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Have 'em eatin from dog bowls pettin' they heads
Cause they love playin that role they sexy in bed
Smokin bud' I'm outta control wish death on the feds
Cup spills with Grey Goose watchin snuff films
Laughin with dykes that wear patent leather with spikes
My cheddar is right Miami beach playin it low
St. Barts rent a house and a boat
Two hundred thou' on my throat
That's only half of what my wife ice cost
Phonecall hearin another boss got his life lost
Well wipin' sand off of my toes
Read a book called "Catcher in the rye" I chose
Some Bob Marley then I plotted a scheme
To make me and Bump Knux more rich
Then I got me a team he got 'em a team
He tryin to buy G-force with missile launchers
Tired of walkin' around with beef with that pistols on us
C-4's better I'm callin up some B-More killers
To come and bleed you
As sure as the sun's in the sky you'll surely die
You washed up fuck your people
Your money ain't as long as mine you dumb and you foul
Who you tryin to squeeze all this fuck with Alzheimer's disease
We the new breed nigga turn up the mics
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Yeah you know where I'm from I'm from Staten Island man
Word up ya'll know it as Shaolin I call it Staten Island man
Cuz niggas get they legs broke when they try to front man
Fuck it he rhyme? He talking shit let's break his fingers man
Can't write no more word up we specialize in choking niggas
Throwing niggas in cars driving off and shit
Open the door on your ass you know how them Pontiac days went
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Who is Don Berwick?
Don Berwick is a pediatrician, executive and international leader of remarkable change. For over 30 years, he has dedicated his career to saving lives, strengthening communities, and setting and exceeding goals that were previously thought to be impossible. Now he is running for Governor because, as the public continues to lose faith in the ability of government to solve problems, this nation needs an example – a beacon – to show the rest of the nation that bold, progressive leadership truly can deliver for the people.
Don has called Massachusetts home for decades – first as a student, then as a pediatrician, a teacher, and a CEO. Don and his wife Ann live in the same Newton house where they raised their four children and now play with their three grandchildren.
Pediatrician, Executive and Leader
Don followed in his father's footsteps and became a pediatrician, graduating from Harvard Medical School and practicing at both Boston Children's Hospital and the Harvard Community Health Plan (HCHP). At HCHP, he served primarily underprivileged kids from communities of color. He learned that caring for Massachusetts' children also meant improving the hospitals, health systems, and communities that families depend on.
In 1991, with a small seed grant, he founded the non-profit Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) and grew it to international stature. Today, IHI employs 150 people in Cambridge and operates on a $40 million annual budget. For nearly 20 years Don led projects and massive initiatives credited with saving hundreds of thousands of lives in the United States and around the world. The most famous of these, the 100,000 Lives Campaign, involved nearly every hospital in America.
During his tenure at IHI, Don was also a close advisor to the World Health Organization and many national leaders; in 2005, he was knighted by the Queen of England for his work making British health care more efficient.
President Obama's choice to lead Medicare and Medicaid
In 2010, the President asked Don to go to Washington to lead the Medicare and Medicaid programs. Don took charge of an agency with a budget over $800 billion—larger than the Pentagon's—and led a staff of more than 5,500 people. At one of the most critical times in our nation's history, Don implemented many of the most important provisions of the Affordable Care Act, ensuring that young people can stay on their parents' health plans until the age of 26, kids with preexisting conditions can no longer be denied the care they need, and insurance companies are subjected to new levels of transparency.
The toxic politics of Washington cut short Don's time there. Right-wing pundits attacked his commitment to equality and health care for all. Glenn Beck labeled him the "second most dangerous man in America." Senate Republicans vowed to filibuster his confirmation. In the face of the same Republicans who blocked Elizabeth Warren's confirmation to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Don was forced to step aside after only 17 months leading Medicaid and Medicare.
In the face of Republican obstructionism, his commitment to the progressive ideals of social justice, equality, and compassion never wavered. He was inspired by the ability of government to help society's most vulnerable and alleviate poverty. His time in Washington showed him that this nation needs a beacon—an example that the progressive agenda can deliver results for the people. And he was excited by Massachusetts' potential—the Commonwealth was the first state that committed to health care as a human right; that said you can marry who you love; that built an energy system that is the envy of the world. In 2013, he decided to put his decades of executive experience to use and announced his candidacy for Governor of Massachusetts.
Candidate for Governor
Don is running for Governor because he believes we should unapologetically recommit to passing the moral test—to a government guided by the progressive values of social justice, equality and compassion.
Far too many politicians are motivated by fear and timidity—they refuse to talk about poverty because it doesn't poll well; they make promises but are unwilling to upset the status quo to take the action necessary to achieve them.
Don's career has been defined by setting bold goals—goals no one thinks are achievable—and achieving them. This campaign is no different. Don's vision for Massachusetts is ambitious:
- Single payer health care — like Medicare for All
- An education system that gives every student — no matter his or her ZIP Code — the opportunity to succeed
- Bold renewable energy and environmental goals — aim to be the first carbon-neutral state
- Jobs and an economy that gives everyone the chance to thrive
- Ending child poverty and chronic homelessness
With a bold agenda and three decades of experience meeting and exceeding ambitious goals, Don's candidacy presents a unique opportunity for Massachusetts to be the beacon the nation so badly needs.

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I don't normally post stuff like this, but Maker Shed has a couple really good deals right now for folks new to soldering.
These helping hands are a *steal* at $6.99, and make life *so much easier.* There is now almost *no* soldering task I do without using my helping hands (although I have pulled off the magnifier, which was never very useful to me). Also, this variable-temp soldering iron also looks promising. The reviews are mixed, but at $25, it's probably worth taking a chance.]]>
The Rude Pundit: Why Hong Kong Is Massively Pissed (A Primer from Big Lychee)
(A quick explanation of the Hong Kong land system is in order. The government owns all the land – a British colonial practice adopted way back following the unforgettable failure of stamp duties as a viable way to raise revenue in the American colonies starting in the 1760s. In today's Hong Kong both bureaucrats and developers have an interest in maintaining an artificial shortage of land to boost government revenues and profits. The government revenues are earmarked for pointless infrastructure projects which empower bureaucrats and further enrich the tycoons.)
Since the 1997 handover, any semblance of balance between tycoon and public interests has gone out the window. Beijing has bought the tycoons' loyalty partly by giving them access to Mainland China markets; the plutocrats' Mainland assets are profitable but at the mercy of an authoritarian system with no due process (the state can grab private assets at any time, thus has the tycoons by the balls). China also seems to have guaranteed that the tycoons will be allowed free rein to gouge whatever they like from the rest of Hong Kong's economy and society. China's leaders' own families are of course up to their ears in Hong Kong-based money laundering and deals with the tycoons.
The result is a huge concentration of wealth in the hands of half a dozen or so families who control the housing market and rented commercial space. Hong Kong's post-1997 administrations have deliberately kept land supply tight. At the same time, immigration controls on Mainlanders have been relaxed, so Chinese property-buyers and shoppers have flooded into Hong Kong. The young 'umbrella revolution' protestors have little hope of buying a decent home in their own city: a tiny apartment (say 400 square feet) will cost the equivalent of maybe 12 years' total average income for a couple. And their chances of starting a business have plummeted as commercial rents have soared: landlords lease space at sky-high rents to luxury-goods chains selling crap to Mainland shoppers (such goods are taxed or faked in the Mainland). Neighborhood stores selling basics to local residents are closing to give way to designer-label brands for outsiders, adding to the feeling that Hongkongers' own city is being taken away from them.
You get some of this in New York, San Fran, Vancouver or London. But the process is on steroids in Hong Kong, thanks to the distortions created by government land policies and the influx of Mainlanders. And people are stuck here: move more than 20 miles and you're in Mainland China, a still-Third World place of corruption, total internet censorship, and worse.
