Texture Generation for Expressive Rock Drawing
▻https://www.slideshare.net/mamywata/texture-generation-for-expressive-rock-drawing
Sidonie Christophe #cartographie #montagne #textures
Texture Generation for Expressive Rock Drawing
▻https://www.slideshare.net/mamywata/texture-generation-for-expressive-rock-drawing
Sidonie Christophe #cartographie #montagne #textures
Bygger prototyper for Mexico-mur i sommer - Aftenposten
▻https://www.aftenposten.no/article/ap-624146b.html
Quatre à huit entreprises choisies auront 30 jours pour construire un prototype du mur pour la frontière entre les États-Unis et le Mexique
Les autorités américaines évalueront les propositions pour la conception, le choix des matériaux et... les solutions « pratiques » pour la « gestion » du mur.
Fire til åtte selskaper er valgt og vil få 30 dager på seg til å bygge en prototyp av sine designforslag til mur på grensen mellom USA og Mexico
Det opplyser direktoratet som har ansvaret for å vurdere forslagene til utforming, materialvalg og praktiske løsninger for president Donald Trumps mur på grensen mellom Mexico og USA.
#états-unis #Mexique #Mur #trump
Arizona company building Trump border-wall prototype has checkered environmental record
On Aug. 31, 2017, U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced winning construction contracts for President Trump’s proposed wall between the United States and Mexico. U.S. Customs and Border Protection
▻http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/border-issues/2017/09/17/fisher-sand-gravel-building-border-wall-prototype-checkered-environmental-record/643189001
#prototype
As border wall prototype construction starts, Arizona geographer speaks up
PHOENIX – Leaving behind violence and poverty, a Central American family travels thousands of miles by foot, train, and bus. Once they finally arrive at the U.S. border, they have one more difficult decision to make: carry a bag full of marijuana and cross the desert with some help, or risk their life and cross alone.
Trump said he’ll pick a border wall design himself. Turns out, he can.
Experts on government contracting said Tuesday that as head of the executive branch, the president has the authority to direct an agency to award a contract to a particular bidder, though they strongly advise against it.
▻https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2017/09/26/trump-said-pick-border-wall-design-turns-can
’Another brick in the wall’: 8 prototypes of Trump’s US-Mexico border wall are put on display in San Diego - as seen from Tijuana
Eight Ways to Build a Border Wall
SAN DIEGO — They all stand neatly in a row: eight large panels on a barren dirt patch just a few hundred yards from the San Diego border with Mexico. Unveiled in late October, these are the prototypes for the border wall President Trump has vowed to erect on the southern border. Later this year, the federal government will test the panels for strength and effectiveness.
Trump’s border wall through the eyes of an architecture critic
As for their looks? This was the most surprising thing of all. When I first caught sight of them from the SUV, I worried about making even basic distinctions among them. They looked virtually identical. But as I spent more time in this odd open-air architecture gallery, it became clear that the aesthetic spectrum the prototypes covered was very wide.
The one furthest east, by #Fisher_Sand_&_Gravel, was the idea of a wall stripped to its essence, suggesting a kind of accidental minimalism, a section of a Peter Zumthor facade after a trip through the federal bureaucracy. Made of three panels that matched almost perfectly the color of the dirt at its feet, it was the simplest of the group and also — at $365,000 — among the least expensive to produce.
A very different sensibility was evident in the slab designed by #ELTA. Its bottom half was concrete, its upper half metal. The concrete section (though only on the side facing the U.S., per the official guidelines) was painted white and blue, as if it were covering a split-level ranch house outside Phoenix.
Also in this decorative vein was the concrete wall by #Texas_Sterling_Construction, which featured a white faux-brick pattern stamped into its American side. The argument these two walls made was pragmatism à la HGTV: that any piece of construction could be humanized, even made cheerful, with some measured, cost-effective ornament.
What the prototypes didn’t resemble, in any practical sense, was a wall. (A swatch of fabric is not a shirt; a lone panel from an umbrella won’t keep you dry when it rains.) It wasn’t just that they suggested Potemkin slices, architectural stand-ins to match the human ones Trump’s campaign invited to the news conference kicking off his White House bid.
