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Virtual Groping is as Real as Any Other Sexual Assault
I just read this article by Jordan Belamire about being groped in virtual reality. Then I read the comments, most of which were empathetic and supportive except… wouldn't you know it. The bros have to show up to tell this woman that she is "insulting real victims of sexual assaault" and sexual assault in VR is not at all the same as sexual assault in reality so she should stop whining about it. Damn but bros can be assholes. I guess you all knew that already.
Here's the thing. The only difference between happy consensual sex and sexual assault is… are you ready for it… consent. The physical aspect of sexual assault is not the problem, though of course it can be. The problem is in the mind of the victim. And sexual assault in virtual reality is no different in this way, except the physical component is missing. But so what. It's the mind that counts.
Every time I sit in a dentist chair and am subjected to pain inflicted by needles and drills, I think about the scene in "Marathon Man" with Dustin Hoffman being drilled and grilled by Sir Lawrence Olivier. It always amazes me that I take the pain with no screaming, no fear, no objection. If that pain were being inflicted with malicious intent, with a promise of worse to come, I would be in anticipatory agony. What happens to us physically is not nearly as bad as what happens to us mentally and emotionally, most of the time. I think sexual assault works the same way. If somebody asks to be whipped, spanked, beaten, and gets off on it, then the most egregious physical assault is endured without complaint, in fact with enjoyment. But without the request and consent, a mere touch can be traumatic in the extreme. And in virtual reality, a virtual touch is enough to meet my definition of assault.
Unbelievable Cruelty Under Our Noses and Ignored
I am no animal rights fanatic. Sure, I hate factory farming and testing cosmetics on cute little bunnies. But most of the cruelty of our society I can shrug off without raising my voice in protest. When our cruelty has a purpose, or serves our best interest, I can usually turn a blind eye and repress my gag impulse. But this is too much.
I snapped this picture in a Canadian Tire outlet in a Canadian city. I'm sure they are not the only company that sells this product. This is paper covered with glue that catches mice.
I tried this out, years ago, and the result was horrifying. The mouse is caught all right. It's feet and belly stick to the paper and it can't move. And you can't release it. Trying to free it from the paper will tear the skin from its body. Maybe there is a solvent that will allow you to free it, but the mouse I caught was beyond repair by the time I was ready to consider such a tactic. So there it is, stuck to the paper, terrified and in agony. It's hard to imagine anything worse. I suppose a leg hold trap comes close, but for shear sadistic nastiness this is hard to beat.
Of course once you find a mouse captured in this way you can dispatch it with a quick bonk on the head, though I imagine most people are a bit more squeamish than I about bonking a mouse. But until you find it, imagine how the creature suffers. And why? This is no more effective than the well known kill traps we all have used, the ones that do in a mouse or a rat instantly, with only a very rare misfire when they catch the tail or other non-lethal body part, so rare that I've never seen it happen.
Think about the kind of mind that could invent a mouse capture method like this. Think about the kind of culture that could accept it, and put it on sale without a thought.
I am no fan of mice, though outdoor mice are fine with me. Rats are another animal entirely. Rats are our enemies and I will happily shoot rats until I blister my trigger finger. But not even a rat deserves to be captured on sticky paper. I wouldn't do that to Donald Trump.
I happened to be buying grass seed and a new rat trap at Canadian Tire when I noticed this display. I took one of the packages with me to the checkout counter. Showed it to the clerk who's name, according to her name tag, is Tracy.
Tracy, I said, you seem like a nice person. I want you to take this to your boss and tell them that you are getting complaints from customers about this product. I then went into a graphic description of what happens to a mouse when it is trapped on this sticky paper. Probably ruined her whole day.
Whether she will actually report my complaint to her boss is anybody's guess. Maybe if enough customers bring it to their attention, they will get the message. This kind of needless, pointless, cruelty has no place in a civilized society. It certainly has no place in a display at Canadian Tire.
If you happen to see this product displayed, please join me in complaining about it. It should be banned.
The War on Drugs is No Failure
I've been so wrong. For years I've been preaching the obvious, that the war on drugs has not reduced drug use, that the war on drugs has been a total failure. But I misunderstood.
The powers that be don't give a flying frog about your drug use. In fact, they like you to be nice and sedated, all the time, and your doctor will probably write you a prescription if you just complain about feeling bad. The purpose of the war on drugs was not to combat drugs. That was the cover. That was the official story. The war on drugs had and continues to have a completely different purpose – justifying money for bullet proof vests, ever more and larger guns, all the expensive tools of law enforcement, including wages for those enforcing the law, but most of all an excuse to incarcerate those who might want to change the status quo.
What brought me to this cynical realization? I recently learned that a convicted felon in America loses their voting rights. And there you have it. What beautiful simplicity. Not only has the establishment churned money through lawyers, courts, cops, surveillance, and enforcement. they have shut a huge percentage of the population out of the democratic system. Simply brilliant.
