The secrets of making a new F1 team work
Seven years ago, Formula 1 welcomed three new teams onto the grid, the largest influx of new outfits to arrive in the sport in over a decade. But by the time the lights went out to mark the beginning of the 2017 season, all three of 2010’s newcomers had disappeared, their assets and entries sold.
But before the last team standing of the class of 2010 hung up their racing overalls for good, an incoming American outfit managed to rewrite the F1 rulebook, taking an innovative approach to the design and manufacture of their race car, and managing to score a respectable number of championship points in the process.
Why was Haas F1 able to be successful when Lotus Racing, Campos Meta and Virgin Racing – later to become Caterham, HRT and Marussia (then Manor F1) respectively – all failed?
Secret to success
Haas began their F1 campaign by partnering with Ferrari and chassis manufacturer Dallara in technology partnerships that enabled the team to focus on recruiting the right people rather than securing the right equipment. The partnerships were a first in modern F1, and allowed Haas to outsource a certain amount of the car’s design to acknowledged experts in the field.
“I’ve worked in motorsport for 27 years, so when we started I knew who I wanted to recruit,” says Haas F1 team principal Guenther Steiner. “That’s the biggest thing for a team, you try to find the right people. It’s all about the people, the equipment anyone can buy to be honest. But knowing the right people is about having the experience, and if you come into this game without experience, it’s difficult.”
Part of that experience was Mr Steiner’s own, but he acknowledges the heavy debt owed to Haas’s technical partners.
“Without the partnership with Ferrari and the benefit of the experience of Dallara we wouldn’t have achieved what we did,” Mr Steiner says. “We are not the smartest people [in the paddock]. We don’t think we’re better than everybody else.
“We knew going in that if we came in like the other three new teams, if we just did more of the same, then we would fail like them. If you look at F1, it’s very competitive. To come in here, at the level people are in this sport, from nothing, it’s so difficult. Nothing is impossible, but to say ‘I’m going to put a bunch of people together and within a year we will be able to up to the technology of the people already here’, I’d be dreaming. I couldn’t take myself seriously.”
When 2010’s three new teams entered the sport – four entries had been granted, but one effort was stillborn before the racing year began – they did so under a set of budget cap regulations that were quickly abandoned. It was a handicap from which it was impossible to recover.
Having scored points on debut at the 2016 Australian Grand Prix, Haas made history. Of 2010’s three new entrants, only one scored points and then not until 2014. It was a model Haas was determined to avoid.
“When Gene [Haas] decided to enter F1, we tried to find another angle, to say ‘Hey, can we work with somebody?’,” Mr Steiner reveals. “We went out and looked for a partner, because to do more of the same we knew we would fail. Why do it? Gene isn’t here to fail. If he knows he’s going to fail at something, why would he do it?
“We needed to at least try something different. Two years ago we said ‘We think it will work’. We didn’t know, because no one had tried it before, but we wanted to give ourselves a chance, to find another way. And I think we found another way, because at the end of that first year we did not come last.”
That Haas was competitive from the very beginning was a vindication of its approach, which had initially been greeted with doubt by F1 insiders.
It’s all about the people, the equipment anyone can buy to be honest. But knowing the right people is about having the experience
“There was a lot of scepticism about the new team [when we joined], which I can understand, because the teams who came before didn’t deliver what they promised they were going to deliver,” Mr Steiner admits. “But the FIA and FOM believed in us, and they gave us a license. I think we delivered what we said we were going to deliver.
“We wanted to be respectable, we wanted to try and score some points, and we thought that was realistic. And we did it. You just need to manage your expectations, because people want to hear you say you’ll achieve great things and they want to see you fail.”


According to a common belief which is shared by a lot of specialists from different areas petroleum business goes far into the offshore. One of the most promising regions of hydrocarbon production in the nearest future is stated to be Arctic region. But this surprisingly rich region is also happens to be one of the toughest and challenging areas to operate. Due to extremely cold air temperatures, strong winds, presence of ice and other harsh physical and climatic conditions safety requirements and technological demands call for new conceptual solutions for constructions that are panned to be used in Arctic. For exploration and production facilities in the cold climate the following aspects are essential: personnel and environment safety, as well as uninterrupted fail-safe technological process. In cold climates the main concern goes to low ambient air temperatures and presence/accretion of ice. Cold temperatures affect both personnel and equipment on the platform. To protect platform from influence of cold temperatures special heated covers can be used. This solution has certain concerns with heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) and energy supply systems. Yet another way here might be partial cover of equipment with special shelters and climatic modifications. Ice is considered to be the second limiting factor: sea ice that requires ICE CLASS vessels or specially designed platforms (not to mention ice bergs) and icing that endangers all unprotected systems on the platform. To deal with these threats different strategies might be used but there is still no one answer. Every case is some kind of unique when speaking about Arctic constructions. Ice-induced vibrations observed on platforms in the Bohay bay that haven’t been studied or even considered is a good example. Winterization for platforms is not fully developed yet and requires deeper research. The paper anticipates different codes and standards for offshore oil and gas facilities to be designed to operate in low temperature environments (American Bureau of Shipping ABS, Russian Maritime Register of Shipping, Det Norske Veritas DNV, International Organization for Standardization ISO, Canadian Standards Association CSA). These rules are compared against the experience of several major oil and gas operators and service companies gained during studies of conceptual design for Arctic exploration and production constructions at pre-FEED and FEED stages. The most important winterization concerns are highlighted and scrutinized.
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The New Lao Stove
For more than 10 years, GERES, a French NGO, has been working to develop the New Lao Stove (NLS), which can be either made of clay or metal.
The NLS stove costs from $2 to $4 (United States dollars) and saves 21 per cent of biomass compared to the traditional Lao stove that cost around $1 to $2. Using charcoal, the NLS provides the cheapest cooking energy unit in the market, while reducing the consumption of non-renewable biomass. GERES worked with producers and retailers to develop the NLS sector, and helped to promote the benefits of the NLS to end users.
Since 2003, more than 2,000,000 NLS have been produced and sold, and more than 1,300, 000 carbon credits have been issued.
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By Tal McThenia, Margaret Dunbar Cutright
A CASE FOR SOLOMON: BOBBY DUNBAR AND the abduction THAT HAUNTED A state chronicles some of the most celebrated—and such a lot misunderstood—kidnapping circumstances in American historical past. In 1912, four-year-old Bobby Dunbar, the son of an upper-middle-class Louisiana relations, went lacking within the swamps. After an eight-month seek that electrified the rustic and destroyed Bobby’s mom and dad, the boy was once chanced on, filthy and infrequently recognizable, within the pinewoods of southern Mississippi. A wandering piano tuner who were shuttling the kid in the course of the zone via wagon for months was once arrested and charged with kidnapping—a crime that was once punishable by means of demise on the time. but if a destitute unmarried mom got here ahead from North Carolina to say the boy as her son, no longer Bobby Dunbar, the case grew to become a high-pitched conflict over custody—and identity—that divided the South.
