Visiting in early November from Michigan and deciding what to pack. I see the weather is around the high 60's/low 70's. Are people in sweaters and boots, or are you still more comfortable in warm weather clothing?
We're in full Fall fashion here in Michigan, so want to make sure I'm prepared for the weather and don't over pack. Female here, but open input from all genders.
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It was late in the evening at Hillary Clinton’s victory party in 2016, and by that point, the guests understood there would be neither a victory nor a party. As Donald Trump’s upset sank in among the hordes at the Javits Center in Manhattan, I asked one Clinton supporter how he was feeling. “Like I want to kill myself,” he said.
Later, at a bar in Hell’s Kitchen, I stumbled upon a group of Clinton-campaign aides sitting together in tears. A tray of shots sat on the table before them. They shared a look of shock: How could this possibly have happened?
Trump trails Joe Biden by an average of eight points nationally, and is behind in every important battleground state. But his reelection still seems plausible, if only because 2016 seemed so implausible. “If I take my PTSD hat off, I can feel semi-comfortable about where things are,” Steve Schale, a Democratic strategist in Florida, told me. “But it’s impossible to take my PTSD hat off.”
Better to leave it on. Surrounding Trump is an apparatus that is still trying to flip states and woo evangelical, Latino, and Black voters, who could all make a difference in a tight race. “There are some people on the Trump campaign who understand political strategy,” Ryan Williams, a spokesperson for Mitt Romney’s 2012 campaign, told me. “They’re just overridden on a daily basis by whatever the president says or does.”
Certainly, the chaos candidate isn’t making the job any easier. At a rally last week, Trump told the people of Erie, Pennsylvania, that he’d rather be somewhere other than the city they call home. Still, the president’s reelection campaign is doing a few things that might work. Here are four.
The president will be better positioned for another Electoral College victory if he can pry loose a state or two that Democrats won last time. His campaign has been eyeing New Hampshire and Nevada, but another target, Minnesota, has as many Electoral College votes as the other two combined. Clinton carried Minnesota by only 45,000 votes in 2016. Although Republicans haven’t won it since 1972, a play for Minnesota is not a bad gamble: At minimum, competing in the state forces Democrats to divert resources from other battlegrounds.
Minnesota Democrats estimate that as many as 250,000 white residents who didn’t go to college—the heart of Trump’s base—weren’t registered to vote in 2016. Republicans are taking pains to find them. While Democrats in the state have largely suspended door-to-door campaigning because of the pandemic, Republicans have kept at it. Last week, volunteers knocked on more than 130,000 doors in the state, a campaign official told me. “This is the largest organization that we’ve seen a Republican put into this state, in terms of advertising dollars, principal visits, and staff on the ground,” Ken Martin, the chair of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, told me. “There’s no doubt that they have a significant operation here.”
Trump’s campaign has booked more than $1.2 million in TV advertising in Minnesota in the final week of the campaign—more than it spent there in the preceding three weeks combined, according to Advertising Analytics, which tracks campaigns’ ad spending. Vice President Mike Pence held a rally in northern Minnesota on Monday, the latest in a series of visits to the state by Trump and top surrogates. Overall, the Trump campaign has deployed 60 staffers in Minnesota, a level of Republican intensity surpassing that of any race in memory, both parties say. (Democrats say they have many more staffers on the ground in the state).
Biden’s lead in Minnesota stands at 5 percentage points, according to the Real Clear Politics average of polls. That number could be inflated. State-level polling proved flawed in 2016: Clinton won Minnesota by 1.5 percentage points even though some of the final polls showed her up by double digits. “Knowing what we do about 2016, we would all be foolish to imbue the polls with undue certainty,” Charles Franklin, a pollster, told me. Both Biden and Trump are scheduled to make dueling appearances in Minnesota today.
Winning Minnesota would give Trump “some leeway to lose another state that he won last time,” Williams said. “It’s an insurance policy,” even if it isn’t “a game changer.” Minnesota has the same number of electoral votes as Wisconsin, for example—a battleground that Trump narrowly won four years ago. Should he lose Wisconsin this time, he’d be no worse off in the Electoral College tally if he manages to wrest Minnesota from the Democrats.
Trump’s campaign is sending customized messages to voters of Cuban, Colombian, Venezuelan and Nicaraguan heritage who may be receptive to the president’s anti-socialist rhetoric.
“It’s classic microtargeting,” José Parra, a Democratic consultant and former aide to ex–Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid, told me. Trump is “going after the main groups in South Florida that could help him out in blunting Democratic turnout.”
A theme of Trump’s messaging is that he’s a bulwark against leftist ideology espoused by specific political figures in Latin America. “These are folks who are generally religious and culturally conservative,” Nick Trainer, the campaign’s director of battleground strategy, told me of the voters being targeted. “Especially in Florida, the Cuban and Venezuelan voters often have left countries that have communist histories. The advantage of incumbency is we get to spend time homing in on each and every piece of the electorate.”
