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Full descriptionNorthwood are pleased to offer this magnificent, 4 bedroom, detached family home which is set well back from the road with fantastic rural views in the sought after village location. Benefits from GFCH and comprises: Breakfast kitchen to include a range of units including a built in fridge/freezer, dishwasher, electric oven, microwave and electric hob, utility room. Grand hallway with views out to the substantial rear garden, dining room with feature wood panelling, fireplace and dual aspect windows, second reception room with feature inglenook fireplace with gas fire, cloaks. To the first floor there are three double bedrooms with built in robes and en-suite shower room to the master bedroom, single bedroom, family bathroom with three piece suite and separate shower. (Door from landing leads to a beautiful balcony with breath taking views) Detached double garage, extensive gardens, (some gardening work can be included)
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Get up, get out, and do something! Just about any day of the year, you can find something fun, informative, and healthy to enjoy at an area park. Feel free to browse the listings below, or use the search tools to find an event that matches your interests and location.
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Saturday, July 18, 2015
Bronx River History and Folklore
at Valentine-Varian House (in Valentine Varian House), Bronx
1:00 p.m.–2:00 p.m.
Mr. Stephen DeVillo has been doing research on the Bronx River for many years. Join him as he shares that research from his new book "Bronx River History and Folklore".
Category: Accessible, Education, History, Talks
Eliza Day: A Mansion & Its Mistress
at Morris-Jumel Mansion (in Roger Morris Park), Manhattan
2:00 p.m.–4:00 p.m.
Famed New Yorker Eliza Jumel, who rose from rags to riches, and her equally illustrious house will mark their anniversaries with a triple-barreled program at the Morris-Jumel Mansion.…
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Monday, July 20, 2015
Bryant Park Reading Room: Reel Talks - Picnic at Hanging Rock
at Reading Room (in Bryant Park), Manhattan
12:30 p.m.–1:30 p.m.
Lively and entertaining commentary on the film Picnic at Hanging Rock, with resident film expert Scott Adlerberg and author Megan Abbott.
Category: Education, Talks
Summer on the Hudson: Literary Lounge
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Come hear a reading, a moderated discussion, and join in an open Q&A.
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Bryant Park Reading Room: Getting the Word Out
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12:30 p.m.–1:30 p.m.
Aliza Licht, Fashion PR Exec, DKNY PR Girl, discusses her book Leave Your Mark: Land Your Dream Job, Kill It in Your Career, Rock Social Media.
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Wednesday, July 22, 2015
Dunes: Walk and Talk
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11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m.
This family-friendly, educational walk and talk is designed to increase the appreciation and understanding of Conference House Park's waterfront environment.
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Bryant Park Reading Room: Romance Authors Hosted by Joyce Lamb
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12:30 p.m.–1:30 p.m.
Reading, writing, and literary happenings related to the written word-under the London plane trees-in the open-air Reading Room.
Category: Art, Talks
Living Landmarks Panel Discussion: Scenic Landmarks - Planning, Preservation and Programming
at The Arsenal (in Central Park), Manhattan
6:00 p.m.–8:00 p.m.
Living Landmarks celebrates the nine individually landmarked New York City public parks in honor of the 50th anniversary of the City's landmarks law.
Category: History, Talks
Bryant Park Reading Room: Martha Hodes & "Mourning Lincoln"
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Martha Hodes will discuss her nonfiction book Mourning Lincoln.
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A collection of TED Talks (and more) on the topic of space.
Exclusive articles about Space
We're another small step closer to finding new Earth-like planetsSome interesting things are going on down here … that might just affect how we see what's going on out there. Two recent reports from two Science and Technology Definition Teams...
30 futuristic spacecraft driving the new space ageXaero. Stratolauncher. Atlas V. Dream Chaser. If you built a spaceship, wouldn't you name it something awesome too? These four spacecraft, and many more, are detailed in a recen...
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Episode: Peering into Space
Gazing up at the night sky is simultaneously humbling and utterly thrilling. This hour, hear from TED speakers who share an infectious sense of wonder and curiosity about our place in the universe and what lies beyond our skies. Listen now


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Reblog if you would vote pro-choice over pro-life
I'm doing a history fair project on Women's right and I'd like you guys to reblog this to prove a point. Thank you.
I'm doing a history fair project on Women's right and I'd like you guys to reblog this to prove a point. Thank you.
Pro-choice activists are celebrating today: The Supreme Court announced that it will allow nine Texas abortion clinics to remain open until the justices can hear an appeal ordering them to close. Unfortunately, this is only a partial victory and maintains a troubling situation for Texas women.
Sign this Planned Parenthood Petition to Show Your Support for Women & Their FamiliesLast night, the Texas Senate passed Rick Perry's abortion ban.
Listen up, lawmakers: we're still here, we're still standing, and we're in it for the long run.
"Aren't you a little bit too young to be interested in politics?"
aren't you a little bit too male to be deciding what women do with their bodies?
Married woman gets pregnant. Republicans: GOOD. That's how you do it. Now make me a sandwich.
SINGLE woman gets pregnant. Republicans: Should've put an aspirin between your knees, filthy welfare slut.
Single woman keeps child. Republicans: Worthless welfare leech squirting out brats you can't afford!
Single woman puts child up for adoption. Republicans: Buys it for $30k, but only if it's cute and white.
Single woman has abortion at 6 weeks. Republicans: BABY MURDERING LIBTARD.
Single woman has abortion at 20 weeks because her fetus has no brain. Republicans: THAT INNOCENT BABY HAD A RIGHT TO LIFE. Who cares if it had no brain, it could've still become a Texas Senator!
"Welcome to American Politics, where the rules are made up and the women don't matter."
