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Tonight, the CW network will air an episode of Veronica Mars that is based on misleading right-wing claims about contraception. The show is about a young woman named Veronica Mars, who is both a college student and a part-time private investigator. This week, Veronica is hired by Bonnie, "a promiscuous classmate, to find out who secretly slipped her the morning after pill, causing her to have a miscarriage":
The basis for tonight's Veronica Mars episode is more than just an innocent factual error. It dangerously confuses the facts on women's health and furthers incorrect right-wing claims.
The morning-after pill — also known as Plan B — is not an abortion drug. It is a form of emergency contraception that when "taken within 72 hours of unprotected sex, the two-pill series can lower the risk of pregnancy by up to 89 percent." It cannot cause a miscarriage. Plan B works only when taken before a woman becomes pregnant.
While Plan B is now available over the counter to women ages 18 and older, it comes after three years of political stonewalling by the Bush administration. In 2003, a panel of independent advisers told the FDA that it "overwhelmingly backed nonprescription sales [of Plan B] for all ages." But the Bush administration interfered and blocked Plan B sales in a pander to the right wing, which argues that the drug increases promiscuity. (See the real facts here.)
Veronica Mars is extremely popular among young women, the very women who need accurate health information. E-mail Paul Hewitt, CW's Director of Publicity, and tell him that CW needs to correct its information on emergency contraception. UPDATE: In tonight's episode, Bonnie makes clear that a friend slipped her RU-486, the abortion pill. But as of the show's airing, CW's website still lists the morning after pill as the cause of the character's miscarriage.


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- stevelackAnswered on September 25, 2011 at 02:07 AM
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'The recount is an inherent part of what ensures the integrity of elections,' the Wisconsin State Journal quoted Peterson as saying during Friday's hearing. Photograph:( Getty )
A federal judge refused to halt presidential vote recount in Wisconsin Friday, saying that "the recount is an inherent part of what ensures the integrity of elections," Reuters reported.
According to local media, US district judge James Peterson dismissed the request made by a political action committee seeking to stop the Wisconsin recount, Reuters said. President-elect Donald Trump had defeated Hillary Clinton by more than 22,000 votes in the state.
Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein requested that recounts be done in other two 'Rust Belt' states--Michigan and Pennsylvania--where Trump had won narrowly.
In Pennsylvania, a federal judge was scheduled to hear arguments on Friday afternoon in a lawsuit brought by Stein seeking to begin a statewide recount there, Reuters said, whereas in Michigan the recounts were halted on its third day.
Stein has asked the Michigan Supreme Court to hear an appeal.
Peterson said Friday that the Wisconsin recount has so far revealed no irregularities, ABC News reported.
(WION with inputs from Reuters)


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Hello Hem Nine Nine Vietnamese Fun
Hi All and welcome back to "I am Very Busy."
There are very many countries where the cuisine is traditional & so amazing that there would be no need to sample other cuisines of the world … But this is Sydney – city of multiculturalism.
I'm always about supporting local small & family type run businesses and "Hem Nine Nine" in Glebe is just another new fav of mine that recently opened earlier in the year. Hem Nine Nine is a spin off restaurant that propelled from the food truck … The cute, quaint, fun & charming bar/restaurant is now a local fav of mine. Seated in a cute nook on Glebe Point Road there is a cozy courtyard area, mini upstairs stool seating & some surrounding the entrance for a street view & conveniently located next to the bar. Just recently I found out that they do home delivery as well (amaze) …I've been a few times now and rave on about Hem Nine Nine foodie treats but in the meantime let me take you down my memorable food lane …
You know when you go to a place and they have a dish that is a MUST order and what you are addicted to?! Well this is Hem Nine Nine's Crispy Netted Spring Rolls. Either filled with vegetable or seafood (I've had both) – the dish arrives presented in a cute basket set, one filled with a generous amount of spring rolls and the other with mint & lettuce leaves. You take a spring roll & wrap the mint & lettuce around, dip it in the sauce and take a bite. The cool & freshness of the leaves envelope & embrace with the crunch of the spring roll coating and the warm tasty filling is a wonderful balance of flavours. I could & have eaten a whole serving …Need a Winter Warming dish?! Well Hem Nine Nine have a great selection of PHO – sorry there are no photos of this & it will be Part II soon. But I did have a tasty Duck & Mushroom Wonton Ravoli – it was actually not what I expected being in the broth but very tasty and hearty. The ravioli were very generously sized & soft.I am no stranger to trying different and unique dishes. Tasty dishes are often happen when you least expect it. Grilled Ox Tongue in XO – twice cooked Ox tongue marinated in spicy XO sauce & a squeeze of lime. This "special" dish is not chewy at all but more "melt in your mouth" tender bite, more-ish dish – it's just not enough! Next are the Steamed Baos – soft, steamed bun, pickled cucumber and baby radish with the options of pork belly, crispy skin chicken, spicy tofu. Look at this Bao … You can already see how the bun looks – so soft & just airy. With just a few fresh ingredients sliced to perfection and a juicy helping of pork belly it's the delightful dance or fresh vs mouthwatering mix.
Last but not least – alas there is no dessert as I already over ordered but I had one of the most prettiest dishes I've seen! Pork Chop Slider – fried lemongrass pork chop, pickled cucumber, lettuce and baby radish, chilli mayonnaise. Served on a crispy shallot mantou bun. WOW as a visual it's just so colourful and eye pleasing. The pork chop is juicy, tender & flavoursome and chilli mayo has the right amount of tantalising heat! … Now to talk about that mantou bun – usually they are steamed in Chinese tradition but in this case it's been crisped & fried with a crunch – yet still soft on the inside.Anyways readers, all this take about food is making me immensely hungry for this tasty Viet treat! I will actually be heading there this Saturday night so I'm sure I will be taking note of more delectable dishes … Sydneysiders – pls trek down to the Inner West & try Hem Nine Nine in Glebe! READERS: please stay tuned – there will be a chocolate cake post coming up and my adventures when doing a Woodfire Pizza Making Class!
