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Tim Kaine Supports the Hyde Amendment but Says He's Pro-Choice. That's Impossible.
Tim Kaine reaffirmed his opposition to public funding for abortion care on Friday, standing against both Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party's platform. "I have been for the Hyde Amendment, and I haven't changed my position on that," the vice presidential candidate told CNN's Alisyn Camerota on New Day. The Hyde Amendment is a rider that has been attached to every yearly appropriations bill since 1976, prohibiting federal Medicaid dollars from funding abortions, except in cases of rape or incest or to save the life of the pregnant woman.
Clinton called for the repeal of the Hyde Amendment in January, making a strong statement about the connection between reproductive and economic justice. A few months later, the Democratic Party added demolishing Hyde to its platform for the first time.
When Clinton selected Kaine as her running mate, abortion-rights advocates protested that the senator and former Virginia governor's record on the issue was spotty. Like fellow Catholic Joe Biden, Kaine has said that his faith has made him personally opposed to abortion but that he supports the Supreme Court–affirmed right of a woman to have one if she chooses.
But Kaine's attempt to strike a similar middle ground on Hyde in recent days has made him look like a weakling on women's rights, not a principled pragmatist. He reportedly told Clinton's people "privately" that he'd stand behind her in her efforts against Hyde. The Wall Street Journal reports that a Clinton-Kaine campaign spokesman said, "The senator is not personally for repeal of the Hyde Amendment," but "as he's made clear, he is committed to carrying out Secretary Clinton's agenda."
It's wonderful that Kaine would never personally terminate a pregnancy, since he cannot get pregnant and will never have to make that decision. But when a politician's personal beliefs bleed into his positions and legislative decisions, they are no longer personal nor beliefs. They are political actions that affect constituents' lives and livelihoods.
Hyde has long been an archetypal example of legislators using poor women's bodies as political battlegrounds. Politicians who support the Hyde Amendment aren't just trying to keep some women from getting a constitutionally protected medical procedure. They're entrenching a system that lets rich women do whatever they want with their bodies—which, let's be honest, they'll be able to do no matter how severe abortion restrictions get—while poor women's bodies remain under the custodianship of whichever politicians happen to be in office.
This makes repealing the Hyde Amendment more than just an incremental step toward true reproductive freedom. It's at the very heart of a movement that's slowly shifting its paradigm from choice and rights to a broader focus on justice and access. For as long as women's reproductive health has been legislated by politicians, the reproductive rights movement has delivered the bulk of the gains to wealthy white women, while poor women, women of color, and other marginalized women have been left behind. For the Democratic Party to take economic injustice and gender inequality seriously, it must fight like hell on Hyde.
Abortion care is health care. Doctors provide it, many private health insurance plans cover it, and the law says women must have access to it. (Remember all that "undue burden" stuff?) There has long been a public and political consensus that taxes should pay the health care costs of people without sufficient income to pay them; I'm sure Tim Kaine wouldn't contradict that consensus. By singling out abortion as the one procedure poor women shouldn't be able to access, Kaine is demonstrating a lack of commitment to the poor and a willful ignorance about the root causes of economic insecurity. He supports a woman's right to choose, in other words, but only if she has money. To paraphrase Clinton's acceptance of Planned Parenthood's presidential endorsement in January, a right that depends on personal wealth is no right at all.
Michigan State Opens a Women-Only Study Space to Men After a Title IX Complaint
In 1925, Michigan State University established a women's lounge. The room, according to a sign that hangs beside its entrance, "has long been a quiet, secure place for women. It is a safe refuge and serves as a haven for reflection, study, and solitude." After reading what "a great space" the room was for women, Mark Perry—an economics professor at the University of Michigan's Flint campus who is currently a scholar at the conservative American Enterprise Institute—wondered if it violated the law.
Perry thought that under Title IX it couldn't possibly be legal to ban men from a taxpayer-funded study area. After his interactions with the school failed to lead to a policy change, he complained to the Michigan Department of Civil Rights. It was rejected because Perry hadn't personally endured discrimination, but after the Daily Caller, a conservative news site, featured his complaint, and after he wrote about the issue, the school opened up the room to men.
University spokesman Jason Cody said that last spring MSU made plans to make the lounge a gender-neutral space. Male students had protested, and the school was concerned that the women-only space alienated transgender students, so MSU "decided on an open lounge for all students, rather than adding a male-only lounge."
How the Fight for Paid Leave Has Quietly Become One of the Most Successful Movements of Our Time
After I tell people that I write about issues surrounding parenthood, the conversation tends to veer toward paid leave and why Americans don't have it. "I don't understand. Why aren't women doing more?" I'm often asked. My interlocutors, who have included foreigners, fellow working moms, prominent older feminists, and prominent younger feminists, all mean well. They see an injustice and want it to come to an end.
What many of them don't realize is that the fact they even thought to ask the question, and that they view our current unpaid leave policy as an injustice, is the direct result of women, and men, doing quite a lot. It might not be the kind of work they recognize as activism, or the sort of activism covered by the news, but still, work has been done. So much so that in recent years, paid leave—including both parental leave and sick days—has gone from a fringe issue to part of the national dialogue. Could women be doing more? I suppose. But before asking that question, we should stop and praise them for all they've done.
California was the first state to pass a paid family leave policy, back in 2002. Since then, New Jersey passed one in 2009, Rhode Island followed in 2013, and in 2016, New York passed the most generous policy to date. Washington D.C., Massachusetts, and Minnesota all have active bills in the works, and a number of other states, including Connecticut, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Hawaii, are actively exploring paid leave. In the last two years, 27 states and cities have passed paid sick days policies, a big jump from the 7 paid sick days wins that took place between 2006 and 2013. And for the first time ever, the Democratic presidential nominee is running on a platform that guarantees 12 weeks of paid family and medical leave for all Americans. Even better, prominent advocates think it is plausible, should she win, that such a policy could be enacted in a couple of years. This is a massive change, one that occurred not because lawmakers had a sudden change of heart and decided to care about working families, but because working parents demanded it. They did this by writing letters, signing petitions, sharing their stories, and speaking with elected officials to make themselves heard.
According to a number of activists I spoke with, the recent surge of interest in paid leave was jump-started in 2013 on the 20th anniversary of the Family Medical Leave Act. This bill guarantees 12 weeks of unpaid leave to eligible workers (around 60 percent of the workforce) and took eight years and two vetoes to pass. In a speech to the Department of Labor commemorating the anniversary, Bill Clinton, who signed the law into act, pushed for an expanded version of the act that would include paid leave.
"I've had more people mention the family leave law to me, both while I was in the White House and in the 12 years since I've been gone, than any other single piece of legislation I signed," Clinton said.
