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Sunday Morning Links! Two Days in a Row!
* CBP is human trafficking.
* Fatal encounters: 97 deaths point to pattern of border agent violence across America.
* Court Order To Reunite Migrant Children And Parents Reveals How Little Planning Went Into Separation Policy. Trump administration admits they've lost track of roughly 20 percent of toddlers' parents. Kids as Young as 1 in US Court, Awaiting Reunion With Family.
The stories that we are hearing are cruel and awful. I fear they aren't even the tip of the iceberg of what we will yet learn.
— #Prisonculture (@prisonculture) July 7, 2018
Just got off a conference call with HHS about reuniting kids with their parents. They read from a script for around 20 minutes and then they took only 3 questions from Senators. It was Orwellian in its overconfidence and vagueness. I am more, not less worried for these kids.
— Brian Schatz (@brianschatz) July 6, 2018
Dems are largely allergic to "Abolish ICE" as a message because it's clear and uncompromising but, even more importantly, did not require a cadre of overpaid consultants to develop
— Brandy Jensen (@BrandyLJensen) July 7, 2018
* This logic had a lineage and a name: "militant democracy," a term first coined in 1935 by the political theorist Karl Loewenstein. A German-Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany, Loewenstein arrived in the United States convinced that totalitarian and democratic regimes could not coexist. It was the nature of fascists and communists, he wrote in widely read academic essays, to infiltrate democratic regimes, exploit their freedoms of the press and speech, and destroy them from within. Long before the first shots of World War II were fired, Loewenstein claimed that an existential struggle between democracy and its enemies was already engulfing the entire globe. To win, democracies had to reform themselves. They had to become "militant."
There's a GOP candidate for Congress in CA who:
-is friends with anti-Semite Baked Alaska
-has a bodyguard who went to the Charlottesville rally
-has aides who post the 14 words and use parentheses to indicate Jewish people
The guy in this article is a DIFFERENT GOP candidate. https://t.co/gL5ATeVhtC
— Hayes Davenport (@hayesdavenport) July 7, 2018
* The US as seen from South Africa.
* Well, it will have to be a drunk NYU student who can afford $5,000 a month in rent. What Calhoun and the other adamant Pollyannas refuse to understand is that a bar is one thing, a dance hall is one thing, and even a Gap or a Starbucks is one thing, but a bank branch is another. It is a carpet and a machine from which one extracts money, then leaves. No one is writing a novel or an album about it. Those things that we do not value, that we do not actively protect, fade away and die. The fall of New York and the urban crisis of affluence. I'm worried I may have done this one already but it's worth reading twice.
* In the U.S., there is adult jail and there is school, and the two rarely go together. Most juvenile detention centers have educational programs, and prisons often have GED or college classes. But since August, the New Orleans jail has offered something unusual: a full-day high school that's part of the public school system and offers real credits. The only others are in the nation's largest cities, such as Chicago and New York.
* The Obsessive Search for the Tasmanian Tiger.
* It's time to put down the Hemingway and accept that the Running of the Bulls is horrifying.
* Rob Wielgus was one of America's pre-eminent experts on large carnivores. Then he ran afoul of the enemies of the wolf.
If the lions-eating-rhino-poachers story didn't cheer you up, I don't know what will.
— Barbara Ehrenreich (@B_Ehrenreich) July 7, 2018
* What makes a case like Janus particularly confounding is that the foundation, as well as the committee, claims to be acting on behalf of these American workers. On its website, in its arguments, it describes its work as freeing employees from forced union payments and restoring First Amendment rights. Yet scratch the surface of the Janus case and what fast becomes clear is that it, like so much else in the right-to-work realm, did not begin with a worker but rather with a wealthy anti-union businessman.
* This is a catastrophe that is happening even as, at some level, millions of people don't believe it really can. It seems so wildly improbable after all. Mass extinction? Floods? Rising sea levels? The end of the human race? Who could believe such a thing? What sort of rapturous religious imagination would take this prospect seriously? What sort of fantasy underlies this sort of End Times catastrophism? Those are all perfectly excellent questions. It's just that, the catastrophe is real.
* Ontario Labour Arbitration decision holding that student evaluations can't be used to promotion/tenure decisions because the evidence shows it's unsafe to conclude anything about teaching quality from them.
* Why Everyone Is Talking About Hannah Gadsby's Netflix Comedy Special.
* And a headline straight from your nightmares: Spiders Can Fly Hundreds of Miles Using Electricity.
Jaws is the most American 4th of July movie because it's the one in which an elected official acting on behalf of business interests allows several of his constituents to be literally eaten alive by a problem he was warned about
— jason lee (@speaks2ya) July 4, 2018
It's crazy how we went from arguing if all Americans deserved health care to arguing if kids deserve to live in cages. The devil works quick.
— Ronald Funches (@RonFunches) July 6, 2018
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— 🏳🌈Deep State Shu™🏳🌈 (@ReplyWithAMeme) July 6, 2018
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1001 Sunday Links
* Penn Gillette on three-card monty and graduate school in the humanities.
* Towards a taxonomy of cliches in Space Opera.
* "Use Tatooine sparingly" and other rules from the Star Wars style guide. io9 has a few other highlights.
* A Crash Course in the History of Black Science Fiction.
* Inside Disney's America, the doomed '90s project that almost sunk the company.
* "The Contemporary" by the numbers.
* From a work in progress: Nomic and net.culture.
* Podcasts and disposability.
* Vice science faction: After the Big One.
* Alumnae vowed to save Sweet Briar from closing last year. And they did.
* Radical notion: College Presidents Should Come from Academia.
* Simon Newman, the college leader whose metaphor about drowning bunnies made him infamous in higher education, announced late Monday that he has resigned, effective immediately, as president of Mount St. Mary's University. The Mount St. Mary's Presidency Was a Corporate Test Case. It Failed Miserably..
* The only MFA program in the US that focuses on African American literature could close.
* UW slips out of top 10 in new public university ranking. Amid rough seas for UW System, wave of challenges hits UWM.
* UC Davis chancellor received $420,000 on book publisher's board. The University of California paid hedge fund managers about $1 billion in fees over the last 12 years, according to a white paper study released by the university system's largest employee union.
* A Field Test for Identifying Appropriate Sexual Partners in Academia. She Wanted to Do Her Research. He Wanted to Talk 'Feelings.'
* "The GRE is like taking a cancer test that was invented in the 1940s."
* Putting on a "Brave" Face: On Ableism and Appropriation in the Film Industry.
* Justice Dept. grants immunity to staffer who set up Clinton email server. What you need to know about Hillary Clinton's emails. Did Clinton and Petraeus do the same thing? Clinton, on her private server, wrote 104 emails the government says are classified.
* The Libya Gamble: Inside Hillary Clinton's Push for War & the Making of a Failed State.
* Clinton insiders are eager to begin recruiting Republicans turned off by the prospect of Donald Trump to their cause — and the threat of Sanders sticking it out until June makes the general election pivot more difficult. Inside the Clinton Team's Plan to Defeat Donald Trump. Smart to announce it now!
* But, look, it's not all Clinton negativity: Hillary Clinton promises to 'get to the bottom of UFO mystery' if elected, and 'maybe send a task force' to alleged alien prison Area 51.
* The Official Head Of The Democratic Party Joins GOP Effort To Protect Payday Lenders. Bernie Versus the Earthquake Industry.
* Republican Voters Kind Of Hate All Their Choices. 1927 flashback. Kasich May Have Cut Off Rubio's Path To The Nomination. Trump gives supporters permission to be violent with protesters: If you hurt them I'll defend you in court. Researchers have found strong evidence that racism helps the GOP win. 'Not even my wife knows': secret Donald Trump voters speak out. Is this a realignment? The rise of American authoritarianism. Awkward.
Just curious: is there anyone who still doubts that the U.S. is well into late-stage imperial collapse?
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) March 4, 2016
In all seriousness, functioning democracies rely more on norms than laws and those norms are being degraded with terrifying abandon.
— Christopher Hayes (@chrislhayes) March 4, 2016
* The car century was a mistake. It's time to move on.
* 2°C.
* Another piece on the end of Louisiana.
* I don't know that the Melissa Click case is really the best example here, but there's every reason to think body cameras will be used to serve police interests, not citizen interests.
* Lab tech allegedly faked result in drug case; 7,827 criminal cases now in question.
* Georgia Police Chief and Officer Accused of Arresting People on False Charges in Order to Extort Them.
* Can a 3-year old represent herself in immigration court? This judge thinks so. Please watch my show Three Year Old Immigration Lawyer next fall on ABC.
* Did the Spanish Empire Change Earth's Climate?
* The Flint Next Time: Fears About Water Supply Grip Village That Made Teflon Products. Flint is in the news, but lead poisoning is even worse in Cleveland.
* This Guy Spent Four Years Creating an Imaginary Reddit for 3016.
* Sci-Fi Hero Samuel Delany's Outsider Art.
* Marquette in the news! Oh.
Sweetin's autobiography begins with a very different two-word phrase. The first line ofUnSweetined, which Sweetin wrote (or rather told in bits to a ghostwriter) in 2009, is "fuck it." She is referring to her attitude right before smoking meth and doing a plateful of cocaine, the night before she was scheduled to give a speech at Marquette University about her commitment to sobriety (she did give that speech in 2007, and she was high the entire time she was on stage).
* Over at Slate friend of the show Eric "The Red" Hittinger explains clearly and succinctly why rooftop solar power probably won't ever challenge big utility companies.
* When People With Schizophrenia Hear Voices, They're Really Hearing Their Own Subvocal Speech.
* Bob Dylan's Secret Archive.
* This video shows what ancient Rome actually looked like.
* Steph Curry Is On Pace To Hit 102 Home Runs.
* Mysterious Chimpanzee Behaviour May Be Evidence Of "Sacred" Rituals.
* Here's a silly thing I watched: "Great Minds with Dan Harmon," 1, 2.
* Sports corner: Ivy League Considers Banning Tackling During Practice.
