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The Internet is Exploding: 10 Must-Read Articles This Week
A.F. Oehmke March 18, 2018
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The internet was kinda weird this week…? Highlights: Zoe Leonard's killing it as always, the art world is shitting on powerful women, having money can be difficult for artists, a Rio councilwoman was murdered, National Geographic admitted it was racist, high school students protest gun violence, A Wrinkle in Time is turning into a massive debate, and Rihanna shat all over Snapchat.
1. Paris Review: Zoe Leonard: Archivist of Feeling
Zoe Leonard's work seems to have been made specifically for this moment in time. Her poem I Want a President was written in 2001, published in 2006, but feels like it was written the day after Trump won the election. But that is the wonderful thing about Leonard's work: it is timeless, endlessly resonating with the current moment.
Leonard has been called "an archivist of feeling." It is constantly said but rarely learned that feelings are more powerful than logic, and that if you touch the heart you can change the mind. Feelings are political and "Leonard's work is an invitation to interrogate how our depressions, despairs, and desires can be harnessed as political perspectives. Our emotional responses, according to Leonard, are a form of political positioning."
2. Huffington Post: The Museum World Is Having An Identity Crisis, And Firing Powerful Women Won't Help
LOS ANGELES, CA – APRIL 29: MOCA Chief Curator, Helen Molesworth at the MOCA Gala 2017 honoring Jeff Koons at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA on April 29, 2017 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by John Sciulli/Getty Images for MOCA)
On Monday, Helen Molesworth, the Chief Curator at Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, was effectively fired. Molesworth is the third high powered women in the art world to either be fired from or to forcibly leave their job this year. She follows Laura Raicovich's departure from the Queens Museum for being "politically outspoken," and the director of Virginia Commonwealth University's Institute of Contemporary Art, Lisa Freiman who left her position as executive director to "return to her scholarly roots."
While at the MOCA, Molesworth curated critically acclaimed blockbuster exhibitions on Kerry James Marshall, a black artist, and Anna Maria Maiolino, a Brazilian feminist artist. Philippe Vergne, the director of the museum who fired Molesworth, curated a show about Carl Andre, a white male artist who was charged with second-degree murder for killing his wife, Ana Mendieta. Andre was acquitted of the chargers but like really…we all know what happened.
This is not a good look for arts institutions.
3. New York Times: For Artists, the Thrill of Grant Money Arrives With a 'Now What'?
Last year, I went out to dinner with Fred Wilson and Joyce J. Scott, two MacArthur "Genius" Fellowship recipients, Malcolm Peacock, and a few other members of the Baltimore art scene. What to do with grant money was a main topic of conversation, as Joyce had just received her fellowship, which came with substantially more money than Fred's, who received the award in 1999. I remember Fred bringing up the difference between artists winning the award and people in the sciences. He said that for people working in the sciences it is just extra, "they already have jobs, ways to pay the bills. I lived off of my grant. I ate off of it. I used it to pay bills and buy food."
It was a surreal dinner, and money was not the only topic of conversation. But Fred's description of what he did with the title of "genius" was one of the most real things someone has ever told me.
4. Wilson Center: Assassination of Human Rights Activist, Councilwoman Marielle Franco, Shocks Brazil
Marielle Franco an Afro-Brazilian councilwoman in Rio de Janeiro was murdered late Wednesday evening in what many assume was an assassination. Franco vehemently opposed police corruption in Rio and was an outspoken advocate for Afro-Brazilian, the LGBTQ+ community, women, and all marginalized populations.
While it is "It is far too early to know what the impact of Franco's assassination will be in Rio de Janeiro and in Brazilian society more broadly" but is clear that her death is bringing global attention to the causes she was so passionate about.
5. National Geographic: For Decades, Our Coverage Was Racist. To Rise Above Our Past, We Must Acknowledge It
National Geographic wanted to talk about race so it decided to start with its own history. This is a VERY simple thing to do, but most places don't seem to do it… or if they do they don't pay attention to the results…? Idk why this is so complicated for institutions.
The magazine invited John Edwin Mason, a historian of photography and Africa, to research their archives. Mason found that "until the 1970s National Geographic all but ignored people of color who lived in the United States, rarely acknowledging them beyond laborers or domestic workers. Meanwhile, it pictured "natives" elsewhere as exotics, famously and frequently unclothed, happy hunters, noble savages—every type of cliché."
