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TIMELINE | The gun registry debate
Canada·Timeline
A look at the key moments in the gun registry debate, and the rising costs over time.
Implementing the Firearms Act
CBC News · Posted: Oct 09, 2009 10:13 PM ET | Last Updated: October 25, 2011
A man replaces a shotgun in the rack in a downtown Montreal outdoor store. Jan. 1, 2003, was the deadline for gun owners to register their non-restricted firearms under Canada's new gun-registry program. (Paul Chiasson/Canadian Press)
Public Safety Minister Vic Toews opened a new chapter in the long saga of Canada's gun registry on Oct. 25, 2011, by introducing a bill to amend the Criminal Code and the Firearms Act. If passed, the new act will eliminate the requirement to obtain a registration certificate for firearms that are neither prohibited nor restricted and order the destruction of all records held in the long-gun registry.
The Harper government tried to kill the registry while a minority government. But now, with a majority, its goal appears within reach.
Here's a look at the key moments in the gun registry debate, and the rising costs over time.
A bumper sticker on the back of a pickup truck near High River, Alta, at the height of the 2008 federal election campaign shows the gun registry was a highly debated issue. (Bill Graveland/Canadian Press)
Bill C-68, the strictest gun-control legislation in Canadian history, receives Senate approval. It calls for harsher penalties for crimes involving the use of guns, creates the Firearms Act and requires that gun owners be licensed and registered. The government says the registry will cost about $119 million, but the revenue generated by registration fees would mean taxpayers would only be on the hook for $2 million.
In a report released early in 2000, the Canadian Firearms Program notes that implementation costs are rising, and cites the following as contributing factors:
Major backlogs in registration, largely as a result of firearm owners waiting until the last minute to apply.
General increase in costs.
Fee waivers for early applications.
High error rates in applications submitted by firearm owners.
The cost has risen to an estimated $527 million. The Canadian Firearms Program says a major factor behind the ballooning costs was the difficulty it had keeping track of licence fees collected. This was blamed, in part, on the computer system used to process applications. And, according to the audit, that problem could not be resolved without "massive change," including "significant investment" in the computer system.
The tab for implementing the registry rises to $629 million, according to an audit of the registry. Here is a breakdown of the bulk of the spending:
$2 million to help police enforce legislation.
At least $60 million for public-relations programs, including television commercials ($18 million of which went to ad agency GroupAction, which received millions in sponsorship scandal contracts).
$227 million in computer costs. Complicated application forms are slowing processing times and driving costs higher than anticipated.
$332 million for other programming costs, including money to pay staff to process the forms.
Nunavut Tunngavik Inc., a group overseeing the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement, files a lawsuit against the federal government. The group argues the gun registry goes against an understanding that Inuit would be able to hunt, trap and fish without licensing or fees.
Auditor General Sheila Fraser reveals that the gun-registry program is more over budget than previously thought and that Parliament was ignorant of some of those escalating costs. Fraser reports that the bill for gun registration would reach $1 billion by 2005, with registration fees offsetting that by only about $140 million.
Fraser blasted the federal government, run by the LIberals at the time, for exceeding its estimated budget, saying that by the time the smoke cleared and all gun owners and their guns were registered, the program would have cost taxpayers more than $1 billion. Opposition critics were quick to point out that figure is 500 times more than the original $2-million estimate.
A look at internal audits conducted by the Canadian Firearms Program suggested the cost of the program had been an issue from the beginning.
The story: Auditor general takes aim at gun registry's $1-billion price tag
Seventy-five per cent of all gun owners meet the Jan. 1, 2003, deadline for registering their non-restricted firearms, signing up 5.8 million firearms. But that doesn't stop gun owners and politicians from expressing opposition.
Days after the deadline passes, Ontario Safety and Security Minister Bob Runciman calls on the federal government to put the program on hold, calling it an "unconscionable waste of taxpayers' money." His demands are echoed by justice ministers in New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and Labrador.
When Auditor General Sheila Fraser tabled her December 2002 report, she set her sights on Ottawa's controversial gun-registry program. (Sean Kilpatrick/Canadian Press)
Others who doubt the efficiency of the gun registry include Toronto police Chief Julian Fantino, who says the program would neither prevent crimes nor help solve them.
But Ottawa police Chief Vince Bevan pledges his support on behalf of the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police, saying: "We have seen ample evidence of the gaps in the old law that this legislation has addressed. If this legislation saves even one life, it will have proven its worth."
Soon after the registration deadline passes, several gun owners challenge law enforcement authorities to arrest them for possessing unregistered firearms. Jim Turnbull, leader of the Canadian Unregistered Firearms Owners Association, and another man are arrested for having firearms at a rally in Ottawa, and anti-registry protesters call the fact that Turnbull isn't charged under the Firearms Act for his unregistered gun both a moral victory and proof the new law is ineffective.
At the same time, workers at an Edmonton postal outlet are quarantined for anthrax testing after receiving a letter destined for the Canadian Firearms Centre. The letter, which contains a white, powdery substance, would be the third anthrax scare related to the gun registry. In each case, tests show no anthrax was involved.
Police arrest two in Parliament Hill gun protest
Three provinces join Ontario's call to suspend gun registry
Gun registration deadline looms
Despite widespread condemnation of the rising costs, the Liberals vote to bolster the gun registry with an additional $59 million in funding.
On March 24, the bill is approved on two separate votes — 173-75 and 173-76.
Some Liberal backbenchers threaten to vote with the opposition against the funding, but sit out the vote after Prime Minister Jean Chrétien threatens to expel them from caucus.
The story: Liberals approve more spending for gun registry
Judge Robert Kilpatrick grants a temporary injunction protecting Inuit from the federal firearms registry until a lawsuit filed by Nunavut's Land Claims organization goes to court the following year. Requiring Inuit to register their guns could interfere with their traditional way of life, the judge says.
Liberal Prime Minister Paul Martin says the gun registry is under review. "We are committed to gun control and we are committed to the registration of weapons, but at the same time, common sense dictates that there have been a number of problems," he says. "They will be looked at and dealt with."
Competitive target shooter Charlie Bayne, seen in Wolfville, N.S., in 2006, said he would welcome an end to the federal gun registry. (Andrew Vaughan/Canadian Press)
Documents obtained by Zone Libre of CBC's French news service suggest that the gun registry has cost $2 billion so far.
The story: Gun registry cost soars to $2 billion
The Liberal government, just days before an expected election call, eliminates fees for registering and transferring firearms. Ottawa says it will also limit its spending on the gun registry to $25 million a year, spending that has averaged $33 million a year and reached as high as $48 million. Licensing of gun owners and firearms will continue.
In the 2004 Report of the Commissioner of Firearms on the administration of the Firearms Act, the Canada Firearms Centre estimates that the cost of running the registry for the year ending Dec. 31, 2004, was less than $100 million. The report says costs are continuing their downward trend and should fall to approximately $85 million beginning in fiscal 2005-2006.
Auditor General Sheila Fraser reports that the former Liberal government twice misinformed Parliament about tens of millions of dollars of overspending at the Canada Firearms Centre. Fraser finds the planned computerized gun registry system is three years overdue and so far has cost $90 million, three times more than expected.
The story: Liberals misinformed Parliament about millions spent on gun registry: AG
Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day says the Conservative government will introduce legislation to eliminate the long-gun registry. Day announces a number of measures that would effectively gut the registry while it is still in effect:
A one-year amnesty for those who have not yet registered their non-restricted firearms.
Long-gun owners will no longer have to pay to register their weapons, and the government will provide refunds to those who have already registered their long guns.
Responsibility for the registry will be transferred to the RCMP from the Canada Firearms Centre.
The annual operating budget for the program will be cut by $10 million.
The story: Tories gut Liberals' gun registry
Prime Minister Stephen Harper's government has pushed to end the gun registry. (Adrian Wyld/Canadian Press)
Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Conservative government introduces legislation to abolish the long-gun registry. Day introduces a bill to amend the Criminal Code and Firearms Act so that owners of non-restricted rifles and shotguns will not have to register their weapons. But the handgun registry will remain in place, as will bans on fully automatic firearms and assault weapons.
