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Mary Wollstonecraft – A Fearless Radical in Her Life and Thought
How the French Revolution Radicalised the Pioneering Fighter for Women's Rights
Sheila McGregor
Mary Wollstonecraft. This work is in the public domain
Mary Wollstonecraft, author of The Vindication of the Rights of Women, is often referred to as the "Mother of Feminism". Her life was both short, eventful, and controversial. She died a painful death, aged only 38, from post-natal complications, shortly after the birth of her second daughter, Mary. This left her newly married husband, William Godwin, himself a well-known leading radical, to bring up three-year-old Fanny, Wollstonecraft's daughter from a previous relationship, and the baby Mary, who later became famous as the author of Frankenstein.
Wollstonecraft was born on a farm somewhere between London and Epping Forest. She grew up, the second of six children, on farms in Epping Forest, Wales and Yorkshire, with an alcoholic father and a mother whom Mary tried to protect from the father's abuse. Her early education came from six years at Day Schools whilst the family was in Yorkshire, and from growing up on different farms and playing sports with her brothers.
One of the people who stimulated Mary, "a wild, but animated and aspiring girl of sixteen", to develop her writing skills was Frances Blood, who lived in Newington Butts, whom she had met during one of the family's stays in London. According to Godwin's Memoirs of Mary Wollstonecraft, "Fanny undertook to be her instructor" and after meeting Fanny "..…a connection more memorable originated about this time, between Mary and a person of her own sex, for whom she contracted a friendship so fervent, as for years to have constituted the ruling passion of her mind".
Wollstonecraft decided at the age of 16 to become independent and earn her own living. She started out on the traditional route for middle-class women at the time, by becoming a companion to a Mrs. Dawn in Bath but left the position to go home to care for her mother until her death. Wollstonecraft then moved to Waltham Green in Fulham to be closer to Fanny. The two of them then set up a Day School, first in Islington, then in Newington Green, along with Mary's two sisters. The school became unviable when Wollstonecraft followed Fanny to Portugal to support her through an illness.
Sadly, Fanny died in childbirth, leaving Mary bereft of the close friend she loved, admired and learned so much from. Ten years later, in a subsequent publication, Letters from Sweden, Norway and Denmark, Wollstonecraft wrote: "I cannot without a thrill of delight, recollect views I have seen, which are not to be forgotten, nor looks I have felt in every nerve, which I shall never more meet. The grave has closed over a dear friend, the friend of my youth; still she is present with me, and I hear her soft voice warbling as I stray over the heath."
In Islington, in an environment of radical thinkers, Wollstonecraft got to know the Radical preacher Dr. Richard Price, a fervent supporter of both the American and French revolutions. Wollstonecraft became a writer, critic and intellectual, self-taught and through the support and influence of the radical circles she was introduced to by the publisher Joseph Johnson. She mixed with Thomas Paine, best known for his Rights of Man and whose pamphlet Common Sense influenced the American revolution; Joseph Priestley, chemist and radical; the poet and artist William Blake, who illustrated her Stories from Real Life (an education manual for children commissioned by Joseph Johnson) as well as William Godwin and the Swiss painter, Henry Fuseli. William Roscoe, from Liverpool and a supporter of the abolition of slavery, commissioned the less well-known and atypical portrait of Wollstonecraft (possibly by John Williamson) in which she is depicted dressed and posing in the style of a French intellectual (See the head of this article).
During her life in France in 1792, Wollstonecraft became friends with leaders of the French Revolution as well as a group of international writers and artists. She dedicated A Vindication of the Rights of Women to Talleyrand, one of the early leaders in the French Revolution. She had an unwavering belief in God and in the power of Reason and Science to bring about positive social change and improvements. Her stint as governess to the two daughters of Lord and Lady Roxborough in Ireland taught her to abhor the ways of the aristocracy in general, particularly those of aristocratic women, who appeared to prefer their fawning dogs to their own children.
The French Revolution in particular had a profound impact on Wollstonecraft. When Edmund Burke attacked the French Revolution in his Reflections on the French Revolution, Wollstonecraft wrote a reply A Vindication of the Rights of Men published in 1790 by Joseph Johnson. This was a precursor to her famous work A Vindication of the Rights of Women, also published by Johnson in 1792. This makes Wollstonecraft, as Miriam Kramnick puts it, "not so much the inheritor of a feminist tradition as she is the writer of its manifesto".
Wollstonecraft develops a wide range of arguments in A Vindication of the Rights of Women, but her central argument is that women should be educated equally alongside men in order that they could develop the power of reason throughout their lives. She was not a revolutionary intent on overthrowing English society or the family, although she railed against, poverty, inequality and the role of property.
Rather, Wollstonecraft wanted to see a transformation in men and women, with women to be treated as fully independent human beings and not be brought up to be the sexual playthings of men. Marriage should be based on friendship and autonomy, not on the subordination of women to men. She loathed the hypocrisy attached to the concept of "the fallen woman", opposed asylums and Magdalens (institutions set up to contain women who got pregnant outside of marriage or who worked as prostitutes) and believed no woman should have to give herself to a man she did not love and desire. She opposed licentiousness in men, arguing for real sexual passion informed by respect.
Her arguments are directed at middle-class women, and men, where she believed change might most easily be wrought, with education playing a key role. She advocated a system of co-education based on developing physical strength as well as the mind and stimulating a spirit of enquiry. Children should play outside and not be subject to physical punishment. Women should be educated to be economically independent, to be physicians as well as nurses, and to take up other occupations. Training in human anatomy and medicine would help women to better care for their families. Wollstonecraft's vision of female beauty was based on women developing their physical strength, in contrast to the vision of the simpering, weak and pale sex-object cultivated in her day.
Two years after A Vindication of the Rights of Women, Wollstonecraft wrote An Historical and Moral View of the Origin and Progress of the French Revolution in part based on her own personal observations. Wollstonecraft had in fact 'fled' to France to try to break her attraction to the Swiss painter Henry Fuseli, whose wife turned down a proposal for a 'ménage à trois'.
In Paris, Wollstonecraft met and fell in love with an American, Gilbert Imlay. They lived happily in Neuilly for several months and Imlay was the father to Wollstonecraft's first daughter — named Fanny in recognition of her lost friend. Wollstonecraft got a certificate from the American authorities identifying her as Mrs Imlay in order to gain protection after the decision of the National Convention in 1793 to expel all British subjects. However, Wollstonecraft was never actually married to Imlay.
The relationship became unworkable when Imlay headed off on business trips that included embarking on other relationships. Her letters to Imlay make painful reading as she wrestled with attempting to break the relationship with the man she was passionately in love with, the father of her daughter, but who she ultimately discovered, was living with someone else. One day she was full of resolve to break with him entirely, the next she was desperately trying to get them back together again, to the extent of proposing that she, Imlay and his lover all live under the same roof.
The experience of attempting to maintain this relationship, twice brought her to the brink of suicide. The first time, Imlay rescued her after she attempted overdosing on laudanum. The second time, she jumped from Putney Bridge but was pulled unconscious from the Thames by fishermen. In the end she succeeded in making the necessary break with Imlay to build a life for herself and her daughter.
Wollstonecraft was appalled by the extent of the bloodshed during the reign of Terror in the French Revolution. Nevertheless, she argued that perhaps it was necessary to rid society of all the evils of oppression. An Historical and Moral View of the Origin and Progress of the French Revolution is interesting for several reasons. She was concerned "to trace the springs and secret mechanism, which have put in motion a revolution, the most important that has been recorded in the annals of man."
She captures the oppression of the peasantry, having to bear the parasitic burden of 60,000 of the nobility, a 100,000 strong standing army, 200,000 clergy who took 25 per cent of the produce of France, 60,000 monks and 50,000 tax collectors. She saw the revolution as a movement of the people: "who were slaves and dwarfs, bursting their shackles and rising in stature, suddenly appeared with the dignity and pretensions of human beings."
It was the people, who by successive approximations, assessed the moves by the forces round the King, Louis XVI, to draw in the European powers to support the restoration of feudalism. And it was the masses, men, women and children who organised the defences in Paris, mingled with the standing army, won soldiers to their side and who played the decisive role in the capture of the Bastille, that symbol of reaction whose cannons had been turned on revolutionary Paris.
In May 1795, Wollstonecraft, undertook a trip to Scandinavia with her baby Fanny. She was hoping to resolve some business problems for Imlay and thus help repair the breach in their relationship. She wrote regular letters to an imaginary lover (presumably Imlay), later published as Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark. Godwin, who had not been impressed on his initial meetings with Wollstonecraft, wrote "If ever there was a book calculated to make a man in love with its author, this appears to me the book." The Letters made a deep impression on the Romantic poets.
Although not widely read, The Letters, are among the best of Wollstonecraft's writings. She describes vividly the countryside she travelled through, as well as the walks and rides she took. Her love and appreciation of the beauty of the scenery is everywhere combined with down-to-earth details such as the stench from the use of herring as fertiliser in Denmark. She gives succinct résumés of the way of life of different communities, noting differences in wealth and poverty.
About Sweden she writes:
