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AKRON, Ohio -- The jailing of an Akron mother for falsifying documents so that her daughters could attend a suburban public school sparked a national outcry over the predicament of a parent seeking the best education for her children.
Activists, celebrities and grass-roots groups leapt to the defense of Kelley Williams-Bolar. The 40-year-old single mother served nine days in jail last month after a jury found her guilty of falsifying government documents, including using her father's address to enroll the two girls -- then 7 and 12 -- in the highly regarded Copley-Fairlawn district.
While the school district and prosecutors stand by their actions, news images of the black woman -- wearing a black-and-white-striped jail jumpsuit as she was led to a cell -- have raised charges of racism and over-the-top prosecution. Thousands of people signed petitions calling for a governor's pardon.
But as supporters march to a drumbeat demanding equal access to good schools, their newly adopted poster child, Williams-Bolar, isn't quite in step: She has repeatedly said that moving her daughters out of the Akron schools was more about their safety after school than their education.
Because she was working as a teaching assistant and going to college part time, her daughters would have come home to an empty house in Akron. Instead, she said, they went to the Copley Township home of their grandfather, who looked after them.
"My kids are not latchkey kids," Williams-Bolar said in an interview Tuesday. "It's always been my intention to protect my girls.
"I want my kids to be educated and I want them to be safe. I'm the grizzly bear and they are my cubs."
Whatever her reasons for putting the girls in the Copley-Fairlawn system, debate lingers over whether the punishment fit the crime.
Was it warranted to lock up Williams-Bolar on a felony conviction that could cost her certification as a teaching assistant and her livelihood?
The Summit County prosecutor's office is not backing down, saying Williams-Bolar ignored numerous opportunities to settle the case.
"This can't be oversimplified," said Laurie Cramer, spokeswoman for county Prosecutor Sherri Bevan Walsh. "It's not a story that fits on a bumper sticker."
Bevan Walsh posted a statement on her website defending Williams-Bolar's conviction, noting that the maximum sentence for her offense is five years. A judge actually sentenced Williams-Bolar to the maximum but then suspended all but the nine days in jail.
Williams-Bolar, who lives in subsidized housing and works with disabled students in the Akron public schools, also was sentenced to two years of probation and 80 hours of community service.
"Kelley Williams-Bolar was not prosecuted and sent to jail because she wanted a better life for her children," according to the prosecutor's statement. "She falsified documents, engaged in many different acts of deception to four different government agencies and continued to do so over a two-year period."
Michael Casserly, director of the Council of the Great City Schools, a nonprofit Washington, D.C., group that represents urban school districts, said it's not uncommon for parents to try to enroll their children in districts other than where they live.
"But I've never heard of it becoming a criminal issue where someone goes to jail," he said. "I think that's overstepping the bounds of common sense.
"Not to excuse falsifying government documents, but her case raises a legitimate point about equity of one school district to another," said Casserly. "The larger issue is whether the quality of education your child receives should depend on your ZIP code."
Copley-Fairlawn Superintendent Brian Poe said the school district was simply following state law regarding residency and since 2005 has pursued 47 other illegal-enrollment cases that were settled without going to court.
Unlike the parents in those cases, he said, Williams-Bolar ignored the district's attempts to reach a resolution. Poe also said the case had nothing to do with race, as some have suggested.
The Copley-Fairlawn district, with 3,200 students, is about 14 percent black; Akron schools, with 23,400 students, are 47 percent black, according to the latest state report cards from the Ohio Department of Education.
"It's not a racial issue because we look at any family illegally enrolled in our district," Poe said.
The case has drawn national media interest and the attention of national figures such as civil rights activist Al Sharpton, rap artist P. Diddy and U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. of Illinois.
"Ms. Williams-Bolar's children deserve as good a public education as the students who attend school in Copley," Jackson said in a prepared statement.
Also among Williams-Bolar's defenders are 160,000 people who signed petitions delivered to Gov. John Kasich last week asking that she be pardoned.
Kasich, who said in a prepared statement that the case has "struck a deep chord" with him, has asked the Ohio Parole Board for a recommendation: Should the conviction stand or be reduced to a lesser offense, should her sentence be reduced, or should she be pardoned?
Rob Nichols, the governor's spokesman, said Friday that it could take a few weeks for the board to make its recommendation.
Williams-Bolar said last week that the flood of publicity is unsettling to her. "I'm just a mom," she said. "And I'm just trying to maintain my sanity with all this."
But her case is still making headlines. On Friday, the Akron Beacon Journal published a story based on hours of recorded phone calls between Williams-Bolar and family members while she was in jail. The newspaper obtained the recordings from Summit County authorities through a public-records request.
In one of the calls, Williams-Bolar's father talked about how her story could pay off as a movie or a book, according to the Beacon Journal.
In another twist, Summit County Common Pleas Judge Patricia Cosgrove, who sentenced Williams-Bolar, later wrote a letter to the State Board of Education asking the panel not to revoke Williams-Bolar's certification as a teaching assistant or block her from trying to get a teaching degree.
"Ms. Williams-Bolar is a single mother with two children and has many good qualities," the judge wrote.
Cosgrove said in an interview that she wrote the letter to clarify something she said during sentencing that had been widely misinterpreted. She told Williams-Bolar at the time that a felony conviction would block her from a teaching career. The judge said she followed up with the letter because she didn't want to leave the impression that she was advocating that.
Poe, the Copley-Fairlawn superintendent, said he's upset about how his district has been portrayed in the dispute.
Because Copley-Fairlawn has a residency requirement, he said, Williams-Bolar had the legal options of moving into the district or paying tuition, which is $6,895 a year for each child.
"She could have just moved in with her father," said Poe.
But after district investigators determined that she lived outside the district and that she was placing an unfair burden on district taxpayers, Williams-Bolar continued to ignore the district's efforts to resolve the situation, the superintendent said.
"I'm not against educating children," said Poe. "But our district has been painted like that, which is troubling to me."
Asked why the district pushed for criminal prosecution instead of filing a civil suit against Williams-Bolar for the tuition, Poe said, "If we suspect a crime has been committed, our responsibility is to turn the matter over to the proper authorities. It was clear from our investigation and research there were numerous inconsistencies."
Poe added that the district's lawyers are still considering a civil action to recoup $30,500 in tuition for the 2006-08 period when the girls attended Copley-Fairlawn.
Poe said that of the 47 illegal enrollment cases settled without going to court, 29 involved black families, 15 were white families and three were Asian families.
During her trial, Williams-Bolar argued that her kids were living most of the time with her father, who paid taxes to the Copley-Fairlawn district.
But district investigators caught her on video that they said showed her driving her daughters from her Akron home to a school bus stop near her father's house.
Prosecutors also produced a handwritten note Williams-Bolar sent to the Akron Metropolitan Housing Authority, saying her daughters lived with her, as required for her housing subsidy.
Testimony also showed that Williams-Bolar applied for power of attorney to give her father some legal authority over her daughters, including the right to enroll them in school. But a juvenile-court judge, citing inconsistencies in the application, declared it void.
A jury of five men and seven women, four of whom were black, found Williams-Bolar guilty on two counts of tampering with government documents.
Her lawyer, David Singleton of the Ohio Justice & Policy Center in Cincinnati, a nonprofit group representing Williams-Bolar for free, said last week that he was preparing to appeal the conviction.
"She was treated as a hardened criminal," he said. "This was overzealous prosecution."
