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According to Lewis and Short, one version of the palmus was equal to a "span" of twelve digits:
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/pt ... 3D%2333517
Could anyone post the passages on which this is supposedly based? Thanks.
adrianus wrote:http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/L/Roman/Texts/Varro/de_Re_Rustica/3*.html
benissimus wrote:Am I missing something?
Varr. R. R. 3.7 wrote:Nihil enim timidius columba. Singulis paribus columbaria fiunt rutunda in ordinem crebra, ordines quam plurimi possunt a terra usque ad camaram. Columbaria singula esse oportet ut os habeat, quo modo introire et exire possit, intus ternarum palmarum ex omnibus partibus. Sub ordines singulos tabulae fictae ut sint bipalmes, quo utantur vestibulo ac prodeant.
Oxford English Dictionary on 'span' wrote: 1. a. The distance from the tip of the thumb to the tip of the little finger, or sometimes to the tip of the forefinger, when the hand is fully extended; the space equivalent to this taken as a measure of length, averaging nine inches.
Freq. followed by a positive or comparative adj.
c900 tr. Baeda's Hist. IV. xi. (1890) 296 a wæs se lichoma sponne [v.r. spanne] lengra ære ryh. c1000 ÆLFRIC Gloss. in Wr.-Wülcker 158 Palmus, span uel handbred. a1310 in Wright Lyric P. ix. 35 Swannes swyre swythe wel y-sette, A sponne lengore then y-mette. c1380 Sir Ferumb. 1607 e swerd..clef him anne, Til it hadde in-to is bodi i-sot by-nythe is brest a spanne. c1386 CHAUCER Prol. 155 Sche hadde a fair forheed. It was almost a spanne brood, I trowe. 14.. Sir Beues (S.) 2509 A span long ey [i.e. bristles] were, wel rowe. c1440 Promp. Parv. 467/1 Spanne, mesure of the hand, palmus,..palmata. 1483 Cath. Angl. 351 A Spayn (A. Spane), palmus. 1535 COVERDALE Judges iii. 16 Ehud made him a two edged dagger of a spanne longe. 1577-87 HOLINSHED Chron. I. 92/1 The space of his forehead betwixt his two eies was a span broad. 1660 BOYLE New Exp. Phys. Mech. ix. (1682) 39 There happen'd in the great Receiver a crack of about a Span long. 1671 J. WEBSTER Metallogr. xi. 158 They go no deeper than a span or two. 1718 Free-thinker No. 47. 343 Pharao..was a Dwarf, but seven Spans high. 1756-7 tr. Keysler's Trav. (1760) II. 276 The diameter..is twelve common spans, or near eight feet. 1811 A. T. THOMSON Lond. Disp. (1818) 36 The stems trailing, about a span in length. 1862 DRAPER Intell. Devel. Europe xiii. (1865) 303 In which there are walking about men, a span long.
adrianus wrote:Here it is! An English "span" (of a widely extended hand, which equals 12 digits = 9 inches because 16 digits = 12 inches) is "palmus" in later Latin.
WPThayer wrote:The Greek has 2 cubits long, 1 span for the dart length: τὸ δὲ βέλος τοιοῦτον· διπάλαιστον ἦν, ἴσον ἔχον τὸν αὐλίσκον τῇ προβολῇ. τούτῳ ξύλον ἐνήρμοστο τῷ μὲν μήκει σπιθαμιαῖον, τῷ δὲ πάχει δακτυλιαίαν ἔχον τῆν διάμετρον.)

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Source(Pub. L. 88–352, title IV, § 404,July 2, 1964, 78 Stat. 247; Pub. L. 96–88, title III, § 301(a)(1), title V, § 507,Oct. 17, 1979, 93 Stat. 677, 692.)
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Galapagos National Park Dive Permit Impacts
Posted 16 July 2007 - 04:09 PM
First, I think that Ecuador had done an amazing conservation job in the Galapagos. This is not a rich country, and they have accomplished a great deal. Bashing them is both counter-productive and inaccurate. It would be quite easy to have really lax regulations and turn the area into a "cash cow" similar to what has been done in other parts of the world.
I would suggest withholding judgement on what is going on until the dust settles a bit. It is a drag when a trip is cancelled, but I don't think all the information is out. On our trip we heard about new regulations coming into effect and existing regulations being enforced: the question was when.
Second, for the diving portion of our trip we were land based in Puerto Ayoro and dove with Scuba Iguana. With the major exceptions of Darwin and Wolf, it is quite easy and accessable to dive the remainder of the islands. There is also a wonderful new hotel in town, which makes staying in Puerto Ayoro much nicer.
Third, there were several open slots each day on the Scuba Iguana boats. My guess is that this is true for other land based operators with proper permits and may be something for those whose live aboard trips have been cancelled to check out.
