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Political comedians aren't funny any more – and that's a good thing
Feelgood gag-and-punchline stand-up is bigger than ever, but a certain stratum of comedians have already moved on to a place where the audience is laughing inside rather than out, or not at all.
By james Medd
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Will this year's winner of the Edinburgh Comedy Award be funny? It's a serious question. Last year, Bridget Christie won the Eddie (as it's called, since no longer being the Perrier) at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with a show that resembled a sociology lecture with just a few more moments of comic relief than you might expect at a good university. And she was a deserving winner, representative of where comedy's vanguard is headed.
While feelgood gag-and-punchline stand-up is bigger than ever, with Michael McIntyre and John Bishop and Sarah Millican filling arenas, a certain stratum of comedians have already moved on to a place where the audience is laughing inside rather than out, or not at all. Their leader is Stewart Lee (coincidentally or not, Christie's husband), essentially a sarcastic monologist who makes use of comic techniques to make a social or political point. Others have found their own way to a similar position, with differing degrees of pill-sweetening gag-telling. Rob Newman uses humour to illustrate historical analysis, Mark Steel and Josie Long to leaven grassroots politics. Robin Ince talks about science. Russell Brand prances between speaking for his generation and talking about his "winky", enraging and delighting and confusing as he goes.
What these performers share is a root in the alternative comedy of the 1980s, and a view of comedy as art rather than craft. Whether they've reached their current act through choice or necessity (some, you sense, just weren't very good at telling jokes), they all believe comedy has to mean something; it's not enough to be funny. Without the Comedy Store generation, they would have been politicians, novelists, satirists or, in Brand's case, a rock singer or cult leader. They might have been restricted to a pitch on Speaker's Corner.
The desire to do more than crack jokes comes from them, but they've also been driven off their patch by the increasing ubiquity of comedy. Politics and public life now necessitate having, along with a favourite pop band and type of biscuit, a "sense of humour". Politicians must win over the audience on Have I Got News For You, then out-wit haters, pedants and professional writers on Twitter. Newsnight feels the need to interview Muppets and insert comic dances. Radio 4's PM programme is conducted throughout in a tone of arch dryness. Comedy's reaction is either to go with the flow (the arena-fillers), go to extremes (Frankie Boyle, Jimmy Carr) or go somewhere else. Jokes are devalued currency. Hence Stewart Lee's dripping self-loathing whenever he approaches anything like a joke or Josie Long's exaggerated surprise when she stumbles on a gag.
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Oddly, a group of American comics seem to have reached a similar position by other means. Louis CK's show Louie can raise a laugh – stand-up segments of the show prove that – but he increasingly doesn't seem very interested in doing so. Instead, he makes films about losing his daughter on the subway, or remembering his teenage dope-smoking experiences. Marc Maron, whose own show Maron begins on the Fox channel on 14 August, is a similar semi-autobiographical sitcom, but even lower on chuckles. You might laugh at his inability to live at anything below the most heightened levels of anxiety and paranoia, but you won't feel great about it. Like Lena Dunham's Girls, these are "comedy shows" only because we've been told they are.
Compared with their British counterparts, they're more about self-reflection, looking deeper inwards rather than further out, more spiritual than political. At first glance they seem shallower, but they may well turn out to tell us more about how we're living in an age of stress, self-obsession and technology worship. In Britain, the progression has thrown up a circle of interesting, eccentric and varied performers but the ultimate destination could be a dead-end: comedy as political or moral lecture. The American reaction is, essentially, to chain Michael McIntyre's crowd-pleasing observations about the minutiae of everyday behaviour to an anchor of existential dread. Imagine that squeaky giggle tipping into hysteria, the stage-pacing given a manic edge, the gentle observations magnified into loathing. That's a show to win the Eddies, surely.
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GG on an August morning
Palo Alto's Gamble Garden last Saturday morning (the 17th), during motss.con XXXII. Eight of us prowled over the northern part of the garden, appreciating all sorts of botanical delights and surprises, densely compressed into a very small space. (On a separate visit, motss.conners Robert Coren and John Gintell managed not to notice a huge topiary rabbit; well, there was just so much else to look at.)
And now, a report on random selected moments from our visit.
Showy plants of the season. Several strips of garden are devoted to massed plantings for different seasons of the year: classic hybrid tea roses, irises, foxgloves, and, at their height last week, strips of dahlias of many varieties, and one of zinnias, both standard and dwarf. Motssers among the dahlias, with zinnias in the background:
(#1) Leith Chu, me, and Gwendolyn Alden Dean, on the garden path (photo by Vadim Temkin)
Others in the group, beyond the four just mentioned: alphabetically by last name, Thomas Bradley, Ned Deily, Mike Lipsie, David Preston.
Signs of the waning summer. Another of the strips is devoted to chrysanthemums, traditionally a showy fall-blooming ornamental . On this visit, they were all fat-budded but not yet in bloom.
Also still in bud, autumn-blooming anemones (hybrids with single 5-petaled flowers in white and pink), a very modest flower that prefers partial shade; individual plants are sprinkled under trees in the garden. From the pixabay site, fall anemones, some in bloom, some in bud:
(#2) I think it was Gwendolyn who described the budding anemones as street-lamp plants
Meanwhile, one of the signal end-of-summer plants was showily in bloom: Amaryllis belladonna, commonly known as (pink) naked ladies — both delicious names. Earier on this blog: on 8/8/15 in "Two in bloom", this photo:
Some discussion of both fall-blooming anemones and pink naked ladies in my 8/19/18 posting "End of season".
Herbal delights. There is a formal herb garden at GG, but we didn't officially visit it. However, herbs, both culinary and medicinal, are all over the place, so we got to comment on things like the medicinal properties of yarrow (Achillea). Two things we did comment on: all the different species of sages strewn through GG; and a chest-high mystery plant in the garden of edible plants.
Sages, sages, sages, 50 or so species, ranging from creeping sage to substantial bushes like this purple sage, which grows to 6 feet unless methodically clipped back:
(#2) GG photo by Kim Darnell from my 6/2/17 posting "Pride Time #1: the pink and the purple"; note the characteristic labiate flowers
There are white salvias, and pink ones, stunningly bright red ones, and multicolor ones, like the Salvia microphylla 'Hot Lips' that I posted about on 9/17/17:
(#3) 'Hot Lips' plants are dotted around GG, filling in odd spaces here and there
And of course sages in all shades in the blue-to-purple range. Which brings me back to Robert Coren (briefly mentioned above), who said that he and John had encountered a bush at GG with flowers that looked like sage blossoms but were an unlikely sky-blue color. I said we'd check it out, and it was easy to find. Vadim took a picture of it showing labiate flowers in that amazing blue, but the image was all blurry, so I'm not reproducing it here.
Apparently, Robert and John didn't do the sniff test — rub a bit of a leaf between your fingers and then smell them; sages almost all have intensely fragrant leaves — but Vadim and I did, and, wow, is that thing ever a sage. Probably a variety of Salvia guaranitica. From Wikipedia:
(#4) S. guaranitica 'Black and Blue' (07/06/2014, Kew Gardens, London) — not the remarkable sky-blue variety, but the best I could find
Salvia guaranitica, the anise-scented sage or hummingbird sage, is a species of Salvia native to a wide area of South America, including Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Argentina.
It is a perennial subshrub growing 4 to 5 ft (1.2 to 1.5 m) tall, spreading into a large patch through its spreading roots. The leaves are ovate, 4 cm (1.6 in) long and nearly as wide, with a fresh mint green color, and an anise scent when crushed. The inflorescences are up to 25 cm (9.8 in) long with flowers in various shades of blue, including an uncommonly true blue.
A gigantic scent-herb. In the edible plant section. People asked me what it was and what it was doing in the edible-plant section of the garden. We stood in a bunch around it, puzzled, until one of us remarked that the leaves looked sort of like lemon verbena, just a lot bigger. So we did the sniff test, and we were blown away by the intense lemony fragrance. Oh yes, lemon verbena, and not even as big as the plants get. From Wikipedia:
(#5) Lemon verbena as we were accustomed to encountering in pots and in herb gardens: a small aromatic plant
Aloysia [or Lippia] citrodora is a species of flowering plant in the verbena family Verbenaceae, native to South America. Common names include lemon verbena and lemon beebrush. It was brought to Europe by the Spanish and the Portuguese in the 17th century and cultivated for its oil.
Lemon verbena is a perennial shrub or subshrub growing to 2–3 metres (6.6–9.8 ft) high. The 8 centimetres (3.1 in)-long, glossy, pointed leaves are slightly rough to the touch and emit a strong lemon scent when bruised (hence the Latin specific epithet citrodora — lemon-scented).