* A Believer interview with the great Andy Daly.
* A Plagiarism Scandal Is Unfolding In The Crossword World. Professional Bridge Has a Cheating Problem.
* The Enigmatic Art of America's Secret Societies.
* Super-Intelligent Humans Are Coming.
* The astonishment that such things are "still" possible.
* The Retirement Crisis Is Getting Truly Scary.
* The Fact That None Of The 2016 Presidential Candidates Have A Space Policy Is Tragic.
* From the start, in 1967, "Trader Joe" Coulombe devised his "low-priced gourmet-cum-health-food store" with an "unemployed PhD student" in mind as the ideal customer.
* Reading from a statement while speaking with analysts, Chief Executive Officer Joel Manby said SeaWorld's board of directors has "directed management to end the practice in which certain employees posed as animal-welfare activists. This activity was undertaken in connection with efforts to maintain the safety and security of employees, customers and animals in the face of credible threats."
* The color thesaurus.
* What Mars Would Look Like Mapped by Medieval Cartographers.
* New York City Is in the Throes of a Häagen-Dazs Heist Epidemic.
* Thus, I conclude that in fact, Gygax's strength scoring system is actually…pretty good! But only good for fighters, in a system like AD&D where we can reasonably assume that all fighter PCs have been training for 10+ years and are genetically super-gifted. However, if you're Raistlin Majere from the Dragonlance Chronicles and are in all probability an underweight untrained or novice lifter of average height, then you are probably looking at a STR score of around 6-7. If you are a woman of my current weight and untrained, you are looking at a STR score of around 3-4. If you're my current weight and train consistently for a couple of years, you can expect to have a score of around 8-9. Men and/or individuals with higher testosterone levels will have somewhat higher scores, but it is definitely out of the question that a 10-11 can represent an average strength in our society, though it may be in a farmer-dominant society where everyone lifts a lot of hay bales.
Warren: L. Good
HRC: L. N.
Cruz: L. Evil
Bernie: N. Good
Obama: True N
Rubio: N. Evil#BLM: C. Good
Trump: C. N
Trump supporters: C. Evil
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) March 6, 2016
* Every Bryan Fuller Star Trek episode, ranked.
* Secrets of my success: Narcissistic Students Get Better Grades from Narcissistic Professors.
* The dialectic never stops turning: Hope is reactionary: it cocoons actuality in the gossamer of the tolerable, dulling the thirst for change. Despair is revolutionary: it grinds the knife-edge of the intolerable against the whetstone of actuality, sparking the will to change.
* We are the second best girls.
* 20 Cognitive Biases That Screw Up Your Decisions.
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Sunday Reading!
2016 Trump
2026 Revolutionary Council
2032, 2036 elections suspended
2040 Chelsea Clinton vs George P Bush
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) February 28, 2016
* Some late-breaking academic jobs (in Europe)! Assistant Professor Gender Studies & Postcolonial Studies. Tenure-track vacancy in Anglophone Literature.
* CFP: Call for Papers: Spanish Science Fiction. (couldn't find a link)
Science Fiction Studies invites contributions to the monographic issue on Spanish SF (guest editors: Sara Martín and Fernando Ángel Moreno). By 'Spanish SF' we mean SF novels and short fiction written specifically in Spain, excluding other Spanish-language areas. We are particularly interested in articles dealing with writers Gabriel Bermúdez Castillo, Rafael Marín, Rodolfo Martínez or Javier Negrete and with SF women writers (excluding Elia Barceló). All submissions must be in English and conform to SFS submission policies, which includes a rigorous peer-reviewing process. Abstracts (150-200 words) are due by March 30, complete papers by 1 September (maximum 7000 words). Please, email your proposals to Sara Martín (Sara.Martin@uab.cat).
* There were apparently no answers to these questions. But the trend is clear. Without restored public funding, the New Normal means the permanent downgrading of all levels of public higher education, and the reversion of top-quality learning and research to small elites. Unless we restore cut public funding, California will continue to pioneer educational post-democracy.
* Are CEOs overpaid? Not compared with college presidents.
* Mount St. Mary's now in trouble with its accreditor. Good! I can't see how they can possibly retain accreditation with this leadership still in place.
* Emails Show Michigan Aides Worried About Flint's Water a Year Before Acting. When is someone going to go to jail over this? How the Flint River got so toxic.
* Riffing a bit more on this ("A presidential run by Michael Bloomberg could plunge the country into a constitutional crisis"), it seems to me there's a real possibility of GOP leaders doing this on purpose, if they think a third-party run can keep both Clinton and Trump under a majority and thereby throw the whole thing to a presumably GOP House. Meanwhile: GOP elites "verging on panic." Trump and the fake-university fraud. (Even the right-wing National Review, etc!) And then there's just this morning. But you don't have to take my word for it…
Donald Trump is a con artist — and he cannot be our nominee. #NeverTrump https://t.co/3ZYQZraCfNhttps://t.co/8wm9ToY7El
— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) February 27, 2016
* Jeb: An Elegy!
* Alas, Bernie.
* I don't remember who said it, but someone on Twitter was remarking just the other day about how well Trump has turned the ignore-facts-trust-only-me ethos of Fox against Fox itself. And behold.
* In your heart, you know she's right.
* Meanwhile, on the other side of the cable news swamp: Melissa Harris-Perry Is Probably Not Coming Back to MSNBC. Scratch that "probably."
* Dow Chemical Co. said it agreed to pay $835 million to settle an antitrust case pending before the U.S. Supreme Court after Justice Antonin Scalia's death reduced its chances of overturning a jury award.
* The Great Pennsylvania Government Porn Caper.
* Finland, education, and equality.
* Ron visited the Burrow after he had gotten clean. He was dismayed to see how many photos of Hermione his mother kept on the walls. Harry Potter and Your Twenties.
* Truly, the cruelest month: Mississippi Governor Proclaims That April Is Now 'Confederate Heritage Month.'
* …what is the best strategy for dealing with a body of thought that, on one hand, is riddled with internal contradictions and tensions and yet, on the other, is highly coherent and effective (for example, through the transformation of human subjects into financialized forms of capital)? Should we seek to destabilize neoliberalism by exposing its internal inconsistencies, or reject its market rationalities by embracing forms of sociality and politics that cannot be reduced to economic principles such as price, or perhaps both? These questions are, to some extent, left hanging, and the book leaves one with the feeling that the battle against neoliberalism is being lost, and perhaps even that there is an air of inevitability about where things are heading. This book, then, is at the same time enlightening and disheartening: it provides a brilliant insight into some of the darkest developments of our times while at the same time providing little hope for social and political change of a different kind.
* "The Big Short is, in one sense, about our protagonists' search for a villain as formidable as the crisis they identify."
* Parenting corner: Are picky eaters born or made? Given how terrible I was about this when I was a kid, and how relentlessly I'm being handed back every inch of it now, I've got to say there's a genetic component to it, or at least a karmic one.
* Shazam for Plants Will Identify Any Plant From a Picture.
* Space is the Place: The Architecture of Afrofuturism.
* What Life on Minimum Wage Actually Looks Like in 2016.
* This is still the best story.
* This Is What Darth Vader's Theme Would Have Been If He Had Been The Hero
* If you want a vision of the future.
* And it certainly is pretty: Licensing agreement reached on brilliant new blue pigment discovered by happy accident.
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* Call for Papers, UWM/Marquette Graduate Student Humanities Conference: "Conflict and Liberation."
* Call for Papers: Posthuman Futures.
* Your SF short film of the week: "Stealing Time."
* Fifty years ago today, the United States of America dropped four nuclear bombs on Spain. It was an accident.
Fail safe systems in the weapons mostly worked
Uh, mostly?
and none of the four bombs experienced a nuclear reaction upon impact, sparing the region and its hundreds of inhabitants from multiple nuclear blasts that would've dwarfed the explosion over Hiroshima. "Only a fortunate stroke of luck saved the Spanish population of the area from catastrophe," a Soviet official said at the time.
well that's good
But the conventional high explosives on two of the bombs did detonate, essentially turning those weapons into dirty bombs that blasted plutonium radiation across the countryside.
* Democracy, Disposability, and the Flint Water Crisis.
Local, regional, and state governments are removing the basic, infrastructural supports that are necessary for the reproduction of life. As a consequence, residents of cities like Flint and Detroit, in particular black and immigrant populations, have been subjected to increasing vulnerability in forms like declining life expectancy and appalling infant mortality. "Disposability" and "surplus population" sound like abstract concepts, but they're a tangible, visceral reality for folks on the ground in Flint. "We're like disposable people here," one resident told the Toronto Star the other day. "We're not even human here, I guess."
* Detroit's Teachers Want You to See These Disturbing Photos of Their Toxic Schools.
* The Color of Surveillance: What an infamous abuse of power teaches us about the modern spy era.
* This is the exam from a class that MLK taught at Morehouse in the early 1960s.
* So you want to read Infinite Jest.
* These 11 laws are what keep space from becoming the wild west.
* America's Other Original Sin.
* How the shining architectural optimism of the 1960s and 70s has ultimately produced buildings such as supermarkets, open-plan offices and other spaces of control.
* The rising death rates for those young white adults, ages 25 to 34, make them the first generation since the Vietnam War years of the mid-1960s to experience higher death rates in early adulthood than the generation that preceded it.
* Even Insured Can Face Crushing Medical Debt, Study Finds. 'I Am Drowning.' The Voices of People With Medical Debt.
* The Nation: Bernie Sanders for President.
* And in anti-endorsements: Sanders and Reparations. Rejecting Bourgeois Feminism.
* When I was younger, someone took a knife to my clitoris and cut out a small but significant part of me. I blamed my mother. I despised her. I loved her.
* Jay Edidin on his recent top surgery.
* The University of Victoria, in Canada, has announced the establishment of what it says is the world's first endowed chair in transgender studies.
