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liadland
the site of Liad Hussein Kantorowicz
PERFORMANCES AND PROJECTS
PUSSY.
No Democracy Here
TERRORIST SUPERSTARS
watch me work
shakira-sharika/lies
together in struggle, alone in sadness
if i can't sell it
war is good
saluting the national erection
cinema paradildo
sex acher/another sex
As this year comes to an end, I'd like to revisit an extensive interview that the incredible Demented Goddess – an online publication about art and culture focusing on gender issues – published with me earlier this year. It's possibly the best interview published with me in years! thank you Demented Goddess! You can find it here.
Happy to announce that NO DEMOCRACY HERE will be shown twice more (at least!) this year:
On December 14th as a part of Excentrico Festival and in cooperation with FAE-Festival de Arte Erotico in Santiago, Chile. "The Excentrico program for the Erotic Art Festival 2019 brings together a set of films whose critical points vary, but share a political-pornographic reflection on the processes of racialization, colonization and construction of national identities and sovereignties. An assembly of political reflections on migration specially selected in the framework of the call for the 4th edition of FAE, which revolves around borders and bodily transits." Money will be raised for organizations working with those wounded in the demonstrations of the last few months. Revolutionary program with a secret location but info available here and here and here.
On December 26th NO DEMOCRACY HERE will be shown for the first time in Tel Aviv and presented by the group Revolution Cinema. Because it is indeed a revolutionary film in a country with no democracy, the screening is semi-underground. send an email to liadland@gmail.com if you're around and want to attend.
there's a chance of more screenings in Tel Aviv or the area. And: I want to thank you all for showing this film in over 18 different locations over the last year!
So NO DEMOCRACY HERE won a Special Mention at the Porny Days film Festival in Zurich! Here's what the judges said: For its clever and deeply-physical political BDSM play – For breaking boundaries between performance, democracy, sex and political activism – for creating a disruptive space for spectatorship, for both the audience we see on the street and the audience we sit along side in the cinema." A big thank you Porny Days Festival!
What a month full of action is november! NO DEMOCRACY HERE will be screened 4 more times in 3 more places:
on Friday 15.11.2019 at the Heinrich-Heine University in Dusseldorf presented by the LesBi Referat AstA, Germany, accompanied by a talk by me called 'Political BDSM and the Pillars of Democracy'. free! all the info here.
At the Porny Days Festival in Zurich, On Friday and Saturday, 29-30.11.2019, where the film will be participating in the short film competition. check out their beautiful website and entire program here.
and – at the always-spectacular-and-mindblowing party Room4Resistance in Berlin, celebrating their 5-year anniversary at Trauma Bar and Kino. I'll be presenting the film and doing q&a. come early! more info here.
two more screenings of NO DEMOCRACY HERE coming up over a single weekend:
On 05-06.10.2019 the film will participate at the 12. Luststreifen Film Festival in Basel, participating in the documentary shorts competition. Full information about the festival's program here.
And – NO DEMOCRACY HERE will also participate at the Scottish Queer International Festival in Glasgow on 05.10.2019, in the 'Some like it Rough' shorts program, at the Centre for Contemporary Arts. full festival program here.
Two great pieces of news for September:
1. NO DEMOCRACY HERE will premiere in Jerusalem on September 4th in Imbala! Info here, and it's constantly being updated. And, as mentioned, it will also be screened at Ars Electronica Festival on September 8th. It will be as a part of the Unfinished Porn program in Stadtwerkstatt, Linz. Full program for the event here.
2. I'm proud to make my dramaturgical debut, working on a performance piece performance piece by migrant sex workers from Vienna's organization Red Edition. It's called 'We Work!' and will premiere in the WienWoche Festival in Vienna on September 23rd. Most up-to-date info can be found here. and it's free. Looking forward!
As promised: info about the upcoming NO DEMOCRACY HERE screening at the PopPorn Festival in Sao Paolo this upcoming weekend! Saturday and Sunday, 18.08 & 17.08 both at 19:00 under the title Pornfilmfestival Berlin Apresenta. No Esponja, Rua Vieira Carvalho 191-192 Andar. More info here.
Also: Watch out for some screenings of NO DEMOCRACY HERE in Palestine-Israel this upcoming September and at Ars Electronica in Linz, Austria at Stadtwerkstatt on September 8th. More info on those: soon.
More exciting screenings for my film NO DEMOCRACY HERE:
1. Finally in Berlin again at the (anti)-csd party Room 4 Resistance/Lecken/Mina on July 26th at Polygon Club. event info here.
2. In Brazil again at the PopPorn festival in Sao Paolo, august 16-18. Watch this space for more info.
In July i'm not performing or showing anything for once. Instead, I'll be recording my first EP!!!!
On August 2st I'll be performing parts of PUSSY in Impulstanz festival, and speaking, and showing my film, as a headliner on a bill dedicated to the topics of sexuality as a performative practice, and sex work, activism and art. here's a link. and a facebook event, which has more in-depth info.
More upcoming screenings for NO DEMOCRACY HERE in June!
Hamburg: the film will be screened at the 35. Kurzfilmfestival Hamburg under the program Labor der Gegenwart1: Pleasure Rebels: Feminism, Sex and Anarchy, on Sunday June 9th at 21:30. full info here
Munich: The film will be screened at Nachtschatten BDSM+Fetisch Filmfest, on Saturday 22.06 at 6pm and Wednesday 26.06 at 8pm. Full info here.
Next Saturday June 1st Berlin will commemorate International Sex Workers' Day (generally celebrated on June 2nd) by a series of events. They will include a Sex Workers' Parade, a finissage to the Objects of Desire exhibition and later on – a Sex Workers' party. I'll be performing my new piece UNIDENTIFIED, about inscribing the new law of forced-registration of sex workers in Germany on your our bodies and histories, at the finissage at the Schwules Museum. Marianne Chargois will also perform 'The Golden Flute". Info about the finissage and performance here. Info about the entire day's program here.
So excited that I'll be coming to London for the first time in years to perform and present my work!! I'll be presenting my film NO DEMOCRACY HERE on friday May 17th – you can get tickets for it here – and I'll be performing PUSSY on Sunday May 19th- you can get tickets for it here. All of it as a part of the Uncensored Festival London, an important event in its own right. See its entire program here.
More exciting spring news:
I got a brand-new mid-length performance coming your way! UNIDENTIFIED is a body-and-text-based performance dealing with the subject of Berlin sex workers' relationship to the so-called 'Whore ID', a new mandatory registration and identification law. Performance examines the sex workers' sites of compliance and resistance to the law. It's a part of the Objects of Desire Exhibition at the Schwules Museum Berlin, running now til June 6th.
The performance premieres Friday April 26th and repeats on Saturday, June 1st. Tickets: here.
I'm very excited that my film NO DEMOCRACY HERE will make its UK premiere at the London Porn Film Festival on April 26th! it will be headlining the "Fierce Femmes" program! A link to the program can be found here, tickets to the event and practical info can be found here and info to the festival in its entirety can be seen here.
Spring is almost upon us and with it – a ton of news about upcoming appearances!
First of: my film NO DEMOCRACY HERE will screen at several festivals. First off: its austrian debut at the 2nd Annual Vienna Porn Film Festival! The film will be a part of the Political Shorts program on April 6th, and I'll be there live to present it! the film is also nominated for Best International Film! program is here.
Next: NO DEMOCRACY HERE's UK premiere at the London Porn Film Festival! Friday, April 26th, as a part of the Fierce Femmes program, which is to be found in its entirety here.
more screenings and performances to be announced soon!
My ever-so-talented musical partner Kalpour just released a video for a song he co-wrote with Breezy called "The Breeze", in which yours truly is also featured. I'm honored to have worked with these talented individuals, plus many more, in the making of this video, which you can watch here.
I'm proud to have my film NO DEMOCRACY HERE be featured at the courageous Pembe Hayat Quirfest: Pink Life Queerfest in Istanbul January 26th, followed by the discussion "A Good Citizen, Elections, A whip". Within the course of the festival I'll be also participating in the talk "Challenges, Chances and Changes" about political performance art with Maria Dolores, Hülya Dolaş and Leman Sevda Darıcıoğlu, at Drama Queer in Tarlabaşı, Istanbul, on Friday 25.01.2019 at 19:00. More screening information follow this link.
Austria, here I come! I'm proud to Present PUSSY in my first ever performance in the country! The performance will take place in Taxispalais Kunsthalle Tirol, as a part of their SEX program. This Friday, 18.01.2019 and free! all details here.
I'm honored to perform in my homeland for the first time in 7 years. My performance PUSSY will be performed for the first time in Palestine-Israel this upcoming Friday December 28th, at the infamous Kabareet. Full details here.
A very last-minute addition: NO DEMOCRACY HERE will be presented for the first time in France at the OnlyPorn festival in Lyon tonight. check out their lovely film and performance program here.
I'm humbled to present WHEN YOU DIED, THE CITY DIED WITH YOU, a performance-reading about my relationship with Tim Stüttgen and Berlin as a threesome. This is a first public showing of material set to become a full-length performance. It is a part of the Minor Cosmopolitan Weekend program. December 7th, 21:45, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin at the Hischfeld Bar. Additional info here
I'm very excited to announce that NO DEMOCRACY HERE will be a part of the International Short Film Competition at the Janela Internacional de Cinema do Recife, Brazil, on November 7-11. See the list of participating films, location and times here.
Get ready for the Berlin premiere of NO DEMOCRACY HERE at the Porn Film Festival! the film will see three screenings in the 'Political Porn Shorts' program: Wednesday 24.10.18 at 12:15, Saturday 27.10.18 at 23:15, and Tuesday 30.10.18 at 22:00, all at Movimento Kino. Tickets here.