"In fact, the situation of servants in every respect, particularly that of the women, shows how far the Swedes are from having a just conception of rational equality. They are not termed slaves; yet a man may strike a man with impunity because he pays him wages, though these wages are so low that necessity must teach them to pilfer, whilst servility renders them false and boorish. Still the men stand up for the dignity of man by oppressing women. The most menial, and even laborious offices, are therefore left to these poor drudges. Much of this I have seen."
Her observations of the economic and political structures of Sweden, Norway and Denmark led her to conclude that the small farms that underpinned the economy of Norway meant that it was the freest community with the mildest of laws. "The distribution of property into small farms produces a degree of equality which I have seldom seen elsewhere; and the rich being all merchants, who are obliged to divide their fortune amongst their children, the boys always receiving twice as much as the girls, property has a chance of accumulating till overgrowing wealth destroys the balance of liberty."
Along the way there are personal reflections on commerce and greed, revised opinions about the superior level of culture of the French compared with those who lived in northern climes, her love for her daughter Fanny and the delight she took in her presence, alongside her fears for the kind of world Fanny would face when she grew up:
"You know that, as a female, I am particularly attached to her; I feel more than a mother's fondness and anxiety when I reflect on the dependent and oppressed state of her sex. I dread lest she should be forced to sacrifice her heart to her principles, or principles to her heart. With trembling hand, I shall cultivate sensibility and cherish delicacy of sentiment, lest, whilst I lend fresh blushes to the rose, I sharpen the thorns that will wound the breast I would fain guard; I dread to unfold her mind, lest it should render her unfit for the world she is to inhabit. Hapless woman! What a fate is thine!"
An intrepid and imposing traveller, Wollstonecraft was able to persuade captains of ships to do her bidding, from putting her ashore where she wished, to rescuing travellers on a French boat in distress.
A short time after her return to London, Wollstonecraft embarked on a romantic relationship with William Godwin, a partnership that brought them both great pleasure. Society was becoming increasingly conservative during a reactionary backlash against the French Revolution and the repression unleashed against the Radical reformers by Pitt's government. Miriam Kramnick writes:
"….. Pitt's repression was irresistible. The Treasonable Practices Act broadened the definition of treason, the Seditious Meetings Act made it illegal to gather for a lecture without a law officer present, and in 1798, Habeas Corpus was suspended."
So Godwin and Wollstonecraft married when Wollstonecraft became pregnant in order to ensure that she would not be cut out of their social circles. Since both agreed that two people in a relationship should remain autonomous, instead of the woman becoming one person with the man, they set up house together, but Godwin retained a flat several doors down in Somers Town where he would often spend the day on his own work. They enjoyed trips out as a family, with Godwin developing a close relationship with little Fanny, but allowed themselves the right to enjoy mixed company on their own.
Wollstonecraft's standing as a writer and public figure has undergone many changes. After William Godwin's biography revealed that she had not been married when her first daughter was born, her social reputation was seriously tarnished, whilst her reputation as a Radical was increasingly a disadvantage, associated as she was with the Jacobin leadership of the French Revolution, the likes of Robespierre and Terror.
She was remembered by the followers of Robert Owen and writers such as George Elliot and Elizabeth Barrett Browning but disowned by the Suffragettes. In the early twentieth century, the American anarchist Emma Goldman saw Wollstonecraft as "a pioneer of modern womanhood". In 1959, the Fawcett Society laid a wreath at Wollstonecraft's grave and leading feminists Kate Millett and Germaine Greer both hailed The Vindication as an important work.
More recently, Wollstonecraft's relationship with Fanny Blood has been seen as an example of 'the love that cannot speak its name.' Wollstonecraft's novel Mary, A Fiction "has been claimed by lesbian literary history" and her portrait by John Williamson has been included in the LGBT – Pride and Prejudice Project in the Museum of Liverpool. Unaccountably, most of the original correspondence between Fanny Blood and Wollstonecraft has disappeared.
Wollstonecraft wrote two novels, Mary, A Fiction, written in 1788, and the unfinished Maria or The Wrongs of Women published posthumously in 1798. Mary, A Fiction is a complex novel of two relationships, one between two women, Ann and Mary, the other between the same woman, Mary, and a man, Henry. Mary had been married off to a man she loathed so both relationships with Fanny and Henry transgressed contemporary social norms. The novel reflects Wollstonecraft's own relationship and love and friendship for Fanny Blood and, perhaps too, a bisexuality in her desire for a relationship with the painter Henry Fuseli, and possibly his wife too.
Maria or The Wrongs of Women explores the nature of contemporary marriage where women were treated as the property of their husbands. It centres on the life of a woman trapped in a marriage she is unable to escape, whose husband's sole interest is in her potential wealth and has her committed to an asylum when she attempts to escape his control. The novel also highlights the fate of the poorest women in society, through depicting a woman born as an illegitimate child, who is treated as an outcast and only survives through a combination of backbreaking work as a servant, washerwoman, prostitution and stealing.
Ashley Tauchert, in an essay about the two novels says:
"I will read Wollstonecraft's Fiction for modalities of female-embodied same-sex desire expressed through figures of disavowal. I will argue that what this Fiction offers is a female-embodied character whose desire is encoded as masculine. Following Teresa de Lauretis I suggest that this masculine encoding is, in turn, one of the disavowed signs of female-embodied same-sex desire."
It is impossible in this short article to capture fully the unique qualities of this extraordinary critic, philosopher, writer, sparkling conversationalist and fearless radical thinker, but I hope I have conveyed something of her singularity and ignited an interest in her work. Wollstonecraft was a trenchant critic of the society of her day and the conditions of women's lives.
She showed the way oppression shaped women's lives in different classes in the eighteenth century. In her own life choices, she transgressed the boundaries of sexual mores and gender roles. She has rightly become a feminist and lesbian icon, and the depth and range of her analysis and vision are still relevant for those of us fighting women's oppression today.
Ferguson, Susan, 1999, "The Radical Ideas of Mary Wollstonecraft", Canadian Journal of Political Science/Revue Canadienne de Science Politique 32, (no 3) 1999: 427-450.
Godwin, William, 1798, Memoirs of the Author of the Vindication of the Rights of Women.
Tauchert, Ashley, 2000, Escaping Discussion: Liminality and the Female-Embodied Couple in Mary Wollstonecraft, Erudit
Tomaselli, Sylvia, 2021, Wollstonecraft – Philosophy, Passion and Politics, Princeton University Press.
National Museums Liverpool, The allure of Mary Wollstonecraft
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Random Reads: Austenland
I just happened to read a short promotion for Austenland by Shannon Hale this past week, so when I saw it at the thrift store, I snatched it up. It looked like a light, fun, easy read - and it was. But it could have been more. It was almost more.
Austenland is about 30-something Jane, who is unlucky in love and retreats into Austen fantasy, Pride and Prejudice being her favorite, to escape. A wealthy aunt dies and leaves her the gift of a three-week vacation at Pembrook Park, an Austen role-playing resort. Hale adeptly captures the wide range of emotions that Jane, and probably any sane woman, would have during this type of get-away. Jane bounces back and forth between being elated and excited to live out her fantasy, to being embarrassed at the whole charade, to being annoyed at the inconveniences of 19th century living, to the realization that maybe living in reality is preferable to living in fantasy, after all. Except, come to find out, reality never had a chance in this novel.
*Spoiler alert* At the beginning of each chapter, we are treated to vignettes of Jane's past boyfriends which quickly leads to the revelation that Jane, not luck, not the men themselves, is the biggest hindrance to finding "the one". In fact, many of her so-called boyfriends were never even more than flirtations. The one guy that could have really been something was dumped because he snorted when he laughed. Jane begins to realize that she's had plenty of real chances. Turns out, she wasn't looking for real, she wanted a fantasy, and fantasy can be harder to come by than fiction. When she finds herself drawn to the one man at Pembrook who is willing to be real with her, to drop his character, we feel like she's making progress. When she refuses the proposal of her very own Darcy figure, Mr. Nobly, we think that she's got it under control, at last. We start to feel like maybe Jane is maturing, that maybe she's heading into something real, that maybe there's something more to this easy-reading chick lit novel.
Then it all falls flat.
Both the gardener and Nobly follow Jane to the airport, professing true love to her. She rejects them both. The gardener realizes the gig is up, but Nobly jumps on the plane and further pleads his case. Despite the fact that they've only known each other for three weeks, and that they were both playing roles, she decides he's the real deal. They make out for the entire flight and "order in" later that night, back at her apartment. They live happily ever after. The End.
In my opinion, the novel could have stayed lighthearted while promoting better values by having Nobly chase Jane down and exchange email addresses. Maybe he could have told her he had an upcoming job in New York and he wished to meet up with her while he was in town? Perhaps he could have persuaded her to stay an extra day in town so they could get together and get to know each other? Sometimes fiction is more exciting when there's at least a dash of reality mixed in.
In the end, this novel was a disappointment because it was so close to really being something of substance, but just couldn't quite deliver. Hale had the opportunity to make a great point about unrealistic expectations holding us back from living a real, full, life, but instead decided to promote the idea that blithely hopping from one romance to another can lead to happiness. If you just keep dreaming, you're bound to fall into something real eventually, right? Well, maybe it does work that way for some, but you'll have to be content to kiss a lot of frogs and deal with a lot of disappointed expectations in the meantime.
I would have liked this book better if it had been content to stay in the breezy arena of chick lit or if it had fully matured into something more. But it got stuck somewhere in the middle and so doesn't really satisfy either way.

