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I think you left out Charlie, Alph, and Brittany from Pikmin 3 in your pole.
About Metroid:
I would like to see Ridley but him being a boss in Brawl kinda shot down his chances. However I know a lot of people were disappointed that Ridley did not make it in as a character.
As for the size problem:
Ridley in Melee intro scene
As for Star Fox: I am content with the current series representatives. I don't think they need anyone else.
As a single entity? A bit odd, but with the pace it's going, it's understandable.
This is the fastest moving thread on this entire site. And a rather passionate one for its participants. Heck, the post above my previous one was talking about Pikmin. I have every right and reason to ask for a bit of direction.
Well, it's heavily hinted at that the new Retro game is a SF title, plus, it's only been seven years (Been five since Brawl's release). Not too long really.
Krystal has my vote. I'll just leave this here. My reasoning for predicting Krystal:
I've always considered Krystal a legitimate choice. She's not K Rool, but she is Popular, she could be a last minute clone, or completely unique, and she's both prominent and important enough. Plus Sakurai does like the series, and although I'm grasping at straws right meow, we did get THIS in Brawl:
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Slippy: No way! Old-timers like you ride the bench. This fight's mine!
Krystal: What are you two thinking? I'm the only one who can come through in a fight like this!!
SO, at the very least, we know Sakurai sees her fighting prowess. Combine all of this together, and we have a legitimate contender. It's really just a matter of IF she'll be chosen this time.A member of the Star Fox team welcomed in Star Fox Adventures after the team met her on planet Sauria when responding to a distress signal. Krystal is capable of telepathy and is a valuable member in combat. After becoming romantically involved with Fox, their relationship gets very rocky in Star Fox Command.
/Krystal presentation
As for Ridley, I'm going to just go with him being included. Despite Sakurai laughing at the idea of him being playable a few years back.
I know way too much about Nintendo. And, I have a lot of cool friends who helped me build it.
If anyone is interested, I can post my new poll results?
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I would like to see the results too.
I believe Sakurai adds character depending on series popularity.
Pokémon being the most popular of Nintendo's series got the most characters.
Mario being next and Legend of Zelda as third most popular.
Star Fox is not THAT popular and still with not a whole lot of "new" games and not that many characters, I don't think Star Fox will be getting another one.
Metroid on the other hand, has the popularity for at least one more character but the problem is that Metroid lacks reasonable characters to put in. Ridley is Samus' a main rival but he is impractical to become a playable character in Smash, however I think it can be done.
And here's why your wrong, brought to you by the one and only ToiseOfChoice
Really, all Sakurai is looking for when adding characters is:
Popularity, Prominence/Importance, and "fighting ability"
I can site his rules if you would like? (Yes, he's stated what he looks for in when adding characters before)
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I paid $15 for mine. This seems to be the average price for Sailor Moon GE Plush. $20 is the highest I'd ever pay for them, simply for availability right now, and because I CAN get it cheaper. The 594 price listed above appears to be GE's wholesale price, and not the sale price. I've yet to see them that low, even from local vendors I know who are willing to give me a friendly discount.
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LONDON (Reuters) - NATO is not prepared for the threat of a Russian attack on one of its members, British lawmakers said on Thursday, calling for more equipment and troops to be positioned in the Baltic States, which, they said, were particularly vulnerable.
Parliament's Defence Select Committee said events in Crimea and eastern Ukraine had revealed "alarming deficiencies" in NATO's preparedness and should be a "wake-up call".
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Ukraine's neighbour and NATO-member Poland has said it wants the alliance to permanently station troops in the region as a guarantee against Russian intervention. But most NATO members are reluctant because of the cost and the risk of further antagonising the Kremlin.
"NATO has been too complacent about the threat from Russia, and it is not well-prepared," said Rory Stewart, chairman of the committee, made up of lawmakers from the ruling Conservatives and Liberal Democrats as well as from opposition Labour.
"The instability in Russia, President Putin's world view and the failure of the West to respond actively in Ukraine means that we now have to address urgently the possibility, however small, of Russia repeating such tactics elsewhere. In particular, the NATO member states in the Baltic are vulnerable," he said.
