text:
More Brits Than Ever Are In Between on the Kinsey Scale, New Survey Shows
By Laura Mandanas
feature image via shutterstock
In poll results published Sunday by YouGov, a full 49% of 18-24 year olds identified as something other than exclusively heterosexual. The online poll asked 1632 adults in Great Britain to identify themselves on the seven-point Kinsey scale. Among respondents of all ages, 72% identified as a 0 (heterosexual), 4% identified as a 6 (homosexual), and 23% identified somewhere in between. Breaking the data down by age group, however, shows a very interesting trend.
With each generation, people see their sexuality as less fixed in stone. The results for 18-24 year-olds are particularly striking, as 43% place themselves in the non-binary area between 1 and 5 and 52% place themselves at one end or the other. … People of all generations now accept the idea that sexual orientation exists along a continuum rather than a binary choice – overall 60% of heterosexuals support this idea, and 73% of homosexuals. 28% of heterosexuals believe that 'there is no middle ground – you are either heterosexual or you are not'.
This report is largely in line with existing research, including the 2013 British Social Attitudes survey showing growing acceptance of same-sex relationships in the UK, and the 2014 HRC report showing that 40% of US LGBT youth are non-monosexual.
Interestingly, when asked to label their sexuality, only 2% of all respondents self-identified as bisexual. This remained relatively steady across all age groups, increasing to 4% identification for those 25-39, and down to 1% for those 60+. Comparatively, 89% identified as heterosexual, 6% gay or lesbian, 3% prefer not to say, and 1% other. Even accounting for those listing themselves as "other" and "prefer not to say," this leaves ~15% of respondents who presumably call themselves straight yet experience some level of same-sex attraction. And in even further proof that straight chicks want to make out with you, a surprising 35% of hetero-identified people responded with a "definitely," "maybe," or "very unlikely, but not impossible" when directly asked "If the right person came along at the right time, do you think it is conceivable that you could have a sexual experience with a person of the same sex?"
While collecting solid data about LGBT populations is always a difficult task, it seems telling to me that there's such a large divide between the number of apparent bisexuals (the 23% plotting themselves as Kinsey 1-5's) versus the number of people actively laying claim to the label (again, a mere 2%). Kinsey himself never used the word "bisexual" in relation to his work, because he felt it "implied a biological origin of bisexuality rather than a psychic one." I doubt this is the motivating factor for many survey respondents in 2015.
One possible reason for the disparity is that people experiencing attraction to multiple genders don't feel comfortable using the label until they've had sexual encounters with both same and different sex partners. However, 17% of respondents (20% of females and 14% of males) reported a sexual experience with a person of the same sex. Different-sex experiences were not reported on, but whatever the number, it still leaves a sizeable gap. Are the 1's and 5's not counting themselves because they don't feel bisexual enough? The 2's and 4's? Unfortunately we don't have enough data to say.
Certainly, coming out as bisexual poses unique challenges, and if someone feels more comfortable with an alternate label, they should have the individual agency to do what's right for them. I personally use different labels in different contexts, as do many others. But there's power in naming things as they are, and sometimes I wonder what impact avoidance of the term "bisexual" has. For example, would bisexual women have better mental health if more people identified as bi and there was a larger, more visible community? Would the allotment of resources change if all those Kinsey 2-5's were counted up? What happens if we don't do anything? I don't have the answers, but apparently, there are more us than ever. I hope we figure some of it out soon.
Related:bisexualityBritainDaily Fixgay populationgay statisticsinternational newsresearchstatistics
Laura Mandanas
Laura Mandanas is a Filipina American living in Boston. By day, she works as an industrial engineer. By night, she is beautiful and terrible as the morn, treacherous as the seas, stronger than the foundations of the Earth. All shall love her and despair. Follow her: @LauraMWrites.
Laura has written 1 article for us.
Taco Tuesday: Finding Home Again
Rebel Girls: 95 Photos of Feminists From Around the World
Bisexuals must unite…I'm always feeling like I don't belong to either the lesbian crowd or the straight crowd, but it's always great when I find other bi people to hang out with, it's the most fun for me. Or that's just how I feel :3
I will hang out with you. We can eat tacos and discuss Callie Torres vs. 13 vs. Angela Montenegro vs. Kalinda Sharma.
Yes please!! Also I just wanted to say how delighted I am at seeing Angela get some recognition!! How is she missing from basically every discussion of bi ladies?
I don't know! She's great!
Aha thanks you're the best!
Oh wow, this is interesting. Possibly I'll mention this next time I run into someone from high school and have the I'm-not-totally-straight-but-don't-worry-about-it conversation.
That's a fun conversation.
Well, this is annoying, as it means routinely blaming straight people for all the world's ills will only be accurate half the time!
Back to pinning it on the patriarchy I guess. Actually, that would make a great game at a feminist birthday party: Pin the Problem on the Patriarchy
Oh they cause way more than their fair share of problems. I think you can still blame them.
I may suggest this game to my sister for her next birthday party.
I want to go to this party
This is really interesting research! Its also cool to realise that my self selected friends group are not just super queer because they play rugby. IT'S A GENERATIONAL THING. Or maybe its because it rains so much everyone just super likes the rainbows?
"it rains so much everyone just super likes the rainbows"
^ favorite explanation by far
Dearest Laura,
A mutual friend of ours has made it clear that if I were to offer you my hand in friendship you would consider my proposal with care. I was planning on getting you a ring, but this moment came too soon. Maybe the ring buying could be our first friend date? Let me know, Caitlin…. And yes I am currently on one knee.
Oh my! Very friendship. Such wow.
I suspect what confounds clear interpretations of the data is that, for survey responders, the term 'bisexual' is not equivalent to 'not 1' and 'not6'. When the word 'bisexual' is used as a category or label it takes on popular notions of attraction to male and female gender (probably equally in many minds) – as opposed to, for example, attracted to a person rather than a gender (or any of the numerous scope and sequences that bisexuality can take on).
Whereas placing oneself on a scale of attraction to others (2-5) may seem like a better fit when the respondent considers who they find attractive / datable, e.g., 'mostly men, but that new woman in R & D is drop dead gorgeous'.
I'm guessing it's a problem with what the term 'bisexual' means in many people's minds (a category error). It's a bit like swearing I wouldn't wear pink – but I do have a couple of really lovely reddish salmony coloured shirts.
I for one have never dated a male, but I wouldn't rule it out … because, well, anything is possible I suppose. Does that make me bisexual? I don't know, nor do I mind. At least the survey data can be interpreted as a sign more people are realizing that a) it's complicated, b) people should be free to love any other consenting adult they wish to.
I definitely think that's true. And also sexual fluidity, probably? Like 10 years ago I would have called myself a 1. Now I'd place myself at a 5. Being on the edges makes me feel weird about where I fit, and what words I should be using.
YES BISEXUALS UNITE!
I wish I knew more bi women. It makes me a bit bummed now that I'm mistaken for straight all the time now that I'm dating a guy.
Actually, I should say really bummed!
lovecomesfromlife
I have very conflicted feelings about this study. First I feel like, that's great! There's so many bi-people who are comfortable noting their not-straightness in some way, I'm not alone! But then, also, I kinda enjoyed being a little odd and special? So maybe I don't want 49% of Britain in my camp with me, that's a little cramped. But then, wait, they don't actually identify as being bi, or anything other than monosexual or even straight (queer, pan, anything?) and then i'm frustrated again with the whole lot of them!
Uh, but really, I'm glad that a whole new generation of people are willing to consider their lives in a new and more open way, and in a way that's likely to lead to a better place for all of us to live in. That's the one I'm going with.
Well, I definitely believe that bi people who lean towards the opposite binary gender are still bi and absolutely still deserve to be included, but I'm not sure if all the people who identified themselves as Kinsey 1s would really be same-sex attracted in any meaningful way? Some people use "Kinsey 1" to mean that they've experienced same-sex attraction, just nowhere near as much as the opposite-sex attraction they've experienced, but some people use it to mean that they're hypothetically open to going through with it if they ever did experience same-sex attraction.
There's probably some of each in the group of self-identified Kinsey 1s, and either way, it's definitely a sign of progress! When people with small amounts of same-sex attraction feel comfortable admitting it instead of hiding it, that's awesome! When straight people treat the possibility of experiencing same-sex attraction as something that may well happen and wouldn't be a big deal, that's awesome! But saying that a thought-about-it-and-would-theoretically-be-okay-with-it is the same as an actually-experiences-same-sex-attraction is a little bit disingenuous.
However, counting everybody but the 1s*, you still get 27% not-straight for that age group, which is a pretty big thing, compared to the usual estimates of around ten percent. There's definitely more of us than you'd think, and when a society reduces the stigma of same-sex attraction, you'll get a lot more people admitting it, and understanding that their feelings fall into that realm.
*I think the 1s who actually experience same-sex attraction should be counted, but there's no way to tell what percentage of the identified-1s are in that group.
MissRebecca
I think I'm a bisexual who chooses not to date men.
I feel ya.
If bisexuals are taking ofur my country, does that mean one day soon people will stop being baffled by me / acting like dating men and women are mewtually exclusive? I feel like there should be a slang term fur bisexual British people…bisexukal?
I was about to comment that a small but real number of people who identify as asexual probably picked a middle range on the Kinsey scale for lack of a better option. But then I looked at the full poll results linked off of the YouGov article and saw that the pollsters did give an option of "no sexuality" in addition to 0-6 and "don't know." I'm disappointed, but not surprised, that the creators of the YouGov piece and visuals entirely ignored that 1% of respondents who chose "no sexuality."
I was one of these respondents! I was so thrilled to be asked something queer instead of another survey about insurance policies.
Rafael SANTOS
" However, 17% of respondents (20% of females and 14% of males) reported a sexual experience with a person of the same sex."
It's the other way around: 20% of men and 14% of women.
Bbbbbbbbbb On Quiz: Which "Yellowjackets" Character Are You? "CALIGULA WHAT?!???! But also I love this"
Snaelle On Sex With An X: The Perils Of Performative Spelling "I am also a native speaker of a highly gendered language. I read the sentence of "another argument" not as…"
LUCE On Sex With An X: The Perils Of Performative Spelling "Actually on dating apps, the vast majority of bi people seem to use bi as meaning both men and women…"


