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Exactly the Right Number of Finely Curated, Carefully Selected Links from Around the Time My Computer Crashed Last Week to Around the Time I Got It Back This Week
* CFP: "TechnoLogics: Power and Resistance." CFP: Blade Runner 2049 and Philosophy.
* I have an essay in this new open-access book, Materialism and the Critique of Energy: "Peak Oil after Hydrofracking." It's a bit of a departure from my usual work but I thought it came out well… Check it out!
* Kim Stanley Robinson makes the left's case for geoengineering. And from Peter Frase: Geoengineering for the People.
* The Buffy Not-a-Reboot: A Bad Idea Whose Time Has Come.
* How author Nnedi Okorafor found her identity.
* Fascinating presentation on the SF writing market. Lots to think about here.
* Inside the World of Racist Science Fiction. What can we learn from the utopians of the past?
* Why are there so many staircases in space?
* We were halfway through 2018 when the drugs began to take hold.
* Brexit: That Sinking Feeling. This is what a no-deal Brexit actually looks like.
* Reading Your Problematic Fave: David Foster Wallace, feminism and #metoo. And a report from the 2018 David Foster Wallace Conference, partially a profile of my college classmate Ryan Edel.
* Most academic books aren't written to be read—they're written to be "broken." That should change.
* How to Prepare a Diversity Statement.
* When you're the only person in your department.
* When your students (might) record you. A good thread on the subject from Angus Johnson.
* Teaching in a red county after Trump.
* Now he tells us! Mea culpa: there *is* a crisis in the humanities.
* We now live in a country where it is seen as abnormal, or even criminal, to allow children to be away from direct adult supervision, even for a second. Motherhood in the Age of Fear.
* Nintendo announces Labo Kit #3.
* Astounding finalist images for Astronomy Photographer of the Year.
* How an Ex-Cop Rigged McDonald's Monopoly Game and Stole Millions.
* Where the Super-Rich Go to Buy Their Second Passport.
* Time to Take Sexism in Post-Secondary Education Seriously.
* So much of our culture has been shaped by predators.
* Federal judge allows emoluments case against Trump to proceed. Trump's 'emoluments' battle: How a scholar's search of 200 years of dictionaries helped win a historic ruling.
* These Three Immigrant Families Were Just Reunited After Months Apart. Here Are Their Stories. A Migrant Boy Rejoins His Mother, but He's Not the Same. A 6-Year-Old Girl Was Sexually Abused in an Immigrant-Detention Center. A child has died following her stay at an ICE Detention Center, as a result of possible negligent care and a respiratory illness she contracted from one of the other children. Immigrant Youth Shelters: "If You're a Predator, It's a Gold Mine." Deportations take unique toll on blended American families. Hundreds of separated parents potentially deported. Deleted families. ICE agents pressured parents to be deported with their children — then separated them again when they refused. Suicide in ICE Custody. 'Like I am trash': Migrant children reveal stories of detention, separation. ICE snatches 25-year Minnesota resident from his family in harrowing video. A Father and Son Were Finally Reunited. Later that Day, the Government Ripped Them Apart Again. 'Why Did You Leave Me?' The Migrant Children Left Behind as Parents Are Deported. They were warned. It's happening here. Don't doubt it for a second. The Number Of Parents Who Were Deported Without Their Children Keeps Growing. Separated Parents Were "Totally Unaware" They Had Waived Their Right To Be Reunified With Their Children. Baby took first steps, spoke first words while in US custody: report. Florida Cops Ship 24-Year-Old Mom to ICE After She Paid Traffic Ticket. This Immigrant Returned To Her Dangerous Home Country — Where She'd Been Raped — After Having A Miscarriage In A US Detention Center. A mother and her son turned up for a domestic-violence case. Then ICE arrested them. A Philadelphia immigration judge was removed from a high-profile case and replaced with a judge who would order the man in the case immediately deported, a move that smacks of judicial interference by the Trump administration, according to a letter signed by a group of retired judges this week. From Crib To Court: Trump Administration Summons Immigrant Infants. Activist judges up to their old tricks. ICE Raids in New York. Philadelphia won't share information with ICE in big win for activists. Pizza Delivery Man Pablo Villavicencio Freed From Immigration Detention. Protests and petitions call on universities to end their contracts with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
A male US officer falsely told a 10-year-old she could see her mother for an hour at 6:00p. The child was held in a windowless, constantly lit facility where she couldn't determine the time of day. When she asked the officer for the time, he said he wasn't permitted to tell her. https://t.co/ufNCH1rpfr
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) July 19, 2018
17 y/o girl, separated from her mom, on a 2 y/o girl being held in the same "cage": "When I came back the little girl was crying and needed a new diaper. No one was helping her. The guards treat her like any other older kid. They call her name and expect her to get in line." pic.twitter.com/g0IpAyM5xP
— Emma Platoff (@emmaplatoff) July 19, 2018
* Swedish student stops deportation of Afghan man with protest streamed on Facebook.
* The Trump administration is bullying trans kids, and it's up to us to stop it. Transgender women say the US government is revoking their passports. Documenting the Trans Generation: Kids, Families and the Fight for Rights.
* Q is a massively successful, deranged conspiracy/entertainment brand/game with roots in prior vile conspiracies like Pizza- and Gamergate. And many Trump supporters LOVE it. Flashback: What Is QAnon? The Craziest Theory of the Trump Era, Explained.
* I'm stuck in Guantanamo. The world has forgotten me.
* They still haven't fixed the water in Flint.
* Scenes from the class war in New York City, NYDN edition.
* MSNBC has done 455 Stormy Daniels segments in the last year — but none on U.S. war in Yemen.
* Brett Kavanaugh's Legal Opinions Show He'd Give Donald Trump Unprecedented New Powers. Brett Kavanaugh Thinks Undocumented Workers Aren't Really Employees Under The Law.
