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Unprecedented series of gains coast to coast for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people
Roberta Sklar, Director of Communications
More than half of U.S. population will be protected from anti-gay discrimination
Nearly 40% will live in jurisdictions that protect transgender people
Broad rights for same-sex couples increase more than eightfold in only three years
'The tide is clearly shifting.' — Matt Foreman, Executive Director,
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
WASHINGTON, May 9 — The 2007 state legislative season has been the most productive in the history of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights movement and, as a result, for the first time more than half the U.S. population will live in jurisdictions that outlaw discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, according to an analysis of Census data and current laws released today by the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. In addition, nearly 40 percent of the population will now live in jurisdictions that protect transgender people from discrimination — a sevenfold increase since 2000, and one-fifth of all Americans will live in states that offer same-sex couples broad rights under state law, more than an eightfold increase since 2004. The Task Force said the 2006 elections and years of dogged work at the grassroots level were responsible for the surge in legislation.
"This is a historic and long-overdue milestone. At long last, a majority of Americans will now live in jurisdictions that protect people from discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation," said Matt Foreman, executive director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. "As important, protections for transgender people and broad rights for same-sex couples are surging from coast to coast. We still have a very long way to go, but the tide is clearly shifting."
Nondiscrimination Protections Surge
Since Jan. 1, 2007, the legislatures in four states — an all-time high — have passed nondiscrimination laws. Three of those states — Iowa, Oregon and Colorado — moved to extend protections to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, and the Vermont Legislature passed a bill amending its existing nondiscrimination laws to include transgender people. As a result, the percentage of the U.S. population living in jurisdictions protecting lesbian, gay and bisexual people from discrimination will rise to 52 percent, crossing the halfway mark for the first time. The laws of Iowa, Oregon and Vermont prohibit discrimination in employment, housing and public accommodations, among other categories; Colorado's law covers employment only.
Oregon Gov. Ted Kulongoski is scheduled to sign his state's bill into law today; the governors in the other three states have pledged to sign their bills into law.
Protections for Transgender People Growing Rapidly
When the four state discrimination laws go into effect, 37 percent of the population will live in jurisdictions that protect transgender people from discrimination.
Protections for transgender people have grown much more quickly over the last decade than those for lesbian, gay and bisexual people because of a commitment of the LGBT movement to insist that transgender people be included in new nondiscrimination laws and to go back and add protections for transgender people to existing sexual orientation-only laws. Since 2000, the percentage of the population living in jurisdictions with nondiscrimination laws covering sexual orientation grew 14 percentage points (from 38 percent to 52 percent). During the same period, the percentage of the population living in jurisdictions with nondiscrimination laws covering gender identity/expression grew 32 percentage points (from 5 percent to 37 percent), more than five times the rate of growth for sexual orientation protections.
The Task Force created and staffed its Transgender Civil Rights Project in 2001 with the goal of increasing the number of transgender-protective discrimination laws. Since the project's inception, the proportion of the population covered by transgender-inclusive laws has increased from 6 percent to 37 percent.
"It's clear that legislators recognize that transgender people face widespread discrimination and deserve the same protections as other minorities," said Foreman. "The common wisdom used to be that including protections for transgender people would kill a bill — that's obviously not the case."
Foreman noted that last week the U.S. House of Representatives passed a hate crimes bill containing explicit protections for transgender people by a vote of 237–180 and that this year the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) was amended to prohibit discrimination on the basis of gender identity and expression. There is widespread expectation that both houses of Congress will take up ENDA before the end of the calendar year.
Gains in Broad State Protections for Same-Sex Couples
Over the last five months (December through April), legislatures in three states — New Jersey, New Hampshire and Oregon — passed laws granting same-sex couples the same rights and responsibilities afforded married couples under state law through civil unions or domestic partnerships. As in the nondiscrimination arena, this is more states taking such action than in any previous state legislative season. As a result, one-fifth (20 percent) of the U.S. population will live in states that offer broad rights and responsibilities to same-sex couples. (Other jurisdictions, including Washington state, Hawaii and the District of Columbia, have passed laws that give significant but not comprehensive rights to domestic partners. These jurisdictions are not included in the calculations.)
Five years ago just one state, Vermont, with 0.2 percent of the population, offered broad protections to same-sex couples with a law enacted in 2000. When the bills passed this session take effect, seven states (California, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oregon and Vermont), with 20 percent of the population, will offer broad protections to same-sex couples.
The Task Force said Oregon's new law was a particularly satisfying turnaround from 2004, when voters approved a constitutional amendment banning the recognition of same-sex marriage by a margin of 57 percent to 43 percent, the narrowest margin among the 13 states voting on anti-marriage measures that year. The Task Force donated nearly $900,000 in cash in the attempt to defeat the amendment and sent 10 organizers to help staff the campaign.
"While the 2004 loss really hurt, it's now clear that our campaign really did convince people that all families deserve broad protections and relationship rights," said Thalia Zepatos, director of the Task Force's Organizing & Training Department. Zepatos, who played a major role in fighting every anti-LGBT measure in Oregon since 1988, will attend today's bill-signing ceremony in Salem, Ore.
