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Williamsport, PA - We had a chance to talk to the Dallas Cowboys running back coach Gary Brown at a recent Williamsport Crosscutters game. Gary said he was in town just visiting family and friends. Brown's Lycoming Warrior connection started as the running back coach for the 2003 MAC Champions. Former Head Coach Frank Girardi gave Gary a chance to coach and he has made the best of it. Brown coached for three years at Lycoming.
In 2008 Brown landed a coaching job at Rutgers. Greg Schiano, the head coach at Rutgers at the time, announced that Brown will join the Scarlet Knight coaching staff as running backs coach. Coach Girardi said of Gary's new appointment, "It's a big jump because of recruitment, especially the fact that he played at the highest level in college and certainly excelled in the pros, he'll certainly be able to make that transition."
On February 8, 2013, Gary was hired with the Dallas Cowboys as their running backs coach, where he is still coaching. The Dallas Cowboys press release of that hire read a follows:
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Cowboys Make It Official With New RBs Coach Gary Brown
The Dallas Cowboys made it official with Gary Brown on Monday, announcing him as the team's new running backs coach.
Brown replaces Skip Peete, who was the first member of the Dallas staff to be canned following a second consecutive 8-8 season, and for obvious reasons. In a season that saw starter DeMarco Murray struggle to return from a midseason foot injury, the Cowboys finished 2012 as the second-worst rushing team in the league.
After being fired by Dallas, Peete found a new gig with with the Chicago Bears (who also gave ousted special teams coordinator Joe DeCamillis his new job).
After an eight-year playing career in the NFL, Brown began his coaching career at Lycoming College, before moving on to Susquehanna University and, finally, Rutgers. After Rutgers, he made the jump to the NFL, and served as the Cleveland Browns running backs coach for the past four seasons.
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Located in Singapore, Thye Hua Kwan Temple is a multi-religious temple made by the non-profit voluntary welfare organization (VWO) Thye Hua Kwan Moral Society. The building is a house to Buddhist, Taoist and Confucian deities and has lecture halls where multi-religious dialogues are encouraged, focusing on promoting inter-racial and inter-religious understanding.
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How Gaslighting Is Killing Women
By Kylie Cheung Updated April 11, 2019
Derrick Freske
The #MeToo movement and Supreme Court confirmation process of alleged sexual abuser Brett Kavanaugh have ignited crucial dialogue around the importance of believing women. But the adage "believe women" isn't just about sexual assault: It's about women's condition, experiences, and the broad subversion of our voices within the patriarchy.
From the migraine epidemic that disproportionately affects women, to the correlation between anti-abortion laws and rising U.S. maternal death rates; from mounting advocacy for men accused of sexual violence, to the persistence of the gender wage gap, women's everyday experiences—and demands that we "prove" these experiences—have shown us the gendered nature of credibility.
In The Gaslit Diaries, my newly released book with Thought Catalog, I explore the trivialization and dismissal of women and our experiences and the wide range of issues that disproportionately affect us. In a series of 12 essays, The Gaslit Diaries identifies the cynicism young feminists often face when we express our opinions for what it really is: gaslighting. And this gaslighting does more than poison our dialogues — it often places women in life-or-death danger.
Women — and disproportionately women of color, low-income women, and LGBTQ people — often face grave threats to their health and safety through targeted gaslighting in the healthcare system. In this excerpted essay from the book, I explore some of the consequences of our refusal to believe women when they say they're in pain.
"PROVE IT": Migraines, Birth Control, And the Abortion Rape Exception
In February 2018, Vogue told a story of Serena Williams that few had heard before—a story few had heard, but far too many women of color have lived.
Williams recalled a string of near life-threatening complications after giving birth to her first child, daughter Alexis Olympia, in 2017. Specifically, after having a Cesarean section, Williams struggled with embolisms, blood clots and a rupture in her C-section wound that had made it difficult to breathe. She would wind up having multiple surgeries to save her life, before eventually returning home and being put on six-weeks bedrest. But part of the reason that what had started with Williams feeling short of breath after giving birth quickly spiraled into such a dangerous situation had been the lack of proper care Williams received after she had first reported her pain and discomfort to her nurse.
As per the Vogue feature, it went down like this:
"[Williams] walked out of the hospital room so her mother wouldn't worry and told the nearest nurse, between gasps, that she needed a CT scan with contrast and IV heparin (a blood thinner) right away. The nurse thought her pain medicine might be making her confused. But Serena insisted, and soon enough a doctor was performing an ultrasound of her legs. 'I was like, a Doppler? I told you, I need a CT scan and a heparin drip,' she remembers telling the team. The ultrasound revealed nothing, so they sent her for the CT, and sure enough, several small blood clots had settled in her lungs. Minutes later she was on the drip. 'I was like, listen to Dr. Williams!'"
Despite how Williams had had a history with life-threatening embolisms and specifically underwent surgery for this in 2011, when she initially reported her experiences post-birth, she was met with disbelief—disbelief that may have put her life in danger, and delayed her receiving crucial care.
Even as a wealthy, high-profile black woman, due to persistent racial bias in health care, the act of giving birth had almost killed her.
Black women are 243 percent more likely than white women to die from pregnancy or childbirth-related causes in the United States, a country that already has the highest maternal mortality rate in the industrialized world, with an average of 26.4 deaths per 100,000 live births. That number increases to 44 per 100,000 for black women and shrinks to 13 for white women, and 14 for women of other races, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. According to researchers, 50,000 women in America face life-threatening pregnancy-related complications annually, and black women are three to four times more likely than white women to die from these complications.
Of course, there are many factors that contribute to the United States' outlandishly high maternal mortality rate, and one of those is the mounting trend of oppressive, medically unnecessary abortion restrictions that have swept across the country in recent years. Between 2011 and 2016, about 27 percent of all roughly 1,200 abortion restrictions enacted since Roe v. Wade (1973) was passed. In states where there are more restrictions on abortion, such as South Carolina, in particular, women are substantially more likely to die of pregnancy-related causes.
In 2015, South Carolina's maternal mortality rate increased by 300 percent, after lawmakers in the state and then-Gov. Nikki Haley signed off on several of the most extreme abortion laws in the country, including "restrictions on insurance coverage for abortion, limits on which healthcare professionals can perform abortions, mandatory counseling on fetal pain and development, and requirements on the time frame within which abortion can be performed," according to a 2017 report by the Center for Reproductive Rights. The next year, Haley signed a law banning abortion at 20-weeks, despite how fewer than 10 percent of all abortions take place after the first trimester, and in these rare situations, the pregnancy is often unviable or unsafe. In other words, anti-abortion restrictions constitute a massive public health issue.
Additionally, abortion restrictions and their indisputable relationship with maternal death are, in many ways, an economic issue, especially in light of a federal law (the Hyde amendment) that prohibits federal funding from paying for elective abortion, and laws in 32 states that restrict insurance coverage of abortion. And the economic implications of this issue are far from race-neutral.
One particularly draconian example of this exists in the Trump administration's policy of imprisoning pregnant undocumented minors who seek elective abortions, or even abortion for pregnancy that is the result of rape. Between 60 and 80 percent of Central American migrant women and girls who cross the U.S. border experience sexual assault, and in 2018, border patrol officers reported the prevalence of minors as young as 12-years-old being put on birth control pills before traveling across the border in anticipation of rape.
The militarization of the border, actively supported by the Trump administration, is a key factor in why sexual assault is so prevalent for migrant women and girls at the border and en route to it. In either case, despite repeatedly losing lawsuits regarding its treatment of migrant women and girls seeking abortion, Trump's Office of Refugee Resettlement has persisted in its behavior. In courts, the Justice Department has repeatedly claimed non-citizens do not share the same rights as citizens, nor are they entitled to human rights, to justify its cruelty.
In the summer of 2018, in the weeks following President Trump's executive order to end his family separation policy and replace it with one of indefinite incarceration for migrant families, several migrant women filed a lawsuit alleging grave abuse, and claims that being denied medical care and shackled at the stomach while pregnant had induced miscarriages and endangered their lives. These atrocities were notably committed at the behest of a "pro-life" administration.
The aforementioned policies specifically affect immigrant women and girls, but other women of color face explicitly racist laws around abortion and reproductive health, too. Women's state prison populations in America grew 834 percent over nearly 40 years since 1978, which is more than double the pace of growth among male prison populations, and women of color comprise a majority of incarcerated women. Incarcerated pregnant women are vulnerable to face the same radically inhumane conditions of detained pregnant migrant women and girls.
But even among non-incarcerated women of color, horror stories of poverty and racial bias in health care abound on a life-threatening level.
Women as a whole are 35 percent more likely than men to live in poverty, according to a report by the National Women's Law Center from 2015. But compared to 9.6 percent of white women, 23.1 and 22.7 percent of black and Latinx women, respectively, live in poverty. In 2013, researchers found black women were substantially more likely than white women to be uninsured.
In other words, the disparity in resources along racial lines is, without a doubt, a key threat to the living standards of women of color, particularly in the realm of pregnancy and childbirth. Even today—or perhaps, especially today—it's worth remembering that a decisive majority of the women of pre-Roe v. Wade America who had unsafe, sometimes fatal abortions were immigrants and women of color, and speaking more broadly, low-income women who couldn't afford the costs to travel to have safe abortions in the states where it was legal. In the 1960s, between 200,000 and 1.2 million unsafe abortions took place in the U.S. every year, according to Guttmacher Institute, and thousands of women died as a result of this. And as of 2018, in light of modern, severe threats to Roe with a conservative-majority Supreme Court, judicial system stacked with anti-choice judges, and state legislatures brimming with radically repressive abortion bills, this history feels all the more relevant.
In either case, as Serena Williams' experiences indicate, the disparity in pregnancy and birth conditions between white women and women of color exists even for wealthy and influential women of color. And that's because the underlying racial biases in health care aren't always contingent on one's economic situation.
SYSTEMIC OPPRESSION IS unfailingly intersectional, but it's critical to understand the gender biases that exist in our health care system before we can fully understand the experiences of women of color. The dismissal and trivialization of women's pain where health care is concerned are an unspoken truth women live with every day. Stereotyping women as inherently weaker and more sensitive than men mean that our complaints of pain and discomfort, and our fears about our health and wellbeing, are treated with a too-often fatal grain of salt by doctors.
It wasn't until the latter part of the 20th century that women were even allowed to go to doctor's appointments without the presence of a male guardian, and the presumption that women still cannot credibly speak for ourselves, or be trusted to accurately represent our own condition and experiences, persists to this day.
These presumptions exist foremost in how we're often asked to prove our pain in ways that we simply can't, or are gaslit by our doctors into believing that what we're experiencing is normal. The burden of proof placed on women seeking care is inextricably bound to the popular narrative that women and girls make up their experiences "for attention" in a patriarchal society. It's a narrative that, among other things, has helped yield devastatingly high rates of non-reporting in cases of sexual violence against women, who fear coming forward and being accused of telling lies "for attention." Additionally, despite perceptions of women as weak, women are substantially more likely to endure severe threats to our physical and mental health, and endure these conditions without complaint because of the internalized perception that our experience is not severe enough to come forward and seek care.
The reasons women suffer physical ailments, from the often quite literally nauseating side effects of hormonal birth control, to the gendered epidemic of migraines, in silence, are similar to the reasons that anywhere from 62 to 84 percent of all sexual assaults are unreported. Women are painfully aware of the culture of misogyny we live in—a culture that routinely humiliates and endangers us by neglecting to take our pain seriously, or believe us when we say that we're in pain.
One stark example of this is the disproportionate prevalence of migraines among women. This is, in part, biological. But this epidemic is also so vast and widely untreated because of systemic gaslighting of women and girls by doctors, as well as a culture that trivializes and erases our pain. I don't have a single female friend who doesn't carry Advil or Tylenol in her purse, not just because of menstrual cramps, but also in no small part due to recurring headaches: headaches that we're expected to weather without complaint, and regard as normal. It's not uncommon for older women to advise young women to describe severe abdominal cramps to their doctors as the feeling of being stabbed, just to be taken seriously.
But women who do have the audacity to question their living conditions and demand health and comfort often face skepticism and dismissal. Thirty-six million Americans, including 18 percent of all adult women, regularly experience migraines—and this stat only includes women who actually report experiencing migraines. Despite these numbers, as of 2018, there's still no real, long-term cure for migraines, and this reality can't be divorced from the stereotype that women are weak, overly sensitive, and exaggerate our experiences.
The trivialization of women's pain often results in general disadvantage: in our schooling, our careers, our ability to publicly participate in society. The constraints on women's ability to care for ourselves and lead healthy lives means missing class or work—and the loss of income that comes with jobs that don't offer paid time off—due to severe migraines, menstrual cramping, or nausea from birth control, all of which are experiences that men are less likely to or don't suffer from at all. For former Republican presidential candidate Michelle Bachmann, who famously suffered from recurring migraines, it meant disadvantage against her male rivals who didn't have to take time off to recover and rest from migraines.
