Male nude posters plaster Vienna, draw complaints

TO GO WITH STORY BY GEORGE JAHN - AUSTRIA NAKED MEN - In this picture taken Oct. 18, 2012 two persons pass a poster with naked men in Vienna, Austria, Thursday, Oct. 18, 2012 Poster reads: Naked Men. It's raining men - naked men of all sizes and shapes- as a prestigious Vienna museum kicks off a show of male nudity. But outside the exhibition, organizers are being forced into cover-up mode after a storm of complaints that posters splashed across the city advertising the art are offensive. Entitled ?Naked Men from 1800 to Today,? the Leopold Museum opened its doors Friday Oct 19, 2012 to a display showing how artists dealt with the theme of male nudity over more than two centuries. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)

TO GO WITH STORY BY GEORGE JAHN - AUSTRIA NAKED MEN - In this picture taken Oct. 18, 2012 two persons pass a poster with naked men in Vienna, Austria, Thursday, Oct. 18, 2012 Poster reads: Naked Men. It's raining men - naked men of all sizes and shapes- as a prestigious Vienna museum kicks off a show of male nudity. But outside the exhibition, organizers are being forced into cover-up mode after a storm of complaints that posters splashed across the city advertising the art are offensive. Entitled ?Naked Men from 1800 to Today,? the Leopold Museum opened its doors Friday Oct 19, 2012 to a display showing how artists dealt with the theme of male nudity over more than two centuries. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)

TO GO WITH STORY BY GEORGE JAHN - AUSTRIA NAKED MEN - In this picture taken Oct. 18, 2012 a poster with naked men is on display in Vienna, Austria, Thursday, Oct. 18, 2012 Poster reads: Naked Men. It's raining men - naked men of all sizes and shapes- as a prestigious Vienna museum kicks off a show of male nudity. But outside the exhibition, organizers are being forced into cover-up mode after a storm of complaints that posters splashed across the city advertising the art are offensive. Entitled ?Naked Men from 1800 to Today,? the Leopold Museum opened its doors Friday Oct 19, 2012 to a display showing how artists dealt with the theme of male nudity over more than two centuries. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)

TO GO WITH STORY BY GEORGE JAHN - AUSTRIA NAKED MEN - In this picture taken Oct. 18, 2012 a poster with naked men is on display in Vienna, Austria, Thursday, Oct. 18, 2012 Poster reads: Naked Men. It's raining men - naked men of all sizes and shapes- as a prestigious Vienna museum kicks off a show of male nudity. But outside the exhibition, organizers are being forced into cover-up mode after a storm of complaints that posters splashed across the city advertising the art are offensive. Entitled ?Naked Men from 1800 to Today,? the Leopold Museum opened its doors Friday Oct 19, 2012 to a display showing how artists dealt with the theme of male nudity over more than two centuries. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)

TO GO WITH STORY BY GEORGE JAHN - AUSTRIA NAKED MEN - In this picture taken Oct. 18, 2012 a cyclist passes a poster with naked men in Vienna, Austria, Thursday, Oct. 18, 2012 Poster reads: Naked Men. It's raining men - naked men of all sizes and shapes- as a prestigious Vienna museum kicks off a show of male nudity. But outside the exhibition, organizers are being forced into cover-up mode after a storm of complaints that posters splashed across the city advertising the art are offensive. Entitled ?Naked Men from 1800 to Today,? the Leopold Museum opened its doors Friday Oct 19, 2012 to a display showing how artists dealt with the theme of male nudity over more than two centuries. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)

TO GO WITH STORY BY GEORGE JAHN - AUSTRIA NAKED MEN - In this picture taken Oct. 18, 2012 two women pass a poster with naked men in Vienna, Austria, Thursday, Oct. 18, 2012 Poster reads: Naked Men. It's raining men - naked men of all sizes and shapes- as a prestigious Vienna museum kicks off a show of male nudity. But outside the exhibition, organizers are being forced into cover-up mode after a storm of complaints that posters splashed across the city advertising the art are offensive. Entitled ?Naked Men from 1800 to Today,? the Leopold Museum opened its doors Friday Oct 19, 2012 to a display showing how artists dealt with the theme of male nudity over more than two centuries. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)

VIENNA (AP) ? Naked men of all sizes and shapes are appearing on Vienna kiosks as a prestigious museum kicks off an exhibit of male nudity.

But outside the exhibition, organizers are being forced into cover-up mode after a storm of complaints that the ad posters are offensive.

In a show titled "Nude Men from 1800 to Today," the Leopold Museum opened its doors Friday to examine how artists have dealt with the theme of male nudity over the centuries.

"Mr. Big" ? a four-meter (more than 12-foot) high full-frontal photo mounted on plywood and depicting a naked young man in an indolent sprawl ? is set up near the show's entrance, lest there be any doubt what visitors are about to see.

Inside, around 300 art works are on display ? including the controversial photograph that is raising the ire of Viennese. Created by French artists Pierre & Gilles, "Vive La France" shows three young, athletic men of different races wearing nothing but blue, white and red socks and soccer shoes.