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Over the past two weeks, the country has suffered two mass shootings: A gunman killed 10 people at a King Soopers grocery store in Boulder, Colorado and another killed eight people at three spas in Atlanta, Georgia.
News coverage of these events have examined the motives, the shooters and the “next steps” elements of this in a way that has become all too common in the United States. For me to do so here would be redundant at best, so feel free to Google these incidents and read all about the various elements of these crimes.
A few years back, in the wake of several mass shootings, I decided to take on a project where I dug into things that went beyond what you read in the horse-race coverage after a mass shooting or the political grandstanding that comes with gun-related violence of this nature. Instead of going out to people we normally talk to in the wake of these events, I wanted to talk to people who had specific angles on the various facets of the issue and then just shut up and listen to them.
The project that had been rattling around in my head for three years. After one of my friends noted that her university had become a concealed-carry campus, she expressed concern about what this meant for her safety. After several colleagues weighed in on potential ways to deal with the situation, all to no avail, I made a simple suggestion:
In other words, if you couldn’t play offense, play defense. A bulletproof vest might get people talking about the issue in a different way. She didn’t go that route, but I thought it was worth taking a chance. What followed was a week of personal participation reporting, several months of reporting and eventually a six-part series I called “First-Person Target.”
After these more recent shootings, I went back and reread what I wrote during that time and found a few minor epiphanies that I thought might be worth sharing. I wanted to note that these are only my opinions based on looking back at what I wrote back then. I wish I had better answers to the bigger questions, but here’s what little I do have:
FEAR IS A COMMON THREAD: We often talk about guns as an issue of Constitutional rights or personal freedom or safety. What we don’t talk about, but is embedded in all of these topics and more is the concept of fear.
On a basic level, we do talk about the fear of someone deciding to unleash an internal fury upon a group of unsuspecting people in a seemingly random act of violence. I doubt people who entered a spa or a grocery store earlier this month in Georgia or Colorado thought to themselves, “I’m putting myself in harm’s way by going to this place right now.”
However, once these killers opened fire, many more of us now think about how it could happen to us at any time, in any place. For most of us, the fear will eventually subside when the story is no longer leading the nightly news or filling our news feeds with updates. Then, when the next attack occurs, our fears will be stoked once again.
Beyond that, however, I found that fear is at the heart of every action or lack thereof regarding the gun issue. People who dislike armed citizens fear the havoc guns can create. People who arm themselves do so for fear of not being able to protect themselves. People who oppose legislation that would limit access to firearms fear losing rights they see as sacrosanct. People who could propose legislation to limit access to guns fear the backlash from gun owners and lobbying groups as a result of trying to move the needle.
When I tried to get this project off the ground, fear was right at the forefront. I asked the UWO police chief if he knew where I could borrow a bulletproof vest to wear. He offered me instead a dose of reality:
I’m sure you could purchase a vest for yourself, however I do not know of any police outfitter that would loan out this type of equipment. In fact, if you started inquiring about borrowing a vest it could cause some concern from these vendors on your motives. As you stated people have a heightened awareness because of these mass casualty events. Sorry I couldn’t be of more help to you.
When I sought people associated with firearms to help me understand a topic I really lacked knowledge in, I found fear as well. When I asked the folks in my community for someone to talk to about sales and gun registration and so forth, they all pointed me to one person in Omro, who owned a gun shop. I reached out to him and got an initial response, but after that, all I got was silence.
In talking to other people who knew this guy, the answer was simple and common: “He’s afraid to talk about this.”
Of all the people I talked to during my project, only one really told me they acknowledged the fear that comes from all of this, and it was Tracy Everbach, the professorial colleague of mine from the University of North Texas whose initial concerns helped spawn the project:
“I don’t spend a lot of time wondering if someone in my classroom is carrying a gun anymore or thinking, ‘Are they going to pull it out and shoot you with that?’”
“It’s just a personal thing to me,” she added. “I’ve chosen not to be afraid of it. I figure I’m as likely to have that happen as a car accident or whatever. Anything can happen to anyone at any time.”
WE ARE NOT SIDES OF A COIN, BUT FACETS OF A GEM: Journalism always talks about getting “both sides” of a story, as a way of avoiding bias. If someone is pro-X, we need to find someone who is anti-X. When we do, we quote them both and we’re done.
While some stories, like those on sporting events, do follow that pattern, most stories are much more complex than that. Even more, the people behind those stories are far more complex than many of us care to know.
When I started this project, I didn’t want archetypes or the “usual suspects.” I didn’t want a press release from the head of the NRA that spoke in platitudes. I didn’t want a “thoughts and prayers” statement from a politician. I didn’t want to collect soundbites that I could repeat in my sleep and move on.
I wanted real people who could help me understand their lives and interests and positions without fear of judgment or reprisal. I wanted to look into the heart of the issue through their window and see what they saw, whether I agreed with what they were seeing or not.
What I found is that reality isn’t what we see playing out in the wake of shootings on the news or at protests or elsewhere. I didn’t find “gun people” and “anti-gun people,” but rather people that saw their lives intersect with firearms in a variety of ways and how those intersections shaped them in some fashion.
UWO police officer Chance Duenkel carries a gun every day as part of his job, and yet knows that the weapon and his protective gear might not keep him safe in certain situations. In referring to a fallen officer he knew, he explained:
“He had all the equipment, he had the experience dealing with these types of firearms and weapons calls and the cards, unfortunately, weren’t in his favor.”
Nate Nelson, who trains people how to use firearms safely and is an avid hunter, carries a gun as well. He knows better than most the importance of training, safety and respect for weapons of this kind as well as the ramifications of choosing to carry one:
“If you draw that gun you’re probably going to spend six figures in legal defense,” he said. “People need to take that portion seriously on top of the fact of you might end up taking somebody’s life and it might be the assailant that’s bothering you or it might be somebody else that’s innocent because of where those bullets go beyond that.”
Joseph Peterson, a professor at UWO, owns a gun and works with the FBI to help people better understand mass shootings. Peterson was wounded when a gunman entered his classroom at Northern Illinois University in 2008 and opened fire. The shooter killed six and wounded 17 more.
Peterson spent time learning a great deal about guns and what he refers to as “gun culture,” and found both the fallacies associated with the law and the nuanced nature of people with whom he interacted:
“Gun laws don’t prevent anything,” he said. “Absolutely. Laws don’t prevent anything. It’s that most people agree with them and people agree not to break them. Safety comes from having more good people than bad people.”
“I think I’ve been in this kind of journey that I’ve been trying to put myself through on this,” he added. “In learning more about gun culture, learning more about firearms and learning to appreciate them for what they are, demystified a bit, I’m learning that there is a lot more middle ground covered. It’s the extreme views that muddy these waters and that’s what’s keeping things from getting done.”
