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Ernest Perce and Muslim Judge Martin
The article linked above involves an incident occurring last year on Halloween, where central Pennsylvanian Atheist Ernest Perce dressed up as Muhammad on Halloween and was assaulted by an angry Muslim.
Long story short: he recorded audio from the court room which involved a Muslim judge dismissing the case, blaming the Atheist for provoking the attack, threatening that in an Islamic country he would have been sentenced to death for that provocation, and attempting to debate the Quran in a court of law.
The judge did not recuse himself of his position for fear of bias. He ran with the bias and held Sharia law over the US Constitution which does not excuse angry Muslims from barring others their freedom of speech.
This is a matter of ethics, politics, and law. What are your views on what happened?
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Hopefully Mr Perce will appeal this ruling. Does any one know if the State Attorney Generals Office can step in or is that out of their jurisdiction?
This is a blatant disregard on the judges behalf in rendering a decision based on the laws that are on the books. He should have recused himself if he wasn't able to separate his personal religious views from those as an officer of the court. I would hope that in addition to his verdict being thrown out, he will face some kind of punishment from the judicial review board.
I agree with this sentiment. I hope he faces a fierce reprimanding or is asked to step down. Since this is a violation of Perce's constitutional rights, he can pursue this as far as he wants to. And I know him - he has a lot of vigour and I'm sure he absolutely WILL do what he can with the situation.
I'm not sure about the State Attorney General. Someone else would have to chime in on that.
Interesting, sounds like a "panic defense." It's been a thorn in the paw of the LGBT community for many decades, with well established precedent unfortunately. This idea that somethings are just so rage-inducing ("OMGZ a gay man hit on me!") that any reasonable human would flip out and assault someone in those situations :-P Though i feel like panic defenses are usually used to reduce sentancing, not to throw it out altogether.
Legally speaking, i worry such defenses creates a "two wrongs make a right" legal system -- which is a very dangerous precedent to set. Ideally in such a setting, if there are two wrongs hopefully there are two laws to charge both parties with. In this case, if someone committed an assault and the other committed some kinda hate crime, then let them both get their day in court and let the system decide appropriate penalty, if any.
But of course there is no hate crime. It's a way for biased judges to penalize people that don't actually break any laws for behavior they personally find unacceptable.
The problem is the judge regarding Perce's actions as a 'wrong' at all. He's legally within his right to dress up for Halloween whatever he wants that is PG appropriate.
The above article addresses the aftermath of the case and the over 470 death threats Mr. Perce has received since the trial was dismissed. The fact is that the judge dismissed the case based on the idea 'he couldn't tell if anyone hit anyone'. An officer testified that Perce was in fact hit, but the judge purposely ignored his testimony to avoid having to put the Muslim in jail or otherwise reprimand him for assault or harassment (the charge should have been assault, not harassment). His messed up interpretation of the constitution through the filter of the Koran is illegal and he should be removed from his seat - the one from which he should have recused himself to begin with.
I'm confused by your response. Did you mean to reply to my comment or is this general followup?
To clarify my previous comment: there is a legal precedent that has been used to let our (LGBT community's) murders and assailants walk with minimal-to-no penalty, all totally legal. There's a chance it is being used here as well. That would make this part of a much larger legal issue, and a potentially interesting point of view on the case that i assume we would like to prevent in the future.
I think there are a great many problems with this trial, not just one. As with most injustices, usually a number of social wrongs and institutional failures intersect.
I was partially replying and following up at the same time. Sorry for the confusion^.
This was my blog entry on this case:
Muslim assaults atheist, Judge dismisses case
According to the CNN blog entitled Judge's dismissal of atheist's harassment claim against Muslim make...,
The judge also scolded Perce, saying he'd been needlessly provocative on an issue sensitive with Muslims.
"You have that right, but you're way outside your bounds of First Amendment rights," Martin said, according to a recording Perce made of the court hearing. "I think our forefathers intended that we use the First Amendment so that we can speak our mind, not to piss off other people and other cultures, which is what you did."
The judge went on to point out that in many Muslim countries, ridiculing Mohammed could warrant the death penalty under Islamic law.
Critics say Martin's lecture shows he used Muslim cultural grounds to excuse a deplorable assault, and failed to defend an atheist's First Amendment rights.
"That's greatly disturbing to people that believe in free speech," said George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley. "You can say things that are hurtful to others. We hope that you don't, but you most certainly can be protected. People like Thomas Paine spent his entire life ticking off people across the colonies."
Former terrorism prosecutor Andrew C. McCarthy, writing on the blog of National Review, accused the judge of allowing the Muslim suspect to invoke a "Sharia defense – what he claimed was his obligation to strike out against any insult against the prophet Mohammed."
Atheists.org also issued a blogin response to the attack and the judge's actions, saying
This reeks of those cases we used to read about where a woman is blamed for her own rape because she "was asking for it" by virtue of the clothing she chose to wear, and then having the Judge set the rapist free.
Blaming the victim: religions are pretty good about that. This case does make it feel like atheists, although a much bigger minority than Moslems (atheists are believed to make up about 18 % of US citizenry these days), are one of the few minorities whose freedoms and rights it's okay to violate, who when attacked by religious zealots do not deserve protection from the state and from the law. I should close by citing the First Amendment of the foundational document of the United States of America.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Thank you for sharing that. :) This is getting more and more attention gradually.
