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More than sunshine, cigars or the rollercoasters at Busch Gardens, Tampa is known for its naked ladies.
Tampa and strip clubs are often mentioned together, like New York City and the Statue of Liberty. Or San Francisco and the Golden Gate Bridge. Or St. Louis and the Arch.
And the man in the thick of this spectacle is Joe Redner, who almost single-handedly made Tampa's adult entertainment world famous. He's a wiry 72-year-old with a bemused smile and skeptical brown eyes who owns what is arguably the most notorious of Tampa's all-nude clubs: Mons Venus.
The club – located less than six miles from where the Republicans will gather to nominate former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney as their presidential candidate – isn't much to look at. The blue-and-purple building sits on a busy stretch of road next to a Taco Bell and near where the NFL's Buccaneers play home games. There's a sign outside that says "Home of the Most Beautiful Women in the World," and another: "Live NUDE Shows."
"I don't expect the RNC to be as busy as Super Bowl," Redner said, with a dismissive wave of his hand. "I don't think those people are coming to party."
Redner started the club 30 years ago. Back then, according to him, his main pursuits were "drinking, philandering and snorting cocaine."
He knew nothing about business or politics. But over the decades, he stopped drinking and doing drugs, became a vegan, a businessman and a politician. Like-minded progressive activists have called him a "folk hero," while his enemies have called him a "pimp."
Over time, he's opened three other nude clubs (he no longer owns them), a fitness club (he sold that too), and has run for various local offices nine times (he's never won, although he did offer free lap dances to anyone who showed up at The Mons with an "I Voted" sticker as part of his campaign).
At one point, the Tampa Bay Times reported that he was worth $18 million. He has a deep box of yellowing newspaper clippings from around the world, chronicling his outspoken, and some would say outrageous, views.
Arrested 36 times
"The clubs in Tampa wouldn't have notoriety if it wasn't for Joe," said Don Kleinhans, the co-owner of 2001 Odyssey, a strip club across the street from Mons Venus that's notable for its large, silver spaceship where patrons can obtain expensive, and more personal, lap dances. "He just has strong beliefs in his rights and his freedoms."
Redner says his biggest accomplishment has been in the battles he's waged against local, state and federal governments – some successful, others not. After opening his first strip club – Redner prefers the term "adult entertainment" – he was arrested 36 times on obscenity charges by officials. He claimed that it was his First Amendment right to operate the club.
In 2000, Redner vehemently opposed the so-called "six-foot rule," a county ordinance preventing adult entertainers from coming within six feet of their clients. The rule is still on the books, but isn't enforced.
In 2005, when Hillsborough County commissioners voted to ban the county from participating in or acknowledging gay pride events, Redner filed a discrimination lawsuit against the city. He also dropped a bombshell by claiming he was gay in the lawsuit because he was required as the plaintiff to show a personal connection to the case.
Many around Tampa did not believe the claim, and Redner has not addressed the issue since then. The lawsuit was settled in 2007, and the county reworded the policy so it shall not "be construed to prevent citizens from exercising their First Amendment rights in an appropriate forum."
Earlier this year, Redner was diagnosed with Stage IV lung cancer. He thinks it's from all the marijuana he's smoked over the years, a habit that he says he's quit. Radiation was successful, he said, showing a reporter before and after X-rays of a spot on his lung.
He never worried about dying, he said. People would tell him that they were praying for his recovery. His answer: don't bother.
"They say there are no atheists in foxholes," he said. "I'm one."
The only visible casualty of his illness was his long, gray ponytail; now, his hair is short. Sitting in his office at Redner Enterprises – a warehouse he shares with his son, who runs a well-known brewing company – he looks like what he is: an older businessman, albeit one who is surrounded by adult entertainment industry magazines and snapshots of his various skirmishes with local government.
He's still involved in community issues. He goes to county commission meetings and recently, stopped in to an ACLU meeting about the RNC. He's worried that protests will get out of hand and that police will use too much force on demonstrators – especially since he's letting some Occupy Tampa members camp and protest 24/7 on a private lot he owns west of downtown. Redner's been in the news for that, lately, as well; residents of the area are fed up with the campers and are worried the RNC will draw thousands of people to the neighborhood.
What will he do while the Republicans are in town?
Redner doesn't talk much about the actual Republicans coming to town; he considers himself a very liberal progressive. He doesn't like the Republicans' politics, but is hopeful that will bring money into the community. His club's business is down by 50 percent since its heyday in the late 90s, he said. Tampa is in a recession.
Jason Lange, an adult industry promoter, agrees with Redner that Tampa-area clubs probably won't receive a windfall because of the RNC.
"A lot of people are thinking it's going to be a super home run, but it's not," said Lange, who has booked some private parties for RNC-goers and is bringing in porn stars as entertainers at certain clubs during that week. "The Mitt Romneys aren't going to go into adult entertainment clubs."
Nonetheless, police have cracked down on strip clubs recently. During a recent sting at several area strip clubs, Tampa officers arrested 16 women on prostitution charges at area strip clubs. A news release said officials were trying to deter prostitution and human trafficking during the upcoming convention. No one was arrested at Redner's Mons Venus club.
Other strip club owners in Tampa are more optimistic than Lange about seeing more customers; 2001 Odyssey's Kleinhans said he's put in a VIP area for the RNC, complete with a private entrance around the side of the club, so anyone who wants to sneak in unannounced can do so.
