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Egyptian Men Stand Up for Gender Equality—In homes and on the streets
Date: Sunday, March 31, 2019
Training "Development through Art - Interactive Theater" held with men and women in Qalyubiya, Egypt. Photo: Courtesy of CARE International Egypt.
Egypt faces profound gender inequalities, including harassment and gender-based violence. In five of Egypt's governorates, the UN Women "Men and Women for Gender Equality" regional programme, in partnership with CARE International and Sida, is working with local communities and authorities to address the attitudes that lead to violence against women in all its forms.
Mariam Ezzat Nathan, a senior field supervisor at CARE International in Egypt, spoke to UN Women about activities implemented on the ground within the framework of the programme to tackle issues such as female genital mutilation and harassment.
"We began to work with UN Women at the end of 2015, to conduct capacity building for 15 CBOs [community-based organizations]. The local organizations we selected work in the governorates of Cairo, Alexandria, Al Qalyubyia, Sohag, and Asyut," ranging from Cairo's urbanized north to remote rural south.
The aim of this training was to support the capacity of these 15 organizations to foster positive relationships between men and women in the communities where the CBOs are based. For example, these organizations were holding later on community discussions with a focus on tackling the issue of violence against women.
Through 12 training sessions and 4 workshop discussions, Mariam said, facilitators detailed the broader impact of violence against women, particularly in the home setting. "During our trainings with men and women, we make clear to them the negative effects of domestic violence against women on those around them, namely their children." she explained. These negative effects can include not only physical harm but also psychological damage, for example impacting on women's self-confidence, creating sense of unhealthy dependence on spouse, feelings of frustration and depression, humiliation and loss of a sense of initiative and autonomous decision-making. On a social level, effects can include isolation of the woman from family and friends, disintegration of the family unit, and children withdrawing from education or displaying aggressive behaviour.
"In Asyut and Sohag [in southern Egypt], we work to engage grandmothers, because these are the ones who often encourage early marriage. We convince them that girls must study, that it's their right. We explain to them the impact of violence on the girls which they'll likely face should they be married early."
Another form of violence against women is street harassment, an extremely common occurrence for which the coalition is enlisting men to fight against.
Integrating men into addressing gender equality is critical, Mariam noted. One group of men the coalition targets are drivers of tuk-tuks, three-wheeled vehicles used as taxis.
"There's a stereotype that tuk-tuk drivers steal and sell drugs. We work with them to dispel this image, and at the same time ask them to stand up to the harassment of women that they witness during their work—not only as a moral cause but because fighting harassment will also bring them a better income at the end of the day. If you're harassing women, of course then women won't want to ride with you."
Mariam added that, in addition to the economic arguments, "we lead [the drivers] through the entire awareness-raising process. Then we integrate the men into our activities, namely art therapy–such as songs and sculptures and theatre—where we work with them to express their ideas of personal boundaries for themselves and others, gender equality, and domestic violence."
Mariam noted with pride that one of the male tuk-tuk drivers the coalition trained in Qalyubiya, named Hamza, conducted an informal study of his tuk-tuk route, identifying the exact locations where he observed the most harassment against women and calculating the average number of incidents of harassment in each spot per day.
He then organized groups of five to six men that went to each of the high-occurrence harassment locations and spoke to the tuk-tuk drivers in that area, engaging in the same awareness-raising discussions against harassment which the coalition had presented to him. They recorded the drivers' feedback to map their progress and document changing attitudes. Most of the drivers joined efforts and the group has now grown to a membership of dozens of advocates all spreading messages against harassment.
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Robert and Marcia Karp of Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts have two daughters and three grandchildren, one of whom, Jason, 14, has autism. The Karps, who are 77 and 74, are trying to make sure Jason, an only child who lives with his parents outside Washington, D.C., develops close relationships with his cousins and other extended family members who can assist him in the decades to come. They're also hoping to leave an estate that will help Jason's parents provide for him as an adult. Photo courtesy of the Karps.
The monumental stress of raising a child with autism can be eased by grandparents, who are often "ideally suited" to provide parents with practical, emotional, social, and financial support, scholars say.
Because most grandparents have already raised neurotypical children, they may be more attuned than young parents are to signs that a baby is developing atypically, writes sociologist Eva Kahana, a professor at Case Western Reserve University, in a recent article in an academic journal.
Concerned grandparents can help ensure that a child obtains an early diagnosis, which often makes treatment more effective.
But it's not easy to access good autism treatment, which is why only about 10 percent of autistic children receive it, writes Kahana. For example, although research shows that one-on-one, school-based behavioral therapy is effective in helping autistic kids develop social and academic skills, few public schools offer it. Some children with autism also need occupational, physical, and speech therapy.
"Parents often accept limited services offered to the child at their local public schools, unaware of additional services that schools are required by law to provide to a child with a disability," Kahana writes.
Here again, grandparents can help, she says. They may have the "time and motivation" to advocate for the child with the school district and research appropriate after-school and summer programs.
Grandparents can also protect autistic children and their parents from social isolation, says Kahana.
Some parents of kids with autism are so busy with daily caretaking that they don't have time to nourish social ties, while others find themselves "shunned" by neighbors and friends.
By serving as a "bridge," grandparents can keep parents connected with the world. They can educate the extended family about autism to dispel any fear and discomfort, write thank-you notes to relatives and friends who've shown particular consideration, and attend support groups on behalf of the middle generation.
Some grandparents are able to devote themselves part-time to the care of an autistic grandchild and his or her siblings, which may include both watching the kids at home and transporting them to activities and appointments. Young children may balk at unfamiliar sitters, but they're "less likely to be agitated when the grandparents take over usual parental chores," according to Kahana.
And some grandparents can afford to help the parents of kids with autism stay afloat financially, which may be crucial if the child's treatment expenses are high or if a parent is unable to stay in the work force. Under some circumstances, grandparents can also establish a "special needs trust" on behalf of a grandchild that does not imperil the child's current or future public benefits.


If I think of what I would desire to achieve, it is to become a strong individual – strong in integrity, strong in character, to be someone who lives by his word, to be someone who embraces principles regardless of whether it brings me gain or loss, comfort or distress.
For this, one needs to be strong in knowledge. Knowledge is not just a matter of parroting. It is a matter of hearing, assimilating and thinking.
Sometimes, I give the example of you are not this body; you are an eternal spirit soul. It is a nice slogan for a T-shirt. But, one can also ask, "If I'm not this body, then what are the consequences?" And the consequences are many. One has to think it through in Krsna consciousness. Just as, "We are the eternal servants of Krsna!" What are the consequences of this? That no matter what happens; we are the eternal servants of Krsna. Nothing in the world can ever change that! This is very important for me; this is one of my meditations.
A lot of my Krsna consciousness comes from thinking about things. Not just hearing and reading Srimad Bhagavatam but thinking about it, "What does this mean for me? What are the consequences of what I'm reading here?" and this kind of thinking process can eventually make us what Srila Prabhupada phrased as INDEPENDENTLY THOUGHTFUL. This means a lot to me. I am looking for people who deeply think about what are they doing with their lives and why are they doing it! People who live very consciously and in this way become strong in their own conviction and independently thoughtful, and I would be glad to add to it!
Something I learnt from Tamal Krishna Maharaj, by observing him, is that the duty of the spiritual master, the principal duty of the spiritual master is to give people a greater vision for themselves than what they came up with on their own! I want disciples who have a vision about their life, who know where they are going and what they are trying to achieve in this life!


