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Edie Fake's Ecstatic Afterlives
Posted to Bad At Sports, 1/11/13
On view currently at Chicago's Thomas Robertello Gallery are 15 pen, ink, and gouache drawings on paper by local artist, illustrator, and author of the Gaylord Phoenix volume of comics, Edie Fake. Titled 'Memory Palaces,' the exhibition is a stunning showcase of Fake's exceptional, and exceptionally idiosyncratic, formal skills in composition, pattern-design, and color, as well as a moving meditation on loss. Specifically, Fake pays tribute to the passing of five friends, colleagues, activists, and artists (Mark Aguhar, Nick Djandji, Dara Greenwald, Flo McGarrell, and Dylan Williams) in a series of drawings titled Gateway, and to ten real or imagined spaces of queer congregation no longer, or never, existent.
Put simply: depicted are places Fake, or the rest of us, may never go. They are hopeful spaces vividly imagined by those living in a contemporary urban environment largely ravaged and rid of countercultural nightlife by neoliberal vice and zoning laws, class-targeted antidrug policies, and corporate gentrification efforts throughout the late 20th century.
As such, the collection of building facades Fake depicts – described as a neighborhood – can only be psychically located between utopian fantasy and interpretive research. Doing so foregrounds how the imagination and it's shadow, desire, propels individual or collective searches for heritage, lineage, and belonging. What might be made possible for someone whose very personhood and politics teeters on the brink of unviability by the realization that, yes, La Mere Vipere (a burned down gay/punk venue in the now-gentrified Boystown), Killer Dyke (a radical lesbian periodical), and JANE (a clandestine feminist-led abortion service) did, indeed, exist here in the 1970s? Comprehension of these disappeared, criminalized spaces and services entails not simply an intellectual recognition, but something much more sensorial and perhaps even spiritual when translated through the prismatic hallucinations offered by Fake.
The flatness of the paper Fake has drawn upon is only a format, as his palette of offbeat hyper-colors and remarkable geometric drawing skills translates a deeper, pulsating dimensionality, like the embedded optic phenomena of a Magic Eye poster and a horror vacui painting. A handful of the places recreated here include dance venues, sex-clubs, and art spaces, all of which Fake has foregone a faithful architectural re-approximation of in favor of getting at something much more enigmatic – the mind-altering life practices they facilitated. Representing nightlife from psychedelia through disco and punk, up to rave, Fake renders his spaces with the fluorescent sensibilities and colors of escape developed via dance-floors and acid-trips. Neon hues that should clash, but somehow don't, cohere in vibrant mosaic facades Fake has lent to 80s voguing-hub Club LaRay and former host of 70s gay anarchy nights The Snake Pit. Seeming inspired by the hypnotic, transportive potential of repetition and detail in geometric art, Fake's designs are infused with a mystical content in the style of Islamic tile work or Huichol yarn and bead art.
The evocation of non-Western, nondenominational, and anti-representational spiritual aesthetics acquires political significance upon realization of for whom Fake has drawn a Gateway. Fake has imagined entryways into the hereafter markedly more colorful, robust, lavish, and peculiar than the pearly ivory luster of Judeo-Christian concepts of the afterlife. Those mourned are imagined as entering a kaleidoscopic, palatial elsewhere, rightly undoing inherited notions of heaven too tidy, too conservatively patriarchal, for housing the spirit of trans-queer-feminist artist of color Mark Aguhar, the anti-racist feminist dance parties of Dara Greenwald, or the critically outsider sensibilities of punk/metal-comic pioneer Dylan Williams.
It is here where Fake's project best comes into full relief; it is only through the physical manifestation of improbable psychic longing that another world becomes possible, knowable, inhabitable. After hours, off the books, and after life; Fake honors such phenomena, and those residing there, with an informed, aspirational intensity apparent in the meticulous, strange, gorgeous labor of his drawing.


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A good place to start looking for advice to ensure that any code is compatible with both Python-3.x and Python2.6/2.7 is too look at the python-future cheat sheet . Buildbot uses the python-future library to ensure compatibility with both Python2.6/2.7 and Python3.x.
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from __future__ import print_function
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d = {"cheese": 4, "bread": 5, "milk": 1}
for item, num in d.iteritems():
print("We have {} {}".format(num, item))
should be written as:
from future.utils import iteritems
d = {"cheese": 4, "bread": 5, "milk": 1}
for item, num in iteritems(d):
print("We have {} {}".format(num, item))
This also applies to the similar methods dict.itervalues()
and dict.values()
, which have an equivalent itervalues()
If a list is required, please use list(iteritems(dict))
This is for compatibility with the six library.
For iterating over dictionary keys, please use for key in dict:
For example:
d = {"cheese": 4, "bread": 5, "milk": 1}
for item in d:
print("We have {}".format(item))
Similarly when you want a list of keys:
keys = list(d)
3.4.3. New-style classes¶
All classes in Python3 are newstyle, so any classes added to the code base must therefore be new-style.
This is done by inheriting object
class Foo:
def __init__(self, bar)
self.bar = bar
class Foo(object):
def __init__(self, bar)
self.bar = bar
When creating new-style classes, it is advised to import object
from the builtins module.
The reasoning for this can be read in the python-future documentation
3.4.4. Strings¶
This has not yet been implemented in the current code base, and will not be strictly adhered to yet. But it is important to keep in mind when writing code, that there is a strict distinction between bytestrings and unicode in Python3'
In python2, there is only one type of string.
It can be both unicode and bytestring.
In python3, this is no longer the case.
For this reasons all string must be marked with either u''
or b''
to signify if the string is a unicode string or a bytestring respectively
u'this is a unicode string, a string for humans to read'
b'This is a bytestring, a string for computers to read'
3.4.5. Exceptions¶
All exceptions should be written with the as
number = 5 / 0
except ZeroDivisionError, err:
number = 5/0
except ZeroDivisionError as err:
3.4.6. Basestring¶
In Python2 there is a basestring type, which both str and unicode inherit.
In Python3, only unicode should be of this type, while bytestrings are type(byte)
For this reason, we use an import from python future. Before:
s = "this is a string"
if(isinstance(s, basestring)):
print "This line will run"
from future.utils import text_type
unicode_s = u"this is a unicode string"
byte_s = b"this is a bytestring"
if(isinstance(unicode_s, text_type)):
print("This line will print")
if(isinstance(unicode_s, bytes)):
print("this line will not print")
if(isinstance(unicode_s, (text_type, bytes))):
print("This line will print")
if(isinstance(byte_s, text_type):
print("this line will not print")
if(isinstance(byte_s, bytes):
print("This line will print")
if(isinstance(byte_s, (text_type, bytes)):
print("This line will print")
3.4.7. Print statements¶
Print statements are gone in python3.
Please import from __future__ import print_function
at the very top of the module to enable use of python3 style print functions
3.4.8. Division¶
Integer division is slightly different in Python3.
is integer division and /
is floating point division.
For this reason, we use division
from the future module.
2 / 3 = 0
from __future__ import division
2 / 3 = 1.5
2 // 3 = 0
3.4.9. Types¶
The types standard library has changed in Python3. Please make sure to read the official documentation for the library and adapt accordingly


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- The CITB SMSTS Refresher is for those students who currently hold an existing SMSTS certificate. The certificate must still be in date and valid for students to undertake the SMSTS Refresher class.
