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- 5 Beds
- 5 Full
- 3,964 +/- Sqft
Property TypeResidential – Duplex
SubdivisionBighorn Third
Listing Date03/16/19
Year Built2018
AreaEast Vail
Lot Size0.24 Acres (10,454 SqFt)
Parking2 Car Garage
Property Description
Motivated Seller! Masterfully designed and built this exceptional 2018 construction E Vail home offers windows on 4 sides,direct mountain views,3 outdoor living spaces,an open floor plan,private master level & family level,chef's kitchen,gear room,& huge garage space.Luxury finishes include steam shower,afuro style tubs,all hardwood and tile floors,huge pantry, produce refrigerator,Viking Appliances,Grohe fixtures & gorgeous tile baths. Free Town of Vail Bus stop just down the street.
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- Mountains
- South Facing
- Valley
- Hiking/Pedestrian Trail
- On Bus Line
- Pets
- Cable Available
- Deck
- Fireplace - Gas
- Vaulted Ceilings
- None
- Pets
- Cable TV
- City Sewer
- City Water
- Electricity Avail.
- Natural Gas Avail.
- Phone Available
- Satellite
- Snow Removal
- Trash Pickup
- Baseboard
- Natural Gas
- Radiant
- Dryer
- Washer
Financial Information
About East Vail
Only four miles away from the Village and tucked under the Gore Range at the base of Vail Pass, East Vail is a favorite of locals and Front Range visitors. As a strictly residential area, it offers peace and tranquility as well as sweeping views of its high alpine surroundings. East Vail residents enjoy the many conveniently located hiking trails, a large dog park on the Eagle River, and several waterfalls along the north facing slopes. East Vail is convenient to the heart of town by the free bus system yet maintains moderate property prices in comparison.
Area Market Data
5 Beds 4.5 Baths
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NEWMARKET -- The Stitch-Fold Path: Coloring the Buddha Quilt Show, Friday, Nov. 30, from 8:30 a.m. to noon, Aryaloka Buddhist Center, 14 Heartwood Circle, Newmarket, Buddhist-inspired fabric artwork by Akashavanda., Free., Aryaloka Buddhist Center, 659-5456, firstname.lastname@example.com, www.aryaloka.org/2012/10/17/the-stitch-fold-path-coloring-the-buddha-quilt-show/.
FARMINGTON — Christian indie recording artist, Collington, will be appearing in concert at Elm Street Church in Farmington on Saturday, Dec 1 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, Dec 2 at 10 a.m. Elm Street Church is located on Elm Street (Route 75) in Farmington. Free will donations are appreciated but not required. All are welcome. Call 603-515-6654 for more information.
DURHAM -- Financial Peace University, Sunday, Dec. 2, from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m., Durham Evangelical Church, 114 Dover Road, Durham, 13 week personal / home finance class based on God's ways of handling money., $75 Prior registration required., Jean-Paul Gauthier, 866-1899, firstname.lastname@example.com, www.durhame.org.
NEWINGTON — Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, 22 Fox Run Road, will celebrate the installation of their new pastor, Rev. Richard A. Rhoades, on Sunday December 2, at a 10 am worship service. Pastor Rhoades, and his wife Corinne, come to Holy Trinity from the North Carolina Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Pastor Rhoades will be installed by the Bishop of the New England Synod ELCA, The Rev. James Hazelwood.
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DOVER -- St. Petersburg Men's Ensemble, Wednesday, Dec. 5, at 7 p.m., St. John's United Methodist Church, 28 Cataract Ave., Dover, St.Petersburg Men's Ensemble of Russia in Concert., Free., Sandy Dearborn, Church Secretary, 742-3046, firstname.lastname@example.com, www.stjohnsdover.org.
PORTSMOUTH -- Buddhist Meditation & Study, Wednesday, Dec. 5, from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m., Portsmouth Buddhist Center, 40 Congress St., Suite 400 (4th Floor, enter on Fleet Street), Portsmouth, Illuminating the White Lotus Sutra., By Donation, $5-10 suggested., Portsmouth Buddhist Center, 617-2285, firstname.lastname@example.com, thebuddhistcentre.com/portsmouth/sangha-nights-december-illuminating-white-lotus-sutra.
DOVER — St Thomas' Episcopal Church will present "A Festival of Lessons and Carols" by composer John Leavitt on Saturday, December 8 at 7:00 p.m. A dessert reception will follow in the parish hall. The event will be performed by the St Thomas' Parish Choir, plus some special guests. Please join us for a wonderful evening of song that includes opportunities for the audience to sing along! St Thomas' Episcopal Church is located at the corner of Locust Street and Hale Street in Downtown Dover. Parking is available in our lot on Locust Street, across from the Dover Public Library. 603-742-3155 www.stdover.org, e-mail: email@example.com.
ROCHESTER -- On Saturday, Dec. 8, at 6:00 p.m. the Harvest of Praise Church of God located at 17 Heaton Street in Rochester will be having Christmas Desserts & A Movie. They will be serving Christmas Desserts, and Beverages for $5.00 per person. Reservations are required for the desserts only by Wednesday, Dec. 12, at 603 335-1151.
At 7:00 p.m. they be will be having a free showing the feature film Christmas Lodge. The movie is free and open to the public. For more information call the church at 603 335-1151 or on the web at www.harvestofpraisecog.com where you can view the movie trailer.
STRATHAM -- Cornerstone Baptist Church, 8 Winnicut Road, Stratham, is again hosting its annual Christmas Concert featuring "The Campbells". This event will be held on Sunday, December 23, at 6 pm. There is no charge for the concert--love offering will be taken. Refreshments will be served immediately following. For further information you can visit our website www.cornerstonebaptistchurch.com or call 603-778-7002.
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At the end of the last posting, I mentioned that we could probably simplify
ends? function. Currently, it returns a vector with the result and a
boolean indicating whether it had been changed.
Data as Code
Compared to most programming languages, Clojure (and lisp) programs are odd:
Functions and expressions look like lists; parameter lists for functions or
let expressions look like vectors; variables look like symbols.
In fact, those programming constructs start their lives as those data structures. Remember that our interactive environment is called a REPL—a read, evaluate, and print loop. In the read stage, a function or expression is read in as a list, vector, symbol, string, or number. It's not actually compiled into computer code until the evaluate stage. Before then, it's all data.
This characteristic of Clojure—that programs are data—is called homoiconicity. Part of what makes lisp so powerful and special is that it introduces a new step in the evaluation process. In most computer languages, the computer reads in an expression and immediately turns it into an action or byte code or whatever. In lisp, the computer reads in the expression as a native lisp data structure, and before it processes the data, it asks the programmer again how it should be handled.
This makes more sense with an example. Consider the Clojure built-in
You'll recall that
when is just like
if, except that the true expression
can be a sequence of expressions and the false expression doesn't exist.
Consider this
when expression:
user=> (when (= (nth "abc" 1) \b) (println "b") \b) b \b
println prints its arguments, separated by spaces, and followed by a new
The first "b" is what is printed. The "b" is the value returned by the
expression, from the third line of the expression.
Of course, that
when expression is the same as this
if expression:
user=> (if (= (nth "abc" 1) \b) (do (println "b") \b)) b \b
do just executes a list of expressions and returns the value of the last
one. It's a way of taking a sequence of expressions and using them in places
that only want one expression.)
In fact, the
when expression is exactly equal to the
if expression.
Clojure reads the
when expression and transforms it into the
if expression
before evaluating it.
How is this done and how can we create our own code transformations?
Code Transformations
A macro is a code transformation. If you know XSLT, a macro transforms a Clojure expression in almost the same way as XSLT transforms an XML document. (If you don't know XSLT, forget I mentioned it.)
A macro definition looks a lot like a function definition. It has a macro name
and a vector of parameters. But macros start with the symbol
defmacro, and
the body of the macro has a template that builds the output expression.
Here are the tools you use to create the template.
A quote tells Clojure to return the next expression as data, exactly the way it
is written, not as an expression or as a macro template. For example, the
let evaluates
x before returning, but the quote in the second
let means that Clojure returns the symbol
x, not the value that the
x evaluates to.
user=> (let [x 1] x) 1 user=> (let [x 1] 'x) x
A quasi-quote is a back-quote character. It indicates that, when the macro is called, the expression it quotes should be scanned for the constructs below, and the list or expression generated should be returned. Except for the scanning bit, it's a lot like a regular quote.
user=> `(let [x 1] x) (clojure/let [user/x 1] user/x)
Inside a macro template, a tilde forces Clojure to evaluate the expression that follows it and insert its value into that place in the result.
user=> (let [x 2] `(let [y ~x] y)) (clojure/let [user/y 2] user/y)
In this, the outer
let sets
x to 2. Inside that
let, it defines a macro
template, which returns a list that looks like another
let expression.
Inside the inner
let it inserts the value of
x from the outer let.
In many ways, macro templates are shortcuts for longer expressions that build lists and vectors. For example, the last expression is the same as this expression, using functions to build the output expression:
user=> (let [x 2] (list 'let (vector 'y x) 'y)) (let [y 2] y)
The tilde-at sequence is a variation of tilde that evaluates its argument, which should return a sequence, and inserts the elements from that sequence into a list in the macro template.
user=> (let [x '(1 2 3)] `(println ~@(map (fn [y] (* 2 y)) x) 'done)) (clojure/println 2 4 6 (quote user/done))
In this expression, the elements from
x are run through
map, which doubles
their values. The output of
map is inserted into the list that starts with
println and ends with
'done. Notice that
'done in the output is still
quoted. It was read in as data—
'done—and output as the same data.
gensym and #
Sometimes when you're creating a macro template, you want to use create a variable. One danger is that it could shadow a variable in the surrounding code.
For example, in this code,
user=> (let [x 42] `(let [x 13] [x x])) (clojure/let [user/x 13] [user/x user/x])
what do the two
x variables refer to on the third line? The
x from the
let (42); or the
x from the inner
let (13)? In this case, they
both refer to the inner
x. Occasionally, you may do this on purpose, but
usually it's a mistake.
To avoid this mistake, in variables you declare in a macro template, you
should append an
# onto the end of the variable name. This makes sure that
that variable name is never used elsewhere. It cannot clobber any other
variable name.
user=> (let [x 42] `(let [x# 13] [x x#])) (clojure/let [x__1888 13] [user/x x__1888])
In this case, the two
x variables in the final line now refer to two
different variables. The first refers to the variable in the outer
let, and
the second refers to the variable in the inner
let, in the macro template.
You can see that it's different because Clojure has removed the
# character
and replaced it with
__1888. (That number always changes. If you run this
code, it will be different for you.) Moreover, Clojure guarantees that that
variable name will never be used again during that run.
A Quick Macro
So let's write a quick macro, just to see what one looks like.
I usually develop with just a REPL and the text editor Vim, and if I need to debug anything, often I just put in print statements. In languages like Python, many of these statements look like this:
print "x+4 =", x+4 print "counts[word] =", counts[word]
That's a lot of duplication and typing, and aren't computers supposed to get rid of that?
The problem is that we want to bypass the way the language normally evaluates expressions. We want the computer to print the first expression out, just like it would data; we want it to evaluate the second expression and print out the result.
Because we want to change Clojure's normal evaluation rules, this is a perfect place for a macro. We will pass in an expression and have Clojure print both the expression and its value. As an added bonus, we can have it also return the value. Here's what we want it to look like:
user=> (let [x (+ 42 13)] (println '(+ 42 13) "=>" x) (flush) x) (+ 42 13) => 55 55
Let's look at what this would look like as a macro named
(defmacro debug [expr] `(let [value# ~expr] (println '~expr "=>" value#) (flush) value#))
Let's pick this apart.
(defmacro debug: Create a macro named
[expr]: The macro takes one parameter, which will be called
expr in the
body of this macro.
(let [value# ~expr]: Start the macro template with a
let expression. The
let will define one variable, named
value#, which will be assigned the
value of evaluating
(println '~expr "=>" value#): Print the expression
expr as data (because
it is quoted, an arrow, and the value of the variable
(flush): Flush the output buffer.
value#)): Return the value of the variable
Before we actually try it, we can see what calling it would return using the
macroexpand-1. This takes a list expression and returns the list
expression created by calling the first macro, if any, that needs to be
executed on it.
user=> (macroexpand-1 '(debug (+ 42 13))) (clojure/let [value__1892 (+ 42 13)] (clojure/println (quote (+ 42 13)) "=>" value__1892) (clojure/flush) value__1892)
(I reformatted this to make it readable.) With a little mangling, we can see
that the
debug macro will generate the expression
(let [value__1892 (+ 42 13)] (println '(+ 42 13) "=>" value__1892) (flush) value__1892)
Which is exactly what we want. If we then call that macro, we get this.
user=> (debug (+ 42 13)) (+ 42 13) => 55 55
(The first line is the printed output of the expression. The final 55 is the result of the expression.)
In the next posting, we're going to look at the process of how to write macros and how to avoid the pitfalls and dangers of macro writing, and we're going to write a number of macros for the Porter Stemmer.


