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Ten Years
I managed to miss posting about my tenth blogiversary ON that date, February 25, 2013, but ironically posted my first in ages goofy quiz result, after a break of almost two months. Blogging in the early days relied heavily on such quiz posts.
So. Ten years! Of blogging. Sort of. It's an anniversary, but it might mean more to me had I blogged more regularly. On the other hand, I was very nearly a "big name blogger" in my heyday. It's just that my heyday was essentially the first year, and to a lesser extent the next year or two, coinciding neatly with Changes.
For a long time, I have been something of a homeless blogger, spread thin by life and the pursuit of side income from this writing. Wringing income for the family from past glory that had more to do with editing and managing than writing was all well and good, while it lasted. Who knew! Their turned out to be a way to make money from Carnival of the Capitalists after all, and if it had been active and the site I used for administering it updated regularly, we'd still have that. Or if I had even kept updating it as a general business blog, as intended. Anyway, things got rocky for Deb and I, and it was reflected in volume and location of my posts. I saw income opportunity, and that made me try to spread things around by category: food, tech, business and economics, politics, even culture. I went back to blogging solo. I went back to blogging jointly. I had and abandoned ideas. I had and didn't launch ideas. My interests changed. Life intervened, yet not writing makes me feel empty. At this point, I see writing as my only logical career path, which is absurd, considering how hard it might be to make real money, even with self-publishing what it is. If I never make more from blogging, I really need to post, to feel right. Facebook isn't the same, however much it contributed to making blogging a "dead medium."
In the early days, blogging was social media.
There grew to be what I thought of as overlapping circles of bloggers. Each circle being a group of like-minded or otherwise friendly with each other bloggers – or sometimes non-blogger commenters – who would comment and share among the group in particular, but who were sometimes effectively part of more than one group. There are people I call friends, met through blogging. Oh, and a wife, who gave me three lovely children. Nothing virtual about that.
I posted anything I wanted, though not in the outrageous details of, say, Acidman, not worrying who might read it. I didn't worry about the topic, since it was a general blog. I'd like to try going some of the way back to that, though unless it were an anonymous blog, I'd still pause and consider who might be reading. Family didn't know about blogs, at first. Now having a pen name is not enough. At least, not the pen name they all know. We were at Blogblivion for a long time, so people might not look for us here. Same goes for having posted sparsely so long, and for my having blogged solo in places.
My goal has been to import stuff, if not ALL the things, from the old version of AV, from BB, and from some of the topical or solo blogs, bringing it all back here. You can see how far I got, considering it is May and that was one of my "yay, the kids are in school" projects. But then, my goal has also been to write longer things, like a book about my business experience.
Maybe I can't write for a living. Maybe it can only be an outlet. Blogging was made for that. That's not what this post is about, but I have no idea what I might do for a living otherwise, to step it up beyond a part-time job, however well paid. I seem to have lost all interest in computers, and between the changes inherent in the passage of time since I closed the business, and the lack of keeping current that was part of why the business had to close, I have limited confidence. Not zero, since I know how inherently brilliant I am at learning and figuring these things out – or intuiting them – but you gotta have skills to get work that pays. Which has been a problem for us, the donut hole situation. What I make on about 22 hours would need to be about five times as much on a 40 hour job that had to pay additional taxes, health costs, and daycare… to break even, but lose time. Add in the confidence I lost when I was unable to interview successfully, for what little I got that far at, and my lack of desire to make the economy look good for this administration, and you have a bit of an impasse.
Remember when my tagline was "but I digress…"? There's a reason for that!
Here's to many more years of digression, and hoping the blogosphere doesn't die entirely.
Speaking of Obsessing…
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Facebook and Me
Once upon a time, I was in the fourth grade, lo these many years ago. 1970/1971, to be exact. I had my first crush, which was not something I understood or could have labeled at the time. She was in another classroom, I never learned her name, and when I tried to figure out the next year who she'd been, I couldn't. Nobody looked like her. It was formative, in that the way I felt was how I expected love to feel, and it may have helped set the stage for my addiction to unrequited serial crushes that started in seventh grade. The closest thing I had to a crush between those two times was the year-younger sister of a friend in sixth grade, with whom I now work. If anything, that one set a pattern of being terrified, rather than merely clueless. Anyway, in fourth grade, the peak experience was when we were in much-hated gym class at the same time, doing some kind of dance thing, and I got to hold her hand briefly in the course of that. It was like… magic. And she looked nothing like Meg Ryan.
Much later, in 2007, I was invited to Facebook, which I joined under my given name, but didn't use for an extended time. Basically just had a couple of former colleagues as FB friends. I forget the impetus, if there was one, but before it quite got to where everyone was on Facebook, I became more active and added a lot more people. I thought it was cool to find people from as far back as elementary school, in most cases getting to know them as I never actually did before. In the most extreme case, I friended someone I've known her entire life, since she was nine months younger than me. Her father was my father's best friend, and her parents were the witnesses when my parents got married.
I was surprised some of them even wanted to connect with me, since from my perspective maybe I was embarrassed, which for me tends not to fade or be forgotten, or didn't like them, or thought they didn't like me. Time. It passes. There are clear exceptions, and some I don't understand, as they tend to be people I did like, remember fondly, or have no reason to be embarrassed about.
