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Football Team Plays Its Way Into History• November 3, 2006 Share:
The 75 men who boarded two charter buses bound for Granville, Ohio Friday are driving into Wabash College football history.
They will continue a Wabash tradition that began in the fall of 1884 when Wabash played and won the first intercollegiate football game in the state of Indiana.
They will play in the 1,000th football game in school history.
"I hope the players and coaches realize the historical significance of Saturday's game," said former sports information director Jim Amidon. "I hope they understand and value the moment, and that they long-remember playing in the 1,000th Wabash football game."
"It's special — a special opportunity," echoed Head Coach Chris Creighton.
Should the Little Giants defeat the feisty Big Red of Denison, they'll capture for Wabash its 575th all-time win, which ranks among the top 10 in NCAA Division III.
They will also continue the Wabash tradition of pursuing championships.
In 1886, Wabash beat Franklin and Hanover to win the state's first collegiate championship. Now, 120 years later, Wabash hopes to defeat Denison to capture at least a share of — and possibly an outright — North Coast Athletic Conference Championship, which would be the team's second straight title and third overall.
Wittenberg University, which hosts Allegheny College Saturday, needs a win to keep pace with Wabash. Should the Tigers defeat Allegheny, they have only a season ending game at Hiram standing in the way of a co-championship with the Little Giants. And because Wittenberg, which already has lost to Ohio Wesleyan, defeated Wabash head-to-head, the Tigers would earn the league's automatic berth in the NCAA tournament field.
Wabash enters the Denison match-up with a good head of steam. The team pounded Oberlin two weeks ago and last week dispatched Wooster in a hard-fought 20-10 home field victory.
Wabash's defense, which has played well in three straight games, will be tested by Denison running backs Fred Lee and Jon Berg, both of whom topped 200 yards in last week's win over Kenyon, Denison's second win of the year. Lee has rushed for 738 yards and eight touchdowns, while Berg has 554 yards and three scores to his credit.
Where Denison appears vulnerable is quarterback. Injuries have created a bit of a revolving door at the position, where three players have earned starts this year. All have struggled, completing just 46.6 percent of their passes and combining for 16 interceptions in 193 attempts.
Click here for more Denison statistics.
Defensively, the Big Red defense allows 24.5 points per game, but just 322 yards per game. They've also gotten good pressure on the quarterback and average almost three sacks per game.
Wabash is likely to do what it has done over the last few weeks: rely heavily on the arm and strong legs of quarterback Dustin Huff (pictured above right).
Huff is averaging more than 280 yards passing per game and is the team's second leading rusher. Twice this season he's led the team in rushing, scoring four times, and he's tossed 25 touchdown passes.
He'll no doubt keep his eyes on steady receiver Mike Russell (left), who leads the team with 42 catches and 11 touchdowns. Billy King, too, is likely to get plenty of touches after a strong second-half effort last week against Wooster. King leads the team in rushing with 422 yards and three touchdowns, and has 13 receptions.
Click here for more Wabash statistics.
Kickoff is slated for 1:00 p.m. The game will be broadcast on WNDY Radio beginning at 12:45 p.m. with the pre-game show. The broadcast can be heard over the internet, as well.


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looks like room for half a dozen seats in there
if some brave volunteers felt like man-rating it
The European Space Agency's latest Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) is poised for lift-off at the Kourou spaceport in French Guiana, and if its 20-tonne bulk makes it off the pad on 15 February, it'll be "the heaviest payload ever launched by Europe". The Johannes Kepler, named in honour of the German astronomer and …
The back end has been designed so it could be used as the service module for a Dragon style capsule, there's also room for a pressurised tunnel down the middle so an ATV could be used as a mini space station with a docking port at each end. Put "ESA" and "ARV" into a certain famous search engine for more information than you probably wanted.
That's a bummer.
With a modest sacrifice in cargo capacity, you could add a parachute pack and an ablative cork outerliner (like what SpaceX is doing with its Falcon series), and turn the pod into a reusable cargo module.
With a bit more engineering, various space-station modules could be designed to be de-orbited, recovered, repaired or upgraded with newer equipment, relaunched, and re-docked with the station.
The key is to use simple materials to keep things cost-effective.
On the other hand, NASA's Space Shuttle, while reusable and very versatile, requires specialised refurbishment using high-tech ceramics and adhesives, which detrimentally impacts its cost-effectiveness. The Shuttle is also in various ways a lot more fragile than a simple(r) cargo module, which impacts its safety, which again has a negative effect on its cost-effectiveness.
(Still, I am a bit saddened by its retirement. Unless a good, reliable Single-Stage to Orbit (SSTO) technology comes along, I doubt we'll ever see anything like it launched again.)
From the ESA news page for this mission...
"Exceptionally, no drinking water will be delivered because there is already plenty aboard the ISS. The water tanks will, though, be filled with liquid waste from the Station before departure. "
There are times when single-use does sound like the preferrable option!
"With a modest sacrifice in cargo capacity, you could add a parachute pack and an ablative cork outerliner (like what SpaceX is doing with its Falcon series),"
The capsule is called Dragon, Falcon is the launcher.
" and turn the pod into a reusable cargo module."
the key ablative is called PICAX, although their may be some cork used. Spacex seem keen on re-flying their capsules. Expdendable launch vehicle <> expendable capsule.
ESA have *talked* about enhancing the ATV design to act as a European capsule but has never got round to it.. The ARD programme demonstrated that Europe can do this.
"On the other hand, NASA's Space Shuttle, while reusable and very versatile, requires specialized refurbishment using high-tech ceramics and adhesives"
Reusable. Hardly. Refurbishable at best. The adhesive is "Room temperature vulcanisalbe" and is basically the stuff used to stick tiles to bathroom walls. But the tiles are specialized and expensive.
"Unless a good, reliable Single-Stage to Orbit (SSTO) technology comes along, I doubt we'll ever see anything like it launched again.)"
Depends what you mean by that.
"Like" as in wings? Possibly*. The cheapest *programme* option would be to go with a design which has lots of wind tunnel and flight experience IE the Orbiter shape. "Like" as in dump two refurbishable solid fuel boosters and an expendable propellant tank on the way up then I sincerely hope not. It would not be "Single Stage" would it?
As has been fairly well documented the STS was an architecture driven by a stupid funding pattern (which had *no* basis in the funding pattern of *real* large development projects), political coalition building and the technical failure of the engine manufacturers to deliver the spec they promised.
If you find the answer to the question is the STS architecture the *question* is FUBAR.
*Reaction Engines in the UK advocate a winged SSTO. Most SSTO supporters feel wings are a waste of mass and the cross range is unnecessary to the vehicles *primary* mission. The last serious attempt at a *preliminary* SSTO design was the DC-X with was large capsule shaped.
but planned to use a nose first entry (capsule cross range goes up quite a bit but so does heating).
Mines the one with the NASA Project Management handbook in the side pocket.
Details here, on NASA Spaceflight:
-- -- http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2009/01/musk-ambition-spacex-aim-for-fully-reusable-falcon-9/
And on Wikipedia:
-- -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_9#Reusability
Both stages of the Falcon 9 vehicle are covered in an ablative cork outerliner.
