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The week after Outdoor Retailer is always blurry, including lots of follow-up, sleep and getting back into the groove of life. Our treatment for post-OR is to hit the mat, take some deep breaths, a sip of wine on focus on causes that move us and inspire us to do the work that we do… And a little laughter always helps too!
Category Archives: Salmon
Snake River Salmon Do It At Altitude!
There are not many issues that people can agree on. But for 20 years, a diverse coalition of commercial, sport and recreational fishing groups, outdoor industry businesses, conservation organizations, and clean energy and taxpayer advocates have joined forces to save a icon of the American West — Snake River salmon. Osprey Packs and Save Our Wild Salmon have been best friends from the very beginning. To celebrate that partnership, they're giving away a sweet Osprey Pack and 5 pounds of wild-caught salmon!
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These fish are bad ass. Snake River sockeye have the most epic migration of any salmon on Earth — swimming more than 900 miles inland and climbing nearly 7,000 feet in elevation to spawn in the rugged Sawtooth Mountains of Idaho. That's right folks — these fish do it at altitude!
So, what would you do to keep Snake River salmon spawning? Between Dec. 1 and Dec. 21, give us your best answer to that question.
How to enter:
- Answer the question by leaving a comment on the Save Our Wild Salmon Facebook page or…
- Tweet your answer with the hashtag #salmondoit on Twitter!
On Dec. 21, we'll randomly choose who will win an Osprey Pack filled with 5 pounds of wild smoked salmon! Can't get much better than that!
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America's Hottest Species
With the Copenhagen Climate Conference just 6 days away, the Endangered Species Coalition released a new report today in hopes of bringing attention to some of America's endangered species that are really feeling the heat. The report, America's Hottest Species, demonstrates ways that our changing climate is increasing the risk of extinction for 11 species on the brink of disappearing forever.
"Global warming is like a bulldozer shoving species, already on the brink of extinction, perilously closer to the edge of existence," said Leda Huta, executive director of the Endangered Species Coalition. "Endangered species don't have the luxury of waiting for international decision-makers to waiver on climate change. We need action now. Polar bears, lynx, salmon, coral, and many other endangered species are already feeling the heat."
Click on the links below to learn more about the top U.S. Species Endangered by Global Warming
'Akikiki or Kaua'i Creeper
Elkhorn Coral
Bull Trout
Canada Lynx
Pacific Salmon
Leatherback Sea Turtle
Grizzly Bear
Bog Turtle
Western Prairie Fringed Orchid
Flatwoods Salamander
Activists' Choice: Polar Bear
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Support Adventurous Conservation: Win Gear in Kamchatka Project Raffle
Want to support a good cause and have the chance to win some cool stuff? Then head over to Kamchatka Project's website, where you can learn about their crazy, cool adventure to the Kamchatka Peninsula to raise awareness about salmon conservation, help fund the project AND be entered to win a Survival Kit, complete with a Nau bag, END shoes, a Primus stove and a Kamchatka t-shirt.
Here's more info from the Kamchatka team:
Every $5 online donation to The Kamchatka Project by the end of Friday, November 27th will buy you one chance to win the Kamchatka Survival Kit. For every $35 donated, we'll even send you a complimentary Kamchatka Project t-shirt and a bonus raffle ticket… that's 8 chances to win and one sweet shirt for only $35!!
The best part? The Kamchatka Project is a registered non-profit organization, so every penny of your donation is tax-deductible! Entering is quick, easy and secure on our VeriSign Secured Site, and all entrants will be informed of the raffle outcome on November 30.
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Wild + Scenic Environmental Film Festival in Portland
Tonight, Portland is lucky enough to get a screening of the Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival. Sponsored by local group Willamette Riverkeeper, the film festival will feature two excellent environmental films: Red Gold and Crossroads on the Columbia. A must see if you're in town!
Show starts at 7pm.
Tickets: $8 available through Willamette Riverkeeper, 21 & over, email@example.com.
Where Hope Resides
Join our friends at the PDX Sierra Club office for a screening of the film Where Hope Resides about the Skeena River in British Columbia and problems facing the wild salmon and people in the region. After the film, organizers will connect this issue with local fisheries issues and talk about how we can take action to protect this vital resource.
FREE beer and snacks too!
Sponsored by The Sierra Club, The Native Fish Society and Kaufmann Streamborn.
Filed under Impact, Non-profits, Outdoors, Rivers, Salmon, Things we like, video
Explore to Conserve: Kamchatka Project
We want everyone to get to know our friends over at Kamchatka Project, an amazing educational/adventurous pursuit to raise awareness about Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula. Read on, and be sure to head over to their educational resource the Schoolhouse where you can learn about conservation issues and score lots of sweet, free gear.
About Kamchatka Project:
Unless you play Risk or daydream about fly fishing, you have probably never heard of eastern Russian's Kamchatka Peninsula- one of the last truly wild places on Earth. The volcanic, 700 mile long peninsula is a place where 1/3 of Pacific salmon spawn, a place with some of the densest brown dear populations in the world, a place with no dams, no massive extractive resource operations, less than one person per square kilometer, only one major highway, and some of the best unexplored whitewater rivers on the planet. Kamchatka, however, is no protected Eden.
In the summer of 2010, seven whitewater kayakers will embark on an expedition to explore this Siberian mountain landscape in an effort to raise public awareness of the complex relationships between the place, its people, and its fisheries.
Today, oil and gas companies line up to drill wells and build pipelines in Kamchatka, illegal salmon poaching is a billion-dollar-a-year industry, and local people and politicians are desperate for any source of income capable of keeping food on often Spartan tables.
The Kamchatka Project represents a shift within the adventure community from exploration for exploration's sake to exploration for the aid of conservation. The paddlers who are the Kamchatka Project are dedicated to this change, and have worked for more than a year to build a large network of invested individuals who believe in the ideals of the project.


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The name of Irish photographer Edward Quinn remains synonymous with a specific decade and region: the Cote d'Azur of the 1950s. In launching his career, Quinn quickly recognized the public's twin fascinations with international celebrity and ritzy living, and thus spent years trolling up and down the French Riviera, capturing indelible images of the high life among the exorbitantly rich. Heinz Bütler's biographical documentary Riviera Cocktail: Edward Quinn, Photographer, Nice traces the life and career of this iconic figure and purveyor of pop culture, from his early days as a pinup photographer, through his celebrity liaisons and the images he captured on the Cote d'Azur, through the relationships he forged with such giants as Baselitz and Picasso late in life.
