Chess in Extension Seven

 

Against the leader of the trio
The little girl employed the strategy they
Use in the eastern part of the war ravaged D.R.C
The strategy of the African Rock Python
First you tie him
Then you whip him
There’s a moral behind all this
Never retreat a developed knight
To the first rank
The game against the motor mouth
Who had declared to the world that he’d never
Lose a game of chess against a skinny lass from
The forgotten townships was a lesson in how
To conduct a sustained attack against the enemy king
And the rest of us patzers have spent sleepless nights
Analyzing those quick rapier like thrusts
And the sore loser has learned
To keep his mouth shut
And respect women’s chess
And the last challenger
Was also disposed off in similar fashion
And I don’t want to be like him
The patzer who was mated with all
The mates in the world
And that’s how a skinny little girl
Saved the honor of Extension Seven
And that’s how the scoffers of nowhere find it
Hard to explain to their mighty sponsors how
They lost to a girl of fifteen
But what is Boden’s mate?
Why do they call it A Bone In The Throat Knight?
Is Obama a good chess player or a similar Bush
Like clone of a bungler on the world stage?
Provide the answers to them burning questions
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ngaka motaung

Submitted Date
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Friday, January 13, 2012

Chess in Extension Seven by ngaka motaung

How to Leave a Dangerous Man: Managing Abuse and Leaving with Your Life: The Susan Murphy Milano Show 2:00 PM Eastern Thursday 1/12/2012

Susan Murphy Milano’s Journal: How to Leave a Dangerous Man: Managing Abuse and Leaving with Your Life: The Susan Murphy Milano Show 2:00 PM Eastern Thursday 1/12/2012

Warren Zevon – My Shit’s Fucked Up

Well, I went to the doctor
I said, "I’m feeling kind of rough"
He said, "I’ll break it to you, son (Warren sings, "Let me break it to you, son")
Your shit’s fucked up."
I said, "my shit’s fucked up?"
Well, I don’t see how–"
He said, "The shit that used to work–
It won’t work now."
I had a dream
Ah, shucks, oh, well
Now it’s all fucked up
It’s shot to hell
Yeah, yeah, my shit’s fucked up
It has to happen to the best of us
The rich folks suffer like the rest of us
It’ll happen to you
That amazing grace
Sort of passed you by
You wake up every day
And you start to cry
Yeah, you want to die
But you just can’t quit
Let me break it on down:
It’s the fucked up shit

Peace is not the product of terror or fear. Peace is not the silence of cemeteries. Peace is not the silent result of violent repression. Peace is the generous, tranquil contribution of all to the good of all. Peace is dynamism. Peace is generosity. It is right and it is duty.

Oscar Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador, assassinated March 24, 1980.

A Lovely Promise

CA judge to decide if kids can visit paralyzed mom

Although she can’t eat, speak or move, Abbie Dorn’s parents say that doesn’t mean she loves her children any less than any other mother would love hers.

By JOHN ROGERS

Associated Press

LOS ANGELES —

Although she can’t eat, speak or move, Abbie Dorn’s parents say that doesn’t mean she loves her children any less than any other mother would love hers.

Nor, her parents say, should Dorn be denied the right to hold her kids or watch as they grow up. They have gone to court in an effort to persuade a judge that their daughter not only wants motherhood, but has a constitutional right to it as well.

But allowing three preschoolers to spend lengthy periods of time with a woman who can only lay motionless will traumatize them, argues their father, Dan Dorn. He has been raising the two boys and a girl as a single parent since the day he brought them home from the hospital nearly five years ago. He wants things to remain that way.

After hearing closing arguments from both sides Thursday, Superior Court Judge Frederick C. Shaller is expected to decide whether Dan Dorn must agree to grant his ex-wife regular visitation rights.

Ultimately, Shaller’s ruling will likely only resolve the matter temporarily. A parental rights lawsuit brought by Abbie Dorn’s parents, Paul and Susan Cohen of South Carolina, is expected to take place later.

The tragic events that led all parties to Shaller’s courtroom this week began on what should have been the happiest day of Abbie Dorn’s life. That was June 20, 2006, when she left for the hospital to give birth to her sons Reuvi and Yossi and their sister Esti.

The first two births took place without incident, but as a doctor was delivering Yossi he accidentally nicked Dorn’s uterus. Before doctors could stop the bleeding, her heart had stopped, a defibrillator they used malfunctioned and her brain was deprived of oxygen.

A year later her husband, believing she would never recover, divorced her and is raising their children at his Los Angeles home. Her parents, meanwhile, took her to their Myrtle Beach, S.C., home where they are caring for her. As the conservators of her estate, they also manage her malpractice settlement of nearly $8 million.

They want her ex-husband to bring the children there for regular visits.

Until a four-day visit last December, Dan Dorn had not done so. His ex-wife’s parents say that was the first chance she had to hold her children since the day they were born.

Both sides agreed in court last week that the visit went well and the children would like to see their mother again.

But their father wants to limit their interaction to avoid traumatizing them. He noted that his ex-wife can’t speak and he believes she isn’t aware of her surroundings.

Abbie Dorn’s mother disagrees. She says her daughter expresses her emotions when she smiles or cries and that she communicates with others by blinking her eyes. One long blink means yes. No response to a question means no.

When a Los Angeles Times reporter visited her last year and asked if she wanted to see her children, Dorn responded with a long, firm blink.

I think passionate anger has a place, and I love this description of it:

Fuck you, Tracy! Which is it? Am I supposed to fake being happy, wiggle and smile, sex it up, but not too much, or am I supposed to be myself? FUCKING PICK ONE! I HATE YOU WITH THE FIERY PASSION OF A THOUSAND SUNS!

Forever In Hell: I’m In Ur Feminism Settin’ Straw Men on Fire

A crucial conclusion of this research is that work-related injury and illnesses could be prevented if chemicals, production processes, and technologies were designed with worker health in mind.  “Prevention through Design” initiatives are now being used to design buildings that eliminate hazards and make jobs, products, and materials inherently safer.

LCSP — Our Work: Lessons: Lessons Learned

Tenure and a grievance process do not mean employees can never be laid off or fired. All these systems require is that an employer have cause when terminating employment. Just cause for firing a worker includes business necessity – for example, when an employer needs fewer workers – as well as employee misconduct. Grievance procedures provide an informal, inexpensive process that can be used to resolve a wide range of workplace problems.

Just cause, representation and a fair process are rights most people would want – and, as Kim’s studies show, most people mistakenly think they already have them.

If Only Employees Enjoyed the Same Rights as Criminals

The fallacies are ad hominem or ad feminam, affirming the consequent, appeal to ignorance (ad ignorantium), argument to logic (argumentum ad logicam), begging the question (petitio principii), composition fallacy, denying the antecedent, disjunctive fallacy, division fallacy, existential fallacy, false analogy, false dilemma, genetic fallacy, golden mean fallacy, mistaking deductive validity for truth, naturalistic fallacy, nominal fallacy, post hoc ergo propter hoc (after this, therefore because of this), red herring, slippery slope, straw person, and you too (tu quoque).

The name of each fallacy is followed by a brief description and an example from the field of psychology.

For those interested, other articles in this section include 21 ethical fallacies and 7 fallacies & pitfalls in psychological assessment.

Logical Fallacies in Psychology