One ad juxtaposes images of Biden and the late Cuban leader Fidel Castro, a reviled figure in much of Florida’s Cuban American voting bloc, which numbers about 900,000, according to Eduardo Gamarra, a political-science professor at Florida International University specializing in Latin American politics. The same ad also includes footage of Gustavo Petro, a former Colombian guerrilla and an ex-mayor of Bogotá, saying he supports Biden. About 200,000 Colombians living in Florida are registered to vote, Gamarra said. Asked about the ad, a Biden-campaign official told me, “No, he [Biden] doesn’t want the support of Petro. Of course we don’t. Just—no.”
Meanwhile, Trump used his Twitter feed earlier this month to congratulate Colombia’s ex-president Álvaro Uribe after he was ordered released from house arrest amid an investigation into alleged witness tampering. Uribe’s tenure was also linked to human-rights abuses. Trump called him a “hero” and an opponent of socialism.
[Read: What liberals don’t understand about pro-Trump Latinos]
“It’s smart politics,” Gamarra said. Trump is “playing to the right wing here in Miami. Most Colombians are Democrats. But all he needs—and this is key—is to move these communities by 5 or 10 percent and that’s enough to change the equation in Florida.”
White evangelical Christians accounted for 20 percent of people who voted in 2016. Today, they constitute only 18 percent of registered voters, according to the Pew Research Center. Some are tiring of Trump’s act. He received 80 percent of the evangelical vote in 2016; a Pew poll earlier this month showed that his support had slipped to 78 percent. “He needs maximal white-evangelical turnout. That’s his only path to winning,” Michael Wear, who handled religious outreach for former President Barack Obama’s 2012 reelection campaign, told me.
“All the evangelicals I know have expressed chagrin, or concern, or heartburn, or some combination of the three about some of the president’s vocabulary and some of the president’s posturing toward those with whom he disagrees,” Richard Land, the president of the Southern Evangelical Seminary and a member of a group called Evangelicals for Trump, told me.
There isn’t much Trump can do about the larger demographic trends that have trimmed his base, but he can give evangelical voters reason to show up at the polls. In the final sprint to Election Day, Evangelicals for Trump is holding several “Praise, Prayer, and Patriotism,” events in battleground states. Past meetings featured the Florida televangelist Paula White and Alveda King, a niece of Martin Luther King Jr. A meeting at a Las Vegas hotel this summer drew hundreds of people—along with condemnation from the state’s Democratic governor, Steve Sisolak, for violating COVID-19 restrictions limiting gatherings to 50 people.
For the faithful, Trump isn’t an obvious choice. As my colleague McKay Coppins wrote, Trump has privately mocked Christian leaders and derided certain religious rites and doctrines. But he’s also taken action that matters to evangelicals, capped by the hasty nomination of the newest conservative Supreme Court justice, Amy Coney Barrett, whom he swore in Monday night. She is the third justice he’s installed on the high court, cementing a conservative majority that will decide cases on abortion rights, religious freedom, and other cultural issues long after Trump is gone. Trump is deploying “a very clever, cynical, and mostly successful strategy,” Rob Schenck, an evangelical minister who supports Biden, told me. “He made a deal with American evangelicals. He said, ‘You tell me what you want and I will deliver it, and you will give me back what I want—and that’s your vote.’”
Democrats went through rounds of finger-pointing after Clinton’s defeat. Should Biden lose, a similar reckoning will begin anew. Already, some analysts point to inroads Republicans have made in voter registration as a potential problem.
At Trump rallies, campaign aides have been checking to make sure supporters are registered to vote. (Biden largely chose to forgo big rallies because of the pandemic). In Florida, the Democratic registration advantage is down to about 134,000 voters, out of a total of more than 14 million. By contrast, in the 2000 election, Democrats’ registration lead in Florida was 379,000. In Pennsylvania, Republicans have cut the Democrats’ registration lead since 2016 from 916,000 to 687,000, out of 9 million registered voters. That’s not a trivial difference. Four years ago, Trump won Pennsylvania by just 44,000 votes.
Sean Trende, a senior elections analyst at Real Clear Politics, cites the registration numbers along with Trump’s relatively high approval ratings on the economy as evidence that he could prevail. “If Trump does pull out the win or overperforms expectations significantly, we would look back at these types of things and say, ‘Yeah, it was there all along!’” Trende told me.
Trump wasn’t supposed to win last time, making it harder to believe that he may lose this time. “You have this gnawing feeling in the back of your head about how wrong everyone was in 2016,” Chris Kofinis, a Democratic strategist, told me. “When people this time suggest, ‘There’s no way Trump can win; look at the polls; it’s impossible’—I heard that exact same nonsense in 2016. We all lived it.”
I'm trying to figure out if the skipjack class submarines had a towed sonar array that leads out the end of the starboard stern plane. I know that USS Shark had a completely different array but can't find solid evidence of the any of the 6 skipjacks containing the specified array.
Most of the Skipjack images don't show it but in the cold waters game, the Skipjack does have one and this drawing suggests that it did: https://imgur.com/a/GpceRd6
If you know that it does or doesn't please link me some reference images of it.
