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Weekend Links!
* My upcoming Studies in Genre course has been cancelled because it has been rendered superfluous.
@casskhaw self-insertion fanfic about being a college English professor, beloved novelist and also banging coeds
Literary fiction
— Dr. NerdLove (@DrNerdLove) February 18, 2017
* I realized I'd never gotten around to adding Paradoxa 28 to the sidebar. Check it out, if you haven't yet!
* Cuban highlighted English, philosophy, and foreign language majors as just some of the majors that will do well in the future job market. "The nature of jobs is changing," Cuban said.
* Love as Political Resistance: Lessons of Audre Lorde and Octavia Butler. Parable Of The Sower – Not 1984 – Is The Dystopia For Our Age.
* Wikipedia vs. the deletionists.
* Style guide: the look of white supremacy.
* This was beautiful: Coed CYO hoops team defies archdiocese order to kick girls out, forfeits season.
"Is your decision to play the game without the two young ladies on the team, or do you want to stay as a team as you have all year?" asked parent Matthew Dohn. "Show of hands for play as a team?"
Eleven hands shot up in unison. No one raised a hand when asked the alternative.
Assistant coach Keisha Martel, who is also the mom of one of the girls, Kayla Martel, reminded the team of the consequences. They had been told that playing the girls would mean the rest of the season would be forfeited.
"But if the girls play, this will be the end of your season. You won't play in the playoffs," she warned.
"It doesn't matter," one boy replied and others echoed, before the team began to chant, "Unity!"
In the crowd, supporters cheered along. Several parents began to cry.
* Scenes from the Day without Latinos in Milwaukee.
* What It Feels Like When Your World Ends: Rebecca Evans on Black Wave.
* How many pounds do you need to be able to life to teach a literature class?
* The Trump White House Is Screwed, Big League. Justice Department warned White House that Flynn could be vulnerable to Russian blackmail, officials say. Trump Campaign Aides Had Repeated Contacts With Russian Intelligence. Warren v. Flynn. Taking a Step Back. The Fog of Trump. What a Failed Trump Administration Looks Like. Republicans Won't Stand Up and Stop President Trump. So you want to brief the president. That's a hell of an act. Democrats Demand Mar-A-Lago Membership List. As Presidents Live Longer, Doctors Debate Whether To Test For Dementia. Authoritarian government watch: 6/10. The Great Government Breakdown Has Begun. A New Breakthrough in the History of the "S—gibbon." Trump Official Obsessed Over Nuclear Apocalypse, Men's Style, Fine Wines in 40,000 Posts on Fashion Style. The press conference from Hell. Is It Time to Call Trump Mentally Ill? Admit it: Trump is unfit to serve. 'President Supervillain' Puts Trump's Quotes in Red Skull's Mouth, and It's Disturbingly Perfect.
* Pitting class against race in the Age of Trump. Shadow of the Plantation.
* Before the Flood: Karel Čapek and the Destructive Drift of History.
* Fantasies of the deep state.
* Rise and Fall of a K Street Renegade.
* Russia has secretly deployed a new cruise missile that American officials say violates a landmark arms control treaty, posing a major test for President Trump as his administration is facing a crisis over its ties to Moscow.
* ICE detains a woman at a courthouse receiving an order of protection, likely after receiving a tip from her alleged abuser. ICE shows up at a women's shelter. ICE Agents Arrest Men Leaving Alexandria Church Shelter. Why Did ICE Arrest & Imprison a 23-Year-Old DREAMer and DACA Recipient Living Legally in the U.S.? Trump Considering Using National Guard for Immigration Raids. How new is this? Is ICE Out of Control?
* Well this all seems in order: EPA nominee Scott Pruitt won't say if he would recuse himself from his own lawsuits against the agency. He's since been confirmed, of course.
"21st century history isn't one of my strong points. Too depressing."
– Dr. Bashir #DS9 "Past Tense, Pt 1"
— Robert Hewitt Wolfe (@writergeekrhw) November 9, 2016
* Hillary Clinton should absolutely not run for president in 2020. And Democrats should stop her if she tries.
* Shocked, shocked to find gambling in the casino: Maybe College Isn't the Great Equalizer. (More here.)
* Same joke but new study confirms that voter ID laws are very racist.
* Academics, your moment is here: Depression Is an Unlikely Advantage in the Fight Against Fascism.
* The Campus Free Speech Battle You're Not Seeing.
* I'll allow it: There's Going to Be a Mystery Science Theater 3000 Comic Book.
* So preoccupied with whether they could, etc: Woolly mammoth on the verge of resurrection, scientists say.
Nothing sums up the contemporary moment better than this pic of a rich donor posing with a doomsday device at the president's private club pic.twitter.com/5bRukHdSzp
— John Carl Baker (@johncarlbaker) February 13, 2017
* Though this one is pretty good too.
* What We Talk About When We Talk About a Women's Strike.
* What if we pretended something that was obviously an effect of wealth were biological? I think it might look a little something like…
* Obamacare Repeal Could Cripple Efforts To Combat The Opioid Epidemic. Paul Ryan wants to bring back lifetime limits. Millions now rely on these plans, and we should defend them until we can win something better. But we also shouldn't entertain any illusions: the ACA marketplaces rest on a flawed health care ideology that tellingly attracts many adherents on the Right, including Ryan.
* News you can use: The 8 Most Inaccurate Depictions of Mars Ever Put on Film.
* The surgeon who wants to perform a head transplant by 2017.
* Marquette in the news! Marquette Law alum chosen as the first black Bachelorette.
* Lost Essay Reveals Winston Churchill Was Almost Certain Aliens Exist. He met the Daleks! It's canon.
* Is it really time to teach 1984?
* "I understand that they feel like that is their body," he said of women. "I feel like it is a separate — what I call them is, is you're a 'host.' And you know when you enter into a relationship you're going to be that host and so, you know, if you pre-know that then take all precautions and don't get pregnant," he explained. "So that's where I'm at. I'm like, hey, your body is your body and be responsible with it. But after you're irresponsible then don't claim, well, I can just go and do this with another body, when you're the host and you invited that in."
* Another apocalypse: The oceans are losing oxygen.
* The New Star Wars: Aftermath Novel Reveals the Pitiful Fate of Jar Jar Binks. This bummed me out a lot, actually.
* Incredible: Suspect in North Korea killing 'thought she was taking part in TV prank.'
* Of course you had me at "Squid Communicate with a Secret, Skin-Powered Alphabet."
Written by gerrycanavan
February 18, 2017 at 9:00 am
Posted in Look at what I found on the Internet
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Monday Morning Links
* I was delighted to find Octavia E. Butler on Locus's 2016 Recommended Reading List. And you can vote for it as nonfiction book of the year! Make Ursula work for it.
* Eight works of science fiction that present tyrants (not all of them human).
* To maintain the USA as an integral entity is a constant struggle, with no guarantees of success. Science fiction shows us some of the many ways to fail at the task.
* I'd taken England off my list of countries to flee to, but perhaps I could be coaxed.
* Madness at the National Security Council. The Spy Revolt Against Trump. 'A Sense of Dread' for Civil Servants Shaken by Trump Transition. How To Deal with Reichstag Fire Fears in the Age of Trump. Twilight of Mike Flynn. Meanwhile, Trump is doing international diplomacy in the public dining room at Mar-a-Lago. "We have at most a year to defend American democracy, perhaps less." Trump's two-year presidency. Two years. Jesus. Shitgibbon.
