Maggie Levantovskaya is one of our TPII editors, and a writer and adjunct professor based in the Bay Area.
Let's talk about sexist language in job application materials. I read countless cover letters, teaching statements, syllabi, postdoc proposals and other docs in my role as editor at The Professor Is In and I continue to encounter terms and phrases that either fit into the category of sexist language or reinforce binary gender norms. First of all, this is something that I see in documents by clients in various fields, though as you can imagine, some fields are bigger offenders than others.
I also find sexist and binary phrasing articulated by clients at all stages in their careers and of different ages. Maybe there is a generational pattern (I haven't gathered the data) but I see PhD candidates who are clearly spending a lot of time in the classroom writing in ways that I know can be avoided.
Clients who are coming from cultural or linguistic contexts where such attention to language is not important or even frowned upon, have an even bigger challenge to learn how to be mindful about the heteropatriarchy of English.
To this end, here is a very short list of phrases and observations that can get folx started in excising at least some of the more egregious examples of sexism and binarism in their job docs and beyond. I'm hoping that others can add to it and keep the conversation going.
This is going to be hard for some of you to believe, but it's still out there. Academics are still writing sentences like "We explore the problems that continue to define man," in their teaching philosophies. Eeeek!
That seems inclusive, right? Well, it's better than just saying "his" (still happens!). But the phrase also promotes binary views of gender. We have the plurals they / their. Let's keep working on normalizing that usage for gender neutrality.
I mean, what do I even say!
I also give feedback on syllabi and I constantly see that clients do not say anything about preferred gender pronouns under course policies and rarely mention asking students about their preferred pronouns in teaching philosophies. I realize that syllabi are impossibly long these days, but adding a line like "My preferred pronouns are she/her. Please let me know what yours are and correct me if I ever get them wrong," is not going to be the straw that breaks the camel's back.
I'm a teacher myself and I put my preferred pronouns into my email signature to signal to students that pronoun usage is not obvious and that we should respect each other's preferences in this matter.
Another issue that I regularly encounter in client cover letters and teaching philosophies has to do with how they discuss teaching gender norms in the classroom. A lot of our clients teach students to challenge norms and I think that that's great. The problem is that some of the descriptions of these methods appear, well, problematic. I can't tell you how many times I've read clients discuss teaching gender by saying something in the vein of "I get students to see that gender is a construct by dressing like a member of the opposite gender and then reflecting on the experience" or "my assignment asks students to interview an LGBTQ+ person." Some clients say the same thing about homeless, immigrants and other groups.
Now, I don't know what these clients are actually doing with their students and my job is not to critique their teaching. However, when I see this, I advise clients to avoid language that gamifies gender and sexuality or treats queer people instrumentally and hope that this resonates beyond job doc editing.
There are so many resources about this stuff online! Teen Vogue is telling us how to be gender neutral and many other publications have extremely accessible guides on how to make spaces less hostile for non-binary folx.
It's 2018. Let's do better!
Does everyting need to be on syllabus, really? Can't instructors tell students on first day how s/he is to be addressed? (pronoums but also, in the context I live – not an English-speaking country- first name rather than Professor, use of less formal pronoums).
On such occasion, students can be told to inform pronoums to be treated in any occasion and to correct instructor.
I believe not everyting needs to be so formal in teaching relationships.
Good advice, including the last–check online resources. And regularly. When I updated the materials to hand out to my students, a younger friend gave good advice, including to keep in mind that the conversation on these issues keeps evolving.


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Seth Gabel (* 3. Oktober 1981 in Hollywood, Florida) ist ein US-amerikanischer Schauspieler. Er ist vor allem bekannt durch seine Rolle des Jeremy Darling in Dirty Sexy Money.

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Seine Karriere begann 2004 mit der Rolle des Adrian Moore in Nip/Tuck – Schönheit hat ihren Preis. 2006 spielte er in The Da Vinci Code – Sakrileg mit. Von 2007 bis 2009 spielte er die Rolle des Jeremy Darling in dem ABC-Drama Dirty Sexy Money. 2010 bekam er die Nebenrolle des Lincoln Lee in Fringe – Grenzfälle des FBI. In der dritten Staffel stieg er zur Hauptbesetzung auf.

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Er besuchte die New York University's Tisch School of Arts und lernte dort Bryce Dallas Howard, die Tochter von Ron Howard, kennen. Das Paar heiratete am 17. Juni 2006 in Greenwich, Connecticut und bekam 2007 einen gemeinsamen Sohn sowie im Januar 2012 eine Tochter.

Filmografie (Auswahl)
Filme
 2006: The Da Vinci Code – Sakrileg (The Da Vinci Code)
 2006: Beyond
 2008: Good Dick
 2010: Jonah Hex

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 2002: Sex and the City (Episode 5x01)
 2003: The Lyon's Den (Episode 1x12)
 2004: Nip/Tuck – Schönheit hat ihren Preis (Nip/Tuck, 5 Episoden)
 2004, 2010: CSI: Vegas (CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, 2 Episoden)
 2005: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (Episode 6x14)
 2005: The Closer (Episode 1x03)
 2007–2009: Dirty Sexy Money (23 Episoden)
 2010–2013: Fringe – Grenzfälle des FBI (Fringe, 29 Episoden)
 2013: Arrow (3 Episoden)
 2014–2017: Salem (36 Episoden)
 2015–2016: American Horror Story (2 Episoden)
 2017–2018: Genius (11 Episoden)
 2019: Billions (1 Episode)