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Musketeer Gripweed
By Marquee Magazine on	 May 1, 2011 Cover Story, Features, Interviews, Jeffrey V. Smith
Fort Collins' Musketeer Gripweed ready to set things on fire with potent live energy
:: Musketeer Gripweed ::
:: Quixote's True Blue :: May 6 ::
:: Odell Brewing Company :: May 28 ::
:: Capitol Hill People's Fair :: June 4-5 ::
By Jeffrey V. Smith
Jump up and testify, Musketeer Gripweed is in town!
The Colorado-based, blues-fusion band simply explodes onstage with the energy and fervor of a revival preacher out to save a filthy sinner's soul. This group of musicians, however, isn't about pushing religion, unless your religion is drinking, dancing and some damn good music. They are all about creating what they call "American revival, stomp-ass, shake and holla" music.
With a passion directly influenced by modern and classic soul heroes like Robert Johnson, Sonny Boy Williamson, The Allman Brothers Band, Otis Redding, and The Black Crowes, Musketeer Gripweed creates an extraordinarily powerful live energy. The band's vibe manifests in spontaneous, uncontrollable dancing — like a physical manifestation of speaking in tongues — and anyone within earshot could find themselves with a compulsion to stand up, run to the stage and testify.
"We are pure entertainment," guitarist Ehren Crumpler told The Marquee in a recent interview. "We want everyone to walk away from a Gripweed show — regardless of their musical tastes — feeling like they saw something good." He added, "I also love to make people smile and dance."
Crumpler, who played in Colorado-based jam-band Wasabi for eight years, believes Gripweed "has all the components" that create a superior rock and roll band. "There's a little blues, a little soul, a little '70s-style Zeppelin, coupled with a whole lot of foot stomping, revival-style gospel," he said. "You can hear touches of jazz and jam on the right night as well, but most of all, I think we are just a good old rock and roll band."
The band's sound is "rooted in the blues, touched by Bob Dylan and The Band and born out of being on the bottom," the band's frontman and soul-soaked vocalist Jason Downing explained. "It's American, not Americana. It has to do with blues roots and attitude." Listeners will also immediately notice the music is steeped in R&B, rock and "gut-busting soul," as well.
Labels aside, Musketeer Gripweed is all about the energy of the music and its message of positivity and community. Its goal, "is to create a happening, a time and place for all of us there to really get 'real' and in touch with music, each other, and positivity," explained Downing, a CSU sociology teacher — who looks like he stepped out of a revivalist tent in the deep South. "It's more about having a meaningful musical experience with the audience than creating a certain style of music — it's not one music for one people."
"[At our shows] we intend to get everyone involved — to share an important musical moment in time," Downing said. "We are not afraid to ask people to make this a better world, and they respond. It's a revival of sorts, where we channel energy, create goals and manifest through music. We want to create something intense that resonates with a lot of people and inspires them to be better, and change the world." It's like truth set on fire.
At most — but not all — Musketeer Gripweed shows, Downing expands on the revival energy created by the band and its highly-praised songwriting, and transforms into Rev. Monkey Paw Patterson. "He's a preacher armed with music, a straight razor and gasoline," Downing said of his alter-ego. "He intends to get people worked up, touch a nerve and dance their asses off." As if in some sort of groove-induced trance, audiences can expect the Reverend, as Downing says, "to hang from the ceiling, run into the audience, invade space." No matter what — like some sort of crazed psychedelic preacher — he creates a frenzied, "gasoline intense vibe" and truly engages and engrosses anyone in the room.
While it's not religion, Downing explained a Gripweed performance can be deeply spiritual. "This show is designed to get people worked up, with a raw and real vibe that makes the whole place connected," said Downing. When the music is as good and the vibe as incendiary as Gripweed's, that feat is easily achieved.
Drummer/percussionist Stu Crair, who also shares his talents with The Grippe and Dead Floyd, sums it up best: "We bring the heat every time. More importantly," he said, "I am also trying to connect to the audience with rhythm and the delivery of the songs in the best way possible. That changes from night to night, song to song, but that's always my goal."
Musketeer Gripweed has been working the Colorado music scene from its Loveland/Fort Collins home base for the past six years. It began when Downing and bassist Ben Hockett moved in together and began to search out "good people" to create music with. "The relationships in this band, as humans, come first," Downing said. "Ehren, [keyboardist Matt]Goldberg, and Stu finished the perfect combination of players, for us. I'm up front, but when I join the audience, this band is as strong or stronger without me. We are a 'team game,' building family at our shows and with each other onstage."
Years of working on the band's sound, and chemistry, resulted in last year's self-released Dyin' Day, a critically acclaimed, seven-track conceptual album relaying the ruthless and bleak life at the "Parchment Farm" prison plantation, set in Mississippi during the days of segregation and Jim Crow laws. The album — which features the band's exceptional songwriting talents, musicianship and band dynamic — was recorded, mixed and mastered at Backbone Studio in Loveland and named a top Colorado release for 2010.
The act is also a central part of the blossoming Fort Collins music scene and is creating a loyal, ever-growing base of believers. Gripweed was recently voted Best Blues Band for the third year in a row by the Fort Collins Music Association and is poised to break out this year as one of Colorado's most notable live acts. "The band is on a great path to play to bigger audiences and really stand out while doing it," Crair said.
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J on May 1, 2011 6:36 am
Gasoline and Straight razors, many thanks from Gripweed, hope to see you dancin' soon!
Mary Pat Bares on May 2, 2011 2:17 am
Keep e'm rockin, J.C. Sounds like you're doing great! Hope sometime we can actually see a "show." Doubt we'll get there this year though….both unemployed now!! I know, bummer, right? Can't even afford the damn gas now!! Hang in there & keep e'm dancin! Love ya Aunt Marp

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Being my day off, I was just lounging at my back yard pool sipping ice-cold lemonade when Sam Gello-ani called up and informed me that the Press Con for the Montiel/Gonzales fight wherein our very own Z Gorres will fight in an undercard, will be held at high noon today at the Home Depot Center. So, I rushed to take a shower, put on my "Media Outfit", grabbed my camera and took off for Carson City, a good 1 hour drive from my house.
A boxing ring was installed at the Home Depot Center In Carson City where the Gorres fight will be held on Saturday.
Top row: Z Gorres, Michael Aldeguer, Sammy Gello-ani and GBP Matchmaker Sampson Lewkowicz. Bottom row: Johhny Gonzales and Miguel Angel Gonzales.
I got to the place and the first person I saw was Eric Gomez, the Senior Vice President of Oscar de la Hoya's Golden Boy Promotions. He greeted me by saying "Hey my man, the pictures at Philboxing were great. I didn't know you write too." I just smiled and said thank you.
We talked for a while and our conversation drifted from Boom Boom's success last weekend to the chances of Z Gorres on Saturday and to the incident about Barrera's mouthpiece as he fought Juarez last Saturday. "I will make sure you get introduced to Barrera today and his people so you can talk to them about getting him a new mouthpiece." Again, I said thank you and moved on to the press area.
Z Gorres delivered a short speech at the podium.
WBO Asia-Pacific boss Leon Panoncillo (left) poses with ALA Team Michael Aldeguer, Boom Boom Bautista, Z Gorres, Sammy Gello-ani and ALA Boxing Club Chief Trainer Edito Villamor.
Golden Boy Promotions served a delicious Mexican food complete with all the trimmings for the press people to enjoy. A few minutes later, the ALA group came in and we all had lunch together.
The Press Con was held outdoors at ringside amidst the temperate high noon sun in Southern California. Of course it is all about Montiel and Gonzales and Barrera as the co-promoter. That is rightly so since they are in the main event. But, the undercard people were also given a few minutes of fame. When Gorres was introduced, I positioned myself better amongst the photographers so I can get some nice ones to share with the PhilBoxing fans.
Gorres, being the soft spoken and shy person that he is, went straight to the point.
"I thank the Golden Boy Promotions for this opportunity. I will give a very good fight and bring honor to my country." With that short statement, he raised his hand and walked off from the podium.
Gorres' opponent, for some reason or another was not present and nothing was mentioned publicly why he was not there. Since there was no question and answer session, the press in general never found out why. But, that did not seem to matter because the focus was on Montiel and Gonzales.
After the Press Con, and as we all walked to the parking area, Gorres came to me and said "Sir, thank you for the new mouthguard. I intend to do well and make you proud of me."