The students on the streets are looking at a future where they can't afford a home or even to have kids. Subsidized housing for the less well-off is in such short supply that some people are seeking demotions at work and pay cuts to qualify. Meanwhile, in response to the unrest, Beijing is using intimidation and other tactics to subdue the city's traditional free press. Its rule of law – independent judges, trial by jury, etc – could be next.
This is an incredibly peaceful and civilized place (read the accounts of protestors picking up and recycling trash, or doing their homework during sit-ins). The murder rate in this city of 7 million is one-14th of New York City's, no-one has a gun, and the police force's recent use of tear gas is almost unprecedented. Kids don't blockade streets here, ever. So what might look like a plain everyday urban riot elsewhere is a major deal.
The Hong Kong government has hunkered down, sent the riot cops away and is waiting for the protestors to go home or back to class, which presumably they eventually will. The dictatorship in Beijing is worried about other restive regions, like Tibet, Xinjiang and (free but next-on-the-list) Taiwan. Common sense says that a Communist dictatorship will not and cannot allow democracy, but it can at least let Hong Kong people have their city back, and drop the landlords and tycoons as more trouble than they're worth. What Beijing decides will give everyone a clue about whether China is going to be a pragmatic force in the world or get deeper into the paranoid mouth-frothing lunatic thing.
Jon Burge, ex-Chicago cop who ran torture ring, released from prison | MSNBC
Jon Burge was transferred to a Florida halfway house on Thursday, reigniting the nightmares of many of his victims. Burge and his crew of detectives terrorized the city's predominantly black South Side throughout the 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s.
In 2010, long after the statute of limitations had expired for his many vile acts, Burge was convicted of perjury for lying about police torture that he oversaw. He was sentenced to four and a half years in prison for that charge alone.
Challenging Mississippi's depraved justice system: Months in jail, with no indictment and no lawyer - Salon.com
The Scott County prisoners are caught in a Catch-22.
The law—based on a 1963 U.S. Supreme Court decision, Gideon v. Wainwright—says they are entitled to a lawyer to represent them. But without a lawyer, they have no way of forcing the local courts to take notice. The law also says that people who are arrested must be formally indicted and that they have a right to a speedy trial—but the Mississippi judges in Scott County and the 8th Circuit Court District won't give the prisoners attorneys to represent them until they are indicted.
And this is where it gets truly strange. In this, and other parts of rural Mississippi, judges only convene grand juries—the group that hands down indictments—three times a year. That means someone can sit in jail for four months before learning whether or not he has been indicted for a crime. If the district attorney isn't ready to present a case to the grand jury because say, he needs more time to investigate, that person can sit in jail even longer—as Burks and Bassett have.
Why the lag in appointing a public defender? "I can only imagine it's a fiscal reason," says Mississippi state public defender Leslie Lee, explaining that the county likely saves money by not paying a public defender during that long lag period between arrest and indictment.
If you are a white person, try to imagine your life if it were demanded that you behave in such a way every day for the rest of your life, under the very real threat of death. It's harder than you think; millions of people literally cannot conceive of it.
Coroner: Black Man Shot Himself in Chest With Hands Cuffed Behind Back
White died March 3rd in New Iberia, Louisiana, after a night spent hanging out with friends. He was stopped by police along with an acquaintance, Isaiah Lewis, on the way back from buying cigars at a local gas station. Cops found a small amount of pot on White during a pat-down, then ran the two men's names through a database and called for backup. A second search yielded a small amount of cocaine, and White was arrested and placed into an Iberia Parrish police cruiser, where he allegedly produced a .25 caliber semi-automatic handgun and shot himself in the right side of the chest.
The story and the new coroner's report raise several questions about the incident. One friend said White joked about having a gun earlier that night, but no one is on record as having seen one. If he did have a gun, why didn't police find it during one of the two searches? How was he able to reach around and shoot himself in the chest with his hands cuffed behind his back? (The coroner's report said it was possible due to White's "body habitus.") Why did police initially claim he shot himself in the back? Why didn't the coroner find the gunpowder stippling common to close-range shots on White's wound? White had a laceration on his face at the time of his death that Lewis said wasn't there the last time two men saw each other, before White got into the cruiser. Where did it come from?
George Will Confirms Nixon's Vietnam Treason | Common Dreams | Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community
The new release of extended versions of Nixon's papers now confirms this long-standing belief, usually dismissed as a "conspiracy theory" by Republican conservatives. Now it has been substantiated by none other than right-wing columnist George Will.
Nixon's newly revealed records show for certain that in 1968, as a presidential candidate, he ordered Anna Chennault, his liaison to the South Vietnam government, to persuade them refuse a cease-fire being brokered by President Lyndon Johnson.
Nixon's interference with these negotiations violated President John Adams's 1797 Logan Act, banning private citizens from intruding into official government negotiations with a foreign nation.
Published as the 40th Anniversary of Nixon's resignation approaches, Will's column confirms that Nixon feared public disclosure of his role in sabotaging the 1968 Vietnam peace talks. Will says Nixon established a "plumbers unit" to stop potential leaks of information that might damage him, including documentation he believed was held by the Brookings Institute, a liberal think tank. The Plumbers' later break-in at the Democratic National Committee led to the Watergate scandal that brought Nixon down.
Nixon's sabotage of the Vietnam peace talks was confirmed by transcripts of FBI wiretaps. On November 2, 1968, LBJ received an FBI report saying Chernnault told the South Vietnamese ambassador that "she had received a message from her boss: saying the Vietnamese should "hold on, we are gonna win."
As Will confirms, Vietnamese did "hold on," the war proceeded and Nixon did win, changing forever the face of American politics—with the shadow of treason permanently embedded in its DNA.
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7 Things You Need To Know About The Toxin That's Poisoned Ohio's Drinking Water | ThinkProgress
Approximately 400,000 people in and around Toledo, Ohio are being warned not to drink their tap water after high levels of a dangerous toxin were discovered in the water supply Saturday, according to the Toledo-Lucas County Department of Health.
The toxin is called microcystin, the high levels of which were caused by massive increases in algae on Lake Erie. The increases in algae, called "algae blooms", are poisonous if consumed — causing abnormal liver function, diarrhea, vomiting, nausea, numbness, and dizziness. Boiling the water doesn't help — in fact, it increases the presence of the toxin.
As of now, it's unclear when Toledo residents will have clean water again. According to the Toledo Blade, fresh water samples are being flown to a specialized U.S. Environmental Protection Agency laboratory in Cincinnati, which will determine the extent of the contamination.
Here are 7 things you need to know about microcystin — what it does, why it's there, and why it's spreading in the five Great Lakes that form the largest system of fresh water in the world.
Let's face it: You probably know next to nothing about Israel and Gaza right now. You hear a lot of highly partisan screaming, but it's all *so* polemical and contradictory that it's pretty obvious that no one is being straight with you. So, if you want to understand what the hell is going on with Gaza, I strongly urge you to get your head around the tunnels; they are a very informative microcosm of the region's politics.
You've probably heard of the "terror tunnels"--which have only really started to get the press they warrant in the last week or so. If you need a catch-up: Hamas has a tunnel-network of unknown size and complexity that allows soldiers to pop up on remote locations in Israel and launch attacks.
But that's the least of the tunnels--and the easiest to understand (after all, it's not that different from similar tunnel networks that were the nightmare-terrors of U.S. grunts in Vietnam).