On October 10th-14th the 4th Queer Porto Film Festival will take place, and I'm happy to be their special guest! My film NO DEMOCRACY HERE will be screened on October 14th. I'll be performing PUSSY. AN ONGOING PERFORMATIVE RESEARCH on October 12th at Maus Habitos. And I'll be judging the main competition! looking forward to it!
Very proud that my film NO DEMOCRACY HERE has been selected to be screened at the next Berlin Porn Film Festival on 23-28.10.2018. Stay tuned for updates and actual screening times.
I'm happy to announce that my new full-length solo performance PUSSY. AN ONGOING PERFORMATIVE RESEARCH will finally premiere at the KW's MasturBar, as a part of the 10th Berlin Biennale. The performance will show twice, on 26.07.2018 and on 23.08.2018. It's free!! More information on times, my collaborators etc – here and here. More info about Fabiana Faleiro's MasturBar at the Biennale here and here.
A video of my performative-reading of my piece The Benefit of Blindness is now available online, for those who couldn't make it to the extremely successful and sold-out event at Brauni on February 11th, alongside Jackie Walker's play "The Lynching". The video isn't perfect and beginning is cut off, but since the response to it was so overwhelmingly excited, i decided to make the documentation available here.
I'm proud to announce that at long last, my film NO DEMOCRACY HERE will see its world premiere at CPH:DOX festival in Copenhagen. The premiere will take place on March 15th, with two more screenings afterwards and during the festival. More information and tickets here
On Friday February 16th The short film "Embellishments" that I co-created with Benjamin Ramirez Perez will be shown at Lovesome, an art event including films, performances and installations dealing with the theme of love. The event will be in the ex-Australian Embassy in Berlin. More information here.
This upcoming Sunday February 11th I'll be performing a short performative reading "The Benefit of Blindness", opening for Jackie Walker's play "The Lynching" in an evening that will focus on the silencing of poc, arab, non-german and jewish activists in Germany and beyond. Mona Moon and Mohammad Abu Hajar will also perform.
19:00, Braunschweiger Strasse 53-55 Berlin. More info here.
I'm very happy to announce that I'll be performing my hour-long anti-climactic durational piece A BIT OF PEACE twice in the next two weeks:
On Sunday December 3rd at Athens Museum of Queer Arts AMOQA, Athens. Event info here.
On Saturday December 9th at Uferstudios/ ada Studios, Berlin. Event info here and here and here.
And a trailer here.
03.03-20.11.2017 – NOTE – updates needed. missing information.
There's a period of time in which this section hasn't been updated, and during it I've co-curated an exhibition at Berlin's NGBK gallery, exhibited a video performance there, hosted and curated a series of events within the exhibition, and had a film of mine pre-screened at the Chouftouhonna festival in Tunis. I'll try to update this section asap, for archival sake . in the meantime:
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Check out the beautiful photos of my performance last week from Ich Bin Eine Berlinerlin at SO36 which were taken for Siegessäule by Sally B. you can see them here and here, or look at the entire gallery
Very happy to announce my last-minute jump-in to the lineup of the all-female women's day edition of the notorious Ich Bin Ein Berliner event at SO36 this upcoming friday night. I'll be doing a bite-size version pieces from my latest performance TERRORIST SUPERSTARS. Full event lineup is here.
This upcoming International Women's Day I'll be doing one one of 40 (!!!) feminist mini-performances to commemorate feminism and Anna Muelter's 40th birthday. This will take place at Sophiensaele, and it's an open and free event. Full details here.
I'm very proud to present the premiere of my full-length performance TERRORIST SUPERSTARS, which a part of Sodaworks 2016 and is produced with the kind support of the HTZ's Solo/Dance/Authorship MA program. The show will premiere December 11th and 12th at Uferstudios at 8pm. Full program can be found here and here.
I'm performing for the first time in Berlin's Hebbel Am Ufer Theater HAU1. This upcoming weekend Meg Stuart and Maria F. Scaroni are organizing a 5-day collaborative improvisational event CITY LIGHTS. The opening night event, however, is different and will feature researcher Tanya Singer and Myself. I'll be doing a short performance, showing a part of my upcoming film NO DEMOCRACY HERE and hosting a talk about my political and performative strategies.
This Saturday I'll be speaking at Maxim Gorki Theater's Studio R at a 3-day event called Desintegration. ein Kongress about diverse and progressive jewish voices and identity in Germany. I'll be participating in a panel dealing with potential alliances between jews and other minorities. More info about it here. More info about the event here and here.
I'll be performing my piece WATCH ME WORK at this year's La Fete Du Slip festival in Lausanne, Switzerland on March 5th. Check out the full program here.
Happy to announce that the Kickstarter-fundraising campaign for the film NO DEMOCRACY HERE is successfully completed! We started the editing process already, and the film will be hopefully done by April…
Haaretz paper in Hebrew wrote an article about the performance artist and sex worker Queenie Bon Bon and sex work and performance art. In it, i'm interviewed along with Annie Sprinkle and Caoimhe Mader McGuinness. See it here.
At long last I've begun a Kickstarter fundraising campaign to finance the editing and post-production of the film NO DEMOCRACY HERE. Support here!! And watch the great short video too. You have until February 21. I hope to edit in February already.
Pedro Marum wrote a review of the event PORNTUBES: SHARING THE EXPLICIT for the website Furtherfield, which also contains a review of my and PG Macioti's presentation about sex work in the age of the internet. You can read it here.
The full video from the event PORNTUBES: SHARING THE EXPLICIT is now available online, and it includes my and PG Macioti's presentation about the role of the internet in shaping how the sex industry operates today. You can see it here. It's long! our presentation starts at 1:12:20.
Ulf Schleth wrote a review on his blog (in german) of the event PORNTUBES: SHARING THE EXPLICIT, in which PG Macioti and myself presented about the role of the internet in shaping how the sex industry operates today. The entry also contains an audio recording of our presentation, along with the entire panel. You can read and hear it here.
I'm proud to be presenting a joint paper with PG Macioti about the role of the internet in shaping how the sex industry operates today at PORNTUBES: SHARING THE EXPLICIT on October 31st inKunstquartier Bethanien in Berlin. The event is presented by the Disruption Network Lab Berlin.
Shaka McGlotten, an american scholar who's been working on the issue of political drag, has just published an article called THE POLITICAL AESTHETICS OF DRAG on Metropolitics.eu. In it he explains his subject of research through a thorough examination and analysis of my work as a performer.
On october 7th I'll be performing my piece FLIRTING WITH TERRORISM: SURVIVAL TACTICS at Milena Berlin's RAUMumDICHTUNG 4. The event will take place at the unlikely location of Zum Goldenen Hahn in Berlin. Kostja Cello Front will also be performing.
Yesterday i participated in a sex workers' demo against a proposed law that will force all sex workers to register with the authorities, in front of the Ministry for Family Affairs in Berlin, in which i also gave a speech. The media was also there to write about it and to take picture of us, which you can see here and here.
Yony Leyser's film DESIRE WILL SET YOU FREE, in which i also play a small part, will be seeing its world premiere on August 28th at the Montreal Film Festival. Watch this space for information about further screenings.
In addition to my performance at the festival ARE YOU FOR REAL? UMA VIAGEM AFROFUTURISTA DO BLAXPLOITATION AS UTOPIAS QUEER VISUAIS E SONORAS, i'll also be making a book presentation for IN A QU*A*RE TIME AND PLACE by Tim Stüttgen. The book-presentation-event will take place at Galeria Ze Dos Bois on July 9th. It is presented by the Queer Lisboa Festival in Lisbon. You can find an invite for it here.
I'll be performing the piece RUNNING/THE BETTER HALF on a joint performance evening shared with Vaginal Davis at Galeria Ze Dos Bois in Lisbon on July 5th. The evening is a part of the festival ARE YOU FOR REAL? UMA VIAGEM AFROFUTURISTA DO BLAXPLOITATION AS UTOPIAS QUEER VISUAIS E SONORAS which is hosted by the Queer Lisboa Festival in Lisbon. Full festival program can be found here and here.
A video of my presentation ORGANIZING FOR SEX WORKERS' RIGHTS IN GERMANY: STRATEGIES AND CHALLENGES from last month's conference WEAK RESISTANCE: EVERYDAY STRUGGLES AND THE POLITICS OF FAILURE is now online! watch it here, along with all other video presentation from the event.
On June 6th I'll be presenting on the topic of sex workers' struggles in Germany at a panel on stigma- and anti-stigma-oriented organizing, which is a part of the GENDER AND MIGRATION CONFERENCE, held and organized by the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation in Berlin.
I'll be presenting the paper ORGANIZING FOR SEX WORKERS' RIGHTS IN GERMANY: STRATEGIES AND CHALLENGES at a conference called WEAK RESISTANCE: EVERYDAY STRUGGLES AND THE POLITICS OF FAILURE on may 27th at The Institute for Cultural Inquiry in Berlin (ICI). Full conference information can also be found here.
I'm honored to have taken a part in the queer-trans porn short film HELLO TITTY, directed Skyler Braeden Fox and Idan Sagiv Richter. It's out now! First screenings are in Berlin on March 24th and Montreal on March 25th. You can see the trailer here, and check this space for information about future screenings.
I'll be giving a performance-lecture titled QU*A*RE TEMPORALITIES – BEING WITH TIMI, which will be a part of an extended workshop called QU*A*RE TEMPORALITIES, held collectively by myself, Nico Siepen, Margarita Tsomou and Diedrich Diederichsen. The workshop is dedicated to the book IN A QU*A*RE TIME AND PLACE by Tim Stüttgen, and is a part of the conference THINKING TOGETHER: THE POLITICS OF TIME at the Berliner Festspiele.