* HBO to air the rarely seen Godfather Epic cutting Parts I and II together.
* Tennis match fixing: Evidence of suspected match-fixing revealed.
* "Someone in Florida had made a second-mortgage loan to O.J. Simpson, and I just about blew my top, because there was this huge judgment against him from his wife's parents," she recalled. Simpson had been acquitted of killing his wife Nicole and her friend but was later found liable for their deaths in a civil lawsuit; that judgment took precedence over other debts, such as if Simpson defaulted on his WaMu loan.
"When I asked how we could possibly foreclose on it, they said there was a letter in the file from O.J. Simpson saying 'the judgment is no good, because I didn't do it.'"
* "The One Weird Trait That Predicts Whether You're a Trump Supporter." Weird! Kooky! Zany!
* After Oil.
* Sick Woman Theory.
* "In Oklahoma, now the country's earthquake capital…"
* Steven Moffat reveals the BBC almost canceled Doctor Who in 2009.
* Young People Used These Absurd Little Cards to Get Laid in the 19th Century.
* Shocking study reveals physics teachers give girls lower grades than boys – for the exact same answers.
* A major new finding about the impact of having a dad who was drafted to Vietnam.
* Former Nazi Medical Orderly to Stand Trial for Deaths of 3,681 People at Auschwitz.
* Writing is hard: "Shut up, Wesley!" did irreparable damage to Wesley Crusher's role in TNG.
* WHAT YEAR IS IT
* Unbreakable! They alive, damnit!
* Why Is Sperm So Damn Expensive?
* A 120,000-Piece Lego Model of the Titanic Breaking in Half.
* The Illegitimacy of Aragorn's Claim to the Throne.
Given that the Númenoreans ruined their civilization to the point that it was personally destroyed by God Himself, the Gondorrim probably shouldn't have been so quick to crown a long-lived, pure-blooded Númenorean like Aragorn. They'd probably have been better off elevating Pippin Took to the throne. Hobbits at least dally with the good things in life: hearty food, heady ales, fireworks, and weed.
* I don't know why I'll watch basically anything involving Pee Wee Herman, but.
* 'Man flu' is real. I'm taking the month off.
* Synergy killed the Fantastic Four.
* The Weird Way That Standing (Not Walking) on Escalators Helps Move People More Quickly.
* Race and gifted and talented programs.
* News you can use from the Financial Post: Here's how to crush student activists once they become your employee.
* The genetic breakthrough that could change humanity, explained.
* Is it still possible to get away with a heist?
* And for real though this is aliens.
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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.
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) July 10, 2015
* 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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Sunday Won't Procrastinate Itself: Links!
* A City Where Everyone Works, There Is No Police, And The Salary Is 1200 Euros.
* This piece and the comments (read both) constitute one of the only serious or substantive discussions of Laura Kipnis's CHE pieces I've seen. I just finished a long and frustrating but possibly ultimately consensus-building Facebook debate about the minutiae of this thing, so I'm basically an expert on the case now.
* "With its new flavor, Save Our Swirled, Ben & Jerry's is urging fans to dig their spoons into climate change activism." That's solve it!
* California's Snowpack Is Now Zero Percent of Normal.
* It's so hot in India the roads are melting.
* For those who want to build a stronger left in the US, there is no substitute for the work — however slow and painstaking it might be — of building social movements and struggles at the grassroots and of organizing a political alternative independent of the Democratic Party.
I can give you a solution, too, it's just like everything else: withdraw support from Democrats, build coalition for new Constitution.
* 'American Universities Are Addicted to Chinese Students.'
* Black dolls and American culture.
* Jessica Springsteen, born to jump.
* How Comedians Became Public Intellectuals.
* PROFS Statement on Joint Finance Committee Action on UW System Budget. UW Struggle: Final Update. An Idiot's Guide to the Tenure Process. Don't mourn, organize. In all its glory.
Die Public Universities is bipartisan consensus. Like most austerity, the difference is Republicans = "we love it," Dems = "sadly, we must."
Definitely an argument the lizard people who control everything will respond to positively https://t.co/2RyceIKiF2
America's robust public university system produces the medical technology that will keep lizard people alive forever. #pleasefundeducation
Lizard people need educated humans to act as the middle-men enforcing their regime of total control. #pleasefundeducation
Public universities are a key source of the exorbitant speaking fees and no-show sinecures lizard people crave. #pleasefundeducation
Without public education, lizard people would have as many as three weekends a year without sports on tv. #pleasefundeducation
* And then there's Texas.
* Can academics really "have it all"?
* The fall of Rome.
* To understand why and how often these shootings occur, The Washington Post is compiling a database of every fatal shooting by police in 2015, as well as of every officer killed by gunfire in the line of duty. The Post looked exclusively at shootings, not killings by other means, such as stun guns and deaths in police custody.
* Boing Boing covers Rashida Jones's "amateur porn" documentary Hot Girls Wanted.
* Science proves music really was better back then.
* It also proves nothing likes being eaten.
* Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal and Philosophy: 1, 2.
* The Wire, but for Israel/Palestine.
* And the arc of history is long, but production on TRON 3 has been shut down.
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All the July 4th Links You Wanted — And More!
* The Declaration of Independence has a typo; America is abolished. Happy Fourth of July.
* America at 238, by the numbers.
* Hobby Lobby as Pandora's Box. The icing on the cake.
* Like the Founders intended, an investigation into Blackwater was squashed after a top manager threatened to murder a State department official. Checks and balances. The system works.
* Remarks of Thurgood Marshall at the Annual Seminar of the San Francisco Patent and Trademark Law Association in Maui, Hawaii, May 6, 1987.
I cannot accept this invitation, for I do not believe that the meaning of the Constitution was forever "fixed" at the Philadelphia Convention. Nor do I find the wisdom, foresight, and sense of justice exhibited by the Framers particularly profound. To the contrary, the government they devised was defective from the start, requiring several amendments, a civil war, and momentous social transformation to attain the system of constitutional government, and its respect for the individual freedoms and human rights, we hold as fundamental today. When contemporary Americans cite "The Constitution," they invoke a concept that is vastly different from what the Framers barely began to construct two centuries ago.
* As a Canadian I rather like the idea of the American Revolution being aborted and our Yankee cousins staying within the Empire. Among other things it would have meant that slavery would have ended in America a generation earlier and without violence (the British outlawed the slave trade in 1807 and abolished slavery in 1834).
* Meanwhile, a great moment in American democracy.
* Great new web comic from Jason Shiga, whose Fleep and Meanwhile I've praised here before.
* Some Dawn of the Planet of the Apes prequels.
* A new China Miéville short story.
* Zoo Animals Are Depressed.
* Gynofuturism: Zoe Saldana says the best roles for women are in space.
* Here's a List of What Junot Díaz Wants You to Read.
* Judy Clarke defends the indefensible.
* Maria Bamford's new web series wants to put you in The Program.
* Philosophy Job Placement 2011-2014: Departments with Relatively High Placement Rates.
* "Neuroeconomics."
* "The Princess Effect: How women's magazines demean powerful women—even when they're trying to celebrate them."
* Lionel Messi Is Impossible. More.
* How Belgium built one of the top contenders for the 2014 World Cup, and what the team means to this fractious nation. How Tourette's-afflicted Tim Howard went from international ridicule to World Cup history. Really, All Hail Tim Howard. How Spain Succumbed to the Innovator's Dilemma. Why the last group stage game is played simultaneously. Who Won the World Cup of Arm-Folding?
* Zwarte Piets were once openly characterized as Santa's slaves. Man, Santa's legacy is complicated.
* Cop Keeps Job After Violently Shoving Paraplegic Man From Wheelchair. The search continues for something a cop can do that will actually cost them their job.
* At time of austerity, 8 universities spent top dollar on Hillary Rodham Clinton speeches.
* The European Court of Human Rights has upheld the basic human right we all know about to see other people's faces in public.
* A radical reply to Hobby Lobby: Take Away the Entire Welfare State From Employers. And another: Hobby Lobby, Student Loans, and Sincere Belief.
* The rules underpinning Porky Pig's stutter.
* Shirley Jackson reads "The Lottery."
* Have We Been Interpreting Quantum Mechanics Wrong This Whole Time?
* Lies Your Doctor Told You.
* Oklahoma is now the earthquake capital of the country, thanks to tracking.
* Membership has its privileges: African leaders vote to give themselves immunity from war crimes.
* A Brief History of the Smithsonian.
* A People's History of the Peeing Calvin Decal.
* In 1990 this nation faced a horrifying outbreak of Richard Nixon rap parodies. This is that story. (via @sarahkendzior)
* Facebook Could Decide an Election Without Anyone Ever Finding Out.
* The arc of history is long &c: Oakland Raiders Will Pay Cheerleaders Minimum Wage This Season.
* American Gods is alive! It's on Starz, but it's alive!
* "Exclamation points have played a distinguished role in the history of Marxism." Why We're Marxists.
* SMBC on fire: If God is omniscient and omnipotent, how could he let this happen? Telepathy machines were created. Check Your Bat-Privilege. I'm the superfluous female protagonist.
* Scenes from the next Paolo Bacigalupi novel: An abandoned mall in Bangkok has been overtaken by fish.
* The UNC fake-classes scandal has gotten so outrageous even the NCAA has been forced to pay attention.
* Should "free college" be framed as a right or a privilege?
* When two good guys with guns confront one another.
* The Hard Data on UFO Sightings: It's Mostly Drunk People in the West.
* Let's colonize ourselves by 3D printing ourselves on other planets.
* Catfish and American Loneliness.
* The Hooded Utilitarian has been running an Octavia Butler Roundtable.
* Another Pixar conspiracy theory: the truth about Andy's Dad.
* All about the miraculous Community revival. And more. Yay!
* Introducing the Critical Inquiry Review of Books.
* And some more good news! Bear rescued after head gets stuck in cookie jar. Happy Fourth of July!
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Saturday Roundup – 2!
* How Dan Harmon breaks a story – 2!
* 'Fallen' Disney Princesses. The Ariel, Belle, and Jasmine ones are the best, I think.
