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Wednesday Morning Links!
* I see this kind of entrapment everywhere in the neoliberal order. In my own field of academia, I think of how we tell students that college is the only path to a liveable life, leading them to 'freely choose' to take on impossible debt loads that they can never escape. We recognize that an injustice has happened here, but a lot of people find it hard to resist saying, essentially, 'Well, you should have thought of that before you took out the loans….' They chose it, therefore they should bear the consequences.
And that is one of the least sinister cases – for instance, think about how blacks are entrapped into criminality and then punished disproportionately. Again, we recognize an injustice, but in the mainstream discourse the instinctive reaction is: 'Well, they had a choice.' Under neoliberalism, our free choice doesn't exist to give us room for creativity and exploration – we can seemingly only ever choose wrongly. Free will is a means to generate blameworthiness, to tell us that we deserve what we get.
* The Future of Work, at Wired.
* Common Good, Not Common Despair.
* We don't often talk of the formative nature of debt in the same way we do in regard to other educational experiences. But just as education is about more than funneling information into students' brains, indebtedness is about more than the transfer of money. Universities rarely address the aspect of higher education that may most powerfully shape students' futures: the debt they take on to finance it. A Debt to Education: Universities can shape their students for life – in more ways than one.
* But we can do better. As educators, we need to lead the way and design our pedagogical approaches for the students we have, not the students we wish we had. This requires approaches that are responsive, inclusive, adaptive, challenging, and compassionate. And it requires that institutions find more creative ways to support teachers and prepare them for the work of teaching. This is not a theoretical exercise — it is a practical one.
* Universities watchdog threatens fines over grade inflation.
* Professor hired mercenaries to rescue student from ISIS in Iraq after he said he wouldn't finish his thesis.
* Citizenship v. The Surveillance State.
* I now conceptualize the society I came from and the war to which I went as part of the same grotesque amusement park ride. If I have discovered anything since my homecoming, it is not that I never came home. It is not that my soul resides in Afghanistan. It is that my home has lost its peaceful veneer, stripped bare, like Twentynine Palms. An American who leaves for war never leaves America. The war that is America, rather, comes to the American. The war is the society and the society is the war, and one who sees that war sees America.
* Star Wars is Really a Cautionary Tale About Devoting All Technological Advancements to Death.
* What I Learned from Reading 1,182 Emergency Room Bills.
* A Father's Version Of A Guatemalan Girl's Trip To The US Raises Questions About The Border Patrol's Account. Guatemalan girl likely died of 'sepsis shock' after crossing border, hospital officials said. Medical Help Was Hours Away for Migrant Girl Who Died in U.S. Custody. "I just left the tent city at Tornillo. It is a child prison camp. They refused our request to speak with the children who are held there."
* "You are not mature enough to tell it like it is. Even that burden you leave to us children."
* Mounting legal threats surround Trump as nearly every organization he has led is under investigation. Trump agrees to shut down his charity amid allegations that he used it for personal and political benefit. How Donald Trump Got Caught in a Legal Vise. Quick thread on the only recorded criminal arrest of a sitting U.S. president—made by a D.C. Police offering for speeding, a century and a half ago.
* The Future of Ultrahigh-End Space Travel.
* The UNC shitshow continues.
* How Scandal and Severance Enrich Private-College Presidents.
* The New York Times Just Published an Unqualified Recommendation for an Insanely Anti-Semitic Book. A Brief, Depressing Compendium of Alice Walker's Apparent Conspiratorial Beliefs.
* On Tolkien and race.
* The Brexit Breaking Point. Government gives Britain's 6 million businesses 101 days to prepare for a No Deal Brexit.
* After Kavanaugh.
* Here's the list of workout clothes you should buy if you don't want to be complicit in global slavery.
* Everything old is new again! Forever and ever amen.
* A Texas Elementary School Speech Pathologist Refused to Sign a Pro-Israel Oath, Now Mandatory in Many States — so She Lost Her Job.
* I've polled Twitter and it's officially okay to take pleasure in the suffering of these Trump voters whose property is going to wind up on the wrong side of the wall.
* Some superstitious divination rituals may have spread because they functioned as adaptive randomization devices in contexts where people otherwise would have used decision procedures worse than chance.
* The rapper who allegedly received Dorsey's facial hair, I'm very excited to share, was Azealia Banks. She tweeted about this exchange in 2016, writing that Dorsey "sent me his hair in an envelope because i was supposed to make him an amulet for protection."
* The PewDiePie century.
* Facebook has abused your data and your trust in literally every way it is possible for them to do so.
* The Cities Where The Cops See No Hate.
* Basically every actress you liked in the early 2000s who disappeared by 2010 was blackballed for speaking out against powerful abusive men.
* A method for creating extremely convincing fake faces.
* Trans Teenager Claims Teacher Demanded He 'Prove' He Was a Boy In Bathroom.
* As an intellectual historian, I've found it puzzling that no one has scanned Ross Douthat's writings from the Harvard Salient, 1998-2002. So I checked out as much of it as I could and there's some pretty good stuff.
* "We have six people on board," one pilot said a few minutes later, according to an audio recording available via LiveATC.net. "Airplane is completely uncontrollable."
* Metroid's Samus Aran is a Transgender Woman. Deal With It.
* Are we living with the Chickenocene?
* When you fit the description.
* Ambient cruelty.
* Well you tell me how you'd make baby powder without asbestos.
* Well you tell me how they're supposed to attract top-flight talent to a company that no longer exists.
* Wild story from the animal beat: An Officer Placed a Retired Police Dog in a Shelter. Now He's Been Demoted.
* An Atlas of American Gun Violence.
* Today in the best $____ I ever spent: top surgery.
* What's the greenest way to travel? We built a sim of world's climate battle – here's what happened when delegates played it at COP24. Inside the most destructive fire in American history—and why the West's cities and towns will keep on burning. Weather 2050.
* Starting to think Woody Allen might be a bad guy.
* Springsteen on Broadway on Netflix: The Interview.
* Being Chris Hayes.
* Why We Still Don't Know How Many NFL Players Have CTE.
* The Artful Propaganda of Soviet Children's Literature.
* How To Make Beer With Only What You Can Grow On A Generation Ship.
* Malls of the 21st Century.
* The 'Weird Events' That Make Machines Hallucinate.
* Tech and the supernatural.
* Journey of an American Bomb.
* DC must have heard about my Graz talk: they're making a Swamp Thing show. Meanwhile, another followup from Graz: Aquaman, From Super Friend To Surfer Dude: The Bro-Ification Of A Hero.
* And I know it's my fault for seeing the double entendre in everything, but sometimes I really think they're doing it on purpose.
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Exactly the Right Number of Finely Curated, Carefully Selected Links from Around the Time My Computer Crashed Last Week to Around the Time I Got It Back This Week
* CFP: "TechnoLogics: Power and Resistance." CFP: Blade Runner 2049 and Philosophy.
* I have an essay in this new open-access book, Materialism and the Critique of Energy: "Peak Oil after Hydrofracking." It's a bit of a departure from my usual work but I thought it came out well… Check it out!
* Kim Stanley Robinson makes the left's case for geoengineering. And from Peter Frase: Geoengineering for the People.
* The Buffy Not-a-Reboot: A Bad Idea Whose Time Has Come.
* How author Nnedi Okorafor found her identity.
* Fascinating presentation on the SF writing market. Lots to think about here.
* Inside the World of Racist Science Fiction. What can we learn from the utopians of the past?
* Why are there so many staircases in space?
* We were halfway through 2018 when the drugs began to take hold.
* Brexit: That Sinking Feeling. This is what a no-deal Brexit actually looks like.
* Reading Your Problematic Fave: David Foster Wallace, feminism and #metoo. And a report from the 2018 David Foster Wallace Conference, partially a profile of my college classmate Ryan Edel.
* Most academic books aren't written to be read—they're written to be "broken." That should change.
* How to Prepare a Diversity Statement.
* When you're the only person in your department.
* When your students (might) record you. A good thread on the subject from Angus Johnson.
* Teaching in a red county after Trump.
* Now he tells us! Mea culpa: there *is* a crisis in the humanities.
* I get it.
* We now live in a country where it is seen as abnormal, or even criminal, to allow children to be away from direct adult supervision, even for a second. Motherhood in the Age of Fear.
