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Tech Workers Need to Keep Organizing
JS Chen
Despite their often-high salaries, tech workers are workers. And like any other kind of worker, to advocate for their interests on the job, they need to get organized.
Google employees walk off the job to protest the company's handling of sexual misconduct claims, on November 1, 2018, in Mountain View, California. Mason Trinca / Getty
Tens of thousands of Google workers in over forty offices around the world recently walked off the job to protest their employer's handling of sexual harassment claims. Collectively, they are demanding an end to Google's culture that has fostered sexual harassment and abuse. Their demands not only include more transparency around harassment incidents but also a commitment to end gender inequities in pay and opportunity, among other issues in the company.
This protest against leadership in tech and others in recent years, signals a realization among tech workers that their interests and values differ vastly from those of their bosses, and that the only way to fight for their demands is to organize.
Today, the fight centers on the rampant sexism within these tech giants. But tech workers can and should fight the oppression and exploitation both within their companies and inflicted by their companies with the technology they build.
To do so, tech workers must first realize that they too, despite their often-high salaries and office perks, are workers. And like any other kind of worker, to advocate for their interests on the job, they need to get organized.
Why Some Tech Workers Don't Think of Themselves as Workers
When we think of tech workers, we think of free pizza, table-tennis work breaks, casual attire, and six-figure salaries — hardly typical features of the working class in our minds. That's no surprise: Americans typically think of income as synonymous to class. A large-enough paycheck qualifies you as part of America's upper-middle class.
But this is the wrong approach to defining who is working class and who is not. Under capitalism, class is defined by one's relationship to — and ownership of — the means of production. In tech, like any other industry, there are owners (the bosses, the executives, and the shareholders, who make money off workers' labor) and there are workers (who can only survive by selling their labor).
Workers create more value for the owners than what it costs the owners to hire them. That additional value is then pocketed by the owners as profit.
For example, the average Apple engineer, who makes on the lower end of a six-figure salary, generates $1.9 million of revenue for Apple. This means that Apple gets about 10-20 times the monetary value per engineer than what it costs for to hire them.
Why is this class distinction so confusing for tech workers? Why is it that tech workers don't think of themselves as "workers"?
One of the main reasons has to do with the conflation of tech bosses and tech workers. In the media, tech bosses speak on behalf of workers and are usually disguised, blending in with the same casual workplace attire to which most regular tech workers are accustomed. You see this all the time at tech conferences when execs, dressed casually in t-shirts and jeans, showcase implementations of new scenarios or use cases that are crafted by junior engineers. (Ironically, these demos usually are beyond the exec's own technical depth to produce.)
Tech workers also conflate themselves with their bosses when they are led to believe that they too can be the next Zuckerberg and are just one good idea away from founding the next big startup. Hackathons, for example, in both corporate and academic settings, encourage this. Attendees are tasked with building a small project within a few days to then get on stage and pitch to a panel of judges. The performance is not dissimilar to a founder pitching to venture capitalists for funding.
As a result, many engineers take lower-paying jobs to work at startups in order to "get experience" and learn what it's like to start their own company one day.
Even in large companies like Amazon or Google, product teams are encouraged to act like a startup, to the extent that most have bought into the "open office" concept (despite the fact that startups only use open offices because it's a cheaper way to pack people into one space). At these large companies, engineers are coaxed into taking "ownership" or "driving" smaller components of a product (oftentimes components that don't even matter), feeding the appetite of the founder-CEO inside of each tech worker.
In this environment, tech workers are strongly encouraged to think of themselves as future CEOs instead of wage laborers. For the ownership class, it's a cunning but intentional mechanism. In the mindset of becoming a future company founder, tech workers are more than happy to work late hours and spend off-hours on online education platforms like Coursera, learning app development or data science — all in the name of self-improvement and "investing in themselves."
But the reality is much less exciting. Despite their aspirations, most tech workers do not start companies. For those that do, over 97 percent of them fail before raising their first major round of funding, leaving founders burnt out and usually at a financial loss. Even between an early-stage startup and one that is raising hundreds of millions in funding, the failure rate still sits above the 80 percent mark.
The perks that tech workers enjoy also have a darker side, playing into the same ploy bosses use to extract as much value from their workers as possible. For many companies that provide free food, breakfast catering ends before 9 AM to encourage workers to get in the office early, while free dinners can only be reimbursed if they are delivered after 7 PM. The additional employee amenities such as nap rooms, showers, and pool tables blend together work and life, ruining any chance of attaining a balance between the two.
Of course, these perks do not apply to all workers in tech. Instead they only impact in-house tech workers whose jobs are to write code, design applications, and manage products. Equally important, however, are contract workers who consist of but are not limited to customer-service agents, security guards, janitors, and factory workers. Additionally, tech workers also include those with precarious employment who include Uber drivers and Mechanical Turkers. But unlike those working in-house, these contracted tech workers face much severe exploitation and abuse.
Why Should Tech Workers Care?
It is crucial to understand that tech workers, like other workers, are still subject to a high degree of exploitation from their employers.
While salaries have been relatively high for these in-house tech workers because their labor is in demand, we shouldn't expect this to be permanent. Sooner or later, the labor supply for technical skills will catch up, and salaries will start to even out.
In the meantime, tech bosses will do what they can to lower wages and walk away with even more profit. Execs at major tech companies have been called out for colluding via anti-poaching schemes to suppress wages. As part of a longer-term strategy, these tech giants have also partnered with schools, supported coding bootcamps, and sponsored programs that teach minority youth groups to code. MicrosoftM/a> works with Girls Who Code. Google maintains a subdomain dedicated to computer science education.
Their goal in technology education is not to simply expand their consumer base to the youngest and most marginalized of our society, but to increase the labor supply of the future and subsequently drive down wages for decades to come.
Under capitalism, private corporations operate more similarly to dictatorships than democracies. Workers have little or no say in what they build or for whom. Any kind of dissent means putting your career at risk. The tech industry is no exception.
In the advent of artificial intelligence, the questions of what tech companies should build and for whom have been increasingly scrutinized. Surveillance systems for tracking factory workers, computer vision technology for drone weaponry, and facial recognition for immigration control are only a few projects to surface in headlines over the past few years. For the tech bosses, the objective is to maximize profits regardless of the ethical or political implications.
This happens systemically: shareholders put immense pressure on execs and upper management to maximize the bottom line, forcing them to be laser focused on optimizing next quarter's financial report. As a result, their goals can be in direct conflict with those of tech workers who care about the humanity of the technology they build, or at the very least, care about having an opinion.
Organize and Fight Back
When it comes to making the decision of what to build and for whom, tech workers individually find themselves without a voice. What can be done to give workers the ability to make these decisions when their goals are often contrary to those of their bosses?
Google's abandoned Project Maven provides a useful example. In 2017, Google worked with the US military on the project, an initiative to develop computer vision software that increases the efficacy of drone strikes. After months of pressure and backlash, Google execs formally called for the project's termination.
Journalists celebrated Google for living out its "don't be evil" motto after its decision to end the contract, quoting CEO Sundar Pichai about how "Google should not be in the business of war" as well as other statements positioning Google as a leader in the ethics of building AI products. But these headlines had it wrong: Pichai and other execs didn't turn away a multimillion dollar contract with the military because of their moral high ground — they did it in response to the collective pressure that Google workers put on their leadership.
At first it was just employees from several different teams who knew about Project Maven, specifically teams from Google's AI and cloud initiatives. They brought their disdain for the project in front of the head of Google's cloud division, Diane Greene. Their concerns, however, were dismissed and execs showed no plans to slow down the project.
The Googlers then changed strategies and began sharing their knowledge about Project Maven broadly within the company. The post they shared on an internal Google message board blew up. Thousands of employees immediately expressed anger and betrayal, and called for the termination of the project. Diane Greene stepped in, hoping to placate employees by saying that the project was strictly for non-offensive purposes.
