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I always tell people to assume that stray dogs have owners...and to try and find the owners first. What a great story this is! Wow!
By Jason Green
Daily News Staff Writer
Posted: 07/28/2011 04:29:26 PM PDT
Updated: 07/29/2011 12:59:01 PM PDT
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Billie, a 7-year-old boxer-pit bull mix, was severely... (Courtesy of Palo Alto Animal Ser)«123»There are lucky dogs and then there are really lucky dogs.
Count Billie, a 7-year-old boxer-pit bull mix, among the latter. Lost for 34 days, she was little more than skin and bones when a Palo Alto Animal Services officer rescued her in the wilds of Los Altos Hills on June 25.
Billie's normally 65-pound frame had shrunk to 35, owner Angella Tai said Thursday.
"I actually couldn't hold her," said Tai, 32, recalling her joyful reunion with Billie, who is a healthy 57 pounds now and climbing. "I was scared I was going to hurt her."
Billie's ordeal began on May 23, when painters working at Tai's home in Los Altos opened a door to the garage the pup was left in for the day. The workers needed to use an outlet in the garage and the sound of noisy equipment firing up sent the typically skittish Billie running.
"I get home at 4:30 and I ask the painters, 'Where's my dog?'" Tai said. "They said, 'She ran away.' What do you do at that point? Get angry or accept it?"
While Tai and her girlfriend of two years, Lillian Jungleib, 25, accepted the explanation, they were far from ready to write Billie off. The pair canvassed Los Altos, made hundreds of fliers and visited every shelter from San Mateo to San Martin.
A quick reunion seemed possible at first. Tai and Jungleib talked to a handful of locals who had seen a large brown-and-white dog like Billie. But the leads soon dried up, and the only people who
responded to the fliers were well-wishers.
"After that first week, I thought she was gone," Jungleib said. "I kept going through the motions for (Tai). I didn't have the heart to tell her (Billie's) not coming back."
Against all odds, though, Billie was spotted on June 25 near Purissima and Robleda roads in Los Altos Hills by a neighborhood resident, who called Palo Alto Animal Services. Within an hour of setting a trap, Officer William Warrior had Billie in his truck and on the way to an emergency veterinary clinic in Palo Alto.
"She was just a sack of bones. I couldn't imagine her going another week," he said. "In 32 years I've never seen a dog that emaciated in the field."
Billie wasn't wearing a collar the day she ran away, but another animal services officer, Jeanette Washington, found a report on a missing dog that matched the description of the one rescued by Warrior, and within two days Billie was back home with Tai.
It's a mystery to Tai and Jungleib where Billie spent the days she was missing.
"She was probably running opposite of any noise that frightened her," said Tai, adding that Billie inherited her boxer mother's lack of smarts and her red nose pit bull father's stubbornness.
biggest detriment for her is she's an idiot and couldn't find her way home," Tai joked. "But it's because she was an idiot she was able to keep going."
Thankful for the second chance, Tai is keeping close tabs on her four-legged friend. Billie and her other dog, Dizzy, regularly accompany her to work at Accendo, a real estate brokerage firm she owns in San Jose. When Billie regains some more body fat, she'll be implanted with a microchip to help bring her home faster in the unlikely event she goes on the lam again.
"I feel like everything I didn't do with her before, I want to do now," said Tai, citing a recent trip to Fort Bragg so Billie could play on the beach. "Everything we do now is with such fervor."
A lucky dog, indeed.
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"And FEMA didn't let anybody know [about the extension] until after checkout — FEMA waited until the eleventh hour, and then said it's extended," she said, adding that a number of residents had already left the hotel and that rooms had already been booked. "The [Allegria] has been really, really nice about everything, and even the FEMA people are nice — they just don't give you the right information. Something of this magnitude should have been given more attention in terms of providing information and logistics. People have nowhere to go, everyone was upset and it's very stressful."
Fortunately, Mahoney said that she will be able to stay at the hotel for two more weeks, but said that she is not sure where she will go if the deadline is not extended again.
"The hotel has gone above and beyond when it came to extending [rooms] for people," she said. "I would like to stay in this room for four more weeks because my apartment will be ready by then."
The hotel's general manager did not return a call for comment on Friday.
"If there had not been an extension, they would have had to check out on Sunday," Perez said. "Hotels have the option of participating in the program, but if they say, 'we need these rooms,' we can't really do anything about it. They'll just have to be relocated to another hotel."
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Perez said that funding through the Temporary Sheltering Assistance program is separate from the grants of up to $31,900 that FEMA is providing to eligible residents to make home repairs or for 18-months of rental housing. He also said that representatives are doing all they can to provide assistance to those staying in hotels.
"For those living in hotels, they should continue to be in contact with FEMA to see what their continuing issues are and what they're doing to find a more permanent solution to their housing needs," Perez said. "We are having our representatives contact and visit some of these folks at the hotels to see what the issues are and see what else we can do for them."
In two weeks, the state may request another extension, at which point FEMA could decide whether it will continue the program, Perez said.
"The hotel program is a temporary program, so eventually it will end," he said. "If [residents] are still eligible, we may be able to help them with [temporary] rental assistance, find them an apartment and maybe we can give them some grant money."
To be eligible for TSA, survivors must first apply for federal assistance through FEMA by:
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President Barack Obama last night delivered a speech to Congress during which he outlined his American Jobs Act, a $447 billion plan to jump start the sluggish economy and get people back to work. With legislation this large in scope, there are more ins and outs than we care to think about, most of which we will leave to the political press to parse through.
There is, however, one particularly interesting bit of the bill that should have the tech world interested. As stated in a post on innovation and entrepreneurship on the White House website, part of the bill includes exempting small businesses who receive startup money through "crowdfunding" — the act of generating startup capital though many small donations — have to pay to the Securities and Exchange Commission in order to raise money in this way.
"…Gadget-makers are already using crowdfunding platforms to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars in pure donations – imagine the possibilities if these small-dollar donors became investors with a stake in the venture," reads a post on the matter on WhiteHouse.gov.
Of course, the platform they're talking about is Kickstarter, which allows people to submit ideas in an attempt to raise a certain pre-set amount of money. Started in 2009 by Perry Chen, Yancey Strickler, and Charles Adler, Kickerstarter has helped more than 10,000 projects — from art installations to iPhone accessories — raise a combined total of more than $75 million dollars in pledges. Out of all projects submitted to Kickstarter, 44 percent go on to meet their fundraising goals.
If Obama's jobs bill manages to make its way through Congress, crowdfunding would be taken to an entirely new level, with new possibilities for entrepreneurs.
With a Kickstarter project, those who pledge money receive various gifts from the startup, like their name on the company website, or an early-run edition of the product. What Obama's legislation would allow is for people to buy an actual piece of the company — just as one would buy stock in any publicly traded company — but without that company having to pay prohibitive fees to the SEC.