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Art of the day: SPITBALL by Tony Smith
Artist for all Time: Clarence E. Van Duzer, Rest In Peace
Art for all time: John Jackson, rest in peace
Art for all time: Masumi Hayashi, rest in peace
Art of the Day: "Cleveland Vacation" by Zak Long and Erin Robinson
Art of the Day: "Free Stamp"; Claes Oldenburg
Art of the Day: "Kill" by Joseph Filak
Art of the Day: "The Beauty of Damage" of Christopher Pekoc, by Thomas Ball, Henry Adams and Bernie Sokolowski
Art of the Day: 100 YEAR TREE by Ann Hayes
Art of the Day: 3-Way Plug by Claes Oldenburg
Art of the Day: Angela Keslar
Art of the Day: Ardnamurchan Zillij by Simon Fildes and Katrina McPherson, and you or me
Art of the day: ASCENDING by Alice Kiderman
Art of the Day: CLOUD GATE by Anish Kapoor
Art of the Day: color lithograph generously donated by Dana Schutz to support MOCA
Art of the Day: Derek Hess
Art of the Day: Emily Acita in collaboration with the Children of Lakeview Terrace Community Center
Art of the Day: Gene Kangas tribute to Hart Crane
Art of the day: HOME by Keri Mortimer
Art of the Day: Houghs Angel, by Harry Bell
Art of the Day: LABYRINTH by Rafala Green
Art of the Day: light assemblages by Dana Depew
Art of the Day: LYRAVEGA1 by Paul Dacey
Art of the Day: Mashups by ClevelandSGS
Art of the Day: Millennium Park, Chicago
Art of the Day: Pavel Kopriva
Art of the Day: PENELOPE by Arabella Proffer-Vendetta
Art of the Day: PRICKLY PEAR NOCTURNE by Pamela Dodds
Art of the Day: Robert Banks
Art of the Day: S&M GIRLS by Natalie Lanese
Art of the day: Shaman
Art of the Day: Steve Cagan
Art of the Day: the duct tape giraffe at the zoo
Art of the Day: The New Sculpture on the Block, by Richard Fleischman
Art of the Day: TURNING POINT by Philip Johnson
Art of the Day: UNSTABLE TABLES by Carl Floyd
Art of the Day: Wearable art by Carol Nesper
Art of the Day: Yoshitomo Nara
Submitted by Norm Roulet on Thu, 08/31/2006 - 20:18.
There is an amazing sculpture on the edge of the Cuyahoga River by former CSU professor and renowned NEO artist Gene Kangas, created in tribute to near-Cleveland born poet Hart Crane, situated in far less than a park, but a beautiful site, marked by a wordless sign. You'd only know the sculpture if you know the Flats, or Cleveland sculpture, and I only knew of poet Crane for knowing of the sculpture, and I'm glad for both. This 1992 master work by Kangas is the Art of the Day, and Crane is the poet of the day, today. See and learn more below...
This is far from the only major Kangas sculpture in Cleveland, and you are probably familiar with his work at the corner of Superior and West Huron, featuring metal tubes and pigeons (which I can't find on-line). He has another significant work called "Door", in front of CSU, and "Snow Fence", in the Putnam Collection, on the campus of Case University. But, the Hart Crane Memorial is by far my favorite. It has the feeling of a shipwreck, which is reflective of Hart Crane's life and death... I suspect the title of the work is "Wreck of Dreams", as that is part of the poetry incorporated into the work.
Crane was born in Garrettsville, Ohio in 1899 and suffered a brief, brilliant life ending in suicide at age 33, when he leaping from the deck of the S. S. Orizaba somewhere off the Florida coast just before noon on April 26, 1932. Many consider him one of the greatest poets of the 20th Century and I find his work powerful and fascinating. That he is not well known or celebrated in these parts may be because he was gay, and it seems the conflict of being gay in a homophobic world was core to his work and death. Kangas well captures the pain of the peot's life in this work of art, as it feels tragic, fragmented and brutalized.
Kangas brings poignancy and charm to the sculpture and presentation of Crane's memory in many ways. In one area of the work, which looks like a chain torn apart, Kangas has set a small freighter, matching the ships that pass each day along the Cuyahoga and perhaps the freighter from which Crane ended his life.
As further fitting tribute to Crane and his work, Kangas has created a wedge with raised letters that speaks of Crane and quotes his work. He continues this type of tribute with an arch, which visually mirrors the arches of the bridge above, and has cut-away more of Crane's masterful poetry... the words are found at the end of this posting.
As is so often the case, in NEO, the site of the sculpture is far sub-optimized. There is no parking or seating to make the park receptive to visitors, and, in fact, the sign for the park is completely blank, like the city has turned its back on Kangas and Crane. That is good for those looking for a secret place to sit and reflect, while enjoying a spectacular view, but I do not believe it is the intention of community leaders to install $100,000s worth of art and demolish it by neglect, nor to make the city inhospitable to residents or visitors... this is just another example of an impoverished community with too many good assets to take advantage of, letting them waste away... a shrinking major city.
Certainly, without proper upkeep this great sculpture will suffer the consequences of Cleveland's harsh weather and typical wear and tear... it is already in need of repair. For now, it is a wonderful work by a great artist in support of the memory of another great artist, and it is all about NEO. Go out and enjoy it... it is at the corner of Columbus and Merwin right at the bottom of the Columbus Avenue lift bridge... the perfect place for a picnic while the weather is still grand... and I'm sure the work will be just as spectacular in the dead of winter, blanketed in snow. This is work that rises above the environment with its powerful design, execution, message and purpose.
Far strum of foghorns
Fog insulated noises
Midnight among distant chiming bouys
A tugboat wheezing wreaths of steam, lunged past
A sound of waters bending astride the sky
Follow your arches to what corners of the sky they pull you
Where marble clouds support the sea
Wreck of dreams
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Home News Gaming Fight The Boogeyman And Save The Bunny In My Little Hero HD
Fight The Boogeyman And Save The Bunny In My Little Hero HD
My Little Hero is equal parts "Legend of Zelda" and "Little Nemo in Slumberland." Instead of green tunic and the master sword, you get PJ's and a toy sword. Instead of making your way to Slumberland, you're chasing the Bogeyman through your dreams trying to recover all of your stuffed animals. It's a good mix for an action-RPG.
Initial Impressions
Telling a story without words
Combat and Enemies
My Little Hero feels like an 8-bit classic. You get a brief opening cinematic, and you're dropped into the game. The bogeyman took your stuffed animals and you have to chase him to get them all back. Your only tools are a cardboard helmet and wooden sword. Though some players may think they're going to run into Lions and Witches, instead you run into a surreal world of childhood nightmares.
The game plays in an isometric perspective like the original Legend of Zelda, and has virtual controls. The art style is very surreal, and is singular enough that this game still feels unique while wearing its influences on its sleeve.
Modern games seem to fall into two categories: heavy stories inspired by summer action blockbusters, or arcade like casual games with little to no pretense. That's a gross generalization, but there aren't a lot of games that give the player an empty vessel for their imagination. My Little Hero gives you a pretty straight forward story, no different from "rescue the princess" or "defeat Mother Brain." You have a single goal, chase down the Bogeyman and collect your stolen stuffed rabbit.
You can collect all of the stolen stuffed animals, but it requires some investigation to find side quests. These become pretty difficult to find early in the game, providing plenty of incentive to replay levels as you go. You don't get many clues as to where to go or what to find, just signposts along the route that give you a brief hint.
The game is divided into five parts. Think of the worlds in "Super Mario Bros. 3," each has their own themes and enemies. Each of those is broken into a set of smaller levels and a final boss. Each of the smaller levels is about 15-20 minutes, perfect for a lunch break or bus ride to work. (If you've got more time to kill, like a long holiday weekend, this game can take most of your afternoon.)
If you've ever played an action-RPG you should be able to pick this up easily. The virtual controls are responsive, and this allows for the new gadgets you find in your adventure to simply become another button on the screen.
The enemies are derived from the stuffed animals of the main character. It doesn't take long to realize that this kid's parents mustn't like him very much, these are the freakiest toys I've ever seen. When you smash the enemies they drop their buttons. These are the game's currency, though this isn't very clear early on. All you use them for in the early levels is buying health refills near the end of levels. Once you finish the first section, you're able to repair your stuffed animal version of the boss to unlock a permanent health upgrade.
The enemies are all pattern based, which increases the classic feel of the game. The boss fights are very elaborate patterns, while the smaller enemies just have a repetitive strike and dodge set of moves. There are enough of the smaller enemies to keep it interesting, and the bosses provide a serious challenge. You won't walk away frustrated, but it also isn't simply just killing time. It takes some skill to play this game.
My Little Hero is sort of like seeing a band that's influenced by all of your favorite bands. You can recognize where each part is pulled from, and see where things have been blended together to create something unique. I wish the iPad version would have simply been a universal upgrade for the iPhone version. However it's a small gripe with a great game. My Little Hero HD is only $1.99 on the App Store.
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package com.amazonaws.services.kms.model;

