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Prepare to alter alot of diapers!
Your package of delight will certainly require around 6000 nappy modifications prior to graduating to underwears. That's a great deal of unclean nappies as well as, relying on which ones you make use of, either a great deal of waste or a lot of washing!
After that there's the poo aspect– that nappy has actually obtained ta depend on the job. Things we provide for love.
A stitch in time conserves 9 … mins of sleep
Obtaining a nappy plan in position prior to child goes along will save you time, cash as well as power, and also will certainly have a huge impact on your environmental impact. Having said that, it's never far too late to switch over nappy teams or mix it up a bit depending upon your issue for the environment versus your concern for your peace of mind … as well as your demand for sleep.
Allow's get to know nappies.
Great ol' disposables. With truly just one design, they absorb dampness promptly to avoid leaks and 'lock it in' to keep your bub reasonably completely dry; are simple and also quick to secure; remain closed during use; as well as fit numerous sizes and shapes. And also they're very practical, especially when out and also around– particularly so due to the fact that they're readily available in every grocery store and also corner store. They don't call them corner store for no reason!
Multiple-use modern towel nappies
Modern fabric nappies (MCNs) are coming to be more popular as well as, to be clear, we're not talking the old terry-towelling squares. MCNs are the new whiz-bang variation showcasing a water-resistant cover, leak-proof elasticised leg openings as well as absorptive extra padding and also lining.
The various styles
There are greater than 200 brands– a lot of which are made by work-at-home mums that sell them over the internet on stores like Etsy.
All-in-ones have a moisture-resistant external layer stitched with an absorptive inner to develop the nappy– they could take a bit to completely dry.
All-in-twos, likewise called snap-in-ones, include a lined water-proof outer layer and absorbent inner layers, which "snap in" with press studs. They could be uncoupled for laundering, so they dry faster than all-in-ones.
Pocket nappies have a waterproof outer layer sewn together with a soft internal lining, which develops the covering. Between these 2 layers there's a pocket for the absorbing inserts. These are gotten rid of for cleaning after that changed, which could be a little bit fiddly but on the plus side they dry out rapidly.
Old-fashioned terry-towelling square nappies are additionally still readily available. They can take a little practice to fold up and fit right, yet they are a cheaper recyclable alternative than MCNs, as well as modern-day fasteners indicate you do not even need to utilize safety and security pins.
I can see there are advantages to both– how do I choose in Lehigh Iowa?
There are a variety of considerations, so let's take a look at them.
The ahead of time price of reusable nappies is quite high, yet over time it's potentially cheaper than disposables– reducing in cost significantly with every youngster.
Towel nappies do require a little bit much more job, and may be a discomfort when you're out. Just like an exhausted bub.
Good quality, well-fitting nappies– whether cloth or disposable– will maintain child completely dry, and also won't trigger nappy rash.
Environmental impact
Disposable nappies actually don't have the very best eco-friendly reputation, yet there are alternatives to reduce their influence:
Some brands are naturally degradable, though problems in landfill make this degradation tough to take place.
Some have compostable or recyclable packaging.
Acquiring locally-made nappies, rather than imported, minimizes transportation carbon expense.
Regardless of the environmental costs of fabric manufacturing as well as nappy laundering, fabric nappies that are dry-pailed and also mostly line-dried still appeared in advance of disposables.
Disposables are available in different dimensions to match your growing bundle-that's- now-turning-into-a-handful, as well as ultimately you could move into pull-up pants from several of the exact same brands.
MCNs are readily available in taken care of dimensions, or a one-size-fits-most (OSFM), which has extra attachments for readjusting the nappy as your baby expands.
Fixed-size nappies suggests getting brand-new sets as your infant expands larger, so it could cost even more. On the other hand, if you're having greater than one child, you'll make use of the grown out of ones again.
You'll only need one set of OSFM nappies, yet their longer usage suggests even more damage, as well as they might just last through one child's early stage.
Diaper Materials
The type of material utilized influences drying time. Natural fibers normally take longer to completely dry than synthetics, as well as you'll wish to make certain you have sufficient nappies to get with a few days of damp weather condition if you don't have a clothes dryer.
Paper or material nappy liners make your washing life simpler by keeping solids off the nappy. Flushable ones make clean-up a cinch!
The absorptive products (covering linings, pads and also boosters) include bamboo, cotton, hemp or fleece, with breathable polyurethane laminated textile (PUL) or lanolised wool usually made use of for covers– if you want that type of thing.
I want a verdict– which nappy is best?
For ecological and also financial reasons, you can't pass by MCNs.
For ease-of-use as well as benefit, disposables are the means to go.
Naturally it doesn't have to be one or the other: you might utilize fabric nappies at home throughout the day, as well as disposables when out as well as about, disappearing, in the evening, at daycare, and also throughout long periods of rainfall when you prefer to not make use of the clothes dryer.
If you're uncertain:
Acquire a single nappy of each kind that piques your interest.
Some MCN firms market trial packs with samples of the various styles.
Employ a test pack from a nappy collection, a solution provided by nappy business and also area teams: browse the web for 'modern-day cloth nappy collection' to locate one near you.
How do I understand I've picked the ideal nappy?
Whatever you have actually decided on, here's the checklist for a great nappy:
No leaking around the legs.
No liquid permeating through the cover.
Not too tight or too loosened around hips as well as legs.
No massaging or chafing from the nappy or fasteners around the legs or hips.
Child's skin really feels fairly dry when the damp nappy is eliminated.
The nappy holds sufficient liquid to be useful (ie you do not have to alter frequently).
Infant could move legs easily and also, at later stages, crawl and also stroll without being troubled by the nappy.
One last point, are multiple-use nappies as much grunt work as they seem?
There's an easy five-step method called completely dry pailing, which followers say make light work of heavy soils.
Make use of flushable linings to capture solids.
Separate the elements (cover and also cushioning) of the damp nappies, or if they're all-in-ones skip in advance to step 3.
Rinse in cool water if needed.
Put them into a bucket with a lid.
Throw the load into the washing machine each day.
Ideally you now have a satisfied, completely dry child and the only point you have to stress over is how you'll locate time to Instagram every minute!


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PANDORA's Essence Collection conveys your inner self through a collection of delicate jewellery and sophisticated charms. One of the items in this range includes a slender sterling silver bracelet which is both dainty and elegant.
Designed to display a host of hand-finished, sterling charms it really is pleasing on the eye although it's worth noting that only charms from the Essence Collection will fit.
This type of bracelet is just like the triple bangles above apart from the leather is woven creating a more textured effect. Once again it comes in a variety of colours including black and grey and you can even get double woven and single woven varieties in everything from a stunning pearl shade to a deep purple.
Silver barrel clasps are popular and like PANDORA's other bracelets you can add a host of charms to make it yours.
Like the multi-strand bracelets, PANDORA's triple leather bangles are interesting to look at thanks to their entwined, layered appearance. While bright shades such as red and purple are both vibrant and pleasing on the eye you can also get hold of more neutral colours like black and brown. Of course, the type you go for will depend on your individual personality and style but you might also want to choose something to complement the charms your already own.
Most bracelets have sterling silver clasps.
If gold and silver aren't your thing or you'd simply prefer something a little more casual, the PANODRA Moments multi-strand bracelets on offer might be to your taste. Unique as they are classy, these bangles feature numerous strings which come together to form a decorative wrist decoration all finished off with a polished silver branded ball clasp.
Available in numerous colours, including baby pink and teal, you can match the bracelets to suit your outfit or layer them up for a bright, summery look.
If you're finding it hard to choose between sterling silver and the gold bracelets on offer, fear not, as you could be the proud owner of one of Pandora's most exclusive pieces – the two-tone design. With the bracelet made from sterling silver and the barrel clasp made from 14ct gold, you'll get all you wanted and more so it's well worth checking out this style.
As with many of the charm bracelets, PANDORA is inscribed onto the clasp for an extra touch of class.