* One of the great achievements of free society in a stable democracy is that many people, for much of the time, need not think about politics at all. The president of a free country may dominate the news cycle many days — but he is not omnipresent — and because we live under the rule of law, we can afford to turn the news off at times. A free society means being free of those who rule over you — to do the things you care about, your passions, your pastimes, your loves — to exult in that blessed space where politics doesn't intervene. In that sense, it seems to me, we already live in a country with markedly less freedom than we did a month ago. It's less like living in a democracy than being a child trapped in a house where there is an abusive and unpredictable father, who will brook no reason, respect no counter-argument, admit no error, and always, always up the ante until catastrophe inevitably strikes. This is what I mean by the idea that we are living through an emergency.
* We have been shy about stating the obvious: that something is terribly and uniquely wrong with this president. His powers weaponise the problem. We can all see it. We can all feel it, too. Donald Trump is the walking, talking, hate-tweeting embodiment of the howling identity crisis afflicting the entire United States.
* Federal agents conduct immigration enforcement raids in at least six states. What it's like to be arrested by ICE. Fear and panic. Guadalupe Garcia de Rayos' deportation to Mexico from Arizona this week was the last chapter of a long nightmare for her family. It began in 2008 with a knock on the door by sheriff's officers. And they finally found an undocumented immigrant who voted. For Abdulkarim Jimale, escape was the only way to survive. Trump's immigration order means bureaucrats have to decide who's a "real" Christian. #KnowYourRights. What Geology Has to Say About Building a 1,000-Mile Border Wall. How big a deviation is this from Obama?
* The initial estimate is here: Trump's wall will cost more than a year of the space program that we're also not going to have anymore.
* Asylum seekers fleeing the US into Canada. Losing Hope in U.S., Migrants Make Icy Crossing to Canada. Newcomer centre has no more room for border-crossing refugees.
* Revealed: FBI terrorism taskforce investigating Standing Rock activists.
* Shock report: Republicans are completely morally depraved. But don't worry, the Democrats have got this.
* An updating tally of how often every member of the House and the Senate votes with or against the president.
* Everything is about Trump now.
* Well, it's come to this: a geoengineering plan to refreeze the Arctic Circle. We may live in a post-truth era, but nature does not. Simple equation shows how human activity is trashing the planet.
* Turns out you make more money on university endowments when you don't sign over all the money to hedge-fund scam artists.
As for hedge funds and other high-cost alternatives, "the whole two-and-20 model" — in which investors typically pay 2 percent of assets under management and 20 percent of any gains — "is ridiculous," Mr. Morris said. "The cost structure is outrageous. As they say on Wall Street, 'Where are the customers' yachts?' I'm not going to play that game."
* A US-born NASA scientist was detained at the border until he unlocked his phone.
* Hello old friends: Foreground objects in adventure game scenery.
* lol x2: Geraldo Rivera quits post after Yale removes slavery supporter's name.
* Amazon now controls 46% of all e-commerce in the United States.
* A brief history of the gerrymander.
* Why does the United States still let 12-year-olds get married?
* How American women fell behind Japanese women in the workplace.
* A brief history of punching Nazis in Marvel Comics.
* AI and the end of the middle class.
* Rio's Olympic Park, 6 months after games.
* Reframing Faculty Criticisms of Student Activism.
* Milwaukee offers America's longest-lived experiment with urban-school vouchers, but their mixed legacy is not a story you'll frequently hear from lawmakers and advocates currently championing the spread of private school–choice programs across the country.
* A university, attacked by its own malware-laced soda machines and other botnet-controlled IoT devices, was locked out of 5,000 systems.
* Double majoring will not save you. Only the great god STEM will save you. All praise STEM!
* And this is great, like everything they do: Arnie, Usidore, and Chunt play Gauntlet.
Written by gerrycanavan
February 13, 2017 at 9:00 am
Posted in Look at what I found on the Internet
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Weekend Links!
* Are you at AWP? Or in DC generally? Jaimee is! She'll be doing a book signing at the Waywiser Table at 12:30 Saturday and then reading at the Waywiser reading at 7:30 PM at the Den.
* I'll be giving a short workshop on Octavia Butler and Kindred at the Stanford Humanities Center next Thursday, if that's convenient to you!
* This is so outrageous. 21 years in the US, arrived at 14, two US citizen children, arrested at a scheduled check-in with ICE. You could hardly find more compelling proof that this is entirely and exclusively about cruelty.
* "Pentagon journal explores what could happen if a president called for Muslim internment camps." Gee, I wonder.
* Meanwhile, in another classic authoritarian maneuver, the outsized ego at the heart of the Trumpist seizure of power has surrounded himself with an obliging retinue of enablers and quisling yes-men. Trump likes to divide people between "haters and losers"—a cheap shot that is actually a fairly useful way to categorize his own team. It's Already Happened Here. How to Stop an Autocracy. Profiles in Courage: Rand Paul, Civil Libertarian.
* Every day. Something crazy happens every day.
1. Trump lost appeal.
2. NYT broke China won't take our call.
3. Wash P broke Flynn lied about Russia.
4. Conway broke the law.
— Michael Ian Black (@michaelianblack) February 10, 2017
It's been 20 days since the swearing-in, and you could make solid legal cases for firing Conway, Flynn, and Bannon, and impeaching Trump.
— Ken Tremendous (@KenTremendous) February 10, 2017
* The history of this era is going to be so, so unbelievable.
* Neither Nordstrom nor Ivanka but International Socialism.
Do you support impeaching Trump?
2 weeks ago—35%
1 week ago—40%
—via @ppppolls https://t.co/eNG6SOYc9u
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) February 10, 2017
* It's getting to the point where you can't even call for the wanton slaughter of students without some PC SJW raising a stink about it.
* How Political Fear Works. Beware of Self-Censorship. Who Benefits From Trump's Chaos? What's in it For The Collaborators? There Are No Good Reasons Not To Fight.
* Obama's Lost Army: When Obama Killed OFA.
* I liked this: The Meitheal Manifesto: Thirteen Agreements to Save the World.
* Some rare good news on the climate.
* Darkest thing I've ever seen, first for one the one reason and then for the other.
* The arc of history is long, but Mac malware is slowly catching up to its Windows rivals.
* Solitary Confinement Is a Great American Shame.
* Remembering Richard Rorty on Trump (and the reformist left) (again).
* No one is reading those reference letters. "Truly, this is the single easiest fix in academic culture."
* Science education in the time of Trump.
* You can't argue with facts, little brother.
* Bees aren't endangered anymore! Surprisingly easy fix actually.
* Everything is hot now and getting hotter. Everything seems off or wrong and it is hard to get your bearings because so few of the old landmarks remain. It is hard to believe that some things ever happened, that certain places ever existed. Sometimes I am convinced my memory is wrong or fooling me. The idea that there might be a United States. The idea that this vast and unruly countryside, these ruined cities, these endless refugee camps, might have once been something else. If no one invades us now and only some countries send food and aid, it is only because they too are under stress. Or because we are so fucked up and so many of us have so many weapons. Somewhere in the lost places, there are still nukes, too. Jeff VanderMeer's "Trump Land."
* SF Cities Beyond Blade Runner.
* Graverobbing the Star Wars Expanded Universe.
* Source map from the first great comic book crossover.
* Oh, this was so brutal to read. There but for the grace of God go I at least for now.
