let’s make this REAL SIMPLE. people. my people. my fellow ‘murkans. i think you know by now that we are at a pivotal moment in the presidential nomination. i just spent a whole week with Jason Webley and we were talking a *lot* about how effing intimidating the whole caucus/promary PROCESS is, and we’re, like, smart (we think.) ANYWAY…if you live in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Massachusetts,Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, Colorado or Minnesota OR American Samoa, tomorrow (march 1st) is YOUR DAY TO GO MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD IN THE PRIMARY!!!
DON’T BE INTIMIDATED BY THE PROCESS!!!!
it can be really CONFUSING to know where to go, and how to do it, and whether you’re even eligible.
DO NOT FEAR! here, in one facebook post, care of jason who did a lot of the dirty work for us (he pulled info from a BUNCH of different sites!), is all YOU COULD POSSIBLY NEED TO KNOW ABOUT TOMORROW!
I REPEAT! DO NOT BE INTIMIDATED BY THE PROCESS!!!
we don’t care if you vote/caucus for.
we’d rather you vote for ANYBODY then NOBODY. our democracy doesn’t work unless you go….so GO! MAKE YOUR VOICE COUNT.
without further ado:
here’s a list that jason put together to DE-CONFUSE YOU!
if you don’t live in a super tuesday state, think about who does, and get these infos over to them!!!!*****
SUPER TUESDAY (March 1, 2016) A quick last minute explanation of the process state by state, and how to vote! (I’ve tried my best to make this as accurate and complete as possible, but there’s a lot of contradictory information out there. Hopefully I got it all figured out correctly.
MORE INFO ON **WHERE** YOU VOTE IN YOUR EXACT STATE IS HERE: http://www.ibtimes.com/where-do-i-vote-how-find-polling-places-super-tuesday-2016-2326610
ALABAMA: Alabama has an OPEN PRIMARY, meaning you can vote any time during the election day for any candidate regardless of your registered party. In order to vote in the primary, you need to have registered to vote in Alabama by February 15th. You can find your registration information and polling location here. Just go to your polling place during polling hours and cast your ballot.
All polls in the state are open from 7 am to 7 pm.
Alabama requires ID to vote, and you MUST declare a party preference for your vote to be counted (but this party doesn’t need to be the same as the candidate you are voting for.) Absentee ballots can be mailed in, but must have been requested by February 25th and be postmarked by February 29.ALASKA: Alaska Republicans vote on Super Tuesday from 3-8 pm. It isn’t quite a primary or a caucus. They explain it, sort of, here. Whatever it is, it is CLOSED so you need to register Republican to vote Republican. And absentee ballots are not allowed. (The Democrats hold their caucus later in the month on March 26.)
ARKANSAS: Arkansas has an OPEN PRIMARY, meaning you can vote you can vote any time during the election day for any candidate regardless of your registered party.
In order to vote in the primary, you need to have registered to vote in Arkansas by February 1st. (But if you haven’t registered, you should get registered so you can participate in the general election.) You can check your registration and polling location here. Just go to your polling place during polling hours and cast your ballot. All polls in the state are open from 7:30 am to 7:30 pm. Arkansas requires ID to vote. It does allow early voting at certain locations. Absentee Ballots can be mailed in, but must have been requested seven days before the primary and arrive before the end of day on March 1st.COLORADO: Colorado has CLOSED CAUCUSES, meaning you must attend a caucus at 7 pm on Super Tuesday and be registered with the part of the candidate you wish to caucus for. Colorado Republicans do not select a presidential preference in 2016. In order to participate in the Democratic caucus, you must have registered with the Democratic Party by January 4th. You can check your registration here. Democrats can look up their caucus time and location here. Democratic caucuses take place at 7 pm, but it is recommended to show up at least a half hour before the caucus begins. Colorado requires ID to caucus.