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A funny story for ya'all. At least I think so.
Between 1992 - 1997 I was a graduate student in physical chemistry at Kansas State University. Most of the time I was paid as a research assistant, but for a few semesters I worked as a teaching assistant. Most of the time I taught a Chemistry 1 lab course. It was a pretty cool job, but over time I got really tired of students cheating on exams. So I decided to teach them a lesson.
I was in charge of 3 sections of ~25 students each and the 2nd proctor for the exam had similar numbers. All told, there were well over 100 students in the room. It was the first exam of the semester, so there was no way that anyone would recognize if an 'extra' student showed up for this test. The 'extra', in this case, was my wife. I had her sit on the aisle and take an exam like everyone else. She had had some chemistry in college so was able to work on the problems for a while with only a little difficulty. The cheat sheet that I had prepared for her helped a bit too.
About 15 minutes into the period, I approached her and told her in a firm voice to "Get up". Being the terrific actress that she is, she gave me a stunned look and said "What?"
"GET UP" I said a little louder. I had everyone's attention at this point.
Now she looked a bit worried. "What?!?" she asked again.
"GET OUT" I yelled, snatching her exam and the cheat sheet.
My wife attempted to stand up, but the folding desk held her down - but only briefly. A second attempt to stand broke the desk and the wood top clattered to the floor. Lots of stunned looks around the room. Her composure broke on her way out of the room. Witnesses in the back told me later that she had tears in her eyes as she was approaching the back of the room. The door in the back was a little sticky. She had to hit the panic bar a few times before it popped open. Again, according to later accounts from nearby students, a few 'sobs' were audible as she tried to get the door in the back of the room to open.
As I had hoped, the exam room remained SILENT for the remainder of the period... as well as the rest of the course. I mean, you could literally hear a pin drop in there. The other proctor, who was in on the joke, and I examined her progress on the confiscated exam. To our surprise, she had solved the first three problems correctly and was well on her way to solving the fourth. For a final effect, I tore up the exam at the front of the room and tossed it into the trash.
A variety of students made comments to me over the course of that period and the rest of the semseter.
"You be able to tell *I* didn't cheat on this exam" and
"What kind of idiot sits on the aisle and cheats with a cheat sheet?" [The kind that doesn't mind getting caught, perhaps?] were my favorites.
I waited until the Final Exam to let the students in on the joke. Before I handed out the exam, I made an announcement: "OK everyone, just so you know, the person I kicked out at the beginning of the semester was my wife. Good luck!"
Lots of bewildered looks, and quite a few angry glares. The real stunner for me came when one student told me "I can't believe that you are such a bas**** that you would kick your own wife out for cheating." Smiling, I just took their exam and checked to make sure that they had spelled their name correctly.
posted on Feb, 26 2005 @ 11:46 PM
That's a funny story, but why didn't you catch a real cheater and and do the same thing. I hate cheaters.
posted on Feb, 27 2005 @ 04:13 PM
I wish I could have. I despise cheaters also.
The bottom line was that the University didn't want us to catch or punish cheaters, even if it was blatant. Our instructions were to avoid trying to catch cheaters. If the cheating was too obvious, (for example if someone was openly using a cheat sheet) and we were to "accidently" catch them, we were to take it away but allow them to continue.
Luckily, most of my students were freshmen or sophomores and weren't aware of the restrictions on the proctors.
Even in cases where the cheating was clear, obvious, and without shame, the University was afraid of lawsuits (some BS about due process) and would not allow profs or teaching assistants to do anything that might be viewed as a punishment.
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I've heard similar tales from colleagues that have worked at other universities and even high schools now. At schools that have so-called "honor codes", the honor board is often run by students who don't like to impose punishments that could have long-term consequences. They often view cheating as a simple "mistake" that shouldn't ruin their futures.
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A Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis LuxR regulates cell envelope and virulence.
