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The recent news about the harmful effects of hormone replacement was
played in the media as a health story, but it is much more than that. In
fact, it may be the hot-flashiest corporate scandal to date: Let's call
it Estron.
If other corporate scandals have been about fudging figures, this one
is about fudging science--something that seems to have been surprisingly
easy to do. And such is the corporate culture that we have apparently
preferred to believe the drug companies rather than the women's health
advocates who have been lobbying for decades simply to get the
scientific evidence to back the companies' claims. The director of the
North American Menopause Society (NAMS), Dr. Wulf Utian, called the bad
news about hormones a bombshell, but it really isn't. Information has
been slowly accumulating about hormone replacement therapy's risks, even
as Wyeth and other manufacturers have been pushing their product as an
elixir for a widening group of symptoms. In recent years, this
potentially carcinogenic drug has been marketed with the nonchalance of
a vitamin pill: HRT advertising suggests that almost no woman over 50
couldn't benefit from it somehow.
Estron is the latest in a long line of scandals pitting women's health
against the interests of Big Pharma--scandals like the sale of faulty
Dalkon Shield contraceptives, which caused infertility, and medications
like DES, which caused severe illnesses in users and their children.
What all these cases have in common is that--like the manufacturers of
menopausal hormones--the drug companies, in their rush for profits,
insufficiently tested their wares before selling them to millions. What
these scandals suggest is that somewhere in the swampy landscape of
medical research funding, unhealthy relationships incubate between
medical practitioners and the drug-company reps who manage to dazzle
them with quasi science and quasi truths. The industry spends around $15
billion a year to promote its products--more than it spends to develop
them. Clearly, even those doctors who resisted the
luxury-cruise-lectures approach to sales found themselves suckered in.
The manipulation of HRT's scientific credentials began back in the
mid-1960s, when Wyeth paid gynecologist Dr. Robert Wilson to extol its
new wonder drug, estrogen replacement. In an evocatively named book,
Feminine Forever, Wilson declared that by replacing the estrogen
lost at menopause, women would remain attractive and easier to live
with. Over the decades since, Wyeth and other hormone manufacturers have
revised dosages and combinations to fit new medical revelations and
poured billions into sophisticated propaganda to get their message out.
The message is that menopause is not a natural life stage but a
disease--estrogen deficiency--and it will make you old. HRT is the cure,
and it will keep you young.
In recent years the manufacturers have claimed protective qualities for
HRT way beyond its original ambitions. First, it promised (and
delivered) relief from menopausal symptoms. Next came claims for
protection against heart disease in women already affected, and then in
healthy women. Then came its role as a treatment against osteoporosis,
which, manufacturers warned (falsely), becomes an instant risk at the
moment of menopause (it's a gradual risk over many years).
The truth is that the manufacturers didn't exactly know what HRT did or
didn't do, because they never ran a big, randomized national study
stringent enough to meet medical standards. For more than twenty years,
the companies used observational studies showing that women who took
hormones were healthier, but they didn't look at why: Was it that the
hormones themselves made women healthier, or that health-conscious women
were more likely to take hormones to begin with? There were many other
uncertainties. Yet calls to answer these questions, from women's health
groups and even from prominent politicians like Pat Schroeder and
Olympia Snowe, went unheeded.
For all the hype, there has been plenty of evidence, both scientific and
epidemiological, that estrogen, named a carcinogen by the FDA two years
ago, is not a wonder drug for everyone. Thirty percent of prescriptions
for estrogen remain unfilled, and the growing search for alternative
menopause products shows that increasing numbers of women are
uncomfortable with the prospect of a lifetime of swallowing synthesized
horse urine. And for all the spin, there has also been accumulating
evidence of serious side effects. As early as 1975 the FDA identified
links between estrogen and higher rates of uterine cancer. (Wyeth
responded by adding another product, progestin, to offset the risk.) In
1990 the Nurses Health Study reported that women on estrogen faced a 36
percent greater risk of breast cancer. That same year the FDA refused to
approve Premarin as a treatment to prevent heart disease, because the
company's evidence didn't convince them. The 2000 HERS study, actually
funded by Wyeth, found that hormone therapy increased risks in heart
disease patients in the first few years. (Wyeth countered that
long-term, it works.)
And people have been trying to warn us. As far back as the mid-1990s,
The Menopause Industry, by Australian reporter Sandra Coney,
presented heavily researched evidence of uterine bleeding, gallbladder
disease and increased cancer rates in hormone takers. In 1997 breast
cancer specialist Dr. Susan Love's Hormone Book returned to the
link between HRT and increased breast cancer risk and came under attack
for raising an alarm. Earlier this year Cindy Pearson, executive
director of the National Women's Health Network, published The Truth
About Hormone Replacement Therapy, outlining many other
discrepancies between hormone hype and science. The medical
establishment barely paid attention.
Finally, the scientific evidence that we have now, based on two large
randomized trials, is definitive, according to one of the study's
leaders, Dr. Deborah Grady. The trials have shown that not only does HRT
do more harm than good for women with existing heart disease, but it
doesn't protect healthy women either; in fact, during the trial it
increased incidence of heart attacks, breast cancer, strokes and blood
clots--enough to have caused the study to be abandoned three years
early. And yet belief in the hormone was so strong that researchers
feared it would be unethical to put women on placebos.
How is this possible? Dr. Utian of NAMS has admitted that many different
parties--from the drug companies to their paid researchers and
spokespeople to the prescribing gynecologists--have had a vested
interest in the success of hormone replacement, and for them, he told
the New York Times, the issue is about more than data. For them,
Utian said, truth is opinion. But that seems a risky precept for
physicians to work with. It sounds like something Arthur Andersen would
Hot media news: Women want hard-hitting reports on issues that affect them.
The Nation reported on Dr. Pendergraft's troubles in
"Abortion on Trial" by Hillary Frey and Miranda Kennedy, June 18, 2001.
At the fourteenth international AIDS conference, the gulf between the
United States and the rest of the world widened as US officials touted
policies that world health experts agree are ineffective strategies for
stemming the pandemic. Without stepped-up prevention efforts, 45 million
more people will become infected with HIV by 2010, according to the
Global HIV Prevention Working Group. Yet 29 million of these people
would never contract the virus if leaders ratcheted up preventive
strategies--most crucially teaching the use of condoms.
In European countries, including the Netherlands and Sweden, the
promotion of a variety of safe sex practices--abstinence, monogamy and
condom use--has reduced teen pregnancies and sexually transmitted
diseases. In Senegal and Uganda, it has cut the rate of new HIV
infections in half. In all these countries and in others, national
governments have supported such programs both rhetorically and
The White House, however, wants to expand programs enacted under the
Clinton Administration that tie federal funding of sex education to the
promotion of abstinence-only curriculums. While the vast majority of US
schools provide information about what HIV is and how it is transmitted,
less than half give students information about what condoms are or how
to use them, according to Centers for Disease Control surveys.
In a speech drowned out by angry protesters in Barcelona, US Secretary
of Health and Human Services Tommy Thompson touted the Administration's
$500 million drug initiative to prevent babies in Africa and the
Caribbean from becoming infected with HIV during birth or through
breastfeeding. He seemed confused when reporters later suggested that
preventing women, girls and their partners from becoming infected in the
first place might be a more productive strategy.
The evidence is clear: Campaigns that rely only on abstinence and drugs
to protect babies from AIDS won't slow the world pandemic. HIV
prevention does work when it is part of reproductive health programs
that recognize that sex is an integral component of human behavior.
