In his final year at MU Travis averaged 17.8 ppg. and 7.6 rpg..
In his junior year at Xavier came mainly off the bench to average 4.5 ppg.
This past season mainly as a starter averaged 11.9 ppg. and 9.0 rpg.


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The emotional roller coaster captured on Twitter can predict the ups and downs of the stock market, a new study finds. Measuring how calm the Twitterverse is on a given day can foretell the direction of changes to the Dow Jones Industrial Average three days later with an accuracy of 86.7 percent.
"We were pretty astonished that this actually worked," said computational social scientist Johan Bollen of Indiana University-Bloomington. The new results appear in a paper on the arXiv.org preprint server.
Bollen and grad student Huina Mao stumbled on this computational crystal ball almost by accident. Earlier studies had found that blogs can be used to gauge public mood, and that tweets about movies can predict box office sales. An open source mood-tracking tool called OpenFinder sorts tweets into positive and negative bins based on emotionally charged words.
But Bollen wanted to build a more nuanced emotional barometer. He used a standard psychology tool called the Profile of Mood States, a quick questionnaire that is used frequently in pharmaceutical research or sports medicine.
The original questionnaire asks people to rate how closely their feelings match 72 different adjectives, including "friendly," "peeved," "active," "on edge" and "panicky," and uses the responses to measure mood along six dimensions: calmness, alertness, sureness, vitality, kindness and happiness.
Bollen and colleagues checked a huge Google database to see what other words are commonly used in conjunction with the original 72 adjectives, and added those words to their lexicon. Then the researchers took 9.8 million tweets from 2.7 million tweeters between February and December 2008, selected the tweets that indicated a confession of emotion (tweets that included the words "I feel" or "I'm feeling," for instance), and ran the test on the entire data set.
"We're using Twitter like a psychiatric patient," Bollen said. "This allows us to measure the mood of the public over these six different mood states."
As a sanity check, the researchers looked at the public mood on some easily-predictable days, like Election Day 2008 and Thanksgiving. The results were as expected: Twitter was anxious the day before the election, and much calmer, happier and kinder on Election Day itself, though all returned to normal by Nov. 5. On Thanksgiving, Twitter's "Happy" score spiked.
Then, just to see what would happen, Mao compared the national mood to the Dow Jones Industrial Average. She found that one emotion, calmness, lined up surprisingly well with the rises and falls of the stock market – but three or four days in advance.
"I sank into my chair. That's a pretty big result," Bollen said. "It was one of those 'Eureka!' moments."
But this surprising correlation said nothing about whether Twitter could be used to tell the future. To test that idea, the researchers trained a machine-learning algorithm to predict whether the stock market would go up or down, first using only the Dow Jones Industrial Average from the past three days, then including emotional data.
The algorithm did pretty well using stock market data alone, predicting the shape of the stock market with 73.3 percent accuracy. But it did even better when the emotional information was added, reaching up to 86.7 percent accuracy.
"Including this mood information leads to higher accuracy," Bollen said. He stressed that their algorithm is highly simplified, and not the best stock market predictor anyone could come up with. But "we're presuming on the basis of what we found, if you have some kind of super-duper algorithm and you add our time series, its accuracy will go up, as well."
The fact that Twitter mood could predict the stock market's movements even in the middle of 2008 is also significant, Bollen added.
"This was probably one of the most difficult periods to predict," he said. "We had a presidential election, we had what looked to be financial Armageddon, we had the start of what has been the deepest and greatest recession since the 1930s… If our algorithm was able to predict Dow Jones Industrial Average in that period, we figured that may establish some kind of lower baseline. It could do a lot better in other periods of time."
But why does it work? "The short answer is, we don't know," Bollen said. It's reasonable to assume that people's moods will have some effect on their investments, he says, but more research is needed to figure out exactly how.
"It's a pretty interesting result," commented computer scientist Sitaram Asur of HP Labs. But even though the correlation is there, Asur is reluctant to believe that the moods captured on Twitter can cause the stock market to change. Not everyone on Twitter plays the stock market, he notes, or even lives in the United States. And he would like to see the algorithm used on tweets from a wider span of time.
"If it is true, if we can actually find this correlation to be consistent, that will be a very important result," he said. "But right now, I would be cautious about saying how important this is."
Bollen agrees that the result has some shortcomings. "We need to expand this," he said. The next step, he said, is to "put some of our money where our mouths are, and try to do this in real time."


Dearly loved husband of Doreen (dec). Loving father of Sue, Shayne and Chris. Special granddad to Nick, Charlotte, Tom and Joe, and step granddad to Aina, Erik Jacquii and Adam.
A Memorial Service to be held in Canberra will be announced at a later date.


Not even Fox & Friends cohost Rachel Campos-Duffy could come up with a credential to present vloggers “Diamond and Silk” as experts on immigration, national security, the caravan of migrants and Donald Trump’s border wall. But all three cohosts acted as though the duo provided intelligent analysis – even as they once again displayed their indifference to the truth.
Of course, Campos-Duffy didn’t mention that the troops will be leaving the border just as some of the migrants are beginning to arrive. Nor did she mention that the cost of this deployment is estimated at $72 million.
But hey, money is no object when it comes to propping up Dear Leader Trump – even if you can’t manage to report truthfully at the same time.
But hey, facts are no object compared to propping up Dear Leader.
So when Hardaway said, “How about they fund the wall?” cohost Steve Doocy prompted for more. “He [Trump] ran on building the wall and Congress has not helped him out,” Doocy prodded.
FACT CHECK: Trump ran on building the wall and having Mexico pay for it. It’s an important detail the cohosts conveniently forgot. The “social media stars” either forgot, too, or never knew in the first place.
“Well, hey, he have to do what he have to do,” “Diamond” Hardaway said. Proving that her command of grammar matches her command of facts.
“When you see people headed to our country and telling us that they’re gonna cross our borders illegally … and, like, they can roam in our country, they’re not gonna be roaming in the Kamilla [sic] Harris’ and the Nancy Pelosis’ neighborhood, they’re gonna throw these people in the hood with other people and there’s gonna be all of this bickering back and forth. We can’t let that happen,” Hardaway continued.
“Why is she even a senator?” Hardaway asked about Harris. Of course, the answer is because she was elected. But Campos-Duffy was too eager to start the War on Christmas to honor our system of democracy.
“I see you have a CHRISTMAS tree,” Campos-Duffy said pointedly and with enthusiasm.
And before long, the duo got a chance to plug their online store.
“A black Friday deal? Alright!” cohost Griff Jenkins gushed.
Watch this abomination put forward as “news analysis” below, from the November 23, 2018 Fox & Friends.
There is no lower being than a collaborator who happily sells out his or her own people for filthy lucre, fame (or infamy), or just to ingratiate him or herself with the ‘massa’. These two deliberately play the part of brainless negroes to reinforce the prejudices and bigotry of the despicable racists who make up Fox’s base.
I trust they will never be forgiven.
But this is Trump’s base. With the obvious exception his base is mostly white. We’re talking ignorant but strong in their uninformed opinions.
I’ll bet that the Fox base of racists, Nazi’s and homophobic morons can’t wait to get to the Diamond & Silk store so they can buy one of these handsome coffee mugs for $25!
One out of every three Trump supporters are as dumb as the other two!


Overall, the NIC-10 coaches do a great job. One coach, Dan Appino of Boylan, has won more consecutive football games in the conference than any other coach.
Overall, the NIC-10 coaches do a great job.
One coach, Dan Appino of Boylan, has won more consecutive football games in the conference than any other coach.
He handily defeated the second-best team in the conference.
He led his team to the state playoffs and continued to win, resulting in their 2010 state football championship.
Six of his players have signed letters of intent with various colleges to continue their football careers.
Why wasn’t he qualified by his fellow coaches to be voted Conference Football Coach of the Year?


“Nearly every year, it seems we have deer showing up minus their heads at the end of seasons,” Craig Gunderson, a senior trooper with the Oregon State Patrol, recently told the Seattle Times. Authorities believed the mutilated animals might be the work of poachers, so in November 2016 they fixed motion-triggered cameras in the national forest near The Dalles, Ore., smack on the Washington state line.
The footage troopers caught would prove to be the first clue to uncovering what officials now say was a loosely linked poaching ring responsible for the illegal brutal slaughter of hundreds of animals in Washington and Oregon. The sheer size of the animal body count involved has shocked wildlife officials, in part because of the wantonness driving the rampant killing.
“It’s one of the biggest cases, if not the biggest case I’ve been involved with, and Washington has the same stance, based on the number of people involved and the number of illegally taken animals,” Tim Schwartz, a lieutenant in the Oregon State Police Fish and Wildlife Division, told KOIN 6.
In the end, it was not just the camera footage from the forest that helped investigators unravel the alleged ring but pictures and videos saved on the suspects’ own cellphones. According to the Times, investigators found dozens of images detailing the poachers’ work, including videos of pack dogs running down and gnawing on bears, the suspects posing with the dead carcasses of elk, and the hunters splattered in the blood of recent kills. Between the two states, 17 people have been charged with more than 200 misdemeanors and felonies. None of the accused has publicly commented on the charges.
On Dec. 3, Oregon troopers spotted the truck and pulled it over. The two men inside — William J. Haynes and Erik C. Martin — admitted to killing two bucks and taking the heads back to Washington, the Times reported. When authorities searched Haynes’s home, they found a freshly cut deer head in the garage and 12 additional heads in the back yard, some in plastic bags, some rotting with maggots. In total, officials confiscated 27 deer heads from the property, according to the paper.
Evidence on the suspects’ phone would point investigators to at least 20 kill sites in the wilderness where illegal poaching had taken place. Text messages showed the suspects had planned out their illegal hunts and reveled in the opportunity, authorities say.
“You ready to kill everything?!” one alleged poacher texted another in November 2015, according to investigators.
Haynes and Martin were among the 11 defendants charged this week in Wasco County, Ore., with misdemeanors related to the poaching, according to KOIN 6. They have yet to enter a plea in the case, and it is unclear whether they have attorneys. Charges related to the ring have also been filed in Washington counties. So far, two of the 17 defendants have pleaded guilty to hunting-related violations, the Times reported.
“For some, it was about ego and bravado — who could kill the biggest, the most,” Gunderson said to the Times.


