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Skeletor Affirmations (by ghoulnextdoor)

TODAY I SHARE MY GENEROUS SPIRIT WITH ALL CREATURES.

Residents of nation’s capital are technically out of luck with Granite State alcohol laws.

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The Rose Bride

 (Anthy from Revolutionary Girl Utena)

ETA: The lace texture was made by Obsidian Dawn.

You can now watch acclaimed South Korean director Bong Joon-ho's slick, post-apocalyptic sci-fi film "Snowpiercer" right at home. That's an extremely rare move for a film such as this, which has a sizable budget, rave reviews and buzz at the theaters.

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The Game Cube can be hit with a sledgehammer and work just fine. The Nintendo DS was specifically designed to be able to survive a 1.5 meter (five foot) drop onto solid concrete without breaking, and one of the company’s bigwigs wouldn’t let it go past the design phase until the design team could guarantee it could survive the drop at least 10 times. In fact, Nintendo products have such a reputation for being impossible to break through normal means that they spawned the term “Nintendium”—an all-purpose phrase given to pieces of technology that survive extreme punishment. For example, take the Gulf War Game Boy, an original Game Boy console that survived having a freaking bomb dropped on it.

Nintendo never advertises their products as being durable, they don’t brag about their Game Boys being bomb-proof or their consoles being tough enough to survive being hit by a car. They just expect their customers to be human and include features to prepare for that humanity. While other companies decide that they’re nice by including a cover to protect the screen of the $600 phone you just bought in case you drop it, Nintendo just builds a device that can survive being dropped in the first place and doesn’t make a big deal about it. Because that’s how a real company does business.

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Tommy Ramone, a co-founder of the seminal punk band the Ramones and the last surviving member of the original group, has died, a business associate said Saturday.

The Library of Congress posted a photo:

Bain News Service,, publisher.

Alma Hanlon

[between ca. 1915 and ca. 1920]

1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.

Notes:
Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative.
Photograph shows Alma Hanlon with kittens.
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).

Format: Glass negatives.

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain

Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.22625

Call Number: LC-B2- 3960-6

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Every now and then a scholarly journal retracts an article because of errors or outright fraud. In academic circles, and sometimes beyond, each retraction is a big deal.

Now comes word of a journal retracting 60 articles at once.

The reason for the mass retraction is mind-blowing: A “peer review and citation ring” was apparently rigging the review process to get articles published.

You’ve heard of prostitution rings, gambling rings and extortion rings. Now there’s a “peer review ring.”

The publication is the Journal of Vibration and Control (JVC). It publishes papers with names like “Hydraulic engine mounts: a survey” and “Reduction of wheel force variations with magnetorheological devices.”

The field of acoustics covered by the journal is highly technical:

Analytical, computational and experimental studies of vibration phenomena and their control. The scope encompasses all linear and nonlinear vibration phenomena and covers topics such as: vibration and control of structures and machinery, signal analysis, aeroelasticity, neural networks, structural control and acoustics, noise and noise control, waves in solids and fluids and shock waves.

JVC is part of the SAGE group of academic publications.

Here’s how it describes its peer review process:

[The journal] operates under a conventional single-blind reviewing policy in which the reviewer’s name is always concealed from the submitting author.
All manuscripts are reviewed initially by one of the Editors and only those papers that meet the scientific and editorial standards of the journal, and fit within the aims and scope of the journal, will be sent for peer review.  Generally, reviews from two independent referees are required.

An announcement from SAGE published July 8 explained what happened, albeit somewhat opaquely.

In 2013, the editor of JVC, Ali H. Nayfeh, became aware of people using “fabricated identities” to manipulate an online system called SAGE Track by which scholars review the work of other scholars prior to publication.

Attention focused on a researcher named Peter Chen of the National Pingtung University of Education (NPUE) in Taiwan and “possibly other authors at this institution.”

After a 14-month investigation, JVC determined the ring involved “aliases” and fake e-mail addresses of reviewers — up to 130 of them — in an apparently successful effort to get friendly reviews of submissions and as many articles published as possible by Chen and his friends. “On at least one occasion, the author Peter Chen reviewed his own paper under one of the aliases he created,” according to the SAGE announcement.

The statement does not explain how something like this happens. Did the ring invent names and say they were scholars? Did they use real names and pretend to be other scholars? Doesn’t anyone check on these things by, say, picking up the phone and calling the reviewer?

In any case, SAGE and Nayfeh confronted Chen to give him an “opportunity to address the accusations of misconduct,” the statement said, but were not satisfied with his responses.

