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Blog 09/20/2022 - Truth vs the Fantasy of a Playmate in VN 1966!
World War II was the rise of the pin-up girls most notably Betty Grable, Rita Hayworth, Lana Turner, Jane Russell, Carole Landis & Veronika Lake while their look-alikes were splayed across the noses of big bombers and fighter planes alike. The Korean war saw new additions Marilyn Monroe, Bettie Page, Mamie Van Dorn, Mitzi Gaynor, Diana Dors and Betty Brosner.
However, 70 years ago, when the first U.S. military advisors arrived in South Vietnam, another iconic image would soon be plastered on planes and vehicles, helmets and flak jackets (body armor): the Playboy Bunny. A NY Times article describes Playboy Magazine of the 1960's as "a coveted and useful morale booster, at times rivaling even the longed-for letter from home. The military defines morale very specifically … and they talk about unit cohesion, a belief in the cause of the war." Many Marines, soldiers, sailors & airmen wrote to the magazine about how the images helped them remember what it was they were fighting for.
Most military strategists agree that, aside from actual firepower, nothing means more to an army than the morale of its men. From the days of the Army Doughboys & Marine Devil Dogs of WWI to the G.I. Joes & Semper Fi Macs of WWII, the American fighting man has seldom appeared on the frontiers of freedom without an abundant supply of that most time-honored of spirit-lifting staples: the pinup. From the exotic ladies of Paris in the trenches to the All-American dolls of Yank Magazine pages in Europe & the beaches of the Pacific, the pinup queen has remained a constant companion to our men at arms. However, the black & white postcards of WWI became the long-legged likenesses of such WWII lovelies as Grable and Hayworth gave way in the jungles of Vietnam to a whole new breed of photogenic females better known as the Playboy Playmates. The Playmates would lift the centerfold to a whole new level and it was lifted to legend when in November 1965 Second Lieutenant John "Jack" Price, a young Army airborne officer on duty in Vietnam, sent Playboy Editor-Publisher Hugh M. Hefner the following letter:
This letter is written from the depths of the hearts of 180 officers and men of Company B, 2nd Bn, 503d Inf, 173d Airborne Brigade (Separate) stationed at Bien Hoa, Republic of Vietnam. We were the first American troop unit committed in action here in Vietnam and we have gone many miles, some in sorrow and some in joy, but mostly in hard, bone-weary inches. You may have seen pictures of us in 'Life' 22 October 1965 and read of our victories and our setbacks in the neat black and white newsprint at your breakfast table, while we were picking off the leaches and loading ammo into empty magazines. We are proud to be here and have found the answer to the question, 'Ask what you can do for your country' and yet we cannot stand alone – and now I come to the reason for sending you this request.
Loneliness in a man's heart is a terrible thing – and Christmas and New Years (sic) Day are just around the corner. The beauty of Vietnamese women is unquestionable and yet, we would appreciate so very much a real, living, breathing American girl. Now we must consider who we would like to see.
We have unanimousley (sic) decided that she is the Playmate of the Year for 1965. We further understand that, with a lifetime membership purchase, a bunny delivers the initial copy. It is our fervent hope that she will be allowed to deliver this copy. Should she not be able to, any of the 1965 Playmates of the Month would be received with open arms.
If we are not important enough, alone, to send a playmate for, we could attempt to have some other units do as we have. If further, we could share our Christmas or New Years (sic) Day with her, it would be a privilege beyond compare. When she arrives in Saigon, we would assume responsibility for getting her to the unit and back.
I do hope that you understand the deep sincerity of our request and the hopes and dreams we have placed in it. We are anxiously awaiting your reply. Enclosed is a money order for $150.00 for a lifetime subscription for Company B, 2nd Bn, 503d Inf, 173d Airborne Brigade (Separate). Should a personal delivery not be possible, please just forget about us, return our money order and we will fade back into the jungle."
The letter was signed by 2nd Lt. John S. Price. Below his name was typed the title "Bunny project officer."
Deciding that only old soldiers should fade away, and seeing a good public relations story Nelson Futch, Director of Playboy Promotions who read the letter decided a letter of regret wasn't in order for the sheer bravado of this request. He briefed Hugh Hefner, founder and editor-in-chief of Playboy Magazine and immediately began drawing up plans for "Project Playmate." "When we first received the request," Hefner recalls, "we weren't at all sure how the Defense Department (DoD) would feel about Playboy sending a beautiful American girl into Vietnam at a time like this, but 2LT Price's letter was too moving to just put aside and forget. The lieutenant had obviously been a Playboy reader for quite a while, since he remembered a special Christmas gift offer the magazine published several years ago, which stated that a lifetime subscriber from any city with a Playboy Club would have his first issue delivered in person by a Playboy Bunny. Of course, we don't have a Playboy Club in Vietnam at the moment, but we figured we could overlook that little technicality under the circumstances."
In the weeks after company clerk Spc.4 Larry Paladino had typed up and sent Price's letter to Playboy, the combat-hardened men of Bravo buzzed about the prospects of meeting Jo Collins, whose centerfold photo hung on one of the thin wooden walls of the makeshift PX. The star of the December 1964 issue of Playboy, she was an All-American goddess with 36-24-36 curves. Her soft green eyes were often overlooked. Her appearance in Playboy had caused a sensation with the magazine's readership. An aspiring actress who had already appeared in a few scenes in beach movies, she was sugar and spice, but mostly spice in her December 1964 photo shoot and her August 1965 Playmate of the Year issue.
Her centerfold was the one that Bravo really loved. In it, she stood beside a pool, wearing nothing but strappy high-heels and what looked like a men's white dress shirt, which was predictably wet from the pool setting. Beads of water glistened on her long, tan legs, which tapered perfectly to her white toenail polish. The centerfold pinup was a refreshing sight for Bravo when they returned from their treks through rice paddies, elephant grass & triple canopy jungle dirty, thirsty and tired. Jo's & the other centerfolds hung on the makeshift PX (Post Exchange) wall were one of the few good things left to the sky soldiers, a little piece of America to savor.
PHOTO: Jo signs her centerfold at the Bravo Bulls PX.
On 3 January 1966, 2LT Price was leading an assault on a VC position across a rice paddy when he was hit by an enemy round in the left arm whose impact sent him flailing into the mud. The bone had been shattered cartwheeling through the mud. Staff Sergeant Willie Boyd rushed to Price's side in a heartbeat and half dragged him more than 100 yards to the protection of a dike under heavy enemy fire. Price kept one of the popular Vietnam-era Randall fighting knifes (probably a Model 14 or 18) bound to his leg with leather thongs and those thongs became the tourniquet that saved his life. As he lay in the mud against the dike, he wondered how long it would be before a dust-off medivac chopper could take him and his wounded men out. Price realized if he lived through the day there would be no Playmate for him if Bravo's request was even being considered.
Playboy's Nelson Futch was facing a public relations nightmare. His nice story of Price and Bravo's request had turned into a nightmare. Newspapers that had picked up on the "fluff-piece" were now reporting that Price lay badly wounded at the Army's 3rd Surgical Hospital (Mobile) at Bien Hoa, Vietnam. The papers were also bashing Playboy for refusing to honor the request and send a Playmate.
Playboy was taking a beating for typical Department of Defense (DOD) red-tape as Futch's call to the Pentagon Public Affairs Officer (PAO) had been a bust. Vietnam is a combat zone. We wish you luck, but the DOD can't be officially involved in sending a Playmate to a combat zone. Too risky. We can't help you, the PAO told Futch before hanging up.
