have I talked about how my two cats love each other so much and they literally do everything together and they’re always piled all over each other like
even when they’re not sleeping they’re just hanging out
shut the fuck up and look at these fucking cats holy fucking hell shitfuck holy fuck
I aspire to have someone love me like those cats love each other
Good morning! It's your digest of everything that happened in college football this weekend.
Ole Miss junior OT Laremy Tunsil, a former five-star recruit and potential top 10 2016 NFL Draft pick, was arrested for domestic violence on Saturday after punching his stepfather. However, Rebels coach Hugh Freeze said that Tunsil was actually defending his mother, after his stepfather allegedly struck her.
Freeze:
Laremy realizes he could have handled it differently, but I am proud of him for standing up for his mother and protecting his family. Laremy and his mother have also pressed charges against the stepfather. As we gather more facts, we will act and make decisions accordingly.
"His stepfather shoved his mom and Laremy punched him," said a source cited by ESPN. "It's as simple as that. He was defending his mother."
Dollars and sense. Many have speculated that if the Big 12 expanded, member schools would end up losing conference money due to cutting the pie in more ways. But if you look at the numbers, that's almost certainly not the case.
Florida law. The Tallahassee Police Department is investigating Florida State quarterback De'Andre Johnson for allegedly punching a woman at a bar. The TPD drew ire -- not the first time -- for releasing the alleged victim's name and personal information, but not Johnson's. But there's actually a valid legal reason.
"Congress Edits" is a Twitter account that automatically tracks Wikipedia edits made by IP addresses inside government. This gem crossed their path Monday and it seems someone is super concerned with making sure Frank Kaminsky's Wikipedia page is accurate. This was their edit:
STANKY FRANKY!
Google tells us that "Stanky Franky" has never been a nickname for Kaminsky and nobody here has ever heard it. So now we know there's a staffer (or hopefully a congressman or congresswoman) who REALLY wants the world to know that he's "stanky."
With The Meth Lab, the rapper and actor’s first new album in almost a decade, due out August 21, it’s a pretty good time to be a Method Man fan. Below, A.V. Club readers can exclusively revel in the glory of that album’s title track with the lyric video for “The Meth Lab.” Featuring Hanz On and Streetlife, the track plays on both Method Man’s name and the recent Breaking Bad phenomenon, backing hot rhymes with close-up shots of Erlenmeyer Flasks.
The A.V. Club is also pleased to premiere the track list for The Meth Lab, which is below. With guest appearances from Raekwon, Inspectah Deck, Masta Killa, and Mack Wilds, among others, the record is shaping up to be a doozy.
The Meth Lab Deluxe Album Track Listing
1. Intro 2. The Meth Lab (feat. Hanz On, Streetlife) 3. Straight Gutta (feat. Redman ...
The privacy policy for Hulu opens with a declaration that the company “respects your privacy.”
That respect could lapse, however, if the company is ever sold or goes bankrupt.
Sirs Ian McKellen and Derek Jacobi were the grand marshals of New York City’s Pride parade this year. Judging by these photos, they clearly had an absolutely miserable time.
See more scenes from Sunday’s celebrations over at The Guardian.
I know I work for a startup again because someone was riding one of these on my first week at work
You’ve seen Justin Bieber, Kendall Jenner and JR Smith cruising on these things. What are they exactly? Are they safe? Can I buy one? WIRED Senior Writer David Pierce has the answers and tips for riding The Scoot, even the knockoffs of the knockoffs.
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All the pencas shorn from a piña at the Tosba farm.
Penca is one of those fantastic wandering words in Spanish that has picked up a number of connotations. In the mezcal world it means the leaf of an agave plan. Pencas come up all the time when talking about mezcal because you have to cut them off in order to get to that starchy core, the piña, without which you wouldn’t have any mezcal. But literally it translates as “main rib” in a botanical sense and is used to describe the ribbing in vegetables like cabbage and spinach. In Mexico it’s also used to describe the pad of a prickly pear cactus. In Chile it’s used for “prick,” and I don’t mean to prick your finger… In Spain it can mean big nose or a chicken’s rear end, the area colorfully known as a “parson’s nose” in Oxford English.
But back to the mezcal world! Pencas occupy a big role in Mexican culture because they have been used in an incredible variety of roles. Today most are left in the fields as compost but historically they’ve been used for all their fibrous goodness. Their tips have thorns so those were used as sewing needles, fishing hooks, ornaments, and additions to weapons. The fibers of the pencas are so strong and long that they were frequently used as thread. The whole leaf is also really strong so it was occasionally used as a building material for a roof or siding. Dried they are also a fuel for fires. Still today some mezcaleros use them to fire their stills, thus completing some cosmic cycle.
Trump needs to find another partner to help fund and broadcast the shows or he must pick up all the costs himself and find another media company willing to broadcast them.