Redner refuses to do that for his customers.
"I can't play to that part of human nature," sniffs Redner. "If you gotta hide from what you're doing, you shouldn't be doing it."
Folks have been wondering what Redner will do during the RNC. Will he protest and get arrested, like he did when President George W. Bush and his brother, Jeb, held a Tampa rally in 2008? Will he offer some outrageous promotion at The Mons? Tip reporters off if a famous politician comes into the club?
Nope. None of that.
He's going to be in Vegas, for a gentlemen's club expo. He's the keynote speaker.
"I went back and forth on whether to go," he said. "But really, my presence isn't necessary."
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Please join our community this evening at 5:30 pm at Cedar Grove Park as we remember those who perished on 9/11. A moment of silence, words of reflection, honor guard and the planting of two trees at the base of the grove of cedars.
It was just before 6 am and I was standing in the ready room of the Institutional Security Unit, "gearing up" for my shift. Someone brought my attention to the television in the corner and the burning building on the screen. "A plane just hit it", was all my partner said. As we watched in stunned silence, a blur…then, suddenly, the building alongside the first was burning. We couldn't believe our eyes. We slowly fathomed that another aircraft deliberately hit the second tower.
And our lives were changed forever.
I find it curious that many of us, myself included, can remember where we were the day of the most important events of our lives. I remember my mom calling my brothers and me in to see the tape being run of John F. Kennedy being assassinated. I remember watching as live film of Jack Ruby shooting Oswald was displayed on the same TV. In 1969, I watched Neil Armstrong step onto the moon and speak those famous words, And yes, I cried when I heard this famous man passed away. The Challenger and the Columbia? I can tell you where I was and what I was doing, along with the tragic fire of Apollo 1 and the near loss of Apollo 13 that would have ended in catastrophe had it not been for the heroic efforts of NASA engineers who would not let their charges die alone, in space. And, I will always remember where I was when the towers fell.
Our country is not defined by blustering politicians or the good times we hold so dear to us, but in our ability to overcome adversity. Even in the face of the darkest evil we could imagine, we show our best and show the world that we are strongest, when we appear to be at our weakest. Like it or not, we are also our brothers' keeper and, as in the days of the forgotten war of Korea, or the 1968 Tet Offensive of Vietnam, it is our duty to keep the flame of freedom burning brightly when others would seek to extinguish it.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Days after the devastating 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, actress Naomi Watts took part in a fundraising telethon spearheaded by George Clooney to help the region's hundreds of thousands of people in 14 nations whose lives were shattered.
Little did Watts know that eight years later she would be starring in "The Impossible," out in the U.S. movie theaters on Friday, about a real family's experience in Thailand. The tsunami and earthquake killed more than 5,000 people, and resulted in 2,800 missing in that country alone.
Yet when the actress was first approached to star in the film, directed by Spanish filmmaker Juan Antonio Bayona, she hesitated.
"I thought, how do you make a movie about a tsunami without it becoming some sort of spectacular disaster movie?" Watts, 44, told Reuters. "That would be so wrong."
However once Watts read the script, she said was moved by the story based on the real-life Spanish family of Maria Belon, her husband Enrique Alvarez - played by Ewan McGregor in the movie - and their three sons.
Belon's family were spending their Christmas holiday in Thailand when the tsunami hit. The film follows their struggle to survive, injured and separated, in the aftermath and their perseverance in finding each other amidst the chaos.
"I felt a huge amount of pressure because of the responsibility to Maria's story," said Watts. "And on her back, she carries the stories of everybody else because hers is connected to the lives of hundreds of thousands of people. I felt a sense of responsibility."
The British-born, Australian actress delivered, despite her fears. So far, her performance has earned Watts best actress nominations from the Golden Globes, the Screen Actors Guild and the Broadcast Film Critics Association.
The New York Observer wrote in its review that "Watts seems almost spiritually committed to her role" while The Hollywood Reporter said she "packs a huge charge of emotion as the battered, ever-weakening Maria whose tears of pain and fear never appear fake or idealized."
Watts credits the real Maria Belon for being "an open book" when it came to recalling her personal experience during that harrowing time.
The two met before shooting began, and Belon was on the film set. Belon, a physician in Spain, also wrote detailed letters chronicling her experience, including taking refuge in a tree and the Thai villagers who discovered her weak and injured body.
One of the more challenging aspects of the shoot was recreating the tsunami, a 10-minute sequence in the film that Watts said took six weeks to shoot on location in Spain. Rather than creating the tidal wave digitally, actors were anchored in water tanks with the current pushing at them and "debris being chucked at you."
Watts said that while the challenge of shooting the sequence was incomparable to the suffering of those who went through the ordeal in 2004, it was "physically the most demanding thing I've ever done."
There was much more dialogue scripted during that sequence but "you were struggling to breathe and we quickly learned that once you open your mouth, water is going in and nothing is coming out.
"Though it was difficult, I'm grateful we got that kind of level of fear and intensity," she added.
What offset the intensity during the shoot was having her sons Sasha, 5, and Sammy, 4, visiting Watts on the set. "We had them paint stuff on themselves like scars and wounds, then rub them off so they could see it wasn't real," recalled Watts.
It's a far cry from the way she used to approach her work before having kids, such as her Oscar-nominated performance as a grief-stricken mother the 2003 film "21 Grams."
