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The term 'Olympism' was first coined by the founder of the modern Olympic Games, the French aristocrat Baron Pierre de Coubertin. Coubertin understood, towards the end of the nineteenth century, that sport would become a central point of popular culture and was working towards the definition of a universal philosophy that would have sport and physical activity at its core. In his Memoires Olympiques (1931) Coubertin interpreted Olympism as a "school of nobility and of moral purity as well as of endurance and physical energy – but only if…honesty and sportsman-like unselfishness are as highly developed as the strength of muscles" (p. 208). Thus, Olympism aimed at the harmonious development of the intellectual, moral and physical aspects of a human being through athletic competition. Hence it was developed as a philosophy consciously intended as a set of rules or propositions not simply about sport and its governance but about how one's life should be led, and thus clearly can be implemented as a useful set of values which can be applied across a variety of contexts and people. This presentation will explore the different meanings of Olympism and how the Olympic and Paralympic values can be captured in practice in varying ways which extend beyond the somewhat narrow scope of sport, exercise and physical activity.
Chatziefstathiou, D. 'Paradoxes and Contestations of Olympism in the History of the Modern Olympic Movement', Sport in Society, Special issue on Olympic reform, forthcoming.
Coubertin, P. (1931) Memoires Olympiques, Bureau international de pedagogie sportive, Paris.
Weed, M., Coren, E., Fiore, J., Mansfield, L., Chatziefstathiou, D., Wellard, I. and Dowse, S. (2009) 'A Systematic Review of the Evidence Base for Developing a Physical Activity & Health Legacy from the London 2012 Olympic & Paralympic Games'. Commissioned by Physical Activity Network West Midlands on behalf of Regional Physical Activity Teams in the West Midlands, the East Midlands, the East of England, London and the South East.
Dikaia Chatziefstathiou is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology of Sport and Leisure at the Department of Sport Science, Tourism and Leisure and member of the Centre of Sport, Physical Education and Activity Research (SPEAR) in Canterbury Christ Church University, UK. She is an expert in Olympic Studies and her work on the ideology of Olympism and values has been widely published and cited in peer-reviewed academic journals nationally and internationally. She is the winner of the inaugural Coubertin Prize 2008 awarded by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the International Pierre de Coubertin Committee (IPCC) for her qualitative research on Pierre de Coubertin's writings and speeches.
Among her most recent activities include her convening role at the Special Olympic Interest Group of the Higher Education Academy, the coordination of the national university student competition for the Coubertin Olympic Awards (led by the Institute of Business Ethics and IPCC) and her membership in several regional steering groups mainly in relation to Cultural Olympiad.
As an international expert of Olympic Studies she has presented keynote speeches and invited papers at numerous conferences and events in the UK and worldwide and has been invited as a visiting professor in the International Olympic Academy (Olympia, Greece) and in the international Masters Programme in Olympic Studies (organized by the German Sport University Cologne, the University of Mainz, Loughborough University, the Autonomous University of Barcelona and University of Lyon). She acts as an International Research Expert for the Centre for Olympic Studies & Research at Loughborough University and is currently the Guest Editor for the Special Olympic Issue of the European Sport Management Quarterly (jointly with Professor Ian Henry).


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The Minister congratulated Mr. Tillerson and expressed his wish to establish trustful and in-depth dialogue on all issues of mutual interest, be they Franco-American relations, relations between the European Union and the United States or issues of regional and global concern which France and the United States—both permanent members of the United Nations Security Council—face jointly.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Development stressed the importance of our long-standing ties, which are reflected in crucial security cooperation, particularly in the fight against terrorism. Mr Ayrault and Mr. Tillerson reaffirmed the solidity of the Franco-American alliance against this threat and both countries' shared determination to eradicate it, particularly in Iraq and Syria, where our two countries are confronting the barbarity of Daesh [so-called ISIL] together.
This relationship is also fundamental with a view to helping resolve regional crises, particularly in the Middle East and Ukraine. Mr. Jean-Marc Ayrault also recalled the importance of a close relationship with the United States in order to face up to global challenges such as climate change and defend the universal values common to us, including the duty to protect refugees.
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Reunification Monument for a Divided Cameroon
Throughout Africa, many impressive monuments have been raised to commemorate the struggle for independence. Particularly striking is the Reunification Monument in Cameroon. It symbolizes the unification of the country after it was partitioned during the colonial period and celebrates the emergence of a new state onto the international stage.
The History of The Reunification Monument
Europeans first visited what is the modern nation of Cameroon in the 15 th century and the country suffered because of the slave trade . However, it was only in the 19 th century that the country saw serious European encroachments.
Backed by the Imperial government in Berlin in the 1880s, German traders established a post on the coast. They met with fierce resistance, but eventually Germany was able to carve out a considerable territory in what is today the state of Cameroon. The Imperial government left much of the governing of the colony in the hands of private businesses and the local people were brutally exploited .
German surveyor, Cameroon, 1884 ( CC BY-SA 3.0 )
After the defeat of the Germany in World War One, the League of Nations divided the German colony between the French and the British. They established colonial regimes in these areas and German influence ended. The victorious allies ended many of the more outrageous human rights abuses of the German colonial administration, although tensions soon emerged among the native population.
The parts of Cameroon that was under British rule complained of neglect and objected to the many migrants from Nigeria entering the territory. Rebellion against the colonists began in 1955 in the French-occupied areas. There was also agitation in British-Cameroon over the question of re-uniting with the French areas.
In 1960, French Cameroon became independent and the following year the British area voted for freedom. Initially, the two areas entered into a federation, but like many newly independent countries, Cameroon was racked by war and instability. Finally, an agreement to unifying the country was reached in 1972. The President of Cameroon, President Ahmadou Ahidjo, commissioned the Reunification Monument to celebrate this historic event. The monument was designed by Gédéon Mpando, a sculptor, who was born in Cameroon in 1932. It was commissioned in 1971, and it was completed in 1974.
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Despite the commitment to national unity, the two parts of the nation never integrated culturally or politically. At present, there is a separatist insurgency in Anglophone Cameroon, which has resulted in the loss of many lives. It seeks to create an independent state of the former British colony .
The Symbolism of the Reunification Monument
The monument is in Yaounde, the capital of Cameroon. The site is accessed by the main gate and near the entrance stands a massive statue that symbolizes the reunification of the nation. It is sculpted in the brutalist style of sculpture which was popular in countries under the influence of socialism in the 1970s.
At the center of the sculpture is a representation of an old man, who symbolizes the nation. He holds a torch which represents liberty and the independence of the nation. Surrounding the figure of the older man are several children who signify the coming together of the family of Cameroonians. Behind the statue there is a large structure that denotes national unity. This ingeniously designed conical building is made out of concrete pathways which form a spiral creating the cone-shaped structure. The blocks on this huge structure are inscribed with slogans promoting unity and celebrating diversity .
Detail of the Reunification Statue by Gédéon Mpando, Yaoundé, Cameroon (artnetworkconnexion)
At the bottom of the construction is a banqueting hall that was intended to host national events but is not in use at present. The structure and the sculpture are set in large gardens. In recent years the monument has become quite neglected and the once lush gardens are now overgrown.
Getting to The Reunification Monument
The monument is in the heart of busy Yaoundé and there are many public transport links to the site. No admittance fee is charged to enter and there is plenty of accommodation nearby. Visitors can explore the site on their own, but the monument is in an area with a great deal of anti-social activity.
Top image: Reunification Monument, Yaoundé, Cameroon Source: Ngnogue.Z
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Report: Ozone-layer recovery continues under Montreal Protocol
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Despite jump in CFC-11, ODS quantities have declined since the last assessment in 2014, says multi-national study.
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A new assessment of ozone depletion in the atmosphere concludes that actions taken under the Montreal Protocol have led to decreases in the atmospheric abundance of controlled ozone-depleting substances (ODS) and the start of the recovery of stratospheric ozone.
The report, "Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion: 2018" – an update of the last assessment published in 2014 – was produced by the World Meteorological Organization, United Nations Environment Programme, U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the European Commission.