Rubio Takes a Right: Senator Marco Rubio has began efforts to enshrine Texas's draconian anti-abortion bill into national law, agreeing to become a lead sponsor of a Senate bill that would ban abortions after 20 weeks. There is a zero percent chance that this bill, with his sponsorship, won't attract huge national attention; it seems like an obvious attempt on Rubio's part to re-ingratiate himself with conservatives, who turned on him pretty quickly once he started pushing for immigration reform. There's also little chance of the bill becoming law until Republicans recapture the Senate and the White House. (Photo credit: Getty images) source
Since Texas approved restrictions of abortions (because for some reason white men who have nothing to do with science or reason have control over the state's women) it's assumed that a lot of women will be resorting to self-abortion.
Please, please, please, be careful. Unless you receive reliable medical advice from a trusted source, do not attempt this. There are resources that can help you right now. Don't do something like this alone because you are afraid. Don't let a friend do something like this alone because they are afraid.
http://bebinn.tumblr.com/ is a good site to get information from. Talk to people at a Planned Parenthood.
http://fundabortionnow.org/funds/texas-equal-access-fund - They can help you get funds to pay for your abortion (PLEASE DONATE IF YOU CAN.)
http://lilithfund.org/about/ - They're another resource for funding and information.
TEXAS WOMEN: YOU ARE NOT ALONE. It seems hard now, but you will be okay, and there is help out there for you. Please be safe.
This STILL doesn't change the fact that Texas GOP Senators attempted to hold an illegal vote and you should STILL be upset about that fact.
ESPECIALLY if you live in Texas and can vote.
Two years ago, I became actively pro-life. At that time, there were four abortion facilities in Austin, Texas, where I live. One Planned Parenthood, one Whole Woman's Health (a notoriously dangerous Texas-based chain), and two independent facilities.
That same summer, Texas passed a state law banning abortions after 20 weeks and increasing the standards for abortion facilities. It was Wendy Davis' filibuster of that law, ironically, that made me sit up and pay attention to the killing of preform children not only in my country, but in my state and city.
Now, two years later, I've just gotten word that after this week we will only have one abortion facility in Austin. Over the last two years, one abortion facility closed (the Whole Woman's Health) and another has stopped committing abortions (one of the independent facilities, where the abortionist and his wife lived in the facility - shudder).
After this week, another independent abortion facility will stop committing abortions, leaving us with only one - the Planned Parenthood - on which we can focus our efforts.
I am so excited. Two years after I realized I needed to do something, we are so, SO close to abolishing abortion in the Austin area.
I invite you to celebrate with me, and to thank God for sparing so many of the preborn children in Texas.
I also invite you to look at your own communities. Where can you focus your efforts? I pray that some day every single community will be abortion-free. But God does not call us to sit by. He calls us to pray, and He also calls us to stand up and speak.
We will abolish abortion. We're already well on our way!
A Weekend At The Last Abortion Clinic In McAllen, Texas
by Hannah Smothers
The walk from the rear parking lot at Whole Woman's Health to the entrance on Main Street is 100 feet down a sidewalk. The clinic is located in southwest McAllen, Texas at the corner of Main and Houston Streets—both of which are busy thoroughfares that run through the old medical area where Whole Woman's is. People driving by on those streets have been honking their horns at patients and volunteers outside the newly re-reopened clinic all day.
Next to the clinic is an empty lot filled with wooden signs that say things like, "Abortion, The Ultimate Child Abuse." This is the same lot where protesters recently built a miniature cemetery for unborn babies. A group of picketers follows each patient from the protection of the parking lot to the door. The sidewalk is public property and it's the anti-choice picketer's last chance to, maybe, change a mind. Stepping behind the concrete wall that hides the heavily tinted glass door entrance to the clinic's waiting room feels like sanctuary. No one on Main Street can see in there—it's safe. For the woman walking to the front door of a clinic that's been empty for six months, the wait is almost over. She stands at the door until someone in the waiting room lets her inside.
The patients who came to Whole Woman's Health McAllen this past weekend had been waiting a long time for assistance. On March 6, two Whole Woman's Health locations—the one in McAllen and another in Beaumont, Texas—closed because they could no longer afford to stay open without being able to provide abortions.
House Bill 2, a Texas bill that went into effect on October 29, 2013, places highly restrictive provisions on abortion procedures, much like existing legislation in Mississippi. When HB2 went into effect last October, Whole Woman's McAllen was among over 20 Texas clinics that had to either stop providing abortions or close. The bill has been opposed most prominently by Wendy Davis, the Democratic candidate for Texas' upcoming gubernatorial election. Davis recently released a memoir describing her own abortions.
Texas is suffering. With every added provision, more clinics are forced to close. Before HB2, Texas had 42 abortion clinics. Currently, counting the recently re-opened McAllen clinic, there are 20. Another Fifth Circuit hearing on September 12th could make Texas a state with over 26 million people and only seven abortion providers. This makes receiving an abortion in Texas devastatingly difficult for anyone living outside of Houston, Dallas or Austin. For women living in the Rio Grande Valley, it's almost impossible.
HB2 and the Texas border
When Wendy Davis gave her filibuster wearing pink sneakers in the Texas Capitol Building last summer, the voices of patients from the Rio Grande Valley were heard. At one point during the marathon speech, Wendy read aloud anonymous journal entries from abortion patients. Some of these entries came from Whole Woman's Health McAllen, where journals are made available to patients before and after their procedure."Sometimes they're beautiful poetry," says Andrea Ferrigno, the corporate vice president of Whole Woman's Health, about the entries, "Sometimes they're a beautiful letter to the clinic or to their potential child."
In the lobby of McAllen's Casa De Palmas Renaissance Hotel, Andrea told me about the clinic's re-opening weekend and her year of fighting against the tough abortion legislation. Whole Woman's Health has five clinics around Texas, including the one in McAllen where Andrea got her start. Since then she's worked in all of the organization's clinics, and on the night of the filibuster, she sat with Whole Woman's staff from all over the state, listening to the stories of the women they'd helped.
