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Modesty Versus Decency: The Post Falls Down
Unbelievably sloppy reporting from the Washington Post yesterday. You know last weekend the CRC held a kind of protest at the Germantown Indoor Swim Center. We had a couple of people who got there when it started and left when it ended. They counted heads, took pictures (which we posted here), and even took notes about what they saw. No press showed up, it was pretty much a non-event, but it's our job to keep an eye on these people.
We counted seventeen people there.
The Post didn't go, but they talked to a lady who said she helped organize the non-event, and published what she said about it.
The County Council's plan to vote Tuesday on legislation that would prohibit discrimination based on gender identity has continued to spark protest. Susan Jamison, a parent and lawyer from Poolesville, organized a demonstration at the county pool in Germantown that Jamison said attracted about 40 people. The group passed out hundreds of fliers to warn residents of the consequences of the bill.
Jamison, who has been battling the county's sex education curriculum, is concerned that the legislation will mean that her 10-year-old daughter would be forced to change in a locker room next to a transgender female.
"People don't understand the problem. There will be no decency here," she said. "If you really want separate facilities for transgenders, spend the money to build them, but don't put boys with male genitals in with our naked daughters."
Jamison said she is considering a lawsuit if the council approves the measure because of substantive changes made to the bill after the public hearing. Protest Continues Against Transgender Bias Bill
Listen, they didn't [pass] out hundreds of fliers to warn residents of the consequences of the bill, they handed out misleading fliers intended to alarm people about a nonexistent danger. This is pure biased reporting; out of nearly a million people in this county, seventeen feel strongly that it is important to keep discrimination on the basis of gender identity legal, and The Post quotes them as authorities, warning the reading public about dangerous consequences of a Council vote.
That lady's name might have sounded familiar to you. Susan Jamison was behind the wonderful letter-writing campaign a couple of years ago, where she sent letters to families of MCPS students, so all they'd have to do is check a box and put the card back into the mail, to complain to MCPS about the new curriculum. Naturally, the great majority of the letters that were returned to the school district had the negative message crossed out, replaced by text supporting the curriculum. It was a nice, spontaneous response by the public.
You might also have seen Susan Jamison's name on a notorious Nazi web site, where Nazi leader Bill White wrote about how he was helping her group, Parents Against X-rated [and R-Rated] Books in Montgomery County Public Schools. That disgusting web site recently experienced a well-publicized denial-of-service attack and is currently not in very good shape, so you can't read the stuff at the source, but I found this particular web page on the WayBack Machine, an archive of old web pages.
The Washington Post took this lady's word without checking anything. If you went there and counted heads, they had seventeen people, if you read about it in The Post there were forty, because that's what she told them.
That's a two hundred thirty five percent error. Not what you'd call accurate reporting.
I should mention that one of these reporters attended the most recent CRC public meeting as a participant, talking about his experiences with the school district, and not publishing any article about the meeting.
The office of council member George Leventhal (D-At Large), who chairs the health committee, has received a mixed response from residents in e-mails. Answering Jamison's concerns, Leventhal said in an e-mail that the bill was changed to clarify that "public accommodations must be appropriate for the gender that is 'publicly and exclusively expressed or asserted.'"
Leventhal added that he could not, "absolutely put to rest your concern that girls might find themselves in a locker room or dressing room in the presence of a person who expresses or asserts herself as a woman but who still has male genitals, but based on my own sense of the prevalence of that condition in the population, I think the likelihood of that occurring is remote. For the same reason, I do not think it would be cost-effective to build a third category of restroom, dressing room or locker room facilities."
According to the bill's sponsor, council member Duchy Trachtenberg (D-At Large), 13 states and the District have laws that make it illegal to discriminate against transgendered individuals. Trachtenberg said in a news release that the measure continues to have strong support on the council. The county, she said, "has historically taken the lead in protecting its most vulnerable citizens."
The Post has taken the CRC's bogus assertions and treated them seriously, even though nobody else will.
This whole men-in-the-ladies-room idea is so wacky, I can't believe they even have the nerve to stand up and say it, and it is even more unbelievable to see a usually-respectable paper like the Washington Post promote the idea.
Let's talk about the CRC's worst nightmare scenarios. First, think about an actual transgender person, formerly a man now a woman, fully transitioned after surgery and the whole nine yards, going into the ladies room at a public place. This is just a lady using the ladies room, whether you like it or not. Sorry, this happens now, this is how it's supposed to work.
Another scenario. A transgender person who has not had surgery belongs to a gym, and uses the ladies shower room. This is actually probably the one that scares them the most. It seems that it is possible, in that case, that a lady would see a penis. Kids don't go to the gym, so no kids would see a penis, and I really don't think this would happen at, say, a public pool -- the "kid" part is really just saying the sky is falling. Maybe I'm old-fashioned, but I have to wonder ... what is so dangerous about seeing a penis? I mean, the chances of this happening are one in a gazillion, you've never heard of this happening and neither have I. What's the big problem? The alternative is to have somebody dressed as a woman using the men's room, which sounds pretty dangerous to me.
Last scenario. A perverted heterosexual dude in men's clothing goes into the ladies room leering at the ladies in the stalls, or let's make it better, goes into the ladies shower at the gym and leers at the naked ladies showering. I have an idea: kick him out of there. This bill does not make that legal.
OK, one more. A perverted heterosexual dude dresses up like a woman so he can go into the ladies room and see women peeing.
Do we need to talk about that? At some point, reality needs to raise its ugly head, somebody needs to say, nobody's actually going to do that. And anyway, a guy could do that now, who'd know? But nobody ever does it.
I think only the second scenario has any credibility at all as an issue, a transgender woman with male genitalia in a ladies shower room. It could happen that a lady would see a penis and be shocked. It's a poorly kept secret that lots of us have them, under our clothes ... but somebody might actually be surprised. Now let me point out that a real transgender person would almost certainly be entirely embarrassed to have their male genitals exposed to a roomful of women -- this isn't going to happen in reality. That's a fact that the CRC prefers to ignore.
So let's say, on the one hand, there is a tiny -- I'll bet less than one in a hundred million chance -- that any particular woman showering at a gym is going to unexpectedly see a penis.
On the other hand, people who do not conform to gender stereotypes are discriminated against in employment, they are refused service in restaurants, taxis won't stop for them. Not that they cause any harm, if they were doing something wrong then fine, the same rules apply to them as the rest of us. But as it is, the same rules don't apply, because they get hassled all the time.
To the CRC, the fact that a person is discriminated against as they try to do the things that everybody needs to do is nothing, compared to the severity of the one-in-a-gazillion chance that a lady will see a penis.
This is a trade-off between modesty and decency, where the CRC believes that it is better to treat people indecently, to malign them and discriminate against them, than to offend a hypothetical lady's sense of modesty.
posted by JimK at 7:25 AM
Get a grip, Jim. 40 vs 17 isn't really a substantive difference.
Sounds like you guys are getting nervous about this bill's chances.
You can tell the council is feeling pressure when it starts making changes like the addition of the term "exclusive."
Laughingstockdom is not far from where these council members are right now. It often subsequents ridiculous legislation.
No one believes it is a hardship for people with male anatomy to use the male bathroom.
No one believes the MC council definition of gender.
No one believes restaurants should have to hire someone with an evening gown and a five o'clock shadow as their hostess.
No one believes a single mother, with small children who wants to rent a room out to get by financially, should be forced to put up a transgender.
This is the real world, man.
"Let's talk about the CRC's worst nightmare scenarios."
Let's talk about a civilized society's worst nightmare:
Such a common common concern these days in Montgomery County.
What I'm wondering is, what is Susan Jamison's 10-year-old daughter changing ALONE in a locker room next to ANY naked adult? I'm not a parent, but is that supposed to be normal?
Anonymouse said...
"Get a grip, Jim. 40 vs 17 isn't really a substantive difference."
Yeah Jim, get a grip, everybody knows that a lie vs the truth isn't really a substantive difference.
Tish said...
Yes, let's do talk about the CRC's worst nightmare: Someone might do the research and report on the bathroom atrocities that have occurred in the more than 100 other jurisdictions where laws like this have passed.
OK, conversation over. Nothing to talk about.
Nothing of this kind has happened in the 13 states plus the District of Columbia plus the 91 counties and cities that have already passed these laws. Something of another kind has happened, though: Transgender people feel a little less afraid when they need to use a multi-stall public facility.
The City of Baltimore has had a similar law since 2002. Where is the evidence of bathroom mayhem in Baltimore?
By the way, I attended the County Council hearings on this bill on October 2. Dr. Ruth claimed that bill number 23-07 would violate religious freedom by forcing churches to hire teachers and rent homes to people they disapprove of (in Jesus's name, I suppose). In response to the doctor, the County's legal staff read the full text of the clauses regarding exemptions. Remember please that this bill is an amendment to existing antidiscrimination code. Religious institutions have a huge big exemption loophole, as do private membership organizations. Furthermore, single rooms in owner-occupied homes are exempt, so let's not worry about that single mom with her room to let, OK?
