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Faced with rising numbers of foreign entries (long- and short-term), China in 2012 adopted new legislation to manage its migration flows—the first reform to the country's immigration law since 1985. With an underlying tension in the legal framework between restricting immigrants deemed unwanted and welcoming those viewed as desirable, this feature examines the exit-entry law's key points.
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An estimated 41.3 million immigrants lived in the United States in 2013, about 13 percent of the total U.S. population, constituting the world's largest foreign-born population. This Spotlight from MPI's Jie Zong and Jeanne Batalova offers the most current and sought-after data on immigrants in the United States—including origin, educational attainment, the unauthorized, deportations, and more—in one easy-to-use resource.
Migration has begun to follow the flow of capital after years of Chinese investment in major infrastructure projects in Zambia. This feature article, based on original research including the coding of 25,000 Zambian entry permits, examines the emerging migration pattern from China to Zambia, as Chinese migration to the country has increased 60 percent since 2009.
President Obama's sweeping executive action to shield as many as 3.7 million unauthorized immigrants who are parents of U.S. citizens or lawful permanent residents from deportation is facing tough legal and political challenges. This month's Policy Beat examines the efforts to proceed with implementation of DAPA and the expansion of DACA despite a lawsuit brought by a coalition of 26 states and staunch opposition in the Republican-controlled Congress.
Fifty years ago, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, radically altering U.S. policy and reshaping the demographic profile of the United States. Examining the foreign policy and domestic concerns leading to the law's enactment, David S. FitzGerald and David Cook-Martín argue that the demise of the national-origins quota system was driven by geopolitical factors.
With the repeal of the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1943 and normalization of U.S.-China relations in the late 1970s, Chinese immigration to the United States has steadily increased, to a population of more than 2 million. Using the latest data, this Spotlight highlights characteristics of Chinese immigrants from mainland China and Hong Kong, including their top state and metro areas of residence, immigration pathways, educational attainment, and more.
Use this data tool—referred to as "one addictive interactive map"—to examine immigrant populations by country of origin and destination. Find out how many Americans live in Mexico, how many Ukrainians in Russia, or Filipinos in Saudi Arabia, for example.
Whether as migrant-sending or migrant-receiving locations—or both—many countries have rich, complex international and internal migration histories. MPI's online journal, the Migration Information Source, offers profiles of more than 70 nations. Written by leading scholars, these profiles delve into countries' migration histories, demographics, policymaking, and more.
In recent years emigration from Mexico has declined, the country's stable economy has drawn an increasing number of international migrants, and the pace of transmigration to the United States has quickened. Amid these changing realities, punctuated by a spike in migration of unaccompanied minors from Central America in 2014, Mexico is confronting a new role as migration manager: balancing increasing enforcement and protection of migrants' rights.
2014 marked the quiet demise worldwide of the traditional points system for selecting skilled immigrants. Canada, which in 1969 invented the points system, in 2015 will join other countries in adopting a hybrid system that places more emphasis on a demand-driven system. This article examines how following the economic crisis, governments have revamped, hybridized, or ended such programs.
With a range of policies in 2014, China sought to address changing large-scale migration patterns within the country and beyond. This year included promises to reform the hukou registration system and thus enable an estimated 100 million internal migrants to access social services in the cities where they live, schemes to entice the return of emigrant professionals, and crackdowns on corrupt officials who send their families and money abroad.
Migration to the United States from the Korean peninsula, largely from South Korea, owes its roots to political, military, and economic factors, with an estimated 1.1 million Korean immigrants in the United States. Korean migration to the United States has stalled in recent years, and even declined, with a small but growing number of immigrants and their U.S.-born children returning to Korea, as this article explores.
This country profile analyzes Ecuador's migration trends and examines how remittances and return migration have become an important policy focus for a country with an estimated 1.5 million to 2 million nationals living abroad, chiefly in the United States, Spain, and Italy. As waves of emigration occurred, the country also has experienced significant inflows of refugees and economic and lifestyle migrants.
United Nations Deputy High Commissioner for Refugees T. Alexander Aleinikoff talks to MPI about the ongoing Syrian refugee crisis and the role of UNHCR in assisting countries that have taken in large numbers of Syrian refugees. One looming concern: how will UNHCR and other actors change their refugee crisis-response models and mechanisms to adapt to this and future emergencies?
The recent special session of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly, labeled the High-Level Dialogue on International Migration and Development (HLD), was the UN's second-ever discussion devoted solely to international migration. This article examines the implications and outcomes of the HLD, identifies some of the issues that garnered widespread support, and assesses whether the international community is inching toward greater multilateral engagement on migration.
Land is the basis of nearly all economic activities from farming to financial speculation on cotton production — in and along the periphery of an internationally protected park that spans parts of Benin, Burkina Faso, and Niger. Recognized as the "W" Transboundary Biosphere Reserve in 2002, this vast territory and surrounding areas are experiencing a land-management crisis in which seasonal and long-term migration has played a major role. This article examines these challenges through the use of reflexive maps, which capture data relating not only to migrants' paths and motivations, but also the social values and knowledge that they carry with them.
The United Arab Emirates has the fifth-largest international migrant stock in the world, with 7.8 million migrants out of a total population of 9.2 million. Heavily reliant on foreign labor to sustain economic growth, the UAE government in 1971 introduced a temporary guest worker program. This article examines the economic, social, and political challenges and implications of the program for the government, Emirati nationals, and migrant workers in the UAE.
This article examines common challenges and factors influencing the development of local labor-market integration initiatives targeting immigrant youth, based on four city case studies conducted in the United States and the European Union.
In 2011, there were 25.3 million Limited English Proficient (LEP) individuals residing in the United States, or roughly 9 percent of the nation's population ages 5 and older. Although most LEP individuals were foreign born, nearly one-fifth of this population was native born, about three-quarters of whom were children ages 5 to 17. This article provides a demographic and socioeconomic profile of LEP individuals residing in the United States, including the population's size, geographic distribution, and demographic and socioeconomic characteristics.