Plain Dealer news researcher Jo Ellen Corrigan contributed to this story.
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Precious time is often lost through the handling of Restaurant Software Solutions . Similarly, the more cash is handled the greater the security risk in stores. Fortunately, Point of Sale (POS) technology is making better control of cash in retail stores possible, resulting in benefit for both staff and customers.
One German furniture company has estimated that the payment process and handling of cash at the checkout takes between 15 to 25 seconds. As this is only one part of processing pos system, 15 to 25 seconds is quite substantial time and, when the seconds are calculated for the cash handling from every sale throughout the day…till operators are spending more time on this process than most business owners would like.
Then, there is also the concern of cash robbery and theft. On any given day in a retail business, one, a few or many more employees will handle cash. Think how many different times and how many different people will handle cash in a supermarket on any one day. It is also probable that many managers are reconciling cash and making deposits, which is why they use point of sale systems.
How Do You Select the Best Point Of Sale Systems in Restaurant Software Solutions ?
Observe your typical consumer with pos system when they're out shopping and you'll see that most people will buy something that they did not intentionally set out to buy. This is down to a number of things. Call it what you will - 'an impulse buy' or 'because I deserve a treat' or simply 'I have to have it!'
I believe that the simple reason behind a large number of these purchases, are down to clever marketing and eye-catching and believable promotional displays.
Indeed - how many times yourself have you been stopped in your tracks in a store, when first your mind sees a display, then you recognise the product from the advert you saw on the TV the other day and remember that 'this promised to reduce my wrinkles instantly'
So you walk over, stop and pick up the product and read the back of the box. It, along with the literature shown on the POS display re-confirms the claim. You decide it's a bit pricey but you really want to use this product because it will reduce my wrinkles! You want to buy it, because it will make you feel better about yourself. You go ahead and buy it and leave the store feeling happier because of your purchase. You're going to look and feel better!
So, my recommended lists of five steps to increase sales of your product through cleverly manufactured POS displays are:
1. Find a company that understands the needs of you, the client and the targeted market for your project.
2. Give a clear and concise brief and understand the budget. What does your favoured cost include and exclude.
3. Understand your brand, what may or may not the display build company use.
4. Ensure your chosen company has your trust. They will go the extra mile for you.
5. Keep in touch! It's good to talk and silly mistakes will be avoided.
Finally, sit back and enjoy fantastic product sales for all point of sale software!
Point Of Sale Systems
A point of sale system is an important tool in any business, whether it is large or small, that engages in any type of sales. These systems use the amazing power of computing to perform a number of tasks that can simplify every aspect of a businesses, including but not limited to; sales, inventory and ordering.
From simple functions, like scanning barcodes and calculating correct change, to more complex functions like inventory control, a point of sale system can help make any business run more efficiently. Even basic systems can represent a huge time savings. These systems eliminate paper work by simplifying every aspect of a business's operation. Not only that, because many systems offer back-ups and on-line information storage a business can access information even from remote locations. So, whether it is at a traditional cash register or with a sales associate that is working in the field, these systems are powerful tools.
Early in the life of a company perhaps a fairly simple POS system will be adequate, but it should be capable of taking on more complex tasks as your business grows. Not all systems, just like not all businesses, are the same. So it is important to consider, how you will use it, and how adaptable to your future needs a point of sales system will be for your business.
Point Of Sale Systems
The term point-of-sale is used to describe a variety of things. This can include the checkout counter in a store or a place where transactions occur. More frequently, the phrase refers to a computerized cash register. The commonly used abbreviation for point-of-sale is POS. Each letter in the abbreviation is pronounced individually (e.g. P-O-S) versus pronouncing the abbreviation itself (e.g. paws).
When computers were first invented, large retailers were the first to implement point-of-sale systems to help automate many of the tasks involved with operating a retail store. These computers were very large and expensive. This limited the adoption of point-of-sale systems to large retailers such as grocery chains. The introduction of low cost personal computers during the 1980s allowed retail stores of all sizes to improve efficiencies with the help of pos systems.
A common point-of-sale system includes a computer, cash drawer, receipt printer, pole display, bar code scanner, magnetic swipe reader, modem and point-of-sale software. Each piece provides the following functionality:
- Personal Computer - Operates the POS software and provides hardware interfaces for devices such as printers, credit card readers and so on.
- Cash Drawer - A lock box that stores cash and is triggered to open by the pos software.
- Receipt Printer - Prints a paper copy of the sales transaction for the customer.
- Pole Display - LED display that faces the customer and shows each item and price scan.
2. Create inventory records and SKUs via the purchase order
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9. Generate reports on sales, inventory levels, purchases, and receiving
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As you can see, the simple point-of-sale system grew into a powerful information system for managers and store owners. Today, point-of-sale systems continue to innovate and some even include:
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As retail management systems continue to add more robust features, the term point-of-sale will continue to refer to just a module within the overall system.


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I can't believe I'm saying this, but I'm now officially feeling sorry for Meg Whitman.
Whitman was pilloried in 2010 for the millions – more than $150 million – she spent on her unsuccessful campaign for California governor.
That personal spending on politics broke all American records for self-funding campaigns, and she was derided as an example of big-money politics gone awary.
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This week, Whitman, now the CEO at HP, is once again under fire again for her political spending. California Watch notes she's given only $2,500 to her longtime friend Mitt Romney, and only $5,000 to a Romney PAC.
The report asks why she hasn't given more, particularly to Romney's Super PAC, and hints at some sort of falling out with Romney.
Very tsk-tsking has followed on the blogs.
C'mon, give Meg a break! And pick a lane, California media.
You can't pick on Whitman for not spending enough on politics after she got slammed for spending so much.
Heck, maybe she's learned from her campaign that money can't buy a victory, so why bother giving boatloads of money to a candidate?
For now, Whitman can't win, whether she's politically generous or not.
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By Saksith Saiyasombut
Tattoos have a very special place in Thailand. They're more than just permanent fashion statements, not unlike amulets they are regarded as spiritual guardians. Tattoos with religious or spiritual motives, called Yantra tattoos, are yet another sign that Thais take their beliefs skin-deep. Philip Cornwel-Smith dedicated a whole chapter in his excellent book "Very Thai" about this issue:
You are what you wear. While apt in fashion, the saying is literally true if it's a Thai tattoo in which you're clad. Imbued with magical powers, the arcane roi sak (tattoos) possess their owners – mostly men – at intense moments like combat, love or ritual. (…)
Like all amulets, it requires activation by the tattooist [mostly by a monk], who murmurs incantations in khom [ancient Khmer script] while he wields a two-foot steel needle, (…) It's the spell that matter. Call it spiritual insurance, for most seek roi sak for invincibility. (…)
With Thailand's government pledging to bar monks from performing tattooing rituals, roi sak is another tradition on the wane.
From: "Very Thai", by Philip Cornwel-Smith, 2005
Still to this day, religious tattoos are very popular among Thais (especially young men) to an extent that is probably best encapsulated by the annual tattoo festival at Wat Bang Phra in Nakhon Chaisri near Bangkok. And how a simple tattoo can literally turn out the beast in a man can be seen in this video here.
These tats are also a favorite among tourists, who mostly do it for looks and don't care much about the mystery behind it. In that light, it is nearly unavoidable that someone would contest that, right?
