Homeless in San Diego, California - World Socialist Web Site
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/04/18/sdho-a18.html
San Diego, California, has an ever-increasing homeless population. The city ranks third in the nation for the number of homeless—estimates put the figure at around 10,000. While the recently elected mayor, Bob Filner, boasts of wanting San Diego to be the first city to end homelessness, the numbers are growing epidemically and services are being cut and dismantled.
East Coast (Brooklyn) en force :
The Underachievers - “The Mahdi”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwleLyD43Hs
Face It: Going Gray Is a Fierce Act of Bravery - Jezebel
http://jezebel.com/5979781/face-it-going-gray-is-a-feminist-act
http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/18d087061br91jpg/original.jpg
Apparently my friend’s mom isn’t alone, The New York Times profiled a group of women who organized a mini-demonstration that featured a “band of silver-haired marchers” who descended upon Times Square to bring in the noise, bring in the funk — hair color-style. Awesomely named the Silver Sisters Strut, co-organizer and model/blogger/brand Cindy Joseph said “[w]e are the women that we wished we would have had in our lives, if they weren’t busy getting their hair dyed.”
Right on! These ladies are all about resurrecting long, gloriously gray hair and bringing it back to existence in a fresh, sexy way. “Sensuality doesn’t wane as you get older,” Ms. Joseph said. “It’s still there.”
What I think is so great about deliberately and defiantly going gray — and I’m not talking this granny chic business, I’m talking letting your natural color grow in — is that it allows for more interpretations of powerful femininity. Aging is often hidden and marginalized in our society, it’s thrilling to see women embracing a hair color and style that some consider undesirable because of its implications about age and sexuality.
In These 22 States, Every House Republican Voted Against Sandy Aid | Mother Jones
In These 22 States, Every House Republican Voted Against Sandy Aid
—By Dana Liebelson
Almost three months after Hurricane Sandy ravaged the East Coast, the GOP-controlled House approved a bill that provides $50.7 billion in disaster relief for the storm’s victims. While passage of the bill is being hailed as a bipartisan success by some (the vote was 241-180), a closer look at how the parties voted by state lines indicates otherwise. GOPers overwhelmingly voted against funding—unless, of course, their state was hard hit.
Définition de « economic damage » / « disaster losses » http://www.eenews.net/public/climatewire/2013/01/04/1
Risk : U.S. hit with 90% of the world’s disaster costs in 2012 — 01/04/2013 — www.eenews.net
Si une maison sur Long Island vaut 20 millions de dollars, alors qu’une maison au Bangladesh en vaut 10 000, qui a le plus perdu après l’ouragan ?
The United States led the world in disaster losses last year (...)
Nearly all the world’s economic damage from storms, drought, fire and earthquakes was centered in the United States as it experienced the highest temperatures ever recorded, according to Munich Re, a global reinsurance company.
#changement_climatique #valeur #riches #capitalisme #assurance
The Dust Bowl (Plog Photo Blog)
►http://blogs.denverpost.com/captured/2012/11/19/dust-bowl/5794
The Dust Bowl was a period of severe dust storms causing major ecological and agricultural damage to prairie lands in the 1930s. The phenomenon was caused by severe drought combined with farming methods that did not include crop rotation or other techniques such as soil terracing and wind-breaking trees to prevent wind erosion. During the drought of the 1930s, without natural anchors to keep the soil in place, it dried, turned to dust, and blew away with the prevailing winds. At times, the clouds blackened the sky, reaching all the way to East Coast cities such as New York and Washington, D.C. Millions of acres of farmland were damaged, and hundreds of thousands of people were forced to leave their homes; many of these families migrated to California and other states, where they found economic conditions little better during the Great Depression than those they had left. Filmmaker Ken Burns has produced a new documentary on the Dust Bowl airing on PBS stations this month. (...) Source: Plog Photo Blog
Photos : The Dust Bowl
►http://blogs.denverpost.com/captured/2012/11/19/dust-bowl/5794
The Dust Bowl was a period of severe dust storms causing major ecological and agricultural damage to prairie lands in the 1930s. The phenomenon was caused by severe drought combined with farming methods that did not include crop rotation or other techniques such as soil terracing and wind-breaking trees to prevent wind erosion.
http://denverpost.slideshowpro.com/albums/001/496/album-365539/cache/dustbowl16.sJPG_950_2000_0_75_0_50_50.JPG
#photographie
Bonus :
Climate lessons from ’The Dust Bowl’
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-dust-bowl-20121120,0,2741070.story
What I didn’t know until watching Burns’ documentary is the extent to which the Dust Bowl was a man-made environmental catastrophe.