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SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y. (AP) - Tiger Woods has filed his entry to play in the U.S. Open for the first time since 2015.
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Co-op horror, where did you come from? For so long, I'd associated the unique and unsettling thrills of horror gaming with the solitary experience, the adrenaline rush that comes from a sudden, unexpected noise when you know you're otherwise alone. So much of what we associate with the best in horror comes from isolation, from the realization that there is no one coming to save you, that the trials you are about to face are yours alone, and you're virtually powerless against them.
Or, at the very least, you're vulnerable. Maybe you can fight back, but you can easily be swarmed and crushed beneath rotting, undead bodies, consumed by monstrous mandibles, or dragged away into the shadows where terrible things await.
But then Resident Evil 5 happened, and it was fairly successful. Resident Evil 6 followed in its co-op-supporting footsteps. The epidemic eventually reached Dead Space on its third outing, taking what had already been a fairly action-heavy horror franchise and putting it over the top.
And it isn't to say that these games don't have their moments that gross you out, make you uncomfortable, or surprise you, but the addition of a second player does a lot to mitigate the oppressive atmosphere that makes the best horror experiences so palm-sweatingly terrifying. Is it a recent phenomenon, after years of single-player Resident Evil titles, Silent Hills, and PC games like Penumbra and Amnesia? A product of a gaming culture with an almost fetishistic focus on multiplayer? I certainly thought so.
Then GOG.com revealed it had received the license to digitally distribute System Shock 2, often held up as one of the greatest science fiction/horror experiences in the history of gaming. It relies on so much of what makes for great interactive horror—the sense of isolation, the feeling that everything and everyone is against you, and, of course, the gross-out factor—and it adamantly refuses to hold your hand. There are decisions to be made on how to proceed, which corners to turn, and you have to make them. That's another important element of horror: The best of it doesn't just lead you by the nose. It gives you enough rope to either get yourself out or hang yourself, and leaves you to figure out which you're doing.
System Shock 2 also has a co-op mode. One that supports up to four players. I knew what I wanted to do: It was time to see if the game's infamously creepy atmosphere could hold up even with my friend guarding my back and talking into my ear. I recruited my best for it, a fan of Irrational's later BioShock series, and we jumped in. It wasn't terribly long before we ran into some technical issues, but we were playing long enough for me to realize that, no, a lot of what makes System Shock 2 unsettling and startling is compromised by having someone to talk to and cover you. That said, it did provide me with enough fuel to theorize that co-op horror is certainly possible.
What System Shock 2 does right is diversification. In Resident Evil 5 and Dead Space 3, both characters in the co-op campaign are fairly indistinct. While they aren't the same person, their capabilities are almost identical. Even Resident Evil 6, which makes a purposeful distinction in skills between each character in a co-op section, doesn't take it nearly far enough. System Shock 2 is almost there, allowing players to pick a branch of the military to join at its onset, which then allows you to develop your stats in different ways through various tours of duty. You can build toward tech, combat, or psionics, each of which serves a different purpose in the campaign. Certain sections are going to be much easier for someone who specializes in one path over another, though diversity (since you also control your character's further development) is certainly possible.
This is important because it forces the players to rely more on each other. While one might be entirely helpless in a given situation, the other can step in and ensure that both survive, but if forces the players to put their lives in one another's hands. This purposeful imbalance keeps the players from ever feeling too secure in their capabilities as they play, if it's carried out effectively. While System Shock 2 isn't quite there, it could easily be fixed by making skill points a scarcer thing for co-op games. It forces players in a multiplayer game to focus themselves even more pointedly on a given skillset.
Which leads into System Shock 2's greatest failing: separation. It doesn't do this, and it should. To really drive home the terrible situation the players are in, there need to be moments that force them to approach it alone, or at least afford them enough freedom to lose each other. This would be further enhanced if the game were able to limit the players' ability to communicate with one another. Dead Space 3, with its co-op specific side missions, could easily have fit in moments like this, and while it would always be possible to surmount purposeful breaks in voice communication with external voice chat, those who are really playing one of these games for the experience are going to subject themselves to everything it can throw at them under optimal conditions (lights off, after midnight, headphones on).
Next, take a page from Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem. Does the game have a text chat function? System Shock 2 does. Have the computer send erroneous, creepy messages in the other player's name while the two are separated. When the two players can't even entirely trust one another, but have to do so anyway if they want to make progress, you'll know you've succeeded at making a co-op horror game. And it's certainly possible; it just hasn't been done. Yet.
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This Facebook application allows you to create a Google Map for a Facebook event.
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findU is a database archiving weather, position, telemetry, and message data. The primary source of data is an amateur radio system called APRS, some weather data comes from an internet based system called the Citizen Weather Observer Program. This large (58 GB) database is hosted on two servers using data replication techniques. the data is constantly updated (about 20 new reports come in every second), and is accessed via a number of dynamic web pages. Some examples:
Reports are also archived from an amateur radio payload aboard the International Space Station which relays APRS reports from amateur radio operators around the globe.
Among findU's most significant uses is the forwarding of over a hundred thousand near-realtime weather observations to the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration daily, where the data is checked for accuracy, and used by NOAA and the National Weather Service in a variety of ways.
Here is a page that describes all of the CGIs which are available on this server. This sometimes lags behind the latest developments, but it is the best place to start. Check the news link at the top of this page, and especially the APRS SIG at TAPR, for the very latest news.
Directly creating a URL by editing the parameters is not meant for beginners, though by reading the documentation and experiementing a bit, anyone should be able to get the results they are after. Other people have written web pages that allow you to enter requests to findU via forms, this is an easier way to build the URL you need. I'm sure I've missed some, email me your favorites.
URL | Description |
http://www.wulfden.org/APRSQuery.shtml | N1BQ's page, the original |
http://www.qsl.net/n9wtm/ | N9WTM |
http://www.phrozen-neon.com/alarc/aprs.php | N0ESC |
http://www.proaviator.com/findu/ | K4IFR |
email questions and comments to Steve Dimse firstname.lastname@example.com. First, make sure the question isn't answered in the FAQ below...
The process of reports getting to findU via amateur radio and APRS is complex. First, your station transmits the data, likely it must travel through one or more digipeaters before reaching an internet gateway, which forwards it to a hub in the APRS Internet System, and then finally to findU.com.
Problems can occur anywhere along this path, though by far the most common are in the early stages...an individual's RF system has a problem, their path is not set correctly to be digipeated by their local RF network, or their local IGate is down or misconfigured. From the internet there is absolutely no way I can diagnose these problems. Your best bet is to seek out a local APRS user that can listen for you on RF, and try to figure out what is wrong. If you are writting your own software, or manually entered an APRS string into a hardware or software configuration file, you may have misformatted the data. findU tends to follow strict interpretation of the APRS standard, and some errors may be displayable in some client programs but not findU, a typical example is an incorrect number of digits in a lat/lon. You can always check findU's parsing error page to see if findU is detecting an error.