A half-century ago T.H. Marshall, British Labour Party social theorist,
offered a progressive, developmental theory for understanding the
history of what we have come to call citizenship. Taking the experience
of Englishmen to define the superior path, he postulated a hierarchy of
citizenships: civil rights, political rights and social rights. The last of these became the
category in which twentieth-century Europeans have understood claims on
the state to health, welfare, education and protection from avoidable
risk. They conceived of these citizenships as stages in an upward climb
toward an ever better democracy.
Marshall's schema looked only at European men. Feminists have pointed
out that women did not achieve citizenship in this order. In fact, women
often won some social rights--for example, protective legislation and
"welfare"--before achieving political ones such as the right to vote.
And women's individual civil rights were often overwhelmed and even
suppressed by legally imposed family obligations and moral sanctions.
(For example, a century ago courts generally interpreted the law of
marriage to mean that women were legally obligated to provide housework,
childcare and sexual services to husbands.) Equally problematic were
Marshall's obliviousness to British imperialism and what it meant for
Third World populations, including the fact that he conceived of the
British as civilizers rather than exploiters, and his apparent ignorance
of the conditions of second-class citizenship for racial/ethnic
subordinates within nation-states. In short, his historical hierarchy
was highly ideological.
But no one has yet done what Alice Kessler-Harris has in her newest
book, In Pursuit of Equity, reaching beyond Marshall and his
critics to suggest a new concept, economic citizenship. In this history
of how women have been treated in employment, tax and welfare policy,
Kessler-Harris--arguably the leading historian of women's labor in the
United States--synthesizes several decades of feminist analysis to
produce a holistic conception of what full citizenship for women might
entail. In lucid prose with vivid (and sometimes comic) illustrations of
the snarled thinking that results from conceiving of women as
dependents--rather than equal in heading families--she offers a vision
of how we can move toward greater democracy. In the process, she also
shows us what we are up against. Her book illustrates brilliantly how
assumptions about appropriate gender roles are built into all aspects of
She aims to resolve what is perhaps the central contradiction for
policy-makers and policy scholars who care about sex equality: the
contradiction between, on the one hand, valuing the unpaid caring work
still overwhelmingly performed by women and, on the other hand, enabling
women to achieve equality in wage labor and political power. Today, for
example, although all feminists oppose the punitive new requirements of
the policy that replaced Aid to Families with Dependent Children,
repealed in 1996, they are divided about what would constitute the right
kind of welfare system. Some find it appropriate that all adults,
including parents of young children, should be employed, assuming they
can get a living wage and good childcare. Others, often called
maternalists, believe a parent should have the right to choose full-time
parenting for young or particularly needy children. Behind this difference lie two different visions of
sex equality--one that emphasizes equal treatment of the sexes and individual rights
and responsibilities, another that seeks to make unpaid caring labor,
notably for the very young, the old and the ill, as honorable and valued
as waged labor.
Kessler-Harris would resolve this contradiction through a labor-centered
view of citizenship, a notion of economic citizenship based on equity,
or fairness, in the valuation of socially worthy labor. Previously, the
policy proposal closest to this principle of equity was "comparable
worth." Second-wave feminists saw that the Equal Pay Act of 1963 and
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 had failed to equalize male
and female wages. Because the labor force is so segregated, and female
jobs are so consistently undervalued, equal pay alone cannot produce
justice to women (or men of color). The comparable-worth strategy called
for equal wages for work of comparable expertise and value, even when
the jobs differed. For example, consider the wage gap between truck
drivers and childcare workers. Truck drivers earned much more even than
registered nurses, whose training and responsibility was so much
greater. The women's movement's challenge to inequality in jobs took off
in 1979, when Eleanor Holmes Norton, then head of the Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission, called for evaluations of job skills to remedy
women's low wages. But her successor, Clarence Thomas, refused to
consider comparable-worth claims. Although some substantial victories
were achieved in state and union battles--for example, the American
Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) won wage
increases averaging 32 percent and back pay retroactive to 1979 for
Washington State employees, 35,000 of whom shared a $482 million
settlement--the comparable-worth campaigns faded in the 1980s.
But even had the comparable-worth strategy been adopted, it could not
have recognized the hours spent in caring for children, parents,
disabled relatives and friends, not to mention the work of volunteering
in underfunded schools, cooking for homeless shelters, running kids'
basketball teams. Kessler-Harris is arguing for a citizenship that
respects unpaid as well as paid labor.
She has worked out the arguments in this book systematically over many
years. Several years ago, an article of hers with the deceptively simple
title "Where Are All the Organized Women Workers?" enlarged the
understanding of gendered "interests" from an exclusive focus on women
to take in men as well. She demonstrated that so long as men dominate,
aspirations understood and characterized as class interests often
express gender interests equally strongly. She uncovered how unions
often operated as men's clubs, built around forms of male bonding that
excluded women, primarily unconsciously but often consciously, too. In
this new book she extends her analysis of men's gendered interests to
reveal how labor unionists' inability to stop defending the privileges
of masculinity have held back labor's achievements. One vivid example
was unions' opposition to state-funded welfare programs and
health-and-safety regulation, stemming from anxiety that they would
deprive workers of their manly independence. Of course, unionist
resistance to state control over workplace and work-centered programs
also derived from a defense of workers' control. But this vision of
workplace democracy was inextricably masculinist, and workingmen's
understanding of their dignity rested on distinguishing themselves from
In A Woman's Wage, Kessler-Harris showed that both Marxist and
neoclassical economics were mistaken in their joint assumption that the
wage was somehow a consistent, transparent token of the capital/labor
relation. By contrast, wage rates, wage systems, indeed the whole labor
market were constructed by gender interests and ideology as well as by
supply and demand or surplus value or the actual cost of subsistence. A
wonderful example from her new book: The Hawthorne experiments of the
late 1920s have been interpreted to show that women workers were more
tractable than men. In one study, a group of women workers adapted more
cooperatively and quickly to a speedup than did a group of male workers.
In seeking to explain this behavior, investigators examined the women's
home lives and even their menstrual cycles, while paying no particular
attention to the fact that the collective rather than individual wage
structure imposed on them was such that higher productivity could only
increase their total wages, while the men's piece-rate wage structure
offered no such guarantee--in fact, the men had reason to expect that
the piece rate would be lowered if they speeded up. We see here not a
"natural" gendered difference arising informally from culture and
socialization, but female and male workers responding rationally to a
gendered system imposed by employers.
In Pursuit of Equity argues that no one can enjoy civil and
political rights without social and economic citizenship. Marshall's
alleged gradual expansion of civil and political rights not only
excluded many others but actually strengthened women's exclusion from
citizenship. One fundamental premise of democratic capitalism--free
labor--was never fully extended to all women, whose labor was often
coercively regulated, not only by husbands but by the state.
Kessler-Harris shows how free labor developed in tandem with the "family
wage" ideal, that is, that husbands/fathers should earn for the entire
family and that women's destiny was domestic unpaid labor. The correlate
was that men "naturally" sought economic and social independence while
women "naturally" sought dependence. Ironically, most feminists of the
nineteenth century went along with this dichotomy and tried to root
women's citizenship in their essential family services rather than in
the free-labor definition of independence. That is, they argued for
rights on the basis of women's spiritual and material work in unpaid
caretaking labor.
