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747 Graveyard
Posted on 13 February 2011 by christao408
Sorry that my posting (and reading and responding to others' entries) has been slower than usual as of late. Many of my recent entries have required a lot more leg work. Here's the latest:
Two Saturdays ago, as Tawn and I were driving along Ramkhamhaeng Road on an errand to the northeastern outskirts of Bangkok, we were taken by surprise when we saw the front third of a Boeing 747 jumbo jet propped up alongside the street.
This is neither an industrial area nor anywhere particularly close to the airport, so for there to be a pair of airplanes being disassembled in this neighborhood is downright strange. While there is a fence along the front of the property, there is no proper gate along the entrance.
Curious, we headed back early the next morning, arriving just after 7:30. A street sweeper sat in her small rest shack, more of an open-air stand, and Tawn chatted with her while I wandered around taking pictures and video. "Sure, go on in," she said. "The workers won't be up and working for a while still."
The result of the exploring is a five-minute video. I think you'll find it very interesting. I'm happy with the results. For those of you without five minutes to spare, here are some of the pictures:
The entire site is probably four acres (16,000 sq meters), adjacent to a school, temple, and canal. Condo towers and office buildings are visible in the distance and it is really a strange place to be disassembling airplanes.
The monk's dormitory (robes hanging to dry) is visible next door. I guess this view reminds them of the fundamental Buddhist teaching about all things being impermanent.
There are two planes here, both from Orient Thai Airways, a local carrier that operates limited scheduled service and also does charters. I like how the top of this plane looks like a whale surfacing from the waves.
You could be mistaken for thinking this was the set of an airplane disaster movie. Every area that has been cut by a welding torch is scorched black and there also looks to have been a few small fires set. Pieces are still very identifiable, though, provided you know your airplane parts.
The vertical stabilizer (tail) of the plane, being cut into smaller segments for disposal. The red and blue color scheme, which was meant to represent the Thai flag blowing in the wind, has been deconstructed.
There were hundreds of oxygen masks on the property, most still stowed in the overhead compartments that had ben removed and stacked.
Near the front of the property, galleys and lavatories, which are modular units, were standing about, stripped of carts and other supplies, although with the ovens still intact. Recalling his days working as a regional flight attendant for United, Tawn pretended to be setting the ovens to warm a meal.
Orient Thai had a fleet of about a half-dozen older model 747s. Their only scheduled international service was to Hong Kong and Seoul, and they used their larger planes mainly for charters, especially during the Haj. Note the lavatory signage in Arabic as well as in Japanese. This plane's original operator was Japan Air Lines.
A two-door segment of one of the planes – basically, the front third of it – was intact and propped upright. The street cleaner explained that it was destined to be sent somewhere to become an airplane-themed coffee shop. "You can climb up!" she said. The homemade ladder had very narrow and widely-spaced rungs!
Inside, the ceiling, carpet, and seats had been removed but wall panels were still intact. This picture is taken from the nose section, the front of what would have been first class, looking back. The opening in the floor is the access hatch to the avionics bay. Looking at the wallpaper, I noticed it is identical to that which was on the Orient Thai 747 that I flew as part of an inaugural test flight from the Don Meuang Airport to the new Suvarnabhumi Airport in July 2006, about two months before the new airport opened. I wonder if this was the same plane?
I climbed the stairs to the upper deck. Used as business class for most airlines, both Japan Air Lines and Orient Thai had put additional economy seats up here.
The avionics had been stripped from the cockpit but it was still relatively intact. The flight engineer's station on the right-hand side is a clue to the airplane's age: at least 21. The last 747 with a three-person cockpit crew was a 747-300 built in September 1990. Since then, they have been flown by just two people, with computers handling the functions that the flight engineer used to.
After working up a sweat and shooting some 250 pictures and 30 video segments, I finally decided it was time to wrap up and head home. I felt a bit of nostalgia and melancholy, sorry to see planes that had been so technically sophisticated, and that had flown hundreds of thousands of people around the world, reach the point where their only value was for their scrap.
Edit: Found this link listing the history of all of Orient Thai's former 747s. Looks like the plane that is completely scrapped was originally delivered in March 1979 to Japan Airlines and the one with the intact front third was delivered in December 1986, also to Japan Airlines. From that website I was also able to confirm that, as of this past December at least, the plane I flew on the test flight to Suvarnabhumi is still in operation.
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29 thoughts on "747 Graveyard"
Finity on 13 February 2011 at 10:44 said:
Cool, but also weirdly post-apocalyptic.
Dezinerdreams on 13 February 2011 at 11:54 said:
Cool post! Haven't seen the video yet, will stop by again and check it out.
ElusiveWords on 13 February 2011 at 12:03 said:
The script for the video was very well written. I can see you've put a lot of thought into it. (now if you told me that it only took a few minutes to write it I would be blown away). It's sad to see something that was once so majestic being stripped to the bare skeleton. I was wondering though how they transported the planes there?
murisopsis on 13 February 2011 at 12:16 said:
Very good! I wonder how they decide which ones live and which die. I've heard of very old planes being sold and yet you said these were 21 yrs old – seems still young…
beowulf222 on 13 February 2011 at 12:33 said:
But why is the 747 cut up far away from the airport and how did it get there?
stebow on 13 February 2011 at 13:21 said:
So interesting. And so out of place. I would be interested in knowing how they managed to get that plane out there in the first place. It's not like you can just drive it down a street and park it…
stevew918 on 13 February 2011 at 13:23 said:
Very well organized and scripted video! virtual recm, hehe. That was a quite an interesting date! Glad Twan enjoyed it also. If they serve food on the plane, that can be cool xanga meet food porn place. 🙂
Roadlesstaken on 13 February 2011 at 15:14 said:
I'm surprise there aren't more people hanging around that place. Were there anyone else there that you saw?
Fatcat723 on 13 February 2011 at 16:34 said:
How the great fall out of use and are discarded almost as some do with the elderly of their families! It is a great post!
tehls on 13 February 2011 at 19:46 said:
This could make a great Disney movie plot! Aero the cheeky 747 is created, flies people all over the world, gets old, faces his fate like his older friends for the scrap heap but is rescued and ends up as a flight themed cafe! We should write it and make our fortune!!!
christao408 on 13 February 2011 at 19:54 said:
@beowulf222 – @stebow – The big question everyone has which I didn't answer: how did they get the planes there? I would imagine that the planes were initially cut into large sections – wings and tail removed and fuselage cut into four segments – and then carried by a large flat-bed to this location. Most likely, the cutting was done either at the old Don Meuang airport or maybe at the U-Tapao military base near Pattaya.@murisopsis – It is a matter of economics. 21 years old isn't particularly old for an airplane, but the types (747-200 and -300) were older and were very inefficient. With fuel getting more expensive over time, Orient Thai purchased used 747-400s, the first of which arrived in September 2010. Two more are coming from United Airlines, planes which were built in 1992, so among the oldest -400s around, but still more efficient than their even older -200s and -300s.@ElusiveWords – Glad you liked it, Matt. The script took a lot of thought throughout the week but when I finally sat down to write it Sunday afternoon, the words came together quickly. A week of organizing my thoughts will do that, I guess!@Fatcat723 – Good point, although we don't chop our seniors up for parts, thankfully!@Roadlesstaken – No we were the only ones there. Of course it was 7:30 on a Sunday morning. I got the impression that if the workers were up and actively engaged in their work, we probably wouldn't have been so welcome to wander around.@stevew918 – A Bangkok Xanga meet-up spot! That's a cool idea, Steve.@Finity – That's a good word for it. Hadn't crossed my mind at the time of writing but now that you type it out, it seems the perfect fit!@Dezinerdreams – Come back and let me know what you think of the video, please.
@christao408 – Interesting. My knee jerk thought is that cutting up the plane somewhere else first and then moving it to this location cannot be economical but probably it is. Space around the airport might be more expensive. Still funny and odd at the same time.
agmhkg on 13 February 2011 at 20:53 said:
oh 747s…RIP…..but it's really interesting to have found this graveyard in the middle of ….nowhere?
icepearlz on 13 February 2011 at 22:12 said:
How strange to just dump an old plane there!
ZSA_MD on 13 February 2011 at 23:38 said:
Very interesting. Sad in a way. I couldn't view the video. I got a message from the IE saying that it cannot display the page. Pfftt! Btw, Chris, the writing is not Arabic. It is Urdu. Just thought I would tell you. Both scripts look similar, and start from the right going to the left.
DCRobbie on 14 February 2011 at 00:05 said:
Bravo! Great video and commentary.
@tehls – It sounds kind of like Toy Story 3, doesn't it? Why don't you write an outline and we can discuss the script in March?@DCRobbie – Thank you very much. I'm glad you liked it.@ZSA_MD – Well, shoot… so much for really carefully researching my blog entries, huh? I wonder why it would be in Urdu instead of Arabic, as I know the airline used these planes for a lot of Haj charters, especially from Southern Thailand. Perhaps Urdu is common there in place of Arabic? That seems unlikely…@icepearlz – Yeah, talk about your lack of zoning!@agmhkg – Of all the places it could be, this seems the most unlikely of them.
Redlegsix on 14 February 2011 at 06:16 said:
That is fascinating…that it would be in the middle of town like that!! The nose piece resting on the ground reminded me of the white robed "warriors" in Starwars…lol. Pat and I visited an airplane graveyard along I-70 between KC and St. Louis…we had seen it for years and years and finally satisfied our curiosity…but never found out WHY it was there and what its' purpose was. We weren't as lucky as you were.thanks for the very interesting side trip….I loved it!! Ruth Ann
theloniusmarx on 14 February 2011 at 06:45 said:
something really eerie about abandoned planes. I know there is a 'graveyard' of sorts somewhere out in the US. I've seen pictures of one that is absolutely huge, in the middle of some desert, not just Boeings, but old Cessnas and planes from the 30's and 40's. I can't remember what the site is called but it looks very apocalyptic. I'd love to go if it's open to the public. Thanks for sharing your pictures!
@christao408 – People who travel for Hajj, from India and Pakistan make up about 60% of the Hajis. Perhaps these planes stopped and picked up the hajis from Karachi or Madras or Bombay. Urdu is more or less a common Muslim language in the South East Asian countries. I think that may be the reason.
AppsScraps on 14 February 2011 at 11:58 said:
oh now that was fun!
CurryPuffy on 14 February 2011 at 12:20 said:
What an odd place, right in the midst of a residential neghborhood, to find an airplane graveyard! I'd be very curious to know where the heck will that 'airplane themed' restaurant is. You did a pretty good follow through reserach on those two planes! I guess we can always find a few interesting tidbits here and there in Thailand, especially Bangkok!
TheCheshireGrins on 14 February 2011 at 12:50 said:
This is so cool! I've always been drawn to things that are man made that are slowly disintegrating in some way, either by nature or by other man made means. It's so interesting to me (and quite humbling in a way) to see these great things that we make being taken apart.
Swiftonik on 14 February 2011 at 16:25 said:
It's pretty typical for me to see cars at a junkyard an see them so stripped down. But it isn't so much of an interesting sight compared to 747s. There is so much more to see. The words you used in your video can't be used on a car on because the structure of a car is so much more simple. There isn't much exploring. I can only imagine that this sight was an adventure!
yang1815 on 15 February 2011 at 06:34 said:
Still love its design.
Ian Ord - Where Sidewalks End on 24 March 2015 at 20:07 said:
Very cool post! I went out there to check it out for myself, and it seems the configuration has changed a bit since your visit! More planes have been added and some of the mess has been cleaned up. It looks like they even reassembled one of those fuselages. Really cool, and I love how it evolves like that too! If you want to see what I saw, I posted some photos online here; http://wheresidewalksend.com/bangkok-airplane-graveyard/ 🙂 Thanks again for sharing and inspiring!
christao408 on 7 April 2015 at 20:20 said:
Very cool Ian. Thanks for sharing the update.
elizabeth on 11 March 2016 at 00:10 said:
If you guys need another update, I went there too not a long time ago. We paid 200 baht and there were 3 planes, one of which is a big 747! Made a blogpost of my experience too if you're interested in a newer video of the place: http://elizabethtravels.com/airplane-graveyard-bangkok/
christao408 on 13 March 2016 at 21:01 said:
Thanks for the update. I've not been out that way in quite some time but last time I was, I noticed some MD-88s or similar.