Immigrants from the Philippines made up 4.5 percent of the 40.4 million immigrants in the United States in 2011. Although this population—1.8 million strong in 2011—has grown 17 times its size since 1960, its share among Asian immigrants overall has decreased since that year. This article examines the latest data on Filipino immigrants in the United States, including population size, geographic distribution, admission categories, and demographic and socioeconomic characteristics.
Immigrants from South America made up 2.7 million (about 7 percent) of the United States' foreign-born population of 40.4 million in 2011. While the share may seem small, this population has grown 30 times its size since 1960, when about 90,000 South American immigrants resided in the country. This article examines the latest data on South American immigrants in the United States, including population size, geographic distribution, admission categories, and demographic and socioeconomic characteristics.
Since 1990, the number of Central American immigrants in the United States has nearly tripled. This immigrant population grew faster than any other region-of-origin population from Latin America between 2000 and 2010. This article focuses on a wide range of characteristics of Central American immigrants residing in the United States, including the population's size, geographic distribution, admission categories, and demographic and socioeconomic characteristics.
Over the past five decades, Mexicans have constituted the single largest group of immigrants to the United States originating from Latin America. In 2011, 11.7 million Mexican immigrants resided in the United States, representing 29 percent of the U.S. immigrant population and close to 4 percent of the overall U.S. population. This article examines the latest data on Mexican immigrants in the United States, including population size, geographic distribution, admission categories, and demographic and socioeconomic characteristics.
The realities of poverty, underemployment, and a large working-age population mean that international labor migration is an expected and necessary part of life for many Bangladeshi men and women. Nazli Kibria of Boston University explains the challenges and opportunities facing Bangladesh as the small nation struggles to balance the need for economic migration and its resulting remittances with the protection of its citizens abroad.
Ronald Skeldon of the University of Sussex maps out the past and present migration patterns of China — the source of tens of millions of migrants around the globe — and discusses the country's budding status as an immigrant-receiving nation.
Arno Tanner of the Finnish Immigration Service and the Universities of Helsinki, and Tampere discusses the historical and current state of migration to and from Finland, and the country's immigration policy priorities going forward.
Since joining the European Union in 2004, Poland has experienced one of the largest emigration flows in its postwar history. But the country has also received thousands of immigrants and refugees, mainly from its eastern neighbors, and is just beginning to invest in immigrant integration. Krystyna Iglicka and Magdalena Ziolek-Skrzypczak look at all aspects of migration in Poland in this updated profile.
In addition to Palestinians, Jordan also hosts forced migrants from Iraq, especially since the 2003 U.S. invasion, as well as Lebanon. Géraldine Chatelard of the Institut français du Proche-Orient examines Jordan's large refugee population, emigration and remittances, labor migration to Jordan, and the government's migration-management policies in this updated profile.
State-level immigration laws have gradually softened in tone since the Supreme Court in 2012 affirmed federal primacy in immigration enforcement in a landmark Arizona case — a trend further solidified by a changed post-election political calculus on immigration reform. This article examines this unanticipated shift away from restrictive state immigration actions as well as the recent new trend in the passage of immigrant-friendly laws regarding in-state tuition and the granting of driver's licenses to unauthorized immigrants.
After months of negotiations, a bipartisan group of U.S. senators informally called the "Gang of Eight" in mid-April introduced long-awaited legislation for sweeping reform of the U.S. immigration system. This article provides a summary of the Senate bill's provisions and outlines the main critiques and obstacles ahead, including a tight legislative calendar, a difficult political dynamic in the House of Representatives, and an early stumbling block precipitated by the Boston Marathon bombing.
Across-the-board federal budget cuts went into effect on March 1, and effects are already being felt in a wide range of immigration functions. This article explores how the sequester has and will be impacting the U.S. immigration system, focusing on the federal government's recent decision to release immigration detainees on bond or to less costly supervision programs. It also takes a look at stateside processing of I-601 waivers, new policy guidance on immigration enforcement at community establishments, and more.
Immigration reform is squarely back on the agenda in Washington, with the unveiling of plans for major reform of the U.S. immigration system by the White House and a bipartisan group of senators known as the Gang of Eight. This article explores the policy and political aspects of this fast-moving debate, examines an uptick in apprehensions of illegal crossers, and more.
MPI's Muzaffar Chishti and Claire Bergeron report on the new Department of Homeland Security rule on the filing of unlawful presence waivers, ICE's FY 2012 deportations and new detainer policy, and more.


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There aren't many savory dishes out there that wouldn't be improved by the addition of a warm, runny egg. The rich yolk does wonders on everything from pasta to burgers and, yes, even waffles. Next time your dinner is looking a little lackluster, just put an egg on it.
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rac7d wrote:Blood Lord wrote:I don't even know if that is a reality anymore. For me, the entire relationship of Blossom with these two girls would have involved these two to hold something against each other, but I'm not seeing that. I'm trying to compute how Blossom would have been with these two. I have written off "rape" or any sort of non-consent sex here since evidence points out willing involvement. then there are a few other factors that make me raise my eye brows at this, such as why Aku got to keep Chi, but Him couldn't keep Mimi.
Is chi definitely blossom's?
Which I am now realizing would make her mimi's sister.
Maybe its Berserk and Aku?
Yes, he's done that before. I forget what he called himself, though.Numa Katzroy wrote:If i recalled from a previous episode,
Aku shapeshift into a woman to get Jack to think of the form as an ally.
He can morph his voice to make it look.. female like?
Mir@k wrote:For some reason i'm not surprised that Aku is portrayed as a loving father (it's quite a nice thing to see), in the Samurai Jack show he was evil, yes, but i never got the impression that he was totally inhuman.
MissTikilicious wrote:Is it just me or does the second face Aku makes looks like something from Dr. Seuss.
Teran wrote:I liked Chi's expression while trying to contain her laughter.
Now we know that Aku truly cares for his daughter.