The story: Tories table bill to kill long-gun registry
Hayder Kadhim, 18, who was shot during the Dawson College rampage on Sept 13, returns to the college to crusade for better gun control in Canada and to save the gun registry. Kadhim, who was shot three times — and still has a bullet lodged in his head and neck — challenges Harper to a debate about gun control during a media interview.
The story: Dawson shooting victim launches national gun control campaign
Nunavut hunters circulate petitions to pressure the federal government to push ahead with its plans to drop the long-gun registry. According to the group, the registry is seen as a huge waste of money — ineffective and largely unnecessary in the North. Although Inuit are currently exempt from having to obtain a licence to own a firearm, the registry still causes problems in the region, because a licence is required to legally purchase ammunition.
The story: Nunavut hunters circulate petition to end gun registry
The federal government reintroduces a bill to eliminate the long-gun registry. This marks the Conservative government's second attempt to amend the Criminal Code and Firearms Act, after their first attempt, in June, failed because the last parliamentary session had been prorogued in September.
The bill would repeal the requirement for businesses and individuals to register non-restricted long guns, but gun retailers would have to record all sales of non-restricted guns, as they had been required to do before the registry came into effect.
The story: Tories reintroduce bill to eliminate long-gun registry
A report released by the commissioner of firearms says Ottawa refunded almost $21 million to long-gun owners for licensing fees in 2006, following the Conservative government's decision to waive registration for the firearms. The report also states that police have used the gun registry more than 2.3 million times while investigating crimes and complaints in 2006, or nearly 6,500 times a day.
The story: Nearly $21M refunded for long-gun registry fees: report
Day signs off on the long-delayed requirement for police forces to report all guns they seize in connection with crimes to the national firearms registry. Sections of the Public Agents Firearms Regulations that had not been implemented are set to finally come into effect Oct. 31 — 10 years after Parliament approved them as part of the 1998 Firearms Act.
The story: Gun-crime reporting rules go into effect this fall
Harper appeals to members of the Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters to contact opposition MPs and pressure them to support legislation that would scrap the gun registry program.
The story: PM appeals to Ont. hunters, anglers to help scrap gun registry
Harper's government introduces a bill in the Senate to abolish the long-gun registry, but not relax controls on machine-guns.
The bill marks a change in strategy for the Harper government, which had been backing the controversial Bill C-301. That bill, introduced in the House of Commons by Conservative MP Garry Breitkreuz, proposed ending the registration of rifles and shotguns, as well as softening controls on machine-guns, by allowing people to transport fully automatic and semi-automatic assault guns to public shooting ranges.
The bill, which was ultimately killed, was strongly opposed by the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police, as well as majority of Canadians.
The revised bill introduced in the Senate is still being debated.
At the same time, another bill designed to repeal the long-gun registry, C-391, is still being considered by the House of Commons. It was introduced by Conservative MP Candice Hoeppner.
The story: New federal bill would end long-gun registry
Treasury Board president Vic Toews announces the government's plan to extend the long-gun amnesty for another year. The second extension, Toews says, will "encourage compliance and reduce the administrative burden" on lawful gun owners as they work to comply with the registry. He also noted the Conservatives still intend to do away with the registry.
The story: Tories extend long gun amnesty for another year
The federal government asks Canada's privacy commissioner to look into whether the RCMP should have passed on personal information from the national gun registry to a pollster. The inquiry comes after some Canadian gun owners voice their anger with the RCMP for passing their personal information from the registry to a polling company for a research study. The poll was done to gauge gun owners' satisfaction with the RCMP's firearms program.
The story: Pollster's use of gun registry details to be reviewed
Documents obtained by CBC News under access to information show the Conservative government's decision to waive fees for people licensing their firearms will cost more than $15 million in 2009 alone. Should the fee waiver be extended for another three years, internal forecasts predict an additional $60 million in "projected lost revenue."
The story: Ottawa giving up millions in gun registry fees
MPs voted 164-137 on a second reading of Bill C-391, introduced earlier in the year by Hoeppner. If passed, Bill C-391 would scrap the registry and destroy existing data in the system on about seven million shotguns and rifles. The bill will now be studied by committee.
The story: MPs vote to abolish long-gun registry
An EKOS poll suggests Canadians have mixed views on what to do about the long-gun registry, with slightly more preferring to abolish the program than keep it, but nearly a third having no opinion on the subject.
Poll results indicate a slim majority of Canadians favour banning gun ownership completely, although a large number of respondents said Canadians should have the legal right to bear arms.
The story: Canadians split over long-gun registry: poll
Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff says he will propose changes to make it easier for gun owners to register their firearms.
Ignatieff, speaking to the Canadian Police Association in Ottawa, says his proposed changes would give police the tools they need to make communities safe, while removing the "frustrating" elements of the registry to address "legitimate criticisms" from rural Canadians.
The story: Ignatieff pitches long-gun registry changes
Yukon Liberal MP Larry Bagnell says he does not want to support the long-gun registry but he might be forced to do so by his boss, Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff.
Ignatieff said the next parliamentary vote to scrap the long-gun registry will be a whipped vote, meaning all Liberal MPs will have to vote for the party's position or face discipline.
The story: Yukon MP torn over long-gun registry
Blog: Ignatieff, the long-gun registry and whipping the vote
Three national police associations — The Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police, the Canadian Police Association and the Canadian Association of Police Boards — come together for the first time on Parliament Hill to defend the long-gun registry.
"This should not be about us versus them. Or rural versus urban, or even police versus politicians," said Charles Momy, who is the president of the Canadian Police Association, which represents rank-and-file officers. "The firearms registry represents a valuable tool in assisting police in doing their job. It is a valuable tool, which has significant preventative and investigative value in keeping our communities safe."
The story: Police unite to defend long-gun registry
A Commons committee votes against proceeding with a private member's bill to eliminate the long-gun registry. Liberal, NDP and Bloc Québécois reject Tory MP Candice Hoeppner's bid to eliminate the requirement to register non-restricted firearms.
The committee's recommendation must now be put to a vote in the House of Commons.
The story: Anti-gun registry bill hits snag
Victims of three school shootings in Montreal say they will blame federal NDP Leader Jack Layton if legislation calling for the abolition of the gun registry is adopted.
The story: Gun registry advocates appeal to NDP
The head of the Canadian Firearms Program, who is a strong supporter of the long-gun registry, is bounced out of the position, CBC News learns. RCMP Chief Supt. Marty Cheliak, director general of the program, is being sent off to French-language training after nine months on the job on orders from RCMP Commissioner William Elliott, according to police sources.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper says the move was not a political decision, despite opposition MPs' claims his ouster fits the Conservative government's "pattern" of dealing with dissent.
The stories: Federal gun program head ousted
Gun program head's ouster not political: Harper
RCMP Chief Supt. Pierre Perron, the new director of the Canadian Firearms Program, says he believes the current program "has contributed to officer and public safety," but he will "respect and follow any future direction" provided by Parliament.
The story: Gun program head will follow MPs' direction
An RCMP evaluation report of Canada's long-gun registry concludes that the program is cost effective, efficient and an important tool for law enforcement, CBC News has learned. The findings of the report, conducted with the help of outside auditors and completed six months ago, had been in the hands of the government since February. MPs receive copies of the RCMP report on Aug. 30.
The stories: Long-gun registry efficient: RCMP report
MPs get RCMP long-gun registry report
Text of the RCMP report
The issue comes down to a close vote in the House of Commons but the gun registry survives, with 153 MPs in favour of a motion introduced by the House public safety committee to scrap Tory MP Candice Hoeppner's bill, compared with 151 voting against the motion.
After losing the vote, Harper, is undaunted by the result, saying, "After 15 years, opposition to the long-gun registry is stronger in this country than it has ever been. With the vote tonight, its abolition is closer than it has ever been."
The story: Gun registry survives Commons vote
While campaigning for re-election, Harper declared that his government "will scrap the long-gun registry."