Here are my vitals: I have more than $200,000 in student loans and $46,000 in credit card debt—all accumulated during my B.A., M.A., and Ph.D., and then search for a tenure-track job. My annual salary translates to a little more than $3,000 in monthly take-home pay. I pay $800 a month in rent, $1,100 in credit card bills (paying only the monthly minimums), $350 in student loans, and have $285 a month car payment. I also pay the usual insurances, utilities, groceries, gas, et al. I don't have cable. Or a kitchen table. Or blinds on any of my windows. I've cancelled all magazine and newspaper subscriptions—an actual dilemma for a journalism professor. For my first year in Bangor I didn't even have a bed. Instead I slept on a Target air mattress until it lost its breath; then I moved to the couch (which I had purchased on credit), until my back finally demanded I buy a bed (credit, again).
* And of course you had me at A New Deep Space Nine Documentary Reveals What Would Have Happened in Season Eight. Here's another good writeup.
Written by gerrycanavan
February 10, 2017 at 1:51 pm
Posted in Look at what I found on the Internet
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Thursday Links!
* Deadline extended: Special Issue: Star Wars: The Force Awakens: Narrative, Characters, Media, and Event.
* CFP: Speculative Vegetation: Plants in Science Fiction.
* After humanity spent thousands of years improving our tactics, computers tell us that humans are completely wrong. I would go as far as to say not a single human has touched the edge of the truth of Go.
* The banality of evil in Baltimore.
* "Trump and Staff Rethink Tactics After Stumbles." Every revelation in this story is stunning. Trump leans on 'fake news' line to combat reports of West Wing dysfunction. Donald Trump says all negative polls about him are fake news. Check out this fake news about voter fraud. Yemen Withdraws Permission for U.S. Antiterror Ground Missions. Milwaukee passes resolution opposing Trump travel ban. White House rattled by McCarthy's spoof of Spicer. White House Denies Report That Bannon Had to Be Reminded He Wasn't President Amidst Travel-Ban Chaos. Probably best to put this in writing ahead of time. The simple fact is that Trump has never had real friends in the sense you or I think of the term. Never Believe the Republicans' B.S. Ever Again. How Each Senator Voted on Trump's Cabinet and Administration Nominees. Five Theses on Trump. To Stephen Miller, Duke University Class of 2007.
* Elsewhere in Duke News! Bernie and the Duke Grad Student Unionization Movement.
Last night, Meryl Streep played Donald Trump and sang Cole Porter on the @PublicTheaterNY's Delacorte stage. pic.twitter.com/Pgv19HooQm
— Darren Johnston (@DarrenEdward) June 7, 2016
* Apparently those who support income redistribution through aggressive top marginal taxation are still willing to accept union busting and poor parent shaming before considering direct infusions of cash. No matter how lofty their rhetoric, there is an intuitive desire within mainstream American liberalism to believe that the trouble in education is not so obvious as poor people not having enough money to do well—but rather, that poor parents are to blame for not being enough like middle class ones. DeVos Was Inevitable. Democrats reject her, but they helped pave the road to education nominee DeVos.
[whispers] nice white liberals getting super-invested in their children's educations was actually how we got in this mess in the first place
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) February 8, 2017
* The 10 US colleges that stand to lose the most from Trump's immigration ban. American Universities Must Take a Stand.
* The Nervous Civil Servant's Guide to Defying an Illegal Order.
* Meet Antifa, the Most Reasonable People in America.
* The Wisdom of Science Fiction in the Age of Trump.
* "All the pieces of the neo-Nazi solution to climate change already exist."
* Dakota Access Pipeline Is Back On, Skipping Environmental Review.
* The New Yorker celebrates the great Mo Willems.
* Much has been written about the toxicity of internet "call out" culture over the past five years. But less has been said about the prevalence of efforts to fire people, one of that culture's creepiest and most authoritarian features.
* Doctor Strange Has Now Made More Money At Box Office Than Man Of Steel. DC is really bad at this.
* Liberalism looks and feels like a waiting period that may never end. A primary purpose of this tactic is to allow policymakers and elites to announce their intention to do something about a problem while hoping the problem goes away on its own as public attention dies down or as they move on with their careers.
* We Asked Sci-Fi Writers About The Future Of Climate Change.
* Within a decade, according to a 99-page white paper released today, Uber will have a network—to be called "Elevate"—of on-demand, fully electric aircraft that take off and land vertically. Instead of slogging down the 101, you and a few other flyers will get from San Francisco to Silicon Valley in about 15 minutes—for the price of private ride on the ground with UberX. Theoretically.
* The Singularity has already happened.
* 150 Years to Alpha Centauri. But it's no place to raise your kids.
* Make stamp-collecting great again.
* Teaching is not longer a middle class job. College professor isn't either, pretty much anywhere but a town like Milwaukee.
* The Arc of History Is Long But Republicans Are Moving To Scrap Rules That Limit Overdraft Fees.
* A clever study showing how protests impact election outcomes, using rain.
* A general strike could transform American politics. But we're nowhere near being able to call one.
* Capitalism is struggling to reproduce the misery and terror required for worker compliance.
* Even baseball hates baseball.
* Donald Trump Had A Superior Electoral College Strategy.
"Chill out, our institutions have survived hundreds of years, they'll contain Trump" is the new "Trump can't win."
— Brandt (@UrbanAchievr) February 5, 2017
* I don't think there's been a better postmortem on the election, and what it means for the coming decades, than this by Mike Davis: The Great God Trump and the White Working Class.
In addition, as Brookings researchers have recently shown, since 2000 a paradoxical core-periphery dynamic has emerged within the political system. Republicans have increased their national electoral clout yet have steadily lost strength in the economic-powerhouse metropolitan counties. "The less-than-500 counties that Hillary Clinton carried nationwide encompassed a massive 64 percent of America's economic activity as measured by total output in 2015. By contrast, the more-than-2,600 counties that Donald Trump won generated just 36 percent of the country's output — just a little more than one-third of the nation's economic activity."
* Trump believes his base desires cruelty above all else. Here is today's case study.
* "Uncle Biden" has done a lot to mask the fact that the real Joe Biden fought desegregation, wrote the 1994 crime bill, and appeared to side with Clarence Thomas over Anita Hill during Thomas's confirmation hearings. The hyper-competent "Texts From Hillary" made it more difficult for the real Clinton to rebut charges of shadiness and corruption, and also served to mask over the fact that she had never won a closely fought election. Liberal Fan Fiction.
* When Details in a Story Can Put People at Risk.
* He speaks for us all: "Man found stuck in waist-deep mud has no idea how he got there, officials say."
* The best news anybody's gotten since 1997.
* What it's like to lose your short-term memory.
* Ubiquitous surveillance watch.
* A Crack in an Antarctic Ice Shelf Grew 17 Miles in the Last Two Months. Oh, well, that explains everything, doesn't it.
* Rick and Morty and Bojack and existentialism.
* Yes Weekly interviews the great Fred Chappell.
* What a horrible night to have a curse.
* And this is a really good start, but I'm sure we can find a way to do worse.