"We're looking for ways to reduce the regulatory burden on the ability of high growth entrepreneurs to raise capital and go public," said Tim Kalil, deputy director of the White House's Office of Science and Technology, while taking questions from reporters. "We'll work with the SEC to develop a crowdfunding exemption for companies looking to raise $1 million dollars or less."
Needless to say, if this legislation does go though, crowdfuding will start to be used to create a lot more than robotic pipe organs and open source flashlights.
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In a push to get new work in a new market, photo agencies VII and Magnum have gone completely Euro! I am not sure what the push means for fashion (since A: I have no fashion sense whatsoever, and B: fashion has gone in so many directions, I say why not!?) or photography. But it does seem reminiscent of something that's already happened.
Has it happened with iconic images from a photo agency's archives? Probably not. Will anyone even notice? Well, unless the wearer happens to walk by someone who is REALLY into photographic artists, probably not.
In a week-long "flash sale" intended to raise cash for operations and test new ways of engaging with audiences, VII is offering signed 8×10″ prints for $100. Meanwhile, Magnum has announced a 67-hour flash sale of its own, offering signed 6×6″ prints for $100 starting on June 17. In addition, Magnum has struck a deal with Photo.Clothing to emblazon works by various Magnum photographers on t-shirts.
The ventures reflect a new reality for the venerable photo agencies, which have until now steered clear of mass consumer markets to protect their elite brands, and the high value of their members' work. But their traditional markets and existing streams of revenue may no longer be enough, forcing them to test consumer markets.
"We had a pretty animated discussion about this at the [VII general meeting] in Paris, [and] some questioned whether their prints would lose value if they were to be involved," says VII Photo member Ashley Gilbertson.
"Many of us don't believe that we live in a world that demands we choose to be squarely in the museum / collector side or selling to the public at a far more affordable cost. We can do both, and have been diligent in this sale and will be in the future to protect the higher end print market with edition prints and such."
For one week only, VII Photo is offering signed prints by six photographers for $100 each. The photographers participating in the sale are Gilbertson, Antonin Kratochvil, Gary Knight, Ed Kashi, Christopher Morris, Anastasia Taylor-Lind, and John Stanmeyer. The sale began May 30 and ends June 6.
Gilbertson says all proceeds from the sale will go to support the business operation of VII, which were recently "slimmed down to give us a chance to grow in different ways."
The sale lasts only a week because the agency doesn't have the staff resources to sustain it on an ongoing basis. "Additionally, I think it's more interesting as something that pops up and then disappears – the prints are an open edition, but there is an inherent value in the photographs only being offered for a short window," Gilbertson says.
The agency is planning to do two more sales, each featuring the work of different photographers, "to eventually include everyone at the agency," Gilbertson adds.
Gilbertson says selling images directly to the public expands the audience for VII photographers' work. "Why should our work live in major collections alone? It shouldn't. These images have just as much power on the wall, or even on the 'fridge, in the home of a citizen. Communication is our game, and this is the right move that supports that goal."
For its part, Magnum has announced a special offer of signed 6×6″ prints of a selection of photos to be announced in the days prior to the start of the sale on June 17. The agency, which did not respond to PDN's repeated requests via phone and email for an interview, says the 67-hour sale is intended to commemorate its 67th anniversary.
Magnum has also struck a deal with start-up company Photo.Clothing to provide images by several photographers for reproduction on t-shirts. The t-shirts offered for sale so far through Photo.Clothing's Kickstarter page feature images by Martin Parr, Chris Steele-Perkins, Bruce Gilden, Richard Kalvar and David Alan Harvey, according to the UK-based magazine Creative Review.
So far, seven backers have contributed about $400 toward Photo.Clothing's Kickstarter goal of $20,000. (Original Article).


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For 150 million years, dinosaurs were the largest animals to walk the land. Meanwhile, in the air, a diverse group of winged reptiles known as pterosaurs flew in the skies overhead.
You'll have the chance to get a pterosaur's-eye view of prehistoric Earth in Pterosaurs: Flight in the Age of Dinosaurs, opening Saturday, April 5, 2014.
First appearing around 220 million years ago, pterosaurs evolved into more than 150 known species. Remarkable for their diversity, the animals, which became extinct 66 million years ago, ranged in size from that of a paper plane to a hang-glider, with wingspans ranging from less than a foot wide to more than 30 feet. While some pterosaurs had extravagant crests atop their heads, others were set apart by their teeth, ranging from peglike to bristlelike, likely well-suited to filter-feeding.
In Pterosaurs, one interactive invites visitors to spread their arms and fly like a pterosaur through an ancient animated world; another reveals more about how animals harness air currents to achieve powered flight, which pterosaurs were the first vertebrates to evolve, and which today remains, among vertebrates, limited to bats and birds.
The exhibition showcases pterosaurs' incredible diversity through rare fossils and casts of specimens from the Museum's own collection and also from those around the world—including a Rhamphorhynchus wing section with preserved soft tissue never before exhibited outside Germany and the upper arm bone of the giant Quetzalcoatlus northropi—as well as full-size models of several species.
Dioramas, multiple interactives, and engaging videos highlight pterosaurs' environment, their movements on land and in the air, and how their bones fossilized to preserve specimens for millions of years. We hope you'll come to the Pterosaurs exhibition this spring to learn more—and see for yourself what it's like to fly like a pterosaur!
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Make the Case
How can admission officers make the case to college and university officials to invest in recruitment and on-campus support services for international students? The EducationUSA network is ready to help. The information that follows is available for your use in publications or other materials.
As Secretary of State John Kerry stated in his welcome message to the 2013 EducationUSA Forum: "The international students who learn in our classrooms enrich our campuses and our country. And when the 765,000 international students who studied in the United States last year return home, the bonds that they have built here and the friendships that they have forged will last a lifetime. Ten, twenty, thirty years from now, when a young man from Ghana starts a thriving global business, or a young Colombian woman becomes her country's foreign minister, when a young Vietnamese man becomes a Nobel Prize-winning scientist, or a young woman from Afghanistan is elected president, they will think of the memories and the friendships that they formed with their American friends.... None of this is a fantasy. I have met many prime ministers, foreign ministers, finance ministers, other leaders, all of whom came to school in the United States. And when they went back home after their studies, they left here with a strong connection to our country and our people."
The U.S. Department of State is proud of the United States' position as the leading higher education destination for students from around the world, and maintaining that position is a priority. International students enrich U.S. universities and communities. They bring unique perspectives and experiences that expand the horizons of American students and make U.S. institutions more competitive in the global economy of the 21st century. Moreover, the relationships international students build will help them better understand the American people and values.
A quick glance at the biographies of world leaders today reveals that many studied in the United States. And international students on U.S. campuses today will follow in their footsteps. "Foreign Students Yesterday, World Leaders Today" is an excellent way to garner support for international student recruitment.
International students and their families in the United States bring a strong economic benefit to the United States. NAFSA's publication, The Economic Benefits of International Education to the United States of America: A Statistical Analysis, articulates these benefits and suggests ways to promote the value of campus internationalization.