The book demonstrates particularly effectively how the dominant modern
gender system--the family-wage norm--made it difficult for women to
become full citizens. In one closely documented section, Kessler-Harris
exposes the condescending and defensive assumptions of those who drafted
the Old Age Insurance program (which later became Social Security). The
drafters agreed, for example, that the widow of a covered man with young
children should be able to receive three-quarters of his pension until
she remarried or the children reached 18. A widow without children
lacked any rights to her husband's pension. But if this pension was her
husband's by right, as the designers insisted, then why were his heirs
not entitled to all of it as with all other parts of his property? If
the widow remarried, she would not have to give up the bank account or
house or car he had left her--why should she give up a Social Security
pension? One Social Security drafter argued that retaining such an
annuity after remarriage would make widows "a prize for the fellow that
has looked for it," assuming that women are entirely passive in marriage
decisions! The drafters were all convinced that "once a woman was no
longer dependent on the earnings of a particular male (dead or
alive)...his support for her should cease." In other words, his status
as breadwinner should continue even after his death. The drafters
rejected the idea of granting all widows of covered men an equal stipend
or one based on the number of children. It was important for her
benefits to be calibrated to his earnings so as to feed "the illusion
that families deprived of a father or husband would nevertheless
conceive him...as a continuing provider." "Why should you pay the widow
less than the individual himself gets if unmarried?" Because "she can
look after herself better than he can." Imagining women as less capable
of handling money than men, the designers removed the option of a
lump-sum benefit to widows, requiring them, unlike men, to receive
monthly stipends. To avoid "deathbed marriages," they allowed a widow to
collect only if she had been married and living with her husband for at
least a year before he died.
The concern with male status was reflected particularly comically in
discussions about the age at which a wife could start to receive her
share of her husband's benefits. Some argued for an earlier "retirement"
age for women because if both men and women were eligible at 65, this
would mean that men with younger wives--a common phenomenon--might not
get their full pension for a number of years after they retired. But
others argued that since men who married much younger women were more
likely to be those who had married more than once, granting women an
earlier retirement date might reward these men over single-marriage
Several decades ago economist Heidi Hartmann pointed out that patriarchy
was as much a system of power and hierarchy among men as a male-female
relation, and Kessler-Harris confirms that insight. For example, the
entire debate about whether married couples should be able to report
separate incomes for IRS purposes concerned the inequalities this would
create between men with employed wives and men with nonemployed wives.
Fairness to women was not a prominent concern. The fact that employed
women's old-age insurance benefits were restricted according to their
marital status while men's weren't "did not seem like sex discrimination
[to the Social Security designers] but rather like equity to men."
At the core of In Pursuit of Equity is the understanding that
what is "fair" is historically changing. The problem we face today is
not that men deliberately built policies to subordinate women but that
when our basic economic policies were established, men and women alike
tended to see male breadwinning and female domesticity as "fair." That
standard is far, far from reality today. One result is a double standard
in which supposedly ideal family life, requiring a full-time mother, is
a privilege of wives of high-earning husbands.
In the United States, the resultant damage is worse than in Europe,
because here many fundamental aspects of citizenship flow from the labor
market. "Independence" today is generally defined as earning one's
living through wages, despite the fact that the resulting dependence on
employers leaves workers as vulnerable, if not more vulnerable, than
dependence on government stipends. Social rights vital for survival,
such as medical insurance, retirement pensions and workers'
compensation, typically derive from employment in this country, in
contrast to most developed countries, which provide such help as a
matter of right to all citizens or residents. This is one way in which
American wage workers, as Kessler-Harris says, were "in a different
relationship to the constitution than those who did care-giving work."
As a result the development of democratic capitalism, even the growth of
working-class power in some ways failed to strengthen women's economic
citizenship, even weakened it. Indeed, she shows how victories against
sex discrimination in the labor force in the 1960s inadvertently
confirmed the assumption that all women could and should work for wages,
thereby contributing to the repeal of welfare without creating the
conditions that would make it possible for poor women to support
themselves through employment.
This gendered citizenship became more visible and more obnoxious to
women as wage-earning became the female norm and as "alternative
families" gained political clout. For example, if every individual was
entitled to an old-age pension and unemployment compensation, we
wouldn't have to struggle about the inheritance rights of gay partners
or stay-at-home parents' need for support. Even today, banning sex
discrimination is difficult because it is difficult to get agreement on
what constitutes discrimination. In a few cases division among feminists
has held back the struggle. Kessler-Harris ends the book with a brief
reprise of EEOC v. Sears, Roebuck & Co., a 1980s marker of
this division and a case in which she herself played a significant role.
Sears admitted that very few women held any of its well-paying
commission sales jobs but argued that women were not interested in these
jobs because the positions were competitive, pressured, demanding.
Another historian of women testified for Sears against the women
plaintiffs, using her expertise to argue that women's primary attachment
to unpaid domestic labor led them to want only jobs which did not
conflict with it. Her arguments illustrated vividly the continuing
influence of this emphasis on male/female difference, not necessarily as
"natural" or essential but nevertheless beyond the appropriate scope of
legal remedy. Sears won the case.
There is one pervasive absence in Kessler-Harris's book--race--and the
omission weakens the argument substantially. Her understanding of how
the family-wage ideal works would have to be substantially complicated
if she made African-American women more central, for they were rarely
able to adopt a male breadwinner/female housewife family model and often
rejected it, developing a culture that expects and honors women's
employment more than white culture. Mexican-American women's experience
did not fit the family-wage model either, despite their reputation as
traditional, because so many have participated in agricultural and
domestic wage labor throughout their lives in the United States. Equally
problematic to the argument, prosperous white women who accepted the
family-wage model often didn't do unpaid domestic labor because they
hired poor immigrants and women of color to do it for low wages. These
different histories must affect how we envisage a policy that recognizes
labor outside the wage system, and they need to be explored.
One aspect of Kessler-Harris's economic citizenship concept is being
expressed today by progressive feminists trying to influence the
reauthorization of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), the
program for poor children and their parents that succeeded AFDC. We are
pushing a House bill that would recognize college education and
childcare as work under the new welfare work requirements. This book is
a sustained argument for that kind of approach and should help it become
part of the policy discussion. It probably won't win. Some will call it
unrealistic. But today's policies are already wildly unrealistic, if
realism has anything to do with actual life. If we don't begin now to
outline the programs that could actually create full citizenship for
women, we will never get there.
Victims of domestic violence defend their right to keep their children.
What would the world look like if women had full human rights? If girls
went to school and young women went to college in places where now they
are used as household drudges and married off at 11 or 12? If women
could go out for the whole range of jobs, could own the land they work,
inherit property on equal terms with men? If they could control their
own sexuality and fertility and give birth safely? If they had recourse
against traffickers, honor killers, wife beaters? If they had as much
say and as much power as men at every level of decision-making, from the
household to the legislature? If John Ashcroft has his way, we may never
find out. After twenty years of stalling by Jesse Helms, the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee in early June held hearings on the
Convention for the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against
Women (CEDAW), an international treaty ratified by 169 nations.
(President Carter signed CEDAW in 1980, but the Senate blocked it.)
George W. Bush originally indicated that he would sign it--that was when
he was sending Laura onto the airwaves to blast the Taliban--but under
the influence of Ashcroft, he's since been hedging. Naturally, the
religious right has been working the phones: According to one e-mail
that came across my screen, the operator who answers the White House
comment line assumed the writer was calling to oppose CEDAW, so heavily
were the calls running against it. The reasons? CEDAW would license
abortion, promote homosexuality and teen sex and destroy The Family. In
2000, Helms called it "a terrible treaty negotiated by radical feminists
with the intent of enshrining their anti-family agenda into
international law."
How radical can CEDAW be, you may ask, given that it's been ratified by
Pakistan, Jordan and Myanmar? Genderquake is hardly around the corner.
