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SQL> create tablespace corrupt_ts datafile 'c:\mydb\data\corrupt01.dbf' size 10m; Tablespace created. SQL> SQL> create user test identified by test default tablespace corrupt_ts; User created. SQL> SQL> grant connect, resource to test; Grant succeeded. SQL>Create and populate test table with dummy data as shown:
SQL> conn test/test Connected. SQL> SQL> create table t1 as select rownum rno, object_name from all_objects 2 where object_name like 'AQ%'; Table created. SQL> select count(*) from t1; COUNT(*) ---------- 42Insert a record into this table which we will be corrupting:
SQL> insert into t1 values (99, 'LET ME CORRUPT'); 1 row created. SQL> commit; Commit complete.Let us take RMAN full database backup before we corrupt the block.
RMAN> backup format 'c:\mydb\rman\fulldb_%U' database plus archivelog; Starting backup at 01-FEB-08 current log archived : : piece handle=C:\MYDB\RMAN\FULLDB_0LJ7LIML_1_1 tag=TAG20080201T234641 comment=NONE channel ORA_DISK_1: backup set complete, elapsed time: 00:00:28 Finished backup at 02-FEB-08 Starting backup at 02-FEB-08 current log archived using channel ORA_DISK_1 channel ORA_DISK_1: starting archive log backupset channel ORA_DISK_1: specifying archive log(s) in backup set input archive log thread=1 sequence=105 recid=105 stamp=645581560 channel ORA_DISK_1: starting piece 1 at 02-FEB-08 channel ORA_DISK_1: finished piece 1 at 02-FEB-08 piece handle=C:\MYDB\RMAN\FULLDB_0MJ7LINS_1_1 tag=TAG20080202T001242 comment=NONE channel ORA_DISK_1: backup set complete, elapsed time: 00:00:04 Finished backup at 02-FEB-08 RMAN>Take the tablespace offline so that we can make changes to the datafile. There are many freeware and shareware Hex Editors available in the market. I am using UltraEdit editor to make changes in our datafile.
SQL> alter tablespace corrupt_ts offline; Tablespace altered.Open datafile "'c:\mydb\data\corrupt01.dbf" using UltraEdit (press "Ctrl+h" to toggle between Hex Mode). Search for our record entry "LET ME CORRUPT" in the file and changed "CORRUPT" to "NORRUPT" and save the file and close UltraEdit. I just changed "C" to "N". Bring back the tablespace to online mode.
SQL> alter tablespace corrupt_ts online; Tablespace altered.You may notice that Oracle doesn't complain when it brings the datafile online because the file header wasn't modified. Oracle will complain only when it tries to access the corrupt blocks. Let's see what happens when we try to query table "T1".
SQL> conn test/test Connected. SQL> select * from t1; RNO OBJECT_NAME ---------- ------------------------------ 1 AQ$_AGENT 2 AQ$_DEQUEUE_HISTORY : : 30 AQ$_JMS_NAMEARRAY ERROR: ORA-01578: ORACLE data block corrupted (file # 6, block # 13) ORA-01110: data file 6: 'C:\MYDB\DATA\CORRUPT01.DBF' 30 rows selected.Query returns 30 records and then complains of block corruption in file 6. Block numbered 13 is being reported as corrupt. Let us see what all blocks are corrupt in "corruption01.dbf" datafile by running dbv utility.
C:\ora10g\BIN>dbv file=C:\MYDB\data\corrupt01.dbf blocksize=8192 DBVERIFY: Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Production on Mon Feb 4 00:00:11 2008 Copyright (c) 1982, 2005, Oracle. All rights reserved. DBVERIFY - Verification starting : FILE = C:\MYDB\data\corrupt01.dbf Page 13 is marked corrupt Corrupt block relative dba: 0x0180000d (file 6, block 13) Bad check value found during dbv: Data in bad block: type: 6 format: 2 rdba: 0x0180000d last change scn: 0x0000.0039aa9f seq: 0x3 flg: 0x06 spare1: 0x0 spare2: 0x0 spare3: 0x0 consistency value in tail: 0xaa9f0603 check value in block header: 0x85b0 computed block checksum: 0x1b00 DBVERIFY - Verification complete Total Pages Examined : 1280 Total Pages Processed (Data) : 4 Total Pages Failing (Data) : 0 Total Pages Processed (Index): 0 Total Pages Failing (Index): 0 Total Pages Processed (Other): 11 Total Pages Processed (Seg) : 0 Total Pages Failing (Seg) : 0 Total Pages Empty : 1264 Total Pages Marked Corrupt : 1 Total Pages Influx : 0 Highest block SCN : 3779231 (0.3779231) C:\ora10g\BIN>This utility scans all the blocks in a given datafile and outputs the corrupt ones. In my case, I have one block marked as corrupt. Make a note of all the corrupt blocks as we need to recover them to previous state. Start RMAN session and recover all the corrupt blocks. The beauty of RMAN is that it leaves the entire datafile online except the corrupted blocks and we need to recover only those corrupt blocks instead of entire datafile.
RMAN> blockrecover datafile 6 block 13; Starting blockrecover at 04-FEB-08 using target database control file instead of recovery catalog allocated channel: ORA_DISK_1 channel ORA_DISK_1: sid=44 devtype=DISK channel ORA_DISK_1: restoring block(s) channel ORA_DISK_1: specifying block(s) to restore from backup set restoring blocks of datafile 00006 channel ORA_DISK_1: reading from backup piece C:\MYDB\RMAN\FULLDB_0KJ7LH72_1_1 channel ORA_DISK_1: restored block(s) from backup piece 1 piece handle=C:\MYDB\RMAN\FULLDB_0KJ7LH72_1_1 tag=TAG20080201T234641 channel ORA_DISK_1: block restore complete, elapsed time: 00:00:36 starting media recovery archive log thread 1 sequence 105 is already on disk as file C:\MYDB\FRA\MYDB\ARCHIVELOG\2008_02_02\O1_MF_1_10 5_3T72T48S_.ARC archive log thread 1 sequence 106 is already on disk as file C:\MYDB\FRA\MYDB\ARCHIVELOG\2008_02_03\O1_MF_1_10 6_3TD97K0Z_.ARC media recovery complete, elapsed time: 00:00:35 Finished blockrecover at 04-FEB-08 RMAN>RMAN reports success of block recovery command. Let us query the table again by logging in to SQL*Plus:
SQL> select * from t1; RNO OBJECT_NAME ---------- ------------------------------ 1 AQ$_AGENT 2 AQ$_DEQUEUE_HISTORY : : 41 AQ$_JMS_ARRAY_ERROR_INFO 42 AQ$_JMS_ARRAY_ERRORS 99 LET ME CORRUPT 43 rows selected. SQL>Wow, the query runs successfully and our original record is restored. Similar article on block recovery in UNIX environment can be found here. Happy recovery (block)!!!