Sometimes, only gold will do which is why PANDORA have released this stunning 14ct bracelet. Complete with a barrel clasp and sold in three different sizes (17cm, 19cm and 21cm) it's a must-have accessory for anyone collecting PANDORA's exclusive collection of 14ct or two-tone charms.
You could even enjoy a dash of contrast by popping sterling silver charms on this beautiful piece.
Fancy something a little edgier? Then take a look at this sensational bracelet made from oxidised silver. It's far darker than the sterling silver varieties available and will give a quirkier feel to your charm collection. Complete with a sterling clasp, the contrasting colours are eye-catching and certainly make a statement.
Thanks to the barrel clasp and trademark PANDORA threading system, your charms will also screw on with ease and remain secure.
The PANDORA Moments five-clip bracelet is a stunning multi-chain piece of jewellery which can be customised to suit your mood. With the option of adding up to five different clips, you can mix and match an array of PANDORA accessories at your leisure and turn this basic chain into a personal feature piece.
Sizes range from 15cm to 21cm so you're sure to find something that fits you perfectly.
Aside from the overall design of a bracelet, the type of clasp used is of paramount importance to many buyers. While some people prefer the screw mechanism of a barrel clasp, others prefer the lever-controlled lobster clasp of this Moments bangle.
Held closed by a spring, lobster clasps are dainty, reliable and are easy to operate with one hand.
Ideal for anyone searching for a simple yet stand-out piece of jewellery, this sterling silver bracelet with a barrel clasp is a PANDORA classic.
Part of the Moments range, which is based around creativity, sharing and storytelling, it's sold in a host of different sizes and is the perfect way to show off all your delightful charms.

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Individuals and organizations throughout the Southeast will gather to grow their networks and discuss innovative sustainability initiatives that shape a more equitable and prosperous world. On the final morning of the conference, join us for the Greenprints Design Sprint (9am - 1pm), with a focus on the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The SDGs give Atlanta great tools and resources to tackle some of our area's greatest opportunities. We'll use those resources for our design sprint, which is designed to provide stakeholders with collaborative opportunities to challenge current thinking and develop solutions to advance our quality of life. During the Greenprints Design Sprint, you'll build on learning from day one and explore how you might approach solutions, collaboratively.
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Spooooooooky Friday the 13th Links!
* Exciting new anthology alert! A People's Future of the United States.
New anthology project free to announce widely at last: A PEOPLE'S FUTURE OF THE UNITED STATES, edited by me and @victorlavalle! (Coming Feb. 2019) pic.twitter.com/XOxhVkgPT4
— John Joseph Adams (@JohnJosephAdams) July 12, 2018
* Cool job at UCSD in Media and Popular Culture.
* Hamilton and Laurens. As I mentioned a bit on Twitter, we actually talked about this quite a bit in my Hamilton class, including how some elements in the show point to queer possibility here and the likelihood that performances in the future will likely play the relationship as explicitly queer. And just for fun, also via Twitter: A countervailing view!
* A Theory-Fiction Reading List.
* If you were going to teach a class on Russian literature at a juvenile detention center, what would the reading list include?
* Medieval studies groups say a major conference is trying to limit the number of diverse voices and topics. The debate is part of a bigger fight over whether medieval studies should remain a fundamentally European field. Whose Medieval Studies?
* Unpacking Murad Osmann's #FollowMeTo Instagram Travel Series.
* Facebook Proves It Isn't Ready To Handle Fake News.
* As the GOP base tries to find new ways to funnel money to its white, bougie, suburban base, bonkers tax policy like this proposed tax break for gym memberships will become more and more common.
* Marvel has run out of options and is finally going to do a Black Widow movie.
* This franchise keeps getting worse all the time.
* These woodchucks are heroes.
* There's a reason employees stay at the Pantry for a lifetime: it's one of the few restaurants in Los Angeles where the workers are represented by a union. Peña-Suarez is one of the 23,000 members of Unite Here Local 11, the service-workers' union behind the Pantry and a number of iconic LA restaurants: Langer's, Nate 'n Al Delicatessen, Philippe the Original, La Golondrina, and La Scala.
* Solid thread from Corey Robin on the political meaning of Kavanaugh's debts.
5/ And once you go on to read about the assets of the other justices—Gorsuch's net worth is in the neighborhood of $10 million, Breyer's is about $16 million—you can see what a scandal little ole' Brett, with his $15k in savings and his $200k in credit card debt, really is.
— corey robin (@CoreyRobin) July 12, 2018
* How the New Supreme Court Could Halt Climate Action.
* Forty-year-old Efrain De La Rosa, a Mexican national who was held in an ICE detention facility in Georgia, committed suicide and was pronounced dead late Tuesday evening, making him the eighth person in ICE custody to die in the 2018 fiscal year.
* ACLU: Fed Gov't Not Giving Promised Notice As Immigrant Families Reunited.
* Asylum seekers, even those who do not present themselves at points of entry, are not "illegal"; under international law they are "irregular" and subject to an array of rights and protections, including immunity from punishment.
* Today's US-Mexico 'border crisis' in 6 charts.
* Hey is it me or does this guy sound like a white supremacist?
Trump to The Sun
"Allowing the immigration to take place in Europe is a shame.
"I think it changed the fabric of Europe and, unless you act very quickly, it's never going to be what it was and I don't mean that in a positive way."
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) July 12, 2018
"So I think allowing millions and millions of people to come into Europe is very, very sad."
"I think you are losing your culture. Look around. You go through certain areas that didn't exist ten or 15 years ago."
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) July 12, 2018
* Since Trump was elected, more than 1,400 mayors have agreed to shift their cities to 100-percent renewable energy by 2035, in line with the goals of the Paris Agreement. Last fall, St. Louis became one of the biggest cities so far to set that lofty goal. The city of Berkeley, California, went even further recently, declaring an "existential climate emergency" and aiming for net-negative emissions by 2030.
* The real reason the sound of your own voice makes you cringe.
* "I refuse to let Hollywood #whitewashout the Thai Cave rescue story."
* Want to feel old? Jared Kushner still lacks security clearance level to review some of the nation's most sensitive intelligence in White House role.
* When Trump's dumb obsession with CNN accidentally leads to good policy.
* Leaked report exposes how unprepared FEMA was for Maria. I want to see the leaked report detailing all the many ways they've failed Puerto Rico in the year since the storm.
* Another #TheResistance rando turns out to have serious personality problems, first and foremost a pathological need for attention. Not unrelatedly: Liberals playing detective are missing an opportunity to engage in meaningful politics.
* Plastic straw bans are the latest policy to forget the disability community.
It has been a true education to watch this ban-plastic-straws thing happen over the last few weeks over the pleas of disabled people begging for someone to listen to them say why they need them.
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) July 10, 2018
* The latest in the search for humanity's origins in Africa.
* Why freelance writers are a fucking pain in the ass with broken brains.
* Can your god explain it? Marx can.
* Dark Horse Is Turning William Gibson's Alien 3 Script Into a New Comic.
* Dune references signal shared knowledge to those in the know, and that's about it. Dune fandom is an un-fandom.
* And I linked this yesterday, but do keep your eye on this. I'm officially calling shenanigans.
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Monday Morning Links (The Kind You Don't Take Home to Mama)
Well, I've been on the new Star Tours, and I regret to inform you I have some pretty serious concerns about its canonicity 1/89
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) July 9, 2018
* CFP: The Evolution of Evil in Fantasy and Science Fiction, Academia Lunare.
* But the other thing that strikes me – we were talking early on about the history of modernity as connected in a structural way to the history of slavery, of capitalism, to histories of ordering and wasting – when I read that long history, a striking thing is capitalism's impulse to abolish limits. From a capitalist's standpoint, there are simply no limits. In regard to almost anything and everything, limitlessness is the law. Another striking thing is that capitalism aims to abolish some of the key dualisms without which the very idea of society as we understand it would have been unimaginable. To some extent, capitalism is the only religion without taboos humans have ever invented.