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Die Tollkirschen (Atropa) sind eine Gattung aus der Familie der Nachtschattengewächse (Solanaceae). Die einzige in Mitteleuropa heimische Art ist die Schwarze Tollkirsche (Atropa bella-donna), deren Früchte giftig sind.

Beschreibung

Vegetative Merkmale

Die Arten der Gattung Atropa sind ausdauernde, krautige, aufrecht wachsende Pflanzen, die zwischen 0,3 und 1,5 (selten 2) m hoch werden. Sie können seitliche Rhizome ausbilden, sind kahl oder dicht bis spärlich drüsig behaart. Die Trichome treten in drei verschiedenen Typen auf: langstielig und mit einzelligen Köpfen, langstielig und mit vielzelligen Köpfen, sowie ein Trichomtyp, bei dem die öligen Sekrete zunächst durch die Cuticula nach außen gegeben werden, anschließend die Kopfzellen abgestoßen und sofort durch neue ersetzt werden.

Im unteren Bereich der Pflanze stehen Laubblätter einzeln, weiter oben in Paaren aus unterschiedlich geformten Blättern. Die Blattspreite ist eiförmig, länglich-eiförmig oder elliptisch, die Spitze ist spitz zulaufend oder zugespitzt, die Basis ist keilförmig und läuft an den kurzen Blattstielen hinab. Die Größe der Blattspreiten kann 8 bis 15 (22) × 3 bis 8 (11) cm betragen.

Blüten

Die je nach Art hängenden oder aufrecht stehenden Blüten stehen meist einzeln, nur selten zu zweit oder zu dritt in den Achseln der Sprossachse. Die Blütenstiele sind (15) 20 bis 25 (35) mm lang. Der glockenförmige Kelch hat eine Länge von (10) 12 bis 17 (21) mm, die kurze Kelchröhre ist weniger als halb so lang wie die fünf ungleich- oder gleichgestaltigen Kronzipfel. Diese sind dreieckig oder eiförmig-dreieckig, leicht abstehend, spitz zulaufend oder zugespitzt. Die Krone ist gelb oder blass-violett und wird zur Mitte hin blassgrün, sie hat eine Länge von (19) 24 bis 30 (35) mm. Der Kronsaum ist kurz und breit, die fünf Kronzipfel sind breiter als lang (nur in Atropa baetica so lang wie die Kronröhre), gerundet, schwach ungleich und nach außen gebogen.

Die geschlechtlichen Blütenteile stehen leicht oder sehr deutlich über die Krone hinaus. Die Staubfäden sind deutlich länger als die Staubbeutel und nur am unteren Ansatzpunkt behaart. Die Staubbeutel haben eine Größe von (1,6) 2,6 bis 2,8 (3,2) mm. Der Griffel ist etwas gebogen, die Narbe ist köpfchenförmig und unregelmäßig zweigelappt, feucht und papillös.
Blütezeit: Juni bis August

Früchte und Samen

Die Früchte sind eingedrückt-kugelige, meist schwarze, selten auch gelbe Beeren mit einem Durchmesser von 10 bis 18 (20) mm. Sie stehen an einem vergrößerten Kelch, dessen Zipfel deutlich abstehen und enthalten viele Samen, in Atropa baetica zwischen 25 und 50, in Atropa bella-donna bis zu 160. Die Samen sind nierenförmig, die Oberfläche ist kleingrubig, die Größe variiert je nach Art, zwischen 1,7 und 2 × 1,2 und 1,5 mm bei Atropa belladonna und 2,2 bis 2,6 mm bei Atropa baetica.