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Blue Disc Trail (Harriman State Park)
Blue Disc Trail
2.8 mi (4.5 km)
Harriman State Park, Ramapo, New York
Johnsontown Road cul-de-sac to Tri-Trail Corner
Hiking details
Almost Perpendicular, Pound Mountain, Elbow Brush, and Claudius Smith Rock
The Blue Disc Trail is a marked trail in Harriman State Park, New York, United States. The trail is 2.8 miles (4.5 km) long, connecting Johnsontown Road to the Ramapo-Dunderberg and Victory Trails. The blaze of the trail is a white blaze with a blue dot on it. The trail climbs two mountains, Almost Perpendicular and Pound Mountain, and passes two major rock formations, Elbow Brush and Claudius Smith Rock. The trail dates back to the 1920s with the Tuxedo Trail and 1932 as the Red Disc Trail by Paul H. Schubert. The trail was official in 1943, when Alexander Jassup replaced the red markers with blue discs.
1 Trail description
3 Major intersections
Trail description[edit]
The Blue Disc Trail starts from the north side of the road just before the cul-de-sac at the end of Johnsontown Road.[1] The trail begins going up switchbacks to a pumping station for the Columbia Gas Transmission Corporation. The pipeline, which was created in 1949, crosses the Blue Disc Trail later on the route. Beyond the pumping station, the Blue Disc Trail turns onto a woods road. However, before 1991, the Blue Disc Trail followed the gas line for another 0.15 of a mile to the Kakiat Trail. After 0.3 of a mile on the woods road, the Blue Disc Trail joins up with the Kakiat Trail and soon splits again. The Blue Disc Trail continues for another 0.3 of a mile to the top of Almost Perpendicular, a name given by the Fresh Air Club in 1936. The trail continues on old, eroded road and crosses the gas line again at 1.35 miles (2.17 km).[1]
Claudius Smith Rock (to the right is a Blue Disc Trail marker)
After meeting up with the gas line at milepost 1.35, the Blue Disc Trail continues and ends crossing the same gas line again at milepost 1.5.[1] The trail splits into two parts here, one higher than the other, and continues for 0.15 of a mile to Elbow Brush. Elbow Brush is a tight crevice made out of rocks. The trail continues without any notable mentions until milepost 2, where it crosses the Tuxedo - Mt. Ivy Trail at the higher base of Claudius Smith Rock. Claudius Smith Rock is named after Claudius Smith, a convict who used the rock as a hideout from the law. He was hanged in Goshen in 1779. The next section of the Blue Disc Trail, continuing north, goes over the Big Pine Hill. The White Cross Trail, which starts 250 feet (76 m) away from the Blue Disc, is a safer route down the hill in the winter when the Blue Disc is icy. At the base of the hill, the Blue Disc Trail crosses a dam made of rocks and finally ends at Tri-Trail Corner, which is the meet of the Ramapo-Dunderberg Trail, Victory Trail and Blue Disc Trail. This point is 2.8 miles (4.5 km) away from the Johnsontown Road cul-de-sac.[1]
In the early 1920s and 1930s, the Tuxedo Trail used to start from the town of Tuxedo and ended at Reeves Farm on Johnsontown Road.[2] That route is now followed by the current-day Kakiat Trail and Blue Disc Trail. Hikers were brought to a mountain called Almost Perpendicular. From atop the mountain, the route followed a trail that reached Claudius Smith Rock with green cairns. Due to the green cairns, the trail was given the name Green Cairn Trail.[2]
In spring 1932, Paul H. Schubert (d. 1961) marked a trail with red discs that stretched from Sloatsburg, New York, to Miss Julia Siedler's property on Johnsontown Road to Almost Perpendicular.[2] Schubert had moved from Germany in 1891. A member of the NY-NJ Trail Conference, he had also blazed the Trail of Raccoon Hills. Almost Perpendicular and the land to the north were owned by the Tuxedo Park Association. At sporadic times, Miss Siedler and the TP Association closed their lands so that they would not become public thoroughfares. In October 1943, the red metal disks on the Red Disc Trail were replaced by blue ones supplied by Alexander Jassup.[2]
The Blue Disc Trail used to start at the second corner of Johnsontown Road and Seven Lakes Drive; however, it was moved to the cul-de-sac on Johnsontown Road, where parking exists.[2]
Major intersections[edit]
Mile[2]
0.00 Johnsontown Road (CR 97) Southern terminus of the Blue Disc Trail.
2.05 Tuxedo-Mount Ivy Trail Located at Claudius Smith Rock
2.80 Victory and Ramapo-Dunderberg Trails Northern terminus of the Blue Disc Trail.
List of trails in New York
^ a b c d Harriman-Bear Mountain Trail Maps - Map 3, The New York-New Jersey Trail Conference, New York, N.Y., 2005.
^ a b c d e f Myles, William J., Harriman Trails, A Guide and History, The New York-New Jersey Trail Conference, New York, N.Y., 1999
Picture of view from Almost Perpendicular[permanent dead link]
Picture of climbing Pound Mountain
Picture of Elbow Brush
Picture of Claudius Smith Rock
Hiking trails in New York
Blue Disc
Croton Aqueduct
Devil's Path
Eastern Continental
Kaaterskill Falls
Long Path
Mohawk Hudson
Old Croton
Paumanok Path
South Taconic
Taconic Crest
Taconic Skyline
Taconic
Tongue Mountain Range
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Harriman State Park (New York)
Hiking trails in New York (state)
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Cryptomining activities that hijack victims' computer power to mine for cryptocurrency are skyrocketing, as cybercriminals find it to be one of the most profitable low-key attacks on the Web today. It has even pushed ahead of ransomware as cybercriminals' favorite means of raking in cash.
While cryptomining malware may not be calibrated specifically to steal data, it should remain on the radar of enterprise defenders. Campaigns carried out by these malicious tools do real damage to computing equipment and siphon off vast amounts of electricity, never mind the fact that their infections are the perfect foothold to carry out other kinds of devastating lateral attacks.
Here are some of the most prevalent and powerful cryptomining malware families active today.
A versatile and well-known cryptomining family, XMRig is open-source software that has been likened to what Zeus was for banking Trojans because its code is reused so often in new, devious variations. For example, many popular exploit kits and Trojans, such as Ramnit and Trickbot, tend to use XMRig as a component to a more fully fleshed-out piece of malware. It's one prong of a Swiss army knife full of attack possibilities.
Among those XMRig variations, CroniX is a new, stealthy fork that takes advantage of a new vulnerability to devastating effect. The most recent campaign using CroniX calibrated it to exploit the latest Apache Struts 2 critical vulnerability. Researchers from F5 Labs dubbed this variation "CroniX" for its use of cron for persistence and Xhide for launching executables with fake process names.
First discovered and described to the security community by independent researcher James Quinn earlier this summer, ZombieBoy is a crypto-worm that researchers believe cropped up out of China. It chains together attacks on multiple vulnerabilities to compromise corporate networks, uses DoublePulsar and EternalBlue to make backdoors, and has several anti-detection capabilities built into it.
Powerful data center machines and other corporate systems are a juicy target for cryptominers, as they've typically got more compute firepower to raid. So security pros shouldn't be so surprised by the PowerGhost findings this summer by Kaspersky researchers. This fileless malware specifically targets corporate networks. Not only is this a very sneaky attack, but variations have been found that can be utilized to also carry out distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.
In a similar vein, the RedisWannaMine attack earlier this year was discovered to have been targeting unpatched Redis, Windows Server, and Apache SOLR servers with the installation of the fileless coin miner malware. Like several of the cryptojacking campaigns described here, this one uses a number of chained attacks, including EternalBlue exploits, to achieve infection.
Mostly targeting victims in Asian countries, the Underminer exploit kit is making waves with its advanced evasion techniques. The specific malware payload it delivers is called Hidden Mellifera, which researchers say had already knee-capped up to half a million systems before Underminer started serving it up, and it is typically delivered alongside a bootkit. When researchers with Trend Micro first detailed Underminer, the kit was specifically targeting Flash vulnerabilities and using fileless delivery to get its first foothold on systems.
An advanced cryptomining worm that cobbles together a number of exploits and hacking tools to achieve its objective, MassMiner uses a version of the MassScan tool for reconnaissance, which gives it the power to scan the Internet in less than six minutes. It specifically targets Web servers for mining operations and utilizes a "classic Gh0st backdoor" to run command-and-control communications with the bad guys pulling the strings, according to researchers with AlienVault.


