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#$%@ People Say To Transracial Families…
Kristen Howerton, Deborah Swisher and I got together with our clans one Sunday and made a little video about the #$%@ that gets said to us every day at the mall, the playground, heck, on our front yards! Being in a transracial family is a very visible way to walk through the world. I look at dumb remarks as a chance to advocate for adoption and to educate people who are usually well-intentioned, but insensitive. This video is in that same spirit. Plus, we had a blast making it. Hope you enjoy it. If you do, please circulate it!
33 thoughts on "#$%@ People Say To Transracial Families…"
LOVE IT! Glad to finally see this. Very true. And painful. But still true.
I'm asking out of a caring place, for better understanding:why is it insensitive to say I love his hair?
The hair thing is really okay, in context, in my opinion (he does have awesome hair)! It doesn't bother me at all when it comes from friends. It's just that it gets kind of fetishized in a way and can become an object of interest from strangers in a way that's out of balance.
It sounds like something people say because are uncomfortable and can think of nothing else to say. They know it would be bad to mention skin color or other racial features, but temporize that hair is a safe way to imply what they want to say, "but you're white/black/non-Asian and he/she is black/Asian/white."
Love it!!! I posted it on Facebook and will put it on my blog!
Fabulous job, we've heard many of those, too. It was refreshing to be able laugh at things that can be painful/difficult/stressful/aggravating as all get-out in real life. Thanks for the laughs!
this was great..
i did want to ask why it's a problem to say the child is cute/beautiful? i do this, and won't anymore, but just wanted to get more information on what i am not understanding about that..
i have also asked about where they are from… not in a way of isolation or singling out -or so i thought- i have really tried not to ever do that, it's just i ask this to everyone – b/c i live in a large urban city & people are from all over. i can see how my asking in this situation really isn't appropriate, but i guess i am still really trying to find the balance in all of it – because i am guessing the point is not to alienate (which is obvious) – but it almost feels like you can't say anything – and if it's just better not to, this is good to know- but it almost feels like i am ignoring something by asking the family that "looks the same" certain questions – and not doing the same for others.. it's not the lens i see it through, so i am needing to work on that more.so sorry to ask these questions, i would really love your input – i am someone who never wants to fall into these categories..
@ Emily it is a problem to comment on how adorable they are for a couple of reasons. First, if I had a dollar for every time this happened I would be as freakin' wealthy as Romney, it is very common for me to go somewhere with all my children, two of whom happen to be of a different race, and many people will ooh and ahh over how adorable and beautiful and exquisite my daughter is, meanwhile her equally attractive older white sister stands there all ignored…and ALWAYS feeling like crap about it. Which causes sibling rivalry issues, where we are often struggling I have gotten to the point now that I just look at her and say, "And you darling are just as beautiful and lovely!" Second, for some children, especially those who spent any amount of their childhood years in an orphanage, they learned quite quickly to use their looks to manipulate in order to get attention. That is a battle I have had to try desperately to win for years now. Not only is it incredibly unhealthy for my daughter to do that, it also devalues her. when people constantly comment on her looks, they feed that ugly monster that we try so hard to kill.
Seriously, my bio daughter is a knockout…nobody comments on it because it is flat out inappropriate…but somehow for my adopted child it is socially acceptable.
Thanks, Melissa. This is a great reply. It's a hard thing to explain and you did a wonderful job.
Melissa, thank you so much for the background on this – I had thought about the siblings, and it should have been equally obvious to consider i am not the only one making an observation/compliment on looks, and to a child – being identified based on looks can in turn, devalue other areas.
There's definitely an issue of context and balance. It's not just cut and dried. If I'm in a real conversation with someone, or if it's someone who is interested in adopting, then it can be okay to ask if he's adopted and where he's from, even if the person is a stranger. The problem with the "he's SO adorable" all the time (and he is, it's true), and all the hair comments is about "othering" him and putting too much attention to his outsides. The point here isn't to make people feel like there's a gag order, but to make them sensitive to the fact that our kids don't necessarily want to have to hear about their country of origin/hair/adoption etc. every single time they're out with us shopping at the Target. Obviously there are some questions that should flat our NEVER be asked, like, "How much did he cost?" and, "What happened to his real mother?" Never. Ever. Other questions can be asked with conscious sensitivity. I LOVE talking about adoption, under the right circumstances.
i understand what you're saying,and also appreciate you taking the time to respond. it's hard to know the balance, because of the extremes you guys see.. however, i always want to be mindful of what i am saying, or doing, and realize – what my perspective/intentions are – doesn't necessarily mean that's what i go by.. please keep talking about this, i appreciate you not judging, and just being honest about what you've experienced, and the implications it has on your children.. i apologize for not seeing it this way from the start.
The below is from my solo performance Sitting in Circles with Rich White Girls: Memoirs of a Bulimic Black Boy. Clearly the hair thing ain't changed
"Thankfully, mom and dad thought it was important for Bret and me to attend school with kids who looked like us. And since dad worked for the Tacoma Public Schools they were able to arrange waivers for us to attend Stanley. Where from day one── I found black people fascinating! ── They were loud, fast talking and could carry on entire conversations using just their neck and their hands.──Less fascinating── the discovery of my nappy hair and ashy skin.──Both of which seemed to be cardinal sins among black folks. Making me wonder if perhaps I should have come with a note,──"Dear, adoptive white parents, hair care and lotion are extremely important to the development and socialization of the black child, failure to cut, style and apply liberally, may result in daily ridicule."
Loved it, thank you!
It's not that we get 'offended' when people comment about how cute our kids are (all kids are!) or about hair, really. It's that it (sometimes) tends to come out in more of a patronizing way. I am less bothered by those things than prying questions which are simply inappropriate.
You get my vote at the Oscars. Bang on! Thanks for making my day….
Loved it! Ummm, pretty much like 99.7% of those have been directed our family's direction!
Oh, need to add, for our second adoption of our son from South Africa (our daughter was born in Ethiopia)…they asked that since we did it once it must be quicker and cheaper the second time around. Sure, yeah, I guess I get the buy one get one half off deal.
Oh gosh – loved the parody – and pretty darn realistic! Add in there that our daughter should play violin or be in gymnastics and we're covered.
I still don't get why "Is he/she your child?" is so offensive. I ask this question many times, and it has nothing to do with race, because I ask it even if the adult and child look exactly alike, because you could be an aunt, older sister, grandparent, babysitter, etc… If I know that it's your child, then I have a jumping off point for conversation (ie. I have a kid too) or avoid making a faux-pas by assuming you're the child's mother, when you might be the baby-sitter. I don't ask about whether they are adopted or if the other parent is another race…I just stick to "general parenting" topics. Maybe you could explain this, please?
I have never heard anyone say this to an adult accompanied by a white child.
I've asked that qustion to all races, whether the adult and the child are the same race or different. In fact, I've probably asked it more to caucasions adults with caucasion children, because they are the majority. It's important in many cases for me to know your relationship to the child, as I run childrens' programs at a library, and there are different legal rules for legal guardians and parents, as well as it helps me to avoid making assumptions that could cause embarasement. We have parents, aunts and uncles, grandparents, babysitters, daycares, etc… of all races (and a few mixed race families, blended families, adopted transracial families, families that also babysit two or three other children od various races, etc… that come to these programs. I don't want you to have to explain your whole family situation to me, as long as I know if it's your legal child, or if you are babysitting or an extended family member.
I can't speak for anyone else but I can answer from my perspective. I've gotten this question when out with my brother (he's black, I'm white, there's a 15 year age gap so it's always fun to watch people try to figure us out, especially as he gets older and they assume we're dating) and also when out with friends and their children. I have one friend whose blond, blue-eyed son is often mistaken for mine. He's a great kid and I'd absolutely claim him, but I just get weary of assumptions. It doesn't matter. I'm tired of feeling like I need to explain my family connections or relationships in regards to the people who are accompanying me to Target. It isn't relevant to anything.
