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For my blog “If you didn’t know: Why bees are important.” this date, 10/12/15.
Source - Wikipedia
Robot roaches
Microsoft once announced that it noticed a user had found that roaches stopped when he used his remote, but they continued moving after some time, probably becoming used to the remote signal. This portends someone designing “cockroach controllers” that remotely run the little creatures around.
Imagine sales ads: “Tell your roaches, ‘you’re in our sights’” with our new controller. Let them know who’s boss.
How about Hasbro toys: “Let your kids get rid of any bugs! Squash them flat while you watch!”
Or jazzing out your girlfriend - get one to run by her feet when you feel ‘in a manly mood’ to do something for her.
Boring bugs could become the new fad! And where would the chemical companies be then? What better use?
David Schaedler
10/12/15
If you didn’t know: Why bees are important.
Bees are important, they are! Bees pollinate a majority of plants, like flowers, that support animals and offer people substances; they pollinate fruits and vegetables that we eat. Without these plants, we would loose that majority of variety of fruits and vegetables and other substances that support our collective balanced diets. It’s that simple.
What’s not simple is the reason why we are loosing the bees. One reason is called colony collapse disorder. There are other reasons, we don’t know for sure what is the true reason or reasons. Sometimes what bees do is move en mass from one hive and form a new one. That seems to be happening all over the globe, in every climate and time zone they live, which is unusual. CCD. is seen as that.
Beekeepers are revolting against all reasons that could happen, and chemical manufacturers are removing their products from production. It’s seen that these cause bees to falter and fall off of flowers they are pollinating when coated with pollen. They cannot complete their pollinating.
It’s a big thing that is seen with kept bees and bees in the wild. Everybody is incensed with this worldwide phenomenon, because we don’t know why.
David Schaedler
10/12/15
Hearing Screening online
Good luck in finding and online hearing test. I looked at six sites, four of which were hearing aid manufacturers, and none of the tests worked. Each one displayed the test, but none of them functioned. I had to go to an app to find an average test. Some of them didn’t work initially. Two of them were repetitions, so you could fail once, and pass the test by memory three times.
Other than going to an audiologist to get your hearing results, you cannot find an even average test, so here you go. Try listening to a rising in frequency tone and noting your ability as it rises. It differs with age and gender, but falls off slowly after 19, more as you get older.
I did find one that was fair, but that was for my specific system and app store.
One of the tests was for a voice, words, in a louder and louder background. I though that was fair. You may be experiencing a verbal loss by not hearing parts of some words. My answer was in Latin and recommendation to see a doctor. Of course, from a hearing aid company! I stuck to the app and hear just fine ... Thanks Tumblr.
David Schaedler
10/12/15
A necessary read.
DON´T IGNORE THESE FACTS, THE CONSEQUENCES WILL FOLLOW EVEN WITHOUT YOU. Yesterday my friend reminded me of this sad and horrible situation we have put our bees in, how we separate their dying from our world, through our ignorance and unwillingness to make a change.
ARTICLE
Today’s just one of those days.
Why did I even bother coming to work today? Ugh, I feel terrible. She sighs and rests her head on her desk.
Start a business that promotes Women’s salaries!
Yah body
So I’ve been thinking of cornerstones of my business, and I think I’ve nailed them down. Creativity Professionalism Fun Empowerment The last one is the most important, and when people look at my work, and read what I have to say, I want that to be the word they walk away thinking about. This has always been a big, personal goal of mine whenever I would go into a pin up/boudoir session, but I never really told anyone about it. However, after reading some really upsetting things that a fellow photographer, no less, posted online about curves essentially being better than having a “boy body,” I felt it was necessary to stand apart from that archaic idea that shaming thin bodies helps big bodies. I am 5'3" and I’m about 190lbs. When I see photos of myself, that other people take, I think, “Fuck, I’m huge,” but when I look at myself in the mirror, I don’t see it. When I’m walking around, or when I put on a cute dress, I don’t feel it. Do I want to lose weight? Of course. I may not feel anything now, but I’m sure as I age, the weight will take a toll on my body, and I’d rather not have to deal with that. So I do what I do, and that’s my business. There is no default body type. Not everyone can look like Anne Hathaway in her Catwoman costume, thin, but still curvy, but that doesn’t mean that their bodies are wrong. Not everyone can be a big girl with huge breasts, and a shapely butt. Sometimes people have big tummies, and no but or boobs, or they’re big everywhere with no defined waist, or they have 2% body fat with huge muscles, or their super skinny with no curves, etc. All of these bodies are beautiful, because they are a person, who is alive, and has thoughts, and dreams, and that’s all pretty awesome if you ask me. So yeah, I want to spread some body love. I would call this a campaign, but campaign sounds like there is some finality to it. I want this to always be a part of Keely Weis Photography. I want to educate people about body shaming, how it goes both ways, and why we need to break the habit of ever attacking someone’s body image. How someone looks has nothing to do with what’s inside them.
