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Back in 1934, when our forefathers banned machine guns, there was no one hollering Second Amendment rights. This was just after the Bonnie and Clyde fiascoes. There is little difference today with these assault weapons and machine guns. Those far-right loons want you to think you are going to lose the right to own a small game weapon or handgun. When 70 percent of the population want background checks on anyone purchasing a gun the politician should take note. It's so obvious how much control the firearms companies have over our government. Some like to think they need an assault weapon for their protection. All you need is a single shot 12-gauge shotgun to stop any intruder in your house. A single-shot .22 to the intruder's Adam's apple will do the same.
Let's all start telling our politicians to stop taking any more campaign contributions from the firearms companies that are all getting rich off selling assault weapons. And let's let them know that we don't want to get involved in any more other countries' conflicts. This is another big bonanza for the firearms companies. They supply all the weapons and ammunition used in these ridiculous wars.
Let it be understood that no one is trying to take away your hunting firearms. I know these far-right loons want you to think this. No one needs an assault weapon unless they plan to do some harm to others. I hope I have opened a few people's minds with a little common sense talk.
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I posted a thread about these in Off Course a few months back and got zero responses, but has anyone tried these:
They just came out a few months ago, but I think that brown color has the chance of being quite lovely. I'm sure they're not gorgeous quality for the price, but the price is part of the appeal.
So is the fact that they'd geared towards shorties, like me!
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Darn you, SLW! I was watching those and now I have competition!
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I've been eyeing those too. other than I REALLY REALLY do not need another pair of riding boots, they are too beautiful. And my size if I measure my own dehners...
But I'm feeling poor so will likely get outbid.
It's OK, SLW. The pair I have are very nice. The cuff lining needs repair, and I've written to Dehner, so I can always have them cut down a bit when they do the repair. But I don't think I'll have time to complete the repairs before cub hunting, so I'll just have to bear the discomfort of too tall boots a little longer.
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OK, I might be back on the hunt for brown boots. I've been corresponding with Dehner about the pair I bought on eBay. Besides being too tall, the leather of the cuff lining is dry and crumbling away. So I wrote to Dehner to see if they might be able to repair the boots. Unfortunately, they can't because my boots were made in......December, 1968!!
So I am older thatn the boots, but not by a lot :)
Dehner suggested I just keep wearing them until they go. But when I'm in VA in the fall, I might have Journeyman's leather take a look at them. The outside leather is in pristine condition, so I hate to give up.
I nearly posted about some boots I saw on eBay a couple of days ago, and then I thought "hmmmm.... what if one of our rank is watching them, waiting to pounce...and them somebody has to go and blab..." So I didn't mention it. Tough call here--do we tell all and hope a COTHer scores the deal, or do we keep mum, so we don't wreck a find for someone?
My search has at least a temporary hiatus. I found an interesting pair of Ariat Rydal boots, bought them from eBay and they FIT! Kinda cute--not at all correct for hunting, but good for hacking, hound exercise, perhaps toodling around Spain and Ireland in the rain. Kinda cute because if you wear a size 11/12 shoe, it's never really cute.
I believe that if mine had been used regularly for all of those 44 years, they would have been just fine. I had a saddle that was 60 years old and in wonderful condition. Sadly, it seems that my boots were not used at all, and the lining just dried out. I'll keep oiling them as well as I can and see how long I can keep them going.
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In one of the most notable oh snap! moments of 2016 so far, abortion doctor Diane Horvath-Cosper has announced that she is filing suit against the hospital where she is employed for banning her from speaking publicly on the topic of abortion. MedStar Washington Hospital Center in Washington, D.C., is now facing a federal civil rights complaint for placing what she calls a "gag order" on her work as a public advocate.
Here is why this matters. Horvath-Cosper—as well as other abortion providers around the country, including myself—are fighting hard to keep abortion legal and accessible. Whether it's speaking openly about the safety and normalcy of abortion or working in the most underrepresented parts of the country to provide care, there is a growing fraction of us providers who are not backing down to anti-choice bullying. As her friend and colleague, I can personally attest to Diane's plight with this week's news. MedStar silencing her work as an abortion rights advocate was a huge slap in the face. Her lawsuit is the ultimate mic drop, and believe me, everyone heard it fall.
