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Like most people, the first woman who comes to my mind is my mother.
Her history (or herstory) is quite tremendous for someone who had always just been known as "Little Allyson". Born a sickly child, my mother was a frequent patient in hospitals, and that experience inspired her to become a nurse at a very young age. Though she had little means, she was determined to attend college and fulfill her dream. She began attending Viterbo University in 1983 and soon after discovered that she could join the Army Reserve Officers' Training Corps to help fund her education. After two summers of grueling military basic training at Fort Knox, Kentucky, (along with many study hours and exams,) my mother graduated with a degree in nursing and was commissioned as Second Lieutenant in the United States Army. No longer was she called "Little Allyson", but was saluted to and referred to as "Ma'am". The youngest of three children and the only daughter, my mother is the first and only military officer in her family to date.
Female involvement in the military (as female involvement in any male-dominated organization, industry, or institution,) has been a frustratingly slow process. Though American women were not allowed to fight in combat until recent years, they have been taking up arms since the Revolutionary War. Deborah Sampson was the first known woman in the U.S. to disguise herself as a man to join combat and served in the Continental Army until her true sex was discovered, and she consequently received an honorable discharge in 1783. The practice of women dressing as men to serve their country on the field took place during the next 100+ years through the Civil War, Mexican War, and Spanish-American War. Cathay Williams became the first documented African-American woman to enlist in the Army in 1866 after she disguised herself as a man following the Civil War. It wasn't until the 20th century that women were slowly being allowed to serve in the various combat roles and attend the five military academies. Women only had partial involvement in the United States ROTC program and could not train alongside men to become officers in the military forces until 1969. To this day, women are still fighting to fight; the Department of Defense did not open all combat jobs to women until 2016, which is the same year Capt. Kristen Griest became the Army's first female infantry officer. It wasn't until 2010 that the Navy abolished its "males only" policy on submarines, and it wasn't until 2004 that Col. Linda McTague was the first woman to command a U.S. Air Force fighter squadron.
The military is just one broad example of how much we can appreciate women's history, contributions, and how far we have come; but it is also a prime example of how far we have to go. Currently, only 15.3% of the entire active-duty personnel in the U.S. military are women. This issue is, of course, not just unique to the U.S. military, but is rampant all over the world especially in positions of power (in politics, business, medicine, education, etc.). But if history (or herstory) informs us of anything, it is that women have always been capable and brave and trailblazing. Regardless of rules, there have always been women who have broken them in order to fight for their country or attend school or vote in elections or become presidents and leaders. It is because of these women that my mother could attend college and become a 2nd Lieutenant when she did. It is because of these women that I can own property, have a professional career, choose to marry or not, and so on. To me, women's history is solid proof that I, and all my sisters, deserve to be here and deserve a seat at the table. Women's history and each woman's history deserves to be told and retold so that we may continue to make progress. And if we must break more rules, so be it.
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Hello, my name is Emily and I am a volunteer for The Women's Museum of California. My ambition is to receive my master's in Women's Studies and work for non-profit organizations that help women across the world achieve equality in education, reproductive rights, and a life free of domestic violence & abuse.
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In Alex Smith trade, Chiefs will receive third-round pick And CB Kendall Fuller, per @FieldYates. So there's the trade.
— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) January 31, 2018
With the play of Patrick Mahomes during week 17 illustrated he's ready sooner than expected which meant that Alex Smith was likely going to be moved. The rumor was that Smith would likely get dealt to the Browns where former Chiefs GM John Dorsey would use him as a bridge to whoever they drafted number one overall or maybe even DeShone Kizer. Having Smith now in Washington means that Kirk Cousins will not resign with the Redskins and really makes this off season all the most exciting.
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Warner Bros. along with GameInformer have confirmed the next game in the Batman Arkham series, Batman: Arkham Origins. Rocksteady will not be developing this Arkham title; instead, that honor goes to Warner Bros. Games Montreal.
Arkham Origins is set to release on October 25, 2013 for all current-gen platforms (Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PC, and Wii U). As it sounds, it tells the secret origin story of Batman, the one no one has heard a thousand times over. Batman is young, rather inexperienced, and we'll get to witness his first encounters with several villains, including Deathstroke.
The 3DS and the PlayStation Vita will get their own Batman: Arkham Origins game, Blackgate, which has been descried as a "2.5 Metroid-style game" with a completely different story that takes place after the console game. Blackgate is being developed by Armature Studio, the developer who brought the Metal Gear Solid HD Collection to the Vita.


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The last issue of Subterranean Press Magazine is out now, and it includes a real treat for Alastair Reynolds fans: a new Revelation Space short story titled "The Last Log of the Lachrimosa", which you can read for free here!
It's his first work in that universe since 2009, and it's a great return to the creepiness and existential terror of what I think is one of the best science fiction series ever. One comment I saw online said that it read like Prometheus if it had been done right, and I agree. Here's hoping there's much more to come in the future.
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Talking of the future, Reynolds also has a new novella coming out next year called "Slow Bullets", to be published by Tachyon Publications. It's interesting that the cover art matches the unified look that Gollancz has given all of Reynolds' main works. According to Reynolds, the novella is around 40,000 words — which should give a page count of roughly 100 pages.
Other than that, there's next to no info about the story at this point.
ADDENDUM: Tachyon's website now has further info about the novella! Here is the description:
From the author of the Revelation Space series comes an interstellar adventure of war, identity, betrayal, and the preservation of civilization itself.
A vast conflict, one that has encompassed hundreds of worlds and solar systems, appears to be finally at an end. A conscripted soldier is beginning to consider her life after the war and the family she has left behind. But for Scur—and for humanity—peace is not to be.