* The over-under on the Supreme Court's liberal minority cohort all continuing to draw breath is about five years.
* Imagine being a Democratic senator & actually telling yourself you are "playing the long game" by not doing everything you can to stop a lifetime Supreme Court appointment that will shift the entire American judicial system for the rest of everyone's lives.
* Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you've got till it's gone?
* Undaunted Democratic Centrists Ready to Fight Trump and Bernie at Same Time.
* The Expressive Function of the Russia Freakout.
* Gasp! Portugal Dared to Cast Aside Austerity. It's Having a Major Revival.
* Gasp! A New Zealand company that tried 4-day workweeks says people were more creative, more punctual, and more energetic — and they want to keep it going.
* Quiet Skies: Air Marshals are following thousands of random Americans through airports and on planes, for no articulatable purpose.
* Unidentifiable fossils: palaeontological problematica.
* The world's first trillionaire may be an asteroid miner.
* Science fiction design after cyberpunk.
In all these cases we see a de-saturated view of the world, no longer neon on black, just a pall gray. Gone is the "Coolness" of Cyberpunk, now replaced by the "coolness" of a color palate that ranges from a flat blue to an olive drab with only slightly less than 50 shades of gray in between.
* The Architecture of Evil: Dystopian Megacorps in Speculative Fiction Films.
* Sure, 1,000,000% inflation sounds bad.
* Why 'Sorry to Bother You' Is 2018's Sharpest Political Satire. "Crazy" Anticapitalism.
* In 2016, China imported two-thirds of the world's plastic waste. So when China stopped buying the world's discarded plastics, it threw markets into turmoil. Meanwhile: The Dirty Truth Is Your Recycling May Actually Go to Landfills.
* The Hidden Environmental Cost of Amazon Prime's Free, Fast Shipping.
* The Carr Fire Is Officially One of the 10 Worst Wildfires in California History. California is burning (again). The common thread in California's wildfires: heat like the state has never seen. If you want a vision of the future. If you want a vision of the future. If you want a vision of the future. How Did the End of the World Become Old News? It's a big problem.
* Climate change is supercharging a hot and dangerous summer. Arctic Circle wildfires rage on as blistering heat takes hold of northern Europe. Crop failure and bankruptcy threaten farmers as drought grips Europe. Scandinavia Is on Fire. In Greece, Wildfires Kill Dozens, Driving Some Into the Sea. Dozens Dead in Japan. Climate change means bigger Arctic spiders — but don't worry, that could be a good thing.
* I suppose there's just no one to blame.
If you only learn one thing about climate change from all these northern hemisphere extreme heat incidents:
2C of warming doesn't mean "like now, but 2C warmer".
— Kate Mackenzie (@kmac) July 27, 2018
In fact this one is better as (c) shows change in variance. pic.twitter.com/qn8FT0fIDy
— Kate Mackenzie (@kmac) July 28, 2018
Capitalism has existed for less than 1% of recorded history and we might literally destroy the planet under it, but it's the only system that "works" and we have to keep doing it forever
— Shuja Haider (@shujaxhaider) July 30, 2018
* Cows, trees, corn, and golf – how America uses its land.
* In America, land votes. More election maps! Emails show Michigan GOP bragged about cramming 'Dem garbage' into gerrymandered districts. Why the argument for democracy is now working for socialists rather than against them.
* "Cooking Them to Death": The Lethal Toll of Hot Prisons.
* We're Living a Constitutional Crisis. And despite this, there's no way out.
* Libertarianism and white supremacy.
* "I'm No Donna Reed": Postfeminist Rhetoric in Christian At-Home Daughterhood Texts.
* It's hard realizing that you're the bad guy, because then you have to do something about it. That's why the most aggressive players on the gory stage of political melodrama act in such bad faith, hanging on to their own sense of persecution, mouthing the plagiarized playbook of an oppression they don't comprehend because they don't care to. These people have a way of fumbling through their self-set roles till the bloody final act, but if we can flip the script, we might yet stop the show.
* Uber and Lyft Are Overwhelming Urban Streets, and Cities Need to Act Fast. Pave Over the Subway? Cities Face Tough Bets on Driverless Cars. Yes, the scooters are fun, but.
* Mortgage, Groupon and card debt: how the bottom half bolsters U.S. economy.
* EPA staff worried about toxic chemical exposure — for Pruitt.
* NJ governor bought a women's soccer team to inspire his daughter, but ran it into the ground.
* There's a New Scholarly Take on Mizzou's Race Crisis, and Its Former Leaders Don't Fare Well.
* A case involving professors at Plymouth State U raises questions about when it's OK to speak up for colleagues or students accused of sexual misconduct, if ever. In this case, professors defended former student who admitted to sexually assaulting a 14-year-old. The description honestly doesn't do it justice; these letters of support are completely eye-popping under the circumstances.
* Number of patients suing USC over sex abuse claims tops 300 as faculty push for Nikias' exit.
* Ex-Trump staffers should not get plum jobs at elite universities.
* Is Elizabeth Warren Running for President?
* How a Swiss Army Knife is made.
* The latest in the stadium scam.
* What would motivate a company to give away 52,000 tablet computers for free? Can you crack this case, gumshoe?
* A new report finds that big companies could have given their workers thousands of dollars' worth of raises with the money they spent on their own shares. Are Stock Buybacks Starving the Economy?
* Let the computers be the doctors, they said.
* You don't know me, computer!
* They're real good at memes though.
* The anarchist roots of writing.
* Today in Sheriff Clarke news.
* Truly the Devil can quote Scripture for his purposes.
* She Gave Millions to Artists Without Credit. Until Now.