LISTENING VERSUS WAITING TO TALK: During one interview, a source (I can’t remember who said it) stopping abruptly to tell me that they found themselves talking way more than they ever have on the topic. The reason, the person explained, was that I hadn’t said almost anything during the interview.
A similar thing happened when I was talking to Nate Nelson. At one point, about a half hour in, he asked, “Are you getting what you wanted from this?”
My answer was honest: “I really didn’t have anything I wanted to get. I just wanted to listen.”
In many cases, we know what we “want to get” from a source. We have questions that need answers and quotes that need to be gathered. I have done it dozens of times, asking the “How do you feel about X?” question to get the “I’m proud, happy and thrilled” answer. I don’t say this with any great level of pride in my reporting acumen, but rather to explain that experienced reporters and experienced sources know how to do the dance.
In this case, I went the completely opposite way. I had questions, sure, but they were more of a “Tell me a story” variety than a “Give me an answer” form. I also came in with as much of a blank slate as I possibly could. My goal wasn’t to poke back at people, but rather just hear what they wanted to tell me. Could they have been blowing smoke up my rear end? Sure, but that goes back to the earlier point about whom I chose and whom I avoided.
In several interviews, I got the sense that the people with whom I spoke weren’t used to people who listened. They were used to people who were waiting to talk.
I understand that passions can be loud and strong around life-and-death issues and that not everyone had the luxury I had in trying to just sit back and let information envelop me. However, when we aren’t listening, we are simply waiting to tell the other people why they’re wrong, and that’s not going to get us anywhere anyway.
In listening, I got to hear important points that made a lot of sense:
- If people are going to say that mental health concerns are more to blame than guns for mass shootings, they need to be willing to put forth the money, research and resources to deal with that. They also need to be willing to look beyond that issue if this issue becomes a definitive red herring in the issue of mass shootings.
- We’re often looking at the wrong thing when it comes to guns and death. Although the mass shootings draw the most attention and an ever-increasing body count continues to work people into a media frenzy, guns do far more damage in far less public ways. Gun statistics demonstrate that more than half of the gun deaths in the United States are suicides. Homicides account for another third of those deaths, with the majority of the deaths coming at the hands of people who knew their attackers, as in the case of domestic violence. Less than one-fifth of one percent of the gun deaths in the U.S. come from mass shootings.
- People who don’t know a lot about guns actually talk the most about guns. Joe Peterson mentioned in an interview that shortly after the NIU shooting, he found himself talking a lot about the topic of guns and mass shootings while knowing much about either. He then did the academic thing and really researched the topic like a scholar would: Open the aperture on the lens, see the full picture and come to some provable conclusions. Nate Nelson mentioned that people get freaked out by the AR-15 because of its look and misunderstandings about the reason the gun is preferred in some legitimate circles. He noted the light weight and limited recoil make it valuable for hunters like his son. I also dug around after our interview to find that he was right about its role in mass shootings: Most mass shootings were committed with weapons OTHER than an AR-15. (For example the shooter at Virginia Tech killed 32 people with a pair of handguns. The shooter at NIU employed a shotgun and a handgun as well.) However, if all you see are social media posts, memes and news clips, you might be left with the impression that banning the AR-15 would solve all of our shooting problems.
I figured out a lot more along the way as well and I find myself pushing back at a lot of things I might have otherwise accepted as gospel before this project. I also figured out that I can understand a lot of things people believe without completely agreeing with them, and vice versa.
WE SUSTAIN MENTAL SCARS THAT NEVER COMPLETELY FADE: Of all the things I heard in doing this project, the one that stuck with me the most came from Chase Cook, a reporter at the Annapolis Capital Gazette. In 2018, a man with a long-standing feud against the paper came to the newsroom armed with a shotgun. He killed six of Cook’s colleagues.
Cook was off that day, but upon hearing of the attack, he went to the office where he began to report on the events of the day. The work of Cook and the fellow survivors earned national honors and praise, including a spot as Time’s “People of the Year.”
As the incident faded from the collective consciousness, Cook continued to deal with the aftermath of his experiences.
“I have a hard time in movie theaters now,” he said. “I get anxious when the lights go out, which is a bummer because I love going to the movies. I think about it a lot when I’m in really crowded places… That fear factor has kind of permeated through everything. I’m at work, I’m in danger. I’m at school, I’m in danger. I’m at church, I’m in danger. I have to convince myself that I’m not because while mass shootings are a problem in the country and they’re up, they’re still a rare crime.”
I haven’t spoken to Cook for at least a year now, but I often think about him when a shooting occurs. I wonder if he reads the news coverage. I wonder if he’s been able to enjoy movies again. I wonder if he is OK.
In talking to Kelly Furnas, the former adviser of the Collegiate Times at Virginia Tech, I found he also had residual mental scars after dealing with a mass shooting. He mentioned to me simple things, like noticing how certain door handles were replaced because the campus shooter had chained the doors of a building to prevent escape. He mentioned trying to be more aware of certain things but not letting fear dominate his life.
As a newshound of sorts, however, he also found difficulty when it came to reading about each subsequent shooting that occurred in the U.S.:
“Quite frankly when I hear about a mass shooting I read the headline and I mention it to my wife and that’s about it,” he added. “That’s about all I can handle at this point. It’s obviously overwhelmingly sad and it’s frustrating and it makes you angry and upset but it’s also just like not where my energy can be. I think every single time that happens I think back to my students and what they went through and maybe that’s part of it.”
Joe Peterson, who was wounded in a mass shooting, talked about therapy and life changes and other major issues he dealt with. He also discussed minor things like seeking out exits in movie theaters and not being able to sit with his back to the door at a restaurant for a long time. In explaining his experiences, he told me that a lot of those personal difficulties were shared among people who had gone through situations like he had:
“With every one of these tragedies there are more and more survivors,” he said. “We are all members of a club we don’t want to be a member of and we don’t want any more members in it.”
If there was a single thing I think everyone I spoke with would agree on, it would be that.


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After a recent and disappointing move by South Dakota in enacting a "Religious Freedom" bill that allows for discrimination towards prospective adoptive families, Alabama made a move adding themselves to the growing list of states looking to enshrine discrimination into law.
On Thursday (03/16/2017) the Alabama House passed a discriminatory bill that will allow state-funded-based adoption and foster-care agencies to ban families composed of same-sex couples, LGBT individuals, single parents, and even families with different religious views. HB24 is sponsored by Republican lawmaker Rich Wingo and falsely named the "Child Placing Agency Inclusion Act," as the bill does the exact opposite of including all families and expressly allows for the "exclusion" of families of certain types. This bill even applies to those that are blood relatives seeking to adopt children "within the family." The bill unfortunately passed by a wide margin, 60 - 14; all Democrats voted against the legislation.