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Despite the great things the internet has done, it's also made us prudish about having naked images of us captured, and that's made it harder to get people to take of their clothes for you. Until now...
Until the internet came, you only needed a fancy-looking camera and a beret and the clothes would drop to the floor in the name of Art (with a capital A). Before that, "I want to paint you," was arguably the best pick-up line ever (it sure worked for Picasso), but these days even that might get someone's hackles up. No, the super old ways, are the super best ways. "Let me sculpt you!" Yes! Oh God yes, I'm already naked! The problem is, you need talent and clay. Well, now there's an iPad app for that, so you don't need either.
AutoDesk (from the smart folk behind AutoCAD, SketchBook Mobile) has added Sculpt 123D to their product portfolio. You start with a blob that is something like the shape you want to sculpt (human, elephant, T-Rex, etc.), and then you can turn it and manipulate it at will. I was surprised to see just how much control you have the over forms and how detailed you can make something. Check out the quick demo video which is, sadly, totally safe for work. FREE for a limited time, and it will then be $.99. [Autodesk via TechCrunch]
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Febuary 21, 1998-Pumps Are Us
When one looks at a sailboat they see a hull, mast, and sails. They can easily imagine that there is an engine, radios, a stove, toilet, and beds. But what some people don't know is that a sailboat is really a collection of pumps.
On Wings we have our share.
We of course have bilge pumps: A big Whale Pump, a small Rule Pump for incidental water, a Whale Gusher Pump with a long hose for sucking little bits of water out of little places, and a Shower Sump Pump, plus a Portable Manual Pump.(5)
For our household water usage, we have a Groco Fresh Water Pump, a Manual Fresh Water Pump, Groco Salt Water Pump, and a PUR Water Maker Pump.(4)
For engine cooling water we have a Raw Water Pump, a Fresh Water Circulation Pump, and two Outboard Cooling Water Pumps.(4)
For fuel, we have a Diesel Lift Pump, a High Pressure (injector) Pump, two small Dingy Tank Pumps, two Outboard Motor Gasoline Pumps, and two Diesel Heater Pumps. (8)
There is a Toilet Pump and a Holding Tank Evacuation Pump.(2)
We have, for inflating the dingy, two Low Pressure Air Pumps.(2)
And we have one Tank Tender Air Pump.(1)
For repair materials, we have two Epoxy Measurement Pumps.(2)
For rig tension we have one Navtec Hydralic Pump.(1)
For removing used engine oil, we have one Hand Oil Pump.(1)
Total: 30, but I may have forgotten some.
We also have some spare pumps, some spare impellers, o-rings and gasgets and other assorted pumping stuff, plus almost all of these pumps have hoses or pipes, and hoseclamps attached to them. We probably have a small fortune in hose clamps, (some people keep jewlery).
You may think it is a case of "pump envy" but some of our friends have pumps which we don't have:
Baitwell pump,
Fuel Transfer Pump,
Macerator Pump,
Watermaker Boost Pump,
or Refrigerator Coolant Pump.
Sometime I'll talk about how many switches and wires we have.
Fred & Judy, SV Wings, Mexico
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Charlie Coe Golf Learning Center
College golf has experienced a level of competitiveness recently that was not present just a few years ago. Each year, more schools are putting forth the resources necessary to compete on a national level. The most expensive and difficult resource for any college program to attain is an exclusive practice facility for the members of the team.
Through the dedication and enthusiastic support of the University and its donors, Oklahoma golf has remained on the forefront of this trend, as the Charlie Coe Center certainly fills this need.
The Coe Center has gained a reputation as the model facility for college golf. Each year since its opening, other major Division I universities have inquired about copying the facility. Many have traveled to Norman for a first-hand look.
The center, funded by private donations, is located at the south end of the driving range at the Jimmie Austin OU Golf Club, which underwent a $5 million facelift in 1997.
The 7,000-square foot, indoor-outdoor facility allows golfers a place to practice every day. There are three hitting bays that the players can use to practice with or without video. The video system includes the most up-to-date equipment on the market. The video cameras are integrated into a computer system that provides consistent clear images and feedback.
The building houses locker rooms and offices for both the men's and women's teams, as well as numerous items documenting the history of golf at the University of Oklahoma.
The center also includes and expansive outdoor practice area. Designed exclusively for the OU golf teams, this part of the complex is 225 yards wide and 90 yards deep. Opened in September of 1996, both the men's and women's golf teams have been training here with very positive results.
The south end complex has two satellite chipping greens, as well as a 12,000-square foot bent grass chipping area with seven bunkers to cover a myriad of sand and stance possibilities. There is also a bent grass and Bermuda grass putting green.
The practice complex was developed by Tripp Davis, a former Sooner All-American and member of the 1989 national champion OU golf team, in conjunction with Bob Cupp and Gregg Grost.
The coaching staff and golf course superintendent have worked with Davis each season to make improvements to the Coe Center. Scheduled improvements include many interior updates that will continue the Coe Center's reputation as one of the best practice facilities in the country.
About Charlie Coe
Coe attended OU from 1946-48 and became one of the most celebrated amateur golfers in the game's history. A two-time U.S. Amateur winner, Coe never turned pro, instead choosing to spend time with his wife and family. He made 19 Masters appearances and owns almost every Masters amateur record, including top-25 finishes (9), top-10 finishes (3), eagles (6), rounds played (67) and most times low amateur (6). Read More


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Hiking, as we all know, is the best way to explore Japan's vast and stunning nature?and Hakone has plenty to explore! While this area (just 90 minutes from central Tokyo) does not have the most challenging trials, it is a great destination for families to have some good old outdoor fun.