Still, across the globe women have been able to use it to improve their
access to education and healthcare as well as their legal status. In
Japan, on the basis of a CEDAW violation, women sued their employers for
wage discrimination and failure to promote; the Tanzanian High Court
cited CEDAW in a decision to overturn a ban on clan land inheritance for
women. Given the dire situation of women worldwide, it is outrageous to
see US policy in the grip of Falwell, James Dobson and Ralph Nader's
good friend Phyllis Schlafly. Like the Vatican, which uses its UN
observer status to make common cause with Islamic fundamentalist
governments on behalf of fetus and family, on CEDAW the Bush
Administration risks allying itself with Somalia, Qatar and Syria to
promote the religious right agenda on issues of sexuality. In the same
way, at the recent UN General Assembly Special Session on the
Child--where the United States opposed providing girls with sex
education beyond "just say no," even though in much of the Third World
the typical "girl" is likely to be married with children--the Bush
Administration allied itself with Libya, Sudan and evil axis member
Iran. Some clash of civilizations.
Given this season's spate of popular books about mean girls and inhumane
women, it might seem starry-eyed to suppose that more equality for women
would have a positive general social effect. Where women are healthy and
well educated and self-determined, you can bet that men are too, but the
situation of women is not only a barometer of a society's general level
of equality and decency--improving women's status is key to solving many
of the world's most serious problems. Consider the AIDS epidemic now
ravaging much of the Third World: Where women cannot negotiate safe sex,
or protect themselves from rape, or expect fidelity from their male
partners, where young girls are sought out by older HIV-positive men
looking for tractable sex partners, where prostitution flourishes under
the most degraded conditions and where women are beaten or even murdered
when their HIV-positive status becomes known, what hope is there of
containing the virus? Under these circumstances, "just say no" is worse
than useless: In Thailand, being married is the single biggest predictor
of a woman's testing positive. As long as women are illiterate, poor and
powerless, AIDS will continue to ravage men, women and children.
Or consider hunger. Worldwide, women do most of the farming but own only
2 percent of the land. In many areas where tribal rules govern
inheritance, they cannot own or inherit land and are thrown off it
should their husband die. Yet a study by the Food and Agriculture
Organization shows that women spend more time on productive activities,
and according to the International Center for Research on Women, women
spend more of their earnings on their children than men do. Recognizing
and maximizing women's key economic role would have a host of
benefits--it would lessen hunger, improve women's and children's
well-being, improve women's status in the family, lower fertility.
And then there's war and peace. I don't think it's an accident that
Islamic fundamentalism flourishes in the parts of the world where women
are most oppressed--indeed, maintaining and deepening women's
subjugation, the violent rejection of everything female, is one of its
major themes. (Remember Mohammed Atta's weird funeral instructions?) At
the same time, the denial of education, employment and rights to women
fuels the social conditions of backwardness, provincialism and poverty
that sustain religious fanaticism.
If women's rights were acknowledged as the key to human progress that
they are, we would look at all these large issues of global politics and
economics very differently. Would the US government have been able to
spend a billion dollars backing the fundamentalist warlords who raped
and abducted women and threw acid at their unveiled faces while
"fighting communism" and destroying Afghanistan? At the recently
concluded loya jirga, which featured numerous current and former
warlords as delegates, a woman delegate stood up and denounced former
President Burhanuddin Rabbani as a violent marauder. For a moment, you
could see that, as the saying goes, another world is possible.
They're here...they're queer...they're conservative!
Let's say I'm a Jehovah's Witness, and I get a job in an understaffed
emergency room where, following the dictates of my conscience, I refuse
to assist with blood transfusions and try my best to persuade my fellow
workers to do the same. How long do you think I'd last on the job? And
after my inevitable firing, how seriously do you think a jury would take
my claim that my rights had been violated? Five minutes and not very,
right? A similar fate would surely await the surgeon who converts to
Christian Science and decides to pray over his patients instead of
operating on them, the Muslim loan officer who refuses to charge
interest, the Southern Baptist psychotherapist who tells his Jewish
patients they're bound for hell. The law rightly requires employers to
respect employees' sincerely held religious beliefs, but not if those
beliefs really do prevent an employee from performing the job for which
she's been hired.
Change the subject to reproductive rights, though, and the picture gets
decidedly strange. In 1999 Michelle Diaz, a born-again Christian nurse
who had recently been hired by the Riverside Neighborhood Health Center,
a public clinic in Southern California, decided that emergency
contraception, the so-called morning after pill that acts to prevent
pregnancy if taken within seventy-two hours of unprotected intercourse,
was actually a method of abortion. She refused to dispense it or give
referrals to other providers; the clinic offered her a position that did
not involve reproductive healthcare, but when she told temporary nurses
at the clinic that they too would be performing abortions by dispensing
EC, Diaz, who was still on probation as a new hire, lost her job. She
sued with the help of the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ),
the religious-right law firm headed by Jay Sekulow. At the end of May a
jury agreed that her rights had been violated and awarded her $47,000.
Excuse me? A nurse at a public health clinic has the right to refuse to
provide patients with legally mandated services, give out misleading
health information in order to proselytize her co-workers to refuse as
well, and keep her job? The low-income women who come to Riverside
desperately in need of EC and abortion referrals are flat out of luck if
they happen to turn up when the anti-choicers are on shift? Riverside is
the largest public health clinic in the county, serving 150-200 patients
a day, but it operates with a staff of four nurses--should those four
people decide what services the clinic can offer? What about the
patient's right to receive standard medical care? Or the clinic's
responsibility to deliver the services for which they receive government
Some states, California among them, have "conscience laws," permitting
anti-choice healthworkers to refuse to be involved in abortions. EC,
however, is just a high dose of regular birth control pills that
prevents ovulation and implantation. It is not abortion, because until a
fertilized egg implants in the womb, the woman is not pregnant. A long
list of medical authorities--the American Medical Association, the
American Medical Women's Association, the American College of
Obstetricians and Gynecologists and Harvard Medical School--agree that
EC is not an abortifacient, and a 1989 California court decision itself
distinguishes abortion from EC. There are lots of mysteries about the
Diaz case, ranging from why Diaz took a job she knew involved practices
she found immoral in the first place, to how the jury could possibly
have come up with a decision so contrary to law and public policy. Did
Diaz take the job with the express intention of disrupting services? Was
the jury anti-choice? Interestingly, the jury pool was partly drawn from
San Bernardino County, which last year unsuccessfully tried to bar its
public health clinics from dispensing EC.
Whatever the jury's thinking, the Diaz case represents the latest of
numerous attempts by the anti-choice movement to equate EC with abortion
and move it out of normal medical practice. Pharmacists for Life
International, a worldwide organization that claims to have some 1,500
members, calls it "chemical abortion" and urges pharmacists to refuse to
dispense it. The ACLJ is currently litigating on behalf of one who did.
Wal-Mart refuses to stock it at all. Anti-choicers in Britain made an
unsuccessful attempt to prevent EC from being dispensed over the counter
by placing it under an archaic law that prohibits "procuring a
miscarriage." Some anti-choicers have long argued that not just EC but
conventional birth-control methods--the pill, Norplant, Depo-Provera and
the IUD--are "abortifacients": In northern Kentucky anti-choice
extremists are campaigning to force one local health board to reject
Title X family-planning funds; according to the Lexington
Herald-Leader, the board's vote, scheduled for June 19, is too
close to call.