Enter the self-proclaimed herald of everything 'Thai-ness'…
Citing a survey in Phuket Island, Culture Minister Nipit Intarasombat admitted that a number of foreigners coming to Thailand are interested in having their skin tattooed with Buddha images or Hindu god Ganesh in several parts of their bodies such as arms, legs, ankles or chests. The minister indicated that using religious objects as tattoo patterns is inappropriate according to the Thai tradition and culture as well as affect the faith of people toward those religions.
Religious tattoo patterns are very popular among foreign tourists and can be as expensive as 20,000 baht each. Some of the tourists deem religious tattoo patterns a fashion without any religious respect while some probably have those tattoos because of ignorance.
Mr Nipit stated that the ministry hence asked provincial governors nationwide, especially provinces with foreign tourists such as Bangkok and Chiang Mai to inspect tattoo studios and seek their cooperation not to use sacred objects of all religions as tattoo patterns. The minister then announced that he will ask the Office of the National Culture Commission to issue a law banning people from using sacred objects or holy beings in Buddhism or any other religions in their tattoo patterns.
"Culture Ministry alerted by religious tattoo patterns", National News Bureau of Thailand, May 31, 2011
After having 'successfully' restored sovereign 'Thai-ness' against the un-Thai drunken, public bearing of bare female breasts by inciting a witchhunt (against what tureds out to be teenagers), Nipit now turns against the non-Thais daring to display the sacred motives of the Lord Buddha without paying respect to the culture, beliefs and moral sovereignty of the Kingdom, just to fulfill their vain pursuit for superficial acknowledgement, a typical Western…. – sorry, I got carried away there…!
Kidding aside, does this mean that Angelina Jolie has to remove some of her tattoos? Also what is evident by that move of the culture minister is the monopoly claim over Buddhism or faith in general and more or less defining what that is and how one should behave within that realm (like they are trying to impose their vision 'Thai-ness' in general). If only the Vatican would complain in the same fashion about the countless Jesus and crosses motives…
h/t to @wisekwai for the link and the Angelina Jolie-joke!
Saksith Saiyasombut is a Thai blogger and journalist still based in Hamburg, Germany. He can be followed on Twitter @Saksith.


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Four Teams That Can Derail The Philadelphia Eagles Super Bowl Train
I am already on record predicting the Eagles to win Super Bowl XLIV. Since that prediction, the Eagles have lost Jim Johnson, Stewart Bradley and Cornelius Ingram. They have added Michael Vick, and may be starting a rookie at free safety.
A rookie may be replacing Brian Dawkins.
So, naturally, I will not be cutting them an inch of slack. I will not be changing my prediction. Super Bowl or bust.
SI's Don Banks disagrees. He thinks the Eagles will miss the playoffs. But he is a mook, who cares what he thinks?
I believe that the Eagles are a top five team. Here, in order, are the four teams I believe pose the greatest threat to the Eagles Super Bowl chances.
1. New York Giants
The Giants are not the best team in the NFL. But they may be the best team in the NFC, and they are in the same division as the Eagles, making them the biggest threat.
They have a great defense, a great running game and a Manning at quarterback. (Yeah, I know its the wrong Manning, so what?) They have championship experience. They know how to win. They will not have the Plaxico Burress issue distracting them this season.
In fact, I think that it is highly likely that they will win the division with the Eagles getting in as a wild card.
But the Giants have not beaten the Eagles in the playoffs since Bill Clinton was in office. The Eagles are 2-0 versus the Giants in the playoffs, having beaten them at the Linc in 2006 and in the Meadowlands last year. Since 2001, including the playoffs, the Eagles are 12-6 versus the Giants.
They also lost their defensive coordinator. All Pro DE Osi Umenyiora recently walked out of camp for a day because he felt that new defensive coordinator Bill Sheridan was disrespecting him. How long until Tom Coughlin goes off on somebody for showing up five minutes early for a meeting instead of ten minutes early?
The Giants are a great team. They may have a better regular season than the Eagles. But the Eagles will beat them in the playoffs. Again.
2. Pittsburgh Steelers
The defending champs are still the best team in football. They return intact, plus get Willie Parker and Rashard Mendenhall for the entire season. They should avoid the slow start they had last year. This is a ridiculously good football team.
They are well coached. They are battle tested, having won two of the last four Super Bowls. They have the most clutch quarterback in football not named Tom Brady, and an otherworldly great defense.
For some reason, the Eagles own them. The Birds are 46-27-3 all time versus the Steelers. They even won the only postseason meeting between the two. (OK, it was in 1947. I'm just sayin'.) They are 2-1 versus the Steelers since 2000.
I'm not saying the Eagles are better. I'm saying the Eagles can beat them. If they meet in Super Bowl XLIV, they will.
3. New England Patriots
He's baaaaaaack.
The most analyzed knee in the NFL is back to wreak havoc on the league. Tom Brady's return makes the Patriots a Super Bowl threat. They have the best coach in the NFL over the last decade in Bill Belichick. They have the best receiving corps in football outside of Arizona. And their defense is always tough.
Granted they have questions at running back, but they always have questions at running back. Laurence Maroney is listed as the starter, but BenJarvis Green-Ellis and Fred Taylor will see time there as well. Brady's knee was shredded less than 12 months ago, and as of now they have only undrafted rookie Brian Hoyer as a backup. They are rumored to be looking at AJ Feeley, but ESPN"S Adam Schefter reports that deal is unlikely to happen.
If Brady's knee holds up, they will be dangerous. If not, they will be beatable. Either way, in the tougher AFC, they will be battered and bruised by the time they get to play the Eagles in the Super Bowl.
4. Baltimore Ravens
They have their usual ferocious defense, and Joe Flacco now has a year under his belt at QB. They are very well coached and well assembled by GM Ozzie Newsome. The offensive line may be one of the league's best. Did I mention the defense? It's pretty good.
But they have major questions at RB and WR. Derrick Mason changed his mind about retirement, but one has to wonder how enthusiastic he'll be by, say, week eight. The defense is good enough to win a lot of games by itself, but can that propel them to the Super Bowl? They did it before in 2000, but this defense is not as good as that one, which was arguably the best ever. This offense is better than that one also. Do they have enough to get by the Steelers and Patriots? Maybe. Do they have enough to win it all? I think not.
Honorable mentions
Green Bay and Minnesota are sexy picks this year. San Diego and Indianapolis are always in the mix, and should be this year as well. But all four are all in the next tier of teams behind the four mentioned above.
My official prediction? In a game for the ages, the Eagles beat the Steelers, 20-17 in Super Bowl XLIV.
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Rawr. I had almost finished this log when I accidentally closed it before having saved. Why hadn't I been aggressively saving after every few keystrokes like I usually do when I'm in vim? We will never know the answer Please forgive me if I'm more terse this second time around...
Last week I gave myself "full permission to do nothing but ECS work." And boy did I take that permission and run with it. Frustratingly, I'm not yet able to come back with a happy 'I GOT IT YAYYY!' like I wanted to.
Entity Component System: What can I say? I am finding that building this thing requires taking into account a massive number of factors at all times, making it slow and mentally-taxing. I showed last week how I've been writing gameplay pseudocode to help guide me as I architect this thing. In a continued spirit of practicality, I did more of that this week, but additionally went so far as to write down a detailed list of every entity that I anticipate being in LT 1.0, along with every 'component' / piece of data and functionality that I anticipate said entities to need. At least this moves some of the factors I must consider onto the screen and out of my brain.