So it came to be that I even had many of my crushes as FB friends, especially the most major ones, including the first major one, from seventh grade, and the last major one, notable for having finally broken me of fixating on some girl or another – or more than one at a time, sometimes – and convincing myself I was in lurve, capturing That Feeling. Or trying to. The huge exception is my ninth grade crush, arguably my biggest, who strangely, since we never dated, was the first ever to say "I love you" to me. I even have one of the only two girls I think of as people I dated before meeting Deb, whom I arguably didn't date, just married. Quibbling would give you a couple more, including the one of the major crushes who convinced me no girl would ever have me, and one whose sister's wedding I was her date for.
But who was the mystery girl?
Finally, this girl named Cheryl came along and friended me. I didn't really remember her, and only vaguely recognized her maiden name. I never knew her at all. Then someone posts a class picture, with her front and center, in sixth grade. There she is. Looking identifiably the same. She looked completely different, later, with the short hair I actually remember enough to associate with the name.
So I discussed it with her and learned she had not been at the school in fifth grade and part of sixth, thus not being able to identify her the next year. I am so close to certain it was her as to make no doubt. She described our gym teacher as sadistic, and was pleased she brightened the experience a tiny bit. Heh. He wasn't like the elementary teacher, but the main high school gym teacher I had is one of those Facebook people I have steadfastly not friended. Between my elementary gym teacher and my moderate degree of disability, I was put off gym, or the more recent fad of going to commercial gyms voluntarily, forever. She was tickled, because she didn't think anyone liked her in elementary school, and pretty much had only one friend. Made worse by an abusive dad. In a fit of synchronicity, she once lived in an apartment just three houses away from where I am now, her favorite one ever. Now she's in another state, with a superb husband, grown kids, and cute grandkids.
Privacy? All the internet are belong to us/AOL revisited? Scary data mining? Well, yeah. I have a friend who won't go on FB, or anything else, because she is convinced it will make it easier for the scary conservatives to round her up when they liquidate all the Jews, forgetting that fascists who did that and the like are of the left. Yet I can see being concerned, while it's also going to have to come to fighting technology and non-privacy with the same. And yeah, it stole the thunder of the blogs circa when I started ten years ago, where you had a sense of community and cross-commenting and linking, but the mega blog sites that want to be news sites also did that (we always talk about how we missed the monetization boat, yet it might not be all that) I will always be appreciative of Facebook resolving that longstanding mystery for me, as well as connecting me with the lives of people I might never have crossed paths with again. That is what it's all about.
Some of us have been saying this for years.
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Happy Anniversary!
On this day nine years ago, we were on our way from Fresno to Las Vegas, arriving late in the afternoon at the Luxor. After checking in, we searched for the place where you pay the government for the right to be married. And searched. Eventually, we found it. A clever sales guy outside snagged our business for the Las Vegas Wedding Chapel. No idea where we'd have ended up, left to our own devices. That worked out, and we rewarded him for the good sense to patrol the opposite side of the street from the mob of other chapel sales people.
And so we got married, as originally planned, sight unseen, we'd hit it off that well long distance. Is friendship the best basis for marriage? Does agreeing on most things supply longevity that might not be there if it were mainly about an overheated attraction? Perhaps. We each had some second thoughts, even then, and we've not been problem-free. Yet we don't seem to be going anywhere, and non-traditional though we may sometimes be, the kids do not appear to be doomed to grow up in a sundered household, as I and so many did. Have the rocky parts ultimately strengthened us? Arguably so.
All told, I can't imagine my life alone, or with that hypothetical wasn't-gonna-happen someone else. Or without the three kids. These specific kids, born of this particular mother. I can regret my age and timing, and ponder mightabeens, but wow. Just wow.
Time travel to the post I wrote after my return home, five days later, apparently my first substantive post following the wedding.
I was thinking about backpacks just the other day. My three kids all had to have them to start kindergarten. It's required. I already knew that they were pretty much ubiquitous these days, but…
I was in school until 1979, and never once had a backpack. Not even in high school. Nor did other people, at least not enough for me to notice. Books and such were carried in your arms. It was awkward, inconvenient, even sometimes painful, but at least during school there were lockers, and generally not everything had to come home overnight. Yet I am no sure how we managed without them.
College was different. While I didn't start college until 1982, they'd long been a given in that environment. I may not have known that until contemporaries started college in 1978 and 1979, but by the time it was my turn, I knew to head to the store and spend $30 (in 1982 dollars! For one far less good than my kids have for much less!) in anticipation of the backbreaking load of books I would have to cart around.
Funny how that works, seeing the same topic addressed right after I've pondered it myself.
AutoZone is Convenient
But seriously? I would consider trying elsewhere for a part next time. Too late for this weekend, since my brother is planning to stop at one for a part for working on the truck for us Sunday. I like my local store, and it's right around the corner, but that is unacceptable corporate behavior. No that the company I work for would behave any differently, but we aren't a theft target and are pretty secure from non-employees. Ironically, there is a small time auto parts place in town that I'd never likely have gone to anyway, which I am already making a point never to use due to that family having been behind the local swearing fine (since held to be unconstitutional and rendered moot in a review by the state).