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Thirty years after its release, "She's Gotta Have It" will be recreated for a 10-episode Netflix series. Spike Lee's debut 1986 film, regarded as one of the most groundbreaking independent films of the 1980s, will come to Netflix in a recently announced deal.
Lee created this Netflix series and is set to direct. He is also the executive producer for the project, alongside his producer wife Tonya Lewis Lee.
"'She's Gotta Have It' has a very special place in my heart," Lee said in a statement to Deadline. "This is the first official Spike Lee feature film joint and everything that we have been blessed with in this tough business of film all have been due to SGHI."
The Netflix series will be a "contemporary update" of the original film, which just saw its 30th anniversary on Aug. 8. At the time of its release, it grossed $7,137,502 in the U.S. box office. In his statement regarding the new Netflix series, Lee reminisced on how he shot the film in two weeks on a limited budget "in the back of the hot summer of 1985." The film focuses on Nola Darling, a Brooklynite in her late twenties, trying to juggle friendships, a job and her love life.
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Time for Week 12 of the 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Challenge! As noted in my first post of this challenge, I am starting with my most ancient known ancestors.
This week's ancestor is Indriķis Štelmahers, born c. 1833 and died 1917. He is my great-great-grandfather by way of my maternal grandmother's mother Jūle Štelmahere.
Unlike most of my "most ancient" ancestors, most of what I know about Indriķis comes from family, because the records are scarce and surnames even scarcer. This is what the records tell me: according to the 1897 All-Russia Census, Indriķis was born c. 1833 in Varieši parish, north of Krustpils, in what was then the Vitebsk guberniya of the Russian Empire, now the province of Latgale in Latvia. His family line is the only one of my family lines that comes from Latgale (meanwhile, his daughter's husband – my great-grandfather – has my only family line from Zemgale, all of my other ancestors are from Vidzeme – I have no known Kurzeme ancestors). His father's name was Jānis. At the time of the 1897 Census, he was living with his wife Ieva, daughters Jūle (my great-grandmother), Emīlija and Karlīne, and son Jānis. My great-grandmother Jūle was born on May 19, 1874, and her baptism was recorded in the Krustpils Lutheran Church records. That is all of the documentary evidence that I have regarding Indriķis.
My family stories, however, provide a lot more. Before he married my great-great-grandmother Ieva, Indriķis was married to another lady whose name I believe was Māde, and they had a daughter Ieva. Then Māde died, and Indriķis remarried, and had his other four children. His daughter Ieva would go on to have many children, and the descendants of these children make up most of my known relatives in Latvia.
At any rate, Indriķis was a wheelwright, as indicated by his surname (Štelmahers is the Latvianized form of the German Stellmacher, which means wheelwright). Being as surnames in that part of Latgale didn't become common until after the 1860s, it is quite possible that Indriķis was the first person in his family to hold a surname, if his father was already deceased at the time the requirements came about. He worked at the Krustpils estate. I have a family photograph with him holding one of the wheels that he made.
When the First World War broke out, Indriķis was quite elderly. Nevertheless, since the war front was often concentrated along the Daugava river, he and his family had to flee. While his daughter Jūle (with her husband Brencis Līcītis and daughter Marta) fled almost all the way to Moscow, Indriķis, his wife Ieva and daughter Karlīne only went so far as Rēzekne, about 100km east of Krustpils. It is here that Indriķis allegedly died of dysentery in 1917, though I have not been able to find a death record to that effect.
Family stories are important. Without them, I'd barely know anything about Indriķis – but since he is within the memory of people that I knew, and people that I know that knew people who knew him, I am able to know more about his life than what is in the records. I hope that eventually the records will tell me more, but thus far, I have not found very many from that part of the country.
Do you have family stories that have provided much more information than records have? Share your stories in comments!


