The Case for Reparations - The Atlantic And if thy brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, be sold unto thee, and serve thee six years; then in the seventh year thou shalt let him go free from thee. And when thou sendest him out free from thee, thou shalt not let him go away empty: thou shalt furnish him liberally out of thy flock, and out of thy floor, and out of thy winepress: of that wherewith the LORD thy God hath blessed thee thou shalt give unto him. And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt, and the LORD thy God redeemed thee: therefore I command thee this thing today. — Deuteronomy 15: 12–15 — John Locke, “Second Treatise” By our unpaid labor and suffering, we have earned the right to the soil, many times over and over, and now we are determined to have it. — Anonymous, 1861 I. Clyde Ross was born in 1923, the seventh of 13 children, near Clarksdale, Mississippi, the home of the blues. In the 1920s, Jim Crow Mississippi was, in all facets of society, a kleptocracy. This was hardly unusual.
8 Facts That Show Us Elephants Are People, Too Okay, fine -- elephants aren't people. But they're like people in a lot of ways, and on World Elephant Day, that counts for something. And yet around 35,000 of these pachyderms were killed in 2013 alone, and there's a continuing demand for their valuable ivory tusks. If we aren't careful, most of these creatures could be extinct by 2020, according to some conservationists. It's a tragedy for any animal to face extinction, but it would seem like a special tragedy to lose this one. Our very history is entwined, with elephants and humans evolving in parallel hundreds of thousands of years ago. 1. In a 2006 study of three Asian elephants, Emory University researchers placed a mirror in the enclosure of three female Asian elephants. The fact that Happy passed that test, the researchers said, indicates the capacity of elephants to recognize themselves as individuals rather than just part of a pack. Another test showed that elephants understand pointing, using, of course, their trunks. 2. 3.
Segregation Now: The Resegregation of America’s Schools - ProPublica White students once accounted for a majority of the Tuscaloosa school district's students. But by the mid-1990s, they made up less than a third. Total enrollment had dropped from 13,500 in 1969 to 10,300 in 1995. Many white parents had decided to send their children to nearly all-white private schools or to move across the city line to access the heavily white Tuscaloosa County Schools. Tuscaloosa's business leaders and elected officials had witnessed the transformation of other southern cities after their school districts had reached a tipping point—the point at which white parents become unsettled by the rising share of black students in a school, and pull their children from the school en masse. Tuscaloosa's residential population stagnated during the '90s, and the school situation took on special urgency in 1993: Tuscaloosa was vying for the Mercedes-Benz plant where Melissa Dent now works, which officials hoped would draw people to the city.
The Roof: Original Soundtrack | FuelTheatre Original Soundtrack from Requardt & Rosenberg's 'The Roof' produced by Fuel. Commissioned by LIFT and presented in association with the National Theatre. Funded by Arts Council England. Supported by Jerwood Charitable Foundation, the Backstage Trust and the Binks Trust. www.davepricemusic.net www.requardt-rosenberg.com www.fueltheatre.com released 16 June 2014 Music and songs composed, arranged, performed and produced by Dave Price Tracks 1, 2, 6, 13, 14, 17, 19, 21 & 22 mixed by Ben Hales Lyrics by David Rosenberg Dave Price - vocals, drums, percussion, keyboards, strings, guitar, programming Ben Hales - guitars, bass, backing vocals Gwyneth Herbert - vocals Finn Peters - saxes & flutes Sam Burgess - double bass
Your Friends and Rapists — Medium, Long — Medium That summer I only listened to “Ceremony” and I remember it didn’t rain. I was nineteen years old. It was the summer after my second year at the University of Western Ontario, which would also be my last year at the University of Western Ontario, and I took a job advertised to students. The job was to get in a van and take a yellow pad of sign-up forms and a pen and wear comfortable shoes (no flip-flops) and sell fixed-price natural gas to anyone who could be convinced they were paying too much for broken-price natural gas. It was a blank summer. I had it bad for one of them in particular. School began without me. To my boyfriend I said I was going to a party with my friends and to my friends I said I was going to a party with my boyfriend. It was an old Victorian house with wooden floors, except at the top, where the ceilings sloped halfway down the wall and the carpets were thick and gray. What things could I have done. Note that I am also not saying it now. Paglia: No!
40 Of The Most Powerful Social Issue Ads That’ll Make You Stop And Think Many people complain about glossy advertisements and TV commercials as an obnoxious way for companies to invade our everyday lives and ram their products down our throats, but that’s not all that printed ads are good for. The best commercials on this list are excellent examples of effective advertising strategies for social issues marketing campaigns that let their voices be heard. A well-made advertisement is designed to grab your attention and to remain in your memory long after you’ve left it behind, and that is precisely what many of these social problems need. Getting people to think and worry about various social and environmental issues such as human trafficking, racism, and air pollution is significant for raising public supporting and affecting meaningful changes. A few of these ads are, in fact, commercial ads, but it’s still nice that they champion socially or environmentally aware causes/products.Just like with commercial advertisements, having just the facts is not enough.