From this article and issue, it seems like National Geographic is invested in reconciling its history, but many people are asking them why it has taken them so long to do it. Let's just hope that they continue and that this is not isolated to what it is being reported but also extends to who is reporting, and photographing, and editing, and reading.
6. Philadelphia Inquirer: Philly teens to Florida teens: Would you have stood in solidarity with us?
On Wednesday students around the country walked out of school to protest gun violence and pay respect to those who died in the Parkland shooting. The national movement, led by survivors of the Parkland shooting, has gained immense support, but also harsh criticism from students of color.
Students at Parkway Center City Middle College in Philadelphia struggled in deciding whether or not to participate in Wednesday's walkout. Students were supportive of the movement but also wanted to know if the movement was supportive of them. As one student said "I'm not saying that those kids' lives didn't matter. I'm saying they aren't the ones being treated like nothing."
7. BuzzFeed: "A Wrinkle In Time" Has Become An Argument Instead Of A Movie
I saw this headline the day before I saw A Wrinkle in Time, and waited until after the movie to read it. The movie, directed by Ava DuVernay, is the first movie with over $100 million budget to be directed by a black woman.
The article gets a lot of things right about the movie being in the middle of the pack, and not a blockbuster. A Wrinkle in Time is fine. It is kitschy and didactic and exactly what you would expect from a movie of its kind. You could easily go without seeing it in the theater and just stream it online. The argument with the film is if "Hollywood ready to let a black woman direct a big movie that's not an incontestable hit without it crushing her career — or, at least, setting it back years?"
8. Forbes: The Rihanna Effect: Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel's Net Worth Drops Nearly $150 Million In Two Days
LOL! So Snapchat had an add for an app that asked users if they would rather "slap Rihanna or punch Chris Brown." Rihanna went off on Snapchat on her Instagram account and the app subsequently lost $800 million in value. The app, which is been struggling since it's parent company, Snap, went public in March 2017, also recently substantially updated its user interface causing an uproar on Twitter. Kylie Jenner threw shade at the app causing it to decrease an estimated $1.3 billion in value. While Kylie and Rihanna were critiquing VERY different things about Snapchat, it is safe to say the app is becoming obsolete.
9. The New Republic: The Sexism of "Genius"
Stephen Hawking, acclaimed scientist and author, died on Wednesday. For many in the scientific community, this is a huge loss, and almost every major news outlet has reported on it. Hawking was known to the world as a scientific genius, but he himself did not necessarily approve of the term. He felt like the term was to denote a "hero," an idea easily produced and consumed by the mass media.
It seems like the term has been widely spoken about, or at least around, in the past year. The status of genius is usually referred to men, a lot of whom practice disciplines in the STEM fields and inappropriate behavior by them is more likely to be tolerated. In the post-Weinsteingate era, the question of What Do We Do with the Art of Monstrous Men Is constantly asked and rarely answered.
10. New York Times: Cinderella Story? It's True for U.M.B.C. in Academics, Too
So UMBC somehow beat the University of Virginia, a number 1 seed, in the first round of March Madness making history?!?! Damn. I'm sorry about everyone's brackets. Now the whole country is collectively asking WTF is UMBC. Well, one of its most impressive statistics is that it is "known for producing the most African-American students who go on to complete combined M.D.-Ph.D." That is something I did not know. Best of luck in the next round, UMBC!
Elena Ferrante: 'Even today, after a century of feminism, we can't fully be ourselves': Everything has been codified in terms of male needs – even our underwear, sexual practices, maternity
"A young woman I'm very fond of said to me: it's always a problem with men, I've had to learn not to overdo. She meant that she had trained herself not to be too beautiful, too intelligent, too considerate, too independent, too generous, too aggressive, too nice. The "too" of a woman produces violent male reactions and, in addition, the enmity of other women, who every day are obliged to fight among themselves for the crumbs left by men. The "too" of men produces general admiration and positions of power."
*All images taken from reference articles*
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Q: Enum with string index or alternative Is it possible to return a value from enum with a string index? For example I can use:
Enum test
    firstval
    secondval
    thirdval
End Enum