Blood Lord wrote:Teran wrote:I liked Chi's expression while trying to contain her laughter.
Now we know that Aku truly cares for his daughter.
Yup. It makes me happy that there is some love going on in the Underworld.
TheMadDoctor wrote:MissTikilicious wrote:Is it just me or does the second face Aku makes looks like something from Dr. Seuss.
More like Garfield.
sinistra-sundown wrote:Okay, so if Blossom most likely isn't Chi's mother, and if Aku can transform into a woman, could it be possibe that Aku is able to reproduce by himself?
Birdofterror wrote:But I digress, yes he had a completely new voice for the female persona he adopted. So I wonder... is he trying to be father 'and' mother to Chi? Aku has a lot of work put into this girl.
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Tennessee provides 12 summer programs for gifted and talented high school students.
These programs provide challenging and intensive learning experiences in the following disciplines: Arts, Humanities, International Studies, Engineering, Science, Prospective Teachers, Scientific Exploration of Tennessee Heritage, Business and IT Technology Leadership, Agricultural Science, Computational Physics, and Scientific Models and Data Analysis.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can the forms for the 2015 application for the Governor's Schools be separated into individual files so that multiple people can work with their portion of the application at the same time?
We have separated the forms for the sciences application (the application used by all schools with the exception of the Governor's School for the Arts). The following are the links for the individual files:
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Note: Individuals with the free Adobe Reader (http://get.adobe.com/reader/otherversions/) should be able to enter, save, edit, and transmit these forms.
In what manner should applications be transmitted to the individual Governor's Schools?
All of the Governor's Schools, with the exception of the Governor's School for the Arts, prefer to receive the applications electronically. Please choose the means of transmission that you consider to be the most secure. To ensure greater security, please print the form, sign it, and scan it into a PDF file before sending the application. Contact information for each Governor's School is available on page S of the application.
Please submit the paper application to the Governor's School for the Arts.
What are the due dates for applications?
The application for the Governor's School for the Arts is due Nov. 7, 2014.
The application for the Governor's School for the Agricultural Sciences must be postmarked by Dec. 1, 2014.
Applications for all other Governor's Schools must be postmarked by Dec. 6, 2014. (All applications must be submitted by the school counselor or principal.)
Important: School counselors or principals frequently set an earlier due date for materials to be submitted to school counselors to allow them to complete and submit the application with required information to the individual Governor's Schools.
Where can I find information on eligibility requirements and other information about the Governor's School programs?
The applications for the Governor's Schools contain information about student eligibility, program dates, application requirements, and answers to many other questions. Please refer to the application. It is important to review both the general information and the information for each school in which a student is interested in attending.


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Robinson Meyer is tweeting up an interesting storm about the "death" of "tech blogging" — tied to Gizmodo's announcement of some impressive new hires today. To get past the scarequotes, here's Rob.
With @gizmodo's massive refresh, this feels obvious but worth saying:"Tech blogging"—as the genre was long defined—no longer exists.
— Robinson Meyer (@yayitsrob) May 17, 2013
TechCrunch established the "tech blogging" form, when—after going with ~any~ start-up news—it launched a whole blog about phones in ~2006.
— Robinson Meyer (@yayitsrob) May 17, 2013
50% start-ups, 50% phones. "Tech blogging" as genre. The NYT's Bits—a tech blog! at the NYT!—opens shop in 2007: bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/10/bit…
— Robinson Meyer (@yayitsrob) May 17, 2013
Last Oct., @nicknoted complained about a "general dearth of news" in Gizmodo's beat: jimromenesko.com/2012/10/15/gaw… Too few new phones, companies.
— Robinson Meyer (@yayitsrob) May 17, 2013
(@alexismadrigal called & covered the *reasons* behind tech journalism's demise all the way back in April 2012: theatlantic.com/technology/arc… )
— Robinson Meyer (@yayitsrob) May 17, 2013
Since spring of 2012, you could watch the tech beat break. What were business stories, media stories, policy stories were labeled "tech."
— Robinson Meyer (@yayitsrob) May 17, 2013
Slow news day? This science story kinda sorta qualifies as "tech." And, uh, hey! Here's an architecture story that involves cell phones!
— Robinson Meyer (@yayitsrob) May 17, 2013
With @bldgblog & @paleofuture, @gizmodo enters (my fav) part of tech: gizmodo.com/new-faces-new-… Structure, history, ethics. Weird Techblogging.
— Robinson Meyer (@yayitsrob) May 17, 2013
Tech journalism, ca. 2013: • SAME AS IT EVER WAS: Ars.• COVER WHATEVER MIGHT BE TECH NEWS: The Verge, &c.• WEIRD STRUCTURES: @gizmodo!
— Robinson Meyer (@yayitsrob) May 17, 2013
The death of Web 2.0-flavored techblogging is worth celebrating because—maybe—it'll end the rampant ahistoricism of technology journalism.
— Robinson Meyer (@yayitsrob) May 17, 2013
The best part of Web 2.0, of "social media," of new(!) smartphones(!) was the rambunctious hope. But you can hope and know your own history.
— Robinson Meyer (@yayitsrob) May 17, 2013
Media has a history & policy has a history & higher education has a history, all of them riven with tech—yay, cover them! When appropriate!
— Robinson Meyer (@yayitsrob) May 17, 2013
You could think of what he's saying as the Revenge of the Liberal Arts Majors.
While we're talking about multi-tweet runs, might as well link to Ben Mathis-Lilly's defense of new media terminology.
Analyst Ben Thompson has a good piece up providing the service he often does: examining a portion of the media landscape the way a Valley-tinged capitalist might, without any of the romance people brought up in the media business might bring. If you've ever wondered why so many people are fascinated by BuzzFeed — specifically in how it takes the broader lessons of Internet success and tries to apply them to the creation of news — this piece is a good starting point.
