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Thursday Night Links!
* CFP: Essays on SyFy Channel Original Films.
* How Milwaukee became so segregated and why it matters when it comes to crime. Busing for Integration Worked in Milwaukee—Until It Didn't. It's not just Joe Biden—the Democratic Party has backed away from its commitment to fighting segregation in the public schools.
* Wisconsin could decide 2020. Inside the new Democratic plan to win it back.
* Bernie Sanders's Campaign Is Different.
* Not much hope for the University of Alaska. Enter: the accreditors!
* The 10 factors that put small private colleges and universities at risk of closure.
* Odds Are, Your Doctorate Will Not Prepare You for a Profession Outside Academe.
* Now they say the individual mandate, which they always said was unconstitutional, is the only thing that made Obamacare constitutional.
I've seen this movie before with the last challenge to ACA on the funding of the exchanges. Most people agreed in the beginning it was a ridiculous suit, but somehow, weirdly, GOP-appointed judges just kept ruling in favor of the plaintiffs till it made it to the Supreme Court! https://t.co/zhONJnwMEs
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) July 9, 2019
* These Are The People Struggling The Most To Pay Back Student Loans.
* ICE Just Quietly Opened Three New Detention Centers, Flouting Congress' Limits. Migrant kids in overcrowded Arizona border station allege sex assault, retaliation from U.S. agents. This gay teen lost his asylum appeal & will be sent back to Iran where 'they will execute me.' I'm with her. Trump's mass arrests are set to begin. Chicago gets it right.
* "A nasty, brutal fight": what a US-Iran war would look like.
* Trump backs down on rigging the Census directly, possibly for good.
"The structure of the Constitution enshrines white minority rule" lots of room to spare https://t.co/EJJkPR6hDo
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) July 10, 2019
* Jeffrey Epstein's Fortune May Be More Illusion Than Fact. This is exactly how I think Jeffrey Epstein made his money. When Epstein ordered a 53-pound shredder. I was a friend of Jeffrey Epstein; here's what I know. NYPD let convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein skip judge-ordered check-ins. 28 Women Reportedly Sent to Mar-a-Lago in 1992 for VIP Party of Two—Trump and Jeffrey Epstein. In Patriarchy No One Can Hear You Scream: Rebecca Solnit on Jeffrey Epstein and the Silencing Machine. The Jeffrey Epstein Case Is Like Nothing I've Seen Before.
I am Team We're Gonna Find Out Epstein's Quote Unquote Hedge Fund Was a Ponzi Scheme Buttressed By Blackmail.
— Nicole Cliffe (@Nicole_Cliffe) July 10, 2019
self-confessed sexual predator is the president and all anyone does is joke about it, probably part of his thinking https://t.co/1mIKHX3x92
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) July 9, 2019
* The depravity is bipartisan.
* The numbers are in: SF homeless population rose 30% since 2017.
* Escape From New York 38 years later.
* Scenes from the class struggle in journalism.
* The California Bill Challenging NCAA Amateurism Just Cleared Another Hurdle. Here's How It Got Started.
* "I Did Not Die. I Did Not Go to Heaven." Gasp!
* Red flag wildfire warning issued for much of Alaska; smoke chokes Fairbanks. New Orleans Braces for a One-Two Weather Punch. Enormous Antarctic glacier on brink of collapse could raise sea levels by half a metre alone, scientists warn. These are Canada's worst-case scenarios. Between the Devil and the Green New Deal. Environmentalism's Next Frontier: Giving Nature Legal Rights. The New York Times is ready. What could possibly go wrong?
This is downtown New Orleans right now…and the soon-to-be #HurricaneBarry hasn't even hit yet.
Our thoughts are with everyone in the path of the storm.
Climate change is an emergency. It's time our leaders start acting like it. https://t.co/nNxxVLNnAD
— Sunrise Movement 🌅 (@sunrisemvmt) July 11, 2019
* I didn't have "the World Wildlife Fund operating a lawless paramilitary force" on my dystopia watch-list, but of course I should have.
* 'These kids are ticking time bombs': The threat of youth basketball.
* Hope you enjoyed this look at Ron's future!
* Google as a landlord? A looming feudal nightmare.
* What Will Life on Mars Be Like?
* DRAGONLANCE FOREVER
* #dataspositronicbrainisinthedog
* RIP, Rip Torn.
* And while The Lion King remake has been getting absolutely brutal reviews, few can touch Dan's brutal takedown of the original.
I mean I've said it all before https://t.co/HrRRiTtKVu
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July 3 Links! Maybe Our Biggest July 3 Post EVER!!!
* I have a new review up at LARB: We Are Going on an Adventure: On Adrian Tchaikovsky's Children of Ruin. Read these novels!
* Marquette gets some very good press: it has one of the top ten highest post-graduation employment rates in the country. Also on the Marquette beat: Marquette goes test optional.
* The university in ruins: Alaska edition.
* CFP: University of Nebraska Press is looking for proposals for its new comics studies series.
* When at last the aliens spoke to us, the first thing they did was apologize.
* Another KSR podcast appearance, this time on The Imaginaries. And some more piping hot KSR content: Picturing a Way Forward: Climate change, science fiction, and our collective failure of imagination. The Genre of the Near Future: Kim Stanley Robinson's New York 2140. Kim Stanley Robinson Built a Moon Base in His Mind.
* It's been a while since we did a good old fashioned Flash game, so please enjoy Magirune.
* In Koopa mythology, Mario is both Satan and a specter of death, and him and Bowser are brothers. Luigi was a later Christian revision. Best thing I've read in ages.
Fascinating Lore: Nintendo Revealed That The Reason Mario Always Comes Back To Life After He Dies Is Because Both Heaven And Hell Reject His Soul https://t.co/RR0KBQQnxK pic.twitter.com/6ItMP9lE8M
— The Onion (@TheOnion) June 20, 2019
* Toy Story 4's Forky Has Haunting Metaphysical Implications for the Toy Story Universe.
* The Grand Cultural Influence of Octavia Butler.
* Liu Cixin's War of the Worlds. Producers Behind The Wandering Earth Want to Bring Cixin Liu's Three-Body Problem to TV.
* What Slaughterhouse-Five Tells Us Now.
* The Medea Hypothesis.
* Hindsight is 20/20 I guess.
feeling a bit like we shouldn't have built a mass media-news-entertainment complex with openly fascist aesthetics and then elected as president one of its creatures https://t.co/Mua9Qfkwqq
— Max Read (@max_read) July 1, 2019
* Conservative Philanthropy in Higher Education. Documents show ties between university, conservative donors. Corporate Wolves in Academic Sheepskins, or, a Billionaire's Raid on the University of Tulsa.
* 2008 killed the university, but not in the way most people think.
* How to Chair an Academic Committee.
* How College Professors Are Fighting for Their Lives. Revenge of the Poverty-Stricken College Professors.
* Meritocracy's Discontents. 'To succeed in America, it's better to be born rich than smart.'
* Why can't everyone get As?
* Another free speech mystery.
* Wild decision at Oberlin.
* When The University Of Wisconsin Persecuted Gay Students.
* 'Your Heritage Is Taken Away': The Closing of 3 Historically Black Colleges.
* The Closure.
* The Surreal End of an American College.
* 'Everything Must Go!': A Rash of College Closures Keeps This Liquidation Firm Busy.
* Outcomes-based graduate school.
* Nice work if you can get it!
* CSU secretly stashed away $1.5 billion surplus, auditor says.
* When you really mess up the lit review.
* Warren to Introduce Student Debt Cancellation Bill. Bernie doubles it. Something's coming.
* Rick Snyder's Harvard Fellowship and the Limits of Civility.
* There would be a cartoon, like for kids. Or it might also have been a prime-time cartoon, actually. The situation was fluid, but consider the growth potential. Honestly, the whole notion was exceedingly hazy and changed a lot, but, as it got pitched among the corps of cold-calling salespeople to potential investors in a company named Premiere Publishing Group, the plan was this: There was going to be a cartoon, on television, that would feature Donald Trump jetting around and solving various problems.
* There Are People in Concentration Camps. Why Aren't We in the Streets?
One reason I think we've been arguing about the name of the camps is that life in the shadow of concentration camps is not supposed to be worth living. "Never again" doesn't mean "Don't commit genocide" or even "Oppose ethnic cleansing"; the phrase implies a permanent obligation to resist in the Dale Smith sense—stop the camps—or risk being the equivalent of all those Good Germans. The presence of concentration camps should be intolerable, and yet here we are, tolerating it. Either they aren't camps or we aren't who we said we were. There has got to be a better way to reduce our cognitive dissonance than playing with definitions.