I would wonder if there aren't better ways to ask or find out, if the information is something you need to know. I think this could come up pretty easily in introductions ("Nice to meet you, I'm Sarah, this is my brother J, this is my friend's son A"). It would probably depend on the place. In a setting where this would be completely reasonable information to share, it wouldn't be uncomfortable or tiresome.
hilarious and ohhhhhhhhhhhh so true 🙂
LOVE your video! As a mom in a blended, transracial family, I am also subjected to most of these comments. I try to be patient and view these situations as learning/teaching opportunities, but still find myself feeling frustrated despite the knowledge that most people generally don't ask to be malicious, they are just curious or innocently ignorant. I was once asked by a man at McDonald's if I thought my daughter's skin would get lighter as she got older, so she would look more like me. I was dumbfounded, but managed to respond with "Why would I want that? She's perfect the way she is." I wish in retrospect I had given him a better speech, but hopefully my response was effective enough.
My daughter has also learned from her time in the baby house that being cute and charming was the fastest way to manipulate people to get what she wanted, and we still have to deal with the effects of that because every time we go out, people also comment on how "cute" she is. I've learned to thank people, and then also point out to them that she is also very funny, kind and smart and is great at sharing, and those are her best qualities, not just her appearance. People usually understand quickly why I'm saying that, but I still have to have private conversations with my daughter about how "cuteness" only lasts so long and while it's nice to be cute and get attention for it, being a kind person and using her intelligence is what she will need to be successful and happy in life.
As for the hair – don't get me started! There have been times when I wanted to hang a sign around my daughter's neck stating "I am not part of a petting zoo" because somehow when people see a black child with a white parent, they feel it is ok to touch or stroke her hair. It is not!! Would those people walk up to a black child with black parents and do that? Of course not!
Thank you so much for bringing attention to a topic that few people understand. Great job!
LOVE it! we have 4 adopted children, oldest is 16 and been getting these comments since the day we brought her home. We take them as an opportunity to educate as well! Most of them don't really bother me, except the ones that say "you're so wonderful for doing that!" I reply, they're my children just like your children are yours." I am NOTHIN special for having my babies I love to pieces.
I have a friend who has adopted two african/american children. She is caucasion. My on and her son are friends. They were approximately 3 (her son) and 4(my son) when one day there were playing and suddenly my son stops in his tracks, looks at Jackson and says "When did you get so black????". Jackson just looks at him, they went back to playing without a problem. We later talked about races and such but oh if we could only ALL be so colour blind! I have two disabled children and we face much of our own kind of %$#@!
2 thumbs up!! THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU for the laughs!!!
Thanks for this. I shared it on my blog.
I'd also like to thank all of the commenters for their thoughtful questions and comments. If difficult topics were always discussed in such a respectful way, our world would be a much better place.
Yup. We've heard every single one of those comments. And one you missed: "So…what's her story! I mean, like, is she a crack baby?"
There is always the Miss Manners option:
"oh, why do you ask?"
In which you flip the question back on to the asker in an attempt to mirror back the inappropriateness.
If they were truly just curious and realize the question was misguided it gives you an opportunity to graciously change the subject to more acceptable things.
However if they are being daft and persist you can ask some questions of your own, like where are THEY from or how much their children cost, maybe you can see who got a better deal?
I think you will find it an interesting addition to the bag of trick Im sure you have already built up to anticipate and answer these kinds of questions.
HE LOOKS JUST LIKE ZAHARA!! Hilarious. OMFG– you could probably do a whole series on unintentionally mean shit moms say to one another. Nice work!!
You forgot to add "Does she call you 'mum'?" (or mom :-))
Worst thing said to me thus far…
My kids had been in the US for about 3 weeks, and I was in the grocery store trying to get just a few necessary items. An older woman stopped me in the middle of an aisle and asked, "Did you adopt them? Are they from Africa?" "Um, yes. Ethiopia." "Oh," she says, "You are so amazing! I always wanted to do something like that, but not from Africa. I didn't want anyone to think I had slept with a black man."
So I'm standing there, in stunned silence, with my two kids who (thankfully) couldn't understand enough of what she was saying to be as mortified as I was, and I'm trying hard to come up with something…anything to say. And a woman just a little further down the aisle pipes up on my behalf, "Oh, like any black man would WANT you!"
Shut the woman right up.
I'm sure you and I could write a book on the inappropriate things people say alone. I'm so glad families like ours have each other to lean on.


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National Meat Association v. Harris
|Docket No.
|Op. Below
|9th Cir.
Nov 9, 2011
|Jan 23, 2012
Holding: The Federal Meat Inspection Act expressly preempts a California law regulating the treatment of non-ambulatory pigs at federally inspected slaughterhouses.
Plain English Holding: A California law regulating the treatment of livestock that cannot walk (and which requires, for example, that such animals be euthanized immediately and not used for food) is invalid because it is trumped, or "preempted," by a federal law regulating the treatment of livestock at slaughterhouses.
Judgment: Reversed, 9-0, in an opinion by Justice Kagan on January 23, 2012.
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- Recent opinions: In Plain English (Amy Howe)
- Opinion analysis: The Ninth Circuit, like hogs to the slaughter (Tom Goldstein)
- Argument recap: California slaughterhouse law under the knife (Tom Goldstein)
- Argument preview: Will "presumption against preemption" survive? (Tom Goldstein)
Briefs and Documents
Merits Briefs for the Petitioner
Amicus Briefs in Support of the Petitioner
- Brief for the American Association of Swine Veterinarians et al. in Support of Petitioner and for the Reveral of the Ninth Circuit's Judgement
- Brief for the Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America in Support of Petitioner
- Brief of the United States of American in Support of Petitioner
Merits Briefs for the Respondents
Amicus Briefs in Support of the Respondents
- Brief for Illinois et al.
- Brief for Public Citizen
- Brief for the ASPCA
- Brief for Tim Blackwell, D.V.M. and Kristie Mozzachio, D.V.M.
- Brief for Professors of Preemption Law
Certiorari-stage documents
- Opinion below (9th Circuit)
- Petitioner's reply

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Leyland working on post-Peralta lineups
CLEVELAND -- Before manager Jim Leyland moved Jhonny Peralta into the sixth spot in the batting order on a regular basis in mid-May, he was batting his left fielder sixth, whether it was Andy Dirks, Matt Tuiasosopo or Don Kelly. So far the post-Peralta lineups have gone back to that trend.
On Tuesday, one night after Dirks batted sixth behind Victor Martinez, Kelly did the same. Kelly got the start over Dirks on Tuesday based on his history against Cleveland starter Justin Masterson (8-for-21 with a home run entering Tuesday).
Leyland isn't promising he'll be holding to that, though.
One factor that could affect that is Omar Infante's expected return later this week. Infante hasn't batted sixth all year, but he has hit sixth occasionally in his career.


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Busted: Robredo nagbakasyon sa ibang bansa at tinakasan si Marcos? It's a fake story!
Vice President Leni Robredo allegedly left the Philippines to go on vacation abroad and escape from her rival, former Senator Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. in the middle of the VP vote recount.
With a title that says "Leni Robredo Nagbakasyon Sa Ibang Bansa! Tina-kasan Si BBM! Panoorin," the story has riled people up. They believed that Robredo really left the country to leave Marcos and the electoral protest behind.
The story was carried by sites such as du30express.site, trending1.altervista.org, and dailypinoy2018.blogspot.com, before it was shared by Facebook pages such as "Action ni Duterte," "Duterte for OFW," "President Rodrigo "Digong" Duterte for New Philippines," and Duterte Defenders" starting on April 6.
