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Mike Mickens (CB)
Height: 6'0"
Weight: 186
College: Cincinnati
Conference: AAC
Hometown: Huber Heights, OH
High School: Wayne
Round: 7
Pick (Overall): 18 (227)
For 46 consecutive games, Mickens was establishing his reputation as one of the premier pass coverage defenders in college football. It seemed certain that big things would happen, but covering a deep route in the 2008 Louisville contest, Mickens felt a pop in his left knee. Tests after the game revealed that he suffered a torn meniscus and cartilage damage. The injury would sideline him for the final three regular-season games. He would return for the postseason tilt vs. Virginia Tech in the Orange Bowl, but he was not 100 percent after undergoing arthroscopic surgery.
He would also have to pull out of the Senior Bowl, as he experienced swelling in the knee during practices in Mobile. He also was unable to work out at the Scouting Combine in February.
Mickens was a two-time All-Greater Western Ohio Conference cornerback at Wayne High School. He helped the Warriors to a 24-9 record and two league titles during his three seasons. He amassed 205 tackles and 10 interceptions, blocked four field goals and returned a kickoff for a touchdown during his career.
The talented athlete also excelled in track, becoming the state 300-meter hurdles champion as a junior. He was also part of the school's 4x400 meter relay team, helping them to a second-place finish at the state finals during his sophomore year.
Upon Mickens' arrival at Cincinnati, it was evident that he was going to be something special. He did not play in the Rutgers game, but went on to start 10 games at right cornerback for the Bearcats in 2005. The Freshman All-American second-team pick by Football News, he deflected 14 passes and intercepted another that year. He also finished sixth on the team with 51 tackles (38 solos), making 2.5 stops behind the line of scrimmage.
As a sophomore, Mickens shifted to left cornerback. Constantly challenged by opposing quarterbacks, he made them pay by pulling down three interceptions to go with 15 pass breakups. He again finished sixth on the team with 59 tackles (39 solos), but was more involved in run support than he was as a freshman, registering a sack, 2.5 stops for loss and a forced fumble. His 18 total passes defended ranked eighth in the nation, earning him All-Big East Conference second-team recognition.
Mickens was named All-American and All-Big East Conference first-team as a junior. He combined with fellow cornerback DeAngelo Smith to register 14 interceptions, the most by a cornerback duo in the major college ranks in 2007. Mickens' six pass thefts rank second on the school single-season record list, as he brought two of those thefts back for scores, gaining 136 return yards. He delivered 53 tackles (33 solos) and deflected six passes while also recovering a fumble.
The 2008 Thorpe Award semifinalist and preseason All-American managed to earn All-Big East Conference second-team honors as a senior, despite missing three late season games. He gained 158 yards (fourth-best season total in the Big East) on four interceptions, scoring for the third time in his career on interceptions. He added ten pass deflections and two stops behind the line of scrimmage, as his career-high 70 tackles (46 solos) ranked second on the squad.
High School
Attended Wayne (Huber Heights, Oh.) High School, playing football for head coach Jay Minton...Two-time All-Greater Western Ohio Conference cornerback...Helped the Warriors to a 24-9 record and two league titles during his three seasons...Amassed 205 tackles and 10 interceptions, blocked four field goals and returned a kickoff for a touchdown during his career...Also excelled in track, becoming the state 300-meter hurdles champion as a junior...Part of the school's 4x400 meter relay team, helping them to a second-place finish at the state finals during his sophomore year.
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Positives: Legitimate cover corner. ... Possesses the quick feet and smooth hip turn to change direction and blanket his assignment. ... Often forces the quarterback to go to his second option. ... Reads the action quickly and gets an excellent break on the ball. ... Cognizant defender. ... Experienced in man and zone coverage with the combination of athleticism and instincts to play in either scheme at the next level. ... Has a second gear to close and uses his long arms well to deflect passes. ... Physical enough to make a big hit after his man makes the catch. ... Improved hands for the interception in 2007 and has 14 picks and 44 pass breakups over his career. ... Natural with the ball in his hands, returning two of his six interceptions for touchdowns last season. ... Quick to come up in run support, even when pressing in man coverage, and flashes physicality that belies his frame. ... Coachable. ... Very confident in his ability. ... Plays with attitude, will not back down from any receiver. ... Leads by example on the field.
Negatives: Feasts on hastily thrown passes in zone coverage behind a dominant pass rush. ... Must improve his ability to beat running back blocks when on the blitz. ... A bit tall and stiff in his backpedal, which can make it hard for him to recover when the receiver runs a quick out. ... While physical, Mickens has a tendency to lead with his shoulder when making a big hit, instead of wrapping up securely. ... Left knee injury that cost him three games in 2008 and sidelined him for the Senior Bowl and Scouting Combine is a significant concern.
Injury Report
2008: Suffered left knee cartilage damage and a torn meniscus vs. Louisville (11/14), missing the team's final three regular season games vs. Pittsburgh (11/22), Syracuse (11/29) and Hawaii (12/06).
2009: Pulled out of the Senior Bowl after his left knee experienced inflammation during practices, and was unable to work out at the Combine.
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I LOVE thin Rasam, with Pineapple which is also my fave fruit, it must tastes divine. Good one Lata.ReplyDelete
Pineapple rasam looks tempting..ReplyDelete
Pineapple rasam is one of my favorites and this one looks fantastic !ReplyDelete
Heard about this but never made....Nice one.Will this be sweet?ReplyDelete
Wonderful clicks.. nice rasam..ReplyDelete
Never had pineapple rasam..new for me...looks so gudReplyDelete
Pineapple and rasam?ReplyDelete
Must try this.
nice and flavourful rasam.ReplyDelete
wow!! wonderful combination for rasam.ReplyDelete
Never tried pineapple rasam,although love it. Have tasted in weddings only. Thanks for sharing,bookmarked and would definitely try soon.ReplyDelete
i always search for this rasam recipe when i buy pineapples from the market.but most of the time we end up eating it as such or sometimes i make salads.but for sure, next time going to try this out.nice clickReplyDelete
I too have a sour pine apple,will try this weekend! Nice recipe lata!ReplyDelete
Love pineapple rasam.., I do make it often H doesn't enjoy it much as it is little sweet, I make from nice ripe pinapples!!(should I say when ever I see a pineapple I don't check if it is sour or sweet, because I just love them :)), lovely click lataReplyDelete
Wonderful rasam and this is a favourite of mineReplyDelete
Welcome and thank you for taking time to drop by.