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text: Celebrity news News & Gossip Celebrity baby rumours - the latest gossip The celeb baby rumour mill doesn't seem to stop churning! Here are the latest unconfirmed pregnancy claims and baby plans we've spotted in the news... 1 of Ad break Drew BarrymoreHollywood actress Drew Barrymore sparked pregnancy rumours when she was papped holding a sonogram picture, yet there's still no official word on whether it was a pregnancy scan. The 37-year-old is rumoured to be expecting her first child with her fiancé, art consultant Will Kopelman. Drew reportedly spoke of her desire to have children in the past. "Whether I have children or adopt, whatever form a family comes in, I would absolutely love to have it," Drew allegedly said. The Wedding Singer actress has yet to confirm the news, but some suggest she's showing the beginnings of a baby bump. Or maybe she just breathed out. Reese WitherspoonMum-of-two Resse Witherspoon is rumoured to be expecting a baby with husband Jim Toth, 41. The 36-year-old Legally Blonde star has reportedly been spotted shopping for maternity clothes. According to People magazine, Reese and Jim, who were married last year, made sure to include Resse's children from her previous relationship with Ryan Philleppe (Ava, 12, and Deacon, 8) in their baby plans. "All along, Reese has been very open with her kids about her plans to expand the family," a source reportedly told the mag. "Especially [because] Ava is at a sensitive age, Reese always makes sure to consult with her. She is very respectful of Ava's feelings." We'll wait for Team Reese to confirm any news before we offer congrats! Jennifer AnistonYes, we've heard it all before. But the latest rumours in the on-going 'is she or isn't she pregnant?' suggest Jennifer Aniston has told long-time Hollywood pal Tom Hanks she's expecting. According to Star magazine, a source allegedly saw Jen covering her stomach as if trying to conceal a telltale baby bump while enjoying lunch with beau Justin, Tom Hanks and Tom's wife Rita Wilson. But let's be honest, it seems to only take one brush of the tum (or a large handbag/loose jumper/healthy lunch!) to become a mum-to-be in celeb-ville. BeyonceBeyonce and rapper hubby Jay-Z may have only recently welcomed baby Blue Ivy, but a 'source' claims they're already thinking about a second baby together. The pair, who recently enjoyed a romantic post-baby getaway in St. Barts, could apparently be aiming to expand the family before Bey hits the road on tour again. According to Star magazine, a source said, "It took them a while to conceive Blue Ivy, so they don't want to waste another second... Beyoncé and Jay-Z adore being parents, and they're as hands-on as they possibly can be. Beyoncé has found a passion other than music, and it's being a mum." Hmmmm, think we'll hold out for Jay and Bey to announce a pregnancy before penning a congrats card! Continue slideshow > Elton John and David FurnishElton John and his partner David Furnish could allegedly be planning baby number two. "The wheels are in motion. David and Elton have never hidden their desire to extend their family, and believe the time is right for another child," a source reportedly told the Daily Mirror. Elton, 65, and David, 49, welcomed their first son, Zachary Jackson, in December 2010, when a surrogate mother gave birth on Christmas Day. We'll wait for Sir Elton to confirm any baby news before we get excited. By Ellen Stewart Comments Latest on MadeForMums Which pregnant celebs are due in 2019? Meghan Markle's pregnancy style - her best maternity looks 2018's celebrity babies - who gave birth this year? Rachel Adedeji on baby blues, breastfeeding struggles and the importance of asking questions


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Some of the scientists and government officials involved in understanding and leading the response to the Gulf oil spill will be in Mobile this week for the Alabama Mississippi Bays and Bayous Symposium, a two-day event that includes 180 presentations on various Gulf concerns.
"On the Gulf Coast, the environment is at the center of everybody's culture," said Roberta Swann, director of the Mobile Bay National Estuary Program, which organized the symposium.
"It is not often that we are able to get scientists doing important work together with the public at an event like this. Some of these people are presenting brand new research from the oil spill, and we've got programs that touch on every issue facing our coastline."
Among the speakers scheduled is Mobile native Mike DeGruy, one of the most famous underwater cinematographers in the world. DeGruy's work has appeared on the Discovery Channel, National Geographic Television, the BBC and PBS.
DeGruy's work has earned him an Emmy award and taken him beneath both polar ice caps, to the hydrothermal vents at the bottom of the Atlantic and the Pacific, and to the wreck of the Titanic. The public can attend his presentation Wednesday evening at the Arthur R. Outlaw Mobile Convention Center for $10 per person.
The symposium, which runs Wednesday and Thursday, is open to the public, and tickets for the two-day event are $100. That includes breakfast and lunch each day.
One of the goals of the event is to bring Gulf scientists and industry leaders together with the public to begin a discussion about reducing the impact of coastal communities on the environment.
Andreas Theuer, head of corporate environmental policies for ThyssenKrupp AG, which owns a new steel mill north of Mobile, will speak, as will senior officials from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
"Andreas Theuer is going to talk about the idea of a corporation being an environmentally responsible partner and not limiting itself to what the regulations say," Swann said. "That's one of the focuses of the symposium, coming up with ways to mitigate environmental impacts while also earning a profit. He'll speak about ways they've done that and why that's good business policy."
Other symposium topics range from the deeply scientific — using nuclear magnetic resonance technology to identify algae — to whimsical fare, such as creating a rain barrel to water your garden.
Ricky Mathews, publisher of the Press-Register and appointed by Gov. Bob Riley as head of the Coastal Recovery Commission of Alabama, will also speak.
"It's just a great opportunity to learn about the science that's going on," Swann said. "We have Kerry St. Pe speaking. He worked for over 30 years with the oil industry and the state of Louisiana managing oil spill response. He's got a lot to say about what has happened and how we and our wetlands can bounce back. That's something everyone needs to hear."
For more information or to register for the event, call the Mobile Bay National Estuary Program at 251-431-6409.


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ARTS minister Estelle Morris gave her seal of approval to Huddersfield's Contemporary Music Festival.
She met the festival's artistic director Susanna Eastburn, education director Liz Muge and a number of artists and performers during a visit to the town.
The minister watched several rehearsals for the festival, including students from Huddersfield University.
Later, on the Piazza, she met young people from Newsome, Paddock, Deighton and Skelmanthorpe and from Birkdale High School, Dewsbury, in the Sample and See workshops.
The performance was the culmination of an eight-week education project focusing on sampling and video DJ-ing supported by Kirklees Young People's Service and Beaumont Street Studios.
The 26th festival started last Friday and runs until Sunday.


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$500—$645 Studio—2 bed 5051 South Toledo, Tulsa OK, 74135
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5051 South Toledo, Tulsa, 74135
Commute to Downtown Tulsa
The rent at Yacht Club Apartments ranges from $520 for a studio to a $645 two bedroom. Apartments in this building are about 24% less expensive than the Tulsa average.
This apartment is in Tulsa. Nearby parks include Mudd Park Number 2, LaFortune County Park and Revere Park.
Yacht Club Apartments has a Walk Score of 61 out of 100. This location is Somewhat Walkable so some errands can be accomplished on foot.
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IT JUST COMES EASY TO ME – These are the words Doris Ellis said when asked about her thirty years of volunteer service for the Centerville Historical Museum. Ellis was honored on her 90th birthday with pot roast, a cake, and a gift in thanks for her service. Shown above are, left to right, Millicent Earles, Ellis, and Grace Sweeney.
Chocolate and Bubbly at MMPL
The Marstons Mills Public Library is presenting Chocolate and Bubbly on Friday, Feb, 4, at 7 p.m. There will be a reading of A.R. Gurney's Love Letters, lots of chocolate and of course bubbly beverages. Tickets are $10 in advance, $15 at the door. Call 508-428-5175, ext. 11 to reserve seating.
2160 Main St., Marstons Mills.Scottish sights
"Tiny, stark and mystical" is how the Scottish island of Iona is described. Learn more when Marian Ferguson and Elizabeth Whitmore share photos and tales of their recent trip Feb. 5 at noon at St. Mary's Episcopal Church, Main Street in Barnstable Village. A light soup lunch will be offered, and a free will offering to assist the Iona community will be collected.
Contact the church office (508-362-3977 or firstname.lastname@example.com) for reservations.


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Luxurious Natural Beach House by CplusC Architects
CplusC Architects have completed a luxurious, natural beach house in Curl Curl, New South Wales, Australia, exploiting the structural and aesthetic benefits of timber with stunning, contemporary results.
Through an impressive use of wood materials and added sumptuous detail, the exterior of this house gives off a lavish feel with one glance. Beautiful, sleek and brown finishes are seen everywhere, while the site is surrounded by glorious wildlife; a sea of green and brown, creating a homely, modern touch. The building responds to changing climatic conditions through natural ventilation in all directions, two integral fish ponds and vegetation that cool the summer breeze and timber screening to shade living areas whilst providing privacy, an efficient yet luxury, contemporary model.
A balcony area forms the link between outside and in, with a beautiful view of the Australian scenery. The rooms inside are as spacious as imaginable, enhancing the homely feel and generating a comfortable, luxurious living space. A deluge of colours are utilised to reinforce the contemporary touch.
With a large, efficient kitchen area and a bathroom using mainly black colours to cleverly mix in with the rest of the house, this brilliant piece of architecture is modern, comfortable and deluxe.
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The Ethicon US LLC, a part of the Global Surgery Group within the Johnson & Johnson Family of Companies, is recruiting for a Territory Account Leader, located Northern Delaware/Philadelphia suburbs.
Ethicon US, LLC, a division of Johnson & Johnson, is a trusted world-wide leader in surgical care. We offer a broad range of products, platforms and technologies-including sutures, surgical staplers, clip appliers, trocars, and hemostats devices-that are used in a wide variety of minimally invasive and open surgical procedures. Specialties include support for treatment of colorectal and thoracic conditions, women's health conditions, hernias, cancer and obesity.