While the report observed continued progress in restoring the ozone layer, it acknowledged "an unexpected increase" in global total emissions of ozone-depleting CFC-11. "Global CFC-11 emissions derived from measurements by two independent networks increased after 2012, thereby slowing the steady decrease in atmospheric concentrations reported in previous Assessments."
At the 30th Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol (MOP 30) in Quito, Ecuador last week, the Parties committed to provide all available data on the illegal use and production of ozone-depleting CFC-11, following the presentation of the Environmental Investigation Agency's latest report on the use of CFC-11 in China.
Nonetheless, atmospheric abundances of both total tropospheric chlorine and total tropospheric bromine from long-lived ODS controlled under the Montreal Protocol "have continued to decline since the 2014 Assessment," the report said.
The decline in ODS made a substantial contribution to the following observed ozone trends:
– The Antarctic ozone hole is recovering, while continuing to occur every year. As a result of the Montreal Protocol much more severe ozone depletion in the polar regions has been avoided.
– Outside the polar regions, upper stratospheric ozone has increased by 1–3% per decade since 2000.
– No significant trend has been detected in global total column ozone over the 1997–2016 period with average values in the years since the last Assessment remaining roughly 2% below the 1964–1980 average.
Ozone layer changes in the latter half of this century will be complex, with projected increases and decreases in different regions, the report said. Northern Hemisphere mid-latitude total column ozone is expected to return to 1980 abundances in the 2030s, and Southern Hemisphere mid-latitude ozone to return around mid-century. The Antarctic ozone hole is expected togradually close, with springtime total column ozone returning to 1980 values in the 2060s.
The report documents the advances in scientific understanding of ozone depletion reflecting the thinking of the many international scientific experts who have contributed to its preparation and review. "These advances add to the scientific basis for decisions made by the Parties to the Montreal Protocol," it said.
The report also noted that the global HFC phase-down plan developed under the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol in 2016 is projected to avoid temperature increase of 0.2°C to 0.4°C. This is "substantial in the context of the 2015 Paris Agreement, which aims to keep global temperature rise this century to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels," it said.
Continued success of the Montreal Protocol in protecting stratospheric ozone will depend on "continued compliance," the report said.
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Climate / Energy Policy: The Full Obama Speech from June 25, 2013 in HD
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PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: Thank you. Thank you. (Cheers, applause.) Thank you, Georgetown! (Cheers, applause.) Thanks. Thank you so much. Now — thank you, Georgetown. Everybody please be seated.
And my first announcement today is that you should all take off your jackets. (Laughter.) I'm going to do the same. We got — (cheers) — it's not that sexy, now. (Laughter.)
(Chuckles.) (Laughter.)
It is good to be back on campus, and it is a great privilege to speak from the steps of this historic hall that welcomed presidents going back to George Washington. I want to thank your president, President DeGioia, who's here today. (Cheers, applause.) I want to thank him for hosting us. I want to thank the many members of my Cabinet and my administration. I want to thank Leader Pelosi and member of — members of Congress who are here. We are very grateful for their support. And I want to say thank you to the Hoyas in the house for having me back. (Cheers, applause.)
You know, it — it was important for me to speak directly to your generation because the decisions that we make now and in the years ahead will have a profound impact on the world that all of you inherit. You know, on Christmas Eve 1968, the astronauts of Apollo 8 did a live broadcast from lunar orbit, so Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, William Anders. The first humans to orbit the moon described what they saw, and they read Scripture from the book of Genesis to the rest of us back here.
And later that night, they took a photo that would change the way we see and think about our world. It was an image of Earth: beautiful, breathtaking, a glowing marble of blue oceans and green forests and brown mountains, brushed with white clouds, rising over the surface of the moon.
And while the sight of our planet from space might seem routine today, imagine what it looked like to those of us seeing our home, our planet for the first time. Imagine what it looked like to children like me. Even the astronauts were amazed. It makes you realize, Lovell would say, just what you have back there on Earth.
And around the same time we began exploring space, scientists were studying changes taking place in the Earth's atmosphere. Now, scientists had known since the 1800s that greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide trap heat, and that burning fossil fuels released those gases into the air. That wasn't news. But in late 1950s, the National Weather Service began measuring the levels of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere, with the worry that rising levels might someday disrupt the fragile balance that makes our planet so hospitable.
And what they found, year after year, is that the levels of carbon pollution in our atmosphere have increased dramatically; that science, accumulated and reviewed over decades, tells us that our planet is changing in ways that will have profound impacts on all of humankind.
The 12 warmest years in recorded history have all come in the last 15 years. Last year, temperatures in some areas of the ocean reached record highs and ice in the Arctic shrank to its smallest size on record, faster than most models had predicted it would. These are facts.
Now, we know that no single weather event is caused solely by climate change. Droughts and fires and floods, they go back to ancient times. But we also know that in a world that's warmer than it used to be, all weather events are affected by a warming planet.
The fact that sea level in New York — in New York Harbor are now a foot higher than a century ago, that didn't cause Hurricane Sandy, but it certainly contributed to the destruction that left large parts of our mightiest city dark and underwater.
The potential impacts go beyond rising sea levels. Here at home, 2012 was the warmest year in our history. Midwest farms were parched by the worst drought since the Dust Bowl and then drenched by the wettest spring on record. Western wildfires scorched an area larger than the state of Maryland. Just last week, a heat wave in Alaska shot temperatures into the '90s.
And we know that the costs of these events can be measured in lost lives and lost livelihoods, lost homes, lost businesses, hundreds of billions of dollars in emergency services and disaster relief.
In fact those who are already feeling the effects of climate change don't have time to deny it. They're busy dealing with it. Firefighters are braving longer wildfire seasons, and states and federal governments have to figure out to budget for that. I had to sit in on a meeting with the Department of Interior and Agriculture and some of the rest of my team just to figure how we're going to pay for more and more expensive fire seasons.
Farmers see crops wilted one year, washed away the next, and higher food prices get passed on to you, the American consumer.
Mountain communities worry about what smaller snow packs will mean for tourism, and then families at the bottom of the mountains wonder what it'll mean for their drinking water.
Americans across the country are already paying the price of inaction — in insurance premiums, state and local taxes, and the costs of rebuilding and disaster relief.
So the question is not whether we need to act. The overwhelming judgment of science, of chemistry and physics and millions of measurements, has put all that to rest. Ninety-seven percent of scientists — including, by the way, some who originally disputed the data — have now put that to rest. They've acknowledged the planet is warming and human activity is contributing to it.
So the question now is whether we will have the courage to act before it's too late.
And how we answer will have a profound impact on the world that we leave behind not just to you but to your children and to your grandchildren.
As a president, as a father and as an American, I am here to say we need to act. (Cheers, applause.) I — I refuse to condemn your generation and future generations to a planet that's beyond fixing. And that's why today I'm announcing a new national climate action plan, and I'm here to enlist your generation's help in keeping the United States of America a leader, a global leader in the fight against climate change.
Now, this plan builds on progress that we've already made. You know, last year I took office — or — or the year that I took office, my administration pledged to reduce America's greenhouse gas emissions by about 17 percent from their 2005 levels by the end of this decade. And we rolled up our sleeves, and we got to work. We doubled the electricity we generate from wind and the sun. We doubled the mileage our cars will get on a gallon of gas by the middle of the next decade.
(Cheers, applause.)
Here at Georgetown I unveiled my strategy for a secure energy energy future. And thanks to the ingenuity of our businesses, we're starting to produce much more of our own energy. We're building the first nuclear power plants in more than three decades, in Georgia and South Carolina. For the first time in 18 years, America's poised to produce more of our own oil than we buy from other nations. And today we produce more natural gas than anybody else.
So we're producing energy. And these advances have grown our economy, have created new jobs that can't be shipped overseas, and by the way, they've also helped drive our carbon pollution to its lowest levels in nearly 20 years. Since 2006, no country on Earth has reduced its total carbon pollution by as much as the United States of America. (Applause.) So it's a good start.
But the reason we're all here in the heat today is because we know we've got more to do. In my State of the Union address, I urged Congress to come up with a bipartisan market-based solution to climate change, like the one that Republican and Democratic senators worked on together a few years ago. And I still want to see that happen. I'm willing to work with anyone to make that happen.