Title | A Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis LuxR regulates cell envelope and virulence. |
Publication Type | Journal Article |
Year of Publication | 2010 |
Authors | Alonso-Hearn M, Eckstein TM, Sommer S, Bermudez LE |
Journal | Innate immunity |
Volume | 16 |
Issue | 4 |
Pagination | 235-47 |
Date Published | 2010 Aug |
Keywords | Animals, Anti-Bacterial Agents, Cattle, Cell Line, Cell Wall, Culture Media, DNA, Bacterial, Gene Expression Regulation, Bacterial, Lipids, Microarray Analysis, Milk, Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis, Peptides, Repressor Proteins, Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction, RNA, Bacterial, Spectrometry, Mass, Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption-Ionization, Trans-Activators, Transcription, Genetic, Virulence |
Abstract | Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis adapts to the environment via the regulation of genes affecting its envelope's composition. Bacteria grown in milk (in vivo conditions) presented differences in the cell wall-associated lipids and in the expression of genes involved in lipid metabolism (FadE8, FadE6 and MAP1420) and host cell invasion (MAP1203, LprL). A different lipid profile was also observed in the envelope of intracellular bacteria after 1 h of infection. Intracellular bacteria showed up-regulation of a LuxR regulator which controls the envelope's composition by up-regulation of FadE8, MAP1420, MAP1203 and LprL and by down-regulation of pks12, mmpL2 and MAP2594. A LuxR-overexpressing strain with a lipid-deficient envelope phenotype, infected epithelial cells more efficiently than the wild-type bacteria; however, it was not more resistant than the wild-type strain to the action of bactericidal proteins. Here we show that LuxR regulates virulence determinants and is involved in mycobacteria adaptation to the host. |
DOI | 10.1111/j.1365-3164.2011.00980.x |
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Rejecting a woman teacher's stand that her school could not compel her to attend an annual staff retreat, the Madras High Court said it could not fault the school management for issuing such an order in order to maintain discipline at the school.
Disposing of her appeal, a Bench , comprising Justices M.Jaichandren and M.M.Sundresh said, "The propriety of such an action cannot be questioned by her." There is no doubt that discipline should be maintained by the management in respect of its teachers/staff and the students of the school."
Dolly Deniese, the teacher, was suspended for a month by Don Bosco Matriculation Higher Secondary School, for not attending an annual staff retreat in 2008. She challenged the suspension order before the Madras High Court and also claimed damages for loss of reputation and humiliation. In 2009, a single judge held that she had 'wilfully' disobeyed the direction issued by the school management to attend the retreat and her absence would amount to insubordination.
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Cazenovia After initially changing the next meeting date for Cazenovia Central School District Board of Education from March 19 to March 26, last week the district postponed the next public budget work session until 6:30 p.m. April 2 in the Cazenovia High School Auditorium.
"Originally, we moved the meeting … to give us time to answer any questions and to find out any information the board may want to ask about the budget," said Superintendent Bob Dubik. "Then, [the meeting was moved again] for two reasons: we are in mediation for the support staff, and finally got a mediator assigned to us, for March 26. [The mediator] said to plan for as long as we have to … and we didn't want to pass that up. And, the state is saying they may have a budget by the end of next week, so we were thinking 'Why go through this if we are getting some extra money?'"
Since the administrators and board members first publicly discussed the 2012-13 preliminary budget on March 12, the $412,700 gap had been reduced to about $363,000, due in part to decreases in National Grid utility costs.
As the state government continues to move toward finalizing its budget, Assistant Superintendent Bill Furlong said Cazenovia may receive much-needed additional state aid. "It could range from $60,000 under what the Senate has said, to $120,000 under what the Assembly is saying," he said. "If we get the $120,000, that would really help us out … Personally, I think we will get about $60,000."
Over the past three years, the school district has seen a decrease in state aid revenue of $1.5 million. Having already trimmed excess costs, the board of education and administration has little left to cut. At the previous budget work session, members of the public stressed the importance of not cutting academic programming.
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The supporters of the Ripon High School athletic stadium construction are angry over the theft of an $11,500 Rhino 4-wheel quad used in the last three years of the multi-million dollar restoration project.
Greg Lewis and Michael Parmenter sat in a table for two halfway between the bar and the main dining area of Finley's Bar and Grill. The two friends from Stockton are having lunch on the last day of 2014. They are among the regulars who have discovered this out-of-the-way modest-looking bar and grill on Airport Way between Lathrop Road and French Camp Road.