In May, “NPUE informed SAGE and JVC that Peter Chen had resigned from his post on 2 February 2014.”

Each of the 60 retracted articles had at least one author and/or one reviewer “who has been implicated in the peer review” ring, said a separate notice issued by JVC.

Efforts by The Washington Post to locate and contact Chen for comment were unsuccessful.

The whole story is described in a publication called “Retraction Watch” under the headline: “SAGE Publications busts ‘peer review and citation ring.’”

“This one,” it said, “deserves a ‘wow.’”

Update: Some additional information from the SAGE statement: “As the SAGE investigation drew to a close, in May 2014 Professor Nayfeh’s retirement was announced and he resigned his position as Editor-in-Chief of JVC….Three senior editors and an additional 27 associate editors with expertise and prestige in the field have been appointed to assist with the day-to-day running of the JVC peer review process. Following Professor Nayfeh’s retirement announcement, the external senior editorial team will be responsible for independent editorial control for JVC.”

Note to readers: Thanks for pointing out my grammatical error. No excuses.

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By Paula Kelly Harline

Mormon bloggers have been in the news lately, with a blogger recently being excommunicated from the church. It was Ordain Women founder Kate Kelly’s call-to-action writings, meant to recruit Mormon women to her cause, that recently led to her excommunication from the Mormon Church.

If Kelly is an example, Mormon women are no wimps. Because the Church is staffed by lay members, Mormon women routinely run entire Church organizations numbering up to 200 people; they make up one-third of the current missionary population; they believe in education; and they have a long tradition of writing—both in public and in private—from pioneer beginnings up to the current “Bloggernacle.” Here are some examples of this tradition.

(1)   Between 1872 and 1914, Mormon women published their own periodical called the Woman’s Exponent that early on went to several thousand women throughout the United States and Great Britain and prompted exchanges with other women’s journals. In its early years, a number of writers argued for polygamy. Exponent editor and polygamous wife Emmeline Wells condemned the false notion of the pedestal, and argued in favor of equal pay for equal work and equality in athletic programs.

(2)   More intimately, many nineteenth-century women kept diaries and wrote autobiographies, including some obscure polygamous wives. In the 29 I’ve studied closely, these writers held their heart and faith in one hand, and their guts and hesitations in the other. They explore the chasm between romantic love and triangular love, between resistance to other wives and friendship with them, and between religious belief and lived experience. This tradition of keeping personal writings continues today—for example, my 80-year-old mother has written about 12 journals during her lifetime and is working on her autobiography.

(3)   Between 1914 and 1970, the Church’s women’s organization published The Relief Society Magazine to unite and educate women and provide ordinary women with an outlet for their writing, including stories, poems, and plays. Although less polemical than Woman’s Exponent, the Magazine was edited by women, for women, and had a wide readership.

(4)   After The Relief Society Magazine was merged with a new church publication for both male and female readers called Ensign, in 1974, a group of northeastern Mormon feminists started the independent Exponent II, which they describe as “a newspaper forum for Mormon women to share their life experiences in an atmosphere of trust and acceptance,” an “exchange” that allows them to “better understand each other” and “shape the direction” of their lives. Exponent II celebrates its 40th anniversary this year, and since 2005, they’ve added a blog.

(5)   The “Bloggernacle,” a nickname for the Mormon blogosphere (a port-manteau of ‘blogger’ and ‘tabernacle’ where Mormons worship on special occasions), is so vast that bloggers are currently organized by Mormon Archipelago into big and small islands and isles of the sea—and among them, one can find the orthodox and the heterodox and everything in between. Here are links to a few popular women bloggers:

• Jana Riess, an acquisitions editor in the publishing industry, blogs on religion, history, popular culture, ethics, and biblical studies;
• Neylan McBaine, a brand strategist who works for Bonneville Communications, best known for its work on Mormon.org and I’m a Mormon campaign, blogs as “a marketer, writer and mother” who grew up in New York City;
• Californian Joanna Brooks’ Ask Mormon Girl focuses on “the ins-and-outs and ups-and-downs of living the ‘it’s complicated’ version of faith”;
• Kristine Haglund, editor of Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, blogs on By Common Consent and recently wrote about the history of excommunication as a guest blogger;
• Kathryn Skaggs blogs about traditional marriage and current events at A Well-Behaved Mormon Woman;
• Mormon Church historian Ardis E. Parshall’s ready access to archival materials underpins her mostly humorous posts on LDS history and culture, along with fiction, jokes, and art from past church magazines, found at Keepapitchinin.