"I was taking everything home with me, staying up all hours, writing, thinking, researching ... just living with torment," Watts recalled of that time. "I can't live like that at this point in my life with little ones. I am a mom of two small kids and once I put the key in the door, it's my duty to be totally present."
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Woody Allen: 'I'd cast Michelle Obama'
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Thursday, September 11, 2008
Our Daily Bread
Today's destination is memory lane. When my children were small this bread was always on our table. Over time more pressing demands grabbed center stage and homemade bread became an occasional treat. About a month ago the cost of my favorite bread broke the $5.00 barrier and I decided it was time to give bread baking another shot. I've still got game! And more importantly, I'm having fun and saving money, too. Yesterday, Jenny, at Picky Palate wrote about the compelling aroma of bacon. I'd like to add freshly baked bread to that list of really good, mind crazing aromas. This recipe makes a lot of bread, but it can be frozen, and, at a time when we're all concerned with greening our kitchens, the quantity makes for really efficient use of the oven. The recipe can, of course, be halved. Here goes!
Whole Wheat Bread
5 tablespoons active dry yeast
1 cup brown sugar (light or dark)
6 cups warm water
1 cup vegetable oil
2 tablespoons salt
5 pounds stone ground whole wheat flour + flour for kneading
1 cup sunflower seed kernels
1 cup unsweetened coconut flakes
1) Take off your rings.
2) Combine yeast, sugar and water in a very large bowl. Let sit for 5 minutes. Add oil, salt, 1/2 the flour, sunflower seeds and coconut flakes; beat with a wooden spoon for 100 strokes. Add remaining flour, and, working with hands, mix to form a very stiff dough. Turn onto a floured surface and knead for 10 minutes, using more flour as necessary to keep dough from sticking to work surface. Place dough, smooth-side down in a large bowl that has been coated with oil. Cover, place in a warm place and let rise for 1 hour, or until doubled. Punch down to original size and let rise again until double in bulk. Turn onto work surface and punch down. Divide dough into six equal pieces (1-1/2 pounds each). Form into loaves and place in generously oiled bread pans. Cover, and let rise again until dough reaches top of pans. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. during final rise.
3) Bake in the center of oven for 50 to 60 minutes, rotating loaves from front to back at the half-hour mark. Brush tops lightly with butter; remove from pans and cool on wire racks. Yield: 6 (1-1/2 pound) loaves.
10 comments :
- Maria said...
I love a good whole wheat! I wish I could have a piece fresh from the oven!
- September 11, 2008 at 11:02 AM
I need to start baking! I can smell the delicious aroma all the way in SC.
- September 11, 2008 at 11:29 AM
I have been thinking a lot about baking my own bread lately. I can almost smell it from here.-Lorie
- September 11, 2008 at 2:35 PM
- Regina said...
We love home made bread and this looks just so good, Mary.
- September 11, 2008 at 5:28 PM
- Jersey Girl Cooks said...
This looks like such a good loaf. You are doing such a nice job with all your recipes and pictures!
- September 11, 2008 at 11:28 PM
- Mary Bergfeld said...
Thank you all for your kind words.
- September 12, 2008 at 1:17 AM
- Veronica said...
Wow what an oven picture! I held my nose close to the screen hoping to get a smell of what I know must have been incredible smelling bread...no luck, it seems I will have to bake some myself.
- September 12, 2008 at 8:55 AM
- Deborah said...
I'm really hoping that things will work out and I'll be able to stay home to raise my children. If so, we will only have homemade bread, because it is sooo good! And I agree - the smell of bread baking is amazing!
- September 12, 2008 at 11:04 AM
- Melissa and Zack said...
Mom, I can almost smell that bread! Seeing those loaves brings me back to those days...
- September 12, 2008 at 3:43 PM
- Prudy said...
Nothing in the world smells better than homemade bread. Thsi one looks wonderful with the addition of coconut.
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The benefits of an alternative nuclear fuel that could offer a safer and more abundant alternative to the uranium that powers conventional reactors have been "overstated", according a new government report on the potential of thorium.
The report says the UK should continue to be engaged with the technology but downplays claims by thorium proponents who say that the radioactive chemical element makes it impossible to build a bomb from nuclear waste, leaves less hazardous waste than uranium reactors, and that it runs more efficiently.
"Thorium has theoretical advantages regarding sustainability, reducing radiotoxicity and reducing proliferation risk," states the report, prepared for the Department of Energy and Climate Change by the National Nuclear Laboratory (NNL). "While there is some justification for these benefits, they are often overstated."
Some of NNL's hesitance comes from UK utility companies' unwillingness to invest the money in research and development necessary to draw out thorium's advantages.
"Nevertheless, it is important to recognise that worldwide there remains interest in thorium fuel cycles and this is not likely to diminish in the near future," the report concludes. "It may therefore be judicious for the UK to maintain a low level of engagement in thorium fuel cycle research and development by involvement in international collaborative research activities."
The report notes that thorium's advantages would be most noticeable in reactor types other than the conventional solid fuel, water-cooled reactors used in almost all of the world's commercial nuclear electricity stations today.
In particular, a design known as a very high temperature reactor is "especially well suited to thorium fuels," NNL states. The old UK Atomic Energy Authority built and operated an experimental thorium-fueled high temperature at Winfrith in the 1960s and 70s. The reactor, nicknamed Dragon, is partially decommissioned.
