Welcome to the Carnival of Homeschooling: Bee Edition. The gorgeous photo you see above is a Diane Varner special. I fell in love with it last week at Thursday Challenge and had to include it here. She's a brave lady to get that close, but I'm so glad she did!
"So, what's a carnival?" you ask. A carnival is a place where bloggers of a like-mind or a similar group can showcase their most important, funny, interesting, or otherwise groovy posts so that YOU will go seek them out and read them. Each link is a teaser to lead you on your merry way through the internet to the blog where it originated. I'm just the host this week… and while I host, I get to include a lesson about bees and some of my favorite graphics. The reading material is really in the form of other people's blog links, so I hope you will click a few and go read what these great homeschool moms have to say!
This little honey jar graphic is from one of my very favorite bee-ish sites on the net: Bee Creations. I hope you'll stop over and check them out. Their website is amazing.
Honey ('bee spit' as we so affectionately call it in my home) is sweeter than sugar and so much better for you. It has long been associated with health-benefits. Aside from dormant endospores of the bacteria 'clostridium botulinum' which could be harmful to infants, honey is known to inhibit the growth of microorganisms and has a very long shelf-life. Honey is the source of food for the bees during the cooler months when flowers are not as plentiful. Honey contains many essential vitamins for humans (unlike other sweeteners). Raw honey is preferable due to the fact that it contains enzymes for digestion and antioxidants. It is also believed to cure allergies in those who regularly eat it (if the honey is from the same general area where the person lives and is raw).
LEARNING. That is top on my list of benefits with homeschool. Seems that I've been able to re-learn or just learn (for the first time) all of the things I missed out on in public school while I've been "teacher" to my kids. A lot of times I feel like more of a co-learner than a teacher (and sometimes the kids are even the teachers!). Denise at Let's Play Math agrees! She sends in her "Are you a homeschooler?" Quiz and comes to the conclusion that I have… homeschooling creates a honeycomb of life-time learning.
Another beenifit to homeschooling is the extra time your kids will have for just being kids. Like our recent fishing field trip, most kids these days at public schools just don't have time to PLAY anymore. Barbara Frank sends in a post for the carnival that talks about a new book that is making a buzz in Britain. Remember when boys were allowed to be boys? When they had time to fish, tie knots, build treehouses and make go-carts? Seems like this book is promoting the idea that boys should still do those things – even when modern feminist culture is pushing the degenderization of the sexes. Go check out her book link and read her post entitled "Letting Boys Be Boys".
Drone bees are the males of the hive and their sole purpose is creating baby bees. Once they mate (only once), they die. They don't have stingers, either. In a hive, there are usually hundreds of drones and one queen who are responsible for creating all of the offspring. There are usually thousands of female worker bees; and interestingly enough it is the females who protect the hive and do the rest of the hard work.
It is good to have a worker bee watching out for the rest of the hive. Consent of the Governed is on the lookout. She shares a letter she received in the mail that foreshadows possible homeschool teacher education requirements in the future.
Keeping up with the current culture-trends is another big worker bee job. Gena at Home Where they Belong not only has a lovely video linked up on her blog header that seeks to encourage homeschoolers that they have made the right choice; but she also keeps tabs on current events for us. This week's post she submitted for the carnival is entitled, "The Queen, no wait, King, no that's not right, Royal Highness of the Prom".
Bees are social insects. They live in colonies that may number 80,000 or more. New colonies are created when certain selected female babies are fed Royal Jelly causing them to become queen bees. After they mate with one of the drones, they fly off with a handful of worker bees to start a new colony.
"Planning a Homeschooling 101" Class isn't so hard. SmallWorld shares her extensive list of ideas to plan just such an event. You never know who is searching for support out there. If you have been homeschooling for any length of time, you have something to offer a newcomer – even if it is just some encouragement for the journey ahead.
Melanie at HomeschoolHelpWeb gets extra bee-brownie-points for her effort to add to the theme for the carnival this week in her post: "The Beeatitudes of Homeschooling". I have to agree that God's Word is a manual for our whole lives (including our homeschooling adventure). Thanks for the play on words and the encouraging thoughts, Melanie! If you do find that beeatitude bee from the days when we were kids, please email me a copy of him! I collect bee graphics (as you can see).
Want to know "How to Keep Homeschool Kids Busy"? Mom is Teaching knows how. She lists her top 10 ways for the many visitors to her site that have 'googled' that phrase lately!
Lindsey of Finding Contentment in the Suburbs shares how to save stores of honey money in her post entitled "Homeschooling Frugally, Tips & Tricks Series".
Tia of High Desert Hi-Jinks shares a cute parody between homeschooling and homecooking. Get some laughs at her site and read her "I'm a Homecooker!" post. Her entry came with this funny tagline: "There are those that think homeschooling needs to be more regulated. How far behind can regulations for cooking for our own children be?" She cracks me up.
One of the most interesting things about bees is how they cool and warm their hives. The worker bees must keep the hive a constant temperature to ensure their survival. From late winter to early autumn the bees must keep the hive from 91-97° F. When it is hot, they fan their wings and bring in water for evaporation and for thinning the honey to feed to their young. This protects their unborn workers. In the colder months, they must keep the hive above 50° F. Temperatures below this are lethal to the bees. To keep the hive warm, the bees practice flexing their wings to create heat, they swarm in a circular fashion and they gum up holes and cracks in their hive with plant resins. What amazing little creatures!
No two bees are the same… er, at least no two kids are the same… especially when it comes to learning styles and life experiences. Lynn of Eclectic Education posts about "Homeschooling Special Needs Children" and shares a list of links to research different problems that kids might have to overcome. I like her medical binder idea (as I tend to be a binder-nut and list-maker myself).
Prepare to be blown away. Homeschooling Aspergers shares her "Application Example for Home Education Registration in Queensland". Although I'm glad that I don't have to fill out paperwork like that for my homeschooled students, it was thought-provoking reading. Do you know any homeschooled children with Aspergers? Be sure to stop in and say 'Hi' and welcome them to their new homeschool journey in lovely Queensland, Australia.
"TO BEE or NOT TO BEE" – THAT IS THE QUESTION.
There are many insects which mimic bee markings. Hover flies and robber flies are a few that come to mind. Bee Killers and Robber Flies kill honey-bees. Have you ever see a huge bumble-bee-looking fuzzy insect killing a honey bee? If you have, you encountered a Bee Killer. Check out the link to 'What's That Bug' in my credits section if you want to see what they look like. There are some amazing photos (some even with honey-bees in their death grip!).
Just4homeschoolfamilies (who just won the Best Variety in the Homeschool Blog Awards, by the way) shares a very down-to-earth post ("Breaking Tradition") about her 'homeschool philosophy'. WHAT??? You don't have a homeschool philosophy yet? Well, go read her post and maybe you'll identify with hers!
Mother Crone's Homeschool is cooking up an education. Aside from her chic web design (I covet those green dots)… she has an interesting and thoughtful post about the 'down-side of total unschooling'. She adopts the term "'Child-Led, Mom-driven' Education" for her style of homeschooling. Stop over and read why.
Perhaps my favorite bee story in children's literature is told in 'The Golden Sleepy Book' (my very favorite childhood book) by Margaret Wise Brown (Illustration by Garth Williams). No children's library is complete without it! It is the tale of a little bunny that accidentally swallowed a bumble-bee and had to make the tiniest sound he could think of to make the bee come out and fly away. Margaret Wise Brown is the same author who brought us "Goodnight Moon" and droves of other wonderful children's books in her very long career. Although she died over 45 years ago, her books remain timeless treasures for children everywhere.
Scribbit shows us some simple and effective ideas on how to increase our children's love of reading in her post "More Tips for Improving Your Child's Literacy".
Headmistress, Zookeeper at The Common Room is busy "Talking About Books". She champions the cause for narration. I love this quote, "Telling somebody else what you're thinking about actually improves the way you think." Wow. That means blogging really is worth something after all! Thanks, Headmistress Zookeeper!
"An Act of Affirmation" By Laureen (one of the members of Life Without School) shares a touching story about how we can encourage the heart of a child and give them wings to fly to new heights. Laureen's son has begun reading on his own and a kind and enthusiastic praise from Grandma has given him new courage to begin reading to his little brother (and truly believing in himself). Way to go, Rowan! Maybe one day he'll even be a blogger?! We can hope.
Reading is great, but so is writing. I'm sure you bloggers out there will agree that some of us who think in words have no release without a way to get it all out! Teaching the young bees to write is very important. Jennifer of Jennifer's Nest has some great tips on how to get your younger reluctant writers in the mood to journal in her post entitled "First Journal Success".
Becoming computer literate is as important as learning to write these days. Suni from EternaLearning Academy talks about how to prevent your children from becoming victims of cyber-stalkers through early technology training in her post entitled "Child hackers and learning computer functions".
The Campus Grotto shares "Free Software for Students". Your teens and college-aged kids will be sure to want to check some of these out. One of my favorite free programs wasn't on the list!
One of the ways technology can be used is to create a little hive of our own. Homepages, blogs, blogrolls and this very carnival are all ways we can manage to come together with like-minded folk – even out here in the wild blue yonder of cyberspace. Henry of Why Homeschool reminds us all that "The TTLB's Homeschooling Community is active again". Truth Laid Bear's homeschool group is like an ongoing carnival of homeschool posts that requires no extra effort on your part (sounds good right about now)! Stop over and check it out.
Are you a gardener who wants to ADD some bees to your yard? You can attract them with blue, purple, yellow or white flowers. Some favorites of the nectar-mongers are lilacs, honeysuckles and azaleas. Bees also love herbs such as mint, lavender and thyme. They avoid flowers that have had the nectar and pollen bred out of them (like many contemporary rose breeds).
"Yay for Cuisenaire Rods"! Mama Squirrel at Dewey's Treehouse is singing the praises of Miquon Math. Join her as she explains the complexities of hands-on math education for a five-year-old.
Sometimes adding up the credentials only leaves you with a big hill of beans. Dana of Principled Discovery shares a thought-provoking post about what being a good teacher really means. In "Educational experts and homeschoolers", she shares a great quote from a college teacher saying that his homeschooled students are the best thinkers and writers in the class. I enjoyed what Dana said best, though: "…degrees and titles do little to make anyone a better teacher. It has more to do with a passion for teaching, and the freedom to follow that passion." Amen to that.
Homeschooling Journey reminds us that we don't need to overlook art in our homeschool education. Check out her post, "10 Ways to Explore Art With Your Child" for some ideas on how to incorporate art into your lesson plans.
What a splendid post Bioluminescence has offered for this week's carnival. It is the milk-and-honey for today: "A More Ancient Mariner". What do I love so much about it? Poetry! Bees (get a load of that strikingly bee-utiful photo)! The mention of ships at sea (which happens to be the unit we are studying right now)! If you listen closely while you read it aloud in a throaty voice to do it justice… you'll hear the shifty Mariner B. talking to me (Heather)! My mama warned me about bees like him.