Buzzfeed did an article reviewing the best of this year's transgender art and culture, in which Tobaron Waxman's exhibition WATCH ME WORK: WOMEN AND QUEER ECONOMIES which featured my performance WATCH ME WORK (and was named after it) from September of this year is prominently featured! read it here.
Caty Simon just did an interview with artist Juniper Fleming about her project Reclamation and (Dis)Atonement for the blog Tits and Sass. Fleming recreates classical art pieces which include a wide definition of sex workers by using modern day sex workers and photographing them. I'm honored to have worked with Juniper, and you can even see the piece in which I'm featured in this article.
Tim Stüttgen's book IN A QU*A*RE TIME AND PLACE: POST-SLAVERY TEMPORALITIES, BLAXPLOITATION, AND SUN RA'S AFROFUTURISM BETWEEN INTERSECTIONALITY AND HETEROGENEITY just came out on the Berlin publishing house b_books, in collaboration with the Royal Danish Academy of Arts and Autonomedia Publishing in the U.S. I'm honored to have taken part in its collective editing process as a part of the Tim Stüttgen Archiv. You can also get it here.
The Institute for Cultural Inquiry in Berlin (ICI) have uploaded a video of Shaka McGlotten's talk THE POLITICAL AESTHETICS OF DRAG in which he brilliantly analyses my work to their servers! you can see it here.
The Global Network of Sex Worker Projects (NSWP) wrote about German sex workers challanging proposals to a new prostitution law, the SEXARBEITS KONGRESS which was held in Berlin last month, and my opening speech in it. You can read it here.
The Rosa Luxemburg Foundation in Berlin has uploaded a video of my public talk with Melissa Gira Grant. You can see it in its entirety on youtube here.
A last-minute change made me the host and moderator of a public talk with Melissa Gira Grant, who's book Playing the Whore has just been translated into german. The talk is in english, tonight at the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation in Berlin.
Alja Lobnik of Radio Student in Ljubljana did a review of the City of Women festival in which my piece WATCH ME WORK is extensively reviewed. read or listen to it here.
American queer scholar Shaka McGlotten is currently working on the topic of political drag, and i'm one of his subjects of research! on October 15th he'll be giving a talk at the Institute for Cultural Inquiry in Berlin called POLITICAL AESTHETICS OF DRAG, which will feature three performers, amongst which is yours truly. The invites are here and here.
Neža Mrevlje of siol.net wrote an article about WATCH ME WORK in slovenian which you can read here
City of Women festival just did a great edited video of my performance WATCH ME WORK at their festival. You can watch it on their website or on Vimeo.
Happy to announce that I'll be performing WATCH ME WORK at this year's City of Women festival in Ljubljana on October 2nd. Info about the performance here and here.
The TAGESSPIEGEL wrote an article about the SEXARBEITS KONGRESS, which extensively quotes from my speech at this event. Check it out here.
I'm giving a talk at the SEXARBEITS KONGRESS in Berlin on September 24th. It's called 'PROSTITUTION – LÜCKEN ZWISCHEN REALITÄT UND ÖFFENTLICHER WAHRNEHMUNG'. For the full program, see here.
The exhibition WATCH ME WORK: WOMEN AND QUEER ECONOMIES in Cologne's BBK Matjoe Galerie will feature my performance WATCH ME WORK and even named the exhibition after it! The exhibition will feature an artist talk with yours truly on September 17th. the performance is at September 24th.
I'll be performing tonight in Berlin at Möbel Olfe at a benefit event for the Peer Projekt by Hydra, a sex workers' project which i co-founded. Details about tonight here.
Haaretz's Moshe Kutner did a feature article on me. It's in Hebrew, it's called ליעד קנטורוביץ מציגה: עבודת מין כפי שהיא באמת. You can see it here.
German Television 3SAT Kulturzeit made my piece WATCH ME WORK a center feature in their review of Kampnagel's 'Fantasies That Matter: Images of Sexwork in Media and Art', festival. It's called 'IMAGES OF SEX WORK'.
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In addition to WATCH ME WORK i'll be participating in Annie Sprinkle's piece 'RITUAL FOR THE WHORES', also to be taking part in 'Fantasies That Matter: Images of Sexwork in Media and Art', a part of Kampnagel's Internationales Sommerfestival on 09.08.2014.
The following morning I'll be joining Annie Sprinkle, Carol Leigh aka Scarlot harlot and Eise Jocson at the festival's closing discussion 'SELF-REPRESENTATION: SEX WORK AND ART WORK'. The full festival program is here.
Very proud to announce that my piece WATCH ME WORK will be featured at 'Fantasies That Matter: Images of Sexwork in Media and Art', a very special part of Kampnagel's Internationales Sommerfestival. The show will take place on 09.08.2014 and more info can be found here.
I'll be giving a lecture titled "USE YOUR BODY LIKE A WEAPON" at the ACC Galerie Weimar today, in which I'll be discussing my work, art and activism. More details here.
I'll be presenting a daylong seminar titled "USE YOUR BODY LIKE A WEAPON" which starts today, in which I'll be discussing my work, art and activism, at the Art Academy of Tromso.
The Forward's Martyna Starosta did a great video-article about me called "AVANT-GUARDE ALIYA TO BERLIN". See it here and here.
Alphanova & Galerie Futura published some documentation from my performance WATCH ME WORK, which happened this past month. Check out the photos here and here.
My performance WATCH ME WORK will be presented at Alphanova & Galerie Futura in Berlin today. It will be followed by a discussion about sex work. More details here.
Tamara Kramer's radio program 'Shtetl on the Shortwave's latest episode 'BERLIN, GYPSY, JEWISH & GAY' is based in Berlin, and it features an interview with yours truly. Check it out here or on the show's itunes episode 35
A presentation of my performance WATCH ME WORK will be featured at Guerrilla Pornfare: Art and the Politics of Porn as a part of Performing Porn (after the computer became boring) event, in }performance space{ gallery in collaboration with CUNTemporary, London.
Presenting on the topic of homonationalism and pinkwashing in Israel-Palestine with Yossi Bartal at this year's Marx is Muss Conference. see also here for the full listings.
My performance of WAS ÜBRIG BLEIBT/WHAT'S LEFT OF… recommended and reviewed by Missy Magazine and Zitty Magazine.
WAS ÜBRIG BLEIBT/WHAT'S LEFT OF… – an installation by Aurora Kellerman and a performance by yours truly about sex work in Berlin will return the Ballhaus Ost for additional showings on April 11, 12 and 14.
Lecturing at the Lafer Center for Gender Studies' Conference "ON POWER AND CHOICE: A CRITICAL DISCUSSION ABOUT THE SEX INDUSTRY IN ISRAEL" at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem on March 6th. As a promo for the event, I was also interviewed at Gabi Gazit's radio program on 103FM in Israel-Palestine.
WAS ÜBRIG BLEIBT/WHAT'S LEFT OF… reviewed by eNtR berlin
WAS ÜBRIG BLEIBT/WHAT'S LEFT OF… reviewed by Neues Deutchland newspaper
WAS ÜBRIG BLEIBT/WHAT'S LEFT OF… – an installation by Aurora Kellerman and a performance by Anita Groschen and yours truly about sex work in Berlin will premiere at Ballhaus Ost on February 1st with additional showings on February 2nd and 3rd.
972 Magazine listed a picture from my upcoming project DEMOCRACY IN ISRAEL (title pending) as one of the leading images from the Israeli Elections Day. See the picture here and here
Selected for a short residency at Berlin's BALLHAUS OST in order to partake in the performance WAS ÜBRIG BLEIBT/WHAT'S LEFT (OF…) in early February. More information to follow.
Speaking at IN BED OFFSCREEN, a panel discussion about sex workers and their relationships with their partners at the 7th PORN FILM FESTIVAL BERLIN.
Performing at MEAT/ING IN THE INTERNET, as a part of the ISRAELI FILM FESTIVAL BERLIN
Speaking at WHY BERLIN?, a panel discussion about artists who moved to Berlin from Israel at the ISRAELI FILM FESTIVAL BERLIN
T he film CONFLICT OF IDENTITY, in which I am featured, will premiere on 29.09.2012 at the Kotti Shop Gallery. The film is a part of the DESIDERATA-Berliner Festtage der Wünsche
Performing at THE LIDO Berlin, as a part of the BERLIN FEMME SHOW.
Annika Bunse of the BERLINER GAZETTE reviewed my performance 'WATCH ME WORK' and the accompanying panel 'COMMERCIALIZING EROS' which were featured on the 2012 TRANSMEDIALE PROGRAM.
so, i found out that my performance 'WATCH ME WORK' has been reviewed by two blogs.
the first is thee blog BELLEZAINTRAMUSCULAR, which belongs to MARIA BALA.
the second is the blog GIRLSWHOLIKEPORNO of maria llopis.


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Kickstarter Launch of Limited Prints Of The Wu Tang Clan
G.O.A.T By Editor Nov 26, 2015
With an archive of 1000's of negatives of analogue images captured over a 20 year span, Eddie Otchere has never abandoned his dedication to the art of analogue. Resisting the urge to click to the digital heels and follow in the footsteps of the crowd, photography as an analogue craft is still his domain.
"Photography is the truth. In its honesty lies its power, and in my hands photography is a marker pen that scrawls my Hip Hop testament on the wall. The exhibition 'The Icons of Wu Tang' is the culmination of a journey through photography, of unlocking shadows trapped on film, then reproduced with ink onto paper."