On the brink of the ceasefire, Scur is captured by a renegade war criminal, and left for dead in the ruins of a bunker. She revives aboard a prisoner transport vessel. Something has gone terribly wrong with the ship.
Passengers—combatants from both sides of the war—are waking up from hibernation far too soon. Their memories, embedded in bullets, are the only links to a world which is no longer recognizable. And Scur will be reacquainted with her old enemy, but with much higher stakes than just her own life.
Hopefully, of course, both of these works will make it into Alastair Reynolds' next collection, whenever that will be arriving.
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And finally, here's something really exciting: Alastair Reynolds and Stephen Baxter are collaborating on a sequel to a classic Arthur C. Clarke novella, A Meeting with Medusa. The new book is called The Medusa Chronicles, and is coming out in May 2016 according to Amazon. Here's the synopsis on Amazon as of right now:
Following an accident that almost cost him his life, Howard Falcon was not so much saved as he was converted, through the use of prosthetics, into something faster, stronger and smarter . . . but also slightly less human and more machine than he was. And with this change came an opportunity – that of piloting a mission into Jupiter's atmosphere, and ultimately of making first contact with the life forms he discovers there.
Picking up the threads of humanity versus artificial intelligences and machines, and of encounters with the alien, this collaborative novel between two superb writers is a sequel to Howard Falcon's adventures. A proper science fiction adventure, this is perfect for fans of Golden Age SF as well as the modern SF reader.
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Mark Blickley and Amy Bassin collaborate on text based art collaborations and videos. Our text based art collaboration, Dream Streams, was featured as an art installation at the 5th Annual NYC Poetry Festival held at Governors Island. We have published numerous excerpts from this series, including in Columbia Journal of Literature and Art. Our video, Speaking In Bootongue, was recently selected for the London Experimental Film Festival.
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I CIRCULATE to my colleagues a letter which I have received from Mr. Redmond.
December 1, 1916.
November 30, 1916.
My dear Mr. Asquith,
The question of the prompt release of the Irish untried prisoners is, in our deliberate judgment, not only essential to the maintenance of the present satisfactory reaction in Irish feeling, but of the most vital and far-reaching importance to the general interests of the Empire and the successful conduct of the war.
The condition of Ireland, though still far from satisfactory, has vastly improved within the last two months, and that improvement has been due, amongst other causes, to the release of over a thousand of the interned prisoners and the confident expectation, which has been spread by us, that the Government contemplated a policy of conciliation, involving the removal of martial law and military rule, the release of the remainder of the interned prisoners, and some mitigation of the treatment of the convicted prisoners. Recent events and widely spread statements in the press have confirmed that impression, and if, in this matter of the interned prisoners, the popular expectations are disappointed the result will be a fresh outbreak of bitterness and exasperation, which may undo all the good effected during the last two months.
The effect of a refusal to release these men will be most damaging to the position and influence of the National Party in Ireland, and will be pointed to by all those in Ireland who are hostile to constitutional and parliamentary action as a fresh proof that the British Government attach no weight to the wishes of the Irish people expressed through their parliamentary representatives.
An amnesty movement is already on foot, and, in the event of a refusal to release the prisoners, it will inevitably rapidly assume immense proportions. We shall feel it necessary to support this movement with all our influence. It will also be supported actively by the Catholic Church in Ireland. Great meetings and processions will be organised, and the difficulties of the Government in Ireland will be immensely increased.
After months of furious and angry agitation the prisoners will, of course, be released, when infinite mischief has been done and the release can have no healing effect on the Irish situation, but would be hailed by Sinn Feiners and extremists as one more proof that violent agitation is the only argument to which the British Government will listen.
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696.109: Carter, W. Hodding. Flushed: How the Plumber Saved Civilization. New York: Atria, 2007. 238 pp. ISBN 978-0-7434-7409-2.
Try to imagine the universe of books written about utilities (or just plumbing). It's a pretty small universe. Most of these works are study manuals for HVAC trainees and guides for DIY home pipe-fitters. But, the Dewey in its infinite wisdom gives utilities its own section—696. Appropriately, it's in the 600s (applied science, otherwise known as technology), then the 690s (Buildings). After reading this book, however, perhaps utilities deserve a little more recognition.
After spending a week trying to fix the plumbing in his crawl-space basement, W. Hodding Carter (known as "Hodding" to his friends, apparently) gets hypnotized by the beauty of plumbing. So, he embarks on a quest to find out all there is to know about plumbing.
He traces the history of plumbing all the way back to fifth millennium BCE China. Plumbing was lost for a bit after this, but shows up again in the Harappan civilization of the Indus River Valley. Once they created an ingenious public waterworks program, it never lost its necessity. The Greeks and the Romans continued the use of long-range water transportation and sewer systems. After them, water utilities and sewage systems were used to a varying degree in every major Western civilization until today.
Carter also chronicles the development of modern water treatment, water usage, and the creation of the toilet all in this slim book. Along the way, he also visits many sites of plumbing interest—he goes to Bath, England to see a real Roman water pipe, and even goes on a British sewer tour under the city of London. He tries to make his own lead pipe (mostly successfully) and installs a state-of-the-art home toilet (the Toto Washlet S300, also known as "the Jasmin"). He even invites the neighbors over to try it out (they are less than excited about this part). He calls up a Canadian professor to talk about a book on Roman plumbing that he wrote. He tags along with a group of journeyman plumbers to learn the trade for a few days (and gets quite a few stories out of it).