* The way it works is that, once the first settlers on a new planet demonstrate that they won't die horribly from allergies, pathogens, or getting buried under the excrement of herds of titanosaurs, they then spread out to build mining settlements all over the planet, high-grade all the most accessible mineral deposits, drill for oil, and grow the infrastructure needed to build starships. With starhips built and trade links established, they grow into a mature colony over the course of a few centuries, all the while founding as many daughter colonies on new planets as possible. Eventually, they run into serious pollution problems, loss of usable mineral deposits, changing climate (both natural through the equivalent of Milankovich cycles, and anthropogenic), and a biosphere that coevolves to exploit the colony, because that's just what life does (think pesticide resistant bugs, coyotes, superweeds…). At that point, the colony starts to fall apart. Interstellar trade shifts away from it (after all, whatever's causing them to collapse them might be contagious). Ultimately the survivors hang on to become a truly resilient indigenous population in a backwater world–or all die horribly as their critical infrastructure fails. Their fate doesn't matter to our interstellar civilization, because it has literally already moved on to new frontiers, boldly going where no man has gone before. So long as they can find new worlds to conquer, they can go on forever.
* Hard to argue with this reading of Harry Potter, honestly.
Wizards in Harry Potter fought a war over whether they should be genteel and cultured about racism but vulgar about everything else or vulgar about racism and genteel and cultured about everything else.
— Alexandra Erin (@alexandraerin) July 9, 2018
The figureheads of the war (Harry Potter and Voldemort) were mostly divorced from the larger cultural context of the sides they inspired or led. Their motivations were personal: Harry wanted revenge and to protect people he knew personally, Voldemort wanted power to live forever.
— Alexandra Erin (@alexandraerin) July 9, 2018
* "Eco-Philosopher Fails Hurricane Test, Crawls Under Rock."
* A mere couple of hours away till the end of America, get excited.
* Still, God help me, I can't get enough of this stuff: What if Donald Trump has been a Russian asset since 1987?
* Madeleine Albright: 'The things that are happening are genuinely, seriously bad.' Yeah, that's what I keep saying!
* America is catastrophically incapable of holding its elites responsible for their crimes, and that's supposed to be the good news.
* Meanwhile, the Trump Foundation was a comically illegal slush fund and it just doesn't matter.
* A Mexican couple was turned over for deportation this week when they tried to visit a New York military base to celebrate the Fourth of July with their son-in-law, who is an army officer. They had lived in Brooklyn for decades. More here.
The couple's son-in-law is a sergeant in the U.S. Army's 10th Mountain Division. According to the family, the Department of Defense won't let him intervene in the case.
"Most worrying is the fact that both parents have recently undergone surgery and need medication," the report said. "The Silvas say they have gotten calls from their mother, who said she was denied her medication. They say they have not heard from their father."
This is a different army base in Brooklyn than the one that called ICE on a pizza delivery guy a few weeks ago.
* ICE has kidnapped a journalist in retaliation for his negative coverage of the Memphis Police Department.
* Trump admin won't reunite all migrant families, will place some kids in foster care.
* Illinois governor profits off ICE detention center contracts.
1. 3K children were separated from their parents which is a humanitarian catastrophe
2. Trump signed a document in the Oval Office designed to communicate that family separation was "over"
3. 3K kids remain separated
4. There's no indication of any real plan for reunification
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) July 9, 2018
1. You really want to know what grinds me gears about a good portion of "the resistance?" We are literally going through the early stages of ethnic cleansing, yet people are urging that we play chess against an opponent that has flipped the board over & set the house on fire.
— ✊🏿Black Aziz aNANsi✊🏿 (@Freeyourmindkid) July 7, 2018
Hard to imagine a greater blasphemy against Jesus than the living example of Christians in 2018, to be honest.
— Julius Goat (Read Pinned Tweet!) (@JuliusGoat) July 8, 2018
* Not for nothing. Of course you've heard me sing this song before.
My plan is to accept a cushy job at a university in New Zealand about six months before the killings start, if you're wondering
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) July 8, 2018
hmm 🤔 https://t.co/3l7cFabX7p
— MF (@MF_return) July 8, 2018
* Notes from the Ocasio-Cortez campaign.
* Even "being drunk" is culturally specific.
* Introducing the Marvel Curriculum: A look at film history via the MCU.
* What if HBO, but super, super creepy?
please, i want to die now https://t.co/WPKj1ew1RC pic.twitter.com/TPEWNF0bEG
— Ashley Feinberg (@ashleyfeinberg) July 9, 2018
* How Much Does Being a Legacy Help Your College Admissions Odds?
* Elon Musk's submarine is nonsense. Meanwhile.
* Brexit vs. Gibraltar. Brexit vs. Britain. Brexit vs. the Tories. Brexit vs. Brexit.
* I happened to listen to NPR for a few hours this morning, and I heard three stories that are very much connected to climate change without anyone on the radio mentioning climate change even once.
This week in climate change:
-Quebec: heatwave kills 54
-Algeria: 124.3 degrees F as hottest temps ever recorded scorch Africa.
-Japan: "unprecedented" rain kills dozens
-California: LA notches all-time-high temp, wildfires kill 1 and force 1000s to evacuate.
— Alexander Kaufman (@AlexCKaufman) July 7, 2018
Still astounded by the people arguing that the Puerto Rican government has a moral responsibility to funnel all of its money to bondholders rather than making basic services work as hurricane season begins
— Kate Aronoff (@KateAronoff) July 8, 2018
Tired: Humans are killing the planet
Wired: literally like ninety specific people are killing the planet and we literally know their names
— Bigger Laius Theory (@the_bird_roads) July 8, 2018
* U.S. Opposition to Breast-Feeding Resolution Stuns World Health Officials.
* Like Pizzagate but it actually happened.
* 150 Cheers for the 14th Amendment.
* Killing all the whales and turtles to own the libs.
1/7: We are now in a transitional moment: as was the case internally for people in the Soviet system c.1980, most people in the West who today are involved in or thinking about the int'l system realize that the warm & fuzzy things that are said about this crumbling system are BS.
— Nils Gilman (@nils_gilman) July 8, 2018
a more just social order is not only possible it's near, reactionary fascism is just that – a reaction.. to the rest of us, don't let them steal the future
— Ayesha A. Siddiqi (@AyeshaASiddiqi) July 8, 2018
Whenever I get irritated with young people for incomprehensible weirdness like calling crispy duck pizza racist or watching videos of people playing computer games, I feel it's important to remember that old people voted to burn down the economy and put babies in prison.
— John B (@johnb78) July 8, 2018
* Actually existing media bias watch: 1, 2.
* Siri: show me fragile masculinity.
* And the headline reads: "Fake sultan was scamming a Miami billionaire. Then he ate pork."
Siri: show me fragile masculinity pic.twitter.com/XVtCDKSW5D
— Nun Ya (@Ishfery) July 8, 2018
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Saturday Morning Post-SFRA Links! All! Tabs! Closed!
* SFRA is over, but ICFA season has only just begun! The theme for ICFA 2019 is "Politics and Conflicts" and the special guests are Mark Bould and G. Willow Wilson.
* And keep saving your pennies for SFRA 19 in Hawaii! Stay tuned for more information soon.
* Ben Robertson put up his SFRA talk on the MCU and abstraction as well as his opening statement for the Avengers vs. Jedi roundtable (which coined the already ubiquitous term "naustalgia"). My opening statement was this image, more or less…
* Other piping hot SFRA content at #SFRA18! It was a great conference.
In the process of his SF reading @pefrase throws off the deep key to all post-70s cop shows: "All Cops Are Bastards, Except Us." That is: they must concede obvious corruption of the system, but posit a fantasy space of exception, of nobility and decency, inside it. #SFRA18
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) July 2, 2018
Echoing Mark Bould's own Pilgrim speech from two years ago, Freedman notes the irony of science fiction studies becoming "respectable" at the moment the humanities and the academy writ large find themselves under cataclysmic, existential attack. #SFRA18
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) July 4, 2018
* The Economics of Science Fiction.
