Boy arrested after attempted rape of girl, 8, in Manchester
Jun. 24th, 2017 11:06 pm![[syndicated profile]](http://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/feed.png){kind=small}
bbc_feedThe teenage suspect was reportedly chased off by members of the public on Saturday evening.
bbc_feedI now know
Jun. 24th, 2017 11:16 pm![[personal profile]](http://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
james_davis_nicollIt takes roughly 3 hours to pack 4000 MMPB.
I had an amusing thought: donate them to UW, to keep the B. P. Nichol Library of Science Fiction company.
I had an amusing thought: donate them to UW, to keep the B. P. Nichol Library of Science Fiction company.
keeping vigil
Jun. 24th, 2017 08:08 pmalatefelineContent Warnings: dying, life and death questions, medical details, family stress, kids
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Yemen faces world's worst cholera outbreak - UN
Jun. 25th, 2017 02:56 ambbc_feedYemen has more than 200,000 suspected cholera cases, and 1,300 people have already died, the UN says.
Turkey LGBT: Istanbul's Gay Pride organisers vow to defy ban
Jun. 24th, 2017 09:56 pmbbc_feedThey vow to hold a march in Istanbul which officials have banned for the third year in a row.
Stars and Fireflies, 6/24/17
Jun. 25th, 2017 02:45 amscalziwhatever_feed
I finally got out the tripod, and it makes a difference. This is one you’ll want to see the big version of.
Cladding fire tests failed by 34 blocks in 17 areas
Jun. 25th, 2017 02:20 ambbc_feedSo far, 34 cladding samples from 17 areas have been sent to the government's laboratory - and every one has failed fire safety tests.
Boy arrested after attempted rape of girl, 8, in Manchester
Jun. 24th, 2017 11:06 pmbbc_feedThe teenage suspect was chased off by members of the public on Saturday evening.
Much, much faster than I thought....
Jun. 24th, 2017 09:34 pmconulySo first, two signal boosts:
1. I found out about this via the League of Women Voters. This act, introduced in both the Senate and the House, has the stated purpose "To require States to automatically register eligible voters to vote in elections for Federal office, and for other purposes."
Among other things, it would automatically register eligible voters via information they provide to various government offices, such as the DMV. A number of states have take this kind of legislation up, and a few have passed it, but it would be wonderful to have this on a federal level, for all states.
It's S. 1353 in the Senate and H.R. 2876 in the House. Call your reps and ask them to support this act by co-sponsoring it.
What we're seeing right now in Washington with the AHCA is what happens when the elected officials are not sensitive to the needs of their constituents. To force them to care, we have to make it easier for those constituents to make their voices heard in the voting booth.
http://thisfinecrew.dreamwidth.org/
2. There is a new friending meme going around, so if you've already posted at![[community profile]](http://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
2017revival and addme and are still thinking "I need more people", you can try that. Boost it, anyway, would you? These things only work if they get shared.
Anyway, I want to get rid of my last few tabs, so bear with me.
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The Frog Log Saves Wildlife in Your Pool
Here's what happens when lightning doesn't hit the ground
The Last Picture Show
America’s Short-Lived ‘Black Army on Wheels’
What vampire bats can teach us about cooperation
The Green Energy Revolution Will Happen Without Trump
The fact is: Facts don’t matter to climate deniers
The Canadians helping refugees start anew
What's the Problem With Al Jazeera?
White People Keep Finding New Ways to Segregate Schools
London tower blocks evacuated as 34 buildings fail fire tests
Insurers Battle Families Over Costly Drug for Fatal Disease
Trump won't hire poor people for a top post - many Americans agree
Science Says Summer Is Going to Be Ruined for Many Years to Come
How Charlottesville, Virginia’s Confederate statues helped decimate the city’s historically successful black communities.
To Make Sense of American Politics, Immigrants Find Clues From Lands They Left
Venezuela's Maduro confronts perils of his reliance on the military
Bill Cosby Is Planning Town Halls About Sexual Assault And The Law, Spokesman Says (Gross!)
'No doesn't really mean no': North Carolina law means women can't revoke consent for sex
Nursing Home Workers Still Posting Nude and Vulgar Photos of Residents on Snapchat
Psychologists Open a Window on Brutal C.I.A. Interrogations
1. I found out about this via the League of Women Voters. This act, introduced in both the Senate and the House, has the stated purpose "To require States to automatically register eligible voters to vote in elections for Federal office, and for other purposes."
Among other things, it would automatically register eligible voters via information they provide to various government offices, such as the DMV. A number of states have take this kind of legislation up, and a few have passed it, but it would be wonderful to have this on a federal level, for all states.
It's S. 1353 in the Senate and H.R. 2876 in the House. Call your reps and ask them to support this act by co-sponsoring it.
What we're seeing right now in Washington with the AHCA is what happens when the elected officials are not sensitive to the needs of their constituents. To force them to care, we have to make it easier for those constituents to make their voices heard in the voting booth.
http://thisfinecrew.dreamwidth.org/
2. There is a new friending meme going around, so if you've already posted at
2017revival and addme and are still thinking "I need more people", you can try that. Boost it, anyway, would you? These things only work if they get shared.Anyway, I want to get rid of my last few tabs, so bear with me.
The Frog Log Saves Wildlife in Your Pool
Here's what happens when lightning doesn't hit the ground
The Last Picture Show
America’s Short-Lived ‘Black Army on Wheels’
What vampire bats can teach us about cooperation
The Green Energy Revolution Will Happen Without Trump
The fact is: Facts don’t matter to climate deniers
The Canadians helping refugees start anew
What's the Problem With Al Jazeera?