After seeing the overwhelming responses from employees throughout the company, the post's writers were empowered to put even more pressure on the bosses. They understood the kind of leverage they could gain by banding together. Their next step was to write a letter calling for Project Maven's termination, addressed directly to CEO Sundar Pichai. It was signed by thousands of employees.
In the following months, groups of Googlers across the globe teamed up to create new initiatives that would pressure their bosses. One group started to track and publish the number of resignations from Google because of Project Maven. Another group developed a methodology to get employees to ask specifically about Project Maven at every all-employees meeting. Googlers even started to get support from other tech workers, including the Tech Workers Coalition, who launched a petition externally.
Eventually, Google execs caved to the pressure, cancelling their contract for Project Maven. For many rank-and-file employees, these several months were a shocking realization that tech bosses held vastly different values than their own, prioritizing company profit over ethical concerns. It was also a light-bulb moment for many that unless organized, they were not the decision-makers in the company.
What About Unionizing?
Learning from Project Maven, those of us who work at these companies must ask ourselves: how can we as tech workers begin to organize?
The first step is to develop a collective voice that can pose a threat to the company's bottom line. If a single Apple employee generates for Apple $1.9 million in revenue per year, a thousand Apple employees on strike can cost Apple over $5 million in a single day, a number that no exec would want to be responsible for losing.
One way to organize our collective voice and build solidarity is for tech workers to unionize — an idea that the Googlers who led the termination for Project Maven had also considered. But why haven't Googlers achieved this? And why is there little precedence for it in tech?
For one, tech workers, despite sometimes having brutal work hours, are relatively comfortable with office perks and high salaries. Tech workers are also known to move jobs quite frequently, with average tenures of no more than two years, making it hard for these workers to develop meaningful relationships with coworkers and loyalty for the community.
At a macro level, unions are also at a historic low. In the 1980s, prior to the tech boom, Reagan and subsequent presidents attacked unions, and the pro-boss, anti-worker climate of the proceeding decades has driven down union membership to its lowest in almost a century. It was in this climate, when labor was at its weakest, that the tech industry became the behemoth that is it today. As a result, many working in tech are millennials or even younger, and grew up in a culture of anti-unionism.
The tech industry is also steeped in a culture of supposed meritocracy. While no longer practiced, companies like Microsoft used to "stack-rank" employees to decide who was promoted and who was fired. In a team of five, each engineer would be given a number to represent how well they performed compared to the rest of the team. Rank 1s would be promoted while rank 5s would be fired. Promotions were said to be based solely on hard work and individual achievement, regardless of the internal finances of the organization.
At these tech giants, promotions are more symbolic than anything else. Promoted employees make an additional 5 percent — not much more than pocket change for execs. It's an old trick. Throughout many industries, bosses have promoted select members of the working class into the ranks of directors, partners, or executives — a small price to pay to maintain the illusion of upward mobility and keep employees motivated and working hard.
Part of the strategy that tech bosses have when building meritocratic institutions is keeping employees in competition with each other. When being stack-ranked one to five, one engineer's success is tied directly to the failure of another. And when there is competition, there is no solidarity.
Silicon Valley's roots in the libertarianism of the 1990s and the so-called "Californian Ideology" also feed into the tech industry's loyalty for individualism and opposition to collectivism. The openness of the internet was supposed to democratize information and enhance the individual, giving anyone the ability and the incentive to build anything — the goal was to limit the power of the state over the individual. Perfectly capturing this ethos is Apple's slogan Think Different, as well as their anti-government, 1984-themed advertisement in which they announced the Macintosh. In this context, unions represent unnecessary bureaucracy and is a hindrance to Silicon Valley's need for speed and innovation, where they will only stand in the way of individual accomplishment and ingenuity.
These historical and systemic forces that promote individualism over collectivism, may make tech worker unionization seem far away. But the task ahead is not impossible. Tech workers must start to show solidarity with all workers, especially low-paid contractors who often work within the same buildings, cleaning, cooking, and keeping the space secure.
The Tech Workers Coalition (TWC) provides a good example. In 2017, TWC members helped the labor union Unite Here organize cafeteria staff at big tech firms. From small gestures like making pro-union stickers to physically supporting cafeteria workers as they came out to sign union cards — part of the process for winning union recognition in the US, TWC worked with Unite Here to help unionize Facebook cafeteria employees. While the union is only for contracted cafeteria workers, many members of TWC got to know the cafeteria workers and built solidarity with the people serving them food every day.
Like many industries before, tech is becoming an industry of conglomerates. Over the past few years, there have been more than a dozen tech acquisitions valued at over $10 billion. The tech giants — Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Apple and a few others — are becoming too big to fail. Their projects are no longer just apps on a phone; they now span industries and countries, affecting people all over the world and in all aspects of their lives.
With the goal to scale, these tech giants have quickly monopolized sectors of our society. Facebook dominates social media. Netflix competes against sleep. Amazon has enough data and capital that it can identify gaps in the market and fill them all by itself. If an entity becomes a threat, it simply gets bought out, allowing these giants to not only set prices, but also the rules.
Unsurprisingly, these tech giants are also leaders in AI technology. With AI's potential to track, surveil, and even harm populations, the stakes are higher than ever. When AI is not being used for military efficiency or immigration control, it is used to weaken labor; replacing repetitive jobs or improving worker productivity (for the same wages). In either case, the results are the same: higher profits for the tech bosses.
Under the Trump administration, tech workers themselves are now also at risk. The tech industry relies heavily on immigrant labor for both in-house and contracted work, leaving hundreds of thousands of immigrant tech workers vulnerable to Trump's anti-immigration policies. In an already misogynistic and racist industry, workers from marginalized communities are also increasingly under attack as Trump empowers racism, sexism, and xenophobia on a national scale.
It is in this world that tech workers must realize their class position and exercise their class power. Just as hundreds of women at Google led a walk out to demand an end to sexual harassment, tech workers must continue speaking out against billionaire tech-execs and say no to building technologies that support US militarism, surveillance systems, and any other tools of oppression.
Thousands of Googlers have walked out to fight sexism. We don't often see protests from tech workers, especially from those who relish the perks of working for a company like Google. But we should make sure this won't be the last.
JS Chen works with the Tech Workers Coalition and is a tech worker living in the Northeast.
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Professor Richard Allen
Emeritus Professor in English
English & Creative Writing
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Richard Allen has had a long career at The Open University involved a number of leadership roles. He was Sub-Dean for Curriculum Development (1995-1998) and then Dean and Director of Studies in the Faculty of Arts (1998-1999 and 2000-2007). As Sub Dean, Richard Allen led the Faculty's successful campaign which resulted in the introduction of named subject degrees in 2000, and was influential in formulating the structure of the BA Humanities Programme and the BA (Hons.) English Programme. As Dean, he was able to expand the Faculty and its profile of courses, fostering the introduction of online teaching and also the introduction of a Creative Writing programme. Throughout he also aimed to expand the cultural reach of the Faculty's teaching and research, through for example, the initiatives taken under the heading of the Ferguson Centre for African and Asian Studies and the adopting of Wasafiri a magazine of international contemporary writing.
Quality Assurance matters became a particular interest. Richard Allen was a member of the Steering Group for the Quality Assurance Agency Institutional Audit in 2004, and was academic lead for the Audit in 2009. Both lead to positive judgements on the University's work. With the PVC, Curriculum and Awards, he led the work which resulted in the led to The Open University gaining international accreditation for its teaching and awards from the US Middle States Commission for Higher Education in 2005, and was academic lead for the reaccreditation in 2010. Latterly he has been appointed as a Reviewer by the Quality Assurance Agency and been involved in a number of reviews of universities and colleges.