* Behold as the New York Times reports on an anti-immigrant movement in St. Cloud, Minnesota, entirely from the perspective of the racists. 'Guats,' 'Tonks' and 'Subhuman Shit': The Shocking Texts of a Border Patrol Agent. Inside the Secret Border Patrol Facebook Group Where Agents Joke About Migrant Deaths and Post Sexist Memes. An Expert on Concentration Camps Says That's Exactly What the U.S. Is Running at the Border. There are concentration camps in America. They Are Concentration Camps — and They Are Also Prisons. 'Some Suburb of Hell': America's New Concentration Camp System. 'There Is a Stench.' 'Children Were Dirty, They Were Scared, and They Were Hungry.' Torture facilities. Ticking time bomb. Report: 1,000 new migrant adults detained at U.S. border weekly, "serious risk of exceeding safety standards on a regular basis.' Children as young as 7 and 8, many of them wearing clothes caked with snot and tears, are caring for infants they've just met.Toddlers without diapers are relieving themselves in their pants. Teenage mothers are wearing clothes stained with breast milk. How Families Separated at the Border Could Make the Government Pay. Mark Morgan, a man who claimed on Fox News to be able to identify "soon-to-be MS-13" gang members by looking child migrants in the eye, will now head an agency that has thousands of child migrants in its care. Lawyer Draws Outrage for Defending Lack of Toothbrushes in Border Detention. In El Paso, Border Patrol Is Detaining Migrants in 'a Human Dog Pound.' 4 Severely Ill Migrant Toddlers Hospitalized After Lawyers Visit Border Patrol Facility. We found the youngest known child separated from his parents at the border under President Trump. He was only 4 months old. Hung jury for Scott Warren. Italy Arrests Captain of Ship That Rescued Dozens of Migrants at Sea. The Trump Administration Has Let 24 People Die in ICE Custody. ICE Stopped Updating Its List of 'Deaths in ICE Custody.' No limits. An Open Letter to the Director of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum. The concentration camp next door. Even (some) ICE agents are losing patience (but not for great reasons). And in a darker register: "Bodies and minds are breaking down": Inside US border agency's suicide crisis.
You should read this whole New Yorker piece about the conditions at Border Patrol facilities in Texas, but if you can't read the whole thing, at least read this paragraph: https://t.co/xWwHYvIMjb pic.twitter.com/Iujo3Pi2av
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) June 22, 2019
Homestead is hot and barren, with a completely enclosed fence. I saw children being marched from one building to another in single file lines. No laughing, no playing. These are children who are prisoners. pic.twitter.com/7WB4G8sI5n
— Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) June 26, 2019
Just left the first CBP facility. The conditions are far worse than we ever could have imagined.
15 women in their 50s- 60s sleeping in a small concrete cell, no running water. Weeks without showers. All of them separated from their families.
This is a human rights crisis.
— Congresswoman Madeleine Dean (@RepDean) July 1, 2019
"only four showers were available for 756 immigrants, more than half of the immigrants were being held outside, and immigrants inside were being kept in cells maxed out at more than five times their capacity." https://t.co/r3cHT3Xb3f
— Alex Thompson (@AlxThomp) July 2, 2019
One thing I had never heard, was that in the early days of the Nazi concentration camps, years before the death camps and Final Solution, the Nazi government actually prosecuted guards for abusing and mistreating detainees. Hitler came in and pardoned them all to send a message.
* The people who are supposed to save us from the fascists don't have the stomach to fight for longer than a weekend. It's pathetic.
This Oregon story is a slow-burn "worst news in the country" right now, rivaling both the Iran strike and the camps. The GOP openly making common cause with paramilitary groups and the Dems completely backing down is a very bad sign for the 2020s and beyond.
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) June 23, 2019
* The Insanity in Oregon Is a Glimpse of Our Very Dark Future.
* Joe Biden will never give up on the system, because it never gave up on him.
* The 2020 democratic candidates as dril tweets.
Primary debate pic.twitter.com/soyz8tiUft
— pixelatedboat aka "mr tweets" (@pixelatedboat) July 1, 2019
* The Courts Won't End Gerrymandering. Eric Holder Has a Plan to Fix It Without Them. Focus on Wisconsin in this piece, which is so gerrymandered and voter-suppressed at this point that Democrats may never recover the legislature no matter how big they win.
This is about as clear an encapsulation of the effects of gerrymandering as you'll find: pic.twitter.com/mrrTIfvNvK
— Aaron Wiener (@aaronwiener) July 1, 2019
by contrast, what if American politics is fundamentally defined by white supremacy, partisan politics are ultimately epiphenomenal to that, and it's the job of people like Yascha to mystify that arrangement into nearly moralizing pap https://t.co/HXLrHKtSYC
— Patrick Blanchfield (@PatBlanchfield) June 23, 2019
* Redlining in Milwaukee.
* The Devastating Oddness of E. Jean Carroll's Trump Accusation.
* AOC's Generation Doesn't Presume America's Innocence.
* Who Owns Tomorrow?
* Ta-Nehisi Coates resists the case for reparations.
* Where does money come from?
* Capitalist Workplaces Set Bosses Up to Be Authoritarian Tyrants.
* Better Schools Won't Fix America.
* It's so hot in Spain that manure self-ignited, sparking a 10,000-acre wildfire. It's 112 degrees in France. 118 in India. Europe has had five 500-year summers in 15 years. Hell is coming. 40 degrees above normal. The poisons released by melting Arctic ice. A city of 9 million people loses water. Mexico Hailstorm Blankets Western Areas Under 3 Feet of Ice. Heatwave cooks mussels in their shells on California shore. Wildfires, heat waves foreshadow what could be a perilous summer across the globe. 'A major punch in the gut': Midwest rains projected to create near-record dead zone in Gulf. US military is a bigger polluter than as many as 140 countries. "We may find ourselves living shortly in a world that even just a few years ago we would've found completely unacceptable and not even be disturbed by it." Only 60 Years of Farming Left If Soil Degradation Continues. The Climate Crisis Is Mind-Boggling. That's Why We Need Science Fiction. Global warming may reduce fish and other sea life by 17% by the year 2100. When Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez met Greta Thunberg: 'Hope is contagious.' "Batshit jobs" – no-one should have to destroy the planet to make a living. In the kids' climate lawsuit that is slowly progressing, the US Department of Justice argues that there is "no right to a climate system capable of sustaining human life." The World Is a Mess. We Need Fully Automated Luxury Communism. Confessions Of A Climate Activist: Don't Blame Yourself, Go After The Criminals Who Sold Out Humanity For Profit.
This is why I've said that if geoengineering doesn't work, there's a real sense in which science fiction as a genre destroyed the world. It gave people a vision of Promethean possibility that was only ever, in China Mieville's memorable phrase, capitalism's bullshit about itself.
SF is also the only thing that can save us, so you can see how conflicted I am
♫ ♪ always look on the bright side of life ♪ ♫ https://t.co/xb0Ex965R7
* Jim Jarmusch's new movie is an accusation aimed at his audience: As the world plummets toward an ecological catastrophe, we still shamble through our former existences, brainless, as though the end of the world hasn't already been written.
* The pocket of East Texas that Keilan calls home is among the state's regions hit hardest by suicide. The most recent federal data show that in Gregg County, which includes Longview, 335 people died by suicide from 1999 to 2017. The county had a suicide rate of 15 deaths per 100,000 people in that time period, compared to the average state rate of 11.4. Several nearby, more rural counties — including Marion and Morris counties, just north of Gregg — have even higher suicide rates.
* Humans Can't Watch All the Surveillance Cameras Out There, So Computers Are.
* Fifty years ago 180,000 whales disappeared from the oceans without a trace, and researchers are still trying to make sense of why. Inside the most irrational environmental crime of the century.
* Canada's Parliament has passed legislation banning whales, dolphins and porpoises from being bred or held in captivity — a move that was hailed by animal rights activists.
* Trump administration quietly makes it legal to bring elephant parts to the U.S. as trophies.
* Carbon emissions from energy industry rise at fastest rate since 2011.
* The Six-Year Struggle to Regain Ownership of the 'This Is Fine' Dog.
* Ravelry bans Trump support.
* Writing Iceman at Marvel.
* Alanis at 45.
* "I babysit for the one percent."
lmao at everyone who thought the rich would save a fancy building over saving the homeless or whatever
they won't even save the building https://t.co/0F6oIhLXVD
— donoteat, 'the molson normie' (@donoteat1) June 15, 2019
* You just can't win: Canada to ban single-use plastics as early as 2021. Plastic Bag Bans Might Do More Harm Than Good. Your cotton tote is pretty much the worst replacement for a plastic bag. Your bowl of rice is hurting the climate too.
* Americans' plastic recycling is dumped in landfills, investigation shows.
* Your Business Casual Attire Is Destroying the Planet.
* Americans are terrifyingly supportive of nuking civilians in North Korea. What is the probability of a nuclear war? Why don't we make movies about nuclear war anymore?
* The Uber delusion. Uber's path of destruction. Uber Wants Your Next Big Mac to Be Delivered by Drone.
This Uber article is brutal. "Uber's most important innovation has been to produce staggering levels of private wealth without creating any sustainable benefits for consumers, workers, the cities they serve, or anyone else" https://t.co/BVnh8MxSGe pic.twitter.com/RsYYGgWPGJ
— Ellen K. Pao (@ekp) June 6, 2019
* Training a single AI model can emit as much carbon as five cars in their lifetimes.
* How 9 People Built an Illegal $5M Airbnb Empire in New York.
* How to Speak Silicon Valley.
* The day the music burned.
* The latest study of depression and PTSD in social media moderators.
i'm still convinced that the most underappreciated important story in tech over the last 15 years was the amount of actual human labor that was going into systems sold as "automated" https://t.co/nLx8nuks7H
— Max Read (@max_read) June 19, 2019