Dim index As Integer = 1

CType(index, test).ToString()

to return firstval but is there a way to do something similar where index is a string value? For example:
Enum test
    firstval = "one"
    secondval = "two"
    thirdval = "three"
End Enum

Dim index As string = "one"

CType(index, test).ToString()

A: It's not possible using an Enum, but you could easily create a type that can do what you want, using the Narrowing operator.
simple example:
Class Test

    Private Shared _lookup As Dictionary(Of String, Test)

    Private Key As String
    Private Name As String

    Public Shared ReadOnly firstval  As Test = New Test("one", "firstval")
    Public Shared ReadOnly secondval As Test = New Test("two", "secondval")
    Public Shared ReadOnly thirdval  As Test = New Test("three", "thirdval")

    Private Sub New(key As String, name As String)
        Me.Key = key
        Me.Name = name
        If _lookup Is Nothing Then _
            _lookup = New Dictionary(Of String, Test)

        _lookup.Add(key, Me)
    End Sub

    Public Overrides Function ToString() As String
        Return Me.Name ' or whatever you want '
    End Function

    Public Shared Widening Operator CType(obj As Test) As String
        Return obj.Key
    End Operator

    Public Shared Narrowing Operator CType(key As String) As Test
        Return _lookup(key)
    End Operator

End Class

usage:
Dim index As string = "one"

' returns firstval '
CType(index, Test).ToString()

A: There are several other alternatives.
One is to get the names used in the enum.  For instance:
Friend Enum ImgFormat
    Bitmap
    GIF
    JPeg
    TIFF
    PNG
End Enum

Dim ImgNames() As String
...
ImgNames = [Enum].GetNames(GetType(ImgFormat))

If your names are not friendly enough, decorate them with Descriptions:
Imports System.ComponentModel

Friend Enum ImgFormat
    <Description("Bitmap (BMP)")> Bitmap
    <Description("Graphic Interchange (GIF)")> GIF
    <Description("Jpg/JPeg (JPG)")> JPeg
    <Description("Tagged Image (TIFF)")> TIFF
    <Description("Portable Graphics (PNG)")> PNG
End Enum

To get the descriptions, requires reflection which gets involved:
Imports System.Reflection
Imports System.ComponentModel

Public Class EnumConverter
' gets a single enum description
Public Shared Function GetEnumDescription(ByVal EnumConstant As [Enum]) As String
    Dim fi As FieldInfo = EnumConstant.GetType().GetField(EnumConstant.ToString())
    Dim attr() As DescriptionAttribute = _
        DirectCast( _
            fi.GetCustomAttributes(GetType(DescriptionAttribute), False), _
            DescriptionAttribute() )

       If attr.Length > 0 Then
           Return attr(0).Description
       Else
           Return EnumConstant.ToString()
       End If
End Function

' get all the enum descriptions:
Public Shared Function GetEnumDescriptions(ByVal type As Type) As String()
    Dim n As Integer = 0

    Dim enumValues As Array = [Enum].GetValues(type)
    Dim Descr(enumValues.Length - 1) As String

    For Each value As [Enum] In enumValues
         Descr(n) = GetEnumDescription(value)
         n += 1
    Next

    Return Descr

End Function
End Class

To use:
Dim ImgNames() As String = EnumConverter.GetEnumDescriptions(ImgFormat)

ImgNames(ImgFormat.GIF) would be 'Graphic Interchange (GIF)'
This will break if the Enum values are not the default 0, 1, 2 ...  IF that is an issue (and it really is), then build a class around it to store the Name or Description with the Enum Value.  Rather than building a class to create a pseudo enum, make one to create a list of name-value pairs consisting of the Descriptions and Enum Value.