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The dream of fleeing the rat race appears to be over for Melinda Moch and her young family -- last year's flooding on Lake Manitoba has put an end to their plan for an idyllic life in the place they love.
The St. Ambroise Convenience Store owner has put her business up for sale on the Internet because she doesn't have enough customers to keep it open much longer.
Those customers were guaranteed each summer with campers and day trippers at St. Ambroise Beach Provincial Park just down the road and in the fall by duck hunters on the marsh.
But the October 2010 "weather bomb" windstorm and last year's unprecedented flooding on the lake -- flooding in part caused by the province's use of the Portage Diversion to divert some of the flow of water from the Assiniboine River into Lake Manitoba -- destroyed the park and its campground. The park is closed for a second year and it's questionable whether it will even reopen.
"Without the park being open May long weekend next year, I don't have any hope," Moch said. "It's been an absolute nightmare."
For the 200 or so people who live in and around St. Ambroise, 105 kilometres northwest of Winnipeg, the possible closure of their only store is the beginning of St. Ambroise becoming a ghost town. The store serves as a coffee shop, grocery, deli and beer and liquor vendor.
"St. Ambroise alone can't keep the store going," Concerned Residents of St. Ambroise spokesman John Lavallee said. "We want to get our beach and park open again so we can get back on track."
The community is to meet this evening at the Manitoba Metis Federation Centre to discuss what they can do to convince the Selinger government to at least reopen the beach for day use.
Without Moch's store, residents will have to travel to St. Laurent, a 40-minute drive, for groceries or gas.
A provincial spokeswoman said a large part of the park's infrastructure was damaged beyond repair in the October 2010 storm and 2011 flood. Wave action also changed the park's beach and landscape.
The province has hired an engineering firm to assess the damage with a report due later this summer. A decision on the future of the St. Ambroise park won't be made until then.
The big problem is that much of the land that was the beach, park and campground was washed away.
Moch said she and her husband, Brandon, bought the store and gas bar in December 2010 in the hope it would become their family business.
But they're barely scraping by. Moch said if she and her husband can't sell the store -- the asking price is $250,000 -- they may have to declare bankruptcy.
"It's honest to goodness been the year from hell," she added. "I'm meeting with our banker on Wednesday. He feels we're at the end of our rope. I'm still waiting for a miracle."
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Would I argue with the Federal Reserve
Youe life time earnings and something you probably do not want to hear. People projected to earn the median amount will see their earnings grow 38 percent from the time they're 25 to when they turn 55; those in the 95th percentile will see their earnings grow 230 percent over the same period; and those in the 99th percentile will see their earnings grow 1,450 percent. That may seem obvious—those at the top of the wealth differential were probably propelled there by astronomical earnings growth, not a streak of flat earnings. The Fed report, however, points out that the steepest pay increases happen early. "Across the board, the bulk of earnings growth happens during the first decade,"
Fortunately for me mine took the upward swing after 23 years of employment. There is still hope.
A World Overflowing with Debt
Step Aside from US Centric. Eurocentric and Step into Global Debt. 2007 revisited That's the warning today from McKinsey & Co.'s research division which estimates that since 2007, the IOUs of governments, companies, households and financial firms in 47 countries has grown by $57 trillion to $199 trillion, a rise equivalent to 17 percentage points of gross domestic product.
While not as big a gain as the 23 point surge in debt witnessed in the seven years before the financial crisis, the new data make a mockery of the hope that the turmoil and subsequent global recession would put the globe on a more sustainable path. This is not new but it is troublesome--particularly the concern that neither austerity nor growth will solve this.
America's "Advanced Industries"
Some statistics and maps about jobs in "Advanced Industries", defined as industries that employ a higher percentage of STEM workers than the national average of all industries and R&D spending per worker above the 80th percentile of industries.
Will you fulfill your destiny and become a tangerine octodecillionaire?