As indicated below Richard Allen has been involved for a number of years in collaborative work in Indian Higher education. He has been Visiting Professor in the Departments of English at the University of Mumbai and the Delhi University. In 2004 he co-taught an MPhil class on 'Representations of India in British Writings' at Delhi University and in 2005 acted as a consultant to the School of Open Learning there. With Dr Savita Datta of the University of Delhi, Richard Allen led a project funded as part of the UK India Education Initiative designed to develop capacity in the use of new technology in teaching in the University of Delhi.
For most of his career Richard Allen's research interests have been closely integrated with his teaching interests and the results are to be seen in the texts books produced for The Open University; these include work on: gender issues and specifically literature and gender (in Issues in Women's Studies, Approaching Literature, MA in English Foundation Module) and on colonialism, empire and literature (in Literature in the Modern World, Literature and Nation: Britain and India 1800-1990, Understanding Global heritage). In 2011, with Professor Suman Gupta also of The Open University, Richard Allen was awarded funding by the Arts and Humanities Research Council for a two year project, Prospects for English Studies: India and the UK. This established a network of scholars from the three leading universities in Delhi so as to explore current issues and changes in prospect in English Studies in India in response to changing economic, cultural and political pressures.
Richard Allen has contributed to widely to teaching in Literature and to interdisciplinary courses at the Open University. His interests are in Romanticism, literature of the colonial period and literary relations between Britain and India. Courses in which he played a leading part include: Approaching Literature (material on Frankenstein, A Doll's House, and a television essay Persisting Dreams on the influence of Byron on Verdi and Delacroix), Literature and Nation: Britain and India 1800-1990 (general editor jointly with Professor Harish Trivedi of the University of Delhi, and other material on theoretical issues and texts including Mansfield Park, Tale of Two Cities, A Passage to India, Look Back in Anger), Understanding Global Heritage (material on the destruction of the Mosque at Ayodhya, and the National Museum in Delhi). Throughout his career at The Open University Richard Allen has acted as an associate lecturer latterly being particularly associated with the course Enlightenment to Romanticism.
"Liderazgo académico" y las condiciones del trabajo académico (2018-07-01)
Gupta, Suman and Allen, Richard
Literatura: teoría, historia, crítica, 20(2) (pp. 293-319)
Raja Rao and world literature (2012-12)
Allen, Richard
Summerhill: Journal of the Indian Institute for Advanced Study, 18(2)
Authored books
Social Analysis and the COVID-19 Crisis: A Collective Journal (2020-11-27)
Gupta, Suman; Allen, Richard; Schuller, Sebastian; Tu, Peter; Basu, Maitrayee; Gupta, Ayan-Yue; Durao, Fabio Akcelrud and Katsarska, Milena
ISBN : 9780367636616 | Publisher : Routledge | Published : Delhi and London
Reconsidering English Studies in Indian Higher Education (2015-05-01)
Gupta, Suman; Allen, Richard; Chattarji, Subarno and Chaudhuri, Supriya
Routledge Research in Higher Education
ISBN : 9781138794641 | Publisher : Routledge | Published : Abingdon
Heritage and nationalism (2010)
In: Harrison, Rodney ed. Understanding the Politics of Heritage. Understanding global heritage (pp. 197-233)
ISBN : 9780719081521 | Publisher : Manchester University Press | Published : Manchester
Mary Shelley as editor of Percy Shelley (2001-02)
In: Bellamy, Joan; Laurence, Anne and Perry, Gillian eds. Women, Scholarship and Criticism: Gender & knowledge c.1790-1900 (pp. 77-90)
ISBN : 978-0-7190-5719-1 | Publisher : Manchester University Press | Published : Manchester

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Pluralistic: 18 Apr 2020
shit sandwiches,electability,2020,elections,swing states,sentiment analysis,one country,daily yonder,polling,ilhan omar,weaponized shelter,rent and mortgage cancellation act,law,evictions,math,xkcd,known unknowns,savedotorg,.org,icann,pir,ethos capital,pe,finance,california,isoc,restaurants,rent-seeking,deliveroo,grubhub,jwz,pizza,food,business,games,fully automated luxury communism,solnit,mutual aid,walkaway,communist parties,
Rural swing-state voters' social media show growing disapproval for Trump; The Rent and Mortgage Cancellation Act; Garbage Math; ICANN pauses selloff of .ORG registry; Delivery services are gouging restaurants to death; Post-collapse maker utopia sim
Rural swing-state voters' social media show growing disapproval for Trump: Putting his literal signature on covid response makes it hard to argue it's not his fault.
The Rent and Mortgage Cancellation Act: Ilhan Omar's bill to protect renters and mortgage payers during and after the crisis.
Garbage Math: XKCD on the mathematics of uncertainty
ICANN pauses selloff of .ORG registry: The GOP billionaires behind Ethos capital have to wait a while longer.
Delivery services are gouging restaurants to death: Call the restaurant, order your meal, and pick it up.
Post-collapse maker utopia sim: Not quite Walkaway, but interesting nevertheless.
This day in history: 2015, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Rural swing-state voters' social media show growing disapproval for Trump (permalink)
The One Country project is a Democratic-Party-leaning nonprofit that seeks to engage with rural voters; they're doing a series of longituuinal surveys of rural swing-state responses to Trump's handling of the crisis in partnership with the nonprofit news org Daily Yonder.
These are heartening: they show rural voters increasingly fed up with Trump and his incompetence, with declining currency for GOP memes like "media bias" and increasing attention to "voter suppression" (responding to the Wisconsin election debacle).
https://www.dailyyonder.com/democratic-study-of-rural-social-media-finds-broad-criticism-of-trump/2020/04/17/
You can see a clear progression in which Trump's political capital is being annihilated by peoples' lived experiences of his failed policies (maybe putting his names on those checks wasn't such a smart idea, huh?). Here's Mar 15-21.
https://www.dailyyonder.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/200409-March-15-21-COVID-19-Tracker.pdf
And here's the next survey, Mar 29-Apr 5.
https://www.dailyyonder.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/200409-March-29-April-5-COVID-19-Tracker.pdf
So that all looks like good news, but there are a few caveats. The surveys are conducted by scraping giant tranches of geolocated social media posts, de-duplicating them, randomly sampling them, and these are hand-coded for sentiment analysis.
The work is done by Impact Social, a DC/London based analytics firm whose site is long on buzzwords but short on technical details. If they have a Twitter account, I can't find it.
https://www.impactsocial.com/
The "methodology" sections of the surveys themselves are very thin.
That said, assuming the surveys are being conducted using the same methods from week to week, then they're measuring something, and that something is changing (let's hope it's not statistical noise).
But if the methodology is sound, and if sentiment translates to votes, and if the sentiment is sustained over time, then rural voters in six swing states are seriously fucked off with Trump and the Republican brand is circling the drain.
I have serious doubts about Biden. Yes, I disagree with many of his policies (though these may improve as his campaign makes overtures to left Dems), but I'm more worried about the ways in which he is compromised by his record, his scandals, and his "gaffes".
I think these are serious liabilities in the era of discouragement politics in which each party tries to convince the other's voter base to stay home by arguing that their corrupt party leaders have demanded that they eat a shit sandwich…
…And try to mobilize their own base to show up and vote by arguing that the other party's shit sandwich is way worse than the shit sandwich their own party has asked them to eat.
I fear that Biden is going to be easy to cast as a shit-sandwich and so potential D voters will stay home.
(and for the record, Trump is a way, way worse shit sandwich than Biden)
The thing about these surveys that brings me hope is that they suggest that the Trump base is now thinking of him as an even bigger shit sandwich. I don't know if they'll vote D, but I think it might mean that that they'll sit out the election.
tldr: Maybe this means that Trump might lose the election, even if Biden doesn't win it.