But this is a challenge that does not pause for partisan gridlock. It demands our attention now. And this is my plan to meet it, a plan to cut carbon pollution, a plan to protect our country from the impacts of climate change, and a plan to lead the world in a coordinated assault on a changing climate.
(Applause.)
This plan begins with cutting carbon pollution by changing the way we use energy, using less dirty energy, using more clean energy, wasting less energy throughout our economy.
And 43 years ago, Congress passed the law called the Clean Air Act of 1970.
AUDIENCE MEMBER: Yeah! (Applause.)
PRESIDENT OBAMA: That was a good law. The reasoning behind it was simple. New technology can protect our health by protecting the air we breathe from harmful pollution. And that law passed the Senate unanimously. Think about that. It passed the Senate unanimously. It passed the House of Representative 375 to 1. I don't know who the one guy was. I haven't looked that up. (Laughter.) I mean, you can barely get that many votes to name a post office, these days. (Laughter.) It was signed into law by a Republican president. It was later strengthened by another Republican president. This used to be a bipartisan issue.
Six years ago, the Supreme Court ruled that greenhouse gases are pollutants covered by that same Clean Air Act, and they required the Environmental Protection Agency, the EPA, to determine whether they're a threat to our health and welfare. In 2009, the EPA determined that they are a threat to both our health and our welfare in many different ways, from dirtier air to more common heat waves, and therefore, subject to regulation.
Now, today, about 40 percent of America's carbon pollution comes from our power plants.
But here's the thing, right now, there are no federal limits to the amount of carbon pollution that those plants can pump into our air, none, zero. We limit the amount of toxic chemicals like mercury and sulfur and arsenic in our air or our water, but power plants can still dump unlimited amounts of carbon pollution into the air for free. That's not right, that's not safe and it needs to stop.
So today for the sake of our children and the health and safety of all Americans, I'm directing the Environmental Protection Agency to put an end to the limitless dumping of carbon pollution from our power plants and complete new pollution standards for both new and existing power plants.
I'm also directing the EPA to develop these standards in an open and transparent way, to provide flexibility to different states with different needs and build on the leadership that many states and cities and companies have already shown. In fact, many power companies have already begin modernizing their plants and creating new jobs in the process. Others have shifted to burning cleaner natural gas instead of dirtier fuel sources. Nearly a dozen states have already implemented or are implementing their own market-based programs to reduce carbon pollution.
More than 25 have set energy efficiency targets. More than 35 have set renewable energy targets. Over 1,000 mayors have signed agreements to cut carbon pollution. So the idea of setting higher pollution standards for our power plants is not new. It's just time for Washington to catch up with the rest of the country. And that's what we intend to do.
Now, what you will hear from the special interests and their allies in Congress is that this will kill jobs and crush the economy and basically end free enterprise as we know it. And the reason I know you'll hear those things is because that's what they've said every time America sets clear rules and better standards for our air and our water and our children's health. And every time, they've been wrong.
For example, in 1970, when we decided, through the Clean Air Act, to do something about the smog that was choking our cities — and by the way, most young people here aren't old enough to remember what it was like, but you know, when I was going to school in 1979, 1980 in Los Angeles, there were days where folks couldn't go outside. And the sunsets were spectacular — (laughter) — because — because of all the pollution in the air. But at the time when we passed the Clean Air Act to try to get rid of some of this smog, some of the same doomsayers were saying, new pollution standards will decimate the auto industry. Guess what? Didn't happen. Our air got cleaner.
In 1990, when we decided to do something about acid rain, they said our electricity bills would go up; the lights would go off; businesses around the country would suffer, I quote, "a quiet death."
None of it happened, except we cut acid rain dramatically. The problem with all these tired excuses for inaction is that it's a — (inaudible) — a fundamental lack of faith in American business and American ingenuity.
You know, these critics seem to think that when we ask our businesses to innovate and reduce pollution and lead, they can't or they won't do it. They'll just kind of give up and quit. But in America, we know that's not true. Look at our history. When we restricted cancer-causing chemicals in plastics and leaded fuel in our cars, it didn't end the plastics industry or the oil industry. American chemists came up with better substitutes. When we phased out CFCs, the gases that were depleting the ozone layer, it didn't kill off refrigerators or air conditioners or deodorant.
(Laughter.)
American workers and businesses figured out how to do it better without harming the environment as much. The fuel standards that we put in place just a few years ago didn't cripple automakers. The American auto industry retooled, and today, our automakers are selling the best cars in the world at a faster rate than they have in five years with more hybrid, more plug-in, more fuel-efficient cars for everybody to choose from.
So the point is, if you look at our history, don't bet against American industry. Don't bet against American workers, don't tell folks that we have to choose between the health of our children or the health of our economy.
(Applause.) The old rules — the old rules may say we can't protect our environment and promote economic growth at the same time, but in America, we've always used new technologies, we've used science, we've used research and development and discovery to make the old rules obsolete.
Today we use more clean energy, more renewables and natural gas, which is supporting hundreds of thousands of good jobs. We waste less energy, which saves you money at the pump and in your pocketbooks. And guess what. Our economy is 60 percent bigger than it was 20 years ago, while our carbon emissions are roughly back to where they were 20 years ago.
So obviously we can figure this out. It's not an either/or; it's a both/and. We've got to look after our children, we have to look after our future, and we have to grow the economy and create jobs. We can do all of that as long as we don't fear the future; instead, we seize it.
And by the way, don't take my word for it. You know, recently more than 500 businesses, including giants like GM and Nike, issued a climate declaration, calling action on climate change one of the greatest opportunities of the 21st century. Wal-Mart is working to cut its carbon pollution by 20 percent and transition completely to renewable energy.
AUDIENCE MEMBER: (Hear, hear ?).
PRESIDENT OBAMA: (Chuckles) Yeah, but Wal-Mart deserves a cheer for that. (Applause.) But think about it. Would the biggest company, the biggest retailer in America — would they really do that if it weren't good for business, if it weren't good for their shareholders?
A low-carbon clean energy economy can be an engine of growth for decades to come. And I want America to build that engine. I want America to build that future right here in the United States of America. That's our task. (Cheers, applause.)
Now, one thing I want to make sure everybody understands. This does not mean that we're going to suddenly stop producing fossil fuels. Our economy wouldn't run very well if it did. And transitioning to a clean energy economy takes time. But when the doomsayers trot out the old warnings that these ambitions will somehow hurt our energy supply, just remind them that America produced more oil than we have in 15 years.
What is true is that we can't just drill our way out of the energy and climate challenge that we face. (Cheers, applause.) That's not possible. I've put forward in the past an all-of-the-above energy strategy, but our energy strategy must be about more than just producing more oil.
And by the way, it's certainly got to be about more than just building one pipeline. Now — (applause) — I know there's been, for example, a lot of controversy surrounding the proposal to build the pipeline, the Keystone pipeline that would carry oil from Canadian tar sands down to refineries in the Gulf. And the State Department is going through the final stages of evaluating the proposal. That's how it's always been done.
But I do want to be clear. Allowing the Keystone pipeline to be built requires finding that doing so would be in our nation's interests.
And our national interest will be served only if this project does not significantly exacerbate the problem of carbon pollution. The net effects of the pipeline's impact — (applause) — the net effects of the pipeline's impact on our climate will be absolutely critical to determining whether this project is allowed to go forward. It's relevant.
Now, even as we're producing more domestic oil, we're also producing more cleaner-burning natural gas than any other country on Earth. And again, sometimes there are disputes about natural gas, but let me say this: We should strengthen our position as the top natural gas producer because in the medium term, at least, it not only can provide safe, cheap power, but it can also help reduce our carbon emissions.
Federally supported technology has helped our businesses grow more effectively and extract more gas. And now we'll keep working with the industry to make drilling safer and cleaner, to make sure that we're not seeing methane emissions, and to put people to work modernizing our natural gas infrastructure so that we can power more homes and businesses with cleaner energy.
The bottom line is, natural gas is creating jobs. It's lowering many families' heat and power bills. And it's the transition fuel that can power our economy with less carbon pollution even as our businesses work to develop and then deploy more of the technology required for the even cleaner energy economy of the future.
And that brings me to the second way that we're going to reduce carbon pollution, by using more clean energy.