Futch was desperate to stop the bad publicity so he feverishly worked all his contacts in Washington, DC but everywhere the answer came back the same: No can do. The State Department might approve a trip in late February if Playboy could overcome the DOD restrictions and wade through their mountain of paperwork, but anything earlier than that would be unfeasible. A lukewarm promise of a late-February visit did Playboy no good, since the doctors planned to ship Price back to the United States on 13 January and more bad press coming in the next few weeks.
Futch seemed to be facing the classic military saying of being "SOL." He had the perfect Playmate, Jo Collins (real name Janet Canoy.) Just 20 and one year out of high school in Oregon when she posed as Miss December 1964. She had the promotion man's dream nickname "GI Jo" to play on the original WWII G.I. (Government Issue) Joe nickname for the American soldier and a media boost from 1964's Hasbro Toy Company "G.I. Joe" original action figures. Futch could work with Collins as an adult "action figure" if he could just find a way. Collins was no finicky fashion model and had an adventurous spirit that he knew would accept the challenge even if she only had a faint idea of Vietnam's location.
With time running out, several executives were in Futch's office brainstorming when one finally in frustration blurted out, why don't we just put her on a Pan American Airlines flight to Saigon? They still fly out of San Francisco. Why bother with government permission? They can't stop us, can they? It was an idea but they still didn't have a way to get her around Vietnam without getting her killed. It was impossible without the military's transporting and protecting their vivacious Playmate.
Another colleague opinioned he had a sister who had worked for the United Service Organizations (USO) and knew the guy who organized their troop entertainment trips in Vietnam like the legendary Bob Hope trips. Futch had the work-around and immediately told his secretary to get three plane tickets. If she could catch a plane the USO coordinator would handle the details, Jo Collins was going to Vietnam! Hugh Hefner published Playboy for guys like the soldiers of Bravo and the magazine would come through for them.
Jo departed on 9 January. Dubbed PFC (Playmate First Class) Collins she flew Pan Am with her two-person team of Playboy's Playmate and Bunny Promotion Coordinator Joyce Chalecki and staff photographer Larry Gordon—from San Francisco. Collins went above the call of duty as with two movie credits the early departure caused her to miss an important audition for a principal part on TV's Peyton Place.
PHOTO: Jo makes a few last-minute logistic touch-ups changes of her own prior to deplaning on the runway in Saigon. "Any girl would reach for a mirror," she said, "with 400 men outside her plane's door."
After an 18-hour flight, Jo and her staff landed at Saigon's Tan Son Nhat Air Base, where 400 American servicemen and a battalion of newsmen and photographers had turned out to greet them. Jo was introduced to Lieutenant Clancey Johnson and a real PFC (Private First Class) Marvin Hudson, two Bravo Company Bulls who had been ever-so-willingly volunteers to serve as a stand-in reception committee for 2LT Price. They brought roses and the Companies Bull Skull that Native American tribes believe is a symbol of life-long protection from all natural elements. Bravo was proud users of the attributes of the bull, courage, toughness, strength and agility.
PHOTO: Playboy Playmate Jo Collins is greeted with a kiss by PFC (Private First Class) Marvin Hudson.
After the arrival ceremonies the three Playboy recruits were taken to a nearby "chopper" pad to board the "Playboy Special" a UH-1 Huey helicopter especially named in honor of their visit. "That first chopper ride really started things off with excitement," reported GI Jo. "It seemed as though we'd hardly even arrived, and there we were over hostile country being given our first taste of what they call 'contour flying.' That's where you skim the treetops to prevent possible enemy snipers from getting a clear shot at you and then, suddenly, shoot straight up at about 100 miles per hour to 3,500 feet so you can check the area for Viet Cong (VC) troop movements from outside their firing range. After our stomachs got used to it, we figured we were ready for just about anything."
PHOTO: The "Playboy Special" a "Slick" was escorted by Huey Gunships where ever it went.
Back on terra firma, the Playboy team set up their base of operation at the Embassy Hotel in Saigon after the original reservations at the Caravelle Hotel fell through. (Editor's note: MHT's reservations don't fall through – see group at the rooftop bar.) Press conferences were kept to a minimum so more time could be spent with the men at the front. The following day began the three-day tour of III Corps, the combat zone around Saigon. Jo and her colleagues got a chance to test their nerves, dressed in combat fatigues, they were issued flak jackets before boarding her "Playboy Special" Helo with their MP escorts for an initial front-line foray. "I realize it was a question of safety before beauty," said Jo, "but I couldn't help feeling a little insecure. After seeing some of Saigon's Vietnamese beauties 2LT Price referred to in his letter and catching a glimpse of myself in combat gear, I was afraid the guys wouldn't be nearly as homesick for an American girl once they had a basis for comparison." Flying low over VC-infiltrated territory with three fully manned gunships flying escort, the "Playboy Special" made its first stop at the 173rd Airborne Brigade Headquarters at Bien Hoa Air Base. In February 1953 the French Air Force established the facility at Bien Hoa. In December 1961, after the U.S. Military Assistance Advisory Group (MAAG) Vietnam requested it be jet capable, the U.S. Navy, oversaw the building of a new concrete runway.
PHOTO: 173rd Arrives at Bien Hoa
From 3 to 6 May 1965 USAF transport aircraft deployed the 173rd from Okinawa to Bien Hoa to secure the airbase and surrounding areas and the port of Vũng Tàu.
PHOTO:All of her fears the gorgeous Playmate might have harbored about her lack of sex appeal dissipated when she saw a mass of smiling paratroopers waiting on the airstrip to greet her.
Most of Bravo Company's soldiers were out running combat patrols on the Plane of Reeds during Jo's first visit to Bien Hoa, but the one man most responsible for her being in Vietnam, 2LT John Price was present and accounted for at his unit's surgical ward. In spite of a severely wounded arm that will require several additional operations before it is restored to full use, Price managed to muster up enough energy to give his favorite Playmate a healthy hug or two when she showed up to deliver his company's lifetime subscription certificate and the latest issue of Playboy. The lieutenant's initial reaction to seeing the Bravo Company sweetheart standing there in the flesh was "Gosh, you're even prettier than your pictures." Flattered, Jo sealed her delivery with a well-timed kiss. The doctors noted his improved condition waived hospital regulations for the day to allow Price to accompany Jo to lunch at Camp Zenn—the Company B base camp. Earlier in July 1965, 1LT Ronald Zinn and his platoon were patrolling through the steaming jungle in War Zone D when a firefight broke out when they stumbled on a VC camp. Zinn a 1962 United States Military Academy graduate a was KIA denying Bravo a respected leader plus a race walker who represented the USA at two Summer Olympics in 1960 & 1964 (his best finish was sixth place in the men's 20 km walk at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.) It was a dark day for the Bravo losing one of the company's most beloved officers. After his death, they named their camp in his honor. Colts Neck NJ has not forgotten this West Point hero as the 59th Annual Captain Zinn Memorial 5K Races is Sunday 2 April 2023.
PHOTO: Playboy's Vietnam Volunteer visits Lieutenant Price's wardmates at the Evacuation Hospital. "Most of them had been badly hurt," said Jo, "but no one ever complained."Counter-clockwise: Jo in the wards. Signing an autograph for a sky soldier. Jo and Lieutenant Price. They reunite and strike a pose. "When the 173rd Airborne Brigade was invited to the White House in 1985, they collectively decided I should be invited as well. It was such an honor," Collins says. "I had kept in touch with Lieutenant Price throughout the years, so it was great to meet with him in person."