* Scientific Paper of the Night: Could we blow up the sun?
* Architects for this 47-story building in Spain forgot to put in an elevator.
* Academic freedom and tenure: the case of National Louis University. Just awful.
* This Is How Your Brain Becomes Addicted to Caffeine.
* And via @reclaimUC, a blast from 2011: Delegitimate UC.
I'd like to suggest that given the significance of bureaucracy as an administrative stronghold, the arena of bureaucracy is worth intervening in if and only if the legitimacy of governance by upper administration is negated by the intervention. A professor who agrees to be on a committee thinking that from that position she'll be able to limit damage and fearing that if she is not on it things will be even worse is not negating the legitimacy of the administration, so that should not be done.
But a resolution introduced in the Academic Senate, or issued by an individual department, stating that the Regents should not be allowed to set the salaries of upper administrators would reject their legitimacy and would be worth doing, not least because it would be news…
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May Day Links, Not All of Them about May Day Exactly
* Is today the day Marty McFly arrives when he travels to the future?
* Jacob Remes on May Day from a year ago.
* Lost generation: on unemployment in Spain.
* A May Day Manifesto: Seven Principles for Adjuncts.
1. Increase the starting salary for a three-credit semester course to a minimum of $5,000 for all instructors in higher education.
2. Ensure academic freedom by providing progressively longer contracts for all contingent instructors who have proven themselves during an initial probationary period.
3. Provide health insurance for all instructors, either through their college's health insurance system or through the Affordable Care Act.
4. Support the quality education of our students by providing their instructors with necessary office space, individual development support, telephones, email accounts and mail boxes.
5. Guarantee fair and equitable access to unemployment benefits when college instructors are not working.
6. Guarantee eligibility for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program to all college instructors who have taught for ten years, during which they were repaying their student loans.
7. With or without a time-in service requirement, allow all college teachers to vote and hold office in institutional governance, including faculty senates and academic departments.
* A very strange thing happened to the California single payer health care bill this year. It disappeared.
* There were a few radical writers like Tom Paine who did use the word "democracy" from early on, but the first official use was by Jefferson and Madison when they founded the "Democratic Republican" party — which is clearly just some sort of PR trick, since Jefferson himself never uses the word "democracy" at all in his own writings. But the person who really transformed the language was Andrew Jackson. He ran as a "democrat" and it was so effective that over the course of the 1830s, everyone started calling themselves that. So basically the Republican system that was set up to contain democracy itself got renamed "Democracy." Interview with David Graeber on Democracy in America.
* After Neoliberalism? The Kilburn Manifesto.
* Washington Post editorial urges the closing of Guantánamo.
For the prison to close, lawmakers would have to lift a ban on transferring prisoners to the United States. But it was good that Mr. Obama also pledged to "examine every option that we have administratively" — because there are steps he could take without Congress.
* US soldier not found alive after 44 years in Vietnam. Via the comments.
* Japan and Russia want to finally end World War II.
* Interesting interactive chart from the Guardian about violence in recent best-selling video games.
* Interactive infographic at the New York Times shows long-term Democratic hegemony (at least at the presidential level) given most demographic assumptions.
* Coursera Eyes Teacher Training With New MOOC Partners.
* And so you want to win a Pulitzer.
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Some Sunday Reading
* A warning to college profs from a high school teacher.
* The Secret to Fixing Bad Schools.
* Pulp Science Fiction in Spain, Before And During Totalitarianism.
* Sweating Obama Admits Drone Strikes Have Been Happening On Their Own.
* On "So-Called Americans."
* SF Gate review of Kill Anything That Moves The Real American War in Vietnam.
The problem, as described in Turse's "Kill Anything That Moves," is the tension between the "bad apples" argument – which sees atrocities in Vietnam as the exception – and the reality of the broader, official "American way of war." Turse came to understand the latter after he stumbled onto documents of the Vietnam War Crimes Working Group. The military created the group after the My Lai massacre to avoid again being caught flat-footed.
The point, Turse found, was not to prevent war crimes but to contain the damage and stay, as the euphemism might go today, ahead of the PR problem. Finding the cache of internal documents, Turse halted his academic thesis work, and lit out in his car to spend the next several days photocopying these documents. He rounded this out with interviews with more than 100 veterans, alongside those of eyewitnesses and survivors of American atrocities in Vietnam. His verdict – more than a decade later – is damning and masterful.
* In the new New Republic: Original Sin: Why the GOP is and will continue to be the party of white people.
* There is no intrinsic value in the prescribed motion. But this needn't necessarily make up weep.
* It's One Of The Craziest Internet Rumors About Guns. And As It Turns Out, It's True.
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Alas Poor Holland?
World Cup Daily has me second-guessing my endorsement of the psychic octopus. Maybe Holland will pull it off. I really don't know.
Tagged with boldest predictions ever, Holland, psychic octopuses, soccer, Spain, World Cup
Alas, Poor Holland
The psychic octopus has picked Spain. I picked Spain to win it all way back in the ESPN pool, and I suppose I'm sticking with that after watching them dispatch Germany—though I'll be rooting for Orange.
Tagged with Holland, psychic octopuses, soccer, Spain, World Cup
USA! USA!
Soccer: Click the [+/-] to catch the fever.
USA up 1-0 over Spain at halftime in the semifinals of the Confederations Cup.
UPDATE: Spain looking pretty tough in the opening minutes of the second half. Shoot; miss; get the ball back five seconds later; repeat.
Also, sorry for the lack of spoiler alert…
UPDATE: Dempsey! I love that man. I always pick him in my fantasy league and he never lets me down. Great goal.
UPDATE: USA! USA!
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¡Zapatero!
"¿Deaf, senile, or insane?" is the subtext of a huge number of posts in Left Blogopolis today after John McCain inscrutably declared that he wouldn't meet with Spanish president José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero as president during an interview yesterday. Credit is due to Josh Marshall for forcing the American media to pay attention to this: it's since appeared all over, even making Drudge.
For its part, the McCain camp has chosen to go with "insane" as its official explanation for the gaffe:
McCain foreign policy adviser Randy Sheunemann said McCain's answer was intentional.
"The questioner asked several times about Senator McCain's willingness to meet Zapatero (and id'd him in the question so there is no doubt Senator McCain knew exactly to whom the question referred). Senator McCain refused to commit to a White House meeting with President Zapatero in this interview," he said in an e-mail.
Spain, of course, is a long-time American ally, a fellow member of NATO, and a charter alumnae of the Coalition of the Willing™ (2002-2004).
It's clear to see why they went with "insane" over anything that might signify "old," but this is genuinely nuts. Benen and Hilzoy each have good posts explaining why. Here's Benen:
Let's also not lose sight of the broader pattern. McCain thinks the recent conflict between Russia and Georgia was "the first probably serious crisis internationally since the end of the Cold War." He thinks Iraq and Pakistan share a border. He believes Czechoslovakia is still a country. He's been confused about the difference between Sudan and Somalia. He's been confused about whether he wants more U.S. troops in Afghanistan, more NATO troops in Afghanistan, or both. He's been confused about how many U.S. troops are in Iraq. He's been confused about whether the U.S. can maintain a long-term presence in Iraq. He's been confused about Iran's relationship with al Qaeda. He's been confused about the difference between Sunni and Shi'ia. McCain, following a recent trip to Germany, even referred to "President Putin of Germany." All of this incoherence on his signature issue.
McCain's actually lucky if people will stick to talking about his cluelessness on economics today.
Tagged with blogs, foreign policy, general election 2008, John McCain, politics, Spain, WTFMcCain?, Zapatero
UEFA 2008 Final
European Championship final today at 2:30 on ABC. Germany vs. Spain—should be a solid match. I get the sense that Spain is probably the favorite, but I don't know—I think with Spain's top scorer out to injury they'll have more trouble with the solid German side than people think. Fabregas is a good substitute, but he's both young and recovering from injuries himself—I know from my U.K. fantasy football league that he hasn't quite been the same since an injury and surgery mid-season.
So, prediction: Germany for the upset. That's my gut feeling. And it looks like that's what I'll be rooting for, a little bit despite myself.
Tagged with Germany, soccer, Spain, sports, UEFA Euro 2008
RT @tuslersaurus: Hey quick question why is genocide good 11 minutes ago
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Humankind is everywhere caught in a race between the things they absolutely have to get done today and it being too… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 21 minutes ago
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I've mentioned before that we're all unique and that the ND individual might have differing behaviour patterns to a PNT.
I'm short on time today and I'm not going to write a massive article on each of my own traits, but I wanted to discuss just one: I talk to myself, I can't recall a time when I didn't. It's something I tend to do for clarity of thought. Sometimes I simply mutter, whereas on other occasions I can express a full monologue.
For clarification, I do not walk down the street, shouting at lampposts and pigeons: I'm not insane. I simply find that my thoughts are clearer and more logical if I can vocalise them. I'm sure that I'm not the only person who does this and I take the attitude that, whilst someone might find the concept of a person in their forties talking to themselves, as 'a bit odd', it helps me to organise my thoughts and to get things done. I also have an incredibly loud personal monologue, so where one stops and then other begins can be cloudy.


