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Your adoption stories
National Adoption Month is about to come to a close. Earlier in November, we asked SPL members how adoption had touched their lives. Here's what you had to say:
"I gave my oldest child up in an open adoption. She's now almost 14 and is a happy, healthy young woman. We just visited with her and her family about a month ago and my youngest daughter (6 years old) was super excited to spend the night at her big sister's house. My whole family and her biological father's family are all pretty involved in her life. Our situation is not common, but it is awesome!" ~Rachel M.
"I am an adopted child." ~Cynthia T.
"My little sister's from china!" ~Dominique E.
"I've adopted two through foster care and they are the light of my life. I can't imagine my life without them." ~Kristin C.
"I have friends who were adopted, but my dream is to build my future family through adoption." ~Sara K.
"I am an adoptive mom to a 3 year old." ~Nicole K.
"I'm adopted! I'm now 36, with two biological children of my own, and it's amazing to look at them & see the faces of my biological parents. Being adopted to me, and being adopted out of a terrible situation in infancy, into a safe family, is foundational to why I am pro-life." ~Jen M.
Many thanks to all of you for sharing. Also, check out Amanda Lord's story on the Abolish Abortion blog. She reminds us that, while adoption is the best outcome in many cases, simplistic slogans like "adoption not abortion" mask an important emotional element. Pro-lifers must be sensitive to the feelings of pregnant women and birth moms.
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Do human beings begin at fertilization?
Hydatidiform moles occur when an egg without a nucleus gets fertilized; this fertilized egg does not have the genetic code of a human organism and will never develop into an infant. Some argue, then, that fertilization isn't a defining moment and that it's incorrect to say fertilized eggs are human beings.
The Life Training Institute wrote a post on this unusual situation, quoting from Maureen Condic's article, "A Biological Definition of the Human Embryo." The bottom line:
If the necessary structures (molecules, genes etc.) required for development (i.e., an organismal level of organization) do not exist in an entity from the beginning, the entity is intrinsically incapable of being an organism and is therefore not a human being.
When we say "human beings begin at fertilization" we are actually using a sort of shortcut. It takes a lot longer to say "human beings are human organisms that have begun the course of human development." In the vast majority of cases, fertilization is the point when a new human organism begins the course of human development, and so we just say "fertilization." However, there are some fertilized eggs that are not organisms (hydatidiform moles), and there are some organisms that do not begin human development until well after fertilization (the second embryo in a pair of identical twins).
If fertilization is usually--but not always--the beginning of a new human being, does this mean we don't really know when human beings begin? Nope. We know. I will say again: human beings begin when a new human organism begins the process of human development. This means the second embryo in a pair of twins is a human being, and a hydatidiform mole is not a human being.
Check out the rest of The Life Institute's post for some great analogies between hydatidiform moles, the Alphabet Song, and wildlife spotting. :-)
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Does the pro-life cause have the wrong allies?
[Today's post is by Robert Christian, a progressive Catholic. It is a response to last week's "Election Reflection" blog post. It was originally posted at Millennial and is reprinted with permission.]
A recent blog post at Secular Pro-Life addresses the question of whether or not the pro-life movement has the wrong allies. It does.
The post notes, "When the pro-life movement is allied with fiscal conservatives, who are inclined to cut social programs, it's all too easy for abortion supporters to accuse us of not caring about people after they are born." Conversely, "The Democratic Party, with its historic concern for those who cannot speak for themselves, would seem to be a better fit– in theory."
The Democratic Party is a much better fit, both theoretically and practically. Pro-life progressivism is based on a far more coherent political philosophy in terms of its understanding of the role of government and the protection of human life and dignity. In fact, in the 1970s, Democrats were more likely than Republicans to oppose abortion, and Congress was filled with pro-life Democrats.
It was only in the mid- to late 1980s that abortion became strongly associated with party identification, according to scholars Robert Putnam and David Campbell. This is a relatively recent development, and it is not irreversible.
In the post, the argument is made that the Democratic Party is "married to abortion." That's true if one focuses exclusively on party leaders and activists. Overall, however, one third of the Democratic Party is pro-life. Pro-life Democrats are elected at state and local levels across the country, even in deep blue states like Connecticut and Massachusetts. These numbers would be considerably higher if so many pro-lifers who oppose economic libertarianism had not left the party over the past 40 years.
It is true that wealthy pro-choice liberals have disproportionate control over the party's agenda. This can only be countered by organizing a large grassroots network of pro-life Democrats. Every time another frustrated pro-lifer flees the party, given the reality of campaign finance rules and closed primary elections, they make this more difficult.
And they hurt the cause by joining a party married to anti-government rhetoric, whose top priority is minimizing taxes on the wealthiest Americans. It's not a myth that many self-identified pro-lifers are not that interested in protecting life from threats other than abortion. Some critics want to say that pro-lifers are really pro-birth or pro-baby. That's a bit charitable. You can't oppose access to affordable, quality healthcare for pregnant women and deserve the label "pro-birth. " You cannot be completely indifferent to infant mortality rates and be reasonably identified as "pro-baby." And the basic incoherence of this type of worldview rightfully exposes many pro-lifers to the charge of being hypocrites or insincere in their commitment to defending innocent human life.
Framing the pro-life cause around the themes of equality and human rights and backing up this rhetoric with a commitment to policies that reflect these values, for both the born and unborn, is a far better strategy. This rhetoric and worldview is also far more appealing to Millennials, many of whom are not affiliated with an organized religion, yet still have a strong belief in social justice and other values. The pro-gay marriage movement has found the right formula to appeal to Millennials and its support has grown rapidly. The pro-life movement cannot keep relying on the extremism of the pro-choice movement and its continued use of hyper-individualistic rhetoric to prevent the pro-choice cause from making similar inroads.
The devotion of the pro-life movement to the Republican Party has led to the endorsement of candidates that have embarrassed and discredited the movement. This includes candidates whose understanding of women's bodies and pregnancy is as sophisticated as the theory of where babies come from put forward by Maude Apatow's character in Knocked Up. It also includes Scott Desjarlais who opposes abortion, except in the cases where he pressures his wife and mistress to abort his own children. Numerous pro-lifers stood by these ridiculous and repulsive candidates until the very end.
But is there hope for a new Republican party? The post argues:
Rather than the usual dry talk of waste, balanced budgets, and so on, they have shifted their messaging to focus on the debt we are leaving to our children. In short, they're saying that they do care very much about people who are already born, and using that as a basis for their fiscal conservatism. That could be a harmonious fit with the pro-life position.
Repackaging existing policies designed to aid the wealthiest Americans is not going to fool Millennials or anyone else who sees pro-life conservatism as incoherent or hypocritical. Further, the elected Republicans using this rhetoric were not serious about debt reduction. A balanced-budget plan that starts with large tax cuts for multimillionaires and billionaires and ends with no projected balanced budget for decades is more properly called a tax cut plan. The argument that we must slash essential programs that help the neediest Americans so that we will not be in a position where we might have to slash essential programs that help the poor in the future is patently ridiculous.