I have no problems with adding other radars, but the following requirements must be met:
1. The radar image alone must be available in GIF or PNG format with a fixed URL and constant scale. I may be able to work with JPEG or other graphic formats, if everything else is possible let me know.
2. Image provided without any copyright restrictions (this is the big gotcha, I've not found any outside the US that meet this requirement). Here is the US National Weather Services statement: "The information on government servers are in the public domain, unless specifically annotated otherwise, and may be used freely by the public." If you are submitting another site, either submit the URL of a page stating there are no restrictions, or the contact information of the person that stated the use was acceptible. Some countries allow non-commercial use, and while findU itself is non-commercial, I am unable to guarantee how people use findU, in fact I know of several sites that do use findU for commercial purposes. Commercial use must be acceptible, or an exception made for findU, I will not accept the risk of copyright violation. 3. Someone must create a geo file for the image(s). This is detailed on http://www.findu.com/geo.html I do not have time to do all this, so if you want your local radar images, it is up to you.
The decision in favor of duplicate filtering was, and still is, the correct one...without it, the APRS IS data stream would be perhaps ten times its present size, which is already big enough to cause problems. PropNet now has set up an alternate network which is suitable for propagation studies.
I had expected that the Linux Lunacy Geek Cruise I went on October 2001 would convince me once and for all of the benefits of free (as in speech) software. In fact, it had the opposite effect...I spent a lot of time with the infamous RMS (Richard Stallman, president of the Free Software Foundation) since we ate dinner at the same eight person table. Let's just say the discussion was as enjoyable as, and far spicier than, the Holland America food! After all the arguments and much contemplation, I've come to agree with the equally infamous ESR (Eric Raymond, also on the cruise, talk about storm-at-sea!), that RMS and FSF are seeking power (defined as the ability to make decisions that affect others), not freedom (the ability to make decisions that affect yourself). Now that I really understand it, I find the FSF vision of the world a scarier place than even a Microsoft controlled world. Software is a creative work (RMS agrees), the disposition of which rightfully belongs in the hands of the creator or their employer (RMS turns red and starts screaming, because useful creations like a home improvement TV show, how-to book, or software program, morally belong to the collective). I believe the decision to donate code for the public good is an altruistic act, not a moral imperative, and a choice deserving admiration, not expectation.
There are other reasons besides commercialization, like the amount of time it would take to document, distribute, support, and re-integrate code from an open source project. If you want the code, think about the reason for a minute. Is it because you want to see the magic? Nothing magic, this is a simple, though large, database driven web application, there are hundreds of examples you can view on the web, and dozens of books that you could read on this topic. It is to create your own findU site? How useful would that be, and if you do draw users away from the original, how can the public be sure any bugs or improvements will be on your site? Perhap to change one thing that bothers you and send it back to me? When am I to find time to judge the worthiness of all the modifications? Something else? I am always willing to listen to other viewpoints, but I need a compelling reason to open the code, and I just haven't found it yet.
My choice for now is to keep control of the code, and provide a service to the community for free (as in beer!). Not a purely altruistic decision, but the one I am most comfortable with. In the event I someday lose interest in findU, it will be passed to someone else for development. Over the years many have offered donations, and I've decided to accept them now, as well as place Google adds on the pages. None of this will make me rich, but perhaps snough will accumulate to eventually pay for the next server findU will run upon.
Recent events force me again to clarify this. If you use findU upon some user-generated action, please think hard about the most efficient way to accomplish this. I've had people use findU to show unaltered radar images by using an off-the-radar station. findU had to fetch the image, realize there was nothing to draw, then send it out again. All this instead of the person getting the image directly from the NWS. Others grab a list of hundreds of raw reports and use one. Please act as if you realize that findU is the limited resource it actually is. If you have questions about any use please ask.


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P2518 OBD II Trouble Code A/C Refrigerant Pressure Sensor B Circuit High
How to easily diagnose, repair, and symptoms and causes of a P2518 code that indicates a high electrical condition with the air conditioning refrigerant B pressure sensor circuit.
Symptoms of P2518 OBD II Trouble Code
- Inaccurate temperatures coming from fan air
- Limited HVAC use
- Fan air temperature erratic/fluctuating
- A/C compressor not engaging when needed
- HVAC system operating abnormally
Common Causes of P2518 OBD II Trouble Code
- Defective or damaged A/C refrigerant pressure sensor
- A/C refrigerant pressure sensor leaking
- Low or incorrect refrigerant pressures/refrigerant level
- Damaged wire(s) (open,short to +, short to -, etc.)
- Damaged connector
- ECC (Electronic Climate Control) or BCM (Body Control Module) issue
- Poor connections
Severity of P2518 OBD II Trouble Code
In my opinion, any HVAC related code's severity will be fairly low. In this case, pressurized refrigerant is involved, it may be more of a pressing issue. Who knows, a refrigerant leak may be causing this code, and leaking refrigerant is definitely a hazard so make sure you have some basic refrigerant safety knowledge before attempting any type of repairs on the A/C system.


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It couldn't be more comfortable! You are going to love it because of its cheerful print, its super tasty cotton and above all because it is a pattern that looks great.
Lucía in the photos is wearing a 36.
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It can be machine washed and ironed. As always, we recommend using cold water, a gentle program and not using a dryer so that your garments last longer.
If for any reason you are not satisfied with your order, or you have not got the size right, you can return it or change the size in the maximum period of 15 calendar days (from the date your package arrives until we receive it back).
The changes of size or product his own FREE in the Spanish Peninsula and Portugal.
It's very comfortable! You just have to click on the link below and once you choose the reason for the Return, select the size or the new product you want and, if we have it in stock, a courier will deliver it to you and another different courier will pick up the one you are returning, at no cost..
From any other place (Islands, Ceuta, Melilla and other countries), unfortunately we still cannot offer this service: you will have to make a return and a new purchase.
Making a return is very easy. You have several options:
1) A courier will pick up what you want to return at the address you indicate. The cost is €4,95 in the Peninsula (Spain and Portugal) and the shipping cost will be deducted from the amount to be returned.
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Welcome to Horizon 21! This sophisticated 21 storey concrete tower features mountain, river and city views. Located in West Coquitlam, it is a short walk to the Braid skytrain station and bus loop. Positioned at a gateway location with easy access to Lougheed highway and Highway #1. Local amenities, restaurants and shopping are just minutes away. Chef inspired kitchens are appointed with BOSCH and Blomberg appliances and we offer all season comfort in our fully air conditioned homes. Building amenities include a gym, 3rd floor garden terrace, 19th floor Sky lounge with outdoor space and panoramic views. 1 parking stall and 1 storage locker included. Please visit us at our presentation centre located at 218 Blue Mountain Street, we are open daily from 12pm to 5pm, except Fridays.


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Is sequestration making the United States vulnerable to attacks from space?
The Air Force says it can no longer afford to scan the sky for extraterrestrial threats that could doom the planet, all because of the sequester cuts Washington forced on itself when it failed to rein in the exploding national deficit.
Called the Air Force Space Surveillance System, it's "critical" to defense, the Air Force has said. By October 1, they'll have to pull the plug.
"AFSPC/CC has directed that the Air Force Space Surveillance System be closed and all sites vacated effective Oct. 1, 2013," states a memo obtained by Space News allegedly from the 21st Space Wing, which controls the system.