Several thorium initiatives are under way outside the UK. In the US, Flibe Energy is developing a thorium reactor based on designs developed in the 1960s by the US Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee.
China is also developing different types of thorium reactors, and India is expected to start construction in four or five years of one that uses solid thorium fuel.
Thorium is an abundant, mildly radioactive element that occurs naturally around the world. The largest reserves exist in Australia, the US, Turkey, India, Brazil and Venezuela, according to the World Nuclear Association.


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Karnataka's cattle farmers protest the allotment of 12,000 acres of traditional grazing land for defence, nuclear and other projects. Imran Khan reports
June 28, 2013
Since the time of our forefathers, our cattle have been grazing in these grasslands. But now a high wall prevents us from going there," laments Ranganna, a 58-year-old cattle farmer in south Karnataka. "Where do they expect us to go in search of fodder?"
Ranganna belongs to one of the nearly 40,000 families from 73 villages in Chitradurga district (250 km from state capital Bengaluru) that rear livestock for a living. About 12,000 acres of bio-diverse grassland in Challakere taluka of this district has been diverted to make way for a host of defence, nuclear power, industrial and infrastructure projects.
Known for supporting the Amrit Mahal breed of hardy indigenous cattle, these grasslands — called the Amrit Mahal Kavals — have traditionally served as common grazing land for the local pastoral community.
According to the Karnataka Forest Rules, 1969, this grassland ecosystem is designated as 'forest'. Yet, over a period of three years since 2008, the lands were handed over to the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) for a project to build and test unmanned aerial vehicles (drones), the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) for an uranium enrichment facility, the Indian Institute of Science (IISC) to host a synchrotron (for advanced scientific research), the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) for a satellite centre, besides other industrial and infrastructure projects. Many small and ancillary industrial units linked to the defence production sector are also expected to come up in the region. Under threat is the livelihood system of the local pastoral community that breeds a variety of livestock in this arid region as its primary economic activity.
According to the state animal husbandry department, Chitradurga district supports 3.16 lakh non-descriptive cattle, 24,000 crossbred cattle, 3.68 lakh goats and 9.31 lakh sheep. The Amrit Mahal Kavals form a support system for this intense practice of animal husbandry and the Challakere Kavals are critical to the livelihood of people across more than 70 villages. Ecologists claim the Amrit Mahal Kavals are the largest contiguous stretch of arid grasslands still existing in Karnataka, and perhaps, all of south India.
Wildlife surveys indicate that the Challakere Kavals are a biodiversity hot spot and habitat of the highly threatened Blackbuck. Some recent records suggest that the critically endangered Great Indian Bustard is also found in this area.
Against the common perception that villagers are a threat to wildlife, the grazing practices here help prevent the land from being excessively overgrown with grass, creating niches where the wild species can forage for food.
However, these concerns seem to have been set aside when the Karnataka government gave away the ecologically precious land to the projects at a pittance — Rs 30,000-Rs 35,000 per acre. All the projects are expected to have significant environmental and social impact. Elected representatives, institutions of local governance and the residents of the area were kept completely in the dark when the land transfer took place. In fact, the locals came to know of this only when the organisations to which land had been allotted began building boundary walls.
According to Bengaluru-based ngo Environment Support Group (ESG), despite statutory notices from the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board against violation of environmental laws, issued over two years ago, not one of the project proponents has complied with any of the mandatory environmental and forest clearance norms and standards. The DRDO, for instance, has built a 28-km wall in violation of the Environment Impact Assessment Notification of 2006, and has even tested its weaponised drones without any civilian or military clearances.
According to documents accessed by TEHELKA, BARC is conducting advanced research on the nuclear fuel cycle, for developing nuclear fission reactors, atomic energy applications in agriculture and nuclear medicine. Meanwhile, DRDO is building a runway for testing the indigenous drones Lakshya and Nishant.
The DRDO project was initially planned to come up 40 km away in a neighbouring taluka. In 2007, however, the then MP from Chitradurga constituency, NY Hanumanthappa, wrote to Defence Minister AK Antony asking for the project to be shifted to its present location in Challakere. In his letter, Hanumanthappa assured the minister that at the new location there was "no question of acquisition of land and payment of compensation".
The locals are agitated because no one sought their views on these decisions that were to affect their lives so significantly. "How is it reasonable for the government to allot the land to various agencies without involving its real custodians?" asks Karianna, a local villager and Chitradurga district president of the All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS), a peasants' organisation affiliated with the CPM.
That the locals have been "custodians" of the Amrit Mahal Kaval lands is also acknowledged in a June 2011 report of the iisc, A Precious Heritage: Rapid Bio-diversity of the Khudapura Campus. According to the report, "The land for these campuses has recently been taken over from the local people, for whom this was a grazing commons, and the healthy state of the ecosystem shows that the local grazers and farmers have been wise custodians of this landscape."
Today, a huge concrete wall prevents these "custodians" from accessing their pastoral lands. Activists allege that by allowing this 28-km wall to come up, the government has undermined the locals' right to life, given their dependence on the grazing commons. The region has also been severely hit by repeated droughts that have further worsened the condition of the local pastoral community.
Even as pastoral activities are becoming less viable, the other major source of livelihood — blanket weaving — is also under threat. Challakere is famous for the kambali (woollen blankets) woven by the local Kuruba community. "The kambali industry has already been hit due to dwindling supplies of wool. Loss of grazing land is making it worse," says R Girish of the Woollen Handloom Weavers Production and Sales Cooperative Society in Doddalluthi village.