For the past four years, we've doubled the electricity that we generate from zero-carbon wind and solar power. (Cheers, applause.) And that means jobs, jobs manufacturing the wind turbines that now generate enough electricity to power nearly 15 million homes, jobs installing the solar panels that now generate more than four times the power at less cost than just a few years ago.
I know some Republicans in Washington dismiss these jobs, but those who do, need to call home, because 75 percent of all wind energy in this country is generated in Republican districts. (Cheers.) And that may explain why last year, Republican governors in Kansas and Oklahoma and Iowa — Iowa, by the way, a state that harnessed — harnesses almost 25 percent of its electricity from the wind — helped us in the fight to extend tax credits for wind energy manufacturers and producers.
Tens of thousands of good jobs were on the line, and those jobs were worth the fight. And countries like China and Germany are going all in in the race for clean — (audio break) — I believe Americans build things better than everybody else. I want America to win that race, but we can't win it if we're not in it. (Applause.)
So — so the — the plan I'm announcing today will help us double again our energy from wind and sun. Today, I'm directing the Interior Department to green-light enough private renewable energy capacity on public plans to power more than 6 million homes by 2020.
The Department of Defense, the biggest energy consumer in America, will install three gigawatts of renewable power on its bases, generating about the same amount of electricity each year as you'd get from burning 3 million tons of coal.
And because billions of your tax dollars continue to still subsidize some of the most profitable corporations in the history of the world, my budget once again calls for Congress to end the tax breaks for big oil companies and invest in the clean energy companies that will fuel our future.
Now, the third way to reduce carbon pollution is to waste less energy in our cars, our homes, our businesses. The fuel standards we've set over the past few years — years mean that by the middle of the next decade, the cars and trucks we buy will go twice as far on a gallon of gas. That means you'll have to fill up half as often. We'll all reduce carbon pollution. And we've built on that success by setting the first-ever standards for heavy-duty trucks and buses and vans. And in the coming months we'll partner with truck makers to do it again for the next generation of vehicles.
And meanwhile, the energy we use in our homes and our businesses and our factories, our schools, our hospitals — that's responsible for about one-third of our greenhouse gases. The good news is simple upgrades don't just cut that pollution; they put people to work, manufacturing and installing smarter lights and windows and sensors and appliances. And the savings show up in our electricity bills every month, forever. And that's why we've set new energy standards for appliances like refrigerators and dishwashers.
And today our businesses are building better ones that will also cut carbon pollution and cut consumers' electricity bills by hundreds of billions of dollars.
That means, by the way, that our federal government also has to lead by example. I'm proud that federal agencies have reduced their greenhouse gas emissions by more than 15 percent since I took office. But we can do even better than that. (Applause.) So today I'm setting a new goal. Your federal government will consume 20 percent of its electricity from renewable sources within the next seven years. (Cheers, applause.) We are going to set that goal. We'll also encourage private capital to get off the sidelines and get into these energy-saving investments. And by the end of the next decade, these combined efficiency standards for appliances and federal buildings will reduce carbon pollution by at least 3 billion tons. That's an amount equal to what our entire energy sector emits in nearly half a year.
So I know these standards don't sound all that sexy. But think of it this way. That's the equivalent of planting 7.6 billion trees and letting them grow for 10 years, all while doing the dishes. It is a great deal, and we need to be doing it.
So using less dirty energy, transitioning to cleaner sources of energy, wasting less energy through our economy is where we need to go. And this plan will get us there faster. But I want to be honest. This will not get us there overnight. The hard truth is carbon pollution has built up in our atmosphere for decades now. And even if we Americans do our part, the planet will slowly keep warming for some time to come.
The seas will slowly keep rising and storms will get more severe, based on the science. It's like tapping the brakes of a car before you come to a complete stop and then can shift into reverse; it's going to take time for carbon emissions to stabilize. So in the meantime, we're going to need to get prepared. And that's why this plan will also protect critical sectors of our economy and prepare the United States for the impacts of climate change that we cannot avoid.
States and cities across the country are already taking it upon themselves to get ready. Miami Beach is hardening its water supply against seeping salt water. We're partnering with the state of Florida to restore Florida's natural clean water delivery system, the Everglades. The overwhelmingly Republican legislature in Texas voted to spend money on a new water development bank as long — as a long- running drought cost jobs and forced a town to truck in water from the outside.
New York City is fortifying its 520 miles of coastline as an insurance policy against more frequent and costly storms. And what we've learned from Hurricane Sandy and other disasters is that we've got to build smarter, more resilient infrastructure that can protect our homes and businesses and withstand more powerful storms. That means stronger seawalls, natural barriers, hardened power grids, hardened water systems, hardened fuel supplies.
So the budget I sent Congress includes funding to support communities that build these projects, and this plan directs federal agencies to make sure that any new project funded with taxpayer dollars is built to withstand increased flood risk. And we'll partner with communities seeking to help to prepare for droughts and floods, reduce the risk of wildfires, protect the dunes and wetlands that pull double-duty as green space and as natural storm barriers.
And we'll also open our climate data and NASA climate imagery to the public to make sure that cities and states assess risk under different climate scenarios, so that we don't waste money building structures that don't withstand the next storm.
So that's what my administration will do to support the work already underway across America, not only to cut carbon pollution, but also to protect ourselves from climate change. But as I think everybody here understands, no nation can solve this challenge alone, not even one as powerful as ours. And that's why the final part of our plan calls on America to lead, lead international efforts to combat a changing climate.
And make no mistake, the — the world still looks to America, believe me. You know, when I spoke to young people in Turkey a few years ago, the first question I got wasn't about the challenges that part of the world faces, it was about the climate challenge that we all face and America's role in addressing it.
And it was a fair question, because as the world's largest economy and second-largest carbon emitter, as a country with unsurpassed ability to drive innovation and scientific breakthroughs, as a country that people around the world continue to look to in times of crisis, we've got a vital role to play. We can't stand on the sidelines. We've got a unique responsibility and the steps that I've outlined today prove that we're willing to meet that responsibility.
While all America's carbon pollution fell last year, global carbon pollution rose to a record high.
That's a problem. Developing countries are using more and more energy, and tens of millions of people entering a global middle class naturally want to buy cars and air conditioners of their own, just like us. You can't blame them for that.
And when you have conversations with poor countries, they'll say, well, you went through these stages of development. Why can't we?
But what we also have to recognize is, these same countries are also more vulnerable to the effects of climate change than we are. They don't just have as much to lose. They probably have more to lose. Developing nations with some of the fastest rising levels of carbon pollution are going to have to take action to meet this challenge alongside us. They're watching what we do, but we've got to make sure that they're stepping up to the plate as well. We'll — we compete for business with them, but we also share a planet. And we have to all shoulder the responsibility for keeping the planet habitable, or we're going to suffer the consequences together.
So to help more countries transitioning to cleaner sources of energy, and to help them do it faster, we're going to partner with our private sector to apply private sector technological know-how in countries that transition to natural gas. We've mobilized billions of dollars in private capital for clean energy projects around the world.
Today I'm calling for an end of public financing for new coal plants overseas, unless they deploy carbon capture technologies, or there's no other viable way for the poorest countries to generate electricity. (Applause.) And I urge other countries to join this effort. And I'm directing my administration to launch negotiations toward global free trade in environmental goods and services, including clean energy technology, to help more countries skip past the dirty phase of development and join a global, low-carbon economy.
They don't have to repeat all the same mistakes that we've made.
We've also intensified our climate cooperation with major emerging economies like India and Brazil and China, the world's largest emitter. So for example, earlier this month, President Xi of China and I reached an important agreement to jointly phase down our production and consumption of dangerous hydrofluorocarbons, and we intend to take more steps together in the months to come. It will make a difference; it's a significant step in the reduction of carbon emissions.
And finally, my administration will redouble our efforts to engage our international partners in reaching a new global agreement to reduce carbon pollution through concrete action.
You know, four years ago, in Copenhagen, every major country agreed, for the first time, to limit carbon pollution by 2020. Two years ago, we decided to forge a new agreement beyond 2020 that would apply to all countries, not just developed countries. What we need is an agreement that's ambitious, because that's what the scale of the challenge demands. We need an inclusive agreement, because every country has to play its part. And we need an agreement that's flexibile, because different nations have different needs. And if we can come together and get this right, we can define a sustainable future for your generation. So that's my plan.