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The House Judiciary Committee has released its conclusions on whether Amazon, Facebook, Apple, and Google are violating antitrust law. Its 449-page report criticizes these companies for buying competitors, preferencing their own services, and holding outsized power over smaller businesses that use their platforms. “Our investigation revealed an alarming pattern of business practices that degrade competition and stifle innovation,” said committee member Val Demings (D-FL). “Competition must reward the best idea, not the biggest corporate account. We will take steps necessary to hold rulebreakers accountable.”
The majority’s report lays out a number of concrete policy recommendations, which, taken together, would drastically change how the...
In Building a Proxmox VE Lab Part 2 we deploy a small Proxmox VE hyper-converged solution using KVM virtualization and ZFS-backed Gluster storage
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Piracy warnings come in all shapes and sizes. While some notices have no teeth, others should be handled with extreme caution.
Typically, alarm bells should go off when a letter is sent by a lawyer who knows who you are.
One such warning was sent to Mrs. Parks in early June, both by first class mail and e-mail. The Arizona woman is one of the people whose personal details were shared by the torrent site YTS, an issue we addressed in detail earlier.
This YTS database ended up in the hands of anti-piracy attorney Kerry Culpepper, who’s actively exploiting it. The lawyer represents several movie companies and has used the information in the database to request out of court settlements from pirates.
Mrs. Parks, who allegedly downloaded the film “Lost Child,” was given the chance to resolve her case for $1,000 in four separate payments. If the first three payments arrived on time, the final $250 would be waived.
This same tactic is being used on dozens if not hundreds of alleged YTS users. It’s not clear how many people settle, but Mrs. Parks and her husband Mr. Dabney initially seemed willing to take the deal, which was confirmed over the phone and via email on June 8.
After this initial agreement, communications stopped for a while. Parks and Dabney never sent back the signed settlement agreement and a reminder on August 31 remained unanswered.
This course of events was written up in a complaint filed at a federal court in Arizona yesterday. The plan was to resolve the matter outside of court, even after the same IP-address shared another movie last week.
“On or about September 21, 2020, after still having received no communication from Defendants, Plaintiffs’ counsel determined that the same IP address Defendants used to download the torrent file for Lost Child (47.216.212.227) was used to download and share copies of the motion picture Saving Christmas,” Culpepper informs the court.
The complaint lists both Mrs. Parks and Mr. Dabney as the defendants. They are accused of using one and the same YTS account and allegedly downloaded the film “Lost Child” last year and “Saving Christmas” a few days ago, after which the attorney sent another settlement request.
“On September 21, 2020, Plaintiffs’ counsel sent Defendant Dabney a demand by email for the full $1000 of the settlement agreement and an additional $750 as damages for infringing the motion picture Saving Christmas,” the complaint reads.
After weeks of silence, Mr. Dabney responded to that request. He was not open to any settlements, however, and accused the lawyer of being “a fraud and a scam,” threatening to take action against the lawyer and his “fake law firm.”
The movie companies’ attorney responded by confirming that he would indeed file a lawsuit, reminding the alleged pirate that he wouldn’t get far in court with such scandalous language. That didn’t change the man’s tone, however, on the contrary.
“Look here. You will NOT get a dime out out [sic] me. You think that language was bad you ain’t seen sh*t fa**ot. That’s not a threat that’s a f*ckin promise. Put that in your records f*ckin bitch ni**a. Dude with a girls [sic] name. Get the f*ck out here and leave me family alone,” he replied.
In a follow-up email, Mr. Dabney further urged the attorney to “…stop looking at [his] IP address…” while accusing him of “…watching [his] 3 year old through the camera…”
Instead of backing off, the attorney quoted these emails in the complaint he filed at the US District Court of Arizona. Representing the owners of the films “Lost Child” and “Saving Christmas,” he accuses the two defendants of both direct and contributory copyright infringement.
In addition, the complaint also includes a “breach of contract” allegation against Mrs. Parks, who allegedly failed to honor the settlement agreement that was agreed on earlier.
In court, the husband and wife now face damages claims that may end up being substantially higher than the original settlement. In addition to the damages claim, the complaint also requests compensation for legal costs and attorneys’ fees.
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A copy of the complaint, filed on behalf of Santa Files Productions LLC, and Laundry Films Inc is available here (pdf)
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A biologist working off the Ross Sea in Antarctica has stumbled upon an assortment of Adélie penguin remains, some of which appeared to have died only recently. Turns out these dead penguins are actually quite ancient, having been newly exposed by the effects of global warming.
Everyone is looking for joy. Parents, this includes our children.
The search for joy lies behind all of our kids’ desires. It informs and directs all of their hopes, feelings, and actions. It is the proverbial carrot hanging in front of our kids’ hearts. It’s why they make that face when you remind them that dessert belongs only to those who eat their vegetables, and why their world seems to hinge on having five more minutes of video-game time.
Once we recognize joy’s formative power over our kids’ hearts, we are well on our way to knowing our children better and our role as parents better too.
When God calls us to be fathers and mothers, he calls us to be stewards of our children’s joy. Which means that a lot of what we do centers on helping our joy-obsessed children find their greatest joy.