… Lemon verbena leaves are used to add a lemon flavor to fish and poultry dishes, vegetable marinades, salad dressings, jams, puddings, Greek yogurt, and beverages. The leaves are also used in potpourri. Lemon verbena is used to make herbal teas and as a liqueur flavoring.
Rampant vines. A stretch of the back fencing at GG is covered with beautiful but rampant trumpet vine, Campsis radicans, which has to be clipped back every week to ten days (fortunately, GG has a substantial volunteer staff). From my 9/9/15 posting "More vining invasives", this Campsis radicans note from Wikipedia:
The vigor of the trumpet vine should not be underestimated. In warm weather, it puts out huge numbers of tendrils that grab onto every available surface, and eventually expand into heavy woody stems several centimeters in diameter. It grows well on arbors, fences, telephone poles, and trees, although it may dismember them in the process. Ruthless pruning is recommended.
But the star rampant vine at GG has thick stems, which it sends off into the air like clutching hands. It has its own arbor, well apart from anything that it could grasp to death. And it bears fruit, excellent fruit.
(#6) Kiwifruits ready to eat
(#7) Kiwi vines on a trellis, in a commercial vineyard
Kiwifruit (often abbreviated as kiwi outside Australia and New Zealand), or Chinese gooseberry, is the edible berry of several species of woody vines in the genus Actinidia. The most common cultivar group of kiwifruit (Actinidia deliciosa 'Hayward') is oval, about the size of a large hen's egg (5–8 cm (2.0–3.1 in) in length and 4.5–5.5 cm (1.8–2.2 in) in diameter). It has a thin, hair-like, fibrous, sour-but-edible light brown skin and light green or golden flesh with rows of tiny, black, edible seeds. The fruit has a soft texture with a sweet and unique flavour. China produced 50% of the world total of kiwifruit in 2017.
Close-up of GG's kiwi vines competing with one another:
(#8) The tendrils that grasp, the tendrils that clutch (photo by Vadim Temkin)
Plant families in action. Towering over one side of the GG section that we toured is a tall, huge-trunked tree that bore enormous seedpods when we were there. I noted that it was a legume tree, in the pea or bean family, so that those pods were indeed very large beans; predictable joshing about Jack and the beanstalk ensued. What I, inexcusably, neglected to point out was that this was the cockspur / cockscomb coral tree (Erythrina crista-galli), a huge flowering legume tree native to southern South America, with very showy bright red flowers, hence both the common name and the taxonomic species name. Coverage in my 6/14/17 posting "Three garden ornamentals and two trees".
(There is apparently some competition as to which cockspur coral tree is the largest in California. I know, I know, you don't need to try formulating a comment.)
But the gigantic bean tree did give me entry to one of my favorite GG topics, identifying plant families by their characteristic flowers: the pea-like flowers of the legume family (the Fabaceae), from the tiny flowers of the white clover plant up to the huge showy ones of the cockspur coral tree; the lipped flowers of the labiate family (the Lamiaceae), from creeping thyme and creeping sage up to the teak tree; and the five-petaled flowers of the rose family (the Rosaceae), from modest ground-hugging strawberries up to almond trees.
Another plant new to me. Almost every visit brings me to plants I wasn't previously aware of. This time, in another of GG's features, a section of four raised beds highlighting four Mediterranean climates around the world: the Mediterranean Basin (in the northern hemisphere), Australia, Chile, and South Africa (in the southern). In the Australian section we came across a charming green-flowered plant new to me. From Wikipedia:
(#9) The San Marcos Growers site (offering plants specifically for California) notes that the plant bears pale greenish-yellow pendant lantern-shaped flowers from [US] winter through summer
Correa glabra (Rock Correa) is a tall shrub [in the Rutaceae, or citrus family] which is endemic to Australia. It grows up to 2.7 metres in height. The elliptic leaves are 1 to 4 cm long and 5 to 17 mm wide. These have a strong lemon scent when crushed. [The notably green] flowers are mainly produced in April and May [that is, in the spring] in the species' native range, but may also appear sporadically throughout the year.
[cultivar] Corea glabra var. glabra 'Coliban River' — a compact, dense form selected from a wild population near the Coliban River in Kyneton, Victoria. It grows to 1.2 metres in height and width.
Of course, we saw, and talked about, much more than these few things. We did, however, notice the large topiary rabbit; Vadim even took a picture of it.
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Harris Enters 2020 Race With Political Baggage From Time As Calif. Attorney General As Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., enters the field of 2020 Democratic contenders, NPR's Audie Cornish talks with Politico reporter Christopher Cadelago about Harris' background as a prosecutor.
Harris Enters 2020 Race With Political Baggage From Time As Calif. Attorney General
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As Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., enters the field of 2020 Democratic contenders, NPR's Audie Cornish talks with Politico reporter Christopher Cadelago about Harris' background as a prosecutor.
It's early days still, but the Democratic field of 2020 presidential candidates is growing. The latest to throw in her hat - California Senator Kamala Harris. Harris has branded herself a progressive, but she also carries political baggage that opponents may use to question her progressive credentials - controversial decisions she made as a prosecutor and attorney general of California.
Chris Cadelago is a reporter for Politico. He's been following Harris' career for years. Welcome to the program.
CHRIS CADELAGO: Thank you so much.
CORNISH: So you were based in Sacramento during the years when she was a prosecutor, right? Based on what you saw at the time, how was her tenure characterized?
CADELAGO: As an attorney general, people often criticized Kamala Harris for being overly cautious, basically for siding with law enforcement too often. And I think some of those cases where that came up where some statewide ballot initiatives where she did not take a position on one in particular that would have reduced some felonies to misdemeanors.
CORNISH: Now, when you look at a potential candidate - I'll say like a Joe Biden - people are already talking about his role in the mid-'90s in terms of the crime bill - right? - and its connection to mass incarceration. Is there anything like that for Kamala Harris that could kind of come back as a criticism?
CADELAGO: So even though Kamala Harris has long been personally opposed to the death penalty, she made a vow when she ran statewide in California that she would uphold the law of the land. And there was a sort of famous case in Orange County where the issue of the death penalty came before her office, and her office actually took the side of the state and argued that the death penalty should stand. And her critics now point to that and say, you know, that was an opportunity for her to really take a stand and say, you know, this should not be the law of the land in California. And that's not something that she did.
CORNISH: We saw just as recently as the last presidential election issues of criminal justice coming to the forefront in the Democratic primary. Can you talk about how different the politics are now for this next crop of candidates and including Kamala Harris?
CADELAGO: Sure, yeah. We were just starting to hear a lot of the sort of voices creeping up within the Democratic Party at the time in 2016. Now I think people have really come to digest the new environment that we're in with really the Black Lives Matter movement really taking hold across the country. And I think you've seen prosecutors across the country come out and really take much stronger - what some folks would call activist positions. Folks in Kamala Harris' camp who have come up a couple - maybe a generation or two before them really were a lot more in line with this sort of standard law-and-order prosecutor that sort of defended the law of the land even though she did take some other approaches in her career.
CORNISH: So what does that mean looking forward to 2020? How do you think she tries to reframe this resume?
CADELAGO: She's really going to position herself as a progressive prosecutor and a public interest attorney, as she calls it, someone who worked on behalf of the people. She had clients, so to speak, who were sexually assaulted young women and girls, and she was in the courtroom trying to seek justice for them. That is something that she's going to point out - and I think a lot of environmental laws related to California where she was taking on the big polluters. So I think she has to really own this profile as a prosecutor and talk about the ways in which she did things differently.
CORNISH: What are you going to be looking for in the coming weeks?
CADELAGO: I think the question - she has a speech in Oakland on Sunday, which is supposed to really mark the start of her campaign. And I think that speech is going to take place only a few blocks from where she worked for years at the Alameda County Courthouse, and so it - there's a lot of symbolic value to the location. And I think this part of her record is something she's going to have to explain to people, and she's going to lead with this idea that she was not only a prosecutor but a progressive prosecutor.
CORNISH: Chris Cadelago is a reporter for Politico. Thank you for speaking with us.
CADELAGO: Thank you so much.
[POST-BROADCAST CORRECTION: In an earlier version of this story, we incorrectly reported that Sen. Kamala Harris is a former federal prosecutor. She is not. She previously was district attorney for the city and county of San Francisco and previously was California's attorney general.]
Correction Jan. 23, 2019
In an earlier version of this story, we incorrectly reported that Sen. Kamala Harris is a former federal prosecutor. She is not. She previously was district attorney for the city and county of San Francisco and previously was California's attorney general.