"It took a really big effort to get people to say 'the FMLA is not enough,' " said Vicki Shabo, vice president at the National Partnership for Women & Families. "And then they did, and a lot of people began to realize how much more work there is to be done."
Before long, advocates gained two more advantages in the fight. The first was a 2014 report by Columbia Business School professor Ann Bartel, which showed that despite many business owners' fears, California's paid family leave policies haven't hurt business and might even be good for it. The second was the reframing of paid family leave as something everyone would benefit from, not just mothers.
"It was a big moment when Andrew Cuomo, in his [2016] State of the State address, spoke about how 'I kick myself every day for not spending more time with my father at the end of his life.' Also, we saw Vice President Biden talk about taking time off to take care for a dying adult child," said Ellen Bravo, executive director of Family Values @ Work. "The more we hear stories like this, the more we understand how these policies affect all of us."
Shifts in media also helped make the paid family leave movement more prominent in recent years. Brigid Schulte, director of the Better Life Lab at New America and the author of the best-selling book Overwhelmed: How to Work, Love and Play When No One Has the Time, says there are more avenues for academic research to get out into the mainstream.
"There were these maps created about paid leave showing who has it and who doesn't, and they started showing up in blog posts everywhere. They made our situation as one of the only countries in the world with no paid leave very easy to understand," Schulte said.
The other change was the feminist blogosphere, which not only gave women a space to share their stories and write about these issues, but proved to the traditional press that readers cared about these issues, too. "Before news went digital, a lot of the gatekeepers in the traditional press were still men, and the women who had power tended to not have kids because they had to act like men," Schulte explained. "To them, reading about these issues was like watching paint dry."
So why, despite the political gains, dozens of activist organizations, and the thriving online conversation do some tend to overlook the vibrancy of this movement?
"There are a lot of moms fighting for paid leave but advocacy by moms tends to be discounted," said Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner, executive director/CEO of MomsRising. She and Joan Blades co-founded the women and family rights advocacy organization in 2006 with a handful of members. Today they have more than a million active members.
Many still associate effective activism with Occupy Wall Street-style protests or marches, the latter of which tends to have little impact these days. The fight for paid leave has not been fought this way, largely because those who need paid leave the most, workers who also care of others, tend to have the least amount of free time. MomsRising does what it calls "layer cake organizing," and offers individuals a number of ways to fight for a cause, including one-click letters to elected officials, collecting signatures for petitions, and stroller brigades outside City Halls.
"Around 80 percent of workers have no access to sick pay. If you don't have time off to barf, you don't have time off to go march," Rowe-Finkbeiner said. "The more ways we offer women to get engaged, the faster we have been able to advance these policies. Every bit of engagement matters."
And it's worked.
Joe Biden Will Appear on Law & Order: SVU to Bring Attention to the Backlog of Untested Rape Kits
On Friday, Vice President Joe Biden will make an unusual personal appearance that will be seen by millions of people later this fall. He's in New York to tape an episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit that involves a storyline focusing on America's backlog of untested rape kits.
Across the country, hundreds of thousands of rape kits—the collection of photographs, medical examination results, and DNA swabs taken when someone reports a sexual assault—sit unprocessed because of resource shortfalls and, perhaps, a failure to prioritize the prosecution of sexual assault. Mariska Hargitay, who is heading into her 19th season playing Detective Olivia Benson on SVU, became passionate about the issue after acting in hundreds of episodes on the theme of sexual violence. She set up the Joyful Heart Foundation, which runs an advocacy program called End the Backlog, focused on drawing attention to this issue.
A Q-and-A With the 91-Year-Old Who Made 1995's "Someday, a Woman Will Be President" T-Shirt
When psychology professor Ann Moliver Ruben put the phrase "someday, a woman will be president" on a T-shirt in 1995, she considered it a symbolic statement on gender equality, not a realistic prospect for the near future. Inspired by the character Margaret from Dennis the Menace, Ruben sold a couple of hundred shirts to her local Miami-area Walmart to help break down stereotypes that erode girls' confidence and teach young boys sexism.
The prospect of a hypothetical woman hypothetically becoming president at some undetermined point in America's future was such a radical notion to one Walmart buyer (and, allegedly, a few customers) that she pulled the shirt from the store's shelves. It quickly became a national scandal with Ruben at its center. (Earlier this week, Walmart spokeswoman Danit Marquardt sent me this statement: "Wow, it still pains us that we made this mistake 20 years ago. We're proud of the fact that our country, and our company, has made so much progress in advancing women in the workplace and in society.")
In 1995, Walmart banned this "Someday a woman will be PRESIDENT!' shirt. https://t.co/yJn6eJKWbf pic.twitter.com/Al9V2lucU0— NBC Nightly News (@NBCNightlyNews) July 28, 2016
Now 91 years old, Ruben is amazed and elated that she's lived to see a woman ascend so close to the presidency, and her political activism hasn't slowed down. In March, months before Donald Trump became his party's official nominee, Ruben wrote a letter to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette comparing him to blustering bully Dennis the Menace.
I spoke by phone with Ruben, who is now retired and living in Pittsburgh, on Thursday afternoon about her introduction to feminism, her feelings on Hillary Clinton, and her plans for next January.
The Miramar Walmart may have taken your shirts off its shelves, but it seems like the backlash was powerful—women from all around the country spoke out to support you. How did that feel?
I was a member of the American Association of University Women, and they came and they marched to protest Walmart's decision to ban the sale of the T-shirt. They didn't just march: They put notices on the cars that were parked there, telling people "Don't shop here, they're banning this wonderful T-shirt." So, you talk about support! There it was for everyone to see.
That's how Walmart ended up being shamed into buying [tens of thousands] more T-shirts. And I want you to know that the profits from that sale took my husband and me on a European cruise. We had such a good time. We went to Italy, oh, we went to France. As I look back on it, they were just wonderful moments.
But you know, today is a wonderful moment, too, just in reflecting on these happy times. And I'm grateful that I have reached 91 years and this wonderful Hillary Rodham Clinton is going to fulfill my dream. I'm excited.
"Someday a woman will be PRESIDENT" - 1995 banned Walmart shirt@RayaSaysHey & mom saved these shirts for 20 years! pic.twitter.com/57EgYq0INl— #YesAllWomen (@yesallwomen) July 29, 2016
What do you foresee for little girls who might spend their whole childhoods never knowing a white male president?
All I saw growing up my whole life was a white president, and when we got Barack Obama, I was thrilled. I worked so hard to see him elected. So I don't know—I can't foresee the future. I can only be content with what I have now.
When my cousin told me when I was 8 years old that a girl could never be president of anything, I became a feminist—that word wasn't even invented yet. My little cousin Irwin grew up in an age where most of the boys were like Donald Trump. They thought they were great, and they thought little girls were nothing. That's how my cousin Irwin learned that to tell me that a girl could never be president and a boy could never be a secretary—and that's something Donald Trump would say today.