PHOTO: Bien Hoa in III Corps, home of the 173rd.
After lunch, Jo put her best bedside manner to use as she paid a brief call on each of the men in 2LT Price's ward. "A few of the fellows asked me to help them finish a letter home, others wanted a light for their cigarette; but most of them just wanted to talk awhile with a girl from their own native land. A couple of times I was sure I would break down and bawl like a baby, but I managed to control myself until they brought in a badly wounded sky soldier who asked if he could see me before going into surgery. When I got to his side, he was bleeding heavily from both legs and I didn't know what to do or say to comfort him. Then he looked up at me with his best tough-guy grin and simply said, 'Hi, gorgeous.' After that, I lost all control and the old tears really flowed."
PHOTO: Jo said "I kept thinking how great it would have been if all those boys had been back home watching a Fourth of July celebration instead of out there in the jungle fighting for their very lives."
Before leaving Bien Hoa, Jo made additional bedside visits at the 93rd Medical Evacuation Hospital (Semi-Mobile) and the rest of the 3rd Surgical Hospital wards. "We were all ready to go and standing outside the Brigade Officers' Club when I first heard the sound of shots coming from fairly close by," explained Jo. "Then a few mortar shells went off, but it still didn't sink in how near the action we really were. I guess we'd all been too busy meeting wounded soldiers and talking to the men on the base to notice anything before. Then, right before our chopper lifted off, a series of flares went off and lit up everything for miles. I kept thinking how great it would have been if all those boys had been back home watching a Fourth of July celebration instead of out there in the jungle fighting for their very lives."
PHOTOS: Jo takes a ride to Black Virgin Mountain on the "Playboy Special", you can take the cable car up now!
The next day began with a flight, the group headed out toward some of the more crucial combat zones in the Saigon military theater. First on the day's itinerary was a stopover at Nui Ba Den, a mountain top held by the U.S. Army Special Forces 3rd MIKE (Mobile Strike Force Command) Force along with a strategic communications outpost.
PHOTO: MHT Group with Black Virgin Mountain in the background.
The Special Forces (SF) troops who had renamed their precarious hilltop position "Black Virgin Mountain." Rising some 3,200 feet above the surrounding countryside and under continuous assault from Viet Cong guerrillas operating in the densely wooded areas & mountain's caves below, Black Virgin Mountain is defended by a small detachment of SFs personnel and the South Vietnamese Army regulars placed in their charge. Despite their precarious position, the wearers of the famed Green Berets greeted the Playboy group with a typical show of SFs readiness: crowning Jo upon arrival with her own green beret, escorting her to various firing positions around the installation and serving as interpreters when Vietnamese soldiers asked to meet her.
PHOTO: Cao Dai Religious Temple
From Black Virgin Mountain the "Playboy Special" flew onto the Special Forces (SF) encampment at Tay Ninh, whose boundaries encompass the majestic Cao Dai Temple, the seat of the new Cao Dai religion, which combined the teachings of Buddhism, Christianity and Confucianism in 1926. "The temple itself was right out of a fairy tale," remembers Jo. "But its presence right in the middle of a combat theater made everything about it that much more strikingly unusual. We entered barefooted and were met by a different world, full of ornate columns, uncaged white birds and young head-shaven priests, while just outside men in uniform walked about with their guns always ready at their sides."
PHOTO: Jo helps hoist a Bunny flag.
Another 85 miles west over enemy lines brought the passengers of the "Playboy Special" to the Bu Dop District located on the Cambodian border. Here was one of the most strategically critical military outposts (A-341) in the entire III Corps war zone and protected by 5th Special Forces Group advisors & Civilian Irregular Defense Group (CIDG.) Only six months earlier, during the night of 19 July, two Viet Cong (VC) battalions attacked Bu Dop with two SF advisors and twenty CIDG strikers KIA. Arriving at Bu Dop in the afternoon of 20 July, SF CPT Stringham positioned his MIKE Force personnel on the south side of the camp perimeter and relocating the CIDG defenders onto the north side. The VC did attack the camp again that night but could not penetrate the defenses. "The Green Berets at Bu Dop went out of their way to try and maintain a relaxed air around us," Jo said, "but you could still cut the tension with a knife. We were introduced to just about everyone there was to meet, from the group commander to most of his Green Berets and South Vietnamese CIDGs, but it seemed as though none of them ever left his field position or took his eyes off the surrounding jungle. Some of the edge was taken off our nerves when the village chief and his two wives came by to welcome us, since they all projected the feeling of complete calm by nonchalantly walking about the community with nothing on from the waist up."
PHOTO: With the Green Berets at Bu Dop
Whatever tranquilizing effect the sight of a Vietnamese village chieftain and his two topless ladies might have had on the travelers was short-lived however, as the itinerary took them outside barbed-wire gates of Bu Dop and down the same jungle trail they had just been told was often swarming with Viet Cong. "Like most red-blooded female cowards," joked the 20-year-old Playmate of the Year, "Joyce and I hit the panic button the minute we caught sight of all the bullet holes in the side of our truck. And we both swear we saw Larry's shutter finger shake through an entire roll of film, but he refuses to admit it." As it turned out, the purpose of this overland junket into the unknown was to let some of Jo's fighting South Vietnamese CIDG fans, stationed 15 minutes away in a small Montagnard (native inhabitants of the Central Highlands) hamlet, to get a glimpse of the audacious green-bereted glamor girl before she left.
PHOTO: Jo (Center) knew about beaches having been in some beach films like "How to Stuff a Wild Bikini."
The final item on Wednesday's agenda was a flight to Vũng Tàu, a scenic coastal village on the Mekong Peninsula where American and South Vietnamese troops can enjoy a few days of much-needed R&R (rest and recreation) before returning to duty in the interior. "At first," says Jo, "I was afraid to ask any of the fellows how they felt about going back into combat after having a chance to get away from it all.
PHOTO: The top photo of loading a surfboard at Vũng Tàu may have inspired "Apocalypse Now" writer John Milius (credits: "Dirty Harry", "Magnum Force", "Jeremiah Johnson", "The Wind and the Lion", "Conan the Barbarian", "Clear & Present Danger" & "Red Dawn") to mix his love of surfing, machismo and warfare, like putting the Beach Boys "Surfing USA", Led Zeppelin's "Dazed & Confused" & Black Sabbath's "War Pigs" in a blender and out popped LTC Bill Kilgore's "Charlie Don't Surf" epic film attack to Richard Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries!"
PHOTO: Jo had modeled a Jantzen Suit (Top Left) in 1965 & the beach below.
I figured they'd all like to forget about war and just lie on the beach there until everything got settled. It didn't take me long to find out otherwise. Many of our boys in Vietnam may only be 17- and 18-year-olds who don't know much about world politics, but I came away from places like Vũng Tàu convinced that they know why they're there. Nobody's going to make them throw in the towel."
PHOTO: Bravo Bulls Return for Jo.
Jo's last day in Vietnam wound up being the busiest of all. With a gallant assist from Brigadier General Ellis W. Williamson, USA who led the 173rd Airborne Brigade in its deployment to South Vietnam, becoming the first major US Army ground combat unit to deploy to Vietnam, she got a second chance to complete her mission as planned when the patrols and outposts from Company B were called back to Bien Hoa for a 24-hour lifetime subscribers' leave and a long-awaited look at the Playmate of their choice. One by one, the combat-weary paratroopers filed off their choppers and hurried over for a hard-earned hello from Jo. A few even produced crumpled copies of her December 1964 Playmate Centerfold they'd been carrying in their helmet liners in hope of someday having them autographed. "When I saw all those happy faces running toward me from every direction, I knew we'd finally gotten our job done," she said.