The Rent and Mortgage Cancellation Act (permalink)
Ilhan Omar has authored a bill that suspends mortgages and rent payments nationwide for the duration of the crisis and for a month beyond. It's endorsed by a laundry list of housing and poverty advocacy groups.
https://pluralistic.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/eramca-summary.pdf
Here's the text of the bill, the Rent and Mortgage Cancellation Act:
https://pluralistic.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/eramca.pdf
Last month, 31% of Americans couldn't pay rent. This month, the number will be much, much higher. The Trump administration's insistence that $1200 will constitute sufficient "bridge liquidity" to tide those people over for 10 weeks is a cruel fantasy.
https://twitter.com/aoc/status/1250767653238648834
The federal eviction moratorium in the CARES Act expires mid-May (many landlords are ignoring the moratorium anyway). The crisis will not expire mid-May. Even if this miracle were to pass, the immediate aftermath would be a tsunami of evictions.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/apr/17/ilhan-omar-rent-mortgage-bill-coronavirus-pandemic
Omar proposes tying federal mortgage guarantees to tenancy protections, including a five-year requirement for fair lending and renting practices, banning no-fault evictions, rent increases, and discrimination against Section 8 voucher holders.
She also wants to create a fund to acquire distressed rental properties and for management by nonprofits, cities, community trusts, and states.
Garbage Math (permalink)
In XKCD 2295, "Garbage Math," Randall Munroe does a stellar job elucidating the uncertainty plaguing our ability to estimate when lockdown will end.
https://xkcd.com/2295/
The thing is, several key variables are unknown and attempts to estimate them produce "garbage numbers." These include:
What percentage of people have covid-19 antibodies
What percentage of people who have covid-19 antibodies are immune to the disease, and for how long
When we will develop a vaccine for covid-19
How long production of the vaccine will take after it is developed
When we will discover effective therapeutics for covid-19
How long it will take to ramp up their production
These variables produce a combinatorial explosion of scenarios for when the lockdown will end, and how long after that the crisis will pass. These scenarios are the reason we have a range of "estimates" – they're not estimates, they're scenarios.
If a and b, then x more weeks. If a, b and c, then y more weeks. If a and c, etc, etc.
These kinds of scenarios are a lot more common than predictions, but scenarios are usually presented (by governments, press and science communicators) as predictions.
In part, that's because our public discourse has little room for scenarios – but also, that's partly why our public discourse has little room for scenarios.
ICANN pauses selloff of .ORG registry (permalink)
The selloff of the .ORG registry to a secretive group of GOP-connected billionaire PE looters has received another reprieve, as @ICANN has delayed voting on the sale following an intercession from California's Attorney General.
https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/correspondence/becerra-to-botterman-marby-15apr20-en.pdf
Alas, the CA AG's letter did not prompt ICANN to vote to cancel the sale, but rather to take "additional time to complete our review," with a new vote scheduled for May 4.
https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2020-04-16-en
CA AG Bercos: "In effect, what is at stake is the transfer of the world's second largest registry to a for-profit private equity firm that, by design, exists to profit from millions of nonprofit and non-commercial organizations."
The AG's letter was prompted in part by an open letter by Esther Dyson (ICANN's founding chair) and Michael Roberts (ICANN's founding CEO) accusing ICANN of abandoning its principles and calling for the sale to be halted.
https://regmedia.co.uk/2020/04/15/roberts-dyson-org-letter.pdf
As always, the best coverage of this comes from Kieren McCarthy. Here he is on the vote delay:
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/04/17/icann_california_org_sale_delay/
And here's his excellent backgrounder/explainer.
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/04/16/icann_abandon_core_values/
As with so many grifts, the selloff of .ORG is performatively dull and screened by layers of acronyms and obfuscating, needless complexity. McCarthy cuts through it all:
Delivery services are gouging restaurants to death (permalink)
San Francisco has capped commissions for food-delivery apps at 15%. These apps – even the ones that eliminated charges for customers – were gouging restaurants, consuming 100% (or more) of their margins.
https://sfist.com/2020/04/13/san-francisco-caps-commissions-for-food-delivery-apps-at-15-percent/
However, as Jamie Zawinski (owner of San Francisco's DNA Lounge and DNA Pizza) writes, the delivery companies (being grifts) are really good at circumventing these rules and cheating, with "delivery commissions," "processing fees," etc.
https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2020/04/17.html
He ends: "The best way for all of us, customers and restaurants, to avoid being gouged by those companies is to call us on the phone (4156260166) and place an order for pick-up. Not that I really expect people to do that… Nobody hates talking on the phone more than me."
Post-collapse maker utopia sim (permalink)
Common'hood is a new/forthcoming game "about building a new habitat for you and your community" after an economic crash. Gameplay begins with occupying an abandoned factory and "deciding how you want to live."
https://www.common-hood.com/
The creators describe their inspiration as coming from the "Maker Movement, Open Source Ecology, Fablabs or the Tiny house community."
https://www.common-hood.com/blog
You proceed by crafting shelter, managing your workshop, acquiring automation, managing a crew, automating construction, salvaging materiel, farming, selling your food, building and maintaining machines from open source blueprints, and supplying community water and power.
"Each character that joins your crew will have their own unique story, helping you understand what led them to end up without a home. By working together, you will be able to provide shelter and facilities to improve the life of your community."
Gameplay turns on open source "Blueprints" that can be turned into machinery, and on automating that machinery to free humans from drudgery.
Though I haven't played it, I am fascinated by the crossover with my 2017 novel Walkaway.
https://craphound.com/tags/walkaway/
There are some important differences. Walkaway is a story about post-scarcity, leaderless gift economies in the midst of environmental cataclysm and economic collapse. Judging from the descriptions, Common'hood has a lot of buying and selling and leadership in its play.
That said, this looks fascinating. It's coming to Steam soon:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/962090/Commonhood/
And there's apparently a playable demo on Discord:
https://twitter.com/jomasan/status/1228846409673101312
This day in history (permalink)
#5yrsago Internet.org: delivering poor Internet to poor people https://scroll.in/article/721541/Poor-internet-for-poor-people:-why-Facebook%E2%80%99s-Internet.org-amounts-to-economic-racism
#5yrsago A bill to fix America's most dangerous computer law https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150417/16180330704/bill-introduced-to-fix-broken-dmca-anti-circumvention-rules.shtml
#1yrago Read the source code for every classic Infocom text-adventure game! https://github.com/historicalsource"
#1yrago IPOs have sent Uber and Lyft fares skyrocketing, while driver pay plummets https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/apr/18/uber-lyft-drivers-surge-pricing-wages
#1yrago Telcoms lobbyists have convinced 26 states to ban or restrict municipal broadband https://www.vice.com/amp/en_us/article/kzmana/report-26-states-now-ban-or-restrict-community-broadband
Colophon (permalink)
Today's top sources: Naked Capitalism (https://nakedcapitalism.com/), Slashdot (https://slashdot.org/), Lewis Herber (https://twitter.com/Lewisherber).
Currently writing: My next novel, "The Lost Cause," a post-GND novel about truth and reconciliation. Yesterday's progress: 539 words (5299 total).
Currently reading: I'm getting really into Anna Weiner's memoir about tech, "Uncanny Valley" and Jo Walton's forthcoming novel "Or What You Will."
Latest podcast: Podcast swap: Wil Wheaton on Little Brotherhttps://craphound.com/podcast/2020/04/13/podcast-swap-wil-wheaton-on-little-brother/
Upcoming appearances:
Apr 22, Flatten The Curve Summit https://flattenthecurve.tech/
Apr 23, Canada Reads Q&A; https://www.cbc.ca/books/canadareads/ask-the-canada-reads-authors-your-questions-live-on-facebook-1.5512394
Upcoming books: "Poesy the Monster Slayer" (Jul 2020), a picture book about monsters, bedtime, gender, and kicking ass. Pre-order here: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781626723627?utm_source=socialmedia&utm_medium=socialpost&utm_term=na-poesycorypreorder&utm_content=na-preorder-buynow&utm_campaign=9781626723627
(we're having a launch for it in Burbank on July 11 at Dark Delicacies and you can get me AND Poesy to sign it and Dark Del will ship it to the monster kids in your life in time for the release date).