Jen ❤
Hem Nine Nine
99 Glebe Point Road
Glebe NSW 2037


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Trash & Recycling
Household Trash
Garbage is collected on Wednesday morning each week. Garbage should be in city issued cans (NOT plastic bags) and set out no earlier than the night before pick-up. Your trash cans belong to your street address. If you need a replacement trash can, call 311.
If a holiday falls on the scheduled day, the following Saturday will be a make-up day. Landlords: It is your responsibility to ensure tenant compliance!
Curbside Recycling
Recycling is collected on Friday morning each week. Baltimore has a single stream, curbside recycling program. Bolton Hill is in Zone 4.
Plastic containers, glass jars and bottles, tin, steel, and aluminum cans, and mixed paper, magazines, junk mail and cardboard are all collected together. Residents may mix all of these together in one open container, recycling bin, cardboard box or paper bag. Do NOT use plastic bags for these items. All recycling items should be placed at the site of garbage pick-up by 7 a.m. If a holiday falls on the scheduled day, the following Saturday will be a make-up day. For more information and a list of allowed materials click here
Bulk Trash
Baltimore Department of Public Works picks up bulk trash once per month. You can place up to three items out for collection. Bulk items are furniture, appliances and up to four tires with the rims removed, (click here for complete overview). To request this service, you must call 311 at least three business days before the pickup date. Building and construction materials CANNOT be disposed of as bulk trash.
Midtown also provides bulk trash pickup. Every year, Midtown Baltimore allows each property within the district to have one full truck load of bulk trash removed. This can be redeemed all at once or broken into smaller pickups totaling one truck load throughout the year. For a list of permitted items and to request this service through Midtown, click here.
In the case of illegal dumping or failure by the city to respond to your arranged pick up, call 311 and report it!
Drop Off Recycling
When you have an abundance of glass, paper, and plastic recyclables or miss the pick-up day, you may take them to one of various neighborhood transfer stations. You may also drop off unwanted electronics, used motor oil, and unwanted appliances such as refrigerators, stoves, and air conditioners. The location closest to Bolton Hill is at 2840 Sisson Street (410-396-6070) and is open Monday through Saturday.
Complaints & Violations
Residents should attempt to work together with neighbors to ensure clean streets, walks and alleys. When necessary, you should report trash violations, such as those listed here, to city inspectors putting out trash other than on Tuesday evening/Wednesday morning; putting out recycling other than on Thursday evening/Friday morning; leaving trash cans in the alleys after pick-up; using plastic bags for trash rather than lidded cans; dumping; rats; graffiti; etc. Complaints can be phoned in to 311 or you can request the service online You can also request service by entering your information into the 311 smartphone app, which is available from either the Google Play or Apple Store.


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With decades of experience in the foundation repair and basement waterproofing business, Stealth Foundation is equipped to assist with all your basement waterproofing needs. Below are the staple services we provide for those wishing to evacuate water from their basement.
Interior Waterproofing
Waterproofing the interior of your basement is a chore. It often involves ripping out old concrete and inserting a sump pump and gravel-assisted pipe system to let excess water drain and avoid future buildup. Fortunately, the experienced professionals at Stealth Foundation can help.
Interior waterproofing solutions
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Sometimes the water that collects next to your house won't subside without an effective exterior drainage system. With a little time, sweat and PVC pipe, a drainage system can be engineered to siphon excess water and ensure it never returns.
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Crawl spaces can be particularly prone to water problems. One solution professionals use is encapsulation. Using airtight sealing methods, excess moisture is reduced by conditioning the air.
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The Preacher The Politician And The Playboy (Morrison Family Secrets Series #2) By Vanessa Miller
The Preacher: Isaiah Morrison is a man after God's heart. Even though his wife divorces him, Isaiah continues to preach and declare the goodness of the Lord, content to spend the rest of his life as a bachelor, Lord willing. The first day Ramona Verse walked into Christ Tabernacle, she fell in love with everything about the church—especially the handsome and self–assured man behind the pulpit.But would a man like Pastor Morrison ever consider a woman with a dark past like hers? When Isaiah starts a charity, Ramona Verse comes on board as director. But Isaiah will soon discover that he needs much more from the secretive Miss Verse than he ever thought possible.
The Politician: As mayor of Cincinnati, Eric Morrison has plenty of issues to deal with, but perhaps none as delicate as the drinking habits of his wife, Linda. When she hits a football superstar while driving drunk, Eric tries to cover it up. Not long after, Linda gives her life to Christ and gives up drinking altogether.Eric is thrilled. But when she tells him that she wants to use their cut of his father's fortune to start an organization to help recovering alcoholics rebuild their lives, he rejects the idea, convinced that it will jeopardize his chances at being elected governor of Ohio. When a blackmailer demanding ten million dollars threatens to expose photos from the accident, Eric must decide whether he will stand up for the truth his father taught him or sell his soul for public office.
The Playboy: After a very public argument over child support payments, the mother of Shawn Morrison's third child is found dead. The police bring Shawn in for questioning, and he soon finds himself in the fight of his life. Desperate for help, he turns to the brother who disowned him–and to Lily, the ex–fiancée who left him because of his many infidelities.Lily wanted nothing to do with Shawn, but she has since been born again, and she feels compelled to help her lost love. Will stepping back into Shawn's world prove to be too much for Lily to handle? Or will her forgiving heart and Christian witness finally help Shawn turn back to God in his darkest hour?
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Told in 1 page: "To Richard"
A lot of the time I just want to draw something quick for fun, but I love narratives – so I draw 1 page comics. Here's a few I've drawn lately. Coming soon – I will post my latest 26 page comic that I drew while vacationing in Kentucky!! I just need to find the courage to hit the scan button 26 times. yeesh.


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Opened 14 years ago
Closed 11 years ago
#684 closed Defect (Duplicate)
Menu Item "Hide/Show Drawer" should be disabled for the Sidebar List
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|Colloquy (Mac)
|2.2 (Mac)
|menu hide show drawer
The option View/Show? Drawer is unuseful with the new drawer.