Via Jeff Soyer
Stagnant and Angry
I want so badly to keep this blog going, but I burned out a couple of weeks before the election and I don't have my mojo back just yet. I stopped reading the news, in fact, because I couldn't take the post-election dissection. The GOP didn't lose because they failed to pander to Hispanics. They didn't lose because Mitt Romney sucked. They didn't lose because the American people are idiots, or because bread and circuses, or because people hate the rich. They didn't lose because they didn't get the message out.
They lost because alongside some of the right message, they preached the wrong message. And the wrong message was louder.
They're not going to get anywhere with hate and bigotry. The entire social conservative agenda has to go. The GOP has got to divorce social conservatism from economic conservatism or they're not going to win another election anytime soon. Some of us figure that it matters less what those folks think, because there's not much chance of them managing to push that agenda through into law. But Obamacare, so who knows. In any case, they terrify people with this stuff, and rightly so.
Also, Bush.
The economic message was not as well explained as it could have been, either. It seems to me that these folks were preaching to the choir, counting on turnout. But Republicans seem not to trust their own party anymore. If you can't even get them up off their behinds to vote against Obama, you've got serious issues. Candidates have to go so far right now to capture the base that the average voter looks at them like they're Martians. And, culturally speaking, they may as well be.
I'm sorry I wasted a vote on these freaks. I hope Gary Johnson runs again. How the Libertarians shoot themselves in the foot is another (weirdly related) post. But at least they've got principles, and ones that aren't based on denying the personhood of women (another entirely different, but related post).
At this point my worst-case scenario isn't that another Democrat wins the Presidency in 2016. It's that the GOP once again doesn't bother running, and all of the signs point that way. Balance is necessary, and I'm not seeing any to speak of.
Damn shame.
Fascinating Map
Showing the numbers and proportions of secession petitioners by state. Found via Jeff Soyer.
I laughed when I saw California with the lowest proportion of the population. Massachusetts was tied for second with Maryland, with Illinois third and, it appears, Minnesota fourth. No surprises there, or with Alaska having the highest percentage and Texas the highest total.
Of course, the question of secession was settled by force over a century ago, but that makes it neither less appealing nor less of a political statement to agitate lip service toward it.
Oh Megan
Four pound sugar bags have been an option for at least four years. I first encountered them in Stop & Shop, the company that brought you Peapod. At times, they were lower per pound so I'd buy them.
People aren't stupid. We do notice size changes. It is frustrating, but you have to be a relatively monied, inattentive shopper not to notice 16 oz cans becoming 14, and so forth. Cranberry sauce. Tuna. I've even noticed smaller kielbasa for the same price as a pound. At least sugar had 4 lbs as an option, with 5 lbs remaining standard. That may have been an early instance of trying to give people on a tight budget a smaller size at an easier to take price, though there have always been one pound sugars for that.
Size changes aren't new. It's been happening with candy bars since I was a kid, decades ago.
Another size reduction? Potatoes in 4 lb bags. Not universal, but they exist, and are marketed at what would be a decent or sale price for five pounds, making it easy to be fooled into grabbing a bag, thinking it's a deal. Very important to pay attention to those unit prices.
I was amused by this lament, even as I can relate to it. I forget that Jacobson is a relative blogging newbie. Thus for me it's not 2008 that was the heyday, similar to what he described, of conservative – and liberarian and just plain interesting personal/general – small bloggers, but 2003. Thus the blog title tagline here about 2003 (until I change it, which I will sometime).
2008? At that point we'd been betrayed by Bush, and McCain of all people was the nominee. Obama won, to carry out something all too closely resembling a third Bush term. It's hard to say McCain wouldn't have been worse, or certainly as bad. The only thing positive I can say about Bush 2004 is President Kerry. Ugh. I mean, seriously, how could he even get nominated, let alone elected to the senate, even from Massachusetts? Then again, the idiots in Massachusetts just elected Elizabeth Warren. Then again, she has more brain cells to rub togeher than Kerry ever did. But I digress.
Anyway, the original blogs gave way to corporatization, going big or going away, and to social media having supplanted aspects of what blogging was circa 2003. I still have many online friends (and Deb) as a result of that, but there are people who are big names now whom I don't know the same way, or who have changed beyond recognition, or perhaps whom I don't really want to know. Either there have not been smaller upstarts to fill the void, or I have not come across them. Then again, I stopped blogging almost entirely for a while, or got muddled at it. Things change.
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Elections Have Consequences
I knew there were tax changes coming, barring anything done to avert them, and I just discovered one aspect I'd not know of before in the chart here. Child tax credit is going from $1000 back to $500 in 2013. That may not suddenly mean we owe more, or even that we get less back in earned income credit, but it may be a close thing, or may matter in a couple years.
Not that the child tax credit should even exist, but since it does, and it potentially affects our finances, why would we approve of an arbitrary drop? As such things go, it seems least worst, in the manner of the EIC if you're really into evening things out. The trouble with the EIC is the donut hole dropoff, which we start to approach, in which your effective tax rate is staggering. Even now, I figured out last tax year that each dollar of self-employment income I might add means 47 cents in additional tax. If I charge you $40 to fix your computer because I figure that's all you can afford, or all the market will bear, I make a tad over $20 of it in reality, and no matter that I spent three hours, for which I should have charged between $120 and $300. But this is not about pricing and marketing and even the effects of self-esteem on same.