However, the links to the story showed a 14-minute long YouTube video of political analyst and De La Salle professor Antonio Contreras talking about the alleged wet ballots discovered during the recount. He did mention about how Robredo was in another country, while her lawyer Romulo Macalintal was left behind to explain the wet ballots allegedly found during the recount. Contreras said that the explanation about the condition of the ballots should come from the Comelec or those responsible of maintaining the ballot boxes.
Unlike what the title claimed about how Robredo left the country to escape from Marcos, she actually went to London to speak at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) about "Overcoming Poverty in the Philippines and the Role of Politics in Economic Growth," based on the Facebook post her official page made on April 7.
It was an honor to speak at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), where I was invited to give a…
Posted by VP Leni Robredo on Saturday, April 7, 2018
Robredo went to London not to go on a vacation but to give a talk related to what the Office of the Vice President has been doing. And she certainly did not go to the UK to escape Marcos. She even continued with the 48th episode of the BISErbisyong Leni radio show, where she and her co-host Ely Saludar talked to #IstoryaNgPagasa champions in the UK.
All of these meant that Robredo visited Robredo for work-related engagements, not to go on a break and escape from Marcos during the VP vote recount. The story is fake!
Busted: Robredo wants to add years to the K-to-12 program? It's fake news!
Vice President Leni Robredo's office released a statement debunking social media posts claiming that she wants to add a few more years to the K-to-12 program. This came after several posts started circulating about how Robredo allegedly said that she wanted to add a few more years to the K-to-12 program, angering netizens.
A certain tweet on March 1, 2020 showed the vice president's photo along with these words: "Kulang ang K to 12 education system natin. Kelangan apat na taon sa Junior HS at apat na taon sa Senior HS."
In January 17, the same image shared to the Facebook page "Raffy Tulfo In Action Supporters" also got shared over 6,000 times and triggered negative comments among the netizens.
Many social media users have lambasted Robredo over the said meme.
The unwarranted bashing and adverse reactions prompted her office to release an official statement debunking this false claim.
"Hindi totoong pinadadagdagan ni VP Leni Robredo ang mga taon sa K-to-12 program," said the vice president's office in a statement.
"Suportado ng Bise Presidente kung sakaling magkaroon ng review ng nasabing programa. Binibigyang-diin niya na kailangang siguraduhin na may tamang facilities at equipment ang mga specialized tracks, para mas maging madali ang pagtuturo nito at matiyak ang kahandaang makapagtrabaho ng mga mag-aaral sa kanilang pagtatapos," it added.
In October 2019, Robredo did say that she was alright with reviewing how the K-to-12 program to determine how it could be further improved.
"Tumutugon rin ang kaniyang Tanggapan, kasama ang #AngatBuhay partners nito, sa pangangailangan ng tamang kagamitan. Nakapagbigay na ng kaukulang tools at equipment sa mga mahihirap na paaralan, gaya sa Mulanay sa Quezon, Panglao sa Bohol, at Sta. Maria sa Romblon," the statement further said.
This is not the first time Robredo has been a victim of fake news. There were false claims, misleading headlines, and edited images or captions about how former Senator Bongbong Marcos has already won over Robredo, how she met former UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon to oust President Rodrigo Duterte, or how her portrait was sold on eBay, something that a popular blogger apologized for.
Sources: ( inquirer.net , news.mb.com.ph )
Busted: Walang kasalanan ang Tulfo brothers ayon sa imbestigasyon? It's a misleading headline!
An article has claimed that an investigation has found the Tulfo brothers to be not guilty. It says, "Lumabas Sa Imbestigasyon Na Walang Kasalanan Ang Tulfo Brothers," as published by the website phworkit.top.
The story was even shared by Facebook pages "Ferdinand Emmanual Edralin Marcos" and "Rody Duterte MEDIA."
However, the article merely contained a 10-minute YouTube video, which was a mix several video clips of different reports, some parts of which touched on the issues involving the P60 million tourism ads that aired on the PTV program of Teo's brothers, the Tulfos.
One of the video clips showed that the CNN Philippines reported on why nepotism is considered corruption and abused of authority in the case of now-resigned Tourism Secretary Wanda and how her husband, Roberto Teo, served as the board member of the Tourism Infrastructure and Enterprise Zone Authority (TIEZA). But Roberto was appointed by former President Benigno Aquino III and has tendered his resignation from TIEZA effective June 30, 2018.
Another video clip showing a CNN Philippines report of a Malacañang press briefing, where a reporter asked Presidential Spokesperon Harry Roque if Communications Secretary Martin Andanar would be among those investigated in the controversial placement of P60 million worth of tourism ads on the program of the Tulfos, who are Teo's brothers, leading people to raise the issue of conflict of interest. As the PCOO chief, he also supervises the state-run PTV-4, where the Tulfos' programs are a blocktimer.
Asked by yet another reporter what President Rodrigo Duterte's comment was on the issue with the DOT and the Tulfos, Roque said that he did not know then because he had not talked to the President for a while and the investigation conducted by the Office of the President was ongoing then.
The headline used in the video is misleading. It meant to make people think that the Tulfo brothers have been cleared from the issue involving them with the controversial P60-million tourism ad deal.
However, reports showed that even after Teo resigned from her post on May 7, the Ombudsman will still continue with the probe into the scandal. The body requested from the Commission on Audit (COA) a copy of its DOT report involving the controversial P60-million worth of payments for ads aired on PTV on May 8. The investigation is still ongoing, which meant that they it has not yet cleared the Tulfos.
Executive Secretary Salvador Medialdea is also said to be investigating the scandal to determine the officials at fault at the DOT, People's Television Network Inc. (PTNI), and the PCOO.
Ramon Tulfo, an Inquirer columnist, came out in the defense of his sister Teo and blamed his younger brother Ben Tulfo for the controversy.
Party-list group Akbayan, however, said it was not enough for Teo to step down from her post. They wanted her to be prosecuted.
"The simple firing or resignation of corrupt officials will not put a stop to corruption in the government if this is not followed by swift prosecution and conviction," the group said in a statement.
Akbayan also challenged President Duterte to file cases against Ben and Erwin Tulfo over the controversial ad transaction. Ben owns Bitag Media, which produced the PTV show "Kilos Pronto," the program where the DOT ads were aired. His brother, Erwin, co-hosts the show with him.
Sources: ( newsinfo.inquirer.ne , thestandard.com.ph , cnnphilippines.com , rappler.com , news.abs-cbn.com , businessmirror.com.ph )
Busted: Legarda sinumbatan si Robredo na mag-resign bago pa lumabas ang resulta na panalo si Marcos? Misleading headline!
Senator Loren Legarda allegedly confronted Vice President Leni Robredo and asked her to resign before the results would show former Senator Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. as the winner.
The video was posted by blog dailydu30.info on May 15, 2018. The vice presidential vote recount is still ongoing, so the headline must have been referring to the result of the recount. It also made it seem as though Legarda is telling Robredo that she is certain that Marcos would emerge as the winner in the recount.
The YouTube video is 20-minute long and Legarda's face was immediately shown at the beginning of the video. However, if you finish watching it, you'd know immediately that the video was not taken recently. In fact, it showed a portion of the budget hearing for 2017 for the Office of the Vice President. Further research showed that the hearing was conducted in front of the Senate panel on August 22, 2017 and it lasted less than an hour before it was approved. Robredo herself attended the budget hearing to present an overview of the OVP's plans for 2018.
Legarda served as the Senate panel's chair.
During the hearing, Robredo reported how the OVP spent its funds, mainly for poverty alleviation.
The Philippine Daily Inquirer reported that following the presentation on the fund allocation of the OVP, Legarda asked Robredo to send them a yearlong report on the needs of the sectors and areas that the OVP has reached while promising to help out on fulfilling those needs.