* Nintendo announces Labo Kit #3.
* Astounding finalist images for Astronomy Photographer of the Year.
* How an Ex-Cop Rigged McDonald's Monopoly Game and Stole Millions.
* Where the Super-Rich Go to Buy Their Second Passport.
* Time to Take Sexism in Post-Secondary Education Seriously.
* So much of our culture has been shaped by predators.
* Federal judge allows emoluments case against Trump to proceed. Trump's 'emoluments' battle: How a scholar's search of 200 years of dictionaries helped win a historic ruling.
* These Three Immigrant Families Were Just Reunited After Months Apart. Here Are Their Stories. A Migrant Boy Rejoins His Mother, but He's Not the Same. A 6-Year-Old Girl Was Sexually Abused in an Immigrant-Detention Center. A child has died following her stay at an ICE Detention Center, as a result of possible negligent care and a respiratory illness she contracted from one of the other children. Immigrant Youth Shelters: "If You're a Predator, It's a Gold Mine." Deportations take unique toll on blended American families. Hundreds of separated parents potentially deported. Deleted families. ICE agents pressured parents to be deported with their children — then separated them again when they refused. Suicide in ICE Custody. 'Like I am trash': Migrant children reveal stories of detention, separation. ICE snatches 25-year Minnesota resident from his family in harrowing video. A Father and Son Were Finally Reunited. Later that Day, the Government Ripped Them Apart Again. 'Why Did You Leave Me?' The Migrant Children Left Behind as Parents Are Deported. They were warned. It's happening here. Don't doubt it for a second. The Number Of Parents Who Were Deported Without Their Children Keeps Growing. Separated Parents Were "Totally Unaware" They Had Waived Their Right To Be Reunified With Their Children. Baby took first steps, spoke first words while in US custody: report. Florida Cops Ship 24-Year-Old Mom to ICE After She Paid Traffic Ticket. This Immigrant Returned To Her Dangerous Home Country — Where She'd Been Raped — After Having A Miscarriage In A US Detention Center. A mother and her son turned up for a domestic-violence case. Then ICE arrested them. A Philadelphia immigration judge was removed from a high-profile case and replaced with a judge who would order the man in the case immediately deported, a move that smacks of judicial interference by the Trump administration, according to a letter signed by a group of retired judges this week. From Crib To Court: Trump Administration Summons Immigrant Infants. Activist judges up to their old tricks. ICE Raids in New York. Philadelphia won't share information with ICE in big win for activists. Pizza Delivery Man Pablo Villavicencio Freed From Immigration Detention. Protests and petitions call on universities to end their contracts with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
A male US officer falsely told a 10-year-old she could see her mother for an hour at 6:00p. The child was held in a windowless, constantly lit facility where she couldn't determine the time of day. When she asked the officer for the time, he said he wasn't permitted to tell her. https://t.co/ufNCH1rpfr
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) July 19, 2018
17 y/o girl, separated from her mom, on a 2 y/o girl being held in the same "cage": "When I came back the little girl was crying and needed a new diaper. No one was helping her. The guards treat her like any other older kid. They call her name and expect her to get in line." pic.twitter.com/g0IpAyM5xP
— Emma Platoff (@emmaplatoff) July 19, 2018
* Swedish student stops deportation of Afghan man with protest streamed on Facebook.
* The Trump administration is bullying trans kids, and it's up to us to stop it. Transgender women say the US government is revoking their passports. Documenting the Trans Generation: Kids, Families and the Fight for Rights.
* Q is a massively successful, deranged conspiracy/entertainment brand/game with roots in prior vile conspiracies like Pizza- and Gamergate. And many Trump supporters LOVE it. Flashback: What Is QAnon? The Craziest Theory of the Trump Era, Explained.
* I'm stuck in Guantanamo. The world has forgotten me.
* They still haven't fixed the water in Flint.
* Scenes from the class war in New York City, NYDN edition.
* MSNBC has done 455 Stormy Daniels segments in the last year — but none on U.S. war in Yemen.
* Brett Kavanaugh's Legal Opinions Show He'd Give Donald Trump Unprecedented New Powers. Brett Kavanaugh Thinks Undocumented Workers Aren't Really Employees Under The Law.
* The over-under on the Supreme Court's liberal minority cohort all continuing to draw breath is about five years.
* Imagine being a Democratic senator & actually telling yourself you are "playing the long game" by not doing everything you can to stop a lifetime Supreme Court appointment that will shift the entire American judicial system for the rest of everyone's lives.
* Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you've got till it's gone?
* Undaunted Democratic Centrists Ready to Fight Trump and Bernie at Same Time.
* The Expressive Function of the Russia Freakout.
* Gasp! Portugal Dared to Cast Aside Austerity. It's Having a Major Revival.
* Gasp! A New Zealand company that tried 4-day workweeks says people were more creative, more punctual, and more energetic — and they want to keep it going.
* Quiet Skies: Air Marshals are following thousands of random Americans through airports and on planes, for no articulatable purpose.
* Unidentifiable fossils: palaeontological problematica.
* The world's first trillionaire may be an asteroid miner.
* Science fiction design after cyberpunk.
In all these cases we see a de-saturated view of the world, no longer neon on black, just a pall gray. Gone is the "Coolness" of Cyberpunk, now replaced by the "coolness" of a color palate that ranges from a flat blue to an olive drab with only slightly less than 50 shades of gray in between.
* The Architecture of Evil: Dystopian Megacorps in Speculative Fiction Films.
* Sure, 1,000,000% inflation sounds bad.
* Understanding "Kokomo."
* Why 'Sorry to Bother You' Is 2018's Sharpest Political Satire. "Crazy" Anticapitalism.
* The fracking of America.
* In 2016, China imported two-thirds of the world's plastic waste. So when China stopped buying the world's discarded plastics, it threw markets into turmoil. Meanwhile: The Dirty Truth Is Your Recycling May Actually Go to Landfills.
* The Hidden Environmental Cost of Amazon Prime's Free, Fast Shipping.
* The Carr Fire Is Officially One of the 10 Worst Wildfires in California History. California is burning (again). The common thread in California's wildfires: heat like the state has never seen. If you want a vision of the future. If you want a vision of the future. If you want a vision of the future. How Did the End of the World Become Old News? It's a big problem.
* Climate change is supercharging a hot and dangerous summer. Arctic Circle wildfires rage on as blistering heat takes hold of northern Europe. Crop failure and bankruptcy threaten farmers as drought grips Europe. Scandinavia Is on Fire. In Greece, Wildfires Kill Dozens, Driving Some Into the Sea. Dozens Dead in Japan. Climate change means bigger Arctic spiders — but don't worry, that could be a good thing.
* I suppose there's just no one to blame.
If you only learn one thing about climate change from all these northern hemisphere extreme heat incidents:
2C of warming doesn't mean "like now, but 2C warmer".
— Kate Mackenzie (@kmac) July 27, 2018
In fact this one is better as (c) shows change in variance. pic.twitter.com/qn8FT0fIDy
Capitalism has existed for less than 1% of recorded history and we might literally destroy the planet under it, but it's the only system that "works" and we have to keep doing it forever
— Shuja Haider (@shujaxhaider) July 30, 2018
* Cows, trees, corn, and golf – how America uses its land.
* In America, land votes. More election maps! Emails show Michigan GOP bragged about cramming 'Dem garbage' into gerrymandered districts. Why the argument for democracy is now working for socialists rather than against them.
* The Hacking of America.
* "Cooking Them to Death": The Lethal Toll of Hot Prisons.
* We're Living a Constitutional Crisis. And despite this, there's no way out.
* Libertarianism and white supremacy.
* "I'm No Donna Reed": Postfeminist Rhetoric in Christian At-Home Daughterhood Texts.
* It's hard realizing that you're the bad guy, because then you have to do something about it. That's why the most aggressive players on the gory stage of political melodrama act in such bad faith, hanging on to their own sense of persecution, mouthing the plagiarized playbook of an oppression they don't comprehend because they don't care to. These people have a way of fumbling through their self-set roles till the bloody final act, but if we can flip the script, we might yet stop the show.
* Uber and Lyft Are Overwhelming Urban Streets, and Cities Need to Act Fast. Pave Over the Subway? Cities Face Tough Bets on Driverless Cars. Yes, the scooters are fun, but.