Reporters and photographers suddenly crowded Bravo Company. We want a big kiss from the company commander, they said, so we can get a picture. CPT Les Brownlee immediately knew he wanted no part of that as a married man. He turned to two of the company's radiomen, Spc.4 Paladino and PFC John Cotanch and said "Listen, you guys do all my talking for me anyway, so take care of this." Brownlee studied both of them. Paladino, who had typed Price's letter to Playboy, was a smooth talker when it came to contacting headquarters. Maybe he should greet Collins, Brownlee thought. Cotanch was a smooth talker, too, however Cotanch had no front teeth. The Captain nudged Paladino forward.
PHOTO: Playboy Playmate Jo Collins and Spec.4 Larry Paladino share a kiss at Bien Hoa Airbase, Vietnam, 1966. (COURTESY OF LARRY PALADINO)
Paladino didn't need any further encouragement. He stepped forward, taking Collins in his arms, tilted her back and laid a world-class kiss on her. The men of Bravo roared. They couldn't believe Paladino's nerve. He was filthy from 10 days in the bush, and here he was all over this beautiful young woman. They slapped each other on the back as Paladino kept Collins locked in the kiss. GI Jo didn't flinch, throwing her arms around Paladino and kissed him as passionately as he kissed her. She had flown in a Huey over the heads of the Viet Cong to get here, and there would be no disappointing the sky soldiers. Seconds ticked by, the men hooted and whistled, and still the kiss continued. The stress of combat melted from the crowd of laughing men. Bravo laughed to see the grimy Paladino and the beautiful pinup locked in their embrace. They all shared it as one, the pinup that looks like an angel. The most beautiful thing they had seen in a long time.
PHOTOS: Hefner was wrong on the assumption that there were no Playboy Clubs in Vietnam as before leaving Bien Hoa, Jo makes a tour of other companies' "Playboy Clubs" (She seemed to run across these 'clubs' at every GI base.)
One more trip into "Indian Country" was on the agenda before Jo headed back to Saigon and a Hawaii-bound jet. Landing in War Zone D, where just two months earlier the Sky Soldiers of the 173rd had conducted Operation Hump, a search and destroy operation in an area about 17.5 miles north of Bien Hoa. The U.S. 1st Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment, 173rd Airborne Brigade conducted a helicopter assault and on 8 November had a major engagement when a VC Regiment attempted to encircle and overrun the 1/503rd resulting in 49 U.S. killed and between 400-700 VC killed. Jo was escorted to the War Zone D Brigade Headquarters, where a grateful BG Williamson was waiting to hand her a farewell memento of her short but eventful stay in Vietnam.
PHOTO: The General & the plaque, on temporary Marston Matting LZ and with a four-duece, 4.2" mortar.
He presented a plaque upon which had been inscribed the words: "Know ye all men that, in recognition of the fact that Playmate Jo Collins traveled to the Republic of Vietnam to deliver a Lifetime Subscription to PLAYBOY magazine to sky soldiers of the 173rd Airborne Brigade and demonstrated exceptional courage by volunteering to travel into hostile areas to visit its men and in doing so exhibited the all-the-way spirit typical of true airborne troopers…I, Brigadier General Ellis W. Williamson, do appoint her an honorary Sky Soldier, done this 13th day of January, 1966."
PHOTO: Mission accomplished, our home-bound trooper visits Pearl Harbor's Arizona Monument to pay respects to heroes of another decade.
The day after her Saigon departure, Jo received further praise from high places for the job she had done. Between visits in Honolulu to Tripler Army Hospital and Pearl Harbor, she was called on the phone by U.S. Ambassador at Large Averill Harriman, who wished to express his and Secretary of State Dean Rusk's congratulations on all the good reports they'd heard concerning her morale-lifting mission. Needless to say, Jo was highly honored by the tributes of so dignified a brace of statesmen, but, as she put it, "The finest compliments I could ever receive have already been sent in the letters of over 200 fellows I was lucky enough to meet somewhere near Saigon."
It remained for the men of Company B to pay their Playmate postmistress the highest honor, however, by renaming their outfit "Playboy Company" and thus assuring Jo that her presence south of the 17th Parallel would not be soon forgotten. When asked how she felt about becoming the official mascot for this troop of front-line sky soldiers, a jubilant Jo replied, "I've never been prouder." As the company's new namesake, Playboy seconded that statement.
GI Jo's unselfish visit has been said to be the genesis for the "Apocalypse Now" Fantasy Playmate Helo scene (well really isn't the entire film a fantasy of Coppola on the Vietnam War based on an 1899 novella about a Belgium ivory trading company in the Congo Free State!?!? We have already discussed LTC Bill Kilgore's obsession with surfing but I watched with a Vietnam Veteran who laughed out loud at the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry Regiment's helicopter-borne air assault playing "Ride of the Valkyries" on loudspeakers giving the VC a warning they were inbound. Coppola got everything wrong except the cavalryman taping his magazine on his helmet as they flew in.
PHOTO: Outtakes from Jo's December 1979 pictorial Playmates Forever.
She became a Bunny Mother at the Chicago Playboy Club in 1972, "I can't tell you how many times people have asked me to write a book," she said "Everybody has a story, so I just never felt like it was worth writing about mine."
PHOTO: Jo today still looks the part being interviewed in 2020 with her Playmate of the Year issue cover, now as a grandmother.
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Yelp takes on Foursquare with new iPhone check-ins
Anthony Ha
It looks like local search and review site Yelp is entering the location-based fray. In the latest version of its iPhone app, Yelp has added the ability for users to "check-in" and share their location with friends, similar to what you can do on services like Foursquare and Gowalla.
Judging from the description on the company blog, Yelp Check-ins will have the features I'd expect: Your friends can see a list of all of your check-ins. You can bring up a map of nearby check-ins. You can cross-post your check-ins on other services like Twitter. Yelp will highlight users who check-in frequently at a single location, but unlike Foursquare's game feature, where everyone competes to become the only "mayor" of particular location, each location in Yelp Check-ins will have a group of "regulars."
The company says:
"Yelp Check-ins is a natural extension of our existing product. Best of all, it gives the 1.25 million people who used our app last month a new way to share information about local businesses with their friends and other users. Check-ins will also be integrated into our website experience, adding another layer of trusted data for consumers who are reading the reviews. Now not only will you be able to see who posted the review — but how many times they've been there. This also helps business owners understand who some of their most loyal customers are."
Yelp has the advantage of a large audience, plus it can integrate check-ins with its existing data and services. As noted above, Yelp plans to show check-in counts next to reviews, so you can see if the reviewer is basing their opinion on lots of experience or a single visit. And as businesses are starting to do with Foursquare, they can offer promotions and discounts to their regulars.
The question is whether Yelp can convince a large percentage of its users that they want to share this kind of information. Meanwhile, besides the location-based services I already mentioned, Yelp may have other competition soon: Twitter acquired a company called Mixer Labs last year to do more with location data, and we've also predicted that Facebook will enable location sharing sometime this year.

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Winter Spiral is this Sunday & Monday - all details inside!