But I like the old drawer, is there a way for use it?
Change History (5)
comment:1 Changed 14 years ago by akempgen
- Keywords menu hide show drawer added
- Severity changed from blocker to minor
- Type changed from enhancement to defect
to enable the old drawer: go to interface prefs and select "Window Interface: Drawer List", then close and reopen the chat windows (for example by restarting colloquy)
comment:2 Changed 14 years ago by akempgen
- Summary changed from Drawer command to Menu Item "Hide/Show Drawer" should be disabled for the Sidebar List
comment:3 Changed 14 years ago by noldotar
- Resolution set to fixed
- Status changed from new to closed
Ye! I found it. Thanks, that's great!!!
comment:4 Changed 14 years ago by akempgen
- Resolution fixed deleted
- Status changed from closed to reopened
well this ticket is still valid :) the menu item should be disabled or show something related to #681
comment:5 Changed 11 years ago by timothy
- Resolution set to duplicate
- Status changed from reopened to closed
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Before anything else, let's welcome the 42 392 new households who joined the New South Wales rental housing sector since the 2006 Census. These new renters bring the total number of rented private dwellings (this includes social housing) to 743 050 - that's 30.1 per cent of all private dwellings. This is a growing proportion too – it's up from 28.4 per cent in 2006.
From all of us here at the Brown Couch and at the Tenants' Union of NSW, we hope you have a good time of it; we're working to make it better. If you have any questions, please ask your local Tenants Advice and Advocacy Service; they know all there is to know about renting in New South Wales.
The welcome here is, unfortunately, a lot warmer than the one these renters got moving into rental housing: at the 2011 Census, the median rent for New South Wales was $300 per week – which represents a 43 per cent increase on the median rent five years previously. Amongst New South Wales renters, 11.6 per cent – over 86 000 households – were paying more than 30 per cent of their income in rent.
More news from the Census:
- The 2011 Census counted about 7.8 million households in Australia – which is 900 000 fewer than the estimate used by the National Housing Supply Council when it calculated the nation's 'housing shortage' of 228 000 dwellings. As we discussed yesterday, the assumption that households would keep forming and demanding housing, without regard to prices and incomes, on the 2001-2006 pattern, was always very iffy. The NHSC concedes that there's a 'gigantic' difference in the numbers and will have another look.
- The 2011 Census also counted houses without households... and found 934 471 unoccupied dwellings. That's 10.7 per cent of the nation's housing stock. (This spare housing stock is in addition to the 8 million spare bedrooms we found for the Queensland Housing Minister the other day.) It is true that not all of these unoccupied houses can be considered as potential additional housing – some of them would be awaiting demolition, or awaiting a household that has already determined to move in – but if only a fraction of them really represent stock held in reserve, that's even more potential supply to set against weakening demand.


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Swedish national Bherlin Gildo's lawyers argued British intelligence agencies were supporting the same Syrian opposition groups as he was A Free Syrian Army fighter fires his weapon during clashes in Aleppo. The Old Bailey was told by the crown that there was no longer a reasonable prospect of a prosecution. The prosecution of a Swedish national accused of terrorist activities in Syria has collapsed at the Old Bailey after it became clear Britain's security and intelligence agencies would have been [lees verder]
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Critical Edition
|Muzio Clementi, who was born in Rome in 1752 and died in Evesham (England) in 1832, was called the «father of the piano», thanks to his perception (and exploration) of the instrument's multiple timbral and sonic potential. As a composer he ventured to exploit the expressive resources of the piano to the full, thereby approaching the sonic and formal investigations of Beethoven, who duly gratified Clementi with an artistic approval that the great German master accorded only very rarely to other composers. As a teacher his work operated on two fronts: the publication of the Introduction to the Art of Playing on the Piano Forte […] (1801), a method that was taken as a model by the majority of subsequent theorists; the 100 studies of the Gradus ad Parnassum, which turned him into the head of a piano school of international standing and created a landmark for piano studies until our own day. But neither should we neglect Clementi's role as a music publisher and piano builder of European stature. He was an emblematic figure in a world in which profound social and economic changes were busy paving the way for the so-called 'modern age'.
The debate on the life and work of Muzio Clementi began with Muzio Clementi. Studies and Prospects, a monograph published for the 250th anniversary of the composer's birth and edited by Roberto Illiano, Luca Sala and Massimiliano Sala, and with an introduction by Leon Plantinga (Ut Orpheus Edizioni, 2002). The great interest displayed by the 26 scholars who took part in that project subsequently persuaded us to create a tool that might offer a periodical account of the state of the international debate on the composer. In 2004 we therefore inaugurated a series of studies, the Quaderni Clementiani (Ut Orpheus Edizioni). Hitherto the following titles have been published: Muzio Clementi. Cosmopolita della Musica, edited by Richard Bösel and Massimiliano Sala (2004, QC 1) and New Perspectives on the Keyboard Sonatas of Muzio Clementi (2006, QC 2).
With a ministerial decree dated 20 March 2008, the Opera Omnia of the composer Muzio Clementi was promoted to the status of Italian National Edition. The official ceremony took place at the Ministry for the Cultural Heritage (Rome) in the presence of On. Andrea Marcucci, the Under-Secretary of State, Dr. Maurizio Fallace, Director-General for the Library Heritage and Cultural Institutes, and the steering committee of the National Edition consisting of the scholars Andrea Coen (Rome), Roberto De Caro (Bologna), Roberto Illiano (Lucca — President), Leon B. Plantinga (New Haven, CT), David Rowland (Milton Keynes, UK), Luca Sala (Paris/Poitiers, Secretary Treasurer), Massimiliano Sala (Pistoia, Vice-President) and Valeria Tarsetti (Bologna).