Hakone Hiking – Trail 1: Over the hills and across the plains
Starting out at the main transportation hub, Hakone-Yumoto, the first trail is a calm and peaceful hike to Sengenyama and the town of Gora. The start of the trial can be a bit tricky to find as it is on the side of the road that does not have a sidewalk, but once you go to the coordinates listed below you will easily spot it. |credit|
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Salam, jawatan kosong akademik di UTM terbuka sepanjang tahun, boleh layari;
10 Things Successful Job Seekers Do to Get Employed Quicker
My research also led me to asking the question why we - recruitment and human resources - as an industry rejected good job applicants? Were there better techniques and tactics that these people were not applying, that conversely the successful job seekers were?
The answer to both question was yes, and here are the top ten issues that successful job seekers apply to get employed quicker.
1. They have a specific target job in mind: Just like successful people in life have specific goals, successful job seekers have specific jobs or roles in mind. These fulfil three employer questions: that they have the required skills, qualifications and experiences; that this position is the next logical step in their planned career path; that they have a next step in their career
2. They can communicate who they are and what they offer: they know what they offer, what the market seeks, and can communicate this to a potential employer. Many call this a lift pitch
3. They research the market: lets say that you were the worlds best driver of horse drawn carriages. Everyone you talked to today would tell you that there were few paying jobs in that market. Yet every day, unsuccessful job seekers go looking for jobs in their geography that don't exist, or won't pay them enough on which to live their lifestyle. The successful know what is being recruited for, who is recruiting, and at what rates
4. They do some research on that employer: when they find what looks like a suitable job advert, they research that employer. The best often do this at multiple levels, through both reading the companies website and news reports, through to networking themselves into and around that organisation
5. They engage with employers BEFORE they apply: many professional employees get confused by the new world of recruitment. They think that the whole world is driven by job boards. Ah, wrong! People still employ people. While possibly utilising multiple techniques to find new potential positions, at the core of their search and application technique, successful job seekers always engage at the human level with a potential employer, often BEFORE they apply
6. They only apply for positions that they are suitable for: one of the statistics that most struck me, was that the most successful job seekers often applied for fewer than 10 positions, and yet the least successful often had statistics showing 100's or 1000's of applications. The successful only applied for the jobs where they knew they fitted the requirements. If you have applied for and been rejected from more than 20 positions, there is something wrong in your application technique
7. They get close to the hiring manager: as people employ people, then the most important person in any successful employment exercise - yes, beyond the successful applicant themselves - is the hiring manager. The hiring manager always has the final hire or reject decision. Successful employees get closer to the hiring manager early
8. They offer more than what is on their CV/resume: while many try to over write their CV's and resumes, trying to claim skills, experiences, or at worst qualifications that they neither have done or don't have, successful job seekers reveal more of the depth of their capability as their application progresses. This means that they don't over claim, they just have more communicated capability around the claimed skills
9. They know what they are worth: over 20% of successful job applicants fail to get the position because they didn't ask the first questions first: what could and should this job pay in this market, and what does this position actually pay? Before you apply, know what its worth in the current market, and hence what you could and can negotiate with that employer
10.They listen to feedback: this is a key issue for unsuccessful job seekers, that in my experience they never apply, and yet the successful are always aware of. The unsuccessful stop listening, and therefore stop learning, and hence become less successful in their now elongated job search. The wise and successful listen to both market experts, and learn to apply what works for them
Job search success is not a mere bagatelle in any market, and success has as much to do with approach and technique, as it has to do with what you offer and the type of position you seek.
So if any job will do, and just applying to adverts is your choice, then expect to go beyond the average current unemployment time scale of 37 weeks. But if you know what you want, and apply some easily learnt techniques that communicate your value clearly to a potential employer, then job search success can easily be yours. It really is just a matter of choice, application and resultant success.
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Ive got xfce4.10 installed and some windows go below/behind the xfce4 panel
how can I stop this ,and make all windows adhere to appearing above the xfce4 panel
Right click on panel, select Panel -> Panel Preferences. Opt out "Don't reserve space od borders".
No that didnt work but thanks anyway
Ive select no reserve on borders but the windows keep going below the panel
the color black in pic 3 is the xfce4-panel
the color grey in pic 3 is thunar
the backgorund is thunar going behind the xfce4 panel and the videos Filemanager is thunar window that is open and displayed in the xfce4-panel/windows list..
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What aljazek ment to say was exactly the oposite.
Don't check the "Don't reserve space on borders" option
tried both before I posted neither works
Ive a good level of copon when it comes to figuring things out but this has escaped me .. again im a gnome user and have been for years and just started using xfce4
I can walk rings around gnome .. just trying to get use to xfce4 and its settings
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There are two things as far as I know that makes windows appear below the panel. One is the "struts" that make a maximised window not use the space used by the panel. The "don't reserve space" setting changes this behaviour when maximizing windows as described in this thread.
The other thing is a rule/policy that the panel should always be on top. This can be changed at runtime using the wmctrl tool, as described here:
If you search for wmctrl and xfce panel you will find some of variants on that script. Having the panel always on top may be the more popular setting, but clearly some people like it better the other way.
You can also run this and then click on the panel window, that makes it behave like a normal window which is what I prefer:
xprop -f _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE 32a -set _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_NORMAL
To me the "don't reserve space" setting is stupid when the panel is always on top, why would I ever want to maximize my window and have it partially behind the panel? Would make more sense if this settings combo made the panel appear on bottom.
"don't reserve space" and autohide on the panel might work. I personally don't like autohide because I wan't to be able to see my clock without moving my mouse.
Someone's complaint about panels and later an answer from the developer why they don't think this should be changed.
http://mail.xfce.org/pipermail/xfce/201 … 31743.html
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The Gang of Eight immigration bill shares several unlovely characteristics of the Obamacare legislation. Its supporters haven't yet claimed that we might have to pass the bill to find out what's in it (or what's not in it), but that seems to be the case. The Daily Caller's Neil Munro reports:
The Senate's complex immigration bill would instantly gut the popular E-Verify system that is widely used to exclude illegal immigrants from jobs, and then create an enforcement gap for several years before the arrival of a replacement system.
"There's no doubt that the bill eliminates E-Verify immediately upon signing," said Kris Kobach, secretary of state of Kansas, told The Daily Caller.