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Essay Time Machine Here We Go!
2015, black Science fiction Authors, Bloodchild, books, Essay time machine, Essays, Fledgling, literary canon, Octavia Butler
This is a new series that I am doing where I find old essays I wrote for college, and I am republishing them here. Some of the compositions are rough, some of them are random, but I thought this would be a fun place to publish some edited versions of these old English papers. I hope you enjoy them!
Vampires and Women
Octavia Butler's novel Fledgling, written in 2005 was a force to be reckoned with. Butler, who is an acclaimed Black female writer in the science fiction and fantasy genre, wrote the first of what would have been a trilogy though she had died in 2006 before she could finish the last two novels. Fledgling is about a Black female vampire named Shori who wakes up alone in the woods, with no memory of who she is or what she is. Throughout this book, she is tasked with rediscovering her roots and making connections with forgotten family members along the way. Butler's novel Fledgling and the short story Bloodchild should be included the canon of Women's Literature because it deals with the complex issues of love, sexuality, and friendship within the literary veil of Fantasy & Science Fiction.
Octavia Butler is a Hugo, and Nebula Award-winning author. She became one of the first African-American women to gain fame within the genre of science fiction. Gilbert and Guber, writers of The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women stated; "According to many feminist and African American scholars, Octavia Butler transformed science fiction conventions by grappling with the racial and ecological problems that today confront all human beings."(Gilbert, Guber 1307) Not only did she tackle the robust ideas of race and religion, but also her writing deals with the views of love, sexuality, and friendship heavily.
The theme of love is prominent throughout this book. In many of Butler's works, her depiction of love tends to be on the unconventional side. Renee/Shori's (the protagonist in the novel Fledgling) relationship with Wright is the perfect example of the theme. Wright finds her walking on the side of the road, and immediately Shori/Renee feels drawn to him.
"I surprised myself completely by instantly wanting to go home with him. I went around to the passenger side of his car and opened the door."(Butler 8) This moment isn't quite loving yet but an infatuation a longing. Shori/Renee is a vampire, she is a woman alone, small, and has lost all of her memory. But in her the initial contact with Wright she holds power. Shori/Renee has agency of herself and knows that she has the power to control the situation. She sees Wright and her infatuation is determined and based on her extreme hunger. But after she feeds, she feels a deeper connection; "He tasted wonderful, and he fed me without trying to escape or to hurt me. I licked the bite until it stopped bleeding. I wished I could make it heal, wished I could repay him by healing him."(Butler 12) Similarly in Octavia Butler's short story Bloodchild while unconventional, love plays a major role in that text. The story that takes place in a colony on another planet. We follow a family who is dealing with the struggles of cohabitation with another alien race called the Tlic. Gan, a boy chosen to be a carrier of T'Gatoi's young. "'Yes.' I leaned my forehead against her. She was cool velvet, deceptively soft. 'And to keep you for myself,' I said. It was so. I didn't understand it, but it was so. She made a hum or contentment."( Butler 2.1320) In both the short story and the novel, there are examples of complex relationships. Relationships that aren't easily defined, Butler, use the genre of science fiction and Fantasy to manufacture relationships that on the surface seem strange and "inhuman" but show a complexity of love that transcends into something relatable to the reader.
In Fledging the theme of sexuality oozes through. Nothing goes hand and hand with vampires more than sexuality. In the novel, Shori/Renee has to have what they call symbiotes to survive. Symbionts are what vampire's call the humans that they choose to be in their, family and they feed on them to survive. They need around three or four to make sure they have a healthy rotation (pun intended), to not bring any harm to their humans. The act of taking blood is depicted as a very sexual experience. When Shori/Renee first meets Wright (her first symbiont), they immediately participate in the ritual. "A moment later, I bit hard into the side of his neck. He convulsed, and I held on to him. He writhed under me, not struggling but holding me as I took more of his blood. I took enough blood to satisfy me…He sighed and held me, leaning back in his seat and letting me lean against him."(Butler 12) The act of taking blood can be a metaphor for women being able to partake in sexual fulfillment and not be ashamed. She says she is "satisfied," Butler uses that word to bring emphasis to her fulfillment.
The relationship between Shori/Renee and her symbionts is one she gives full agency to them. In the case of Celia and Brook (two of her new symbionts) who both were apart of Shori/Renee's father's, and brother's family, who were both murdered. Because the bond between a Symbiont and their Ina (Vampire) is for life, (they are physically bound to one another) Shori/Renee gives them a choice on whether to join them or not. "'If you know any other Ina, and you would prefer to got to them, you should do it now, while you can,'"(Butler 108)
Butler gives all her female characters agency in their relationships. She has Shori/Renee present the offer, instead of having her bite the two girls without their consent. The relationship between the Symbionts and their Ina (vampire) isn't just one based on sexuality alone. Octavia is sure to show the development of trust and friendship throughout the novel, depicting a loving relationship between all members of Shori/Renee's surrogate family. That isn't often seen in literature between male and female characters. Shori/Renee's family is one made up of Wright (male), Celia(Female), Brook (female), and Joel (male). Butler uses this odd family dynamic to show the difficulties of human relationships and especially the challenge of friendship between genders. "I glanced at Brook, feeling almost angry with her. 'Ask me questions when you want to know things. Tell me whatever you believe I should know. Complain whenever you want to complain. But don't talk to other people when you mean your words for me, and speak the truth.' She shrugged. 'All right.'"(Butler 122) Butler shows the hard part of relationships, especially new ones. They doubt Shori's strength and ability to protect them. In this, she lays out the rules for Brook and doesn't shy away from saying the hard stuff. But after this rough patch, Butler shows the friendship and trust beginning to grow. " ' I didn't ask what you knew. I asked whether you believe that I or my people murdered my families?' He glanced back at his fathers and brothers. 'I don't. I don't even believe you could have.'
'Then stop scaring my symbionts. If you have questions, ask them.'
'You're a child,' one of the older men said. 'And the two women with you are not your symbionts.'
I looked at him with disgust. He had already heard me answer this. I repeated the answer exactly: 'They were my father's and my brother Stefan's. They're with me now.'"(Butler 145) Butler uses the line "They are with me now." Twice in the text, Shori/Renee takes ownership and then claims them as her family, friends, and lovers. At this moment in the story, she truly accepts her matriarchal role in this mismatched family.
In the short story, Bloodchild friendship is depicted as between characters as something strained. In the world she creates, friendship doesn't thrive due to the circumstances of colonial life. "One of my earliest memories is of my mother stretched alongside T'Gatoi, talking about things I could not understand. Picking me up from the floor and laughing as she sat me on one of T'Gatoi's segments. She ate her share of eggs then. I wondered when she had stopped, and why."(Butler 2.1308) This failed friendship, and the burgeoning one in the novel shows how Butler's writing seeks to introduce readers to the idea that there isn't just one side to personal relationships. But several levels that can't be defined by pure emotions. Both Fledgling and BloodChild show this dynamic of love and family in its genuinely complex form.
Octavia Butler's novel Fledgling and short story Bloodchild should be in the Women's Literary canon, because of what the texts add to the literary canon in regards to the themes of love, sexuality, and friendship. Butler uses science fiction and fantasy to show the complexities of life through a fantastical lens. Her use of unique relationships and her new handling of would be stereotypes; Is what makes her a writer that should not only be included in the canon of this survey class but also in the broader canon of Literature.
Butler, Octavia. "Bloodchild." The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women – The Traditions in English: Early Twentieth Century Through Contemporary. Ed. Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar. Vol. 2. New York: W.W. Norton, 2007. 1307-320. Print.
Butler, Octavia E. Fledgling. New York: Seven Stories, 2005. Print.
M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar. Vol. 2. New York: W.W. Norton, 2007. 57-65. Print.
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Q: Difference between App Proxy Provider and Packet Tunnel Provider I'm reading the documentation of the App Proxy Provider and the Packet Tunnel Provider and am a bit puzzled.
The docs state that packet tunnel providers send and receive packets from/to the system, while app proxy providers send/receive flows to/from the system.
What's confusing from the packet tunnel provider documentation:

Packet tunnel providers can run in destination IP mode or source-application mode. The latter is one form of per-app VPN (the other form is an App Proxy Provider).

But in the NETunnelProvider class it says:

The default is NETunnelProviderRoutingMethodDestinationIP.

So by default, the Packet Tunnel Provider is actually an App Proxy Provider? What am I missing? Could someone explain their difference?

A: The AppProxy and PacketTunnel are options to implement VPN.
The AppProxy works with so called Flow objects, each flow is started by some application. AppProxy receives the flow and forward it to somewhere.
The PacketTunnel works with packets. It receives the packet and could do something with it (like, modify) before it goes to the network.
Now, the part of documentation may causing you troulbes relates to the question: what exeactly flows/packets do AppProxy and PacketTunnel receives?
AppProxy:

The NEAppProxyProvider class provides access to flows of network data
in the form of NEAppProxyFlow objects. Each NEAppProxyFlow object
corresponds to a socket opened by an app that matches the app rules
specified in the current App Proxy configuration.

That means, you will have all flows matches your rules go to your class method first, and then routed to some new address.
PacketTunnel:

Packet tunnel providers can run in destination IP mode or
source-application mode.

That mean, you can set the rule like "each packet that goes to "list of ip addresses", I want you to go through my class method and then into the tunnel" - and this will be destination IP mode.
Or you can set the rule like "all packets from app with bundle id com.my.app now go to my class method first and then into the tunnel" This is source-application mode.
This (the source application mode of PacketTunnelProvider) is one of per-app VPN forms, because it focused on the application, that produces traffic.
The AppProxy also focused on application that produces traffic, so it is the other form of per-app VPN, but it will give you the flow object app produces, not the packets with ip and tcp/udp headers.

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Q: SSHed into my Vagrant virtual machine to run a python script...but the python script doesn't work unless I'm in the VM itself I have a Vagrant virtual machine that I use for running automated tests. When I vagrant up and open up the console in my virtual machine, I'm able to start my tests with a simple command on the command line. After SSHing into that virtual machine and running the same exact script from the same exact directory, I'm getting errors with regards to modules not existing and certain files not existing. What might be the case?
I used nano to make a random txt file and surely enough I saw that the txt file appeared in my SSH terminal when I looked in the directory where I placed the txt. What could be different about the environment from SSH's perspective? Why would executing the same python script from the VM's terminal and from the SSH terminal have drastically different results?
I'm using the robots framework and selenium for my testing. The python script I'm executing from the command line kicks off those tests.