Comprehensive international student services are critical to ensuring positive experiences on U.S. campuses and addressing their needs. Here are some tips to ensure your campus' internationalization extends to all aspects of campus life:
- Make certain that campus leadership and the professional staff who work with international students are aware of, trained, and actively engage in the many legal, regulatory, educational, and cultural issues that surround international educational exchange. Institutions should maintain membership in appropriate international educational exchange organizations and regularly attend training workshops to stay up-to-date on regulatory changes and best practices.
- Facilitate the admission of international students on campus with appropriate legal and ethical guidelines.
- Employ professional staff dedicated to the admission and retention of non-immigrant students from other nations.
Recommended activities and programs for an International Student-Friendly Campus include:
- Set realistic admission deadlines for prospective international students.
- Provide airport pickups for new international students.
- Separate orientation for new international students to ease initial adjustment. (International students should also attend the regular new student orientation.)
- Invite current international students to assist new arrivals in settling in.
- Provide housing on campus that meet the specific needs of new international students, such as being open and staffed over holidays and providing additional cooking spaces, and multi-faith prayer rooms. Off-campus housing needs should be addressed as international students may require additional help in finding suitable housing, understanding rental agreements, managing multiple utility bills, and signing internet, cable, and phone contracts.
- Ensure food services provide food of special importance to students from other cultures, including kosher/halal meal options, the proper cooking of sticky rice, and a variety of international options.
- Integrate international students into mainstream student life on campus and in the community.
- Provide additional English instruction for non-native speakers, if needed.
- Offer guidance for writing papers at both undergraduate and graduate level students.
- Identify local host families to introduce international students to American family life.
- Factor in international student arrivals and non-U.S. holidays when setting major academic dates.
- Work with current faculty, staff, and students to build on programs with an international focus.
Websites are important resources to help international students learn about the quality and character of institutions before they visit. Include the following elements to make your website accessible to prospective international students. Useful elements for the web page include:
- Clear link for international students on your home page that links directly to the admissions page, and/or prospective students' page.
- Display the EducationUSA logo on the international student admissions home page to link to EducationUSA.state.gov. Encourage applicants to use the resources of the EducationUSA Advising Center in their country early in the college search and application process.
- School description, including institutional type and overview of campus life, with the proportion of international students at the university and quotes from and profiles of current international students
- Tuition and related costs for the program as a whole, as well as the amount required for the first year of study and which will be listed on the student's I-20 or DS-2019 form.
- Admissions Timeline, including important testing and application deadlines with clear mailing or uploading instructions, acceptance, arrival, orientation and enrollment.
- Contact information with names and numbers for all offices dealing with international students. Specify who does what.
- Visa/SEVIS information
- EducationUSA's "Your 5 Steps to U.S. Study" Step 4: Apply for Your Student Visa
- The Department of State's official consular website, Student and Exchange Visitors section.
- The Department of State's J1 visa website.
- Online non-immigrant visa application.
- All visa application forms.
- List of U.S. embassies and consulates.
- DHS Study in the States website with SEVIS and other information needed before and after arrival in the United States.
- The site to pay the SEVIS fee.
- DHS' Study in the States Website - Contains SEVIS and other information needed before and after arrival in the U.S.
- Accreditation information, detailing how your institution is accredited and what that means for students entering the workforce or pursuing advanced degrees.
- International metrics. Include campus size in hectares, average local temperatures in Celsius, and distances in kilometers.
- Number of credit hours. Specify the type of university calendar, and how many hours are needed to enroll full-time for each term, including summer.
- Course catalog. List all courses with course descriptions.
- Downloadable application in a variety of formats. If possible, provide application fee waivers. Allow students without credit cards to mail application fees after completing on-line applications. Consider using the Common App.
- Information on program eligibility, listing the programs that are open to international candidates and any which are not.
- FAQs. List commonly asked questions and answers about your institution/foreign student admissions and services.
- Information on Curricular Practical training (CPT), explaining which programs permit CPT and relevant university policies.
- Work with your IT department to ensure flexibility for international students with database naming conventions.
In addition, keep in mind that the following terms and concepts are not appropriate or do not exist for international students:
- Social Security Numbers. Most international students do not have social security numbers unless they were previously employed in the U.S.
- GPAs. Many countries do not recognize the concept of GPAs.
- Zip codes or a U.S. address.
- Terms fall and spring. These are confusing to students from the southern hemisphere or areas with no seasons.
- 1-800 numbers. They are not toll free outside the United States. Also, automated responses are often not received overseas.
- College to refer to university-level programs. College is equated with high school or even grade school in some countries.
- Original copies of academic certificates. Many international students cannot obtain multiple originals of their academic certificates. Define what you mean by certified, and provide a PDF example. Provide instructions for submitting a signed copy provided by the home university or school. Refer students to an EducationUSA Advising Center for assistance.
- Databases that limit the number of characters for students entering their names because many students have multiple names and/or very long names.
To see how your institution's international admissions web page fares considering these recommendations, you are invited to take the International Student Friendly Website: Is Yours? interactive quiz developed this past year to help equip international admissions officers with tools to encourage their institutions to evaluate their sites. After completing the quiz you will receive an email with your responses and a score (1-100) of how your site rates, with 70 being a minimum passing result. Disclaimer: This quiz, using the criteria above, looks solely at the content of your site, not the format, design or accessibility of your site. If you would like "best practice" examples of international student-friendly website, please contact the EducationUSA team at IIE.


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I think, [hope] that Kubo is going to take Ichigo's power's away to open up the possibility in the Hell Chapter (movie) something along the lines of:
"Ichigo, now powerless as a shinigami, must find a way to recover his powers in order to save xxx from Hell"
thus we have: Ichigo acquiring a temp power in hell (and lose it at the end of the movie as if nothing happened) and a lazy Kubo not drawing it on the manga itself
am I making any sense??? :/?
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Maybe the Hogyoku allowed them to gain powers from the reatsu that Ichigo was leaking all over the place.
Also, I wonder if Ichigo is actually saying that he will lose his powers, or that he will just no longer have the power of a shinigami, but will instead have the power of whatever the hell he is now.
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Location: Slaping Mayuri Kurotsuchi around in Quincy Town :D
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Giving his powers back has so far been nothing more than a way to waste time since he hasn't actually contributed anything... atleast not anything that he could not have easily been substituted for someone else...
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Location: Slaping Mayuri Kurotsuchi around in Quincy Town :D
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All he did was make a big plot hole... not even using his own powers i might add, but a mine that mayuri gave him... Renji could have done the same. Hell Chad aswell could have made such a hole with one punch... or maybe just punch him out of the tower, seeing as Yammy forgot that he could fly... I think Ruika also might have been able to make sucha whole by freezing the center of the tower; Yammy would break free, but the floors underneath him would have been destoryed
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So, first Ishida, and now Ichigo?
Oh yeah, he needs to "lose" his powers completely so he can get training and go into a whole new level so we can start a new arc with the royal guards or something.