What's interesting is how the existence and popularity of this post [yes, the one about #TheDress] was made possible by BuzzFeed's embrace of Internet assumptions:
— The photo may have seemed frivolous, but hey, why not make a post? It's not like it cost BuzzFeed anything beyond a few minutes of Holderness's time
— Like a huge amount of BuzzFeed's content, the photo wasn't produced by BuzzFeed; it was discovered on the Internet (Tumblr in this case)
— The post blew up first on Twitter, and then Facebook: millions of people were exposed directly to the link within minutes. Few if any arrived via BuzzFeed's homepage
In fact, while it's theoretically possible that the post could have been created anywhere, I don't think it was an accident that it happened at BuzzFeed.
…BuzzFeed incentivizes its writers to fully embrace Internet assumptions, and just as importantly disincentivizes pure sensationalism. There is no self-editing or consideration of whether or not a particular post will make money, or if it will play well on the home page, or dishonestly writing a headline just to drive clicks. The only goal is to create — or find — something that resonates.
More importantly, with this model BuzzFeed has returned to the journalistic ideal that many – including myself – thought was lost with the demise of newspapers' old geographic monopolies: true journalistic independence. Just as journalists of old didn't need to worry about making money, just writing stories that they thought important, BuzzFeed's writers simply need to write stories that people find important enough to share; the learning that results is how they make money. The incentives are perfectly aligned.
The world needs great journalism, but great journalism needs a great business model. That's exactly what BuzzFeed seems to have, and it's for that reason the company is the most important news organization in the world.
It's what qualifies as an age-old debate in the digital media business: Web or native apps? The question isn't really either/or — for most news outlets, the answer is "both" — but since the iPhone arrived, publishers have debated how much emphasis to put behind publishing on the open web vs. building native app experiences for iOS and Android.
Focus too much on apps and you risk being ignored by the social web. Focus too much on the web and you end up being a lonely webview inside someone's Facebook News Feed. Focus too much on apps and you risk getting lost on the fifth homescreen of someone's phone. Focus too much on the web and you lose out on tools like push notifications that can drive attention.
For a number of years (and to broadly generalize), it was traditional publishers that ran to apps — think of all the magazines who poured money into building iPad Newsstand apps, trying to reclaim their old paywalled gardens — and the digital natives who bet on the web and winning on social. Again, it was always more nuanced than that — HuffPo had an app or two — but your Gawkers and BuzzFeeds were broadly betting on the open web and social distribution.
But now things are more complicated. On one hand, Circa debuted a full website today, breaking further out of its app shell. Earlier this month, Flipboard did the same.
On the other hand, Gawker is now building a native app, 12 years into its existence. And BuzzFeed is going app-happy too, releasing a Tinder-for-cute-animals app, preparing a specialized news app, and more. Product VP Chris Johanesen:
We see the App Store as a platform, and it makes sense for us to be experimenting there the same way we experiment on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, YouTube, Instagram, Snapchat etc…
I'm often asked why we believe in apps when many media companies are ditching their apps and focusing on pure-web experiences. Another building block of our DNA is to make the best experience for our readers on whatever platform they are on, whether they are finding us on the web or downloading one of our apps directly.
We're excited about native apps because we can provide deep experiences that aren't always possible on the web. Providing rich features like notifications, personalization, home screen widgets, offline access, and wearable features can bring huge enhancements to your experience.
There has been a lot of talk about unbundling in the tech industry. At BuzzFeed we've thought a lot about our apps and our audience and have spent a lot of time thinking about what makes the most sense for us…
To some people, BuzzFeed is about reading fun lists, taking quizzes and sharing and discussing them amongst their friends. To others, we are a source for vital news and groundbreaking journalism, or for ways to get more out of your life. And to some, we are a source of hilarious videos they love to binge watch.
As we thought about what the best experience for each of these things would be, it became increasingly apparent that shoehorning all the ways to experience BuzzFeed into one app doesn't make sense. We don't see it as "unbundling" as much as focusing. Instead of having one baseline for all types of stories and media we need to build apps that can excel at providing the best experience for each.
We'll see how this works for BuzzFeed, but I think there are a few things underlying this broader shift:
— A broader victory for app use on phones. comScore data: "The average U.S. smartphone user now spends 88 percent of his or her time when using a mobile phone within an app and just 12 percent using the web browser." (That's a gap that is widening over time.) Forrester data: Smartphone owners "use an average of 24 apps per month but spend more than 80 percent of their [in app] time on just five apps." Of course, some of that time in apps is spent on the web — the links you click on Twitter, for instance — but the broad trend is clear: A small number of homescreen icons are increasingly dominating attention, and Safari and Chrome are losing out.
— A recognition of the power of social platforms. (And by "social platforms," I really just mean Facebook.) As Bloomberg's Justin Smith put it this week: "The list is a lot longer than is publicly known of those that have Facebook delivering half to two-thirds of their traffic right now." Facebook's rumblings about wanting sites to publish their content straight to the platform has reawakened publishers' desire for greater control of their own destiny than social distribution allows.
— A shift in business strategy. It's increasingly clear that banner advertising isn't going to be big enough for most online publishers to sustain their businesses. And it's clear that the user-data advantage that Google, Facebook, and maybe a few other giants have over publishers isn't going away. That's pushed differentiation and the desire to built an environment where engaged users are more easily sold to premium advertisers.
(You could actually read each of those forces as good reasons for the boom of email newsletters too; email is an open platform that most people still have to spend some time in, and the the act of subscribing to a newsletter creates the same sort of engaged, committed relationship that a good app might.)
There are also two complementary forces at work here: the move to apps, and the move to lots of apps. That's the unbundling bit Johanesen references. Some BuzzFeed readers want cats; some want news; some want videos about how their generation has totally lived a unique and special experience that can only be understood through 90-second videos. The news people will look down on the cat stuff, and probably vice versa — so you give them separate points of entry.
That's not always an easy bet, though. The New York Times has been quite successful with a unified paywall model, getting around 900,000 people to buy what amounts to an all-you-can-eat package. But its attempts at siphoning off chunks of Times content — NYT Now and the late NYT Opinion — have had less than stellar uptake.
