Born this day, November 11th, 1744: Abigail Adams, First Lady of the United States, March 4th, 1797- March 4th, 1801.
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Happy Birthday Abbie!
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Maria Mayer
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On this day November 10th, 1963, Maria Mayer became the first American woman and second woman ever, to win the Nobel Prize in Physics. Her working life was indicative of the strictures many women have suffered toward achievement in a male dominated field.
So, I sent this To BusinessWeek(updated)
Posted in 51 Percent, Children, Feminism, I Own My Vote, just say no deal, LGBT, Politics, PUMA PAC, The New Agenda, women, tagged BusinessWeek, Cancian, Children, Haskins, marriage, Minority Rights, Poverty, Women's Rights on November 10, 2009| Leave a Comment »
The Debate Room over at BusinessWeek has posted this debate topic:
Low-Income Women: Get Married
-Update-
Someone over at NewsWeek finally did publish my comment, so I am removing it here. However, it’s still worth a look to SEE what was posted in their “Debate Room” this week, suggesting that low-income women should get married as a way out of poverty.
What do you think?
Women’s Equality Day
Posted in 51 Percent, Feminism, I Own My Vote, just say no deal, Politics, PUMA PAC, The New Agenda, voter reform, women, tagged 19th Amendment, Bella Abzug, Equality Day, ERA, Nixon, women on August 26, 2009| Leave a Comment »
What are you doing to celebrate? August 26th, 1920 was the day women in the United states obtained the right to vote. The 19th amendment, introduced in 1878 and establishing suffrage for women, took 42 years to become law. In 1971, after Bella Abzug’s introductory legislation, and a bill passed and signed into law by President Nixon, the day was proclaimed as Women’s Equality Day. Without yet having achieved the ERA, the term “Equality” can only be applied in the narrow sense, as it relates to voting rights. However, certainly women and men everywhere can celebrate this day, today, as the great leap forward it represents.
Hurrah!
Posted in 51 Percent, Feminism, I Own My Vote, Politics, PUMA PAC, The New Agenda, tagged Bill Clinton, Euna Lee, Kim Jong-il, Laura Ling, North Korea on August 4, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Is this good news or what? Can you believe that guy? Can you believe North Korea? and Kim Jong-il?
Clinton, U.S. journalists leave North Korea
Tue Aug 4, 2009 11:35pm EDT
By Jonathan Thatcher
[SEOUL (Reuters) – Former U.S. President Bill Clinton left North Korea on Wednesday with two American journalists whose release he secured in a meeting with the hermit state’s leader, possibly opening the way to direct nuclear disarmament talks….]
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE5735XL20090805
Managing Knowledge
Posted in 51 Percent, Feminism, Great American Women, I Own My Vote, LGBT, Politics, PUMA PAC, The New Agenda, tagged Economy, Journalistic Freedom, Knowledge Management, Monetary Policy on July 21, 2009| 4 Comments »
In business, and other fields such as information systems, “Knowledge Management”, (to quote Wiki,) has been “an established discipline since 1991”. If you click on the link above, you will see that essentially it is a field of study in how knowledge is learned, passed around, and the process optimized.
I’ve always found it to be a pretty interesting subject, especially in regard to the twin topics of “Explicit Knowledge” and “Tacit Knowledge“.
Perhaps explicit knowledge best relates to the left side of our linear brain, where thing can be discussed, measured, stored and written about. Knowledge like this might include databases, manuals, or drawings.
Tacit knowledge is different in that is not directly communicated. Closed communities and groups develop shared pools of information, not directly articulated. An example might be when a junior person observes a senior employee’s efforts with a difficult client. The junior will certainly learn more quickly what works and what doesn’t. This form of mentoring is highly useful and an efficient way of increasing the knowledge pool of the company. Aside from the explicit knowledge being transmitted, the hand gestures, facial expressions, attitudes, and subliminal word meanings are part of what is being learned. Funny examples might include the day someone tells you that your dog and you look and act alike, or you hear your child whining, complaining or yelling and are horrified they sound like you.
The pools of information that are formed by growing explicit and tacit knowledge are part of what is called the intellectual capital of a business, information system, or group.
Why am I talking about this subject? Here is an example of the point I am about to make:
If you haven’t yet been over to the Confluence today, be sure and check out Dakinikat’s comments on monetary policy, HERE.