Although secular employers are expected to make reasonable
accommodations to religious employees--or even, if the Diaz verdict is
upheld, unreasonable ones--religious employers are not required to
return the favor. On the contrary, the Supreme Court, in The Church
of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints v. Amos, permits them to use
religious tests to hire and fire personnel as far from the sacred
mission as janitorial workers; if a Methodist church wants to refuse to
hire a Muslim security guard, it has the blessing of the Constitution to
do so. As often noted in this column, religious organizations can and do
fire employees who violate religious precepts on and even off the job. A
pro-choice nurse could not get a job at a Catholic hospital and declare
that her conscience required her to go against policy and hand out EC to
rape victims, or even tell them where to obtain it--even though medical
ethics oblige those who refuse to provide standard services for moral
reasons to give referrals, and even though Catholic hospitals typically
get about half of their revenue from the government.
According to the ACLJ, however, secular institutions should be sitting
ducks for any fanatic who can get hired even provisionally. The
Riverside clinic has asked the judge to set aside the Diaz verdict. If
that bid is unsuccessful, it will appeal. I'll let you know what
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The American Heart Association (AHA) has guidelines for testing for coronary artery disease (CAD). Several expert groups worked with the American Heart Association in creating these guidelines, which may be different from those your doctor follows. Consult your doctor to determine which guidelines are appropriate for you.
Beginning at age 20. Your doctor should assess your risk factors for heart disease during every routine exam. Risk factors include your family history of early CAD, whether you smoke or are exposed to secondhand smoke, whether you eat a high-saturated-fat diet, your alcohol intake, and your level of physical activity.
During every routine exam—at least every 2 years—a health professional should check your blood pressure, body mass index, and pulse. Based on your risk of high cholesterol and diabetes, your doctor may recommend that you have a cholesterol test and a fasting blood glucose test.
At age 40 and over. Every 5 years, your 10-year risk of developing coronary artery disease should be assessed using a multiple risk factor score. This should be done more frequently if your risk factors change or if you have two or more risk factors. For example, a nonsmoking, nondiabetic 55-year-old man who has a total cholesterol level of 200 mg/dL, an HDL level of 35 mg/dL, and a systolic blood pressure of 135 mm Hg has a 10% risk of developing CAD over the next 10 years. However, a 40-year-old man with the same risk factors but who smokes has the same risk of CAD as the 55-year-old nonsmoker.
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- View open structures inviting various interpretations of "house" and "home" at the "Joan Backes: Where the Heart Belongs" exhibit in Stolzer Gallery. Draw your ideal home on a whiteboard in the gallery.
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1st Race: TOUGH BUSINESS (#6) was a beaten favorite last out but the winner and the runner up in that one both came back to win impressively next out. She has had two solid works over the Keeneland dirt and looks best in here. HARMONY PLACE (#2) drops back in for a tag and won't mind the move back to the dirt. TIZ LATELY (#5) is a contender.
2nd Race: RUSTICANA (#4) looked good winning a similar race over this track earlier in the meet and is in a good spot to make it two in a row for trainer Jeff Thornbury and jockey Julien Leparoux. JILLEAH (#7) was third behind the top pick last out and figures to be the main competition again. R U DREAMING (#6) has the speed to be a contender.
3rd Race: LOOKING COOL (#4) drops to a career-low claiming level for Ramsey/Maker and anything close to his best makes him a winner with Rosie Napravnik picking up the mount. HAZARDS OF LOVE (#1) is a veteran runner from the Amoss barn who has been remarkably consistent throughout a 58-race career. He is the one to fear. ONE KING'S MAN (#6) is a contender.
4th Race: GAP YEAR (#3) was a surprising favorite in the Grade 1 Darley Alcibiades considering she was a maiden breaking from the 12 post. She was never a factor in that one but should move forward off the experience and will be tough as she is back in against maidens today. ESKENFORMONEY (#7) broke in the air last out but rallied well to finish fourth behind a runaway winner and was beaten just 1½ lengths for second. She is the one to beat. WELL LIVED (#5) rates a chance.
5th Race: MARCH TOO (#6) drops drastically in class, which is a bit puzzling, but his best would be good enough to win this one for trainer Todd Pletcher and jockey Paco Lopez. ALSHUJAA (#4) has been off for a year but is training steadily and is the lone 4-year-old in this field. WAR OF HONOR (#3) is a definite threat.
6th Race: MAGIC OF REALITY (#10) makes her U.S. debut for trainer Graham Motion and posted a solid work here last week. Give her the slight edge in a well-matched allowance test. NOTTE D'ORO (#8) is a perfect 2 for 2 on the grass and looked sharp winning at Churchill in September. KITTY WINE (#11) is a definite threat with Julien Leparoux aboard for trainer Eddie Kenneally.
7th Race: SOUTHERN BLESSING (#3) moves up in class after an impressive win against nonwinners of two earlier this meet. He figures to be running at the end in a race that should have a lively pace and is capable of the repeat score. BISQUE (#5) has been a beaten favorite in his last three but has to be considered. PICK THREE PUNCHIE (#8) will be tough if he handles the move to the dirt.
8th Race: DIVA MEG (#11) drew off to win without much urging in her grass debut at Kentucky Downs. She should handle today's added distance and will be tough to catch with Julien Leparoux back aboard for trainer Eddie Kenneally. SHARE THE SUGAR (#12) also ran well last out at Kentucky Downs to finish second behind a repeat winner. She will be running at the end and can't be left out of the gimmicks. SPELLING AGAIN (#6) is one of two in here from the barn of trainer Graham Motion that are capable of solid efforts.
9th Race: STURDY ALLAN (#11) lost his best chance when he broke very slowly in his debut at Churchill. He posted a bullet gate work after that start and the fourth-place finisher in that one came back to win impressively here last week. AMACE (#3) just missed in his only start at Gulfstream and looks like the one to beat. ROLL ON THE NAVAJO (#8) is training sharply for Tevis McCauley.


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The Harrisonburg Police Department is asking for help from the community.
Police are currently looking for a man, whose family has not heard from him since Thursday morning.
Arthur Gregory Brown, 50, of Harrisonburg is described as a white male, six feet three inches tall, approximately 230 pounds, green eyes, and grey hair. He also has a small scar on the left side, near his hairline.
Mr. Brown was last known to be in his vehicle, which is a grey 2007 four-door Honda Accord with Virginia tags SO4CHN8.
HPD believes Mr. Brown was last in the company of Ali Abid, 49, of Weyers Cave and police have not been able to contact either individual throughout the investigation.
The disappearance of Mr. Brown is suspicious and he could possibly be in Weyers Cave, Harrisonburg, or in the area of Dulles Airport.
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Video at link.Saturday night, the Harrisonburg Police are asking for your help to locate 50-year-old Arthur Gregory Brown. Brown's family hasn't heard from him since Thursday morning.
Police believe he was last in the company of 49-year-old Ali Abid from Weyers Cave.
Investigators say Brown's disappearance is suspicious. If you have any information that can help police call Harrisonburg Crime Solvers at 540-574-5050.
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Is Dez Bryant to blame for the interception?
October, 2, 2012
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Jerry Jones didn't defend wide receiver Dez Bryant on Tuesday morning, but he also didn't place all the blame on him for one of the five interceptions thrown by quarterback Tony Romo.
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"We'll look at it again this morning, but that corner basically did a pretty good job and he intercepted it in no-man's land," Jones said on his weekly radio show on KRLD-FM Tuesday morning. "Now Romo has a split second to make this decision. But Dez thought he was coming up and of course Romo read it as if he was staying back. Again I saw the replay of it, knew what both were looking at. Dez obviously thought he was going to step it up and it was not that Dez didn't know there was a blitz and he didn't know his read, he simply read the corner coming up and when you look it on tape that may be hard to see, especially when you're out there with a split second."