It's the *other* tunnels that can tell us so much about politics in Gaza, and Gaza's relations with *all* its neighbors. These are trade tunnels that run into Egypt. Check out this 2012 paper by Nicolas Pelham (" a writer on Arab affairs for The Economist and the New York Review of Books. He is the author of A New Muslim Order ... and coauthor of A History of the Middle East ... , and has reported on Gaza extensively") for the Institute for Palestine Studies ("the oldest independent non-profit, public service, research institute in the Arab world."):
Simple fact: This is as close as I've seen to a non-partisan article about Israel and Gaza. I'm not offering you a tl;dr, because I urge you to read the whole thing and see what you see.
In case you need it, here's an Archive.org link to same. Why would you need this? Because the Institute for Palestine Studies webpage has been going up and down a lot, since pro-Israel bloggers recently went nuts linking to this two-year old study, under headlines like Hamas Killed 160 Palestinian Children to Build Gaza Tunnels – Tablet Magazine. Funny thing is this: Most of these posts are focused exclusively on the following 100-word excerpt from the 8700 word article:
The bloggers go on to make much about how Hamas has sacrificed 160 children in the name of facilitating their terrorist siege of Israel (or whatever), even though that claim cannot be supported by this source; I don't know if they're purposefully muddling the waters or simply didn't read the article, but Pelham is talking about the *trade* tunnels in that section, not the *terror* tunnels. Those children were sacrificed in the name of *commerce* not war or freedom or terror or Allah or whatever--which, to my mind, says a helluva lot more about our world, which is, after all, that's why I brought you this nugget to begin with. It's a two-year old econ article about trade taxation and border infrastructure from an obscure think tank--it's practically the *definition* of boring--but right now, today, it is fascinating and it is informative, and it will tell you something of use about the humans who live in a particular place under a particular set of constraints, and how they respond to those constraints.
How A One-Time Pig Peddler Helped The U.S. Flood War Zones With Guns
The Pentagon or U.S. intelligence agencies often issue contracts themselves for these weapons. But other times, American tax dollars go through a proxy, such as an Afghan government agency, which issues the contract but which is heavily funded and guided by the U.S. Dolarian was involved in both types of contracts.
While most coverage of the weapons trade tracks the multibillion-dollar deals in fighter jets, strategic missiles, or radar systems, most killing in modern wars is done with cheap rifles, machine guns, mortars, and other small arms.
Over the last decade, the U.S. has sent more than 700,000 weapons — the vast majority foreign-made small arms — to Afghanistan, where President Barack Obama has staked his strategy on training and arming the army and police. Likewise, in Iraq after the 2003 invasion, the U.S. disbanded the security forces only to rebuild and rearm new ones for eight years, sending over a million weapons by some estimates. The majority of these were Russian-designed small arms.
These are the types of arms that Dolarian, a man the state of California banned from selling certain financial securities, was given U.S. tax dollars to purchase.
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Is Big Pharma Testing Your Meds on Homeless People? — Matter — Medium
This was my introduction to South Coast Clinical Trials, a chain of private research sites in Southern California that specializes in testing psychiatric drugs. Pharmaceutical companies now typically outsource clinical studies to contract research organizations like South Coast, which run trials faster and at lower cost than universities do. Their job is simply to follow the instructions of their sponsors. This formula is working: The contract research industry has grown steadily since the early 1990s and may now generate over $100 billion in annual income, according to the Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development. At the top of the heap are corporations like Quintiles, which has 28,000 employees and operates in about 100 countries. At the other end are private physicians and small companies like South Coast, which are often based in strip malls or suburban office parks.
Dan Sfera, the owner of South Coast, has produced scores of web videos like this one, the ostensible purpose of which is to demystify drug research. (The unstated purpose, of course, is to generate business for their psychiatric research facilities.) I visited Sfera and his colleague Don Walters not long after watching the video, and they introduced me to a research subject named Steve, who vouched for the good intentions of South Coast clinic staffers. "I love this place," he said. "It's awesome. They don't treat you like you have a mental illness." A middle-aged man with a short, gray-flecked beard, Steve was starting an outpatient study of Depakote, a seizure drug that is sometimes prescribed for bipolar disorder. He had arrived at the clinic wearing red gym shorts and bedroom slippers. Over the summer, Steve told me, he'd been hospitalized for four weeks and had received eight rounds of electroconvulsive therapy. As he spoke, his hands trembled so violently that he spilled his coffee on the floor. He seemed preoccupied with his roommate, who he said hadn't showered for weeks. "The man's got toenails this long," he said, holding his fingers inches apart.
OKCupid Dating Web Site Says it Lied to Users in Experiment | NBC Bay Area
The co-founder of OkCupid.com admitted the online dating web site set up people as part of an experiment.
"I think it's kind of false advertisement," Michelle Cady said.
In one of the experiments, people who were highly compatible were told they were a bad match and vice versa.
In another experiment, the website hid singles' profile pictures for several hours to encourage people to message each other without knowing what they look like. When they brought the pictures back online, many of the conversations stopped.
"It shouldn't become a game to them to see how many people they can hook up together," Michelle Cady said.
Combined kindergarten a big teaching experiment | Detroit Free Press | freep.com
To her left, three boys were sprawled stomach-down on a rug as they worked with a teacher. In the distance, children were working on laptops or writing on pieces of paper, some quietly sitting alone off by themselves and others squirming or even dancing in their seats. A couple of kids walked around.
"I like it a lot because it's fun," Nevaeh said, "and I've got three teachers."
And nearly 100 classmates.
Dallas Killers Club | The Baffler
The second execution came in early November 1963: the president of Vietnam, Ngo Dinh Diem, was shot in the back of the head and stabbed with a bayonet, in a coup that was encouraged and monitored by the United States. President Kennedy was shocked at the news of Diem's gruesome murder. "I feel we must bear a good deal of responsibility for it," he said. "I should never have given my consent to it." But Kennedy sent a congratulatory cable to Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., the ambassador to South Vietnam, who had been in the thick of the action. "With renewed appreciation for a fine job," he wrote.
The third execution came, of course, later that month, on November 22.
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"Had I been allowed to testify, I would have told them"—that is, the members of the Warren Commission—"that there is absolutely no doubt in my mind that the bullet that killed President Kennedy was shot from the grassy knoll area."
No, the convergent gunfire leads one to conclude that the shooting had to have been a group effort of some kind, a preplanned, coordinated crossfire: a conspiracy. But if it was a group effort, what affiliation united the participants? Did the CIA and its hypermilitaristic confederates—Cold Warrior bitter-enders—engineer it? That's what Mark Lane, James DiEugenio, Gerald McKnight, and many other sincere, brave, long-time students of the assassination believe. "Kennedy was removed from office by powerful and irrational forces who opposed his revisionist Cuba policy," writes McKnight in Breach of Trust, a closely researched book about the blind spots and truth-twistings of the Warren Commission. James Douglass argues that Kennedy was killed by "the Unspeakable"—a term from Thomas Merton that Douglass uses to describe a loose confederacy of nefarious plotters who opposed Kennedy's "turn" towards reconciliatory back-channel negotiation. "Because JFK chose peace on earth at the height of the Cold War, he was executed," Douglass writes.
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David W. Blight
Lee married into ownership of nearly 200 slaves at Arlington and adjoining properties. Pryor forthrightly confronts this side of Lee's life; he disliked slavery and found it a burden, but he was no "good" master, communicated badly with his slaves, and considered them naturally indolent and incapable of freedom. He confronted an "epidemic of runaways" (264) in the late 1850s and oversaw one brutal beating of a returned fugitive, including brine sewn into the wounds. Modern day Lee lovers will cringe at some of Pryor's conclusions, rooted in strong evidence: Lee broke up families and "denied the slaves' humanity" (275).