Hodding is relentless in his quest to understand the state of modern plumbing. This aplomb (pun intended) leads him to India to learn about the plight of the untouchables, and how Sulabh International is trying to free them their drudgery by making self-sustaining toilet systems available to all of India. These systems even rival Western toilets in their almost complete sustainability.
Carter's tone is congenial and self-deprecating without getting pitiable. His curiosity and candor about plumbing and waste treatment are in much the same vein as Mike Rowe's (of Dirty Jobs fame). All in all, he seems a little more excited about plumbing than any normal person should be, almost like a child with a new-found interest. But, then again, if he was normal, we wouldn't have this delightful book.
My only criticism of the book is that there were no illustrations of any of the plumbing mechanisms he described. Nor were there any photographs of historical landmarks. These would have gone a long way toward making this book that much more enjoyable. Nevertheless, it was entertaining just the same. The typography is clear and the pacing made it seem as though he were giving a fun lecture. If you have a free afternoon, you could knock this one out.


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In navel-gazing media news this morning, the forgotten CBS News writers kerfuffle comes to an end as the two sides agree on a contract after more than two years without one. Now they can go back to writing inaccurate presidential election predictions. And the network can devote more time to fighting Dan Rather. And both sides can loudly scoff at the "sour grapes" of Tom Brokaw.
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Celebrate The Women Who Made The '90s A Golden Age Of Rock
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The 1960s were widely considered the Golden Age of Rock 'n' Roll… for men. Sure, there was Janis Joplin and Grace Slick, but even the greatest female rockers of that era were treated more like curiosities rather than royalty.
Although Stevie Nicks, Debby Harry, Joan Jett, and others blazed a path for female-fronted rock groups in the 1970s and 1980s, it wasn't until the 1990s that women rockers finally reached their peak.
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The Glass Menagerie is Tennessee Williams' heart-rending depiction of a family's claustrophobic existence and the illusions they maintain to try and escape reality in 1930s America. They battle love, loss and loneliness with increasing desperation, in a world where 'the future becomes the present, the present the past, and the past turns into everlasting regret if you don't plan for it.'
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For years, the team of Tom Butler and Sebastian Steudtner have been standouts at XXL Nazare. In fact, Mr Steudtner's expert whip of Tom into a behemoth wave earned the Newquay-based charger a nomination for biggest wave surfed last season at the XL Awards, and having that accolade under your belt is no joke.
Don't just take our word for it though. The myriad filmers, photographers, hell, anyone who stands witness when Nazare goes into overdrive will tell you just the same thing. The commitment from this duo is next level and their experience is second to none, given they're two of the original pioneers of Portugal's hyper wave.
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Anyway, it's been a few months since the awards went down, and we're slowly drifting into the opening of the northern hemi season, so we decided to check in with Tom and see what he's been up to during the down time. Turns out, he's set up a company focussing on getting disadvantaged youngsters into the water as a form of relaxation and therapy. It's called Coastal Crusaders, and if this isn't a worthy cause, we're not sure what is.
That doesn't mean Tom's given up on big waves though, quite the opposite. We checked in with the eloquent Mr Butler to talk surfing one of the biggest waves in the world, starting up a new company, life in Cornwall and his ambitions in pushing forward.
You were at the XL Awards a few months back, how did it feel to be nominated for biggest wave?
TB: A childhood dream of mine would have been to be close to world level in a sport. So to make the top five globally, for the biggest wave surfed, is unreal.
Seems you gotta be at Nazare or Jaws to even be in with a chance of a nomination. How's the vibe been at Nazare?
For me the Nazare vibe is always positive. The surfers and local people of the town interact really well and the place is amazing. As a big wave bolt hole, it has lots to offer.
I've been coming here since I was 21, so have made some lasting friendships with the local people and travelling surfers. I first pulled up on a Yamaha 125cc jet ski, nine years ago now, frozen to the handlebars watching waves explode 20 metres into the air from out back, surreal, scary and way out of my comfort zone and that's why I now have grey hairs, [laughs].
There is of course healthy competition between the travelling and local surfers and bodyboarders. What's great is the space at Nazare, when small swells are running anyway. You have at least three different peaks working most days even more peaks on some days. So it's never over the top crowded when paddling. However a large space can become crowded very quick when the wave size starts to increase and you drop ten plus jet skis into the line up... on some days we have counted 30 plus skis out there.
The water is heaving in comparison to when we first arrived all them years ago.
Tow partner Sebastian Steudtner was up for an award too, still going to be towing again this/next season?
Yes, Seb's wave was a bomb this year. I'd say he's one of the best tow-in surfers in the world for riding giant waves season after season. He's definitely one of the most prepared and organised surfers and a role model and a mentor for me tow-in surfing.
I'm currently working towards this up coming northern hemisphere big wave season (October - April) and of course speaking with Seb, setting out some goals and objectives. Without Seb, I probably wouldn't have made top five this year. He whipped me in, using his board on all of his kit, using all of his infrastructure that's in place in Nazare.
So I owe him a whip into a giant one. Hopefully I'll repay the favour and drop Seb under a Nazy teepee or two in a few months' time...
I'm excited for the season and I believe, teamed up together with him, I'm safest and working hardest. We're both hungry for success and have spent years training together on the water and understand each other really well as people, so that combination is very unique and something we have both invested lots into. It seems whenever we partner together we are always on some of the days biggest waves.
XL waves are a roller-coaster, one year, it's all about paddle, the next, tow is back in. What do you think is the future for big waves?