ESA have paper designs for a re-entry capsule built on the ATV 'bus' but that will cost money to design, build and fly and ESA's budget is pretty much tapped out with the existing Ariane flights for the next three ATVs including Kepler and their part of the Galileo project. There's also the Vega small scientific launcher AKA Berlusconi's Bottle Rocket which should fly for the first time this year as well as the new Soyuz launch facility being built in New Guinea to provide commercial Progress launches, all of which are costing more than planned (of course).
If Europe really wanted to get a man into space then using the new Soyuz launchpad would probably be best with a proven man-rated booster and capsule combo bought off-the-shelf from the Soviets, sorry, Russians rather than trying to man-rate the Ariane and design a capsule version of the ATV in another round of reinvent-the-wheel.
"If Europe really wanted to get a man into space then using the new Soyuz launchpad would probably be best with a proven man-rated booster and capsule combo bought off-the-shelf from the Soviets, sorry, Russians "
Almost certainly.
"rather than trying to man-rate the Ariane and design a capsule version of the ATV in another round of reinvent-the-wheel."
Ariane 5 was *planned* to be man rated (AFAIK) as the planned launcher for the Hermes space plane. It's not entirely clear to me if they went ahead and did it or if that "rating" has been preserved given the various upgrades it's had.
I would guess the capsule bit would be an enlarged ARD (which used the Apollo shape) which ESA flew some years ago from an ex-Russian SLBM (IIRC) and which went without a hitch.
The basis of NASA's version of man rating AFAIK is structural safety factor of 1.4 + abort detection system + something a meatsack can trigger to get the crew out of there + crew escape system to get them out of there.
The first is cheap if you're still in design phase and willing to knock off a bit of payload. The 2nd might need some additional hardware in the control package (which usually seems to be at the top end of the last stage. Odd given a lot of time it will be issuing commands to the engines at the bottom end of *all* stages) and the third would mean running some wires from the control package upward to the capsule. What to do when astronaut (cosmonaut? euronaut?) presses the big red button can be tricky (and is why Spacex is saying it would take 36 months from contract funding till they could fly a human carrying capsule)
I've unaware of the ESA version but I'll guess it's pretty similar.
Originally the size of the Ariane 5 was just right to launch the Hermes space-plane, complete with humans, so human-rating was originally anticipated. However I don't know if any of that got dumped at the same time as Hermes.
As far as cost effective goes though, yes the Soyez certainly looks like the cheapest and most reliable way to launch humans to the ISS at the moment.
There are other factors in man-rating such as the acceleration profile of the flight. Hardware can be built to take 5-G plus for long periods during launch whereas meatbags don't work right in such conditions. Apollo and the Shuttle topped out at about 3G in flight as I recall. There's also vibration and sheer noise levels which can be too much for yoomans but which don't affect hardware in the same way.
Man-rating Ariane would cost money and would provide a native European human spaceflight capability assuming the funding and development of a home-grown capsule which would also cost money (and probably be over budget). At that point the world would have yet another man-rated launch system elbowing its way into a tiny launch market which has no real commercial return and which is already filled by the Soyuz system. After the Shuttles go to various museums the SpaceX Dragon or similar plus (maybe) the Ares 1 will fill in the US side of things or they'll simply buy seats from the Soviets, sorry Russians too.
Apart from Gs, vibration, noise, temperature and breathable atmosphere, there is a major change in design philosophy when something is man-rated.
Generally speaking, for "reliable" stuff, you assume that everything must work after a single failure, and that failure can be anything. If something is really super-critical, or if there is risk of significant damage or human harm (e.g. a rocket taking out an entire launch complex), then you have to assume that you can have any failure, and any other un-related failure at the same time, and it will still be "safe"; It can fail, it can blow-up maybe, but won't destroy everything and kill everybody.
Now, when you have spam-in-a-can, you have to assume that for any two completely unrelated failures, everything will still carry on working no problems. Even in the event of a catastrophic failure, everything has to hold together and keep going straight for at least long enough for any escape system to operate and get the spam clear of the fireball that the launch system turns into.
That takes a lot of work upfront working out system architectures and overall designs, then later it takes an astranomical amount of work proving out that two entirely independant failures aren't a problem. Certainly some of the control systems of Arianne were designed with that in mind.
As for ARV, I thought that there was a plan for another run at ARV launched from the new VEGA rocket. The plan is still that ARV is for returning experiments from space rather than people, but maybe that is just s step on the way.
Elon Musk fully intends to man rate the current Falcon 9 so he can use his capsule to boost crew to the ISS and other stations by 2015-16. Once the new Bigelow module is added to the ISS in two years, that will serve as an advert for all of these companies and programs to ramp up their goods and services, and we'll really see a rise in the number of manned launches by the end of the decade.
It was originally intended that the ISS was going to be "decommissioned" into the upper atmosphere in 2016 or so. The owners might extend its lifespan to 2020 but that's debatable and very dependent on funding. So where are these future manned launches going to go to? A replacement for the ISS isn't even a paper exercise at the moment let alone a fundable project, and like the Moonshot it's been done and there's no real point in doing it twice. Spam-in-a-can in orbit has been done and we don't really need to do that any more just to be doing it.
There's the Bigelow space-hotel balloons which have still not been tested for habitability and survivability, maybe a Mir 3 based on Progress modules by the Soviets, sorry Russians and that's it, basically. Any future Moonshot or manned Mars missions will involve new-design Big Dumb Boosters like the Ares V with a small manned-launch component but the days of lots of humans (i.e. more than ten at a time) in LEO is coming to an end with the Shuttle being retired and until someone finds a good reason for there to be lot of humans in space and is willing to pay for it then manned spaceflight is going to be quite rare after this decade is out.
This is an ESA project, it will have been paid for in Euros, not dollars.
If you can think of some way in which a big banknote bonfire will further our understanding of human space survival then go right ahead and put in a funding proposal.
Construction of the ISS was too expensive by an order of magnitude, but it's running costs are easily justified solely by having a test environment for space hardware.
Remember that before the ISS, space stations were pathetic things. Skylab fell apart, cooked itself, and was uninhabitable for long stretches of its life. Mir leaked like crazy, set itself on fire periodically, and had large sections closed off to prevent fungal growth spreading through the station. The ISS works, and continues to work. It shows us that getting around the solar system is just a matter of inventing the right engines for the job, and that life support is a solved problem.
If not for the need to bring back garbage, the Kepler module could be made to stay at the ISS effectively exanding its size. This way, you could grow the iSS slowly over time by adding small "pods" to it.
As for re-entry burn, this sounds like it will pollute the air. Electronics is known for containing hazardous materials, so just burning it on re-entry seems like a bad idea. IIRC, ESA has some vague plans of making a landable version of the Kepler module, so things can be brought back intact. There are also vague plans of making a version capable of transporting human cargo. Both of these are, however, AFAIK, rather speculative at the moment.

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1. Would you like some spicy sausage?
2. Would you like some spicy sausages?
Are the above sentences both natural? Thanks.
Sausage is normally sliced before serving. A sausage is, and sausages are, normally served whole.
Also, sausage is normally served cold and sauseges are normally served hot.
Note that in both I my posts I have used the word 'normally'. Note, too, that when I sit down to a plate of sausage and mash, I am actually about to eat sausages and mash.