* The Bayeux Tapestry with knobs on: what do the tapestry's 93 penises tell us?
* Game Studio With No Bosses Pays Everyone The Same.
* Conservative Think Tank Says Medicare For All Would Save $2 Trillion.
* Angelo Secchi, the Jesuit father of astrophysics.
* Wariness and wonder at a conference devoted to "Ancient Aliens."
* Conversation is impossible if one side refuses to acknowledge the basic premise that facts are facts. This is why engaging deniers in such an effort means having already lost. And it is why AskHistorians, where I am one of the volunteer moderators, takes a strict stance on Holocaust denial: We ban it immediately.
* Locke & Key Has Been Ordered To Series. Flight of the Conchords is coming back. Disney's Next Heroine Will Be an African Princess. Carrie Fisher Will Appear in Star Wars: Episode IX Via Unused Footage. Shazam looks 90s-cable-level bad, though maybe I've just been persuaded that the character is irredeemable. In the First Trailer for Star Trek: Discovery Season 2, the U.S.S. Enterprise Boldly Arrives. And they're making a Parable of the Sower graphic adaptation.
* Inside J.R.R. Tolkien's Notebooks, a Glimpse of the Master Philologist at Work.
* Uneven, but finding its voice: @moviegoofs.
Spartacus (1960)
Plot hole
In the scene where the Romans try to locate the rebel leader Spartacus in the captured slave army, most of the other slaves also identify themselves as being named "Spartacus". The movie never explains this coincidence.
— movie_goofs (@movie_goofs) July 30, 2018
* A People's History of the Greatest Music Video of All Time, Goonies 'R' Good Enough.
* The Grim Conclusions of the Largest-Ever Study of Fake News.
* A reporter went undercover as a Facebook moderator and was trained not to delete certain racist memes and images of child abuse.
* When factchecking backfires.
* History in an Age of Fake News.
* When a stranger decides to destroy your life.
* We must not just ask what a contemporary slave rebellion would look like—we must be on its side.
* A biological intelligence, a machine intelligence, and a god intelligence walk into a bar. Ethics and the self-driving car. Heaven. Can I interest you in a happy ending? From hell's heart I stab at thee.
* We'll probably never know what really makes people happy.
* Every Circle In This Image Is The Same Color And It's Breaking Our Brains.
* Mr. Rogers was my actual neighbor. He was everything he was on TV and more.
* Dungeons & Dragons is having its best year ever, Hasbro CEO says.
* Great thread about New York City's grid layout, with a great punchline.
* And the guy who slated classic Star Trek takes was unfazed by the whole thing. It's a living…
Written by gerrycanavan
August 1, 2018 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.
Written by gerrycanavan
February 5, 2017 at 9:00 am
Posted in Look at what I found on the Internet
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One of the toughest and most dangerous jobs in America is being a Border Patrol agent. Every year you hear of a number of them being k-lled or injured for one reason or another. The overwhelming majority of those cases are tied to those breaking the law by either trying to come here illegally or by moving g-ns, drugs, and people over the Mexican border. The men and women who sign up for this duty are nothing short of heroes in my book. And they keep doing their job even when bureaucrats nullify immigration laws and basically throw them under the bus for a political agenda. It's a thankless job and it just got worse thanks to a liberal Ninth Circuit Court judge.
It's bad enough that illegal immigrants are still gaining access to this country by crossing the border. They are a danger to these agents and to Americans in general. Once here, many claim welfare, work, education, to be counted in the Census, healthcare, and citizenship for their children. You can add to that list the dangerous new right for illegal aliens to sue Border Patrol agents for simply doing their jobs.
This one puzzles me because this judge was appointed by Ronald Reagan and he is considered conservative. He sure isn't acting like it. Judge Andrew Kleinfeld ruled this week that border agent Lonnie Swartz is not covered by qualified immunity, thereby allowing a Mexican woman to sue him for sh-oting her teenage son during border violence in 2012. In other words, for doing his job and protecting himself and his fellow officers, this judge says the mother of an illegal alien that was trying to kill them can sue this officer. This should rock you on your heels because what it shows is a rogue legal system that is trying to seize control of our foreign and military policies. This has the potential to set precedent for family members of Mexicans involved in drug cartels and violence to hinder border security and the rule of law even further.
From Conservative Review:
"In October 2012, Agent Lonnie Swartz shot a number of rounds through a border fence in Nogales, an Arizona-Mexico border town, and killed 16-year-old Jose Antonio Elena Rodríguez, who was part of a group throwing rocks at border agents after they confronted individuals climbing a fence and smuggling drugs. Swartz was prosecuted under regular criminal law and acquitted earlier this year by a jury on charges of second-degree murder. The jury was deadlocked on charges of involuntary manslaughter, and there may be a new trial.
"Whether Swartz should have used lethal force in this case is tough to judge based on the details available, but it underscores just how dangerous our border is and the failure of our government to deal with the problems on the Mexican side of the border.
"As Breitbart Texas has reported over the years, when agents are isolated and surrounded by rock-throwers, it can't categorically be dismissed as "kids throwing pebbles." And as the local border patrol union pointed out, the deceased in this case doesn't exactly appear to be a nonviolent Boy Scout. Let's not forget that the gang life at our border in which some of these teens are reared is every bit as violent as the worst acts of ISIS.
"Whether Swartz rightfully or wrongfully pulled the trigger is a question that our military and police often face under the duress of chaotic circumstances. Those delicate cases need to be dealt with by the agency leaders, as guided by Congress. When appropriate, they can bring charges against bad actors, as has been the case in many instances. This case is no different."