"Tangerine Tycoon is a realistic tangerine economy simulator. Get your hands on quadrillions of tangerines by harvesting, gambling or trading them on the stock market. Most likely a combination of all 3. They say money is the root of all evil but surely tangerines can't do any harm." [more inside]
People have phenomenal capacity.
"What Obama would say at the State of the Union if he were being brutally honest": They do it because that's how the game works. They do it because the rules are you line up in front of the other team and then you hit them as hard as you can. They do it because, for one side to win, the other has to lose. And they do it because, if they don't do it, they're off the team. Football has no place for conscientious objectors. [more inside]
"finance is a practice oriented industry"
You will come down too soon
A Mexican restaurant has started a Sunday brunch to expand its revenues beyond dinner. A Mercedes dealer, anticipating reduced demand, is prepared to emphasize repairs and sales of used cars. And people are cutting back at home, rethinking their vacation plans and cutting the hours of their housemaids and gardeners.
In Texas, they're hunkering down for the Oil Bust.
In Texas, they're hunkering down for the Oil Bust.
When Walmart Leaves
The Ghost Stores of Walmart. "The biggest downside to a Walmart opening up in your community is that after all the protests, the negotiations, and, almost inevitably, the acceptance, the retail giant might just break its lease, pack up shop, and move a mile down the road. The process starts all over again, and Walmart's giant, hard-won original behemoth of a structure sits abandoned, looming over its increasingly frustrated neighbours."
"Wasn't anything we could do about it."
"There is hope!"
As the West African Ebola epidemic stretches into its 10th month: researchers have identified the likely cause of the initial outbreak: a young boy playing with bats in a village in Guinea. The NY Times considers how the opportunity to contain the epidemic was missed and the effects of Ebola on West African economies. Vanity Fair takes a look at the failure to contain the disease within Guinea, Frontline goes to "Ground Zero" in Guinea, and searches for a missing Ebola patient. Meanwhile, West Africans welcomed Christmas (previously) and the New Year. Africa Stop Ebola!
Being out of the mainstream financial system not easy even for utopias
Communes still thrive decades after the '60s, but economy is a bummer, man Communes or intentional communities, as their proponents prefer are still going strong but even utopias are struggling to face dystopian economies
previous post about international communities in general
We're hurting innocent people...but we're helping the economy
Caring for monkeys pays better than caring for children
"Childcare providers' wage growth was lower than the growth in wages paid to fast food workers. They were consistently in the bottom second or third percentile in salary rankings, sharing that status with parking lot attendants, laundry workers, fast food employees, and bartenders. Perhaps most strikingly, the people who care for our youngest children earn less than those who care for animals in zoos or homes."
How to wreck the economy and avoid prosecution for $9 billion
The $9 Billion Witness: Meet JPMorgan Chase's Worst Nightmare. "Meet the woman JPMorgan Chase paid one of the largest fines in American history to keep from talking." [more inside]
That's regulatory capture!
LEMONADE WAR: a short film starring Patton Oswalt, Taylor Buck, Mo Collins and Werner Herzog. View more films here from We The Economy: 20 Short Films You Can't Afford to Miss.
RIP Loukanikos
Character and ideology and ethics and every day life are all intertwined
Ian Welsh on The Role of Character and Ideology in Prosperity and Why We Live In a Shitty Economy for Most People
Welcome to the 1099 economy
Silicon Valley's Contract Worker Problem Earlier this year, I hired a house cleaner. I wouldn't have done so normally, but my place was a mess, I was busy at work, and I saw an offer on Facebook that looked too good to be true — a San Francisco start-up called Homejoy was offering home cleanings in the Bay Area for $19. (Not $19 per room or $19 per hour. Just $19.) So I booked an appointment through Homejoy's website, and a day later, a young man showed up at my door. [more inside]
I get around
Rodney Durham stopped working in 1991, declared bankruptcy and lives on Social Security. Nonetheless, Wells Fargo lent him $15,197 to buy a used Mitsubishi sedan. "I am not sure how I got the loan," Mr. Durham, age 60, said.
Mr. Durham's application said that he made $35,000 as a technician at Lourdes Hospital in Binghamton, N.Y., according to a copy of the loan document. But he says he told the dealer he hadn't worked at the hospital for more than three decades. Now, after months of Wells Fargo pressing him over missed payments, the bank has repossessed his car.