Inhaltsstoffe
Sowohl Wurzeln, Sprossachsen, Blätter als auch Früchte enthalten eine große Menge an Alkaloiden, in den Blättern in Konzentrationen zwischen 0,14 und 1,4 Prozent und in den Wurzeln zwischen 0,27 und 0,69 Prozent. Mit 40 bis 87 Prozent ist dabei das Gift Hyoscyamin (insbesondere als Atropin) am stärksten vertreten, begleitet von Apoatropin mit 5 bis 17,9 Prozent sowie Scopolamin und in geringeren Mengen Tropin, Pseudotropin, Tropinon und einige wenige pyrrolidinische Alkaloide wie Hygrin, Hygrolin, Cuscohygrin usw. (Werte für Atropa bella-donna, jedoch ähnlich in Atropa baetica.)

Systematik
Insgesamt wurden mehr als 70 botanische Namen innerhalb der Gattung beschrieben, wovon jedoch nur etwa zwölf dem heutigen Gattungsumfang entsprechen. Aus botanischer Sicht sind die folgenden Arten hinreichend definiert:

 Atropa acuminata : Sie kommt vom östlichen Iran bis zum westlichen Himalaja vor.
 Atropa baetica , sie kommt in Südspanien und Marokko vor.
 Schwarze Tollkirsche (Atropa bella-donna )
 Atropa komarovii : Sie kommt vom nordöstlichen Iran bis ins südliche Turkmenistan vor.
 Atropa pallidiflora : Sie kommt im nördlichen Iran vor.

Etymologie
Der botanische Gattungsname Atropa ist abgeleitet von Atropos, dem Namen einer der drei Schicksalsgöttinnen, den sogenannten Moiren, in der griechischen Mythologie; Atropos schneidet den Lebensfaden, den Laches bemessen und Klotho gesponnen hat, ab.

Siehe auch
 Liste von Pflanzen mit psychotropen Wirkstoffen

Literatur
 Armando T. Hunziker: The Genera of Solanaceae. A.R.G. Gantner Verlag K.G., Ruggell, Liechtenstein 2001, ISBN 978-3-904144-77-3.

