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  1. Oct 2024
    1. I’ve currently only fixed the platen and reconnected the space bar. Issue I’m having is the letters are really faint and cut off almost half way through.

      Often after you resurface a platen, it slightly changes the configuration of the platen with respect to the typeface. As a result one usually may need to do three adjustments in a specific order to get things to align properly again. These can definitely be done at home with some patience.

      Usually the order for tweaking is: * Ring and Cylinder adjustment (distance of platen from typeface; the type shouldn't touch the platen or you'll find you're imprinting on your paper, making holes in the paper and/or ribbon, which isn't good). Sometimes using a simple backing sheet can remedy a bit of this distance problem, especially on platens which have hardened or shrunk slightly over time. * On Feet adjustment (vertical adjustment so that letters are bright and clear and neither top or bottom of characters are too light/faint) Repair shops will often type /// or a variety of characters with longer ascenders/descenders to make sure that the type is clear from top to bottom. * Motion adjustment (the lower and upper case letters are at the same level with respect to each other) The best way to test this is to type a center character like HHHhhhHHH to see if they line up on the bottom (the last three Hs are usually done with the Shift Lock on to make sure that's properly set).

      You can search YouTube videos for your model (or related models) and these words which may uncover someone doing a similar repair, so you have a better idea of what you're doing and where to make the adjustments.

      Here's Joe Van Cleave describing some of it in one of his early videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0AozF2Jfo0

      The general principles for most typewriters are roughly the same with slight variations depending on whether your machine is a segment shift or a carriage shift. You should roughly be able to puzzle out which screws to adjust on your particular model to get the general outcome you want.

      Related blogposts: * https://munk.org/typecast/2022/01/23/adjusting-ring-cylinder-on-a-brother-jp-1/<br /> * https://munk.org/typecast/2013/07/30/typewriter-repair-101-adjusting-vertical-typeface-alignment-segmentbasket-shift-typewriters/

      You might find a related repair manual for your machine with more detail and diagrams for these adjustments via the Typewriter Database or on Richard Polt's typewriter site.

      For those not mechanically inclined you may be better off taking it onto a repair shop for a quick adjustment. https://site.xavier.edu/polt/typewriters/tw-repair.html 

      Reply to u/Acethease at https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1d76ygx/got_a_as_a_gift_corona_3_recentlyish_and_i_need/

    1. Part VII

      After being saved in the pilots boat and by the Hermit, the Mariner remembers the lesson he learned and carries it with him throughout his life and shared it with others. (GJ)

    2. Part VI

      As the Mariner awakes from his trance he realizes that the ship is making its way toward his native land. While he is taking in the sights of all things familiar he appears to witness angelic beings rising from the bodies of fallen sailors before seeing a Hermit who he hopes will be able to wash away all his sins. (GJ)

    3. weathercock.

      Definition (n): a revolving pointer that shows the direction of the wind in the shape of a rooster (GJ)

    1. reality

      Reading this last section of the reading, it makes me wonder. How did the schools that Latino and other catagories turned out? Did they shut down? Was there a low number of students? Did they take a ction on bettering thier schools? What hapened to the teachers?

    2. 14A

      Was NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) a large group of people? Were they only located in Los Angeles? If not, where were they located? If they were in other cities, did the other cities take the same action to send a message to schools about segragation?

    3. 57

      Reading this paragraph made me wonder. When the families moved away from Los Angeles, was the main reason the families were moving because of overcrowding schools? Was it because they permitted Latinos and other categories to attend the schools?

    4. LAUSD

      This reminded me of the video that we watched in class, where a family fought for diversity in schools and the right for Latinos and other categories to attend "white" schools. I remember towards the end of the video, there was a woman who was one of the first students to attend "white" schools, and she talked about an experience that she had when she started to attend the school where a boy approached her and told her how they don't want Mexicans here.

    5. Brown

      In the reading, it mentions who are the Brown Berets. They are a group that fought for Chicano rights they fought for many things, such as police brutality, war, and U.S. imperialism, while fighting for education, workers' rights, and health care. I live in Barrio Logan across the street from Chicano Park. I still see the Brown Berets in their uniform during Chicano Park day and during Christmas, they receive toy donations to give to the children of the neighborhood. They always are there to help and protect the Chicano people. It is very nice to continue seeing them representing and continue to fight for what they fought for in the past.l

    1. A WOTUS rule that makes clear what is and is not a “navigable water” and respects private property rights. Coordinate with Congress to develop legislation, if necessary, to codify the definition in Rapanos v. United States that “waters of the United States” can refer only to “relatively permanent, standing or continuously flowing bodies of water…as opposed to ordinarily dry channels through which water occasionally or intermittently flows.

      This is a repeat of the Trump administration's unsuccessful effort to sharply limit the waters to which the Clean Water Act is applicable.  In 2019, the Trump administration proposed a rule that would have removed protections for 1 in 5 river miles and 50% of wetlands previously protected.  That rule was replaced by a new rule finalized in 2023 that restored many of the earlier protections, though a Supreme Court decision in Sackett vs. EPA that same year struck down a wider definition of protected waters.   https://www.americanprogress.org/article/debunking-trump-administrations-new-water-rule/ https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-and-army-finalize-rule-establishing-definition-wotus-and-restoring-fundamental https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/21-454_4g15.pdf For context, see chapter 3 in https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674979970.

    2. Place a political appointee in Ann Arbor, Michigan, for the Office of Transportation and Air Quality (OTAQ, regulating mobile sources) and a political appointee in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina,

      Political appointees to the EPA have been confined to leadership of the Administrator and program offices at the headquarters, along with regional office leadership.   Making political appointments to head these scientific wings of the agency could deepen a new administration's interventions into the agency's ongoing scientific work, going beyond the severe cuts and de-prioritization of agency science during the Trump administration.  https://envirodatagov.org/an-embattled-landscape-federal-environmental-science-integrity-in-the-united-states-a-three-part-series-part-1-targeting-scientific-influence-on-policy/ https://envirodatagov.org/embattled-landscape-series-part-2b-the-declining-capacity-of-federal-environmental-science/

    3. Establish a system, with an appropriate deadline, to update the 2009 endangerment finding.

      The 2009 endangerment finding, completed by the Obama Administration EPA in response to a court order, gathered the abundant evidence available by 2011 to declare that the EPA could regulate greenhouse gas emissions as threats to public health and welfare under the Clean Air Act. https://www.apeoplesepa.org/home/climate Ever since, it has been a dream of many in the conservative movement to reverse this finding, thereby pulling the legal rug out from any regulation of greenhouse emissions.  While some  in the Trump Administration resisted such a move, including this chapter's author, others did undertake a last minute unsuccessful move to try and overturn it.  It appears that Project 2025 authors would now like to take another crack at the finding, at least to "update" it.  https://www.eenews.net/articles/inside-the-trump-epas-final-moves-on-climate/

    4. on small businesses

      Current EPA reporting requirements for greenhouse emissions only apply to about 8,000 facilities in the US. While these cover about 85-90% of U.S. greenhouse emissions, most genuinely small businesses are already exempted from having to report these. https://www.epa.gov/ghgreporting US firms' reportage of greenhouse emissions has been falling behind that of "global peers" according to MSCI Sustainbility Institute https://www.msci-institute.com/insights/us-firms-fall-further-behind-global-peers-on-climate-disclosure/

    5. return the standard-setting role to Congress

      Members of Congress cannot be expected to have the requisite expertise, as Congress itself acknowledged through its broad framing of the Clean Air Act. Highlighting "the growth in the amount and complexity of air pollution," calling for "a national research and development program to achieve the prevention and control of air pollution," it generally authorized the Executive Branch "to protect and enhance the quality of the Nation's air resources so as to promote the public health and welfare and the productive capacity of its population." Nowhere does the Act suggest an expectation that the authorized agency come back to Congress for the standard-settting needed to accomplish such a goal. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2013-title42/html/USCODE-2013-title42-chap85-subchapI-partA-sec7401.htm

    6. ensure to the maximum extent possible that grants and funding are provided to state regulatory entities and not to nonprofits.