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Airbnb Tightens Restrictions For NYE Rentals In LAWith COVID-19 cases on the rise, Airbnb said Monday it will tighten restrictions further in an effort to crack down on New Year's Eve parties in Los Angeles and nationwide.
Exclusive: Local Family Discovers Home Listed On Airbnb After Strangers Arrive, Saying They Rented ItThe listing called the home a "modern masterpiece," and the entire villa was up for rent for just $450 a night on Airbnb's website.
Airbnb Offering 75-Minute Virtual Tour Of Hearst Castle"Hearst & Hollywood" will be a 75-minute virtual live tour with a California State Park guide. Each tour will have a maximum of 10 guests and will visit the iconic Neptune Pool, the main house known as Casa Grande, the esplanade and the estate's extensive gardens.
LA Among Most Popular Airbnb Destination For Long-Term Summer StaysLos Angeles ranked among the top three destinations for long-term stays on Airbnb this summer, the company announced Monday.
Airbnb Blocks Some One-Night Rentals For July Fourth Weekend To Help Prevent PartiesAirbnb announced Monday it will block some one-night rentals at its listings in Los Angeles and elsewhere to help prevent large gatherings over the Fourth of July weekend.
Airbnb Announces $1M Gift To Fund Home Stays For LA Vaccine WorkersAirbnb Monday announced the launch of Airbnb.org, a nonprofit dedicated to facilitating temporary stays for people in times of crisis, and committed $1 million to fund housing for essential workers administering free COVID-19 tests at future vaccine distribution centers.
Airbnb Announces New Policies To Prevent New Year's Eve Parties At Its ListingsAirbnb announced Thursday a plan to prevent large gatherings over the New Year's Eve holiday period at its listings in Los Angeles and elsewhere.
Airbnb Sues Promoter Over Glendora Mansion Party This SummerAirbnb Inc. Monday sued the organizer of a party held at a Glendora mansion that attracted about 700 people.
'Fresh Prince Of Bel Air' Mansion Available For Rent On AirbnbLA County residents who live in the same household will be able to rent the property for one night for just $30, in honor of the 30th anniversary of the hit 90s show.
Airbnb Cracks Down On LA County Party Houses From Calabasas To WhittierThose listings included homes in Burbank, Calabasas, Compton, Glendora, Hacienda Heights, La Cañada Flintridge, Long Beach, the city of Los Angeles, Malibu, Marina del Rey, Pasadena, West Hollywood and Whittier.
Airbnb Announces Global Ban On House Parties Held At Its ListingsAirbnb announced Thursday it will ban all parties and events at its global listings, including capping capacity to 16 people, until further notice amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Airbnb Warns Guests In LA Not To Throw Parties In Age Of CoronavirusGuests who violate the policy will be banned from the platform.
Coronavirus: Airbnb To Offer Free Housing To Thousands Of First RespondersThe home-sharing giant launched an initiative to provide free housing to 100,000 relief workers fighting the coronavirus pandemic.
Airbnb Removes 28 Homes Identified By LAPD As 'Chronic Party Houses' Airbnb says they have taken down more than two dozen listings identified by the LAPD as "chronic party houses" in the Hollywood Hills.
Santa Monica Reaches Deal With Airbnb Over Illegal ListingsUnder the deal, Airbnb will require all its hosts to register with the city and obtain a license number and business permit. Hosts are also prohibited from listing multiple properties.