The actions I've announced today — the actions I've announced today should send a strong signal to the world that America intends to take bold action to reduce carbon pollution.
We will continue to lead by the power of our example, because that's what the United States of America has always done.
I am convinced this is the fight America can and will lead in the 21st century, and I'm convinced this is a fight that America must lead. But it will require all of us to do our part. We'll need scientists to design new fuels. And we'll need farmers to grow new fuels. We'll need engineers to devise new technologies. And we'll need businesses to make and sell those technologies. We'll need workers to operate assembly lines that hum with high-tech zero-carbon components, but we'll also need builders to hammer into place the foundations for a — a new clean-energy era.
We're going to need to give special care to people and communities that are unsettled by this transition, not just here in the United States but around the world. And those of us in positions of responsibility will need to be less concerned with the judgment of special interests and well-connected donors and more concerned with the judgment of posterity — (applause) — because you and your children and your children's children will have to live with the consequences of our decisions.
As I said before, climate change has become a partisan issue, but it hasn't always been. It wasn't that long ago that Republicans led the way on new and innovative policies to tackle these issues. Richard Nixon opened the EPA. George H.W. Bush declared — first U.S. president to declare human activities are changing the atmosphere in unexpected and unprecedented ways. Someone who never shies away from a challenge, John McCain, introduced a market-based cap-and-trade bill to slow carbon pollution.
The woman that I've chosen to head up the EPA, Gina McCarthy, she's worked — (cheers, applause) — she's terrific. Gina's worked for the EPA in my administration, but she's also worked for five Republican governors. She's got a long track record of working with industry and business leaders to forge common-sense solutions.
Unfortunately, she's being held up in the Senate. She's been held up for months, forced to jump through hoops no Cabinet nominee should ever have to, not because she lacks qualifications, because there are too many in the Republican Party right now who think that the Environmental Protecting Agency has no business protecting our environment from carbon pollution. The Senate should confirm her without any further obstruction or delay. (Cheers, applause.)
But more broadly, we've got to move beyond partisan politics on this issue.
I want to be clear. I am willing to work with anybody — Republicans, Democrats, independents, libertarians, greens, anybody — to combat this threat on behalf of our kids. I am open to all sorts of new ideas — maybe better ideas — to make sure that we deal with climate change in a way that promotes jobs and growth. Nobody has a monopoly on what is a very hard problem.
But I don't have much patience for anyone who denies that this challenge is real. We don't have time for a meeting of the flat earth society.
Sticking your head in the sand might make you feel safer, but it's not going to protect you from the coming storm. And ultimately, we will be judged as a people and as a society and as a country on where we go from here.
Our founders believed that those of us in positions of power are elected not just to serve as custodians of the present, but as caretakers of the future. And they charged us to make decisions with an eye on a longer horizon than the arc of our own political careers. That's what the American people expect. That's what they deserve. And someday our children and our children's children will look at us in the eye and they'll ask us, did we do all that we could, when we had the chance, to deal with this problem and leave them a cleaner, safer, more stable world? And I want to be able to say, yes, we did. Don't you want that?
Americans are not a people who look backwards. We're a people who look forward. We're not a people who fear what the future holds; we shape it.
What we need in this fight are citizens who will stand up and speak up and compel us to do what this moment demands. Understand, this is not just a job for politicians. So I'm going to need all of you, to educate your classmates, your colleagues, your parents, your friends.
Tell them what's at stake. Speak up at town halls, church groups, PTA meetings. Push back on misinformation. Speak up for the facts. Broaden the circle of those who are willing to stand up for our future. (Applause.)
Convince those in power to reduce our carbon pollution. (Applause.) Push your own communities to adopt smarter practices. (Applause.) Invest. Divest. Remind folks there's no contradiction between a sound environment and strong economic growth.
And remind everyone who represents you at every level of government that sheltering future generations against the ravages of climate change is a prerequisite for your vote! Make yourself heard on this issue. (Cheers, applause.)
I understand the politics will be tough. The challenge we must accept will not reward us with a clear moment of victory. There's no gathering army to defeat. There's no peace treaty to sign. When President Kennedy said we'd go to the moon within the decade, we knew that we'd build a space ship and we'd meet the goal.
Our progress here will be measured differently, in crises averted, in a planet preserved. But can we imagine a more worthy goal? For while we may not live to sea the full realization of our ambition, we will have the satisfaction of knowing that the world we leave to our children will be — be better off for what we did.
It makes you realize, that astronaut said all those years ago, just what you have back there on Earth.
And that image in the photograph, that bright blue ball rising over the moon's surface containing everything we hold dear, the laughter of children, a quiet sunset, all the hopes and dreams of posterity, that's what's at stake. That's what we're fighting for. And if we remember that, I'm absolutely sure we'll succeed.
But thank you, and God bless you. God bless the United States of America.
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Texas rice farmers cheer as USDA says mosquito-sprayed rice can still be sold organic
By Lynn Brezosky
October 6, 2017 Updated: October 6, 2017 12:04pm
A tire floats next to a truck flooded by the Brazos River after Tropical Storm Harvey Sept. 1 in Richmond. The organic status of this year's rice crops in Texas was at risk due to the mass aerial spraying to control mosquitoes hatching eggs in all the standing post-Harvey flood waters in Southeast Texas
The U.S. Air Force used massive C-130 aircraft to spray post-Harvey flooded parts of Texas with insecticides to prevent mosquitoes from diseases including the Zika virus.
Texas growers of organic rice used for health food favorites like vegan burritos and tofu-vegetable bowls are breathing a sigh of relief now that the U.S. Department of Agriculture has decided the crop has not been compromised by mosquito spraying in the wake of Hurricane Harvey.
While Texas ranks sixth for the nation's overall rice production, it supplies nearly a third of the nation's organic rice. Farmers willing to go through the red tape of getting organic certification find it can bring in about twice as much money as conventional rice. Of the state's approximately 160,000 acres of rice fields, between 18,000 and 20,000 acres are certified organic. Texas produced $13.7 million of organic rice last year, making it second only to California.
But this year's organic status was at risk due to the mass aerial spraying to control mosquitoes hatching eggs in all the standing post-Harvey flood waters in Southeast Texas.
Harvey dumped an estimated 34 trillion gallons of rain over southeastern Texas and southwestern Louisiana — about enough to fill Lake Tahoe, a 192-square-mile lake with an average depth of about 1,000 feet. To keep mosquitoes from proliferating into a serious nuisance with the threat of spreading diseases like encephalitis and the Zika and West Nile viruses, the state Department of Health and Human Services and Federal Emergency Management Agency last month enlisted the U.S. Air Force to use massive C-130 aircraft to spray pesticides over hundreds of thousands of acres.
Harvey was devastating to growers in a swath of Texas state stretching north of the Coastal Bend up to the Louisiana coast. While agricultural damages are still being tallied, the storm's record flooding and wind drowned out about 100,000 acres of rice, stranded 2,500 head of livestock in emergency shelters and took out a cotton gin as well as thousands of acres of the fiber and seed that make for Texas' top crop. Before Harvey hit, cotton farmers were harvesting a record crop and rice farmers were looking at some of the best yields they'd ever had.
Michael Orrin Way, an entomologist with Texas A&M AgriLife Research Service in Beaumont, estimated that about 20 percent of the state's primary rice crop, which includes most of the organic, and 50 percent of the ratoon, or second rice crop, was destroyed.
Since organic rice sells for about $20 for every 100 pounds compared with $11 for higher-yield conventional rice, growers were dismayed when the Texas Department of Agriculture's Organic Certification Program said the USDA wouldn't allow them to sell what was left of this year's crop as organic.
"A lot of my growers right now, they've lost corn crops, they've lost the cotton crop, they've lost the soybean crop. Right now all that's left is rice," said Steve Samra, a grower and organic consultant, said of that notice. "There's a lot of question marks and a lot of wiggle room on this. It all boils down to was the grower sprayed or does he know that he has been sprayed? Has it been documented that his field has been sprayed?"