As an update, the Judge has received threats and had to move his practice temporarily. Perce pointed out though that he doesn't feel sorry for the Judge, who has done nothing for the nearly 500 death threats Perce himself has received from outraged Muslims.
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In a long discussion at LtU, user Jules Jacobs advances a use-case that for him would have been difficult to solve in a statically-typed language. I focus on his first two points:
- A data structure that is a container of T plus a function on T's. I would have needed existential types to hide the T, which I don't get in many languages.
- A couple of functions that take heterogeneous list of items that the function will convert to the interface it needs the elements to be with an extensible conversion function. […]
It's true, not many languages have existential types but OCaml happens to do, or at least allows existentials to be encoded. I'll take a big hint from MLton and I'll try to solve both problems (I won't pretend to solve his actual problems; just my interpretation of the problems he posed). Another reason why I write this post is because I always forget what the essence of existential types is. Pierce writes:
Similarly, there are two different ways of looking at an existential type, written
{∃X,T}. The logical intuition is that an element of
{∃X,T}is a value of type
[X ↦ S]T, for some type S. The operational intuition, on the other hand, is that an element of
{∃X,T}is a pair, written
{*S,t}, of a type S and a term t of type
[…] To understand existential types, we need to know two things: how to build (or introduce, in the jargon of §9.4) elements that inhabit them, and how to use (or eliminate) these values in computations.
An existentially typed value is introduced by pairing a type with a term, written
{*S,t}. A useful concrete intuition is to think of a value
{*S,t}of type
{∃X,T}as a simple form of package or module with one (hidden) type component and one term component. The type S is often called the hidden representation type, or sometimes (to emphasize a connection with logic, cf. §9.4) the witness type of the package. For example, the package
p = {*Nat, {a=5, f=λx:Nat. succ(x)}}has the existential type
{∃X, {a:X, f:X→X}}. The type component of p is
Nat, and the value component is a record containing a field a of type X and a field f of type X→X, for some X (namely
(Types and Programming Languages, p. 363–364) I quote at some length because Pierce's presentation is so condensed that for me it really bears repeating; also, because every time I want a refresher I can come to this post instead of cracking open the physical book. The gist of it is pithily and more memorably stated in Mitchell and Plotkin's slogan,
abstract types have existential type.
The complication is that in ML types are not values, so in order to pack an existential we must reify the type component as a term, for instance as a pair of functions, an injection and a projection:
module type UNIV = sig type t val embed : unit -> ('a -> t) * (t -> 'a) end
UNIV when we're talking about existential types? Go ask Oleg. Actually, there is a type isomorphism analogous to the logical equivalence between
(∃x. P x) ⇒ Q and
∀x.(P x ⇒ Q); as Jeremy Gibbons writes
…the justification being that a datatype declaration such as (Haskellisms paraphrased).
type e = ∃t. E of t foo introduces a constructor
E : (∃t. t foo) → e, and this type is isomorphic to
∀t.(t foo → e) because e is independent of t…
In any case, here the existential type is t, and
embed produces a
(inj, prj) pair that can be applied to values of some type α. Only the
prj of the pair can recover the
injected value; the use of any other
prj will fail. There are at least two possible implementations, one using references and another one using exceptions (which are values of a single open, extensible, generative type). The latter is very clever:
module Univ : UNIV = struct type t = exn let embed (type u) () = let module E = struct exception E of u let inj x = E x let prj = function E x -> x | _ -> raise Not_found end in E.(inj, prj) end
The use of the named type u and a local module are 3.12 features that allow declaring a polymorphic exception (compare the SML solution in MLton's website). Since the exception constructor
E is different for every invocation of
embed (this is the "generative" bit referred to above), only the
prj of the pair can recover the value:
let () = let inj_int , prj_int = Univ.embed () and inj_float, prj_float = Univ.embed () in let r = ref (inj_int 13) in let s1 = try string_of_int (prj_int !r) with Not_found -> "None" in r := inj_float 13.0; let s2 = try string_of_int (prj_int !r) with Not_found -> "None" in let s3 = try string_of_float (prj_float !r) with Not_found -> "None" in Printf.printf "%s %s %s\n" s1 s2 s3
Note that the reference r holds values "of different types" via the corresponding
inj. This code typechecks and when run outputs:
13 None 13.
On top of this "universal" existential type we can build heterogeneous property lists à la Lisp (see again MLton's site):
module PList : sig type t val make : unit -> t val property : unit -> (t -> 'a -> unit) * (t -> 'a) end = struct type t = Univ.t list ref let make () = ref [] let property (type u) () = let inj, prj = Univ.embed () in let put r v = r := inj v :: !r and get r = let rec go = function | [] -> raise Not_found | x :: xs -> try prj x with Not_found -> go xs in go !r in (put, get) end
property must be created explicitly but independently of any list using it. They encapsulate an existentially-typed value; look-up just proceeds by attempting to project out the corresponding value. These lists really are magical:
let () = let put_name , get_name = PList.property () and put_age , get_age = PList.property () and put_weight, get_weight = PList.property () in let show p = Printf.printf "%s: %d years, %.1f kg\n" (get_name p) (get_age p) (get_weight p) in let boy, girl = PList.make (), PList.make () in put_name boy "Tim"; put_age boy 13; put_weight boy 44.0; put_name girl "Una"; put_age girl 12; put_weight girl 39.0; List.iter show [boy; girl]
Here boy and girl are two different, independent property lists that act as extensible records with labels
get_age and
get_weight. The list iteration prints the properties uniformly via
show, without having to cast or do any strange contortions (at least not any outside the definitions). The output is:
Tim: 13 years, 44.0 kg Una: 12 years, 39.0 kg
Of course nothing says that the property lists must be homogeneous in the properties they contain; looking for an inexistent property will simply fail. On the other hand, probably the preferred way to handle extensible records in OCaml is via objects, using structural subtyping in the same way dynamically-typed languages would use duck typing. This would make solving the original problem a little more familiar to Python or Ruby programmers; but then, recovering the original objects from the lists would be impossible without downcasts.


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'Life is so simple even a child can handle it,'said my father to my mother when they sent me to school first time. It was reassuring to my mother and I wasn't sure of my slate and pencil, which I broke in fright. 'School'- was enough to make my hand turn butter! Believe me I got so used to the idea of slate so well that we soon were inseparables. But one day it all changed and when my teacher pressed a transcription book into my hands and said, 'paper is the stuff of future.' I soon got on to it like duck to water just as I had with my steel pen and inkwell. Only my mom had lots of laundry and inkstains that needed extra care.
In the end what did it matter I had a neat andwriting to be proud of? When computer came I had to let my fingers do the walking. Moon walking it would seem. lurching finger cannot get that copperplate gait. No way! Now my handwriting is a cut above chickenscrawl. Progress is a way forward and it steps over slates and paper takes you to paperless halls where you type yourself in for a job. This you may repeat so often that there is a curious disconnect between fingers and grey matter.
I find IBM research lab has come up with 5 life-changing innovations.
Power from the people
Anything that moves or produces heat has the potential to create energy that can be captured. On a personal level, while you're riding your bicycle to work, devices on the spokes of your wheels could be recharging batteries you could later use to power some of the lights in your home. Wait till the government gets into the act. Walking, jogging, bicycling no one will be spared unless one can prove one's net worth is the prescribed limit. Super rich will be only asked to throw their weight around.
Governments shall not pay dole unless John Doe earned so many points. This credit of personal power shall be linked to his social security number.
You are your password
Each person has a unique biological identity. Your biometric data—facial definitions, retina scans and voice files—will be composited through software to build an individual's unique online password, IBM researchers said. Now it is no more Big Brother is watching you but Big Brother Gotcha!
'Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, will you step over here, please?'
My multi-factor biometrics is no guarantee the money that I draw will not fail on me.
I will draw so many drachma or dollar and find it cannot buy me a decent meal. At least I shall know I am me and none other.
Mind reading gets real
Now comes a real whopper!Mind reading may make the leap from science fiction to real life sooner than expected, the researchers in Armonk, N.Y., said. Priest Abuse is restrained as a result. Altar boys will know while the host is raised what is raising the priest. And they can act accordingly. Only Monsignor's woolly brain will be counting sheep while whetting the predatory nature of the new priest.
If you link your brain to devices such as a computer or smartphone and be able to levitate inanimate objects by just thinking about it how smooth life would be? You need not catch the eye of your waiter in a restaurant but he will come to you. Only he cannot guarantee he will not trip over and spill water over your head.
If you think like about calling someone, for example, the smartphone would then dial that number. On the reverse you cannot escape calls dogging your private thoughts. (2 be concluded)


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Chelsea target Andre Schurrle will not leave Bayer Leverkusen in January
Bayer Leverkusen's Andre Schurrle will not be joining Chelsea in the January transfer window, according to his father.
By Thomas Zocher
Last Updated: 03/12/12 5:30pm
The forward reportedly has a get-out clause in his contract which allows him to move at the end of the season if any club meets a fee of €35million (£28.5m).
Leverkusen, who sit second in the Bundesliga, could therefore try to sell Schurrle in the winter transfer window to gain a higher price.
European champions Chelsea could take advantage and are understood to have tried to sign the forward in summer 2012 while the struggles of Fernando Torres could inspire a new bid
But Schurrle's father, Joachim, has ruled out any move before the end of the campaign, as he told Express newspaper: "We have plenty of time left until the next summer.
"Until next summer, there is no reason to move. Moving clubs before the summer is not an issue. Andre very much likes being at Bayer Leverkusen.
"It's a successful team and the team plays really good football, too. We all simply have to wait and see."


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Pink and Willow Hart's Cutest Mommy-and-Me Moments of 2012
Pink and Willow Hart's Cutest Mommy-and-Me Moments of 2012
Pink may be a rocker at heart, but it's obvious she's truly enjoying her newest title: mom. "You hear people say it all the time, how life changes so drastically. But you can't possibly grasp how beautiful that is until you have your child," the pop star told People about becoming a parent. Since giving birth to supercute little Willow in June 2011, Pink hasn't slowed down at all, toting her tot on trips to London, New York, and Australia; releasing her sixth album, The Truth About Love, in September; and prepping for a world tour in 2013. "We're taking her on the road and calling it the Willow Tour, because as long as it works for her, I'm there," Pink told Shape magazine. We've loved watching the new mom bond with her daughter over the last year, and we're bringing you 12 of our favorite Pink and Willow moments. Keep clicking to see them all.