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Erdoğan's threat to send refugees to Europe is hollow - Bloomberg
Oct 11 2019 06:04 Gmt+3
Last Updated On: Oct 11 2019 06:06 Gmt+3
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's recent warning that he could open the gates for migrants to reach Europe is an empty threat, Bloomberg said on Friday.
Erdoğan on Thursday said Turkey would open its borders and send 3.6 million Syrians to Europe if it labelled Turkey's military offensive into northeast Syria as an occupation.
Turkey says its military assault against Kurdish forces in northern Syria aims both to ensure its national security and the safe return of Syrian refugees in Turkey.
Ankara could resettle refugees in areas it aims to capture in its ongoing military operation, but could not put them on ships and send them to Greece, Bloomberg said.
"Such open action on the part of his government would likely put an end, at least temporarily, to Turkey's customs union with the EU, exacerbating its economic problems – and Europe likely would push back the ships, anyway."
The Turkish president's threat essentially means not preventing human traffickers carrying refugees from setting off from Turkey's Mediterranean coast toward Greece, Bloomberg said, adding that Ankara had not been doing much to stop those crossings in recent months anyway.
According to an EU report, the number of migrants reaching Europe from Turkish soil in the first 9 months of 2019 has reached 46,546, with a 23 percent increase compared to the same period last year.
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-10-11/europe-should-call-erdogan-s-bluff-on-a-refugee-invasion
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Bernard Gilpin Primary School has recently received a national award in the Alzheimer's Society Dementia Friendly Awards. Our school was the winner in the "Best educational initiative" category for our work in supporting people living with dementia and their carers in our local community. We attended the awards ceremony in London where we were presented with our award by Angela Rippon.
Click here to read the report in the Northern Echo.
We were also visited by Dr Ann Johnson and Sean O'Neill who both gave a moving account and insight as to what it means to live with dementia and how it is not just the patient that it affects.
These events are part of our commitment to being a 'Dementia Friendly School' of which we are one of only eight primary schools nationally.
positive project to help our community.
Our friend Ann Johnson was the worthy recipient of an MBE in the New Year's Honours List. Ann is a member of the Prime Minister's Champion Group for Dementia Friendly Communities. and visited our school last month to talk to the children about the disease and take part in our Dementia debate. Well done Ann.
"Dementia Friends aims to make everyday life better for people with dementia by changing the way the nation thinks, talks and acts. By 2015, we want there to be a million people with the know-how to help people with dementia feel understood and included in their community."
Our wonderful choir took part in a 'Singing for the Brain' session at Beamish Museum together with members of the Alzheimer's Society, Dementia sufferers and carers. Special guest at the event was former Newcastle United striker Joe Allon, who spoke about his personal experience of caring for a family member with dementia.
The city's civic leader, whose mother died of dementia, spoke out as school headteacher Andrew Bainbridge prepared to open a special 'Living Room' that is aimed at people with dementia in the Houghton-le-Spring area.
The school is taking steps to be dementia-friendly as it is only one of 21 schools nationwide that is part of the Prime Minister's Challenge on Dementia which aims to revolutionise the way people think about the condition.
The 'Living Room' will play host to a series of activities aimed at helping people with dementia live well within their own communities.
From January the school's 'Living Room' will play host to monthly Singing for the Brain sessions that aim to use music as a form of therapy for people with dementia. It will also stage a monthly Dementia Café, which aims to provide a relaxed environment for people with dementia and their carers to get together with Alzheimer's Society staff in an informal setting.
There will be an inter-generation choir and dancing in the purpose-built 'Living Room' as the school gives a warm welcome to people with dementia and their carers.
Councillor Heron said: 'I'm really proud to be chair of governors because the work they are doing to be dementia-friendly is fantastic.
Tyne Tees television sent the cameras to report on our new Living Room and the work we are doing in school relating to dementia. The choir performed before some special guests who joined in with a range of Christmas songs.
Our groundbreaking dementia project has been the subject of an article in the Times Educational Supplement this month. Please click on the TES logo to read the article in full.
Our dementia project has been featured once more in the Sunderland Echo.
The Alzheimer's Society press release can be seen here.
Members of our school choir provided the musical entertainment at the opening of the Alzheimer's Society Princess of Wales Centre in Sunderland. To read all about it, click here.
"Try something new, wear something blue" was the theme of this year's Dementia Awareness Week. To read the Sunderland Echo's report on our week of events and activities, please click here.
Olympic Gold medalist, TV presenter and star of 'Strictly Come Dancing', Denise Lewis paid us a visit. Accompanied by the film crew and production team for the Great British Bake-off, Denise came to report on our Living with Dementia Project.
The film will be shown early next year on national television as part of Sports Relief 2016.
A superb collection of football memorabilia about former Sunderland star Arthur Wright was brought into the Living Room and shared with our dementia group and a selection of pupils from our football teams. Arthur's son Billy gave a unique insight into his father's career and shared some wonderful items including photos, caps, boots and programmes. This trip down memory lane was appreciated by everyone concerned.
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"Defense travels well"
"Defense travels well" is an adage that has been used in both basketball and football. For example, a basketball player might not be familiar with a particular basketball court, so jump shots might not be connecting like on a home court. However, good defense is less likely to slump.
"I heard a coach once say 'defense travels well'" was said by a college basketball coach in 2009. "Good Defense Travels well" was a 2009 comment about a football team. "We have a saying, 'DTW: Defense Travels Well'" was said by Golden State Warriors head coach Keith Smart in November 2010.
"Defense never slumps" is a similar saying that has been used in baseball.
"Comedy doesn't travel well" is a saying about film comedies. "Guinness doesn't travel well" is a drink adage.
11 February 2009, Hutchinson (KS) News, "Wildcats keep focus on Raiders," pg. C2, col. 6::
"I heard a coach once say 'defense travels well.' We have to play defense. I give credit to our guys for playing great defense in these last few games."
(Kansas State basketball coach Frank Martin.—ed.)
Terry Pluto's postgame observations from Cavaliers-Hawks Game 1
By Terry Pluto, The Plain Dealer
on May 05, 2009 at 11:11 PM, updated May 06, 2009 at 10:18 AM
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Oh one last thing.
Defense travels well...it is always there , and can be racheted up.
Offense has off nights, and slumps.....But defense reacts well to energy...offense (shooting) does not
Indy Worst Defense in NFL past 3 weeks AT HOME
posted at 11/19/2009 11:13 PM EST
Good Defense Travels well. The Colts defense might not make it out of the Indy airport Saturday.
Roy Pickering
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@thenflchick Good defense travels well. Not as affected by other team's home field advantage (aka crowd noise) as offense is.
11:43 AM - 7 Jan 2010
Riverfront Times (St. Louis, MO)
Five Reasons Rick Majerus and SLU Will Make the Big Dance
By Keegan Hamilton Mon., Feb. 22 2010 at 12:44 PM
They also average six steals and five blocks per game. Stats like that win close games, especially in a mid-major conference where many teams rely on the three. And unlike a jump shot, team defense travels well: SLU has four conference wins on the road, including big victories of Rhode Island and UMass last night.
San Jose (CA) Mercury News—Talking Points with Tim Kawakami
Warriors 85, Utah 78: The Keith Smart principle–defense travels well
Posted on November 5, 2010 by Tim Kawakami
Asked about the overall defense, Smart broke out his slogan: "DTW–defense travels well."
I cannot imagine anybody in the entire organization ever saying a thing like that when Nelson was the coach. Ever. Even jokingly.
And it's the right thing to say and believe, by the way.
—–KEITH SMART, post-game presser, partial transcript/
Deseret News (Salt Lake City, UT)—Jazzland
Jazz learn lessons in rebounding, defense
By Jody Genessy, Saturday, November 6, 2010 at 1:20 pm MST
"Our defense," Golden State coach Keith Smart said, "was really engaged to take away paint scores from this basketball team."
Smart pulled out an interesting acronym: "We have a saying, 'DTW: Defense Travels Well." Meaning, he wants his Warriors to come out hard on the defensive end, which can help keep them in games and create easy scoring opportunities (fast breaks) even if their shots aren't falling.
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Kawakami: Warriors at 30-19: Still on a very good pace, but they're softening up on the road (defense? hello?)
Yes, I think these two points are related–extremely related. As Jackson (Golden State Warriors head coach Mark Jackson—ed.) has said, defense travels well. And bad defense gets you killed on the road… he didn't say that last part, but it's implied and it's correct. Just look at the last two decades of Warriors basketball for proof.
Steward: Warriors proving to be road warriors
"Defense travels well is a phrase a lot of coaches use, and it's true," he (Golden State Warriors head coach Mark Jackson—ed.) said. "You're going to have a lot of nights on the road when you're not going to shoot the ball as well. It's very difficult, so you have to play good defense and you have to rebound. That's why a team like San Antonio is so good on the road."
Seattle (WA) Post-Intelligencer
Portland Trail Blazers Play Tough Defense, Beat Phoenix Suns 108-87
Posted on February 6, 2015 | By Garrett Thornton
If the Blazers want to be able to carry some momentum into the All-Star break, they need to be able to live up to the old adage of "good defense travels well."
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72 Philly Officers Placed on Administrative Leave Amid Racist Facebook Post Investigation
The announcement comes as a local law firm hired by the city continues to investigate the social media posts of more than 300 Philadelphia police officers identified in a database from the Plain View Project
By NBC10 Staff	• Published June 19, 2019 • Updated on June 19, 2019 at 11:59 pm
Officials announced 72 Philadelphia officers were placed on leave amid an investigation into racist Facebook posts.
The announcement comes as a local law firm hired by the city continues to investigate the social media posts of more than 300 officers.
The social media posts in question contain racist and violent language toward various groups.
An investigation into racist and insensitive Facebook posts allegedly made by active-duty and former police officers across the country has led to 72 Philadelphia cops being placed on administrative leave, Commissioner Richard Ross announced Wednesday.
"We've talked about from the outset how disturbing, how disappointing and upsetting these posts are and how they will undeniably impact police-community relations," Ross said. "We're not naïve to the fact and nor are we dismissive of it."
The announcement comes as a local law firm hired by the city continues to investigate the social media posts of more than 300 Philadelphia police officers identified in a database from the Plain View Project, made public June 1.
The posts in question were uncovered by a team of researchers who spent nearly two years looking at the personal Facebook accounts of police officers from Arizona to Florida. They found officers bashing immigrants and Muslims, promoting racist stereotypes, identifying with right-wing militia groups and glorifying police brutality.
All the posts were public. The project's findings were picked up by news organizations and police departments nationwide.
A sergeant in Philadelphia commented that a young suspect should be "taken out back and put down like the rabid animal he is." Another sergeant posted a meme that read "Death to Islam."
"It's a good day for a choke hold," wrote an officer in Phoenix. In St. Louis, a police official shared a meme asserting that, "if the Confederate flag is racist, then so is Black History Month."
The Philadelphia Law Department, Philadelphia law firm Ballard Spahr and the Internal Affairs Unit of the Philadelphia Police Department are all investigating the posts.
Ballard Spahr is also reviewing each post to determine if the speech is constitutionally protected.
"An example would be an opinion on the matter of public concern that may be unpopular but does not include threats of violence or pejorative language against any protected class," Ross said. "If the speech is not protected by the First Amendment, the case will proceed with appropriate discipline."
Ross said that could range from a few days off to officers being fired.
"I'm not prepared to tell you at this point who's being disciplined and how many may be terminated, but I can tell you with a degree of certainty that there are some people who will meet with that fate," Ross said.
In addition to an internal investigation, every member of the Philadelphia police department will be required to watch a training video outlining social media and off-duty policies in regards to race, ethnicity, code and conduct, the commissioner announced.
"There's no question that this puts us in a position to work even harder than we already do to cultivate relationships with neighborhoods and individual groups that we struggle to work with or struggle to maintain good relationships with now," Ross said.
The department will also develop a mechanism to inspect officers' social media posts and identify potential problems, work with outside groups dealing with anti-bias and anti-racism training and consult with the Anti-Defamation League.
John McNesby, the union president of the Philadelphia chapter of the Fraternal Order of Police, responded to Ross' press conference.
"It's premature and irresponsible for the Commissioner to tell the public that police officers will be fired without a complete investigation into officers' social media use," McNesby said. "Our officers are entitled to due process just like any other citizen."
McNesby also said FOP attorneys and leaders are working to protect their members' "rights under the contract and free-speech."
"We will support and represent those officers during this overly-broad social-media investigation," he said. "Far too many officers have been taken off the street during a time of increased violence in our city."
Protests by city residents and public attrition by the mayor and police commissioner followed the initial release of the national database.
"The thing that really angers me is that a vast overwhelming majority of our police officers are kind-hearted, decent people willing to put their lives on the line for fellow citizens," Mayor Jim Kenney said in an interview. "These knuckleheads paint them all with a terrible brush."
When news of the Facebook posts initially surfaced, a church leader in Philadelphia said he believed the issue was bigger than what leaders were willing to accept.
"Over 300 people, that is an incredible number," Rev. Mark Tyler of Mother Bethel AME Church in Philadelphia said. "You have to imagine that there are a considerable number of people who are like them, who hold the same beliefs who are just not crazy enough to put it on social media. This is a cultural problem within our department that has to be addressed."
Activists told NBC10 Wednesday they're happy the commissioner is taking action but that it's just a start.
"We have to start with the ones who have openly said this and we have to make sure that the others who might feel that way will not come out into our community and act on the hatred," Philadelphia radio host Solomon Jones said.
Members of city council also said they plan on calling for hearings on the investigation.
WURD Radio host Solomon Jones leads a protest of some 100 people outside Philadelphia police headquarters over alleged racist and bigoted social media posts by hundreds of officers.
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SeaWorld Says Its Orcas Are 'Thriving' In New Ad. Too Bad They're Totally Wrong.
Just a week after SeaWorld was dragged through a metaphorical cactus field when it unwisely invited Twitter users to ask it questions, the company is at it again. The troubled marine park launched a national television and online marketing campaign on Monday to defend accusations about poor animal care practices for its orca whales.
The Dodo has taken the liberty of correcting the claims made by Lara Croft, a SeaWorld veterinarian, and Pedro Ramos-Navarrete, a member of the company's animal rescue team.
Multiple recorded injuries and wounds experienced by orca whales in SeaWorld's care refute this claim. The whales have reportedly suffered physical injuries from chewing on metal grates, overexposure to sun and interactions with aggressive whales. One such example was spotted by orca scientist Ingrid Visser, Ph.D., who visited the park in 2012 and observed a gruesome gash on the lower mandible of a whale named Nakai. The wound was allegedly the result of a clash with another whale.
SeaWorld's orca whales can also suffer from "psychosis" as a result of captivity, exhibited by repeated stereotypic behavior and anxiety. Court documents have revealed that many of the whales were administered diazepam, the generic name for the drug Valium, to temper this behavior. At least one nursing female was given the drug, against veterinary guidelines.
"I wouldn't work here if they weren't."
Thriving, that is. Yet dozens of orca whale trainers have left the park in protest of the practice of keeping orca whales in captivity, many of them becoming outspoken activists against SeaWorld. One trainer recently described the company as having a "cult-like" atmosphere in which he felt obliged to stay in order to ensure the animals were being properly cared for.
"Government research shows they live just as long as whales in the wild."
The country's foremost oceans agency, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, reports that wild male orca whales typically live to 30 years old but can reach age 60, and females typically live to 50 years old by can reach 100 in the Pacific Northwest, where many of SeaWorld's early whales were caught. Marine mammal scientist Naomi Rose has explained that SeaWorld is "cherry picking data" when it claims that its whales live comparable life spans to those in the wild.
As the famous Richard Bach line goes, "If you love someone, set them free."