"If there's no statutory authority for E-Verify, there's no E-Verify," said Kobach, a lawyer trained at Harvard, Oxford and Yale universities, and a prominent advocate for reduced immigration.
The claim is vehemently disputed by the bills' advocates, including staffers working for Sen. Marco Rubio.
However, Rubio staffers were unable to show TheDC any text in the legislation that gives the current E-Verify system legal backing until the new system is mandated in several years.
Munro discusses the related politics and quotes Senator Rubio's assurances about the bills requirements, but then returns to the question of fact regarding the content of the bill:
In several emails to TheDC, Rubio's spokesman repeatedly denounced Kobach's analysis. But the spokesman declined to supply bill language that shows how E-Verify is enforced once it is canceled, and before a replacement is developed by contractors, deployed by agencies and approved by the courts. A PDF of the entire bill is available here.
"The existing system will continue and will be enhanced along the way," Alex Conant said in an April 23 email to TheDC.
However, despite repeated requests, Conant did not identify a paragraph in the bill showing how enforcement of E-Verify would continue uninterrupted once the program is canceled immediately after the bill becomes law.
"We create a transition from a temporary program to the permanent program," he said next.
"That whole section of the bill is about creating a permanent E-Verify system," he said in his next email.
Page "503 & 504 make clear that the transition & construction will not give people an opportunity in the system to stop using the system. This is clear to the business groups, the unions, and everybody else that has reviewed the legislation," he said in an April 24 response.
The headline on Munro's story reads "Immigration bill guts E-Verify for years," and it appears to be more accurate than Senator Rubio's assurances to the contrary. If so, one lesson is the importance of the kind of serious deliberation over the bill that the powers that be in the Senate, in another echo of Obamacare, have maneuvered to avoid.


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With the fall nearly in full-swing, the Southington Drive-in has started to wrap-up its fourth season.
Dawn Miceli, a member of the Drive-in Committee, reported that during the summer, the committee raised $1,250 for each civic group that hosted a movie night. She said a total of 13 different civic groups from Southington will benefit from the drive-in, and the amount of money raised this year is an increase from last year.
"We really are focused on increasing the amount each year," Miceli said.
Miceli also reported that nearly 3,000 car loads and 349 walk-ins filled the Drive-in this past summer. Half of these attendees were not residents of Southington.
"We are also attracting our neighbors into our community," Miceli said. "This is truly unique to Southington."
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This is the third annual special Halloween screening for the Drive-in Committee. An unexpected winter storm canceled the double showings two years ago when the drive-in reopened.
Volunteers of The Southington Town wide Effort to Promote Success (STEPS) group will host the festival. The civic group will take tickets and run the concession stands as well as help plan activities including the haunted hayride.
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WASHINGTON � The Senate last week rejected an early effort to reshape a sweeping immigration reform bill.
Senators killed an amendment that would delay granting provisional legal status to an estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants until the Southwestern border is secured for six months.
Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, who proposed the amendment, said enforcing immigration rules should come before any undocumented immigrants are put on a path toward citizenship.
�If the American people are being asked to accept a legalization program, in exchange for that compassionate approach, they should be assured that the laws are going to be enforced,� Grassley said.
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�So what are we telling those 11 million? If you hide successfully from the police, then maybe five years from now you can stay here and get the right to work and the right to travel?� Schumer asked. �This clearly would undo the entire theme and structure of the immigration bill that has such bipartisan support.�
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The issue of military sexual assaults intensified after a recent report revealed that there were 26,000 such cases last year.
The Democrat effort failed on a procedural vote, 225-194.
Reps. Tom Cotton, R-Dardanelle, Rick Crawford, R-Jonesboro, Tim Griffin, R-Little Rock, Steve Womack, R-Rogers, Jim Bridenstine, R-Tulsa, Tom Cole, R-Moore, James Lankford, R-Edmond, Frank Lucas, R-Cheyenne, and Markwayne Mullin, R-Westville, voted against it.
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Smith also argued that maintaining the prison is expensive and serves only to fuel hatred against the United States.
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The amendment was defeated 249-174.
Cotton, Crawford, Griffin, Womack, Bridenstine, Cole, Lankford, Lucas and Mullin voted to keep detainees in Guantanamo.


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Harold Camping's May-21-Rapture nonsense is so ubiquitous that there's no point in doing anything other than rolling with it at this stage. American Atheists will be holding Rapture parties in several cities. Matt is attending one in Oakland, in fact. Meanwhile, Tracie and I will be on the show Sunday, holding down the post-apocalyptic fort and taking calls from our far-flung global correspondents (i.e. you) reporting on the Rapture's impact on your own towns and countries. How many Christians have vanished in your area? None? But since the 21st is absolutely and without question the day of the Rapture, won't that mean that Christians have been worshiping a false god all this time…?
Someone else isn't pleased about this little media circus, however, and that would be the folks at the Christian Worldview Network. The CWN is Brannon Howse's House of Paranoia, basically, and they're a funny bunch, because they disdain other "loons" on the right-wing fringe — they absolutely cannot stand the "deceptive" teachings of Glenn Beck and Rick Warren — while at the same time embracing no end of fringe lunacy themselves. I think at various points in time they have accused Obama of being a communist, a socialist (actually, Howse prefers the term "Fabian Socialist" because it makes his flock think he's really read up on the subject), a Marxist, a terrorist, and possibly even a reptilian space invader. They're birthers too, which, compared to all the rest of it, is fairly tame.
In an article in their most recent newsletter with the weary title "Will This Ship of Fools Sink May 22?", Jan Markell minces no words. Camping is totally cuckoo-for-cocoa-puffs, and she's upset that he's given us annoying atheists such fuel for mirth.
There's going to be a party given by "heathens and skeptics" and I hope you have no desire to attend it. They intend to get together to mock the rapture. After months of enduring the unnerving dogmatism of Harold Camping's billboards, signs, cars, radio commercials and bumper stickers heralding the end of the world as we know it on May 21, American Atheists have announced that they are planning "rapture parties" in Oakland, Houston, and Fort Lauderdale on May 21-22.