Written by gerrycanavan
February 9, 2017 at 9:00 am
Posted in Look at what I found on the Internet
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Trumpsday Reading
* Trump is targeting up to 8 million people for deportation. Making America Cruel Again. The triumph of cruelty. Inside the White House-Cabinet battle over Trump's immigration order. 24 Hours at JFK. 'Breathtaking violation of rights.' Constitutional crisis. Hero Lawyers. Stop that plane: The frantic race to halt a deportation. A Q&A With the ACLU. Our New Itinerary. Travel ban causes high anxiety for Milwaukee's international students. The little-noticed bombshell in Trump's immigration order. Half Of World's Refugees Are Running From U.S. Wars. Trump's First Weeks Leave Washington— and the White House Staff—Panting. The leaks coming out of the Trump White House right now are totally bananas. Yes, all this happened. Gasp! Trust Records Show Trump Is Still Closely Tied to His Empire. Ivanka lied about the leaving the Trump organization too. Make War with Mexico Great Again. Trainwreck in Yemen. Even Australia. Onward to Iran! 14 Versions Of Trump's Presidency, From #MAGA To Impeachment. Trump and the Republicans Are on a Suicide Mission Together. Editing Trump. Authoritarian Government Watch. We just let this one go without even making a big deal about it. And this one was crazy too! A Series of Unfortunate Events. This is fine. This is fine. This is fine. Seems legit. This is not normal. #TheResistance. A Reader for Trumplandia. Trump: A Resister's Guide. SNL 1, 2, 3. Oh man. The law, in its majestic equality. 4 in 10. A whole year? Jesus. The numbers. A 3,900 percent increase. It takes 3.5% of a population engaged in sustained nonviolent resistance to topple brutal dictatorships. Here's how much the anti-Trump protests cost, at Trump paid-turnout rates. Disobey.
* I had a very brief segment on Wisconsin Public Radio last week discussing 1984 and the Trump administration.
* The worst, most terrible things that the United States has done have almost never happened through an assault on American institutions; they've always happened through American institutions and practices. These are the elements of the American polity that have offered especially potent tools and instruments of intimidation and coercion: federalism, the separation of powers, social pluralism, and the rule of law. All the elements of the American experience that liberals and conservatives have so cherished as bulwarks of American freedom have also been sources and instruments of political fear. In all the cases I looked at, coercion, intimidation, repression, and violence were leveraged through these mechanisms, not in spite of them.
* There is a style of political reasoning which the Trump moment lends itself to, which can be called conspiracism. Against omniscience.
* Everyday Authoritarianism is Boring and Tolerable.
* Screaming about Trump into a Well: A Text Adventure.
* The Democratic Response to Gorsuch Is Easy: Just Say No. Why Democrats Should Oppose Neil Gorsuch. Make Republicans Nuke the Filibuster to Confirm Neil Gorsuch.
* Football players at private institutions in college sports' most competitive level are employees, the National Labor Relations Board's general counsel stated this week, and will be treated as such if they seek protection against unfair labor practices.
* Chris Ware on George Herriman. A rebuttal.
* The African Speculative Fiction lecture series at the University of London.
* The Hot New Brand of Higher Education.
* Riot at Berkeley. #Milosexual and the Aesthetics of Fascism.
* After-the-Horse-Has-Left-the-Barn Department. Well at least you're sorry.
* Who Cares If the Dow Jones Hit 20,000?
* Under A New System, Clinton Could Have Won The Popular Vote By 5 Points And Still Lost.
* The U.S. military's stats on deadly airstrikes are wrong. Thousands have gone unreported.
* Academics boycotting the U.S.
* The end of Locked-In Syndrome… in the Twilight Zone.
Okay so this really *is* like a news story straight out of Black Mirror – right down to the ending. pic.twitter.com/RrFaQ4SH3W
— Charlie Brooker (@charltonbrooker) February 1, 2017
* Same.
* The new issue of the SFRA Review is up.
* The Youth Group That Launched a Movement at Standing Rock.
* Guns, hostile lawmakers, and professional bigots are more dangerous to academic freedom than left-wing activists are.
* Other Space, the best SF series no one but me watched.
* Against the Constitution. Against the Supreme Court.
* Video Game Voice Actor Strike Now Second-Longest In SAG History.
* How a Cult That Believes Cats Are Divine Beings Ended Up in Tennessee.
* Why the voting age should be lowered to 16.
* February 17 is the next time the general strike isn't actually going to happen.
* In the Trump International Penal Colony and Golf Resort.
* Marquette in the ne — come on, again?
* Also they enslaved and tortured generations of animals, but that's not important right now.
* If you want a vision of the future.
* Decolonizing Science Fiction.
* How an Interstellar Starship Could Actually Explore Alpha Centauri.
* How Astronauts' Brains Are Changed By Spaceflight.
* In the future, everyone will be hated by thousands of strangers for 15 minutes.
* The Milwaukee Bucks Century.
* The war comes to Whitefish Bay.
* Pension giant TIAA is leading a global wave of deforestation and the destruction of small farmers' livelihoods.
* The richest society in human history.
* And like Nietzsche said: it is forgetting, not remembering, that makes life possible.
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February 5, 2017 at 9:00 am
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Fritrump Links!
* Trump's America Conference at University College Dublin.
* Midwest area research opportunity: Horatio Alger Fellowship for the Study of American Popular Culture, Northern Illinois University.
* See Marquette University's $600M plan to transform its Milwaukee campus.
* Teens sue Wisconsin over nightmare conditions in juvenile jails.
* Like everyone, I mocked the tweet. Deep down, I never thought it could happen to me. Now I wish I had stopped to think things through, because I didn't know how to respond. A terrorist had actually kidnapped my baby. By all indications, he had rigged the poor little tyke with a bomb set to go off in one hour. Somehow, miraculously, I had wound up in the same room with him. And now I faced a terrible choice: do I torture the terrorist, or let my baby be blown up, by the bomb that he had rigged the baby with, and then left the baby at some remote location while winding up in a situation where he could be tortured by me?
* Starvation in northern Nigeria's Borno State is so bad that a whole slice of the population — children under 5 — appears to have died, aid agencies say.
* Amazing Twitter project: @Stl_Manifest.
* It is for the rest of us to add justice and peace to that list and to end the forever war and all the death, torture, pain, and hatred it has caused.
Wow, subspace ratings just out: 31 trillion people watched the Inauguration, 11 trillion more than the very good ratings from 4 years ago!
— Dukat (@realRealDukat) January 22, 2017
* Astoundingly Complex Visualization Untangles Trump's Business Ties. Trump: the lie list. Trump's phone as security risk. Trump and the Republicans Are on a Suicide Mission Together. The entire senior level of management officials resigned Wednesday, part of an ongoing mass exodus of senior Foreign Service officers who don't want to stick around for the Trump era. You're a little late. Is Trump Morally Unfit or Are We Facing a Constitution Crisis? Pretty dick move, Germany. This one's unreal even by Trump standards. Sad! One week down.
President Trump has completed 1/2 of 1% of the term to which he has been elected.
— Eric Rauchway (@rauchway) January 27, 2017
* Not only is Obama, at only fifty-five, set to have one of the longest post-presidential careers of any president, but now freed from the shackles of the office — which often forced him to temper his true beliefs and triangulate — Obama can become the progressive hero his most fervent supporters always wanted him to be. Or so the theory goes.
An eye-opening stat in this new @timothypmurphy piece about one group's quest to rebuild the Democratic bench https://t.co/293uthyQtB pic.twitter.com/44lGB1KWNi
— Daniel Schulman (@DanielSchulman) January 26, 2017
Just think: Democrats are going to find a way to lose to this guy a second time.
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) January 27, 2017
* Trump Knows You Better Than You Know Yourself: Psychometrics and the (counter)revolution in marketing that is helping bring fascism to power around the world.
