MooPig Dancing With the Whales Department :: "Whale Eyes"

Bryant Austin, In the Eye of the Whale
Snagged by Pat Darnell | Apr 11, 2013 | Bryan TX

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You're Eye-to-Eye With a Whale in the Ocean. What Does It See? - Alexis C. Madrigal - The Atlantic: "Why is it disturbing? Because, as Austin puts it, the whale challenges him "to reevaluate our perceptions of intelligent, conscious life on this planet." This mammal's eye -- lens, cornea, pupil, retina, photoreceptors and ganglion nerve cells -- is a direct passageway into its brain. And when we look at it, Austin can't help but see an intelligence there, a connection to a brain that, perhaps, works enough like ours for us to understand each other."

'via Blog this'

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This The Atlantic article is worth reading. 

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http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/03/youre-eye-to-eye-with-a-whale-in-the-ocean-what-does-it-see/274448/
http://www.happenstand.com/sanfrancisco/events/5771-in-the-eye-of-the-whale
http://tuugu.tumblr.com/
http://www.malcolmhorton.co.uk/through-the-whales-eye-poster-pr-286.html#.UWaAhJPvveI

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BALLSTOCK at Santa's VILLAGE, Maybe

Honest to Goodness Night Shift Sack-Lunch
A Fantasy Collaborative Pair-of-Dimes between MooPig Enterprises and Pribek dot Net 

Stock Balls

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FLYERS 

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COWS Says Women still Earn Less in Comparisons

" ... Maybe this will be an opportunity for people
to rethink paid employment, particularly now
that families are dependent on the earnings of
the wife. A lot of the jobs out here for women
are in nursing or as home health aides. Those
are not jobs that pay family-sustaining wages.
Eileen Appelbaum, Economist and Director
Center for Women and Work at Rutgers University
(as quoted in Newsweek) ... "

Research for this report was provided by Jessa Lewis Valentine, Senior Research Specialist, Center on Wisconsin Strategy, and Greta Voltz, Research Intern, Wisconsin Women’s Council.
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Center on Wisconsin Strategy
The Center on Wisconsin Strategy (COWS) is a policy center and field laboratory for high road economic development — a competitive market economy of shared prosperity, environmental sustainability, and capable democratic government. Housed at University of Wisconsin-Madison, COWS has been supporting progressive policy innovation since 1991. For more information: www.cows.org.

Nevertheless, the gender wage gap remains persistent and substantial. In 2009, women earned 81 cents on the dollar compared to men (see Figure 1). This gender wage gap is slightly wider than the 2008 gap of 82 cents on the dollar. With a median hourly wage of $14.50 in 2009, Wisconsin women’s wages were roughly 19 percent lower than men’s. At this rate, a full-time woman worker in the state would earn around $30,200 per year, on average, compared to more than $37,400 per year for men—a difference of over $7,000 in earnings annually.

For all Wisconsin workers, education—particularly securing a four-year degree—pays off in increased wages. However, while the gender wage gap diminishes with higher levels of education, men earn more than women at all education levels, as shown in Figure 2. In 2009, women with a high school diploma earned 75 cents on the dollar compared to men with the same education. This improves to 80 cents on the dollar for women with a Bachelors degree and to 89 cents on the dollar for women with more than a four-year degree, compared to similarly educated men.

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Soccer coach trying to take back child-porn guilty plea
March 15, 2010 7:22 PM  |  Retrieved by P Darnell  |  SOURCE
A Coal City soccer coach and paramedic described by his former attorney as a "community hero" is attempting to rescind his guilty plea on federal child pornography charges, in part because he wasn't wearing his glasses when he entered the plea.

Investigators were led to Timothy Scholtes after they found his name and login ID -- "boypleaser" -- on servers used by a child pornography Web site in 2008, according to the criminal complaint.

Authorities then found more than 100 illegal images on Scholtes' computer, records show. They also found a document he apparently wrote that describes sexually assaulting players on his team, records show.

In October, Scholtes pleaded guilty in federal court before Judge Robert Gettleman to two counts of receiving child pornography on his computer and one count of enticing a minor to engage in filmed sexual activity. He was not charged with sexually assaulting anyone.

Then Scholtes, who is being held in the Kankakee County jail, fired his attorney. His new attorney, Gerardo Gutierrez, compared the October plea hearing in a filing last week to the rushed final round of the television show "Jeopardy!"

Gutierrez acknowledged it will be "extremely difficult" for Scholtes to withdraw his plea but argues the judge failed to properly determine Scholtes understood the charges he faced before accepting it. Scholtes cannot read without his glasses and did not have them on the day he made his plea or when he met with prosecutors to discuss the case weeks before, Gutierrez said.

Scholtes also was charged in Grundy County last year with indecent solicitation after allegedly propositioning a boy on his soccer team who refused the advance. Grundy County State's Attorney Sheldon Sobol said the charge was dismissed pending the federal case's outcome.

Among the challenges Scholtes faces in rescinding his plea are his own words.

"There is times I've sat in my cell and wondered, 'Did I do this?'" Scholtes said at his plea hearing, according to an excerpted transcript included in last week's filing. "And I've just blocked it out and don't remember doing it. I don't know, sir. The only thing I can say is that I did it."

--Steve Schmadeke

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