June 16, 2016, Washington, D.C. and New York – Today, Detention Watch Network (DWN) and the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) released a new report that reveals for the first time that mothers and their children are jailed under guaranteed minimum bed contracts for local jails. The report shows the extent to which ICE grants financial benefits to private and public entities that detain immigrants through government contracts requiring ICE to pay for a set number of beds at detention facilities, rendering immigrants, including children and families, a source of profit for contractors.
The widespread use of local lockup quotas throughout the immigration detention system was exposed in DWN and CCR's report, Banking on Detention: Local Lockup Quotas and the Immigrant Dragnet, in June 2015. Since then, the government has released additional documents that shed light on the continued use of local lockup quotas, covering at least 24 detention facility contracts. Today's report updates the earlier one with new information, including uncovering a local quota at Essex County Detention Facility in New Jersey where just this week Luis Alonso Fino Martinez died for yet to be determined reasons.
The new documents reveal that guaranteed minimums account for at least 12,821 of the 34,000 beds funded by the detention bed quota, nearly 40 percent. Of these 12,821 beds, 93 percent exist in facilities that contract with private companies. Further, local lockup quotas exist for family detention facilities as well, benefitting not only private contractors like The GEO Group, but public entities that detain families as well, such as the Berks Family Residential Center in Pennsylvania.
The report also covers ICE's ongoing lack of transparency, resistance to complying when asked to provide information, and tendency to redact information that should be publically available through the Freedom of Information Act. As a result, there is an incomplete understanding of how pervasive and harmful guaranteed minimums truly are.
The report urges Congress to take steps toward ending the country's disastrous immigration incarceration experiment by removing the national detention bed quota from the FY 2017 DHS Appropriations bill and passing the Protecting Taxpayers and Communities from Local Detention Quotas Act, which would prevent ICE from participating in any legal agreement that mandates a bed quota at a local level.


It has been proven that our outside word is a reflection of our inside world. If we see chaos and clutter all around us, we usually begin to feel the same is happening on the inside. Taking action to clear out clutter and clean our homes/office can help relieve a lot of those chaotic thoughts. If your office or desk is full of papers, files and office supplies you will not feel very open to working in that environment. You are also wasting valuable time searching for things you need under all that clutter.
First, start by clearing off your desk. Go through each item and find a suitable home for it.
Does it belong in the office?
Where do you use it most often?
Should it be filed or put in a drawer?
Once you know where the item belongs, put it there. Now everything from the desk is in its proper place; meaning you know where to look for it and where to return it once used.
Next, make sure the rest of the office is clean and tidy. Only the items that belong to the office space should be in it. Make it convenient to access your essentials.
Your daily routine should include 10 minutes at the end of each day to clear everything off your desk and return it to its home. This will allow you to start fresh every morning and create an open space where you can work freely and not feel confined.
If you make a commitment to yourself to keep your desk clear, you are helping quiet your mind. Clutter makes one feel overwhelmed and creates anxiety. If all you see is a messy unorganized space, you will feel the same way and not be as productive as you could be. Over time, with a clean and clear workspace, you will see your creativity and productivity increase and your stress level decrease. Even if life feels chaotic, your environment does not need to reflect this.
If you find your office gets messy again, start from the top and get begin decluttering. You deserve to have your office looking organized and clean.


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Chaudenay est une commune française située dans le département de la Haute-Marne, en région Grand Est.

Géographie

Urbanisme

Typologie
Chaudenay est une commune rurale, car elle fait partie des communes peu ou très peu denses, au sens de la grille communale de densité de l'Insee.

Par ailleurs la commune fait partie de l'aire d'attraction de Langres, dont elle est une commune de la couronne. Cette aire, qui regroupe , est catégorisée dans les aires de moins de .

Occupation des sols

L'occupation des sols de la commune, telle qu'elle ressort de la base de données européenne d'occupation biophysique des sols Corine Land Cover (CLC), est marquée par l'importance des territoires agricoles (69,7 % en 2018), une proportion sensiblement équivalente à celle de 1990 (71 %). La répartition détaillée en 2018 est la suivante :
prairies (52,1 %), forêts (22 %), terres arables (17,6 %), zones urbanisées (8,3 %).

L'IGN met par ailleurs à disposition un outil en ligne permettant de comparer l'évolution dans le temps de l'occupation des sols de la commune (ou de territoires à des échelles différentes). Plusieurs époques sont accessibles sous forme de cartes ou photos aériennes : la carte de Cassini (), la carte d'état-major (1820-1866) et la période actuelle (1950 à aujourd'hui).

Toponymie

Histoire

Politique et administration

Liste des maires

Politique environnementale

Population et société

Démographie

Manifestations culturelles et festivités

Économie

Culture locale et patrimoine

Lieux et monuments

Personnalités liées à la commune

Héraldique

Voir aussi

Bibliographie

Articles connexes

 Communauté de communes du pays de Chalindrey
 Liste des communes de la Haute-Marne

Liens externes

 Chaudenay sur le site de l'Institut géographique national

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Chaudenay

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Pierre Bruneau's retirement marks the end of an era
Pierre Bruneau starts his last week at the helm of TVA Nouvelles from 5pm to 6pm, 46 years after being hired by Télé-Métropole.
• Read also: Pierre Bruneau receives the Medal of Honor from the National Assembly
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It is a historic moment. Historical for the journalist, of course, who has shown diligence and professionalism on a daily basis and has lived for almost half a century – which is a business -, but also for the general public who loses a reassuring figure and for colleagues who greet each other at a monument June 16.
When it arrived in September 1976, just before the election of René Lévesque's first government, the editorial office was just a few square meters. The bulletins were not driven by an involved antenna head like today. Pierre Bruneau helped equip the channel with a code of ethics and, over the years, after quickly becoming number 1 against Radio-Canada, the Victoriaville reporter brought credibility and rigor to the VAT news.
For 46 years, the state-owned company pitted her against 17 different anchors, according to her calculations. The contest even offered him a golden bridge twice, in 1990 and 2001, so that he could move into the large brown tower on René-Lévesque Boulevard East. He preferred to stay on the same antenna because he had a "crazy pleasure" on TVA.
"It was a long time planned for me to leave. I announced it on March 24 because the rumors were starting to spread and I wanted to tell the viewers myself, which have always been there, "Pierre Bruneau confided to the QMI agency.
"I have stretched more than once, but being 70 is a sign for me. I am in good shape, I am in my head and I do not take drugs. I fought cancer five years ago, but for me it is cured. It's time to enjoy life and good times, "said the man who, since his retirement announcement, has received numerous letters and words of thanks for spreading the news over the years.
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Of all the qualities we know of him, it is his reassuring side, with his voice and his sense of communication, that stands out first. "A thirty-year-old wrote to me to tell me that my voice calms him at dinner time." His rigor, cordiality and closeness to the public also stand out.
At the time of the interview, Pierre Bruneau did not know that his colleague Sophie Thibault would succeed him at the end of the summer, but he said that the lucky or lucky woman would have the opportunity to "make her mark", like him.
All the empathy he shows as a journalist and humanist in him, he owes in large part to Charles, his son who died of cancer in 1988. "A year after his death, there was the massacre of the Polytechnic. I put myself in the shoes of the parents. Certainly the loss of Charles defined me, both in tone, in my approach and in my compassion, without taking anything away from the journalist. I am a boy with a head, but also a boy with a heart, and my greatest achievement remains the Charles-Bruneau Foundation.
Pierre Bruneau, who has been on the air longer than any other host, is "proud" and feels "privileged" to have had a close relationship with viewers. He was there night after night and during significant events, such as the Challenger shuttle explosion in 1986, the tragedy at the Polytechnique in 1989, the Oka crisis in 1990 and the ice storm in 1998, the floods in Saguenay in 1996, the bombings. of 11 September 2001 as well as all the electoral campaigns for half a century. Not to mention COVID-19.
In addition to retiring, Pierre Bruneau, who just got the medal of honor from the National Assembly and who has won 23 Artis trophies, is experiencing major changes in his life. He has just sold his house and his wife Ginette will be packing up with him for several trips in 2023, which will mark their 50th wedding anniversary.