It is not impossible to envision a Republican Party that is more open to those with a whole life perspective. In the wake of Mitt Romney's loss, many are arguing the party needs to move in a more moderate direction. If the party does shift in this direction, three options appear most likely. First, it could moderate its position on immigration and eliminate its hateful, divisive rhetoric (the 47%, makers v. takers, etc.), while basically maintaining its current understanding of social, economic, and foreign policy conservatism. Second, it could moderate its position on social issues like gay marriage and abortion, weakening its commitment to both, while reaffirming its commitment to its current economic agenda. Finally, it could develop an economic agenda that actually addresses the concerns and needs of working and middle-class Americans and/or one that tackles the budget deficit, while maintaining its opposition to abortion.
While the third might seem to be the best way to expand its electoral appeal, the first two are more appealing to the wealthy supporters of the party. They would rather see the party move in the direction of a Marco Rubio or Bobby Jindal or a real life Arnold Vinick (of the West Wing) than see a genuine compassionate conservative or tax-raising budget balancer alter the direction of the party. And over the past decades, these supporters have been the most powerful in the party. As Jonathan Chait notes, "The Republican Party has been organized around defending the material interests of the very rich — largely by defending low top tax rates as its maximal policy goal." Change is always possible after a loss like Romney's, but it is not clear that this organizing principle will change.
The pro-life movement's devotion to the Republican Party has not just led to the endorsement of fools, but to coordinated campaigns to eradicate pro-life Democrats. It is difficult to overstate how counterproductive this is. Any movement that requires one party reaching and maintaining a durable supermajority to achieve its goals is doomed to failure. The two-party system is not an endangered species in America. Bipartisanship is necessary for success. Gaining equal ground in the Democratic Party will be a challenge, but it is a fight worth undertaking.
The biggest reason why the pro-life movement needs progressive allies is because the Republican strategy, which relies on the appointment of enough conservative Supreme Court justices to overturn Roe v. Wade and return the issue of abortion to the states, would neither result in the legal protection of unborn life nationwide nor address the underlying causes of abortion. Only a comprehensive approach that guarantees constitutional protection for unborn lives and addresses the economic and social needs of pregnant women and children, born and unborn, can be fully successful.
The biggest obstacle to the pro-life movement finding its natural allies is that many important pro-life activists are highly partisan and would be devoted to the Republican Party regardless of its position on abortion. The pro-life movement is filled with people who think food, healthcare, and other basic needs are privileges to be earned, not rights based on human worth and dignity. I have seen pro-life leaders who are Ayn Rand devotees. Others spread the prosperity gospel. If the pro-life movement wants to be successful, it does not just need new allies, it needs new leaders.
Labels: Democrats, Republicans, SCOTUS
Movie review: Life Happens
"It's not a Christian or a Jewish or a Muslim or a Buddhist issue... it's common sense." So says Gary Graham in the trailer (above) for Life Happens, a documentary focused on people who were at risk for abortion. The film's description promises that director Ash Greyson "skillfully replaces rhetoric and religion with hope and heart."
We at SPL were unenthusiastic about 180 Movie, so I was eager to see a pro-life film that took an explicitly secular approach. But I was skeptical that such a film would be produced by the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), a conservative Christian legal group.
My doubts soon vanished. Greyson has created a must-watch film.
Life Happens opens with a short, accessible, and useful history of the abortion conflict in the United States. The film's coverage of the question of when human life begins is also excellent, with numerous expert interviews. But the heart of the film consists of personal stories.
These personal stories are not all rainbows and unicorns. Greyson does not only interview successful musicians and athletes; he gives equal time to teen moms whose parents threatened to kick them out of the house, families affected by rape, children born into poverty, and mothers who faced medical problems during pregnancy. The film does not shy away from hard narratives. That is what makes Life Happens unique, and perfect for an undecided audience of any religious makeup.
You can download Life Happens for $2.99 here.
Philosophy in the abortion issue: part one
[Today's post is by SPL member Clinton Wilcox.]
Science can be a wonderful tool in the pro-life advocate's arsenal. [1] However, science can't dictate morality, it can only inform morality. Science can tell us that something we are harming or killing is human; science can't tell us that it's wrong to kill that human. So while we can demonstrate scientifically that the unborn are living human organisms from fertilization, we must turn to philosophy to demonstrate whether we can or cannot kill that living human organism.
It seems to me that the burden of proof should always be on the one wanting to take life. As I mention in my article on science, if we don't know when human life begins (even though we do), the benefit of the doubt should always go to life. As I've demonstrated elsewhere, no pro-choice argument is powerful enough to justify killing the unborn human. I've looked at pro-choice arguments for personhood and bodily rights. [2][3][4] But now I'd like to turn to some basic philosophy, and look at the bad arguments that people use on both sides of the abortion fence. In this article, I'll look at logically fallacious arguments. In my next article, I'll look at arguments that aren't necessarily fallacious, they're just bad arguments.
Before we can look at what makes a bad argument, first let's look at what makes a good argument. A lot of arguments you'll find are written in essay form. This is fine; most of my articles have been the same. But usually it's easier to see if an argument works if you put it in the form of a syllogism. A syllogism is simply an argument composed of premises that lead to a conclusion. A basic syllogism has two premises and one conclusion, but arguments can have more premises, and even more conclusions, than that. Here is a basic example of a syllogism:
P1: All men are mortal.
P2: Socrates is a man.
P3: Therefore, Socrates is mortal.
This is an example of deductive logic. Deductive logic argues from a general idea (that all men are mortal) to a specific case (that Socrates, being a man, is mortal). A premise is made up of a statement that can either be true or false. If all the premises are true, then the conclusion can't be false.
If the conclusion follows necessarily from the premises, then the argument is valid. An invalid argument is one where the conclusion doesn't follow from its premises. An argument is sound if it is valid, and all of its premises are true. If the argument is invalid, or if it can be demonstrated that one or all of the premises are false, then an argument is unsound. So an argument can be valid, but unsound. An argument can even be invalid, but have a true conclusion (you just arrived at it through bad reasoning). But an argument can't be invalid and sound.
The argument I generally make for the pro-life position is as follows:
P1: It is prima facie immoral to kill a human being.
P2: Abortion kills a human being.
C: Therefore, abortion is immoral.
Premise one can be supported because human beings are inherently valuable based on the kind of thing they are, human beings. All human beings have the inherent capacity as rational, moral agents. It is just as immoral to kill an infant as it is to kill an adult.
The term prima facie is Latin for "at first sight." I insert this phrase because most pro-life advocates agree that sometimes killing is justified, such as in self-defense. Some pro-life people believe that capital punishment and just war are also justified forms of killing. The idea here is that under most circumstances, it is wrong to kill a human without moral justification. Abortion is an unjustified form of killing.
Premise two is supported through science. We know that all human beings are living human organisms from fertilization.
So the conclusion necessarily follows. If it is immoral to kill human beings, and the unborn are human beings, then it is immoral to kill them.
So we see that it's immoral, but should it be illegal? Well, I add a premise and a conclusion to show that abortion should also be illegal. My updated argument looks like this:
C1: Therefore, abortion is immoral.
P3: The unjustified killing of human beings is illegal (e.g. murder).
C2 (from P2 and P3): Therefore, abortion should be illegal.
Premise three is supported because we do make the unjustified killing of human beings, like murder, illegal. In all civilized societies, murder is always illegal (although we sometimes disagree over what constitutes murder).
So conclusion two necessarily follows that abortion should be illegal.
A logical fallacy is simply a flaw in your reasoning. There are two kinds of logical fallacies: formal logical fallacies and informal logical fallacies.