Also, the more direct impact on us is the end of the payroll tax reduction, which arguably should never have been enacted anyway. But since it was, the end of it represents a substantial tax increase on people of modest income. We're talking about eliminating what we saved by canceling our landline, to put it in real terms, or enough to get McDonald's 2-3 times a month… except we don't do that, because the money isn't there! If it's not there for things we want or need, how is it there for a tax increase? It's not. Nor is it there to be a portion of the additional we'd need to spend on groceries in order to change my diet to comply with what the cardiologist wants to see to maximize my lifespan and minimize my chance of additional stents or worse. Not. There. For. Health. So it's not there for taxes, either, and if you think Obamacare is going to help me afford to eat healthier, you're delusional.
The thing is, again, the tax shouldn't have been cut in the first place, so nobody would be able to miss it. Or it should have been eliminated 100% in a massive overhaul of everything. As long as you pay lip service to it being a retirement account, or even if you don't, and instead recognize it as a wobbly pay-as-you-go Ponzi scheme, cutting that tax makes no sense, as it affects if either way.
The child tax credit, though… As a matter of social policy, what is it? It recognizes that people with children could use an added tax advantage because OMG expensive. By extension, it makes having children a prioriy of the government. New subjects citizens to help keep the social security Ponzi scheme economy going in the future, replacing older workers as the retire, and some so the whole scheme economy doesn't collapse.
Back to the donut hole. It's more than the taxes. My 47% assumes self-employment, and would be lower otherwise, but if it's employment or business income, if it takes time away from home, it means daycare. If I were to trade in my part-time job for full time, there would be an immediate daycare "tax" of $270 a week. Not even guessing at how much more that might be in summer or school vacation weeks. I have to account for that, elimination of the EIC, even though for us that has been on paper and being taken to cover old tax debt each year, incurring income tax on income that had none before as well as the added income, insurance costs that will change, and costs associated with commuting and having less "free" time. Working from home or doing business from home and flexibly/less than full time modifies that, but doesn't avoid it entirely. For a specific potential job, I estimated needed $40,000 a year above the income I make part time just to stay even. Not compensating me at all for taking my time. That's basically $43 an hour for each extra hour above what I work part time.
No wonder I still keep thinking what I have to do is make a living at self-employment and/or writing and/or part-time work from home.
Things have to change, in any event. My reaction to the election was a coldly furious resolution to be prepared to survive whatever happens. Ironically, that means improving my income. Expenses have nowhere to go but up, since we are about as to the bone as possible. I figure on being better able to cover living expenses, while continuing to keep them as low as possible, while preparing against disaster, disruption, lack of income in the future… all the things that can happen "unexpectedly" (if you have blinders on). It's great to hope things go well and change for the better, but in reality it could take decades to recover from this depression and from four more years of fundamental transformation. If it happens at all. In the long view, the tax blip coming up is nothing, and could help things turn toward the saner sooner rather than later.
Mystery Solved
There is a mystery that has haunted me since 1971. I never knew the name of my first crush, in fourth grade. My second was not until seventh grade, and in fourth I didn't understand what I was experiencing, except that it was magic, and how I always expected it to feel later on.
The girl in question was in my grade, but not in my class. Multiple classes would go to gym together, at least sometimes. The high point was in gym, learning some kind of dance that involved temporarily holding hands before changing partners. It was, to overuse the term, magic holding her hand oh so briefly.
The next school year, perhaps in part as I became more aware of what it was that had happened to me, I kept an eye out, but could never identify which girl on one of the classes it might have been. That seemed odd, and I was forever baffled.
I seem to recall associating her later with the song I Think I Love You, which I loved when I was in fifth grade, but don't remember being aware of until then, though it came out in 1970 (fourth grade was 70/71).
Anyway, courtesy of Facebook, I am as certain as it is possible to be at this point that I know who she was. How amazing is that! The girl in question came late to the large number of former classmates who've friended me, just a couple weeks ago. I placed the name, but had no mental image of her. Apparently we rode on the same bus one year, and that's mainly how she remembers me.
Another classmate posted a picture of her sixth grade class. It includes that new Facebook friend, looking very familiar. Two years later, but could it be….?
The clincher is that she was in my school through fourth grade, then moved away, returning halfway through sixth, in time to be in that 1973 class picture. Thus being unable to identify her in fifth grade, as if she had disappeared. It would have been easy to miss her return, and lose all track once we went to the larger school.
It made her day to learn of this, since she thought nobody liked her back then. It thrills me to have a name, and have her as a newfound friend.
Yeah, I feel like an ass for not voting Gary Johnson. Especially in Massachusetts, where it doesn't matter either way. I had a notion that the vote for Romney would be closer in this state than anyone would expect, and thought I'd contribute to that end. Especially since Gary Johnson was arguably the best Liberarian candidate ever.
The candidate we really needed was Bill Weld.
