Stewart Slams the GOP for Their 'Craven Political Calculation' to Win Back the Hispanic Vote

After giving his viewers a little reminder of what the Republicans sounded like during the 2012 Republican presidential primary race and their blatant race baiting and fearmongering over "illegal immigrants" Jon Stewart took Sen. John McCain and his buddies to task for their "craven political calculation" to try to "squeeze out enough votes" to make states like Nevada competitive again with their flip-flop on passing some sort of immigration reform.

Stewart brought on his correspondent Al Madrigal for his input as to whether the Republicans are going to be successful in their endeavor and Madrigal wasn't too optimistic, given that they appear to be holding their noses while doing what's obviously just politically expedient rather than something they actually support and due to the length of time that "Latinos hold grudges" and who are not going to forget any time soon the way they've been treated by Republicans.

When Stewart asked if there was another demographic they might have any more luck with in the future, like African Americans or women, Madrigal's fellow correspondent Jessica Williams interrupted the segment and put in her two cents about the fact that Republicans aren't going to have any luck there either, especially after remarks like those from "legitimate rape" Todd Akin and the House Republicans deciding to hold their annual retreat -- where they were supposed to be focusing on minority outreach -- at a former slave plantation.

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Women in the U.S. Military and Combat, by the Numbers

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta on Thursday removed the direct ground combat exclusion rule for women in the U.S. military. The White House called the move "another historic step toward harnessing the talents and skills of all our citizens." Panetta, after gaining unanimous approval from the Joint Chiefs of Staff, also announced the removal of gender-based barriers to service.

Although relatively new in a department-wide policy shift, women have been in combat situations throughout our nation's history.

237,000: The number of positions in the U.S. military in which women cannot serve. NPR reports many combat positions are infantry roles in the U.S. Army. A smaller number of combat positions exist in the Marine Corps. All branches of the service have until May 15 to make plans for integration of women into combat roles. Of the new positions open, 184,000 are in combat arms professions.

1.4 million: The number of active duty military personnel currently in the U.S. Armed Forces.

14,000: The number of new military job assignment opportunities that opened up for women after policy changes last February . All but 1,000 of them were in the Army with positions such as tank mechanic and field artillery radar operator.

280,000: The number of women deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq since 2001. More than 150 women have been killed and 800 wounded due to action in both countries. Women often serve as helicopter pilots in war zones and as rescue pilots.

8: The percentage of veterans who were women in 2009, according to a Veteran's Affairs report . That number is expected to rise to 15 percent by 2035. Currently, there are roughly 1.5 million women who are veterans of the U.S. military.

860,000: The total number of women who have served in the U.S. military in wartime dating back to the Spanish-American War in the late 19th century. Of those who served, more than 580 were casualties.

14.6: The number of percentage of women who make up the active duty force. The largest percentage of women serve in the Air Force with a rate of 19.2 percent as of January 2011.

2.5 million: The number of women estimated to have served in the U.S. military . Around 250,000 women have their names permanently enshrined at the Women in Military Service for America Memorial in Washington.

202,400: The number of women currently on active duty in the U.S. military.

1: The number of women awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor , the highest medal awarded for service to the military. Civilian Dr. Mary Walker earned the medal for her actions throughout the U.S. Civil War. President Andrew Johnson gave Walker the medal Nov. 11, 1865. It was rescinded in 1917 before being reinstated by President Jimmy Carter in 1977, according to the Congressional Medal of Honor Society .

William Browning is a research librarian specializing in U.S. politics.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/women-u-military-combat-numbers-221800769.html

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Newtown Victims' Families Join Gun-Control Activists on DC March

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Near-freezing temperatures didn't stop several thousand gun-control activists from bearing their pickets today, carrying signs emblazoned with "Ban Assault Weapons Now" and the names of gun violence victims in a demonstration organized as a response to the mass shooting in Newtown, Conn. last month.

Walking in silence, the demonstrators trudged between Capitol Hill and the Washington Monument over a thin layer of melting snow. They were joined by politicians and some families of the Newtown victims.

March organizer Shannon Watts said the event was for the "families who lost the lights of their lives in Newtown, daughters and sons, wives and mothers, grandchildren, sisters and brothers gone in an unfathomable instant."

"Let's stand together and use our voices, use our votes to let legislators know that we won't stand down until they enact common sense gun control laws that will keep our children out of the line of fire," she told demonstrators.

Watts founded One Million Moms for Gun Control after the killing of 20 first graders and six adults at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown in December. In a profile with the New York Times, Watts said her 12-year-old son had suffered panic attacks after learning of last summer's Aurora, Colo., theater shooting, leaving her at an impasse over how to talk to him about the latest tragedy.

Also among the speakers was a survivor of the 2007 Virginia Tech massacre, Collin Goddard.

"We need to challenge any politician who thinks it's easier to ask an elementary school teacher to stand up to a gunman with an AR-15 than it is to ask them to stand up to a gun lobbyist with a checkbook," he said.

The demonstration comes amid a push by progressive lawmakers to enact stricter gun control measures as a response to the trend of recent mass killings, although any hypothetical bill would likely face strong opposition in Congress.