'This is your notice to begin preparing the sites for closure," the memo says. "A specific list of action items will be provided as soon as it is finalized. A specific date to turn off the mission system has not been established yet, but will be provided to you immediately upon determination."
Commander of Air Force Space Command General William Shelton announced in April that sequestration necessitated the loss of one-third of the system's receiver sites to cold storage.
Sources at U.S. Air Force Space Command declined to confirm or deny the report.
Space Command did clarify that the system, incorrectly referred to in the media as the "Space Fence," is the US Air Force Space Surveillance System. The Space Fence is the planned successor the system, a next-generation set of S-band radar that has been under development.
The current system plays a fundamental role in Earth defense because of the sheer scale of its detection capability and its ability to locate threats as small as a basketball.
Last year the Air Force called it "a critical defense system [that] shall be manned on a 24-hour, 7-days-a-week, 365-days-a-year basis."
The Air Force's 2013 budget request had planned for $252.6 million in funding for the Space Fence program, with a further $321 million in funding for 2014 and $193 million the following year.
Two companies, Lockheed Martin and Raytheon, had each won $107 million contracts in January 2011 to work on a new Space Fence design. Last year, both demonstrated competing working prototypes that successfully tracked objects in space.
It was hoped the new system would be chosen this year, deployed globally and operational by 2017.
But the planned deployment of a new modern Space Fence, leveraging the latest advances and technologies, was put on hold. The Pentagon-wide review, which looked at cutting the budget by $150, $250 or even $500 billion over the next 10 years forced the project into a holding pattern.
While a new system was put out of reach by failed politicking and sequestration, this past July, General Shelton noted that Eglin Air Force base engineers were looking for ways to improve the current system.
If the new Space Fence is cancelled due to sequestration, then these improvements to an elderly Space Surveillance System would be better than nothing.
Aliens, Asteroids and Space Junk
While Hollywood films often address concerns about alien attacks, the recent Chelyabinsk asteroid injuring over 1,000 people in central Russia is a testament to the other dangers lurking in space.
NEOs striking Earth need to be at least about 100 feet to cause serious destruction to a populated area. Russia's recent asteroid, for example, is estimated to have been about only 55 feet across.
And experts estimate there are more than one million of these 100-foot plus asteroids out there.
NASA announced this June that more than 10,000 asteroids and comets are near Earth (NEO) meaning they will approach uncomfortably close within 28 million miles.
About 1,000 of these are the right size, about half a mile, to potentially unleash global catastrophic devastation to the planet upon impact.
The Space Surveillance System has been fundamental to other aspects of defense particularly in protecting U.S. satellites.
Our satellites are not just essential to the military for capabilities like GPS, surveillance and communication, but to civilians for weather tracking and advanced natural disaster warning through to watching your favorites sports delivered to your television through satellites.
Knocking out GPS would not just inconvenience the lost driver and the military, critical national infrastructures like power grids, banking operations and transportation systems also rely on uninterrupted GPS access.
For more than 5o years since the first man-made satellite launch, Earth's orbit has become increasingly cluttered with space junk. There is an estimated whopping half million pieces up there.
While asteroids may need to be about 50 feet to cause damage to Earth, up in space debris as tiny as a centimeter pose a threat to our satellites to the extent it could even destroy one.
So the Space Surveillance System also tracks and detects the space junk that may threaten American commercial and military satellites as well as the International Space Station and manned space flight missions.


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Good morning, I'm Renee Montagne, with news about the news. A new study finds 50 percent of Americans would rather know more about current events than fashion, sports or celebrity. So much so that one in three admitted pretending to know about a news story to impress someone. And, knowledgeable or not, 70 percent said they'll find any opportunity to argue about the news regardless of topic, though the favorite choice is politics.
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By Judith Taylor ex. Houzz
Consider this a foundation for developing your own quirky, creative, rule-breaking intuition.
1. Pick the paint color last. I get calls all the time from homeowners who want to pick a paint color before they move in. I get the logic. Why not arrive to walls with a fresh coat of paint? Of course you can do it this way, but in my opinion it's not ideal. There are thousands of paint colors with various tints, tones and shades. And each one looks different from home to home, because light sources vary, meaning what looks good in your current home might not in your new one. You want the color that best complements your upholstery, artwork, rug and whatever else. You can pick that color only if your stuff is actually inside your home.
2. Give your furniture some breathing room. Resist overcrowding a room. Gracious living means space to maneuver with ease. This is really great news if you are working with a tight budget. You don't need to fill up a space with lots of furniture. Spend more of your budget on fewer but better-quality pieces, and your room will look better than if it's stuffed to the gills with flea market finds. The high-backed chairs shown here, for example, stand out because they don't have to fight for attention.
3. Hang artwork at the right height. Galleries and museums hang artwork so that the midline (center) of each piece is 57 inches to 60 inches from the floor. (The average human eye level is 57 inches.) And you should do the same. In a room where the ceilings soar, there might be a tendency to hang the art higher. But remember: It needs to relate to human scale, not the structure's scale. If you're not sure, take a picture. It's remarkable how much a photo can reveal. Print it out or use Photoshop or an app to draw on the photo. This can give you a sense of whether a larger or smaller piece of art is needed or a tall plant might be best to fill a vacant spot.
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4. Know how to arrange furniture on a rug. There are basically three ways you can arrange furniture on your rug.
- All on: The rug is large enough to place all of the furniture legs on top of it. This creates a more luxurious feel. For this, bigger is better. Just be sure to leave at least 12 to 18 inches of floor surface on all four sides of the rug's borders.
- All off: If you have a small room, keeping all legs off the rug is a great cost-effective choice. You don't want to pick too small a rug, though, or it may look insignificant, like an afterthought. The rug should appear as though it could touch the front legs of each of the seating pieces. This approach is best suited when you're layering a pattern over a larger solid or textured rug.
- Front on: Put just the front feet of all your seating pieces on the rug to tie the arrangement together visually and create a well-defined space while lending a feeling of openness.
5. Resist the urge to be too theme-y. For example, the Cape Cod look is a very popular request. You know the hallmarks: beadboard, a blue and white nautical palette, some sailboat paintings. But this has been done so many times, it lacks individuality. In this room the coastal vibe was achieved through a palette, artwork and materials that give the effect without drawing on the obvious clichés.
6. Create a focal point. There are leading roles and supporting cast members in any production. The same holds true in design. Choose your star and make it the focal point to anchor a room. Allow other items to take a secondary role. Don't ask everything to have a leading role; it will just result in visual noise. Your focal point might be a dramatic hood in the kitchen, a mantel and art piece in the living room or a headboard in the bedroom. Whatever it is, choose something that will draw attention. In this room the fireplace and the lighting work together as a collective focal point, bringing your eye right to the center of the composition and anchoring it there.
7. Consider sight lines. Your focal point should be free and clear from one room to the next, so that it feels like you're being drawn between them. That's why the best spot for a focal point is usually directly across from the entrance to the room.