Unable to maintain their livestock, people are resorting to distress sales and migrating to other places. TEHELKA visited a local cattle fair and found that cattle were being sold to butchers at throwaway prices. "We are selling the cattle as fodder has become unaffordable," says Kenchalingappa, a 48-year-old cattle herder. "We may have to move from here and seek work as labourers in Bengaluru."
The AIKS mobilised the local villagers to petition the Karnataka High Court against the transfer of their grazing land. The ESG, too, has raised the matter of environmental violations and ecological impact with the South Zone Bench of the National Green Tribunal in Chennai. Following ESG's petition, the tribunal has formed a two-member expert committee to hold public consultations and review the environmental and ecological consequences of the diversion of land to the projects. The tribunal is expected to arrive at a decision in July, based on the committee's report.
"People in these areas have been living in sub-standard conditions. There are no proper schools and no toilets," says HS Jagadeesh, IISC's special officer for the Challakere project. "With the coming up of the projects, the quality of life in general will improve. There will be ample employment opportunities. Also, a scientific city will emerge in a backward district."
At its core, the conflict is between the promise of a technologically advanced society pitted against the traditional livelihoods of pastoral communities. There is also the question of whether the wild species on the verge of extinction, such as the Great Indian Bustard, can survive the drone testing, the nuclear fuel enrichment facilities, and the intense urbanisation and industrialisation that will follow
Jagadeesh says, "Development will come at some cost." However, the people of Challakere ask why they should be the ones to pay the price.
Related articles
- India's rural communities angry over uranium and weapons projects (nuclear-news.net)
- Amruthmahal Kaval: A Unique Ecosystem Under Threat (ramyabdeljabbar.wordpress.com)


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I'm still a little bitter over the months I spent making $9 an hour clearing out their dressing rooms, but I have to credit the ethically exploitative, generically-trendhumping corporate paradox that is American Apparel for its ceaseless bloggy news flow. Just last week, the company ran a New York Times ad advocating the sort of immigration reforms that would make life easier for the folks that weave and sew those gym tees and hoodies our generation so loves. Then on Monday, the company officially listed itself on the American Stock Exchange, finally subjecting its financial results to the scrutiny of public shareholders who will no doubt at some point wonder if that whole "living wage" idea was such a smart one. Monday's announcement came on the heels of about a year the company spent trading opaquely under the name Endeavor Acquisition as a so-called "backdoor" listing, which reminded us of another "backdoor" thing about the company: that fucking billboard. We recently heard from the guy — yeah, guy! — who claims to have defaced it earlier this year. His letter is probably the best Christmas gift a bunch of whores like us could have gotten, not least because he admits he has a "lot to learn." Don't we all.
A friend just forwarded the american apparel story link and said: "dude, you're efamous...kind of". I was totally amazed and happy that such a debate was sparked by my humble offering.
First off, i'm not a graf writer. Honestly, I was just reacting to the constantly degrading images of women that AA creates. That ad in particular - headless, bent over, composed so that the focus was irrefutable... I went home, grabbed some spraypaint, took the train back and waited until 4am to climb the scaffolding.
Now that i've read all of the comments and reactions posted on jezebel, i feel regret at having chosen the word "get". The people who mentioned "are" as a better choice of wording were right. I struggled with the thought of leaving such an open-to-interpretation message, but eventually just decided to go with my gut-reaction and get the hell down from there.
It was horrifying to read that some people interpreted it as "women deserve to be raped" or that i was probably some uneducated/ignorant/misogynistic graf writer promoting my justification....(geez, talk about a stereotype!) I also took offense to the comments that suggested i need to re-evaluate my concept of feminism... duh! of course i agree that women should be able to dress as they please and not have to worry about others interpretation. That said, i couldn't let this advert slide by without a protest. This wasn't a run of the mill ad by some faceless corporation. This was Dov Charney's "art" and ideology.
I'll be the first to admit that i have a lot to learn. I'm not much of an academic, and have only recently started reading books which address gender, feminist theories, body image... i have my own (imperfect) ideas and reactions to the world around me and accept that i am going to make mistakes, and grow as i learn more...
As an act of civil disobedience/direct action, i believe that this form of protest was effective(if only momentarily) in that it caused AA economic damage(well over $10,000.), inspired an open discussion on many levels and was a learning experience for all.
I don't mean to ramble on and on, so i'll just end this by saying thank you for bringing this topic/discussion onto your website. In the future, i will take greater precautions to be more clear in my meaning...
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Design On A Dime With PAD Hawaii's Lauren Makk
Inside a $2,000 makeover.
Design on a dime, in Hawaii? Believe it or not, it's possible to transform a space from boring to bomb-tastic without spending a lot of money.
I'd been watching my instagram feed with fascination as Titus Nakagawa posted shots of his living space, and the gradual transformation as PAD Hawaii owner Lauren Makk used her design skills to upgrade the look.
When I found out that the whole budget was just $2,000, I had to see it for myself so you, too, can use some of the tips and tricks that Makk shared. She's no stranger to design challenges, as she was a host and interior designer on TLC's Trading Spaces and A&E's Drill Team before moving to Hawaii in 2012. Here's what Nakagawa's living room looked like when she first got to it:
And here's what it looks like now:
The walls were barren, so she spruced it up with some urban art:
The master bedroom, transformed:
The second bedroom was a bigger challenge. You can't tell in this photo, but the space is small and a strange shape — it was probably created as an afterthought when the owner made it. Here's how she made it liveable:
I walked through the place with Makk as she explained what she did and why. You can see what she did in better detail, in this video:
If you want to see some of the items shown in today's blog, Makk's store, PAD Hawaii, is located at 685 Auahi St. Click here for more information.