Another stark reality that is inextricably bound to expectations for women to prove our pain is the gendered double standard in the living standards that men and women are allowed to ask for in the patriarchy.
Amid ongoing attacks on women's right to access birth control without facing discrimination from pharmacists, insurers, and employers, the past few years have been peppered with developments and advancements in male hormonal birth control. While I can't quite delve into the mechanics of the EP055 compound and how it functions to demobilize sperm, what I can and will delve into is the long, often ironically sexist history of birth control. As a disclaimer, I fully support women's right to choose hormonal birth control pills—God only knows how many women have been empowered to live meaningful, autonomous lives through the ability to dodge unwanted pregnancy and be healthy. But what I will say is that we should never forget female birth control's inception, and how it compares with dramatically more humane modern experiments to create a male birth control.
The first female birth control was tested on human women: Puerto Rican women and women with disabilities, specifically. In contrast, for the past few years, male birth control experiments have almost exclusively been conducted on male monkeys, with the exception of a 2016 World Health Organization study that eventually went to trial on male subjects after extensive testing. However, Stage II of the experiment was almost immediately canceled due to "safety reasons" after an independent review panel determined the hormonal injection for men had too many side effects—namely, the side effects prevalent in most female birth control methods, such as nausea, depression, mood instability, effects on libido, acne, and others. At the time, NPR reported that the majority of the trial's 320 male subjects dropped out, claiming to be unable to withstand the side effects that millions of women around the world experience every day.
The allocation of burden and responsibility in preventing pregnancy has always been sexist in and of itself due to the expectation that women alone should be the ones to shoulder the physical discomfort of birth control side effects to prevent pregnancy. It's emblematic of who in society is allowed to ask for more—and who isn't.
As of 2018, researchers in the United States have already developed symptom-less male birth control; varying versions of this product are already on the market—and cheap, at just $10 a pop—in India. And yet, because of the long tradition of women exclusively being responsible for preventing pregnancy, male birth control may never go to market in the U.S., simply because experts predict investors in the pharmaceutical industry will always simply assume there is no interest in male birth control. In 2018, an all-female team of researchers at the University of Minnesota said obtaining funding for their research of male birth control was often a struggle, "because the drug industry already has effective options for women, [so] it's underestimated interest in a pill for men."
Simply put, women who suffer from side effects from their birth control should not have to carry this burden—especially when long-term, reliable and symptom-free options exist for men to prevent pregnancy. We shouldn't have to accept nausea, mood swings and general discomfort and physical and mental instability as an everyday norm. We shouldn't have to choose between preventing pregnancy in order to meet professional and academic goals, and our comfort. And we shouldn't be placed in a position where our wellness is reduced to collateral damage, just so we can have safe, healthy sex and participate in society.
There's a different burden of proof for men and women's pain. As the aforementioned birth control experiments demonstrate, men and women can quite literally face the same conditions—but only men's experiences will be acknowledged and taken seriously. And the consequences of this double standard, throughout history and today, have been devastating.
FOR WOMEN OF COLOR, there are a couple of crucial caveats to all of this.
In the United States and all western societies, there is a long history of selectively caring about rape and violence against women if and only if it applies to white women, and perpetuates stereotypes about black and brown men as violent, bestial and dangerous. In Donald Trump's 2015 speech announcing his presidential candidacy, he called Mexican immigrants "rapists" and murderers and repeatedly used alleged sexual violence committed by immigrant men as a talking point. Within two years, he would impose a policy of keeping detained, pregnant migrant rape victims incarcerated for seeking abortion care as president.
There's a message here beyond surface-level, run-of-the-mill racism and nativism. The stereotype of fragile, delicate white femininity and the notion that this must be protected at all costs perhaps impacts who is perceived as needing and deserving of better care, and whose health scares are treated with more urgency. In contrast, dehumanizing tropes comparing black women to apes, and portrayals of them as inherently more "masculine" than their white women counterparts, could also play a role in black women's disparate experiences with pregnancy-related health risks and maternal death. The jarring disparities in maternal deaths and life-threatening pregnancy complications affecting women of color make clear the extent to which racial bias has infected our healthcare system, and in the U.S., women of color are suffering the consequences of this en masse.
Women of color face another grave threat to their safety and rights when it comes to pregnancy: the risk of being punished for the outcome of their pregnancy. Especially in light of the story of a woman who miscarried being denied medication abortion by a Walgreens pharmacist on the grounds of "religious freedom" in the summer of 2018, we know miscarriage and abortion are conflated all too often, especially because anti-abortion politicians and groups are often staunchly anti-science, too. The story of Purvi Patel, an Indiana woman who was jailed for almost a full year due to the outcome of her pregnancy, offers a harrowing glimpse of what women could face as a consequence for miscarrying or attempting to terminate a pregnancy.
In 2013, Patel checked herself into a hospital seeking help for uninterrupted bleeding, saying she had given birth to a stillborn fetus. When doctors noticed the size of her umbilical cord, they became suspicious the fetus had actually been born alive, and eventually found its discarded remains in a dumpster where Patel confessed to having discarded them.
She would wind up being arrested and charged with two contradictory charges: fetal homicide, and neglect of a child. The charges were puzzling because neglecting a child means that you neglected a live child, while feticide means that the baby was born dead. A jury managed to find her guilty of both.
The basis of the child neglect charge had been a widely discredited "lung float test" which prosecutors used to determine that her fetus had been able to breathe and was 25 to 30 weeks along—a far cry from the 23 to 24 weeks that Patel's lawyers had proven by demonstrating the fetus' lungs were not sufficiently developed to breathe. The results of the lung float test suggested the baby had been alive, and "killed" by Patel's neglect. Meanwhile, the basis of the feticide charge had been text messages obtained by police in which Patel seemed to discuss buying abortifacient to attempt to terminate the pregnancy, but no trace of the drug had even been found in her blood work.
The following year, three judges on an appeals court exonerated Patel, but the incident nevertheless reflects the serious threat posed by abortion opponents' inability to draw substantive, science-based and consistent lines around what constitutes life. The state feticide law that the prosecution had used to put Patel behind bars was not meant to punish women who have self-managed abortions, but rather, people—namely domestic abusers—who commit violent acts against pregnant women. In the same vein, the state's use of the pseudoscience lung float test to "prove" the fetus had actually been a live baby shows how false science is often dangerously used to humanize fetuses, dehumanize pregnant women by exposing them to the possibility of criminal charges for the outcomes of their pregnancies, and jeopardize women's health and wellness.
We may never really, fully know what happened to Patel's pregnancy; her text messages and actual examinations of her physical condition tell different stories. But that's neither here nor there. What we do know is that Patel lived with conservative, pro-abstinence parents and her hesitation to divulge a complete account of her experiences likely came from a place of deep fear about her safety.
For years, stereotypes of Asian women as likely to abort or commit feticide or infanticide on the basis of the fetus' gender have yielded racist, innocuous state laws across the country (for example, laws that ban abortion on the basis of the fetus' gender or race). And in addition to pervasive, systemic discrimination that renders women of color more likely than white women to be charged with crimes or incarcerated in general, the stereotype of the "baby-killing" Asian woman poses a unique danger for those who become pregnant, and either experience complications or seek to terminate the pregnancy.
Before Patel, there was another Asian-American Indiana woman who faced more than a year in jail for miscarrying after a failed suicide attempt while she had been pregnant. In 2011, after being impregnated by a man who was not her husband, Bei Bei Shuai, a Chinese immigrant, attempted to take her own life by consuming rat poison. She survived, but her 33-week-old fetus did not, and required a Caesarian section to be removed. She faced similar feticide charges, as well as a murder charge, and was jailed for 435 days before the Indiana Supreme Court cleared the charges against her.
Varying versions of the stories of Patel and Shuai exist in states across the country with more repressive cultures around abortion. They reflect a reality of women, and disproportionately women of color, being doubly punished for their pain and trauma, and, in so many words, told that unviable, miscarried fetuses are more valuable than they are, and have more rights and legal protection than they do as living women. The fight for bodily autonomy for women did not end with Roe v. Wade, and it's the very notion this is the case that's allowed incidents like the incarceration of Patel and Shuai to arise. Roe v. Wade was not the end of criminalized abortion, and if we allow ourselves to be gaslit into believing this, to be lulled into a false sense of security, stories like this will continue to unfold under our nose.
The bodies and wellbeing of women of color remain not only disproportionately neglected but also disproportionately policed within our health care and legal systems. And the direct results of this include vastly disproportionate maternal and pregnancy-related death rates for women of color, and a dangerous, draconian application of laws that were created with the intention of protecting pregnant women.
WOMEN—and especially low-income women, women of color, and immigrant women—are marginalized within the American health care system through its routine dismissal of their pain. And the biases, misogyny, and racism that are costing women across the country their lives exist everywhere—especially in politics. Certainly, these attitudes are more prevalent among the white Republican men who have devoted their political careers fighting for nearly every restriction on abortion access you could name. But watered down anti-women biases also exist even within those liberal and progressive spaces.
In 2018, just months before midterm elections, I had the pleasure of speaking with the founders of the American Women's Party for a feature I was writing. One particularly enlightening moment of our conversation tackled progressive men and how the exclusion of women even from progressive spaces and discussions hurts women, too. According to the American Women's Party, without women in the room, our rights and experiences remain an afterthought at best. "It's always, 'Well, let's worry about health care and we'll include reproductive rights after' … This idea that they [male lawmakers] were ever going to consider us or put our issues on the same playing field hasn't worked, even for the more compassionate male legislators," Maya Contreras, one founder of the organization, said. "We have seen unequivocally that if you don't have those women in the room, or making those policy decisions, they'll just be left out."
One well-known example of this exists in the internal war among Democrats that saw proactive measures to protect and expand abortion access ultimately removed from the writing of the Affordable Care Act. But this wasn't just one isolated episode or an anomaly of some sort. Think about progressive icon Sen. Bernie Sanders' embrace of tuition-free public college, and question why universal child care and similar measures that address traditionally feminine experiences remain excluded from mainstream progressive dialogues and widely regarded as fringe.
In recent years, under the Trump administration and a Republican-majority Congress, we have seen an escalation in preexisting conditions being used to disproportionately attack women and relegate womanhood itself to a preexisting condition, with disastrous consequences for rape survivors in particular. Pregnancy, being a mother, having had an abortion, and, yes, surviving sexual assault and domestic violence, could all be used as grounds for insurance providers to raise premiums or turn women away altogether.
Defending protections for people with preexisting conditions has long been a talking point of Democrats, but one that seldom goes so far as to recognize Republican policies as direct attacks on womanhood. As Slate's Christina Cauterucci put it in 2018, the culmination of the GOP's attacks on affordable health care and reproductive rights reflect "a medical framework that [treats] women's bodies as inherently sick, aberrations from the norm"—a medical framework of abject, misogyny-fueled cruelty.
And the punishment of rape survivors in politics and medicine is as egregious as it is pervasive. Senate Republicans' rejection of renewing the Violence Against Women Act in 2013, and the devastating consequences that dismantling the VAWA would have had for women of color, Native American women, LGBTQ people and other marginalized identities disproportionately affected by sexual violence, couldn't be understated. Luckily, of course, VAWA lived. But rape survivors continue to encounter systemic gaslighting and abuse in health care through restrictions on abortion that exist across the country.
Many of the most extreme bills and laws to restrict or explicitly ban abortion offer exceptions for women whose pregnancies threaten their lives, are unviable, or are the result of rape. This last item is known as the rape exception.
Of course, due to their extreme nature, many of these bills fail to be enacted. But that said, women who live in the (as of 2018) 17 states with 20-week abortion bans and the 32 states that prohibit insurance coverage of abortions except in cases of rape, and whose pregnancies are among the 25,000 per year in the U.S. that are the result of rape, are severely affected by the rape exception and its cruelty nonetheless.
Let's be clear: The rape exception is not about helping women, whose right to reproductive freedom should not be contingent on how they became pregnant, nor whether they are able to successfully prove to law enforcement, doctors, or anyone else that they were sexually abused. The rape exception is self-serving propaganda for anti-choice, anti-women politicians, and the complete and utter gaslighting of women and survivors. It's about manipulating the optics of abortion policy to make abortion bans appear more humane and digestible to mainstream audiences, all while sending the toxic and false message that rape can easily be proven, that anyone who is impregnated by rape could easily come forward, say they were raped, and receive appropriate care, simple as that.