So unlike what the headline claimed, Legarda did not tell Robredo to resign from her VP post to make way for Marcos' imminent victory. The headline is misleading and is merely playing with people's emotions and gullibility.
However, Facebook page "Sara Duterte Worldwide Supporters" still shared it without verifying the headline's claims.
There have been several fake stories involving Marcos and Robredo and the VP vote recount that we have busted. We debunked a misleading headline claiming that Marcos has already won, that Marcos won by 1,786 votes over Robredo, that Robredo would perform her tasks as VP until Marcos takes over, and that Marcos will replace Robredo.
Sources: ( philstar.com , newsinfo.inquirer.net )
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Busted: Walang kasalanan ang Tulfo brothers ayon sa imbestigasyon? It's a misleading headline!
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If there's one thing that this past week has taught us here at io9, it's not that a historic election can get everyone excited about the future. It's not that people are hopeful in a way that's changed the very atmosphere of a country overnight (albeit a night that many of us spent watching more CNN than is potentially healthy - they had holograms). No, it's that a lot of you really don't like it when we talk about politics. As in, "Screw you guys, I'm going home" don't like it.
The main offender, in most of your eyes, was Annalee's post about a future free of fear of socialism from Monday night, which... well, got some of you kind of upset:
JosephineAluminoid: "Worst part of elections — poorly constructed, poorly thought out political theory invades my non-political blogs. It's like listening to grandma tell me why Herbert Hoover was better than everyone thought. This stuff is so weak, it's not worth arguing. Have fun, vote, support your team, whatever... but please don't quit your day job." rovroman: "officially done reading io9. enjoy your pinko utopia, when the federal budget slowly eclipses the entire gdp, and govt controls every economic decision you make." Daveinva: "I really don't feed the trolls. In this case, sadly, that's you, Annalee." kidneystone: "hooray for IO9. just when i thought they were gonna stay neutral and talk about cool things like SF and giant monsters...they get all Obama on us. great....just cause your in San Francisco." djklaus: "One of the reasons I love this site is that I hear politics at work. I hear politics at the dinner table. I hear it on the radio. In the car. From friends. This is one of those sites i can go to and just enjoy the things I really love (scifi). Well my bubble has just been burst, I guess. Don't just write a fluff piece on Obama and think it's 'scifi' just because you used the phrase 'in the future'." Ubik2501: "Imagine a Gawker where rational, intelligent political debate takes place. Imagine a Gawker that hasn't been hijacked by political bloggers for page hits. Nah, maybe that's too far out there."
Not everyone was necessarily rushing to judgement, however:
Gothamite88: "Other than the "imagine" part, how is this Sci-Fi related?" Grey_Area: "The "imagine" part is pretty crucial to SpecFic. Often the best Science fiction isn't about robots going "pew, pew, pew!" or tentacled horrors slavering/peeing over hot chicks, although that doesn't hurt. It's postulating what splendid dystopias and fucked-up utopias might arise from strange new social or political systems. Annalee's just bouncing ideas off our pointed little skulls hoping that we will reverberate with new ideas and carry the geek-spangled banner of Fandom to ever greater heights. Excelsior! Either that or she's been huffing glue again and [forgotten] which blog she's the editor of."
Point to Grey_Area for channeling Stan Lee with that "excelsior!" and also giving a better explanation of Annalee's intentions than I could've managed. I understand that io9 - and, let's face it, many other sites that normally stay away from politics - may seem to have strayed into an area that you'd rather we didn't over the past few weeks, but there's no getting away from the fact that the election was on everyone's minds, and even though we're an SF, futurism and urban fantasy site, we feel some responsibility (beyond just trying to get hits, as much as that may surprise some of the more cynical amongst you) to reflect what people are talking and thinking about. For those who were upset, we're sorry, but look on the bright side: the next US Presidential Election isn't until 2012, and we'll probably be more interested in the end of the world and timewave zero by then. Or, to put it another way, jajbowler's comment seems appropriate:
looks like this post caused some science friction. that was awful. i'm sorry.


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This memorial to the Korean War truly reminded me of our Hawaiian Huaka`i Po, or nightmarchers. The phalanxes of the war dead going into battle over and over in a latent psychic procession of memory which manifests itself on the blackest moonless nights of Po Kane. Unlike these cold ghostly bronze warriors, our Hawaiian war dead still walk the land...
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NYC Weekend Picks: 'Far From Heaven' on stage, 'Frogs' at Natural History Museum
Our picks for what to do in the city this weekend.
"LABAPALOOZA! FESTIVAL OF NEW PUPPET THEATER": Two separate programs of invention have been developed for the festival's 15th annual series at the Puppet Lab of the ever-admirable St. Ann's Warehouse.
WHEN | WHERE Friday night at 8, Saturday at 2 and 8 p.m., Sunday at 2 and 7 p.m., St. Ann's Warehouse, 29 Jay St., Brooklyn.
INFO $25 for single program, $40 for both; 718-254-8779, stannswarehouse.org
"FAR FROM HEAVEN": New musical starring Kelli O'Hara based on 2002 movie about the darkness under an apparently happy marriage. Book is by Richard Greenberg, with the creative team behind "Grey Gardens."
WHEN | WHERE Friday night at 8, Saturday at 2:30 and 8 p.m., Sunday at 2:30 and 7:30 p.m., Playwrights Horizons, 416 W. 42nd St.
INFO $80, 212-279-4200, playwrightshorizons.org
"SOMEWHERE FUN": Kathleen Chalfant and Kate Mulfgrew co-star in this premiere about reuniting friends by Jenny Schwartz, whose last play, "In God's Ear," was a stunner.
WHEN | WHERE Friday night at 8, Saturday at 3 and 8 pm., Sunday at 3 p.m., Vineyard Theatre, 108 E. 15th St.
INFO $30-$75, 212-353-0303, vineyardtheatre.org
"SCHOOL OF ROCK": Jack Black plays a scruffy substitute teacher who transforms his students from eggheads into headbangers. This screening, part of the kid-friendly Film Forum Jr. series, will include an air-guitar contest.
WHEN | WHERE Sunday at 11 a.m., Film Forum, 209 W. Houston St.
INFO $7, 212-727-8110, filmforum.org
"FROGS: A CHORUS OF COLORS": Finally, an exhibition that promises to be absolutely ribbiting: 150 live frogs representing 25 species, including 10 of the dart-poison variety. The show was so popular in its first run that it's now back by popular demand.
WHEN | WHERE Through Jan. 5, open daily, American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79th Street
INFO $25 adult, $14.50 children (suggested), 212-769-5100, amnh.org
ROUGE ET BLANC: This SoHo restaurant succeeds brilliantly in bringing together the cuisines of France and Vietnam, under the direction of chef Macks Collins. Although named for the Stendhal novel, Rouge et Blanc could also refer to the red and white contents of the impressive, all-French wine list.
WHEN | WHERE Dinner daily, closed Mondays, 48 MacDougal St.
INFO $22; 212-260-5757, rougeetblancnyc.com
JANE MONHEIT: The songbird -- an Oakdale native -- wraps up a few days' worth of shows at Birdland. Her latest album is "The Heart of the Matter" -- pick it up.
WHEN | WHERE Friday night at 8:30 and 11, Saturday at 11 p.m., Birdland, 315 W. 44th St.
INFO $40, 212-581-3080, ticketfly.com
AFTERWORK COMEDY/MUSIC SHOW Your host, funny woman Del Harrison, keeps things moving with music from producer/DJ Khardier Da G.o.D. and more.
WHEN | WHERE Friday night at 6, Santos Partyhouse, 96 Lafayette St.
INFO $20, 212-584-5492, santospartyhouse.com
Compiled by Linda Winer, Ted Loos, Rafer Guzmán and Kevin Amorin.