When I make veggie sausage casserole, I use either 4 whole sausages (ie I leave them whole in the finished dish) or I cut up 2 sausages into smaller pieces. Whichever I do, the dish is "sausage casserole" but I put sausages in it.
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Hot or cold doesn't have anything to do with the naming in my experience. It's whether the sausages are intact, individual pieces or not. If the sausages have been cut up or turned into loose meat, then refer to it as "sausage." If there are individual links, then ask if one wants some "sausages."


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The Central Connecticut swimming and diving team has been awarded the 2013 CSCAA DI Fall Scholar All-America Team honor, the College Swimming Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) announced recently. The award marks the 40th time the Blue Devils have earned the award in the last 43 semesters.
The Blue Devils posted a team grade point average of 3.11 this fall to earn the award among four other NEC squads. Additional NEC teams to make the list include Wagner, Saint Francis U, Mount St. Mary's and Sacred Heart.
CCSU tied Brigham Young, Marist College and Princeton on the list.
The Team Scholar All-America award is presented to college and university swimming and diving teams who have achieved a team grade point average of 3.0 or higher. The award is presented twice annually, once in the fall semester/term and in the semester/term of the NCAA/NAIA/NJCAA Swimming and Diving Championships (Winter/Spring).
The Blue Devils completed the 2013-14 season on February 22 at the 2014 NEC Swimming and Diving Championships where they claimed third out of seven teams.


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I found this at Tumblr and I knew it had to be the topic of my first post. When I explain my world view, the question I usually get first is Are you serious? Yes. I am.
When I was a little girl I watched my mother do everything she could to support and love my father. He was in the military and traveled frequently, leaving her with the burden of not only caring for the house but also the kids, largely by herself. She never complained.
When a book is turned into a movie, we often hear the same lament: Damn, they ruined it! The novels beautiful prose and careful plot development are reduced to clichés and excuses for explosions. Beloved characters get written out or transformed into caricatures. (Dont get me started on the butchery of J.R.R. Tolkiens work.)
Thankfully, that didnt happen with Americas most widely read and widely viewed BDSM franchise: the Fifty Shades oeuvre. How did they avoid the problem?
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Here I stand at the precipice of what will always be. Your words are stones in my heart, weighing heavy
but it has become an accepted burden
one I will never part with. You are not here, but I know what you expected of me
what you told me to do
and I have finally resigned myself to the accomplishment of the purpose you had in mind. Although it was intended to be for both of us in the flesh, the substance of what is spirit will have to do.
The chains are still strong, my Dragon
Here is where anyone inclined can have their fun killing echoes off. If no one desires I will be back to finish the job.
be well.
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I wanted to learn so going on line, I placed an ad
Submissive, age 29, slim, long hair, female seeking Dominant to teach me about BDSM.
Responses swamped my inbox
38, 59, 71! I was feeling overwhelmed so shut off my profile temporary while I went through the emails.
Badboy sounded the best, promising, evil, just like a badboy.
I will go with him and respond back.
What do I say?
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It was another day of mourning. It seems there is always one last detail to deal with and accept concerning the loss of him. Today, it was my daughter, who I had not told, wanting to spare her the hurt for as long as possible. Today, it could not be avoided. She was concerned because he had not written her...items he had promised her had not arrived
he had disappeared from my conversation
she knew something was wrong. Her tears were as pained as my own when I revealed the details of his passing.
What I have been taught on line:
That it is completely okay to walk away, without a good bye, without a whisper of reason or excuse. (although I think an excuse is more insulting, just say good bye and be done with it)
That on line means absolutely nothing, not real life, not even close and not deserving respect, not deserving consideration, not deserving acknowledgment that the person on the other end is even human or worthy of notice.
It is bad enough to be ghosted in real life,
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text: On Dec 8, 2006, at 9:05 PM, Steve Heaton wrote: > G'day all > > I'll skip the background as to 'why' but I've recently been working > on a way to explain the Beowulf concept to a classroom of school > kids. No computers required. > > I think I've come up with a useful analogy/experiment that might > work. I've posted it here on the off chance that someone else might > want to give it a try if they get pressed into such a situation. > > First, some 'newsgroup preempters'. This is designed for school > kids not your typical Beowulf list reader. Sorry but no cars or > harnessing of chickens involved ;) No mentions of heat dissipation > or switching fabrics. This is a non-technical post that someone > might find handy at some point. Steve, That's a good idea. Last year, I did something similar. My daughter asked me to come to her second-grade class to talk about "the big computer" we are building, which is perhaps a younger group than you had. Some colleagues and I came up with the following: The teacher handed out copies of one of the classroom books, so all the kids had the same book. Each child was assigned a page in the book. We did a couple of different problems. First, distributed search: who can find the word "blue"? Can the kids (parallel) do it faster than the teacher (sequential)? Second, distributed counting: how many times is the word "sky" in the book? Again, race the kids against the teacher. I don't know how much they remember about it, but it was fun. Win Treese SiCortex, Inc. win.treese at sicortex.com


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House not moving on debt bill
It will be more of the same this week in the House.
House Republicans have no plans to try to pass a bill to hike the nation's borrowing limit this week, according to Republican aides.
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Instead, Speaker John Boehner's (R-Ohio) chamber will use the week to continue to pass targeted spending bills in an attempt to reopen parts of the currently shuttered government . Those bills have been rejected by Senate Democrats and President Barack Obama.
Time is running short. The Treasury Department says the debt ceiling must be lifted in the next ten days — the most current projection is Oct. 17. Since taking the majority, Boehner's House has typically preferred to lay down a legislative marker at the outset of a fight by passing a bill with only Republican votes.
But the House GOP has no plans to pass a bill to lift the borrowing limit this week. When the party last planned to hike the borrowing limit in September, a pocket of House Republicans rejected the package, which was filled with GOP policy goodies. Conservatives wanted to see what — if any — concessions they could win from Democrats in keeping government funded. That dynamic has not changed. Several senior Republicans describe their strategy as a staring contest: they are banking on Obama and Reid eventually entering into some sort of negotiation
This strategy is not without risk.
Treasury Secretary Jack Lew and other Obama administration officials have warned Republicans of waiting until the deadline to lift the nation's borrowing cap, arguing that it could rattle global financial markets. If the markets react to a lack of legislative movement in Washington, things could change. Lew is testifying on Capitol Hill this week about the debt cap.
It's also unclear how Republican lawmakers will react when they return to D.C. this week. The GOP is now moving into the second week of the shutdown with the same message: the White House and Senate Democrats should negotiate. The party is considering several legislative mechanisms to try to lure Democrats into discussions. But polls currently show that the public is siding with Democrats' tactics in the shutdown
It remains to be seen if that message will be enough to satisfy members of the House Republican Conference. Many are already grumbling about the lack of a clear strategy to open the government, avoid a debt default and extract policy concessions from Obama and Reid.
House Republicans will likely meet Tuesday to discuss strategy.
Republican leadership met Monday to plan , but sources involved and familiar with the meeting say little progress was made. There is still no discussion about trying to pass a so-called clean government-funding bill, without legislative add-ons.
At this point it's almost inevitable that Washington will have to roll the government-funding debt ceiling fights into one legislative discussion. Boehner wants to craft a large-scale fiscal deal to handle both. The White House seems open to that, but wants Congress to reopen government and lift the debt ceiling before those discussions begin. A short-term continuing resolution to fund the government and debt ceiling bill would face a lot of resistance in the House, aides say.