Napoleon Bonaparte declared himself emperor of France in 1804. He refused to allow the pope to crown him and placed his own crown on his head. Napoleon's corronation robe was replete with embroidered bees as a symbol (taken from Merovingian kings of the past) of "'a republic with a chief', with a sting but producing honey". There is even speculation that the French fleur-de-lis originated as the graphic outline of a bee (taken from the emblem of Childéric, a Merovingian king). Louis XII used a beehive as part of his coat of arms, "but the National Convention rejected this emblem for the Republic, 'because bees do have a queen.'" The bee was a symbol for the French between 1804 to 1814 in the First Empire, during the Cent-Jours (1815) and also in Napoleon III's rule during 1852-1870 in the Second Empire.
Trinity Prep School shares her unique history lesson plan method in "Tenative History Studies". She's added quite a few links to the books she has chosen for the coming school year in this post. Looks like a lot of great reading ahead for her kiddos.
Alasandra shares some notes she has taken for a "Civil War Unit" that she plans to teach next year. She welcomes your input and ideas, but it looks like she has plenty of good information to cover.
Raising awareness about the plight they are going through these days could save many bees from the endangered species list. Does that sound like Science Fiction to you? Do the math to discover how very real the decline in numbers of bees around the world is! Not just honey bees are in the line of fire; bumblebees are also facing extinction. Bees in many countries (France, Italy, and even the USA) are facing extreme mortality rates and entire colonies are dying off. Some people believe that it is due to mobile phones; however, I suspect that genetically altered crops and pesticides are the real killers. The sad thing is, the bees are connected to us in so many ways. If they go, eventually… we all go.
Need a homeschool link? The queen bee of All About (my) Boys shares a huge "list of links" with us. There's something for everybee.
Join All Info About Homeschooling at the dinner table to discuss "Logic for the Younger Ones".
Waldorf Our Way discusses "Learning Opportunities" and how she feels that turning teacher-mode off once in a while isn't such a bad thing.
Stephanie presents "Our OBX Vacation" posted at Adventures in the 100 Acre Wood. Come take a virtual field trip with her gang and see the wild horses on the beach.
Of course you KNEW that I was going to add this field trip in here, didn't you? Yes… Sprittibee's gang offers: "Field Trip Foto Friday – Honey Bee Farm". It is an older post, but I couldn't resist. If you haven't seen my many field trip posts, they are my favorite part of this blog (and our homeschooling). One day soon, I'll be adding another whole year's worth of them to my Homeschool Series.
"Bees, Flowers, Nature…How to Celebrate Spring" is a plea for help from a control-freak mama who truly desires to JUST ENJOY her kids and homeschooling. Jenny at Little Acorn's Treehouse is looking for ways to let go of the rigid schedules and worksheets so she can soak up the smiles. Stop in and give her some hugs and a morsel of advice if you have some.
As if in answer to Jenny's question… in came "Homeschooling and the spring wiggles/ year-round homeschooling." from My Domestic Church. Seems that she – like me – has gotten tired of the pressure of fitting in a box and getting things done exactly on a public school schedule. It works for me much better taking a little extra time for fun along the way and doing school when we are at our best (with our minds inside the classroom and not out among the beckoning flowers)!
"Afternoon Tea and the Hard-Working Mother" is Wellspring Tea's ode to the homeschool mom who needs to remember to plan a few breaks in to her schedule (I'll be checking this one out promptly!). A spoonful of honey, anyone?
Not everyone is feeling busy and excited this spring. Some homeschool bees are in a "Spring Slump". No Fighting, No Biting shares some practical advice to help those burned out bees get their buzz back.
Some bees have a hard time getting on schedule. The Thinking Mother muses over her difficulty in sticking to a chore schedule in her post, "Daily Chores Update".
Ever wondered what a homeschool student thinks about when they are asked about their accomplishments? What a great glimpse into the minds of our children and honey for my ears: "Measure not your life–or your children's lives–in SAT scores and resumes. Measure it, instead, in the fullness with which you have walked God's path for you. Measure it in relationships, in family, in joy, in passion, in true learning." – Inklings, "Not Your Average Bio".
Thanks for joining us this week for the Carnival of Homeschooling. I hope you enjoyed the sweet and sticky line-up. If you're interested in submitting to the carnival or finding out more about the Carnival, you can check out this carnival invitation post that has links to all of the most important places you should go. Please leave a comment and be sure to link to the carnival on your blogs to lead everyone to the honeycomb.
Graphics for this page have come from various sources. All credit has been given where due. These are personal graphics and are to be used for personal use only – many of them are subject to copyright.
No bees were harmed in the making of this post.
WOW! This is THE BEE'S KNEES! (My dictionary says this phrase means an outstandingly good thing).
I must get to bed immediately, but will read all about it over the course of the next several days. Truly an exceptional job you've done!
A wonderful job! Thanks for hosting.
Hey that was sweet (as in honey!!) sprittibe! Thank you!!
Thanks for hosting. My brain isn't working this morning, I couldn't get the graphic to work. Maybe around lunch time after a few cups of coffee I'll remember how to do it.
Sprittibee, the link to my post doesn't work. Here is the correct link.
Don't worry, after having hosted a Carnival I know how hard it is to get everything right.
Awesome job on this carnival. I love all the bee art!
Hey this is fantastic. You did a great job.
This is a great Carnival – thanks for all the hard work! It's beautiful!
Thank you for the carnival! It looks like there is plenty here to keep me browsing the rest of the week. Unfortunately, I'm going to have to decipher many of your links manually. Nearly half of the links I clicked had your blog, and then some gobbledy-gook like "%E2%80%9", and only then the linked blog post—all crammed together into one link. No surprise, I got a lot of error messages.
I just wanted to say "thanks" for all your emails! It's funny how I even stumbled upon your blog to begin with. I told you I would pray about it and start with some summertime units this summer and see how things go. Well, we all know that God works in mysterious ways right!?!? Well, guess what….of all things – bees are invading our house!!!! They found a way in a vent hose by our master bathroom!!! So, thankfully they can't actually get to us. Boy, does God have a sense of humor or what?! LOL!!! I'm still putting everything in God's hands and letting him be my guide. I'll "bee" sure to keep you posted!
Thanks for a great carnival – lots of great info for our family!
Having never bee-n to one of these carnivals, I am blown away! Thank you for all your hard work! By the way, I've been eating "local" honey for the past month, and my allergy symptoms are almost non-existent even though Georgia is having an unusually high allergy season! Go bees!!!
Alasandra – 🙁 No graphics? Oh, it is much, much better with graphics.
Denise: I fixed the links! Sorry. I used MS Word to put the post together and it sometimes adds extra quotes around them – which the browser freaks out over. 😉 Hope they are all working now. It is 11am!
Thanks for including me! This was my first carnival! 🙂 I just wanted to let you know that you did a really great job. I love the bee theme and it is so, you!
Okay so its already been said but you are THE BEES KNEES! 🙂 way to go!!! Love it.
Wow! What a GREAT job! I've learned so much about Bees! I can't wait to sit down with my cup of coffee and read all the wonderful mentions of the different blogs. How fun! Thanks for hosting.
Thanks Lynn !!! 😉 Great job on your first carnival.
OH NO, JILL! The poor bees!!!! Thanks for your awesome info. BEE sure to stop back by. Hope your bees recover quickly.
Valerie – Thanks. Glad you liked it. 🙂 This was a fun topic to write on – well worth the effort.
Michelle – I agree with you that honey works on allergies! I also have had it help with sinus trouble if you take a tablespoon of honey with a teaspoon of cinnamon. That is also the same recipe for a rub for rashes. It helped my daughter's rash. Of course, you have to sleep in a long sleeved and long-legged nightgown and PEEL it off the next day because it is so sticky… but it is great for your skin. It is almost like an antibiotic.
You probably know that bees are dying by the millions right now, and the experts aren't exactly sure why. This concerns me because I distribute a line of premium honey products in my area, and the implications on crops in the future.
Several young readers have reported that reading one of my Christian, action-adventures & mysteries is like being in an exciting or scary movie. This comes from my extensive background of dramatic film and video production. My books are first targeted for boys ages 8 – 13. But girls like the books also.
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Great, great carnival this week! Thanks for all your hard work.
I love it! You've done a beautiful job :). Glad to bring a little "honey" from a graduate's perspective… I shall cheer homeschool parents on while I have breath :).
'Honey' – you've done an awesome job with this carnival! It looks awesome! I have to say that I nearly spazzed when I first opened your page and heard the bee buzzing. I was frantically looking for a little fuzzy invader in my living room! LOL!
great carnival! i'm checking out many of the links now.
Awesome, Heather – you did a fantastic job. I love the bee graphics, they're all SO cute.
Max – Hope your premium honey products (and the bees who help to make them) remain healthy and profitable. The rest of your comment sure looks like an advertisement, however! If you have something interesting you want us to look at, just be up front about it.
Bev – I would have spazzed too – I'm afraid of flying insects for the most part. Someone told me that bumblebees can't sting and you can catch them in your hand. HA! I'll let her go first!
Thanks Carrie. 🙂 I love the bee graphics. Anyone can feel free to send them to me via email if you find good ones!
Bee sure to set aside a day or two for all those links, Chickadee. 🙂 My mom is "Chickie" to my kids (instead of Grandma). We are always buying little chick things for her. I just got her one of those soft Easter chicks half-off at Starbucks.
Bunny Trails: Yes, I love the graphics, too. I actually scanned the bunny and the bee from our Margaret Wise Brown book. I looked and looked online and couldn't find anything… except the newer version of the book with some other illustrator. It is so sad to see these classic children's stories being re-done with new illustrators. I'm all for allowing new books to have new illustrators, but the book publishers should retain the original illustrations for reprints of older stories. Part of the magic of the older stories was the illustrations that went with them. My first intrigue with bees came from Margaret Wise Brown's bumble bee drawn by the talented Garth Williams. 🙂 I want to paint a copy of it on a wall some day.
THANKS FOR ALL YOUR SWEET COMMENTS!!!
Thank you so much for your kind words and your advice. I am continuing to pray about how to simplify our schooling and our home.
I just finished reading through the carnival and found many great articles. Thank you for your hard work!
GREAT— like I already said… just wanted to point out.. the bee sound here gives me a heartattack each time! My poor little heart is POUNDING away and I can;t breath well… Makes me wonder what happened in my childhood that was so tragic!
Thanks for the pleasant waltz (bee dance?) through the carnival. The bees are disappearing in the UK, too. It's a strange and scary phenomenon.
How do you pronounce spirttibee?
Thanks for the fun posts. Lots of encouragement. Reminds my of Warren W. Wiersbe books (Be Victorious, Be Available, Be patient, Be Mature, Be Comforted, Be Committed, Be Decisive, Be Skillful, Be Strong, Be Obedient, etc) .
My little Wonders: Thanks for the comment. Don't ever hesitate to email me if you need support or questions.
Dreama – 🙂 Thank-you Mam. How sweet of you. I feel like a ring master around here sometimes… my house is sometimes very much like a circus!
Redbud – Those flowers look like bluebonnets. You are in the UK? Do you have bluebonnets there too? Are you from TX? Just curious.
Heart of Wisdom – You are putting an extra I in my name (which is why it seems so hard to pronounce). Think of the drink SPRITE. SPR+ITTI (like itty-bitty), and BEE. It is a nickname my husband gave me back when we were dating. 😉 Pretty with an S in front. Wow. I had no idea you could whistle to a bee. Thanks for the verse tip!
My, oh my, this is a lot of reading! I'm going to have to come back later and work my way through it. I'm showing my total newBEEness in the carnival of homeschooling arena, because I read about it ahead of time but foolishly thought I needed a bee theme, too. What was I thinking?