Of course, the reality is that women and survivors who come forward about being sexually assaulted comprise a distinctly small minority. Among the many reasons survivors choose not to come forward, which include choosing to heal and move on privately on their own terms (an option the rape exception would deprive them of) is fear of intimidation, disbelief, and being shamed or blamed. When we require women to sacrifice their privacy and comfort and potentially force them to relive a traumatic experience just to access health care like abortion, we deny them autonomy in their recovery process, and certainly strip them of bodily autonomy, too, by making theirs conditional.
If anything, the rape exception arguably makes things worse for women by repressing our rights and threatening our safety, all while allowing anti-choice politicians to humanize their agenda within the mainstream, and affirm a false narrative about what survivors of sexual assault face in coming forward.
According to the most recent polling, an estimated 16 percent of Americans believe abortion should be illegal without any exception, even for rape. During GOP Congressman Todd Akin's race for U.S. Senate in 2012, Akin dismissed the possibility of pregnancy by rape by citing religious pseudoscience about how "legitimate rape" cannot result in pregnancy, and therefore, abortion should not be legal in any circumstances. Views like his and the other 16 percent of Americans who unilaterally believe abortion should be illegal are appalling. But don't allow any GOP lawmaker, as they desperately peddle out bill after bill to restrict or ban abortions except in cases of rape, to gaslight you into believing that they or their laws are somehow any less appalling.
The rape exception is not a good thing. It does not make bans on abortion safer or less cruel, inhumane, and likely to result in women being subjected to unsafe abortions; it's not a compromise. That's because there is no compromise on abortion; nothing keeps women—and sexual assault survivors—safe except a full, unconditional range of safe, legal health care options.
The phenomenon of women being forced to prove their pain for health care in ways that men are not is inseparable from the rape exception and its devastating consequences. Reproductive rights and violence against women are interconnected, inseparable issues. Erasing or dismissing women's pain and health struggles, banning abortion and birth control access, and committing sexual assault are all extreme acts of violence on women's bodies that disregard our consent and safety.
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This is the collective feed for the Podcasting Gear Show, The Dune Saga Podcast, the SciFi Diner Podcast, and the Haiti in Focus Podcast. These shows are hosted by Scott Hertzog, Miles. P. McLoughlin, David B. Moulton, Jim Arrowood, M. Sieiro Garcia, and Kristen Hertzog
SciFi Diner Podcast 387 - Our Interview with Comic Book Author R.A. Jones (Twilight Grimm/Silverline Comics)
R. A. Jones Born and raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he still resides, R.A. Jones has been a professional writer and editor for more than 35 years. He first came to the attention of the comics field through the bi-weekly review column he wrote for the popular comic book fan magazine Amazing Heroes. For his work there, he was voted "Favorite Writer About Comics" by the readers of Comics Buyer's Guide magazine. Moving into actual comics work, he was hired as Executive Editor for a short-lived but fondly remembered independent publisher called Elite Comics, working on such titles as Seadragon and Epsilon Wave. When Malibu Comics started their line, one of the earliest titles they published was Dark Wolf, written by R.A. and drawn by Butch Burcham. A prolific writer, R.A. went on to produce many titles for Malibu and contribute to several others. Among them was Scimidar; Fist of God; Merlin; Sinbad; White Devil; The Protectors; Ferret; Nightman; Prototype and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Over the course of a long career that included stints as a newspaper columnist, R.A.'s work appeared for a range of other comic book publishers, including Marvel (Wolverine/Captain America; Weapon X: The Draft); DC Comics (Showcase '95); Dark Horse (Harlan Ellison's Dream Corridor) and Image (Bulletproof Monk). The latter series served as the inspiration for the motion picture of the same title. Two short comics stories written by R.A. ("Cold, Hard Facts" and "Three on a Match") were also adapted to film as episodes of the French television series Metal Hurlant Chronicles. In recent years, R.A. has focused primarily on prose fiction. Among the works he has written or co-written are three volumes of "The Steel Ring Saga." These novels — entitled The Steel Ring; Twilight War and The House of Souls — feature the same Golden Age superheroes R.A. used in his Protectors comic book series, but reimagined and placed back in their original time period amidst the chaos of World War II. He has also written Scimidar, a new and original novel featuring the comics character he created. Other books include Deathwalker; Gun Glory; Comanche Blood; The Equation; Motor City Manhunt and most recently Bass Reeves: Frontier Marshal Vol. 3. Happily returning to his comic book roots, R.A. is now writing the vampire series Twilight Grimm for Silverline and his longtime buddy and former Malibu editor Roland Mann. Reuniting as collaborator with R.A. on the book is another old and good friend: artist Rob Davis, who not only illustrated many of the issues of Scimidar but also worked with him on such titles as Merlin and Straw Men. When asked how it felt to be thus back in harness, there was only one thing R.A. could say: "Make Mine Silverline!" R.A.'s Silverline Checklist: Cybertrash and the Dog one-shot RA's Social Media links www.facebook.com/ra.jones.9
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SciFi Diner Pilots 386 - Star Trek: The Orginal Series "Where No Man Has Gone Before" with Michael Jan Friedman (Crazy 8 Press)
"Where No Man Has Gone Before" is the third episode of the first season of the American science fiction television series, Star Trek. Written by Samuel A. Peeples and directed by James Goldstone, it first aired on September 22, 1966. In the episode, after the Enterprise attempts to cross the Great Barrier at the edge of the galaxy, two crew members develop powerful ESP abilities which threaten the safety of the crew. The episode was the second pilot, produced in 1965 after the first pilot, "The Cage", was rejected by NBC. Reportedly, Lucille Ball, who owned Desilu Productions (where the pilot was produced), persuaded NBC management to consider a second pilot, thereby exercising a special option agreement it had with Desilu, because she liked Gene Roddenberry and believed in the project. The episode was eventually broadcast third in sequence, and it was the first episode to be shown in the United Kingdom by the BBC on July 12, 1969. "Where No Man Has Gone Before" was the first episode of Star Trek to feature William Shatner as Captain James Kirk, James Doohan as Chief Engineer Montgomery Scott, and George Takei as Lt. Sulu (in this episode, the ship's physicist, whose character became helmsman in subsequent episodes). The episode title is the final phrase in the opening voice-over which characterizes the series and has entered popular culture Michael Jan Friedman Michael Jan Friedman is the author of nearly 70 books of fiction and non-fiction, about half of them set somewhere in the wilds of the Star Trek universe. In 1992 Friedman wrote Reunion, the first Star Trek: The Next Generation hardcover, which introduced the crew of the Stargazer, Captain Jean-Luc Picard's first command. Over the years, the popularity of Reunion has spawned a number of Stargazer stories in both prose and comic book formats, including a six-novel original series. Friedman has also written for the Aliens, Predator, Wolf Man, Lois and Clark, DC Super Hero, Marvel Super Hero, and Wishbone licensed book universes. Eleven of his book titles, including the autobiography Hollywood Hulk Hogan and Ghost Hunting (written with SciFi's Ghost Hunters), have appeared on the prestigious New York Times primary bestseller list, and his novel adaptation of the Batman & Robin movie was for a time the #1 bestselling book in Poland (really). Friedman has worked at one time or another in network and cable television, radio, business magazines, and the comic book industry, in the process producing scripts for nearly 180 comic stories. Among his comic book credits is the Darkstars series from DC Comics, which he created with artist Larry Stroman, and the Outlaws limited series, which he created with artist Luke McDonnell. He also co-wrote the story for the acclaimed second-season Star Trek: Voyager episode "Resistance," which guest-starred Joel Grey. Currently, Friedman is working on a variety of projects, including a contemporary fantasy novel featuring characters and themes from mythology tentatively called Blood of the Gods, a young adult fantasy novel set in Renaissance times, the true story of an extraordinary Little League team in 1955, and an epic-scale science fiction adventure. As always, he advises readers that no matter how many Friedmans they know, he is probably not related to any of them. For more on Michael Jan Friedman and his fiction, visit his personal website, follow him on Twitter @FriedmanMJ, and like him on Facebook.
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In terms of specific policies, being a "Roosevelt Republican" has been described as supporting the conservation movement and having sympathies for environmentalist measures aimed at protecting natural landscapes. This is said to entail an emphasis on hunting and fishing along with wildlife tourism under the backdrop of government ownership of certain lands, with a more limited room for more invasive uses of public areas such as mining.
Individuals who have self-identified as such include Ryan Zinke, a Montana politician and U.S. Navy veteran who became the 52nd U.S. Secretary of Interior on March 1, 2017. However during his tenure as Secretary of the Interior, Zinke oversaw an aggressive expansion of industrial activity on public lands, including fast-tracking environmental reviews for oil and gas drilling to increase the number of permits, proposing offshore oil drilling on both the east and west coasts (an act that was opposed by governors of all 15 coastal states), and the nation's first-ever reductions in the boundaries of national monuments to favor utilization of the land by private companies involved in the oil and gas industry.
Former U.S Congressman and Governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis, has also referred to himself as "Teddy Roosevelt conservationist" yet his voting record as a member of the House of Representatives indicates very little support for policies supported by environmentalists, earning him a ranking of 2% (out of a possible 100%) by the League of Conservation Voters.
^ a b Wolff, Eric (January 17, 2017). "'Roosevelt Republican' Zinke to face smooth path to Interior post". The Politico. Retrieved May 16, 2017.
^ "Trump cabinet member trots through Washington on horseback". BBC News. 2 March 2017. Retrieved May 16, 2017.
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Electric Feels at the Ritz
by Alec Adams	on January 12, 2022
This writer is utterly devastated to realize that early 2010s music has now come around for its time in the nostalgia spotlight. The once forward-thinking jams of MGMT, STRFKR, Foster the People and alt-J now bring listeners back to a simpler time, when one could dance with friends and do crazy things…
Strangelove at The Ritz
by Alec Adams	on December 15, 2021
On paper, cover bands are a win-win situation: the band gets to play their favorite artist's material, and the audience gets to relive their favorite musical memories. But not just anyone can do it. Audiences can sniff out a poser from a mile away, and only the greatest can truly live up…
Igor & Red Elvises at The Ritz
by Alec Adams	on December 8, 2021
In the 1998 action comedy movie Six-String Samurai, a Buddy Holly stand-in wields a katana slaying Mad Max pastiches of rock and rolls greatest legends. During a bar fight scene, a band plays with an outlandish look and ferocious style on oversized instruments. You'd think this band would be an invention of…
'Togacinco' Premieres at the Ritz
by Aaron Carnes	on November 17, 2021
Ryan DiBiase was blown away that 225 people showed up to The Ritz in 2017 to see his latest skate video, Toga 4. By then, he'd been doing it for a while, but that one was quite the jump. He premiered his first video, More Like Toga, in 2011 at a friend's house…
Kolohe Kai at the Ritz
by Kyle Martin	on November 10, 2021
Kolohe Kai's show in San Jose has been hotly anticipated and quickly sold out. The island reggae band was started in 2009 by lead singer Roman De Peralta from Oahu. Popularly known for its sunny pop songs such as "Ehu Girl" and "Cool Down," Kolohe Kai also has more roots-rock and skankin'…
Provoker Jack Into the Ritz
by Mat Weir	on November 3, 2021
Remember in the original Matrix when our hero, Neo—played by Keanu Reeves—tells the crew of the Nebuchadnezzar he saw the same black cat walk by twice? His crewmates grow anxious as he describes the experience, telling him: "déjà vu is usually a glitch in the Matrix. It happens when they change something."
The Purple Ones at the Ritz
by Alec Adams	on November 3, 2021
Oakland's Morty Orkin has been dedicated to honoring the work of the great pop artists by way of tribute bands for a long time, moving from Michael Jackson to Neil Diamond to the one and only Prince. The Purple Ones have been in the game since 2012 and their commitment to doing…
Trish Toledo at the Ritz
by Kyle Martin	on October 20, 2021
This Saturday, the smooth, velvety tones of Trish Toledo will bless The Ritz, a downtown San Jose staple which only recently reopened its doors after the pandemic. Toledo, an Ecuadorian and Guatemalan soul singer and artist from Carson, has a powerful voice that looms over the soft and steady beat of her…
Starfarer at the Ritz
by Bill Kopp	on October 13, 2021
Though he was already well-established as a metal guitarist, when Miguel Iniguez launched Starfarer in 2017 he was a total newcomer to the world of electronic music. Memories of 1980s horror and sci-fi soundtracks fired his imagination, inspiring him to take his new project in a radically different direction.
La Santa Cecilia at the Ritz
by Jay Edgar	on September 15, 2021
By marrying a variety of Latin American rhythms—including Mexican and Colombian cumbia, bossa nova, bolero and tango—with rock, soul and R&B, La Santa Cecilia have created a sound that's truly pan-American. The LA-based sextet initially reached a larger audience in 2013 with their anti-migra protest hit "Ice el Hielo." Then, in 2017,…
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Manuel Diego
Religion: sorcerer
Name: Manuel Diego
Classification: supporting character
First Appearance: Marvel Graphic Novel #49 (1989): "Doctor Strange and Doctor Doom: Triumph and Torment"
Creators: Roger Stern, Mike Mignola, Mark Badger
Super? (Has Super Powers/Special Abilities/Technology): Yes
Number of Appearances: 1
Nation: Mexico
Race: Hispanic
Note: summoned to contest to pick Sorcerer Supreme
Summoned to Temple of the Three (in Java, Indonesia) by the Aged Genghis to participate in a contest to determine who will become the Earth's Sorcerer Supreme.
This character is in the following story which has been indexed by this website:
Marvel Graphic Novel #49 (1989): "Doctor Strange and Doctor Doom: Triumph and Torment"
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- http://www.marvunapp.com/master/diadil.htm
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- https://www.comics.org/issue/251059/
- http://www.comicvine.com/doctor-strange-doctor-doom-triumph-and-torment-triumph-and-torment/37-139720/
- http://comicbookdb.com/issue.php?ID=37432
- http://marvel.wikia.com/Marvel_Graphic_Novel_Vol_1_49