2006 Elections and Years of Grassroots Work Credited with Surge in Protections
The results of the 2006 election played a pivotal role in four (Colorado, Iowa, New Hampshire and Oregon) of the six states passing nondiscrimination or family protection laws since December, the Task Force said.
Before the November elections, Democrats held control of both houses of the state legislatures in three of the states taking pro-LGBT action: Vermont, Colorado and New Jersey. As a result of the November elections, however, Democrats picked up control of both houses in the other three states: Iowa, Oregon and New Hampshire. Before the elections in Iowa, the Senate was evenly divided and the House was Republican-dominated; in Oregon, Democrats controlled the Senate and Republicans controlled the House; in New Hampshire, both houses were controlled by Republicans. In Colorado, Democrats strengthened their control of the Legislature, and Democrat William Ritter succeeded Republican William Owens as governor, who had twice vetoed the nondiscrimination bill.
The change in control of the state legislatures was due to Democratic gains nationwide, as well as specific work to elect pro-LGBT state legislators spearheaded by Colorado philanthropist Tim Gill.
"The lesson here? What a difference an election makes!" said Foreman.
In Oregon in 2006, then-House Speaker Karen Minnis was singularly responsible for blocking nondiscrimination and family recognition legislation bills. With Democrats taking control of that chamber, Minnis has since lost her leadership position.
Although it took Democratic control to move the bills, each passed with Republican support (although Colorado's employment nondiscrimination bill passed with only one Republican voting for it).
The Task Force stressed that while the change in party control was an essential factor in moving bills this year, grassroots activism over many years made it possible for legislators to vote on the pro-LGBT measures. In Oregon, for example, activists had been pushing a nondiscrimination law for nearly 30 years, and work on the comprehensive domestic partnership law began immediately after the 2004 election. Similarly, the LGBT community in Vermont has been pushing to include protections for transgender people for eight years, and New Hampshire's civil union law is a direct result of marriage equality organizing by the New Hampshire Freedom to Marry Coalition.
"These bills would have never passed without the dogged work of state and local leaders and organizations over many, many years," Foreman said. "Our national community owes them all its respect and gratitude."
Since Jan. 1, the legislatures of all 50 states have been in session. As of May 8, 29 legislatures remain in session.
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The mission of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force is to build the grassroots power of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community. We do this by training activists, equipping state and local organizations with the skills needed to organize broad-based campaigns to defeat anti-LGBT referenda and advance pro-LGBT legislation, and building the organizational capacity of our movement. Our Policy Institute, the movement's premier think tank, provides research and policy analysis to support the struggle for complete equality and to counter right-wing lies. As part of a broader social justice movement, we work to create a nation that respects the diversity of human expression and identity and creates opportunity for all. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., we also have offices in New York City, Los Angeles, Miami, Minneapolis and Cambridge.
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Famed driver Tony Stewart appears to hit fellow driver Kevin Ward Jr. on the track in a fatal collision. Nascar decides to emit (and then remove) a very insensitive tweet.
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Yeah, I might have to try that.
I'm terrible with buying him things...I like to make him happy and reward good behavior so we end up buying something small or letting him pick out snacks at the grocery store and I think now he kind of expects it and is surprised when I won't buy him something at every store we go to. I set limits like if I just bought him something at Target I can't buy him something at the mall on the same day and he's always very upset by that. He sees me buying things DH and I need and I think he's confused as to why he can't get something all the time too.
I think I really need to cut down and work on the money reward for helping out and being good and once a week going to buy something, or something like that. He's so cute, he actually offers to empty and fill the dishwasher now and we give him a quarter for that.
We saved up for a inflated sword at Chuck E Cheese and the next day it was popped already. Spent 200 tickets on that thing
Ouchie! I don't know that I have had one but do know that the three months we tried clomid (I was getting a couple of very large follicles a cycle)....and OMG I thought I was dying for a couple of days. I couldn't hardly sit but couldn't hardly stand and even called in sick to work.
Chrissy...that is kind of cute that you can be a handful. My DH will sometimes call me a PITA (he says pita...not pain in the a$$)....but when he does it, I know that I'm being difficult.
Erin, I too feel so badly for your little nephew. I hope that you can get him reading and I don't get why they are not testing him much sooner.
Oh Ash I'm sorry. You're right, you're too young to have that kind of thing going on. I wonder if there are natural remedies that help with arthritis?
I've been having pain in my left big toe that's been significant enough to make my eyes kinda tingle when I press the clutch on my car. I hate it. I'm not sure if it's from running or if it's a spur or what. I keep meaning to have it looked at but with all the kids needing me to take them to the drs I really don't have time to use my sick days for myself.
I'm back at work after a long weekend. We actually got the portfolio finished except the cover!!!! I'm really pretty happy with the two books and just need to get over to Kinkos and make a color copy for myself. The cover should be pretty easy just have to decide which picture of us and cut out our names.
Sunday it was cool enough that we got to chill out in the hot tub for a little while and we had pizza turnovers from our favorite place back home....soooo good. Where I live now doesn't have much of an Italian population and it shows in the restaurants.....best place here is Olive Garden.