It's not enough to support reproductive rights in theory. We are facing a legislative climate where anti-abortion laws are popping up all around the U.S. In Oklahoma, a bill just reached the governor's desk that would revoke the medical licenses of any physician who provides abortions. In Utah, the governor just signed a bill into law that requires all women having abortions over 20 weeks to undergo the risks of complete general anesthesia, even though there is absolutely zero medical evidence that this is necessary. And the whopper of them all: Abortion clinics in Texas are nearly extinct because of HB2, a law that prohibits clinics from providing care unless they are structurally equivalent to full-on operating rooms, requiring useless million-dollar renovations.
Loosely supporting reproductive rights has done nothing to stop this madness. And what's worse, obstructing support of these rights by remaining complacent or embarrassed about the controversy it can cause is the pilot light in the anti-choice flame. Opponents of legal abortion are banking on this complacency. That's why bans against speaking out in support of abortion hurt more than just an isolated provider here or there; they hurt the entire cause. Diane knows this, and her move to challenge the system is a heroic step in the right direction.
I recently talked to Diane on the phone about what would happen when news spread that she was stepping up to the very hospital that employs her to perform abortions but forces her to remain silent about them. We're friends. She texted me immediately when a gunman opened fire at the Planned Parenthood in Colorado Springs last fall. And I've called her countless times to talk through the challenges that this type of work creates in your personal life. Before word of her lawsuit hit the press, we talked about how awful it is to not have a strong support system as an abortion provider, whether it's at work with your colleagues or at home with your friends and family. A lack of support in these areas hurts far more than any protester shouting nasty comments or legislator vowing to make your job harder. It's an undermining of everything we do as abortion providers and a sad reminder that anti-abortion terrorism is working.
Diane spoke openly about these issues last fall after receiving personal threats against her family members. In the face of true terrorism, when no legal authority would stand up to protect her, she did the bravest and most terrifying thing imaginable: She went on television to formally and unapologetically say, "There are two ways to respond to bullies. One of them is to be intimidated and to stop doing what you're doing … my response is to keep providing this service … to let women know that I'll be there for them no matter what."
In true Diane form, she has done the same thing with her lawsuit, but against much bigger stakes. "Our silence has never and will never protect us," she texted me today. "Patients deserve better than shame and secrecy." To my friend and colleague, thank you for the work you do and for having the ovaries to stand up for women everywhere.
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Most sexual harassment training is a waste of time at best and a menace to office culture at worst. That's not the thesis of a post on a men's rights blog, but rather the suggestion of several peer-reviewed studies at the center of a recent piece in the Guardian.
The basis of the Guardian piece is a depressing study published in The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science in 2001, which found that men who underwent 30 minutes of sexual harassment programming were less likely than a control group to perceive or report sexual harassment, and more likely to blame the victim. The authors posited that the training might have made the men feel attacked—consciously or not—and that the backlash might have been an "effort at self-preservation." In other words, trying to get men to recognize the threat that sexual harassment poses to women in the workplace may have raised their hackles so suddenly and immediately that all hope of constructive discourse was lost. "All we really know about sexual harassment training is that it protects employers from liability," University of California, Berkeley professor Lauren Edelman told the Guardian. "We don't know whether it protects employees. We don't know whether it reduces sexual harassment."
In fact, we know a little more than Edelman is giving us credit for. That argument "misses the nuance," says George Mason University psychologist Eden King, who studies sexual harassment and diversity training. "What we're doing isn't working well, it's true, but we have found evidence that there are ways to improve the effectiveness of training programs."