The story: Harper reaffirms vow to scrap gun registry
Public Safety Minister Vic Toews introduces a bill to amend the Criminal Code and the Firearms Act, which will eliminate the long-gun registry and order the destruction of all records held in the registry.
The story: New long-gun registry bill would destroy records
Scrapping the long-gun registry: some relevant numbers
Quebec's long-gun registry plans in jeopardy
New long-gun registry bill would destroy records
Tories urged to widen scope of gun registry bill
P.O.V. Where do you stand on gun control?
INSIDE POLITICS: What happened to the gun registry bill?
Long-gun registry efficient: RCMP report
Gun registry map: How the MPs voted across Canada


If they are 2 things, why they shouldn't stay separate?
Events are more like a collections of timestamps in db with events id and don't need text oder translations.
You can everytime see what happened at a time period.
Notifications are more instant messaging but are quite loose, because sender don't know if the recipient reads them, get deleted when seen, ..
Implementing that would be a feature request, but I personal have no need for that.
But for people who have enabled this external image loading in emails it can be a gain in usability to not see old read notifications when they login into a flyspray installation.
You don't get my meaning. They are in reality not separate things, but in our current codebase, they are. Instead of having a separate table notification_messages, notification_recipients should be modified and a new column, history_id, should be added, that links it to the event someone should be notified about. Maybe some more, have to think about this one a bit more.
Then, move all formatting out of Notifications class to events, make it a class too. Notifications should handle only who is getting notified, how, in what language and either sending or storing the notification, not any kind of formatting of the message.
Some really far-fetched ideas, if I'd do this in C++/Java/C#. An abstract base class EventType, has some abstract methods for formatting, and one concrete final static method EventType::getEventTypeInstance($history_id), and a lot of concrete subclasses implementing those formatting methods for various purposes just for that one event type. At least it would be a different kind of mess compared to the current case: case: case: case: etc going on already near or above 1000 lines mess in 2 different places.


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December 19, 2019 / 12:09 PM / a month ago
Thai chicken exports to China set to rise amid swine fever outbreak
Patpicha Tanakasempipat
BANGKOK, Dec 19 (Reuters) - Thailand's chicken exports to China are forecast to increase by 60% next year, a Thai industry association said on Thursday, as China seeks alternative meat supplies after an outbreak of swine fever nearly halved its pig herd.
China's pig herd is about 40% smaller than a year ago, Chinese authorities have said, after deadly African swine fever swept through the country since it was first detected in August 2018.
Demand in China for alternative meat supplies, the world's biggest consumer of pork, is expected to drive up the volume of Thai chicken exports to 80,000 tonnes next year, said Kukrit Arepagorn, manager of the Thai Broiler Processing Exporters Association.
That is 60% higher than this year's 50,000 tonnes, which was already nearly triple the 18,000 tonnes exported to China in 2018, Kukrit said.
"Exports to China will only grow with each new factory that China allows to export there," Kukrit told Reuters in an interview.
Seven chicken factories in Thailand gained export access to the Chinese market in March 2018. In 2004, China had imposed a ban on Thai chicken due to bird flu outbreaks.
Eight more factories were granted access last month and will start exporting chicken to China in 2020, contributing to the upbeat forecast, Kukrit said.
Thailand has 27 chicken factories. Access requests for the remaining 12 are pending but expected to be approved next year, he said.
SAVED BY CHINA
Despite the upbeat China forecast, Thailand's total chicken exports next year are expected to rise by only 4.26% to 980,000 tonnes, according to data provided to Reuters by the Association.
Thailand's chicken exports to its top two buyers - Japan and the European Union - declined in 2019, as the strong baht , which became Asia's best-performing currency this year, made export prices less competitive against its main competitor Brazil.
Exports to Japan are forecast to rise by only 0.92% to 440,000 tonnes next year, while exports to the European Union should remain flat at 324,000 tonnes, the data showed.
When it comes to China, Thailand benefits from a free trade agreement between China and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, plus the two countries are near neighbours so that the delivery time is only seven days, Kukrit said.
In contrast, Brazilian chicken faces Chinese tariffs and takes about 50 days to be delivered, he said.
"The Chinese market saved us this year," he said.
Reporting by Patpicha Tanakasempipat. Editing by Jane Merriman

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Historicals, Romance, Women's Fiction, Suspense: Last of the July Pop Fiction, Jul. 2019, Pt. 3 | Prepub Alert
by Barbara Hoffert
Jan 23, 2019 | Filed in Reviews+
Romantic suspense from Heather Graham, romance from Debbie Macomber, women's fiction from Nora Roberts, and historical fiction from Beatriz Williams. Plus more.
Bell, David. Layover. Berkley. Jul. 2019. 416p. ISBN 9780440000860. $26; ebk. ISBN 9780440000884. Downloadable. THRILLER
Languishing during a layover on one of his weekly business trips, Joshua Fields enjoys chatting with beautiful Morgan and gets a big good-bye kiss in return. As she walks away, he spots her face on television: she's a missing person. Following Somebody's Daughter, a LibraryReads pick.
Davis, Fiona. The Chelsea Girls. Dutton. Jul. 2019. 368p. ISBN 9781524744588. $27; ebk. ISBN 9781524744595. lrg. prnt. Downloadable. HISTORICAL
Even as playwright Hazel Riley and actress Maxine Mead settle into New York's legendary Chelsea Hotel, dreaming of artistic glory, Sen. Joseph McCarthy is seeking to run Communists to ground, and he's got folks in the entertainment industry squarely targeted. Following the attention-getting The Dollhouse and The Address.
Graham, Heather. The Seekers. Mira: Harlequin. Jul. 2019. 384p. ISBN 9780778368854. $27.99; pap. ISBN 9780778368793. $8.99; ebk. ISBN 9781488096600. ROMANTIC SUSPENSE
Crewing for a show called The Seekers that investigates paranormal phenomena, Kerri Wolf is spooked to find herself at a charming old Pennsylvania inn—not because of the ax murder that infamously took place there in the 1920s but because there's a dead body in the basement, and she sees a ghost. Joe Dunhill of the FBI's Krewe of Hunters sympathizes, as he chats up ghosts regularly. With a 300,000-copy paperback and 10,000-copy hardcover first printing.
Guillory, Jasmine. The Wedding Party. Berkley. Jul. 2019. 320p. ISBN 9781984802194. pap. $15; ebk. ISBN 9781984802200. Downloadable. ROMANCE
Maddie and Theo are best friends with Alexa, who is about to get married. As they help prep for the wedding, they try to avoid each other—especially after that ill-advised night together—because, really, they don't like each other. Except, actually, they do. Beatrice and Benedict in the 21st century; from the New York Times best-selling author of the (quite fun) The Proposal.
Kibler, Julie. Home for Erring and Outcast Girls. Crown. Jul. 2019. 368p. ISBN 9780451499332. $27; ebk. ISBN 9780451499356. CD/downloadable. HISTORICAL
In early 1900s Texas, Lizzie Bates and Mattie McBride become friends at the Berachah Home for the Redemption and Protection of Erring Girls, a place for unwed mothers progressive enough to let the residents keep their children. A century later, quiet university librarian Cate Sutton discovers their headstones and eventually their stories. At last, Kibler follows up her 2013 debut, nationally best-selling book-club favorite Calling Me Home.
Macomber, Debbie. Window on the Bay. Ballantine. Jul. 2019. 352p. $27; ebk. ISBN 9780399181344. lrg. prnt. CD/downloadable. ROMANCE
A dedicated ICU nurse and empty-nesting single mom, Jenna is being pushed by her two children and best friend Maura to start dating again. She's wary until she meets Dr. Rowan Lancaster, who's so kind when her aging mother suffers an accident at home. He's really interested, but then her children deliver some punch-gut news. From the No. 1 New York Times best-selling author.
McCall Smith, Alexander. The Second-Worst Restaurant in France. Pantheon. Jul. 2019. 256p. ISBN 9781524748296. $25.95; ebk. ISBN 9781524748302. HUMOROUS
Introduced in My Italian Bulldozer, cookbook author Paul Stuart is eager to complete his new work, The Philosophy of Food in Six Easy Chapters, but girlfriend Gloria has moved uninvited into his home and brought along two pesky Siamese cats. So he decides to visit a cousin in France, where he encounters a chef whose food is simply not up to scratch. The second title in the beloved McCall Smith's ninth series.