No visitors were complaining Friday as they filed past that photo and even more graphic examples of male nudity, including some depicted in sex acts.

"I've seen worse on late-night TV," said Franz Steiner, 27, as he left the show.

Not so in the city. Posters of the three men were given impromptu fig-leafs ? lines of red tape covering their private parts.

The complaints clearly caught the museum by surprise. Vienna's turn-of-the-century decadence allowed erotic artists such as Egon Schiele and Gustav Klimt to flourish, and has turned these days into complacent acceptance of displays of the flesh. Today, lingerie ads are racy and one popular daily paper regularly features pictures of half-naked women.

Vienna's public transport system reacted laconically earlier this week to reports that a young woman on a downtown subway line was dressed in nothing but knee-high boots.

"We know that everyone has a different temperature comfort zone," the agency said in a statement. "But we do not think that our subways are so warm that one has to get undressed."

But there seems to be less tolerance for shows of male nudity. Museum officials say they received a flood of complaints by last week, mostly from outlying districts heavily populated by new immigrants from Muslim countries.

Museum director Tobias Natter says the flap serves to point out "that nobody gets offended by naked women, but with naked men: yes."

A poster near a school was also removed when parents complained.

"I can understand women with children who think that this is too wild, when the kids keep asking questions," said Susanne Eigner, a woman her 20s standing next to a still-uncovered poster.

But other reactions were positive.

"I like that we get to see naked men for a change," said Veronika Kren, as she paused from pushing her bike laden with groceries. "We have to look at naked women all the time and now I find it quite interesting to see something different ? and especially the reaction of the men."

The museum is making the most of the controversy. Natter says he hopes the poster will spark lively debate.

"Some people will say, 'What a shame. I want to see what's under that,'" he said about the red tape. "Others will say, 'Let's go the museum. There we can see the original.' And some will say, 'That's good. I don't want to see that in the public space.'

"It's about making people aware."

___

Associated Press video journalist Philipp Jenne contributed.

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Nissan to offer steer-by-wire systems in some Infiniti cars

Nissan to offer steerbywire systems in some Infinity cars

We're all at least somewhat familiar with fly-by-wire, the electronic piloting system found in most modern planes. Nissan wants to bring the same tech to cars, leaving behind the purely mechanical solutions currently used to take turns in your four-wheeler. The first automobiles to come equipped with steer-by-wire would be luxury sedans from Infiniti. Other companies have incorporated the tech into concept vehicles, but Nissan would be the first to stick it in a production model. The company plans to have the first drive-by-wire cars in consumer garages by the end of next year, with an eye towards a future in which you drive from the back seat using a joystick. Of course, the lack of direct feedback as your tires turn over the road may lead some to cling tight to their mechanical steering apparatus, though, moving to a digital steering system should lead to better handling vehicles.

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Students at Reese Road Leadership Academy in Columbus are working on a music video they hope will help them get healthier.

The school is entering the 2012 Healthy School Makeover Contest. It is a nationwide contest for schools with a grand prize of $45,000 worth of physical education curriculum, training, and equipment.

Schools have to submit a video explaining why they should win. For, Reese Road Physical Education teacher Zachary Woods, it is all about fighting childhood obesity especially when studies show about 40% of kids in Georgia are overweight.

?It is really important that we as a county and as a state really try to tackle this epidemic that is going on in our state, and we could definitely do that with an enhanced physical education program all around,? said Woods.

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?With the equipment that they could win, the kids really need as much as they can get. Some of them don?t get it at home. So, whatever they can get here would be great,? said Colwell.

These students say their reaction to winning would be just like the song says: they will go crazy.

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So now it?s a thought crime to regard heterosexuality as the norm in human relationships. This is called ?heterosexism?, joining racism and sexism as the new no-go zone, and the Proud Schools pilot program rolled out to 12 Sydney and Hunter high schools over the past two terms is aimed at stamping it out.

The program defines ?heterosexism? as the practice of ?positioning heterosexuality as the norm for human relationship?, according to the Proud Schools Consultation Report. ?It involves ignoring, making invisible or discriminating against non-heterosexual people, their relationships and their interests. Heterosexism feeds homophobia.?

So there it is. If you think the vast majority of people are attracted to the opposite sex and that heterosexual human relationships are the norm, you are feeding homophobia. ?The state government would prefer you?didn?t?know about its Proud Schools program against homophobia, ?transphobia? and ?heterosexism?.

It features professional learning for teachers, ?celebrations of diversity for students? and ?embedding discussion of sexuality and gender diversity into the classroom?. ?Education Minister Adrian Piccoli wants you to think it is all the work of his predecessor Verity Firth, who started the whole project in the dying days of the Labor government.
But Piccoli kept the program, which cost $250,000, despite the fact that there is no evidence that homophobic bullying is a big problem in NSW schools and despite the fact anti-homophobia elements are already incorporated in the existing PDHPE syllabus.
At least a dozen MPs, from the Coalition, Labor and independents including Fred Nile, have discussed their concerns with Proud Schools in recent weeks.