The critical edition of the complete works of Clementi, published by Ut Orpheus Edizioni of Bologna, will consist of 15 volumes: the first two will contain vocal and orchestral music respectively, five volumes will be devoted to the chamber music, two volumes to the keyboard works, and two volumes to the didactic works. Another three volumes will contain: 1.) the doubtful works, the arrangements and transcriptions of Clementi; 2.) the correspondence; 3.) a thematic catalogue of his works together with documents relating to his life, the iconography and an updated bibliography. Each volume will contain an analytical historical introduction, a critical edition of the music and a critical commentary (comprising a list, description and criticism of the sources, an account of the interpretational problems and a list of variants).


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text: D'Arcangelo & Co., LLP, regional certified public accounting and consulting firm, is pleased to announce a promotion in the Utica office. Lauryn A. Donovan, CPA, was promoted from Staff Accountant to Senior Accountant effective April 14. Lauryn joined the Utica audit team as a Staff Accountant on November 4, 2013. Previously, Lauryn worked in the assurance department at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Albany and did a summer internship program in their Boston office. She has a Master of Accountancy degree from SUNYIT and a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from Utica College. She is a member of the AICPA and resides in Utica. Lauryn has shown dedication to the Firm and has proven the potential she possesses. Congratulations, Lauryn!


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Will Swing Pricing Be DOA?
The SEC, as part of their initiative around the new liquidity rule, has given the green light for funds to implement Swing Pricing. For those not familiar with the Swing Pricing concept, basically it allows a fund to bump up or down their end of day NAV to help cover their increased transactional costs when market volatility causes higher than normal purchases or redemptions. It will be voluntary for a fund company if they want to implement Swing Pricing. Funds are prohibited from implementing it until November 19, 2018, in order to give those funds that do not have experience with Swing Pricing time to implement needed system changes. Swing Pricing is popular in Europe and those funds with a presence in Europe would perhaps have an advantage in being able to implement earlier than other funds, hence the delayed date.
The Benefits
The concept of Swing Pricing is great in the eyes of the fund's portfolio manager. When flows in or out on a day are exceptionally large, the fund does incur increased transactional and other costs in either liquidating securities to meet cash requirements or having to find appropriate securities to invest the influx of cash. Swing pricing allows the portfolio manager to pass along those increased costs to just those shareholders that are trading that day. So this is good for the fund as these costs don't have a negative effect on the fund's performance and good for the remaining shareholders as they don't have to subsidize the increased transactional costs due to those shareholders trading on the high volume day.
But Here is the Rub
Swing pricing works fine in Europe because order cutoff is generally mid-day rather than the 4 p.m. cutoff in the U.S., so intermediaries have time to submit orders prior to the fund striking its daily NAV. In the U.S., it's a different story. The trillions of dollars in US retirement plans are heavily invested in mutual funds. Most retirement plan trades do not actually get transmitted to the fund until early the following day. It is not uncommon for 50 percent or more of a fund's daily trading volume to come from retirement plans. As the vast majority of retirement plan recordkeepers have to wait for the daily NAV to be published before they start their "nightly cycle," the earliest that most recordkeepers can place their trades would be after 7:30 p.m. Eastern time. Most end up trading later than that with many of the larger recordkeepers trading between 2 a.m. and 6 a.m. the following day. Even 7:30 p.m. is too late to be able judge what a fund's flows will be for the day.
Due to the large amount of trading volume coming from retirement plans and our 4 p.m. cutoff time for trades, this will require funds to rely on estimates to determine a good portion of their daily flows. The SEC is OK with a fund using estimates. I might point out that the SEC only allows "partial" Swing Pricing is the U.S. This means that the fund can only implement a swung price on a day when the flows exceed a pre-determined threshold as set by the fund, which means you have to know your flows for the day to see if you will exceed your threshold limit before you can swing that day's NAV. Due to the dependency on estimate, it seems logical that a fund may set the threshold fairly high to be sure and try to cover their costs on the really volatile days while avoiding the risks of many more estimations (and increased risk of making a bad estimate) that would be needed if they used a lower threshold.
If retirement plan recordkeepers could modify systems to run estimated flows based on prior day NAVs and submit that to the funds by 5 p.m. or so, then it would certainly give the funds a better estimate of their flows. But this would be burdening the retirement plan recordkeepers with increased costs in a business that already struggles with thin margins.
Will Swing Pricing Survive in the US?
I have not seen any numbers out of Europe on how many basis points a Swing Pricing policy adds to a fund's performance, but I would think it would be negligible, especially if they only need to swing their prices a few times a year. Money market funds are not allowed to implement Swing Pricing and many other funds are not subject to volatile market movements so Swing Pricing would only apply to a subset of a fund's product offerings.
So are mutual fund companies going to build advanced analytics systems to help them make accurate estimates of flows? Are retirement plan recordkeepers going to modify systems to provide better flow data to fund companies, so that some of those funds can get a slight bump in their performance? Right now, I would say the reward may not be worth the cost or the risk.
When November 19, 2018 arrives, Swing Pricing may just be Dead On Arrival.
L. Burton Keller was a principal founder of the company in 1985 and currently focuses on strategic initiatives for the company. Mr. Keller is a former member of the Bank, Trust and Retirement Advisory Committee of the Investment Company Institute. He has served on numerous committees and task force groups with the ICI over the last 17 years including Co-chair of the Dividend Distribution Task Force.


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This is part one of my interview with Jessica.
Name: Jess (name has been changed)
Age: 38
From: All over (military brat), lived in California since 1999
Job: Tech Engineer
*Note: Photo is not Jess, to protect her identity. It is another trans woman who posted her photo on Pinterest and shared it on a trans resource website.
Vocab for this interview:
cis-gendered: Someone who is cool with the gender they were assigned/born with.
I'm not gonna lie here readers. Jessica stole my freakin' heart. Male privilege? She gave it up. The vagina that most of us take for granted? She had to fight for it. Here's her story.
For most of her life, Jessica walked through the world with the nagging feeling that something was wrong. There was this sense of discomfort in her own skin, ever present and unshakable. Inside, Jessica was a woman. But from the outside, everything about Jessica seemed like a man.
Jessica could have delved into her feelings earlier in life. But so many voices around her — from the radio talkshows her family listened to, to the preachers at the church pulpit — talked about transgendered people as off-kilter wackjobs.