In a formal logical fallacy, there is a problem with the form of the argument itself. In an informal logical fallacy, the problem stems from a flaw in reasoning that causes the conclusion not to be supported by its premises. There are many common fallacies made by people who argue in the abortion issue. We'll be only looking at informal fallacies, since these are the most common.
X is in a pitiful situation.
Therefore your argument fails.
An appeal to pity is where someone claims that an argument fails because someone is in a pitiful situation. A common example of a pro-choice appeal to pity is that abortion is needed because some women are too poor to afford a child. This would be represented as follows:
P1: Some women are too poor to raise a child.
C: Therefore, abortion should be legal.
But how does it follow that because someone is too poor to raise a child, we may kill the child? Ask yourself if a woman may kill her two-year-old child because of poverty? Of course not. So why would we justify abortion for the same reason?
X is a horrible person.
Therefore, X's argument fails.
This one seems to be everyone's favorite fallacy. Ad hominem is Latin for "to the man." In this fallacy, you are simply attacking the character of the person making the argument, rather than the argument itself. An argument does not succeed or fail based on the person making the argument.
A common pro-choice ad hominem fallacy is that men have no say because they can never get pregnant, which I have responded to in a previous article. [5] A common ad hominem fallacy from the pro-life side is that pro-choice people hate babies. Most pro-choice people don't hate babies, but even if they did, how would it follow that their argument fails because they hate babies?
Strawman argument
X believes Y.
I'll attack argument Z.
Therefore argument Y fails.
A strawman argument is when you attack a similar but different argument than the argument presented because it's easier to refute.
A common argument you hear from pro-choice people is that pro-lifers want to enslave women. No pro-lifer wants to enslave women. But it's easier to dismiss the pro-life position when making such an extreme claim.
Another argument you hear is that skin cells are human, so pro-lifers should be against the death of skin cells (they might make their argument a bit more colorfully, like saying if abortion is homicide, then masturbation is mass murder). But here, they're actually attacking a strawman. We don't claim that it's wrong to kill skin cells. This is because there's a difference between a skin cell and an unborn human. The skin cell is just part of a larger organism; left on its own, it will never be anything but a skin cell. However, the unborn human is an organism, developing itself from within into a more mature version of itself, along the path of human development. There's a major difference between the two.
This is one that confuses a lot of people. Usually when someone says "that begs the question," they really mean "that raises the question." But when someone begs the question, they assume that a statement or claim is true without evidence other than the statement or claim itself.
Pro-life people do this a lot, when they talk of abortion killing a baby. If your argument includes talk of killing a baby, but you have not proven whether or not the unborn are babies, you are begging the question.
Pro-choice people do this, too, usually when they talk of viability making someone a person. For example:
"The unborn are not persons."
"Why are they not persons?"
"Because they're not viable."
"Why does viability make someone a person?"
"Because they can survive outside the womb."
"Why does surviving outside the womb make someone a person?"
"Because they're viable..."
And around you go. This is an example of circular reasoning, but they are begging the question by assuming that viability makes the unborn a person without actually proving it.
If A, then B.
Therefore, B.
Non sequitur is Latin for "it does not follow." If you are committing a non sequitur, then your conclusion does not follow from its premises.
A common pro-life non sequitur is that abortion hurts women. Abortion does hurt women, but that doesn't make it immoral, or mean that it should be illegal. There's a difference between what's wrong with abortion and why abortion is wrong. There are many things wrong with abortion, like the fact that it hurts women. But that doesn't automatically make the practice wrong. For example, cars are dangerous. Many people die in car accidents, but it is not inherently immoral to drive. Abortions do hurt women (and some women die from botched abortions), but that doesn't make it immoral. It is immoral (and should be illegal) because it unjustly takes the life of an innocent human being.
Another common non sequitur you hear from either side of the debate is "we have aborted X." A pro-life person will say "abortion is wrong because we've aborted the next Beethoven, or the cure for cancer!" But how does it follow that just because we may have aborted someone who would grow up to be great, that abortion should not be allowed. This is a bad argument because the pro-choice person can just retort with "but we've also aborted the next Hitler or a serial killer!" It's a bad argument because the other side can just respond with a hypothetical person we've aborted. But it's still a non sequitur, even if it's true.
As you can see, there are many ways in which someone might have an error in reasoning. I've only just scratched the surface in this article. There are many more, but this should get you started. If you avoid these common pitfalls, your discussions on abortion should be much more productive. In my next article, I'll cover arguments that are not necessarily logically fallacious, just simply bad arguments.
[1] http://prolifephilosophy.blogspot.com/2012/07/what-is-unborn.html
[2] http://prolifephilosophy.blogspot.com/2012/07/when-does-personhood-begin.html
[3] http://prolifephilosophy.blogspot.com/2012/08/when-does-personhood-begin-part-ii.html
[4] http://prolifephilosophy.blogspot.com/2012/08/bodily-rights-arguments.html
[5] http://blog.secularprolife.org/2012/11/should-men-stay-out-of-abortion-issue.html
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Please take the time to read our latest e-newsletter, which contains important information on Roe memorial events. January will be here before you know it! Don't miss your chance to meet SPL representatives at the March for Life, Walk for Life West Coast, and Students for Life of America annual conference.
The blog will be on hiatus for the rest of the week as people travel to be with their loved ones. I wish you all a wonderful Thanksgiving. I am grateful to you for your support every day!
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Election Reflection
Despite America's pro-life majority, abortion supporters were victorious at the ballot box earlier this month. This is no doubt due to a confluence of many factors. Most pro-lifers are not single-issue voters, and they viewed Obama as better on the economy. Mitt Romney was never a strong candidate to begin with; you'll recall that pro-lifers were essentially rooting for "anyone else" in the GOP primary. Todd Akin made an outrageous comment on rape that was then presented as a mainstream pro-life position. And so on, and so on.
A good friend of mine who is a longtime supporter of SPL suggests that "perhaps a different lesson needs to be drawn: the pro-life cause has the wrong allies." When the pro-life movement is allied with fiscal conservatives, who are inclined to cut social programs, it's all too easy for abortion supporters to accuse us of not caring about people after they are born. (I myself described this alliance as "strained" when I appeared on NPR.) The Democratic Party, with its historic concern for those who cannot speak for themselves, would seem to be a better fit-- in theory. In practice, of course, the Democratic Party is married to abortion. So it's only natural that, in a country with a pro-life majority and a two-party system, the GOP would ally with us.
Are Republicans the "wrong" allies? My response is to quote Jason Jones: it's a tragedy that the pro-life flag was not firmly planted in both parties. We must reach out to people on the left as well as the right. But that shouldn't mean abandoning those allies we already have.
What does all of this mean for pro-life political strategy in the short term? I'll conclude with two quick thoughts, and welcome yours.
First, we must be very clear about the fact that pro-lifers do amazing work to provide for needy families through private charity, regardless of the political situation. Pro-life organizations and individuals that do this work are often reluctant to talk about it, possessing a certain humility and embarrassment about "tooting one's own horn." That has to stop.
Second, I've noticed an interesting trend emerging among some fiscal conservatives. Rather than the usual dry talk of waste, balanced budgets, and so on, they have shifted their messaging to focus on the debt we are leaving to our children. In short, they're saying that they do care very much about people who are already born, and using that as a basis for their fiscal conservatism. That could be a harmonious fit with the pro-life position. With a few other tweaks, like an intense focus on education reform, the Republicans could plausibly market themselves as the party of children's issues (including, but not limited to, the child's right to be born).