* Mortgage, Groupon and card debt: how the bottom half bolsters U.S. economy.
* EPA staff worried about toxic chemical exposure — for Pruitt.
* NJ governor bought a women's soccer team to inspire his daughter, but ran it into the ground.
* There's a New Scholarly Take on Mizzou's Race Crisis, and Its Former Leaders Don't Fare Well.
* A case involving professors at Plymouth State U raises questions about when it's OK to speak up for colleagues or students accused of sexual misconduct, if ever. In this case, professors defended former student who admitted to sexually assaulting a 14-year-old. The description honestly doesn't do it justice; these letters of support are completely eye-popping under the circumstances.
* Number of patients suing USC over sex abuse claims tops 300 as faculty push for Nikias' exit.
* Ex-Trump staffers should not get plum jobs at elite universities.
* Is Elizabeth Warren Running for President?
* How a Swiss Army Knife is made.
* The latest in the stadium scam.
* What would motivate a company to give away 52,000 tablet computers for free? Can you crack this case, gumshoe?
* Bet it's still a bit long.
* A new report finds that big companies could have given their workers thousands of dollars' worth of raises with the money they spent on their own shares. Are Stock Buybacks Starving the Economy?
* Let the computers be the doctors, they said.
* You don't know me, computer!
* They're real good at memes though.
* The anarchist roots of writing.
* Today in Sheriff Clarke news.
* Truly the Devil can quote Scripture for his purposes.
* She Gave Millions to Artists Without Credit. Until Now.
* The Bayeux Tapestry with knobs on: what do the tapestry's 93 penises tell us?
* Game Studio With No Bosses Pays Everyone The Same.
* WorldCon is crisis (again).
* Twilight of James Gunn.
* Conservative Think Tank Says Medicare For All Would Save $2 Trillion.
* Angelo Secchi, the Jesuit father of astrophysics.
* Wariness and wonder at a conference devoted to "Ancient Aliens."
* Conversation is impossible if one side refuses to acknowledge the basic premise that facts are facts. This is why engaging deniers in such an effort means having already lost. And it is why AskHistorians, where I am one of the volunteer moderators, takes a strict stance on Holocaust denial: We ban it immediately.
* Locke & Key Has Been Ordered To Series. Flight of the Conchords is coming back. Disney's Next Heroine Will Be an African Princess. Carrie Fisher Will Appear in Star Wars: Episode IX Via Unused Footage. Shazam looks 90s-cable-level bad, though maybe I've just been persuaded that the character is irredeemable. In the First Trailer for Star Trek: Discovery Season 2, the U.S.S. Enterprise Boldly Arrives. And they're making a Parable of the Sower graphic adaptation.
* Inside J.R.R. Tolkien's Notebooks, a Glimpse of the Master Philologist at Work.
* Uneven, but finding its voice: @moviegoofs.
Spartacus (1960)
Plot hole
In the scene where the Romans try to locate the rebel leader Spartacus in the captured slave army, most of the other slaves also identify themselves as being named "Spartacus". The movie never explains this coincidence.
— movie_goofs (@movie_goofs) July 30, 2018
* A People's History of the Greatest Music Video of All Time, Goonies 'R' Good Enough.
* The Grim Conclusions of the Largest-Ever Study of Fake News.
* A reporter went undercover as a Facebook moderator and was trained not to delete certain racist memes and images of child abuse.
* When factchecking backfires.
* History in an Age of Fake News.
* When a stranger decides to destroy your life.
* Orwell knew.
* We must not just ask what a contemporary slave rebellion would look like—we must be on its side.
* A biological intelligence, a machine intelligence, and a god intelligence walk into a bar. Ethics and the self-driving car. Heaven. Can I interest you in a happy ending? From hell's heart I stab at thee.
* And you may ask yourself.
* We'll probably never know what really makes people happy.
* Every Circle In This Image Is The Same Color And It's Breaking Our Brains.
* Mr. Rogers was my actual neighbor. He was everything he was on TV and more.
* Behold, the thagomizer.
* Dungeons & Dragons is having its best year ever, Hasbro CEO says.
* Great thread about New York City's grid layout, with a great punchline.
* Did… did a cat write this?
* The new astrology.
* And the guy who slated classic Star Trek takes was unfazed by the whole thing. It's a living…
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Monday Afternoon Links!
* Call for Applications at the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts: Division Heads of Children's and Young Adult Literature (CYA) and International Fantastic Literatures (IF).
* In very broad strokes, colleges and universities have four main revenue streams: state appropriations, research funding, gifts and endowments, and student tuition. The first three come with serious restrictions regarding their use. Generally speaking, state appropriations can only be used for educational expenses, research funding is largely spent on specific research projects, and endowments go toward the pet projects of wealthy donors. Only student tuition can be used for anything university administrators want—construction projects, real estate, interest payments, administrative salaries, football coaches. In recent decades, university administrators have sought, like all entrepreneurial institutions, to maximize their revenues, but they have sought above all to maximize their unrestricted revenues—and have even been willing to sacrifice state funding in order to bring in more tuition. The Tuition Limit and the Coming Crisis of Higher Education.
* The University and the Pursuit of Happiness.
* Play is organized to prevent children from sorting themselves by gender. A gender-neutral pronoun, "hen," was introduced in 2012 and was swiftly absorbed into mainstream Swedish culture, something that, linguists say, has never happened in another country.
* Hobbes, the Science Fiction Writer: Part I, Part II. Part II wades into Star Trek: Discovery and Black Panther…
* A Political History of the Future: Iain M. Banks.
* How White American Terrorists Are Radicalized.
* "The Workplace Is Killing People and Nobody Cares."
* Neoliberalism and the family.
* If Tim Kaine can keep John Bolton off the National Security Council, all is forgiven.
* Surely one of the most depraved things any politician has ever said.
* The United States is doomed.
Don't know who made this but yes. pic.twitter.com/GloVXEpoIS
— howitzer of mercy 🌹🏴☠ (@girlziplocked) March 25, 2018
* The Stormy Daniels scandal is not gossip. Why the Stormy Daniels story matters, in one paragraph. And everyone needs to face it: Stormy Daniels' Legal Strategy Strongly Suggests She Has Photos of Donald Trump.
That no one seems to know for sure if the payment to Stormy Daniels violated campaign finance laws would seem to be a pretty damning indictment of campaign finance laws.
— Radley Balko (@radleybalko) March 26, 2018
* 'Rick and Morty' and The Rise of The 'I'm a Piece of Shit' Defense.
* From the archives! Superpowers and the ADA.
* Loneliness is deadlier than obesity and should be considered a public health risk, experts have warned.
* Presenting Effectively.
* Facebook: definitely bad.
Is there an argument that Facebook is almost entirely 'negative externality'? It's like an industry that just pumps crap into rivers and doesn't make anything.
— Will Davies (@davies_will) March 25, 2018
* Borneo Lost More Than 100,000 Orangutans From 1999 to 2015.
* And here's the robot future I'm worried about.
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Monday Morning Links Has Tied the Record for Most Wins in a Single Season
* Ecotopia 2121: Visions of Our Future Green Utopia.
* Kids Can Sue Over Climate Negligence, Judge Says.
* This is all to say that it would be very surprising, not to mention ill-advised, for DC/WB to go forward with the franchise without making significant adjustments. Every other studio has either scrapped a franchise or made significant changes to movies that had far higher multipliers than BvS. Also, people should be careful not to simply look at the total gross of a movie to gauge its success, particularly franchise movies. For instance, although BvS will have a similar gross to Guardians of the Galaxy and be in the ball park of Deadpool, the high multipliers for those movies indicate that fans crave sequels or are eager to watch similar movies. BvS's low multiplier suggest that people were curious to check out the movie and/or were lured in with the heavy marketing, but ultimately decided that the movie was not for them.
* Inside the New DC Fan Schism.
* Feminists of Wakanda.
The feminist critique of comics has made "not asking" a lot harder. That, in itself, is a victory. The point is not to change the thinking of the active sexist. (Highly unlikely.) The point is to force the passive sexist to take responsibility for his own thoughts.
* Huge, if true: They Don't Just Hide Their Money. Economist Says Most of Billionaire Wealth is Unearned.