      Here and elsewhere, this author evinces a special animus against the many programs set up by the Biden EPA to fund and otherwise support community-based organizations addressing the pollution and other environmental impacts facing disadvantaged communities, under the Justice40 initiative led by the Biden White House https://www.epa.gov/environmentaljustice/justice40-epa

    7. Reasonably Available Control Technology (RACT)

      Best Available Control Technology, a higher standard than "reasonably available" should remain the standard to protect public health. For more on when each standard is currently applied, see https://www.epa.gov/clean-air-act-overview/setting-emissions-standards-based-technology-performance

    8. When doing cost-benefit analysis, use appropriate discount rates, focus on the benefits of reducing the pollutant targeted by Congress, identify “co-benefits” separately, and acknowledge the uncertainties involved in quantifying benefits.

      Currently, “co-benefits” — benefits from a regulation that are ancillary to its intended purpose — must be considered alongside direct benefits for there to be an accurate cost-benefit analysis. For instance, when the EPA adopted its mercury rule to limit toxic mercury emissions from coal- and oil-fired power plants, the agency rightly included the co-benefits from reductions in fine particulate matter that would result from the installation of pollution control equipment used to reduce mercury emissions. Legalistically excluding the co-benefits of a rule, on the other hand, would make it harder for EPA to justify that rule, and stymie its ability to move against the multiple public health threats faced by many communities. https://www.americanprogress.org/article/reckoning-conservatives-bad-faith-cost-benefit-analysis/#:~:text=The%20demise%20of%20regulatory%20cost,conflicts%20with%20their%20deregulatory%20goals.

    9. In recent decades, OAR and its statutory responsibilities under the Clean Air Act have been reimagined in an attempt to expand the reach of the federal government. The U.S. Supreme Court has stopped and stricken several actions from OAR under liberal Administrations, citing a lack of requisite legal support.

      On the actual state of the scientific study of climate change at the time of the passage of the Clean Air Act, suggesting greehouse emissions were relevant to original ntent of the act, see https://www.ecologylawquarterly.org/print/climate-change-and-the-clean-air-act-of-1970-part-i-the-scientific-basis/ From the abstract: "In Massachusetts v. EPA, the Supreme Court held that the 1970 Clean Air Act granted the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) the authority to regulate greenhouse gases as air pollution. But, while the Court found the Act to 'confer the flexibility necessary” to respond to “changing circumstances,' the Justices expressed skepticism that legislators in 1970 would have been familiar with the climate-altering effects of CO2 and other heat-trapping gases. At the time of the Clean Air Act’s passage, the Court wrote, 'the study of climate change was in its infancy.' That statement was misleading. By the late 1960s, scientists knew that greenhouse gases, derived from fossil fuel combustion, could alter the global climate with potentially serious and deleterious ensuing effects."

    10. Budget Review. Develop a tiered-down approach to cut costs, reduce the number of full-time equivalent (FTE) positions, and eliminate duplicative programs. EPA should not conduct any ongoing or planned activity for which there is not clear and current congressional authorization, and it should communicate this shift in the President’s first budget request.

      Auguring a more sophisticated effort to accomplish more of what a first Trump administration tried to do but was partly stymied by Congress: greatly reduce EPA budgets and staff. See charts 8 and 11-15 here: https://envirodatagov.org/embattled-landscape-series-part-2b-the-declining-capacity-of-federal-environmental-science/

    11. Employee Review. Determine the opportunity to downsize by terminating the newest hires in low-value programs and identify relocation opportunities for Senior Executive Service (SES) positions.

      Auguring a more sophisticated effort to accomplish more of what a first Trump administration tried to do but was partly stymied by Congress: greatly reduce EPA budgets and staff.  For documentation, see for instance charts 4, 6, 9, 11 here: https://envirodatagov.org/embattled-landscape-series-part-2b-the-declining-capacity-of-federal-environmental-science/

    12. Stop all grants to advocacy groups

      Targeting the several grant programs set up during the Biden administration to funnel more funding support to organizations representing "environmental justice" communities. For instance, https://www.epa.gov/environmentaljustice/environmental-justice-thriving-communities-grantmaking-program

    13. Resetting science advisory boards to expand opportunities for a diversity of scientific viewpoints free of potential conflicts of interest.

      Here, "diversity of scientific viewpoints," a rhetoric honed by Trump-appointed EPA political leadership, codes for diminishing the voice of academic scientists on these boards.  The previous Trump adminstration sought to undermine these boards by barring membership for academics with EPA grants, while expanding their membership share of corporate or consultancy (science-for-hire) experts.  See charts 1-3 here: https://envirodatagov.org/an-embattled-landscape-federal-environmental-science-integrity-in-the-united-states-a-three-part-series-part-1-targeting-scientific-influence-on-policy/

    14. Relocating the Office of Children’s Health Protection

      The Trump Administration targeted the Office of Children's Health, set up to better ensure environmental protection of children, are more vulnerable to many environmental threats such as lead and other toxics.  Undermining the OCH's leadership, the Trump EPA reduced staff by 40%.  This proposal to remove it from the overarching Administrator's Office and split it across or move it into one of the "media offices" is likely to reduce its influence still further.  https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8713602/#:~:text=The%20EPA%20established%20the%20Office,science%2C%20programs%2C%20and%20policy.

    15. Eliminating the Office of Public Engagement and Environmental Education as a stand-alone entity and reabsorbing substantive elements into the Office of Public Affairs.

      The first Environmental Education Act, passed in 1970, was a bi-partisan effort. Public school education on environmental issues has proven effective in helping children both understand environmental crises as well as develop a sense of agency towards solving them.

      The Trump Administration sought to curb environmental education efforts by the agency,  from this office to its websites to the information it provided for public comments on its proposed rule changes.  Most audaciously, it sought to scrub mentions or discussions of climate change from its websites. https://envirodatagov.org/publication/the-new-digital-landscape-how-the-trump-administration-has-undermined-federal-web-infrastructures-for-climate-information/

    16. Returning the enforcement and compliance function to the media offices (air, water, land, and emergency management, etc.) and eliminating the stand-alone Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assistance

      Proposal is nearly identical to what  Anne Gorsuch did to EPA enforcement during the first two years of the Reagan Administration, as part of a far-reaching assault against the EPA's basic mission.  She and others in that administration also proposed cutting the agency's budget by one-third; though public outcry by 1983 drove her out of office and led the Reagan White House toward a more supportive approach.  Whereas the Trump administration was able to "achieve" a historic drop in EPA enforcement efforts without resorting to this measure, apparently a second Trump administration may draw from the early Reagan playbook.   https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29698097/ On the Trump admnistration's successes in cutting agency enforcement work without this measure, see https://envirodatagov.org/publication/a-sheep-in-the-closet-the-erosion-of-enforcement-at-the-epa/

    17. Returning the environmental justice function to the AO, eliminating the stand-alone Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights.

      Pollution and hazardous wastes have disproportionate negative health consequences in communities of color, on Tribal lands, and in low-income neighborhoods around the nation, from Flint, Michigan, to the Louisiana Gulf Coast. Beneficial environmental amenities, such as parks, green spaces, and recreation areas, which promote human health, are also unevenly distributed. In response to these documented disparities, the Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights (OEJECR), which Project 2025 seeks to eliminate, was first established in 1992 as the Office of Environmental Equity by Republican President George H.W. Bush. The OEJECR now anchors the EPA’s efforts to remedy these longstanding inequalities. The OEJECR works to ensure that everyone has “equitable access to a healthy, sustainable, and resilient environment” and to protect people from adverse human health and environmental burdens, including those attributable to climate change, cumulative exposures, and “the legacy of racism or other structural or systemic barriers.” https://www.epa.gov/aboutepa/about-office-environmental-justice-and-external-civil-rights Since environmental racism was identified as a serious national problem in the 1980s, progress has been halting, but the OEJECR represents a significant commitment to address environmental inequalities. Politicizing federal agencies by reorganizing departments and by replacing experienced civil service experts with political appointees stands out as a key element of the Project 2025 plan. Eliminating the OEJECR would reduce environmental protections for all. For a history of this office and its fate during the Trump Administration, see https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/abs/10.1089/env.2021.0012

    18. make public and take comment on all scientific studies and analyses that support regulatory decision-making

      Already, all peer-reviewed findings can receive scrutiny and comment in the public record.  What this rhetoric of "transparency" targets for exclusion are studies of people who are actually exposed to environmental chemicals, which often draw on medical records whose privacy would be compromised by this "transparency." See comment and links at annotation #2 above of this chapter.

    19. EPA should foster cooperative relationships with the regulated community, especially small businesses, that encourage compliance over enforcement.

