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Top Ten Conservative Idiots (No. 111)
26, 2003
Full Nelson Edition
to The Top Ten Conservative Idiots, No. 111! If you know anything
about the sport of cricket - and I have a feeling that the
vast majority of people reading this know nothing about cricket
whatsoever - then you will know that a batsman's score of
111 is considered to be extremely unlucky. This score is known
as a Nelson
and superstition states that the batsman will be "out"
on his next shot. For some reason it seems particularly appropriate
this week as cracks may be appearing in the Bush administration's
seemingly-invincible facade. All hell is breaking loose in
Iraq, much to the consternation of the Administration (1),
and George W. Bush (2) appears to be seriously screwing up
the global war on terrorism. Meanwhile several administration
members resigned last week, including EPA chief Christine
Todd Whitman and spokesman Ari Fleischer (10). Enjoy, and
don't forget the key!
Bush Administration
It seems that lambasting Bush's handling of the current situation
in Iraq is not just for liberals any more. Last week the most
senior Republican authority on foreign relations in Congress,
Richard Lugar, opined
that the Bush administration must do much, much more in Iraq
to avoid turning the occupied country into "an incubator
for terrorist cells and activity." Writing in the Washington
Post, Lugar said, "I am concerned that the Bush Administration
and Congress have not yet faced up to the true size of the
task that lies ahead, or prepared the American people for
it." Gee, do you think the hundreds of hours a week of
Republican propaganda being shoved down Americans' throats
by the Bush-licking media could have had anything to do with
that? In fact, it seems that despite the brutal dictatorship
of their former ruler, Iraqis are starting to grumble that
life under their American occupiers is actually worse
than it was under Saddam Hussein - and while it was obviously
difficult to believe a statement like that while Saddam was
in power, bear in mind that the Iraqi people are now free
to speak their own minds. Meanwhile, lawmakers back home -
Republicans and Democrats alike - have been laying
into Bush's postwar plans as Iraq teeters on the brink
of collapse. And now the power-players are starting to backpedal
- despite months of chest-thumping and assertations that this
whole business would be over in a matter of weeks, Donald
Rumsfeld was recently heard admitting
that "You couldn't know how it would end." Hmm,
perhaps they should have mentioned that earlier. So thanks,
George and friends, for ruining America's reputation on the
world stage, killing thousands of innocent people, spending
billions of dollars of taxpayer money, and breeding yet more
global terrorism. At least the defense contractors and the
oil men will be happy. Oh wait - that's you, isn't it.
W. Bush
You know, when Our Great Leader stood on that aircraft carrier
in his package-enhancing flightsuit next to that big banner
which read MISSION ACCOMPLISHED, you could almost hear Osama
bin Laden laughing. The recent spate
of global terrorist activity has shed further light on Bush's
haphazard foreign policy, and despite what we've been repeatedly
told by the administration, the grim news is that al Qaeda
seems to be on the way back. Meanwhile the war in Iraq has
done nothing more than a) provided a smokescreen for al Qaeda
operatives who were busy planning their next assaults, and
b) damaged our global reputation, thus making it more difficult
to work with other countries to track down terrorists. And
for reasons unknown, Bush is currently hindering
investigations into the September 11 attacks by refusing
to release information to the independent investigation commission.
So much for the war on terror - it sounds more like Our Great
Leader is fighting his own one-man war on sanity. And I'd
go so far as to say MISSION ACCOMPLISHED, Mr. Bush.
Texas Department of Public Safety
For those of you who were looking forward to investigations
of Tom DeLay and Tom Craddick for their appalling misuse of
federal resources, we have bad news. Just as people were starting
to get interested in why the House Majority Leader got the
FAA, the FBI, and the Department of Homeland Security involved
in a local redistricting spat (see Idiots
110) the Texas Department of Public Safety has announced
that - whoops! - it has destroyed
all of its records related to the case. My, my, what an Enron-style
slip-up. The DPS claims that a federal privacy law required
that the records be destroyed because the Democrats who fled
to Oklahoma were not considered possible criminals. So, uh
- if they weren't considered possible criminals, why was
the federal criminal investigation system being used to track
them down? Mind you, those documents probably aren't important.
I'm sure no-one has anything to hide...
W. Bush
Rats deserting a sinking ship, or just ordinary folks who
want to "spend more time with their families?" The
Bush administration has suffered a rash of resignations lately,
the most high-profile of which is probably EPA chief Christine
Todd Whitman. Whitman quit last week after spending two years
constantly battling George W. Bush's radical anti-environmentalism,
and last week she took a few parting
shots at her former boss, suggesting that Bush "had
been 'hurt' by his administration's inability to explain unpopular
environmental decisions," according to Reuters. Well
he may have been hurt Christie, but probably not as hurt as
all those uninsured kids growing up breathing toxic air and
drinking polluted water will be.
Texas State Senate
The Republican-controlled Texas Senate passed a draconian
"abortion counseling law" last week which would
require doctors to warn women that abortion might lead to
breast cancer. Which is really strange, because the American
Cancer Society says that no
such link exists. Claudia D. Stravato, CEO of Planned
Parenthood of Amarillo and the Texas Panhandle, said of the
Republicans who came up with this travesty of a law, "They
don't care what science says...It's like talking to the Flat
Earth Society." Of course the people who came up with
this nonsense are claiming that they're just "trying
to give women as much information as possible." Including,
apparently, false information. Critics of the law say
that it is "a thinly veiled attempt to intimidate, frighten
and shame women" who are seeking an abortion, according
to SFGate.com.
Sounds about par for the course for your friendly neighborhood
You've got to hand it to the Pentagon - they sure know how
to ream the U.S. taxpayer. It was reported
last week that the Pentagon is "winning the battle for
a $400 billion budget" which is being "rammed through
Congress by the Republican majority," according to the
UK Guardian. Interestingly that $400 billion does not
include money for the war in Iraq, and very little of it will
go towards fighting terrorism or homeland security. Nope,
apparently it's all about handing fat wads of cash to defense
contractors for yet more Cold War jet fighters and submarines.
Again according to the Guardian, Christopher Helman,
a military analyst at the Centre for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation,
said that "only $25bn of the $400bn could be described
as 'transformational,' aimed at modernising...and of that
$10bn will be spent on the controversial national missile
defence 'star wars' scheme." Interestingly, the Guardian
article also points out that "A congressional investigation
reported that inventory management in the army was so weak
it had lost track of 56 airplanes, 32 tanks, and 36 missile
launchers." Um... lost?
Anissa Khoder, an Arab-American woman of Lebanese origin who
became a U.S. citizen ten years ago, was in court recently.
Nothing major - she was merely contesting a parking ticket
in her small hometown of Tarrytown, NY. Step forward Village
Justice William Crosbie to demonstrate
a little of that famous compassionate conservatism. According
to Khoder, when her name was called Crosbie's first question
was to ask if she were a terrorist. But he didn't stop there
- Crosbie later allegedly told Khoder that "You have
money to support the terrorists, but you don't want to pay
the ticket." Absolutely shocking. But it's okay - in
his defense Crosbie said that he was "probably kidding
with her." Well har-de-har. What a hilarious joke.