Before the play, Romo and Bryant looked at each other to acknowledge Tillman was making a change in the coverage. If Tillman pressed Bryant, he was supposed to run a go route. If Tillman played back, Bryant was supposed to run a stop route.
Romo and Bryant are supposed to make this read quickly, and bad things can happen if both players can't recognize what the corner is doing at the snap of the ball.
You could say Bryant ran the wrong route, but you could also say Tillman just baited the receiver into thinking one thing and doing another.
"Just got to give credit to the DB. We thought he was going to go in something else and he stopped and he played it and he just made a good play on me," Bryant said.
Romo added: "You just have to give great credit to the defensive back. We thought that he was going (to press) and he stopped and he played it (zone) and he just made a good play on (the ball)"
Tillman said it was a hard play to make because he caught Romo and Bryant on different pages.
"I think when quarterbacks throw the ball like that, that's probably one of the hardest plays in football because it takes so long and you're thinking like, 'alright, alright, oh, oh, don't drop it. Don't. Okay, I got it, just out run everybody.' I don't know, I got lucky on that play, I suppose."
If anything, Bryant might be to blame for his inexperience by failing to see what Tillman was doing. But at the same time the other team makes plays, too.
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Okay, so yesterday Sora came over... Not really news since she does that every Saturday. And she slept over, also not really news.
If you're wondering why she always comes here and I never really stay at her place it's because she has like, 6 siblings. Even though half of the time they're out during the weekends... Which is another reason, her parents... (For obvious reasons of obvious-ness) Rather have her stay here with parents home than me being over there without parents home... Duh.
But yesterday Sora convinced her sister, (Namine, again.) to sleep over. I said it was okay because she's my friend too. But my talking-time with Sora has been delayed.
It can't be delayed forever though. I WILL have a good talk with her by the weekend before Valentines day. (The weekend after I'm going to a convention. Mostly because a good friend of mine will be there. And my cousins will be here too. So it's going to be hectic.)
Speaking of Febuary Vacation. Sora says she wants to spend as much of it as possible here. And she was kind of annoyed when I said that the boys would be here. She said some random junk, inconspicously threw something about wanting to make out with me in there, and said some more random blabber. She said it in her sisters (who wasn't paying attetion.) presence so I can't be sure if she was serious or not. XD
Also, yesterday Sora like, hid in a room. (Can't remember why... I think she was hiding from my dad..) And Namine called her "gay" and I asked her what that has to do with anything. And she said that Sora wants me. I was sort of like "..." because I couldn't think of any better way to react to that.
Also, things are getting better between Sora and I. Not that they were bad... But there was this whole unmentioned-physical-space-tension-thing going on... It's was kind of really annoying. But she's noticed too, though she hasn't said anything... I can tell. So we're both making a shy little effort to get rid of that. XD
She dosen't act it, but she's just as shy about this as I am. But I'm not worried about it. Since we're both trying to get over it...
For those of you who are totally lost... Sora is my bestest friend of two years... During the summer of 2006 I fell in love with her. After my mom left at the end of summer I decided I wanted to tell her how I feel. Took me until November 10 to actually do it. What I did was write her an e-mail and then make her look at it on my computer. While I was in the other room shaking because I'm too much of a coward to stay in the room. And she came in and hugged me and nobody said anything about it, and we watched some videos on youtube together.. And then she told me to leave the room and she wrote a second e-mail response to me. The first one said she wouldn't be my girlfriend and the second one said she would if she could go out with boys too. A few weeks later I told her that I didn't want her to go out with boys and she said ok (it was the "I've already decided that I wouldn't do that anyways." kind of ok). And since then things have been sort of akward between us...
We haven't really spoken much about it since. Sometimes she says something really unexpected. And catches me off gaurd. She does stuff like that. I can never tell when she's joking or not, except she makes it really clear when she wants something...
...It's really cute.
*thinks for a moment.* A lot of things about her are cute... Even the the things that aren't cute...
I miss the summer. I got to spend every day with her...
Sometimes I'd walk by outside while she was playing baseball with her brother and some kids that live across the street from her.
She'd start talking to me. And her brother would get mad because she'd start talking with me and not paying attetion. XD
She always did stuff like that...
Even before we were "Sora" and "Riku" (The almost gay couple in Kingdom Hearts. (Close enough I say.)) She'd go around saying that we're "engaged" and stuff.
And there was this one time, when her sister was saying how she thought some girl might be gay because of various signs. (Like not scooting away a little when someone sits to close, and things like that.) (This is the sister that loves gay people but is striaght herself.) And Sora came and sat next to me and clung to me. As if to tell me without saying anything. XD
I think that's around the same time that her sister caught on too.
She has some suspicon, I don't know how much. But since I came out to her she's asked Sora twice if she was gay (and this is just in my pressence.) and then said "oh, because you're always going to Rikus place so..."
Was kind of akward...
But I've had worse.
I'm done blabbing now. I can't think of anything else to write.
omg i like live kingdom hearts, its liek the best game ever, sorry that was random i know. i play it like all teh time:)


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Wigan will have 24 hours in the air to lick their wounds from their opening-day Super League loss but Shaun Wane is confident they'll recover.
Wane's men left Wigan for Glasgow on Saturday afternoon for a flight to New Zealand, where they will play the Warriors in a warm-up fixture next Wednesday ahead of the World Club Challenge clash against the Roosters at the Sydney Football Stadium 10 days later.
Wigan's opening Super League game against Huddersfield was brought forward a week to give them more time to prepare for the showdown with the NRL champions but Wane's hopes of a confidence-boosting win were shattered by the Giants.
A 24-8 victory was nothing more than Huddersfield deserved after dominating Friday night's game at the DW Stadium from start to finish.
"We've quite a few areas, small technical areas, that we need to improve on," Wane said.
"But I've very comfortable because I know we can do it. We've done it before.
"I remember going to Catalan last year and we were poor but we won at Wembley the week after.
"We'll fix it. I've got some tough characters in my team, although it's going to be a long two weeks."
Wane does not believe the prospect of becoming the first Super League team to play the annual World Club Challenge in Australia resulted in his players taking their eye off the ball.
"Absolutely not," he said. "We were desperate to win this game. It's a tough one to swallow."
Wane is confident of having England internationals Sean O'Loughlin, Josh Charnley and Michael McIlorum available for the game against the Roosters.
O'Loughlin was a late withdrawal from Friday's game after failing to shake off a hamstring injury, McIlorum played only 16 minutes after damaging a hamstring while warming up and Charnley is still recuperating from a hernia operation.
"Josh had a slight chance to play today so he'll definitely have some game time against New Zealand Warriors," Wane said.
"We'll look after the other two on the flight. I'm not sure about them playing against New Zealand but they'll be right for the big game in Sydney."
In addition to their injury concerns, Wigan must wait to discover if new signing Matty Bowen will be available for one or both games down under after he was put on report on his Super League debut for a high and late tackle on Huddersfield full-back Scott Grix in Friday night's match.
Wane will only discover whether the former North Queensland Cowboys full-back, signed as a replacement for the departed Sam Tomkins, will be charged by the Rugby Football League's match-review panel when he lands with his squad in Auckland on Monday.
"I didn't see much in it," he said. "It was more reaction from Matty and I am sure the committee will view that favourably."