I appreciate your valuable comments and tips.
I sincerely hope to improve with them.
Hope we shall interact often.
Thanks once again,
Lata Raja.


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By: Hawk Ripjaw –
Who dares release a movie the weekend after a busy Thanksgiving packed with popular releases? Jason Blum dares.
As far as I'm concerned, Jason Blum has earned a free pass for life when it comes to the benefit of a doubt for movie trailers. No one is going to argue that The Boy Next Door was awful, but I will fight you to defend the notion that it was a meticulously calculated, deliberately awful erotic thriller.
For all of the brow-furrowing shittiness that occurs in the trailer for Incarnate, my hope grows that the people around me will start to understand that this is a subgenre we need more of in our lives. From what I'm gathering here, someone who is a big James Wan fan got high and watched Dreamscape and Inception back-to-back, and thought it would be cool to just…sorta…copy those movies. Aaron Eckhart plays a wheelchair-bound exorcist who doesn't use any conventional means to get rid of demons; he goes into the host's mind and helps them escape from their own mental prison. This is either going to be painfully bad, or hilariously terrible.
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I am an archaeologist and historian by profession and my passion for the past has, for the last 20 years at least, also extended to my own family history. I confess that most of my research over the years has been intermittent but I've still collected enough information to take a branch of my family tree back to the early 17th century. It might sound like I've cracked it but in reality I've barely scratched the surface and I realise that my best efforts to complete what I started will probably never happen. I actually don't mind. I'm sure some of my family, present and future, will take up the 'cause'.
I guess my interest gained a focus after taking an evening course in family history at Salisbury College in the 1980s. I decided to take a scatter gun approach to researching my ancestors, following every branch of the McConnell tree to avoid the disappointment of an abrupt cul de sac. I was encouraged to do this by the course leader who reminded the class that we are all equally descended from both our paternal and maternal sides and not just our father's lineage. Just as well as the McConnells fell into a hazy illegitimate blood line less than a hundred years ago!
My idea for this blog is to commit all my research both past and present to 'paper' and share this with my family and friends. They may be interested, they may not but I would like to think the story is interesting enough to merit an occasional read, if only to look at the family photos. For my part, I feel the need to record what I've found out so far, not because I'm rapidly becoming an ancestor myself but mostly because technology now allows anyone to publish their ramblings so easily and from literally anywhere (I'm writing this section on my iPhone in a hospital cafe in Salisbury and a back street cafe in Okehampton).
The great thing about family history for me is a sense of belonging and being connected in a world where modern life changes on an exponential scale. I strongly believe, rightly or wrongly, such a connection somehow anchors our lives and gives context to all the generations of ancestors that have gone before. To me, it's not about a race to go back into history as far as I can (despite my boast above) but to learn about the lives of my family – their hopes, their ambitions and sometimes, their fears and sorrow. I was lucky enough to get some information through my grandparents and other relations when they were alive who regaled me with their memories and recollections of their lives and those of their ancestors. I can't emphasise enough how my chats with them proved invaluable in helping shape a picture of family that I never knew but were connected to me. Sadly, I have more questions now than I did then and I fear that intimate knowledge of family will be lost forever. Still, I hope I have captured enough of these stories to do their memory justice.
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I learned some lessons when my first book was published. One of them is that a lot of people seem to prefer, if it's at all possible, a book that is signed by the author.
After Moonlight Sketches came out, I received countless emails and Facebook comments from people wondering where they could buy the book and, furthermore, where and how they could get it signed.
Buying is easy. Finton Moon, which officially releases next Tuesday, will be available at most Coles, Chapters, and Indigo stores throughout Canada. If your local bookstore doesn't carry it, you can just order it at the checkout. It will also be available from Amazon.ca (I'm not sure about Amazon.uk or Amazon.com in the US, but they have my books listed, so I'm assuming they'll be able to get it for you and deliver it). There are other outlets as well. Downhome stores (and their outlets) throughout Atlantic Canada will have it. That includes some airports, drugstores, and the occasional independent retail space. Moonlight Sketches was (and is) available in every province of Canada, and I assume the same will be true of Finton Moon.
For those who don't live in St. John's, however (the hub of the literary world--and I'm only partially joking), one of the easiest, safest, and quickest routes is by ordering directly from my publisher. The publisher's assistant, Pamela, tells me that it takes only 1-2 days to process and order and ship it out to whoever orders it. How long it takes after that depends on the mail system both in Canada and wherever you are. Could be rural Newfoundland, Atlantic Canada, Nunavut, or another country altogether. They've even been known to ship books to the U.S. as well as Europe and as far away as Australia. The costs will vary of course, as it often costs substantially more to ship to foreign countries or even to other provinces.
And then comes the issue of signing.
Sometimes, as a writer, I'm lucky enough to be able to visit cities, towns and bookstores outside of St. John's. Last year, I was able to go to Eastport and Halifax, for example. As much as I would love to travel more and promote my books, it's not economically feasible for me to travel extensively because it can get quite expensive both for me and my publisher. Sometimes, I might get invited to speak at a book fair or to do a special talk, and the costs will be covered by the host organization. But that still leaves quite a few people--often friends, relatives, acquaintances and innocent bystanders--who simply want a book and they want it signed.
Again, a lot of people wanted to know how they could get it signed; it's not really a monumental task. Some people write and say, "I'll be in the city, so can we meet somewhere so I get my book signed?" The fact is--and I don't mean to sound cold about it--I simply don't have time to meet everyone and sign their books personally. I wish I could. But I have an extremely busy life and only the closest of friends and family can really seriously ask this of me and have a reasonable expectation that I will be able to do it.