Jessica absorbed these three ideas, but she simply couldn't fit them together. Or maybe she was afraid to, because of the way she knew it would disrupt her life forever.
From Jessica: Jessica had a man's body but felt like a woman.
From society: A man who wants to be a woman is trans.
From her conservative upbringing: Trans people are troubled and repulsive. There's something off about them.
One day, the need to fully be the woman inside became so strong that Jessica accepted the first two ideas, and decided to continue on in spite of the third.
Jessica likes to say she was "assigned" a male gender at birth. It's a way of de-barbing the tangled, sometimes painful story of gender for her. It's a way of saying that she didn't choose to be born with a penis, or grow up into man. Those things were chosen for her. Then, she chose something else.
Jessica had a good childhood in a stable home with two parents. It was what she called, "a regular, run of the mill, vanilla American family."
But she knew at a young age that she was different from the other boys.
"I felt more comfortable around girls than I did with boys and I felt more comfortable around adult women than around adult men — for no particular reason, it just was. I frequently wanted to join the girls in their little clubhouses playing tea and house… along with playing with other things like my Transformers and my G.I. Joes. I liked both. I didn't feel like I should have to choose."
It wasn't until Jessica was 35 that she came to terms with her deep feelings about her gender. Up until that point, it had been easier to push them down than to face them and confront all of the things she would have to change in order to feel right in her body.
But one day at work, while she was browsing YouTube videos, the truth all but hit her in the face.
"I like to think of it as the moment when the wool was pulled from over my eyes," she told me.
The video slideshow showed the gradual change of a woman who was born male and transitioned into a woman over the course of two and a half years.
Before that point, Jessica had this idea that in order for a man to become a woman and pull it off, he had to start off looking feminine. The problem was, she thought she looked like a man. It just seemed impossible that she could become a woman and pull it off.
"In my mind I looked too boyish for me to pull it off. I thought there was no way I could change my appearance. Until I saw the slideshow. It showed someone who started off looking pretty masculine, then over time with hormones and surgical intervention, came out looking really feminine. And my mind was blown. My world was turned on its head.
My first reaction was: this has to be a trick. This can't be real. There is no way someone can start looking like this and end up looking like that."
I think that's when I realized there was a name for how I felt. That there was an actual term and that this was not as uncommon as I thought. I believed that I was the only one. Before that, I did not believe that there were a lot of other people out there like me."
When Jessica said this, I was thinking, really, Jessica? You lived in San Francisco. How could you not know that there were lots of other trans people around?
But she explained why.
"I think a lot of that had to do with the sheltered upbringing that I had. My parents were very conservative. I come from a fairly strict christian protestant upbringing. Some of the churches we went to were extremely conservative. And I faked it to make it, so to speak."
"My dad used to listen to conservative talk radio in the car all the time. I was basically inundated with these neocon(servative) figures on the radio, people like Rush Limbaugh. So in my mind I had this thought, 'Well, I'm fairly normal. And all these other (trans people), they're not OK, there's definitely something wrong with them. And I feel compassionate for feeling like that. But at the same time, how could I possibly have that, because I feel completely normal?' And it just didnt make sense to me, because I didn't feel like I was the type of person who would want to fit into the media's portrayal — particularly the conservative media's portrayal — of transgendered people."
And I don't blame Jessica. Because that portrayal is pretty damn painful.
"The internalized portrayal was that transpeople are basically dudes in a dress. They're crossdressers and the ones that do it out in public — there's definitely something off-kilter about them. Just not quite completely healthy. That was what I internalized from the bullshit conservative talk radio."
After she saw the YouTube video, Jessica got curious and started researching the steps that can help a person with a male body turn it into a female body.
She learned that by suppressing testosterone and taking estrogen, your body can go through a second puberty.
"I guess that's when my eyes were really opened to the diversity of gender and human sexual identity and presentation — all kinds of incredible things existed out there that I had never come into contact with.
That was a hell of a moment. That afternoon I was at the office in downtown San Francisco and when I saw that I broke down and started balling at my desk. It was a complicated mixture of relief, because I finally had a word or phrase to describe how I felt all this time, combined with the excitement of the fact that I had seen someone else do this.
And there was this thought: well, if they can do this, maybe I can do this.
The future of possibility was brimming in front of me, also combined with dread. What do I tell my spouse? What do I tell my family? Can I even do this and stay married? Will she stay with me? Will I lose everything? Will I get beat up for appearing "femme" even though on the outside I'm apparently masculine. There were so many different complex emotional layers.
I was completely incapacitated and was balling my eyes out. I just felt like I wanted to go home and go to bed."
What boggles my mind is this: Jessica lived in San Francisco, a mecca of sex positivity and gender fluidity for years before she had this breakthrough moment. But it was still so challenging to reconcile what she knew — that she was, at her center, good and fine and right and in a body that wasn't the way she needed it to be — with the bigoted messages screaming in her ears that someone like her, in her truest form, was somehow innately flawed and wrong.
But for those messages, Jessica might have gotten in touch with her true nature, and drastic measures it called for, way earlier in life. She might have felt comfortable in her skin so many years earlier.
It never ceases to amaze me how we internalize messages that negate truths we absolutely know about ourselves.
After seeing that video, Jessica couldn't go back to the way things were. She started planning for the future. But first, she needed to tell her loved ones what was going on.
Jessica started with her wife, who believed she had married a straight, cis-gendered man and had no idea that Jessica had always felt discomfort being a man.
Jessica said that her wife didn't know just how much she disliked playing that traditional role of a man and husband.
"I think a large amount of (my frustration) had to do with me being fed up with having to perform heterosexuality and cis-normitivity. I had just gotten sick of it and so I stopped performing the 'go getter'- type-male who pursues the female and woos her and goes on dates. Not that I don't like doing these things, but to me it felt forced. It felt like a performance. It wasn't something that I could do naturally, because it wasn't in my personality. But I felt like I had to because that's what society and my church at the time told me that was expected of me as a man.