The Territory Account Leader (TAL) expands the sales of Ethicon products and converts competitive products in a manner that complies with company policy and sales direction. The TL oversees coordination of sales resources across specified facilities along with the Sales Manager, to help align the resources for account / facility results. They are accountable to attain the forecast in their assigned accounts / territory. A TAL will also be responsible for setting priorities and making sound business decisions based on an understanding of sales opportunities within accounts.
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Please apply today to be considered for this position, or other positions in the Johnson & Johnson Family of Companies.
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Wednesday, October 10, 2012
Better Together
Better Together is an original song mosaic and video created in collaboration with all 15 elementary schools in the St. James-Assiniboia School Division in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. This project is a true representation of student voice in action.
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Michael Hastings Crash Site Memorialized, Email Published
Flowers and notes adorn the tree where his Mercedes crashed; a message sent by the journalist to an acquaintance mentions "Feds" interviewing friends.
The site on Highland Avenue where Michael Hastings' Mercedes crashed early Tuesday morning has been turned into a memorial.
Bundles of flowers, a framed note, candles and an index card that read "we will pick up where you left off" were placed in the area in the days after Hastings death, photos show.
The 33-year-old journalist, who contributed national security-focused stories to Rolling Stone and BuzzFeed and authored two books, is best known for "The Runaway General," the feature story that eventually forced the resignation of the top commander in Afghanistan, Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal.
STORY: Car Experts on Michael Hastings' Crash: No Reason to Suspect Foul Play
An email that Hastings sent hours before his death to an acquaintance, Staff Sgt. Joseph Biggs, was published by local news station KTLA on Friday. The message appears to reiterate what BuzzFeed editor Ben Smith had mentioned to Daily Intelligencer: that Hastings had expressed "concern" to those around him about an investigation.
"[T]he Feds are interviewing 'my close friends and associates.' Perhaps if the authorities arrive 'BuzzFeed GQ,' er HQ, may be wise to immediately request legal counsel before any conversations or interviews about our news-gathering practices or related journalism issues," Hastings wrote in the email. "Also: I'm onto a big story, and need to go off the radat (sic) for a bit."
WikiLeaks had previously posted a note on Twitter stating that Hastings had contacted the lawyer for their organization, "saying that the FBI was investigating him." The FBI office based in Los Angeles released a statement on Thursday denying that any investigation of the reporter took place: "At no time was journalist Michael Hastings ever under investigation by the FBI."
Recently, Hastings was said to be researching the case of Jill Kelley, the woman involved in the story of the affair between Gen. David Petraeus and biographer Paula Broadwell, a source had told The Los Angeles Times.
Although the nature of the journalist's death has lead to speculation, the Los Angeles Police Department has ruled that no foul play was suspected to be involved in the crash and multiple car experts have seconded that decision.


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Rising inflation and household bills have led to 40 per cent of us scrimping on eye tests, according to research from Simplyhealth. Women in particular see cost as a barrier to eye care, with more than a third putting off buying new glasses or contact lenses because they could not afford it.
Here we look at five ways to cut the costs.
1 Eye tests
Anyone in full-time education up to 19, anyone over 60, anyone over 40 whose immediate family has had glaucoma, or those who have diabetes can all get a free test, as can those on certain benefits such as Income Support or who are named on a valid NHS certificate.
To find out if you qualify, check out nhs.uk. If you do not qualify, Tesco is offering free sight tests at its in-store opticians; call 0845 601 3479. Boots is offering a £5 eye test voucher via Boots.com, which can be used at Boots Opticians or D&A before July 31 – a saving of 75 per cent.
2Get a takeaway prescription
Just because you get your eyes tested at one place does not mean you have to buy your glasses or contact lenses there. By law, once you have had an eye test, the optician is obliged to provide you with a prescription, but you are not required to make a purchase. Make sure you understand it, as it will enable you to shop around for the most competitive prices.
3 Cheap frames
Gone are the days of paying hundreds of pounds for new glasses. With online retailers popping up by the dozen, you can get a new pair of specs for as little £19. For instance, with glassesdirect.co.uk you can save up to 68 per cent on new frames. All you need is your prescription to complete your order, and you can order frames to try on at home for no additional charge.
If you are not happy with your glasses, you can return them free of charge for up to 14 days for a replacement or full refund. If you visit this retailer through the cashback site quidco.com you can earn 18 per cent on your purchase, too. Other options include selectspecs.com, tescoopticians.com and glasses123.co.uk.
4 Cut the cost of contact lenses
Discount sites selling contact lenses are also good value. Use your optician's prescription to buy lenses from as little as £8 a pair. Many sites will be able to tell you which company makes your current lenses. Three of the best include getlenses.co.uk, visiondirect.co.uk and postoptics.co.uk. If you would prefer to buy in-store, supermarkets such as Asda and Tesco often offer more competitive prices than high street opticians.
5 Check your employee benefits
If your job requires you to work with computers, your company might pay for free eye tests, or fund some or all of the cost of glasses. Check with your HR department.


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S.K.R.A.T. is a small business that would like to change a great number of apartments into true homes. Colourful, happy homes that remind us every day how beautiful life is and how even better days are yet to come.
The S.K.R.A.T. fairy tale started with the First Tray. It was nice, blue and orange with a huge picture of a fairy ship, waves and clouds. It was made for a friend who enjoyed eating his snacks in front of the TV. Well, other friends saw his tray and wished for a similar one and this ball of cotton is still rolling today.


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Govt forms special police force to deal with mobs
According to details, the contingent was constituted upon special directives of the Chief Minister Punjab, Shahbaz Sharif, in order to control violent protests often occurring in the country.
The special police force includes both male and female personnel trained to control charged protesters in shortest of time and that too without any loss of lives.
A ceremony was held at Police College Sahala earlier today with respect to the completion of first quarter of the nine months' training course of the special contingent, which was attended by the Home Minister of Punjab, Colonel (retd) Shujaa Khanzada as the chief guest.
During the ceremony, personnel of the special police force also demonstrated their capabilities and skills.
On this occasion, trainee junior police personnel told that they are educated enough and so they strongly oppose the use of force on protesters.
Sources told that consultation is underway to field the newly-trained contingent against PTI rally in Islamabad on November 30, which would also be the first test of this special force.
However, it is yet to be seen as to how far this force yields results of its special training.


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Diane Kochilas, celebrity chef, TV cooking show host, cookbook author, and cooking school owner, has been at the forefront of bringing healthy, delicious Greek cuisine to a wide international audience for many years.
Her latest project is My Greek Table, a 13-part cooking-travel series about Greece and Greek cuisine airing nationally in the Fall of 2017 on American Public Television. She is the host and co-created and produced the show together with Matt Cohen and Resolution Pictures. Maryland Public Television is the series' collaborating station.
A born teacher, every summer since 2003 Diane, together with her husband, Vasilis Stenos, has run the Glorious Greek Cooking School on her native island, Ikaria, a Blue Zone, renowned for the longevity of its inhabitants.
Kochilas is an award-winning author of 18 books on Greek and Mediterranean cuisine, including Ikaria: Food, Life and Longevity from the Island where People Forget to Die (Rodale, Fall 2014), which recently won the 2015 Books for a Better Life award by the MS Society and the prestigious IACP Best Cookbook award. The book was also long-listed for an Art of Eating Award.
The book before IKARIA, Country Cooking of Greece (Chronicle, 2012), was hailed by the New York Times as one of the 100 best books of 2012 and by virtual gourmet, John Mariani, as Diane's "masterpiece." Another tome, Glorious Foods of Greece (William Morrow), won the prestigious IACP Jane Grigson prize for excellence in research.
Her next book, the companion book to My Greek Table, will be published in Fall 2018 by St. Martin's Press.
As consulting chef, Diane has helped open many of the top Greek restaurants in North America, including Pylos in NYC and Volos in Toronto. She is currently consulting chef at Committee, a meze-concept in Boston and one of the city's few Greek-inspired restaurants. For two years, she was collaborating chef at NYC's Molyvos, where she infused the menu with regional Greek country food. Diane has also consulted for Harvard University Dining Services, establishing a roster of healthy menu options for student and retail dining. She works regularly with UMASS, Amherst, too, designing Greek dishes for the campus' student dining menu. Diane is an honorary fellow of Jonathan Edwards College, Yale.