Yesterday we drove back home....and thankfully traffic was good because we were heading in the right direction. Usually people go up north for the holiday and we went south..and so coming home when we were going north, everyone was heading back south again (we get a lot of people coming up into WI in the summer from IL because other than Chicago, IL is not as nice nature wise as WI).
And my garden is looking good! I was worried about leaving it for a few days as it's been really hot and didn't rain.
This is a speed-reply, because I start a meeting in 2 minutes:
Bridget, I like the cold hearted beeeyotch side of you. We probably share the same one. I think your neighbor is taking your DBF for granted. Perhaps it was an emergency. But she needs to find someone else to rely on in that event. It's gonna be up to Mark to manage her expectations.
Mandy, I love the furniture. Art-deco is one of my favorite styles. Have you ever seen Aztec deco? It's an offshoot of it and is super ornate and cool looking.
Ack. Ran out of time. More later...
Trying to slowly catch up on the chit chat from the weekend, I jsut wanted to say hi and I hope everyone had a good long weekend
Christina, I hope you had a great birthday!
Jennifer, that's great you finished the scrapbooks.
Myles, no, I haven't seen Aztec Deco. I'll have to google it. I mentioned it to DH and he's interested.
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Jen - great job on finishing the scrapbooks. Any chance you could take a pic of one or two of your fave pages and share them with us? I like seeing other people's scrapbooking work. Only if you have the time, though.
AmeriAsh - I hope your arthritis doesn't give you too much of an interruption in your life. I can't imagine how much frustration is involved when it affects your hands.
Mandy - I Googled Aztec deco, just to see what you would see, and I didn't see much more than cheesy gift shop souvenir type of things that you could buy on a cruise ship to Puerto Vallarta. The Aztec deco I was referring to is more of this architectural style found in iron work in lobbies of old buildings in San Francisco. If I find any representative photos online, I'll share them with you. LOL.
Hi and happy Tuesday to the rest of you ladies!! I took the "RealAge" test again because they changed it and I was bored when I first got into the office today. And in some ways I "aged" because of the recent stress of motherhood, the job instability and the family conflict. But my RealAge was still 4 years younger than my actual age (I think it was previously 7 years younger). One of the questions on the test was something like "How many friends do you have to talk to when there's a problem in your life", and I easily was able to answer 9+ (the highest option on the test) because of you ladies. And with the question, "How frequently do you have contact with these friends", I was able to say almost every day. Because of those answers, I scored high on the social support part of the test. Thank you for keeping me young, girls!
Myles, do you think the Fox Theatre is an example of Aztec Deco?
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Y'all are all my BFF's! ;)
Aw, it's so nice to come back and feel the love here!
I've been camping in the Mendocino National Forest over the long weekend, and it was both heaven and hell, to use a very non-secular phrase. Actually, that was probably too extreme. It did not live up to either my ideals or my fears. How's that? It was pleasant at points, and insufferable at other points. However, it was beautiful and exhausting.
Hmm, get the idea that I have very mixed feelings about this trip?
The frequent vomiting on the way back was probably the tipping point.
No idea. It was mystery vomit. C. just said, "My tummy hurts" and then R. puked all over his car seat, his stuffed bunny, everything, and then C. let loose BlARrGGhh all over her car seat, the sleeping bag, everything, and then it happened all over again. We kept the cold foods cold. Nobody ate anything mysterious or unusual. S. tried to eat an acorn but I stopped him, and he didn't even have any issues.
We're thinking that this might be much better when they're a bit older. It was still way too much neediness. C. couldn't go to the potty if there was a bug on it. S. was drawn to the campfire like a moth to a flame.
Sorry about the initials. I've been getting more paranoid about my searchability since the boards became open, and my kids' names are unusual enough, esp. in combination, that I don't like to use them much. But ds and dd sound so distant with you guys.
I keep adding stuff. The stars were absolutely beautiful, though. And it was really nice, at times. The kids played really well together, from time to time. C. taught baby S. to throw pine cones. They built little stick houses for spiders to live in. They chased each other around. They loved the tent. It was pretty cool.
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Ash, so sorry about your rheumatoid arthritis, arthritis is actually one of my biggest fears. I know I see all those commercials about rheumatoid arthritis and I know it is considered an auto-immune disease, you should see if they can put you on one of those auto-immune medications if it is really bad. I really don't like medications but I really, really, don't like dealing with pain. My aunt has osteoarthritis, she is a nurse and says that there is nothing to be done for her type except pain management but that there are more options for rheumatoid arthritis since it is autoimmune.
Bridget, I remember that lady from you mentionig her before. I really think your DBF needs to have a talk with her. He probably will feel awkward about it though. In your shoes, I would speak to her. Wish I were there, I would so ask her what her deal was?? Does she think that he does not have responsibilities at home with his 3 kids and yourself. She seems rather selfish and so understand and also like the cold hearted beyotchiness you are displaying. I would be much more cold hearted and beyotchy to her in person, but in a nice way as I try to be nice with my own beyotchiness LOL.
I'm also glad we are keeping you young Myles. You all are probably keeping me young as well with the social aspect, even though I don't think I'm all that social much in person or online, though I have been told that my perception of my social-ness is flawed.
Glad your trip wasn't extremely awful Lydia, beautiful and exhausting isn't too bad I guess, kind of like children!