At the time of the filibuster, the Texas abortion bill was called Senate Bill 5. After Governor Rick Perry gave his official approval, it became House Bill 2, or simply HB2. Supporters of the legislation say it's meant to increase safety and health standards for abortion procedures. Opposers say it makes abortion practically illegal in Texas.
Theprovisions of HB2are the toughest of any abortion related legislation in the country. When the bill went into effect on October 29, abortions past 20 weeks were made illegal. Abortion-inducing drugs had to be used with old FDA regulations, which requires that most women in Texas make four doctor appointments for a medical abortion. The fatal provision for the McAllen clinic was the one that requires all physicians who perform the procedure to have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles of their clinic. This provision exists in other states as well, but only in Texas is the hospital also required to have an OB-GYN department.
As planned, HB2 shut down over half of the clinics in the state. Another Fifth Circuit hearing to be held on September 12 could close even more. Entire regions of the second biggest state in the country are now located hundreds of miles away from the nearest clinic, but the Rio Grande Valley faces challenges unlike any other part of the country.
When the McAllen clinic stopped providing abortions, the nearest clinic to the Valley region was in San Antonio, located 250 miles (a four-hour drive) away. This distance alone isolates women in the Valley from abortion care.
U.S. Highway 281 will take you out of McAllen, through about 200 miles of private farmland, up to San Antonio. But about an hour into the drive, you arrive in Falfurrias, Texas — a small town known for housing one of the toughest U.S. Border Patrol Interior Checkpointsin the country and nothing else. The checkpoints, located within 75 miles of the Mexico-United States border along major highways, are meant to catch narcotics or undocumented immigrants who made it past the stations located at the actual border. The only way around the checkpoint in Falfurrias is to cut through private farmland.
If you live south of the checkpoint and don't have proper documentation, trying to drive the 250 miles to San Antonio could result in arrest or deportation. For undocumented women living in the Valley, access to a safe abortion doesn't exist.
Even with proper documentation, 500 miles round-trip is an expensive journey on top of the high procedure costs. Aside from being so geographically isolated it might as well be an offshore island, Hidalgo County, which houses most of the cities in the Valley, is among the lowest income counties in the U.S. Many women have a difficult time affording the procedure costs alone. Add gas money, multiple physician payments, care for any children she may already have, several days off of work, and hotel costs that may be required thanks to Texas' mandatory waiting period on abortions, and the cost of the procedure becomes at least five times more expensive.
Six months of emptiness
On the night of March 6, a candlelight vigil was held at Whole Woman's to mourn the death of the clinic and commemorate the women it has helped for over thirty years. The same journal entries Wendy Davis read almost a year before were passed out to the large crowd that gathered there. The entries were read aloud by candlelight. Afterwards, everybody left and didn't return until this past Thursday, exactly six months later.
The clinic was forced to stop providing abortions when HB2 went into effect on October 29. The provision that killed the McAllen clinic is the one requiring admitting privileges at a nearby hospital. "That's the biggest problem we've had in McAllen." Andrea says. "We applied at every possible hospital. We needed a local physician to agree to be our emergency backup in writing and submit the application to the hospital, and none of them wanted to do that. Some of the doctors just did not want to be part of abortion care." She also says some local doctors personally agreed and wanted to help the clinic, but didn't want to risk losing patients by supporting abortion. When one physician finally did request admitting applications from a hospital board, the clinic was rejected immediately. "They didn't explain why," Andrea says. "They simply said it has nothing to do with our medical abilities."
With no other option, Whole Woman's Health was forced to stop providing abortions. Patients who had followed all of Texas' other rules—like a mandated sonogram and in-person physician counseling session at least 24 hours before the abortion—showed up at the clinic for their procedures, not knowing their rights had changed overnight. "They would point to the doctor and say, "He's right there, why aren't you going to see me, he's right there," Andrea recalls. "We had to explain that this had nothing to do with the doctor being here, the law just changed."
For five months, the clinic remained open, providing other routine services like pap smears, well-woman exams and prenatal care. But Whole Woman's specialty is abortion—it's the largest service the clinic provides. "Abortion is a specialized service not because the medicine is too difficult—because it's not," Andrea says. "We chose abortion because it's a very stigmatized subject surrounded by lots of controversy. Women feel alone because nobody's talking about it. And we love to have those conversations."
While providing gynecological services is necessary, without the ability to provide their primary service, the clinic could no longer sustain itself financially. Whole Woman's locations in McAllen and Beaumont closed their doors on March 6. A livestream video feed joined the two clinics as they mourned the loss together with candlelight vigils.
While the clinic was closed, volunteer efforts around the region helped over a dozen women access care in other cities. But Andrea says that many women, when left with no other option for almost a year, began seeking illegal abortion drugs in Mexico. McAllen may be 250 miles from San Antonio, but the Mexican city of Reynosa is only 10 miles away. Misoprostol, one of the two medications used in a pill-induced abortion, can be carried back into the country because its main use is treating gastric ulcers. It's sold in Mexico in 28-pill bottles for a mere $19.50. That's less expensive than transportation to San Antonio alone. Andrea says that when "everybody knows that if there's not an abortion clinic in McAllen and you can't go to San Antonio, you can try to get the pills from Mexico."
While that works for some lucky women, it doesn't work for everyone. If taken incorrectly, the complications range from a simple stomachache to excessive bleeding, incomplete abortion, infertility and death. Andrea has seen some of these women at the McAllen clinic—they were fortunate enough to see a physician in time. That's why the clinic is so crucial for women in the Valley: it was the only safe place they could turn to for the care they need.
The first weekend back
Good news came to the Valley on August 29 when a district court in Austin overturned the admitting privileges provision of HB2. Shortly after the ruling, Whole Woman's McAllen announced they would open again in two weeks in order to meet the incredible demand in the region. Former staff members came from all over the state to McAllen to set up a clinic that's been sitting empty since they left.