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Nick Prowse is an energy lawyer based in London. He specialises in the natural gas industry and has worked on many upstream and downstream transactions in Africa, the Caribbean, Europe, the Middle East and the USA.
Nick has a broad range of upstream and downstream experience advising international oil and gas companies, national oil companies, owners, developers and lenders on major energy transactions. He spent over three years with BG Group as BG's legal manager in Trinidad and Tobago, advising BG and its co-venturers, ChevronTexaco, Eni SpA, Petro-Canada and Petrotrin, on a broad range of upstream and downstream activities for the development, production, transportation, processing, liquefaction, marketing and sales of natural gas.
Whilst living in Trinidad, Nick worked closely with BP Trinidad and Tobago (BPTT) on the development and start-up of Atlantic LNG Trains 2 and 3 and on the development of Train 4. He also worked closely with BPTT on the development of the cross-island pipeline, a world class, 56", 2.4 bcf/d natural gas pipeline.
Nick first joined the London practice in 1992 and qualified as a solicitor in 1994, having spent six months in Bahrain. He rejoined the London practice in 2003 and became a partner in 2005. Nick read Law at Birmingham University and studied for the Law Society Finals at the College of Law in York.
Nick is a member of the Association of International Petroleum Negotiators.
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Broward Police Benevolent Association Withdraws Endorsement of Commissioner Mike Gelin
September 26, 2019 by Sharon Aron Baron	No Comments
The Broward County Police Benevolent Association announced Thursday it was withdrawing its endorsement of Tamarac City Commissioner Mike Gelin after his comments to an officer at a public city commission meeting.
On Wednesday, in an event honoring Broward Sheriff's Office "Officers of the Month" at Tamarac city hall, Commissioner Mike Gelin took the microphone and asked Deputy Joshua Gallardo, to come back to the front of the chamber.
"It's good to see you again," Commissioner Gelin said to Deputy Gallardo. "You probably don't remember me, but you're the police officer who falsely arrested me four years ago. You lied on the police report. I believe you're a rogue police officer. You're a bad police officer, and you don't deserve to be here."
Commissioner Gelin received the endorsement of BCPBA back in 2018, but in a statement today by Broward County PBA President Rod Skirvin, he said that as a public official, Commissioner Gelin's behavior towards a Broward Sheriff's deputy was unacceptable.
"The Broward County PBA will not endorse any elected official who treats law enforcement officers with a complete lack of respect and common courtesy the way Commissioner Gelin did in his official duties representing the City of Tamarac."


Manchester is a little slice of heaven that is uniquely located between ferries to Bremerton, Vashon Island and Fauntleroy in West Seattle. This charming waterfront village with its attractive beach and sloping hillside became a resort area for locals in 1925. Today it still offers spectacular views of Puget Sound, a public boat dock, bike routes, shopping, and a restaurant. Manchester waterfront homes and those on the hillside above overlook the passing WA State ferries, Blake Island and the Seattle skyline.
What was once a key stop on the mosquito fleet routes; Manchester which got its name in 1892 after Manchester, England has become a popular neighborhood for residences and is presently seeing some commercial renovation. Located near the heart of Manchester is the popular Manchester State Park, a 111-acre space with 3,400 feet of shoreline that was once used as a harbor defense installation for Bremerton's protection.
opportunities such as camping, hiking trails, picnic areas, boating, diving, fishing, horseshoe pits, volley balling, and mountain biking.