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Mayor's Office
The community is invited to an open house Thursday, August 12 on improvements to Old Cheney Road from 70th to 82nd streets. The meeting is from 5 to 7 p.m. at Lincoln Christian School, 5801 South 84th Street. Directional signs will be posted to guide the public to parking and meeting areas.
Because of rising traffic volumes, the existing two-lane rural street will be upgraded to a four-lane urban street with turn lanes, curbs and gutters. Construction is scheduled to begin in early 2013. The project also includes:
The open house will provide an opportunity for the planning team to share and obtain information on the current plans. Participants may visit information stations and discuss their questions and concerns with the project team.
For more information on the project, contact Craig Aldridge, City Public Works and Utilities Department, at 441-7560. For more information on the open house, contact Sarah Willnerd, HWS, at 479-2270. Information on City street projects can be found on the City website at lincoln.ne.gov (keyword: projects), and information on on Old Cheney Road Improvements can be found at lincoln.ne.gov (keyword: old cheney).


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This month we'll take a look at the candidates.
Today's feature are the candidates for undesignated seat #4 of the Committee on Gender Equality in Anthropology. Responsibilities of the committee members include:
- Monitor gender discrimination within the discipline
- Pursue greater parity for women in the discipline by means of:
a. monitoring, including gathering information that illuminates issues that effect the diverse women in anthropology as well as efforts to obtain existing comparable survey data,
b. advocating, including bringing findings before the Association's members, in the form of resolutions, when appropriate and
c. educating, including distributing brochures, meeting with department chairs, setting up an interactive presence on the internet/web and writing periodic updates for the AN.
- Identify forms of sexual harassment in all settings where anthropologists work and learn including the varieties of biases that complicate issues regarding race/ethnicity, gender stereotyping and preferences, class, and disabilities.
- Interact on an ongoing basis with the Association's long range planning process on issues of gender parity.
Click here to learn more about the Committee on Gender Equality in Anthropology.
Rebecca Galemba
My research examines the ethics of extra-legal practices at the Mexico-Guatemala border in a context where the poor are excluded from the "legal" economy. My interest in this position, however, stems from coming from a family of women who advocated for gender equality in education. Discussions with fellow feminist academics have influenced me to examine how the economic downturn, corporatization of the university, and the increasing reliance on non-benefited and insecure positions affect gender equity in terms of attaining and retaining positions, and how this breaks down according to class, race/ethnicity, and citizenship. I am particularly concerned with how these structural changes affect women in their childbearing years, as they encounter inconsistent and often, insufficient, family policies. For example, Mary Ann Mason (2011) shows that women with children are twice as likely as their male counterparts to work in contingent positions. I will advocate for gender parity in the discipline by comparing university protocols for family support and gender equity to focus attention on our own institutional structures. I believe that the AAA can be a vital public voice in advancing gender equality within anthropology and beyond, including supporting comprehensive attention to gender and family issues at the policy level.
Christina Beard Moose
I am so pleased to be selected as a candidate for a seat on the Committee on Gender Equity in Anthropology. Since I began my academic career, I have been interested in and working toward gender equity in both academia and society-at-large. As a feminist anthropologist and a women's studies professor at the community college level, I have the opportunity to introduce my mostly young, mostly naïve students to the world of women. Because I am still disturbed with the fact that our discipline – along with most others – does not give serious thought and presence to women's place, women's roles, or what many largely consider "the war against women," I find myself wanting to make an ever-greater effort toward equity. Please consider viewing my personal website, http://drbeardmoose.com, for a look at how I work with my students, my further publishing, and my work in anthropology. Thank-you.
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MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. - The Georgia College & State University women's basketball team (13-5, 8-3 PBC) beat Augusta State University (5-13, 3-8 PBC) 82-69 this afternoon in the Centennial Center.
The season high had previously been 81 when Georgia College beat the University of Mobile 81-58 in the season-opener. The last time the Bobcats put up this many points was Feb. 20, 2008 at Georgia Southwestern when they destroyed the Hurricanes 86-53.
Georgia College had two leading scorers tonight in senior Tiauna Brantley (Woodstock, Ga.) and junior Daniela Nopuente (Daly City, Cal.) both with 14, Nopuente's season-high. Brantley also contributed with seven rebounds and went 4-for-4 from the foul line. Antoinette Reames (Orlando, Fla.) and Dominique Huffin (Tucker, Ga.) helped by putting up 12 points each. Reames was a force to be reckoned with down low with nine boards, three steals and four swats. Huffin also contributed three rebounds, two assists and a steal.
With her four blocks tonight, Reames is now in sole possession of second place in school records for blocks in a single-season with 40, passing Dalana Watson with 36. Reames is 43 shy of first place held by Marquita Driskell, who had 83 thwarts in the 2006-07 season.
Augusta State also had four players scoring double digits. Brittany Jarrard led the Jaguars with 20 points for the night making 9-of-10 from the charity stripe while senior Tracey Paschal helped with 13. Junior Nicole Mealing put up her seventh double-double for the season with 12 points and 10 rebounds. Porsha White rounded out the double digit scoring with 11.
Other noteworthy Bobcats tonight were Mandi Dudish (Snellville, Ga.) and Emily Bixler (Lawrenceville, Ga.), both putting up nine points. Dudish, known for her three-pointers, came alive on defense snagging three rebounds and stealing three. Bixler also got five boards, one block and a steal.
The Bobcats have won eight out of their last nine games. They are on a five game winning streak and are looking to extend that against conference opponent UNC Pembroke (9-9, 5-6 PBC) at home Monday, Feb. 2 beginning at 5:30 p.m.
Visit www.GCSU.edu/Bobcats to nominate your favorite former Bobcats and Colonials to the GCSU Athletics Hall of Fame. The GCSU Department of Athletics sponsors 10 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, GCSU prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the Bobcats' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement.


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FORT JACKSON, S.C. -- Pvt. Cicely Verstein, 21, did not give much thought to her place in history when she enlisted in the Army. The Pennsylvania native said she was looking for a job she thought was interesting, but will soon become the first woman in the Army to repair the Bradley Fighting Vehicle.
Last May, the Army announced plans to begin implementing a new Defense Department policy that could place women in as many as 14,000 combat-related jobs by opening up six military occupational specialties. Among those positions were Soldiers trained to maintain the 91M Bradley Fighting Vehicle System, which provides mobile protected transport to infantry squads to critical points on the battlefield.
In November, Verstein began Basic Combat Training at Fort Jackson with Company A, 3rd Battalion, 34th Infantry Regiment and will become the first female to fill this military occupational specialty. Now five weeks into training, she said her family is still a little confused about her new role.
"They're proud of me," she said. "They don't really know what to make of my being the first woman to do this, but they're excited for everything happening for me."
It was never her intention to be a trailblazer, she said. When the opportunity for the job presented itself, she simply applied for it. She said she has always had an interest in automotives and used to race go karts, so the job just looked "interesting."
She said she never gave much thought to being the first woman in a previously closed-off MOS until after she was accepted for training.
"It made me nervous," she said. "It's a lot of pressure." Gender-integrated training isn't a new concept at Fort Jackson, said Capt. John Teschner, commander for Co. A, 3-34th.
"I've seen no issues with gender-integrated training in the year that I've been in command," Teschner said. "When it comes to military occupational specialties, it's not that we don't care about it, but we treat them as combat armed Soldiers first and foremost."
Soldiers with various jobs, from Bradley Fighting Vehicle mechanics to cooks, are on the front lines in Afghanistan, so the goal is to train all Soldiers to be combat ready, he said.
"The enemy doesn't disseminate on your MOS, so we treat everyone the same, regardless of race, sex or MOS," he said.
Verstein said she's wanted to join the Army since she was 16 years old. She spent a few years working and going to college, but none of it felt right, she said.
"School wasn't working out, and I still wanted to join as much as I did when I graduated high school. I thought it was a great choice for me," she said.
"She's got the same issue as other Soldiers, and she's adapting to training the same as the other Soldiers," Teschner said. "It doesn't faze us that she's one of the first female Bradley mechanic Soldiers. That's the great thing about the atmosphere created here by our chain of command here at Fort Jackson. When she gets to her unit of assignment, there shouldn't' be any hesitation on her part to get in there and do her job."
"It's totally different than from what I thought it would be," Verstein said. "I thought I'd be miserable most of the time, but I've had a great time, so far. I've had my struggles here, but I'm enjoying my time. I've made a lot of new friends, and it's been a great experience, overall."