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An outline of the next hundred chapters or so:
1. Ichigo unleashes FGT, WTFpwns Aizen.
2. Ichigo goes emo again in the aftermath as he realizes that he's now powerless, and never got to really reconcile with Hichigo, only to be interrupted by a half-dead Aizen starting to regenerate ("Just as planned...", etc, etc.).
3. Just as Aizen is about to kill Ichigo, everybody shows back up in a Big Damn Heroes moment and Aizen is Killed Off For Real, probably by somebody releasing a bankai we haven't yet seen. It's made abundantly clear that "we couldn't have done it without Ichigo blah blah".
4. Plot coupons from this arc are cashed in, no shinigami or vaizards died, the good/neutral Espada lived and come to an agreement with SS (all hail Queen Nel of HM and her good knight Sir Stark). Gin disappears with Matsumoto. Rukia escorts the humans (and quincy) back to K-Town, since there's NO WAY to bring back his powers. DEFINITELY NO WAY.
5. Ichigo emos some more about being "normal", so Rukia mercifully ends our his suffering by wiping his memories of being a shinigami.
6. Back at school we see that the shinigami have been busy wiping memories, as no one remembers any of the weird stuff, although Ichigo, Orihime, and Chad all have the typical "almost remember moments" that always seem to happen with memory wipes.
7. Ishida of course remembers, and is playing along with Rukia, as a scene with them and Isshin at a deserted Urahara Shop establishes, before Rukia's tearful farewell (tearful for her, at least, as Ishida is as cold as ever).
8. Time passes (insert boring but short "Slice of Life" arc). *cough*time skip*cough*
9. Ichigo gets a visitor one night as an injured Mayuri shows up in his bedroom and lets him wake up just long enough to be freaked out by the bloody face-painted pervert before being knocked out again.
10. Ichigo wakes up out in the desert (actually in the training room under Urahara Shop) to find that he, Orihime, and Chad have all been kidnapped, with the latter two's memories recovered (except Orihime remembered all along--what a tweest!). A few other second-tier shinigami are there as well (including at least one current Lt. in captain's whites), all of whom are looking somewhat worse for wear.
11. SS needs Ichigo again but he has no idea who anyone other than Orhime and Chad are. So just as he's telling them all to kindly f**k off, he gets a jolt of recognition when Mayuri or someone else mentions Rukia offhand, and eventually decides to help them (he is a shounen hero, powered or not).
12. None of Mayuri's grotesque and humorous methods of recovering Ichigo's memory seem to work (including at least one involving Nemu degradation fanservice), so Orihime suggests using her power to bring back his memories. Mayuri just about soils himself at the opportunity to "study" her ability up close and readily agrees.
13. She does her thing, and as everyone and their grandmother sees coming a mile and a half off, not only does Ichigo get his memory back, but his mojo as well (yeah, baby...).
14. A still-somewhat-underpowered Ichigo reforms Tessaiga Zangetsu (2nd form) and asks what happened to everybody. Unsurprisingly, it is revealed that there is a problem in the King's Realm, as a dying Squad 0 member who escaped managed to tell them. Shortly after, the gate to King's Realm opened from the other side, and bad guys started pouring out. Hougyoku-enhanced bad guys.
15. Tite Kubo is assassinated. ...And there was much rejoicing...
If you want to get mad, get mad at Kubo for nerfing the character, not us for pointing it out.
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I hate how Ishida never lived up to that 'Ichigo's rival' thing. And I would have liked him to grow some balls and listen to his father. (Ie not getting involved in Hueco Mondo.) Only to appear, flanked by his dad, when Aizen came into town. I don't care if they were beaten, that would have been seriously more awesome. And make him out to be something more than just Ichigo's bitch.
And would have given Renji a bit more purpose in HM.
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PI 21n Notched Terminal Insulator
For insulating low-tension fences at corner and end posts and around trees. Notch eliminates need to thread strand of cable or twine through insulator.
Common Uses
- Use with rope, twine, MaxiShock, and cable. Saves time and hassle by being able to slip the conductor through the notch.
- Use for trees, ends, corners or curves of semi-permanent and temporary fences.
- Glass filled nylon
- 2.75" long x 1.25" wide
- Packaged in bags of 25, but sold individually
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- From the closed hole, attach insulator to end or corner post or tree. Any type of material can be used (rope or wire).
- Through the notched set of holes, thread fence wire and terminate at ends, or continue on for corners.
If using this insulator for rope or MaxiShock, a P Spring (sold separately, see accessories tab above) can be tied directly to the insulator prior to fence wire being attached to P spring using rope or wire.
When the fence wire is pulled tight, this insulator will pull away from the post.
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Larry H from Tennessee
The notched insulator made putting up the single strand deer fence around my 1/4 acre market garden a snap. When I mow it takes just a minute to loosely coil the twine and pull out the step in posts so I only have to work around the corner t-posts.
Michael C from Louisiana
This is a half baked design in my opinion. Good start, but needs work. The only reason I feel compelled enough to review it is they failed exactly how I expected them to.
It is difficult to explain but because of the way that the wire must go into the insulator (horizontal as shown in the picture) the part that attaches to the post is extremely awkward, at best.
You have two options, loop it through the given hole which is vertical which causes the insulator to twist, or you have to loop it through the horizontal open hole furthest away from the post. That can cause the insulator to flip down which can pop the wire out and in my cause caused a gate handle to pop out, releasing my goats.
I might recommend pairing these with zipties to hold them firmly in place.
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Simple and last a long time in service. Never had a failure.
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Great invention. Made stringing the fence so much quicker! I will use only these in the future (other than at rope gates). The regular insulator works best there.


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SAP Launches New Sustainability Solutions in the Cloud to Help Ensure Product Safety
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WALLDORF, Germany, November 5, 2012 /3BL Media/ - To build a foundation for sustainable growth, manufacturers must simultaneously ensure products are safe and compliant with complex, varied environmental regulations. Bringing together its cloud leadership and footprint with manufacturers worldwide, todaySAP AG (NYSE: SAP) announced two new cloud-based sustainability solutions to help customers more easily handle these challenges. First, SAP® Product Stewardship Network allows manufacturers to collaborate with suppliers and collect detailed information about the substances that make up their products. Second, SAP introduced SAP® EHS Regulatory Documentation OnDemand, a content service to manage the often painstaking and expensive process of creating regulatory documentation.
"Connecting to our ecosystem in the cloud will reduce costs and increase productivity for our employees and supply chain partners," said Torger Trenner, environmental manager, The Weidmüller Group. "We create more than 40,000 distinct products and components for industrial connectivity and have a business presence in over 80 countries. We constantly get requests from customers for detailed product information. Our business relationships depend on getting the answer quickly and correctly. That's why we decided to help SAP's development of the product stewardship network. It will enable everyone in the supply chain to enter and maintain their own information. This will help us — and all participating companies worldwide — amass and provide the information needed much faster and more efficiently."