A: You aren't using the same Python executable in the two environments. For some reason, your vagrant console is using a virtual environment.
When you SSH into your VM, run this command before executing your test script:
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Should The Law Apply to The Police?
Discussion in 'Off-topic' started by Malum Prohibitum, Jul 3, 2006.
Malum Prohibitum Moderator Staff Member
There is a law (part of the FOPA) that bans the further manufacture of machine guns for civilian use. What it means is that if a machine gun was not manufactured and registered prior to 1986, it is unlawful to own. There are certain exceptions to this. One of them is acquisition by government entities by letterhead request.
Should this law apply to police officers who privately acquire machine guns? Well, somebody in Illinois thinks it should and somebody in Illinois thinks it should not. The outcome will determine whether this police officer goes to jail:
http://www.belleville.com/mld/bellevill ... 946296.htm
Malum Prohibitum, Jul 3, 2006
Gunstar1 Administrator
Why would police need a weapon whose only use is to kill as many people as possible in the shortest amount of time?
Gunstar1, Jul 3, 2006
ber950 Active Member
And if the Dept had bought the weapon and issued it to him there would be no problem. This concept of buying a class III weapon with personal money to be used on duty leaves question as to ownership.
It is a bad law. Bad law breeds bad case law. What a mess.
ber950, Jul 5, 2006
jrm Sledgehammer
ber950, you are exactly right. The fact that he paid for the weapon with his own money is highly suspicious. It is a perversion of the intent of the law to say that a LEO can send an order on department letterhead in order to buy a machine gun personally.
I like that the defense is saying the gun has been used mostly at the police training range. Duh! Where else is a LEO going to go play with his new toy but at his private range.
jrm, Jul 6, 2006
jrm said:
Also what happens when he retires or dies? It is not a transferable weapon. It would have to be destroyed or given to the dept. or sold to another officer on letterhead.
What about the legal liabilities?
He plead guilty.
http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=212481
Malum Prohibitum, Jul 31, 2006
http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/s ... enDocument
Judge clears Illinois officer of gun charge
By Tim O'Neil
Charges that an Illinois State Police sergeant illegally possessed a machine gun were dismissed Wednesday by a federal judge, who ruled that the law was "unconstitutionally vague" as applied to him.
In federal court in East St. Louis, U.S. District Judge David R. Herndon dropped the charges against Sgt. James V. Vest of O'Fallon, Ill., who was lead rifle instructor for the department's District 11 in the Metro East area. Herndon's 26-page order says the confusion is over the federal law's exception for police officers, and whether Vest could reasonably be expected to know whether he was breaking the law.
Vest was one of four people, including two other Illinois state troopers, separately accused in January of illegally possessing machine guns. Such fully automatic weapons are banned by federal law except for certain uses, such as by the military and police agencies, or by people with a special license, which the four did not have.
A machine gun fires multiple rounds with one squeeze of the trigger.
How Herndon's ruling would affect the other cases was unclear Wednesday, partly because the charges against them are not identical.
Two other defendants, State Police Special Agent John Yard of Collinsville and Dr. Harold Griffiths of Spaulding, Ill., have similar constitutional claims pending before U.S. District Judge Michael J. Reagan in East St. Louis.
The remaining defendant, Senior Master Trooper Greg Mugge of Jerseyville, pleaded guilty July 25 of possession of an unregistered machine gun. His lawyer, John Delaney Jr., said Wednesday that he was studying the Vest case ruling. "Who knows what will happen?" he said.
Clyde Kuehn, one of Vest's lawyers, said Wednesday "was a very relieving and happy day" for his client. Vest remains on administrative leave.
The four were charged after investigations by the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. It was not clear at the outset what triggered the probe. None of the four was accused of using the weapons in any crimes.
U.S. Attorney Randy Massey, whose office brought the charges, declined Wednesday to discuss Herndon's ruling. Massey's office had opposed Vest's motion to dismiss.
"We are evaluating the order and are looking into our options," he said.
The charges carry a maximum prison term of 10 years and a fine of up to $250,000, although federal guidelines call for less when defendants have no criminal records.
Gun used in classes
The case against Vest concerned an M-4 machine gun, essentially a short-barrel form of the standard M-16 military weapon, that he bought in 1998 and used in his state police training classes. The charges allege that he lacked authority from the state to buy or possess the weapon.
Vest argued that he bought and used it under the "law enforcement exception" in the federal law. Some police agencies have machine guns in their arsenals, particularly for their tactical teams.
Herndon noted that the prosecution never claimed that Vest ever used the M-4 for anything but official purposes. The judge said the government argued that a law enforcement agency, not a single police officer, has the authority to permit possession of a machine gun.
But Herndon wrote that the federal law granting that authority was too vague in this instance to support the charges against Vest.
"How would a police officer/lead rifle instructor such as Vest ever know whether his possession of a machine gun or other prohibited weapon was legal, as there is no guidance under the (statute) as to what constitutes proper authority," the judge wrote. "It does not appear that this statute was designed to criminalize police officers even if they may be guilty of mere technical violations."
Given that Vest apparently used it only for law enforcement purposes, Herndon said, charging him "seems to go against the purpose" of the federal law.
A spokesman for the Illinois State Police headquarters in Springfield had no comment on the ruling and said he could not discuss personnel matters regarding Vest.
In February, 10 Metro East police chiefs, two county sheriffs and two state senators publicly urged leniency for the accused officers.
Malum Prohibitum, Aug 31, 2006
"It does not appear that this statute was designed to criminalize police officers even if they may be guilty of mere technical violations."
If only a federal judge in the Seventh Circuit had the guts to write such an opinion applied to a non-government actor.
Should the law ever be designed to criminalize any conduct that is a "mere technical violation?"
MP, the link to the document does not seem to work.
jrm, Aug 31, 2006
Link works now.
Most gun laws punish mere "technical" violations.
Wrong wood furniture on your gun?
One eighth of an inch too short in the barrel?
I won't go on . . .
johnpeace Guest
No, of course it wasn't.
It was designed to criminalize us for mere technical violations!