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Q: fgets() and scanf("%[^\n]")both are skipped I am working on my c project,just started.I need to get "Name" from users input.
fgets() works fine inside the main function,but skipped when used outside the main function.I found many related questions,so i read all the answers but i cannot solve my problem.
After reading some answer,I tried using "fflush(stdin)", scanf("[%^\n]")
but no reslove.
void newacc()
    {
        struct tenant new;
        printf("Enter Name:");
        fgets(new.name,20,stdin);
        printf("\nEnter Phone number:\n");
        scanf("%d",&new.ph);
        printf("Enter Rental Date (DD-MM-YYYY):\n");
        scanf("%d%d%d",&new.td.dd,&new.td.mm,&new.td.yy);
    }

A: I'm not familiar with scanf, but you're 2nd scanf ( "%d%d%d" ) seems error-prone. And how do you know that something is skipped ?
Here is a version that expect a space between DD, MM and YYYY ( "%d %d %d" ) so that each number are clearly separated. There are other issue with the way you collect your inputs, but I don't see any skip.
#include <stdio.h>

void newacc()
{
    char    name[20];
    int     phone;
    int     day;
    int     month;
    int     year;

    printf("Enter Name: ");
    fgets(name,20,stdin);
    printf("Enter Phone number: ");
    scanf("%d",&phone);
    printf("Enter Rental Date (DD MM YYYY):\n");
    scanf("%d %d %d",&day, &month, &year);
    printf("%s %d %02d-%02d-%04d\n", name, phone, day, month, year);
}

int main(void)
{
    newacc();
    return (0);
}

A: Try this
#include <stdio.h>

void newacc()
{
    struct tenant per;
    printf("Enter Name:");
    gets_s(per.name,20);
    printf("\nEnter Phone number:\n");
    scanf("%d",&per.ph);
    printf("Enter Rental Date (DD-MM-YYYY):\n");
    scanf("%d%d%d",&per.td.dd,&per.td.mm,&per.td.yy);
}

since new is a keyword for C++, here its a bad name
and mostly please try not to use scanf and fgets at  the same time

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Q: Sorting a chart axis based on the dynamically updated axis order in another chart In this VegaLite spec the y-axis order of the bottom-most barplot is updated as the data of that plot is filtered based on the selection in the scatter plot. How can I achieve the same resorting behavior for both the blue and orange bars in the top-most bar plot where I have layered the same barplot together with another chart?
I have tried toggling the axis between shared and independent and switching the order of the layer, but that didn't do it. Conceptually I can imagine using a calculate transform to define a new field that is based on the selection and used as the sort order key, but I can't figure out how to write this vega expression string.

Here is that Altair code if anyone prefers to solve it that way:
import altair as alt
import pandas as pd

data={
 'Term': ['algorithm','learning','learning','algorithm','algorithm','learning'],
 'Freq_x': [1330,1153,504.42,296.69,177.59,140.35],
 'Total': [1330, 1353,1353.7,1330.47,1330.47,1353.7],
 'Category': ['Default', 'Default', 'Topic1', 'Topic1', 'Topic2', 'Topic2'],
 'logprob': [30.0, 27.0, -5.116, -5.1418, -5.4112, -5.5271],
 'loglift': [30.0, 27.0, 0.0975, 0.0891, -0.1803, -0.3135],
 'saliency_ind': [0, 3, 76, 77, 181, 186],
 'x': [None,None,-0.0080,-0.0080,-0.0053,-0.0053],
 'y': [None,None,-0.0056,-0.0056, 0.0003,0.0003],
 'topics': [None,None, 1.0, 1.0, 2.0, 2.0],
 'cluster': [None,None, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0],
 'Freq_y': [None,None,20.39,20.39,14.18,14.18]}

df=pd.DataFrame(data)

pts = alt.selection(type="single", fields=['Category'], empty='none')

points = alt.Chart(df).mark_circle().encode(
    x='mean(x)',
    y='mean(y)',
    size='Freq_y',
    detail='Category',
    color=alt.condition(pts, alt.value('#F28E2B'), alt.value('#4E79A7'))
).add_selection(pts)

bars = alt.Chart(df).mark_bar().encode(
    x='Freq_x',
    y=alt.Y('Term'),
)

bars2 = alt.Chart(df).mark_bar(color='#F28E2B').encode(
    x='Freq_x',
    y=alt.Y('Term', sort='-x'),
).transform_filter(
    pts
)

(points | (bars + bars2) & bars2)

A: The issue with your spec was that in layers you performed filter transform which created a separate data for each layers. Sorting was working at each level of layer but since both the layers data were separate so each layer was getting sorted inpendently.
So instead of having a filter transform, I tried to manual filter using calculate transform and created a filtered_freq_x field which is later used on 2nd layer and performed sorting using this on window. So with this my data becomes same for both layers, just few fields were added and used.
Let me know if this works for you not. Below is the spec config and editor:
{
  "config": {"view": {"continuousWidth": 200, "continuousHeight": 300}},
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The purpose of this study was to examine differences in the relationship between physical and psychological aggression and the parenting styles of 24 African-American and 22 Caucasian parents. The sample of 92 participants came from pre-existing data of couples and families who attended therapy at the Family Service Center at the University of Maryland, College Park. Physical and psychological aggression were measured by a self-report instrument of conflict behaviors, the Conflict Tactics Scale, Revised. Parenting practices were measured with the Parenting Practices Questionnaire. A Pearson's correlation or analyses of variance were used to determine if a relationship existed between the level of physical and psychological aggression and parenting styles, and whether this relationship varies by the race/culture of the family and gender of the parents. The findings suggest that the interaction of race and gender impacts the parenting styles of African-American mothers. Clinical implications are suggested.
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The Little Terror is a 1917 American silent drama film directed by Rex Ingram and starring Violet Mersereau, Sidney Mason and Ned Finley.

Cast
 Violet Mersereau as Tina and Alice
 Sidney Mason as George Reynolds
 Ned Finley as John Saunders
 Robert Clugston as Wallace Saunders
 Ed Porter as The Manager
 John Raymond as Archibald Watkins
 Mathilde Brundage as Mrs. Watkins

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Bibliography
 Robert B. Connelly. The Silents: Silent Feature Films, 1910-36, Volume 40, Issue 2. December Press, 1998.