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HOUSTON, Feb. 7, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Nobilis Health Corp. (NYSE American: HLTH) ("Nobilis" or the "Company") today announced the opening of an ambulatory surgery center located near the Uptown District in Dallas, Texas ("ASC"). The ASC has two operating rooms and will provide multispecialty services, including those offered under Nobilis' nine direct to consumer marketing brands.
Kenneth Efird, Nobilis' President, stated, "While we have been operating in the Dallas-Fort Worth market for years, the addition of this ASC enhances our ability to provide high quality healthcare services to a new demographic of patients and adds an additional location in this market to better serve our aligned physicians. The ASC will operate under in network contracts with major commercial payors, advancing our goal to grow our portfolio of in network volume and revenue."
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Nobilis Health (www.NobilisHealth.com) is a full-service healthcare development and management company, with more than 30 locations across Texas and Arizona, including hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers, and multi-specialty clinics. In addition, Nobilis Health partners with more than 30 facilities across the country. Marketing nine independent brands, Nobilis Health deploys a unique patient acquisition strategy driven by proprietary, direct-to-consumer marketing technology, focusing on a specified set of procedures that are performed at its facilities by local physicians. Nobilis Health's business model connects patients with physicians and delivers the highest quality healthcare.
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Historically, natural language processing programs are written in LISP and Prolog. LISP, because it is the AI language of a whole generation of AI students. Prolog, because it contains some built-in techniques (such as feature matching) that are handy for NLP. These programs often produce an output structure in the same language.
Now, LISP and Prolog are not mainstream languages that are commonly used in business environments. Therefore this list-oriented output needs to be mapped to another language first, before it can be used.
Another thing, again historically, it is normal for an NLP program to work with predicate logic. The output of this program contains universal and existensial quantifiers to express statements about objects, and the output-expressions need custom extensions to predicate logic, since PL is rather limited in this respect.
Most developers I know would not be able to read this. It requires a programmer to learn a new language to be able to handle these types of structures. Many developers are not well versed in predicate logic. They may have seen it before, but it is not second nature, something they use every day.
I think NLP programs should work with objects. The result of a parse should be an object structure and you should be able to build sentences from object structures.
This is a structure that developers work with all the time. They can use autocomplete in their IDE to find out the methods that a certain class provides and this flattens the learning curve.
Albert Gatt and Ehud Reither (one of the authors of Building Natural Language Generation Systems) have written a Java-based generation system that practises this approach to NLP: SimpleNLG. It is easy to use and appears to be robust. A source of inspiration!
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Life at Eclipse
Musings on the Eclipse Foundation, the community and the ecosystem
Eclipse for the World
Perhaps it's because of my recent trip to China, but it is becoming increasingly clear that internationalization is a very big deal for everyone in the software world. The ability to fully enable products and applications for double-byte and bi-directional languages is key.
Enter ICU4J. One look at the JDK to ICU comparison chart reveals why this library exists and is used by so many ISV's out there today (e.g. Adobe, Apple, BEA, Cognos, Debian Linux, Gentoo Linux, IBM to name just a few).
I haven't seen a lot of fanfare about this, but I consider including ICU4J in the Eclipse Platform for 3.2 and Callisto to be one of the biggest things going on right now in Eclipse. With Eclipse 3.2, developers are going to have a much more powerful tool for internationalizing their applications. With significantly better functionality than what is supported in the JDK. Now Java applications can be competitive those written in other programming languages in countries such as China, Japan and India. This is especially important for Eclipse and Eclipse RCP compete with Microsoft's Vista release, as they are clearly focusing energy on ensuring strong internationalization capabilities.
But isn't the JDK enough? Unfortunately not. From one of the documents from the ICU4J team:
"…as a platform, Java provides support for only a small set of locales (only 21 locales are officially supported, another 73 are shipped by not tested). By comparison, Windows XP SP2 supports 159 locales. In the set of 94 Java locales there is support for only one of the 22 official languages of India, one of the fastest growing economies in the world…"
ICU4J supports and ships twice as many (over 230) locales as Java. And there are other important features as well, such as support for better/faster sorting, enhanced date formats, better calendaring options and the like.
So keep an eye on development with ICU4J. It's just recently been included in the platform builds. Next is switching the 3.2 stream over to use it, and then for the rest of the Callisto projects to make the jump. The changes are minimal, so hopefully the switch will be relatively quick and painless.
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I'm glad to see that someone's taking an interest in internationalisation at Eclipse. It's been clear for a while that the application is being used over the globe, both as an IDE and increasingly as a platform upon which other RCP applications are built.That being said, it's also the case that not everyone agrees with you. I submitted a bug report bug 108668 to Eclipse regarding suggesting the default use of UTF-8 to support files for transfer and between international communities. Unfortunately, it got taken as an operating system issue (rather than a regional issue) and was quickly shot down.The labels in SWT widgets also suffer from the same fate; because UTF-8 encoding isn't used to represent those, it's nigh on impossible to ensure that accented letters come out correctly.There's demand for Eclipse to be international. But whilst we're still shackled by ASCII descendents, there's still scope for other platforms to overtake.
I read the bug. I certainly wouldn't agree that it was "…quickly shot down…". Or at least in my mind two months of reasoned debate is not my idea of what that means.The issues are complex, and the installed base massive. The changes you're referring to will take time. Lots of time….
Mike Milinkovich
Perhaps if you'd read the bug closer, you would have got the timescale correct. Or at least in my mind, two weeks is not called two months.Selected highlights from: Bug activity for 108668Opened: 2005-09-02Closed WONTFIX: 2005-09-15Reopened: 2005-09-15 Reclosed: 2005-09-16That's not two months, unless time moves differently for Eclipse. It's barely two weeks, and some of that was waiting in a variety of reassigned queues for different people's comments.The other report was a specific issue that was later opened as a different bug.So no, it's not going to take time to do the switch, especially since that switch has been shot down as WONTFIX. Perhaps I'll have to wait for the next best IDE to come out and throw decisions like this one away instead of hoping that Eclipse improves.I've written about this issue and others in my blog.
Sorry for misreading the timeline. But I still believe that the discussions and the resolution were reasonable.
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14.240.060 Fence and Freestanding Wall Regulations.
1. The design of all fences and freestanding walls shall be consistent with the City of Snohomish Design Standards and Guidelines for the City's Historic District and the Design Standards and Guidelines for Areas Outside of the Historic District, whichever is applicable to the site.
2. A building permit issued by the Building Official shall be required prior to installation of a fence or freestanding wall, except for when the fence or freestanding wall is located in the Single-Family land use designation area outside of the Historic District.
3. All fences and freestanding walls shall meet the requirements for height, setback, sight obstruction, maintenance, and special location provisions as set forth in this section.
4. The type, size, location, and height of fencing proposed for tennis courts, parks, or athletic fields shall be categorically exempt from the requirements outlined in this chapter and will be reviewed and approved by the Planning and Development Services Department on a project-by-project basis.
5. No fence or freestanding wall shall create a safety hazard or sight obstruction as described in SMC 14.210.160.
6. Fence and freestanding wall height shall be measured from the ground level where the fence/freestanding wall touches the ground (or if it does not touch the ground, the ground level where it would touch if extended straight down to the ground) to the highest point of the fence/freestanding wall. Where the ground levels on either side of a fence/freestanding wall differ, the height shall be measured from the lowest ground level elevation.
7. The maximum allowed height of fences and freestanding walls located in the buildable area of the lot shall be the same as the maximum height allowed for the land use designation area where it is located.
8. Decorative features, artwork, or trellises placed on top of a fence or freestanding wall that do not add to the screening effect or opaqueness of the fence/freestanding wall shall not be included when calculating the height of the fence/freestanding wall.
1. The proposed fence is on a lot with a residential use on the ground floor.
2. The right-of-way is equal to or in excess of 60 feet.
3. There will be no obstruction to the operation of utility equipment and the maintenance of utility lines.
4. The fence is located on the nonstreet side of the sidewalk, or otherwise in the opinion of the Director, does not impede the normal flow of the public's use of the right-of-way.
5. The property owner-applicant proposing the fence executes and records an agreement, approved by the Planning Director or designee, to maintain the fence at the said owner-applicant's expense and remove the fence at the said owner-applicant's expense if required by the City for any reason, or a public utility in order to work in the right-of-way.
6. The owner-applicant proposing the fence shall also comply with all requirements of Chapter 12.12 SMC, Right-of-Way Use Permit.
1. Be located at least two feet from the property line and shall not be located in the right-of-way.
2. Use an interrupted flow of current at intervals of one second on and two seconds off.
3. Be limited to 2,000 volts at 17 mill amperes current.
4. Require a "U.L. Approved" seal.
5. Be posted with permanent signs with a minimum area of 36 square inches at intervals of not more than 50 feet stating that the fence is electrified.
1. Electrical fences and fences with barbed wire, razor wire, concertina wire, or similar products are prohibited.
2. Within front yard setback area.
a. Solid Fence. No higher than three feet unless it connects side fences to the structure.
b. Open Fence. Up to five feet if it does not create a sight obstruction.
3. If located within a side yard setback area the maximum allowed height shall be six feet except fences located in a side yard setback area on the street side of a corner lot shall also be required to meet the sight clearance requirements for intersections as set forth in SMC 14.210.160.
E. Fences and Decorative Freestanding Walls in Commercial and Industrial Land Use Designation Areas. The maximum allowed height of fences/freestanding walls constructed in Commercial and Industrial land use designation areas shall be eight feet and shall comply with the adopted design standards applicable to where the fence/freestanding wall is located.
F. Fences and Decorative Freestanding Walls in the Urban Horticulture Land Use Designation Area. The maximum allowed height of fences/freestanding walls in the Urban Horticulture land use designation area shall be seven feet on any part of the lot (including within the buildable area).
G. Fences and Decorative Freestanding Walls in the Historic District. Fences constructed in the Historic District shall comply with the Design Standards and Guidelines for the City's Historic District.
H. Retaining Walls and Rockeries.
a. There shall not be a maximum height limit on retaining walls and rockeries located in the buildable area of a lot. However, the height of retaining walls and rockeries in the buildable area of a lot shall be the lowest necessary to achieve its intended functional purpose. If the proposed wall or rockery height exceeds the height limitation for the land use designation area where it is located it must be reviewed and approved by the Planning Director or designee on a project-by-project basis.
b. The maximum height limit on retaining walls and rockeries located in a setback area shall be six feet.
g. A cross section showing the wall/rockery and provisions for drainage.
3. If the Building Official determines it is necessary, structural calculations and/or a geotechnical report prepared by a licensed professional engineer legally entitled to practice in the State of Washington shall be submitted with the application.
4. A Type 1 retaining wall permit shall be required for retaining walls/rockeries four feet or less in height.
a. Only retaining walls/rockeries that do not require structural calculation and/or a drainage system are eligible for a Type 1 permit.
b. If a series of retaining walls/rockeries four feet or less in height where the slope measured from the bottom of the lowest retaining wall/rockery to the top of the highest retaining wall/rockery is greater than 1.5 feet horizontal to 1.0 feet vertical, then a Type 2 retaining wall permit shall be required.
5. A Type 2 retaining wall permit may be required for all retaining walls/rockeries greater than four feet in height.
iii. Drainage system behind wall.
b. The City Engineer may require additional submittals for Type 2 retaining wall permits.
6. Private retaining walls/rockeries shall not be located in City rights-of-way except as may be otherwise provided in the Snohomish Municipal Code.
7. The height of a retaining wall/rockery shall be measured from the lowest part of the wall/rockery or wall/rockery footing to the highest part of the wall/rockery at every location along the wall/rockery.
8. No part of a retaining wall/rockery may extend into an adjacent lot.
9. Guardrails required to be placed at the top of retaining walls/rockeries, pursuant to the City-adopted building codes, shall be permitted as part of the wall/rockery, and shall not be considered to be a fence or part of the wall/rockery height.
10. A retaining wall may terminate at a property line; provided, that it must abut a retaining wall on the adjacent property and is structurally independent from such wall.
a. Permits shall not be required for fences or freestanding walls two feet or less in height.
v. Such waiver is made in writing by the Planning Director or designee.
c. Permits shall not be required for retaining walls within new plats that are reviewed and approved by the City as part of the plat improvements.