8. Edit your collectibles. Don't hang on to a piece that just doesn't fit. I don't care if your great-aunt Sally gave it to you. If it's not working for you, then find a new home for it (maybe in a different room). The unifying theme here is the use of black in the utilitarian pieces. The balance is almost perfect. It reminds me of something Coco Chanel said about accessorizing: "Before you leave the house, look in the mirror and take one thing off." In design, know when to stop.
9. Vary the scale. What looks good in the store may look like an elephant in the room when you bring it home. Or it's too tiny to be of any significance. So always vary scale and proportion. The oversize sunburst mirror frame fills up the wall space nicely here, while the sand dollars make an interesting grouping below. They would be much too insignificant individually. Threes and fives make for more pleasing arrangements than even numbers.
10. Add layers of lighting. In this kitchen seating area, the backsplash is lit, the artwork is highlighted and the cabinet interiors are filled with light. One central lighting fixture would not have had nearly the same dramatic result. Professionals build layers of lighting to create interest, intrigue and variety. In a room where everything is lit evenly, nothing stands out. Pick a focal point and perhaps a secondary focal point and highlight those. Add general ambient lighting and some lower lighting, like table lamps, for interest.
11. Be bold. Personality is what makes a space great. Make your own statement and have fun. The more you try, the more you will begin to see what works and what doesn't. Incorporate unexpected elements for drama. The unconventional ottoman seats, library-style bookshelves and oversize chandelier here are all unexpected in a conventional living room, but the result has charisma. Eschew expected pieces and interpretations if you want a room that will really wow.
12. Ignore all principles in favor of creativity. Having some guidelines gives people a good starting point for furnishing and decorating their home, even if some of them aren't practical for a particular space. Go with something personal that makes you smile and, above all, is comfortable. Overly designed rooms don't really translate in modern life. A pillow collection and an art arrangement that are seemingly haphazard, as shown here, create a dressed-down look with plenty of style.
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Wilbury House, Wiltshire, England, as seen in Vitruvius Britannicus, 1715. Considered one of England's greatest Palladian residences, it was skillfully restored over the last decade or so by Miranda, Countess of Iveagh, who died last month. |
"... [Wilbury House] made a lasting impression on [my mother] at an age when sensitive children notice the details of their surroundings. Muv never again lived in a fine eighteenth-century house like Wilbury, her ideal, but her ability to make her succession of houses attractive and original on little money was one of her outstanding talents. She did not bow to fashion, mixing furniture and objects from different periods which many people would have thought unsuitable for their surroundings. She used what was available .... Junk shops drew her like a magnet .... She never employed a decorator or sought advice; she knew what she wanted and got it done."
So the Dowager Duchess of Devonshire wrote, about her mother, Lady Redesdale (née Sydney Bowles), in her recently published and highly entertaining autobiography, Wait for Me! Memoirs (Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2010). As a child in the late 1880s and early 1890s, Lady Redesdale lived at Wilbury, when her father, publisher Thomas Gibson Bowles, and Wilbury's owners, Sir Henry and Lady Mallet, agreed to save on expenses by sharing the house.


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Got Beef? Your Ancestors Were Likely VERY into Meat…
Written on | Archeology
TAU researchers: Humans were apex predators for two million years.
Whether you are a tofu loving vegan, a vegetarian (however you choose to define it – eggs, no eggs; fish, no fish), a flexitarian, a devout paleo dieter or a strict Atkins dieter, researchers at TAU were able to reconstruct the nutrition of Stone Age humans and can tell you quite a bit about your ancestors… You may want to sit down for this one: Your ancestors specialized in hunting large animals and were, in fact, hyper carnivores (and not just for two short seconds, more like for about two million years). Contrary to the widespread hypothesis that humans owe their evolution and survival to their dietary flexibility, allowing them to combine the hunting of animals with vegetable foods, the picture emerging here is of humans evolving mostly as predators of large animals. The multidisciplinary reconstruction conducted by TAU researchers for almost a decade proposes a complete change of paradigm in the understanding of human evolution. In their paper, which was published in the Yearbook of the American Physical Anthropology Association, Dr. Miki Ben-Dor and Prof. Ran Barkai of TAU's Jacob M. Alkov Department of Archaeology, together with Raphael Sirtoli of Portugal, show that humans were an apex predator for about two million years. It was only the extinction of larger animals (megafauna) in various parts of the world, and the decline of animal food sources toward the end of the stone age, that led humans to gradually increase the vegetable element in their nutrition, until finally they had no choice but to domesticate both plants and animals – and became farmers. "Our study addresses a very great current controversy – both scientific and non-scientific," says Prof. Barkai. "For many people today, the Paleolithic diet is a critical issue, not only with regard to the past, but also concerning the present and future. It is hard to convince a devout vegetarian that his/her ancestors were not vegetarians, and people tend to confuse personal beliefs with scientific reality. Our study is both multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary. We propose a picture that is unprecedented in its inclusiveness and breadth, which clearly shows that humans were initially apex predators, who specialized in hunting large animals. As Darwin discovered, the adaptation of species to obtaining and digesting their food is the main source of evolutionary changes, and thus the claim that humans were apex predators throughout most of their development may provide a broad basis for fundamental insights on the biological and cultural evolution of humans." Our Body Remembers – A Multidisciplinary Affair "So far, attempts to reconstruct the diet of stone-age humans were mostly based on comparisons to 20th century hunter-gatherer societies," explains Dr. Ben-Dor. "This comparison is futile, however, because two million years ago hunter-gatherer societies could hunt and consume elephants and other large animals – while today's hunter gatherers do not have access to such bounty. The entire ecosystem has changed, and conditions cannot be compared. We decided to use other methods to reconstruct the diet of stone-age humans: to examine the memory preserved in our own bodies, our metabolism, genetics and physical build. Human behavior changes rapidly, but evolution is slow. The body remembers." In a process unprecedented in its extent, Dr. Ben-Dor and his colleagues collected about 25 lines of evidence from about 400 scientific papers from different scientific disciplines, dealing with the focal question: Were stone-age humans specialized carnivores or were they generalist omnivores? Most evidence was found in research on current biology, namely genetics, metabolism, physiology and morphology. "One prominent example is the acidity of the human stomach," says Dr. Ben-Dor. "The acidity in our stomach is high when compared to omnivores and even to other predators. Producing and maintaining strong acidity require large amounts of energy, and its existence is evidence for consuming animal products. Strong acidity provides protection from harmful bacteria found in meat, and prehistoric humans, hunting large animals whose meat sufficed for days or even weeks, often consumed old meat containing large quantities of bacteria, and thus needed to maintain a high level of acidity. Another indication of being predators is the structure of the fat cells in our bodies. In the bodies of omnivores, fat is stored in a relatively small number of large fat cells, while in predators, including humans, it's the other way around: we have a much larger number of smaller fat cells. Significant evidence for the evolution of humans as predators has also been found in our genome. For example, geneticists have concluded that "areas of the human genome were closed off to enable a fat-rich diet, while in chimpanzees, areas of the genome were opened to enable a sugar-rich diet." Evidence from human biology was supplemented by archaeological evidence. For instance, research on stable isotopes in the bones of prehistoric humans, as well as hunting practices unique to humans, show that humans specialized in hunting large and medium-sized