Now, this might sound strange to many of us. Most parenting books and podcasts don’t spend a lot of time accentuating the influential power of joy in our kids’ lives. Yet, whether you see it or not, you are more than likely already stewarding your children’s joy toward some end.
Just think about this week. What did you say to your daughter about her run-in with the school bully? What did you do when your middle child didn’t make the high school team? More than likely, you sought ways to replace their hurt with joy. And it doesn’t just have to be hurt that we exchange — we seek all the time to replace good with better, and better with best, such as when we tell our kids to power down their screens and pick up a book.
These instincts show us that much of what we do as parents is driven by our innate commitment to help our kids find joy. This is a good thing, but it’s also where we can get into problems.
The pursuit of joy itself is good. God created all of us to seek true and lasting joy because he knows that this search ultimately leads us to him. This is why Jesus uses parables to liken God and his kingdom to buried treasure and a beautiful pearl (Matthew 13:44–46; cf. Philippians 3:7–8). He knows we would sell everything to makes these priceless riches our own because of the happiness they promise us. Jesus then helps us see that the real treasure, and the real pearl of great price, is God and his kingdom. This is where joy ultimately resides, and making this joy our own is worth giving up everything.
Pursuing joy, then, isn’t the problem. The problem is with where and how we find that joy, when we look outside of God for our delight. To be specific, the problem is with how sin twists our pursuit. Sin is, in many ways, simply misplaced or shortsighted joy. Sin works because it peddles counterfeit joys off as the real thing. Sin sets out to confuse and corrupt joy, and to make our hearts settle on anything other than God.
This is exactly what the serpent did to our first parents in Genesis 3. He promised that the forbidden fruit was better than God and his promises. So, in taking the bite, Adam and Eve settled for a lesser, broken joy — a fruit that was good and delightful, but paled in comparison to the utmost good and perfect delight of knowing God as they once did (Genesis 3:5–6).
So what does this have to do with parenting? Well, it redefines it. It means that God calls parents to more than just helping our kids discover any type of joy, anywhere. It means that God calls us to help show our children where and how they can find him, the very source and reason for every joy ever known (John 15:11; Psalm 36; Psalm 37:4).
Now, if we let it, this can change everything about the way we raise our kids. For example, if we see ourselves as stewards of our kids’ joy, then our parenting finally has a destination. Everything we do — teaching, talking, commanding, loving, correcting, comforting — can be a step toward helping our children find their greatest joy in our great God (Psalm 16:11).
This doesn’t change just our parenting strategies, however; it changes us as parents too. When God becomes the target of our children’s greatest joy, we no longer have to be. When we see every interaction with our kids through the lens of helping them find delight in God, our work as parents is bigger than just having well-behaved kids with perfect test scores.
Which means we don’t have to be perfect moms and dads. Our calling is a better one. What we are called to do is lead our kids to joy in their perfect heavenly Father. And with that as our goal, we find freedom, and so do they. We are free to make mistakes, and so are they. We are free to live in God’s grace, and we want our children to live with us there too.
How do we do this? How do we help our kids find their ultimate joy in God? Here are a few tangible ways to be good stewards of our children’s hearts.
Remember, everyone is looking for joy. Parents, this includes us. So before we can guide our kids’ hearts, we must first know the way ourselves. We as parents have the privilege to hold our kids’ hands on the way to our greatest joy. So before diagnosing your kids’ idols, make sure to face your own. Ask yourself, What have I put all my hope in today? What am I worshiping? What stands between God and my real joy?
If you are like me, it’s easy to get lost in the weeds as a parent. Sometimes we don’t have a good reason why we say no to our kids, and sometimes we say yes out of sheer pragmatism or exhaustion. But setting our sights on joy helps us recalibrate. Our do’s and don’ts should have distinct and eternal reasons behind them. We’re after more than behavior modification; we’re after our kids’ long-term happiness. Our commands and instructions don’t have to be speed bumps to our kids’ happiness; they can be signposts that point them to their ultimate joy. So take a moment before your yes or no and consider how your response will affect your kids’ search for joy.
As your kids grow, teach them how to spot joy’s formative power in their lives. One of the best ways to do this is with the question why. “Why did you hit your sister?” “Why didn’t you study for that exam?” Now, of course, you’ll have to wade through their “I don’t knows” and “just becauses.” But when you do, you’ve helped them to drill down into their motives, where they can finally see how their joys affect their feelings and actions and begin to evaluate them rather than just be enslaved to them.
One of the most important things we can do as parents is ask our kids what makes them happy, and then just listen. Getting a bead on your kids’ joy is like having an all-access pass to their hearts, and when you know what your kids love, you can help them put their loves in the right place. God isn’t in the business of simply removing our kids’ earthly joys, which means that shouldn’t be our business as parents either. Instead, God calls us to help connect our kids’ earthly and temporal joys to him, the divine and eternal one.
So play basketball with your kids and, when you can, help them see how this earthly gift points to greater joys. Sure, Legos and American Girl dolls can become idols, but they can also pave the way to conversations that can help our kids hope in their heavenly Father. And when (not if) our kids seek joy through sin, we have the divinely given privilege to help them see they’ve actually sold joy short by seeking it outside of God and his ways.