Hey, remember TIA? Total Information Awareness? That creepy
DARPA project designed to spy on U.S. citizens, which everyone
thought had been canned last year? Well it's back! And in
true Bush style, this is nothing more than the same old unconstitutional
Orwellian bullpoop - just wrapped in a shiny new bow. It appears
that the Pentagon thought that "Total Information Awareness"
sounded just a little too Big Brotheresque, and have settled
instead on the much more exciting and politically acceptable
"Terrorism Information Awareness." I mean, how could
you argue with that name? Hey, you - do you not
want the government to keep a secret file on you with
information on your driver's license, car rentals, airline
ticket purchases, arrests, "reports of suspicious activities"
(whatever that may be), your financial, education, medical
and housing records, and identification records based on your
fingerprints, irises, facial shape and the way you walk? Then
you must support the terrorists!
Wah Can't Hear You" Conservatives
Gee, those conservatives sure don't like to hear an opposing
viewpoint, do they? At a recent graduation ceremony at a private
Illinois college, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Chris Hedges
gave an anti-war commencement address. But rather than listen
to Hedges' point of view, conservative idiots in the audience
decided that the most American thing to do would be to interrupt
the speech by booing, rushing the stage, and cutting power
to the microphone. Hedges persisted but finally cut his speech
short when it became clear that these idiots weren't going
to give up. How interesting - when liberals protest conservatives'
speeches they're usually escorted from the building and/or
arrested. Yet when conservatives protest liberals' speeches,
they're allowed to climb all over the podium until the speaker
has to give up. Seems fair.
finally, we bid a fond farewell to Bush lackey and celebrated
slaphead Ari Fleischer, who last week announced his resignation
from Team Bush Misinformation Squad. From keeping a "mental
list" of the damage Bill Clinton didn't cause when he
left the White House (see Idiots 3)
to blaming Middle East violence on Clinton's peace process
(see Idiots 57)
to knowing "for a fact" that Iraq has WMD (see Idiots
Ari has consistently striven to achieve greater heights of
conservative idiocy, and he's delivered the goods time and
again. To celebrate Ari's retirement from public life, enjoy
this picture of a 15-year-old future official White House
liar with a gorgeous full head of hair. And ponder on whether
Ari Fleischer was the oldest-looking 15-year-old you've ever
seen in your life. Damn! What were they putting in his raisin
bran? He looks about 35! See you next week, everyone...!
a Conservative for Next Week's List


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Taylor makes no excuse for loss
Gillingham boss Peter Taylor doffed his cap to Rotherham after his side were convincingly beaten 4-1 at New York Stadium.
Last Updated: 30/11/13 8:39pm
Gillingham boss Peter Taylor doffed his cap to Rotherham after his side were convincingly beaten 4-1 at New York Stadium.
Rotherham strolled into a three-goal lead after just 35 minutes and Taylor made no excuses.
On-loan Nouha Dicko started things off after nine minutes after Alex Revel headed on and then Revell headed down for Kieran Agard to make it two-nil after 23 minutes.
Ben Pringle capped a fine solo run by firing home after 35 minutes and although Cody McDonald put the frighteners on Rotherham with a 65th-minute goal for the visitors, on-loan debutant James Tavernier restored the Millers' three-goal advantage in the 75th minute.
"In the first half, Rotherham were miles better than us," Taylor said.
"They were first to everything and deserved to be at least 3-0 up.
"It was a very, very poor start from us and if you don't start right and let teams get momentum like we did you are going to get punished and we were lucky it was only three.
"At half-time I told them you cannot start like you fancy. You have got to start strong, hard to play against and start getting first to the ball.
"You have got to give credit where credit is due and Rotherham played exceptionally well in the first half.
"In the second half we calmed it down a bit and sometimes teams take their foot off a bit and give you a chance.
"It was nice to get a goal back, but as much as you would like to say we were going to get back after that first half performance, we had to score quickly and then we had to to play much, much better than we did.
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Metcash is aiming to double No Frills sales to around $40 million by expanding the number of product lines and making it available to hundreds of retailers trading under the IGA banner.
Almost a year after kicking off a marketing campaign supporting Australia's "favourite" grocery brands, Metcash is now pursuing a three-tiered private label strategy similar to that of
No Frills complements Metcash's premium Signature and value-priced Black & Gold ranges and is positioned to compete on price with Woolworths' discount Homebrand and Coles' SmartBuy label.
However, Metcash's chief operating officer for food and grocery, Silvestro Morabito, says the wholesaler has no intention of lifting private sales to more than 20 per cent of packaged grocery sales, as Coles and Woolworths are expected to do.
"We still want to be the champion of proprietary brands," Mr Morabito told the Australian Financial Review.
"The 'our favourite brands' promotion is still part of our whole marketing and merchandising approach and … we'll drive favourite brand promotions three times over the calendar year," he said.
"But we also needed in our arsenal… a discount banner.
"The value consumer has been born and is not going anywhere - there definitely was a void in that positioning for the independents in Australia."
"We have to supply at the end of the day what our independent operators are asking us to supply and if that means we have to do an additional control range, we'll do that."
No Frills was originally launched by Franklins in 1978 and at one stage was so successful it was licensed to overseas retailers such as Quicksave and Big Fresh by Franklins' former parent, Dairy Farm International of Hong Kong.
But as the Franklins chain shrank in Australia and the major retailers launched their own private label strategies, adding brands such as Woolworths' Select and Macro and Coles' eponymous labels, the No Frills brand lost traction.
Metcash acquired No Frills as part of its $215 million purchase of Franklins in 2011 and relaunched the brand last November after tweaking the distinctive black and white packaging and adding new categories such as bacon, cheese, flour and laundry powder.
"The end consumer is telling us that No Frills is still a remembered brand," Mr Morabito said.
"We think we'll finish this year with sales of $30 million and we want to get to $40 million."
Metcash is currently offering 61 No Frills products across 50 categories and plans to double the number of products over time, starting with staples and then moving into more discretionary purchases.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission is looking at the proliferation of private label brands as part of its inquiries into allegations of unconscionable conduct in the $80 billion grocery trade.
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Nielsen estimated last April that Woolworths drew 18 per cent of sales from private label and Coles 23 per cent.
Mr Morabito says private label currently accounts for less than 10 per cent of Metcash's grocery sales and the wholesaler is aiming to lift sales of Signature, Black & Gold and No Frills to about 15 per cent of dry grocery revenues.
"We are not trying to reach 30 to 40 per cent private label - for Metcash there's a real balance between driving private label and supporting proprietary brands," he said
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Daniel Love
b.1720 Antrim, Ireland
d.23 February 1790 Rockingham County, Virginia
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m. 07 April 1720
m. Abt. 1743
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Daniel Love was one of the Early Settlers of Augusta County, Virginia
Early Land Acquisition in Augusta County, VA
Acquisition of Land in Virginia:
Parentage of Daniel Love
Daniel Love is a possible/probable child of Ephraim Love of Muddy Creek. Some sources have placed Daniel as a son of a John Love, but records are lacking to prove this. Daniel Love is listed in many records with Ephraim Love and although records to prove Daniel as his son (no will for Ephraim has been located), they are undoubtedly related in some way. According to "Settlers by the Long Grey Trail" author, John Houston Harrison (pg. 264): Daniel Love (who signed Margaret Johnson's bond as administrix of her husband, Arthur Johnson, deceased) was probably the son of Ephraim Love.
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Happy 29th Birthday, Prince William! Look Back at the Handsome Royal Through the Years (PHOTOS)
Happy 29th birthday to Prince William! Today (June 21) is the adorable royal's birthday, and life could not be better for him.
We've always had a soft spot for the Duke of Cambridge, but it seems that the world has fallen in love with him all over again thanks to his royal nuptials with Kate Middleton on April 29.
His good nature is even apparent in how he has decided to spend his birthday — not with a big party or presents, but in service to his country.