* A book I'm in won a Locus Award: Check out Luminescent Threads: Connections to Octavia E. Butler! Congratulations to Alexandra and Mimi.
* Black Women and the Science Fiction Genre: an interview with Octavia E. Butler from 1986.
* CFP: TechnoLogics: Power and Resistance. CFP: Childhoods of Color.
* The early career academic: learning to say no.
* The Humanities as We Know Them Are Doomed. Now What? Jobs Will Save the Humanities.
* Revised Course Evaluation Questions.
Your professor appeared to conceive of the seminar as
1) a psychoanalytic session
2) a Reddit thread
3) an opportunity to talk about themselves
4) a lawsuit waiting to happen
— Jan Mieszkowski (@janmpdx) June 25, 2018
* Essentially total victory for John McAdams over Marquette at the WI Supreme Court. I don't talk about "Marquette stuff" on here because of the slippery nature of my status as an agent of the university, but noted for history. More here. Marquette "agrees to comply" but doesn't concede wrongdoing.
"The undisputed facts show that the university breached its contract with Dr. McAdams when it suspended him for engaging in activity protected by the contract's guarantee of academic freedom," states the ruling, written by Justice Daniel Kelly.
* Things that happen in Silicon Valley and also the Soviet Union. So good.
Things that happen in Silicon Valley and also the Soviet Union:
– waiting years to receive a car you ordered, to find that it's of poor workmanship and quality
– promises of colonizing the solar system while you toil in drudgery day in, day out
— Anton Troynikov (@atroyn) July 5, 2018
– living five adults to a two room apartment
– being told you are constructing utopia while the system crumbles around you
— Anton Troynikov (@atroyn) July 5, 2018
* Since it isn't, a simple question arises: where's all the fucking money? Piketty's student Gabriel Zucman wrote a powerful book, The Hidden Wealth of Nations (2015), which supplies the answer: it's hidden by rich people in tax havens. According to calculations that Zucman himself says are conservative, the missing money amounts to $8.7 trillion, a significant fraction of all planetary wealth. It is as if, when it comes to the question of paying their taxes, the rich have seceded from the rest of humanity.
* If Elon Musk can save the trapped Thai soccer team though I'll definitely forgive him for everything else, for at least a couple weeks. In the meantime…
* Trump's ethnic cleansing operation is blowing past boundaries that would have been considered utterly sacrosanct only a few years ago. The Trump administration just admitted it doesn't know how many kids are still separated from their parents. "In hundreds of cases, Customs agents deleted the initial records in which parents and children were listed together as a family with a "family identification number," according to two officials at the Department of Homeland Security." The teenager told police all about his gang, MS-13. In return, he was slated for deportation and marked for death. Toddlers representing themselves in court. USCIS is Starting a Denaturalization Task Force. Trump's Travel Ban Has Torn Apart Hundreds of Families. Trump's catch-and-detain policy snares many who have long called U.S. home. At 9 He Lost His Mom to Gang Violence. At 12 He Lost His Dad to Trump's Immigration Policies. After being released from custody in El Paso on Sunday, the parents have now learned the whereabouts of their children, a shelter director said. But there are more hurdles before they're reunited. Lawful permanent resident freed nearly three weeks after arrest. Sick Child Couldn't Walk After U.S. Took Him From His Mom. Painful memories of Michigan for immigrant girl, 7, reunited with mom. The Awful Plight of Parents Deported Without Their Children. From behind bars, a father searches for one of the 2,000 kids still separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border. Dad, I'm Never Going to See You Again. Feds failing to put migrant parents in touch with separated kids. Former Seattle Chief Counsel sentenced to 4 years in prison for wire fraud, aggravated identity theft scheme. "At night, Andriy sometimes wakes up screaming in the bunk bed he shares with his mother and baby brother." "My Whole Heart Is There." "My son is not the same." "Are You Alone Now?" There was a pilot program. Transport Fees. A Migrant Mother Had to Pay $576.20 to Be Reunited With Her 7-Year-Old Son. Letters from the Disappeared. Listen. Border Agent Threatened to Put Immigrant's Daughter Up for Adoption, ACLU Says. A New Border Crisis. Separated Parents Are Failing Asylum Screenings Because They're So Heartbroken. A Twitter Bot Has Joined the Immigration Battle to Fight ICE With Facts. A Twitter Bot Is Posting the Names and Locations of Immigrant Detention Centers Across the U.S. Over the course of three weeks, a major U.S. defense contractor detained dozens of immigrant children inside a vacant Phoenix office building with no kitchen and only a few toilets. The Immigrant Children's Shelters Near You. Supreme Court just wrote a presumption of white racial innocence into the Constitution. The Trump administration is not answering basic questions about separation of migrant families. Immigration Attorney Says ICE Broke Her Foot, Locked Her Up. This is what Trump and ICE are doing to parents and their children. A practice so cruel that the United States ended it for a quarter-century. It's only going to get worse. Torn apart. Don't you know that we hate you people? (Only) 17 states sue Trump administration over family separations. News outlets join forces to track down children separated from their parents by the U.S. We might not even have ever known. New 1,000-Bed ICE Lockup Set to Open on Site of Notorious 'Tent City' in South Texas. Potemkin camps. Research suggests that the family of Anne Frank attempted to escape to the U.S., but their efforts were thwarted by America's restrictive immigration policy. Exclusive: Trump administration plan would bar people who enter illegally from getting asylum. We're Going to Abolish ICE. Woman Climbs Statue of Liberty to Protest Family Separations, Island Shut Down. How to Abolish ICE. And just for fun: ICE Training Officers in Military-Grade Weapons, Chemical Agents. Dogsitting.
I can't tweet everything I know. Some of it is off-the-record. Some of it is uncorroborated. Some of it is embargoed until we publish.
But I can tweet this: this thing where the government took children from their parents atthe border? It's more horrific than we have imagined.
— Aura Bogado (@aurabogado) July 6, 2018
* The Central American Child Refugee Crisis: Made in U.S.A.
* I've Been Reporting on MS-13 for a Year. Here Are the 5 Things Trump Gets Most Wrong.
* I feel pretty confident the buried story here is that Trump blackmailed Anthony Kennedy by threatening to destroy his son's life; I suppose it'll all come out during Truth and Reconciliation in the 2040s. Anyway this is just about the final end of America, buckle up.
* All of American history fits in the life span of only three presidents.
* Trump Confidant Floats Crazy RBG-For-Merrick-Garland SCOTUS Swap. I am a huge proponent of this deal but you'll have to confirm Garland first. You understand.
In that spirit, an out-of-the-box solution for desperate times: Trump should name Knicks owner James Dolan to replace Anthony Kennedy as a justice on the Supreme Court, forcing him to sell his ownership of the Knicks. Outlandish? Perhaps. But worse than what we have now? 4/17
— danielbenaim (@danielbenaim) July 5, 2018
* There's no returning to a golden age of American democracy that never existed. Donald Trump, the resistance, and the limits of normcore politics.
* What can we learn from 1968?
* Trump Inauguration Day rioting charges against 200+ people abruptly dropped by U.S.
* A major Republican leader in the House has been accused of facilitating the sexual abuse of huge numbers of children in his previous career as a wrestling coach. No, not him, this is a new guy.
* Farmers in America are killing themselves in staggering numbers.
* Been Down So Long It Looks Like Debt to Me.
* In the richest country in all of human history.
* A country of empty storefronts.
* $117,000/year is now considered low income in San Francisco. Class and America.
* How Flint poisoned its people.
* 'A way of monetizing poor people': How private equity firms make money offering loans to cash-strapped Americans. With special appearance by Obama Secretary of the Treasury Tim Geithner!
* Rosa Parks's Arrested Warrant.
* The Beautiful, Ugly, and Possessive Hearts of Star Wars.