"Attack Surface": The third Little Brother book, Oct 20, 2020. https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250757531
"Little Brother/Homeland": A reissue omnibus edition with a new introduction by Edward Snowden: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250774583
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Aangrenzende gemeenten
De gemeente grenst aan Congonhinhas, Nova Fátima, Nova Santa Bárbara, Santa Cecília do Pavão, São Jerônimo da Serra en São Sebastião da Amoreira.

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The Future FM's Weekend Boogie #005: Autoerotique
The Future FM, the new leading platform for streaming DJ mixes and live sets who recently brought us the Soundtrack to TomorrowWorld and Oliver Heldens' 'Artists of Tomorrow' mix, have teamed up with us for a new mix from Autoerotique as part of their new mix series, 'Weekend Boogie.' This new weekly mix series will tap into world-class artists to bring you the soundtrack for your weekend. Every Friday, they will feature a new Weekend Boogie mix to simplify your music needs, whether you're hanging out at home, throwing a party, working out at the gym, or traveling.
For those unfamiliar with Autoerotique, he has become one of Dim Mak Records' heaviest hitters, rocking festivals with his energetic brand of electro-house. This mix comes complete with his biggest tracks like "Murda Dem" and "Bukem," bringing the sound his fans have come to know and love. Check out the mix below, and stay tuned for more great mixes to come from The Future FM soon!


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Jane Fara Fauzzier Afia Boafowaa Yahaya Awindor, nom de scène Efya est une chanteuse et actrice ghanéenne.

Biographie
Jane Awindor nait le  à Kumasi au Ghana. Elle est la fille de Nana Adwoa Awindor, une productrice de films et présentatrice de l'émission télévisée Greetings From Abroad. Efya est une chanteuse de neo soul et Afro-soul, mais aussi une compositrice et une actrice. Elle se fait connaître en participant à l'émission Stars of the Future. Elle remporte le prix de la meilleure performance vocale féminine aux , à quatre reprises, de 2009 à 2013.

Elle sort sa première mixtape, , pour This Is Not The Album, en 2013.

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Naissance en avril 1987
Naissance au Ghana
Chanteuse ghanéenne
Nom de scène
Mononyme


Check out this rarely available home in a highly sought after neighborhood in Durham. As you pass through the neighborhood and approach the home, you are immediately greeted with manicured lawns, colorful dogwoods, and a wide variety of perennials keeping the property green year-round. Inside the home, a few of the many custom details include the versatile living room off the entry, formal dining room with a glass slider out to the covered porch, crown molding, 10 foot ceilings, bamboo floors, an open kitchen to the large family room and an abundance of natural light throughout. Upstairs features the master suite, two additional bedrooms, a bathroom and views of the neighboring orchards. From the family room stepping out back, you will find a beautiful in-ground pool with waterfall, meandering paths leading to a variety of concrete patios, a custom bocce ball court with lights, and a detached, extra deep, three car garage. And if you are looking for an exceptional elementary school, Durham Elementary was just awarded the 2014 California distinguished school award.
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Zircon is often confused with cubic zircona, and while these two materials may sound similar in name, that's where the similarity ends. Since the late 1970s, cubic zircona has become a household name. Cubic zircona is zirconium oxide (ZrO2), a mineral which is synthesised for use as a diamond simulant. Cubic zirconia has been used in the jewellery trade as an alternative to diamond. Its popularity grew quickly due to its incredible likeness to diamond in terms of its hardness, optically flawless colourless appearance and, perhaps most importantly, its low cost. Cubic zircona enabled those who might not normally be able to afford to buy diamond jewellery the opportunity to own a piece containing a simulated gemstone that looked and felt almost as good as the real thing. Cubic zircona also became popular with people who already owned high end diamond jewellery but who preferred not to wear it all the time, either for security reasons or because they felt it was too good or too valuable to wear all day, every day.
Zircon, unlike cubic zircona, has been around for many years. The zircon mineral deposit found in Western Australia has been dated back 4.4 billion years, making it the oldest, datable mineral on Earth. As a gemstone, and prior to the introduction of cubic zircona, zircon was considered by many to be the closest, most affordable alternative to diamond, due to its similar features, most notably its brilliance and fiery appearance when cut and polished. While not as strong as diamond (zircon is 7.5 on the Mohs scale whereas diamond is 10), and heavier (a zircon gemstone with the same carat as diamond will be smaller than a diamond due to its denseness), zircon makes a brilliant addition to any piece of jewellery, either on its own or when set amongst other gemstones. Like diamond zircon has a high refractive index but, unlike diamond, zircon is doubly refractive, thus giving any piece of jewellery, whether an engagement ring, a necklace or earrings, the appearance of greater dazzle and sparkle.
Zircon gemstones can be found in many colours and hues, with each one giving off brilliant luminance. Zircons, which are red, brown, orange or yellow in colour, are known as Jacinth zircon. The pale or colourless variety of zircon is called Jargoon (colourless zircon is also known as a Matura Diamond). Zircon which is dazzling blue in tone is called Starlite.
Unlike cubic zircona, zircon deserves to be the centrepiece of any piece of jewellery, but since the late 1970s the popularity of this unique gemstone has waned somewhat. However, lately it is enjoying a resurgence, and deservedly so. If you are looking for a unique ring for that special proposal and want a gem that has the dazzle of diamond or the luminosity of sapphire, but perhaps at a slightly more affordable price, don't be quick to dismiss zircon purely on the basis of its name. If you take a moment to really look at this beautiful gemstone you will see that it deserves to be worn proudly on the third finger of the left hand or indeed as the centrepiece of any item of jewellery.


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Martin Luther King's Vision of the Beloved Community
by Kenneth L. Smith and Ira G. Zepp, Jr.
Dr. Smith is on the faculty at Colgate Rochester/Bexley Hall/Crozer in Rochester, New York. Dr. Zepp is dean of the chapel and assistant professor of religion at Western Maryland College.
This article is adapted from their book Search for the Beloved community: The Thinking of Martin Luther King. Jr. (Copyright © 1974 by Judson Press, Valley forge, Pennsylvania.) This article appeared in the Christian Century, April 3, 1974, pp. 361-363. Copyright by The Christian Century Foundation; used by permission. Current articles and subscription information can be found at www.christiancentury.org. This material was prepared for Religion Online by Ted and Winnie Brock.
King believed that a community of love, justice and solidarity would eventually be actualized. That is why he worked unceasingly for the realization of his dream.
Central to the thinking of Martin Luther King was the concept of the "Beloved Community." Liberalism and personalism provided its theological and philosophical foundations, and nonviolence the means to attain it. True, King's initial optimism about the possibility of actualizing that community in history was in time qualified by Reinhold Niebuhr's Christian realism. But the concept as such can be traced through all his speeches and writings, from the earliest to the last. In one of his first published articles he stated that the purpose of the Montgomery bus boycott "is reconciliation, . . . redemption, the creation of the beloved community." In 1957, writing in the newsletter of the newly formed Southern Christian Leadership Conference, he described the purpose and goal of that organization as follows: "The ultimate aim of SCLC is to foster and create the 'beloved community' in America where brotherhood is a reality. . . . SCLC works for integration. Our ultimate goal is genuine intergroup and interpersonal living -- integration." And in his last book he declared: "Our loyalties must transcend our race, our tribe, our class, and our nation . . ."