Explore Waldorf Education was so informative and inspiring. I am very thankful to our panel of teachers, parents and high school students, who spoke so truthfully about the benefits of Waldorf Education from a real world perspective. Larry Tong (parent of a 6th grader and Kindergartener) reflected on the demands of a structural aeronautical engineer and how engineers are suddenly expected to think outside of the box, when they were trained their whole lives to think and perform inside the box. He also spoke about his own child's education and how in Waldorf Education, we teach everything at a particular time in the child's development - not a moment sooner or later - but exactly when it is the right time. As such, his child is thirsty for what is to come, instead of burning out on what he is learning. His son can't wait for the more advanced science ahead and is salivating!
Jessica, a high school teacher, and Waldorf alum herself, explained that she valued her education because we see things as a system instead of isolated units. This consistent approach helped her tremendously when working in the field of allergies and looking at the whole picture to find cause and solution.
The high school students talked about the difference of instruction (to fill) and education (to draw forth). They also gave us a beautiful image of them as seniors and the duality of standing at the top of a mountain, looking down at all the years behind them and the richness of their education, and at the same time, knowing that everyone is looking up to the top of the mountain at them. They feel the responsibility of passing along their experience to others. They are passionate, poised and ready to dive into college. One of them also talked about the difference of being "pointy" and well-rounded. Ask me about it!
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Winter Spiral will be held this Sunday, December 10th and Monday, December 11th in the MVWS Social Hall!
This is a powerful experience for both family and child. Your child will be going on a journey and we will be able witness their strength and bravery. The music will start and one by one, the children will walk the spiral. Who they are at this time is very special and the Winter Spiral will give you the chance to really see that. If you would like to know more about the meaning of WinterSpiral, we recommend this article from City of Lakes Waldorf School.
This is a silent event - please, no talking.
If you are not able to attend, please let your child's teacher know.
The commission was very impressed with our school and expressed gratitude for all we are doing to set an example for others. Thank you to Billie Gentry for helping me with the application!
Calendars are priced at $18 and will be in stock in our school store early next week!
Our 3rd - 8th graders performed beautifully on Tuesday night! Thank you again to our Chorus teacher, Francesca Preponis; our Strings teachers, Anna Adkisson and Lucy Ford; our Strings tutors, and Grace First Presbyterian Church. And thank you to our parents for supporting music education for your children!
Thank you again to our Parade Committee, and all the parents who helped create our float, for making it possible to be in this year's Belmont Shore Parade with thousands of watchers!! It was an amazing experience, and our students were incredible ambassadors!


This essay is a contribution to the Second Annual Demand Response Conference sponsored by George Washington University and the law firm of Husch Blackwell. Demand response is a term that is used in debates about potential ways of reforming regulation of electricity to provide consumers with the proper incentives to conserve electricity. In this essay, Professor Pierce attempts to describe the basic economic and legal principles that are implicated in the debate in terms that make the debate more accessible to participants, policy makers, and the general public.
Richard J. Pierce Jr., A Primer on Demand Response and a Critique of FERC Order 745, 42 Envtl. L. Rep. News & Analysis 11025 (2011).


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Your first interracial date is going to be as exciting as going on a roller coaster for a kid for the first time. The interracial date brings in a few surprises you may have never expected, a few cultural shocks you may not have been ready for and a few facts that you may have never heard of. Get ready for your big day that has just arrived thanks to the interracial dating website you have been using for the past few months. Be sure to put your best clothes and your best behavior with a positive attitude for your first interracial date. Here are a few tips that will come handy on your first interracial date.
Butterflies in the stomach and nervousness will always be there while dating an interracial woman for the first time. You never know how things are going to unfold for you. However just remember one thing that she said a YES to date you. Both of you are together on a date since she also has interest in meeting and knowing you more. Focus on the positive traits you have, trust your wits and intuitions. Leave all the negative thoughts at home before stepping out for the first date. Be your natural self. A majority of the women will like to see the kind of person you are in your raw form. Do not pretend to be someone you are not. Women have a strong sensing power and they are going to sense if you pretend.
Choosing a location is the hardest part when you are dating someone for the first time. First and foremost chose a location that is equidistant from your place and her place. Secondly, the place should not be too overcrowded. Avoid shady locations and bad neighborhoods. A coffee shop can be an ideal location for your first date since it is not too heavy on the wallet and offers you a good start in the form of coffee which is considered as the best ice breaker for first-time daters. Keep your first date short and crisp. Keeping it short means you always have a second chance to meet her in the real world. Apart from that, you keep your mysterious self-hidden along with the suspense of your date's personality which will unfold in the subsequent meetings.
Being polite in your words and gestures is not going to take away your macho image you have built for yourself. Open the doors for her; all doors – the car door, restaurant door. It will surely leave a good impression on her and talk a lot about your personality. You have planned the date so make sure that you pay for everything. Don't even suggest spilling the bills. However, if she insists firmly on splitting the bills go for it. Don't hurt her sentiments on the first date itself. Being on time is something that you need to make sure. Plan accordingly. Keep the traffic snarls and rush hour in mind and get out of the house early. It will hardly make a difference if you are five minutes early. However, if you are ten minutes late your prospective first interracial date may prove to be your last date with your dream woman.
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The current bout of violence began following reports of coordinated attacks on police posts by the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA), an armed militant organisation, on 25 August – after which the Myanmar military launched a massive response. Weeks before the current outbreak of violence, on 11 August, the UN Special Rapporteur on Myanmar expressed concern on increasing military build-up in Rakhine State. The violence broke out immediately following the release of a report by an international commission headed by the former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, which called for reforms to address wide-ranging forms of discrimination faced by the Rohingya community. On 29 August, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights cautioned all sides on fuelling further violence and called on the government leadership to condemn the inflammatory rhetoric and incitement to hatred that is proliferating. He further expressed concerns on unsupported government allegations that international aid organisations were complicit in or supporting attacks, as this places aid workers in danger and may make it impossible for them to deliver essential aid.
Myanmar has so far failed to restore full humanitarian access following the preceding period of violence that began in October 2016. The Myanmar government has hitherto been reluctant to cooperate with the FFM and has denied allegations relating to violations of international human rights law and humanitarian law. The government has also refused to reform discriminatory laws that affect the Rohingya community and deny them full citizenship rights, leaving the community in a vulnerable situation.
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We want our children to be safe, happy and healthy but that does not mean wrapping them up in bubble wrap and protecting them from every unpleasant experience.
I believe children need to learn accountability, responsibility and suffer the consequences of their decisions and actions.
I am not a perfect parent. I have no qualification to teach or give advice on parenting.
What I am is a parent with 29 years and 10 months experience.
I am also a health care professional who has observed thousands of family interactions.
I feel concerned for children that are over parented. Yes, you read right… OVER parented. Those that are over protected, from bumps, scrapes, eating dirt, disappointment, confrontation, failure and thinking for themselves.
You are afraid your child will hurt themselves. You will not let your child play on anything unless it surrounded in the approved grade mulch, your back hurts from following your toddler around sharp furniture and there is no way any child of yours will help in the kitchen with the dangers of hot stoves and sharp knives.
You are a professional toy researcher, checking online for 10 hours before you make a decision in case the toy is not educational, safe or fun.
You are chronically over prepared. Did you pack the sunscreen, extra snacks, and water bottles spare clothes. How about that flare gun and life raft? Children of the helicopter parents have a four course meal for ever outing….just in case.
