Democratic attorneys general from Washington D.C. and 18 states, including Delaware, New York, and Hawaii, are suing the Department of Education and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos over a recent decision to freeze Obama-era regulations that protect student borrowers from predatory for-profit colleges.
At the center of every CW television show based on a comic book is a superhero who’d be nothing without his or her family—the support system that keeps the hero grounded. Usually, these groups are chosen families of friends and colleagues, but when Black Lightning drops this fall, it’s doing something different.
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The world is getting less and less comprehensible. Or maybe this is the jocks scapegoating the nerd for not letting them copy her homework when they all got together to get her kicked out of class.
Unable to craft a health care plan that’s palatable to the American public, the Republican Party has turned to a new, and curious, tactic: Blame Hillary Clinton and the Democrats for not having a plan.
In a Wednesday morning tweet, the RNC’s official twitter account sent out a tweet asking: “Where’s your plan, @HillaryClinton?”
The strategy is bizarre for a number of reasons. Most notably, Clinton is not an elected official, so it’s unclear why they’d place the onus on her to craft legislation.
Clinton fired back at the Republican National Committee on Wednesday.
The GOP’s Twitter account lashed out at her in an attempt to deflect from the Republican Party’s inability to pass a health care reform bill.
“Right here,” Clinton said in response to a tweet and Facebook post in which the GOP asked her and the Democratic Party about their own health care plan. Read more (7/5/17 5:30 PM)
As someone with a not insignificant career in research, this makes me choke with rage, this ridiculous fucking idea that scientists aren’t PEOPLE, that there isn’t SCIENCE ON the SPECIFIC TOPIC of HOW SCIENTISTS ARE SUBJECT TO BIAS, how we perpetuate societal bias in our work
it’s anti-science to ignore the science you don’t like about how fucked up science is!!!! constructive criticism is absolutely fucking necessary to science!!!! it is not optional!!!!! “don’t inject identity politics” IT WAS ALREADY THERE YOU MASSIVE FUCKING TOOL and just like the atom just because YOU can’t SEE IT doesn’t CHANGE THAT FACT
Did you know A League Of Their Own was released 25 years ago on July 1st?
I just couldn’t resist mashing these two together to celebrate the anniversary (and would you believe HalloweenCostumes.com actually paid me to do it?).
wait... I have.. a baby? shit, where did I leave it?
We all know how to carry an infant car seat, right? You loop your arm through the handle, rest it on the inside crook of your elbow, and let it hang. Then, later you pop an Advil for the wrist, neck and back pain induced by dragging around at least 20 pounds at an awkward angle.
In Islamic culture, geometry is everywhere. You can find it in mosques, madrasas, palaces and private homes. This tradition began in the 8th century CE during the early history of Islam, when craftsman took preexisting motifs from Roman and Persian cultures and developed them into new forms of visual expression.
This period of history was a golden age of Islamic culture, during which many achievements of previous civilizations were preserved and further developed, resulting in fundamental advancements in scientific study and mathematics. Accompanying this was an increasingly sophisticated use of abstraction and complex geometry in Islamic art, from intricate floral motifs adorning carpets and textiles, to patterns of tile work that seemed to repeat infinitely, inspiring wonder and contemplation of eternal order.
Despite the remarkable complexity of these designs, they can be created with just a compass to draw circles and a ruler to make lines within them, and from these simple tools emerges a kaleidoscope multiplicity of patterns. So how does that work? Well, everything starts with a circle. The first major decision is how will you divide it up? Most patterns split the circle into four, five or six equal sections. And each division gives rise to distinctive patterns.
There’s an easy way to determine whether any pattern is based on fourfold, fivefold, or sixfold symmetry. Most contain stars surrounded by petal shapes. Counting the number of rays on a starburst, or the number of petals around it, tells us what category the pattern falls into. A star with six rays, or surrounded by six petals, belongs in the sixfold category. One with eight petals is part of the fourfold category, and so on.
There’s another secret ingredient in these designs: an underlying grid. Invisible, but essential to every pattern, the grid helps determine the scale of the composition before work begins, keeps the pattern accurate, and facilitates the invention of incredible new patterns. Let’s look at an example of how these elements come together.
We’ll start with a circle within a square, and divide it into eight equal parts. We can then draw a pair of criss-crossing lines and overlay them with another two. These lines are called construction lines, and by choosing a set of their segments, we’ll form the basis of our repeating pattern.
Many different designs are possible from the same construction lines just by picking different segments. And the full pattern finally emerges when we create a grid with many repetitions of this one tile in a process called tessellation.
By choosing a different set of construction lines, we might have created this any of the above patterns. The possibilities are virtually endless.
We can follow the same steps to create sixfold patterns by drawing construction lines over a circle divided into six parts, and then tessellating it, we can make something like the above.
Here’s another sixfold pattern that has appeared across the centuries and all over the Islamic world, including Marrakesh, Agra, Konya and the Alhambra.
Fourfold patterns fit in a square grid, and sixfold patterns in a hexagonal grid.
Fivefold patterns, however, are more challenging to tessellate because pentagons don’t neatly fill a surface, so instead of just creating a pattern in a pentagon, other shapes have to be added to make something that is repeatable, resulting in patterns that may seem confoundingly complex, but are still relatively simple to create.
This more than 1,000-year-old tradition has wielded basic geometry to produce works that are intricate, decorative and pleasing to the eye. And these craftsman prove just how much is possible with some artistic intuition, creativity, dedication along with a great compass and ruler.
