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Night Photography
2007-01-03 21:46:06
The six photographs I submitted for the 'night photography' assignment in my course.====night photography; photos; photography; incurable hippie.
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Result!
2006-12-28 09:42:01
I emailed The World Tonight:I listened to your programme yesterday evening in frustration. Please stop referring to the women killed in Ipswich and Suffolk as 'girls'. I presume this is because they are in prostitution but there is no need for this patronising and offensive term. These are not children, they are women. Please call them that..They replied:Dear Ms Willitts, Thank you for your email and your interest in The World Tonight. There has been a lot of discussion among both our editorial teams and our audiences about the use of language in relation to the murder victims in Ipswich. As a whole, BBC News decided they should be described as 'women' on first reference and where relevant we also say they worked as 'prostitutes' or were 'sex workers'. 'Girls' is clearly inappropriate and we have reminded reporters and presenters to avoid this description when they have done so. Thank you again for your email and your interest in The World Tonight. Yours sincerely, Alista...
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Result!
2006-12-28 09:42:01
I emailed The World Tonight:I listened to your programme yesterday evening in frustration. Please stop referring to the women killed in Ipswich and Suffolk as 'girls'. I presume this is because they are in prostitution but there is no need for this patronising and offensive term. These are not children, they are women. Please call them that..They replied:Dear Ms Willitts, Thank you for your email and your interest in The World Tonight. There has been a lot of discussion among both our editorial teams and our audiences about the use of language in relation to the murder victims in Ipswich. As a whole, BBC News decided they should be described as 'women' on first reference and where relevant we also say they worked as 'prostitutes' or were 'sex workers'. 'Girls' is clearly inappropriate and we have reminded reporters and presenters to avoid this description when they have done so. Thank you again for your email and your interest in The World Tonight. Yours sincerely, Alista...
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Nearest Book Meme
2006-12-25 09:40:02
I was tagged by v at reSISTERance:apparently this works by:1. Get the nearest book in your reach and turn to page 123.2. Go to the fifth sentence of that page.3. Copy the next three sentences, then tag three people.He spent his days making me tapes and writing love letters. He spent the family's money developing the photographs we had taken and telephoning England long-distance. At the airport, his big hands pressed against the glass.from Strangeland by Tracey EminI tag: McBeth, Anne and Yehovah Yireh.---Technorati tags: book meme; tracey emin; incurable_hippie; books; memes.
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A few days' catch-up.
2006-12-25 09:40:02
You may be able to download most of the Christmas CD I made for last year. It may equally not work, I've no idea. Do let me know.I've had a stressed and not entirely pleasant week, but with a few high points. Including bumping into, and hearing from, several people who I thought were totally lost from my life years ago. So, so good.Things to read:Maggie O'Kane investigates violence against prostitutes - while I don't agree necessarily with her conclusions, she tells us some useful and disturbing facts, figures and information.Marksman called in to kill Kingston's Pigeons - not for the article itself (fascinating though it is), but for the most fabulous string of comments below. Love it.Ministers deny it, but the truth is out there my Mary O'Hara, about the cuts to mental health services, and how they have been disproportionately affected.Things to see:150 worst album covers, discovered thanks to slow afternoon.Special mention to Heino, there.The 29th Carnival of Feminists - ma...
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Who are the mad ones?
2006-12-18 21:36:03
So, the news is that £7 million is going to be cut from the budgets of mental health services in Sheffield. To 'balance the books', of course.Losing 1/4 of the inpatient beds doesn't sound like a good plan to me. I intend to never be an inpatient on a psychiatric ward again, and I wouldn't wish it on others, but the wards are always chock full and people on 'leave' come back to the ward to find their bed has gone to someone else. Admission over. People who may want or need to be on a ward already can't always get a bed. And by my calculations, a quarter of the beds means one of the four acute wards. Closing one ward within two years, when all four are virtually always overfull, is ridiculous.And, as if it wasn't ridiculous enough, Proposals include reducing the number of hospital beds for mental health patients by a quarter, whilst at the same time delaying investment in community-based services intended to avoid expensive treatments such as hospital admissions.So, get rid o...