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Niagara Parks pop-up dinners feature local, seasonal food served in some unexpected locations to mark Canada's 150th birthday. This story appeared as my column, Eating Niagara, which runs every second Wednesday in the St. Catharines Standard, Niagara Falls Review and Welland Tribune.
There's a structure at the end of the Niagara Parkway in Fort Erie.
It's a big arch on an even bigger lawn, and it overlooks the spot where Lake Erie funnels into the strident Niagara River.
I found out last week it has a name — two, in fact: Mather Arch or Mather Park Gate.
For the 12-plus years I've lived in Niagara, Mather Arch was a nameless landmark to me. Its purpose was to simply let me know I was getting to close to my usual Fort Erie destinations of Happy Jack's or Ming Teh Chinese restaurants.
But last week, instead of telling me dinner was just around the bend, Mather Arch was where I ate my last meal of the day. It was the site of a pop-up dinner hosted by Niagara Parks, which put the invitation out by social media to eat, drink and be schooled in history and architecture at a spot many of us have likely only driven past en route to somewhere else.
The dinner was part of Niagara Parks Commission's Begin Here: Canada 150 at Niagara Parks celebrations. It was one of a series of meals Niagara Parks is planning in unexpected places this summer.
Stopping and smelling the roses, or on this evening the fried Lake Erie Perch, at one of its lesser known sites was partly the point of the Mather Arch pop-up, explained Ryan Moran, Niagara Parks' senior manager of marketing. The parks commission bills its real estate along the Niagara River as a 56-kilometre outdoor museum. So it's keen to market more than the giant cataracts down the road.