Lydia, I have found that big excursions have become increasingly difficult now that we have Sawyer. I find myself just wanting to stay home all the time. Thank goodness we live on the lake with a big yard and lots of frogs to catch and places to discover so Savana and Kai can stay busy from sun up to sun down. Yesterday dbf wanted to take the boat out and I'm just not feeling the boat trip with Sawyer, stuffing him into a life jacket and holding him upright the whole time. Doesn't sound relaxing at all. Plus of course I had a splitting headache so I laid down with Sawyer while dbf took the kids out. I feel like a party pooper but I'm not going to purposely stress myself out.
The neighbor lady came over today and apolgized to me today when she saw me outside with the kids. But she was laughing when she said it and then went on to tell me the really boring story about how they got stranded. I told her it was ok that it wasn't her fault but that the timing was bad and that I just need Mark available to me when he is home since I care for the kids alone basically 12 hours a day and also have other duties that require someone to help me with kids. I don't know if she got my drift or not. She also said she would give us money for gas since she was all the way across the lake and we have a very old putter pontoon that isn't meant to be towing her 30,000 dollar heap. But she never gave us any money. Dbf says he is going to ask when she comes back next weekend.
Savana told me and my dad yesterday that daddy long legs are not actually spiders because they don't build webs. I googled it and sure enough she was right. When I asked her how she knew that she said, "I listen to the voice of the spiders."
My dad looked at me and said, "You know, the thing is, I believe her."
ETA: I love y'all too.
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Oooh, life on a lake sounds really beautiful, Bridget. It's good you said something to the neighbor lady. She sounds like such a pest. I just hope your DBF isn't giving her a different message that it's ok for her to think of him as her personal assistant.
My needy guest is gone. Aaaah. DH said "I told you so" that there was going to be drama while she was here. The last day of her visit was more of the same delicate-flower-in-the-house routine. When she woke up she made this big show about how she was going to move to her aunt's house because she was being "too much trouble", prompting us to have to tell her that she wasn't too much trouble at all and make it seem like it was us who really wanted her to stay. Then she never came out to the beach when we went surfing because she wanted to sleep, staying in bed with her little one the whole time. And then when we got back, she wanted to take me to lunch to thank me. When she really wanted to pick this one spot, it turned out to be cash only, so I ended up using what was in my wallet to buy my thank-you lunch (she eventually paid me back, though). And when the sun got too strong, she pulled out the baby sunscreen and just handed it to me, expecting me to just apply it to her little baby without asking me to. She then got exhausted, and got in bed at 4pm and we didn't see her until 7am this morning. She TEXTED me from my guest room at 5:30 pm that she finally got the baby down and she wanted to get as much rest as possible for the drive home. This morning, she was being really obnoxious about trying to get my attention. She'd call for me from the guest room in this whiny voice, expecting me to come to her to find out what she wanted. I just started ignoring her, forcing her to come out to me to say whatever it was she had to say. LOL. That's my cold hearted beeeyatch coming out.
Mandy, I don't know if the Fox Theatre in Tucson is Aztec Deco, but it sure is purty. We have a Fox Theatre out here too in Oakland, and it's also ornate and gorgeous old-world-looking. I visited a girlfriend in Tucson a few years ago. That's where you live, right? We went to this old hotel. I think it was called The Congress, and I remember it having a pretty cool bar. We also took a trip to Tombstone and Bisbee. It's so Old West down there, I felt like I stepped into a Clint Eastwood film.
Lydia, that sounds like a pretty hectic time in The Great Outdoors. I'll take note of it. DH is making noises about a backpacking trip with Bodhi, and it seems like it could be - just like you said - awesome and the suck. We took Bodhi on another hike today,up a hill past an orchid nursery - acres of greenhouses. It made me feel that tingly feeling when I peeked into the greenhouses. I swear, I think I could live in one. Anyway, so far we haven't managed to average faster than a mile an hour. And that was with no packs. So I'm guessing any overnight backpacking trip will be very little distance.
I confess, I have a summer head cold. And my orange hungry monster is here in full force to boot. There's nothing like being voraciously hungry without being able to taste your food.
To end my post on a happy note, I replaced my lost camera with an identical one that I got for a song on Craigslist. I even got a better lens than the one I lost. Hooray!
Speaking of Clint Eastwood and spaghetti westerns, I'm going to bed now with the theme song from The Good, The Bad & The Ugly in my head.
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Daggum, Myles, your friend sounds like a trip! Is she a friend from high school or something? I can't imagine a grown woman acting that way! I'm glad you got a new camera; at random times I would wonder if you ever found yours or replaced it....lol...funny, the things I think of through the day.
Lydia, sorry your trip wasn't absoultely fabulous, but it does sound like you had some good times mixed in there.....but vomit would ruin it for me....I don't deal well with the vomit. I think Travis has only ever vomitted once in his life and Cash hasn't ever yet (now that I say that I bet they both get a bug or something!) But they were both spitty babies, so I cleaned up lots of baby spit-up...just not the proper vomit!
On a total different note, I had my nails done when I was in AR and they are now so grown out, I need to get them taken off (acrylic tips). I liked them but they have made life hard with trying to pick stuff up and type, etc!