The atheists boast of their own billboards which state, "The Rapture: You KNOW it's Nonsense. Learn the Truth at our Party." The billboard is designed to knock two millennia of false predictions that the world was about to end. So, they are having a party to celebrate another rapture that wasn't. And the atheists will be more accurate than the Christians because they are going after the date-setters.
Catch that last bit? See, what's wrong with Camping is that he was incautious enough to set a date. And that's what makes Christians look stupid. Because you can only control people effectively through nonsensical, superstitious prophecies of future events if you leave them vague and nebulous. Even Vito Corleone knew the psychology involved in keeping people wondering: "Someday — and that day may never come — I may come to you for a favor."
Markell wants Christians to be clear on one point: there totally is going to be a Rapture. We are in the "end times," and the clock is ticking. Naturally, she's just making this up no less than Camping is, but she's leaving herself endless wiggle room. "We cannot know!" But Jesus is coming. For realz. Just…whenever.
Markell sees a lot of negative fallout when May 22 rolls around, and the world (yay!) and all its Christians (sigh) are still here.
What can we know for sure will result from Camping's prediction?
- He will be proven wrong.
- He will put all who long for the Lord's return in a bad light.
- This will push many more away from considering end-time issues as they will not want to be lumped into such a questionable category.
- Church pulpits will grow even more silent on this topic right at a time when a countdown has truly begun and it is nearing midnight.
- The mockers and scoffers will grow stronger and more vocal.
As to that last, of course we will, because all of this is pants-on-head, paste-eating stupidity, and when grown adults exhibit this sort of thing, mockery and scoffing is the absolute least it deserves. What Markell can't see is that she is sailing, if not on Camping's same "ship of fools," in the same fleet. What exactly gives her eschatology any more basis in reality than Camping's, apart from the fact that Camping's will be decisively proven to not have happened when there's no global earthquake this Saturday? The Bible is the Big Book of Multiple Choice, and while Camping can play with interpretations to work out that the end will come May 21, and Markell clings to Matthew 24:36, there is also Matthew 24:34, in which Jesus makes it clear he expected the end times to begin in the lifetimes of his disciples. (And I guess he was wrong, which would make the Son of God Himself one of the "false prophets" the rest of Matthew 24 warns against, eh?)
Markell worries that "Jesus is coming again! But thanks to Harold Camping and friends, on May 22, more may be laughing and scoffing than anticipating." The lesson Markell ought to take from this, but won't, is that as long as she devotes her hopes and wishes and goals towards a vague promise of future divine salvation, instead of breaking away from the shackles of such irrational nonsense and embracing reality, and real solutions to real-world problems, then her ship of fools will itself keep sailing on…right over the edge.


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Title text: So I'm a bad person.
An unidentified narrator, probably Randall, says how he saw a kid with a balloon stand next to a ceiling fan in a restaurant. He explains how for fifteen minutes, he watched the kid's balloon, hoping the balloon would get caught in the ceiling fan and make the kid fly up towards it. This looks like it could cause serious injury to the child, hence the title text of how you're a bad person if this is what you sit in restaurants and imagine. This might be a poke to people who think waiting for a disaster to happen makes you a bad person like in 611: Disaster Voyeurism.
- I watched the scene in the restaurant for a full fifteen minutes, hoping this would happen:
- [A kid is holding balloon; balloon gets caught in ceiling fan; kid holds on and is pulled up.]
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From the wording of the comic, I think this is a reference to a film or a TV show. 188.8.131.52 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)
22.214.171.124 00:40, 23 September 2013 (UTC) I thought it was a reference to a scene from the French Film, The Red Balloon, but I couldn't find a full movie where I could watch it for free without signing up for something. If there's a restaurant scene in that movie, that might be my guess.184.108.40.206 00:40, 23 September 2013 (UTC)
The title text could be a reference to the pilot episode of Firefly where Mal says, "I am a bad man" after tormented Simon for fun. --188.8.131.52 07:25, 24 October 2013 (UTC)
The balloon never goes inside in the movie The Red Balloon.-adamaustin (talk) 16:39, 13 November 2013 (UTC)
I think the first comment here was wondering if "The Restaurant" is the name of any piece of work. Mainly because that's whati was wondering, though. :) 188.8.131.52 18:31, 25 January 2016 (UTC)
I could be wrong, but I don't think most ceiling fans or balloon strings are strong enough to lift any child that size. I'm not sure what would happen, though, and it almost certainly depends on how securely the child is holding the balloon. 22.214.171.124 06:16, 20 December 2016 (UTC)


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- In the mechanics of identifying voters, President Obama's team is ahead of GOP rivals
- Obama's re-election campaign is the only one doing cutting-edge work with data
- President's operation uses a powerful social-networking tool called NationalField
- Expert: GOP presidential campaigns don't fully understand power of data crunching
In July, KDNuggets.com, an online newsite focused on data mining and analytics software, ran an unusual listing in its jobs section.
"We are looking for Predictive Modeling/Data Mining Scientists and Analysts, at both the senior and junior level, to join our department through November 2012 at our Chicago Headquarters," read the ad. "We are a multi-disciplinary team of statisticians, predictive modelers, data mining experts, mathematicians, software developers, general analysts and organizers - all striving for a single goal: re-electing President Obama."
The job listing caught the attention of Alex Lundry, a Republican data-mining expert at TargetPoint Consulting. He tweeted a link to the ad, commenting, "The Obama campaign is taking #bigdata seriously; what about the GOP candidates?"
The question almost answers itself. So far in the presidential election of 2012, there is only one campaign that is doing cutting-edge work with data.
Obama may be struggling in the polls and even losing support among his core boosters, but when it comes to the modern mechanics of identifying, connecting with and mobilizing voters, as well as the challenge of integrating voter information with the complex internal workings of a national campaign, his team is way ahead of the Republican pack.
Facebook apps and other tools
Alone among the major candidates running for president, the Obama campaign not only has a Facebook page with 23 million "likes" (roughly 10 times the total of all the Republicans running), it has a Facebook app that is scooping up all kinds of juicy facts about his supporters.
Users of the Obama 2012 - Are You In? app are not only giving the campaign personal data like their name, gender, birthday, current city, religion and political views, they are sharing their list of friends and information those friends share, like their birthday, current city, religion and political views. As Facebook is now offering the geo-targeting of ads down to ZIP code, this kind of fine-grained information is invaluable.