In my opinion, it is ludicrous for any judge to allow these agents to be sued for doing their jobs. If they are reprimanded for something, that should come under the oversight of the Border Patrol, the government, and our legal system. Those men were throwing rocks at these officers. Don't let anyone tell you different… rocks are deadly weapons and can kill if they hit someone. Should the agents have just let these violent criminals come over the fence with their weapons and drugs? Agent Lonnie Swartz was acquitted over this, but because the radical Ninth Circuit thought that was unfair, they will let this officer be sued for something he was found innocent of. That's not justice, it's weaponizing lawfare.
This kind of ruling is commonplace for the Ninth Circuit Court and many of their rulings are overturned for this reason. This is an abuse of power and it's not even remotely constitutional. Kleinman conceded that "Border Patrol agents protect the United States from unlawful entries and terrorist threats," which are activities that "help guarantee our national security," but then speculated that "holding Swartz liable for this constitutional violation would not meaningfully deter Border Patrol agents from performing their duties." First off, as I said, I do not believe the ruling is constitutional. But beyond that, claiming that the ruling would not deter Border Patrol agents from performing their duties is laughable. If officers fear being sued into the ground for doing their jobs, they are likely not to do their jobs. See California.
We seem to now have judges determining national security policy and that should never be the case. Similarly, these same activist judges are trying to undermine executive power from the president constantly. We should be solely concerned with our own national sovereignty. But this judge snarked that "the only foreign policy concern that we can glean from the briefs is the need to avoid violating Mexican sovereignty." He then had the nerve to cite an amicus brief filed by the government of Mexico. I think he is confused about what the term 'sovereignty' means and which country he is a citizen of.
This ruling will work its way to the Supreme Court and most likely result in a ruling in favor of Agent Swartz. But the left, Mexico and the Ninth Circuit Court will keep pulling these stunts until someone steps in and breaks up that radical court so these types of incidents stop occurring. A ruling such as this screams that we are no longer a sovereign nation and that our Border Patrol agents are the enemy, not our protectors. That's insane. The ruling ignores Supreme Court law and tries to control the separation of powers between the judiciary and the political branches of government.
The Border Patrol should feel safe to do their jobs and know that Americans have their back as well. Our Constitution and laws were meant to protect American citizens, not to enable foreigners who are intent on hurting or killing law enforcement and American citizens.

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[Photo of me in my underwear deleted upon the sage advice of a business colleague. Guess I missed out on the Facebook thing in my teenage years (circa 1980), so I never learned the downside of publicly displaying flesh, even for academic, rather than salacious, purposes.]
"WTF?", you're saying. Here is the explanation for this picture. I'm re-posting here since I have a number of friends who visit this blog from time to time.
I'm In
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In my last two blog posts, I note my belief that Obama's speech this coming Wednesday is a major cross roads not only of his presidency, but of the nation. Racially speaking, Obama is a coconut who is mistakenly seen as a "Black Guy" by people over 65. Obama has spent his life trying his hardest not to be seen as the Angry Black Man.
It's such a practiced stance that it seems very difficult for him to get all righteous and angry. The only time we saw it on the campaign trail was when the Clinton campaign started with their desperate attacks on him, as their own campaign began to falter. Obama's ire was roused, and he got sarcastic and combative.
Come Wednesday, he's got to bring out the wood. Shut down the crazy right wing and send them back to the caves from which they come. Then turn his gun sights on the Heath Corporations. And fire away.
He has to make it clear that we are in a war for the survival of this nation. And the enemies of this nation are the massive Corporations that value money over humanity, and their follow travelers. There is no more facile example of this dynamic than that concerning the Health Corporations.
The vile Health Corporations touch the lives of each and every American citizen. This is in contrast with the investment banks and the military industrial complex, the dark workings of which are hidden, and unseen by the masses. But Health Corporations commit their crimes against the People each and every day. We People know that.
Obama is either going to stand up for the People on Wednesday, or he will be remembered as the worst — and who knows? maybe even the last — President of the United States.
Obama's Lincoln Moment
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I have blogged and told friends that Obama is the next in line of Washington, Lincoln, and Roosevelt. What all of these people had/have in common is that their presidency involved a struggle for the survival of the nation. Another thing all four had/had in common is that each man came relatively "late" to the struggle of his time.
Washington came relatively late to the revolution against the British. But he is remembered as the ultimate revolutionary.
Lincoln was not an abolitionist until quite late. But he is remembered as the man who freed the slaves.
Roosevelt did not build his career as a labor organizer. But he is remembered as a true man of the People.
Obama is very, very late in engaging the Corporations who control Government and Media. This current health care debate, stretching across the summer of 2009, is the most obvious example yet of the Corporations wielding their control of American society.
If Obama is going to be remembered as "next in line" to Washington, Lincoln, and Roosevelt, then he will be remembered by history as the man who brought the Corporations to heel.
Yet as I write this blog post on September 6, 2009, it feels to me like Obama is going to shrink from this battle once again.
You know, if he stands up to the nation on Wednesday, and backpedals again, he will have lost me as a supporter. And I suspect that if he loses me, his approval ratings will drop far south of 50% (due to the demographic I represent), therefore his impact on the 2010 elections will be neutered, and thus this nation will be all but hopeless.
In that case, the horrors of "1984" will visit us. We will become USA, Inc.
All of that riding on a speech coming up in 3 days. History says Obama will answer the call. But the past 9 months of behavior says something different.
I'll be watching.
Obama, Enneagram, Fail
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Back in 2006, when I predicted that Obama would become the next U.S. president, I explained that the basis for my prediction rested in part on the apparent Ennegram personality type of Obama. In my view, Obama is an Enneagram "Seven".
Now, what a great many people seem to misunderstand about the Enneagram is that, at its core, it's a theory of what we don't like about people, not what we like. It's about how we fail, not necessarily about how we win.
For example, I am an Eight. What that means is that, when I'm being an asshole, I'm a bully who pushes others, spins the truth for my own interests, and just can't seem to shut up. Like I said, an asshole.