The thermometer showed a 103.5-degree fever, and her 10-year-old's asthma was flaring up. Mary Bolender, who lives in Las Vegas, needed to get her daughter to an emergency room, but her 2005 Chrysler van would not start. The cause was not a mechanical problem — it was her lender.
This is the face of the new subprime boom. [more inside]
Mr. Durham's application said that he made $35,000 as a technician at Lourdes Hospital in Binghamton, N.Y., according to a copy of the loan document. But he says he told the dealer he hadn't worked at the hospital for more than three decades. Now, after months of Wells Fargo pressing him over missed payments, the bank has repossessed his car.
The thermometer showed a 103.5-degree fever, and her 10-year-old's asthma was flaring up. Mary Bolender, who lives in Las Vegas, needed to get her daughter to an emergency room, but her 2005 Chrysler van would not start. The cause was not a mechanical problem — it was her lender.
This is the face of the new subprime boom. [more inside]
The human being is very often not profitable from the system's POV
According to the philosopher Anselm Jappe, who has come to Lisbon to give a talk at the Teatro Maria Matos, in capitalism we are defined by our relation to labor. But the system is a "house of cards that is beginning to collapse". It is time to rethink the concept of labor.
I.P. Freely
What happened to pay toilets in the USA? In the early 1900s, when railroads connected America's biggest cities with rural outposts, train stations were sometimes the only place in town with modern plumbing. To keep locals from freely using the bathrooms, railroad companies installed locks on the stall doors—only to be unlocked by railroad employees for ticketed passengers. Eventually, coin-operated locks were introduced, making the practice both more convenient and more profitable. Pay toilets then sprung up in the nation's airports, bus stations, and highway rest stops. By 1970, America had over 50,000 pay toilets.
By 1980, there were almost none.
Growing Number of Canadians Unprepared For Financial Emergency
According to the Annual BMO Rainy Day Survey released today, "the percentage of Canadians that have enough savings to only cover one month or fewer has climbed to 27% - up 8 percentage points [since 2012]. For those who have one month or fewer in savings, the average fund is only $2,051. …. Three-in-ten Canadians are living paycheque to paycheque or spending more than they earn". The Huffington Post Canada reports that "[t]his comes at a time when Canada's support structures for the unemployed are growing thinner. Recent estimates show that little more than a third of Canadians who lose their jobs now qualify for Employment Insurance."
Everything is upside down.
Advice on how to survive late capitalism: "Your life is sold to serve an economy that does not serve your life. You don't seem to be entertained, Bank-robbin'; your white-hot rage festers. It probably doesn't help that you live in Brooklyn—this place where in the last ten years rent has spiked 77 percent while real median income has dropped, where the rich (the top 10 percent of earners who, as is well known, control 80 percent of the wealth) and their children live right on top of some of the worst poverty known to this country, while 20 percent of Brooklynites survive somehow below the poverty level, such that the widening income and wealth gap becomes achingly visible here. I could advise you to leave Brooklyn. But I don't want you to leave Brooklyn."
The most expensive decision of my life I made alone.
Now, on the downslope of parenting, I have misgivings about my decision to stay home. It would be far too strong a word to say I have regrets. I don't know any parent who regrets time spent with their kids, especially kids who have moved on to their own lives. Although I am fully aware that being a stay at home mom was certainly a luxury, staring at an empty nest and very diminished prospects of employment, I have real remorse.
"Free markets killed capitalism," Or really, the other way around.
Monopoly is back: Barry Lynn on the concentration of American economic power — and how we can restore fairness. Highlights: [more inside]
Garbage Everywhere
It's last call to do your shopping at the last mall
The Guardian on the decline of America's shopping malls. "Dying shopping malls are speckled across the United States, often in middle-class suburbs wrestling with socioeconomic shifts. Some, like Rolling Acres, have already succumbed. Estimates on the share that might close or be repurposed in coming decades range from 15 to 50%. Americans are returning downtown; online shopping is taking a 6% bite out of brick-and-mortar sales; and to many iPhone-clutching, city-dwelling and frequently jobless young people, the culture that spawned satire like Mallrats seems increasingly dated, even cartoonish.