If someone has a real concern to bring up, please do. Given that there are lots of other jurisdictions from which to gather data, just go out and find out what negative social consequences there have been and let the county know so that the language of the bill can be adjusted accordingly. Stop inventing worst-case scenarios and pretending that they are imminent.
Andrea-not anon
I remember that letter Jamison wrote - I had to wonder where she got her degrees- her writing was disjointed and incredibly poor. Of course, her support of book banning(the list was incredible-Wonder if she attended the Harry Potter book burning in New MExico) probably accounts for it- a lack of good literature must be a hinderance to learning.
As to gyms, I find that many people do not undress in front of others- and I do not think this is a transgender issue. At my gym, quite a few women change in bathroom stalls and in the large shower(the accessible one). I think people are pretty sensitive to this issue- not in the CRC way.
I also don't get the bathroom concern-every bathroom(in this country) that I have ever been in- and that is a wide range of places- has separate stalls - with doors. Rural Asia and Egypt is a different story.
Emproph- Susan Jamison is not the concerned parent she likes to pretend. I think having bigotry in the forefront of your life makes you a questionable parent. Kids come into this world without hatred, without bigotry, but you can teach them pretty quickly that people who don't look like you ,talk like you or believe like you are bad.
"Nothing of this kind has happened in the 13 states plus the District of Columbia plus the 91 counties and cities that have already passed these laws."
How do you know that?
"Religious institutions have a huge big exemption loophole, as do private membership organizations."
I believe the exemption is only for churches not for other religious institutions such as schools, pregnancy centers, shelters and other religious ministries. Furthermore, why should institutions get exemptions and not individuals or business owners with religious convictions? Is it just because the institutions have more money?
The exemptions read in the county council hearings specifically mentioned churches and religious schools, and also specifically includes "religious purposes" which thereby draws in the religious ministries of churches and religious schools. If you are a religious business owner and your business is religious in nature, then go to the lawyer you used in your incorporation and see if you are exempt.
How about if you're not particularly religious but have moral convictions? Why not just allow people freedom of association? There's seems in MC to be a very large core of liberals and gays of wealth and influence who are comfortable with these people. Is there any evidence transgenders in MC are having trouble finding housing or employment? Is there really any need for this law here?
If you want a law that specifically allows you to treat people face-to-face the same way you treat them here on this blog, go ahead and ask your councilman/woman to sponsor one. Maybe Susan Jamison will pass out fliers at the swimming pool.
You already have a constitutional right to free association. You don't have to join any private clubs that you don't want to join, and they don't have to let you join if they don't like you. You don't have to make friends with anyone you don't like.
You aren't particularly religious, but you have moral convictions? Bully for you! If you have convictions, then serve your time and come back a better person.
"If you want a law that specifically allows you to treat people face-to-face the same way you treat them here on this blog"
Such a law is not needed. The Constitution already guarantees freedom of speech. Oh dear, how badly I've mistreated the poor innocents here at TTF, though.
"If you have convictions, then serve your time and come back a better person."
I ain't going let'em catch me.
"You don't have to make friends with anyone you don't like."
Why shouldn't anyone be free to not have any type of dealings with anyone they don't like, based on things that are completely within a person's control, like dress or manner? If these transgenders are as supported as TTF says, here in MC, it shouldn't make any difference. If someone didn't want to hire a salesman who made their customers uncomfortable, why should they have to? Are we going to make a law that people are required to buy things from transgenders too? Why do we have to justify our reasons for hiring and doing business with ceratin people to the government?
The whole thing is ludicrous.
Actually, how do you know that it has happened? It's your charge, therefore the burden of proof lies with you. So how do you know that it HAS happened?
Or is this whole public dung flinging thing really all theoretical?
Actually, the real burden of proof should be on those who want to enact legislation. Where is the proof that the problem the legislation tries to correct even exists? Everyone loves transgenders in MC, according to TTF, so what problems could they have with finding bathrooms, jobs and housing?
What a good point. In fact, why bother passing clean water laws. Since when do children need to be protected from bacteria, chemicals, and parasites in their drinking water? I don't see any children dying around here, do you? Is there really any need for those kinds of laws?
Like my great grand pappy used to say about moral convictions, if you're not aware of it, it doesn't exist.
"Everyone loves transgenders in MC, according to TTF, so what problems could they have with finding bathrooms, jobs and housing?"
The ENTIRE EXISTENCE of TTF is because of people who HATE HATE HATE transgendered persons, among OTHERS.
Emproph .
You obviously don't have kids.
And clearly you haven't been in a ladies shower room at the pool (thank goodness)..
Look, I don't take my kids to the pool too much any more, they are too old. When they were young, this was a regular Saturday thing to do ... we were trying to teach them to swim. Sometimes I went by myself, sometimes my husband went with me.
I have 3 children and 10 years ago when I took them to the pool they were 2, 4 and 7. If you are going swimming it is very common to be naked while changing in and out of your bathing suit while in the lockerroom - the showers even are one big showerroom where everyone showers together, without stalls, and some ladies are naked - and the majority of the children are as well.
It is very difficult to keep track of 3 naked children in the lockerroom. Generally people used to not worry about it too much because it was largely Moms and their children... in my case sometimes my two year old little boy was running around naked too.
That all changes.
After all, the 99% of Moms in this situation not get to bend to the 1% of the transexuals that want to invade our privacy. that's what the law allows, after all.
Theresa, you're a hypocrite. That's the only problem I have with you.
-Patrick
Answer the issue, Patrick.
Don't the 99% percent of use who are NOT confused about our gender have rights too ?
Don't the 99% of biological females right to not be exposed to male genitals in their lockerrooms TRUMP the right of the 1% of gender confused individuals to expose them ? Don't Moms have a right to take their four year old daughters swimming and not worry about running into the exposed male genitals of a drag queen in the shared shower area? What happened to the rights of 99% of the population?
Theresa,perhaps your pool has only an open changing and shower area, but the pools that I have joined, and the MoCo swim center pools that I have used have a few closed changing stalls and single showers in addition to the open areas and showers. All of the transwomen I know would prefer to use these, even if they have to stand in line for them.
When I took my sister to my neighborhood pool as my guest, she changed in private. No one saw a thing.
If moms are expected to take their small children into locker rooms to change at the pools, we should have the same expectations for dads. I take it that since you brought your small son into the locker room with you, your husband also took your small daughters into the locker room with him when it was his turn to take the kids swimming?
Majority rules. So be it, just say so. Be honest.
It's not an argument though, it's a belief. Namely the belief that it is acceptable to sacrifice the literal lives of 1% of the population, and the peace of mind of their friends, and their families, to avoid the fears that you have conjured up in your own mind.
I'm not asking for you to admit to delusion or dishonesty. But if you want me to take you seriously, then you need to be honest about the damage that YOU are causing.
When was the last time a Christian was beaten within an inch of their life, JUST because they were a Christian?
Your obsession with genitals is disgusting. Regarding this issue and with the health curriculum. Just so you know. Reading the garbage on the CRC is like breathing in a fart.
I can appreciate the complaint as you state it. But are you willing to tell me that you wouldn't have a problem with this protection if the "public accomodation" portion of it was discluded?
Because ultimately that's what this seems to be all about. Bathrooms and locker rooms. So again, if there was no threat to any children accidentally seeing the genitalia of someone who is transgendered, just in case that were to EVER, EVER, EVER, happen,
then the CRC would be just hunky-dory with the whole idea of protecting transgendered persons in the workplace, and in housing, and services, etc.?
Is this what you wish for me to believe?
Anonymous actually said:
"Why shouldn't anyone be free to not have any type of dealings with anyone they don't like, based on things that are completely within a person's control, like dress or manner?"
Indeed, why shouldn't people have the right to go to school without queer teachers? Without african-american teachers? Without hispanic students? Without Republican principals? Without Christian coaches?
The law in question discusses public accommodations, not private clubs. In private clubs, you can exclude all these people, though not in employment.
You ask why not? Are you from this country? Did you just miss that week in school on Jim Crow and the civil rights movement (and don't tell me that Jim Crow was just about governmental discrimination; go google Plessy vs. Ferguson). Don't you remembe lunch counter sit-ins? Oh yes, sexual orientation and gende-identity are a matter of choice, or mental illness, or something like that, and shouldn't be protected. Insulting, and a red herring; political affiliation, marital status, religion, all matters of choice, are protected.
Fact is, our country shouldn't allow discrimination in the public square.
You expose yourself as an unregenerate biggot. You just don't like queer people, I get it. America is changing, bucko. You can't legislate us out of existence anymore cf. Lawrence v. Texas).