To comply with constantly evolving environmental regulations like Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and Restriction of Chemical substances (REACH) and Restrictions of Hazardous Substances (ROHS), companies need to know exactly what chemical substances are in the raw materials, components and products that they purchase from suppliers. They must also declare those substances and tell people how to handle them safely. SAP Product Stewardship Network and SAP EHS Regulatory Documentation OnDemand help solve these problems. Both products leverage the power and flexibility of a hybrid cloud and on-premise model to collaborate, collect, analyze and disseminate product information from disparate sources.
SAP Product Stewardship Network: Manufacturers and Suppliers Collaborate in the Cloud
Aimed at discrete manufacturers, such as producers of electronic or medical equipment, SAP Product Stewardship Network allows customers to quickly work with suppliers in the cloud to make sure that banned substances are excluded from their products.
For example, a high-tech company that wants to bring new products to market must ensure environmental compliance by assessing each component against a constantly growing list of regulated substances so they can be properly disclosed. This currently requires thousands of emails across the supply chain; it is still a manual, time-consuming process. Delays can result in loss of revenue and risk proper compliance.
SAP Product Steward Network allows suppliers and manufacturers to collaborate immediately. They can quickly work together to make the appropriate disclosures, find the right substitutes or adapt product designs quickly based on available, compliant materials. By connecting suppliers in a cloud-based network, companies can easily exchange compliance and material data. New product information can be uploaded once and updated across the cloud so all participants in the network can immediately view and act on it. The offering also works with SAP® Business Suite software and takes advantage of all on-premise data it contains.
New On-Demand Content Service for Product Safety Documents
Process industries such as chemical or pharmaceutical manufacturers must continuously develop and update safety data sheets and labels to stay in compliance. Each of these documents can take from days to weeks to develop, and a midsize chemical manufacturer can spend up to 3 million dollars yearly on this time-consuming business process. With SAP EHS Regulatory Documentation OnDemand, manufacturers no longer have to author their own safety data sheets.
By networking with the customer's on-premise EHS solution, the content service from SAP takes the customers' product data, generates country-specific data sheets and labels in the cloud and then delivers the documents back to the customer. Keeping current with changes in global regulations, SAP estimates that the content service can decrease ongoing safety data sheet costs by up to 50 percent and free up precious resources to focus on more strategic projects.
"SAP uniquely can offer customers a powerful hybrid model that helps drive down costs of compliance while freeing up resources to focus on what matters most — strategic innovation," said Peter Maier, senior vice president, Energy and Natural Resources Solutions, SAP. "Our product safety solutions already touch 5 trillion dollars of all the world's manufactured goods. With so many customers across the supply chain already using SAP — and the strength of our combined cloud and on-premise strategy — we are playing a central role in creating a global business network that lets companies collaborate to run better and protect the triple bottom line."
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In the world of deciphering nutrition facts, there are some things that can slip past even the most discerning eyes. Parents place a lot of emphasis on the nutrition in their children's meals, but when it comes to snacks, sometimes even foods that sound nutritious may be wreaking havoc on their otherwise healthy diet.
Think you know which snacks are best? Take this quiz below and test your nutrition knowledge. Pick the healthier snack for your family:
Granola bar or Trail Mix
Sports Drinks or Flavored Seltzers
Popcorn or Pretzels
Sandwich Crackers or Crackers and Cheese
Smoothies or 100 Percent Fruit Juice
Regular Peanut Butter or Reduced Fat Peanut Butter
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Trail Mix: Many granola bars are highly processed, often containing refined grains and sugary additives.Trail mix contains foods in a more whole form (nuts, dried fruits, dark chocolate).
Flavored Seltzers: Minimal additives make this a better alternative than sports drinks that add calories with no nutritional benefit. Most children do not require sports drinks…even when playing sports.
Popcorn: Air popped popcorn is a good source of fiber, and you can limit the additional butter when you make it yourself at home. Pretzels are easy to over eat and have no nutrients that your body isn't seeing elsewhere in the day. And watch those portions: even the snack packs of pretzels often have 2 or 3 servings per a bag.
Crackers and Cheese: The pre-packaged sandwich crackers are loaded with sodium and often higher in fat than their DIY counterparts.
100 Percent Fruit Juice: Though I don't recommend juice often, smoothies can pack 2 to 4 times the amount of calories than a single serving of 100% of fruit juice. Some smoothies do start with healthy components like fruit and yogurt, but most have a significant amount of added sugar to boost the flavor. If your kids love smoothies, let them help you make them with a mix of fruit, ice, and low-fat yogurt.
Regular Peanut Butter: Ever compare a jar of regular peanut butter to a jar of the reduced-fat version? If you have, you will see there is only a difference of about 10 calories. The reduced-fat peanut butter typically has additional sugar to compensate for the missing flavor. The more natural version with full fat will leave appetites satisfied for longer.
Moral of the story? Turn the label around to see what and how much you are actually getting in your child's snacks. In addition, new research suggests that children will have the greatest satiety (and decreased intake) from snacks that combine vegetables and protein. So serve up some celery with peanut butter, or carrots and cheese, and keep your kids on their way to a healthful day.


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First introduced in 1995, the Honda Odyssey is an economical minivan consistently ranked as one of the top-selling vehicles in its market segment. However, while the Odyssey has been a preferred choice among minivan drivers for most of its existence, the vehicle was not an instant hit. In fact, it wasn't until Honda released the second generation in 1999 that the Odyssey came into its own with drivers. The vehicle's third generation lasted from 2005 until 2010, and the Odyssey is currently in its fourth generation.
The Honda Odyssey is one of the leading models in its class. With a spacious cabin, a generous array of standard features, and the reliability of a Honda, the Odyssey's status as one of the best-selling vehicles in a particularly competitive market segment looks likely to be maintained for the foreseeable future. The Odyssey offers functionality, decent fuel efficiency for a minivan, and a family-friendly interior that's able to accommodate up to eight passengers. With decent ride quality, good handling capability and better acceleration than you'd expect from a family-friendly minivan, it's little wonder that the Odyssey has been a leader in its class since the late 1990s.
The 2012 Honda Odyssey is available in five different trim levels: LX, EX, EX-L, Touring, and Touring Elite. The base model LX is fairly well-equipped and includes standard features such as a power driver seat, air conditioning, a 60/40-split-folding third-row seat, power accessories, a stereo system with a CD player, and an auxiliary audio jack. The EX trim level includes additional features such as 17-inch alloy wheels, power-sliding side doors, tri-zone automatic climate control, heated exterior mirrors, multifunctional second-row seating, a removable front center console, and an improved sound system. Additional standard features on the EX-L model include a power liftgate, leather upholstery, heated front seats, a rearview camera and a sunroof. The Touring and Touring Elite models are outfitted with 18-inch alloy wheels, foglights, front and rear parking sensors, retractable third-row sunshades, and a fold-down armrest for passengers in the third row. Both versions also feature high tech extras such as navigation systems and rear-seat entertainment systems.