The trend is especially noticeable in the Midwest, a former blue-collar bastion where ailing malls have begun dotting suburban landscapes. Outside of Chicago, Lakehurst Mall was levelled in 2004 and the half-vacant Lincoln Mall is costing its host village millions in botched redevelopment plans. Dixie Square Mall sat vacant for more than 30 years after serving as the backdrop for the iconic chase scene in the 1980 film The Blues Brothers. It was finally demolished in 2012. Many others will similarly lie dormant as they wait for the wrecking ball."
The trend is especially noticeable in the Midwest, a former blue-collar bastion where ailing malls have begun dotting suburban landscapes. Outside of Chicago, Lakehurst Mall was levelled in 2004 and the half-vacant Lincoln Mall is costing its host village millions in botched redevelopment plans. Dixie Square Mall sat vacant for more than 30 years after serving as the backdrop for the iconic chase scene in the 1980 film The Blues Brothers. It was finally demolished in 2012. Many others will similarly lie dormant as they wait for the wrecking ball."
"bordering on a sense of alarm" toward the opposite party
This PewResearch animation graphically shows the growing polarization among US voters during the past 15 years. Part of a 121 page pdf. Pew doesn't address why polarization is happening, but the pundits will try: "Voters are becoming angrier because living standards are falling and the middle class is shriveling." Democrats blame corporations, Republicans blame the government and the Dallas Fed blames robots. [more inside]
Re-Thinking the Game of Monopoly
K. Mike Merrill at BigThink has some ideas on how to modernize Monopoly while helping players better understand the nature of our financial system.
It's only supposed to be 30% of your income
In Many Cities, Rent Is Rising Out of Reach of Middle Class. Here's What $800 in Rent Gets You in 11 Major Cities [more inside]
Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism
David Harvey's latest book looks at the internal contradictions within the flow of capital that have precipitated recent crises and "why this economic engine should be replaced, and with what."
Available online are the Prologue, the last two chapters, and video & audio for his April 2nd talk at the London School of Economics.
Unrecognized state continues to exist anyway
Somaliland is an odd land. In global limbo since its birth, it continues to develop economically and socially in a reasonably stable and secure environment. Recently, the British town of Sheffield was the first to recognize its very existence as an independent country. In the meantime, the capital Hargeisa city, which has only one paved road, recently installed streetlights for the first time, and an enterprising entrepreneur returned home from Australia to start a familiar city service - the yellow cab. Investors and businesses have started paying attention while the major powers still prefer to pretend it doesn't exist. Even while experts debate whether their model can be utilized in far more volatile Somalia, Hargeisa's residents want you to know they are Happy.
No people without houses, no houses without people.
Photojournal of Spain's new squatters: families, young professionals, degree-holders, single mothers, the elderly. "I have grandchildren," she says. "When I die I would like to be able to say to myself that they will have jobs, homes and a happy life. The corralas are important. They set an example to people who are struggling. They show that we can help ourselves and each other. I don't know what the future will hold for any of us, but one way or another I believe that this will be a successful fight. I have to, otherwise I wouldn't be able to sleep at night." [more inside]
Money and finance: For an anthropology of globalization
There is much talk today of a financial and economic crisis comparable to the 1930s. With the threat of a currency war and the euro's collapse looming, the specter of the Great Depression's bloody aftermath has returned with a vengeance. Several versions of how to make human beings and build society co-existed during the Cold War, when much of the world won independence from colonial empire. Yet, discussion of humanity's growing interdependence is today limited to a one-world capitalism driven by finance. What have anthropologists to say about that? It would seem very little. But a positive case can be made for the discipline's contribution to public debate. We make such a case here. We review recent developments in the anthropology of money and finance, listing its achievements, shortcomings and prospects, while referring back to the discipline's founders a century ago. Economic anthropologists have tended to restrict themselves to niche fields and marginal debates since the 1960s. We hope to reverse this trend by focusing on money's role in shaping global society and bringing world history into a more active dialogue with ethnography.Money and finance: For an anthropology of globalization by Keith Hart and Horacio Ortiz
Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States
"Untold History of the United States challenges the basic narrative of the U.S. history that most Americans have been taught.... [Such history] is consoling; it is comforting. But it only tells a small part of the story." Instead of clips of modern people pondering the past, Oliver Stone's ten-part series relies heavily on archival footage and clips from old Hollywood films, with narration by Stone. Towards the end, he gets into the assassination of JFK, "but that should not detract from a series that sets out to be a counterweight to the patriotic cheerleading and myth-making." [more inside]
El Empleo / The Employment
Thankfully, the Constitution says you only have to do this once a year.