One openly gay Democrat, State Representative Patricia Todd, was quoted as saying to her fellow lawmakers that the bill is "a direct attack against my community. What your vote says to me - if you vote for this bill - is that Patricia Todd is not qualified to be a fit parent," she added, "based on the fact that I love a woman, and it's not based on what is the best placement for the child," she said.
"The Human Rights Campaign reports the bill affects 'LGBTQ couples, interfaith couples, single parents, married couples in which one prospective parent has previously been divorced, or other parents to whom the agency has a religious objection. The measure would even allow agencies to refuse to place foster children with members of their own extended families -- a practice often considered to be in the best interest of the child. A qualified, loving LGBTQ grandparent, for example, could be deemed unsuitable under the proposed law.'"
"The bill now moves to Alabama's Senate. Georgia's legislature is working on a similar bill, and South Dakota, Michigan, North Dakota and Virginia have already passed similar laws."


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We present integrated multiwavelength transmitters for application in Fiber-to-the- Home systems. The transmitters are realized on a generic indium-phosphide-based integration platform and fabricated in a multi-project wafer run. The devices integrate DBR-lasers with electro-optical Mach-Zehnder modulators and AWGs as multiplexers of optical signals. We demonstrate the performance of integrated circuits that operate as 4- and 8-channel sources with an output power above 0 dBm and a modulation data rate of 12.5 Gbps per transmission channel.
|Title of host publication||Proceedings of the 17th Annual Symposium of the IEEE Photonics Society Benelux Chapter, 29-30 November 2012, Mons, Belgium|
|Place of Publication||Piscataway|
|Publisher||Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers|
|Publication status||Published - 2012|

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Yoshii Y, Zhao C, Schmelzer JD, Low PA, An K-N, Amadio PC. The effects of hypertonic dextrose injection on connective tissue and nerve conduction through the rabbit carpal tunnel. Objective: To investigate the effects of hypertonic dextrose injection on the subsynovial connective tissue (SSCT) in a rabbit model. We hypothesized that dextrose injection would induce proliferation of the SSCT, hinder median nerve conduction, and alter SSCT mechanical properties, similar to what is observed in patients with carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS). Design: Randomized, controlled prospective study. Setting: Not applicable. Participants: New Zealand white rabbits (N=28) weighing 4.0 to 4.5kg. Intervention: One forepaw was randomly injected with 0.1mL 10% dextrose solution. The contralateral paw was injected with a similar amount of 0.9% saline solution as a control. Animals were killed at 12 weeks after injection. Main Outcome Measures: Animals were evaluated by electrophysiology (EP), mechanical testing, and histology. EP was evaluated by distal motor latency and amplitude. Shear force was evaluated when the middle digit flexor digitorum superficialis tendon was pulled out from the carpal tunnel. The ultimate tensile load and the energy absorption were also measured. Tissue for histology was evaluated qualitatively. Results: EP demonstrated significant prolongation of distal motor latency. The energy absorption and stiffness were also significantly increased in the dextrose group. Histologically, the dextrose group showed thickening of the collagen bundles and vascular proliferation within the SSCT compared with the saline group. Conclusions: These results are consistent with the findings in patients with CTS and suggest that hypertonic dextrose injection has the potential to create a novel animal model in which to study the evolution of CTS.
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- Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation

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Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) supremo Imran Khan said on Saturday the PTI would begin the election campaign after Punjab Chief Minister Parvez Elahi’s vote of confidence in the assembly. A meeting of the PTI top brass, headed by Imran Khan, was held at his Zaman Park residence in Lahore. Punjab Assembly Speaker Malik Sibtain Khan, provincial minister Malik Aslam Iqbal, Dr Yasmin Rashid and others participated to discuss the political impasse and Mr Elahi’s vote of confidence. The former premier, while taking a swipe at the ruling Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM), said he would not provide any opportunity to the “imported gang” to escape from snap elections, adding that the rulers know that they would be rejected by the masses. He said the PTI would begin the election campaign after Parvez Ealhi’s vote of confidence in the Punjab Assembly. Imran Khan reiterated that after the vote of confidence in the Punjab Assembly, PTI will go to the masses for elections. The PTI huddle also discussed the number game in the provincial assembly ahead vote of confidence. The former premier received a briefing on political developments from assembly’s speaker and provincial ministers. Imran instructed the lawmakers to start preparations for the next elections. He expressed that Sindh government had also been trying to run away from the local government elections in Karachi.Meanwhile, Imran Khan on Saturday announced that all misunderstandings with the Majlis Wahdat-e-Muslimeen (MWM) were cleared, adding that the party “reiterated their commitment” to PTI’s “struggle for Haqeeqi Azadi”. The former premier took to Twitter to state that he held a meeting with the leader of MWM Allama Raja Nasir and his delegation on Friday. Imran added that he assured the MWM members that he would resolve any problems the party may face in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) and Punjab. The meeting between the two party leaders comes as MWM announced earlier this week that it would not give a vote of confidence to Punjab Chief Minister and PTI ally Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi.


Google introduced an a new YouTube account named Google Beat. The profile header is shown above, and includes a new product logo and description:
A glimpse at the latest search trends on Google.
The YouTube channel for Google Beat offers a single 2 – 3 minute summary of high frequency searches from the previous week. These are very topical, more like a television news program sound bite. So far there has not been any other activity at the site. There are a total of nine of these weekly “search in review” videos as of today, 24 October 2010.


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Dating and money can be an interesting mix! No matter how frugal one wants to be, there will be money spent while dating. As in, most likely money spent on the very first real date!
It might not be a lot of money spent. I could be as simple as coffee and dessert. But someone will be spending money. Just who will that “someone” be? Well, in the past, it was pretty much as a rule the man who would pay. Today, the question of who pays for the first date is one that is actually brings about genuine discussion and debate.
Many still say the man always pays, because he’s a man. Others say cost should be split. Some suggest it should be the person who does the asking. Yet others will say “who cares?”
What you don’t hear is anyone say is that it’s the woman’s job to pay for the first date, because she’s a woman.
While I’ve written about this before, and gender roles and money in general, it’s still a topic that I find interesting. A recent post on a really good blog, Frugal Portland, also discussed this as well. The post noted that the current script on dates seems to be geared toward people splitting the bill. Where in the past the guy would one way or another be paying, apparently today sharing is more common. Based on the sample size from the post, anyway.
But I think that an interesting comment from the post was that a person would get “brownie points” for treating the other person. Even in the case of two financially independent people, it’s still appreciated when one pays for the other. In this case, when the guy pays for the gal.
This might even serve as more incentive for a guy to pay. When other guys are angling for sharing the bill, you can stand out from the crowd by being a “gentleman” and paying. So, simply doing what was expected of you a generation ago could actually be more in your favor today.