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A Little Ring, the Least of Rings
Posted by Ollamh in J.R.R. Tolkien, Military History, Military History of Middle-earth
Aladdin, Alexandre Dumas, Barad-Dur, Chateau d'If, Edmond Dantes, Elba, French Revolution, Galadriel, Harad, Hitler, Jinghiz Khan, Louis XVI, Morannon, Mordor, Napoleon, Nazgul, Ring Wraiths, St Helena, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien, Toulon, Umbar, Waterloo
Welcome, readers, as always, and, if it's part of your culture, Happy New Year!
We've recently been reading a book about Napoleon
and his first fall, in 1814. He was forced to abdicate,
thereby losing the massive empire he had built up in the early 19th century.
His many enemies had a number of possibilities as to what to do with him. They could, for example, have imprisoned him, as Edmond Dantes is in Dumas' The Count of Monte Cristo (serialized 1844-46), in a fortress like the Chateau d'If.
Or, more radically—but certainly very effectively—they could have permanently removed him by the same means by which revolutionary France removed his predecessor, Louis XVI.
Instead, they allowed him not only to live, but even to continue to be a kind of monarch—although only of a tiny island, Elba, off the west coast of Italy.
They thought they'd seen the last of him, leaving him to spend the rest of his life as a sovereign of a ragged collection of fishermen and farmers.
For Napoleon, however, who always saw himself as destined for only the greatest things, being king of Elba must have felt to him rather like the way the genie in Disney's Aladdin (1992) expresses the contrast in his life–
That being the case, Napoleon lived on Elba for less that a year before he planned and accomplished his escape.
Back in France, he was welcomed by the very soldiers sent to stop him,
raised new armies,
marched north to deal with his nearest enemies, Prussia and England, and was finally—and permanently—defeated at Waterloo, 18 June, 1815.
This time, his enemies, having learned their lesson, sent Napoleon as far away from Europe as they could and to a much less hospitable place, the island of St Helena, in the South Atlantic,
where he died in 1821.
From his first success, at the siege of Toulon in 1793,
Napoleon had climbed and climbed until, by 1801, he was the real ruler of France (as "First Consul")
and then, in 1804, Emperor.
And yet, it was never enough, which reminds us of so many of the "great conquerors" of history, from Alexander,
to Jinghiz Khan and his successors,
to Hitler.
In every case throughout history, no conqueror has ever had enough and, if we move out of this earth to Middle-earth, we find Sauron, a figure in many ways like all of these earthly conquerors, who, although defeated by an alliance of Elves and Men in the past, has returned and, in time, reacquired immense power. To begin with, he has the entire realm of Mordor.
He has also somehow gained the means to create giant fortifications (sometimes based upon older constructions), like the Barad-dur
and the Morannon and all of the other inner and outer works of Mordor.
He also controls the Nazgul,
massive armies of orcs,
as well as allies from the Harads and Umbar.
All of which he has done, it seems, by whatever innate powers he possesses—without the Ring. And this made us wonder: what is it that the Ring actually does for its wearer that Sauron wants it back?
Certainly, the only power Gollum appears to have gotten from the Ring is that of invisibility (and the side-effect of longevity).
This is true for Bilbo, as well,
and for Frodo–
although, when Frodo puts on the Ring on Weathertop, he is plunged into a kind of alternate dimension, seeing the Nazgul as they really are
and, again, on Ammon Hen, he is put into direct contact with the Ring's real owner.
Does this suggest that the Ring's power is only as powerful as the Ring's current wearer? Galadriel confirms this when Frodo asks her about the other rings: "why cannot I see all the others and know the thoughts of those that wear them?"
To which she replies:
"Did not Gandalf tell you that the rings give power according to the measure of each possessor?"
(The Fellowship of the Ring, Book Two, Chapter 7, "The Mirror of Galadriel")
This then accounts for Gandalf's almost violent explanation when Frodo offers it to him:
"'No!' cried Gandalf, springing to his feet. 'With that power I should have power too great and terrible. And over me the Ring would gain a power still greater and more deadly.' His eyes flashed and his face was lit as by a fire within. 'Do not tempt me! For I do not wish to become like the Dark Lord himself. Yet the way of the Ring to my heart is by pity, pity for weakness and the desire of strength to do good. Do not tempt me! I dare not take it, not even to keep it safe, unused. The wish to wield it would be too great, for my strength. I shall have such need of it. Great perils lie before me.'" (The Fellowship of the Ring, Book One, Chapter 2, "The Shadow of the Past")
Or when Frodo offers it to Galadriel:
"You will give me the Ring freely! In place of the Dark Lord you will set up a Queen. And I shall not be dark, but beautiful and terrible as the Morning and the Night! Fair as the Sea and the Sun and the Snow upon the Mountain! Dreadful as the Storm and the Lightning! Stronger than the foundations of the earth. All shall love me and despair!" (The Fellowship of the Ring, Book Two, Chapter 7, "The Mirror of Galadriel")
Sauron has been able to accomplish so much without the Ring—what would happen should he ever wear it again? In "The Shadow of the Past", Gandalf tells Frodo that it controls the other rings—even the three long-concealed from Sauron:
"The Three are hidden still. But that no longer troubles him. He only needs the One; for he made that Ring himself, it is his, and he let a great part of his own former power pass into it, so that he could rule all the others. If he recovers it, then he will command them all again, even the Three, and all that has been wrought with them will be laid bare, and he will be stronger than ever."
And, just as important—maybe even more so—Sauron has based his place of power and refuge, his sure foundation in Middle-earth, upon it, as Elrond tells the council:
"Sauron was diminished, but not destroyed. His Ring was lost but not unmade. The Dark Tower was broken, but its foundations were not removed; for they were made with the power of the Ring, and while it remains they will endure." (The Fellowship of the Ring, Book Two, Chapter 2, "The Council of Elrond")
So, then, just as Napoleon, exiled on Elba, could plot and accomplish return, given the Ring, Sauron, defeated before, could return and, with a greed for conquest as insatiable as that of the French emperor, reappear again and again in Middle-earth, where there was no St Helena to keep him for good.
Dead Ringers?
Posted by Ollamh in Fairy Tales and Myths, J.R.R. Tolkien, Narrative Methods, Poetry
Daydreaming, Dragon, Eagles, Ford of Bruinen, Frigates, Frodo, Kites, Nazgul, Pterodactyl, Red-Tailed Hawk, Ring Wraiths, Robert Burns, Shire, Tam O'Shanter, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien, Washington Irving, Witches' Sabbath
Welcome! In this posting, we plan to talk about the Ring Wraiths (probably in hushed voices).
This entry was initially inspired by looking out the window (and no, we weren't daydreaming—really!).
There was a harsh call from the sky.
Red-Tailed Hawk Scream (YouTube)
Peering out, we saw the local hawks, who are nesting on a tall building across the road, circling, balancing high on a thermal in that amazing way, something like a kite
combined with the nimbleness of an 18th-c. frigate.
Red-Tailed Hawks Circling (YouTube)
And suddenly we were looking up at something completely different—
Nazgul!
In contrast to those very convenient Tolkien eagles, traditionally admired as a fierce and noble bird
the Wraiths appear to be riding a cross between a flying dragon
and a pterodactyl.
Of course, we first encounter the Nazgul on the ground
in their invasion of the Shire and their subsequent pursuit of Frodo.
And here, at the final moment, at the Ford of Bruinen, where the Wraiths are swept away,
perhaps we can catch a glimpse of one of the origins of a very dramatic scene.
The Scots poet, Robert Burns
wrote "Tam O'Shanter" in 1790 and published it the following year.
Tam O'Shanter Poem and Translation
It's the story in verse of a farmer who stays too late at his local.
Then, on the way home, he is attracted by light in a local abandoned (and, of course, haunted) church
where a witches' Sabbath is going on.
Still quite tipsy, he cheers it on and, of course, the witches and other otherworldly creatures are immediately in hot pursuit.
Tam can escape, but only if he can reach the nearby river Doon and cross its bridge.
He just manages to do this, but his poor horse, Meg, loses her tail.
If this plot has a familiar ring, it's because the American author, Washington Irving,
used the poem as a major source for his short story, "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" (published in 1820). We begin with a very different story: in 1790, a poor schoolmaster with the poetic name of Ichabod Crane comes to the Hudson River valley town of Sleepy Hollow and, in the course of his stay, becomes such an annoyance to the local bravo, that he uses the local legend of a headless horseman to frighten Crane off.
To do this, he convinces Crane that, should he be pursued by such a creature, he can only escape it by crossing running water. (And here we can see the strong influence of Burns.) In the subsequent narrative, as the horseman, the bravo chases Crane to a bridge, and there the story stops. Crane disappears, never to be seen in Sleepy Hollow again. Irving_Sleepy
Unfortunately, neither the Carpenter letters nor the Hammond/Scull volumes provides any reference to Burns or Irving, but the idea that crossing the ford might stop the unearthly has, to us, a definite suggestion that, somewhere in the leaf mould, there may have been a tiny acorn of memory…
You might know "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" from this–