* Sunoco in Philly.
* We either buy insulin or we die.
* According to the UN the chance of a 15-year-old boy dying by the age of 50 is now higher in America than in Bangladesh.
* Amazon will pay $0 in taxes on $11,200,000,000 in profit for 2018.
* The FoxConn scam, one year later.
* Would you like to know more?
* Grim New Report Shows Rent Is Unaffordable In Every State.
* Here's What It's Like To See Yourself In A Deepfake Porn Video.
* A shocking number of women are harassed, ignored, or mistreated during childbirth.
* Phoenix Police Threaten to Shoot a Pregnant Woman After Her Daughter Reportedly Stole a Doll.
* Alabama woman loses unborn child after being shot, gets arrested; shooter goes free.
* Alabama court forces rape survivor to allow rapist to have visitation with children.
Her serial rapist is HER UNCLE. Started raping her when she was 12. After 4 pregnancies, 3 live births, 1 miscarriage, 1 child deceased from a disease common in cases of incest, & 2 living kids, Alabama is forcing her to allow her rapist visitation w/the kids. Unconscionable https://t.co/KjbBu3JiqV
— BlackFeministThoughtiana (@divafeminist) June 15, 2019
* He Cyberstalked Teen Girls for Years—Then They Fought Back.
* Since January, when Bradley Austin learned that his ex-wife was using chlorine dioxide on their sons, he's been trying to stop her. (He's also exploring fighting for guardianship of his sons.) But the local police, the state's division of adult protective services and a medical doctor treating Jeremy have all declined to intervene. A police spokesman said there wasn't enough evidence that chlorine dioxide was dangerous; a caseworker with the Kansas Adult Protective Services told police that she didn't see the situation as serious enough for the state to take action.
* Ali Stroker's #TonyAwards2019 win marks the first time a wheelchair user has won a Tony Award (she was also the first wheelchair user on Broadway & the first nominated for a Tony). Tonight there was no ramp for her to get to the stage to accept her award.
* Ghost networks of psychiatrists make money for insurance companies but hinder patients' access to care.
* It sucks to go to the doctor if you're trans.
* Bad braille plagues buildings across U.S., CBS News Radio investigation finds.
* The war to free science.
* 'Horns' are growing on young people's skulls. No they're not!
* The accreditation of the University of Maryland, College Park, is in jeopardy a year after a football player died following a preseason workout. News outlets report the accrediting Middle States Commission of Higher Education on Friday announced it has placed the school on warning after finding "insufficient evidence" that it is complying with governance, leadership and administration standards.
* The latest MH370 deep dive.
* America Is Stuck With a $400 Billion Stealth Fighter That Can't Fight.
* What the World's Most Sociable People Reveal About Friendliness.
* Dogs' Eyes Have Changed Since Humans Befriended Enslaved Them.
* The Surprising Reason that There Are So Many Thai Restaurants in America.
* Do you consume a credit card's worth of plastic every week?
* If you want a vision of the future: Netflix's The Edge of Democracy charts the slippery slope from democracy to authoritarian rule.
* wHy DOn'T YOu JuSt SAvE sOMe MOneY
* America's Collapsing Because it's the World's First Poor Rich Country.
* Whoa.
* 63 Up.
* No frills.
* Today in dystopia.
* This one too: A cancer patient from Montgomery, Illinois, has been sentenced to four years in prison for ordering a 42-pound package of chocolate marijuana edibles to self-medicate. The day after he pleaded guilty, the state legalized recreational marijuana.
* They finally found the monolith.
* sold
* my brain hurts a lot
* got another capitalism greatest hit. i will give you one hundred thousand dollars if you can guess the brand by the end
* just another classic canavan viral tweet
* Smash that bridge king.
Seems like a minor concern! https://t.co/sicDlX1p5H pic.twitter.com/e2PtlsL7f9
— Josh Billinson (@jbillinson) July 2, 2019
* The mindfulness conspiracy. On the other hand: Two-hour 'dose' of nature significantly boosts health – study. Neuroscience shows that 50-year-olds can have the brains of 25-year-olds if they sit quietly and do nothing for 15 minutes a day.
* The Strange World of Sorority Rush Consultants.
* broke: McMansion woke: McTomb bespoke: multi-family housing
* The Empty Storefront Crisis and the End of the American Dream.
* Can the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre Survive?
* Tetris forever.
* Mario Royale.
* Games Have Always Tried to Whitewash Nazis as Just 'German Soldiers.'
* On Jameson and genre.
* Futureshock, turn of the century edition.
* Really though, what would the world be like without the Beatles?
* A team of researchers found a way to make money legally from online bookies. But then their troubles began.
* Whiteness 101: A Reading List to Abolish the Problem.
* Every Post-Credits Scene in the Masters of the Universe Cinematic Universe, Explained.
* Marvel Comics in the 80s: Not Just for Kids Anymore.
* A Brief History of the Movie-Summarizing End-Credits Rap.
* Dark Phoenix and the end of the dream.
* Worlds without Men.
* #cancelculture just #cancelled a very big fish.
* I've been reading The Walking Dead since the beginning and am not surprised at all it's ending with #193, given what happened in #192.
* I'm so depressed I can't even get worked up about this. No, not even this!
* The long march of artificial intelligence puts Bastani's timeframe for communist transition in the shade. But there is a further problem with his vision, which strikes at the core of any proposal for full automation and the introduction of universal social services, as commendable as it may be. This is the possibility that capitalism might not be intelligent after all. Indeed, what if capitalism, on whose technological revolution Bastani's FALC depends, were stupid? What if capitalism were to prove substantially deaf, dumb, and blind to sound appeals to common sense or rational thinking in the face of ongoing climate breakdown and its related miseries? What would communism or any form of "post-capitalism" look like from this perspective?
* Eventual perverts. Teaching. Moms. Parenting. We thought we had mastered passive aggression. The evolution of consciousness. Self-aware.
* And some personal news: Super Mario Maker 2 rules.
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Weekend Links!
* Extrapolation 58.1 is out! With articles on Octavia Butler, Aldous Huxley, Neal Stephenson, and Celu Ambsterstone. I'll give a special endorsement to Donawerth and Scally's Butler article, which is not only the first article to cite my book (that I know of) but also a truly great study tracing Butler's footsteps research Kindred in Maryland. Check it out!
* CFP: Utopia, Now!
* Jeff VanderMeer in conversation with Cory Doctorow.
* William Gibson after Trump.
The result is "Agency," Mr. Gibson's next novel, which Berkley will publish in January. The story unfolds in two timelines: San Francisco in 2017, in an alternate time track where Hillary Clinton won the election and Mr. Trump's political ambitions were thwarted, and London in the 22nd century, after decades of cataclysmic events have killed 80 percent of humanity.
Mr. Gibson never set out to write a sequel, but the plots of "Agency" and "The Peripheral" converged unexpectedly last fall. He had spent about a year writing "Agency" when the 2016 election rendered the fictional world he had created obsolete. "I assumed that if Trump won, I'd be able to shift a few things and continue to tell my story," he said. But when he tried tinkering with the draft, he realized that the world had changed too drastically for him to plausibly salvage the story. "It was immediately obvious to me that there had been some fundamental shift and I would have to rebuild the whole thing," he said.
* The difference between utopia and dystopia isn't how well everything runs. It's about what happens when everything fails. Here in the nonfictional, disastrous world, we're about to find out which one we live in.
* Wes Anderson's latest, Isle Of Dogs, gets a release date and poster. Warm up your power rankings now!
* I'm Wes Anderson, and I'm Directing This FBI Investigation into Russia and the Trump Campaign.
* If the police do it, it isn't murder: Inmate's water cut off for 7 days before his death in the Milwaukee County Jail.
* Purdue Has Bought Kaplan — for $1. The weird fall of Burlington College. Rand Paul Stealing My Bit. When 51 Years Experience Isn't Good Enough.
* CBS is apparently fully committed to ruining Star Trek: Discovery in every possible way.
* More on the Cal audit that reveals massive administrative blight.
* Tracking White Collar Crime Zones.
* The March for Science wasn't.
* Charter schools as corporate perk.
* What's the matter with Nintendo?
* Apple's Promise to End Rare Earth Mineral Mining Is '100 Percent Unattainable Today.' Haters! Apple can do anything.
* 25 percent of young Britons have lied about reading Lord Of The Rings, poll reveals. I want to know how many have said they didn't read it when they did!
* Corbynism or barbarism. Inside Corbyn's Office.
* We May Have Uncovered the First Ever Evidence of the Multiverse.
* Trump Wants to Send a Man to Mars During His Presidency. The next launch window isn't until the 2030s, so this is a worrying declaration indeed. Here's the plan.
* Record-breaking climate events all over the world are being shaped by global warming, scientists find. What will Earth look like when all the ice melts?
* I Got Hacked So You Don't Have To.
