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Protest with Proposals in Hand

I believe and support the victims of sexual assault. I want justice for them. I also want sexual assault eradicated from our society. Yet it keeps happening. So we’re justifiably angry as hell.

In order to stop sexual assault, or get justice when it happens, though, we must be more precise about what we’re asking for. We need solutions that will actually make things better.

A university, a police department, and a prosecutor have different authorities, responsibilities, standards, and remedies. If we blur those distinctions, we can end up demanding that the wrong institution take action, right or wrong, while failing to demand the things that the right institutions actually can do to affect change.

The more serious the allegation, the more important precision becomes, not less. That doesn’t mean lowering our expectations. It means demanding more precise accountability.

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Request a Safety Check: A Missing Layer Between Doing Nothing and Calling 911

I recently found myself thinking about incident reporting after the reopening of the 2024 sexual assault case at Cornell. I wrote to Cornell’s president and provost with a concrete idea for improving safety on campus: Request a safety check.

The idea is simple. Give people a way to say:

Something doesn’t seem right over there. I have a bad feeling about this. Please have someone trained take a look.

That’s different from asking someone to report a crime. It’s different from asking someone to call 911 to declare an emergency. It’s a low-threshold way to act on a concern when the person observing the situation doesn’t know, or need to know, exactly what’s happening.

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title without markup

content

vs

Details

title with **bold** markup

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// uncomment line if you want the instance to be retained in application scope
// @ApplicationScoped 
public class ApplicationInitializer
{
   public void onStartup(@Observes @Initialized ServletContext ctx)
   {
      System.out.println("Initialized web application at context path " + ctx.getContextPath());
   }
}

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Using Marked with AsciiDoc content

Using Marked with AsciiDoc content

Marked is an OSX application to preview Markdown syntax in HTML. It’s possible to configure AsciiDoc as an custom Markdown processor to create the HTML for your AsciiDoc files.

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AsciiDoc Syntax Quick Reference

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Digital Toolchain for Book Authors

Text markup and structure

• So many light markup formats to consider
  • Markdown
  • Textile
  • reStructuredText
  • Asciidoc
  • Most compile to HTML, PDF, DocBook
• Get handy with PanDoc (but man, the haskell bootstrapping is a pain)

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require 'asciidoctor/extensions'

# Reconfigure AST to convert all blocks with the role SLIDE into
# sections and transferring the content to the new sections.
Asciidoctor::Extensions.register do
  treeprocessor do
    process do |doc|
      doc.blocks.replace (doc.find_by role: 'SLIDE').map {|slide|
        slide.parent.blocks.delete slide
        sect = Asciidoctor::Section.new doc, 1, false

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How to configure Asciidoctor Diagram in a Jekyll site

• Generate site

Generate site

$ cd /tmp

$ mkdir jekyll-site-creator

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Using Atom on Fedora 20

This guide walks you through the steps of building and launching the Atom text editor on Fedora 20.

Building Atom

1. Install prerequisite packages