Is Donald Trump, Wall-Builder-in-Chief, a Conceptual Artist?
That’s the intriguing possibility put forth in an online petition Tuesday that seeks to have the group of eight prototypes for Mr. Trump’s controversial Mexican border wall designated a national monument.
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/03/arts/design/is-donald-trump-wall-builder-in-chief-a-conceptual-artist.html
Should Donald Trump’s border wall prototypes be considered #art?
Swiss-Icelandic artist #Christoph_Büchel claims that the significant cultural value of the president’s structures should be recognized – not everyone agrees
▻https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/jan/12/should-donald-trumps-border-wall-prototypes-be-considered-art
Art Industry News: Artists Condemn Christoph Büchel’s Trump Border Wall Project + More Must-Read Stories
Plus, a new survey seeks to promote salary transparency in the art world and a business tycoon renames his Picasso painting.
▻https://news.artnet.com/art-world/art-industry-news-february-7-2018-1217951
One Woman Is Behind the Most Up-to-Date Interactive Map of Femicides in Mexico · Global Voices
▻https://globalvoices.org/2017/06/15/one-woman-is-behind-the-most-up-to-date-interactive-map-of-femicides-i
The interactive Femicides in Mexico Map, the most comprehensive and up-to-date of its kind in the country, is – according to its fundraising page – a “citizen-led, civic, independent initiative based on open data which, using geographical coordinates, has been mapping cases of femicide since 2016″. So far, it has recorded 2,355 cases.
The map’s creator uses the practical definition of the United Nations model protocol for the investigation of gender-related killings of women, which defines “femicide” as:
#mexique #féminicide #violence #droits_des_femmes
the murder of women because they are women, whether it is committed within the family, a domestic partnership, or any other interpersonal relationship, or by anyone in the community, or whether it is perpetrated or tolerated by the state or its agents.4
It’s Time to Talk About Feminicide
Masculine superiority, though contested today, continues to be defended by the dominant patriarchal system. It is visible in everyday life and is sometimes the source of horrendous gender-based violence. This #violence knows no borders or limits. It takes on multiple forms, including feminicide.
▻http://www.mantlethought.org/international-affairs/its-time-talk-about-feminicide
#Ciudad_Juárez
"#Marcha_de_las_Catrinas", la protesta en contra del feminicidio [GALERÍA]
La noche de ayer Día de Muertos, decenas de mujeres disfrazadas de catrinas se fueron citadas a partir de las 16:00 horas en la Catedral Metropolitana de la Ciudad de México, para iniciar una marcha en protesta por los casos de feminicidios que se han registrado en nuestro país.
▻https://www.diariodemexico.com/marcha-de-las-catrinas-la-protesta-en-contra-del-feminicidio-galer%C
Mujeres latinoamericanas visibilizan la desaparición forzada y los feminicidios a través del tejido
En 130 piezas, madres, hermanas, abuelas de países en América Latina narran bordando, la historia de personas víctimas de desapariciones forzadas, presos políticos y feminicidios.
▻https://www.animalpolitico.com/2018/11/mujeres-visibilizan-desaparicion-forzada-y-los-feminicidios-tejido
#exposition #art #textile
Les entretiens « Grand Format » de l’IRHT – Les carnets de l’IRHT
▻http://irht.hypotheses.org/3030
Les entretiens, intitulés « Grand Format », sont conçus comme une série de portraits de certains des chercheurs de l’Institut de recherche et d’histoire des textes, le plus ancien laboratoire du CNRS en sciences humaines et sociales, spécialisé dans l’étude dans la transmission des textes, des manuscrits antiques et médiévaux jusqu’aux imprimés de la Renaissance. Il s’agit de donner la parole aux chercheurs dans un cadre plus large que celui de l’interview ciblée pour parler de leur vocation et des projets qui les occupent.