Others want me to go buy them a book and sign it and mail it to them. That's not only time-consuming but very costly. Even if you offer to pay me for it, there are challenges involved with your request. One is that I just don't have the time to do that (remember: it's not just you, but many other people who ask this favour). The other is that I'm lazy, and going out to buy books, then packaging them up, licking stamps and envelopes, and physically going to the post office as well--the mere thought of such physical labour is dizzying. I might as well have been a courier. Again, you see--it's not just you, but many others. I know I'm not a famous author (although a very kind bank teller recognized me this morning; alas, I didn't get any free banking and/or money from the transaction). But even John Irving's relatives wouldn't dare to email him and ask him to buy a book and mail it to them. I mean, we're writers so that we don't have to actually deal with real life, and that includes licking stamps. Most of the stamps I deal with wait an average of 6 to 8 weeks before they get licked. It takes another 2-3 weeks to get me to address an envelope (I write a lot, and so addressing envelopes is just another, albeit mundane, extension of that activity--more work, in other words), and another week of it sitting on my fridge before I even think to bring it to the post office. I'm not sure if that makes me very inefficient or extremely efficient, since I generally end up doing it all in one trip, ultimately--unless I forgot to buy stamps, which inevitably happens.
So, do us both a favour: if you want your book signed and you're unable to make it to the launch or to a book signing--where I will happily and gratefully sign your purchase--please take advantage of the following offer:
If you pre-order your book by the launch date (for practical purposes, by Monday, June 25 at noon), I will gladly sign it for you. Some generous and intelligent people have already done just that, and I thank them for that, with all my heart. I always appreciate it when someone spends their hard-earned money to buy not just my book, but any book, especially a book of fiction, which to some people is akin to Satanic--or, at the very least, useless--scribblings.
Just order it directly from the publisher: Creative Book Publishing, and I'll gladly make the trip to their office Monday afternoon to sign it and personalize it for you. After that date, I make no guarantees of being able to scribble my name on a page.
Signed, your grateful author, who is not nearly as (and yet is possibly even more) curmudgeonly as (or than) this whole thing makes me sound,


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No word if the White Sox catcher will pay for the new windshield.
Chicago White Sox catcher Geovany Soto crushed his seventh home run of the season and the windshield of a car parked just outside of Fenway Park paid the price.
The blast came in the seventh inning when Soto sent a pitch from the Red Sox's Justin Masterson soaring over the the Green Monster in leftfield. No word if Soto has agreed to pay for the car's damage.
Soto is not the only White Sox player doing damage with his bat as the team is riding a six-game winning streak while outscoring opponents 45-17. The White Sox sit in third place of the American League Central with their 48-50 record.
Geovany Soto's home run from earlier demolished a windshield. #WhiteSox pic.twitter.com/lN8NlVzjkk— joon (@joonlee) July 29, 2015
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To the Editor:
The new and the supposedly very much improved tax bill is about done and already people from both sides of the aisle are complaining, as are many news people and some ill-informed media types.
No surprises there, how soon we forget.
Washington is awash with people that are paid big dollars to influence what the politicians say and do once they are elected.
They rarely do what "We the People" ask them to do, which should not be any surprise to anyone who has lived here for a while.
Why do you think they don't like Trump?
To be honest, I'm kind of disappointed that they didn't make it as simple as they said they were going to do, but not surprised since the influence peddlers from the well-paid "tax consultants" don't want to lose their business.
I guess something is better than nothing. Which is what we usually get from our elected officials. Unless it's some law that makes the rich and famous or the political cronies more wealthy and us poorer because of higher taxes.
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A couple years ago my parents bought a new refrigerator for their basement. While it's probably better to not have a second fridge, we won't get into that argument here. The only issue with their purchase is that the door, to this day, swings the wrong way.
To make matters worse, it sits in a corner with a desk placed a few feet in front of it, so opening the door wide enough to actually reach anything is always a pain.
For the longest time I thought there was nothing that could be done, but it turns out I was wrong. Like most top-freezer refrigerators, all you need to do is reverse the doors.
The process is surprisingly simple and only takes about 20 minutes. Here all the steps needed to do it yourself.
1. Unplug your fridge and empty the door shelves.
The last thing you want is to remove the doors and have a bounty of eggs, jars, and condiments make a mess all over your floor. It's also a good idea to unplug the fridge so it won't waste energy trying to stay cool without the doors on.
2. Gather your tools.
Most likely you will only need a few tools—a ratchet wrench, a Philips head screwdriver, and a flat-head screwdriver. You'll use these to remove the screws, bolts, and plastic coverings on the fridge.
3. Remove the top bracket of the fridge.
This step is fairly straight-forwarded. If there's a plastic covering over the bracket, just pop it off. Then remove the bolts holding it down. After that, the bracket should lift right off.
4. Remove the freezer door.
At this point, you should be able to lift the freezer door right off the middle bracket. Just remove it and set it aside for the time being.
5. Remove the middle bracket and door hinge.
Unscrew the hinge from the bracket using your ratchet wrench and set it aside. Then begin removing the screws from the bracket. In order to get at them, you might need to pull off the fridge door. And thanks to the lack of a hinge, it will come off very easily.
6. Remove the fridge door.
If you haven't already, lift the fridge door off the bottom hinge and set it aside.
7. Change the position of the bottom bracket and hinge.
Now that both doors have been removed, it's time to move the bottom bracket and hinge to the opposite side of the fridge. Simply unscrew the hinge and remove the bolts holding the bracket on. Then, reattach the bracket on the other side and screw the hinge back in. Make sure it's placed in the hole on the bracket that is farthest from the fridge.
Some fridges may also have additional brackets on the doors. Just make sure to switch them to the other side.
8. Move the door handles to the other side.
On each door, there should be screws holding the handles in place—sometimes they are hidden by plastic coverings. Remove them and the handles should easily come off. Once you've removed the handles, uncover the screw holes on the opposite sides of the doors and screw the handles back in. Use the plastic coverings to hide the old screw holes, and make sure to swap the coverings over the hinge holes.
9. Put the fridge door back on.
This step is pretty simple, just sit the door on the bottom hinge. There's nothing more to it.
10. Reattach the middle bracket and door hinge on the other side.
Screw in the bracket on the other side, moving the fridge door as necessary to get the screws in. Some sites say you may need to invert the hinge when you screw it in, but our test fridge here at Reviewed.com didn't require that additional step.
11. Put the freezer door back on.
Sit the door on the middle hinge and you'll be ready for the final step.