animals with high fat content. Comparing humans to large social predators of today, all of whom hunt large animals and obtain more than 70% of their energy from animal sources, reinforced the conclusion that humans specialized in hunting large animals and were in fact hypercarnivores. Not an Afternoon Hobby "Hunting large animals is not an afternoon hobby," says Dr. Ben-Dor. "It requires a great deal of knowledge, and lions and hyenas attain these abilities after long years of learning. Clearly, the remains of large animals found in countless archaeological sites are the result of humans' high expertise as hunters of large animals. Many researchers who study the extinction of the large animals agree that hunting by humans played a major role in this extinction – and there is no better proof of humans' specialization in hunting large animals. Most probably, like in current-day predators, hunting itself was a focal human activity throughout most of human evolution. Other archaeological evidence – like the fact that specialized tools for obtaining and processing vegetable foods only appeared in the later stages of human evolution – also supports the centrality of large animals in the human diet, throughout most of human history." The multidisciplinary reconstruction conducted by TAU researchers for almost a decade proposes a complete change of paradigm in the understanding of human evolution. Contrary to the widespread hypothesis that humans owe their evolution and survival to their dietary flexibility, which allowed them to combine the hunting of animals with vegetable foods, the picture emerging here is of humans evolving mostly as predators of large animals. "Archaeological evidence does not overlook the fact that stone-age humans also consumed plants," adds Dr. Ben-Dor. "But according to the findings of this study plants only became a major component of the human diet toward the end of the era." Evidence of genetic changes and the appearance of unique stone tools for processing plants led the researchers to conclude that, starting about 85,000 years ago in Africa, and about 40,000 years ago in Europe and Asia, a gradual rise occurred in the consumption of plant foods as well as dietary diversity – in accordance with varying ecological conditions. This rise was accompanied by an increase in the local uniqueness of the stone tool culture, which is similar to the diversity of material cultures in 20th-century hunter-gatherer societies. In contrast, during the two million years when, according to the researchers, humans were apex predators, long periods of similarity and continuity were observed in stone tools, regardless of local ecological conditions.Related posts
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Brandon has published three books of his visual art: White Fluffy Clouds (2003), From the Murks of the Sultry Abyss (2007), and So the Echo (2013). Among dozens of book signings, group and solo exhibitions, special collaborative projects, and philanthropic arts, Brandon has showed a mixture of both expressive and abstract paintings, prints, and drawings. These projects led to art exhibits in cities internationally including Amsterdam, Cape Town, London, Paris, Rome, Zurich and across the U.S. in all major cities such as Austin, Las Vegas, Miami and Seattle. He has had a welcome presence to receptive audiences in various art fairs such as Art Miami and Scope Art Fair during Miami Art Week.
In 2019 Brandon exhibited at the globally recognized LA Art Show and also launched his 'Opti-Mystic' memory game based upon his popular original art series, Portals. He held launch events and signing appearances in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York and at Soho House Malibu. Also in 2019, Incubus commemorated twenty years of their seminal album Make Yourself and the band toured extensively for the second half of the year playing to sold out crowds.


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We believe in the intrinsic worth of every individual, whether consumer or staff, and their right to dignity, respect and the opportunity for achievement.
To date, we serve close to one thousand consumers throughout the various programs we offer.
Our services include:
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MCSI is an equal opportunity employer. If you are an compassionate individual interested in providing quality care to our consumers, we are interested in speaking with you.
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For a while now, we have been in the process of converting our old finding aids to a more standardized format. Being very pro-standardization in most aspects of my archival work and having done my share of time in past jobs on a conversion and usability projects, I always find it satisfying to apply these standards to our old collection inventories. There's nothing like watching a previously messy legacy guide suddenly appear relatively neat and orderly on the computer screen.
But what I really love about converting finding aids is the discovery factor. We have a lot of collections. Many of them were processed by people who are no longer employed here. And they have varying levels of description, some detailed down to the item level and others just the barest sketch of what's in the collection. Add that up with the impossibility of any one of us knowing exactly what's in every one of our several thousand collections, and conversion can turn into a treasure hunt – especially for me, who has been playing catch-up for the last four months to get a handle on what we have here in the Archives. Sometimes we end up stumbling on a little nugget (let's stretch the gold rush metaphor, shall we?) of a collection that's been hiding just under our noses.
So last week, I was chugging away at my weekly chunk of conversions when I came to our collection of Charlotte E. Mauk slides. When we purchased this collection at internet auction in 2005, its significance seemed clear enough. Charlotte E. Mauk served on the board of the Sierra Club from 1943-1968 and, in 1948, edited the book Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada, which included photographs by Ansel Adams and text by John Muir, the founder of the Sierra Club. Her involvement with the club and the conservation movement led her to become one of a small group of dedicated women – which included the Sierra Club's Doris Leonard, Celia Hunter of the Wilderness Society, and Eleanor Anthony King, editor of Audubon Magazine – who pushed the movement to prominence after World War II. (Fox 344)
Our Mauk collection consists of color slides that Charlotte took on travels to Alaska in the summers of 1944-1945 and again in 1961 and 1963. The guide I was converting also indicated that, among these slides, there were some photos of "naturalists Olaus and Mardy Murie" on their trips with Mauk to the Sheenjek River and Mount McKinley National Park. That was all. Right away, my cataloger's instinct kicked in: who were Olaus and Mardy Murie and what was their significance, if any, to Mauk and Alaska? I didn't have to dig very far at all to realize that naturalists Olaus Johan Murie (1889-1963), president of the Wilderness Society, and his wife, Margaret "Mardy" E. Murie (1902-2003), were two of the most vocal voices behind the conservation movement that began in Alaska in the late 1950s. Spurred by a trip to the Sheenjek River in the Brooks Range in 1956, Olaus and Mardy spent years fighting for federal protection of the area; their success in advocating for conservation of those lands led, eventually, to the creation of now the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge . Not only that but Mardy Murie was also the first women to graduate from the University of Alaska (class of 1924) and the author of Two in the Far North, a book that's been on my Alaska reading list since I moved here.
Charlotte Mauk's slides are exceptionally well labeled – archivists weep with relief when they see visual materials that have this much information attached to them! But there were still other mysteries, heretofore unsolved by our current collection description. For instance, I noticed two other names that caught my eye: Celia Hunter (hmmm, didn't I just mention that name?) and a man variously identified as "Ade" or "Adolph." Celia Hunter turned out to be Celia M. Hunter (1919-2001), who co-founded the Alaska Conservation Society in 1960 to help the Muries advocate for the preservation of Brooks Range land. Hunter also became the president and executive director of the Wilderness Society in 1976 and in this capacity was the first female to ever head a national environmental organization. Additionally, her work with the Federal State Land Use Planning Commission led ultimately to the passage of the Alaska National Interest Lands and Conservation Act in 1980. The man identified as "Ade" also turned out to be an equally important figure in the Alaskan conservation movement: Adolph Murie (1899-1974), Olaus's younger brother and wildlife biologist who authored a now-classic study of wolves in the Mount McKinley area in 1939-1941 that led to the protection of that species.
