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littlemissmartypants's JournalPrehistoric hunters weren't all male.
Prehistoric hunters weren't all male. Women killed big game, new discovery suggests
By Katie Hunt, CNN
Updated 2:00 PM EST, Wed November 04, 2020
(CNN)Men hunted. Women gathered. That has long been the prevailing view of our prehistoric ancestors.
But the discovery of a woman buried 9,000 years ago in the Andes Mountains with weapons and hunting tools, and an analysis of other burial sites in the Americas challenges this widely accepted division of labor in hunter-gatherer society.
The woman, thought to be between 17 and 19 years old when she died, was buried with items that suggested she hunted big-game animals by spear throwing -- stone projectile points for felling large animals, a knife and flakes of rock for removing internal organs, and tools for scraping and tanning hides.
"Labor practices among recent hunter-gatherer societies are highly gendered, which might lead some to believe that sexist inequalities in things like pay or rank are somehow 'natural,'" said lead study author Randy Haas, an assistant professor of anthropology at University of California, Davis, in a news release.
"But it's now clear that sexual division of labor was fundamentally different -- likely more equitable -- in our species' deep hunter-gatherer past."
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Much more at the link.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/04/americas/prehistoric-female-hunter-burial-scn/index.html
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Soon my daddy will be gone and I feel so helpless.
He has had prostate cancer for several years and it has spread to his bones and most likely starting to affect his vital organs. I saw him briefly a week ago and he was very thin and confused.
He adopted me when I was three years old. I am the product of a previous marriage. My mother left my father not knowing she was pregnant and daddy married her after I was born and she was able to divorce my biological father. Then he adopted me.
I have always been an outcast in my family. Not the real daughter according to my half sister who tormented me relentlessly. He has been a very good father. He took good care of mother and helped make a way for me.
When I was in high school I noticed that his mother, that I considered my grandmother, didn’t have a picture of me on the shelves with the other grandchildren and he took a picture, framed it and when he and I went for a visit he put it on her shelves with the others. I never saw it there again because grandmother kept it in a drawer after that but that act of kindness on his part meant so much.
He spent most of his life helping others. After over thirty years in the military he retired at top grade having reached as high as he could achieve. Then his volunteer career began. For more than twenty years after retirement he volunteered in every way imaginable.
Mostly for the community at large as a member of various boards. He was a Guardian Ad Litem. His caseload usually thirty or more at risk children. He was instrumental in creating a rape crisis center, a non profit psychological services center, worked to establish Big Brothers and Sisters in the county and received an award from the governor for his many good works.
Now he is close to death and Covid means that I can't be there for him. He does have my half sister who lives there and has been guilt tripping me because she wants nothing to do with the situation. My mother is there but she has had a long battle with depression, is a suicide survivor and has brain damage as a result of her attempt. She is suffering from a multi infarct dementia as well.
I want to help but when I went to see him they treated me like I was in the way. My sister said that I was being ridiculous because I masked up and practiced distancing.
I am used to being an outcast, frequently reminded I'm not the real daughter or a real sister. That's probably why I'm a loner. I wish I could help some way but I know that they really don't want me there.
He's been a really good daddy and I wish he could be with us just a little bit longer. I worry about what mother will do. I know her heart will be broken. I just want him to be with her a little while longer.
If I could make a deal with the devil to make that happen I would do it in a heart beat. Just a little bit longer. But I know he's near the end.
My sister is angry because I am not helping her. She's been complaining about me not helping and that she's going to have to take care of mother when he's gone. She thinks I should just ignore Covid because it is a hoax. She has not been practicing any precautions. I am not interested in risking my health because she wants to do her thing and not have to "deal with everything."
Mother is angry. My half sister is angry and daddy, who's been the glue, always telling us that he was "taking care of his girls" is slipping away.
I am devastatingly sad. I just got off the phone with mother. The nurse was there and again I'm just interrupting. There's nothing I can do. I am crying uncontrollably. I just need to get it all out.Then try to keep it together because it is going to get much worse and I have to be prepared. Thanks for reading this. I love my DU family. Everyone here means so much to me. Thank you.
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New way of cooking rice removes arsenic and retains mineral nutrients, study shows
New way of cooking rice removes arsenic and retains mineral nutrients, study shows
by University of Sheffield
Cooking rice in a certain way removes over 50 percent of the naturally occurring arsenic in brown rice, and 74 percent in white rice, according to new research.
A new paper, released today in Science of the Total Environment shows that cooking rice in a certain way removes over 50 percent of the naturally occurring arsenic in brown rice, and 74 percent in white rice. Importantly, this new method does not reduce micronutrients in the rice.