So I had this conversation with her, prefacing it with the idea that maybe I should go talk to a therapist. I told her that I wanted to go to therapy, but not just for dealing with my emotional baggage of being married once before. I said I wanted to talk to a therapist about my gender. And I believed that I was experiencing what is called gender dysphoria.
Her initial reaction, she told me later, was revulsion. She said she felt repulsed and revolted by what she felt and terrified about what that meant for our future.
That was the beginning of a difficult few months of figuring out how I was going to break the news to people.
Jessica began telling family members about her decision to transition to a woman with a hand-written letter. She tried to communicate just how much she had thought the decision through. And how sure she was.
Most of her family members reacted with support. She wasn't so lucky with her dad and her best friend.
My friend and I were really close. He was like my brother, but as soon as I told him, his demeanor towards me changed. It was not supportive at all.
The worst part about this was the way it dredged up the fear of loss and the feelings of judgement for Jessica. Changing her gender was already such a hard thing to do. When people she loved reacted with criticism or disgust or judgement, it made it that much harder.
"Every time someone reacted negatively, I second-guessed my decision. It just added to the emotional turmoil I was going through. A lot of people came from a place of concern, because they cared. But there were also a lot of people who thought that I wasn't thinking this through, which to me, it's like, I get where you're coming from, but I'm an intelligent human being … this is something that I've really thought through.
Everything that was about my presentation to the world was about to change. And everyone knew that. And a lot of people were frightened for me. But also a lot of people were repulsed, because of religion, because of societal implications, because of the image and the portrayal of trans people out there."
In those early months, everything was in a state of upheaval in Jessica's personal life.
"There was a lot of crying and a lot of fear and a lot of hope. It was this dichotomy of positivity and negativity hand in hand. It was a really difficult time."
It was really tough. But there were moments when the people who had loved Jessica as a man got to show her that they would also support her as a woman.
"My ex wife, God bless her heart. She tried to support me despite the fact that she is a very straight woman.
One of the first things she did was to take out clothing and see if there was clothing that I could try on to make me feel better. She let me try on one of her bras.
And I remember trying on a bra, putting on a dress and then getting in front of a mirror. And I saw myself with something that looked like a feminine figure for the first time in my life. And it was one of those moments where I just felt so overwhelmed that I just sat down on the bed and started crying.
I was just so happy to see a glimpse of what could be and what could definitely be even better once I started going further down the path. And it felt glorious. And it was terrifying and exciting and relieving at the same time.
So yeah, seeing what it felt like for me to have breasts for the first time was a really tender moment that my ex and I shared. And I'm super grateful for how hard she worked to support me. And she sat down and put her arm around my shoulder and held me close at that moment and it was really sweet."
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Rev. Dr. William Ross Woofenden died in his 91st year on Friday, May 4, 2012. Bill played important roles for the Swedenborg Scientific Association from 1980 to 1999 as a Director on the Board and as the Chairman of the Publication Committee.
We know that Emanuel Swedenborg, spent a large portion of his time traveling through countries outside Sweden and that he passed the last part of his life in England. However, it is quite clear that the place where he worked the most and where he returned again and again was Stockholm, the place of his birth. Of course this city has changed dramatically since the time when he lived there, but the whole structure of thecentral areas, where he was reportedly seen by many, is still largely the same as it was in his lifetime.
Between April 1745, when his open experiences of the spiritual world started, and December 1748, when he started writing Secrets of Heaven, Swedenborg wrote some 5,000 folio pages of material that he never published. He started by drafting a presentation of deeper meaning in Genesis and Exodus, turned then to Joshua, Judges, First and Second Samuel, and First and Second Kings, then went back and went through Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy, and then did Isaiah and made a beginning on Jeremiah. All this has been published posthumously, both in Latin, as Adversaria or Notes, and in English as The Word Explained.2 Later, he started systematically recording brief accounts of his experiences as they happened, his "Spiritual Diary." The earliest entries are dated in August 1747, and the latest in my Latin edition is from September of 1749. This material too has been published both in Latin and in English.
There has been real concern over the slow growth of the Swedenborgian Church and its intellectual challenges have increased toward demonstrating the relevancy of Swedenborg's ideas to a post-modern world. This article, taken from my address in April at the 2011 Annual Meeting of the Swedenborg Scientific Association, attempts to briefly explore the radical idea that today's scientists must still catch up to Swedenborg's models of reality. The implications of this are brought to light by pointing out thatSwedenborg's theology and multi-level interpretation of the Bible were saturated with universal scientific principles that embrace the wide-ranging concepts of gravity, quantum non-locality, poly-dimensional space, process theory, creation, and evolutionary theory and neuroscience. If Swedenborg's discoveries can offer insights that provide rational solutions to many of today's nagging scientific questions, this would be a truly explosive event in the history of human thought. I have expanded on some of the points made in my original address to give other researchers' additional avenues of exploration. In spite of this added information, this article represents the labor of one trained in right-brained thinking.
A Descriptive Bibliography of the Works of Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772), Volume 1 by Norman Ryder (editor)The Hidden Levels of the Mind: Swedenborg's Theory of Consciousness by Douglas Taylor
12 Miracles of Spiritual Growth: A Path of Healing from the Gospels. By E. Kent Rogers.Swedenborg: An Introduction to His Life and Ideas. By Gary LachmanThe Swedish Prophet: Reflections on the Visionary Philosophy of Emanuel Swedenborg. By José Antón-Pacheco.A History of the Swedenborg Society, 1910–2010. By Richard Lines
Our sister publishers The Swedenborg Society and the Swedenborg Foundation have published a number of books in 2011 and 2012 that make for very good reading and contribute significantly to the body of literature by or about Swedenborg, or that represent the application of the ideas express in his works.


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Me and Kate (my homegirl from Crossfit London and host of Wonderbar) have made a vow to work our way through the 2012 Games Open Wod's.
For Kate this is her second stab at them and naturally wants to beat her scores.
Me, I am trying them out for the first time so here hoping I can get through them.