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Microsoft Working on Fix For Excel 2007 Bug
The bad news is, Excel can't do other operations correctly either. The good news is, this is only true when the results are within a very specific range of numbers. And the better news is that the Excel team has mapped out the nature of the problem and is feverishly working on an update.
So what went wrong? It all boils down to the fact that you can't represent an infinite group of non-integer numbers using a finite number of bits.
In fact, Excel can store "only" about nine quintillion distinct values. The numbers going into your calculations may be infinitesimally different from the number displayed, and for two calculations that nominally have the same answer the result may be infinitesimally different.
Excel generally manages just fine in dealing with these tiny differences, but in exactly 12 instances out of the nine quintillion possibilities it goes completely bonkers.
The Excel team discovered that it wasn't just calculations involving 65,535 that were affected; those that should come out to be 65,536 were also sometimes wrong (returning 100,001 instead). And they discovered it wasn't just multiplication. In truth, the operation didn't matter, only the result. When Microsoft Excel engineers work up a fix it will still have to "make its way through our official build lab and onto a download site", but they expect it to happen soon.


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Time for some guitar nerdery, m'thinks. Post your gear set-up, recent aquisitions, questions about guitar stuff, hot topics, etc. I'll get us started;
My guitars
Ibanez Universe
Mike Stern Signature Yamaha
Casio MG-510 MIDI guitar
My Amp
My new pedal which will be arriving soon;
So, onto the state of guitar. Hybrid picking; going the way of the dodo? Are whammy bars already dead? What do people think of amp emulation; is spending a few grand on a Marshall stack a waste of money when you can buy a Pod instead? Let's hear what the shredders amongst us think!


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Recent blog posts
New fsfstatus notification account
The FSF has a new out-of-band notification account at https://pumprock.net/fsfstatus. We post updates on planned and unplanned service outages there.
Google reinstates federated instant messaging
We want to commend Google for doing the right thing.
Google backslides on federated instant messaging, on purpose?
Google users can still send subscription requests to contacts whose accounts are hosted elsewhere. But they cannot accept incoming requests. This change is akin to Google no longer accepting incoming e-mail for @gmail.com addresses from non-Google domains. That would be unthinkable.
LibreWRT: What we use for wifi at the FSF
I would like to take a few moments to introduce Buffalo, the access point and router which provides network connectivity to portable computers in the FSF's office.
World IPv6 day
June 6th, 2012 is World IPv6 Day. The most important GNU/FSF sites are available on native IPv6.
GNU/FSF servers are moving
The GNU/FSF servers are moving between February 22nd and March 1st, 2012. There will be service interruptions during that period. There will be a multi-hour outage for most services on February 28th, 2012, starting at 10am EST (UTC/GMT -5).
Can you help the FSF get colocated hosting?
If you know a Boston-area company or institution that could offer us colocated hosting and bandwidth, we could use your help!
Introducing the systems team summer intern
Hi! My name is Martin Dluhos and I am very fortunate to have an opportunity to intern with the systems team at the FSF this summer.
Behind the scenes of the new GNU mailing list server
The GNU list server is a monster machine serving lists.gnu.org, lists.nongnu.org and a few other domains. Every day, it spools out over 1 million messages for 2700 mailing lists. Until April 11, our venerable list server was an 8-year old Fedora Core 2 (!) box equipped with 6 high-speed SCSI drives organized in two RAID packs to maximize I/O bandwidth. These drives were incessantly cranking every day, as Mailman forwarded incoming posts to thousands of subscribers over a saturated T1 uplink at the FSF headquarters.
Savannah and www.gnu.org downtime
Over the weekend, Savannah was compromised. Here's a chronological account of the events:


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shais wrote:Anyone? plz?
isn't here any panoshoot user that can check if this works for them?
Someone from Panoshoot maybe?
shais wrote:But still, I can't be the only one!? can I?
shais wrote:Bumping this up, now that I have seen that I'm not the only user in the world.
I'd love for someone here to validate or dispute my claim?
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I think the announcement that Roots Television was going to record several of the classes, and the rain/snow showers kept a lot of people away from the conference. I'm guessing that we had about 75 registered attendees, which is not good if you want more classes on the topic of Hispanic genealogy. As most of you know when the demand isn't high for a particular product, then those producing that product aren't too anxious to continue producing it. I'm not saying that there isn't a need, nor am I saying that the interest level isn't there, but I was disappointed to see small class sizes.
Understanding that there was more of a world wide interest lessens the blow for me. Receiving about 50 emails from individuals requesting that the conference be recorded or transmitted via the web was great (it was a huge determining factor for getting classes recorded) . I think that those of you that sent the emails represented hundreds or even possibly thousands through out Latin America and Spain. You 'emailers' should be happy to know that 8 total classes were video taped by Roots Television, which turned out to be one half of all the Saturday classes. Roots TV was incredible to work with, and I believe we will be seeing the classes on their site in the near future...which brings me back to supply and demand. If we want to see more Hispanic classes (and other material for Hispanic countries) videotaped by Roots TV, then we need to prove to them that there is a need. If only the 50 people that emailed me visit their site to view the Hispanic conference material, then they probably won't add more stuff on the topic. Roots TV did tell me that they thought that this would merely be the tip of the iceberg, however, if no one comes to their site to use it, the iceberg just might melt away...THIS IS A CALL TO ACTION: MAKE YOUR VOICES HEARD IN THE GENEALOGICAL COMMUNITY. TELL EVERYONE - USE THE ONLINE CLASSES, MAKE YOUR PRESENCE FELT ON THE ROOTS TELEVISION SITE!! Just like you guys made this videotaping happen you can make Hispanic genealogy the hottest niche in the industry/community.
Since I told everyone in my classes not to take notes, I thought I would let everyone know where I have posted the slides from my presentations. Hopefully those of you that weren't at the classes will benefit from them as well. You can find them by visiting the 'Hispanic Genealogy' google group ( you can also find a link to the group on the bottom right side of the screen of this blog under the section titled: 'Groups'). If you have a genealogy / family history question you can also ask it on the google group in the discussions section. You can also check out the different Mexico websites (we only scratched the surface in the class) that I wrote about back in June by clicking here.
Thanks again for all the emails...you made this happen, now let's raise the bar! Let's make sure that the Hispanic community gets as much attention genealogically speaking as does the United States and Europe.


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I'm investigating Certicom's API because they are "free" with the Blackberry implementations, and have come to realize that I have several alternatives for implementing crypto such as BouncyCastle, and others.
I like the idea of using the same API across my product set, rather than to use Certicom for Blackberry, .NET for the server-side, and BouncyCastle in the Java clients.
What should I take into consideration when I access Certicom and their ECC technology?
What claims are real versus marketing FUD? Since this is not my area of expertise, I think it will take me significantly more time to separate the wheat from the chaff.


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Anthropology is the science that investigates human origins together with its biological, social and cultural characteristics. This science began with the impetus to learn about human history; in fact, its Greek roots mean the science of human beings. After Charles Darwin established his evolutionary theory of the origins and development of living things in the 19th century, interested scientists started to propose one new idea after another about the evolution of human beings.
Scientists wanted to learn about the development of human societies, how they changed and became politically organized, and how they developed art and music. As a result of all their efforts, the science of anthropology developed various branches of expertise in its study of the history of humanity: physical anthropology, cultural anthropology, and so forth.
But after Darwin proposed the theory of evolution, cultural anthropology began to study human beings as cultural animals, and physical anthropology investigated them as biological organisms. As a result of this distorted way of thinking, anthropology became the domain of evolutionist scientists, whose unrealistic and partisan views prevailed.2009-08-07 18:35:28