Your reactions?
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Celebrating adoption
November is National Adoption Month! In honor of this occasion, Secular Pro-Life asks that you do two simple things:
1) Educate yourself by reading our pamphlet on adoption, which explains the often misunderstood differences between private adoption and the foster-to-adopt system.
2) If adoption has touched your life-- whether you've adopted, placed a child for adoption, been adopted yourself, or in any other way-- email your story to info@secularprolife.org. We'll share your stories on our facebook page throughout the remainder of the month. (If you wish to remain anonymous, please note that in the email.)
The Larger Agenda
[Today's post is reprinted from my blog, "Yeah, but..."]
If we suddenly stopped arguing about the legality of abortion and just skipped straight to an appeal to morality independent of legality (if that's even possible), how would people react?
Secular Pro-Life once talked about how 68% of Americans believe abortion should be illegal after the first trimester. The blog post ends by asking, "Why, then, has it been so difficult to unify and enact meaningful change?"
One of the blog followers commented,
Most pro-choicers that I know do not think abortion should be legal after a certain stage of the pregnancy. As for the policy making (just speaking of the conservative side), abortion bills are usually written by/for or framed in such a way that makes them appear more as small steps towards making abortion completely illegal. They do not come across, despite what some policy makers say, as "for the benefit of the woman or society", but as part of a larger agenda by very religious conservative people. That makes average/everyday pro-choicers very nervous and so it is fought.
How many people would work to legally restrict abortion if they weren't afraid that the end goal was to legally eliminate abortion?
Similarly, how many people would work to legally restrict abortion if they were confident that exceptions for the life of the mother and for rape would be preserved?
Even if we could change hearts and minds such that no one chose to get an abortion, I think I'd still want abortion to be legally restricted. After all, what does it say about my society that it is legal to kill an innocent person, even if no one actually chooses to do it? What would you think of a society in which it technically wasn't illegal to kill an infant, even if no one ever chose to do it?
But sometimes I do wonder if, on a practical level, the pro-life movement could get more done with a different strategy.
Labels: data & studies, infanticide, Laura Nicholson
This is what an abortionist's job description looks like
American Women's Services, which operates sixteen abortion offices on the East Coast, has an interesting job posting (screen capture below):
It's lucrative! You don't have to know much about that gynecology stuff! And did we mention it's lucrative?
Honestly, it's like somebody came across a satirical pro-life piece and said "Hey, that'll work."
Pro-Lifers & Birth Control
Gallup says 89% of American adults consider birth control morally acceptable. Gallup also says 50% of Americans describe themselves as "pro-life."
Let's assume all of the other 50% (the people who don't describe themselves as "pro-life") consider birth control morally acceptable. That leaves 39% of Americans who both describe themselves as "pro-life" and consider birth control morally acceptable. In other words, at a minimum, 78% of self-described pro-lifers consider birth control morally acceptable. But you wouldn't know it, would you?
I thought I was a minority in being both anti-abortion and pro-birth control. The polls say most pro-lifers are fine with birth control, so why doesn't it seem that way? I have some theories.
1) Pro-lifers who are more active in the pro-life movement are probably both more vocal and more ideologically "pure." In other words, perhaps the majority of self-described pro-lifers are fine with birth control, but the majority of pro-life activists (the people we hear from the most) are not?
2) "Birth control" is a vague term. There are many different types of birth control, and some are more controversial than others. For example, maybe most pro-lifers think condoms are a good idea but reject the morning after pill. Would they say, generically, that "birth control" is morally acceptable, or no?
3) The religious right is vocal about opposing the birth control mandate. People conflate pro-lifers with the religious right (and there's certainly a correlation, but still it's not quite accurate). People also conflate not wanting to pay for birth control with thinking people shouldn't be allowed to use birth control.
Anything I'm missing? Why do you think there's such a discrepancy between the perceptions of the pro-life movement and what an average "pro-lifer" actually thinks?
Labels: data & studies, Laura Nicholson, sex education & contraception
Should Men Stay Out of the Abortion Issue?
Does this sound familiar? "Seventy percent of pro-lifers are men, and 100% will never be pregnant!" How about this? "Pro-lifers are nothing but old white men who want to send women back to the dark ages where they are pregnant and barefoot in the kitchen, breastfeeding twins!"
These types of argument commit a logical fallacy known as the ad hominem attack, which means you attack "the character or circumstances of an individual who is advancing a statement or an argument instead of trying to disprove the truth of the statement or the soundness of the argument." [1] This article was inspired by another article on a blog making the argument that all men in the abortion issue should be silenced. [2]
The seventy percent statistic, unsurprisingly, is simply made up. [3] The next time you hear that, ask them to justify their statement. There are many pro-life women who make the same arguments that pro-life men do. But even if we did fall under the pro-choice stereotype of pro-life people, how does that negate our arguments? Even if we were all misogynistic old men, how would that suddenly make killing innocent unborn human beings moral? Remember that arguments don't have gender, people do.
It's also important to keep in mind that Roe v. Wade was decided on by nine men. If men must stay out of the abortion issue, we must keep them out of the issue on both sides. So we would have to overturn Roe v. Wade. But that's not all. If your contention is that men must stay out because they have never been pregnant so they can't understand what it's like, would you say that women who have never been pregnant should stay out, too? "Well," you might say, "women can at least get pregnant. Men should stay out because they can never get pregnant." Then would you also say that women who are incapable of becoming pregnant should also stay out of the abortion issue?
Should white people who have never owned slaves, never had the means to own slaves, or were never slaves themselves, have stayed out of the slavery issue? Were non-Jews wrong for opposing the Holocaust? Abortion is a human rights issue, just like slavery and the Holocaust were.
Standing against injustice is right for everyone, not simply someone of a particular gender, race, religion, and so on. Trying to quiet one gender from speaking out is, itself, a sexist position. As Martin Luther King Jr. has famously said, "injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." [4]
[1] http://philosophy.lander.edu/logic/person.html
[2] http://abortiongang.org/2012/02/silencing-men/#comment-7050
[3] According to a 2011 Gallup Poll, 46% of pro-life people are men, and 44% are women. By contrast, pro-choice people are pretty evenly split -- 50% are women, and 49% are men (it's unclear where the missing 1% is, perhaps people who forgot or neglected to fill out the "gender" portion of the survey). http://www.gallup.com/poll/147734/Americans-Split-Along-Pro-Choice-Pro-Life-Lines.aspx
[4] Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail, April 16, 1963.
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The future of the Supreme Court
President Obama has been re-elected, and while many pro-life groups are disappointed, no one is calling it quits. The pro-life movement has made many gains in the last four years, and we will make many in the next four. For the most part, our struggle is a grassroots, local effort; having a pro-life president is a plus, but not a necessity.
The president's greatest impact on abortion issues is in the area of Supreme Court nominations. A Romney presidency would have meant more pro-life Justices, and a possible overturning of Roe v. Wade. Under President Obama, what is likely to happen in the next four years?
It all depends on who dies or retires.