* In a new book, The Blood of Emmett Till (Simon & Schuster), Timothy Tyson, a Duke University senior research scholar, reveals that Carolyn—in 2007, at age 72—confessed that she had fabricated the most sensational part of her testimony. "That part's not true," she told Tyson, about her claim that Till had made verbal and physical advances on her.
* ND House passes eliminating reporting of small oil spills.
* Trump Has Never Been Popular.
* Mark Weston at Time pitches a tax strike until the coasts get adequate representation in government.
* What the Hell Is the Opening Crawl for The Last Jedi Going to Be?
* Why don't we drink pigs' milk?
* Why don't some people get brain freeze?
* Ten Ways Reading The Silmarillion Makes The Lord of the Rings Better, Part 1.
* "Go on, go back home," shouted one person as the 22-year-old Gambian, named as Pateh Sabally, bobbed up and down in the icy waters of the city's main waterway.
* I write out of disarray, from a field of compatriots in disarray. We're drifting like astronauts, distantly tethered by emails like the one I just got from a friend: 'i feel like he is making everyone sick, and bipolar./i feel like I am so incredibly ill-equipped to deal with any of this./i'm taking blind advice from all comers without feeling like anything is remotely adequate./ i feel nostalgic for all of life before Nov 8, 2016.' Music helps and hurts. In a college classroom I played Gil Scott-Heron's 'Winter in America', stirring up my old Nixon-era sense of abjection, and cried in front of my students. Of course, such behaviour makes us eligible for the web-scorn of alt-right triumphalists ('Anguished by Trump, Lena Dunham Flees to Posh Arizona Resort, Asks Rocks for "Guidance"'). At these moments we're the special snowflakes we were wishing to see in the world, the canaries in our own dystopian coal mines. But we'll brandish our sensitivities proudly (if not our safety pins, which may be too smug and lame a gesture), since they're what we've got, and are anyway better than robotic numbness, better than 'normalisation'.
* Paging Kim Stanley Robinson: Are scientists going to march on Washington?
* The starships of the future won't look anything like the Enterprise.
* First as tragedy, then as farce, as the feller said.
* Great moments in headlines: Georgia lawmaker shot behind adult entertainment store; was carrying thousands of dollars in storm relief money.
* If you want a vision of Thanksgiving.
* And two Northwestern University professors have demonstrated it's possible to be good at neither research nor teaching. Of course this is no news to me.
Skilled researchers and effective teachers are neither substitutes nor complements for each other — in fact, they have no relationship at all, according to a study by two Northwestern University faculty published by the Brookings Institution Thursday.
Written by gerrycanavan
January 27, 2017 at 2:38 pm
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Tagged with academia, academic jobs, alt right, America, American Studies, autocracy, Barack Obama, bees, Cardassia, CFPs, class struggle, Constitutional crisis, corruption, Deep Space Nine, democracy, Democrats, Department of State, diabetes, Donald Pease, Donald Trump, dystopia, Emmett Till, Episode 8, fascism, fellowships, forever war, general election 2020, genocide, Georgia, Gul Dukat, Hillary Clinton, horrors, How the University Works, hydrogen, ice cream, impeachment, Ireland, kids today, Kim Stanley Robinson, lies and lying liars, Marquette, mass strike, metallic hydrogen, milk, mortality, national security, Nazis, neoliberalism, Nigeria, North Dakota, oil, oil spills, our brains work in interesting ways, pigs, politics, polls, prison, prison-industrial complex, protest, psychometrics, race, racism, refugees, Republicans, research, resistance, scientists, social media, Star Trek, Star Wars, starships, tax strike, taxes, teaching, terrorism, Thanksgiving, the Constitution, the economy, the Holocaust, The Last Jedi, The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion, ticking time-bomb scenarios, Tolkien, torture, Trumpism, University College Dublin, Utopia, war huh good god y'all what is it good for? absolutely nothing say it again, wasps, white people, white supremacy, Wisconsin
Wednesday Is Now Trumpnesday, All Hail Trump
* CFP: 42nd Meeting of the Society for Utopian Studies, Memphis, TN.
* Fascism happens fast: First look at Biff to the Future, the alt-history comic chronicling the BTTF universe.
Where are the time travelers?
1- Forbidden by physics
2- It all works out, no need to intervene today
3- There is no future
— Starship Engineers (@StarshipBuilder) January 20, 2017
4- They did this to us https://t.co/s7kHjEVLuc
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) January 24, 2017
* Trump and disaster capitalism.
* Dissenting from Within the Trump Administration.
* Delusional Democrats Yearning to Prove They Can Work With Trump. From Jonathan Chait, no less!
I keep coming back to this. I think it's the most important political commentary of our time. pic.twitter.com/IRvRNQ0TkI
— David Menschel (@davidminpdx) January 24, 2017
* Overshadowed by headlines about chaos and infighting, the new administration is notching a string of early victories.
sean spicer looks like the guy in the group of survivors that hides the fact he was bitten by a zombie pic.twitter.com/NelW22afc8
— Eli Terry (@EliTerry) January 23, 2017
* "The White House is deploying a network of advisers to the top of federal agencies as a direct line to stay on top of Cabinet officials." "U.S. Government Agencies Go Silent, May Have Been Swallowed By Black Hole." "Trump Health Care Plan Would Take Medicaid Coverage Away from Up to 31 Million People." "Trump Aides Can't Stop Blabbing about How He's a Madman." "Donald Trump's stock in oil pipeline company raises concern." Oh, no, not concern! "American Carnage." "The Resistance." Nailing it.
Trump's victory makes it impossible to convince any political actor they should obey *any* norm. What's the upside?
— Christopher Hayes (@chrislhayes) January 24, 2017
How long is this really supposed to be sustainable, especially if the GOP continues to govern like this? https://t.co/cnvBkneD9e
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) January 24, 2017
The bad press over the weekend has not allowed Trump to "enjoy" the White House as he feels he deserves, according to one person who has spoken with him.
* Almost certainly our next president, ladies and gentleman.
* Beyond the Usual Suspects: Saturday's marches were successful because they rallied millions, not just a small core of activists.
* Within minutes of each other: Trump Revives Keystone Pipeline. Canada oil pipeline spills 200,000 liters on aboriginal land.
* Bill would end Virginia's 'winner take all' electoral vote system.
All you need to know about Trump is he's so delusional he believes, devoid of proof, he won the election despite millions of illegal votes.
— Jared Yates Sexton (@JYSexton) January 24, 2017
* Some details on the shooting at the Milo Yiannopoulos talk at U Washington.
* Science corner! Badlands National Park Twitter account goes rogue, starts tweeting scientific facts. The Science of Sean Spicer's Compulsive Gum Swallowing Habit. How long would a liberal have to cry to fill a coffee mug with tears? Flint water is fine again, also it was no one's fault, trust us.
Not for nothing, but "it ain't no sin to be glad you're alive" has got to be one of the new ten commandments after the revolution.
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) January 24, 2017
* Standpoint theory doesn't say we can just make shit up; it says we need a clear-eyed understanding of power relations in order to understand and evaluate knowledge-claims. In other words, pomo feminists didn't create "alt facts"; it's pomo feminists who have given us the tools to oppose them.
* In Discarded Women's March Signs, Professors Saw a Chance to Save History.
* Minnesota bill would make convicted protesters liable for policing costs. N.C. state lawmaker says shouting at current or former gov't officials should be punishable by 5 years in prison.
* Interesting little story about Dan Harmon's work on/against an early version of Dr. Strange.
* An interesting piece of fan fiction about something that will never happen again in our lifetimes: a story ending.