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Update: 'How I Met Your Mother' Series Finale Twist Ending Revealed – Good or Bad?
It may have been a long time coming, but the How I Met Your Mother season 8 finale accomplished the inevitable: it revealed the Mother!
Broadway actress Cristin Milioti, who famously played "Girl" in the stage adaptation of Once, will be filling the role of the series' title character (above). But her reveal came at the end of the episode. Before that, many important things happened to Ted, Marshall, Lilly, Robin and Barney. Well, mostly to Marshall.
How I Met Your Mother is always at its best when it makes an earnest effort to progress the life stories of its characters and, as expected, the season finale doesn't disappoint. Ted, who was briefly struggling with his feelings towards Robin, decided that selling his dream house and moving to Chicago would be his best option. After all, Lilly and Marshall are moving to Rome, and Robin – who he may or may not still have feelings for – is marrying Barney. Fortunately, there are a few twists to this finale tale that make sure everyone's favorite group remains intact.
Marshall, who was away visiting his mother in Minnesota, received an important phone call that will force a change to his and Lilly's plans to move to Rome in season 9. After previously having submitted himself to become a judge, Marshall received a call to welcome him to the last remaining spot available for a bench seat. Marshall is going to be a judge! That is, unless Lilly nixes the idea. Meanwhile, Barney and Robin hurt, then help, an obnoxious couple's relationship – and that's pretty much all that occurs with them; but that's not necessarily a bad thing.
Even though Barney and Robin didn't receive that much play in this season's finale, the many episodes that came before it complimented their story nicely, even though a few felt a bit old and familiar. To present the Mother, the producers made use of the strength that Marshall and Lilly's story holds, to help welcome in the long-awaited, eventually-will-be bride of Ted. After Ted's emotional conundrum set the stage for some welcomed reflection, Marshall's joyous news kicked in before everything felt, again, a bit too old a familiar. And then, as if given her own storyline, a familiar yellow umbrella at a NY train station tips viewers off to the Mother's upcoming arrival. And as the episode comes to a close, the Mother steps up to buy her ticket: "Hi. One ticket to Farhampton, please."
Though the How I Met Your Mother season 8 finale did feel like it ended a bit abruptly given many stories – and obstacles – at hand, the journey was fulfilling and the Mother was, finally, revealed. Now, producers will have time over the course of their off-season to help craft a tale for viewers to fall in love with this mysterious woman who Ted will eventually ask to be his wife. And that, it seems, is where the real challenge lies.
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YOUNG HARRIS, Ga. -- Young Harris swept Augusta State in a Peach Belt Conference doubleheader Saturday afternoon at Zell B. Miller Field.
With the victories, the Mountain Lions (15-15, 5-13 PBC) claimed the series sweep and outscored the Jaguars 37-13 in the three-game set. The losses dropped ASU to 10-25 overall and 3-15 in the conference.
In game one, the Jags took a 4-0 lead in the third inning when Jeff Rice was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded followed by a two-run single from Seth Foster and an RBI-single from Logan South. ASU led 5-1 going into the bottom of the sixth before the Mountain Lions rallied for eight runs and added a run in the seventh. The Jags closed within 10-8 in the eighth but couldn't get any closer.
ASU freshman righthander David Bermudez (2-3) took the loss in relief of starter Dylan Wall. Phil Dukes and Aaron Lewis also saw action on the mound for the Jags.
In game two, ASU lead early 2-1 before YHC again rallied with a four-run fifth inning and five more runs in the eighth. Six pitchers saw action for the Jags, with senior righty Tyler Ross (1-2) taking the loss.
Rice paced the Jags offensively, going for a 4-for-7 in the two games at the plate with three RBI and three runs scored. Freshman catcher Justin Mee drove in three runs, while Foster, South and freshman shortstop Hunter Boose each had a pair of RBI on the afternoon.
The Jags are back in action next weekend when they visit USC Aiken for a three-game conference series. A single game on Friday, April 5 is slated for 7:00 p.m., with a doubleheader Saturday set for a 1:00 p.m., first pitch.


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To suit personal comfort, the interior temperature can be adjusted between 61 °F and 85 °F/16 °C and 29.5 °C.
Recommendation: 72 °F/22 °C.
If "LO" or "HI" appears on the display, the system is operating at maximum cooling or heating power.
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If the preselected temperature is changed, the blower speed can increase automatically in automatic mode.
The desired temperature is reached more quickly this way.
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GOLDEN. Was this the best year in the history of hot rodding? A lot of baby boomers seem to think so. Those old enough to have witnessed this transformative era are quick to argue that the mid-'60s was the golden age of drag racing and muscle cars, at least. Although quantum leaps in street and strip performance lay just ahead, 1965 was the model year that delivered ponycars and supercars from all divisions of Detroit's Big Three, each attempting to cash in on the '64 GTO's surprising sales success. Chrysler's 426 Hemi became widely available, finally. Chevrolet made 396s and 427s available to the masses. Exotic overhead camshafts transformed Ford's ho-hum 427 into a fearsome weapon from Stock Eliminator to Top Fuel. Thanks to new M&H tires and zoomie headers, the 200-mph barrier that finally fell the previous season was regularly penetrated.
Perhaps more significant, this season is fondly remembered as the last before NHRA allowed foreign cars to take over traditional Supercharged Gas classes, displacing the Willys cars and trucks, Henry Js, early Fords, '55 to '57 Chevys, and Studebakers that Americans loved. Worse, these traditional gassers were being displaced as the fastest full-bodied vehicles by radical, new-model factory hot rods (which, in turn, would soon be rendered obsolete by the fiberglass Mercury Comet replicas that debuted with the '66 season). Most shocking of all, the Indianapolis 500 was won not by an all-American Offy roadster but by a back-motored European car.
Meanwhile, Vietnam was ramping up from what the politicians liked to call a "police action" into all-out war involving hundreds of thousands of American troops (average age: 19), inspiring the biggest protest movement since the Revolutionary War. Major cities set ablaze during race riots included Los Angeles, whose burning buildings were visible from Petersen Publishing Co. Never in our country's history had young people—including the vast majority of rodding and racing enthusiasts—been subjected to so many major changes at the same time.
As he had since 1950, Eric Rickman was duly recording the earthshaking automotive happenings of this incredible year on a daily basis. That's a very good thing, because the black-and-white film he exposed during those 12 months is the only surviving photographic documentation of many of the technical innovations and motorsports milestones that made 1965 arguably the brightest single season of the golden age.


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By Calvin Mitchell, NPM Research Associate & Domonique Williams, NPM Management Support Specialist
On Friday, August 23, 2013 at 10:30 A.M. the US Postal Service conducted a first day ceremony at the spacious Newseum for release of the 1963 March on Washington limited edition forever stamp. The Newseum was a fitting location for the event because the success and tragedies of the Civil Rights era were documented by the news media during the 1960's. The stamp represents the final issue in a trilogy of stamps released in 2013 to commemorate civil rights events or leaders. The first Forever stamp marked the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, while the second stamp honored Rosa Parks on the 100th anniversary of her birth in February. An inspiring word appears in large type in the selvage of each stamp pane, including, "Freedom" on the Emancipation stamp sheet, "Courage" on the Parks' stamp sheet, and "Equality" on the March on Washington stamp sheet. "Together, the 3 stamps tell a story of a journey for justice that continues to this very day." said Ron Stroman, USPS Deputy Postmaster General.
Scott Williams, expressed his pleasure that the Newsuem was honored to host the event and invited attendees to visit the Newseum's "Civil Rights at 50" exhibit, a three year changing exhibit that chronicles milestones in the civil rights movement from 1963, 1964 and 1965.
During the past month, the USPS encouraged people to add their profile photo from their twitter or Facebook account to the virtual March on Washington Stamp Mosaic. As individual photos became pixels in the mosaic, the stamp design was gradually released. During the ceremony Gabrielle Union added her photo to the mosaic, resulting in the stamp simultaneously revealed digitally on Facebook and at the First Day of Issue ceremony.
Although Union was not born at the time of the March, she said she felt compelled to join the ceremony because her parents had raised her to never be silent in the face of injustice. In 1963, Union explained, her father was in Italy serving in the military and her grandmother prohibited her mother from taking part in protests, fearing she would lose her job. "Both of my parents were silenced at a time when they wanted to be demonstrative in their feelings and in their opinions; my father by the military brass and my mother by a scarier entity---my grandmother."
During his dedication speech Stroman said "It's an honor to be here in remembrance of the 1963 March on Washington and dedicate a stamp that commemorates what Dr. King describes as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation: the March on Washington, which set the stage for civil rights legislation that changed the arc of history forever." Indeed, the March on Washington is a reminder of those who marched and put their lives on the line for the cause of social justice. "That's one of the enduring principles reflected on the stamp we dedicate today."
John Lewis, who at 73 represents the last living speaker from the original March, gave a very passionate speech about the events that surrounded the March and speaking of the ceremony he said "This is an extraordinary day that validates the transformative power of the Civil Rights Movement. The March on Washington was the crown jewel of the Civil Rights movement. It also spoke to the individuals who gave their lives to the cause of freedom". While pointing to the stamp, Lewis remarks "This stamp, this beautiful stamp is my hope. It inspires us all to renew our effort to do what we can to create a more perfect union. If someone had told me fifty years ago that we would someday issue a stamp honoring the March, I would not have believed them. This stamp will remind us of the distance we've come, the distance we've travelled, and the distance we must still go before we lay down the burden of race, class and color and create one America, where no one is left out, or left behind."