Following previous research from the University of Sheffield that found half of the rice consumed in the UK exceeded European Commission regulations for levels of arsenic in rice meant for the consumption for infants or young children. This new study tested different ways to cook rice to try and reduce the arsenic content and the team from the Institute for Sustainable Food found that by using a home-friendly way of cooking rice, the "parboiling with absorption method" (PBA), most of the arsenic was removed, while keeping most nutrients in the cooked rice.
The PBA method involves parboiling the rice in pre-boiled water for five minutes before draining and refreshing the water, then cooking it on a lower heat to absorb all the water.
Arsenic, which is classified as a Group 1 carcinogen by the International Agency for Research on Cancer, is water-soluble—so it accumulates in rice, which is grown in flooded fields more than other cereals. Arsenic exposure affects almost every organ in the body and can cause skin lesions, cancer, diabetes and lung diseases.
Rice is known to accumulate around ten times as much arsenic as other cereals. In rice grains arsenic is concentrated in the outer bran layer surrounding the endosperm. This means that brown rice, (unmilled or unpolished rice that retains its bran) contains more arsenic than white rice. This milling process removes arsenic from white rice but also removes 75-90% of its nutrients.
More at the link.
https://phys.org/news/2020-11-cooking-rice-arsenic-retains-mineral.html
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NC Early Voting Stats, Rejected Ballots
North Carolina Early Voting Statistics
Last Report: 11/02/2020
https://electproject.github.io/Early-Vote-2020G/NC.html
Ballots Rejected: 7,675
Rejection Rate: 0.8%
Most of these rejected ballots are for the ballot status reason of “WITNESS INFO INCOMPLETE”.
North Carolina election officials are required by state law to follow up with these voters. If you are a North Carolina voter concerned about your mail ballot, you can track the status of your ballot at the North Carolina State Board of Elections website.
https://northcarolina.ballottrax.net/voter/
In the “All” mail ballot returned statistics, I add the mail ballots that are returned and accepted with the rejected ballots. Dividing the number of rejected by this quantity yields a rejection rate.
Mail Ballots Rejected by Party Registration
•Party. •Rejects•Freq. Distrib•All Returns• Reject Rate
Democrats •3,929 •51.2 •429,376 •0.9
Republicans •1,407 •18.3 •192,59 •0.7
Minor •33 •0.4 •4,857 •0.7
No Affiliation •2,306 •30.0 •318,74 •0.7
TOTAL •7,675 •100.0 •945,570 •0.8
Non-Hispanic whites account for the highest number of rejected ballots with a total of 3,263 Non-Hispanic White ballots rejected. Registered Democrats account for the highest number of rejected ballots by party. Please check your ballot.
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You can still do your part to GOTV, Phone Bank!
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NAACP needs donations! Please help if you are able! Thank you.
https://click.everyaction.com/k/21078649/259487966/-1201503410?refcode=EM_FR_B1_103020_AC_60D&amount=25&amounts=5,10,25,50,100,250,500&nvep=ew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9UU00vVFNNTlAvMS8yODIzNiIsDQogICJEaXN0cmlidXRpb25VbmlxdWVJZCI6ICIwMWVlZjE4Ni1hODFjLWViMTEtOTZmNS0wMDE1NWQwM2JkYTAiLA0KICAiRW1haWxBZGRyZXNzIjogInJveGFubmVtb29yZUBsaXZlLmNvbSINCn0%3D&hmac=qbp4iwbAgxJBaeiUPPkWdfe0U1ydX8Ksm5uP5kC1QDk=Yesterday I received this email from the N.A.A.C.P.
Friend, this is urgent: Yesterday, Sheriffs in North Carolina pepper sprayed peaceful demonstrators on their way to the polls. The NAACP is leading the charge to protect the Black vote, but as these attacks on voters intensify, we’re facing a massive $100,000 deficit for our Protect the Polls Emergency Fund with just TWO DAYS until the election. We’re doing everything we can, but we need your help. Chip in now to fuel this fight!
It should go without saying that no democratic election should be won using violence, but here’s the truth of what we’re up against:
The Alamance Sheriff violated North Carolina Law when he ordered a pepper spray attack on unarmed, peaceful demonstrators on their way to the polls for the last day of early voting in North Carolina.
This Sheriff is no stranger to racialized tactics that deny human dignity. Do the Sheriff and his enablers want to go down in History as North Carolina’s Edmund Pettus Bridge? Do they want to bring national recognition to their County, want to remind the nation of its lynchings and hideous history of hate?
Black voters risked their lives for generations to secure the right to vote, it has been hard fought and hard won. Our people have sacrificed too much to sit on the political sidelines and watch history repeat itself.