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Jeferson Pereira Vieira, auch Jeferson Maranhense genannt, (* 20. April 1989 in Bacabal) ist ein brasilianischer Fußballspieler.

Karriere
Jefferson begann seine Karriere bei der AD Icasa. In den nächsten Jahren spielte er bei verschiedenen Klubs, u. a. beim Zweitligisten AS Arapiraquense. Im Sommer 2015 wechselte er nach Österreich zum SKN St. Pölten. Sein Debüt gab er am 1. Spieltag 2015/16 gegen den SV Austria Salzburg. Im Januar 2016 wurde sein Vertrag aufgelöst. Danach spielte er wieder in Brasilien bei Guarani de Palhoça.

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Campinense
 Copa do Nordeste: 2013

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Fußballspieler (ADRC Icasa)
Fußballspieler (Campinense Clube)
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Fußballspieler (Itumbiara EC)
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Robert (Hans) Van Gulik wrote a series featuring Judge Dee, a Chinese magistrate in the 600s (A.D.). This series exhibits the "gentleness" of a cozy mystery book series, while solving hardened crimes. I am very fortunate to live in an area with a library that has so many books on tape. I was able to listen to most of the Judge Dee Series on tape, and it was a phenomenal way to spend endless hours in my car, and of course, how many of you listen to books on tape while cleaning, scrubbing, vacuuming, polishing, ETC!!!???
Ruth Rendell's/Barbara Vine's non-mystery books are also a treat to read. They have a whisper of psychological tension throughout them. For those of you who think that cozy mysteries (or just plain mysteries of any kind!) are the only types of books worthy of reading…. Try Barbara Vine, you just might be adding her to your favorite authors' list……. along with Ruth Rendell!
Nicola Upson Upson writes the Josephine Tey Mystery Series, which is set in London during the 1930s. Upson "read English" at the University of Cambridge, and is quite interested in Scottish mystery author Josephine Tey – aka Gordon Daviot, author of historical works.
Louise Ure Ure sets her psychological thrillers in Arizona, which is only appropriate for an Arizona native…a fourth generation one, at that!
Katherine Valentine Valentine was an American Folk artist before she became an author of inspirational books. Valentine's books are not mysteries, but if you like Gail Fraser's Lumby or Jan Karon's Mitford series, then you might want to check out Katherine Valentine's Dorsetville Series.
Diane Vallere Vallere was immersed in the fashion business for over twenty years, so it only makes sense that her mystery series reflect that. Vallere's Mad for Mod Mystery Series is set in Texas, and features Madison Night, a lover of all things Doris Day, who is an interior decorator. Her Material Witness Mystery Series features Poly Monroe, a dress designer who owns a shop in California. Vallere's Style & Error Mystery Series features an ex-fashion buyer (Samantha Kidd) who lives in Pennsylvania.
Judith Van Gieson Van Gieson writes the Claire Reynier Mystery Series which features an archivist/librarian/sleuth and the Neil Hamel Mystery Series which features an attorney. Both series are set in New Mexico.
Robert Hans Van Gulik I have spent many hours listening to the adventures of seventh century Judge Dee. Van Gulik was a Dutch diplomat who had extensive knowledge regarding the culture and history of China. I have really enjoyed reading/listening to the Judge Dee novels.
Radha Vatsal Vatsal was born in Mumbai, India, then attended a United States boarding school until the age of sixteen. She attented Duke University, where she earned a doctorate in English. She's the author of the Kitty Weeks Mystery Series, a 1910's period piece starring Capability "Kitty" Weeks, a newspaper reporter who hopes to jump from fashion and society on the Ladies' Page to criminal reporting.
Elaine Viets Viets researches the "dead-end jobs" that her heroine holds by working the same jobs. She also has two other series, including the Mystery Shopper series which is based on a job her mother held. Viets also writes the hardboiled Death Investigator Mystery Series.
Debbie Viguié Viguié writes the Psalms 23 Mystery Series. This series has two sleuths from different backgrounds: Cindy Preston is a church secretary and Jeremiah Silverman is a Reformed Rabbi.
Vineyard Quilt Mystery Series This sounds like another winning, no-profanity Cozy Mystery series from Annie's Crafts Company. Some of you already know about the Annie's Attic Mystery Series, the Annie's Quilted Mystery Series, the Annie's Mysteries Unraveled, and the Creative Woman Mystery Series. The Vineyard Quilt Mystery Series is the first of these Annie's Cozy Mystery series that are not being sold by joining a monthly mail order club, rather they are being sold by book stores, so that everyone has access to them. The Vineyard Quilt Mystery Series features Julie Ellis, an ex-antiques bounty hunter who has moved to beautiful Missouri wine country to become the manager of the Quilt Haus Inn. Each mystery in this quilting-theme Cozy Mystery series will have a free quilting pattern that uses the story as its inspiration.


text: Q: Is there any functionality through which I can get the url of a reply message in msteams's Team whose conversation is initiated by user There's a scenario in which I want to get the url of reply message in a msteams's team whose conversation is initiated by user. With graph api, I'm getting the original message but not the reply id of that message due to which I can't get the replies of that original message. I am getting the replies of message when the conversation is initiated by a Bot in a team but not when the conversation is initiated by user. Is there any way possible throgh which I can also get the reply message of the original message when conversation gets initiated by a user ?.I am using this /teams/{teamId}/channels/{channelId}/messages graph api to get messages and this /teams/${teamId}/channels/${channelId}/messages/${messageid}/replies/{replyToId} graph api to get the reply of any message.