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Hockfield, Susan
President Emerita and Professor of Neuroscience
Brain & Cognitive Sciences
Email: hockfield@mit.edu
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Susan Hockfield has distinguished herself in a career that has spanned advanced scientific research and the presidency of one of the premier institutions of science and engineering in the world.
After earning a B.A. in biology from the University of Rochester and a Ph.D. from Georgetown University at the School of Medicine, Dr. Hockfield was an NIH postdoctoral fellow at the University of California at San Francisco. She then joined the scientific staff at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York. Joining the faculty of Yale University in 1985, Dr. Hockfield focused her research on the development of the brain and on glioma, a deadly form of brain cancer, and pioneered the use of monoclonal antibody technology in brain research. She gained tenure in 1994 and was later named the William Edward Gilbert Professor of Neurobiology.
At Yale, Dr. Hockfield emerged as a strong, innovative university leader, first as dean of its Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, with oversight of more than 70 graduate programs, and then as provost, Yale's chief academic and administrative officer.
From December 2004 through June 2012, Dr. Hockfield served as the sixteenth president of MIT, where she continues to hold a faculty appointment as professor of neuroscience.
My laboratory has studied molecular substrates of mammalian development. We identified a family of glycovariants of the extracellular matrix (ECM) proteoglycan, aggrecan, whose expression is regulated by neuronal activity early in an animal's life. Expression of the aggrecan glycoforms is regulated in parallel with critical period events and may play a role in stabilizing mature synaptic relationships. A related ECM protein, BEHAB/brevican, is expressed when glial cells travel during development and after brain injury. BEHAB/brevican is also expressed at very high levels in brain tumors, and can mediate the motility of tumor cells. A key feature of our work has been to bring biochemical and molecular biological techniques to the classical anatomical analysis of mammalian CNS development.
Hockfield S. The next innovation revolution. Science. 2009 Feb 27;323(5918):1147.
Viapiano MS, Hockfield S, Matthews RT. BEHAB/brevican requires ADAMTS-mediated proteolytic cleavage to promote glioma invasion. J Neurooncol. 2008 Jul;88(3):261-72. Epub 2008 Apr 9.
Viapiano MS, Bi WL, Piepmeier J, Hockfield S, Matthews RT. Novel tumor-specific isoforms of BEHAB/brevican identified in human malignant gliomas. Cancer Res. 2005 Aug 1;65(15):6726-33.
Viapiano MS, Matthews RT, Hockfield S. A novel membrane-associated glycovariant of BEHAB/brevican is up-regulated during rat brain development and in a rat model of invasive glioma. J Biol Chem. 2003 Aug 29;278(35):33239-47. Epub 2003 Jun 10.

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The Robertson family of A&E series 'Duck Dynasty' aren't just schooled in the duck call industry -- they've just launched a line of wines, aptly named Duck Commander Wines.
Willie and Korie Robertson collaborated with family-owned winery Trinchero Family Estates in Napa Valley to create their new line. It includes Triple Threat 2011 Red Blend, Wood Duck 2012 Chardonnay and Miss Priss 2012 Pink Moscato.
Korie put her personal stamp of approval on the wine, saying, "It's a good, affordable wine, and it tastes great. Our customers are gonna love it, and I think the Trinchero family was the perfect partnership for us because we're a family business and we love to work with other family businesses. We're all really proud of this wine."
This holiday season, the Robertson family won't just be enjoying the fruits of their labor by sipping wine next to a roaring fireplace -- they'll be working. The Family Dynasty has a new Christmas album and a one-hour Christmas special, which airs Dec. 11 at 10PM ET on A&E.


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Gaston de Blondeville is a Gothic novel by noted English author Ann Radcliffe, published posthumously in 1826, three years after Radcliffe's death. Its full title is Gaston de Blondeville: Or, The Court of Henry III. Keeping Festival in Ardenne, A Romance.

Plot summary
Set in the 13th-century court of England's King Henry III, the novel centres around the wedding of the title character. The wedding is interrupted by a merchant who claims to have been wronged by Gaston, in that Gaston murdered his kinsman. Henry is forced to hold a trial to determine the validity of the claims. The plot is further complicated by the machinations of an abbot who tries to suppress the truth, and by ghosts who want to expose the truth.

Prefix
The novel was published by Henry Colburn. The first volume begins with A memoir of the Author, with Extracts from her Journal, which is the first known biography of Mrs. Radcliffe. Rictor Norton notes that this work "was written three years after her death by a man who never met her, using material supplied solely by her husband and his own intuition".

Review
The book is described as "drawn out and sometimes rambling, the plot lacking in impetus", but is notable as being the last novel to be both written (circa 1802) and published (in 1826, posthumously) by Radcliffe.  The book is noteworthy for its detailed descriptions of locations.