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Petco Park: The Effect Of Moving In The Fences
Sunday, January 20th, 2013
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By altering the dimensions of Petco Park, the Padres could be playing a very different brand of baseball in these coming years. Long thought of as one of the most pitcher-friendly parks in all of baseball, Petco Park might have a new identity in the future. Due to their decision to move the fences in, the Padres will have to build their team in a different way. For players like Yonder Alonso and Jedd Gyorko, the new dimensions could be extremely beneficial to their success at the plate. However, for pitchers like Edinson Volquez and Eric Stults, they are going to have to learn to keep the ball on the ground more in 2013.
Petco Park As A San Diego Attraction:
The new dimensions at Petco Park are drastically different from the old. In Right Field, the wall is moving in 11 Feet. In Right-Center and left-center, the walls will be moved in 12 Feet. Also, the visiting bullpen down the Right Fieldline is being relocated to Center Field behind the home bullpen. Padres president Tom Garfinkel told ESPN, "Players know what's fair and what's not. When they crush a ball that would be out in 29 other parks, and it's not out here, they know that it's not fair. We wanted to make it more fair from that standpoint." This is the way a lot of baseball feels about extreme pitcher's parks, so not too many people seemed unhappy with the Padres decision.
Just looking at Yonder Alonso's 2012 hit chart, if he had played at Petco with its new dimensions, he could have had anywhere from 6-8 more Home Runs in 2012. For someone who only hit nine all season, that makes a pretty big difference. The fantasy baseball implications of the Petco Park dimension change are enormous. Now, Chase Headley looks a lot more likely to repeat his tremendous 2012 season and Cameron Maybin looks like a good bet to break 10 HRs in 2013, something he's never done before in his Major League career. I wouldn't be surprised if more Padres pitchers started throwing more sinkers and trying to keep the ball down more because of the new fences. Overall, statistics for Padres hitters and pitchers are going to change greatly over the next couple years.
San Diego is no longer going to have a ballpark where hitters find it nearly impossible to hit it out. With these changes, Petco Park will become more of a fair environment for hitters and pitchers. Not to mention, it should be easier for the Padres to draw Free Agent sluggers in the future. Even though teams have proven that it is possible to be very successful playing in a pitcher's park, the Padres organization realized it wasn't going to work for them. It will be extremely intriguing to see what kind of effect the new dimensions has on the Padres next season.
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I'm running Linux 64-bit, build 2177.
In a plain text file (Syntax checked is "Plain Text") with Word Wrap checked and Word Wrap Column set to 'Automatic', I'm getting the occasional incorrect word wraps - where the edge of the window falls at the end of a line, ST will break a line between the last character of the last word and a period, so that in the wrapped line the period is the first - and sometimes the only character in the wrapped line. Given the line
Now is the....country.
Sometimes ST will wrap it like this:
ST will also break at a quote character, leaving the quote as the only character on the wrapped line, thusly: Given the line "Now is the.....country." it will wrap like this:
"Now is the....country."
or even like this:
"Now is the....country." Now is the...
This is a bit unusal. Most wraps in ST occur where and how you want, but these unusual cases will occasionally occur in a large file. Obviously, with plain text you don't want this kind of wrapping.
If you delete one or more characters from the line before one of these hanging wraps, the hanging character shows up in the previous line where it should - and also shows there isn't a blank character just before the period or quote that is causing the issue.
Word wrapping isn't particularly smart, and this is unlikely to change until Sublime Text 3
This issue is bothering me, too. Plus I don't understand it at all - if I replace the period character with a comma (',') or an exclamation mark ('!'), the wrapping behaves exactly as expected (wrap in front of the word that comes before the punctuation character:
Period character:
My long line comes to an end
Exclamation mark character:
My long line comes to an
This is ... weird. And not quite understandable... If this is really not going to change until ST3, when will that be? I can be patient Until then - Is there some kind of workaround to this behaviour?
Hi gardiner,
did you make any progress in changing the odd wrapping behaviour?
I implore the developers to fix this earlier than ST3. This goes against all conventions, and makes ST2 annoying to use as a writing tool. The app has so much polish outside of this, its a shame to have such a niggling and obvious bug kicking around.
Thanks in advance.
please, fix this bug.
or I shall exhume TextMate!
...which will need a new license.
I think this word wrapping issue should not be treated as a new feature for ST3 but as a bug fix to the current implementation. Also, Alt-Q is similarly broken: a nicely formatted text with "word wrap at ruler" activated gets scrambled up when I select it and hit Alt-Q although, from what I understand, it should simply insert newlines at the end.
Any updates on this issue? I've been struggling with it for a while now too hoping that someone might post an encouraging update to this thread, but alas. Very eager to get a fix for this because I write a ton of Markdown and this wrapping issue is quite a bother.
Thought I'd add my plaint to the pile. I use Sublime for everything now, but primarily for non-code writing (in LaTeX and Markdown), and this can be pretty annoying. Sublime particularly likes to drop the closing brace of a TeX command on the next line, but it also affects periods and parentheses.
I'm glad it's something that you're looking into for some future version, but it'll be hard to feel confident buying a whole brand-spankin'-new ST3 with this unresolved.
Another vote for fixing this issue before ST3. I write a lot of prose with Sublime Text, and the odd punctuation wrapping behavior drives me a little crazy.
Seconded, this is incredibly annoying. Sublime's no distraction free mode is perfect for writing prose, but whenever I hit this bug I wish I were using a different editor. With all the cool features available in SB2, it's embarrassing a bug as simple as this has persisted for so long. Arguably, text wrapping should be different depending on the syntax, and that makes the general implementation of this feature a lot more complex, but for plain text files alone there's no excuse to implement this properly.
Just wanted to add that:
Besides Plain text, the issue plaques Markdown as well
The spaces are also affected (at least in the build 2217 under Windows 7)
And yes, it's a huge fly in an otherwise delicious ointment. Maybe it doesn't matter for code, but for 'markup and prose' it's kind of heartbreaking.
Agreed that this seems frustrating and silly. Especially when the syntax is set to Markdown or MutliMarkDown, this behavior should kick in automatically.
I use ST2 for a lot of MMD editing, and love it, except for this one glaring issue. Has this been addressed at all in the ST3 beta?
It's fixed in ST3
Except for square brackets apparently
So you might get this:
Because [Wikipedia]
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Another vote for fixing in ST2. This is a bug, plain and simple, and should be fixed, please. Thanks!


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"However, it's not too late for David Cameron to turn this around and leave an environmental legacy he can be proud of," she said.No, no, no.
"He can start by reigning in his chancellor, who seems hell-bent on trashing the environment."
'Reign' is what the Queen does. It means 'rule' and is related to the Latin rex or regina, king and queen. It's almost an anagram of regina. Perhaps that will help. "Reign in" makes no sense.
'Rein' is what you have on a horse to control the bridle. To stop or slow the animal, you pull on the reins, or "rein in" the horse.
From the context, I am sure Black intended that Cameron should slow down or stop his chancellor (shouldn't that have a capital 'C'?), rather than have him rule the country from his living room.
(HMTQ: As it is tipping it down outside, we propose to reign in for the afternoon.)