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'You only get what you're organized to take'—lessons from the National Union of the Homeless
"You can't talk about the problems of poverty—the pain of it, the daily struggles to survive, the plight, the fight and the insight—without involving the newly emerging leaders from the growing ranks of the poor."
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This July, unhoused leaders set up tents in front of Atlanta City Hall to demand a meeting with city officials. They were met by nearly 60 armed police officers who gave them 15 minutes to disperse. Only moments later, 10 of the activists — members of the newly-formed Atlanta Homeless Union — were arrested.
The group had four demands: permanent housing, health care, access to water and sanitation, and a "seat at the table" to negotiate with city officials regarding housing policy. "Nobody else that's not walking in our shoes gonna tell us what to do," the unhoused leaders announced in their first press release. "Teach us how to fish, and we'll eat forever. The homeless have unionized, and we're here for what we deserve."
The Atlanta Homeless Union came into being at a critical moment for the nearly 600,000 people experiencing homelessness across the nation — a number that is likely much higher since data on homelessness hasn't been gathered since before the pandemic. While COVID-19 poses a particular threat to people who are unhoused, the pandemic has only exacerbated the U.S. government's callous, yet purposeful, abandonment of the most vulnerable. This violence has taken many forms: In some cities, homeless sweeps have become more frequent, disrupting the lives of the unsheltered by forcing them to replace their possessions and secure alternative living arrangements with little to no warning. At the same time, public space has become increasingly gatekept, and measures like vaccine passports have posed an additional challenge for houseless residents, who often don't have access to IDs. In New York City, the number of homeless people dying in the streets has more than doubled over the past year.
All the while, homeless people have been dehumanized and scapegoated by those in power — from Andrew Yang's declaration that New York's homeless residents are a threat to the economy to new policies that could further criminalize homelessness in cities across the country.
Mobilizing has never been more crucial — and it is equally critical that the work is led by the poor themselves, who understand better than anyone what is at stake.
The need for homeless people to rise up and organize is more urgent than ever before — but one need not look far for places where the work is already being done. In addition to the Atlanta Homeless Union, coalitions of unhoused people exist in Kansas City, Sacramento, Chicago and Rochester, New York.
Although the history of homeless organizing is seldom told, these groups are taking up the mantle of a long line of activists before them: Nearly four decades ago, the National Union of the Homeless had 25 local chapters and 35,000 members in cities across the United States. Guided by a commitment to working-class solidarity and a vision of collective liberation over neoliberal reform, its members staged various successful housing takeovers, shifting people's material conditions as well as public perceptions of homelessness. As the pandemic continues to devastate America's poorest, the union's victories — as well as its decline — have much to teach activists in the months ahead.
'Projects of survival'
The earliest iteration of the National Union of the Homeless was the Committee for Dignity and Fairness for the Homeless, a Philadelphia-based grassroots group that emerged in response to deteriorating conditions in cities during the 1970s and '80s. The committee's first meeting was held in an abandoned building in 1983. At the time, all three founders — Chris Sprowal, Tex Howard and Franklin Smith — had been unemployed and homeless for over a year.
Within nine months, the group had over 500 unhoused members. In 1984, they embarked on what they called a "project of survival" — creating Dignity Housing, the first shelter in the United States founded and run by homeless people, all of whom were paid a salary for their labor. The shelter, which sought to provide not only temporary relief but permanent solutions like education and job training, quickly became a springboard for community organizing.
"Forget about it being against the law. I don't care. Hell, I'm dying in the streets. That should be against the law."
Critical to Dignity Housing's success was Sprowal, a Black civil rights activist and fervent believer in homeless self-determination. His early years were spent struggling with substance use, being shuffled in and out of prison, running political campaigns and organizing with the Congress of Racial Equality and hospital unions — experiences that gave him unique insight into the structural nature of homelessness and the strategies necessary for advancing liberation. "Dignity was not just housing," Sprowal told City Limits. "It was a way of life."
In 1985, recognizing the need for homeless people to unite across lines of division like race, gender and sexuality, Sprowal founded the Philadelphia/Delaware Valley Union of the Homeless. The founding convention brought together over 400 homeless delegates, as well as union leaders, religious leaders, lawyers and politicians.
There, it was established that they would follow a "Johnnie Tillmon" model of organizing — named for the visionary who fought to reimagine the welfare system in the 1970s. The daughter of a sharecropper and a divorced mother of six, Tillmon was a radical who spent her life redefining poverty as a women's issue and mobilizing welfare recipients in the housing projects of California. The Tillmon model was based on two central principles: First, poverty victims must be at the forefront of the movement to end poverty. Second, you only get what you are organized to take.
'Homeless, not helpless'
By the mid-1980s, the union began to expand nationally. To empower affiliate chapters and prepare for a national organizing drive, they offered a six-week intensive training for unhoused leaders across the country. These leaders went on to found chapters in New York, Boston, Chicago, Minneapolis, Detroit, Tucson, Los Angeles and Oakland.
"We don't want to be a flash in the pan," Sprowal told the Los Angeles Times in 1986. "We are prepared to fight. We are the only segment of society that has nothing to lose. We lost it all when we became homeless."
In one of their earliest victories, the union sued the state of Pennsylvania for residents' right to use shelters as a voting address — a win that enabled homeless residents to vote for the first time in the city's history. This triumph also allowed them to receive Social Security and welfare checks. Soon after, organizers began staging bathe-ins at public fountains, securing 24-hour intake in public showers. In a number of cities, the union also won the right to shelter.
Instead of going our separate ways and fighting all our separate issues, we need to throw all them issues into one pot and stir it up and work together."
Later, Tucson activists sued the police department for harassment, putting an end to the department's homeless "beat," while organizers in Detroit fought to ensure children were provided transportation to city schools. In 1989, representatives from the National Union of the Homeless managed to get a meeting with Jack Kemp, the head of the U.S Department of Housing and Urban Development, or HUD. Kemp promised to make 10,000 HUD units available to the homeless over the next year. After he failed to follow through, the union launched what would become their most militant and most successful campaign: orchestrating coordinated takeovers of vacant urban properties in cities across the United States.
In 1990, the National Union of the Homeless took over abandoned HUD buildings in seven U.S. cities, a strategy that cemented the union's status as a formidable political force. In Minneapolis, where activists took over 15 buildings, the city government handed over millions for a homeless-run housing program. In Oakland, activists secured $2 million in land for construction of another Dignity Housing building. In Philadelphia, the mayor agreed not to evict homeless families from HUD properties.
"It can be done. If people take the initiative of breaking into these houses," union leader Ron Casanova said in 1990. "Forget about it being against the law. I don't care. Hell, I'm dying in the streets. That should be against the law."
Organizing by the poor, for the poor
At the core of the National Union of the Homeless' efforts was an understanding that all struggles for liberation are connected. Then, as now, one could not challenge a system where people were dying on the street without addressing the essential structures of capitalism, like white supremacy and militarism — and one could not demand housing without also agitating for healthcare, education and climate action.
"One of the mistakes that's going on in this country is that people think that all they need to do is fight for welfare rights, or fight for housing," Casanova once said. "They don't realize we're fighting a poverty issue. … Instead of going our separate ways and fighting all our separate issues, we need to throw all them issues into one pot and stir it up and work together."
Despite its far-reaching success, the union entered a decline by the mid-1990s. Willie Baptist, an organizer with the union, attributed its demise to three sources: the devastation of the crack epidemic, the co-option of some of the organization's leadership by nonprofits and government agencies, and the imprisonment of key organizers after civil disobedience campaigns.