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A's send impressive Gray back to Triple-A
ANAHEIM -- The A's optioned 23-year-old right-hander Sonny Gray to Triple-A Sacramento after Friday night's 4-1 loss to the Angels in order to make roster space for Dan Straily, their starter on Saturday night at Angel Stadium.
Gray has not allowed a run in four Major League innings. He made his second big league appearance on Friday and was just as impressive as he was in his debut, going two scoreless innings against the Angels. He allowed one hit and a walk, striking out three.
In his debut against the Pirates before the All-Star break, Gray gave up one hit in two scoreless innings, striking out three.
"There's no reason to have him pitching out of the bullpen now," A's manager Bob Melvin said of Gray, the team's first-round pick (No. 18 overall) in the 2011 First-Year Player Draft out of Vanderbilt. "He's going to be a factor, whether he's in the rotation or the bullpen.
"Now he's going down knowing, 'I can get people out there [in the Major Leagues].'"
A's catcher John Jaso sees a bright future for Gray.
"I think I caught him once in Spring Training," Jaso said. "He's got great life on his pitches."


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Alex Salmond has won a key television debate against the the leader of the campaign to keep Scotland in the United Kingdom, a snap poll has found.
Research by ICM for the Guardian newspaper showed 71% of people questioned thought the Scottish First Minister had been the better performer in the BBC clash, compared to 29% for Better Together leader Alistair Darling.
A similar survey after the first head to head debate between the two men last month suggested the former chancellor had scored a narrow victory over the SNP leader.
In both televised debates, the issue of which currency an independent Scotland would use was at the heart of the arguments.
Mr Darling again repeatedly pressed the First Minister to set out his plan B for a currency if a formal deal could not be agreed with the rest of the UK to allow an independent Scotland to retain the pound.
But the former chancellor tonight appeared to accept that Scotland could use the pound regardless of whether Westminster signed up to such an arrangement.
He said: " Of course we can use the pound...we could use the ruble, we could use the dollar, we could use the yen. We could use anything we want."
Mr Salmond said: "The key point we have heard tonight is that Alistair admitted a few seconds ago we could use the pound anyway. We didn't need permission.
"Totally different from what the Chancellor of the Exchequer said a few months ago, when he said, if you walk out of the UK, you walk out of the pound.
"Remember that, we have heard it tonight. They cannot stop us using the pound, the most important revelation of this debate."
Blair Jenkins, chief executive of the pro independence Yes Scotland campaign, said afterwards: 'This was an overwhelming victory for Yes. The First Minister's message was clear, optimistic and passionate and spelled out a no-nonsense message of the positives and opportunities of independence."
But Better Together campaign director Blair McDougall said: " Alex Salmond still can't give a credible answer on currency. While the world was watching he even went as far as to threaten to default on our debts."
On currency Mr Salmond insisted he was seeking a mandate from the Scots to call for a formal currency union with the rest of the UK - an option which has already been ruled out by the Conservatives, Labour and the Liberal Democrats.
Despite that, the First Minister said: " I want people to back the proposition that we should share sterling in a currency union.
''That mandate is crucial, and that is what I want people to support, because I believe if they support it and send me into negotiations as First Minister then that will be the outcome."
But he also said he had "s et out the options to point out there are other things we could do", highlighting a flexible currency union such as Sweden and Norway's and the fixed exchange rate that Denmark and Hong Kong share.
Mr Salmond then added: "We cannot be stopped from using the pound anyway."
He told Mr Darling: ''I set out the options very clearly - three Plan Bs for the price of one. They are just like buses ... you expect one and then three turn up at once.''
He stressed if there is a Yes vote on September 18 he would " argue what is best for the people of Scotland", which could be a currency union.
''If I was to go in arguing for second best, then second best is what we would get," he said.
Mr Darling, however, told the SNP leader: ''You are taking a huge risk if you think it is just all going to fall into place."
The Labour MP insisted: " I think the currency union would be bad for Scotland because our budget would have to be approved not by us, but what would then be a foreign country. It wouldn't be best for the rest of the country either.''
T he debate, staged at Glasgow's Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, saw heated exchanges between the rival politicians, who had to be told not to talk over one another.
On the future of the NHS the the Better Together leader accusing the pro-independence campaign of scaremongering with claims that a Yes vote is needed to protect the health service north of the border from privatisation.
Mr Darling said: " 'What we need is less of that scaremongering and a realisation we all want the NHS to do well, we all want it to be there at the point of need, but to do that you need funding.
''Frankly taking on risks, not even knowing what currency you've got is the real threat to the National Health Service.''
But Mr Salmond insisted spending cuts south of the border could hurt the health service in Scotland if the referendum resulted in a No vote
He said: " 'That is why to have a health service we can all trust and rely on we've got to have a health service where we have financial control as well as policy control, so we can keep the National Health Service as the greatest public institution in Scotland.''
The SNP leader went on to tell tell Mr Darling he was "in bed with the Tory Party" over welfare reforms - with this denied by the Better Together leader, who argued it made sense to spread the cost of providing social security across all of the UK.
Mr Darling said: "We know there are people with disabilities, we know we've got an ageing population that will require more medical care, we know we've got a falling working age population. Why take that burden on five million people when it could be pooled and shared across 63 million, it makes no sense whatsoever.''
Closing the debate he insisted that uncertainty over currency could "bring a country to its knees".
The former chancellor said: " 'I know there are some who are thinking about giving independence a chance, but when we can't be told about currency, I don't think that can be trusted.''
Mr Salmond said an independent Scotland would face challenges, and would "have to rise to these challenges to solve them".
But he argued the rival No campaign "has absolutely nothing positive to say about the future of this country".
Similarly Mr Jenkins said the Better Together leader had been " endlessly negative", claiming he had "tried to put some shine on his flawed vision of life after No".
But the Yes Scotland chief executive said what Mr Darling had "succeeded in doing was to expose the bankruptcy of his movement's promise of a future under yet another Westminster government that people in Scotland did not vote for".
He added: "The only positive contribution he made to the debate was when he admitted: 'Of course we can use the pound'.
"Mr Salmond outlined a compelling case for a Scotland of the future - a Scotland that takes its future into its own hands, utilising its vast wealth, resources and talent to build a fairer, more just nation free from the punishing austerity of the Tory-led government at Westminster - is what will win the day for independence on September 18."
Meanwhile Mr McDougall accused the First Minister of " shouting his way through the debate" as he said: " Alistair was asking the questions which undecided voters want answered, and was offering what people wanted - more powers without the economic risks that were so obvious tonight."
The Better Together campaign director continued: " The Alex Salmond who shouts his way through First Minister's questions each week turned up, but he couldn't move his argument forward because, he had no answers to the big question - what currency we would use.
"The 72% of pensioners who said they were worried about their pensions in a poll this weekend are no clearer on what currency their pensions would be paid in. The women who told the Yes campaign's own poll that the NHS was safer as part of the UK watched Alex Salmond back-pedal on his scare stories, admitting that the NHS in Scotland could not be privatised.
"At the end of this debate we're still where we were at the end of the last one."


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Aerobic exercise may reduce the risk of dementia, and it may slow the condition's progression once it starts, according to a Mayo Clinic study.
The study, which was published this month in the Mayo Clinic Proceedings, examined the role of aerobic exercise in preserving cognitive abilities.
"We concluded that you can make a very compelling argument for exercise as a disease-modifying strategy to prevent dementia and mild cognitive impairment, and for favorably modifying these processes once they have developed," J. Eric Ahlskog, a neurologist at the Mayo Clinic and one of the researchers, said in the release.
The study's abstract also said that compared to a control group of sedentary patients with dementia or mild cognitive impairment in randomized control trials, patients with the same conditions had better cognitive scores after six to 12 months of exercise. A review of another randomized control trial found that seniors who exercised had an attenuation of age-related gray matter volume loss.