King's was a vision of a completely integrated society, a community of love and justice wherein brotherhood would be an actuality in all of social life. In his mind, such a community would be the ideal corporate expression of the Christian faith.
A Vision of Total Relatedness
Integration, as King understood it, is much more inclusive and positive than desegregation. Desegregation is essentially negative in that it eliminates discrimination against blacks in public accommodations, education, housing and employment -- in those aspects of social life that can be corrected by laws. Integration, however, is "the positive acceptance of desegregation and the welcomed participation of Negroes in the total range of human activities." But King did not believe that the transition from desegregation to integration would be inevitable or automatic. Whereas desegregation can be brought about by laws, integration requires a change in attitudes. It involves personal and social relationships that are created by love -- and these cannot be legislated. Once segregation has been abolished and desegregation accomplished, blacks and whites will have to learn to relate to each other across those nonrational, psychological barriers which have traditionally separated them in our society. All of us will have to become color blind. As King said, desegregation will only produce "a society where men are physically desegregated and spiritually segregated, where elbows are together and hearts apart. It gives us social togetherness and spiritual apartness. It leaves us with a stagnant equality of sameness rather than a constructive equality of oneness." But integration will bring in an entirely different kind of society whose character is best summed up in the phrase "Black and White Together" -- the title of one of the chapters of Why We Can't Wait and the theme of one stanza of the civil rights movement's hymn "We Shall Overcome." Integration will enlarge "the concept of brotherhood to a vision of total interrelatedness."
Behind King's conception of the Beloved Community lay his assumption that human existence is social in nature. "The solidarity of the human family" is a phrase he frequently used to express this idea. "We are tied together in the single garment of destiny, caught in an inescapable network of mutuality," he said in one of his addresses. This was a way of affirming that reality is made up of structures that form an interrelated whole; in other words, that human beings are dependent upon each other. Whatever a person is or possesses he owes to others who have preceded him. As King wrote: "Whether we realize it or not, each of us lives eternally 'in the red.' " Recognition of one's indebtedness to past generations should inhibit the sense of self-sufficiency and promote awareness that personal growth cannot take place apart from meaningful relationships with other persons, that the "I" cannot attain fulfillment without the "Thou."
King saw the participants in the civil rights movement as representing the Beloved Community in microcosm. The people who attended the movement's mass meetings and rallies, joined in its demonstrations, and supported its aims in many other ways came from every section of American society. The educated and the illiterate, the affluent and the welfare recipient, white and black -- men and women who heretofore had been separated by rigid social and legal codes were brought together in a common cause. Indeed, since King wanted to make the base of the movement as broad as possible, he frequently called upon whites for help in his various campaigns.
Justice for Everyone
After the March to Montgomery in the spring of 1966, several thousand marchers were delayed at the airport because their planes were late. As King tells it, he was deeply impressed by the heterogeneity yet the obvious unity of the crowd:
As I stood with them and saw white and Negro, nuns and priests, ministers and rabbis, labor organizers, lawyers, doctors, housemaids and shopworkers brimming with vitality and enjoying a rare comradeship, I knew I was seeing a microcosm of the mankind of the future in this moment of luminous and genuine brotherhood [Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? (Harper & Row, 1967)' p. 9]
In King's view, the interrelatedness of human existence means that "injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." He believed that denial of constitutional rights to anyone potentially violates the rights of all. It is the entire national community that is the victim of electric cattle prods and biting police dogs. Discrimination against 10 per cent of our population weakens the whole social fabric. Race and poverty are not merely sectional problems but American problems. It follows that the liberation of black people will also mean the emancipation of white people. King took seriously the indivisibility of human existence. "In a real sense," he wrote, "all life is interrelated. The agony of the poor enriches the rich. We are inevitably our brother's keeper because we are our brother's brother. Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly" (ibid., p. 181).
His approach to human existence led King to believe that in seeking to eliminate racial injustice, the civil rights movement was making a far larger contribution to the national life. Integration is usually associated solely with the struggle for racial equality, but King conceived of it in a much broader way. He envisioned a future society in which persons would not be malformed as a result of racial hatred or economic exploitation. That is, King was not concerned about justice for blacks as opposed to justice for whites; he was concerned about justice for everyone. And he made perfectly clear what he meant by that:
Let us be dissatisfied until rat-infested, vermin-filled slums will be a thing of a dark past and every family will have a decent sanitary house in which to live. Let us be dissatisfied until the empty stomachs of Mississippi are filled and the idle industries of Appalachia are revitalized. . . . Let us be dissatisfied until our brothers of the Third World of Asia, Africa and Latin America will no longer be the victims of imperialist exploitation, but will be lifted from the long night of poverty, illiteracy and disease ["Honoring Dr. Du Bois," in Freedomways, VIII, s (Spring 1968), pp. 110-111].
Plainly, King's vision of justice included all the world's poor -- blacks, whites, browns and reds: North and South Americans, Africans, Asians and Europeans. Economic justice, he held, is a right of the entire human race. He was aware too that securing this right for all would require elimination of the structures of economic injustice characteristic of capitalism.
Alleviating Economic Inequity
King's views on this entire question grew out of his early championship of an egalitarian, socialistic approach to wealth and property. "A life," he wrote, "is sacred. Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on; it is not man." He repeatedly condemned the United States' economic system for withholding the necessities of life from the masses while heaping luxuries on the few. One of our major goals, he declared, should be to bridge the gap between abject poverty and inordinate wealth. To this end he began, during the latter part of his life, to advocate a variety of economic programs, including the creation of jobs by government and the institution of a guaranteed annual minimal income. He was impatient with phrases like "human dignity"' and "brotherhood of man" when they did not find concrete expression in the structures of society.
The point is that King believed it was God's intention that everyone should have the physical and spiritual necessities of life. He could not envision the Beloved Community apart from the alleviation of economic inequity and the achievement of economic justice. Harvey Cox has aptly pointed out that King combined with this emphasis two traditional biblical themes: the "holiness of the poor" and the "blessed community." In the movement King led, blacks were the embodiment of "the poor" and integration represented the vision of "the holy community." Cox explains:
It is . . . essential to notice that the two elements, the holy outcast and the blessed community, must go together. Without the vision of restored community, the holiness ascribed to the poor would fall far short of politics and result in a mere perpetuation of charity and service activities'' [On Not Leaving It to the Snake (Macmillan, 1967). P. 133].
Pilgrimage to the Promised Land
In speaking about the possibility of actualizing the Beloved community in history, King attempted to avoid what he called "a superficial optimism" upon the on hand, and "a crippling pessimism" on the other. He knew that the solution of social problems is a slow process. At the same time, he was confident that, through God's help and human effort, social progress could be made. He said in a definitive passage:
Although man's moral pilgrimage may never reach a destination point on earth, his never-ceasing strivings may bring him ever closer to the city of righteousness. And though the Kingdom of god may remain not yet as universal reality in history, in the present it may exist in such isolated forms as in judgment, in personal devotion, and in some group life. . . . Above all, we must be reminded anew that God is at work in his universe. lie is hot outside the world looking on within a. son of cold indifference. . . . As we struggle to defeat the forces of evil, the God of the universe struggles with us. Evil dies on the seashore, not merely because of man's endless struggle against it, but because of God's power to defeat it [Struggle to Love (Harper & Row, 1961). p. 64].
Thus, though acutely aware that the Beloved Community is "not yet," but in the future -- perhaps even the distant future -- Martin Luther King believed that it would eventually be actualized, and already lie saw approximations of it. That is why he worked unceasingly for the realization of his dream and never lost hope that "there will be a great camp meeting in the promised land' His hope was rooted in his faith in the power of God to achieve his purpose among humankind within history.
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I had the wonderful opportunity to be on The Steve Katsos show twice this season, once as myself (actress and filmmaker) and once with my band, Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling!