Gee you're bobo-head.
The whole bathroom thing is the reddest of herrings. It's a straw man, a false issue. It should be ignored on this blog. It seems to me that it comes back to those terrible queers going after our children (I wonder if trans people caused the plague by poisoning the wells).
Theresa, you should be ashamed of this uncivil, irreligious attack on trans people. Jesus ate with centurions and hung with tax-collectors, didn't he?
"Don't the 99% of biological females right to not be exposed to male genitals in their lockerrooms TRUMP the right of the 1% of gender confused individuals to expose them ?"
Or the unedited thought:
"Don't the 99% TRUMP the right of the 1%?"
Democracy-wise speaking, I'd say that's indecent exposure.
"Jesus ate with centurions and hung with tax-collectors, didn't he?"
Yes, he did. And I wouldn't be surprised if he were here today and ate with transgenders. I don't think he be pushing for the Romans to enact a law requiring everyone to, though.
You might be interested in Acts 8:26-39 where the God leads a person who might be called a transgender to conversion to Christianity.
Jesus wouldn't be asking for a law, because that wasn't what you did in those days. He would step in the middle, though, when there was harassment, and demand that he who was without sin cast the first stone. Which is very similar, in effect, to what this law does.
Priya Lynn said...
Some time back anonymous tried to justify his hiding behind everchanging pseudonyms, claiming that there was no problem with other people being unable to check one post for contradictions with a previous post, he tried to say that each post stood seperately on its own and that there was no need to compare different posts of his to see if he was lying.
Well, on this very thread we can see the contradictions between two posts of his and what a hypocritical liar he is and how he uses anonymity to hide that.
Anonymous said "Is there any evidence transgenders in MC are having trouble finding housing or employment? Is there really any need for this law here?"
In a seperate post he then said "If someone didn't want to hire a salesman who made their customers uncomfortable, why should they have to?".
Note the hypocrasy and lies between posts. On one hand he's asserting there is no discrimination problem for transgendered people and in another he's demanding the right to discriminate against transgendereds. This is why we need to be able to know which posts are made by the same person Anonymous, so people like you can't pretend to be different people in different posts and hide your the inconsistencies of your positions between posts.
To annswer your questions anonymous, Yes, when there are people like you who demand the right to not hire and associate with transgengereds because we make you uncomfortable there is a need for an anti-discrimination law.
Given the many other jurisdictions that have an anti-discrimination law that includes the transgendered it is clear that there has never been a problem with a pre-op transexual's penis being exposed in a ladies changing room - if that had happened the religious bigots would be screaming about it until no end, there's no way they'd let a single incident of that go without making a gigantic fuss about it, it clearly has NEVER happened.
The fact is that no pre-op transexual wants anyone to see her penis when she herself is offended by it. A pre-op transexual simply isn't going to allow any woman to see that she isn't an anatomically correct woman, a pre-op transexual is going to forgo the gym or swimming pool unless there's a way to change in private and prevent others from seeing that which she doesn't want to see herself.
Anonymous said "No one believes it is a hardship for people with male anatomy to use the male bathroom.".
Your ignorance is profound. When a male to female pre-op transexual is presenting as a woman it is dangerous for her to use the male bathroom. A born male woman in a dress in a men's bathroom is like having a flashing neon sign that says to all the homophobes "Beat me! Beat me!". Of course that's not a concern for you, is it.
The fact is a transwoman is far less out of place in the ladies room than in the mens'. It may not he the ideal situation for all involved, but it is the best one by far.
"Is there any evidence transgenders in MC are having trouble finding housing or employment? Is there really any need for this law here?"
Maryland doesn't collect statistics on transgender hate crimes but here's some data about such crimes around the nation and the DC area:
Violent crime against transgender people occurs with alarming frequency, but because these incidents are vastly under reported, there is little statistical data to quantify the precise number of such crimes that occur each year. One of the few attempts to determine the prevalence of hate crimes against transgender people is a 2000 study of Washington D.C. conducted by the District of Columbia Health Department. The Washington D.C. Transgender Needs Assessment Survey reported that 43 percent of respondents had been victims of violent crime—75 percent of these crimes were motivated by transgender bias. Seventeen percent had been assaulted with a weapon.
Jessica Xavier, "Final Report of the Washington DC Transgender Needs Assessment Survey," Administration for HIV and AIDS, Department of Health of the District of Columbia, 2000.
...crimes committed in 2005 due to bias against the victim's perceived sexual orientation represented 14.2 percent of reported hate crime incidents - the highest level in the 12 years since the agency began collecting these statistics. Violent crime throughout the United States has been declining in recent years, yet hate crimes against gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people continue to rise.
http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/hc2005/table1.htm
Anti-transgender hate crimes continue to be under-reported. Unfortunately, data on anti-transgender hate crimes is not currently collected in Maryland.
According to law enforcement sources, an average of one transgendered individual is murdered each month in the United States. In our own backyard, Washington, D.C. has experienced a particularly high rate of anti-transgender violence in recent years:
In 2002, Stephanie Thomas and Ukea Davis, transgender teens, were brutally gunned down in Southeast Washington, D.C. In August 2003, Bella Evangelista, a popular entertainer in Washington, D.C. was shot to death multiple times at close range. Police have treated the murder as a hate crime. The same month, police discovered the nude body of Emonie Kiera Spaulding in a field. She had been shot but also had severe head wounds. That same evening, there was a second, near-fatal shooting of a transgender woman. These are just a few of the crimes against transgender individuals that rocked D.C.
In 1998, Marylanders were shocked to read about the murder of Lynn Vines. Leonard "Lynn" Vines, a 32 year-old cross-dresser and native of East Baltimore, was accosted in front of his cousin's home and shot six times by a group of 10 people asserting that "we don't allow no drag queen faggots in this neighborhood." Vines survived the attack, which police investigated as a hate crime, and received an outpouring of support from Maryland residents outraged by the violence.
In 1999, a group of six went on a crime spree in Baltimore that included over a dozen armed robberies and four carjacking incidents. While most of the victims were threatened at gunpoint and otherwise not injured, one man was hit in the head with a baseball bat, and Tacy Ranta, prominent transgender activist, was fatally shot in the chest. According to the detective on the case, one of the assailants asked the shooter why he had shot "that lady." The shooter replied, "That was no lady - that was a faggot." Some transgender activists believe that since Ranta was the only one killed, the murder was a hate crime based on her status as a transsexual.
http://www.equalitymaryland.org/hateviolence.htm
suave anon said:
A/B said:
"Maryland doesn't collect statistics on transgender hate crimes but here's some data about such crimes around the nation and the DC area"
You're really a scary creep, A/B. To equate lack of favoritism in hiring with violent crimes is offensive.
Here's the thought process:
"I'm trans.
I didn't get a job.
That's a hate crime!"
"a pre-op transexual is going to forgo the gym or swimming pool"
This is the appropriate step. There is no need to impose on others. After surgery, they can use the pool. take a break in the interim.
That's really not too burdensome.
"When a male to female pre-op transexual is presenting as a woman it is dangerous for her to use the male bathroom."
Maybe in Saskatchewan. Here in MC everyone just loves transgenders so much that this won't happen. Just ask any TTFers. We don't need these laws in MC because everyone, except for 17 people, wants transgenders in the girls' room. (OK, 40, if you believe the Post- but that's out of millions)
If they're that scared, they can take a friend to the bathroom with them. Good practice.
"her penis"
Anyone notice anything strange about this term, used by Randi above?
"Note the hypocrasy and lies between posts. On one hand he's asserting there is no discrimination problem for transgendered people and in another he's demanding the right to discriminate against transgendereds."
Not really, Randi. I do indeed think it is within a person's right to be discriminating as to who they hire and let use their property.
Truthfully, if only 17 people are discriminating against you, out of millions, you're doing better than most and it's not a problem. Some people will discriminate against you if you're overweight or tall or ripped or too bookish or speak with a Southern accent or any number of reasons. Te gustibus non disputantum. Generally, the numbers are greater than 17 for these types of discrimination. It's life. Everyone deals with it.
anonyomous said "You're really a scary creep, A/B. To equate lack of favoritism in hiring with violent crimes is offensive."
First, no one is asking that transpeople be favoured in hiring, simply that they not be disfavoured for reasons other than job performance.
Secondly the idea that a community can commit violent crimes against transpeople and somehow be moral enought not to discriminate against us is absurd. When there's a problem with violent crimes against transpeople it necessarily follows that there is going to be discrimination in jobs and housing as well.
Anonymous said ""When a male to female pre-op transexual is presenting as a woman it is dangerous for her to use the male bathroom."
Maybe in Saskatchewan. Here in MC everyone just loves transgenders so much that this won't happen.".