Inside the Obama operation, his staff members are using a powerful social networking tool called NationalField, which enables everyone to share what they are working on. Modeled on Facebook, the tool connects all levels of staff to the information they are gathering as they work on tasks like signing up volunteers, knocking on doors, identifying likely voters and dealing with problems. Managers can set goals for field organizers -- number of calls made, number of doors knocked -- and see, in real time, how people are doing against all kinds of metrics.
In additional to all the hard data, users can share qualitative information: what points or themes worked for them in a one-on-one conversation with voters, for example. "Ups," "Downs" and "Solutions" are color-coded, so people can see where successes are happening or challenges brewing.
And unlike an open social network, where everyone is equal, NationalField runs on a hierarchical social graph: Higher-level staff get a broader view of the state and local work below them.
For a campaign that tapped the volunteer energies of millions of people in 2008 and appears to need all the help it can get in 2012, these kinds of fine-grained technologies could make a key difference. While the Republican field (and bloggers and the press) has been focused on how their candidates are doing with social networking, Obama's campaign operatives are devising a new kind of social intelligence that will help drive campaign resources where they are most needed.
'Data harmonization'
It all sounds like common sense, but actually, connecting and synchronizing the data a campaign collects from its field operation, fundraising operation and Web operation isn't a trivial task.
"The holy grail of data analysis is data harmonization, or master data management," Lundry said. "To have political talking to finance and finance talking to field, and data is flowing back and forth and informing the actions of each other -- it sounds easy, but it's incredibly hard to implement."
Most political campaigns tend to rely on consultants to carry out part or all of these functions, resulting in even greater obstacles to sharing information.
Like Lundry, Republican technology consultant Martin Avila is worried. His firm, Terra Eclipse, built Ron Paul's 2008 Web operation and works closely with the tea party movement. This year, it did some work on Tim Pawlenty's website until that campaign folded.
Avila's flagship project is a conservative social-networking hub called Freedom Connector, which has grown to 150,000 members in a matter of months by giving right-wing activists tools to organize local meetings and discussions. Avila doesn't think any of the Republican presidential campaigns fully understand the power of data today.
"They have to stop seeing a website as a piece of direct mail that people will receive," he said. "They have to see a website as the equivalent of a campaign office in Iowa, one that is open 24/7." And campaigns need to know how to take quick and well-targeted action to respond to every expression of interest they may get online, he argues, because voter interest in politicians is fickle. Simply sending a generic e-mail reply isn't enough.
"If you can make that initial response a phone call from someone in their town or a neighbor, asking them to come to a county fair tomorrow, that's much more powerful."
Power of personal connections
Without good data management, the different legs of a national campaign can trip over each other.
"One hand doesn't know what the other hand is doing quite often in campaigns," Lundry said. "With master data management across a campaign, you can see how often you're talking to a person" and thus not bombard them with untimely or poorly targeted requests.
But, according to Avila, "Not many on the Republican side know how to technically accomplish that." Their approach to the Web, he adds, is still too much shaped by pre-Internet politicking using broadcast advertising. "The ability to connect to people on a one-to-one basis, and encourage them to connect with one another, is way more powerful than that."
How powerful? The 2008 Obama campaign offered an early glimpse of the potential of data-driven politics. By the end of the election, it had amassed 13 million supporter e-mail addresses, collected nearly 4 million individual donations and tallied about 2 million registered users on my.BarackObama.com, the campaign's social networking platform. Seventy thousand myBO members had used the site to conduct their own personalized fundraising campaigns.
Since 2008, enthusiasm for Obama has waned, but his online presence hasn't. His base on Facebook has soared nearly six times from the 4 million he had on Election Day, and his following on Twitter now stands at 10 million, dwarfing the Republican field.
So even if Obama isn't drawing millions of people off their sofas to rally to his side on their own in 2012, his team has a huge amount of raw data to work with as they build his re-election machine.
If the 2012 election comes down to a battle of inches, where a few percentage points change in turnout in a few key states making all the difference, we may come to see Obama's investment in predictive modelers and data scientists as the key to victory.


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Which of these ideas about randomness are actually correct?
What are the likelihoods of different events when you roll a dice?
Can you work out which spinners were used to generate the frequency charts?
Can you generate a set of random results? Can you fool the random simulator?
What is special about dice?
How can we use dice to explore probability?
You and I play a game involving successive throws of a fair coin. Suppose I pick HH and you pick TH. The coin is thrown repeatedly until we see either two heads in a row (I win) or a tail followed by. . . .
Four cards are shuffled and placed into two piles of two. Starting with the first pile of cards - turn a card over... You win if all your cards end up in the trays before you run out of cards in. . . .
7 balls are shaken in a container. You win if the two blue balls touch. What is the probability of winning?
Will the witch make a profit or loss?
The King showed the Princess a map of the maze and the Princess was allowed to decide which room she would wait in. She was not allowed to send a copy to her lover who would have to guess which path. . . .
Identical discs are flipped in the air. You win if all of the faces show the same colour. Can you calculate the probability of winning with n discs?
Six balls of various colours are randomly shaken into a trianglular arrangement. What is the probability of having at least one red in the corner?
In this game the winner is the first to complete a row of three. Are some squares easier to land on than others?
Your partner chooses two beads and places them side by side behind a screen. What is the minimum number of guesses you would need to be sure of guessing the two beads and their positions?


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Walter Gargano
Walter Alejandro Gargano Guevara is a football player from Uruguayan and for Serie A club Napoli and the national team of Uruguayan he plays a midfielder. Gargano began to play football when he was three years old and he joined youth club that is not in function now in Paysandú (Centella). He used to play in the midfield position in the youth club. In the youth, Gargano was playing the Danubio club, his future club, there the club noticed him and so he joined the club.
He took his start from the Champions League game played against Manchester City the result was a 1–1 draw. He played all the seven matches, being associated to the club he made improvement in his performance during the winning/knockout phase prior to be removed by Chelsea. Gargano was the part of the group when he prepared setting up a goal for Edinson Cavani, luckily he achieved a hat-trick, in a 3–1 victory defending champ AC Milan. It was December 21st and the year when he got his first goal achieved in a 6–1 victory versus Genoa, and with this his drought of goal that remained for four years finally ended. After three months on March 9th 2012, he managed to achieve one more of that season in a 6–3 win over Cagliari. Ultimately when the season ended, Napoli won the final of Coppa Italia in a 2–0 win over Juventus, in which Gargano could not participate for he was suspended at that time as picked up another yellow card in the semi final of Coppa Italia played versus Siena.