I think every surfer has their own agenda and goal. I personally don't pay to much attention to who's labelling it a tow session or paddle session. Both sports, tow-in surfing and paddle in are on par for me, personally, and both feel considerably different during the performance moment.
Yes, both sports, you're stood on top of a board but they really are two different sports and approaches.
I think the future for big waves will see more tow-in events, more riskier tricks and lines being pulled and higher aerial tricks on bigger waves when towing. Paddle in is going to be about sitting deeper under the already known spots, pulling in harder, and doing more turns and combos.
I also hope in years to come the WSL could raise the finances or just divide up the prize money they secure for the year and award future generations of big wave surfers the same prize money as the surfers competing on their shortboard tour.
As an organisation, it's a correct and quite a ground breaking move to have equal pay for the male and female competitors. If WSL could now bring equality to the different disciplines they promote, that would be epic and fair for the next generation, let's see!
And you're back home in Cornwall now – heard you're starting a fresh venture? What is it, can you tell us a bit about it?
Yeah, back in February, I registered a community Interest Company called Coastal Crusaders. We have three directors at the helm, Pablo Sisca, my friend and personal trainer and my other good friend and professional legend and long boarder in his own right, Adam Griffiths.
Inspiring lives through sports, friendships and the ocean is what we set out to do. Together we set up this organisation to help youngsters from Cornwall who might never access to the ocean for whatever reason. Guiding and giving them a chance to dive in and try five water sports and two land-based surf specific sports over an 8 week period during school time.
Surf2Success is the name of the schools' course we teach. We also offer surf coaching for all levels. I'll stand and film and give video analysis or surf alongside you and push you into waves. I've been surf coaching since I was 16 and get so much satisfaction seeing other people do well, so love coaching and seeing people I teach progress.
That's a super positive way of giving back to the community. How did you come up with idea for Coastal Crusaders?
I've blended all the sports I really enjoy and that have helped me prepare for big waves. Throughout my life, I've practiced all of these sports, some more than others. For the schools course we teach, swimming, surfing, surf life saving, stand up paddle boarding, yoga and mindfulness and surf specific exercises in the gym.
I understand how sports can hold the bow nice and straight and enhance your sail through life. When these sports are practiced deep within nature they offer a restorative satisfaction that's hard to find anywhere else. Cornwall is brimming with some of the world's finest natural playgrounds.
It's on these youngsters' doorsteps they just can't always access it, for whatever reason. With Coastal Crusaders, I can apply for different funding that's available to not-for-profit organisations and deliver some meaningful, engaging, unique experiences for young people in Cornwall and beyond, I hope we positively change participants over the duration of our projects. I know we already are making positive change as we evidence the course through pre-and post-course questionnaires and basic fitness testing.
So, how's it going to be run?
We can only deliver our work in Cornwall with our legal structure. I have a home office, and mainly deliver the sports for school students from Great Western Beach in Newquay and on location at the participating school. For intermediate and advanced surfers we can deliver sessions from spots across Cornwall that offer bigger and more challenging waves.
Currently my weeks are spent delivering surf sessions for some regular clients and working on the computer evaluating the course we just delivered, fund raising and preparing for next year whilst making sure I enjoy summer and catch a wave or two when it's up!
There's been a huge movement recently, especially in the mainstream media, about the benefits of the calming nature of the ocean and surfing can have on people. Has there been much support for this new venture?
I've put a lot in for a few years at the start before launching the company and feel blessed the hard work has been rewarded. Of course you don't get anywhere alone and people have helped the company so much already. My wife Emily has to be shouted first as she's there daily. We had our website designed for free by Town design which saved a disaster of mine going up from either wix or the kind. Trewithen Dairy covered the costs for Bodmin college to take part in Surf2Success this summer. Fourth surfboards are providing their demo range for clients to use during lessons, if they wish.
And I attended some free European funded workshops delivered by Oxford Innovation, off the back of these workshops I received some one to one mentorship from a really nice experienced local guy called Chris, who was key at certain moments.
We have also been successful with our first funding bids from, Cornwall Community Foundation and more recently The National Lottery Community Fund. We can now start to line up our work with schools for the 2019 to 2020 school year.
The set up process and bringing this dream to life has been very enjoyable and I'd be lying if I said I made it through the first school's sports session without shedding a little tear. To take five out of seven students into the water who had never tried a water sport before and have them standing up riding waves for the first time within the first half hour of the session was a very special moment.
And does this mean a departure from surfing big waves? Or will it be a more ad hoc basis – let's say, there's this stellar forecast for Nazare with award-winning potential, are you going to have to be super picky over when you go?
Setting up a company does not mean a departure from big waves, not a chance. The company enhances my big wave career. And my big wave surfing drives the company and our credibility, both revolve around performance and being committed to the cause.
Setting up a company does not mean a departure from big waves, not a chance
As I age, choke... maybe I'll direct a higher volume of my energy towards the company. That being said, as any new director knows, the start up phase requires an enormous push behind the desk so my life for quite some time has been away from surfing.
Our organisation will mainly deliver sporting sessions April through to September when the weather's kinder for our outdoor world. The rest of the work needed to keep the company moving forward, except some meetings could be completed on the move. Big wave season luckily doesn't clash with the companies busier delivery season.
We keep talking about Jaws and Nazare, but there's also Ireland – do you think there's potential for the world's largest paddle barrel to be surfed there?
Let's not even go there [laughs]. Of course it can. For me, the biggest paddle in pits currently being threaded and made are Jaws and Mullaghmore.
I guess this CIC is more about spreading the love of the water. In Cornwall, amidst all the beauty and rugged, gorgeous coastline, there's actually a hard reality of it being one of the most deprived places in the UK. To give young people a chance to experience the restorative power of the ocean must be a great feeling?