He got no traction with the Republican party, though, because he was a libertarian. He was what I think of it meaning to be a Republican. After him, Cellucci was close, but not quite. Jane Swift was kind of a joke by comparison, but more in an in over her head competence thing. I still thought it was rude the way Romney shoved her out of the way to start his presidential run in the form of being a governor. I disliked that before I disliked RomneyCare. Then he became presidential and outshone all the others this time. There is probably nobody who has run for President who would be a viable future candidate. Not sure who is a viable candidate. It's possible Ryan is too socially conservative, and that part must go. But I digress.
I Compose the Best Posts in My Head at Work
I just don't remember them later!
I was wrong, obviously. I forgot Wizard's First Rule: People are stupid. Thought of that at work, while my thoughts churned.
I can't go Galt now, or I would. Planned or not, I've de facto been going Galt for the past four years. I said things would get better regardless who won. I didn't say they'd stay better, let alone get as much better, and as I conceded to a leftist acquaintance, we would crash either way. Just why sooner rather than later?
No, I have to change my life to what will seem to be better and wealthier, because I can't go unprovisioned into the darkness, and provisioning takes money, while it still buys things.
Republicans will have to change. Mitt ran a good race, as a better candidate than I'd have imagined. Cerainly none of the crew were better, which is a sad statement. Sure, there were some near misses and some excitement, but they all were flawed. He didn't emphasize social conservatism, yet the party has saddled itself with that to the point people assume. From what I could see, that was what people feared. While they didn't need to fear it, republicans need to be more overt in recognizing and acknowledging it's over, that there's a new normal. Better to focus on the economics that will no go out of style, and improve foreign policy while keeping the general tenor of strength and world leadership.
The sad thing is, before Bush hit his second term and went crazy, or perhaps showed what was always there, when Bush was running, it seemed like republicans has overtly become the big tent party. It's better, or at least no worse, to be gay or a minority and go republican. (Note that I am leaving out libertarians here, though I did have thoughts on that and Gary Johnson as well.) If there are loudmouths who sound like they'll take away your right to early term abortions or stand fast in the way of marrying whoever you want, well, they are loudmouths, not representative. Sadly, democrats project. They project fraud onto republicans, while being the primary home of it. They project racism onto republicans, while being the current and historic home of it.
It was always discomforting that Mitt was the grandfather of Obamacare.
He was also too nice, too non-specific economically, and too easily associated in people's minds with Bush, who remains poisonous. In some ways, I'd call this a referendum on Bush versus Obama. If I had to make a choice of having Bush back or keeping Obama, I'd go for Bush, but it would be a razor thin thing, holding my nose and hoping he didn't screw it up. Mitt is no Bush, but it took me a while to get enthusiastic rather than resigned to him.
It's just an election, at least. Hugo Chavez was elected, so how bad could it be?
On the plus side, I was not looking forward to blogging critically of the Romney administration, given the morass it faced. Oh, I would have. I may have more fun going all out on the clown who'll inherit his own (and yes, GWB's) mess.
As for the voters, you own it. You voted for it, and oh won't you get it. Thanks for taking me along. Appreciate it. Especially you single issue voters (see above, and also delusions like that there'd cuts to school funding enough to matter – as if that's a federal issue anyway) and people who grew up financially privileged as children of rent-seekers or workers of angles and influence or thuggery however polished, who seem yet to have learned of the real world. Good luck with that, eventually.
And yes, I voted, so even to you pathetic morons who spout the witless line about not having the right to complain if I didn't vote, I sure as fuck will complain. Boy will I complain. If that were all you reaped from what you've sown, you'd be lucky, and I'd be thrilled. Are you ready for what's coming?
Couldn't Have Said I Better
Though I was saying it 25-30 years ago. Wish I had those portions of letters I wrote back then. It's the end of cake.


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I started my butterfly garden last summer and planted about 9 large milkweed plants. Now this spring I have about 500 seedlings coming up in about a 7 x 9 foot area. Should I thin some of the plants out or let all of them grow? I know I'm going to need alot of plants for the CATS.
I just thought overcrowding may tend to stunt all of the new plants. ( I already have about 20 lge seedlings in crocks.)
I know most of you have been butterfly gardening for years and have experienced this. What do you do?

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The African Sex Workers Alliance (ASWA) appointed a new Regional Coordinator, Daughtie Ogutu in November.
Daughtie stated on her appointment:
'I am looking forward to a wonderful, fulfilling experience at ASWA. My dream is to take ASWA to a level that is unimaginable, explore a platform and arena where sex workers issues are tabled and discussed without frowned faces and prejudices. My dream is to have an African sex workers movement that is recognized a world leader and agent of change and has the power to influence through collective action and responsibility. I endeavour to build a PanAfrican Sex Worker leadership team that is guided by feminist principles.'
You cna read all of her opening words on the ASWA website here.
With news articles on International Sex Worker Rights Day and the appointment of Kyomya Macklean as the new ASWA Regional Coordinator this e-newsletter is a must read.
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It's no secret that we're big fans of Oppo's line of universal players; in fact, we suggested last year that the company's BDP-93 would likely be the last disc player you'd ever need to buy.
Well, we were wrong. The just-announced BDP-103 ($499) and BDP-105 ($1,199) replace the BDP-93 and 95, and add enough new features to the enticing Oppo package that we just might have to rethink our position.