      The EPA has long had a compliance program, as it should, but as many studies of EPA enforcement have shown, a lack of strong enforcement will lead to more violations that put public health and the environment at risk. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1093/reep/req017 https://envirodatagov.org/publication/a-sheep-in-the-closet-the-erosion-of-enforcement-at-the-epa/

    20. tangible environmental problems

      Ordinarily "tangible" would be taken as meaning, among other things, scientifically demonstrable. Yet the aversion here to acknowledging the science of how intensifying storms or droughts have been worsening through climate change suggests otherwise. Instead, "tangible" seems to refer only to those problems that authors of this report and their allies--none of them scientists themselves--are willing to acknowledge as perceptible and real, without necessarily listening to what any scientists say.

    21. primary role in making choices about the environment belongs to the people who live in it.

      States lack the budgets, enforcement authority, and breadth of expertise that the federal agency can provide.

      They can also be susceptible to regulatory capture--a major reason why the state-based patchwork of pollution controls prior to the EPA was widely considered to have failed. For just one instance, see this analysis of the mining/smelting industry in Idaho. https://upittpress.org/books/9780822964483/

    22. Back to Basics.

      Rescusitates this slogan from Scott Pruitt, Trump's first appointee as EPA administrator. Before resigning under a cloud of multiple scandals, he claimed his vision for the agency to harken back to an earlier EPA, when its agenda was more "basic" and its relationships with states more harmonious. For a critical look by an actual historian at what Pruitt's vision missed, see this piece by Leif Fredrickson: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/made-by-history/wp/2017/07/14/scott-pruitt-is-wrong-about-the-origins-of-the-epa/

    23. EPA experienced massive growth

      False; the EPA's workforce size and budget trends do not support this claim. Employment at the EPA, which actually peaked in 1999, shrank during the Obama administration. https://federalnewsnetwork.com/unions/2023/02/epa-employees-voice-concerns-about-low-pay-understaffing-burnout/ Also see charts 4 and 11 here which actually show slow declines in EPA's budget and staff over the Obama years: https://envirodatagov.org/embattled-landscape-series-part-2b-the-declining-capacity-of-federal-environmental-science/

    24. new regulations governing phaseout of the production of ozone-depleting substances in conjunction with U.S. ratification of the Montreal Protocol in 1988.

      Project 2025’s goal of devolving environmental regulation to the states would undermine longstanding federal policies that enjoy bipartisan support and have proved remarkably effective in improving public health. For example, the 1987 Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer, negotiated and signed during the Reagan administration, required participating countries to curb the release of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) that were damaging the ozone layer. Rules implementing global treaties are of necessity federal regulations. The international agreement, signed by all of the world’s countries, worked because signatories agreed to reduce their output of CFCs by one-half within ten years. As a result, worldwide use of CFCs dropped by 80 percent in the first eight years. Thirty years later, the ozone hole was the smallest recorded. https://www.unep.org/news-and-stories/story/thirty-years-what-montreal-protocol-doing-protect-ozone The result: improvements in public health due to reductions in UV radiation, which can cause skin cancer and eye damage. https://www.epa.gov/sites/default/files/2015-07/documents/achievements_in_stratospheric_ozone_protection.pdf<br /> September 16, 2024, marks the International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer.

    25. For many decades, rapid industrial activity with an unorganized approach to environmental standards significantly degraded the country’s environment. Particle pollution in the form of a thick, fog-like haze that at times was laced with harmful metals was a frequent occurrence across the country.7 More than 40 percent of communities failed to meet basic water quality standards, and in 1969, the Cuyahoga River infamously caught fire after sparks from a passing train ignited debris in the water, which was filled with heavy industrial waste.8

      A critical aspect of the origins of the EPA is not stated here: States and localities had anti-pollution laws in place prior to the EPA's creation, but those laws were either inadequate or weakly enforced. Anti-pollution laws also existed at the federal level, but these were primarily designed to fund and otherwise assist states and localities. This system, however, failed to protect public health and the environment. The EPA, and the much stronger federal laws that were created in conjunction with it, constituted a historic response to these regulatory as well as market failues. A Republican President, with bipartian support from Congress, created a national agency and laws that could control pollution far more effectively than the preexisting system. States had a role, and would be given more authority if they proved they would effectively implement environmental laws. This document argues for a return to "state leadership," precisely what by 1970s was widely agreed to have poorly controlled the nation's pollution problems. https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/full/10.2105/AJPH.2018.304396

    26. the perceived threat of climate change

      "...perceived threat...": another side-step from the scientific consensus about threats from climate change.

    27. Flint, Michigan, water crisis in 2014

      The EPA's failures in Flint are exactly the failures that Project 2025's state devolutionary approach would compound. The Grist article cited here by this Project 2025 author explains the EPA's failure differently from what is here implied, in the following way:

      "The [Office of Inspector General] report cites five possible oversight actions that the EPA could have taken under the Safe Drinking Water Act, including alerting Flint residents about possible harms and acting in the place of state authorities when there is 'substantial endangerment' to human health." https://grist.org/article/the-epa-failed-flint-now-we-know-exactly-how/

      But in almost every case, officials deferred to their state counterparts, rather than using their legal authority to step in. As the report’s authors note, such oversight tools — like most tools out there — are “only effective when used.”

      Additionally, the Flint water crisis was the consequence of decades of deliberate underfunding of Detroit's water system. During the Nixon and Ford administrations, the EPA failed to allocate sufficient funds, through its Municipal Wastewater Construction Grants Program, to the Detroit Water and Sewer Department. This refusal worsened a municipal debt spiral that would eventually contribute to the Flint water crisis. Moreover, the EPA failed to adequately ensure DWSD's compliance with agreed-upon treatment standards and deadlines. For more on Detroit and the EPA's Construction Grants Program, see:

      https://uncpress.org/book/9781469665764/toxic-debt/

      https://academic.oup.com/jah/article-abstract/111/1/71/7695574?redirectedFrom=fulltext

    28. Many EPA actions in liberal Administrations have simply ignored the will of Congress, aligning instead with the goals and wants of politically connected activists.

      Across both liberal and conservative administrations, there have been tensions between Congress and the Executive Branch over the EPA. But the most notorious case happened during the conservative administration of Ronald Reagan, when a bi-partisan Congress held Reagan's appointees accountable for their malfeasance and attempts to undermine the mission of the agency. As a result, Reagan was forced to re-install the original EPA administrator, William Ruckelshaus, to revive the agency's legitimacy and fend off a growing backlash from Congress and the public. In 2017, Ruckelshaus (a Republican) criticized the Trump administration for again undermining the basic mission of the EPA. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/07/opinion/a-lesson-trump-and-the-epa-should-heed.html; https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/full/10.2105/AJPH.2018.304396

    29. agency costs and staffing have increased significantly. The EPA’s fiscal year (FY) 2023 request included a 28.8 percent increase in funding and a 13.3 percent increase in staffing, making it the “highest funding ever” in EPA’s history

      Needing context: EPA staff levels actually peaked in 1999. Despite declining budgets and staff over the Obama years, largely driven by conservatives in Congress rather than the Obama White House, the Trump administration (of which this author was a part) repeatedly proposed draconian budget cuts for the agency, as much as 32%. Though Congress restored much of this money, both the agency's budget and staff declined significantly over the Trump years. https://www.apeoplesepa.org/home/origins https://envirodatagov.org/embattled-landscape-series-part-2b-the-declining-capacity-of-federal-environmental-science/

    30. The challenge of creating a conservative EPA will be to balance justified skepticism toward an agency that has long been amenable to being coopted by the Left for political ends against the need to implement the agency’s true function: protecting public health and the environment in cooperation with states

      The argument that EPA has been coopted by the Left is a long-standing canard of the Republican party. In reality, Republican presidents have been the leaders in appointing partisan operatives to head and staff the agency, especially in more recent times. While Reagan appointed Anne Gorsuch early in his presidency, the public outcry against her actions, led the Reagan White House to reverse course after two years. And from the return of William Ruckelshaus, the well-respected first leader of the agency, in 1983 through the appointment of former New Jersey Governor Christine Whitman by George W. Bush in 2001, Republican presidents did appoint EPA administrators who were committed the agency's basic mission. But the Republican Party turned more aggressively anti-environmental stances by the 2010s lead to Republican appointees during the Trump administration who actively opposed and sought to undermine much of this agency's mission and ongoing work. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29698097/

    31. opensource science

      "Open-source" science is code language for conservative efforts to undermine the work of scientists and the role of science in the regulatory process. It is the most recent variation on calls for "sound science," which was a talking point for EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt at the start of the Trump administration. Calls for "open source" or "sound science" seek to limit the kinds of scientific research that can be used in regulatory decisionmaking. In particular, they seek to eliminate any studies that draw upon sensitive healthcare records. https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-easiest-way-to-dismiss-good-science-demand-sound-science/

      This "open-source science" agenda would exclude from regulatory considerations practically all the burgeoning science done over the past two decades centering on actual people who are exposed to toxic pollutants, including what are considered by scientists to be the best and most conclusive studies in epidemiology. That's because all these studies involve confidential medical records the laws like HIPA make impossible to fully release to the public without violating patients' privacy. https://nyuelj.org/2021/06/transparency-in-regulatory-science-for-whom/

    1. The 1980s and 1990s also saw an emergence of more instant forms of communication with chat applications. Internet Relay Chat (IRC) lets people create “rooms” for different topics, and people could join those rooms and participate in real-time text conversations with the others in the room.