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The War on Women
March 5, 2009 § 3 Comments
Like Shira, I'm finally – finally – done with my junior thesis from last semester. In celebration, I'd like to post mine here. It's about the epidemic of sexual violence within the U.S. military (that is, soldiers raping and assaulting other soldiers) and what the government isn't doing about it.
As a Microsoft Word document, it's just over eight pages. If you're interested, click below the fold – and I welcome feedback in comments!
The War on Women
"It is in war that man makes his reputation." – Alexander Hamilton
One in ten soldiers in Iraq, and one in seven in the entire military, is a woman. Though these women are still officially prohibited from combat, journalist Helen Benedict reports that "because of the nature of the Iraq war women are gunners atop trucks, are engaging in firefights, and are killing and being killed." Over 100 female soldiers have died in Iraq, and nearly 600 have been wounded. They train with, fight with, and risk their lives with their male counterparts.
They also face one danger that their male comrades do not: the very real threat of sexual violence. These soldiers are being raped, assaulted, and harassed while doing their jobs at twice the rate of civilian women (Benedict) – and the government is turning a blind eye.
The Problem
Experts agree that rates of military sexual violence have reached epidemic proportions. Thirty percent of female soldiers have said they were raped by a fellow serviceperson while on active duty – a situation that is statistically more likely than being killed by enemy fire in Iraq. Others have been subjected to sexual assault [1]. And only one in ten female soldiers hasn't experienced sexual harassment (Benedict).
Hundreds of women have suffered these crimes. They have names like Suzanne Swift, Maricela Guzman, Ingrid Torres, and Maria Lauterbach. They have names like Marti Ribiero, an Air Force sergeant who was raped by another soldier while on duty in Afghanistan two years ago. When she reported the offense to her superiors, they told her that instead of bringing charges against her rapist, she would be charged for dereliction of duty because she happened to leave her weapon unattended in the moments before the attack. Says Ribiero, "It's taken me more than a year to realize that it wasn't my fault. The military has a way of making females believe they brought this upon themselves. That's wrong" (Benedict).
Chantelle Henneberry, an Army specialist, was sexually assaulted while deployed in Iraq. After she reported the incident, there was a delay in her scheduled promotion – while her assaulter was promoted without second glance. Cassandra Hernandez, employed by the Air Force, reported the gang-rape committed against her by three fellow soldiers in 2006. She was accused of indecent behavior (Benedict).
Then there's the story of LaVena Johnson. After graduating high school, she left her hometown of St. Louis to follow in her father's footsteps and enlist in the Army. In July of 2005, during her tour of duty in Iraq, she turned up dead. The incident was officially reported as a suicide.
Her parents have been suspicious of the case ever since. They say she seemed like her usual positive self in her daily phone calls home (Benedict); her father, a psychologist, adds that "suicide wouldn't have been something that she would even consider" (Soldier's Family). Their intuition is supported by curious evidence that contests the Army's report.
An initial autopsy performed by the military supports the cause of death, as reported by the army. But photos taken during the investigation and obtained by the family suggest otherwise. [John] Johnson says images he received of his daughter's body show abrasions to the face, burns, a broken nose and signs of sexual abuse, details not mentioned in the autopsy (Soldier's Family).
The family received more information from LaVena's peers in Iraq, who said her body had been found in a contractor's tent. Compare that with the official claim that she was found in her own barracks, and you've got yourself a disturbing controversy.
The Johnsons have their own idea about why crucial details of their daughter's death seem shifty: they think someone raped and murdered LaVena – and then burned her body to cover the tracks (Benedict). "It's probably involving somebody with some rank and some prestige, and [military officials] are covering for them," says her father, a veteran himself (Soldier's Family). It seems that though its billboards parade dedication and honor as core values, the military is less interested in defending truly honorable principles and more committed to protecting its own reputation.
LaVena's case demonstrates that to understand the scope of this epidemic, we can't rely on government reports for the full story. We've got to look beyond the information that the military offers up. The Miles Foundation is a nonprofit that monitors sexual assault within the national armed forces. The Foundation provides confidential support services and counseling to female soldiers, creating an atmosphere of trust in which survivors of assault are more likely to report incidents.
Over the last few years, the organization has seen substantial increases – of 10 to 15 percent each quarter year – in reported assaults (Norris). This could point to two things, and neither of them are good. One possibility is that women aren't comfortable reporting crimes against them to their military superiors (the most direct and responsible approach) because of stigma or fear. It could also just mean that more assaults are being committed. Either way, the bottom line is that while the organization's work is necessary and laudable, its very existence highlights a serious problem within the military complex.
Coming Forward
"They tell me that I'm not a team player by coming forward. They're right. I don't want to be part of a team that treats anyone this way." – woman subjected to sexual harassment by a fellow soldier (Nelson 13)
It's not just private shame that has kept women silent – it's a legitimate fear for their jobs. The Foundation's executive director, Christine Hansen, says that less than a third of women who report sexual violence have been able to maintain careers in the military (Norris). I'll repeat that: two thirds of women who suffer assault or rape – a violent crime committed against them – lose their jobs when they tell someone.
Women fortunate enough to keep their jobs often find that the official response is nil.
Of the sexual assaults reported and recorded by the [Department of Defense] in the fiscal year 2007, half were met with no official action, a third were dismissed as unworthy of investigation and only 8 percent of those investigated were referred to courts martial. In comparison, 40 percent of those arrested for sex crimes in civilian life are prosecuted (Benedict).
Ironic, isn't it, that crimes within a government institution are met with drastically less judicial action than those among the wider population. Says one survivor of assault,
The Army pretty much ignored the case until CNN broadcast a story. I was investigated; the harasser officially denied everything in a letter to the commanding general; the general disregarded witness statements and threw out an investigating officer's report that substantiated it, and that was that (Nelson 32).
Another survivor echoes these sentiments, saying that women who've faced similar trauma are "too afraid to come forward. They've watched what has been done to me. The complaints have been brushed under the rug" (Nelson 13). When women find strength enough to overcome the stigma of sexual assault and report the offenses against them, they are hushed and ignored.
The Military Climate
"You're one of three things in the military – a bitch, a whore or a dyke. As a female, you get classified pretty quickly." – Abbie Pickett, National Guard combat-support specialist (Corbett)
The phenomenon of sexual violence in times of war isn't new. It has been acknowledged, documented, and analyzed for as long as combat itself. Since the two practices – warfare and rape – are "inextricably entwined," historians are quick to treat military sexual violence as "inevitable," writes Joanna Bourke in her exhaustive book Rape: Sex, Violence, History (359) [2]. It's true that war often leads to increased sexual violence – but why? What connects the two?
The military climate is rife with what I'll call aggressive masculinity. This definition of manliness is taught, encouraged, and rewarded by the military institution as a whole. It comes in three degrees:
1) Implicit harassment presents itself primarily in the form of demeaning jokes and pornography. Individual female soldiers aren't targeted for harassment; rather, women as a whole are degraded, and being a woman becomes associated with being weak and undesirable. As sergeant Sarah Scully says, "in the Army, any sign that you are a woman means you are automatically ridiculed or treated as inferior" (Benedict).