Yesterday S+V got a peek at the long-awaited new Streaming Stick from Roku — and it turns out to be a lot more than just a Roku 2 XS in a tiny package.
Adding color to the Walking Dead universe was a gamble, but Telltale Games nailed it.
At E3 this year I had a chance to preview the latest episode in the series (out today for Xbox 360, PC, and PS3 Friday) and pick the brain of Telltale's Founder and Chief Technology Officer Kevin Bruner.
For audio geeks, most of the real fun at CES is over at the Venetian Hotel, where high-end (and not-so-high-end) audio companies demonstrate their products in dozens of guest suites. While the rooms in the Venetian are known for $200,000 speakers, $100,000 amps, and $20,000 speaker cables, you can also hear great speakers and amps for as little as a few hundred dollars.
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Funeral Mass for Mancos resident Richard Valentino Cordova was held at 10 a.m. on Saturday, July 28 at St. Margaret Mary Catholic Church in Cortez. Interment will take place at Santa Rosa Memorial Park in Santa Rosa, Calif.
Visitation was held Friday evening at Ertel Memorial Chapel. Rosary services followed at 7 p.m. Military honors were provided Friday evening by the Ute Mountain American Legion Post #75.
Richard was born July 7, 1927 in Gallup, N.M. the son of Jose Ramon and Maria Placida (Silva) Cordova. He passed away on Wednesday, July 25, 2012 at his residence at the age of 85.
Richard served his country with the United States Marine Corps during World War II, the Korean Conflict and Vietnam. He belonged to the V.F.W., Marine Corps Officers Association and the Knights of Columbus. In his spare time, Richard enjoyed hunting elk.
Surviving Richard are his wife, Lena (Gill) Cordova of Mancos; his children, Debbie Myers and husband Jack of Wilton, Calif., Mark Cordova and wife Joanne of Wildomar, Calif., Denise Davis of Cotati, Calif., Valerie Roberts and husband Dash of Simpsonville, Ky., and Monique Fazenbaker of Benicia, Calif.; 14 grandchildren; 13 great-grandchildren; two great-great-grandchildren; and his brother, Raynell Cordova and wife Inga of Colorado Springs, Colo.
Richard was preceded in death by his parents; and by his first wife, Melane Marie Cordova.
Services are under the direction of Ertel Funeral Home. For further information or to send condolences, log on to www.ertelfuneralhome.com and click on the obituary section.
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Michael Vick declined to answer whether he owned a dog after he tweeted a photograph of him and his daughter at home Thursday night that included a box of Milk-bone dog biscuits.
"I'm here to strictly talk about football," Vick said Wednesday at the NovaCare Complex. "What goes on in my personal life is not to be talked about. What's most important right now is the Philadelphia Eagles and getting the win Sunday."
The 3-2 Eagles host the 1-3 Lions at Lincoln Financial Field.
In the picture, captured by the sports blog Crossing Broad, Vick is looking at his Eagles playbook on his IPad while his daughter is working at the same table. To the right is the box, apparently opened. The tweet was later deleted and another similar photo was sent, this time without the box in the picture.
Vick is permitted to own a dog and has spoken openly in the past about wanted to obtain one for his family, especially his two daughters. Recently, he was asked by CNN's Piers Morgan if he ever wanted to own a dog again.
"Maybe so," Vicks said in July. "Being honest. Being candid. … I still deal with my kids each and every day, and for the last 3 years, not being able to have a dog because of my acts. ... I just don't think that's fair.
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The Deputy was attempting to stop a vehicle driven by 44-year-old Clinton James Easter, a Texas parolee who had an outstanding warrant for his arrest from Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
A Stephens County Deputy spotted Easter driving north toward Breckenridge on Highway 183 South.
Easter refused to stop for the Deputy and turned onto County Road 161 before stopping at the Ranch House at the end of the road and fleeing on foot in a heavily wooded area.
Stephens County Deputies, Breckenridge Police Officers, Department of Public Safety Troopers and Eastland County Deputies searched for over five hours, but were unable to locate Easter.
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Sheriff Dan Young had information that Easter was possibly hiding at another ranch location in Eastland County, but found that Easter had left the area sometime Sunday night.
While attempting to serve the arrest warrant Deputies observed numerous items that were believed to be stolen. Eastland County Deputies obtained a search warrant for the Eastland County property. Deputies executed the search warrant and were able to confirm a large amount of stolen copper wire and vehicle wheels.
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During the fall 1983 semester, the faculty voted to add "sexual orientation" to the School's Human Rights Policy listing forbidden grounds for discrimination in our programs and employment practices, and specified that the policy would apply in the Career Services Office. The Board of Trustees quickly approved the faculty vote. Pursuant to that policy, representatives of the Defense Department were denied the opportunity to recruit on campus, because at that time military regulations prohibited lesbians or gay men from working for the Defense Department in any capacity. New York Law School was one of a relatively small number of law schools to enforce such a non-discrimination policy. New York Law School continues to oppose the practice of discrimination in employment by all employers including discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.