      IRC was influential in the early development of online communities, offering a decentralized, flexible, and open environment for communication, which contributed to its popularity in the 1990s. Although it's less popular now, IRC still has a dedicated user base, and its influence can be seen in modern chat tools like Slack, Discord, and others.

    2. Internet Relay Chat (IRC)

      I believe IRC and Discord are quite similar, despite being social media platforms from different decades. On Discord, like IRC, users can join groups focused on specific topics. Within these groups, there are designated channels for particular discussions. For example, the UW swim club has its own group, and within that group, separate channels like "workouts" or "swim times" help keep conversations organized and clear for everyone.

    1. It was a new type of power machine, "in which the source of power and the transmission were of such a nature as to ensure the even flow of energy throughout the works and to make possible regular production and a standardized product" (p. 326).

      This quote is important to understand who invented these machines and how they were utilized.

    1. "Do you have a better idea?" He just walked up and down the kitchen for a minute. He was as tall as I was. He had started to shave. I suddenly had the feeling that I didn't know him at all

      "I suddenly had the feeling that I didn't know him at all." I like this part a lot. It's simple, but I feel as though it holds a lot of weight. People we once knew can feel like strangers in just a blink of an eye.

    2. And when light fills the room, the child is filled with darkness. He knows that every time this happens he's moved just a little closer to that darkness outside. The darkness outside is what the old folks have been talking about. It's what they've come from. It's what they endure. The child knows that they won't talk any more because if he knows too much about what's happened to them, he'll know too much too soon, about what's going to happen to him

      This particular part is very descriptive, the use of light and dark adds extra feeling to it. "The darkness outside is what the old folks have been talking about." right after talking about how when the light turns on, the child will be filled with darkness. The child will see the reality of the world around them, and that will fill them with the darkness the author speaks of. It leaves you with a gloomy/upset feeling.

    3. Page 1 Sonny's Blues Sonny's Blues Sonny's Blues Sonny's Blues I read about it in the paper, in the subway, on my way to work. I read it, and I couldn't believe it, and I read it again. Then perhaps I just stared at it, at the newsprint spelling out his name, spelling out the story. I stared at it in the swinging lights of the subway car, and in the faces and bodies of the people, and in my own face, trapped in the darkness which roared outside.

      I really love this opening, it grabs the readers attention and leaves you wondering what the narrator is talking about. It compels the reader to keep reading!

    4. They fed him and he ate, he washed himself, he walked in and out of their door; he certainly wasn't nasty or unpleasant or rude. Sonny isn't any of those things; but it was as though he were all wrapped up in some cloud, some fire, some vision all his own; and there wasn't any way to reach him.

      After everything Sonny has been through as well as the Narrater they both don't know how to communicate with each other. Sonny does not seem like himself because he has been through a trauma which can seem to the narrater there is no way to get through to him. Could open communication solve this issue?

    5. Dear brother, You don't know how much I needed to hear from you. I wanted to write you many a time but I dug how much I must have hurt you and so I didn't write. But now I feel like a man who's been trying to climb up out of some deep, real deep and funky hole and just saw the sun up there, outside. I got to get outside

      This letter is a great representation of Sonny's side of the story and how grateful he is to hear from his brother. Having that sense of connection shows a lot about his character.

    6. I was scared, scared for Sonny. He became real to me again. A great block of ice got settled in my belly and kept melting there slowly all day long, while I taught my classes algebra.

      Why is he scared for Sonny? The narrater seems to be empathic towards Sonny due to the story he read in the paper.

    7. Page 1 Sonny's Blues Sonny's Blues Sonny's Blues Sonny's Blues I read about it in the paper, in the subway, on my way to work. I read it, and I couldn't believe it, and I read it again. Then perhaps I just stared at it, at the newsprint spelling out his name, spelling out the story. I stared at it in the swinging lights of the subway car, and in the faces and bodies of the people, and in my own face, trapped in the darkness which roared outside.

      This is a great opening paragraph in terms of catching the readers eye. I read this and was hooked wanting to know more. It sets up a mysterious story and has me wondering what he is reading.

    8. All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it. And even then, on the rare occasions when something opens within, and the music enters, what we mainly hear, or hear corroborated, are personal, private, vanishing evocations. But the man who creates the music is hearing something else, is dealing with the roar rising from the void and imposing order on it as it hits the air. What is evoked in him, then, is of another order, more terrible because it has no words, and triumphant, too, for that same reason. And his triumph, when he triumphs, is ours. I just watched Sonny's face. His face was troubled, he was working hard, but he wasn't with it. And I had the feeling that, in a way, everyone on the bandstand was waiting for him, both waiting for him and pushing him along. But as I began to watch Creole, I realized that it was Creole who held them all back. He had them on a short rein. Up there, keeping the beat with his whole body, wailing on the fiddle, with his eyes half closed, he was listening to everything, but he was listening to Sonny. He was having a dialogue with Sonny. He wanted Sonny to leave the shoreline and strike out for the deep water. He was Sonny's witness that deep water and drowning were not the same thing-he had been there, and he knew. And he wanted Sonny to know. He was waiting for Sonny to do the things on the keys which would let Creole know that Sonny was in the water.

      I think that this is my favorite passage, just because of all of the details that are in it. How the narrator describes the band being held back, how Creole waits and watches Sonny to let him take control.

    9. Anyway, I'll have the G.I. Bill when I come out.

      I just had an 'aha' moment readinf this sentence because of all I learned from last year's Ap US History class that I know about this Bill and the benefits to the men who served in the military

    10. Yet, when he smiled, when we shook hands, the baby brother I'd never known looked out from the depths of his private life, like an animal waiting to be coaxed into the light

      I thought this quote was significant because the narrator is saying that sonny is the same person he always was but with experiences that changes him. I also think that the narrator regrets not getting to know his baby brother but that he can still see bits of him buried underneath all of the prison time and drug addictions. There is also the symbol of darkness vs. light reappearing.

    11. "You may not be able to stop nothing from happening. But you got to let him know you's there."

      I thought this quote was really significant, not only because it's a really good piece of advice, but also because I kind of feel like I'm going through the same problem at home with my younger sister, who wants to do things, no matter the cost. I wanted to know from my classmates if anyone else has felt this way.

    12. It was mocking and insular, its intent was to denigrate. It was Page 2 disenchanted, and in this, also, lay the authority of their curses.

      Their laughter isn't the childish laughter that you might expect, full of happiness, but instead it's mean and scathing. It emphasizes how this is the angry laughter of men who are already hardened against the world even though they shouldn't have to be.

    1. Loop through the list of submissions# The variable submissions_list now has a list of Reddit submissions. So we can use a for loop to go through each submission, and then use . to access info from each tweet (other pieces of information would need [" "] to access). For each of the tweets, we will use print to display information about the tweet

      This reminds me of Lab 1, where I was so excited after successfully using code to post an article on Reddit. However, it also left me feeling a bit anxious when I considered the broader implications. It made me realize that so much content on the internet can be generated through code, and a single individual has the power to shape public opinion or even spark controversies with just a few lines of code. It's both empowering and a little daunting to think about how easily information can spread and influence people.