Felony disenfranchisement is not a simply situation. It varies from state to state, and sometimes is temporary, sometimes not so temporary. But now the war on drugs makes a bit more sense. It's been a flaming success.
"In the national elections 2012, all the various state felony disenfranchisement laws added together blocked an estimated 5.85 million felons from voting, up from 1.2 million in 1976. This comprised 2.5% of the potential voters in general; and included 8% of the potential African-American voters. The state with the highest number of disenfranchised voters was Florida, with 1.5 million disenfranchised, including more than a fifth of potential African-American voters."
And now that the war on drugs has obviously been ineffective in curbing drug use, now that the cover has been blown, a bunch of white guys are poised to make millions doing what put black guys in jail for decades. If you are a fan of evil, it doesn't get better than this.
Okay, Now He's Gone Too Far
I'd like to get through a day without hearing the name Donald Trump, but that's obviously going to be impossible until November and possibly beyond for at least another four years. Perish the thought. Everybody is writing about the blowhard billionaire populist demagogue, almost all of it disparaging and lately quite terrifying. Here is an example that really should scare the crap out of all of us. And here's another linked from that same article. Enough has been said. I don't want to add my voice, but now I must.
When Trump looked into the camera and announced "I am your voice." that was too much. No, Mr. Trump. The last thing you are is my voice. I see you for what you are, a narcissistic attention sucking megalomaniac who will say anything to get the approval and support of angry frightened people. You may be a voice for some of them, but you sure are not my voice. If anything, you are my worst nightmare.
I've lived in China, and I've read the history of the Chinese revolution and the rise of Mao Tse-Tung. You are like his reincarnation on a bad hair day. I can see what is coming if you take the reins of the most powerful country in the world, a country which you are managing to convince your followers is now weak and ridiculed, one of your biggest lies. Like Mao you are a bully on steroids. I can imagine an America plastered with your face, and slogans which you will get somebody else to write for you. It's an America making enemies at home and abroad, so that you have somebody to terrify your followers with and foment riots against. I can see the purges of enemies, the incarceration of reasonable voices, the rabid howls of the mob screaming your name and denouncing traitors. I think you are capable of doing everything Mao did, and worse.
I am a tall, white man and I am not angry. I know you lie like a rug. I'm also a Canadian, so I don't get to vote against you. But believe me, the whole world is holding its breath and hoping that Americans are the people we think they are – strong, intelligent, educated people who recognize a con man when they see one. We're in deep shit if this isn't true.
I Had a Thought
With Black Lives Matter and the pushback to that campaign, plus the police murders of black men and the murders of police in retaliation, race relations are very much on my mind these days.
And I had a thought. You know how the colour black is so often used as a negative – black hearted, black mood, blackmail, etc. Well, I think it's time we all stopped doing that and I'm going to try.
In China we called the unlicensed taxis that waited outside our gate "black taxis". This is not accurate. Some of them were indeed black. But really they were unlicensed. That's what we should have called them.
Black hearted? Do you really mean evil? Nasty?
Black mood? Are you talking about depression? Or anger?
Blackmail? Isn't that extortion?
Black market? Do you mean underground market?
Black ball? Isn't that simply rejection?
Blackguard? Do you mean villain?
I think anybody with a descent vocabulary can find ways of describing the world without giving it a colour that is offensive to so many people. I'm going to start.
Language is important.
Is this how Alan Turing felt?
I have now been chemically castrated. I assume this was done with the same drugs that were used to chemically castrate Alan Turing as punishment/control for his homosexuality. If not the same drugs, then the same results. I have been injected with a drug that blocks my testosterone. I am now sexless.
In my case, the law no longer cares whether I am gay or not. I have been rendered sexless as the first step in treating my prostate cancer. So, what did Alan Turing experience? Certainly it's not something that will lead me to suicide. That would be counter productive indeed, since this hormone therapy is intended to save my life. Obvious it was the social pressures, the stigma, and the bullying by legal authorities that contributed to Turing's depression and suicide. The physical symptoms of being chemically castrated are no big deal.
In fact, I'm having a hard time putting my finger on any physical/emotional symptoms at all. Maybe I have the occasional hot flash. Maybe the old fire in the belly for achievement and success has been banked somewhat. My aesthetic appreciation of sexuality seems unaffected. I still find young women attractive and erect dicks erotic. I don't think that my appreciation of sensuality has changed. But there definitely is a difference in functionality. I'm now like a dog chasing cars. There's not much I could do if I catch one.
Mind you, even this is untested theory. It's been a while since I caught one. Who knows what would happen with the right partner and circumstances. As the old saw goes, I used to have to avoid temptation but now temptation avoids me. Alas.