I have been following several stories, Richard Celata of KT Ordinance especially, that have me fuming here lately.
Is it time yet?
johnpeace, Aug 31, 2006
johnpeace said:
Rule of law. This is what I am talking about.
Here is the text of the actual opinion.
http://www.ilsd.uscourts.gov/Opinions/0 ... g_MTDs.pdf
You HAVE to read it. This case is not about the law - it is entirely about who had the gun. The judge's first two pages talk about who has the gun, not about whether this particular who violated the law.
Malum Prohibitum,
In your opinion, would there be anything to gain from sending letters voicing disapproval of their judgments to judges?
I know they are largely arrogant and insulate themselves from the people by hiding behind their robes, benches and all those law books...but can you get through to them by just calling them on their bullshit?
Would a campaign of letter writing and drawing attention to bad judgments and inappropriate opinions like this one be a good strategy?
It seems like a reasonable first step before resorting to more drastic measures.
No. Federal judges are appointed for life and may only be removed by impeachment. The last one to be impeached (bribery charges) was then elected to Congress and is next in line to take over chairmanship of the intelligence committee if the Democrats get a majority in the House.
Wow. The opinion finds an affirmative defense to be unconstitutionally vague "as applied" to the defendant.
But, wait. The government does not apply affirmative defenses to defendants. Defendants have to raise and prove the defense.
It does not seem reasonable to me that a criminal case can be dismissed with prejudice, before trial, on the grounds that a potential affirmative defense is vague.
If this is applied to everyone, the ATF would have to start doing actual work since many of their cases are nothing more than mere technical violations.
Gunstar1, Aug 31, 2006
the ATF would have to start doing actual work
Oh, that's just rich...stop now before I bust a gut!
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Children's Commissioner: "Prioritise child poverty in 2014 elections"
December 20, 2013 - Family and child
Children's Commissioner Dr Russell Wills has called for child poverty to be a key issue in the elections of 2014. In an opinion piece in the NZ Herald, he has suggested that the public will need to make some 'tough decisions' to put child poverty high on the agenda. "We will need to send clear messages to decision makers about our priorities," he said.
Dr Wills suggested that it is voters and influential organisations who must throw their support behind his call, in order to influence all parties to prioritise this issue. "…no government will go further than the public mood will allow," he said "… as the debates around election year start to heat up, what will your contribution be? Will you leave the tough choices to the politicians, or will you stand up in your own organisations and ask: what can we do to prioritise children in this election year?"
HPF Executive Director Sione Tu'itahi welcomed Dr Wills' article. "Child poverty is the root cause of so much ill-health in Aotearoa New Zealand," he said. "An investment in this tragic situation would go a long way to improve the wellbeing of a large sector of our society."
Dr Wills' article directed his challenge at older people, motorists and health managers; asking them to call for greater prioritisation of child poverty. Acommentary in the same paper provides responses from the Automobile Association, Grey Power, Social Development Minister Paula Bennett and Labour children's spokesperson Jacinda Ahern; the latter of whom offered assurances that Labour would prioritise child poverty.
HPF has reported on the the Child Poverty Monitor, released on 9 December 2013, which revealed that a quarter of New Zealand children currently live in poverty.
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I recently streamed Leave No Trace, a film most people love or at least admire: it's at 100% on Rotten Tomatoes. I thought it was okay, but I wasn't blown away.
Granted, it's a beautiful movie, wonderfully acted and filmed in exacting, breathtaking detail. It opens on a lush forest setting, actually a public park outside Portland, Oregon. an apparent wilderness that provides a hard-won Utopia for an alienated vet and his 13-year-old daughter. The two rarely venture into civilization save for occasional forays into town where Dad picks up the pain meds he later sells at an encampment of like-minded souls. Father and daughter are devoted to each other but suspicious of outsiders – with good reason, it turns out, because once spotted the pair are handed over to the well-meaning powers that be (who incidentally treat them with a gentle humanity I've never experienced from social services, and I've experienced social services). No matter: he can't adjust. He hides the television in a closet, refuses to consider cell phones, and panics at a logger's helicopter. When his daughter inevitably assimilates, Dad vanishes back into the forest.
It's an unflinching look at the tragedy of the damaged and discarded.
Now, I don't know anything about how this script was put together, or too much about how the book it's based on was researched, but I do have a few facts.
In the source novel, My Abandonment by Peter Rock, Dad's behavior is not so much symptomatic of PTSD as it's caused by his having kidnapped this girl from her front yard. Of course he tends to avoid helicopters and law enforcement; of course he doesn't want her watching television or surfing on a smart phone. Whether or not he's her father is open to interpretation: fathers kidnap their own children all the time. While much in the novel is ambiguous and arguably fantasy, it was reportedly inspired by the situation of an actual father and daughter who've since vanished, and the kidnapping of Elizabeth Smart.
And there are real differences in the way the story plays out. In the book, the girl is left on her own, locates her family, but returns to her wandering life. That is the tragedy presented; that's what the story's about.
So you see the level of sheer invention here. This movie is about a presumed authentic type that's based on a very different character in a book who is himself based on a combination of influences rather than any true depiction of a homeless veteran.
He's an original, a Frankenstein or a Harry Potter. And there's certainly nothing wrong with that: fiction is supposed to be at least a little original. But in Leave No Trace no one does magic or has a bolt in their neck; everything is presented and lauded as authentic. And maybe it is; maybe the film does accurately portray the essential nature of reality for the troubled and homeless – I really don't know. It might.
Should we just make people up this way and pretend they're real? Are we being played? There's something genuinely exciting about creating a whole new human type, but does that creation add fresh insight to any larger discussion? Can it even be unwittingly mimicked or otherwise influence reality?
There's something deceptive about this quietly superb little movie, and I think it's important to note that.
This entry was posted in THE BLOG and tagged homelessness, Leave No Trace, My Abandonment, Peter Rock, PTSD on December 2, 2018 by Mike Miller.