In July 2020, after a vote by nearly 100 organizers, the National Union of the Homeless was revitalized, with local chapters springing up in 11 states. Today, their message is more relevant than ever: The end of eviction moratoriums has left an estimated 30 to 40 million people at risk of being evicted in the next several months, and some economic experts predict that the next four years will see a 49 percent increase in homelessness, meaning that over 600,000 additional Americans will be unsheltered by 2023.
Mobilizing has never been more crucial — and it is equally critical that the work is led by the poor themselves, who understand better than anyone what is at stake. When the National Union of the Homeless was founded, homeless people were rarely attributed the agency and capacity required for organizing; at best, the poorest of the poor were viewed as a group to be advocated for, rather than advocates themselves. But the union's work — which represents the most powerful homeless movement ever undertaken in this country — proves otherwise.
"The abilities of this growing segment of the population are being neglected like industrial waste, but represent a tremendous resource of intellectual genius," Baptist once said. "You can't talk about the problems of poverty — the pain of it, the daily struggles to survive, the plight, the fight and the insight — without involving the newly emerging leaders from the growing ranks of the poor."
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This entry was posted in articles on November 21, 2013 by Patrick.
It's probably the way things go, but still I feel sad about it. One of the reproducible research tools linked on our site does not seem to exist anymore: ResearchAssistant (by Daniel Ramage). Typical story: PhD student graduates, and moves on to another position (I did find a "now at Google" when searching what happened), and the web pages with useful links and tools disappear. RIP.
This entry was posted in Uncategorized on April 20, 2013 by Patrick.
Given the fact that you are reading this blog, I am assuming you are into sharing your code and data. However, what is not so clear to me, is where we should be sharing these data (assuming data includes code, which people often seem to forget).
On our own personal web page? Seems like an excellent place to me, but too many of those personal sites are extremely short-lived. I notice this every time I update links.
On our institution's publication pages? That would probably be my preferred choice at this moment. Often with a longer life-span than personal webpages, and still "close enough to yourself". Some issues arise with people working at a company (but then, are you often allowed to share code/data in such a situation?), or with people moving from one institution to another, but those all seem fairly limited compared to some of the alternatives.
On the publisher's web pages? That would make it consistent with the related publication. However, I'm not sure I want to transfer ownership of my code and data to the publisher as well.
On "social media" such as ResearchGate, or Academia.edu? At first I was enthusiast about these, but I start having my doubts. Who is behind these sites? How are they counting on making money, based on my data? Now that some of those start spamming me with e-mail, and asking me whether I have questions for the authors of a paper I downloaded, I become even more skeptical.
Maybe I am too critical about this, or too old-fashioned. Or just too commercially oriented, and not open enough to share with everyone potentially interested in my work. Who will tell?
This entry was posted in ideas, comments,..., reproducible research on February 25, 2013 by Patrick.
The latest issue of IEEE Computing in Science and Engineering is a special issue on reproducible research. It features several articles on tools and approaches for reproducible research.
I also contributed a paper "Code Sharing Is Associated with Research Impact in Image Processing", where I show that there is a relation between making code available online for your paper and the paper's number of citations. For academics, I believe this is one of the most important motivations for making code available online.
Have fun reading the entire issue!
This entry was posted in articles, reproducible research on August 11, 2012 by Patrick.
I recently learned about the RunMyCode portal, a website where you can easily create a companion website for a paper, allowing others to redo your experiments (thanks, Victoria). The website looks very nice, and it seems a very attractive proposition.
This entry was posted in Tools on April 3, 2012 by Patrick.
Yet another case of scientific fraud caught a lot of media attention in The Netherlands in the past months. In social psychology, Mr Stapel, former professor at Tilburg University, got caught after years of scientific misconduct.
Remark that in this case we are not talking about removing an outlier, or 'enhancing' some results. No, Mr Stapel actually made up the data for (some of) his publications entirely. Over the past years, his work has received quite some media attention, with research findings like "meat eaters are more selfish than vegetarians", or "disordered environments make people more prone to stereotyping and discrimination". Both results have been withdrawn.
This entry was posted in Uncategorized on December 2, 2011 by Patrick.
Maybe 5 years old now, but still very actual. Recommended reading for all software writers among us (and I guess most are these days writing code in some way or another)!
This entry was posted in Uncategorized on October 7, 2011 by Patrick.
At this year's ICIP conference (IEEE International Conference on Image Processing) in Brussels, a round table was organized on reproducible research. Martin Vetterli (EPFL) was one of the panel members, the others were Thrasos Pappas (Northwestern Univ.), Thomas Sikora (Technical University of Berlin), Edward Delp (Purdue University), and Khaled El-Maleh (Qualcomm). Unfortunately, I was not able to attend the panel discussion myself, but I'd be very happy to read your feedback and comments on the discussion in the comments below. And let the discussion continue here…!
Chuohao Yeo, Yih Han Tan, Zhengguo Li, Susanto Rahardja, CHROMA INTRA PREDICTION USING TEMPLATE MATCHING WITH RECONSTRUCTED LUMA COMPONENTS, http://iphome.hhi.de/suehring/tml/download/.
Li Chen, Yang Xiang, YaoJie Chen, XiaoLong Zhang, RETINAL IMAGE REGISTRATION USING BIFURCATION STRUCTURES, http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/23015-feature-based-retinal-image-registration.
Christian Keimel, Manuel Klimpke, Julian Habigt and Klaus Diepold, NO-REFERENCE VIDEO QUALITY METRIC FOR HDTV BASED ON H.264/AVC BITSTREAM FEATURES, www.ldv.ei.tum.de/videolab.
Athanasios Voulodimos, Dimitrios Kosmopoulos, Georgios Vasileiou, Emmanuel Sardis, Anastasios Doulamis, Vassileios Anagnostopoulos, Constantinos Lalos, Theodora Varvarigou, A DATASET FOR WORKFLOWRECOGNITION IN INDUSTRIAL SCENES, http://www.scovis.eu/.
Roland Kwitt, Peter Meerwald, Andreas Uhl and Geert Verdoolaege, TESTING A MULTIVARIATE MODEL FOR WAVELET COEFFICIENTS, http://www.wavelab.at/sources/.
Yizhen Huang, WAVELET-BASED QUALITY CONSTRAINED COMPRESSION USING BINARY SEARCH, http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~huangyz/imageCompression.rar.
Thomas Stütz and Andreas Uhl, EFFICIENTWAVELET PACKET BASIS SELECTION IN JPEG2000, http://www.wavelab.at/sources/.
E. Gil-Rodrigo, J. Portilla, D. Miraut, R. Suarez-Mesa, EFFICIENT JOINT POISSON-GAUSS RESTORATION USING MULTI-FRAME L2-RELAXED-L0 ANALYSIS-BASED SPARSITY, – announced code, but I could not find it yet – .
J. Portilla, E. Gil-Rodrigo, D. Miraut, R. Suarez-Mesa, CONDY: ULTRA-FAST HIGH PERFORMANCE RESTORATION USING MULTI-FRAME L2-RELAXED-L0 SPARSITY AND CONSTRAINED DYNAMIC HEURISTICS, to become available on http://www4.io.csic.es/PagsPers/JPortilla/portada/software.
This entry was posted in articles, image processing, reproducible research, Uncategorized on October 2, 2011 by Patrick.
I wrote two months ago about the mini-symposium "Store-Share-and-Cite" at TU Delft, where I gave a talk. The slides for all presentations are available online now. Enjoy!
This entry was posted in Uncategorized on August 21, 2011 by Patrick.
Early this year, IEEE has changed its policy with respect to making your publications available online. Now you are only allowed to put a (final) preprint on your personal web page (or your institution's), mentioning the copyright and final referencing data. This holds for all papers published after January 1st, 2011. Before, you were also allowed to make the published paper itself available online.
While I do understand that this protects (some of the) additional work done by IEEE to make that final publication look nice, and thus should encourage people to subscribe, I am not happy with this measure. Maybe this is just aligning the IEEE policy with what most publishers do already, but still.
Why do I prefer the published one? First of all, this makes sure only a single version of a paper circulates on the web. I personally find it very annoying to see a paper, start reading it because it looks different from what you've seen before, and notice that it is actually the same, but in different typesetting. Even more so if the two would have differences. The final published one would be the most correct one, I assume. Secondly, it also increases the chances that a paper is cited correctly. Because, let's face it, not everyone will nicely add the "full citation to the original IEEE publication and a link to the article in the IEEE Xplore digital library".
This entry was posted in Uncategorized on July 28, 2011 by Patrick.