The study was a review of 1,600 studies, 130 of which related directly to this issue. Aerobic activity was defined as any activity that increased the heart rate and increased the need for oxygen, including walking, jogging, shoveling snow and raking leaves.
This study comes just a few weeks after release of a University of Colorado study that found that small amounts of exercise can prevent memory loss after an illness or disease by preventing infection.


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Grant Hart | 08/05/13
Domino are proud to announce that we will be releasing The Argument from Grant Hart on July 22nd, 2013.
As founder and half of the songwriting engine that drove the mighty Hüsker Dü to his maverick solo work, Grant Hart has cut a singular path across the last three decades of music. It is with great confidence that we say he has made an album to rival his greatest achievements. A double album based on John Milton's epic Paradise Lost, Hart distills its essence into pop and rock concoctions that nimbly flit through the history of 20th century music from Irving Berlin and David Bowie to... Hüsker Dü, even. Ambition is the topic and Hell is the location for this project that is ambitious as Hell. Does he pull it off? We say yes!
While visiting James Grauerholz, former friend and secretary for William S. Burroughs, James showed Grant an unpublished manuscript for Lost Paradise, William's science fiction story which portrays the fallen angels as men from distant planets and God as none other than fellow Missourian Harry S. Truman. James and Grant discussed adding music to William's story much in the same way that Tom Waits and William conspired to turn the German folk tale Die Freishutz into The Black Rider as staged by Robert Wilson.
From that point the seed had been planted, and the seed grew into the most beautiful tree in the garden of Grant's career. Domino invite you to taste the fruit of this tree. Go ahead, taste it.
Although lines from the poem are rarely quoted directly, all of the menace, pain and devotion of Milton's best loved work are here found. But where Milton's poem was "unadorned by rhyme,'' The Argument contain many complex couplets, especially the title track, in which not only the ends of lines rhyme, but the word that ends a phrase is the same as the first line of the phrase after it, all while conforming to the original ten syllable structure devised by Milton. Anyone who has ever had a conversation with Grant knows how patiently he chooses the words he uses.
As a double album of two halves, we wanted to show both the light and the dark of the album in its initial introduction, so we are offering two tracks for preview. "Is the Sky the Limit?" is a melancholy song of the aftermath of rejection built upon the eerie and lonely sound of Sputnik 1. To counterbalance this somber paean, "Letting Me Out" follows in all its propulsive Buddy Holly glory as the Artist formerly known as Lucifer offers up his cunning business proposition to populate the netherworld.
Both can be heard here:
The Argument will be available on CD (WIGCD318), double vinyl (WIGLP318) and digitally (WIGDG318). And without further ado... the tracklist:
- Out Of Chaos
- Morningstar
- Awake, Arise!
- If We Have The Will
- I Will Never See My Home
- I Am Death
- Sin
- Letting Me Out
- Is The Sky The Limit?
- Golden Chain
- So Far From Heaven
- Shine, Shine, Shine
- It Isn't Love
- War In Heaven
- Glorious
- (It Was A) Most Disturbing Dream
- Underneath The Apple Tree
- The Argument
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Scorton meaning 'farmstead near a ditch or ravine' is a village in the parish of Nether Wyresdale, along the road from Garstang. It was developed around the cotton mill and railway in the nineteenth century, although there are records of the village and catholic church in Scurton, or Scorton, tracing back to the 17C.
Today the village is a popular destination for walkers, cyclists and visitors seeking refreshment at The Priory, The Barn, Daisy Clough Nurseries and Apple Store Cafe at Wyresdale Park. Nearby landmark Nicky Nook is a popular climb, and the fisheries at Wyreside Lake and Cleveley Mere are well worth a visit too.
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Well this whitetail season has been a good one for me here in Kansas. Even though I haven't been able to get that big buck on the ground with my bow. I have seen as many as sixteen different nice racked bucks. But I have only seen one really nice buck that I would have shot given the chance.
Whitetail Season
I have filmed several young but promising bucks. But the one big boy I saw was locked down with a doe about one hundred yards across a field. He just would not leave the doe he was with. To come to the many different calls I used to try and lure him into bow range. Having a very busy work schedule during the rut didn't help me at all. And the the moon phase during the rut seemed to really have the big boys moving at night and has made for a tough deer season.
Bucks Hit List
I had three bucks on my hit list as of early October. But since that time I have not gotten any trail camera pictures of any of those three shooters on my hit list. We hope they make it through the season if I'm not able to get one on the ground by the end of the Kansas whitetail season.
Filmed Hunt
I was able to film myself shooting a big Kansas doe with my bow on Thanksgiving morning. My freezer was empty and I needed to feed my family. She was a big beautiful doe with a very light tan coat and white patches on all of her feet. I have many trail camera pictures of her and had told myself if given the chance I would take her.
Still Hunting Hard
Not having a single shooter on my trail cameras since early October has been very puzzling to me and frustrating. I have continued to hunt hard in hopes of catching a big buck cruising looking for does on the 120 acre tract that I hunt here in northeast Kansas. Now that the rut is pretty much winding down and we are having some really cold weather. I am focusing on late season food sources. As I write this it is about 17 degrees and snowing. The deer really need carbohydrates to stay warm so I will be hunting somewhere close to corn. If you have late season food sources this time of year it can be a huge advantage to set up near those food sources.
Always Good To Get Out in the Woods During Whitetail Season
How has your deer hunting been? Even though I haven't been able to take a big buck, I consider this whitetail season to be a success. Just being able to see so many bucks at such close range. And to be able to film them and to take a big Kansas doe has made it a fun year. Any time away from the rat race is well spent. Just to see the sun come up on a cold crisp November morning is a blessing, and one that I will always love.
Send us those pictures of your whitetail season and share your success stories with us, we'd love to hear them. Thanks for stopping by and an early Merry Christmas everyone.


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Assignment 3 in my Mobile Application Development class was turned in last week. This assignment was to do something with a web service and use an IntentService/ResultReceiver combo to offload network tasks.
I made a cool little app that lets you pan and zoom around a map of your town, your state, or anywhere in the US, and get US Census Bureau ACS data for that area. A cool part is a list view of all the data you've accessed gets sorted by distance from your current GPS location (or the center of the last map you looked at, etc.).
Originally, I thought it would be cool to make custom transparent map overlays in the shape of each census tract. That way, you would end up with a neat visual patchwork of census tracts. That idea got shelved when I downloaded some shapefiles and realized "wow, I have no idea what this stuff means!"
Lots of fun. I'd love to spend more time on this one and get it polished to the point of publishing it on the Android Market. Census tract shapes, a refined user interface, maybe even scaled map annotations based on the value of a designated statistic? –I think this could be really nice.
I'm really loving this new universe of JSON-based web APIs. If you do this kind of stuff and you haven't tried InfoChimps yet, you should–a very interesting company that serves as a kind of data API clearinghouse/bazaar where everything is nicely documented and clean. Some APIs are free and a lot of the ones I checked out are free for the first X requests per month, so you can play around prototyping without making a big investment.
Further implementation detail, code snippets, etc., are here: [UWEC CS491] Homework 3 – Uncens.us


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Yes, Flash is expensive but this Super Talent Pico-C solid gold Flash bling thing is just ridiculous. For $599 you get 8GB of solid gold thumb drive.
Super Talent's Pico-C 8GB USB thumb drive: solid gold
Oh, and an 18-carat gold key chain, encryption software and a black velvet-lined case. The kicker, for the prize bling nerds is a limited edition Serialised Certificate of Authenticity. For businesses that want to wade straight into deep recession-denial, the six hundred greenbacks includes their logo or some text - say 'I'm a dickhead' - laser-etched into the solid-gold surface.
It's the kind of flashy rubbish found in the pages of airline in-flight catalogues, along with the 24-hour wall clocks, titanium golf tees with GPS locator, and pet shampoo/conditioner dispensers.