* Like someone peeled open my skull and put my inner monologue on the Internet.
* The arc of history is long, but white women are going to prison at a higher rate than ever before.
* Wisconsin lawmaker wants Sheriff David Clarke booted from office, immediately.
* Further Thoughts on the Problem of Susan.
* Whitefish, Montana vs. the Nazis.
* This is how American health care kills people.
* Going back to the old days on health insurance, a first draft.
* Potential Trump Science Adviser Says 90 Percent of U.S. Colleges Will Disappear. I'm amazed they think a full tenth will escape the Sentinels.
* Arrested Development Season 5 rumors.
* Columbia University Releases Report on School's Ties to Slavery.
* The Other Buffett Rule, or, why better billionaires will never save us.
* The Web Is a Customer Service Medium.
* And this truly is the darkest timeline.
If you think it's bad now: just wait for when there's a genuine crisis (which there will be, because there always is).
— Christopher Hayes (@chrislhayes) January 25, 2017
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(Later) Roxanne came back. She was walking into the living room when Shadow pushed her against the wall, \"What the hell-\" Shadow silenced her with a kiss, \"Hey, baba!\" Roxanne punched him, \"What the fuck's your problem?!\" He rubbed his jaw, \"Ow! It's not like I haven't done that before!\" \"Yeah, but you really pissed me off!\" \"Can you just give me one more chance?\" \"I gave you a chance! You screwed it up!\" \"Please!\" \"No! You broke my heart! I didn't even see you after that, until me, Silver, and Mephiles had to move in with you guys when we got thrown out of our house! Like I fucking said, I'm not a hit and run!\" Silver was only a few feet away, hiding from the two arguing hedgehogs, 'Holy shit! They went out! Without anyone knowing! OMG! No wonder Roxanne didn't wanna move in here! So from what I've heard in the last few minutes, they went out, they slept together, and Shadow must've left afterwards... That sounds about right... Anyways I'm SO getting them together! And hopefully Shadow won't screw up twice!' Silver ran off without being noticed. Roxanne was getting really pissed, \"Shadow, for the last fucking time, no!\" He sighed, \"Roxanne, I made a mistake. Please, give one more chance, I promise not to screw it up.\" She crossed her arms, \"If you really want me to go out with you, then make me fall in love with you again!\" \"How the hell do I do that?!\" She smirked and walked off, \"Figure it out.\" \"B-but-\" \"No buts. If you want me to love you, then make me.\" \"Dammit! Do you have to make every-little-thing so damn complex?!\" \"Yep!\" She walked off.
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Instructor: Gregory Valiant (email: gvaliant at cs)
Location and time: Monday and Wednesday 3:00 PM - 4:20 PM, NVIDIA Auditorium
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Course Description
This course will cover the basic approaches and mindsets for analyzing and designing algorithms and data structures. Topics include the following: Worst and average case analysis. Recurrences and asymptotics. Efficient algorithms for sorting, searching, and selection. Data structures: binary search trees, heaps, hash tables. Algorithm design techniques: divide-and-conquer, dynamic programming, greedy algorithms, amortized analysis, randomization. Algorithms for fundamental graph problems: minimum-cost spanning tree, connected components, topological sort, and shortest paths. Possible additional topics: network flow, string searching.
Prerequisites: CS 103 or CS 103B; CS 109 or STATS 116.
Requirements: 7 homework assignments (35%), a midterm (25%), and a final exam (40%). We will drop your lowest homework grade.
Teaching Assistants
Luna Frank-Fischer [Head TA], luna16 at stanford
Dilsher Ahmed, dilsher at stanford
Michael Chen, mchen36 at stanford
Ashok Cutkosky, ashokc at stanford
Shloka Desai, shloka at stanford
David Eng, dkeng at stanford
Julien Kawawa-Beaudan, julienkb at stanford
Sam Kim, samhykim at stanford
Maxime Voisin, maximev at stanford
Daniel Wright, dlwright at stanford
Jimmy Wu, jimmyjwu at stanford
Andi Yang, andiy at stanford
Wilbur Yang, wilbury at stanford
Topics and readings for future lectures are tentative and may be changed as the course proceeds. The readings refer to the 3rd edition of CLRS (see Resources below), but older editions should be fine as well.
Introduction, Why are you here?
Read: Ch. 1
Notes (draft)
MergeSort, Recurrences, Asymptotics
Read: Ch. 2.3, 3
Notes (draft)
Homework 1 released
MLK Day (no classes)
Integer Multiplication, Solving Recurrences
Read: Ch. 4.3-4.5
Dasgupta-Papadimitriou-Vazirani Sec. 2.2: [pdf]
Notes (draft)
Homework 1 due
Homework 2 released
Median and Selection
Read: Ch. 9
Notes (draft)
Quicksort, Probability and Randomized Algorithms
Read: Ch. 7, 5
Notes (draft)
Homework 2 due
Homework 3 released
Sorting Lower Bounds, Counting Sort
Read: Ch. 8.1-2
Avrim Blum's Notes on sorting lower bounds
Notes on Bucket Sort and Radix Sort (draft)
Binary Search Trees
Read: Ch. 12
Notes (draft)
Homework 3 due
Homework 4 released
Read: Ch. 11
Notes (draft)
Graphs, DFS, BFS
Read: Ch. 22, 24
Notes (draft)
Homework 4 due
Homework 5 released
Strongly Connected Components
Read: Ch. 24, 6
Notes (draft)
Dijkstra's Algorithm, Amortized Analysis, Bellman-Ford Algorithm
Read: Ch. 24.1, 24.3
Notes (draft)
Homework 5 due
President's Day (no class)
MIDTERM (CEMEX Auditorium)
Dynamic Programming: Floyd-Warshall, Longest Common Subsequence
Read: Ch. 25.2, 15.4
Notes (draft)
Chain Matrix Multiplication, Knapsack, Independent Set
Notes (draft)
Homework 6 released
Greedy Algorithms
Read: Ch. 16
Notes (draft)
Minimum Spanning Trees (MST)
Read: Ch. 23
Notes (draft)
Homework 6 due
Homework 7 released
Minimum Cut/Maximum Flow
Notes1 and Notes2. Read: Ch. 26.1-3
Whats Next?
Homework 7 due
Final Exam, 3:30pm-6:30pm
Midterm: Wednesday, February 22, in class, 3:00 pm - 4:20 pm
Final: Monday, March 20, 3:30-6:30pm.
Both the midterm and final are closed-book. In the midterm, you are allowed to bring one letter-sized double-sided page of notes, that YOU have prepared YOURSELF. In the final, you are allowed to bring two letter-sized double-sided page of notes (that you have prepared yourself).
The following practice exams are posted here as a resource; the material covered is similar to what we covered this quarter, but not identical.
Practice Midterm 1
Solutions to the Practice Midterm 1
Practice Midterm 2 (new)
Solutions to the Practice Midterm 2 (new)
Regrade Policy
We hold recitation sections in order to review some of the material and solve additional exercises with the students in smaller groups. The sections are optional but highly recommended. The schedule (including locations) of the recitation sections appears in the office hours calendar. Each section covers the material of the previous week except for Friday sections that cover the material of the same week.
The main textbook we use is:
Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest, Clifford Stein, Introduction to Algorithms, 3rd Edition, MIT Press
The book is available online through the Stanford library.