Palace officials confirmed that Prince William will spend the day on duty at his search-and-rescue base in Anglesey, which is off the coast of Wales. As a rescue pilot for the Royal Air Force, he may even do a 24-hour shift.
"We see how William wants to start out," a royal correspondent for the UK's Daily Sun told Good Morning America. "He will be a full-time, working royal."
In addition to his service and being a loving husband, he has continued his many philanthropic efforts, which is plenty of reason to celebrate.
After tying the knot, he put his honeymoon on hold to do a bit of work, but then the two spent 10 days on the Seychelles islands soaking up the sun with his bride.
In addition to a recent charity polo match, he and the Duchess of Cambridge made their first public appearance since their wedding ceremony at a charity fundraising gala. Check out the photos from the even below!
California during the weekend of July 8. They will land in LA on Friday, attending a charity gala at the Beverly Hilton on that evening, then will going a bit north. William will play in a charity polo match on Saturday afternoon in Santa Barbara, then head back to LA to attend the BAFTA Brits to Watch evening which showcases up and coming British talent from the worlds of film, television and video games. They'll finish their trip off by working with inner city youth in downtown LA.
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Canada Crop Producers Given More Time to Repay Cash Advances
Date Posted: August 22, 2014
Ottawa, ON—Western grains and oilseeds producers who have been unable to market their crops due to rail transportation challenges and flooding have been granted more time to repay their 2013 cash advances under the Advance Payments Program (APP).
Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz Aug. 19 announced a stay of default on the repayment of advances for producers who received an advance through the Manitoba Corn Growers Association (MCGA) on their 2013 crops.
The stay of default extends the 2013 repayment deadline by six months to March 31, 2015. Affected producers will have the option to repay their APP advances in cash without penalty.
Technical changes are also being implemented to make it easier for all producers to repay their advances by allowing them until the end of the production period to provide proof of sale on any commodity covered by APP.
Producers in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia who received a 2013 APP advance on their crops through the MCGA are eligible for the six-month stay of default and are encouraged to contact the MCGA for more details.
Quick Facts
• Last year's Western Canadian crop, at 76 million tonnes, was 50 per cent higher than average, putting significant pressure on Western Canada's grain handling and transportation system. Grains and oilseeds producers were further hampered by a shortage of trucks and limited access to roads and highways due to flooding across parts of Saskatchewan and Manitoba.
• The APP is a financial loan guarantee program that provides producers easier access to credit through cash advances. Under the APP, producers can receive cash advances of up to $400,000 on the value of their agricultural product, of which the first $100,000 in each crop year is interest free. The deadline to repay the 2013 APP advances is September 30, 2014.
• The MCGA administers advances for a number of crops in Western Canada including corn, alfalfa seed, Kentucky Bluegrass, annual and perennial rye grass, all pulse crops in Manitoba on behalf of the Manitoba Pulse Growers Association, and all sunflowers in Western Canada on behalf of the National Sunflower Association of Canada.
• On July 10, 2014, a stay of default with the same terms was announced for Western crop producers who received 2013 APP advances from the Canadian Canola Growers Association.
"Our government took immediate action to get grain and other commodities moving to ensure Canada's economy continues to grow. All Western grains and oilseeds producers that were impacted by rail transportation delays have now been granted the extra time they need to move their 2013 crops to market in order to meet their financial obligations."
- Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz
"The Manitoba Corn Growers Association is very pleased with the granting of the stay of default. Due to transportation issues and flooding in some areas of the province, many producers have been unable to move their 2013 crop. This will be extremely well received as it will take the pressure off and bring much needed relief to those producers."
- Myron Krahn, President of the Manitoba Corn Growers Association
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Manitoba Corn Growers Association
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A friend of mine just dropped off a gun for me to work on that came to him from his dad.
He just wants me to clean it up and make it functional again. nothing major. But its sat in the corner of a closet for time untold.
I would like to have a little history of the rig when i hand it back to him.
OK barrel stamps are:
Iver Johnson TRAILBLAZER Lakefield
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Catan Championships
Many players enjoy playing games for fun, but they also desire to compete against the best opponents.
For this reason, players gathered in 1995 to play the Catan base game during the "Deutsche Mannschaftsmeisterschaft im Brettspiel" (German Board Game Championship for Teams) finals.
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- World Wide Catan Championship: All-time High Scores List / Nation Rankings
- European Catan Championship: All-time High Scores List / Nation Rankings
- Information about the Next Championships
Since 1998, there have been annual Board Game Championships hosted by Spielezentrum Herne, Germany. At first, these tournaments were open only to players in Germany. Since these tournaments weren't offered in other countries, players from other countries also participated in the German tournaments. Eventually, more countries began hosting their own tournaments. Thus, in 2002 the first World Championship was held to include these players who were participating in tournaments outside Germany. To the present day, there have been players from more than 40 countries participating in the World Championships.
During the initial years, the Championships were hosted at the game fair "Internationalen Spieltage" in Essen, Germany. In 2008, for the first time, the World Championship was held at Gen Con Indy, the largest game fair in the US. Since then, World Championships are staged every two years. In 2010, the World Championship took place at Wildenstein Castle in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, and in 2012, once again in the US.
Since 2009, in the years between World Championships Europe's best Catan players meet in Vienna to determine the European champion.


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Writing Tips: Keep a Reading Journal
Journal writing is something I've done on and off since I was a kid. I've always wanted to keep a reading journal, but usually I inhale books, leaving little time between chapters to jot down my thoughts and reactions.
And by the time I finish reading, it's often the wee hours of the night and time to fall asleep, which means I'm far too exhausted to post entries in a reading journal.
Next thing I know, I'm on to the next book without a minute to spare.
But lately I've been trying to capture my reading experiences by writing down notes about what I've read, and I find it incredibly helpful.
The Benefits of a Reading Journal
Keeping a reading journal:
- Increases retention
- Pushes you to contemplate the material you've read and study it as a writer while broadening your understanding of the material
- Provides a time and space for writing practice
Most writers already practice regular journal writing. There's no reason you can't start including your reading entries there, or if you like to keep things neatly separated, start a separate reading journal. Use a Word document, launch a blog, crack open a notebook. The important thing is that you record your thoughts and your reactions or observations about what you've read.
Creative Writing Ideas and Journal Writing
A reading journal can also help you grow as a writer, because you can note what works and what doesn't. Which scenes in the novel were compelling? What character traits made you fall in love with the protagonist or loathe the villain?
You can keep notes about all your reading, not just books and novels. Jot down your thoughts after reading a magazine article, news story, or blog post. If you really want to get all-inclusive, you can even include music lyrics, movies, and TV shows. All of these are sources of inspiration.
Even if you don't want to start a whole new reading journal, try writing down your reaction to whatever you read over the weekend. Look for writing techniques, such as plot twists and brain teasers, and make notes on the writer's style and voice. See if knowing that you're going to make notes changes the way you read something, and see if those notes benefit your own writing.
Do you keep a reading journal? Is there another genre of journal writing that you prefer? Share your experiences by leaving a comment.


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MADISON, Wis. — President Obama marked the anniversary of his election Wednesday by speaking in unusually personal terms with schoolchildren and educators in a politically friendly state, far from the partisan fray.
His decision to come to James C. Wright Middle School, an innovative and ethnically mixed charter campus, was made weeks ago. But for Obama, the day served as a respite from the Afghan war, the health care scrum and the post-election punditry in Washington that he disdains.
He used the occasion both to pitch his education reforms and to speak about his life in the White House — as a father helping to oversee his daughters' studies, as a former community organizer who is now president.