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Plug pulled on Paul McCartney and Bruce Springsteen
This story is getting plenty of play today, as it should. Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band capped off a marathon show in Hyde Park in London by inviting Paul McCartney on stage. They ripped through "I Saw Her Standing There" and then moved on to "Twist and Shout" when all of the mikes were cut off. Apparently they had gone beyond the curfew and someone decided it was time to end the show. What a shame.
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Restaurants for Raphael House - May 16th
From the open publishing newswire: Dine out for a cause on Wednesday, May 16th and support Raphael House of Portland's life-saving domestic violence shelter and prevention programs!
More than 45 local restaurants have pledged a portion of their day's proceeds to help adults and children escaping partner violence. You can make a difference simply by enjoying a meal - or several - at any participating eatery in Portland, Lake Oswego, and Beaverton.
White LGBT Solidarity with Black Power: No Pride in Genocide! June 29 @ 8:00 PM
From the open publishing newswire: This project of the "Unity Through Reparations" campaign will feature speaker Gazi Kodzo of the African People's Socialist Party! Tune in to learn why it is crucial for LGBT white people to unite in principled solidarity with Black Power and African liberation! You can watch via livestream or register @ Anymeeting: tinyurl.com/NoPrideInGenocide
link to www.uhurusolidarity.org
Video: Portland Labor Defend Abortion Rights Rally
From the open publishing newswire: On Sunday, January 17, a group of 50 union activists in the Portland area picketed a "youth rally" held by Oregon Right to Life, an anti-abortion group that held a day of action nationally to "mourn" the anniversary of Roe v. Wade and attack women's right to abortion.
With a banner calling on labor to defend abortion rights, Class Struggle Workers - Portland led a determined picket with members of at least seven local unions as well as solidarity and leftist groups.
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Trans and/or Women's Action Camp Blocks Seattle Street to Call for Justice for Immigrants
From the open publishing newswire: Today the Trans and/or Women's Action Camp (TWAC) blocked a road in downtown Seattle in solidarity with the Northwest Detention Center Resistance and Not1More movement! The action was in opposition to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the GEO group corporation that operates private prisons and detention centers for profit.
Seattle, WA- "Trans and/or Women's Action Camp (TWAC)" in solidarity with NWDC Resistance and the Not1More movement to end detentions and deportations, today did a civil disobedience action to bring attention to the ICE presence in downtown Seattle. TWAC called attention to ICE, located on 1000 Second Ave where they have a large presence and headquarters, and their local quota that guarantees a minimum of 800 beds to be filled at the immigration jail in Tacoma (aka Northwest Detention Center) operated by Geo group corporation. [...]
TWAC brought attention to the inhumane treatment of transgender detainees at all detention facilities, including the one located in Tacoma as well as the inhumane treatment of all other detainees.
Video: History of the Gay Press in Portland
From the open publishing newswire: History of the Gay Press in Portland.
Sharing their memories Rupert Kinnard & Renee LaChance both tell of their struggles with being editors and graphic journalist with the gay press in its early days in the Portland area.
Presented by History of Social Justice Organizing on 1.23.14
The History of the Gay Press in Portland
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Positive coverage of LGBT issues and events was non-existent in Portland's mass media until 1970 when the alternative paper, Willamette Bridge, began printing some articles. The next year, Oregon's first specifically gay newspaper, The Fountain, was launched. Some Portland LGBT publications that followed included NW Gay Review, the Oregon Gay Rights Report, The Northwest Fountain, Cascade Voice, Rag Times, Just Out, Lavender Network and PQ Monthly. These publications and others helped organize Portland-area LGBT people in their attempts to build community, gain equality, counter anti-gay political measures, and respond to AIDS.
All our panelists were involved in one or more of the above publications.
Rupert Kinnard's extensive career in publication design began with Just Out as one of the original staff members where he helped the publication win the National Gay Press Association award for best overall design in 1983. In 1996, while working as art director for the Skanner, Rupert won an award for best graphic and typographical excellence by the West Coast Black Journalist Association.
Renee LaChance covered lesbian events as the women's editor for The Northwest Fountain and served as the editor of The Cascade Voice and was co-founder and publisher of Just Out. Pride Northwest has presented her with two awards: the 2000 Spirit of Pride Award and the Pioneer Award both for her work with Just Out.
National Day of Action for Abortion Rights- PDX
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Rally for Abortion rights in solidarity with the women of Texas
Pioneer Square - Portland
The nation stands at the edge of a historic reversal. Hard won gains of the women's rights movement of the 1960s and 1970s are about to be turned back with devastating results for women across the country. Abortion, already a barely accessible right for most women, is now being made extinct as conservative politicians attempt to press their advantage in certain states in an opportunistic fashion.
But the problem we face is deeper. In Texas, the legislature has used every legal (and some illegal) trick in the book to make sure that the pro-choice majority is not heard. The current legislation under consideration represents some of the most draconian limits on abortion rights ever. And instead of allowing normal democratic procedures to resolve the issue, the legislature has relied on a rigged process to force the bill through. A few examples are worth mention: every procedural objection that was made to Wendy Davis's historic filibuster; the refusal to hold state-wide hearings to allow affected communities to testify about the consequences of the legislation; the intentional misreporting of how many people testified in opposition to the legislation; the years of gerrymandering which make it nearly impossible for the legislature to reflect the real wishes of the population; the organizing of "special sessions" to push through legislation.
The current legislation is too important to allow these deficits in the democratic process to go unchallenged. The bills in Texas would close down the overwhelming majority of clinics which provide abortions and thereby eliminate all of the ancillary services those clinics also provide -STD testing, family planning, health care. That some of these clinics are also the only places where low-income, people of color, and LGBTQ individuals are able to get health services means that this legislation will disproportionately impact the most vulnerable members of society.
Panel on the origins of the Portland Women�s Movement January 24th
From the open publishing newswire: Please join us for The Portland Women's Movement, Part I: Origins, History of Social Justice Organizing's first program for 2013. The panel will feature Maureen Gray Hudson, Kathleen Saadat and Susan Stoner. Sandy Polishuk will moderate.
Find us in room 328 Smith Center at Portland State University, 1825 SW Broadway on Thursday, January 24 at 7pm. The program will be free as usual.
History of Social Justice Organizing is an ongoing series of presentations by activists and scholars on a wide variety of social justice organizing both in Portland and elsewhere. A program of Occupy History
Find upcoming programs at historyofsocialjustice.wordpress.com and
Occupy the Pride!
From the open publishing newswire: Several alternative-Pride autonomous actions are planned worldwide and in Portland over the weekend to counter the commercialization and usurpation of the annual Stonewall memorial by the corporate interests.
Occupy The Pride worldwide call to action - local events
Saturday, June 16, 1 p.m.-2:30 p.m.: Pride sign-making picnic at the Couch Park (find us near the Couch Park sign at the southeastern corner of the park), NW Glisan Street at NW 19th Avenue. Make signs for Dyke March and/or Occupride. Some cardboards and markers provided; bring anything else you may need.
Sunday, June 17, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.: Occupy The Pride Portland - Parade-Watching Picnic and Community Outreach Action at the Tom McCall Waterfront Park between Ash and Pine Streets (on the open parkland between the Pride NW festival and Saturday Market). This is mostly for visibility and presence. We engage in conversation only when people approach us. Bring your favorite Occupy signs or banners, musical instruments, games, picnic stuff to share, etc.
Saturday, June 23, 3 p.m.-6 p.m.: Occupy The Pride Portland - Summer Solstice Community Assembly at Ladd Circle, SE Ladd Avenue at Harrison Street (in the middle of the Ladd's Addition between Hawthorne and Division). Network, connect and organize for future actions in a less confrontational setting as we also celebrate the arrival of summer! We also thought this would be a great idea as many people could not make it to the Sunday, June 17 Occupride due to other involvements. Moving the main Occupride action to another day would ensure a bigger turnout.
Saturday, July 7, Occupy The Pride Vancouver, Washington (maybe) at Esther Short Park, this would be a low-key visibility and dialogue action like the one on June 17 in Portland.
Other events and actions: [...]
Almost There -- Marriage Equality In Wa State
From the open publishing newswire: Next: The House
It's almost too good to be true.
Tonight [Feb 1, 2012] the Washington Senate, on a bipartisan 28-21 vote, passed a marriage equality bill -- the first time in Washington history that an equality bill has passed in either chamber of the legislature.
Our efforts are working, creating real changes in Washington's marriage policy -- and it's all due to you, and thousands of other Washingtonians who care deeply about equality. We're hearing that all the calls and emails to the Capitol are changing minds. But, while this is a historic victory, it's far from the end of the road. The next step toward getting equality signed into law is a vote on the House floor, which may come as early as next week. And it's tempting to celebrate after such an important victory, but we just don't have the luxury. If marriage equality is going to be a reality in Washington, we're going to need to keep pushing, and keep speaking out.
We can't let up. Not yet.
Washington United for Marriage
Mars Hill Mega-Church Welcome Wagon
From the open publishing newswire: On Sunday October 16th, a group of 20-30 antifascists and allies gathered at SE 32nd Avenue and Taylor Street to oppose the opening of Mars Hill's Portland branch. Demonstrators carried banners with statements of support for the LGBTQ community and maintained a presence in front of the church throughout the service. As church attendees exited the building, demonstrators held a dance party with the aid of a portable sound system and chanted, "Homophobes get out of here! Pro-Choice! Pro-Queer!"
Mars Hill is a misogynistic, homophobic, evangelical megachurch founded by Mark Driscoll in Seattle, Washington. His tiny flock first met in his living room in 1996 and swelled to a membership of 1,000 by 2003. It now boasts 12 branches in four states. The original Seattle branch alone was reported to have an attendance of 3,500 people per week in 2006, and numbers have grown since then. There are congregations of Mars Hill specifically devoted to "converting" queer people, encouraging them to suppress their sexuality and live a straight lifestyle. The newest church outpost here in Portland aims to change the sinful ways of the Rose City: namely the city's Left-wing, feminist, and pro-queer culture.
Full article is available at: rosecityantifa<dot>org
We are always interested in any and all information on fascist and racist organizing in our community. Contact us!
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Call to Action: In Opposition of Mars Hill, Anti-Gay Megachurch
From the open publishing newswire: Last month Mars Hill--an evangelical megachurch with nine branches in Washington and one in New Mexico--postponed its first public meeting after a dance-in and kiss-in was organized by LGBTQ folks in Portland to protest the church's hateful message equating homosexuality with cancer. Mars Hill claimed the postponement was a result of parking concerns due to the Belmont Street Fair scheduled to take place the same day.
Let's show them they won't have a free pass to spread bigotry and hatred here in Portland! Spread the word!
Portland Walk for Choice 2011
From the open publishing newswire: On [Saturday] February 26th, from noon to 3pm, there will be a Walk for Choice in support of women's rights Join us to help stop the national assault on women's rights and women's reproductive health. You have a voice, WALK FOR CHOICE!
Walk for Choice 2011 was created directly in response to the events in Congress surrounding H.R. 3. Women and allies around the world will peacefully protest against limiting a woman's right to choose and the right to have a safe, legal abortion. Abortion is a legal procedure that saves the lives of 70,000 women each year.Walk for Choice will take place in multiple cities on February 26th, 2011. The official Walk for Choice website is walkforchoice.tumblr.com.
Walk for Choice PDX is a peaceful walk in support of women's and men's access to reproductive rights. While this event is short-notice, we can still make an impact. Your attendance is greatly appreciated!
We will meet at a central location at 12:00 and walk until 3:00. Exact location and route to be announced closer to date of walk.
homepage: link to www.facebook.com
Blow Pony April 2009 Gay Bashing Case Botched By DA Office Incompetence/Negligence
From the open publishing newswire: The verdict for the trial of a gay bashing on Wed was a huge disappointment in a long line of disappointments. City officials have been telling the queer community that if we want something done about gay bashings we must report. This case, in particular was brought up in a press conference with the mayor. Airick Heater (the victim & well known local DJ for Blow Pony) was encouraged to prosecute. This trial was to showcase the effectiveness of reporting hate crimes in Portland. I think you'll have a clear opinion on that after reading what happened.