“Many young people struggle to come to terms with being gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender. They’re nearly four times more likely to attempt suicide than their straight peers. It’s not because they’re gay or transgender. It is because they feel rejected and alone.”
We watched this movie in the first month I had moved here, with my boyfriend's friends. When Samuel L Jackson started his monologue about how they were gonna team up and get out of there, I turned to the boyfriend and said, "Wouldn't it be funny if a shark jumped out of that tank and ate him? And then it did. It's weird, the things that make you eternally cool in some people's eyes.
There are reports Syfy is working on a sequel to 1999 shark film Deep Blue Sea, onlywithout any of the original cast. For that reason alone, they shouldn’t bother. Deep Blue Sea’s legacy, which stretches past other shark flicks like Open Water, The Shallows, or even Sharknado, is thanks to one man: LL Cool J.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel has made Chicago Public Schools the first big-city system to require a job, a college acceptance letter, gap-year program enrollment or enlistment in the military as a condition of graduating from high school. Aside from the obvious issues with the school system potentially withholding a diploma…
If I had money, I'd want to pay for all the kids lunches, just so this never happened to another kid again.
Schools across the country deploy a variety of humiliation tactics on students whose parents haven’t been able to pay their school lunch bills, whether it’s publicly throwing away perfectly good trays of food or marking students’ hands. Some states and schools say these practices go too far and are adopting laws and policies that don’t punish schoolchildren for their parents’ debts.
In California, the state senate passed a measure in May that would prevent schools from denying students lunch when their bills reach a certain threshold. Schools would be required to notify parents or guardians of the negative account within 10 days, and work to ensure that eligible students are enrolled in free or reduced lunch programs.
Meanwhile, Texas adopted a grace period of at least two-weeks that allows students to continue eating the same meal served to others while parents negotiate their debts. During this grace period, schools must make at least three private attempts to notify parents of the insufficient funds and work out a payment plan, if needed.
The two measures comes in addition to New Mexico’s recently passed legislation that requires schools to create payment plans for parents and directs them to provide students a hot meal instead of a cold sandwich when they can’t pay for lunch.
While students could feel less shame when their lunch accounts are negative, PBS Newshour points out schools’ bottom line could suffer. In New Mexico, the Las Cruces Public Schools recently had an unpaid meal debt of $8,000.
Still, more changes could be coming to schools, PBS reports.
The Department of Agriculture gave states until July 1 to create policies on how to treat children who can’t pay for lunches. While PBS notes that the Dept. hasn’t specifically barred schools from shaming students, it is suggesting policies that encourage schools to work with parents on their debts.
I went to high school with a kid who would only drink out of a baby bottle. He brought a large baby bottle to school every day. At first, we thought that he was using it to sneak alcohol or something, but he wasn’t. He would bring it filled with chocolate milk and then fill it up with Coca-Cola and Sprite during lunch. He’d buy a can of each and mix them together. Like I said, it was a large bottle.
I didn’t know the kid that well and I didn’t have any classes with him so I never really talked to him that much. I knew his name. His name was Kevin. Sometimes I’d see him at parties on the weekends. He still had his baby bottle. He would fill it with beer and rum.
He dated my sister’s friend, Emily, for a little while. I had known Emily for a long time. She had been a friend of my sister’s since they were five or six. They were really good friends. She spent a lot of time at our house for sleepovers and stuff. Sometimes she would pee the bed, but I never made fun of her for it. I think most older brothers would have loved the opportunity to make fun of their sister’s friend for peeing the bed and I think she really appreciated that I never mentioned it even though I definitely knew about it because after the sixth or seventh time, my parents started paying me to clean everything up instead of having to do it themselves.
I asked Emily why Kevin only ever drank out of a baby bottle and she said that she didn’t know. They had only been dating for a very short time at that point and she didn’t want to bring it up and offend him or anything. I asked her to tell me if she ever found out. They broke up right after that and I kind of forgot about it because Kevin stopped going to school. I don’t know if he transferred or dropped out, but I never saw him at lunch or any parties after that.
I hadn’t thought about him in a long time, but Emily happened to mention him while she was over at our house recently and I immediately remembered the baby bottle thing.
“Did you ever find out why he drank out of that bottle?” I asked.
“Oh yeah, he told me why,” Emily said. “He used it because he heard that babies that drink out of bottles for too long or drink sweet drinks out of them get really bad teeth problems. He wanted all of his teeth to go bad so that they would fall out and he would be able to fit a softball in his mouth. He said that he wanted to have the world record for being the first person to be able to put a whole softball in his mouth and he wouldn’t be able to do that with all of those teeth in the way.”
Good. They deserve better. Don't actually give a hoot about the show, I just really like these two.
Actors Daniel Dae Kim and Grace Park have reportedly quit the CBS show Hawaii Five-0, which they have starred in since 2010, after being unable to get the same pay as their white co-stars.
when someone urges you to become a ‘productive member of society’ what they mean is that you need to find a way to increase the wealth or joy of a rich person. they think you do not deserve food, shelter or medical attention unless you are putting more coins in the pockets of the wealthy.
The U.S. Agriculture Department is requiring districts to adopt policies this month for addressing meal debts and to inform parents at the start of the academic year.
Angry President Circus Peanut supports explain that the Declaration of Independence is Anti=Trump. World responds: "Well, duh, that's what we've been SAYING."