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Ludwig van Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven (baptized December 17, 1770 in Bonn[1] – March 26, 1827 in Vienna) was a German composer. He wrote classical music for the piano, orchestras and different groups of instruments. His best-known works are his third ("Eroica"), fifth, sixth ("Pastorale") and ninth ("Choral") symphonies, the eighth ("Pathetique") and fourteenth ("Moonlight") piano sonatas, two of his later piano concertos, his opera "Fidelio", and also the piano piece Für Elise. When he was a young man, he was a talented pianist. Beethoven was popular with the rich and important people in Vienna, Austria, where he lived.
In 1801, however, he began to lose his hearing. His deafness became worse.[2] In 1817, he was completely deaf. Although he could no longer play in concerts, he continued to compose. During this time he composed some of his greatest works. He is said to be one of the greatest classical composers[3] who has ever lived.
He moved to Vienna in 1792 and lived there for the rest of his life. He never married.
Early years
Very little is known about Beethoven's childhood. He was baptized on December 17, 1770 and was probably born a few days before that.[1][4][5][6] Beethoven's parents were Johann van Beethoven (1740 in Bonn – December 18, 1792) and Maria Magdalena Keverich (1744 in Ehrenbreitstein – July 17, 1787). Magdalena's father, Johann Heinrich Keverich, had been Chef at the court of the Archbishopric of Trier at Festung Ehrenbreitstein fortress opposite to Koblenz.[7] His father was a fairly unimportant musician who worked at the court of the Elector of Cologne. This court was in Bonn and it was here that he lived until he was a young man. His father gave him his first lessons in piano and violin. Beethoven was a child prodigy like Mozart, but while Mozart as a little boy was taken all over Europe by his father, Beethoven never traveled until he was 17.[8] By that time, his piano teacher was a man called Neefe who had learned the piano from Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, the son of Johann Sebastian Bach. Neefe said to the Elector that the young Beethoven should be given the chance to travel, so he was allowed to go to Vienna. There, he seemed to have had one or two lessons from Mozart, but then Beethoven got a letter saying that his mother was dying, so he hurried back to Bonn.[6] Soon his mother died, and Beethoven had to help to look after the family because his father had become an alcoholic.[6] Beethoven played the viola in the orchestra of the Elector, he started to compose, and made many friends. Some of these friends were musicians and others were very important people, many of them were aristocrats who would be able to help him in his career.
In 1792, the Elector let Beethoven travel to Vienna again.[6][9] They expected him to return after a while. However, Beethoven never left Vienna. He stayed there for the rest of his life.[8] He would have loved to have had some more composition lessons from Mozart, but Mozart had just died, so he had lessons from Haydn instead. Haydn was a good teacher, but a year later he went off to England. Therefore, Beethoven took lessons from a man called Albrechtsberger who was not famous like Haydn. He was a good teacher too and he made him write lots of technical exercises.[3] He showed him how to write advanced counterpoint and fugues. This helped him to be a great composer.
Beethoven wanted to become famous as a pianist and composer, so he started to get to know important, aristocratic people. Some of these people had already heard him in Bonn when they had traveled there, so his name was becoming known in Vienna. It also helped that he could say he was the pupil of the famous Joseph Haydn. There were a lot of aristocratic people in Vienna who liked music, and many had their own private orchestras. Some of them started to give Beethoven places to live when the Elector of Bonn stopped sending him money in 1794. Beethoven started to perform in private houses, and he became known for his improvisations.[3] In 1795 he performed one of his piano concertos at a concert. He also had his first publication (his opus 1). This was a group of three Piano Trios. Haydn had heard them at a private concert a year before and had advised Beethoven not to publish the third one. However, he did publish it, and that was the one which became the most successful. His opus 2 was a group of three piano sonatas which he played at the court of his friend Prince Lichnowsky.[8] When he published them he dedicated them to Haydn.
Beethoven was starting to become famous, travelling to places like Prague and Pressburg. He wrote much chamber music. He was, perhaps, a little jealous of the success that Haydn had with his latest symphonies he had written for London. In 1800 he gave his first public concert with his own music.[3] He conducted his First Symphony as well as the Septet. By now several publishers were trying to persuade him to let them publish his new works. Beethoven was becoming famous as a composer. And during this period Beethoven produced his most famous piano sonata: No. 14, in C sharp minor, nicknamed, "Moonlight". This was written for his girlfriend, 16-year-old Giulietta Guicciardi. However, he was far from happy because he realized that he was starting to become deaf. And when he asked for Giulietta's marriage, her parents refused and married her to another 20-year-old man instead.[10]
Middle period
Beethoven seems to have tried to forget these bad thoughts by working very hard. He composed a lot more music, including his Third Symphony, called the Eroica. Originally he gave it the title Bonaparte in honour of Napoleon whom he admired.[3] But when Napoleon crowned himself emperor in 1804, Beethoven began to think that he was just a tyrant who wanted a lot of power. He went to the table where the score of the symphony was lying and tore up the title page. Beethoven stayed in Vienna that year, working hard at an opera and giving piano lessons to Josephine von Brunsvik to whom he wrote passionate letters. She was a young widow with four children. It is impossible to know quite what her feelings were for Beethoven, but socially she belonged in higher society and probably thought that a wild musician was not a suitable husband.[8] In the end she married a Baron, but this marriage, like her first one, was not happy either.