Rep. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., was among the demonstrators today.

"The idea that people need high-capacity magazines that can fire 30, 50, 100 rounds has no place in a civilized society," he said. "Between the time we're gathered here right now and this time of day tomorrow, across America, 282 Americans will have been shot."

The congressman was quoting statistics compiled by the Brady Campaign to Stop Gun Violence.

INFOGRAPHIC: Guns by the Numbers

Last week President Obama proposed a sweeping overhaul of federal measures regulating gun ownership, including a universal background check system for sales, banning assault weapons, and curbing the amount of ammunition available in weapon clips.

An ABC News/Washington Post poll released Thursday found 53 percent of Americans viewed Obama's gun control plan favorably, 41 percent unfavorably. The division was visible today, as a handful of gun-rights advocates also turned out on the National Mall to protest what they believe would be infringements on their Second Amendment liberties.

ABC's Joanne Fuchs contributed to this report.

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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/newtown-victims-families-join-gun-control-activists-dc-215945128--abc-news-politics.html

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Thank YOU Small Business: Podio National Tour | Podio Blog

23.01.13 Posted in Work by Lilly Hanscom

Did you know that small businesses employ over half of the US workforce? The role small businesses play in the economy and the value they create is sometimes underestimated because individually, they are in fact, small. But the truth is without small businesses, where would half the country work? And, without small businesses like yours, where would Podio be?

Our user community is made up of thousands of small businesses who chose Podio to help them organize, grow and contribute to the economy in many untold ways. We?ve found some of those stories to tell: check out Metonoymy?s storytelling business, marketing agency Vert, or designers POTG. After years of economic turmoil, we think small businesses deserve a big ?Thank You? from everyone!

That?s why we?re teaming up with Silver Lining Limited, an organization dedicated to helping small businesses flourish, and heading to a city near you to celebrate small businesses and give something back (read: free stuff!).

If you are a small business owner, you are invited to join Podio, Silver Lining and 10 other national partners for an evening of learning, networking and celebration (and of course, free stuff)!

We?re hosting 10 FREE events for small business owners across the US in January and February. Find your nearest city and register at the links below

• New York, NY: January 28, 2013
• Detroit, MI: January 29, 2013?- Hosted by Dream Hampton and Megan O?Connell, Salt & Cedar
• Portland, ME: January 31, 2013?- Hosted by Kate Moller Northrup, The Freedom Family
• Philadelphia, PA: February 5, 2013?- Hosted by Megan Burns
• Dallas, TX: February 6, 2013
• Atlanta, GA: February 7, 2013
• Denver, CO: February 11, 2013
• Tucson, AZ: February 13, 2013
• Las Vegas, NV: February 19, 2013
• Oakland, CA: February 21, 2013

Why you should register and attend:

• Hear inspiring words of encouragement and valuable tips from a successful entrepreneur who knows what it is like to run a small business.
• Learn the best ways to evaluate your business model, set achievable financial goals and build out an action plan to actually hit those targets.
• Have the opportunity to network with both local and national small business owners to share tips, tools, war stories and success stories.
• Receive tons of free gifts and resources to help your grow your businesses.
• Meet some Podios or other Podio users!

This event is part of a national movement ? Thank You Small Business ? which was created through the collaboration of over 100 national and local partners. ?The goal of this movement is three-fold:

1. Increase the awareness about the importance of small businesses to the economy and spread the word to the general public that we CAN, and in fact will change the economy ? one small business at a time ? simply through our support.

2. Thank and support no less than 25,000 small businesses with thank you cards, 10 free events, 20 free webinars and access to a special Podio small business community FULL of free resources to help small businesses grow.

3. Throughout the tour, we will release and update the Thank You Small Business Economic Report which is full of information on exactly how we can change the economy as we know it. In addition, as we travel the country, we will be gathering real stories, stats and feedback from small businesses.

You can stay updated on all of the exciting announcements for Thank You Small Business by following them on Twitter and Facebook.

Want to get everyone you know involved in the movement? ?Let others know about the Thank You Small Business Support Tour & Webinars ? all of which are free for small business owners. All event information can be found at: http://thankyousmallbusiness.com/live-events/

We?re so excited and proud to be a partner of such a great cause and we hope to see you face to face soon.

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Letters of Alfred Russel Wallace Go Online

The near-complete archive allows the sometimes overlooked 19th-century naturalist to emerge from Darwin's shadow

By James Poskett and Nature magazine

This portrait of Alfred Russel Wallace (1823?1913) was painted in 1923 by J. W. Beaufort. The Natural History Museum in London took it out of storage and unveiled it on 24 January to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the great naturalist's death. Image: Natural History Museum

Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace are credited for co-discovering evolution by natural selection in early 1858. But on one morning back in the summer of 1852, as Wallace had just finished his breakfast, evolution nearly went up in smoke.

Wallace was on a ship in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, relaxing in his cabin, when the captain strolled in and announced, perhaps too calmly: ?I am afraid the ship's on fire. Come and see what you think of it."