The same 248-hp 3.5-liter V-6 engine powers all the various models of the 2012 Honda Odyssey. A five-speed automatic transmission is standard across all trim levels, save the Touring and Touring Elite, which are both equipped with a six-speed automatic. The six-speed automatic transmission offers better fuel economy and more responsive acceleration.
Reviews indicate that the Honda Odyssey offers exceptional drivability for a minivan. The van's powerful V-6 engine provides a smooth ride and the van is said to handle surprisingly well. The interior of the van is spacious with plenty of comfortable seating. It is also reportedly quieter inside than previous generations of the Odyssey.
The 2012 Honda Odyssey also earned high marks for safety in government crash tests. The Odyssey is, in fact, rated as a top safety pick by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. Standard safety features for the 2012 Honda Odyssey include antilock disc brakes, traction control active front head restraints, front side-impact airbags, and side curtain airbags.
The second-row seat in the 2012 Odyssey is wider than what was found in previous generations by some four inches. This enables the second row to accommodate up to three car seats for small children and infants. The 2012 Odyssey also provides more legroom than previous versions of the van. This large row of seating offers more seating possibilities for families than the captain's chairs that are standard for many other similarly sized minivans.
When the Odyssey debuted in the mid-1990s, it was equipped with conventional swing-open doors and roll-down windows. It was powered by an inline-four that was borrowed from an Accord EX. Still, with VTEC variable timing, even this engine was rated at 140 horsepower.
2018 Honda Odyssey
2017 Honda Odyssey
2016 Honda Odyssey
2015 Honda Odyssey
2014 Honda Odyssey
2013 Honda Odyssey
2012 Honda Odyssey
The Odyssey was redesigned in 2011, and gained new, angular styling as well as more interior room. A 6-speed automatic transmission delivers excellent fuel economy for the class, but it's only available on the more expensive Touring and Touring Elite models. New seating configurations and a removable, sliding second row maximize cargo usability.
2011 Honda Odyssey
Odyssey is all new and features a roofline 1.6- inches lower than previous models and track, 1.4-inches wider. The i-VTEC 3.5-liter V-6 is now mated to a six-speed transmission in Touring trim that makes Odyssey competitive with its rivals. This new transmission and Honda's variable cylinder management system help Odyssey achieve class leading fuel economy numbers. New range topping Touring Elite model makes its debut.
2010 Honda Odyssey
2009 Honda Odyssey
The world of minivan buyers has evolved and changed significantly over the past few decades.
2008 Honda Odyssey
The minvan market has evolved significantly over the last few decades.
2007 Honda Odyssey
Released in North America during the mid-1990s, the Honda Odyssey was a strong contender in Japan and Europe, but was slower in getting attention in the U.
2006 Honda Odyssey
The 2006 Honda Odyssey continues the model's tradition as a top pick in the minivan market since its introduction in 1999, with its impressive combination of a spacious cabin, thoughtful list of standard equipment, easy handling, high safety ratings, and an overall reputation for reliability.
2005 Honda Odyssey
The Honda Odyssey is a high-end minivan designed for comfort and handling.
2004 Honda Odyssey
The 2004 Honda Odyssey offers a huge interior and an innovative seating layout.
2003 Honda Odyssey
The 2003 Honda Odyssey is one of the best minivans on the market.
2002 Honda Odyssey
The Honda Odyssey is a minivan benchmark after debuting in 1999 and stealing the crown away from Chrysler.
2001 Honda Odyssey
The 2001 Honda Odyssey sets a new standard in the minivan market.
2000 Honda Odyssey
The 2000 Honda Odyssey is an innovative minivan with very good ergonomics that was designed to answer the consumers' need for daily transport.
1999 Honda Odyssey
The 1999 Honda Odyssey comes in two models that have the same configuration.
1998 Honda Odyssey
The 1998 Honda Odyssey serves as a high-end minivan designed with comfort and handling in mind.
1997 Honda Odyssey
The 1997 Honda Odyssey serves as a four-door minivan.
1996 Honda Odyssey
The 1996 Honda Odyssey serves as a minivan manufactured by the Japanese automobile manufacturer Honda.
1995 Honda Odyssey
The Honda Odyssey is a minivan that was originally conceived only for the Japanese market.


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Nashville, Tenn. - The Tennessee State men's basketball team's road to the NCAA Tournament begins tomorrow when the squad squares off against the Eagles of Morehead State in the second round of the OVC Tournament.
TSU will play MSU as the Tigers received a first-round bye, while the Eagles had to work their way here by besting UT Martin. Although Morehead State is the No. 5 seed and TSU is No. 4, the Tigers are 0-2 against MSU this year having just lost the second game on Feb. 28, 101-100.
In that game, Big Blue was down by 20 points with only seven minutes left before storming back to cut the lead to three with under five seconds to play. Junior guard Patrick Miller had a chance to send the game into overtime, but his three-point attempt went a tad strong. Robert Covington tipped the ball in, but TSU needed a three.
Covington finished the game with 23 points on 7-of-15 shooting including a 4-of-6 mark from downtown. The senior also had a team-high eight boards. Miller, meanwhile, ended up with 15 points on 5-of-13 shooting and five assists.
Miller and Covington have been two of TSU's premier players from the start of the season. Covington was averaging 17.7 points per contest and 7.7 rebounds before going down with a knee injury on Dec. 10. Since then, Miller has stepped up and is averaging 17.7 points and five assists per game.
Miller's play down the stretch of the season earned him a place on the All-OVC First Team while Covington and teammate Kellen Thornton were named to the OVC's Second Team.
Thornton was honored after a season that saw him place second on TSU in points per game (15.5) and first in rebounds (7.9)
The trio of selections marks the first time in school history that three Tigers were chosen as a member of either of the OVC's first or second teams.
For Morehead State, the Eagles come into today's game with a 15-17 overall record and a 9-8 OVC mark.
They are led on offense by Milton Chavis and Angelo Warner who average 11 and 10.8 points per game respectively, but the Eagles also have a total of seven players that average at least six points per game, so keying on any one player will be difficult.
Two things that the Tigers must do are: stop Morehead's shooters and box out. The Eagles shot 61.7 percent from the floor in the team's last meeting and 60 percent from downtown. They also beat TSU on the boards 34-31.
TSU is 26-32 all-time against Morehead State including the Tigers' two losses earlier this year.
The Tigers and Eagles tip off at 6 p.m. in the Nashville Auditorium. The winner will go on to face No. 1 seeded Belmont on Friday, while the loser will be knocked out of the tournament.
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New York bedbug fighters Lou Sorkin and Renee Corea have both pointed out to me a mildly pernicious trend in news reports about bed bugs, where they are routinely compared in size and color to an apple pip.
While this is true of adult bed bugs, it is absolutely not true of young bedbugs, which are much smaller and nearly transparent.