12. Reattach the top bracket.
Once you've put the bolts back in, open the doors and make sure they swing shut easily. And with that, you're all done! Now you can plug your fridge back in, restock it, and say goodbye to that awkwardly positioned fridge door.
These steps might vary depending on the make and model of refrigerator, but the idea is generally the same. Just check your fridge's instruction manual for information about the process. Now, go fix your refrigerator!


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Most US corporate security officers share a common strategic role. But operationally, the duties of those filling such positions — whether the title is chief security officer (CSO), chief information security officer (CISO) or something else — are as diverse as the IT industry itself, according to a panel of security executives.
Gathering here in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, at the fifth annual International Techno-Security Conference, the panel painted a picture of a set of corporate positions that are still in their embryonic stages despite their high profile. Although the strategic role of enhancing brand value and supporting business decisions provided common ground for the panelists, they found little in common otherwise.
Jeff Reich is director of information security at Interland, an Atlanta-based Web hosting company, as well as the former architect of security programs at Dell Computer and online payment vendor Checkfree. His role has differed at each company, he said.
"When I was at Dell, we really focused on protecting intellectual property," said Reich. "When I was at CheckFree, our main focus was on privacy and protecting the integrity of the transactions. And now at Interland, my focus is to provide all of those things to our customers."
Mary Ann Davidson, CSO at Oracle, said her role is still in flux. "I will be moving in the reporting structure to the chief technical officer/chief corporate architect, which is a development organisation one level below (CEO) Larry Ellison," Davidson said. "That will actually give me more authority."
At Oracle, that means being able to stop a product from shipping if it fails to meet certain security standards.
Ron Baklarz, CISO at the American Red Cross, said he spends a lot of time supporting the organisation's physical security and legal departments.
"We have a lot of issues internally," Baklarz said, referring to insider abuse and potential fraud cases that require investigation. And it is in that area that Baklarz's role as CISO differs greatly from many others. Baklarz has a background in forensics, and because of budget issues he takes it upon himself to conduct most of the preliminary internal investigations throughout the organisation's 1000 chapters.
But doing such work in-house can cause problems. "One of the things you need to be careful about is that if something bad happens, you're going to need separation of function that will be very difficult to obtain" if forensics is in-house, Davidson said. Companies need to be able to show that there was no conflict of interests in the investigation.
Avoiding potential conflicts in the corporate reporting structure is another area where the role of the CISO has yet to be ironed out completely. Baklarz, for example, said he has reservations about reporting to the CIO.
"I have mixed emotions about that," he said. "In building a new security program, it doesn't matter that much. But I can't sit here and say that I haven't had any situations where I felt there was a conflict of interest where (the CIO) had to make a decision that I felt was incorrect and he went off and followed the business (logic)."
Tim McKnight, chief information assurance officer at Northrup Grumman in Herndon, Viginia., said there's been a tendency in the current organisational model at some companies to allow technology to drive the decision of who reports to whom. "It would be very advantageous if you could report directly into the board of directors," McKnight said.
One way companies could avoid conflicts is to give the CISO a dotted line in the organisation chart to the audit committee, which would "give them the ability to have the last word" on security issues that are relevant to business decisions, said Joyce Brocaglia, CEO of Alta Associates, a Flemington, New Jersey-based executive search firm focusing on security professionals.
The role of the CISO comes down to being able to forge partnerships, said Brocaglia.
"The person that is best suited for the role of CISO is not necessarily the most technical person on board, but rather the person who understands risk, the person who can sell upward, the person who really has the soft skills, who's gone to charm school and can communicate a broad enterprisewide perspective about security," she said. "That's what corporations are starting to ask for."
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The FCC proposed rules that would require multi-channel video programming distributors (MVPDs) to supply certain programming information in formats that conform to specifications set by open standards bodies. The FCC published an Initial Regulatory Flexibility Analysis (IRFA) with its proposal, but did not attempt to quantify the impact that the rule would have on small MVPDs.
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I just took Jack to get new shoes. He is 9. He now wears the same size as me. Any guesses on how big his feet will get and how tall he'll be?
28 February 2010
big foot
I just took Jack to get new shoes. He is 9. He now wears the same size as me. Any guesses on how big his feet will get and how tall he'll be?
Posted by leigh at 4:33 PM 6 comments
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22 February 2010
I was lazy today, but then I made up for it
This morning I hung out with Dan until 10:30. Then I called my bff from 20 years ago and we talked on the phone for an embarrassingly long amount of time. When it was almost time for the kids to come home from school I figured I'd better get something done today.
So I built a shelf to go under my sink, cleaned the bottom shelf (I have never cleaned it in 5 years of living here, but Dan probably has) and organized all the stuff under there. There's even extra space!
After all the stuff had a place to go I cleaned the bathroom! It is my most hated job of all time, but I did it. It may never happen again.
Then I decided that the broom closet/cleaning closet needed some cleaning and organizing. So I cleaned it and organized it. Amazing. It looks so lovely (as lovely as a cleaning closet can look).
Finally, I made dinner for the boys (thank goodness for frozen burritos - I'll have to get some more of those.) Have I told you how Charlie requests "brocamole" nearly every day? That's all he ate.
I got even more stuff done after that, but I can't show it to you yet.
I feel like this post needs a photo but I can't think of a good one. Sorry.
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13 February 2010
Next up
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Labels: my projects, my quilts
12 February 2010
wonky star quilt finished (finally!)
Posted by leigh at 5:59 PM 9 comments
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11 February 2010
destashing a bit
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And here are my chess-playing grandma and grandpa (stole this photo from my cousin's blog).
Posted by leigh at 9:00 PM 3 comments
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08 February 2010
loving this fabric
Today some of this fabric came in the mail. Isn't it beautiful? And it was only $4.99 a yard. Go here if you want to buy some of your own. I did some more looking around today too and it came in a few other colors. I know of at least 5 that I am missing (a bright green, a bright turquoise, another yellow, hot pink, and lavender). Do you know of any other colors?
Posted by leigh at 8:09 PM 1 comments
new quilt and chocolate cake
So I have started on Luke's twin quilt (since he now sleeps on the bottom bunk with Charlie and is no longer a baby sleeping in his little crib.) I have gone back and forth and back and forth on which fabric to use for this quilt. When I found those stripes for the binding I knew exactly what to do. I love those Heather Ross dogs so much.