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Feeling good ... and frustrated? Tired of watching the stock market soar, friends getting new apartments? Worried about credit card living, deferred tax bills -- even retirement? The source of all this may be the fact that you're on disability instead of working for a paycheck.
The Dilemma
A significant number of people with HIV are feeling better. Yet many wonder how to let go of disability-related benefits safely so that they can once again grab for that brass ring called work.
Media hype hasn't helped much. Television and magazines don't talk about the people who were doing just fine, and then crashed, the people who graduated from HIV-related symptoms to heart attacks. The grapevine isn't much better. There we hear a lot from those who tried and failed, but little from those who have succeeded and want to leave the world of HIV far behind. And what about the trapeze act of moving from one drug protocol to another?
The chasm between work-related and disability-related benefits was hard enough to cross the first time, hard enough to make you think twice before going back to work. What if you had to claw your way back yet again to the disability side of the gulf?
Returning to work can be a catch-22 situation. After years of guerilla warfare with insurers and public agencies, showing even a slight interest in working again may prompt a cancellation of hard-won benefits -- or at least an anxiety-provoking review.
Returning to work is unexplored territory. Fewer than 1 percent of people on Social Security, whatever their disability, ever make it back to the world of work. This means that many disability and benefits professionals, including employees of the Social Security Administration, have little experience in this complicated task. It's important that you double-check any advice given, and get agency statements in writing. And think at least twice about possible future implications of the actions you take today.
Potential Solutions
The first step on the road back to work is to assess your individual situation -- how HIV has manifested itself in your life, and your needs and wants.
Timeframe: All financial decisions depend on time. How long is the period being planned for?
- Until protease inhibitors, HIV meant a high degree of unpredictability. That meant being unable to perform predictably on the job, and that in turn meant having income and benefits no longer linked to work.
- The new treatments have lengthened our planning times. And now there are tests that help identify long-term nonprogressors and give us an idea of how well we may respond to future treatments.
- The first step is to remap your life. How long do you want to work until you retire? How long do you want to work until you review whether you want to continue? Planning is the key.
Lifestages: Our needs and wants depend a lot on the stage of life we're in. In our 20s we may want to move around a lot and may see disability benefits as death. In our 30s we're in no mood to sit life out while our peers build careers, relationships, and assets. In our 40s we may be happy to take a time-out and use disability benefits to have a full-blown midlife crisis. We may see our 50s as the last chance to make it and have a nest egg for retirement. In our 60s disability may blend into retirement ... except for those whose private or group disability benefits expire at age 65. In our 70s we may yearn for opportunities to give back at a time when our own needs loom larger.
Coping Style: Our needs and wants depend a great deal on how we've adapted to HIV -- whether we took it as a defeat, treated it as a type of limbo, looked at it as an indefinite vacation, or saw it as a second chance to discover ourselves.
Goals: Our goals help define whether and how we will return to work. Do we want to earn more money, recapture missing group employment benefits, or find self-expression in a new career? For some it's enough to return to a past job, for others to move to a new company, for some to forge a new career or enter a new industry, and for a few to have their own business. The key is to be specific and concrete, deeply introspective: To thine own self be true.
The Costs of Working: Much depends on how much you're willing to invest now in work. In the United States we put paid work first. After being on disability, some people learn that human values, personal growth, quality of life, or relationships are more important to them. People on disability ask new questions: How important is a job? What am I willing to sacrifice to have paid work in my life?
Change is costly. It takes time -- great gobs of time -- for planning, guesstimating, and role-playing. And work itself creates new costs in addition to new income -- grooming, clothing, eating out, training, transportation. A return to work is an exercise in business planning.
Support and Advice: Most people need help even contemplating this major transition -- from peers, support groups, therapists, physicians, financial advisors, lawyers, and career counselors. If most people had no preparation, training, or experience in moving from work to disability, fewer still know the way back. A common mistake is to seek professional advice for immediate problems rather than to explore possibilities that they may not have been aware of.
Photo by Fredda Tone
The advice given here is limited by the space available. It is background information. Take action only after checking other sources, especially written descriptions of your own benefits. Work with someone qualified and experienced, and only after a full disclosure of your circumstances and a thorough exploration of options.
These are ballpark observations, not aisle and seat numbers.