You are reluctant to let your child make decisions. You schedule your child's extracurricular activities; choose their friends, their daily outfits and their diet.
You have interfered in a selection process for your child to be selected for a particular sports team or school. If there is an interview you will answer for your child.
You can't stand it when they cry. You give treats on a regular basis, give in to every whim, and are unable to say "No".
You protect them from conflict and act like a security guard, stepping in to help your child resolve arguments. If there is an argument with a friend when you are not there, you will contact the other child's parent to sort it out.
You shield them from failure. You are up at midnight gluing together the science project, rather than let them fail.
More on homework. When they ask for help, you give the right answers rather than teach them how to look it up or answer for themselves.
You over obsess about anti-bacterial sprays and hand wash. Overdoing the germ thing is tiring. Kids do get sick but they do get better.
The helicopter style of parenting may be out of sheer love and concern for your child. Subconsciously however, you might have deeper reasons for doing so.
You worry about your child's possible failures and you believe that your involvement can help your child avoid a low-grade in school or disappointment in life.
Parents who were neglected, ignored and unloved during their childhood try to be over-careful with their children. They pay excess attention and monitoring to make sure that their children do not feel the way they did in their childhood.
Worry can drive parents to take control of their children to keep them from being disappointed or hurt. Your anxiety about the child's career, economy and the world in general can make you take over control of the child in an attempt to overprotect them.
Parents might sometimes get influenced by other micromanaging parents. Observing others may pressurize us to be like them. Comparing (oh the good old emotion of guilt) ourselves may make us feel that we are bad parents.
What Are The Effects Of Overprotective Parenting?
Helicopter parents start being overprotective with a genuine intention but in the process of engaging with kids and their lives, they lose the actual perspective of what they want.
Children refuse to learn basic life skills such as packing lunches, tying shoe lace, cleaning the mess, laundering clothes and cooking a meal.
When the parent is always there to prevent the problem at first sight or clean up the mess, the child can never learn through failure, disappointment or loss. Studies also reveal that hover parents can make their kids less competent in dealing with tensions and pressures of life. How can children learn to problem solve if we always rush in with a ready answer or solution.
When parents get over involved in their child's academic, social and athletic lives, children may get accustomed to always having their parents to fulfil their needs. This makes them demanding as they feel that it is their right to have what they want.
Helicopter parenting backfires! The over involvement of the parent makes the child believe that their parents will not trust them if they do something independently and it, therefore, leads to lack of self-esteem and confidence.
Helicopter parenting increases a child's depression and anxiety levels. They are always in look out for guidance, and when left alone, they become too nervous to take a decision.
I believe our role as parents is to raise healthy independent people who can function within and contribute to society as capable adults. This thing is stepping in when your child is a toddler is sometimes easiest and can save the day but problems start to arise the older a child gets.
As our darling toddlers grow into older children then tweens and teens they refine their need for independence and privacy. A helicopter parent who is used to calling the shots, making the decisions and providing accountability for and on behalf of their children had better be ready for some conflict as the child grows up.
Sometimes I would feel sick watching my children undertake activities or decision I knew could end in pain and tears. Teaching 2 year old Stacey to cut with scissors, "letting" 8 year Chris climb trees way beyond any safety net, knowing 19 year old Gemma was driving alone across the country.
Side Note: I never won the tree climbing battle. Chris is now a qualified arborist and the snap chats he sends me from work scare the flop out of me and yes he has had some major accidents.
But this young man had made a career out of doing something he loves: climbing trees.
A grade will be low on an exam if a child does not study, however that's their problem, not yours. The beds might not be made nicely, or even made at all. Just shut the door.
If one of your children had a fight with their best friend, remember that is their problem NOT yours. Offer advice or suggesting if they ask you, otherwise let them learnt how to negotiate conflict and relationships.
My approach to parenting was based on the teachings of a positive parenting class I took very early in which taught me about natural and logical consequences. I will be writing about that in later blogs.
In short children need to learn about and experience the consequences of decisions they make. If a child forgets to take a hat to school, don't run it up there for them. Let them sit under the veranda and watch the other kids play without them.
If your toddler won't put his shoes on to play outside when you have explained the concrete is too hot to go barefoot, let him feel how darn hot that concrete is himself.
I let them do things.
Stop doing so much. No wonder you are so darn exhausted.
Stay tuned for my posts on natural and logical consequences.
My own parents were NOT helicopter parents. The opposite is known as free range parenting although I would say they were more hammock parents……. That's another blog.
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Born on a sharecropping plantation in Northern Florida, Ray Charles went blind at seven. Inspired by a fiercely independent mom who insisted he make his own way, He found his calling and his gift behind a piano keyboard. Touring across the Southern musical circuit, the soulful singer gained a reputation and then exploded with worldwide fame when he pioneered couping gospel and country together.
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New Jersey leaders should pursue a broad range of policy options to expand opportunity so that everyone in the state—no matter who they are, where they live, or how much money they make—can live the healthiest life possible, according to the results of a new report released Wednesday by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
The Foundation developed the report, Building a Culture of Health: A Policy Roadmap to Help All New Jerseyans Live Their Healthiest Lives with analysts at the Center for State Health Policy and the John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development, both at Rutgers University.
Informed by extensive research and months of conversations with nearly 300 community residents, nonprofit and business leaders, and others from across the state, the report identifies 13 priorities for building a culture of health in New Jersey in three areas: healthy children and families, healthy communities, high-quality, equitable health and social service systems.
The report is very clear: If we truly want to improve health and well-being in our state, we must make sure that opportunity is there for everyone.
The recommendations span multiple sectors, including education, housing, nutrition, income, and health care, with a particular focus on health equity, or the principle that everyone should have a fair and just opportunity to be as healthy as possible, regardless of race, place, gender, income or any other factor. Recommendations include providing high-quality early education for all three- and four-year-olds; helping everyone fully benefit from the recently expanded paid family leave benefit; creating and preserving affordable homes; and integrating mental health, addiction, and physical health services for Medicaid enrollees. Each recommendation addresses pressing needs, advances health equity and is supported by evidence.
"The report is very clear: If we truly want to improve health and well-being in our state, we must make sure that opportunity is there for everyone. This is what we mean by health equity," said Dr. Richard Besser, president and chief executive officer of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in a statement. "Everyone should have access to the building blocks of good health and well-being: from good jobs with fair pay; to safe, affordable housing; a good education; and a high-quality health care system that meets its patients' needs and is invested in keeping people healthy," concluded Besser.
The Foundation is exploring ways to work to help make these recommendations a reality.
Examples of the wide and, in some cases, growing health gaps New Jersey faces include: in Cumberland County, 44 percent of premature deaths could be avoided if residents had the same opportunities as those in healthier counties; average life expectancy in Trenton is 73 years, but is 87 only 13 miles away in Princeton; and statewide, babies born into black families are twice as likely to die before his or her first birthday than those born into white families. The policy options outlined in the report are aimed at eliminating inequitable gaps like these by addressing the factors that shape health.


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Q: Can I extend a network by connecting two Modems via a RG-6 coax cable? Assuming I have normal routers on either end? The flow of Data would be as follows: ISP --> Modem 0 --> Router 0  As would be in a normal home internet setup.
Then LAN 0 from Router 0 --> (Via Ethernet) --> Modem 1 WAN
Modem 1 ==> (Via Coax) ==> Modem 2
Modem 2 --> (Via Ethernet) --> Router 1 WAN
Router 1 LAN --> (Via Ethernet) --> Computer 1
I already have the equipment and the cable is already ran between two outbuildings. The modems I have are Arris Surfboards SB6121's.