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McDonald's & KFC Meat Supplier Exposed Reusing Expired Meat – chinaSMACK
This company was exposed using such methods as recooking expired food products and changing expiry dates to process expired meat products and then sell the chicken nuggets, steaks, hamburger patties, etc. to the majority of fast food chains such as KFC, McDonald, and Pizza Hut. When the reporter questioned this, the workers even cheerfully said: "People won't die from eating expired food."
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Cops Choke Staten Island Father to Death | Mass Appeal
The Daily News reported that the man's name is Eric Garner. He is a 43-year-old dad to six children who had bad asthma. However, that did not stop cops from essentially choking the life out of him and slamming his head into the pavement. According to witnesses, Eric screamed "I can't breathe!" repeatedly after multiple NYPD officer took him down due to resisting being handcuffed.
Shortly after, Garner stopped his struggle with the cops, and looked to be unconscious. Only then did cops call paramedics to the scenes. (You can count on cops to worry about your health after the fact.)
What makes the story even worse is that Eric Garner's wife, Esaw, did not receive any details from the police until she went to the hospital to identify her husband's body. According to the police, Eric Garner wasn't even armed. The NYPD said Garner had a stem of past arrests for selling untaxed cigarettes, and they observed him selling said cigarettes which caused them to attempt an arrest. In the video, the bystander filming says Garner was being pressed by cops, despite stopping a fight moments prior.
With so many witnesses to Garner being choked to death by the cops, along with discomforting footage of the takedown, one can only hope that those cops are brought to justice.
Through Lens, 4 Boys Dead by Gaza Shore - NYTimes.com
It is important to be out the door at first light to document the destruction of the last night's bombings. By midmorning, I check in at the hospital's morgue to see if families have come to pick up the dead for burial.
When the routine is broken, it is because things can go horribly wrong in an instant. That is how it happened in Libya in 2011, when three colleagues and I were taken captive by government soldiers and our driver was killed.
On Wednesday, that sudden change of fortune came to four young Palestinian boys playing on a beach in Gaza City.
I had returned to my small seaside hotel around 4 p.m. to file photos to New York when I heard a loud explosion. My driver and I rushed to the window to see what had happened. A small shack atop a sea wall at the fishing port had been struck by an Israeli bomb or missile and was burning. A young boy emerged from the smoke, running toward the adjacent beach.
I grabbed my cameras and was putting on body armor and a helmet when, about 30 seconds after the first blast, there was another. The boy I had seen running was now dead, lying motionless in the sand, along with three other boys who had been playing there.
By the time I reached the beach, I was winded from running with my heavy armor. I paused; it was too risky to go onto the exposed sand. Imagine what my silhouette, captured by an Israeli drone, might look like as a grainy image on a laptop somewhere in Israel: wearing body armor and a helmet, carrying cameras that could be mistaken for weapons. If children are being killed, what is there to protect me, or anyone else?
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U.S. official: Malaysia Airlines plane shot down - CNN.com
The United States also has concluded that the plane was shot down, but hasn't pinpointed who was responsible, a senior U.S. official told CNN's Barbara Starr.
The Boeing 777 carrying 295 people fell from the sky near the town of Torez in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine, according to a Facebook post from a top Ukrainian official, as it flew at about 10,000 meters (nearly 33,000 feet) on the way from Amsterdam to Malaysia.
A radar system saw a surface-to-air missile system turn on and track an aircraft right before the plane went down, the senior U.S. official said. A second system saw a heat signature at the time the airliner was hit, the official said. The United States is analyzing the trajectory of the missile to try to learn where the attack came from.
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Vice President of Malaysia Airlines Europe Huib Gorter told reporters that the 15 crew members on Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 were all Malaysian nationals.
He gave a breakdown of the known nationalities of the 280 passengers: 154 were Dutch, 27 were Australians, 23 were Malaysians, 11 were Indonesian, six were from the United Kingdom, four were from Germany; four were from Belgium, three were from the Philippines and one was Canadian. Authorities were still trying to determine the nationalities of the other passengers.
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Snowden says,
When Guardian editor-in-chief Alan Rusbridger asks Snowden to clarify how often he saw this sort of thing happen, he answered: "It's routine enough. Depending on sort of the company you keep, it could be more or less frequent. But these are seen as sort of the fringe benefits of surveillance positions."
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The reason Amazon is playing hardball with Hachette is that Hachette is the first of the big traditional publishing houses to renegotiate its terms with Amazon, after the Department of Justice found that the Big 5 (minus one) and Apple were colluding to fix prices.
Whatever deal Hachette gets will be the new bar set by the publishing industry, and the rest of the Big 5 will demand the same terms.
Amazon's Latest Attempt To Resolve Feud With Publisher Involves Offering Authors 100% Of e-Book Sales – Consumerist
A letter penned by vice president of Kindle content, David Naggar and sent to a small group of Hachette authors and literary agents for feedback, suggests that until a definitive deal is reached neither Amazon nor Hachette would make any money off the authors' e-books.
If Hachette agrees, for as long as this dispute lasts, Hachette authors would get 100% of the sales price of every Hachette e-book we sell. Both Amazon and Hachette would forego all revenue and profit from the sale of every e-book until an agreement is reached.
That means if an e-book sells for $9.99, then the author would receive the full amount. Amazon suggests the deal would represent "many multiples" of what authors would normally receive for the purchase of a book.
Additionally, while Amazon officials said last week that its negotiation tactics – including the removal of preorders and delayed shipping of Hachette books – were in the best interest of consumers, the company appears to be singing a different tune in the letter.
The company proposes returning to normal levels of on-hand print inventory, return to normal pricing in all formats and for books that haven't gone on sale yet, reinstate pre-orders.
Obama riled up Republicans on contraception, and then delivers a knock-out punch.
That's the nitty-gritty. The fun part of this is that Obama just pulled a fast one on Republicans. He drew this out for two weeks, letting Republicans work themselves into a frenzy of anti-contraception rhetoric, all thinly disguised as concern for religious liberty, and then created a compromise that addressed their purported concerns but without actually reducing women's access to contraception, which is what this has always been about. (As Dana Goldstein reported in 2010, before the religious liberty gambit was brought up, the Catholic bishops were just demanding that women be denied access and told to abstain from sex instead.) With the fig leaf of religious liberty removed, Republicans are in a bad situation. They can either drop this and slink away knowing they've been punked, or they can double down. But in order to do so, they'll have to be more blatantly anti-contraception, a politically toxic move in a country where 99% of women have used contraception.
Chase's fraudulent foreclosure: Court says executive falsified documents | 2014-07-02 | HousingWire
The lower court ruling voided all of the fraudulent documents and prohibited Chase from recording any false or misleading documents representing that it owned the Kalickis' mortgage.
Having won the case against Chase, the Kalickis also filed a motion for reimbursement of their attorney fees and costs. The Kalickis' attorneys sought to reclaim attorney fees in the amount $258,060.
The court later found in the Kalickis' favor and awarded them "reasonable" attorney fees in the amount of $255,135, stating the amount included feeds for reviewing and replying to Chase's opposition briefs. Chase appealed that ruling, which led to the ruling Monday in the California Court of Appeals.
The Thick of It: the nicknames
My own rape shows how much we get wrong about these attacks - The Washington Post
"I made these for us to celebrate," he said, sauntering out of the kitchen with two shot glasses full of a red concoction.
"Celebrate what?" I asked.
He cocked his head to one side. "You're here!" he cheered. "You finally made it."
I had been on a long, grueling bus ride up from Washington DC to his apartment in New York. It was already 9:45 p.m on a Friday last summer. I felt sore and had just taken a shower to rid the bus experience from my skin. I laughed and, holding the towel around my waist in one hand and the shot glass in the other, I looked at it. "What's in it?"
"Gin!" I thought he said, more excitedly than he should have. Gin makes me sick. "That's not really my thing," I said. Then he pouted, comically and even adorably: "But I made it just for us."