Who knows if these attempts to cloister off user attention will work — the competition is very fierce, and most of the alternatives don't have the burden of being, you know, news. (Think games, chat apps, Facebook.) And this shift still leaves out most smaller and local publishers, who don't have the technical game to build good native experiences. But it's a logical next salvo in the ongoing battle for mindshare.
Medium announced some new updates to its publishing platform today. They include a tagging system (which means more structured data), a redesign of post presentation called The Stream, and an inline editor that's supposed to make it easier to start writing. This last feature has received the most attention so far, with the general consensus being that Medium is getting "bloggier" (or is it Bloggerier?) and "more like Twitter."
When I met with Evan Hansen at Medium headquarters in October, he talked about how the site had grown a reputation as a home for longform writing. While Medium loves longform, Hansen said, they were also actively looking for ways to lower the barrier of entry for writers, trying to compel more writers to write more stuff more casually. That's why, for example, they introduced a commenting format that encouraged readers with something to say to "write a response" in the form of a Medium post. Here's how Medium (and Twitter) founder Ev Williams put it:
It was not our intention, however, to create a platform just for "long-form" content or where people feel intimidated to publish if they're not a professional writer or a famous person (something we've heard many times).
We know that length is not a measure of thoughtfulness. The quality of an idea is not determined by the polish of the writing. And production value does not determine worthiness of time investment on the web any more than it does at the movie theater.
We also know that sometimes you need to get a thought out in an incomplete form in order for it to grow — by bumping into other brains and breathing in fresh air.
That's why, today, we're making some pretty big changes to how Medium works and feels.
Venture-backed sites like Medium need lots of content and lots of users. While being known for free, elegant, digital publishing has worked for Medium so far, it hasn't brought the hockey-stick user base growth that early investors typically seek. It's also worth noting that Matter, the digital science magazine that Medium bought and turned into a sort of flagship for what it's possible to build on Medium, is currently filling a senior editor position that reflects this pivot.
By showing that Medium can be a destination for both the long and the short, the high brow and the low, the goal is to lower the stakes and get more fingers tapping away on Medium.com.
If you're a weekend denizen of Media Twitter, (a) my apologies and (b) you've already seen this Friday blog post from Fredrik deBoer, a doctoral student at Purdue and a smart critic of contemporary media. He's riffing off of some time spent reading Fusion and noting the sameness of the 2015 News Web:
But [Fusion] just isn't about anything in the way that the site's founders and editorial people clearly want it to be…you're still another site publishing people writing about news and politics and culture and sometimes sports. And in that, you're joining every other website that publishes about news and politics and culture and sometimes sports.
The mix changes… [here deBoer has a lengthy and funny and telling riff about the various 10-percent-different boxes that online publishers slot themselves into — it's not fair to excerpt it, go read it all.] But one way or another, you could take 90% of what each of these sites publish and stick it on any other, and nobody would ever know the difference.
I'm sure some people will think I'm talking poop and saying these sites aren't good. That is not the case. I'm saying that they are all as good or as bad as whatever piece I am reading at the moment. Writers are good or bad, and much more, writing is good or bad. But I no longer know what a website means as an identity, unless that identity is a specific subject. I know what Guns and Ammo is. I know what Road and Track is. (I know what Redtube is.) I don't know what Fusion is.
I think he's onto something here, but I want to put a slightly different twist on it. What unites these outlets? (Fusion, Grantland, Slate, The Atlantic, New York, The New York Times Magazine, The New Republic, BuzzFeed, Salon, The Awl, Gawker, Vice, Vox, FiveThirtyEight.) Two things:
They are not local. (New York, Gawker, and The Awl might in some moods claim to be local to New York, but they're really more about the state of being (or aspiring to be) a New Yorker, which is universal.) This is both deeply obvious and historically strange. Before the Internet, journalism in the United States was intensely local — local newspapers, local television, and local radio, with only magazines really slicing up the market psychographically rather than geographically.
Today, with the Internet taking distribution out of the physical world of broadcast towers and delivery trucks, the media world is even more centered on New York (with honorable mention to D.C./L.A./S.F.) than ever. Add in younger (and cheaper) staffs at most places and you end up with content that is highly shaped by its context — the sort of broad editorial middle that 20something and 30something graduates of good universities like to write. (You'll also note that these outlets are much more willing to be open about taking left-of-center stances — on, say, same-sex marriage or immigration — than a more geographically dispersed media ecosystem would be, because in that world, there really is only one side to those arguments.)
Most are funded by venture money (Vox, Vice, BuzzFeed), backed by giant corporations (538, Grantland, Fusion), or traditional media companies trying to adjust to the digital world (The Atlantic, The New Republic). In each of those cases, the operative business model of choice requires scale — scale to support national advertising buys. Of the 14 outlets deBoer mentions, only The New York Times Magazine has a paywall of note. Despite what you may hear about events strategies, digital advertising is still very much the big kahuna in their models. And you don't get sort of scale by being quirky or playing on the culture's edges.
It's also worth remembering that this was not The Dream of The Internet from what seems like not that long ago. The power of personal publishing was supposed to be about empowering the little guy — everyone on an equal platform, subcultures to the fore, the crowd and those who make it up given expressive power heretofore unseen. Not a bunch of good but same-ish websites bound by most of the same boxes.
When I talk about digital media, I often fall back on an accordion metaphor: The playing field of any medium takes turns expanding out and crunching back in. The early days of newspapers were filled with handfuls or dozens of papers per city, each attached to a specific audience or political point of view. But over time, they compressed down to a single, establishment daily in most places. The early days of radio were filled with amateur and experimental stations, operating under the regulatory radar. But they quickly divvied up the dial and, through many years of conglomeration, turned into your Clear Channels and Cumulus Medias. It's a regular pattern — a new format opens up a wide space for experimentation and audience targeting, and then business forces compress it down into a few big players.