Wane is taking a squad of 27 players down under and intends to give run-outs to those not involved in Friday's match against the Aucklanders in Hamilton on Wednesday.
"Between this game and the New Zealand one, everybody will get a run and have a chance to put their hands up to play in Sydney," he said.
"That will probably be the biggest game of their careers coming up."
One player probably assured of a place against the Roosters is half-back Sam Powell, who played most of the game against Huddersfield at hooker in the absence of the hamstrung McIlorum and caught the eye of his coach.
"I thought Sam Powell had a dig," Wane added. "He was under the pump because I couldn't put Micky on.
"They obviously targeted him but I thought he stood up, he played tough.
"He was far and away man of the match. I wasn't happy with anybody else."


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The jetstream is still south of our area bringing in an arctic blast that will continue to bring rain and snow to our area today. Snow levels down to 3,000 feet today, but we've already seen snow reach down to lower elevations this morning. Snow possible all day in the Basin as temperatures this afternoon won't be warming much past the freezing mark, but some areas may see snow turn to rain by the afternoon. Snow accumulation possible on roadways through late morning, but should see melting by the afternoon. Mountain passes may also be impacted; already this morning we've seen ODTO report:
Diamond Lake Summit: packed snow, chains required for towing. Watch for trees and debris on roadway
Lake Of the Woods: packed snow
Chiloquin: packed snow, 1″ of new snow
We've had reports of 3″ of snow in Lakeview and snow falling in O'Brien and Prospect this morning and snow on Roxy Ann. Fog is also present in regions and with strong winds possible at the higher elevations today with snow, visibility may be compromised. Be careful on the roads as you head out today, even if it's just raining the roads may be slick.
Snow and rain persist tomorrow with a chance for a few morning shower Thursday before we dry out for a few days. The chance for showers return this weekend.
Stay safe out there and check into ODOT for road updates, you can find the link under weather links. Also under weather links is the National Weather Service Winter Weather Safety and Awareness Week website; today's topic is the difference between a Watch, Warning and Advisory.
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The next Winter Craptastrophe is possible tonight and into tomorrow. The roads were just icy enough this morning to make the local meteorologists seem legit, so ... congratulations, I guess? Strange thing EARLY this morning, surely it's now been revised. Huntsville schools didn't close, they only delayed. Figures. I grew up in Huntsville and we always had to wait till morning to find out if we had to go in, there was none of this preemptive closing gobbledygook! We didn't dismiss early. We had to make the days up. And we walked up hill both ways and we liked it! We tied an onion to our pants, because that was the fashion back in the day and didn't have tablets to do our homework. Back in my day a tablet was called a "Commodore 64." Actually it was called a "pen and paper." Wait. Where was I? Oh yes, snow. If you just HAVE to travel today, pack your emergency kit. Double check what's in it – I forgot a few items. Nail glue, a Chick fil a sandwich, a helicopter and a stunt double.
In non-snow related news, President Obama has delayed his most awesome achievement again. There's another delay in the Obamacare requirement that medium-to-larger firms cover their workers or face fines. Companies with 50 to 99 employees will have an additional year to comply with the coverage requirement. Ah so they passed an amendment to the law then? Oh.
Los Angeles-area residents are freaking out about several proposed oil wells to be drilled near the campus of the University of Southern California. Oil wells in L.A.! And you thought entertainment lawyers were greasy BEFORE!
I'm sorry, but I'd rather watch Bob Costas complain about his pinko commie left eye than watch one second of "The Bachelor."
A new report claims that 70-million Americans are taking mind-altering drugs. Just think: if the grid goes down like in "Revolution" NONE of those people will be able to maintain their supply of anti-psychotics ... and they'll be on the loose.
If you're looking for a job in social media – the terrorists are hiring. Granted their retirement plan is a bit … extreme. One group, the Army of Islam out of Syria, announced via a dazzling, fully functional website, that it had job "vacancies." They're looking for graphic designers, photographers, printing, journalits and media promotions. Wow! The army of Islam is hiring journalists? When is MSNBC gonna try that?
And a few things you need to know.
On this date in 1993, President Clinton appointed Miami prosecutor Janet Reno to be the nation's first female attorney general. Wait a minute. He was a chick? Reno later returned to Miami, where she barely survived after being hit by a boat propeller that mistook her for a manatee.
It doesn't matter if there's snow or ice, gentlemen. Valentine's Day is just three days away. If you don't have a reservation by now, you may not get in to that restaurant you have in mind for Valentine's Day. Unless, of course, you're driving through.
Police in the LA area are asking for the public's help in locating a stolen, fully-restored, classic, 1963 Chevy Impala. You knew this would happen once Jay Leno had too much free time on his hands, right?
Michael Sam, a senior defensive end for the Missouri Tigers, has announced he's gay. Not good enough, Michael. You're from Missouri so you have to SHOW us. See? 'Cause it's the SHOW ME state? Anyway, we know what for which he team he plays, but we don't know for which team he'll end up playing.
And … RIP Shirley Temple. She paved the way for child stars, except for the part where she grew up to have a semi happy life without showing up on TMZ in cuffs with panties on her head.
And a very special weather section! I'm sick to death of the crybaby meteorologists saying "If you think you can do my job then COME ON AND DO IT! You think it's sooooo easy ablu blu blu boo hoo" OK. My Samford roomie's PawPaw did what we thought was crazy stuff; planting by the signs, looking at caterpillars, counting cricket chirps, that sort of thing. Here are some ways YOU can predict the rain or snow without the computer models…
Obtain the breastbone of a recently deceased local goose. That shouldn't be too hard; there are scores here in Meadowbrook. The length of the breastbone indicates the length of the ensuing winter, while the color of the breastbone indicates its severity. Wish we knew this sooner so we could have held the sacrifice.
If you're out of goose corpses, count the fogs in August. That is how many snows you will have. Poop – did any body count fogs back in August? I think I remember two thanks to Instagram. Most of us were too busy complaining about the heat.
A fact well-known to our ancestors today is that when snow lies in drifts in the shade and refuses to melt, these drifts become "snow breeders" which attract more snow. Oh come ON now, really? Yes. Really.
But the BEST way to predict snow is to be out of bread, milk and beer and have your car freshly washed. That'll do it
We can learn so much from nature! Kids, "NATURE" is that stuff that is outside when you walk into the TV room from the car.
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Rogers LTE Network: Expanding to a market near you this spring
Weekends and sunny weather can move at a crawl, but when it comes to streaming my favourite song on the way to work or downloading a report before a meeting, I'm thankful for the fast LTE speeds on my smartphone. So I'm excited to share that our Rogers LTE network, Canada's fastest wireless internet, will be bringing its speed to 44 new markets in Atlantic Canada, Alberta, Ontario and Quebec this spring.
Today, we're announcing that over the next couple months, we'll be launching LTE in Saint John, New Brunswick; Medicine Hat, Alberta; Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario; Guelph, Ontario; Muskokas, Ontario; Collingwood, Ontario; and multiple cities in Quebec. We'll announce the other 38 markets in updates to this post over the next couple months.
We're also excited to confirm that Rogers will be making its 2600 MHz LTE spectrum band available in all 44 markets, and 34 of the 44 new markets will offer theoretical network speeds of 150 Mbps. Rogers has more LTE network deployed in the 2600 MHz spectrum band than any other carrier in Canada.
What does 2600 MHz LTE mean to Rogers customers?
The 2600 MHz LTE spectrum band delivers higher speeds over the same distance, allowing Rogers customers to experience even faster service. It's like how a train track allows you to commute even more quickly, but in the case of LTE, it means even faster internet for you.