Hurricane Sandy Reveals a Life Unplugged - NYTimes.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/11/fashion/hurricane-sandy-reveals-a-life-unplugged.html
For a swath of teenagers and preteens on the East Coast, the power failures that followed Hurricane Sandy last month represented the first time in their young lives that they were totally off the grid, without the ability to text, play Minecraft, video-chat, check Facebook, or send updates to Twitter.
#offline #internet #mobile mais c’est surtout ce #dessin que je référence
Nate Silver and Political #Data : Every One of His State-level Presidential #Predictions Proved True | Singularity Hub
►http://singularityhub.com/2012/11/08/nate-silver-and-big-data-every-one-of-his-state-level-presidential-p
A former baseball statistician, Silver has made his name by aggregating state level polling data, and predicting the likelihood of victory by adjusting for different factors that have historically influenced electoral performance. He consistently rejected the conventional wisdom that the race was tied, and for that, he was cast as a left-wing nut peddling bad science.
Nate Silver et la #prévision par les #statistiques
http://www.lemonde.fr/elections-americaines/article/2012/11/02/nate-silver-le-statisticien-promu-gourou-de-la-prediction-politique_1784852_
Donc on parle beaucoup de ce statisticien venu du baseball, qui a eu tout bon comme Paul le poulpe naguère. On en tire des leçons scientifiques même comme relevé par @rezo : ►http://tomroud.cafe-sciences.org/2012/11/07/5-lecons-scientifiques-du-succes-de-nate-silver
Il y a eu un film récemment « Moneyball » sur les premiers statisticiens de ce sport à Oakland, dans l’équipe des A’s, pas mal (Brad Pitt dans le rôle de Billy Beane)
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moneyball:_The_Art_of_Winning_an_Unfair_Game #sport #élections #US #chiffres #démocratie
D’après Wired « Obama Wins Nerdiest Election Ever »
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/11/nerdiest-election-ever/all
Sujet déjà évoqué là : ►http://seenthis.net/messages/85122
pas grand chose à voir, sinon Oakland :) http://www.liberation.fr/economie/2012/11/04/oakland-fait-de-la-subsistance_858013
au rayon les geeks et Obama, une enquête : “When the nerds go marching in”
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/11/when-the-nerds-go-marching-in/265325
et une autre de Mother Jones “Under the Hood of Team Obama’s Tech Operation” http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/11/inside-obama-campaign-tech-operation
Hurricane Sandy as Greek Tragedy, Mark Hertsgaard | The Nation
http://www.thenation.com/article/170918/hurricane-sandy-greek-tragedy
#Sandy is short for Cassandra, the Greek mythological figure who epitomizes tragedy. The gods gave Cassandra the gift of prophecy; depending on which version of the story one prefers, she could either see or smell the future. But with this gift also came a curse: Cassandra’s warnings about future disasters were fated to be ignored. (...)
And so it has been with America’s response to #climate_change.
On entend souvent dire qu’il n’y a rien à faire contre le pouvoir de la finance, que Wall Street écrasera toute tentative de faire différemment. Eh bien non, il existe encore des forces immenses (© De Gaulle) qui peuvent imposer leur loi aux puissances de l’argent :
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/29/us-storm-sandy-hurricane-idUSBRE89N16J20121029
« Hurricane Sandy [...] strengthened on Monday [...] the stock market suffered its first weather-related closure in 27 years »
A 2000 km/h continental-scale transportation engineering wonder I did not know about : The Alameda-Weehawken Burrito Tunnel - http://idlewords.com/2007/04/the_alameda-weehawken_burrito_tunnel.htm
The Anti-Walmart: The Secret Sauce of Wegmans Is People
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/03/the-anti-walmart-the-secret-sauce-of-wegmans-is-people/254994
“Our employees are our number one asset, period,” said Kevin Stickles, the company’s vice-president for human resources. “The first question you ask is: ’Is this the best thing for the employee?’ That’s a totally different model.”