* The Coming Left-Wing Majority.
* How to Place "Humanities" Next to "Future" Without the Adjective "Dire" (or, Why Entry Level Courses Matter).
* Faculty Salaries Show Strong Recovery From Recession. NO COMMENT
* What We're (Really) Talking About When We Talk About "Time to Read."
* Every time MaxMind's database has been queried about the location of an IP address in the United States it can't identify, it has spit out the default location of a spot two hours away from the geographic center of the country. This happens a lot: 5,000 companies rely on MaxMind's IP mapping information, and in all, there are now over 600 million IP addresses associated with that default coordinate. If any of those IP addresses are used by a scammer, or a computer thief, or a suicidal person contacting a help line, MaxMind's database places them at the same spot: 38.0000,-97.0000. Which happens to be in the front yard of Joyce Taylor's house.
* Rejected Princesses. The backstory.
* Unraveled: The Mystery Of The Secret Street Artist In Boston.
* Scenes from the Dem primary: Bernie Sanders, socialist mayor (1985). Past cases suggest Hillary won't be indicted.
* The U.S. Is Failing Miserably on Six of 10 Markers of Gender Equality.
* What could possibly go wrong? Gun Company Turns Real Handgun Into Clone Of The Nintendo 'Duck Hunt' Zapper.
* For the First Time In A Century, Wild Tiger Populations Are Beginning to Rebound.
* The Wire Creator Eyes Series on Spanish Civil War.
* At HubSpot, the software company where I worked for almost two years, when you got fired, it was called "graduation." We all would get a cheery email from the boss saying, "Team, just letting you know that X has graduated and we're all excited to see how she uses her superpowers in her next big adventure." One day this happened to a friend of mine. She was 35, had been with the company for four years, and was told without explanation by her 28-year-old manager that she had two weeks to get out. On her last day, that manager organized a farewell party for her.
* Consider this: for almost 2,000 years and counting the entirety of Western culture has been brainwashed. The fields of biology, economics, religion, and psychology are built on a lie. Even those who self-consciously reject this falsehood are subconsciously shaped by it. It's unavoidable and all pervasive. It's made us who we are. Indeed, it's turning us into monsters. What is this lie exactly? It's the assumption that humans are born bad.
* I called Sweden's new national number to talk to a random Swedish person.
* What Are The Demographics Of Heaven?
* The criminal justice system encourages prosecutors to get guilty verdicts by any means necessary—and to stand by even the most questionable convictions. Can one crusading court stop the lying and cheating?
* And getting ready for Wednesday: a people's history of the Crying Jordan meme.
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Good Morning, It's the Weekend
* Teach the controversy: are students cuddly little bunnies to be drowned, or shot with Glocks? This story is actually worse than even the original reporting indicated.
* I've argued here before (I think) that probably the greatest thing for-profit colleges could do to scrub the designation "for-profit" of its negative connotation is to win a few sportsball championships. That's how traditional not-for-profit colleges did it. There was a time when the idea of a residential college for wealthy young men was considered very strange (and also very effeminate). College sports "butched" up college and it also gave the millions who would never in a million years qualify for admission a fictive relationship with a system that is, by design, unequal. Sportsball and For-Profit Legitimacy.
* The Grand Jury in the Tamir Rice Case May Not Have Taken a Vote on Charges.
* Salary cuts, layoffs at ISIS. Meanwhile, incredible if true accusations from the FBI against a Kent State professor.
* Planet Nine.
The main historical name for hypothesized outside-Pluto planets is Nemesis, but I bet they could get away with calling this one Bowie.
* David Bowie and the Anthropocene.
* Making a Murderer's creators have finally responded to criticisms of missing evidence.
* A French Communist Utopia in Texas.
* Jesuit adjunctivitis.
* Saying "no" at Oberlin.
* Medieval robots.
* Liberalism and eugenics.
* Swedish TV Accidentally Runs Kids' Show Subtitles On A Political Debate.
* The Big Search to Find Out Where Dogs Come From.
* Coates v. Sanders. Killer Mike vs. Coates. Guthrie v. Trump (Sr.). Meanwhile: Democrats in disarray!
"Sanders says he's good but opposes reparations" is such a diabolical line of attack: Clinton never said she was good, so she's inoculated!
* Bloomberg wants to save everyone from Trump. But a lot of people don't know who he is.
* Four tendencies in liberalism.
* How One Man Tried to Write Women Out of CRISPR, the Biggest Biotech Innovation in Decades.
* Counterpoint: Harley Quinn is an insanely flawed character almost impossible to reconcile with feminist norms.
* Forget Schrödinger's Cat: The Latest Quantum Puzzle Is About Three Pigeons in Two Holes.
* Alexander Litvinenko: the man who solved his own murder.
* Chess forbidden in Islam, rules Saudi mufti, but issue not black and white. This part of the history of games I always find fascinating.
* It's called anthroponuclear multiple worlds theory, and it's basically my actual cosmology.
* The singular "they" is your word of the year. A chronology of early nonbinary pronouns. A little more. Bring back he'er, him'er, his'er.
* When DoD paid Duke U $335K to investigate ESP in dogs. But more research is required.
* Virtual reality porn, the god that failed.
* Concept art for Episode 8 (not really). At least it might help tide you over.
* What if not having a beard is nonhygenic? Checkmate.
* Plastic to outweigh fish in oceans by 2050, study warns. Meanwhile, the same headline they run every January, just with all the numbers incremented by one.
* Twilight of De Niro. AND BEYOND.
* The end of parking.
* Sold in the room: Orphan Black Writer Making Time-Travel Movie For Netflix.
* A Brief History of Jumbo.
* Good luck, East Coast!
* And it's possible that there is a "mirror universe" where time moves backwards, say scientists. Of course the poets always knew.
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Another Loose Firehose of Weekend Links!
TGIF RT @iycrtylph: Capital's final victory is to have produced a humanity unworthy of liberation.
* I've been so busy this little bit of clickbait isn't even timely anymore: 3 reasons the American Revolution was a mistake. And this one isn't timely either!
* New China Miéville story, in Salvage.
* A Laboratory Sitting on a Graveyard: Greece and the Neoliberal Debt Crisis.
* Campus cops are shadowy, militarized and more powerful than ever.
* How to Support a Scholar Who Has Come Under Attack.
* Guns, Prisons, Social Causes: New Fronts Emerge in Campus Fights Over Divestment.
* The final budget numbers that University of Wisconsin campuses have been dreading for months were released late Monday, prompting a mad scramble on campuses to figure out the winners and losers. Wisconsin's Neoliberal Arts.
* In other words, states would be required to embrace and the federal government would be obligated to enforce a professor-centered vision of how to operate a university: tenure for everyone, nice offices all around, and the administrators and coaches can go pound sand. Sanders for president!
* Why College Kids Are Avoiding the Study of Literature.
* Rich Kids Study English.
* 11 Reasons To Ignore The Haters And Major In The Humanities. "Quality of life" almost barely sneaks in as a criterion at the end.
* Towards a New Common Sense.
* On Fraction and Aja's Hawkeye.
* Deep cuts: Why Do TV Characters All Own the Same Weird Old Blanket?
* The plan creates, in effect, a parallel school district within Milwaukee that will be empowered to seize MPS schools and turn them over to charter operators or voucher-taking private schools. While there is, in principle, a mechanism for returning OSPP schools to MPS after a period of five years, that mechanism carries qualifications intended to ensure that no OSPP school will ever return to MPS. This, alongside funding provisions for OSPP and MPS spelled out in the motion, makes it hard to avoid the conclusion that the plan's purpose is to bankrupt the Milwaukee Public Schools. It is a measure of Darling and Kooyenga's contempt for the city and its people that they may sincerely believe that this would be a good thing for Milwaukee schoolchildren.
* The failure rate for charter schools is much higher than for traditional public schools. In the 2011-2012 school year, for example, charter school students ran two and half times the risk of having their education disrupted by a school closing and suffering academic setbacks as a result. Dislocated students are less likely to graduate and suffer other harms. In a 2014 study, Matthew F. Larsen with the Department of Economics at Tulane University looked at high school closures in Milwaukee, almost all of which were charter schools. He concluded that closures decreased "high school graduation rates by nearly 10%" The effects persist "even if the students attends a better quality school after closure."