We will also occasionally use:
Jon Kleinberg, Éva Tardos, Algorithm Design, Pearson/Addison-Wesley
Sanjoy Dasgupta, Christos Papadimitriou, Umesh Vazirani, Algorithms, McGraw-Hill Education
We strongly recommend typesetting solutions to the homework assignments using LaTeX. LaTeX provides a convenient way to produce high-quality documents and it is the standard used for typesetting computer science papers.
Guide: An introduction to LaTeX can be found here. Other guides can be found at howtoTeX and Wikibooks.
Online environments: If you do not wish to install LaTeX, ShareLaTeX and Overleaf are online environments that compile previews of your documents as you type and allow you to share documents with collaborators (this feature won't be useful in this course, though). As a Stanford student, you get a free Overleaf Pro account.
LyX: LyX is a version of LaTeX with graphical interface.
Finding mathematical symbols: The introduction mentioned above contains a table of mathematical symbols in LaTeX. Alternatively, consider Detexify.


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Bangkok, Chiang Mai, Kanchanaburi, Phuket and ... Chanthaburi? This coastal province in southeastern Thailand isn't usually listed among the kingdom's premier destinations, but maybe it should be. With waterfalls, a coastline full of surprises, fabulous regional food and a dreamy old riverfront district influenced by the Thai, Chinese, Vietnamese and French, Chanthaburi offers a wealth of good stuff in one accessible package.
Chanthaburi town -- known as 'Chan' to locals -- is nestled along the Chanthaburi river some 20 kilometres from the Gulf of Thailand, a two- to four-hour's drive from Bangkok, Pattaya, Ko Samet, Ko Chang and either of two border crossings to Cambodia. Overshadowed by these better known destinations, Chan is often viewed as a convenient one-day stopover, but the province offers enough to keep you excited for a week. If we had that much time in the City of the Moon and surrounds, here's where we'd spend it.
Chanthaburi Old Town
Officially known as the Chanthabun Waterfront District, the old quarter's sleepy streets and alleyways meander alongside the river and are lined with attractive, if dilapidated old shophouses. The province fell under French control for 12 years following the 1893 Franco-Siamese War, and the French left their mark in the form of two-storey homes with photogenic French-colonial shutters and balconies. The architecture may be pleasing to the eye, but it's the mix of locals who bring the old town to life.
Thousands of Chinese and Vietnamese have made their homes in Chantaburi over the past few centuries, evidenced by a clutch of Chinese shrines and temples, and the Gothic-style Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception. The cathedral is Thailand's largest, and it continues to function under a predominantly Vietnamese-Catholic congregation.
Adding to Chan's historic allure, Siamese general-turned-king Taksin, himself half-Chinese, regrouped here after the fall of Ayutthaya to the Burmese in 1767 . He rallied thousands of men from Chanthaburi to join the army that ultimately repelled enemy forces once and for all. A memorial to him stands just north of the old quarter and is a sacred place for many Chinese-Thai residents.
The best way to soak up the town's quaint and artistic air is on a casual stroll with numerous stops to stuff yourself. Don't miss roasted pork shoulder with chaweng leaf curry at the 50-year old Chantorn Restaurant; fresh rambutan and durian (Thailand's best are grown here); the ubiquitous pad sen Chan buu, a sauteed rice noodle dish with fresh local crab; or durian, guava and Thai tea flavoured ice cream at 60 year-old Rocky Ice Cream Parlour.
Top it off with a strong coffee on a patio overlooking the river and the Moon City will have cast its spell. But be warned -- entranced travellers have been known to spend a bundle in Chanthaburi's trove of gem shops.
National Parks
A manageable motorbike or songthaew ride to the southeast of town takes you to one of Thailand's most popular national parks (at least among Thais): Namtok Phlio. The park was named after a waterfall that roars over sheer cliffs, but don't forget to purchase long string beans to feed the fish that burst from a crystal clear water stream here.
The park also features a moss-covered hilltop chedi built to memorialise a queen of King Rama V and a series of steep hiking trails that take the adventurous high above the falls on Khao Sabap mountain. On the way back to town, don't miss the dazzling Chinese temple Wat Mong Gorn Phupharam.
If wanting to delve deeper into the wild, head up to Khao Kitchakut National Park 30 kilometres north of town. Bigger, more beastly and remote than Namtok Phlio, Khao Kitchakut's highlight is a 13-tier waterfall that can be viewed in several stages along a challenging hiking trail that winds up Khao Phra Bat mountain.
This 1,000 metre peak is home to some 53 bird species and is the source of the Chanthaburi river. Locals believe the streams to possess cleansing powers, and if visiting on a weekend you might follow Thai pilgrims as they trek to a Buddha footprint and meditation cave on the cool and often misty mountaintop. If you're taken with the Buddhist pilgrimage thing, make a detour to Wat Khao Sukim.
Beaches and coastline
If Chanthaburi's beaches were comparable to the stretches of white sand and emerald water of nearby Ko Samet, Ko Chang or Ko Maak, the province would unquestionably be a marquee tourism hotspot. Its coast does boast expansive beaches as far as the eye can see, some of which are worthy of a nice long lounge, but generally the water is on the murky side. The beaches are still lovely by more down-to-earth standards; they're just nothing to write home about if you've been to the islands. Even so, the Chantaburi coast is one of the most rewarding seaside areas in Thailand to explore thanks to its many inlets, bays, peninsulas, viewpoints and fishing villages.
With its long stretch of golden sand, Chao Lao village is the province's only beach area developed for tourism to any notable degree, though it's still a laidback affair, perfect for those seeking a quiet beach holiday. While in Chao Lao, don't miss the outstanding twin attractions -- Khun Krabaen aquarium and mangrove trail. Both are free, and you might even spot an endangered dugong in one of the salty inland tributaries.
The best way to approach the Chan coast is to rent a motorbike or charter a songthaew and set off on a loosely planned adventure. Empty beaches and family-run bungalows at the tips of this or that peninsula are too numerous to name, so just sit back and let the sea breezes take you where they will. Practically every restaurant along the coast serves seafood fresh from the bay, but for a quirky dining experience, head to Farm Buu Nim in the unassuming coastal town of Khlung to the east.
Perhaps Chanthaburi's relatively light tourism numbers are due to it lacking any one single all-star attraction that screams "if you miss it you'll never forgive yourself!" Yet it's the mosaic of culture, history, food, mountains, waterfalls and beaches that places Chanthaburi among our favourite Thai destinations. Wander through the old streets and temples, be dampened by the mist of a waterfall, lose yourself on an off-the-map peninsula and bite into the most pungent durian in Thailand. After all of that, if you still don't think Chanthaburi is as as great as we do, then hey, the islands are just two hours away.
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I would rather admit to getting old than go through what has to be gone through without the string - or in my case, chain. Perhaps it's different for a chap because of pockets, but without having the specs round my neck when I go out I might in the course of a day have to put them into and take them out of my bag 30 times. I accept that they are not a sartorial plus and they get me vexed when they become entangled with a necklace or (at conferences) a name tag on a string - and sometimes both. But that is a small price to pay for having them readily available and not having to buy a replacement pair every fortnight.
"I'm sick and tired of all this speculation," said the Prime Minister last week on Radio 4's Today programme, and I so much agreed with him that I decided I could no longer stand news programmes for the duration of the Tory leadership contest. However, I can't do without chat at that stage of the morning, so I switched over to Terry Wogan on Radio 2 and found myself in the world of TOGs (Terry's old geezers/girls) with their associations, stickers, licences and a passionate interest in such matters as glasses on string and not being able to remember anything any more except your childhood. It was far more entertaining than hearing portentous discussions about the possible implications of a further defection by some fat member of the 1922 Committee, and I may well never go back to Today. Quite apart from liking Wogan's prattle, I enjoy dancing in the shower to cheap pre-1980s music.