Here are all the fabrics. I even used some of my Flea Market Fancy stash (but only a little). And there's the binding again on the bottom. The finished quilt will look something like this or this.
I made this lovely chocolate cake for Dan's birthday. It sat untouched until just before we were ready to cut into it. And then Luke did this to it. (The recipe I used is the one on the Hershey's cocoa box but I substituted Cadbury cocoa for Hershey's cocoa. Not sure it was necessary.)
Posted by leigh at 10:49 AM 7 comments
04 February 2010
adoption help
If you read this blog through a reader, I just wanted to let you know that I posted a new link on my sidebar. It is for my cousin and his family, who are looking for a baby to adopt. If you click on the button, it takes you to their blog. If you ever hear of any babies looking for a good home, I hope you'll consider this great family. Thanks!
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03 February 2010
getting along
A few days ago I taught Jack how to make his own scrambled eggs with cheese. The next day he was in there teaching Sam and Charlie how to do it. Everyone had a job and they all cleaned it up after!
Sam grated the cheese.
Jack and Charlie both cracked eggs. Jack stirred and Sam and Charlie sprinkled the cheese in.
Sam and Luke sitting in front of the heat register. Everyone loves to sit in front of it when it's blowing warm air, but it's most often Sam. And he usually has a blanket too.
Charlie and Luke laying in Luke's bed. Charlie's reading Luke Little Critter. He has ALL of the Little Critter books we have memorized.
02 February 2010
I may have figured it out
After I got done posting my last post (about feeling blah) I thought, "what if I were more thankful?" I'm sure it would help. So I started a gratitude journal (something I've been meaning to do for years.) The ideas came too fast to write down. I got to 55 things in no time. And you know what? I had a really good day today. I mostly worked on the taxes like Sara suggested. Which I wasn't too excited about. But the whole time I kept thinking, "It will be so great to get a return" and it made it so much easier to do. I even got them finished!
Here are a few samples from my list:
1. This print (on the front of my new journal)
2. The winter cold because it lets me have tulips in the spring.
40. Warm blankets
41. babies
43. blue and orange together
47. butter
48. cheese
49. cows
50. dairy farmers
I would like to keep writing in it every day.
As for what I did today - I did not really get outside (except to get into my friends car to go to a meeting). I did eat a salad and some sweet potatoes, so that's good. No sewing, no reading (maybe after this). Did not read with Sam, but did play Go Fish with all the boys. And scripture study did not happen (maybe before I read tonight.)
So thanks for the ideas and the validation. I'm sorry anyone has to have the winter blahs but it's nice to know I'm not the only one.
Posted by leigh at 8:47 PM 4 comments
I have been feeling so blah on and off for the last month or so. Maybe it's just from everything being grey and cold, but I'm getting sick of it.
I'm always telling the boys that they were not put on this earth to spend all their time playing video games and watching TV. But sometimes I sit here wondering what is the best thing I could be doing with my time. I don't spend much time on TV (though I do spend lots of time on the computer). I spend much of my time making things in an effort to do something that makes me happy. But it sometimes backfires and doesn't make me happy at all. Of course, I also spend my time keeping house, hanging out with the hubs, playing with the kids (chess and scrabble junior lately). But I feel like I am missing something entirely that could make me happier. Is it exercise? Studying? Dusting off a former talent (like drawing or playing piano)? Laughing more? Spending more time with friends? What is it?
Maybe I need to get outside, maybe that's the problem. Or maybe it just needs to warm up.
Because of the blah I really have nothing to show you. Yesterday I got everyone in the car to take the kids to school only to find that my battery was dead. I got it jumped fairly quickly and then spent a while driving around.
Later on I was off to meet a friend for lunch (with kids) when I ran into a curb trying to do a U turn and punctured my tire. It was only 7 blocks to the tire place so I drove there. It took about 10 minutes because I had to go so slow. It turns out that if you have 4 wheel drive you can't just replace one tire because it messes up the gears. So I had to buy all 4 tires. Awesome. Luckily my lunch friend came to get me and we still went to lunch (and the kids were perfect).
When I got home I thought I'd do some sewing. So I started on the church bag I've been wanting to make. I used a pattern and tried to change it a bit. It turned out awful. Too long, not wide enough. I don't even think I can reuse the fabric for the bag. I'll have to start all over. So after that I just read blogs all night until bed time. In a bad mood.
When I woke up this morning I wondered what I should do today. Here's what I came up with.
1. Try to get outside (even if it's just down the block and back).
2. Eat lots of vegetables and fruits (instead of cookies and junk, which always make me feel worse.)
3. Sewing? Not sure. I kind of only want to do something familiar that won't get me frustrated.
4. Reading? Maybe.
5. Already did the dishes. That's good.
6. Read with Sam (who is home sick).
7. Do something with Charlie and Luke
8. Scripture study.
Maybe those things combined will make me feel a little happier. Maybe you have a good suggestion. If so - leave me a comment - I'd love some more ideas.
p.s. How could I be feeling blah when I get to be married to this guy? Partly because he's out of town and I miss him. But certainly happy he's coming back soon and that he has a job.
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My notes for the Viva La Juicy product display:
Target market: Viva La Juicy is from the brand Juicy Couture which is aimed at young modern women. The target market for Viva La Juicy specifically would be even slightly younger from ages 15-25 years old.
Pattern of display:
Triangle: a rise has been used to create a slight triangle shape which draws the eye level up, shows off the product more than being flat
Overlap: elements in the display overlap slightly which brings them together as a group, the eye continues throughout the display
Steps: steps have been created with the use of books as a rise that gradually heightens, with the product displayed on top
Zig zag: a zig zag shape has been made between the product displayed on the book rise, the eye jumps between, bringing the eye upward
- hot pink being the main colour used for the product, it's designed to attract attention of young, feminine, independent girls which love the unique bottle with the big pink bow
- the bottle appearance also coordinates with the sweet smelling scent
- the touches of gold are to add richness and luxury to the brand
- here white is used to act as empty space, to balance out the use of bright colours
- together the use of pink, gold and white creates a strong sense of femininity, youthfulness and excitement
Display style
- the style would be considered to be a trend display style
- based on its use of current colour trends and young target market, its creating an exciting and colourful display which is visually appealing
- the backdrop created for this display is bold yet doesn't distract attention away from the featured product with its use of white as empty space as a balance
- the bold stripes were working off the idea of slightly quirky and representing a carnival inspired appearance, coming in to checks at the centre to confuse the eye and create an illusion
- an asymmetrical balance has been used with the main product display box on the left side being balanced with the different shapes of the separate levels on the right side


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When you think about all the stuff that goes into what we think of as "Windows Phone 8.1," the reality is that a bunch of it isn't even part of the OS. There's the Cyan firmware update for Lumia users, of course, which adds a ton of new features of its own. There are various new and improved Microsoft and Nokia apps. And then there's a Live Lock Screen app that Microsoft promised to deliver all the way back in April. Well, it's finally here in beta form.