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Airport Access
The Colorado Springs Airport is a public building. News media may film or photograph in publicly-accessible areas. Airport officials do ask news organizations to notify the Public Affairs Administrator or Communications Center when a news crew or photographer is sent to the Airport.
When filming at the airport, taking photos or conducting interviews, all news media are required to display press credentials. The news media should not leave equipment unattended or stage personnel/equipment in a manner that will alert TSA to an unattended bag.
All news media may park a marked vehicle on the Departure level, western-most curb. If the vehicle does not identify your press credentials, you must contact the Communications Center at 719-550-1919 to identify yourself/vehicle to prevent ticketing.
Security restrictions are critical to airport safety and will take top priority. Unauthorized access to a restricted area of the airport will result in denial of future access.
Airfield access is strictly controlled and can only be arranged by contacting the Colorado Springs Airport PIO between the hours of 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday. Requests for filming in the aircraft movement areas and near the aprons will be handled on a case-by-case basis. Prior notification is essential to ensure adequate staffing exists to perform escort duties.
Requests for access will be accommodated to the extent manpower and operational considerations permit. In the event of an emergency situation or other event that requires the full attention of the Colorado Springs Airport Operations staff, a prearranged escort may be canceled.
Airport Jurisdiction
When covering events that concern airlines or airport business partners, news media should direct questions to those organizations. Additionally, certain airport operations fall under the jurisdiction of different agencies working within the Airport. News media should contact the appropriate agency public affairs department for interviews or information.
Aircraft Operations/Air Traffic Control
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is responsible for air traffic control at airports. Inquiries about delays in the air traffic system should be directed to the FAA Northwest Mountain Region Public Affairs Office.
FAA Public Affairs Contact: Allen Kenitzer (425)227-2015 (FAA Northwest Mountain Region)
After Hours: (425)227-2000 for general inquiry or (425)227-1999 during emergencies
Airline Issues
Individual airlines are responsible for issues related to that particular airline: labor, on-time performance, flight schedules, baggage issues, etc.
American Airlines: (817) 967-1577 or mediarelations@aa.com
Frontier Airlines: (720) 374-4560 or media@flyfrontier.com
Delta Air Lines: (404) 715-2554
United Airlines: (312) 997-8640 or media.relations@united.com
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is responsible for airport security. The only information that TSA is able to release is that which is readily available to the public.
TSA Headquarters: (571) 227-2829 or tsamedia@tsa.dhs.gov
Official Airport Logo
Please adhere to the following brand guidelines when using the Colorado Springs Airport logo.
Full Horizontal Logo - Four Color
Full Stacked Logo - Four Color
Full Horizontal Logo - White
Full Stacked Logo - White