Doing so was quite revealling: it reinforced in my mind that very few components require 'special treatment' for performance. Virtually everything that does require special treatment can be grouped under a broad interpretation of 'related to physics.' Thrusters are the odd-man-out, as they require special treatment for rendering purposes. Whether I can gerrymander said special treatment into the realm of Lua via some magic or another (I do have ideas) is still unknown. Basically, I'd like to be able to fence off all such special treatment and shrink it to the minimal viable subset. I'd then like to draw a big line in the sand between C and Lua that makes said special treatment 'not the concern' of the gameplay programmer (aka me + mod writers). This is a Really Hard™ problem that I've tried attacking from a million different angles and will continue to attack from a million more until one angle finally prevails.
The TL;DR of the technical details is: they haven't been solidified. The technique to which I alluded in my last log (as well as the long post I made in that thread, in which some details of that ECS architecture were revealed as the 'first level' of the mod API) has been put aside after further consideration as being over-engineered. If it comes down to it, I'll come back to that one. But my review of the actual needs of LT gameplay showed me that it's probably overkill to use Lua to give metacode-style definitions of ECS-related data to the engine, which then JIT compiles them to native code. I now believe a less 'heavy-handed' approach is feasible by drawing the aforementioned line in the sand carefully enough. I'm currently working on such an approach.
Mod Loader / Hooks / Environment: Believe it or not, one of the easiest ways for me to audition ECS ideas is to treat them like mods. All it really does is force me to write highly-compartmentalized logic and to think in terms of events and event hooks (which I need to be doing). The end result is that I can swap out different ECS ideas (at least on the Lua front) without breaking other things.
To get this all working, I of course had to write a basic mod loader (which is very, very easy in Lua), define some initial engine-level event hooks, and hammer down a format for mods. It was all quite rewarding. Mods, at least those that operate only on code (rather than adding or replacing new non-code assets) already work, because I'm implementing my ECS ideas that way, which makes prototyping very quick!
I developed several neat facilities for the mod system. Sandboxing was a big one (mods can't access arbitrary stuff from the outside world), and Lua again makes this very easy. It's easy to make sure that mods don't, for example, plug into the filesystem and start deleting your C drive. The way it works currently is that mods have to explicitly request access to the APIs that they need. Without an API request, mods have virtually no power (they can't even use basic (unsafe) Lua statements like require!) So if I want to use the function 'Draw.Rect' anywhere in my mod's code, I need to add 'Draw' to the list of APIs that is requests usage of (which is done by adding to a list in an 'info' table that every mod defines which contains name, description, version, dependencies, apis, and more). If I don't, the engine won't inject the API into my mod's environment, so my mod will simply cause a crash when it tries to use a function from the Draw API. This is very cool, because it allows the game tight control over what mods do, and can provide modders and users alike with detailed information. No hidden network access attempts It also makes it easy for me to reason about my own code dependencies while I develop. And for one more bonus, it makes debugging easier, because I can see exactly what 'mod' (remember that I'm using them right now to prototype things) caused a crash or even issued a print statement.
Physically-Based Rendering Stuff: Ok, so I admit that, after more than a week of waging ECS war, I needed a break yesterday evening. I gave the evening to graphics Josh I implemented the 'blind-you-with-all-the-things' style of HDR boom that seems so characteristic of high-end engines these days. It does look impressive. I'll turn it down a lot though...with it fully-enabled, the lighting in LT is literally blindingly-gorgeous
I also ported some of the PBR stuff from LTC++. I don't have the stamina since this is my second go at writing the log to talk details, so I'll just spew words this time. GGX environment map generation, better math this time (so arctangent, very sqrt, much spherical coordinates...wooww), faster as well; lighting just looks better with PBR yayy; combine it with above bloom tech and wowww beautiful reflections, eyes bleeding in all the right places. There you have it.
Guess what I'm (still) giving myself full permission to do in the coming week? Yes. ECS. Send your mental clarity vibes, I need them.
Hello again everyone! Talvieno here with a non-technical summary of this week's devlog.
Since our last update, Josh has been trying to figure out the ECS (Entity Component System) - the thing that makes ships, stations, asteroids, and more. It's a tough problem to work out. He wants modders to be able to access the bits they need (in Lua), while still keeping the slower portions in the faster C code (the LT core). Figuring out which bits go where (and how to make them all work together) is kind of tricky, but he's working on it.
Part of working on it is actually making "mods" to test it out. Josh can now load "mods" into the game, which is helping him figure out how to structure the ECS. As an added bonus, he's fixed the modloading process so that you can't make mods that do things they're not supposed to - like deleting everything on your hard drive or connecting to the Internet and downloading things. This is pretty much a necessity anyway, but he's come up with a clever way of doing it that he's proud of.
Finally - he made the game shinier. The graphics monkey has escaped, ladies and gentlemen - can we ever put it back into its cage now that it's released? (It was only an evening's worth of graphic monkey, though, so we should be fine. ) He implemented HDR bloom - a shiny glow you typically see from particularly bright light sources like sunlight. He's also ported some of his PBR code from the old LT version, so LT looks very pretty. (PBR is a lighting model that attempts to make materials model the flow of light the same way as you would see in the real world. This means more realistic-looking textures.)
tl;dr: Josh is working on the whole ship/station/asteroid problem and it's more difficult than he expected. He also added in some pretty graphics additions yesterday.
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"Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right." ~ Henry Ford


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"Change how things are done around the world."
"As a developer, you can change how things are done around the world," says Tim Gerlach, a software developer with SAP SE in Heidelberg, Germany. Tim says that he is "impressed with the opportunities available at SAP" and says new staff members, even those still in the process of completing their formal education, can expect great support from their managers and fellow team members. "Even as a student, you're treated like a full-time, permanent employee. All your teammates want to hear your ideas and listen to them."
Tim joined SAP while attending the University of Applied Sciences in pursuit of his bachelor's and master's degrees, before becoming a permanent team member, so he knows first-hand how SAP nurtures the growth of its team members. "I applied as a working student ," Tim says. "It allowed me to combine studies with real world customer needs."
His introduction to, and interest in joining SAP came from being employed by a division of a consultant company to become an industrial salesman. While he was there, the company introduced a major SAP installation across many of its business units, including where Tim was working. "I saw what is possible with software," he says. "Multiple tasks were handled much better with SAP, with better integrated software. It really became a passion to me."
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For a man with one testicle, Lance Armstrong has enormous balls. This past weekend, Armstrong all but challenged his former teammate and current nemesis, Tyler Hamilton, to a duel outside the bathroom of a swank Aspen restaurant. Hamilton was in town to lead bike rides for Outside magazine and dine with friends at Cache Cache, a restaurant that serves things like escargots à la Bourguignonne and veal ossobuco with marsala sauce and French lentils. Here's what happened when he got up to use the loo:
During dinner, Hamilton left his table to go to the bathroom. As he walked out of the bathroom, an arm blocked his path. It was Armstrong. The two hadn't spoken since Hamilton's 60 Minutes appearance.
"He wanted to get into it," Hamilton told me this morning. "I was like, 'Let's step outside and talk away from the crowd, but he wouldn't. He said, 'No one cares.'" Then, according to Hamilton, Armstrong began to berate him.
(Armstrong's version of the encounter is a bit more tame: "I said, 'Hey, what's up?'" he says. "It was certainly awkward for both of us. It was truly uneventful.")
Heh. Sure, Lance. It was eventful enough that the owner of the restaurant, a close friend of Armstrong's, kicked Hamilton out and told him not to come back. Outside magazine staffers who saw Hamilton on the street moment later said he looked shaken. Once a domestique, always a domestique.