 

(6)   Which brings us back to Kate Kelly, currently the most notorious Mormon woman blogger. In contrast to websites such as Feminist Mormon Housewives that embrace anger (“angry activists with babies to feed”), Kelly’s Ordain Women perhaps attempts to mimic official church publications with its non-threatening word choice and colorful high-quality photographs of church-going Mormons that are similar to church magazine Ensign photos. Her website frequently cites scriptures and male and female Church leaders, concluding that “The fundamental tenets of Mormonism support gender equality.” Her means to reach this goal? She invites Mormons to “coalesce around the goal of women’s ordination” by participating in “public actions”—Mormon versions of civil disobedience such as marching on Temple Square with the goal of attempting to enter all-male meetings. Most recently, her website encourages  Mormon women to host six “discussions” on topics related to women’s ordination. To get started, followers are provided with a downloadable invitation, get advice about who/how to invite, and can watch the “live launch.” The six discussions come with detailed lesson plans and six accompanying sample video discussions that are each at least an hour long.

In the excommunication letter Kelly received from her bishop, he explains to her that it’s not a problem to question or “even that you believe that women should have the priesthood,” but that she “persisted” in an “aggressive effort” to “persuade” others “to join [her] movement,” one he believes undermines the church. Subsequently, the Bloggernacle is straining under the weight of its innumerable bloggers discussing where the Virginia bishop should have drawn the line, or whether he should have drawn it at all.

And so the tradition continues, if in new and much faster, and thus much more public, media.

Paula Kelly Harline has been teaching college writing for over 20 years for the University of Idaho, Brigham Young University, and Utah Valley University. She has also worked as a freelance writer and artist. She currently lives with her husband, Craig, in Provo, Utah, and is the author of The Polygamous Wives Writing Club: From the Diaries of Mormon Pioneer Women.

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The Abyss Table is a stunning coffee table that mimics the depths of the ocean with stacked layers of wood and glass. Made by London-based furniture design company Duffy London, the limited-edition piece comes with the hefty price tag of £5,800 (nearly $10,000).

This is amazing and I want it !!

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Tales of the Cocktail is around the corner and each year, bars from all over the country compete in an epic showdown: Bar Fight Club. In 2010 Drink put Boston in the map, in 2011 Eastern Standard came back victorious and in 2013 Citizen Public House brought home the popular vote. It’s up to Backbar this year to make Boston proud and knock it out of the park. The Hawthorne is proud to host Backbar as they work out their Bar Fight chops making their cocktails and showcasing their hospitality with a group of willing and supportive fans. Cocktails will be mixed by the Backbar team but a warm thanks to our sponsors, 86 Co and Del Maguey. Don’t miss your chance to wish Sam Treadway and Backbar good luck before they depart! Tickets will be $20 cash at the door, you ticket includes samples of Backbar’s cocktails and high fives are always free. $20 cash at the door ticket includes samples of cocktails and high fives

The story of David Foster Wallace’s time spent in Boston, the city which would serve as his setting for the mighty, mighty “Infinite Jest” novel, has emerged slowly in drips and drabs. The disclosure of information commenced shortly after Wallace rose to fame in 1996, with the truth omitted or cleverly shrouded by Wallace at first,... Read more »

Yesterday, Trick Dog unveiled its latest menu format: The Tourist Menu.

Changing the cocktail menu at the Mission bar has become a ritual of sorts, with the Bon Vivants behind the bar doing a new one every six months. They started with the original Pantone version, then moved on to versions rotating around records and most recently, horoscopes.

Now, they take their cue from San Francisco tourist destinations, with a little help from artist Jack W. Schneider. That means drinks themed around the Cliff House, the Painted Ladies, Alcatraz, City Lights, the Fugazi Bank and more. Each location has corresponding original artwork, which is also available on postcards that you can mail from the bar; Trick Dog will even cover the postage.

The cocktail menu:

It runs until January 7.

Trick Dog: 3010 20th Street, near Florida, San Francisco; (415) 471-2999 or www.trickdogbar.com. Open daily.