How have you seen the world change for women between that moment and this one, the age of Trump?
I think that women like Gloria Steinem—and look at [Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader] Ginsburg! Look at Ginsburg speaking out! I mean, what a wonderful thing it is to have a woman on the Supreme Court. My God, did you ever think—I never thought we'd ever see that. So women are finding their voice. I have found mine. And I'm so thrilled that I went ahead and put that message on the T-shirt. It has brightened my life and has made me feel so damn good that I went to the University of Pittsburgh and took 25 years to get a bachelor's degree, a master's degree, and a Ph.D. so I could be looked upon as an educated, honorable woman. I look in the mirror and I love what I see.
So you had to get three degrees to get the respect you wanted. Do you think Clinton's had to work harder than the other candidates to earn respect?
Of course. We demand that she be perfect.
Tell me about the origin of your fabulous T-shirt.
My husband read the Dennis the Menace cartoons every Sunday, and I used to watch him laugh out loud. And one day he said to me, "Annie, you have to read Dennis the Menace today. It's right up your alley." And I got the comics section, and there was Margaret asking Dennis, who is building a clubhouse in the tree, if she could join his club.
He said, "No, Margaret, my club is for boys only." And she said, "Dennis, this is 1993. You'd better get with it." And it shows Margaret flying in space. It shows Margaret dressed up as a police officer, as a firefighter, as a member in Congress, giving a speech in Washington; and the next to the last picture shows Margaret saying enthusiastically, "someday a woman will be president!" Dennis says to her, "You can be anything you want to be Margaret, but you can't be a member of my club."
So I wrote to Hank Ketcham, the cartoonist, and said, "Can I use that one frame of Margaret and put it on a T-shirt?" And he told me what I had to do to get it approved and licensed, and I paid whatever money it took to do that and I'm thrilled that I did it. And this year, I donated 100 of the children's T-shirts to the Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, and it gave me such pleasure to think I might be putting a smile on a little girl's face.
When you created that shirt, could you envision a future when a woman would become a major party's nominee for president?
No. I never thought about it. I really didn't. I just knew that whatever I could do to make little girls feel good about themselves, I wanted to do that. And no, honest to God, I never thought that I would see it happen. But I want you to know that even though I'm not so keen on traveling anymore because it's difficult for me, I'm going to wear my T-shirt and I'm going to be in Washington, D.C. to see Hillary sworn in as our president. Isn't that a wonderful thing for me to be able to tell you?
Russia Finally Passed a Law Banning Domestic Violence, but the Police Haven't Earned Women's Trust
On July 8, 2016, a Ukrainian social worker named Anastasia Melnychenko wrote a list of every incident of sexual harassment and violence she had experienced since the age of six. She posted the list on Facebook, adding the hashtag #яНеБоюсьСказати(#IAmNotAfraidtoSpeak.) A week later Facebook suspended her account, owing to a flood of complaints, she suspects. But by that time, it was too late to stop the spread of her message. Melnychenko's post had been shared hundreds of times, and women all over Ukraine and Russia were inspired to share their own stories of sexual abuse using the same hashtag.
Not everyone was inspired by the hashtag. Plenty of commenters greeted the "flashmob" of first-person narratives with skepticism and scorn. "Women tend to fantasize. Especially when a woman reaches a certain age," was one of the comments on Melnychenko's post, referring to the gymnast Olga Korbut, who publically accused her coach in 1992 of raping her on the night before she competed in the 1972 Munich Olympics. (Her coach was never prosecuted).A young man named Gera called Melnychenko's post "disgusting" and sarcastically wrote, "In my childhood, my grandmother would kiss me, saying, 'Son, father, holy spirit' ... Maybe she molested me, do you think?"
Chelsea Clinton Shows the Trump Kids How It's Done
The job of a candidate's son or daughter speaking at a political convention is an unenviable one. They must give a personal speech, the content of which boils down to "I love my dad/mom!" but also somehow makes a case for a universal action: "Vote for my dad/mom!" As tricky as this task is, it's also straightforward, and it's noticeably awkward when a child can't pull it off. When Tiffany Trump tried to humanize her dad at the Republican National Convention last week, she couldn't come up with much more than the fact that this one time he called her on the phone after a loved one died. The three other Trump kids who spoke made their father sound inspirational but barely involved in their lives.
Thursday night, Chelsea Clinton showed the Trump family how it's done. Introducing her mother's acceptance speech, she started with deceptive shagginess, by talking about her own two children. Charlotte loves Elmo and blueberries, she informed us, and no big deal, I just gave birth to another kid five weeks ago. Bad-ass bona fides established, she shifted into introducing us to her "wonderful, thoughtful, hilarious mother."
The DNC Is About to Attempt a "Card Stunt," and We Are Afraid
What is about to go down at the DNC? Should we be worried?
"Get ready to hear about your exciting role in this historic celebration," said a calm, stern voice over the intercom. "You will be performing a card stunt."
We will? A what now?
What followed was a series of audiovisual instructions at least as complex as an in-flight spiel about flotation devices and only slightly less Baroque than the rules for Happy Fun Ball.
"You have your card for the stunt folded in a bag on your seat. Do not remove or open it yet. Each card is assigned to your specific seat, so make sure your card stays at your seat."
The cards, the voice said, will create a "unified patriotic picture" in the arena when they're all lifted at the cue of "audience leaders." This seems like a bad, no-good, horrible, terrible idea. With all the ex–Bernie supporters groaning in the audience with their glow-in-the-dark T-shirts, this "card stunt" seems ripe for sabotage. And anyone who's attended a college basketball game knows, if there's even a little alcohol involved in the proceedings, a simple card stunt can easily devolve into a mess of poster board papercuts and unfortunate misspellings.
What in the world could this patriotic picture be? Will it be hundreds of identical, yonic woman cards? A giant likeness of Hillbot Katy Perry's left shark? A hammer and sickle? A grotesquely enlarged pocket Constitution? What did the DNC's emails have to say about this?
More importantly, if Democrats couldn't figure out how to fully extricate hanging chads, how will they properly execute an arenawide stunt? Next time, maybe settle for the wave.
Update, July 28, 11:40 p.m.: The card stunt involved various patterns of red, white, and blue, which formed giant words unintelligible from C-SPAN's utilitarian camera angles. Waste of announcer labor, waste of instructional video, waste of paper. Let's not do that ever again.
Reminder: Hillary Clinton Fought for Plan B Contraception During the Bush Era
In a rapid-fire lineup of all the Democratic women in the Senate, Patty Murray of Washington reminded viewers that Hillary Clinton isn't just pro-choice. She's been a leader on abortion rights and access to reproductive health care for her entire political career.