"By the time I got to the clinic there was already a group of volunteers waiting for us — they had heard the news that we were going to reopen and just showed up," Andrea says. She was still calling old staff members on the drive down from San Antonio, where she now lives. She says she had to come back home for something like this, something this huge.
Many of the old staff members returned to the McAllen clinic to help women like they did in the "old days" before HB2, as Andrea calls them. All weekend long, the clinic was full of energy. Over 20 women booked appointments for opening day, and 25 made appointments for Saturday. The regular hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., but Andrea, the staff and a team of volunteers were there past 9 p.m. both Friday and Saturday night. Andrea says the late hours aren't a problem. "We've gone through so much sorrow, stress, heartbreak in the last year, to finally catch a break and be able to do this and say yes and welcome everybody in, it's wonderful. We weren't going to say no to anybody."
On Saturday morning, the McAllen clinic opened to a full schedule and a horde of over 20 protesters standing on the sidewalk a few inches away from the edge of the property. "They've always been there," Andrea says. "Some of the worst picketing Whole Woman's has had is in McAllen." The clinic built a wooden security fence on two sides of the backside parking lot to protect its patients, but the sidewalk is still public. As patients pulled into the lot, protesters stuck pamphlets with gruesome and inaccurate images of aborted and miscarried fetuses through the fence and yelled at the patients all the way to the clinic doors.
The staff of the McAllen clinic were prepared. Standing on the edge of the property, just inside the fence and boundary that separates the protesters from picketing and trespassing, were five volunteers in t-shirts with slogans like "Vigilantes" and "Fight With Texas." All between the ages of 22 and 33, their main job was to escort the patients down the sidewalk and up to the shrouded front door. They're there to protect the patients from the picketers. One of the volunteers is Sofia, a 26-year-old social work student at The University of Texas Pan-American and a mother to a five-year-old girl. She says earlier that morning, several especially aggressive picketers had her cornered against a wall. At one point, a 22-year-old volunteer named Sam, stood between a yelling picketer and the car window of a patient. Facing directly towards the gruesome, glossy poster the picketer was holding up, Sam stood unmoving until the patient exited her car and walked into the clinic.
Inside the clinic, away from the protesters, the atmosphere was optimistic and energetic, despite the full schedules and long hours. Ruth Arick, a consultant with Choice Pursuits, a company that focuses on consulting and training in women's healthcare services, came to McAllen to help Whole Woman's through their opening weekend. Ruth, who now lives in Florida, has worked all over the country in abortion services since 1975. She's been involved with or worked in over 300 facilities in the country, including the Whole Woman's clinic in McAllen. She says the mood inside the McAllen clinic this weekend was "tail-waggin' happy" until the very last patient of the day left sometime after 9 p.m.
The future
On September 12th, the Fifth Circuit court will meet to decide whether or not to enforce the HB2 provision that requires all abortion providers to meet the same standards as an ambulatory surgical center. This would close the McAllen clinic back down. HB2 would leave only seven clinics open in the state of Texas.
For now, the team at the McAllen clinic remains hopeful. Ruth says she just keeps picturing the party that the clinic will have when the legislation is overturned on the 12th. That's how she makes it through the hard days.
With the McAllen clinic open again, the Rio Grande Valley has much better access to care than they did only a week ago. Undocumented women are able to receive care at Whole Woman's. Women no longer have to travel to San Antonio, or take on the risks of self-administering misoprostol pills. With organizations like theLilith Fund,Fund Texas Choiceand Whole Woman's own action fund, procedure costs are much more manageable for even low-income women in South Texas. At least for now, life is much safer for women living in the Valley.
The women in the Rio Grande Valley have ways of taking care of each other. Andrea still calls the McAllen clinic home and couldn't stay away throughout the reopening. Staff members convened from all over to be back providing the care they love to give to community women. Ruth shows her compassion by crying with patients who feel lost or confused; it comforts them to feel like they're not alone.
The young volunteers also all belong to various grassroots feminist groups in the region. They say feminism in the Valley looks a little different than it does in the rest of the country. "We've always been feminist, just a different kind of feminist," Sofia says of the Valley. "It's the radical notion that every women who stays at home and takes care of the family is feminist, or can be feminist."
In the Valley, feminist movements come in the form of attending a candlelit vigil when the last clinic for 250 miles closes. They come in the form of a self-organized group of volunteers standing in a hot, Texas parking lot, getting berated by their own community members from the sidewalk. They come in the form of a human shield surrounding a frightened abortion patient walking to the doors of Whole Woman's, aggressive protesters following close behind. They come in the form of a group of women opening up a clinic they'd had to abandon six months ago with just a few day's notice.
It's this distinct type of feminism that Andrea, Ruth, and the volunteers say must be acknowledged when discussing reproductive rights in the Rio Grande Valley. "People don't understand that this is a way of life for people who live here," says Melissa, a volunteer. "For Chicana women in the Valley, we are all about intersectionality. We can't talk about reproductive justice without talking about undocumented folks, we can't talk about it without talking about faith."
In the continuing saga of HB2, there's no way to predict what the court will decide on September 12th, or how long the clinic could be open. It could be only one more weekend, or it could be indefinitely. The only plans now involve seeing as many patients as they can with the time they have. And if the clinic is closed down again, Andrea, Ruth, and the volunteers will keep fighting like they have been since last summer.
Of course, a clinic closure would leave the Valley isolated once again, and abortion essentially illegal — 40 years after Roe V. Wade — in a southern corner of the United States. "They say you can never overturn Roe V. Wade," Andrea says, "but they were successful in McAllen. When you don't have access, abortion is illegal." If the new legislation is passed, the McAllen clinic, along with 12 other Texas clinics, will be forced to close. If the legislation is overturned, you'll be able to find Ruth, Andrea, the staff of Whole Woman's McAllen and a team of volunteers throwing the party Ruth pictures in her head every day, celebrating the freedom of women in Texas, the Rio Grande Valley, and beyond.