    1. "whipping boys" of fairly recent publicdiscourse concerning African-Americans and national policy,

      cultural events transcribed into the physical

    2. At a time when current criticaldiscourses appear to compel us more and more decidedly toward gender "undecidability," itwould appear reactionary, if not dumb, to insist on the integrity of female/male gender.

      resisting gender essentialism

    3. Daniel Patrick Moynihan's celebrated "Report" of the late sixties, the "Negro Family" has noFather to speak of- his Name, his Law, his Symbolic function mark the impressive missingagencies in the essential life of the black community, the "Report" maintains, and it is, sur-prisingly, the fault of the Daughter, or the female line. This stunning reversal of the castrationthematic, displacing the Name and the Law of the Father to the territory of the Mother andDaughter, becomes an aspect of the African-American female's misnaming

      the absent patronymic

    1. Now, let’s say we have a list of users who liked our latest social media post: users_who_liked_our_post = ["@pretend_user_1", "@pretend_user_2", "@pretend_user_3"] Copy to clipboard What if we wanted to follow all of them? If our list was long, it would take a lot of code to pull out each one and try to follow them. But Python gives us an easy way to perform actions on all the items in a list, by using for loops.

      This passage really resonates with me because it highlights the fun and flexibility of programming. Seeing how a simple for loop can help follow a bunch of users makes everything feel so much more manageable.

    1. The only advance is that of the vehicle itself, Mars thus being only an Earth of dreams, endowed with perfect wings as in any dream of idealization. Most likely if we were to disembark in our turn on the Mars we have designed, we should find there merely Earth itself, and between these two products of the same history we should be unable to determine which is our own

      To me, I understand this as how the expectations we set can differ rom the cruel reality of things. The passage basically says that we see Mars as a perfect version of Earth which is healed by our dreams. However, if we were to actually go there somehow we would realize it’s more similar to Earth then our dreams imagined

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    1. On March 12, the night before select banks reopened understricter federal guidelines

      How did this influence the expectations of government in other crisis situations?

    2. “Today’s woman gets what shewants. The vote. Slim sheaths of silk to replace voluminous petticoats.Glassware in sapphire blue or glowing amber. The right to a career. Soapto match her bathroom’s color scheme.” As with so much else in the1920s, however, sex and gender were in many ways a study in contradic-tions. It was the decade of the “New Woman,” and one in which only 10percent of married women—although nearly half of unmarried women—worked outside the home.16

      This shows how women gender roles transformed during this time period, shifting from the prior household and work expectations to consumerism.

    1. e Angulo goes on to say that wandering can lead to death, to hopelessness, to madness, to various froms of despair, or that it may lead to encounters with other powers in the remoter places a wanderer may go. He concludes, “When you have become quite wild, then perhaps some of the wild things will come to take a look at you, a

      It is interesting and can be applied to different aspects of life. For example, if you are curious about science, your mind may become tired, but in the end, you will be rewarded by discovering new things.

    2. The question then is how to get lost. Never to get lost is nor to live,

      I like this sentence and how the writers convey the idea that getting lost can be something positive. It helps people to think, become more creative, and explore new things.

    1. Attention• Retention• Reproduction• Motivation
      • You need to pay attention to what is happening to the person
      • You have to maintain that punishment in memory
      • You have to repeat that behaviour when you're motivated to do so
      • Reinforcement is affecting motivation the most
    2. variable ratio schedule
      • Rewarded based on the amount of responses and it increases responses
      • Immune to extinction
    3. Stimuli associated with drug use also become rewarding
      • Hinders drug-addiction recovery because the context is still fresh in the one's mind
    4. Contingency
      • Are you able to access the reward even if you don't do the behaviour?
      • Eg. We still need to feed dogs which is why food is not good for reinforcement
    5. Immediacy
      • How quickly after the behavior the reward can be received
      • Eg. Obedient classes and treat
    6. Premack Principle38
      • Refers to the opportunity value of engaging in an activity
      • The ability to do something is reinforcing behaviour, even when you don't actually plan on doing the behaviour
    7. Secondary
      • We learn this reinforcer through conditioning Eg. Social status(eg. promotion), grades
      • Used much more than secondary since the use of the former is inhumane
    8. Primary• Biological needs
      • Fulfill biological needs Eg. Fulfillment of food and sustenance, warmth(shelter, clothing, etc.), sleep, sex, etc.
      • Praise is debatable -> We can live without it, but the absence of it has detrimental consequences in children's development
    9. Avoidance
      • Learn precursor behaviour from the deliverer of the punishment Eg. Avoid the person doing the punishment even when the behavior is committed which means the behavior continues
    10. Escape
      • Run away from the punishment; not effective in this case
    11. Negative
      • Negative reinforcement
      • Taking something away to increase the probability of a behavior occurring Eg. Absolving a child the responsibility of doing chores if they're nice to their siblings

      • Often confused with positive reinforcement

        • Negative punishment 2.
    12. Positive
      • Positive reinforcement
      • Not synonymous with good and bad but refers to addition and subtraction in regards to the situation
      • Increases the possibility of a behaviour continuing Eg. Rewarding a kid a piece of candy for being nice to their friends

      • Positive punishment

      • Decreasing the probability of a behaviour occurring
    13. Classical• Through association, a neutral stimulus becomes associated with anunconditioned stimulus and elicits the same response
      • Two stimuli become associated and we develop a conditioned response to that association
    14. Compensatory response• Offsets the response• May contribute to drug tolerance
      • Happens to people who regularly use psychotic drugs
      • Individuals get a conditioned response to their environment and can contribute to drug tolerance. At the extreme, it contributes to overdose when individuals use drugs in different settings
    15. Mimics the effects of the drug• Caffeine
      • Cases of regular drug users
      • Happens unintentionally around the use of the drugs
      • Refers to the context which the drugs are used

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    1. Much of the pleasure of the writing has derived from the chance to ex-perience narrative as a product of impetus and accident.

      I learned that some writers only plan the beginning and the ending, and the middle is changeable, allowing anything to come to the writer's mind.

    1. I'm trying to find sources discussing Zettelkasten being used for research in natural sciences (for me most directly relevant is medical research). Does anyone know of any good sources or starting points? My preliminary searches haven't really resulted in anything meaningful unfortunatly (The best I've found sofar is this ZK Forum thread https://forum.zettelkasten.de/discussion/2415/zettelkaesten-in-the-fields-of-science-and-history)

      reply to Signynt at https://discord.com/channels/686053708261228577/979886299785863178/1293207926013427733

      Does Carl Linnaeus' incarnation work? Isabelle Charmantier and Staffan Müller-Wille have a number of journal articles on his "invention" and use of index cards in his research and writing work. If you dig around you'll find references to Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz' use of index cards and the Arca Studiorum (Krajewski, MIT, 2011); Computer scientist Gerald Weinberg wrote Gerald M. Weinberg on Writing: The Fieldstone Method. New York, N.Y: Dorset House, 2005, which might appeal; you'll also find examples in physicist Mario Bunge, and, although he had a mixed practice of notebooks and index cards, W. Ross Ashby's collection of notes on complexity can be found at https://ashby.info/. Hundreds of other scientists and mathematicians had practices, though theirs typically fall under the heading of commonplace books (Erasmus Darwin, Charles Darwin, et al.) or as in the case of Isaac Newton and others the heading of "waste books". While looking at others' examples or reading about it may feel like it's going to get you somewhere (better?), having some blind faith and proceeding with your own practice is really the better way to go. Others have certainly done it. Generally it's far rarer for mathematicians, engineers, or scientists to write about their note making/methods so you're unlikely to find direct treatises the way you would for historians, sociologists, anthropologists, humanists, etc.

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    1. They

      Uses "they" a considerable amount of the time to give us more context to her situation

    2. damned thing, it got what it wanted in the end

      Personification

    3. how the hell do you manage to seduce so many women when you’re such an ugly son of a bitch?

      Use of humor to mediate the pain

    1. The antidote to feel-good history is not feel-bad history but honest and inclusive history. If textbook authors feel compelled to give moral instruction, the way origin myths have always done, they could accomplish this aim by allowing students to learn both the “good” and the “bad” sides of the Pilgrim tale. Conflict would then become part of the story, and students might discover that the knowledge they gain has implications for their lives today. Correctly taught, the issues of the era of the first Thanksgiving could help Americans grow more thoughtful and more tolerant, rather than more ethnocentric.

      Loewen likely intended this book to show us the raw, unfiltered truth of history. If we had been taught the full story from the beginning, we could use those lessons to improve our lives today. It's understandable why people often choose to ignore or downplay the negative aspects of history. They prefer to believe in heroic figures and a hopeful future rather than confront past mistakes. However, we can see how history is repeating itself because we were never taught the "dark side" of the past. This lack of knowledge prevents us from recognizing the warning signs and stopping harmful events from happening now.