The fall 1983 vote, although overwhelming, was not unanimous. Although there has been a broad consensus that lesbians and gay men should be allowed to serve in the military without discrimination, there has always been a diversity of views among the faculty about the wisdom of excluding military recruiters from the law school, and the potential impact such a ban might have on the career opportunities of New York Law School students. Some Faculty members have consistently opposed the ban because it insulates the military from the very "liberal arts" institutions whose values would otherwise help counter homophobia and also help continue to ensure civilian control over the military. Other members of the faculty have argued that banning military recruiters has minimal, if any, impact in changing the military policy, while possibly alienating potential employers of our students. Others have insisted that an institution that proclaims its commitment to the principle of non-discrimination should not be making exceptions, and that all New York Law School students should be able to participate in any program on campus for which they are qualified, without regard to such factors as sexual orientation.
At its annual meeting in 1990, the House of Representatives of the Association of American Law Schools, of which New York Law School is a member, amended the Association's membership rules to require that member schools adopt policies banning sexual orientation discrimination, and apply those policies in their placement facilities. As a result, most of the nation's law schools joined New York Law School in excluding Defense Department recruiters. Several years later, the House of Delegates of the American Bar Association, which accredits law schools, voted to amend the accreditation requirements so that accredited schools would be required to ban sexual orientation discrimination, but the A.B.A. requirements make an explicit exception for the military.
In 1993, reacting to a presidential campaign pledge by President Bill Clinton to end the ban on military service by gay people, Congress adopted, for the first time, a statutory policy, codified at 10 U.S.C. section 654. The policy declared that homosexuality was incompatible with military service, and required the discharge of any service member whose conduct or speech indicated that they were gay. This so-called "don't ask, don't tell" policy was presented as a compromise, under which gay people could serve in the military if they refrained from any speech or conduct that would reveal their sexual orientation to others. Believing that this policy continued to be discriminatory on the basis of sexual orientation, New York Law School continued to deny military recruiters the use of our Career Services facilities.
In 1994, reacting to the widespread exclusion of military recruiters from law schools and other institutions of higher education, Congress adopted the first version of the "Solomon Amendment," a provision of the Defense Department Appropriations Bill. The Solomon Amendment required the Defense Department to refrain from spending any money authorized by the Defense appropriations bill to assist institutions of higher education that excluded military recruiters. The Defense Department, seeking to avoid confrontations with major research universities that barred military recruiters at their law schools while performing substantial research or training activities for the military elsewhere in the university, construed the Solomon Amendment narrowly as applicable only to the unit of an institution that was barring military recruiters. Because law schools generally receive little or no Defense Department money, this first version of the Solomon Amendment did not induce many schools to admit military recruiters.
However, Congress then revised the Solomon Amendment to apply to appropriations for a wider array of federal programs, including student financial assistance programs, as a result of which New York Law School and most other law schools rescinded their bans on military recruiters later in the 1990s because many of our students relied on such federal assistance to be able to attend law school. The Association of American Law Schools modified its policy as well, providing that member schools should take steps to "ameliorate" the impact on their law school communities of having to allow a discriminatory employer to use their placement facilities. Gay rights activists in the law school community brought this situation to the attention of friendly members of Congress, who successfully amended the Solomon Amendment to shelter all student financial aid grants from its operation, leading many law schools, including New York Law School, to reinstate the ban on military recruiters. As before, the faculty discussion on whether to reinstate the ban revealed substantial diversity of views on the faculty about the wisdom of the action.
The change of federal administrations with the inauguration of President George W. Bush in January 2001 led to policy changes. The Defense Department abandoned its practice of interpreting the Solomon Amendment narrowly, and announced new regulations under which a law school's ban on military recruiters would subject the entire university to the loss of federal financial assistance. Furthermore, the regulations were amended to require that military recruiters be given "equal access" with all other job recruiters at law school placement facilities. Shortly after these policies were adopted, the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, placed New York Law School in a particularly sensitive position on the issue of military recruitment, situated as we are just blocks from "Ground Zero." A decision was madeto allow military recruiters to come to the school that year.
The new policies announced by the Defense Department in 2001 led most law schools to rescind their bans on military recruitment. Only a few independent law schools that did not have federal money at stake continued to apply their non-discrimination policies to the military. Faculty members and administrators who were dissatisfied with this situation formed the Forum for Academic and Institution Rights (FAIR) for the specific purpose of litigating the question whether the Solomon Amendment, as currently applied, violates the constitutional rights of law schools. New York Law School became a member of FAIR, and was one of a handful of law school members that agreed to be publicly identified as such. (Some schools preferred to be anonymous to avoid endangering federal money going to other units of their universities.)
When the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit held in FAIR v. Rumsfeld, 390 F.3d 219 (3rd Cir., 2004), that the Solomon Amendment violated the First Amendment free speech and associational rights of law schools, New York Law School reinstated its ban on military recruiters. The faculty debated what course to take and concluded by majority vote, with significant dissent, to enforce our non-discrimination policy pending the outcome of the government's appeal.