As the national attention is focused on Texas, where extreme abortion restrictions are about to take effect unless the Supreme Court decides to intervene
within the next few days, there's been considerably less focus on the
other states mounting their own attacks on reproductive rights.
SCOTUS just announced that they will allow 9 Texas abortion clinics to remain open. This is huge because Texas is trying to pass a bill that would force all abortion clinics to be shut down, and a woman should have autonomy over her body, and that includes being able to make the decision as to whether or not to get an abortion. Lets keep things headed in the right direction!!
Texas Senate Approves Strict Abortion Measure
The Texas Senate gave final passage on Friday to one of the strictest anti-abortion measures in the country, legislation championed by Gov. Rick Perry, who rallied the Republican-controlled Legislature late last month after a Democratic filibuster blocked the bill and intensified already passionate resistance by abortion-rights supporters.
The bill would ban abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy and hold abortion clinics to the same standards as hospital-style surgical centers, among other requirements. Its supporters say that the strengthened regulations for the structures and doctors will protect women's health; opponents argue that the restrictions are actually intended to put financial pressure on the clinics that perform abortions and will force most of them to shut their doors.
Mr. Perry applauded lawmakers for passing the bill, saying, "Today the Texas Legislature took its final step in our historic effort to protect life." Legislators and anti-abortion activists, he said, "tirelessly defended our smallest and most vulnerable Texans and future Texans."
Debate over the bill has ignited fierce exchanges between lawmakers and tense confrontations between opponents of the bill, who have worn orange, and supporters of the bill, wearing blue. Signs and slogans have been everywhere, bearing long, impassioned arguments or the simple scrawl on a young man's orange shirt, a Twitter-esque "@TXLEGE: U R dumb."
The bill had come nearly this far before: a version had been brought to the Senate in the previous session of the Legislature, in June, and was killed by State Senator Wendy Davis, a Democrat from Fort Worth, with an 11-hour filibuster that stalled the bill until after the deadline for ending the session. The filibuster became a sensation on Twitter and other forms of social media, with more than 180,000 people viewing the filibuster live online.
Almost immediately, however, Mr. Perry called for another special session to reconsider the bill, resulting in Friday night's vote.
The fight has been heavy with symbols. The House bill's author, Representative Jodie Laubenberg, a Republican from Parker, dangled a pair of baby shoes before her as she spoke on Tuesday; Representative Senfronia Thompson, who offered an early amendment to the bill, was flanked by colleagues holding wire hangers, representing the brutal abortion methods they said would return if legitimate clinics were run out of business.
Ms. Laubenberg has said that the bill would close no abortion clinics, adding, "It is time these clinics put patients ahead of profits."
Supporters of the bill in the Legislature have been angered by the language of their opponents. During floor debate on Tuesday, Representative Jason Villalba, a Republican of Dallas, said, "I shall stand with Texas women, but I shall stand here no longer and be accused of conducting a 'war on women.' " He said, "We care for and we fight for human baby lives," and showed a sonogram of his own child at 13 weeks. "I will fight, and I will fight, and I will fight to protect my baby."
During the Senate debate, the dean of the Senate, John Whitmire, who is a Democrat, angrily told Senator Dan Patrick, a Republican, "I can't sit here and let you question my faith."
The bill was opposed by many doctors, including leaders of the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and the Texas Medical Association; the gynecologists' group has run advertisements locally that question the scientific underpinnings of the legislation and tell legislators to "Get out of our exam rooms."
The Senate took up the bill Friday afternoon, and people had begun lining up for seats in the third-floor Senate gallery early in the morning. Department of Public Safety officers, their numbers swelled in anticipation of crowds and tumult, searched every bag and confiscated anything that could be thrown — including, for part of the day and until the practice became an object of derision online, tampons. Department officials said the searches had turned up jars "suspected to contain" urine, feces and paint, along with glitter and confetti, but offered no proof.
Senators worked through the evening surrounded by commotion and ruckus. Shouts, chants and singing could be heard outside the chamber, and as the final amendment was voted down, protesters tried to chain themselves to the railing of the Senate gallery and were removed.
Emotions were high within the Senate chamber as well. Senator Kirk Watson, a Democrat who represents Austin, said that Republicans who do not like the phrase "war on women" should consider the fact that "women don't understand why you keep coming after them." Mr. Patrick retorted in his own speech, "I suggest babies are thinking the same thing."
The passage of the bill, by a vote of 19 to 11 just before midnight, was no surprise. Hours earlier, Senator Royce West, a Democrat who represents Dallas, asked lawmakers to add one of the 20 proposed amendments, but said: "The die is cast. We know the bill is going to pass."
To explain why he and his colleagues continued to fight when the outcome was certain, Mr. Watson, the chairman of the Senate Democratic caucus, earlier in the week posted aFacebook photo showing an orange T-shirt bearing a statement: "A foregone conclusion has never stopped a group of citizens committed to ideals of democracy and liberty from taking a stand and fighting with everything they've got. This is Texas, baby. Remember the Alamo."
The next step will be a court challenge to the new law almost before Mr. Perry's signature has time to dry; the many proposed amendments and discussion of them were clearly intended to build a record that could eventually be reviewed by the courts.
In closing her own speech late Friday, Ms. Davis told the groggy lawmakers, those in the gallery and beyond, "The fight for the future of Texas is just beginning."
May I mindfully present to the public the Texas Republicans' "three strikes" against Wendy Davis that justified breaking her filibuster:
Meanwhile, Texas Republicans attempted to redefine "the session ends at midnight" by claiming noise in the gallery justified extra time to vote (LAW states that the session ends at 12:00), while simultaneously claiming the vote was finished before midnight, changed the timestamps of the vote on their website from after midnight to before, and confused multiple senators on whether they were voting on the bill or the "previous question".