import java.io.Serializable;
import javax.annotation.Generated;

import com.amazonaws.AmazonWebServiceRequest;

/**
 *
 * @see AWS API
 *      Documentation
 */
@Generated("com.amazonaws:aws-java-sdk-code-generator")
public class ListResourceTagsRequest extends com.amazonaws.AmazonWebServiceRequest implements Serializable, Cloneable {

    /**
     *

     * Gets tags on the specified KMS key.
     *

     *

     * Specify the key ID or key ARN of the KMS key.
     *

     *

     * For example:
     *

     *

     *

     *

     * Key ID: 1234abcd-12ab-34cd-56ef-1234567890ab
     *

     *

     *

     *

     * Key ARN: arn:aws:kms:us-east-2:111122223333:key/1234abcd-12ab-34cd-56ef-1234567890ab
     *

     *

     *

     *

     * To get the key ID and key ARN for a KMS key, use ListKeys or DescribeKey.
     *

     */
    private String keyId;
    /**
     *

     * Use this parameter to specify the maximum number of items to return. When this value is present, KMS does not
     * return more than the specified number of items, but it might return fewer.
     *

     *

     * This value is optional. If you include a value, it must be between 1 and 50, inclusive. If you do not include a
     * value, it defaults to 50.
     *

     */
    private Integer limit;
    /**
     *

     * Use this parameter in a subsequent request after you receive a response with truncated results. Set it to the
     * value of NextMarker from the truncated response you just received.
     *

     *

     * Do not attempt to construct this value. Use only the value of NextMarker from the truncated response
     * you just received.
     *

     */
    private String marker;

    /**
     *

     * Gets tags on the specified KMS key.
     *

     *

     * Specify the key ID or key ARN of the KMS key.
     *

     *

     * For example:
     *

     *

     *

     *

     * Key ID: 1234abcd-12ab-34cd-56ef-1234567890ab
     *

     *

     *

     *

     * Key ARN: arn:aws:kms:us-east-2:111122223333:key/1234abcd-12ab-34cd-56ef-1234567890ab
     *

     *

     *

     *

     * To get the key ID and key ARN for a KMS key, use ListKeys or DescribeKey.
     *

     *
     * @param keyId
     *        Gets tags on the specified KMS key.

     *

     *        Specify the key ID or key ARN of the KMS key.
     *

     *

     *        For example:
     *

     *

     *

     *

     *        Key ID: 1234abcd-12ab-34cd-56ef-1234567890ab
     *

     *

     *

     *

     *        Key ARN: arn:aws:kms:us-east-2:111122223333:key/1234abcd-12ab-34cd-56ef-1234567890ab
     *

     *

     *

     *

     *        To get the key ID and key ARN for a KMS key, use ListKeys or DescribeKey.
     */

    public void setKeyId(String keyId) {
        this.keyId = keyId;
    }

    /**
     *

     * Gets tags on the specified KMS key.
     *

     *

     * Specify the key ID or key ARN of the KMS key.
     *

     *

     * For example:
     *

     *

     *

     *

     * Key ID: 1234abcd-12ab-34cd-56ef-1234567890ab
     *

     *

     *

     *

     * Key ARN: arn:aws:kms:us-east-2:111122223333:key/1234abcd-12ab-34cd-56ef-1234567890ab
     *

     *

     *

     *

     * To get the key ID and key ARN for a KMS key, use ListKeys or DescribeKey.
     *

     *
     * @return Gets tags on the specified KMS key.

     *

     *         Specify the key ID or key ARN of the KMS key.
     *

     *

     *         For example:
     *

     *

     *

     *

     *         Key ID: 1234abcd-12ab-34cd-56ef-1234567890ab
     *

     *

     *

     *

     *         Key ARN: arn:aws:kms:us-east-2:111122223333:key/1234abcd-12ab-34cd-56ef-1234567890ab
     *

     *

     *

     *

     *         To get the key ID and key ARN for a KMS key, use ListKeys or DescribeKey.
     */

    public String getKeyId() {
        return this.keyId;
    }

    /**
     *

     * Gets tags on the specified KMS key.
     *

     *

     * Specify the key ID or key ARN of the KMS key.
     *

     *

     * For example:
     *

     *

     *

     *

     * Key ID: 1234abcd-12ab-34cd-56ef-1234567890ab
     *

     *

     *

     *

     * Key ARN: arn:aws:kms:us-east-2:111122223333:key/1234abcd-12ab-34cd-56ef-1234567890ab
     *

     *

     *

     *

     * To get the key ID and key ARN for a KMS key, use ListKeys or DescribeKey.
     *

     *
     * @param keyId
     *        Gets tags on the specified KMS key.

     *

     *        Specify the key ID or key ARN of the KMS key.
     *

     *

     *        For example:
     *

     *

     *

     *

     *        Key ID: 1234abcd-12ab-34cd-56ef-1234567890ab
     *

     *

     *

     *

     *        Key ARN: arn:aws:kms:us-east-2:111122223333:key/1234abcd-12ab-34cd-56ef-1234567890ab
     *

     *

     *

     *

     *        To get the key ID and key ARN for a KMS key, use ListKeys or DescribeKey.
     * @return Returns a reference to this object so that method calls can be chained together.
     */

    public ListResourceTagsRequest withKeyId(String keyId) {
        setKeyId(keyId);
        return this;
    }

    /**
     *

     * Use this parameter to specify the maximum number of items to return. When this value is present, KMS does not
     * return more than the specified number of items, but it might return fewer.
     *

     *

     * This value is optional. If you include a value, it must be between 1 and 50, inclusive. If you do not include a
     * value, it defaults to 50.
     *

     *
     * @param limit
     *        Use this parameter to specify the maximum number of items to return. When this value is present, KMS does
     *        not return more than the specified number of items, but it might return fewer.

     *

     *        This value is optional. If you include a value, it must be between 1 and 50, inclusive. If you do not
     *        include a value, it defaults to 50.
     */

    public void setLimit(Integer limit) {
        this.limit = limit;
    }

    /**
     *

     * Use this parameter to specify the maximum number of items to return. When this value is present, KMS does not
     * return more than the specified number of items, but it might return fewer.
     *

     *

     * This value is optional. If you include a value, it must be between 1 and 50, inclusive. If you do not include a
     * value, it defaults to 50.
     *

     *
     * @return Use this parameter to specify the maximum number of items to return. When this value is present, KMS does
     *         not return more than the specified number of items, but it might return fewer.