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"Esquith is a modern-day Thoreau, preaching the value of good work, honest self-reflection and the courage to go one's own way." –Newsday
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For FY 2019 Facebook, reported revenue of $70.7 billion, up by 27% y-o-y. Meanwhile, Operating Margin fell to 34% from 45% in 2018 and effective tax rate increased to 25% for 2019 from 13% in the previous year. This led to earnings being $6.43, down by 15% from $7.57 in the previous year 2018.
The company had made a capital expenditure of $15.65 billion for the year while the their was Net Increase in Cash and cash equivalents by $9 billion in the year 2019.
Post the privacy scandals of Cambridge Analytica, GDPR implementation, and fines levied on Facebook, the consensus opinion on Facebook has been that growth would taper off. The management's guidance of expected weakness due to product changes had further bellowed the fire leading the stock price to tank. However, over the last few quarters, there seems to be limited evidence of any weakness.
Below we highlight key drivers of Facebook's value that present opportunities for upside or downside to the current Trefis price estimate for Facebook.
Facebook is the world's most popular social network that helps people connect with family and friends. The company makes money primarily through advertising, which it provides to advertisers by targeting specific demographics based on their information posted on Facebook. Also, Facebook facilitates the purchase of virtual goods in games and applications running on Facebook's platform, charging a transaction fee on each virtual good purchased.
This remains the most significant division for Facebook, contributing about 92% of its overall value. This high-value contribution can be attributed to two main factors: scale and user engagement. Facebook has over 2 billion monthly active users, and the user engagement within this base is also high. These stellar metrics are a result of innovative product development at Facebook, which includes Timeline, NewsFeed, Messenger, Search, and several other features designed with the long-term vision of ensuring that user stickiness to Facebook remains high. In future years, both scale and user engagement are expected to be strongly driven by growth in the mobile space.
Coupled with the highly active user base, Facebook has also achieved success with its monetization strategy. Its move to raise the proportion of feed-based ads and make the platform less cluttered has garnered success among marketers. Improvement in ad products, along with their targeting capabilities, has driven enhanced ROI and value for advertisers.
The monetization of Instagram and WhatsApp is paltry compared to some of its peers. In our view, Instagram's 1 billion+ active monthly user base, along with high engagement levels on the platform, will make it highly attractive to advertisers. The company has begun monetizing Instagram and we believe this could start providing meaningful revenues going forward. In addition, WhatsApp has more than 1.5 billion monthly active users. We believe the monetization rate for these platforms will improve in the coming years. We think this platform can be monetized in several ways, including annual subscription fees, in-app purchases, online payments, advertising, promoted accounts, social commerce, etc.
Facebook also makes money by acting as a platform for the purchase of virtual goods on social gaming applications by partnering with gaming companies such as Zynga. Zynga's games like Farmville and Poker have been wildly popular, enabling Facebook to extract substantial revenues from the sale of virtual goods like Poker chips. Recently, it has introduced a paywall for content providers. However, the ongoing shift towards higher mobile usage from desktop usage has caused pressure on this revenue stream. Payments from the gaming business on Facebook could decline in the near-term.
Facebook has achieved success in its efforts to improve mobile monetization. The share of the mobile platform in the overall advertising business has risen from 14% in 2012 to over 90% in 2018. The rapid increase in monetization is being driven by growth in ad pricing.
While the number of ad impressions declined by 40% during 2015 due to the ongoing shift towards mobile usage and News Feed ads, the average price per ad impression rose significantly by 136% during the same period, bolstered by the higher prominence of ads, better targeting, and larger number of marketers on the platform.
According to BIA/Kelsey, the social media advertising market in the U.S could rise from $5.1 billion in 2013 to $15 billion in 2018 at a CAGR of around 24%. We expect Facebook to benefit considerably from this growth as its News Feed ads are popular and relevant among advertisers.
We believe revenue growth could slacken in the near-term, due to difficult year-over-year comparisons and FX headwinds. Also, the ongoing decrease in the total number of ad engagements could limit revenue growth in the future. However, in the event, revenue contribution from other businesses such as Instagram, Messenger, and WhatsApp starts picking up, then we could again see an acceleration in revenue growth.
We think investments on diverse platforms (such as Messenger, Instagram, WhatsApp, Search, and Oculus) could reap multi-billion dollar businesses for the company in the long-run, and management hasn't even begun scratching the surface of this potential. We think FB could start unlocking value in other businesses such as WhatsApp, Search, and Messenger over the coming years. Overall, we believe all these moving parts will continue to fuel the company's top-line growth for years to come.
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Steve Yockey's One Act play "Wolves" is the second production at WeHo's own Celebration Theatre, and boy is it a winner.
Ben (Nathan Mohebbi) is a nondescript small town boy who is not especially good at anything, except being afraid. He left the small town and came to a very big town and now he is certain that one day, or rather one night, as soon as he lets his guard down, "the wolves" as he calls them, will swallow him alive.