So I drank it and it was a bit sharp but really delicious, like tart watermelon. "You can hardly taste the gin," I said.
"What gin?"
"You said there was gin."
He laughed. "I said G." He meant GHB, gamma-hydroxybutyric acid, commonly known as the date-rape drug. Later came several more druggings, as he held Gatorade up to my limp lips with who-knows-what mixed in. I spent the weekend — about 60 hours — semi-conscious and didn't leave his apartment until Monday morning. Sometimes I think I never left his apartment, that someone who merely looks and sounds like me walked out.
I had received anal sex twice in my life before that night. By weekend's end, it was 17 times, according to my fog-of-war count. Eyes squeezed shut, the tally was the only thing I focused on at times — like a ticking clock in a solitary confinement cell. Every addition to the tally meant I was one moment closer to the end. He moved out soon afterward, which helped erase the existence of that place for me.
I was raped. I had met him a few weeks earlier at a house party, and we had hit it off. He was handsome: 30, well-built, tall with long black hair, a surfer's laugh, and great taste in "X-Men" (Gambit). He was not some lecherous old man. He was not a sexually repressed loser. There was nothing about him that was "rapey" (a word I detest). The sex itself was — I can't really say it was "good," because that's far too moral of a word and far more than he deserves, but it was highly skilled. He knew exactly what he was doing, exactly how to stimulate me. What he didn't know was when to listen to me saying "no," when to stop, when to realize that my kicking and punching and shoving and screaming and writhing was not just some sick roleplay while he blasted Lady Gaga's "I Like It Rough." He covered my sobbing mouth with his hands. He hushed me and called me "sexy," as in "You got this, sexy."
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Post-Hobby Lobby, Religious Orgs Want Exemption From LGBT Hiring Order
The letter, first reported by The Atlantic, was sent on Tuesday by 14 representatives, including the president of Gordon College, an Erie County, Pa., executive and the national faith vote director for Obama for America 2012, of the faith community.
"Without a robust religious exemption," they wrote, "this expansion of hiring rights will come at an unreasonable cost to the common good, national unity and religious freedom."
The leaders noted that the Senate-passed Employment Non-Discrimination Act included a religious exemption:
Our concern about an executive order without a religious exemption is about more than the direct financial impact on religious organizations. While the nation has undergone incredible social and legal change over the last decade, we still live in a nation with different beliefs about sexuality. We must find a way to respect diversity of opinion on this issue in a way that respects the dignity of all parties to the best of our ability. There is no perfect solution that will make all parties completely happy.
The White House announced in June that Obama would issue an executive order forbidding contractors that receive federal funding from discriminating based on sexual orientation or gender equality after the House had stymied ENDA. The White House declined to comment to The Atlantic on the Tuesday letter and did not immediately respond to TPM's request for comment.
My story "The Traveling Salesman Solution" is in the current issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (July/August 2014). And it's reviewing pretty well:
Pro-tip: If you liked "The New Guys Always Work Overtime" or "There Was No Sound of Thunder," then you'll like this story, too.
The issue is on newsstands now or, if you're a digital baby, available for a dirt-cheap .99 cents(!!!) on Kindle. That's cheaper than I'd price this novelette as a stand-alone download, and you'll get another dozen stories to boot. Good deal!]]>
Tinder sexual harassment suit: Former executive claims she was called a "whore," demoted because she was a woman.
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At a company party in Malibu on April 6, 2014, Ms. Wolfe noticed that Mr. Mateen was unwilling to say "hello" to her, while he eagerly greeted Ms. Wolfe's friend, Kate Wilson, who accompanied her to the event. When she eventually asked him what was wrong, Mr. Mateen responded: "You're a whore." He accused her of being with a boy and insisted he knew all about what her "disgusting self had been up to." He said this in front of Mr. Rad. He went on call her "a gold digger," and "a disease" and "disgusting." As Ms. Wolfe began to head toward the exit, she was accosted by Mr. Rad's guest at the party who spat in her face. This was witnessed by Ms. Wilson. Mr. Mateen went on to ask Ms. Wilson if it were true, referring to Ms. Wolfe and her possible involvement with another man. Mr. Mateen's younger brother repeatedly accused Ms. Wolfe of not being "a good girl."
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Congress Quietly Deletes a Key Disclosure of Free Trips Lawmakers Take - NationalJournal.com
The move, made behind closed doors and without a public announcement by the House Ethics Committee, reverses more than three decades of precedent. Gifts of free travel to lawmakers have appeared on the yearly financial form dating back its creation in the late 1970s, after the Watergate scandal. National Journal uncovered the deleted disclosure requirement when analyzing the most recent batch of yearly filings.
"This is such an obvious effort to avoid accountability," said Melanie Sloan, executive director of the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington. "There's no legitimate reason. There's no good reason for it."
Free trips paid for by private groups must still be reported separately to the House's Office of the Clerk and disclosed there. But they will now be absent from the chief document that reporters, watchdogs, and members of the public have used for decades to scrutinize lawmakers' finances.
"The more you can hide, the less accountable you can be," Sloan said of lawmakers. "It's clear these forms are useful for reporters and watchdogs, and obviously a little too useful."
House Ethics Committee Chairman Michael Conaway, R-Texas, did not return a call for comment; ranking member Linda Sanchez, D-Calif., referred questions to committee staff. The committee declined to comment.
The change occurs as free travel, which critics have criticized as thinly veiled junkets, has come back into vogue. Last year, members of Congress and their aides took more free trips than in any year since the influence-peddling scandal that sent lobbyist Jack Abramoff to prison. There were nearly 1,900 trips at a cost of more than $6 million last year, according to Legistorm, which compiles travel records.
The Pitchforks Are Coming… For Us Plutocrats - Nick Hanauer - POLITICO Magazine
But let's speak frankly to each other. I'm not the smartest guy you've ever met, or the hardest-working. I was a mediocre student. I'm not technical at all—I can't write a word of code. What sets me apart, I think, is a tolerance for risk and an intuition about what will happen in the future. Seeing where things are headed is the essence of entrepreneurship. And what do I see in our future now?
I see pitchforks.
At the same time that people like you and me are thriving beyond the dreams of any plutocrats in history, the rest of the country—the 99.99 percent—is lagging far behind. The divide between the haves and have-nots is getting worse really, really fast. In 1980, the top 1 percent controlled about 8 percent of U.S. national income. The bottom 50 percent shared about 18 percent. Today the top 1 percent share about 20 percent; the bottom 50 percent, just 12 percent.
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Many of us think we're special because "this is America." We think we're immune to the same forces that started the Arab Spring—or the French and Russian revolutions, for that matter. I know you fellow .01%ers tend to dismiss this kind of argument; I've had many of you tell me to my face I'm completely bonkers. And yes, I know there are many of you who are convinced that because you saw a poor kid with an iPhone that one time, inequality is a fiction.
Here's what I say to you: You're living in a dream world. What everyone wants to believe is that when things reach a tipping point and go from being merely crappy for the masses to dangerous and socially destabilizing, that we're somehow going to know about that shift ahead of time. Any student of history knows that's not the way it happens. Revolutions, like bankruptcies, come gradually, and then suddenly. One day, somebody sets himself on fire, then thousands of people are in the streets, and before you know it, the country is burning. And then there's no time for us to get to the airport and jump on our Gulfstream Vs and fly to New Zealand. That's the way it always happens. If inequality keeps rising as it has been, eventually it will happen. We will not be able to predict when, and it will be terrible—for everybody. But especially for us.