Dakinikat has extensive explicit knowledge in the subject of banking, monetary policy, and economics.
Her blogs are dense and sparkly. As her waves of logic pull you along, the patterns in the economic sands are revealed to us all. Even though she is sharing explicit knowledge, her sharing, or “story telling” provides other information. I have a sense of her truth and fairness, of altruism in the desire to communicate, and her outrage over our current economy. So, from that vantage point, as one of the less informed, it is pretty easy to trust and work to understand what she says. I would feel that way even if I didn’t usually agree with her.
One of the ideas in knowledge management is that there is so much information in the world; that it is becoming difficult to evaluate what to read, where to get data, and whom to trust. How is good information to be gained?
One idea is to “fly” over the river of information and “dip” in, like a seagull might do for the right fish. This assumes the seagull, us, has a method of judging the fish or data, before she dips and bites, and after, if it turns up rotten. I can see how this method might work in an information technology system, where only tiny bits of data are identifiers. I don’t think dipping is proving so far, for me, at least, to efficiently make a judgment on quality, and absorb the information. I need much more time in the day.
For me, tacit knowledge often is what determines what I choose to read, and whether I read or not. As we flatten more and more of our information in order to compress it into the media river, it seems to me the fairness, research and depth I want in an article, a report, are getting harder to find. So this brings up another point.
As newspapers continue to retrench and media in general is taken over by the oligarchy, how are we going to find the real journalists? How are going to find our truth tellers? ? How we are going to support those who are?
090720 – Monday Ketchup
Posted in 51 Percent, Feminism, Great American Women, I Own My Vote, just say no deal, Politics, PUMA PAC, The New Agenda, women, tagged Afghanistan, Algae, Apollo, Bolden, Bowe Bergdahl, CA budget, Cherokee, Festival. NC, Frank McCourt, Garver, Indigenous, Moonwalk, NASA, Native American, Sci Fi, Space, Spacewalks, Taliban, The Blob, Walter Cronkite on July 20, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Footprints and trails.
What Quaker Dave SAID:
We won’t come close to what this felt like again until we touch Mars, or the next planet, or the next system. Even then, with the wonder of those events yet to arrive, they will be points on a continuum.
In the mean time, while humans are floating through the atmosphere of the Gods, we have the wonder of the first African American man to lead the NASA agency: Charles Bolden, and a woman, Lori Garver, as Deputy Administrator.
SacBee is reporting here this evening that California’s solons have, amazingly, reached a budget agreement, HERE.
Lest you get your hopes up, it still has to be ratified by legislature. I haven’t seen it yet; I have no idea what they came up with. They are hoping the plan’s ratification will give them the credit they need to acquire short term loans and avoid the IOU’s they have been reduced to.
We lost another pioneer this week, Walter Cronkite.
In addition, we lost a wonderful writer, Frank McCourt.
We are thinking of this MAN. We hope he returns soon.
In the fifth year of a growing tradition, North Carolina Cherokee hosted tribes from far-flung places including origins in Hawaii, Mexico, Peru, New Mexico, British Columbia, Oklahoma, and Arizona.
FESTIVAL HONORS HISTORY, HERITAGE, ART
[CHEROKEE, N.C. – Traditions, history and cultures collided as indigenous tribes gathered for the fifth annual Festival of Native Peoples, with a special Indian Art Market Preview on July 16, at the Cherokee Indian Fair Grounds….]
http://nativetimes.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2187&Itemid=0
We witnessed the return of the Blob, last seen in 1958, HERE. Since it was last dropped off in the Artic, it probably wasn’t too much of a swim to Alaska after all that global warming.
Do we sci-fi people know our stuff or what?
Meme Tag Games?
Posted in 51 Percent, Feminism, LGBT, Politics, PUMA PAC, The New Agenda, women, tagged Meme on July 20, 2009| 4 Comments »
Geez Shtuey!
– Oh yeah, I remember, playfulness is the sign of a superior mind and all that…
“It is requisite for the relaxation of the mind that we make use, from time to time, of playful deeds and jokes”
~ St. Thomas Aquinas quotes
Well, you’ve got both, and how sneaky can you get!