20 years next year I faced a media backlash that still affects my career today. This was the place I almost ended my life. It's still hard to talk about. I survived and now this little guy is my gift for survival. Would this be a good story for my solo show? Lemme know. pic.twitter.com/NvVnImoJ7N
— Ahmed BEst (@ahmedbest) July 3, 2018
* Every parent's secret suspicion confirmed: She was worried how a 'teacher of the year' treated her 5-year-old son. So she made a secret recording.
* Lows of 80 degrees and higher, now commonplace, were once very rare. They occurred just 26 times from 1872 to 1999 or about once every five years. Since 2000, they've happened 37 times or twice every year on average. Probably nothing.
* It's So Hot Out, It's Slowing Down the Speed of Stock Trades.
Yesterday was Africa's hottest reliably measured temperature in recorded history: 124.3°F (51.3°C) in Algeria
Africa has 16% of the world's population—and produces just 3.8% of all greenhouse gases.
Climate change is fundamentally a story of injustice.https://t.co/UuNTd0aDGt
— Eric Holthaus (@EricHolthaus) July 6, 2018
* Flood insurance is completely broken.
* Companies buying back their own shares is the only thing keeping the stock market afloat right now.
* Facebook destroyed online publishing, then quit the business.
* The US Left Has Only Four Tendencies.
* Students in Detroit Are Suing the State Because They Weren't Taught to Read.
* Doesn't seem like a great sign, no.
* A great ideas as long as you know nothing about either writing or computers.
Turns out that's an easy question to answer, thanks to MIT research affiliate, and longtime-critic of automated scoring, Les Perelman. He's designed what you might think of as robo-graders' kryptonite, to expose what he sees as the weakness and absurdity of automated scoring. Called the Babel ("Basic Automatic B.S. Essay Language") Generator, it works like a computerized Mad Libs, creating essays that make zero sense, but earn top scores from robo-graders.
To demonstrate, he calls up a practice question for the GRE exam that's graded with the same algorithms that actual tests are. He then enters three words related to the essay prompt into his Babel Generator, which instantly spits back a 500-word wonder, replete with a plethora of obscure multisyllabic synonyms:
"History by mimic has not, and presumably never will be precipitously but blithely ensconced. Society will always encompass imaginativeness; many of scrutinizations but a few for an amanuensis. The perjured imaginativeness lies in the area of theory of knowledge but also the field of literature. Instead of enthralling the analysis, grounds constitutes both a disparaging quip and a diligent explanation."
"It makes absolutely no sense," he says, shaking his head. "There is no meaning. It's not real writing."
But Perelman promises that won't matter to the robo-grader. And sure enough, when he submits it to the GRE automated scoring system, it gets a perfect score: 6 out of 6, which according to the GRE, means it "presents a cogent, well-articulated analysis of the issue and conveys meaning skillfully."
* Winners of the 2018 National Geographic Travel Photographer of the Year Contest.
* In 1934, an American professor urged that Jews be civil — to the Nazis.
* California reconsiders felony murder.
* William Shatner kicks off July 4th by implying that UW-Madison & Penn should consider firing 2 kid lit professors for disagreeing with him about whether it's appropriate to note racism in Little House of the Prairie.
William Shatner kicks off July 4th by implying that UW-Madison & Penn should consider firing 2 kid lit professors for disagreeing with him about whether it's appropriate to note racism in Little House of the Prairie. @uwmaaup stands with @BrigField, @clfs_uw, and @Ebonyteach! pic.twitter.com/g8T9fm1V3R
— UWM AAUP (@uwmaaup) July 4, 2018
* Six decades after being told her mother was dead, she found her — 80 minutes away and 100 years old.
* Between 1984 and the mid-1990s, before better HIV drugs effectively rendered her obsolete, Ruth Coker Burks cared for hundreds of dying people, many of them gay men who had been abandoned by their families. She buried more than three dozen of them herself, after their families refused to claim their bodies. For many of those people, she is now the only person who knows the location of their graves.
* How Universities Facilitate Far-Right Groups' Harassment of Students and Faculty.
* A location scout's view of California.
* Not all heroes wear capes: How an EPA worker stole $900K by pretending to be a CIA agent.
* How Pixar's Open Sexism Ruined My Dream Job (Guest Column).
* Reality Winner pleads guilty.
* When copyright goes wrong, EU edition.
* Academic minute: Geoengineering.
* Anglo-Saxon Studies, Academia and White Supremacy.
* The Millennial Socialists Are Coming. How Ocasio-Cortez Beat the Machine. A Conversation with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Fights the Power. Next: Julia Salazar Is Looking to Land the Next Blow Against the New York Democratic Machine. The socialists are coming! But huge, if true.
optimism watch: I think things are going to get so terrible in the next few years, and so quickly, that we will have full blown socialism in the US by the time my kids are grown. We just have to survive and destroy Trumpism.
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) June 28, 2018
* The clearest lesson, which holds now as it did then, is that to rearrange international order in an egalitarian way, you need an egalitarian and internationally oriented domestic politics in the richest and most powerful countries. Otherwise, your best-laid plans can be scuttled by something like what happened then—the neoliberal revolt of capital, the crushing of the labor unions, the turn to the construction of the current international regime of relatively free flow of goods, services, and capital, but not people. Today's nationalist revolts, most notably the catastrophe in the United States, are another body blow to progressive internationalist aspirations. Ironically, they are directed in part against some of the pieties of the neoliberal order—although certainly not in any constructive or progressive direction.
* A Subreddit Dedicated to Thanos Is Preparing to Ban Half of Its Users at Random.
* lol
* The UK is committing national suicide to satisfy a laughably illegitimate referendum that never should have happened in the first place and no one is going to stop it.
* Finally, the CEO of a brokerage house explained that he had nearly completed building his own underground bunker system and asked, "How do I maintain authority over my security force after the event?" The wealthy are plotting to leave us behind.
* If there is hope, it lies with the Juggalos.
It is tragic. I'm not a method actor, but one of the techniques a method actor will use is to try and use real-life experiences to relate to whatever fictional scenario he's involved in. The only thing I could think of, given the screenplay that I read, was that I was of the Beatles generation—'All You Need Is Love', 'peace and love'.
I thought at that time, when I was a teenager: 'By the time we get in power, there will be no more war, there will be no racial discrimination, and pot will be legal.' So I'm one for three. When you think about it, [my generation is] a failure. The world is unquestionably worse now than it was then.
* The first superhero movie is more than 100 years old.
* Rest in peace, Harlan Ellison. Rest in peace, Steve Ditko.
* NASA's Policies to Protect the Solar System From Contamination Are Out of Date. We're not going to is the thing.
* Space is full of dirty, toxic grease, scientists reveal.
* Man suspected of killing 21 co-workers by poisoning their food.
* There could be as many as 7000 tigers living in American backyards.
* "When I Was Alive": William T. Vollmann's Climate Letter to the Future.
* Remembering Google Reader, five years on.
.@Google killed its Reader in 2013 because RSS as a format gives readers agency, doesn't track browsing to sell ads, and lets the user chose what they want to read. As opposed to algorithmic personalisation which siloes us into increasingly homogenous demographics for advertisers https://t.co/YAThAP6bdO
— Luc Lewitanski (@LucLewitanski) July 2, 2018
* Very cool: If you use Gmail, know that "human third parties" are reading your email.
* A classic edition of "our brains don't work": that's because your freaking visual system just lied to you about HOW LONG TIME IS in order to cover up the physical limitations of those chemical camera orbs you have on the front of your face.
* Sports corner! The Warriors Are Making A Mockery Of The NBA Salary Cap. A Literary Lineup for the World Cup. We Timed Every Game. World Cup Stoppage Time Is Wildly Inaccurate. Catching "the world's most prolific criminal fixer of soccer matches."
* Physics says that our perception of smoothly flowing time is a cosmic accident. So why do we think the future always comes after the past?
* A Dunbar number for place: At any point in life, people spend their time in 25 places.
* Some monkeys in Panama may have just stumbled into the Stone Age. Don't do it, guys, it's not worth the hassle.
* I was basically my own editor for 25 years at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. And then the publisher decided he didn't like what he saw.