We've already seen a version of this online in the political blogosphere (that quaint word), which a decade ago was a lively place with many thousands of blogs, some big, some small, all operating and interlinking on the open web. That's mostly been subsumed by a much smaller set of large political sites on both left and right that are both professionalized and monetized. The formation of the broad content middle deBoer describes is a logical next step in that process. There'll still be the little magazines and their equivalent, but they'll enter the broader conversation insofar as they get aggregated up the food chain. (And of course "personal publishing" has long moved to the biggest players I haven't mentioned yet: Facebook, Twitter, and the other social platforms that are even more all-encompassing — and aim to stake even further claim to their domain.)
The image of the accordion crunching back in doesn't have to mean a financial crunch; lots of people made lots of money in the consolidation of readers and outlets in newspaper and radio. What deBoer is really describing is the re-creation of mass media — a little younger-skewing than the last one, sure, but the same sort of broad zone of uniformity.
On Wednesday, Vox tried out a different style in its email and asked for feedback. The change: The bullet points were turned into meaty paragraphs, rich with context, links, and something closer to traditional narrative prose. Another screenshot (also with the type shrunk down):
Who doesn't like context and narrative prose? Well, the readers of Vox Sentences. Last night, Vox ended the experiment when the response was fierce.
Format update: The votes are in, and man, you guys really did not care for yesterday's Sentences format! It wasn't even close. 177 people wrote in, and 169 expressed a clear preference one way or the other (many thanks to the very sweet people who said they'd read it in any format). 32 preferred the new version, while 137 liked the old one better.
That's an 81 percent to 19 percent margin. Dictators win elections by smaller margins than that. We'll keep experimenting with how we do Sentences — today's the first day we'll have pictures in the email version, for example — but for now, it's back to bullets all the way through.
I didn't read @voxdotcom Sentences today — which I normally love — because it it was GIGANTIC DENSE PARAGRAPHS. http://t.co/rscO2cObWh
— Dominic Holden (@dominicholden) February 12, 2015
I'd side with the majority here. If you asked me what morning email newsletter about journalism has the most and best content, I'd probably go with the American Press Institute's Need To Know. But at the same time, some of its formatting and style is so dense that it can be offputting. It's hard to scan a paragraph like this one from this morning's edition:
More broadly, it's a reminder that, for all the buzz around The Email Newsletter Renaissance, we're still figuring out the formats — length, structure, content — that work. There's still a lot of space for evolution and experimentation.
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611 | New rules governing drone journalism are on the way — and there's reason to be optimistic They're more permissive than some had expected: "Under this regulatory framework, every newsroom will have drones and people certified to fly them. They'll just be part of the equipment." |
542 | Internet birthed the radio star: Local newspapers are hoping online radio can be a growth area Despite slow audience and revenue growth, a handful of newspapers are optimistic about the future of Internet radio. |


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Not the government I'm worried about so much but the satanists and criminally minded in all levels and walks of life . Yes ,I do understand that there are glitches,but that doesn't explain why the 2 links with some very damaging info against people in respectable postions of society gets screwed up in submitting,despite the fact that thoroughly checked them for accuracy both times. Another glitch? but of course..anything that might seem a little off can be explained as a glitch,and of course that knawing creepy feeling that I'm being observed at times when I post is all just paranoia.
Humphrey you are probably right about some of the glitches,time will tell on the rest of it. Lashmar thanks for caring about my sense of dignity ,even if you don't agree with my perception of whats going on. (gives lash a hug) You're a cool kid with a great sense of humour,and I'm happy I got to make your aquaintance through this site.


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I took some advice about my previous work and completely restructured it. so, Here is my new Bleach fanfic:
Bleach: the Unknown Arc
Chapter One
"When you give in to Insanity"
It had been a full 5 years since the Aizen incident, when Ichigo and his comrades defeated the Arrancars (Hollows that had gained Soul Reaper powers) And Ichigo had been living easy.
He only had to defeat hollows as they came into the world of the living and make sure Karakura Town was safe.
During that time, However, He had begun to lose control over his inner Hollow, and feared that things would get worse.
Also, during these 5 years, The Gotei 13, the Royal Court Guards of the Soul Society, had decided that Ichigo couldn't do it alone. They Reinstated a Secret Society known as the Royal Order of the Zanpaku-to ("Squad Z" for short), a sort of "Black-Ops" Force that monitored Spiritual activity in the World of the Living. It was disbanded after the First Captain decided to defect from the Soul Society.But now it was back after 10 years of being inactive with the former lieutenant, Tyrax Kabusawa, being the Captain.
Shortly after, Tyrax and Ichigo had become friends through the Soul Society and took pride in busting Hollows together. Soon, Tyrax was teaching Ichigo everything he knew, including a secret technique where a Zanpaku-to is released to become it's true hidden form. But Ichigo continued struggling with his inner Hollow and in many instances, his inner hollow lashed out against Tyrax......
But soon things got out of hand......
On a cool crisp November morning, Ichigo stood outside of Urahara Shoten, waiting for Tyrax's Arrival. He watched the leaves blow across the street as they were carried by the wind and he started to wonder how long it would take for the captain to arrive. And as he thought, his mind wandered into the deepest realm of his psyche and a Face flashed across the black backdrop.
He immediately gripped his head and dropped to his knees.
I.... will not.... let you win....
come on, King..... I know you're getting weak... Like i said, as soon as you show weakness.. I'll knock you from your horse... and crush your skull!!
As soon as he heard the deep voice he turned his head toward the roof of Urahara Shoten. There, right on the edge, stood Captain Tyrax Kabusawa...
He stood at 6 feet tall and was a broad-shouldered man. He looked to be 16 (as he had told Ichigo) yet he seemed to have strength beyond that of any other Captain in the Gotei 13 twice his age. He had brown hair and wore full-rimmed glasses. He wore the traditional garb of a captain; Black Shihakusho under a white robe emblazoned with the symbol of his squad. He also had a red piece of cloth wrapped around his left arm, signifying that he was, in fact, a human. On his left shoulder he had a small device that had a large blue flame that looked like a wing spouting from it. Ichigo knew this was his Reishi Absorber, a device that absorbed spirit energy from around him to power up his soul. He used it because his soul was human, yet the power he was capable of was beyond the limits of a normal soul. And strapped at his waist was the staple of any Soul Reaper's existance.... His Zanpaku-To.