Join SoonSpoon, Opus Affair and Workbar Friday night, July 18th at Workbar's Central Square location to watch George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead and munch on some reinvented movie snacks. From 6:30 to 7:30pm we'll have chefs and makers from around town to serving an amazing assortment of reinvented movie snacks and drinks in a casual, standing setting so you can eat, drink, mingle and discuss the finer points of Zombie films. Get ready for: 3 different brews by Harpoon Brewery Full Taza Chocolate Bars Popcorn by Josh Lewin of Bread and Salt Boston Handmade Sodas by Kate Holowchik of JM Curly. Pickles from Grillo's Pickles Savory Chicken Nachos by PhaDe Food Labs Then, starting at 7:30pm we will be setting up seats for everyone and screening Night of the Living Dead on Workbar's amazing (and huge!) screen.

Saturday, August 9 State Park Bar 1 Kendall Sq Lowr LEVEL, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 Come check out one band you love, and one you've never ever heard of. Local future stars Hallelujah the Hills, and local future has-beens The Hospitality at State Park's first ever show with drums. Also chicken and beer and pinball will be available.

from The Conformist, track released 20 October 2009

Bands with two primary songwriters can be doubly brilliant, but maintaining that delicate balance over time can be tricky. Think The Pixies, Uncle Tupelo, or even The Beatles, and consider how the personality inherently required to write a great song and front a rock band might also be the very thing that ensures the project... Read more »

King Lear with Sheep stars one man and eight sheep.

Understandably the play is not a straightforward replica of the original Shakespeare (even without the addition of the animals), and focuses on the efforts of a stubborn director to persuade his all-sheep cast to perform King Lear.

As you would expect, they remain silent.

The director interprets this as mutiny and comes to loathe his troupe; their unwillingness to perform the roles he expects of them precipitates his nervous breakdown, and his fall mirrors the fall of Lear himself. King Lear with Sheep is an experimental re-evaluation that overturns theatrical conventions through the startling and revolutionary device of costumed sheep.

When we set out we were sheep-innocents and we expected to need a total of one full-cast rehearsal. But for both Alasdair (who plays the director) and for the benefit of our sheep, we ended up cycling down to the farm every week. The sheep learnt to trust his smell, and he got used to improvising around and within their woolly Brownian motion – including their tendency to buck happily when playing dead. He also became surprisingly deft at catching the Cordelia-sheep.

For all its intentionality, the element of unpredictability introduced by the sheep still freaks out both Heather (the director) and Alasdair.

The play was performed at the DIG warehouse on June 14th, and the ewes on the Surrey Docks Farm (from which the sheep were loaned) were giving birth throughout the rehearsal period, after which they have to be shorn to prevent flystrike; two somewhat domestic procedures that substantially changed the appearances and size of our cast. After one rehearsal, Josh – the mobile farm worker who drives the animals around schools in London and escorted them to the performance – took us to see the newborn lambs trying their legs out for size. These lambs, like Cordelia, Goneril, and Regan, are serene bottlefeds, and the habit of facing schoolchildren has made them into unflappable actors.

One ewe is markedly fatter than the others because she isn’t allowed to breed (she unconsciously crushed her last lamb in a painful prolapse) and so is able to keep her fleece for the show. Her stature was the first reason why we chose her to play Lear and her unwitting infanticide an unexpected irony. Kent and Gloucester were only cast in our final week of rehearsal when two biggish sheep turned out not to be pregnant (it happens when one ram is called on to fertilize sixty ewes) and so weren’t shorn either, leaving them in a state of old-world dishevelment.

When putting on a play a considerable portion of time goes into negotiating with actors, resolving the most ridiculous of quarrels, mending costumes, etc. Farm animals are held up as the epitome of narrow-minded uncooperativeness – think of “bull-“ or “pigheaded”, of “mulish”, and “doggish” – and our actors, the topknotted, meaty Oxford Downs are obligingly difficult to rally up (though they move as a pack, it’s often away from people). When the director blames the Cordelia-sheep for her self-centeredness and for turning the cast against him, alluding to “Her messes! Her constant tantrums!” and “her method acting”, the sheep bleats and ignores him with stoic dignity. The director’s unfairness (and later, Lear’s) is underscored by the fact Cordelia is played by a particularly graceful and docile Ryeland cross, a breed that makes excellent mothers, and – let’s assume – correspondingly loving daughters. It’s not her fault that she can’t talk.

Silence was a big deal in 20th century theatre. Throughout his plays, Samuel Beckett questions the capacity of performance to satisfy an audience and presents us with a host of reluctant actors, aware that they have a responsibility to entertain and yet unwilling to deliver this entertainment. King Lear with Sheep takes this a step further – the actors are actually incapable of acting or even recognizing that something is expected of them. In this way they are extreme metaphors for Cordelia’s inability to participate in the courtly games of her family. Cordelia’s refusal to speak in Shakespeare’s King Lear is expanded into the implacable silence of the sheep in King Lear with Sheep.