Okay,
1) I moved so much as a kid I tend to remember places by the foods I ate, and the landscape before I remember the people. Every time I moved back to S.F., Dave Brubeck”s “Take Five” would play on the radio coming over one of the bridges. It was a mystical experience always accompanied by appropriate angst and melancholy.
2) I like people, but they are exhausting to be around- I should have been a farmer or a tree hugger hermit. When you are with people you have to talk, and use words and explain yourself. Grunting, pointing and an eye roll or two are so much more satisfactory. Plus, there tends to be a big disconnect in my blogging life interests and those with whom I generally congregate. This leads to a lot of extra work just to get to the starting point of a discussion for those subjects. I always have admiration for those who have oodles of words, can be the life of the party and feed off of it.
3) I’ve been told I think like a “man”, whatever that means. (Venus? Mars? Free sex? Since I wound up in a “man’s” trade, I guess it’s a good thing I like them generally and like being around them. Don’t pass that info around however; it’s not the kind of discussion to have standing on a swing stage on the side of a building, or a roof. (Too much information, not enough explanation! What does she mean? Is she coming onto me? My God, my wife was right! I’m 40 stories up the wall with a crazy person!)
4) I love music, but it’s an intense experience. So, I can’t have music on if I am doing anything else, except maybe vacuuming, and sometimes driving. Since I am usually doing something, I don’t listen to much music.I love plays, symphonies, musicals, and maybe a little opera, and underground movies, but I never go anymore. I like the Dead, Santana, Celtic, John Cage, Heavy Metal, Pink, Blondie, Doors, Chilean, Sousa, Mexican polka, Jazz, some blue grass, the Animals, Prince, Acid Rain, B- 52’s, 40’s bebop, African, Reggae, Marley, – really it’s easier to say what I don’t like – rap, hip-hop, and western. Especially western! Especially modern western!!! I can live with some old country and backwoods folksong.
5) I do travel in my RV a lot and like ferreting around the back roads at my own pace. I just found out I might have something in common with Elisabeth Hasselback (Horrors!)– Celiac Disease. The RV, with its kitchen, might turn out to be my main source of travel. I guess it’s a good thing I like to cook from scratch as well. The RV also carries books, which is another good thing, since I like to read, read, read, and tend to collect them wherever I go.
6) Until recently I spent my workday absorbing a lot of minutiae and then dutifully regurgitating it. (Did you tie off? Did you check the scaffold ties? I cannot tell you to stop work, but I will not pass this area because you have failed to nail it off 3 inches on center, staggered. Where is the bill of lading that indicates this is lead free solder? You must return that mop bucket bitumen to the kettle, it is below 300 degrees. That’s interesting, why did you do that? Show me in the specifications where it says you can do that. What do you mean you don’t have the specs? You are scarring the aluminum, change your razor blade. I don’t give a rat’s ass if you have been doing that way for 15 years or not, it’s wrong and take it out! I told you, I’m not getting on the rig with you until we check the tie offs!) I’m trying to decide if I want return to this lovely and fulfilling line of work. Unfortunately, I’m pretty good at it, and there is a need. Perhaps, if I get the aforementioned Celiac thingy under control I may. It seems to have been sucking my energy for some time. The improvement since I went off wheat has been pretty stunning.
Remembering Seneca Falls
Posted in 51 Percent, election reform, Feminism, Great American Women, I Own My Vote, just say no deal, LGBT, Politics, PUMA PAC, The New Agenda, women, tagged Baptist Church, Declaration of Sentiments, Elders, Great Women, Jimmy Carter, Seneca Falls, Women's Rights on July 19, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Note-Violet over at the Reclusive Leftist had a great blog today and her redesigned site looks great!
Take a look and be sure and check out her link on Jimmy Carter’s comments about women and and religion there or HERE. It turns out to be a riff off the “Sentiments” Below.
Of course, you know that today is the 161st anniversary of the First Woman’s Rights Convention, don’t you?
Out of this convention was produced the “Declaration of Sentiments”, and a myriad other events which propelled women’s rights forward. Even though we sometimes might think we will break from the load of injustice we see and experience, some goals have been achieved.
Click the link above and review. How many sentiments do you think have been met so far?
The National Woman’s Hall of Fame In Seneca Falls Is putting on a celebration of the event. Can you make it?
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