Fourth, the Galapagos are an extremely unique area, and while I very much enjoy the diving, the flora and fauna on land are equally amazing. I feel really badly for visitors who miss the land sites.
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Posted 18 July 2007 - 04:17 PM
We regret this situation, but basically it is the National Park's decision after their legal analisis. However, we are doing our best (the Minister of Tourism is involved directly) in talking with the Ministry of Environment who is the ministry that runs national parks, to pass a moratorium for the best interest in all of who have paid their trips, and to the operators to legalize their operations. We believe this can pass this week, maximum next week and we would have this problem solved.
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Posted 18 July 2007 - 08:50 PM
Edited by pakman, 18 July 2007 - 08:50 PM.
Posted 19 July 2007 - 05:32 PM
Fortunately for me, I had my Galapagos dive trip back in May, before all this started. I dove with Aggressor, so wouldn't have been affected anyway. But some good friends are booked next week on Deep Blue and they are still waiting for definitive answers from the LDS they booked through. I will direct them to this thread, which at least indicates some hope that other companies are recognizing their responsibilities to their customers and canceling trips, which would imply at least partial refunds.
As long as I have the floor, I want to put in my two cents about what I think is happening here.
1) Ecuador, and the GNP in particular, got dinged with the threatened status being applied to GNP as a World Heritage site.
2) Needing to take some action, and having the apparent support of President Correa from his statements back in April, GNP decided to enforce permitting regulations that apparently have been honored more in the breach for years. Certainly they knew what permits the boats had and what they were actually doing, but obviously they had winked at them all this time.
3) The dive permit enforcement is window dressing that does nothing to address the real issues that threaten the Galapagos. The fact is the liveaboard dive boats and their customers have the least impact of any of the tourists on the Galapagos environment. Their activities support few jobs, so they don't encourage enormous numbers of people to move to Puerto Ayora to work in the restaurants, hotels and other industries there. The divers are relatively small in number, so they have less impact on the land tours.
4) If GNP were serious about protecting habitats and creatures on the islands, they would be placing severe quotas on the cruise ships and land based tours that create hundreds of jobs on the islands, attracting more and more people from the mainland. Those people bring goats, cats, dogs, pigs and other animals that get loose, breed and further endanger the native wildlife. They also bring the need for more fresh water, paved roads, vehicles, sewage systems, etc., all of which have an impact on air and water quality, shoreline erosion, etc.
5) GNP is not really serious about protecting or restoring the Galapagos environment, but rather protecting the tourism-based economy that will destroy the most precious aspects of the Galapagos environment. It's an old story, of course; economies always seem to win out over environmental needs. This is just another example. The course they've taken will affect the smallest possible number of jobs, so it won't cause much of a stir among the people of Ecuador.
Having said all that, I also realize that it is even more difficult for a developing nation like Ecuador to provide the economic development opportunities its people need. Our divemaster told us that he blames NGOs for the continuing poaching and shark finning that takes place in GNP. His reasoning was that total bans as advocated by many US and European NGOs simply make the products more valuable, which attracts more people to the trade. If they're impoverished, poaching looks like easy money, well worth the risk of getting caught. These activities keep lots of people employed, so they continue in spite of the bans. What is needed, and is not being provided, are alternatives, job training, including training in and perhaps some subsidizing of sustainable fishing methods.
It's a complicated business, and the more complicated something is, the more likely bureaucrats and politicians will look for the easiest, short-term solution, which often means catering to the most powerful special interests. It would be nice to see them take the long view, work with all parties concerned and find real solutions for the real problems that exist and will exist in the Galapagos.
Meanwhile, if you want to make your own feelings known, you might try:
Luis Benigno Gallegos Chiriboga
Embassy of Ecuador
2535 15th Street, NW
Washington, D.C. 20009
Phone: (202) 234-7166
Fax: (202) 234-3497
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
The URL at the end is a public forum on the Web site of the Ecuadoran embassy. Posting some of these thoughts there might be a way to get their attention, too.
Good luck.
What a Stupid Question
Posted 20 July 2007 - 07:11 PM
Posted 21 July 2007 - 03:05 AM
The theory that the fishing interests are behind all this makes more and more sense.
Posted 21 July 2007 - 05:09 AM
Posted 21 July 2007 - 08:28 AM
mr bubbles, where did you read that?
it is in yahoo news at least
Posted 21 July 2007 - 11:47 AM
Posted 21 July 2007 - 01:02 PM
i'm making a doc on shark fishing on coastal ecuador right now, and know very well that the amount of fins sold every day on the coast is a LOT, even with the ban in place. we suspect that coastal waters are used by galapagos populations to breed, as pretty much only juveniles or pregnant females are seen coming out of the pangas.
however, i really don't see how lifting the ban is going to help. does anyone see this logic?
there is a deal in place currently to develop the port of manta on the coast, to be the biggest export port in latin america. that deal was signed and sealed last year. the prime movers are chinese or japanese i can't remember. maybe this has something to do with it. maybe ecuador will become the new export port for shark fins for the whole of latin america?? if that happens then we have all the reason to worry.