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Born On This Day: Doug Cooper Spencer
Editor April 6, 2013 Born On This Day
Doug Cooper Spencer was born on this day in 1954. He is a highly respected novelist, short fiction writer, essayist, lecturer and LGBTQ activist living in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Doug Cooper Spencer was born in Lincoln Heights Ohio, an all-black town north of Cincinnati to Ellis Cooper, who was a laborer and his mother Estella Cooper, was a homemaker. He is the fifth child of eight children, and attended Lincoln Heights Elementary and High School, before graduating from Princeton High School in 1972.
Following High School, Doug enrolled at Thomas More College, where he majored in English Literature and minored in Theater Arts, but left after two years because he wanted to travel the world and write. He then took on various jobs including one where he assisted as a staff member for the TV production company that produced "The Phil Donahue" show which would become the prototype of all talk-shows to follow. Not satisfied with the fact that he wasn't traveling the world, Doug joined the Navy where he traveled extensively and began to write. It was while he was serving in the military that he met so many other same-gender-loving (SGL) men and women from various U.S. military branches and Doug began to speak openly about the rights of same-gender-loving/trans (SGL/T) people, and as a result, he was kicked out of the military.
Doug came out in 1972, and he talks and writes of growing up black and gay in the 1950s and 1960s, and in particular, of growing up in the unique environment of an all-black city. Lincoln Heights, Ohio, was an incorporated city where everyone was black, and the city government, businesses and school system were run by African Americans. He credits the pride that was instilled in him from seeing black people working against the odds to accomplish things as the same pride he eventually used to pursue his life as an authentic SGL man. A few other notables who lived in Lincoln Heights at the time Doug was growing up there are, poet Nikki Giovanni, and The Isley Brothers (who lived across the street from Doug), and a young, then unknown guitarist, named Jimi Hendrix who would stay with the Isley family in between tours as the guitarist for the band. Memories of that period of his life are found in Doug's novels, in short stories and memoir entries at his website, Dougcooperspencer.com. He intends to put the short stories and memory pieces in book form in the near future.
Growing up same-gender loving was pretty easy for Doug. He says though his family had an idea that he was homosexual, most people really didn't have a real world understanding of what that meant, Doug says, including himself. It was something that was "understood to exist" but not discussed or clearly comprehended. But love would triumph over differences in his close-knit family, and his coming-out was even accepted by those he knew in the community.
Like many Black families, Doug Cooper Spencer was raised in the church, but appreciates that his parents were wise enough to know how far to go in accepting church indoctrination. In the town of Lincoln Heights he says he can recall "developed, authentic older SGL men and women", but that they were largely accepted as part of the community. He recalls that he and others like him were simply living their lives as responsible community members in an all-black town. But the larger, mostly white community was more troubling, more discriminatory, and "energized by white and Judeo-Christian ethics – not the black homophobia that the media tries to present" that set him on the journey to becoming a self-loving, SGL man and to prove the world wrong.
Doug Cooper Spencer currently lectures at The University of Cincinnati in the areas of race, SGL/T culture and development, and creative writing. Doug also serves on The University of Cincinnati's LGBTQA faculty and staff advisory board. His four plus decades as an advocate for SGL/T rights and racial equality has enriched his life and given him a treasure of history and wisdom that he often uses in his lectures and writing.
From the early to mid 1990s, Doug served as the Director of Liaison for The Cincinnati Chapter of "Brother II Brother", an advocacy group for the prevention of HIV and for the promotion of human dignity for African American SGLT people in the Greater Cincinnati area.
Working with both the Center for Africana Studies at The University of Cincinnati and the university's LGBTQA center, Doug Cooper Spencer helped to develop and initiate the first Celebration of Black LGBTQ History during Black History Month, an event that has continued with much success.
Doug is the author of three novels: "This Place of Men", "People Like Us" and "Leaving Gomorrah" which are books of the "This Place of Men Trilogy", as well as a book written as an epistle "A Letter to a Friend: Thoughts on Living As A Gay Man". He has also written numerous essays, short stories and autobiographical memoirs which he calls 'memory pieces'.
Doug Cooper Spencer's writings have appeared in the anthology "Mighty Real: An Anthology of Same Gender Loving Writing". He also wrote the forward to "Carry the Word" which is a reference book of black SGLT writers. Much of Doug Cooper Spencer's writings can be found at his website, Dougcooperspencer.com where he also hosts a blog, "The View from Here", and a growing list of black SGLT historical profiles at the "Celebrating Black Gay (SGLT) History" section at his site. In 2006 Doug was nominated by "Clik Magazine" as one of their "Elite 25 Black Gay Writers".
Doug Cooper Spencer has served as in-house lecturer at the Cincinnati branch of The National Urban League's "Leadership Training Forum", from 1989 to 1996, and he also aided in the production of, and appears in the award winning 1996 documentary "All God's Children", a film that looks at the role of black gays and the black church. Doug co-produced "The Eyes Open Festival" and was president of "The Eyes Open Festival Organization", a non-profit organization that used the arts in the black SGL/T community to educate and inspire all communities to wellness.
When he's not working, Doug, who describes himself as a true introvert, says he enjoys taking long walks alone in the city, reading, listening to NPR, and watching movies with his husband. They also enjoy going to museums and art galleries, traveling, watching football and field and track events together or simply relaxing quietly at home and having a good laugh.
Doug Cooper Spencer has enjoyed the love and support of his husband of fifteen years, hair stylist, barber and photographer, Gregory Cooper Spencer whom he met in 1998. In 2011, journalist Darian Aaron interviewed Gregory and Doug Cooper Spencer for his book "When Love Takes Over: A Celebration of SGL Couples of Color".
Doug is the proud father of Courtney Nicole Cooper who graduated from The University of Cincinnati with a degree in Comparative Literature and who works in Education and as a freelance editor.
Currently Doug is at work on a fourth novel, as well as a collection of short stories and memory pieces, in addition to a screenplay.
I asked Doug what lasting legacy does he hope to leave behind and his answer was simply, "a better world." Today, we join with Doug Cooper Spencer in celebrating his fifty-ninth Birthday, and thank him for making our world better, and for his many contributions to our pride and community.
Stephen Maglott is a SGL/Black Historian and Writer.
Courtney Nicole Cooper, Darian Aaron, Doug Cooper Spencer, Gregory Cooper Spencer, National Urban League, Stephen Maglott, When Love Takes Over: A Celebration of SGL Couples of Color
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An Aberdeen recruitment agency boss has won a top award after a quarter century of service.
Grant Wilson, who has owned and operated Driver Hire's Aberdeen office for 25 years, was honoured with the David Walter Silver Salver in recognition of the branch's outstanding performance, as well as his dedication to the firm.
He employs eight members of staff and finds work for as many as 150 drivers on a daily basis.
The Aberdeen office is now on course for a record-breaking year, with profits set to hit an all-time high.
Chris Chidley, Driver Hire's chief executive, said: "Over the past 15 years Aberdeen has been one of our top performing offices.
"As well as outstanding trading, the office has a high level of engagement with the network and outstanding levels of sales and marketing activity.