In Greece, she was host of Greece's most popular TV cooking show, "What Are We Going to Eat Today, Mom" (in Greek) and was a columnist and restaurant critic for 20 years at the country's largest circulation daily paper, Ta Nea.
Diane has appeared on many major American television shows, most recently on FoxNews (Jan. 2014), as well as on "Throwdown with Bobby Flay," "The Today Show," "Martha Stewart," "Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern," and more.
Currently, she is at work on a healthy Greek Quick Service Restaurant concept and is expanding her travel and teaching business to include other parts of Greece. Diane divides her time between New York City, the Greek island of Ikaria, and Athens.


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What People Are Saying
"I see resumes all day long…but the students and graduates from Santa Barbara Business College stand out from those piles of resumes I receive."
– Laura, HR Director, Fusion Contact Center (Santa Maria)
"I like the instructors here, but I especially like my networking instructor. He's been really encouraging, really knowledgeable. He's been in the industry for a long time, working with computers since they were glass tubes. He's always there to help if you ever have any questions."
– Joshua F., ASNSA, SBBCollege Graduate 2011
"I knew I didn't want to become a lawyer, but I did want to be in the legal field. Santa Barbara Business College caught my eye because I could be in the legal field as a paralegal and it would only take about a year and a half."
– Lena M., ASPL, SBBCollege Graduate 2011
"I enjoy Tort law, believe it or not. Before I took the class, I had no idea what tort was. But coming out of the class, I felt like I learned what somebody learned in law school."
– Leslie H, PL, SBBCollege Graduate 2011
"The hands on learning here is phenomenal… it's not just book work but it's hands on. What I do here at school I will also be doing in the doctor's office where I will be working."
– Alan T., ASMA, SBBCollege Graduate 2010
"The beauty of Santa Barbara Business College is they get you in, they get you trained and they get you out. It's a fourteen month period instead of three years, which is the average time it takes just to get in to the class at another school."
– Korey J., LVN, SBBCollege Graduate 2011
"The admissions associate greeted me like I was his old friend. It made me appreciate the school and the teachers."
– Rachel S., BSBA, SBBCollege Graduate 2013
"For the school to honor my service and to able to take my post 9/11 GI Bill, I knew this was the place for me to come."
– Andrew B., NSA, SBBCollege Graduate 2011
"This school is different from other schools. You can finish the courses in a short period of time, so that you can get out in the field instead of being in a four year college."
– Sandi C., ASPL, SBBCollege Graduate 2011
"I picked SBBCollege because the classes are smaller. You don't feel so nervous answering a question or worrying about people making fun of you because you asked a certain question."
– Brittany H., MA, SBBCollege Graduate
"I went to check out Santa Barbara Business College, and I liked them very much because they worked around my schedule and they made me feel extremely important in my career choice."
– Tracie G., ASCJ, SBBCollege Graduate 2011
"I graduated from high school in 1979 and it was thirty years before I decided to come back to school and I was a little nervous. But when I arrived at school, I felt like this school had my back. It was so comfortable and the learning was so easy."
– Alan T., ASMA, SBBCollege Graduate 2010


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UFO Sighting Report - Canada
November 10th 2008 : Fort Erie, Ontario
Near Gilmore Road And Central Fort Erie, Ontario Another Triangular UFO Seen
Date: November 10, 2008
Time: 10:50 p.m.
Location of Sighting: Near Gilmore road and Central Fort Erie.
Number of witnesses: 2
Number of objects: 1
Shape of objects: Triangle.
Full Description of event/sighting: This is the second triangle I have witnessed in almost 1 week. I caught a glimpse of it cruising low over my friends house at 10:50 p.m. I stepped outside and gliding over me silently was a UFO. I called to my friend to look, then ran to my house and ran to the backyard to stand on my pool deck to see it, as it went off down by the water. It was moving off over towards the river and hovering fairly low. The craft had the tell tale 3 bright white lights with the pulsing red one.
This is my second sighting in just over a week and I have been talking and asking people if they have seen strange things and what I've been hearing from other people, neighbors and family friends I talk to, seems many have been seeing strange things the past weeks over Fort Erie and always the tell tale bright lights with the pulsing red one.
There are many sightings that are going unreported and shrugged off as strange, but not alarming. Well now I'm alarmed as this is two UFOs I have seen now and that's two to many, honestly. I've also noticed the mass postings from the Niagara region on this site and if they are other life forms, why are they so interested in Niagara falls and Fort Erie?
Thank you to the witness for their report.
Brian Vike, Director HBCC UFO Research.
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We have been awarded nearly £25,000 from the National Lottery Local Heritage Intuitive to carry out an Archaeological/ Historical investigation of the St Ives Estate. Two Archaeologists from Bradford University are leading this, Dr Angela Redmond and John Mc Ilwaine. Early investigations are very exciting showing people have lived and worked on the Estate for as long as 6000 years. We will keep you informed of developments as we come across them
Anyone with any historical information either factual or folklore please let us know however trivial it may seem...
|Looking from the mansion roof for evidence of buildings with Dr Angela Redmond.
|Ancient building at the rear of the mansion. Does anyone know what the stone in the foreground is? Have you ever looked at the four spires on the Parish church tower in Bingley?
|A strange anomaly by the picnic area, reputed to be an old stone sarcophagus--But is it? How old is this really? Does anyone know about this?
|John Baxter and Bill Marshall looking at the so-called "Fairfax Entrenchment" What is the true story of this feature? Could this be Neolithic?


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President, CEO
Samantha Western has been involved in business and entrepreneurial endeavors all of her adult life. She grew up working in her father's floral and nursery business which she used to learn every aspect of working in and running a successful, multi-location company. After college, Samantha invested the bulk of her time back in the family business where she sharpened her business skills prior to venturing out on her own. For almost a decade Samantha built and operated a very successful landscape design firm. Samantha now serves as Rayeman Elements' visionary, while maintaining oversight of all aspects of the business. From finance and contract negotiation, to plant management and client relationship development, Samantha's high energy level and keen sense of entrepreneurship are a perfect match for a fast-growing business.
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Fabulous antique French 1819-1838 Louis XVIII to Louis Philippe era sterling silver 24pc dinner sized flatware set, a 4pc table setting for SIX with engraved crown topped armorial style crests or heraldry and wonderful condition! Gorgeous and nearly 200 years old! The forks & spoons all bear the French Michel-Ange or Michelangelo & Ceres hallmarks, the tiny number "1" within those marks means they're in .950 silver (95% pure and higher than the .925 standard for "sterling" silver). The silversmith marks on all except one fork are for Laurent Labbe, Paris circa 1829-1852. One fork appears to be a later replacement, has the same pattern and armorial crest but post-1838 Minerve and silversmith marks for Maitreau, Paris. The knives are not original to the set but compliment them beautifully and would be of a similar style to those used. The blades are all marked "Jules Piault", another prominent French silversmith. A beautiful table setting for six, don't miss them!
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I'm really excited about this because fire cider is something that I've wanted to make for a long time, but for some reason haven't… until now! I was inspired to finally make it this season because it's one of the recipes in the online Intermediate Herbal Course that I'm taking at the Herbal Academy. There are many more awesome herbal recipes and so much to learn there, I highly recommend their courses! Here is how to make fire cider, an immune boosting health tonic that is super easy to make.
The term "fire cider" was first coined by Rosemary Gladstar, herbalist and author of the books Medicinal Herbs: A Beginner's Guide and Herbal Recipes for Vibrant Health, both of which I own and are awesome. There has even been a bit of a trademark controversy in recent years over the name "fire cider," but I'm not going to get too much into that.
Fire Cider Recipe
This recipe is from the Herbal Academy's Intermediate Herbal Course, and it is adapted from Rosemary Gladstar.
According to the Herbal Academy, "Fire Cider can be taken a little bit every day to boost immunity and circulation and keep viruses and bacteria at bay. Rosemary Gladstar recommends taking 1 tablespoon daily to warm you up and 3 tablespoons daily at the first sign of a cold."