King Lear is, of course, a tragedy. Cordelia dies. In regular performances, much of the tragedy of this moment comes from Lear’s wretched insistence that Cordelia is still alive. We empathize with the simple need for things to simply beother than they are, even as we’re aware – at least partly – of our own dual knowledge: that the actor playing Cordelia is actually alive.

In King Lear with Sheep this disjunction between what we know and we believe is more than apparent – it’s unavoidable. A struggling sheep is not subtle and so Cordelia-sheep’s tragic death is less believable. She bleats angrily, the director weeps, and the final moments of the play waver between genuine tragedy and something rather funny.

 

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The Library of Congress posted a photo:

[Unidentified soldier in Confederate uniform with shotgun sitting next to dog]

[United States] ; [between 1861 and 1865]

1 photograph : hand-colored ambrotype ; plate 82 x 70 mm (sixth plate format), case 95 x 81 mm.

Notes:
Title devised by Library staff.
Case: Rinhart, no. 93.
Use digital images. Original served only by appointment because material requires special handling. For more information see: (www.loc.gov/rr/print/info/617_apptonly.html)
Deposit; Tom Liljenquist; 2013; (D067)
Purchased from: Cal Packard, Lexington, Ohio, 2013.
Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs (Library of Congress).
Forms part of: Ambrotype/Tintype photograph filing series (Library of Congress).

Subjects:
Confederate States of America.--Army--People--1860-1870.
Soldiers--Confederate--1860-1870.
Military uniforms--Confederate--1860-1870.
Rifles--1860-1870.
Dogs--1860-1870.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Military personnel--Confederate.

Format: Portrait photographs--1860-1870.
Ambrotypes--Hand-colored--1860-1870.

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

Part Of: Ambrotype/Tintype filing series (Library of Congress) (DLC) 2010650518
Liljenquist Family collection (Library of Congress) (DLC) 2010650519

More information about this collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.lilj

Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.37480

Call Number: AMB/TIN no. 3130

Nick Summers, writing for Businessweek on Whitney Wolfe’s sexual harassment lawsuit against Tinder:

This conduct would be abhorrent directed at anyone. What gives these allegations even greater sting is Wolfe’s contention that she was not just any employee but a Tinder co-founder — and was stripped of the designation as a result of the treatment she endured. This isn’t just adding insult to injury; it’s adding injury to injury, since a co-founder of a hot startup can be expected to attract better career opportunities than someone who was a mere early employee.

Was Whitney Wolfe a co-founder of Tinder? I think the answer exposes a different, quieter, but no less punishing form of the sexism that is pervasive in the startup world.

Later:

None of the many men I spoke to had mentioned her name. In my notes is a single reference to “Whitney” — from a preliminary phone call with Rosette Pambakian, Tinder’s PR rep, who described her as one of five company co-founders. (Take note, Wolfe and IAC legal teams.)

Don’t miss the second and third pages of Summers’s story, which contain screenshots of blatantly racist and sexist posts from Justin Mateen’s now-private Instagram account.

Update: Look at the timeline, and consider just how long this situation was tolerated within Tinder. Tinder is not unique.

In a disturbing precedent, the Yorba Foundation, which makes apps for GNU/Linux, has had its nonprofit status application rejected by the IRS because some of projects may benefit for-profit entities. Read the rest

Suro, President of the Tequila Interchange Project (TIP) and also the President of Siembra Azul Tequila, is an advocate for good clean and fair tequila and has his own brand of kosher tequila, Siembra Azul. Kosher because there is no organic certification of tequila in Mexico, and he wants to convey to the public the organic, sustainable methods he employs to make his tequila, and kosher certification gives some sense of that. Suro also owns Tequilas in Philadelphia, a Mexican restaurant with one of the deepest collections of tequila in the nation. David is one of the most knowledgeable people about tequila in the world and is a tequila activist.

Furniture maker Greg Klassen builds intricately designed tables and other objects embedded with glass rivers and lakes. Inspired by his surroundings in the Pacific Northwest, Klassen works with edge pieces from discarded trees (often acquired from construction sites, or from dying trees that have begun to rot) which he aligns to mimic the jagged shores of various bodies of water. The pieces are completed with the addition of hand-cut glass pieces that appear to meander through the middle of each table. You can see much more of work here, and several tables are available through his shop.