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New London, Conn. – For the sixth time in
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Harvard-Yale Regatta Saturday afternoon on the Thames River.
The Crimson won the varsity eight, junior varsity and freshman eight races Saturday after earning a nine-second win in the combination race Friday night. It was the 40th win for Harry Parker, the Stone Family Head Coach for Harvard Crew in the varsity eight. The win also gives the Crimson a 90-54 lead in the all-time series.
Harvard, who has won nine of the last 10 races and 22 of the last 25 against its archrival, finish the season with a 7-0 dual racing record. Harvard won all five cup races this season – Adams, Compton, Stein, Smith and Sexton Cup -- for the first time since 2005.
Harvard's completed the sweep of Yale with a commanding 20 second victory in the four mile varsity race. The Crimson rowed out to a two and a half length lead at the first mile marker and did not take its foot off the accelerator until the finish at the Gold Star Bridge. The varsity boat was powered by three seniors, juniors and sophomores who remained calm under tough rowing conditions that featured a strong headwind. The Crimson crossed the finish line with a time of 21:25.6, while the Bulldogs finished with a time of 21:45.1.
The nine members of the varsity eight, who gave Parker his 20th undefeated season, were seniors Simon Gawlik, Henrik Rummel and James Bayley, juniors Noah Bruegmann, Blake Pucsek and Richard Anderson and sophomores David Wakulich, Anthony Locke and Chris Kingston.
In the three mile junior varsity race, Harvard held on for the win in dramatic fashion. After one mile of competition, The Crimson oared out to a one and a half length lead and extended its advantage to more than two boat lengths at the two-mile marker. Yale would not go down without a fight as they stroked deep into the Thames River to edge back into contention with one mile remaining in the race. A strong sprint allowed the Bulldogs to walk into the Crimson boat, but Harvard held on for the victory as they crossed the finish line two seconds ahead of the Elis with a time of 16:16.9. The Bulldogs pulled in with a time of 16:19.1. The Crimson won the F. Valentine Chappell Trophy for the 11 times in the past 13 years.
The Harvard rookies rowed to a convincing win in the first event of the day with an eight second margin over their Yale counterparts. Any chance for a Yale comeback was laid to rest when the three seat of the Yale boat caught a crab 2,000 meters into the race. This unfortunate event allowed the Crimson to row out to a two length lead which they would not surrender. Harvard finished with a time of 10:44.2 and Yale clocked in with a time of 10:52.2, giving the Yardlings its eight in the last 10 races and 20 of the past 25.
The freshmen boat was coxed by Alex Sopko, while Pat Lapage, Jack Morrissey, Nick Jordan, Robert Stone, Michael DiSanto, Matthew Edstein, Elihu Reynolds and Sam O'Connor rowed.
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bigrobbo wrote:So they would look at routes like the 224, which competes or compliments (depends on your views) the train between Mawson Lakes and Salisbury?
The 263/265 services along Anzac Highway? They were cut on nights and weekends (I think) and returned. And made a Go Zone.
Does anybody remember the service cut backs of the 90s which decimated public transport and discouraged the use of public transport? I think the surviving remnant of that is the 443. From memory, that used to run all day Sunday!!
I can understand that you would want to cut routes that are not being used.
But, you are offering a public service. There are people that struggle to get to their closest bus stop. They won't be able to walk the extra 500m or so to another service.
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torrens117 wrote:Can someone please list the routes from the article. Cannot access the news site.
Lt. Commander Data wrote:Westfield Marion, Colonnades, Arndale, FMC, QEH, LMH, and countless other passenger generators are nearish to train lines, but not near enough to be convenient.
725 timetable wrote:725A - terminates at Old Reynella Interchange. Does not connect to city.
Eagle Eye wrote:725 timetable wrote:725A - terminates at Old Reynella Interchange. Does not connect to city.
If gunzels on here don't read the timetables then what hope do the general public have?!
Skexis wrote:All up 725's terminate at ORI, connection or not. Anyway I reckon I could easily save 30+ hours per day from the current timetables whilst still improving the services provided.
TAXPAYERS are paying at least $100 a passenger on about 10 South Australian bus services as the State Government prepares to cut its least patronised routes.
Almost 100 services cost more than $50 a passenger to operate, with the Government only recouping 20-25 per cent of its bus expenditure in fare revenue across all services.
The Government will not reveal exactly which routes are the most expensive until it determines which ones it will discontinue, while specific costs have been deemed commercial in confidence because of a tender for bus services going out next year.
The figures follow The Advertiser'sanalysis of Transport Department data pinpointing 19 bus routes with few passengers, the majority of which run in the Adelaide Hills.
Adelaide Hills Mayor Bill Spragg, said the routes running at a surplus should subsidise those running at a loss.
Transport Minister Stephan Knoll said the figures highlighted the "financial mess" left by the former Labor government that he had been left to clean up.
"We're seeking to protect South Australian taxpayers given some services operate at a significant cost to the taxpayer," Mr Knoll said.
The Government will aim to save $1.1 million this financial year by cutting some routes and adjusting others, with that savings target to swell to $14.8 million per year from 2019-20.
The bus route review will be completed by the yet to be established South Australian Public Transport Authority, which Mr Knoll has said is crucial to providing a "more modern and innovative public transport network".
Mr Knoll said the efficiencies would be accompanied by investments in public transport where there was the "greatest need" for more or better services.
"We will invest more in areas where more capacity is needed as we've already done through the Gawler line electrification project and Flinders Link," he said.
"We're also delivering public transport fare reductions, the introduction of maximum 30 minute train frequency on all lines, as well as a host of local infrastructure upgrades."
Opposition Leader Peter Malinauskas said earlier this month that the public transport cuts would "hurt everyday South Australians".
"These cuts will be a blow to the many South Australians who rely on public transport to get to work, medical appointments, school, university and to visit family and friends," he said.
"These cuts will have a massive impact to commuters across metropolitan Adelaide — from the shift worker who relies on his late-night buses to get home from work, to the nurse who relies on public transport to get her to a hospital for her early morning shift."
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County officials are making plans to refresh voters' knowledge about Pennsylvania's voting laws.
The officials said Tuesday they do not anticipate major problems in the May 21 municipal and judicial primary, but they plan to take steps to minimize confusion.
Amid a pending court challenge of the new voter-identification law, state lawyers have agreed through the primary not to enforce the requirement that voters show photo ID at the polls. That policy, in force during the November election, awaits a judge's approval.
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This was originally posted on January 19, 2009. I am reposting it today in honor of Scarleteen, the best sex education website ever, and as part of the awesome Scarleteen Sex Ed Blog Carnival.
I am fortunate. I was born in the eighties and I received a great sex-positive upbringing. The public school I attended taught students how to use condoms; middle school health education included a section on sexually transmitted diseases. My parents didn't throw their sexuality in my face — but they were almost always matter-of-fact, understanding and accepting when they talked about sex. (I'll never forget how, at age 12 or so, Mom sat me down and gave me a long speech about how it would be totally okay if I were gay.) I was raised Unitarian, and the Unitarian Sunday School teen program included a wonderful sex education curriculum called About Your Sexuality. (I understand that the sex-ed curriculum has been changed and updated, and is now called Our Whole Lives. I haven't delved deeply into the Our Whole Lives program — maybe it addresses some of the issues I'm about to describe.)