To be fair, Live Lock Screen (the app) does in fact technically take advantage of a new Windows Phone 8.1 "feature," in that this version of the OS has new APIs that make it possible for apps to customize the lock screen in previously impossible ways, by creating animated, interactive lock screen themes. For now, Live Lock Screen is the only app available that can access these APIs. But Microsoft says it will open up the APIs later so that any app maker can make their own apps that can change the lock screen theme.
Oddly, Live Lock Screen was the very first Windows Phone 8.1 "feature" that we saw when Joe Belfiore showed off the OS during the day one keynote address. He played around with the Live Lock Screen-customized lock screen before doing a short demo of the new Action Center.
But then he launches into the lock screen stuff.
"The second thing we've done to make Windows Phone 8.1 even more personal is a feature that lets you greatly personalize your lock screen," Mr. Belfiore said emphatically. "In Windows Phone 8, we had support so applications could put an image behind lock. But in Windows Phone 8.1, we've implemented a new set of APIs for the lock screen, which we're using (just) ourselves for a little while, before we publish them all to you. These APIs enable lock screen experiences that are highly interactive, where the application can take full control and really render whatever it would like."
"As the first app to use these (APIs), we've been collaborating with Rudy Huyn, star Windows Phone developer. He's been working with us to build out a first party experience which we, Microsoft, are going to publish in the store in the coming months to give users a wide range of highly varied lock screen themes."
Belfiore then showed off a few of the themes they had worked up. Flash forward almost four months, and now everyone with Windows Phone 8.1 can check out this app and customized their own lock screens according to the available themes.
A few notes about the app.
It's buggy. I've already had it crash twice, which sends the lock screen back to whatever design you configured in Settings, Lock Screen.
It's a standalone app. This app does not change the Lock Screen settings at all. There's no indication there that you're basically overriding whatever settings you make in that interface.
There are only a handful of themes. I don't think there's a single theme in the app I hadn't seen before. There are only six in total.
You can use the built-in style (kind of a blue sky with clouds) or use the Bing image of the day as the background, or you can pick from different backgrounds, including the stock Windows Phone lock screen backgrounds. That's a nice touch, and you can stack up different backgrounds and rotate through them on a schedule.
There isn't much variety. The themes are in fact static when you're looking at them. The "interactive" bit comes when you go to swipe the lock screen away: Each theme provides some kind of animated exit, and while some are kind of cool, most are simple fades.
As a proof of concept, this is a pretty good start. But I can't imagine why this took so long, nor can I explain why Microsoft has chosen to promote and work with an outside programmer on such a thing. The app is decent, or would be if it worked reliably. But I'm looking forward to getting some real star programmers on these APIs. I have a feeling we're going to see much better lock screen theme apps than this in the future.
You can download Microsoft Lock Screen Beta for Windows Phone 8.1 from the Windows Phone Store.


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" I can't even!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You are amazing EMILY!!!!!! " Ashley
"I cannot even deal with how beautiful those photos are. I cannot WAIT to see them all! You are truly a dream to work with. Thank you for everything. You chose the perfect locations for all photos, from first look, to family, to sunset pics. Thank you for your flexibility with timeline, etc. Thank you for getting to know them, and not just being their photographer. You have an amazing gift of art in your photography {obviously!} but also with people! If I ever do any weddings in the future, I would love to work with you again." planner from a 2016 wedding
" We love them! Your photography skills are so amazing & I'm loving all the details of the day you captured. There was so much I didn't get to see or notice because of the pace of it all & your pictures remind me of how lovely everything was!" Lauren
"Emily, we seriously loooved having you as our photographer! You made everything so easy and comfortable for us from day 1 at our engagement session! All of the pictures you have produced have been nothing short of amazing. We had the best day celebrating and we look forward to seeing the shots that you captured! Honestly, I'm sad it's all over because we won't be seeing each other anytime soon. I might just have to drive to Charleston when the day comes for baby pictures!" Stephanie
"Emily we absolutely love the pictures…..I can't tell you enough what an amazing job you did. They captured the true spirit of our pure joy as a family and at one of our favorite locations to visit. I can't wait for you to capture more of our future vacations as the twins grow. Thank you for such a beautiful memory." Melissa
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Why you should never avoid breakfast:
- Breakfast improves your metabolism: Your blood sugar level drops down in the morning. You need food that can provide you energy to get through the morning.
- Keeps you on track if you're looking to lose weight: Researchers have found that those who eat breakfast tend to maintain and lose weight. Though people skip breakfast in the hope of losing weight they tend to eat more during lunch or even choose unhealthier options later on which results into weight gain.
- Helps to maintain insulin response: Skipping meals leads to a hyper insulin response when calories are consumed later on. That means the level of insulin in blood results into fat accumulation.
- Helps perform better at work/school: Hungry employees and students don't do any good at work/school. When you are hungry you are irritable and disinterested which reflects on your work too.
- Burns those calories early: If you have breakfast you can burn those calories early! How is that? Well, instead of going hungry till lunch and then eating something loaded with calories with fewer hours left in the day to burn it consider refueling yourself early and getting enough time to burn those calories.
- Skipping breakfast can make you grumpy: Oh yes! If you have been skipping breakfast and are in a bad mood, you probably should know why. Not having breakfast makes you grouchy. You might not even realize it and keep wondering why you're so irritable!
Stay full, Stay happy!