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My infinity radio system started losing its time and when I shut the car off it shut the radio and the next thing I knew the radio/cd/cassette player was dead with a cd still in it. I brought it to my mechanic who said with this make/model and year van this was very common for the radio to die. He said they had numorous people complain and have to buy new radios. This is a 3 yr old van I should not have to be replacing the radio in it. Of course I cannot even get a comparable system without spending at least $350 I think if this is happening to Dodge Grand Caravan a lot then there should be a recall and the manufacturer should replace the system.


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By Team at Schnipper Law Office P.C.|2019-02-26T10:14:37+00:00January 29th, 2019|Premises Liability|Comments Off on Injured While Dining Out?
Going out to eat is one of America's favorite past times. It's a chance to can catch up with family and enjoy the company of friends. It's a chance to taste some eclectic food and unwind after a long work week. Unfortunately, dining out also has risks and sometimes it can even be deadly. Serious and catastrophic premises liability accidents can occur when property owners, managers, servers, and cooks are negligent.
Restaurant owners have a responsibility to ensure that their restaurants are safe and that their customers are taken care of. They must warn people of hidden dangers and ensure that meal preparation is done safely and within accordance with health and safety inspection regulations. If a restaurant owner is negligent, then they can be held accountable for the injuries their negligence has caused.
There are numerous ways a restaurant owner can be negligent. When this occurs, serious and often life-threatening injuries can occur. How are restaurant owners negligent?
When is a Restaurant Owner Responsible?
A restaurant owner is not responsible for every injury that occurs on their property, only the ones that were caused by a foreseen event. This means that the restaurant owner must have known of the dangers and not taken appropriate action. If the owner failed to place floor mats at doors, failed to repair broken handrails or chairs, or failed to follow basic food preparation safety guidelines, then they can be found responsible.
When is a Restaurant Owner Not Responsible?
While the restaurant owner has a responsibility to provide the highest level of care to their invitees or customers, they are not always responsible when an injury occurs. If another patron injures you, or if the court determines that your actions led to your injuries, then the restaurant owner may not be found liable. For example: if you ignored wet floor warning signs or if you were drunk and fell down in the parking lot, the restaurant owner may not be held accountable.
Due to the complexities that often surround premises liability cases, it is important that you speak to an experienced and skilled premises liability accident attorney as soon as you are able. Your attorney will need to investigate the details of the accident to determine if you have cause to file a claim. Without an attorney on your side, it is often difficult to collect the money you truly need.
Have You Been Injured While Dining Out?
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British Logo Design Experts, Custom Business Logo Design > Marketing > To blog or not to blog?
Blogging is a great way to engage with your customers and prospects. It helps you share your knowledge and show people that you understand the business you are in. It also gives your audience a reason to keep returning to your site.
You can start by sharing your expertise on a blog connected to your website. This shows that your business is staffed by experts in your field (because it is, of course!). A blog is also good for SEO (Search Engine Optimisation). If you set it up properly, when someone in your area searches for a business in your field, your company will appear high in the search results. You're more likely to get clients this way.
There are disadvantages of course. Blogging takes time. Writing blogs is time consuming. And thinking of ideas for your blog can also be tricky. But this time investment will be worth the effort. A blog within your website will keep your content fresh and current. And Google loves the fact that your content is changing – this shows things are up to date and helps you perform better in the search engines.
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Arts and Entertainment Crown Heights
Dance, read and revel at Brooklyn Museum's Pride Month kickoff
See music, art and more this Saturday for the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising.
May 31, 2019 Mary Frost
Brooklyn Museum kicks off Pride Month at its First Saturdays event on June 1. Shown: A First Saturday dance party in 2017. Photo courtesy of Kolin Mendez
If you want to party, come early.
That's the word from the Brooklyn Museum as it prepares to kick off Pride Month — on the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising — at its First Saturdays event on June 1 starting at 5 p.m.
The museum is going all out with an evening of live music, art-making and performances.
The event is offered in conjunction with the exhibition "Nobody Promised You Tomorrow: Art 50 Years After Stonewall." The Stonewall Uprising was a six-day clash between police and civilians in 1969, set off when police raided the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in Manhattan. During the event, the museum is offering a curated tour of the exhibition.
Part of the special exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum for Pride Month: David Antonio Cruz's runlittlewhitegirl, portrait of the girls, 2016/2017. Oil and enamel on birch panel, 30 × 40 in. Courtesy of the artist. © David Antonio Cruz. Photo by Anthony Alvarez
Highlights include a performance by the New York City Gay Men's Chorus; a book club with author Jodie Patterson; poetry by artist Linda LaBeija; electronic music by artist and activist Madame Gandhi; and dancing set to Amber Valentine's high-energy set. Valentine is known as a staple of NYC's queer nightlife community.
Noted artists will celebrate the new release of "The Faggots & Their Friends Between Revolutions," the 1977 fable-manifesto by Lavender Hill commune members Larry Mitchell (the author) and Ned Asta (the illustrator).
You can see a full list of performances and events here.
Some programs require reservations and are ticketed on a first-come, first-served basis. First Saturdays programs are free.
To get to the museum by subway, take the 2 or 3 to Eastern Parkway/Brooklyn Museum; the 4 or 5 to Franklin Avenue; the B or Q to Prospect Park; or the S to Botanic Garden. By bus: B41, B69, B48, B45. On-site parking will be available.
For more information, visit www.brooklynmuseum.org.
BAM to host annual tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
January 17 | Meaghan McGoldrick
Brooklyn filmmakers hit the road to document America's indie musicians
January 17 | Alex Williamson
Plants and produce: 10 things to do in Brooklyn this weekend
January 16 | Scott Enman
Vans opens indoor skate park in East Williamsburg
https://brooklyneagle.com/articles/2019/05/31/dance-read-and-revel-at-brooklyn-museums-pride-month-kickoff/


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Q: Theta-model: In which sense is $S_1$ attracting in $\mathbb{R}^2$? I am reading this wiki about the theta-model.
The model is given by
$$
\frac{d\theta}{dt}=1-\cos\theta+(1+\cos\theta)I(t),\theta\in S^1.
$$
When $I<0$, there are a stable and an unstable equilibria on $S^1$.
It is said that, since $S^1$ is stable in $\mathbb{R}^2$, the unstable equilibrium is actually a saddle-point.

The equation above is only defined for $\theta\in S^1$. So I do not understand how $S^1$ can be stable in $\mathbb{R}^2$ when the system is not meant to be defined on whole $\mathbb{R}^2$!

A: The problem is taken a bit out of context. Reading the wiki page (but I agree it is not very well written) you see in the section before that they discuss a model in the plane in which $\dot{x}=f(x)$ should have a critical point at the origin and the circle should be attracting. Now, the dynamics on the circle is then just one-dimensional and it is the Theta model you mention in the post.
When the dynamics on the circle has an unstable fixed point, then in the plane it is a saddle point since there must be a stable eigendirection transversal to the circle (in the planar model).


Girl Rising is not only a truly great and inspiring documentary but also an international movement bringing awareness to girls issues of suppression/oppression in developing countries and the importance of educating/empowering these girls as a powerful means of transformating the world for better. We will begin the evening by watching a short 7 minute documentary highlighting the locally supported organization Bright Nepal . ALL donations from the evening will support Girl Rising AND Bright Nepal, a girls hostel that rescues "at risk" girls and gives them a safe, comfortable place to live and an education in Kathmandu, Nepal.