It's time for Americans to gather around the dinner table, eat too much, and argue about politics! A new genre of Thanksgiving-themed web pages seems to be taking off this year, that being the "How to argue with your [opposite political party] family members at Thanksgiving" genre. From the left side of the political spectrum, the Democratic National Committee has launched "The Democrat's Guide to Talking Politics with Your Republican Uncle", and The Huffington Post chimed in with "Here's Every Argument You'll Need To Win Your Obamacare Debate This Thanksgiving". Not to be outdone, conservatives have responded with cheat sheets of their own, including RedState.com's "Thanksgiving dinner with your liberal relatives" and The Washington Examiner's "The Thanksgiving guide to making conservative arguments liberals can understand". [more inside]
Administrators Ate My Tuition
Washington Monthly examines the rapid increase in the numbers of middle managers at universities and the correlation to the rampant increase in tuition costs at American universities.
The Big Chill
The Coming Eucatastrophe
Over the past few years, the zombie apocalypse has come to represent an alternative to neoliberalism – an ideology that admits no alternatives.
The Political Economy of Zombies by John Powers [previously, previouslier]
Bonus: What Terrifies Teens In Today's Young Adult Novels? The Economy
The third act in the triple-fucking of ordinary people by Wall Street
Looting the Pension Funds: All across America, Wall Street is grabbing money meant for public workers. By Matt Taibbi. [more inside]
The Tuition Is Too Damn High
Over the past couple of weeks, Wonkblog has examined the fast rising cost of college tuition in the United States and its effects on society. [more inside]
"Big waste country, the U.S."
To a Chinese Scrap-Metal Hunter, America's Trash Is Treasure: Johnson Zeng is a Chinese trader who travels across the U.S. in search of scrap metal. By his estimate, there are at least 100 others like him driving from scrap yard to scrap yard, right now, in search of what Americans won't or can't be bothered to recycle. His favorite product: wires, cables, and other kinds of copper. His purchases, millions of pounds of metal worth millions of dollars, will eventually be shipped to China. [more inside]
The Chasing Out Room
With mass layoffs still taboo in Japan, senior workers who refuse to resign are sent to "chasing-out rooms" instead of being allowed to work. (SL NYTimes)
People simply empty out
"They call it '9 to 5.' It's never 9 to 5, there's no free lunch break at those places, in fact, at many of them in order to keep your job you don't take lunch."
Matt Taibbi on the Ripping Off of Young America
Ripping Off Young America: The College-Loan Scandal. "The federal government has made it easier than ever to borrow money for higher education - saddling a generation with crushing debts and inflating a bubble that could bring down the economy."
"Some things...can only happen once."
The Opt-Out Revolution, Revisited
In 2003, the New York Times published a lengthy article by Lisa Belkin about women who were choosing to leave the workforce to be stay-at-home moms: The Opt-Out Generation. In the the last ten years, the article's conclusions regarding upper-middle-class women's choices about work and motherhood have been debated, studied, rediscovered, denied, lamented, and defended. It's been noted by many that "most mothers have to work to make ends meet but the press writes mostly about the elite few who don't." Ms. Belkin's piece also never mentioned what what a disaster divorce or the death of a spouse can create for dependent women in such situations. After a decade, the Times is revisiting the topic: The Opt-Out Generation Wants Back In.
The True Cost of Living Here
This Atlantic article about the EPI Family Budget Calculator tries to calculate the required income to live a comfortable yet modest lifestyle in various parts of the US.