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Q: docker php:7.1-fpm-alpine fails to build GD Trying to build from the official php:7.1-fpm-alpine image, using the following excerpt in my Dockerfile:
FROM php:7.1-fpm-alpine

RUN set -ex \
    apk add --no-cache --virtual .build-deps \
    freetype-dev \
    libjpeg-turbo-dev \
    libpng-dev \
\
    && docker-php-ext-configure gd \
        --with-freetype-dir=/usr \
        --with-png-dir=/usr \
        --with-jpeg-dir=/usr \
    && docker-php-ext-install gd \
    && apk del .build-deps

When attempting to build this with docker build, GD fails during ./configure with the following error:
configure: error: jpeglib.h not found

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$ docker run -it --rm php:7.1-fpm-alpine /bin/sh
>$ apk add --no-cache libjpeg-turbo-dev \
   && find /usr -type f -name 'jpeglib.h'
   ...
   /usr/include/jpeglib.h

But if I take exactly the same command used in the dockerfile and run it interactively inside the container, it builds flawlessly. No errors.
Is this a bug, or am I missing something?

A: The problem was a blindingly simple syntax error; the apk call following the set command needs to be preceded by &&, otherwise the interpreter is treating the entire apk call as a set of arguments to set. In that case, the packages aren't added, therefore jpeglib.h didn't exist.
When I typed the command into the shell, I used the correct syntax, so it passed without error.

A: yes, you should write like this
RUN set -ex \
    && apk add --no-cache --virtual .build-deps \