There’s no denying that this election will be a defining moment in our nation's history, and it is our top priority to ensure every eligible Black voter can cast their ballot safely.
Increasing voter turnout is how we win, but with state sponsored violence like this on the rise, it is crucial that we come together to protect voters at the polls and we need your help if we’re going to be successful!
We’re $100,000 short of our goal for the Protect the Polls Emergency Fund and if we don’t close the gap in 48 HOURS, vulnerable voters could be left defenseless. This goal seems daunting, but every penny you can spare gets us closer. It’s going to take a groundswell of grassroots support from people like you to make sure we have the resources needed.
Please make a generous donation today and together we will continue to build a powerful coalition for change that will bend the moral arc towards justice! Can we count on you to help us close the $100,000 fundraising gap ahead of this historic election?
The march continues,
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Men Who Hate Women by Laura Bates
Transcript of interview with Christiane Amanpour on October 28, 2020.
The full interview is pending and when available, will be posted here:
https://www.pbs.org/wnet/amanpour-and-company/video/
and on the Amanpour and Company YouTube channel.
The Repercussions of Misogyny in Society
Introduction
In her new book, “Men Who Hate Women,” feminist writer Laura Bates takes audiences behind the curtain of gender warfare to expose communities of extreme misogyny, where men are taught to hate and punish women. Christiane speaks with Bates about her difficult, often disturbing findings.
CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR: Laura, the title of your book is really quite worrying and actually frightening. I mean, it’s called “Men Who Hate Women.” There’s no ifs, ands or buts about it, no qualifiers. What made you write that book and what is the nut graph, so to speak, in what you are trying to impart?
LAURA BATES, FOUNDER, EVERYDAY SEXISM PROJECT: Well, I suppose it’s important that the book is called “Men Who Hate Women” and not “Men Hate Women.” So, we are talking about a very specific small group of men. Of course, this isn’t about all men. I started writing the book because I was aware of extremist communities of what you might call male supremacists online as a feminist writer and researcher. But for me, I started to recognize the impact they were having on young people on my school visits. As part of my work, I talk to young people in schools across the country around the world. And over the last couple of years, I started to notice that I was coming into contact with more and more teenage boys who had been radicalized online with very hate-fueled ideas about women, really extreme misogyny, who had been taught to believe, for example, that there is an epidemic of false rape accusations raging, that there is a feminist conspiracy at the heart of government designed to topple white men from their jobs. And I realized that by any other name, we would call this grooming or radicalization, if it were another group propagating hatred amongst young people, but very few people know about these groups, even though they actually take their ideology offline and commit real life atrocities in the name of this extremist misogyny.
AMANPOUR: You know what, all I have to do is swap ISIS for what you’re talking about and I think you’re talking about grooming, radicalizing, you know, young men or vulnerable youth, for some kind of war against the demographic. And in a way, that’s what you’re saying. I just want to read something that you say in the book. We do not use the word terrorism when describing a crime of mass murder committed by a white man with the explicit intention of creating terror and spreading hatred against a specific demographic group, even though that is the definition of terrorism. If the demographic in question is women, the man is just disturbed, deranged, a lone wolf. Are you basically saying the authorities should be looking into this in a serious a manner they do in terms of terrorist recruitment?
BATES: Absolutely, because it meets every international definition to be described as such. I’m talking here about massacres like Elliot Rodgers, Santa Barbara massacre, where six people were killed and 14 injured, or Alek Minassian, the Toronto van attacker who drove a speeding rental van into crowds, killing 10 people and injuring 16, the majority of them women. These are attacks that have been explicitly carried out, their attackers have made very clear in the name of an extremist hatred of women, but we don’t consider them terrorism, although we would for another form of attack carried out for similar motives.
More at the link.
https://www.pbs.org/wnet/amanpour-and-company/video/the-repercussions-of-misogyny-in-society/
Click "Read Transcript" to view entire interview transcript.
Eye opening report.
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Supreme Court Win for extended vote counting, NPR Tweets
JUST IN: The Supreme Court, in separate decisions, allowed North Carolina and Pennsylvania to extend their dates to count mail-in ballots. Justice Amy Coney Barrett did not participate in either case.
https://t.co/eHs99Qic6t
https://twitter.com/NPR/status/1321613544715100162?s=19
NEW: The Supreme Court has rejected a bid from Republicans to block North Carolina’s absentee ballot extension.
The ruling means the state can count mail-in ballots received up to nine days after Election Day as long as they’re postmarked by Election Day.
https://twitter.com/nprpolitics/status/1321601751125008384?s=19
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