We are a small artists-led social enterprise dedicated to creating intentional products and immersive collaborations through slow, enduring, and sustainable approaches and strategies.
Using art lectures and intensive workshops to facilitate the transformation of unskilled individuals in rural areas into empowered makers.
We are based in Iloilo, Philippines.


I can see a place for any of those positions in a communications shop. Handily, the post includes a sampling of real job descriptions and other links to help you flesh out each post, and don't miss the comments, where some veterans add perspective on what it's like to retool your career in this way. What would you keep, add or delete from this list, if it were for your communications operation?


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The new Echo speakers ship with a smarter Alexa and come equipped with the in-house AZ1 Neural Edge processor that performs on-device neural speech processing to make the virtual assistant more responsive. It comes with a Low Power Mode that helps save energy during periods of non-activity. Further, the new device is made from 100{9a01d93bf7b2c28a1b31ca31fecd25f15e15c35cfb9f5daef6a59cb9fcd1aa14} post-consumer recycled fabric, 100{9a01d93bf7b2c28a1b31ca31fecd25f15e15c35cfb9f5daef6a59cb9fcd1aa14} recycled die-cast aluminum, and post-consumer recycled plastic. Plus, there's an LED light ring at the base of the sphere.
Both of these retain the same design as the standard Echo smart speaker. They feature a 1.6-inch front-firing speaker. Further, Amazon has added support for the tap-to-snooze feature on the new Echo Dot series speakers. As for the Echo Dot with clock, its display allows users to check time, temperature, timers, and alarms. The device is available in two color options – Glacier White and Twilight Blue.
As mentioned before, the 4th gen Echo Dot has a regular list price of $50. However, it has received a $21 price-cut, and is selling for $29. On the other hand, the latest Echo Dot with clock has a list price of $60, and it is selling at a discount of 35{9a01d93bf7b2c28a1b31ca31fecd25f15e15c35cfb9f5daef6a59cb9fcd1aa14}. You can purchase it for $39.
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The apps keeping Rio's residents safe from stray bullets
Best gaming monitor: Five things to consider