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"We can't move into the future without knowing the past for ourselves and our families"
Emele Ugavule
Creative Arts • Diaspora • Melanesia • Read
All images provided courtesy of Dusk Devi & Pacific Runway
Jasmine Togo-Brisby shares with us how through artistic expression
she uses tools of oppression to empower and heal and the importance of acknowledging the South Sea Islander community and their
contributions to Australia's history.
Tell us about yourself – who are you and how you define your practice?
I am a fourth generation Australian South Sea Islander with ancestral lineage to the islands of Ambae and Santo of Vanuatu. South Sea Islanders are the Australian born descendants of Pacific islanders who came to Australia as a result of slave labour policies employed by the Australia government between 1847 and 1903.
I am a multi-disciplinary artist from Queensland, Australia, living and practicing out of Wellington, New Zealand.
I create from a place of loss, through the process of searching, remembering and forgetting, I seek to reconcile the past while also coming to terms with the culture and inheritance that we Australian South Sea Islanders have today. l use tools of oppression and slavery to create hybrid forms of empowerment for my community. I see it as a representation of what we have, what we have lost and it's what we are trying to reconcile.
It is our heritage, it is our inheritance.
I'm (Emele) so intrigued by how you often insert yourself into your work exploring cultural memory and shared histories through painting, early photographic techniques and processes and sculpture. How is this informed by your cultural understanding of past, present and future?
When I create I want to share with you what it is to be an Australian South Sea Islander, I want to show you what this feels like, to give you a glimpse of us, while also creating space for us to exist in. For me that glimpse is drawn from many places.
My life and my practice are like a whirlwind of past, present and future, objects, photographs and scenes flying pasts me continuously at a frantic rate, I reach out my hand into the whirlwind and what comes out is the work, a frozen moment of that fusion.
We can't move into the future without knowing the past for ourselves and our families, but our past also needs to be unveiled to others, that's part of the healing process, that acceptance and acknowledgement.
As South Sea Islanders we are constantly trying to negotiate the past and the future in the present, we are looking back to the experience of our ancestors, retracing their steps piecing it together like a puzzle so that the future generations will be firm in their identity and ancestry.
My recent body of work is a photographic series The past is ahead, don't look back is a play on this ideology of walking backwards into the future yet also considering a common stance within the elders of our community. In an effort to shelter the future generations from the pain of our past, they were reluctant to discuss the pain of the past…
"We are in Australia now, that's all we need to know" were my grandmother's words to me to me in an effort to diffuse my questions as a child.
Within the themes you explore, there is much unresolved trauma. How do you find ways to ensure you do not re-traumatize yourself, but heal within your process?
The impetus of my practice is healing, I believe that healing can come in many forms. Sometimes directly through the work, at times it is just for me and the work may not ever see a gallery, at times it is purely by being present and holding space for South Sea Islanders, carving out places and spaces for us and having us included within collections, institutions and dialogue.
Sometimes existing in these spaces and having a place to belong to and be part of even if only temporarily, can be incredibly empowering for the identity of our community.
There is not many places that exist for us as South Sea Islanders, and I started to consider the gallery as space that could own, to use as ours even if only for that moment. It was when I was creating my installation Bitter Sweet that I really started to the gallery in this way.
Bitter Sweet, 2015 features a crypt-like mass of sugar skulls piled in the centre of a darkened room. The work exists as a memorial to those who did not survive the journey, to those who endured the toil and burden of hard labour, and to those survivors who remain with us today. Bitter-Sweet exists as a reminder of a past that has yet to be reconciled and put to rest.
In December of 2012, a mass grave was uncovered on an old sugar cane plantation in Bundaberg. The city council found the remains of 28 adults and one child. It was confirmed that they were bodies of the South Sea Islanders who had worked on that plantation. This news was heart wrenching for our people and a deep sadness came over the South Sea community.
To say that I wanted to respond is extremely detached…what I wanted to do was scream, to cry out for us.
Bitter Sweet is for us, I wanted to create a memorial of types outside of the plantations, in the space which I have access to, the gallery. I used sugar, the substance which used us…to create something for us…to heal…to exist…to hold as our own and to make it ours and to do whatever it is that we need to do in that space for us living and for those past and for those in the future.
Len McGann the son of a Maryborough sailor, in an interview conducted 1978 recalls his mother's accounts of plantation life for South Sea Islanders… "The whites treated them something shocking – they died of dysentery, poor food and all sorts of things. They died of a broken heart, a lot of them did. Truly they did truly. And when they died, they just buried them in the cane field – they were just fertiliser. That's what they were- that's how it was"
…We were just fertiliser…
Can I make my work and escape trauma? No…I don't think so, not yet, I feel it…I feel all of it, but I see this as a strength…strength in that maybe if I feel it then my daughter won't have to.
Bitter-sweet by Jasmine Togo-Brisby
Where did the term South Sea Islander originate from?
When I was growing up I never questioned the term, it was just ours, it was who we are, we were/are South Sea, and we have so much pride in owning it. Its origins didn't matter to me then.
I did find it odd when I would come across tea towels and post cards etc with images of 'exotic islands' and women in bikinis, and I would be so excited to see our name on something 'South Sea' but would think that the imagery was really odd, and where were the images of my people…the sugar cane plantations, the cane knives, it's actually quite funny to look back on now.
When I first read Epeli Hauʻofa's 'The ocean is us', as a South Sea islander, one chapter in particular stood out. When discussing the regional terms of the Pacific, he said:
"The earliest general name for the region was the South Seas, which became virtually synonymous with Paradise…'"South Pacific" has replaced South Seas, which today is confined almost totally to history books and old records'
This is when the penny dropped for me and I realised this is where our name came from…paradise? Something we were far from, a culture formed on slave ships and years of enslavement on the sugarcane fields of Queensland, quite the polar opposite. It was confronting and rather painful to read, because even though I know Epeli wasn't directly discussing South Sea Islanders…he was right. To most people outside of our immediate community we are confined to history books and old records, they don't realise we are a living culture today who descend from the Pacific Slave Trade.
Do you see a divide between the South Sea Islander community and the Pacific community in Australia?
I think there can be, but again I believe that just comes back to knowledge. Outside of the sugarcane producing towns of North Queensland, most people in Australia don't know that we exist or its very limited knowledge.
What would you like people to know about South Sea Islanders?
That we exist…that we are a uniquely Australian Pacific Island community…a Pacific Slave Diaspora.
The 25th August is the Australian South Sea Islanders National Recognition Day. In 1994, the Commonwealth Government officially recognised the Australian South Sea Islanders as a distinct cultural group. This was followed by a formal Recognition Statement by the Queensland Government in September 2000, which also acknowledged the past injustices suffered by the Australian South Sea Islanders, and the significant contributions they had made to the economic, cultural and social development of QLD.
While we have been recognised as a distinct cultural group, our story is still not known. This is reflected in our complex identity as South Sea Islanders, this denial or lack of acknowledgement of our existence and how we came to be creates an ignorance of our presence.
Being responsible of the education of your people can be quite a heavy weight to carry, the more people who are aware of our community will release that weight off our future generations.
How has moving from Australia to Aotearoa affected your journey as a South Sea Islander artist?
I was really apprehensive to move my daughter and I to NZ, I just couldn't see how we would have a place here. We are constantly denied in the land where our culture was born out of, so how could any other land possibly accept us?
When I was a child I remember the Census forms being delivered to our house, the person delivering them gave instructions on how to fill out the form. As soon as they left my mother closed the door and her and my Auntie excitedly riffled through the pages of the Census book, my mother pointing at the 'identity section' and scrolling down through all the ethnicities she came to a box that said 'Australian South Sea Islander'…"there we are!!! There we are!!!!" she shouted, and a celebration broke out in our living room, the whole family was jumping and cheering.
I remember that feeling…that feeling of belonging, of being acknowledged and recognised and how and why we are here. That was 1992, the first time Australian South Sea Islanders were included on Census. I get a similar here in New Zealand, that we strangely belong here or are at least accepted, that we belong to a community here.
People are still trying to deny that slavery existed in Australia, so for them to completely accept and acknowledge who we are is confronting, my existence conflicts with their truths of their identity or their knowledge of 'their' country. So the oppression is thick in Australia, really thick…but I didn't realise until I was out, I didn't know any better. That type of oppression and denial of my people doesn't exist for me here in New Zealand, I have a freedom to be myself and to be part of something bigger, to be part of the Pacific, not solely just part of Australia's narrative, but to be part of both simultaneously, there is a strength that comes from that.
My art is part of that legacy-building, creating identity for myself, my family and our people…finding and making a place. The place exists within our Pacific community, it's a safe space to create it is overwhelmingly supportive.
We will be travelling north to catch Plantation Voices: Conversations with contemporary South Sea Islanders at the QLD Library and are looking forward to see your contribution to the exhibit. What are you exploring in this work?
I was commissioned by QLD State Library to produce 3 new works for their permanent collection and to be exhibited as part of Plantation Voices. As part of my practice I use 19th century wet plate collodion (ambrotype) photography as a way of interrogating colonial history and complicating the past, as an Australian South Sea Islander I believe we are persistently mediating between past, present and future.
I'm looking at notions of power and appropriation through the method of re-photographing the photograph – re-appropriating. Confronting the colonial gaze and enacting complicated scenarios of identity, loss and creation. Through the process of projections, digital photography and wet plate photography I insert myself and her daughter into the archive, lifting the image from the historical to communicate the contemporary.
The archives play a significant role in our community, they inform our identity and post memory…we look to institutional collections in search of our family, using photographs and documentation to retrace vital missing links in our ancestors' journeys to Australia.
What energises you as an artist?
My people. I see the large gap in Australian and Pasifika discourse were we should be present, where our narrative should be present.
As an artist I'm driven by materials, they motivate me, forcing unconventional materials to do something that they aren't supposed to do is an exciting part of my process. I use materials from the sugar industry and objects and symbols of wealth. It's a layered approach, I see it as a way of subverting the power, I can take ownership of these materials as our own Australian South Sea Islander material culture.
For Re:finery I reacquainted myself with customary tapa making practices that have been lost to my community through the slave and indentured labour diaspora. However, rather than constructing a fictional depiction of Australian South Sea Islander material culture, I intentionally used the sugar sacks as materials of my culture.
For ASSI communities, these companies are part of our history, and the tools used in the sugar industry are familiar to us as part of our material culture. The work speaks to a desire to regain and relearn lost knowledge and artistic practices, but is earnestly presented as a true representation of ASSI material culture. For me the sugar-tapa conveys the complexities of the SS identity, confronting our lack of 'traditional' island culture and customs.
Refinery by Jasmine Togo-Brisby, Image taken by Sam Hartnett
How do you balance motherhood and artist life?
It's a lifestyle which I don't think is too different to most other mothers who balance their careers and family. My daughter and I try to make decisions daily which try to benefit both of us, I try not to work while she is awake but that's often unavoidable (as I write this she is waiting for me so we can go to the trampoline park).
I'm fortunate to have a career where my daughter can come along with me to almost everything, artist talks, curator meetings, lectures, she is there holding my hand the whole time. A lot of parents aren't able to do that.
I actually think it's quite a privileged position to be an artist, not to say that it's easy, because it's not, but it is somewhat indulgent career path. My mother is the oldest child in her family, when my grandmother gave birth to her she handed my mother to her grandmother and my mother was raised by her until she passed when my mum was 12.
My grandmother didn't have the choice to stay with her first born child, she had to go back to the plantations and work to provide for our family, to put food on the table.
Any projects coming up that we should keep an eye out for?
I have some really exciting projects coming up but I unfortunately cannot discuss until the media release, but I can mention these ones:
April – M/other, Whakatane
May – Solo exhibition – Page Blackie, Wellington
Aug – Solo public exhibition – Courtney Place Light Box project, Wellington
Oct – Tuia Encounters, New Zealand Maritime Museum
You can follow Jasmine's work on instagram – @jasmine.togo_brisby and on Facebook at @jasminetogobrisbyart
Plantation Voices is open from February 16 at State Library of Queensland until September 8th.
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Харальд Зигфрид Александр Юлин (; ,  — , ) — шведский ватерполист и пловец, призёр летних Олимпийских игр.