Roberts, Nora. Under Currents. St. Martin's. Jul. 2019. 448p. ISBN 9781250207098. $28.99; ebk. ISBN 9781250213273. CD. WOMEN'S
Zane Bigelow lives in North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains with his surgeon father, glamorous mother, and little sister. Despite appearances, all is not well in the Bigelow household, for Zane's father is both violent and controlling and his mother blind-eye submissive. But his story doesn't turn out as expected, for Zane learns that he can make people listen to hard truths. With a one-day national laydown on July 9.
Salazar, Noelle. The Flight Girls. Mira: Harlequin. Jul. 2019. 352p. ISBN 978077869226. $26.99; pap. ISBN 9780778369226. $16.99. WOMEN'S
Passionate about flying, a task she mastered back home in Texas, Audrey Coltrane signs up to train pilots in Hawaii when World War II breaks out in Europe and ignores her feelings for charming Lt. James Hart as entirely inconvenient. She's in the air when the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, and she's moved by the devastating loses to join the Women Airforce Service Pilots. A debut with a 50,000-copy paperback and 10,000-copy hardcover first printing.
Setterwall, Carolina. Let's Hope for the Best. Little, Brown. Jul. 2019. 336p. ISBN 9780316489621. $27; ebk. ISBN 9780316527378. lib. ebk. ISBN 9780316422703. Downloadable. WOMEN'S
While nursing her new child, Carolina receives a puzzling email from ever-understated partner Aksel, detailing what to do in case he dies and ending, "Let's hope for the best!" This autobiographical novel, addressed to him, chronicles their times together during the five months he had left to live. An unexpected debut with a 25,000-copy first printing.
Waxman, Abbi. The Bookish Life of Nina Hill. Berkley. Jul. 2019. 352p. ISBN 9780451491879. pap. $16; ebk. ISBN 9780451491886. Downloadable. WOMEN'S
Popular Waxman follows up The Garden of Small Beginnings and Other People's Houses, a LibraryReads pick, with the story bookstore clerk Nina Hill, who has her life blown out of the water when she learns that the father she never met has died and is bequeathing her countless siblings, cousins, nieces, and nephews in the immediate area. And she's got a sparkling new boyfriend, so her social life is getting really complicated.
Williams, Beatriz. The Golden Hour. Morrow. Jul. 2019. 480p. ISBN 9780062834751. $26.99; ebk. ISBN 9780062834775. lrg. prnt. CD. HISTORICAL
In 1941, just-widowed Leonora "Lulu" Randolph wings her way to Nassau at the behest of a New York society magazine to check out the Duke and Duchess of Windsor following his appointment as governor of the Bahamas. Insinuating herself into their circle, Lulu finds not romance but spies, financial shenanigans, racial tension, and politically ambitious scientist Benedict Thorpe, with whom she falls in love. Then Benedict disappears. Following The Summer Wives; with a 150,000-copy first printing.
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YouTube for iOS Gets Support for Navigating Gestures
Zainab SaeedLast Updated: Jan 15, 2019
Hey iPhone users, there is good news for you. YouTube is bringing support for the mobile app in a new way to navigate through clips using gestures. A new report has confirmed that YouTube is releasing the new feature this week but only for iOS devices. However, in near future, this new feature will also come in Android phones.
Through new horizontal swiping gesture iPhone users will be able to move forward and backward in the videos. Moreover, with the help of swiping forward, users will be able to go to the next recommended video. To go to the last video they watched, users will only have to swipe back.
The video will resume where users left off regardless of how many times they are swiping back and forward. The purpose behind this update is to provide YouTube users with more control over video playback specifically on their smartphones.
As we have told you that initially, the support for gestures will only be available to iOS users. It is not clear that when will be YouTube roll out this new feature to Android yet, but we are hoping that soon we will see this update in Android somewhere in the new future.


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Spooooooooky Friday the 13th Links!
* Exciting new anthology alert! A People's Future of the United States.
New anthology project free to announce widely at last: A PEOPLE'S FUTURE OF THE UNITED STATES, edited by me and @victorlavalle! (Coming Feb. 2019) pic.twitter.com/XOxhVkgPT4
— John Joseph Adams (@JohnJosephAdams) July 12, 2018
* Cool job at UCSD in Media and Popular Culture.
* Hamilton and Laurens. As I mentioned a bit on Twitter, we actually talked about this quite a bit in my Hamilton class, including how some elements in the show point to queer possibility here and the likelihood that performances in the future will likely play the relationship as explicitly queer. And just for fun, also via Twitter: A countervailing view!
* A Theory-Fiction Reading List.
* If you were going to teach a class on Russian literature at a juvenile detention center, what would the reading list include?
* Medieval studies groups say a major conference is trying to limit the number of diverse voices and topics. The debate is part of a bigger fight over whether medieval studies should remain a fundamentally European field. Whose Medieval Studies?
* Unpacking Murad Osmann's #FollowMeTo Instagram Travel Series.
* Facebook Proves It Isn't Ready To Handle Fake News.
* Peterson's Complaint.
* As the GOP base tries to find new ways to funnel money to its white, bougie, suburban base, bonkers tax policy like this proposed tax break for gym memberships will become more and more common.
* Marvel has run out of options and is finally going to do a Black Widow movie.
* This franchise keeps getting worse all the time.
* These woodchucks are heroes.
* There's a reason employees stay at the Pantry for a lifetime: it's one of the few restaurants in Los Angeles where the workers are represented by a union. Peña-Suarez is one of the 23,000 members of Unite Here Local 11, the service-workers' union behind the Pantry and a number of iconic LA restaurants: Langer's, Nate 'n Al Delicatessen, Philippe the Original, La Golondrina, and La Scala.
* Solid thread from Corey Robin on the political meaning of Kavanaugh's debts.
5/ And once you go on to read about the assets of the other justices—Gorsuch's net worth is in the neighborhood of $10 million, Breyer's is about $16 million—you can see what a scandal little ole' Brett, with his $15k in savings and his $200k in credit card debt, really is.
— corey robin (@CoreyRobin) July 12, 2018
* How the New Supreme Court Could Halt Climate Action.
* Forty-year-old Efrain De La Rosa, a Mexican national who was held in an ICE detention facility in Georgia, committed suicide and was pronounced dead late Tuesday evening, making him the eighth person in ICE custody to die in the 2018 fiscal year.
* ACLU: Fed Gov't Not Giving Promised Notice As Immigrant Families Reunited.
* Asylum seekers, even those who do not present themselves at points of entry, are not "illegal"; under international law they are "irregular" and subject to an array of rights and protections, including immunity from punishment.
* Today's US-Mexico 'border crisis' in 6 charts.
* Hey is it me or does this guy sound like a white supremacist?
Trump to The Sun
"Allowing the immigration to take place in Europe is a shame.
"I think it changed the fabric of Europe and, unless you act very quickly, it's never going to be what it was and I don't mean that in a positive way."
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) July 12, 2018
"So I think allowing millions and millions of people to come into Europe is very, very sad."
"I think you are losing your culture. Look around. You go through certain areas that didn't exist ten or 15 years ago."
* Since Trump was elected, more than 1,400 mayors have agreed to shift their cities to 100-percent renewable energy by 2035, in line with the goals of the Paris Agreement. Last fall, St. Louis became one of the biggest cities so far to set that lofty goal. The city of Berkeley, California, went even further recently, declaring an "existential climate emergency" and aiming for net-negative emissions by 2030.
* The real reason the sound of your own voice makes you cringe.
* "I refuse to let Hollywood #whitewashout the Thai Cave rescue story."
* Want to feel old? Jared Kushner still lacks security clearance level to review some of the nation's most sensitive intelligence in White House role.
* When Trump's dumb obsession with CNN accidentally leads to good policy.
* Leaked report exposes how unprepared FEMA was for Maria. I want to see the leaked report detailing all the many ways they've failed Puerto Rico in the year since the storm.