Why are extreme sports so popular? One of the reasons may be that people love activities that are a little bit dangerous but that also provide some ultra-connection with the surrounding environment and a shock of adrenaline.
Though not a 'sport', fixed gear bikes could fit in that area. As you cannot coast with them, you're pretty much pedaling all the time and therefore accelerating, so the bikes can get fast (and no kidding they're fast, they can even beat a helicopter!). You also have a better feel of the road and of how much traction you are getting. Many people even leave the brakes out for extra fun, so the only way to stop is forcing the pedals (not something we recommend).
These things, some claim, create a sort of ultra connection to the road and a rush. Or perhaps "it's a zen thing" as Bike Snob NY joked some time ago.
Images: Paula Alvarado & Screen Capture BerlinFixed.blogspot.com.
Even if there was a whole cult around fixed gear bikes before they became popular to new public, as the trend grows, so does the merchandise, media, and culture around them. More blogs, books, and magazines, to name some, come up and retro-feed the cycle by encouraging the cult.
And let's face it: it's fun to be a part of some sort of club. This certainly adds up to why fixies continue to draw people.
Finally, let's just say it: fixed gear bikes are so hot right now because they're in fashion, and some people are always looking for the next big thing.
But as we know, some trends come and go in a minute, and others find a way to stick around and create a whole industry around them.
Will the fixie stay? What do you think?
Bonus: Find out if fixies are right for you!
Should Fixed-Gear Bikes Be Allowed on the Road?


I don’t know about you but Donald Trump’s declaration that he may not concede an unfavorable election outcome is extremely disturbing to me.
None of the commentary by politicians and pundits which I’ve heard mentions my primary concern; the potential for violent reaction which such a psychopath’s inability to accept reality might foment among his most rabid supporters.
public transportation while living and working in open, less sheltered environments.
in San Bernadino, Orlando, Boston, Sandy Hook and Manhattan’s Chelsea section.
Donald Trump didn’t need to utter the word “rigged” during the third debate; his earlier accusation undermining the upcoming election and many messages of hate --anti-Black, anti-women, anti-Muslim, anti-immigrants -- are solidly embedded in the national conversation.
Combine his charge of a “rigged election,” with his insane demands for “crooked” Hillary’s arrest and prosecution and, his avid support of a loosely interpreted second amendment, then it's clear Trump has concocted a potent recipe sure to incite some of his fellow sufferers of mental illness to commit twisted acts of vengeance if he loses.
With his threat to keep us "in suspense” Trump has turned the nation's most important political process into a reality television segment; a phenomenon which routinely ends in acts of mayhem.
Unless this poisonous message Trump has disseminated is strongly condemned, repudiated and countered by politicians and media pundits post-election violence resulting in deaths will occur.


Samsung Vs Apple: Galaxy S6 maker back on top despite record iPhone 6 sales | City A.M.
Apple may have had another incredible quarter with the huge success of the new iPhone 6, but Samsung managed to steal back the much sought after smartphone crown from the world's biggest company.
Samsung recaptured the title of the world's largest seller of smartphones by volume, shipping 83.2m devices in the first quarter of the year, versus Apple's 61.2m.
In market share terms, Samsung accounted for 24 per cent and Apple 17.7 per cent as the South Korean firm managed to stabilise its performance globally - despite challenges in Asia and elsewhere - helping it leapfrog rival Apple.
Samsung and Apple were in a dead heat in the previous quarter, having each shipped 74.5m smartphones and accounting for a 19.6 per cent share each, according to research by Strategy Analytics.
Samsung may have won this battle, but Apple is winning the war.
The Korean electronics giant which makes everything from TVs to fridges in addition to smartphones, saw profit declined 31 per cent in the first quarter of 2015, though that was a more moderated decline than expected. It has faced increasing competition from the growth of Chinese manufacturers such as Xiaomi, Huawei and HTC at the mid and low-priced end of the smartphone range over the past year.
In figures released today, the firm revealed the mobile and IT part of the business raked in 2.74tn won (£1.7bn), less than half of last year's 6.43tn won but better than the previous quarter's 1.96tn won. Samsung said it shipped more smartphones due to more mid to low-end product sales.
In the second quarter, it expects both smartphone and tablet demand to stagnate due to "continued weak seasonality," however its flagship new high-end handset, the Galaxy S6, is expected to boost earnings.
Apple meanwhile, with far fewer products to its name, increased revenue 27 per cent to $58bn (£38bn) in its second quarter it was revealed in another stunning set of results earlier this week.
The US tech giant is now worth $775bn (£503bn).


China’s embassy in Oslo denied on Thursday any involvement in a hacking attack on the Norwegian data and financial services firm Visma. It called the conclusions of an extensive investigation into the attack by both Norwegian and US experts “a cliché” that’s hardly worth responding to.
The embassy repeated earlier statements that Chinese authorities have never taken part in or supported others in stealing any form of commercial secrets. It also claimed that it’s been one of the world’s biggest victims of hacking attacks.
The Chinese further wrote in an email to NRK that the international community should engage in “dialogue and cooperation” in an effort to deal with threats against cyber security, in a spirit of mutual respect. It had earlier scoffed, however, at Norwegian police intelligence service PST’s warnings of cyber attacks backed by several nations including China, Russia and Iran, and possible risks of doing business with the Chinese company Huawei.


A federal government contractor that was paid more than $1 million to deliver e-security alert services to Australians has lost 8000 subscribers' personal information in the postal system.
AusCERT, which was paid $1,199,484.52 by the federal government to run staysmartonline.gov.au between April 29 2008 and April 29 2012*, lost subscribers' data after using Australia Post to send it on a DVD to the Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy (DBCDE) on April 11 when its contract to run the alerts service expired.
In an email to the site's 8000 subscribers sent at about 6pm on Friday, the "Stay Smart Online Team" said information that had "gone missing" on the DVD included subscribers' user names, email addresses, memorable phrases and passwords. It said passwords were "unreadable" (stored as a cryptographic hash).
The DBCDE claimed it had "no reason to believe" that subscribers' information had "been found and misused by any third party" and therefore did not believe that there was "a privacy risk".
But it did not provide any evidence to support this claim, and suggested subscribers "consider" whether they should change their "user name, memorable phrase and/or password for other websites or services".
The DBCDE said in a statement that AusCERT was responsible for the security of the subscriber data.
Neither the DBCDE or AusCERT has said whether registered post was used to deliver the data via Australia Post's "express post service" or why the data was not sent electronically. AusCERT refused to comment, saying media enquiries were being handled by the DBCDE.
Australia Post, however, said the disc containing subscriber's personal information sent by AusCERT to the DBCDE was not posted using registered post, which it recommended using for sending sensitive information.
"Despite the vast majority of the 20 million items that Australia Post delivers each day arriving safely and on time, we recognise there are isolated instances of lost or delayed mail," Australia Post said in a statement.
"We recommend customers who have important or valuable mail articles use our Registered Post service which requires a signature on delivery."
Geordie Guy, an "online rights and digital policy geek" who has previously worked for Electronic Frontiers Australia, joked in a blog post that he had to check his calendar to see if it was April 1 (April Fools' day).
"This isn't likely to be the last data leak this year, it's unlikely to be the biggest, but it's above and beyond the most embarrassing for a government department with a long history of poor practice (despite its preaching), and I think I speak for a lot of the online rights community when I say it'll be a long time before we get another [thing] this funny."
Comment from Australia Post was added after this article was first published.
*The DBCDE says AusTender is displaying the wrong start and finish date of the contract with AusCERT on its website.