I think this basically reinforces what I alluded to when posting about this previously. On a first date – all other things being equal – there stands a better chance of a 2nd date when the guy pays. The woman will give those brownie points, and the guy will feel like “the man”. Doesn’t matter who makes how much money, how anyone says it really doesn’t matter who pays, or anything else at all. She can make 5x the money he makes. He should still pay for date #1 and be a gentleman about it. Don’t be a sucker or a fool of course, but if you’re interested, pay for her on the date!
Hopefully nobody is too offended by all of this 🙂
What Do You Think?
Where do you stand on the “who pays for the first date” question?
How does your opinion on what should be the case vary from what is actually the norm these days?


A Long Island teen hacked into his high school’s computer system to inflate his grades — and mess up the schedules of 300 students before the first day of class, cops said Tuesday.
Commack HS senior Daniel Soares pulled off the high-tech caper by breaking into his school over the summer and placing a keylogger on a computer, Suffolk cops said.
The keylogger — types of which have been used by parents to secretly review their kids’ online activity — captured every keystroke made by the computer’s users, including log-ins and passwords, Detective Sgt. John Best, head of his department’s Computer Crimes Unit, told The Post.
“Daniel had the knowledge, and he had the ability — he’s not a dumb kid,” Best said of Soares, a member of the school’s computer club.
“Daniel changed at least four of his own grades,” Best added.
Two other students, Erick Vaysman and Alex Mosquera, both 17, were also charged in the scheme.
Alex allegedly also asked Soares to get another student’s schedule — and Soares went one leap further and rearranged the schedules of several hundred others.
“It’s like ‘Ferris Bueller’! I love that movie!” said Commack HS junior Alex Targe, 16, referring to Matthew Broderick’s high-school wise-guy character in the 1986 flick “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.’’
School officials, who first detected the breach in July, were able to fix the schedules to prevent any problems before school started.
A classmate said the three suspects pulled the stunt at least partly because they were worried that their grades were not good enough to get them into a top college.
“Daniel is the computer guy. He came up with the idea and brought the other two guys in on it,’’ said Sydney Pasquarella, 16, a junior who knows the trio.
“All three are good guys. Daniel runs track; Eric plays soccer. Not troublemakers or anything.’’
Soares apparently panicked and went missing after detectives executed a search warrant at his home on Sept. 2.
Hundreds of people joined a search, but he contacted his parents on Facebook a few days later to tell them he was OK and returned home.
The three surrendered to cops with their parents and lawyers Tuesday morning.
Soares was hit with two counts of burglary and three counts of computer tampering and identity theft. He faces up to seven years behind bars if convicted.
Erick was charged with computer tampering and Alex was charged with computer trespass. They could each face four years in prison.
All three were released without bond after pleading not guilty during their arraignments in First District Court in Central Islip.


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This weekend, Kylie Jenner channeled Catwoman for a courtside date with boyfriend Travis Scott. The pair was spotted in Houston for the NBA playoff game between the Houston Rockets and Golden State Warriors. An enviable date night if you ask us.
For the event, Kylie chose a black bodysuit and leather leggings that had her looking like the feline superhero just without the mask. On her feet were knee-high stiletto boots that were pulled over her leggings making her look seem almost as though it was one continuous piece, from wrists to toes. Travis, on the other hand, chose a more colorful patchwork plaid shirt from Lanvin layered over a graphic tee and jeans. On his feet were an aptly placed pair of Air Jordans. As Travis was nervously up and down from his seat the entire game, Kylie looked gorgeous and stoic, leaning back into the courtside folding chair. Clearly, she knows how to hold it together during a high-stakes game.
With long locks cascading down her shoulders, there was something about this superhero look that was so totally Kylie and yet still different than what we’ve seen from her in the past. Perhaps it was her choice of a head-to-toe black or maybe it was her choice of leather over more athleisure-inspired textiles, that upped the ante. Whatever it was, the new mom is looking chicer than ever lately and we can’t wait to see more of where her new vibe takes her.
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For those of you hungry for resources, advice, ideas, or guidance on how to prepare educators for teaching the common standards to English-learners, the team of prominent experts working on exactly this issue has begun to roll out new draft materials.
The group—led by Stanford University education professor Kenji Hakuta and Maria Santos, the former head of programs for ELLs in New York City’s public schools—gave a preview of several resources under development at a Seattle meeting of the Council of the Great City Schools earlier this month. Gabriela Uro, who heads up ELL policy and research for the council, is a member of Hakuta and Santos’ “Understanding Language” team.
Among the documents the team shared is a draft of six instructional principles to help guide teachers who work with ELLs as they implement the more rigorous math and English/language arts standards. The very first principle, for example, calls for leveraging ELLs native language and culture.
As part of that draft document, the team also wrote specific “teacher actions” under each instructional principle to highlight actual practices teachers should use in their classrooms. They did the same for principals and other school-level administrators, as well as for districtwide leaders, articulating very specific actions education leaders should take to help ensure ELLs get full access to the more demanding standards.
The team gave other presentations as well, including one on a working draft of an instructional unit in middle school English/language arts that will be an exemplar for teachers to emulate. The team is seeking school districts to review the draft unit and provide feedback before the unit makes its official debut later in June. There’s also a presentationon the language challenges that ELLs will face with the new math standards.
A version of this news article first appeared in the Learning the Language blog.


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When CSU students arrived on campus Monday morning, they did not have to worry about trudging through the approximately 1 foot of snow that fell throughout Larimer County over the weekend.
Instead, students were greeted with plowed streets, shoveled sidewalks and cleared parking lots thanks to the outdoor services and custodial crews of the Facilities Management Department.
Doug Nagel, manager of outdoor services for Facilities Management, said approximately 60 people worked Sunday and Monday mornings to clear the way so students could get to class.
The grounds crew and heavy equipment crew clears everything outside including streets, sidewalks and parking lots. The custodial crew helps out by clearing the snow from doorways and buildings.
As early as midnight on Sunday morning, the heavy equipment crew was hard at work clearing big parking lots on campus. The grounds crew came in at around 3 a.m. Sunday. For the rest of the week the crews will start at 5 a.m. to get a jump-start on the day, Nagel said.
"We will probably be working on this (snowstorm) all week," Nagel said.
Clearing a campus like CSU is a large task, he said.
"Sunday we averaged about 14 hours and then Monday we came back in at 5 a.m. and worked from about 6:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. The (heavy equipment crew) came Monday at 3 a.m. and worked until about 1 p.m.," Nagel said. "With a snow like this we will put in about 22 hours of work on it."
Nagel said the heavy equipment crew uses hydraulic brooms that drop down and spin to brush the snow off the streets. For the parking lots, the crew uses snowplows with blades. Everything else, including doorways and walkways, is done by hand with shovels or snow blowers.
Scott Simonds, an arborist who works for the grounds crew, said he worked on clearing snow from the campus for the last two weekends.
"We will keep going as long as it keeps snowing, and this was a big snow," Simonds said.