I'm afraid the best thing to do is to bite the bullet and take a look at photos of bed bugs in all stages of life. Note especially the size of the tiny first instar having a meal on someone's finger. Even better, if you are near someone with a bedbug colony, see if you can arrange a short visit.
Lou Sorkin makes a habit of doing show and tell with actual bedbugs whenever he speaks on the topic, which I think is a terrific idea. You can save yourself a lot of stress trying to identify a mystery insect at night if you've previously taken a close look at bed bugs in their various life stages.


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Monday, 14 April 2008
Category Airing (Reprise)
I've got a fair amount of stuff rattling around in my head in response to Dev's post about female submission, and a lot of it is horrifyingly fraught and such, so I'm going to try to get what I said in the comments there coherent and see if I can deal with the rest of it later when I'm feeling less like bleeding on the carpet about it.
I am not a female submissive.
I am a woman. I am submissive.
Spotting the difference matters.
I'm on a couple of BDSM communities on livejournal, and every so often someone will pop up with "I read on male_dom" or "femdom" or "humbled_females" or something else linking sex or gender to power exchange. And while I'm pretty easy for communities, none of these have ever even remotely tempted me, not even as a place to lurk. They don't offer me anything I value, that I can value. I just ... not only is this not my kink, it's a kink that makes me uncomfortable.
And some of that discomfort is being genderqueer enough that any sort of sex-based essentialism tends to throw me out of the conversation entirely, because I'm either miscategorised or in that neither-fish-nor-fowl place where somehow, in the discussion being had, I don't exist. And not existing is a nasty, uncomfortable place to keep winding up being, so I prefer to stick to fields where my status as an extant being doesn't throw errors everywhere.
The thing is, these things aren't descriptive to me, stuff like "M/f" or "F/m"; they don't seem to describe systems where those just happen to be the relationships those people have, but rather something where it is important that The Person Of One Sex Is Dominant, and The Person Of The Other Sex Is Submissive. It's a particular gendering fetish, and it's not one that I share; it's not one I want to be involved with, either. ("Your kink may be okay, but I'll go over there now.")
If one isn't treating the sexes of the people involved as something that matters, then there isn't a need to specify. Those facts will come up as relevant, and if they're not relevant, they won't, and there's no sense bringing them up. There's no need to make a marked case of it. Someone reading for detail can probably pick out the facts of various interactions, to some level, and make guesses about others, especially as I do not go to any particular effort to conceal stray data (partially as a political act), but unless it matters, that's just data kicking around.
And every so often I get in my tracking someone doing a websearch for 'femsub' (and that's, I believe, the first time that appears in this blog; I just googled and got this for the search result, which doesn't contain it), and I sort of wince and want to shake the boxes a little, make space in which I can be a submissive without being a "femsub". Because I'm not one, and no amount of treating someone who fits two categories, who is 'female' and 'submissive', as thereby going into a category that links the two will make me stop existing for the convenience of the categorisers.
And all this leaves me awkwardly on the edge of discussions of differences in perspective on seeing a male submissive or a female submissive. For reasons that I think have a lot in common with people who have conceptual issues with the two -- that I'm deeply uncomfortable with stuff that looks like it's framing 'power' and 'sex|gender' as being intrinsically linked in a particular way -- but from my usual Klein perspective. Because I don't approach or perceive power as gendered, I can't meaningfully take part in a conversation in which the gendering of power is present as an axiom. It erases me from the discourse.
It most particularly erases my power. When my submission is gendered, it feels to me like it turns it into something that's about-womanness, rather than about-power. And I can't understand that as anything other than a caricature, because it's so alien to me, so it feels like treating me as a cardboard cutout, making my status as a woman the first and most important thing about me in a context where I feel the most important thing is my status as a submissive.
And yes, there's a fuckton of problematic stuff out there about power, especially in this context sexualised power, and sex|gender. I don't deny that, because I'm not a damned fool. But my submission is not about womanhood, it's not about femininity, it's not about genitalia; it's about loyalty, dedication, oathmaking and oathkeeping, being a pillar of support, service, strength, and trust.
These are not incompatible with being a woman, but they are not female. Focusing on my femaleness uncenters the perception from my power.
And it's all about the power.
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Thanks for this post. I shift, reading communities like male_dom so i know what folks are talking about, then get angry when i read something that feeds into that idea, then want to know what everyone is talking about again. The only way i could personally make peice with being both female and submissive & masochistic was by pulling them clearly apart (even though you might never know it from how i present myself in kink spaces). When they are combined, at least in my own head, they can really feed into much of the sexism and gendered politics that make me out right uncomfortable. So, what i meant to say is you got me thinking and thanks :)
- 14 April 2008 at 13:26
- Trinity said...
"I'm on a couple of BDSM communities on livejournal, and every so often someone will pop up with "I read on male_dom" or "femdom" or "humbled_females" or something else linking sex or gender to power exchange."
I'm probably still a member of fem_dom, just because it's a nice break from "male dominant with female submissive, who see gender as part of the power exchange" which is just overwhelmingly common. But yeah, I usually feel almost as foreign there as I do anywhere else.
- 14 April 2008 at 14:16
- Trinity said...
"it's about loyalty, dedication, oathmaking and oathkeeping, being a pillar of support, service, strength, and trust."
also: YES.
- 14 April 2008 at 14:21
To me, this post is over-thinking things a bit.
as near as I can see, "femsub, femdom, malesub, maledom, are all simply contractions of the most common four pairings of D/s orientation and gender. If I seek for "femsub", then I am seeking people who are female-gendered who also identify as being submissives. I don't see how it makes a link between the two, because there equally exist the complementary categories "malesub" and "femdom".
To me, in fact, the formation "I am a woman. I am submissive" actually removes this from a kink setting entirely. In that formation, the noun is "woman", and the adjective is "submissive". To me that makes it appear as though it applies not only in BDSM but in other situations as well. To me, this is the form that looks like gender and power are interlinked. It certainly says to me, "the important part of my (kink) identity is my gender".
However, in "female submissive", the noun is "submissive" and the adjective is "female". This formation puts the power exchange as the defining feature, and gender is used as a qualifier to tell you a bit more about the submissive. It puts the power relationship centre stage, and allows the speaker the choice whether or not to qualify it further with the gender element.
Equally, there's no reason why there shouldn't be "gqsub" for "genderqueer submissive" and similar (for example, there already are terms such as "cdsub" for crossdressing submissive"). If "submissive" is the noun, then you can choose whatever adjectives (gender or otherwise) you like to qualify it.
But if you make the noun a gendered statement (e.g. woman) then gender is centre-stage, and everything else is linked to it.
Incidentally, I think there is abig difference between "I am a woman. I am submissive", and "I am a woman. I choose to submit". The first one, it seems to me, makes submission and womanhood linked, or at least, implies a helpless and passive role for the woman. The second one is active, decisive, and seems to me to be a much closer representation of how D/s works.
- 14 April 2008 at 18:45
- Trinity said...