In the meantime I can experience a fancied connection to one of the great men of science. What is life but a series of experiences.
Naked People and Egregious Art Vandalism
Last week I revisited the Sistine Chapel
When I was about six years old I was very interested in naked people. I'm told that many children share this interest. But in those days, the mid fifties of the last century, porn was not as close as your smart phone. Pictures of naked people were only available in National Geographic Magazine, which seemed to include bare breasted African natives in every issue, and in art. My mother had a big coffee table book, put out by Life Magazine, entitled "Great Art of the World". It included details of the Sistine Chapel ceiling. And in those pictures I could see at least two naked people, Adam and Eve. I poured over those pictures.
If you imagine the Sistine Chapel through the eyes of a child, it's like a horror movie. You have the mother holding her infant above the rising flood waters, the boatman on the river Styx with his glowing red eyes, and of course Adam and Eve being driven from the garden of Eden. Strong stuff. I was fascinated.
The first time I went to Rome, in the mid seventies, I had the good fortune to meet a beautiful art historian. We had a love affair worthy of a Hollywood movie. I told her of my fascination with the Sistine Chapel. Let's go see it. But she had seen it many times and wasn't interested in seeing it again. She advised me to get to the ticket office early, and don't spend time in the Vatican museum, but march the kilometers to the chapel without looking left or right, else I would find myself crowded in with other tourists. So that's what I did. I got to the chapel long before anybody else. I got to lie down on the floor and spend an hour, undisturbed, soaking up the images of that famous ceiling.
This time was quite different. As before, I arrived well before the opening time at the ticket office. But by eight in the morning there were already thousands of tourists following the tour guide flags, lining up, waiting to get through the entrance doors. I paid a premium to allow me to jump the queues, and tried to push my way through the crowds in the hallways preceding the chapel. But by the time I got there, the space was shoulder to shoulder. No lying down on the floor this time. Every few minutes a voice with an strong Italian accent would demand silence and remind everybody that no photos or videos are allowed. Somehow he did not add to the sanctity of the place.
Still, it was worth it. Unbelievable colours, especially the flesh tones. Gorgeous. They left a tiny square in the top corner uncleaned, just so we can see the difference. And the difference is beyond dramatic. What I saw on my first visit was like looking at the ceiling through dirty sunglasses in dim light.
Of course I am no longer looking at those stories through the eyes of a seven year old. Now they seem horrible, and stupid beyond belief. Especially the whole ark thing. It has the credibility of "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer". So strange that there are people who believe it is an actual historical event that really happened. Strange world we live in.
Dodged the Second Bullet
I had a visit with my oncologist last week. The good news is that my CT scan also came in clear. So my cancer is confined to my prostate and I'm not likely to die in the immediate future. Whew.
The bad news is that I should undergo treatment. My oncologist is recommending a triple treatment approach – hormone therapy, focused radiation therapy, and implanted radioactive seeds (brachytherapy). For me the most worrisome of these is the hormone therapy, which shuts off my testosterone.
I've started on the pills, one a day, and next week I'll have an injection. And then that's it for a sex drive until this thing is over, if my sex drive ever comes back. Two things to be grateful for: in the old days the hormone therapy involved an orchiectomy, which is the nice not so scary medical term for castration, and there is a possibility that my testosterone level will rise after treatment. I guess the third thing to be grateful for is that this beats dying. But just barely. I'm going to die eventually anyway. We all do. But, much as I love it, there's more to my life than sex. I'm glad I'm going to stick around for a while.
Dodged the First Bullet
I had my bone scan last week. They injected radioactive isotopes into my veins, waited a couple of hours, then did a full body scan. Then I went home to await results.
I've had some pain in my left foot for months now. I complained about it, was sent for an Xray, and the doctor told me it's arthritis. But… what if he was wrong. What if the cancer from my prostate has gone into my bones. What then? So of course that took me to Google and this page, where I learned this:
Metastatic prostate cancer without bone metastasis:
- one-year survival: 87 percent
- five-year survival: 56 percent
Metastatic prostate cancer with bone metastasis:
- one-year survival: 47 percent
- five-year survival: 3 percent
Metastatic prostate cancer with bone metastasis and skeletal involvement:
- one-year survival: 40 percent
- five-year survival: less than one percent
Holy shit. Survival rate less than one percent after five years. And the cancer can show up anywhere in the bones. Like in the foot, maybe. IMA GONNA DIE!!!
I spent the weekend trying to remain calm. I don't want to mess around with the early stages of Kubler-Ross – the denial, anger, bargaining bullshit – but to jump straight to acceptance. We're all going to die. If it's my time, I'd like to see it coming and get ready, mostly by not denying myself that dessert or second shot of scotch. But it's hard to be complacent when faced with numbers like these.