Super Talent make speedy flash drives, but we think this one is going to move pretty slowly. At a time when you can get 8GB of Flash in your average store for around $35 or less - say $4/GB - Super Talent's marketing droids have come up with flash priced at $75/GB.
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We are an independent group observing how the police officers at the station (Bundesgrenzschutz/BGS, Federal Border Guard) carry out controls here in the main station. Reports that the station police intentionally pick out people who look "foreign" or "different" are becoming more frequent. These controls are legally permitted "independent of any concrete suspicion". Certain people are not allowed to stay in the Germany, those without "valid" papers can be taken into custody and deported.
Through the work of the "committee against state racism" we want to make clear to the officers of Bundesgrenzschutz (BGS) that a growing number of people are against that institutionalised racism. We are gathering information to compile a report for publication.
We are working against threatening or violent behaviour shown by the police to refugees and "foreign" looking people. We call for an end to racist controls in stations and airports and demand that refugees are protected in Germany from persecution, war, torture and hunger and are allowed to live with dignity.
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Our Havana range is a celebration of the art deco movement of the 1930s. This superior wicker outdoor sofa set includes 2 x Havana lounge chairs, a dining table, an occasional bench and a 3 seat sofa. The table has a tempered glass top and the rattan patio chairs & sofa are delivered fully assembled. The seat and back cushions are 12cm thick and are included.
Havana 5 Piece Sofa Set – Pebble Rattan
We use 5mm round weave to manufacture our top of the range Kensington Deluxe rattan garden furniture for a number of reasons:
- aesthetics – the round weave gives a solid classic look
- more substantial furniture – it takes much more raw material to make a round weave product as the round rattan fibre is thicker than flat rattan fibre
- strength – it takes much longer to weave round rattan fibre but the end product is heavier and lasts longer
- better cushions – high grade cushion material/foam is specified to complement the round rattan and the cushions are boxed and piped
- cleaning – this rattan is easily cleaned even with a hose down
- colourfast, stain resistant, and UV repellent.
Also known as resin weave or woven wicker, rattan outdoor furniture is basically extruded polypropylene fibre, woven onto a metal frame. Polypropylene was first used in the 1980s in the garden furniture industry to manufacture stacking resin chairs, loungers and garden tables.
Virgin Aluminium – our superior round weave rattan patio furniture has aluminium frames to ensure the strongest welding. The round extruded polypropylene is woven to the powder coated aluminium frame, unlike some manufacturers who use a less expensive steel frame which is prone to rusting.
Grade A Polypropylene – we use only grade A round polypropylene weave to give you many years of outside use. Tested to +40°c and -40°c, our polypropylene is frost proof and will not rot.
Finished Feet – all the legs on our rattan garden furniture have a finishing aluminium cap which eliminates unravelling and minimizes wear.
Nylon Feet – to stop chipping and marking.
Havana 5 Pce Dining Sofa Set – Pebble Rattan – Technical Specifications
2 x Lounge Arm Chair | 80cm width |75cm depth | 87cm height
1 x 3 Seat Sofa | 195cm width | 80cm depth | 87cm height
Sofa Height To Top Of Seat Cushion 46cm | Armrest Width 10cm
1 x Havana Dining Table | length 140cm | depth 80cm | height 70cm
1 x Havana Dining Bench | length 110cm | depth 40cm | height 52cm
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Plan: Men, women to share downhill course
BEAVER CREEK — For ski racing fans, Birds of Prey will be the center of the universe for two straight weeks this year.
With the World Alpine Ski Championships coming to the Vail Valley in 2015, the U.S. leg of the International Ski Federation calendar will look fairly different than in years past due to the women's 2015 World Championships test event, which will run just prior to the annual men's Birds of Prey World Cup at Beaver Creek.
The original plan was to have the women's event run after the men's World Cup, but the calendar was changed to have the women go before the men in an effort to keep the European teams from having to spend too much time in North America in December.
As a result, both the men and the women will likely race on the same downhill course, a hybrid of both the men's and the women's courses, starting with the women's course at the top of the run and crossing over into the men's course for the second half.
"They had no choice," said former World Cup racer and Vail Valley resident Patrik Jaerbyn, who sits on the board of directors for the 2015 organizing committee. "There's no way you can have two full downhill tracks ready in the beginning of December."
So a compromise was made to have both the men and the women race on the same downhill course.
"This course solution will feature the top half of the new Raptor ladies' course and the bottom half of the Birds of Prey men's course for all races," said John Dakin, a spokesperson for the 2015 local organizing committee.
Since racers must have a few training runs in before the actual competition, the first women's downhill training run will occur on Nov. 26, one day before the mountain begins its regular operations for the 2013-14 season.
Training runs will go for three days before the official runs of the World Championship test event commence on Nov. 29. More of an exhibition than an actual World Cup event, the results won't count toward the women's World Cup points, but will still serve as a nice indicator of how things are shaping up for the 2013-14 season and beyond.
The women's event wraps up on Dec. 1, and the men will then begin training runs two days later on Dec. 3. Men will race super-G on Dec. 6, downhill on Dec. 7 and giant slalom on Dec. 8. The downhill courses won't be the exact same, as the gates will be in different places, but for the men used to racing on "America's Downhill," as the Beaver Creek course is known, this year will be a new experience.
However, there is at least one factor that could get the men back on the course to which they're accustomed.
"If Mother Nature is incredibly generous with early season snow, this plan may change," said Doug Haney, of the U.S. Ski Team.
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How to (Un)cage a Girl
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A celebration of girls and women in a three part poetry collection that is powerful, hopeful, authentic, and universal.
Praise For How to (Un)cage a Girl…
— Booklist
"Fans…will be awed by Block's consistently fertile imagination and her honesty in illuminating the dark moments of girls' and women's lives."
— Publishers Weekly
"Teenage girls…will devour this insightful and powerful collection."
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"There is something for everyone in this short, beautifully written collection…poetry lovers or not, readers will find a wonderful read."
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HarperTeen, 9780061358364, 128pp.
Publication Date: September 16, 2008
About the Author
Francesca Lia Block, winner of the prestigious Margaret A. Edwards Award, is the author of many acclaimed and bestselling books, including Weetzie Bat; the book collections Dangerous Angels: The Weetzie Bat Books and Roses and Bones: Myths, Tales, and Secrets; the illustrated novella House of Dolls; the vampire romance novel Pretty Dead; and the gothic werewolf novel The Frenzy. Her work is published around the world.


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As Republicans flex their muscles in Congress, the Obama administration Tuesday launched a broad review of government regulations that appears designed to blunt attacks on new laws governing everything from health care to Wall Street.
But the Obama administration, which denies the review is motivated by politics, needs to walk a fine line. While the White House presumably needs to show some results from its high-profile review, it also wants to avoid rolling back any substantial legislative accomplishments of the past two years.
Business groups have recently stepped up their attacks on new and proposed regulations that have been a cornerstone of the Obama administration's policy agenda, staring with health care. House Republicans this week are planning to push through legislation that would repeal the sweeping health care reform, although the bill is expected to die in the Senate.
Business groups also have taken aim at new regulations on the financial industry and on environmental regulation related to global warming.
"We spend about $1.7 trillion a year on regulation and put out much of it," Tom Donohue president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce told MSNBC last week. "Much of it is needed and we support it. But a lot of it, particularly in the last three years, has moved from a government of the people to a government of the regulators, or the regulating agencies."
The new policy on business regulation reflects "a common sense approach to how we can bring our regulators system into the 21st century," according to a senior administration official who briefed reporters on condition of anonymity.
The executive order outlining the review calls for all federal agencies to write "cost-effective, evidence-based regulations that are compatible with economic growth, job creation, and competitiveness." Government regulations should be "transparent, coordinated and simplified."