- 1/2 cup fresh grated or sliced organic ginger root
- 1/2 cup fresh grated or sliced organic horseradish root
- 1 medium organic onion, chopped
- 10 cloves of organic garlic, crushed or chopped
- 2 organic jalapeno peppers, chopped
- Zest and juice from 1 organic lemon or orange (a microplane makes zesting easy)
- Several sprigs of fresh organic rosemary or 2 tablespoons dried rosemary leaves
- 1 tablespoon organic turmeric powder (or 1/4 cup grated or sliced fresh turmeric)
- Organic apple cider vinegar (Bragg's brand is my favorite)
- Raw local honey to taste
I am lucky enough to have access to fresh turmeric root, so that is what I used, but dried works perfectly well. I was also too lazy to grate the ginger and horseradish, so I just sliced them. It really doesn't matter all that much how you do it in my opinion.
First layer all the ingredients into a quart sized jar, and squeeze in the lemon or orange juice. Then cover everything with apple cider vinegar.
Cover with a plastic lid, or use a piece of parchment or wax paper to keep the vinegar from touching the metal lid. Shake well and keep in a dark and cool place for one month. Try to remember to shake your fire cider daily.
After one month has passed, use cheesecloth to strain out the herbs, and pour the vinegar into a clean jar. While straining, squeeze out as much of the liquid as you can.
Add 1/4 cup of honey and stir well until thoroughly incorporated. Taste your cider and add up to another 1/4 cup of honey if you feel it's needed.
Take a spoonful, or even half a shot glass full if you're brave, whenever you start to feel under the weather. It can also be used as a general immune booster and taken daily during the cold and flu season.
Fire cider is spicy from the hot peppers, horseradish, and ginger, but in a surprisingly good way! I thought it was going to taste awful, but I actually love it. I used jalapenos, which aren't quite as hot as some peppers, but you can use any extra spicy pepper you like if you're feeling up to it. This will definitely be something I use all winter long to keep sickness at bay!
Feel free to add in other herbs and spices to your fire cider as well, such as thyme, cayenne, rose hips, ginseng, lime, grapefruit, schizandra berries, astragalus, parsley, burdock, oregano, and/or peppercorns.
Have you ever made fire cider? What do you like to put in it?


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May 26, 2009
Important Gay Polar Bear Update
wasting time doing incredibly important things on the Intertubes this morning, the Editorial Staff noticed our Google ranking for "Gay Polar Bear" has dropped precipitously. For reasons best not explained in a public forum, the thought of taking up permanent residence beneath Gay Bears and Hairy Men is intolerable to us.
In times like these the words of that great American, George Herbert Walker Bush, seem eerily apt. "This. will. not. stand.":
The latest polar bear news from Germany concern a court battle over Knut which again serves to illustrate the financial worth of polar bear brands (and which also gives you an interesting insight into the German psyche). In the latest installment of the Knut saga Berlin zoo and Neumünster zoo tried to agree on the sale of the star polar bear from Neumünster zoo to Berlin zoo. The zoos disagreed over the price and took the whole matter to the Berlin Regional court. We have previously reported that Neumünster zoo had sued Berlin zoo for a share of the royalties earned through licensing the "Knut polar bear brand" (see Class 46 post here). Knut's father, polar bear Lars is owned by the Neumünster zoo and both zoos appear to have an agreement which grants Neumünster zoo a certain share of the Knut profits.
Poor Knut. Honestly, folks, the gay polar bear community are sick and tired of the constant jackbooted oppression by everyone from Wasilla Barbie to Hating Haters Who Hate and the Self-Loathing Self-Loathers Who Love to Hate They-Ownselves. Get a load of this frankly unhinged commentary:
I am a gay Republican. I am not "self-hating." I am not confused.
I am comfortable enough with my sexuality to think of myself in terms of traits other than simply my sexual orientation. I believe that my attraction to the same sex should have no bearing to my thoughts on tax policy, trade, foreign affairs or abortion. I believe that my sexuality is merely an incidental part of my life and should not be a major factor in my decision-making.
I am aware that there is a rich tradition of intellectualism, secularism and equality within the Republican Party outside of the Religious Right. I am aware that Hillary Clinton and Dick Cheney hold the same positions on gay rights. I am aware that Bill Clinton signed into law the last major anti-gay piece of legislation passed by Congress — the so-called Defense of Marriage Act. I am self-respecting enough to know that the words of the Democrats on gay rights are no substitute for their lack of action.
I believe that the virtues of classical liberalism — individualism, self-reliance and a rejection of cultural relativism — help gay men, just as they do all of mankind and are better exemplified by the Republican Party than by the Democratic Party. I am furthermore woefully confused by gay men's ambivalence toward radical Islam, which holds them in a particularly low esteem.
"I have been discriminated against more by Democrats than by Republicans. I have been shunned and mocked by Democrats, many of whom will not accept me as a gay man unless I fit into their neatly packaged view of what a gay man is 'supposed' to be."I believe that the gay subculture is destructive. I am not completely sure why a person should be "proud" of his sexuality, which is not an accomplishment. I am confused by the discord between a group of people who insist that they're just like everyone else on one hand and then on the other refuse to assimilate into mainstream society.
I am unable to relate to the faction of gay men who revolve their lives around their sexuality: their neighborhood is gay, their friends are gay, their music and movies are gay, their academic interests are gay, the stores that they frequent are gay — their lives are gay. I am not interested, though, in living my life as a gay man, but simply as a man. I envision a future in which a person's sexual orientation will be an afterthought. I do not in any way whatsoever see the Democratic Party furthering that.
I have been discriminated against more by Democrats than by Republicans. I have been shunned and mocked by Democrats, many of whom will not accept me as a gay man unless I fit into their neatly packaged view of what a gay man is "supposed" to be. I have yet to encounter, on the other hand, a Republican who has rejected my presence in the party, shunned me on a personal level or refused to engage me on the issues.
As we enjoy reminding the readership in our more tolerant moments, conservatism is a mental illness. This scientific fact is so selfevidently self evident that we needn't present a single shred of evidence to "prove" our case. It's enough to observe that everyone we agree with feels the reality based community is freedom-loving, tolerant and enlightened ...unlike certain other parties we could name. You know the type: always stereotyping The Other; taking refuge in simplistic characatures of anyone who dares to question their authority.
But not us. We voted for Barack Obama. And because he has repeatedly demonstrated his willingness to lead this nation away from the failed policies of the last 8 years, we remain stubborly convinced (after he heals the planet, ushers in a new millennium of world peace, rolls back the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression and makes revolving credit lines a right - not a privilege) ... that eventually old 'Bam will get around to ending the hateful hatefulness of mean spirited, hating haters who hate and make America a place where diversity is more than just a campaign slogan: all sizzle and no steak.
Faster, please.
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I sincerely believe that most gays and progressives need a good colon cleansing to allow them to see life more clearly. The Germans should continue being the anal retentive folks we know and love.
Knut is on his own!
Posted by: vet66 at May 26, 2009 11:21 AM
I hope this post didn't come across as making fun of anyone for being gay. I find the whole anthropomorphizing deal with Knut eminently mockable.
But what I found interesting about Alex's post, which I thought was extraordinarily well reasoned, was the reaction it provoked. It's just bizarre to me the way some progressives (as he observed) belittle or attempt to psychoanalyze anyone who disagrees with them:
I have been shunned and mocked by Democrats, many of whom will not accept me as a gay man unless I fit into their neatly packaged view of what a gay man is "supposed" to be.
I would like to think my sexual orientation - and the fact that I'm female - doesn't determine the bulk of my political views. I also think it can't be easy to be in his position and I have always admired people who attempt to reason their way through an issue as opposed to letting emotion or pure self-interest make their decisions for them.
As a young woman, I can remember not understanding why women couldn't do any job they wanted to. As I grew older, my opinion changed when I saw certain tendencies in female aggregate behavior that convinced me that government imposition of "equality" isn't always good public policy. So I suppose his reasoning rings true to me for all the same reasons that make me not a big fan of complete gender neutrality :p
Posted by: Cassandra at May 26, 2009 11:42 AM
What about the ongoing and frankly criminal discrimination against bear/nonbear marriages?
Posted by: Jules Bernard at May 26, 2009 02:01 PM
And gay bearage. Where does The Won stand on that important zoological issue?