Posted 21 July 2007 - 02:53 PM
"Galapagos Conservancy
July 19, 2007
An Important Update on Diving In the Galapagos Islands
On Tuesday, July 10, 2007, the director of the Galapagos National Park (GNP) began the first in a series of stringent enforcement efforts by suspending dive trips operated by tour companies not in possession of the appropriate permits. The Galapagos National Park is enforcing current legislation which requires that tour operators have a specific diving permit to run dive charters inside the Galapagos Marine Reserve (GMR) and Park. Previously, many operators have carried out dive tourism with only a land tour permit.
This decision will affect only those yachts which do not have the appropriate permits and is effective immediately. It is anticipated that by the middle of 2008, several activities in the GMR – including diving – will have their regulatory language and procedures established. Until that time, the GNP is required by law to control and sanction boats that do not follow regulations. Tour operators and agencies are only able to sell tour packages for authorized activities.
It is recommended that those visitors who have planned a dive trip to Galapagos contact their tour operators for the latest information. Other information can be obtained directly from the Galapagos National Park offices: Raquel Molina, Director: email@example.com and Edwin Naula, Head of Public Use: email@example.com.
Posted 21 July 2007 - 05:41 PM
I tried to see what I could find about the President's actions, and the quote below is from an Ecuadorian blog. Less those of us from the US think about taking the moral high ground, there is also reference to much concern about a US company dumping chemicals south of the Galapagos. The thought is to increase plankton blooms as part of a carbon credit scheme.
[/indent]Gobierno da 'luz verde' a la pesca accidental de tiburón en el Ecuador
El presidente, Rafael Correa, derogó el decreto 2130 que prohíbe la pesca y la comercialización de aletas de tiburón en el país. Las organizaciones ecologistas se oponen y demandan la anulación.
[/indent]La pesca del tiburón vuelve a las aguas ecuatorianas. Con la firma del decreto del presidente de la República, Rafael Correa, los pescadores artesanales podrán comercializar carne y aletas de tiburón siempre y cuando sea producto de una captura accidental.
Correa anunció en Manta la vigencia del nuevo decreto ejecutivo, que derogó al 2130, expedido por el ex presidente, Lucio Gutiérrez y que prohibía cualquier tipo de pesca de tiburón en el Ecuador.
"Quienes durante el ejercicio de la actividad pesquera capturen tiburones, como producto único y exclusivo de la pesca incidental, podrán comercializar y utilizar íntegramente su carne, así como también se permitirá el almacenamiento, transporte y exportación de aletas de tiburón provenientes de la pesca incidental, realizada por embarcaciones registradas por la Subsecretaría de Recursos Pesqueros y las capitanías de puerto", dice parte de decreto promulgado por Correa.
Correa aseguró que el Gobierno se está recuperando el "valor de la palabra porque está cumpliendo con la derogatoria de un absurdo decreto que, con la buena intención, trata de proteger a los tiburones, pero con absurdas medidas. El remedio es más caro que la enfermedad, tratando como delincuentes a quienes viven de la pesca artesanal", ratificó durante el recorrido en Manta.
"Esta no es más que una sucia artimaña. Permitir la pesca incidental de tiburones es fomentar la pesca indiscriminada, por lo tanto, el mercado de aletas de tiburón crecerá más; solo entre junio y julio se han incautado más de 20 000 aletas de tiburón en distintos operativos", aseguró la fundación Sea Shepherd, que lucha por la preservación de la vida marina y de tiburones en Ecuador y otros países del mundo.
[indent=1]Para la fundación Sea Shepherd actividades turísticas como el snorkeling y buceo con tiburones en Galápagos, por ejemplo, dejan más ingresos y beneficia a mucha más gente comparado con el negocio de la pesca que satisface la demanda asiática, que lucra a unos pocos y arrasa con los tesoros marinos del país.
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Attached is an EXCELLENT letter written and sent to the various
governmental officials in Ecuador [see attached file -editor].
It is especially powerful from my
prospective because the person that wrote it is NOT a client of
Galapagos Adventures. This indicates that you people are forwarding the
information I am sending out to others and at least some of these other
people are responding. If you decide to join us in this protest, please
feel free to use this letter as a template for your letter and/or
forward it on to other concerned parties along with the email address I
sent earlier.