You saw the violent crimes that Aunt Bea listed. Your assertion that a pre-op transexual presenting as a woman is in no danger in the men's bathroom is absurd and you no it. I'd have more respect for you if you'd just forthrightly admit the truth - you don't care if transwomen are assaulted in the men's room - you'd be happy if that happened.
Anonymous said "If they're that scared, they can take a friend to the bathroom with them.".
Disregarding the fact that one can't always have a friend follow them to the bathroom, then there'd be two people to be assaulted by homophobes like you. Fact is the minimal disruption and only safe alternative is for a transwoman to use the ladies room.
Anonymous said "Not really, Randi. I do indeed think it is within a person's right to be discriminating as to who they hire and let use their property.".
And in previous posts you were insisting that there is no problem with transpeople being discriminated against in employment or housing - you've contradicted yourself several times now. You can't have it both ways, saying there is no concern for discrimination and that you would and people should be able to discriminate. That's why we want you to consistently use one pseudonym, to hold you accountable for your contradictions. You won't because you don't want to be accountable, you want to say one thing in one post and the exact opposite in another depending on what best suits your anti-lgbt agenda. You don't care if what you say is true or not as long as its anti-lgbt.
Anonymous said "Truthfully, if only 17 people are discriminating against you, out of millions, you're doing better than most and it's not a problem. Some people will discriminate against you if you're overweight or tall or ripped or too bookish or speak with a Southern accent or any number of reasons. Te gustibus non disputantum. Generally, the numbers are greater than 17 for these types of discrimination. It's life. Everyone deals with it.".
You just pulled that "17" out of your rear. Fact is its more like half the population that wants to discriminate against LGBTS. Polls consistently show that the vast majority of religious people and close to half of the population in general thinks its wrong to be LGBT.
And not everyone "deals with it". As a religionist you are protected by the existing anti-discrimination law. You don't deserve special status that LGBTs don't get.
Tish.
My husband did not bring my daughters into the men's room. We were a little uncomfortable with this.
He did take my son into the boys room when he came swimming with us.
I can't remember once he took the kids swimming without me. I don't think that was because of the lockerroom situation - it was just I think that usually I was the instigator of the pool trips, as I still am of most of the family trips....
I don't think there is the prevalence of naked little girls running around the men's locker rooms at the pools equivalent to that of naked little boys (usually 4 and under) running around the ladies lockerroom at the pool - but I wouldn't know .....
Similarly, Theresa, you wouldn't know the prevalence of trans women at the pool either, but you are part and parcel of a group using scare tactics that rival the worst the fascists managed in the 20th century.
If you were at all interested, you would know the scenarios that keep you up at night have never materialized, not in those states that have similar laws on the books, nor in those that don't.
Given that you're at least 50 years old and have spent the last 50 years using women's bathrooms, you also know that they all have stalls and that you have no idea about the genitals of the woman next door to you. Why you could possibly care is beyond me.
You also seem to have no clue that if your group's ridiculous demand ever did come to pass in any jurisdiction, stating that the genitals need to match the sex-specific restroom, you would need a gender police in the bathrooms strip-searching individuals. You would also find the women's bathrooms flooded with trans men, who would do far more to scare the bejeezus out of you and your friends than any trans woman would. But you haven't thought about that, because you really don't care. As one of your web postings made clear, you want "men to be men and women to be women," whatever the hell that means to you. To me it means you'd like all trans people to cease existing, because it is just too much for you to wrap your little engineer's mind around.
BlackTsunami said...
this is unbelievable to me. the bill is about being fair and some folks, who are obviously trying to be craft as to not say that they have an objection with the transgender community, have stooped to making this entire situation about bathrooms and changing rooms.
Folks, you may think you mean well but stop and listen to yourselves.you are using fear tactics disguised in religious beliefs and fancy words. these worse case scenarios are no different than folks claiming that integration will lead to black men raping white women.
and btw for the record, i am an african-american gay male so yes i think it is fair that i can bring up the similarity between statements made by racists and those made by folks against this bill.
"Te gustibus non disputantum."
You mean "De gustibus non disputandum", which means "There's no arguing about tastes." What you said means "By the tastes of those disputing you."
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Emproph said to Theresa:
"Because ultimately that's what this seems to be all about. Bathrooms and locker rooms. So again, if there was no threat to any children accidentally seeing the genitalia of someone who is transgendered, just in case that were to EVER, EVER, EVER, happen---then the CRC would be just hunky-dory with the whole idea of protecting transgendered persons in the workplace, and in housing, and services, etc.?
I think it's a fair question Theresa. Would you support the measure if you felt confident that there would be absolutely no chance of you children coming in contact with the genitalia of anyone who is transgendered?
Montgomery County is an amazing place. Despite the fact that millions of MC residents favored letting cross-dressing males get naked in front of young girls in the county, the county council has now yielded to the wishes of 17 people and dropped the public accomodations part of the new dubious discrimination bill.
Score Team CRC!!
Councilmember Trachtenberg has removed the language about public bathrooms from the bill 23-07. This has not stopped the CRC's efforts to undermine the County Councils expandsion of Montgomery County's antidiscrimination law to include gender identity. I think this answers your question Emproph -- CRCers like Theresa still object to this bill because they want to be free to discriminate.
There is no language in the current bill without the amendment which specifically keeps biological males out of the ladies' rooms. The federal bill had such an amendment this one does not. There is also no exemption for religous organizations and schools.
When I go to a public bathroom, I go into my stall, do what I need to do, wash my hands and leave. I don't look at the other women to try to decide their gender. I guess CRCers and their ilk use public bathrooms for something else.
And N. Anon- has now clearly morphed openly to Bigot Anon. Really, why should anyone have to hire someone they don't like? Let's get that "hidden" bigotry out in front where we all know it has always been. Doesn't matter to me who you hate- you are a bigot. And you are stupid enough to think that people should be allowed to discriminate against people you don't like. See, it would be hard for me because I couldn't tell by just looking at someone or even talking to them in the usual manner-I wouldn't hire small-minded, bigoted morons.
"Really, why should anyone have to hire someone they don't like? Let's get that "hidden" bigotry out in front where we all know it has always been. Doesn't matter to me who you hate- you are a bigot. And you are stupid enough to think that people should be allowed to discriminate against people you don't like."
You make the classic liberal mistake, Andreary. Your binary thinking tells you that you either want something to be against the law or you support it. There are no other possibilities in your narrow universe.
Try defining your life in some way other than by government policy.
Anonymouse says...
"You make the classic liberal mistake, Andreary. Your binary thinking tells you that you either want something to be against the law or you support it. There are no other possibilities in your narrow universe."
Actually, that's only a mistake when it's not true. In your case, it is true. Which makes your accusation, projection:
"In psychology, psychological projection (or projection bias) is a defense mechanism in which one attributes to others one's own unacceptable or unwanted thoughts or/and emotions. Projection reduces anxiety by allowing the expression of the unwanted subconscious impulses/desires without letting the ego recognize them."
A liberal by nature considers all viewpoints, because they are "liberal" with their thoughts -- including the possibility for being wrong.
A conservative by nature (at least far right), "conserves" their perspective -- and by extention, "conserves" their ability to consider that they may be wrong.
Aunt Bea said...
"I think this answers your question Emproph -- CRCers like Theresa still object to this bill because they want to be free to discriminate."
Which makes her "concern" for her children, little more than a ruse to disguise her love of hatred for transgendered persons.
I'll take your silence as confirmation of that sentiment Theresa. No surprise there, but I was hoping (obviously in vain) for some measure of honesty about it.
Not only do transgendered citizens deserve to get beaten up in bathrooms, but they should be jobless and homeless too – In the name of Jesus.
Congratulations Theresa, CRC, PFOX, and FLN, you've made one thing clear to the "lost" among us. That your brand of Christian salvation means an eternity spent with people like you.
Andrea- not anon
Thank goodness- I know I won't be with CRCers when I die. I am not sure where we go but I am pretty sure it will be a hot place for bigots and those who claim hatred in the Lord's name.
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NFL Wild Card: Marvin Lewis has to (finally) win a Bengals playoff game, or let someone else try
NFLBy Josh Katzowitz on January 8, 2016 January 8, 2016
The last time the Steelers traveled to face the Bengals for an NFL playoff game, the city of Cincinnati was awash in excitement. The Bengals were playing in their first postseason game in 15 years, and in Marvin Lewis' third season as the head coach, the transformation from one of the worst-run pro franchises into a team that had won the AFC North and was thinking about maybe, possibly, going to the Super Bowl was nearing completion.
They had experienced the Lost Decade of the 90s with coaches Dave Shula, Bruce Coslett and Dick LeBeau and had been rewarded with a team that featured Carson Palmer at quarterback, Chad Johnson at receiver, and Rudi Johnson (1,458 rushing yards) at running back. These Bengals were the most tantalizing version of the team to hit the Queen City since Boomer Esiason was slinging and Ickey Woods was dancing.