Lydia, your trip sound rough. I'm glad you found some beauty in it.
Myles, that guest would have made me crazy. And I remember a wild night or two at Club Congress back when I was single! Wow, that takes me back. I never stayed in the hotel but always wanted to. My brother did and loved it. God, I sound old.
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Your friend sounds like a piece of work. I don't think I would have made it through without lashing out at her, although the texting from the other room wouldn't have bothered me. My teens have conditioned me and now I find myself texting the 3 of them when dinner is done. Sure beats yelling, "Dinner's ready!!!" down the hall. Anyway, they invariably have headphones on or loud music playing and they don't hear me anyway.
I'm sorry your camping trip wasn't all it could be Lydia. There's a forest near where we live now that has a lean-to above a gorge. It's absolutely breathtaking and is only about 2 miles out from the dirt road. We really want to get out there for at least one night with Conner before we move. Not that we can't go after we move, but since we're doing nothing else this summer....
Lydia I'm sorry about all the puking, I think I might've lost my stomach myself
Ash RA is SO painful and I'm sorry you have to deal with that. My sitter has RA (still early on) and some days you can tell she is in alot of pain
The RealAge test said I was 19 I really thought it was going to say I was older than what I am I guess I better make sure to tell DH he's gotta keep those climax's coming so I can stay young
Thanks for the Happy Birthday ladies It was fun and stressful having all those people in my house!
Mylah, your houseguest sounds very high maintenance. Speaking of, can I take you out to lunch to thank you for everything you've done for me? That sounds awesome!
Thankfully, our camping trip did not involve backpacking. There is no way we could have hauled all of our gear. We had 10 gallons of water alone. Plus a huge tent. It was hard enough carrying everything from the car to our campsite when Justin was setting up the tent. I got the pictures up if you guys want to see.
Bridget, your neighbor sounds like she is one of those people who does not have any thoughts for anyone other than herself. She probably would not understand a subtle reminder about how much you need Mark around because you're busy and have children.
We have more neighbor issues ourselves. Our other neighbor has been staying out of our way, but "Crackie" has been coming over, blitzed out of his mind, pretty much every other night asking for money. I told him the other day that it's not so much the $2 here or there, but the fact that he's coming over and ringing the doorbell when the children are trying to sleep, and that if he really is in need (hah) he can only come before 6:30. So the other night he rang the doorbell and I told him I was really upset with him, S. was crying, he woke up, and I didn't want him to come over again. He told me to chill out sweetheart. He gave my mom some money to pay me back yesterday during the day, and then last night rang the doorbell again at 9 PM to ask for it back, after he got drunk. DH yelled at him and pointed at S., who was crying again, and said "Don't you understand? You cannot come over here! You are disturbing us, our family, you are waking up our children and making them cry, and you are making me very angry." I joined him at the door and told him he was cut off.
Crackie has always been a nice and harmless (but obviously drunk) neighbor, who always sits outside on his porch, so we're a little worried about what this is going to do.
Oh lordie Lydia. That does sound awful. I can't help but giggle that you call him Crackie though. We make up nicknames for our annoying neighbors too. We don't have any where we currently live, but where we're moving to we have a few. It'll be interesting to go back, that's for sure. I don't think any of them actually knocked on the door and asked for a couple bucks. I can't get over the nerve of your neighbor for doing that.


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apns object
Updated: February 21, 2013
Exposes the functionality of the Apple Push Notification Service (APNS) in Microsoft Azure Mobile Services server scripts.
The apns object has the following methods:
Sends a notification to a specific device.
apns.send(deviceToken, payload, options)
Required token value that indicates which device receives the notification.
Required object that contains the notification information, in the following format:
{ badge: badge_number, alert: 'alert_text', sound: 'sound_file', payload: payload_object, expiry: expire_date }
Where badge_number is the number to display over the app icon, alert_text is the toast alert message, sound_file is the sound to play when the notification is received, payload_object is a JSON object that contains the notification text, and expire_date is the date after which the notification is no longer delivered.
Optional object that specifies the error handler function, in the following format:
The error output supplied to the callback has the following format:
{ statusCode : error_status, deviceToken : 'device_token', statusDescription : 'error_description' }
Where error_status is the status code for the error, device_token indicates which device produced the error, and error_description is a text description of the error.
Used to request information from the APNS about device-specific push notification failures.
A completion object that has success and error handers, as follows:
{ success: function(devices) { // Code that executes when the method succeeds. }, error: function(err) { // Code that executes when the method fails. } }
When an error handler is not provided, errors are written to the log.
The apns object is obtained from the push object in a server script. For a complete example, see Get started with push notifications.
When the alert field of the payload object is specified, the assigned text value is displayed as a toast notification. This notification is displayed even when the app is not running. The data in the payload field of the payload object is only displayed when the app is running.
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After reading around I decided that the Pro Mini did not have a bootloader. It seems that SparkFun sometimes omit to burn a bootloader! Clearly their quality system needs improving.