Angel Di Maria
The home town of Angel Di Maria and Lionel Messi is same i.e. in Rosario, Argentina.
In the past he was dominated by the likes of Messi, Falcao and Ronaldo. Till the year 2013, his name was not among the 23 best players challenging for FIFA World Player of the Year whereas not many players such as Hazard, Pirlo and Cavani were included in the nominees list. The reason for missing him was that the basis of this award was not about merit but it was personality related.
Still now we are trying to compare him to the top class players. The main difference is his high creativity then comes the ability of passing is more, versatility is more and last but not the least he has more pace as compared to any other.
When it comes to his creativity, in the season of year 2013-14 he had 22 assists (much more as compared to Messi or Ronaldo) and in La Liga he was among the leading assist makers. While playing as a central midfielder he made 90 chances though he serves as a winger usually. Recently in the friendly matches played versus the world champions Germany, he separated their cover/defense from the wide positions in order to score a goal and to prepare the ground for three more goals.
As compared to Messi and Ronaldo his creativity and versatility is higher. Due to this reason he is known as the "stamina beast" as he can play in positions that are not so good but often to get back over in order to assist the cover (not like Messi and Ronaldo). He plays as a midfielder either on the left or right flanks, serves as an attacking central midfielder, a supporting striker and a playmaker.
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Due to his talent of passing his position is different as compared to rest of the players. The best thing about him is his accurate passing.
His speed is high and he has command on pace over long distance. Do you remember his 90 yard run in 2014 in order to prepare Ronaldo facing Fiorentina while in the Final Champions League his criss cross or zig-zag dribble past three players, which resulted in giving a chance to Gareth Bale to win the trophy for Real Madrid. Only with his solo run the whole scene of the game suddenly changed and he became the man of the match. Even the pundits began to take interest in him.
His victory resumed in the 2014 World Cup and in the 16th round of the game he could score his one and only goal of against Switzerland. Throughout the tournament his shots on goal were higher as compared Messi and even though he played for about 300 less minutes he got only one less solo dash/run into the penalty space as compared to Messi who earned the Golden Ball for being the best player. Sadly, he could not play the final game versus Germany due to the injury.
When the World Cup was over demanded his club Real Madrid to pay him like their best/top class players but unfortunately they did not accept his demand later he was sold for about $100 million to Manchester United and this transfer is the fifth most costly transfer ever also the maximum fee that a British club paid.
Subsequent to a slow beginning to the fresh season by Manchester United Di Maria scored the first goal while playing his first game facing Queens Park Rangers and this resulted in first victory for the Manchester United under the supervision of their new coach Louis Van Gasal.
When the Argentine joined to the team Manchester United they got their ways of winning back and obviously they were ready to paying a lot for him.
After giving victory when the last season was about to finish, the way he performed in the World Cup as well as they way he give a boost to the fresh season for country and club it won't be easy for FIFA not to include Di Maria from 'Player of the Year' in the year 2014.


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PHOENIX—David Lopez, a 15-year agency veteran, was sworn in today as General Counsel of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), in a ceremony at the agency's Phoenix District Office. He becomes the first General Counsel to be appointed from the ranks of field attorneys.
Lopez was nominated for the post by President Barack Obama on Oct. 22, 2009, and received a recess appointment to the post on March 27, 2010. He will serve at the EEOC's Washington headquarters until the end of the Congressional session in 2011, absent confirmation by the Senate.
"I am delighted to have an attorney with David's extensive knowledge of the law and familiarity with the EEOC's legal program as General Counsel," said EEOC Chair Jacqueline A. Berrien. "He will be a valued partner in our vital mission of eradicating employment discrimination."
"I feel very honored by President Obama's appointment and view it as an affirmation of support for the EEOC staff in the field fighting every day to vindicate civil rights and preserve the promise of this great country," Lopez said. "I intend to further develop the national law firm model for the EEOC to combat discrimination. I look forward to working with Chair Berrien and the entire Commission to ensure equal opportunity throughout this nation."
Lopez began his career at the EEOC working for former Chairman Gilbert Casellas as a Special Assistant in Washington. For the past 12 years, he has served as a Senior Trial Attorney and a Supervisory Trial Attorney in the EEOC's Phoenix District Office. There, he has been responsible for successfully litigating many high-profile cases on a wide variety of legal bases. He has tried several cases to verdict in jury trials involving disability discrimination, sexual harassment, race discrimination and harassment, national origin and retaliation, gender wage discrimination, and religious discrimination.
In particular, Lopez was lead counsel in EEOC v. Alamo Rent-A-Car, CIV 02-1908-PHX-ROS, a post 9/11 religious discrimination case, where a jury entered a verdict against Alamo for $287,640, $250,000 of which were punitive damages. Lopez has also litigated and resolved cases on behalf of the EEOC and victims of discrimination under all of the statutes and bases enforced by the EEOC, including the ADEA.
Before joining the Commission, Lopez served in the Employment Litigation Section of the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice from 1991 to 1994. From 1988 to 1991, he was an associate with the law firm of Spiegel and McDiarmid in Washington, DC.
Lopez received a J.D. degree from Harvard Law School in 1988 and a B.S. in Political Science from Arizona State University in 1985, magna cum laude.
The EEOC enforces federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination. Further information about the EEOC is available on its web site at www.eeoc.gov.


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Why take breastfeeding – a vital, intimate exchange between a mother and baby – to the West Lawn of the United States Capitol Building? Over 600 mothers and their babies, as well as hundreds more partners, children, and other supporters, gathered in Washington, D.C., on Saturday, August 4, 2012, for just such a cause. The first-ever Great Nurse-In was a peaceful celebration of breastfeeding, designed by local mother Rachel Papantonakis to raise awareness of the need for pro-breastfeeding legislation to support mothers and babies.