* Another #TheResistance rando turns out to have serious personality problems, first and foremost a pathological need for attention. Not unrelatedly: Liberals playing detective are missing an opportunity to engage in meaningful politics.
* Plastic straw bans are the latest policy to forget the disability community.
It has been a true education to watch this ban-plastic-straws thing happen over the last few weeks over the pleas of disabled people begging for someone to listen to them say why they need them.
* The latest in the search for humanity's origins in Africa.
* Why freelance writers are a fucking pain in the ass with broken brains.
* Can your god explain it? Marx can.
* Dark Horse Is Turning William Gibson's Alien 3 Script Into a New Comic.
* Dune references signal shared knowledge to those in the know, and that's about it. Dune fandom is an un-fandom.
* Retirement tips.
* And I linked this yesterday, but do keep your eye on this. I'm officially calling shenanigans.
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Time Travel Will NEVER Be Canon on gerrycanavan.wordpress.com, and Other Tuesday Links
* Dialectics of Black Panther: By sliding between the real and unreal, Black Panther frees us to imagine the possibilities — and the limitations — of an Africa that does not yet exist. Ultimately, "Black Panther" does what all superhero movies do: It asks us to place faith in the goodness of individuals rather than embracing revolutionary structural change. In effect, the Wakandan Kingdom is caught between two bleak visions of America: walling itself off, or potentially imposing on other nations. The Afrofuturistic Designs of Black Panther. 'Black Panther' offers a regressive, neocolonial vision of Africa. Africa is a country in Wakanda. What to Watch After Black Panther: An Afrofuturism Primer. I was asked to write a short piece for Frieze building on my blog post from the weekend, so look for that as early as tomorrow…
* Adam Kotsko's talk on Rick and Morty and BoJack Horseman is now streaming from mu.edu.
* Major nerd news: Star Wars: Rebels just introduced time travel into the main canon for the first time. There were minor, often debatable incidents before, but never in the "main plot," and never as a key incident in the life of a character this important to fans. I'm surprised: I used to use "no time travel in Star Wars" as an example of how franchises police themselves — though as I was saying on Twitter this morning the recent introduction of true time travel to both Star Wars and Harry Potter suggests it may in fact be what happens to long-running fantasy franchises when they grow decadent. Now Tolkien stands alone as the only major no-time-travel SF/F franchises, unless I'm forgetting something — and Tolkien considered a time travel plot for a long time, and actually promised CS Lewis he would write one, but abandoned it…
* Leaving Omelas: Science Fiction, Climate Change, and the Future.
* Half of world's oceans now fished industrially, maps reveal. North Pole surges above freezing in the dead of winter, stunning scientists. What Land Will Be Underwater in 20 Years? Figuring It Out Could Be Lucrative. Scott Pruitt's EPA.
* In order to do this I propose a test. A favorite trope among the administrative castes is accountability. People must be held accountable, they tell us, particularly professors. Well, let's take them at their word and hold themaccountable. How have they done with the public trust since having assumed control of the university?
* Lecturers on Strike.
* Disaster Capitalism Hits Higher Education in Wisconsin.
* Anonymous faculty group threatens to take down Silent Sam.
* West Virginia Teachers Walk Out.
* Markelle Fultz — along with a slew of huge names and top college basketball programs — have been named in a bombshell report into NCAA hoops corruption involving illegal payouts to players. The Real Lesson of the Weekend's NCAA Scandals Is That College Basketball Coaches Should Be Dumped in the Ocean.
* Meanwhile.
* What directional school is the most directionally correct? A case study.
* The Yale student who secretly lived in a ventilation shaft.
* How the Activists Who Tore Down Durham's Confederate Statue Got Away With It.
* The teenagers from Stoneman Douglas are fearlessly reimagining how to effect change in the Trump era.
* Coming soon: Muppet Guys Talking.
* Disney's Frozen musical opens on Broadway: 'More nudity than expected.'
* Greenwald v. Risen re: Russia.
* "What happens when anyone can make it appear as if anything has happened, regardless of whether or not it did?" technologist Aviv Ovadya warns.
The year is 2020. All news is now just media outlets shouting "FAKE NEWS!!!" about every other news outlet. Meanwhile, working people have been enslaved by the sentient computer that now owns and runs Disney
— In-yer-face, DIY disco riposte (@The_Swole_Nerd) February 20, 2018
* Despite the NPR's handwringing about threats and vulnerability, the United States already possesses the most responsive, versatile, and deadly nuclear strike forces on the planet. In essence, the Pentagon now proposes to embark upon an arms race, largely with itself, in order to preserve that status.
* Simulating nuclear war.
* The case against tipping culture.
* The Tipped Minimum Wage Is Fueling Sexual Harassment in Restaurants.
* Monica Lewinsky in the Age of #MeToo.
* Life Without Retirement Savings.
* Americans' reliance on household debt ─ and poor people's struggles to pay it off ─ has fueled a collection industry that forces many of them into jail, a practice that critics call a misuse of the criminal justice system.
* Inside the Deadly World of Private Garbage Collection.
* Gerrymandering a 28-0 New York.
* On Being a Woman in the Late-Night Boys' Club.
* In the article, Sally Payne, a pediatric occupational therapist, explains that the nature of play has changed over the past decade. Instead of giving kids things to play with that build up their hand muscles, such as building blocks, or toys that need to be pushed or pulled along, parents have been handing them tablets and smartphones. Because of this, by the time they're old enough to go to school, many children lack the hand strength and fine motor control required to correctly hold a pencil and write.
* Understand your user feedback.
* Switzerland makes it illegal to boil a live lobster.
* The U.S. Border Patrol's violent, racist, and ineffectual policies have come to a head under Trump. What can be done? Mother and daughter are now at detention facilities 2,000 miles apart. Warning of ICE action, Oakland mayor takes Trump resistance to new level.
* The City & The City coming to TV in 2018 (again).
* BoJack Horseman and modern art.
* Legitimately teared up.
* The future sucks.
* Let's see what else is in the news. Wisconsin exceptionalism. Mister Sun, why do you wear sunglasses?
I think about this segment from Mister Rogers' final show all the time. What a message. What a legacy. pic.twitter.com/X6SyM8AevY
— Erin Ruberry (@erinruberry) February 19, 2018
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Happy Valentine's Day Links!
* Very excited to welcome Adam Kotsko to Marquette later this week for his talk "Animated Nihilism: Rick and Morty, BoJack Horseman and the Strange Fate of the Adult Cartoon."
* There was a nice interview with me at the ArchivesAWARE! site, kicking off a new series on Archives and Audiences.
* SFRA Review #323 is out! Check out the details on the upcoming SFRA conference in Milwaukee.
* CFP: The Journal of Dracula Studies. CFP: Žižek Studies special issue on "Žižek: What Went Wrong?"
* The Simpsons: What Went Wrong?
* A science-fiction narrative imagining an alternate universe in which Donald Trump never became President: he's just a regular guy in New York City.
* The Problem With Annihilation's Messy Release.
* Fantastic Beasts and What Could Have Been. They're really not nailing this.
* Kim Stanley Robinson: The Radical Philosophy Interview.
KSR: Capitalism is still very feudal in its distribution of wealth. One of the great triumphs of Marxist historiography is to describe accurately the transition from feudalism to capitalism, why it happened and the differences. At a presentation I once gave with Jameson, I said something like capitalism is just feudalism liquidified. In the break he said, 'Kim, it's actually a big accomplishment for Marxists to be able to describe the change from feudalism to capitalism.' I then brought up something he had taught me, Raymond Williams's concept of the residual and the emergent, and said, 'but there's a lot more residual than people have imagined.' That's one of the only times I saw Fred startled by something I said. Although I think there's an exchange of ideas between us, mainly he's the teacher, I'm the student. He's explained things that I never would have understood, and I treasure him for that. So it was nice to see him think, 'Mmm, that's an interesting thought.'