Photographing the most iconic figures in Hip-Hop from the 90's to present day, Eddie's images remain iconic to the point of having Shepard Fairey take one of his prints of Notorious B.I.G and recreat it into an Obey Giant Poster. Selected by DJ Semtex as one of the featured British photographers in his forthcoming book for Thames & Hudson, the 90's was documented on British soil by Eddie and featured editorially in many leading music magazines. There are few who haven't caught the eye of Eddie's lens and analogue frame and rarely have photographers been able to capture each member of the Wu Tang Clan in this way.
Previously unseen and unavailable, Eddie's collection of portraits of members of the Wu Tang Clan are nothing short of iconic and he's selected a one-off series of just 10 shots from his collection to be made available for a limited time only to purchase and view at his exhibition in March 2016. The photographs are the best examples of film to digital processes.
Launching a Kickstarter campaign for this new exhibition in London, Eddie has drawn together an exciting mix of long-time collaborators and photographic innovators, curated by FilmsNotDead.
The exhibition will feature 10 prints made on Hahnemuhle 308gsm archival paper using chromatic light fast pigment ink and coated in museum grade varnish to encapsulate the image. These images will be printed by award winning master colour printer, Danny Pope, who will be using traditional late 1990s photo printing and scanning processes, Danny has previously printed for Linda McCartney, Eve Arnold and Charlie Phillips.
The 37th Chamber will be constructed within Brixton East using wood sourced from renewable sources and sought locally. The carpenters are specialists in period restoration and will create a 9.5m long and 4m wide chamber.
Making news with the sale of their one and only copy of the Wu-Tang Clan album 'Once Upon A Time In Shaolin' selling at "an undisclosed figure in the millions," according to a statement, the Wu Tang Clan can never be replicated.
Go to Kickstarter to pledge your allegiance to the Wu Tang Clan.
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University of North Texas (UNT), a Carnegie Tier-One Research University, is home to the UNT Center for Consumer Insights and Innovation (CCII) located in the College of Merchandising, Hospitality and Tourism (CMHT). The Center provides a venue for advancing consumer insights through industry and academia collaboration. It does this through objective inquiry, interdisciplinary research, collaborative academic – industry partnerships, and by applying research methodologies from the social sciences, arts, and sciences.
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The Center's Research Lab puts theory into practice through applied research and collaborative academic – industry partnerships. The Research Lab seeks to close gaps in understanding of the consumer journey and the dynamic path to purchase decisions across the retail, hospitality, and tourism industries. The Lab offers a unique environment that brings faculty, students, international visiting research scholars and business leaders together as a team to discover and learn. Collectively, it advances the dialogue that speaks to the contemporary and future challenges and opportunities of consumer insight research.
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Close to Mitaka station, on our way back from the Ghibli Museum (where no photos are allowed inside) we paused for a refreshing tea in a lovely-tiny cat-and-tea themed teahouse we discovered three years ago, on our first trip to Japan.
It was Sakura then, just like now.
The sidewalk is covered with cherry petals that the wind robbed for a last dance from the trees, as if it is snowing a sweet-scented snowflakes. When the dance ends, summer dreams come nocking on the thin windows.
No one knows when did he witness the last dance of cherry petals, but his spirit is till whispering those soft and almost invisible secrets that only a life spent in a teahouse can teach.


Social media can be an effective advertising channel for coworking spaces. It's reliable, cost-effective, and easy to manage, regardless of the size of your business. Here are seven tips for using social media as a successful commercial channel.
If you're going to use social media in any capacity, you need to do it properly. Remember, as a promotional outlet, this will be many people's first impression of your coworking space. So, it's important to make that first impression count.
Make sure you use high quality images of you space. Fill out the location and contact information so people can easily find you and get in touch.
Facebook offers a variety of features, including a 'Find Us' map, opening hours, and contact details to make it easy for your prospects to get in touch. The new chat functionality in Messenger can make it easy to capture prospect information and direct them through to joining.
LinkedIn offers similar options, while Twitter and Instagram allow you to add snippets of info to your bio to inform prospective members.
If you're using several social media platforms, make sure the look and tone is consistent across all of them.
The best way to utilize social media is to be social. As a promotional tool, this is one of the best ways to use social media platforms. Whether that's starting a regular hashtag or creating a Facebook or LinkedIn group, creating active communities is essential for social media marketing.
Coworking spaces attract a diverse range of people from diverse backgrounds. The only thing that connects them is their coworking space. By creating a community that encourages dialogue and interaction, you build up your brand as a coworking space to actively helps its members.
Creating groups for local businesses also acts as a low-cost, low-obligation entry point for prospective new members. They can join an open Facebook or LinkedIn group for free and experience the benefits of joining your coworking space without putting in too much effort. You can then work to capitalize on this initial touch point with further marketing.
Having a community means giving as well as taking. Dedicate a portion of your regular posting to promoting your members and their businesses. Not only does this help your members, it helps you, too.
You can highlight to new prospects that you will advertise their business on your network (a handy extra benefit for them) and provide relevant content to prospective new members who work in the same industry.
Promoting your members also gives you reliable regular content to put out on your social media feeds.
Social media advertising is a huge opportunity for many businesses. In particular, social media advertising is great for highly focused location targeting. This allows you to optimize your ads and maximize your returns by only showing your ads to people in specific areas.
We know that word of mouth is currently the most effective channel for coworking spaces. We also know that most coworking space users formerly worked at home. From this, we can infer that most people who use a coworking space are local to it. This is why local targeting is so powerful for you.
Similar to location targeting, social media advertising allows you focus on specific audience interests. This allows you to target ads for your coworking space to the kinds of people you want, or the kinds of people you know will convert.
This makes social advertising an extremely cost-effective options for coworking spaces. You can target the right people in the right place and reduce the chances of wasting clicks.
If you want to successfully promote your coworking business on social media, it's important to regularly share content that is relevant to your audience. Relevant content offer value to your audience and invests them with a reason to follow you and engage on social media.
That means less self-promotion and more relatable, useful content. The specifics of this will be determined by the market you're targeting, but generally an 80/20 split is best. That's 80% valuable and relevant content to 20% promotional content.
This gives your audience a reason to stay connected to you and increases the chances of them sharing your content and getting your coworking space in front of their peers.
All of the tips above share one common rule: post regularly. The average brand posts an average of eight times per day on Facebook. If you can't post daily, make sure you post consistently. Schedule a time to post and be active and commit to it. When your audience knows when to expect your social media content, they will react better to it.
The other thing to keep in mind is that social media is a marketing channel and point of contact. That means that you have to be timely and responsive on social media. You can manage expectations with effective communication, but the last thing you want to be doing is turning away potential prospects because you didn't respond to them.
Adam Blackford-Mills is the Digital Sales & Marketing Director at MRS Digital. Adam works tirelessly to develop digital solutions that expand online marketing potential for businesses and delivers results. Using innovative and actionable thinking, Adam crafts a unique digital experience for every business.


Gas prices are via the roof and they're not likely to stop rising in the close to future. With gasoline consuming a bigger chunk out of your budget every thirty day period, you're most likely asking your self how you can conserve money on gasoline with out shelling out $25,000 for a brand new hybrid vehicle. In this article, we'll display you how to cut down on your gasoline consumption and save cash. So, keep reading to discover more.
Shopping for new catcher's equipment was not for me, but rather for my team. I needed to upgrade our gear, and although today's catchers often show up to team day with their personal gear, a mentor realizes he will have children with zero to much less than adequate baseball store.
Skill alone will only take you so far. Keep in mind, every pitcher throws 90 in the Display. Each Large League hitter has a particular quantity of batspeed.but you require more than that to be the best you can be at all levels of perform!
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Get a new perspective on the game by springing for some good seats powering the plate and marvel at the extraordinary speed of the pitches and ability of the batters. It's totally really worth it.
There are many kinds of baseball gloves because various positions require a various type of glove. The catcher's mitt. The catcher's mitt requires the heaviest cushioning because it frequently requires the most impact from fast balls. It has shut webbing, a smaller pocket and no fingers. The initial two traits enable the catcher to pick up the ball from the glove quicker with his throwing hand.
Among the most essential point in choosing a baseball glove is to take the size of the fingers with great concern. The basic style of the baseball hitting gloves is that they make a fantastic influence and a distinction to the hands. There has been fantastic development and research taking place in purchase to improvise further the style of hitting gloves.
Of course, this was a disappointment to Invoice, but he continues to push on. He is the writer of four books, all available at Amazon. To this working day, Bill carries on to compete and take the message of baseball to each corner of the world. I admire him simply because even though baseball didn't always embrace him, he has been a genuine credit score to the sport. Bill Lee and baseball, a fifty yr adore affair that continues to this day.


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To accomplish our ambitious goals, we work to educate and influence people into making sustainable choices and decisions, including those who work in business and make decisions around the use of natural resources, and those who work in government and set policy that impacts nature. We work globally at every level—in the field and in the local community, from the halls of government to the global marketplace. One of WWF's strengths is our ability to engage stakeholders—in business, civil society, and academia—in partnerships to devise innovative solutions to the issues that challenge us. Working together with 1.1 million supporters , WWF's partners, projects and experts are making a difference in creating a healthy future for our planet. www.worldwildlife.org
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For over 50 years, the Scottish Wildlife Trust has worked with its members, partners and supporters in pursuit of its vision of healthy, resilient ecosystems across Scotland's land and seas. The Trust successfully champions the cause of wildlife through policy and campaigning work, demonstrates best practice through practical conservation and innovative partnerships, and inspires people to take positive action through its education and engagement activities. The Trust manages a network of 120 wildlife reserves across Scotland and is a member of the UK-wide Wildlife Trusts movement. www.scottishwildlifetrust.org.uk
We had a dream… Gaia, Victor and the hearts of dedicated people had a dream to open a school for underprivileged children in South of India (Puttaparthi). Even though there were a lot of obstacles the dream started to manifest. Over 8 years a magnificent self-sustainable building has been created which nurtures 210 children with free education, uniforms, food and support. The future focus with this project is totally green and in balance with Mother Earth. With this concept in mind it educates the Indian children and whoever interacts with the school.