Four current Justices--Scalia, Thomas, Roberts, and Alito-- believe that the Constitution leaves the abortion issue up to the states, which makes Roe v. Wade bad law. None of them would dream of resigning while Obama is in office. But if one of them dies in the next four years, Obama will undoubtedly replace him with a solidly pro-abortion Justice. In January of 2016, when Obama's successor enters the White House, Scalia will be 79 years old; thus far, however, he has enjoyed good health. Thomas will be 67, Roberts 60, and Alito 65.
Justice Kennedy is in the mushy middle. He wrote the majority opinion in the case that upheld the partial-birth abortion ban, and infuriated abortion supporters by acknowledging affidavits from regretful post-abortive women. But he also helped write the lead opinion in Planned Parenthood v. Casey, where the Court had the opportunity to overturn Roe but declined to do so. He will be 79 in January of 2016.
Finally, there are four Justices who are committed to maintaining or expanding Roe v. Wade. An Obama replacement for any of these Justices will simply keep the status quo. These include his two earlier appointments, Kagan and Sotomayor, who are young, in good health, and have no reason to retire. Justice Breyer will be 77 years old in January of 2016. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is the oldest member of the Court, and has suffered from numerous health problems, including pancreatic cancer. With Obama's re-election, there are indications that she will retire some time before 2016.
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Election hiatus
For the next few days, your news consumption is likely to focus on the little matter of who's going to run the United States for the next four years. We are therefore suspending the blog through Wednesday. If you're eligible, fulfill your civic duty and vote!
Non-American readers, please accept our sincerest apologies for the interruption.
The Hogan twins are back!
Following up on our bodily autonomy video featuring Tatiana and Krista Hogan, our Canadian friends at the Signal Hill have put together a new video, based on similar footage, entitled "See the Beauty."
The Signal Hill has also put together a sweet page introducing Tatiana and Krista to their new admirers. Did you know, for instance, that they're big fans of Daniel and Henrik Sedin of the Vancouver Canucks?
We once again thank the Hogans and their family for being a part of these great messages.
The original video, in case you missed it:
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The Southeast Asia (SEA) Region is humbled and honoured that Singapore was chosen as the site of the 2014 International Leadership Conference (ILC). This is a significant milestone, for it marks the first time in twenty years that an Asian country will be hosting an ICOC world leadership event.
Early Registration is now open for the 2014 ILC!
The 2014 ILC features a focus on building strong churches and leaderships that honor God. A highlight will be the new one hour musical by Steve Johnson. Participants are encouraged to join many regional leadership confernces in Asia following this great event.
Check out the 2014 ILC website for a personal invitation, registration and housing, FAQs, etc.


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Samochód ten, zaprezentowany w 1998 roku w Paryżu, miał być alternatywą dla sportowej wersji Mega Club/Ranch.

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'Love letters to Roxbury' at Boston Public Library branch
Mural project combines talents of artist Joe Wardwell, poet Nakia Hill, and poets at writing nonprofit 826 Boston.
By Cate McQuaid Globe Correspondent,Updated November 24, 2021, 12:00 p.m.
From left: Poet Nakia Hill with 826 Boston youth poets Asiyah Herrera and Kaylany Vicente and painter Joe Wardwell in front of a new mural to be placed inside the Roxbury Branch of the Boston Public Library.Nathan Klima for The Boston Globe/The Boston Globe
When poet Asiyah Herrera got her first glimpse of her poem "Worlds Collided" on Joe Wardwell's 61-foot mural cycle for the Roxbury Branch of the Boston Public Library, she was stunned. Her words ran in oscillating colors across a vivid backdrop of Malcolm X Boulevard:
"Home to me is a piece of sidewalk/ Between two little worlds,/ Corner store jams, / And Stony brook shade, and /Jackson sq squabbles."
"Wow," said Herrera, 20, during a visit to Wardwell's Dorchester studio earlier this month. "It's like, 'Oh, that was the thing that we were doing in front of the computer screen for hours and hours and hours.'"
The project is a collaboration among Wardwell, poet Nakia Hill, and the young poets of the Youth Literary Advisory Board at 826 Boston, a writing, tutoring, and publishing nonprofit in Egleston Square, part of a nationwide network cofounded by writer Dave Eggers and educator Nínive Calegari in 2002. Hill directs 826 Boston's Youth Writing Program Innovation and Partnerships.
Herrera, Hill, and five other writers have been meeting remotely since early in the pandemic and composing poems about Roxbury for Wardwell to include in the mural. Installation was completed on Nov. 20.
826 Boston youth poet Asiyah Herrera photographs her portion of a new mural inside the Roxbury branch of the Boston Public Library.Nathan Klima for The Boston Globe
The three-part cityscape hangs 12 feet above the floor in the main library space and is visible from Warren Street. It's the first public art installation in the newly renovated library. Two more are in the works; the second will be a mural by Jeremy "Sobek" Harrison. The third has yet to be commissioned.
The mural is Wardwell's first public art project, funded by the city of Boston's Percent for Art program. It depicts the neighborhood from Roxbury Community College to Nubian Square. The poems describe the community and lament changes brought on by gentrification, such as last year's destruction of a beloved mural of Nelson Mandela.
In some ways, it's a classic painting by Wardwell, who also has an exhibition at LaMontagne Gallery up through Dec. 18. He weaves together text and landscape in simmering colors and bold fonts. But in the past, the painter has drawn text from music and slogans — for instance, lyrics from Mission of Burma's "Fame and Fortune" are emblazoned across "Hello America: 40 Hits from the 50 States," his mural at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art.
This time, the painter collaborated directly with writers, giving them studio tours and progress updates over Zoom.
Poet Nakia Hill (left) with 826 Boston youth poets Asiyah Herrera (second from left) and Kaylany Vicente (right) and painter Joe Wardwell in front of a new mural to be placed inside the Roxbury branch of the Boston Public Library.Nathan Klima for The Boston Globe
"I really love the idea of using the murals and the work that the poets are doing as a way to get voices out there that may not get the attention they deserve," Wardwell said.
"It's truly just love letters to Roxbury," said Hill, a former artist-in-residence for the city of Boston. "I hope that community members are able to see themselves in the students' words."
Her poem, "A Nubian Notion," fills the central panel. It begins, "Pride wrapped around us like an emerald necklace/ High upon a Mission Hill/projecting a bright beam of light/ clinging to the essence of our communities."
The painter and the poet first met in February 2020.
"It was one of our last in-person meetings," Wardwell said. "And we hammered out this project in like an hour and 20 minutes."
"We would watch videos or read other poems and take those poems apart and think about home as a concept. And then Roxbury as a concept," said Herrera, now a freshman at Simmons University.
Kaylany Vicente, 16, a junior at John D. O'Bryant School of Mathematics and Science, was excited about seeing her poem, "Yup it's Roxbury!" at her neighborhood library. It includes the lines, "No city can be as real as you./ Slap you in the face but hug you at the same time."
"The library is like a second home to me. I love going there with my friends and just playing games on the computer. To actually have a part of me there," she said, "I still can't believe it."
The original plan was for a one-panel mural, but when Wardwell examined the space, he proposed expanding to three, without changing his $250,000 budget, which also includes a print portfolio featuring the poems, which will be given to the poets and sold to benefit 826 Boston.
Painter Joe Wardwell (right) shows a print portfolio related to the library mural to (from left) poets Kaylany Vicente, Asiyah Herrera, and Nakia Hill, inside his studio in Boston.Nathan Klima for The Boston Globe
"I just really wanted to be able to make my first public work something that was big and beautiful for the city," he said.