One has provided The Daily Telegraph with extensive information about the program obtained under freedom of information or in questions on notice to Piccoli in Parliament. ?From 175 pages of material, including a Proud Schools consultation report produced by Family Planning NSW and in minutes of meetings of the Proud Schools Steering Committee, a disturbing picture emerges of a program that appears designed more for indoctrination and propaganda than to eliminate bullying.

In Victoria a similar program, the ?Safe Schools Coalition? to ?support sexual diversity? in schools, holds that gender and sexuality are not fixed but fluid concepts. Students are taught not to think about gender and sexuality in a ?binary? way, as in male/female or gay/ straight, but as part of a continuum of choices. ?What are pubescent children supposed to make of that?
The assumptions which underpin the Proud Schools program seem questionable, at best.

For one thing, a position paper produced for the project by Latrobe University claims there is ?strong evidence in 2011 that approximately one in 10 young people are sexually attracted to people of their own sex, or are unsure?.
It also quotes another figure of ?between 7 and 9 per cent? who are same-sex attracted.

This paints a picture at odds with figures around the world which put homosexuality at 2-3 percent of the population.
In fact the most comprehensive survey of sexuality in this country was also by La Trobe University, in its 2003 Sex in Australia report which found 1.6 per cent of Australian men identify as homosexual and 0.9 per cent as bisexual. For women the figures are 0.8 per cent who identified as homosexual and 1.4 per cent as bisexual. ?Another LaTrobe study which informed the Proud Schools consultation report, ?Writing Themselves 3?, found that 80 per cent of homophobic abuse and violence for young people occurs at schools and that ?violence and abuse is sustained and embedded in school culture?. ?It claims homophobia, ?has increased rather than decreased over the past five years and that there are strong and significant links between the experience of homophobic abuse and self harm?.

Yet this is not the experience of the principals quoted in the Proud Schools Consultation report.
?There?s not a great deal of overt homophobia? says one.
?Not many cases of overt discrimination but there is name calling?, says another.
?I haven?t had any issues of homophobic violence at this school?, says another.
One principal said: ?We have some openly gay male students. Some are embraced but some are bullied. If they?re popular they?re OK but if they?re not they get bullied.?
Another said: ?We have one obvious transsexual student who doesn?t associate well with other students. Not because of his gender but because of other family issues. He does struggle with his identity. He gets sympathy from staff but gets ignored by students.?
A teacher is quoted in the Proud Schools report saying: ?The problem is language rather than overt discrimination. Gay is still used as a derogatory term. What I see is language that is inappropriate, ?That?s so gay?, etc.?

This teacher?s comment, concludes the report, ?highlights the way in which some teachers continue to fail to recognise homophobic language as a form of violence and discrimination?.
But the report seems to want to find a big problem with little evidence that one exists. ?Over the past seven years The Daily Telegraph?s education reporter Bruce McDougall has been monitoring NSW Education Department ?safety and security? incident reports of violence and other problems at schools. He has not seen one report relating to homophobia.

Yes, bullying and violence occurs at schools and every effort should be made to prevent it. But it does not primarily relate to sexuality, and false claims that it does could promote a backlash or even send the message that bullying for other reasons is not as bad.
The report also described as ?worryingly simplistic? and ?out of line with contemporary ideas of sexuality? the question raised by some teachers and students of whether people are ?born that way or exercise choice with respect to same sex attraction or gender diversity?.

The contemporary view, according to the report is: ?Spectrums of attraction and complex interactions with the social world influence sexual and gender identity.? ?Whatever. It?s not up to academics to dictate attitudes to society via indoctrination of captive children in classrooms, and it?s irresponsible if politicians allow them to do so.

Parents expect their children to go to school to learn basic skills, and become socialised. They expect a safe environment in which everyone is treated with respect and without bullying, whether they are gay or straight. ?But they also don?t expect that their values should be subverted by homosexual or any other sort of propaganda. ?And they don?t expect that widespread acceptance of heterosexuality as the most common human experience would be demonised.

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Buying a classic car is often something that collectors or enthusiasts ...

Buying a classic car is often something that collectors or enthusiasts do as a way to own a special

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Buying a classic car is often something that collectors or enthusiasts do as a way to own a special piece of history. Sometimes the car has personal significance, like a car one's grandfather drove or a famous movie car. In other instances, it's to have bragging rights for owning a very expensive car, like 1936 Bugatti Type 57C Atlantic.

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Finding An Insurer

Once you have purchased your dream car, then securing the right kind of insurance should be next on your list. Check with your current auto insurer to see if classic car insurance is offered. Search online for comparison insurance rates. Ask around at classic car clubs or car auctions for a specialty classic auto insurance company. It's important to understand the aspects of insuring a classic car and how it differs from regular car insurance.

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Specific requirements must be met to secure a policy with a classic car insurance company. The main requirement is usually that the car is not used for everyday driving. To prove this, you must show that your household has another vehicle.

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