This morning I phoned my doctor for the results of the bone scan. His receptionist read them to me, which I supposed she is allowed to do ony if it's good news. "No persuasive indication of metastasis." Whew.
Now I feel a bit silly for worrying about it. This prostate cancer thing is an emotional roller-coaster. I got bummed when I was told they were shutting off my sex drive. Then I got really bummed by the statistics on life expectancy. Now I'm almost happy because I'm only going to lose my sex drive.
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The Circle by Dave Eggers (Books 2014, 16)
This is interesting. Seems to have got a lot of attention when it came out, but somehow I wasn't aware of it. It's very much a novel of now, though probably set slightly into the future — five minutes or so, probably.
Our hero, Mae Holland, is a young woman, not long out of college, who is just starting a job at the Circle. The Circle is GooTwitBook, essentially: a massive internet company that has gobbled up all the previous incumbents (it owns 90% of search, for example) and redefined interaction on the net via its TrueYou identity technology. Real names are not just encouraged; they are required.
Internet trolling disappeared overnight, it seems.
Unbelievable enough. Perhaps more so: no-one (almost no-one) seems to be in the least bit bothered by the reductions in privacy, the spread of The Circle into every aspect of life (putting chips in kids to prevent kidnapping; nobody complains; is kidnapping that much of a problem in the US?)
I thoroughly enjoyed it, I should say, before I tear into it too much. Eggers keeps the pages turning, which is always a plus. On the other hand, it takes a long time before anything significant happens. Mae starts her job, learns the ropes, meets people, gets more and more involved in the social-networking aspects of the circle… we know things are going to take a turn for the dramatic, because the blurb tells us so ("… the closer she comes to discovering a sinister truth…)
But it must be 200-odd pages in (of nearly 500) before we get much more than scene-setting.
And ultimately, while I can see how someone like Mae could be drawn further and further in after starting out with the best intentions, I find it very hard to believe that the entire rest of the world would go along with the extremities of the Circle's plans. It's set in essentially our world: where are the EFF? Where are the ACLU? Where are the voices from other countries that aren't keen on an American corporation's hegemony?
Where, even, are the corporations that stand up for privacy? I've just got a new iPhone 6 as I write this, and I can't help but think that Apple's pro-privacy stance — their assertion that no-one can get at our data stored in iCloud — not even them, not even if there's a court order — is antithetical to everything that the Circle represents.
Which is one of the reasons why the Circle looks most like Google (it has three guys at the top, known as "the Three Wise Men").
Of course, these criticisms might be just symptomatic of what can happen when you approach a "mainstream", "literary" book with a science-fiction head: you question the worldbuilding, of course.
Ultimately it's a shame: the Circle the organisation is completely believable and convincing in itself. It's just hard to believe that it could expand in quite as unchecked a fashion as it does. And I found Mae to be partly endearing, partly annoying, which could be a realistic portrayal, and a good example of characterisation. In truth, though, she has no character. And possibly less believable than the growth of the Circle is the extent to which Mae gives herself to it, to its beliefs; even when they break her best friend, Annie, who got her the job in the first place.
So all in all, something of a wasted opportunity.
We used to call this "thin clients"; or just a terminal logged on to a server or mainframe. Jason Snell writes of something newish that Adobe and Google are doing with Chromebooks:
> This week I got a demo of Photoshop running inside Chrome, and while it was really interesting, some of my assumptions were faulty. It turns out that when Adobe says Photoshop is a "streaming app," they mean it—it's much more like screen sharing than native software. Photoshop runs remotely on a Windows-based server, and video of the app's interface streams to the Chrome browser.
Cluttered by Google, Lost by Bing
I was reading The Clutter Didn't Kill the Love by Brent Simmons, about how he was trying Microsoft's Bing search engine, instead of Google. His reason was the current worry that Google is becoming less than trustworthy.
Google losing trust would be a shame. But at least a Google search for "martin mccallion" (without the quotes) has this blog as the number one hit. Try that on Bing at the moment and you get a whole pile of other Martin McCallions.1 The worst part to me is that the first six are Facebook or LinkedIn profiles (the seventh is one of those annoying directory sites, then you get me).
I wouldn't mind other people with the same name appearing above me, if it was their proper sites; but to me social-network profiles feel like distinctly second-class web entities.
Or is that snobbish?
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A flat and fast course through scenic Flushing Meadows Park!
About the event
The Sri Chinmoy 5K & 10K Sprint Series races follow a scenic and fast loop through Flushing Meadows. Come out and support your park - all proceeds of this race go to Flushing Meadows Corona Park!
A USATF certified loop starting at the north end of Meadow Lake, passing the iconic World's Fair Unisphere, Pool of Industry, Queens Zoo and Queens Museum of Art. 5K = 1 loop, 10K = 2 loops.