What Are the Dangers of Beer Funnels?
A beer funnel, sometimes referred to as a beer bong, is a simple contraption, either built by hand or purchased at a specialty store or website. It consists of a funnel connected to a long hose. The concept is to pour beer into the funnel and the person at the end of the hose consumes the alcohol as quickly as possible. The purpose of using a beer funnel is recreational--but for some, this activity is anything but entertainment. Beer funnels are primarily a plaything used by teens and young adults--people with very little knowledge of the dangers of alcohol.
WRAD also warns that alcohol abuse can lead to “long-term damage to the heart, liver and brain.” Teen Alcohol Abuse, an educational website, suggests that beer bongs, known as a capacity game, pose additional problems for young people: this form of social drinking encourages alcohol abuse, promotes heavy drinking, leads young people to believe that socializing can only be enjoyed when they’re getting drunk and may lead to a potentially chronic and progressive alcohol problem.
Eye On Students, a higher-education newsletter, reports that drinking games, like playing beer bong, make young people believe that drinking in excess is normal. This type of drinking also lends itself to overconsumption since it’s difficult to keep track of how many beers have been ingested. If a person is not aware of how intoxicated they are, they’re more likely to engage in dangerous behaviors like driving while drunk. Not only does drinking under the influence pose a risk for arrest and jail, but the person may be thrown out of school or fired from a job if they’re underage.
In an Associated Press investigation, reported in an article on ABC.com, between 1999 and 2005, 157 Americans between the ages of 18 and 23 drank themselves to death. The National Institutes of Health reports that about 600,000 college students incur alcohol-related injuries each year, while about 1,700 die of alcohol-related causes. Because the only purpose of a beer funnel is to deliver alcohol to the system more rapidly, it’s easy to see how playing this supposedly innocent drinking game could have potentially grave consequences.


During their first televised debate, the two Democrats vying to represent Massachusetts’ Seventh District saved their toughest words for President Trump and his administration, instead of each other.
US Representative Michael E. Capuano and Boston City Councilor Ayanna Pressley said Trump’s foreign policy — which has elevated relationships with Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, and led to public rebukes of longtime allies like Britain and France — has made the country less safe.
“Donald Trump is the biggest threat on every issue we can think of,” Capuano said.
“I think the biggest threat to us is Donald Trump because we are losing our global standing in the world because of his erratic and chaotic policy making,” Pressley said.
Capuano, a 10-term incumbent, is facing a challenge from Pressley, the first black woman elected to the Boston City Council. The two are vying to represent a majority-minority congressional district that includes most of Boston, Cambridge, Chelsea, Everett, Milton, Randolph, and Somerville.
Their debate, which was filmed Thursday, airs at 11 a.m. Sunday on WCVB-TV’s “On the Record” with hosts Janet Wu and Ed Harding. The news station allowed the Globe to view a recording of the debate before it aired.
Trump came up repeatedly during the 30-minute debate, as Capuano and Pressley blasted the president and his administration on issues including foreign policy and immigration.
Capuano said that while Russia and China work to undermine US democracy, Trump is damaging longstanding relationships with allies.
“To sit there and poke an eye in your allies [who] have helped defend you, that you have stood next to for generations, is just ludicrous in this dangerous world,” Capuano said.
Pressley, who has called for the defunding and abolishment of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said the administration’s “zero-tolerance” policies target immigrants who are entering the United States after fleeing violence and poverty.
She said some immigrants living in the district now avoid taking their children to community health centers or picking them up from school, out of concern they’ll be arrested.
“Immigrants and refugees are living under real fear right now, palpable fear, in the Seventh Congressional District,” Pressley said.
Capuano said he has worked to stop Trump policies enforced by ICE.
Both said they believe Trump could face impeachment after Special Counsel Robert Mueller completes his investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.
“I hope so,” Pressley said.
”Yes, I think it might be possible,” Capuano said.
The two candidates shared many positions on questions put to them during the debate.
Both support “safe injection” sites, which would allow users to take drugs under medical supervision, in order to avoid overdosing.
They also both supported athletes’ right to kneel during the national anthem to protest police brutality against African-Americans. Capuano said the athletes have a right to freedom of speech, and Pressley said “I stand in solidarity” with the protesting athletes.
Pressley said she agreed with Capuano when he said it appeared that Trump’s strategy to denuclearize North Korea wasn’t working, after news reports that the country was still manufacturing nuclear weapons.
At one point, Capuano complimented Pressley’s work on the Boston City Council and called her a friend.
The harshest exchange between the two Democrats — relatively speaking — came as Capuano highlighted his work in Congress, which he said includes votes against the Iraq War and Patriot Act, and securing funding for housing development and projects like the Green Line Extension.
Capuano said his work has won him the support of groups such as the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the American Civil Liberties Union, and Planned Parenthood.
“I think that tells you more about the work I’ve done, the priorities I have, than anything I can tell you,” Capuano said.
She pointed to stark economic inequality in the district, comparing differences in income and life expectancy in Cambridge versus Roxbury.


Lisa O’Carroll joins Jon henley to discuss the question of rights for both EU residence in the UK and UK residents in the EU, in light of recent events.
There’s currently no guarantee of status for the 3 million EU nationals currently living in the UK after Brexit. It’s been reported that the UK government is now deliberately trying to discourage EU nationals from applying for permanent residence in Britain. Rather than moving straight to filling out an 85-page permanent residency form, EU citizens are instead being asked to sign up for “emailed news alerts” that will tell them if and when they need to take action over their UK residence.
The Labour party’s Brexit minister, Keir Starmer, has promised that a Labour government – should one be elected in June’s UK general elections – would offer a unilateral guarantee to EU residents in Britain that they could stay and retain their rights.
In Brussels, Sophie in ‘t Veld, an MEP leading the European parliament’s taskforce on citizen’s rights after Brexit, has apparently described a UK minister as a “fantasist” after he wrote to her insisting that people were being treated properly and fairly.
Lisa and Jon discuss what all of this means, and how the people she’s met and written about could reasonably say they’re not being treated either properly or fairly.


SAN FRANCISCO — “Witness: The Legacy of Heart Mountain,” a KABC-TV documentary produced by David Ono and Jeff MacIntyre, will air on KGO-TV, the ABC affiliate in the San Francisco Bay Area, on Saturday, May 31, from 4 to 5 p.m.
The original half-hour version of the documentary, which aired in Los Angeles last year, won a 2014 Edward R. Murrow Award from the Radio Television Digital News Association (RTDNA).
Interviewees included Judge Lance Ito and his mother, Toshi; Rafu Shimpo columnist George Yoshinaga; Brian Kito of Little Tokyo’s Fugetsu-Do, whose father made mochi and manju in camp; and Patti Hirahara, whose father and grandfather took thousands of photos of daily life at Heart Mountain. Ono and MacIntyre also visited the Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation’s museum, located near the internment camp site.
Ono and MacIntyre have expanded the documentary to a full hour, adding the stories of Norman Mineta and Alan Simpson, who became friends as Boy Scouts in Wyoming and later served in Congress; Tak Hoshizaki, who resisted the draft to protest the violation of his constitutional rights; Stanley Hayami, a young artist who joined the 442nd Regimental Combat Team and was killed in action; and Clarence Matsumura, who rescued prisoners from the Dachau death camp as a member of the 522nd Field Artillery Battalion.
The expanded version was recently screened at the Japanese American National Museum and aired on KABC-TV in Los Angeles.
In addition to Southern California, many of the incarcerees at Heart Mountain came from the San Francisco/San Jose area.


You know what’s better than a small wheel of cheese?
A big wheel of cheese.
You know what’s better than a big wheel of cheese?
A big wheel of cheese that you got on a MASSIVE DISCOUNT.
Morrisons is selling this bloody huge Stilton for just £10.
It’s a lovely mature blue Stilton, which Morrisons say is made to a traditional recipe at the Long Clawson dairy in the Vale of Belvior. We’ve got no idea where that is, but it sounds absolutely lovely.
The cheese is only on offer for as long as stocks last, and with Christmas on its way I think we all know that they’re not going to last very long. So you should probably order yours now. You can do that right here.
Also fun fact, you can freeze cheese! So if you think that getting through a kilogram cheese in the next week or so it too tall an order you can cut it in half and save some of it for Christmas.
If Stilton isn’t your jam, Morrisons is also selling 800 grams of Cheddar (which is nearly a kilogram) for £10.
You could even go really wild and get both. Who could fail to have a fun weekend when they’ve got almost two kilograms of cheese for twenty quid?


Enola Joyce Pride, 84, died peacefully on Feb. 7, 2005 in Green Bay, Wis., at the home of her son, Kenneth, following a year-long struggle with cancer.
Nola was born the daughter of Kenneth and Gladys (Congdon) Campbell in Gaylord.
She graduated from the University of Michigan School of Dental Hygiene and worked briefly in Detroit before marrying Kenneth Pride. Following his service in World War II, they moved to Chicago, working there until retirement in 1976. The couple then returned to Gaylord, where Kenneth preceded her in death in 1993.
She was a member of the Eastern Star and enjoyed time with her family and friends along with gardening and letter writing.
She is survived by daughter, Connie (Rick) Dale of Gaylord; son, Dr. Kenneth (Doris) Pride of Green Bay, Wis.; three grandchildren, Wendy Welbaum of Otisville, Kenneth Pride II of Madison, Wis., and Keth Pride of Madison, Wis.; and many cousins, nieces and nephews.
A memorial service will be held on Tuesday, March 15 at 1 p.m. at the First United Methodist Church in Gaylord, the Rev. John Naile officiating.
Burial will take place in the Spring in Antigo, Wis.
Memorial contributions may be made to the First United Methodist Church, 215 South Center, PO Box 617, Gaylord, MI 49734.