text:
Published On: Thu, Aug 16th, 2012
World News | By Brandon Jones
Britain says Julian Assange will not be given safe passage to Ecuador, 'may storm' embassy
The diplomatic and political minefield that is the fate of Julian Assange is expected to come a step closer to being traversed when Ecuador's president, Rafael Correa, gave his decision to grant the WikiLeaks' founder asylum on Thursday.
Photo/Espen Moe via wikimedia commons
Wednesday Ecuador's foreign minister, Ricardo Patiño, raging against perceived threats from Britain to "storm" the embassy and warning that such a "dangerous precedent" would be met with "appropriate responses in accordance with international law".
The dramatic development came two months after Assange suddenly walked into the embassy in a bid to avoid being extradited to Sweden, where he faces allegations of sexual assault.
At a press conference on Wednesday, Patiño released details of a letter he said was delivered through a British embassy official in Quito, the capital of the South American country.
The letter said: "You need to be aware that there is a legal base in the UK, the Diplomatic and Consular Premises Act 1987, that would allow us to take actions in order to arrest Mr Assange in the current premises of the embassy."
"We need to reiterate that we consider the continued use of the diplomatic premises in this way incompatible with the Vienna convention and unsustainable and we have made clear the serious implications that this has for our diplomatic relations," the letter continued.
Patiño said he was "deeply shocked" by the diplomatic letter. Speaking to reporters later, he said: "The government of Ecuador is considering a request for asylum and has carried out diplomatic talks with the governments of the United Kingdom and Sweden. However, today we received from the United Kingdom a written threat that they could attack our embassy in London if Ecuador does not give up Julian Assange.
"Ecuador, as a state that respects rights and justice and is a democratic and peaceful nation state, rejects in the strongest possible terms the explicit threat of the British official communication.
"This is unbecoming of a democratic, civilised and law-abiding state. If this conduct persists, Ecuador will take appropriate responses in accordance with international law.
"If the measures announced in the British official communication materialise they will be interpreted by Ecuador as a hostile and intolerable act and also as an attack on our sovereignty, which would require us to respond with greater diplomatic force.
"Such actions would be a blatant disregard of the Vienna convention on diplomatic relations and of the rules of international law of the past four centuries.
"It would be a dangerous precedent because it would open the door to the violation of embassies as a declared sovereign space."
asylum seekersBritainBritish parliamentEcuadorEcuadorean EmbassyEnglandGreat BritainJulian AssangeJulian Assange wikileaksLondonSwedenUnited KingdomWikileaksWorld News
The Top 5 Airports in Europe You Need to Visit
Wikileaks tweets US to blame for Embassy attacks, then posts new statements - The Global Dispatch says:
[…] has sparked outrage after suggesting the Libyan embassy was attacked because the US had backed Britain's threat to storm the Ecuadorian embassy in London and remove Julian Assange. Julian Assange speaking the Ecuador Embassy in the UK photo supplied via Wikileaks twitter […]