So I think I'm in a good position to describe the problematic signals we face in liberal sexual education. Yes, I've experienced the overall sex-negative messages that drench America, and they're terrible — but so much is already being said about those. I also received lots of sex-positive messages that are incomplete, or problematic, or don't quite go the distance in helping us navigate sexuality — and I think the sex-positive movement must focus on fixing them.
I'm so grateful for my relatively liberal, relatively sex-positive upbringing. I think it did me a world of good. But here are my five biggest problems with the way I learned about sexuality:
1. I wish that I hadn't gotten this message: "Sex is easy, light-hearted — and if it's not, you're doing it wrong."
Do I believe sex can be easy? Sure. Do I think it can be light-hearted? Absolutely! But do I think it's always those things? No, and I don't think it "ought to" be.
I think we need to teach that sex can be incredibly difficult. It can be hard to communicate with your partner. It can be hard to learn and come to terms with your own sexual desires. It can be hard to understand or accept all your partner's sexual desires. And just because it's hard, doesn't mean that you're with the wrong partner — or that you're missing some vital piece of information that everyone else has — or that you're doing it wrong.
And as for light-hearted, well — sure, sex can be "happy rainbows joy joy!", but it can also be serious … or dark. And there's nothing wrong with that!
I recently talked to a friend, who also identifies as a BDSMer, about our stories of coming into BDSM. Both of us had sadomasochistic fantasies from a very early age (mine, for instance, started in grade school — seriously, I actually did tie up my Barbie dolls). I told my friend about how I'd always had these intense, dark, violent feelings — but when I made it to middle school, I remember a change. I had a series of vivid BDSM-ish dreams, and I freaked out. I closed it all away, I stopped thinking about it, I repressed it all as savagely as I could.
Before that, I had also started thinking about sex. I imagined sex at great length; I read about sex. I had long since filched my parents' copy of The Joy of Sex and examined it, cover to cover — not to mention many other fine sexuality works, like Nancy Friday's compilation of female sexual fantasies My Secret Garden. I was totally fascinated by sex. I talked about it so much that one of my friends specifically searched out a vibrator as a birthday present for me. I actually pressured my first major boyfriend into some sexual acts before he was ready, which I suppose is an interesting reversal of stereotype (but to be clear, it's not okay that I did that). As I started having sex, I found that I liked it okay, but knew a lot was missing — and couldn't figure out what.
It took me years and years to connect sex to BDSM — to figure out that the biggest thing I was missing, was BDSM. Why? Because BDSM was horrible and wrong, and I'd shut it away; BDSM (I thought) couldn't possibly have anything to do with the bright, shiny, happy horizon of sex! Coming into BDSM was a crisis for me partly because — although I knew other people practiced it, and had never thought much about that — my own need for those dark feelings totally shocked me. This wasn't me. This wasn't healthy sex. Sex was light-hearted, happy rainbows joy joy! … wasn't it?
In contrast, my friend — who had an extremely sexually repressed upbringing — never had any trouble integrating BDSM into his sex life. Sex, for him, was already wrong and bad … so as he got in touch with his sexuality and began having sex, BDSM was involved from the start. After all, there was no reason for it not to be.
As glad as I am that my upbringing was not stereotypically sexually repressed, I have to say that I envy my friend his easy personal integration of BDSM.
2. I wish this point had been made, over and over: "You might consider being careful with sex."
I recently read an excellent "New Yorker" article that reviews the new version of The Joy of Sex. It talks about the time when The Joy of Sex came out, as well as a similar contemporary feminist book, Our Bodies, Ourselves, and it points out that "both books espoused the (distinctly seventies) notion that sex could be a value-neutral experience, as natural as eating".
"Value-neutral": that's a great way to describe the overall attitude about sex that I absorbed. As if sex were something I could do as an amusing diversion, with anyone, at any time, and it would always be fun fun fun! As if there was no need to be overly careful or sensitive — sex was just a game I could play, like a sport — where the worst that would happen if I screwed up might be a skinned knee.
I wish that there had been an emphasis on how emotions can really matter, when it comes to sex. I wish that there had been acknowledgment of the fact that we can really hurt ourselves, and others, when we're cavalier about sex. (Not that we always do — but we can.) I wish I had understood sooner that sex is not always value-neutral; that everyone has all manner of different sexual needs and hangups, anxieties and strong emotions. I think maybe there are people out there who can have "value-neutral" sex — where it's totally about physicality and nothing more — but I am not like that, and I suspect that most people are not.
Which isn't to say that I think there's anything wrong with people who can have sex that's "value-neutral". (And maybe "value-neutral" is not a great term for it; I worry that I sound like I'm judging, when I use that term.) I just don't think it's a good model for everyone, and yet I think that it has somewhat been promoted as if everyone "ought to" be that way.
I think that there are lots of people out there who feel as though the sexual liberation movement "failed" or "betrayed them", because they convinced themselves that sex is value-neutral and then got hurt. You see a lot of assertions along these lines in the conservative media — for instance, here's a quotation from a synopsis of the book Modern Sex:
The 1960s sexual revolution made a big promise: if we just let go of our inhibitions, we'll be happy and fulfilled. Yet sexual liberation has made us no happier and, if anything, less fulfilled. Why? … sex today is increasingly mechanical and without commitment—a department of plumbing, hygiene, or athletics rather than a private sphere for the creation of human meaning. The result: legions of unhappy adults and confused teenagers deprived of their innocence, on their way not to maturity but to disillusionment. … These beautifully written essays — on subjects ranging from the TV show Sex and the City to teen sex to the eclipse of the manly ideal to the benefits of marriage — add up to the deepest, most informative appraisal we have of how and why the sexual revolution has failed.
I disagree with most of their attitude. We don't need innocence. We don't need sexual mystery. We don't need to eliminate teen sex. We don't need to re-establish some limiting, patriarchal "manly ideal". But they've got one thing right: we do need to start talking about sex as something that is not mostly mechanical — as something that, yes, can be "a private sphere for the creation of human meaning".
3. I wish I'd learned this: "Good sex doesn't just require two (or more) people who like sex. It requires desire — and desire simply doesn't work the same way for everyone."
I've said before that I went through a period — back when I was first becoming sexually active — where I simply could not figure out why sexual acts with people I didn't care about, didn't seem to turn me on. Or rather — they turned me on a little, but not … much. It took me a while to understand that sex requires more than just two eager people. It requires attraction and desire.
When I was fifteen or so, and at summer camp, I remember making out with a boy. I didn't really want to make out with him, but I wasn't sure how to reject him (more on this under point 5). And I figured: he seems nice enough, so I might as well make out with him. Afterwards, I felt angry at myself, and I felt like I'd wasted my time — and I felt confused. I'd been bored at best and repulsed at worst, and I wasn't sure why I felt that way, or why I'd done something that made me feel that way.
So why had I done it? Because I'd thought: "Sex is value-neutral." Because I'd thought: "Making out is fun, right? — that means I ought to do it when I get the chance!" Because I'd thought: "My preference not to make out with him is probably just some silly repression that I need to get over." Because I didn't understand that desire is complicated, that you can't just make yourself feel desire when it's convenient, and that you don't need a reason for your attractions — or lack of attraction. This situation was to reprise itself in various forms over the next years, until I finally learned that sometimes you simply want or don't want things, and that you aren't required to justify your desires.