Private Contractor For Michigan Prisons Repeatedly Failed To Give Prisoners Enough Food
Less than a year after Michigan shifted responsibility for feeding its prisoners to a private contract with international food services conglomerate Aramark, the state Department of Corrections (DOC) is warning the company that it may yank the contract if chronic food shortages and security violations don't cease.
The DOC says Aramark has violated terms of the prison food contract hundreds of times since it fully took charge of feeding Michigan's incarcerated in December. The violations include providing insufficient amounts of food, swapping menu items without the required authorization from DOC officials, and staffing issues that the department says endanger prisoners and prison employees alike. Kitchen items like knives and whisks have gone missing, according to the DOC letter warning Aramark to clean up its act, and employees have attempted to smuggle contraband into the prison. The state fined Aramark $98,000 in March over these and other violations of the contract.
Aramark's deal with the state requires it "to comply with a statewide standard menu that provides a daily average intake of 2,600 calories for men and 2,200 calories for women," according to the Detroit Free Press, but the company has routinely failed to provide enough meals, and made substitutions, like swapping in bread and peanut butter for waffles and sausage, that undermine prisoner nutrition.
Unless the state ends up voiding it due to continued breeches of the agreement, Michigan's contract will pay Aramark about $145 million in total. A company spokeswoman told the Detroit Free Press that Aramark has "made a great deal of progress and continues to work diligently to address any issues that arise." That same spokeswoman did not respond to multiple requests for information on how the company's prison contracts relate to its overall portfolio of food service work, but a document on the company website indicates that Aramark contracts with 500 corrections clients out of more than 407,000 separate total clients worldwide. Its most recent quarterly earnings report identifies corrections contracts as a bright spot in the multi-billion-collar company's overall performance.
Marion Zimmer Bradley Sexually Molested Me, Daughter Accuses | The Escapist
Marion Zimmer Bradley, author of The Mists of Avalon and the Darkover series among many other works, as well as editor/publisher of Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine, has been accused of sexual abuse by her daughter, Moira Greyland. The accusations first aired in a blog post earlier this month, in which Greyland stated that the assaults began when she was 3 and only stopped when she was old enough to walk away.
"None of this should be news. Walter was a serial rapist with many, many, many victims (I named 22 to the cops) but Marion was far, far worse," said Greyland. "She was cruel and violent, as well as completely out of her mind sexually."
Greyland goes on to say that, to her knowledge, she was not the only victim, nor were all the victims girls. In a follow-up to the Guardian newspaper, Greyland says that one of the reasons for keeping silent for so long was that she was afraid Bradley's fans would be angry with her. Greyland didn't want to hurt anyone her mother had helped; there are many science fiction and fantasy authors who owe their careers to Bradley, never mind countless fans who admire her and her work.
"One reason I never said anything is that I regarded her life as being more important than mine: her fame more important, and assuredly the comfort of her fans as more important," says Greyland.
Wait, did North Korea just fire missiles into the sea to protest a Seth ... / The Dissolve
And then today there's this, from The New York Times:
"North Korea fired three short-range projectiles off its east coast on Thursday, a day after it warned of retaliation against an American comedy film involving a plot to kill its leader, Kim Jong-un. The projectiles took off from near Wonsan, a coastal town east of Pyongyang, the North Korean capital, and flew 190 kilometers, or 118 miles, before landing in waters between North Korea and Japan, said a spokesman at the Ministry of National Defense in South Korea… It remained unclear whether the firings on Thursday were linked to the North's threat on Wednesday that it would take 'a decisive and merciless countermeasure' unless Washington stopped the release of The Interview, a Columbia Pictures movie scheduled to open in October."
I continue to write a monthly column for the Ann Arbor Chronicle, and it just dawned on me--on the eve of the publication of my June column--that I totally neglected to post a link to my May column (which is significantly more upbeat). It begins like this:
The Ann Arbor Chronicle | In it for the Money: Equal Marriage
In one sense that day resulted from a specific victory in court: A courageous couple embarked on a legal battle in order to protect their adopted children in the case that either parent dies, lawyers argued the case, and based on the merit of those oral arguments and the testimony of experts a federal judge issued a very strongly-worded decision.
By itself, all of that was a wonderful example of our legal system basically working as we'd hope.
But here's the thing: If that was all that had been done – just plaintiffs and lawyers and experts and a level-headed judge – no one could have gotten married on Saturday, March 22, 2014. No offices would have been open, no staff would have been on hand, and the appropriate forms would not have existed.
So today I want to sing the praises of the quiet heroism of county clerks – who are, for the vast bulk of law-abiding citizens, the daily executors of the Law, which is to say our Will as a People. This column is meant to record in something approaching a permanent way their mettle in helping to bend the Arc of the Moral Universe towards Justice. . . .
And goes on in that manner for a reasonable number of words, then stops. In the middle, we cover the intricacies of marriage applications and the weird contortions that bigoted laws demand.
If for no other reason, please click through to reap the benefits of reading the piece's lone footnote.]]>
Detroit shuts off water for residents, United Nations asked to help.
Desperate calls for help from the United Nations aren't just for war-torn and developing nations anymore. The city of Detroit—a city that has been on the brink in many ways—in an effort to balance its books, has begun shutting off water access to city residents behind on their payments. While that may seem like what happens to anyone when they don't pay their bills, Detroit is a unique case—nearly half of the 323,900 residents who use the utility are delinquent, according to the Detroit Free Press. To make matters worse, Al Jazeera America reports, Detroit's average monthly water bill is nearly double the national average of $40. The Detroit City Council approved a 9 percent hike last week.
In response, a coalition of activist groups in the city have appealed to the United Nations High Commission for Human Rights for relief. Here's what they're hoping for via Think Progress:
"We are asking the UN special rapporteur to make clear to the U.S. government that it has violated the human right to water," said Maude Barlow, the National Chairperson of the Council of Canadians and a key member of the coalition that put the report together. In addition to creating international pressure to stop the Detroit shutoffs, Barlow said, the UN's intervention could lead to formal consequences for the United States. "If the US government does not respond appropriately this will also impact their Universal Periodic Review," she said, "when they stand before the Human Rights Council to have their [human rights] record evaluated."
Earlier this year, to balance the department's $118 million debt, the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department deployed crews to with the aim to cut some 3,000 residents' access to the water supply each week as part of an effort to shut off water to more than 150,000 delinquent customers, according to the Detroit Free Press.
Physicist Offers $10,000 To Anyone Who Can Disprove Climate Change | ThinkProgress
Dr. Christopher Keating, a physicist who has taught at the University of South Dakota and the U.S. Naval Academy, says in his blog post that the rules are easy: there is no entry fee, participants must be over 18, and the scientific method must be employed.
"Deniers actively claim that science is on their side and there is no proof of man-made climate change," Keating told the College Fix by email. "You would think that if it was really as easy as the deniers claim that someone, somewhere would do it."
Keating is planning to post entries on his blog along with comments. He is willing to field a wide array of submissions and is also offering $1,000 to anyone that can provide any scientific evidence at all that climate change isn't real. "They are even free to find proof on the Internet and cut and paste it," he said.
Google and the Trolley Problem | Owen abroad
Being a utilitarian, I find the trolley problem straightforward. It seems obvious to me that the driver should switch tracks, saving five lives at the cost of one. But many people do not share that intuition: for them, the fact that switching tracks requires an action by the driver makes it more reprehensible than allowing five deaths to happen through inaction.
If it were a robot in the drivers' cab, then Asimov's Three Laws wouldn't tell the robot what to do. Either way, humans will be harmed, whether by action (one man) or inaction (five men). So the First Law will inevitably be broken. What should the robot be programmed to do when it can't obey the First Law?
This is no longer hypothetical: an equivalent situation could easily arise with a driverless car. Suppose a group of five children runs out into the road, and the car calculates that they can be avoided only by mounting the pavement, and killing a single pedestrian walking there. How should the car be programmed to respond?