A meta-analysis of 65 studies on diversity and sexual harassment training, published in the Journal of Organizational Behavior in 2013, suggests that it is possible to teach people how to identify sexual harassment—and to convey how company policies treat it—without inciting a backlash effect. The authors found trends that seemed to determine a program's level of effectiveness: Trainings that happened in-person and lasted longer than four hours produced a bigger effect; short and virtual trainings had less of an impact. Trainings that asked participants to interact with each other worked better than straight lectures. Participants learned more from trainings led by their supervisor or an external expert, and less when the leader was a colleague without direct authority over their day-to-day work—for example, an HR official.
The finding the researchers emphasize most is that trying to impart knowledge and skills—"this is what harassment looks like"; "this is what you can do if you witness harassment"—worked better than trying to change attitudes. Maybe this means that even the most successful training programs are shallow in their reach, but the authors don't seem to see it that way. "Perhaps diversity training may have stronger effects on attitudes over time as opposed to post-training," they write. "Moreover, attitude change may be preceded by and influenced by knowledge and/or behavior change. For example, an individual might learn first how to communicate with diverse others (knowledge and/or behavior change), and attitude change might follow."
Slate's L.V. Anderson has written about similar research suggesting that confronting sexist and racist attitudes head-on often exacerbates them. "Attempting to change attitudes about diversity by emphasizing the social unacceptability of prejudice actually increases prejudice by triggering "a direct counterresponse (i.e., defiance) to threatened autonomy" (in other words, by triggering people's inner toddlers)," she writes. That "threat effect" was just as evident in white men who self-identified as liberals. It may feel wrong on principle to tiptoe around egos so fragile that 30 minutes of anti-prejudice boilerplate can send them into self-defensive convulsions. But the most successful programs, as Anderson writes, "engage managers in diversity efforts, so that managers feel like they're a part of the solution rather than part of the problem."
The same basic logic may be the key to preventing sexual harassment in the workplace. King found that training is "enhanced" when people are asked to set personal goals for how they will change their workplaces for the better. (Asking trainees to free-write from the perspective of a stigmatized colleague also seemed effective at generating empathy.) One of the items on the agenda at a recent meeting of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's Select Task Force on the Study of Harassment in the Workplace was "bystander intervention," an approach that's also become popular on college campuses dealing with sexual assault. As Bobby Eckstein, a lead trainer and curriculum development specialist in the University of New Hampshire's pioneering "Bringing in the Bystander" program, has told me: "I always assume that my participants have the potential, that they have the ability to be good—that their hearts are in the right place. By addressing them as potential allies, you're inviting them to be part of the solution, and that goes a long way in terms of lowering their defenses."
Both in the workplace and on college campuses, the people who enter sexual assault and harassment training with the most biased attitudes exit having learned the least. Bystander intervention training, then, is pragmatic in its focus on arming the benevolent majority against the malign minority—and, at the same time, palliative in its construction of scenarios that don't place the trainee in the perpetrator's shoes.
Of course, to say that sexual harassment training can work is very different from arguing that it usually—or almost ever—does. That 25-minute online survey was probably exactly the time-suck that you thought it was. The perfunctory workshop that seemed to send everyone home in a bad mood may have been even worse. But creating a better sexual culture isn't a hopeless task, even if on some days it threatens to appear that way.
Jennifer Hudson Doesn't Get Tony Nom, Accuses The Color Purple of Using Her for Her Fame
The 2016 Tony nominations dropped Tuesday morning, and one star's name was conspicuously absent from the list: Jennifer Hudson, who's earned laudatory reviews for her turn as Shug Avery in the revival of The Color Purple that opened on Broadway in December.
This is Hudson's first Broadway role, and some thought she was bound for a Tony nod. When producers announced in April that Heather Headley will replace Hudson when Hudson's six-month contract expires on Sunday, the New York Times called the timing "a bit awkward." Hudson would be eligible for the Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical category, but she's leaving in the short window after officials announce the nominees and before a good number of voters have sent in their picks. If she had been nominated, voters would have had only eight chances to see her perform.