Some skeptics said the move seemed to represent a shift in the administration's philosophy of government rule-making.
"What Obama seems to be doing is reverting to the old default position where market discipline will solve all our problems," said Cornelius Hurley, a Boston University law professor and former Federal Reserve lawyer. "My concern is that it's more a reaction to the new Republican Congress and outreach to the business community than a reflection of good policy on his part."
The White House denied that politics were behind the new regulatory review.
"The notion that (the announcement) is left or right or center frankly is less relevant than: Are we doing what's good for the American people?" said the senior administration official. "I would hope that's something that people on the left and right would agree on."
Consumer advocacy group Public Citizen disagreed, saying in a statement on its website: "This is the wrong way to think about regulation, and it is the wrong direction for the American people. Markets cannot function without proper regulation."
The executive order is the latest move by the administration to mend fences with business leaders who have complained that increased government regulation is weighing heavily on the feeble economic recovery. Obama recently named William Daley, a former commerce secretary and banker, as his chief of staff.
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"The Business Roundtable, an influential lobbying group, warned this month of a "regulatory tsunami" in a letter to Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., the newly appointed chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform committee. Attached was a list of dozens of new rules the group said are "hindering investment and job creation." Those include:
- Financial Reform - The group cited a number of provisions of the Dodd-Frank financial reform legislation that it said are "unnecessary, do not constitute 'reform' in any recognizable sense, and are burdensome and costly." Those include a new federal right to access corporate proxy statements; disclosure of the ratio of CEO pay to the average workers' salary; disclosure of the use of so-called "conflict minerals" mined in Congo; new financial reporting requirements for natural resources producers; payments to "whistle blowers" who report securities law violations to the SEC; proposed regulation of derivatives trading and other rules governing executive compensation.
- Health care, retirement - Various provisions of the new health care reform law will "result in cost increases," the group said, "without commensurate benefits to employees." The group cited certain rules "grandfathering" existing health plans; a tax on so-called "Cadillac" health plans; rules governing electronic recordkeeping; elimination of tax breaks for retiree drug subsidies; restrictions on "limited" health plans; reporting requirements on premium increases; and a provision requiring more companies to file 1099 tax forms. The Business Roundtable also took issue with proposed regulations governing retirement plans, including the way pensions account for assets from one year to the next.
- Environment - The Business Roundtable also cited an "aggressive" environmental regulatory agenda that relies on "unproven technology" to limit greenhouse gases and "threatens a significant number of electric power plants." The group singled out certain rules governing hazardous air pollutants and said the cost of compliance could reach more than $13 billion through 2013 — roughly four times EPA estimates.
White House officials said Tuesday that the executive order was the result of a policy that's been in place for months and not a response to the call from the business community for a rollback of government regulations.
"While we are interested in comments from everybody, no particular list is going to be organizing our efforts," the senior administration official said in the briefing.
Though last year's Dodd-Frank financial reform law ran more than 2,000 pages, much of the specific rule-making was left to new and existing financial regulators. That process, which is now reaching the most contentious phase of specific, detailed regulation, is the subject of heavy lobbying by the companies subject to the new regulations.
"We're going to write 250 new rules that completely rewrite the script for how financial companies operate for the next several decades," said John Taft, chairman of the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, an industry trade group. "It's absolutely imperative that we get it right."
The financial services industry Tuesday was looking for fresh details on the rollout of new financial rules. Regulators were expected to propose criteria for deciding which market players other than banks, such as hedge funds, could threaten the financial system and require greater scrutiny by the Federal Reserve.
The Financial Stability Oversight Council, created to safeguard the financial system after the 2008 panic, was set to release a study recommending how to put into practice the so-called Volcker Rule, which would ban banks from trading with their own capital for profit in securities and other financial instruments.
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. also is meeting to consider proposals for curbing pay practices deemed too risky, another aspect of the Dodd-Frank law.
With memories of the financial crisis fading, the Obama administration seems to be rewriting its efforts at financial reform, said Hurley, the law professor.
"My concern is really with the tone that is set by this executive order that somehow all of a sudden regulations — both existing and on the drawing boards — need to be cast in a new light and that new light seems to be a vestige of the Clinton/Bush White Houses, which is 'regulation bad, markets discipline good,'" he said.
The Obama administration indicated it will take a tough line defending the health care law. On Tuesday, the White House dismissed the planned House vote, saying it's not "a serious legislative effort."


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Association Between New Jersey's Graduated Driver Licensing Decal Provision and Crash Rates of Young Drivers With Learners' Permits." Inj. Prev.. 2015;21(6):421-423."
Birth outcomes among offspring of women exposed to the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks." Obstet Gynecol. 2010;116(4):917-25."
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The Effect of Extending Graduated Driver Licensing to Older Novice Drivers in Indiana. Washington, DC: AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety; 2019.
Effect of the Teen Driving Plan on the Driving Performance of Teenagers Before Licensure: A Randomized Clinical Trial." JAMA Pediatr. 2014."
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It's been blizzardy days here in Utah...brrrr... there is so much white outside we don't even know where to put it all--and it just continues to come! Luckily, with all of this cold weather, I've been in the mood to scrap our snowy memories...and we've prepared our Blissful Blizzard collection for some digital use, too!
Here are a couple of digi layouts, using our new Blissful Blizzard digital products found over at
This first layout uses our Quick Page template, along with a few little additions... seriously easy layout to create- just drop the photos in, add journaling and a couple embellishments...DONE!
And this next layout was created using the digital papers and embellishments from the line! A simple little iphone picture did the trick here--my little guy all bundled up in an electric blanket on cold winter day--it's great to capture those day to day moments--that's what it is all about!
Here is a layout using the physical product that I made a little while back-I shared it on the CK Blog. I loved the idea of using the hearts to create my own background, then, using some of our new stencils (Me and You), buttons, stickers and twine, I wrapped up a rather simple page!!
A close up of the hearts. Just stitch down the centers and lift each side up a bit and you get a little added dimension to the background!
A close up of the title. I used one of our new stencil sets (the positive portion {Me and You}, a negative portion from the cut out hearts and a few additional accents to finish it off!
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Justyna Tvrznikova, my great-grandmother, has stubborn eyes, broadish shoulders, and shell stand straight up to her death.From the moment she comes into great-grandfathers house, she stops recollecting out loud.The present swallows her.A year after her marriage Anicka is born, a year later Marie.Josef and Antonin dont lie long in their cradle: the tiny bodies are carried up the hillside path used by those who leave the house for the fieldor forever.A plot bought in the cemetery, no money left for a gravestone.
The plotone of the few certainties in Justynas life.Here we shall all lie sooner or later.And this feeling is passed on to the rest.My grandmother Kristyna is the last of Justynas children.The midwife bends over her; the girl-child seems so small, her cries feeble.Quickly, they call the priest and light a candle.
But when the baby opens her eyes and Justyna recognizes her own stubbornness, she puts Kristyna to her breast and says she must live.Justynas picture is faded and static compared with the one I carry in my minds eye.In first grade, we are learning to write the letter.I keep stretching the tail-end of the down-stroke up too high, and our teachers red pencil comes mercilessly crossing it outwrong, wrong, wrong.Thats when I get whooping cough and Mummy takes me to the country, to Grandma Kristynas.The cottage huddles at the foot of the hill sloping down from the village, just above the creek which runs ribbon-like along the bottom.
The first thing I notice are smells.Burning wood, freshly drawn milk, hay and stable, cellar and attic.Cat and dog fur, uneven threshold, damp wall.I sit in the wood-lined kitchen, my back up against the tiled stove.A winking oil-lamp sways, the flame dwindles, then flares up again, reminding me of a clenching and unclenching fist.The damp stains on the plastered rear wall take on strange shapes.


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