It's time really well spent and i'm stoked my life has taken this path.
Some data shows Cornwall is the second poorest region in the whole of northern Europe and among the 50 poorest on the entire continent. Those figures were produced by Eurostat, a European Union data agency.
So with this all happening, you've spoken about the future of big waves, what's the future for Tom Butler?
Immediately, well Boardmasters is on this week and I've recently partnered with a new alcohol brand (everything in moderation of course, and if you're going to drink do it responsibly!)
The brand's called Aloha'65 and is a spirit infused with natural ingredients. They will have a presence at the music site as Watergate Bay so be sure to try some up there. I'm also spreading the word of the RNLI presence during Boardmasters and will be enjoying the music with my friends and family.
After Boardmasters, there's not that many weeks left until we should start to see some big autumn swells approaching so I'll take my preparation up to six days a week and smash the next six weeks before the start of the season.
And of course sustain and grow Coastal Crusaders and deliver more sessions for anyone who signs up or gets referred. It's a creative process, envisioning a project, designing it, applying for the funding, organising and then running the course.
I envision encouraging participants to get out into there communities and volunteer or give back some of their time to others less fortunate. This is a way participants could secure a spot on some of our courses.
So getting the kids to work towards an end reward is very important and should make them realise when you put the hard work in and be a decent person towards others you can at times get rewarded, so i'm keen to design a course that gets the youngsters giving back to there community. Watch this space this is just the start.


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This is a very personal experience to recount. It's very hard for me to, so I might go on a few tangents, while my brain is trying to escape from speaking about this experience, because it is not only embarrassing, but also a painful experience.
It's not cute, it's not funny, and I regret it ever happened.
But it did, and it has a somewhat happy ending I think.
There's also a moral to this rambling story: Tell your child about racism when they are young, it helps keep them out of trouble.
In short, this is the story of: Why trying to raise your kid colour blind can backfire and cause them more harm than good.
*Trigger Warning* This story does contain some violence
One of the hardest topics to handle when raising children is race and racism, and yet it is something that must be done.
The world is still full of grudging, mistreatment, mistrust, based on skin colour. Prejudice, to have judged someone prior (pre) to knowing anything about them as a person, is common.
The world is also full of people who don't know how to deal with it, or aren't fully aware of it.
It's this last group which I was part of as a child, even knowing about one type of racism (towards native peoples, which my father had made me quite aware of, and which I had experienced and we'd spoken about) I was unaware of other types of racism, at least those in my own country.
Unaware, truly ignorant.
It's really painful to even write those words —I am ignorant of many things, everyone is because that's the state you are in before you know stuff, and learn and try as I might, there will always be things I don't know— but I really wish I'd known more on this topic, so much sooner.
Lets set up some context particular to me, give you a bit of an idea of how I was at before I give you the chance to be mad at child me.
I was around about 10 years old, and I spent lots of my time, once I had finally learned to read, reading. I read lots of things, including my moms old university and college textbooks.
An attempted little erudite in the making, I was trying to absorb as much information as possible, and trying to make sure it was from sources that were established. I trusted the textbooks to be correct because they were textbooks, everything in school had textbooks and they had lots of information and answers. Also because my parents trusted them, and most of the time I trusted my parents.
If you know anything about old textbooks you'll know that they are not always correct.
This includes everything from having old science, to having outdated terminologies.
(Perhaps not everyone has actually handled or read old textbooks, but those who have are already cringing I'm sure.)
So there was this boy, and I had a crush on him.
He was also pretty much the only person to talk to me for quite a while when I changed schools half way through the year. We were in different classes when I switched schools but we were the same age and we played soccer together (not a team, just the two of us) everyday after school.
This meant a lot to me in so many ways, he was nice to me, and that was a rare experience in my school life thus far. Most kids my age would torment me, spit balls, gum in hair, nasty names, pointed ignoring. The works.
I'll call him Julian, because he had a pretty average name but I'd rather not use it.
So Julian and I became friends, at least in school, and the next year we were in the same class together. I was thrilled of course.
It turned out that he and I also both struggled with our homework. In our class when we didn't manage to finish homework that was due, we had to stay and finish it after class. So often it was the two of us alone after the teacher had left, and often even after the janitor had been round to clean things up, we might still sitting there working, just us unsupervised.
(That raises problems in and of itself, but supervising kids only goes so far, it wouldn't have prevented the initial damage I was about the cause, only the aftermath)
Because we'd play soccer together after school anyways, if just one of us had to stay late, the other might stay and chat while waiting or try to help.
We got along, so for the longest time this wasn't an issue, and then one day I made a mistake.
I tried to ask him about his family, which is innocent enough on it's own, but I was an ignorant little girl who had never been told what you can and can't say, and my most frequently encountered model for asking about family ties was adults asking me "So who is the Indian blood from?" I thought this was the kind of question people just asked because it had been asked so many times of me.
Stupid. I should have long ago been told this is a sensitive issue.
More stupid, I should long ago have been told there are some terms which hurt peoples feelings. With a list of the terms.
This is, as they say, where shit gets real.
He was sitting there smiling and laughing as we talked about something we were working on, and I said:
"Can I ask you something?"
He replied "sure" nodding with a grin.
So asked the kind of question only a person completely ignorant can ask, because I knew he was biracial, that one of his parents is white, and one is black.
I asked him: "Which one of your parents is negro?" I was trying to seem smart using a textbook term, I did not know this was an outdated hurtful term, a "bad" term. There was no malice in it for me, because I was wholly ignorant of peoples maliciousness with this term.