Trump had already said he would not take part in "The Apprentice" reality TV show on NBC - in which he uses "You're Fired!" as his signature command to eliminate contestants - while he was running for the White House. NBC said sister show "Celebrity Apprentice" licensed from United Artists Media Group would continue.
The last season of Celebrity Apprentice averaged about 7.6 million viewers, according to Nielsen, which measures viewership.
Trump said on Monday that he stood by his comments.
"If NBC is so weak and so foolish to not understand the serious illegal immigration problem in the United States, coupled with the horrendous and unfair trade deals we are making with Mexico, then their contract violating closure of Miss Universe/Miss USA will be determined in court," Trump's statement said. (Permalink)
In case you dont understand, when LGBT people say they feel uncomfortable with people posting rainbows over their icons whilst not being supportive of LGBT people in the least this is exactly what they mean
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Two very weird, seemingly connected things happened on the internet yesterday. First, MTV revealed its Tumblr-tastic rebrand featuring cheesy 1990s computer graphics. And then, Tumblr launched Tumblr TV, a web viewer for GIFs with anexplicitly 90s MTV-style visual spin. Basically, Tumblr became MTV, and MTV became Tumblr.
In a business environment that has seen industries decimated by the rise of digital, one sector showing resilience is that of books.
“Books are not like recorded music,” says Shaun Symonds, general manager of Nielsen Bookscan.
If anything, the total global market for books is growing, as confirmed in research by PwC and others:
Total Market for Global Books Continues to grow.(PwC Global entertainment and media outlook 2015–2019, PwC, Ovum)
If you adjust for the effects of the closure of major book chains such as Borders, there is in fact only one or two years of decline in sales volume over the last decade in most major markets. Every other year including the most recent year’s figures reflect a modest year-on-year growth in total books (including eBooks) sold in the year before.
That’s not to say there’s not been significant disruption and consolidation in the industry. A large part of the highest-value, highest-margin segments of the business such as hardback fiction are steadily migrating to eBook and online fulfillment. And of course, the rise of online pure-play booksellers such as Amazon, Flipkart and The Book Depository has meant a new level of global competition for local independent bookstores and chains alike.
The migration to eBooks has meant the total dollar value of books sold has declined but the profitability of some publishers has actually increased as they’ve removed a lot of their printing, warehousing and distribution costs. A growing source of the industries profits are from eBooks as analysis by Bain shows.
Growing share of profits from eBooks.(Publishing in the Digital Era, Bain 2011)
On the retail front while some bookshops have not managed to survive this last decade, many have held on. And some are thriving and flourishing—delighting their customers in ways only they know how. And being remembered for it.
The long-established Shakespeare & Company featured in Woody Allen’s film Midnight in Paris.(Tamara Craiu/Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND)
In an economy increasingly governed by attention, the need for companies and retailers to have their brands recognised and remembered has never been greater. Being forgotten is one of the greatest clear and present dangers in the global, web-connected and digital economy.
Using web data, it’s possible to measure the collective visibility of today’s leading bookstores from around the world.
Towards a global Top 40
Novelist & co-creator of kids TV series Hi-5, Posie Graeme-Evans, recently wrote about her Top 10 Favourite Bookstores.
What if you could find out what everyone’s favourite bookstores were, around the world? And what if this list included all the legendary independent stores like Shakespeare and Company in Paris, as well as online bookstores like Amazon and bookstore chains like Waterstones, Barnes & Nobles and Dymocks. Using large scale data collections from the web, I set about doing this.
The Top 40 Bookstores list is based on how many people think about these stores and how often.
Perhaps not surprisingly, online stores lead the list with Amazon.com followed by the online goliath Flipkart of India just ahead of the world’s largest bookstore chain Barnes & Noble. France’s giant cultural and electronics retailing chain, Fnac, is fourth with the UK’s largest bookstore chain, Waterstones, rounding out the top five.
What may come as a surprise is that leading independent single stores or small chains including Shakespeare and Company (Paris), Powells (Portland) and City Lights (San Francisco) all feature in the top 20.