Hand in Hand was established in 2000 in response to the devastation of a large area in Orissa, a state in the north eastern part of India, caused by a cyclone and by a tsunami. Later the same region was also afflicted by drought and famine as well as by floods. Due to the high demand of humanitarian aid after the first catastrophes, which killed thousands of people and left millions homeless without any local infrastructures, an independent group of people of different nationalities and beliefs created the organisation Hand in Hand. We now have branches of our organisation in Switzerland, Germany, Netherlands and, recently, also in France. The head office of the charitable, state independent and non profitable organisation (NGO, NPO) is in Vienna, Austria. Peter van Breukelen is the President. The non-denominational and politically independent charity organisation Hand in Hand assists the poorest of the poor in the underdeveloped regions of India. Many needy people receive not only medical primary health care free of charge, but also access to educational institutions. Local welfare organisations guarantee through their intervention the continuity of long term projects initiated and financed by Hand in Hand.
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Whether you're new to Bravo! Vail or a seasoned enthusiast, here are a few concert recommendations to consider as you peruse the upcoming season.
Hear all 5 of Mozart's Violin Concertos over two evenings, performed by a true master of the craft.
Two epic pieces, one hugely influential composer.
Prokofiev's soul-stirring score illuminates the greatest love story of all time.
Young talent brings an admired Mozart score to life.
Heroism and hubris coincide in this testament to the human experience.
Dive into the action headfirst through John Williams's legendary score.
Unwind and relive the finest in classical jazz with a night of old standards.
A celebration of movie music brings new magic to familiar big screen hits.
Bramwell Tovey leads a musical tribute of the charismatic Cole Porter.
Boundary-defying musicians set up in Vail Village to create a truly original experience.
Take a break from your day with a free, hour-long chamber music concert performed by the Festival's renowned musicians.
The Grammy-winning ensemble Third Coast Percussion showcases the remarkable depth and scope of new music in this three-concert series.
This series features acclaimed artists including two of the most in-demand ensembles in the world today: Takács Quartet (July 9) and St Lawrence String Quartet (July 16), plus Yefim Bronfman in a solo piano recital (July 22).
Boundary-defying musicians set up in Vail Village to create a truly original experience. Hear vibrant performances, from classical pieces to innovative contemporary works and cutting-edge premieres, in a casual, intimate venue.
Take a break from your day with a free, hour-long chamber music concert performed by the Festival's renowned musicians. These programs offer a wide variety of repertoire, and are held in beautiful and unique community venues throughout the Vail Valley.


Wading through all of the SQL Server memory-related perfmon counters to understand how they related to each other took me a really long time. Time-series graphs that show the relationship help me tremendously, and when I started trying to account for SQL Server memory years ago I couldn't find any. So I started to blog some time-series graphs, under the theory that either my understanding was correct and my graphs would be helpful to someone... or they'd be wrong and someone would correct me.
Working with SQL Server 2016 and some demanding ColumnStore batch mode workloads, I began to see suspicious numbers, and graphs that didn't make sense to me. Today I got pretty close to figuring it out so I wanted to share what I've learned.
The following graphs are from a 4x10 physical server running Windows and SQL Server. Four sockets, 4 NUMA nodes.
Perfmon has SQL Server "total" memory numbers for each SQLOS memory node, in addition to the instance-level measure. The sum of "total node" memory across the nodes should be equal to the instance measure of "total server" memory. That checks out.
Database cache, free memory, and stolen memory report measures at the instance level and at the SQLOS memory node level. Let's check out the instance measures first. The sum of these categories should be "total server memory". That checks out, too.
Now, since we've got instance measures of database cache, stolen, and free memory at the SQLOS memory node level as well, we can check whether they sum to "total node memory" on their respective nodes.
Not to be left behind, SQLOS node 000 also shows an unexpected graph.
OK. So either some memory is being counted multiple times... or some memory is being lost by the SQL Server memory manager and not reflected in "total node memory" and "total server memory". Maybe I can narrow down the problem space.
Lets start by looking at Free Memory.
That graph above looks pretty good, even though it is pretty volatile. Lets zoom in a little bit just to make sure. The graph below makes me pretty confident - the node level "free memory" measures and the instance level "free memory" measures are aligned.
OK, since free memory accounting seems to agree between SQLOS nodes and the instance level measure, lets look at database cache. The graph below shows that the instance measure aligns nicely with the node measures.
That leaves just Stolen Memory. Take a look at the graph... and... yep, there's the problem. Or at least there's a problem.
Having seen that Stolen Memory and only Stolen Memory indicates a discrepancy between the instance measure and the sum of the node measures, lets consider again the memory position on SQLOS memory node 002. The sum of free + stolen + database is nearly 50GB greater than total node memory for an hour! When there is not much stolen memory in that SQLOS memory node at all!!
Now what if I sum database cache, stolen and free memory across all 4 SQLOS nodes and subtract the instance-level Total Server memory? Lets lay that - in transparent red - on top of the blue we just graphed.
So here's what I think is happening: in some cases of batchmode queries, a portion of memory is getting double-counted. Its counted in one SQLOS memory node as "database cache" and in another memory node as "stolen memory"!! That leads to the discrepancy seen here for instance and memory node measures - in stolen memory, and in total memory.
At this point i'm not sure if this represents a performance and scalability problem, or if it just masks some problems by making memory state and trends more difficult to accurately observe. When i learn more about this, i'll blog an update post and link the two together.


TRIALIST forward Ben Wilkinson impressed on his debut for York City Reserves with two goals in a 2-1 victory over Sheffield United's second string.
Wilkinson, the son of former Leeds United boss Howard, is on the books of Hull City, but the Tigers have given permission for the youngster to play two trial games for the Minstermen.
He netted the first goal of last night's KitKat Crescent clash in the 17th minute, latching on to a throughball and lobbing Blades 'keeper Jamie Anderson.
United equalised on 51 minutes through Matt Lowton's header, but Wilkinson sealed the points with a powerful shot from 15 yards on 59 minutes.
New signings Jimmy Beadle and Simon Rusk played 90 minutes, along with trialist Ipswich Town defender Michael Synnott.
City Reserves' clash with Hartlepool at KitKat Crescent has been switched to Wednesday, March 5, kick off 7pm.
Meanwhile, the Minstermen are still awaiting a response from Northwich Victoria over switching their Setanta Shield fifth round tie at KitKat Crescent from Tuesday, February 5 to Tuesday, January 29.


An astronomic amount of wood would have been required to fuel the cremation fires at the Operation Reinhard death camps of Treblinka, Belzec, and Sobibor.
Evidence shows that the wood calculations made by Holocaust deniers are too high, in part because they are based on an unrealistic weight for the remains of murdered victims.
What do specific Holocaust deniers say about the supposedly lack of wood?
The self-named "Denierbud," an American Holocaust denier and YouTube video maker, calculated that the Nazis needed one half billion pounds of firewood to burn the estimated 600,000 remains at Belzec.
Carlo Mattogno, an Italian Holocaust denier, calculated that the cremations at Belzec would have required an "astronomic" 96,000 tons of wood! He claims that the mass cremation would have required 19,000 trucks or over 3,800 freight cars full of wood. No one ever saw such a convoy of trucks or such long lines of trains filled with wood.
How did Mattogno and Denierbud calculate the wood that was needed?
Mattogno and Denierbud each conducted their own amateur cremation experiments. Denierbud burned 12.5 pounds of leg of lamb on a beach bonfire and Mattogno used a backyard grill to cremate several pounds of beef.
First, it should be noted that something is wrong with one or both of these experiments. The difference between their figures is so large—anywhere between 6 and 24 pounds of wood required to incinerate 1 kilogram of meat. One—or both—must be incorrect from the outset.
Denierbud claims the Germans would have needed to use 500,000,000 pounds of wood to burn the remains at Treblinka. However, later in the same video, he changes the figure, cutting it in half (250,000,000 pounds). This type of inconsistency becomes of a staple of Denierbud's so-called calculations moving forward.
Later, Denierbud's calculations, presented as a graphic in his video "One Third of the Holocaust," come out to 450,000,000 pounds of wood, but he arbitrarily rounds the figure up to 500,000,000. That is a very liberal "rounding up"—it represents a full 10 percent of the final figure of 500,000,000 pounds. It is so liberal in fact, that the more accurate amount of wood needed to incinerate the remains of 1,400,000 Jews in all three camps is less than just the amount Denierbud added (50,000,000 pounds).
The inconsistent speculations of Denierbud can be dismissed.
How much did the average body weigh?
There are several reasons why Mattogno's figures are wrong, but the most important is his overestimation regarding the weight of an average body. Mattogno assumed that an average body weighed 46 kilograms (101 pounds), but does not explain how he selected that figure. Because he overestimates the average body weight, he also overestimates the amount of wood needed to incinerate a body.
We have evidence about this matter. Kurt Gerstein, the SS man who saw a gassing at Belzec, recorded that he saw about 700 people (about half of who were children and infants) murdered in a gas chamber that measured about 5 by 5 meters (about 16.5 feet by 16.5 feet). Gerstein estimated that the average weight of the victims was about 35 kilograms (77 pounds).
Charles Provan, a self-admitted skeptic of the Holocaust, decided to test Gerstein's observation for himself. He built a plywood box with a base area of 21 inches by 21 inches. The box had one glass side, two plywood sides, one open side and an open top.