When an article in the Egyptian criminal code says that if a woman has been beaten by her husband “with good intentions” no punitive damages can be obtained, then to hell with political correctness.
- Mona Eltahawy, Why do they hate us? (via rachelmercer)
In Egypt.
#2 is an if/maybe, not a fact.
Hunger kills more people each year than AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria combined.
If female farmers had the same access to resources as their male counterparts, the number of the world’s hungry could be reduced by 150 million people.
870 million people currently suffer from hunger. 98 percent of these people live in developing countries, with the largest proportion living in Asia and the Pacific.
Another 24 million children could be hungry by the year 2050 due to climate change and irregular weather patterns.
According to the World Food Programme, hunger is the “single biggest solvable problem” facing the world today. It costs just $0.25 per day to provide a child with the nutrients he or she needs to live.
That’s Hollywood. It does that to men, too.
More!
Following Komen Controversy, NYC Mayor Bloomberg To Donate $250,000 To Planned Parenthood
New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg announced today, in response to the Susan G. Komen foundation’s “Komen for the Cure’s” decision to cut its ties with Planned Parenthood, that he intends to donate one quarter of a million dollars to Planned Parenthood…Read More
Women’s intuition is such a blessing; Knowing when someone’s lying is incredible. Men think women don’t know when they’re full of shit and they think we believe them. Just keep giving us more reasons to laugh at your foolish asses. Idiots -____-
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There’s all kinds out there.
There’s all kinds out there.
NO, I DON'T OWE YOU SHIT FOR BEING NICE.
I wanted to share an experience with you ladies because I think it’s important in this talk we’re having about male entitlement.
I went on a date on Wednesday with someone who seemed to be quite ‘smitten’ with me. I use the word ‘seemed’ because of what transpired after the date. This was a guy who since meeting me was constantly texting me, calling me and putting my wants first, for example, making sure he took me to a restaurant I wanted when I was free.
On our first meeting he complained he hadn’t been lucky with women and that he felt that being good natured didn’t always attract good things/people. I dismissed it because I just thought he was a bit bitter and cynical after his previous relationship and said that maybe his luck was about to change. We left that conversation there and continued on.
For our second date he took special effort to take me somewhere nice, paid the bill and was very affectionate throughout the dinner. We then went for a drive and hung out where we didn’t proceed for a home run because I didn’t want to. He seemed fine with this until I dropped him to his car and upon leaving he said “I’ll see you when I see you”…UM OKAY?
So here we are nearly a week later and not a word from a guy who was constantly calling me, except for a juvenile text about how he had to go home and help himself out after our date, on Thursday.
That shit is not okay.
I am not a vending machine where you slot some coins and I put out my services for you. Just because you bought me dinner does not entitle you to my body and when you don’t get to have my body it does not entitle you to make passive-aggressive comments about how you had to help yourself out.
Men think that because they’re “NICE” they’re entitled to some fucking special treatment.
NO.
There is no fucking special treatment for treating me with the respect and common courtesy I deserve. You do not get an applause for being a nice guy. And you sure as hell don’t get the title of a nice guy because you think you’re owed that.
And here’s the other thing: You do not get to fucking complain when someone doesn’t reciprocate your advances, feelings or generosity about how nice guys finish last. That’s not what nice guys do. That is what a self-serving piece of ass does.