8.30am is a crazy time to be up and training on a Sunday but when the sun shines like it did, jumping out of bed is less of a challenge.
The plan was to get through 2 of the 6 WOD's.
First up……..
30 Snatches @ 20Kg
Followed by
30 Snatches @ 35Kg
Followed by 30 Snatches @ 45Kg
Oh and you only have 10 minutes to do it in.
The first 30 were some what easy. We both smashed them in around 2 minutes.
35Kg felt a little more hard work……. nay a lot harder if I am honest.
When I tackle reps like this I always break it into bite size targets.
By tackling them in sets of 5 I was able to complete all 30 reps but with only 30 seconds left I had no time to add more weight and start on the 45Kg.
Kate did equally as well. beating her previous score. Nice one Kate.
To round up the morning Kate wanted to try the Burpee Wod!
7 Minutes to do as many burpees as possible with a reach bar 6 inches above your highest reach while standing on the floor.
You must tap the bar with both hands on each rep for them to count.
Again Kate broke her record while I racked up 71, which I was happy with.
Considering where I was just after my pregnancy I am quite proud of my progress.
Watch out next year I might even do the Game Opens and register!
Sally Dixey is a personal trainer @ Crossfit London in Bethnal Green


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Nikki Fallon via Crowdrise
April 12, 2012
EVENT: Malibu Adventure Games featuring XTERRA Malibu Creek Trail Challenge
EVENT DATE: Apr 28, 2012
As you may or may not know, our almost 6 year old niece Mallory has Cystic Fibrosis. Each year we typically lead a team for the big CF walk, but this year we decided to mix it up a bit. We're going to participate in the Malibu Adventure Games... in hopes to actively earn donations. It's a weekend of mountain biking, hiking, rock climbing and trail running...even an obstacle course for Kate & Addi.
Currently there is NO cure for CF, however, the FDA just approved a drug that will help about 4% of those living with CF. A drug that was made possible by donations. The science that made this discovery possible is being used (and tested) in another drug that will treat one of the CF mutations that Mallory carries. We need your support now more than ever as the drug pipeline continues to pump with exciting new treatments that are lengthening and easing the lives of those living with CF. We continue to be optimistic that this disease could be cured in Mallory's lifetime. Thank you for any support you may be able to provide to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation and all those living with CF.
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You know those infomercial-type websites?
You know the ones I mean: they always have this strange, "internet-circa-2002" look about them, with long sales copy, featuring increasingly hysterical testimonials from people who've had their lives changes by a face cream, or some dodgy-looking invention that can be yours for four low monthly payments of just $39.99, but only if you ACT NOW, GO GO GO! The ones you look at and smirk, and think, "Who in their right mind would actually buy something from one of these websites, without worrying they were just going to take their money, and then never actually send them the product? WHO?"
*sheepishly raises hand*
Guys, I bought a 'SYLA' from one of those websites. And then I spent an entire week worrying that they were just going to take my money, and not send me the product, and if what if it doesn't work anyway, and I wonder if I should just contact Paypal NOW and ask them to do a chargeback, or if I should wait until I'm absolutely SURE I've been robbed blind?
And then the product turned up, and it was exactly as they'd described it, and I felt really stupid, and actually quite guilty, for having judged the poor SYLA-makers so harshly.
Still: I shop from the websites you've never heard from so you don't have to, right? And what the hell is a SYLA, anyway? Gather round, and I'll tell you aaaallll about it.
First things first: THIS is a SYLA:
Yeah, you're none the wiser, really, are you?
So, a Syla is a basically a little satin headband things that you wear to bed at night, to stop your forehead creasing on your pillow, and giving you those pesky sleep lines, that don't actually go away, once you reach A Certain Age. Now, if you're a regular reader, you're probably sick to death of hearing me bang on about this (So why'd you open this post, then? Huh? HUH?), but I have been plagued by these sleep lines for a few years now, and I've tried absolutely everything I can think of to prevent them. There's a whole list of things I've tried here, in fact.
Most recently, I've been using a silk pillowcase to try to prevent sleep lines. A few weeks ago, though, the silk pillowcase ripped while I was ironing it – which wasn't really a surprise, to be honest, given that it had been washed and used approximately a kazillionty-one times by that point, and should probably have been replaced MONTHS ago. It had also somewhat lost its effectiveness, though: I'm not sure if that's a natural consequence of all of the washing, or if I'd just managed to find a new and more effective way of scrunching my face into my pillow, but I'd started waking up with that "Harry Potter" line on my forehead again, and I was NOT happy about it.
When the pillowcase gave up the ghost, I went back to using my Save My Face pillow, but it, too, was less effective than it used to be – mostly because I was just so sick of having to carefully balance my head on a croissant every night, that I felt like I hadn't had a proper night's sleep in YEARS. "There HAS to be another solution!" I told myself: so I hit up Google, and there it was – the SYLA.
Now, this product is something I've always thought should be on the market. In fact, I kinda wish I'd thought to trademark it myself, to be honest. The basic principle, you see, is really simple: you place it around your head before you go to sleep, and the Syla holds the skin in place, not allowing it to crease against the pillow when you like down. So you wake up with a smooth forehead, and the world just generally feels like a far better place.
This all made perfect sense to me, so I Googled some more, and when I realised there didn't seem to be a UK distributor for the thing, I thought, "What the hell! I WILL pay the $15.99 shipping fee to have a small satin headband sent across the ocean to smooth my troubled brow! Sign me up!"
So I ordered it. And yeah, you're probably thinking that was pretty stupid of me, because it's not like it was particularly cheap ($39.99), and you might even be thinking you could make one at home. If you could, good for you: I, however, couldn't, and here's the thing:
The SYLA was worth every penny.