90 min time limit to complete either race
Children must be 13 or older to participate in the 5K or 10K.
USATF course certification NY16032JG, NY16033JG
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Bag check, aid stations every mile, free T-shirt (if registered by Oct 31), post race refreshments for all participants, medals for all finishers.
There will be a kids fun-run for children under 13, at 10:30 a.m. 100 meter and 400 meter distances - depending on the child's age. Registration - $5 - is on race day only, starting at 9:30 a.m. Each child will receive a small prize. Please email email@example.com if you plan to enter your child so we can be sure to have enough prizes.
5K: Men and Women
Top 7: Overall
Top 3: 50 to 59
Top 2: 60 to 69
Top 1: 70 and Over
10K: Men and Women
Top 3: Overall
Top 2: 50 to 59
Top 1: 60 and Over
8:30-9:30 a.m. on race day. 5K and 10K races have a simultaneous start at 10:00 a.m.
- 10:00 am
- $20 prepaid
- $30 day of race
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- 10:00 am
- $30 prepaid
- $40 day of race
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Kids Fun Run
- 10:30 a.m.
- $5 - Day of race only
ContactBoijayanti or Suchitra516.710.8084Send Email
Award categories
- Trophies: Men and Women
- 5K: Men and Women
- Top 7: Overall
- Top 3: 50 to 59
- Top 2: 60 to 69
- Top 1: 70 and Over
- 10K: Men and Women
- Top 3: Overall
- Top 2: 50 to 59
- Top 1: 60 and Over
- Medals to all finishers!
How to Enter
BY MAIL: $20/5K, $30/10K must be postmarked on or before October 31
Download mail-in entry form >>
ONLINE: $22.50/5K, $32.50/10K online until Nov 13th
RACE DAY: $30/5K, $40/10K 8:30-9:30 a.m., Cash, check or money order ONLY. NO CREDIT CARDS.
- Free race T-shirt for participants who register by October 31st
- Certificates to be mailed for top 3 finishers in each age category
- Medals for all finishers
- 5K Awards
- Trophies to top seven finishers men and women overall
- Trophies to top three men and women 50-59
- Trophies to top three men and women 60-69
- Trophy for the top male and female finisher 70 and over
- 10K Awards
- Trophies to top three finishers men and women overall
- Trophies to top two men and women 50-59
- Trophies to top one man and woman 60 and over
- Aid stations
- Kids fun-run at 10:15 am following 5K race - $5 - registration on race day only
- Beautiful and historic race setting
- Award Ceremony at 10:45 AM for 5K, 11:15 AM for 10K
- Race results to be posted within 24 hours of race
There is a large parking lot (free parking) right next to the race staging area. By far the easiest way to get there is by using Google Maps navigation: Click to open race-day registration location on Google Maps, or type in "Meadowlark Circle, Queens, NY 11375"
We do NOT recommend using other navigation apps, including Apple Maps, Waze, etc., as most of them will take you to the wrong location in another part of the park, or on the wrong side of the expressway. (Flushing Meadows is a VERY BIG park)
Below are written driving directions if you'd like to navigate the old-fashioned way. There are lots of twists and turns, so please follow the instructions very carefully, otherwise you can get very lost, very quickly!
From Eastbound Long Island Expressway:
1. Take exit 22A-E Grand Central Parkway/678 Van Wyck Expressway
2. After 0.1 mi, stay left towards East 495 Long Island Expressway/678 Van Wyck Expressway (Don't take the Grand Central Parkway!)
3. After 0.3 mi, stay in the middle lane to take Exit 22E College Pt. Blvd. (Don't take the Van Wyck Expressway!)
4. After 0.2 mi, turn left at the traffic light onto College Pt. Blvd.
5. After 0.7 mi, turn left at the second traffic light. (smaller street, no name)
6. After 150 ft, turn left (no street name)
7. Go 100 ft (pass under the expressway), turn left at the T junction onto Meridian Rd. (there is a Flushing Meadows sign at the intersection with an arrow pointing left towards Meadow Lake)
8. After 0.1 mi, (at the first stop sign) turn left onto Meadow Lake Rd. W
IMPORTANT: Please obey 10 MPH speed limit inside the park!
9. After 0.2 mi, (passing underneath several expressway overpasses) stay to the right at the fork, and then keep right.
10. After 0.3 mi (just after passing underneath another overpass) the parking lot entrance is on your left.
The race staging area is beyond the far side of the parking lot, near Meadowlark Circle.
Take exit 22B toward College Point Blvd/678 Van Wyck Expy
After 150 meters, turn right onto Rodman St.
Immediately get in the far left lane (left turn only), then go through the light across College Pt. Blvd. and make first left turn (no street name), then follow the directions from step 7 of the Eastbound Long Island Expressway (above).