Nancy Northup, president and CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights, after the Supreme Court temporarily blocked a 5th Circuit ruling that would have closed all but nine clinics in Texas.
Attorneys for the abortion providers had told the high court that the ruling would create "a severe shortage of abortion services" and that it would be difficult to increase "operational capacities" at remaining clinics because of how hard it is for doctors to obtain admitting privileges.
The admitting privileges provision closed about half the 41 abortion facilities that were operating in the state before the restrictions went into effect.
The abortion providers must still file their appeal to the Supreme Court, which is not scheduled to hear arguments until October, when its next term begins.
We live in a world filled with people in power saying they know what's best and hiding behind a misunderstood and often destructive view of religion to justify their actions. Texans along with thousands of people on Tumblr were in an uproar during the spectacular filibuster by Wendy Davis over a ridiculous abortion bill that would deny women the right to control their own bodies something that does not belong to anyone besides themselves. Well now that same bill we argued against has passed through the house committee and will be going to the full house for a vote on Tuesday. They claim that people want this bill but by evidence of the 15 minute uproar that occurred after Davis was silenced I do believe more people are against this bill. This is a terrible thing that could occur. Pro-life or pro-choice it doesn't matter but don't let your beliefs trample on the lives of another.


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Vrz wraps up our conversation and wishes you all well over the holiday weekend! Be safe and we'll talk to ya Monday!
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July 2 Seg 15: Expectations for the 2015 Football Season
We continue to take calls from Husker fans on what they hope to see from the 2015 Huskers. Listeners tell us what they're looking forward to and what they're hoping will change once the players hit the field.
July 2 Seg 14: Nebraska Needs an Identity
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Congratulations! And I mean that sincerely. The next step in your transcendence is: Abandon Slashdot. It is the corner gas station.
Congratulations! And I mean that sincerely. The next step in your transcendence is: Abandon Slashdot. It is the corner gas station.
A very _wealthy_ "niche group" of developers, too.
C is "cross platform" the way that a tricycle is an all-terrain-vehicle: Easy to roll out the driveway, useless for anything ambitious. C++ is better but better alternatives are everywhere now. Javascript is half a solution at best: You need back-end support, and nodejs is just a less useful alternative to Python. Plus there are things you really just can't do in Javascript. Your examples of "cross-platform" all have serious flaws, which should not be surprising.
I noticed you completely failed to mention Java, which was hailed as the total cross-platform solution for a while until web browsers started crapping on it, and now it's synonymous with Android programming and would be decisively in the rear-view mirror of the tech industry by now, if not for that. What's funny is, Google almost had to choose it by default. What were they going to use instead? C# from Microsoft? ObjC from Apple? What else are you going to implement and entire OS in that isn't 20 years old?
At this point it's clear that politics is just as much a factor as intrinsic quality when determining the fate, and staying power, of a language. Javascript would be a lot cleaner now if it didn't have to support a dozen years of really crappy legacy on the internet. Visual Basic would have been a brief, unpleasant fart if it hadn't been crowbarred into every Office product for a quarter century.
If you're placing bets that Swift will dry up and blow away because Apple is due - any day now - to do the same, you're probably a little TOO old-school. You know what will die before Swift dies? In terms of popularity and profitability? C#, because its fate is tied almost entirely to Microsoft. And that's not going to die for quite a while.
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Text input via voice is garbage for anything you don't already do in direct, live conversation with another human. Instant example: Mispronounce something, then try to correct it. What we need is a novel new pointing device. My idea of the future tech involved is: Very very f*%^ smart radar, bounced off your skull, that tracks the location of your tongue in your mouth.
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For a long time, these things will need to NOT have an obvious camera on them. The cultural zeitgeist is against it. They'll just have to do augmented reality some other way.
They sold me a phone with the RAM SOLDERED IN?
Good grief, next you'll be telling me that I can't swap out the L2 cache in my CPUs any more...
The smartphone market is NOT simply a larger version of the desktop or laptop computing market. The priorities of the consumers making it up are quite different. You're comparing apples and
And seriously, if you think the iPhone 6 or the Macbook Air is "mid to low end tech"
Oh hang on,
This is worth knowing about. Google doesn't just know what users send to their search engine.
It knows most of the browsing history of the average user, in order, and in real time. (And you don't even need to use their search engine once, for them to assign you a UID.)
Of course, the average user doesn't do more than shop online at major outlets, watch videos, and poke social media. Not exactly high-risk information.
The vast size of the available labor pool greatly reduces the positive benefits that China's factory managers might gain from better treatment of the workers they currently have. They can work them into a stupor and then kick them out for a fresh new batch. The overhead to retrain is quite low in most positions.
A physical polling station prevents this by ensuring a) the voter is not documenting the vote and b) no one else is documenting the vote. Neither a) nor b) can be guaranteed with online voting. It is extremely hard to provide PROOF to someone you voted a certain way in a physical voting situation. It is easy to SAY you voted a certain way, but that doesn't have to be true.
A physical polling station does nothing to ensure that the voter is not documenting their own vote, nor was it designed for this purpose. It's trivial in the modern era to take out your phone and film yourself voting, from beginning to end, inside the booth. Whether you throw some tantrum and manage to get your vote changed, or edit the video footage later, is your own business of course. Your peers pressuring you into demanding "proof" is just as much a problem with paper voting as it is with any other form.
The more important point, though, is this: If you don't want anyone else to see you voting on your smartphone, you can go hide in a closet and vote. If you do, you can always register your vote "in public" and then change it later. If you think someone is going to hold you at gunpoint and stare directly at your phone for the entire duration of the voting period - which can be as long as a WHOLE MONTH, considering how vote-my-mail ballots already work in this country - then you have much, much bigger problems than your ability to vote being tampered with. You are the victim of a kidnapping and the police should be out looking for you.