There are many variants on the Trolley Problem (analysed by Judith Jarvis Thompson), most of which will have to be reflected in the cars' algorithms one way or another. For example, suppose a car finds on rounding a corner that it must either drive into an obstacle, leading to the certain death of its single passenger (the car owner), or it must swerve, leading to the death of an unknown pedestrian. Many human drivers would instinctively plough into the pedestrian to save themselves. Should the car mimic the driver and put the interests of its owner first? Or should it always protect the interests of the stranger? Or should it decide who dies at random? (Would you a buy a car programmed to put the interests of strangers ahead of the passenger, other things being equal?)
One option is to let the market decide: I can buy a utilitarian car, while you might prefer the deontological model. Is it a matter of religious freedom to let people drive a car whose alogorithm reflects their ethical choices?
Perhaps the normal version of the car will be programmed with an algorithm that protects everyone equally and display advertisements to the passengers; while wealthy people will be able to buy the 'premium' version that protects its owner at the expense of other road users. (This is not very different to choosing to drive an SUV, which protects the people inside the car at the expense of the people outside it.)
Joe. My. God.: Pope Francis Excommunicates The Mafia
The Messy Link Between Slave Owners and Modern Management — HBS Working Knowledge
"It's a much bigger, more powerful question to ask, If today we are using management techniques that were also used on slave plantations," she says, "how much more careful do we need to be? How much more do we need to think about our responsibility to people?"
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16 Wacky Ideas In The Texas Republican Party's New Platform | ThinkProgress
4) Americans Should Not Be Allowed To Choose Their Own Senators
The Seventeenth Amendment abolished an older practice that empowered state lawmakers to choose their state's senators, in no small part because the old system "led to rampant and blatant corruption, letting corporations and other moneyed interests effectively buy U.S. Senators, and tied state legislatures up in numerous, lengthy deadlocks over whom to send to Washington." The Texas GOP platform, however, wants to return to the day when the American people could not vote on their own senators. "Full Repeal of the 17th Amendment of the United States Constitution" is one of the platform's demands.
5) The Problem With America's Schools Is That They Have Too Much Money
According to the Texas GOP, "[s]ince data is clear that additional money does not translate into educational achievement, and higher education costs are out of control, we support reducing taxpayer funding to all levels of education institutions."
I Don't Want to Live on This Planet Anymore: Young Writer Earns Six Figures With One Direction Fan Fiction - Cheezburger
"After" imagines a bad-boy punk version of Harry Styles falling for sheltered college freshman Tessa, whose world is upended by their relationship. Todd put the story up in daily installments -- some 300 short chapters spread out across three volumes -- on the relatively new Wattpad, where it was an almost instant hit. Wattpad's Ashleigh Gardner says that even before Todd finished the first volume, "After" was registering all over the company's internal social media metrics, with fan-generated art and custom musical playlists popping up on Twitter and Instagram. When Todd mentioned "Pride and Prejudice" or "Wuthering Heights" in "After," Wattpad had spikes in the reads (how the company counts clicks) on those novels on its site. To date, "After" has notched more than 800 million reads and ended 2013 as the site's most-shared story. Wattpad reached out to Todd, helped her build her fan base during the next two volumes and guided her toward a book deal, essentially acting as her agent.
Prison Labor and Artisanal Food - Lawyers, Guns & Money : Lawyers, Guns & Money
Says John Scaggs, Haystack's marketing and sales director, referring to CCI: "They have land. They have human capital, the equipment. If you can think it up, they can do it, and do it fast."
That diverse and nimble operation has attracted visits by officials from 22 prisons as well as steady interest from companies that want to tap CCI's workforce. "I get one to two calls a week from companies," says CCI director Steve Smith, adding that he declines those that simply want cheap labor.
The practice has long been controversial. Prisoners earn meager wages and have no recourse if they're mistreated, LeBaron argues. Plus, they can take jobs from law-abiding citizens. "It's hugely concerning in the face of economic instability and unemployment," she says.
Counters Smith: "These are coveted jobs." Base pay starts at 60 cents a day, but most prisoners earn $300 to $400 a month with incentives, he says. To be hired, inmates must get a GED and maintain good behavior for six months.
60 cents a day. In 2014. Now that's the kind of labor exploitation I know from the history of American agriculture.
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This is not good news. This is not salvation.
Growing up in the white evangelical subculture, I knew a bit about Whitefield. We studied the Great Awakening in history classes at my evangelical Christian school, and every such lesson included descriptions of Whitefield's spectacular gifts as a preacher, the huge crowds his outdoor sermons drew, and the revival that followed in his wake.
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When Whitefield first founded his orphanage in 1738, slavery was illegal in the colony of Georgia. The evangelist was certain, however, that "hot countries cannot be cultivated without negroes," and that legal slavery would be the key to making his endeavors there profitable. So George Whitfield — who was, as Christian History said, "probably the most famous religious figure of the 18th century" — began lobbying the crown and the trustees of the colony to make slavery legal there.
Whitefield's efforts were essential to that cause. Without his hard work, slavery might never have become legal in Georgia.
Let that sink in. Ponder that — the immensity of it, the consequences of it, the incalculable toll and immeasurable injustice of it.
And then ask yourself whether it is possible that such a grievous evil could be so inextricably woven in with the revivalism of the Great Awakening without in any way influencing the form, shape, and substance of that revival and the kind of Christianity it planted here in American soil.
Ah, but Whitefield was simply a "man of his time." Hogwash. John Woolman was also a man of Whitefield's time.
But my point here is not to pass judgment on George Whitefield. My point here is to learn from corrosive rot that infected the gospel according to George Whitefield so that we can learn to guard ourselves against the same lethally evil disease — to identify, root out, and cauterize every instance of its lingering presence in our faith, theology, culture and law.
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Jill Lepore: What the Theory of "Disruptive Innovation" Gets Wrong : The New Yorker
Things you own or use that are now considered to be the product of disruptive innovation include your smartphone and many of its apps, which have disrupted businesses from travel agencies and record stores to mapmaking and taxi dispatch. Much more disruption, we are told, lies ahead. Christensen has co-written books urging disruptive innovation in higher education ("The Innovative University"), public schools ("Disrupting Class"), and health care ("The Innovator's Prescription"). His acolytes and imitators, including no small number of hucksters, have called for the disruption of more or less everything else. If the company you work for has a chief innovation officer, it's because of the long arm of "The Innovator's Dilemma." If your city's public-school district has adopted an Innovation Agenda, which has disrupted the education of every kid in the city, you live in the shadow of "The Innovator's Dilemma." If you saw the episode of the HBO sitcom "Silicon Valley" in which the characters attend a conference called TechCrunch Disrupt 2014 (which is a real thing), and a guy from the stage, a Paul Rudd look-alike, shouts, "Let me hear it, DISSS-RUPPTTT!," you have heard the voice of Clay Christensen, echoing across the valley.
Last month, days after the Times' publisher, Arthur Sulzberger, Jr., fired Jill Abramson, the paper's executive editor, the Times' 2014 Innovation Report was leaked. It includes graphs inspired by Christensen's "Innovator's Dilemma," along with a lengthy, glowing summary of the book's key arguments. The report explains, "Disruption is a predictable pattern across many industries in which fledgling companies use new technology to offer cheaper and inferior alternatives to products sold by established players (think Toyota taking on Detroit decades ago). Today, a pack of news startups are hoping to 'disrupt' our industry by attacking the strongest incumbent—The New York Times."