FROM WESTBOUND GRAND CENTRAL PARKWAY (towards RFK Bridge)
Take Exit 10E-W 495 Long Island Expressway / Eastern Long Island, then stay right to exit 10E 495 Long Island Expressway/Eastern Long Island/Riverhead, then follow the directions from step 3 of the Eastbound Long Island Expressway (above).
FROM EASTBOUND GRAND CENTRAL PARKWAY (towards Eastern Long Island)
Take exit 10W-E 495 Long Island Expressway/Manhattan/Eastern Long Island
After 0.3 mi, keep right to exit 10E, you will loop around onto the LIE service road, then follow directions from step 3 of the Eastbound Long Island Expressway (above).
Take exit 12A College Pt. Blvd./Long Is Expwy/Eastern Long Is
After 0.5 mi, bear left at the fork onto College Pt. Blvd.
after 0.8 mi, turn left at the third traffic light (unnamed road), then follow directions from step 6 of the Eastbound Long Island Expressway above.
Take exit 12A College Pt. Blvd / 495 L I Expwy / Eastern L I
After 0.3 mi, turn right at the light onto College Pt. Blvd.
Make the next possible right turn. the road is unnamed, but there is a small green sign with an arrow "USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center"
Turn right at the stop sign, follow directions from step 7 of the Eastbound Long Island Expressway above.
The closest subway station is Mets-Willets Point on the number 7 subway line (view MTA subway map).
Click to open race-day registration location on Google Maps on your mobile device
Exit the train and follow the signs to Flushing Meadows Corona Park. This will lead you across a bridge. Essentially, you'll first head for the Unisphere - pass it - and then walk over the footbridge over the Long Island Expressway to get to the race staging area at Meadowlark Circle at the North end of Meadow Lake. It's a little more than 1 mile from the Subway station to the race staging area (the perfect warm-up jog!). View map of walking route from Mets-Willets station to race
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BACHEL HAN, PLAINTIFF,v.INDIANA UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, ET AL.,DEFENDANTS.
This is an employment discrimination case brought by Plaintiff, Bachel Han, against Defendants Indiana University of Pennsylvania ("IUP"), and Individual Defendants Tony Atwater, Dean Carleen Zoni, Christopher Janicak, Lon Ferguson, Helen Kennedy, John Engler, Tracy Cekada, and Laura Rhodes (collectively, "Individual Defendants"). (See Docket No. [16]). The Defendants, collectively, have filed a partial Motion to Dismiss under Rule 12(b)(6) (Docket No. [17]) in which the Defendants seek dismissal of Counts IV, V and VI of the Plaintiff's Amended Complaint. (Docket No. [17] at ¶ 2). For the reasons that follow, the Defendants' motion [17] is DENIED, without prejudice.
Plaintiff is an adult male who resides in Morgantown, West Virginia. (Docket No. 16 at ¶ 1). In 1986 Plaintiff emigrated from South Korea and became a citizen of the United States in 2001. (Id. at ¶ 14). Plaintiff began his employment with IUP as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Safety Sciences in August 2008. (Id. at ¶ 15). On March 16, 2009 a letter was sent to Plaintiff informing him that his contract for employment would not be renewed*fn1 . (Id. at ¶ 68). The letter stated that Plaintiff's last day of employment would be May 22, 2009. (Docket No. 18-1).
Plaintiff alleges that he completed an EEOC intake questionnaire*fn2 on or about January 8, 2010. (Docket No. 16 at ¶ 96). Plaintiff believed that, based on the filing of the questionnaire, he had timely filed his charges under all applicable state and federal laws. (Id. at ¶ 99). In the questionnaire, Plaintiff identified the Faculty Evaluation Committee ("FEC"), which includes Individual Defendants Engler, Cekada and Rhodes, sufficient notice that they may be party to the suit. (Document 16 at ¶ 101). Plaintiff states that he named Defendant Kennedy individually on the EEOC intake questionnaire. (Id. at ¶ 102). He then filed a formal charge with the EEOC on June 9, 2010. (Id. at ¶ 103). The EEOC issued a right to sue letter to Plaintiff on December 14, 2011. (Id. at ¶ 13).
Plaintiff initiated this suit on March 12, 2012. (Docket No. 1). In response to a first motion to dismiss (Docket No. 13), Plaintiff filed an Amended Complaint on May 31, 2012. (Docket No. 16). Defendants then brought the pending motion to dismiss (Docket No. 17), Plaintiff responded (Docket Nos. 21-22), and the Court heard argument. (Docket No. 25). The motion is now ripe for adjudication.