At the Democratic National Convention on Thursday night, Murray recounted serving in the Senate with Clinton during George W. Bush's presidency in 2005. A top Food and Drug Administration official had just resigned after accusing the Bush administration's appointees of bringing politics into medical matters. The agency had stalled on deciding whether to make Plan B contraception—the morning-after pill—available over the counter.
Together, Clinton and Murray blocked Bush's nomination of Lester Crawford to head the FDA until the agency made a decision on Plan B. Murray recalled on Thursday:
When the Bush administration tried to block women's access to Plan B contraception, Hillary was by my side and ready to fight. Our demand was simple: Base decisions about women's health on science, not political ideology. Together, we stood up to an administration ruled by special interests and the extreme right. We refused to back down until the FDA did their job and put science and women first. Now, women across America are free to choose safe emergency contraception.
Reproductive-rights advocates haven't forgotten Clinton's battles on women's health issues. Stories like these are why Planned Parenthood got behind Clinton early in the race in its first-ever primary endorsement.
As Senator, @HillaryClinton introduced 8 bills to expand access to women's health care - 8 more than anyone else running. #DemTownHall— Cecile Richards (@CecileRichards) January 26, 2016
What Bad Moms Gets Wrong, and Right, About Motherhood Today
Bad Moms is a cliché-laden, gummy satire of present-day motherhood. I, a present-day mother, loved it anyway.
The film tells the story of Amy Mitchell (Mila Kunis), a wife and mom of two whose life is going to pieces. Her young boss, who doesn't respect the fact that she is only paid to work part-time, fires her, and her husband is a louse who puts more energy into his online affair than he does helping out around the house or with their children. The script solves both of these problems with relative ease, leaving Amy with plenty of time and energy to take on what the movie poses as her biggest problem: the cult of the perfect mother, embodied in the character of her nemesis Gwendolyn (Christina Applegate). Gwendolyn is the film's resident bake-sale-policing, perfectly coiffed alpha-mom; every move she makes is calculated. She's also the PTA president, a position Amy attempts to commandeer in order to liberate all the "bad," which is to say normal, moms. This creates the central tension of the film.


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Ottimo ambiente, molto pulito, e signori molto disponibili ed educati. Lo consiglio a chi vuole venire a berlino per brevi periodi.
Great hosts, clean room and amazing location. Definitely coming back!
He, Lorenzo & Madelon
Surely the room is great and provides all what you would expect to have a comfortable stay in Berlin. But I cannot fully express how helpful our hosts - Detlef and Steffen - were to us. They are amazing, always willing to help, to advice and to care for their guests. You will feel like you are staying with your own family. I would give more stars if I could.
I don't know where to start.. The room was very good, clean and bright. The owners were amazing with me, helpfull 200% and funny. I definetely can reccomend this room for short or long term ( I stayed one month ). The position is SUPER and there is everything within 5 minutes walking. Bis bald.. ich werde euch vermissen!
We stayed during new years eve at Detlef's place and we were amazed by the friendliness of the hosts! Nice, cozy & clean bedroom. Other facilities like bathroom and kitchen were also very clean and could be fully used by us. The hosts were very happy to explain Berlin culture, history and personal experiences.
We loved it, thanks!
It has been an amazing accomodation, for me one of the best I have ever been! They are very kind with the hosts and we had a very close relation! I would reccomend all the people to come to this accomodation. They are amazing and the appartment is very very clean and confortable! Besides it is very near from the centre and you have all the facilities you need!
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very nice apartment, very well situated , and guest very welcoming, and good independance , we were two french tourists for a week and we enjoyed our stay !
Die Lage ist wirklich super und Detlef sehr unkompliziert. So reibungslos muss das ablaufen!
Vorteil: Sehr gute Lage inmitten Prenzlauer Berg,Zimmer und Bad/WC sauber
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Es war ein sehr angenehmer Aufenthalt, sehr freundliche Gastgeber, kommunikativ und hilfsbereit, eine runde Sache. Für meinen nächsten Berlintrip schon vorgemerkt.
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Air Conditioning problem
2002 Infiniti I35 6 cyl Two Wheel Drive Automatic 110000 miles
My car a/c unit stopped. The fans do not work and no matter what temp I set the temp gage at (hot or cold) the fans do not work. I feel a small amount of cold air flowing through the vents.
I checked all the fuses and found nothing.
Please provide you guess on scope of failure and estimated cost to fix.
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Definition of noosphere in English:
A postulated sphere or stage of evolutionary development dominated by consciousness, the mind, and interpersonal relationships: creatures evolve: a new biosphere emerges, and with it a new noosphere
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Beer Cops, Another Side
I normally like The Wall Street Journal but wow a recent editorial about "The Craft Beer Cops" was a letdown. I am not sure it is even worthy of a college newspaper, or one of the Journal's interns. I don't see any new points and I certainly don't see any ideas for how to more properly regulate the industry. It has the feel of Trumpism; a few guys said it's bad, and that becomes sufficient evidence that it's a yuge disaster. I don't want to paste the whole editorial because it's behind a paywall, so I tried to repeat only the worst half, as below within the block quotes.
You might think of a microbrewery as a home for free spirits who grow long beards, take their dogs to work, and make their own rules. But Washington won't let them. …
This seems a dumb place to start. Does anyone really think each brewer should do entirely as they wish? I doubt it. So it's really a question of which rules are good, not whether. Not to mention that there is plenty of evidence that many of the brewers like the rules and helped shape them.
Mr. Bush had recently bumped into Erik Olsen of New Hampshire's Kelsen Brewing Company, who told him that competing in this industry requires a license from the U.S. Treasury that Mr. Bush says goes back to Prohibition days. …
Fantastic. One data point, based on bumping into one person. Is the licensing scheme bad just because it goes back a few generations?
[TTB] says its application process is …" You know, in case they might be Al Capone.
This seems particularly lazy and suggests that just because the bearded gents might not tote machine guns, that they are all angels. Also, I thought Al Capone was a spirits guy (not a Chardonnay or Dunkel guy). Then again, maybe he did dabble in Dunkel.
Brewers have to go back to the feds to get approval for each new label. … He adds that the agency "has to approve our plans before we can start using the new expansion space for brewing." This can take six months or more.
This I agree with more. If the government wants to have at least one hand on the steering wheel, they should put up the resources to do so properly.
Ohio Gov. John Kasich got an earful on the same subject when he recently visited New Hampshire's Henniker Brewing. The [rules] even covers font sizes. [Henniker] was forced to stop calling its old-fashioned porter "soothing" because regulators claimed it suggested a medical benefit.
Are font rules really so onerous, especially in that TTB more or less made this a low priority a few years back? What's the point of mandatory labeling if it's smaller than readable? Even if you think "soothing" should be allowed, if you think all words should be allowed, you probably just have a bad imagination.