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


text:
28Apr/1730
The Farfield: Found Footage
The Farfield is an occasional series where I write about something other than gaming.
The Dyatlov Pass Incident
I've been increasingly focused on junk television, likely because both work and play - in the form of Electron Dance writing - tend to be mentally taxing. Firing the trigger on a new, engaging series with multiple storylines is tough. If you want to know how bad it is, I'm still watching the execrable Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D..
Confession time: I watch a lot of horror, a lot of rubbish horror. I also have particular dislikes, such as when people are being victimised just for someone's kicks - I feel exhausted and abused after an experience like Ils, in which a French couple are terrorized in their new country home, or F where school staff and children on detention are terrorized and brutally killed by hoodies. While I like the sense of dread that hangs over the first half of In Fear in which a new couple are lost in the Irish countryside, it eventually degrades into a game of unexplained sadism. In these type of films, the antagonist or antagonists often appear to have superhuman powers to be in the right place at the right time to maximise impact.
The horror film is much more of an audience game that many other film genres; the art of the thrill is the art of designing an intricate roller coaster. Good horror is intensely aware of context and audience expectations with films like Scream and The Cabin in the Woods deliberately exposing the game with a knowing wink to the audience.
I could easily write a whole essay on how I feel about horror but, look, I don't do much critical pontification about what horror means or why it works. See, I disliked The Bababook which got critics applauding. That shows you my credentials. Even worse, I remain fatally attracted to the "found footage" subgenre, where the film is based on "real footage" recovered amidst mysterious events like a documentary crew gone missing or a spate of murders.
As an accidental connoisseur of this derided subgenre, I've decided to list every found footage film I've seen with a little bit of commentary. I'll try to keep spoilers to a minimum. Here we go.
The Blair Witch Project. Three people go looking for the origins of a local legend in the woods. Rating: MEH. While not the originator of the found footage horror film (I think that award goes to Cannibal Holocaust) this is the one that gave birth to the modern craze. I finally got to watch it on a return flight from San Francisco and my memory of it is coloured by the passenger who sat beside me, getting increasingly drunk, kept making fun of the film, throttled another passenger during descent. I had to talk to the police about what I knew. This was all a lot more terrifying than the film.
Paranormal Activity. Couple set up cameras around the house when they suspect something spooky is going on. Rating: NOT BAD. Quite liked this one. As per usual for the found footage, it's slow burn, but some truly outstanding moments like when protagonist Katie sleepwalks: she gets out of bed and stares at her boyfriend Micah for hours. The damn psychic they bring in looks like he's trudging through a wad of writerly exposition compared to the more natural style of the protagonists, though.
Paranormal Activity 2. Couple related to couple who set up cameras around the house when they suspect something spooky is going on also have something spooky going on. Rating: MEH. A diluted version of Paranormal Activity where one of the spooky events, I kid you not, is a pool cleaner being taken out of the swimming pool at night. I decided I did not need to watch any more PA films after this.
Trolljegeren (Trollhunter). Documentary crew accompany a disgruntled troll hunter that the government supports yet disavows knowledge of. Rating: GOOD. This Norwegian film is quite the surprise, offering a very different take on found footage. This is not about the slow deterioration of what the protagonists acknowledge as reality; the team confronts the truth that trolls exist early on yet the film continues to extract suspense from every encounter.
As Above, So Below. Documentary crew go in search of the philosopher's stone in the Paris catacombs. Rating: OKAY. It's a little slow and I don't like it when characters start doing things which are obviously crazy: Scarlett, the lead, rips an ancient tablet off the wall in a museum and sets fire to it because it might lead to a clue. This also suffers more egregiously from the "no rules" problem that all horror films wrestle with. To make things spooky, spooky things have to happen, but there's rarely any explanation why things happen other than IT'S SPOOKY YO. You go from subtle weird to crazy shitstorm because the writer/director needs that kind of a rollercoaster arc for a horror film to work.
Europa Report. Footage from the first manned voyage to Jupiter's moon Europa edited into a documentary. Rating: HMM. Not strictly a horror film but I watched it wondering what the "secret" of the film was going to be. Problems: there's a certain arbitrariness to how people get bumped off; it's in dire need of better editing, as the naturalistic conversations are just too naturalistic with long ponderous pauses while people gawp at monitors; it's slooooow; there are too many budget-saving shots of astronauts' faces inside helmets instead of showing them in their surroundings. The film does manage to fool the audience with one particular twist and I had to give it points for that.
Europa Report
Cloverfield. A farewell party turns into a desperate race across a city under attack from a monster. Rating: OKAY. I was excited for Cloverfield and actually went to the trouble of seeing it in a cinema, only to discover the constant shaky cam made me feel ill. This compounded its many issues. Because one big monster is easy to escape (run the other way) the writers were forced to add Half-Life-esque critters that also grow inside your body, and had the protagonists put themselves in danger repeatedly. In addition to being wholly unlikeable, they were also extremely unlucky. Sigh.
The Bay. Footage from various sources edited into a documentary about an ecological catastrophe. Rating: GOOD. I may be in the minority on this one. The Bay is B-movie horror at its core, but the way it's dressed up as a serious documentary works well. It overdoes the horror angle to give the film more to explore: a Cloverfield style not only do the critters eat you, but they grow inside you too. I found it a plenty more watchable than Cloverfield though.
Invoked. Teenagers play with Ouija board on a some island and nothing happens, more or less. Rating: ASS. Made on a shoestring budget, there's nothing here to commend. Dreadfully slow, characters that suffer from Cloverfield levels of unlikeability, overly reliant on the camera capturing a brief glimpse of a something that the doomed kids never see. Also missing: one plot.
V/H/S. Anthology of found footage stories. Rating: GOOD. I enjoyed V/H/S because none of the ideas get to outstay their welcome, keeping it fresh throughout. I have not yet watched the sequel, V/H/S 2, which I've also heard good things about. The main downside was my depressing realisation that, despite having different directors, most of the segments fall back on women being used or humiliated.
Chronicle. Three teenagers develop powerful telekinesis through a strange incident. Rating: GOOD. Another entry that isn't a horror film. This one has a higher budget than your typical found footage fodder and, while it isn't outstanding, it's a decent outing. It falls into the District 9 trap of being thoughtful until it's time for an ACTION CLIMAX.
[REC]. A journalist and her cameraman shadowing firefighters on the night shift end up with more than they bargained for. Rating: HOLY SHIT. Jaume Balagueró's film blows away the competition and I don't think any other found footage film can hold a candle to the claustrophobic tension and dread that floods the film after everything goes off the rails. I often found my eyes drawn to the background (a la the superb It Follows) begging the characters not to turn their back on a dark room. This is real craft. (Quibble: there's noticeable acceleration in what's going on as the film progresses to the point where I can see rollercoaster design more clearly, but it's a minor quibble. Happy to talk about this in the comments.)
[REC]
Quarantine. A journalist and her cameraman shadowing firefighters on the night shift end up with more than they bargained for - but this time in English! Rating: NOT BAD. Quarantine is an English remake of [REC] which copies the original closely in some areas but makes baffling changes in others - like battering someone to death with a camera. Also the journalist, played by Dexter's Jennifer Carpenter, seems to collapse into hysteria at such an early stage I longed for her Spanish equivalent. This is a film which did not need to be made. Just go watch [REC].
[REC] 2, 3, 4. Rating: DIMINISHING RETURNS. [REC] 2 is a solid follow up although I was not too excited about the religious aspect and the addition of a Cronenburgish antagonist; it is a little like watching Half Life: Opposing Force - now here are some stories you didn't see! [REC] 3 is from a different director and it shows because (a) it's not found footage and (b) it has blackly comic elements and (c) it's just an average horror film. [REC] 4 is back with Balagueró but it strays too far from the series' roots to become just another action/horror film.
The Last Exorcism. A Reverend makes a documentary determined to out his own profession - taking money for fake exorcisms. Rating: OKAY. The anti-hero at the centre of The Last Exorcism is different from the usual protagonists and the opening section where the found footage details his past is more interesting than most. But perhaps the best aspect is Ashley Bell who looks innocent and lost one minute - then downright demonic the next. Is she possessed or not? The story doesn't have a coherent forward momentum and the ending is unsatisfying, but it was an enjoyable watch.
The Dyatlov Pass Incident (aka The Devil's Pass). Five students are determined to solve the mystery of the 1959 Dyatlov Pass Incident. Rating: OKAY. So the Dyatlov Pass Incident is a real thing - where nine hikers died in mysterious circumstances in the Ural Mountains. As it remains unexplained it is fodder for plenty of supernatural fiction - there's even a videogame about it called Kholat. The production values aren't bad and the film uses found footage tropes quite well. The gloriously batshit ending, though, is what elevates this to memorable. It is ridiculous on every conceivable level and I love the film for it. (Aside: Can directors stop throwing things directly at the camera? Using CGI to do this has never looked anything other than fake. Look, I hated it back when the BSG remake flew a Cylon raider straight at your face in the title sequence.)
The Borderlands (aka Final Prayer). The Vatican sends in a team to determine the authenticity of supernatural activity reported at a church. Rating: GOOD. Strange atmosphere to this one and a little sluggish in parts. However, the development of the relationship between the two main characters, Gray and Deacon, is fun to observe and the first strange incident, taking place outside the team's cottage, is quite disturbing. You're never sure whether some of the peripheral events are connected with the church… or simply coincidence. It doesn't quite add up to the more than the sum of its parts but was not bored. Frankly, I found the final moments of the film terrifying.
And that completes the list. I think that's every found footage movie I've seen. Let me know if there are any others that might be worth a spin!
Filed under: The Farfield Leave a comment
Jonas Kyratzes
April 28th, 2017 - 12:24
The Blair Witch Project is underrated and much better than most found footage movies. Its horror is much more abstract and unnerving than the jumpy monsters of later films.
Apart from the crappy, rushed ending, The Last Exorcism was surprisingly solid.
The Dyatlov (the L comes after the T) Incident is also surprisingly effective, despite an unnecessarily complicated ending that doesn't contribute much.
Have you see The Objective (2008)? It had some truly terrifying scenes, without jumpscare bullshit.
Great, I correct your spelling and then miss an entire word myself. Way to go, writer man.
Oh, here's another one: Diary of the Dead. Quite enjoyed that one.
Joel Goodwin
I think, Jonas, what I'm usually looking for is something solidly disquieting. I'm not a jumpscare kind of person which is why I have trouble with horror games. I guess that's why I'm attracted to found footage because they're usually far more about reality slowly degrading – although there are decent examples of bucking that trend in the list – and experiencing that degradation is what I find thrilling.
I've always intended to go back to Blair Witch and watch it again because the original circumstances in which I watched it were, will, not ideal? But my memories are so negative I can never drum up the enthusiasm.
Fixed Dyatlov! I haven't seen The Objective, but noted for future reference.
I did have Diary of the Dead on this list originally but couldn't remember if it was actually found footage or was a hybrid. My memories of it are pretty vague.
I've also received recommendations of The Conspiracy and Grave Encounters from @zarawesome in Twitter.
Merzmensch
Interesting and worth to be mentioned is the whole ARG thing around Cloverfield. Even if the movie itself is in my eyes OKAY as well, the transmedial storytelling behind it was amazing. It inspired thousands of people for craziest theories, for overwhelming discoveries and for mysterious experiences. It was my first ARG, and I was quickly under the spell of this genre.
That feeling of reality changing is also very much what I'm looking for in horror; it's usually also what happens in my worst nightmares. Go figure. (Also great in this vein: several of John Carpenter's films, Sapphire & Steel.)
A totally different found footage movie is M. Night Shyamalan's The Visit, which I adored. It's very clever, at times extremely funny, and dark without being tediously sadistic.
Not a found footage movie, but I fucking loved The Witch.
Oh shit, dude, did someone just mention The Witch?
Man, now that there is a god damn film.
neggy
Is "fake documentary" included in the category of found footage? I'm pretty fond of Noroi (the curse), as well as Lake Mungo.
LadyHazy
You watched The Blair Witch Project on a plane. Oh dear. It's definitely worth giving it another chance in better surroundings. I saw a midnight showing of it as an excited 16 year old, and was thoroughly scared. I watched it again a week later with some immature lads who made fun of it all the way through, and was glad my first viewing wasn't marred by them.
We will definitely check out V/H/S and The Bay, thanks for the recommendations.
Banshee Chapter and Creep are great, and were both on Netflix last time I looked. Man Bites Dog is also worth checking out, but I think it's more of a faux-documentary horror than found footage. Lake Mungo has found footage elements, and is a rare film that succeeded in creeping both me and Gregg out for months afterwards. Gregg's brother loved The Taking of Deborah Logan, but we rated it more of a MEH. We didn't like The Conspiracy either.
As for your particular dislikes, never watch the original Funny Games. It's the only film I've nearly asked Gregg to turn off because it was so intense and hard going – even though it was very self aware. Don't watch The Loved Ones either; Gregg had to watch it through his hands.
Agree with you about The Bay. Great film. [REC] is also a favourite, and I've watched Trollhunter maybe three times now. I like Cloverfield more than you, but then I'm a sucker for monsters.
Kholat, the Dyatlov Pass game, is sadly not very interesting. It is essentially a Slender game.
"on a return flight"
Bad Joel, bad! I loved Blair Witch and the same goes for Paranormal Activity. Didn't see the sequel on account that it was terrible, but watched the third film, which had some great moments but was let down by a really dopey finale.
Trollhunter is probably one of my favourites here. It's tense, funny, smart, surprising, utterly intriguing and unique.
Not seen As Above, So Below or Europa Report. But slow you say? Slow tends to work well for me!
Cloverfield I enjoyed but not to the same degree as others seemed to. Now 10 Cloverfield Lane, that was great, though it's not found footage.
Not heard of The Bay but that's going on the list. Not heard of Invoked and seems I don't need to either! V/H/S is one I've looked into but for reasons unknown never pursued. Sounds like we should fix that.
Chronicle I wasn't that wild about. I don't remember it being bad but perhaps it was the characters or something that rubbed me the wrong way? It's been a while.
Now [REC] is one Hai and I saw years ago and she loved it through and through while I went from enjoying it to loving it after the finale. That finale is just… holy shit. Quarantine we just avoided, almost on principle! We may give [REC] 2 a spin.
"As it remains unexplained it is fodder for plenty of supernatural fiction – there's even a videogame about it called Kholat."
Ohh, that's interesting. I had no idea. I'm very curious about The Devil's Pass after yours and Jonas' words. Sad to hear Kholat is like a Slender game Shaun. I'm not good with jump scares.
Man, The Borderlands we watched at my parents and wasn't sure what to expect but I think it totally delivered. I love it when a horror movie has an inscrutable uneasiness to it and the direction the film goes in is totally unexpected, memorable and yeah, terrifying. Stuff of nightmares, really.
Very interesting hearing your thoughts on all this Joel. Remind me to talk to you about horror in the future ;-)
Keep the recommendations coming folks, LadyHazy and I will be watchlisting them as we go. I'll second what LadyHazy has to say too: Creep is excellent, Banshee Chapter reminded me of The Borderlands and Absentia (not found footage but, again, uncanny and unnerving), and Lake Mungo haunted us. Ooof.
Oh, and although I watched The Loved Ones through my hands, it was brilliant. I wouldn't have watched it if I'd known what it was about beforehand though. I'm not great with torture.
So here's an update from the Twitter side of things. Chris Franklin (Errant Signal) offered Project Almanac which he says is absolutely terrible. Adam Smith (RPS) said Lake Mungo is brilliant, but he doesn't know many that agree with him – but as my ratings match his opinions fairly closely, he thought it's probably my kind of movie. Sam Barlow (Her Story) suggested Unfriended which is fine but Open Windows was not great.
And Craig Lager was furious at my dismissal of Cloverfield and As Above So Below.