The government successfully appealed the 3rd Circuit's ruling to the Supreme Court, which held unanimously in Rumsfeld v. FAIR, 126 S.Ct. 1297 (March 6, 2006), that the Solomon Amendment is constitutional. Specifically, the Court said that Congress could directly require law schools to allow military recruiters on campus, as an aspect of its enumerated power under Article I of the Constitution to raise armies, in light of which Congress surely had the less intrusive authority to condition federal financial assistance on law schools cooperating in the military recruitment process. The Court also ruled that recruitment is not speech, that banning recruiters is not speech, and that the law schools' expressive associational rights are not unconstitutionally burdened by the occasional presence of a military recruiter on campus. The Court stated that nothing in the Solomon Amendment would require law schools to take any particular position on the question of whether gay people should be allowed to serve in the military, and that nothing would preclude law schools from stating their opposition to the current policies.
In light of the Court's decision, the faculty has voted to allow military recruitment to resume on campus, accompanied by a firm statement of the School's Human Rights Policy and disagreement with the military "don't ask, don't tell" policy. (The "don't ask, don't tell" policy has also been the subject of repeated challenge in the courts, but so far has survived all judicial review.) The Supreme Court's decision makes clear that Congress has the power to compel access for military recruiters. Under the Solomon Amendment, all but a handful of law schools are compelled by circumstances to allow military recruiters on campus, due to the threat of losing substantial federal financial assistance – in some cases of major research universities, hundreds of millions of dollars a year. As a result, further exclusion of the military by the handful of law schools that do not have federal grants at stake, including New York Law School, is unlikely to have any significant impact in changing the military policy. The faculty discussion leading to the vote showed that most faculty members continue to disagree with the "don't ask, don't tell" policy, and that the faculty supports efforts to educate students about this issue and express the School's collective disapproval of the policy, especially when military recruiters are present on campus. To this end, members of the faculty and administration were urged to support efforts to organize educational events and protests around this issue when military recruiters return to the law school.


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The smallest school in the district has received a perfect score for one standardized test for last year.
Reuben Elementary received a 100, the highest grade in the district for the 2010-11 school year's Palmetto Assessment of State Standards test.
The test measures student performance by South Carolina academic standards and are used for accountability purposes on a school, district and federal level.
There are five subject areas which include English/language arts, science, social studies, math and writing. However, different grades take different tests at different times. The test is for those in grades three through eight.
While Reuben had the highest grade, there were other schools who very close and who worked hard. All of the other elementary schools had either A's or B's; however, it was Reuben who scored a 100.
Reuben Principal Mike Stroud acknowledges that he is very proud of the effort put forth by the teachers and students, but they will need to continue working hard especially with standards rising for the upcoming year.
Stroud doesn't want everyone at Reuben to become complacent. The work continues and they must aim higher.
Stroud acknowledges some different assets that helped Reuben achieve a perfect score.
For one, they had a computerized math program which was used in computer labs weekly along with enrichment. This helped the students brush up on math skills.
The program was made possible because of the parent-teacher organization's efforts. This year the school will have access to this program once again.
Stroud also acknowledges all the teachers for going above and beyond, but a retired teacher, Susan Senn, also came at least a few days each week to help with reading skills.
Senn also provided support to another school, Boundary Street, as well.
Stroud also acknowledges enrichment time and the small school allows for smaller classroom settings which is an advantage.
Enrichment period is a district requirement, but Stroud says that at Reuben, they had the children divided into groups and the teachers would rotate everyday focusing on a specific subject in a more personal setting.
The school also had fun ways to positively reinforce the students with PASS pep rallies and gifts from local businesses.
This year, science will be a big focus as the teachers are finding that this is a more difficult subject.
While the small school scored perfect, the bar has been raised and they must at least meet or exceed this for next year.


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Prosecutors urged a judge Thursday to dismiss Michael Skakel's latest challenge of his 2002 murder conviction, saying the Kennedy cousin's claim that his trial attorney did a poor job should have been raised in an earlier appeal and that many of the issues he cites were previously rejected.
A hearing was held Thursday in Rockville Superior Court. The 52-year-old nephew of Robert F. Kennedy's widow, Ethel Kennedy, did not attend and there was no immediate ruling.
Skakel is serving 20 years to life in prison for the fatal beating of Martha Moxley in wealthy Greenwich in 1975, when they were 15-year-old neighbors. He recently lost a bid for parole after a hearing in which he reiterated his innocence.
Attorneys for Skakel argue in the appeal filed in 2010 that his trial attorney, Michael Sherman, failed to challenge the state's star witness by finding witnesses who later rejected his claim that Skakel confessed to the crime. Skakel, who is seeking a new trial, says Sherman failed to obtain evidence from prosecutors and others pointing to other suspects and failed to object to improper closing arguments.
Sherman has said he did all he could to prevent Skakel's conviction.
Prosecutors say the claim against Sherman should have been raised in an earlier appeal, and contend Skakel is in procedural default.
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Gill also argues that 80 percent of the issues cited, such as the claim about the star witness and improper closing arguments, were denied in an earlier appeal and that Skakel should not be allowed to raise the same issues in an effort to get a different ruling from another judge.
Hubert Santos, Skakel's current attorney, said there was no obligation to file the claim earlier and to do so would have forced him to make inconsistent arguments. He says the defense wanted Sherman's cooperation in connection with an earlier appeal and was awaiting details to emerge of Sherman's tax troubles that would factor into the latest claim.
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