* Artist attaches Trump's quotes about women to sexist 1950s ads and they fit too well. Into the shadows in Trump's America. A GOP Lawmaker Has Been Revealed As The Creator Of Reddit's Anti-Woman 'Red Pill' Forum. How the Ivy League Collaborates with Donald Trump. Killing Obamacare, Again (with an asterisk). In the richest country that has ever existed. We all gonna die. And the worst news yet: US considers cabin laptop ban on flights from UK airports.
Just thinking again how nationalism will transmogrify any violence Trump undertakes into heroic resolve, no matter how unfathomably evil.
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) April 28, 2017
A partial list of crimes with no statute of limitations:
* murder
* kidnapping
* treason
* being brought to the US by your parents as a baby
* We Asked ICE About the Prank Calls to Their Anti-Immigrant Hotline and They Kind of Lost Their Shit. 100 Days of Democratic Rage. Donald Trump Has Made Socialism Cool Again. Trump supporters are the most overrated force in American politics. The Anatomy of Liberal Melancholy. Could Your Teen's Meme Be a Red? Texas Is The Future.
To clarify: it is perfectly possible that some collusion between Trump's agents and Russian hackers did indeed occur. But at this point, the empirical question of whether or not it happened is secondary to the deeper psychological need for media pundits, policy wonks, and the professional-managerial strata to maintain their sense of self when the objective historical conditions in which they flourished are being actively dissolved. For liberals, the continued libidinal investment in the drama of the as-yet invisible Trump-Russia scandal actively blocks any realization that the neoliberal order they are trying to restore is already dead on its feet, and that Trump is the uniquely bizarre American expression of a visible worldwide trend: the virulent, deepening nationalist backlash against a financially-integrated global economy based on the relatively free movement of commodities and people. His ascent is a death knell for an entire era and the basic assumptions about economic and political life that shape the worldview of contemporary liberals.
* Organize. Syllabus prep. The Tenure-Track Professor. Should I Go to Grad School? Ikigai. Legolas, what do your elf eyes see?
* Against buckraking. But what does Obama's willingness to take the money in the first place say about progressive centrism, if we stipulate (as I think MY would likely agree) that Obama is probably as good as progressive centrists are likely to get? The left neoliberal hit against standard liberal-to-left politics in the 1980s was that it fostered sleazy interest groups and tacit or not-so-tacit mutual backscratching between these interest groups and politicians. If the very best alternative that left neoliberalism has to offer is another, and arguably worse version of this (Wall Street firms, unlike unions, don't even have the need to pretend to have the interests of ordinary people at heart), then its raison d'etre is pretty well exploded.
* Disney will just take all your money, thanks.
* How Marvel Killed Marvel.
* Building blocks of our weird future: artificial wombs.
* Warner Brothers Might Have to Pay $900 Million If It Can't Prove Ghosts Are Real.
* The AI Cargo Cult.
* More bad press for United. It's like they're trying to go bankrupt.
* "Twitter" is an oversimplification. There are many twitters, which is also part of the problem: my twitter and yours are different, but they can come into contact with each other and overlap, and do. We can each think the other person is a holographic projection into our living room, and the rooms are similar enough that we can overlook the ways they are different (and then blame the other person for coming into our house and acting like an asshole). But this also means that talking about what "twitter" is or isn't, or does, or doesn't, is a similar exercise in polemic misunderstanding. If the underlying structure of the program is a constant, the conversational norms and practical methods we bring to it will vary, radically and dramatically. Some of the problem is the latter thing: people not only use twitter differently, but they sometimes regard other people's use of it as illegitimate or wrong. Policing other people on twitter can become particularly heated and vicious, if a police from one jurisdiction comes into another, without knowing it, and attempts to apply one set of laws to someone who thinks they're operating in another. It rarely ends well. And yet if we keep pretending that there is one twitter (ours), we'll keep crashing into each other and insisting that it's the other car that came into my lane. Twitter road rage.
* Great Artists at 8.
* Oh, I see the problem: Americans don't read.
* And I know things seem dark, darker than they've ever been, but Illinois fixed it. Kudos.
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I Have (Not a Joke) 300 Tabs Open and This Afternoon I Am Closing Them All: Election Night Links!
Seriously, can you even imagine how aggressively evil the GOP nominee will have to be in order to get people fired up about Clinton?
I've been so ridiculously busy I haven't been able to tend to my open tabs at all. There's over 300 — and I'm not leaving this room until I've closed them all. Let's go!
* Really, I've been so busy I haven't even been able to shamelessly self-promote: I missed announcing my trip to Atlanta for SLSA 2016 and my presentations on "Literary Studies after Blackfish" and the upcoming almost-almost-done issue of Paradoxa on "Global Weirding," as well as my New Inquiry review of the (fantastic) end to Liu Cixin's (fantastic) Three-Body trilogy. My new essay on "Geriatric Zombies" from The Walking Med was namechecked as part of a larger zombie news report in the Seattle Times. Most importantly I haven't been able to hype my Octavia Butler book, which is printed and apparently shipping. I've even held one in my hands!
* Meanwhile, here's my guess for tonight's final results, just to get it out of the way: 340-198.
* CFP: Letters to Octavia Butler. CFP: The Comics of Alison Bechdel. CFP: English Studies in Ruins? CFP: The World of Harry Potter.
* A new issue of the Eaton Journal in Archival Research in Science Fiction is out, including a piece from Larisa Mikhaylova on Star Trek fandom in Russia.
* French town upholds law against UFOs.
* Invisible Planets / Invisible Frameworks — Assembling an Anthology of Contemporary Chinese SF. I've been reading the Invisible Planets collection and it's great.
* Why we should lower the voting age in America.
* Žižek on the lesser evil. Jameson on fascism, but not yet. Study Confirms Network Evening Newscasts Have Abandoned Policy Coverage For 2016 Campaign. Americans, Politics, and Social Media. Stop Calling the United States a Banana Republic. Yes, Trump Really Is Saying 'Big League,' Not 'Bigly,' Linguists Say. The 282 People, Places and Things Donald Trump Has Insulted on Twitter: A Complete List. No, "we" are not collectively responsible for anything. Journey to the Center of the Alt-Right. Ivanka is the real threat. A Reading Guide for Those in Despair About American Politics. And did someone order a Constitutional crisis with a 4-4 Supreme Court?
* What Happens if You Vote and Die Before Election Day? Too late for all of us, alas.
* In contrast to the Fordist society observed by Gramsci, power now seeks to circumvent the public sphere, in order to avoid the constraints of critical reason. Increasingly, it is non-representational codes—of software, finance, human biology—that mediate between past, present and future, allowing society to cohere. Where, for example, employee engagement cannot be achieved via cultural or psychological means, increasingly business is looking to solutions such as wearable technology, that treat the worker as an item of fixed capital to be monitored physically, rather than human capital to be employed. The key human characteristics are those that are repeated in a quasi-mechanical fashion: footsteps, nightly sleep, respiration, heartbeat. These metronomic qualities of life come to represent each passing moment as yet another one of the same. The New Neoliberalism.
* "We are all Thomas More's children": 500 years of Utopia. And at LARB.
* It isn't every day that a street criminal—a high-school dropout with two felony convictions—is accused of stealing a centuries-old violin worth as much as $6 million. But nothing about the heist of the Lipinski Stradivarius, which galvanized the music world last winter, was normal, or even logical.
* How America Outlawed Adolescence. The Cognitive Benefits of Being a Man-Child.
* Inside the NSA's For-Sale Spy Town. The Indiana Town That Modernism Built.
* Where Ph.D.s Work. IPFW Community Shocked by Restructuring Recommendations. Last month's strike at Harvard. And its results. A City Clerk Opposed an Early-Voting Site at UW–Green Bay Because 'Students Lean More Toward the Democrats.' Saudi college student in Wisconsin dies after assault. Johns Hopkins threatens to close its interdisciplinary Humanities Center, sparking outcry from students and faculty members. San Diego State University tuition, 1959. How State Budget Cuts Affect Your Education.
* Cornell looks for ways to cut time professors spend on administrative requirements, as opposed to teaching and research.
* The Heterodox Academy Guide to Colleges rates America's top 150 universities (as listed by US News and World Reports) and will soon rate the Top 50 Liberal Arts Schools according to their commitment to viewpoint diversity.
* The American Association of University Professors has launched an investigation focused on the dismissal of Nathanial Bork, who had taught philosophy courses at the college for six years before he was dismissed. The AAUP says that his dismissal raises concerns both because of the issues he raises about rigor and also because he was fired shortly after he complained about the situation to the Higher Learning Commission, the college's accreditor. Further, Bork was active in efforts to improve the working conditions of adjuncts at the college.