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Bebe's Kids
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Beat em' up
Motown Games
Bebe's Kids is a side-scrolling beat 'em-up released for the Super Nintendo in 1994 that was based on the animated movie of the same name. It was developed by Radical Entertainment and published by Motown Games.
1 Why It Sucks
2 The Only Redeeming Quality
Why It Sucks
Virtually no difference between the 2 playable characters (LaShawn & Kahlil) and the game is single-player only (no co-op mode where a friend can join in), making a selection utterly pointless.
The gameplay is horribly unbalanced - your normal attacks are far too weak (killing a regular enemy can take up to and over 35 hits) and your special attacks can kill everything except for bosses in just 3 hits.
Limited-use weapons are useless because they do the same amount of damage as the special moves, which can be used an unlimited number of times.
Instead of just picking up items automatically you have to stand on top of the item and press A to pick it up. This would normally not be a flaw.
Gameplay is slow, boring and repetitive.
The game is incredibly short and can be beaten in a half hour.
Ugly graphics.
Almost no enemy or level variety.
Every song in the game is a dull 5 second loop that gets annoying very fast.
Dumb AI: most of the time they just walk back and forth and ignore you and sometimes they even walk offscreen and never return, making the game unwinnable.
Every level except for the final boss has a time-limit, which is problematic in the beat 'em up levels (until you figure out that your special moves are what kills enemies quickest) and maze levels.
The plot of the movie was adapted in such a poor and half-assed way that cutscenes all consist of random lines of dialogue from the film that barely explain what's happening in the game. Not only that, but even though two of the characters from the movie are seen on the game's cover, they are nowhere in the game itself.
The game is padded out by making you repeat the same side-scrolling beat 'em up level between every other level.
It's not clear how to progress in any of the other levels, here are two that are the worst:
The glass house: you have to smash enough of the glass objects that PeeWee knocks off the shelf whilst preventing Robin Harris from catching any of them. The only way the player would know this is by reading a walkthrough or watching the movie due to it being difficult to actually hit the glass objects plus the fact that you take damage just from touching them would naturally drive the player to avoid them, thinking that they're obstacles.
The haunted house is an especially bad case of intuitive game design- level is a maze of doors where you have to find the exit by going through the right doors until a thermometer turns red, picking the wrong door sends you back to the beginning of the level. This requires so much trial-and-error that it's nearly impossible without a walkthrough.
Both bosses have such a big attack radius and such a small hitbox that it's almost impossible to hit them even with your special moves.
If you get a game over, your character gets kidnapped by security guards, which might leave a bad taste for some players.
Furthermore, getting a game over sends you back to the beginning of the first level!
Awkward movement animation, with the characters often walking like zombies.
The Only Redeeming Quality
There is a cheat code to be able to skip a stage at any time by pressing Select + Up: at the Paramount logo, press Up, Down, X, R, A, Y, B, A, B & Y in order. Be our guest!
The Nostalgia Critic played this game during the NC/AVGN feud.
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Obama Nears HHS Pick After Daschle Debacle
Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius tops list for nomination
Published February 7, 2009 • Updated on February 7, 2009 at 10:30 pm
Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius was very near the top of President Barack Obama's list of candidates to head the Health and Human Services Department, a senior administration official said Saturday.
The source, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss private administration deliberations, said no decision was imminent. But the official added the former Kansas insurance commissioner was rising as Obama considers prospective candidates.
Sebelius would be Obama's second choice for the slot. Former Sen. Tom Daschle had to withdraw his name amid an admission he had not paid taxes on a car and driver since leaving Congress as a Democratic leader.
White House spokesman Reid Cherlin on Saturday said no decision had been made.
Sebelius was an early Obama supporter, picking his presidential campaign over that of Hillary Rodham Clinton, now the secretary of state. Sebelius worked tirelessly for Obama's bid and was a top surrogate to women's groups.
Advocacy groups like the consumer watchdog role 60-year-old Sebelius played as insurance commissioner for eight years before she became governor.
Her name had been floated for several Cabinet posts, but she announced in early December that she had removed herself from consideration from a Cabinet job, citing Kansas' budget problems that needed her attention.
The two-term governor remains popular in her state and comes from a strong political family. Her father, John Gilligan, was the governor of Ohio in the early 1970s. She also advised Obama's campaign on how to connect with women, especially after Republicans picked Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as their vice presidential nominee.
Sebelius was in town last week to give a pair of speeches, one on clean energy jobs and the other at the National Education Association. She also met at the Ritz Carlton hotel with Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett.
Sebelius' trip was planned before Daschle bowed out as nominee for HHS secretary as a result of fallout from about $140,000 in back taxes and interest he paid last month.
Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen also was on Obama's list to run the nation's massive health programs. Already, though, some advocacy groups were lining up to oppose the Democratic governor.
He remains under consideration, the senior official said.
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Meera Sampath: Creative Problem Solving and Global Reach
"It's a dream job to set up a new research lab at a company known for innovation, especially when it's in your home country," said Dr. Meera Sampath (PhD EE:S '95) of the facility she helped establish and now directs in India. Called the Xerox India Innovation Hub, it is unique among Xerox's five research facilities – and that's because Meera and her team had something exceptional in mind for this facility. Achieving creative solutions is characteristic of the way Dr. Sampath gets things done.
As a PhD student at Michigan, Meera wanted a simple and automated way of figuring out the root cause when something went wrong with an industrial system, specifically, one that was modeled as a discrete event dynamic system. This is a special and important class of systems whose behavior can be described as a chronological sequence of events. She saw that desecrate event systems researchers had not yet been looking at the problem of failure diagnosis, and that while researchers in separate disciplines were looking at diagnosis of problems in industrial systems, they were not looking at discrete event systems.
The papers she would write with her advisors Prof. Stéphane Lafortune and Prof. Demos Teneketzis resulted in a new area of research, namely the diagnosis of discrete event systems, that is very rich today. These papers continue to rank high in major citation indexes.
The Michigan Experience
Coming to Michigan from India may have dropped Meera into a new continent, but she felt right at home. "I had very good friends and excellent relationships with the faculty. It was a very warm and welcoming place. Being in the EECS Department gave me a very broad exposure to people from different places, and people who were extremely good at what they were doing. I remember many late evenings in the EECS building taking with friends and working in the lab. It was a wonderful learning environment."
"My PhD advisors taught me how to be a researcher," she added, "and to communicate effectively. I also learned from them how to handle issues of fairness and inclusiveness, and the importance of taking time to listen to others, to encourage them, and develop the people you work with."
Aside from her studies, Meera enjoyed the bookstores, the parks, central campus, and especially the movies on Top of the Park. Topping it all was her wedding, followed by the birth of her first child at the University of Michigan hospital.
Creating the Xerox Innovation Hub
Before graduating, Dr. Sampath attended a Control Series Seminar where she approached two senior Xerox researchers to talk about a job posting she had seen just the day before. "The next thing I know 15 years have passed and I'm still at Xerox," she stated.
Meera started her career at the xerox research lab in Webster, NY, where she applied the results of her doctoral work to printing systems. She went on to hold a variety of titles and positions including Principal Scientist, Leader of the diagnostics competence area, Manager of Strategy, and later Group Leader to determine what Xerox's expansion strategy should be in the emerging market. Her group successfully proposed the new facility in India, and Meera was named Director.
"While open innovation is not new to Xerox, we wanted this new research lab to be a model for open innovation and collaboration," explains Dr. Sampath. It is called a "hub" because it brings together researchers from all five of Xerox's global labs as well as other researchers and entrepreneurs from the best academic institutions and research labs in India. The goal for the India hub was to have at least 50% or more of the research done through partnerships with outside individuals and institutions.
Students – Get a Global Perspective
Meera is excited about all that she is doing, but when asked what advice she would want to share with students, she became particularly animated about the importance of a global perspective. She helps introduce children in her own community to another culture by teaching her native language, Tamil, to classes of students. She also directs plays and musicals involving the students, all performed in her native language.
"Companies are looking for global leaders. Globalization means learning to work with the best people around the world," she stressed. "A lot of today's most challenging problems are in the merging world. It is critical to bring together the best brains, whether they are in India or China or Michigan – and have them work together to solve the most challenging problems of today. Whether it's through appropriate coursework, training programs, or internships overseas, students should give themselves global exposure."
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[News] Own FREAKY on DVD/Blu-ray this February
Prepare for a FREAKY take on the body-swap movie which only Blumhouse, makers of Happy Death Day & The Purge franchise, could bring: a teenage girl switches bodies with a relentless serial killer!
From the deliciously debased mind of writer-director Christopher Landon (Happy Death Day, the Paranormal Activity franchise) and prolific horror producer Jason Blum (Halloween, The Purge franchise), comes a horror-comedy about a stalker, a high school senior, and the brutal truth about surviving high school available on Digital on January 26 and on Blu-ray and DVD on February 9.
FREAKY is "the most purely enjoyable horror movie made in years" (David Sims, THE ATLANTIC). Hailed as "an absolute blast – fun, frantic, horror/comedy mash-up" (Drew Taylor, COLLIDER), the Killer Switch Edition continues the fun and scares with exclusive bonus content including deleted scenes, a behind-the-scenes look at the making of the film and a feature commentary with Co-writer/Director Christopher Landon. With an 83% "fresh" score on Rotten Tomatoes and critical praise for Vaughn and Newton as "the new killer comedy scream team" (Rachel Smith, CELEBRITY PAGE), Vaughn won a Critics Choice Super Award for Best Actor in a Horror Movie.
High school senior Millie (Kathryn Newton, Blockers, HBO's "Big Little Lies") is just trying to survive being the unpopular kid when she becomes The Butcher's (Vince Vaughn, Wedding Crashers, Couples Retreat) next target. Their fateful encounter gets twisted and they wake up in each other's bodies. Now looking like a towering psychopath, Millie learns she only has 24 hours to reverse the curse and get her body back before the switch becomes permanent and she's trapped in the form of a middle-aged maniac forever. With some help from her friends – ultra-woke Nyla (Celeste O'Connor, Ghostbusters: Afterlife), ultra-fabulous Joshua (Misha Osherovich, The Goldfinch) and her crush Booker (Uriah Shelton, Enter the Warriors Gate) – Millie races against the clock to reverse the curse while The Butcher discovers that having a female teen body is the perfect cover for a little Homecoming killing spree.
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Crafting the Kills – This feature will take viewers into the "Wood Shop" set to see how all the various elements and departments come together to create an extraordinary kill that fans will talk about for years to come. We will also discuss the inspiration behind this bilaterial bisection, what makes it both fun and horrifying, and how it is different from anything else you have seen in other horror films.
Christopher Landon's Brand of Horror – Blending horror and comedy is a difficult task that not many can achieve, but Christopher Landon has proven time and time again that he is uniquely skilled at it. FREAKY is no different. Learn how Christopher's vision brought new energy to the concept and elevated the story, all while creating a fun and proficient working environment. This behind-the-scenes look at how he weaves humor and gore together will give fans an intimate understanding of why a Christopher Landon film is a genre of its own.
Final Girl Reframed – The concept of a "Final Girl" is nothing new in the horror genre. However, Millie isn't your typical Final Girl. We take a closer look at all the ways FREAKY takes your genre expectations and smashes them.
Feature Commentary with Co-writer/Director Christopher Landon.
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A Proposal: Stimulus for Passenger Rail in Montana
Today on the Streetsblog Network, we turn to member blog Trains for America, which looks at the idea of using stimulus funds to bring rail-equipment manufacturing — and expanded passenger rail service — to the state of Montana:
Photo by Katie via Flickr.
[N]ew rail passenger equipment is coming to America and it should be built by Americans. Why not Montana? It may be that there are good reasons why not, but those should also lead us to the better place, if there is one.
Restoring the southern leg of the Empire Builder in Montana and North Dakota is a great idea. As a former resident of Big Sky Country, let me tell you that it is tough to get around up there in winter — which is most of the year. There exists a real social need for transportation service of the type government is obliged to provide. This restored service has numerous points to recommend its consideration.
The post also takes issue with the use of the term "railroad enthusiasts" in an Associated Press story on the rail proposal:
[A] note to the fine folks at the Associated Press. People who promote ground transportation are not "enthusiasts." Such terms are pejorative, bordering on verbal abuse. Many professionals make a living doing this kind of thing, and while they may not quite measure up to the academic rigors of a reporter, they still deserve respect. Your choice of words suggests a serious bias. Suggested alternatives: advocates, railroaders, citizens, taxpayers.
The depiction of advocates of anything but automobile transportation as somehow childish or fanatical is an ongoing problem. Have any recent examples of media outlets that should be called out on this? Leave them in the comments.
Elsewhere around the network, the Orange County Transit Blog details forthcoming service cuts, The Infrastructurist explains how American traffic jams are like Soviet bread lines, and Making Places reports on Seattle's new "Streets for People" campaign.
Obama's 2014 Transpo Budget Calls for Higher Spending, HSR
The Obama Administration has put forward an opening bid in what are sure to be contentious 2014 budget negotiations, issuing a solidly progressive transportation budget that calls for increased overall spending and continued investment in passenger rail. The $76 billion transportation budget would represent a 5.5 percent, or $4 billion, spending increase over 2012 levels. […]
Expectations for High-Speed Rail Coming Down to Earth
Three months after the Obama administration announced the first winners of what it hopes will be the first of many federal grants to build U.S. high-speed rail networks, advocates and planners are settling in for a long battle to surmount the obstacles and unknowns that stand in the way of long-term bullet train development. If […]
Keeping CNN Honest: 10 Ways Anderson Cooper Got the Rail Story Wrong
Last Friday, CNN's Anderson Cooper ran a segment about high-speed rail as part of his "Keeping Them Honest" series. Reporter Drew Griffin did an "exposé" of a Vermont rail project that spent .00006 percent of the federal stimulus money on needed track improvements and came in on time and under budget. Scandal! It amounts to […]
Federal Regulators Will Let U.S. Railroads Run Faster, More Efficient Trains
Antiquated regulations that date all the way back to the late 1800s compel American passenger rail operators to use trains designed like "high-velocity bank vaults," as former Amtrak CEO David Gunn once put it. That finally appears set to change with the FRA's release of new draft safety rules for traincars.
Freight Rail, Streetcars Are Tops in U.S. DOT's TIGER Chase
We're pleased to welcome Stephen Smith as a new contributor to Streetsblog Capitol Hill. We'll be running Stephen's work on a regular basis, and you can catch more of his writing at his home blog, Market Urbanism. Amtrak's annual ridership may inch over 30 million for the first time this year, but the assault on […]