References

1826 British novels
Historical novels
Novels by Ann Radcliffe
1820s fantasy novels
Novels published posthumously

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Q: How to add the confidence interval in scatter plot (ggplot in R) I want to show the 90%RI intervals of the dependent variable at each level of the categorical variable and also the whole population on this plot. The 90%RI for disp variable at vs=0 is 200-250, the RI for disp variable at vs=1 is 220-250, and the CI for disp for whole data set is 300-400. How can I add these intervals into this scatter plot?
ggplot(mtcars, aes(mpg, disp)) +
      geom_point(aes(colour=factor(vs),
      fill = factor(vs)), shape=21, size = 4) +
  scale_fill_manual(values=c("blue", "pink")) +
  scale_colour_manual(values=c("black", "black"))

A: Perhaps something like:
ggplot(mtcars, aes(mpg, disp, colour = factor(vs), fill = factor(vs))) +
  geom_point(shape = 21, size = 4, col = "black") +
  stat_summary(aes(vs+8, disp, col = factor(vs)),
               fun.data = function(x) mean_cl_normal(x, conf.int = 0.9)) +
  stat_summary(aes(7, disp, group = 1),
               fun.data = function(x) mean_cl_normal(x, conf.int = 0.9))

If you have intervals, you could use:
cis <- data.frame(vs = c(0, 1, 'all'), lwr = c(200, 220, 300), upr = c(250, 250, 400))
ggplot(mtcars, aes(colour = factor(vs), fill = factor(vs))) +
  geom_point(aes(mpg, disp), shape = 21, size = 4, col = "black") +
  geom_linerange(aes(x = c(8:10), ymin = lwr, ymax = upr), cis)


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Q: Make a new array of objects without repeating key value pairs Lets say I have an array of objects:
var myData = [
 {"ccode":"AFG", "cname":"Afghanistan", "figure":"1", "year":"2012"},
 {"ccode":"AFG", "cname":"Afghanistan", "figure":"3", "year":"2013"},
 {"ccode":"AFG", "cname":"Afghanistan", "figure":"5", "year":"2014"},
 {"ccode":"AFG", "cname":"Afghanistan", "figure":"6", "year":"2015"},
 {"ccode":"AUS", "cname":"Australia", "figure":"6", "year":"2012"},
 {"ccode":"AUS", "cname":"Australia", "figure":"5", "year":"2013"},
 {"ccode":"AUS", "cname":"Australia", "figure":"7", "year":"2014"}
]

How to I get them to be:
var myNewData = [
 {"ccode":"AFG", "cname":"Afghanistan", "2012":"1", "2013":"3", "2014":"5", "2015":"6"},
 {"ccode":"AUS", "cname":"Australia", "2012":"6", "2013":"5", "2014":"7"}
]

A:

var myData = [{
  "ccode": "AFG",
  "cname": "Afghanistan",
  "figure": "1",
  "year": "2012"
}, {
  "ccode": "AFG",
  "cname": "Afghanistan",
  "figure": "3",
  "year": "2013"
}, {
  "ccode": "AFG",
  "cname": "Afghanistan",
  "figure": "5",
  "year": "2014"
}, {
  "ccode": "AFG",
  "cname": "Afghanistan",
  "figure": "6",
  "year": "2015"
}, {
  "ccode": "AUS",
  "cname": "Australia",
  "figure": "6",
  "year": "2012"
}, {
  "ccode": "AUS",
  "cname": "Australia",
  "figure": "5",
  "year": "2013"
}, {
  "ccode": "AUS",
  "cname": "Australia",
  "figure": "7",
  "year": "2014"
}];

var i,len, res = [], obj = {}, obj1 = {}, elem;

for (i = 0, len = myData.length; i < len; i += 1) {
    elem = myData[i];
    if (!(obj1 = obj[elem.ccode])) {
        obj1 = obj[elem.ccode] = {
            ccode: elem.ccode,
            cname: elem.cname
        };
        res.push(obj1);
    }
    obj1[myData[i].year] = elem.figure;
}

console.log(res);

A: I would do this job with one pass of Array.prototype.reduce() as follows;

var myData = [
 {"ccode":"AFG", "cname":"Afghanistan", "figure":"1", "year":"2012"},
 {"ccode":"AFG", "cname":"Afghanistan", "figure":"3", "year":"2013"},
 {"ccode":"AFG", "cname":"Afghanistan", "figure":"5", "year":"2014"},
 {"ccode":"AFG", "cname":"Afghanistan", "figure":"6", "year":"2015"},
 {"ccode":"AUS", "cname":"Australia", "figure":"6", "year":"2012"},
 {"ccode":"AUS", "cname":"Australia", "figure":"5", "year":"2013"},
 {"ccode":"AUS", "cname":"Australia", "figure":"7", "year":"2014"}
],
   newData = myData.reduce((p,c) => { var last = p[p.length-1];
                                      return last && last.ccode == c.ccode ? (last[c.year] = c.figure,p)
                                                                           : p.concat({   ccode : c.ccode,
                                                                                cname : c.cname,
                                                                                [c.year] : c.figure});
                                    },[]);
console.log(newData);


Lineage and biographies of the Norris family in America from 1640 to 1892 : with references to the Norrises of England as early as 1311 / by Leonard Allison Morrison.
Author Morrison, Leonard Allison, 1843-1902.
Published:Boston, Mass. : Damrell & Upham, 1892.
Description207 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
NotePhotoduplicated reprint by Higginson Books of Salem, Mass.