Ichigo remembered the lecture that Tyrax had given him about the Zanpaku-To and its abilities. He was told that each Zanpaku-To held a spirit within it and it also had a certain attribute...
"For example, your Zanpaku-To is named Zangetsu. But we do not know his attribute yet. I believe that it may be darkness due to your Bankai..."
"Yes. In its Bankai form, 'Tensa Zangetsu', Your attack, Getsuga Tensho, becomes black... Am I correct?"
"Yeah.... But-"
"But... You also gain incredible speed. You may have a dual-attributed Zanpaku-To. Like mine..."
He then unsheathed his blade and displayed it to Ichigo.
"I have the normal Katana because, Unlike you, I must release my Blade's power.. Observe..
In a flash of lightning that began from inside the hilt, the blade began to grow and fom. It became a large serrated katana that was about the length of Ichigo's Zanpaku-To but only half the width.
"This is my Shikai; Hisan Hebi, which means 'Flying Serpent'. It is a Lightning Zanpaku-To, as you may have guessed from the transformation.."
"But that's one attribute... You said it was a Double..."
"I did... My Bankai has two attributes.... Once again, observe... Bankai....."
When he said the word, a plume of Fire shot from the sky and surrounded Tyrax. He had his blade in the air and Ichigo saw the lightning fly from it. It almost looked like a storm was being created from it.. Ichigo then saw Tyrax rise higher up in the plume and saw the shadow of his upper torso, but his legs had vanished...
Tyrax Swung his blade through the flames, breaking them apart and Ichigo was staring down the blade....
It had grown to twice its normal size and had teeth in the rivets of the cutting edge. On each tooth, a lightning bolt was emblazoned and the blade had the imprint of a flame, looking almost as if it were painted on. And as Ichigo looked up, he saw that Tyrax's legs were replaced by a plume of fire...
"This is Hisan Kaenhoushkai Hebi... The Flying Flamethrower Serpent.."
Ichigo snapped from his flashback and returned to reality and gripped at his head once again and noticed that the mask was forming...
come on..... let me out King......
"Ichigo! Don't let him win!!!"
hear that?? i am the key to half of your power and he doesn't want you to use me.... i think he just wants to teach you so he can kill you himself. He's afraid of what we can do... just LET ME OUT!!!!!
Ichigo screamed as the Hollow within him continued to try and break the wall that held him inside Ichigo's mind.. He then blacked out and found himself face-to-face with his inner Hollow, his Alter-Ego... ogihcI.*
hey King... gonna let me out??
why should I???
simple!! letting me out will unlock all your power!!! imagine, everything you know, all of that power, multiplied by 100!!!! we'd be unstoppable!!!!
and all you have to do is merge with me... we'd be the strongest Soul Reaper ever!!!!!
you stupid boy!! how did you get your power?? that chick Rukia had to stab you!! so all we have to do is do the same and basically give each other our power.... you get it??
So they performed the ritual as ogihcI described and soon, things went to Hell....
Tyrax watched as Ichigo suddenly lost control. He stood in terror and watched as the Hollow mask formed on Ichigo's face...
He's becoming a Hollow.... This isn't happening...
"Aaah.... nothing like a little..... teamwork"
His voice sounded like Ichigo but it was paired with a strange, echoing tone.... And it sounded like pure insanity as he spoke...
He watched as Ichigo's mask finished forming, and then Ichigo lifted a hand and gripped the right side of the mask and ripped it off. Tyrax heard the mask actually give a high-pitched scream and saw it actually pulse and try to begin reforming.
The mask is trying to leech from Ichigo.... He's allowed the hollow to merge with him, but he won't let it take his appearance... almost like trying to mix water and oil.... they seperate.....
Tyrax had to end his thought as the newly "improved" Ichigo suddenly appeared in front of him and tried to strike. He noticed Zangetsu's blade and almost gasped... A substance like that of the mask was creating what seemed like veins along the face of the blade...
"Damn it! Stay still so I can KILL YOU!!!! AHAHAHAHA!!!!"
This won't be an easy fight.... I have to take him out.... but how?
As he thought this, a strange happening occured....
Ichigo stopped as a iron plate appeared over his heart and a chain flew from his limp body behind the dumpster of Urahara Shoten.
Tyrax sliced the chain as hard as he could and split it. Ichigo screamed as Tyrax then pointed his blade towards Ichigo's Limp body.
"Hado Number Six-Seventy-Five: Instant Decomposition!"
A green flash flew from the tip of his blade and Ichigo's human body became a rotten carcass within seconds and became dust even faster.
Red lightning began erupting from behind the plate on Ichigo's chest. He quickly called upon his Bankai and soon the plate exploded. But Ichigo stayed the same... His Bankai didn't even disappear...
And That's when Ichigo lost his mind..
He attacked Tyrax repeatedly, screaming obsenities, but Tyrax blocked most of them. A trail of tears actually began flowing from his human eye and leaked from the eyehole in the mask. The tears left black trails that imprinted into his face...
As Tyrax took hits from the amplified blade, He felt his will falter... He had failed Head Captain Yamamoto and the Gotei 13... Their choosen one had fallen from grace.... and it was his fault...
Ichigo lifted his Blade and landed a massive Getsuga Tensho upon Tyrax. As the blood began flowing from the wound, Ichigo finally spoke a fluent sentence...
"You...Bastard! I swear... I will DESTROY you... Just like you destroyed me..."
"No! That was the name I had as a person. That name.... That life..... Died with my body... I'm now a Shadow....."