* A More Accurate World Map Wins Prestigious Japanese Design Award. Love this.
* Borges and maps.
* "University Paid for Bigfoot Expedition."
* Dig this Beatnik glossary.
* Starship Troopers coming back just as documentary footage of 2016. A darker, grittier Muppet Babies, for a tragic time.
* Quentin Tarantino still insists he's going to stop at 10 movies.
* Playing with History: What Sid Meier's Video Game Empire Got Right and Wrong About 'Civilization.'
* "Capitalism Broke Earth, Let's Protect Mars."
* Inside Magic Leap, The Secretive $4.5 Billion Startup Changing Computing Forever.
* The video for Soul Asylum's 1993 smash hit featured real missing kids. Some eventually came home; some never did.
* Her toddler suddenly paralyzed, mother tries to solve a vexing medical mystery. Football Alters the Brains of Kids as Young as 8. Why treating diabetes keeps getting more expensive. The Other Sister: Returning Home to Care for an Autistic Sibling.
* Inmates Explain How They'd Run Prisons.
* If Women Wrote Men the Way Men Write Women.
* Zork in your browser.
* Russia Reveals 'Satan 2' Nuclear Missile Capable of Destroying Texas in One Blow. Bathroom air freshener causes emergency response at nuclear site.
* Why can't the Star Trek timeline advance?
* The end of butterflies.
* The Venom From This Snake Will Make Your Life a Living Hell.
* Inside The Strange, Paranoid World Of Julian Assange.
* Ruin chic.
* Why Did This Guy Collect 500 Screenshots of Soda Machines in Video Games? Because He's a Genius. And elsewhere on the Jacob Brogan science beat: Everyone Poops. Some Animals Eat It. Why?
* Thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, Thumb U.N. won't intervene.
* Now Is The Perfect Time For The Indians To Quietly Abandon Chief Wahoo.
* Deep time's uncanny future is full of ghostly human traces. How the Concept of Deep Time Is Changing.
* The Average American Melts 645 Square Feet of Arctic Ice Every Year.
* In rural North Dakota, a small county and an insular religious sect are caught in a stand-off over a decaying piece of America's atomic history: The Pyramid at the End of the World.
* Penn State Fined Record $2.4 Million in Jerry Sandusky Case.
* Dibs on the screenplay: Yellowstone's "Zone of Death." And I'll take this one too: The Canadian Military Is Investigating a Mysterious Noise In the Arctic.
* How Doctor Strange went from being a racist Asian caricature to a magical white savior.
* A new favorite poem:
here's a sweet short poem by Tom French, who I'll be reading with this Sun., 1pm @IrishArtsCenter – y'all should come pic.twitter.com/VN2Yofc1yp
— Jana Prikryl (@janaprikryl) November 3, 2016
* Animal minds: the new anthropomorphism.
* You weren't educated, you were trained.
* Twenty-first century Victorians.
* Remembering Tom Hayden.
* How We Tell Campus Rape Stories After Rolling Stone.
* Native lives matter. Tribe vows to fight North Dakota pipeline through winter. The world watches. A Standing Rock Syllabus.
* Superheroes and sadness. Pixar and sadness.
* Presenting The Black Mirror Expanded Universe.
* Wildlife numbers more than halve since 1970s in mass extinction. Inside the Frozen Zoo That Could Bring Extinct Animals Back to Life.
* The secret history of Teaching with Calvin & Hobbes.
* A bad idea, but fine: The Adventures of Young Dumbledore.
* Kardashev Type III Societies (Apparently) Do Not Exist.
* And frankly you had me at LEGO, but I like the rest too: LEGO's New Line of Female Superheroes Is the Toy We Deserve.
quick why was it important than Obama beat Hillary Clinton again
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) May 15, 2014
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Seven Pounds of Sunday Links in a Three-Pound Bag
* If you missed it, my contribution to the thriving "Star Trek at 50″ thinkpiece industry: "We Have Never Been Star Trek." And some followup commentary on First Contact and the Rebootverse from Adam Kotsko.
* Elsewhere: To Boldly Imagine: Star Trek's Half Century. 13 science fiction authors on how Star Trek influenced their lives. 50 Years of Trekkies. Women who love Star Trek are the reason that modern fandom exists. What If Star Trek Never Existed? In a World without Star Trek… The Star Trek You Didn't See. How Every Single Star Trek Novel Fits Together. What Deep Space Nine does that no other Star Trek series can. Fighter Planes vs. Navies. Fifty years of Star Trek – a socialist perspective. Star Trek in the Age of Trump. Star Trek Is Brilliantly Political. Well, It Used To Be. Sounds of Spock. A Counterpoint. Catching Up with Star Trek IV's Real Hero. The Workday on the Edge of Forever. A few of the best images I gathered up this week: 1, 2. And of course they did: CBS and Paramount Royally Screwed Up Star Trek's 50th Anniversary.
Happy birthday #StarTrek50, celebrating fifty years of unforgettable fashion for men. pic.twitter.com/LpWHv39ozU
— RedScharlach (@redfacts) September 8, 2016
* And some more Star Trek: Discovery teasing: Time to rewatch "Balance of Terror." And Majel might even voice the computer.
* Deadline Extended for the 2016 Tiptree Fellowship. The Foundation Essay Prize 2017.
* CFP: Speculative Finance/Speculative Fiction. Editors David M. Higgins and Hugh Charles O'Connell. Call for Chapters: Transmedia Star Wars. Editors Sean A. Guynes and Dan Hassler-Forest.
* Not a CFP, but I'm glad to see this is coming soon: None of This is Normal: The Fiction of Jeff VanderMeer.
* Polygraph #25, on sound and the modes of production, is now available.
* Tolkien once said that fantasy can't work on stage. Katy Armstrong argues that The Cursed Child only works on stage. Harry Potter and the Conscience of a Liberal.
* On Utopia and Reaction.
* Poetry and Class Struggle.
* This LARB essay on scholars fighting about King Lear is as spellbinding as everyone said.
* Here is a list of things that I am including in this book. Please send me my seven-figure advance. An Easy Guide to Writing the Great American Novel.
* Concerns Over Future of UMass Labor Center.
* Lockout at LIU. The Nuclear Option. Unprecedented. This is the first time that higher-ed faculty have ever been locked out. Lockout Lessons. Students Walkout. As Lockout Continues at Long Island U., Students Report Meager Classroom Instruction. This has been, to say the least, an amazing story.
7. Otherwise, what Middle States is saying is that all a university is is a bunch of buildings, a bank account, and administrators.
— Jacob Remes (@jacremes) September 10, 2016
* Decline of Tenure for Higher Education Faculty: An Introduction.
* Salaita's Departure and the Gutting of American Indian Studies at the University of Illinois.
* Inmates Are Planning The Largest Prison Strike in US History. 'Incarcerated Workers' stage nationwide prison labor strike 45 years after 1971 Attica riot. Your Refresher on the 13th Amendment.
* The long, steady decline of literary reading. History Enrollments Drop. Werner Herzog Narrates My Life as a Graduate Student. My dirty little secret: I've been writing erotic novels to fund my PhD.
* Quebec's massive student strikes emerged from an organizing model that constantly trains new generations of activists.
* Retirement Plan Roulette.
* The First Trans*Studies Conference.
* Donna Haraway: "Tentacular Thinking: Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Chthulucene."
The unfinished Chthulucene must collect up the trash of the Anthropocene, the exterminism of the Capitalocene, and chipping and shredding and layering like a mad gardener, make a much hotter compost pile for still possible pasts, presents, and futures.
A bit more here.
* Elsewhere in the Anthropocene: Montana declares state of emergency over pipeline spill, oily drinking water. The Gradual Atlantis (and see Dr. K.S. Robinson for more). Fast Fashion and Environmental Crisis. The Planet Is Going Through A 'Catastrophic' Wilderness Loss, Study Says. The Oceans Are Heating Up. A Monument to Outlast Humanity. New genus of bacteria found living inside hydraulic fracturing wells. And from the archives: Louisiana Doesn't Exist.
* The Joyful, Illiterate Kindergartners of Finland. What Should a Four-Year-Old Know? How to Raise a Genius.
* Michael R. Page on the greatness of The Space Merchants. Bonus content from University of Illinois Press: Five Quotes from Frederik Pohl.
* The problem with this reasoning, at least as it relates to graduate students, is that we have had fifty years to find out if unions destroy graduate education. They don't.
* How Unions Change Universities. Scabbing on Our Future Selves.
* Of Moral Panics, Education, Culture Wars, and Unanswerable Holes.
* The Death of ITT Tech, Part One: What Happened?
* Audrey Watters on the (credit) score.
* Clemson's John C. Calhoun Problem. And Jack Daniels's.
* Welcome to Our University! We're Delighted to Have You, But If You Think We're Going to Cancel the Ku Klux Klan Rally, You've Got Another Think Coming. Cashing in on the Culture Wars: U Chicago.
* The things English speakers know, but don't know they know.
Things native English speakers know, but don't know we know: pic.twitter.com/Ex0Ui9oBSL
— Matthew Anderson (@MattAndersonBBC) September 3, 2016
* Raymond Chandler and Totality.
* Writing Like a State.
* Slapstick, Fordism and the Communist Avant-Garde.
* Capitalist Saboteurs.
* Why 'The Stranger' Almost Didn't Get Published.
* It's Getting Harder and Harder to Deny That Football Is Doomed.
* After Richmond Student Writes Viral Essay About Her Rape Case, the University Calls Her a Liar.
* Milwaukee vs. Pikachu. The World's Most Dangerous Game: Pokémon's Strange History with Moral Panics.
* Weapons of Math Destruction: invisible, ubiquitous algorithms are ruining millions of lives.