But when a Seven is being an asshole, that looks very different. For example, a Seven might be an asshole when a he is pursuing his pleasure addictions (e.g. smoking), acting like he thinks he's God, and avoiding confrontation of any kind to the point of debilitation.
That last point brings me to the health care debates, and Obama's upcoming speech to the nation this Wednesday. When the pundits who are your most ardent fans start mocking you for your annoying habit of avoiding all confrontation, you know that your Enneagram type has become obvious to all.


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#109 – "Nevada" (1999)
L.K.: Probably the only really hated State Song, but that's less for the song and more for the seven minutes of parade noises that follow it…
A.S.: I mean the song itself is also probably the simplest thing Linnell has ever written, outside of maybe a few "Fingertips"
L.K.: Yep. It sounds more like a nursery rhyme than a serious composition.
A.S.: And the lyrics are pretty… I dunno, he could've written the whole song sitting on the toilet.
L.K.: Well I don't know about the location, but it sure doesn't sound like a time-consuming piece of song craftsmanship.
A.S.: Then again, I guess the version on the Hello EP has more lyrics; unfortunately I haven't heard that version.
A.S.: True; at least the little middle stanza seems to have some thought put into it. Hey, I wonder what march the band is playing.
L.K.: I really wonder about the source of that parade recording in general.
A.S.: I wonder if I'd be able to take this to a band director and have him or her pick it out, assuming the band director can tolerate the out-of-tune playing. And yeah, I'd love to find out the story behind the parade recording.
L.K.: Well I mean, also because there are probably legal implications involved behind using a field recording in this way.
A.S.: Yeah, I know nothing about the legal use of field recordings.
L.K.: Somebody from that marching band could decide he wants a cut of the royalties from sales of this song. I don't know.
A.S.: Or the estate of John Philip Sousa or whoever wrote the march.
L.K.: Well I mean, the march would probably be public domain then if that were the case.
A.S.: Oh right.
L.K.: The performance, on the other hand…
A.S.: Still, despite the immense skip-ability of the track on it's own, it's really a fascinating/fitting close to an album that on its surface, is an overview of America.
L.K.: Yeah, it works a lot better in its proper place as an album closer than as a stand-alone track. And I guess we'll never know the answer to that last question.
A.S.: Of course, it'd be ironic if the march wasn't written by an American. But from what little I know about marches, it sounds pretty American. Let that extremely qualified statement guide you.


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And I'm prepared. Here are my Passover snacks. I love egg matzo with butter.
Spent the afternoon putting a primer coat on my new dollhouse and watching the Mets win. I've been wanting to work on the dollhouse for a while and it finally warmed up enough for me to work on the terrace with it, which is best with the fumes from the primer.
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More appropriately, what is it the end of?
It is more than a prediction and it is an end. But we don't need to wait until December 21st as changes are happening now. You see it in the changing earth temperatures/climate change. You see it on the news every evening, as the fall of dictatorships. You see it in the streets as people 'occupy' cities all over the world, shouting their outrage at the corporate greed they witness and how they must live with the inequality. You see it in the world markets rising and falling in dramatic swings. You see it in the grocery stores as food prices soar. You see it in meetings between nations trying with all their might to keep capitalism alive, bailing out one bank or country after another. You see it in sad stories and dying faces of children, after hearing 100,000 lives could have been saved if the world had heeded the warnings of the organizations that said famine is coming to a certain region. You see it in the dismal progress of Haiti 2 years after the devastating earth quake.
We as a race-the human race-are so consumed with self interest and greed we cannot fathom changing to an economic system that will be best for all humans, let alone the plant and animal kingdoms. No, we would rather close our eyes and continue blindly on our path of destruction.
We have done it to ourselves! Nothing needs to be predicted as it has been a steady digression. It has been each and every one of us, over thousands of years who has existed in an secret place of jealousy, anger, hate, lust, greed who has contributed to this cumulation of destruction known as 2012. This secret place, the seed that grows into war, rape, murder, starvation and is helpless in the face of disease, the elements/nature, age, poverty is the mind. I know, I would have never guessed that either.
We cannot 'fight' nor can we win what is coming as we have wished for it, welcomed it, asked for it in every thought, every spite, every unforgiving emotion, every time we walk by our brother in need, every time we use the bank (as in are participating in the banking system), everytime we say 'it's not my problem' or 'I can't change the world' we are 2012 and we must face and walk through what we have made/manifested. There is no other way.
Oh, the world governments can delay/put off the inevitable , that many countries face bankruptcy but where does that leave future generations? In a very bad place indeed, unstability looms and the gap between rich and poor widens. Who will be the elite's soldiers? Your children, your grandchildren too. Guess what, they don't give a shit. As long as their pockets are lined with gold they will sleep well tonight.
2012 is more than a prediction. It is the doom and gloom that is here now.
2012 needs to be the end of mankind's dependency on the mind to solve it's problems. How is it working for us now? Sadly, it is not working. It is failing most. So, 2012 is the beginning of the end of the conscious mind systems= the unconscious, subconscious and conscious mind, so we can rebuild our failed socioeconomic systems: the banking system, the education system, the religious system, the government systems the military system, etc.
Let us build -not from separation but from what is best for all-one world family. Let us build equality. Business knows there is strength in numbers-we have billions then-billions of us human beings.