Even though a law on allowing FDI in higher education may still take some time to materialise, higher educational institutes abroad have started exploring opportunities for setting up campuses and partnership in the country.
NEW DELHI: Even though a law on allowing FDI in higher education may still take some time to materialise, higher educational institutes abroad have started exploring opportunities for setting up campuses and partnership in the country. Representatives of nearly 200 universities and colleges from the US, UK and Europe have visited India in the past 3 months.
Private education providers see the increasing interest of foreign varsities as both threat and opportunity. Some believe they may have a better chance of growth by partnering foreign varsities, while others argue that big money from abroad may put at stake the survival of small private institutions.
A US delegation of six universities and colleges led by US Under secretary of for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs Karen P Hughes concluded its three-day long visit to New Delhi on Thursday. Last month a delegation from the UK, comprising representatives of Royal College of Physician, Royal College of Surgeon, University College, London, Imperial College, London, and York University, had also come in.
Surprisingly, the biggest response so far has come from France, not generally a preferred destination for Indian students. Representatives of nearly 150 French universities and colleges have visited India in a bid to understand the sector and explore market opportunities.
Foreign varsity officials have been visiting educational institutions, meeting students, consulting private and public education providers, industry bodies and government officials here.
Things may actually start falling in place only after the new law on FDI in Higher Education is in place.
“We have been looking at India for a long time. And we would be here not long after the new law is in place,” says Johnson & Wales University president John J Bowen adding that they would partner a local player for setting up a campus and ensure that training is imparted partly in India and the US.
But not all universities may be interested in setting up campus in India. “We would like to help Indian institutions build programme and not campus,” says Oakton Community College President Margaret B Lee. Similarly, North Carolina State University, which currently has over 500 students and 40 faculty member from India, would want collaboration with Indian institutions for faculty exchange and research.
And then there could be a whole range of courses on offer. Some want to target students wishing to pursue medical, engineering and IT sectors, while others like Johnson and Wales wish to begin courses in hospitality and finance.
So it’s going to be an exciting time for the Indian higher education sector. “The government wants to double the number of students exposed to the higher education in the next three years.


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The suspect, a male, painted the words on the building in addition to damaging an on-site security camera and smashing the windows out of an FOP van.
ASHEVILLE — Officers from the Asheville Police Department are investigating an incident at the local chapter of the North Carolina Fraternal Order of Police after a vandal damaged property and spray-painted the words "Black Lives Matter" on its building early Monday.
Police spokesperson Christina Hallingse said the incident took place at about 4 a.m. Monday at the FOP lodge at 18 Piney Park Road. The suspect, a male, painted the words on the building, referencing the international activist movement, in addition to damaging an on-site security camera and smashing the windows out of an FOP van, Hallingse said.
The incident was reported to police at about 1 p.m. Monday.
Rondell Lance, a retired police officer and president of the lodge, said the last time members were at the property was on Friday. He said the local FOP has cameras around its building and has since turned the tape of the incident over to local law enforcement.
"I pulled up here this morning and was just taken aback," he said. "I wondered who would do this and why would they do this to our lodge?"
Lance identified the suspect as a white man. In addition to the damage, Lance said the individual took down the lodge's U.S. flag and "ran it back up upside down."
He estimates the total damage from the incident to be about $5,000.
"I'm thinking it's more of an ANTIFA or anti-government-type person rather than somebody that's involved with Black Lives Matter," he said. "It's someone just trying to keep the community upset and trying to stir up strife in the community."
He added that he's maintained a dialogue with DeLores Venable, an organizer with Black Lives Matter Asheville, and the local NAACP chapter, noting that "I don't think they would have someone come out here and do this."
The incident comes as the city remains on edge following the release of police body camera footage showing Officer Chris Hickman, who is white, beating black pedestrian Johnnie Jermaine Rush in an incident that took place in August.
Police body camera video obtained by the Citizen Times shows officer Chris Hickman beating Johnnie Jermaine Rush with punches to the head while Rush was being restrained by Hickman and another officer. In the video, from a camera worn by Hickman, Rush says multiple times that he can't breathe as he is restrained.
He also was shocked twice with a stun gun while being held on the ground.
Hickman resigned from the department in January. He was arrested on charges of felony assault by strangulation, misdemeanor assault inflicting serious injury and misdemeanor communicating threats late last week.
Lance said the local FOP has condemned Hickman's actions, but will continue to try to be part of the discussion in the community, even amid the vandalism incident.
"From our standpoint, we just hope there's one guy responsible," he said. "We think it's just one person for whatever reason and they chose when there's all this turmoil in the community to do this crime.
"We still are going to be a part of the community and we're still going to find solutions."


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NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta was sworn in for a second term on Tuesday, shortly before riot police teargassed the convoy of opposition leader Raila Odinga, who promised supporters he would be sworn in himself on Dec. 12.
Such a move would only deepen divisions opened by the extended election season in Kenya, a Western ally in a volatile region. Months of acrimonious campaigns and sporadic clashes have already blunted growth in East Africa’s richest economy.
At a lavish inauguration attended by the heads of many African nations, Kenyatta did his best to paint a picture of a country moving beyond that divide.
“The elections are now firmly behind us ... I will devote my time and energy to build bridges,” he told a rapturous crowd of around 60,000 supporters as he was sworn in for a second, five-year term in a sports stadium in the capital Nairobi.
But, he warned, Kenyans needed to “free ourselves from the baggage of past grievances, and ... keep to the rule of law”.
Such words may ring hollow to citizens accustomed to the government ignoring reports on corruption from the country’s auditor-general and documentation of hundreds of extrajudicial police killings every year from human rights groups.
Last year, Kenyatta angered many Kenyans by saying he wanted to tackle corruption but his “hands are tied”. His government has also promised to improve police accountability, but an independent watchdog has managed to convict only two officers of murder despite thousands of brutality complaints.
On Tuesday, at least one Odinga supporter was killed and three others were injured, a Reuters witness said. Other witnesses said the man had been shot by the police.
A statement from Odinga said five people were shot, including his daughter’s driver.
Television stations KTN and NTV reported that a 7-year-old boy was hit by a stray bullet while playing on the balcony of a house near the site of a planned opposition prayer meeting.
“When I came home, I did not know it was my child who had been killed. Police were passing by shooting,” Peter Mutuku, the boy’s father, was quoted saying on NTV.
Police could not immediately be reached for comment.
Less than an hour after Kenyatta spoke, Kenyan national television carried pictures of riot police swinging clubs at civilians with their hands up.
Kenyatta won a repeat presidential election on Oct. 26 that was boycotted by Odinga, who said it would not be free and fair. The Supreme Court nullified the first presidential election, in August, over irregularities.
Supporters of Kenyatta - who won the October poll with 98 percent of the vote after Odinga’s boycott - want the opposition to engage in talks and move on.
“I’m sure Uhuru will be able to bring people together and unite them so we can all work for the country,” said Eunice Jerobon, a trader who traveled overnight from the Rift Valley town of Kapsabet for the inauguration.
But Odinga’s supporters see such talk of unity as tantamount to surrender. Many of them are drawn from poorer parts of the country, and feel angered because they say they are locked out of power and the patronage it brings.
Political arguments often have ethnic undercurrents, with Odinga’s supporters pointing out that three of the country’s four presidents have come from one ethnic group, the Kikuyu, although the country has 44 recognized groups.
Odinga accuses the ruling party of stealing the election, overseeing rampant corruption, directing abuse by the security forces and neglecting vast swathes of the country, including Odinga’s heartland in the west.
Shortly after that, riot police teargassed his convoy and charged his supporters.
The opposition had planned to hold a prayer meeting in the capital on Tuesday, saying it wanted to commemorate the lives of Odinga supporters killed during confrontations with the security forces over the election period.
More than 70 people have been killed in political violence this election season, mostly by the police.
Riot police sealed off the scene of the rally in the morning, and fired teargas at residents, trying to prevent a crowd from gathering, as a helicopter hovered overhead. Roads were blocked by burning tyres, rocks and uprooted billboards.
In his speech, Kenyatta promised to raise living standards by increasing jobs, home ownership, electricity connections and health insurance coverage.
He also said all Africans would now get visas on arrival in Kenya, and members of the East African community could own property, work and live in Kenya, adding “to underscore Kenya’s commitment to pan Africanism, this shall not be done on the basis of reciprocity”.


Caitlin Heising is Vice Chair of the Heising‐Simons Foundation and is currently pursuing a Master of Public Administration at the London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) with a focus on social impact. Previously, she worked with Article 3 Advisors, a human rights and strategic philanthropy consultancy based in San Francisco. In 2014, she joined the board of the Heising‐Simons Foundation, where she has developed a grantmaking program focused on human rights and criminal justice reform in the U.S. Caitlin is also a founding member of Maverick Collective, a global community of strategic philanthropists and informed advocates working to end extreme poverty by improving the health and rights of women and girls around the world.
Caitlin serves on the Board of Directors and U.S. Program Advisory Committee of Human Rights Watch. Previously, she co-founded and co-chaired the Human Rights Watch Young Professionals Network in San Francisco, which has now grown to include a chapter in Silicon Valley. She also serves on the board of the Nick Simons Foundation, which works to improve health and medical care in Nepal, especially for rural and remote populations. Caitlin is a member of The Philanthropy Workshop, a leader in ongoing strategic philanthropy education and networking. She was a 2016 Research Fellow at Institute for the Future, where she collaborated on research projects exploring the future of philanthropy and social innovation. Caitlin graduated from Brown University in 2012 with a BA in international relations and a focus in politics, culture, and identity.