"It's visually stunning and of the neighborhood," said David Leonard, president of the Boston Public Library. "Joe and Nakia leverage the written word, and to do that in the library seemed like the perfect fit."
Hill and Wardwell hope to partner on other community-centric projects.
"This collaboration is a great model to exemplify how artists should collaborate with community members," Hill said, "to make sure that they're not just depositing art that isn't reflective of the people who live there."
Meeting Wardwell in person for the first time, Vicente thanked him.
"He's a big artist. He could have worked with anybody else who could have put him even more mainstream," she said, "but he decided to work with us."
"The project and working with you guys got me through the last two years," Wardwell said. "The thanks goes both ways. It's probably the most rewarding thing I've done to date."
Cate McQuaid can be reached at catemcquaid@gmail.com. Follow her on Twitter @cmcq.

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Symphonie de la laine est un court métrage documentaire français réalisé par Jean Lods et Natacha Seailles, sorti en 1951.

Synopsis
Les différentes étapes du traitement de la laine.

Fiche technique
 Titre : Symphonie de la laine
 Réalisation : Jean Lods et Natacha Seailles
 Commentaire : André Maurois
 Photographie : Joseph-Louis Mundwiller et Philippe Agostini
 Musique : Yves Baudrier (direction : André Jolivet)
 Société de production : Les Films de la Roue
 Pays d'origine :
 Format : 35 mm - Noir et blanc
 Tournage : Romorantin-Lanthenay
 Durée : 37 minutes
 Genre : Film documentaire
 Date de sortie : 1951

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Solution: Don't be a social butterfly at the gym.
Mistake: Working the same muscle groups over and over again. Variety is the spice of life – and it's an essential ingredient in any successful workout plan. Many people do the same thing each time they work out, whether they work out 5x a week or once a week.
Solution: Muscles need time to recover – so if you go to the gym often, you should rotate between different muscle groups (i.e., legs one day, arms one day, chest one day, etc.,). If you don't exercise frequently, muscle recovery isn't an issue; however, you'll still want to focus in on a different muscle group each time to make sure you're working your entire body.
Mistake: Starving yourself. A calorie deficit is the only way to release weight – but if you cut too many calories, your body won't have the fuel it needs to keep you healthy and strong.
Solution: Any calorie deficit should be small, and weight should be lost in small amounts over time.
Mistake: Skipping the post-workout protein. After you strength train, your muscles have broken down and are in need of repair. Numerous studies have concluded that skipping a high-protein snack or meal after your workout is highly detrimental. It robs your muscles of the building blocks they desperately need.
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UConn Gives Contract Extensions to Coaches Hurley, Edsall
Published March 6, 2021 • Updated on March 6, 2021 at 9:34 am
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The University of Connecticut announced Friday that it has agreed to two-year contract extensions for football coach Randy Edsall and men's basketball coach Dan Hurley.
The terms of both deals remain the same, the school said.
Edsall's contract, which was to expire in December, now runs through Dec. 31, 2023. Hurley's deal has been extended through March 31, 2027.
Edsall is due to make $1.256 million next season and Hurley's contract calls for him to make $2.9 million during the 2021-22 contract year.
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Both contracts call for increases each year, which will be based in large part on bonuses and performance incentives.
The 48-year-old Hurley is in his third season at UConn. He has led the Huskies to a 48-35 record, including 13-6 this season, their first in the Big East after seven years in the American Athletic Conference.
"During Dan's introductory press conference almost three years ago, I said that he is the absolute right fit for UConn," David Benedict, the school's athletic director, said. "The success of the team this year, the culture he has instilled in his program, and the excitement the Huskies have generated throughout UConn Nation make it abundantly clear that Coach Hurley is the right leader of our men's basketball program for many years to come."
Edsall, 62, is 6-30 since returning in 2016 for his second coaching stint at Connecticut. The Huskies did not play in 2020 because of concerns stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic.
"When I hired Randy, he and I knew that rebuilding our football program was a long-term project that would require a great deal of patience," Benedict said. "My confidence in his ability to revive UConn football remains strong, and I look forward to watching a committed group of young men compete on the gridiron this fall."
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Sand art show by David Myriam "The new life of Salome"
2016 - Teaser for sand art show "The new life of Salome"
Synopsis : Salome has transcended time and survived the climatic and social disasters that humanity has triggered because of too much conservatism, disharmony and every man for himself. She tries to reconstruct everything differently with other survivors.
On a partially ravaged planet where the old rules were swept away, they must reinvent everything and are keen to work together in dialogue and mutual respect.
As part of the Week of International Solidarity 2015 (SSI), the Departmental Union of Ain MJC (UD Mjc Ain, France) asked me this spring, with the support of the MJC of Montluel, to create a Moving Sand show.
I chose to put in the background the current social problems and climate problems will worsen soon.
See you soon for further Salome adventures.
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El término college rock se usa en Estados Unidos para describir el rock alternativo de los años 1980, antes de que el término "alternativo" entrara en el uso común. Se transmitía principalmente en las radios universitarias, con bandas que combinaban la experimentación del post-punk y el new wave con un estilo musical más cercano al pop y manteniendo una sensibilidad underground. No es necesariamente un género como tal, pero existen algunos puntos en común entre bandas de college rock. Artistas como R.E.M, Violent Femmes, Hüsker Dü, 10000 Maniacs y The Replacements son algunos de los ejemplos más conocidos a mediados de la década de 1980. En la década de 1990, sin embargo, el término sería suplantado por el de rock alternativo, y aparecerían otros subgéneros de gran popularidad como el grunge y el indie rock.

Grupos
A continuación aparece una lista de los grupos más representativos del género:
 10,000 Maniacs
 Alex Chilton
 Billy Bragg
 Camper Van Beethoven
 The Chameleons
 The Church
 The Cure
 Dinosaur Jr
 Echo & the Bunnymen
 The Fall
 The Feelies
 Galaxie 500
 Hüsker Dü
 Robyn Hitchcock
 The Jesus and Mary Chain
 The La's
 Meat Puppets
 Minutemen
 Orange Juice
 New Order
 Peter Murphy
 Pixies
 The Psychedelic Furs
 R.E.M.
 The Replacements
 Siouxsie And The Banshees
 The Smiths
 Social Distortion
 Sonic Youth
 The Stone Roses
 The Sundays
 Suzanne Vega
 Talking Heads
 U2
 Violent Femmes
 XTC

Referencias

Rock alternativo
New wave
Subgéneros del rock
Subgéneros del rock alternativo
Géneros de rock de Estados Unidos
Géneros musicales de los años 1980


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The Bills beat their AFC East rivals the Patriots after attacking New England at home
Elizabeth Snider 2 months ago 3 min read
After dropping two consecutive matches, it appears that Buffalo bills I'm starting to get back on track.
Sure, until last week's win against Detroit Lions It was scary, but not a three-game winning streak for the Bills after Thursday's 24-10 victory over the New England Patriots.
Buffalo hasn't quite brightened it up offensively as we all know, but luckily for them, the Pats offense has been as slow as it has been all season.
But this is the perfect standard for "Thursday Night Football" in 2022.
Quarterback Josh Allen #17 celebrates with running back Devin Singletary #26 of the Buffalo Bills after Singletary rushed for a touchdown in the fourth quarter against the New England Patriots at Gillette Stadium on December 01, 2022 in Foxboro, Massachusetts.