He stepped into a gymnasium packed with several hundred people, including students wearing Obama T-shirts designed for the visit. In the flash of a hundred digital cameras, he told the audience that his "Election Day was a day of hope, it was a day of possibility."
"But it was also a sobering one," he said, "because we knew even then that we faced an array of challenges that would test us as a country."
The sobering moment he faces now is no longer the prospect of a collapsing economy; in states such as Wisconsin, the outlook is improving and even showing signs of job creation.
Still, in a hint of the anxiety felt among the progressive left about the president's plans, demonstrators outside the school held up signs demanding, "Fund Schools, Not Wars" and "Books, Not Bombs."
Late in his speech he strayed from the script to open a rare and fleetingly brief window on his life in the White House during this past year.
"Malia and Sasha are just wonderful kids," Obama said. "And Michelle is a wonderful mother."
But he noted that his daughters, like all other kids, "at times want to slack off" and prefer "a computer game to hitting the books."
He told a story of Malia, his sixth-grader, who came home recently with a 73 percent score on a science test. A few weeks earlier, she scored an 80 percent on a test, and Obama made clear that he expected more.
This time, she was unhappy with her performance without any prodding, and she laid out a plan to improve her study habits for the next test.
On Tuesday night, Obama told the audience, now raptly focused on him, she came home with a 95. There was a burst of applause. He smiled, paused.
He was a long way from Washington, talking about his kids to kids. "She told me, 'I just like having knowledge,' '' Obama said. "What had happened is that now she wanted it more than us."


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Pastor Westermeyer is a graduate of St. Olaf College, the University of Notre Dame, and Luther Seminary. He joined the staff of St. Philip the Deacon as Executive Pastor in 2007, and became Senior Pastor in 2014.
Pastor Mark Schmid
Executive Pastor
Pastor Schmid is a graduate of Luther College and Luther Seminary. He joined the staff of St. Philip the Deacon as Executive Pastor in 2014.
Pastor Mathison is a graduate of Gustavus Adolphus College and Luther Seminary. She joined the staff at St. Philip the Deacon as Teaching Pastor in 2003.
Pastor Strand Patterson graduated from the College of St. Benedict, St. Joseph, MN and Luther Seminary in St. Paul. She has been in ministry at St. Philip the Deacon since 1989.
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Constructed of a tough polycarbonate material, the Sphero has a diameter of 74mm and is opaque enough so that a multitude of colours and special effects can add to the visual appeal of the device. Within the ball's shell, Orbotix has packed an accelerometer, multi-axis gyroscope, LED lights, compass, various motors, lithium polymer battery, and support for Bluetooth – I wish I could pack a suitcase as efficiently.
Charging the Sphero device is carried out by conduction as you place the device in the supplied cradle with a choice of plugs for use with different power systems. Fortunately the Sphero comes powered with enough juice so that you can start to use it almost immediately. A full recharge can take around three hours and this will give you about an hour of play time which hardly seems a fair exchange of time and energy.
I would recommend downloading the main Sphero app for your particular platform before branching out with the numerous other available apps. This main app will allow you to get use to controlling the ball which does give the appearance, especially when I am supposed to be in charge, of having a mind of its own and sometimes wandering off in a totally random direction. But we are getting ahead of ourselves slightly so lets backtrack a little.
You will need to pair your fully charged Sphero, via Bluetooth, with your smartphone or tablet. To make sure your Sphero is fully awake and responsive, you will need to give it a good shake until it starts to protest by flashing at you. I wasn't expecting any problems with regards pairing and so was surprised when my Google Nexus tablet struggled to make the necessary contact. Messages appeared asking me to check that the Sphero device was displaying a certain number (259372 was one example), which it wasn't, and then the Google Nexus spent many minutes attempting to pair. In fact it was so slow that I switched to my Motorola Razri smartphone which handled the pairing process without any problems. Eventually my tablet made the necessary contact.
The Sphero app leads you through a brief checking routine to ensure your ball behaves itself before leaving you with an interface to drive your ball over various surfaces, including water, and change colour. My cat was initially interested in this strange flashing object but quickly decided his food dish and sleep time was more appealing. Your patience will probably have a stronger resistance, I know mine did, before you decide to go online and download some of the more interesting apps that allow various activities to be carried out using your Sphero.
Some of these apps are suitable for a single payer while others, such as "Pass the Sphero" can require up to six players. You can indulge, free-of-charge, in a Nyan Cat Space Party, Doodle Grub, Sphero Cam, Zombie Rollers or Sphero Golf 2.0 to mention just some. Plus there are at least a couple of apps that allow you to program your ball.
As mentioned earlier, the Sphero can become the controller rather than the controlled. In such cases you need to hold the ball as you steer an on-screen character passed obstructions while destroying various items to earn points. Unlike a normal legacy game controller, the Sphero does require very careful handling. This is not due to the fact that you might damage the Sphero, it does have a sturdy appearance although you are advised not to drop it on a hard surface or throw it in frustration, but because it is highly sensitive with the control it offers. A slight shift in the grip could cause your Sphero controlled character to hug the side of the screen and reject your efforts to move it.
The Sphero is not a toy, well actually it is but not one that you will immediately master if ever. It can be amusing and frustrating in equal measures. Some will have the perseverance to perform weird and "wonderful" things with the device but I suspect many will opt to relegate this device to a drawer where it can be forgotten about. This would be a pity especially when you have already handed over the asking price of £100 for this product. I can not shake the feeling that the Sphero could be regarded as a gimmick with a short shelf life. But then I could be wrong.
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The Wyoming Cowgirl Volleyball Team will host their second match of the week as they welcome the Colorado State Rams, on Friday, Nov. 2. The match is set for 7:00 p.m. Live stats and video of the match can be followed on www.gowyo.com.
The Cowgirls enter the week with a 17-9 (.654) record overall and a 4-6 (.400) mark in the Mountain West after a four-set victory over Regis on Tuesday night. Wyoming is currently led by Jodi Purdy who is averaging a team high 3.41 kills and 4.19 points plus 2.62 digs per set. She ranks second in points, fifth in aces and kills, while she is second in points, fifth in kills and ninth in blocks in league matches. Sophomore Erin Kirby is averaging a team and league high 1.66 blocks per set while hitting .303 (147-46-333). Reese Plante follows with a team high .312 (176-47-413) hitting percentage and 1.21 blocks, while Becky Stewart is leading the way with 4.76 digs per set. As a team, they are averaging 12.33 kills, 14.38 digs and 3.21 blocks per set. They are ranked second nationally in blocks, while Kirby is sixth and Plante is 64th.
Colorado State enters this week's match with a 14-7 overall record and a 7-3 mark in the Mountain West. They are tied for second in league action and have won their last four of five matches. Last time out, the Rams defeated Nevada, 3-0, on Oct. 27. Senior Dana Cranston leads the way for the Rams with a team high 3.39 kills, along with 2.05 digs and almost one block per set. Megan Plourde follows closely with 2.84 kills and a team leading 1.60 blocks, while hitting .349 (219-59-459). Setter Deedra Foss averages a team high 10.49 assists per set which ranks third in overall matches and is third in the league as well with 10.80 assists. Libero Izzy Gailia leads the way in digs with 4.23 per set overall and 4.49 in league matches.
This will be the 74th meeting between the Cowgirls and the Rams and the second time this season. CSU leads the all-time series, 54-19, with UW. The last time the two teams met was Oct. 5, 2012, as the Rams defeated the Cowgirls 3-0 in Ft. Collins. Colorado State is coached by Tom Hilbert who is in his 16th year with the program.