Then this happened on the Bengals' second snap from scrimmage.
And in some ways, the city and its football team never recovered. The Bengals lost 31-17 that day and still haven't won a playoff game in Lewis' tenure, and if Cincinnati falls (again) to Pittsburgh (again) at Paul Brown Stadium (again) without the services of its starting quarterback (again), it'll be time for the Bengals to look for Lewis' replacement. At that point, Lewis' teams will have had seven chances to advance out of the first round of the playoffs, and they will have failed each and every time.
After Kimo von Oelhoffen destroyed Carson Palmer's knee in 2005, the Bengals won the AFC North title again in 2009, going 6-0 against their division opponents. The Bengals were a 2.5-point favorite in the wild-card round vs. the Jets, who were led by a rookie quarterback named Mark Sanchez. The Bengals lost that one, too.
In 2011 and 2012 and 2013 and 2014, the Bengals made the playoffs. In 2011 and 2012 and 2013 and 2014, the Bengals lost in the wild-card round.
There's little doubt that when Lewis was hired after the 2002 season, he changed the course of the franchise. He's been the steadying force for owners that oftentimes don't seem to care about its fans and a group of players that, for a time, were in neverending legal limbo.
When talking about the greatest coaches in team history, Lewis is No. 2 behind Paul Brown. He's been — and will always be — an asset to the franchise. But if the Bengals lose this Saturday night to the Steelers — if they fall yet again in the first round — the time will come to move the franchise in another direction. Because if Lewis can get the team to the postseason but can't shove them past even the wild-card round, the Bengals have no hope of ever winning the Super Bowl.
Lewis' teams haven't always been great, and he hasn't always done such a great job with his team's talent. He didn't get above the career .500 mark as a head coach until the 2013 season, and his game management, particularly with timeouts called and replay challenges made, oftentimes is a disaster.
In some ways, he reminds me of Hall of Fame baseball manager Bobby Cox, the man who helped the Braves to 15 MLB playoff appearances but only managed to win a single World Series. Cox was a wonderful regular-season manager, massaging the personality of his teams and molding them into the most consistently-good baseball organization since the Mickey Mantle-era Yankees. But when the Braves made the playoffs, the team suffered because Cox usually wasn't as strong with game management as the opposing manager. He could get the Braves to the base of the mountain, but the rope usually snapped halfway up the ascent.
Lewis is the same way. His locker-room management skills are beyond solid. His players and coaches believe in him, and his longevity as the Bengals coach — after Bill Belichick, he has the longest tenure of any coach in the NFL — is a testament to the success of the culture he's created.
Lewis doesn't deserve to lose his job if the Bengals lose to the Steelers — especially since he'll be playing a backup quarterback in AJ McCarron — but if Cincinnati falls for the fifth-straight time in the wild card round, a change needs to be made.
I'm not advocating firing Lewis, mind you. Instead, I'm saying install Lewis as the general manager or put him in charge of roster management. He knows personnel. He knows how to hold a locker room together. He knows how to get a team to the postseason, where a Super Bowl title is just over the horizon. But Lewis' path, for some reason, is blocked by an obstacle he hasn't had success in moving.
Maybe somebody else will have a different idea of how to get around that barrier. Lewis has earned the right to keep his job, but if the Steelers prevail Saturday, it just might be time to give somebody else a chance to take the Bengals beyond the first round.
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DEPARTMENT OF PLANNING AND NATURAL RESOURCES SHARE OVERVIEW
ST. THOMAS- Members of the Committee on Culture and Planning, chaired by Sen. Myron Jackson, convened in a meeting at the Capitol Building on Wednesday, to receive testimony from the Department of Planning and Natural Resources on an update of the Historic Preservation, marine environment, Town's Blueprint, libraries, archives/museums and other related items.
Post Hurricanes Irma and Maria, FEMA determined that the Historic Preservation Unit sustained an estimated $19 million worth of damages. However, DPNR's State Historic Preservation Office was awarded $10 million to implement a recovery program for suitable archeological and historic sites that are on the National Register List. Sen. Jackson questioned whether DPNR received the $10 million. DPNR Commissioner Nominee Jean Oriol stated that there was no distribution of funds. The National Park Service will issue a check.
DPNR's Division of Coastal Zone Management (CZM) monitors thirty-three sites in the marine environment for the Territorial Coral Reef Monitoring Program. Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease, which increases the coral reef mortality rate, was identified on the west coast of St. Thomas. Overall, DPNR Division of Environmental Enforcement has six officers for the St. Thomas-St. John District and the St. Croix District. However, a total of ten per district is needed. Sen. Janelle Sarauw inquired about the frequency of the enforcement officers patrolling the seas. In response, Oriol stated that there is only one officer who patrols the ocean and more officers need to be recruited.
Thus far, some of the achievements for the Town's Blueprint includes the initiative of revising the V.I. Zoning and Subdivision codes, meeting with members of the 30th Legislature to determine proposed dates, potentially placing them into bill form and choosing a vendor for legal services. To date, a contract is still not in place. Separately, the Division of Libraries, Archives, and Museums have sustained damages because of the hurricanes. Three facilities have extensive mold and contracts are in progress for remediation. FEMA is in the process of finalizing project worksheets for damages. DLAM also lacks adequate staff and funding.
As it relates to long-range planning, the Comprehensive Land and Water Use Plan was last revised fourteen years ago. However, components of the comprehensive plan are updated. The timeline is as follows: In 2018, CZM created a revisory group to develop water use plans for seven anchoring and mooring areas. One year later, CZM is in the process of developing a territorial transient and day-use mooring plan. By 2020, the marine life plan will target "Areas of Special Concern."
Separately, the Board of Land Use Appeals (BLUA) shared an overview. John Woods, Chairman of BLUA noted that the purpose of the Board is to review and decide disputes between DPNR and the public. Currently, there are three pending appeals before BLUA; two of them are on St. Croix, and the other is on St. John. Challenges include vacant board member positions, the need for an in-house legal counsel and the lack of funding decelerates the scheduling of hearings. ###
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Another year is drawing to a close and most of us find ourselves looking back over the past twelve months, reminiscing what might have happened if we had had the courage to start that new job or had the foresight to have seen what a terrible year it had been financially. What to speak of that awful relationship, that you just knew was going to be the love of your life! If we are always worrying about the past, thinking it to have made the present not fulfilling, it will do just that.
A good Vedic astrologer could have foreseen all of these things. The use of an astrological horoscope is meant to be practical, not something that is mystical and obscure. The astrologer gives you a tool, an invaluable map that will help you to make those important decisions. It will help you to make fewer mistakes and better choices, in all areas of your life. We can make plans and set goals to achieve success in all spheres of our lives. An astrological chart gives us a cosmic prognosis, which can be obtained with an accurate birth time, place of birth and date. Just as a physician comes to the conclusion of the likely course and outcome of a disease, the astrologer can predict how aspects of our lives will develop, give us the timing to sit things out and wait or strike while the iron is hot.
∑ Vedic astrology can foresee probable ailments and weaknesses in an individual's chart. To be forewarned is to be prepared and allows the situation to be avoided or reduced. For instance you may have a weak chest or lungs, so smoking would not be a good idea.
∑ By looking at the astrological chart we can determine what metabolic type you are (eg. Vata, Pitta or Kapha) as is often used in Ayurveda.
∑ Mental and emotional health, are often a cause of frustration for those that practice allopathic medicine. Badly placed planets can sometimes cause severe depression and remedial measures unique to Vedic astrology are often used.
∑ It can empower us. and stress can be alleviated just by knowing what you are dealing with.
∑ Before getting into a serious relationship, compatibility charts can be done to ensure good compatibility before committing. Do you have the same goals and aspirations? Will you be best friends as well as lovers?
∑ For those who have been in a long-term relationship that is growing sour, the astrologer can interpret the qualities and attributes each partner has and what buttons not to push. With adequate counseling a relationship can be saved. Alternatively, if the partnership is doomed, having the charts read can give the individuals confidence to move on with their lives.
∑ We often think of compatibility charts being done for marriage, but they are also done for potential business partners, as well.
∑ A Vedic astrological chart will indicate strengths, weaknesses, and propensities when deciding on what career to follow.
∑ Parents can have a child's chart done and see their talents before they even start school. If the child is very artistic, they may feel lost if pushed into mathematics or science and vice-versa.
∑ All is not lost if you are 30 something and wished you were doing something else. The horoscope will indicate what you would be happy doing, it is just up to you to take the leap of faith! Emphasis is put on "happy", for what is the point of being in a well paid job if you are miserable?