* Life as a professional dungeon master.
* Naked Japanese hermit forced back into civilization after 29 years on deserted island.
* An Oral History of ASSSSCAT.
* Peyton Reed (director of Ant-Man and the Wasp) remembers writing Back to the Future: The Ride.
* The Roxy, West Hollywood, CA, July 7, 1978.
* Someone in the club tonight is stealing my ideas.
* The arc of history is long but seriously they really took their time with this.
* What should we read if we want to be happy?
* And Incredibles 3 looks wild. Don't miss Old Man Incredible! I'm here for it.
Written by gerrycanavan
July 7, 2018 at 11:00 am
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Just a Few for Friday
* The draft program for SFRA 2018 is available. See you in July!
* But that promise is part of what makes the movie's sins so egregious. In the course of illuminating some of Han's most famous exploits, including his record-setting Kessel Run and his acquisition of the Millennium Falcon, "Solo" turns into one of the most frenetic "Star Wars" movies. It whips us around so fast, though, that it's impossible to see much; it's less storytelling or world-building than the shallowest kind of tourism. Most disappointing of all is the trip that "Solo" takes into its hero's head. Instead of making that journey and emerging with something rich and complicated that explains how Han became one of the great characters of the blockbuster era, and one of the most intriguing men in modern movies, "Solo" comes back mostly with treacle.
* But nevermind all that! The Boba Fett movie will solve everything!
* Under The Skin: Why That 'Arrested Development' Interview Is So Bad. Jason Bateman Showed How "Family" Is Used To Excuse The Inexcusable.
* Anguish at Southwest border as more immigrant children are separated from parents. Even more here. 'We're closed!': Trump vents his anger over immigration at Homeland Security secretary. The feds lost – yes, lost – 1,475 migrant children.
Man comforts his son before being deported to Mexico after 16 years in the US pic.twitter.com/eYcgaJ5Z9l
— People of Earth (@StoriesOfPeopIe) July 23, 2017
* Keeping climate change to 1.5°C relative to 2°C could cost $300 billion but save $20 trillion. Of course we're not going to do it, but.
* SDS serves as a warning about the fragility of political ideas in the abstract, and how quickly they can be remade when history comes knocking.
* "There's a reason Uber would tune its system to be less cautious about objects around the car," Efrati added. "It is trying to develop a self-driving car that is comfortable to ride in."
* And today in unprecedented shocking developments: N.J. Democrats loved the idea of taxing the rich — until they actually could do it.
Written by gerrycanavan
May 25, 2018 at 9:00 am
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All Your Sunday Reading™
* Call for applications: Postdoctoral Scholar for Futures of Literary and Cultural Knowledge, UCSB.
* Call for Papers: "Binge-Watching and the Future of Television Research: A Workshop" Sept 13-14, 2018, at Anglia Ruskin University.
* Studying Tolkien fanzines at Marquette University.
* I make a by-the-way appearance on this massive roundup of Infinity War links.
* What is an English professor?
* The Enduring Anger of Joanna Russ.
* Bonkers Wisconsin tax policy error in my favor.
* Massive UC workers' strike disrupts dining, classes and medical services. UC Workers on Strike. After 3-Day Strike, University Of California's Service Workers Vow To Keep Fighting.
* A Duke University VP Walked Into the Campus Joe Van Gogh, Heard a Rap Song, Demanded That the Employees Be Fired. The icing on the cake. Well, actually, this is.
* If you're worried about free speech on campus, don't fear students — fear the Koch brothers.
* Why universities became big-time real estate developers.
* Stephen Kuusisto on ableism in the university.
* White student calls police on black student napping in Yale dorm. When Calling the Police Is a Privilege.
how sad for the student who called the cops on her neighbor for sleeping on the dorm couch that she did it just a few days too late to be a founding member of the intellectual dark web
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) May 10, 2018
* Academia's #MeToo moment: Women accuse professors of sexual misconduct. 45 Stories of Consent on Campus. The #MeToo movement hit the literary world hard this week. It's not the first time.
* (Another) progressive case against the progressive case for the SAT.
* Never-ending nightmare: why feminist dystopias must stop torturing women.
* In 2011, Minnesota got a liberal governor and Wisconsin got a conservative one. Who was better off?
* What genuine, no-bullshit ambition on climate change would look like.
* Your workplace is killing you.
* Intrigue and Drama on the Han Solo Set. Catch the fever!
* One of the most purely destructive things Trump has yet done. Early days though, early days. Evergreen.
* Taking parents from their children is a form of state terror. Black activist jailed for his Facebook posts speaks out about secret FBI surveillance. An upcoming Supreme Court ruling could force all workers into forced arbitration, deprived of the right to class lawsuits. Trump Administration Wants to Train Teens in 'Hazardous' Jobs. Mar-a-Lago isn't the 'Winter White House.' It's just an embarrassing cash grab. A taxonomy of Michael Cohen and potential Trump corruption. How Michael Cohen Cashed In. It's harder to pay off foreign governments than the US one. Breaking Down Gina Haspel's Tense Confirmation Hearing. Trumpism Is Having Its Best Week Ever. We know a lot about Trump's misdeeds. But most of all we know there's more to come.
* How bananas is this Schneiderman story going to get? Man.
* And isn't it pretty to think so?
In a half-normal presidency, the main scandal right now would be about how a guy died in a fire at a cheaply built, run down, improperly sprinklered building that the president's blind trust hadn't been able to find a buyer for.
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) May 8, 2018
good morning, torture is both immoral and illegal and Obama should have prosecuted everyone in the Bush administration who was complicit
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) May 9, 2018
* 'We Can Make Him Disappear': The Power of County Sheriffs.
* In One Year, 57,375 Years of Life Were Lost to Police Violence. Plainclothes NYPD Cops Are Involved in a Staggering Number of Killings.
* How to Survive the First Hour of a Nuclear Attack. Wow, a whole hour!
* The Story Behind FanCon's Controversial Collapse.
* Social media copies gambling methods 'to create psychological cravings.'
* Democrats against the gig economy. The Politics of Full Employment.
* It's Not a Food Desert, It's Food Apartheid.
* The Brooklyn Comedian Whose Joke About ICE Got Him a Visit From Homeland Security. ICE Breaking into Home: "We'll Show You the Warrant When We're Done."
* The "Maddening Labyrinth" Aging NFL Players Face for Dementia Compensation.
* America's largest pork producer pledged to make its meat more humane. An investigation says it didn't.
* England revving up for a Corbyn prime ministership.
* There's No Good Excuse For The Racist Impact Of Michigan's Medicaid Proposal. Almost as if… there's no excuse at all…
* From blood diamonds to blood healing crystals.
* It sounds like my dream of a Bill & Ted parody of the trend towards grimdark 80s revivals is gonna come true.
* What CBS found when it bought four random used photocopiers.
* How political and media elites legitimized torture.
* #Comicsgate: How an Anti-Diversity Harassment Campaign in Comics Got Ugly—and Profitable.
* You Won't Like The Consequences Of Making Pluto A Planet Again.
* New York Court Says Chimps Aren't People—But a Judge Is Not Happy About It.
* The dream of communism is the elimination of wage labor. If AI is bound to serve society instead of private capitalists, it promises to do so by freeing an overwhelming majority from such drudgery while creating wealth to sustain all.
* Imagine that it's 2044, and everyone is still listening to Duran Duran.
* Sometimes you just need two men.
* And in the advanced Turing test, the machine convinces you that it is conscious and you aren't.
Written by gerrycanavan
May 13, 2018 at 9:25 am
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All Your Friday Links!
* The itself.blog Star Trek: Discovery event is underway! Star Trek: Discovery Is Optimism, But Not for Us. "Can you bury your heart"? Having feelings about Discovery. Star Trek: Discovery as the End of Next Generation Triumphalism.
* CFP: Activist Speculation and Visionary Fiction (MLA 19).
* Jaimee Hills is officially a dangerous woman.