Simonds said he arrived on campus at 4 a.m. Sunday morning, climbed in a broom tractor and started clearing the snow from the Oval. He said he worked about 12 hours that day and returned Monday at 4 a.m. for another eight-hour shift.
"I would probably say I have about 20 to 24 hours of overtime built up over the last few storms," Simonds said.
Wednesday morning, Simonds was clearing ice from the curbs around campus, reducing the risk of students slipping and getting hurt.
"It is a never-ending job," Simonds said.
The university has an emergency and severe weather policy manual for dealing with weather issues. In this policy, the university outlined first, second, third and fourth priorities for snow removal procedures, as well as guidelines for cancellations.
Nagel said first priorities include clearing the main streets on campus, including Pitkin and Plum streets, University and Meridian avenues and South Drive and shoveling all sidewalks.
"In case of an emergency (emergency services) can have access to the buildings," Nagel said. "The main priority is to keep the main streets clear, then we branch out and move into the actual parking lots and (residence halls)."
Second priorities include B lots and third priorities include all commuter lots. Residence hall lots are the last priority because the students are already on campus.
Spending long hours in the cold snow can put a damper on the day, but Simonds said he enjoys being on campus during the early morning hours when everything is quiet.
"My least favorite part is getting rudely awoken early in the morning. Sometimes I am not expecting to get up," Simonds said. "Once I'm here usually no one is up so we have the place to ourselves. It is pretty hectic during the day on campus even without the snow."
Simonds said he tries to stay warm by dressing for the weather and working hard.
"Those shovels have a built-in heater if you are working hard enough," Simonds said. "The tractors are heated and after we finish an area we'll climb in the truck and warm up."
Although the work is strenuous, Simonds said getting positive responses from students helps.
"I have been totally amazed at how many people thank us for what we are doing," Simonds said. "It makes it better."
Steve Tulleners, a senior economics major, said he thinks the crew does a good job of clearing the snow.
"(With) getting the snow out of the way, I would say they do a great job," Tulleners said. "I can't really complain about that."
Tulleners said he thinks there is still a lot of ice left on the ground, especially in the parking lots, which can cause a danger for students.
"I've seen about 20 people fall in the last few days," Tulleners said.
Even though he has to work on removing the snow on campus, Simonds said he is hoping for an active snow season.
"There are other things I like to do in the snow other than shovel and move it around," Simonds said. "It looks good so far for this year."


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1. Booty! Ten Things to Know About Butt ImplantsSource:Getty
Boob jobs are a thing of the past. The new must-have surgical enhancement for aspiring video vixens, reality stars, and Instagram models is a butt implant. From a subtle pop like Erica Jean’s, to something far more dramatic, like K. Michelle’s, everybody seems to want more junk in the trunk these days. But before you go there, here are ten things you need to know.
2. No Pain, No GainSource:Getty
Nobody said a great derriere came easy. Following an implant surgery, patients can be in pain for weeks, and may not be comfortable sitting for almost a month. In this case, the saying really is true. No pain, no gain.
3. They Can — and Probably Will — Disappear On YouSource:Getty
In some instances, butt injections can actually disappear into thin air. Actually, the saline solution used in the injection can break down as quickly as within the first year.
4. Unless You Use Actual FatSource:Getty
Some patients choose to get simple fat injections. If that’s the case, fat will, in time, get reabsorbed by the entire body, so fat in your butt will decrease, while fat in other places may increase.
5. They’re On the RiseSource:Getty
According to the New American Society of Plastic Surgeons report in 2014, a staggering 10,000 buttock augmentation procedures were performed in the United States; a massive 16% increase from numbers in 2012.
6. But Buyer BewareSource:Getty
There are concerns that after a decade, the body could reject injections, leaving the patient with serious health concerns.
7. They’re Not Just for GirlsSource:Getty
When men come in and ask for butt implants, they want a more athletic look, often bringing pictures of Tom Brady’s rear.
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Just like K. Michelle, some women decide to get rid of their implants. When asked about removal, doctors say that skin stretching or sagging isn’t likely, unless very large implants have been placed on top of (instead of under) the Gluteus Maximus muscle, or if the patient has had the implants for over 5 years.
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Many professionals have attributed the rise of popularity in butt implants to social media stars like Kim Kardashian and Amber Rose.
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In fact, one doctor revealed in an interview that when people come in for implants, they often ask for “[The] Kardashian and the J.Lo thing.”
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According to evolutionary psychologist Gordon Gallup Jr., “If a woman has a narrow waist, she’s not pregnant. And if she has broad hips it means that the underlying skeletal morphology is probably such that she’d be able to have a relatively unencumbered childbirth.” Guess Sir Mix-a-Lot had science on his side when he rapped about an “itty bitty waist and a round thing in your face.”


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GOVERNMENT GUNFIRE AND HELICOPTERS ALL ACROSS THE NATION
These are supposed to be training exercises … but they involve major cities all across the U.S., and no citizens were even informed of these exercises! MJB
The federal government is so brazen and arrogant it no longer bothers to inform civilians when it conducts questionable military exercises in residential neighborhoods.
KTRK-TV in Houston reported that the U.S. Army along with other agencies took over the Carnegie Vanguard High School in Houston on Monday. Alarmed residents called police and complained about gunshots and helicopters.
The Army did not give any details on what the training was for, according to the news station, and a Google News search produced no announcement of the exercise.
The latest military drill follows an outrageous training exercise in Florida last week. On Thursday, military helicopters simulated combat over a freeway in downtown Miami. Federal troops rappelled down on buildings and mass transit platforms as stunned residents hit the deck in response to machine gun fire echoing across the city.
Black Hawk Helicopters Over Minneapolis Worry Residents
DoD Frightens Residents with Military Exercise in South Florida
Military Helicopters Buzz Boston Buildings
Just a Drill: Helicopters Train in Miami with Machine Gun Fire
Helicopters To Buzz Downtown LA In Urban Warfare Drill
Occupy Houston protesters converge on City Hall
Bombs, choppers during military exercises startle New Orleans residents
VIDEO: Military Helicopters Conduct Covert Exercises Over U.S. Bank Building
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Do not be alarmed by Black Hawk helicopters swooping over Los Angeles
Black Helicopters Over Denver & Florida
Citizens Cheer GWOT Helicopters in Denver
I dont trust my government but I do trust the soul of the service men and women. If they are training it may well need to be on the hush. If its for the reasons some fear it will fail from without and from within.If they are training as such they are unaware themselves and because gunrights are prevailent in military families as soon as they find out the mission is to fire possibly on American civilians they will leak the info and defy the order. Even if its just 10% it will fail
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Reader S. has passed on to me this proposal, from a letter to the editor of the Toledo Blade. Could be really good for getting some in-class discussion going!