Just then he raised his hands to cry into and saw that the Hollow had manifested on the entire left side of his body... He then turned and slashed his left "Claw" against the air and ripped a hole in the barrier between the Land of the Living and Hueco Mundo. And, before leaving, he ripped off his mask and showed Tyrax the man that he destroyed.. The mask quickly reformed on the left side and Ichigo threw the old Mask to Tyrax... And he disappeared...
That night, Tyrax was back in the Seireitei. He had healed his wounds and stood at the gate to the Land of the Living, now wearing a new item on his right shoulder...
.....A Hollow's Mask.....
[b]TO BE CONTINUED IN CHAPTER 2
*It is written in the Tite Kubo manga that the Hollow within Ichigo is named ogihcI. Basically, it is Ichigo's name written backwards. for the Japanese writing is mirrored when displaying the Hollow's name*


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SAPL: In the end wind will win
Wednesday, January 23, 2013
In Fosters' recent editorial (Jan. 10, "Seabrook is still needed") and throughout the debate over Seabrook relicensing, there are issues of timing and geography in evidence that may have served to confuse and confound public perception of what the Seacoast Anti-Pollution League has argued and what's at stake here. While we commend your general support for wind power development, we would like to clarify our position and challenge the misperceptions suggested in your editorial.
At the same time, in our unsuccessful fight to intervene in Seabrook relicensing on behalf of the public we have been required by NRC, and now the court, to demonstrate that significant alternative power sources are available now, or at least in the next few years, to be considered worthy of comparison. Nevermind that thousands of megawatts of offshore wind capacity is "in the pipeline" throughout the region before the end of this decade, or that energy planners are rethinking the whole concept of "baseload" power that has provided huge advantage to nuclear plants in the dispatching of power production. It is simply absurd and patently illogical that renewable power alternatives be held to this timetable to be worthy of consideration, while nuclear plants are practically given a "carte blanche" to continue operation far into the future, despite growing evidence of premature aging at Seabrook and elsewhere.
The answer is offshore
Foster's also errs in stating that our petition and appeal aim to deny relicensing of the Seabrook plant — all we were asking for is a proper consideration of alternatives to Seabrook, as required by federal environmental law though poorly executed in the plant owners' proposal. Unlike you, we were under no illusion that this process would lead directly to a denial of the new license. If that discussion eventually led to a reconsideration of the relicensing based on Seabrook's future obsolete position in the electricity market, so be it. But plant owners and the NRC simply don't want to subject their ill-conceived and premature relicensing process to serious consideration of alternatives, which should worry anyone concerned about a safe, secure and sustainable energy future.
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The GreenMobile factory-built house is a self-sustaining model for emergency or affordable housing. Designed by architecture professor Michael A. Berk, the green home uses natural systems and local building materials to help keep shipping costs down.
After working in private practice for nine years, architect Michael A. Berk shifted gears in 1990 to become a professor and researcher. His new pursuit ultimately led him to explore affordable and ecologically based factory-built housing in the rural Southeast and Delta regions, where the dynamics of poverty differ from those seen in urban centers. "In the Delta, most people still own acres of land, but they may be poor," says Berk, a professor and senior faculty member in the School of Architecture at Mississippi State University. "I'm trying to propose a sustainable alternative to the [mobile home]." But when Katrina hit, Berk saw another need: disaster relief and emergency housing.
Using his research findings, Berk designed GreenMobile, a housing model he believes could serve as a viable alternative to emergency travel trailers and mobile homes. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) agrees with him: Last December, the agency awarded the GreenMobile project up to $5.9 million in funding in the nationally juried Alternative Housing Pilot Program for disaster-relief housing on the Gulf Coast.
Based on the economy of the single-wide mobile home, GreenMobile consists of a prefab base unit onto which pods can be added on site. "It's a hybrid building that mixes a single-wide and a modular house," Berk says. The models, destined for use as FEMA housing, come in two versions: an 890-square-foot two-bedroom unit and a 560-square-foot one-bedroom unit.
Berk designed the buildings for off-the-grid sustainability—with solar panels and water-collection systems—so they can function in areas with no utilities. Made with structural insulated panels, GreenMobile will also capitalize on passive solar orientation and natural ventilation. Ideally, the structures would be constructed of natural materials sourced from local vendors and would come with a kit for planting deciduous shade trees to moderate the Mississippi Delta swelter.
One of the ancillary benefits of GreenMobile, Berk says, is that it's a multipurpose model: "It could stand alone as emergency housing, but then it could have a life after," he says. It could be used as affordable housing for the underserved, he adds, and "it would be better-looking than a single-wide."
Although cost has not been finalized, the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency aims to produce 100 of the small units for $50,000 each. It hopes to pin down the design and engineering details soon and would begin construction shortly thereafter.
special report on rebuilding the gulf coast two years after katrina's devastation.
In this report, we've endeavored to illuminate the good and the bad, the true signs of hope and the harsh realities of its absence. Over and over, Gulf Coast architects emphasize that people around the country need to know what's really going on in this still-devastated but still-compelling area.
When 170-some New Urbanists convened the Mississippi Renewal Forum in Biloxi, Miss., to brainstorm the Gulf Coast reconstruction, they knew it would be a long row to hoe. Two years and dozens of charrettes later, work is still under way to rewrite planning codes that support thoughtful, mixed-use...
Design professionals agree that rebuilding in the Gulf Coast region is frustrating. Despite soaring construction costs and insurance premiums, elusive government funding, and inscrutable building codes—or perhaps because of them—the nonprofit Architecture for Humanity (AFH) launched the Biloxi...
When people talk about good things happening in downtown New Orleans, the name Marcel Wisznia, AIA, tends to come up. That's because this local architect/developer has completed one of the few projects built there since Hurricane Katrina—The Union Lofts, a mixed-use renovation in the Central...
In the weeks after Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans architect Wayne Troyer, AIA, bounced between friends' houses in Alabama and Louisiana. All the while, he frantically awaited the latest news of his home city. "I e-mailed like crazy ... we were all trying to regain our sanity," he recalls. When he...
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