You Can Get Anything on Ebay.
2006-12-15 09:33:01
I had to take a screen shot of hippie blog when I saw this in my right side column. How fucked up is that?! I'm not a huge fan of ads on my blog but for various reasons they're there at the mo. Clicks get me minute amounts of pennies. Kind of. But buying battered women on ebay? Fuck.---Technorati tags: screen shot; incurable_hippie.
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Googlebomb Gains?
2006-12-13 21:31:02
Maybe this googlebomb business works. Two of my most recent referrers were the first pages of search engine results for Britney Spears crotch shot:and www.free extreme porn:You'll notice on the second one that we've got an anti-porn essay in the top ten results as well. Shame that in between hippie blog at #8 and the essay at #10 there's a forum for incest porn.The link there is of course to my post, not the fucked-up forum. As many links to the porn post as possible will only help. If you want to see, or join in the porn googlebomb, do it here!Enough links already?!---Technorati tags: free porn; porn; incurable_hippie; pornography; anti-porn; Britney; googlebomb; porn googlebomb; feminism.
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Terror on our streets
2006-12-13 15:30:01
From The GuardianThe Ipswich murders have raised disturbing parallels with the Yorkshire Ripper case, writes Julie Bindel Wednesday December 13, 2006The GuardianThe news barely registered at first - just a passing story in a local newspaper. The naked body of a woman had been found in a brook in Ipswich, Suffolk, on December 2. Her name was Gemma Adams. She was 25. She had been working as a street prostitute. Few seem to have been too worried by this story - apart from those who loved Adams, of course, and the other women left working on the cold Ipswich streets. Many people still wrongly believe, just as they did during the hunt for Peter Sutcliffe (the so-called Yorkshire Ripper) that men who harm and kill women in prostitution are no danger to "respectable women". The reasoning goes that these killers simply have a pathological hatred for prostitutes, despite the overwhelming evidence that they have a pathological hatred for women in general.It wasn't until it emerged that a fr...
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Ipswich.
2006-12-12 21:28:01
Two more women have been found dead in Ipswich. This is a fucking emergency.They haven't confirmed yet that it is the two prostituted women who were reported missing, but it is looking likely.Where are we? What can we do?And why are the police telling women not to go out at night. Let's actually put a curfew on men going out at night. Any men out in the dark are suspected of wrongdoing - for a while at least - NOT any women out at night are asking for trouble.If men can't be trusted to not be mass murderers, let's keep *them* inside, not us.Angry? Yes.(yesterday's post).Murder Police Find Two More Dead - BBCTwo more bodies have been found by police investigating the murders of three prostitutes.A woodland area around the village of Levington, near Ipswich, in Suffolk has been sealed off by officers.Police said it is likely the two bodies are those of two missing women - Paula Clennell and Annette Nicholls.The area is close to where the body of Anneli Alderton was found on Sunda...

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2006-12-12 09:27:02
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Women On a Continuum.
2006-12-12 09:27:02
Possibly four prostituted women have been murdered in the last few days. Two women were found naked in the same stream, one woman was found in woodland a few miles away, and a fourth woman has not been seen since Saturday. from the BBC.Police have appealed to prostitutes to stay off the streets of Ipswich after three women were found dead and a fourth reported missing from the town.The naked bodies of Gemma Adams, Tania Nicol and a third woman have been found near the town in the past eight days.Suffolk Police said they were now looking for prostitute Paula Clennell, 24, last seen late on Saturday.Assistant Chief Constable Jacqui Cheer urged women, particularly in the party season, not to go out at night alone.'Come home together'In a direct appeal to prostitutes, she said: "Please stay off the streets, if you are out alone at night you are putting yourself in danger."We are coming up to the party season and up to Christmas."There will be groups of women going out and I would say ...
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Bits and Bobs and Campaigns and Carnivals and Poles and Phot
2006-12-07 21:25:02
hippie blog has been mentioned in the 12th Carnival Against Sexual Violence. There are some amazing and inspiring links from that post which you should read. Now!Also, I want to draw your attentionto an anti-lads' mags action from Stormy. I'm definitely going to take part, not least for the sneaky photographing involved ;)From The Guardian's Northerner:A Polish restaurant in Sheffield, meanwhile, has been basking in akind of fame it could never have expected. The Polonium restauranthas been doing a roaring trade ever since it became apparent thatAlexander Litvinenko was poisoned with Polonium 210. The SheffieldStar reported the restaurant's fame in its diary column and has sincewatched the story go round the world."Polish TV and newspapers want to fly me and my wife Jolanta out therefor interviews," the owner Boguslaw Sidorowicz told the Star. "Thestory has really caught people's imagination. It's unfortunatebecause someone has died, but the story has made it a veryinteresting...
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Chesterfields for Christmas!
2006-12-04 09:22:01
See more disturbing vintage ads!---Technorati tags: vintage; vintage advertising; incurable_hippie; smoking.
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Recipe Exchange.
2006-12-02 15:19:09
This is a recipe exchange. Here's the deal. You post a comment to this entry, with a recipe for me. Ideally something simple, cheap and very tasty. You also include your blog URL in the comment, then reproduce this text in your blog and I will reply to your post with a recipe also.Have fun, hope you get some great recipes!---Technorati tags: Recipe Exchange ; recipes; incurable_hippie.
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A Petition For You to Sign
2006-12-02 15:19:09
We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to stand on his head and juggle ice-cream.Sign atures: 403If he's not going to resign, the least he can do is provide us with some entertainment.---Technorati tags: petition; anti-Blair; incurable_hippie.
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"I tend to think that if God wanted us to believe ...
2006-12-02 15:19:09
"I tend to think that if God wanted us to believe in him, he'd exist"Linda Smith.---Technorati tags: quotation; quotes; incurable_hippie; religion.
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I'm not ok.
2006-12-02 15:19:09
The horrible realisation that in only 3 weeks time, it will be the first anniversary of my Dad's death.It's a real, physical pain in my chest and it hurts like nothing else.I read last night in a novel that the only things humans need to survive are water and hope. I think when the doctors told Dad that they couldn't make him better, his hope evaporated and that was that. I think that's why it was so much quicker than anyone had thought.I miss him always. I'm doing a photography course, using his camera. It makes me feel closer to him, but it adds to the pain when each and every week there are more things that I need to tell him. Snippets of info and tips and facts. Same with my OU short course. There's so much in there that he'd love to know. And that I can't ever tell him.I don't know how many times a day I scream inside my head, 'I want him back'. And I do. I cry so often, nearly always alone, and missing him seems to get bigger the longer it is since I saw him. I stil...