A number of years ago I saw a woman being beat up on the street, I was in my car and I did not have a cell phone. I started shouting out, yelling at him to stop. He shouted back, ' Lady, this is none of your business!' Someone did call the police and I stayed to see them arrive and spoke to the woman and the officers, she did not want to lay charges, sadly, she minimized it…
…2012 is the end of 'it's my right', 'it's my business', 'it's my choice' to abuse, kill, neglect, steal, hoard, lie, manipulate and rape. The beginning of the end of the sickness of the private mind so we may regain our sanity as a race and rebuild in true peace (not just an agreed upon truce). 2012 is the end of abdicating responsibility because a loving god, the universe, whatever is going to take of everything, its all guided by a loving hand so it's ok to rape this person in my mind. No, total responsibility in each moment of each breath. It is the end of another fellow human being as your slave. Clean your own toilet! No one or thing is going to clean up the mess. You are the 'god' that will have to restore the earth.
It is the birth of true humanity in an Equal Money System. Or it is the end of humanity. You decide.


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The anonymous op-ed published by The New York Times Wednesday is the most stunning proof we have seen so far of the liberal media's aggressive bias and the very real efforts by parts of the institutional establishment to undermine the President, the U.S. Constitution, and the will of the American people.
In its fervor to attack the White House – and influence the midterm elections – The New York Times happily eschewed basic journalistic standards and offered its page and waning credibility to a nameless, disgruntled, elitist coward who seems to believe he or she has the moral authority to ignore and undermine the elected leader of the free world.
The paper's editorial board clearly said it granted the writer anonymity to "deliver an important perspective" to readers and to protect the writer from losing his or her job. This is a naked endorsement of the subversive efforts described in the piece – The New York Times wants the author to keep it up.
The collusion between this supposed senior administration official (who could be one of thousands of minor-but-experienced appointees) and the newspaper (which is the standard bearer of elite media power) is also clear evidence that members of the old guard, institutional establishment are working to protect old Washington power structures and prevent the changes that the American people elected President Trump to bring to our country.
In the op-ed, the writer even describes him- or herself as a member of "the steady state." That's a catchy name for group of would-be mutineers. In my New York Times bestselling book Trump's America: The Truth About Our Nation's Great Comeback, I called them orderly institutionalist wing of the Anti-Trump coalition.
Don't be fooled by their self-proclaimed patriotism, the members of this group are working on behalf of institutional processes – not the American people.
This op-ed is also a perfect depiction of the competing alternate reality the anti-Trump forces are trying to impose on the country.
If the President is so unhinged and incapable, why has North Korea said it wanted to work toward truly denuclearizing the peninsula? How is Trump and the Republican Party so close to seating a second constitutionally-focused Supreme Court Justice? How is the economy in its best shape in decades?
This coward who is hiding from the American people that pay his or her salary would have us believe the members of the so-called "steady state" are the ones achieving these goals – despite the fact that they've likely been in Washington for decades and were apparently incapable before President Trump took office.
This is egotistical, elitist Washington baloney.
Let's be clear: This anonymous op-ed will do nothing to change anything about which its author complained. It will do nothing to quiet concerns that some Americans may have about the direction of the country. It will do nothing to help strengthen America on the world stage. It will only help fuel excitement for Democrats in November.
It is nothing but an extraordinary statement of arrogance from someone who didn't run for office and won't even tell the American people his or her name.
The only honorable, lawful course of action for the author is to publicly resign.
If this supposed patriot wants to steer our country's future, he or she should ask the American people for permission first.
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During a speech to The Executive's Club of Chicago today, Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced that The Dow Chemical Company will be relocating approximately 400 new jobs to Chicago over the next three years.
"Dow's commitment to Chicago is a reflection of the great work ethic and business environment in the city," said Mayor Emanuel. "Dow's new office will be a gathering place, an easily accessible, central location in which business can be conducted and ideas will be exchanged. It will be great for the City of Chicago and great for the company as well."
The positions for Dow came together after a series of meetings between Mayor Emanuel, senior members of the Administration, and top officials from Dow.
"The creation of a Dow sales center in downtown Chicago is part of a strategic move to support Dow's growth agenda of becoming a more customer-oriented organization and increase sales in our specialty products portfolio," stated Heinz Haller, Dow Executive Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer. "The new Dow center is part of an office optimization program that will provide the opportunity for the sales organization from the Midwest to work closer together as well as participate in training programs and hold customer meetings at one location."
The positions at the facility will be primarily sales professionals who will service the entire Midwest.
The commitment by Dow is the 13th announcement of new jobs for Chicago that Mayor Emanuel has announced during his administration, totaling more than 8,000 jobs. Dow received no incentives to create the positions in Chicago.
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On the 4th day, we proceeded to Mt Fuji, the most sacred mountain in Japan. We were so lucky that we were able to ascend to the 5th level to experience the view of the whole country, as well as a close-up look of the peak. The 5th level is about 2305m. The exact height of the mountain is 3776m, and its growing every year. It was super cold up there, and I was literally freezing. It was defnitely colder than a freezer, as the temperature recorded outside the shopping mall( a small cottage) was -13C. Really suffering.
We did not even dare to stay outside for long to take photos. We were taking turns to go in and out of the cottage to embrace the cold. After some quick shots of photos, we rushed back into the mall where there were huge heaters waiting for us.
After the 'harrowing' experience, the tour bus brought us back down to the foot of the mountain, and there was another surprise for us. There was actually an outlet mall, Gotemba Premium Outlet, which sells all the branded goods. Well it was ladys' shopping once again and we just tagged along. Some Furla bags were bought, and I couldnt find anything I like from Nike and Puma, though there were some nice bags. Well why would I have the mood to buy any when I would be enlisting in army soon and there is really no point buying any new stuff.
We stopped by the Oshinohakai Village, which has a small pond in the middle, which spewed hot smoke, ( due to the hot spring), and there were fishes inside! Seriously I think the fishes in the pond have longer lifespan than us. Haha. We bought some japanese tidbits and goodies and shopped for some souvenirs, before heading to our hotel, which was at the lake at the foot of Mt Fuji.