* The Verdict on Charter Schools?
* "Here is what I would like for you to know: In America, it is traditional to destroy the black body—it is heritage." Letter to My Son.
* What If Everything You Knew About Disciplining Kids Was Wrong?
* On June 8, CNN unveiled "Courageous," a new production unit and an in-house studio that would be paid by advertisers to produce and broadcast news-like "branded content."
* Social networking and the majority illusion.
* Reddit in chaos.
* "Colleges' Balance Sheets Are Looking Better." Happy days are here again!
* Is Bail Unconstitutional?
* My Severed Thumb and the Ambiguities of Technological Progress.
* So much for "most unpaid internships are illegal."
* Now that the Supreme Court has once again saved Obamacare, can we have an honest talk about it?
* From the archives! Liberalism and Gentrification.
* From the archives! The world's oldest continuously operating family business ended its impressive run last year. Japanese temple builder Kongo Gumi, in operation under the founders' descendants since 578, succumbed to excess debt and an unfavorable business climate in 2006.
* Dear Alice Sheldon.
* "Zach Anderson" is the latest outrageous story from the sex offender registry to go viral.
* Prisoner's Dilemma as pedagogy.
* In its 2015-17 budget, the Legislature cut four-year college tuition costs by 15 to 20 percent by 2016 — making Washington the only state in the country to lower tuition for public universities and colleges next year.
* Shadow work and academia.
* Art and the wage.
* The end of "weaponized anthropology."
* Keywords for the Age of Austerity 20: Pivot.
* Tumblr of the week: Every Single Word Spoken by a Person of Color in [Mainstream Film Title].
* New Jersey congressman pitches the least substantive response to the student debt crisis — SO FAR.
* Neither special circumstances nor grades were determinative. Of the 841 students admitted under these criteria, 47 had worse grades than Fisher, and 42 of them were white. On the other end, UT rejected 168 black and Latino students with scores equal to or better than Fisher's.
* Thousands Of Children Risked Their Lives In Tanzania's Gold Mines For $2 A Day.
* Kotsko has been blogging about his latest turn through the harassment grinder. He's taking on Big Santa, too. He just doesn't care.
* Climate science and gloom. But at least air conditioning might not be that bad.
* Weird day for computers this week. Anyway we should put algorithms in charge of everything.
* Scenes from the Olympic scam, Boston edition.
* At least it's an ethos!
* Sci-Fi Crime Drama with a Strong Black Lead.
* Salaita, one year later.
* The world of fracketeering is infinitely flexible and contradictory. Buy tickets online and you could be charged an admin fee for an attachment that requires you to print them at home. The original online booking fee – you've come this far in the buying process, hand over an extra 12 quid now or write off the previous 20 minutes of your life – has mutated into exotic versions of itself. The confirmation fee. The convenience fee. Someone who bought tickets for a tennis event at the O2 sent me this pithy tweet: "4 tickets. 4 Facility Fees + 4 Service Charge + 1 Standard Mail £2.75 = 15% of overall £!". Definitely a grand slam.
* The initial, back-of-the-napkin notes for Back to the Future 2 and 3.
* Nice try, parents! You can't win.
* What my parents did was buy us time – time for us to stare at clouds, time for us to contemplate the stars, to wonder at a goiter, to gape open-mouthed at shimmering curtains of charged particles hitting the ionosphere. What it cost them can be written about another time. What I am grateful for is that summer of awe.
* The "gag law also forbids citizens to insult the monarchy and if someone is found guilty in a defamation or libel case, he or she can face up to two years in prison or be forced to pay an undetermined fine," local media outlet Eco Republicano reported as the public expressed its anger against the law introduced by the ruling Popular Party.
* Wisconsin Democrats sue to undo the incredible 2011 gerrymander that destroyed the state.
* Obama Plans Broader Use of Clemency to Free Nonviolent Drug Offenders. This is good, but still much too timid — he could free many times as many people as he's freeing and still barely make a dent in the madness of the drug war.
* EPA's New Fracking Study: A Close Look at the Numbers Buried in the Fine Print.
* The central ideological commitment of the new Star Wars movies seems to be "well of course you can't really overthrow an Empire." Seems right. (Minor spoilers if you're an absolute purist.)
* Brian K. Vaughn will write an issue of The Walking Dead.
* Dune, 50 years on: how a science fiction novel changed the world.
* When adjuncts go union.
* So you want to announce for the WWE.
* When I Was White.
* This isn't canon! Marisa Tomei is your Aunt May.
* I'm not happy about this either.
* A Quick Puzzle to Test Your Problem Solving, or, Our Brains Don't Work. I got it right, though I doubt I would have if it hadn't been framed as a puzzle.
* Your time travel short of the weekend: "One-Minute Time Machine."
* Or perhaps post-apocalyptic Sweden is more your flavor.
* Another round of the polygamy debate.
* RISK: Game of Thrones.
* Everything You Thought You Knew About Nic Cage's Superman Film Is Wrong.
* Remnant of Boston's Brutal Winter Threatens to Outlast Summer.
* And then there's Whitesboro.
* The Lost Girls: One famous band. One huge secret. Many lives destroyed.
* Armed police in England and Wales only fired their weapons twice over the course of 14,864 operations that took place from 2013-2014.
* Cellphones Do Not Give You Brain Cancer.
* 7,000 Fireworks Go Off at Once Due To Computer Malfunction.
* Sopranos season eight: How two technology consultants helped drug traffickers hack the Port of Antwerp.
* I never noticed how sexist so many children's books are until I started reading to my kids. Preach.
* A gendered history of LEGO.
* Aurora is out! Buy it! You don't have to take my word for it! Excerpt! More! More!
* And there's nothing sweet in life.
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Monday! Morning! Links!
* With respect to the Mad Men finale, kudos to Eileen Sutton and Todd VanDerWerff. And to this guy too.
That last shot really was "The Princess Bride" ending, btw. Beautifully, wonderfully cynical. https://t.co/JaA2EzF9Bl
What you call narrative catharsis was invented by guys like me to sell nylons.
Okay, so let's all meet back here in ten years for the premiere of SALLY DRAPER. #MadMen
* Davis stayed with the agency for 19 years as a music director, creative concept writer, composer and producer, rising to senior vice president. He would popularize and create new "song-form" advertising that won every award the industry offers. He wrote Coca-Cola songs which are some of the most popular advertisements in existence today, including, "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing," "It's the Real Thing," "Have a Coke and a Smile," "Mean Joe Green," "Coke Is It" and "Country Sunshine." He also wrote songs for Miller Brewing Company ("If You've Got the Time"), Campbell's Soup and Sony.
* Meanwhile last night's Game of Thrones was prurient and horrible.
* Nnedi Okorafor on magical futurism.
* A Duke University professor has reportedly been placed on leave after posting racist comments online that included talk of "the blacks" and "the Asians."
* Why Salaita Was "Un-Hired": The Missing Facts in the AAUP and CAFT Reports.
* Marquette in the ne…. oh come on. (UPDATE: Actual Journal-Sentinel story here.)
* Early men and women were equal, say scientists. Stealing the illustration directly from the Guardian:
* "But Game Of Thrones goes to absurd lengths to present full-frontal female nudity."
* "People would look at us and say, 'Oh, so you're gay Amish?' " Johannes said.
* Sweden is not a member of NATO and spends a relatively small amount on its military. How could it hope to deter the Russian navy on its own? The answer, according to one Swedish group, is simple: The Swedes must send out gay propaganda via Morse code.
* "It is the strangest of bureaucratic rituals," write two New York Times reporters. "Every week or so, more than 100 members of the government's sprawling national security apparatus gather, by secure video teleconference, to pore over terrorist suspects' biographies and recommend to the president who should be the next to die." In Washington, this weekly meeting has been labeled "Terror Tuesday." Once established, the list of nominees is sent to the White House, where the president orally gives his approval to each name. With the "kill list" validated, the drones do the rest.
* The Forgotten Female Shell-Shock Victims of World War I.
* Can there be a feminist world?
* Death of a Yuppie Dream: The Rise and Fall of the Professional-Managerial Class.
* Columbia Examines Its Long-Ago Links to Slavery.
* Seattle's unbelievable transportation megaproject fustercluck.