This kind of nonsensical regulation could drive anyone to drink, and it's one more reason we have a 2% growth economy.
This is the dumbest point of all. Despite all the rules, the Journal may have picked the single worst industry in the land, to make its point about stunted growth. Is any industry growing faster than craft beer?
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Another Judge Chimes in on Tito's
On Tuesday, January 12, 2016, a federal district court in New York granted in part and denied in part Tito's "Handmade" Vodka's motion to dismiss several claims brought against it by a class of consumers in the case Singleton v. Fifth Generation, Inc.
Judge Brenda K. Sannes of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York issued the opinion, holding that federal approval of Tito's labels does not provide Tito's with a "safe harbor" from litigation, and that Tito's use of the term "handmade" and the phrase "crafted in an old fashioned pot still" "could plausibly mislead a reasonable consumer to believe that [Tito's] vodka is made in a hands-on, small-batch process."
Judge Sannes' decision to allow Singleton to move forward marks yet another instance of a federal judge finding merit in false labeling claims against Tito's. Singleton joins Hoffman v. Fifth Generation, Inc. and Cabrera v. Fifth Generation, Inc. (both federal cases in California) as well as Pye v. Fifth Generation, Inc. (a federal case in Florida) and Terlesky v. Fifth Generation, Inc. (a federal case in Ohio), which have all survived motions by Tito's to cut the cases short.
Singleton is more akin to the two California cases, as the judges in all three refused to apply the safe harbor and held that the term "handmade" is not puffery, and therefore actionable. The judges in Pye and Terlesky, on the other hand, both applied the safe harbor, but held that consumers did state a valid claim for breach of warranty based on Tito's statement that its vodka is "crafted in an old-fashioned pot still." Judge Sannes, however, dismissed the breach of warranty claims in Singleton.
With at least ten distinct cases brought by classes of consumers against Tito's over the past year and a half, it can be difficult to keep track of how each side is faring. What is clear is that Tito's has won two cases—Aliano v. Fifth Generation, Inc. in Illinois, and Wilson v. Fifth Generation, Inc. in Alabama—as both cases have been dismissed and the time to appeal has expired. It also seems relatively safe to say that Tito's has the high ground in Pye and Terlesky, as the false labeling claims have been dismissed, and only the breach of warranty claims remain. What is less clear, however, is how Tito's will fare in Singleton, Cabrera, and Hofmann, all of which are all moving forward on the plaintiffs' mightiest claim—that they were deceived by Tito's use of the term "handmade."
Because Singleton survived (in part) Tito's motion to dismiss, Tito's will have to answer the consumer-plaintiffs' claims. Tito's will, however, have another chance to dismantle the plaintiffs' case before it goes to trial, by filing a motion for summary judgment. Tito's tried this in both Cabrera and Hofmann, but was unsuccessful. As for the three other cases against Tito's (not listed here), the relevant courts have yet to rule on Tito's motions to dismiss.
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Tito's Scorecard
I don't mean to keep harping on the Tito's Vodka cases — but there sure are a lot of them — and they are important. Because there are so many, it is not easy to keep track of how it's going, hence this handy Scorecard. Most of the cases are slowly grinding along, with no clear winner or loser (as shown with the ⇔ symbol). At one extreme, the Aliano case went especially well for Tito (⇑). At the other extreme is the Hofmann case (⇓). In late November Judge Miller allowed Hofmann, the first-filed case, to go forward, past the defendant's motion for summary judgment. It got even worse, five days later, when the court gave the plaintiffs permission to go into the plant and see exactly how Tito's Vodka is made, despite the company's strong objections.
|Plaintiff (State)
|Status (Filed Date)
|Aliano (IL)
|Closed. Dismissed 9/24/2015. (11/7/2014)
|⇑⇑ Big win for Tito.
|Cabrera (CA)
|Open. On 11/20/2015 Judge Miller denied Tito's motion for summary judgment. (12/22/2014)
|⇓ This case is not going well for the defendant.
|Closed. The Hofmann lawyers withdrew their motion to consolidate the cases listed on this table on 5/15/2015. (4/6/2015)
|Emanuello (MA)
|Open. (4/3/2015)
|Grayson (NV)
|Open. (1/26/2015)
|Hofmann (CA)
|Open. On 11/20/2015 Judge Miller denied Tito's motion for summary judgment , and on 11/25/2015 the court ok'd a site visit. (9/15/2014)
|⇓⇓ This case is not going well for the defendant.
|McBrearty (NJ)
|Open. (10/24/2014)
|Pye (FL)
|Open. On 9/23/2015 the federal court dismissed the statutory deception-type claims but let stand the warranty-type claims. (9/25/2014)
|Singleton (NY)
|Open. (4/7/2015)
|Terlesky (OH)
|Open. 11/17/2015 the court dismissed the statutory deception-type claims but let stand the warranty-type claims. (6/4/2015)
|Wilson (AL)
|Closed. Dismissed 9/30/2015. (8/4/2015)
|⇑ Win for Tito.
We reached out to Tito and his lead lawyer to make sure we are not missing anything important, and to ask a few questions, as follows. From early on, Tito said he knew it was going to be a long haul.
How's it going? Business has continued to be good. The lawsuits have been a distraction. But our consumer base is growing, and they have been extremely loyal. They appreciate Tito's Handmade Vodka for what it is: a premium quality vodka at a price they can afford. That's what we set out to make, and the fact that our fans appreciate it makes it all worthwhile.
Do you still think you are going to win? Yes, we do believe we will win. So far, the cases that have been decided on the merits have gone our way. The others are still in the early stages.
Anything you want to say and can say that has not already been in the media? As the courts get more into the issues, they are starting to understand that the regulatory process we have to go through to get label approval means something. And when the federal government issues an approval for our labels, it means they have found them to be in compliance and not misleading to consumers. Everyone in the industry should be able to rely on their approved labels to do business.
Why not just settle or compromise? Settling cases like these simply invites more people to bring more cases. Some principles are worth fighting for.
Biggest surprises about our legal system, so far? Things move slowly in the court system. And in the early stages, people can make a lot of baseless accusations and get the benefit of the doubt for a long time, with no real skin in the game and no downside when those accusations are disproven.
How if at all have the cases affected sales? I haven't had anyone tell me they won't buy the product because we've been sued. To the contrary, I've had people tell me that this means I've arrived. All I know is we keep doing the same thing we've been doing for years; we just do more of it.
What else? On the Florida case … continued here.
With so many cases pending, and so much at stake, it won't be long until this scorecard needs a major update.