The scenery was really breathtaking, and the mountain you see on the top of my blog is indeed Mt Fuji. At the same time, I was starting to feel colder and colder, as the tour guide mentioned that we were entering the 'peak' of the cold snap, and temperatures plunged way below Oc, even at the foot of the mountain, and it was usually not the case in December in that area, so they say.
At night my family and I, of course with the rest of the tour group dressed in traditional Yukata and settled down to have Japanese Steamboat dinner with lots of sashimi on it, and some of us went for dip in the hot spring. Trust me, after years of travelling overseas with lots of hot springs, I have never been inside one before, the closest I got was the one in Beijing, walking naked but I managed to weat a bath robe and went for foot massage instead. I just dont like the idea of swimming naked in a pool. Ok maybe that will become nothing when I 'hardened' up in the army. LMAO.


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2018 RB Joel Musser, Tussey Mountain: Player Previews in 100 Days – Day 61
Written by: Billy Splain on Monday, July 17th, 2017
School: Tussey Mountain
Class Of: 2018
Primary Postion: Rb
Secondary Position(s): Cb
Jersey Number: 21
Height: 6′
Weight: 165
40-Yard Dash: 4.6
Other Sports: Baseball
Starting Experience: E
Honors: ICC honorable mention
2016 Stats: 117 carries, 670 yards rushing, 12 receptions, 99 yards receiving, 404 yards punt/kick returning, 10 total TDs
29 tackles, 1 int, 1 fumble caused, 1 fumble recovered
Coaches Comments: Joel is a very dangerous player once he gets the ball in his hands. He has a quick burst, agility, and great top end speed. The thing that separates Joel is his vision. He is a receiving threat and a very good blocker. Defensively, Joel can play corner or safety and is good in man to man coverage.
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Phuket Vice Governor Supoj Rotreuang Na Nongkhai announced the news yesterday evening, explaining that raids were carried out from last Friday through yesterday (Nov 16-20) and in conjunction with soldiers from the 25th Military Circle, stationed in Phuket.
The series of arrests began last Friday and Saturday, with two suspects arrested found in possession of 137 ya bah pills with an estimated value of B13,700.
The two suspects arrested – who were not named – were led to the arrests of 10 other drug dealers, V/Gov Supoj said.
Following the initial arrests, officers on Sunday (Nov 18) arrested three suspects – named as Pasuwat Thongto and Wittaya Sesakrom, both 27, and Kerati Yotpanya, 29 – at the Phuket Thanee Village housing estate just north of the heroines Monument, at 1am.
Officers seized 57.25g of ya ice and 135 pills of ya bah as well as B1,500 in cash.
All three suspects were charged with possession of a Category 1 drug with intent to sell.
On Monday (Nov 19), officers arrested two suspects at a residence in Moo 4, Chalong, at 11:48pm.
V/Gov Supoj named one of the suspects arrested as Chanet Labmee, 31, but declined to name the other suspect arrested, a 19-year-old female, as she is a minor. (Thai law deems people 20 years of age or older as adults.)
In making the arrests officers seized 107.4g of ya ice, one motorcycle, one homemade gun ('Thai Pradit') and one 12-gauge shotgun cartridge.
Police charged both the man and the 19-year-old with possession of a Category 1 drug with intent to sell. No mention was made of any charge for the illegal gun.
Officers then yesterday (Nov 20) concluded their series of raids at Baan Suan Place apartment complex in Wichit, where four suspects – named as Niarrong Areena, 23; Muhummudsukree Madae, 25; Ausrokee Malee, 33; and Muhummud Kora, 27 – were found in possession of 1.7 kilograms of ya ice.
In making those arrests, officers also arrested Jongsawa Wanjae, 47, who was found in possession of 100g of ya ice, V/Gov Supoj explained.
All five were charged with possession of a Category 1 drug with intent to sell, he confirmed.


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While the whole process of getting married and hosting a celebration for family and friends is incredibly fun, many brides and grooms often get overwhelmed when it comes to the etiquette of weddings. They run into situations that are unfamiliar and sticky- and often worry they'll offend someone or "do the wrong thing." Spencer Special Events is here to guide our couples through the process and put minds at ease. Today we are answering a few common etiquette questions in a variety of situations.
Engagement Etiquette: Who shares the news? At Spencer Special Events, we always tell our newly engaged clients to take some time to truly enjoy the engagement! Make sure you carve out time for each other and not let planning a wedding damper the joy you felt the moment you got engaged. When it comes time to share the engagement, a newspaper announcement approximately two to three months before the wedding day can be made by the bride's parents or immediate family. Bride's parents should ask the grooms parents if they would also like a newspaper announcement sent to the newspaper in the grooms hometown.
What are the attendant responsibilities and duties: Asking someone to be a bridesmaid in your wedding is more than just having someone stand up with you and wear that darling dress that you choose! There are some traditional roles that attendants play. Emily Post Wedding Etiquette provides a check list for bridesmaids, maids/matrons of honor, and groomsmen that include helping the bride select their attire, addressing invitations and place cards, attending prenuptial events, holding the grooms wedding ring, helping with the gown, holding the bouquet during the ceremony, standing in the receiving line, and more. But don't you fret, Spencer Special Events always take some of these duties off their plate. We can coordinate addressing, carrying rings, touching up make up, and more since many of our brides want their bridesmaids to also feel like guests, and less like maids.