2) Verbal harassment, as described above by Abbie Pickett, is most obvious in the form of name-calling or stereotyping. Classifying women into different "types" makes them easier to control: when you can be only one of three kinds of woman – and all three of those profiles (bitch, whore, dyke [3]) are negative – your individuality is stripped. Unlike male soldiers, who can be complex characters, women are limited and dehumanized. Without unique identities, they are nameless and expendable.
3) Sexual violence is the most destructive manifestation of aggressive masculinity. It includes rape as well as other forms of sexual assault.
These three forms of aggressive masculinity combine to produce an atmosphere where sexual violence is not only widespread, it is practically excused.
Bourke quotes one Marine recruit about what he learned while training for the Vietnam War.
Good things are manly and collective; the despicable are feminine and individual. Virtually every sentence, every description, every lesson embodies this sexual duality, and the female anatomy provides a rich field of metaphor for every degradation. When you want to create a group of male killers, that is what you do, you kill the women in them. That is the lesson of the Marines. And it works (367).
As described, male soldiers are steadily and deliberately taught by their superiors that humiliating women is not just acceptable, it is a necessary part of being a military man. To be a "good killer," you must eradicate every trace of femininity – not just in male soldiers, but in females as well.
Such degradation of women has also been observed more recently. Christine Hansen, Miles Foundation director, notes that such pervasive hostility towards women continues to thrive: some 30 years after the Air Force Academy began admitting women to be trained, one in four male cadets are still opposed to the institute's equal-opportunity admissions policy. Maybe these men resent the greater competition they face to get into the prestigious academy; perhaps they're angry at women for infiltrating a space that's historically been "just for the guys." Whatever the cause, such antipathy is dangerous to women. And it's not confined to the relatively sheltered school environment – it's also present on the battlefield:
Playboy magazines are for sale at the Post Exchange. Porno films are purchased on the Iraqi black market. Pornographic pictures are scrawled on the bathroom walls (Hansen) [4].
In this atmosphere where women are systematically degraded, Hansen says, "rape-conducive norms abound."
While military sexual violence may seem unavoidable, given the armed forces' love affair with aggressive masculinity, Bourke notes that violence is preventable:
Some conditions of military life and lifestyle reduce the likelihood of sexual violence…Military units operating in nearly identical environs display very different tendencies to act in sexually aggressive ways…The view that [assault] is an inescapable element of modern warfare has encouraged passive responses to its occurrence. When anyone shrugs and mouths clichés such as 'war is an atrocity so atrocities will take place,' we should beware (385).
In other words, we can't chalk up this epidemic to the old excuse that boys will be boys – or, worse, that boys will be rapists. We can't let ourselves off the hook that easily. It's time to stop being passive and confront this crisis head-on.
Here's the crux: men aren't made to rape! They are, in fact, people who on the whole make responsible, good decisions just like the rest of us. Any person who thinks otherwise – who argues that men are inherently selfish and violent – has a depressing and limited understanding of human nature. The argument that guys just can't help themselves may seem like it's cutting men some generous slack, but in reality it limits men by clumping them into a Neanderthal-esque stereotype. It's demeaning, it's offensive, and it just isn't true. As analysts, we must beware of such a gender profile – that men are domineering, destructive beasts who can't repress their ferocious sexual appetites; that we can do nothing to reverse their intrinsic desire to act violently. This way of thinking allows the real culprit of this sexual violence crisis – military culture, which actively encourages men to rape – to get by unscathed. We do a service to men and women both when we recognize the larger forces at play.
We can't focus our vision on individual situations and psychological states. We need to go further than a one-dimensional analysis to a real dissection of military culture. And the U.S. government, in turn, must look beyond the band-aid solutions it has implemented up until now.
Demanding Change
"We have an epidemic here." – Rep. Jane Harman, D-California (Sexual assault in military)
Though military officials like to flaunt their concern for crimes of sexual violence that happen on their watch, little action is being taken to produce tangible results. Dr. Kaye Whitley, director of the Department of Defense's Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office. Whitley says that since the creation of the Office in 2005, "we are seeing more victims making reports and accessing care…we are extremely concerned when even one sexual assault occurs" (Benedict) [5]. But the stories and statistics I've cited happened after the office implemented its reforms. It seems the Office is all talk and no action.
The agency was created after a public and congressional outcry a few years ago. Since then, representatives like Jane Harman (D-California), Louise Slaughter (D-New York), Ike Skelton (D-Missouri), and Michael Turner (R-Ohio) have fought the uphill battle to better the situation for female soldiers. But the measures that do pass, according to expert Benedict, "are so irregularly implemented that they have failed to change the dismal picture for women in any significant way." As the statistics and personal narratives attest, sexual violence still poses a tremendous threat to women in the military.
Benedict hits the nail on the head when she writes, "all the well-meaning reforms, meetings, and rules issued in Washington, D.C., will never have much effect as long as military culture remains unchanged." As my analysis shows, the problem is much deeper than individual cases. The military's treatment of women and femininity needs to be transformed, so that female soldiers are treated as comrades just like men.
The time is ripe to demand real progress – not the superficial solutions that the government trips over itself to publicize, but measures that attack the root cause of these crimes: military culture and aggressive masculinity. As Benedict and Bourke suggest, we can start by banning pornography, creating stricter standards for official response, and increasing support for programs that empower – rather than silence – survivors of assault. It's imperative that the government maintains transparency: officials have got to stop skipping hearings and start getting real about this problem. And putting more women in positions of power (in every field, but for this issue the military in particular) will also speed up the healing process.
I'm well aware that the military complex may not have the strength to confess that the culture they implement, enforce, and reward is causing crimes against hundreds of their own employees. So it must be our job to pressure them into owning up.
Conclusion: Finding Common Ground
I should probably come clean: I'm a pacifist. The military institution horrifies me, and I'm tired of our government's nonsense excuses for waging war. Some of my family feels the same – my father and uncle were loud, baby-faced Vietnam protesters; they mailed their draft cards back to sender and hitchhiked to see Hair on Broadway. Meanwhile, my aunt was listening to her father's memories of World War Two, and her future husband was on duty in Vietnam. Talk about a dichotomy! Needless to say, current events are somewhat unmentionables at Christmastime.
So my veteran uncle won't agree with me when I say that the military complex is despicable. I can't read one of my grandfather's wartime love letters to his wife without bursting into tears. I've got more than one "make love, not war" t-shirt in my drawer – and I probably won't be wearing one at the next family gathering.
But can't we all agree that those who do enlist deserve to be treated with respect by the government they've signed away their life to? Is that so revolutionary? I may not agree that women in the military should be enabling our government's wars, but I still believe that they deserve to work without fear of sexual violence. If women are bold enough to put their lives in the control of their superiors, then the government would do well to treat them with dignity in return.
[1] So what's the difference between rape and assault? Sexual assault is an umbrella term to describe "any unwanted sexual activity – it includes everything from taking pictures of someone naked without their consent, to groping, to attempted rape, to rape," says activist Nora Niedzielski-Eichner. And what exactly constitutes rape? Feminist blogger Jessica Valenti explains: "the legal definition varies from state to state, but the generally accepted definition is forced intercourse (vaginal, anal, or oral) – force being physical or psychological coercion" (Full Frontal 65). Sexual harassment, by contrast, isn't physical. It's inappropriate sex- or gender-related comments, like "being leered at, hit on, whistled at, or shouted about" (He's A Stud 150).