If all the "famous faces" in the collection weren't enough, the slides themselves are fabulous. I've always liked slides from this era, as the color retention tends to be beautiful. Charlotte's early slides from 1944-1945 are Kodachrome, filled with almost unnaturally deep blues, reds, and yellows; these mostly depict her trips to the Ketchikan area to document totem poles at Mud Bight (now Totem Bight) and Saxman. Much of the rest of the collection depicts Charlotte Mauk's camping trip with the Muries to the Sheenjek River in June 1961. There are the expected sweeping views of the Sheenjek River Valley and detailed documentation of its local flora but also some very sweet shots of Mauk and the Muries in camp together, cooking and eating hotcakes, giving each other haircuts, and inspecting the weather, which ranged from sun to storms to ice. (The photo above depicts Mardy, left, and Charlotte, right, preparing dinner at their camp on Lobo Lake; click on it to access the full image on the Alaska's Digital Archives website.) These slides also include some unusual shots of rural Alaskan life in the early 1960s: the tiny, dusty runway at the Fort Yukon airport, a float plane taking off from the Yukon River, an abandoned riverboat on the Nenana River, pickup trucks parked in front of a Northern Commercial Company store, to name just a few. Mauk's later slides from 1963 mostly depict her travels in Glacier Bay to photograph its inlets and glaciers. Having recently traveled there myself, I found these slides especially compelling for the literal snapshots they give of how the glaciers have changed and receded over the intervening fifty-odd years.
I love it when we find such rich collections like this that can operate on so many levels for researchers. On the one hand, there's the obvious documentation of a particularly important moment in Alaska's conservation history. But then there are also the potential usefulness of the photos for studying topics ranging from climate change, Native art, Alaskan natural history, development of rural communities… this list goes on. I ended up putting our new scanning standards (recently written about by Arlene) to work and digitized about 54 slides from the collection. They are now up in Alaska's Digital Archives, and I invite you to view them. Just search for "Mauk" in the search box. I hope you enjoy them as much as I did.


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Once With Heads Held High
Published 19 years, 7 months pastPerhaps unsurprisingly, I got some feedback on "Behind The Beauty, Cracks Appear", published four weeks ago today. What did surprise me was that the feedback was for the most part supportive. In all honesty, I expected a good deal more negative feedback. After all, roughly two-thirds of my fellow state residents, and clear majorities in ten other states, voted a position opposite mine. So thanks to those of you who wrote or pinged in support.
As I say, though, there were some rebuttals to my post. As many of these rebuttals involved counterarguments of one kind or another, I thought I'd share my reactions to the arguments made in opposition to homosexual marriage. I'll probably let this be my last word on the subject for a while.
- Majority rule
"It's what the people want."
Agreed. Thus my angst. But anyone with any sense of history knows how weak the "majority rule" argument really is. There are plenty of unacceptable things that the people wanted at one time or another: slavery, racial separation, and a restriction of voting rights to men, to name but three. (There are dozens more.)
You'll note that I have not, at any point, advocated the overturning of the recent votes. However misguided I believe them to be, the results of these democratic votes are not something I would simply cast aside in an attempt to make the world conform to my personal views, any more than I would advocate overturning, by either legislative action or executive fiat, a Supreme Court decision on the grounds I didn't like the ruling.
Nevertheless, I can (and some would say should) oppose this turn of events by speaking out and seeking to change minds.
- A slippery slope to Hell
"Once we allow gays to marry, it will open the door to bestiality, pedophilia, necrophilia, and worse."
This is so wrong, I can't even believe I have to explain why.
A marriage of two homosexuals would be a union between consenting adults. Got that? Everything clear? Bestiality does not involve consenting adults: it involves a human and an animal, the latter of which cannot give consent. Pedophilia does not involve consenting adults: it involves an adult and a child, the latter of which cannot be said to give informed consent, no matter what the child actually says. Necrophilia involves an adult and a corpse, the latter of which can only give consent in horror movies.
You do see the difference, right?
One person who trackbacked the original posting said, among several other equally logical things:
I've watched a few demolition derbies at the county fair. That looks like it would be fun to do and would make me happy. Does that mean I should be allowed to drive around on the streets and smash into cars?
Actually, it means you should be free to enter a demolition derby… which you are, assuming you have the entry fee, a car you're willing to smash up, you agree to the rules of the event, and so on. Nobody's outright prohibiting you or anyone else from participating. That is, after all, one of the underlying features of demolition derbies: everyone participating is a consenting adult who has entered into the activity of their own free will and with an understanding of what the activity entails.
If, on the other hand, there are demolition derbies where you are barred from participating on the basis of, say, your eye color—something which in no way adversely affects your ability to participate in the derby—then I'd say you were being unfairly discriminated against. You'd probably agree. So why disagree with me when I say it's discriminatory to prohibit people of certain sexual orientations to marry? I don't see a difference.
As for the "on the streets" idea (which was a fairly obvious misdirection, but I'm willing to work with it anyway) if you can get the consent of all involved parties—including all other drivers, pedestrians, property owners, and civic officials in the area you intend to do this—then yes, you should be allowed to do that. If not, then no.
I'm still sort of stunned that I have to explain that.
- A slippery slope to Hell, part 2
"What about polygamy? What will prevent that door from opening?"
In a word: money. Our institutions aren't fiscally configured to deal with multi-partner marriages. Health insurance, for example, has single and family coverage, but that family coverage is structured around the idea of one spouse and some number of children (and usually the premium goes up a bit with each new child). Similarly, a university might allow a spouse to take free classes, but only one spouse. There's no provision extending free tuition to six spouses, nor should there be: that would be an undue financial burden. Also, the IRS isn't very likely to approve of "married filing jointly with five other returns". And if the tax man don't like it, well, it ain't too likely to fly.
Besides, didn't most of the Old Testament patriarchs have multiple wives? When you think about that just a little, it's clear Biblical proof that marriage has not always been a bond between a single man and a single woman, and thus it seems to me that the God of the Bible didn't intend marriage to be only the union of one man and one woman—unless the Bible is inaccurate or not to be obeyed in its entirety, of course. In which case I'd expect the really traditional churches would be pushing for polygamy, not against it.
- Cheapening of marriage
"If gays can get married, that will weaken traditional marriages."
The case for allowing gays to marry begins with equality, pure and simple. Why should one set of loving, consenting adults be denied a right that other such adults have and which, if exercised, will do no damage to anyone else?
— "The case for gay marriage", The Economist, 26 February 2004
I'd read the above-quoted article a while ago but forgotten it; Warren Stevens was kind enough to remind me about it via e-mail. It's short, well-reasoned, and probably a better case than I could make. So is their first article on the subject, "Let them wed", from 4 January 1996. Still, I'll continue to add a few cents to the pot.
A heterosexual Satanist couple (but not a homosexual Christian couple) can get married anywhere in this country, and odds are that some have. Some people get married solely for financial reasons, and are essentially roommates while they date (and have sex with) other partners. Do these marriages weaken your marriage, or the marriages of those around you? Do you imagine that your marriage somehow affects theirs, making it weaker or stronger?
For that matter, if we're going to talk about things that weaken marriage, I think we should look at the ease with which people get married and divorced in this country. That's a far bigger threat to the sanctity of marriage than any number of gay marriages could ever be. Britney Spears got married for 55 hours. Apparently that's more acceptable than a homosexual marriage because she was married to a man, even if for just over two days. Why would it be less acceptable if she were to marry a woman, and stay faithfully committed to that partner for the rest of her life?