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I recently had a facelift and was expecting to look refreshed and more youthful. There was little or no difference between the 'before' photos and how I now look. At 6 mos., the Doctor stated he could see a 'slight' improvement in the jawline. The first facelift I had 10 years ago took 20 years off my appearance. The Doctor offered to do a 2nd procedure to tighten things up. Am I disappointed right now, absoultely. The need to go through a 2nd procedure is not something I look forward to except that I will, hopefully, get the results I anticipated the first time. I will repost in May or June after the surgery.
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Well.... what is the update??? Please post for us.
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The revision surgery was done by tightening the skin a bit more. There was a noticeable difference for me but, not nearly what I expected. I plan to see another surgeon for his opinion, however I know how reluctant doctors are to criticize another doctor's work.
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Oh no! I'm so sorry you weren't happy with your results. Was it a regular facelift you had or a mini lift of some sort?
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I had a regular facelift by a prominent surgeon. As long as he makes things right, I will be able to move on. Right now, everytime I look in the mirror it makes me sad. I feel so sorry for anyone who has to go through this. I will definitely post anything new as well as the results of my 2nd surgery. Thanks.
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Galgirll47 -- It is sad that you went through a surgery that didn't do much of anything, and now you have to face another FL. Believe me, it could be even sadder -- at least you don't look appreciably worse, as I did after each of 3 face surgeries, 1 "necklift," and 2 FLs. I look much worse now -- in every way -- than I did before any face surgery! And the surgeon who did the 2 FLs (Gutek) was in a hostile rage before the 1st FL and pulled my face DOWNWARD, then proposed a 2nd FL, in which he only lifted 1/2 way up, and it is still downward. (This has been readily seen by several surgeons since then.) I am now searching for a 4th FL, & most surgeons in the midwest are saying no. The only glimmer of a silver lining is that it is not PULLING DOWN AS HARD as it has been for the last 2 years. Can you believe that? That is the only silver lining I have. Anyway, I completely understand how you feel -- because I have suffered with a nightmare for 4 years, & I don't know if anyone will ever be able to improve it. I hope your 2nd FL fixes the problem. Have you asked him what went wrong and what he plans to do to fix the problem? If he mumbles around, I might be afraid the 2nd FL might not be what you hope for. That's what happened to me, but of course, I had a surgeon (Mr. Hate-filled Rage), who was a true psychopath, and surgeons like that are very rare (although they do exist).
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Worryingly,this is becoming more common lately,and i had the same,i looked absolutely not a little bit better than i did before,if anything worse.!
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I have made this a few times, it is the official brisket recipe in our house. I never serve the lemons or olives, and dont think the recipe needs it. I cook it in the crock pot all day rather than in the oven for 3 hours.
Brisket with Olives and Preserved Lemons
Photo: Becky Luigart-Stayner; Styling: Cindy Barr
Look for oil-cured olives in the deli section of a gourmet grocery. With Moroccan Preserved Lemons, they add a pleasant briny, bitter finish to the dish.
Yield: 8 servings (serving size: about 3 ounces brisket, 1/2 cup onion mixture, 1 1/2 teaspoons preserved lemons, and about 2 1/2 teaspoons olives)
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Nutritional Information
Amount per serving
- Calories: 396
- Calories from fat: 29%
- Fat: 12.9g
- Saturated fat: 4.4g
- Monounsaturated fat: 5.8g
- Polyunsaturated fat: 0.7g
- Protein: 48.7g
- Carbohydrate: 20.2g
- Fiber: 3.4g
- Cholesterol: 113mg
- Iron: 4.8mg
- Sodium: 749mg
- Calcium: 88mg
- 1 (2 1/2-pound) beef brisket, trimmed
- 5 garlic cloves
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- Cooking spray
- 8 cups chopped onion (about 4 large)
- 1/2 cup water
- 1/3 cup diced celery
- 2 teaspoons grated peeled fresh ginger
- 1/2 teaspoon ground turmeric
- 1/8 teaspoon white pepper
- 1 (14.5-ounce) can stewed tomatoes, undrained
- 2 bay leaves
- 1/4 cup coarsely chopped fresh parsley, divided
- 1/4 cup coarsely chopped fresh cilantro, divided
- 1/4 cup finely chopped Preserved Lemons
- 1/3 cup oil-cured olives, pitted and thinly sliced
- 1. Preheat oven to 350°.
- 2. Make 5 (1/2-inch-deep) slits into brisket; place 1 garlic clove in each slit. Sprinkle brisket evenly with salt and black pepper.
- 3. Heat a large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. Coat pan with cooking spray. Add brisket to pan; cook 5 minutes, browning on all sides. Remove from pan.
- 4. Recoat pan with cooking spray. Add onion to pan; sauté 10 minutes or until tender. Add 1/2 cup water and next 6 ingredients (through bay leaves) to pan; cook 2 minutes or until heated through.
- 5. Place brisket in a 13 x 9–inch baking dish coated with cooking spray; top with onion mixture. Cover dish with foil. Bake at 350° for 3 hours or until brisket is very tender. Remove brisket from dish, reserving onion mixture. Discard bay leaves. Stir 2 tablespoons parsley and 2 tablespoons cilantro into onion mixture.
- 6. Cut brisket diagonally across grain into thin slices. Arrange brisket and onion mixture on a serving platter; sprinkle with remaining 2 tablespoons parsley and remaining 2 tablespoons cilantro. Serve with Preserved Lemons and olives.