Mama Mendes! New mom Eva Mendes showed off her super slim post-baby body on the April 2015 cover of Women's Health, five months after welcoming her daughter, Esmeralda, with Ryan Gosling.
Splashed across the cover are the fitting words. "Hey, Girl!" — a nod to the viral Internet meme involving her famous boyfriend. The Hitch actress, 41, stares at the camera with confidence with her hands in her pants pockets.
For her latest cover shoot, Mendes shies away from her trademark oversized coats and sweaters to bare her curvaceous, lean body in flattering pieces. The star's arms appear sculpted while her teeny waist is accentuated in body-hugging garments both on the cover and inside the issue.
Along with her devoted fitness regimen, Mendes also watches her diet. "I haven’t eaten meat in about six years, because I don’t agree with factory farming here," she revealed. "This is just what worked for me, it’s important to say, but when I cut that out I immediately felt better. And also, after a year of eliminating it, my skin looked brighter and healthier overall."
While Mendes' health and fitness are the focus of her latest magazine cover, she also shared some sweet updates about her life as a first-time mom.
Despite the lack of beauty rest, Mendes said she's still earning her badge of honor when it comes to motherhood. "I don’t feel like I’ve really earned the right [to give motherly advice]," she confessed. "I want to respect all the moms out there. They’re going to be like, ‘You know what? You’re a few months in. Just shut up.'"
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Meanwhile, she has been able to vent privately to her therapist. "Having [someone] who’s totally objective and who points out my patterns— I find that really helpful," Mendes shared with the mag. "And I’m lucky to work with someone who doesn’t just sit there and nod her head, you know? I need to hear what you think! Tell me what’s wrong with me so I can fix it!"
The April Beauty Flip issue of Women's Health hits stands on Mar. 17.


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FILE - Visitors walk on sand dunes as the sun sets, March 5, 2015, in White Sands National Monument, New Mexico.
A French couple who set out with their 9-year-old son on a hike in the scenic desert in the western US state of New Mexico likely lost their lives in an effort to keep their child alive.
David, 42, and Ornella Steiner, 51, both of Bourgogne, France, gave the boy, Enzo, two sips of water for each one they took before their supply ran dry and they succumbed to the scorching heat in the White Sands National Monument, Otero County Sheriff Benny House said. Enzo survived.
"That may be why he fared so well, is he was a lot smaller and probably had twice as much water,'' House said, referring to the child.
Two empty half-liter bottles of water were found with the bodies. The U.S. park service recommends 3.8 liters of water for each hiker.
Enzo’s grandmother, who flew out to America after learning of the tragedy, was scheduled to bring him back to France this weekend.
Park rangers discovered the three French nationals while patrolling an area about 1.5 miles from the Alkali Flat trail head on a day when the temperature had climbed past 38 degrees Celsius.
House said the boy told authorities that his mother had headed back toward their car after becoming ill. He carried on with his father. But the father became disoriented and "the heat was affecting his judgment," House said.
Park rangers found the mother's body on a routine patrol of the area.
It was only when they checked her camera and saw that she had been with two other people, Hunter said, that a search began for the boy and his father. Enzo was found alongside his deceased father and rushed to a hospital, where he was treated for heat exposure.
Authorities believe the couple died of heat-related causes but are waiting for the results of an autopsy to confirm the official cause of death.
Rescuers said it appeared that the parents, who had not signed the park’s entry register, had left for their hike shortly after midday when temperatures can reach 40 degrees Celsius.
Alkali Flat Trail takes visitors through scenic white sand dunes that have engulfed the desert in the national monument to the edge of the Alkali Flat, a lake bed that dried up thousands of years ago, after the last ice age. There is no shade among the dunes and sparse short shrubs are the only vegetation.
Park authorities recommend that summer visitors hike during the coolest part of the day, which is early morning or early evening.


Rail specialist International Rail is teaming up with gapyear.com in a bid to grow its market share of the Australian, Canadian and US backpacker transport market.
It will provide a global rail search engine to gapyear.com through its own website, InternationalRail.com.
Tom Griffiths, founder of gapyear.com, said: "Rail has unfortunately always been the 'also ran' in the independent travel market, coming a very poor third as a travel option in-country to travel by coach and car.
"The rail industry, to be honest, has also been a pain to work with! A fragmented offering with a lack of quality rail passes aimed at this market through multiple brands, sites and partnerships, we have found it impossible until now to deliver a clean, consistent offering to our users.
“However, International Rail, with their global offering have breathed new life into the rail sector by enabling sites like gapyear.com to place the rail passes neatly alongside their coach, car and plane rivals, finally making it an option which can be considered by all.
“With the resurgence in popularity for European adventures using the Inter-rail pass and a preference by independent travellers to take a train over a bus for long journeys, we expect to see substantial demand for their passes and point to point. For backpackers wanting to save the planet? Well, it also gets the green thumbs up!"


Members of the Hotchkin family and La Canada Flintridge Educational Foundation officials smile as the school district announced it would name the north gym at La Canada High School after the family.
Eight months after offering generous donors a chance to see their names placed permanently on prominent school buildings, La Cañada Unified School District has announced its first taker.
La Cañada High School’s north gym will now be the Hotchkin Family Gymnasium after residents Jan and David Hotchkin made a five-year pledge that puts their cumulative contributions to the district in excess of $1 million, Supt. Wendy Sinnette said at a school board meeting Tuesday.
The Hotchkins moved to La Cañada with their two children, Jonathan and Carolyn, in 1997 and quickly took on leadership roles with the La Cañada Flintridge Educational Foundation and the Flintridge Guild of Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles, among other groups.
Jan Hotchkin also worked as a teacher specialist at Palm Crest Elementary School.
David Hotchkin is a principal with the Pasadena-based Anchor Pacifica Group, a real estate investment and property management firm with two dozen apartment complexes in its portfolio. As a member of the foundation endowment committee, he was among those who came up with the naming rights proposal, but he said Tuesday he never imagined he would be the first donor to see his name on a school facility.
The gym is one of many La Cañada Unified facilities and programs made available under a naming rights policy approved by the board in December. To generate revenue, the board established specific dollar thresholds for naming rights, including $1 million for the La Cañada High School football stadium and library, $750,000 for elementary school playgrounds and $100,000 for classrooms.
Previously, school officials could name a facility after an individual in recognition of a significant contribution, financial or otherwise.
Having buildings named after local families builds a sense of community within the district, said school board member Andrew Blumenfeld.
“It is a nice and readily apparent demonstration of the sort of place that La Cañada is,” Blumenfeld said.