BEING NICE DOES NOT MAKE YOU ELIGIBLE FOR SPECIAL TREATMENT.
You are are not knee deep in feminist issues, you are in over your head (comment, comment) .You gain more by the carrot than the stick, although I’m not asking you to change, that is your choice. I can only hope my comments were a positive influence, and I’m not trying to anger you, “we” all need to -pull- in one direction. If you’re oppressed, overcome your oppressor, not the oppression (maybe).
Silence is compliance.
Being an ally means actively disrupting systems of oppression, not just “being a good person.”
Should be titled, “As I understand the planned parenthood debate” or similar. People make their own definitions. You do have a lots of facts written in a large blog. I am all for you, maybe I’m just a newcomer.
Defunding Planned Parenthood explained
When more fuel is poured on the fire that is our national discourse on abortion, context starts missing. The question, often, is not as cut and dry as whether abortion should be legal or not, whether it’s moral or not or whether women should have a choice or not. It’s about how we can reconcile reducing abortions and making healthcare for all accessible.
As the country’s lawmakers determine whether to end funding for Planned Parenthood, which receives about 40 percent or $500 million from the federal government annually, it’s good to put things into perspective.
First off, I’m always amazed with how little sensitivity activists on both sides of the argument approach this issue. The left disregards the question of morality while the right disregards the question of choice.
The left will tell you that women shouldn’t be told what to do with their bodies. Maybe so, but 41 percent of women are pro-life. Those women seem to value morality over choice. The right will tell you that abortion in any circumstance is immoral, yet the truth is circumstances arise and in the real world the crippling, unsafe alternatives and the financial and social burden of raising a child for too many outweigh the short-term yet unspeakably painstaking choice to seek such a medical procedure, however invasive.
A couple truths here. 79 percent of the people who receive services from Planned Parenthood are low-income Americans who live 150 percent or lower below the poverty line. These people are on Medicaid or receive care indirectly through another government-funded program called Title X.
Another truth is that 95 percent of what Planned Parenthood does is not abortions. This has been debunked time and again. Numbers have been cherry-picked by conservatives and the claims have never aligned with reality.
Another truth, however, is that according to Planned Parenthood’s 2013-2014 annual report, the organization conducted 323,653 abortions. Respectable estimates say that this accounts for no more than 12 percent of all Planned Parenthood’s services. However, that is not a small number. For many who have the deepest convictions around protecting life in their view, this number is appalling. Even if you aren’t a social conservative, it’s a grim number.
The two things we don’t know are the circumstances in which these abortions were sought and how much revenue Planned Parenthood generates from these procedures.
So what does Planned Parenthood exactly do? 76 percent of their work relates to testing and treatment of sexually transmitted diseases and infections as well as contraceptive care. This is followed by pregnancy tests, prenatal care and cancer screenings.
The 1977 Hyde Amendment dictated that federal Medicaid funds could only be used to fund abortions in extreme cases like rape, incest or to protect the mother. Some states have expanded their own funding of Planned Parenthood and expanded the circumstances by which state funds could be used for abortions.
Defunding Planned Parenthood in the immediate would cut government spending. The problem is the consequences of less funding means a real probability of more unplanned pregnancies which leads to an increase in government spending because these people will at that point likely be eligible for Medicaid. Moreover, unrelated to active pregnancies, people who would have otherwise gone to Planned Parenthood for services like to treat an STI or receive a cancer screening would need to find another clinic. If those clinics are crowded, this can limit access to important services to both women and men.
These are all possibilities, yet how probable these consequences will arise isn’t clear. Those who are for protecting Planned Parenthood’s federal funding are not being modest about sounding that alarm.
On the political right, you have a very principled position. Something like, “I don’t want my tax dollars going to fund an organization that conducts abortions.” On the left, a more pragmatic position, “Women should have access to these services, so the government should help fund these services. If the government doesn’t fund them, then these bad things will happen.”