GEORGIA: Georgia has an OPEN PRIMARY, meaning you can vote any time during the election day for any candidate regardless of your registered party. In order to vote in the primary, you need to have registered to vote in Georgia by February 1st. You can check your registration and polling location here. Just go to your polling place during polling hours and cast your ballot. All polls in the state are open from 7 am to 7 pm. If you are working during polling times, Georgia law requires employers to provide 2 hours of paid leave to employees for voting. Georgia requires ID to vote. Absentee Ballots can be mailed in, but must have been requested two days before the primary.
MASSACHUSETTS
Massachusetts has a SEMI OPEN PRIMARY, meaning you can vote any time during the election day, but you must be registered with your candidate’s party or as “undeclared” for your vote to be counted. In order to vote in the primary, you need to have registered to vote in Massachusetts by February 10th. You can check your registration and polling location here. Just go to your polling place during polling hours and cast your ballot. All polls in the state are open from 7 am to 8 pm, though many locations open even earlier. Massachusetts requires ID to vote. Absentee Ballots can be mailed in, but must have been requested before 12 pm on the day before the primary.MINNESOTA Minnesota has an OPEN CAUCUS, meaning meaning you must attend a caucus at 7 pm on Super Tuesday, but you can caucus for any candidate regardless of your registered party. Minnesota allows SAME DAY REGISTRATION, meaning you can still register to vote on the same day as the caucus as long as you have lived in Minnesota for 20 days and ill be 18 at the time on November 8, 2016. You can check your registration here. To find your caucus location (either Democrat or Republican) enter your address here. Caucuses take place at 7 pm, but it is recommended to show up at least a half hour before the caucus begins especially if you need to register. Minnesota DOES NOT REQUIRE ID to vote, unless you are registering at the caucus day.
OKLAHOMA
Oklahoma has a SEMI OPEN PRIMARY, meaning you can vote any time during the election day, but you must be registered with your candidate’s party or as “independent” for your vote to be counted. In order to vote in the primary, you need to have registered to vote in Oklahoma by February 5th. You can check your registration and polling location here. Just go to your polling place during polling hours and cast your ballot. All polls in the state are open from 8 am to 6 pm. Oklahoma requires ID to vote. Absentee Ballots can be mailed in, but must have been requested by Feb 24.TENNESSEE
Tennessee has OPEN PRIMARIES, meaning you can vote any time during the election day for any candidate regardless of your registered party. In order to vote in the primary, you need to have registered to vote in Tennessee by February 1st. You can check your registration and polling location here. Just go to your polling place during polling hours and cast your ballot. Polling hours vary from county to county, however most are open from 7 am to 7 pm. Tennessee requires ID to vote. Absentee Ballots can be mailed in, but must have been requested two days before the primary.TEXAS
Texas has OPEN PRIMARIES, meaning you can vote any time during the election day for any candidate regardless of your registered party. In order to vote in the primary, you need to have registered to vote in Texas by February 1st. You can check your registration and polling location here. Just go to your polling place during polling hours and cast your ballot. All polls in the state are open from 7 am to 7 pm. Texas requires ID to vote. Absentee Ballots can be mailed in, but must have been requested seven days before the primary.VERMONT
Vermont has OPEN PRIMARIES, meaning you can vote any time during the election day for any candidate regardless of your registered party. In order to vote in the primary, you need to have registered to vote in Vermont by February 24th. You can check your registration and find your polling place here. Just go to your polling place during polling hours and cast your ballot. All polls in the state are open from 10 am to 7 pm. Most polls open earlier. Vermont does not require ID to vote, (unless you are a first time voter that did not provide verification when registering.) Absentee ballots can be requested up until 5 pm the day before the election.VIRGINIA
Virginia has OPEN PRIMARIES, meaning you can vote any time during the election day for any candidate regardless of your registered party. In order to vote in the primary, you need to have registered to vote in Virginia by February 7th. You can check your registration and find your polling location here. Just go to your polling place during polling hours and cast your ballot. All polls in the state are open from 16 am to 7 pm. Virginia requires ID to vote. Absentee ballots can be used but must have been requested a week before the primary.AMERICAN SAMOA American Samoa also hold their Democratic Caucuses on Super Tuesday. A bunch of other states are following close on the heels of Super Tuesday – Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Nebraska, Puerto Rico, Hawaii, Idaho, Michigan, Mississippi, DC, Florida, Illinois, Missouri, North Carolina and Ohio all take place in the first two weeks of March.
let’s do this, people!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(and…..IF YOU LIVE IN ANY OF THE SUPER TUESDAY STATES, LET US KNOW HOW YOU’RE GETTING THERE! who knows, there might be a ride-share opportunity. but mostly: be a good influence! get people out to caucus and vote in the primary!)