And Ben Walker suggested Noroi (The Curse) being up there with [REC] which is title I feel I might have heard of, but perhaps it's just because I've heard of the word Noroi before. I don't know.
It sounds like I missed out on something pretty cool! After I Love Bees ARG and the failed "What's in the Box" ARG I felt like I was done. Maybe I shouldn't have been :)
I really liked John Carpenter's older stuff – The Thing and Assault on Precinct 13 are masterpieces – but his later works just don't have that spark. I haven't seen The Visit nor The Witch so I'll just wait until they turn up on Netflix or terrestrial :) And Andrew also seems to high five the latter recommendation.
I tend to feel fake documentary is pretty close to found footage – The Bay, for example, is both – so I'm good. I'm happy to watch these two recommends (especially as you weren't the only one to wave their flags) whenever I get the opportunity to!
I was most definitely not a 16 year old when I had my chance to watch Blair Witch. I feel even older now :) I will probably give it another chance at some point in the future. But there's always more Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.!
I have seen Banshee Chapter – it was on an "honorary mentions" list I decided to delete at the last minute because it opens with some "found footage". For me it was okay, not brilliant, but has some defo creepy vibes running through it. I guess the Creep you mean is the 2014 movie and not the 2004 one?
I have seen The Loved Ones and I think I winced a lot. It certainly wasn't my kind of thing, even though it does have a sense of humour about it.
I've realised I'm not that into monsters these days – there was a period in my teens where I loooooved monsters but that seems to have passed. Maybe I should get back into my Gojira films (which I also loooooved around my early teens). Cloverfield felt a bit like a Half-Life movie particularly the tunnel sequence, in the sense that a lot of it felt artificial, like a designer engineering new elements to give the sustain momentum.
If you want to know what "slow" means in the context of Europa Report, it means I feel asleep a couple of times and had to run it back. For a film that purports to be a documentary it is dreadfully edited. I would definitely give As Above So Below a run though, it has some interesting moments and I really like the opening section.
Yeah Chronicle just didn't grab as much as I'd have hoped. But let's [FFWD] to [REC] – that ending is brilliant, especially the "environmental narrative" way of explaining the whole movie. [REC] 2 is definitely worth a watch because it takes place in the same claustrophobic environment, retains the same feel. The only reason I watched Quarantine was for this very article!
I like The Borderlands but it suffers from the same problem most horror has – the supernatural incidents can feel so arbitrary. But that ending! Gah!!!!
I'll just drop a quick bote for you regarding Absentia which I have seen. I like it but (a) half of the horror is misdirection – all those ghostly sequences are really disconnected from the meat of the story (b) for something that hasn't bothered anyone for years, the "antagonist" gets really restless by the end. But, man, the outcome of the attempted exchange was horrifying, I did not see that one coming. Holy Christ.
I mean the 2014 Creep. Quite aptly named too.
I like that Banshee Chapter is based on an H.P. Lovecraft story (I've always meant to read some Lovecraft, but never seem to remember), and that it involves drug taking — lack of control through drug taking has always been a fear of mine, which is probably why it hit a note with me.
Someone else also recommended As Above, So Below recently, so we'll get it added to the list. I'm not sure about Europa Report though, it sounds like a snoozefest :-/
I quite liked Unfriended. We had the perfect setup – through Gregg's PC. Mark Kermode called it: 'a Blair Witch for the broadband era'.
We've watched quite a few Aussie & Kiwi films recently, and they always seem to have a great sense of humour (Hunt for the Wilderpeople, Wyrmwood, Housebound, Bad Taste). We've decided to permeate our viewing with them more often ;-)
I have a number of these waiting in my Netflix queue, but will never watch most of them due to overwhelming cowardice. Their presence makes me feel brave and cool, though, like "hey, that Steerpike is pretty courageous with those scary films waiting to be watched."
The Blair Witch Project had many shortcomings — talk about unlikable characters — but the last shot will stay with me until the day I die.
Loved this article, HM. Also loved your rating system, from HOLY SHIT (good) to ASS (ass). Love it!
May 5th, 2017 - 10:48
I'm also afraid of the horror genre, but I'm very curious and want to see it. What a contradiction
Oh, Cloverfield ARG was the first of the most ARGs to productions by JJ Abrams – and most of them great. I'll drop a message when they'll start again (I dedicated 70% of my Blog to all those transmedial gorgeousnesses).
"What's in the Box" was pretty interestkng video with some nice efforts to build an ARG post factum, but it was not really moving, since they hadn't tried to mimic instead of something new. But again, the visuals are great. And btw. right now checked their account: they seem to making a movie "Kill Switch" (coming in June 20??). They uploaded the teaser some days ago (after 6 years silence).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7TSEgT0pRc
BTW, "Noroi" is a pretty nice "fake documentary" with some amazing cabaretists of Japanese Manzai genre (like "King Kong" and "Ungirls" (I think)). And this movie was accompanied by a pretty spooky viral campaign in Japanese web (only in Japanese though), where a anthopologist looking for hidden messages in children songs and nurse rhymes made such great efforts in his research, that his whole library was destroyed by somebody/something. It was made like a blog, and was really spooky. Especially if you know all those children songs (like Suzume, or kakurembo rhymes etc.), and see them now from another, creepy perspective.
Amanda Lange
Great list. Mostly just here to belatedly chime in that I also did not like Cloverfield's style. Cloverfield made me literally throw up. It's a good thing I had that popcorn bucket to catch it.
Chris Lampton
June 30th, 2017 - 05:07
Some belated comments: Am I the only person on earth who loves Cloverfield? I developed an affection for kaiju (giant monster) movies as a kid when I saw the original Godzilla, the Americanized version of Gojira with Raymond Burr interpolated as narrator/bystander. I still get chills when I remember the scene where the people in Tokyo stood listening in the night to Godzilla's booming footsteps as he slowly crossed the bottom of Tokyo Bay toward the city. Later kaiju films degenerated into silliness and American attempts to duplicate Godzilla tend either to be formulaic drek, like the 1998 Roland Emmerich version with Matthew Broderick, or uninspired, semi-coherent homages, like the 2014 Gareth Edwards adaptation. Cloverfield, the only found-footage movie I've ever seen that used the technique for artistic rather than budgetary reasons, was the first movie I've seen since childhood that got kaiju-style horror right. The shakeycam cleverly excuses the cinematographer's "failure" to give you a direct view of the monster, which like Stephen Spielberg's shark that doesn't show up until halfway through the film becomes vastly scarier for its absence. And I'm sure that every movement of that shaky camera was choreographed very carefully in advance.
I'm not sure it's fair to call Agents of SHIELD "execrable" anymore. With the fourth season it graduated to mildly guilty pleasure. Although I found the Ghost Rider arc boring, it caught fire (pun not really intended) with the ninth episode and somehow managed to sustain an exciting virtual reality arc right up until the end of its 22 episode season. The show has had an unusually hard time finding a consistent voice, but for most of the last season it had one. My theory is that Executive Producer Joss Whedon, now that he's rested up from his near nervous breakdown making the Avengers films, is sitting in at writers room meetings and cajoling the showrunners into pushing themselves harder, thinking ahead to the story they'll be telling in a year or two and finding a rising arc that will get them there. At least it's my fervent hope that next season, based on the final shot of this last season, will sustain the tension and the show will finally become what it briefly seemed to be at the end of season one, a witty, imaginative piece of television with a genuine dramatic backbone.
July 1st, 2017 - 11:03
Hi Chris, indeed you may be the only person who loves Cloverfield! I feel like it was a film that had potential but too many wrong decisions put it at arms length. Shaky arms, at that.
I actually tweeted a few weeks ago that I was shocked that Agents of SHIELD had suddenly become good? Usually virtual reality stories are pretty rubbish – not everything can be the Matrix and they are more an excuse for "dream sequences but real". The 100 indulged a bit of virtual reality in the final episode of the third season and it was just like that, inventing magic from moment to moment to conjure artificial emotional investment. Yet somehow the whole VR-based Agents of HYDRA arc was absorbing rippling with some genuine shocks (when Fitz pulls that trigger, even though I felt the show was going to have him do it, it still provoked a Oh My God No).
My problem with SHIELD is that most of the time it feels like they're inventing universe on the fly so that the plot is interesting, very little of the story is extrapolation from a fixed set of rules. Also, this team of professional acts like a bunch of teenagers: they're always going off and doing their own thing, having crises about what they should do… instead of following bloody orders. And they never quite pinned down who Ward was. I did enjoy the closing arc of the first season, which played out the full events of The Winter Soldier and everything went mental.
I'm going to throw another series out here which does interesting things but flawed. I quite like Van Helsing. I guess it's kind of The Walking Dead but with vampires? (I don't really watch The Walking Dead, gave up after one series.) The series hardly uses music and relies far more on the actors carrying the scenes. Problem 1: the vampires just look like people who haven't had enough sleep, they simply don't convince. Problem 2: way, way, WAY too much betrayal – I lost count of the number of double crosses in the tail end of the series. I'll continue watching into the second season, though, because I liked what it was trying to do. The first episode is a bit "meh" but the second episode was engrossing.
Van Helsing managed to fly — get it? bats? flying? — under my radar, but here in the U.S. it's on SyFy and I just discovered that I can watch it on my Roku. If I can tear myself way from the other several hundred other things on streaming that I want to watch, including all the shows based on superhero comics I read when I was 9 years old, I may give it a try, because it sounds like the kind of television I like to watch at night after Amy, my partner in life and house, goes to bed.
I really suggest that you give The Walking Dead another try, though. The first season was trite and fairly uninteresting, but showrunner Scott Gimple took over in Season Two and really turned it around. By Season Three it was thrilling, a web of complex characters and fascinating situations. They do wonderful things with character, often devoting an entire episode to a single character or pair of characters and exploring them in depth. By Season Seven it started wearing thin, though, with the half that we've seen brutal even by the show's usual standards, and it's probable we'll never watch the second half. But up until then it was one of the best action/fantasy shows on television. The zombies are largely a Maguffin for exploring what becomes of human society under pressure, which is pretty much the way all apocalyptic shows/movies work, but it does it much better than most.
July 2nd, 2017 - 22:46
Chris, I don't know if I would say "by golly, you gotta watch Van Helsing" it's just… another thing, you know. And it's far from perfect. I did wonder I did wonder that because I got into Van Helsing that I might get something out The Walking Dead now. What do I know. I haven't watched Game of Thrones yet. Or anything past season 3 of Lost.
July 3rd, 2017 - 06:41
There's not a lot of point to watching past Season Three of Lost. Though I know people who felt the show got better after that, when I rewatched the first five seasons with Amy to get ready for the sixth I realized that the show is basically a downhill slide all the way, with each season more confused and overpopulated than the season before it. If you're looking for a good science fiction series to binge watch, I recommend the Canadian show Orphan Black, the best TV show ever about cloning. (It may also be the only one, but it would probably still be the best if there were others.) Tatiana Maslany is absolutely amazing as an ever-increasing string of clones caught up in one of the most elaborate conspiracies on television. I find the show, now in its final season, magnetically watchable.
As for Game of Thrones, binge it after it's over. You kinda need to watch it all at once to keep from forgetting all the plot threads. I can only keep them straight because I read the books, from which it's now departed, George R.R. Martin having somehow forgotten to write enough of them.
I would say Lost gets more complex and ambitious with each season, and its only problem is that it isn't the show people think it is, the show that in some ways is implied by Season 1. It's not a show about the complexity of the plot, but a show about the complexity of faith and doubt. It's not about who's the bad guy, but about breaking cycles of abuse. It's the show where everything is infinitely more messy than we'd like it to be, but human beings are not actually awful, and the bonds between people do matter.
I'd say it's one the most underrated, philosophically complex works ever created for television, and it bugs me to hell that it's so commonly dismissed. The finale is up there with "Sleeping in Light" as one of the most moving things I've ever seen.
Fully agree, LOST provided new levels of perceptive immersion – not only via plot and acting, but also via postperceptive work of mind. With every new LOST season the dimensions of this fictional reality became bigger and bigger, and all the connections, cultural allusions, intertextual references became innovative for the entertainment sector.
The newest levels are about to be exploded by the 3rd season of Twin Peaks. The most important thing is: authors trust to their audience. They don't need to explain everything, they let audience find out of this labyrinth. And this is also important for game making as well.
I will say that I only stopped watching Lost because I never had access to it beyond a certain point. We bought the whole box set – because I was really into it – but my wife and I never found the time to sit down and watch it together. And so it was abandoned. I still have the complete box set and I should probably crack it open. You know, at the same time I play Mass Effect.
At the time I remember the themes of Lost were strongly about one's place in the world, belief in destiny and fate. It felt fresh at the time and not as anti-science as it could have been, but soon enough I noticed this theme popping up everywhere (most negatively in the new BSG). I always assumed this was a reaction to rising feelings of individual impotence in an increasingly connected world – here you are, a show about the importance of everyone's lives to a dramatic whole. Have faith. You have a destiny! A religion of the Self aka Paulo Coelho goes Hollywood.
Wait I forgot Orphan Black. I was a fan of Orphan Black. I loved the first series. The second series was okay, too. But then Castor in the third series just wasn't as interesting a twist and it was getting too wheels-within-wheels for me. How deep does the conspiracy go? As far as we need to make another series, it felt like.
So I haven't watched any more episodes since the S3 finale.
July 4th, 2017 - 09:30
Regarding the "faith" thing – yes and no. What makes Lost quite remarkable (and very different from BSG) is where it goes with the character of John Locke. It's so layered and painful and complex, and absolutely not what the first season seems to imply (wise wheelchair man becomes island Yoda). I think one reason people got frustrated (including myself, the first time) is that it goes so very much against what we are conditioned to expect.
Ultimately, it actually has far more in common with B5 than BSG.
Wow, I really shouldn't let myself get into discussions of television shows. It's as dangerous as getting into discussions of politics and religion! ;)
Jonas: Given that I watched the first five seasons of Lost twice, I obviously was a fan and I stuck with the show even when friends were dropping out because they felt it was becoming too murky and obtuse. But I found my enjoyment diminished on the second viewing rather than enhanced. I hate to admit it, but I'd never thought about it that deeply on a philosophical level, just a science fictional one (which is clearly not the right angle to view the show from, because by the end it's clear that it isn't science fiction). But your points are good ones and I'm going to mull them over. I liked the symmetry of the show, the way the first half in many ways mirrored the second half, most obviously in the crossover at the end of Season Three from flashbacks to flashforwards (and the accompanying Through the Looking Glass analogy). But it's been too long now, even with two viewings, for me to pull up enough memories of it to discuss it on that deep a level.
Joel, if you liked the first three seasons of Lost then you really should go ahead with it. I figured you gave up, like a lot of my friends, because you were getting bored or frustrated with it. But if it piqued your interest, watch the second half. And about Orphan Black — yes, it became way to enthralled with its own complexity as the seasons went on. But when I saw an ad for the latest season and heard that theme music playing (I'd forgotten how much I love the opening credits), I knew I'd be coming back for more, even if I'm totally lost in the final season. The clones are so beautifully drawn as characters that I'm willing to put up with boatloads of convoluted intrigue to see them again.
I did love that Locke had been the defender of the numbers in the hatch at the end of the second season – and then lost his faith completely leading to the station exploding (if that's what that even was).
I will reckon Lost at some point and, I dare say, I might end up watching Orphan Black again – I'd like to watch that with my wife. If we ever get time to watch TV together.
Status Report: May 2017 » « Credits Provide Closure