* British artist Rebecca Moss went aboard the Hanjin Geneva container ship for a "23 Days at Sea Residency." But the company that owns the ship went bankrupt on August 31, and ports all over the world have barred Hanjin's ships because the shipping line is unable to pay the port and service fees. Artist-in-residence stuck on bankrupt container ship that no port will accept.
* Christopher Newfield talks his new book on the collapse of the public university, The Great Mistake.
* Bill de Blasio's Pre-K Crusade.
* The Plight of the Overworked Nonprofit Employee.
* FiveThirtyEight: What Went Wrong?
* The Lasting Impact of Mispronouncing Students' Names.
* The law, in its majestic equality: Black Defendants Punished Harsher After A Judge's Favorite Football Team Loses.
* Fred Moten on academic freedom, Palestine, BDS, and BLM.
* Being Nadja Spiegelman.
* The Night Of and the Problem of Chandra.
* The Book of Springsteen. Relatedly: Bruce Springsteen's Reading List.
* Defining Unarmed.
* New research suggests that humans have a sixth basic taste in addition to sweetness, sourness, saltiness, bitterness, and umami. It's starchiness.
* Against Theory.
Differently from philosophy, which functions under long, frustrating timings, and very rarely reaches any certainty, theory is quick, voracious, sharp, and superficial: its model is the "reader," a book made to help people make quotations from books that are not read.
* The largest strike in world history?
* The Walrus has an absolutely wrenching piece on stillbirth.
* How to Tell a Mother Her Child Is Dead.
* "Science thought there was one species and now genetics show there are four species," Dr. Janke said. "All zoos across the world that have giraffes will have to change their labels."
* The Mysterious Ending of John Carpenter's The Thing May Finally Have an Answer.
* Teach the controversy: No Forests on Flat Earth.
* The clash of eschatologies.
* Wisconsin appeals Brendan Dassey's overturned conviction.
* Abolish the iPhone. How Apple Killed the Cyberpunk Dream. It's not much better over there.
Fuck it, let's do a planned economy pic.twitter.com/KYwvQ3wPeM
— Luke Savage (@LukewSavage) September 9, 2016
* Atwood and comics.
* The NEH's chairman, Bro Adams, tries to make a case for the humanities. Is anyone listening?
* Britain isn't doing a super great job with Brexit.
* No other image has better captured the struggle that is simply living every day: Drunk Soviet worker tries to ride on hippo (Novokuznetsk, in Kemerovo, 1982). Yes, there's still more links below.
* The DEA vs. Kratom. Why Banning the Controversial Painkiller Kratom Could Be Bad News for America's Heroin Addicts.
*Never-Ending Election Watch: How Donald Trump Retooled His Charity to Spend Other People's Money. Trump pays IRS a penalty for his foundation violating rules with gift to aid Florida attorney general. A Tale of Two Scandals. That Clinton Foundation Scandal the Press Wants Exists, But they Won't Report it Because it's Actually About the Trump Foundation. Inside Bill Clinton's nearly $18 million job as 'honorary chancellor' of a for-profit college. No More Lesser-Evilism. And Vox, you know, explaining the news.
* Dominance politics, deplorables edition.
* And put this notion in your basket of deplorables: Darkwing Duck and DuckTales Are in Separate Universes and This Is Not Okay.
* How Fox News women took down the most powerful, and predatory, man in media.
* Yes, Here Comes Trump TV.
* Corporal Punishment in American Schools.
* Black Teachers Matter.
* I say jail's too good for 'em: US library to enforce jail sentences for overdue books.
* Bugs Bunny, the Novel, and Transnationalism.
* Understanding Hellboy.
* The Perilous Lure of the Underground Railroad. The Atlantic Slave Trade in Two Minutes.
* What's the Matter with Liberals?
* Alan Moore Confirms Retirement from Comic Books. An interview in the New York Times where, lucky for me, he talks a lot about David Foster Wallace.
* The Need For Believable Non-White Characters — Sidekicks, Included.
* What Your Literature Professor Knows That Your Doctor Might Not.
* Geologic Evidence May Support Chinese Flood Legend.
* Fully Autonomous Cars Are Unlikely, Says America's Top Transportation Safety Official.
* Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal roundup: The Clockmaker. Science Journalism. I Am No Longer a Child. Teach a Man to Fish. How Stress Works. On Parenting. You haven't hit bottom yet. Keep scrolling!
* Today in unnecessary sequels: Mel Gibson confirms Passion Of The Christ sequel. And elsewhere on the unnecessary sequel beat: We Finally Know What the Avatar Sequels Will Be About.
* At least they won't let Zack Snyder ruin Booster Gold.
* Poe's Law, but for the left? Inside the Misunderstood World of Adult Breastfeeding.
* The Revolution as America's First Civil War.
* Mike Konczal on Eviction.
* What Happens When We Decide Everyone Else Is a Narcissist.
* 45,000 Pounds of Would-Be Pennies Coat Highway After Delaware Crash.
* 'Illegal' Immigration as Speech.
* Second Thoughts of an Animal Researcher.
* Conspiracy Corner: Obama and the Jesuits.
* On Sept. 16 the opera "Happy Birthday, Wanda June," based on Vonnegut's play, will have its world premiere in Indianapolis. A dayslong celebration of, and reflection on, the best-selling author's works called Vonnegut World will precede it.
* The Unseen Drawings of Kurt Vonnegut.
* The Science of Loneliness. Loneliness can be depressing, but it may have helped humans survive.
* Once more, with feeling: On the greatness of John Brunner.
* Let us now praise Let Us Now Praise Famous Men.
* Look Upon My Works, Ye Mighty, and Despair: Man Dies, Leaving Behind a Sea Of Big-Boobed Mannequins. Yes, it's a Milwaukee story.
* Play The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Video Game Free Online, Designed by Douglas Adams in 1984.
* Taking a Stand at Standing Rock. Life in the Native American oil protest camps.
* Earth First: The Musical.
* The Subtle Design Features That Make Cities Feel More Hostile.
* Hitchens wept.
* Rebel propaganda. All the Ewoks are dead.
* Finally.
* Salvador Dali Illustrates Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
* Where the Monsters Are. The Wonderful World of Westeros.
* And I'll be bookmarking this for later, just in case: A lively new book investigates the siren call—and annoying logistics—of death fraud.
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Just a Few for Wednesday
* The U.S. Department of Education has recommended the termination of a controversial accreditor, which could threaten access to federal financial aid for 243 institutions — many of them for-profits — that enroll more than 800,000 students.
* MetaFilter mega-post on the gun industry in America, tied to this Mother Jones investigation.
* New Calculation Shows We'll Make Contact With Aliens in A Mere 1,500 Years. 1,508 if Trump wins.
* Hamilton and Liberal Education.
As we thought about the best way to honor this achievement, we decided to create a major prize to recognize creative potential in a student beginning her or his academic career at Wesleyan. This week we are announcing the Wesleyan University Hamilton Prize for Creativity: awarded to the incoming student (class of 2021) who has submitted (with the application for admission) a work of fiction, poetry, song, or creative nonfiction judged to best reflect originality, artistry and dynamism. The Hamilton Prize includes a full tuition scholarship at Wesleyan for four years. The winner of the prize will be selected by a panel of distinguished faculty and alumni.
@gerrycanavan "It is a sobering thought, for example, that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years." — Tom Lehrer
— corey robin (@CoreyRobin) June 15, 2016
* Badge of Dishonor: Top Oakland Police Department Officials Looked Away as East Bay Cops Sexually Exploited and Trafficked a Teenager.
* Crazed Greenwich Village Gunman Also Off-Duty NYPD Officer.
* The Truth about Menards.
* Matt Thompson imagines being outed in Orlando, in the worst possible way.
* Alas, Trump! At least someone likes him.
* The question is how long can this last. Pretty much daily, major Republican leaders don't just disagree with Trump but denounce him in pretty round terms, even as they remain at least nominal endorsers of his candidacy and accept him as the leader of their party. That is entirely unprecedented in modern American political history. It doesn't seem sustainable.
Guy on NJ transit loudly talking about his love for Trump on the phone also just realized, 40 minutes into the ride, he's on the wrong train
— Lauren Zupkus (@laurenzup) June 15, 2016
* The best years of your life. (This one's great too.)
* The Five People You Meet on Election-Year Social Media.
* I'm still enjoying Great Minds with Dan Harmon: Paul F. Tompkins as Edgar Allan Poe, Kristen Schall as Amelia Earhart, Danny Pudi as Buddha… I even enjoyed the Trump vs. Bernie debate. And Jason Alexander on parenting! I may be a cheap date.
* And I think The Expanse (which I've also been watching) is actually good. Watch that too. Why not watch everything? It's summer! Summer!
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Sunday Reading!
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
* 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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RT @_chloeswarbrick: No, it's not @TheOnion. It's status quo economics of environmental and human exploitation, which all us regular sucker… 47 minutes ago
Two books on adjacent problems in teaching and scholarship recommend by my friend @JamesTateHill: Georgina Kleege's… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 1 hour ago
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//
// System.ComponentModel.TypeConverterAttribute
//
// Authors:
//  Gonzalo Paniagua Javier (gonzalo@ximian.com)
//  Andreas Nahr (ClassDevelopment@A-SoftTech.com)
//
// (C) 2002 Ximian, Inc (http://www.ximian.com)
// (C) 2003 Andreas Nahr
//