Control men’s bodies as well as women’s
I want to know why it’s viewed as OK for government to control women’s bodies, as proposed by some, and yet we don’t propose that government control men’s bodies. There would be no fertilized eggs without sperm.If it’s OK for the government to tell women that they must carry a fetus to term, whether or not she wants to do so or even if the pregnancy threatens the woman’s life, then why is it not OK for government to tell men that they must have a vasectomy, whether or not they want to do so?Vasectomies control pregnancy and are cheaper and easier than abortions or children. Actually, we could put a great number of issues to rest by controlling the original cause of all pregnancies. We could just nip this thing in the bud.Vasectomies are reputed to be reversible. So, a man could be given a vasectomy when appropriate, at puberty, and then reversed once he and a like-minded female are ready to have children. The government could mark a man’s driver’s license with a special V, so that when asked, a man can identify that he has had the procedure. Of course, vasectomies are not always reversible, but we can hope. Just as we hope that pregnancies work out well for the female, which they don’t always.I thought what was good for the goose was good for the gander. We could start the “V” campaign, V for vasectomies and V for victory over unwanted pregnancies. Men could be pro-V or anti-V, but that really wouldn’t matter as the government would have the control and final say. Let’s hear it for equal opportunity.
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“I want to know why it’s viewed as OK for government to control women’s bodies, as proposed by some, and yet we don’t propose that government control men’s bodies.”
This seems disingenuous. Presumably the pro-lifer does not want to “control bodies” generally, even to reduce unwanted pregnancies. (I’m not aware of anyone suggesting mandatory tubal ligations!) The pro-life principle is simple enough: they think it is impermissible to kill another human being (incl. unborn ones), and autonomy may be restricted in order to prevent such killings. The attempted analogy thus seems to miss what’s at issue in this debate (at least, it surely fails if it is meant to give the reasonable pro-lifer pause).
Perhaps I should say more: The interesting question I take to be posed is why the suggestion, which would indeed reduce abortions, is so obviously a bad one. I’d use it as a teaching exercise by getting students to try to pinpoint all the various ways that the proposal is unacceptable, and to think about the implications of the principles involved. I would take it to have relevance not just to abortion, but also to e.g. forced caesareans and other forms of control over pregnant women’s bodies. And also (obviously) to forced sterilisation of women, which has been advocated for and practised on women of colour, disabled women, and poor women.
I also think it would be worth thinking about why various disanalogies matter. If intuitions about forced prevention of reproduction are different from intuitions about forced reproduction, why is that? And so on. The interest of the proposal lies in all these sorts of questions, not in any simplistic pro-choice argument.
Ah, fair enough, thanks for the clarification. (I can certainly see it leading in to an interesting discussion of consequentialist reasoning vs. deontological side-constraints, etc.)
The government takes lots of actions that control the causes of the causes of what are taken to be bad things. Think alcohol and driving. It doesn’t seem outrageous to prosecute those who enable others to get drunk and then drive. Similarly leaving dangerous things within the reach of children.
So there seems some legal precedent for allowing one to claim that if something thinks abortions are really bad, then they should ask the state to control not just unwanted pregnancies, but also the causes of unwanted pregnancies.
Richard seems to be right that the pro-lifer typically does not advocate mandatory tubal ligations, but the argument is a reductio. If they really think abortion is murder, shouldn’t they advocate keeping sperm out of the hands, so to speak, of careless young people. Focusing on the end stage to prevent this ‘horrible national tragedy’ of abortions being performed seems much less effective than is supposed to be desirable. Why not get involved earlier?
To extend the obvious a bit: the argument continues: but of course they aren’t going to be advocating mandatory sperm control, and so….. .
OR am I just not getting it?
It’s not obvious that the impermissibility of murder implies that we should forcibly prevent the conception of those who might otherwise become murder victims. (Deontologists claim that we have a duty to not do wrong, but this does not imply a duty to minimize the occurrence of wrong-doing.)
Nice one, JJ! Lots of interesting issues would get raised by that one too.
Richard, but in this case the anti-abortionists do tend to think that they have a duty to prevent others’ wrong-doing also. They’ll at least vote for laws against choice and perhaps picket clinics, and so on. Why not act earlier, when one might be more effective? What are the outweighing goods or interests?
When I got my vasectomy, they warned that it technically COULD be reversible, but that I shouldn’t assume it will be. I’m all for vasectomies, but obviously I’m biased.
JJ – autonomy is surely an important consideration here. We may overrule others’ impermissible choices: nobody has a legitimate interest in their choice to murder another. But that’s very different from overruling choices that merely raise the possibility of future wrong-doing. (I assume it is permissible to become pregnant!)
Compare: it is impermissible to make a promise and then break it. But this is no reason at all to prevent people from making promises. (At most, it is a reason to hold them to a promise once they make it.)
(Sorry, that should read: “we may only overrule…”)
Richard, I think just about all of the anti-abortionists are anti-unmarried-sex and anti-pregnancy-out-of-wedlock, as it is put. The vasectomy regulation was configured to prevent the bad pregnancies.
I wonder: how early can a vasectomy (effectively, safely) be performed? We circumcise babies. That skirts the autonomy issue.
Having just had mine very recently, I can say the procedure is literally painless, and my recovery was atypical in that I had no soreness rather than “some” soreness–so I don’t think there’s much of an argument that the baby would suffer more from a vasectomy than from a circumcision.
[Actually, this was my very first thought: getting a vasectomy is *way easier* than carrying a baby to term, to put it mildly.]
JJ, how is your last comment relevant? I’m just trying to show that it’s no great mystery how a reasonable person could consistently be both (i) anti-abortion, and yet (ii) opposed to mandatory vasectomies. Perhaps you’re addressing a different question, and we’re just talking past each other.
Richard, I think we are talking past one another. I was focusing specifically on the challenge to actual anti-abortionists.
Richard, your first comment; “This seems disingenuous. Presumably the pro-lifer does not want to “control bodies” generally, even to reduce unwanted pregnancies. (I’m not aware of anyone suggesting mandatory tubal ligations!)”
The pro-lifer DOES want to control women’s bodies in fact, by forcing women to continue a pregnancy she may not want to continue. That’s a pretty controlling thing to do.
I’d like to say I’ve been shocked by how productive, intelligent, and civil all of these comments have been. I’m not saying they’re atypical of the site (1st time visitor), just that considering the content of the post, I was expecting a flame war; so, I guess I’d like to say ‘thank you,’ and hope that my contribution will be as civil, and somewhat productive.
Richard: “nobody has a legitimate interest in their choice to murder another.”
Oh, but there are people with legitimate reasons to kill.
First, self-defense; this rationale is usually accepted by people, regardless of whether the person is defending themselves against an adult or a fetus. However, there are pro-lifers who argue that, even when her life is threatened, no woman may choose to have an abortion.
The argument I heard for this position was: “You only have the right to defend yourself when a person is actively acting as an aggressor. The fetus cannot choose to be an existential threat, and thus, should not be aborted.”