White People Keep Finding New Ways to Segregate Schools
London tower blocks evacuated as 34 buildings fail fire tests
Insurers Battle Families Over Costly Drug for Fatal Disease
Trump won't hire poor people for a top post - many Americans agree
Science Says Summer Is Going to Be Ruined for Many Years to Come
How Charlottesville, Virginia’s Confederate statues helped decimate the city’s historically successful black communities.
To Make Sense of American Politics, Immigrants Find Clues From Lands They Left
Venezuela's Maduro confronts perils of his reliance on the military
Bill Cosby Is Planning Town Halls About Sexual Assault And The Law, Spokesman Says (Gross!)
'No doesn't really mean no': North Carolina law means women can't revoke consent for sex
Nursing Home Workers Still Posting Nude and Vulgar Photos of Residents on Snapchat
Psychologists Open a Window on Brutal C.I.A. Interrogations
30 day song meme #3: A song that reminds you of summertime
Jun. 24th, 2017 06:31 pmelfThis gets interesting, because "reminds me of summertime" often has nothing to do with the contents of the song. I spent a good portion of my preteen and early teen summers in Arkansas, so there are a swarm of country & bluegrass songs that I think of as "summery" because that's when I heard them. But those aren't the only ones I think of as "summertime" songs.
Cotton Jenny | I'm Gonna Hire a Wino | Out of the Frying Pan (And into the Fire) | Delta Dawn | Lady Takes the Cowboy Every Time | Cruel Summer | Stay Young | Good Vibrations | Nobody | Boys of Summer
( And one I associate with summer both because of how I first heard it and the contents )Meme list
Cotton Jenny | I'm Gonna Hire a Wino | Out of the Frying Pan (And into the Fire) | Delta Dawn | Lady Takes the Cowboy Every Time | Cruel Summer | Stay Young | Good Vibrations | Nobody | Boys of Summer
( And one I associate with summer both because of how I first heard it and the contents )Meme list
Days goals
Jun. 25th, 2017 09:43 amfred_mousesome very vague goals for the day
1. get some housework done
2. make progress on writing related projects
3. close many tabs in my browser
1. get some housework done
2. make progress on writing related projects
3. close many tabs in my browser
Bethnal Green fire: One home destroyed and one man in hospital
Jun. 25th, 2017 12:51 ambbc_feedFire breaks out in a flat and spreads to the roof of the four-storey block in east London.
Five ways politicians can win over young voters
Jun. 25th, 2017 12:29 ambbc_feedAround 54% of 18-24 year-olds voted in the most recent election, new figures have shown.
The teenagers growing up with cancer
Jun. 25th, 2017 12:08 ambbc_feedThree teens share their experiences of being treated for cancer at a pivotal time in their lives.
Canada to apologise for 'LGBT purge' in government
Jun. 24th, 2017 11:50 pmbbc_feedDuring the Cold War, hundreds of gay men and lesbians in Canada lost government and military jobs because of their sexual orientation. They are about to get an apology.
The Hollywood stars who quit acting
Jun. 24th, 2017 11:39 pmbbc_feedAs Oscar winner Daniel Day-Lewis announces he is retiring, here are some other stars who quit being an actor.
The horrors of Yemen's spiralling cholera crisis
Jun. 24th, 2017 11:24 pmbbc_feedYemen cholera epidemic: 'I have never seen such suffering'
Longboarding women - it's not about boys
Jun. 24th, 2017 11:22 pmbbc_feedIt can be hard to get into longboarding when you're the only girl at the skate park.
Guatemala: Officials and police charged over girls shelter blaze
Jun. 25th, 2017 12:45 ambbcnewsworld_feedForty-one teenage girls were killed in a fire at the government-run shelter in March.
Nahuatl in LA.
Jun. 25th, 2017 12:11 amlanguagehat_feedPeggy McInerny writes about a Nahuatl program for the Latin American Institute:
The language of the Aztecs, Nahuatl [pronounced na’ wat], is alive and well today in Los Angeles. Beginning and intermediate classes in modern Nahuatl are offered at UCLA, with an advanced class slated to launch next year.
A few miles due north at the Getty Museum, historians and art experts are collaborating with Italy’s Laurentian Library on a long-term project to create an online, annotated version of one of the greatest works ever written in Nahuatl: the Florentine Codex. A virtual encyclopedia of Nahua culture compiled by a dedicated Franciscan friar in the mid-16th century, the work has never been accessible to the general public — much less to descendants of the Aztecs living in Mexico.
Last fall, an entire scene of a U.S. television show was shot in Spanish and modern Nahuatl, marking the first time that the Aztec language had ever been heard on an American broadcast. This coming September, a charter school in Lynwood will offer Nahuatl classes to its middle school students, courtesy of a UCLA graduate student. And that’s not to mention a dedicated native speaker who has been teaching Nahuatl classes for 26 years in a local church in Santa Ana (see KPCC story).
Standing at the confluence of most of these linguistic streams is UCLA historian Kevin Terraciano, director of the Latin American Institute. A genial professor with a dry sense of humor, Terraciano was instrumental in making Nahuatl available at UCLA, beginning in fall 2015. It was Terraciano who translated English dialogue into Nahuatl for an American Crime episode during the show’s current season. (He later coached the actors, who had to learn their parts phonetically, at the actual shoot.)
There’s some interesting stuff there about the history of the language (“Nahuatl was still the majority-spoken language in the Valley of Mexico at the end of the colonial period […] Despite the fact that 90 percent of the population died over a 100-year period as a result of one epidemic after another, indigenous peoples were still the majority of the population of Mexico by the end of that period”). Thanks, Trevor!