//
// Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
// a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
// "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
// without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
// distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
// permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
// the following conditions:
//
// The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
// included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
//
// THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
// EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
// MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND
// NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE
// LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION
// OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION
// WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
//

using System;

namespace Xamarin.Forms
{
	[AttributeUsage(AttributeTargets.All)]
	public sealed class TypeConverterAttribute : Attribute
	{
		internal static string[] TypeConvertersType = { "Xamarin.Forms.TypeConverterAttribute", "System.ComponentModel.TypeConverterAttribute" };

		public static readonly TypeConverterAttribute Default = new TypeConverterAttribute();

		public TypeConverterAttribute()
		{
			ConverterTypeName = "";
		}

		public TypeConverterAttribute(string typeName)
		{
			ConverterTypeName = typeName;
		}

		public TypeConverterAttribute(Type type)
		{
			ConverterTypeName = type.AssemblyQualifiedName;
		}

		public string ConverterTypeName { get; }

		public override bool Equals(object obj)
		{
			if (!(obj is TypeConverterAttribute))
				return false;

			return ((TypeConverterAttribute)obj).ConverterTypeName == ConverterTypeName;
		}

		public override int GetHashCode()
		{
			return ConverterTypeName.GetHashCode();
		}
	}
}

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Basing Characters on Real People, by Elizabeth Kay
By Elizabeth Kay - August 17, 2018
Some characters seem to spring out of thin air, but others have a starting point with a real person. Eccentric people provide the best material – they're more interesting, their reactions are more exaggerated, they often have a hobby or obsession that informs everything they do. Because of this warts-and-all element, you are unlikely to provide the most flattering of portrayals, and so a name-change is needed. You can, of course, go a lot further, and alter the age, gender and appearance as well. However, the person you know better than anyone else is, of course, yourself - so you use aspects of yourself quite a lot as well. I also think there's a lot of acting in writing. I imagine myself as my characters, and try to see things from their point of view. This can suddenly give you a completely new insight into someone you thought you knew extremely well. It's also true that when you know someone very well you tend to assume that the reader knows what they look like too, and it's easy to neglect a description.
But the big question I'm always asked is: do people recognise themselves? And the answer is almost always no. People don't have very objective views of themselves. I once based a slightly unpleasant character on a friend who was a bit of a know-all, but irresponsible with it. And guess what – it was the character he liked best in the whole book! I kept a straight face, but it wasn't easy. There was, however, one notable exception, who appeared in Back to the Divide, the sequel to The Divide.
She was poetic cyclops called Turpsik, and she was based on the late great Vera Rich, poet, translator, and human rights activist. Vera was a genius with a wicked sense of humour, who could also be absolutely infuriating and despite having an occasionally abrupt manner conducted marathon telephone calls. At the time the book came out Vera was the editor of Manifold Magazine, which had published a number of my poems, and she decided to review Back to the Divide in the magazine. This was how I had depicted her:
... (Felix) peered into the cave-mouth, and realised he could see a shape moving in the gloom. "Hello?" he called. "Anyone at home?"
"It's not ready," came the reply. "Try again tomorrow."
Felix wondered what exactly wasn't ready. "I haven't ordered anything," he said.
"Not taking any new commissions at the moment," returned the voice. "Goodbye."
"Can't I just talk to you for a minute?"
"Far too busy," said the voice briskly. "Waterfall's flooded the office. Lost five days' work."
"I could help you clear up."
There was a moment of silence. Then the shape became larger and more distinct, and the owner of the voice finally emerged from the cave.
Felix tried not to laugh. He'd met a lot of mythical creatures the previous summer, but he hadn't encountered one like this. It was taller than a man, but not ridiculously so. Its legs were goaty, like a faun's, and it only had one eye, situated in the middle of its forehead. However, it was wearing a dress. The dress was a faded coral pink, stretched tightly across an ample bosom that proclaimed the owner female, and there was a lace frill round the hem that had come unstitched in a couple of places. The unnaturally red hair was scraped back in a bun, and there was a pearly pink pin holding it in position.
"You're a cyclops," said Felix.
"I'm a poet," said the cyclops indignantly. "Turpsik. Won the Creative Cursing Competition last year. Surely you've heard of me?"
Vera Rich
And this was Vera's review (apologies for the self-promotion):
Elizabeth Kay's work has a depth which is winning it a more mature audience. I, for one, would recommend it highly – a splendid storyline – or rather lines, (for the narrative is an entrelacement of several strands) with a multi-layered philosophical subtext and some delightful humour, with at least one 'in-joke' for the Manifold family. In addition to many fantasy characters and beasts from the earlier book , there are some remarkable newcomers – including a female cyclops…
Neither of us ever actually admitted that we knew perfectly well that Turpsik was Vera. I was pretty sure she'd get it, as she was fiercely intelligent and poetry translation requires a lot of looking beneath the surface. But you can only write something like that about someone you care about when you know you've complimented them on the things that matter to them, and made fun of the things that don't. Vera didn't give a damn what she looked like. It simply wasn't important to her. What was startling, however, was that the illustrator based his drawing on my description alone – and the result was Vera to a T.
It's unusual to find someone who fits so perfectly into a plot as Vera did on this occasion. If a character stays too close to someone you know, you're always thinking, so-and-so wouldn't do/say/ think that. The character must always serve the story, rather than the other way round. But this was one instance when I didn't need to alter very much at all. Apart from the one eye, the height (Vera was tiny) and the goaty legs.
RIP Vera, you are very much missed by a lot of people worldwide.
cyclops elizabeth kay entrelacement Manifold Magazine Vera Rich
julia jones said…
That's a lovely little anecdote and brings Vera Briefly alive even for someone who'd never heard of her before (apologies for my ignorance)
Griselda Heppel said…
What a wonderful story! And what a splendid person Vera must have been, to enjoy the joke entirely in the spirit it was made. Just the idea of a female cyclops is brilliant, and this one in a pink frilly dress is a gem.
Thank you too for the very wise advice about turning the people you care about into positive characters, amusing only in ways they themselves would find funny.
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The Lure of the Land by Sandra Horn
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Writing – Isolation or Immersion?
Dastardly Deadlines 10 Top Tips by Wendy H. Jones
Wrtier's Tears
On Reading What I Want to Write by Jay Sennett
Reviews - and their purpose? - Alex Marchant
Writing War and Conflict - Not Here, Not Us, Stori...
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Fear of Failure | Karen Kao
Adventures without adults by Julia Jones
Please don't steal my livelihood • Lynne Garner
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Panasonic's Toughbook laptops are legendary for their ability to withstand a range of challenging conditions. And even though they are typically heavy and quite expensive, there's a niche segment of users for whom the Toughbooks are just the right devices. So that's why Panasonic continues churning out more of these laptops.
The company has announced the new CF-20 Mark 2. This Toughbook is an updated version of their smaller 10.1-inch Toughbook, the CF-20. As you would expect, the new Toughbook CF-20 Mark 2 has some modern features that make it better than the previous iteration.
To begin with, the Toughbook CF-20 Mark 2 features a 10.1-inch screen in a rugged, 2-in-1 convertible tablet form factor. Talking about the specifications, this laptop is powered by seventh-generation Intel Core i5-7Y57 vPro processor, 8GB RAM, and a 256GB SSD.
The display on the front is a touchscreen panel with a resolution of 1920 x 1200 pixels, and it also works with gloves. The laptop is also available in an optional 4G LTE connectivity, which makes sense considering the fact that these laptops are made to be used out in the field.
The Panasonic CF-20 Mark 2 is rated for military grade MIL-STD-810G specification. A quick Google search on MIL-STD-810G specification will tell you that you'll be able to use this laptop in extreme conditions. And it is also IP65 certified for dust and water resistance.
Talking about some of the features, this new Mark 2 model comes some modern features like Windows Hello with both visual and Iris sensors. This new model also an improved camera and better keyboard. The new CF-20 Mark 2 also has 17-hours extended battery life, thanks to the second battery.
With all that being said, sadly, the Toughbook 20 won't be sold directly to the consumers by Panasonic. In case you are interested in picking it up, you can head over to one of authorized Panasonic resellers or online stores. And as mentioned earlier, these laptops aren't cheap either. The new Panasonic CF-20 Mark 2 is priced at $3,099. That's definitely more than what you would pay for a normal laptop, but hey, all the extra cash will keep your laptop protected for a long time.