A show of hands at the event demonstrated how many women experience mistreatment for breastfeeding in public. It's way too common, and can easily happen to a discreet breastfeeder. I might not have believed it, until it happened to me. As I explained to the crowd during open-mic time, in my early years of mothering I viewed breastfeeding as a loving exchange between mother and child that should simply take place wherever the hungry baby needed to eat. Being a relatively shy and modest person who also did not want to feel trapped inside my home, I nursed baby discreetly wherever we needed. A total of three uneventful years of nursing in public unfolded and then I experienced breastfeeding harassment at a Pottery Barn store while nursing my second child – just a wee 7-week-old baby. That rude experience taught me that even when we breastfeeding mamas quietly go about our business of caring for our babes, others might try to stand in our way.
The "please nurse in the restroom" experience lit a fire within me. I realized how lucky that it happened to me, someone who would not easily be dissuaded from breastfeeding wherever baby is hungry. Had it happened to another mother with less support to begin with, she might have stopped nursing in public after such an experience. Instead, my path led me to bring the matter to the attention of the Pottery Barn's president and gain her sympathetic apology and noteworthy leadership in creating organizational change to protect breastfeeding mothers. In the process, I learned that too many mothers experience such roadblocks to nursing in public. Many requested copies of my letter to Pottery Barn's management, so I made it available here.
My experience is not uncommon in this country. Not surprising given that the U.S. ranks last of 36 industrialized countries in a ranking of breastfeeding support in Save the Children's May 2012 report on global motherhood. Given the not- breastfeeding-friendly-enough state of this country, it's inevitable that a long string of individuals will continue to experience breastfeeding mistreatment and some will contact leaders of the offending entity – as well as staging nurse-ins at Denny's, Target, Facebook, and other sites – to initiate positive change.
But we need to create change much faster through collective action. This is where you come in! You needn't have experienced roadblocks of any sort to breastfeeding, currently be a breastfeeder, or even be a woman to arise and call on our leaders to protect and support breastfeeding across the nation.
In my closing comments at the Great Nurse-In, I invited those who felt moved to action to visit the Best for Babes Take Action page to find avenues to participate in the breastfeeding-friendly movement, such as urging your member of Congress to authorize funding for breastfeeding education such as the WIC breastfeeding peer counselors. And, hopefully, many of you will do so too!
No doubt, the ripple effects of the Great Nurse-In and its companion Action Day on Capitol Hill will be felt in Washington, corporate America, and in the hearts of new mamas, especially those who are not sure if they really want to nurse in public because of the potential objections of others. Won't you join in helping move some of those ripples into a serious tide of change? What a gift to the next generation!
This once shy and harassed breastfeeding mama turned breastfeeding advocate is grateful for the incredible support of my husband who insisted that we turn around on the heels of a 10-day-trip to take our three boys on the three-hour drive to attend the Great Nurse-In. If nothing else, he wanted our boys to grow up supporting this important cause, which benefits all babies, not just their mamas. It was an historic moment in breastfeeding promotion that we were proud to support.
While most babies breastfed throughout the very hot day as they needed (called breastfeeding- or nursing-on-demand), at 10:30 a.m., all the nursing mothers tried to nurse their babies as part of the Big Latch-On, a consecutive breastfeeding minute for thousands of mothers and children around the world. Ironically, it was reverse nursing-on-demand, a practice that doesn't always fly if baby is asleep or already has a full tummy. Nonetheless, lots of babies enjoyed breastfeeding during the Big Latch-On, contributing significantly to the new record set of 8,862 children in 626 locations across 23 countries. Even my two-year-old nursling cooperated and nursed for the Big Latch-On event at the nurse-in! (Truth be told, a strategic lollipop instead of rise-and-shine-nursing in the morning left him inclined to nurse in public come mid-morning, a rarity for my toddler these days.
The day was filled with inspiring stories, calls to action, and fun songs celebrating breastfeeding. You can read more perspectives about the event, including what motivated Rachel Papantonakis to launch it, here and here, and watch this story on it. I was honored to meet amazing women who feel called to pave the way to a more breastfeeding-friendly world for other mamas. I am hoping to share some of their stories in upcoming posts here at Breastfeeding Friendly, so stay tuned.
In the meantime, here is a little video of a fun breastfeeding song by one of those amazing mamas and singer-songwriter, Marsha Goodman-Wood, that captures the spirit of the Great Nurse-In's message beautifully (sorry for the poor image quality, but the audio works fine to teach you the tune):
Lyrics from the clip are follow to help you learn this fun diddy while you fill out action forms online to lend your voice to the collective effort to support breastfeeding:
If mom wants to cover up she can so choose.
But if you're thinking that she has to
Well you haven't read the news.
A mom can nurse in a museum or cafe
And it's no one's right to make her go away.
Feeding a squirming baby is hard enough
Without a waitress or security guard giving a mom guff.
And the law says anywhere a mom can be
Is an okay place to breastfeed her baby.
And a mama isn't better or worse
Whether baby needs to bottle feed or nurse.
All that matters is a happy, healthy baby
Which may be the best thing in the universe.
For far too long women have been objectified
Now those who think that's fine
Tell nursing moms to cover up and hide
It's not indecent or showing too much to feed a hungry child
A mom should be able to nurse her babe with pride.
Copyright Marsha Goodman-Wood, 2012
A shorter version of this post was originally published here on the Best for Babes website.


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PEMBROKE, N.C. – The Coker women's volleyball team traveled to UNC Pembroke for a non-conference double-header against Virginia State and UNC Pembroke on Tuesday (Sept. 17) evening. The Cobras came up empty-handed, as they lost both matches 3-0.
In their match against Virginia State, the Cobras fell just short in all three sets, losing 25-22, 25-20 and 25-20.
Amanda Harris and Brittney Pink were the kill leaders for Coker against Virginia State. Harris had a match high 11 kills, while Pink added nine kills. Harris was also the Cobras leader in digs with 12. Samantha Celek earned a double-double with 28 assists and 11 digs.
Against UNC Pembroke, Coker struggled to get its offense going dropping the three set match with scores of 25-11, 25-13 and 25-13.
Mindy Morris had a match high 14 digs against the Braves and Celek handed out 13 assists.
Coker returns to the floor on Friday (Sept. 20) in a road match at Queens University of Charlotte at 7 p.m.


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