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- COURSE: Main Dishes
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- CUISINE: Jewish, Moroccan
- MAIN INGREDIENT: Beef
- COOKING METHOD: Bake
- OCCASION: Autumn, Spring, Summer, Winter, Passover
- PUBLICATION: Cooking Light
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Monday, June 6, 2011
Tutorial ~ Ruffle Top for a Baby ~
Hi all! I made this top for my neighbor's new baby a while ago. I will share a quick tutorial with you.
1. I bought the type of underwear that folds in the front like kimono. You will need a shirt, and some lace.
2. Treat the edges of the lace with Serger or zigzag stitches.
3. I folded 1/2" from the rough edge of the lace and sewed two lines using the largest stitch setting. One is 1/8" from the edge, the other 1/2" from the edge. Then pull those two threads to make ruffles.
4. Pin the lace onto the front edges along the neck line. Sew in the middle of the two stitched lines. Repeat the process to make one more ruffle out of a lace and sew it on to the bottom edge.
Since I don't have a baby anymore at home (even though my children seem to act like it sometimes...), it is so much fun to come up with little baby items to work on. Don't you think there is something about baby stuff that brings smiles, "ohhh"s and "Ahhh"s?
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- Nancy's Couture said...
Cute and fast. My kind of project!
- July 21, 2011 at 9:45 PM
- Christie @ A Lemon Squeezy Home said...
That's just so sweet and lovely! Great idea!
- July 21, 2011 at 10:06 PM
- Victoria Paige @ Boutique Uniquely said...
That is so darling. My daughter would look beautiful in that.
- July 21, 2011 at 11:18 PM
- nadia said...
super cute..
- July 22, 2011 at 5:49 AM
- Laura @ ON{thelaundry}LINE said...
Oh, i just LOVE this! It would looks just darling on my little bitty, I will have to remember to pick up one of those shirts next time I'm out and about.
- July 22, 2011 at 7:55 AM
- Rebecca said...
Oh my! This is simply gorgeous!! Thanks so much for sharing. :)
- July 22, 2011 at 9:33 AM
- Prudently Painted Vintage said...
Just pinned it for future use! Thanks :)
- July 22, 2011 at 11:20 AM
- casserole said...
Brilliant! And so beautiful! I linked to your tutorial on Craft Gossip Sewing:
- July 22, 2011 at 7:41 PM
- {Peppermint Plum} said...
This is so sweet! Great job :)
-Annie @ {PeppermintPlum}
- July 23, 2011 at 12:55 AM
- Sylvie Créative said...
Really cute!
- July 23, 2011 at 3:56 AM
- Jessica at Me Sew Crazy said...
I am in love with this top!!!! So pretty!
- July 23, 2011 at 4:12 AM
- The Rosenau's said...
that is so cute! simple and easy probably something im going to do today! thanks for sharing!
- July 23, 2011 at 7:34 AM
- L2L said...
This is just precious!!!! I never thought to fold a "hem" before gathering!!!! Genius!!! Thanks for sharing
- July 23, 2011 at 1:05 PM
- http://www.artfire.com/users/auntiechrisquiltfabric said...
Absolutely adorable!
- July 23, 2011 at 9:03 PM
- Lettie said...
This is so perfect! I have a baby gift to make, happened to get some free lace at a garage sale and then found this wonderful idea. I love it.
- July 24, 2011 at 4:14 PM
- Shannon said...
I love this! It actually looks like something I could do - thanks for sharing!
- August 9, 2011 at 10:06 PM
- dawn said...
ohhhh I love it!
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The song was one of Michael's biggest hits and served as the seventh single from his album of the same name - oddly enough the tune was originally titled "Starlight." The music video is one of the most iconic at 14-minutes long. The video/short film is known as "Michael Jackson's Thriller" and was the first music video selected to be added to the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress.
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MARTIN COUNTY - Leaving his District 82 House of Representatives seat behind, William Snyder set his sights on the Martin County Sheriff position.
Those dreams came true on election night, Aug. 14, as he garnered 11,702 votes and beat three other Republicans for the job held for 20 years by Robert Crowder.
Rep. Snyder has 33 years experience in law enforcement and served for 20 years in the Miami-Dade Police Department. In 1993, he joined the Martin County Sheriff's Office as a captain and chief criminal investigator for criminal and narcotics investigations. He was promoted to major in 2001 and director of the department of law enforcement in Martin County.
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"So I guess Ohio State had lost the bowl game, so Earl Bruce brings in Woody Hayes. I had been there just a week and I'm thinking, 'Holy, this is Coach Hayes.' I'm sitting in the back. Coach Hayes was not healthy at the time, but stands up and starts laying into the coaching staff about toughness. That we have no toughness in the program. That's why we lost the game. On and on and screaming, this old guy pounding the table. He says, 'We have no toughness, and the reason is because you're not tough. No one on this staff is tough enough, and that's a problem.'