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Become a member of the Canadian International Council and help shape Canada's place in the world. JOIN US
Send Omar al-Bashir to The Hague
Nicholas Coghlan / @NicholasCoghlan
Former Canadian diplomat
Nicholas Coghlan served as Canada's first resident diplomat in Khartoum, Sudan (2000–2003). His experiences over that period are recounted in Far in the Waste Sudan (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2005). He was also the first resident Canadian ambassador in Juba, the capital of the newly independent South Sudan. Coghlan and his wife, Jenny, were awarded the Meritorious Service Cross for their role in the evacuation of Canadian citizens from Juba when civil war broke out in late 2013. His most recent book is Collapse of a Country: A Diplomat's Memoir of South Sudan (McGill-Queen's, 2017). He lives on Salt Spring Island, B.C.
By: Nicholas Coghlan /
The first Canadian diplomat stationed in Sudan on why the coup in that country must not derail efforts to bring the former president to justice
It's time we all owned the failure of South Sudan
South Sudan will celebrate ten years of independence this summer. It's in bad shape and we're partly to blame.


Food Safety Level 3 – ensures that supervisors are aware of the legislation applicable to food safety and how to communicate the required standards to employees.
Supervisors, team leaders and line managers working in the retail industry and other related industries.
Those who own/manage a small catering business.
The role of supervision in food safety management procedures.
Level 4 Award in Managing Food Safety.


Audizine Forums > Main Model-Line Discussion > B5 A4 > 2001 S4 suspension on a '96 A4?
View Full Version : 2001 S4 suspension on a '96 A4?
Anyone know if this would fit? And would it lower it very much?
My '96 is a 2.8 QM and it looks like it has a lift kit.
may as well go aftermarket..
I agree with SeanF... go aftermarket. stock S4's still have massive wheel gap. far too much wheel gap for the type of car it is IMO.
thanks for the help. I was wondering because he's selling the entire setup used for $150.
YOu will be way happier with any spring/shock combo. Eventhough you could get away with it, and it would lower your only if was a non-sport in the first place. Its not worth the money. Just save up, and get some used coilovers or a used shock/spring combo, you will be way happier.
There are always used CO's in the classifieds too.


The multi-award winning Irish children's film 'Eliot & Me', which was funded by Bord Scannán na hÉireann/the Irish Film Board (BSÉ/IFB) and RTE.
Screened on Sunday, December 15th, on RTÉ Two at 2.05pm. Directed by Fintan Connolly and produced by Fiona Bergin, the film won two prizes at the recent China International Children's Film Festival: Ella Connolly picked up the International Jury Award for Best Performance by a Child Actress and the Award for the Children's Favourite Child Performer.
This family film tells the story of ten-year-old Lucy who is struggling to come to terms with her parents' separation. She rescues a dog, Eliot, from the local dog shelter. It is love at first sight and her life starts to improve. But tragedy strikes when Eliot goes missing and Lucy must undertake a dangerous journey to find him.