Accord de Paris : la décision de Donald Trump ne changera pas grand-chose à l’inconsistance de la #COP 21…
▻http://reformeraujourdhui.blogspot.com/2017/06/accord-de-paris-la-decision-de-donald.html
Donald Trump a annoncé jeudi 1er juin que les Etats-Unis vont se retirer de l’Accord de Paris sur le #climat. Après des semaines d’atermoiements, le président américain a abattu ses cartes en indiquant notamment que l’accord était trop coûteux pour les Etats-Unis… Si beaucoup des propos de Donald Trump constituent des contre-vérités grossières sur le changement climatique et relèvent d’un certain égoïsme national, ils ne doivent pas cependant nous faire oublier que la COP 21 qui s’est tenue, du 30 novembre 2015 au 12 décembre 2015 au Bourget en France, n’a jamais pris des décisions courageuses et visionnaires. Les médias n’ont pas beaucoup ébruité certaines dispositions de l’accord de Paris, présenté comme un succès par François Hollande et aujourd’hui par Emmanuel Macron. Il sape en réalité les droits des (...)
Vague de malaises chez les ouvriers du textile au Bangladesh
Thomas Engrand, 26/05/2017
Ces problèmes de santé ne seraient pas liés uniquement aux pics de chaleurs. Les autorités pointent aussi du doigt la malnutrition et la fatigue.
Quand les prix se veulent imbattables, ce sont les droits humains qui sont battus à mort.
▻http://www.la-croix.com/Economie/Monde/Vague-malaise-chez-ouvriers-textile-Bangladesh-2017-05-26-1200850406
#conditions_de_travail #sous_traitants #sous_traitance #Rana_Plaza #mondialisation #sécurité #ouvriers #droits #Bangladesh #grève #salaires, #usine #textile #progrès #traçabilité #vente_en_grande_quantité_et_à_très_bas_prix #concurrence #impunité #multinationales
Histoire du textile (2) : Le temps des chemises, le temps d’une enquête
▻https://www.franceculture.fr/emissions/la-fabrique-de-lhistoire/histoire-du-textile-2-le-temps-des-chemises-le-temps-dune-enquete
En juillet 1975, quand les ouvrières de la CIP (Confection industrielle du Nord-Pas-de-Calais) virent arriver des camions chargés d’emporter les stocks de tissus de l’atelier de fabrication de chemises et de pyjamas à Haisnes-lez-La-Bassée, elles s’opposèrent immédiatement à leur chargement avec l’appui de la CFDT. Cet atelier emploie alors 450 personnes. Une Assemblée générale vote l’occupation d’usine : 117 femmes et un homme organisent donc une grève autogérée avec occupation des lieux pour sauver leur emploi. Au pays de la mine, l’évènement est unique : des femmes, ouvrières du textile, résistent à une époque, celle du début de la crise économique qui voit des fermetures d’usine en cascade et des licenciements collectifs massifs.
Au bout de trois ans, en 1978, l’issue de la lutte se révèle victorieuse mais que reste-t-il quand la grève se retire ?
Au lendemain du conflit, deux jeunes sociologues, Anni Borzeix et Margaret Maruani, mènent l’enquête pendant des mois auprès des actrices d’un moment vécu comme une épopée. Une enquête un peu inédite qui mêlent récit de vie, histoire orale et analyses sociologiques.
Rien n’est plus comme avant. Ces ouvrières ont gagné la grève mais bien plus qu’un nouvel emploi. De fil en aiguille, elles racontent leurs conquêtes qui s’appellent assurance, autonomie, indépendance, confiance en soi.
T E X T F I L E S D O T C O M
▻http://www.textfiles.com/index.html
On the face of things, we seem to be merely talking about text-based files, containing only the letters of the English Alphabet (and the occasional punctuation mark).
On deeper inspection, of course, this isn’t quite the case. What this site offers is a glimpse into the history of writers and artists bound by the 128 characters that the American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) allowed them. The focus is on mid-1980’s textfiles and the world as it was then, but even these files are sometime retooled 1960s and 1970s works, and offshoots of this culture exist to this day.