But Julian knew, and he was furious.
Furious and no longer smiling, scowling with fury he demanded in an angry but surprisingly normal volume tone:
"What did you say?"
Time seemed to slow, my own face fell as I struggled to think, and he was already moving.
He was up out of the desk and coming at me angrily before I could answer, everything was a blur happening quickly. I scooted backwards out tripping over my chair to get away, I caught myself and then scooted round a desk. Backing up quickly against the dry erase board with no where to run and no knowledge of if I should run, he closed in seconds. Pinning me to the board, clasping his hands around my neck, he started to lift me and I tucked my hands around the lip where the erasers sit pushing my bum on it so that I would have purchase .
Shock and confusion filled me, internal questions flooded me 'I have done something very wrong and I do not know what.'
'what is it that have I done wrong?', 'why is this happening?', 'will he stop?', 'will he ever speak to me again if I fight him?'
I didn't understand, but I knew that I couldn't stay this way and I was beginning to choke, my mind swirled wanting oxygen. In a sort of partial reflex brought my legs up and kicked him squarely in the chest, he went flying backwards hitting desks, his weight shoving them back in an arc.
Since he was no longer holding me I dropped, knees bent but standing, throat hurting and not knowing if I now needed to fight, and especially not why.
He yelled at me to NEVER say that again. I don't know if he said anything else, it's a blur, I was dizzy.
Then he stormed out.
I fixed the desks, and I cried.
The thoughts I had at that point while fixing the desks, would later be good reasons for me to carefully obsess about red flags for potential abuse in friendships and relationships because I thought things like:
Now he's really never going to speak to me again, did I have to kick him? Did I have to kick him so hard?
I've ruined the friendship and made an ass of myself how am I going to come back to school after this?
He's such a wonderful person, this is so not like him, and I like him so much I wonder if there's anyway I can make things right…
I wasn't oblivious to the fact that I'd maybe almost been killed.
That kept coming through my mind actually, but because of who and how I am, it just didn't rank over thoughts of how mad at myself I was. I was mortified, this was the most embarrassing mistake in my entire life.
Our friendship was essentially ended, we no longer spoke except tersely, a 'hi' now and then. I did eventually get to talk to him about it years later, and more on that shortly.
So further and back to the real point: Why did this happen?
In reflection technically both of us made mistakes.
His are easy to understand, he didn't need to act aggressively, although that certainly got the point across and I actually didn't (and don't) begrudge him it. He had every right to be angry. His actions weren't a good choice, but he was 10, what do you really want from him? Tons of restraint when he thought he'd just been horribly insulted?
My mistake was a choice I wasn't even aware I had, and that is not to be ignorant.
Yes, I was 10, and so was he, kids can get into very serious situations. Being 10 doesn't mean that either of us didn't hurt the other, feelings or otherwise.
The terminologies were the biggest trouble, of course. The anthropology texts were in particular misleading, in my attempt to use the most correct term (where as I otherwise would have just said Black) the result was that I used a worse term.
It is my firm belief that having an open discussion about the fact that some terms can be hurtful, is necessary.
Providing some examples, especially ones your particular child might encounter would probably also be helpful.
It's good to check all definitions carefully from more than one source before using a word on a person, but realistically, that's a hard value to instill in a 10 year old. (Not to say that parents shouldn't try)
Remember as much as I had asked him an inappropriate question, it wasn't because I was cruel, and the only reason I treated him any differently than other kids is because I had a crush on him and he was nice to me.
In fact I thought he was the greatest thing since sliced bread (as the saying goes) I didn't even stop liking him after he tried to choke me, I actually blamed myself for the whole incident from the get go.
(Please also talk to your children about violence, and let them know that they are not responsible for other people being violent towards them. Even though I was wrong to ask the question, I shouldn't have had to feel like I'd caused him to attack me. Julian being a wonderful person in my mind shouldn't have stopped me from being aware of my right to physical safety and security from him. Okay?)
And none of those matter because I still was wrong to ask that question, and should have already known not to say that in the first place.
My intent was nothing but pure curiosity, it was earnest. My choice of terms was because I was trying to show off to make him like me more, sounding smart seemed to be something he had liked about me before.
Intent doesn't stop racism. I was racist, even though I didn't mean to be, and I didn't know I was, in fact I was nothing but confused; but I used a term that hurt him and destroyed our friendship because I was so wholly colour blind as to only see him as another person like me, and not know that there were specific non-swear (to my knowledge) words that could hurt people.
This term was used as an insult and I didn't know it because I didn't know there were struggles, and my ignorance with terms was just the tip of the iceberg. I shudder to think what I might not have learned and known if this incident had not acted as a catalyst pushing me to learn about Black history and modern struggles.
What else would I not have learned if I hadn't looked into racial struggles? Many things I'm sure.
So now back to Julian and me. I spoke to him about this years later, when I finally had the courage, as an adult. We met on a bus by chance, and he greeted my and started chatting to me about childhood stuff. We talked amicably, and he asked why we'd stopped hanging out anyways, so I asked him if he remembered at all, and when he didn't seem to I recounted the events in brief summary, and he said
"Wow, we were really crazy kids weren't we?"
"Yes." I said, and I remember those words because then we sat in silence for about 30 seconds and thought.
I tried to tell him I was sorry for all that, and I think I remember that he apologized too, and somehow we smoothly moved into talking and joking about a whole bunch of other things and spent at least another half an hour on the bus together chatting.
It was good, it was cathartic.
It was also, in reflection, sad. He didn't remember, it was such a big thing for me and he didn't remember.