She didn't get the nod, and in a tweet on Tuesday morning, which Hudson has since deleted, she said she expected as much:
Two of Hudson's Color Purple co-stars, Cynthia Erivo and Orange Is the New Black's Danielle Brooks, were nominated in the leading and featured actress categories, respectively. Erivo plays the main role of Celie, and Brooks is cast as Sofia, the character Oprah Winfrey played in the 1985 film adaptation of Alice Walker's book. Hudson congratulated both of them in an Instagram post on Tuesday afternoon. The show as a whole got nominated for Best Revival of a Musical—and in the Tony website's description of the production, Hudson is the lede: "Jennifer Hudson makes her Broadway debut as the sultry Shug Avery in a new production of the joyous musical based on the Pulitzer Prize–winning story of enduring love and triumph over adversity."
Both the press and the show's producers have foregrounded Hudson's involvement in the production, even though her role is smaller than Erivo's. Before it offers any information about the show's plot or history, The Color Purple's "About the Show" page starts with a list of Hudson's bona fides. Hudson has been the subject of solo features about the show and often gets first billing in review headlines, despite the fact that she plays a smaller role than that of Erivo, who doesn't have near as much name recognition as the former American Idol star.
So it makes sense that The Color Purple's producers would have cast Hudson—a well-loved talent who's never performed on Broadway before—to generate buzz and draw in new audiences. A six-month contract could mean that, after Hudson's celebrity gave the production a burst of momentum, the producers could switch her out for a star with lesser financial demands.
Headley is no second-rate schlub: She won a Tony as the title character in Aida in 2000 and originated the role of Nala in The Lion King in 1997. But she's almost certainly cheaper to cast in a featured role than Hudson. There's no question that Hudson is a breathtaking talent who brings more than just star power to a Broadway role, and it's possible that her Tony snub was unjustified. From the outside, it sure seems like the show's short-lived, full-throated deployment of Hudson's fame isn't stunt casting—it's just business.
The Proto-Trolls Who Attacked the First Woman to Sell Products with Her Face On Them
Internet trolls can trace their lineage even further back than the internet itself. Long before the birth of anonymous email accounts and the Twitter mute button, people with big, important opinions used pen, paper, and the postal service to air their grievances about women in the public eye.
One of the first subjects of such ire was Lydia E. Pinkham, a popular 19th-century purveyor of tonics and supplements that claimed medical benefits. Recently Atlas Obscura published a marvelous piece on Pinkham's labels and ads, all of which prominently featured her portrait. "Until [Pinkham] came along, the only woman whose image showed up regularly in public was Queen Victoria," Cara Giaimo writes. But by the late 1800s, "Pinkham's face became among the most recognizable in the world."
When Pinkham's sons took her locally well-loved Vegetable Compound national, they slapped a drawn portrait of Pinkham on the product's labels and ad campaigns. The elixir was supposed to ease menstrual cramps; the boys thought Pinkham's likeness would give the brew an air of familiarity, like a time-honored family remedy a doting grandmother might offer. Plenty of men were using their own faces to hawk their wares—W.B. Mason debuted his mustachioed seal around the same time—but Pinkham's personal touch was thought to be untoward for a lady.
Giaimo reports that unwitting journalists used Pinkham's portrait in place of photos of women in the news, including Susan B. Anthony and multiple first ladies. Pinkham and her image also got a torrent of hate mail from men who disapproved of her appearance. Proto-troll T.G. Scott wrote in 1880:
If it is necessary that you should parade your portrait in every country paper in the United States can't you in mercy to the nation have a new one taken once in a while? Do your hair a little differently say—have a different turn to your head & look solemn. Anything to get rid of that cast iron smile! You ought to feel solemn any way that your face pervades the mind of the nation like a nightmare & that you have become a bug bear to innocent children. Also that portrait is destroying the circulation of the newspapers. I have stopped my county paper to get rid of it & I know of several flourishing papers that have been absolutely killed by it. I think my words express the heartfelt desire of a long suffering people & that I am sustained in this request by the strongest public sentiment ever brought to bear on any subject!