Quiet Just Now...
2006-12-02 15:19:09
My Quiet Just Now list in my blog roll to the right was getting ridiculously long. It's where I list blogs I have once read and loved, but which closed or stopped or faded or disappeared or flitted.The list will now live in this post. For the foreseeable future, links may be added again to the right side bar, to be merged into one post again later should that become necessary.But the list, up to now, is:QUIET JUST NOW le blog de Tryo A Frenchman in England Albion: mes tribulations outre-Manche Rob Manuel 1 maZine Wherever You Are mercuryfern Little Brown Dress Journal Got Scurvy? The Black Dove amhainn The Blackboard Jungle Demob Happy Teacher Nahdendee The Girl Behind Election 2005 blog from the Guardian 2Queens Just Zip It The Lefty Directory M.J.'s Blagh Blagh Blagh My Karma Just Ran Over Your Dogma Don't Bomb Us - a blog by Al Jazeera staffers Dolly Dimple 3 Dolly Dimple 2 Blog...

Alas, a Bastard.
2006-12-02 15:19:09
So alas, a blog (I won't do him the dignity of providing a link), a supposedly pro-feminist male, has sold out to pornographers. Great.See Fuckery and Betrayal, Alas, a sell-out, The Revolution will be Commodified, No, really, I'm a feminist, Alas, an eruption, alas, a blog, sold out to pimp my ride and many, many, many more.You probably don't want to see what he has done, but if you do an example is here. Needless to say, he has been 'de-linked' from my right sidebar. I don't want to be partial to funding any of this shit by links from hippie blog.What is it they call men who profit from women's sexual exploitation? Oh yeah, a pimp.---Technorati tags: anti-porn; angry; incurable_hippie; sell-outs.
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It's really bloody cold.
2006-12-02 15:19:09
Gabcast! incurable hippie's musings and rants #2 ---Technorati tags: audio; audio blog; incurable_hippie.
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Happy 60th Birthday
2006-12-02 15:19:09
Woman's Hour. Here's to 60 more (and a bit more politics please)...Woman's Hour is great. There are the odd, predictable, whining complaints along the line of 'Why can't we have a Man's Hour?'. Well, the other 23 hours of the day are Man's Hour, ok? Deal with it!Anyway, a good proportion of Woman's Hour listeners are reportedly men, so maybe there is some hope.---Technorati tags: woman's hour; radio 4; incurable_hippie; bbc; women.
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Audio Audio. Test.
2006-12-02 15:19:09
Gabcast! incurable hippie's musings and rants #1 ---Technorati tags: audio; audio blog; incurable_hippie; test.
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Misjudging Rape
2006-12-01 06:55:05
Launch of: Misjudging rape A Dossier of how adjudicators (now known as immigration judges) flout international law and even their own guidelines when they consider the asylum claims of women and girls seeking safety and protection from rape. Tuesday 5 Dec 2006 6.30pm Hosted by Ian Macdonald QC at Garden Court Chambers 57-60 Lincoln?s Inn Fields, London WC2 Nearest tube: Holborn Speakers
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Photo Friday: Light
2006-12-01 06:55:05
100b2840 Originally uploaded by incurable_hippie. Photo Frida y . Fireworks, taken at the weekend on Bonfire Night. --- Technorati tags: Photo Friday; fireworks; incurable_hippie; photography; Guy Fawkes; Bonfire Night.
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Photo Friday: Accidental
2006-12-01 06:55:05
Photo Frida y --- Technorati tags: Photo Friday; photography; incurable_hippie.
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To the Woman in the Opticians
2006-12-01 06:55:05
who made me feel shit. You might have been feeling all superior in your pretty, spot-free thinness, but that is no reason to make me feel utterly dreadful about how I was looking. Your job is to sell glasses, and yet you decided instead to tell me how little each of the pairs I tried suited me, resulting in me not only not buying any, but also in me feeling unpresentable to the point of wanting
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Photo Friday: Destruction
2006-10-15 20:06:02
Originally uploaded by incurable_hippie. Photo Frida y : Destruction ---Technorati tags: Photo Friday; destruction; incurable_hippie; photography; Claywood Flats Sheffield; Sheffield; demolition; nibbler; building demolition by nibbler.

Photo Friday: Thin.
2006-10-12 01:09:02
Thin rays of light beamed through the narrow slats of shutters.Photo Frida y : Thin---Technorati tags: Photo Friday; photography; incurable_hippie; thin.

Photo Friday: Anger
2006-10-04 06:24:02
Photo Frida y : Anger 100_0407 Originally uploaded by incurable_hippie. ---Technorati tags: Photo Friday; photos; incurable_hippie; anger; Park Hill flats; Park Hill, Sheffield.
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