India is the birthplace of Vedic astrology, where in the ancient Indian scriptures it is considered an Absolute Science, which is proved by the movements and actions of the Sun, Moon and the other planets within our solar system. Astrology is a combination of science and metaphysics, brought together to make a cosmic map that involves planets, mathematics, skill and considerable expertise.
Vedic Astrology or Jyotish (Science of Light) uses the Sidereal Zodiac, which is using the fixed constellation of stars called Aries, Taurus, Gemini, etc., as a backdrop to calculate the positions and movements of the planets. This is also what astronomers use in their calculations.
Western Astrology on the other hand, uses the Tropical zodiac, which is based on the premise that the Sun will be at zero degrees Aries annually on the 21st of March. The Tropical system was created (based on the equinox), about 1900 years ago, when the Sun was actually at zero degrees Aries. The assumption was made that the Sun would return to this position every year on the spring equinox.
The Earth takes approximately 365 and 1/4 days to orbit the Sun. It is astronomically impossible for the Sun to be at zero degrees Aries every year at the time of the Spring equinox. Therefore, after many years of discrepancy there is about a twenty-three degree difference between the constellations and the signs of the same names. This makes the Tropical system completely inaccurate for predictive purposes from a natal horoscope.
The Vedic system, said to be over five thousand years old, takes into account a phenomenon called (in Sanskrit) the Ayanamsha. This is the gradual rotation of the Earth's axis over thousands of years. Called the precession of the equinox, it is central to modern astronomy, as well as to Vedic Astrology. This means that the actual positions of the planets are constantly getting further behind the "imaginary" tropical placements. Vedic Astrology is based on a very old, unbroken tradition since time immemorial whereas Western Astrology has had a very checkered history.
Astrology virtually disappeared in the West during the Dark Ages (circa 500-1000AD); it resurfaced during the Renaissance, only to fall out of favor during the so-called Age of Reason. In fact, it totally disappeared from the European continent until the late 19th century. It had been kept barely alive in England during that time. Western Astrology as we know it today has existed for about 130 years only when it began a resurgence. The point is that the Vedic tradition is very strong and vibrant, with the heritage of many millennia of accumulated knowledge, whereas Western Astrology does not have the advantage of an unbroken tradition and is based on false mathematical assumptions, not scientific/astronomical facts.
The birth-map, or horoscope, is also a symbolic representation of the Earth, planets, and stars at the time of one"s birth. It is a divine language, a mystic cryptogram by which the Creator has communicated what a person"s destiny will be in the present span of life. To understand one's destiny is to be able to direct oneself towards success in all areas of life.


There is lots of snow in the forecast, so Cavendish Connects is introducing something new and entertaining. Combine your love of puzzles and Cavendish by taking the monthly Cavendish Puzzle Challenge, which will appear on the first Friday of the month on the Cavendish Connects blog.
Submit your answers by Friday, February 26th at 5 p.m. via e-mail or snail mail.
The winners will be posted in The Cavendish Update and on the blog, March 6th. With that announcement we will also be posting the March puzzle. One lucky winner's name will be drawn at random and will receive a free entry into the Cavendish Connects "All Things Cavendish" Raffle, which will take place on Saturday, December 5th at the 2nd Annual Abundance Swap.
This month's puzzle is a crossword created courtesy of Cavendish resident Kem Phillips.
You may either print the crossword out, complete it, and mail it or scan it and e-mail it to us. You can also email us your answers numbered (ex. 1, 2, 3, etc.).
Download the puzzle and enjoy!
How Much Energy is the Cavendish Solar Array Producing?: You can monitor the energy being generated by the Cavendish Solar project by going to the Solrenview website. Please note that the dedication of the solar array, planned for Monday, Feb. 9, has been rescheduled to April 20th due to the continuing snow forecast.
Thanks to Our Volunteer Firemen and Women at Least One Homeowner has Lower Insurance: Bill Hallowell posted the following to the Cavendish VT Facebook page. I just heard from my homeowner's insurance company that my rates will decline by 33% because the insurance industry rating assigned to our Volunteer Fire Department has improved dramatically in the last few years. Thank you volunteer firefighters!!!!!!!
Having issues with TDS?: On Monday night, Feb. 9, representatives from TDS will be attending the Cavendish Selectmen's monthly meeting to discuss Cavendish's telecommunication issues. If you are experiencing a problem, you can now try checking Down Detector to see what the problem might be.
Concerned about Measles Outbreak?: With the current news about the measles outbreak in various parts of the country, there is widespread agreement that Vermonters are less likely to be vaccinated than almost anywhere else in the country. Be advised that recent state data shows that approximately 99% of the students at GMUHS and CTES are vaccinated against measles. In fact, vaccination rates at both schools are in accordance with the Centers for Disease Control standards.
2. BECKY & THE MURPHY BOYS RAISE THE ROOF: On Sunday February 15 Becky & the Murphy Boys will light up Gethsemane Church in Proctorsville for the last Raise the Roof concert of the season. A musical family from southern Vermont that is well known on the concert and contra dance circuit, they are a rich musical mix of fiddle, piano, guitar, mandolin, French Canadian style foot percussion and vocals. Becky Tracy and Keith Murphy are dynamic performers of traditional music from Newfoundland, Quebec, Ireland, France and beyond. Between them they have been part of the bands Nightingale, Childsplay, Assembly and Wild Asparagus, and have each recorded their own solo albums. Keith, a native of Newfoundland, is an accomplished composer whose work was recently featured on the Ken Burns documentary about the Roosevelt's. Becky, who has fiddling in her blood, is classically trained and later studied Irish and French Canadian fiddle styles with some of the masters. She was the featured soloist with the New Hampshire Symphony Orchestra in their performance of Evan Chambers' Fiddle Concerto. For their special performance in Proctorsville they will be joined by their 13 year-old son Aiden, a budding fiddler. Gethsemane Church is on Depot St. next to Crows Bakery Cafe. The concert begins at 4:00 p.m. and admission is $10 at the door. Spice up your late winter afternoon with a concert that promises to be a foot tapping, shimmy shakin' good time.


The Power of Checklists — The Kaleel Jamison Consulting Group, Inc.
Frederick A. Miller Checklists have saved thousands of hospital patients. One of them may even have helped the Allies win the Second World War.
Those statements may seem exaggerated. But in his 2009 book The Checklist Manifesto, surgeon and author Atul Gawande tracks how checklists have dramatically reduced human error and, today, enable us to leverage the impossibly complex knowledge that humans have amassed in the past few decades.
Gawande's thesis, simply stated, is that we can't keep all that knowledge in our heads any longer. In medicine, in engineering, in finance, even in organizations, our species has uncovered ever more knowledge to handle ever more complex situations. The knowledge and complexity are so great, in fact, that in the attempt to apply the knowledge we often forget the routine things—like ensuring there's enough soap in an ICU to wash one's hands. The result, as you might imagine, can be disastrous.
In the world of organizations, I see checklists as an ideal way to follow standard work. The whole point of standard work—loosely defined here as the most efficient and effective method currently known for performing a repetitive task—is to eliminate waste. With its origins in Lean Six Sigma, standard work provides an established, repeatable way to perform tasks. As a result, people no longer have to rethink their routines at each repetition; they simply complete the tasks according to standard work and devote their brainpower to unexpected or complex issues.
Still, not everyone will remember every step of standard work every time. Here is where a physical checklist, posted prominently, can come in: as a continual reminder to attend to the routine but essential details that make standard work as efficient and effective as it is.
Moreover, the benefits of checklists can extend well beyond processes. This is why we developed the Inclusive Meeting Norms as a checklist for more inclusive, more effective meetings, and the 4 Keys that Change EVERYTHING as a checklist for interactions in general. By practicing standard work and checklists in our human interactions, we will reduce waste, create a common language with which to communicate, increase our personal effectiveness, and get closer to Right First Time interactions.
Where could you use a checklist—in your own work life, in your team, throughout your organization—to ensure that everyone is focused where their brains are most needed to focus: on the complexities of the workplace? What pieces of your standard work would run more effectively through the use of checklists? How could you use checklists in your home life: packing for a trip, for instance, or keeping track of bills? Feel free to post your thinking here.


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Neshek fu selezionato la prima volta nel 45º turno del draft 1999 dai Minnesota Twins, ma in quell'occasione non firmò.
Neshek accettò, quando i Twins lo scelsero nuovamente durante il draft 2002, questa volta nel sesto giro come 182º assoluto. Debuttò nella MLB il 7 luglio 2006, all'Ameriquest Field di Arlington, lanciando due inning e concedendo una valida, contro i Texas Rangers. Il 30 luglio ottenne la sua prima vittoria contro i Detroit Tigers. Giocò con i Twins fino al 2010, perdendo però quasi tutta la stagione 2008 e tutta quella del 2009 dopo essersi sottoposto alla Tommy John surgery.