* Reviving the female canon of philosophy.
* Meet the Glam SAHMs.
* Special issue of Contexts on the sharing economy. Via (as always!) Sunday Reading.
* How Many Americans Are Married To Their Cousins?
* I can't help it: I just love reading about EVE Online.
* Dramatic photos from around the globe record mankind's destruction of the planet from wasteland forests to slaughtered wild animals and oceans overflowing with garbage.
* And stop me if you've heard this one before: The GOP Is Dying Off. Literally.
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New Tyler's Law aims to curb fentanyl deaths with ER screening
Column: The bill comes too late for her son, but it will save others, activist mother says
Juli Shamash and her son Tyler, who was 19 when he died in 2018. (Courtesy Juli Shamash)
When you lose a child, the what-ifs can be paralyzing. Juli Shamash is part of an unfortunately robust army that's channeling that agony into change, to spare others from ever having to endure it.
Her son, Tyler, was 19 when he overdosed at a sober-living facility in Beverlywood in 2018. It turns out that the drugs Tyler took contained deadly fentanyl — a single sugar packet of the stuff is enough to kill 500 people — but he was never screened for fentanyl at the emergency room.
"Had it been common practice to do a separate tox screen for fentanyl back in October of 2018, Tyler may still be alive today," Shamash said by email.
Enter Tyler's Law, authored by Sen. Melissa Melendez, R-Lake Elsinore, and signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom on Aug. 22. It simply requires a general acute care hospital to include fentanyl testing in its urine drug screenings, and takes effect Jan 1.
"We are confident that this bill will save lives and spare others from the heartache of losing a loved one," Shamash said.
Folks are surprised to learn that routine drug screens don't always capture fentanyl use, and many of those who take it never meant to — instead thinking they bought legit prescription pills such as Xanax or Oxycodone. Fentanyl is in just about every street drug as well, from methamphetamine to cocaine.
Parents protest against Snapchat and its lack of action against drug dealers using the platform in Santa Monica last year. (Photo by David Crane, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
Shamash, of Los Angeles, is working with an emergency physician from San Diego to make routine ER screening for fentanyl standard in every state. It can convince people to carry naloxone, alert friends who may be using, ditch suspect pills (which can now be legally tested for fentanyl in California) and motivate them to seek help. It can also help law enforcement prosecute drug dealers and help outpatient clinics with data, Shamash said.
Tyler was a brilliant kid who could fix anything, but he struggled with anxiety and couldn't see his own worth. He wanted so very much to fit in. His family spent hundreds of thousands of dollars sending him to wilderness programs and boarding schools, private treatment programs and sober living homes.
He got the money to buy the drugs that killed him from a "friend" who brokered him to a program in Laguna Hills that accepted Tyler's insurance — and received $2,000 for his troubles, Shamash said. Tyler got a cut of the take.
Shamash — and a coalition of more than 50 groups including the California Hospital Association, California Medical Association, county health directors, public safety officials and family-based organizations — wants to forge a new path forward on addiction treatment and behavioral health issues. Clearly, with more than 100,000 drug-related deaths in a single year, it's desperately needed.
The governor's new CARE courts, which would compel people with serious mental health issues into care and housing, may be part of that change. Be Well Orange County is one of the programs that's getting it right, according to the coalition, Behavioral Health Action.
The Behavioral Health Action coalition wants to "flip the triangle" on how we approach addiction and serious behavioral health problems.
One of the important takeaways: "If you're in the public behavioral health system because you don't have insurance, or you're in Medicaid, you have a better chance of getting recovery-based treatment than you do in a private program," said Steve Fields, the Progress Foundation's executive director, when the coalition's new Blueprint for Behavioral Health was unveiled last year.
Shamash wishes she had known that when her son was struggling. But a story told, she has said, is a life saved.

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( )1. A It is funny. B.It is cloudy. C.It is boring.
( )2. A.She's tall. B.She's a nurse. C.She likes beef.
( )3. A.At seven yesterday. B. On Sunday. C. At seven o'clock.
( )4. A.I can play chess. B.I can play basketball in the sports club.
C.He can play the violin.
( )5. A It was windy.. B.It wa s great. C. It was friendly.
A. In the museum. B. In the classroom. C. In the hospital.
( )7. What does the man think of his vacation?
A. Terrible.. B. Boring. C. Wonderful.
( ) 8. Can Jim answer the phone?
A. Yes, he can. B. No, he can't. C. We don't know.
( ) 9. What would the woman like?
A. She'd like tea. B. She'd like coffee .
C.She doesn't mind tea or coffee.
( ) 10. Does the man like the weather?
A. Yes, he does. B. No, he doesn't. C. I don't know.
( ) 11. What does the girl want to see?
A. Pandas. B.Tigers. C. Koalas.
( ) 12.Why does the boy like elephants ?
A. Because they are cute . B. Because they are interesting .
( )13.Where can they listen to music ?
A. In the classroom. B. In the hallways.
C. In the music room.
( ) 14. Where can they eat in school ?
A. In the classroom B. In the dining hall.
C. In the teachers' office.
( )15.What can't they wear in class?
A.They can't wear hats. B. They can't wear dresses.
Hi, Jack. I'm Bob. I want to tell you about my trip. It was really great. I went to the 16 with some of my friends. We left early on Saturday morning and drove there. We saw some 17 and villages along the way. We went fishing and swam in the day. We watched the stars at night. They were so beautiful. The weather was warm and the air was 18 We also learned a lot about 19 . Everyone thought it was an 20 day.
How about you? How was your trip? Write back to me soon.
( ) 21. He _____to the zoo yesterday.
( ) 22. Jim ______at home last Friday.
( ) 23. Where did your brother _______last night?
( ) 24. We went to the beach _____a rainy morning.
( ) 25. --______ bowl of noodles _______ you like? – A medium one.
( ) 26. Mary _________ tall and she _________ short curly hair.
( )27. The pay phone is _____ the post office.
( ) 28. I often watched them ______soccer at school last year.
( ) 29. _____they _____tennis after school yesterday?
( ) 30. It was a fine day. We decided _____volleyball.
( ) 31. Don't me. I'm OK.
( ) 32.. We had great fun _____English.
( )33.. The policeman helped the boy _____the hotel.
( ) 34. --_____were the beaches? –They were beautiful but crowded.
( ) 35. -- _________?
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Johnny is twelve 36 old . He is very tall and he loves 37 basketball . His parents 38 from Anhui . Sally is small and she 39 glasses . She 40 long and curly hair . She likes 41 . She 42 hard . Dave 43 of medium height .He enjoys 44 computer games .He also loves to tell 45 .
( ) 43.A.are B. be C. is .
( ) 44.A.plays B. playing C. to play .
Today 呼和浩特哪里能治好癫痫病Han Mei's classmates are having an art lesson in the park. Now they are playing near the lake. The boy in black is flying a kite. He is Li Lei. The girl in red is reading a book. Who is she? Ha, she's just Han Mei. Lucy and Lily are twins. They look the same(相似的)and they are dancing under a big tree. There is a boat on the lake. Mrs. Green and Mrs. Brown are in the boat. They are their teachers. And now the children are drawing pictures on the grass near the lake. The teachers are teaching how to draw pictures. But what is Joe doing? Oh, he is looking for his pencil case.
( ) 46. Why are the children in the park today?
A. They have no classes today. B. They like playing in the park.
C. They're having a class.
( ) 47. What is Han Mei doing?
A. She is drawing a picture. B. She is flying a kite.
C. She is reading a book.
( ) 48.How many children are mentioned(提到) in the passage?
( ) 49. Where are the girls dancing?
( ) 50. Who is Mrs. Green?
A. She is their English teacher. B. She is Joe's mother.
C. She is their art teacher.
Li Ming went to Shanghai for her vacation. The first day the weather was terrible! It was cloudy and raining. Li Ming took a bus to the museum. The museum was crowded(拥挤的), but very interesting. It was hot and sunny the next day. Li Ming went to the beach. She played soccer and went skateboarding. It was great! The last day she visited her aunt and uncle. It was boring, but at night they went to the movies. They saw a very funny movie.
( ) 51. The weather was rainy on the first day.
( ) 52. There were many people in the museum.
( ) 53. Li Ming played sports on the beach.
( ) 54. Li Ming enjoyed the day with her aunt and uncle.