I have been informed by Ecuador that the awareness is now all the way up
to the presidency. The Minister of Tourism - who has been pushing for
a moratorium on the band on diving has finally gotten the Minister of
the Environment who is in charge of all national parks to agree to
this. They have produced a document that will be going to the
president of Ecuador tomorrow. If he signs it, it will be passed into
law and ALL dive operators that have dive trips scheduled will be
allowed to resume their operations immediately. Supposedly this
moratorium will last until at least the end of 2007 to give the national
park time to work on writing new regulation concerning diving in
Galapagos. As soon as I have confirmation that the president has
signed this document, I will let you know.
BTW - the calls to Embassies and Ecuadorian Consulate were by far the
most effect !!!!!
If you want to help, here's what you can do (copied from other e-mails):
It appears the hold out is Dr. Anita Alban Mora, the Minister of Environment. It's time for some pressure to go her way.
I could not get her direct email address but here are some e-mail addresses for the people that work directly with her:
Please copy your letter to the above listed email addresses.
The US Embassy in Quito does not post an email address but rather it is one of those boxes where you type your letter and hit the "send" button. You can send your letter to them by going to http://www.usembassy...sh/ContacEN.htm and cutting and pasting your letter into the box.
There is also a phone number on that page but it is an Ecuadorian number.
Embassy of Ecuador in the Netherlands:
María del Carmen González
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The crack is getting bigger but we are NOT there yet. TURN THE HEAT UP MORE !!!!!! If you have not sent your emails or made your call, please do so NOW.
A number of you that have forwarded me the SAME message you have recieved from Ecuador:
We regret this situation, but basically it is the National Park's decision after their legal analisis. However, we are doing our best (Minister of Tourism is involved directly) in talking with the Ministry of Environment who is the ministry that runs national parks, to pass a moratorium for the best interest in all of who have paid their trips, and to the operators to legalize their operations. We believe this can pass this week and we would have this problem solved.
Best regards,
Patricio Tamariz
Executive Director
Ecuador's Tourism Promotion Fund
Sorry folks. I gave the Americans on my distribution list the wrong number. The number in the previous email was for the Canadian Consul. I googled "US consul Ecuador" and found this site http://www.ecuador.org/main.htm
Embassy of Ecuador in Washington
Tel: (202) 234-7200
Fax: (202) 667-3482
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Consulate of Ecuador in Washington
Tel: (202) 234-7166
Fax: (202) 265-9325
Email: email@example.com
I also found this web site for a Consul office in Ecuador for US citizens in Guayaquil http://guayaquil.usconsulate.gov
They even have a US number toll free number so you can call them !! 1-800-919-5290 PLUS there is an email. Maybe besides giving them a call on their 800 number, you should forward those emails you already sent to Ecuador to this email as well - firstname.lastname@example.com
Make sure to include a note stating you are an American and you are requesting help !
I'm working on getting the US ambassador to Ecuador's email and phone number in Quito. I'll mass it out as soon as I get it. Passengers who are not Americans - try to find the contact information for your country's ambassador to Ecuador. If you find it, pass it on to me and I'll blast it out to everyone on my distribution list. Tour operators - remember to pass ALL of these contacts on to your passengers and encourage them to TAKE ACTION.
Here are the email addresses of the government officials in Ecuador.
Raquel Molina Director on the GNP firstname.lastname@example.com
Maria Isabel Salvado Ministry of Tourism firstname.lastname@example.com
Patricio Tamariz Fondo Mixto Promocion Turistic
Ministry of Outer Relations email@example.com
Department of.Tourism - GNP email@example.com
Nubia Jaramillo - Coordinating of Marketing of TM
Ministry of Galapagos Tourism email@example.com
Keep in mind that the GNP has the RIGHT to close any activity at anytime
so this is not the issue. The issue is the way it is being handled. If
you are upset with the way they handled this situation, these are the
people to complain to.
Feel free to pass this information on to anyone else that is interested.
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Posted 22 July 2007 - 07:28 PM
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Posted 23 July 2007 - 02:41 AM
One other point not mentioned specifically in this thread, is the limitation of all dive excursions to a week or less. The effect of this will likely be to decrease the number of visitors to, and time spent at Darwin and Wolf. These two areas are where the highest concentration of fish and sharks still remain - the result, the fisherman can do their work, legal or illegal, with less interference.
In a sad coincidence, the President of Ecuador just lifted the ban on sale of shark fins How is it dive boats full of conservation oriented divers are banned while shark finning boats are invited in? Perhaps everyone should include that in your letters to the Ecuador.
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Edited by loftus, 23 July 2007 - 02:44 AM.
Posted 23 July 2007 - 05:19 AM
just saw this. looks like no wolf or darwin for awhile....
Edited by chadbeck, 23 July 2007 - 09:50 AM.
Posted 31 July 2007 - 01:31 AM
Posted 31 July 2007 - 04:14 AM
@ chadbeck: So Eco Explorer I is operating...? Thought only Agressors and Sky....