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After, after Patriots The game started with a three-and-out, and the Bills made a field goal, but New England responded with a 48-yard touchdown run by Marcus Jones for a 7-3 lead. Oh, and by the way, Jones is a cornerback who mostly plays on special teams as a returner.
Things were back to normal on the Bills' next drive, though Stephen Diggs He caught an eight-yard touchdown to give the Bills a three-point lead early in the second quarter. After forcing another punt, the Bills went on a slow but steady rally, going for just 56 yards on 14 plays—but it ended with another eight-yard score, this one by Gabe Davis, and the Bills went up 17-7.
Bates still couldn't do anything on offense – he went again three times on their next two drives. But they were able to recover a Josh Allen fumble inside a two-minute warning. They got within range for the sign of life, but Nick Faulk's field goal hit the crossbar from just 48 yards out – replays showed he was fat, just like all of us with our irons on the golf course. Pats went to the bottom 10 locker room.
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Both teams traded scores in the third quarter, but the Bills went on a long drive entering the fourth quarter that ended with a one-yard score from Devin Singletary, which made it a 24-7 Bills lead.
Diggs led all receivers with seven passes for 92 yards and his score, while Allen finished with 223 yards in the air, completing 22 of 33 passes. This was also kind of a coming-of-age for rookie James Cook, who had 14 carries for 64 yards as well as six catches for 41 yards.
Despite this, Mac Jones only threw for 195 yards – 68 of which came on the Pats' final drive, primarily at garbage time.
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The Bills will host the Jets in Week 14, and a loss to the Dolphins this weekend will put them in first place in the division. The Pats, now 6-6, will head to Arizona State for Monday night football.
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Kvartýra №49 Brings Post-Soviet Streetwear To Iceland
Aliya Uteuova
Tucked away from the ubiquitous puffin stores and coffee shops of Laugavegur, there's an oasis at the end of a bright yellow alleyway. There, behind the main drag, is a fish processing centre turned bauhaus artists' space that today houses a hidden concept store, with a curated selection of the latest streetwear trends for discerning Icelanders. Welcome to Kvartýra №49.
"We wanted to make this place like a living room in your friend's apartment," says Natalia "Nata" Sushchenko, the store's co-creator. Indeed, the word "kvartira" in Nata's native Russian translates to "apartment."
"There are clothes, good music, good coffee—and all that's missing is a carpet on the wall," quips Nata's husband and the store's co-owner Árni Guðjónsson, referencing the quintessentially Soviet decor choice of hanging a rug up on the wall. Whether it's for decoration, warmth, or sound insulation, no one really knows.
Nata and Árni are a self-professed husband and wife dream team. Throughout their relationship, music and fashion has tied them together like a red thread. They've defied borders, explored new cultures, and overcome their considerable height difference to be together.
They met at a university party in Barcelona in 2012, and three years later, Árni proposed to Nata on his birthday. After graduating from the Design and Fashion School in Barcelona, Nata worked on a clothing collection, and Árni worked on music with his band Of Monsters and Men. Then, in 2017, they decided to move back to Árni's home country.
"I was really curious what this nation was," Nata says. "At first the language sounded alien, because of its unusual sounds. Iceland felt so refreshing. It made me see that this is how it's supposed to be—to live as humans with nature."
When Nata moved to Reykjavík, she rented a spot in a co-working space for her freelance design work. Just when she finished setting up her studio, the other tenants no longer wanted to continue, so Nata took over. "I cleaned it up and put in new tables," she says. "But despite paying rent monthly, people would only come in once or twice a month. Fed up with taking care of this underutilised space, Árni and Nata decided to turn it into a concept store.
Capitalism meets Post-Soviet fashion
For decades, gopniks—the rough street boys of '90s Russia—were frowned upon. If you grew up in the former Soviet Union, you knew to avoid these men, seen squatting outside apartment blocks, spitting sunflower seeds on the walkway. The go-to style of gopniks were their striped fake-Adidas tracksuits and Puma flip flops.
"The big brands are afraid to change too much. New brands in Russia have nothing to fear."
Today, post-Soviet streetwear is having a renaissance moment in fashion, and the stripes and flip flops are back. "French brands have been doing fashion showrooms for hundreds of years," Nata says. "People have seen Italian fashion forever. The big brands that influence fashion have been stable for so many years, and they're afraid to change too much. Meanwhile, new brands in Russia—like Gosha Rubchinskiy—have nothing to fear."
Árni views Russian urban fashion as an untapped source of inspiration for Western Europeans. Accustomed to only seeing Russians as movie villains, Russian style was largely overlooked—and that's precisely why post-Soviet street style is so intriguing today. "Russia and Ukraine definitely became the places to look at," Árni says. "There's a boom of creativity happening—they're exploring the undiscovered freedom that they finally have their hands on."
Kvartýra №49 has played a pivotal role in shifting the spotlight to Eastern European and Russian designers in Iceland. While knitted sweaters, folksy patterns, flowing minimal shapes—and, for men, beards—are still in the heart of Icelandic fashion, Nata thinks the younger generation of Icelanders are shifting away from that.
"Now I see younger guys shave their heads and wear Volchok," Nata says, referring to a Russian streetwear brand carried in Kvartýra №49, known for its use of bold Cyrillic typography. "When I see Icelanders dressed like Russian guys, I realise that they actually don't look that much different."
Regular customers of Kvartýra №49 could be transported to Moscow or Kiev and blend right in—proving that fashion is capable of erasing borders.
Buyers at large
Since opening a year ago, Nata and Árni have learned a great deal about running a clothing store. "Now we have a better idea of what Icelanders purchase," Nata says. She realises that the colours and styles she gravitates toward might not be what her customers want. "I would buy the things that I love, but not necessarily things that will sell. Gradually, we learned what customers will like, and what will fit them. It's all about separating personal taste."
"I don't think I would ever have done this alone. Together we're a power couple."
"I trust our brands," Nata says, referring to Kvartýra №49's top selling Russian brands such as Sputnik 1985, Volchok, and Syndicate. "They just send their collection, and some people buy the whole look from head to toe."
The couple's number one priority is that the clothes have to be produced ethically. "There is so much suffering behind $5 t-shirts," Nata says. "For me, it's painful to look at this, because if you've ever tried to make your own t-shirt on a sewing machine, you'd understand that this job should cost more than five dollars." Nata's own brand, Sushchenko, is produced in an atelier in Kiev.
For Árni and Nata, running a business together feels like an extension of their daily life. "We are our own bosses," Árni says. "It's a never-ending task. There's always something more you can do. If we have to do taxes on a Sunday evening, we do the taxes on a Sunday evening."
One of the challenges for Kvartýra №49 is competing with souvenir shops downtown. "We cater to Icelanders, and it can be challenging to get their attention," Nata says. "Big advertisements cost half your yearly budget, that's why small businesses always have to hustle."
The Kvartýra №49 space is also frequently used for creative arts events and music nights for bands, including their own Pale Moon, which recently released an EP that made it to Spotify's editorial playlist.
"Two creative people in the business can be a dangerous combination," finishes Nata. "That's why we always have to push each other. I don't think I would ever have done this alone. Together we are a power couple."
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BuzzFeed went public. It's about time.