text:
Q: How can I have multiple pages on a react app This is my first time using React, so I'm not certain how to approach this.
I am creating a React app for a chatbot, where I want the end screen to transition to a feedback rating similar to the one here (https://medium.com/@mailjontay/make-a-dynamic-emoticon-satisfaction-rating-with-react-4c7cb1b92fb).
I have one .js file that contains my chatbot and one .js file that contains my star rating. At the end of my chatbot .js file, I call export default chatbot;, which seems to render my chatbot.
How can I then call my star rating JS file?

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaStackExchange


text:
Hannah Woolley (1622 - 1675) fue una escritora británica, reconocida por publicar los primeros libros sobre labores domésticas (cocina, etiqueta, limpieza, entre otras), y fue probablemente la primera persona que se ganó la vida con dicha profesión.

Biografía
Su madre y hermanas mayores tenían conocimientos básicos en cirugía, y Hannah aprendió de ellas. Nada se sabe acerca de su padre.

De 1639 a 1646 Woolley trabajó como sirvienta de una mujer llamada Lady Maynard, y durante ese tiempo aprendió sobre remedios médicos y recetas culinarias.

Contrajo matrimonio con Jerome Woolley, un maestro de escuela en 1646 y fundó junto a él una escuela de gramática en Newport, Essex.

Años después, los Woolley abrieron una nueva escuela en Hackney, Londres. Hannah tuvo al menos cuatro hijos y dos hijas, y su matrimonio fue feliz, según recuerda la misma Hannah.

Hannah enviudó en 1661 y a partir de ese año se dedicó a publicar libros sobre labores domésticas y manutención del hogar. Sus libros se centraban en temas como recetas culinarias, consejos para el mantenimiento del hogar, etiqueta en la mesa, formas correctas de redactar cartas, consejos médicos y elaboración de perfumes. Sus libros se volvieron muy populares con el paso del tiempo.

Su primera publicación,  The Ladies Directory, fue costeada de su propio bolsillo en 1661, y fue reimpresa en 1664. Su segundo libro, The Cooks Guide, fue impreso a expensas de su publicista y está dedicado a la hija de Lady Maynard, Lady Anne Wroth (1632–1677), y a su propia hija, Mary.

Woolley ganó una buena reputación con sus consejos médicos, a pesar de desarrollar sus ideas en una época en la que a la mujer no se le tenía en cuenta en este tipo de aspectos. Usaba sus propios libros para promocionar sus servicios, motivando a sus lectores a que la consultaran en persona.

Woolley se casó nuevamente en 1666 con Francis Challiner, sin embargo su segundo esposo falleció en febrero de 1669.

La muerte de Hannah es un misterio. No tuvo reacción alguna ante el plagio de uno de sus trabajos titulado  The Accomplish'd Ladies Delight en 1675, por lo que se especula que para esa fecha podría haber ya fallecido.

Trabajos
 1661 – The Ladies Directory
 1664 – The Cooks Guide
 1686 – The Accomplisht Ladys Delight
 1670 – The Queen-Like Closet Al menos dos ediciones fueron publicadas en alemán, con el nombre Frauenzimmers Zeitvertreib.
 1672 – The Ladies Delight
 1674 – A Supplement to the "Queen-Like Closet,"  o, A Little of Every Thing

Un compendio no autorizado, basado en sus libros, fue publicado en 1673 como The Gentlewoman's Companion.
Algunos trabajos similares fueron publicados en 1675 bajo el nombre The Accomplished Ladies Delight y en 1685 The Compleat Servant-Maid. Como sus trabajos originales, fueron reimpresos al poco tiempo.

Notas

Referencias

 Considine, John; Wolley, Hannah (b. 1622?, d. in or after 1674), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 2009
 Chedgzoy, Kate, Melanie Osborne, and Suzanne Trill, eds. "Lay By Your Needles Ladies, Take the Pen": Writing Women in England, 1500–1700. Londres y Nueva York: Arnold, 1997 ISBN 0-340-61450-1.
 Ferguson, Moira, ed. First Feminists: British Women Writers, 1578–1799.  Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1985.
 Poole, Kristen. "The fittest closet for all goodness: authorial strategies of Jacobean mothers manuals". Studies in English Literature, 1500–1900; vol. 35 (1995): 69–88.
 Raftery, Deirdre. Women and Learning in English Writing, 1600–1900. Portland: Four Courts Press, 1997.

Enlaces externos

 Libros de Hannah Woolley en la Universidad de Pensilvania.

Escritores de Inglaterra del siglo XVII
Escritoras de Inglaterra
Inglesas del siglo XVII