A motion to dismiss pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b)(6) challenges the legal sufficiency of a complaint. The United States Supreme Court has held that "a plaintiff's obligation to provide the 'grounds' of his 'entitle[ment] to relief' requires more than labels and conclusions, and a formulaic recitation of the elements of a cause of action will not do." Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly, 550 U.S. 544, 555, 127 S.Ct. 1955, 167 L.Ed.2d 929 (2007) (citing Papasan v. Allain, 478 U.S. 265, 286, 106 S.Ct. 2932, 92 L.Ed.2d 209 (1986)) (alterations in original).
The Court must accept as true all well-pleaded facts and allegations and must draw all reasonable inferences therefrom in favor of the plaintiff. See Ashcroft v. Iqbal, 556 U.S. 662, 129 S.Ct. 1937, 1949--50, 173 L.Ed.2d 868 (2009); Twombly, 550 U.S. at 555. As the Supreme Court made clear in Twombly, however, the "factual allegations must be enough to raise a right to relief above the speculative level." Twombly, 550 U.S. at 555. The Supreme Court has subsequently broadened the scope of this requirement, stating that "only a complaint that states a plausible claim for relief survives a motion to dismiss." Iqbal, 556 U.S. at 679 (citing Twombly, 550 U.S. at 556). This standard requires showing "more than a sheer possibility that a defendant has acted unlawfully." Iqbal, 566 U.S. at 678 (citing Twombly, 550 U.S. at 556). "Where a complaint pleads facts that are 'merely consistent with' a defendant's liability, it 'stops short of the line between possibility and plausibility of entitlement to relief." Iqbal, 566 U.S. at 678 (quoting Twombly, 550 U .S. at 557). "This 'plausibility' determination will be 'a context-specific task that requires the reviewing court to draw on its judicial experience and common sense.'" Fowler v. UPMC Shadyside, 578 F.3d 203, 211 (3d Cir.2009) (quoting Iqbal, 566 U.S. at 663-64).
After Iqbal, the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit explained that a district court must conduct the following analysis to determine the sufficiency of a complaint: First, the court must "tak[e] note of the elements a plaintiff must plead to state a claim." Second, the court should identify allegations that, "because they are no more than conclusions, are not entitled to the assumption of truth." Finally, "where there are well-pleaded factual allegations, a court should assume their veracity and then determine whether they plausibly give rise to an entitlement for relief." Santiago v. Warminster Twp., 629 F.3d 121, 130 (3d Cir.2010) (quoting Iqbal, 129 S.Ct. at 1947, 1950); see also Burtch v. Milberg Factors, Inc., 662 F.3d 212, 221 (3d Cir.2011), cert. denied, ------ U.S. --------, 132 S.Ct. 1861, ------ L.Ed.2d --------, 2012 WL 296904 (Apr. 2, 2012); Malleus v. George, 641 F.3d 560, 563 (3d Cir.2011).
Twombly and Iqbal have not changed the other pleading standards for a motion to dismiss pursuant to FED. R. CIV. P. 12(b)(6), and the requirements of FED. R. CIV. P. 8 must still be met. See Burtch, 662 F.3d at 220. Rule 8 requires a showing, rather than a blanket assertion, of entitlement to relief, and "contemplates the statement of circumstances, occurrences, and events in support of the claim presented and does not authorize a pleader's bare averment that he wants relief and is entitled to it." Twombly, 550 U.S. at 555 n. 3 (internal alterations, citations, and quotations omitted). The Supreme Court has explained that a complaint need not be "a model of the careful drafter's art" or "pin plaintiffs' claim for relief to a precise legal theory" so long as it states "a plausible 'short and plain' statement of the plaintiff's claim." Skinner v. Switzer, ------ U.S. --------, 131 S.Ct. 1289, 1296, 179 L.Ed.2d 233 (2011); see also Matrixx Initiatives, Inc. v. Siracusano, ------ U.S. --------, 131 S.Ct. 1309, 1322 n. 12, 179 L.Ed.2d 398 (2011) (emphasizing that "to survive a motion to dismiss, respondents need only allege 'enough facts to state a claim to relief that is plausible on its face' ") (quoting Twombly, 550 U.S. at 570)).
In deciding a Rule 12(b)(6) motion to dismiss, the Court may consider "only the allegations in the complaint, exhibits attached to the complaint, matters of public record, and documents that form the basis of a claim." Lum v. Bank of Am., 361 F.3d 217, 222 n. 3 (3d Cir.2004). A document forms the basis of a claim if it is "integral to or explicitly relied upon in the complaint." In re Rockefeller Ctr. Props., Inc. Sec. Litig., 184 F.3d 280, 287 (3d Cir.1999) (emphasis in original; internal citations and quotations omitted).