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Judge Miller Not Too Impressed With TTB System or Tito Approvals
There is big news out of a federal court in San Diego. On Friday, the judge in two of the Tito's labeling cases said it, loud and clear. Words matter — on labels. This is important because it was starting to get very confusing, what with all the label cases floating around, and many dismissals. There are at least eight separate Tito's cases scattered around the country, and a couple dozen alcohol beverage litigations pending in recent months. Along the way, Judge Miller made it clear he is not too impressed with the rigor of TTB's label review system, or the fact that the Tito's "Handmade" Vodka labels have been approved on many occasions.
On Friday, November 20, 2015, in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California, Judge Jeffrey Miller issued two very similar Orders in two separate cases against Tito's Vodka. The cases are:
– Hofmann v. Fifth Generation
– Cabrera v. Fifth Generation
In hindsight, Judge Miller's November 20th Orders seem obvious. If the claim meant little to nothing, why would Tito spend zillions of dollars to make sure everyone knows his vodka is "handmade"? Why else would it be the main word on the main label, and throughout his marketing? Why else would it work so well, to shoot this brand to the top of a tall and slippery pole? In recent months Tito has argued that the term is mere puff. But I can't think of any puff term that has a prayer of moving the bottles as well as a term, such as the one at issue, with a little more grit and traction. I don't see the terms "premium," "finest," "smooth," or any other agreed-upon puff terms getting anyone far, as compared to a term that is much more likely to actually mean something.
In a 17 page Order, Judge Miller denied Tito's motion for summary judgment in Hofmann v. Fifth Generation, the first of many such cases. The Judge did likewise in a 14 page Order, in the Cabrera case. This means both cases have much greater odds of ending up at trial someday, even though most such cases are settled well before that. This also means the odds are much higher, that a judge or jury might actually tell us, someday in our lifetimes, what this inscrutable term actually means, and whether Tito's is made thusly. Without having a strong opinion on whether Tito should win or lose, I do have a strong opinion that it is a huge copout to say, the term is simply too hard to define, or, as so many people on the internet like to say about it, "who cares." For better or worse, my job is more or less about what words do, don't, should, or shouldn't mean, hence my deep interest in this case. A term like "bourbon" or "straight" means a lot, and that is good.
The Orders tend to say that TTB approval of the label and term at issue are determinative only to the extent TTB conducted a rigorous review. It is hard to say TTB's review is other than non-rigorous, inasmuch as TTB quite clearly said they don't even have any standards or rules around such a term. The plaintiffs argued, and the Judge agreed (in the Hofmann and Cabrera Orders), that "a federal regulator's actions create a safe harbor only … where the agency's actions 'were the result of a formal, deliberative process akin to notice and comment rulemaking or an adjudicative enforcement action,' and are therefore sufficiently formal to merit Chevron deference." I have been interacting with TTB's label review system on a daily basis for more than 25 years now. It would be preposterous to claim that the system has been anything close to formal, deliberative, or similar to an adjudication. Most of the time, no lawyers or neutrals are involved. Most of the time there is no evidence, and there are no evidentiary rules. Many times the system has all the rigor of a bouncer, at the trendiest nightclub, deciding whether you are cool enough to enter the club. Far less often, the system involves knowledgeable people, on opposing sides of an issue, with a plausibly neutral decisionmaker.
It is quite easy to illustrate this. Take a competing vodka; let's call it Pedro's. Pretend Pedro's Vodka is demonstrably distilled in a humongous vodka plant, outside Texas, and shipped to Dallas in railroad …
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Kombucha Law Webinar
Last week I had the honor of participating in AHPA's webinar on kombucha law. Part of the recording is above and here. The American Herbal Products Association has been active since 1982, and now has more than 300 food, beverage and supplement members. It was an honor because of the eminence of my co-presenters:
- Justin Prochnow, FDA lawyer at Greenberg Traurig, Denver
- Will Garvin, FDA lawyer at Buchanan Ingersoll, Washington
- Peter Evich, Lobbyist, Van Scoyoc Associates, Washington
- Art Libertucci, Consultant, The Buckles Group, Washington
Justin spoke on bottle bills issues. Will covered FDA labeling. Peter covered pending legislative issues. Art helped organize the webinar. I spoke on the various TTB issues raised by kombucha.
It was also an honor because the issues are so timely and challenging. Kombucha is surging in popularity. It raises difficult issues such as:
- is it beer, wine, cereal beverage, malt beverage, food, supplement, or some combination
- what TTB permits may be needed
- does it need FDA or TTB labeling, or both
- what taxes apply
- what penalties may apply, if you blow it
The entire video is about 2 hours, but I have chopped it down to the 30 minutes or so that covers the TTB issues (1-5 as listed above). The entirety, with about 20 minutes of questions and answers, is available from AHPA as here.
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The 18 Moments In Pop Culture That Got Us Thinking This Year
CREDIT: Andrew Breiner/ThinkProgress
This post contains spoilers about everything that happened in 2014.
It's the time of year when every news site publishes list upon list of memorable moments — best, worst, funniest, etc. — throughout the past year. It's only fitting for a progressive news site to write a progressive version of that theme. So here they are, the most progressive moments of 2014.
Let's be clear: This isn't a record of the best OR worst moments in pop culture this year. In fact, it's a record of best AND worst moments – ones that made us smile, laugh, and/or cry for humanity. It is a list of happenings, in no particular order, that either advanced progressive ideals or got us talking about them. So without further ado:
1. Super Bowl ads that angered Americans
Most people hoped that commercials occupying mutli-million dollar time slots would compensate for one of the most boring Super Bowls of all time last January. A Coke commercial did just that, by showing an awesome and unexpected montage of people from diverse backgrounds singing 'America the Beautiful' in different languages. So of course people were outraged, and demanded that people speak English or get out of town, signaling that xenophobia is still alive and well in the U.S.
And then there was the visually stunning ad by the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI), "Proud to Be," which was not aired during the Super Bowl. The commercial reminded the country that Native Americans are not a monolith, but are common in their resilience and survivorship. Although it aired on television in subsequent days, it's a shame that Native Americans — the original Americans — were not given a spotlight on the most American day of the year, because of the NFL's commitment to racism and injustice.
2. NFL blunders
Speaking of Native Americans, Dan Snyder still refuses to admit how offensive the term "Redskins" is, which was just one of the NFL's major flubs this year. His communications team even had the audacity to start a Twitter trend, #RedskinsPride, to get people talking about what the team means to them. Click here to see how well that went. The NFL also screwed up when it tried to cover up a video of Ray Rice beating his girlfriend in an elevator — and then lied about it. The incident opened up a discussion about the culture of domestic violence among football players, and lax policies that enable abusers to go unpunished. It also pointed to society's tendency to re-victimize survivors of abuse, like Rice's wife Janay, by either blaming them for their plight or accusing them of not speaking up. And then there was running back Adrian Peterson, who allegedly beat his four-year-old child, and reopened the longstanding debate over corporal punishment. All in all, the NFL was one of the biggest losers of the year, but it also forced sports fans to confront serious subject matter.