Whatever flavour of Warhammer you enjoy, whether it's the grim scifi future of 40K or the grim fantasy past of Warhammer Fantasy (née Age of Sigmar), there's one thing that's consistent: They're grim. Like, comically, absurdly, violently dark and gory, and that's part of why they're so much fun. So kid's books are a weird path for Warhammer to go down... but it's doing so anyway.
To much confusion, Games Workshop has announced Warhammer Adventures, a new kids-focused novel series set in both the 40K and Age of Sigmar settings of the beloved tabletop miniatures games; it offers fun adventures about "brave heroes battling monstrous enemies and winning great victories against impossible odds" for young readers ages 8-12.
There'll be two books kicking off the range, one for each version of Warhammer. They both feature casts of plucky teens caught up in the hectic, violent wars of their respective universes (a conflict between the Space Marines and the robo-skeletal Necrons in Cavan Scott's Attack of the Necrons, and battles between the Stormcast Eternals and Darkoath Barbarians in Tom Huddleston's City of Lifestone) and... I dunno, finding triumph against adversity through the power of friendship, probably. You know, the usual fun stuff!
Which is great, unless you then try to reconcile that these stories are taking place in two of the most absurdly edgelord-y, over-the-top, and brazenly gruesome fictional settings around — the worlds that coined the term "Grimdark" as a mark of honour.
"Life in the 41st Millennium is hard," the splash page for Adventures' 40K stories flatly tells us - well yes, because in the tabletop game's lore, humanity is beset on all sides by constant invasions by sinister alien and demonic forces, oh, and they're ruled over by a godlike Emperor who consumes the psychic energies of a thousand people a day to keep his decaying body sitting literally embedded in the heart of a golden throne.
These worlds are defined by their abject misery, the never-ending wars, and the awful, awful people (and awful, awful demonic entities) in them doing awful, awful things. It's... not really for kids, in the slightest. Which is why the announcement of the books has led to mockery from some Warhammer fans on social media about the absurdity of kids books set in these violent, bloody universes - or even worse, concerns that dreaded children might be being catered to at the expense of the franchise at large.
But maybe that's the point, and why Warhammer Adventures seems like it could be a great idea, after you get over the fact it's something for kids instead of the crusty tabletop gaming fans who've been playing Warhammer games since they were teenagers and still think the idea of characters named KHARN THE BETRAYER or MALUS DARKBLADE is super cool (it totally is, by the way). Warhammer can't just be for those people forever, it has to introduce new people to its worlds in order for the games and the fiction behind them to keep thriving — to keep getting new blood in and showing them what these amazing, ridiculous settings have to offer.
What's the harm in offering a (rightly somewhat sanitised) version that kids can enjoy as well, an avenue for exploration that could lead to them stepping up from Warhammer Adventures as kids, to Black Libary books as teens, and maybe even becoming lifelong fans? The wonderful crazy grimdark of Warhammer is still going to be around even with these kid-friendly books existing.


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Q: How to get stats how much lines are committed by a user? Is there any way to get stats how much lines are committed by a certain user (in all repositories he contributes to)?

A: On Github for a particular repository you can go to the graphs tab:

As you can see there are a number of options there.
To get the number of lines that a user has changed select the Contibutions option.
This will display a card for each user with the number of commits and number of lines added and removed, similarly to the below:

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A large cell that is present in many different organs and tissues. One of its functions is the removal of bacteria and other foreign bodies from the body.
Abnormally large size. In the newborn baby, a birth weight greater than 4,000g.
Relating to large blood vessels.
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A fungal infection of the feet.
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impaired absorption of nutrients by the lining of the small intestine.
General feeling of being unwell.
A serious disease caused by parasitic protozoa called plasmodia.
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A tear at the lower end of the oesophagus. This can be caused by retching and vomiting after excessive alcohol consumption, violent coughing, a severe asthma attack or epileptic convulsions.
The condition that occurs if insufficient nutients, vitamins and minerals are eaten to maintain good health.
An imaging study of the breasts, for example, by X-ray.
A mood disorder featuring excessive behaviour, sometimes euphoric and sometimes violent.
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The measuring of pressure using an instrument called a manometer.
Monoamine oxidase inhibitor, an antidepressant drug.
Inflammation of the mastoid bone in the skull.
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Macroecology is an evolving ecological discipline that analyzes regional through global processes whose temporal interactions are especially significant over decades to millennia. Understanding if and how variables acting on rivers at large spatiotemporal scales affect fish communities is key to better river management and ecological theory. Using the American Fisheries Society's standard sampling protocol, we sampled fish communities in contrasting (constricted and wide valley) hydrogeomorphic patches in both upland and lowland areas within terminal basin rivers in the Great Basin USA. We used species and trait-based community composition data, reach scale habitat data, and valley scale hydrogeomorphic data to analyze relationships between community composition and environmental variables. These relationships were evaluated using Mantel and partial Mantel tests to elucidate a causal network between the previously listed elements. Canonical correspondence analysis (CCA) was then used to illuminate specific variables within each environmental scale that may shape the composition of fish communities. Results indicated that valley scale hydrogeomorphic variables had a significant direct effect on fish community composition and explained more variation within the CCA than reach scale habitat variables. Correlations were stronger when based on a trait description of fish community composition with valley scale variables and more variance was explained in CCAs by environmental variables when a trait-based description was used.