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The area around China Basin and Mission Bay has developed rapidly from being a destination for Giants games into a full-fledged neighborhood, with new commercial and residential construction, and a whole assortment of restaurants and bars frequented by locals and visitors alike. Just far enough from AT&T Park to avoid high-volume pregame and postgame traffic, Tsunami is most favored by the young professionals who live nearby. Tsunami features an interesting quirk: While it has a large sake list, it specializes in high-end, hard-to-find gin. With that in mind, bar manager Robert Pace has compiled a unique list of gin cocktails with a distinctive Japanese touch.
Tsunami Mission Bay, 301 King St. Suite B, San Francisco, (415) 284-0111
Why gin? This is the second Tsunami [the other is located at 1306 Fulton St.], and that's primarily a sake place. They have the largest selection in The City. The other restaurant, Nihon [1779 Folsom St.] is almost all whiskey. Here we wanted to have a fusion of everything. So we sat down with the owner and decided gin seemed like a local choice. It's such an up and coming spirit. It's come a long way in the last five years.
What else do you have here? We do a little bit of everything. Because of Nihon, we get a lot of whiskeys you wouldn't normally be able to get.
What do you like? Whiskey is my first choice. I like Eagle Rare, which is a five-time double-gold winner at the San Francisco World Spirits Competition. I work at Nihon on Saturday nights, which is pure whiskey. Here, we try to balance everything. One popular trend now is that people are combining spirits. What's the clientele like? The majority is from the neighborhood like young professionals who commute to Silicon Valley because we're near Caltrain. It's not a crazy crowd and we don't have Bud Light or draft beer. We get local business people for lunch and we get a lot of people who come in for a nightcap.
What do you like to drink and where? I like bourbon with a splash of ginger ale or a classic Old Fashioned — not one with a muddled orange or cherry. I like to go to Bloodhound [1145 Folsom St.], Toronado [547 Haight St.] and 15 Romolo, which is the best cocktail bar in The City. I've also been to Churchill [198 Church St.], which just opened.
What do you like about bartending? Besides the hours, the people. I love it. It's a lot of fun. So many people are scared of gin and I like opening people up to new experiences. We have a good amount of regulars and one guy adores gin. He's my test mule. Part of the fun is the chemistry side and the combinations that work best. I love classics, but I like to toy with things myself.
Is this a sports bar? We always have the Giants games on, but we don't [have the sound on]. When the Giants are playing, it's pretty nuts out there. This is a nice mellow bar. It's kind of like the hidden gem of the neighborhood.
Does gin work with sushi? Gin is such a light and clean spirit and it pairs well with fish.
Slap mint with hand or bruise gently with muddler, add liquids and shake all ingredients. Double strain and serve with Matcha green tea and sugar the rim.


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Published on June 15th, 2013 | by Important Media Cross-Post27
Japan Debuts New Maglev Train
June 15th, 2013 by Important Media Cross-Post
This article first appeared on Gas2.org
by Andrew Meggison
Central Japan Railway has tested the newest Maglev L0 Train, and the results are promising. The train is expected to carry 1,000 passengers and can travel up to 311 MPH, allowing the new train to travel over 200 miles from Tokyo to Nagoya in 40 minutes.
Maglev trains are basically trains held up by magnets. Maglev is derived from magnetic levitation with Maglev referring to the vehicle and the "track" system. The train does not sit on a track but rather hovers in the air and this cuts down on friction, wear and tear on the train, sound, and you get an increase in speed. Maglev trains are also referred to more commonly as bullet trains.
So why do we not have these space aged trains everywhere? Well, they require a lot of safety monitoring, the systems are expensive, and it turns out consumers get a little freaked out traveling on a floating platform at over 300 miles per hour.
Japan was the first country to introduce Maglev trains and use them as a tool of mass transportation. The Japan's first use of this technology was during the 1964 Olympics and the train traveled at 130 miles per hour. China uses Maglev trains and currently the Chinese Maglev trainhas a top speed of 286 miles per hour. That means when the new Japanese system in up in running around 2027 it should be the fastest train in the world with a top speed of 311 miles per hour.
Meanwhile, America struggles to get trains to go over 100 mph. At this rate it will only take us another 50 years to catch up with Japan.


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Executive summaries must be submitted by all teams on April 3, 2012. The Investment Round, trade-show style event, is on April 25, 2012. Advancing teams must submit a full business plan on May 17, 2012. The "Sweet Sixteen" Round and the Final Round of the Business Plan Competition will take place on May 24, 2012 on UW's campus in Seattle, Washington. That evening there is an awards dinner at Bell Harbor in downtown Seattle.
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Detailed prize information for the 2012 business plan competition has not yet been released. Last year, prizes totaled over $140,000.
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The devil's in the data: How rape culture shapes rape stats
If you follow debates about sexualized violence in the United States or elsewhere, in war or in peace, then you've probably heard at least some of the following statistical (or quasi-statistical) claims about patterns of rape: One in three U.S. women has been sexually assaulted. Seventy-five per cent of Liberian women were raped during the civil war there. Sexualized violence is declining (or increasing). Intra-military rape in the U.S. is down. Wartime rape is always a weapon of war. Unfortunately, none of these claims can actually be defended, at least not with numbers.
I have researched rape reporting and the interpretation of rape statistics for several years. I've learned a lot about the dynamics of rape reporting; in the process, I've come to see problems with rape numbers as a microcosm of our problem with rape. We ask the wrong questions. We make the wrong generalizations. We ignore complexity and uncertainty, and in doing so we privilege certain stories and erase others.
Asking the wrong questions
Rape statistics gleaned from police reports and other self-report sources are biased—usually not politically or intentionally, but in the statistical sense. In addition to dramatically undercounting rape, they overrepresent some victims and underrepresent others. We just don't know which victims, or by how much.
One thing we do know: Despite an avalanche of media attention to every false claim of rape, the number of rape cases that go unreported dwarfs—to the point of meaninglessness—the number of false reports.
Let's take the example of the U.S.:
A conservative U.S. Department of Justice 2010 survey estimate suggests there were about 270,000 rapes in the country that year. Fewer than 85,000 were reported to police. And, according to one study aimed at rooting out false reports of rape, "methodologically rigorous research" finds that 2 to 8 percent of reports are false. Even if the number of false reports were as high as 10 percent, we'd be talking about 8,500 false reports and 185,000 non-reports. Now think about the fact that rape is underreported on surveys as well as in police reports, and the pointlessness of complaining about false reports begins to emerge.