Ethiopia’s Oromo protests, land problems and human rights record could hurt its global apparel ambitions — Quartz
▻https://qz.com/974863/ethiopias-land-problems-could-hamper-its-ambition-as-a-global-apparel-destinatio
Ethiopia wants companies that make clothes to view it as one of the world’s most hospitable places to operate. Low employee wages and cheap power have led foreign companies to gravitate towards the Horn of Africa nation in recent years. The government recognizes the strategic importance of garment and textile making, and has continued to invest in the sector by constructing large industrial parks like the Hawassa Industrial Park.
But its land and human rights problems could jeopardize that ambition, according to a new report from risk consultancy firm Verisk Maplecroft. Protests over land reform and political participation have rocked the country since 2015, leading to the reported death of hundreds of people and the detention of tens of thousands of others.
▻https://qzprod.files.wordpress.com/2017/05/fig1.png?w=640
puisque c’est ça
Sentiment analysis on Twitter using word2vec and keras - Ahmed Besbes
▻http://ahmedbesbes.com/sentiment-analysis-on-twitter-using-word2vec-and-keras.html
Department of security appropriations act, 2017
▻https://rules.house.gov/sites/republicans.rules.house.gov/files/115/OMNI/DIVISION%20F-%20HOMELAND%20SOM%20OCR%20FY17.pdf
#USA #business #sécurité #frontières #murs #coût #Etats-Unis #gardes-frontière
vu sur twitter le 03.05.2017
U.S. Senate Report: Wall Costs Could Soar Toward $70 Billion
WASHINGTON – The Democratic staff of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee today issued a report detailing that costs for the Administration’s proposed concrete wall along the southern border could soar to nearly $70 billion—not including the significant costs and legal resources required for land acquisition. The report is based in part on documents and briefings provided by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials.
▻https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/border-wall-report
Le #rapport, ici:
#Texas_Contractor Scores $145 Million Border Wall Contract
Federal authorities have awarded a $145 million contract to a Texas company to build 6 miles of wall along the U.S.-Mexico border in the Rio Grande Valley.
U.S. Customs and Border Patrol said Friday that #SLSCO will begin construction of an 18-foot reinforced concrete levee wall in February in the agency’s McAllen Station region. The company will also increase the height of existing fences.
It will be the first section of President Donald Trump’s border barriers in the Rio Grande Valley, the busiest corridor for illegal crossings.
The government recently completed construction of a 2-mile, 30-foot tall section of fencing along the border in California, which is separate from a border wall prototype constructed in San Diego.
Trump has been ramping up anti-immigration rhetoric heading into Tuesday’s midterm elections.
What’s in a Name : A Guide to the Many Flavours of TeX - Overleaf Blog
▻https://www.overleaf.com/blog/500-whats-in-a-name-a-guide-to-the-many-flavours-of-tex
Unless you are a seasoned TeX user, or familiar with its ecosystem, the many “varieties of TeX” can be confusing; however, by the end of this article you should feel much more informed and at ease when engaging with any colleagues, authors or journal editors who are conversant with TeX-based terminology.
#TeX #LaTeX (ca finit par de la pub pour un service commercial, mais sinon c’est bien fait)
Gender Roles with Text Mining and N-grams – data science ish
▻http://juliasilge.com/blog/Gender-Pronouns
let’s just look for bigrams that start with “she” and “he”. We will get some adverbs and modifiers and such as the second word in the bigram, but mostly verbs, the main thing we are interested in.
Mr #Scarface is Back, les #Samples
▻http://www.swampdiggers.com/Mr-Scarface-is-Back-les-samples
Des $ en liasses, de la chnouf et des pes-pom. Aussi classique que les douze titres, la pochette annonce la couleur. Encore plus hardcore que tout vos gangsta-rappeurs de la côte ouest. Ici on est loin d’Hollywood. Mieux, ici on est au #Texas. Et des histoires de deals qui ont mal tournés, tout le monde en connaît. Bien sur, il y a des légendes de dealers millionnaires, des contes pour apprentis grossistes qui tournent dans la rue. Mais au final, tout le monde sait que ça se termine mal. Le (...)