Do we need to have a receiving line? A receiving line is a traditional way for the bride, groom and their family to greet their guests directly after a ceremony or right before the reception. This is a good idea if you are having a particularly large wedding and it will be unlikely that you are able to speak to everyone. Or if you will not have an event prior to the wedding (example welcome reception) to visit with your guests. If you have a receiving line, your order should be: mother of the bride, father of the bride, mother of the groom, father of the groom, bride, groom, maid of honor, bridesmaids. If you don't have a receiving line (which is less and less common these days- especially for a destination wedding), we recommend you make an effort to go around to each table and greet your guests, and say hello after you have eaten. Because your family and friends have traveled a long way and incurred expenses to come celebrate you, it's important to make an effort to greet each guest during the night. But the beauty of a destination wedding weekend is you are privileged to spend more time with your guests throughout the weekend events!
Who gives a toast at the wedding? It's customary for the best man to be the only toast offered, but we recommend a welcome toast from the bride's parent's to all the guests, and a maid of honor toast is also acceptable. Guests outside the wedding party should not toast. All the guests should rise for the toast, except the bride and groom who stay seated. If the groom toasts to the bride, she should remain seating according to traditional etiquette.
We've only covered a few of the many wedding etiquette questions we get every year! There are always a lot of questions that we are happy to answer -- leave us a comment today and let us know how we can help!


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Begley welcomes £140m Strule campus investment announcement
Sinn Féin MP Órfhlaith Begley has welcomed funding of £140m towards the construction of the Strule shared education campus.
The West Tyrone MP said:
"The Strule education campus will be an iconic state-of-the-art education facilities for six schools and massive investment in the Omagh area.
"Sinn Féin have been instrumental in moving this project forward and I am delighted that funding has been confirmed.
"This is a good news story for education and for the Omagh area."


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WA misses out on $70m Oz Lotto jackpot
There was no Lotto luck for WA in tonight's $70 million Oz Lotto jackpot with three Eastern States' winners sharing the prize.
They will each pocket a tidy $23,333,333.34. Three WA tickets did pick up $49,892 in Division 2.
The winning numbers were 12, 28, 24, 29, 9, 18 and 25. The supps were 13 and 31.
There are two more chances to strike it really rich this week with $20 million up for grabs in Thursday's Powerball and $20 million in Saturday's Superdraw.
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- Jim's Anniversary gift to Stephanie: a pair of marble hands holding each other that he shaped with his bare hands.
- The end of No Ordinary Visitors, in which Stephanie's parents admit what asses they've been and apologize. Grandpa even lets JJ keep The Precious, Precious Car he won from him.
- George's speech at his ceremony for accepting the Key to the City.
- Jim calling his brother out about not being there when their father died, and admitting he didn't need Mike to be there for their father, he needed Mike to be there for himself. This is mirrored when Mike admits that he was in the parking lot the entire time, too scared to go in, convinced that their father would be happier just having Jim with him and truly not knowing that Jim needed him.
- Katie's baby surviving the delivery.
- JJ turning down Bailey's advances because he still had feelings for Natalie. Bit of a heartbreaker for Bailey.
Heartwarming / No Ordinary Family
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Option 1: upright sitting
This is probably the posture you think of as "good" posture. The defining feature of this option is thatthe trunk is upright.
A key component of upright sitting is that the feetcan comfortably rest on a surface, whether the flooror a footstool. This position also makes it easy toadjust posture within the chair (fidget) and changeposture to get out of the chair.
It's also important the arms hang down from the shoulders vertically with elbows by the trunk, unless the forearms are supported on the work surface. Holding unsupported arms forwardrequires the muscles connecting the shoulder and neck to work harder. This often results inmuscle fatigue and discomfort.
The head should be looking straight ahead or a little downwards. Looking upwards wouldincrease tension in the neck and likely lead to discomfort.
This posture is useful for common office tasks such as working on a desktop computer.
Option 2: forward sitting
The defining feature of this posture is that the trunk is angled forward, and the arms arerested on the work surface. Allowing the thigh to point down at an angle may make it easier tomaintain an inward curve in your lower back, which is suggested to reduce low back stress.
For a time, special chairs were developed to enable the thigh to be angled downwards, andusually had a feature to block the knees, stopping the person sliding off the angled seat base.
By perching on the front of an ordinary chair and resting your elbows on the work surface, youcan use this posture to provide variety in sitting. This posture is useful for tasks such asdrawing or handwriting on a flat work surface, either with paper or a touch screen device.
Option 3: reclined sitting
The defining feature of the third option is the trunk is angled backward, supported by thechair's backrest. Back muscle activity is lowest in this posture, as some of the upper bodyweight is taken by the chair.
This position may reduce the risk of fatigue in the back muscles and resultant discomfort. Butsitting like this for hours each day may result in the back muscles being more vulnerable tofatigue in the future.
This posture is useful for meetings and phone conversations. But it doesn't work well forhandwriting or using a computer as the arms need to be held forwards for these things, requiring neck and shoulder muscle activity likely to result in discomfort.


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The Moto Z2 Force looks like a Moto Z with two cameras and a sensible fingerprint sensor
We're getting our first look at the new Moto Z design, and it looks a lot like last year's model.
Motorola is readying its follow-ups to the unique Moto Z and Moto Z Force, which were announced last summer. We've already seen hints of the branding, suggesting that the sequels will be predictably assigned Moto Z2 and Z2 Force, and now we're seeing the first press render, if Slashleaks is to be believed.
What lends credence to this particular render is that the company has boxed itself into a specific design until at least 2018 thanks to its Mods ecosystem, which attach to the phone's back by a set of pins. You'll notice on this picture that the so-called Moto Z2 Force has two cameras on the back, which aligns with previous rumors, and a redesigned fingerprint sensor on the front, matching that of the Moto G5 series from earlier this year.
We already know that the Moto Z2 series should run a Snapdragon 835 platform, thanks to demoes it did with Sprint, and that at least one model will be available from a carrier other than Verizon, which is nice. The render also shows a 'Lenovo' insignia on the phone's side which, while perhaps not the most egregious placement of a company's logo, could certainly be better positioned.
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