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25 million people in California face ‘life-threatening’ fire warning
Powerful winds that fueled fast-moving wildfires across Southern California this week are expected to pick up momentum on Thursday –– worsening conditions for firefighters who are already battling limited visibility to save lives.
The National Weather Service issued a Red Flag warning until 6 p.m. Thursday – which is used to describe “extreme and life-threatening fire behavior.” The warning is expected to affect 25 million people in Southern California and the greater San Francisco Bay area.
Earlier this week, forecasters warned conditions appear concerningly similar to those responsible for “some of the worst fires in Southern California history.”
All schools in Ventura County, northwest of Los Angeles, have been closed through Friday due to the fires.
Here’s the latest:
Ventura County’s Mountain Fire expanded in size on Wednesday after powerful Santa Ana winds came into contact with very dry air. The blaze is now moving at a “dangerous rate of spread,” Ventura County Fire Chief Dustin Gardner said at a news conference Wednesday, burning agricultural fields and hedgerows in the area.
At least 800 firefighters and 58 fire engines have been deployed to contain the Mountain Fire on South Mountain. It has been unsafe for helicopters to operate, Fire Captain Trevor Johnson said in a news conference.
Footage obtained by CNN from the town of Camarillo Hills shows orange embers searing through trees and homes late Wednesday, with structures barely recognizable and many burned to the ground.
Officials haven’t determined the number of structures that have been damaged. In a statement announcing Federal Emergency Management Agency support for fire rescuers, California Gov. Gavin Newsom estimated roughly 3,500 homes, structures, and businesses have been affected by the Mountain Fire.
At least two people have been transported to the hospital with possible smoke inhalation, fire officials said.
As of Thursday morning, California’s Department of Forestry and Fire Protection estimated the Mountain Fire has burned at 14,148 acres with 0% containment. More than 14,000 people remain under evacuation orders, according to the Ventura County Sheriff’s Office.
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/27-million-people-california-face-084852519.html
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https://www.convergemedia.org/the-history-of-porn/
THE HISTORY OF PORN
So how did we get here?
It seems that it started, surprisingly, in the infamously repressed context of 18th and 19th century England. In an era famous for being scandalized at the sight of women’s bare ankles, the pornographic novel flourished. The first and most famous of these is John Cleland’s Fanny Hill, published in 1748. Full of extremely graphic sex scenes, it scandalized the public, was quickly banned, and was obviously a huge success. By 1837, when Queen Victoria took the throne, there was a bustling pornographic book industry, with upwards of 50 smut shops on Bookseller’s Row in London.
Once photography and videography were invented, pornographers were among the first to get in on the new technology: the first pornographic film was made by the Frenchmen Eugène Pirou and Albert Kirchner in 1896. However, despite growing in popularity, pornography continued to be widely viewed as something disgusting and sinful, and was enjoyed only in secret. Adding to this was the fact that publishing or distributing pornography was illegal in most countries.
For it to even begin to reach the cultural acceptance it enjoys today, pornography had to wait until the 1950s and the advent of the mainstream porn magazine, especially Playboy.
The magazine was first released in December 1953 and was an immediate success. By 1959, Playboy had a circulation of over one million subscribers. It sold an image to the readers of themselves as “Playboys” — men who were rich, sophisticated, and most importantly, not tied down by any one woman.
This idea was a direct rebellion against the Leave It To Beaver, three-kids-two-cars-and-a-house-in-the-suburbs, family-centric culture of the 1950s, and it was led by men who felt that their prospects for a fulfilling life were being curtailed by women, especially their wives.
Instead of being tied down and restricted, the ideal Playboy was the ultimate consumer. He had the best of everything: scotch, watches, cars, clothes, and of course, women. Hugh Hefner himself, the founder of Playboy, said that “Playboy is a combination of sex…and status.”
It’s important to note that, even at this early juncture, the rise of pornography was inextricably linked to an idea of women which viewed them as a burden to be cast off, or at best, nothing more than another product to be consumed.
Hard on the heels of Playboy came Penthouse and Hustler, two magazines that both competed with and capitalized on Playboy’s success. These magazines, especially Hustler, pushed the limits of what could be shown in a mainstream magazine. The story of how Playboy, Penthouse, and Hustler competed to outsell and out-sleaze the other is a long one, and there isn’t enough space to tell it here, but the long and short of it is that, as Gail Dines says in Pornland, “by the time the Internet was introduced into homes, the culture had been well-groomed to accept pornography as a part of everyday life rather than as an industry that produces a system of images that debase and dehumanize women and men.”
In the nascent days of the web, porn was (unsurprisingly) one of the first things to be shared, and as the web has grown, porn has grown right alongside it. Recently, one of the internet’s biggest porn sites even put up an ad in Times Square.
The story of porn’s explosive growth ought not to come as a surprise: we are a sinful people and will continue to seek new ways to satisfy our selfishness. Nonetheless, it is amazing to see how far porn has come since the days of the papyrus pornographers, or even of Fanny Hill.
We now live in a culture where, far from being scandalous, porn is seen by many as simply a normal part of life, or at worst, a slightly distasteful distraction. Porn stars are becoming mainstream celebrities, and movies like 50 Shades of Grey are bringing violent and exploitative porn-sex right onto the big screen.
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Fanny Hill
Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Fanny_Hill
Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure—popularly known as Fanny Hill—is an erotic novel by the English novelist John Cleland first published in London in 1748.
Who is John Cleland
John Cleland (c. 1709, baptised – 23 January 1789) was an English novelist best known for his fictional Fanny Hill: or, the Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure,whose eroticism led to his arrest.James Boswell called him "a sly, old malcontent".[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cleland
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The full moon in November 2024 will be on Friday, November 15 at 4:28 PM Eastern Time (1:28 PM Pacific Time). This full moon is known as the Beaver Moon and will be the fourth and final supermoon of 2024.
Beavers build dams
watch the water
Scripted.