     *

     *         This value is optional. If you include a value, it must be between 1 and 50, inclusive. If you do not
     *         include a value, it defaults to 50.
     */

    public Integer getLimit() {
        return this.limit;
    }

    /**
     *

     * Use this parameter to specify the maximum number of items to return. When this value is present, KMS does not
     * return more than the specified number of items, but it might return fewer.
     *

     *

     * This value is optional. If you include a value, it must be between 1 and 50, inclusive. If you do not include a
     * value, it defaults to 50.
     *

     *
     * @param limit
     *        Use this parameter to specify the maximum number of items to return. When this value is present, KMS does
     *        not return more than the specified number of items, but it might return fewer.

     *

     *        This value is optional. If you include a value, it must be between 1 and 50, inclusive. If you do not
     *        include a value, it defaults to 50.
     * @return Returns a reference to this object so that method calls can be chained together.
     */

    public ListResourceTagsRequest withLimit(Integer limit) {
        setLimit(limit);
        return this;
    }

    /**
     *

     * Use this parameter in a subsequent request after you receive a response with truncated results. Set it to the
     * value of NextMarker from the truncated response you just received.
     *

     *

     * Do not attempt to construct this value. Use only the value of NextMarker from the truncated response
     * you just received.
     *

     *
     * @param marker
     *        Use this parameter in a subsequent request after you receive a response with truncated results. Set it to
     *        the value of NextMarker from the truncated response you just received.

     *

     *        Do not attempt to construct this value. Use only the value of NextMarker from the truncated
     *        response you just received.
     */

    public void setMarker(String marker) {
        this.marker = marker;
    }

    /**
     *

     * Use this parameter in a subsequent request after you receive a response with truncated results. Set it to the
     * value of NextMarker from the truncated response you just received.
     *

     *

     * Do not attempt to construct this value. Use only the value of NextMarker from the truncated response
     * you just received.
     *

     *
     * @return Use this parameter in a subsequent request after you receive a response with truncated results. Set it to
     *         the value of NextMarker from the truncated response you just received.

     *

     *         Do not attempt to construct this value. Use only the value of NextMarker from the truncated
     *         response you just received.
     */

    public String getMarker() {
        return this.marker;
    }

    /**
     *

     * Use this parameter in a subsequent request after you receive a response with truncated results. Set it to the
     * value of NextMarker from the truncated response you just received.
     *

     *

     * Do not attempt to construct this value. Use only the value of NextMarker from the truncated response
     * you just received.
     *

     *
     * @param marker
     *        Use this parameter in a subsequent request after you receive a response with truncated results. Set it to
     *        the value of NextMarker from the truncated response you just received.

     *

     *        Do not attempt to construct this value. Use only the value of NextMarker from the truncated
     *        response you just received.
     * @return Returns a reference to this object so that method calls can be chained together.
     */

    public ListResourceTagsRequest withMarker(String marker) {
        setMarker(marker);
        return this;
    }

    /**
     * Returns a string representation of this object. This is useful for testing and debugging. Sensitive data will be
     * redacted from this string using a placeholder value.
     *
     * @return A string representation of this object.
     *
     * @see java.lang.Object#toString()
     */
    @Override
    public String toString() {
        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
        sb.append("{");
        if (getKeyId() != null)
            sb.append("KeyId: ").append(getKeyId()).append(",");
        if (getLimit() != null)
            sb.append("Limit: ").append(getLimit()).append(",");
        if (getMarker() != null)
            sb.append("Marker: ").append(getMarker());
        sb.append("}");
        return sb.toString();
    }

    @Override
    public boolean equals(Object obj) {
        if (this == obj)
            return true;
        if (obj == null)
            return false;

        if (obj instanceof ListResourceTagsRequest == false)
            return false;
        ListResourceTagsRequest other = (ListResourceTagsRequest) obj;
        if (other.getKeyId() == null ^ this.getKeyId() == null)
            return false;
        if (other.getKeyId() != null && other.getKeyId().equals(this.getKeyId()) == false)
            return false;
        if (other.getLimit() == null ^ this.getLimit() == null)
            return false;
        if (other.getLimit() != null && other.getLimit().equals(this.getLimit()) == false)
            return false;
        if (other.getMarker() == null ^ this.getMarker() == null)
            return false;
        if (other.getMarker() != null && other.getMarker().equals(this.getMarker()) == false)
            return false;
        return true;
    }

    @Override
    public int hashCode() {
        final int prime = 31;
        int hashCode = 1;

        hashCode = prime * hashCode + ((getKeyId() == null) ? 0 : getKeyId().hashCode());
        hashCode = prime * hashCode + ((getLimit() == null) ? 0 : getLimit().hashCode());
        hashCode = prime * hashCode + ((getMarker() == null) ? 0 : getMarker().hashCode());
        return hashCode;
    }

    @Override
    public ListResourceTagsRequest clone() {
        return (ListResourceTagsRequest) super.clone();
    }

}

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Adults and children attending kindergartens in the Central Federal District of the Russian Federation began to participate in the SPARE program since 2014. During this time, the SPARE program coordinators of our region developed business games on energy saving exclusively for children. The games were adapted from a book called "The thermal power plant from nothing" by V. Shinkarenko, the author of methodical recommendations for the creation of warm houses for pets.
In early 2017, Methodists Bryansk regional public organization "Viola" prepared an electronic version of the book "Warm houses for birds." The book contains detailed explanations and drawings for many species of birds that live in our area. We sent these materials to SPARE member schools and kindergartens located in the central federal district.
In the winter, parents and teachers helped children and adolescents to make different kinds of houses, keeping the sizes and recommendations. Teachers of kindergartens offered to decorate every cowshed, a birdhouse, a dub. Kindergartens in the Yaroslavl region created whole themed alleys, where the houses for birds were painted in different colors, the exterior parts were designed in the form of musical instruments or the interior of the forest.
Educators in the Moscow and Bryansk regions conducted cycles of theoretical studies with children and excursions with each age group to new the houses populated by birds. Now the children have begun to make feeders for the birds living in newly built houses in winter.
Parents have also been helping the children to learn the modern possibilities of building materials that can be used to insulate houses for birds. SPARE initiated the direction tagged: "Create your own warm house for every bird!". This activity is understandable for children and has influenced a lot of emotions and suggestions.


Thank You, Lord, that for me—and all Who know Christ—death has lost its sting. At death, my body and soul are separated. Although my soul will go to enjoy your presence, one day my resurrection body and soul will be reunited. But I will never face spiritual death, the separation of my soul from You. This is the second death, experienced by those who do not know Christ. Jesus will say to them, "Depart from me.... I never knew you." Thank You that Jesus knows me!
Lord, I thank You for the many Christians who live in Finland. Over 12.5% of the population claim to be evangelicals. Thank You that the state Lutheran church in Finland tends to be evangelical and that these folks have ministered to reach out into Estonia and parts of Russia that are linguistically and culturally related. But, Lord, the church is ageing; help the efforts to bring in young people, may they settle and set roots in one solid congregation rather than church hop, and help the churches to develop new paradigms to better minister in the current age. We pray that the number of born-again evangelicals would approach 20% within the next decade. Also thwart the growth of cults and non-Christian religions, I pray.
Thank You for the work of Evangelism Explosion as they seek to train lay workers in churches throughout the world regarding how to share the Gospel. We know that thousands upon thousands have been led to Christ through EE, and we pray that the best days are yet ahead. Empower the organization by Your Spirit, prosper their efforts and use them to get the good news of Jesus Christ out to a lost society.
I remember pharmacists in prayer. Lord, help them to be careful and to do a good job in organizing and explaining medications to those in need. May those who know Christ tactfully share their faith with fellow pharmacists and with others.
Today, Lord, help me to live for You, I pray in Jesus' Name, Amen.