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Story Time: in 2012, when I still lived in Florida, I used to work for a credit union, and I had the absolute worst manager and assistant manager. They were sloppy, lazy, and offloaded their work onto other people. No biggie; I’m grown and I can handle my job and not stress because I’m damned good at it. Problem: the manager and assistant manager, who happened to be best friends in real life, also happen to be very, very conservative older women. I’m talking like, hardcore conservative Christians, the kind who are not very good people and are very unlike Christ. I don’t make it a point to tell people I work with my business because when you work, you’re busy and you don’t want to burden other people, right? At least, I don’t. Subject of my love life comes up after a while of me staying in my lane, and I’m also not a liar, so I casually mention that I happen to be gay and I’m dating someone at the time.
The change in my managers was almost immediate. From that point on they tried their utmost to make my life miserable, but I wasn’t going to break. Fast forward about a month after this mess and one of the tellers, Tanika, and I have become really good friends, and she pulls me aside one Monday morning to tell me that she overheard the manager and assistant manager talking about firing me, and she didn’t want to get too involved, but she didn’t think it was fair so she wnated to give me a headsup. Here’s the best part: these asshats are SO lazy that they literally say – or so Tanika tells me- that they’ll wait for the end of the week to do it, because otherwise they would have no one to cover my Wednesday shift, and they’d have to sit on the teller line, and no siree Bob, they’re too good for that! Too important! Too. Fucking. Lazy.
Immediately I type up a two week notice at my station, print that shit out, and take it to that sloppy ass manager in her sloppy ass office. They have no receipts on me, but these people will find anything and use it to get rid of you if they can, and I’m not having a forcible termination on my record and dealing with how that will look to future employers. Keep in mind that I’m not supposed to know that they’re planning on firing me, and I’ve done my homework on company policy about two week notices (they had just changed it in January, and it was February). I give her the paper, sit in front of her, tell her some cock and bull story about needing more time for school. She looks upset, tells me to leave the letter, and go back to my station. I pull out a second copy of the letter and say: “Sure! But, first, I need your signature on this one, which is my copy of the two week notice.” Her face was a Goddamned mask at this point, but I could tell she was burning up inside. She’s trapped; she has to either sign it and pretend everything is fine, or she refuses and I go in on her for her “suspicious behavior” and call her higher ups. She signs my copy. I go back and finish my day.
Day ends and the assistant manager comes to me and tells me they have spoken to the president of the credit union and they have decided to terminate me anyway. Tells me I need to turn in my drawer and vault keys immediately and leave the premises. I refuse; “I’m not leaving until we count my drawer down together, I have a printed and signed copy of my balance, and you have signed paperwork confirming that I have given you all keys back.” She has no choice. I walk out with all necessary paperwork, get home, and immediately email the credit union president telling him what happened and how I think it’s utterly unprofessional for an employer to behave this way. He calls me the next day to my personal phone, and tells me the manager and assistant manager both told him I had quit on the spot and walked out without so much as a goodbye. I tell him I have a signed two week notice from the manager, because this sloppy ho can’t even keep own story together for five minutes. He tells me to photocopy it and email it to him. I do. Tells me he is going to have a discussion with the manager and call me back ASAP. Calls me back, apologizes profusely, and tells me that I shouldn’t have been treated as such, so he offers to pay me for the two weeks I had give notice for, ON TOP of an extra two weeks of compensation, and I didn’t even have to show up to the branch anymore. He was paying me a full month for no work to make up for the situation.