Scott's 19th-century complaint echoes notes sent to today's female journalists so faithfully, it's almost delightful—or it would be, if it weren't so sad. "For heaven sake, comb your hair—your picture instills not one iota of a knowledgeable person," wrote one hater to Chicago Tribune columnist Heidi Stevens, who has received dozens of messages from readers—mostly women—with bones to pick about her hairstyle in her headshot. Another put a finer point on her criticism: "My neighbors and I give you permission to shoot your hairdresser." Stevens' Tribune colleague, Pulitzer winner Mary Schmich, says some readers have gone so far as to clip her column from the newspaper and draw new hairstyles onto her head, then mail the drawing to her office.
Like Scott, many of today's critics of women's portraits take the tone of someone doing a favor for the woman, or the world. In 2011, Poynter recounted the story of a journalist who turned her Facebook profile into a public page that accepts subscribers. The first response she got to an initial post was appearance advice: "Change your Profile Pic First! It Isnt as good as you thought!" Skepchick blogger Rebecca Watson decided not to attend a prominent annual gathering of skeptics in 2012 because she'd faced repeated harassment from attendees, some of whom told her she "should get a better headshot because [the current] one doesn't convey how sexy I am in person."
This gender-specific image policing plays out differently for women of color than it does for white women. Pinkham, at least, was a real woman whose presumably faithful facial rendering adorned her own products. The most visible black woman on consumer goods in Pinkham's time was Aunt Jemima, a minstrel-like caricature of a slave woman that stirred antebellum nostalgia in the late 1890s. Today, while most women in the public eye face some degree of appearance-based criticism, the reaction to their reaction may vary, especially if the hate is racialized. When, in 2012, black meteorologist Rhonda Lee defended her short, natural hair against a Facebook commenter who thought "the black lady" on the Louisiana ABC affiliate should "wear a wig," Lee got fired (supposedly for violating the station's "social media policy"). That same year, white anchor Jennifer Livingston, who worked at a CBS affiliate in Wisconsin, got an email from a viewer who thought Livingston's large body set a poor example for young girls. Her husband posted the email to Facebook, and the TV station let Livingston discuss the criticism on air.
The impulse to notify a widely visible woman of one's dissatisfaction with her looks rests on the notion that women's bodies are made for public consumption. When a man dares show his face in public, he opens himself up to criticism of his ideas, charisma, and industry acumen. When a woman does the same, her looks often become the most-criticized element of her performance. Andrea Bartz told Buzzfeed's Erin La Rosa that her former weekly online CNN column regularly got more comments about her and her co-author's headshots than about the content of their writing. "I'd do the short one but not the tall one," someone wrote on their first piece. "She'd look better with longer hair," countered another. It got so bad that "finally, our editor stopped running our headshots."
We don't know how Pinkham dealt with her haters, but she didn't pull her face from her products—her brand prevailed through the generations, and a modified portrait still adorns the packaging of today's version of her remedies. That cast-iron smile must have worked for someone.
At the Met Gala, the Future of Fashion Was Silver, Feathered, and a Lot Like the Early 2000s
Theme parties work best as the stuff of college frat parties and middle-school spirit weeks, but no one told that to the Met Gala, where last year's "China Through the Looking Glass" theme yielded a red carpet's worth of Orientalist show-and-tell material.
The 2016 gala theme, "Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology," prevented the event from becoming a racist costume ball, but it also ensured that the futuristic path of least resistance would prevail. The odds that we'd see the equivalent of Rihanna's 2015 gown—one of the color yellow's most magnificent earthly showings, a fur-trimmed cape that scarcely needs an introduction—were slim.
Therefore, as expected, Monday night's Met Gala looks took most of their cues from mainstream robot-beauty ideals. There was silver, chrome, metallic gray, and gleaming white, all in structured, geometric-patterned forms—and not a hell of a lot else.
Beauty entrepreneur Julie Macklowe and model Karolína Kurková offer two glaring examples of taking a theme too literally. Macklowe's neck-to-ankle patchwork jumpsuit looks like a garment Scientology leaders might force their followers to wear during a solar eclipse. Kurková's gown lights up to reflect emotions ("joy, passion, excitement, encouragement, and curiosity") detected in tweets about the gala, setting a new high-water mark on the red-carpet thirstometer. The only way to do a light-up gown is like Claire Danes*, whose elegant white number is equally chic in the dark—about as minimalist as a glowstick costume could be. Before it appeared on the red carpet, the dress was rumored on Twitter to be Heidi Klum's.