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Paisley Currah
Author of the forthcomingSex is as Sex Does: Transgender Identities, Sex Classification, and the State
Category: transgender rights
When advocates explain M and F to legislators
April 19, 2019 April 19, 2019 ~ Paisley Currah	~ 2 Comments
Another excerpt from Chapter 2. The notes are not included since they're still a bit messy. You can view the 2012 committee bill hearing here, starting at about 1:45 minutes in. I usually show it in my Trans Theories and Politics class.
In 1977, Tennessee legislators voted to prohibit individuals from changing Tennessee birth certificates to indicate their new sex. While policy in Ohio and Idaho achieves the same end, Tennessee is the only state where legislators affirmatively voted to deny this recognition. A bill to reverse this and make it possible to change the sex marker on birth certificates issues by Tennessee was introduced in 2011 and considered by the Tennessee House Health and Human Resources Subcommittee the following year. Because rules for sex classification are usually decided at the administrative level—as common sense "housekeeping" rules that require no public comment or, more recently, as publicly promulgated policies—it's a very rare thing for lawmakers to expound publicly on the parameters of sex. The exchange between Republican Senator Joey Hensley and two of the bill's advocates—LGBT rights attorney Abby Rubenfeld and Marissa Richmond, president of the Tennessee Transgender Political Coalition—succinctly captures the points of disagreement. Rubenfeld ends her remarks to the committee by comparing changing gender to changing one's name.
Rubenfeld: There is no problem with changing birth certificates in this way, to change somebody's name or to change their gender designation….And changing this law…will do a great service to the few people that need to do this whose lives are prejudiced and are damaged in significant ways because they can't make this vital correction….Birth certificates are routinely changed and there's never a problem about that. We change names on birth certificates. You can go to court here in Nashville and get your name changed for any reason that you want and change it on your birth certificate, any reason that you want and you'll have a new birth certificate that has that name with no record of your old name.
Senator Joey Hensley: So you say that you can change the name but can you change the date or the place of birth on your birth certificate?
Abby Rubenfeld: I don't think so. I don't know why anybody would want to.
Joey Hensley: Well, I would think that would be the same way this is. That's a fact when someone is born, they're born at a certain time, they're born at a certain place, and they're born a certain gender. And the birth certificate is just designating that.
Abby Rubenfeld: But they're also born with a certain name and it's changed easily.
Senator Hensley: Names can be changed. Names are something given to a person after birth.
Abby Rubenfeld: But gender designation I would respectively suggest is also just given to a person at birth….But for people who take this extraordinary step to correct their physical gender to match what they really are, that is a fact for them, it's a fact from birth.
Senator Hensley: We just disagree about that.
The bill would not only have reversed Tennessee legislation on the question and aligned its policy with that of the 47 other states that allow one's sex designation to be changed on birth certificates. Because the requirements in the bill did not list surgery or body modification of any kind, passage of this legislation would also have catapulted Tennessee to the forefront of policy on the issue at the time. The rule in Tennessee would have been essentially the same as the Department of State's passport rule, and the two other states with the most liberal criteria for changing sex on birth certificates at the time, California and Vermont, as well as the District of Columbia.[iv] While the advocates and the bill's sponsors couched their argument in terms of physical transition—the traditional narratives most intelligible to elected officials and the public alike—the evidence required in this bill was a sworn statement from a physician, psychologist or social worker "that the gender of the person had been changed." Below the questioning turns on what evidence would be appropriate for a change of sex:
Senator Hensley:….But what exactly has to determine someone's gender. I notice this amendment lists several different people that can have a sworn statement. Physician and then it goes ahead and I don't know why you list all of these but a surgeon and an endocrinologist and a gynecologist and internist, a neurologist and psychiatrist. Those are all physicians. And then you go to psychologist or a social worker. How can a social worker have a sworn statement about someone's gender?
Abby Rubenfeld: I would just point out that in this time when we're trying to have limited government I don't know why legislators can make that decision either.
Marissa Richmond: Those categories are based on what the US State Department picked for the gender change policy for the passport, and so all of those categories are professional categories who treat and deal with transgender people. And that's why those specific categories were selected.
Senator Hensley: Is this someone who has gone through all the physical changes to change their gender or is just this someone that cross-dressers, they can change their gender.
Marissa Richmond: Cross dressers are not defined as someone who has changed their gender so they would not fall under this particular law, if this bill becomes a law.
Senator Hensley: What does designate when someone has changed their gender?
Marissa Richmond: ….That is a definition determined by the medical community, and in consultation between that care provider and the patient and to determine what procedures and steps are necessary. And for certain people, for instance in a wheelchair, they would not be allowed in certain cases to get certain procedures but nonetheless their gender change would have actually occurred. But yet the medical profession may not be willing to take it a full step. But they would still have transitioned, changed their lives, they would assume a new gender and this bill would allow them to have a document which then they can take out and carry on with the rest of their lives and matching up all their other documents at one time.
Senator Hensley: But you're adding social worker as somebody that can have a sworn statement. Even if this bill passed it would seem like adding someone who was a social worker is a stretch.
Marissa Richmond: We can remove that particular category.
Senator Hensley: I don't support it anyway but adding a social worker is a stretch.
Senator Hensley simply doesn't believe sex can change. As he puts it—"we just disagree about that." But, he advises the advocates, even if sex can change, that change shouldn't be based on the sworn statement of a social worker. At that moment in the hearing, the bill's sponsor, Jeanne Richardson, Democrat from Memphis, stood up and offered to remove psychologist and social worker from the bill. She then made a final statement:
For someone to have surgery or to change their lives this totally is a very very serious thoughtful process. This is not something that's done lightly….It has to do with the person and their personhood and what they are, it's as essential as anything could be about them. There are very few people in our society that make this decision, but I respect those people that do….So when they make that decision, and we have medical professionals who will back them up, I see no reason why the rest of us should challenge that.
Despite Richardson's plea to her legislative colleagues to think of gender identity as a central aspect of personhood that they should refrain from interfering with, a few minutes later the bill voted down.
All my ducks were in a row, but it was turtles all the way down
March 28, 2019 ~ Paisley Currah	~ Leave a comment
[Posting very short excerpts from my book, as I work on last edits to it.]
For years, I had put off doing the paperwork to change my legal sex in my Social Security records. Partly I had delayed doing this because word had it on the transgender digital street that during the administration of President George W. Bush, the SSA had tightened the requirements for changing the sex marker in one's record. (It had.) I had also procrastinated because this was not a bureaucratic transaction I could accomplish through the faceless anonymity of the U.S. mail. Unlike residents of, say, Nebraska, at that time residents of Brooklyn, Queens, and five other municipalities across the country had to show up in person at a "Social Security Card Center" to "strengthen the integrity of the Social Security Number." The idea of outing myself in a face-to-face transaction with a government bureaucrat was not appealing to me. (I had already had that odd experience at the New York Department of Motor Vehicles, described in the preface.)
But by the time President Bush left the Oval Office, I had decided to get all my ducks in a row, and get the record changed. I had developed a slightly paranoid fear that I would be denied my social security benefits at some point in the future because of a mis-match between the SSA's record associated with the number that was assigned to me and (what I can only describe as) myself. A few years earlier, as I was researching the history of New York City's policy for changing the sex marker on birth certificates, in a relatively dustless archive of a medical association, I had read a letter written in 1965 by a federal official at the Division of Vital Statistics at the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. He was responding to an inquiry from the head of New York City's Bureau of Records and Statistics who had asked for his department's input on a policy for applications for a "change of sex" on the birth certificate. In researching the question, the federal official surveyed various federal agencies and found that the "crucial problem" raised by the question concerned the status of the connection between two different files, with different names and sex markers. "Assuming that 'x' has undergone medical treatment [operations for "change of sex"], how do we link 'x' with the birth certificate?" As a researcher, it had been exciting to come across a letter, written over forty years prior, in which a federal bureaucrat consciously reflected about one of the central problems of modern state formations—how to recognize its citizens—and tied that to the question of legal sex classification. Somewhat later though, and from the perspective of myself as an economic being who hopes to receive Social Security benefits upon retirement, the idea that the SSA might not be able to connect me to my records instilled a sense of vertigo. What if the government said the Paisley Currah in their records was not me? What if "I" was not sufficiently linked with the Paisley Currah who would be the future recipient of Social Security benefits?
In 2009, the handbook for consumers on the Social Security Website explained what forms and documents one must tender for an ordinary "change of information" request, including changing one's name or correcting one's date of birth. Change of legal sex presumably fell under this "change of information" category, but there weren't any particular instructions for that. Digging deeper, I came upon the SSA's online manual for its field officers, Programs Operations Manual System (POMS). There, under the heading, "Changing Numident Data for Reasons other than Name Change," I found what I needed. SSA field officers are instructed: "Sex-Operation: Applicant must submit a letter from his or her surgeon or the attending physician verifying that the sex change surgery was completed. All documents must clearly identify the NH."[iv] NH is the acronym for Numident Holder; Numident is a short form of Numerical Identification System. "My" number, my file, is the Numident; I am merely the Numident Holder. If my request was successful, the regulations state, "a new record showing the new data is appended to the prior record(s) on the Numident." My identity in this federal database would not be erased but augmented—the records of the male "Paisley Alan Currah" would be appended to prior records of the female "Paisley Ann Currah." While the Social Security Administration has not yet identified a solution to the larger epistemological uncertainty hovering over the link my SSA files and myself—or, more precisely, the link between the Numident and the presumptive Numident Holder—at least "my" different records would be connected administratively.