    2. To highlight that happy picture, textbooks underplay Jamestown and the sixteenth-century Spanish settlements in favor of Plymouth Rock as the archetypal birthplace of the United States. Virginia, according to T. H. Breen, “ill-served later historians in search of the mythic origins of American culture.”53 Historians could hardly tout Virginia as moral in intent, for, in the words of the first history of Virginia written by a Virginian: “The chief Design of all Parties concern’d was to fetch away the Treasure from thence, aiming more at sudden Gain, than to form any regular Colony.”54 The Virginians’ relations with American Indians were particularly unsavory: in contrast to Squanto, a volunteer, the English in Virginia took Indian prisoners and forced them to teach colonists how to farm.55 In 1623 the English indulged in the first use of chemical warfare in the colonies when negotiating a treaty with tribes near the Potomac River, headed by Chiskiack. The English offered a toast “symbolizing eternal friendship,” whereupon the chief, his family, advisors, and two hundred followers dropped dead of poison.56 Besides, the early Virginians engaged in bickering, sloth, even cannibalism. They spent their early days digging random holes in the ground, haplessly looking for gold instead of planting crops. Soon they were starving and digging up putrid Native corpses to eat or renting themselves out to American Indian families as servants—hardly the heroic founders that a great nation requires.57

      The highlighted portion discusses the true nature of the early Virginians. When we are told the story of Columbus, Jamestown, and the Indians, we are told that everyone worked together. The Indians wanted to help the Virginians by teaching them how to plant crops, and in return, the Virginians educated the Natives in English culture. However, Loewen tells us that what happened was after Squanto volunteered to help them with fishing, other Virginians "took Indian prisoners and forced them to teach colonists how to farm."

    3. During the next fifteen years, additional epidemics, most of which we know to have been smallpox, struck repeatedly. European Americans also contracted smallpox and the other maladies, to be sure, but they usually recovered, including, in a later century, the “heavily pockmarked George Washington.” Native Americans usually died. The impact of the epidemics on the two cultures was profound. The English Separatists, already seeing their lives as part of a divinely inspired morality play, found it easy to infer that God was on their side. John Winthrop, governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, called the plague “miraculous.” In 1634 he wrote to a friend in England: “But for the natives in these parts, God hath so pursued them, as for 300 miles space the greatest part of them are swept away by the smallpox which still continues among them. So as God hath thereby cleared our title to this place, those who remain in these parts, being in all not 50, have put themselves under our protection. . . .”25 God, the Original Real Estate Agent! Many Natives likewise inferred that their god had abandoned them. Robert Cushman reported that “those that are left, have their courage much abated, and their countenance is dejected, and they seem as a people affrighted.” After a smallpox epidemic the Cherokee “despaired so much that they lost confidence in their gods and the priests destroyed the sacred objects of the tribe.”26 After all, neither American Indians nor Pilgrims had access to the germ theory of disease. Native healers could supply no cure; their medicines and herbs offered no relief. Their religion provided no explanation. That of the whites did. Like the Europeans three centuries before them, many American Indians surrendered to alcohol, converted to Christianity, or simply killed themselves.27

      These couple of paragraphs do not sit right with me. The reason is because I did not know that this happened. In my years of education, I was never told that A) the disease during this time was so bad and B) that the American Indians were used this way. Loewen demonstrated how the European Americans used the fear of the Natives to gain power over them. In the last paragraph highlighted, Loewen states, "many American Indians surrendered to alcohol, converted to Christianity, or simply killed themselves."

    1. Only through such“pooled experience” can we hope tobuild up a body of practical andhelpful professional knowledge.

      They were saying earlier in the text that legal research is a science. This section here truly explains why that is true. In science there are so many things that touch that specific topic, and, as a researcher, you must know where to start and how to look through these related items. The pooling of knowledge is imperative if we want growth and understanding as there are just too many things to look at. Pooling knowledge allows the field to come to an agreement of what rule they want to follow and any other approaches that people have tried that work or don't work. In the law we need to have a consensus on how we are interpreting and applying the law or we will not have the results that we are looking for when implementing them.

    2. The results of the various steps out-lined are a number of quotations,with supporting citations. Unless thenumber of cases is quite large or thesame cases have been repeatedly citedby several authors for the same propo-sition, we finally turn to Shepard’sReporter Citations for other citationsof the appropriate head-notes in thecases we have. In all events it is wellto run the leading cases, and the localcases, through Shepard, as a final safe-‘guard against serious oversight.

      I had no idea what shepardizing was until a couple months ago; however, I think it is one of the most important steps in your research. At the OJ Simpson trial the prosecutor based one of her arguments off of a case that had not been shepardized and she was called out by the judge. The case she based her argument off of had been overturned. She could have saved herself a lot of embarrassment and time spent crafting that argument if she had just shepardized before she relied on the case.

    3. irst of all, state the question forinvestigation as clearly and conciselyas possible in terms of recognizedlegal terminology and concepts. Mostlegal questions arise among laymen.

      One thing that I always struggle with is that legal problems usually arise from "laymen" but then legal terms of art and complicate concepts are brought in to complicate the problem. One major issue in the legal realm is that the law is not accessible to the average laymen person because they simply do not understand it. I understand that our job as lawyers is to write the legal questions and concepts in legal terms but the explain it to the clients clearly. However, if the legal issues are arising from the laymen, then why do we have to complicate the matter for the public and add in legal terms and concepts that makes the law more inaccessible? I think it's important to keep this in mind moving forward as we all start practicing law The part in this sentence that says "clearly and concisely" is going to be very important when we begin to interact with clients.

    1. They establish a "right-to-know" legal process by which requests may be made for government-held information, to be received freely or at minimal cost, barring standard exceptions.

      They provide legal bases for people (NGOs, journalists, activists, etc.) to ask bureaucrats information about the government performance.

    2. Freedom of information laws allow access by the general public to data held by national governments and, where applicable, by state and local governments.

      Definition. These laws are introduced in response to increasing dissatisfaction with secrecy around government policy.

    1. In brief, DCD takes a step from CD and attempts to provide a rationale bridge towards EMD for abetter sense of point distribution rather than being blinded by its nearest neighbour. Compared withEMD, it is not only more efficient but also stricter with local structures. A balanced distributionand good preservation of detailed structures are both important factors for the visual quality of thecompletion result.

      DCD is an improvement on CD towards the very expensive EMD method.

    2. Chamfer Distance between two point sets S1 and S2 is defined as

      need to do both directions because of the minimization

    1. Lampra Jones, a recent graduate of a chiropractic program who has struggled to find work, called herself “a loner” and said she wished she knew more people to help with her job search. “If you don’t know the right people,” said Ms. Jones, 28, “you’re not going to get anywhere.” Michael Novajovsky, a father of three in Gwinnett County with a temporary job as a network engineer, said in an interview that the struggle to build a better life often felt similar to “a lottery.” His job pays $27 an hour but comes with no health insurance for him, his wife and his three children.

      This just shows how difficult it is to climb the income ladder. Lampra, who went to school for a specific practice, still struggles to find work, despite the work, time, and money she put into gaining skills and knowledge about her practice. Having connections is important, but difficult when you may not have access to resources and opportunities to build those connections. For Michael, "network engineer" sounds like a job that also requires education and that he has to be equipped with the right skills to do well. However, it does not come with health insurance which makes it a lot more difficult to support him and his family.

    2. Climbing the income ladder occurs less often in the Southeast and industrial Midwest, the data shows, with the odds notably low in Atlanta, Charlotte, Memphis, Raleigh, Indianapolis, Cincinnati and Columbus. By contrast, some of the highest rates occur in the Northeast, Great Plains and West, including in New York, Boston, Salt Lake City, Pittsburgh, Seattle and large swaths of California and Minnesota. “Where you grow up matters,” said Nathaniel Hendren, a Harvard economist and one of the study’s authors. “There is tremendous variation across the U.S. in the extent to which kids can rise out of poverty.”

      When thinking back to Week 1 when we discussed the purpose of schools, a majority of the class voted for "social mobility" as the main purpose of schools now, and I agree with this. However, reading about the effects of where you live and seeing the map of different districts on Tuesday, makes me wonder if this can be possible for students and families who live in poverty.

    1. Using input transformation givesa 0.8% performance boost.

      but what is the input transformation?