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This occurrence got me curious. Everywhere I go, both online and in real life, I see guys being accused of lying, or exaggerating regarding their claim about their specific penis size. Or simply regarding their claim that they are "big". Especially in flirtatious conversation with the opposite gender.
Now I wonder if it really is true, that men are so insecure that they lie about their penis size? (Like I know some ladies do about their weight or age.)
And if this is true, could there be some other reason? Maybe it's not about insecurity?
Girl perspectives are welcome, guys' much appreciated. ^^
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A growing body of evidence indicates that, increasingly, the public is engaging with science in a wide range of informal environments, which can be any setting outside of school such as community-based programs, festivals, libraries, or home. Yet undergraduate and graduate schools often don't prepare scientists for public communication. This practical guide is intended for any chemist -- that is, any professional who works in chemistry-relate... More >>
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Thursday, July 6, 2017
Guest Blog: MothersEsquire: A Professional Community for Lawyer Moms
We welcome Professor Jamie Abrams to the Gender & Law Prof Blog for the month of July. She is Associate Professor of Law at the University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law where she teaches Torts, Family Law, Legislation, and Women and the Law. Her research focuses on reproductive and birthing decision-making, gendered citizenship, legal protections for immigrant victims of domestic violence, and legal education pedagogy. Professor Abrams' most recent work includes Debunking the Myth of Universal Male Privilege, in the University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform, and The Feminist Case for Acknowledging Women's Acts of Violence in the Yale Journal of Law & Feminism
MothersEsquire: An Introduction to a Supportive Community
As a member of the academic community, I often find myself stuck in something of an outsider status with the practicing legal profession. I am not a practicing lawyer, so my role in the local bar associations, CLEs, and practitioner-related groups often is a bit awkward and strained. I attend as many events as I can, but they are downtown and my campus communities have historically not been conveniently located to these groups. The kinds of conversations – particularly those related to gender dimensions of the profession – are often a powerful and painful reminder of the obstacles faced during my six years of private practice, but they do not quite reflect the day-to-day obstacles that I face in academic life. The same outsider phenomenon can also describe the role of students attending these events. I often recommend that students attend bar events and CLE programs, but likewise the relevance and applicability for them might not always translate smoothly to students to justify the commute downtown in the middle of their academic day.
This blog entry is an opportunity to highlight a new organization that I think has ably bridged communities for moms in the legal profession: MothersEsquire. This year has been an important one for the organization of women's groups. From the D.C. Women's March to Pant Suit Nation to Law Mamas, there is no shortage of outlets for women and women lawyers to come together this year. The MothersEsquire organization stands out in a couple of key ways.
First, it is not limited to geographical boundaries or bar licensure borders. For example, I am a member of the Maryland Bar, but not a member of the Kentucky Bar where I currently reside. This is an obstacle, or at least a deterrent, to my participation in local bar events. The same is true for many law students who might be studying in Kentucky or Virginia or California, but may not necessary call that community their home later as a practitioner.
Second, MothersEsquire has followed a "participatory action model" of modern governance. Many long-established bar organizations and affinity groups have signature events that fill the calendar like annual dinners, annual fundraisers, annual awards, golf tournaments, etc. As a new group, MothersEsquire has organically responded and adapted to changing conditions faced in communities. For example, when student members last Fall were attending a state bar ethics program and some questionable and inappropriate comments regarding women in the profession were made by a prominent speaker, the group quickly mobilized via social media and local organizers at the event who were also present on social media responded and addressed the concerns effectively and promptly in real time. The organization is also working on breastfeeding accommodations. It was able to effectively advocate for a law student denied bar exam nursing accommodations and it established an advocacy group to work on courtroom accommodations.
Third, the group has played a role and provided a focus that fills a gap in traditional women's bar associations. Certainly, not all women lawyers are mothers or identify as mothers. Further, not all women lawyers are interested in or need to have an outlet to think about unique issues of parenting and the profession. For those that do, however, this group provides an outlet, an information source, a networking portal, and more. Its website explains:
"We are Moms. We are Lawyers. We are Master-Negotiators and Multi-Taskers -- at work and at home. We are the Equity Partners at the office and the Team Coach at school. We drive mini-vans to depositions and to carpool line. We read briefs by day and Goodnight Moon by night. And we are bringing women together to Disrupt the "Motherhood Penalty" in our profession."
Finally, this group is unique for its founding in my hometown of Louisville, Kentucky by practicing attorney Michelle Coughlin. Historically, countless influential women's groups and professional change-agents have originated in large coastal cities, or at least perceptively so. This group is distinctively inclusive. It originated in a so-called "red state" or a so-called "flyover state," but includes members from far beyond that. Its members include SAH mother attorneys, practicing mother attorneys, prospective mother attorneys, and attorney prospective mothers.
For more information about MothersEsquire join the Facebook group or check out its website: I highlight it here on the Gender & Law Blog as a great example of leadership in the profession that bridges academia and practice, crosses geographical boundaries, and fosters organic professional connections.
July 6, 2017 in Family, Guest Bloggers, Women lawyers, Work/life | Permalink | Comments (0)
Tuesday, March 28, 2017
Flexibility as the Key to Women's Leadership and Workplace Success
Flexibility Will Close the Women's Leadership Gap
New data shows that women are underrepresented in the highest levels of leadership because they are being forced out by dated workplace structures. These structures, which do not represent the modern needs of a two-income household labor force, are causing millions of talented employees to fail, especially working mothers—and the result is massive attrition at every point in the leadership pipeline.
Contrary to popular belief, the majority of women who leave the corporate workforce actually want to stay. A recent Bain study showed that women value flexibility over and above any other factor in their career search, including compensation, title, and location. Of the 30 percent of credentialed women who drop out of the workforce, 70percent say they would have stayed if they had access to flexibility. This amounts to 6.6 million women—enough to dramatically increase the number of women in leadership and rapidly accelerate the advancement of corporate gender equality.
Strategic workplace flexibility is the easiest and most cost effective way to retain women in the workplace and advance them to positions of leadership over time.
While many companies have demonstrated a commitment to helping women advance to positions of leadership, they remain largely unsuccessful because strategic flexibility is not a key component of their programming. When companies do provide flexibility programs, they are often underutilized or fail entirely because flexibility is misunderstood. Women tend to not take advantage of existing flexibility policies due to a fear that their requests will make them appear less committed and a concern that flexibility policies will not be faithfully implemented.
Flexibility isn't simply working from home via video conference or a lifestyle perk like free cereal; it's a fundamental shift in the way we think about and expect our employees to work. Flexibility does not alter a job's scope of responsibilities or expected results—it simply modifies the existing agreement between the employer and employee to increase compatibility. And when it's negotiated in a standardized context, it normalizes the conversation around flexibility and eliminates the bias or discomfort women tend to feel during the interview and hiring process.
March 28, 2017 in Business, Work/life, Workplace | Permalink | Comments (0)
Tuesday, July 5, 2016
Women Faculty Writing Groups
Inside Higher Ed, Encouraging Female Faculty to Publish Research
For professors, finding time to do research can be difficult. Especially if they are women.
Numerous studies have found that female professors work the same number of hours as their male counterparts, but they spend less time on research and more time on other commitments. In a 2008 study by professors at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and the University of Georgia, female participants spent an hour and a half less per week on research than their male counterparts. A big reason was that they spent an hour more on service and a half hour more on teaching.