Samra and others urged the state to seek a variance similar to one granted to drought-stricken California organic meat producers in 2014.
In turns out they didn't need to. Upon review, the USDA said that its organic regulations included a section that allows for state and federal emergency pest or disease treatments and that the mosquito response wouldn't be considered a pesticide application.
"So basically that organic is still certified organic," Way said. "That was really good news for our industry, because for the rates that they were using, the amounts would have been minuscule."
Another fear, that the flooding breached diesel tanks used to store fuel on farms and may have contaminated the rice, also proved unfounded. Tests by the state chemist showed the rice was fine, Way said.
Even if tanks had been compromised, flood waters that averaged four feet would have dispersed the diesel to less than one part per billion, Way said.
"There's data coming in now that that rice is not adulterated," he said.
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There is a phrase popping up as frequently as oligarchs' penthouses on the London skyline. The expression "dressing like an architect" has become the ultimate fashion compliment. People who wear Prada, or Marni, or Issey Miyake are often said to dress like architects. So, too, are those who wear structural shift dresses from Cos.
There are Mumsnet threads devoted to the art of architect dressing: "You need to decide on a 'look' and then rigidly stick to it, no matter what life throws at you. Lots of black, structure and red lipstick. Hair is either bobbed or short with a quiff," advises one post. New York magazine suggests that the look is merely a Maison Margiela draped blouse away. For inspiration, visit the How to Dress Like an Architect board on Pinterest, which has almost 186,000 followers, and is a sea of black, white, camel and grey.
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Solomon, Gladstone W. E.. "Chapter II. The Indian Room." In The Bombay Revival of Indian Art - A Descriptive Account of the Indian Room Constructed and Decorated By the Staff and Students of the School of Art, 10-21. Bombay: Sir J. J. School of Art, 1924.
Havell, Ernest Binfield. "Chapter III: The Adaptation of Indian Art to Modern Life—Indian Architecture." In The Basis for Artistic and Industrial Revival in India, 18-33. Madras, India: The Theosophist Office, 1912.
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This intensely flavoured plum jelly is irresistible, especially if it is served in an old-fashioned crystal bowl. Make this recipe the night before you serve it. Makes 1.2 litres.
For the jelly, place the prepared plums in a large pan with the orange zest, sugar and 5tbsp water. Cover and cook gently for about 40 minutes, stirring occasionally, until the plums have collapsed and have released all their juice.
Transfer to a jelly bag suspended over a large bowl (or 2 fine sieves set over 2 deep bowls) and leave to drip for about 2 hours - don't force any juice through the sieves or the jelly will be cloudy. Measure the juice - there should be about 1 litre, but if not, add a little cold water. The leftover plums are delicious eaten for breakfast with fromage frais.
Place the leaf gelatine in a bowl and cover with cold water. Leave for 10 minutes, then pour out the cold water and add 150ml boiling water. Stir until the gelatine has dissolved. Mix in the sloe gin, followed by some plum juice. Once it is cool, stir into the remaining plum juice and pour into your chosen bowl. Don't cover or you will get condensation splashes in the jelly. Place on the top shelf of the fridge and chill overnight until set.
To make the syllabub, place all the ingredients in a large mixing bowl. Whisk until the cream forms soft floppy peaks. Transfer to a pretty bowl and chill, covered, until needed. Serve it alongside or on top of the jelly.


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Bordoll-Betreiberin Evelyn Schwarz in der Mitte ihrer Liebespuppen. Sie kleidet und schminkt sie selbst | Alle Fotos: VICE
Inside Germany's First Sex-Doll Brothel
"You never have to ask a doll if she's having a good time—I only have to think about my own needs."
by Madlen Schäfer
November 10, 2017, 12:01pm
This article originally appeared on VICE Germany.
Bordoll stands between a semi-detached house and a metal workshop in a quiet corner of south Dortmund, Germany. The unassuming red-bricked shop doesn't draw too much attention to itself—the sign on the door is small, and black foil covers the windows. But behind that, you'll find Germany's latest sexual innovation—the country's first sex-doll brothel.
Evelyn Schwarz, 29, is Bordoll's founder and madam. For the past three years, the venue has operated as a regular neighborhood brothel and BDSM studio. But since April 2017, the site started offering clients the option of having sex with one of 11 silicon sex dolls—charging $60 for 30 minutes and $90 for an hour.
A member of Bordoll's staff prepares a doll for the next client.
Human-size sex-toy enthusiasts can choose between 70 such brothels in Japan, while the first of its kind in Europe opened in Barcelona in March 2017. From a management perspective alone, Schwarz was eager to bring the concept to Germany. "The dolls are ideal employees," she tells me as we step inside. "They're always here because they're never sick, they always look good, and they offer all three holes with no complaints or extra charges."
But who pays to have sex with a doll? "We get a huge range of people," she explains. "From 18- to 80-year-olds, from unemployed people to prominent judges." Schwarz estimates that 30 percent of guests just want to experience what it's like to have sex with a doll, while 70 percent become regular customers. Some of Schwarz's clients travel for miles just for the experience—something she puts down to the quality of her dolls.
"These are Next Top Model standard girls," she boasts. "Most guys would be too intimated to approach a real woman if she looked this good."
Anna is the brothel's most requested doll.
While giving me a tour of the brothel, Schwartz points out that many of her clients like the dolls because they're not sentient. "Many of our guests see it as an opportunity to freely try out things they've seen happen in porn," she says. Some of her customers, she suspects, have never had sex with a woman, because "they are shy, almost afraid of women." For other men, it offers an alternative. "Their wives or girlfriends have their own needs, while a prostitute in a brothel has limits on what they will and won't do, sexually," she explains. "But our dolls do everything they want, in any position they like."
She tells me one of her clients once explained it to her directly. "He said: 'I know what I am doing here is bizarre and creepy. But normally when you want to have sex, you have to consider the other person. You never have to ask the doll if she's having a good time—I only have to think about my own needs.'"
A selection of sex toys that are offered to all clients
In the lobby, it smells like cigarettes and the air freshener used to mask that smell. There are two black leather sofas, a chair, and a flat-screen television showing a porn flick. In the next room, you can hear the moans of a sex worker and her customer—a sudden reminder that this brothel also still caters to customers who prefer women to dolls.
In the initial test phase, the dolls could only be booked on Sundays. But soon, the demand was so high that Schwarz had to dedicate six full-time rooms to her new venture, and received glowing reviews of the experience on the brothel's website. "I had big expectations that were completely surpassed. I had tons of fun, and the time went by quickly. I was destroyed afterward," one happy customer wrote—though he goes on to mention that "Naomi is really heavy and her joints were still a little stiff." Another described how having sex with his doll was "95 percent" like sleeping with a real woman.
All sex doll customers must use lube to help prevent the toys from tearing.
On display in the lobby is Sabrina—her fake lips painted red and eyelashes stuck above her plastic brown eyes. Her online product bio lists her specifications as: "Vagina: 18cm; Anus: 16cm; Oral: 13cm; No pubic hair." Schwarz paid around $2,300 for Sabrina. "Try it," she demands. "They bend relatively well." Sabrina's boobs feel like overripe tomatoes, though her nipples feel more authentic. Her silicone skin sticks to my hand like raw cookie dough.
"Anna is the star of the team," says Andrea, who helps Schwarz run the brothel. "Everyone requests her." The 55-year-old points to the five-foot-one, blond, and blue-eyed doll on the opposite sofa. "The first Anna had her backbone broken," Schwarz adds. "That's actually Anna number two."
The lounge where clients wait to for the dolls to be ready for them
Today, Andrea is working the morning shift—answering phones, greeting guests, cleaning rooms, and preparing the dolls for customers. Preparation involves taking a used doll out of the room and disinfecting it. After that, she combs the doll's hair and dresses it in lingerie and nylon stockings. Andrea doesn't want to get into the details of the cleaning process, which can take up to 30 minutes. They're top secret tricks of the trade, she tells me.
As we walk around, and while Andrea inspects the dolls, it becomes harder to ignore one glaring, slightly worrying feature of these sex toys—their childlike faces and features.