Defendants move this Court to dismiss Counts IV, V and VI of the Amended Complaint, each of which arise under the PHRA. (See Docket No. 16 at 17-19). To this end, the parties agree that a PHRA claim must be filed within 180 days of the alleged discrimination action. (See Docket No. 18 at 5; Docket No. 22 at 3-4); see also Hatten v. Bay Valley Foods, LLC., No. 12-1122, 2012 WL 1328287, *2 (W.D. Pa. April 17, 2012). They also agree that the filing with the PHRA was done outside of the typical period. What the parties disagree about is whether the 180-day period may be equitably tolled in this case.
It is well-settled that the 180-day period may be equitably tolled in certain circumstances. Colbert v. Mercy Behavioral Health, No. 11-1195, 2012 WL 113705, *4 (W.D. Pa. Jan. 13, 2012). Of interest in this case is the rule that, where "plaintiff was prevented from asserting his [or her] rights in some extraordinary way" tolling may be permitted. Id. Such tolling may be most appropriate in cases involving a pro se plaintiff. See Cunningham v. Freedom Ford Sales Inc., No. 06-205, 2007 WL 2404739 at *5 (W.D. Pa. Aug 17, 2007) (citing Jones v. Baskin, et. all P.C., 738 F. Supp. 937, 940 (W.D. Pa. 1989)).
Plaintiff implicitly raised the possibility of such tolling in his Amended Complaint. Specifically, he asserts that, at the time he commenced formal proceedings with the EEOC by filing an "intake questionnaire," Plaintiff was acting pro se and he was unaware that the 180-day PHRC filing period was different "from either the 300-day filing period for the EEOC charges or from any other analogous filing periods." (Docket No. 16 at ¶¶ 97-98). Thus, he believed that his filing of the questionnaire was timely and satisfied all filing requirements. (Id. at ¶¶ 99-100).*fn3
Viewing the facts of the complaint as true and in a light most favorable to Plaintiff, it is plausible that the Plaintiff may be able to offer evidence to support equitable tolling due to extraordinary circumstances, particularly involving the Plaintiff's inability to fully understand the process in Pennsylvania at the time he was a pro se litigant. Iqbal, 556 U.S. at 662. For these reasons the Court finds it premature to dismiss Plaintiff's filings. Defendants may renew this argument after appropriate discovery.
The next issue raised by the Defendants is that a number of the Individual Defendants -- Engler, Cekada, Rhodes and Kennedy -- were never named in any PHRC or EEOC Charge, and thus, Counts IV, V and VI as to those Defendants should be dismissed because Plaintiff has failed to exhaust his administrative remedies. (Docket No. 18 at 6). Plaintiff claims that his reference to the FEC in the EEOC Charge is sufficient to provide the members of that Committee, including Individual Defendants Engler, Cekada and Rhodes, sufficient notice that they may be party to the suit. (Document 16 at ¶ 101). Plaintiff states that he named Defendant Kennedy individually on the EEOC intake questionnaire. (Id. at ¶ 102).
A PHRA complaint alleging discrimination must contain the names of accused. DuPont v. Slippery Rock Univ., No. 11-1435, 2012 WL 94548, at *3 (W.D. Pa. Jan. 11, 2012). Naming a group of which an individual is a member or referencing an activity in which an individual participated in, even only in the body of a complaint, should provide the individual with notice that they may be one of the accused. Id. This notice requirement can be met for a defendant not named in the complaint where the defendant has "notice and .shared commonality of interest with a named party". Id.
The determination of tolling will ultimately factor into the consideration of notice, validity, and timing in naming defendants. E.E.O.C v. Bass Pro Outdoor World, LLC, No. 3425, 2012 WL 1965685 at * 24 (S.D. Tex. May 31, 2012) (holding that, before discovery there is insufficient evidence to determine if an identity of interest existed between defendants). Until such a time as that issue can be decided with a proper evidentiary basis, the court will not address the question of official versus individual notice*fn4 . The naming of Defendants and their notice also requires the examination of documents that are not currently available to the court for review, as they are not part of, or integral to, the Amended Complaint. See Lum, 361 F.3d at 222 n. 3; In re Rockefeller Ctr. Props., Inc. Sec. Litig., 184 F.3d at 287. Since these issues require the examination of documents and testimony not present in the pleading, discovery must take place.
The Court notes that, since this is only a partial Motion to Dismiss, there is no prejudice in allowing parties to continue taking discovery. Bajsec v. Borough of Leetsdale, No. 12-0160, 2012 WL 2027307 (W.D. Pa. June 5, 2012). Plaintiff conceded at the motion hearing that if discovery reveals filings are time barred, the related claims would be dismissed. (TOA pg. 6 at 23-25). Similarly, Plaintiff also agreed that if it became clear that notice was not given to certain Individual Defendants, those claims would be dismissed as well. (TOA pg. 12 at 6-7). Should discovery reveal that the facts do not support the Plaintiff's allegations, Defendants are free to bring a motion for summary judgment.
For the above reasons, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that Defendants' Motion to Dismiss
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