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August 9, 1945 » « The octopod invasion begins
Who's got the better brain?
Jake Young has a good discussion of gender differences and performance in the sciences. His conclusion is one I agree with: there are real differences between men's and women's brains, but they are not of a sort to account for the differences in representation in scientific fields. For that, we have to go to culture, and the imposition of extrinsic limits on what people are allowed to do.
His conclusion is one I agree with: there are real differences between men's and women's brains, but they are not of a sort to account for the differences in representation in scientific fields
For what it's worth, there are probably even real innate differences between men's and women's brains (on average…although the overlap is so great that knowing the average will probably give almost no information about the brain of any given individual anyway.) However, currently, we have no way of knowing what those might be. Prejudice is so strong in this culture that girl babies are treated differently from boy babies and the differences in treatment continue throughout life. With that much confounding, how can we possibly hope to get the right answer with respect to what the innate differences are?
Catherine Martin says
As a female with well above average spatial skills (I am a 3D animator) I would put forth that there are definite overlaps in so-called gender defined abilities. I also love buying shoes. Lots of shoes.
Brian Dewhirst says
Perceptions about what is "normal," and a desire to conform to be normal are also major factors.
PaulC says
I wonder how much success in science correlates to factors other than intelligence. Not everyone needs the same amount of sleep for instance. Some people suffer from seasonal affective disorder and might as well just write off the short days of winter as a total loss. There are basic time management skills. I swear that some people have twice as many hours in a week as I do.
This should correlate to overall productivity rather than the quality of one's best output. But people with more productivity are going to get better opportunities, so it's not entirely obvious. What I gathered from academia is that while the truly brilliant researchers can get away with a lot, most of those aspiring to such a career have to spend as much time being sales people and managers as problem solvers. Public speaking skills also count for a lot. Early promise is not a great predictor of success in an academic career.
I think that like anything else, science is a job and success requires a combination of traits. It's sort of silly to try to link it to any cognitive trait. Based on women I know in scientific fields and not, the main issue seemed to be one of preference. Many smart women are not that interested. Actually even most men are not interested in science and engineering, at least in the US. You could try to figure out how much of that is cultural and how much is innate, but there's clearly no simple explanation in terms of some cognitive measure.
If the data here are, as they seem to be, being presented as representing inherent differences, I'd be very interested to see how they control for cultural factors which vary based on a person's gender, and might be expected to differentially inhibit the proportion of a given person's mathematical abilities that person realizes. The inexcusably credulous habit of ascribing any observed difference in developed (and thus measurable, as distinct from "potential") ability in a given mental task between men and women to genetic and/or hormonal differences is one of the biggest assthorns of pop-science reporting.
Bleh, hit enter too soon.
Actually, I wouldn't be surprised a bit if these particular factors were sufficient to account for all observed discrepancies in mathematical abilities. Half in a vapor bath and half in the snow, indeed…
Fred says
I do believe(agree) that the limits put on what people, as a gender, race, orientation etc., are both expected and allowed to do can inhibit potential prospects. The popular culture of the day dresses up women like prostitutes and romanticizes things that really ought not to be thought of as good things; creating bad habits, social dysfunction in general and a poor body image.
Is there some sort of chart or something that shows which demographics, ie. age, wealth, 'race', these differences are in?
Keanus says
I'm with Dianne on this, that "…the overlap is so great that knowing the average will probably give almost no information about the brain of any given individual." It's the flaw in any argument about whether this class of people of that class is better. What matters in every case is the capacity and performance of the individual, not the class to which they belong.
Carlie says
The Chronicle did a few stories a year or so ago about women and the glass ceiling in academia – I'm completely fuzzy on the details, but something about a large-scale study on when and why women tend to drop from the ranks. An awful lot of it was due to increased family pressure; the burden of childcare and parental care still disproportionately falls on women. Even with good quality assistance available, they tended to spend a lot more time away from academic pursiuts. (to support what PaulC said)
Mike Crichton says
Prejudice is so strong in this culture that girl babies are treated differently from boy babies and the differences in treatment continue throughout life.
Can you name a single culture in which this _isn't_ the case?
Caledonian says
It's likely not prejudice, but an evolved inherent tendency on the part of caregivers. And it's not all culture: even when people try to raise their children in artificial cultures where traditional gender roles don't exist, male children still tend to play with mock violence than female.
As rational, intelligent people, our responsibility is to treat individuals as individuals, not statistical groupings. That does not mean that we must deny the effectiveness of reaching conclusions about statistical groupings.
9 August 2006 at 10:06 pm
The best orchestras used to have no women because "they weren't good enough." When only the first audition was heard through a curtain, and the sex of the candidate was revealed later, perceptions changed enough so that orchestras rapidly became about 1/4 female. I think the proportion would be higher still if the entire selection process was based on text communication and musical sound, without the candidate's sex being revealed.
miko says
I've ranted about this elsewhere, because I think there are a couple salient points that always get left out. PaulC touched on one: who says it's intelligence (of any sort) that contributes to academic career advancement? I'm sure a huge segment of the population has enough smarts to make a go of it–the first big difference is who has the opportunities (purely social factor). And once you're in, is it subtle shades of cognitive ability that determine who is promoted, invited to speak at conferences, made department chair? Of course not, it's an extroverted personality, self-promotion, and other character traits one might expect among those raised in a society that constantly rewards them for being of a certain race and sex.
People who argue for innate differences often claim that averages are close to same, but that males have increased variance in certain abilities and are therefore over-represented at the extremes. A big assumption is glossed over: that in academia we're talking about some extreme edge of the smarts curve. It's ridiculously self-regarding, and there is no reason to think it.
Fix pervasive, constant, demeaning sexism and then let's see where we're at. I have a feeling we won't have to make arguments about innate abilities.
Chet says
That does not mean that we must deny the effectiveness of reaching conclusions about statistical groupings.
And what, in your view, have been the effective results of reaching conclusions about statistical groupings by sex? More money in the pocket of insurers, perhaps, but where's the practical benefit for individuals?
The purpose is to better understand the world. Practical benefits are just pleasant side-effects. Very little knowledge is ever gained with the express purpose of accomplishing some specific goal.
Grok says
As a female doctoral student at MIT, it seems to me that by far the largest factor is the family question. When I get my PhD, I want very much to go on in academia; I love the work, love the field, even love the intensity (usually).
But I also really want a family, and it's not clear at all to me that both are possible: if I have kids, there's no way I'm going to put them second to my career, but I seriously question my ability to get and keep a job at a good institution if kids are on the table. My spouse, also an academic (a mathematician), is very supportive and I'm sure would do as much as he could to make childrearing as equal as possible. But no matter what he does, the burdens are going to hit me far more unequally: I'm the one that has to be pregnant and breastfeed, and all of the cultural default assumptions (which we have to continually fight against) say I'm the one that needs to deal with the kids most of the time.
As a result of this every female doctoral student or post-doc I know is already agonizing about the kids question, and every guy I know — if they are even in a relationship and/or want a family — just "assumes" that it will work out. [Incidentally, I include my own spouse in this; I've brought the issue up enough that he is consciously aware of the difficulties kids are going to mean, but he still just doesn't worry or think about it much; he is simply not in the habit of needing to do so].
I think this hits harder in computer science / math / physics because these are the fields that, more than others, require 70-80hrs/wk to compete at the top levels. One simply cannot have kids and do that, even if your spouse chips in 50% (which is a physical impossibility anyway due to breastfeeding and pregnancy). [Plus, I fear that trying to split childcare 50/50 would just make it so neither parent could get and keep a good job in academia.] Every female professor I know either has no kids or raised her kids first and entered academia at an older age. Many of the male professors have families and kids, and a wife with a career that is not nearly as high-powered as theirs.
Is it any wonder there are less women in the highest reaches of science?
What will happen, I wonder, if we work to reverse systematic discrimination, but the disparity remains? Will it be taken as proof that the discrimination is still there and that we need to try even harder to eliminate it?
Doing the same thing over and over, expecting a different result. There's a word for that…
Steve LaBonne says
Over and over? How about we try it at least ONCE before giving up??? Sheesh.
But we have been trying for decades, and frequently the continual disparity is cited as evidence that we need to work harder.
Uh, I have a sister who is a biology asst. professor (about to come up for tenure) at a major research university, and from my familiarity with her career I have news from you. "We" haven't been "trying" nearly as hard as you seem to think- both structural barriers (eg. childcare problems) to women's advancement, and plain old, semi-covert and occasionally even quite openly expressed sexism, are alive and well. So no, the experiment has not really been tried yet, not even once. Real progress has been made, but the playing field is by no means even yet.
That's exactly the attitude I'm talking about.
What attitude is that? The attitude of not ignoring reality? That's an attitude you could use a good deal more of, and not only on this subject.
Correct me if I'm wrong, Mr. LaBonne, but you believe that there are obstacles to women's advancement that aren't connected to actual discrimination and prejudice, right?
So that even if we eliminated the beliefs about women not being appropriate for the scholarly world, and the behaviors that those beliefs engender, you think there would still be a disparity in the male/female ratio? Is that correct?
I don't know the answer and neither do you, until those barriers are actually eliminated.
Bro. Bartleby says
Using PZ's mugshot as evidence, the male brain is ever expanding, so to the point of shoving the hair folicles out through the skull and onto the pillow case, onto the breakfast table, these expelled hairs everywhere, clear evidence that the brain is ever expanding, whereas with the female, the proof being the lush head of hair and a stablized brain that has found its optimum size.
Whoa whoa whoa. Let me quote a bit:
both structural barriers (eg. childcare problems) to women's advancement, and plain old, semi-covert and occasionally even quite openly expressed sexism, are alive and well.
You DO believe that there are factors involved with women's advancement that aren't products of discrimination. Calling them 'barriers' if you don't believe they actually make that advancement more difficult strikes me as very odd.
So: if these 'structural barriers' persisted, but bigotry was removed, you're saying that you DON'T believe that the inequality in the gender ratio would resolve. The subject of your belief is not an empirical matter beyond our ability to experiment with — I'm not asking what would happen, I'm asking what you *think* would happen.
David Harmon says
As I've commented elsewhere, it's flatly exploitative for an employer to demand so much time/energy that it interferes with their employees' reproductive cycle. It's treating the workers as consumable resources, instead of as human beings with intrinsic value.
I don't agree with wht appears to be your narrow definition of "discrimination" as being only things that even you are able to recognize as crude bigotry. If the playing field isn't level, it isn't level. (And it's still a long way from that.) When it IS level, THEN we can finally worry (or perhaps not worry) about biological barriers, if there turn out to be significant ones. "Whoa" yourself. You may now continue your diatribes solo.
If the playing field isn't level, it isn't level.
In other words, as long as the disparity exists, there is a problem — a problem that needs to be remedied not only by removing artificial barriers and abolishing prejudiced judgment metrics, but by actively striving to erase the disparity.
No matter how much childcare is offered, women who wish to have children have an inherent disadvantage. Pregnancy is a massive drain on time and resources, and in a highly competitive job environment, pregnant women are going to take a hit to their competitiveness.
Fair practices does not mean that we offer a handicapping system so that everyone can compete equally. Fair practices means that we offer a level field, then let the players bring whatever advantages and disadvantages they possess to it. Unequal competition is the point of the exercise — we merely need to ensure that the inequalities are inherent to the players and not impose upon them externally.
It's clear that you want a handicapping system put in, so that women are not only not prevented from succeeding, but are actively helped to overcome a disadvantage biology puts upon them if they make certain choices. If that position isn't shameful, why won't you state it openly and clearly, instead of hiding behind rhetoric about 'fairness'?
In other words, as long as the disparity exists, there is a problem
I said no such thing. Your inability to read is the reason why I am not interested in continuing this discussion.
Daniel Morgan says
Grok,
Good point, and good post — it's a question of priorities, and always has been. Women who want families and a high-profile career will have to work much harder than men, so long as women must bear the children and nurse them.
And so perhaps women should wait until they have tenure to procreate ;)
You didn't use those specific and particular words, no. The concept those words encode, however, is clearly expressed in your posts. You regard the absence of programs intended to assist women who make particular lifechoices (specifically, childcare facilities offered by academic institutions themselves to their employees) as a barrier to women's achievement which needs to be removed.
You don't mean 'level playing field' to refer to an objectively level field, you mean it to refer to one in which women can compete equally with men because the field is shaped to compensate for a disadvantage. A handicapping system.
If this isn't the case, please explain yourself — and explain what needs to be done to create the level playing field of which you speak.
The concept those words encode, however, is clearly expressed in your posts.
Bullshit. Never once did I talk about forcing outcomes to be equal. I said we need to genuinely level the playing field (which, contrary to your abysmally ignorant comments, is still a considerable way from happening) and then the outcomes will be whatever they will be. And I also said, and I now repeat, that nobody, including you, actually knows WHAT the outcomes will be in that case, because it's never yet been tried. Now please go learn to read plain English.
P.S. You might try re-reading the comments that got Larry Summers in trouble. Apart from the embarrassing amateur excursion into genetics, he actually said some quite sensible things about the need to make the academic career not just more female-friendly but what more often than not amounts to the same thing, more human-friendly. Ironically given the way he got himself in trouble, he actually understands what I said above a lot better than you do.
Never once did I talk about forcing outcomes to be equal. I said we need to genuinely level the playing field
But you won't explain what you mean by 'level playing field'. Your earlier comments suggest that you consider the absence of active assistance to be an obstacle just as prejudice is. Why won't you state clearly and openly that you don't believe that if it is not the case?
I don't agree with wht appears to be your narrow definition of "discrimination" as being only things that even you are able to recognize as crude bigotry. If the playing field isn't level, it isn't level.
The preceeding was your response to my queries about the distinction between prejudiced/bigoted discrimination and not actively seeking to aid accomplishment. The response indicates that the distinction I asked about isn't one you're concerned with, Mr. LaBonne. Your next statement strongly suggests that you consider a level playing field to require active assistance, and that the levelness of the field will be determined by the outcomes.
If that wasn't what you intended to express, I've given you ample opportunities to correct me. Instead of correcting my understanding of your statements, you've chosen instead to bash the conclusions with follow inevitably from them. Curious.
frumious b says
Grok-
Men get to have not only a family and an academic career, but also someone else to worry about the child raising and housekeeping issues. Why shouldn't you expect the same?
Things do not HAVE to be this way:
http://chronicle.com/jobs/2000/10/2000102703c.htm
The unwillingness to change institutional strucures that worked fine for "high-powered" men with slave-wives IS discrimination. Changing those structures is not "actively aiding", it is fairness. It is also beneficial to society, by ceasing to waste the potential contributions of good brains (of both sexes, by the way) whose owners do not wish to be workaholics.
P.S. None of which is intended to suggest that raw sexism is a thing of the past and structural issues of family-friendliness are the only things left to work on. On the contrary, if you would listen with an open mind to the stories of large numbers of female professionals, you would soon realize that the former is far from dead.
It would be nice for this to be a realistic option. :) But here we run into another biological limitation: few women have tenure before 35 (or even 40 for that matter), and one's chances of being able to bear a healthy baby — much less two, if you want your child to have a sibling — are much lower by then. So you pretty much can't wait, whereas if you're a man — as long as you marry a woman younger than yourself — this is a very feasible option.
I agree with whoever said that an employer should not expect so much time/energy that one cannot do their job and have a family as well. The costs of this fall disproportionately on women, but it's not very fair to men, either: I know many men, including my father, who chose not to have an academic career because of quality-of-life issues.
Many are fond of saying that "you need to be obsessive to be a successful scientist." Maybe you only need to be because we've set the system up that way — and by having this insane work expectation, we're excluding many (women and men) who might be very good scientists after all.
Daniel Martin says
In this vein, the cover story for the current issue of the Carleton College "Voice" (the magazine the college produces and sends to alumni) is about how Carleton kicks ass at graduating women who then go on to earn Ph.D.s in the "physical sciences": physics, astronomy, chemistry and geology. More women graduating from Carleton go on to earn Ph.D.s in those subjects then do women from Princeton, and Princeton's about twice Carleton's size. (Not to mention being at least somewhat more prestigious)
As a Carleton grad., it doesn't necessarily seem odd to me that the few upper-level physics courses I took were one-third female, though I understand that's weird elsewhere. (I was a math major who only occasionally dabbled in stuff taught over in that other building) I think that's a big part of it – it's not odd or unusual to see women in upper-level science courses, so more women take them, so it's not unusual to see them there… etc. How you start that cycle probably involves difficult deep cultural adjustments, but Carleton's got a bit of a head start, having been co-ed since its founding. (The first graduating class – 1874 – had two students, and was co-ed)
Anyway, the text of the article is available online at http://apps.carleton.edu/voice/2006summer/feature5.php. Sure, most of it is speculation (and a good bit of tooting their own horn) but they do present some decent ideas about what Carleton does differently from other similar institutions.
It's a shame that the flamewar between Steve and Caledonian completely buried this comment by David, which IMO cuts straight to the heart of the problem. The fact that this point is reached sooner for women than for men is merely incidental if it shouldn't be reached for *anyone*.
However, if some potential employees are willing (and able) to tolerate such an exploitative employer and others are not, how can you expect employers to change their practices rather than simply taking the employees they can get and running with them?
We're not talking about literal slave labor here, but about workers who, ultimately, *choose* to accept those terms and conditions of employment in preference to seeking another job or another career.
The employer has measurably more overhead when employing three 40 hr/week employees than two 60 hr/week employees, for roughly the same amount of work output. (Especially when they're on salary!) How can you convince employers to abandon the attempt to improve their efficiency? Unionize? Remember that corporate managers' and executives' primary responsibility is not to their employees but to their *shareholders*, whose interests are always going to be, to a certain extent, opposed to those of the employees.
Also, I think we should be careful to distinguish between policies adopted for other reasons that *unintentionally* have an unequal impact, and intentional discrimination. Unequal impact may be undesirable, but attempting to tar it with the brush of genuine bigotry simply weakens the word "discrimination" into uselessness.
There may still be a few managers out there who actually think "I'll promote Bob rather than Alice because he's a man and women aren't qualified to be leaders" rather than "I'll promote Bob because he has better leadership qualities" (which just happen to be the qualities typically associated with, and socially promoted in, men) or "I'll promote Bob because he worked harder over the last 6 months" (ignoring the fact that Alice was pregnant over those same months); while all three of these phenomena are problems, IMO, the term "discrimination" should be reserved for the first attitude.
Keith Douglas says
PaulC: Ever since I kept meeting people who need half the amount of sleep I do, I have suspected that a large proportion of productivity (and even genius) might be rooted there. Do you happen to know any investigations of this?
Daniel Morgan: I predicted a (male implantable) artificial uterus within 50 years in 2000. We'll see …
Kaethe says
My former division had an unusually high number of women attaining PhD for the field. Largely because the head of the division actively encouraged women to come for their graduate studies, but also because he expected everyone to have a life outside of work, and expected it to sometimes come first. He never treated students or staff as inferiors, but really listened to what anyone had to say. Best academic boss EVER, as proved by the turnout for his lifetime achievement award.