Hopes for the digital media industry were elevated when co-founder and chief executive officer Jonah Peretti celebrated BuzzFeed's Listing Day at Nasdaq in New York City last month. Photo by Bennett Raglin/Getty Images
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BuzzFeed, a 15-year-old company, went public in December. Vox Media, another digital outlet, is considering a similar leap.
It's about time, says John Wihbey, an associate professor who heads Northeastern's graduate programs in journalism and media innovation. Digital media companies have been competing from a defensive stance that has held them back from pursuing new sources of revenue, he says.
"It's been a really sad story for the news industry" that previous digital startups haven't gone public, says Wihbey, author of "The Social Fact: News and Knowledge in a Networked World". "I had expected that there would be more media firms ultimately being able to do this sort of thing."
John Wihbey (left), associate professor of journalism who heads Northeastern's graduate programs in journalism and media innovation; and Yakov Bart, associate professor of marketing and Joseph G. Riesman Research Professor.Photos by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University
Budget shortfalls and staffing cutbacks have forced digital media companies to dwell on short-term emergencies. BuzzFeed's move signals a new commitment to long-term growth, says Wihbey.
"Going public is a vehicle to getting large," says Yakov Bart, associate professor of marketing and Joseph G. Riesman Research Professor at Northeastern.
Bart says outlets such as BuzzFeed and Vox were wounded when Facebook's algorithm changed in 2018 to emphasize content shared by users at the expense of digital media companies.
Traditional news companies such as The New York Times, The Economist, and The Wall Street Journal have developed a steady stream of revenue by committing to a paywall. BuzzFeed and Vox haven't been able to demand subscriptions from users, so they've tried another path. BuzzFeed acquired HuffPost in 2020, while Vox last month agreed to buy Group Nine Media—consolidations that have become necessary for digital companies to thrive, says Bart.
"The way for them to make more money is to merge, which would allow them to increase their market power and demand a larger share of advertising revenue on the content from Facebook," Bart says.
Though BuzzFeed netted a disappointing $16 million when it went public last month by merging with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC)—far less than the $250 million it could have raised if all of the partners in the SPAC had participated in the merger—Wihbey sees the move into the public market as a breakthrough.
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"In the internet era, there's been this lack of investment in talent and tools—so $16 million can really go a long way to cultivating three or four entrepreneurs within your company who can start new editorial products or figure out new ways of delivering news content," Wihbey says. "That could be really transformative, but nobody's had either the inclination or the capital to do it."
The negative of going public is a loss of independence that may appear in subtle ways, say the Northeastern professors.
"The valuation of competitors is going to get pegged to this public valuation of BuzzFeed," Bart says. "The question is, what is the fair valuation?"
Adds Wihbey: "I think that they will have less autonomy, potentially; not because there's necessarily going to be direct influence from a board, but more because the bottom line will become much more important.
"The big downside would be that they have to run really fast and take some risks to meet the expectations of investors," he says. "But Buzzfeed has already had to contract and pivot its strategy—these are the ups and downs of the media industry."
Digital media companies may explore additional opportunities from emerging cryptocurrencies and the potential for data-mining regulations that would prevent Facebook and other social media companies from exploiting users' private information.
"Maybe there's new room for them in a privacy-protected world where people's data is harder to come by," says Wihbey, who praises Jonah Peretti, BuzzFeed's co-founder and chief executive officer, as a media entrepreneur capable of envisioning new paths.
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Think carefully about who you are going to invite, you will want to invite guests who if they don't already know each other, will find each other interesting. Think about how many guests you can comfortably seat in your home to ensure you have enough space, and make sure you stick to this number! Ask your guests to RSVP to your dinner party invitation with any dietary requirements or allergies, this way you will have time to plan your menu well in advance and avoid any last minute stress. Having a seating plan can be a great idea if you have guests who don't already know each other, as it can take away any anxiety they might have about where to sit, and you can place people together who you think will click well.
It's always good to have some background music playing softly, as it helps people to relax (particularly early on in the evening before every one has arrived) You can download dinner party favourites playlists on spotify, or even buy CD's of dinner party music on Amazon.
It's always better to go for soft lighting in the evenings, so if you have a dimmer switch then dim your lights, alternatively you could bring in some lamps or fairy lights to create softer lighting if you are unable to dim your lights. Use candles on the tables, they make the space feel cosy and add warmth to the atmosphere with their soft flicker and glow.
Having a beautifully dressed table can really wow your guests! Always use matching plates and bowls, and make sure all your cutlery matches too. Choose either flowers or seasonal foliage to create a beautiful centrepiece! I always prefer table runners to table cloths- creating a long centrepiece along the runner can look amazing.
Use cloth napkins- nothing will ruin the vibe like cheap paper napkins! Most department stores have beautiful cloth napkins, and they can last years so it's definitely something worth investing in in my opinion!
Choose a simple menu if you are doing the cooking yourself, otherwise you will be stressed and won't have any time to socialise with your guests! I would recommend choosing dishes that can be prepared earlier in the day, and then either be served cold (starters), or heated up on the evening. Something like soup or a salad is great for a starter, as you can heat soup up again on the hob just before you need to serve it. For main courses dishes like a Lasagne or shepherds pie for example can be prepared during the day and just put in the oven before your guests have arrived. Desserts can also be prepared in advance and put in the fridge.
Whether you are drinking alcohol or not, it's important to have a great drinks menu available for your guests. It's a lovely touch to have a drink ready for your guests arrival, so maybe start with a delicious cocktail to break the ice and show off your skills!
Being the host, you can sometimes feel a little under pressure, but if you have prepared most things in advance then you should have plenty of time to socialise and relax with your guests too! Depending on the crowd, it can be a fun to have a couple of after dinner games available to play while you have coffee and mints, a few fun ideas are 'Heads Up' (available on the app store) or as a game on Amazon, the classic 'Who Am I?' (you just need some post its) or even a good old fashioned board game like trivial pursuit!


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Q: Managing machine AD accounts for scaled roles in a cloud service We domain-join the Virtual Machines associated with our Cloud Service roles.  Of course, the process of joining the domain forces a reboot.  And, when scaling up, this is fine.  However, when scaling-down we want to automatically remove the machines AD Account from the domain.  I don't see a way to execute a "before or after" event in Azure auto-scaling.  The current prescription is to override the roles OnStop event.  However, there is no way to tell if it is a simple reboot or an actual deallocation.  Of course, I can hack-in a process, myself.
However, is anyone else out there doing this? How do you accomplish this elegantly?

A: updated
To rephrase the question... what is the best way to manage machine identities when you have PaaS based role instances that are being domain joined to an IaaS domain controller.
IMHO, there are two approaches that can be taken: a passive approach where an inventory of the PaaS role instances is taken and then changes applied to the DC; and an active approach where on shut-down, the role instances need to actively notify the DC that they are being removed.
For the passive solution, the best option might be to have a process that periodically queries the PaaS Cloud Service topology via the "Get Deployment" Service Management API. The response to this operation includes a list of all the current role instances and their status.
The active solution would require placing code into the RoleEntryPoint that would actively send a status alert notification message to the DC so the role instance could be removed. For this approach, you could trap in any number of possible hooks: RoleEnvironment.Changing, RoleEnvironment.Changed, RoleEnvironment.Stopping, RoleEnvironment.OnStop.
The challenge with either method will be differentiating the deprovisioning of a role instance from when one is simply being rebooted (say for a guest OS update).

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