Potential home buyers form their first impression of a home from its curb appeal. Yet often a home's outdoor yard is overlooked, or underdone, in the preparation for the sales process. Aventura property managers believe that an attractive and well-maintained yard can add as much as 10 percent to the value of your home. Ideally the time to get started cleaning up your yard is about a month before you plan on showing your house. That should give you enough time to get everything looking just right and not leave the impression that you simply waited until the last minute to put things in order. Here are few tips to help beautify your yard to sell quickly.
You can easily make the rental property look more attractive when you have lush, green grass. This is a great way to make your property look attractive without spending a lot of money. It doesn't matter the time of the year; you should consistently take care of your lawn. After cutting the grasses to keep them low, spread fertilizer and ensure the grasses get enough water every day. When you make your grass look alive and low, potential tenants will fall in love with the property on their first visit.
Another thing you will want to consider when you are planning out how you want your yard to look is the landscaping, as adding pathways and rock gardens can really change the feel of the yard, and require different levels of upkeep. This may also depend on your budget as boulders are expensive, and it will also depend on what your yard is like already in terms of size and area, as well as the soil composition, as that can preclude a lot of different flowers in your garden.
It's great to have trees, bushes, and plants to give life to your yard, but things can get overgrown if you don't keep an eye on them. Trim any tree branches that are close to your house or over your neighbor's yard. Keep your hedges at a nice, consistent height. Cut away any vines creeping over your fences. You can handle most trimming work with a decent pair of long clippers and a band saw. Cordless, rechargeable hedge trimmers can also be useful.
A great way to greatly beautify your yard is to upgrade your yard with some attractive Garden Décor. This can be one of your best investments to not only add value to your property but to make it beautiful for years to come. If you are looking for some ideas to decorate your yard, keep in mind that it doesn't have to be expensive or time consuming to do. All you need is a little imagination and a little initiative to turn your yard into a creative masterpiece.