[2] A point of clarification. There are two distinct brands of military sexual violence: assaults committed by soldiers against fellow soldiers, and assaults committed by soldiers against the enemy. Both kinds are archaically cruel and unusual – as is most, if not all, of warfare. In the quoted passage, Bourke is referring to both; this article only discusses the former.
[3] Interesting that all three of these epithets describe "types" of women notorious for taking power away from men. The bitch is a woman who gets angry, who speaks up, who makes her opinion known and doesn't take any shit for it. The whore is a woman who won't be shamed for enjoying sex; she sleeps with lots of men without emotional attachment, moving on to new adventures the next morning. The dyke is butch, masculine, strong. She can fend for herself, and isn't interested in sex with men.
All three of these stereotypical women take away men's power (and, incidentally, rape is an exertion of power – perhaps an attempt to gain that which has been "stolen"). The bitch takes away the power of men to silence women by getting angry, getting loud; the whore takes away the power of men to limit women's sexuality by seeking pleasure on her own terms; the dyke takes away the power of men to be attractive – because she doesn't want to be desired by men, she doesn't seek their almighty approval. These stereotypical women are threats to aggressive masculinity. By labeling women as such, male soldiers can quarantine that destructive power. (A woman who is humiliated by being called a bitch will be reluctant to take on the "bitchy" quality of speaking up when she's angry – so, if she is sexually assaulted, she might not report the offense or seek the help she deserves.)
[4] Ah, the porn question. All feminists are anti-porn, right? Wrong. There are two main currents of debate about pornography in the feminist sphere: some feminists believe that pornography is inherently offensive to women because it artificializes the sexual experience and makes men feel entitled to women's bodies. Others believe that while most mainstream porn is misogynistic (anti-woman) because of its degrading and/or violent content, there's nothing intrinsically wrong with it. In fact, porn that depicts consenting partners enjoying a mutually pleasurable act is very feminist.
I fall into the latter section of feminists, because I think porn can be an empowering tool for men and women. But it's only fun if everyone is depicted thoughtfully. Magazines like Playboy, unfortunately, don't subscribe to this feminist belief. Instead, they objectify women, Photoshop their bodies, and erase their sexualities – which means that men buying them might internalize the mantra of woman = object for my sexual pleasure. Misogynistic porn, therefore, has much larger significance than just getting off. It fosters the idea that women are sex objects whose only purpose is to be available for men. When actual women don't let their bodies be used in the same way, men's continuing sense of ownership can lead to rape. Misogynistic porn tells men they have unrestricted access to women's bodies, and they sometimes pursue that access in real life even if the woman in question says no.
[5] Whitley gave this statement at a September 2005 hearing held by the Subcommittee on National Security and Foreign Affairs. She had been subpoenaed by Congress to appear at a different hearing two months earlier, held by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, but her Department of Defense superiors banned her from testifying (Benedict). Apparently the military has a new "When Asked, Don't Tell" policy. She eventually testified in September after a nasty letter was sent to Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, but the Department's actions beg the question: how can they be "extremely concerned" about sexual violence when they refuse to speak at hearings on the subject? What do they need to keep quiet about?
Benedict, Helen. "The Scandal of Military Rape." Ms. Fall 2008: 40-45.
Bourke, Joanna. "Violent Institutions: The Military." Rape: Sex, Culture, History. Great Britain: Shoemaker Hoard, 2007.
Corbett, Sara. "The Women's War." The New York Times Online. 18 Mar. 2007. Accessed 15 Dec. 2008.
Friedman, Jaclyn and Jessica Valenti, eds. Yes Means Yes! Visions of Female Sexual Power and A World Without Rape. Berkeley: Seal Press, 2008.
Hansen, Christine. "A Considerable Sacrifice: The Costs of Sexual Violence in the U.S. Armed Forces." The Miles Foundation, Inc. 16 Sep. 2005. Accessed 3 Dec. 2008.
Mukhopadhyay, Samhita. "15 percent of women in the military have suffered sexual trauma." Feministing.com. 22 July 2008. Accessed 17 Nov. 2008.
Nelson, T. S. "We Have Met the Enemy and the Enemy Is Us;" "The Weakest Link Exposed." For Love of Country: Confronting Rape and Sexual Harassment in the U.S. Military. New York: The Halworth Maltreatment and Trauma Press, 2002.
Niedzielski-Eichner, Nora. "Take Back Your Campus." Sadie Magazine Online. Date of publication unknown. Accessed 20 Jan. 2009.
Norris, Michele. "Reported Cases of Sexual Assault in Military Rise." National Public Radio Online. 4 Oct. 2007. Accessed 20 Nov. 2008.
Price, Diana. "Women's Rights Violations Still Pervasive in U.S. Military." National Organization for Women. 29 Aug. 2006. Accessed 3 Dec. 2008.
"Sexual Abuse by Military Recruiters: More Than 100 Women Raped Or Assaulted By Recruiters In Past Year." CBS News Online. 20 Aug. 2006. Accessed 20 Nov. 2008.
"Sexual assault in military 'jaw-dropping,' lawmaker says." CNN Online. 31 July 2008. Accessed 20 Nov. 2008.
"Soldier's Family Challenges Army Suicide Report." National Public Radio Online. 11 Aug. 2008. Accessed 20 Nov. 2008.
Valenti, Jessica. "He Walks Freely, She Gets Harassed." He's A Stud, She's A Slut and 49 Other Double Standards Every Woman Should Know. Berkeley: Seal Press, 2008.
Valenti, Jessica. "The Blame (and Shame) Game." Full Frontal Feminism: A Young Woman's Guide to Why Feminism Matters. Emeryville: Seal Press, 2007.
Valenti, Jessica. "Pentagon refuses to establish center for rape victims in the military." Feministing.com. 18 July 2006. Accessed 13 Jan. 2009.
UPDATE: Activist Kira Mountjoy-Pepka drops some knowledge in comments…
What is actually happening right now in the military is that because of the Feres Doctrine (which allows the military to decide if you can sue the military or not), people who report military sexual trauma are actually being denied their First Amendment Right to redress of grievance.
Us advocates have seen in thousands of cases that when someone reports MST, military investigators actually create false, misleading and incomplete crime reports. And the victims have no redress when this happens — they aren't allowed to sue the military investigators. So they get persecuted by their command because the military investigators are taking the law into their own hands. This seems to be the defacto policy throughout the entire military, and the DoD is refusing to allow accountability and responsibility for this Constitutional crisis.
Also, the Miles Foundation is actually a front for the DoD to "deal" with MST, meaning they attempt to subvert real attempts at change. None of us advocates know of any victim that has ever been helped by them.
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Patricia M. (McMahon) Wilson, 90, passed away December 28, 2012, at the Coventry Skilled Nursing & Rehabilitation Center.
Born in Providence, she was a daughter of the late Vincent O. and Patrice M. (Johnston) McMahon, Sr.
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I know, I suck at humor. Keep reading and enjoy.
So! Firefox. I've grown to really enjoy this browser over time, but there are more and more things about it that increase this as time goes on. Seems to be a generally quicker browser then most, loads pages correctly, and now I can customize the backend without even thinking of it.