The info that i have from my tour operator is that ALL boats can operate in Galapagos for the time being, BUT only the Agressors and Sky Dancer can go to Wolf and Darwin.
They are the only boats with full approved licenses.
This matches with most of the info I have been able to find on the web.
The last update I have is:
"On the back of a meeting that was held in Ecuador yesterday (30/7/7), between all affected parties, there will be a further meeting held between lawyers, the Galapagos N.P. authorities the Ecuadorian Ministry of tourism on Thursday morning (Ecuador time)."
If I get an update on Friday I will post it here.
Posted 31 July 2007 - 07:01 AM
I don't believe this is correct. Scuba Iguana runs seven day live aboard trips to Wolf and Darwin from Puerto Ayoro (http://www.scubaigua...urs.html#DARWIN), and I would imagine that the other operators there who have the proper license also run trips there.
It would be interesting to know how many outfits and divers are actually impacted, as there are quite a few operators with the correct permits. There were several vacancies on our trip the first part of July, and I heard that this is the case with other Puerto Ayoro based operators.
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I read all the articles with a lot of interest since my girlfriend and I booked a liveaboard trip to the Galapagos (Darwin and Wolf) from October 3rd till 15th aboard the Catamaran Lammerlaw.
My operator has no signs that this trip will be canceled.
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The Feminist Factor
By ELEANOR SMEAL
As we move forward after the elections of 2012, it's time to
acknowledge that it wasn't just women who made a critical
difference in reelecting President Barack Obama, but feminists
I've been thinking about the gender gap since the early 1970s, when I was doing graduate work on women's political attitudes. And in 1980, I proved its existence while analyzing job-approval polling, segmented by gender, for President Ronald Reagan, who opposed the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). Women approved of him less than mena statistic borne out in the election, in which there was an 8-point gap between women's votes for Reagan and men's. A team of us at NOW
(the National Organization for Women), who were campaigning hard for the ERA, named it the gender gap, and we even had a ditty that we chanted toward politicians we opposed: "The gender gap will get you if you don't watch out!"
The gapthe measurable difference between the voting behavior and political attitudes of women and menhas grown considerably since then. It was decisive in November, both in the presidential race and in maintaining a Democratic majority in the U.S. Senate.
To begin with, women (53 percent of all voters) cast some 8 million more votes for the president than men did. And 55 percent of those women chose Obama, compared to just 45 percent of menfor a 10-percent gender gap. If only men had voted, Mitt Romney would have won the presidency, 52 percent to 45 percent.
The gender gap and women's votes were also decisive in some key Senate races in which the Democratic candidate won, including Elizabeth Warren's in Massachusetts (a 12-percent gender gap) and Chris Murphy's in Connecticut (11 percent). If only men had voted in each of these races, the Republican candidate would have won.
Most importantly, this gender gap was crucial in the battleground states in which the presidential election was determined: In Ohio and Wisconsin, for example, the gender gap was 10 percent pro-Obama, and 8 percent and 10 percent, respectively, in favor of Democratic senatorial candidates Sherrod Brown and Tammy Baldwin. Even in states in which the gap was smaller, such as Virginia and Florida, it was large enough for Democrats to win the presidential and Senate contests.
But now it's time to add another metric beyond the gender gap to our postelection analysis: the "feminist factor." While there were many reasons for President Obama's decisive victory, the feminist factor may be one of the most significant.
We dubbed it that after analyzing an in-depth poll Ms. commissioned with the Communications Consortium Media Center and the Feminist Majority Foundation. Conducted Nov. 46, 2012, by Lake Research Partners, it found that 55 percent of women voters and even 30 percent of men voters consider themselves feminist.
These results are generally 9 points higher than they were in 2008, when the same question was posed to voters, and this upward trend is likely to continue given the strong identification with feminism by younger women and women of color.
Speaking of younger women, a solid majority of them (58 percent) identify as feministsas did 54 percent of older women, nearly three-quarters (72 percent) of Democratic women and a respectable 38 percent of Republican women. The feminist factor cuts across race and ethnic lines, with a majority of Latina, African American and white women voters considering themselves feminists.
Most importantly, voters' views on feminism correlated with their choice of candidates. Among feminist women, some two-thirds (64 percent) voted for Obama, as did 54 percent of feminist-identified men. Looking at voters who identified as pro-choice, 61 percent cast their ballot for Obama.
While the votes of womenespecially feminist womenwere crucial in reelecting the president and a Democratic-majority Senate, they were not successful in electing a Democratic House majority. However, they probably could have done so if it weren't for severely gerrymandered districts that underrepresent Democrats (60 percent of whom are women), Latina/os, African Americans and women. Overall, Americans cast some 1.3 million more votes for House Democrats than House Republicans, but because of gerrymandering, they would need to win the popular vote in House elections by more than 7 percent just to barely gain a House majority. (Thanks to Ian Millhiser of ThinkProgress for that analysis.)