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    1. So you would not agree to our being neutral, friends instead of enemies, but allies ofneither side?Athenians : No, because it is not so much your hostility that injures us; it is rather the case that,if we were on friendly terms with you, our subjects would regard that as a sign of weakness in us,whereas your hatred is evidence of our power

      why not be allies? bc if others see that you fear us, they will respect us more

    2. And how could it be just as good for us to be the slaves as for you to be the masters?Athenians : You, by giving in, would save yourselves from disaster; we, by not destroying you,would be able to profit from you

      negotiaion of Athens, be our slaves and we won't kill you

    3. What we shall do now is to show you thatit is for the good of our own empire that we are here and that it is for the preservation of your citythat we shall say what we are going to say. We do not want any trouble in bringing you into ourempire, and we want you to be spared for the good both of yourselves and of ourselves

      Athens motives

    4. speak

      Athenians sens reps to speak to Melians, but Melians only allow them to speak infront of a few governing, Athenians claim they do this to prevetn the people from hearing their reason Melians reply that Athenians give them option of war or slavery, they see them as a threat

    1. Brooklyn Engineers’ Club. Brooklyn Engineer’ Club Proceedings for 1906: Constitution and By-Laws and Catalogue of Reference Works Added to the Library During the Year. Brooklyn Engineers’ Club, 1907.

    1. Winslow-Yost uses a lot of contrast and paradox to illustrate the complex emotional experiences offered by video games.

    Annotators

    1. Nearly 50 years ago, long before smartphones and social media, thesocial critic Lewis Mumford put a name to the way that complextechnological systems offer a share in their benefits in exchange forcompliance. He called it a “bribe.” With this label, Mumford sought toacknowledge the genuine plentitude that technological systems makeavailable to many people, while emphasizing that this is not an offerof a gift but of a deal. Surrender to the power of complextechnological systems — allow them to oversee, track, quantify, guide,manipulate, grade, nudge, and surveil you — and the system will offeryou back an appealing share in its spoils.

      Technological systems lure people with apparent benefits while demanding something in return. The repeated listing of verbs ("oversee, track, quantify, guide...") highlights technological control, making the reader aware of how intrusive these systems are.

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    1. I've generally found that Olympia machines with a dedicated 1 key and a 4/$ key will usually have a script font. Additionally they don't have ribbon selectors (which are most often on the right hand side of the keyboard when they are present) or only have black and stencil settings.

      The lack of bichrome settings on these machines is due to the taller/lower extenders on many script glyphs.

    2. In later units, the absence of a ribbon selector is a good clue, though later units (late ‘60s onwards) offered script with units that had ribbon selectors.
    3. In earlier units, typewriters that have the letter 1 key is a good clue that it is a script font typewriter.
    1. What did the rebirth of the Klan and the continuation of lynching suggest about US attitudes regarding their communities?

      South Carolina shows itself why, the sheriff and the the governor and many other higher indiviuals have control of it.

    2. Despite the breadth of its political activism, the Klan is today remembered largely as a violent vigilante group, with good reason.

      Group is too insignificant to call it, at that point it should be called a political party, South Carolina proves it.

    3. the second national Klan was composed largely of middle-class members

      So lower class people didnt care what about the upper class that have power..? did it not appear to them as well to be involved?

    4. William Jennings Bryan at the trial in 1925. He died a few weeks later.

      why does every lawyer pass a few weeks after a brutal case..?

    1. Testimonies and artifacts, whether oral or written, may have been in-tentionally created, perhaps to serve as records, or they might have beencreated for some other purpose entirely. Scholars sometimes think of thefirst as having had an "intention," the second as being "unintentional." Infact, however, the distinction is not as clear at it may at first seem, for asource designed for one purpose may come to have very different uses forhistorians. For example, a film taken to record one event but which inad-vertently captured ano

      This shows that some oral or written artifacts could be intentionally created. Mostly, they created these artifacts to represent something already there but didn't have any evidence to prove it, so it could be made to describe that thing.

    2. testimonies are the oralorwritten reports

      second kind of sources; testimonies

    3. ourc~s are artifacts ~hat have ,~een~eft,~Ythe past. T~ey e~ist eitheras rehcs, what we might call remams,oras the testlmomes of wit-nesses to the past.

      Definition of source

    1. Psychometrics

      ' the branch of psychology concerned with evaluation and use of psychological tests the application of statistical and mathematical techniques to psychological test

    1. Still, as the arrows fly from everywhere, biting into the brown bide, weremember Gawain's brown fur-trimmed robe. And we are at least mar-ginally aware of the lady's outdoor associations,just as Gawain himself ismindful of the hunting lord. The hunt begins the day like an open ques-tion, and as Gawain's delightful huntress turns his bedroom into a gamepreserve-as inner experience begins to merge with outer-we wonderhow he might be taken .

      I did not clue into this in my first read. Very interesting comparison between Gawain being hunted by the Lady Berdilak and the doe being hunted by Lord Berdilak.

    2. be faculties of tberational soul could access the images produced by tbe inner senses, butits bigber faculties of reasoning, logie, consciousness and will worked byabstraction. Tbey could themselves store images, althougb they could notreceive new ones from outside the mind. Tbus buman intellection wasfrequently, if not necessarily, dependent upon sense perception. But ani-mals, wbo did not bave souls, depended entirely upon the instinctive pro-cessing of images carried out by the inner senses.

      I think the mind/body binary dovetails well with the man/nature one.

    3. Its signifi-cance for Gawain 's cbaracter seems plain enougb, ifwe can assume thatwithin bim, a courtly persona and a private, or "natural" man co-exist,and tbat tbere is sometbing to be gained-for readers, if not for tbeembarrassed Gawain bimself-by acknowledging that both the intellec-tual and the emotional, both thinking and feeling, are necessary to theman be bas been sbown to be .

      Gawain, at the end of the narrative has meted the chivalric/natural opposition in himself. Gawain was introduced as a personification of the human half of the binary. Gawain is chivalrous to his gleaming boots, noble and brave. He is polite, courteous, and socially adept. Devout in his religion and rational in his decision making. Gawain's journey results in a kind of transformation. He has not lost his chivalry, rather, he gains a deeper understanding of the natural. Gawain becomes more honest and emotionally mature through his experience, as the essay says more in touch with the 'inner man'.

    1. Describe the ABCDE’s of melanoma. What are the various types of melanomas?

      ABCDE:

      A. Asymmetry (of the moles) B. Border (Regular vs irregular border) C. Color (mult shades. etc) D. Diameter (<5-6 mm) E. Evolving (becoming bigger)

    2. List the diagnostic tests you would order for Arthur Taggert. Explain the reasons for yourchoices

      Cardiac biomarkers: Troponin, CK-MB CXR Echo CMP EKG

    3. Chest pain

      rupture of atherosclerotic plaque thrombus --> clot forms --> so now the clot is partially blocking the blood vessels

      Low PO2 and HTN from reduced blood vessels and narrowed blood vessels

    4. I takeMylanta sometimes for the belly pain or chest pain. I still take Motrin when I have pain in myback. Is that bad?

      Yes it's bad - interferes with COX1 and COX2 stomach function

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    1. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.

      mic drop

    2. And so the reliance on Property, including the reliance on governments which protect it, is the want of self-reliance.

      so he's against relying on anything/anyone but yourself

    3. Society is a wave. The wave moves onward, but the water of which it is composed does not.

      I like this imagery

    4. the soldier should receive his supply of corn, grind it in his hand-mill, and bake his bread himself

      but if we're advocating for self-reliance shouldn't he get his own supply of corn rather than someone hand it to him?

    5. Columbus found the New World

      ew nope

    6. He is supported on crutches, but lacks so much support of muscle.

      the crutches help but it all matters on him and his own well-being and support on the inside

    7. All men plume themselves on the improvement of society, and no man improves.

      so basically focus needs to be shifted towards self improvement and less towards societal improvement

    8. Shakspeare will never be made by the study of Shakspeare

      create something new rather than take something old

    9. We imitate; and what is imitation but the travelling of the mind?

      I never really realized how much we imitate wow

    10. the wise man stays at home

      and if he doesn't? is he not wise?

    11. They cannot imagine how you aliens have any right to see, — how you can see; ‘It must be somehow that you stole the light from us.’

      use of "you" interesting. who is this aimed at?