First, Provan found that two young adults (27 and 34 years old), one woman in her seventies, and four children could fit into the box without difficulty. All of the people wore their regular clothing and all were able to breathe normally. Three children (aged 6, 4 and 2) sat down at the adults' feet while the older child (8 years old) and the three adults stood. One of the adults held a doll in place of an infant. Provan—concerned that no one would believe him—took pictures.
Second, when Provan weighed his participants he found something even more interesting. The average weight of the seven human beings and the doll representing a baby was 33.25 kilograms (about 73 pounds). The two adult men weighed 63 and 62 kilograms, the older woman weighed 49 kilograms, the four children weighed 25, 26, 19 and 15 kilograms. He estimated the baby/doll's weight as 7 kilograms.
Provan's participants were well-fed Americans, not half-starved, naked Polish Jews who were of generally smaller stature than the average American. Provan's average weight results (33.25 kilograms, or 73 pounds) are much closer to Gerstein's observations (35 kilograms, or 77 pounds) than that of Mattogno's (46 kilograms, or 101 pounds).
First, one-third of the remains were brought straight from the gas chambers and weighed on average about 35 kilograms (77 pounds).This figure is realistic because half of the remains were those of children and infants.
Second, two-thirds of the remains incinerated on the grills had been dug up after being buried for several months. A woman's body contains about 50 percent water; a man's body about 60 percent water; and a child's body as much as 73 percent. The exhumed remains would have been dried skin and bone with a loss of about half their original weight. This lowers the average weight of the remains dug up from the mass graves from 35 kilograms (77 pounds) to about 14 kilograms (31 pounds), based on an average of about 60 percent water and the fact that about half were children and infants.
Thus, it is reasonable to conclude that the average weight of all the remains was about 25 kilograms (35 kilograms plus 14 kilograms divided by 2), or about 55 pounds.
Mattogno's calculations for wood usage are too high, in part because his calculations are based on an average body weight of 46 kilograms (101 pounds). In reality, the average weight of the remains—taking into account that about half of the victims were children and infants and that some were dried skin and bones—was about 25 kilograms (55 pounds). Denierbud's speculations do not deserve further comment.
 "One Third of the Holocaust" at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taIaG8b2u8I at approximately 3:08 minutes.
 Carlo Mattogno, Belzec in Propaganda, Testimonies, Archeological Research, and History (Theses & Dissertations Press, 2004), p. 85 at http://vho.org/dl/ENG/b.pdf.
 "One Third of the Holocaust" at approximately 3:02 to 3:09 minutes and Carlo Mattogno, "Combustion Experiments with Flesh and Animal Fat" at http://www.vho.org/tr/2004/1/Mattogno64-72.html.
 "One Third of the Holocaust" at 3:08 minutes.
 "One Third of the Holocaust" at 3:08 and 3:23 minutes.
 Carlo Mattogno, Belzec in Propaganda, Testimonies, Archeological Research, and History (Theses & Dissertations Press, 2004), p. 85.
 The pertinent part relating to Gerstein's observation of a mass gassing at Belzec can be found at http://www.deathcamps.info/testimonies/Gerstein.htm.
 Charles D. Provan, "Kurt Gerstein and the Capacity of the Gas Chamber at Belzec (Appendix: Statistics and Calculations of the Gas Chamber Capacity Experiment") at http://holocaust.skeptik.net/documents/provan_gerstein.html.
 Roberto Muehlenkamp, "Carlo Mattogno on Belzec Achaeological Research—Part 4(2)" at http://holocaustcontroversies.blogspot.com/2006/05/carlo-mattogno-on-belzec_28.html.


Suspended University of Maine hockey player Ryan Lomberg skates through wet spray on the ice at Fenway Park in Boston in this picture.
BANGOR, Maine — A suspended University of Maine hockey player is expected to plead guilty Monday at the Penobscot County Judicial Center to a disorderly conduct charge in a plea agreement with the district attorney's office.
Ryan Lomberg, 19, of Richmond Hill, Ontario, is not expected to appear in court. His attorney, Peter Cyr of Portland is expected to enter the plea in connection with an April 26 off campus incident on Lomberg's behalf.
Lomberg was scheduled Aug. 4 to appear in court in Bangor. That hearing was continued until Monday, according to the Penobscot County district attorney's office.
Orono police began an investigation that led to Lomberg being charged with disorderly conduct and assault after a man came to the station April 27 and reported he had been in an altercation with Lomberg the evening of April 26 at a Summer Street residence, Orono Police Chief Josh Ewing said in May. Ewing said the alleged altercation between Lomberg and the victim began over a previous dispute about a dog that belonged to a mutual acquaintance.
Ewing told the Bangor Daily News that Lomberg allegedly knocked the man to the floor and kicked him in the face and midsection before he was pulled off the victim. He added that the man suffered a broken nose and concussion before he went to Eastern Maine Medical Center on his own.
In exchange for his guilty plea to the Class E crime, a Class D assault charge will be dismissed, according to Brendan Trainor, assistant district attorney for Penobscot County. Lomberg will pay a $1,000 fine. He has paid $252.62 in restitution to pay the victim's medical expenses not covered by insurance.
He was suspended from the team and other UMaine activities in May after the charges were filed. Rich McKenna, assistant general manager of the Muskegon (Michigan) Lumberjacks of the United States Hockey League, said last month they have traded Lomberg's rights to fellow USHL team the Lincoln (Nebraska) Stars.
The trade indicated Lomberg is contemplating leaving the UMaine program or could be permanently removed from the team, so he is looking for a place to play next season, according to a previously published report.
Lomberg is not listed on the 2014-15 UMaine roster on the institution's athletic website.
If he transfers to another Division I team, he would need to sit out one year, as mandated by NCAA transfer rules. After one year in the USHL, which is a Junior-A amateur league, he could still play college hockey.
Lomberg faced up to six months in jail and a fine of up to $1,000 on the disorderly conduct charge. On the assault charge, he faced up to a year in jail and a fine of up to $2,000.
BDN writer Larry Mahoney contributed to this report.
Correction: A previous version of this story reported that Lomberg had pleaded guilty to charges against him. He has not yet pleaded guilty, but is expected to.


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Kuladipamangalam - Village
Tamil Nadu Viluppuram Mugaiyur Kuladipamangalam
State - Tamil Nadu District - Viluppuram Block - Mugaiyur Local Language - Tamil
About Kuladipamangalam village
Kuladipamangalam is a village placed in Mugaiyur Block of Viluppuram district in Tamil Nadu. Positioned in rural part of Viluppuram district of Tamil Nadu, it is one among the 84 villages of Mugaiyur Block of Viluppuram district. As per the government register, the village code of Kuladipamangalam is 633105. The village has 872 homes.
Population of Kuladipamangalam village
According to Census 2011, Kuladipamangalam's population is 4029. Out of this, 2046 are males whereas the females count 1983 here. This village has 464 children in the age bracket of 0-6 years. Among them 241 are boys and 223 are girls.
Literacy rate of Kuladipamangalam village
Literacy rate in Kuladipamangalam village is 56%. 2271 out of total 4029 population is educated here. Among males the literacy rate is 65% as 1343 males out of total 2046 are literate while female literacy rate is 46% as 928 out of total 1983 females are educated in this Village.
The dark portion is that illiteracy rate of Kuladipamangalam village is 43%. Here 1758 out of total 4029 individuals are illiterate. Male illiteracy rate here is 34% as 703 males out of total 2046 are illiterate. In females the illiteracy rate is 53% and 1055 out of total 1983 females are illiterate in this village.
Agricultural status of Kuladipamangalam village
The count of employed person of Kuladipamangalam village is 1775 whereas 2254 are un-employed. And out of 1775 occupied individual 139 peoples are totally dependent on farming.
Kuladipamangalam's Members & Followers


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Homelessness affects every single country and is spreading with impunity – New UN report
GENEVA (3 March 2016) – Homelessness is a fact of life in all countries of the world, regardless of the level of development of their economic or governance systems, and it has been spreading with impunity, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to housing, Leilani Farha, warned today during the presentation of her latest report* to the UN Human Rights Council.
"Widespread homelessness is evidence of the failure of States to protect and ensure the human rights of the most vulnerable populations," Ms. Farha said noting that it is "one of the least examined consequences of persistent inequality, unfair distribution of land and property and poverty occurring on a global scale."
In her report, the Special Rapporteur examines how homelessness is caused by States' failures to respond both to individual circumstances and to a range of structural causes, abandoning responsibility for social protection and allowing unregulated real estate speculation and investment to exclude a growing number of people from any form of housing.
"Homelessness is a result of State acquiescence to real estate speculation and unregulated markets — a result of treating housing as a commodity rather than as a human right," the independent expert stressed.
"The common denominator in virtually all structural causes of homelessness is government decision making inconsistent with human rights," she said. "This has left millions of people subject to a violation of rights to life, health, housing, equality and non-discrimination, among others."
The Special Rapporteur pointed to the social stigma, discrimination, violence and criminalization experienced by those who are homeless. From individuals sleeping on the streets, to families in makeshift dwellings, Ms. Farha's statement to Council highlights the urgency of fighting the invisibility of the issue.
The expert urged all governments to recognize homelessness as a human rights crisis and commit to eradicating this global phenomenon by 2030, in line with the new UN Sustainable Development Goals.
"States must address the root causes of homelessness by establishing national strategies anchored in human rights and the right to adequate housing. We have been silent and have failed to tackle one of the most pervasive violations of human rights, but our lack of action can make us complicit," she underscored.
The Special Rapporteur noted that 2016 can be a catalyst for the discussion on homelessness as the global community starts implementing the Sustainable Development Goals and prepares for Habitat III (the world Conference, on housing and sustainable urban development).