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US Drone beamed Benghazi attack live - WH doesn't respond.
Credit: various news sources/NY POST:
Inside sources say the U.S. military had Predator drone flying over the Benghazi consulate during the attack that claimed the life of ambassador Christopher Stevens, Navy SEALs Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods, and agent Sean Smith.
That drone, as well as "other reconnaissance aircraft" seemingly observed what is now being characterized as the "final hours of the protracted battle."
How protracted? It has now been revealed that the last two Americans weren't killed until more than six hours after the attack began.
Yet even as this information has been revealed, the State Department, White House, and Pentagon have refused to say what options might have been available.
According to CBS News, a White House official revealed that, when the attack began, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Martin Dempsey and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta "looked at available options, and the ones we exercised had our military forces arrive in less than 24 hours, well ahead of timelines laid out in established policies."
That's a remarkable admission, one that reeks of a bureaucratic mindset in which the execution of four Americans is seemingly mitigated in some fashion by the fact that "established policies" were followed. Retired CIA officer Gary Berntsen wasn't buying that excuse.
"You find a way to make this happen," Berntsen contended. "There isn't a plan for every single engagement. Sometimes you have to be able to make adjustments. They made zero adjustments in this. They stood and they watched and our people died."
But as Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three colleagues were killed by terrorists armed with AK-47s and rocket-propelled grenade launchers, Defense Department officials were too slow to send in the troops, Berntsen said.
The Pentagon said it moved a team of special operators from Central Europe to Sigonella, Italy — about an hour flight from Libya — but gave no other details.
Fighter jets and Specter AC-130 gunships — which could have been used to help disperse the bloodthirsty mob — were also stationed at three nearby bases, sources told the network.
When the attack began, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Martin Dempsey and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta "looked at available options, and the ones we exercised had our military forces arrive in less than 24 hours, well ahead of timelines laid out in established policies," a White House official told the network.
Even as the administration continues to vow that the perpetrators will be brought to justice, the man identified by witnesses as a ringleader in the attack continues to walk the streets of Libya without fear of arrest.
Ahmad Abu Khattala has admitted being at the consulate during the horrific attack but has yet to be questioned by any Libyan authorities.
Abu Khattala spoke to a New York Times reporter Thursday from a hotel patio as he sipped a strawberry frappe and mocked the US and Libyan governments.
"These reports say that no one knows where I am and that I am hiding," he boasted. "But here I am in the open, sitting in a hotel with you. I'm even going to pick up my sister's kids from school soon."
Lax security at the consulate was an open secret.
Stevens wrote a cable in June that there wasn't enough security at the consulate, and he noted there had been a recent spike in attacks against "international organizations and foreign interests," ABC News said.
The ambassador wrote another cable in August that read, "A series of violent incidents has dominated the political landscape during the Ramadan holiday."
Stevens said that the incidents were "organized" and that the Libyan security force had "not coalesced into a stabilizing force and [provided] little deterrence."
Several requests for additional security in Benghazi were made to the State Department prior to the attack. They were all rejected.
Successful CHAMP test means lights out for the enemy
Cruising fast over the Western Utah Desert, a lone missile makes history at the Utah Test and Training Range. The missile, known as CHAMP, or Counter-electronics High-powered Advanced Missile Project may one day change modern warfare, by defeating electronic targets with little or no collateral damage.
On Oct. 16th at 10:32 a.m. MST a Boeing Phantom Works team along with members from the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Directed Energy Directorate team, and Raytheon Ktech, suppliers of the High Power Microwave source, huddled in a conference room at Hill Air Force Base and watched the history making test unfold on a television monitor.
CHAMP approached its first target and fired a burst of High Power Microwaves at a two story building built on the test range. Inside rows of personal computers and electrical systems were turned on to gauge the effects of the powerful radio waves.
Seconds later the PC monitors went dark and cheers erupted in the conference room. CHAMP had successfully knocked out the computer and electrical systems in the target building. Even the television cameras set up to record the test were knocked off line without collateral damage.
"This technology marks a new era in modern-day warfare," said Keith Coleman, CHAMP program manager for Boeing Phantom Works. "In the near future, this technology may be used to render an enemy's electronic and data systems useless even before the first troops or aircraft arrive,"
In all, seven targets were hit using CHAMP's high power microwaves in the one-hour test that degraded and defeated the electronics inside the test buildings.
James Dodd, vice president of Advanced Boeing Military Aircraft, part of Phantom Works said there is a real need for a weapon that can defeat a target and not cause harm to people and structures.
"We know this has some capabilities and some impact, we're really trying to engage the customer to see if there is a way we can actually get this fielded and implemented sooner than later," Dodd said.
Coleman, who led the Boeing team in the historic test flight, says the team is currently analyzing data and telemetry from the test that many consider a big step in modern non-lethal warfare.
"Today we turned science fiction into science fact," Coleman said.
Taliban spinning conspiracy theory to spark more attacks on US.
By Michele Langevine Leiby, Wednesday, October 24, 1:57 AM
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — It's a well-known fact in Pakistan that Osama bin Laden died in 2006 and that the U.S. commando raid on his compound in May 2011 was merely a "drama" orchestrated by President Obama to help win reelection.
Of course, if that were true, Obama might have waited until after the first presidential debate of the campaign season to fake the al-Qaeda leader's killing.
Some national newspapers and TV cable outlets routinely report that the United States is behind terrorist attacks and supports the war that the Pakistani Taliban is waging against Pakistan's government and military. The U.S. Embassy in Islamabad has to regularly churn out "Corrections for the Record" that take Pakistani media to task for carrying outrageous claims.
Now, the latest conspiracy theory to gain traction is the notion that the United States was behind the Taliban attack this month on Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani student who criticized the extremist group for denying girls access to education.
The purported purpose of the ruse: to make the Taliban look really bad and, thus, generate public sympathy for CIA drone strikes — and whip up support for a Pakistani army invasion of North Waziristan to rout Haqqani network militants based there.
A Taliban spokesman was quick to assert responsibility for the attack on the schoolgirl and her two classmates. Yet, the idea of U.S. involvement has spread widely, even generating its own meme on Facebook.
A photo of Obama sharing a hearty laugh with members of his staff is making the rounds, being circulated and "liked" by thousands on social media sites. Its caption reads: "Sir, they still believe that Taliban attacked Malala."
To many Pakistanis, Yousafzai is a national hero. But others say she is a spy because she once met with then-U.S. envoy Richard C. Holbrooke — another photo shared on the Internet.
Part of the reason there's so much conspiracy thinking is because Pakistanis live in a security state that many believe is controlled by the shadowy spy apparatus known as the Inter-Services Intelligence agency, or ISI. It is widely seen — and feared — as a hidden force capable of steering domestic and foreign affairs.
A.Z. Hilali, chairman of the political science department at the University of Peshawar in northwestern Pakistan, said politics is also behind much of the conspiracy mongering.
"When the incident happened with Malala Yousafzai, the people thought the security establishment might be involved because there is pressure from the U.S. that they have to take action against the Haqqani network," Hilali said. "That perception was already existing in Pakistan. Right-wing parties just exploited the situation."
But now, Hilali said, "right-wing parties are in a great crisis because Malala has deep sympathies from the common people. . . . They believe the Taliban has crossed a boundary. Malala has become this symbol, and the right wing is losing support."
Nasreen Ghufran, an international-relations professor at the university, said a common sentiment in Peshawar is that the horrendous deed had to serve other agendas. "They think that Taliban on their own would not do anything unless the ISI and the army is behind it," she said.
There was good reason to think that the United States was pushing for an operation in North Waziristan. In August, U.S. Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta said Pakistan's military leaders "had developed plans to go into Waziristan. . . . Our understanding is that, hopefully, they're going to take that step in the near future."
Pakistan denied it, saying its military lacked the necessary manpower.
As for the theories that besmirch Yousafzai as an agent of the West, they will ultimately come to naught and even enhance her stature, Hilali said. The Islamists "were already against that girl, but there is not just one Malala, there are many Malalas."
E-mails detail Benghazi attack was terrorism - doesn't bode well for Obama
COMPILED FROM VARIOUS PRESS REPORTS:
It was six weeks ago on Tuesday that terrorists attacked the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya. Now, the media has obtained email alerts that were leaked by the State Department detailing the attack as it unfolded.
Four Americans were killed in the attack, including Ambassador Christopher Stevens. These emails contain the earliest description so far of what happened at Benghazi the night of the attack.
At 4:05 p.m. Eastern time, on September 11, an alert from the State Department Operations Center was issued to a number government and intelligence agencies. Included were the White House Situation Room, the office of the Director of National Intelligence, and the FBI. "US Diplomatic Mission in Benghazi Under Attack" -- "approximately 20 armed people fired shots; explosions have been heard as well. Ambassador Stevens, who is currently in Benghazi, and four COM (Chief of Mission/embassy) personnel are in the compound safe haven."
At 4:54 p.m., less than an hour later, another alert: "the firing... in Benghazi...has stopped...A response team is on site attempting to locate COM (embassy) personnel."
Then, at 6:07 p.m., State sent out another alert saying the embassy in Tripoli reported the Islamic military group "Ansar al-Sharia Claims Responsibilty for Benghazi Attack"... "on Facebook and Twitter and has called for an attack on Embassy Tripoli."
The emails are just a few in what are likely a large number traded throughout the night. They are likely to become part of the ongoing political debate over whether the administration attempted to mislead in saying the assault was an outgrowth of a protest, rather than a planned attack by terrorists.
One of the e-mails -- sent from a State Department address to various government agencies -- specifically identifies Ansar al-Sharia as claiming responsibility for the attack on its Facebook page and on Twitter.
The e-mails raise further questions about the seeming confusion on the part of the Obama administration to determine the nature of the September attack and those who planned it.
The attack left U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans dead.
on September 13, a senior U.S. official told CNN that the violence in Libya was not the work of "an innocent mob."
"The video or 9/11 made a handy excuse and could be fortuitous from their perspective, but this was a clearly planned military-type attack," the official said.
But it wasn't until September 19 that the administration began to call the attack the work of terrorists.
The e-mails provide additional insight into the Benghazi attack.
The first one, sent at 4:05 p.m. ET, or 10:05 p.m. in Libya, describes a diplomatic mission under attack.
The subject line reads: "Update 2: Ansar al-Sharia Claims Responsibility for Benghazi Attack."
The email says: "Embassy Tripoli reports the group claimed responsibility on Facebook and Twitter and has called for an attack on Embassy Tripoli.
The Facebook claim of involvement was subsequently denied by the group at a news conference in the following days, but not very convincingly.
"We are saluting our people for this zeal in protecting their religion, to grant victory to the prophet," a spokesman for Ansar al-Sharia said at the time. "The response has to be firm."
Administration spokesmen, including White House spokesman Jay Carney, citing an unclassified assessment prepared by the CIA, maintained for days that the attacks likely were a spontaneous protest against an anti-Muslim film.
While officials did mention the possible involvement of "extremists," they did not lay blame on any specific militant groups or possible links to al Qaeda or its affiliates until intelligence officials publicly alleged that on September 28.
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Spring Fling Health & Wellness event will take place at the Woodbridge Senior Center, 4 Meeting House Lane from 11-2 on Thursday, May 25th. I need an RSVP by April 12th with your Advertisement if you are placing an ad in the program guide. I suggest this because it will be given out at all my events for April not just the Senior Center.