The documents the SSA required for me to change my information were filed away at home. I filled out Form SS-5, "Application for a Social Security Card," which is used for new cards as well as for change of information, checked the box marked "Male," wrote in my new name and my old name, and went downtown to 625 Fulton Street in downtown Brooklyn to get the deed done. When I arrived, about fifty people were already in line, waiting to get through metal detectors before going up to the sixth floor where the card center is actually located. Three armed guards from a private security firm periodically broadcast directives to us Numident Holders and would-be Numident Holders—no food, no drink except for water or infant formula, no alcohol, no weapons of any kind, no tools.
Up on the sixth floor, the wait was much shorter. When I was called to window #21, I passed my SS-5, through the slot below the window. "Is this for a new card?" the field officer asked through the window's intercom system. This was the moment I had been dreading. "I'm just updating the information on the card, the gender and the name," I responded, wondering if any clients at nearby windows could hear me. I was instructed to slide my documents over, which included my passport as proof of identity, proof of my name change, and a notarized letter from a surgeon. The clerk first looked at the order from the Civil Court of the City of New York granting me "the right to assume the name of Paisley Alan Currah"—this was a familiar document. (I had already changed my name on my old passport and driver's license—Paisley Ann Currah—to Paisley Alan Currah, and also my sex classification on both documents.) After she'd skimmed it, she ran her hand over the last page to feel for the court's seal. She turned to the next document, the doctor's letter. It stated that, "Psychological and medical testing has been carried out to determine the patient's true gender. In the case of Paisley Currah, this was determined to be male." It also stated the patient had undergone "surgical procedures…to irreversibly alter his anatomy and appearance to that of a male." This document, which was only five sentences long, took this field officer what seemed like quite some time to read.
After a few long minutes, the officer looked up, smiled, and said, "All right, I'm just going to check this out, verify it, and we're good." She left the window in search of a supervisor, or at least someone who knew what to do with my request. After wandering from one end of the long glassed-in area to the other at least three times, she finally found someone to advise her—the field officer at window 25. They consulted for a few minutes, looking over my documents together. Before my field officer returned to the window, she photocopied my documents. "Okay, it's all checked out, and we're good." She started typing away at the computer, making changes. She looked up once to inform me that my immigration status had never been updated. "I can fix that right now." The friendliness level had ratcheted up significantly. She was now super helpful and I was super appreciative. When she was done, she had me sign a form consenting to all the changes to my record and returned all the originals and a receipt to me. I thanked her and skedaddled out of there.
It was, but for the long wait, the security checks, and the suspense at window 21, a relatively painless exercise. I had done what conscientious "numident holders" are supposed to do to keep their information up to date. I had figured out the proper procedure, filled out the form, waited patiently in a long line, and proffered the right documents to the Social Security Administration. And since domestication/recognition involves mutuality, the federal government, at least this particular agency in this particular case, had assented to my request for recognition. My sex classification had been changed to reflect the changes to my body described in the doctor's letter, my name had been changed, even my citizenship status had been updated. All my ducks were in a row, but it was turtles all the way down.
From the beginning of the chapter on states and sex classification.
Why Trump's ban on trans people serving in the military matters to trans civilians
August 13, 2018 October 5, 2018 ~ Paisley Currah	~ Leave a comment
I know some trans people aren't interested the fight over Trump's ban on transgender people serving in the military. But, as I learned Friday at the Transgender Law Institute, if the ban is upheld by the Supreme Court, its effects will go far beyond the armed forces. According to Shannon Minter, "the negative ramifications of a loss in the courts will be terrible." Minter is the Legal Director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights, which, with GLBTQ Advocates and Defenders, is challenging the ban in the courts.
A little background: In June of 2016, the Department of Defense announced that transgender people could serve openly in the military. The military would also provide transition related medical care.
Six months into his first term, Trump announced via (where else) Twitter that the ban would be put back in place.
The same massive bureaucratic apparatus that had, after a year of research, found the ban irrational and developed a thorough implementation plan for allowing trans people to serve openly and provide transition related medical care was forced to do a 180 degree turn and come up with a justification for reversing the policy.
And did it ever. In February of this year, Secretary of Defense James Mattis released a report that recommended reinstating the ban. Most of the arguments supporting the recommendation were boilerplate right wing drivel: the ideas of people with penises showering with women, the "disproportionate cost" of provision of transition related care, and ye olde "unit cohesion" defense. Trans rights advocates have lots of experience responding to these tired canards. You can see how they do so in reply briefs here and here.
The fourth justification is the most worrisome. It takes state-sponsored transphobia to new heights by questioning the very validity of transition-related medical care as a treatment for gender dysphoria. In our brave new post-truth world, Mattis's underlings cherry-picked unfounded, unpublished, and highly selective research to suggest that hormone therapy and/or surgery do little to help transgender people.
This argument jibes with the right wing's anti-transgender agenda, most clearly articulated in Ryan Anderson's When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Movement (Encounter Books, 2018), which suggests that transgender people need compassion, but not equal treatment or transition related medical care. You can see this agenda in the new Department of Defense policy: "Transgender persons" without a diagnosis gender dysphoria can serve in their "biological sex." (Biological sex here means sex assigned at birth.) According to the report, the policy is not a ban on trans people per se, just a ban on people who happen to share the defining characteristic of transgender people–a disconnect between one's gender identity and the sex assigned at birth.
A reasonable person might think that truth will ultimately prevail, that a policy that ignores the medical and psychiatric consensus and that discounts the lived experiences of hundreds of thousands of transgender people cannot stand. But this is the same administration that changed the rules to allow asbestos, a known carcinogen, into new products. This is the same administration that has proposed rolling back fuel economy standards, despite the fact that its justification is a "denial of basic science."
Eventually, these cases will be heard by the Supreme Court. If the Court decides that the ban is constitutional, it won't just affect those who want to serve in the military. The Court's imprimatur on a report that rejects the idea that surgery and hormones are effective treatments for gender dysphoria will have alarming ripple effects in every area where advocates are working to ensure that trans people get the medical care they need, from prisons to workplaces to public benefit programs such as Medicaid and Medicare. If the Court ultimately sides with the Department of Defense, the transition-related health care of those of us not in the military could well be affected. The Court's opinion would certainly be used to justify decisions not to pay for surgery or hormones.
I want to put the Department of Defense policy in a larger historical context. Before Trump, transgender people were harmed by sex classifications in laws and policies designed to give men more rights and resources or to use M/F for surveillance purposes in descriptions in state records and on identity documents. As I argue in my forthcoming book, trans people were not the intended targets of these policies, we just found ourselves occupying the residual category of legal sex classifications—we're what the system didn't anticipate. Even though it's no longer constitutional to treat men and women differently, classifying people as M or F is still baked into law and policy.
That's why the battle in the first decades of the transgender rights movement has been to show that the category of women includes trans women and vice versa, that sex and gender discrimination laws cover trans people, that the M or F assigned at birth might not turn out to be the right one for the individual. Over time, these efforts have started to succeed and courts, administrative agencies, and legislatures are coming around. Of course there has been resistance, but it has been gradually evaporating as a result of education and the immense number of trans people coming out.
But the ground has shifted with the Trump administration. Now transgender advocates are no longer fighting accidental erasure. While previous conservative administrations took a more passive approach by simply not supporting trans rights, Trump and Pence are working to codify transphobia by enshrining it in policy across as many agencies as possible. (Their efforts were anticipated by attempts in red state legislatures to make bathroom access based on the sex assigned at birth.) With the Department of Defense policy, transgender issues have been politicized to a degree never yet seen. (Okay, I am overstating the difference in transphobia before and after Trump a little, but the I do think 2017 marked a real shift.)
One might argue that transgender rights movement lost something when it was packaged as a new identity politics group. Absent a handful of historical contingencies—transphobia among second wave feminists, the intensity of the pathologization of transsexuality, Reagan, the revanchist 1980s and the move to assimilate to the norms of the market–it might have been possible to articulate equality for people whose gender identity or expression confounded traditional expectations with broader movements for distributive justice. Socialist feminism, with its attention to bodies, the imbrication of capitalism and gender norms, and the material conditions that make life livable, would have been a better option.
In any case, identity politics, meshing neatly with neoliberalism, was to provide a path to acceptance into the status quo. The neoliberal contract with identity politics was to guarantee formal inclusion, representation, and political equality in exchange for abandoning more radical claims to justice. Writing about black movements for equality, Asad Haider suggests identity politics is "the neutralization of movements against racial oppression." And the same could be said, has been said, about transgender identity politics.
But the Trump/Pence administration has upended all that, it has canceled the contract. Working closely with the organized religious right, trans identity itself has become a target, as the DoD report makes clear. The trans rights movement now finds itself in the unenviable position of fighting the right wing's policitization of trans identity with a politics that was conceived when diversity and inclusion were considered positive values. It might be time to shift to a new terrain.
Transgender Politics, Social Change, and Justice: 2005 Version November 24, 2019
The Aimee Stephens Case: On the problem with describing a trans woman as an "insufficiently masculine" biological male October 15, 2019
Sex Stereotyping Blast from the Past June 18, 2019
When advocates explain M and F to legislators April 19, 2019
All my ducks were in a row, but it was turtles all the way down March 28, 2019
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Mark Payumo is co-founder of Strategic & Warfare Studies Group, an emerging research entity on Asia-Pacific security. He also teaches at North Valley Military Institute in California.
Payumo is a graduate of the Philippine Military Academy and he previously served as a Philippine Army Special Forces Officer who specialized in unconventional warfare and counterterrorism.
He received his Master of advanced studies degree in international affairs from the University of California under the full sponsorship of the G.I. Bill as a U.S. military veteran.
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Now based in California, Mark Payumo previously served as a Philippine Army Special Forces officer. Reflecting on his recent Carnegie Council site visit to Manila ...