( ) 55. The movie was kind of sad.
B. It was great! I went to China with my family.
A. Really? Wow! What did you do there?
A. Oh, how were the museums?
A. How were the shops there?
B. Oh, they were very cheap. 59 And the people were really friendly. My parents have some Chinese friends, and 60开封市权威的中医羊癫疯医院 The food was delicious. I love it!
Li Feng is from Beijing, China. He studies in a middle school. He works hard at his lessons. He is good at English. He likes speaking English.
Li Feng's mother is from Japan. She is a good teacher. She teaches Japanese in a different school. She can speak some Chinese, but doesn't know English.
His father works in a factory. He is very busy every day, and his job is difficult but interesting.
61. Where does Li Feng come from?
62. What does Li Feng like?
63. Can his mother speak a little English?
64. Where does his father work?
65. Does his father like his work?
______Tom _______ geography and history?
They ______ _______ soccer last weekend.
1. What's the weather like today.
2. What does your sister look like?
3. What time does your sister get up?
4. What can you do, Alan ?
5. How was your weekend?
6. M: Please look at the blackboard. Can you see the words clearly?
7. W: Where did you go on your vacation?
M: Harbin. I saw the snow. It was so beautiful.
8. W: Jim, the phone is ringing. Can you answer the phone?
M: Sorry, Mom. I'm in the bathroom.
9. M: Would you like a cup of tea or coffee?
10. W: How is the weather th南阳有哪些治疗癫痫病医院ere?
M: It's terribly cold. I can't go out. It's boring.
W: Let's see the koalas.
M: Why do you like koalas?
W: Because they are very cute.
M: Well, I like elephants. Because they are very interesting.
M:What are the school rules,Alex?
W: Well,we can't listen to music in the classroom or hallways.But we can listen to it in the music room.
W: And we can't eat in the classroom,but we can eat in the dining hall.
M: Oh,and can we wear hats in class?
W: No,we can't wear hats.And you can't fight with anyone. That makes the teachers really unhappy.
Hi,Jack.I'm Bob. I want to tell you about my trip. It was really great. I went to the countryside with some of my friends. We left early on Saturday morning and drove there.We saw some farms and villages along the way. We went fishing and swam in the day. We watched the stars at night. They were so beautiful. The weather was warm and the air was clean . We also learned a lot about farming. Everyone thought it was an exciting day.
61.He is from Beijing,China./ From Beijing,China.
62.He likes speaking English./ Speaking English.
64.He works in a factory./ In a factory.


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FIFA World Cup: Real privilege to be here and see the level of football in Qatar, says Beckham
David Beckham chose the Argentina vs Netherlands quarterfinal match as his favourite, and said Luis Chavez's freekick strike against Saudi Arabia was the best according to him.
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A handout picture released by the Qatar Creates shows FIFA ambassador British football legend David Beckham attending a special screening of a TV series dubbed "Save our Squad" in Doha on December 14, 2022. | Photo Credit: AMMAR ABD RABBO/AFP
David Beckham exudes a cool, James Bond-like vibe in his designer jacket worn over a white tee that hugs his toned torso. He still looks capable of delivering those bending freekicks that were his signature.
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Beckham, an ambassador for Qatar, in an interaction organised by the Supreme Committee for Delivery and Legacy, spoke about the excitement around Morocco's dream run, and the coming together of fans as one big football family in Qatar as the highlights of his World Cup.
His favourite goal from the tournament, of course, is Mexico's Luis Chavez's free-kick strike against Saudi Arabia.
His World Cup experience
To have been here has been a real privilege to see the fans come together, the teams come together and the level of football that's been played. And just a real family atmosphere in Qatar throughout this World Cup from day one has been incredible. You know, we've all talked about the surprises, the shocks, and the great performances. And, some of the obvious disappointments that have gone on throughout this World Cup on the field have been a real talking point.
The most striking feature of the Arab world's first World Cup
I've played in three World Cups, and I've been part of, you know, other World Cups as a fan. And I've never seen an atmosphere like this before. I think it says a lot, you know when you see the number of families that are here and are enjoying this tournament, and that has been an incredible thing to see. It's what the game should be about. I've always spoken about this game being for everybody, being for families. Families can come to these games and feel safe and enjoy everything that's going on the field. That's been an amazing part of this World Cup.
Atmosphere in stadiums
Oh, my goodness, you know, I've been lucky to have been to a lot of the games. Being in the stadium, when Morocco [is] playing, it's a special atmosphere. It's like a home game for the Moroccans. The team played with passion, with excitement, and people turned around to me and asked, "Are you shocked about the Morocco team going so far." And at the start of the tournament, if you had said to me, "You know, Morocco, gonna reach the semifinals," I would have probably said, "Well, I'm not sure about that."
Morocco fans show their support during the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 Round of 16 match between Morocco and Spain at Education City Stadium on December 06, 2022, in Al Rayyan, Qatar. | Photo Credit: Richard Heathcote/Getty Images
But when you are in the stadium, and see them perform, you see how technically amazing they are. They play with passion, they play with excitement, the way they pass the ball around, they're very comfortable in just playing around with the ball in the defence, and that says a lot about the level of the team.
Favourite match
My favourite game of the tournament, I'm gonna have to say, was the Argentina vs Netherlands game. For me, that game had, as a football fan, everything. It had the drama, the penalties, and the level of play from both teams was exceptional.
On World Cup atmosphere
I've been able to walk around and meet so many different fans from different countries that are supporting different teams and players. You have people from Saudi that are congratulating Qatar on this World Cup, [and] you have Qatar congratulating the Saudis on their performances.
Saudi Arabia fans celebrate their team's 2-1 victory in the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 Group C match between Argentina and Saudi Arabia at Lusail Stadium on November 22, 2022, in Lusail City, Qatar. | Photo Credit: Clive Brunskill/Getty Images
We were all shocked when Saudi [Arabia] beat the Argentinians. I don't think I've ever seen countries come together as we've seen in this World Cup. We have seen when the Moroccans have gone as far as they have done, you have Qataris celebrating it, and you have the Saudis celebrating.
Level of play in the first winter World Cup
The level of play has been incredible. And I said this before the tournament started. People said it isn't ideal. I was always a supporter of it. Just because I feel that in past World Cups, I've been part of, I've gone from a long, gruelling season into a World Cup.
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Of course, you have some kind of exhaustion, mentally and physically. I knew that these players were coming into this World Cup, and once they were into it, then their fitness levels and energy were going to be a lot higher, and the level of the games was going to be higher, and that's proved right.
I think the level of the play has been incredible. But my favourite thing about this World Cup is seeing fans together, seeing young children from England integrated with the fans from Morocco, or Saudi and celebrating their success. I don't think I've seen a World Cup like this before. I don't think I've seen fans come together like this before.
Watching more than one game a day
Not sure there's going to be another World Cup where you can go and watch 2-3-4 games in one day. I don't think that's ever going to be possible again. But it's been a privilege to be part of that. A privilege for a football fan to be able to go into so many games in one day, see the excitement, and see the fun that families and people have been having here. It's been incredible.
On Messi and Mbappe
Kylian's had a great tournament, I think the two goals that he scored in that one game [against Poland], the level of play [was] that we all kind of expect from Kylian. Whenever he gets the ball at his feet, you can feel the energy in the stadium lift.
And Lionel now, I mean, what can you say about him? He's a special person, and a special individual, on and off the field. He plays with such elegance and passion. And I think this World Cup, more than any World Cup that I've seen him play, you know, it feels different. It feels different watching him play. He's got a great team around him; he's got teammates that are great players.
Lionel Messi of Argentina celebrates scoring his side's first goal during the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 Group C match between Argentina and Mexico at Lusail Stadium on November 26, 2022, in Lusail City, Qatar. | Photo Credit: Dan Mullan/Getty Images
But he has been the leader of that team, and you can feel that in every single game that he's played. He has kind of bought them through whenever they were going through a difficult time.
Favourite goals
I think Richarlison's scissor kick [Serbia] for me was one of the best. Personally, I'm going to have to say [Luis] Chavez's freekick [goal against Saudi Arabia], being a fan of freekicks. That was a very special one. But there's been great goals throughout this tournament. But if I had to pick two, then it's Chavez and Richarlison.