Gaming on Linux doesn’t have to mean buying a ludicrously priced GPU (thanks crypto miners!). Nor does it require a beefy CPU. There’s a real resurgence in retro style gaming going on right now. We’ve pulled together a selection of retro-inspired games for you to play today, on your beloved Linux machine.
You can stay up to date with our editorial picks by following Snapcraft on Twitter where we share three new and interesting snaps a week. We’d also love to hear what your favourite snaps are, perhaps you’ve found something we’ve missed. Let us know!
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1. MinecraftSnapcrafters |
At nearly 7 years old Minecraft doesn’t really qualify as a conventional ‘retro’ game. Ask any 13 year old game player though and they might well disagree! With a retro aesthetic, Minecraft can consume a lunch hour or an entire weekend as you gather resources, battle mobs and build you own world. Get Minecraft from the Snap store or install it on the command-line with:
snap install minecraft
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2. flare-rpgNeil McPhail |
Flare is an open source 2D action RPG. You’re exciled from Empyrean and begin a quest to re-gain entry to your homeland. With an isometric view, Flare is reminiscent of Diablo, dating back 20 years. Get Flare RPG from the Snap store or install it on the command-line with:
snap install flare-rpg
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3. WolfenDoom: Blade of AgonyNeil McPhail |
Wolfenstein & Doom inspired a generation of game developers to create 3d worlds in which to get shot. WolfenDoom takes this to the next level as a story-driven FPS inspired by Wolfenstein 3D, Medal of Honor, and Call of Duty. Get WolfenDoom: Blade of Agony from the Snap store or install it on the command-line with:
snap install boa
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4. Codename-LTerico_pt |
The evil agents are out to get you (aren’t they always?) in CodenameLT from Brazilian studio Vaca Roxa! This cat-and-mouse game of evasion is lightweight and fun. Get CodenameLT from the Snap store or install it on the command-line with:
snap install codenamelt
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5. MinetestSnapcrafters |
Despite the name, this is not a test! Minetest is an open source, highly mod-able Minecraft-like game with creative modes, multi-player support, dynamic lighting and an infinite world to explore and build in. Get Minetest from the Snap store or install it on the command-line with:
snap install minetest
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6. Quake (Shareware)Neil McPhail |
Originally published as shareware in 1996, Quake is the classic follow up to Doom. This snap bundles the quakespasm engine with the shareware licensed levels. Get gibbed in Quake (Shareware) from the Snap store or install it on the command-line with:
snap install quake-shareware
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7. MAMEAlan Pope |
In constant development for over 20 years, MAME is an incredible open source project. Play your favourite arcade games from long ago on your Linux PC. Just add ROMs and you’re all set. Get the latest and greatest version of MAME from the Snap store or install it on the command-line with:
snap install mame
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8. Dwarf FortressMichael Terry |
Dwarf Fortress an open-ended construction & management simulation, rogue-like indie game with everything. Build fortresses and go on adventures in the vast procedurally-generated worlds. Get Dwarf Fortress from the Snap store or install it on the command-line with:
snap install dwarf-fortress
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9. ScummVMSnapcrafters |
The SCUMM engine has been used for building point-and-click adventure games for over 30 years now. SCUMMVM allows you to play them on your Linux computer. Over 200 games are supported including the King’s Quest, Police Quest and Monkey Island. There’s a game for everyone. ScummVM from the Snap store or install it on the command-line with:
snap install scummvm
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10. OpenRADaniel Llewellyn |
OpenRA is an open source real-time strategy game-engine for the early Westwood games, such as Command & Conquer: Red Alert. Get OpenRA from the Snap store or install it on the command-line with:
snap install openra
The community of developers building snap, snapcraft and snaps hang out on the snapcraft forums. Join us!
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After announcing its plans to crowdsource a smartphone, collecting user ideas, and letting people vote on the designs, ZTE has announced that the user-submitted "Eye Tracking, Self-Adhesive Phone" concept has won the Project CSX contest with over 36 percent of the votes.
Russian Relations: This week, amid the growing humanitarian crisis in Syria, the U.S. threatened to suspend talks with Russia if the latter nation continued to bomb the city of Aleppo. Russia rejected the warning and the call for a cease-fire, though it did propose a “48-hour pause” in fighting to allow humanitarian aid to get through. In an interview Thursday, Secretary of State John Kerry called Russia’s actions in Syria “inexcusable.” Relations between the U.S. and Russia are also tense because American intel agencies suspect that Russian hackers tried to tamper with the U.S. presidential election—but Donald Trump is reluctant to point fingers.
Reckoning With Race: Police in El Cajon, California, now say Alfred Okwera Olango, the black man who was fatally shot on Tuesday, was unarmed; the object that officers said he pointed at them turned out to be a vaping device. It’s the latest in a series of incidents with a worrying effect: Two studies released this week suggest that black Americans are losing faith in law enforcement, with 911 calls from black neighborhoods dropping precipitously after reports of an officer-involved shooting of a black man, and black citizens reporting much less confidence in police than other racial groups. Meanwhile, in Minneapolis, a civil-rights movement is underway to combat racial inequality in the public parks system, while Georgetown University is attempting to deal with its history of profiting from slavery.