Oren Cass joins City Journal editor Brian Anderson to discuss his new book, The Once and Future Worker: A Vision for the Renewal of Work in America.
The American worker is in crisis. Wages have stagnated for more than a generation, and reliance on welfare programs has surged. Life expectancy is falling as substance abuse and obesity rates climb. Work and its future has become a central topic for City Journal: in 2017, the magazine published its special issue, The Shape of Work to Come.
Brian Anderson: Welcome back to the 10 Blocks, podcast. This is your host, Brian Anderson, editor of City Journal. The American working class is facing an ongoing crisis. Wages have stagnated for more than a generation. Reliance on welfare programs in many sectors of society has surged. Life expectancy has actually declined in various areas as substance abuse and suicide rates climb. The future of work has become a central issue for us here at City Journal. Last year we published an entire issue called The Shape of Work to Come, featuring articles on the great American domestic crisis of our time, long term joblessness. Today we're going to talk about a fascinating and vitally important new book by Oren Cass, The Once and Future Worker: A Vision for the Renewal of Work in America. The book has already generated a blizzard of comment and discussion, including a Time cover story and a column by The New York Times' David Brooks, calling it "absolutely brilliant." Our conversation with Oren begins after this.
Hello again everyone. This is Brian Anderson, the editor of City Journal. Joining me on the show today is Oren Cass. Oren is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute where he focuses on issues ranging from welfare to climate change, and he writes regularly for City Journal, among many other outlets. Before joining us, he was domestic policy director of Mitt Romney's 2012 presidential campaign. Oren's new and first book is called The Once and Future Worker: A Vision for the Renewal of Work in America. Oren, thanks for coming to New York.
Oren Cass: Well, thanks so much for having me.
Brian Anderson: Now what, to start off, what exactly is the government's role in labor markets? This is a crucial theme of your book. There are laws about the right to organize unions, unemployment benefits, but what's the range of it and what is our current approach, compared with that of say, other developed countries?
Oren Cass: Well, the primary role that we really have the government playing today is essentially to order the market around to say, "We don't like low wages, so we're going to have a minimum wage. We don't like certain workplace conditions, so we're going to outlaw them." And then as you mentioned, to create the infrastructure to have organized labor as well. One place that the government is surprisingly absent is on the workforce preparedness and training side where our education system is really overwhelmingly focused on college attainment. And for people who aren't going to make it through college, which is still the majority of Americans, we really offer little to nothing and declining support over time, and so that contrasts a lot with other countries that certainly they have a lot of regulatory policies as well, but they tend to take a much greater interest in the other conditions of the labor market and what they're doing to lay the groundwork for successful outcomes for workers.
Brian Anderson: This is one of the most striking arguments in your book about just how this kind of college for all ideal has disturbed a lot of Americans. I wonder if you could say a little bit more about just how few people really get through the full college experience.
Oren Cass: Sure. I think when we look at each piece of the system, we tend to have reason for optimism. So most people graduate from high school, most of the people who graduate from high school enroll in college, most of those people complete college, most of those people find a job that requires a degree, so that sounds good. The problem is if you step back and add up all of those "mosts" together, or rather you step back and add up all the, the other side of it-- the people who drop out at each stage-- what you find is roughly 80 percent of young people are falling out somewhere along the way. You end up with more people who don't complete high school on time, more people who don't go to college, more people who drop out of college than you actually have people that the system is working for. And yet all of our energy, all of our efforts at education reform, all of our funding goes to what ends up being the fortunate few who are going to be the winners in our society and our economy already.
Brian Anderson: And how do you suggest restructuring our education system to perhaps address this problem to some degree?
Oren Cass: I think the place to start is with what most people would call tracking. And tracking has a very bad reputation in this country, partly for good reason because of some very bad and racially oriented practices of the past, but also just for the general sense that we feel like everybody should have unlimited opportunity, and we want to aspire to the best outcomes for all. And I think those are worthy aspirations, but what ends up happening is that they don't serve most people. What we need to do is step back and say, "What are the trajectories that folks are actually likely to be on?" And meet them where they are and support them in, in the paths that they are taking through life. So one of those for some people is going to be a college degree, but one for a lot of people, and this is the case across the developed world, it's the case over time. It's not something that we're changing no matter how much more money we spend on it. A path for a lot of people is going to be one that goes from high school into preparing for work into a job. And that's a place where we need to invest a lot more of our energy. That's something we need to actually focus our high schools on so that they're not just college prep academies, they're actually giving people work experience, giving people practical skills. And then frankly, I think it's where we need to put our money. I don't know how we justify putting virtually all of our resources into making college cheap for the exact people who are going to be the high earners, when it's really the person who was going to be facing a lower wage job, who's going to struggle to find their financial footing who I think is the one we owe more support to early in life.
Brian Anderson: I think one of the reasons your book is generating so much attention is that you're trying to come up, and this is an example that you've just described where the policy agenda that would address what I mentioned in the introduction is really the domestic policy crisis of our time, or, you know, long-term unemployment or underemployment, particularly among males. How serious in your view is that problem? And what led to your interest in it in the first place?
Oren Cass: I think it's an enormous problem. I think even at this moment, I know even at this moment of what is a booming economy, the very top of a business cycle, you know, nearly 20 percent of prime age males are not in the labor force. And that's overall, if you start slicing that down into talking about males who don't have a college degree and so forth, it's a much higher share and it's a much higher share than during previous booms. So while we're certainly doing better than we were during the recession, we're looking worse right now than we were during 2006, which was worse than during 2000, which was worse than the late eighties and so forth. So what, what feel like booms are more like little bumps on a downward slope. And that trajectory is something that has to concern us very much. And then the other thing I'd say is that we have a strange way when we talk about the labor market of being very happy to write off surprisingly large swaths of the population, and I compare that to how we talk about preexisting conditions. The share of the population that actually has a series preexisting condition that's a problem in the healthcare market, is minuscule compared to what I'm describing now in the context of work. But you don't need half of the population have a problem before everybody knows someone with the problem before it's affecting our entire society. And that's how we need to recognize this. It's not that we're fine until most people aren't working. The share that this is affecting now already makes it, as you said, our biggest crisis.
Brian Anderson: Now some economists say that we just need higher growth, that that's going to solve the problem. You know, the Labor issue will in effect resolve itself. I think what you've just suggested that, that hasn't proven true over, you know, over our economic history, at least over the last several decades. Why do you think that's too narrow an approach?
Oren Cass: I think the reality is that we have to acknowledge there's nothing in economic theory that actually says economic growth is going to give us the kinds of labor market outcomes that we want. All of our emphasis on economic growth, and I should say I think growth is important, I'm all in favor of growth too, but for about 50 years now, we've taken this view in which economic growth is essentially all that matters. And I think how we got there is because we chose to focus just on consumers. If all you care about is how much people can consume, then you can just focus on growth. And if you leave some people behind you redistribute some of the money to them. Uh, this is the metaphor of the economic pie that everybody loves to use. As long as the pie keeps growing, everybody can have a bigger slice. What that misses is the question of who's baking the pie? Who actually gets to participate as a productive contributor in our society? And if that's what you care about, then just counting on growth to get where you need to go is a mistake. And it's the mistake that we've made.
Brian Anderson: The rage in Silicon Valley these days is disruption of the job market. Some people, you know, predict that we'll see half of the jobs going by the wayside. And so we should move towards something known as universal basic income. Could you describe what that idea is all about and why you think it's not a very good idea?
Oren Cass: Yeah. Universal basic income is the idea that we should just create a payment to every person every month that's enough to live on. So let's say a thousand dollars per adult per month, and you get that if you're successful in earning a lot of money, you get that if you're not earning anything. And so we don't need to worry about whether people are earning enough money anymore because we'll know that everybody has enough to cover the basics. This is essentially the logical endpoint of this economic pie thinking, what I like to call economic piety. That even if you just, even if Elon Musk is creating all of the economic activity himself, as long as he's willing to mail everyone a check, we'll be okay. And in fact a lot of people would say, well, we can celebrate, right? We now we have all of this stuff and we didn't even have to do the work. But that's not how people, that's not how people operate. That's not what actually turns out to be most important in people's lives. And so not only is it sort of an implausible on affordable model. In practice, I think the bigger concern is, is the principle, the question of whether we want to move in a direction that says, "Don't worry, you're taken care of," or whether we actually want to society, and I think we need a society, where we say, "No, it is your obligation to produce, to provide for yourself to contribute." And that's where individual wellbeing comes from. That's where strong families and communities come from. And that has to be the foundation of a society that's going to be prosperous.
Brian Anderson: Well, this is what you call the working hypothesis in a sense, right?
Oren Cass: Yes, exactly. So the book is organized around what I call the, the working hypothesis, which is that a labor market that creates these opportunities for people of all aptitudes and all places to be able to support strong families and communities actually is the basis of our prosperity, especially in the long run. And so it should be the focus of our public policy. And I think the easiest way to see how that contrasts to how policy works today is again, to think about this role of economic growth, and most of how we talk about the economy today is that we assume if we get enough economic growth, then all of these nice things will follow from it. Frankly, we're seeing that that's not true. We've gotten a lot of economic growth and nice things are not necessarily following from it. And now we're not even getting much growth. And so I think you have to turn that around and recognize that it's the strong society of the productive individuals, the families, communities that create the growth, that the growth isn't what we aim for. The growth is the emergent property of the prosperous society.
Brian Anderson: How much of this, who's a geographical phenomenon, you know, that the coastal elites don't see a problem and don't really have much to do with these communities that, that have struggled even in growing economies?
Oren Cass: I think the geographic dimension is one that's been thrown into focus most recently. I think based on the way American politics works, essentially the groups that made such a difference in the 2016 election in particular, typically what we'd call the white working class, have really elevated emphasis on this to another level. Something that I try to really focus on in the book though is that we shouldn't think of this as a white working class issue-- that in fact the problems we're talking about now in that context is just the latest manifestation of the same problems we've been talking about in the war on poverty for 50 years. And the same things we've discovered don't work after 50 years of trying to raise especially inner city impoverished communities out of poverty. With this approach to redistribution, we're now seeing the same maladies spreading more broadly. Unfortunately, a lot of people are saying, "Well, let's just take the same approaches there." And so this same working hypothesis, this same emphasis on work is critical to these working class communities that are now in focus, but it's equally critical to our approach to poverty, to struggling communities, whether in the inner city or in a rural area.
Brian Anderson: Say a bit more, I realize the book is dense and filled with all sorts of policy ideas. But, but two or three that you think would be the most effective at addressing this crisis.
Oren Cass: Sure. One, one place I think we should look actually as organized labor. You know, conservatives have come to be very opposed to organized labor because the form we have in this country, born in the Great Depression, now what we call big labor, is frankly a very destructive force. But the concept of organized labor, of workers being able to organize, to act collectively, to bargain with employers, to come to a mutual each other's mutual aid, that's a tremendous thing. That has real economic value. It can help position workers and prepare them for successful careers, it can help engage constructively with employers, and it has social value. It can be a critical institution of civil society. And so I think that's something that rather than throwing away, we need to really focus in on and say, "We need everyone to agree that the system we have doesn't work." That should be something left and right can agree to at this point. But let's also agree that we want a system that works and we're willing to move reforms in a direction like what you see in Europe in a lot of cases, with what's called works councils, where the emphasis isn't on an adversarial relationship and fights about seniority and work rules and strikes. It's about actually the workers and the employers collaborating to be more productive. So I think that's one place we should look.
Brian Anderson: You mentioned education earlier.
Oren Cass: Yeah, education is a big one.
Brian Anderson: You're very critical in the book about our current trade relations with China especially. Say a bit about that because some serious reforms there may be in motion as we speak.
Oren Cass: Yeah, I think trade is an important dimension of this and it's something that this consumer welfare versus worker focus really throws into relief. You know, if economists are right that if all you care about is consumer welfare, more trade is always better. In fact, trade deficits are great. If China wants to send us hundreds of billions of dollars in stuff and we don't have to send them anything back, we can just send them an IOU, like a treasury bill or something, that's great for consumers. If you take the worker lens though and ask what's happening to our labor market and to the opportunities for productive contributions, especially from less skilled workers, that kind of imbalance becomes a real problem. And so I think it's important to recognize the problem isn't trade. You could have balanced trade that's fantastic for workers as well. The problem is the imbalances that we have in a situation where one country is focused on promoting work and creating opportunities for workers in China and one country is just trying to buy a lot of cheap stuff in the US. And so the reforms that I talk about aspire to more trade. That's what we should want, but we should insist that it's balanced. We should be ready to confront countries that are manipulating the market to their own advantage as China does and we should be prepared to invest on our own behalf. Just as we invest in national institutes of health, because scientific breakthroughs in healthcare are valuable to everybody, so we should be investing in technologies in the manufacturing sector because having a robust industrial economy ultimately redounds to everybody's benefit.
Brian Anderson: One other idea that comes up in contrast with universal basic income is the notion of a wage subsidy. Maybe you could say a little bit more about that because this is provocative but interesting and I think a useful idea.
Brian Anderson: It's different than the way a minimum which would work.
Oren Cass: That's right. It's almost the opposite. So if you look at the minimum wage by contrast, you could also have a $12 minimum wage to try to change that $9 an hour job into a $12 an hour job. If you do it with the minimum wage, you're essentially just ordering the employer to pay an extra $3 an hour. It's almost, you're taxing the employer $3 an hour to hire the $9 an hour worker. That's two problems. One is a fairness concern here. I don't see why, if we have a social interest in more of these jobs in supporting these workers, why that burden should necessarily fall on that employer. I think we should want that to be a social commitment that we pay for the way we pay for other things in society, through our tax dollars. And secondly, there's a very practical problem which is that whereas a wage subsidy encourages the creation of these kinds of jobs and says, this is something we want in our economy, the minimum wage does the exact opposite. It says we don't want this kind of employment. We're going to make it more costly and burdensome, and initially you might still see businesses trying to do the best they can with the constraints they're under. Over time what you would expect to see is fewer investments in that kind of economic activity. And that's something we've had over time and it's not good for the folks who need those kinds of jobs.
Brian Anderson: Thanks Oren, very much. Don't forget to check out this remarkable new book. It's called The Once and Future Worker. It's just out from Encounter Books. You can find it on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, wherever books are sold. It's a book that stands with some of the classics of modern social thought by James Q. Wilson, Charles Murray and others. You can follow Oren on twitter @Oren_Cass. We'd love, too, to hear your comments about today's episode on Twitter @CityJournal. Thanks for listening and thanks very much, Oren, for joining us.
Oren Cass: Thank you for having me.