CREDIT: AP Images
3. A butt discussion that wouldn't die
It's time to lay the conversation about butts to rest, but let us not forget how big arses sashayed their way into mainstream pop culture's collective psyche and started an important dialogue about body image and race. A lot of publications — Vanity Fair, Vogue, the New York Times — had the nerve to say that prominent white women + Beyonce + Nicki Minaj made big butts desirable, enviable, and trendy, while simultaneously overlooking and erasing women of color with curves who never received the same amount of praise. Regardless, the booty talk did usher in a renewed appreciation for a body type that is not size 0. It was a welcome change. Cue Anaconda video.
4. Obvious Child, the movie that normalized abortion
In this brilliant indie film starring Jenny Slate, abortion isn't treated as the act of shame that we tend to see on television and in most movies. After a night of rebound sex, Slate gets pregnant and immediately decides to have an abortion, guilt-free. She doesn't hesitate, and she doesn't feel like her world is ending. In fact, the movie is a romantic comedy, which carries as much weight as the underlying abortion story line. With women's reproductive health rights under attack from the Supreme Court and state governments, Obvious Child is an important film that counters negative perceptions of abortion and advocates a woman's right to exercise agency over her own body.
5. The ubiquity of on-screen rape
The Game of Thrones scene in which Jaime Lannister raped his sister, Cersei, next to their dead son was one of the most superfluous scenes in television history. On a show characterized by gruesome death and destruction, Game of Thrones' distortion of its source material, in which Cersei verbally consents to her brother/lover's advances, used violence against women for shock value only. Shortly after the episode aired, cast members defended the scene, which sparked a national conversation about consent and the way we talk about rape. But GoT wasn't the only perpetrator of on-screen rape this year (see House of Cards and the Americans). After Gone Girl was released in October, the debate about women falsely accusing men of rape and domestic violence was reignited. Many argued that the movie (and book) reinforced the myth that women "cry rape" at the expense of men, while others defended it as a feminist work. Either way, rape was front and center, making us question both its use as an entertainment tool and its representation in pop culture overall.
6. Emma Watson's brilliant speech
Feminism. It's a word that shouldn't go away, despite Time's failed attempt to make it so. In fairness, discussions about feminism have become redundant, and should probably should start moving beyond the "Are you one or not?" question. But Emma Watson declaring her reasons for being a feminist in front of the U.N. shouldn't be overlooked. As a newly appointed ambassador for HeForShe, to encourage men around the globe to stand up for women's rights, Watson's speech showed us all that young witches can blossom into strong, trailblazing women demanding gender equality.
7. Laverne Cox's epic victories
On the subject of trailblazing women, Laverne Cox became the first trans woman to receive an Emmy nod (for Orange Is the New Black) AND the first to grace the cover of Time. At the forefront of trans rights activism, Cox's celebrity advanced trans visibility in a profound way. Her friend Janet Mock's hit autobiography, Redefining Realness, also did the trick. But Cox was, arguably, the most influential trans person in America this year.
8. Tragic Hollywood deaths
Every year we unexpectedly lose entertainers, but some deaths really hit close to home. This year, the country was taken aback when funnyman Robin Williams committed suicide, and the extraordinary Philip Seymour Hoffman overdosed on heroin. Both losses got us talking about the stigma attached to drug abuse and mental illness, and how that stigma has tragic consequences for people afraid to speak up. The "Genie, you're free" meme also stirred up controversy, with many arguing that the message actually encouraged and glorified suicide. But beyond their causes of death, the two actors left a gaping hole in the movie industry, and legacies that extend far beyond the world of entertainment. RIP.
9. The New York Times' major screw-ups
A huge bomb was dropped on the news world when Executive Editor Jill Abramson was allegedly fired from the Times after asking for a pay raise. The backlash was immediate, and put the gender pay gap front and center. But it also highlighted the glass ceiling phenomenon in which women are hired as "fixers" and then blamed for not being able to clean up the mess they inherited. So that was Strike 1 for the publication. Then, fan favorite Alessandra Stanley, who's notorious for writing factually incorrect articles, wrote a piece about Shonda Rhimes being an angry black woman. She also went so far as to reify warped standards of beauty and offend a prominent black actress in the same sentence. Stanley's and Abramson's forced departure reflected poorly on the Times' credibility and called into question journalistic integrity in one fell swoop.
CREDIT: AP Images
10. Television's much-needed makeover
Every year we push for more diversity in television, and this year we saw a lot more of it. We were introduced to Jane the Virgin, Black-ish, Cristela, and How to Get Away With Murder, in what is a clear push for better race representation on the small screen. ABC also announced its new show Fresh Off the Boat, which will premiere early next year. But there was also record-breaking LGBT inclusion, with new shows like Transparent on Amazon, Looking on HBO, and a number of recurring LGBT characters on more established shows (Orange Is the New Black, The Fosters, Glee, etc.). A GLAAD study also found that there are more people with disabilities on TV than ever before. On the flip side, TV is backtracking on gender equity: the number of women with speaking roles declined by 1 percent, and they are less likely to be shown in a work setting than their male counterparts.
11. Op-eds that put Hollywood's sex offenders on blast
Unless you've lived under a rock for the past 3 weeks, you know that Bill Cosby allegedly raped a lot of women in the past, who are now speaking out about his history of sexual misconduct. Although allegations were made against him in 2004, comedian Hannibal Burress reintroduced the conversation in joke form. But that joke had unintended consequences, when Barbara Bowman wrote a Washington Post op-ed about her horrifying encounter with Cosby and being shamed for speaking out. Soon after the op-ed was published, victim after victim came forth to tell their stories about the actor. But hers was not the only piece slamming a high-profile entertainer for sex crimes. Dylan Farrow published a New York Times letter about being molested by her father, Woody Allen, and the difficulties of watching him receive praise in spite of his wrongdoing. Neither Cosby nor Allen have been convicted for their crimes, but by writing widely publicized letters, their accusers revamped the war on superstars who perpetuate violence against women, and think they can get away with it unscathed.
12. The campaign to #CancelColbert
Although Colbert won the coveted late night talk show slot that Letterman's giving up, it wasn't smooth sailing for the beloved comedian. It started when a Twitter account associated with the Colbert Report tweeted "I am willing to show #Asian community I care by introducing the Ching-Chong Ding-Dong Foundation for Sensitivity to Orientals or Whatever," poking fun at Dan Synder's reluctance to scrap the Redskins team name. In response, Asian-American activist Suey Park started the #CancelColbert campaign. Some who disagreed with Park's campaign said that the joke was a simple misunderstanding, but it did leave a blemish on Colbert's pristine comedic past. It's worth noting that Colbert did not actually tweet the message himself. More than anything, #CancelColbert made us evaluate the role of comedy in pop culture, and think about subject matter that is or is not fair game, and who is allowed to make race-related jokes.