What has always gotten the political left support for funding anything is this “cause and effect” argument. “If we don’t fund this or regulate this, then this will happen.” It’s effective, frequently necessary yet creates a habit that lacks discipline and a mindset that often disregards more innovative approaches to solutions.
Those on the political right who support defunding may have determined that despite the preventative services that Planned Parenthood delivers, the organization’s continued support for abortion procedures is a non-starter. Is it truly that easy to hold that view even as someone who receives equal or better care someplace else? Or can we along with our lawmakers devise other ways all Americans can receive preventative care? These are both questions worth asking.
Like most topics and issues we confront as a nation, this is more complex than any presidential candidate, activist or cable news talking head has portrayed. At the very least, I hope this has made some sense and provoked some thought for readers here. I hope to revisit this issue again soon, perhaps with a proposal.
Get it right and be on the right side.
Senator Bernie Sanders, Clinton’s opponent, summed it up: “I don’t know that a man would be treated the same way that Hillary is.” He added, “Some of it is sexist.”
Stand up for us, too, Hillary!
This Is Your Female Empowerment Post and Call to Action
The Election and Planned Parenthood
I often get frustrated when people say that feminism is no longer relevant or necessary, and that third wave feminists, like myself, are all just man hating, tear drinking “feminazis.” I could go on for several hours about the specific needs of women of color and women in the LGBTQ community, but for now I will give that particular horn a rest, while still recognizing that it is beyond important. Currently there are several examples of the relevancy of feminism in modern America, and it is so important that we not only recognize them, but do something about them, because they are time sensitive and could have major implications in the near future.
Currently there is a Republican primary going on, and if you are as liberal as I am, it would be very easy to ignore it, or just laugh off their crazy antics, but in reality this is a very scary time. One of these people is going to be running for president against the Democrat’s candidate (Go Bernie Sanders), and that should make every woman shake in their boots. These candidates are boasting about defunding Planned Parenthood like it is going out of style. and apparently none of them even understand the constitution in terms of the relationship between religious freedom and civil rights.
One candidate in particular still seems to think that a woman is unqualified for this position simply because he thinks she is ugly, and then thought telling that woman that her face is lovely somehow made up for the fact that he was so sexist as to think physical attractiveness had anything to do with the job. People of color, whether female of not, you should be terrified too! This same guy thinks that Mexico “isn’t sending its best” and that “the black love him.” Not only that, but he is utterly stupid when it comes to politics, policy, and common sense. He believes vaccinations put children at risk for autism, that building a wall is equivalent to an immigration policy, and that because it has been colder lately, global warming doesn’t exist.
The scariest thing about all of this is how he is polling. In case you haven’t been able to figure out who I am talking about, its Donald Trump: the man, the myth, the legend. And the people supporting him in these polls illustrate how alive racism and sexism still is in the United States.
If that wasn’t enough, ever since the video about Planned Parenthood went viral, our reproductive rights have been under attack. FYI Planned Parenthood is not selling fetal tissue, that video shows Planned Parenthood donating said tissue to science and research, a practice that is perfectly legal. The money that they collect is for preservation efforts and shipping costs. These donations are vital to fetal research that many people have benefited from. Somehow this video has been twisted beyond how horribly inaccurate it was when it was made, and has become the rallying cry of activists who was to make abortions illegal again, or at the very least defund Planned Parenthood.
Lawmakers, you know the people who should really know the most about the law, seem to forget that federal funding isn’t even used for abortions at Planned Parenthood, except for in the case of rape or incest. The money is used for women’s health services such as breast cancer screening, PAP tests, and STD screenings, along with general services like flu vaccines, diabetes screening, and physicals. Less than 3% of what they do relates to abortion. Even so, why are 50 something, rich, white men so concerned with my womb? My body. My Choice.
With the house recently voting to defund Planned Parenthood, it has become all the more real how at risk our rights are. Although the Senate is not likely to pass this bill, and even if they did Obama would most likely veto it, take this as a warning! We as feminists need to be proactive!
I can agree!
Guest Expert post by Hillary Clinton on BlogHer.com today!
this my be dated, but it’s still relevant.