First paycheck comes in, and I put on my best outfit. Pick out the hottest shit in my closet that says: “I look incredible” but also “I have free time and you don’t” and “enjoy working here while I get paid while napping at the beach,” and I walk my happy little ass into that bank to pick up my paycheck like:
Happily greet the manager and assistant manager, who are both there like:
Say hello to my friend Tanika, who is at the teller line like:
Enjoying the fuck out of this show, right? Like, she can’t say it out loud, but she’s fucking living for this goddamned circus and it’s written all over her face!
I talk to her and loudly tell her how amazing it feels to have four weeks off with pay, and how polite and nice the bank president is.
Then I walk my happy little ass out of the bank like:
But not before saying bye to the manager and assistant manager and reminding them that I’ll be back in two weeks to pick up my next check, “probably right before I head to Key Largo for the weekend.”
…and that’s the story of how I once absolutely wrecked two people who thought they could use their positions of power to come for me unfairly, and a story I’ll be telling my grandchildren so they know, as grandpa knew on one February morning of 2012, that you take bullshit from absolutely no one.
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Watch John Oliver slam states’ restrictive anti-abortion laws.
Since I sometimes get questions as to why it’s bad that laws make it so that any person who provides an abortion is a surgeon and other laws that would be good in theory, this is a pretty good explanation.
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For Fury Road’s fluid editing, Miller called upon his wife, Margaret Sixel, who had spent most of her career editing documentaries and had never cut an action movie before. ‘We’ve got teenage sons, but I’m the one who goes to the action movies with them!’ laughed Miller. ‘So when I asked her to do Mad Max, she said, ‘Well, why me?’ And I said, ‘Because then it’s not going to look like other action movies.“
And it doesn’t. Compare the smart, iterative set pieces of Fury Road to one of the incoherent car chases in Spectre, for example, and you’ll see that Sixel prizes a sense of spatial relationships that has become all too rare in action movies. ‘She’s a real stickler for that,’ said Miller. ‘And it takes a lot of effort! It’s not just lining up all the best shots and stringing them together, and she’s very aware of that. She’s also looking for a thematic connection from one shot to the next. If it regressed the characters and their relationships, she’d be against that. And she has a very low boredom threshold, so there’s no repetition.’
That Sixel was able to whittle 480 hours of footage down into a movie that sings still astounds Miller. ‘It’s like working in the head of a great composer,’ he said. ‘Movies like this one — in particular this one, because it’s almost a silent movie — are like visual music. In the same way that a composer has to have a strong casual relationship from one note to the next, paying attention tempo and melodic line and overall structure, it’s exactly the same process that a film editor must have.’ Sixel, surely, is one of the greats.Director George Miller Explains Why His Mad Max: Fury Road Deserves These Oscar Nominations (via jag-lskardig)
so good on George Miller for giving credit to his wife and colleague. that said, FUCK YES women have ALWAYS edited for male directors without getting any recognition within the industry let alone any kind of mainstream acclaim. I mean, film editing isn’t really on the radar for most moviegoers/watchers so yeah, I don’t expect people to know this? But goddamn, even so many self-proclaimed film and cinema buffs fail to realize that so many of the “best” movies (mostly directed by men, natch) were edited by women. Does anyone remember that quote/anecdote about male directors discouraging their female film editors – or even actively sabotaging potential opportunities – because they didn’t want to lose the person who made sense of all their footage?
(via lordlouiedor)
And she picked up the Oscar for it!
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Sailing ships are back in vogue as a green alternative to conventional shipping
Sailing ships are back in vogue as a green alternative to conventional shipping
Not exactly speedy, but there are a lot of goods (like wine) where speed doesn’t really matter. Why not use wind power when possible?
Incidentally, one of Washington’s tall ships was actually built by an eccentric millionaire (Baron Dorcy, dubbed “the ultimate trustifarian” in this article) in 1988 with the same idea in mind.