In 1805 Beethoven wrote his only opera. The next spring it had two performances but was then not performed again for another eight years. Beethoven had made several changes to the opera which became known as Fidelio. The overture that he had written for the 1806 performance is now known as Leonore 3 and is usually performed separately at concerts. The opera is a "rescue" opera, a typical French kind of opera describing a man who is imprisoned and rescued by his lover who disguises herself as a man and manages to get into the prison.[11]
Beethoven continued to write compositions: a Violin Concerto, symphonies, piano concertos, string quartets and chamber music. Two of his greatest symphonies were produced in 1806: Symphony No. 5 and Symphony No. 6 "Pastorale". The first one was known for its dark and deep tone, especially in its first movement. The second was famous for its depiction of the countryside. He also wrote Piano Concerto No. 4 and Piano Concerto No. 5 "Emperor. He earned money by pleasing the aristocrats, dedicating works to them in return for fees, and by selling his music to publishers. Occasionally he earned money from concerts. It was not a regular income. He would have liked the job of Kapellmeister to the emperor. He was not able to get this, but in 1809 three rich aristocrats: the Archduke Rodolph, Prince Lobkowitz and Prince Kinsky gave him an income for the rest of his life on condition that he stayed in Vienna. This meant that Beethoven did not have to worry so much about money. He was asked to write music for Egmont, a play by Goethe.[11] The overture is very often performed as a concert piece. Beethoven very much wanted to meet Goethe. The two great men met in Teplitz. Goethe later described Beethoven as a rather wild-mannered man who made life difficult for himself by his cross attitude to the world. Beethoven admired several women, including one to whom he wrote a passionate letter. She is known as the "Immortal Beloved", but no one knows who she was. Beethoven seems to have become deeply depressed because he never found true happiness in love.[8]
In a letter dated June 29, 1801 Beethoven told a friend in Bonn about a terrible secret he had for some time. He knew that he was becoming deaf.[10] For some time he had spells of fever and stomach pains. A young man does not expect to become deaf, but now he was starting to admit it to himself. He was finding it hard to hear what people were saying. Just at the moment when he was starting to become known as one of the greatest of all composers, it was a terrible blow to realize that he was losing his hearing. In 1802, he stayed for a time in Heiligenstadt which is now a suburb of Vienna but at that time it was outside the city. There he wrote a famous letter which is known as the Heiligenstadt Testament. It is dated October 6 and told about his rising frustration at his deafness. He asks people to forgive him if he cannot hear what they are saying. He said that he had often thought of suicide, but that he had so much music in his head which had to be written down that he decided to continue his life.[10] This very emotional letter was found amongst his papers after his death. It was never sent to anyone.
Later life
By 1814, Beethoven had reached the height of his fame. He was thought of as the greatest composer by the Viennese people and he was often invited by royal people to their palaces. It was the year in which he played his famous Piano Trio Op. 97 The Archduke. That was the last time he played the piano in public.[3] His deafness was making it impossible to continue.
Beethoven had many problems when his brother Caspar Carl died, leaving a 9-year-old son. The boy's mother may have been incapable of looking after him, but Beethoven had to prove this in a court of law. For several years he looked after his nephew, but it was a difficult relationship and it involved a lot of legal letters and quarrels with people. In 1826, Karl tried to shoot himself. He survived, but people persuaded Beethoven to stop being his guardian. Karl went into the army.[8]
The last years were unhappy years for Beethoven. During this time he composed very little. Then, in 1817, he recovered and wrote his last two symphonies, a mass called Missa Solemnis, his last five piano sonatas, and a group of string quartets which were so modern and difficult that very few people at the time understood the music.[3] Nowadays, people think they are the greatest works ever written for string quartet.[3][8]
His Ninth Symphony is called the Choral Symphony because there is a choir and soloists in the last movement. At the time people did not understand this either, because a symphony is normally a work for orchestra, not a work with singers. Beethoven chose the words of a poem by the German poet Friedrich Schiller: An die Freude (Ode to Joy). It is all about living together in peace and harmony, so that it sends an important message to people. This is why it has been chosen in recent years as the National Anthem for the European Union. The Ninth Symphony was performed at a concert on May 7, 1824.[10] After the scherzo movement the audience applauded enthusiastically, but Beethoven could not hear the applause and one of the singers had to turn him round so that he could see that people were clapping.
Beethoven died on March 26, 1827.[10] About 20,000 people came onto the streets for his funeral. The famous poet Franz Grillparzer wrote the funeral speech. One of the torchbearers was Franz Schubert. Schubert died the next year. In 1888 Beethoven's and Schubert's remains were moved to another cemetery in Vienna and were placed side by side.[3]
How he is remembered
Beethoven's music is usually divided into three periods: Early, Middle and Late.[8] Most composers who live a long time develop as they get older and change their way of composing. Of course, these changes in style are not sudden, but they are quite a good way of understanding the different periods of his composing life.