So Ben stays hidden away in his small apartment, just him and his own thoughts, singing two-part harmony as he accompanies himself on the acoustic guitar. His thoughts take on corporeal form in the shape of our Narrator (Katherine Skelton), a quieting voice that sings with him on calm moments and whispers directions to survival in times of crisis.
Ben shares his apartment with Jack (Matt Magnusson), another lonely boy from a small town. For a while, they find refuge in each other. But that romance has since faded, at least it has for Jack, and Jack wants to venture out to see in the night is as dangerous as he remembered. Despite Ben's pleads and warnings, Jack goes out, and to prove a point, he brings back someone he believes is a Wolf. Wolf (Andrew Crabtree) turns out to be a sweet guy that is fairly patient while deciphering Jack's mixed signs. When Wolf decides to make his move, play it a little rough as Jack's latest game of words suggests, Ben enters, mistaking the encounter and, of course, swoops in to protect his Jack.
What happens next is… just wrong in so many ways. So many great ways.
To try to describe Wolves in typical Hollywood terms of "this" meets "that" is an exercise in futility. I keep coming up with Misery and "Pippin" and even those references can't do this play justice. This show is wrought with black humor and shocking images and a creep factor that is off the charts. Yockey's play is a mangled combination of genres and tones that I've never quite seen executed so brilliantly.
With a small ensemble of four, the weakest link would not help but stick out like a sore thumb. I assure you, there are no weak links here. We are warned at the outset that ere are no morals to this story, so you can go in knowing the playwright has no deep meaning he wishes to impart; but by no means are there no lessons to be gleaned from this darkly tale.
Once again Director Michael Matthews has made wonderful use of limited space, employing a minimalist set and energetic, clearly define performances. Kudos for casting a quartet that is equally solid in both drama and comedy.
Steve Yockey's script is unapologetically sinister in it's wickedness. It's funny, it's gripping and it is extremely well played.
Wolves, a National New Play Network / Rolling World Premiere, is running now at:
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Local governments are still smarting from Gov. Jerry Brown's successful push to eliminate redevelopment agencies. This was good policy -- redevelopment money wasn't well spent and the money should go to schools, but it was cash that local governments depended upon to cover many of their expenses.
This November provides an opportunity for municipal revenge.
Many cities, now with less cash and some financial desperation, are declaring fiscal emergencies so they can quickly put tax measures on the local ballot. This makes a certain amount of sense, but it's also an enormous political problem -- for Gov. Jerry Brown.
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Brown has staked his governorship on a temporary tax ballot initiative on the November ballot. He's also devoted a lot of energy to putting his measure in a favorable place on the ballot -- and to neutralizing competition from other tax measures.
But the cities, by adding their own tax measures, are creating more competition -- and problems for his measure. Many of the cities are seeking sales tax hikes -- just like Brown, who has a temporary, quarter-cent sales tax hike in his measure. Will voters be willing to vote both for Brown's state sales tax hike and local ones? Logic suggests that Brown's case would be easier to make if he doesn't have competition.
Of course, if cities get revenge by helping defeat Brown's initiative, that revenge won't be sweet. That's because Brown's measure has a new constitutional guarantee of certain revenue streams for local governments. If the governor's initiative goes down, the locals won't have that protection.
This predicament is another of California's current political reality. There are plenty of political losers on the stage. But it's hard to spot a winner.
Lead Prop Zero blogger Joe Mathews is California editor at Zocalo Public Square, a fellow at Arizona State University's Center for Social Cohesion, and co-author of California Crackup: How Reform Broke the Golden State and How We Can Fix It (University of California, 2010).
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- Airport shuttle (available 24 hours) *
- Free valet parking
Payment types at the property
- Cash
In the hotel
- In-room childcare (surcharge)
- Buffet breakfast daily (surcharge)
- 2 restaurants
- Bar/lounge
- Coffee shop/café
- Snack bar/deli
- Poolside bar
- 24-hour room service
- Coffee/tea in a common area
- Outdoor pool
- Pool sun loungers
- Fitness facilities
- Full-service spa
- Spa treatment room(s)
- Pool umbrellas
- Spa tub
- Sauna
- Arcade/game room
- Business center
- Conference space
- Meeting rooms
- Conference space size (feet) - 4844
- Conference space size (meters) - 450
- 24-hour front desk
- Concierge services
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Laundry facilities
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Luggage storage
- Wedding services
- Multilingual staff
- Porter/bellhop
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Year Built - 2013
- Elevator
- ATM/banking
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Designated smoking areas
- Rooftop terrace
- Accessible bathroom
- In-room accessibility
- Wheelchair-accessible path of travel
- Wheelchair-accessible parking
- Wheelchair-accessible registration desk
- Wheelchair-accessible spa
- Wheelchair-accessible pool
- Wheelchair-accessible fitness center
- Wheelchair-accessible meeting spaces/business center
- Wheelchair-accessible on-site restaurant
- Visual alarms in hallways
- Wheelchair-accessible bathroom vanity
- Lowered peephole/viewport in door
- Height-adjustable showerhead
- Grab bar - near toilet
- Grab bar - in bathtub
- Transfer shower
- Visual fire alarm
- Lever door handles
- Chinese
- English
- German
- Japanese
- Swedish
- Thai
In the room
- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- Minibar
- Coffee/tea maker
- Bathrobes
- Slippers
- Hypo-allergenic bedding available
- Pillow menu
- Down comforter
- Soundproofed rooms
- Premium bedding
- Separate sitting area
- Private bathroom
- Separate bathtub and shower
- Rainfall showerhead
- Designer toiletries
- Hair dryer
- 39-inch flat-screen TV
- Cable TV channels
- Desk
- Free newspaper
- WiFi (surcharge)
- Phone
- Free bottled water
- Daily housekeeping
- In-room safe (laptop compatible)
- Connecting/adjoining rooms available
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Special features
Anne Semonin Spa has 5 treatment rooms including rooms for couples. Services include deep-tissue massages, hot stone massages, sports massages, and Swedish massages. A variety of treatment therapies are provided, including aromatherapy and hydrotherapy.