(*) Check the Special Rapporteur's report: http://ap.ohchr.org/documents/dpage_e.aspx?si=A/HRC/31/54
Ms. Leilani Farha (Canada) is the UN Special Rapporteur on adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living, and on the right to non-discrimination in this context. She took her function in June 2014. Ms. Farha is the Executive Director of the NGO Canada without Poverty, based in Ottawa, Canada. A lawyer by training, for the past 20 years Ms. Farha has worked both internationally and domestically on the implementation of the right to adequate housing for the most marginalized groups and on the situation of people living in poverty. Learn more, log on to: http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Housing/Pages/HousingIndex.aspx
The Special Rapporteurs are part of what is known as the Special Procedures of the Human Rights Council. Special Procedures, the largest body of independent experts in the UN Human Rights system, is the general name of the Council's independent fact-finding and monitoring mechanisms that address either specific country situations or thematic issues in all parts of the world. Special Procedures' experts work on a voluntary basis; they are not UN staff and do not receive a salary for their work. They are independent from any government or organization and serve in their individual capacity.
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North American MS-DOS cover art
Stuart Whyte
Stephen Goss[1]
Programmer(s)
Bill Barna
Annette Bell
Nick Thompson
Drew Northcott
Matthew Knott
Alkis Alkiviades
John Broomhall
MS-DOS, PlayStation, Windows
June 1995 (DOS)[2]
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1998 (Windows)[3]
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X-COM: Terror from the Deep is a strategy video game developed and published by MicroProse for the PC in 1995 and for the PlayStation in 1996. It is a sequel to UFO: Enemy Unknown (X-COM: UFO Defense) and the second game of the X-COM series, this time taking the war against a renewed alien invasion into the Earth's oceans.
1 Gameplay
3 Development and release
Gameplay[edit]
X-COM: Terror from the Deep takes place mostly underwater, with base-building and combat all being submerged beneath the waves. This is also used as a plot device; all of the alien technology from the first game is unusable in salt water, forcing the player to capture and develop new technology.
Just like UFO: Enemy Unknown (X-COM: UFO Defense), the game consists of two parts. The first is the real time-based GeoScape, a global view of Earth where the player views alien and X-COM craft and bases, can hire and dismiss staff, buy and sell vehicles, weaponry, ammunition and items, and build and expand bases. The second part, the BattleScape, is used for combat between squads of aliens and humans, and takes the form of a turn-based battle from an isometric view.
Underwater battles use the same physics as the ground ones but certain weapons cannot be used on surface/land missions. The game features some mission types composing of multiple parts, such as alien shipping route terror attacks in which the first part is a battle of the upper floors of the ship while the second part takes places in the lower decks of the ship (all parts must be completed for these missions to be successful, and soldiers lost in previous parts do not appear in later parts). Aside from lengthy multi-part missions, map layouts are more complicated, there are several types of terror missions, and weapons carry fewer rounds in their magazines.
Difficulty levels were markedly increased compared to Enemy Unknown. A part of the reason for the enhanced difficulty is that players complained of the first game being too easy, however MicroProse were unaware that this was due to a bug that resulted in it reverting to Beginner mode in the released version. A new feature added in TFTD was melee weapons, thanks to feedback from the players who suggested the idea.
Plot[edit]
Terror from the Deep is set in 2040, four decades after the events of Enemy Unknown. Following the destruction of the alien Brain on Cydonia, a transmitter remained active there which awakened a group of aliens under the Earth's seas who had lain dormant for millions of years. After awakening, the aliens proceed to terrorize seagoing vessels and port cities, kidnapping humans to perform bizarre genetic experiments on them. X-COM, which had been disbanded after the first alien war, is revived by the Earth's governments to fight this new menace as the aliens' ultimate goal is to reawaken their supreme leader, a being that cannot be stopped once revived.
Eventually, it is revealed the aquatic aliens, cousins of the Sectoids from Enemy Unknown, came to Earth on a massive spacecraft, known as T'Leth, that crashed into what is now the Gulf of Mexico 65 million years ago, causing the extinction of the dinosaurs. Destruction of T'Leth by the player results in victory but also accidentally results in another worldwide environmental cataclysm, destroying the ecosystem of Earth and setting the stage for the third game in the series, X-COM: Apocalypse.
Development and release[edit]
MicroProse wanted the developer Mythos Games to make a sequel to Enemy Unknown in six months. Julian Gollop felt that the only way to do so was to change the graphics and make minor changes to the gameplay. Eventually, MicroProse licensed Mythos' code and their internal UK studio created Terror from the Deep within a year, while Mythos Games began developing the next sequel, Apocalypse.[4]
MicroProse artist Terry Greer recalled: "A decision was made to use the original engine, reskin the graphics and create a whole new story. By keeping changes to the absolute minimum a sequel could be created in just a few months. Also, by not inventing any new game features or game technology it would make the scheduling one largely led purely by asset creation – which makes it whole lot easier when it comes to estimating task durations and scheduling."[5] Simultaneously with making the console port of Terror, MicroProse UK also began work on their X-COM: Alliance project.
X-COM: Terror from the Deep was originally released on 1 June 1995 for the PC DOS. It was ported to the PlayStation in 1996. In 1998, a Windows 95 port was released with Enemy Unknown as part of the X-COM Collector's Edition.[3] On 4 May 2007, the game was distributed on Steam by 2K Games, who has inherited the franchise (first only for the Windows XP, but a later update which enabled Windows Vista support).
The game has been re-released as part of the compilations X-COM Collector's Edition by MicroProse in 1998, X-COM Collection by Hasbro Interactive in 1999, X-COM: Complete Pack by 2K Games in 2008 and 2K Huge Games Pack in 2009. The fan-created OpenXCom project, originally an improved, modernized remake of the first game, also added TFTD support which fixed a number of bugs and programming oversights in the original game, including better enemy AI.
GameSpot 7.2/10[6]
Next Generation [10]
PC Gamer (UK) 92%[7]
PC Gamer (US) 82%[8]
PC Zone 94%[9]
Together with its predecessor, UFO: Enemy Unknown, Terror from the Deep's sales had passed 1 million copies by March 1997.[11] The game was received mostly very well by critics. PC Gamer UK called it to be "not only a great sequel to UFO but a superb game in its own right."[7] On the other hand, GameSpot stated that "apart from new art and a handful of new combat options, this is exactly the same game as UFO Defense, only much more difficult."[6] Next Generation felt the same: "In the end, X-COM 2 is still a phenomenal game, and has been scored as such, but it seems so much more could have been accomplished to make this game more than just a carbon copy of an old game."[10]
Julian Gollop criticised MicroProse for "some classic mistakes in turn-based games, which is to make the difficulty too tough and the levels too big, long and tedious to get through."[12] According to Jake Solomon, the lead designer of 2012's XCOM: Enemy Unknown, MicroProse did few new things with the sequel "except made it brutally harder and made the cruise ships four times longer than any human could realistically make," yet still the game "was awesome."[13]
Sources[edit]
X-COM Terror from the Deep: The Official Strategy Guide by Dave Ellis, ISBN 0-7615-0074-X.
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I had an encounter with wild parsnip (Pastinica sativa) Identification Key September 4th in the field by the parking lot for Chickering Bog, at the corner of Lightening Ridge and George roads in Calais VT.
Not knowing much about this plant, I had contact without knowing I had brushed it. I know a lot more now. Not everyone is so sensitive.
It contains furocoumarins which cause phyto-photo-dermatitis or plant-sun-skin inflammation. When you get the plant juice on you, the rash does not begin until it is activated by sunlight. In my case I was not aware I had contacted the plant and went out the next day (Sep. 5th Labor Day) and got lots of sunshine. A couple spots started to develop that day. I'd also had time to spread the juice further around my body with contact on my clothes, hands, camera case , steering wheel etc.
The photos will tell a thousand word story. The rash continued to get worse over 9-10 days. I took a short course of Prednisone augmented by various herbal treatments topically and internally. I will not be specific as you should contact your health care professionals. Treatment is for 2nd degree burns and is not the same as for poison ivy although there may be some overlap.
I also do not have enough praise for our local herbalists who have a wealth of knowledge and experience. I highly recommend cultivating and utilizing this branch of health-care options.
Please note that if you have a serious reaction and it gets in your eyes, there is a risk of blindness.
I am including photos of the plants around the area mentioned above. The plants shown are on the road but you can see others in the field. Also, at the time of contact the plants were seeding and mostly brown on top with green stems. Obviously still quite potent. I have not see a lot of this plant around, but I would highly recommend becoming familiar with it. It seems to be restricted to open fields and road-sides. The upside is that learning to identify even a single new plant enhances your relationship with habitat in manifold ways.
These are the best websites I found with more information and photos of various stages of growth.
If humankind is to recover its balance on the Earth I'm convinced that it will require a profound rekindling of our collective love for and intimacy with nature. It is, of course, impossible, despite our best efforts, to separate ourselves from nature; it is writ in our DNA. However, we have gone very far down the road of denial and exploitation.
About two years ago I was invited by some dear friends to attend a family day at EarthWalk which their son attends. I was very taken with the program and was honored to be invited to participate as an elder. I was never told what the qualifications for being an "elder" are, but from my side, coming away from each visit filled with kinship and a smile on my face are all I need.
Much has been written about the benefits of immersing children in wild nature. My hunch is that most people still view the idea as an amendment to real life. To me, regular, near daily immersion in nature is as essential as food.
EarthWalk is exactly the kind of program necessary to rekindle the tinder of Earth-based knowledge, skill and community, so that we may yet again walk in balance.
The Village School program is for ages 7-12 with kids attending one day a week through the school year. The Teen Land project is for ages 13-17, again with one day a week attendance. There are a variety of summer programs, including mentor training.