Юлин трижды входил в состав Олимпийской сборной Швеции, которая стала серебряным призёром игр 1912 в Стокгольме и бронзовым 1908 в Лондоне и 1920 в Антверпене.

В плавании Юлин участвовал на первых двух Олимпиадах. Сначала он выиграл бронзовую медаль в 100 м вольным стилем и в эстафете 4×200 м вольным стилем дошёл до полуфинала, а через четыре года остановился на полуфинале 200 м брассом и на четвертьфинале 100 м вольным стилем. Также, он 12-кратный чемпион Швеции.

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Бронзовые призёры летних Олимпийских игр 1920 года
Ватерполисты Швеции
Пловцы Швеции
Ватерполисты на летних Олимпийских играх 1908 года
Ватерполисты на летних Олимпийских играх 1912 года
Ватерполисты на летних Олимпийских играх 1920 года
Пловцы на летних Олимпийских играх 1908 года
Пловцы на летних Олимпийских играх 1912 года
Чемпионы Швеции по плаванию

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WINTERTASTIC new T-shirt design!
I liked my cutesy 2 sided T-shirt design "If It Lands In My Yard Again, I'm Keepin' It" so much, I ALSO had it printed up as a 2 part christmas print for my mom. I hung them both on either side of the same wall and it looks badass. trust me. why would I lie?!
click the pics for a larger view! and if you've got a sec, click on the image up there. voting and leaving a positive or even completely innocuous comment on the design submission page could REALLY help the chances of this getting printed! not to mention help boost my already-inflated ego 1 self-esteem point at a time. but I mean. you don't have to or nuthin. I mean this IS America.*
* = it so is.
Funky Music Sho' Nuff Turns Me On
it so does.
10 comments. Spacesick says "Be a part of the fun!"
I uploaded a simple animation test which I used to try and figure out what the hell I'm doing for this upcoming short.
Art Room Blitz!
No, Greedy Kitty!
following the overwhelming success of 2006's "Food With Faces: The Movie" and the Nobel Prize nomination I just received on Halloween for Best Pwnage of High School Kids in Crappy Costumes Who Have the Fuckin Nerve to Walk Up to ME With an Attitude and Are Too Damn Old to be Out Trick or Treating Anyway so They Totally Deserved to Get Laughed At By a Group of Drunk Twentysomethings Passing Out Candy, Spacesick Entertainment proudly presents "No, Greedy Kitty!"
Happy Halloween, boys and ghouls!
NO, I'm not one of those people who think the whole world wants to hear the stupid fucking mixtape that they painstakingly put together after the breakup with their significant other/boss who decided it would be best for everyone involved if they just took the job offer to be night shift manager at the Big Boy two towns over. even though I'm fucking awesome. FACT! :D hey I was already making a copy for one of my friends, plus I just wanted an excuse to photoshop my logo onto a pumpkin. woohoo!
01 - Alice Cooper - He's Back (The Man Behind the Mask) (Friday the 13th Part VI).mp3
02 - Dokken - Dream Warriors (A Nightmare on Elm Street 3).mp3
03 - The Dudes Of Wrath - Shocker (Shocker).mp3
04 - Motorhead - Hellraiser 3 (Hellraiser).mp3
05 - 45 Grave - Party Time (Zombie Version) (Return of the Living Dead).mp3
06 - AC-DC - Who Made Who (Maximum Overdrive).mp3
07 - Dramarama - Anything, Anything (A Nightmare On Elm Street 4).mp3
08 - The Fat Boys - Are You Ready For Freddy (A Nightmare On Elm Street 4).mp3
09 - J. Geils Band - Fright Night (Fright Night).mp3
10 - The Dickies - Killer Klowns from Outer Space.mp3
11 - Divinyls - Back to the Wall (A Nightmare On Elm Street 4).mp3
12 - Tim Cappello - I Still Believe (The Lost Boys).mp3
13 - Ozzy Osbourne - Secret Loser (The Wraith).mp3
14 - Ian Hunter - Good Man in a Bad Time (Fright Night).mp3
15 - Michael Sembello - Rock Until You Drop (Monster Squad).mp3
16 - Metropolis - Darkest Side of the Night (Friday the 13th Part 8).mp3
17 - Autograph - You Can't Hide From the Beast Inside (Fright Night).mp3
18 - Fastway - Trick or Treat (Trick or Treat).mp3
19 - Megadeth - No More Mr. Nice Guy (Shocker).mp3
20 - Gerard McMann - Cry Little Sister (Theme From The Lost Boys) (The Lost Boys).mp3
21 - The Ramones - Pet Sematary.mp3
22 - Goo Goo Dolls - I'm Awake Now (Freddy's Dead).mp3
Bonus Track - The Elm Street Group - Do The Freddy.mp3
Bonus Track - Weird Al Yankovic - Nature Trail to Hell.mp3
and if you're in the mood to see your favorite horror movie badboys chillaxing in the same VIP lounge as their MTV rockstar buddies, check out the super secret Video Companion that I CLEVERLY hid away so it wouldn't bog my blog down. bog the blog. that's hard to say. hey I was watching em all anyway! like I have anything better to do. plus it gave me an excuse to work out the anxiety caused by my recurring nightmare where I get an awful haircut at some cheap mall salon and then wake up as the lesbian it used to belong to. eep!
and don't forget to vote and leave a comment on my SPOOKTACULAR Threadless submission, Something Borrowed.
a sample of what awesomeness you'll find in the Video Companion. and I've never worked at a Big Boy, by the way. in case you were still wondering.
Hey little sister, shotgun!
Something Borrowed is up for voting at Threadless, and I think this one might actually stand a chance of getting printed. so click the picture to go there and vote for your boy space! and if you like this design, it's important that you leave a comment there on the voting page. thanks y'all!
and I even put together a mini soundtrack so you (and I) can listen to some of the tunes that inspired it.
01 - Deathstars - White Wedding.mp3
02 - Rob Zombie - Living Dead Girl.mp3
03 - Alice Cooper - Feed My Frankenstein.mp3
04 - 45 Grave - Party Time (Zombie Version).mp3
05 - Siouxsie & the Banshees - Peek-A-Boo (Silver Dollar Mix).mp3
06 - Oingo Boingo - Dead Man's Party.mp3
07 - Rob Zombie - How To Make A Monster (Kitty's Purrrrformance Mix).mp3
08 - Billy Idol - White Wedding (Part 1).mp3
Collect All 20!
no way! I totally say that!
this is practice for a huge multi-artist collaboration that I plan on asking a few people to take part in sometime in the next few months. then it'll hopefully grow from there.
to give you an idea of how long I've wanted to do a cool retro sticker like this... my computer says I scanned in the original Garbage Pail Kids and Good Times trading cards I used for it on april 16, 2006!
I left my wallet in my other fanny pack.
practicing a 5 minute sketch for Linzie Hunter's 5 minute doodle! group.
inspired by the random 5 minute long song I picked to time me (Spacehog - In the Meantime), and one of my friend nate's catchprases. and to lol @ the 90's even MORE, guess what song came on right afterwards... 4 Non Blondes - What's Up. shyeah! it was the bomb!
And I've never met a girl like you before.
I'm tryin! I didn't redraw everything over and over again, I didn't obsess over wonky placement, I just drew lines and said go with it.
I pulled this chick out of nowhere, but it probably would be better if I drew from some actual reference for once. sooo... who wants to volunteer to be my model? huh? jk. but seriously. that would rock.
Well then tell them to stay out of the way!
this is the bottom half of the front of a wallet collaboration with Justin White for Tinymeat.com. it's taken me way to long to get this done because everyone else's battle wallets just kick so much ass and I want ours to be fucking EPIC!
my inside sketch is at the same level of completion and they probably collectively need about 10-12 more hours before we can have a complete wallet mock-up. I'm slow.
Frank Wastelayer: Private Detective is a character of mine and an adult cartoon idea that I've had for well over two years now. Frank's an aging, once-great, down-on-his-luck warrior who's given a second chance at fame and thrust back into the world of heroism. he's basically Conan meets 70's Hanna-Barbera mystery show, and combines my favorite elements of classic fantasy art, cartoons, video games, sword & sorcrey flicks, and dusty old pulp novels. and if given the chance, I am so ready to pitch this badboy to Adult Swim. do YOU happen to know anybody I should talk to?
Sacred Heartbreaker or "Every Little Thing She Does is Black Magick"
it may not look bad-ass yet, but it will! I don't know why I started drawing this; I just do what the demons living in my Dio records tell me to. now they're telling me to draw a baby elephant riding a giraffe.
Everybody's Working In Progress for the Weekend!
"Halloween 1983" wakka wakka wakka!
FUCKIN A! girls and their boobs are a lot easier to draw when I actually have them in front of me. but when that happens, the only thing further from my mind than drawing is that episode of Saved By the Bell where the gang spends the night in a sporting goods store at the mall in order to be first in line for U2 tickets, but then gets tangled up with some shady characters in a wacky off-the-wall dash for cash that will keep you in stitches! shit, I wonder if that's on soon.
I'm not the best at drawing girls. I should really be doing it a lot more.
I JUST figured out how to upload pictures from my camera phone. I'm also trying to grow the coolest mustache and sideburns of all time, and maybe someday they'll even connect! oh boy! and even if they don't, at least I'm pretty.
dig the hot pink paint in my bedroom? yeah I bet you do.
Reaper? I hardly KNOW 'er!
yeah I thought it sounded pretty funny at first, but perhaps it bears too much of an auditory resemblence to another unfortunate word. but HEY! in any event, here's a work in progress from what will be my newest Threadless sub, "Death Rides A Tractor." I sure worked my way into a corner with the staging of the scythe, but I'll figure it out. because I'm a rockstar.
and a redraw of something I sketched in somebody's sketchbook. don't Care Bear Stare, it's not nice.
now enjoy Megadeth's hi-lariously fun cover of No More Mr. Nice Guy from the soundtrack to Wes Craven's 1989 horror flick "Shocker" (it's okay to like it because Alice fucking Cooper himself "raps" on another track on the album, by a metal supergroup called The Dudes of Wrath, which featured KISS's Paul Stanley and Motley Crue's Tommy Lee). that ends your trivia lesson for today! now go forth and rock.
You're the right kind of sinner, to release my inner fantasy!
HEY YOU GUYYYYYYYSSS!!! how the hell have you been, friends? I've been dying to update, but I've either been out of town or tomcatting around the great city of Toledo. but seeing as I'm here right here right NOW... posters and lurkers alike please click here to go to Designbyhumans.com and vote and comment on my There is Only ZUUL design. help a brother out, because I'm not so sure it has a chance anywhere else!
I drew something this weekend that I think is PRETTY FUCKING SWEET, but I'm not allowed to show it yet. so for now, here's a preview from an animated short/game that I've been working on ever since I got back from chicago last week.
and here's some Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers (my favorite band EVER) in case my complete and total Bad-Assitude comes into question for drawing little fucking hearts and having feelings.
There Gozer the Neighborhood!
good golly miss molly! I sure have been getting a crapload of hits this week thanks to Drawn! maybe somebody passing through could tell me what T-shirt company might want to buy this SPOOKTACULAR design.
So I got THAT going for me... which is nice.
AAAGHHH! holy crap! :D the lovely and talented Jared Chapman of Drawn! The Illustration and Cartooning Blog totally floored me yesterday when he said he'd like to feature me on the blog. this is so freakin cool for me since I've been religiously reading Drawn for about 8375293892 million years or so, and have discovered so many amazing artists because of it!
I spent a few minutes taking another stab at the ZUUL T-shirt design last night. and since I desperately want the chance to wear this badboy, I vowed to have it finished and ready to shop around to the T-shirt companies by this weekend. so this here is a quick draft. also, since I like your moxy, here's a few more recent sketches. right there. underneath. no. to the left. no! MY left. yeah there you go.