And no, this is not a sponsored post: I really did spend $55 of my own money on this thing, and JE NE REGRETTE REIN. Because it works. It just… WORKS. Better than the silk pillowcase, better than the Save My Face pillow, WAY better than the goddamn Frownies, which only ever moved the sleep line to a different part of my face. And, OK, I look a bit like a really crappy Superhero when I wear it:
(I took these photos from Snapchat, so apologies for the quality: it just didn't seem worth the hassle of getting the studio lights and tripod out to take a photo of myself with a bandage on my head, somehow. And yes, there's totally a filter on that first one: let me have at least SOME dignity here…)
I don't really care, though, because finally – FINALLY – I can go to sleep without having to try to stay on my back for as long as possible, or keep my head carefully balanced in a certain way, to avoid those stupid sleep lines. I wish I'd bought two now, to be honest.
So, yeah, so far I'm impressed. When I took the SYLA out of the box and tried it on, I was initially worried it was going to be too loose to do any good. After wearing it around the house for 20 minutes or so, though, I realised it was actually tighter than I'd thought (not tight enough to be uncomfortable, but tight enough to let you know it's there). The one issue I DO have is that, because it's a slippery, satin material, and I have equally slippery hair, it has a tendency to start sliding off my head, so if I'm particularly restless, I might have to readjust it. I think it would work better if the back of the headband was a little "grippier", for want of a better word, but, with that said, I've been wearing it every night since it arrived, and not once have I woken up with sleep lines, so that's good enough for me.
Now, I suspect some of you are wondering why I can't just wear a regular headband around my forehead at night, and that's a good question. I haven't actually tried it, but I think all of the headbands I have would be too loose/narrow to work properly, and would also keep catching on my pillow, and being pulled off. This covers the entire forehead, glides across the pillow, and, most importantly, WORKS, which is why I'm already worrying about what I'll do if they ever stop making them. If you have a better solution, though, do tell…


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The Extreme Danger in Sending 3000 Troops to Fight EbolaSeptember 20th, 2014 . by Felix
"Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it" Once again it looks like Washington has forgotten the past. They are about to send 3000 troops to Africa to help contain the Ebola outbreak. There should be some serious red flags in this mission. The Spanish influenza pandemic of 1918 was a global disaster killing between 20-50 million people. The spread in the United States started with soldiers returning from WWI. While Ebola is different from influenza in the way it spreads it is just as deadly if not more so.
The 3000 troops are being sent directly to the hot zone to coordinate relief efforts. They plan on building 17 additional treatment centers and recruit and train medical personnel to staff them. They'll be providing logistics, engineering and other non-medical support. The military has said that troops will not have direct exposure to patients infected with the virus.
U.S. troops will receive protective gear and specialized training to avoid contracting Ebola. "We're going to train. We're going to equip them the best we can. You can never eliminate risk in a military operation. You deal with it. … and the men and women who sign up and serve in the military understand that when they do," Kirby said. "And I can tell you that should any of our troops fall ill, we're going to do everything we can to make them better, and to get them back to the treatment that they need."
Well that is all fine and dandy when you only have 4 patients to treat in one of only 4 hospitals that are set up to handle infectious diseases. The 4 Americans who were brought to the US for treatment were flown in special isolation equipped planes, and transported in full containment suits directly to hospital isolation containment rooms. It still took a large staff of nurses and doctors in full containment gear to take care of them. So how is the military going to get them back to the treatment they need? What if 10 troops fall ill? Or 100 or 300? Are they equipped to handle the evacuation and treatment? What happens when they start coming home? What if they are not yet displaying symptoms until they are on the way home? Are they going to quarantined for a period of time before they can go home to their families and communities?
The World Health Organization has said it needs foreign medical teams with 500-600 experts as well as at least 10,000 local health workers, numbers that may rise if the number of cases increases, as it is widely expected to.
So our troops may not have direct contact with Ebola patients but they may have contact with health care workers from all over the world who may be treating patients directly? So far over 240 doctors, nurses and health care workers have been infected and over 120 have died. Many of those were wearing full protective gear. So now you will have a melting pot of individuals from all over the world who despite their best efforts may still become infected. Every individual becomes a virtual petri dish for Ebola to find a new host and mutate. And mutate to the point it is easily passed from person to person or becomes airborne. The director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota says that the virus – which currently can only be transmitted through contact with bodily fluids – has proven to be "notoriously sloppy in replicating", which increases the chances that it could turn into something more contagious.
"US health professionals agree it is highly unlikely that we would experience an Ebola outbreak here in the United States, given our robust health care infrastructure and rapid response capabilities,"
"Nevertheless, we have taken extra measures to prevent the unintentional importation of cases into the United States, and if a patient does make it here, our national health system has the capacity and expertise to quickly detect and contain this disease."
Well that makes me fell better. The truth is in the event of an Ebola pandemic, our healthcare system will be stretched to the limit. If we examine the numbers we can see the frightening scenario. Based on a "mild" pandemic this is what we are looking at:
Population of the United States: 313,000,000
10-20% of the population becomes ill: 31,300,000-62,600,000
Percentage of people requiring hospitalization 10% 3,310,000
Number of hospital beds nationwide: 955,768
Number of ventilators nationwide: 100,000
Hospitals would not be sitting empty just waiting for Ebola patients, many are already fill to capacity with everyday illnesses, cancer patients, new babies, and emergency patients. Those would not go away, they would continue. Doctors offices, hospital emergency rooms and urgent care centers would be filled to capacity with people who are worried they have the Ebola overwhelming the staff and the need for lab results. Those needing hospitalization would flood local hospitals that would have nowhere to put them. Most hospitals have very limited space for isolating patients that would be required in the case of Ebola. World supplies of PPEs (personal protective equipment, or "space suits"), latex gloves, goggles, booties — all the elements of protection — will be tapped out, shortcuts would have to be taken exposing more people to the virus.
There is no doubt that Ebola is spiraling out of control and growing exponentially. If it is not contained soon there may very well be 250,000 people infected by years end. And the more it spreads to other countries the quicker it will spread world wide. Even the worlds leading epidemiologists don't know how far or how fast this will spread. The economic effects of a worldwide pandemic would be catastrophic.
Now is the time to prepare. Three months, six months or a year from now it may be too late. And to our brave troops-Godspeed.


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