/ #Sélections, #Compilation, Scarface, Texas, #Samplediggers, Samples, #Geto_Boys
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Congress may stiff Trump on wall funding
Congressional Republicans might deliver some more bad news for President Donald Trump, fresh off their embarrassing failure to scrap Obamacare: No new money is coming to build his wall.
“The border wall is probably not a smart investment,” said Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), who proposes funding the wall as part a package legalizing some young undocumented immigrants and beefing up enforcement.
▻http://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/border-wall-trump-congress-funding-236561
#congrès #USA #congress #Etats-Unis #murs #barrières_frontalières #frontières #financement #résistance #Trump
Throwing Money at the Wall: An Overview of the Trump Administration’s Border Wall Funding Requests
We’re now about 70 days into the Trump administration, and reality is beginning to set in about one of the new President’s signature campaign promises: a “big, beautiful wall” along the U.S.-Mexico border.
▻https://www.wola.org/analysis/throwing-money-wall-overview-trump-administrations-border-wall-funding-requests/#data
A Full Border Wall With Mexico? ‘Unlikely,’ Homeland Security Chief Says
WASHINGTON — John F. Kelly, the homeland security secretary, said Wednesday that it was doubtful that a wall along the full border with Mexico would ever be built, despite an oft-repeated campaign promise by President Trump.
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/05/us/politics/john-kelly-homeland-security-border-wall-mexico.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0
Dems winning fight over wall
Despite President Trump’s request for more than $1 billion to fund the Mexican border wall this year, GOP leaders are expected to exclude the money in the spending bill being prepared to keep the government open beyond April 28.
▻http://thehill.com/latino/327916-dems-winning-fight-over-wall
Poll: More than 6 in 10 Texans oppose border wall
Sixty-one percent of adult citizens living in Texas oppose President Trump’s proposed wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, according to a poll the nonprofit, nonpartisan Texas Lyceum released Tuesday.
▻http://thehill.com/homenews/news/329345-poll-over-6-in-10-texans-oppose-border-wall
#sondage
No Congress members along Mexico border support funding Trump’s wall
No member of Congress who represents districts on the U.S.-Mexico border support funding President Trump’s signature border wall, The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.
L’administration Trump veut financer son mur, coûte que coûte
L’administration du président Donald Trump a réaffirmé dimanche que le financement de son mur à la frontière mexicaine est une condition à l’approbation du budget américain, quitte à risquer une paralysie du gouvernement en cas d’échec des négociations.
▻http://www.courrierinternational.com/depeche/ladministration-trump-veut-financer-son-mur-coute-que-coute.a
These border towns could be first to get Trump’s ‘big, beautiful’ wall
Despite more than a year of campaign rhetoric about a “big, beautiful wall” spanning the entirety of the southern border, the Trump administration plans to start with a much less ambitious footprint focusing only on the most highly trafficked corridors, according to a Department of Homeland Security planning document.
▻https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/04/24/homeland-security-picked-these-high-priority-towns-to-get-trumps-wal
GOP drops US-Mexico wall demands as spending talks advance
WASHINGTON (AP) — Congressional negotiators on Tuesday inched toward a potential agreement on a catchall spending bill that would deny President Donald Trump’s request for immediate funding to construct a wall along the Mexico border. The emerging measure would increase the defense budget and eliminate the threat of a government shutdown on Trump’s 100th day in office this Saturday.
▻http://wtop.com/government/2017/04/govt-shutdown-health-bill-rescue-at-stake-in-congress
Le Congrès américain dope le budget Défense, pas un dollar pour le mur
Les négociateurs du Congrès américain se sont mis d’accord pour doper le budget de la Défense, comme le réclamait le président Donald Trump, mais ils n’ont pas accédé à sa demande de financer la construction d’un mur à la frontière mexicaine.