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaWikipedia


text:
Home > Civil Rights, Commercial Development, Community Redevelopment, Community Service, Community/Neighborhoods, Human Rights, Human Services, Omaha, Social Activism, Social Justice, Social Work, Writing	> Life Itself XVI: Social justice, civil rights, human services, human rights, community development stories
Life Itself XVI: Social justice, civil rights, human services, human rights, community development stories
August 18, 2018 leoadambiga	Leave a comment Go to comments
Life Itself XVI:
Social justice, civil rights, human services, human rights, community development stories
Unequal Justice: Juvenile detention numbers are down, but bias persists
https://leoadambiga.com/2018/03/09/unequal-justice-…ut-bias-persists
To vote or not to vote
https://leoadambiga.com/2018/06/01/to-vote-or-not-to-vote/
North Omaha rupture at center of PlayFest drama
https://leoadambiga.com/2018/04/30/north-omaha-rupt…f-playfest-drama/
Her mother's daughter: Charlene Butts Ligon carries on civil rights legacy of her late mother Evelyn Thomas Butts
https://leoadambiga.com/2018/01/28/her-mothers-daug…lyn-thomas-butts/
Brenda Council: A public servant's life
https://leoadambiga.com/2017/06/26/brenda-council-a…ic-servants-life
The Urban League movement lives strong in Omaha
https://leoadambiga.com/2017/11/17/the-urban-league…-strong-in-omaha/
Park Avenue Revitalization and Gentrification: InCommon Focuses on Urban Neighborhood
https://leoadambiga.com/2018/02/25/park-avenue-revi…ban-neighborhood/
Health and healing through culture and community
https://leoadambiga.com/2017/11/17/health-and-heali…re-and-community
Syed Mohiuddin: A pillar of the Tri-Faith Initiative in Omaha
https://leoadambiga.com/2017/09/01/syed-mohiuddin-a…tiative-in-omaha
Re-entry prepares current and former incarcerated individuals for work and life success on the outside
https://leoadambiga.com/2018/01/10/re-entry-prepare…s-on-the-outside/
Frank LaMere: A good man's work is never done
https://leoadambiga.com/2017/07/11/frank-lamere-a-g…rk-is-never-done
Behind the Vision: Othello Meadows of 75 North Revitalization Corp.
https://leoadambiga.com/2017/06/27/behind-the-visio…italization-corp
North Omaha beckons investment, combats gentrification
https://leoadambiga.com/2017/05/25/north-omaha-beck…s-gentrification
SAFE HARBOR: Activists working to create Omaha Area Sanctuary Network as refuge for undocumented persons in danger of arrest-deportation
https://leoadambiga.com/2017/06/29/safe-harbor-acti…rest-deportation
Heartland Dreamers have their say in nation's capitol
https://leoadambiga.com/2018/03/24/heartland-dreame…-nations-capitol/
Of Dreamers and doers, and one nation indivisible under…
https://leoadambiga.com/2017/02/21/of-dreamers-and-…ndivisible-under/
Refugees and asylees follow pathways to freedom, safety and new starts
https://leoadambiga.com/2017/02/21/refugees-and-asy…y-and-new-starts
Coming to America: Immigrant-Refugee mosaic unfolds in new ways and old ways in Omaha
https://leoadambiga.com/2011/07/10/coming-to-americ…ld-ways-in-omaha
History in the making: $65M Tri-Faith Initiative bridges religious, social, political gaps
https://leoadambiga.com/2017/05/25/history-in-the-m…l-political-gaps
A systems approach to addressing food insecurity in North Omaha
https://leoadambiga.com/2017/08/11/a-systems-approa…y-in-north-omaha
No More Empty Pots Intent on Ending North Omaha Food Desert
https://leoadambiga.com/2013/08/13/no-more-empty-po…t-in-north-omaha
Poverty in Omaha:
Breaking the cycle and the high cost of being poor
https://leoadambiga.com/2017/01/03/poverty-in-omaha…st-of-being-poor/
Down and out but not done in Omaha: Documentary surveys the poverty landscape
https://leoadambiga.com/2015/11/03/down-and-out-but…overty-landscape
Struggles of single moms subject of film and discussion; Local women can relate to living paycheck to paycheck
https://leoadambiga.com/2014/10/24/the-struggles-of…heck-to-paycheck
Aisha's Adventures: A story of inspiration and transformation; homelessness didn't stop entrepreneurial missionary Aisha Okudi from pursuing her goals
https://leoadambiga.com/2014/07/10/aisha-okudis-sto…rsuing-her-goals
Omaha Community Foundation project assesses the Omaha landscape with the goal of affecting needed change
https://leoadambiga.com/2017/05/10/omaha-community-…ng-needed-change/
Nelson Mandela School Adds Another Building Block to North Omaha's Future
https://leoadambiga.com/2016/01/24/nelson-mandela-s…th-omahas-future
Partnership 4 Kids – Building Bridges and Breaking Barriers
https://leoadambiga.com/2014/06/03/partnership-4-ki…reaking-barriers
Changing One Life at a Time: Mentoring Takes Center Stage as Individuals and Organizations Make Mentoring Count
https://leoadambiga.com/2014/01/05/changing-one-lif…-mentoring-count/
Where Love Resides: Celebrating Ty and Terri Schenzel
https://leoadambiga.com/2016/02/02/where-love-resid…d-terri-schenzel/
North Omaha: Voices and Visions for Change
https://leoadambiga.com/2016/02/29/north-omaha-voic…sions-for-change
Black Lives Matter: Omaha activists view social movement as platform for advocating-making change
https://leoadambiga.com/2016/08/26/black-lives-matt…ng-making-change
SARAH HOFFMAN/THE WORLD-HERALD
Change in North Omaha: It's been a long time coming for northeast Omaha
https://leoadambiga.com/2015/08/01/change-in-north-…-northeast-omaha/
Girls Inc. makes big statement with addition to renamed North Omaha center
https://leoadambiga.com/2016/05/23/girls-inc-makes-…rth-omaha-center
NorthStar encourages inner city kids to fly high; Boys-only after-school and summer camp put members through their paces
https://leoadambiga.com/2015/06/17/northstar-encour…ough-their-paces/
Big Mama, Bigger Heart: Serving Up Soul Food and Second Chances
https://leoadambiga.com/2014/10/17/big-mama-bigger-…d-second-chances/
When a building isn't just a building: LaFern Williams South YMCA facelift reinvigorates community
https://leoadambiga.com/2012/08/03/when-a-building-…-just-a-building/
Identity gets new platform through RavelUnravel
https://leoadambiga.com/2015/03/20/identity-gets-a-…ugh-ravelunravel/
Where Hope Lives, Hope Center for Kids in North Omaha
https://leoadambiga.com/2011/06/04/where-hope-lives…s-in-north-omaha/
Ty Schenzel
Crime and punishment questions still surround 1970 killing that sent Omaha Two to life in prison
https://leoadambiga.com/2016/03/30/crime-and-punish…o-life-in-prison/
A WASP's racial tightrope resulted in enduring book partially set in 1960s Omaha
https://leoadambiga.com/2015/10/28/a-wasps-racial-t…t-in-1960s-omaha/
Gabriela Martinez:
A heart for humanity and justice for all
https://leoadambiga.com/2018/03/08/16878
Father Ken Vavrina's new book "Crossing Bridges" charts his life serving others
https://leoadambiga.com/2015/10/29/father-ken-vavri…e-serving-others/
Wounded Knee still battleground for some per new book by journalist-author Stew Magnuson
https://leoadambiga.com/2013/04/20/wounded-knee-sti…or-stew-magnuson
'Bless Me, Ultima': Chicano identity at core of book, movie, movement
https://leoadambiga.com/2013/09/14/bless-me-ultima-…k-movie-movement
Finding Normal: Schalisha Walker's journey finding normal after foster care sheds light on service needs
https://leoadambiga.com/2014/07/18/finding-normal-s…on-service-needs/
Dick Holland remembered for generous giving and warm friendship that improved organizations and lives
https://leoadambiga.com/2017/02/08/dick-holland-rem…ations-and-lives/
Justice champion Samuel Walker calls It as he sees it
https://leoadambiga.com/2014/05/30/justice-champion…it-as-he-sees-it
Walker on far left of porch of a Freedom Summer
El Puente: Attempting to bridge divide between grassroots community and the system
https://leoadambiga.com/2012/07/22/el-puente-attemp…y-and-the-system
All Abide: Abide applies holistic approach to building community; Josh Dotzler now heads nonprofit started by his parents
https://leoadambiga.com/2014/12/05/all-abide-abide-…d-by-his-parents/
Making Community: Apostle Vanessa Ward Raises Up Her North Omaha Neighborhood and Builds Community
https://leoadambiga.com/2013/08/13/making-community…builds-community/
Collaboration and diversity matter to Inclusive Communities: Nonprofit teaches tools and skills for valuing human differences
https://leoadambiga.com/2014/05/09/collaboration-an…uman-differences
Talking it out: Inclusive Communities makes hard conversations the featured menu item at Omaha Table Talk
https://leoadambiga.com/2016/05/02/talking-it-out-i…omaha-table-talk/
Everyone's welcome at Table Talk, where food for thought and sustainable race relations happen over breaking bread together
https://leoadambiga.com/2011/09/16/everyones-welcom…g-bread-together/
Feeding the world, nourishing our neighbors, far and near: Howard G. Buffett Foundation and Omaha nonprofits take on hunger and food insecurity
https://leoadambiga.com/2014/11/22/feeding-the-worl…-food-insecurity
Rabbi Azriel: Legacy as social progressive and interfaith champion secure
https://leoadambiga.com/2014/05/15/rabbi-azriel-leg…-champion-secure
Rabbi Azriel's neighborhood welcomes all, unlike what he saw on recent Middle East trip; Social justice activist and interfaith advocate optimistic about Tri-Faith campus
https://leoadambiga.com/2014/09/06/rabbi-azriels-ne…tri-faith-campus/
Ferial Pearson, award-winning educator dedicated to inclusion and social justice, helps students publish the stories of their lives
https://leoadambiga.com/2011/08/25/ferial-pearson-a…s-of-their-lives/
Upon This Rock: Husband and Wife Pastors John and Liz Backus Forge Dynamic Ministry Team at Trinity Lutheran
https://leoadambiga.com/2014/02/02/upon-this-rock-h…trinity-lutheran/
Gravitas – Gravity Center for Contemplative Activism founders Christopher and Phileena Heuertz create place of healing for healers
https://leoadambiga.com/2014/04/01/gravitas-gravity…ling-for-healers/
Art imitates life for "Having Our Say" stars, sisters Camille Metoyer Moten and Lanette Metoyer Moore, and their brother Ray Metoyer
https://leoadambiga.com/2014/02/05/art-imitates-lif…ther-ray-metoyer
Color-blind love:
Five interracial couples share their stories
https://leoadambiga.com/2014/02/06/color-blind-love…re-their-stories
A Decent House for Everyone: Jesuit Brother Mike Wilmot builds affordable homes for the working poor through Gesu Housing
https://leoadambiga.com/2011/09/09/a-decent-house-f…ugh-gesu-housing
Bro. Mike Wilmot and Gesu Housing: Building Neighborhoods and Community, One House at a Time
https://leoadambiga.com/2013/04/27/bro-mike-wilmot-…-house-at-a-time/
Omaha native Steve Marantz looks back at city's '68 racial divide through prism of hoops in new book, "The Rhythm Boys of Omaha Central"
https://leoadambiga.com/2011/04/01/omaha-native-ste…of-omaha-central/
Anti-Drug War manifesto documentary frames discussion:
Cost of criminalizing nonviolent offenders comes home
https://leoadambiga.com/2013/02/01/an-anti-drug-war…nders-comes-home
Documentary shines light on civil rights powerbroker Whitney Young: Producer Bonnie Boswell to discuss film and Young
https://leoadambiga.com/2013/03/21/documentary-shin…e-film-and-young
Civil rights veteran Tommie Wilson still fighting the good fight
https://leoadambiga.com/2015/05/07/civil-rights-vet…g-the-good-fight
Rev. Everett Reynolds Gave Voice to the Voiceless
https://leoadambiga.com/2011/07/18/rev-everett-reyn…to-the-voiceless/
Lela Knox Shanks: Woman of conscience, advocate for change, civil rights and social justice champion
https://leoadambiga.com/2010/08/04/lela-knox-shanks…ocate-for-change
Omahans recall historic 1963 march on Washington
https://leoadambiga.com/2013/08/12/omahans-recall-h…ch-on-washington
Psychiatrist-Public Health Educator Mindy Thompson Fullilove Maps the Root Causes of America's Inner City Decline and Paths to Restoration
https://leoadambiga.com/2012/07/04/psychiatrist-pub…s-to-restoration/
A force of nature named Evie:
Still a maverick social justice advocate at 100
https://leoadambiga.com/2010/06/16/a-force-of-natur…e-advocate-at-99
Home is where the heart Is for activist attorney Rita Melgares
https://leoadambiga.com/2012/07/20/home-is-where-th…ey-rita-melgares/
Free Radical Ernie Chambers subject of new biography by author Tekla Agbala Ali Johnson
https://leoadambiga.com/2012/12/05/free-radical-ern…bala-ali-johnson
Carolina Quezada leading rebound of Latino Center of the Midlands
https://leoadambiga.com/2012/05/03/carolina-quezada…-of-the-midlands/
Returning To Society: New community collaboration, research and federal funding fight to hold the costs of criminal recidivism down
https://leoadambiga.com/2011/07/02/returning-to-soc…-recidivism-down
Getting Straight: Compassion in Action expands work serving men, women and children touched by the judicial and penal system
https://leoadambiga.com/2013/05/22/getting-straight…and-penal-system
OneWorld Community Health: Caring, affordable services for a multicultural world in need
https://leoadambiga.com/2012/04/09/oneworld-communi…al-world-in-need
Dick Holland responds to far-reaching needs in Omaha
https://leoadambiga.com/2011/06/04/dick-holland-res…g-needs-in-omaha/
Gender equity in sports has come a long way, baby; Title IX activists-advocates who fought for change see much progress and the need for more
https://leoadambiga.com/2012/06/11/gender-equity-in…he-need-for-more/
Giving kids a fighting chance: Carl Washington and his CW Boxing Club and Youth Resource Center
https://leoadambiga.com/2013/12/03/giving-kids-a-fi…-resource-center/
Beto's way: Gang intervention specialist tries a little tenderness
http://leoadambiga.com/2015/10/28/betos-way-gang-i…ittle-tenderness/
Saving one kid at a time is Beto's life work
https://leoadambiga.com/2013/01/24/saving-one-kid-a…-betos-life-work
Community trumps gang in Fr. Greg Boyle's Homeboy model
https://leoadambiga.com/2012/07/21/community-trumps…es-homeboy-model/
Born again ex-gangbanger and pugilist, now minister, Servando Perales makes Victory Boxing Club his mission church for saving youth from the streets
https://leoadambiga.com/2011/12/19/born-again-ex-ga…from-the-streets/
Turning kids away from gangs and toward teams in South Omaha
https://leoadambiga.com/2012/07/17/turning-kids-awa…s-in-south-omaha/
"Paco" proves you can come home again
https://leoadambiga.com/2012/04/09/paco-proves-you-…-come-home-again
Beto reaching out to kids, ©d2center.org
Two graduating seniors fired by dreams and memories, also saddened by closing of school, St. Peter Claver Cristo Rey High
https://leoadambiga.com/2011/05/11/two-graduating-s…igh-in-omaha-neb/
St. Peter Claver Cristo Rey High: A school where dreams matriculate
https://leoadambiga.com/2010/08/29/st-peter-claver-…eams-matriculate/
Open Invitation: Rev. Tom Fangman engages all who seek or need at Sacred Heart Catholic Church
https://leoadambiga.com/2011/01/09/an-open-invitati…-catholic-church/
Outward Bound Omaha uses experiential education to challenge and inspire youth
https://leoadambiga.com/2012/04/26/outward-bound-om…nd-inspire-youth
After steep decline, the Wesley House rises under Paul Bryant to become youth academy of excellence in the inner city
https://leoadambiga.com/2011/08/27/after-a-steep-de…n-the-inner-city
Freedom riders: A get on the bus inauguration diary
https://leoadambiga.com/2010/10/21/get-on-the-bus-a…-ride-to-freedom/
The Great Migration comes home: Deep South exiles living in Omaha participated in the movement author Isabel Wilkerson writes about in her book, "The Warmth of Other Suns"
https://leoadambiga.com/2012/03/31/the-great-migrat…th-of-other-suns/
When New Horizons dawned for African-Americans seeking homes in Omaha
https://leoadambiga.com/2013/01/17/when-new-horizon…ericans-in-omaha/
Good Shepherds of North Omaha: Ministers and churches making a difference in area of great need
https://leoadambiga.com/2011/07/04/the-shepherds-of…ea-of-great-need
Academy Award-nominated documentary "A Time for Burning" captured church and community struggle with racism
https://leoadambiga.com/2010/12/15/a-time-for-burni…ggle-with-racism/
Letting 1,000 Flowers Bloom: The Black Scholar's Robert Chrisman Looks Back at a Life in the Maelstrom
https://leoadambiga.com/2011/03/08/letting-1000-flo…in-the-maelstrom
Coloring History:
A long, hard road for UNO Black Studies
https://leoadambiga.com/2010/08/25/coloring-history…no-black-studies
Two Part Series: After Decades of Walking Behind to Freedom, Omaha's African-American Community Tries Picking Up the Pace Through Self-Empowered Networking
https://leoadambiga.com/2016/02/13/two-part-series-…wered-networking
Power Players, Ben Gray and Other Omaha African-American Leaders Try Improvement Through Self-Empowered Networking
https://leoadambiga.com/2010/07/09/power-players-be…wered-networking/
Native Omahans Take Stock of the African-American Experience in Their Hometown
https://leoadambiga.com/2011/07/04/native-omahans-t…n-their-hometown
Overarching plan for North Omaha development now in place: Disinvested community hopeful long promised change follows
https://leoadambiga.com/2011/07/29/overarching-plan…d-change-follows/
Standing on Faith, Sadie Bankston Continues One-Woman Vigil for Homicide Victim Families
https://leoadambiga.com/2010/08/29/standing-on-fait…-victim-families/
Forget Me Not Memorial Wall
North Omaha champion Frank Brown fights the good fight
https://leoadambiga.com/2012/01/15/north-omaha-cham…s-the-good-fight/
Man on fire: Activist Ben Gray's flame burns bright
https://leoadambiga.com/2010/09/02/ben-gray-man-on-fire/
Strong, Smart and Bold, A Girls Inc. Success Story
https://leoadambiga.com/2010/08/29/strong-smart-and…-girls-inc-story
What happens to a dream deferred?
John Beasley Theater revisits Lorraine Hansberry's "A Raisin in the Sun"
https://leoadambiga.com/2011/06/14/what-happens-to-…aisin-in-the-sun
Brown v. Board of Education:
Educate with an Even Hand and Carry a Big Stick
https://leoadambiga.com/2012/07/07/brown-v-board-of…arry-a-big-stick/
North 24th Street, photo by lachance (Andrew Lachance)
Fast times at Omaha's Liberty Elementary: Evolution of a school
https://leoadambiga.com/2012/07/05/fast-times-at-om…tion-of-a-school/
New school ringing in Liberty for students
https://leoadambiga.com/2010/06/06/new-school-ringi…rty-for-students
Nancy Oberst: Pied Piper of Liberty Elementary School
https://leoadambiga.com/2011/09/06/nancy-oberst-the…lementary-school/
Tender Mercies Minister to Omaha's Poverty Stricken
https://leoadambiga.com/2010/05/31/tender-mercies-m…poverty-stricken/
Community and coffee at Omaha's Perk Avenue Cafe
https://leoadambiga.com/2011/06/04/community-and-co…perk-avenue-cafe/
Whatsoever You Do to the Least of My Brothers, that You Do Unto Me: Mike Saklar and the Siena/Francis House Provide Tender Mercies to the Homeless
https://leoadambiga.com/2010/08/01/whatsoever-you-d…t-you-do-unto-me/
Gimme Shelter: Sacred Heart Catholic Church Offers a Haven for Searchers
https://leoadambiga.com/2010/05/31/gimme-shelter-sa…en-for-searchers
UNO wrestling dynasty built on tide of social change
https://leoadambiga.com/2011/03/17/uno-wrestling-dy…-social-change-2
A brief history of Omaha's civil rights struggle distilled in black and white by photographer Rudy Smith
https://leoadambiga.com/2012/05/02/a-brief-history-…apher-rudy-smith/
Hidden In plain view: Rudy Smith's camera and memory fix on critical time in struggle for equality
https://leoadambiga.com/2010/08/29/hidden-in-plain-…gle-for-equality/
Small but mighty group proves harmony can be forged amidst differences
https://leoadambiga.com/2016/11/14/small-but-mighty…idst-differences/
Winners Circle: Couple's journey of self-discovery ends up helping thousands of at-risk kids through early intervention educational program
https://leoadambiga.com/2010/05/31/couples-journey-…-of-at-risk-kids
A Mentoring We Will Go
https://leoadambiga.com/2010/06/18/a-mentoring-we-will-go
Abe Sass: A mensch for all seasons
https://leoadambiga.com/2012/05/02/abe-sass-a-mensch-for-all-seasons
Shirley Goldstein: Cream of the Crop – one woman's remarkable journey in the Free Soviet Jewry movement
https://leoadambiga.com/2011/09/05/shirley-goldstei…t-jewry-movement/
Flanagan-Monsky example of social justice and interfaith harmony still shows the way seven decades later
https://leoadambiga.com/2010/05/31/flanagan-monsky-…y-60-years-later/
A Contrary Path to Social Justice: The De Porres Club and the fight for equality in Omaha
https://leoadambiga.com/2010/05/01/a-contrary-path-…quality-in-omaha/
Hey, you, get off of my cloud! Doug Paterson is acolyte of Theatre of the Oppressed founder Augusto Boal and advocate of art as social action
https://leoadambiga.com/2011/06/03/hey-you-get-off-…as-social-action/
Doing time on death row: Creighton University theater gives life to "Dead Man Walking"
https://leoadambiga.com/2012/01/10/doing-time-on-de…dead-man-walking/
"Walking Behind to Freedom" – A musical theater examination of race
https://leoadambiga.com/2011/06/21/walking-behind-t…mination-of-race/
Bertha's Battle: Bertha Calloway, the Grand Lady of Lake Street, struggles to keep the Great Plains Black History Museum afloat
https://leoadambiga.com/2010/05/11/berthas-battle
Leonard Thiessen social justice triptych deserves wider audience
https://leoadambiga.com/2017/01/21/leonard-thiessen…s-wider-audience/
Categories: Civil Rights, Commercial Development, Community Redevelopment, Community Service, Community/Neighborhoods, Human Rights, Human Services, Omaha, Social Activism, Social Justice, Social Work, Writing Tags: Civil Rights, Community Development, Community Redevelopment, Community Service, Community/Neighborhood, Human Rights, Human Services, Omaha, Social Activism, Social Justice, Social Services, Social Work
The healthcare war: Round and round it goes again, and where it stops, nobody knows Paula Poundstone talks Dick Cavett, Donald Trump and getting comfortable in her own skin


