Because of their God-favors-male-supremacy stance.

 Hat tip to  mmegaera.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jul/12/jimmy-carter-womens-rights-equality

ETA: Actually the decision was made in 2000. This is just a continuing essay on the same issue.

These folks publish a quiz each week, different subjects. Unfortunately, the link below leads to the answers as well as the questions, so I've supplied this week's questions. I got 5 :-(

http://corp.credoreference.com/quiz

Fictional Characters
A recent addition to the Credo Reference database is the "Chambers Dictionary of Fictional Characters". All the answers to this quiz about people in books can be found there.

Questions:
1. Which writer created the character Bilbo Baggins?

2. Name the heroine of Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice", who falls in love with Darcy.

3. Which 1851 book by Herman Melville includes a character called Queequeg?

4. In Kingsley Amis's "Lucky Jim", what was the surname of Jim, the struggling university lecturer of the title?

5. Which novel by Charles Dickens includes the character Little Nell?

6. Which 1951 novel features a rebellious 16-year-old called Holden Caulfield?

7. Name one of the two children - a brother and sister - who are the young governess's two charges at Bly in Henry James's "The Turn of the Screw".

8. Which author created the character Professor Timofey Pnin in his 1957 novel "Pnin"?

9. What are the names of the two "merry wives" in Shakespeare's "The Merry Wives of Windsor"?

10. Claudia Hampton is a character in which 1987 novel by Penelope Lively?

 Joyeuse13 is running another survey, this time on participants' understanding of some terms.  Her post describing it is here:

http://joyeuse13.livejournal.com/547942.html

 Many of you know about these - this is for those who don't, yet.

You can buy, almost anywhere, cheaply in bulk, inexpensively in small packages:  cleaning cloths, purportedly made of "micro-fiber".

Sounds like a marketing scam?  Probably some of them are, but I haven't found those yet.

They clean very well, pick up dust and hold on to it (until you wash them) and can be used with and without cleaning solutions.  Good for dusting, cleaning, glass, monitors, wood floors, etc.

I'm not going to write an essay; do a search on "microfiber cleaning review". 

I am very much into recycling and would much prefer, normally, to use for cleaning something I used to wear or sleep on.

But these things are very much worth the price and can be re-used themselves.  I have yet to throw one away.

The State Association( more after the cut )

I've set up a DW site as countrycousin, primarily to keep in touch with some folks who may move there entirely.

ETA: They're gone now.

I've been given a couple of invite codes.  If you want one, say so and leave email/contact instructions.  Comments are screened.

a novel by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows,  published in 2008 by the Dial Press.

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Sunday evening I was in the middle of a construction project, holding some pieces with wet glue and an absolute disinclination to remain in the position which destiny had decreed they assume when my wife walks in and says that the Director of the Senior Center has decreed that she produce me at the Senior Center promptly.   Hmmm.   This was obviously some setup, but the Senior Center (I'm on the Board, was Treasurer, and, of course, have to leave all that when I move) had made a very nice recognition at the Annual Meeting not long ago.  But.  One does not mess with the Director.  I meekly abandoned my project, replaced my rather grubby outer layer with a more festive one, and let myself be led off.

Got down there.  Walked in.  Bunch of folks I mostly didn't know.  No Director.  Someone comes up - it is the Ambulance Crew.

I've made a couple of posts about the dunking booth these folks run at our annual festivities on Labor Day Weekend.  I did it again this year, too, but don't have any new pictures.  The lady who comes up says they're having their holiday party and want to share it with me in appreciation for my efforts.  Uh-huh.  Nice dinner.  Afterwards, presentations, and, to compress, I am now an honorary member of the Ambulance Crew, with a handsome plaque to prove it.  They don't take me out on runs, so central VT folks can rest easy.  Arthur Fiedler I'm not.

I am very honored.  And successfully bamboozled again. 

It is nice to have a bit of music while doing dishes, but tonight I made the mistake of putting on the Stratford DVD of The Mikado.

The music is, of course, superb.  But so is the acting and choreography.  I kept sneaking rather extended peeks and my chores were thereby extended.

The Stratford G&S DVDs are indeed a blessing.

I posted in July that we'd be moving, and various consequences have kept down my posting, although rather a lot has been happening.  One thing is implied in a profile change:  I am no longer a Village Trustee, although I have agreed to help them out with electrical matters for a while, and I spent an hour on the phone today with non-electric municipal concerns.

So I'm intending to make a series of posts to memorialize some of these events.

( This resolve was triggered by something that happened tonight. )

1037 at 10:45 am, not all absentees fed in yet.

A little over 2000 voted in the general election of 06.

There are over 3000 names on the checklist, but I don't know how well purged it is.  They do try, but it is difficult in a rural town with a college.

I have one totally non-random exit poll from Indiana:  1 previous Bush voter is reported to have voted for Obama.  You can add that to Dixville Notch to hold you until evening.

We got stickers, but mine fell off. :-{

We had a spate of Vorkosigan quotes. A re-read of  The Curse of Chalion cries out for a spate of others.

One particularly appropriate for full-moon time in October:

"My chosen god is, dare I say it, fiendishly ambiguous at times . . . "

by Roger Zelazny 1993

I think it is out of print but one can get copies.

Anyway, it is that time of year again:

from the prologue
"I like being a watchdog better than what I was before he summoned me and gave me this job."

from Ch. 1, Oct 1

"The Thing in the Circle changed shapes, finally making itself look like a lady dog of attractive person and friendly disposition."

from Ch. 2, Oct 2

"Jack has a long list of ingredients, and things must be done properly on schedule."


I can't read the next chapter until tomorrow.

from mmegaera

When you see a Bujold quote, post another Bujold quote in your LJ, and see how long we can keep it going.

Such riches to choose from...

I better get this in while I can . . .

"Shopping."

(back to lurking.  Still trying to sell a house.)

I normally do well on these.  Got all of the last one that went by.

OK, here's another.

http://www.mentalfloss.com/quiz/quiz.php?q=329


I got a whopping 1 out of 10.

Enjoy.

In those areas where they are personally managed, today is actually National Lawn-mowing Day.

We're moving.

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One good thing that happened a couple weeks ago: 

We took off an afternoon to visit the construction site of our new residence and make some choices.  We were in time that I could specify where I wanted cat5 drops; I hope I still feel the same way when I move in!

Then we went to a nearby restaurant that we knew of and celebrated our 49th anniversary.  It was Friday the 13th, but 49 is 7 squared, so that defended against any residual bad luck.  Very nice dinner, and the staff were very nice to us.

Several people on my FL have done this one.  The first time I tried it, I had to take a break in the middle and never did get results, but this time it worked.

I seem to have done well enough, but I have a question.  Here's one I don't know:  We will select who(m)ever comes in first.  I suppose I'll have to post it on the List and hope Dr. Whom notices.

Your result for The Commonly Confused Words Test...

English Genius

( Details follow, but I got them all )

According to a Scientific American snippet you can read here .  Unfortunately, I did not notice any comment about the positive effects of lurking.

Note to self:  post more.