The Women Faculty Writing Groups at Texas Tech University aim to combat this gender gap in research. Founded this fall, the program seeks to offer female professors a three-hour chunk of time each week to pursue writing and publishing their research without getting sidetracked by other demands, said Caroline Bishop, assistant professor of classical and modern languages at Texas Tech and a co-founder of the program.
"We really wanted to have a safe, protected time," Bishop said. "A time when women can say no to other things."
The overarching goal of the program is to help women prioritize research, which is often the biggest factor in promotion, said Kristin Messuri, associate director of the University Writing Center at Texas Tech and another co-founder of the program. "Women faculty tend to be promoted at lower rates than male faculty," she said. "They go up for promotion less often. When you get into full professors, there are fewer of them."
While the program's goal is ambitious, its structure is simple. At the beginning of each three-hour session, participants discuss articles on productivity and share their progress and goals, Messuri said. The remaining two and a half hours are devoted to writing for publication.
I've done something like this over the years, though it has fallen off. Early on we had the Momus group (we met at Cafe Momus), a mixed group (three women, two men) who bi-weekly shared rough drafts and writing problems. It was here that I really learned how differently people write, and what works and what doesn't.
Then for a few wonderful years we had a small group of women faculty who went to a lake house for a week retreat. The peace and energy jump started our research each summer, and we walked away from the week with a good chunk of work begun. (Not to mention how wonderful it was to have 4 women thoughtfully making coffee, cleaning up the kitchen, making snacks, and conversing over dinner). The realities of life and family made it hard to keep this going, though we tried a "day" retreat for a few years meeting off campus and discussing progress over lunch.
July 5, 2016 in Work/life | Permalink | Comments (0)
Wednesday, April 27, 2016
On Balance: Lead by Leaving
Paula Schaefer (Tennessee), On Balance: Lead by Leaving, Tennessee L.Rev. (forthcoming)
Abstract:Even though women make up half of law school classes in the U.S., hold half of elite judicial clerkships, and accept almost half of the jobs in large U.S. law firms, only a small number of women make partner or serve in leadership roles in those firms. Much has been written about the things that stand in the way of gender equality in elite law firms. Yet misconceptions persist about why the time demands of "big law" have a disproportionate impact on women.
This Article points to evidence that is contrary to those misconceptions and argues that the women – and men – who leave large law firms in search of balance are exhibiting leadership. Contrary to Sheryl Sandberg's advice that they should "lean in" if they hope to lead, these former big law attorneys are leading by leaving.
Following an Introduction, Part II looks at the numbers of women in the pipeline from law school to elite law firms, and how the numbers drop off precipitously before women achieve partnership and take on leadership positions. Next, Part III considers and refutes two common misconceptions about why women have not succeeded in big law: that women lack ambition and that women cannot shoulder the dual demands of practicing law and being a primary caregiver. The reality is that these women are ambitious and that both women and men leave elite firms for similar reasons. They are often seeking better balance in their professional and personal lives. The topic of balance is the focus of Part IV, which makes the argument that lawyers who are leaving large law firms in search of work-life balance are exhibiting leadership. Turning to the topic of this symposium, Part V concludes with some suggestions about how law school leadership education could address issues of work-life balance and gender disparities in the profession. Rather than framing these as women's issues, this Part suggests the benefits of presenting these as issues that men and women should consider as they make a plan for their professional and personal lives.
April 27, 2016 in Work/life | Permalink | Comments (0)
Tuesday, April 19, 2016
Postpartum Taxation and the Opt Out Mom
Shannon Weeks McCormack (Washington), Postpartum Taxation: The Internal Revenue Code and the Opt Out, Georgetown L.J. (forthcoming.
Abstract:Legislation seeking to ensure that women receive equal pay for equal work has been on the books for decades. Nevertheless, the average American woman still receives less than eighty cents for every dollar earned by the average American man. Happily, the gender pay gap between men and childless women is narrowing over time. Meanwhile, the gap between mothers and others continues to widen. Career interruptions contribute significantly to this disturbing trend — nearly half of mothers opt out of the workforce at some point in their lives, most often to care for young children. Faced with too-short (or non-existent) maternity leaves, inflexible work schedules and the soaring costs of childcare in the United States, this opt out phenomenon is hardly surprising. But with the decision to opt out comes grave cost. Over 90% of opt out moms want to return to the workforce several years after off ramping. Unfortunately, many discover that they are unable to do so. A mother that does manage to reenter the workforce will find that even a short off ramp results in a sizeable and disproportionate reduction in her annual earnings that will persist for every year of her remaining life.
Given this dismal reality, experts that study the biases faced by women in the workplace encourage mothers who want to maintain careers to resist opting out during their children's preschool years (and to incur the many high costs of doing so) in order to protect their most valuable economic asset — their lifelong earning capacity. Surprisingly, these insights are under- (if not completely un-) utilized in tax scholarship considering the taxation of women and the family. Incorporating these critical insights, this Article shows that the tax laws are already well suited to provide new mothers the encouragement urged by so many non-tax scholars. This Article first proposes several reforms to ensure the postpartum earnings of new mothers are not over-taxed. It then discusses existing mechanisms used by the tax laws to encourage long-term investment and identifies two mechanisms that could be easily fashioned to help new mothers remain in the very imperfect workforce that exists today.
April 19, 2016 in Family, Work/life | Permalink | Comments (0)
Monday, April 4, 2016
NY Adopts Paid Family Law as of 2018
Slate, New York Just Established the Best Paid Family Leave Policy in the Country
All workers in New York state will soon be eligible for a guaranteed 12 weeks of paid family leave, one of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's legislative priorities, which passed Thursday in a long-debated budget agreement.
Beginning in 2018, all full- and part-time employees who've been working at their jobs for at least six months will have access to up to eight weeks of leave at half their salaries. The policy, which will be funded by employees through payroll deductions, will gradually phase up over four years to 12 weeks and a maximum of two-thirds of the state's average wage. It also guarantees job protection for all workers who take leave, even those who work for businesses with fewer than 50 employees, which are not subject to the federal Family and Medical Leave Act.
With this new policy, New York joins California, New Jersey, and Rhode Island on the elite list of U.S. states that offer guaranteed paid leave to hang out with a new baby, bond with an adopted or foster child, or care for a sick family member. Rhode Island offers four weeks of partial pay and New Jersey and California offer six, placing New York far ahead of the pack, though it still trails most other countries in the world when it comes to maternity leave.
April 4, 2016 in Family, Pregnancy, Work/life | Permalink | Comments (0)
Friday, February 5, 2016
Admin: Proposals to Address Women's Disproportionate Burden of Administrative Labor
Elizabeth Emens (Columbia), Admin, 103 Georgetown L.J. (2015)
Abstract:This Article concerns a relatively unseen form of labor that affects us all, but that disproportionately burdens women: admin. Admin is the office type work — both managerial and secretarial — that it takes to run a life or a household. Examples include completing paperwork, making grocery lists, coordinating schedules, mailing packages, and handling medical and benefits matters.
Both equity and efficiency are at stake here. Admin raises distributional concerns about those people — often women — who do more than their share of this work on behalf of others. Even when different-sex partners who both work outside the home aspire to equal distribution of household labor, it appears that the family's admin is more often done by women. Appreciating the unequal distribution of this work helps us to see the costs of admin for everyone. These broader costs include wasted time, lost focus, and interpersonal tension. Though the types of admin demands that people face vary by gender, class, age, and culture, admin touches everyone.
The Article makes this form of labor more salient, both analytically, through an account of its features and costs, and practically, through proposals for public and private interventions. Admin is "sticky." It frequently stays where it lands, whether with female partners of men, one member of a same-sex couple, an extended family member managing another's affairs, or parents of some adult children of the so-called millennial generation. By demanding time and attention, admin impinges on leisure, sleep, relationships, and work.