Although feminists feel that the election was a victory for us in the War on Womenthe term now commonly used by feminists and the media to describe initiatives in state legislatures and Congress that severely restrict women's rights in such areas as reproduction, violence and pay equitywe can't savor it for long. The 2012 election wins have prevented some of the worst attacks on women's rights from succeeding, but we won just a battle: The opposition to women's rights, especially at the state level, is certainly not going away. We have much to do if we are to realize the pro-choice, pro-women's rights agenda upon which President Obama and other candidates ranan agenda that will move women and the nation forward.
Now is the time for feminists and feminist organizations to gear up and mobilize, making sure that the message we delivered in the 2012 election is actually received and results are delivered. We must work to prevent a backslide, as happened in the congressional and state elections in 2009 and 2010, and instead build for further victories in the 2013 and 2014 elections.
Here is what we must do:
FIRST We must work to avert an economic crisis. As I write this, we just faced a "fiscal cliff," with another fight looming in Congress about raising the debt limit. Conservatives in Congress keep demanding benefits cuts in Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid programs that women, especially, desperately needso we cannot let this happen.
Congress must not balance the federal budget on the backs of the poor, the disabled or the elderly. There are plenty of cuts that can be realized without slashing benefits for programs that women rely upon. Just one example: The Affordable Care Act cuts some $716 billion out of Medicare over 10 years, but does so by reducing administrative costs and insurance company subsidies rather than cutting benefits to older recipients.
SECOND We must work to pass a series of other critical measures in Congress. For one, there's the federal Paycheck Fairness Actfilibustered by Senate Republicans in 2012 which increases protections for workers who sue employers for sex discrimination or even discuss their pay with coworkers. And we still must pass the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), which House Republicans blocked in 2012 by rolling back coverage the Senate had voted on for students, immigrants, Native Americans and the LGBT community.
We also must urge Congress to increase access to family planning and abortion, and keep intact the Affordable Care Act. Plus, we repeat: In these tough economic times, we must insist on keeping the protections of Medicare, Social Security and Medicaid.
But the next set of battles is not just at the national level.
THIRD We must organize to stop attacks on women's rights in many state legislatures, which are often led by their governors. We hardly had time to analyze the election results before those attacks started up again. One of the more egregious examples was when the lame-duck Michigan Legislature passed, and the governor signed into law, an extreme TRAP law (Targeted Regulations against Abortion Providers) in an effort to close abortion clinics.
Ohio's Legislature also used its lame-duck session to attack women's rights, introducing a very restrictive abortion lawwhich, fortunately, was withdrawn. But in Mississippi, the state is defending a newly passed TRAP law designed to close the only remaining abortion clinic in the state (see page 16). And in Texas, a law that went into effect earlier this year is preventing Planned Parenthood because it provides abortion services from receiving any funding from the new Texas Women's Health Program, even though the health-care provider's services other than abortion aid some 50,000 women.
Clearly, the message of the gender gap and feminist factor weren't heard in Virginia, either. That state is in the process of implementing its new TRAP law, which the Republican anti-choice governor signed in late December, even though state voters favored President Obama and prochoice Democratic Senate candidate Tim Kaine (Kaine's gender gap was 7 percent, by the way). This action by the state just continues the extreme anti-abortion and anti-family-planning measures that seemed to dominate the Virginia Legislature in 2012.
FOURTH We must help build upon the wins in the equal-marriage movement for gay men and lesbians. Feminists were thrilled that four states voted in favor of same-sex marriage (with the gender gap being decisive in each state), and we eagerly await the outcome of the Supreme Court cases concerning the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and California's Proposition 8 (see page 14). But, of course, we can't become complacent, and must still work to make equal marriage available in all 50 states.
FIFTH Feminists must seize the opening to push for more-stringent gun control. Considering the nationwide horror of the Sandy Hook massacre, there's probably no better time than now to bring this issue to congressional and state attention and support President Obama's gun-control initiatives. Too often women and children are the victims of gun violence, so it's no surprise that there is a massive gender gap on this issue, with women more strongly in favor of gun control. We cannot be ignored any longer on this issue: Enough is enough.
SIXTH We can't forget the women around the globe fighting against violencefrom the girls in Pakistan such as Malala Yousafzai, battling the Taliban for the right to be educated; or the Pakistani women health-care workers assassinated just for doing their jobs; or Afghan girls and women bravely going to school and work or seeking health care despite threats and assassinations; or the women in India, victims of brutal gang rapes and facing everyday hostility.
One of the things we can do is work hard for the Senate to ratify the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) and pass the International Violence Against Women Act. It is disgraceful that the U.S. is one of only seven nations that has not ratified CEDAW, which requires a two-thirds vote, so the Democratic Senate must keep bringing it up until it is passed. The women of the world fighting horrific violence deserve our nation's full and unqualified support, and we feminists must demand it.
