If I recall my Arthurian legends, the children of nobility were "fostered" by other families as a way of creating political bonds. The fostered child was considered a blood relative, so much so that marrying a foster-sibling was considered incest.
Children from multiple families were fostered out, in a round-robin fashion. Children were sent out, and the same family would take in another child. Bonds between several families were strengthened as a result.
Upper nobility would often secretly foster out the heir in an attempt to protect the child from danger from rival factions. A bonus to this was the child would be raised in a lower-class family, and not know his true station, resulting in a more humble ruler.
In recent years there was a program that paired Israeli and Palestinian children to spend a summer together in an American home. It was a bid for a more peaceful future.
You know, it doesn't surprise me that it's a woman who's wearing the hat; Women are routinely told to "smile!", and we're told we're bitches when we don't.
Now if we don't smile, we get a metal spike in the back of the head.
I'm really hoping Lauren McCarthy is making a statement about how society expects women to be welcoming, congenial, and friendly.
Axe ad: Massive FAIL. Oh, it fails so hard. So very, very hard. I *am* one of those patriarchy-blaming, hairy-legged feminazis, but I wasn't before I saw this ad.
Now I think I'll go take a whiff of the stuff at the store so I can recognize it, and verbally smackdown the next man who approaches me wearing it.
No. Yosemite does NOT mean "They are killers". Yosemite is an Anglo bastardization of various Miwok words. The original name of this valley, according to the Miwok people was "Ahwahnee", place of the gaping mouth. It has yet to be resolved whether it refers to the shape of the valley, or the expression on the faces of visitors upon their first view.
Greg H--this isn't about male to female ratios in the blogosphere; We're talking quality of writing, and even though some of the best blogs are written by women, they are passed over in news articles in favor of male bloggers of less quality.
Chad; So, being featured in a local free 'zine aimed at a very narrow market is the same as getting exposure in a national news article? "Skirt" Charleston is aimed at women. Of course it will feature female bloggers.
I live and work in Yosemite National Park. My photoblog includes images of the Sierra Nevada and will shortly include images of the Telegraph fire just outside the park.
The credit needs to go to Darren, not the camera. See this: http://regex.info/i/WTD95.jpg
But yeah, that is one hell of a camera!
Children from multiple families were fostered out, in a round-robin fashion. Children were sent out, and the same family would take in another child. Bonds between several families were strengthened as a result.
Upper nobility would often secretly foster out the heir in an attempt to protect the child from danger from rival factions. A bonus to this was the child would be raised in a lower-class family, and not know his true station, resulting in a more humble ruler.
In recent years there was a program that paired Israeli and Palestinian children to spend a summer together in an American home. It was a bid for a more peaceful future.
Edie
http://500px.com/photo/864268
Just sayin'.
Steve is a ranger here in Yosemite as the official videographer; you can follow him on Twitter as @yosemitesteve.
Edie
Now if we don't smile, we get a metal spike in the back of the head.
I'm really hoping Lauren McCarthy is making a statement about how society expects women to be welcoming, congenial, and friendly.
Bugger that for tuppence.
Now I think I'll go take a whiff of the stuff at the store so I can recognize it, and verbally smackdown the next man who approaches me wearing it.
http://thehive.modbee.com/?q=node/259
HTH, HAND and feel free to delete this coment once the article is corrected.
Edie
Frequent Flyer at Fred's.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathy_Sierra
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/detail?blogid=19&entry_id=14783
Greg H--this isn't about male to female ratios in the blogosphere; We're talking quality of writing, and even though some of the best blogs are written by women, they are passed over in news articles in favor of male bloggers of less quality.
Chad; So, being featured in a local free 'zine aimed at a very narrow market is the same as getting exposure in a national news article? "Skirt" Charleston is aimed at women. Of course it will feature female bloggers.
How then, do waters become known?
I have a good friend who worked on the collection, and you can see his flickr stream with more images here: http://flickr.com/photos/remusshepherd/