Admin warrants a range of possible regulatory responses. Government should create less admin and possibly do more kinds of admin for people. Regulatory infrastructure should protect people's time and spur technological innovations that reduce admin. Courts should allow parties in civil suits to claim damages for lost personal time. These and other initiatives should help to make admin more salient as a legal and cultural matter and to reduce its burdens overall. Reducing admin should benefit everyone and, in turn, disproportionately benefit those who bear its greatest burdens.
February 5, 2016 in Work/life | Permalink | Comments (0)
Tuesday, December 29, 2015
"Teacher, Scholar, Mother": Motherhood in the Academy
Teacher, Scholar, Mother: Re-Envisioning Motherhood in the Academy
Table of Contents:
Section One: Approaches to Motherhood, Feminism and Gendered Work
Chapter 1:
The Role of Theory in Understanding the Lived Experiences of Mothering in the Academy
Andrea N. Hunt
Chapter 2:
Crying over "Split Milk": How Divisive Language on Infant Feeding Leads to Stress, Confusion and Anxiety for Mothers
Tracy Rundstrom Williams
Chapter 3:
Mama's Boy: Feminist Mothering, Masculinity, and White Privilege
Catherine A.F. MacGillivray
Chapter 4:
Encountering Others: Reading, Writing, Teaching, Parenting
Erin Tremblay Ponnou-Delaffon
Chapter 5:
A Qualitative Study of Academic Mothers' Sabbatical Experiences: Considering Disciplinary Differences
Susan V. Iverson
Christin Seher
Chapter 6:
Motherhood: Reflection, Design, and Self-Authorship
Brook Sattler
Jennifer Turns
Cynthia J. Atman
Chapter 7:
Confessions of a Buzzkill: Critical Feminist Parenting in the Age of Omnipresent Media
Dustin Harp
Section Two: Identity and Performance in Academic Motherhood
Chapter 8:
More Mother than Others: Disorientations, Motherscholars, and Objects in Becoming
Sara M. Childers
Chapter 9:
Doing Research and Teaching on Masculinities and Violence: One Mother of Sons' Perspective
M. Cristine Alcalde, Associate Professor of Gender & Women's Studies
Chapter 10:
Cultural Border Crossings between Science, Science Pedagogy & Parenting
Allison Antink-Meyer
Chapter 11:
"You Must be Superwoman!": How Graduate Student Mothers Negotiate Conflicting Roles
Erin Graybill Ellis
Jessica Smartt Gullion
Chapter 12:
"There's a Monster Growing in our Heads": Mad Men's Betty Draper, Fan Reaction, and Twenty-First Century Anxiety about Motherhood
Caroline Smith
Celeste Hanna
Section Three: Bringing it to Light: Giving Voice to Motherhood's Challenges
Chapter 13:
Silence and the Stillbirth Narrative: Stories Worth Telling
Elisabeth G. Kraus
Chapter 14:
Marissa McClure
Chapter 15:
A Tapestry of Sweet Mother(hood): African Scholar, Mother, and Performer?
Ama Oforiwaa Aduonum
Chapter 16:
Dropped Stitches: Classrooms, Caregiving, and Cancer
Martha Kalnin Diede
Chapter 17:
The Other Female Complaint: Online Narratives of Assisted Reproductive Therapy as Sentimental Literature
Layne Craig
Chapter 18:
Mama's Boy: Feminist Mothering, Masculinity, and White Privilege
Catherine A.F. MacGillivray
December 29, 2015 in Books, Education, Work/life | Permalink | Comments (0)
Tuesday, December 15, 2015
The OnRamp Fellowship Supporting Women's Reentry into Practice
The OnRamp Fellowship--A Pipeline Back Into Practice
According to a 2010 study by the Center for Work-Life Policy, nearly 75 percent of women attempting to return to the workforce after voluntarily leaving have difficulty finding a job. What's a talented, driven, hard-working woman to do? Enter the OnRamp Fellowship program, an "experiential re-entry platform" designed to help women lawyers return to the workforce. The program, which began in 2014, is the brainchild of Caren Ulrich Stacy, who spent 20 years inside law firms recruiting talent. She says during those years, she saw hundreds of resumes from qualified women who were attempting to re-enter the profession after leaving, usually to raise families. Some of those gaps were a few years; some were a decade or more. And the gaps made those women seem risky to firms.
While Caren understood the hesitancy of firms to take on lawyers who had been out of the workforce, she felt they were missing out on women who could become top performers and leaders. So she designed the OnRamp Fellowship to given women a pipeline back into the profession. Fellowship applicants are thoroughly vetted by Caren, whose experience and insight helps her select women who will be a good "fit" for each position. Those women are then given the opportunity to interview with some of the top firms in the country for practice groups with open positions or groups expected to experience future growth. Fellows are hired by participating firms for six-month or one-year terms and are paid through those firms. There is no guarantee of employment at the end of their fellowship year, though the hope is that the fellows will obtain full-time employment, either through their fellowship firm or elsewhere. And that's been the case for most fellows.
December 15, 2015 in Women lawyers, Work/life | Permalink | Comments (0)
Wednesday, October 28, 2015
UAE imprisoning rape victims under extramarital sex laws – investigation
Hundreds of women, some of them pregnant or domestic servants who are victims of rape, are being imprisoned in the United Arab Emirates every year under laws that outlaw consensual sex outside marriage, according to a BBC Arabic investigation.
Secret footage obtained by BBC Arabic show pregnant women shackled in chains walking into a courtrooms where laws prohibiting "Zina" – or sex outside marriage – could mean sentences of months to years in prison and flogging.
"Because the UAE authorities have not clarified what they mean by indecency, the judges can use their culture and customs and Sharia ultimately to broaden out that definition and convict people for illicit sexual relations or even acts of public affection," said Rothna Begum, women's rights researcher at Human Rights Watch in London.
While both men and women could in theory be imprisoned for having sex outside marriage, the investigation – which will air at the opening of BBC Arabic festival on 31 October – found that in reality pregnancy is often used as proof of the "crime", with domestic female migrant workers – numbering about 150,000 in the UAE – left most vulnerable.
October 28, 2015 in Courts, Human trafficking, International, Work/life, Workplace | Permalink | Comments (0)
No 'Appreciable Progress' for Women in Partnership Ranks
It's back to the future — and not in a good way for women seeking equity partnership in the nation's 200 largest law firms.
Women have not made "appreciable progress" since 2006 in either attaining equity partnership or increasing their pay to be on par with their male colleagues once they grasp the brass ring, according to a study by the National Association of Women Lawyers released on Tuesday.
The results: Women represent 18 percent of equity partners, an increase of two percent since 2006, according to NAWL's findings. Even after they've made it into the equity ranks, they make about 80 percent of what their male colleagues bring home. In 2006, women had made 84 percent.
October 28, 2015 in Women lawyers, Work/life, Workplace | Permalink | Comments (0)
Friday, October 9, 2015
"California now has one of the toughest equal pay laws in the country"
California took a major step Tuesday toward closing the lingering wage gap between men and women, as Gov. Jerry Brown signed one of the toughest pay equity laws in the nation.
Women in California who work full time are paid substantially less — a median 84 cents for every dollar — than men, according to a U.S Census Bureau report this year.
"The inequities that have plagued our state and have burdened women forever are slowly being resolved with this kind of bill," Brown said at a ceremony at Rosie the Riveter National Historical Park in the Bay Area city of Richmond.