4. I wish I'd gotten a list of suggestions: "Here are some places you might go to start figuring out what turns you on."
I was told that sex was fun. I was even told to explore! But I still spent years with very little actual idea of what I wanted. No one ever told me how or where I might be able to learn more about my needs, or what exploring my needs might look like. And no one ever explained that people are turned on by different things, that some people like some sex acts and don't like others, and that's okay.
I went into sex with a buffet-style attitude, thinking that I must naturally enjoy sex equally in all ways. I was so surprised when I found out that I like some positions better than others! I remember how confused I was when I dated a guy who didn't like fellatio, and how hurt I felt — like his lack of enjoyment meant that I must be doing it wrong, because everyone likes oral sex, right?
And of course, while I had a pretty comprehensive idea of the vanilla sex acts I could experiment with, I had very little idea of what else was out there. In retrospect I find this hilarious, but I remember — back in my vanilla days — I had two boyfriends who tied me up. They tied me up and were nice to me, and I suppose it was amusing enough, but didn't drive me crazy with lust or anything. And — this is the kicker — because I did not understand that there's a lot more to BDSM than light bondage, because I did not understand that there are many separate BDSM acts that people can enjoy and many ways to flavor them, I assumed from this experience that I didn't like BDSM. I went through my old journal entries the other day and uncovered one in which I, confused, am speculating about what's missing from my sex life: I write, "I've tried S&M, so it can't be that."
What a learning curve I had ahead of me, eh?
I wish someone had showed me Katherine Gates' fetish map (though, as I understand it, the map was first created in the early 2000s, so it didn't exist when I was getting my sex education — anyway, I wish someone had tried to explain to me the vast cornucopia of human fetishes out there!). I wish someone had explained that erotica and pornography are both actually really good ways to learn about your turn-ons, and — more importantly — had told me that not all erotica and pornography are the same, so the fact that I wasn't into mainstream stuff didn't mean I automatically wasn't interested in all erotica or porn. I've mentioned that I had lots of conversations with friends about sex, but — until recent years — those conversations were never framed as "This is what I like," or "I've found something new that turns me on," and I wish I'd realized sooner what a great resource conversations like that might be.
5. And I wish I'd gotten a list of ideas: "Here are some ways you can try communicating with your partner about sex."
Lastly, but certainly not least — I was never taught how to communicate about sex. No one ever gave me even the first idea. In all my sex-positive, liberal sexual upbringing, I was told over and over that "relationships require communication", but no one ever said: "And here's some ways in which you might communicate sexually with your partner."
One big benefit of teaching sexual communication strategies is that it helps people learn to say "no" when they don't want to do something. Teaching people how to set boundaries is massively important, and I think a lot about ways to do it. I saw this adorable video about cuddle parties recently that really struck me — these people create parties where everyone basically just cuddles, but everyone also specifically has the power to say "no" to any given person or act. The reporter who made the video talks at the end about how she found the whole experience to be empowering — how she felt like it gave her space to say "no" that she hadn't had before. Perhaps these could be used to teach people to set boundaries?
But you can't really use cuddle parties in a school or workshop setting, more's the pity. When I developed my first sex education workshop, it was all about describing good communication strategies. I listed questions that all sex partners could benefit from asking each other, including "What do you like?" and "What do you fantasize about?" and "Is there anything you really don't want me to do?"
And I talked about ways that you can make communication easier, if the two partners are uncomfortable having this conversation. I took a page from the BDSM community by creating checklists of all kinds of sexual acts and weird fetishes and gender-bending craziness, and I put it all on a 1-5 scale (with 1 being "not at all interested" and 5 being "I'd love to try this"), and I told people that they could try filling out those checklists and giving them to their partners. (The amazing sex education site Scarleteen later implemented the same idea, in a much more comprehensive way than I had!) I suggested that partners write out their fantasies and email them to each other, or write out descriptions of their mutual sexual experiences — long accounts, describing how they felt about everything and what sticks out in their minds — and send those to each other, too, so they can get each others' perspectives on what they've done.
(By the way, I still offer a much-improved version of that workshop on my list of events, lectures, and workshops, just in case you're interested in bringing me in ….)
God, it's so hard to talk about what we want. It's even hard to talk about talking about what we want. I mean, it's hard enough to figure out what we want in the first place — but communicating it … eeek! And it's worth noting that this is not just a problem of having good sex. As was pointed out recently on the blog for the wonderful sex-positive anthology Yes Means Yes!:
[There is a] need to demystify and destigmatize communication about sex. If we can't talk about what we like and what we want, we will always have problems making clear what it is we're consenting to. If we can't be frank about what we do want, we put a lot of weight on the need to communicate what we don't.
Giving everyone great sexual communication skills doesn't just give us all better sex — it fights rape. There's a noble cause for you!
… So, that's my five-pointed analysis. And that's what I'm pushing for. My goals are not just to get people thinking that sex is awesome and sexual freedom is important. It's going to be hard, and it's going to be an uphill battle, but I'm hoping that I can not only help out with sexual liberation — I'm hoping to improve it.
POSTSCRIPT: Scarleteen does a really great job of dealing with my five points above. It's also a grassroots effort, and needs donations to keep running. Please consider donating to Scarleteen. From the donate link: "Scarleteen is an independent, comprehensive and inclusive sexuality clearinghouse for young adults which receives no federal, state or local funding. We serve around 25,000 users daily, providing accurate, nonjudgmental and compassionate sexuality information and education via static content, as well as one-on-one advice and counsel via our highly-moderated message boards, our advice columns and our new SMS service. Tens of millions of teens and young adults have found the help or information they were seeking at Scarleteen."
So, seriously. Donate!
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Dear Alice,
This may seem a ridiculous question, but here goes. I have a trip planned to Hawaii and just realized that during my vacation time, I am scheduled to be on my period. Needless to say, that will definitely slow down my plans for ocean swimming and loads of tropical sex with my boyfriend. Is there a way to safely alter my cycle by missing birth control pills or other means?
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Aloha Hawaii-bound,
A good question that's surely been on the minds of many trying to avoid their monthly visitor while traveling... How can menstruation be rescheduled if it's to arrive during vacation, on your wedding night, during your honeymoon, when you finally hook up with your long distance lover, etc.? Well, you're in luck because there are some solutions! If you're already on the birth control pill and have been using it for a few cycles, you can probably successfully reschedule your period for your trip. How well this works will depend on the specific birth control pill you're taking, as some are more effective at doing this than others. Some birth control pills are considered monophasic, meaning all active pills in a month's pack are identical. Other birth control pills are multiphasic, with hormonal doses differing by the week. In general, it's easier and more effective to skip a period when using monophasic pills. Not on the pill? It's also possible to skip periods when using the NuvaRing! However, it's not recommended to reschedule when using the contraceptive patch due to increased risk of blood clotting. In any case, it's recommended to talk with your health care provider, gynecologist, or nurse practitioner before attempting to adjust your cycle, because they will be most familiar with your cycle, birth control methods, and how it can be shifted safely.
To skip a period:
- When taking monophasic birth control pills:
- 28-day oral contraceptive (OC) pack users: When you reach the end of the active hormonal pills in a pack (the first 21 or 24 pills), begin the next set of active pills, skipping the inactive (placebo pills) from the previous package.
- 21-day OC pack users: Instead of going through the pill-free week, start the next pack of active pills the day after finishing an active pack.
- When taking multiphasic birth control pills: When you reach the end of the three weeks of active hormonal pills, take the next month's third week of pills immediately. You may also want to be aware that skipping a period using multiphasic birth control pills may be more complicated and it may also lead to break-through-bleeding.