Neshek il 20 marzo 2011 firmò con i San Diego Padres. Vi giocò per 25 partite, con una media PGL di 4.01. A fine anno divenne free agent, firmando con i Baltimore Orioles, con cui non scese mai in campo, e poi con gli Oakland Athletics, con cui disputò le annate 2012 e 2013.

Nel 2014, Neshek firmò con i St. Louis Cardinals con cui, nell'unica stagione, fu convocato per il suo primo All-Star Game. Il 10 dicembre 2014 firmò un contratto biennale da 12,5 milioni di dollari con gli Houston Astros. Il 4 novembre 2016 fu scambiato con i Philadelphia Phillies con cui, nella prima metà della stagione 2017, fu convocato per il suo secondo All-Star Game in carriera. Il 26 luglio 2017 fu scambiato con i Colorado Rockies per tre giocatori delle minor league. Divenne free agent il 2 novembre.

Il 15 dicembre 2017 Neshek firmò nuovamente un contratto, valido due anni, con i Philadelphia Phillies. Nel 2018 disputò 30 partite, iniziando la stagione il 1º luglio, a causa di un infortunio alla spalla destra. Il 25 maggio 2019, venne inserito nella lista degli infortunati per nuovi problemi alla spalla destra. Tornò in campo il 19 giugno, ma il giorno successivo tornò tra gli infortunati per problemi al tendine del ginocchio sinistro, chiudendo di fatto la stagione con 20 partite disputate nella MLB.

Palmarès

Nazionale
World Baseball Classic:  Medaglia d'Oro
Team USA: 2017

Individuale
MLB All-Star: 2
2014, 2017

Note

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

Sostenitori del vegetarianismo

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Hi Copic lovers; welcome to my post for the Copic Marker Europe Blog.
I'm Elena F from Scrap lanak Ganbaran.
Well… I need to admit It was completely unexpected for me but I'm so pleased and honoured (…and a bit scared) on being asked to join this team.
Thanks team for having me.
In my first DT entry I made a Mini Album (I'll show you the entire project on my Blog) using one Saturated Canary image coloured with Copics using "the no lines colouring" technique; you can check how to do it on this blog's tutorials.
As almost always I've coloured her skin with my favourite combo using E0000, 00, 21, 11, 13 and a bit of R20 + 22 for the cheeks.
Eyes B95, 91 and B000.
Carefully and with patience I drew over the eyes with a black Copic Multiliner 0.10 after colouring her skin and the inside of the eyes. this way we emphasize her look.
Lips: R05,02,YR02 (really love oranges on lips) and a bit of R20+22 for cheeks.
For the hair, I love to first mark the darker areas with my darker marker.
....and repeating steps until you're satisfied and you've got the desired depth of colouring.
To colour the skirt I've used E71, 70, W1 and R00.
Then I've used Gellyroll pens in white, silver and clear adding dots to the skirt to add more texture and shine to the dress.
I decided to colour a bit darker the bodice of the dress so I went with E74, 71 and 70.
...and after a million dots in white, clear, silver.....and a bit of gold in deepest fold between the skirt and body.....I've got her dress finished and really shiny.
For the gloves: At first I thought I'd colour the gloves in white, but I realized I'm on vacation and I don't have all the range of markers with me. So finally I decided to colour them in a pearl grey, finishing again with a lot of mini dots with a white Gellyroll pen.
Finally I fussy cut the image to emphasize her on my finished project.
Thanks for getting to the end.
Cicci Here from Sweden, This is my first post for Copic Marker Europe, and Today I'm showing you how I use the Grey Markers for some shading and how to get some depth in the colouring. It's great to use this if you don't have so many Markers, maybe you just have two red Markers and you want to have some more depth in your colouring? Add Grey Markers to them and you got great colouring.
If you are new in this Copic world and don't have all the Copic Markers, don't worry..buy some greys and you can colour really nice stuff, just with a few Markers.
C3 C5 C7 C1 C2 C0 and a little C10.
In the end of this step, I make some long strokes over the area that's still white in the face and I use C1 and C0 for this. You can see how much I have added on the white area with the Grey Marker.
Now I start to colour with the ordinary skin colours.
Now I'm just adding the ordinary skin colours. If you want to try this you can use the combo that you like for the skin. I often use this combo for the skin. If I don't use grey I'm sure I have added some E04 instead. But this time I just use the Grey Markers.
After that I just want to put the colours together and I used E51 and E50 for that.
When that step is ready I have added more of the ordinary skin colours, also some R20 for the cheeks and after every added colours, I have blended with lighter Markers.
I have not taken photo of every stage, because this turtorial would be very long, if I have showed every step here.
I love colouring mermaids...they have so many wonderful details to colour. Don't you think so too?
I always start with using the E50 first, a yellowish skin tone. After the E50 I used the BV00. I don't worry about blending the colours at this stage of the colouring. So it may look a bit rough at the moment.
To get a warmer skin tone, I add a layer of E00.
And now it's time to blend all the colours together. Use the E000 and E0000 to get a smooth blend.
I printed this lovely image by Hannah Lynn in grey tones. I used a Copic Multiliner 1.0 to make the eyelashes and eyebrows black. The eyes pop out more this way.
The eyes are purple too, I used V28, 25 and 22.
Time to start colouring the hair. Hannah Lynn's images always have a wavy hairstyle, with a lot of hair to colour. I used the V28 first. Use this deep purple colour on the darkest parts of the mermaid's hair. Than add the V25 and the V22.
After I finished the hair, I thought it looked a bit dull. To get it more sparkly I used some V12 and V15 too.
For her lips, use the V12 and V15 again.
For her top use the B29 and B28.
The little turtle is coloured with BG34, BG49, YG03 and YG67.
Use the same colours for the leaves.
For the mermaid's tail use B21, B24, B26, B28 and B29. And for the green parts, use the BG34 and BG49.
After all the colouring work with the Copics was finished, I decided to add some coloured pencils, to get some more details. I used the new Derwent Procolours.
I glued the mermaid on a art journal background. The quote was found on the Internet.
Hello everyone! It's Delphine here today to share a no line Copic scene. I really like the look of no line colouring, it takes more time to colour for me, but I think you can get very nice results.
For my scene, I used a lovely fairy by Tiddly Inks called Flower Fairy For You and I combined it to two Make it Crafty backgrounds - Tulip Garden and Shrubs.
To get the no line "look" with a digi, I recolour the image in Microsoft Word - the idea is to play with light and contrast and change them until you get the look you want, but you can also use one of the preset recolour options so that one click on the chosen option will recolour your image immediately.
I coloured the sky first with my BG000 marker and created a cloud with BV20, C0 and C1. I then coloured the skin of my fairy using E000, 00, 04, 11 and R20 for the mouth. You can't see the eyes very well at this point, but we will use a pencil at the end to make them more visible.
I then coloured the rest of the skin and started doing the wings to help define where my background would stop. The wings are BG000, V000 and Y000.
The difficulty with no line colouring is that you need a very good eyesight when it comes to details ;)! BUT the nice thing you can do is cover some of the details of your image because it won't show and no one will know :) So as you can see, I kept the flowers and a few leaves, but completely covered the stems (I'll add some later). I used YG01, 03, 17, 67 for the grass.
Next I focussed on the trees in the distance which I coloured in the same colours as my grass, only adding G28 for a bit of depth. The trunks are E34, 39, 59 - and I added a shadow under the trees with YG17.
For the foreground, I picked E40, 41, 42, 43 - and you can see some blanks on the sides, that's because I'm colouring on a big piece of paper and I have not die cut my image yet.
Next I coloured the last details of the background: the flowers in R35, 37, 39, T5, the leaves in G28 and YG03, the hoops in Y11 and Y26 and a few rocks in C3, 5, 7. I also added the stems using G28 plus a few blades of grass in the hoops. The background being done, I focussed on the outfit. The pinks I used are RV17, 19, 55 and 63 - a combination I learnt from Make it Crafty Zoe.
For the flowers in the fairy's hands, I chose the same colours as for the background flowers - T5, R35, 37, 39 - and used G28 and YG17 for the stems and leaves. To the dog next, with C0, 1, 3, 5.
And hair for the end! The markers I used are E25, 30, 34, 59. As a finishing touch, I went back over my fairy's eyes and both characters' antennas with a black and a brown Polychromos, added just a line of shadow under the hair with my Nougat Polychromo and a bit of pink to the cheeks.
I die cut my image with a Lawn Fawn stitched rectangle and added a sentiment from one of my Tiddly Inks clear stamps sets... and voilà!
Taking a break on an adventure!
It's Sandra from Portugal. I hope you are having a great summer!
I used a Paper Shelter digi stamp called "Where're We Goin'?".