October 9, 2015 in Work/life, Workplace | Permalink | Comments (0)
Monday, October 5, 2015
Gender Diversity Makes Good Business Sense
Firstly, to hire women at junior levels and invest in them only to lose them before they can take on the senior roles is a poor outcome business-wise, returns-wise and image-wise.
Secondly, women are increasingly becoming the decision-making consumer. Not having a proper representation of women at senior levels would mean firms are losing out on an opportunity to have leaders who have a better understanding of the needs and psyche of their target consumers. That is a bad business decision.
Thirdly, women will increasingly be the decision-maker and enterprise-buyer on the corporate side as well. Not having top leaders who can easily relate to the situation of senior female executives across the table can have adverse consequences.
October 5, 2015 in Work/life, Workplace | Permalink | Comments (0)
Thursday, October 1, 2015
Forcing Pregnant Students Out of Grad School
Joan Williams and Jessica Lee, It's Illegal, Yet It Happens All the Time, Chronicle of Higher Ed.
Why don't we have more women in STEM fields? One reason is that students get hounded out of their college or graduate-school programs when they become pregnant. It's against federal law, but it happens all the time.
One student told us she had a pregnancy-related disability that required her to go to the hospital at least twice a week. Exhausted but driven, she continued to produce quality work. Late in her pregnancy, the publishing deadline she was struggling to meet was accelerated by her department — it now fell right after her due date. Just months prior she had been celebrated as a rising star in her department, but now, she said, "I had to prove I was still worthy to even be in their program." If she didn't meet the new deadline, she would lose the funding her family relied upon. After her baby was born, she was intimidated into finishing her degree in significantly less time than the average student in her department. The hostility and bias the student faced "traumatized me in so many ways," she said. "I wasn't asking for accommodations, I wanted to be treated like everybody else, but I was the one who was punished."
A graduate student with a disability caused by childbirth was pursuing her degree full force after a lengthy struggle, only to be told by a faculty mentor, "You don't have a disability, you just need to go home and be with your baby." Professors frequently make off-the-cuff statements — often written off as harmless — telling pregnant women or new mothers to stay home instead of pursuing their education. Plaintiffs' lawyers love such direct evidence of gender discrimination.
And it's not just professors who open their institutions to legal liability. Administrators do, too. A graduate student said she anticipated the birth of her child at the start of the academic year, so she asked to be able to record classes for the first week or two of the semester. The student-affairs dean told the student to withdraw for at least a semester, with no guarantee of readmission, informing her that all of the pregnant students at the institution in the past six years withdrew from the program — except one, who regretted her decision. This student, like many others, didn't want to take leave at all.
The consequences of being forced out of your program can be grim. Many women need to keep working in their university-sponsored jobs to make ends meet. Yet those jobs are often unavailable to students while they are on leave, or aren't offered back to them upon their return. On many campuses, being on leave or withdrawn status means losing that income, along with health insurance, loan deferment status, and even your university email address. Sometimes it means losing your housing, too.
Federal law requires that pregnant students must be reinstated following leave to their prior status, without penalty. Yet we hear over and over about women are penalized for their absence, or forced to reapply to their programs as if they had never been accepted.
October 1, 2015 in Reproductive Rights, Work/life | Permalink | Comments (0)
Wednesday, September 30, 2015
"Gender Bias at Work Turns Up in Feedback"
If companies are looking for gender bias in their workplace, here's one place they may want to start: feedback.
Research suggests that men and women are assessed very differently at work. Specifically, managers are significantly more likely to critique female employees for coming on too strong, and their accomplishments are more likely than men's to be seen as the result of team, rather than individual efforts, finds new research from Stanford University's Clayman Institute for Gender Research. Those trends appear to hold up whether the boss making the assessments is male or female.
September 30, 2015 in Work/life, Workplace | Permalink | Comments (0)
Friday, September 25, 2015
"Law Firms Are Learning: Work-Life Balance Isn't Just for Moms"
For decades, work-life balance at law firms has been a women's issue—something for working moms to sort out. But there are a growing number of new firms built on flexible schedules that are now attracting men, and slowly shifting the definition of a successful legal career. Though the partner office is still the prototypical legal-career status symbol, the prerequisites of long hours and 24-7 availability are inconsistent with the emphasis many men put on time away from the office.
"Young men today have different values, different aspirations than their fathers," says Stewart Friedman, a Wharton Practice professor of management and director of the Wharton Work/Life Integration Project. "They want to be available both psychologically and physically for children." At some of the most competitive white-collar workplaces, such as Netflix and Microsoft, these shifts have led to expanded parental-leave policies.
September 25, 2015 in Manliness, Masculinities, Work/life, Workplace | Permalink | Comments (0)
Wednesday, September 23, 2015
"Rush for gender equality with top judges 'could have appalling consequences for justice'"
A view from Britain from the Evening Standard (UK):
One of the country's most senior judges today warned that rushing to achieve equal representation for women at the top of the legal profession could inflict "appalling consequences" on the quality of British justice.
Lord Sumption, a Supreme Court judge, said he believed that the judiciary was a "terrific public asset" which could be "destroyed very easily" if the selection of candidates was skewed in favour of women.
He added that to avoid inflicting damage, campaigners for equality would have to be "patient" and suggested that it would need up to 50 years before the number of women on the Bench matched the total of men.
September 23, 2015 in Women lawyers, Work/life, Workplace | Permalink | Comments (0)
"The Legal Profession's Gender Imbalance in a Chart"
The American Bar Foundation has released new data about gender balance in the profession, or more accurately, the lack thereof.
Clearly, more women are entering the law as shown in the chart below.
But even though the number of women entering the law has been steadily increasing in recent years, the percentage of women equity partners at the top 200 law firms has been flat for close to a decade, as the chart below shows:
Gabe Friedman/Source: National Association of Women Lawyers, ABA's National Lawyer Population Survey
September 23, 2015 in Women lawyers, Work/life, Workplace | Permalink | Comments (0)
Monday, September 21, 2015
"Gov. Brown expected to sign expanded fair pay legislation"
SAN FRANCISCO – Female employees in California are poised to get new tools to challenge gender-based wage gaps and receive protection from discrimination and retaliation if they ask questions about how much other people earn.
A bill recently passed by the Legislature and that Gov. Jerry Brown has indicated he will sign won't suddenly put all women's salaries on par with men's or prod employers to freely disclose what every employee makes, which could make it easier for workers to mount pay discrimination claims.
But the legislation expands what supporters call an outdated state equal pay law and goes further than federal law, placing the burden on the employer to prove a man's higher pay is based on factors other than gender and allowing workers to sue if they are paid less than someone with a different job title who does "substantially similar" work.
September 21, 2015 in Work/life, Workplace | Permalink | Comments (0)
Friday, September 18, 2015
"Gender Bias Suit Will Soon Shine a Harsh Light on Microsoft"
MICROSOFT FACES A class action lawsuit from former employee and noted computer security researcher Katie Moussouris. The suit claims that during Moussouris's seven years at Microsoft, she and other women were unfairly discriminated against on the basis of their gender, passed over for raises and promotions, and ranked below their male counterparts during bi-annual performance reviews.
Moussouris was instrumental in prompting Microsoft to launch its first bug bounty program in 2013, something the company resisted for years. The program pays researchers who find security vulnerabilities in its software. After resigning from Microsoft in May, Moussouris took a job as chief policy officer at HackerOne, which helps companies manage bug bounty programs and communicate with security researchers.
September 18, 2015 in Technology, Work/life, Workplace | Permalink | Comments (0)