I need a Prozac - with all this fighting over my brand, my nerves are shot.
Posted by: Knut, the Adorably Psychotic Teen Bear at May 26, 2009 02:08 PM
Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.
Shut up and produce.
Posted by: Rhett Butler's Modern Muse at May 26, 2009 02:16 PM
So I suppose his reasoning rings true to me for all the same reasons that make me not a big fan of complete gender neutrality
Okay, you lost me on this one. How is Alex' reasoning like your reasoning on the gender neutrality thing?
Posted by: Elise at May 26, 2009 03:38 PM
It's articles like this that make me VERY glad I am not at the sharp end of your pen (keyboard?). There's biting sarcasm, then there's razor-edged lemon-coated snark. This is much more of the latter. I love it.
Posted by: MikeD at May 26, 2009 03:42 PM
I cannot *believe* you can't follow my pellucid mental processes!!!!
The nerve of some people! :)
Reading his post, it occurred to me that every time a member of some 'oppressed' identity group (womyn, blacks, gays, hispanics, trangendered Arctic timberwolves) proffers up an opinion in which it is obvious he/she:
- doesn't appreciated being pigeonholed by virtue of belonging to an oppressed minority/protected class of persons,
- prefers being dealt with on the merits to receiving special treatment,
- is capable of distinguishing what he/she might personally desire in the way of public policy from what is in the interests of the rest of a country or some other larger entity
... there are quite a few on the progressive side of the aisle who chalk their opinions up to Stockholm syndrome, being too stupid/gullible to act in their own interests, or exhibiting signs of battered whatever syndrome. It's a patronizing argument.
Fine, guys. They don't agree with you. Argue the point on the merits without descending to ad hominid rhetoric.
I think you can be female and yet not think women act exactly the same as men do (and vice versa). You can be gay and not think the gay community in general behave the same way the hetero community does. You can be black (and not one whit ashamed of your heritage) and still admit there's some serious pathology in black pop culture.
IOW, you can choose to be an individual who thinks for him- or herself without betraying your cohort, whatever the helk that is.
Posted by: Knut, the Adorably Psychotic Teen Bear at May 26, 2009 03:55 PM
In other news, how cool is it that Knut's dad is named "Lars"?
Sausage almost ended up being named Lars. I am trying to remember the names that made the shortlist:
That poor dog :p
Posted by: Knut, the Adorably Psychotic Teen Bear at May 26, 2009 03:58 PM
I think you can be female and yet not think women act exactly the same as men do (and vice versa). You can be gay and not think the gay community in general behave the same way the hetero community does. You can be black (and not one whit ashamed of your heritage) and still admit there's some serious pathology in black pop culture.
Ah, gotcha. No argument there. In fact, it's often struck me as funny that some Institutional Feminists argue both (a) women are just like men (when it comes to jobs, for example) and (b) women are better than men (when it comes to the moral high ground, for example). I've always liked Golda Meir's view:
Whether women are better than men I cannot say - but we're no worse.
I must, of course, make a mild protest about:
As a young woman, I can remember not understanding why women couldn't do any job they wanted to. As I grew older, my opinion changed when I saw certain tendencies in female aggregate behavior that convinced me that government imposition of "equality" isn't always good public policy.
I think women (and men but I'll let them fend for themselves for the moment) should be able to do any job they want and are capable of. To me, this is the essence of treating people as individuals: just because 99-44/100% of women cannot do (fill in the blank) doesn't mean the few women who can shouldn't have the opportunity. And that, of course, was what the government was supposed to be doing - insuring equality of opportunity. Then someone figured out that there was no metric for "opportunity" and we ended up in the morass of "outcomes" and we're still stuck there - 35 years later. Sigh.
I cannot *believe* you can't follow my pellucid mental processes!!!!
The fault is entirely mine. I'm having a remarkably bad day in a lot of minor ways: spilled the vinegar, got soundly defeated at cards, and discovered I'd bought shrimp with shells on rather than off which means someone has to peel them before we can have dinner. I'm thinking about ordering pizza instead.
Posted by: Elise at May 26, 2009 04:27 PM
just because 99-44/100% of women cannot do (fill in the blank) doesn't mean the few women who can shouldn't have the opportunity.
I used to think that. But there are institutional costs in many fields to accomodating that 54/100 of a percent that are very likely disproportionate to their contribution to institutional welfare.
I have major issues with the aggressive individualism that sees no legitimately competing interests between individual rights and societal welfare. When does mainstreaming a severely handicapped child "tip" into a situation where everyone is worse off?
You can't easily take women to the field (for instance) in the combat arms. My husband like to tell a story about being out on the salt flats for a FIREX. No portapotties. No privacy - not a tree or a large rock in site. So how does the military accomodate the very real need of women and men to a bit of privacy. I don't mean to be gross, but unless a woman is willing to do what my husband had to do (IOW, take care of elimination of both kinds in full view of his compadres, wash himself in a helmet full of water) she doesn't belong out there. And even if she is willing to do all those things, I can't pretend it wouldn't be very distracting to the guys to have a naked woman right next to them. I've been around the military long enough to know that weaker women get taken advantage of and often the more confident ones egg guys into situations that aren't exactly conducive to good order and discipline.
So where individual rights intersect with collective well being, there has to be some equilibrium point. Finding it is the trick.
Posted by: Knut, the Adorably Psychotic Teen Bear at May 26, 2009 04:37 PM
And I thought it went without saying in the comment above that there are many fine professional women in the military, and I don't mean to imply they don't or wouldn't do a good job. But certain MOS's live in close quarters and can't carry all the amenities with them.
I guess I just don't buy into the argument that individual welfare always outweighs the needs of other people.
Posted by: Knut, the Adorably Psychotic Teen Bear at May 26, 2009 04:40 PM
I'm perfectly willing to balance individual rights against societal welfare. I would simply ask two things. First, that we be sure the problem is really social welfare and not just a preference for the way things have always been. Second, that we're explicit about it. Telling women it just won't work for them to be combat troops because of institutional costs is one thing; telling them they can't do it because they're not capable of doing the job is a far different claim.
And I have to admit I'm having a hard time coming up with fields outside the military where institutional costs would make it not feasible to let qualified women do the job - even if there's only one woman in the whole world who fits that description.
Posted by: Elise at May 26, 2009 06:09 PM
Well, I can think of a lot of dirty and dangerous jobs which require either physical strength or the ability to put up with sub-par work conditions (and where you have to be able to fend for yourself - and defend yourself).
I think if women can do these jobs and require no special accomodation, they should be allowed to prove themselves. My personal opinion (ducking) is that bias against women is one of the last acceptable prejudices.
What I won't countenance is women who want it both ways: to be protected as fragile flowers while claiming the prerogatives of independent, capable people who don't require propping up. And I've seen way too much of that attitude in my life to turn a blind eye to it.
I'm not blind to sexism. Few around here liked it much when I pointed out the way Hillary was treated. But if women want to compete with men, they need to step up and compete - even when that means absorbing a few of the same body blows men regularly deal out to each other.
Posted by: Knut, the Adorably Psychotic Teen Bear at May 26, 2009 06:24 PM
I was always ready to absorb the same body blows as the guys. I didn't appreciate getting put in a double bind sometimes, as in "you should be able to carry things and walk fast, but lots of us will persecute you if you try to wear pants and flat shoes." But my job was primarily mental. I was completely prepared to compete with the guys on an even playing field. When I was very young, that was sometimes difficult, but these days hardly at all. The guys got used to us, and that was the end of it.
As for men having a difficult time focusing on their jobs with distracting women in their workplace, I call that a problem for the self-control of the men. They'll learn to deal with it when they have to. The extreme form of that argument amounts to purdah: the presence of women is so explosively sexual that men have to keep them under wraps. That may be true for men who've been accustomed all their lives to keeping the women behind closed doors, but men raised in societies that decline to do so soon learn how to deal with their urges and get on with their lives. And I figure, men who can't control themselves around women are not strong enough to qualify for the job.
Posted by: Texan99 at May 26, 2009 08:15 PM
Well, I have to disagree with you there.
The military is no different from any other walk of life. We have the whole spectrum, but more importantly the demographics make the military a very different social situation.
At any rate, it isn't just the men who have to control themselves. It's the women.