The residuals out of feudalism would be the power gradient and the actual concentration of wealth per se. In the feudal period, kings might not even have been as proportionally rich as top executives are now in relation to the poor. And if peasants weren't murdered by passing soldiers, they were living with their food source at hand and working a somewhat decent human life. That isn't largely true now of the dispossessed. So, capitalism is like feudalism in that, but worse.
* The Good Place and Divine Justice. Meet the Philosophers Who Give 'The Good Place' Its Scholarly Bona Fides. TV's Dystopia Boom. Breakfast and Groundhog Day. Rod Serling: human rights activist as science fiction showrunner. Why the Culture wins. Netflix created a monster with its Cloverfield stunt, and Altered Carbon won't be the last victim. Reproductive Futurism and Its (Dis)contents. Why I barely read SF these days. Against dystopia.
Star Wars in the 1980s: laser swords and magic powers and what a cool ship
Star Wars in the 2010s: loving your kids will not protect them from the world or from themselves, and their talents will destroy their lives in the same way your talents destroyed yours, if not worse
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) February 5, 2018
* My Butch Lesbian Mom, Bruce Springsteen.
* The Sublimated Grief of the Left Behind. How Academe Breeds Resentment. International Grad Students' Interest in American Higher Ed Marks First Decline in 14 Years. Columbia University Gets In Bed with Trump. I'm a Stanford professor accused of being a terrorist. McCarthyism is back. How Hard Do Professors Work? Shameless and Hypocrisy at the MLA. And meanwhile, on the Singularity beat: Teaching assistant robots will reinvent academia. Universities in the Age of AI.
* Humanities Grads Gainfully Employed and Happy.
* White Supremacists Are Targeting College Students 'Like Never Before.'
* The Olympic hero for our time.
* To U.S. Border Patrol, the Canadian border is 100 miles wide. A good overview of how Trump's ICE differs, and doesn't, from Obama's; the major distinction seems to be empowering street-level officer to make policy-level determinations about enforcement. A Short, Brutal History of ICE. ICE Wants to Be an Intelligence Agency Under Trump. ICE Grants Stay To Arizona Father Whose 5-Year-Old Son Is Battling Cancer. Kansas chemistry instructor arrested by ICE while taking his daughter to school. ICE detains man at traffic court after DACA status expires, then frees him after outcry. Public Defenders Walk Out Of Bronx Courthouse After College Student Detained By ICE. Cuban immigrant awaiting removal dies in ICE custody. Green card veteran facing deportation starts hunger strike. Trump administration considered testing "abortion reversal" on unwilling prisoner. Give all immigrants the right to vote.
deporting a veteran who started using drugs to cope with untreated PTSD after being induced to serve in a war we shouldn't be fighting by a promise of citizenship the country didn't deliver on, to serve the racist whims of a universally loathed fascist the country didn't vote for
* Know your police rape loopholes.
* How not to die in America. I Had to Bury My 26-Year-Old Son Because He Couldn't Afford Insulin. Texas Woman Dies Because She Couldn't Afford $116 Copay. What Aetna did here might not even be illegal.
* America: (Still) Not a Democracy. That's not to say things still can't get worse.
science fiction novel where an incredibly advanced society invents extreme life prolongation, which results in a now-immortal class of ultrawealthy perverts voting in fascists who appeal to their dim memories of the way the world worked when they were children
* In the richest country in human history.
* FEMA Contract Called for 30 Million Meals for Puerto Ricans. 50,000 Were Delivered.
* Even the Democrats (still) won't talk about climate change. Democrats' 'Resistance' to Trump Is Eroding, and So Are Their Poll Numbers. What Happened To The Democratic Wave?
* A map of the world after four degrees of warming. There's even more good news below the map!
* An Urgent Crisis of Leadership, Climate, and Water is Unfolding in South Africa.
* And in Kentucky: Sometimes they get no water. Other times just a trickle. Often, they say, their water is so discolored it resembles milk or Kool-Aid or beer.
* The African Anthropocene.
* Floods and pollution.
* Just six months from victory in Afghanistan.
* Fitness tracking app Strava gives away location of secret US army bases. Podcast listeners are the advertising holy grail. A Driver's Suicide Reveals the Dark Side of the Gig Economy. slavery.amazon.com. Whole Foods as Amazon Hell. What Amazon Does to Poor Cities.
* I'm the Wife of a Former N.F.L. Player. Football Destroyed His Mind. Concussion Protocol.
* Here's Everything We Used to Know About Han Solo's Early Years. A Primer on All Things Wakanda.
Reading an unpublished @GerryCanavan paper on the contradictions of Black Panther: pic.twitter.com/HKjUmGAyVl
— Aaron Bady (@zunguzungu) February 7, 2018
* Monopoly: Cheaters Edition.
* Arizona Man Sells His $6.5 Million Ranch Because Of Constant, Violent Alien Attacks.
* Supercut of Instagram travel photo clichés. Photos of Total Strangers Pretending to Be in Serious Relationships.
* Why is Civilization 5 still more popular than Civilization 6?
My favorite weird found-poetry I've discovered on this trip: in Switzerland and Germany first-person shooters are called "ego shooters."
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) January 31, 2018
* The arc of history is long, but Hot sauce king Billy Mitchell is in danger of having his Donkey Kong records stripped away.
* Why Woody Allen hasn't been toppled by the #MeToo reckoning — yet. This Is Why Uma Thurman Is Angry.
* Suicide and the opioid epidemic.
* Cancel student debt and grow the economy. Let's Stop Normalizing Student Debt.
* College compiles first-ever index of slaves and their enslavers in NY. Slavery and the American University.
* Nation of Second Changes: Stories of people who received a pardon from Barack Obama.
* The Alt-Right Is Killing People.
* The Median Young Family Has Nearly Zero Wealth.
* #NeverTweet.
* Why Antonio Gramsci is the Marxist thinker for our times.
* I call it my brand: Marxism as Organized Sarcasm.
* Worf's Dad Is Repeatedly Disgraced When Predictive Text Writes Star Trek: The Next Generation.
* Nintendo's new cardboard extensions for Switch are blowing users away.
* Case Western in the news!
* Can't stop the signal: here come the Firefly novels.
* Pets allowed.
* 'Speaking' orca is further proof they shouldn't be kept captive.
* The mutant crayfish that ate Europe.
* And this guy gets it: Nigel, the world's loneliest bird, dies next to the concrete decoy he loved.
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Fall Break Links! Every Tab I Had Open Is Closed!
* New open-access scholarship: Star Wars and the History of Transmedia Storytelling. My contribution is on Rogue One and the crisis of authority that seems to have plagued all the post-Lucas Star Wars productions. Check it out!
* Science Fiction Film and Television 10.3 is also available, a special issue all about Mad Max and guest-edited by Dan Hassler-Forest, including a great piece by one of my former graduate students, Dr. Bonnie McLean!
* My book was reviewed in the Times Literary Supplement! That's wild. There's a really nice review coming in the next issue of Science Fiction Studies, too, though I don't think its online yet…
* By far the absolute best thing I've found on the Internet in years: Decision Problem: Paperclips.
* Call for Papers: Critical Disaster Studies.
* It's been so long since I've posted that it's still news Kazuo Ishiguro won the Nobel Prize. With all due apologies to Margaret Atwood.
* Tom Petty was still alive then. Puerto Rico wasn't in ruins, then. The worst mass shooting in American history perpetrated by a single individual hadn't happened then. California wasn't on fire quite to the apocalyptic extent that it is now then. I still had hope for The Last Jedi. And the GOP wasn't all-in for Roy Moore.
* There are no natural disasters. The Left Needs Its Own Shock Doctrine for Puerto Rico. Disaster socialism. Many Trump voters who got hurricane relief in Texas aren't sure Puerto Ricans should. After the Hurricane. Someday we'll look back on the storms from this year's horrific hurricane season with nostalgia.
* Page of a Calvin and Hobbes comic found in the wreckage of Santa Rosa, California.