I've done some of my own, but rather then try and explain it, I'll include this post I've found that gives a pretty good breakdown on what can be changed:
Also, here is another set of them that seemed decent. Few over-laps, but still another good list:
Ok! Fine. Go fuck yourself, here is a full and complete list you anal-retentive, power hungry, good for nothing, intarweb whores!
So, yes, I'd include Internet Explorer here as well, but it violates the EULA? Nah, I'm just not to big a fan on registry hacks anymore. If its a 'feature' then I like to be able to access that by making a change from within the program. Hats off to Mozilla for making that possible. Plus, keeping IE intact is a great way to have a fallback browser to flame me about how you jacked your shit up.
Really though, I did find the browser.http request changes to speed site loading significantly on some sites and recommend that people at least check that part of it out. I've not seen if this is multi-platform, but I have no reason to believe they would remove this from the browser in another OS.
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John Travolta thanked his fellow residents of Ocala, Fla., on Friday night for their support of his family following the death of his son, Jett, earlier this year.
"Kelly, Ella and I want to thank all of you for supporting us over the last year," John said from the red carpet, according to the Ocala Star-Banner. "It's meant the world to us. We know that we have a community. We know that we have friends. And we know that we are loved. We appreciate it. Jett appreciates it. We love you, Ocala."
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The actor and his family all star in "Old Dogs," which screened on Friday to benefit five charities, including the Jett Travolta Foundation.
But it seemed that the Travoltas benefited from the evening, as well.
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"You guys are all so down to earth, loving and caring," wife Kelly Preston told the crowd.
The family reportedly spent 30 minutes walking the red carpet, signing autographs and greeting hundreds of fans.
The local premiere – days before the film's opening next week – was his latest film that John has brought to his chosen hometown for charity.
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He held a similar event in 2007 for "Wild Hogs" and last year for "Bolt."
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All teams evolve throughout a season, but the New York Mets' transformation in 2013 has been staggering, with only second baseman Daniel Murphy and shortstop Ruben Tejada were in last night's lineup at those positions. Lucas Duda started, but at a different position.
Here's what has happened to the 2013 lineup in comparison to the team the Mets ran out there in Wednesday night's 3-0 loss to Washington. Three starters plus the pitcher remain on the team; three were traded; and two are on the disabled list.
Colin Cowgill, CF: Was going to start after beating out Kirk Nieuwenhuis and Matt den Dekker's injury. Cowgill was the starter for roughly a week after he was demoted and eventually traded. Den Dekker started last night, but Juan Lagares could eventually win the role next year if he's more consistent offensively.
Daniel Murphy, 2B: Started, but hit third last night. He's been all over the top of the order. A slump followed a hot start, but he's back up to .282. The Mets, however, aren't enamored by his .316 on-base percentage.
David Wright, 3B: Entered the season after a contract extension and being named captain. He's lived up to all that but is currently on the disabled list with a hamstring injury. Wright vows he'll return.
Ike Davis, 1B: Slumped horribly before being sent to Triple-A Las Vegas. Eventually wound up hitting .204 with nine homers. There was considerable speculation the Mets would not tender him a contract, but he'll get another chance to next season.
Marlon Byrd, RF: Signed for depth, but wound up leading the team in homers and could be its MVP. Eventually traded to Pittsburgh, where he could see the playoffs. Good for him. Lagares was in right last night, and could stay there if den Dekker develops consistency at the plate.
Lucas Duda, 1B: This guy just can't play the outfield. Has improved his plate presence as evidenced by a .353 on-base percentage, but has not produced for power. Will compete with Davis for the first base job next spring. Eric Young was acquired at mid-season and became the Mets' tenth, and final, leadoff hitter. But, for all his speed, he must do better than a .318 on-base percentage.
John Buck, C: Carried the Mets offensively in April before tailing. However, he was consistent all year behind the plate and has to get some credit for the development of Matt Harvey and Zack Wheeler. His status was doomed with the promotion of Travis d'Arnaud, who has struggled at .152. Traded along with Byrd to Pittsburgh.
Ruben Tejada, SS: Played brutally in the beginning before going on the DL. Omar Quintanilla more than adequately filled the void. Tejada is back, but the Mets openly question his work ethic and commitment. He has a lot to prove, and trading for a veteran in the winter isn't out of the question.
Jon Niese, LHP: Was the de facto ace and Opening Day starter because of the season-ending shoulder injury of Johan Santana. Niese developed shoulder problems after back-to-back cold weather starts in Minnesota and Colorado. As Niese labored and eventually went on the disabled list. Niese could end up being the Opening Day starter in 2014 with Harvey's injury.
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One billion years ago the city's age
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Some months afterward we find Bach in Weimar, the capital city of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach. There coexisted in Weimar two ducal courts, one of the reigning duke, and the other of his brother. In March of 1703, when he was seventeen, Bach received an appointment as court musician to the latter Duke: Johann Ernst. Seventy years earlier Sebastian's grandfather had worked for the same man! Bach's duty during these months was to play violin in the duke's orchestra, what some people would term a ducal "lackey." In those days court musicians were nothing more than servants; they lived and ate in servant's quarters, were paid servant's wages, came and went by the servant's door, and often performed behind a screen.
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By Daren Smith / MLB.com | July 16, 2010 9:29 PM
Groff tied a Pioneer League record with the first three-homer game in team history Friday, powering the Missoula Osprey to an 8-6 victory over the Orem Owlz.
A 44th-round pick by the Arizona Diamondbacks in last month's Draft, Groff got to work quickly. His two-run blast in the bottom of the first inning gave Missoula a 2-1 lead.
The 22-year-old third baseman connected again in the fourth for a solo shot that got the Osprey within 4-3. With the score tied, 6-6, Groff drilled another fastball over the left-field fence for a two-run homer in the seventh.
"I'm just trying to work a good count and trying to get [the go-ahead run] in," he said. "I wasn't thinking home run at all. The odds of hitting three, I wasn't thinking about that at all."
Groff became the 13th player in the history of the Rookie-level league to hit three homers in a game and the first since Great Falls' Chris Kelly on July 28, 2004. No one had performed the feat in the Osprey's 12-year history.
"I've got a bunch of text message and phone calls," the Pennsylvania native said. "I know [my family] is pretty excited."
While Keystone College has an enrollment of only 1,691, four members of the Giants baseball team were selected in the 2010 First-Year Player Draft. First baseman Yazy Arbello (26th round), pitcher Victor Lara (34th) and Groff were picked by the Diamondbacks, while pitcher Sean Murphy went in the 33rd round to the Athletics.
"We're really happy about that," said Groff, who is teammates again with Lara. "It gives our coach and our program a big day, keeps the Keystone name out there."
If any of the four reaches the Major Leagues, he'd been in good company. Hall of Fame pitcher Christy Mathewson attended Keystone from 1895-98.
Still, Groff's professional career is off to a solid start. He ranks second in the league with six homers, third with 23 RBIs and has hit safely in 13 of his last 15 games to get his average up to .321.
"I worked hard in the preseason when we were hitting batting practice," he said. "The coaches were working hard with me on not opening up too much and using the whole field. I came out really early and that's helped me in the game to stay off the junk pitches, take your pitch and react to it.
"It's awesome. They're teaching me a lot of new things I didn't know before. Coming from a Division III school, a small school, you're around good players and coaches [here] every day. It makes you a better ballplayer."
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