Bread is up for voting at Threadless!
so be a pal and go vote a 5 and $ for "The High Self-Esteem of Sliced Bread!" and I tell you what, my friends, I'm in such a good mood today that I want all of you to feel this good too! so I'll even include this totally fucking inspirational Reading Rainbow song by the amazing Ben Vereen. can you hear it? it sounds like music to me!
Well... better late than never.
hey that's me! kinda. I drew up a pretty cool new avatar based on the coolest sequel logo ever, and in a surprisingly short amount of time. plus FUCK YEAH! 2 Ghostbusters-themed posts in a row.
and here's a new T-shirt design called "The High Self-Esteem of Sliced Bread" that will be up for voting soon. of course, longtime spacesick fans (aka: Me) will notice that this cute little son of a bastard is based on last year's runaway success, Food With Faces: The Movie.
which can be seen here, via Asian bootleg DVD.
in any event, I'll be sure to let you (aka: Me) know when it's up, so you can pretend to give it a high score! in the meantime, just sit back and relax with the soothing New Jack sounds of Bobby Brown. "you-you-you know it!"
Back off, man. I'm a scientist.
Be the envy of all the other Sumerian demons in your neighborhood with this brand-new, totally bitchin' customizable T-shirt by spacesick! So grab your sharpie, write your name in the blank, put on your favorite Ray Parker Jr. song, and let the fun begin!
And just for "fun," here's an early version of the design (with a BAD-ASS ghost) that I loved but thought might be too busy for a T-shirt.
I just started shopping this around to the T-shirt companies today! So until one of them gets back to me with a deal, I'm gonna go down to the Hostess store and wait in line for the new iTwinkies to come out.
"Yes, it's true. This man has no dick."
"Since I've joined these men I've seen shit that'll turn you WHITE!"
"Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... mass hysteria!"
What A Country! :D
oh so hey! my hilarious and super awesome 80's retro punk hipster emo nerd Yakov All Trades T-shirt is now available at LuckyThreadz.com. I'd say you should pick one up, so I can finally afford to support both my subscription to SuicideGirls, and my debilitating cotton candy addiction.
it just got put up so it's not on the front page yet, but here are the direct links for your viewing pleasure.
1st floor: menswear
2nd floor: womenswear, lingerie, and scented body glitter
America! FUCK YEAH!
Pink Girlie
just a random flash sketch while I sat around and listened to Prince and Siouxsie and Ozzy and Aerosmith and Alice and and and!
I don't know if it's possible to be half 80's glam and half rollergirl bettie, I don't remember if horn piercings (which I've only seen once) actually look like that, and I don't get why goth chicks can't stand to be around me when all I want to do IS LOVE THEM!!!1153#&**!!!
all I know is...
that this chick probably wouldn't do me either. but she might suckerpunch me in the taint. which would actually be pretty cool.
am I right, ladies? OH YEAH! high five!
buttsecks.
it's just like my grandpappy used to say...
"the buttsecks you want, you ain't gettin,
and the buttsecks you're gettin, you don't want."
it's as true today as it was last october.
and I've got news! I'll tell you when I find out if I'm allowed to tell you. also after I go return "throw momma from the train."
edit: my Yakov All Trades design will soon be available from the good folks over at LuckyThreadz. it's my first print ever. hey ma, look at me! I'm a DESIGNER! now I can trace things and apply different color pallets to them and stuff! ironically! :D yay me! *hug* *kiss, with a little bit of tongue*
I Want My MTV! The Video Companion to spacesick's Awesomely 80's Halloween Horror METALFEST
as an unexpected drinking game: do a shot every time I mention Ozzy Osbourne or Alice Cooper!
1) Alice Cooper - He's Back (The Man Behind the Mask)
from Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (1986)
I love this fucking song with all my heart and eternal soul. no joke. Alice always had the most fun lyrics, and this badboy is no exception. and that includes "ch-ch-ch! ah-ah-ah!" when you check out the video, watch Jason get buddy-buddy with Alice and then totally sike him out at the end.
2) Dokken - Dream Warriors
from A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987)
no way... Patricia Arquette as an unlikely hero with PSYCHIC ABILITIES?! I refuse to believe it. hey little Mitch Fun Fact™ here: for the longest time, my friend and I had a call-and-response thing going where every time he would mention this movie's title, I had to promptly reply by singing "DREEEEEAM WARRRIOOORRRRS!" it was fun. kinda. you don't care.
check out Dokken beat down Freddy with the power of metal. and stick around til it finishes for an hilarious surprise ending. shazam!
3) The Dudes of Wrath - Shocker
from Shocker (1989)
best supergroup name ever! the Dudes were a fucking powerhouse of metal that included Kiss's Paul Stanley and that one guy from "Tommy Lee Goes to College."
4) Motorhead - Hellraiser
from Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth (1992)
okay, this I just gotta mention, because it's too cool for school. originally released by Ozzy Osbourne on his 1991 No More Tears album (one of my favorites, bitches!), this awesome motherfucker was penned by the unholy trinity of Ozzy, Zakk Wylde, and Lemmy himself, and re-recorded by Motorhead for Hellraiser III. check out the awesomely early-90's metal video that ends with Lemmy kicking Pinhead's ass in poker. BAM!
5) 45 Grave - Party Time (Zombie Version)
from The Return of the Living Dead (1985)
off one of the best horror soundtracks of the 80's, loaded with punk, new wave, and metal goodness. and the movie freakin rules! basically if you haven't seen this one, then we can't be friends. so come over and let's go rent it, or else gimme back my "Please Hammer, Don't Hurt 'Em" tape.
6) AC/DC - Who Made Who?
from Maximum Overdrive (1986)
when the trucks of the world decide to rise up and fight back against us humans, Emelio Estevez is our only hope. obviously! and an AC/DC greatest hits record is the only possibile soundtrack. a high five to that crazy bastard Stephen King too (<3), otherwise we might not have been blessed with the addition of this new single to the AC/DC arsenal.
7) Dramarama - Anything, Anything
from A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master (1988)
fast and whiney. and totally 80's. Learn it. Know it. Live it.
8) The Fat Boys - Are You Ready for Freddy
yeah I'll be ready right after I return Krush Groove to the video store.
9) J. Geils Band - Fright Night
from Fright Night (1985)
every time I see Fright Night, I love it even more. and the J. Geils theme song doesn't hurt, I tells ya.
10) The Dickies - Killer Klowns from Outer Space
from Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988)
not one of my favorite flicks, but a damn fun tune.
11) - Divinyls - Back to the Wall
Chrissie Amphlett is just plain yummy.
12) Tim Cappello - I Still Believe
from The Lost Boys (1987)
with the voice of an angel, the taught, rippling muscles of lesbian bodybuilder, and a gladiator costume of such masculine beauty rarely seen outside of Wrestlemania itself, it's no wonder Tim Cappello's performance in The Lost Boys was more late night Cinemax than music video. this song always had a special place in my heart. speaking of which... brb, I've gotta find my old Red Shoe Diaries tapes that I recorded off tv before I could legally buy actual porn.
13) Ozzy Osbourne - Secret Loser
from The Wraith (1986)
I know my calculus. it says Charlie Sheen's drag racing ghost + "The Prince of Fucking Darkness" = good clean fun!
14) Ian Hunter - Good Man in a Bad Time
can you say "smoothest motherfucking vampire alive?!" you could, but that would be a misnomer. because vampires are the undead, stupid. even so, any ancient evil who still hits the clubs has got to know where the action is. don't believe me? well watch as Jack Skellington himself seduces Marcy D'Arcy right in front of her Mannequin 2: On the Move boyfriend. and in that sweater, no less! now that's balls right there. vampire balls.
I wouldn't reccomend watching the entire clip, however, as its intensity has been known to induce mass amounts of jean creaming.
15) Michael Sembello - Rock Until You Drop
from The Monster Squad (1987)
oh yes. the "She's A Maniac" guy. Wolfman's got nards, indeed!
16) Metropolis - The Darkest Side of the Night
from Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989)
this song is so cold and empty, and it scares the fucking shit out of me. there, I said it. and even though most of the flick is snoozeville (they don't even GET to New York til the end of the movie), I still manage to catch it every year or so around Halloween time.
17) Autograph - You Can't Hide from the Beast Inside
the same guys who told you to "Turn Up The Radio" now inform you about the dangers of Restless Leg Syndrome. or something. in any event, it rocks.
18) Fastway - Trick or Treat
from Trick or Treat (1986)
look! somebody was nice enough to put up Ozzy's cameo as a crusading anti-rock televangelist. thanks, youtube!
19) Megadeth - No More Mr. Nice Guy
"me, a nice guy? yeah righhhhht!" haha. love.
"But Mitch!" you must be imploring, "I thought you worship the ground Alice Cooper bleeds on! what the hell are you doing pimping out a goofy cover of the man's most famous work?" well that's simple, young one; it's because Megadeth is Megadeth. AND it's okay to like it because Alice fucking Cooper himself "raps" on another track on the album, by a certain metal supergroup called The Dudes of Wrath. you've got to hear the rest of the album, if not for that one track! like omigod srsly!
20) Gerard McMann - Cry Little Sister (Theme from The Lost Boys)
you know it, you love it. the song that I like to imagine countless young goth chicks lost their virginity to: Cry Little Sister.
also, I heard this played at a strip club once. ONCE. and it was awesome. mmm... vampire boobies.
21) The Ramones - Pet Sematary
from Pet Sematary (1989)
desperate, hopeless, and chilling. this song is so perfect, there's no need for words. just FEEL.
22) Goo Goo Dolls - I'm Awake Now
from Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991)
(mostly) pre-wuss rock Goo Goo Dolls! man... I remember them coming to town back around this time, and even though I was too young to go to the concert, some cop friend of my dad's snagged me a backstage autograph. woohoo! I hope I still have that around here somewheres. maybe I could it pawn it to help pay for tickets to the Ozzy Osbourne & Rob Zombie show in Detroit at Joe Louis Arena on Tuesday, December 18 (drink, bitch!).
lol @ Alice Cooper making it into the video towards the end there
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"I'm Freddy, and this is for YOU! AHAHAHA!"
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Weird Al Yankovic - Nature Trail to Hell (1984)
oh you used to listen to him and you know it.
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EPA Press Office (press@epa.gov)
WASHINGTON — Today, in response to the Department of Justice filing a proposal in federal court that, if approved by the court, would appoint an Interim Third Party Manager to stabilize Jackson, Mississippi's public drinking water system, EPA Administrator Michael S. Regan issued the following statement:
"Over the past year, I've had the privilege to spend time with people on the ground in Jackson – many who've struggled with access to safe and reliable water for years. I pledged that EPA would do everything in its power to ensure the people of Jackson have clean and dependable water, now and into the future. While there is much more work ahead, the Justice Department's action marks a critical moment on the path to securing clean, safe water for Jackson residents. I'm grateful to the Attorney General for his partnership and commitment to this shared vision."