Survey data are less biased than self-reports, but they're hardly airtight. A study published in 2009 found that changes in survey question wording led to a tenfold difference in reports of past-year rape victimization (as opposed to lifetime victimization), from about two per 1,000 to about 20 per 1,000 among U.S. college women. There are about 7 million full-time female college students in this country, so that's the difference between 14,000 rapes and 140,000. (Police data, by contrast, showed 459 forcible rape cases at U.S. universities in 2009, a number I got by downloading the FBI's Uniform Crime Report data and summing across all universities.)
Of course, the problem goes beyond not knowing how many reports there are and aren't. We don't know which victims are underrepresented—and we often don't think to ask, Whose story is missing here?—which means we're prone to false generalizations.
Making the wrong generalizations
Even the best survey estimates probably represent a minimum number of rapes—so it takes a truly gigantic leap of misinterpretation to arrive at an overestimate. Harvard University Assistant Professor Dara Kay Cohen and I investigated Nicholas Kristof's claim that 75 percent of Liberian women were raped during civil war there. Kristof, eager to show that rape was an emergency in Liberia, had mangled the evidence, generalizing from a study of sexual assault survivors to all Liberian women.
To be clear, rape was absolutely an emergency in Liberia. Depending on which survey you read, 20 to 40 percent of Liberian women report suffering some form of sexualized violence. The problem, beyond simple inaccuracy, is that Kristof's false generalization defined sexualized violence as "the problem" for Liberian women. Like many of our false generalizations about rape, that's conveniently simple—but in painting women as rape victims, it erases bigger and more complicated stories about war, violence, displacement, and survival.
On surveys and via police, hospitals, and other sources, female victims report more frequently than male victims; the rich report more frequently than the poor. Better educated people are more likely to report, as are victims who suffer more serious physical injury from their attacks. Increasing reports of rape may represent increased rape—or they could simply represent a change in reporting dynamics. Maybe there's a new female police officer. Maybe this year's survey enumerators are better trained. Frustratingly, it's almost never a good idea to make strong inferences from data on patterns of rape, whether those patterns are temporal, demographic, or geographic.
For example, in 2012, the Department of Defense invested about $15 million in its Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office (SAPRO). In its 2010 report, SAPRO congratulated itself on a decline in reported sexualized violence between 2006 and 2010. But as others have noted, these results can't be trusted. Leaving aside questions of political motivation, the 2010 survey had an overall response rate around 30 percent (just 15 percent among enlisted men, about 30 percent among enlisted women, up to about 60 percent of officers of both genders). Across several studies, the number of women veterans reporting sexualized violence ranges from 4 percent to 71 percent, depending on precisely how sexualized violence is defined and how the question is asked. I can think of a dozen reasons for that four-year decline that aren't "less rape."
It's not that we can't say anything about patterns. But it's worse than useless to report numbers or patterns as if they were Just True. Our immediate question should be: Precisely where do these data come from? What reporting dynamics might be underneath the patterns we (think we) see in the data? Whose stories are missing, and why?
Ignoring complexity
I've seen an uptick in overgeneralization from limited data recently, and it's not limited to arguments about numbers or patterns. UK Foreign Secretary William Hague's laudable initiative to fight wartime rape comes attached—less laudably—to the assertion that wartime rape has a single strategic cause. In his January 28 Huffington Post piece, Hague writes: "From Bosnia to Somalia, Sierra Leone to the DRC, and Rwanda to Libya, sexual violence has been used to terrorise and destroy communities…" and goes on to say that it is violence "used as a military tactic." While rape and sexualized violence certainly terrorizes and destroys, the assertion here—that wartime rape is the result of military strategy across conflicts, groups, and times—is just plain wrong.
Ignoring variation in the patterns and causes of wartime rape means ignoring complexity, and blindness to complexity is precisely the opposite of what is needed in places like Syria, where the available evidence suggests that rape is a mix of small-group opportunism and a somewhat more organized detention-based torture tactic, and that different armed groups are perpetrating different levels and types of assaults.
We're not going to make a dent in the problem by ignoring armed groups that don't rape, or groups in which dynamics at the sub-group level (rather than top-down orders) play a major role, or by viewing all wartime rape through Bosnia-colored glasses.
The way we classify wartime rape can have an impact on how we hold people accountable, too. Calling rape a "weapon of war" implies that there is a top-down strategy involved, that a commander said, "Go forth and rape." The reality, though, is that it doesn't usually happen this way—and that commanders who quietly tolerate rape ought to be held accountable, too. Thinking of rape as strategic—rather than as a witches' brew of strategy, military socialization, small-group dynamics, command toleration, and battle trauma—won't aid policies aimed at prevention. Nor, in the end, will it aid accountability. We could spend years searching for a smoking gun in a conflict like Syria's, while rapists and the officers who condoned their behavior go free.
What to do
None of this is to say that we can't learn anything about numbers, patterns, or causes of sexualized violence. In a short 2011 book I co-authored with Francoise Roth, director of the Colombian NGO Corporación Punto de Vista, and Tamy Guberek, a colleague at the U.S. nonprofit Human Rights Data Analysis Group, we made several key recommendations. The most important, in my opinion, is that researchers of sexualized violence use multiple research methods, complementing numbers with narratives and vice versa. In fact, our numbers should have narratives. Having a clear sense of the origins of our data—knowing the survey questions, thinking through the sampling strategy, considering access to reporting mechanisms, looking for holes in the net—can protect us from the worst of our interpretive excesses.
Why does this matter? Obviously, getting it right is key to prevention and accountability efforts. Ultimately, the goal is less rape, not just more awareness, and the way we approach evidence affects the policies we put in place. On a more fundamental level, though, I am convinced that getting it right is a respect issue. Looking at rape data and asking the wrong questions (or overgeneralizing, or ignoring complexity) is akin to looking at a rape survivor and doing the same. I want to be sure we do better for the women and men who have already suffered enough.
For more on how researchers and the media struggle with stats on sexualized violence, click here.
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