Finally, we'll keep pressing for the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. How can women and feminists accept anything less than full equality for women in the supreme law of our nation? Recognizing the power of the gender gap and the feminist factor, we can and must make it happen. Our strategy will be to increase cosponsors of the ERA in the new Congress and fight for its passage in the unratified states.
Full equality and full respect, nothing less and nothing more. We take that as the message of the 2012 elections as we continue to push forward.


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This past Saturday, Comune held a little party in Costa Mesa to celebrate the official launch of Drop City "Experiments in Occultism and Parapsychology. They have a neat little bunker in Costa Mesa where they had some art indoors, and some music, free food and beverages outside. It was a lovely little Saturday night. The "Occult" seems to be pretty hot right now. It's kind of weird. Not in like the "I find this offensive" weird. Just weird. Browse through any number of artsy blogs or tumblrs or whatever and you're going to see a bunch of pentagrams and horns, black and white photos of goat heads and shit like that. And I'm not shitting on it. It just seems really "in" right now and I think it's funny. Mainly because I think if most of the people contributing to this artistic inclination actually experienced some sort of occult or demonic phenomena, they would literally piss out of their eyes. Not that I blame them. I don't want any fucking demons cohabiting up in my shit and turning all my crucifixes upside down when I'm just trying to relax at home with some three dollar wine and an etch a sketch. That shit is annoying. Then you got to call an exorcist and you know he's going to price gouge you, so you're going to have to shop around, all while Lou and Lucy Fer are rearranging your insides, making you put things in your orifices and what not. It's just not something I want to deal with. But I digress…The point is, Satan is so hot right now. Anyway, here are some photos from the show in case you didn't get to go. There were a ton of beautiful babies bounding around, Comune supplied a shit ton of free food and booze, there were some great sculptures, photographs and paintings hanging up, and Pabst even threw some tasties into the mix for all of us to enjoy. And enjoy we did. Thanks to Comune for hosting the party. Here's a little tidbit from their site about the concept for Drop City:
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As many as three in ten children with autism are nonverbal. Yet many children with autism have superior auditory skills and a particular attraction to music. Based on these observations, I and my colleagues have been using forms of music-making that encourage vocalization as a pathway to developing language.
We call our therapy Auditory-Motor Mapping Training (AMMT), and our approach is built on two findings.
First research has shown that music-making creates clear changes in the human brain. In particular we know that it engages and strengthens connections between the auditory and motor regions and improves mapping of sounds to actions. Second, here at our Music and Neuroimaging Lab, we have successfully used a form of singing (i.e., Melodic Intonation Therapy) to help stroke patients regain speech lost after a stroke (aphasia). In essence, our therapies involve having the patient sing words and phrases while using a coordinated movement of the hand not affected by the stroke. This helps their brains map sounds to actions.
In recent years, we've adapted our music-motor therapy for stroke victims in ways that allow us to use it with children who have autism and little or no speech. In simplified terms: Our team members sing words and phrases with social connotations (for example, "more please," "mommy," "all done") to the children and with the children, while showing them pictures of the action, person or object. At the same time, we guide each child's hand to play two drum pads tuned to different pitches.
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Phone: 266-6627
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Adventure is in store for those who tag along with Phineas, Ferb and the entire Tri-State Area gang as they spend the last day of summer creating the greatest invention ever in Disney's "Phineas and Ferb: The Best Live Tour Ever."
The stage show is inspired by the hit Disney Channel series, the No. 1 animated television show among tweens ages 9-14. It is filled with humor, high-energy choreography, lighting effects and audience interaction, as well as 14 hit songs from the series plus a never-before-heard original song written by "Phineas and Ferb" creators Dan Povenmire and Jeff "Swampy" Marsh.
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Audiences will enjoy an assortment of dance styles, including a reggae hip-hop beach party; a Broadway chorus line with top hats and canes; futuristic-themed acrobatics; and flashy, contemporary dance routines.
One of the most impressive scenic pieces in the show is a 13-foot-tall monster truck with giant marshmallow tires piloted by Buford. Other props and scenic displays include customized scooters with marshmallow launchers, a science lab to accommodate Dr. Doofenshmirtz's crazy hijinks and a custom-made jungle gym for Agent P, complete with treadmill.


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Brandman University, part of the Chapman University System, and Allan Hancock College have formed a partnership to offer bachelor degree programs in the Northern Santa Barbara County. This partnership is making it easy for you to continue your education in Liberal Studies with a Multiple Teaching Emphasis without moving from the area. Maximize your time and money; take all your lower-division course work at Allan Hancock College then continue your degree with Brandman in Santa Maria. Instruction is offered in person on site and online.