On the Docket: The U.S. Supreme Court announced it will hear eight new cases in its upcoming term, which starts on October 3. One of the most significant is Lewis v. Clarke, a dispute that could impact whether Native American tribes can invoke sovereign immunity in U.S. courts—and, by extension, the defendant argues, could threaten their right to self-government. The court will also hear an appeal on a death penalty case, Buck v. Davis, which hinges on a lawyer’s incompetence: Duane Buck was convicted of murder after his own lawyer presented a witness who told jurors Buck was more likely to commit violent crimes because he was black.
“That negative outcome that we’re all so fearful about, we’re already seeing.” —Sylvia Mathews Burwell, the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, on Zika
“You only become rich by living in a nation that gives you all the things you need to become rich, like infrastructure, education, and a workforce, and mostly, a population of people who can afford to buy things.” —Morris Pearl, a millionaire who wants the wealthy to pay higher taxes
“Everything fucking gives me joy!” —Marnie, a self-identified hoarder, on why she can’t throw things away. For a reader discussion about keeping stuff, go here.
Robinson Meyer on the “Super Bowl of climate law”:
In the past two years, President Obama has converted climate change from a Democratic wedge issue into a major party plank. … But his accomplishments are precarious. The Paris Agreement supposes that the United States will reduce its emissions by 2025. Yet after the Senate failed to approve a carbon-market bill during his first term (even though it passed the House), the White House has advanced emissions-reduction policy primarily by introducing new regulations.
The most critical of these—and the White House’s last best hope to make significant domestic climate policy—is the Clean Power Plan, a complicated set of Environmental Protection Agency regulations that aim to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions from power plants by 2030. If fully implemented, the new rules would cut emissions from the electricity sector by about 30 percent compared to 2005 levels, according to the government’s estimates. It would also help the United States keep the emissions-reductions promises it made at Paris.
It is a last-ditch plan, the president trying to mitigate climate change however he can. It is also a legally risky one.
Read more here, as he looks at the legal challenge facing the plan and the hearing that could decide its fate.
1. The ____________ is the only human organ that the body grows, discards completely, and grows back again.
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2. In 2015, consumers worldwide threw away ____________ tons of electronic waste.
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3. In the next 40 years, the number of elderly people in the U.S. is expected to increase by ____________ percent.
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What’s it like to live abroad as a black American? Kaylee Robinson, who spent three years teaching at a rural school in South Korea, writes:
That … first month of teaching, a colleague asked if I had a gun back home because he thought all Black people did. My 5th and 6th graders didn’t understand my natural hair and touched it without asking. And virtually all of my students refused to believe I was American and must be from somewhere in Africa because to them Americans were only blonde and blue-eyed. Parents were frightened to speak to me simply because of what they had seen on TV shows and in movies. And in a small town, every time I walked out of my apartment building I was stared at incessantly. With such an onslaught of questions about my race and culture, I felt my Blackness being chipped away bit by bit, everyday.
Read more here, and share your own experience as a black expat via hello@theatlantic.com.
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NEWS BRIEF After the Boston Marathon bombing, Glenn Beck, the conservative radio host, said his producer received a tip. Two officials from the Department of Homeland security, Beck said, told the producer a Saudi man seen in a video at the scene financed the 2013 bombings.
But that man, Abdulrahman Alharbi, was cleared in congressional testimony of any role in the attacks by Janet Napolitano, who was Homeland Security secretary at the time. Despite that, Beck repeatedly insisted otherwise. Alharbi sued Beck and TheBlaze radio network, which Beck owns, for defamation. This week, a federal judge ruled Beck must reveal the sources who allegedly provided the information Alharbi was the “money man” behind the attacks.
The case has set up a fight over First Amendment rights, and the ethical obligations of the media when dealing with private figures.
Judge Patti Saris, of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, released her 61-page decision Tuesday, in which she said all other means to learn if Homeland Security did indeed consider Alharbi a suspect had been exhausted. A freedom-of-information-records request turned up no evidence linking Alharbi to the attacks, so she requested Beck turn over his sources.
What will happen next is uncertain, as Politico reported:
It's unclear whether Beck plans to comply with the disclosure order, which is directed to the defendants in the case: Beck, his companies TheBlaze Inc. and Mercury Radio Arts, as well as radio distributor Premiere Radio Networks. If they defy the order, the judge could impose sanctions, which could hurt their defense in the suit. She could also assess fines, or potentially even jail Beck for contempt.
Beck and his legal team had argued Alharbi was a public figure because he gave interviews to the media on the matter. But Saris ruled against that notion, saying if Alharbi was indeed a public figure, he was a “limited-purpose figure,” or an involuntary one. That means Alharbi must only prove Beck and his broadcasting network were negligent in reporting that he financed the bombing. Had he been declared a public figure, Alharbi would have had to prove Beck and his producer deliberately broadcast a falsehood, or intentionally acted with reckless disregard.