It was not, however, a politics-free week. I had a fascinating sunny Thursday afternoon on the terrace of the House of Commons during which the leadership drama evolved before my very eyes. Between 2.30 and 4.00, I met a sequence of peers and MPs, almost all of whom said John Major would undoubtedly lose. But as the terrace filled up for Pimms and gossip after Prime Minister's Questions, the change of mood was palpable for, as one newcomer said, Major's performance had been worth at least an extra 20 votes. When, shortly afterwards, he turned up to chat with backbenchers, he was at ease and walking tall and his reception was warm. By just before six, when I left, the consensus appeared to be that he would win. Truly, an afternoon is a long time in politics.
The tenant of my affections and I share an anthropological bent, and one of our harmless occupations is to watch the rich. On Wednesday, we observed many in their natural habitat when we went to an open evening in Mount Street, in Mayfair, which involved drinking champagne and eating canapes as we wandered around shops full of works of art we would like but most of which cost more than pounds 100,000. (Is it a sign that the recession is over when a shop completely devoted to antique Russian furniture can flourish?) We came away with two memorable lines. A most engaging old man observed: "Whatever you can afford isn't worth having", while a youngish woman in a picture shop explained that her wares were suitable for "forward- looking, unblinkered designer-people" - presumably not TOGs.
I was alarmed by the revelation in the Daily Mail last week that Divine Brown, the woman arrested with the unfortunate Hugh Grant, used to enjoy a life of high-class prostitution "before her looks started to fade". She is 25.
Last week, quoting from a letter describing me as a "tight Welsh git", I remarked: "I do not take kindly to being accused of being Welsh" - and thus infuriated Andrew Lewis, of Dyfed. He fulminated at the editor that he did not take kindly to my "blatant (racist?) anti-Welsh comments ... To her I say then: 'Stuff you, you pompous English trout, and if you have nothing good to say keep your mouth closed.'" It was a joke, Andrew, and I'm a pompous Irish - not English - trout, so there's a fat chance of my keeping my mouth closed. But let me be positive about Wales. Will it make you feel better to know that the leek is my favourite vegetable?
Incidentally, when and why did "trout" become a term of abuse? As fish go, I've always thought them pretty inoffensive. I looked up the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations for enlightenment and found only a further conundrum. What the hell was Thoreau getting at when he wrote: "Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk"?
Poetry corner goes political this week, with William Elphick's contributions to current Portillophobia:
The Right Honourable Michael Portillo
Is an ambiguous sort of a fellow.
Although he'll insist
He's no Falangist,
He'll have himself called the Caudillo.
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The battle of Tenerife lasted
Until Nelson's ship was dismasted.
His losing campaign
Gave the island to Spain -
We ought to court-martial the bastard!
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Blah, I really didn't care for this film. I generally enjoy Quentin Tarantino movies but this one just fell very short for me. It seemed more like an exercise in ego (not that other filmmaking isn't) than a true tongue-in-cheek, intentionally violent, vulgar QT film. The damn thing was nearly three hours long; I almost fell asleep. The intro was excessively long, the first act was excessively long, and everything up until the last thirty minutes was excessive. Tarantino didn't leave enough on the cutting room floor, period. This type of film genuinely should never be more than two hours, it is unnecessary and just plain painful for the viewer. As for the storyline, it was exactly as titled – hateful. Maybe the state of this country makes me more sensitive to it but I couldn't stand the bigotry. A lot of it seemed uncalled for, even though my viewing companion claims that the ugly parts of this movie is an expression of Tarantino's own inner demons. The racist homophobe who hates women and secretly wants to beat them up. Owning those parts of him and apparently pointing them out as problems with our society as a whole. I get it. I just don't like it shoved in my face for two hours and forty five minutes with seemingly uncalled for vulgarity. Ninety minutes would've sufficed. Then one could argue that an entire race has it shoved in their faces every day of their lives and that just makes me sad. It also makes me want to make a documentary on the movement rather than a narrative that may glorify these disgusting characteristics to some ignorant bastards.
I don't know, I'm conflicted but my gut just said "no." Django Unchained dealt with a similar theme but he was a hero that fought against his oppressors to save his love and life, so it was easier to take. I suppose this was a follow up to that story since it takes place a few years after the Civil War and features Sam Jackson as a veteran. Instead of there being a clear hero or triumphant resolution, with the Hateful Eight you simply have a bunch of ignorant folks shooting each other trying to get to the truth of what exactly occurred at Minnie's Haberdashery. I guess I just didn't care what happened. No one in that storyline made me want to care; I wanted them all to die so I could pee then go home to sleep with my date. Why wouldn't it end??!!
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Sophomore Kris Dunn, a McDonald's All-American guard out of New London High School, will undergo surgery on his right shoulder for the second time in his Providence College basketball career. He'll be out for the remainder of the season.
Dunn will have the season-ending surgery sometime in the next several weeks, according to Providence College and his father, John Seldon.
He had surgery on the same shoulder in July of 2012, forcing him to miss the first nine games of his freshman season. He appeared in 25 games, averaging 5.7 points, 4.8 rebounds and 3.2 assists.
Dunn reinjured his shoulder chasing down a loose ball in an exhibition game against Rhode Island College on Nov. 2. He sat out three games and attempted to come back, playing four games before heading back to the sidelines. He averaged 3.8 points, 5.0 assists and 2.5 rebounds in limited action.
Seldon said that Dunn was experiencing some pain prior to the Rhode Island College game.
"He played in that game and had pain on that shoulder and rolled on it and made it slide out," Seldon said. "Doctors looked at it and said fight through the pain or have an operation. Kris wanted to fight through the pain, but it's not worth it. He'd probably do more damage.
"It's just a crazy situation."
Seldon expressed frustration over the way Dunn's injury situation was handled prior to the latest incident.
"He had the whole summer off and worked out," Seldon said, referring to last summer. "At some point, he had to be healthy. Somewhere something happened, but it's basketball.
"… I'm not a doctor and not the coach. I'm just a parent. (Coach Ed Cooley) runs his program the way he runs his program. I'm not mad at the coach.
"… You can call it a fluke accident. I don't know. I don't go to practice, so I don't know what's going on. It is what it is. … If I've got a kid coming off an injury, I'm going to be watching him. The kid came back from a major injury and was healthy. I would try to take care of him."
Providence will apply for a medical hardship waiver with the Big East. If Dunn receives the waiver, he'll have three years of eligibility left starting with the 2014-15 season.
"We're looking forward to assisting Kris as he recovers from his surgery," Cooley said in a released statement. "His health and well-being are our primary concern. There is no question that he will rebound from this and continue to improve as a basketball player. We are confident that Kris will be a key member of our team in 2014-15."
Seldon is encouraging his son to focus on his school work.
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Tony Blair believes that the threat posed by Islamic terrorists will one day be "sorted out".
In an interview with the US talk-show host David Letterman in New York overnight, the former Prime Minister said that Western leaders should use a mixture of "hard and soft power to knock it out".
He added that there was "a sufficient number of moderate people within Islam" who could help to defuse the extremists' power.
Of the terror warnings recently issued to travellers in Europe, Mr Blair said: "We've got to take it seriously. The truth is that there are groups out there