything else, no. Reason why is because Arthur did a crossover with Mr. Roger's Neighborhood before. We even saw Marc Brown and Michael Yarmush in the same episode, while Arthur visited the Neighborhood of Make Believe.
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Penhow Castle, Gwent
6 m E Newport
NP26 3AA
Set high on a hilltop above the Newport to Chepstow road, Penhow Castle is set within its own grounds beyond the Parish Church, reached by a drive from the main road.
Built as a moated and fortified stone manor house with central courtyard, the castle is in magnificent condition and is still lived in. As it is in private ownership, the castle is best viewed from the chuch which overlooks its grounds.
1129 ~ Sir Roger de St Maur, in return for the task of keeping down the Welsh , providing a quota of men for the guard of Chepstow Castle for his liege lord, is permitted to usurp the manor of Penhow from its native Welsh prince. He builds himself a tower upon a rocky knoll to protect his farmland and to serve as an outlying watchtower to give warning to any Welsh uprising to the Norman lords.
1230's ~ A curtain wall is added to protect the small keep.
1240's ~ The great lordship of Chepstow is in the hands of the powerful Marshal family, Earls of Pembroke.
Sir William de St Maur marries the 3rd daughter of the Earl and enters into an agreement with his mighty brother-in-law, to deprive Morgan ap Howell, the last Welsh prince of Gwent, of his manor located just four miles from Penhow.
The agreement made clear that should Sir William encounter any resistance from the Welsh, he could call upon the full might of Marshal's army. In due course the two of them divide the spoils and plant a vineyard on their newly aquired lands.
1300's ~ A branch of the family move to more peacefull and green pastures in Wiltshire. The family that remain take the name Seymour. By the end of the century the family find itself without a male heir.
1430 ~ Isabella Seymour's husband John Bowles dies. The Bowles adopt the arms of the Seymour family.
1438 ~ Thomas Bowles, John's grandson, leads a small force of men from Penhow to Berwick-upon-Tweed to assist in the siege of this important Scottish border town. For his services, Thomas Bowels is knighted by the Duke of Gloucester and returns to Penhow with a substantial pension. He then marries Maud, daughter of Sir Thomas Morgan of nearby Pencoed Castle. Sir Thomas's son produces an only daughter, Maria, who marries Sir George Somerset, brother of the 2nd earl of Worcester, Lord of Raglan Castle.
A great hall is added to the tower to greatly enlarge the castle.
1674 ~ The castle is bought by Thomas Lewis of St Pierre following the English civil war which had left Penhow undamaged, unlike most castles in South Wales.