I am unaware of other arguments for that position, and I’d appreciate it if you could let me know of them.
I find this argument weak mainly because we do allow non-aggressors to die, even actively kill them in the context of war. Nations accept tens, hundreds, thousands of civilian casualties who are not active aggressors because there deaths are either the unfortunate, but necessary consequence of war OR their deaths help end a war, and there murder’s are considered justified by the net lives saved in shortening a conflict (Hiroshima). But basic philosophy textbooks contain examples that inform our calculation as to why murdering a non-aggressor may be morally permissable.
Ex: A man is strapped to a tank; this tank is firing at a line of people, killing them off one by one; you may only stop the tank by blowing it up, and killing the man. This example is usually morally troubling for people because the recognize they will be responsible for the consequences of their choice whether it be to allow the tank to kill people, or actively kill the innocent man.
This leads directly to the Second type of abortion that’s permissible if you recognize that a fetus is a life: Selective Reduction. In a multi-fetal pregnancy, a woman may face a situation where she risks the loss of all the children she’s carrying if she doesn’t abort one of them. Do we say it’s wrong to end lives that threaten other lives? What they consequence of not actively ending one life is the end of multiple lives? If people are convicted of abusive child neglect, don’t we recognize that people have a duty to take affirmative action to prevent a known potential harm?
The last instance where we may allow people to kill is Euthanasia. If you consider taking a brain dead/comatose person off of life support murder, then that is euthanasia; we, as a society, generally consider that family members have a right to take their loved ones off of life support because (1) they are the one’s with a vested interest in that persons well-being, and (2) once a person can no longer meaningfully consent, we allow others to make decisions for them under the doctrine of ‘presumed consent.’
I’m sure that there are people who’ve concerned themselves with the topic of abortion, and are familiar with a large number of terminal, congenital conditions whose symptoms include generous amounts of suffering (I could site a fatal form of dwarfism, but I can’t remember the medical name). In instances where a fetus would not know a life beyond immense suffering, an abortion may be a moral means to pre-empt suffering.
So, yea, despite assertions that we categorically renounce ‘murder’ as an legitimate option, we still allow exercise of that option in multiple circumstances outside of abortion.
Tubial ligation is a MUCH harder to reverse and even can cause long term medical issues for woman a 17% fatality, as opposed to a 0% fatality and a 0% long term detromental affects, 64% of woman experence long term detromental affects from tubial ligation. Thier may be a new procedure soon called the barret clamp procedure where small barret shapped clamps are placed onto the spermical cord, a quick and easy procedure wich is expected to yeild high reversability rights. Anti-abortionists try to trample on the reproductive rights of woman, it’s just a fact. I’m going to post an informal survey very soon.
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Unfourtunately, forcing men to get vasectomy’s isn’t really helpful. The group that the suggestion goes after is a very irresponsible group of young men. If this were to occur (which it never would), teen pregnancies go down, but cases of STD’s goes up, way up. Now that this group doesn’t worry about pregnancies, do you think these people would wear condoms? It’s an interesting (and very scary proposition, at least for me), but thankfully it remains in the realm of theory.
By the way, about ten years ago, an independent minor league baseball team held a vasectomy night, which increased attendance three fold, yet most of the men did not seem to be happy with there spouses… oh well, they tried
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In fact, I think this is a very interesting idea. Having an abortion is not a good option, as it destroyes human life. But neither is forcing women to carry a child. Only women have the right to decide whether they are willing to do so or not.
So, mandatory sterilisation of males may be a very good idea, which could avoid the above situations.
Vasectomies are indeed a cheap and easy solution to avoid unwanted pregnancies. I doubt if puberty is the most appropriate moment to impose a vasectomy. How will the government control when puberty begins and when a boy gets fertile? Wouldn’t it be better to impose doctors to perform a vasectomy on all born male babies? The same way boys are circumcised afther their birth. If not, it would be good to put an age limite on when puberty is supposed (or: risks) to begin to avoid every risk of unwanted pregnancy (f.e. at the age of ten; maybe vasectomies could be made part of the school physicals at that age).
A vasectomy reversal could only be allowed if there’s a written authorization of a female which is willing to have children with the man who applies for the reversal. This authorization could be limited in time, so that a new vasectomy is imposed after the female has no more need of the fertility of the man.
Given the purpose, the fact that a vasectomy is imposed on men, seems acceptable to me. I have had a vasectomy myself several years ago. It was not voluntary, but imposed by my wife, who wanted to shift the burden of contraception to me. She had me operate by a female friend – urologist, who advocates male sterilization strongly herself, as it is, as she says, the best way of contraception that exists.
Personnaly, I think this is right. It is relatively painless and makes us men take responsibility for contraception.
So, I think making vasectomies mandatory is a great idea for women and should be incouraged by feminists.
I’m a pro-life male and I agree absolutely with mandatory vasectomies only if every feminist agrees that every abortion is a cold-hearted murder of an innocent baby life. If the bill for mandatory vasectomies and the bill for banning abortions were passed simultaneously then I would agree one-hundred percent with it. Are you willing to accept a modest compromise, or are you all still selfish to realize the truth?
Im a man and I totally agree, why not everyone get a visectomy and then when theyre ready to have children get it reversed, it makes sense, because theres alot of stupid irresponsible people who have alot of fu–in nerve to bring children into this world they dont want, potentially destroying that childs life forever, as long as it was regulated and done right, it would be like getting your wisdom teeth, thats happens around age fourteen for most people, so we’ll fit both things into the same session.
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The National Council for Women (NCW) recently launched a poll application called “Nasalk”, creating a platform for women to express their opinions and empower women’s community talks.
The NCW, in cooperation with The Egyptian Center for Public Opinion Research (Baseera), have raised a number of important questions regarding the various issues Egyptian women deal with.
The results were announced at a press conference entitled “Making use of the general public in providing data for the goals of sustainable development”, the first conference of its kind in the Arab world.
The answers showed that 88 percent of the respondents believe that education helps in forming a girl’s personality, and the percentage for approval of this view increased from 84 percent among males to 94 percent among females, while 83 percent of respondents believe that education improves a girl’s chances of marriage.
The poll also asked people on the appropriate age of marriage for girls; 76 percent of respondents did not agree that girls should be married before completing their education, with 58 percent stating that the minimum age should be 21 years old, 29 percent believed 18 years was the most suitable age and 14 percent voted for 16 years.
Two-thirds of the respondents agreed on women working after marriage, with no significant differences between the opinion of males and females in answering this question.
Around 55 percent of believed women in Egypt could balance between work and the responsibilities of home, with 46 percent of the voters being men compared to 69 percent of women.
Finally, the app asked people about family planning policies; 40 percent of the respondents believed that there should be a two-child policy, 26 percent supported three children, 7 percent for a one-child policy, and 24 percent saying it should depend on the financial budget of the family.