Executives say the company is also able to invest in its employees and focus on steady, strategic growth because it is not publicly traded. They said cutting jobs or shipping them overseas was, in part, the product of having to relentlessly please the stock market.
from @mona // bitly blog - You just shared a link. How long will people pay attention?
http://blog.bitly.com/post/9887686919/you-just-shared-a-link-how-long-will-people-pay
How long is a link “alive” before people stop caring? Does it matter what kind of content it is, or where you shared it? At bitly we see a lot of links, and while every link is special, we’re learning a few general principles that we can share.
Très intéressant. Je me demande quelle est la demi vie des liens postés sur seenthis. Est ce que seenthis est complètement un flux, ou est ce que ça se consolide un peu plus.
Ca se consolide carrément, ici, c’est plus proche d’une archive, certains #thèmes sont de vraies mines, et puis le fait qu’on soit peu nombreux limite le bruit
Pour l’instant, j’ai l’impression que si un lien n’est pas repéré par quelqu’un-e assez rapidement, il tombe dans l’oubli. Il a peut-être une deuxième vie, mais ça me semble plutôt faible :
– la non-organisation des thèmes pose des soucis de recherche et d’archivage (chez delicious : par groupes de mots, ou par association).
– l’ajout en « favori » / « partagé » ne fait pas remonter le lien dans ta page, il reste daté du jour de publication, et donc enfoui loin très loin.
– je rêve d’une navigation dans les anciens seens qui permettrait d’afficher (comme sur delicious) uniquement le titre, le lien, et les mots-clés.
Mais je suis peut-être nostalgique.
Pour finir, et c’est là où je vois que je me lasse un peu de Seenthis, outre l’archivage un peu cahotique / pas pratique, on a peu de retours sur les vues du seen (la plupart des seens n’ont ni réponse ni « étoiles »). Et donc, en ce moment, je me demande s’il ne vaut pas mieux un vrai blog + un vrai outil de marque-pages :-(
Days of Summer - Alan Taylor - In Focus - The Atlantic
http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/07/days-of-summer/100108
Across the northern hemisphere, people are doing what they can to cope with the summer weather. Heatwaves have recently struck the Midwest and East Coast in the United States and in parts of Eastern Europe. Hot summer days also bring stormy afternoons, with downpours that have caused numerous flooding problems across parts of China. For many, though, the way to beat the heat is to get outside and cool off in lakes, fountains, or water parks, or to find a place to simply live in the moment and enjoy the sunshine. Collected below are some images from these recent summer days, and of people around the world either enjoying or coping with the heat.
http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/infocus/heat071811/h17_10018794.jpg
http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/infocus/heat071811/h32_RTR2OXK8.jpg
Le récit assez édifiant d’un écrivain dont les clients sont des étudiants lui demandant de rédiger divers mémoires, rapports ou recherches dans différentes disciplines. Avec en creux une critique assez radicale du système d’évaluation et de notation aux États-Unis, mais c’est sans doute à peu près la même chose en France.
The Shadow Scholar - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education
http://chronicle.com/article/The-Shadow-Scholar/125329
I’ve written toward a master’s degree in cognitive psychology, a Ph.D. in sociology, and a handful of postgraduate credits in international diplomacy. I’ve worked on bachelor’s degrees in hospitality, business administration, and accounting. I’ve written for courses in history, cinema, labor relations, pharmacology, theology, sports management, maritime security, airline services, sustainability, municipal budgeting, marketing, philosophy, ethics, Eastern religion, postmodern architecture, anthropology, literature, and public administration. I’ve attended three dozen online universities. I’ve completed 12 graduate theses of 50 pages or more. All for someone else.
You’ve never heard of me, but there’s a good chance that you’ve read some of my work. I’m a hired gun, a doctor of everything, an academic mercenary. My customers are your students. I promise you that. Somebody in your classroom uses a service that you can’t detect, that you can’t defend against, that you may not even know exists.
I work at an online company that generates tens of thousands of dollars a month by creating original essays based on specific instructions provided by cheating students. I’ve worked there full time since 2004. On any day of the academic year, I am working on upward of 20 assignments.