I considered what this meant for a long while and came to a depressing conclusion: It was probably just one of many times he had to deal with someone unintentionally or intentionally being racist to him. Because of that, for him it may have been just one of many incidents.
Oh sure he probably hadn't had many instances where it turned physical, he just wasn't really that sort of person, he always liked to be relaxed, and that had been one of the many things I admired about him.
Even if after that horrid moment after which my admiration was always through a thick invisible wall of emotion. (Mostly intense internal shame.)
For him on the other side, our friendship had clearly meant something to him, he'd remembered me well enough on the bus and talked about when we used to hang out, but the fight had slipped his mind.
It'd be almost funny to have forgotten something like that, if I didn't believe it was symptomatic of a larger set of problems he probably experienced in his life.
So this is my most embarrassing moment, and hopefully nobody hates me for it.
It was a bit traumatic for me (a bit I say. Cue laugh track at understatement), so perhaps people will be lenient on me for that reason.
Also I was 10, it was still the 90's, and I'm not the same person I was at 10. (I should hope not)
Snip– I posted my aside about terms in another post.


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Mrs. Edwards' class
September 4, 2015
Wanted: Plastic baby food containers
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TCE School Directory
The online school directory is now available to all families in Skyward. This year the directory is based on an opt-in model. Families must choose to show their contact information in order to be visible in the directory.
To opt-in, click on "My Account" in the upper right corner of your Family Access account. From there, check the boxes for the information you wish to make visible under the School Directory section and then Save. Families can make changes to this section anytime throughout the school year.
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First Grade Homework
Reading Homework: You will see that they should read for at least 30 minutes throughout the week. Write the number of minutes in the box along with the parent's initials.
Spelling Homework: Our test for these words will be on Friday, September 11. Students should practice their words at least twice a week. (You are always welcome to practice more times though.) Please write the name of the activity your child did to practice their words as well as a parent's initials. Practice pages do NOT need to returned to school. There are spelling suggestions on the back of the calendar, but you can choose the best way for your child to study their words.
Math Homework: Students should practice their math facts at least twice throughout the week. They can practice with flashcards, an app, practice timed test, or any other way you would like. Please write the name of the activity your child did to practice their math facts as well as a parent's initials.
Donations to the Classroom
Throughout the year, there are items we need for our classroom. If you are able to donate, please send any of these items in with your child. Thank you in advance for your donations.
- Magnadoodles
- magnetic letters
- AAA batteries (to use in our Leap Frog Tags when we listen to reading)
- card stock
- items for our treasure box
Background Checks & Anti-bullying Video
If you want to volunteer, chaperone field trips, or eat lunch in the cafeteria, guests must have an approved background check on file and complete the Anti-bullying video. Background checks are good for 3 years. If you have questions about your background check, contact the TCE office.
Here is the link for the background check and video...
Snack Attack Snack Drive starting Monday, Aug 24th
Snack Attack provides TCE students in need with a sack of healthy snacks to take home on Fridays to help them through the weekend until they can return to school on Monday for a hot meal.
Our Dad's Club is sponsoring our Snack Drive starting Monday, Aug 24th. Please consider donating individually wrapped snack items. Bins will be located outside of the school office. Suggested items include: granola bars, pudding, popcorn, fruit cups, crackers, etc.
If your child is in need and would appreciate receiving these weekly bags of snacks, please contact our school counselor, Mrs. Jackie Fiesbeck, at 594-4310 or email@example.com. The recipients of Snack Attack remain confidential.
It's a great day to be a Cardinal and support our students! Thank you for considering a donation of a snack item to our Snack Drive!
Our Curriculum for Next Week....
Reading - We will continue on building relationships with the books we read by thinking about, sharing, retelling and discussing them. We still are working on choosing a "just right book" and learning the procedures for our Reading Workshop. We will also be working on retelling. This will help students answer the question "What does my teacher want to know when she says tell me about the story."
Writing - We will be working on editing our work, paying close attention to capital letters at the beginning, punctuation at the end of sentences, always using a capital letter I, using finger spacing, and beginning to use our dictionary to help us spell unknown words.
Math - We will be working on graphing (picture graphs, bar graphs, and tally graphs).
Important Dates
Mon., Sept. 7th: Labor Day...No School
Thurs., Sept. 10th: PTO meeting in the library at 6:00 pm
Friday, September 11th: 1/2 Day of School (dismissal at 12:01pm)
Friday, September 11th: TCE Spirit Day - HSE Gear!
Friday, September 25th: Grandparents Day 10-10:40am
Friday, September 25th: Movie Night at 6:00-8:30 pm
Friday, October 2nd: 1/2 Day of School
Friday, October 9th: First Grading Period Ends
This will take you to the students links section of the TCE website. You can find loads of great games your child can play to practice math and reading skills. This is what I mentioned using to practice Math Facts at Meet the Teacher.


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Konami has revealed at the TGS 2016 event the first ever gameplay footage for Metal Gear Survive. This is of course the new spin-off about zombies…
Konami posted this: In this world exclusive, METAL GEAR SURVIVE takes to the stage for the first time at TGS 2016. Join a squad of four players as they work together on a mission to infiltrate a dilapidated compound and then defend it from the onslaught of relentless creatures. Using co-op stealth, infiltration and defense tactics, and special new equipment and weapons, the squad provides a glimpse of both new and familiar survival gameplay elements that form METAL GEAR SURVIVE.
The trailer has Japanese audio, although there are English subtitles to read. Much like the Phantom Pain, the game is in 1080p and 60fps judging by the quality of the YouTube video that was posted.