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Лі Нін (,  8 вересня 1963, Лючжоу, Гуансі-Чжуанський автономний район) — китайський гімнаст і підприємець, триразовий олімпійський чемпіон 1984 року.

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Народився 8 вересня 1963 року в Лючжоу у чжуанській сім'ї. Його батько був учителем музики, тому змалку почав розвивати у сина хист до музики. Коли через травму голосових зв'язок Лі Нін на кілька днів утратив змогу співати, він вирішив почати займатися на турніку. Потім активно захопився гімнастикою і вже 1971 року у віці 8 років потрапив у команду Гуансі-Чжуанського автономного району зі спортивної гімнастики.

Із 1980 року виступає у складі збірної Китаю. 1982 року на 6-му Кубку світу зі спортивної гімнастики в Загребі завоював шість золотих медалей із сімох, завдяки чому здобув титул «принца гімнастики».

Лі найсильніше відзначився на літніх олімпійських іграх 1984 року, вигравши 6 медалей, у тому числі 3 золоті (у вільних вправах, на коні і кільцях) та 2 срібні.

1988 року Лі завершив спортивну кар'єру, а в 1990 заснував компанію під своїм ім'ям «Li Ning Company Limited», яка виготовляє спортивний одяг і взуття в Китаї. Є головою ради директорів.

2000 року Лі внесено у Міжнародний зал слави гімнастики, тим самим він став першим китайським спортсменом, який потрапив туди.

На церемонії відкриття олімпіади в Пекіні Лі Нін запалив смолоскип олімпійського вогню, злетівши під дах стадіону і «пробігши» коло в повітрі, підтримуваний тросами.

Лі отримав диплом бакалавра юридичних наук і MBA у Пекінському університеті (2002). Нині проживає у Гонконзі за програмою посвідки на проживання.

Є власна гімнастична школа на півдні КНР.

Особисте життя
1993 року Лі Нін одружився з прославленою гімнасткою Чень Юньянь.