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In architectural white gowns, Danai Gurira and Karlie Kloss present two alternate views, on opposite ends of the skin-showing spectrum, of a future that doesn't revolve around gray machinery or LED bulbs.
Kudos to Alicia Vikander for not crumbling under the pressure of dressing for a gala basically named for a movie she just headlined. (Why no one took the slyer, more understated route and dressed up like one of the Ex Machina characters is anyone's guess.) Vikander, who so aptly played a robot in Ex Machina, brings similar joy and restraint to the Met Gala in a lovely Louis Vuitton dress that reminds us that machines can be made of copper, too. The leather bustier top and asymmetrical hem make this one sexy without being overtly sexual, and Vikander's red fishnet combat boots are what shoe dreams are made of. Also in a short Louis Vuitton number: Taylor Swift, one this year's gala co-chairs, whose ruffled crocodile-print dress is far outshone by her fabulous new bleach-blonde bob and blue-black lipstick.
Like Swift, Saoirse Ronan and Anna Wintour mixed organic textures with stark structure—Ronan in asymmetrical ostrich feathers and Wintour in a floor-length column with what looks like branches of coral across her collarbones and lengthy fringe at the shoulders and hem. If Ronan would kindly remove the inexplicable butterfly appliqué from her waist, this not-for-the-ticklish gown would be a go.
Ronan has a few feathered friends at the gala, including Zoe Saldana in a luxuriant confetti-strewn train and Rita Ora in a kind of bird-robot get-up straight out of a Hunger Games-themed Vegas act.
Three stand-up gals rejected the Met Gala's future-baiting theme altogether in favor of outfits from the recent past. Grimes has never looked more Grimes, or more like a teen hanging out at a Hot Topic in the early aughts, than she does in this oversized satin short-sleeved number, cross-body purse, and metallic boots. Also repping the mall directory is Selena Gomez of dELiA*s and flare-clad Amandla Stenberg, who's doing the Claire's headband-and-choker thing.
Further back in time, we find Nicole Kidman and Kerry Washington in two interpretations of Kidman's 1998 witch romance Practical Magic. Kidman's dazzling gown is worthy of moon worship with its cape and cutouts, but Washington's magenta streaks and shaggy black lace are better left to the costume closet.
As for the men—matching the risk-taking extravagance and all-out glamour of the women is an impossible task. Still, Tremaine Brown Jr., Will.i.am, and Zayn Malik all gave it a go, and they ended up looking silly. (Malik hewed so close to the theme, he must have lost his arms in its whirring cogs.) To their credit, these men stood out at a party that still sees most of its male attendees arrive in traditional tuxes. At an event E! calls the "most exclusive dress-up party" of the year, that still registers as success.
*Correction, May 3, 2016: This post originally identified the wearer of the white light-up dress as Heidi Klum. It was Claire Danes.
Happy Birthday to Princess Charlotte, the British Monarchy's Most Effective Messaging Strategy Yet
As she celebrates her first birthday, let's all congratulate Princess Charlotte on being very good at this princess thing. Pink cardigan, a pink floral dress with a Peter Pan collar, pink tights, pink bow barrette, and to top it all off, a wooden baby walker with alphabet blocks: Never has a first-birthday ensemble better represented a budding English rose. For her birthday, Charlotte received the customary round of gifts from world leaders: a toy version of Bo the dog and a jigsaw puzzle from the Obamas, a silver rattle from the president of Mexico, a set of silk figurines from the president of China, a snowsuit and a $100,000 donation to a good cause in her honor from the prime minister of Canada, and a Hans Christian Andersen book from the prime minister of England, among others—all gifts fit for a princess.