Some lawmakers abstain, or “take a pass,” to avoid a political dilemma. Republicans and Democrats representing more competitive districts, for example, generally did not vote more often than their colleagues from politically safer seats in 2015, records show.
1,380 The number of bills and other measures that came up for a vote on the Assembly floor in 2015.
Some lawmakers missed votes at higher rates than their colleagues.
In the Assembly, Assemblyman Rocky Chávez, R-Oceanside, did not vote 14.9 percent of the time on the floor, and Assemblywoman Nora Campos, D-San Jose, had a nonvote percentage of 10.9 percent. In committee action, Assembly members Travis Allen, R-Huntington Beach, and Roger Hernández, D-Baldwin Park, did not vote about a quarter of the time.
In the Senate, Sharon Runner, R-Lancaster, missed 15.2 percent of floor-voting opportunities, and Fran Pavley, D-Agoura Hills, missed 12.1 percent. State senators Tom Berryhill, R-Twain Harte, and Isadore Hall, D-Compton, led their caucuses in committee nonvotes, voting records show.
Chávez is running for the U.S. Senate, and Hall seeks a seat in Congress. Runner has struggled with health problems. Pavley missed some session days because of a family member’s illness. Campos had a death in the family, according to legislative journals.
1,386 The number of bills and other measures that came up for a vote on the Senate floor in 2015.
One lawmaker had perfect record of voting: Assemblyman Mike Gatto, D-Los Angeles, never missed a vote, records show.
Some members of the Legislature’s Democratic majority voted “no” at rates significantly higher than their caucus colleagues.
In the Senate, Steve Glazer, D-Orinda, Richard Roth, D-Riverside and Cathleen Galgiani, D-Manteca, voted “no” on the floor at rates more than three times their caucus’ average. Glazer’s no-vote total was the most of any Democrat, even though his special election victory came almost five months into the 2015 session. Roth and Galgiani represent swing districts. All three are up for re-election next year.
In the Assembly, Gatto, Assemblywoman Jacqui Irwin, D-Thousand Oaks, and Adam Gray, D-Merced, also voted “no” much more often than their colleagues.
Among Republicans, meanwhile, Assemblyman Matthew Harper, R-Huntington Beach, and state Sen. Mike Morrell, R-Rancho Cucamonga, topped the Legislature in voting no almost a quarter of the time.
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People Are Working Naked Because Their President Said To "Undress And Work"
"[We] need to undress and work. Work up a sweat. If we don’t — we’ll die."
Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko delivered an impassioned speech to the All-Belarusian People's Assembly on June 22, urging people to seek out and tackle their own opportunities rather than relying on the government to constantly provide.
Lukashenko, dubbed "Europe's last dictator" by Condoleezza Rice in 2005, told his compatriots, "Innovations, IT, privatization and so on — we understand all that. We got this covered."
"But everything and our life itself — is in simplicity," he continued. "[We] need to undress and work. Work up a sweat. If we don’t — we’ll die. Competition is fierce."
It's likely Lukashenko meant to say "develop," which is quite similar in pronunciation. ("Undress" is pronounced "razdivatsya"; "develop" is "razvivatsya.") But that didn't stop some Belarusians from heeding their president's call to "undress and work."
"We are acting in accordance with the presidential decree," said one person who posted a picture of people naked at work.
Some people joined the movement because you can't leave your countrymen hanging.
"We start the work week and then undress," said one person.
This isn't the first time President Lukashenko has misspoken.
He previously managed to confuse Russian President Vladimir Putin with Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev, who is Russia’s ex-president and current prime minister.
Also, a few years ago he mistakenly called himself "the first president of Russia."
Translation provided by BuzzFeed Consultant Victor Stepanov.


Dawn Crider and Anthony Orr of Martinsburg, W.Va., announce the birth of a daughter, Hailey Nicole Orr, July 8, 2004. Maternal grandparents are Pamela and John Footen and Michael Crider. Paternal grandparents are Steve and Frances Orr. Maternal great-grandfather is Charles Crider. Paternal great-grandparents are Theodore and Sarah Shell and Rosalee Wood.
Angela S. and Richard L. Cross of Martinsburg, W.Va., announce the birth of a son, Zachary Daniel-Levi Cross, July 9, 2004. Maternal grandparents are Susan and Mike Lushbaugh of Martinsburg and Ken and Karla Harris of Boonsboro. Paternal grandparents are Jeannetta Cross of Martinsburg and the late Cleo Daniel Cross.
Sharon Kaye Wolford and David Larry Robinson Jr. of Martinsburg, W.Va., announce the birth of a son, Damion Lee Robinson, July 7, 2004. Maternal grandparents are Tina and Robert Wolford of Falling Waters, W.Va. Paternal grandparents are Lisa and David Robinson of Martinsburg.
Jennifer Marie Simpson and Robert Stephen Shifflett of Kearneysville, W.Va., announce the birth of a daughter, Breanna Marie Shifflett, July 2, 2004. Maternal grandparents are Rick and Faye Simpson. Paternal grandparents are Victor and Debbie Proctor. Maternal great-grandparents are Charles J. Detter and Heyward and Naomi Simpson. Paternal great-grandparents are Lillian Custer and Mr. and Mrs. John Shifflett.
Chasady Newcomb and Stephan Christian of Martinsburg, W.Va., announce the birth of a daughter, Nevaeh Shamir Christian, July 7, 2004. Maternal grandparents are Mary and David Queen of Crossville, Tenn. Paternal grandmother is Joann Christian of Charles Town, W.Va.
Erik and Nicole Lehman Muther of Lansdowne, Pa., announce the birth of a son, Simon Lehman Muther, July 3, 2004. Maternal grandparents are Doris Lehman of Hagerstown and Donald and Gwendolyn Lehman of Ocean Pines, Md. Paternal grandparents are Paul and Ulla Muther of Toronto, Canada. Maternal great-grandparents are the Rev. and Mrs. Merle and Beulah Cordell of Chambersburg, Pa. Paternal great-grandparents are Walter and Ruth Muther of Boston.
Arnold and Monica Cerezo of Hagerstown announce the birth of their fifth child, a son, Roman Brant Cerezo, July 16, 2004. Maternal grandparents are Thomas and Darlene Seiss of Thurmont, Md. Paternal grandparents are Querido and Carmelita Cerezo of Frederick, Md.
Amber Messick of Martinsburg, W.Va., announces the birth of a son, Chrissin Yeshai Harris, July 6, 2004. Maternal grandparents are Cindy K. Hess, David B. Hess and Kevin L. Messick. Maternal great-grandparents are Donald Staubs, Laverna Staubs, Dorthy Messick and Leonard Messick.
Jim and Kelli Kittel of Hagerstown announce the birth of their second child, a daughter, Grace Olivia Kittel, April 11, 2004. Maternal grandparents are Robert and Elise Wolfe of Smithsburg. Paternal grandparents are Jim and Pat Kittel of Hagerstown. Maternal great-grandmother is Eva Reynolds of Smithsburg.