Use and Abuse of Immediate Food
May 28, 2013
The World’s 13 major fishing areas are being over-fished by huge-netted factory ships, beyond capacity. The fish caught 25 years ago were 6 -7 feet long, now they are 2 foot, not fully grown, not fully able to reproduce. A third of the fish caught are thrown back, as they are not the target fish to be caught or over the 23% limit imposed upon them by regulatory agencies.
And in the time between ocean and restaurant, 40% is lost from manufacturing waste and inedible garbage, as well as bacteria and leftovers on the plate. This “Immediate Food” is not going to be available to the 7.1 billion of us much longer, we will have to lean on time grown food, crops, more as the fish populations decline; in other words, people numbers increase, fish numbers decrease. To grow crops takes time, fresh water, effort and energy. We must learn to do more with less.
Source: recent news
DS
My thoughts: Women’s issues
I know about women’s issues. I’ve been reading about them, today. I knew that women didn’t get the same salary as men, all over. Nobody paid women over men. I knew, but not as much, that there were fewer women in manage-ment than men, but I didn’t know it was their problem. It is. I didn’t know that the big argument that is over abortion was so hotly outspoken and contested. I had answers that may have been old-fashioned and out of date. I think they are. Looking at blogs on Tumblr show there are many diverse issues out there, but nobody covers them all.
We (yes, men too) need a semi-central point to relay all this from, a single authority to stand up and deliver the speech, to be the tipping point for answers that are hopefully forthcoming, and be a place where new ideas can flow, to and from. If you think this is only a rallying cry for Hillary, it could be, I agree to that, but so much more is needed.
Once again, on Tumblr under “Women’s issues” there are a plethora of stories on the good and the bad that is happening around us today. It is a game changer, and if you put yourself in the catseat and open up to the idea that these things need attention. Just like the current subject of gun control is there, so this should be. Half of the population is covered under the Constitution, equal rights. Like Civil Rights that covers everybody, this subject is related to everybody, everybody is affected and can affect this. Don’t turn away now.
David Schaedler
October 2015
#Hillary Clinton, #Women’s issues
Raising awareness is good, but you have to think on both sides of gender when it comes to awareness. I’ve barely heard of Women’s issues. Maybe that’s just me.
Didja like this blog when it was active?
Me too, but it’s annoying to run 2, so follow me here
A female president can highlight women’s issues and possibly, really make things happen! This is a needed item in America. We all at Tumblr that blog about women’s issues are spot on when it comes to highlighting the positive and negative, but action needs to be taken. With a leader in the White House, after actions comes a central authority to put these together.
Hillary Clinton isn’t the only presidential candidate to proudly identify as a feminist. In an interview with a Washington Post reporter published on Thursday, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders discussed feminism and simply and straightforwardly identified as one. To Sanders, feminism means “a commitment to fighting for women’s rights,” which he claims he’s maintained throughout his political career. Like Clinton, who simply defined a feminist as “someone who believes in equal rights,” Sanders proved he’s able to look beyond the loaded, misleading controversy that the term has always been shrouded in and understand the movement as inherently simple and just.
But discussing feminism as the leading challenger against a female candidate for the presidency begs the natural question of Sanders’ thoughts on the need for a female POTUS. It’s certainly a question that the predominantly male GOP field hasn’t addressed when discussing either Clinton or Carly Fiorina, the GOP’s only female candidate. And while it’s important that gender not sway how contenders for the presidency treat each other, or how voters make their choices, it’s an important concept to discuss.
Our nation has never been governed by a female president, thanks to both historical and modern misogyny. It’s a concept that isn’t easy for male presidential candidates to talk about without unwittingly advancing their female rivals, and yet Sanders managed to offer a strong response that was both political and compassionate.
“I do understand there is a desire on the part of many women, perfectly understandable, to see a woman being elected president. And we all want to see that,” Sanders stated, when asked if he believed women understood his stance on women’s rights. “We want to see women hold more political offices. But I also would hope that, in these enormously difficult times, where it is absolutely imperative that we stand up to the billionaire class, bring our people together, to fight for a progressive agenda, that all people — women — look at that candidate who has the record to do that.”