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 Biography — Li-Ning Company Limited
 Список результатів на змаганнях
 Li Ning: China's legendary gymnast has combined sporting agility with commercial muscle, 60 Years of Asian Heroes, By Hannah Beech, Time, 2006

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Q: how to work with android media(play,pause,stop) using react-native I am very new to react-native. I am having good experience on Cordova/ionic framework for Hybrid app development. I am just exploring react/react-native. One concept which I like is "virtualDOM" There are a couple of questions here. (some might be layman questions. But, just want clear my thinking.)

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*Because of VirtualDOM, do you think the memory footprint will increase?

*I am trying to develop a small app which plays/pauses/stops a video. and starts/stops the recording of the video. Do you have any plugins available for accessing media devices?

*Does react-native support all device native features?( like Address Book, file system, geolocation, vibration, battery status, device native calendar, capture, contacts, device, device motion, SMS). If so, can you point me to some links where I can access the device specific features?

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*Of course a React Native app is slower and uses more memory than a full native app. However, React Native still seems to be pretty performant in many ways.

*There is a library called react-native-video which supports all you're asking for. There might however be some issues on older versions of android. https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-native-video

*A lot of these features are supported by React Native: https://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/actionsheetios.html#content (Check APIs in the sidebar). If something is not implemented by React Native itself, probably somebody else already did and there is a npm package you can install (and link with rnpm for linking android/ios code).
If you want something custom, you can still build your own Java/Swift/objectiveC component and wrap it to a React Native component. (https://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/native-components-android.html and https://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/native-components-ios.html)


León. 12:30 p.m. Venue: Hotel Conde Luna. Event: the prize-giving ceremony of the XXIX edition of the Magistral. Players, sponsors, politicians, businessmen and the media, all of them meeting there; and at the back of the hall, close to a great door made of glass dividing the main hall and the dining room, there stood a man unknown for most of them. Tall, abundant and white hair, beige jacket, grey chapiri in his left hand and his face hidden behind brown, thick horn-rimmed glasses. About the age of 80. Serious face, but very attentive to what was said around him while scanning sparingly the faces of those present. He took some photograhps with a Leika that must have belonged to Robert Capa. He was holding a notebook with his free hand; in the other, his hat. From time to time he painted on the notebook with vigorous strokes or drew a quick caricature.
He turned his head and pointed with his notebook to the protagonists of the act.
'This wouldn't happen in North America. I've been tracking this tournament in the twenty nine years of its lifespan, I know the players and organisers – though they don't know me by the way – and I can say that if we had a chess event like this, over a quarter of a century old and a with such a players' record, there wouldn't be paper in the world to announce it; nor media, nor official national and international institution without a representative right here. And, of course, with the highest honors, even with a music band, and player's and host country's flags, and the FIDE President next to his Spanish counterpart, TV, radio, and all other media. Indeed, I'm sorry I haven't introduced myself. I'm William Leighton from Boston. I've been a specialist reporter, chess player, and now a traveler coming from USA to know the how's and why's of this tournament success. A tournament that, if I may, should also be organised in America'.
'Well', I replied shyly after such a brainstorming, 'organisers have planted the seed in Latin America. Mexico has organised similar events run by the same organisers. And regarding your other remarks, the fact is that we are more modest to carry out everything you say, but no less effective. The specialised media from five continents divulge it, FIDE knows it very well and the music band can be subtituted by a canned, adequate but lacking of prestige, Pomp and Circunstance. The Magistral life', I went on, 'is long. Thirty years are a legacy for any event and the best players in the modern chess history have passed through León. For the elite members of chess, León is like a pilgrimage to Mecca. And just like Anand pointed out jokingly to me, "he who does not play in León, does not exist". And I agree with him.
I tell you, Mr. Leighton, we have a few things in common, but in organising high-ranking tournaments… forgive my immodesty, we are giving you lessons. Since otherwise it's hard to understand how you do not organise something like this taking into account the wealthy sponsors, means and potential you have. You are not short of money nor ideas, I see, and places… North America is a big one, isn't it? I humbly think we are top leaders in generating ideas about arousing multimillonaire events, in producing grandmasters – you can see Santos – and in drawing the attention of the main media and of significant people like yourself who travel for thousand of miles to get a close look at this tournament. A tournament which has been painfully held by all organisers, especially by its headmaster Sión, for thirty years. I sincerely believe that regarding your presence here in León and both your knowledge and wisdom, what you will write about us can ensure at least other thirty years for the tournament. It is confirmed we are on the right track, Mr. Leighton. I am at your disposal for whatever you need. It's been a real experience talking to you. Thank you for coming and take heart for the next year; maybe we'll have got a music band and even a choir to celebrate the 30th anniversary'.
The fine gentleman shook his head in a sign of conviction and resignation while saying 'if I live…' And walking slowly he went away towards the back door, disappearing like Lawrence in the Sinai Desert.


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Ræder blev löjtnant 1815, användes vid de trigonometriska arbetena i Holstein 1822-1830 och verkade som lärare vid krigshögskolan 1833-1836. Han utnämndes till major 1847, förde med skicklighet en bataljon 1848-1850 och blev överste 1851. Han skrev Den danske armees Organisation (1837) och Danmarks krigs- og politiske Historie 1807-1809 (3 band, 1845-1852). Hans Krigserindringer fra 1848-50 utgavs 1911 och Barndoms- og Ungdomserindringer 1912.

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Ingestion of Steamed and Dehydrated Placenta Capsules Does Not Affect Postpartum Plasma Prolactin Levels or Neonatal Weight Gain: Results from a Randomized, Double-Bind, Placebo-Controlled Pilot Study.
Young SM1,2, Gryder LK3, Cross CL4,5, Zava D6, Norris W6, Benyshek DC1,7.
Nutrition and Reproduction Lab, Department of Anthropology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Las Vegas, Nevada.
Office of Undergraduate Research, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Las Vegas, Nevada.
Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Las Vegas, Nevada.
Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Las Vegas, Nevada.
Department of Radiation Oncology, School of Medicine, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Las Vegas, Nevada.
School of Medicine, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Las Vegas, Nevada.
Clinical studies conducted in the early to mid-twentieth century, and recent self-reports by some maternal placentophagy practitioners, suggest that human maternal placentophagy improves breast milk quality and quantity, although little research has evaluated this claim. Some placentophagy providers and advocates suggest that increased prolactin levels after placenta ingestion could account for the purported lactation benefits. The current study was conducted to evaluate these claims by comparing plasma prolactin levels of women consuming steamed, dehydrated, and encapsulated placenta with those of women consuming a placebo. Neonatal weight gain was also compared between the 2 groups.
A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled pilot trial was conducted in which postpartum women (N = 27) were given a supplement containing their dehydrated placenta (n = 12) or placebo (n = 15). Plasma prolactin concentrations were measured 4 times across late pregnancy and early postpartum, and neonatal weights were recorded 3 times over the first 3 weeks postpartum.
The results showed no statistically significant (P < .05) differences in either plasma prolactin levels or neonatal weight gain between groups.
Maternal consumption of steamed, dehydrated, and encapsulated placenta postpartum does not appear to affect maternal postpartum prolactin or neonatal weight in the first 3 weeks postpartum. Further research is needed to investigate the possible effects of variation in placenta preparation methods or daily intake on human lactation.
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NYU is about to become much more competitive!
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NYU made an announcement that looks like it's on its way to becoming a national news headline. Effective immediately, the NYU School of Medicine will offer free tuition to all of its medical school students. We all know how intensely competitive NYU is with Columbia and this appears to us to be a sound response to Columbia's announcement last December to build an endowment to lower medical school graduate debt.
And, of course, if you think NYU was a competitive medical school before this announcement, we expect it to become even more selective after this bombshell announcement!
The Boston Herald reported that the Boston-area medical schools have no plans to match NYU's free tuition plan though they do agree that tuition is too high and they're actively seeking ways to reduce tuition and graduate debt through scholarships and donations.