I don't know that I like this definition or procrastination or think that it is an all-encompassing or pragmatic definition. They are many reasons why people put off tasks.
For me, the tasks that I do manage to do are not necessarily more or less urgent than the ones that are placed on the proverbial "back burner". The tasks that are completed are merely the ones I am capable of doing at the time or was in the mood to do. If I had to start categorizing tasks…that is a task!
I would have to decide how to determine the importance of each task and list each tasks and therefore this process would invoice decision making which I hate, therefore creating more stress for me. No thank you! No more lists!
To be clear, with respect to procrastination, I am referring to tasks in my personal life, not at work. Work is a whole other story. At work, I am managing to meet deadlines and there is minimal room for procrastination. I do have to keep a "To Do Chart" so that I know what deadlines are coming up but work is a different environment and my brain and sense of motivation seem to cooperate better in that environment.
At home, I don't have a complete list of what needs to be done. My mother certainly knows what she would like to me to do (ex. finding room for more presents from the engagement party/bridal showers and reorganizing the kitchen/china cabinet to fit as much in as possible) and has offered her help but I am not in the mood for it. Certain people want to see our wedding photos, but there are close to 1500 of them to sort through and I don't have the patience to do that and create an album of the ones I am ok with people seeing. And of course, we have to choose the ones we want for our personal wedding album, to print for our parents etc. which means scrutinizing them with the parents again. Iwant to fix up my bookcases so the new books I purchased are in the categories that my shelves are organized in (because my shelves have categories).
I always believe in being true to myself. I am just not a phony person. If I want to delay a task because I can't do it at that time, that's my issue, not anyone else's and no one else should care about it. Unfortunately, that is not the reality of the situation.
No one wants to be called lazy and I don't want to have that blamed on my mental illness. I was once very productive and efficient and loved organizing and being busy all the time. The biggest fight with my brain is the "lack of motivation" symptom that happens with depression. It's not lack of motivation in the sense of someone who is unambitious, it's something that happens to a person who suffers from depression, where you do not have the will to get out of bed, go take a shower, or do anything. It sounds terrible and can be misunderstood as something intentional.
I think I put off tasks I don't want to do because 1) The task may make me too tired, 2) The task may cause me to become too hyper, which can end up in hypomania, and 3) The task may cause me to become irritable and agitated. In any scenario, the mood that will prevail is not one I enjoy experiencing. If I had to pick one, I would say #2, because when I am hypomanic I am most productive, but switching from high to low is painful.
I'm going to go make a sign now….
→ Am I supposed to be happy?