    12. Every new mind is a new classification

      why must we classify the new minds? classification is no bueno

    13. The gods love him because men hated him.

      interesting

    14. if not, attend your own work, and already the evil begins to be repaired.

      small things add to the progression of repairing evil

    15. The prayer of the farmer kneeling in his field to weed it

      im glad others also thought of Farmer James

    16. It is easy to see that a greater self-reliance must work a revolution in all the offices and relations of men; in their religion; in their education; in their pursuits; their modes of living; their association; in their property; in their speculative views.

      becoming more self-reliant can bring major change to all aspects of life

    17. for he does not postpone his life, but lives already. He has not one chance, but a hundred chances.

      living in the present and has opportunities and the ability to take more risks and do more.

    18. . I must be myself. I cannot break myself any longer for you, or you. If you can love me for what I am, we shall be the happier. If you cannot, I will still seek to deserve that you should. I will not hide my tastes or aversions.

      Love

    19. we have not chosen, but society has chosen for us.

      society should not have the upper hand

    20. The power men possess to annoy me

      Real, I couldn't agree more :)

    21. Why should we assume the faults of our friend, or wife, or father, or child, because they sit around our hearth, or are said to have the same blood? All men have my blood, and I have all men’s

      This is very interesting.

    22. When a man lives with God, his voice shall be as sweet as the murmur of the brook and the rustle of the corn.

      I like this for some reason.

    23. present, above time.

      I understand we shouldn't dwell on the past and look forward but isn't it also important to look in the past cause how else do you learn?

    24. Is the acorn better than the oak which is its fulness and completion?

      ???

    25. A great man is coming to eat at my house. I do not wish to please him; I wish that he should wish to please me

      I don't like this also who is the "great man"?

    26. You will soon love what is dictated by your nature as well as mine, and, if we follow the truth, it will bring us out safe at last.

      will it always bring you out safe though?

    27. if I am the Devil’s child, I will live then from the Devil

      The devil's child is a common known thing but for it to be mentioned like this is really interesting to me.

    28. A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages

      Interesting

    29. A political victory, a rise of rents, the recovery of your sick, or the return of your absent friend, or some other favorable event, raises your spirits, and you think good days are preparing for you. Do not believe it. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.

      I like how this narrative switch from being oneself, to the universe, to god, to straight up politics.

    30. Columbus found the New World

      Liar

    31. For every Stoic was a Stoic; but in Christendom where is the Christian?

      Wow. Literature.

    32. Society never advances.

      I fear it does advance there are just backs and differing opinions. All I know is that society has advanced to the point I can have a nose piercing and tattoo in peace.

    33. I must be myself. I cannot break myself any longer for you, or you. If you can love me for what I am, we shall be the happier. If you cannot, I will still seek to deserve that you should. I will not hide my tastes or aversions

      one of the best things he's said so far

    34. the self-helping man. For him all doors are flung wide

      how self helping can one be if they rely on a higher power for everything?

    35. High be his heart, faithful his will, clear his sight, that he may in good earnest be doctrine, society, law, to himself, that a simple purpose may be to him as strong as iron necessity is to others! If any man consider the present aspects of what is called by distinction

      If youre focused, faithful and joyus a man can make his own decisions

    36. must be myself. I cannot break myself any longer for you, or you. If you can love me for what I am, we shall be the happier. If you cannot, I will still seek to deserve that you should. I will not hide my tastes or aversions

      It is great that you want to be yourself, But I think you have loved yourself enough, Maybe focus a little bit on caring for other people.

    37. Why should we assume the faults of our friend, or wife, or father, or child, because they sit around our hearth, or are said to have the same blood?

      im getting the feeling he doesn't love or care about any one.

    38. Time and space are but physiological colors which the eye makes, but the soul is light

      Is this guy on drugs. yes or no?

    39. If I see a trait, my children will see it after me,

      Throwing own self out the window to implant his ideas into future spawn

    40. Here are the lungs of that inspiration which giveth man wisdom, and which cannot be denied without impiety and atheism.

      live your truth.... unless you do not believe in god.

    41. For, the sense of being which in calm hours rises, we know not how, in the soul, is not diverse from things, from space, from light, from time, from man, but one with them, and proceeds obviously from the same source whence their life and being also proceed

      Everything is connected.

    42. man

      I like how he mentioned so many positive things about man, and the one thing he said about femininity is rage. Like excuse me?

    43. a true man belongs to no other time or place, but is the centre of things. Where he is, there is nature.

      This is giving too much main character complex. It does not seem like he has concern for others.

    44. esound with the hum of insects

      why would you want that? icky.

    45. feminine rage

      why does the rage have to be feminine? I feel like that is a little odd.

    46. For nonconformity the world whips you with its displeasure

      non popular opinions are seen as outcasts and separated from the rest

    47. Their every truth is not quite true

      I feel like this is based on prospective. He is not fair to say that their truths are not quite true. They might not be, his might not be. It does not mean it makes it less true to the person at hand.

    48. though I confess with shame I sometimes succumb and give the dollar

      I feel like this represents a choice though??? Is that such a bad thing to choose? Obviously if one feels forced that's not a good thing, but if its a choice you make willingly?

    49. The doctrine of hatred must be preached as the counteraction of the doctrine of love

      thin line between love and hate or portraying one as the other????

    50. “They do not seem to me to be such; but if I am the Devil’s child, I will live then from the Devil.

      believes in his argument so much that he would accept being a devil's child

    51. Society is a joint-stock company, in which the members agree, for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater.

      Capitalism, Societal conform.

    52. . Infancy conforms to nobody

      Infancy comes with a form of purity, untainted by the world and others opinions

    53. the absolutely trustworthy

      who would be the absolutely trustworthy? god???

    54. Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you

      Take action and responsibility into your own hands. Be true to your being.

    55. imitation is suicide

      adapting others opinions to conform is the death of oneself

    56. we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another.

      Taking ideas from other people to use as your own instead of creating one. The idea of being original to nothing being original

    1. it could have been her own inner dialogue and she didn’t recognize it

      Listen to the words you just said. "Her own internal monologue....but didn't recognize it". What exactly do you think hearing voices is, as defined clinically??

    2. blackouts, she said she thought that was what had happened during the incident

      Exactly what would be expected in PD. When anxiety or anxiety triggers occur, this is when decoupling is happening. Reality processing > alogia and dissociation > full personality dissociative splitting

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    1. Sentimentality, unlike other revolution-ary rhetorics, is after all the only vehicle for social change that neitherproduces more pain nor requires much courage

      Meekness

    2. The desire for unconflictedness mightvery well motivate the sacrifice of surprising ideas to the norms of theworld against which this rhetoric is being deployed. What, if anything,then, can be built from the very different knowledge/experience ofsubaltern pain? What can memory do to create conditions for freedomand justice without reconfirming the terms of ordinary subordination

      Jacobs

    1. pattern

      so this is a difference to haskell, bc + is a defined function occurring in a pattern, not a constructor. Also, the pattern is non-linear. Aha, so this point is addressed later on.

    1. focusing on dynamic problems where data in a graph network change over time.When a dataset has billions or trillions of data points, running an algorithm from scratch to make one small change could be extremely expensive from a computational point of view. He and his students design parallel algorithms that process many updates at the same time, improving efficiency while preserving accuracy.

      for - Indyweb dev - dynamic graph networks

    1. to compel people to change their emissions, it may be less about a number, and more about a feeling. “To get people to act, my hypothesis is, you need to reach them not just by convincing them to be good citizens and saying it’s good for the world to keep below 1.5 degrees, but showing how they individually will be impacted,” says Eltahir

      for - quote - climate crisis - behavioral change - system change - importance of showing impacts - example - climate departure project

      quote - climate crisis - behavioral change - system change - importance of showing impacts - example - climate departure project - Eltahir - To get people to act, my hypothesis is, you need to reach them - not just by convincing them to be good citizens and saying it’s good for the world to keep below 1.5 degrees, but - showing how they individually will be impacted,”

    1. (America never was America to me.)

      the use of brackets make this revelation (and the future bracketed terms) feel secretive, hidden, and quiet

      the revelations and contempt of the speaker grows and grows in power throughout the poem until it becomes vocalized at the end with this sentiment no longer whispered but instead declared

    2. The land, the mines, the plants, the rivers. The mountains and the endless plain—

      accusatory tone of the piece culminates here, where the speaker is telling readers that the land itself is not responsible and that America, the physical place, is not evil or committing the sins of its people

      Call to action focuses on redeeming the physical land and on connecting with nature

      African-Americans, just like nature, are the victims of White American racism and ought to be made America again - free, individual, beautiful, cultured, etc