I assume this is completely possible on a physical level? But, that it might not be possible for me to do with these modems themselves. Has anyone tried to do this? Or is there some special software that ISP's/manufacturers use to assign the correct privileges/settings to these consumer level products? I saw in another answer you could use a MoCA converter, but that's not what I'm really interested in, I would just use radios/repeaters if I wanted a cheap work around.
Thank you in advanced!!

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Supply to heavily influence Canadian market
Sustained market strength, subject to supply constraints, will be the predominant dynamic in the Canadian housing sector for the rest of the year, according to Royal LePage CEO Phil Soper and Sotheby's Canada CEO Don Kottick.
In a joint interview with The Financial Post, the two executives highlighted the major role that housing inventory will play in the period immediately after the COVID-19 pandemic eases.
Soper said that home prices largely rely on the balance between supply and buyer activity.
"There are a lot of people who are looking to put roofs over their heads," Soper said. "We just don't see the number of homes for sale, the supply side of this, climbing to the point where home prices will collapse."
Royal LePage's latest predictions have placed annual growth by year-end at 2.5%.
"It's about half the long-term rate of home price appreciation we've seen in Canada, so we're not talking about a great year – but it's far, far from the doom and gloom that some of those who are not as close to the market [as us] have prophesized," Soper said.
Kottick said that the Bank of Canada's current record-low key interest rate will also feed into this trend, thus keeping the market afloat.
"The Bank of Canada mentioned that it is highly unlikely to touch interest rates until 2023, so the money is going to be a lot more affordable for the foreseeable future," Kottick said. "And that was always a concern: 'When we come out of this, is the government going to increase interest rates?' Which will have an adverse effect. So that's one dynamic that has been kind of answered until 2023. I think that will add a lot of confidence to the market."
The question of supply should be in policymakers' minds even long after the outbreak has passed, Kottick said.
"We have never addressed the supply issue in Canada, and I think we're seeing the impact of [the fact] that supply has never been increased," Kottick said. "When you look at the global environment, I think this [crisis] has put the spotlight on Canada as being a global destination. We've been getting calls from our affiliates all over the world – India, the Asia-Pacific region, the Middle East – and they all want to expose their markets to us. I think there might be a drop in immigration, but I think the government understands the need for immigration so it is going to be ramped up. I think we're going to see a surge of people who want to come to Canada."
Soper echoed these sentiments, saying that as a premier destination, Canada will likely see intensified demand from inbound populations.
"The solution is the supply side, and it's not going to get addressed in a piecemeal fashion," Soper said. "When we come out of this, the new normal is going to have to focus on health, education, and housing as major national priorities that align federal, provincial, and municipal governments to providing enough for our growing population."
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SQL Data Compare /w SDK output -> CSV like SQL Data Compare?
When data comparing using the SDK, is the ability to export to CSV exposed similar to what is available in SQL Data Compare/Tools/Export Comparison Results?
Is it possible to use a SQL query as a source of a data compare?
There might be a query I want run and cannot choose from a view or table..
Unfortunatly that's buried deep in the UI, and isn't part of the API. Would you like me to log a feature request to make it avaliable?
It's possible to export the project to CSV using the SQL Data Compare command line interface, if that helps at all.
You can configure a where clause to restrict the data being compared if that's what you're looking for. It is also possible to compare a sql script or a collection of scripts as a data source.


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Bar Association of San Francisco Events Calendar
The Bar Association of San Francisco presents
Diversity and Equality Bundle
June 3, 2019: 10:00 am - 2:00 pm
MCLE Credits - 4 H, of which 1 hour in Elimination of Bias in the Legal Profession can be acquired
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The Diversity and Equality Bundle provides MCLE programs around the theme of what minorities face in the legal world.
The Housing Crisis: An Access Crisis for People with Disabilities
10:00 - 11:00 a.m.
During this panel, attendees will learn about barriers to accessible housing confronting people with disabilities living in the Bay Area. The housing crisis affects us all, but panelists will discuss its particular impact on tenants and homeowners with disabilities. Attendees will also learn about how disability rights activists worked with Airbnb to improve access to the sharing economy for travelers with disabilities.
Powering Global Change: How Pro Bono Partnerships Advance Gender Equality
11:00 - 12:00 p.m.
This panel will address a significant barrier to women exercising or protecting their human rights: access to legal services. Lawyers play a critical role in defending human rights, but women around the world face financial, social, and geographical obstacles to obtaining legal representation and support. Pro bono partnerships among lawyers, firms, and organizations can help advance women's human rights globally. This panel will examine ways that volunteer lawyers from a variety of settings--law firms, in-house, non-profits, and those in career transitions--can partner to power global change and advance women's human rights. Panelists will discuss pro bono opportunities and engagement, as well as the challenges and potential of such partnerships.
For Cause or Not For Cause: A Voir Dire Demonstration
When it comes to jury selection, multitasking is crucial. Managing the procedures, building a rapport with jurors, exposing jurors who are bad for your case, these are some of the many tasks associated with jury selection. In this program, mock jurors will respond to questioning from both plaintiff and defense counsel in a class action case. Both sides of the case will target their questions according to the mock juror's questionnaire responses. This panel will provide a live-action interaction and discuss best practices for questioning jurors in other cases.
Civil Litigation of Sexual Assault Cases in the #MeToo Era
1:00 - 2:00 p.m
The MeToo movement has encouraged many victims of sexual assault or abuse to come forward but litigating these cases requires unique considerations. This CLE will focus on how to bring a civil lawsuit on behalf of men, women, and children who survived assault, abuse, or rape. We will discuss how to work with the District Attorney's office during and following the criminal prosecution of the abuser, who to file a civil lawsuit against, when to file the lawsuit, and what causes of action to consider. This panel will be especially useful for plaintiff-side lawyers who represent victims of sexual abuse or other lawyers interested in seeking justice for victims of sexual abuse.
Full Bundle: 10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
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Not Just a Fight: Domestic Violence Affects LGBTQ People
By Brian Pacheco
When people in a same-sex relationship fight, I can't tell you how many times I've heard, "It's just two guys fighting. Let them figure it out." Or "Her girlfriend hit her. Sometimes girls fight like that." But abuse is different than a fight. Domestic violence is one person trying to exert power and control over another. It's dangerous, and it often escalates over time.
Domestic Violence in the LGBTQ Community Exists at the Same Rate as Straight Relationships and Deserves our Attention
So often, we hear loved ones of domestic violence victims say things like "I had no clue this was happening. I wish I had known so I could have helped. I wish I had paid closer attention." Domestic violence thrives in silence. According to a study by domestic violence advocacy organization NoMore.org, 60% of Americans say they know a victim of domestic violence, while two out of three Americans have never talked about the issue with their friends. But the statistics are loud and clear: according the Center for Disease Control, one in four women and one in seven men will experience domestic violence during their lifetime. And two in five lesbians and one in four gay men will be a victim in their lifetime.
What perhaps is even more tragic than the silence and stigma that surrounds domestic violence in the LGBTQ community is the severe lack of supports for those courageous enough to seek help. The current service models simply do not address the unique needs of LGBT people adequately. Although federal law now requires domestic violence shelter providers to accommodate LGBT survivors, access remains limited for many reasons.