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City Emails: Many Dublin Residents Think Undocumented Immigrants Are 'Felons' Who Will Turn Their Town Into a 'Cesspool'
One Dublin resident threatened that the far-right, armed, anti-government militia Oathkeepers would secretly attend a council meeting.
By Darwin BondGraham
Many residents of the exclusive East Bay suburb Dublin equate immigration, especially of undocumented people, with crime, ghettos, and gangs. And they fear that if their city sends signals that undocumented peoples' rights will be respected, their property values will plummet, schools will become crowded, and their community will turn into a "cesspool."
As one Dubliner put it: "Not it my backyard!"
That's according to emails and Nextdoor messages recently obtained by the Express through the Public Records Act. The emails provide a candid account of why Dublin rejected a discussion of a sanctuary policy for their city last month.
Although there is no single definition as to what a sanctuary city is, it's generally recognized as a jurisdiction where the local police and other government officials don't inquire about a person's immigration status, and don't work with the federal government to deport people. The idea is to to make undocumented members of the community feel comfortable contacting the police, sending their kids to school, or seeking care at a hospital.
Nothing stops local and federal law enforcement from arresting and jailing people for committing crimes in a sanctuary jurisdiction. And nothing prevents federal agents from arresting someone in a sanctuary jurisdiction on immigration charges.
But according to emails and Nextdoor.com messages traded before the Dublin City Council discussion last month, many of the city's residents think sanctuary means something far more nefarious.
Here's a few messages posted to a Dublin Nextdoor group before last month's council meeting:
"Not in my backyard! And what is your solution to the crime that these criminals will be bringing? Maybe you should harbor them!!!!!"
"I cannot imagine the beautiful city of Dublin soon having hoods to accomodate the extreme low income families, depreciating property value and increased crimes."
"When I see southern Californian cities like LA, and other cities filled with illegal immigrants, the crime rate/ghettos that have plagued them horrified me, and is one of the main reasons I would never want to live there. Dublin is a small community, safe and mostly wealthy. That is one of the main reasons people decide to live here, and they love it. I cannot even imagine how negatively this will be impacted after it becomes an oasis of illegal immigrants."
"Why should we give rights to illegals and jeopardize our family's well being."
"No way do you want to lose money for your city, and do you want to have multiple murders like Chicago?"
"Welfare, crime, the simple truth is our resources are finite. Imagine SF double the current population by 2060. The life boat is full."
"Is the city going out of its way to broadcast an outward message that could attract a large influx of illegal immigrants? My primary concern is whether the city's infrastructure – particularly the schools – is prepared for that. The good schools and safety appealed strongly to me when I moved here, and I assumed many other young professionals settled here for similar reasons."
"It sends a signal, just opposite of that intended, that Dublin will protect felons and those who commit felonies from being arrested and deported […] It becomes an advertisement that criminals are welcome and safe in Dublin."
In an email to Dublin Councilmember Abe Gupta, a Dublin residents who identified himself as a "legal immigrant" wrote that the city's overcrowded schools and bad traffic can't afford an influx of new residents in the form undocumented immigrants.
"We cannot afford getting more people especially those illegal immigrates who have already broke the immigration laws to come to settle in our neighborhoods and make our situation even worse," they wrote.
Gupta replied, "I completely agree."
Many anti-sanctuary commenters claimed that undocumented immigrants don't pay taxes and are a burden on government because they require welfare and send their kids to local schools. But in fact, undocumented immigrants do pay taxes.
Also, the most recent and authoritative scientific research on the question of whether immigration is linked to an increase in crime shows that it isn't.
Still, a handful of Dublin residents saw a conspiracy behind the sanctuary proposal involving a ploy by the Democratic Party to flood their city and the nation with undocumented immigrants in exchange for their votes. Here's what one Dublin resident wrote on Nextdoor:
"The democrats have been routed in the last national election. They control only California and New York. Their answer? Flood the country with uneducated and low skilled people in exchange for their votes, and make the American Taxpayer foot the bill. Take political contributions from MS-13 gangs and other drug cartels. And if a few innocent Americans have to die in the process, like Kate Steinle, then that's just too bad."
Not all Dubliners voiced these kinds of conspiracy-minded, and anti-immigration opinions.
Some asked the council to consider adopting the sanctuary policy, and they debated their neighbors on Nextdoor in the days leading up to the council meeting.
That, however, prompted another Dublin resident to threaten that members of the far-right, armed, anti-government militia group Oathkeepers would secretly attend the meeting.
According to city emails, the police were notified about the threat. It's unclear what happened.
But ultimately the council shelved any further discussion on the idea of becoming a sanctuary city.
As one Dublin resident put it in an email to all the councilmembers: "Really, Sanctuary City? My residential for Sale Sign will be ready for posting if Dublin becomes a Sanctuary city for illegal law breaking."
Darwin BondGraham
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Best practices posts for LinkedIn are easily found, because it's such a ubiquitous network for people looking for a job. Yet only a fraction of those focus on what academics should include on their LinkedIn profile. But while there is a lot of overlap between creating a resume and an academic CV, there are also some questions that will be unique to academics (such as do I add my entire list of publications, do I add altmetrics, do I list all classes I ever taught etc.). In this post I try to cover both more general points and some specifically academic elements.
If you Google best practices LinkedIn you get a ton of results, but these four are the ones that are included in every post.
Have a professional and current profile picture. Here are some examples of how not to do it.
Keep your profile up to date. Review it regularly and add newly acquired skills, projects or publications.
Create a good headline, as it is the first thing people will see in addition to your name and profile pic. And in the same vein, create a summary so people can learn more about who you are and what you do.
Remember your privacy settings. In your settings you can chose whether people will be able to see that you've visited their profile, though disabling it also means you can't see who has viewed your profile. You might want to disable the notifications of changes to your profile as well. This will prevent people from seeing each and every change you make to your profile in their updates feed.
Impact Story has a great article on supercharging your LinkedIn profile in which they advise you to only highlight your best work and papers, to mention the awards, grants and honours you've received clearly, and to be sure to add the Altmetric score for your papers. They also have a follow up post on what to do with your LinkedIn profile once you've spiffed it up. One thing to keep in mind is that LinkedIn's function will be very different for recent graduates, early career academics, and senior faculty, especially for the latter as starting on the tenure track generally means a long-term commitment. The Serial Mentor has an interesting take on different approaches for early career and senior faculty.


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Marvel Dropped Its MCU Phase Four Plans During Comic-Con and Fans Are Freaking Out
Alberto E. Rodriguez, Getty Images for Disney
At San Diego Comic-Con over the weekend, Disney's Marvel Studios announced Phase Four of its Marvel Cinematic Universe, which will include ten new films and television shows.
Cast members from the newly announced television shows and films were on hand to reveal the big news.
Projects with announced release dates include:
Black Widow (May 1, 2020)
Falcon and the Winter Soldier (Fall of 2020)
The Eternals (Nov. 6, 2020)
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (Feb. 12, 2021)
WandaVision (Spring of 2021)
Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness (May 7, 2021)
LOKI (Spring of 2021)
What If...? (Summer of 2021)
Hawkeye (Fall of 2021)
Thor: Love and Thunder (Nov. 5, 2021).
The panel revealed that Natalie Portman will play the first-ever cinematic female Thor in the upcoming film, Thor: Love and Thunder. The MCU will also have its first openly LGBTQ+ character, Valkyrie, played by Tessa Thompson.
Mahershala Ali appeared on stage and announced that he was cast as the lead for the upcoming Blade film. A release date or time frame for the film has not been released.
Marvel Studios President, Kevin Feige, also announced that Black Panther 2, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, Captain Marvel 2 and The Fantastic Four will be "coming."
With all of the major news, fans were not prepared. Take a look at some of the best reactions, below!
Pop Stars and the Superheroes They Remind Us Of
Source: Marvel Dropped Its MCU Phase Four Plans During Comic-Con and Fans Are Freaking Out
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There are some events in life that are so painful, but yet so special that you make yourself relive them over and over.
I will never forget Hannah hiding behind me even before Mark called to her to go to the clinic. She didn't want to go to the clinic after being poked and prodded so many times. But like the "pleaser" she was, she always went when Mark called to her. I laughed. It was funny--she was so smart. I cried, because she thought I would protect her and I couldn't.
I smile when I think of the way she sat right by my side on the way to Columbia to the vet hospital. She was so happy to be going on a trip, but of course had no idea what a sad thing this really was. She thought the whole thing was terrific meeting new people that were so interested in her. Everyone was a potential friend and playmate.
I had no trouble leaving her--she was having fun and I knew if anyone could help her it would be them. But I couldn't pick her up. I didn't want to talk about her prognosis face to face with the doctors, I just wanted her home. Mark was my savior.
I'll never forget how quickly she went, but with such strength and dignity. Until the day she died, she would eat anything from the table, but no dog food. She continued to greet everyone at the door, even when she was too weak to do anything but drop heavily to the floor when trying to lay down.
I'll never forget having to leave her every morning her last week to go to VBS. I said goodbye to her every day as if it would be the last. I asked her to please not go while I was gone, and she hung in there. One morning I said, Hannah are you going to be ok and she just looked up at me from the floor and wagged her tail deliberately two times.
I'll never forget saying goodbye to her and wishing the next day, I had just waited one more day. Did she know how much I loved her and how much I was going to miss her?
I still see her sitting in front of the fireplace, stretching out on the couch, and laying at my feet only to be stepped on over and over.
My late night buddy is gone and I miss her terribly. But we cheated death by allowing her to be released from her pain before it totally debilitated her. And she was at home where she belonged. For that and for all that she gave us I will forever be grateful. She was a faithful friend to the very end. When I asked her to close her eyes, she did. And she was gone.