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require 'nombres_romains'

class TestNombresRomains < Test::Unit::TestCase
  def test_phrase_vide_retourne_0
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  def test_I_vaut_1
    assert_equal 1, converti_en_entier('I')
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end

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UF to miss contributors vs. Vols
Special to Gatorsports.com
No. 8 Florida has been through this before — all season really.
The Gators will be without two key backups at Tennessee tonight, the latest injuries woes for coach Billy Donovan's team.
Guard Michael Frazier II (concussion) and forward Will Yeguete (knee) will miss the game, but could be back Saturday against Alabama.
Frazier sustained a concussion last Saturday against Arkansas when he went head-first into Scottie Wilbekin's knee while chasing a loose ball. Yeguete had arthroscopic surgery on his right knee Feb. 8 to remove loose bodies.
Their absences will leave the Gators (22-4, 12-2 SEC) short-handed against the Volunteers (16-10, 8-6).
That's nothing new for Donovan, who's become accustomed to juggling his roster this season.
Florida already has played without point guard Wilbekin (suspension), guard Mike Rosario (ankle), forward Casey Prather (concussion, ankle) and forward Erik Murphy (broken rib). The result: Donovan has had his entire rotation available for just seven games this season.
"It's been kind of some strange stuff that's happened," Donovan said Monday. "The one thing that's been good is that our guys have responded. That's been the one positive. ... We've just gotten, obviously this year, a large rash of it. It's been a blessing that it hasn't been a situation where guys, their season has been over. They can't come back.
"It's been these things that have happened that have kept guys out for a few games here or there, or guys have had to play through certain situations. But I think to a certain extent, maybe not to the extent that we've had to deal with, but guys are always dealing with different issues or challenges or problems."
Frazier, a freshman averaging 6.4 points a game, has yet to fully pass his baseline concussion test, so Donovan ruled him out against Tennessee, which has won six of the last seven meetings at home. Frazier was cleared to run with the Gators during Tuesday's shoot-around at Thompson-Boling Arena, according to Gatorzone.com
Yeguete, a junior averaging 6.0 points and 6.3 rebounds, ran sprints on consecutive days last week and had no swelling issues afterward — positive signs for his return. He also went through shoot-around before Florida's win over the Razorbacks and also earlier Tuesday, according to Gatorzone.com.
But Yeguete won't be cleared to play until he starts practicing, which could happen later this week.
"It's hard because we definitely miss those guys," said Prather, a 6-foot-6 small forward who might have to play some center Tuesday.
Donovan initially said Yeguete would be out at least until the postseason, but the 6-foot-7 Frenchman is ahead of schedule in his rehabilitation.
Until Frazier and Yeguete return, Florida will be down to six of its usual, eight-man rotation.
That means at least one of Donovan's other three freshmen — Braxton Ogbueze, DeVon Walker or Dillon Graham — will be thrust into an expanded role against the Volunteers.
"They've got to get in early," said Donovan, whose team needs one win to clinch a first-round bye in the SEC tournament. "We're not going to be able to get through this game with just six guys. It'll be totally impossible, especially if you get some foul trouble. ... We've got to change, there's no question. We have to change. We have to do a lot of different things."