* This is the horror of mass shootings. Not just death that comes from nowhere, intruding upon the status quo—but a death that doesn't change that status quo, that continues to sail on unchanged by it. You may be a toddler in a preschool in one of the richest zip codes in the country; a congressman playing baseball in Alexandria, Virginia; a white-collar office worker in a business park; a college student or professor on some leafy campus; a doctor making your rounds in a ward in the Bronx; a country music fan enjoying a concert in a city built as a mecca for relaxation and pleasure: the bullet that comes for you will not discriminate. It knows no racial bias, imposes no political litmus test, checks no credit score, heeds no common wisdom of whose life should or shouldn't matter. It will pierce your skin, perforate your organs, shatter your bones, and blow apart the gray matter inside your skull faster than your brain tissue can tear. And then, after the token thoughts and prayers, nothing. No revolutionary legislation or sudden sea change in cultural attitudes will mark your passing. The bloody cruelty of your murder will be matched only by the sanguine absence of any substantive national response. Our democracy is riven by inequality in so many ways, but in this domain, and perhaps in this domain alone, all American lives are treated as equally disposable.
* Having achieved so many conservative goals — a labor movement in terminal decline, curtailed abortion rights, the deregulation of multiple industries, economic inequality reminiscent of the Gilded Age, and racial resegregation — the right can now afford the luxury of irresponsibility. Or so it believes. As we have seen in the opening months of the Trump presidency, the conservative regime, despite its command of all three elected branches of the national government and a majority of state governments, is extraordinarily unstable and even weak, thanks to a number of self-inflicted wounds. That weakness, however, is a symptom not of its failures, but of its success.
* Freedom of speech means professors get fired for their tweets while universities rent their facilities to open Nazis for $600,000 below cost. Meanwhile, college administrations continue to look to Trump to save them from their graduate students.
* The science of spying: how the CIA secretly recruits academics.
* Death at a Penn State Fraternity.
* UPenn humiliates itself.
* Octavia Butler: The Brutalities of the Past Are All Around Us.
* African Science Fiction, at LARB.
* The new issue of Slayage has a "Twenty Years of Buffy" roundtable.
* Image Journal Exclusively Publishes Flannery O'Connor's College Journal.
* Honestly, I prefer it when the NCAA doesn't even bother to pretend.
* One of the classic signs of a failing state is the manipulation of data, including its suppression.
* Internal emails show ICE agents struggling to substantiate Trump's lies about immigrants.
* ICE Detainee Sent to Solitary Confinement for Encouraging Protest of "Voluntary" Low Wage Labor.
* This Is What It Looks Like When the President Asks People to Snitch on Their Neighbors.
* A 2-year-old's kidney transplant was put on hold — after his donor father's probation violation.
* The arc of history is long, but Federal Judge Rules Handcuffing Little Kids Above Their Elbows Is Unconstitutional.
* Body cameras and more training aren't enough. We need to divert funding for police into funding for human needs.
* "Childhood trauma is a huge factor within the criminal justice system," said Christopher Wildeman, a sociologist at Cornell University and co-director of the National Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect. "It is among the most important things that shapes addictive and criminal behavior in adulthood."
* They thought they were going to rehab. They ended up in chicken plants.
* When Colleges Use Their Own Students to Catch Drug Dealers.
* The Democratic district attorney of Manhattan openly takes bribes, and he's running unopposed.
* Here's How Breitbart And Milo Smuggled Nazi and White Nationalist Ideas Into The Mainstream.
* How We Found Tom Price's Private Jets.
* What DNA Testing Companies' Terrifying Privacy Policies Actually Mean.
* Rigged: How Voter Suppression Threw Wisconsin to Trump. Counterpoint: The case that voter ID laws won Wisconsin for Trump is weaker than it looks.
* Conflict in literature.
* 'Our minds can be hijacked': the tech insiders who fear a smartphone dystopia. Close that barn door, boys!
* Mass Shootings Are A Bad Way To Understand Gun Violence. The stats are clear: the gun debate should be one mostly about how to prevent gun suicides. 1,516 mass shootings in 1,735 days.
* The secretive family making billions from the opioid crisis.
* University of Hawaii's creepy email subject line to students: "In the event of a nuclear attack."
* Marvel's movie timeline is incoherent nonsense, too.
* We have a pretty good idea of when humans will go extinct. No spoilers!
* Tokyo Is Preparing for Floods 'Beyond Anything We've Seen.'
* Cape Coral, Florida, was built on total lies. One big storm could wipe it off the map. Oh, and it's also the fastest-growing city in the United States.
* An Oral History of Batman: The Animated Series.
* Why is Blade Runner called Blade Runner?
* How free porn enriched the tech industry — and ruined the lives of actors.
* Middle-Earth: Shadow of War Is the Bleakest Lord of the Rings Fan Fic I've Ever Seen.The best way to beat Shadow Of War's final act is not to play it. Are Orcs People Too? And a trip down memory lane: How 'Hobbit Camps' Rebirthed Italian Fascism.
* The Digital Humanities Bust.
* We can't eliminate the profit motive in health care without eliminating copays.
* Twitter as hate machine.
* They're good dogs, Brent.
* Burn the Constitution.
* Violence. Threats. Begging. Harvey Weinstein's 30-year pattern of abuse in Hollywood. Study finds 75 percent of workplace harassment victims experienced retaliation when they spoke up. Collective action is the best avenue to fight sexual harassers like Harvey Weinstein. Will Fury Over Harvey Weinstein Allegations Change Academe's Handling of Harassment?
* A tough thread on ethical compromise under conditions of precarity and hyperexploitation. I think many academics will relate.
* Major study confirms the clinical definition of death is wildly inadequate.
Death just became even more scary: scientists say people are aware they're dead because their consciousness continues to work after the body has stopped showing signs of life.
That means that, theoretically, someone may even hear their own death being announced by medics.
* Dolphins recorded having a conversation 'just like two people' for first time.
* Here Are the Best Wildlife Photos of 2017.
* Meat eaters are destroying the planet, says report.
* The moon blew up without warning and for no apparent reason.
* In A Post-Weinstein World, Louis CK's Movie Is a Total Disaster.
* Let this battle herald a return to our roots: tax the rich so much that they aren't rich anymore — only then can the rest of us live in a decent world.
* Civil-Rights Protests Have Never Been Popular.
* Every Rick and Morty Universe So Far.
* Ready for #Vexit.
Vermont: where the manner in which pie is served has statutory conditions. https://t.co/LOPMHobraC pic.twitter.com/RuDnKvHafP
— Keith Lee (@associatesmind) October 13, 2017
* The world's first "negative emissions" plant has begun operation—turning carbon dioxide into stone.
* I Have Been Raped by Far Nicer Men Than You.
* They're bound and determined to ruin Go.
* I think I'm on my way. I've deposited my first check in a savings account and, as and if I sell more, will continue to do so until I have the equivalent of one year's pay at GE. Four more stories will do it nicely, with cash to spare (something we never had before). I will then quit this goddamn nightmare job, and never take another one so long as I live, so help me God. On Vonnegut's "Complete Stories."
* An Anatomy of the Worst Game in 'Jeopardy!' History.
* Is your D&D character rare?
* Tolkien's Map and the Perplexing River Systems of Middle-earth.
* The Worst Loss In The History Of U.S. Men's Soccer.
* The Rise And Rise Of America's Best-Kept Secret: Milwaukee!
* Galaxy brain.
* And RIP, John Couture. A tremendous loss for Marquette English.
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First Week of School Links!
* Harvey. Hell and High Water. Houston has been hit with a 100-year flood — a rainstorm that, going by previous records, has a 1 percent chance of happening in one year — in 2015 and in 2016. Now in 2017 it's enduring what will probably be the worst flood in the city's history. Hurricane Harvey Probably Isn't a 500-Year Event Anymore. The trouble with living in a swamp: Houston floods explained. 9 Trillion Tons. ProPublica's report on how zoning made this even worse. "No one could have predicted." Why Houston wasn't ready for Hurricane Harvey. Hurricane Harvey Could Also Be a Major Pollution Disaster. FIRST-UG 102: Critical Disaster Studies. Here's how to help.
* CFP: "200 Years of the Fantastic: Celebrating Frankenstein and Mary Shelley," ICFA 39, March 14-18, 2018.