If you're especially paranoid I suppose the voting software could implement a "no take-backs" feature where you can lock in your vote, so even if you're kidnapped near the end of the voting period, you can't be forced to change it. Then the kidnapper has to simultaneously abduct enough people to sway an entire election the SECOND the polls open, then have enough coercive power with them - threat of imminent death for example - so that they don't just refuse to vote altogether. Again, if you live in a city where this can happen, you have bigger problems.
Same deal with the hypothetical Texas church: If your church locks you in and compels you to vote a certain way on pain of excommunication or whatever, you have much bigger problems at hand. You should be videotaping that and going to the feds with it. Sadly, if you're a member of such a church, you probably think the feds are an agent of Satan anyway. Properly implemented encrypted online voting is not going to influence this, since this sort of ugly fraud is just as possible with absentee ballots and voting-by-mail already.
(Note that this scenario is pretty damn out-of-wack. In many towns, the church is trusted as non-political enough to double as an official polling place.)
Actually, from my point of view, it's you who is missing the point. UI does not exist in a vacuum, it exists in a context of history, because the end user is a moving target.
The biggest example that comes immediately to mind for me is in the web browser. Back in the 80's, no one expected to be able to encounter a random place in a document with some stylistic emphasis, that when prodded with a mouse, would cause the computer to display a different document. That functionality was reserved for very clearly defined buttons, as it had to be to avoid confusion.
Nowadays if a user sees a word on a screen that is merely a different color - let alone underlined - they ASSUME it is functional, and furthermore, that the word itself, plus the context, gives the entire story about what the function is. Everything that isn't "normal" text is likely to be interactive, in fact, including other document elements like pictures and icons - with or without borders - divider panels, blank underlined sections (poke to fill them out) etc. That is a difference in the user, and it informs the direction for the design.
"Good" UI is a lot more than signal versus noise. It's about understanding the "signal" itself: What the user expects, and wants to do.
Yeah, well, that's just, like, your opinion, man.
A button is no longer a button because it was never a button in the first place.
UI design was mouse-focused for about 25 years, and the UI design of smartphones just used it as a starting point. I'm glad to see it move on.
When I poke at a word I am poking a word on a screen with my finger, not a button. Why should it be dressed up in the clown makeup of a button? Position, context, color, precedent, and the name of the thing itself are all strong indicators, and when I am, I aim for the center of it, and the size of my finger intuitively defines the range of error around the target.
Even your meme-ready screenshot is actually proof of how much things have changed: Everything on the Windows 8 screenshot is a button - and we understand it intuitively as such because we're using a touchscreen - and so, there are no button borders. And, we understand everything is draggable, from any anchor point, so there is no need for title bars along the "windows" to provide that anchor point.
Back in the day, some jerk invented that UI by messing around in a workshop with a mouse and going with what felt right. Why in the world would we cling to it, now that mice are dying out?
Really freaking simple reason: Ability to sell, coerce or otherwise influence a vote.
Physical presence at a polling location makes it impossible to do these things, at least on a large enough scale to change an election. No one knows your vote so you can't sell it and no one can "check" to make sure you voted a certain way.
1. It is possible to design an electronic system where no one but you knows your vote. That is, where no one but you can uniquely verify that a given vote is yours, and that it is set the way you chose.
2. The ability to sell, coerce, or otherwise influence a vote is a complex problem, and could just as well be _decreased_ by electronic voting. In general, for every abuse you dream up on the electronic side, there is an equivalent abuse on the physical side. For example, nefarious vote organizers can close polling stations in areas they don't like - or, they can attempt to disrupt internet services to those areas. Want to make the system better? How about offering both?
Pure online voting could / would lead to massive fraud,
Care to provide a reference? Here are some working models you can investigate.
"voting parties" where peer pressure will rule, and otherwise socialize voting.
Have you ever been to a church in Texas?
It is one thing to tell someone who you voted for and an entirely different thing to be able to prove it. Just the ABILITY to provide proof will cause problems. Imagine a fraternity, church or other strong social institution. Do you think you are strong enough to say in the group when they question your loyalty and demand proof of who you voted for. Will you give up your status/membership in that group to preserve your voting integrity? Most won't be strong enough.
You're pretty far behind the times if you think these are new problems - for paper OR electronic voting.
Run the numbers. How much would it cost to
1. convince a voting authority to accept UNENCRYPTED PDFS as a means of voting
2. covertly install functioning hacked firmware on the wireless routers of a significant percentage of the citizenry
Wouldn't the return-on-investment be far better just running a bunch of attack ads?
*shrug* Okay, we'll play the analogy game your way.
You wanna violate the warranty on your fridge and stuff it full of strange items, you go ahead.
The manufacturer is under no obligation to alter their design to facilitate your efforts, though. If you find it awkward to "mis-use" their fridge, go buy a different one.
If you build a mall on your property, you get a say in who sells there, and how they do it.
As soul-crushing as malls are, I don't think they should be illegal...
Speaking as someone who hand-crafted both a 3x5 font and a 7x7 font with italic and bold variants, for use on 320x200 screens, back in the day, your accusations of "hipster" sound kind of ironic to me.
The specific conditions of early lo-res computing included something unknown even in the ancient days of moveable type: An iron-clad fixed WIDTH, as well as an iron-clad requirement that mathematical expressions be unambiguous. So, no matter what your opinions of serifs, you added bars to your uppercase "i" to make the spacing look consistent, and a bar to your numeral "1" to distinguish it from the lowercase "L", and when you could, you put a slash through the zero. Then in the 7x7 font you put serifs all over the lowercase letters wherever you could - like on i, j, and f - again for the sake of spacing. That was what you did for maximum readability in those conditions.