Dining57th Street - This restaurant specializes in international cuisine and serves breakfast, brunch, lunch, and dinner. A children's menu is available. Reservations are required.
The District - This steakhouse specializes in international cuisine and serves dinner only. A children's menu is available. Happy hour is offered. Reservations are required.
Octave - This rooftop bar specializes in international cuisine and serves dinner only. Happy hour is offered.
Bangkok Marriott Hotel Sukhumvit, Bangkok's small print
Also known as
- Bangkok Marriott Hotel Sukhumvit
- Bangkok Marriott Hotel Sukhumvit Hotel Bangkok
- Bangkok Marriott Sukhumvit
- Marriott Hotel Bangkok Sukhumvit
- Bangkok Courtyard
- Courtyard Bangkok
- Marriott Hotel
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The property has connecting/adjoining rooms, which are subject to availability and can be requested by contacting the property using the number on the booking confirmation.
For transfers, guests must contact the property before arrival at the number on the booking confirmation.
Reservations are required for massage services and spa treatments and can be made by contacting the property before arrival at the number on the booking confirmation.
Optional extras
Rollaway beds are available for THB 1766.0 per night
Buffet breakfast is offered for an extra charge of THB 701 per person (approximately)
Airport shuttle service is offered for an extra charge of THB 2500 per vehicle (one-way)
WiFi is available in guestrooms for THB 642 per day (rates may vary)
We have included all charges provided to us by this property. However, charges can vary, for example, based on length of stay or the unit you book.
Recent reviews
Superb 9.0 From 923 reviews
The room, the pool, and the roof top bar are 5 star. The restaurant was ok, but it can definitely improve its food.
Stayed about a week... everything was excellent especially breakfast buffet!! Also local close to everything
Wonderful hotel
Great staff! The hotel is convenient to the sky train and major attractions. Nice pool and sauna. For Marriott Rewards members the lounge is top shelf.
Very nice hotel. Great service and well kept. Typical for Marriott.
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Reliance necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 28 diseños de 11 diseñadores freelance.
Pizzelles by Theresa
Started making homemade Italian Pizzelle cookies for friends 5 years ago and turned it into a word of mouth business. Theresa's husband built an amazing commercial kitchen for her new business in the basement of their home in the outskirts of Pittsburgh PA. Theresa wants to take this biz from wholesaling it to local businesses that hten resell for profit to a retail internet business. She doesn't want to lose the integrity of the homemade aspect of these cookies but is happy t increase production and packaging with streamlined ideas. She is able to support volume at retail prices but not at her current wholesale biz model. Theresa is born, raised and currenty has Pizzelle kitchen in Burgettstown PA...We can capitalize on Pittburgh (all love the penguins, steelers etc) or old world italian, an or homemade...these cookies have also been used by companies who private label corporate marketing packets (a 3 pack of cookies with a biz card in gift packaging) the recipe she has is consistent and light every cookie...
Consumer's who buy unique gifts, corporations who want to private label great gift and marketing packages, customr who putrchase desserts for parties or events.
I want something original that will convey homemade with light and airy cookies as opposed to heavy desserts. the look of the cookie should be incorporated in a sketch form vs clip art format...but be creative, pehaps pittsburgh colors or feel
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This is an Ask a Geek Feminist question.
This question may seem very 101 but I have yet been able to find or formulate a good response to a comment I recently received from another young woman and I was hoping someone could help me out?
I was talking about power dynamics between men and women and the respondent came back with "Western women aren't oppressed. I don't feel oppressed. We are able to vote.. etc etc." and I was just flabbergasted and didn't know how to respond. I suspect a lot of this was her personal response to acknowledging oppression making her seem weak or whiny. Although I could be wrong and she may really believe this and think it cancels out the feelings of any Western women who does acknowledge our ongoing oppression. Help?
It can be disorienting to be faced with this stance by someone who is a member of a class of people, and feels that they represent that class. You may disagree strongly with their position, and have very good reasons for it which you want to express. But you hesitate.
It could be that the situation is already tense and you don't want to make things worse. Maybe you don't know each other very well, and you're not sure whether it's a good idea to open this particular can of worms with them. Or, perhaps, you just don't have the right words.
Finally, a Feminism 101 blog has a FAQ with a pretty good answer, which calls out the misconceptions underlying the question:
1. Even if women in your part of the world do have legal equality, what about women elsewhere? Feminists who fight for the rights of other women to have what they already have are justified in doing so.