1 carton fresh, organic strawberries--washed and hulled (use as many as you can, it only make the recipe better)
2 cups heavy cream
1/2 cup sweetened condensed milk
3/4 cup sugar
1/4 tsp salt
(a dash of vanilla, or balsamic vinegar, or bourbon, or whatever you want to add)
The How:
Puree the strawberries into oblivion. I use an immersion blender, but whatever you have on hand is always the best option. (you can strain the puree through a sieve, if you dislike seeds in your ice cream, but I also dislike picking a million seeds out of my colander so I skip this step.
Pour the obliviated strawberries and all the other ingredients into a bowl and mix well. I use a stand mixer that was a loyalty award from Lexis-Nexis, from like a month before they laid me off. It makes the ice cream bittersweet.
Mix well.
Pour into your ice cream maker and run it for as long as the maker's instructions suggest. 30 minutes works for me.
And then freeze the results. Or eat the whole thing. Freedom.
* This recipe is adapted from the one in the godawful Humphrey Slocum ice cream cookbook.]]>
Why boarding schools produce bad leaders | Education | The Guardian
Nevertheless, this golden path is as sure today as it was 100 years ago, when men from such backgrounds led us into a disastrous war; it is familiar, sometimes mocked, but taken for granted. But it is less well known that costly, elite boarding consistently turns out people who appear much more competent than they actually are. They are particularly deficient in non-rational skills, such as those needed to sustain relationships, and are not, in fact, well-equipped to be leaders in today's world
I have been doing psychotherapy with ex-boarders for 25 years and I am a former boarding-school teacher and boarder. My pioneering study of privileged abandonment always sparks controversy: so embedded in British life is boarding that many struggle to see beyond the elitism and understand its impact. The prevalence of institutionalised abuse is finally emerging to public scrutiny, but the effects of normalised parental neglect are more widespread and much less obvious. Am I saying, then, that David Cameron, and the majority of our ruling elite, were damaged by boarding?
It's complex. My studies show that children survive boarding by cutting off their feelings and constructing a defensively organised self that severely limits their later lives. Cameron, Boris Johnson, Jeremy Hunt, Andrew Mitchell, Oliver Letwin et al tick all the boxes for being boarding-school survivors. For socially privileged children are forced into a deal not of their choosing, where a normal family-based childhood is traded for the hothousing of entitlement. Prematurely separated from home and family, from love and touch, they must speedily reinvent themselves as self-reliant pseudo-adults.
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FORT WAYNE – Notre Dame's secondary suffered a blow more than two months before the season.
Irish safety Austin Collinsworth is expected to miss four to six months after undergoing surgery to repair a torn labrum in his left shoulder, the university announced Wednesday.
The 6-foot-1, 202-pound Collinsworth has played primarily on special teams the last two seasons. He had 16 special teams tackles last season and was named the Irish's special teams player of the year after the 2012 season.
Collinsworth, the son of former NFL player and current broadcaster Cris, has 22 special teams tackles in two seasons and has 25 tackles and forced one fumble in his first two years with the Irish.
Collinsworth, who will be a junior this season, has not taken a redshirt year yet.
He was expected to play a significant role in the defensive backfield behind projected starting safeties Jamoris Slaughter and Zeke Motta.
Collinsworth, a converted receiver, progressed enough this spring that Notre Dame cross trained Slaughter at cornerback to help boost the experience and depth at that position.
Slaughter can also line up at linebacker as he did at times last season for the Irish.
If Collinsworth misses this season, Notre Dame still has plenty of options behind Slaughter and Motta at safety.
Fifth-year senior Dan McCarthy and senior Chris Salvi could provide instant depth. The Irish have Eilar Hardy, who didn't play last season, and Chris Badger, who returned this summer after his Mormon mission. Notre Dame also has four incoming freshmen – Nick Baratti, C.J. Prosise, Elijah Shumante and John Turner – who could play safety.
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The Big East announced its home and away opponents for the 2012-13 season with each team playing eight home and road games with two repeat opponents.
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Phil Miller covered three seasons of Twins baseball, but that was at a different ballpark for a different newspaper. Now Miller returns to the baseball beat after joining the Star Tribune as the Gopher football writer in 2010, and he won't miss the dingy dome for a minute. In addition to the Twins and Gophers, Miller covered the Utah Jazz and the NBA for six years at The Salt Lake Tribune.
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The Orioles' first baseman became the fourth player in major-league history to hit a home run in each of the first four games of a season, and this was his biggest yet. With the bases loaded and the Twins clinging to a 5-4 lead, Davis smacked Tyler Robertson's first pitch, an 86-mph fastball, several rows deep into the left-field bleachers for his second career grand slam. With that one swing, Davis increased his RBI total to 16 just four games in, and handed Minnesota a 9-5 loss.
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Updated On: Jun 21 2013 06:46:00 PM CDT
In the latest bout of Internet hoaxes, rumors spread like wildfire based on a phony story that Saints quarterback Drew Brees broke his legs in a car accident Friday.
Don't worry. It's fake
Brees made an announcement on Twitter Friday afternoon that he's not sure where the story started, but he wasn't injured in any car accident.
"I am fine. Not sure where the car accident story came from. It is not true. I appreciate everyone's concern but I am ALL GOOD!" his post on Twitter said.
The Saints' first game is against the Atlanta Falcons on Sept. 8. The only thing Brees is expected to break in that game is a sweat.
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Colleyville Heritage wrapped up an abbreviated yet productive spring football season with its spring game on May 30.While revealing specifics is never part of a spring game (why give opponents an opportunity to scout your plays?), there still was not much head coach Darren Allman and his short-handed staff could do beyond the basics during the 13 workouts.Still, Allman believed the players got enough out of the days to start understanding what is being asked. By the spring game, more elements of the offense and defense were simplified to where execution was expected."I was pleased with the spring overall," Allman said. "We narrowed things down. When we go against each other, your depth is real thin. But our kids handled it real well. We got a ton of work in so we made some really good progress."But the true progress will be measured once the entire Colleyville Heritage coaching staff is assembled, on campus and getting to know the players more. Allman said when that happens, the coaches and players will have more detailed meetings, especially when it comes to evaluating film. Allman had about four coaches working with him through the spring.As far as putting together a starting 22 (11 offense, 11 defense), Allman believes he has a fairly strong idea as to who will be where. The final analysis will come once fall workouts begin in August.That said, the summer strength and conditioning programs will be emphasized more than ever. The players will have this week off and start the program on Monday."It's probably as an important a conditioning program time that I've ever been a part of," Allman said. "With the coaches coming in, that's going to be the time when they start to get to know the players. That will happen in phases. But it will get there."QB raceThe battle for the starting position between Clayton Oliver and Trevor Anderson will carry into the fall, Allman said. He considers the race between the two very tight."The one thing is that we did not have enough live scrimmages to make that determination [for the starter]," Allman said. "I do not think either one has pulled away."Both saw limited varsity playing time in 2013.Corbin's big yearA shoulder injury limited what running back Demarco Corbin could really deliver in 2013. He only rushed for 371 yards. But he's healthy. And in this offense, much will be expected of the running back.Allman and Corbin discussed expectations. The bottom line is that Corbin is going to be the primary ball carrier. A 1,000-yard season is one of the goals."Demarco needs to have a good summer to get ready, because he's the kind of player who can be a difference maker," Allman said. "He can be a 20-25 carry a game guy. But it's also going to depend on what other people give us."NotableLook for several two-way players in 2014 with cornerback/inside receiver Nick Felix, defensive end/tight end Maxx Crosby, tight end/defensive end Garret Scotch. Ryan Phillippe and Jared Crouch should also split time on both sides of the ball … While he didn't have a rushing attempt in 2013, running back Justin Toberny had a good spring and could factor into the offense as the second running back, Allman said … Colleyville Heritage is in the middle of forming its 7-on-7 teams … team captains are expected to be named in August.
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