On England's performance
As I said, we have got players that have been part of this team now for many years, and they're only 26 years old. You look at the quality of a Bukayo [Saka], and then you look at the quality of Jude [Bellingham], and the players that we have coming through in our country. I think there's a real positive from these tournaments.
Raheem Sterling of England celebrates with teammates after scoring their team's third goal during the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 Group B match between England and IR Iran at Khalifa International Stadium on November 21, 2022, in Doha, Qatar. | Photo Credit: Julian Finney/Getty Images
Whether you win them or get knocked out early, it's always an experience that you can take on to the next, the next game and the next tournament. The Euros was a huge success for us. Yes, we didn't end up winning the final, but the progression that we have as a country, and with our national team is incredible. And more importantly, the fans are right behind us as a nation and as a team. That's such an important part of this.
The future's looking bright, we have a lot of young players who are part of this team that enjoyed this World Cup, but then we'll learn from it and take it on to the Euros and then obviously to the next World Cup.
Message to the English players
I think my message to them… They don't need to hear a message from me, but I think, from my experience of, you know, being knocked out of competitions before, it takes a while to just kind of process and to look into why we didn't go further as a team and whether we performed well as individuals.
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But I think that they're going to take a few, maybe not a few weeks of rest now, because they're straight back into their seasons. But I think they can be proud of themselves. That's all they need to hear right now. They can be proud of themselves as a team, the way they've conducted themselves, and the way they put everything into every game.
I think that's an important part for fans to see. You want to see them wear that Three Lions shirt and give everything in every game, that they play. And that's what this team does. It's disappointing, and there's heartbreak. Yes, it takes a while to get over these tournaments, but they will. They're good enough. They're strong enough. And they're a great group of guys. And I think that's what I said to a friend the other day when I was lucky enough to be invited down by Gareth [Southgate]. I came away from seeing all the players and spending time with Gareth.
We want them to do well and that generates throughout the whole country. You look at this group of players, and I've spoken about it before. They're doing great things on the field, but they're doing even better things off the field as well. And that brings love and appreciation for this team and them as individuals. We're disappointed of course, but this team will move on and grow as a team and be successful.
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This week's roundup of new and updated apps includes ways to track the real Wimbledon championships and play the simulated Superbike World Championships. Plus, we have stuff for you non-sporting types out there, too.
This week's roundup of new and updated apps includes ways to track the real Wimbledon championships and play the simulated Superbike World Championships. Plus, we have stuff for you non-sporting types out there, too.
The free Amazon Instant Video app for iOS updated this week with several new features, including the ability to watch the first episode of select TV shows for free—a little taste just to draw you into the full subscription Amazon Prime service—as well as revamped video controls and a faster startup.
Here's an iPhone app for people too lazy to sell stuff on eBay. eBay Valet lets you take pictures of your stuff and get an estimate of its value from the "valets." If you like their estimte, you pack up the item and send it to the valet, who will actually sell the item on eBay. You get back 70 percent of the final sale price.
If the Avedon app inspires you to take richly textured black-and-white photographs, Lenka looks to be a good helper. There are no filters: The app gives you a realtime preview of the picture you're about to take … and that's about it. You can't use the flash or the front-facing camera on the phone because, the developers say, "these are creative decisions which speak to our artistic philosophy." The app is $3; no extra charge for the pretentiousness.
This social media app is now two social media apps. Much like Facebook has its Facebook Messenger app to handle communications tasks, Path for iPhone and iPad has been updated—the 150-friend limit is gone—and its messaging capabilities spun off into a new iPhone-only offering, Talk. It offers back-and-forth messaging with folks on your phone's contact list and includes features like "off the record," which erases messages from Path's servers after 24 hours.
Artists like Radiohead and Philip Glass have already received the "abstract app" treatment, in the form of offerings that let you trace your finger across an iPad page, both responding to and helping create their music. Now this fun-but-obscure idea has come to the classical world: If you want to spend the day finger-painting and listening to Bach, Red Hot + Bach will probably delight you.
SBK14 Official Mobile Game is a free offering for iOS, giving you a chance to participate in the FIM Superbike World Championship. You'll have a choice of 13 racing tracks, 27 riders, and 16 racing teams to use. Just be warned: You'll have to pay $5 for an in-app upgrade to the "full" version.
These days, every major sporting event has to have its own iOS app. Wimbledon, a free iPhone offering, gives users up-to-the minute scores and match results, as well as news, a live blog, and live video programming—including coverage of the championship matches—as well as three live audio channels for fans wanting to keep track of it all.
Wordpress has upgraded its in-app help system … Mailbox (pictured) is sporting a number of "auto-swipe" improvements … and Dropbox now lets you order your favorite files more easily.


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Die Jugend-Olympiamannschaft aus Serbien für die I. Olympischen Jugend-Sommerspiele vom 14. bis 26. August 2010 in Singapur bestand aus 32 Athleten.

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Basketball
Jungen
Saša Avramović
Nemanja Bezbradica
Stefan Popovski-Turanjanin
Marko Radonjić
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Judo

Leichtathletik
Mädchen
Katarina Ilić
 400 m: 10. Platz
Sandra Raicković
 Dreisprung: kein gültiger Versuch im Finale

Radsport
Jovana Crnogorac
Lazar Jovanović
Filip Pavlović
Aleksa Velicković
 Mixed: 27. Platz

Rudern

Schwimmen
 4 × 100 m Freistil Mixed: 10. Platz
 4 × 100 m Lagen Mixed: 16. Platz

Tennis
Mädchen
Doroteja Erić
 Einzel: 25. Platz
 Doppel: 1. Runde (mit Anna-Lena Friedsam )

Volleyball
Jungen
 4. Platz
Boris Martinović
Stefan Vladisavljev
Dimitrije Pantić
Milan Katić
Filip Stoilović
Nikola Živanović
Aleksa Brđović
Aleksandar Filipović
Ivan Glavinić
Rasko Jovanović
Čedomir Stanković
Sinisa Žarković

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Übersicht der Athleten in der Olympedia

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The adventures of a young John Difool before he became the most famous Sci-Fi anti-hero. Alexandro Jodorowsky ( The Metabarons ) and artist Zoran Janjetov, with the help of Fred Beltran ( Megalex ) on colors, take us way back to the youth of the notorious Class R private investigator. We are instantly plunged back into the unique atmosphere of the world of The Incal, as we witness John Difool's search for his identity and his origins, his first meeting with Deepo, and the appearance of many of the series' key characters, such as the Metabaron or Diavaloo.
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The adventures of a young John Difool before he became the most famous Sci-Fi anti-hero. Alexandro Jodorowsky ( The Metabarons ) and artist Zoran Janjetov, with the help of Fred Beltran ( Megalex ) on colors, take us way back to the youth of the notorious Class R private investigator. We are instantly plunged back into the unique atmosphere of the world of The Incal, as we witness John Difool
Jodorowsky and Mœbius's internationally bestselling Sci-Fi saga THE INCAL comes to its phenomenal finale ! Lowly class 'R' detective John Difool and his faithful companion, Deepo, are unwillingly hurled into yet another universe-saving mission, as their world is faced with the threat of an all-devouring metallic virus. Visionary storyteller Jodorowsky returns to the epic mythology he created wi
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A mysterious metallic virus has devastated the immense City-Shaft, and John Difool is going to have to once again transform himself into humanity's improbable savior ! The unfinished conclusion to The Incal trilogy as drawn by Moebius. The last cycle of the adventures of John Difool, After The Incal was not yet completed when Moebius stopped working on the series. When Jodorowsky discovered
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The Sci-Fi masterpiece by Moebius and Jodorowsky about the tribulations of the shabby detective John Difool as he searches for the precious and coveted Incal. John Difool, a low-class detective in a degenerate dystopian world, finds his life turned upside down when he discovers an ancient, mystical artifact called The Incal. Difool's adventures will bring him into conflict with the galaxy's
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A grand scale space opera about family, sacrifice, and survival told within an immense universe, both in scope and originality. A must-read cult spin-off of The Incal, by Moebius and Jodorowsky, centering around the fascinating lineage of the ultimate warrior. This collection introduces the Metabaron's bloodline and reveals the origins of their deep-seated principles. Find out the source of