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Prospective students should consult the Santa Maria Valley campus for specific information regarding transfer procedures. Also, available is the Early Advantage Program (EAP): the partnership between Brandman University and Allan Hancock College that will make it easier and faster for you to achieve your bachelor's degree. See: www.brandman.edu/eap/AHC
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A Friendly Chat With Gabe And Kelly: Martha Stewart Doesn't Like Jennifer Aniston's SmartWater Commercial
Kelly: Hey, Gabe!
Gabe: hey kelly
Gabe: what's up?
Kelly: Nothing!!!!!!!!
Kelly: Is anything up with you?
Gabe: hmmm
Gabe: not too much
Gabe: still thinking about the Revolution pilot
Gabe: WHAT IS IN THE COMPUTER?!
Gabe: hatches on hatches on hatches
Kelly: Oh, sure. It's one of those things that you're going to have to watch a few times to really "get"
Gabe: you're probably right
Kelly: I think so
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Gabe: it's sooooo great i'm so happy to watch it 100 times
Kelly: That's great!
Kelly: You have to take happiness where you can get it in this world.
Gabe: you really do, and i take it in rewatching the Revolution pilot
Gabe: well, this has been another great chat, i guess i will talk to you later
Kelly: Gabe!!!
Kelly: Stay and talk to meeeeeee
Kelly: I wanna chaaaaaaatttuhhhh
Gabe: about what?
Gabe: the revolution pilot?
Gabe: where did that one girl get a tin star wars lunchbox?
Gabe: she was, like, seven in 2012
Kelly: WE ALREADY TALKED ABOUT THE REVOLUTION PILOT ENOUGH!
Kelly: Let's talk about something I am interested in
Kelly: Like, I don't know, Jennifer Aniston
Kelly: Did you see her new Smartwater commercial?
Gabe: oof, yeah
Gabe: good commercial!
Gabe: one of the best commercials
Kelly: I really like how she takes on, like, EVERY rumor without fear.
Kelly: The rumor of how she's pregnant, the rumor of how she wears a wig, the rumor of how she crashes a car, the rumor of how Jimmy Kimmel is her son
Kelly: And the rumor of how her other son is an alien
Kelly: All the big ones
Gabe: so many great rumors helping us to enjoy a great water
Kelly: "These rumors are makin' me thirsty!"
Gabe: if there's one thing that i enjoy as much as water with electrolytes in it
Gabe: it's poorly written and executed parodic humor about celebrity gossip
Gabe: and now i can have both in one ad!
Kelly: It's perfect
Kelly: Mad Men everywhere will be studying it for years
Kelly: But guess who doesn't like it
Kelly: Times up
Kelly: MARTHA STEWART
Kelly: Of course
Gabe: WHOA
Gabe: WHY NOT?
Kelly: Of course Martha Stewart has a problem with it.
Gabe: IT'S PERFECT!
Gabe: i'm just glad that the news stayed on top of what martha stewart thought about the jennifer aniston smart water commercial
Gabe: GET THAT SCOOP, JOURNALISTS!
Kelly: Hahah
Kelly: It seems like she was on the Today show this morning JUST to talk about it?
Kelly: I don't know
Kelly: But she revealed that she doesn't like Jennifer's SmartWater commercial on the Today show this morning because she thinks it sets a bad example for the youth of America
Kelly: re: wrapping a pregnant stomach
Gabe: you know what else sets a bad example?
Gabe: going to jail
Gabe: [email protected]
Kelly: HHAAHAHA
Kelly: Ahhhhhh
Kelly: GOTCHA MARTH
Gabe: if you live in a glass JAIL don't throw stones
Gabe: wait, Martha Stewart is 71?
Kelly: No way
Gabe: WHAT IS IN THOSE CAKES SHE IS BAKING?!
Kelly: hahahaha
Kelly: Is she really 71?
Gabe: https://www.google.com/search?q=martha+stewart+age&sugexp=chrome,mod=19&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
Kelly: Maybe she's lying about her age, like actresses do.
Gabe: we share a birthday
Kelly: Aww, congrats!
Gabe: the exact same day
Gabe: and year
Kelly: hahaha
Kelly: You should ask her how she stays so young looking!
Gabe: no wonder she doesn't like that commercial
Gabe: i mean, yes, the commercial is completely awful
Gabe: but also she is 71
Gabe: she probably doesn't like anything
Gabe: she probably thinks Maroon 5 sounds like "pots and pans banging together"
Gabe: when in truth
Gabe: they are a hot new band playing music for today
Kelly: You're probably right, I think you've gotten to the bottom of the whole thing
Kelly: It only took one quick google
Kelly: To figure out why Martha is being such an insufferable bitch about Jennifer Aniston's new perfect SmartWater ad
Gabe: got a question?
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