Physalis or cape gooseberry is a very delicious and nutritious fruit. Physalis is mostly cultivated in South Africa but it originates from the Peruvian Andes in South America. Physalis is considered to be related to tomatoes.
Dried Physalis tastes sweet, sour, fruity and aromatic all at the same time. Our Dried Physalis is free from additives like sulphur and sugar.
Lass Dich überraschen, was hinter dem Namen der Kapstachelbeere steckt. Entdecke die Facetten der Physalis mit uns.
Why are Physalis so sticky?
The sticky substance that the fruit is coated it, is transported from the inside of the fruit and tastes quite bitter. It's main function is to protect the fruit and before consuming it, it should be washed off.
What kind of Vitamins are found in Physalis?
There are definitely fruits out there with a higher content of Vitamins, but the Physalis is not doing bad. First of all there is a lot of Vitamin C, but you can also find Vitamin B1 and B2, as well as E in this little super fruit.
What can I combine Physalis with?
Physalis is very fruity hence a combination with bitter berries like raspberries or blackberry might be a good idea. If you want something more exciting you can also combine it with mangos and apples or just try new things!
Die Früchte sind angenehm sauer und leicht bitter, wie Physalis eben. Sind relativ fest, deshalb über Nacht einweichen, um sie im Müsli am Morgen zu genießen. Biss haben sie dann trotzdem noch.
Sehr lecker, habe noch nirgends welche in dieser Qualität gefunden.


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Q: Combination in R How to write a logic to display all possible "N" digit combinations of
"A" & "B" where "A" and "B" forms a pair and "B" can only be inserted if we already have a non paired "A".
For ex :
when N=2, output should be ["AB"]
when N=4, output should be ["AABB","ABAB"]
when N=6, output should be ["AAABBB","AABBAB","AABABB","ABABAB","ABAABB"]

A: I believe this should get you what you are looking for.
# Number of combinations
n <- 6

# Create dataframe of all combinations for 1 and -1 taken n number of times
# For calculations 1 = A and -1 = B
df <- expand.grid(rep(list(c(1,-1)), n))

# Select only rows that have 1 as first value
df <- df[df[,1] == 1,]

# Set first value for all rows as "A"
df[,1] <- "A"

# Set value for first calculation column as 1
df$s <- 1

# Loop through all columns starting with 2
for(i in 2:n){
  # Get name of current column
  cur.col <- colnames(df)[i]

  # Get the difference between the number of 1 and -1 for current column and the running total
  df$s2 <- apply(df[,c(cur.col,"s")], 1, sum)

  # Remove any rows with a negative value
  df <- df[df$s2 >= 0,]

  # Set running total to current total
  df$s <- df$s2

  # Set values for current column
  df[,i] <- sapply(as.character(df[,i]), switch, "1" = "A", "-1" = "B")

  # Check if current column is last column
  if(i == n){
    # Only select rows that have a total of zero, indicating that row has a pairs of AB values
    df <- df[df$s2 == 0, 1:n]
  }
}

# Get vector of combinations
combos <- unname(apply(df[,1:n], 1, paste0, collapse = ""))

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Q: How to store output of hcitool lescan? I was trying to scan ble devices using hcitool lescan in a python code. The hcitool lescan works well on the command line but fails to return any output using subprocess.Popen.The code works fine when lescan is replaced with 'scan' ie scan of conventional bluetooth.
 My code is:
import os
import time
import subprocess
proc = subprocess.Popen(['sudo','timeout', '20s','hcitool', 'lescan'],stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
proc.wait()
lines = proc.stdout.readlines()
print lines

A: Have you tried to use communicate?
proc = subprocess.Popen(...)
stdout, stderr = proc.communicate()

A: Use
from commands import getoutput as shell
s = shell('hcitool scan')

s is a string with what you are looking for.


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package com.dataartisans.flink.cascading.runtime.sink;

import cascading.flow.FlowNode;
import cascading.flow.stream.duct.Duct;
import cascading.flow.stream.duct.Gate;
import cascading.flow.stream.graph.IORole;
import cascading.flow.stream.graph.NodeStreamGraph;
import cascading.pipe.Boundary;
import cascading.pipe.CoGroup;
import cascading.pipe.GroupBy;
import cascading.pipe.HashJoin;
import com.dataartisans.flink.cascading.runtime.util.FlinkFlowProcess;

public class SinkStreamGraph extends NodeStreamGraph {

	private SinkBoundaryInStage sourceStage;

	public SinkStreamGraph(FlinkFlowProcess flowProcess, FlowNode node, Boundary source) {

		super(flowProcess, node);

		sourceStage = handleHead(source);

		setTraps();
		setScopes();

		printGraph( node.getID(), "sink", flowProcess.getCurrentSliceNum() );
		bind();
	}

	public SinkBoundaryInStage getSourceStage() {
		return this.sourceStage;
	}

	private SinkBoundaryInStage handleHead( Boundary boundary ) {

		SinkBoundaryInStage sourceStage = (SinkBoundaryInStage)createBoundaryStage(boundary, IORole.source);
		addHead( sourceStage );
		handleDuct( boundary, sourceStage );
		return sourceStage;
	}

	@Override
	protected Duct createBoundaryStage( Boundary boundary, IORole role ) {

		if(role == IORole.source) {
			this.sourceStage = new SinkBoundaryInStage(this.flowProcess, boundary, this.node );
			return this.sourceStage;
		}
		else {
			throw new UnsupportedOperationException("Only source boundary allowed in SinkStreamGraph");
		}
	}

	@Override
	protected Gate createCoGroupGate(CoGroup coGroup, IORole ioRole) {
		throw new UnsupportedOperationException("Cannot create a CoGroup gate in a SinkStreamGraph");
	}

	@Override
	protected Gate createGroupByGate(GroupBy groupBy, IORole ioRole) {
		throw new UnsupportedOperationException("Cannot create a GroupBy gate in a SinkStreamGraph");
	}

	protected Gate createHashJoinGate( HashJoin join ) {
		throw new UnsupportedOperationException("Cannot create a HashJoin gate in a SinkStreamGraph");
	}

}


The Marian Calendar I used listed this date as Our Lady of La Rochelle, and further investigation revealed it actually refers to Our Lady of La Rochette, as stated by the good abbot.
La Rochette, France, is a difficult town to locate. The Abbot Orsini wrote that it was near Geneva, and there is a town, La Croix-de-la-Rochette, just south of Geneva along the lake Saint Clair in France. It is near the cities of Savoie, Isere, Haute-Savoie and Lyon in the Savoie department in the Rhone-Alps. The population is quite small, having only 248 inhabitants at the last census. A tourist guide makes mention of an early church which is listed as a sight-seeing destination only. I can find no mention of a miraculous image of the Blessed Virgin still at this site.


I stumbled across these excellent minimalist posters while looking for a Star Wars infographic. They're absolutely stunning!
Click on the individual posters to enlarge and read a description.
Star Wars Prints is a collection of original, digitally illustrated Star Wars art. All our designs have been drawn by local artists and are sold as Giclée prints on luxury archival quality paper. Our illustrations are also printed in limited numbers and each print has it's own unique number.
All images credit: Star Wars Printshop & Jack Carpenter.


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