Typically, U.S. shield laws protect reporters from revealing their sources. Most states have these, but Massachusetts does not.
Alharbi, a student, was a spectator at the marathon, and was even injured in the blasts. Homeland Security did place him on a terrorist watch list, according to Politico, but Napolitano said they “quickly determined he had nothing to do with the bombing [and] the watch listing status was removed.”
So far, Saris has seemed unimpressed with the testimony Beck and one of his top administrators, Joe Weasel, have offered. In her report, she criticized them for allegedly taking notes of their conversation with the unnamed security source on post-it notes, then throwing the notes away. She wrote:
When asked what the confidential sources told the defendants about the plaintiff’s role in financing the attacks, Weasel could not recall specifically what the confidential sources told him about the nature of the plaintiff’s involvement. There are no notes to confirm the information.
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What we know:
—Nine people are dead and 10 injured in a shooting near a shopping center in Munich, Germany, local police said.
—A lone gunman, identified by police as an 18-year-old German of Iranian descent, is also dead after taking his own life.
—Officials said the gunman does not appear to have any links to ISIS.
—This is a developing story and we’re live-blogging the major updates. All updates are in Eastern Daylight Time (GMT -4).
11:08 a.m.
German authorities said Saturday morning the gunman's attack doesn't appear to be politically motivated. Investigators also found no connections to ISIS or other terrorist organizations. The New York Times has more:
Sketching out an initial profile of the killer, who was born in Germany and held dual German and Iranian citizenship, police and prosecutors said there was no evidence that his shooting rampage Friday evening at a McDonald’s and a nearby mall was driven by religion or the controversies surrounding immigration that have been flash points in German society and politics.
They said a search of his home found newspaper articles on shootings in Germany and other violent attacks and the German edition of “Why Kids Kill: Inside the Minds of School Shooters,” a study by an American academic psychologist. The gunman had been treated for depression, they said.
Updated July 22 at 8:59 p.m.
German authorities raised the death toll to 9 victims and one gunman, who they believe acted alone. The gunman, identified only as an 18-year-old German of Iranian descent by police, took his own life.
6:22 p.m.
Munich police say 10 people were injured in the attack; they previously said there were several injuries, but did not provide a number.
6:06 p.m.
Rukmini Callimachi, The New York Times reporter, is in Munich and is reporting on the story of one family that became separated after the attack. We’ll embed her tweets below:
4. Emotional, hard-to-watch scene at Krankenhaus Schwabing hospital. In the parking lot, a father with bloodshot eyes walks in circles
— Rukmini Callimachi (@rcallimachi) July 22, 2016
5. He explains that his teenage daughter & son were at the Olympic mall when shooting erupted. Daughter made it out. They can't find son
— Rukmini Callimachi (@rcallimachi) July 22, 2016
6. It's 4th hospital he's. gone to try to find his 17-year old son. In fact relatives know what happened. A cousin shows me pics on cell
— Rukmini Callimachi (@rcallimachi) July 22, 2016
7. She walks me away from father & flips through images showing teen lying in pool of blood. She hides phone when father approaches
— Rukmini Callimachi (@rcallimachi) July 22, 2016
8. Cousin has received images from scene showing boy was seriously hurt, if not killed. Not sharing with father bc he has a heart condition
— Rukmini Callimachi (@rcallimachi) July 22, 2016
9. We are in parking lot when ambulance arrives. Family rushes it. Inside is teenage daughter who survived. She emerges screaming/crying
— Rukmini Callimachi (@rcallimachi) July 22, 2016
10. Family hugs her tightly. Emergency workers have wrapped her in a white blanket, possibly because she's in shock. They lead her inside
— Rukmini Callimachi (@rcallimachi) July 22, 2016
6 p.m.
From the German Foreign Ministry:
#FMSteinmeier:horrified, thinking of the people in #Munich.It's good to know that we have our friends in Europe and the world behind us.#oez
— GermanForeignOffice (@GermanyDiplo) July 22, 2016
5:45 p.m.
Peter Altmaier, Chancellor Angela Merkel’s chief of staff, told ZDF television, that Merkel was being briefed on the developments and, “cabinet ministers concerned are on their way to Berlin.” Merkel will convene her security council Saturday to address the killings, he said.
5:41 p.m.
Donald Trump, the GOP presidential nominee, has a statement out:
Our prayers are with all those affected by the horrible attacks in Munich. This cannot continue. The rise of terrorism threatens the way of life for all civilized people, and we must do everything in our power to keep it from our shores.
5:09 p.m.
Special forces from Bavaria and other states, as well as the Federal Police, are taking part in the operation in Munich. Public transport and the electric rail-transit system are closed.
4:50 p.m.
Here’s more from Munich police:
We are verifying the possibility of one dead person being involved in the shooting, #München, #oez, #Schießerei
— Polizei München (@PolizeiMuenchen) July 22, 2016
4:39 p.m.
The police are saying there may be another ninth person killed, but it’s unclear if that person is an attacker.
4:28 p.m.