* The university in ruins: UW Stevens Point. The administration clearly doesn't even understand what it's proposing:
When releasing the plan, university officials said that English majors for teacher certification would continue. But Williams said that under the state Department of Public Instruction's certification criteria, a person looking to become an English teacher has to have been an English major.
"They just both have to exist, or both have to be eliminated," Williams said. "One depends directly on the other."
The most salient fact of academia today is that low-cost humanities classes subsidize every other aspect of university operations. You will never hear a single administrator acknowledge this basic fact and indeed they insist that the money flows the other way.
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) March 7, 2018
* Professors earn about 15 percent less than others with advanced degrees, finds a study circulated Tuesday by the National Bureau of Economic Research. Though perhaps some of us make it up in job satisfaction (really).
* It's gotten so bad in the humanities even the Yale grads don't get jobs handed to them as soon as they graduate.
* Why Creative-Writing Programs Have Been Havens for Harassment.
* It has taken me two and a half decades to recognize that my experience of having a senior male nominal adviser and a female (usually more junior) actual adviser is common throughout academe. On Ghost Advising.
* Abusers and enablers in faculty culture.
* 5% raises in West Virginia. Onward to Oklahoma.
Today's front page is one worth saving pic.twitter.com/ig9SNqbpuZ
— Jake Zuckerman (@jake_zuckerman) March 7, 2018
* Snowflake students claim Frankenstein's monster was 'misunderstood' — and is in fact a VICTIM.
* On the Blackness of the Panther.
* Loved this from Barbara Ehrenreich: Body Work: The curiously self-punishing rites of fitness culture.
If anything, the culture of fitness has grown more combative than when I first got involved. It is no longer enough to "have a good workout," as the receptionist at the gym advises every day; you should "crush your workout." Health and strength are tedious goals compared to my gym's new theme of "explosive strength," achieved, as far I can see, through repeated whole-body swinging of a kettleball. If your gym isn't sufficiently challenging, you might want to try an "ultra-extreme warrior workout" or buy a "home fitness system" from P90X, which in 2016 tweeted a poster of an ultra-cut male upper body, head bowed as if in prayer, with the caption "A moment of silence please for my body has no idea of what I'm about to put it through." Or you could join CrossFit, the fastest-growing type of gym in the world, and also allegedly the most physically punishing. The program "prepares trainees for any physical contingency," the company boasts, "not only for the unknown, but for the unknowable, too. Our specialty is not specializing," and the latter category includes the zombie apocalypse. The mind's stuggle for mastery over the body has become a kind of mortal combat.
* In this economy you're either burned out, or you're boxed out.
* The Secret NYPD Files: Officers Can Lie And Brutally Beat People — And Still Keep Their Jobs.
* A prosecutor who obtained a wrongful conviction that sent a Houston man to death row for nearly 10 years didn't just withhold evidence but also denied under oath that he had information that supported Alfred Dewayne Brown's alibi, court records show.
* Could Trump get a White House job if he weren't president? Didn't we already know Trump couldn't get a loan before he was president?
* Beware Liberal-Baiting "White House in Chaos" Stories. Trump's Position Is As Solid As It's Ever Been.
For that reason win or lose I think the fights on the liberal-left will be a lot nastier after 2020 than they've been before. A huge part of the Democratic base is still living in denial about what this country has become.
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) March 6, 2018
Well, I'd like to see ol Donny Trump wriggle his way out of THIS jam!
*Trump wriggles his way out of the jam easily*
Ah! Well. Nevertheless,
— jesse farrar (@BronzeHammer) October 2, 2016
* Gratuitous cruelty by Homeland Security. Lying to the immigrant soldiers you promised citizenship.
* A Dozen Democrats Want To Help Banks Hide Racial Discrimination In Mortgages.
* Guess Who's Not Coming To America? International Students.
* Kobe Steel's Chief to Step Down as It Discloses
Wider Quality Problems Fifty-Year Conspiracy to Defraud Customers.
— If you still feel pretty messed up about how they were just going to burn the Velveteen Rabbit, please mash all of the keys but mostly 2.
* White flight remains a reality.
[future history class]
Teacher: How did World War 3 start? Anyone? Yes, Khaleesi.
Girl: It started bec-
Teacher: No, I meant Khaleesi M. She had her hand up first.
Girl 2: It started because president Trump was hangry.
Teacher: Correct. [holsters gun]
— OhNoSheTwitnt (@OhNoSheTwitnt) March 3, 2018
* '50 or 60. If I get lucky maybe 150.'
* The grim reality of job hunting in the age of AI.
* The Marvel Cinematic Universe only really makes sense when you remember Captain America is a trans man.
* Wait, what exactly was Luke Skywalker's plan in Return Of The Jedi?
* The opioid crisis has become an "epidemic of epidemics." Meanwhile, a new study suggests opioids are no better than Tylenol for treating some kinds of pain.
* Kentucky's 'child bride' bill stalls as groups fight to let 13-year-olds wed.
* U.N. Report On Magical Realism Warns Of Increased Incidences Of Women's Tears Flooding The Entire World.
* False news stories travel faster and farther on Twitter than the truth.
* There's no idea so terrible there isn't someone in favor of it.
* York University philosophy professor and team submit brief supporting chimpanzee personhood.
* Ok, but you're on a very short leash.
* Her name was Kanga and she was trouble.
I thought of how it all used to be, back when C.R. was young, when we still all believed things would get better. When we still had hope. In a way, hope is as powerful a drug as honey.
— Lavie Tidhar (@lavietidhar) March 7, 2018
* I Am the Very Important Longread Everyone Is Talking About.
* The United States of Middle-earth.
* And the arc of history is long, but.
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March 9, 2018 at 11:39 am
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Weekend Links!
* Clear your calendars for the An und für sich Star Trek: Discovery blog event, beginning Monday!
* A student project from my Tolkien class gets a great writeup at Marquette's Digital Scholarship Lab.
* KSR's next book has a cover.
* The MCU vs. America. What Black Panther can teach us about international relations. Weapons of Black Panther. And Žižek shows up two weeks late with a Killmonger-was-right take.
* The science of late sleepers.
* Why I'm Writing Captain America (And Why It Scares the Hell Out of Me).
* Mueller news you can use: almost all the Mueller leaks are from witnesses and tell us little or nothing about the true scope of the investigation or its likely outcomes.
* Hardware Wars: A People's History.
* Wildcat teachers' strike in West Virginia (but not on MSNBC). Onward to Oklahoma!
Working class movements always draw on and reanimate memories of past struggles in moments of conflict. This is the cultural core of the process of class formation.
— gabrielwinant (@gabrielwinant) March 2, 2018
One day, some group of workers we haven't yet conceived of will stand up for themselves by comparing themselves to teachers.
— gabrielwinant (@gabrielwinant) March 3, 2018
* Phew! Lucky coincidence.
* Buying a gun around the world. How Defective Guns Became the Only Product That Can't Be Recalled. The Florida legislature's push to arm teachers, explained.
* "The vast majority of healthcare wonkery is brainstorming new ways to rescue private insurers from collapsing every time they're asked to do the one thing they exist to do."
* Public schools have been re-segregating for decades.
* Florida Public School Teacher Has A White Nationalist Podcast.
* NASA releases time-lapse of the disappearing Arctic polar ice cap. The age of climate migration.
* Homelessness in the Magic Kingdom.
* Consumers Are Revolting Against Animal Cruelty — So the Poultry Industry Is Lobbying for Laws to Force Stores to Sell Their Eggs.
* Great story about retirees who cracked the lottery.
* Brooklyn man wins nearly $1M lawsuit after NYPD cop tried to frame him on DWI charge.
* I'm Gen X again, maybe for good.
* I predicted this would happen: There is no psychohistory, and there never will be.
* I've used this as a hypothetical in class for years; let's say I'm skeptical.
* The last word in Firefly fan physics: The Ultimate Solar System.