If gays are able to marry, it will not bring all heterosexual marriages to a screeching halt. It won't even make them less acceptable, or less worthy of respect. If anything, it will make them more so, because there will be a reduced demand for sham marriages.
If nothing else, I'm tired of hearing about the sanctity of marriage from nationally recognized conservatives, most of whom have already been divorced two or more times. Their hypocrisy depresses me, but their inability to defend their own marriages has, so far as I know, failed to weaken my marriage, or that of anyone I know.
- Marriage isn't as important as love
"A gay couple can stay committed and faithful to one another, just as if they were married, so there's no need to grant legal recognition."
The freedom to marry has long been recognized as one of the vital personal rights essential to the orderly pursuit of happiness by free men.
—from the opinion of the U.S Supreme Court in 388 U.S. 1, Loving v. Virginia, 1967
I entirely agree with the Court. And no, I don't see an ethical difference between prohibitions of marriage based on gender and those based on race, which is what 388 U.S. 1 addressed.
Furthermore, I propose that anyone who believes that marriage isn't necessary for any truly loving homosexual couple should voluntarily abstain from marriage, and get divorced if they are already married but stay with the same partner. Show that you mean what you say. If you truly love someone, then it shouldn't be a problem to live with them for the rest of your lives without getting officially married, just as you advocate for gays.
If that isn't acceptable to you, and you think hard about why, then maybe you'll begin to understand why it isn't acceptable to gays either.
(Thanks to Rich Manalang for the pointer to 388 U.S. 1.)
- Inability to reproduce
"Gays don't need to get married because they can't have children."
If the ability to reproduce is a core tenet of an acceptable marriage, then my marriage to Kat is unacceptable: we are unable to reproduce, and believe me, we did try. Does anyone believe that we should be forcibly divorced, or have our marriage annulled, because of this? Come on, speak up. Alternatively, should all couples who intend to get married be required to undergo fertility testing, with those who fail the testing prohibited from being married? Do you really want the government to start medically testing its citizens in order to tell them what they can or can't do?
Because of the medical barriers to our reproducing, Kat and I chose to adopt. I know Alan Keyes condemns people like us because, in his world, adoption makes incest inevitable. (No, I'm not kidding.) Lunatics aside, though, the last time I checked adoption was seen as an acceptable course of action by most people. Regardless of how anyone feels, it is quite likely the only way Kat and I could have a family. It is also one way that a homosexual couple could have a family. I do not see a difference between the two.
Of course, gay couples are already adopting. There was one such couple in our orientation group at the adoption agency with whom we worked. Thus, homosexual marriage would change this very little, if at all. It might in some cases make it easier for a gay couple to adopt, since they could legally show combined income, joint tax returns, health insurance, and the like. I understand that would be objectionable to some, who fear that children raised by a gay couple might grow up to think of a homosexual lifestyle as acceptable. As I pointed out, too late: it's already happening. It's also the case that liberals are allowed to adopt—Kat and I did, after all—and many of those children grow up thinking liberalism is acceptable. Shocking, I know; and yet I assure you that it happens.
Anyone in favor of restricting adoption only to those people who meet specific ideological standards?
- Children's welfare
"Children should be raised by a man and a woman, not by two men or two women."
That's a common belief, and one that has evidence both supporting and contradicting it. I'm not at all convinced that a child needs to have one parent of each gender in order to be well raised. Any time a child has a parent or parents who love, nurture, and discipline it as needed, I think the child is likely to turn out just fine. Conversely, any time a child has a parent or parents who are cruel, abusive, or distant, they're probably going to grow up maladjusted.
Society is better served by maximizing the number of children who grow up in loving, stable homes. If a homosexual couple can provide that, then I don't see why it should be problem. If they can't, then I think it's as much of a problem as a heterosexual couple who can't.
- Choice
"Gays choose to be with same-sex partners. If they chose to be with opposite-sex partners, they could get married."
First, I'm going to leave aside the whole question of homosexuality as a choice versus a matter of nature. There's evidence on both sides, and against both sides. I know what I believe, but I'm not going there, mostly because as far as I'm concerned, it's not relevant.
Of those who are married or in a committed relationship of some kind, how many of you dispassionately chose the person with whom you fell in love? When you truly love someone, it's because that's the right person for you, and vice versa. As far as I'm concerned, that's the end of the story. Why would anyone choose to step away from the one they love because that person wasn't the accepted gender, or race, or religion, or body type, or whatever else? More importantly, why would anyone else demand that they do so?
Suppose I said that all married couples had to be interracial, or interfaith. How is that ethically different from demanding that married couples be intergender? I don't see that it is. Note I said "ethically". I understand that many see a moral difference. Speaking of which…
- Moral qualms
"It's just wrong, and oughtn't be allowed."
There are religions that say the consumption of porcine meats or shellfish is wrong; others forbid the consumption of beef. In fact, taken as a global aggregate, adherents of those religions outnumber Christians. All those who do not follow these food-limiting faiths that are planning to alter their eating habits (that is, their lifestyle) based solely on the demands of said faiths, please raise your hands.
I was, in my original post, a bit sarcastic when I said "oh noble defenders of morality". The sarcastic part was the word "noble": I never perceive intolerance as noble. Other than that, the "morality" part was kind of my point: it's your morality, not everyone's. This street goes both ways, of course; many feel that allowing gays to marry would be an imposition of external morality on them. Conversely, the prohibitions of gay marriage are an imposition of external morality on gays. Where's the balance?
Something I've seen making the rounds is the idea that the government should stop issuing marriage licenses altogether, and instead grant legal recognition to civil unions (both hetero- and homosexual). Of course, if a couple chooses to marry in a church or other setting, they would be entirely free to do so. The point here would be that the civil unions would have the current status marriages hold—the rights, privileges, and burdens that come with being recognized as a married couple would be conferred upon these unions. Marriage would be made a more personal and spiritual act, one that every church could perform for whomever they choose. Some could restrict it only to opposite-gender couples, while others might only marry same-sex couples. Or, and here's a radical concept, a church might choose to marry any two people who love each other enough to undertake so serious a commitment.
It seems to me that this, or something very much like it, would be a workable approach. I'll grant you that it would force some churches and other socially conservative organizations to co-exist with (if not necessarily accept) something they don't like, but that's fairly inescapable. In a large, complex society, every one of us will have to tolerate things we don't like. I, for one, don't much like the recent votes to prohibit gay marriage, but clearly I have to live with them, at least for the time being. I also don't like people who can't be bothered to signal lane changes, civilian-owned Hummers, Web design tools that generate malformed markup, and Rush Limbaugh. Tell you what: support my legislation to ban the things I don't like, and I'll support yours. Fair enough?
I could go on, but I think that's quite enough. There will, of course, be those who read this and despair that I've bought into the "homosexual agenda". Well, let's see. Near as I can tell, the agenda in question is one of asking that our society treat homosexuals like human beings, that it grant them the same rights and privileges accorded to other adults, and that it treat them as the equals the United States Constitution says they (along with everyone else) truly are.
Quite frankly, we should all buy into that agenda.