Flyers touting weekly specials on bananas or cheese. Eye-catching displays at the end of the cereal aisle. Yellow "price reduced" tags dangling from the shelves of canned soup.
For anyone who's ever stepped a foot inside a grocery store, these in-store promotions are as familiar as red potatoes or the diary case.
"There are basically three reasons a grocery shopper buys—brand loyalty, temporary price reductions, and displays," said Terry Ziegler, CEO of T-Pro Solutions of Columbus.
T-Pro Solutions provides big data solutions that help manufacturers of consumer packaged goods (CPG) make better decisions and improve their return on investment from in-store promotions.
Although a young company—barely two years in operation—T-Pro's customer roster includes leading international brands such as Kellogg's, Tree Top, Ainsworth Pet Nutrition, and Sargento.
Ziegler and his two co-founders together have more than 100 cumulative years of experience in the CPG industry. They have lived their customers' pain.
"That's our appeal to customers. We get it that CPG manufacturers don't necessarily want to reduce their spending on in-store promotions, it's that they want to produce a better return," said Ziegler.
T-Pro optimizes trade promotion with predictive business performance metrics.
CPG manufacturers already have access to incredible amounts of electronic data. The challenge is to integrate and harmonize data silos to make better business decisions based on which in-store promotions and incentives pay off and which ones don't.
Unit and pricing data is in one silo. Syndicated (consumer and loyalty) data captured in the store and at the register is in another silo. The cost of producing a box of cereal, and the cost of reducing its price for five weeks at a Wal-Mart in Des Moines are in different silos.
Instead of using an Excel spread sheet to analyze what's happening, T-Pro customers receive information via a friendly and easy-to-use dashboard. T-Pro's predictive analytics platform tells CPG manufacturers which in-store promotions and incentives pay off, and which ones don't.
T-Pro has been bold and innovative in its approach to gaining early customers—usually the greatest challenge for any startup.
T-Pro reasoned that the best way to establish a reputation, prove its value proposition, and make the significant impact on the CPG industry would be to do business with big national brands.
It wasn't an easy strategy, but T-Pro's perseverance paid off—100 percent T-Pro's clients are referenceable. View the list at www.tprosolutions.com.
"The exciting thing is that our customers are using T-Pro Analytics as we intended. They are finding value out of it. That's the most rewarding thing we could have happen," said Ziegler.
T-Pro has grown to eight employees and anticipate creating another three jobs by year's end.
Learn more about T-Pro from these case studies and featured white papers.


text:
LENNY LASHLEY'S GANG OF ONE
ALL ARE WELCOME (EXCLUSIVE COKE BOTTLE GREEN VINYL)
PIRATES PRESS RECORDS(PIR226A)
LENNY LASHLEY is a household name in New England, and beyond. Whether it's performing on stage or slinging drinks at The Midway Cafe in Jamaica Plains (MA), Lenny is a star—regaling the world with Boston history and decades of tour stories like no one else can. His voice is as Boston as it gets—and as identifiable as any other frontman out there. Lenny's even narrated movies and done voiceover gigs to help sustain being a diehard rock and roller first and foremost. A longtime fixture in the Boston punk scene, Lenny has been playing and touring for 20 years. With more energy and clarity than ever before, Lenny has been playing solo acoustic shows, reinvigorating a NEW DARKBUSTER, making cameo's with MIGHTY MIGHTY BOSSTONES, and even joining the Boston powerhouse STREET DOGS, Lenny is staying busy, rocking and rolling, and living life to the fullest.
LENNY LASHLEY'S GANG OF ONE is handsdown the best example of the talent and creativity pouring out of this incredible soul. It's illuminating and insightful, passionate and beautifully crafted. Timeless and unclassifiable songs that illustrate the story of a well-travelled thoughtful American wearing his heart on his sleeve, never afraid to speak his mind, stand up for his fellow man, and be an example of always striving to be the best human you can be. Whether they are played solo on a barstool or as a 7-piece in an arena supporting DROPKICK MURPHYS, these songs and Lenny's performances are legendary. They cut through a room (or even an arena) and get right in your face—conveying a desperately needed soulfilled message for today's turbulent world. The gang's debut picture disc 7" EP and followup full-length lluminator are continually raved about and receive endless acclaim, and his newest album All Are Welcome (to be released in coordination with a tour and series of hometown shows with Boston legends DROPKICK MURPHYS) is aimed to take Lenny's prowess and message to a larger audience. The underlying message that this release conveys could not be better timed, as the world is desperately in need of a voice of reason this crisp and clear. The first pressings of the gang's previous records are now highly sought after [expensive!] collectors items, so make sure to get your mitts on one of these quickly before their all gone.
1. Truth And Blood
2. All Are Welcome
3. Live Like Lions
4. Lonesome
5. Betty's
6. Judy
7. Tomorrow May Never Come
8. Double Minor
10. Weakness
Label : PIRATES PRESS RECORDS
Item no. : PIR226A
FREAKS, FAGGOTS, DRUNKS AND JUNKIES (BLOOD AND BILE VINYL VARIANT)
TIME ISN'T HEALING
BLACK PALMS ORCHESTRA
TROPICAL GOTHIC
METHEDRAS
TOM TOXIC UND DIE HOLSTEIN ROCKETS
VERDAMMTES GLšCKSSPIEL
GOODBYE JUNE
COMMUNITY INN


text:
Q: Get all users with specific role using discord.js I'm getting RangeError [BITFIELD_INVALID]: Invalid bitfield flag or number: undefined. with this code. Can someone help me with what's undefined here?
I'm using discord.js v13.6.0.
require('dotenv').config();
const token = process.env.bot_token;

const { Client, Intents } = require("discord.js")
const client = new Client({
  intents: [
    Intents.FLAGS.GUILDS,
    Intents.FLAGS.GUILD_MESSAGES,
    Intents.NON_PRIVILEGED,
    Intents.GUILD_MEMBERS
  ]
});

const prefix = '!getUserByRole';

client.on("messageCreate", (message) =>{
    if(!message.content.startsWith(prefix) || message.author.bot || message.author.id) return;
    const args = message.content.slice(prefix.length).split(/ +/);
    const roleId = args[1];
    message.guild.members.fetch().then((members)=>{
        members.filter(mmbr => mmbr.roles.cache.get(roleId)).map(m => {
            console.log(m.user.tag, m.user.id);
        });
    })
})

client.login(token);