* A right-wing online "university" is on track for a billion views in 2018, its professors are some of the best-known conservatives in media, and its founder wants to put it in real schools. So how come you've never heard of it?
* And your micro-game of the week: Post/Capitalism.
Here is what humans really look like. The majority of your body is there for mobility and interaction. The core of your self is captured in this photograph. This would be conscious if it were still alive. pic.twitter.com/PwyUbL6ihZ
— Matt Taylor (@rhyolight) February 27, 2018
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Clarion Hotel Ernst
- Rådhusgt. 2, Kristiansand
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The Clarion Hotel Ernst is located in the heart of Kristiansand, right between Bystranden (beach), Torget (square) and the shops. Clarion Hotel Ernst – a guaranteed WOW factor.
The traditional, and newly renovated, Clarion Hotel Ernst is located in the heart of Kristiansand, right between Bystranden (beach), Torget (square) and the shops. The hotel's atrium is an oasis and serves as a meeting place for businessmen, visitors and the local population. The hotel has a restaurant and a lobby bar. Especially adapted for families with children in the summer season.
The history of Clarion Hotel Ernst
The founder, - the German Ernst Probsthahn, had his hotel-background from the famous Victoria hotel in Oslo, and realised the need for a modern and fashionable hotel in Kristiansand. The new steamship-connection to Newcastle, Hamburg, Gothenborg, Copenhagen and Oslo, brought ever more visitors to town.
When the municipal government descided that the Western Harbour was going to be the main port, Probsthahn descided that the future was there. He bought the two-story wooden building at the corner of Rådhusgaten and Vestre Strandgate from one of Norways Constitutional founders, Eidsvollsmann Hegermann, and rebuilt it to a very luxsurious hotel.
On the 1.st of May 1858, Ernst's Hotel finally opened their doors.
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1B Weekly News
March 12, 2015
A Note From Mrs. Waters
On Wednesday, nursing students from the University of Calgary came and taught the students about the importance of washing their hand properly. There is a packet in your child backpack from them.
Our field trip to the Museum of Islamic Art is on Monday, March 16. It will be an integrated experience in Math, Art and Technology. The students will be looking for geometrical shapes, experiencing and analyzing artwork, and using technology to record and present what they learn.
Their will be no homework next week since we are going on a field trip and it is a short week. Please be sure though that your child is reading every day after school.
Self-monitored to keep track of meaning as we read and to make deeper connections with the books we are reading.
Began our poetry unit by looking at the work through a poet's eye in a fresh new way.
Learned the names of two dimensional and 3 dimensional shapes.
Sorted and grouped animals by how they eat, their covering and the way they move.
School Announcements
BENEFIT CONCERT - The Arts at ASD
ASD faculty members will be performing a benefit concert for Mila Lopres and her family on March 13 at 3:00pm in the ASD theater. Patty Sands, Stephanie Gravelle, Emily Crowe, Chet Garber and Debbie Armstrong (QMA) will present a program of Bach, Mozart, Bernstein, Hamlisch and others. All donations will be sent to the Lopres family. Sadly Mila lost her husband suddenly earlier in the year. Mila is a valued member of the ASD family. If you don't know Mila personally, she is an important person in the ASD business office.
Counselors Coffee
Join the Elementary School Counselors March 15th at 8:10am in the Elementary Cafeteria for a morning coffee and a discussion about Managing Attention and Impulsivity.
Upcoming Principals' Coffee
Tuesday, March 17th at 8:05 in the ES Cafeteria – Please mark your calendars. Our focus will be on supporting your child with reading at home. This session will be presented by our Literacy Coordinator, Mrs. Katrina Theilmann. We hope that many parents will attend.
Important Dates
March 16: Field Trip to Museum of Islamic Art
March 19-28: Spring Break


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My first glass harmonica.
What even is a glass harmonica?
In all my years of schooling, performing, and working within the classical music industry, this was one instrument I had never experienced. With its name suggesting a mystical and ethereal characteristic, I was intrigued...
While looking for my next event to blog on, I came across Ars Lyrica's season opener
Sweet Philomela at Zilkha Hall – Hobby Center, Friday, September 22nd at 7:30pm.
Ars Lyrica's Executive Director, Kinga Ferguson, invited me to their dress rehearsal Friday morning, giving me an exclusive first look behind the scenes.
Before my adventure with Sweet Philomela began, I felt that I needed to get some background information on the glass harmonica, as this was a featured part of the program. What was I up against here? Perhaps, it was the encroaching fall season that was upon us (if you can even call the weather we have here in Houston "fall") but I couldn't help imagining an instrument that evoked a chilling connotation, right out of a horror film, fit for Halloween. To my surprise, the glass harmonica is not even close to that depiction. It is in fact quite a lovely instrument, with a sweet sound that can give chills to even the most doubtful listener.
Here is a bit more background on this unique invention:
"Franklin's new invention premiered in early 1762, played by Marianne Davies—a well known musician in London who learned to play Franklin's new invention. Initially Franklin named it the 'glassychord', but soon settled on 'armonica' as the name for his new invention—after the Italian word for harmony "armonia". Apparently Franklin built a second instrument for Ms. Davies, as she toured Europe with hers, while Franklin returned to Philadelphia with his own.
The armonica made quite a hit, particularly in Germany. Mozart was introduced to it by Franz Mesmer, who used his to 'mesmerize' his patients, and later Mozart wrote two works for it (a solo armonica piece, and a larger quintet for armonica, flute, oboe, viola and cello). Beethoven also wrote a little piece for amonica and narrator (!), and many of their colleagues of the day composed for it as well—some 200 pieces for armonica (solo, or with other instruments) survive from that era."
- Glassarmonica.com
As I continued to read on about this otherworldly instrument, my excitement for Sweet Philomela grew and soon I found myself seated in Zilkha Hall, with the musicians of Ars Lyrica tuning.
When the concert begins we are introduced to singer Sherezade Panthaki who effortlessly masters the Handel air
"Come, thou Goddess, Fair, and Free"
As we continue on through the first section of Handel excerpts, we are greeted with the virtuosic sounds of the Ars Lyrica baroque orchestra, favored by many in the city. As a feature of Sweet Philomela, the organization has brought in guest concertmaster Elizabeth Blumenstock. And they are led by Ars Lyrica Artistic Director and Conductor, Matthew Dirst.
The illustrious Handel section ends with the Air: "Sweet Bird" in which the soprano and flute trill in unison. Highlighting the virtuosic and playful nature of Handel's music expertly.
However, what awaits me next is the introduction of the Glass Harmonica, with Mozart's Adagio for Glass Harmonica, K. 356. As the piece begins, we are left in suspense while the Glass Harmonica player and guest artist, Dennis James, pauses before his entrance. And then it happens. The magic of the glass harmonica is utilized quite effectively in Mozart's adagio. James plays the instrument with ease, providing not only beautiful music, but an entertaining performance.
Throughout the rest of the program we experience a whirl of emotions and sounds but above all else, the beautiful music that is the Ars Lyrica baroque orchestra.
In creating this season, Ars Lyrica was inspired by the Artful Women found internationally throughout the music world and beyond. Moreover, Ars Lyrica found that we have a strong contingent of Artful women – in their own regards – right here in Houston, TX. For their season opener, they chose to honor Jano Nixon Kelley, who is known for philanthropic work throughout the Houston Arts & Performing Arts community.
To read more about how you too can be a part of this celebration: http://www.arslyricahouston.org/artful-women-honorees-2017-2018/
As Philanthropy has become an increasingly important part of our city this year, Ars Lyrica's season theme of "Artful Women" can be seen as an endeavor all can appreciate.
You didn't think I'd leave you without a cocktail recipe, now did you?
The Sweet Philomela
1 part dry gin
2 parts Champagne
1 part pomegranate juice
½ part simple syrup
Combine gin, champagne, juice, simple syrup, and ice in a shaker.
Put a Handel concerto on the speakers, shake to the beat of the music, pour and enjoy like a true brit. would!
Until next time, i'll catch y'all for cocktails at intermission!


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