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We know that woollen clothes are made from ________ fibres.
The cotton clothes are made from _______ fibres.
The measure of the hotness of any object is called _______.
Which among these is used to measure the temperature?
Which thermometer is used to measure body temperature?
The measurement scale used in a thermometer is known as _____ scale.
The celsius scale is indicated by _______.
°r
°h
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Before using a thermometer the mercury level should be below _____ °c.
We should use a thermometer after washing it with an ______ solution.
The normal temperature of the human body is ______ °c.
The range of a clinical thermometer is from ____ °c to _____ °c.
Which thermometer is used to measure the temperature of objects except for the human bodies?
The range of a laboratory thermometer is from _____ °c to _____ °c.
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Which among these is a good conductor of heat?
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What do we call the air flowing from the sea towards the land in coastal areas?
Valley breeze
Land breeze
Mountain breeze
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Glacier breeze
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The sea breeze blows during the _____ time.
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Anders Celsius was a ______ astronomer.
The celsius scale was devised in the year ______.
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War of the Rebellion: Serial 010 Page 0894 KY.,TENN.,N.MISS.,N.ALA.,AND SW.VA. Chapter XXII.
on the 12th, it proceeded, with the Third and Tenth Ohio and Fifteenth Kentucky Volunteers, and detachments from the Eighth Brigade, to Elk River, and formed a junction with General Negley on the morning of the 14th, returning to Hunstville on the evening of the 15th.
On the 18th 300 men from the Ninth Brigade, under command of Colonel Lytle, marched for Winchester, and arrived there on the morning of the 24th. After a skirmish, dispersed a body of rebel cavalry, and occupied the town, and returned to Huntsville May 24.
No. 2 Report of Brig. General James S. Negley, U. S. Army.
Rogersville, Ala., May 14, 1862.
GENERAL: I have the honor to report the result of an expedition to this point. The command-consisting of the Seventy-ninth and a detachment of the Seventy-eighth Pennsylvania Volunteers, Lieutenant Sypher's section of artillery, from Standart's battery; Major Owsley's battalion of Kentucky, and Captain Jennings' battalion, of the Seventh Pennsylvania Cavalry, forming the advance brigade, commanded by Colonel H. A. Hambright, acting as brigadier-general, and the First Wisconsin, the Thirty-fifth Indiana, a detachment from the Thirty-eighth Indiana, a battalion of the Fifth Kentucky Cavalry,and a section of Standart's battery, in command of Lieutenant Bennett, forming the rear brigade, commanded by Colonel Startkweather, of the First Wisconsin, acting as brigadier-general-left Pulaski yesterday at 3 p.m., via the Lamb's Ferry road; encamped a few hours 12 miles from Pulaski; made a forced march of 21 miles in six hours; drove in the enemy's pickets, who gave the alarm to the scattered forces in town, who fled in every direction. A portion of the cavalry marched on to Lamb's Ferry, and fired upon a ferry-boat load of the cavalry, which was crossing the river, killing several men and horses. A force on the opposite side of the river then opened a warm fire on our men, wounding 1 trooper, killing 2 horses, and wounding several, when a section of artillery, commanded by Lieutenant Sypher, and the Seventy-ninth Pennsylvania Regiment arrived at the river bank. The infantry compelled the rebels to seek shelter in some frame and log dwellings near the river bank. Lieutenant Sypher threw several shells, which exploded in the buildings and over them, dispersing those inside in terror, probably killing a number. He then threw several shells into their wagon train, which they were trying to move from danger. He also fired several shots at the ferry-boat. The ferry-boat, which was on this side, I directed to be burned.
During the march a force of rebel cavalry, estimated at 300, made a demonstration against the train of Colonel Starkweather, who dispersed them with canister and shell. The advance captured 4 scouts, 2 of whom belonged to the First Kentucky.


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Paedophilia in Islam Publication date: 2011-07-20
The Difference between Paedophilia and Early Marriage
We received a message from a person whose "main problem with Islam is the issue of sexual depravity". We reproduce the full text of the message followed by our answer below:
"The main problem I have with Islam is the issue of sexual depravity.
Whether it is part of the religion or not, it is common practice amongst many Muslims, especially in Muslim countries, to embrace paedophilia as a way of life.
This is difficult for many people to understand and has certainly had an impact on my opinion of Islam.
It seems cruel, for instance, that young girls in Muslim communities in countries like Afghanistan should be sold by their families to men far older than them for marriage.
Indeed the prophet Mohammad married a girl aged 6 and consummated the marriage when she was 9. This is just part of the abuse of women which goes largely ignored in Muslim communities. There are countless stories of rape by family members. Then there is the issue of female circumcision which is one of the most horrible practices imaginable. The amount of pain and suffering that goes on is simply too much."
You raise the issues of:
marrying of young women by older men,
arranged marriages,
rape by family members,
female circumcision.
Marrying of Young Women by Older Men
Marrying of young women by older men at the times of the Prophet Mohammad (some 1400 years ago) was common all over the world (including Europe), and not just in the Arabian peninsular where he lived. And although in Europe, in comparatively recent times, the age at which women marry was substantially increased, in many Asian and African countries, this did not happen up to now. This is true not only of Muslim countries or communities, but of communities of any religions, including Eastern Christian communities.
At the start of the 20th century in Europe the most common marrying age for women was 16, and for men 25, and it was common for men to be at least 10 years older than women. If a girl reached 19 and was still unmarried, the parents would be worried that she would become an "old maid". And, if she reached over 20 without getting married, she would be one, and her chances of getting married were very slim — she would have been lucky to marry a widower of over 50. Many girls were married at 12 or earlier, and the wealthy and noble often arranged marriages between their offspring when they were still small children to consolidate family fortunes. Such marriages were "consummated" when the spouses attained sufficient physical maturity.
The reason why men were expected to be older than women lies in the biological differences: (a) girls attain physical maturity earlier than boys, (b) women lose their reproductive faculties at much earlier age than men.
So marriages of older men to younger women were not considered as "paedophilia", and, as marriages in general, were usually motivated by social and economic considerations, rather than "desire to have sex with children", as in the case of "paedophilia". Paedophiles do not marry young girls, they abuse children (of either sex), by using them for pornography and entertainment — all this is a "modern Western" behaviour pattern — under Islamic laws all such activities are crimes subject to very heavy punishments.
Marrying of younger women by older men has never been considered as "paedophilia". It is only in the recent years that such confusion between paedophilia and early marriage has been used by some American evangelists to vilify the Prophet Muhammad and Islam.
Arranged Marriages
"Arranged marriages" (not to be confused with "forced marriages", which are against the Islamic law) are not specifically "Islamic", but are common in most traditional communities (including Orthodox Jews and Eastern Christians). And they were common in Europe of up to the start of the 20th century. Unarranged marriages (love marriages) were restricted to the "lower classes", and in the upper classes were seen as "scandals" (like "an heiress eloping with a servant"). Arranged marriages were usually motivated by social and financial considerations, rather than "love" or "sex" and could be concluded at an early age. And they still can be found among the nearly extinct or degenerated European aristocracy and royalty.
Rape by Family Members
This is forbidden in Islamic law, and by most other laws. But it happens in all countries including Modern Europe and America. But, when it happens in Europe and America, it is not used to promote the idea that this is a "Christian practice" or a "European practice".
Female Circumcision
This is not an "Islamic" practice. But a practice restricted to some people in some parts of Eastern and Central Africa, who might or might not be Muslim. In most of the Islamic world this practice is unknown. The purpose of this practice is to prevent masturbation and lesbianism. But "the amount of pain and suffering" in such operations is not greater than in abortions or breast implant and other plastic surgery operations common in the "West". But one does not hear the "outcry", that "the amount of pain and suffering that goes on [in abortions and plastic surgery] is simply too much". Nor does one hear much about the "pain and suffering" caused by depleted uranium and other weapons of mass extermination used by "Us‐the‐West" against people of Asia and Africa.
So, the issues you raise are not issues of Islam as religion, or of any religion, but of social customs of time and place.
You are seeking to apply "values and morals" of modern Europe to values and morals of Asia of 1400 years ago. And in many Asian and African countries, especially in rural areas, the "values and morals" have changed very little, if at all, for the past 2000 years. In Europe there has been a huge change in values and morals mostly in the last half of the 20th century. And much of it for the worse. Is it better for a young girl to be married to an older man with whom she might be happy? Or to catch AIDS at the age of 12, or become a "one parent family" at the age of 12, as it often happens in modern Europe?
There is a common tendency to confuse the philosophy of a religion with actions and way of life of people who practice a religion, or even just belong to ethnic groups associated with a religion, or even with actions of particular individuals.
So, for example, homosexuality among Catholic priests is comparatively common, but it is not part of Christianity as a religion, which considers this practice as a great sin. So it would be wrong to say that homosexuality is a "Christian practice", just because some Christians indulge in it. But whenever anything believed to be "bad" is found to be done by Muslims (even if it is against the Islamic law), it is immediately labelled as an "Islamic practice".
Today in Britain one in ten school girls have been raped — would you call it a "Christian practice"? Christianity as a religion sees such phenomena as a great sin. But Muslims happen to know more about Christianity than most modern European Christians, so they would not call rape a "Christian practice". But most Europeans and Americans are ignorant about Islam. So they believe anything they are told, without bothering to investigate it. And this ignorance is used by politicians to justify wars.


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Devotees and tourists are slowly destroying hundreds of statues of the Buddha in Bai Dinh Pagoda, Ninh Binh Province, as the touch them for good fortune.
Bai Dinh Pagoda is the biggest pagoda in Vietnam, with more than 300,000 visitors over the Tet holiday. The Vietnam Book of Records names the Bai Dinh Pagoda as one of the top 10 spiritual destinations in Vietnam.
But the huge number of visitors and over-stretched security has made it difficult to protect them.
Its 3km hallway has 500 Arhat statues made of stone, each 2-2.5m high and weighing four tonnes.
Visitors often walk the hallway and touch all statues as they go, in hope of luck and prosperity. The statues are now worn and crumbling from the body oils and sweat of excessive human contact.
"I have to touch the statues to let them know my devotion and my wish for a lucky year. I have to touch all statues, not missing a single one because it will not be sincere," said a visitor, Nguyen Thi Hoa.
Most Venerable Thich Tho Lac, management chief of National Vietnam Buddhist Sangha, which administers the pagoda, said touching the statues is not part of Buddhism.
"No pagoda will encourage visitors to do so because such action borders on disrespect and damages the statues, but still they do it," he said.