Years ago I thought as you do. But I've seen what my husband has had to deal with over the last 3 decades and it changed my mind. I don't think it's reasonable to bunk large numbers of young people together and expect that they'll "control themselves". They don't. We already know that even without fully integrated living quarters.
THey just don't. People are people, and you're dealing with some very ancient and powerful drives - especially in wartime. It's fine when you're in an office environment (though HQ battalions tend to be the Peyton Places of the services) but when you've had to deal with units where all kinds of stuff is going on after hours and it breaks up families and takes the whole command down to parade rest you realize pretty quickly that self control isn't much in evidence.
There's a reason we have rules. They were put into place as a result of experience, and I'm always somewhat suspicious of the idea that after thousands of years human nature will miraculously change just because we want it to.
Posted by: Cassandra at May 26, 2009 09:17 PM
I find it interesting that a gay man doesn't want to be identified/stereotyped in terms of his preferences but who he is as a person and the left will have none of it.
Isn't that what the Progressives are doing? Stereotyping people to maintain the culture of perpetual outrage? It is the only way they have credibility, you know.
Posted by: Cricket at May 26, 2009 10:08 PM
I find it interesting that a gay man doesn't want to be identified/stereotyped in terms of his preferences but who he is as a person and the left will have none of it.
Bingo :p
That was the entire point of my post. There is a certain irony in asserting that being black/gay/female doesn't define you as a person and therefore shouldn't govern how others treat you (on the one hand) and then pulling an about face and demanding special treatment on account of the characteristic you want society to disregard.
Women do this a lot when they assert that hiring women presents no special challenges to employers (IOW, you can't discriminate against us because you think we won't take work as seriously as a man) and then demanding special accommodations be made for your personal choices (nursing rooms, liberal pregnancy/parental leave policies, etc.)
On the other hand, I get annoyed at the way women's choices are often dismissed as frivolous or unprofessional when men make many of the same choices and no one views their behavior as detrimental to the company. Case in point: years ago I worked at a bank in California. The vast majority of employees in my department were female.
A supervisory position arose and several of us were asked to throw our names into the hat. My boss asked me to apply because she thought I'd be a good candidate. But I knew I wasn't going to stay at that job and also working at that point in my life could in no way have been described as a career. I worked to bring in extra money, but my main priority was the welfare of my two elementary school-aged boys. I was able to work b/c my husband was getting his Masters' degree and was home more than usual. But I wasn't willing to put in the extra hours that would have been expected at the next level.
In the end, a man from outside the department was hired. My boss was livid b/c the hiring committee essentially dismissed all the women who applied (I didn't) on the grounds that they were all mothers and were therefore both undependable and unwilling to work extra hours.
So who was their pick? A young single guy who turned out to be not only extremely unreliable, but utterly unwilling to do anything beyond the bare minimum required :p
Nice going. They should have hired my best friend at work, a black mother with two children who never missed a day at work and performed every task with skill, intelligence, and conscientious attention to detail. Instead we got an egotistical jerk who alienated everyone in the department and was never around when we needed something.
But hey - golf and leaving work early to get ready for that hot date on Friday aren't as "unprofessional" as a mother who misses one day a year because her kids got sick.
Posted by: Cassandra at May 27, 2009 07:31 AM
Geez lady... give me something to disagree with here! Otherwise you're gonna get an echo chamber of "yeah, me too".
You're dead on. And actually your story about the bank manager made me a bit mad as well, and I don't even know the players involved.
I can't say I understand the hiring committee's decision at all, but then again, my only hiring experience is that I've gotten to interview all of my co-workers and my last two bosses, knowing I had a veto. Funny thing is, while it was not intended this way, both of my bosses and all but three of my co-workers that we hired were women. And one of the three guys we had to fire within 2 months of starting, because he simply refused to do any work.
On the women in combat arms thing, the SINGLE best argument I've ever heard against women in combat arms came from my FEMALE Platoon Sergeant. Her objection was that if you opened the recruiting stations to allow female infantrymen (infantrywomen?) tomorrow, you'd have them immediately supervised by a completely male chain of command. No female sergeants, no female officers, ALL men. And as for crossplanting female MPs or supply staff, or any other combat support service soldiers as infantry NCOs and officers, that was a no-go as well. Having zero training at leading other soldiers into combat, both class taught and experience taught by example over years of infantry experience, any officer or NCO thrust into an infantry slot would be a liability she believed. Now, I know that it's no excuse to say "because there are none now, we can't ever do it" otherwise we'd still have a segregated military. However, no one was pushing for black officers such as the Tuskeegee Airmen to be turned into infantry officers to allow them to lead blacks into combat. Instead they just had an all white cadre until such time as blacks rose in rank. But does anyone here honestly believe that same process would be allowed in today's environment (politically speaking of course)?
Congress would have a fit if you had companies worth of female soldiers with no female cadre over them. Cries of sexism and accusations of discrimination would lead to calls to rush promotions, or cross-plant other females into the infantry. It WOULD happen. So the danger is not just a social issue (which I fully agree with, even my MI unit sometimes became "Melrose Place" as you put it), but a leadership deficit problem as well.
Posted by: MikeD at May 27, 2009 09:19 AM
Interestingly enough, the recruit training battalions at Parris Island offer an interesting case study in integrating women into the military at all levels.
My husband was an RTB commander for one of the male BNs. There are three male recruit training bns, one female RTB, and one 'support' BN for convalescing recruits and the like.
Although women will, in many cases, be integrated into largely male commands upon graduation from recruit training, they are not trained in integrated RTBs. Hmmmm... I wonder why?
Well, one reason is that recruit training involves a very careful and precarious balance between authority and pedagogy. DIs have the power of life and death over recruits. They work hella long hours under intense pressure, and part of their job is to intentionally stress recruits. It's part of the learning process - teaching recruits how to deal with conflict and stress and rise above them.
Place men in authority over young women who are being conditioned to submerge their individual will and conform, and you have a recipe for disaster. It ain't so much that men are monsters or women are gullible, will-less saps. But men are physically bigger and stronger (and generally more aggressive). Women - in general - are more likely to be intimidated by verbal and physical displays of aggression.
Also, women are subject to different physical limitations. Women's PT standards are different from men - we don't require them to do as many pushups or pullups, nor to run as far or as fast as men.
Sorry, but that matters. It matters a LOT. You can't have a cohesive unit where some folks only have to do x but others have to do x plus y. That fosters resentment and discord.
So there are real issues here. People love to make rules based on normative considerations of how the world *ought* to work. I believe it makes far more sense to base rule making on how the world observably *does* work.
Posted by: Cassandra at May 27, 2009 09:38 AM
"So there are real issues here. People love to make rules based on normative considerations of how the world *ought* to work. I believe it makes far more sense to base rule making on how the world observably *does* work."From the back of the balcony over the main congregation there arose a Hallelujah!
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Posted by: Zaphod B. at May 27, 2009 10:37 AM
Okay, so it sounds to me like one of the main objections to women in combat units would go something like this. Whenever men and women work together, office sex is a fact of life. It presents enough problems in civilian situations between two people at the same level it can create a dyad that threatens teamwork and morale and even more problems in civilian situations between a superior and inferior where it raises issues of favoritism and can pretty much destroy morale since everything starts to look unfair to those outside the relationship. Nonetheless, those problems can be managed and even in the worst possible circumstances the worst possible outcome is loss of revenue perhaps leading to destruction of the business. Terrible but not fatal.
In a military situation the consequences are much worse because the two things most threatened by office sex are the two things most important to the military: the chain of command and unit cohesion. In a non-combat situation the outcome, while far more devastating than it would be in a civilian setting, is not fatal. In a combat situation, the outcome may literally be fatal. A breakdown in the chain of command or a failure of unit cohesion can kill people.
Assuming I've grasped that argument correctly, I don't have any quarrel with it. (And I recommend reading "The Forever War" for a rather bizarre attempt to get around this problem.)
Women - in general - are more likely to be intimidated by verbal and physical displays of aggression. Also, women are subject to different physical limitations.