Within a few hours, the vessel was on its side, engulfed in flames. Sitting in a small lifeboat 1,100 kilometers from land, with minimal supplies, Wallace almost fell victim to the very process he would later uncover ? what we would today call survival of the fittest.

Thankfully, after ten days, Wallace was rescued by the Jordeson, a brig running between the West Indies and London. On arriving back home, he was overjoyed, writing to a friend: ?Oh! Glorious day! ? Beef steaks and damson tart, a paradise for hungry sinners.?

This episode is just one of many to emerge from Wallace Letters Online, launched today on the website of the Natural History Museum in London. It is a project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation based in New York City to track down and digitize Wallace?s correspondence.

So far, the open-access database contains nearly 4,000 letters sent to and from the famous naturalist, or about 95% of his known surviving correspondence. The database is fully searchable and includes transcripts as well as scans of many of the letters. The launch of this database is part of Wallace100, a series of events celebrating Wallace?s life and work during the centenary of his death.

Darwin is so strongly associated with natural selection that Wallace is sometimes forgotten. However, with the launch of this database, scientists and historians can better understand the personal and scientific relationship between these two men. ?This is the first time that all of the Darwin and Wallace correspondence has been published in full,? says George Beccaloni, director of the project.

Shortly after the publication of Darwin?s On the Origin of Species in 1859, scientific debate turned to the problem of animal coloration: could natural selection explain the bright pigments observed in so many species? ?It was the test case of the new theory,? says Beccaloni.

Letters in the database address this, as well as topics as diverse as biogeography, socialism and phrenology. Currently, 60% of the letters have viewable images and 36% have transcripts. Over the next three years, the Natural History Museum intends to complete the transcripts, hiring two professional historians to produce scholarly annotations. ?The hope is that Wallace Letters Online will lead to a renaissance in research about Wallace,? says Beccaloni.

This article is reproduced with permission from the magazine Nature. The article was first published on January 24, 2013.

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Digital Anthropology's To Do List | Savage Minds

At the 2012 annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association we hosted the first business meeting of the Digital Anthropology Group. I ran the meeting like a focus group and the forty or so anthropologists in attendance, from grad students to senior professors, participated with gusto.

Growing out of conversations about Digital Anthropology here on Savage Minds the focus questions were arranged around six prongs. I know forks usually have four prongs? but DANG is a really big fork, okay? The purpose of the exercise was to discover what DANG?s mission should be for each theme and to come away with an actionable project.

You can access the notes on the topics we discussed via 01anthropology:

1. Cyberworlds/ Digital Studies
2. Blogging
3. Public Anthropology
4. Teaching
5. Open Access
6. Field Methods

In the coming weeks I?ll share with you our observations about the information we collected and reproduce the suggestions we came up with. In opening up the conversation to the Savage Minds community I am hoping to revive interest in a Digital Anthropology by including more voices.

I am also hoping to cheer, flatter, and shame my colleagues into contributing their time and talents for the future success of the Digital Anthropology interest group. Without a doubt my top priority at this juncture is to keep the momentum we gained from meeting in person from dying out before we meet again in Chicago, 2013.

To move from success to success we should find where the excitement is. So let?s start where there seemed to be the most energy. One of the reasons I love Internet people like us, is that we can all pitch in a little time and work together to achieve something that would otherwise be a lot of work.

The study of online communities and Internet culture/ sociality
Of all the topics we discussed at the business meeting the cohort of anthros interested in the study of online culture was the most energetic. I observed that they were mostly younger individuals and they were joined by a representative from the Society for Visual Anthropology. She came bearing the news that the SVA was interested in offering DANG an invited session for 2013.

Two goals were suggested in this important area of anthropological study. First was the creation of a code of ethics for Internet research and for the use of new technology in ?traditional? fields of study. In addition it was suggested that we take steps to create a lexicon, ala Keywords, to collect important terms in order to facilitate professional communication by codifying terminology.

We have a great opportunity to create an invited session with the SVA for the 2013 annual meeting and maybe those papers could grow into full-fledged articles as a special themed issue of something.

Blogging, tweeting, and their kin
A number of seasoned bloggers congregated around the issue of how the Internet was changing the way professional anthropologists communicate, share, and collaborate. After the brain storming session, it was suggested that we create an anthropology blog aggregator that could use the popularity of high profile bloggers to bring more clicks to lesser known authors by putting them in juxtaposition on the same page.

It was also suggested that we create a venue for some kind of blog award. Every section and group in the AAA brings attention to itself and its subject by highlighting their best work. We should do this too as a way of getting more anthropologists to blog and to heap praise and CV lines upon deserving bloggers.

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We talked about more than this, but let?s start here. Anyone interested in hooking up with SVA? Opining on ethical concerns of digital anth? Making a Keywords for social science on the Internet?

How about starting a greatest hits aggregator? Or setting the criteria for blog awards?

Matt Thompson is adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice at Old Dominion University. He was once cast as a soldier in Andrew Jackson's army in a theatrical production on an Indian reservation.

Source: http://savageminds.org/2013/01/22/digital-anthropologys-to-do-list/

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