How do I access it?
To take advantage of the 2600 MHz spectrum, you need to be in one of the 2600 service areas and use a 2600-enabled device such as the LG Optimus G 2600 or the LTE Rocket™ hotspot. More 2600-enabled devices will be coming to the network this spring.
In the coming months we'll be expanding our network to these 44 new markets and growing our lineup of LTE and 2600-enabled devices. Bookmark this page for updates as we expand our LTE and 2600 coverage, or visit www.rogers.com/LTE.
Update, April 22, 9 a.m.: We're happy to announce we are rolling out our LTE network in seven new markets today, including Airdrie, Alberta; Langley, B.C.; and the following regions of Ontario: Keswick; Hamilton, including Grimsby; Orillia; Stratford; and Ottawa, including Kanata, Nepean, Gloucester, Stittsville and Cumberland.
Update, May 1, 9 a.m.: We're excited to announce we have rolled out our LTE network to a number of new markets in Ontario, including Chatham; Milton; Sarnia; Woodstock; Orangeville; Brantford; Collingwood; St. Catharines Greater Area markets including Fort Erie, Port Colborne, Welland and Pelham; and Greater Toronto Area markets including King City, Bradford, Whitchurch-Stouffville, East Gwillimbury, Georgetown and Halton Hills. Our LTE network has also expanded to cover Kentville, N.S., and Lloydminster, Alta.
Update, May 17, 9 a.m.: This week we launched our LTE network to a number of new markets including Brooks, Cochrane and Canmore, Alta. and Sault Ste. Marie and Muskoka, Ont. We also expanded our LTE network to Saint-Georges, Que.; Sydney, N.S.; Bathurst, N.B and expanded our coverage in the Moncton, N.B., area.
Update, June 3, 9 a.m.: Today, we're rolling out our LTE spectrum to La Baie, Que.; Victoiraville, Que.; Saint John, N.B.; Parksville, B.C.; and expanding our coverage in Halifax, N.S.; Trois-Rivieres, Que.; and Victoria, B.C.
Update, June 17, 12 p.m.: We're happy to share today that we've rolled out our LTE network in Quebec, to Baie-Comeau and Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu and expanded our coverage in Hull; in Medicine Hat, Alberta; and in Manitoba to Winnipeg, Brandon, Grand Beach and Victoria Beach. We have also expanded our LTE network to Grande Prairie, Alta.
Update, July 3, 9 a.m.: Today we're lighting up our LTE network in six new regions, including Truro, N.S., Fort Saskatchewan, Alta., Chilliwack, B.C., Joliette, Que. Lennoxville, Que., and Spruce Grove/Stony Plain, Alta. We also expanded our coverage in the Greater Montreal Area.
UPDATE, Aug. 9, 2013, 9 a.m.: We're happy to share today that our LTE network is now available in Red Deer and Fort McMurray, Alta.; Prince George, Vernon, Campbell River, Nanaimo, Kamloops and Penticton, B.C.; Steinbach and Selkirk, MB.; and Trenton and Belleville, Ont.
UPDATE, Sept. 11, 9 a.m.: Today we're happy to announce our LTE network is now available in Courtney-Comox, B.C.; Wolfville, N.S.; and Lethbridge, Okotoks and Strathmore, Alta.
UPDATE, Oct. 8, 9:30 a.m.: We're pleased to announce we are rolling out our LTE network in fifteen markets today, including Caledon, Midland, North Bay, Peterborough and St. Thomas, Ont.; Fort St. John and Shawnigan, B.C.; Chestermere and Leduc, Alta.; Charlottetown, P.E.I.; and Fredericton and Miramichi, N.B. Today, Rogers is also the first to bring LTE coverage to Antigonish, Fox Harbour and New Glasgow, N.S.
Update, Jan. 6, 10:45 a.m.: Today, we're bringing LTE speeds to customers in various regions of Quebec, including the Greater Montreal Area (East), Granby, Lachute, Saguenay, Saint-Hyacinthe and Bromont. We're also proud to announce we've achieved our goal of launching 95 new LTE markets in 2013. More to come in 2014!
Get ready Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa and Vancouver: LTE is coming this year
We're excited to announce that Rogers will launch our Long Term Evolution (LTE) network this year in Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa and Vancouver. And it gets better – we also plan to deploy LTE in an additional 21 markets by the end of 2012. What this means is that Rogers customers will be among the first in the world to experience LTE.
Live, work and play better with LTE
LTE is the gold standard of wireless technology and the future of mobile experience. Rogers LTE will fundamentally change our concept of entertainment, communications and productivity, delivering a true high-speed Internet experience through handsets, tablets and Rocket Sticks:
- Stream movies instantly on a tablet with virtually no delays or buffering
- Experience a revolution in wireless multiplayer real-time online gaming
- Conduct wireless group video conferences in real-time, with virtually no lag time
- Access data-intensive business applications while on the go
Get updates and enter to win at iwantmyLTE.ca
To us, LTE is all about being more connected, that's why we created IwantmyLTE.ca, a website where you can learn about Rogers LTE network and share your excitement for LTE. Starting today, you can log on to the site and let us know if you're excited to get LTE in your city.
And if you're a Rogers customer you can enter to win a trip to Toronto in July for an exclusive "Future of Fast" experience, including passes to the 2011 Honda Toronto Indy and the once-in-a-lifetime chance to get behind the wheel of a professional race car and experience fast for yourself!
Are you ready for Rogers LTE? If you are, let us know where you would like to experience the Future of Fast at IwantmyLTE.ca.
UPDATE (April 29, 2011 3:51 pm): At the Annual General Meeting on April 27, Nadir Mohamed, President and CEO of Rogers Communications said that Rogers customers will be among the first in the world to experience LTE. Check out the full video of his announcement from the meeting below:
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Xian Airport opens new terminal building with strong focus on retail growth
Xian Airport is representative of a new breed of airport terminal recently or currently being developed across China. Xian Airport's new Terminal 3 is being constructed with the dual purpose of preparing for a massive increase in air travel demand, while also having a strong focus on developing non-aeronautical/retail revenues.
China's seventh largest airport by capacity, Xian Xianyang International Airport, officially opened its 230,000 sqm terminal three (T3) building and 3800m second runway on 03-May-2012, increasing the airport's capacity to 33 million p/a. The airport, a growing western China airport hub, handled 21 million passengers in 2011, making it the country's eighth largest airport by passenger numbers, although it ranks much lower in terms of China's largest international gateways.
With a growth rate of around 18%, Xi'an was the third fastest growing major airport in China (airports with more than 10 million annual pax) behind only the smaller Shijiazhuang and Shenyang airports. Growth is expected to continue at the airport, which is one of eight in China with annual passenger numbers of more than 20 million in 2011. [2093 words]
This report contains the following subheadings:
- International network almost non-existent but plans for this to change
- Showpiece terminal complex opened on 05-May-2012
- Focus on non-aeronautical offering
- Duty free revenue increasingly important in China and global market
- Lack of long-haul connections but strong retail focus
This report contains the following charts and tables:
- Chinese airport (select) 2011 passenger traffic (mill) and year-on-year growth
- Xian International Airport passenger growth: FY1997 to FY2011
- Xian Airport Network Summary (at 20-May-2012)
- Xian Xianyang International Airport new Terminal 3
- Xian Xianyang International Airport new Terminal 3
- Xian Xianyang International Airport new Terminal 3
- Growth rate of Chinese and global travel retail markets (%): 2006 to 2011