2. Simple, basic legal equality regarding the right to own property, sign contracts or vote does not always translate into social equality in work, the community or the home.
(emphasis added. thanks to Mary for the reference)
However, the matter of how to respond to the person is perhaps more important than having an answer. Ideally, you'd like to engage with this person, and enter into a dialog where you can both learn something. Your mileage may vary, but I find that counterargument and psychoanalysis don't always set us on that path.
Here's what I try to do:
- Validate their first-hand experience. Regardless of whether they represent a class, they are telling you something about their lived experience, and that is a subject on which they are an authority. Respect that, and acknowledge what they are telling you about themselves. You never know, and they may have been very fortunate. They are almost certainly fortunate compared to many other people, and recognizing that good fortune can be a sign of genuine humility. So, give them the benefit of the doubt.
- Integrate their position into a broader perspective. Other people (including you) have a different view: how can we reconcile that? If you don't know, invite them to explore the question with you. What would have to be true in order for both views to be valid?
- Explore their point of view. Now that you have some shared perspective, dig a little deeper and try to understand why they feel they way they do. How do their past and present experiences, their beliefs, and their personality influence their opinion? What can you learn from them?
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Groom Sues After Stripper Ruptures His Bladder at Bachelor Party
In retrospect, Patrick Gallagher and his buddies probably should have just celebrated his impending nuptials with a quiet night of poker, maybe a cigar. But instead they took the bachelor party to the strip club, where the groom-to-be suffered an injury as embarrassing as it is painful.
Gallagher was pulled up on the stage at the Penthouse Club in Port Richmond, Pennsylvania to get the full-on bachelor treatment. Included in the festivities was a stripper pole, and when one of the girls "shimmied" down the rod and launched herself into Gallagher's lap, his bladder ruptured.
In intense pain, Gallagher had to leave the club. He had surgery the next morning. Now he is suing the Penthouse Club for $50,000 for his medical costs, humiliation and mental anguish.
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Its Long time since we touched this Topic...Every women's fear of labour is pain..something i found in the web about epidural...wud like to share it here
Epidurals: Reducing pain during labor and delivery
From MayoClinic.com
Special to CNN.com
Although it's true that not all women have the same birthing experience, it's often easy for expectant mothers to get caught up in thoughts of a long and painful delivery. Those thoughts can be frightening and overwhelming. Fortunately, medications and procedures are available to help relieve pain. Epidurals — regional anesthetics that are injected into the space surrounding the spinal cord — can go a long way towards easing the pain of labor and delivery.
"The technology and the medications are now available to make labor a pleasant and safe experience for both mom and baby," says Gurinder Vasdev, M.D., director of obstetric anesthesia at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn. "Epidural analgesia, for example, provides women with a level of pain control that allows them to participate in but not be overwhelmed by the birthing process."
Because of their effectiveness, epidurals have become widely used. Nearly 2.4 million women have epidurals during childbirth each year. Learn about the pros and cons of epidurals, as well as what they can — and can't — do, how they're placed and potential problems that can occur.
What does an epidural do?
An epidural is an effective method of pain control (analgesia) that affects your lower body. Epidurals provide pain relief while allowing you to be awake, alert and able to enjoy — and actively participate in — your baby's birth.
"For normal labors, the epidural is used to provide pain relief, not complete anesthesia," says Dr. Vasdev. "Essentially, the goal is to try to get control of the pain while maintaining muscle tone. This can allow some women to walk, if they so choose."
Walking epidurals, as they're known, have become commonplace. Maintaining enough muscle tone so that you can walk may increase the effectiveness of pushing during the second stage of labor. Without that muscle tone, your ability to push may be diminished. And walking during labor — whether you have an epidural or not — might help you cope better with the pain.
In addition to minimizing the pain of labor and delivery, epidurals can provide other benefits:
You'll likely be able to rest during the intermediate phases of labor. This will allow you to save your energy for the second stage of labor and the actual birth.
If a Caesarean section or forceps delivery is needed, the epidural can be used to numb the area.
If you have a vaginal tear or an episiotomy, medicine can be put in the epidural to provide pain relief for an additional 24 to 48 hours.
Episiotomy: A cut you may not need
Effective pain relief
When Gaynell Pritts gave birth to twin daughters in 1998, her epidural worked just right, relieving her pain while allowing her the ability to push during delivery.
"My third epidural was wonderful. I was very relaxed and comfortable," says Pritts. "The first twin was small, so I didn't have to push very much with her. And the second baby was born quite easily as well."
Epidural technology and training had advanced considerably since Pritts' first and second epidurals in the early 1990s — including the important advancement of using computerized pumps for even distribution of medication.
"My first epidural was spotty — it would work for a little bit and then it wouldn't," Pritts recalls. "My second epidural didn't work at all. It wasn't started until I was in hard labor, and the doctor could never catch up to my pain."
But having two less-than-perfect experiences didn't dissuade Pritts from trying a third.
"I kept my options open and had a third epidural with my twins," she says. "When you're comfortable, your state of mind is so much better. It took me three times to figure that out, but I'm glad I stuck with it."
Pls check http://www.cnn.com/HEALTH/library/PR/00065.html for more information
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Very true Blue...one of my punjabi friend made it for my sis...its made of wheatflour,nuts,sugar & ghee...its supposed to be healthy for the mother but very richI have heard that the Gujurathis and the Pakistanis have special foods that they feed pregnant ladies with.