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How can level 1 merchants comply?
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These are mandatory for Level 1 merchants, or merchants who have been compromised. An on-site audit needs to be performed by a Qualified Security Assessor (QSA), or a qualified internal assessor. This could cost upwards of £10,000.
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Customers using Barclaycard Data Security Manager or Proactive Security Service get scans for up to 10 IP addresses included in their monthly management fee.
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It's not just your business that needs to be PCI DSS compliant. If any third party suppliers handle your cardholder data, they also have to comply with PCI DSS.
Do any of my suppliers directly or indirectly process, store or transmit my customers' cardholder data?
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The Rabbits Who Caused All the Trouble
The blogs have been running a clip of Glen Beck saying that if there is violence from the right wing, it is because President Obama has provoked it.
This is a TV personality who told his viewers that he couldn't debunk the story that FEMA was building concentration camps to detain Americans under martial law, that the United States is headed into totalitarianism, and that "progressives are taking you to a place to be slaughtered."
And then there are the gun molls; Rep. Michelle Bachmann saying "I want people in Minnesota armed and dangerous," and Sarah Palin telling tea baggers "don't retreat, instead reload."
Now as I read that the FBI has arrested heavily armed members of a "Christian militia" group, I wonder why Obama is doing all this.
Then I remembered the fable by James Thurber, "The Rabbits Who Caused All the Trouble," published in The New Yorker in 1939.
Check it out..
Within the memory of the youngest child there was a family of rabbits who lived near a pack of wolves. The wolves announced that they did not like the way the rabbits were living. (The wolves were crazy about the way they themselves were living, because it was the only way to live.)
One night several wolves were killed in an earthquake and this was blamed on the rabbits, for it is well known that rabbits pound on the ground with their hind legs and cause earthquakes.
On another night one of the wolves was killed by a bolt of lightning and this was also blamed on the rabbits, for it is well known that lettuce-eaters cause lightning.
The wolves threatened to civilize the rabbits if they didn't behave, and the rabbits decided to run away to a desert island. But the other animals, who lived at a great distance, shamed them saying, "You must stay where you are and be brave. This is no world for escapists. If the wolves attack you, we will come to your aid in all probability."
So the rabbits continued to live near the wolves and one day there was a terrible flood which drowned a great many wolves. This was blamed on the rabbits, for it is well known that carrot-nibblers with long ears cause floods. The wolves descended on the rabbits, for their own good, and imprisoned them in a dark cave, for their own protection.
When nothing was heard about the rabbits for some weeks, the other animals demanded to know what had happened to them. The wolves replied that the rabbits had been eaten and since they had been eaten the affair was a purely internal matter. But the other animals warned that they might possibly unite against the wolves unless some reason was given for the destruction of the rabbits. So the wolves gave them one. "They were trying to escape," said the wolves, "and, as you know, this is no world for escapists."
Moral: Run, don't walk, to the nearest desert island.
posted by Julia B. @ 11:29 PM 2 Comments
Today is the birthday of Dr. James Hansen, director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. In 1981 he published a paper in Science magazine that predicted that climate change would open the Northwest Passage. The Passage, sought by explorers since the fifteenth century, was first navigated without the aid of an icebreaker in 2007.
Chupacabra Report
I heard this evening that the big health insurance stock prices ended mixed at the close of the market today, mostly flat, plus or minus 1%.
I'd say that's an indication of whose ox didn't get gored. Regulation aside, 30 million new customers is nothing to sneeze at.
Later I had a cup of tea, and afterwards, saw something in the leaves.
Unfortunately I saw nothing about the upcoming midterms. I like what I saw from Democratic consultant Ed Martin yesterday..
"In Texas state government, we've got a lot of problems. They all fall at the Republicans' feet. If voters in Texas want to throw the bums out who are running state government, the bums running everything in Austin are Republicans."
I hope so; with redistricting coming up after the census. In my district, a race between Nobody and Whozat elected a LaRoucher to run against Phil Gramm clone Pete Olson this fall. A gain of a few seats in the Texas Legislature by the Democrats could go a long way towards unmaking the crooked mid-decade gerrymandering instigated by Tom DeLay.
But back to prognosticating; with all the red state A G's going to court to nullify the new health care measures, chances are that the Roberts Supreme Court will find an opportunity to rule on it. After ruling that corporations need not be bothered by campaign finance laws, it's a good bet that the supremes will find that actual people don't have to suffer accessible or affordable health coverage either.
This could work to show John Q. Public which side he really wants to be on, just in time to re-elect the President with a solid mandate to pass a true universal healthcare program, including the death penalty for health insurance companies that reap windfall profits off of human suffering.
While I'm dreaming, let's have the Texas State Board of Education direct history teachers to teach Eisenhower's Military-Industrial Complex speech. After about twenty years of that, maybe we really could turn our swords into ploughshares.
posted by Julia B. @ 3:56 AM 1 Comments
Well it's almost High Noon for reconciling the House-and-Senate-passed healthcare reform bills and the media is flogging away at the story, notwithstanding the yawns of apathy shown by the public at large.
The Chronicle had a page full of stories on the subject from the AP today, and I saw a couple of items that might explain the vehement opposition this movement has generated. (That and the billions in profits at stake)
First was a chart from Deloitte and Touche detailing the expansion of Medicare payroll taxes to high income earners. You see, people with incomes over $106,000 have so far been exempt from the 2.9% Medicare payroll tax. A major source of funding for expanded health coverage under the bill would come from extending this tax to high-earners, from a annual levy of $450 from single taxpayers earning $250,000 a year, to a $43,000 tax bill on those earning $5,000,000. You know that nobody squeals louder about income taxes than those with the biggest income.
The other item that caught my eye was the measures in the bill to ensure that no tax dollars are spent for abortion coverage. This has been a sticking point in the House, with no-choice Congressman Bart Stupak of the C Street "Family" that has included disgraced Senator John Ensign and disgraced Governor Mark Sanford, threatening to derail the legislation. To my eye, the only item they have left to object to is the exception for cases of rape, incest and danger to the life of the mother, one accepted by most reasonable people.
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After the week-end news of a naked legislator, a deadly wolf attack, Son of Ron Paul, and a vampire space cowboy bomber, today things got back to normal.
Senator Chris Dodd D- Conn. has a banking reform bill that he would like to send out this week from the banking committee he chairs. He has watered down his original proposals to gain approval of the Republican committee members, none of whom will vote for it.
Banking and securities regulation has supposedly been a priority of Congress and the Obama Administration since the Wall Street induced near meltdown of the world economy in late 2008.
Former Fed Chairman Paul Volker, head of President Obama's Economic Recovery Advisory Board, has called for a break-up of the largest banks, and regulations prohibiting deposit taking institutions from engaging in risky trading and investments.
Harvard Professor Elizabeth Warren, head of the Congressional Oversight Panel investigating the U.S. bank bailout, said today
"Since bringing our economy to the brink of collapse, Wall Street has spent more than a year and hundreds of millions of dollars in an all-out effort to block financial reform. Despite the banks' ferocious lobbying for business as usual, Chairman Dodd took an important step today by advancing new laws to prevent the next crisis. We're now heading toward a series of votes in which the choice will be clear: families or banks."
So soon the Senate will consider a compromise bill, stripped significantly of the proposed consumer protection agency that was to stem abusive practices in credit card, auto, and mortgage lending. Senate Democrats are expected to struggle to pass even this measure with their fifty-nine seat minority. Chris Dodd is retiring after this year, he has nothing to lose. Barney Frank has done his part leading the House Banking Committee, and Wall Street and the banking industry are widely vilified by the public and in the media. Last week it was revealed that Lehman Brothers was cooking their books before they went under in a "repo" scheme that spun-off toxic assets at accounting time only to take them back afterwards. (Enron did this too)
The time is ripe for reform that would restore safeguards that kept our economy from major implosions since the great depression. I wonder how the Democrats will manage to screw this up?
Textbook example
In "Bunning and the GOP in an alternative universe" (Page B9, Saturday), Paul Krugman states, "Today, Democrats and Republicans live in different universes, both intellectually and morally."
He continues: "Take the question of helping the unemployed in the middle of a deep slump. What the Democrats believe is what textbook economics says: that when the economy is deeply depressed, extending unemployment benefits not only helps those in need, it also reduces unemployment."
Then Krugman draws his comparison: "But that's not how Republicans see it. Here's what Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., the second-ranking Republican in the Senate, had to say when defending Bunning's position (although not joining his blockade): Unemployment relief 'doesn't create new jobs. In fact, if anything, continuing to pay people unemployment compensation is a disincentive for them to seek new work.' … To me, that's a bizarre point of view — but then, I don't live in Kyl's universe."
A handful of bloggers did Google searches since this column appeared in The New York Times and came up with this interesting quote from a college economics textbook called Macroeconomics: "Public policy designed to help workers who lose their jobs can lead to structural unemployment as an unintended side effect."
The authors cite this example: "In other countries, particularly in Europe, benefits are more generous and last longer. The drawback to this generosity is that it reduces a worker's incentive to quickly find a new job. Generous unemployment benefits in some European countries are widely believed to be one of the main causes of 'Eurosclerosis,' the persistent high unemployment that affects a number of European countries."