That's a very good point. Unfortunately, as with doctors, the system is so deeply ingrained that abolishing it would likely lead right back to its recreation. How can we force the academics/doctors/etc. to change?
Keith Douglas:
Ever since I kept meeting people who need half the amount of sleep I do, I have suspected that a large proportion of productivity (and even genius) might be rooted there. Do you happen to know any investigations of this?
Nope, but I'd love to hear about some. My sleep requirements are pretty average, but the comment about seasonal affective disorder (mild, undiagnosed, and not a consideration since I moved to the Bay Area) reflects more on my personal experience.
The "reduced sleep requirement" theory has at least one fictional embodiment that popped into mind (proving if there was any doubt what I geek I am) when I read Keith Douglas's comment: the character of Jordan in Real Genius, played by Michelle Meyrink:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089886/quotes
I never sleep, I don't know why. I had a roommate and I drove her nuts, I mean really nuts, they had to take her away in an ambulance and everything. But she's okay now, but she had to transfer to an easier school, but I don't know if that had anything to do with being my fault. But listen, if you ever need to talk or you need help studying just let me know, 'cause I'm just a couple doors down from you guys and I never sleep, okay?
AFAIK, needing less sleep isn't associated with brilliance or intelligence, but it is associated with greater productivity.
Caledonian: The direct result of needing less sleep would be greater productivity, but this has other consequences. For instance, you have more time to learn, so even if your raw cognitive capacity isn't any better, your skill set might be, as compared to those at the same nominal level. Your increased productivity also means that you can produce superior quality work in the same number of days, which is going to open up opportunities to work on higher profile projects that will make it look like you're actually better, not just more prolific. So I think that sheer productivity is not to be overlooked as a success factor.
Even when it comes to "genius" I can think of scenarios. When Andrew Wiles decided to attack Fermat's Last Theorem, he knew he would be focused on a potentially losing proposition for years. Suppose you had a problem to solve and even sketched out a set of approaches to try. You might guess that it takes a certain amount of time and that you cannot afford the risk to your career. But if that time could be cut in half, it could appear to be a reasonable gamble.
This presupposes that you can make good use of your extra time. A whole other area is just self-discipline and a lack of deleterious compulsions like gambling or drug addictions.
Quite true. I just don't recall any evidence suggesting that needing less sleep in any way implies more sophisticated cognitive skills.
I wonder if there are any negative consequences of squeezing sleep into a smaller period of time? Presumably there's a reason why we need to sleep for eight hours when our biochemistry mostly refreshes in four.
That's the crux of the issue, isn't it? Off the top of my head, here are some suggestions:
1. In the current system there is little "halfway" option between taking a tenure-track job and being an adjunct lecturer. If you become a lecturer, the hours still suck, the pay and job security sucks worse, you don't have time or support for research, and — most importantly — the chances of being able to get a solid, research-heavy tenure-track job afterward are very low. If there were jobs available, say 20-30hrs/wk, that paid less than tenure-track jobs but allowed for some research and some teaching, and that you could conceivably move on from into a tenure-track job (if you wanted), I'd be all over that. Not to mention that people in these jobs might actually take over some teaching that the tenure-track profs don't really have time to do as well as they would like. (I think some European/non-US systems may have something like this, but I don't really know).
2. Relatedly, if there wasn't a perception that taking a few years off (or slow) after grad school meant that you weren't serious, or were incapable of serious work, then probably many people would be less deterred. Not that I think one should reasonably expect to be hired to a tenure-track position after a few years of SAHM (or a few years of vastly reduced output), but if there was a halfway point below tenure-track/insane that one could step into first, that would help a great deal.
3. This may be too un-American to fly, but how about imposing some limitations on the number of hours an employer can expect of an employee, even if (especially if?) that employee is salaried? Even if it were 50 hrs/wk that would be significant (and would probably not hurt productivity much – several studies indicate that efficiency really goes down by the time you're up at 60/70/80hrs/wk). This would help women and men in many fields besides academia as well.
4. How about daycare / child support in the university, offered by the department? I'd feel a lot better about the prospect of having kids if I could hop in between meetings to breastfeed or my spouse and I could frequently visit with the child: 60 hrs/wk is less insane if it doesn't mean 60hrs/wk of never seeing your kid. Not to mention that even making the gesture would indicate that the department doesn't expect that having children will cripple your career.
Now, I don't know if these will work, but I think it's a mistake to decide in advance that it's not worth trying. Quite apart from the obvious point that saner working expectations will benefit men as well as women, I think it's a question of what selective pressures we want to build into the system. The current system puts heavy pressure on factors like "ability to work insane hours" and "ability to go on little sleep" as well as things like, e.g., "ability to think deeply and creatively about a hard scientific problem" and "conceive and rigorously test novel theories that advance science." A result is that many people who are quite strong on the latter two factors (some or many of whom might be even stronger on those factors than the ones who remain) nevertheless get selected out. This seems like a problem to me, even from the wholly self-interested PoV of universities with limited budgets.
Nymphalidae says
I think that in addition to not allowing women time to be pregnant, we should also not install elevators or wheelchair ramps in academic buildings. I mean, we don't want to be handicapping the system. People should deal with their biology and just accept that since they can't walk up all those stairs to the roof they probably don't deserve a career in astronomy.
Steve LaBonne – thanks for the link to that Chronice of Higher Education article… it's very good indeed. :)
The purpose is to better understand the world.
But that's the question. To what better understanding are you referring? What have we come to understand better based on faulty, unsupported conclusions about a putative diminished female capacity for math and science?
While I only have anecdotal evidence I believe that in general women are fully capable of higher education. I worked with a group of actuaries and about half of them were women. To become an actuary you have to pass a series of difficult exams. (on average it takes 7 years to pass all the exams for those that pass.) The vetting process has nothing to do with sex; the examiners only know the people taking the exams by exam number and no other identifying information. The vetting process is purely objective. Those women I worked with were highly capable and darn smart.
I grant you that my experience is anecdotal, but I think it rings true. That doesn't mean there isn't bigotry or barriers; I am sure there are. I think we have improved in the last 20 years and we have more gains to make.
I do think it is true that women who want to have children and a high powered career are in a tough position. I think once they have a child they have a tendency to put focus on the child. (I'm not trying to be sexist here but I do think mothers will go to great lengths to protect, nurture, and care for their child. Certainly in the animal kingdom you see it. ) This focusing on the child puts them at a disadvantage to someone who doesn't.
I think we should look up to those women who choose to have a child and take a hiatis. We should look for someway to accomadate them. Having a child didn't reduce their mental acuity. Our culture has an advantage over some other cultures in that we are trying to put women on a more equal footing. It is to our credit and our benefit. Lets keep moving in that direction.
Djur says
Grok: is there a reason you can't adopt a child instead of going through the process of creating a new one?
I am not aware that being wheelchair-bound in any way causes a person to be less capable of science or less competitive in academia. A disabled person whose health problems require them to spend so much time dealing with them that their academic competitiveness suffers shouldn't expect the standards to be relaxed to accomodate them — and should probably consider a different career path.
You mean like someone with ALS, who's permanently confined to a motorized wheelchair and can only speak – slowly – through a synthesizer?
Yeah, someone with that kind of handicap couldn't possibly make it in academia.
Not a chance.
Chris: One outlier does not make a trend. Stephen Hawking is a brilliant guy who has succeeded despite great difficulties. I would guess he'd admit that he'd be even more productive if he did not have ALS and would welcome a cure. For most people, fortunate enough to be reasonably healthy, even assuming they're reasonably intelligent, there are all kinds of obstacles to succeeding in science (e.g. just getting out of bed in the morning, limiting TV, and laying off the sauce). Some people with handicaps are going to do better than some people without, but for the most part, a physically disability will reduce, rather than enhance the likelihood of success in any given field.
Caledonian: According to a physiological psychologist I spoke to, there is a lot of varibility in how much people need to return to optimum functioning. The "eight hours" is an average; there are people who can make due with as little as one or require as much as thirteen.
Grok: About your third point – many progressives have argued for a long time that in order to improve employment situations for other reasons the amount of work required per employee be dropped. There's a book called "the end of work" or something like that which argues that we realistically could have near (i.e. within the margin of people changing because they want to, the severely retarded, etc.) full employment if we wanted, with the additional benefit of lots more leisure. Your suggestion points out there is yet another benefit.
PaulC et al: Hawking is also an anomaly in his lifespan. He's vastly outlived the lifespan of others with his condition; I wonder if the two are connected somehow.
Having something to keep living for might account for his longevity. In his position, but without his accomplishments, I think I'd long for death.
The Grouch says
Perfect example of the incoherent thinking that people indulge in when it comes to this topic. There's no reason to assume caregiving people tend to lack mathematical/scientific ability. Neither is there a reason to assume aggressive/violent people have high mathematical/scientific ability. I could be wrong, but I'm fairly certain there's no study suggesting that maximum-security inmates are better at math than the rest of us.
As for the "artificial cultures," it's fairly obvious that most of the people who try to create them have been exposed to the "real" culture, and therefore have most likely absorbed much of its prejudices.
I should also note that absolutely no one here has refuted, or even seriously engaged with, Jake Young's excellent points.
I didn't mean to imply that it made a trend, only that it broke an absolute rule. Hawking is certainly a "disabled person whose health problems require [him] to spend so much time dealing with them that [his] academic competitiveness suffers", yet because of his extraordinary talent, he succeeds anyway.
This suggests a pattern: general rules have individual exceptions.
If Hawking can succeed in doing great physics with ALS, it's hard to believe that someone else can't do great physics while pregnant; but that doesn't mean that we shouldn't attempt to accommodate pregnancy or ALS or any other condition that can make it more difficult to work, because [b]some of those people would make valuable contributions if we allowed them to do so.[/b]