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Why Sacramento Can't Get Cellphones Out of Prison
California prisons confiscated more than 10,000 cellphones last year. This year, officials at Corcoran State Prison found a cellphone with a camera in possession of convicted serial killer Charles Manson. It was the second phone found on Manson in two years.
In 1996, four men gang-raped a 15-year-old girl. They were convicted. But in 2008, the ringleader called the victim from his prison cell.
"To our horror," Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O'Malley said at a press conference March 22, "there was nothing we could do about that."
In dysfunctional California, it is not illegal to smuggle a cellphone into a state prison.
State Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Pacoima, introduced a bill to make smuggling cellphones to inmates a misdemeanor -- and it passed last year. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed it because it wasn't tough enough.
"Tell me how that makes sense," Ryan Sherman of the California Correctional Peace Officers Association asked. "At least then, it was a misdemeanor."
This year, Padilla introduced SB26 to make smuggling a cellphone a misdemeanor punishable by up to six months in jail and a $5,000 fine per phone. The bill passed through the Senate Public Safety Committee on March 22. But Padilla had to remove a provision to add two to five years to the sentence of an inmate caught planning a crime with a smuggled phone.
You can thank the committee chairwoman, Loni Hancock, D-Oakland, for watering down the bill. As the Los Angeles Times reported, she didn't care about the list of crimes -- including murder, kidnapping and witness intimidation -- directed by inmates via cell. She doesn't want to add to prison overcrowding.
To fight the problem, the corrections department launched "Operation Disconnect," which included unannounced inspections of prison staff. One such search at Avenal State Prison turned up 13 cellphones.
Avenal Public Information Officer E.J. Borla believes most phones find their way into the medium-security prison through visitors who find creative ways to smuggle contraband. Even if he's right, one rotten prison guard can do a lot of damage. In 2009, the state fired an officer who made $150,000 smuggling phones to convicts. Because he broke no law, he wasn't prosecuted.
The department has begun testing new phone signal-jamming technology, according to spokesman Paul Verke.
Why not search all the guards before they go to work? Here the prison guards' union is of little help. Officers are paid "walk time" while they suit up in steel-toed boots, utility belts and other gear. Going through a metal detector would cut into "walk time."
In that prison staff have the most to fear from well-connected convicts, couldn't the union give on it?
"Give on working for free?" union spokesman Sherman replies. After the furloughs, his people have given enough.
Gov. Jerry Brown just cut a deal with the union, which supported his candidacy. According to the Department of Personnel Administration, "walk time" didn't come up.
Gov. Jerry Brown


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Meet auctioneer Catherine Southon
Auctions are fun and if you're doing up your home on a tight budget you'd be mad not to go to a few, says auctioneer Catherine Southon - a familiar face on the BBC. And you can't really get more eco-friendly than antiques, she says
By Abby Trow
The antiques world is in pretty good shape, but it needs to get younger people on board, says Catherine Southon, who has her own auction house and is an expert on BBC antiques programmes including Flog It! and Bargain Hunt. She thinks the industry needs push the message that there's treasure to be had at bargain prices and that buying antiques is the environmentally-friendly way to furnish your home. Pictured above: Southon with a fine and rare Newton's pocket 2-inch globe (Newton's New Terrestrial Globe 1818). Est £3,000 - £5,000
Antiques. The word may inspire you or turn you off, and your age is likely to have something to do with your response. Older people may think of beautiful Georgian furniture, rich mahogany pieces with intricate marquetry, while younger people may well think antiques are big ugly pieces of brown wood that their great grandparents lived with.
Catherine Southon is not an elderly grandmother, rather a youthful mother, and she's the first to admit that the antiques business is missing a trick in not courting the young - but likewise the young are missing a trick because they could be doing up their flats beautifully on a shoestring if only they'd get along to an auction.
'I think antiques and auctions do have negative connotations for a lot of people..for some they're synonymous with Sotheby's and paintings and rare pieces that sell for vast sums, while for others it's a world of dusty old boxes of stuff no one wants,' she says.
'While I'm the first to admit that my heart sinks when people show me heavy old antique wardrobes or an ancient china dinner service, there is the most amazing array of wonderful pieces of furniture, art and decorative accessories to be had for a song at auctions up and down the country.
And buying antiques is, of course, recycling in action, says Southon. It's using what's already been made, and the fact that the piece is old is testament to its quality. (In case you're interested, the rule of thumb is that something must be over 100 years old to be called an antique, while vintage is over 50.)
Southon will be familiar to you if you watch the BBC's auction programmes such as Flog It!, Bargain Hunt and Antiques Road Trip. She learned her trade working for eight years at Sotheby's, initially cataloguing sales in the Collectors Department before becoming Head of Scientific Instruments and Maritime Works of Art. She then became a freelance valuer and two years ago decided to set up her own auction house in West Wickham in Kent.
Why did she want to run auctions rather than set up, say, an antiques shop?
'Well, auctions are really fun and frenetic, and I love that. But when I was working as a freelance valuer I would go to valuation days at Rotary Clubs, that kind of thing, and then I'd have to suggest auctioneers where people could take their pieces to.. That got me thinking well why not run my own auctions, as people do seem to trust me, probably because they see me on the telly..
'So a couple of years ago, I organized my first valuation day...and we were amazed that 300-400 people came along. There'd been nothing like that in our area, so interest was really high. And when the day came for the sale itself - which we'd advertised in the local paper - several hundred people came including a coachful of WI members from Eastbourne! So it's grown from that and now we have our own offices and hold auctions roughly quarterly.'
If you're surprised that there are enough customers in one part of Kent to keep an auction house in rude health, don't be; because while we may not recognise it ourself, we do accumulate vast amounts of stuff during our lives and when the time comes to downsize, we need to off load it. And we may well have some fine things in the loft that we'd forgotten we ever had.
'Many of the people who come to us are downsizing and I never cease to be astonished at the incredible things they have in their possessions - beautiful jewellery, silverware, collectables, furniture,' says Southon.
So what's it worth?
That's the million dollar question anyone selling wants to know and it would seem we have an exaggerated view of how much our antiques should fetch, says Southon.
'Yes..I think people do have a tendency to think if something's old it's going to be worth a lot.. so I might go to a house and the owner will show me an ancient china tea service and look crestfallen when I say it might fetch £50.
'But there's no demand for tea services any more...not many of us have 'best china' that we get out for Sunday afternoon tea. So the way we live means unless the china service is made by a very revered name..such as Meissen..there isn't a market for it.'
While you might not become rich auctioning off the things you no longer want or need, conversely now is a great time to be a buyer and a trip to a local auction should be seen as a bargain hunt.
'Oh gosh, you can get great things incredibly cheaply,' says Southon, who impresses that now is the time to buy things such as mahogany dining tables, hall tables, trunks, chairs, chests and tallboys, paintings, jewellery and silverware. Looking through her latest auction catalogue, it is a very pleasant surprise to see how affordable things are. A fine looking elm Windsor stick back chair has an estimate of £80 to £120, while a Georgian design circular mahogany dining table with six Victorian chairs is valued at £200 to £300...a mere bagatelle...
'What's known in the trade as brown furniture is very inexpensive at the moment, so look out for useful pieces such as chests of drawers and tables and storage chests. And with antique chairs, reupholster them with a vibrant modern fabric and they look anything but old fashioned.
'Really, if I were doing up a flat and on very little money, I'd be going to the nearest auction to see what I could find. Because some things are fine quality - far better than buying furniture from the high street that will still cost more but won't last anywhere near as long,' says Southon.
From a seller's point of view, if you happen to have Oriental/Chinese pieces this is a good time to sell because the Chinese are buying them back. 'The most expensive piece we have sold to date was a 17th/18th century libation cup made from rhino horn - and we did need a licence from Defra to sell it. It went for £18,000 to a Chinese buyer,' says Southon.
And what are Southon's own likes and dislikes? In work mode, it's a thumbs down to dinner services and large gothic horror antique wardrobes ('would I want to hang my clothes in someone else's wardrobe..no'). There's also little demand for ornate antique mirrors, she says. For herself, she has - not surprisingly - acquired a goodly selection of gavels and she likes globes. Perhaps surprisingly she's not that fussed about paintings. 'You can't touch a painting. I like things you can touch and feel.'
And she reveals it's not that easy for her to buy antiques because while she visits a lot of auctions filming for the BBC, the rules of the job mean she's not allowed to put in bids. That and the fact that her children 'hate auctions' mean her weekends can't be a busman's holiday.
Auctions aren't intimidating
Southon would like to add that if you think auctions are scary and that if you scratch your nose you could find yourself committed to spending £20 million on a painting, nothing could be farther from the truth. Auctions in towns and villages around the country are friendly and informal and 'auctioneers know when someone is making a bid and when they're tucking their hair behind their ear.' You can also bid online from the comfort of your own home.
So antiques. In for a penny and you can get a lot for a pound.