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Rogue Squadron 3D and Rebellion added to GOG's Star Wars catalogue
By Phil Savage published 22 January 15
Sam, PCG's UK editor, is visibly vibrating with excitement now that GOG has further expanded their catalogue of classic Star Wars games. While some new-old Star Wars would be more than enough for a tremor of anticipation, what's particularly caught his eye is the digital distribution début of Star Wars: Rogue Squadron 3D.
Three new games have joined the six added at the start of the week. Arcade dogfighter Rogue Squadron 3D and 4X strategy Rebellion make their first appearance in a digital storefront, while RTS Empire At War makes the DRM-free jump from Steam.
As always, the games should now work on modern systems—something Rogue Squadron, in particular, didn't like to do. This isn't the end of GOG's Star Wars season, either. Yet more games are set to appear in about five days time.
Update: Like an blithering idiot, I didn't look at the press release GOG sent out, which actually names the final three games due to appear on 27 January. These are those:
Star Wars™ Republic Commando
Star Wars™ Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II
Star Wars™ Starfighter
Phil Savage
Phil has been writing for PC Gamer for nearly a decade, starting out as a freelance writer covering everything from free games to MMOs. He eventually joined full-time as a news writer, before moving to the magazine to review immersive sims, RPGs and Hitman games. Now he leads PC Gamer's UK team, but still sometimes finds the time to write about his ongoing obsessions with Destiny 2, GTA Online and Apex Legends. When he's not levelling up battle passes, he's checking out the latest tactics game or dipping back into Guild Wars 2. He's largely responsible for the whole Tub Geralt thing, but still isn't sorry.


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City mum on PE teacher's punishment
No comment on 2020 investigation, reader's angry
An Everett Public Schools physical education teacher deemed unfit to serve unless severely reprimanded or removed from his position by an independent team of investigators lives to teach another day.
Neither the mayor, as a member of the School Committee, nor his member colleagues expressed any concerns publicly about the findings of the investigative report, which cast a harshly negative light on Jason Abruzzese.
The mayor failed to respond to the Leader Herald for comment.
No comments were forthcoming from School Committee Chair Frank Parker.
Abruzzese, the son of School Committee vice-chair Thomas Abruzzese, was arrested by Everett police for domestic abuse against his wife in 2019.
Abruzzese's father was School Committee Chair at the time of his arrest.
A subsequent 2020 investigation into his conduct as a teacher revealed that he had been buying anabolic steroids using his EPS computer as well as using the steroids and watching hundreds of hours of movies during the workweek on the EPS computer.
He watched 46 full-length movies while at work, bet on sporting events, and viewed pictures of fitness models by viewing women's Facebook sites.
Abruzzese often watched movies about women subjected to physically abusive relationships, according to the investigation conducted by the law firm Clifford and Kenny LLP.
The posting of this story on the Leader Herald Facebook site attracted more than 1,000 viewers.
A torrent of comments was posted to the site subsequently.
"I doubt anything will ever be done about this," commented Lisa Castetter.
"That's cause the city is connected a lot to (people) who get away with something," replied AnnMarie Mimi James.
"Disgrace," wrote Stacey Ferullo Cotto.
"No action! WTF!" wrote Shelly Rubin.
Despite being widely read, the story generated no official action.
Said Felicia Castetter:
"Unreal. Everything is always kept hush-hush because the schools don't want the parents to take their kids out. Everyone should protest until he is out of the schools completely. Not on paid leave. FIRED"
A group of parents who wished to remain unnamed, sent a letter to the Leader Herald claiming they are upset and concerned and are requesting that school committee members act on behalf of their children and out of respect for their safety.
"Paid leave is not acceptable to us. Action must be taken to keep him (Abruzzese) away from our children."
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