"He reaches down and grabs this box, slides the top and there was something in the box moving around. He reaches in and he pulls out this turtle. He reaches down, this turtle's snapping and he says, 'I'm going to show you toughness.' He unzips his pants and takes out whatever he takes out. The turtle reaches up and snaps at him. You see the veins and the sweat (on Hayes). He screams at the coaches, 'That's toughness! That's f'n toughness!' He reaches down, pokes the turtle right in the eye and it falls off. He wipes the sweat off his forehead and says, 'That's the problem. We don't have anybody in this room tough enough to do that right there.'
"(One assistant) raises his hand and says, 'Coach, I'd do this. Just promise not to poke me in the eye.'"
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thats not a true story----it is however, one of the oldest jokes around-----Meyer was trying to make a point and used this joke as support for his point - John
Now that's funny! Even if it isn't true, it's hilarious.
Urban Meyer truly is not playing with a full deck ever since the resignation at Florida then the change of heart thing. He's just plain weird and arrogant !!!
maybe, but he did lead Ohio State to an undefeated season last year, even though they weren't bowl elegible, so I'd say his coaching ability hasn't suffered one bit since leaving Florida ... just saying ...
and that's how Woody Hayes became Jewish
I heard this story in the mid 1970's. However, it was about Bo Schemechler prior to a OSU vs Michigan game. Bo brought a basket of snapping turtles on the practice field the evening before the game. He had the turtle latch onto his whatever. he winched but let it hold on. He then put his finger in the turtles eye and it released its grasp. The player watch in disbelief. Then he ask if there was any Michigan player that was tough enough to come up and repeat the feat. After a while one player raised his hand and said "I'll do it coach but please don't put your finger in my eye."
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Feb15-13, 08:00 AM
I'm doing 'Heat and Mass transfer' at college and we're covering the topic on the hydrodynamic and thermal boundary layers.
I have a couple of questions, the answers to which are not given explicitly in any of my text books.
1. During open flow, why does laminar flow eventually have to become turbulent and why does that involve an increase in thickness of the layer?
2. Viscosity is due to 1. exchange of molecules from one layer to another in a fluid(momentum exchange) and 2. force of cohesion.
Therefore in laminar flow, where the flow is a lot more organized, and the adjacent layers stick to each-other, there would be larger force of cohesion. However, in turbulent flow, there is a lot of mixing of the molecules, so it would contribute to the create of large viscous forces.
Therefore, is the force of viscosity greater in laminar or in turbulent flow?
3. Heat exchange is greater in the turbulent layer, but so is the force of friction. So in practical life, would we prefer turbulent flow or laminar? ( So far I have formed an impression that the turbulent boundary layer is disadvantageous and unpredictable because its so 'messy' so I'll be really surprised if it turns out to be the better option').
Feb15-13, 11:33 PM
A laminar boundary layer will become unstable due to instabilities in the flow. Disturbances such as free stream turbulence, surface roughness, surface vibration, noise ... Will excite instability modes within the boundary layer and cause the flow to transition. It is a very complicated process that is still not fully understood.
As for the thickness, because of the random velocity fluctuations momentum transport is significantly increased in a turbulent boundary layer. This results in the boundary layer growing at a much higher rate when the flow is turbulent.
When a flow is turbulent, viscous forces are less important than the effects of turbulence. It is not really correct to say viscous forces are weaker in laminar flows. Although the maximum shear stress will likely be less in a laminar flow (because of smaller velocity gradients) but the actual viscosity does not change. Turbulent velocity fluctuations are signicantly more effective at transporting momentum than viscous diffusion is and as a result viscous stresses can usually be ignored in turbulent flows except very close to a wall.
Whether or not a laminar or turbulent boundary layer is preferred depends on the situation. It is true that turbulent boundary layers are harded to predict but they do have many advantages. If I want a large amount of heat transfer than a turbulent boundary layer is better. If I want a high rate of mixing to say quickly and efficiently mix air and fuel than turbulent is better. Turbulent boundary layers are also usually better at resisting separation. However like you said the friction is larger and this can be a significant source of drag for vehicles such as aircraft.
Feb16-13, 10:21 AM
Thanks for the reply!
On the other hand, for gases, as temperature increases, the viscosity increases. So, for transition of a gas from laminar to turbulent, the viscosity would actually increase? Lol, this doesn't make sense!
Feb16-13, 10:36 AM
The Hydrodynamic and Thermal boundary layers
The viscosity does NOT change when the flow transitions from laminar to turbulent. Your argument of the molecules having more kinetic energy in a turbulent flow is essentially saying that viscosity depends on the bulk velocity of the fluid, which would mean even if a laminar flow was accelerating the viscosity would be changing. Which is not true except perhaps at high speeds when there are large temperature changes. As the speed increases the bulk kinetic energy of the fluid would change but not the kinetic energy of the molecules relative to other molecules. The length scale of the turbulent fluctuations is significantly larger than the mean free path of the molecules so it does not effect motion on a molecular scale.
As a flow accelerates the relative importance of viscosity compared to inertial forces decreases. This is characterized by the Reynolds numbers which is the ratio of inertial to viscous forces. The Reynolds number of turbulent flows is typically fairly high so the transport of momentum by inertial forces is significantly stronger than transport by viscous forces.
Feb16-13, 11:37 AM
Thanks,that was a really good explanation!
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