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Here is the second volume in George R.R. Martin magnificent cycle of novels that includes A Game of Thrones and A Storm of Swords. As a whole, this series comprises a genuine masterpiece of modern fantasy, bringing together the best the genre has to offer.


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Annual Philanthropic Support Reaches $44.5 Million in 2009-10, An Increase of $4 Million over the Previous Fiscal Year
As UC Santa Barbara grappled with huge reductions in state funding during 2009-2010, alumni, parents, and friends responded with overwhelming generosity, contributing $44.5...
Endowed Chair Will Honor UC Santa Barbara Internet Pioneer Glen Culler
UC Santa Barbara has received a $500,000 gift from alumnus Huican Zhu and two anonymous donors to establish the Glen and Susanne Culler Chair in Computer Science.
UCSB Alumnus Establishes Endowed Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering
UC Santa Barbara alumnus Tunc Doluca and his wife, Lale, have made a $500,000 gift to the campus to establish an endowed chair in the Department of Electrical and Computer...
UCSB Alumnus and Songwriter Jack Johnson Donates $50,000 for Disabled Students
Singer and songwriter Jack Johnson and his wife, Kim, both UC Santa Barbara graduates, have made a $50,000 contribution to the campus to support students with serious medical...
UCSB Alumna Carol W. Greider Shares Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Carol W. Greider, a graduate of the University of California, Santa Barbara, has been awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.


AWS Elasticbeanstalk makes it very simple to create an environment with load balanced instances running a web server proxy in front of your custom app. This is as easy as a couple of clicks from the web interface, or just eb create & eb deploy from the Elastic Beanstalk Command Line Interface (EB CLI).
As long as you aren't serving WebSocket, this all just works right out of the box without any custom configuration. That is a pretty powerful ops setup for a couple of commands! However, if you want to serve WebSocket traffic, you'll need to edit the configuration of your proxy server (Nginx in my case) to allow the http upgrade.
Previously, you also had to configure you Elastic Load Balancer to get around the fact that it didn't really support WebSockets. But, the new Application Load Balancers (now available on Elasticbeanstalk environments) have native support for WebSockets.
But, to support WebSockets between your Apache/Nginx Web server proxy and your app, you might need to edit your Web server's configuration file based upon what Elasticbeanstalk provides as a default template. At least this was the case for me using the provided default Nginx configuration.
The popular posts I found floating around on how to modify your Elasticbeanstalk Nginx configuration suggest using the .ebextensions (as described in my last post) with a files section to create a custom Nginx.conf file that ends up completely replacing the basic Nginx configuration that Elasticbeanstic provides in 00_elastic_beanstalk_proxy.conf.
..and then a commands section to either remove or rename the auto generated 00_elastic_beanstalk_proxy.conf file so that the new file is used instead.
While this approach works fine, the problem I have is that it amounts to including a whole new copy of an Nginx configuration, hardcoded into a separate custom configuration section and ignoring what AWS Elasticbeanstalk provides as a template. Essentially, the only thing we really need to replace is proxy_set_header Connection ""; in the default 00_elastic_beanstalk_proxy.conf with lines #26-27 from above.
Whenever I make configuration changes to default provided files, like the Elasticbeanstalk provided 00_elastic_beanstalk_proxy.conf, I prefer an approach that respects future changes that Elasticbeanstalk might make to its default configuration decisions. In other words, if we are replacing the entire file with our very slightly modified version, we prevent our instances from ever getting changes that AWS might decide are important for its Elasticbeanstalk setups. This might be things related to default interaction between its load balancers and web servers, time outs, health checks, etc.
First, just to make sure I was on the right path, I ssh'd into my instance and manually edited the 00_elastic_beanstalk_proxy.conf file, restated Nginx and sure enough WebSockets connections were flowing. But, I discovered that upon next deployment my changes to 00_elastic_beanstalk_proxy.conf were overwritten.
According to the comment, it seems I should use container_commands in order to replace the standard proxy_set_header Connection ""; in the /tmp/deployment/config/#etc#nginx#conf.d#00_elastic_beanstalk_proxy.conf with the couple of lines I need for for WebSockets.
And on the next eb deploy WebSocket connections were flowing!
To verify that it was actually the result of this change that allowed WebSockets to start flowing, I did a quick eb ssh and took a look at /etc/nginx/conf.d/00_elastic_beanstalk_proxy.conf, and verified that it contained the changes that the new container_command made to the template file.
Hat tip on getting the sed command right by finding this gist here: https://gist.github.com/adamgins/f99635447a1239289460 that included the syntax to replace the respective proxy_set_header.


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Odontomyia hirtocculata är en tvåvingeart som beskrevs av James 1936. Odontomyia hirtocculata ingår i släktet Odontomyia och familjen vapenflugor. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life.

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brandflakesforbreakfast: have you no sense of decency?
Thanks to Vancouver-based art and design student Rosea Posey's shot "Judgments," a provocative photo of the back of a woman's leg marked with skirt-length decency levels, you'll never have to second guess your outfit again.
I'm not the artist, but I think it's a comment on the stupid assumptions people make about women based on their skirt length, not a guide for women on how to be decent!


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Martin Chapman, esq.
"Marty" Chapman is a retired attorney turned wood turner and wood turning teacher. In 2010 he had his 1st one- man show, Turning Point, at the Second April Gallerie in Canton which was the 1st ever comprehensive showing of individual wood turning work in the Stark County area.
Marty has shown and sold pieces through 2nd April Gallerie and the Canton Museum of Art Museum Store, the Carroll County Community Arts Gallery in Carrollton and at occasional craft shows. His work is in private and corporate collections from Minerva and Canton to San Diego, Washington DC, North Carolina, Seattle, Houston and as far as Canada and Malasia. One of his pieces was featured in the Stark Anthology coffee table book from Indigo Press. Marty regularly demonstrates wood turning and turning techniques at area schools and civic groups, and has often demonstrated at craft shows and fairs, wine-tastings, and First Fridays. He also teaches woodturning and router classes on a regular basis at the John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown, N.C.
"Some people call it art and some call it rewood, but in the end
the wood speaks for itself. You just have to look at the wood closely and touch it to get the sense of it."
See something you like? Contact us at artspot@frontier.com for availability!


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