In Performance Reviews, Women Get Vague Generalities, While Men Get Specifics
Do employers see their male and female employees differently? Yes, in that they see the work men do a lot more clearly. That's the take-away of a new study from two Stanford researchers who ran a gendered comparison of written performance reviews. Across three high-tech companies and one professional services firm, and in evaluations that conveyed both praise and criticism, feedback to men was full of granular detail and "actionable" advice. Feedback to women was blanketed in stereotypes and uselessly vague.
The Anti-Planned Parenthood House Panel Must Go, Say 98 Members of Congress
It's been seven months since House Republicans established the Select Investigative Panel on Infant Lives, and it still hasn't uncovered a single instance of what it claimed Planned Parenthood was doing: selling baby parts. In a letter to Speaker Paul Ryanand panel head Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) on Thursday, 98 members of Congress accused the panel of "[endangering] health-care providers and patients" and demanded its members give up their futile, politically motivated mission.
Doctors in Houston Are Preparing the Pregnant and Would-Be Pregnant for a Zika Outbreak
Though mosquitoes haven't yet carried the Zika virus to the U.S. mainland, communities in areas that could be affected by a future outbreak are already taking precautions. For pregnant women or women who are trying to get pregnant, the specter of a virus known to cause birth defects is cause for worry or an abrupt change in plans.
In Houston, where the first Zika-carrying mosquitoes will likely hit the U.S. via the Gulf Coast, women who'd planned to start fertility treatments are putting them off if they or their partners have made a recent visit to Central or South America, NPR reports. The city is home to a large number of people who work in the oil industry in jobs that require regular trips to offshore drilling sites in places like Puerto Rico, where 570 people, including 48 pregnant women, have contracted the disease. A Houston fertility doctor told NPR that Zika is the first thing he mentions when people come in wanting to get pregnant.
Doctors along the Gulf Coast are recommending that women who are already pregnant take special precautions to avoid getting bitten by potentially dangerous mosquitoes, just in case some of them are carrying the virus and haven't yet passed it on to humans in the area. Pregnant women have often avoided using bug sprays containing DEET, due to a lack of information on its safety for fetuses in their first trimester, when most birth defects arise.
But the serious danger we know—Zika-induced microcephaly—is a greater reason for concern than the hypothetical risks of DEET, doctors say. A 2001 study of pregnant women who used DEET daily in their second and third trimesters found that, while DEET can permeate the placenta, it only showed up in the umbilical-cord blood of 8 percent of the newborns, who did not exhibit any signs of abnormal development. An Environmental Protection Agency official told the New York Times that DEET is safe "for pregnant women at any stage," a position informed by studies of DEET used on pregnant animals.
But insect repellant isn't enough to protect against Zika-related birth defects, because pregnant women can transmit the disease to a fetus without ever getting bitten: The first proven U.S. case of sexually transmitted Zika cropped up in Dallas earlier this year. Doctors advise men who have a pregnant partner and who have taken a recent trip to a Zika-affected area to wear condoms or abstain from sex for eight weeks, even if they have no symptoms. Since the virus shows up in semen long after it becomes undetectable in the bloodstream, if a man with a pregnant partner does show signs of Zika, he should wear condoms or abstain from sex for six months. Pope Francis himself has loosened the Catholic Church's customary chokehold on contraception to endorse condom use in these cases.
Even if pregnant women and their partners do exactly as they're told, they might want extra assurance of their fetus's normal development, especially since there's little data about when a Zika-infected woman can pass the infection on to her fetus. For that reason, Houston doctors have established one clinic, and are planning another, for the purpose of testing and counseling women who've recently traveled to Zika-afflicted regions. There's no straightforward method for testing for microcephaly, but doctors at the Houston clinic have come up with a process to check for normal brain and head development in a 15-week ultrasound.
Will pregnant women and their families panic if and when Zika-bearing mosquitoes reach the Texas shores? Of course—the implications of a fetus exposed to Zika are severe and would be frightening to any soon-to-be parent. Is this inevitable panic rational, though? On one hand, Houston could see an amped-up population of mosquitoes this season, thanks to the standing water left by the historic flooding the city saw earlier this month. Peter Hotez, dean of Baylor's tropical medicine school, told the Christian Post of one of the two types of mosquitoes known to spread Zika, "This is Aedes aegypti heaven right here."