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Gamochaeta stagnalis, the desert cudweed, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is native to Mexico, Guatemala, and the southwestern United States (California, Arizona, New Mexico).

Gamochaeta stagnalis is an annual herb up to  tall, producing a slender taproot. Leaves are up to  long. The plant forms many small flower heads in tightly packed clumps. Each head contains 3–4 purple disc flowers but no ray flowers.

Gamochaeta stagnalis is very similar to G. purpureum and some G. stagnalis specimens (especially from Arizona) have been misidentified as that species.

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Flora of the Southwestern United States
Flora of Mexico
Flora of Guatemala
Plants described in 1923


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Troy's position is a result of his driving his hands and the knob of the bat to the ball. The bat barrel lags behind the hands and once he attacks the ball with the barrel, the result is .. his hands are inside the ball and the barrel whips into the ball creating more acccuracy and power!
Here is another great hitter in the exact position you want to be in. This is Chase Utley in the 2009 World Series when he was red hot for the Phillies. This swing resulted in a Home Run! Can you believe it? You can't even see the barrel of his bat… only the KNOB! Bang! Homer in the World Series!
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Housing and Urban Development Secretary says about 1 million homeowners would get write-downs in the size of their mortgages under a proposed deal with banks over shady foreclosure practices and it could be reached in a few weeks. Using Donovan's estimate, the settlement could provide a reduction of about $20k for each of the 1 million borrowers.
Prior efforts to jump-start the housing recovery have fallen short of how they were promoted. "Principal reduction can have a substantial impact on the housing market nationally," Donovan said.
National decline in values hovers around 30% with Ocala, Marion County closer to 50% reduction in values since the boom times of 2004. Reports also show about 22 percent of U.S. homes have negative equity totaling about $750 billion, according to Core Logic.
Note: Any settlement would not apply to mortgages owned by Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac, which together own or guarantee most of the U.S. mortgage market. The reason is the cost to the taxpayers compared to other options. The White House will also lay out plans to convert foreclosure into rentals and start "Project Rebuild", part of Obama's American Jobs Act that aims to have construction workers rehab vacant properties. The estimated cost of $15 billion would creat 200,00 jobs and used to renovate thousands of vacant homes and properties nationwide.
In my opinion this will do little to help the housing arket nationwide but especially here in Marion County. The focus should be on banks and lending institutions to loosen lending practices. I do not think everyone who applies should get a mortgage, as has happened in the past(fog the mirror loans!!LOL) However, the challenges many good homebuyers face with banks is the largest problem. Credit score standards and income are to strict and oversight is needed to make loans more available to good borrowers.


After Action Reports are always deadly dull writing, but I had done so many I had it down to a science. The trick is to boil everything down to essentials and avoid editorializing except where individuals clearly performed in a manner above and beyond the call. I had mine completed in thirty minutes once we were back aboard the Borneo and turned it in to Lt. Atagi shortly after I was done. Rather than taking it and dismissing me, Atagi motioned me to sit.
I drew the weapon from its holster and released the magazine, then worked the slide to eject the cartridge in the chamber, catching it as it popped free. I set it on the desk in front of Atagi and he picked it up, turning it slowly as he examined it.
Atagi was staring at me as if he was seeing me for the very first time. When he realized I was finished he sat back a bit in his chair before speaking.
I realized my heart was pounding, my hands tightly gripping the arms of my chair. I forced myself to relax and looked him in the eyes.
"Why do you ask?" I said it calmly, but an icy finger touched me inside.
Atagi accepted it, but I knew there would come a time when that explanation would no longer be persuasive. For that matter I had to wonder when somebody would finally go rooting through my service record and connect the dots. I had accepted that reality when I chose to remain in the Corps rather than return to Earth and the McAllister Estate, but I did not look forward to that day at all.
When Atagi and I were finished I roamed the passageways of the Borneo, restless and uneasy. The action that day left a sour feeling in my belly that I could not easily wipe away. It was not the lives lost for I had lost comrades before, and it certainly was not the lives I had taken in combat for those people chose to fight and die… except for one. I was in the ship's gymnasium running long laps around the inside of the cylindrical hull when it came to me that one death that day was not so easily dismissed.
It was Moore, the Political Officer. Almost instantly a long list of rationalizations ran through my mind, a liturgy of self-chastisement for even wasting time thinking about Moore's death at my hands. There was no doubt it was justified and no one had even thought to question it, but nobody understood what I came to comprehend as I quietly disposed of all the easy reasons to be untroubled by his death: I knew I planned to kill him before I set foot in that engineering space. Moore was a dead man the moment I first heard his voice.
I picked up my pace as that realization finally took root, my feet smacking a hard rhythm against the track. Moore did not simply die, he was murdered. I had decided to kill him and deliberately set out to do it, and that was something I had not done in a very, very long time. Why now? Why him? People were still getting around on foot and horseback the last time I had done such a thing. It did not matter that he was a rebel against the Empire and appeared to be an adherent to as odious an ideology as Man had ever conceived, I had no right to decide he should die. It was the center of my understanding of who and what I was that no matter how many centuries I had witnessed and how well I thought I knew men and mankind it was simply not my place to judge people with such finality. Without that understanding I was more dangerous than Moore and his pathetic band of revolutionaries could ever be.
I did not realize I was running full tilt until my lungs began to burn and my vision blurred, but I could not stop and instead forced myself onward, needing the agony of the exertion to focus my mind on the unpardonable crime I had allowed myself to commit. There would never be any punishment for Moore was an insurrectionist and had publicly professed himself in rebellion against the Empire. Even were I to confess no officer or court would hold me to blame for my actions. Nobody would understand why the tears streaking my face had nothing to do with the pain wracking my body as I finally stumbled and fell.


Stephan Jäschke and Glenn Geffken will generate new painting memes. This exhibition follows closely after July, 2015's WE ARE ALL PROSTITUTES / POST IDENTITY ART group exhinition. After the introduction of Post Identity Art, these two new, young painters will extend notions of Post Contemporary Art.


When I was in school I loved getting a new assignment.
Each undertaking was a fresh opportunity to prove myself against a measurement.
As an adult, especially one self-employed, I am less afforded chances to measure up as I am expectations to hold steady. This makes fine the line between stable and static. I tend to only apply analysis to my situation when there is deterioration of the norm, a decline in comfort. When did I decide that advancement is an external assessment?
For the month of April I plan to move forward by giving myself an assignment. I am embracing the annual blog challenge created by Arlee Bird, of Tossing It Out, and his team of thinkerly types over at Blogging From A-Z. I am introduced to many contacts through the Modified Editing site, and many have questioned in some fashion why I have not updated anything since the end of last year. Am I still in business? Why, yes, I am! I have to remind myself, this is a blog, not an advertisement in the Yellow Pages.
Looking for some "assignments" to get yourself moving forward? Start with a local search for writing challenges. For example, every year there is a contest put on by the Pacific Northwest Writer's Association. Similar contests are found in any community, at any college, and anywhere online. Tumblr challenges abound for those of you with that special brand of Tumblr patience. Create your own challenge out of something you've always wanted to try.


Tasmania is a beautiful place; full of lush pristine wilderness, prime fertile farmland, and vibrant towns and cities full of history and culture, delicious mouth-watering food, and wonderful people.
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