ARLINGTON, MA – The Steve Katsos Show returns to commercial broadcast television in Boston on WBIN this Sunday, September 28 at 2 AM. The program is produced by volunteers at Arlington Community Media, Incorporated that want to help creative people get their art, comedy, and music out to the world. To date, the show has aired in over 15 countries on television and has featured more than 200 New England artists.
The Steve Katsos Show has content on Livestream, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and iTunes. A full list of performing artists and previous guests can be found at stevekatsos.com. The program has expanded to over 32 cable channels domestically, satellite TV in the UK, and broadcast television in Australia and New Zealand.
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DIXON - The Freeport Aquin girls basketball team rallied from a slow start to earn a 53-44 win over Rochelle in Friday's action at the Dixon Tournament.
Rochelle led 24-18 at halftime, but Aquin outscored the Hubs 21-9 in the third quarter to forge a 39-33 advantage.
Haley Chang scored a game-high 25 points to lead the Bulldogs. Rochelle's Lauren Murphy and Marin Meiners each scored 11 points.
Kaneland 45, Aquin 28: Kaneland's defense limited Aquin to no double-digit scorers. Katie Stykel led the Bulldogs with eight points.
Rockford Christian 49, West Carroll 19: The Royals jumped out to a 15-5 first quarter lead en route to a dominating win. Alexis Lanquist and Jayla Penny each had 13 points for Rockford Christian.
Aiden Chang had 18 points for Aquin, and Trevor Otten had 18 for Oregon.
Normal West 55, Freeport 44: Normal overcame 13 turnovers to earn the win over the Pretzels. DeJuan Jones had 16 points for Freeport.


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Skeeters to launch four-team indy league at Constellation Field for 2020
By Kevin Reichard on June 10, 2020 in Independent Baseball, News
The Sugar Land Skeeters (independent; Atlantic League) will run their own four-team independent baseball league at Constellation Field for 2020, beginning July 3 and running for 56 games through Aug. 23. (more…)
New Constellation Field Videoboard on Tap
By Ballpark Digest Editors on January 21, 2020 in Independent Baseball, News
The Sugar Land Skeeters (independent; Atlantic League) will install a new LED videoboard at Constellation Field, marking a notable upgrade for the 2020 season. The Skeeters will also be installing a new ribbon video board in left field. (more…)
Take a Look at Sugar Land's All-Drone Broadcast
By Ballpark Digest Editors on September 22, 2019 in Independent Baseball, Tech
Today saw an interesting first in the world of baseball, as the Sugar Land Skeeters (independent; Atlantic League) featured an all-drone broadcast from Constellation Field to wrap up the regular season. (more…)
Skeeters to Stage All-Drone Broadcast September 22
By Ballpark Digest Editors on September 3, 2019 in Independent Baseball, Tech
The Sugar Land Skeeters (independent; Atlantic League) will attempt to use footage captured strictly by drones for their regular-season finale broadcast, scheduled for September 22. (more…)
Sugar Land Skeeters Unveil Sport Court of Texas
By Ballpark Digest Editors on June 29, 2018 in Independent Baseball, News
The Sugar Land Skeeters (independent; Atlantic League) have unveiled Sport Court of Texas, a new amenity at Constellation Field. According to an announcement from the team, Constellation Field is the only ballpark in the Atlantic League with a sport court. (more…)
Rugby Club Finds Temporary Home at Constellation Field
By Zach Spedden on January 22, 2018 in Independent Baseball, News
While the club will eventually move to another venue, rugby's Houston SaberCats are getting acclimated to Constellation Field, home of the Sugar Land Skeeters (independent; Atlantic League). (more…)
Sporting Painted Cleats, Skeeters Break Attendance Record
By Zach Spedden on July 7, 2016 in Independent Baseball, News
There is another attendance record to note from the Fourth of July, as the Sugar Land Skeeters (independent; Atlantic League) shattered their previous high mark. (more…)
Sugar Land Skeeters sold to Zlotniks
By Kevin Reichard on November 3, 2014 in Independent Baseball, News
The Sugar Land Skeeters (independent; Atlantic League) have been sold to minority owners Bob and Marcie Zlotnik, though Opening Day Partners will continue to be responsible for lease payments on Constellation Field. (more…)
Skeeters awarded 2014 Atlantic League ASG
By Kevin Reichard on July 15, 2013 in Independent Baseball, News
Live today from the Fox Valley Stadium press box today, so postings will be minimal. First off: the Sugar Land Skeeters are hosting the 2014 Atlantic League All-Star Game. "We are delighted for Sugar Land to be awarded the 2014 All-Star Game," said Opening Day Partners President and Chief Operating Officer Jon Danos. "The quality […]
Clemens to stick with Skeeters for one more start
By Kevin Reichard on August 30, 2012 in Features, Independent Baseball
The party goes on: Roger Clemens will stay with the Sugar Land Skeeters (independent; Atlantic League) and travel with the team to York before starting at home Sept. 7. Clemens, 50, will face the Long Island Ducks at Constellation Field in Sugar Land on September 7. The right-hander pitched his first professional game in five […]
Skeeters sell naming rights to club level
By Kevin Reichard on August 2, 2012 in Features, Independent Baseball
The Sugar Land Skeeters (independent; Atlantic League) announced today a new five-year agreement with Insperity for naming rights sponsorship of the Sky Box and Club Level at Constellation Field. Effective immediately, the Sky Box and Club Level will be known as the Insperity Club Level, and the former Legends Club has now become the Insperity […]
Retro bullpen cart a hit in Sugar Land
By Kevin Reichard on May 27, 2012 in Features, Independent Baseball
It's proven to be a scene-stealer: the retro bullpen cart employed by the Sugar Land Skeeters (independent; Atlantic League) has proven to be a big hit with fans. All in all, Constellation Field has been a success this year, as Peter Kirk and crew have brought their fan-friendly operations to Texas. One big piece of […]
Skeeters to launch Constellation Field tonight
By Kevin Reichard on April 26, 2012 in Independent Baseball, News
Peter Kirk tells us Constellation Field is the most spectacular ballpark he's opened, and we're guessing Sugar Land Skeeters (independent; Atlantic League) fans will concur at tonight's opening. Kirk is an expert at new-ballpark openings: he's launched 15 over the years, both in affiliated ball and independent ball. In recent years there's been a certain […]


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Leaving the world of partisan politics, what this does expose is just how much Christians are the "away team" in this current cultural moment. The "home team" gets all the calls. The refs whistles are always a little bit faster for the home team, and that home team player always gets that extra half step on the way to the bucket. Christians need to get used to identifying trap questions and need to so understand their own beliefs such that they can explain them sympathetically to "away team" refs. The away team doesn't decide not to show up. Christians don't withdraw, but we need to be smarter and more practiced to win. If you can't turn the why questions back to Jesus, then the next best strategy is probably to emulate God and just not answer theodicy's "whys". They aren't answerable outside of Christ.
Here are a few other's on the same subject: Douthat, fellow LCMS'er Molly Hemingway, and the parallel universe of questions that would be asked if Christian's were the home team.


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'Uri' has been the most physically demanding film: Vicky Kaushal
Published on : Sun 07th October 2018, 10:58 AM
Mumbai, Oct 7 (IANS) Actor Vicky Kaushal, who is gearing up for the release of his forthcoming film "Uri" has said that it is the most physically demanding film for him until now.
Vicky was interacting with the media at Elle Beauty Awards 2018 where he won the "Breakthrough Star Award" on Saturday here.
The teaser of "Uri" received an overwhelming response from the audience. When about his experience of working in "Uri", Vicky said: "It was really nice experience to work in the film. In a short span of my of career, 'Uri' has been the most physically demanding film for me and I am very excited because after the teaser, the trailer of the film will also release. I am very excited to know audience reaction to the film."