"The dolls are all very womanly," Andrea pushes back when I ask if she's comfortable with customers being attracted to something that looks so young. "They have butts, hips, and big boobs. There is nothing childlike about them."
Nevertheless, the brothel caters to clients with a "classroom sex fetish." One room is kitted out with school desks and a blackboard. But Andrea is adamant that the venue merely offers an alternative, safe space for people to act out their fantasies.
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Before I'm about to leave, a new customer comes in. Andrea greets the man warmly and hands over his doll of choice, which he had pre-booked online. "Isn't she pretty?" she asks. He nods in agreement. In his room, he'll find a selection of porn, a variety of sex toys, condoms, and lube. Lube is mandatory—it's house policy to protect the dolls from tearing. There's also a ban on biting or scratching the dolls.
That's about as far as the rules stretch. Most people leave the dolls in good, working order, Schwarz tells me. One man, however, quite literally penetrated one of the silicone ladies.
"He created a second asshole," Schwarz laughs, lighting a cigarette she's taken from a silver case with a portrait of Che Guevara on it. As a teenager, during a "short-lived pseudo-punk phase" she had a thing for Guevara, she tells me. "It probably had something to do with the way that I do my own thing no matter what people say, like he did too," she says. "So many people in the industry laughed at me when I first introduced the dolls. But nobody is laughing now."
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Too Clever V is the fifth book in the Too Clever Series. The series began when the characters were first introduced in Too Clever, the first book. In this, the fifth book, Timothy has not given up on his desire to go visit the man and his dog in the moon. Now that he is about to turn eight, he can't wait to open his birthday gift to find out if his parents had given him the one gift that he had been asking for ever since he was five–a trip to the moon. Will Timothy finally get his gift this year? Like all the "too clever" kids, Timothy finds a unique solution to his problem.
Award-winning author, Dr. Julia E. Antoine, writes original and unusual children's books that are fun, educational and entertaining. Her award-winning series "Too Clever" is too clever indeed, as one of her fans put it. Click on the bookshelf to see a brief intro on each of the characters in this series.
This award winning Too Clever Series has ten individual titles beginning with Too Clever, the original book, which introduced the ten characters in the series. The first book gives the reader a brief introduction to each child and their own particular strength. The author has gone on to give each child their own unique story in ten individual stories.
Currently, she is working on number ten in the series. The final installment will be published this summer. The common theme throughout the series is the curious and inquisitive nature of kids and their need to seek solutions to the things that baffle or confuse them.


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The National League Championship Series
In the world of sport we all hope for good competition. But it doesn't always happen. There are plenty of blowouts and lopsided games. It's even worse when a playoff series only goes four games and a team gets swept. But this year's NLCS is not likely to be a four-game series.
The Brewers and Dodgers are going head to head in what is likely to be a series to be remembered. Every year the best two teams should face off in the league championship. But some years a good team chokes or a weaker team gets lucky. This year though, we have the two best teams in the National League playing to get into the World Series.
This is the best outcome for Milwaukee fans, L.A. fans, and everyone around the country. The bottom line is that we all want to see good baseball. And in this year's NCLS, that is exactly what we are going to get. Don't be surprised if this one goes seven games.
Starting Pitching For Both Teams
As in any series, in the playoffs or otherwise, starting pitching is a huge factor. The Dodgers probably have the advantage in this department. Clayton Kershaw is hard to slow down and the Brewers may have a difficult time against him. In game two of the division series, he threw eight scoreless innings against Atlanta, giving up only two hits without a single walk.
Hyun-Jin Ryu started things off well for the Dodgers in game one of the NLDS, and then there are Walker Buehler and Rich Hill. Needless to say, the Dodgers have an incredibly deep pitching staff. With no holes in the rotation, the Brewers offense has their work cut out for them.
The Brewers on the other hand do not have the talent on the mound that the Dodgers do. In their own division series, they did indeed sweep the Rockies, but their starters only went for a combined 12 and 2/3 innings over three games. Now, each starter pitched scoreless baseball during each outing, but less than 13 innings over three games is not a lot. This means that Milwaukee has to rely heavily on its relief pitching staff. It went for them in the division series but they only had to play three games. It may be a different story if the NLCS goes seven.
Power Hitting
The Dodgers are one of the best power hitting teams in baseball. This season they had a 23 game stretch in which at least one home run was hit per game. They also have seven players on the team with 20 or more home runs. The Brewers can knock the ball out of the park as well but not with the same consistency as the Dodgers.
Who Is Going The Distance?
Every expert has a different opinion. But it is hard to argue against starting pitching. The Dodgers have the better rotation. And with a power-hitting offense like they have, the Brewers are in trouble. That being said, it is likely to be a competitive series and may indeed go the full seven games.


There is a Photoshop action, that will make your photos looks like one famous game posters – Grand Theft Game.
Run the action and enjoy the result!
photoshop language is set to English.
Checkbox "Add 'copy' to Copied Layers and Groups" is checked in Layers Panel Options window.
The minimal version of Photoshop is CS5.
The action has been tested on Photoshop (English versions) CC 2015 and CS5.


Fukase: l'incurabl égoïste is the first retrospective of Masahisa Fukase to take place in Europe, allowing much previously unseen material to leave Japan for the first time. Fukase is widely regarded as one of the most radical and influential photographers of his generation. This presentation considers all aspects of Fukase's practice from the 1960s onwards, drawing on vintage prints, graphic work, as well as archival magazines and publications, to show the extent of the artist's working life. Dealing with issues of family, love, friendship, loneliness, mortality and death, activated photographically through performance, self-portraiture, play and comedy, the exhibition establishes Fukase as one of the most innovative and original Japanese artists of the post-war period.
With support from the Michael Hoppen Gallery, London, the Masahisa Fukase Archives, Tokyo, and the Japan Foundation.


Sam Brooks digs into his childhood to present his magnum opus: a ranking of all 151 OG Pokémon.
The Passage comes from a best-selling novel pedigree - but will the show last long enough to make good on that? Sam Brooks reviews the new show, which premiered on TVNZ last night.
The business of news is as dirty as the ink its printed in – or at least that's what Press thinks. Sam Brooks reviews the news drama from the BBC, which drops on Lightbox today.
They said he couldn't do it, but what else are you going to do in seven days? Sam Brooks watched 42 episodes of Outlander in a single week to catch up before the fourth season premiere tonight on Lightbox.
2018 was a year - and television was no exceptions. Sam Brooks is here to round up the year in TV. What went down, who won what, and who came out smiling?
We have a winner - and it's a gamechanger. Sam Brooks power-ranks the last episode of House of Drag, and assesses the season in general.
It can be hard making small-talk with your loved ones over the holidays – which is exactly why television was invented. Sam Brooks shares the best shows to binge on Lightbox over the silly season, no matter your demographic.
House of Drag breaks out of the Drag Race mould with an all rap-challenge, with mixed results.
Every day in the lead-up to Christmas, open the door to reveal a Spinoff writer's short, sizzling commentary on a weighty subject. Our arbitrary and strictly enforced word limit: 365. Today: Sam Brooks on why cocktail snobbery is for losers.
On Monday, it was announced that ATC's Shortland Street: The Musical would be cancelling its planned 2019 tour. Sam Brooks analyses why the show might've fallen short of its ambitions – and what it says about the industry.
It was the *other* double murder that defined the nineties – the one that wasn't OJ-related. Coming to Lightbox today is its TV dramatisation: Law and Order True Crime: The Menéndez Murders. But who are all these people?
It's taken five episodes - but we've finally gotten to a choreography challenge. Sam Brooks power ranks the fifth episode of House of Drag.
Before American Horror Story, before Glee, before Pose, Ryan Murphy was television's biggest peddler of schlock. The biggest heap of it? Nip/Tuck, all available on TVNZ on Demand.
Today: Sam Brooks with a hot tip for a hot meal on Christmas Day.
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My Brilliant Friend is handsome television – but is that enough?
It's a story as old as time: a great book makes for a perfectly fine television series. Sam Brooks reviews My Brilliant Friend.


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Console Wars does a great job capturing Sega's willingness to try new ideas. And a lot of the ideas involve celebrities.