A: In discord.js v13 Intents.ALL, Intents.NON_PRIVILEGED, and Intents.PRIVILEGED have all been removed to discourage bad practices. It means you need to remove Intents.NON_PRIVILEGED.
Also, there is no Intents.GUILD_MEMBERS, it should be Intents.FLAGS.GUILD_MEMBERS. So you'll need to update your code like this:
const client = new Client({
  intents: [
    Intents.FLAGS.GUILDS,
    Intents.FLAGS.GUILD_MESSAGES,
    Intents.FLAGS.GUILD_MEMBERS,
  ],
});


text:
Battlefield: Bad Company Gold Edition (preowned)
Moderate violence More information
Set in the near future, the Battlefield: Bad Company single-player campaign drops gamers into a dramatic Eurasian conflict. As part of a squad of four soldiers, players risk it all to go AWOL on a personal quest for riches and revenge. Featuring a dramatic storyline flavored with dark humor, Battlefield: Bad Company leads gamers far from the traditional frontlines on a wild ride with a group of renegade soldiers who decide that sometimes the gratitude of a nation just isn't enough.
The Battlefield: Bad Company cinematic single-player experience captures the freedom and intensity of the franchise's legendary multiplayer sandbox gameplay in a dynamic world where nearly everything is destructible. Gamers have total freedom to be daring and innovative, adapting to and tackling challenges in unexpected "Battlefield-style" ways. Create sniping positions by blowing out a piece of a wall or drive your tank straight through a small house – anything can happen on an ever-changing battlefield, forcing players, their teammates, and enemies to react accordingly.
Battlefield: Bad Company also features a full suite of the franchise's trademark multiplayer gameplay, supporting 24 players online.
Battlefield: Bad Company is the first game built from the ground up for next-generation consoles using DICE's bleeding-edge Frostbite game engine, delivering unrivaled graphics, effects and gameplay.
Cinematic single-player experience: A deep campaign loaded with dark humor follows a wayward band of ordinary soldiers who risk it all on a quest for revenge and personal gain.
War, your way: Battlefield: Bad Company sandbox environments are 90 percent destructible, meaning any structure can be demolished down to its foundation. Gamers can shape the battlefield to match their play style - the possibilities are literally endless.
New vehicles, weapons and toys: Land, air or sea, dozens of new tools are waiting for explosive experimentation. Battlefield: Bad Company gives gamers the building blocks to get creative and usher in a new era of their own 'Battlefield moments'.
Frostbite game engine: DICE's Frostbite game engine raises the bar for next-gen gaming, with stunning HD graphics that bring characters, vehicles, and environments to life like never before.
Genre-defining multiplayer: Support for 24 players online in a world designed to take full advantage of the game?s massively destructible environments.
True 'Through the gun' experience: DICE's attention to detail is applied to the act of firing a weapon. Dozens of subtle changes to the FPS formula add up to a vastly improved shooting experience.
Resistance: Fall of Man
Red Dead Redemption: Undead Nightmare
Saints Row: The Third - The Full Package


Mac Repair London is a foremost MacBook Air repair store specialising in quick turnaround MacBook Air keyboard repair and replacement services to individual customers and business users in London.
Are you experiencing MacBook Air notebook keyboard issues due to general wear and tear or does your keyboard have missing keys or sticky keys? You have come to the right place if you need MacBook Air laptop keyboard repair and replacement services for all 11.6 inch and 13.3 inch MacBook Air notebook models.
No matter what the issue is with your Apple MacBook Air keyboard such as keyboard won't type, MacBook Air keyboard has stopped working, you spilled coffee or beverages on your notebook keyboard, some keys from your Mac notebook are broken, damaged or missing, some keys have become detached or fell off, touchpad doesn't work or your laptop keys got stuck; Mac Repair London offers affordable solutions to repair or replace your laptop keyboard for 11.6 inch and 13.3 inch MacBook Air notebook models.
Instead of replacing your entire notebook computer we can replace your faulty keyboard and get your MacBook Air up and running again as quickly as possible. At Mac Repair London, all MacBook Air keyboard repair and replacement services are carried out by our qualified and experienced Apple Mac repair technicians. We can fix or replace your MacBook Air notebook keyboard promptly often on the same day.
For more information on our Apple MacBook Air keyboard replacement and repair services for 11.6 inch and 13.3 inch MacBook Air notebook models or for a free no obligation quote, call Mac Repair London today on 020 7394 2528 or e-mail us at info@mac-repair.london.


^ a b c Gleditsch, Nils Petter (1992). "Democracy and Peace". Journal of Peace Research. 29 (4): 369–76. ISSN 0022-3433. JSTOR 425538 – via JSTOR. (Registration required (help)).
^ Doyle, Michael W. (1983). "Kant, Liberal Legacies, and Foreign Affairs". Philosophy & Public Affairs. 12 (3): 205–35. ISSN 1088-4963. JSTOR 2265298 – via JSTOR. (Registration required (help)).
This page was last edited on 11 March 2019, at 06:14 (UTC).


text:
Christian Retzer (* 7. Januar 1982 in Deggendorf) ist ein ehemaliger deutscher Eishockeyspieler, der als Verteidiger und Stürmer eingesetzt wurde. Sein Bruder Stephan war ebenfalls Eishockeyspieler und stand bis 2012 beim ERC Ingolstadt unter Vertrag.

Karriere
Im Alter von sechs Jahren setzte Christian Retzer sich erstmals ernsthaft mit dem Eishockeysport auseinander. Sein erstes bedeutsames Spiel absolvierte er mit 16 Jahren bei den Deggendorfer Flames. In seinem Heimatverein baute Retzer seine Fähigkeiten soweit aus, dass es drei Jahre später in die DEL zu den Kassel Huskies wechseln konnte. Mit den Hessen erreichte der Bayer zunächst zweimal die Endrunde, bevor er 2005 mit der Mannschaft sportlich abstieg. Die Huskies bekamen durch den Lizenzentzug des EHC Wolfsburg noch die Chance in der Liga zu verbleiben, doch zu diesem Zeitpunkt hatte Christian Retzer schon einen Vertrag bei den Nürnberg Ice Tigers unterzeichnet. Dort bekam der gelernte Stürmer die Gelegenheit weitere Erfahrungen zu sammeln und wechselte zu Beginn der Saison 2006/07 nach Straubing, beendete diese allerdings als Verteidiger. Die Umstellung vom Stürmer zum Verteidiger gelang dem gebürtigen Deggendorfer so gut, dass er im Team der Straubinger in der Spielzeit 2007/08 dauerhaft auf dieser Position eingesetzt wurde. Nach vier Jahren in Straubing wurde sein Vertrag beim Erstligisten nicht mehr verlängert. Retzer trainierte daraufhin bei der Zweitligamannschaft Landshut Cannibals, wo er schließlich einen Vertrag erhielt und am fünften Spieltag der Saison 2010/11 erstmals für die Dreihelmenstädter spielte. Im Sommer 2011 verließ er die Cannibals und kehrte zu seinem Heimatverein Deggendorf Fire in die Oberliga zurück, wo er seine aktive Karriere beendete.

Seit dem 1. Oktober 2016 ist er in der Geschäftsstelle seines ehemaligen Clubs Straubing Tigers tätig. Zuvor hatte er parallel zu seinem Engagement in Deggendorf ein Duales Studium in Gesundheitsmanagement absolviert.

International
Mit den deutschen Juniorennationalmannschaften nahm er an der U18-WM 2000 sowie der U20-Weltmeisterschaft 2002 teil. Bislang stand er zudem einmal für die A-Nationalmannschaft in einem Spiel gegen Slowenien auf dem Eis.

Erfolge und Auszeichnungen
 Gewinn der Juniorenmeisterschaft
 Gewinn der U-20 B-Weltmeisterschaft

Karrierestatistik

Einzelnachweise

Weblinks

Eishockeynationalspieler (Deutschland)
Eishockeyspieler (Deggendorfer SC)
Eishockeyspieler (Kassel Huskies)
Eishockeyspieler (Nürnberg Ice Tigers)
Eishockeyspieler (Straubing Tigers)
Eishockeyspieler (EV Landshut)
Deutscher
Geboren 1982
Mann


> (104)Connection reset by peer: Could not write data to filter.
> Any help or pointers would be greatly appreciated.
> have issues and eventually gave it up.
we'll end up buying licenses).
changes. Doubt samba can pass through user credentials to davfs2.
> else out there tried anything like this?
Next message: Claudius Sailer: "use-commit-times = yes"
Previous message: Ullrich.Jans_at_elektrobit.com: "RE: Subversion queries hanging, timing out"
In reply to: Richard Walker: "Re: NetDrive and SVN autoversioning - keep getting Broken pipe"


There's a sense of satisfaction in the oppressed and downtrodden obtaining power of their own. After all, everyone likes a good underdog story, and it's nice seeing people shake off chains, burst through societal moors, and embrace their agency to gain independence.
Yet there's a tinge if underlying terror in that concept too: breaking free from oppression is one thing, but turning around and oppressing others with new-found power? That draws the fine line between justice and vengeance.
Dark Horse's upcoming one-shot story The Quiet Ones explores that concept, but it also has something else going for it: a sense of empathy. So while the story of marginalized children getting cosmic power can tackle some tough subjects, creators Chuck Brown and Jeremy Treece look to be keeping an optimistic perspective on their story. Check out the details below.
MILWAUKIE, Ore. (April 11, 2019)—Join acclaimed writer Chuck Brown(Bitter Root, The Punisher, Black Panther) and artist Jeremy Treece (Angel: Season Six, Fantastic Four) as they explore what it means for young, marginalized children to suddenly find themselves in possession of a great, cosmic power in a new Dark Horse one-shot, The Quiet Kind!
The Quiet Kind will hit comic shops and digital retailers on July 17.