Much like the first trailer that was released, this new gameplay video for the game is not winning any new fans. The video was just uploaded earlier today, and there are lots of dislikes already. Some people say the gameplay looks fine, but it should just ditch the "Metal Gear" part of its name. You can be the judge by looking at the video yourself below.
- This article was updated on:September 17th, 2016


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Prolific and stylish blogger Anna Raccoon was lamenting her experiences trying to get an HP printer to talk to her Mac, an experience comparable with deciphering Linear-A:
I've spoken to 17 different technical gurus, and a few extra at Apple. Every one of them paid the minimum rate for whichever country they were in, everyone of them believing they are doing a decent days work, and every one of them utterly useless.Let me say that this is not 1000 miles from my own experience trying to get an HP laser to talk to my Apple hardware - it's about 50% reliable on wireless connecting at best, and 100% on USB connection but only if connected before a reboot. So you should think seriously about whether wrestling with HP drivers is really what you want to do, though the printer hardware itself seems pretty good and has held up well.
But what's this? Not a day later, HP contact Anna out of the blue:
I've just had a charming gentleman, Keith Schneider from 'Executive Customer Relations' (sounds good anyway!), on the phone from sunny California, who assures me that they will produce a French HP Laserjet expert with perfect English who will phone me at home within 24 hours and sort the problem...Wow. Given California is 9 hours behind France, and so Mr. Schneider only got to work about 5 hours ago if he's an early riser, that's not bad going. Keith Schneider, if you're reading this, you should give a bonus to the social media trawler who spotted this blog post, realised its importance and escalated to you. It's raised HP several notches in my eyes, and I assume many others.
Now if you could do something about the semi-trained baboons who write your drivers, I'd be even happier.


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Saturday, July 20, 2013
KFC Boneless Redux? I Will Pass on the Reflux!
According to a report in yesterday's Denver Post:
"KFC is tossing out the chicken bones and the quaint image of Col. Harland Sanders as its gets ready to test a slightly upmarket restaurant."
Hmmmmm.....methinks I detect another 'Coke ZERO' debacle.
The change not only affects the chicken itself but the name, which will now be - get this:
"KFC Eleven"
Huh? Eleven WHAT? Well, the "eleven herbs and spices" in the recipe! Who'da thought? They also plan to serve "flatbreads with toppings, rice bowls, salads." In other words they want to emulate Panera Bread! Newsflash, KFC honchos, it never pays to try to outdo the competition by imitating their menu - they will almost always do it better!
WHY are they doing this? Well, the headquarters' PR is that they want to go "more upmarket" (always a bad sign when the Neoliberal -based term "up" is applied to anything!) In fact, the real reason is clearly to try to nab as many Millennials as possible because that generation is not particularly fond of bones in their chicken and they also tend to flock to Panera Bread, and Chipotle. As the Denver Post article put it:
"The problem is that people in their 20s and 30s are increasingly heading to chains such as Chipotle and Panera Bread, where they feel they get better food for slightly higher prices."
So, of course, KFC (pardon me if I don't use their new monicker) wants to ditch its brand and try to imitate Chipotle and Panera. Bad mistake! For one thing, whatever few Millennials they will pick up (and I don't believe there are many because these kids are already 'branded') they will lose the over forty crowd that LIKES bones in their fried chicken and indeed believes it is the natural way chicken ought to be eaten. Or to quote one reviewer:
"Something about boneless chicken just doesn't feel right. Chicken that is boneless always makes me cautious of the quality of the chicken or the size of the chicken. One or the other has to suffer when the bones are picked out..."
He does go on to affirm the quality is ok, but pardon me while I don't buy it. When you remove the bones you remove a lot of the taste, succulence of the meat and also the JOY of eating chicken off the bone which is half the fun! The problem is that the dainty Millennials that KFC is trying to win over don't want to get their hands greasy or messy so prefer to have chicken they can just cut up totally and eat with their plastic forks.
The other problem KFC is going to have is with overseas franchises in chicken-loving nations (like Barbados) where the people believe anything like boneless chicken is an affront to nature. Lots of experiments have been tried with it and most have failed. People in Barbados just like to eat chicken off the bones, whether broasted (as at the Chefette chain) or at KFC. This makes me believe that the changeover may not be universal and those outlier franchises will either keep serving their own styles- or go "rogue" - buy out their outlets and make their own boned fried chicken. See all the Barbados Kentucky Fried locations below:
As for me, there's no way I will trying out any boneless KFC, original recipe or other. What this move finally did is get me to consider making my own fried chicken - when I feel like having it.
The Millennials can have their boneless KFC, assuming they even bite on this new market strategy.
Posted by Copernicus at 6:50 AM
Labels: Boneless original recipe, Chipotle, Col. Harlan Sanders, KFC, KFC Eleven, Millennials, Millennials' eating preferences, Panera Bread
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I'm a friendly female. I've got a good sense of humor about life (including myself... in fact, I might be the first person to laugh about some of the silly things I do), and I'm not easily offended. At the same time, I can be very serious when it comes to issues that I feel very strongly about. I do tend to think a lot about things, and I love a good argument, in the traditional sense of the word, Not a fight, but an intellectual coming together of minds, each with a differing opinion, and either a resolution or an enlightenment for the parties involved as I like helping people. It's part of my desire to make the world a better place and there's an emotional, or performing side of me as I like singing, dancing, and acting. Left brain and right brain... what can I say, I like being balanced and sincere. I love animals and playing with children. Please dont border to write me if you have NO intention towards a relationship.