One of those reasons, as my colleague Liz Roberts, deputy CEO of Safe Horizon tells me, is that "much of the government funding to address domestic violence is geared toward families. That means we have fewer resources for childless survivors. About 40% of victims who call New York City's 24-hour domestic violence hotline seeking shelter are singles — but they're the most difficult to place, because most of the beds go to survivors with children."
But Many LGBTQ Folks Don't Have Children – so What Happens?
LGBTQ domestic violence survivors who need immediate shelter may first try and stay with friends. The issue here is that the LGBTQ population is small and our circles tend to be interconnected. And in abusive relationships, abusers will often isolate victims from friends and family.
This was true for Terrance*, a gay Safe Horizon client who sought refuge with mutual friends. Although they wanted to help, eventually they asked Terrance to leave because they were also friends with Terrance's abusive ex and didn't want to pick sides.
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Terrance was eventually placed in a domestic violence shelter at Safe Horizon, where, he says, he got his confidence back and was able to access the supportive services he needed. At Safe Horizon, we partner with the New York City Anti-Violence Project to make our domestic violence shelters accessible to LGBTQ survivors.
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Also, donate to organizations like Safe Horizon that are on the ground supporting victims of domestic violence.
And if you believe you're in an abusive relationship, it's OK to reach out for help or do what feels safest for you. You absolutely deserve support regardless of your sexual orientation or gender identity.
As a man who identifies as gay, I know how debilitating living in silence can be. No one should have to suffer in silence because of abuse.
If you or someone you know is a victim of domestic violence in need of help, call Safe Horizon's anonymous domestic violence hotline at (800) 621-HOPE (4673).
* Client names and identifying information have been changed to protect their privacy. Images used are representations of Safe Horizon's clients.
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There's pretty much no impact from those messages.
I'm not sure if I already had the time delays in 0.9.2, but those checks happen at most once every 5 seconds. And when the ship can't find a useable trading route, it'll increase the wait time 5 seconds every time to a max of 60 seconds.
The only thing that costs any cycles at all is the initial building of the list, and even that's only minimal. I might put timings around some stuff to see how long it actually takes.
As for the client side, if you want people to be able to use the Orders -> Haul Goods command, you're going to have to do that yes. Otherwise it can be fully run on the server side, as long as you add the command to the right permissions group.
0.9.3 also has a change in debugging, where you can set some levels.
If you don't want debug messages at all, just change the debug_msg function.
Thanks for the mod. Was hoping for something like this to improve the station building aspect of the game. I can test it out cause I am playing in Rustys Galaxy and we recently got it there. I tried it out a little (for like 20 to 15 mins on the server) and i have a suggestion: a command that forces trade with only player owned stations (or non-npc stations). I built liquor chain in a sector with tradepost that bought wheat. The little bugger was always selling it to the tradepost.
1. The haulers tend to collide with ai ships already docked at stations. sad for rep.
2. One of the hauler had a cargo bay filled with lots of power cells that *I THINK* it wasnt selling. but that maybe due to the fact that it had bought it and there was a server restart in between. not sure.
I also built in a check where it only transfers the largest amount possible. So if 1000 is needed somewhere, and a station sells 500 and another 100, it'll always pick the 500.
I'll have to think about how to implement a limitation on what stations it's allowed to visit.
As to 1: There's not much I can do about that I've had NPC haulers squish my ships as well, and when I'm running 3 of them at once, they squish each other. The 'get a docking port' routine seems to always pick the same one, so everything piles up there.
I've been messing around a bit with the dock code, but I'm not sure if I can fix it in such a way that it doesn't affect a lot of other things. And I can't fix the 'playership getting crushed' issue at all.
For number 2, yes. If it's bought things and gets interrupted, then depending on who's the actual dispatcher and at what point it picks up again, it won't sell it. I've tried to alleviate this problem somewhat by making it so the hauler tries to sell everything if there's more in the cargo bay than what was originally planned, but that doesn't always work either.
For those things, there's still some manual intervention required, unfortunately.
Have been playing around more with your mod and have an idea regarding point 2.
Might an if check which looks for what the hauler has in its cargo and all the things it can sell in the sector before it starts doing trade routes alleviate the problem?
I must confess, i havent looked at your script yet. And after i am done doing these trade runs, i will have a look . if i have better ideas, i will let you know.
I've thought about building in a 'recovery' mode, which saves and loads what it was doing last and tries to continue doing that, but haven't gotten around to that yet.
I mainly built all this for my own sector with my own factories, so it's not really very multi purpose. It will work in a sector where you can do trade between NPC stations as well, since that was only a small adjustment to make.
Had a skim of the script. The relative complexity and my lack of knowledge of lua led to very shallow understanding. Thankfully, i found the /haulgoods status command while re-reading your title post.
This is what I am hoping to use it for. the problem is I built my things in a neutral zone where there are trade posts. So it sometimes makes those trades. Thats why I was thinking maybe when u populate your table in your "buildGoodsList" function, there can be column which stores the owner of the station. Later that information maybe used to restrict the hauler to only the players station.
Regarding the recovery mode, it can be useful even when building in an empty sector because of servers crashes. I do not know what is easier, checking the cargo, or periodically writing the state. I am gonna see if there is any way to give captain commands to the ship i am commanding. Sth I would really like to be able to do. Also gonna play around with the haulgoods status command.
P.S I myself imagine/assume many things are possible (modwise), but my lack of programming experience makes me overzealous. so excuse me if i sound thick.
I do not know what is easier, checking the cargo, or periodically writing the state.
I know I certainly don't know the answer to that for scripting, but if we look at it in terms of how it might work in the real world... you know what cargo you have, but you may have forgotten your route. So since you KNOW what cargo you have, and your job is to sell whatever you can... start from scratch. It's a long chain query, though, because there's probably a nasty, nasty web of possibilities to choose from.
I have no idea what happened, but that post stopped about 1/4 of the way through what I recall having typed up... and now I can't remember any of it. It probably seemed brilliant at the time, too. Developers around the world will mourn the loss of my genius.
In future, I will attempt to post less frequently while running on caffeine instead of sleep.
After testing it a while on our server it seems there is an increase in server load when multiple ships are hauling goods in multiple sectors. It came to mind after jumping around trying to narrow down the cause but all I could find were 3 afk players hauling goods in their sectors that could have a significant load.
It might have more to do with how the game handles updates as one laggy sector slows down everything else and the cause might also lie somewhere else as we use many more mods tho.
Would it be possible to somehow limit the amount of ships a player can use to haul goods?
The few players I found were using 3-6 ships so that might have something to do with it.
So not sure what's affecting it. But each sector only has 1 ship building the actual list, and if it fails that it'll try to rebuild it in increments of 5 seconds, and the rest basically does nothing and will also increase their polling interval by 5 seconds up to 60 seconds.
So the most impact you can possibly have is one goods rebuild every 5 seconds if there's nothing to haul (and with my system with 50 stations that takes a very short time), and one inter-object call for each of the haulers doing nothing every 60 seconds.
If they actually *are* doing something, they do a check every 5 seconds if the previous step has finished, and kick off a new flying or docking step. That's about it. I can't see how any of that has any impact.
your mod is a great idea and really hope it will be added in the game in a way.
I end up having a couple of issues with the ship commands in Keyboard-mouse playing.
I love your mod. It doesnt seem to work with Complex3s mod though. Is there a way to make it work.
If you use the / commands to control your ships, the mod shouldn't interfere with any other mods at all, since it doesn't modify any source files.


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