I can understand that this would make it unreasonable for most women to be included with men. But I still maintain that it's possible some women would be able to withstand the aggression and respond to it appropriately and some women would be strong enough to compete with men. Not many, I know, but I don't think it's impossible. I realize there may be other reasons why integrating women into these units is inadvisable. I also realize that since it could be difficult approaching impossible to identify which women would hold up under pressure beforehand this may well be a case where the institutional costs of integrating capable women is high enough to outweigh the rights of women who could and would like to be included.
Nonetheless I still think the point that some women may be qualified is an important one. This is simply one of my bugaboos. I've too often seen description ("most women can't") become prescription ("therefore no woman should"). That's fine if we're talking institutional or societal costs arising from accommodating too few qualified women but not so fine if we're talking about assumptions regarding women's abilities and "appropriate" interests.
The female troops under a male command structure is interesting. I do think Congress would have trouble with that although I suspect the women admitted to the combat units would not. I figure if you're smart enough to get into a combat troop you're smart enough to realize your best hope of staying alive is having experienced officers. In the unlikely event women ever do make it into combat I hope a steady stream of them testifying before Congress that they're perfectly happy with their experienced male officers would quell Congress' desire to micromanage.
At any rate, it isn't just the men who have to control themselves. It's the women.
Yes, this is a different argument than "women can't serve with men because men will become sexually inflamed and attack them." And I have a story I loved about this very point.
Years ago - back in the late 80s - I was working as a consultant and a women who worked at one of my clients was married to a naval officer. A group of people from the office took me out to lunch one day and talk turned to women in the military. The Navy wife spent a solid 5 minutes talking about how horrible it was that women were serving on ships, they just couldn't keep their legs closed, the last ship that went out with them a bunch of them came back pregnant, it was disgraceful they couldn't control themselves, how could the Navy ever have allowed in people who behaved as badly as these women had? I didn't say a word (she was the client, I was the consultant) but one of the men who worked with her looked up from his sandwich and said, totally deadpan, "Well, I'm pretty sure the women didn't get themselves pregnant" and went back to his lunch.
Posted by: Elise at May 27, 2009 03:32 PM
It has always annoyed me (though I understand the biological imperatives behind it) when people place all the responsibility for abstinence on the woman. Because, you know, we all just hate sex and are never tempted ourselves.
What a load of horse hockey. But the world is full of stupid people. Sadly, they almost always reproduce.
Other than that, I'm with you. I don't maintain that some women can't compete or hold their own. I've known women who can and do.
I just don't care for the argument that individual "rights" should be arbitrarily privileged over societal interests. After all, society is composed of individuals too, and it's their welfare that, in the aggregate, composes societal well being.
So... which "individuals" are we protecting?
Posted by: Cassandra at May 27, 2009 04:41 PM
Well, if your looking for non-military examples of institutional costs, you have to look at compliance regulations and logistics.
For example, by law an employer must provide a nursing mother with a private place (not a restroom) in which to pump as well as the time to do so.
Now, watch "Deadliest Catch" on the Discovery channel. There isn't a whole lot of privacy available and a crew of 4-5 guys work sometimes for more than 36 hours straight without a break. So now, you've got to take a room (where space is at an extreme premium) and declare it off-limits for 20 minutes at a time *and* work substantially shortstaffed every couple of hours.
You don't think that the other 3 men who not only don't get a break every 4-6 hours but also have to pick up her slack are going to resent that she will get paid the exact same as them? (If she didn't *that* would be discriminatory).
In an office environment, these sorts of things are rather insignificant, but there are some cases where that's not the case.
Posted by: Yu-Ain Gonnano at May 27, 2009 06:32 PM
In the unlikely event women ever do make it into combat I hope a steady stream of them testifying before Congress that they're perfectly happy with their experienced male officers would quell Congress' desire to micromanage.
But it's not just Congress that is the problem.
Part of Navy Seal training involves a medical test. Since the test is itself rather non-stressful the Sailors are essentially sent into the cold ocean wather and then stripped down to their underwear to make them cold (keeping them mentally stressed while physically resting). These sailors will then be ordered to stand in a line chest to back so that skin-to-skin contact can help keep them warm (less cold).
Now imagine a male officer ordering the sole female to essentially engage in a half naked female sandwich between two men. I don't think it'll matter one whit if the female is OK with it or not. The public outcry from the you-know-who-types will make the entire issue toxic.
Posted by: Yu-Ain Gonnano at May 27, 2009 06:50 PM
In an office environment, these sorts of things are rather insignificant,
Hah! Speak for yourself, mister. Breast feeding is a topic that makes me crazy and would probably cause every feminist (Institutional and Real) in the universe to revoke my membership card in the sisterhood if they knew what I think about it. Once upon a time, I was in the ladies' room at work (large, soulless corporation) and a woman I did not know came in and demanded to know why there wasn't an electrical outlet in "my" restroom. I just looked at her and she launched into a diatribe about how she had to pump and there was no electrical outlet and she'd been assured when she came to this building for a meeting that there was an electrical outlet and Human Resources would hear about this. She then she demanded to know where the HR office in this building was. When I said I had no idea, she berated me for not knowing. I figure if she ever did manage to find an outlet, the poor kid had colic for a week after drinking the milk.
And don't get me started on women breast-feeding in restaurants. Yes, I know lactation is perfectly natural but so is fornication and I don't want to watch that over my broiled scallops either. Don't get me wrong. I understand that women have babies and think it's fine - great, even - if they breast feed them. And I certainly don't think that a woman who is breast-feeding a baby should have to quit work or never eat at a restaurant for two years until he's weaned. I just don't understand why this perfectly natural function has somehow become a sacred ritual that is supposed to be The Most Important Thing In The World to everyone in a 5-mile radius.
Anyhow, thank you for letting me get that off my chest. As for your specific example, it's not women doing the job that cause the institutional cost - it's the regulation. Without the regulation there would be no institutional cost. I'm also not sure the regulation would work the way you think it would. The last time I checked regulations like that recognize BFOQ (bona fide occupational requirements) and at least in my opinion the ability to work a straight 36-hour shift would definitely be a BFOQ. Of course, no one is suggesting me for the Supreme Court.
As for your SEAL example, the original point was the issue of female combat troops having all-male officers so my remarks were directed at that. As for your point, maybe someday we'll find out. I personally think that if the women who want to be SEALs are okay with the sandwich that will be the end of the story. If you're right, well, a very left blogger I read regularly talks about Liberal Paternalism. She and I don't always mean the same thing by the phrase but it would definitely apply to this situation if you're right about the outcry.
Posted by: Elise at May 27, 2009 08:16 PM
I have been rather silent on this as I am really beginning to think that my accounting book is a Tome of Satan and will need a silver bullet along with the wooden stake and the Holy Water.
Women in the military...I have mixed feelings about it precisely because of the issues presented and how the playing field also can undercut morale. The PT requirements were increased for men of a certain age when they should be slowing down so there would be no change in the numbers since the female recruits did not have the upper body strength of men.
The numbers looked the same, but the breakdown told the story and it wasn't pretty. Ask the Donovan or BillT. I think they know what I mean...and it rather torques me because I want a 150 lb guy to get my son/husband out if he is wounded and not some 110 pound girl with cramps.
Even when I was working out, and weighed all of 130 at 5'8", I could barely lift someone my weight and height in a fireman's carry, let alone walk with them. Don't even ask me how I looked trying to pick up my six foot plus brother that way...we both collapsed laughing our heads off.
But what was funny to us just goofing off can have horrific consequences on a battlefield. If women are going to be in support positions, then they need to train as if they are going to do some heavy lifting...because adrenaline is only going to do so much. I sort of speak from experience...
Posted by: Cricket at May 29, 2009 01:03 AM
I've been silent, too, Cricket. But mostly because I'm one of those women who has always believed that if women want a man's job, she needs to be able to do it exactly as required for the man. Most of the jobs I've held over my life were definately not typical *women's* jobs, and I knew going in that if I wanted to keep my job, not to mention earn the trust and respect of the guys I worked with, I better be able to pull my weight. IM(NS)HO, the biggest mistake with allowing women into combat-related fields was the lowering of the physical standards. I said it from the start waaayyy back then (and was given the 'Stink Eye' by many a woman), and have continued to say it to this day: If you want to do a *man's* job, fine, but you better be as capable as the man you hope to replace in every way, shape or form.
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