It was interesting to read about them planning the Sega Star Kids Challenge and bringing celebrities to the Sonic 2sday event:
A practice session may seem trivial, but it was important to Sega that these young celebrities give the impression that they really did love videogames and weren't just heartthrobs for hire.
Wouldn't ever want to make them look foolish.
Blast Processing and tech specs
Again, the best parts of Console Wars are the behind-the-scenes looks at Sega's marketing strategies. The Super Nintendo had Mode 7, which made games like Star Fox and Mario Kart possible. Now that I'm doing some image searches, I'm learning it was also used in other games for certain sequences, like every overworld map.
I like imagining a .ppt from Nintendo with a slide titled "Guidelines: fitting races into stories" with 7 bullet points underneath.
Sega didn't have an actual thing to strike back with, so they decided to strike back with not an actual thing:
While looking through the manual, Latham found something that kind of, sort of, maybe fit the bill: Burst Mode, which in theory allowed the Genesis to process code faster than Nintendo's chip could. Although this sounded like exactly what the marketing team wanted, Latham explained that Burst Mode actually had very little to do with the graphics, velocity, and overall performance of Sega's games. To say that Burst Mode was the reason that Sonic could move so fast would be like saying that cheetahs were faster than elephants were because of their spots.
Burst Mode turned into Blast Processing.
I remember always checking the "Graphics" rating first when reading EGM or GamePro. But I knew that high gameplay scores went further for how much I'd enjoy the game. (There's something about UX in there.)
The book ends in the very early stages of the 32-bit era. When our family got a Playstation, one of the first giant-jeweled-case games we got was NBA Live 96.
I remember thinking my dad would think this purchase was totally worth it if he saw the graphics. So one day I told him close your eyes okay now open them.
"Can you tell it's not live TV?"
Protips and more
Prior to reading Console Wars, I had some perspective on video games in Japan. Actually, it's a little unusual. My dad was in the Navy and I grew up on military bases in Japan in the 90s. I played console demos in Japanese department stores and spent plenty of time in Japanese arcades basically run by Sega. But our family and all my friends had American consoles.
And we had english TV channels, but they had weird mixes of syndicated shows. The oddest part was that instead of commercials for products, there would be commercials about military life and American history. So most of the American marketing I experienced was through video game magazines.
They talk about the impact of a particular GamePro cover where Star Fox is on the front of it. From Console Wars:
"But why?" Arakawa asked Tilden, looking at the April 1993 issue of GamePro magazine. On the cover, right there in front of them, was artwork from Nintendo's Star Fox. Not only had this artwork been intended for Nintendo Power, but White had specifically met with Arakawa, Tilden, and Harman to discuss sharing it with outside magazines and had explicitly been told not to do so.
As long as I remember, our parents let us subscribe to at least one video gamemagazine. And any time we went to the book store I'd first look at Goosebumps for the newest release then read the game magazines.
Game Players magazine had a newsletter that, looking back, seems like weird internet before the internet became what it is today.
Something I remember is one issue where a reader wrote inn asking how the magazine makes the stitched together maps. And they said it was software that costs hundred and hundreds of dollars.
I remember picturing some kind of mega-expensive super computer. Where like they'd make the brontosaurus in Jurassic Park and then in another window they'd have Link to the Past maps. Now I realize it was probably Photoshop.
Game Players turned to Ultra Game Players then disappeared altogether. Then we switched to an EGM subscription. GamePro (of PROTIP fame) skewed younger. We had some of those but they were usually one off purchases from the book store.
Nintendo's side project was publishing a magazine with more than a million subscribers. As far as I remember, the book store didn't have Nintendo Power. So the only kids that had copies had subscriptions.
I remember the Star Fox cover but really had no idea it was a big deal. I was probably in 2nd grade or 3rd grade so I didn't understand that anything was a big deal. I really had no idea that Nintendo Power was a giant monthly advertisement.
(Then one day you find out Saturday-morning cartoons were toy advertisements and the world falls apart. That's the adult version of finding out Santa Clause isn't real. In between those discoveries is finding out wrestling isn't real.)
No mention of RPGs
Okay I exaggerated, Console Wars mentions RPGs exactly once:
Oshima partnered up with Yuji Naka, a brilliant hothead in the programming department who was responsible for one of Sega's most popular series: Phantasy Star, a sci-fi role-playing game (RPG) about a resilient young female warrior bent on galactic revenge with the help of a muskrat named Myau and a wizard named Noah.
Side note: I thought Zelda was generally considered an RPG. According to my research (clicking a few links on a Google search), most people don't consider it an RPG. And get pretty passionate about it not being an RPG. Anyway, I guess that further helps the case that Console Wars has one single mention of an RPG.
Searching the book for "Final Fantasy" returns nothing. In America, RPGs might not have had as much an impact on the 16-bit console war as, say, Mortal Kombat. But Final Fantasy III should get at least one mention. (The book ends before Chrono Trigger's release, so there's at least some explanation.)
RPGs make up 6 of the top 20 best selling SNES games.
Anyway, if RPGs were mentioned I would've had a better excuse for writing about a top–3 life achievement of mine…
I grew up in Japan on a U.S. Navy base. Which means it's not really like growing up in Japan and not really like growing up in America, either. Families would go off-base at night or on weekends. And you'd also live off-base while you were on a waiting list for on-base housing.
On these weekend trips out, my and I would wander around the videogame section of a department store (Daikuma or Da'e) while our parents got groceries. On one of these trips, we noticed people gathered around a spinning wheel and walked over.
After watching a few times, it looked like you paid 2000 yen, spun the wheel, and got to pick from either 1, 2, or 3-game packages. Anyway, our mom let us spin and we got the 2-game choice. We picked the package with Super Smash TV and… some game with a bird on the cover. My brother had heard of the game but we were mostly in it for Smash TV.
The other game was Final Fantasy V. I was extremely bored any time I watched my brother play it. Then one day I tried it out and it didn't make sense at all. Literally. It was in Japanese, after all.
I started out wandering aimlessly. Then I continued wandering around aimlessly. For dozens of hours. And just memorized the menu location for some useful potions (mostly just elixir and HP recoveries).
A main character blinks away, teleporting somewhere. Some girl joins the party for unknown reasons. Then I realize the guy teleported to heaven because guess what actually he died.
Dozens of hours turned to dozens and dozens of hours. Memorizing the +100HP potion became memorizing the +1000HP potion. Then I beat it.
I still have basically no idea what the story is about.
So, you know, don't make your UX like that.
Trying to make it to shittyuiuxanalogies.tumblr.com. (For a better UX article based on Final Fantasy, check out Final Fantasy's Guide to Onboarding.)
Mortal Kombat II behind the glass case
"Let me show you something."
I stepped aside and an older kid—picture young John Connor—took the joystick. A few moments later Sub-Zero ripped someone's head off with their spine attached. Awesome.
This was my first time seeing a fatality in Mortal Kombat. Apparently some parents didn't think this was great, so the first Mortal Kombat had sweat instead of blood. Except for the kids with a Genesis.
"Some sort of blood code," Garske explained to Kalinske. "So when you buy the game, it comes without any of that over-the-top gore and violence. But then all you have to do in order to get the game to look just like it does in the arcades is enter a code. A combination of buttons and then boom—blood everywhere."
So on the SNES when I'd try to rip a spine out, instead I'd see this:
"As long as the shattered body parts aren't red ice, we're Gucci."
I made the last quote up. My point was going to be that the SNES had watered down fatalities. But… this seems pretty brutal too. But these seemed much tamer as a kid.
I remember being really aware of how the first game had sweat. Nobody was buying the SNES version and most of my friends were Nintendo kids. And that it was a big deal that the sequel would have blood without a code.
I have cloudy memories of going to an AAFES store with my brother and our parents to get Mortal Kombat II. And it was behind this glass case with a rating on it. (Though it wasn't one of the ESRB ratings that would eventually come out.)
Anyway we got it and then played it. A lot. I remember seeing MKII the first time at an arcade in an airport. And someone (again, an older kid) had what looked like a strategy guide but it was just a bunch of printouts.
And these printouts had all the moves and fatalities. That might have been my first exposure to anything related to the internet.
Console Wars talks about the different approaches toward violence that SEGA and Nintendo took.
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