Here is the list in full:
World’s Top Bookstores 2015
#
Bookstore
Twitter
HQ Country
1
Amazon.com
@amazonbooks
US
2
Flipkart
@Flipkart
India
3
Barnes & Noble
@BNBuzz
US
4
Fnac
@Fnac
France
5
Waterstones
@waterstones
UK
6
The Book Depository
@bookdepository
UK
7
AbeBooks
@AbeBooks
Canada
8
Shakespeare and Company
@Shakespeare_Co
France
9
Books-A-Million
@booksamillion
US
10
Hay-on-Wye
@Hay_On_WyeBooks
UK
11
WHSmith
@WHSmith
UK
12
Infibeam
@infibeam
India
13
Chapters Indigo
@chaptersindigo
Canada
14
Powell’s Books
@Powells
US
15
City Lights Bookstore
@CityLightsBooks
US
16
Blackwell UK
@blackwellbooks
UK
17
National Book Store
@nbsalert
The Philippines
18
Alibris
@alibris
US
19
Foyles
@Foyles
UK
20
Eslite Bookstore
@eslite
Taiwan
21
MPH Group
@M_TWEETbyMPH
Malaysia
22
Hudson Group
@hudsonbooks
US
23
Books Kinokuniya
@Kinokuniya
Japan
24
Fishpond
@Fishpondcom
NZ
25
Strand Bookstore
@strandbookstore
US
26
Hastings Entertainment
@goHastings
US
27
Half Price Books
@halfpricebooks
US
28
Popular Holdings
#popularworld
Singapore
29
Livraria Cultura
@livcultura
Brazil
30
Higginbotham’s
#higginbothams
India
31
Landmark Bookstores
@landmarkstores
India
32
Hatchards
@Hatchards
UK
33
Fopp
@foppofficial
UK
34
Dymocks Booksellers
@dymocksbooks
Australia
35
Harvard/MIT Cooperative Society
@harvardcoop
US
36
Eason & Son
@easons
Ireland
37
NewsLink
#newslink
Australia
38
Archambault
@archambaultCA
Canada
39
Kyobo Book Centre
@withKyoboBook
Korea
40
Hodges Figgis
@Hodges_Figgis
Ireland
Ranked by Bookstore Mind Share 1.01; Paul X McCarthy, June 2015.
The methodology
To create the Top 40, I created a “Bookstore Mind Share” (BMS index) derived from web data such as global visits to each bookseller’s Wikipedia page. This approach is a proxy for popularity or notoriety. I then standardised the results to allow comparisons across categories and across the world. As the BMS is based on the English-language web, it is mainly representative of English-language countries and English-language bookstores but interestingly still includes bookstores in Korea and Brazil.
By using a standard measure across global web platforms like Wikipedia traffic data, Google Books N-Gram and Google search term frequency, you can create interesting and fascinating comparisons that span across time and geography.
Another example of this type of web data use is the MIT Media Lab’s Pantheon project where you can browse rankings of many people across history from ancient times to today including:
Danticat, who is from Haiti, and Diaz, who is from the Dominican Republic, joined forces to condemn the D.R.'s ongoing expulsion of natives and residents who can't prove that they have at least one parent with "Dominican blood."
'The trend is most pronounced among people with bachelor’s degrees, which makes sense since they are more likely to have traditional office jobs. Last year, 39% of the working population with a bachelor’s reported working at home. That compared to only 17.5% of those with some college or an associates degree, and 13.8% of those with just a high school degree:
The percentage of people with bachelor’s degrees who reported not going to an office at all reached the highest point since data was collected. However, the increase was not enough to account for the overall rise in people reporting working from home. The difference could be explained by a rise in flexible work schedules, and how smartphones and the internet have led to an expectation that people are available at all hours of the day.
For those working in the office, the workday has mostly stayed steady at around eight hours. However, time working at home hit its highest point ever at 3.1 hours a day, up from a low of 2.3 hours in 2005. Overall, average work hours are up to their highest point since the 2008 recession.
Some of these shifts likely come from the increased usage of freelancers. But it also appears more people are splitting their work time between home and the office, and likely feeling pressure to do so. For some, notably working mothers (paywall), it’s a way to balance work and family life. Others find it a growing source of stress.'
With the rise of flexible working schedules, the freelance economy, and video conferencing, more Americans are getting their jobs done without ever heading into an office, according to new data from the American Time Use Survey released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Among all workers, 23% report spending all or part of their day working from home. That’s up from less than 19% in 2003, the first year for which there’s comparable data.
The trend is most pronounced among people with bachelor’s degrees, which makes sense since they are more likely to have traditional office jobs. Last year, 39% of the working population with a bachelor’s reported working at home. That compared to only 17.5% of those with some college or an associates degree, and 13.8% of those with just a high school degree:
The percentage of people with bachelor’s degrees who reported not going to an office at all reached the highest point since data was collected. However, the increase was not enough to account for the overall rise in people reporting working from home. The difference could be explained by a rise in flexible work schedules, and how smartphones and the internet have led to an expectation that people are available at all hours of the day.
For those working in the office, the workday has mostly stayed steady at around eight hours. However, time working at home hit its highest point ever at 3.1 hours a day, up from a low of 2.3 hours in 2005. Overall, average work hours are up to their highest point since the 2008 recession.
Some of these shifts likely come from the increased usage of freelancers. But it also appears more people are splitting their work time between home and the office, and likely feeling pressure to do so. For some, notably working mothers (paywall), it’s a way to balance work and family life. Others find it a growing source of stress.
While time use data tends to fluctuate a bit—as can be seen in the charts—the overall trends are pretty clear: More work is being done at home.
But for all the positives of flexible and remote work, it’s worth noting that it can come with a stigma. People that take flexible accommodations can pay a career penalty, and may be less likely to be promoted.
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