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Temperature fluctuations may sway human health in a surprising number of ways, scientists have learned, from influencing the spread of infectious diseases to boosting the likelihood of illness-inducing heat waves and floods.
Now, in a synthesis report featured on the cover of the journal Nature, a team of health and climate scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the WHO has shown that the growing health impacts of climate change affect different regions in markedly different ways. Ironically, the places that have contributed the least to warming the Earth are the most vulnerable to the death and disease higher temperatures can bring.
"Those least able to cope and least responsible for the greenhouse gases that cause global warming are most affected," says lead author Jonathan Patz, a professor at UW-Madison's Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies. "Herein lies an enormous global ethical challenge."
According to the Nature report, regions at highest risk for enduring the health effects of climate change include coastlines along the Pacific and Indian Oceans and sub-Saharan Africa. Large sprawling cities, with their urban "heat island" effect, are also prone to temperature-related health problems.
Africa has some of the lowest per capita emissions of greenhouse gases. Yet, regions of the continent are gravely at risk for warming-related disease. "Many of the most important diseases in poor countries, from malaria to diarrhea and malnutrition, are highly sensitive to climate," says co-author Diarmid Campbell-Lendrum of the WHO. "The health sector is already struggling to control these diseases and climate change threatens to undermine these efforts."
"Recent extreme climatic events have underscored the risks to human health and survival," adds Tony McMichael, director of the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health at the Australian National University. "This synthesizing paper points the way to strategic research that better assesses the risks to health from global climate change."
The UW-Madison and WHO assessment appears only weeks before global leaders convene in Montreal during the first meeting of the Conference of Parties to the Kyoto Protocol, which came into effect in February 2005. Patz will also deliver the keynote address at a parallel WHO/Health Canada event.
The United States - the world's top emitter of greenhouse gases - has yet to ratify the Kyoto treaty. Patz and his colleagues say their work demonstrates the moral obligation of countries with high per-capita emissions, such as the U.S. and European nations, to adopt a leadership role in reducing the health threats of global warming. It also highlights the need for large, fast-growing economies, such as China and India, to develop sustainable energy policies.
"The political resolve of policy-makers will play a big role in harnessing the man-made forces of climate change," says Patz, who also holds a joint appointment with the UW-Madison department of Population Health Sciences.
Scientists believe that greenhouse gases will increase the global average temperature by approximately 6 degrees Fahrenheit by the end of the century. Extreme floods, droughts and heat waves, such as Europe's 2003 heat wave, are likely to strike with increasing frequency. Other factors such as irrigation and deforestation can also affect local temperatures and humidity.
According to the UW-Madison and WHO team, other model-based forecasts of health risks from global climate change project that:
Aside from research and the needed support of policy-makers worldwide, Patz says individuals can also play an important role in curbing the health consequences of global warming. "Our consumptive lifestyles are having lethal impacts on other people around the world, especially the poor," Patz says. "There are options now for leading more energy-efficient lives that should enable people to make better personal choices."
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Gow earns share of spoils
Exeter striker Alan Gow won and converted an 84th-minute penalty as the Devon derby with Torquay ended 1-1 at Plainmoor.
Game-changer Gow - on as a half-time substitute - was fouled by United right-back Joe Oastler and got up to roof home the spot-kick.
Torquay took a 15th-minute lead through top scorer Rene Howe's deftly-converted penalty.
Howe wrong-footed City keeper Artur Krysiak with his right foot chipped spot-kick into the roof of the net.
The Torquay forward won the penalty after putting pressure on Kevin Amankwaah at the far post as he went to head Nathan Craig's deep cross from the right.
Howe appealed for handball and referee Craig Pawson awarded the spot-kick.
City had a good opportunity to reply when midfielder Steve Tully teed up substitute Jimmy Keohane, whose angled drive flew just past the post.
City boss Paul Tisdale introduced striker Gow to pep up his shot-shy attack at the start of the second half and he went close with a low drive from the right as Exeter sought a leveller.
At the other end, Krysiak had to be on his toes to tap over a Billy Bodin volley.
United keeper Michael Poke then went full stretch on the goal-line to keep out Keohane's cheeky back heel.
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Mayor Hancock: "Push-back is natural" on flood-control projects
For all the controversy surrounding big flood-control projects proposed in northeast Denver, one voice has been quiet on the subject in recent months — that of Mayor Michael Hancock.
Opponents have questioned the scope of the projects, for which the estimated cost recently grew to $267 million to $298 million. They've challenged the details, including plans to create a detention area on City Park Golf Course, and have threatened to sue to stop the plans. Most of all, critics have seized on connections between the city flood projects and the state's Interstate 70 expansion plan, suggesting officials have misrepresented the need in neighborhoods and the benefits they would receive to mask I-70 as the real impetus.
After a recent affordable housing dedication ceremony, I asked Hancock about the vocal push-back.
He said he wasn't surprised.
"I think one of the things that we've got to always remember is that when you look across the country and these kind of projects come up, whether they're in Boston or in L.A. or whatever, there's always controversy," Hancock said. "The key is for us to stay at the table and always be working through them. And how can we make each project better for everyone?"


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