My Roommate the Prostitute | Narratively | Human stories, boldly told. It was late morning, and I was putting up a fresh pot of coffee when I heard the first meow. It sounded awfully close, as if from inside the apartment instead of the backyard one story down. Then I heard it again, and there was no doubt. WTF?!! I’d made it clear when she moved in: no pets. It’s a friend’s, Jenny texted back. Don’t give me that bullshit, I keyed my reply, then backspaced over it, reconsidering. We need to talk. Later that afternoon, in the kitchen between our bedrooms, we talked, leaning on opposite counters. In the end, I told her she could keep the cat, but she better take care of it properly. “Thanks for not being hard on me,” she said, before disappearing back into her room. That conversation was the longest we’d ever had. At first, I had a parade of eccentrics, men who seemed to have something to hide, smelling of whiskey, with slurred speech, crooked teeth, telling me about jobs as investment bankers or corporate accountants, claims I found dubious. “Sweet.”
Bad news won't give you PTSD, anxiety, or depression, but subtle long-term impacts are possible. A terrifying jihadist group is conquering and butchering its way across big swaths of Iraq and Syria. Planes are falling out of the sky on what seems like a weekly basis. Civilians are being killed in massive numbers in the Israel-Gaza conflict. That’s how it feels, at least, to those of us who sit at a blessed remove from the death and destruction, but who are watching every bloody moment of it via cable news and social media. Mary McNaughton-Cassill, a professor at the University of Texas–San Antonio and leading researcher on the connection between media consumption and stress, said the current trend of breathless, protracted coverage of tragedy and calamity can be traced back to the Oklahoma City bombings. Almost two decades later, news outlets — facing pressure from an endlessly multiplying array of competitors all zeroing in on the same stories — have greater incentive than ever before to ramp up their coverage of scary, emotionally wrenching stories.
The big sleep | Mosaic Imagine it: you have been rushed into the emergency room and you are dying. Your injuries are too severe for the surgeons to repair in time. Your blood haemorrhages unseen from ruptured vessels. The loss of that blood is starving your organs of vital nutrients and oxygen. You are entering cardiac arrest. But this is not the end. The surgeons continue their work, clamping, suturing, repairing. Suspended animation, the ability to set a person’s biological processes on hold, has long been a staple of science fiction. One recipient of that funding was a young James Lovelock. Adventurous as they were, these early experiments did not progress beyond the animal stage, and astronauts were never frozen and revived with hot spoons. In 1900, the British Medical Journal published an account of Russian peasants who, the author claimed, were able to hibernate. It’s not the first time the benefits of cold for traumatic injury have been made apparent. Of course, it’s not that simple.
The Language of Visual Storytelling in 360 Virtual Reality. | RealVision.ae Knowledge Base and stereoscopic 3D Blog By: Clyde DeSouza Immersive Story telling in 360 Stereo 3D: They say you shouldn’t hijack the head-tracking data stream of the Oculus Rift; visuals should not be separated from the human vestibular system…but rules were meant to be broken. Why? because there’s so much more to VR than gaming. This is not to say games aren’t becoming movies! Defining a language for 360 look-around movies: You know how it all began oh so long ago (OK, 4 years ago) when the language of film-making was being defined / re-written for S3D. Citizen Kane, back in the day, although a 2D film, had given enough clues to modern 3D film-makers on how to effectively use the medium of S3D… but no one really had the patience to listen. When I started investigating this exciting medium a few months ago, alarm bells would go off when I asked on Oculus Rift / Game Engine forums about intercepting head-tracking and orientation info of these devices, but that’s because so far it’s only games that have been designed for VR.
Outlaw on the Big Screen | This Land Press He was born Napoleon Blackstone Vann, but ever since he was a little shaver, “Nip” Vann was destined to be a star. His monosyllabic name was the perfect size for a movie marquee. Tall, good-looking, and able to make friends with total strangers, Vann was a former Wild West show hotshot in the earliest years of cinema. He had all the makings of a major name on the movie screen, one to rival Tom Mix. But a few bad decisions—namely, killing a cop in Caney, Kansas—sealed his fate on the night of November 12, 1913. Vann, born in Fort Gibson, Indian Territory, around 1885 and a Bartlesville resident in the early 1910s, was in Caney—located immediately north of the bullet-strewn border between Kansas and Oklahoma—that November night to find a herd of sheep needed to complete filming of The Escape of Jim Dolan, a two-reel Western that was being filmed near Okesa, Oklahoma. While being taken to the local slammer by the Marshal John McInroy, Vann handed over a loaded pistol to Caney’s top cop.
Incredible New Software Allows Full 3D Manipulation of 2D Photos – Could Lead to Creative 3D Printing There are three major market segments within the 3D printing space which combine to influence the entire market. The three segments are the hardware (the printers themselves), software (design, manipulation and slicing), and materials(filaments, powders, resins) markets. It can be argued which of these areas is the most important for the long term growth of the industry. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon and the University of California have announced a new suite of 3D manipulation software. The algorithms behind the software are complicated, but the basis for how this software works lies within the availability of stock photographs and 3D models online. “Graphics is now entering the age of Big Visual Data: enormous quantities of images and video are uploaded to the internet daily,” the research report states. Have you tried it out?