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13. Donald Sterling's "F&%k, my mic was on?" mishap
Ohhh Donald Sterling, where do we even begin with you? Like Mel Gibson before him, Clippers owner Donald Sterling got caught saying some outlandishly racist things to then-girlfriend V. Stiviano. Take a listen, thanks to gossip-site-turned-"video journalism"-site, TMZ:
Sterling already had a history of racism against African Americans– ie. gross housing discrimination — but the recording was the final nail in his coffin. Offending the very players who contributed to his excessive wealth, the video served as a loud reminder that we do not live in a post-racial society, and a prime example of the devaluation of black lives in America. Sterling has since sold the basketball team.
14. The rise of Michael Sam, American treasure
Last year, Jason Collins became the first openly gay athlete in a major American sport. Last week, Collins announced his plan to retire, but he did pave the way for gay athletes to come out. Enter Michael Sam, who became the first openly gay football player selected in the NFL draft. The media is still figuring out how to discuss LGBT athletes (see ESPN's cringe-worthy locker room story), but Sam continues to change the sports world by virtue of being, unapologetically, himself. He's the real MVP. (Quick aside: Actress Ellen Page also came out at the Human Rights Campaign's Time To Thrive conference.)
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15. The NSFW celebrity photo hack
Some called it a sex scandal. Others (more accurately) dubbed the leak of hundreds of naked photos on 4chan sexual harassment. Among the victims were Jennifer Lawrence, Rihanna, underage olympian Mikayla Pierce and 98 additional celebrities. Although celebrities' leaked photos made headlines in previous years, a photo hack of this magnitude was unprecedented. This is not to say that non-celebrities haven't experienced the same abuse of privacy in the past, but the theft and publication of photos belonging to superstars started an interesting, necessary conversation about digital sex crimes. It also highlighted a culture of victim-blaming, with people making comments like "You're a celebrity and shouldn't do anything you don't want people to see." But most importantly, it shows that social media, from 4chan to Twitter, actually fosters a culture of misogyny.
16. Sochi and that soccer tournament
The Winter Olympics and World Cup, two of the biggest sporting events in the world, happened this year. It brought 'Merica together the way most sporting events do. In February we crowded around TV screens and computer monitors to catch a glimpse of the freestyle skiers, curlers, and ice dancers beating Canadians and Russians with their mesmerizing twizzles. Meryl Davis and Charlie White became America's favorite "couple."
Flash forward to the World Cup in June, where the U.S. Men's Soccer Team (and Tim Howard) won over millions of new fans, who never cared about the world's most popular sport. Competing in Group G — the "Group of Death," the U.S. silenced haters and non-believers alike. We beat Ghana, tied with Portugal, lost to Germany, and STILL clawed our way into the next round. The country went nuts.
But two countries paid a heavy price for our joy: Brazil and Russia. In Brazil, communities were destroyed so that stadiums could be built, leaving thousands homeless; police committed human rights abuses against outraged civilians who took the streets; and billions of dollars that could've been used for much-needed public and social services were allocated to the event. In Sochi, hundreds of residents were relocated from their homes, and LGBT athletes and fans were persecuted and censored. Today the city is a wasteland.
17. The trial criminalizing rap lyrics
Should we consider music a criminal threat? That's what the Supreme Court will determine in the case of Anthony Elonis, who posted violent rap lyrics about his wife and was sentenced to 44 months in prison thereafter. More broadly, the trial is about persecuting individuals based on verbal threats, but rap lyrics — which often glorify violence — are a key component of the discussion. The debate as to whether or not they can and should be used as evidence is not new. Last January a similar court case convened in New Jersey, after which the state's Supreme Court overturned Vonte Skinner's murder conviction, ruling that the rap lyrics used to implicate him were prejudiced and "risked poisoning the jury." But the U.S. Supreme Court case continues the conversation, which is fraught with racial undertones and calls online speech into question. The decision will come down between now and next June.
18. #GamerGate got a second wind
It started in 2012 when Anita Sarkeesian spoke out about the presence and portrayal of women in videogames, after which she was brutally attacked online. Some even went so far as to create a game that allows players to beat her up. Two years later, the death threats against her continue. But a similar case of misogyny and online harassment happened in August, when an ex-boyfriend alleged that Zoe Quinn, a videogame developer, slept with a Nathan Grayson, a game reviewer for Kotaku, to get a positive review of Depression Quest. Since then, Quinn's been the victim of online attacks and rape and death threats. And women who've spoken out in support of people like Quinn and Sarkeesian have been attacked ruthlessly. Many people cited ethics in journalism as the real problem at hand, but that's a secondary issue at best. Let's just hope that GamerGate — the name for the online assault of female game critics, developers, and bloggers — dies in 2015. And in case you were wondering, there's still no proof that Grayson ever reviewed Depression Quest.


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How to make the gnome panel clock show time in "fuzzy" format? E.g. "It's morning". I think it was present in KDE in the good ole times. Not sure about now.
There is a separate fuzzy-clock applet by Troy Rennie
Just two little problems I've noticed: Nothing happens if you click on it, and it looks just very slightly wrong on ubuntu 10.10.
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Right click on the panel and go to Add Widgets. Go to the Date & Time section, and there is a Fuzzy Clock widget available. Add that to your panel, then right click on the old clock to find the option to remove the non-fuzzy one.


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Storytelling has come of age in the business world. Today, many of the most successful companies use storytelling as a leadership tool. At Nike, all senior executives are designated "corporate storytellers." 3M banned bullet points years ago and replaced them with a process of writing "strategic narratives." Procter & Gamble hired Hollywood directors to teach its executives storytelling techniques. Some forward-thinking business schools have even added storytelling courses to their management curriculum.
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Whether in a speech or a memo, communicated to one person or a thousand, storytelling is an essential skill for success. Complete with examples from companies like Kellogg's, Merrill-Lynch, Procter & Gamble, National Car Rental, Wal-Mart, Pizza Hut, and more, this practical resource gives readers the guidance they need to deliver stories to stunning effect.
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My copy is highlighted, has notes in the margins, and will be referred to over and over. Some of the stories and examples used will be tailored to suit my needs - but they will be used (and re-used).
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Included amongst the chapters on addressing leadership challenges are chapters on the practical elements of creating and using stories effectively, including chapters on the structure of a story, keeping it real, stylistic elements, the element of surprise, metaphors and analogies, and recasting your audience into the story. The appendix includes a range of reproducible worksheets and checklists for creating stories.
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