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The Mikado - Opera Anywhere
Date: Select Date Saturday 6th June 2020 7.30pm
The Mikado has delighted audiences for more than a century opening initially at the Savoy Theatre on 14 March 1885. It ran for 672 nights and catapulted both Gilbert & Sullivan to the height of their creative geniuses.
Roche Brass Band
Date: Select Date Sunday 7th June 2020 5.00pm
Roche Brass have enjoyed success in a number of local and national competitions since forming in 2012. The band prides itself in the charity work that they do, hosting and taking part in concerts to raise money to help other local charities.
The Zoots - The Sounds of the 70's
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Price: Select Price Full £15.00
The Zoots - Sounds of the 70's
The Sounds Of The 70's have wowed audiences of stage and screen in more than 30 countries – and now you can experience their smash 70s show, in all its poptastic glory!
Plymouth Gilbert & Sullivan Society - A Nght at the Musicals.
Date: Select Date Saturday 13th June 2020 7.30pm
Plymouth Gilbert & Sullivan Society - A Night at the Musicals
As well as our productions we are proud of the many concerts we perform throughout every season.
Plymouth Symphony Orchestra
Date: Select Date Sunday 14th June 2020 5.30pm
Join the Plymouth Symphony Orchestra's Mayflower 400 commemorations for a programme featuring popular American works of Gershwin and Copland as well as Dvorak's celebrated Symphony No 9 known as the New World.
The Countrymen
Six seasoned musicians with tight four-part harmony vocals and a token Cornishman. With a relaxed and light-hearted presentation style we take the audience on a journey through the history and culture of Cornwall, featuring our own arrangements of traditional and contemporary songs.


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Q: mongodb count two condition one time? I need to count two query like below:
1. data[k]['success'] = common.find({'url': {"$regex": k}, 'result.titile':{'$ne':''}}).count()
2. data[k]['fail'] = common.find({'url': {"$regex": k}, 'result.titile':''}).count()

I think it would be more efficient if mongodb can work like below:
result = common.find({'url': {"$regex": k})
count1 = result.find({'result.titile':{'$ne':''}})
count2 = result.count() - count1
//result do not have find or count method, just for example

Two count are basing same search condition{'url': {"$regex": k}, splited by {'result.titile':{'$ne':''}} or not.
Is there some build-in way to do these without writing custom js?

A: The async method would be the preferred one if at all your client supports it.
You could also aggregate as below:

*

*$match the docs which have the urls.

*$group by the _id as null, and take the $sum of all documents. We need those documents, to get the sum of those which do not have a title, so just accumulate them using the $push operator.

*$unwind the documents.

*$match those which do not have a title.

*$group, and get the $sum.

*$project the desired result.

sample code:
db.t.aggregate([
{$match:{"url":{"$regex":k}}},
{$group:{"_id":null,
         "count_of_url_matching_docs":{$sum:1},
         "docs":{$push:"$$ROOT"}}},
{$unwind:"$docs"},
{$match:{"docs.result.titile":{$ne:""}}},
{$group:{"_id":null,
         "count_of_url_matching_docs":{$first:"$count_of_url_matching_docs"},
         "count_of_docs_with_titles":{$sum:1}}},
{$project:{"_id":0,
           "count_of_docs_with_titles":"$count_of_docs_with_titles",
           "count_difference":{$subtract:[
                                       "$count_of_url_matching_docs",
                                       "$count_of_docs_with_titles"]}}}
])

Test data:
db.t.insert([
{"url":"s","result":{"titile":1}},
{"url":"s","result":{"titile":""}},
{"url":"s","result":{"titile":""}},
{"url":"s","result":{"titile":2}}
])

Test Result:
{ "count_of_docs_with_titles" : 2, "count_difference" : 2 }

A: Use .aggregate() with a conditional key for grouping via $cond:
common.aggregate([
    { "$match": { "url": { "$regex": k } } },
    { "$group": {
        "_id": {
            "$cond": {
                "if": { "$ne": [ "$result.title", "" ] },
                "then": "success",
                "else": "fail"
            }
        },
        "count": { "$sum": 1 }
    }}
])

However it is actually more efficient to run both queries in parallel if your environment supports it, such as with nodejs
async.parallel(
  [
    function(callback) {
      common.count({
        "url": { "$regex": k },
        "result.title": { "$ne": "" }
      }, function(err,count) {
          callback(err,{ "success": count });
      });
    },
    function(callback) {
      common.count({
        "url": { "$regex": k },
        "result.title": ""
      }, function(err,count) {
          callback(err,{ "fail": count });
      });
    }
  ],
  function(err,results) {
    if (err) throw err;
    console.log(results);
  }
)

Which makes sense really since each item is not being tested and each result can actually run on the server at the same time.


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Billie's surprised when Leo brings home a fellow Marine from boot camp, Denny. She has so much to ask Leo -- about losing her best friend and trying to find their father -- but Denny, who is Navajo, or Diné, comes with something special: a gorgeous, but injured, stray dog. As Billie cares for the dog, whom they name Bear, she and Bear grow deeply attached to each other.
Soon enough, it's time for Leo and Denny, a Navajo Code Talker, to ship out. Billie does her part for the war effort, but she worries whether Leo and Denny will make it home, whether she'll find a new friend, and if her father will ever come back. Can Bear help Billie -- and Denny -- find what's most important?
A powerful tale about unsung heroism on the WWII battlefield and the home front.
Kirby Larson is the acclaimed author of the 2007 Newbery Honor Book Hattie Big Sky; its sequel, Hattie Ever After; The Friendship Doll; Dear America: The Fences Between Us; Duke; Dash, winner of the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction; Liberty; Code Word Courage; Audacity Jones to the Rescue; and its sequel, Audacity Jones Steals the Show. She has also co-written the award-winning picture books Two Bobbies: A True Story of Hurricane Katrina, Friendship, and Survival and Nubs: The True Story of a Mutt, a Marine, and a Miracle. She lives in Washington with her husband and Winston the Wonder Dog.


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Greek PM hails vote on multi-bill; Tranche approved
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Rhodes Conference for Security and Stability
Sea arrivals this year in Greece passed the half-million mark – UNHCR
MSF on Greece's migrant issues
Olayan Group to own 1/4 of Costa Navarino resort, Messinia
Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, following a tense week of infighting between ministers, hailed the vote on the multi-bill, saying that it proved his government was "more unified than ever" despite opposition claims of widening rifts within the Cabinet, Kathimerini writes.
Government sources told the paper that the Premier would likely put back an anticipated cabinet reshuffle until after June 28-30, when conservative New Democracy is to hold a congress, or even later.
The Premier currently has more pressing concerns, chiefly overseeing the implementation of reforms voted into law including the politically sensitive process of merging and abolishing state organizations, as well as speeding up the privatization programme.
The Euro Working Group approved the disbursement of EUR 2.8 billion tranche of March. On May 13, the Eurogroup will meet to approve the EUR 4.2 billion tranche of the first quarter of 2013, while in late May Greece expects the IMF Executive Board approval to disburse another EUR 1.8 billion.
On May 20, Greece will have to repay bonds of EUR 5.6 billion held by ECB, which is expected to occur smoothly as the disbursement of EUR 4.2 billion from EFSF will provide the bulk of this issuing.
Finance ministry in an announcement said Euro Working Group meeting approved a EUR 2.8 billion tranche and paved the way for the EUR 6 billion of the tranche expected to be approved by Eurogroup on May 13.
"There was a positive appraisal of the implementation of the Greek program and clear references to the government's determination to proceed with reforms."
Meanwhile, GSEE, the confederation of Greek workers, has announced a 24-hour strike to take place on the 1st of May.
The strike is in response to the government's decision to move the holiday to the 7th of May. A number of individual unions and federations have already announced similar plans, such as PAME.
Athens Metro employees union has announced a walkout from the beginning of their shift until 9am. In their announcement they explain that "May the 1st is a strike, not a holiday", while adding that "we operate for the striking workers, so that they can easily travel and participate in demonstrations, marches and protests.
Also, Panhellenic maritime worker federation PNO has announced a 24-hour strike of all crews, of all ship categories, which will begin midnight.
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