Sanders proceeded to discuss both women’s rights and economic equity, as well as the strong intersection of the two issues and how his platform advances both:
“[Y]ou’re looking at somebody who … has a 100 percent pro-choice voting record … somebody who’s made … a key part of my campaign, the need for at least three months of family and medical leave; somebody who is fighting to raise the minimum wage over a two year period to $15 an hour, which will benefit … women actually more than men; somebody who regards it as enormously important that we fight for pay equity for women; somebody who believes that our child care system is a disaster today and that we need to have the best childcare/pre-K system in the world, making it universal and affordable.”
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I hope so, I think the Republicans have advanced the issue and theirs no response.
Tonight. A full and eclipsed blood red Moon.
Spock, you just don’t get it. It takes patience, too.
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Baseball from a beginner
You know what I like about baseball? Maybe you don’t care... but I like baseball from the fact of the many different batters. You never know if they will get a hit or strike out. You keep trying to play their game, hah. Little things, like the fact of the two teams; and that keeps it interesting.
I’ve new to baseball and have been analyzing the game in order to solidify my interest in the game, and its truely neat! Obviously there are different styles and strengths in each team. You can also learn standards. You can’t make first base without a good hit into the outfield. And you can’t pop the ball into the air - too easy to see and catch - you’re out! And you get an out for your team’s chance at being up and getting points.
Obvious little things like these make up the unwritten rules of baseball, an interesting American pastime.
David Schaedler
I’m a lefthanded person and being lefthanded is important to me. I think of being a lefty occasionally and that means something. So, I’m going to write a few words on “Being Left”. Did you know that …
David Bowie is a lefty.
Crystal Gayle is a lefty.
Studies show that a greater number of…
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I'm a lefthanded person and being lefthanded is important to me. I think of being a lefty occasionally and that means something. So, I'm going to write a few words on "Being Left". Did you know that ...
David Bowie is a lefty.
Crystal Gayle is a lefty.
Studies show that a greater number of lefties are blond.
Some Biblical studies show that Eve was formed from Adam's left rib.
W.C.Fields was a lefty.
Stanley Coren stated in 1992 that, "left-handers may be the last unorganized minorities in our Society, with no real collective power and no real sense of common identity."
Rex Harrison was a lefty.
"Everyone is born right-handed, but only the greatest overcome it" - unknown.
Albert Einstein was left-handed.
The Celtic harp is considered left friendly, as the trebel notes are played with the left hand.
Emperor Charlamange was a suppoed lefty.
Chrlie Chaplin was a lefty.
The fact that righties live longer than lefties is offset by the fact that the world is made of fight-favored products
The German word for "Left" is "Linkisch". It also means "awkward".
Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, born in Sacramento, California is a lefty.
Manyvining plants, like the honeysuckle, twists to the left as it climbs.
The left side of your brain controls the right side of your body, and vice versa. It's called "laterilization".
Tom Cruise is a lefty.
Baseball player Barry Bonds is a lefty.
Studies show that lefty's are more likely than righty's to be vegetarians.
Henry Ford and Henry Ford II were a lefties.
Celine Dione and Carly Simon are lefty crooners.
James Cromwell, James Woods and James Caan are all lefties.
Greta Garbo was a lefty.
If you type on a standard QWERTY keyboard, the number of English words typed solely with the left hand is 1147. However, only 187 words can be typed with the right hand.
Bill Gates is a lefty.
Michael Langdon is a lefty.
Whoopie Goldberg is a lefty.
Nearly half the batters in the Baseball Hall of Fame are southpaws.
In France, "passing the weapon to the left" means to die.
Pens provided to the public are useless to lefties, they are all right hand printed.
Ty Cobb was a lefty.
In the sport of polo, it is illegal to play left-handed.
Annie Lennox is a lefty.
Benjamin Franklin signed the Declaration of Independance and the United States Constitution with his left hand.
Michael Bloomberg, mayor of New York in 2003, was a lefty.
Along with Larry Bird, of the Boston Celtics, and Jerry Seifield are lefties.
Source: "2003 The Left-Hander's Calendar".
David Schaedler June 8, 2015