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'use strict';

import Dimensions from './Dimensions';
import {type DisplayMetrics} from './NativeDeviceInfo';
import {useEffect, useState} from 'react';

export default function useWindowDimensions(): DisplayMetrics {
  const [dimensions, setDimensions] = useState(() => Dimensions.get('window'));
  useEffect(() => {
    function handleChange({window}) {
      if (
        dimensions.width !== window.width ||
        dimensions.height !== window.height ||
        dimensions.scale !== window.scale ||
        dimensions.fontScale !== window.fontScale
      ) {
        setDimensions(window);
      }
    }
    Dimensions.addEventListener('change', handleChange);
    // We might have missed an update between calling `get` in render and
    // `addEventListener` in this handler, so we set it here. If there was
    // no change, React will filter out this update as a no-op.
    handleChange({window: Dimensions.get('window')});
    return () => {
      Dimensions.removeEventListener('change', handleChange);
    };
  }, [dimensions]);
  return dimensions;
}

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"use strict";

var d3 = require('d3'),
    nv = require('../../shim/nv.d3.js'),
    $ = require('jquery'),
    _ = require('lodash');

var widthCutoff = 400;

function makeSvg(el) {
    // For some reason, the chart will only render if the style is
    // defined inline, even if it is blank.
    var svg = $('<svg style=""></svg>').get(0);
    $(el).empty();
    $(svg).appendTo(el);
    return svg;
}

function handleCommonOptions(chart, options) {
    if (options.yAxisLabel) {
        chart.yAxis.axisLabel(options.yAxisLabel);
    }
    if (options.isPercentage) {
        chart.yAxis.tickFormat(d3.format('.0%'));
    }
    if (options.abbreviateTicks) {
        chart.yAxis.tickFormat(d3.format('.2s'));
    }
}

function getNumBars(data) {
    return data[0].values.length;
}

/*
    Renders a horizontal bar chart for a single series of data without a legend.

    data is of the form
    [
        {
            x: ...,
            y: ...
        },
        ...
    ]
    note that x corresponds to the vertical axis since this is a horizontal bar
    chart.

    options includes: barClasses, margin, yAxisLabel, isPercentage, maxBarHeight
    and abbreviateTicks
*/
function renderHorizontalBarChart(chartEl, data, options) {
    var chart = nv.models.multiBarHorizontalChart(),
        svg = makeSvg(chartEl),
        $svg = $(svg);

    // Augment data so that it is part of a single series to match
    // the format expected by NVD3.
    data = [
        {
          key: 'Series 1',
          values: data
        }
    ];

    // The colors and barColors methods on chart do not
    // support the behavior we want.
    function addBarClasses() {
        var bars = $(chartEl).find('.nv-bar'),
            oldClass,
            newClass;

        _.each(bars, function(bar, i) {
            // Can't use addClass on SVG elements.
            oldClass = $(bar).attr('class');
            newClass = oldClass + ' ' + options.barClasses[i];
            $(bar).attr('class', newClass);
        });
    }

    function setChartHeight() {
        // Set chart height to ensure that bars (and their padding)
        // are no taller than maxBarHeight.
        var numBars = getNumBars(data),
            maxHeight = options.margin.top + options.margin.bottom +
                        numBars * options.maxBarHeight,
            actualHeight = $svg.height();

        if (actualHeight > maxHeight) {
            chart.height(maxHeight);
        } else {
            chart.height(actualHeight);
        }
    }

    function updateChart() {
        var width = $svg.width(),
            availableWidth = width - (options.margin.left + options.margin.right),
            minTickWidth = 60,
            yticks = Math.floor(availableWidth / minTickWidth);

        if($svg.is(':visible')) {
            setChartHeight();
            chart.yAxis.ticks(Math.min(yticks, 5));
            chart.update(); // Throws error if updating a hidden svg.
            if (options.barClasses) {
                addBarClasses();
            }
        }
    }

    options = options || {};
    _.defaults(options, {
        margin: {top: 30, right: 30, bottom: 40, left: 200},
        maxBarHeight: 150
    });

    nv.addGraph(function() {
        chart.showLegend(false)
             .showControls(false)
             .duration(0)
             .margin(options.margin);

        setChartHeight();
        chart.tooltip.enabled(false);
        chart.yAxis.ticks(5);
        handleCommonOptions(chart, options);

        d3.select(svg)
            .datum(data)
            .call(chart);

        if (options.barClasses) {
            addBarClasses();
        }

        nv.utils.windowResize(updateChart);
        // The bar-chart:refresh event occurs when switching tabs which requires
        // redrawing the chart.
        $(chartEl).on('bar-chart:refresh', updateChart);

        return chart;
    });
}

/*
    Renders a stacked vertical bar chart for multiple series of data
    with a legend.

    data is of the form
    [
        {
            key: series-name,
            values: [
                {
                    x: ...,
                    y: ...
                },
                ...
            ]
        },
        ...
   ]
   where a series corresponds to a group of data that will be
   displayed with the same color/legend item. Eg. Runoff

   options includes: margin, yAxisLabel, yAxisUnit, seriesColors,
   isPercentage, maxBarWidth, abbreviateTicks, reverseLegend, and
   disableToggle
*/
function renderVerticalBarChart(chartEl, data, options) {
    var chart = nv.models.multiBarChart(),
        svg = makeSvg(chartEl),
        $svg = $(svg);

    function setChartWidth() {
        // Set chart width to ensure that bars (and their padding)
        // are no wider than maxBarWidth.
        var numBars = getNumBars(data),
            maxWidth = options.margin.left + options.margin.right +
                       numBars * options.maxBarWidth,
            actualWidth = $svg.width();

        if (actualWidth > maxWidth) {
           chart.width(maxWidth);
        } else {
           chart.width(actualWidth);
        }
    }

    function updateChart() {
        if($svg.is(':visible')) {
            setChartWidth();
            chart
                .staggerLabels($svg.width() < widthCutoff)
                .update(); // Throws error if updating a hidden svg.
        }
    }

    options = options || {};
    _.defaults(options, {
        margin: {top: 20, right: 30, bottom: 40, left: 60},
        maxBarWidth: 150
    });

    nv.addGraph(function() {
        chart.showLegend(true)
             .showControls(false)
             .stacked(true)
             .reduceXTicks(false)
             .staggerLabels($svg.width() < widthCutoff)
             .duration(0)
             .margin(options.margin);

        setChartWidth();
        // Throws error if this is not set to false for unknown reasons.
        chart.legend
            .disableToggle(options.disableToggle)
            .reverse(options.reverseLegend)
            .rightAlign(false);
        chart.tooltip.enabled(true);
        chart.yAxis.ticks(5);
        handleCommonOptions(chart, options);

        if (options.yAxisUnit) {
            chart.tooltip.valueFormatter(function(d) {
                return chart.yAxis.tickFormat()(d) + ' ' + options.yAxisUnit;
            });
        }
        if (options.seriesColors) {
            chart.color(options.seriesColors);
        }

        d3.select(svg)
            .datum(data)
            .call(chart);

        nv.utils.windowResize(updateChart);
        // The bar-chart:refresh event occurs when switching tabs which requires
        // redrawing the chart.
        $(chartEl).on('bar-chart:refresh', updateChart);

        return chart;
    });
}

module.exports = {
    renderHorizontalBarChart: renderHorizontalBarChart,
    renderVerticalBarChart: renderVerticalBarChart
};


Lead me not into temptation..... I can find my own way!
Physically, I'm 5"6 or 6 foot in heels. I'm a size 10 with a C cup bust. I have a very shapely bottom with many admirers. I have long brown hair, green, hazel eyes.
I have a natural approach to my sessions and it is of vital importance to me that I engage my playmates and develop a genuine connection with them.
I can be a vicious, unforgiving Mistress, but love sessions that bring out the fun, playful side of me. I like to play games and enjoy playing with someone that possesses a good sense of humour and can have a laugh with me.
Do not mistake my bubbly, energetic disposition. I am a firm disciplinarian who will put you back in your place with a confident display of Dominance where required!
I have a penchant for sadistic pleasures and will wickedly giggle my way through play. If I start humming ice-cream music you are in trouble!!! I will offer a reassuring touch and a cuddle at the end. I have been called the loving sadist.
I enjoy psychological play and seeing their eyes dart back and forth questioning what is reality and what is just part of my game.
I am a versatile and imaginative Mistress, who loves to switch and will try to cater for any fantasy that you have.