SAG-AFTRA Joins Call for More Diversity: "This Moment Isn't Only About Race"
The union says the ultimate goal is "more and better jobs for all of our members."
SAG-AFTRA is adding its voice to the call for greater diversity in the entertainment industry. The guild’s President’s Task Force on Education, Outreach and Engagement and SAG-AFTRA Diversity Advisory Committee approved a statement in a joint meeting on Feb. 3 that was issued on Wednesday.
The statement sets forth a number of principals: it says the current focus on diversity isn’t just about race but also disability, age, gender, gender identify and sexual orientation; it commits the guild to focusing on inequities “in terms of opportunity, treatment and compensation”; it says statistics are a helpful tool in measuring progress, but the ultimate goal is “more and better jobs for our members”; and it calls for greater inclusion throughout the industry.
Jason George, chair of the SAG-AFTRA diversity advisory committee, commented: “The most creative workplaces and most dynamic environments are flush with diversity. The faces we see on screen and voices we hear on the radio deeply matter to an audience hungry for authenticity."
This moment isn’t only about race. This isn’t only about the lack of faces and voices of color. This is about disability. This is about age. This is about gender and gender identity. This is about sexual orientation. This is about the diversity of our stories, of our experiences, of our perspectives. So many of these are, right now, missing from our screens.
SAG-AFTRA members work in the most visible workplace on the planet and we will continue to use this visibility to shine a light on the inequity that still exists throughout all levels of the entertainment and news media — in terms of opportunity, treatment and compensation.
Statistical representation is a helpful tool to measure progress but isn’t the ultimate goal. It’s about more and better jobs for all of our members; in particular those who have been historically and categorically denied opportunities to compete for these jobs.
Greater inclusion is needed throughout every level: from executive suites, to writers’ rooms; from agencies to the cast and crew members on-set. All the greenlighters and gatekeepers need to understand that this is a business imperative and not a politically correct luxury — audiences are choosing authenticity over platitudes and will continue to make those choices with their time and their money.


Here's a selection of special places where it's still possible to discover the magic and festive ambience of Christmas, replete with the smell of pine trees and the joyful sound of carols.
It's no exaggeration to say that practically every capital, medium-size city and town in Europe has its very particular Christmas market, many carrying the tradition through the centuries and all giving the season a festive atmosphere as visitors wander old cobbled streets, enjoying spectacular decorations, exploring wooden stalls full of seasonal crafts and festive fare while savoring hot mulled wine.
For the third consecutive year, Zagreb sits atop the European Best Destinations list of the Best Christmas markets, based on thousands of travelers’ votes. The secret of the capital of Croatia’s success includes high-quality crafts, a friendly and festive atmosphere, concerts, ice skating rinks and affordable prices.
Open from December 1 to January 6.
The Christmas market held during the "Pikkujoulu" (Christmas Season) in Finland's medieval capital offers many of the traditional scenes in a Christmas card: snow that usually falls appropriately around the dates of the market, draping the city in white, holiday lights illuminating the main streets, 100-plus wooden stalls bursting with handicrafts, lanterns, decorations, pine-and-birch tar candles, carved wooden kuksa mugs and contemporary jewelry, among other items, and a beautiful, historical carousel in the center of the market.
Surrounding bars and restaurants are open and inviting and even if “the mercury may plunge bellow minus 10 Celsius, the mood is one of warm conviviality,” according to the city’s invitation.
Open from December 1 to 22.
The capital of the only Grand Duchy in the world offers one of the oldest and most traditional Christmas markets in Europe. For a month, Luxembourg City turns three principal places into a Christmas village: its main square, the Place d'Armes in the city's beautiful center, the Place de la Constitution and the Place de Paris.
In small wooden huts, artisans and vendors sell candles, toys, decorations, sweets and typical "Lëtzebuergesch" drinks such as Glühwäin (hot wine) and foods like the Thüringer, Mettwurscht (Luxembourgish sausages ) or Gromperekichelcher (potato pancakes) with apple sauce.
Open from November 22 to December 24.
Paris, of course, appears almost always at the top of the list to visit during Christmas. It has not one but several great Christmas markets. Then again, there are many other French cities and villages famous for their festivities and markets during the December holidays.
Among them in the northeastern region is Strasbourg, recognized as the “Capital of Christmas” for its spectacular street decorations, lights and Christmas markets full of traditional Alsatian crafts and food specialties, concerts, a living nativity, a majestic Christmas tree, music and cultural events - the main one in front of the picturesque cathedral.
Strasbourg’s "Marché de Noël’ has been held since 1570, making it the oldest in France.
Open from November 23 to December 30.
Not far from Strasbourg is Colmar, which this year was voted by the public as the second-best Christmas market in Europe (and the best in France) in European Best Destinations.
“Colmar combines the ingredients of a dream destination: culture, relaxation, gastronomy, wines, traditions, architecture,” according to the site. The beautiful lights in the narrow streets lined with century-old, half-timbered houses, link the five markets that have made Colmar’s Christmas season world famous.
According to the legend, Santa Claus himself chose Tallinn to launch a first Christmas market.
A stunning and unspoiled medieval architecture that turns white with snow makes for classic photos. The Christmas market around the historic town square boasts a special atmosphere, with a towering tree installed in front of the town hall every year since 1441, more than 60 wooden huts selling wreaths, handcrafted toys, sheepskin rugs, many local products and enough mulled wine to warm everybody braving the weather.
Open from November 24 to January 5.
Brussels Christmas markets are among the best-known and best-admired in Europe, and the biggest in the country.
The Belgium capital also has a grand ice rink, fairground, a constellation of lights, lots of chocolate and a nightly show in the Grand Place (declared a World Heritage by Unesco), where the famous buildings surrounding the square serve as the backdrop for a display of lights and music.
Less well-known, a best kept secret, in fact, is the Christmas market of Ghent, barely an hour away from the capital.
Beautifully preserved, with more historically-listed buildings than any other city in the country, a 12th century castle, canals and cobbled streets, Ghent is a great place for a traditional Christmas market with its wooden huts offering traditional adornments and food surrounded by the scent of pine and mulled wine.
Open from December 7 to January 6.
Located at one of Europe's crossroads, on the German side of the border with Belgium and the Netherlands is another Christmas destination always listed among the top Christmas markets in Europe: Aachen.
All the streets around the cathedral and the Town Hall are transformed into a colorful and festive Christmas village with twinkling lights and the scent of mulled wine and Aachener Printen (a type of gingerbread).
Open from November 23 to December 23.
The Budapest Christmas markets also appear among the five favorites in Europe, particularly those in Vorosmarty Square and by the Basilica in the heart of the city. Here, according to legend, Santa Claus does his shopping.
The city center undergoes a transformation into an example of holiday tradition, where modern elements such as flash mobs mix with outstanding Hungarian time-honored and contemporary hand-craft products and a spectacular light show that, thanks to 3D glasses, gives a new dimension to the façade of St. Stephen’s Basilica.
Open from mid-November to December 31.


Welp: Yearbook page for pro-infanticide Ralph Northam features a man in blackface and another in a KKK outfit; Update: "Deeply sorry"
Go figure that a guy with a Klan photo in his yearbook would have a strong stomach for killing innocents.
In fairness to him, a lot of dumb kids did offensive things back when they were [checks notes] 25 years old. In medical school.
This is his medical school yearbook.
It was Big League Politics that found the photo. It started circulating on conservative Twitter, then the Virginian-Pilot checked BLP’s work and found that, yep, the photo’s legit. Now we wait for the follow-up story: Is Northam the guy in the hood, or the one in blackface? And which is worse?
By the way, this guy defeated a formidable Republican in Ed Gillespie by nearly 10 points to become governor in 2017. Crack job by Gillespie’s oppo team in missing the other candidate’s BLACKFACE/KLANSMAN YEARBOOK PHOTO.
If Northam resigns, Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax would become Virginia's second African American governor.
A black would-be governor is waiting in the wings if Governor Blackface steps down. Hmmm.
Update: You can be indulged a bit of youthful Klan-costuming so long as you’re sufficiently woke now.
Update: The apology arrives at a little after 6 p.m. ET.
Good enough? A Republican would be dead on arrival, needless to say. At a minimum, he’ll need to call a press conference, show his remorse to the cameras, and explain how the photo came about. Lots of embarrassment ahead. I think the left will cut him a break. They can’t spare an abortion warrior as ferocious as Ralph!