Culture has become a weapon of war and a fundraising tool for violent extremist organizations across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Millions of archaeological, historic, and religious sites in the MENA region are under threat from organized plunder or destruction from armed conflict and violent extremist organizations. This lecture will discuss how the illicit trade in antiquities is funding terrorism in the Middle East and beyond and share what can be done to halt this dark trade.
Deborah Lehr is the founder and Chairman of the Antiquities Coalition. She leads a diverse team of experts in the fight against the looting and trafficking of cultural heritage by organized crime and terrorists. Their work focuses in the Middle East and Asia. Deborah also serves as the Chief Executive Officer of Basilinna, a strategic business consulting firm focused on China and the Middle East. And she is a Senior Fellow of the Paulson Institute, founded by former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson. Previously, Deborah served as Senior Advisor to the Chairman and CEO of Merrill Lynch, and was a Senior Managing Director at the New York Stock Exchange focused on emerging markets. She also was President of Stonebridge China. Prior to joining Stonebridge, Lehr was a partner at Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw. Deborah has also served in government, as a lead negotiator at the US Trade Representative for China's WTO Accession, a Director of Asian Affairs at the National Security Council, and on export control and trade policy issues at the Department of Commerce. Deborah is a member of the International Advisory Council of The National Geographic Society, the Board of the Archaeological Institute of America, International Advisory Board of the London School of Economics, the Cox Business School Advisory Board at Southern Methodist University, and the Advisory Board of SAIS at Johns Hopkins University. Deborah has lived and studied around the world, including China, England, France, and Germany. Her writings appear regularly in the Huffington Post, and have been published in Foreign Affairs, the South China Morning Post, China Daily, US News and World Report, and Caixin Magazine. And she has appeared on television to speak about antiquities trafficking and about China.
President Larry Millstein called the 2375th meeting of the Society to order at 8:10 p.m. He announced the order of business and welcomed new members. President Millstein presented a summary of the 36th meeting of the Society, held in 1872. The minutes of the previous meeting were read and approved. President Millstein then introduced the speaker for the evening, Deborah Lehr, the Founder and Chairman of the Antiquities Coalition. Her lecture was titled "Saving the Past: The Quest to Combat Cultural Racketeering".
Ms. Lehr began by inviting the audience to imagine a moment of uprising and protest in Washington, D.C. in which thieves break into the Smithsonian and loot priceless cultural and historic artifacts, not just for personal gain, but in a calculated effort to harm our society by destroying the art and antiquities we celebrate.
This has become the constant reality in the regions threatened by the terrorist group ISIS, who use the destruction and plunder of historic sites and artifacts as tool of war to frighten and demoralize local populations while bringing in millions of dollars to further their attacks. Although ISIS espouses an extremist via of Islam, the Antiquities Coalition has determined that almost 70 percent of the sites looted or destroyed by ISIS are in fact Islamic, more than the rest of the religious sites combined.
Ms. Lehr explained that cultural cleansing is a precursor to human genocide, and that attacks on historic and tourists sites are intended to undermine both social unity and the local economy, both of which benefit strongly from cultural capital. Ms. Lehr recounted the story of Dr. Khaled al-Asaad, dubbed the Father of Palmyra, who curated, researched, and ultimately protected the ancient Syrian city until he was executed by ISIS for refusing to disclose the location of many of its hidden treasures.
Looting of antiquities has joined oil theft and kidnapping as a top source of revenue for groups like ISIS. Although ISIS does destroy many sites, it has an institutionalized process for first stripping them of valuable art and artifacts. Records obtained by U.S. special forces and the U.S. State Department indicate that ISIS income from looted antiquities reaches 5 million dollars annually.
This lucrative trade is facilitated by the fact that the United States Department of Justice has had a policy of "seize and return" for trafficked antiquities, but rarely pursues criminal charges. Attitudes may be changing, however, as the FBI has recently announced it is actively investigating and bringing charges in the trade of conflict antiquities, and the United States recently signed a bilateral agreement with Egypt to close its market to Egyptian antiquities, and other Middle Eastern countries such as Libya, Tunisia, and Morocco have expressed interest in similar agreements.
Dr. Lehr concluded by acknowledging the parallels to the silver screen, in which real-life heroes battle tirelessly to save priceless antiquities, and she explained how individual collectors can help in the fight.
One questioner asked whether the impending capture of the ISIS capital city Raqqa, Syria may diminish attention to conflict antiquities. Ms. Lehr explained that the very visible pillaging and destruction by ISIS was clearly a factor in creating the impetus for international cooperation, but now that these structures are in place they can be expected to continue to operate even if the focal point of the crisis shifts.
Another questioner asked what, if anything, the governments of Israel and Turkey are doing about their countries' role as hubs for trafficked antiquities. Ms. Lehr explained that Israel is cooperating with the international community in attempting to intercept looted artifacts, but has made no move to change the longstanding law that legitimizes them if they do enter the country.
After the question and answer period, President Millstein thanked the speaker, made the usual housekeeping announcements, and invited guests to join the Society. At 9:37 p.m., President Millstein adjourned the 2375th meeting of the Society to the social hour.