It would've been creepier if you hadn't specified that the toad was a baby!
I don't know what the species is, but there are a few predatory spiders including some that catch small birds.
Looks like a fishing spider to me.
It's a bird eating spider that never went to school.
Could also be a bird eating spider that needs glasses.
Hey! Don't you guys know a toad eating spider when you see one?
Could also be a cat eating spider having a light snack.
I shouldn't have looked at this.


My lovely and beautiful tourist! My enchanting one and darling one! To you who makes the music brighter and stars shine. To you who stands at the bus stop alone, to you who tends the bar quietly. To you who are here, to those whom I miss. Know not only that you are loved, and shall be loved, but that you deserve to be loved, and you deserve to tour THE ELECTRIC METROPOLIS!
I am AD Springer, your Musical Tour Guide to reach out and grab you music in the Electronica Sphere and Beyond!


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<?php
declare(strict_types = 1);

namespace Tests\Innmind\Rest\Server;

use function Innmind\Rest\Server\bootstrap;
use Innmind\Rest\Server\{
    Controller,
    Gateway,
    Routing\Routes,
    Definition\Locator,
};
use Innmind\Immutable\Map;
use PHPUnit\Framework\TestCase;

class BootstrapTest extends TestCase
{
    public function testBootstrap()
    {
        $services = bootstrap(
            Map::of('string', Gateway::class),
            require 'fixtures/mapping.php'
        );

        $this->assertInstanceOf(Routes::class, $services['routes']);
        $this->assertInstanceOf(Controller::class, $services['controller']['create']);
        $this->assertInstanceOf(Controller::class, $services['controller']['get']);
        $this->assertInstanceOf(Controller::class, $services['controller']['index']);
        $this->assertInstanceOf(Controller::class, $services['controller']['options']);
        $this->assertInstanceOf(Controller::class, $services['controller']['remove']);
        $this->assertInstanceOf(Controller::class, $services['controller']['update']);
        $this->assertInstanceOf(Controller::class, $services['controller']['link']);
        $this->assertInstanceOf(Controller::class, $services['controller']['unlink']);
        $this->assertInstanceOf(Controller\Capabilities::class, $services['controller']['capabilities']);
        $this->assertInstanceOf(Locator::class, $services['locator']);
    }
}


I got to take a sneak peek at the soon-to-launch Benefit Porefessional Zero Shine Pro Powder, and I can't wait to share my thoughts on it with you guys! The Zero Shine Powder will only be launched next year in February, but hey, it's never too early to take a first look, right?
Benefit Porefessional Zero Shine Pro Powder: A sneak peek before it's launched!
So what is this Porefessional Zero Shine Pro-Powder? Initially I was a little confused, especially since Benefit already has a Porefessional product that is a primer. Turns out, this new addition to the Porefessional family of products is totally different. The new Porefessional Zero Shine Powder, as the name suggests, is first of all not a primer, but a finishing powder. So unlike the existing Porefessional, which you use before applying makeup, this is used after makeup, for shine and oil control. It promises to banish the shiny, oil-slick look from your face all day long.
Benefit Porefessional Zero Shine Powder: Oil and shine control all day long.
If you don't have the patience to wait until 2014 for this too look, and want a closer look at the Porefessional Powder right now, you're in luck! I've managed to try out this powder, and I do think this is worth checking out.
First of all, the Porefessional Zero Shine Powder is very thoughtfully packaged. Because powder is one of the things most women carry along with them everyday, the Porefessional Powder has a nifty little retractable brush and cap built into the slim plastic case. The cap actually functions as a container that you dispense the powder into. You simply tip some powder into the cap, and pick it up with the retractable brush in the base of the product, and apply! The brush is good, but not great; I mean, it's a in-built retractable brush, so you're not going to expect it to feel like, say, a Hakuhodo brush, but it will do just fine, and it is very handy if you're travelling. I like that the packaging of the product is so geared towards women who bring along their makeup or who travel a lot - it does cut down the number of things you need to carry.
The in-built cap and brush in the Benefit Porefessional Powder.
The Porefessional Powder is a skin coloured light beige powder when you first tip it out of the tube, but it is actually quite sheer and transluscent once applied. When I tried it, I thought it was great for reducing shine without adding colour to your face, which makes it ideal for touchups on specific shine-prone areas. The powder itself feels quite smooth and silky, and spreads on the skin easily. It gives a nice matte finish that doesn't look chalky, even after extended wear. In the photo below, you can see the powder against my skin. And as you might guess, I accidentally tipped out too much powder - you definitely don't need that much for your face if you're just touching up!
Benefit Porefessional Zero Shine Vanishing Powder - a beige powder that goes on transluscent and doesn't add colour.
In the photo below, you can see the powder blended out into my skin. I know it looks like my skin has nothing on, but I swear the powder is there, it's just blended in! One of the PR girls for Benefit told me that when she tested the product out for herself, she never needed to touch up during the day. Of course, her skin isn't as oily as mine, but that is still impressive.
Benefit Porefessional Zero Shine Vanishing Powder: All blended in.
Now you know I like to talk about ingredients, so naturally I will talk a little bit about what makes the Porefessional Powder so shine-absorbing. The two key ingredients in the Porefessional Zero Shine Powder are talc, as well as Nylon-12. Talc everyone knows about - it has been used in cosmetics for a long time for its oil-absorbing and anti-caking properties. Nylon-12 is a little more newfangled although it's also had a long history of use and in cosmetics. Nylon-12, like talc, also functions as an oil absorber, and also adds a nice, smooth feel to the product. The nice thing about Nylon-12 is that it is also able to expand and contract with your facial movements and expressions, so it always appears smooth on the skin and doesn't settle into facial lines. In fact, Nylon-12 seems to be used in a lot of high-end anti-aging skincare brands (high-end as in like Sisley, Peter Thomas Roth and so on) for precisely this reason - if you're formulating a product for an older market, you probably want to make sure that it sits nicely on the skin and doesn't settle into every nook and crevice. So yes, the inclusion of both Talc and Nylon-12 means that you have a great shine reducing powder that feels nice on the skin, and is less prone to settle intl your fine lines and pores as you wear it and go about your day.
The Benefit Porefessional Zero Shine Pro Powder: Awesome shine control, but also wears very well as the day progresses.
So what's my preliminary verdict of the Benefit Porefessional Zero Shine Powder? Overall, I found it to be a pretty good product - it feels nice on the skin, does help to control shine, wears well over time, and does what it says it does on the package. The travel-friendly and touch-up-friendly packaging is a neat touch, too. The only gripe I have about this product is that at 7g (0.24oz), you're not exactly getting a huge lot of powder. If you're on a budget, I imagine that you probably would want to use this strategically for touch-ups for especially oil-prone areas (which is how I'm using mine now). But that aside, if you're looking around for a good shine reducing powder with nice carry-along packaging, then this is one to check out.
@Ling Yeung: Sadly it's not refillable! I do agree that my greatest gripe with the product is the size - I know if I were to use it for my full face everyday, 7g wouldn't last too long. I use this more as a carry-on for touch ups.
Really want to try this out for lasting power. Not keen on the packaging though, but still looks good.