Those conditions are gone. Dragging them into an argument over the readability of serifs is farcical.
... this anonymous comment is a counterexample to your argument.
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Muslim Brotherhood supporters at rally in Amman 370 (R).
(photo credit:Muhammad Hamed / Reuters)
The Arab Spring has blossomed – and sometimes wilted – in nearly every country
in the region, aside from Jordan.Now, with large demonstrations planned
for Friday in Amman – which organizers say will be the biggest the Hashemite
Kingdom has seen in years – some question how long Jordan can remain immune from
the demands for change that have swept through the region, sparking uprisings
and unseating dictatorships.Jordan is a relatively small, stable country
with a measure of freedom and a popular monarchy. But the conflation of new
pressures on the desert kingdom – an influx of Syrian refugees, an economic
crisis exacerbated by the region's recent instability, and the ascent to power
of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt – are adding up to a potentially combustible
atmosphere that many analysts say should not be underestimated."I don't
think Jordan is on the same Arab Spring track as other countries, but we are
looking at a new peak of these demonstrations. It's normal that when dialogue
channels are closed, people will go to the streets," said Oraib Rantawi, founder
and director-general of the Al-Quds Center for Political Studies in
Amman.The dialogue in question is between the government and the Muslim
Brotherhood, as well as a variety of other organizations demanding
reform.King Abdullah II, who ascended the throne following the death of
his father King Hussein in 1999, has sworn to answer demands for reform and says
he will hold new elections by the end of the year.But many say the mode
of elections the king has on offer promises to be a "copy and paste" of the same
kind of parliament, Rantawi said.While a new elections formula increases
the number of deputies who would be voted in on a national basis – in other
words, through parties which had been virtually banned in Jordan – the king also
increased the number of deputies from 120 to 150.The burgeoning number
would effectively dilute the potential impact of new electees. And the upper
house of Jordan's bicameral National Assembly consists of 60 members appointed
by the king.Given this formula, the Muslim Brotherhood, along with
several other non-Islamist opposition groups, says it will boycott the
elections, for which a date has yet to be set."This is a bad sign from
my point of view. If the upcoming elections go ahead as planned, they will be
part of the problem, not part of the solution," Rantawi said."With the
absence of serious dialogue, this has led us to situation where there are
worries, concerns, and a degree of polarization in Jordan that is increasing
like never before in the past 10 years. If we don't have a last-minute
initiative by the king himself to postpone these early elections, and to put all
the parties around one table to have a serious dialogue, things will become very
difficult in Jordan," he said.The situation in Jordan has been simmering
for the past year and-a-half. But few protests have garnered international
attention or have indicated that a critical mass of Jordanians demand
fundamental change.In recent weeks, however, frustration has grown. This
Friday, there will be a large protest in Amman, billed as Jordan's largest
demonstration in decades. It's main organizer is the Muslim Brotherhood, but
opposition parties are expected to join, including the leftist Wihda and the
Nahda Party.On Monday, the protest's organizers outlined seven demands
for reform and said that the gathering would attract some 80 parties, reform
groups and other local organizations critical of the Jordanian government, The
Jordan Times reported.A pro-monarchy group announced it would hold a
counter-protest adjacent to the one demanding reform, raising concerns that
there would be clashes between the two groups.The Jordanian branch of
the Muslim Brotherhood declared its gathering as a "Save the Homeland" rally,
and outlined demands which, if implemented, could change the face of Jordan.
These include constitutional amendments which would place citizens "at the
source of authority" – an apparent reference to royal rule.They refer to
the formation of a "national salvation" government.This would apparently
coincide with greater efforts to rein in corruption; a loosening of control on
civic and political life by Jordan's security services; greater freedom of
expression; and the release of imprisoned protesters and political
detainees.Several weeks ago, Jordanian journalists, academics and other
reform-minded activists were deeply disappointed when the king endorsed a
controversial media law which threatens to stifle freedom of expression
online."This Friday will be a test," predicted Oded Eran, an expert on
Jordan at Tel Aviv University's Institute for National Security Studies and a
former Israeli ambassador to Amman."Looking at the last two years and
the numbers involved, they are not enough to create a Tahrir Square affect.
People come out on Fridays, which means it's not a daily phenomena.They
use the mosque prayers as a focal point in time and space.It doesn't
show great force," Eran said."However, given the political agenda plus
the economic one, this compounds and erodes the king's traditional base of
support."For example, in the largely Beduin south, one sees people who
are criticizing the king for economic reasons, and this never happened in the
past.People never touched the royalty itself. Yes, the system, the
ministers, but never the king."But now, the royalty is also a subject,
and people are talking about the style of leadership in Jordan and the
corruption that exists," he said.Indeed, given the lack of dayto- day
uproar that defined the Arab Spring in other countries, some Jordanian analysts
argue it's inappropriate to even compare the tidal wave of protesters in Tahrir
Square with the tepid demonstrations they've seen so far in Jordan."The
Muslim Brothers have been demonstrating every Friday, from the same place, from
a mosque in the middle of the town, for the last year and a half," said Tariq
Masarweh, columnist from Al- Rai newspaper, and a former Culture
Minister."They prepared some cameramen to take shots while the
worshipers are leaving the mosque. So the demonstrations, which is something
like 500 people, looks as if it's 5,000," he said."I think the
Brotherhood is asking for some blood in the streets. They are trying to provoke
the policemen to shoot somebody or hit somebody, because so far, no one tried to
stop them."On the contrary, the police gave them water on the hot days
and let them demonstrate," Masarweh said."The Brotherhood wants to
abolish the corruption from the government, but they don't say how they want to
reform. They say Islam is the solution, but they don't really present
solutions," he said."They are against the World Bank, they are against
the peace treaty with Israel. In short, they want power," said Masarweh.
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