Vicky will be seen playing the role of an Indian commando who is involved in the 2016 surgical strike.
Regarding his role, the actor said: "When you play the role of a commando onscreen, you feel that we are the real heroes. In our effort to portraying their character, we get exhausted but they are living their lives like that on a daily basis so hats off to them and it's not easy what they are doing."
Reacting on the Tanushree Dutta and Nana Patekar controversy, Vicky said: "I think any kind of disrespect or harassment at workplace or anywhere is not a correct thing to do. If someone comes out in the open to share his or her ordeal then the least we can do is to listen to what they are saying and to respect them because it is not easy to express such kind of issue in front of the world.
"It is also important to listen to both the accuser and the accused. When such kind of serious cases occur, then it has to be investigated in proper manner."
Based on the surgical strikes of 2016 carried by the Indian Armed Forces, "Uri" traces the significant event.
It stars Vicky Kaushal, Yami Gautam, Kirti Kulhari and Paresh Rawal in lead roles.
Produced by RSVP movies and directed by Aditya Dhar, "Uri" will hit the theatres on January 11, 2019.
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Gina Reales: "In Chocó, Colombia, COVID-19 is a humanitarian crisis"
Gina Reales, a social leader from Quibdó (department of Chocó, Colombia), fights day in and day out to improve the harsh reality of her community. This is her testimony.
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Gina Reales
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Gina's testimony:
My life, my childhood, began in Chocó. I was born in Quibdó, but since my father is a teacher, I lived in different places, including Antioquia, Atlántico, and Apartadó departments, where I was able to interact with and learn from different cultures. It is easier for me to relate to people, to be more empathetic, because I understand different cultures.
My mother did not study; my father did, so I got the urge to study from him, someone committed to training himself and to being the best teacher. He studied chemistry and biology and was one of the best teachers at El Carrasquilla, one of the best known centers in Quibdó.
Although my mother did not study, she always instilled in me the desire to study. If I didn't do my homework, she would spank me, and I couldn't get up from the table until I finished it. Even if she couldn't understand anything, she always pushed me to study.
On my mother's side, my childhood was always surrounded by scarcity. My mother lived off what my stepfather gave her. Although we always lived with very little – there were times when we ate once a day –, it became normal. Today, when I forget to eat for whatever reason, I don't feel like "I'm going to die"; it's normal. And it's because my body adapted to that. However, I know that I must eat and that it is unhealthy not to eat properly. Although I had many material needs, I always knew that I had to study and get ahead.
I knew I had to attend university, and I studied social sciences. I paid for it, because my parents didn't have the means. In addition to studying, I did writing jobs for my classmates and sold magazines, clothes, watches, which is how I managed to pay for my studies until I graduated. This is where I started doing social work, during my last undergraduate years.
Leading to move forward
From a very young age, I participated in social issues to help my community. When I was finishing university, I came across a foundation called "Chocó Joven" in Quibdó, where I officially started this career in social work. I volunteered in a project in which we worked with kids from the outskirts of the city in dangerous and violent neighborhoods, giving them training in good values and life projects that would give them a chance a at successful life.
Then I went on to work in a government program called "United Strategy", whose focus was to work to help improve the quality of life of families in Quibdó and in the Chocó townships, where we had to spent 12 or 14 hours on boat to reach the families. The program's goal was to help them meet 45 objectives, ranging from education, access to health, food and things like that. We also gave them groceries and made sure that the children could go to school.
After that, I finished my undergraduate degree and came to Medellín. With some savings I had from my work, I earned my master's degree in international relations, and I started working at the Center for Science and Technology, where I was an advisor to the Ondas program, which advised research on educational projects. Then I worked at Metrosalud, in a project on schools to train young people on healthy lifestyles, planning, life projects; everything you need to know to have a healthy and successful life.
Gina dictando uno de sus talleres. | Archivo personal.
When I finished my master's degree, I returned to Quibdó. The conditions in which I lived as a child stayed with me. If I hadn't had in mind what I wanted to be, I couldn't have done it. I was the first professional in my family because I wanted to, because the context of my childhood was not enough for that. It was adverse. But education is the way out.
Where there is hunger, there is violence
In Chocó, I became the leader of alliances for the management of financing sources for educational projects in the Ministry of Education and then I went to the Governors Office to do the same. I have always changed jobs because I want to dedicate my life to social issues. I want to articulate ideas, actors, and local initiatives because in Chocó we stuck in the rhetoric of "we have to, we have to, we have to...", but we do not act.
Niño de Quibdó se tapa la cara. | Archivo personal.
Now I am at the United Nations as a territorial advisor for the SAM Strategy, where I work to offer food and nutritional security for Chocó. This is a huge issue with the pandemic. It was recently understood that where there is conflict, there is hunger, and vice versa. So, if we want to fight the conflict, we have to fight hunger, but by helping people do it by their own means.
As a woman, I have faced many types of violence. During my studies all over Colombia, I lived in a municipality called Valdivia, where clashes between armed groups were daily occurrences. When we heard the bullets, we threw ourselves on the ground and waited. Nobody came to help us. In my innocence, I did not understand the magnitude of these situations. I normalized them. I thought that violence was normal, which is not the case.
Later, in the municipality of Ciudad Bolívar, township of Alfonso López San Gregorio district in Antioquia, I also lived with the paramilitaries. We literally lived with them and saw how people disappeared, we had a curfew and they shot someone every day: neighbor, friend, relative. When you live like this, a piece of you dies, goes out. The tool to combat this is, again, education.
Chocó, no man's land
In my life, because of my community work, I have been threatened several times. I think my job is not even halfway done. I think that many people in Chocó live with the same needs that I lived with as a child: I had to carry buckets of water or bathe in the rain. I didn't have a bathroom or a toilet in my house and that's how more than 70% of the population lives here.
Sometimes we feel that, in Chocó, due to the abysmal differences compared to other parts of the country, we are not even part of Colombia. Here, the Peace Agreement did not mean much. So far in 2020, there have been more than 100 deaths in Quibdó, and in the lower Baudó, they are displacing and threatening people. And if people can't go out to farm, they can't eat. It is tremendous. The issue of COVID-19 is not experienced as a public health crisis, but as a humanitarian crisis, because people are at home, locked up, with nothing to eat.
El malecón en Quibdó. | Archivo personal.
Here, more than 70% of the jobs are informal. Quarantining means not being able to survive. And the government has not provided anything. The truth is, it is as if we were in a different Colombia. It is the same problem with the Peace Agreement: it works in the urban center, in the government, but not in the territories.
Now everything is worse. There is the issue of reintegrating ex-combatants. They are being brought back to "normal life", but they are given no guarantees as they attempt to return to civil life. They are getting killed. The Pacific is where more slayings of social leaders have occurred because of the drug trafficking routes. It is time to review the guarantees because they have remained on paper.
For now, I continue to educate myself and work – hidden from sight, yes – so that no one has to live like I did.
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The cars total up to 30,000.
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Members of a local running group recently attended a workshop at Sutcliffe Park in London to learn how to include blind and visually impaired runners in their sessions or to become guide runners.
Experienced Belgrave Harriers coach Chris Husbands led a fantastic session which culminated in the opportunity for the leaders and runners to try out their new skills on each other, with the aid of blindfolds, on the track.
The second part of the workshop was a practical session in the park, led by Claire Riddell, Run England group leader for the Sutcliffe Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday groups – to which local blind and visually impaired runners were invited.
All of the group leaders and guide runners were very grateful to the runners who attended and agreed to be 'guinea pigs'. One blind runner was delighted to have the opportunity to run outdoors instead of on a treadmill.
The blind and visually impaired runners are now joining inclusive Run England groups and a list of inclusive groups and clubs which will have guide runners and parkruns where a guide runner will be available, is being put together.
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