I started by choosing the card papers and probable layout, because that would help me picking which markers to use. I have a beautiful paper pad from Bo Bunny – Felicity Collection, and I decided I would go with one of it's papers.
I started by colouring the suitcase, using E55/57/59 for leather, Y00/11/15 and YR23 for the metal parts, and E44/47 for the straps.
And coloured the coat in salmon, layering R11 and then mapping the shadows with R20.
I coloured over the mapped shadows with R22.
I used E40/41 for the shirt and E000/00/11/21 for the skin. I coloured the eyes with YG11, and the nails and lips with R32/35.
To colour the sandals I used E40/41 for the bottoms, BG72/75 and Y11/15 and YR23 for the straps, and R20 for the flower. The green eyes were "screaming" for a red hair, which I coloured with YR23/27 and E59.
Have a wonderful summer, full of adventures!


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Biden bearing brunt of Obama''s ''non-jokability''!
Sahil Nagpal 19 April 2009
Chicago, Apr 19 : Since US President Barack Obama is hard to mock, jesters are turning their aim to Vice President Joe Biden.
If you're wondering why Obama is "non-jokeable", well it could be that jokers are reluctant to riff on a man they admire, or he's simply a "no-joke making" human being.
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US Vice-President Biden is a habitual liar, says Republican strategist Rove
Washington, Apr. 10: Republican strategist Karl Rove has called Vice President Joe Biden a "liar" for claiming that he scolded former President George W Bush in private meetings.
"I hate to say this, but he''s a serial exaggerator. If I was being unkind, I would say liar. But it is a habit he ought to drop," Fox News quoted Rove, as saying.
"You should not exaggerate and lie like this when you are the Vice President of the United States," he added.
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Joe Biden's daughter's 'cocaine snorting video' up for sale
Mohit Joshi 29 March 2009
New York, March 29 : U. S. Vice-President Joe Biden may have to face shame after a video of his daughter allegedly snorting cocaine has been put for sale, according to online reports.
The footage was said to have been recorded by his daughter Ashley's friend and reportedly showed the social worker taking three lines of coke rolled in a dollar bill at a bash.
According to Radaronline. com, the alleged video of the 27-year-old has raked up offers up to as much as 250,000 dollars, reports the New York Daily News.
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Biden: US, Latin America must cooperate in drug fight, economy
Sahil Nagpal 28 March 2009
Vina del Mar, Chile - US Vice President Joe Biden, in Chile to discuss world economic issues as well as relations within the Americas, Friday proposed that Latin America and the United States "work together, as partners," and move "toward a new day" in their relations.
Biden arrived in Chile Friday, where he was to meet with President Michele Bachelet ahead of a so-called Progressive Leaders' Summit in the seaside resort of Vina del Mar intended to prepare for next week's G20 summit in London on the global financial crisis.
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US Vice President Biden heading to Chile, Costa Rica
Washington - US Vice President Joe Biden will travel to Chile and Costa Rica later this month for talks with Latin American leaders ahead of April's summit in Trinidad and Tobago, the White House announced Friday.
Biden will attend a governance conference in Chile that will be attended by several Latin American leaders during the March 27-30 trip, before heading to Costa Rica.
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Brussels (Belgium), Mar. 11 : United States Vice President Joe Biden has claimed that at least 70 percent of Taliban guerrillas in Afghanistan are mercenaries fighting only for money.
He said that these elements could be persuaded to lay down their arms.
Stepping up U. S. calls for outreach to "moderate" elements of the insurgency, The News and the Washington Times both quoted as saying that he was in favour of applying the same tactics used by American troops in Iraq's Anbar province.
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Whatever strategy you employ when you rebalance your portfolio, you need to think about tax.
For instance, it might not make sense to sell your shares to reduce a theoretical risk if it triggers an all-too-real capital gains tax bill.
By only using tax-exempt or tax-deferred accounts, you can avoid paying tax on investment income and capital gains completely – which means investing via ISAs and pensions in the UK.
Congratulations if that's you – school's over, and it's the weekend!
Many of us have at least some investments outside of tax-exempt wrappers, which makes rebalancing more challenging.
In this article I'll outline a few tax factors to consider when rebalancing.
Every circumstance is different, so these are only pointers. You'll need to crunch the numbers yourself, and possibly get some help.
Incidentally, the standard wisdom is you shouldn't let tax determine how you invest, but I think some pragmatism is called for.
There's little more miserable than risking a big slug of your money, only to find the Government wanting a cut of the gains, despite taking none of the risks!
"Too late for that!" I hear you cry. Well, it's never too late to start.
In the UK you can direct new money – or money freed up when you rebalance – into tax-free ISAs, pensions, National Savings Certificates, and even Premium Bonds (though I wouldn't).
Like this you'll hopefully reduce tax headaches as the years go by, unless you're lucky enough to get very rich.
Do think about what assets to hold where. Income from cash, bonds and PIDs from REITs are taxed more heavily than share dividends in the UK, but the potential for large capital gains is usually much higher with shares.
Most countries allow you to make some capital gains every year before tax is due – and in some countries there's no CGT at all!
Here in the UK, we can make £10,100 in gains in the 2009/10 year before paying CGT.
That is £10,100 a year across all your taxable investments that you sell in the 12 months, NOT £10,100 on each investment!
It's a good idea to use up your CGT allowance every year by realising capital gains to 'defuse' long-term tax liabilities.
If your portfolio is still small relative to the amount you're saving and investing every year, you can use new money to rebalance your allocations rather than selling and triggering CGT and other costs.
You want to rebalance back towards your original allocations. You also plan to invest another £10,000 from your earnings over the next 12 months.
In this circumstance you could sell say £15,000 worth of the FTSE ETF, which would realize gains well below the CGT threshold, and distribute the proceeds between your bond and cash holdings.
Then you could direct your new savings towards topping up the remaining shortfall in bonds and REITs over the next year.
Remember, rebalancing isn't a precise art – it's keep overall allocations roughly in line that matters.
When you've lost money in the market, the last thing you may want to do is work out how much.
However if you've sold assets such as shares at an overall loss in the tax year, you should fill in the appropriate pages of your tax return to carry the loss forward.
Who knows? That £3,000 you lost might save you £500 in tax someday – but it's down to you to make sure the record of the loss is lodged with the authorities.
If you've got a very big portfolio outside of tax-exempt accounts, you may sniff at the puny £10,100 allowance that makes CGT 'the rich man's tax' for the rest of us.
Ironically, the rich are notorious for finding ways to avoid CGT, too, which is one reason why some people say CGT should be abolished as pointless.
But back to you, Rockefeller Jr.
I'm not in the position of having a six-figure portfolio outside of tax-exempt accounts, so I can't speak from personal experience.
However, I know a man who can.
David Swensen, the famous Ivy League portfolio manager who runs Yale University's multi-billion dollar fund, suggests you may be best leaving your allocations to drift, if the alternative is paying a big tax bill.
"In cases where adverse tax consequences accompany rebalancing trades, investors must weigh the certain tax costs against the uncertain portfolio benefits. Often, investors will choose to allow allocations to drift modestly from the target to avoid paying taxes on appreciated positions".
One investor who does this is Warren Buffett, who has held on to some of his massive equity positions for decades to avoid crystalising a capital gains bill.
Some sophisticated investors protect their portfolios by using spreadbets or other shorts to effectively reduce their exposure to a particular asset, in a similar way to a hedge fund.
For instance, you might have a £500,000 equity portfolio but a £100,000 short position against the market, so your overall equity exposure is £400,000.
You might take the short position via a spreadbet or an option such as a Contract for Difference, or else you could have a specialist create a structured option tailored to your portfolio.
This technique may be worth doing if you're trying to carry your gains into a new tax year, or in some other specific circumstance.
However it is expensive, risky, and requires expert advice before you go any further as you could easily lose far more money than you stand to pay in tax if you get it wrong.
For 99% of us, it's over-complicating things.
It's important not to get too obsessed about avoiding tax, to the extent that you start to put money into dubious schemes you'd otherwise shun.
If you don't want to invest in structured products, Venture Capital Trusts or offshore bonds (and you probably don't) then don't do so for tax reasons – unless you've so much money that you may as well take the punt.
Indeed if that's your attitude, you could very carefully try spreadbetting on shares to increase your allocations – capital gains aren't taxed at all, but neither can you carry forward losses, and it's easy to lose more than you think through leverage. You have been warned!
@Niklas – Thanks for the reminder. I actually have another even more exciting post in the works about how to set-up your portfolio in the most tax efficient manner in the first place, which contains about 1,000 words I extracted out of this already vast article…!
Starting to learn about investing, thanks for the post!
* How is it that if you sell £15,000 worth of FTSE ETF you are well below the CGT treshold? Is it not the CGT allowance just £10,100 in this case?
* Can capital losses that have been incurred in a stocks ISA be carried forward to use later?