But things like window screens, air conditioning, and a tendency to spend more hours indoors put most U.S. households at a lower risk of Zika infection than most of the hardest-hit communities in Latin America. Fewer humans to bite means fewer mosquitoes flying Zika around the Gulf Coast. The odds of a Zika crisis the likes of Brazil's coming to pass in the U.S. are extraordinarily slim. That still may not be much comfort to the pregnant and concerned or to those who've postponed a much-desired pregnancy to prepare for the worst.
Reporter Who Profiled Melania Trump in a Generally Positive Light Is Inundated With Anti-Semitic Threats
On Wednesday, GQ published a long profile of Melania Trump, possible future First Lady of the United States, by Julia Ioffe. Ioffe is a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine (and an occasional Slate contributor) who was born in Moscow and writes frequently on international politics, which made her an excellent choice to profile Donald Trump's Slovenian-born wife. Ioffe is also Jewish, which is irrelevant—or would be irrelevant if not for a group of violently abusive Trump supporters who have been inundating Ioffe with threats since her profile was published.
Ioffe's profile is an impressively reported portrait of a woman who has stayed mostly out of the spotlight (to the extent that that's possible when you're married to Donald Trump). In addition to interviewing the model born Melania Knavs, Ioffe talked to a few of her high-school classmates, a former roommates, a stylist and photographers who've worked with her, her father's neighbor—and her half-brother Denis, whose existence has never been reported before. Ioffe discovered that Melania's father Viktor initially denied that Denis was his son, then fought a court order to pay child support for him, and finally paid up but never made contact with Denis. The incident paints Viktor as a morally dubious character, but it's a small part of a thorough, fair longform article that generally depicts Melania in a positive light.


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I`d be more worried about bouncing back up..
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He isn`t fit, either.
is anyone else bothered by the fact that this LOOKS like two pictures?
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Although DOD has chosen to find new health-records software, it will continue its efforts to help the Veterans Affairs Department reduce its claims backlog, promises Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel. (File photo)
The Defense Department will continue ongoing efforts to help the Department of Veterans Affairs reduce the claims backlog that has long plagued the agency, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said May 22 on Capitol Hill.
"DOD and VA both work to provide continuous, accessible quality health care for America's active duty military and its veterans," Hagel said before the Senate Appropriations Committee. "As a former VA leader, senator and veteran I have been involved in veterans' issues for many years, and have some understanding and appreciation of the complications and difficulties of this backlog issue. The Department of Defense is committed to doing everything it can to continue to work with the VA in processing claims speedily and efficiently to reduce this backlog."
Hagel outlined actions being taken by DOD, such as sending assistance – including one team of experts to work with the Veterans Benefits Administration on analyzing and processing the claims backlog, as well as another team dispatched to Seattle to help with the Integrated Disability Evaluation System. DOD also is providing the VBA with direct access to its electronic health records system to process claims more quickly, he said.
"DOD and VA are taking steps to ensure that those currently serving will not face a similar backlog in the future," including joint data-sharing summits every six weeks to find ways to improve and enhancing the format of treatment records for easier sharing, Hagel said.
Defense officials recently decided to acquire new software for managing its end of the joint integrated electronic health records program with the VA. However, he said, that might not play much of a role in easing the backlog.
"The centerpiece of DOD's work is the integrated electronic health record program, which is a priority for President Obama, [VA Secretary Eric] Shinseki and me – and I know for the Congress as well," he told lawmakers. "It does relate to some extent to the backlog, but it is not directly to the backlog...in many ways, it is about the future, so that we don't have more backlogs."
"This is a very important moment for the Appropriations Committee to join together on forcing two bureaucracies to do the right thing for our veterans," said Sen. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.). "We think, with some good backup, that with a fully electronic medical record coming from DOD to VA, that that time can be really cut down, so we can do right by our veterans right when they get out of DOD and have that seamless transition into the VA."
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