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Portugal held the rotating European Union (EU) presidency for the latter half of 2007, focusing on economic reform and the drafting of the Treaty of Lisbon, which would replace the defeated EU constitution. In April, the president signed a law legalizing voluntary termination of pregnancies for the first time in Portugal. Separately, the parliament in September overrode a presidential veto to enact the Journalist Statute, which endangered journalists' protection of confidential sources, fair pay, and control over their work.
Portugal was proclaimed a republic in 1910, after King Manuel II abdicated during a bloodless revolution. Antonio de Oliveira Salazar became prime minister in 1932 and ruled the country as a fascist dictatorship until 1968, when his lieutenant, Marcello Caetano, replaced him. During the "Marcello Spring," repression and censorship were relaxed somewhat, and a liberal wing developed inside the one-party National Assembly. In 1974, a bloodless coup by the Armed Forces Movement, which opposed the ongoing colonial wars in Mozambique and Angola, overthrew Caetano.
A transition to democracy began with the election of a Constitutional Assembly that adopted a democratic constitution in 1976. A civilian government was formally established in 1982 after a revision of the constitution brought the military under civilian control, curbed the president's powers, and abolished the unelected Revolutionary Council. Portugal became a member of the European Economic Community (later the European Union, or EU) in 1986, and in early 2002, the EU's euro replaced Portugal's currency, the escudo. In 1999, Portugal handed over its last colonial territory, Macao, to the People's Republic of China.
In February 2005 elections, the Socialist Party took 120 of the 230 seats in parliament, while the governing Social Democrats captured only 72. They were followed by the Communist Party with 14 seats, the Popular Party with 12, and the Left Bloc with 8. The elections, which had been called more than a year early, ushered in Portugal's fourth government in three years. Socialist leader and former environment minister Jose Socrates became prime minister, replacing Pedro Santana Lopes, who was in power for only seven months. Lopes had gained the office after his predecessor, Jose Manuel Barroso, left in July 2004 to head the European Commission.
Anibal Cavaco Silva, a center-right candidate who had served as prime minister from 1985 to 1995, won the 2006 presidential election, marking the first time in Portugal's recent history that the president and prime minister hailed from opposite sides of the political spectrum.
Portugal held the rotating EU presidency beginning in July 2007. Many countries looked to Portugal to push for uniform immigration laws for the EU member states, which were not drafted by year's end. Portugal also oversaw the drafting of a new treaty, known as the Treaty of Lisbon, that replaced the proposed EU constitution, which had been rejected in 2005. The bulk of the new document was the same as the failed constitution, with mostly symbolic changes.
As part of a government effort to liberalize the country's laws on social and personal matters, the parliament in March passed a law removing restrictions on abortion in the first 10 weeks of pregnancy, and the president approved the measure in April. A majority of referendum voters had endorsed the proposal in February, but voter turnout fell below 50 percent, rendering the poll legally invalid; the government argued that it nevertheless gave an indication of the people's wishes. The previous law, which was interpreted narrowly, had allowed a woman to have an abortion only if her life was in danger, or if it was necessary for her mental or physical health, or in cases of rape, incest, or fetal impairment. The new law allowed voluntary termination of pregnancy, but it was met with resistance by a majority of doctors, and hospitals and medical centers remained ill-equipped for abortion procedures.
In September, the parliament overrode a presidential veto to enact a law known as the Journalist Statute. According to the European Federation of Journalists, the new law would require journalists to hand over confidential information and disclose sources in criminal cases "on the grounds that it would be difficult to obtain information by other means." The law also allowed employers to use or alter material provided by staff journalists in any manner for 30 days after initial publication, without providing additional compensation.
Portugal is an electoral democracy. The 230 members of the unicameral legislature, the Assembly of the Republic, are elected every four years using a system of proportional representation. The president, elected for up to two five-year terms, receives advice from the Council of State, which includes six senior civilian officials, former presidents elected under the 1976 constitution, five members chosen by the Assembly, and five members selected by the president. While the president holds no executive powers, he can delay legislation with a veto and dissolve the Assembly to call early elections. The prime minister is nominated by the Assembly, and the choice is confirmed by the president. The constitution was amended in 1997 to allow resident noncitizens to vote in presidential elections.
The Portuguese have the right to organize and join political parties and other political groupings of their choice, except for fascist organizations. The autonomous regions of Azores and Madeira—two island groups in the Atlantic—have their own political structures with legislative and executive powers.
Portugal was ranked 28 out of 180 countries surveyed in Transparency International's 2007 Corruption Perceptions Index. In April 2007, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) released a report urging Portugal to crack down on bribery of foreign officials in international business transactions. Soon after the release of the report, two Portuguese civil servants were arrested on bribery charges, and three foreign businesses remained under investigation for offering bribes to other civil servants at year's end.
Freedom of the press is guaranteed by the constitution, and laws against insulting the government or the armed forces are rarely enforced. The inadequately funded public broadcasting channels now face serious competition from commercial television outlets. In September 2007, the parliament overrode a presidential veto to enact the Journalist Statute, which threatens source confidentiality and fair pay for the reuse of journalists' work. Internet access in Portugal is not restricted.
Although the country is overwhelmingly Roman Catholic, the constitution guarantees freedom of religion and forbids religious discrimination. The Religious Freedom Act, which was adopted in 2001, provides religions that have been established in the country for at least 30 years (or recognized internationally for at least 60 years) with a number of benefits formerly reserved for the Catholic Church, such as tax exemptions, legal recognition of marriage and other rites, chaplain visits to prisons and hospitals, and respect for traditional holidays. Academic freedom is respected.
There is freedom of assembly and association, and citizens can participate in demonstrations and open public discussion. National and international nongovernmental organizations, including human rights groups, operate in the country without government interference. Workers have the right to organize, bargain collectively, and strike for any reason, including political ones. Despite a large-scale strike on May 30 that froze much of the country's public sector, the government in 2007 passed new labor laws that reduced the number of leave days from 25 to 23 and made it easier for employers to fire workers under the concept of "failure to adapt."
The constitution provides for an independent court system. However, staff shortages and inefficiency have contributed to a considerable backlog of pending trials. Human rights groups have expressed concern about unlawful police shootings, deaths in police custody, and poor prison conditions. A Justice Ministry report released in 2005 cited a number of problems in the country's prison system, including overcrowding, poor sanitary conditions, and high rates of HIV/AIDS among inmates. The prison population—as a percentage of the total population—is larger than the EU average.
The constitution guarantees equal treatment under the law and nondiscrimination. The government has taken a number of steps to combat racism, including passing antidiscrimination laws and launching initiatives to promote the integration of immigrants and Roma (Gypsies). In June 2007, the government launched its first official website aimed at combating prejudice against the Roma. Lawmakers passed a new immigration law in May that will facilitate family reunification and legalization for immigrants in specific circumstances, such as those who applied under "immigration amnesty."
The country is a destination and transit point for trafficked persons, particularly women from Eastern Europe and former Portuguese colonies in South America and Africa. Approximately 5,000 Brazilian women are trafficked into Portugal for sexual exploitation each year. Penal reforms in September 2007 criminalized sex trafficking for the first time and allow for up to 12 years in prison if convicted. The Casa Pia pedophilia case, which involved extensive sexual abuse at state-run orphanages, has also heightened awareness of child sex trafficking in the country.
Domestic violence against women remains a problem, and few cases are brought to trial. Over 8,000 cases were reported in the first half of 2007. In 2005, the government launched a nationwide awareness campaign on domestic violence. Most restrictions on abortion were lifted in April 2007, though many hospitals remained ill-equipped to deal with requests for the procedure. In parliamentary elections in February 2005, 19.5 percent of the seats were won by women, about the same as in the previous elections in 2002.


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Fierce fingertips from OPI, Gelish, and Perfect Match
Long nails that last the longest
4 p.m., Dec. 5
Video posted December 18, 2012
Small Bar knows booze and food. Louis, general manager of Small Bar, show us how to make their signature ribeye steak sandwich and mule.
Another glorious year eating incredible food, listening to great music and drinking beer.
The Street Team took mopeds down to check out Adams Unplugged! Music by Behind the Wagon.


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