The following five photos show the Village School ritual Drum-stalk in which three groups are blindfolded, led to a distance and make their way blindfolded, individually and silently, to a drum-beater who is stationary in an undisclosed location.
As I approach the Fitch-Robert sugar-house, steam rolling out the vents; earth, wood, water, fire, metal and humans are working in concert and I hear gentle conversation coming from within. I bid greetings to Judy and Bernard and am glad for a warm welcome from them and the arch (fire-box) on a crisp sunny day. Sugaring demands steady concentration, and at times quick action, so I try to stay out of the way, as they watch carefully, making fine-tuning adjustments as the refinement from sap to syrup evolves. Bernard and Judy's sense of humor is infectious and we talk and joke, always with half an eyeball on the pans, and frequent checks of the specific gravity.
Later, in a less demanding moment, we sit while the arch murmurs peacefully with a constant exhalation of steam, punctuated by engaging or comic stories from Stan.
The local sap gathering ended about a week ago for the Fitches, as temperatures reluctantly refused to go below freezing, shutting off the sap flow, at least for bucket collecting practicality. Alternating freezing nights with above freezing days is a key element to sap flow. It was a short season, getting a late start, as winter hung on by its frosty claws. The sugar season endures for a year in the gallons of ambery bliss stored in our cellar and tippled out until next March.
There are a few hold-outs, in our locale, to the old-timey bucket and gather method of collecting the sap, with straightforward boiling hardware. The Fitches have have done this going back to 1907.
I happened to chance by one day when wood was being moved into the sugar house. A line of family and friends formed and Renée, Liam and Luca found that moving smallish chunks through the air added a flair of excitement to the rhythm.
Can you spot the two sticks in mid-air?
The modern Maple way involves kilometers of unsightly tubing, reverse-osmosis gizmos, vacuum equipage and all manner of hands-off efficiencies. Far be it from me to critique any sugarers' means of livelihood in these lean times but for shear earthy pleasure (at least from this dilettante's perspective) I'll take the home-spun way that has served the Fitch-Robert family for a century.
Eyesore, remaining all year long.
The only thing that I would add this year is what an unpredictable and at times challenging winter it's been so far. The first two photos below are from mid-December's ice and frozen- clinging-snow storm resulting in huge power losses but incomparable beauty over five or six days.
The other photos are from years past. My other challenge so far was a bout of allergy to our Christmas (Solstice) tree, a Balsam Fir, which subsequently morphed into a wicked head/chest cold. I guess I just wasn't giving it enough respect. I shall henceforth try harder…..


If you are in upstate New York around Woodstock and area this weekend, check out Garry Kvistad's Drum Boogie Festival, a part of the Byrdcliffe Festival of the Arts. Drum Boogie is scheduled for Saturday at 4 PM (a concert of world class percussionists playing world class music) and Sunday at Noon (a very cool kid's instrument building workshop for ages 5-12). Both are in the Byrdcliffe Barn, Upper Byrdcliffe Road in Woodstock. Go to www.drumboogiefestival.com for ticket information. The Saturday concert is called "Garry and Friends" and will include the drummer from the Saturday Night Live Band, Broadway's Lion King Percussionist, Native American Drummers and Singers, POOK and members of NEXUS (including a performance of a Steve Reich piece on new instruments that Garry built for this event.) On Sunday, David Laks will conduct a Kid's Instrument Building Workshop (ages 5-12.) A great weekend event in beautiful Woodstock, NY.


Kanye West shared the news that he's finally completed the "best album of all time."
The celebrated rapper took to Twitter on Sunday to share the good news that his long-awaited album, Swish, was done, along with a photo of a handwritten track list.
"So happy to be finished with the best album of all time," Kanye humbly captioned the list of song titles hastily scrawled on a legal document.
His sister-in-law, Kylie Jenner, was on hand in the recording studio as well. She managed to add "Kylie was here" to the important document (which will no doubt go down in music history for its association with the "best album of all time"). Kanye's wife, Kim Kardashian, and sister-in-law, Kourtney Kardashian, also stopped by the studio, according to a series of selfies Kourtney took and labeled #SWISH.
Noticeably absent from the track list are a number of songs Kanye previously said would make it on the album, including "All Day," "Only One," and "FourFiveSeconds." So it's likely this list isn't comprehensive, or some songs have changed titles.
Swish is set to drop Feb. 11, 2016, so it's a good thing he's wrapping it up with plenty of time to spare.
When he's not busy recording the "best album of all time," Kanye spends his days not being a part of the Illuminati. Check out the video below to hear the 38-year-old rapper explain how he's not a party of the shadowy secret organization.


Last week we were introduced to the excellent Citadel BBS groupware and messaging server. In my needlessly humble opinion, Citadel is a great choice for the majority of users who need a groupware and messaging server. It's easy to fling up a working server in a few minutes for a small home network, and it scales up nicely for business. It has no unnecessary bells and whistles, is easy to administer, and easy for your users. It is standards-compliant, and you can use any standards-compliant email, PIM, and IM clients with it. You get full functionality with the Web interface, and Citadel supports a complete text interface as well, which will please your valuable geekbeards who can type accurately faster than other people can think.
We're going to walk through setting up some basic LAN server functions: setting up rooms and floors, user management, e-mail and mailing lists, shared document folders, and creating RSS feeds.
Floors are the basic units of organization. Citadel comes with two default floors, Main and the 2nd floor. The Main floor includes a Lobby, Global Address Book, and Trashcan. The 2nd floor has no default rooms. It does not appear on the Rooms page until you create a room in it. You can change their names in the Administration menu and add as many rooms to them as you like, and there is a setting that controls if empty floors are visible. Only Aides, who are the same as server administrators, can create and manage floors.
As soon as you make any changes an Aide room is created on the Main floor. This is actually a system log that records all activity. It is visible only to Aides. The Global Address Book by default is also restricted as "Private - invitation only". These settings are controlled in the Advanced menu. To make changes to a room, first enter that room and then hit the Advanced button. For a LAN server you probably don't need to be as finicky with access controls as an Internet-exposed public server, or a Citadel server that shares with other Citadel servers. In any case, Citadel lets you get as finicky as you want.
Users can self-register, or you can restrict it so that new users must be added by the Aide. Users have seven access levels: Deleted, New user, Problem User, Local User, Network User, Preferred User, and Aide. Network User (4) is the default, which of course you can change to whatever level you prefer. New Users are read-only and cannot post messages. Local Users can read and write to the local server, but not on shared Citadel servers. Network Users have access to shared Citadel servers. Preferred Users are a special category for you to use however you like; for example, you can set room access or send invites to Preferred Users only.
Citadel users are automatically added to the Global Address Book. You might want to set it to read-only to prevent mischief. Aides have access to everything, and users can update their own information from the Advanced menu.
Nobody makes "collaboration" (sorry for the buzzword) as easy as Citadel does. Users can create and control rooms without you having to lift a finger. The Administration -> Edit site-wide configuration -> Access tab controls how much power ordinary users have. If you enable "Automatically grant room-aide status to users who create private rooms" then they won't have to pester you for every little thing. Room aides have nearly complete control over private rooms, but can only create new public rooms. One thing you can't do is enforce which floor users can create rooms on; you'll just have to rely on time-honored old tools like rules and nagging.
If you don't want all users to have room-creation powers, you can set your chosen ones to Preferred User (5) level, and then on the Administration -> Edit site-wide configuration -> Access tab set the "Access level required to create rooms" to Preferred Users.
Citadel honors the BBS tradition of not deleting problem users, but merely diverting their messages to a "twit" room. Reduce their access to Level 2 and everything they post will go to the Trashcan. You can change the name to Twitroom, if you like.
The My Folders view is for users' personal data and mail. You can't do anything to this.
Getting a local e-mail server going is so easy you'll tip over with happiness. You don't have to lift a finger, because Citadel users are automatically set up with local e-mail. To send e-mail to them just open your Mail page, click Write Message, and pluck your recipients from the Contacts link. Use Ctrl+left-click to select multiple recipients one at a time, or Shift+left-click to select a range of recipients.
What if you want to create a distribution list? No sweat. Create a new room, which can be private or public, then go into the Advanced menu and click Edit or delete this room -> Mailing list service. From there you can add your contacts from any Citadel address book you have access to. Most of us are used to building distributions lists from inside our contact lists and address books, so this takes a bit of getting used to. There is one big advantage to Citadel's way: it's a lot harder to accidentally send to the wrong list. Ordinary users must have room-aide status to create mailing lists.
Shared files must be stored in directories in /usr/local/citadel/files/. Create a new room or add file sharing to an existing room in Advanced -> Edit or Delete this room -> Configuration. Check File directory room, and enter the directory name. For example, if your shared directory is /usr/local/citadel/files/photos, enter photos in the Directory name box. If you want to allow users to upload files you'll have to make the directory world-writable, so it's not what you would call super-secure. Users who want to exchange files with a limited number of other users, such as their own working group, can make it a private, password-protected fileshare.
Again, it's super-easy. You can create a new room, or add feeds to an existing room. Enter the room, go to Advanced -> Edit or delete this room -> Remote retrieval, enter the feed's URL and click add. Over at Uncensored! they use the sensible scheme of having a special floor for RSS feeds, and each room gets one feed. The default update frequency is one hour, which is set in Administration -> Edit site-wide configuration -> Network, "Network run frequency (in seconds)".
We've just scratched the surface of what Citadel can do: Internet e-mail for multiple domains, integration with Spamassassin and other mail filters, smarthosts, LDAP integration, and distributed Citadel networks. Be sure to disable any Citadel services you don't need, and consult the excellent administration manual to learn about all these things, plus database maintenance and system backups.
Article courtesy of Enterprise Networking Planet, originally published April 14, 2008.