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Ever since I wrote the post last week about the Belfry Theatre's website, I've been getting lots of questions from folks about building their website in WordPress.
Today's post is focused on how to start a WordPress-hosted blog or website. I will cover how to start a self-hosted site in a later post.
To start a WordPress hosted blog, simply go to http://www.wordpress.com. You will first have to sign up for an account. Then, you can choose the name of your page. If you are using this for your website, ideally, you'd want to use the name of your business.
In your WP dashboard, click on 'Settings' and then 'Domains'. For $15, WP will allow you to drop the 'WordPress' and map your domain, assuming it's not already taken.
Now you can begin to build your site.
Decide what you'd like your site to look like. In your dashboard, click on 'Appearance' then 'Themes'. You can browse through all the different themes and find one that suits your fancy. You may want to look for a theme with a customizable header, so that you can integrate your logo and branding in there. Also, think about whether you want one or two sidebars. You can use your sidebar for your contact information, or to import your Twitter feed. At this moment, there are 85 themes to choose from.
Start to set up your 'pages'. You probably currently have a website, or, if you don't, think about what pages you'd like to have on your site. For example, you'll want an 'About' page, a page devoted to your work, a contact page, and, of course, your blog. For each page you want to have on your blog, go to the 'Pages' menu and create a new one. You can populate it with content and copy, adding photos/video, etc. Your front page, the page that people see when they type your URL into thier browser, will be your blog.
Choose your widgets: one of the great advantages of having a WordPress page is the vast amount of widgets that are available to you. For example, you can use the Flickr widget to import your Flickr stream directly into the sidebar of your blog. To use widgets, go to the 'Appearance' menu on your dashboard, and click on 'Widgets'. Choose which ones you want, and drag them into the sidebar.
I think starting a WordPress-hosted website or blog is a great option for someone who is just getting started. There are limitations, however, because you do have to work within the WordPress system. If you are just learning how to use WordPress, it might be a good option for you. Once you are more familiar with the interface, you might want to take the leap to a self-hosted WordPress site, which allows you much more freedom and creativity.
Thanks for posting this. I was planning on creating a blog website so think this will be a great starting place for me & help streamline the process.
CambiareProductions.com is our primary site and is made on WordPress to ensure ease in update for the non-webmaster. The actual set-up was pretty complex, and we host it. But the end product is a site that I don't need to CODE to update which is the best CMS no money can buy.
Once again, a terrific post. I'm going to the annual Women Presidents Organization conference in Ft Lauderdale* on Tuesday, and WordPress is one of the hot topics. I've organized a Tweet-Up, and will refer everyone to your blog!
* 2011: WPO in Vancouver!
Thanks for this. I am very interested in building a self hosted word press website. Have you written on that yet? I do have a blog now, that I would like to incorporate as a page on the website, not the homepage. Any ideas for that?
You can pretty much do anything with wordpress–it rocks!
Hey thanks for the feedback. I will check it out.


Tu Cheez Badi Hai Mast Mast 2017 song launch | Machine | Akshay Kumar, Mustafa, Kiara Advani.
The chemistry between Mustafa and Kiara is being appreciated in the film.
Mustafa and Kiara Advani at the song .
Akshay Kumar - Tu Cheez Badi Hai Mast Mast Remix Song Launch Full Video HD |Machine|Mustafa,Kiara - Duration: 24:05.