I sort of see your point, but I think Kiya has things in mind like the weird contractions "femsub," "subsis," "femdom," "malesub," etc. All of which make it sound like those things are all one concept.
And while "gqsub" sounds great, it's not in widespread use. In fact... you just made it up. :)
- 14 April 2008 at 20:27
- Dw3t-Hthr said...
Well, I do mean stuff like "femsub". But I also mean that I am not categorisable as a "female submissive", for much the same reason that my doctor is not a "female doctor". I don't need to mark my case, and my sex is not relevant to a discussion of power exchange.
Likewise, I'm not a "pagan submissive", a "freelancer submissive", a "five foot seven submissive", a "scoliotic submissive", or any of a number of other things, though I am a pagan, a freelancer, five foot seven, and scoliotic, and all of those things have intersections in my actual power exchange relationship.
It just so happens that those things don't show up anywhere near as often, because there isn't the axiom that those potentially-but-not-necessarily relevant categories need to be specified that there is with sex. So sex|gender is treated as a special case that somehow is assumed to have relevance even if that relevance is not in evidence.
- 14 April 2008 at 21:32
- thene said...
I think that the kink movement (like the queer movement) experiences a sort of linguistic/cultural tension between its role as an activist movement and its role as a dating agency. Adopting language that specifies gender harms the first role, but helps the second.
'to submit', verb, is the only variation I'm willing to own - I'm not a submissive or a femsub. I don't even call myself a 'switch'; I do kink sometimes, from both directions, but it is not what I am. It is what I sometimes do. Queer theorists argue that gender is also something that you do, but for some reason I'm more ready to carry a label there, even if it scratches - maybe because said label was stitched on before anyone asked if I wanted it there. :/
- 15 April 2008 at 00:07
I see your point, but my understanding of the "marked case" argument was that "female doctor" was placed in opposition to "doctor" - meaning that "doctor", the neutral form, is assumed to be male. But "submissive" doesn't generally have an assumed gender that needs to be qualified (there are exceptions, of course). As Thene points out, the kink community serves as a place to meet potential partners as well as a place to develop activism, and in that sense, gender is important to most people seeking partners.
I think perhaps there are stereotyped views of submissives dependent upon gender, and it may be that these associations have become more heavily attached to the shorthand forms as a result?
I agree that some people choose not to identify in the noun sense. That's why I also mentioned that I find the form "I am a woman. I choose to submit" to be a more expressive and appropriate term than "I am a woman. I am submissive".
From my own perspective, I draw a clear distinction between what I am and what I do. I definitely see myself as being a dominant, but also, submitting is something I do, and for me that distinction is very important.
Yeah, I did just make it up - but every term was at some point "just made up"! Maybe we can bring a new term into use, if we try?
- 15 April 2008 at 03:58
- Trinity said...
"'to submit', verb, is the only variation I'm willing to own - I'm not a submissive or a femsub."
*nods* Yeah. I don't like "dominant" as a noun either. I sometimes use it, because it's so ubiquitous, but to me "a dominant" refers to a particular kind of dominant person and dynamic, a dynamic that's usually M/f and usually structured in a way that doesn't resonate with me.
- 15 April 2008 at 08:44
- Trinity said...
Also, SnowDrop, this may just be me... but I don't have any problem with "I am submissive." It doesn't bother me as a term of identity at all.
I *am* dominant -- my being so influences all kinds of choices I make and things I value, not just kink. It's quite tied to my spirituality and the things I feel "called" to do. For myself, for my partner, and for my community.
- 15 April 2008 at 08:47
- Dw3t-Hthr said...
My point is that sex|gender in this context is being treated as something that has to be marked, has to be specified, even if they aren't in the specific context in which they matter.
It's not as offensive as 'woman doctor', because the oppositional tension of 'women can't be doctors' isn't present; it's the same sort of thing to me, because of the need to specify it at all.
I am not seeking a partner, nor am I accepting applications for same; thus, my sex and orientation aren't germaine to discussions of my kink.
I have both been asked to recommend "other M/f blogs" and told by someone making comments about the grand nature of submission that I had no grounds to object to his overgeneralisations because I am female.
If I'm talking about submission, I'm talking about submission, not gender. And not gender-submission.
- 15 April 2008 at 08:47
- Trinity said...
Yes, THAT. (I hope it didn't sound like I missed that when trying to explain to Snowdrop; I just thought he needed more bite-sized bits to get it.)
I mean, *if it's relevant* because I'm discussing gender disparities in kink, or challenging assumptions, or something, I *might* say my relationship is F/m.
But that's misleading: I'm butch and genderqueer. I don't have a sense of myself as *not female*, but I'm definitely not saying something like "W/m" (woman/man) when I say F/m there.
So it's only helpful to the degree that I *need to point out* my sex. And the reason *that* happens is because there's a whole tangle of assumptions, from kinksters, from feminists, from everybody, about which genders and sexes do what. I wouldn't even bother saying it if there weren't this heavy presumption ALL ROUND that all BDSM is (or is aping closely) heteromalemandom/heterofemalewomansub.
- 15 April 2008 at 08:54
- Dw3t-Hthr said...
When my liege read my post the other day, he said something like, "If the virtues you listed were considered 'female', a lot of knightly orders would have had a different dress code."
- 15 April 2008 at 09:19
- Trinity said...
Five points for your liege! ;)
- 15 April 2008 at 09:21
- M said...
Thanks for this post. I feel a lot of strain since I'm a feminist, a submissive, and an evangelical Christian, so I feel like I get pulled every which way by all the communities I interact with. I find myself feeling angry/sick when I find that everyone seems to assume that all submissives are (or should be) female, and that all top females are men or want to be men. Likewise, I hate hearing stuff about how I'm betraying the sisterhood by being a sub. Last time I checked, feminism was about allowing women to live how they want, right?
- 15 April 2008 at 14:26
- thene said...
Trinity - I like the 'I *am* dominant' thing. I have an LGBT activist friend who likes to say 'I am not a homosexual - I am homosexual'.
- 15 April 2008 at 15:54
- subversive_sub said...
I think what confuses me about this whole conversation is that I never interpreted Dev's original post as saying anything about gender being relevant to one's sexual identity. The post was about recognizing her bias in making assumptions about the agency and power of women who submit to men, and that this bias stems from a feminist knee-jerk reaction to anything that *looks* like sexist, patriarchal behavior. To me, this is completely different than trying to gender a person's submission. To me, Dev's post seemed to essentially be covering the same territory as when folks here were talking about feeling uncomfortable about Nazi play or race play -- it's simply articulating a reaction to certain kinds of BDSM play that, on the surface, seems to replicate elements of our society that we rebel against.. It has nothing to do with gender essentialism, or pointedly talking about female submissives as if their gender had anything to do with how (or why) they did their kink. In fact, Dev pretty explicitly says that's NOT what she's talking about.
...for the record, I pretty much agree with everything Dw3t-Hthr has to say here. I just don't think it's all related to what Dev was originally talking about.
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