For the curious, sail-powered ships run about a third to a half as fast as modern engine-powered container ships – 8-12 knots instead of 17-24 on average. With today’s weather satellite technology, getting becalmed or is a lot less likely than one might think. Anything you need to send *fast* can go by cargo plane these days. And while the “labor-intensive” (quoting the article) nature of sail may add some shipping cost over fossil fuels, it also provides badly needed jobs.
Yeah, I’ve been waiting on this for twenty years. ^_^ And the current trendiness of sustainable ecology may actually have enough oomph to provide a tipping point and bring sailing vessels back as a shipping method big enough to be viable, at least for a niche market.
(Since sailing vessels have to be more streamlined than combustion-powered ships to get a reasonable speed of travel going, you’d still need some R&D to design one that you could just load full of those boxcar container things and send it off – but I bet it’d be possible.)
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Rest stops on highways are liminal spaces where the veil is thin and nobody can tell me differently
Explain
The explanation is that liminal spaces are in between places that bridge Here with There, so in fairy tales we often have the Fairy Ring, the Forest Clearing, the Sudden Misty Foggy Forest, the Bridge, the River, graveyards, in some cases
We also have a ton of american urban mythology around famous roadways and sites off the sides of roads
Archetypes like these occur to mark the places in the world where the veil goes thin and humans can have extra-worldly experiences, out of the ordinary way of living
So why wouldn’t transient spaces like rest stops where everyone is just passing through from one place to the next, never stopping for too long, not be a liminal space where spirits frequent, too
Especially since nobody would know if they were real or not
Ok but this speaks to me
I always feel like something isn’t quite right at rest stops
I once slept though three gas stations on a road trip, and the second the car started to slow to turn into a rest stop, I was basically wide awake.
My mom and I were on I-90 in a blizzard once and pulled off at the first exit we could find. Turns out that if we’d gone even a mile further, we would have happened on a 49-and-counting car pileup, and that 90 was closed for MILES. How we found an unblocked ramp was a matter of great debate, but where this gets weirder still is that at the bottom of the ramp was a closed truck stop and an open church full of teenagers–they went for youth group, the blizzard started, and they were stuck until the snow stopped. They fed us leftovers from their potluck dinner, prayed with us for safe travel, and when the snow let up they saw us on our way.
Three days later–Sunday–we were traveling back and decided to stop at that church to thank them. We found it thanks to the truck stop, but this time it was the truck stop that was open and the church that was closed. Neither of us remembered it looking so decrepit on the trip down, and granted we saw it first at night in a snowstorm, but you’d think we’d have noticed the boarded-up windows. So we asked in at the truck stop.
The church had been abandoned for ten years. And yet I still had one of their youth group programs under my sun visor, very clearly labeled for the previous week.
To this day I’m sure we crossed dimensions somewhere on I-90, and that’s how we stayed safe. You could tell me it’s because the truck stop was a liminal space and I’d 100% believe you.
I don’t mind when this post goes around again because sometimes I get stories like this
A few months ago my family and I were traveling from Dallas to Austin and we pulled into one of the rest stops with a little park and the tornado shelters (we have those in Texas) and I saw a little girl crying. Her clothes were dirty and he hair a mess. When I asked her what was wrong she said she fell down and took a tumble and couldn’t find her mom. So I walked around with park area with her. She got excited and pointed at a young lady dressed in clothes from what looked like the 40s and said “that’s my mommy”. I walked the girl over and it was her mother. She was happy to see her little girl and thanked me profusely. When I left to go back to my car I found a bear that had to have belonged to the little girl, but when I went back to where they were, they were no where to be seen. When I asked my dad if he had seen the pair, he had no idea what I was talking about. So I definitely did some time hopping or something
This is a really common tale with ghosts, a lot of times you don’t even realize you’re talking to one until someone else is like what do you mean you were talking to a person, there was nobody there
Yes, I find this happens a lot when I’m in London. I’ll move out of someone’s way, or hold a door open for someone and the people with me will all look at me as if I’ve lost my mind because I’m apparently moving out of the way of thin air.