* "Teaching first-years today? Here are some things my son, starting college today, was never taught." And from the archives: Shadow Syllabus.
* Mothering While Brown in White Spaces, Or, When I Took My Son to Octavia Butler's Exhibit.
* Announcing the Brittle Paper Literary Awards: The Shortlists.
* I hope someone is optioning "That 70s Suitcase" for a film trilogy. Here's the creator's answer. Via MeFi.
* The university in ruins.
* William Gibson on living in the retrofuture.
* Gene Roddenberry, megalomaniac.
Alexander: Are there any subjects that you haven't tackled on The Next Generation that you would like to?
Roddenberry: There are subjects, yes, but I will keep them secret, because you have to wait until a certain level of thinking permits these things to be thought about openly and in writing. I have many thoughts which, if I were to voice them now, would turn many people against me. People would think, "My God, behind this is such inequity!" [Laughter.]
Alexander: People would be surprised at how big a revolutionary you really are? [Laughter.]
* Fan fiction in the New Yorker.
* When you come at the young-adult-literature community, you best not miss.
* Because you demanded it: a Tolkien biopic.
* Try to imagine a society with no need for confinement, with no one being locked up after a brutal act, and it is difficult not to feel one has lapsed into utopianism. Yet, try to determine what socially useful purpose prisons have fulfilled, sift through the wreckage looking for a residual 'good' prison system, and it is hard not to feel you're wasting your time on a pointless abstraction. For and against abolitionism.
* Well, this barely lasted a week: Why I'm glad the generals are in control in the Trump administration.
* It's Time: Congress Needs to Open a Formal Impeachment Inquiry.
* We've been covering Joe Arpaio for more than 20 years. Here's a couple of things you should know about him… Another Arpaio thread. The Joe Arpaio I knew. The year I spent in Joe Arpaio's tent jail was hell. He should never walk free. Trump has realized that he can use his pardon power to bypass the lawyers and judges and investigators he so despises. Arpaio was a test run. Now he will know it works. Trump's Pardon of Joe Arpaio Is an Impeachable Offense. President Trump Should Be Impeached for Pardoning Joe Arpaio.
* Leaked Chats Show Charlottesville Marchers Were Planning for Violence. University officials say white supremacists are recruiting their students. Brandeis U. Is Closed After Receiving Email Threats. We're Tracking Confederate Monuments. Tell Us What's on Your Campus.
* Fearing Trump Administration Crackdown, Immigrants May Stay in Hurricane Harvey Zone. ICE Left 50 Immigrant Women And Kids Stranded At A Bus Station Before Hurricane Harvey Struck. ICE detains DACA-protected immigrant trying to post bail for someone else. ABQ woman jailed after ATF informant lured her into drug deals. Salvadoran asylum seeker with brain tumor seized from Texas hospital. After ICE arrests in Saratoga Springs, some migrant workers fear showing up for racing season. I'm a DACA Student and I'm Praying ICE Doesn't Pick Up My Parents.
* After all this mere tax gimmicks seems almost innocent.
* Yes, Icahn.
* Trump Tower Moscow.
* The End of the Goldwater Rule.
* White House Sets Rules for Military Transgender Ban. All but promising to end DACA.
* Stories that already seem a thousand years ago and a million miles away: Special Counsel Examines Possible Role Flynn Played in Seeking Clinton Emails From Hackers. How are we ever going to find time to be angry about Mnuchin misusing public funds to get a better view of the eclipse? I'd forgotten this one even happened and it was last week.
* They're not even pretending they think he's competent.
* A whole lot of people with absolutely nothing to hide.
* Law and protest in Durham.
* Trump order could give immigration agents a foothold in US schools.
* An intimate history of antifa.
* Can Anyone Stop Trump From Launching Nuclear Weapons?
* In the richest country that has ever existed in human history: "She eats out of dumpsters so she can afford long-term care for her husband."
* Most Americans live paycheck to paycheck.
* Fired for unexpected periods.
* The Upper Midwest is terrible for racial inequality, and Wisconsin tops the list.
* A solid B-. Not bad.
* Boomers are news-illiterate couch vegetables stuck in front of their yelling, ad-saturated TVs.
* There's a reason you won't find many monuments in the South to one of Robert E. Lee's most able deputies.
* 3,700-year-old Babylonian tablet rewrites the history of maths – and shows the Greeks did not develop trigonometry.
* There is no such thing as western civilisation.
* Understanding abiogenesis.
* The Monsanto of marijuana.
* WHAT YEAR IS IT
* Instagram Africa.
* Given the enormous amount of data to support these findings, and given the field in question, one might think male scientists would use these outcomes to create a more level playing field. But a recent paper showed that in fact, male STEM faculty assessed the quality of real research that demonstrated bias against women in STEM as being low; instead the male faculty favored fake research, designed for the purposes of the study in question, which purported to demonstrate that no such bias exists.
* Stories like this one were why I thought supporters of Title IX (like myself) needed to get ahead of the problem and reform it while we still could. Almost certainly too late now.
* The water you just drank was filled with self-replicating nanobots. Understanding Noah's Ark. Be careful what you wish for.
* We talk about broad-strokes when assessing the slogan "Make America Great Again," but what if — alongside the racism and toxic nostalgia — there is a more intimate way people are hearing it: make my children love and respect me again, make my community a place where people don't automatically want to leave and never come back again, make America a place where getting ahead in life isn't synonymous with dissociating yourself from me. Right-wing media — and here I am thinking of Trump fundamentally as a media phenomenon, which is how our parents experience him — has exploited this situation in a despicable and probably unfixable way, but they didn't create the underlying dynamic. In other words, ultimately Fox News isn't what's tearing families apart, but it's profiting from the fact that they're already being torn apart by the geographic concentration of wealth and opportunity.
* Why no one can say Trump lost the election. Democrats' 2018 gerrymandering problem is really bad.
* Nuclear missiles were once ready to launch from Milwaukee's suburbs.
* Profiles in courage getting out ahead of the story.
* Your mandatory Game of Thrones wrap-ups: Why Game of Thrones has become so incoherent. Every city in the world is built on wildfire. 27 questions (about last week's episode). Game of Thrones' Drive to the Finish Line Is Crippling Its Ability to Tell a Story. Game of Rewrites. Maps and fantasy. I'd watch at least a few episodes of a George R.R. Martin-helmed Star Trek series. And sure to be squashed fan theories we can believe in: Is Bran Stark the Night King?
what made Gygax D+D subversive is that one never had to interpellate as noble. Hence Stranger Things is more rad than GOT! mic drop
— Stephen Shapiro (@shapirostephen) August 23, 2017
* In the wake of the Game of Thrones finale, indulge in the nostalgia of Dragonlance. Are you listening, TruTV?
* And this is the only prestige TV I need.
An important component of dramatic tragedy is a brutal plot twist pic.twitter.com/iU5rw5fZHE
— Alan White (@aljwhite) August 25, 2017
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Auf meinem Samsung Galaxy Note 4, Android 6.01, kann ich seit ca 6 Monaten keine PDF Attachments mehr bei den Kontakten öffnen, was vorher funktioniert hat. Nach Recherchen habe ich festgestellt, dass das Note 4 keinen clusb Ordner auf dem Handyspeicher hat. Auf meinem Galaxy S4, Android 5.0.1, funktioniert alles bestens. Auch nach Kopieren der clusb Datei vom S4 auf das Note4 erkennt DejaOffice keine Daten.
ThomasCH welcome to the forum.
The PDF attachments are kept as separate files.
On the Note4 - try emailing yourself a PDF and see if that opens. Is it the PDF Reader or is it the "launch" from Dejaoffice.
I'll send this to my develop also to make sure it works on our Galaxy Note 4 phone.
My developer found that if the PDF was on the SD Card, DejaOffice did not have permissions.
> The latest inhouse DJOA install (4.3.7 1015) should fix this issue.
> Looks like it would fail if the app trying to open the attachment did not have sdcard permissions. I tweaked the logic so that is no longer necessary.
See if this works better. Thanks.
Thanks, now with the update it is running correctly again.