His first period includes the works he wrote in his youth in Bonn, and his early days in Vienna up to about 1803. His middle period starts with the Eroica Symphony and includes most of his orchestral works. His last period includes the Ninth Symphony and the late string quartets.[11]
Beethoven is probably the most famous of all composers, and the most written about. He had a wild personality and this was something that the Romantics in the 19th century always expected from great artists. The Romantics thought that the artist was somehow a person with exaggerated qualities who was not like normal people. Beethoven had a very strong personality. He lived in the time of the French Revolution and had strong views on independence and ways of living free from tyranny. This made him a hero in many people's eyes.[8]
His music was so famous that many composers in the 19th century found it quite hard to compose because they thought they would be compared to him. For example, Johannes Brahms, took a long time to write his First Symphony. He thought that everyone was expecting him to be the next Beethoven. It was only towards the end of the 19th century that Gustav Mahler wrote several symphonies which include singing, although he does this very differently to Beethoven.
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Beethoven was baptized on December 17. His date of birth is not known. Usually, it is given as December 16. This date is given based on evidence at the time: this is explained in more detail below
- ↑ "Ludwig van Beethoven's Biography". http://www.raptusassociation.org/beet-biopages.html. Retrieved 24-05-2009.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 "Who is who.de". http://www.whoswho.de/templ/te_bio.php?PID=362&RID=1. Retrieved 24-05-2009.
- ↑ As an adult, Beethoven believed he had been born in 1772. He told friends that the 1770 baptism was of his older brother Ludwig Maria, who died in infancy, but Ludwig Maria's baptism is recorded as taking place in 1769. Some biographers say that his father falsified his date of birth in an attempt to pass him off as a child prodigy like Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, but this is disputed. Children of that era were usually baptized the day after birth, but there is no written evidence that this occurred in Beethoven's case. It is known that his family and his teacher Johann Albrechtsberger celebrated his birthday on 16 December. While the evidence supports the idea that 16 December 1770 was Beethoven's date of birth, this cannot be stated with certainty. This is discussed in depth in Solomon's biography, chapter 1.
- ↑ Kerman and Tyson
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 "Biography: Beethoven's life". http://www.lvbeethoven.com/Bio/BiographyLudwig.html. Retrieved 20-6-2009.
- ↑ "The offspring of Johann van Beethoven". http://www-public.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de/~molberg/beetnach.htm#BM2. Retrieved 31-05-2009.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 8.5 8.6 8.7 8.8 "A Biography of Ludwig van Beethoven by his Birthtown Bonn". http://biene.bonn.de/innensta/verschi/person/beeth.htm. Retrieved 24-05-2009.
- ↑ "Ludwig van Beethoven's Biography from Biography.com". http://www.biography.com/articles/Ludwig-van-Beethoven-9204862&part=4#21583. Retrieved 20-06-2009.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 "Beethovens Biographie". aeiou.at. http://www.aeiou.at/bt-biog.htm. Retrieved 14 April 2010.
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 "German biography of van Beethoven". http://www.raptusassociation.org/beetbiopagesg.html. Retrieved 25-05-2009.
Further reading
- Joseph Kerman; Alan Tyson (and others). L.Macy. ed. Beethoven, Ludwig van. Grove Music Online. http://grovemusic.com/.
- Albrecht, Theodor, and Elaine Schwensen (1988). More Than Just Peanuts: Evidence for December 16 as Beethoven's birthday. The Beethoven Newsletter. p. 60-63.
- Bohle, Bruce, and Robert Sabin (1975). The International Cyclopedia of Music and Musicians. London: J.M.Dent & Sons LTD.
- Clive, Peter (2001). Beethoven and His World: A Biographical Dictionary.. New York: Oxford University Press.
- Davies, Peter J. (2002). The Character of a Genius: Beethoven in Perspective.. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press.
- Davies, Peter J. (2001). Beethoven in Person: His Deafness, Illnesses, and Death.. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press.
- DeNora, Tia (1995). Beethoven and the Construction of Genius: Musical Politics in Vienna, 1792-1803. Berkeley, California: University of California Press.
- Geck, Martin (2003). Beethoven. London: Haus.
- Hatten, Robert (in English). Musical Meaning in Beethoven. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. pp. 372.
- Kropfinger, Klaus (2001). Beethoven. Verlage Bärenreiter/Metzler.
- Russell Martin (2000). Beethoven's Hair. New York: Broadway Books.
- Meredith, William (2005). The History of Beethoven's Skull Fragments. The Beethoven Journal. p. 3-46.
- Morris, Edmund (2005). Beethoven: The Universal Composer. New York: Atlas Books / HarperCollins.
- Rosen, Charles (1998). The Classical Style: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven. New York: W. W. Norton.
- Solomon, Maynard (2001). Beethoven 2nd revised edition. New York: Schirmer Books.
- Solomon, Maynard (2003). Late Beethoven: Music, Thought, Imagination. Berkeley: University of California Press.
- Stanley, Glenn, ed (2000). The Cambridge Companion to Beethoven. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Thayer, Alexander Wheelock (1866-1908). Ludwig van Beethoven's Leben. 5 vols. (vols. 4 and 5 posthumously ed. by Hugo Riemann). Berlin.
- Thayer, Alexander Wheelock. rev. and ed Elliot Forbes. ed. Thayer's Life of Beethoven.. 2 vols. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Other websites
- English homepage of big Beethoven website
- Beethoven's Personality and Music: The Introverted Romantic
- nhdbeethoven
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