Munich police have raised the death toll in the shooting in the city to eight.
Eine traurige Nachricht: Die Zahl der Toten steigt auf 8.#Schießerei #oez #münchen
— Polizei München (@PolizeiMuenchen) July 22, 2016
4:15 p.m.
Hillary Clinton, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, said:
Monitoring the horrific situation in Munich. We stand with our friends in Germany as they work to bring those responsible to justice. -H
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) July 22, 2016
She was scheduled Friday to name her running mate. It’s unclear if that will now happen today.
3:30 p.m.
Ned Price, a spokesman for the National Security Council, said Lisa Monaco, the president’s senior adviser, “apprised the president of the developing situation in Munich, Germany. The president will continue to be updated as the situation warrants.”
3:25 p.m.
We have new numbers from the Munich police: six dead and an unknown number of injuries.
[1/2] Update: #Schießerei #München #OEZ:
— Polizei München (@PolizeiMuenchen) July 22, 2016
- unbekannte Zahl von Verletzten
- leider haben wir auch bereits 6 tote Personen zu verzeichnen!
Only one crime scene has been confirmed, the department said in a separate tweet—at Hanauer Street, which adjacent to the shopping centre.
3:20 p.m.
President Obama said he is being updated on the unfolding situation in Munich, telling reporters before a meeting at the White House Friday that the U.S. will support Germany any way it can. More from the president:
We don’t yet know exactly what's happening there, but obviously our hearts go out to those who may have been injured. We are going to pledge all the support they may need.
3:01 p.m.
It’s worth noting that today is the five-year anniversary of attack in Norway by Anders Brevik, a neo-Nazi, who killed 77 people and wounded 319. Brevik is serving a 21-year prison term for his actions, the maximum allowed under Norwegian law. That sentence can be extended indefinitely.
2:59 p.m.
Several news organizations are reporting that Munich police are calling the incident an “acute terror attack.”
2:56 p.m.
Munich residents have started using the hashtag #OffeneTür or #OpenDoor to offer a place to stay for anyone trapped in the city because of the shooting.
2:44 p.m.
The German Interior Ministry confirmed to Deutsche Welle that at least three people were killed in the attack. Other news organizations are reporting a higher death toll.
2:35 p.m.
The U.S. Consulate in Munich has warned American citizens to “shelter in place.” Here’s more:
Review your personal security plans; remain aware of your surroundings, and monitor local news stations for updates. Maintain a high level of vigilance and take appropriate steps to enhance your personal security.
The U.K. Foreign Office, meanwhile, issued a similar warning to its citizens.
2:31 p.m.
Deutsche Welle reports the city of Munich has declared a state of emergency because of the shooting, asking residents not to leave their homes.
2:22 p.m.
The shopping center is near Munich’s Olympic Stadium. The city hosted the 1972 games, perhaps best known for the murder by Palestinian militant of 11 Israeli hostages.
2:13 p.m.
There are reports of more gunfire in Munich, police say.
Unconfirmed reports of more violence and possible #gunfire in the City Center. Situation is unclear. Please avoid public Areas. #munich #oez
— Polizei München (@PolizeiMuenchen) July 22, 2016
2:05 p.m.
Munich police, in a Facebook post, say there may have been three different shooters, none of whom are in custody. Police have yet to release official numbers of those injured or killed.
1:49 p.m.
Munich police have asked the public not to take photos of the shooting scene and publish them on the internet. “Do not support the culprit,” reads the police tweet.
Bitte keine Fotos/Filme von polizeilichen Maßnahmen online stellen. Unterstützt nicht die Täter! #oez #Schießerei #münchen
— Polizei München (@PolizeiMuenchen) July 22, 2016
Police say they are still searching for the person (or persons) responsible for the attack.
1:44 p.m.
A police spokeswoman, speaking with Deutsche Welle, said police believe they “are dealing with a shooting rampage,” as there may be more than one shooter involved.
1:30 p.m.
Facebook has initiated its safety-check in the wake of the reported shooting. The company has previously initiated the measure after the attacks in Nice and elsewhere.
1:24 p.m.
Munich police say several people were injured and told people to avoid public places. The situation, they said, is unclear.
1:20 p.m.
Munich city officials have shut down the city’s underground train network due to the shooting, Deutsche Welle reports.
1:07 p.m.
Munich police are asking people to avoid the area and stay in their homes.
12:59 p.m.
Casualties are being reported by Süddeutsche Zeitung, the major newspaper in Munich.
12:50 p.m.
Deutsche Welle, a German broadcaster, is reporting shots were fired at the Olympia Einkaufszentrum shopping center.
12:44 p.m.
Munich police say there’s an operation underway at a major mall in the German city.
Im Moment haben wir einen großen Polizeieinsatz am OEZ. Bitte meiden Sie den Bereich um das Einkaufszentrum.
— Polizei München (@PolizeiMuenchen) July 22, 2016
Friday’s operation comes just days after the attack on a German train in Bavaria, where Munich is also located. Monday’s attack, claimed by the Islamic State, injured four people. The circumstances of this operation are unknown.
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