The co-authors of this textbook go by the names of Paul Krugman and Robin Wells (aka Mrs. Paul Krugman). So, according to Krugman, the Republican's "bizarre point of view" is in fact "textbook economics," even textbooks written by Krugman himself. Like many Nobel Prize winners in the recent past, Krugman sure knows how to completely change and reverse his science depending on whoever is in power.
— PAUL WATSON Spring
-Kudos to whatever web-heads went digging in that Krugman text. This, however does not mitigate the fact that, at least to hear them tell it to their base, the GOP would, if they could , dismantle unemployment compensation, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, child labor laws, the Sherman Antitrust Act, and the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
Heal Lepers!? Are You Crazy?
Maybe you've seen the Republican Jesus figureens where he is posed giving a thumbs up and a knowing wink? It's a funny concept alright, but like all things ridiculous it has its roots in truth.
I was listening to Glenn Beck this morning, which I had stopped doing a few months ago because it finally had gotten too stressful to endure. He went right to caller one who complained that his kid's catholic school was indoctrinating girls in Catachism classes using the old "social justice" playbook. And somehow this issue got conflated into a kind of Christian theology that preaches that Jesus was indeed a free market adherent and not some pussy who believed in giving away things for free. Furthermore, any idea or policy that promotes social justice is just communism in sheep's clothing. To quote the caller, (whose shpeel was enthuseastically endorsed by Beck) "I believe the only way to be truly close to God is through the American Free Enterprise System."
For anybody who isn't a little freaked out by the country's most powerful congressmen and senators; like Coburn, Ensign, Wamp, and Bart Stupak and many, many others, essentially living with a cult called, "The Family" in "The C Street House" - blocks from the Capitol for free, while sponsoring legislation and policies that favor The Family and their friends, it's probably too late to lengthen your attention span. But to the rest of us, this attempt to corrupt Christian faith into a religious justification for naked capitalism, should be an additional reminder that wing-nuts never sleep.
The ironic part is that the Government had to save American capitalism, because the Government failed to regulate an institution that cannot survive without it, and the notion that free markets are the perfect systems to cure all ills (including the soul) like all religions are just mythology.
posted by liquiddaddy @ 6:14 PM 1 Comments
You must have heard last week about Sen. Jim "beanball" Bunning, R-Ky., putting a hold on legislation to extend unemployment benefits and health insurance subsidies for unemployed workers. (That's right, beanball, because in his days as a major league pitcher he hit even more batters than notorious head-hunters Don Drysdale and Bob Gibson.)
Paul Krugman wrote about this, noting that unemployment payments are one of the most effective forms of economic stimulus, as it is readily spent, helping to prevent unemployment from begetting more unemployment in the surrounding community.
Krugman goes on to contrast the philosophical differences between the two parties. See who's on your side..
"During the unemployment benefits debate, Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., pleaded for action on behalf of those in need. In response, Bunning blurted out an expletive. That was undignified — but not that different, in substance, from the position of leading Republicans. Consider, in particular, Sen. Jon Kyl's (R-Ariz.) position on a proposal that would extend jobless benefits and health insurance subsidies for the unemployed for the rest of the year. Republicans will block that bill, said Kyl, unless they get a "path forward fairly soon" on the estate tax.
"Now, the House has already passed a bill that, by exempting the assets of couples up to $7 million, would leave 99.75 percent of estates tax-free. But that doesn't seem to be enough for Kyl; he's willing to hold up desperately needed aid to the unemployed on behalf of the remaining 0.25 percent. That's a very clear statement of priorities."
-So the Democrats are extending help to millions of working class people so they can pay their bills and stay in their homes, while the Republicans are standing in the way unless they can deliver another tax cut to the richest families in America.
Likewise when they oppose health care reform projected to cost one trillion dollars over ten years time. The Republicans ran up a 1.7 trillion deficit enacting George W. Bush's tax cuts, which went predominantly to the wealthiest Americans, and they passed these cuts using the reconciliation process!
This really gets my goat! The GOP have no credibility for me on the subject of health care because they were running the show for over ten years and they did nothing but cash checks from and carry water for the insurance and pharmaceutical companies.
And likewise on the deficit; now that there's an emergency, and deficit spending is called for to keep the economy from stalling, they're all about fiscal responsibility. Again, where have they been for the last thirty years? Spending like drunken sailors. Ninety percent of the national debt was spent under Republican presidents. You can look it up.
Lame-brained Voters Get My Goat
Well, I know that I live in a district that elected Tom DeLay ten times, one that he drew up himself to be permanently Republican, but I didn't realize until today that the Democratic side was seeded with dolts too.
Democrats in District 22 yesterday gave 53% of the vote to Kesha Rogers, a "LaRouche Democrat" who calls for President Obama to be impeached because he wants to kill off the old and the sick, like Hitler did.
I might have figured this after one of my kids asked me who Lyndon LaRouche was. I guess there must be a lot of folks who don't know about this eighty-eight-year-old conspiracy nut. Ever see those odd people sitting outside your library, courthouse, or post office with the card table stocked with leaflets about their crackpot economics and international conspiracy theories? Those are the LaRouchers.
LaRouche dropped out of Northeastern University in 1942. He was a conscientious objector to WWII who joined the army as a non-combatant in 1944. After the army he went into politics, variously as a Marxist, a Trotskyite, a Maoist, and then a Socialist. He has been associated with thugs, racists, and anti-Semites such as the Ku Klux Klan. He first ran for president in 1976 on the U.S. Labor Party ticket, and has run seven more times as a Democrat. In 1988 he was convicted of conspiracy and mail fraud over some $30 million in defaulted loans and served six years of a fifteen-year sentence in the federal pen.
So in November we get to choose between a Phil Gramm Republican and a Lyndon LaRouche Democrat. You see why I'm a ticket-splitter.
Don't Forget To Vote
Please make time to vote the Democratic Primary today and cast a vote for Bill White for Texas Governor, a vote for competency and consensus; a vote against the cronyism and wedge-issue politics we've suffered under Rick Perry.
News that gets my goat..
Goat leads Odessa police, animal control on chase
© 2010 The Associated Press
March 1, 2010, 11:51AM
ODESSA, Texas — All over town ran a lone goat as Odessa police and animal control officers tried to catch the roaming animal.
The report to police came in Saturday as a sheep on the loose. Officers then determined it was a goat loping through a Taco Bell parking lot, a park and the dorm area at the University of Texas-Permian Basin.
It took four police officers, two animal control officers and one off-duty police officer on motorcycle to corral the goat after about 30 minutes.
Animal control officers subdued the goat with a tranquilizer gun and took custody of it.
There was no immediate word on who owned the goat.
Texas not number fifty after all
The Chronicle reported today that Federal officials have issued a waiver that will allow food banks in Texas to process foodstamp applications.
"During a mid-January visit to Austin, the top federal official overseeing the food stamp program said Texas ranks last among the 50 states AND U.S. TERRITORIES in processing food stamp applications and also does a poor job getting eligible people to apply.
"In Texas, about 40 percent of food stamp applicants are not getting processed within the 30 days required under federal law, the worst record of any state. About 3.3 million Texans received food assistance last month — up from 2.3 million in the fall of 2007, before the economy crashed.
The Houston food bank provided help for 865,000 people last year, but only 23 percent received food stamps, although the vast majority likely were eligible."
-Todays Bible quote comes from Matt 25:40
"Verily I say unto you, inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me."
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List of Meteor Rain episodes
< Meteor Rain
There are two different cuts of Meteor Rain. The 4 episode count is believed to be the official version, though a 3 episode cut is also common.
Meteor Rain is a side story to the Taiwanese series, Meteor Garden (2001).[1] The program aired in late 2001 and early 2002 on CTS.
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1 "Mei Zuo's Chapter" (美作篇 Měizuò Piān) September 13, 2001
Mei Zuo meets a Japanese girl named Aisa, who pickpockets him. He threatens to take her to police, but begins to sympathize with her. Mei Zuo then promises to help her find her grandmother, whom he later learns has passed. Several days later, he finally breaks the news to her.
2 "Xi Men's Chapter" (西門篇 Xīmén Piān) September 27, 2001
Xiao You comes back from Canada for a few days to see Xi Men. He tells her about his first love, Xiao Geng, and their painful goodbye. Xiao You spends the next several days searching for the thing Xiao Geng wanted to show Xi Men. Once she finds it, he arrives just in time to see it.
3 "Dao Ming Si's Chapter, Part 1" (道明寺篇〈上〉 Dàomíng Sì Piān Shàng) January 10, 2002
In high school, Dao Ming Si is wanted by the police after injuring a politician's son. He ignores his mother's advice to turn himself in and runs away. A mute girl Xin Xin finds him hurt on the beach. Her father takes Si in and he remains with them for several days.
4 "Dao Ming Si's Chapter, Part 2" (道明寺篇〈下〉 Dàomíng Sì Piān Xià) January 17, 2002
Ah Yuan reveals to Si that Xin Xin is not his real daughter and that he saved her from her abusive father. Si wishes to help them somehow, but is spotted by the police in the process. Ah Yuan flees with his daughter. After being released from the police, Si goes to meet Ah Yuan and Xin Xin.
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Q: VNC on windows 7 with administrator rights I have a weird problem with VNC server (UltraVNC) on windows 7. I can connect to the server with no problems and use it as it should be.
Until.. I try to launch some application with administrator rights (Run as Administrator).
When I do that, a full screen notification appears on the server machine "Are you sure you want to launch it with admin rights bla bla". At the same moment I get disconnected from the server and can't connect until that message times out and disappears by itself.
Is there any way to make it work without disabling that notification messages?
Thanks.

A: I think the VNC server is disconnecting you because Windows is changing your desktop to the secure desktop. This is when the screen dims and the dialog pops up. I believe this is confusing the VNC server, so it just dies. You can 'fix' this by disabling the secure desktop. On Windows 7, this is easy to do. Simply open UAC settings, and select "do not dim my desktop" (third one from the top).

A: If you install UltraVNC as a service, you can see the UAC notifications and press the buttons, on Windows 7 and Vista.
Also tick the "Download Vista addon files" option, when installing.