- When using the NuvaRing: Leave the NuvaRing in for four weeks before removing it, and then immediately replace with a new one.
Using the active pills continuously postpones menstruation by not allowing withdrawal from hormones. However, this protocol does not guarantee that there won't be any menstrual bleeding. Sometimes spotting (light bleeding) can occur. Skipping the placebo pills or pill-free days won't change the pill's ability to effectively prevent pregnancy.
Some women or health care providers feel a little squeamish about rescheduling a period, while others think it's the greatest innovation since the invention of the pill itself. In fact, there are now extended-cycle birth control pills, approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), that allow women to have their period four or fewer times per year. If there's enough time between now and your vacation (or if not, to think about in the future), you could consider switching to a pill that gives you fewer periods. If that is not an option, taking monophasic birth control pills without the placebo pills or using a Nuvaring for four weeks instead of three has a similar effect to the extended-cycle birth control pills. However, it has been found that the more consecutive periods that are skipped, the more likely for spotting. To counteract this, allowing a period every three to four months (by either taking the placebo pills or removing the NuvaRing for a week) will likely decrease the chances of spotting.
Another option to contemplate is Depo-Provera. It's a progestin-only form of contraception administered every three months as an injection. Depo-Provera disrupts the menstrual cycle, tending to make periods less regular. For most using this method, spotting between periods is fairly likely and some even stop having periods altogether after using the contraceptive shot for a while. Hormonal IUDs and the contraceptive implant can also alter the menstrual cycle and provide highly effective birth control without the hassle of taking a daily pill.
If the period postponement procedure is not an option for you because you're new to birth control pills, or you can't or won't take hormonal birth control, you can still find ways to enjoy your vacation. You can also check out Swimming when menstruating for more information.Alice!


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CAMBRIDGE, MASS.: The big four U.S. cable companies, which control more than 60 percent of the U.S. market, may soon become just three. Charter Communications, now the fourth largest, has since last June been trying to buy Time Warner Cable, the second largest. And it now looks as if the shareholders of TWC, which has been floundering recently, may force the company�s board to sell.
If merger and acquisitions activity in the telecommunications realm had a soundtrack, this moment would be accompanied by the menacing bass rumble of Jaws. For if this deal goes through, customers of TWC, Charter and also Comcast Corp. � as well as all the content companies that want to reach those customers � will probably see prices rise, with no corresponding improvement in service.
After all, cable is a business that relies on scale; the game is to increase the number of subscribers and lower all possible costs, then grind away with one price increase after another. And when big operators get bigger, their scale grows.
Cable companies are also unregulated and face little competition. In 77 percent of the U.S., they operate even without competition from Verizon�s fiber-optic FiOS service, so their pricing power is almost unrestrained.
One big player working behind the scenes to push the proposed Charter-TWC deal is billionaire John Malone, who commands Liberty Global, the largest cable company in the world. Last March, Liberty Media, another company controlled by Malone, spent $2.6 billion for a 27 percent stake in Charter. With just 4.5 million subscribers, Charter is far smaller than Time Warner Cable (which has 11 million subscribers) and Comcast (20 million), but Malone knows that the combined company will be able to pay less than Charter spends now for pay-TV programming � because Charter would automatically assume the benefits of TWC�s programming contracts.
Charter also assumes that it can help TWC save on overhead costs and in other ways run the business better. Although the deal it�s offering is highly leveraged � the combined company would have about $60 billion in debt � Charter could use the payments on that debt to offset taxes. So far, this all sounds routine.
Here�s what�s not routine about this deal. More than 90 percent of Americans who subscribe to high-speed Internet access also subscribe to pay TV, and the relevant market is the bundle. The biggest distribution companies, with the largest number of subscribers, pay less for video programming than smaller companies do. In effect, anyone building communications infrastructure to compete with a large cable company has to enter two markets at once: the high-speed Internet access market and the pay TV market. A bulked-up Charter would pay even lower video programming prices and thus have even greater ability to block competition.
Malone likes the Charter-Time Warner Cable merger in part because it increases the consolidation of the cable industry, which has driven steep increases in stock prices for the entire sector � and, accordingly, made Time Warner Cable investors even more enamored of a deal. The price of their shares has already risen 38 percent on rumors of a deal.
Comcast will also probably share in the spoils through �swapping.� This is a practice that cable companies have followed since the 1990s to allow them unchallenged control of entire local markets. In 2002, for instance, after family-run Adelphia, then the nation�s sixth-largest cable operator, went into bankruptcy, its assets were divided between Time Warner Cable and Comcast. Comcast got Houston, Philadelphia and Minneapolis; TWC got Los Angeles, Dallas and Cleveland.
So once Malone gets control of TWC, he could turn around and hand Comcast TWC�s quasi-monopoly in New York state and the Manhattan, Queens, Staten Island and brownstone Brooklyn sections of New York City, thus allowing Comcast to neatly cluster its Connecticut, New Jersey and Philadelphia operations into a region of dominance that spans a huge swath of the East Coast. In return, Comcast could give Charter Los Angeles and cities in the Pacific Northwest and the Midwest. Both companies could do better selling to multi-location businesses that would otherwise straddle two separate cable areas. Both companies could lower their overhead � and raise their prices. Both companies could charge content providers more for access to their data and TV networks and thus access to their subscribers.
A better communications future for America would include choices for consumers and businesses. There are two paths toward increased choice. One is for cities to control their own dark (unlit by lasers), wholesale fiber networks, and allow many providers to compete in offering service. The other is regulatory oversight, something the Federal Communications Commission has so far declined to provide.
Right now, cable companies have the field to themselves, and their business, as John Malone puts it, �looks terrific.�
Crawford, the John A. Reilly visiting professor in intellectual property at Harvard Law School and a fellow at the Roosevelt Institute, is the author of Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age. She can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow her on Twitter: @scrawford.


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MIAMI -- The season is just beginning and the Rockies' pitching depth is already being tested.
The club announced before Monday's opener that right-hander Tyler Chatwood will not make his start on Wednesday night because of a slight left hamstring strain. Right-hander Jordan Lyles will be summoned to Miami to replace him.
The Rockies did not immediately announce that Chatwood is going to the 15-day disabled list, but that's likely. Chatwood (8-5, 3.15 ERA last season in 20 starts) suffered the injury running the bases against the Mariners on Friday. He said the next day he didn't expect the injury to knock him out of his start, and he threw a normal bullpen session on Sunday. However, Chatwood's leg bothered him while running on the dirt in spikes, and the Rockies decided to scratch him and limit the risk of a long-term injury.
"I don't think you ever want to miss time, so I don't think it's for the best -- I want to be out there competing with my teammates," said Chatwood, who plans to throw off the mound Tuesday to stay sharp. "Especially in the opening series, you want to be out there. But it's something you can't really control now. Just get better and try to get back on the mound.
"I lobbied, but if I'm not going to be able to run or cover first base, I'm hurting the team."
The club can backdate Chatwood's placement on the 15-day disabled list to Saturday, which would have him eligible to return April 13 against the Giants, which would mean he'd miss just two starts.
Lyles, 23, acquired in a trade with the Astros during the offseason, is 14-29 with a 5.35 ERA in parts of three big league seasons. Lyles went 0-1 with a 3.18 ERA in Spring Training, and he just missed out on the fifth-starter spot.
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