▻http://www.courrierinternational.com/depeche/le-congres-americain-dope-le-budget-defense-pas-un-dollar-pou
Why Trump’s wall won’t stretch ‘from sea to shining sea’
Over the past few weeks, Trump’s pledge to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border has run into political and logistical problems, raising questions about how much will be funded and built. An April 30 deal to fund the government through September excluded funds for Trump’s wall. Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) anticipated in an interview to CNN that a funding plan without the wall will be challenged: “You are going to see a lot of conservatives against this plan this week.”
▻https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/100-days-wall
Omnibus Includes No Funding for Border Wall; But $1.1B for ‘Border Security Technologies’
(CNSNews.com) - The omnibus spending bill posted online early on May 1 gives the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) a total of $42.4 billion in discretionary funding for the remainder of fiscal year 2017, an increase of $1.45 billion above the fiscal year 2016 enacted level.
▻http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/susan-jones/omnibus-includes-no-funding-border-wall-11b-border-security-technologies
Trump budget seeks $1.6B for ’bricks and mortar’ for border wall
President Trump’s 2018 budget plan would set aside $1.6 billion on “bricks and mortar” for a border wall, CNN reported Tuesday — an amount that’s likely to fund only a small part of the wall Trump envisioned on the campaign trail.
▻http://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/334688-trump-budget-plan-seeks-16-billion-for-border-wall
Mur à la frontière mexicaine : comment Trump a voulu convaincre Pena Nieto
Selon la transcription obtenue par le Washington Post (lien en anglais), le président américain tente de convaincre son homologue d’arrêter de critiquer publiquement le mur et d’affirmer que le Mexique ne le financerait pas. « Vous ne pouvez pas dire ça à la presse (…) Je dois obtenir que le Mexique paie le mur. Je le dois (…) J’en parle depuis deux ans », assène le président américain, avant d’expliquer à son interlocuteur qu’il sait comment construire à bon marché et que ce serait « un beau mur ».
▻http://www.rfi.fr/ameriques/20170803-mur-frontiere-mexique-trump-supplie-pena-nieto-entretien-washington-pos
L’article dans le Washington post :
▻https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/you-cannot-say-that-to-the-press-trump-urged-mexican-president-to-end-his-public-defiance-on-border-wall-transcript-reveals/2017/08/03/0c2c0a4e-7610-11e7-8f39-eeb7d3a2d304_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table
Being Moody: How a bill becomes a wall
Donald Trump has made building a wall along the border with Mexico a centerpiece of his presidential campaign. He’d have to go through Washington first.
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOawRMJecuY
Trump Fences Himself In With Border Wall Spending Threat
WASHINGTON — President Trump handed Democrats a gift this week with his vow to shut down the government if he doesn’t soon get money for his border wall.
▻https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/08/24/us/politics/trump-wall-government-shutdown-congress.html?action=click&module=Top
Trump persiste sur le mur frontalier : Mexico paiera d’une manière ou d’une autre
Les États-Unis doivent construire un mur anti-immigrés à la frontière mexicaine et le Mexique paiera la facture d’une manière ou d’une autre, a réaffirmé dimanche Donald Trump avant un débat difficile au Congrès sur cette priorité du président américain.
▻http://www.courrierinternational.com/depeche/trump-persiste-sur-le-mur-frontalier-mexico-paiera-dune-manie
Trump reportedly backs off government shutdown threat over border wall funding
President Donald Trump said last month he would be willing to shut down the government if a funding bill did not include money for a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border.
▻https://www.cnbc.com/2017/09/01/trump-reportedly-changes-stance-on-shutt.html
Border wall contractor once paid $3 million to settle federal fraud investigation
One of the four companies picked by the Trump administration this week for its Mexico border wall prototype paid more than $3 million to settle a Justice Department criminal investigation into whether it defrauded the U.S. government through its participation in a federal “mentor-protégé” program to help disadvantaged small business contractors, records show.
The firm, #Caddell_Construction_Company Inc., a major commercial and industrial federal government construction contractor based in Montgomery, Alabama, did not admit wrongdoing in the 2012 case.
▻http://www.politico.com/story/2017/09/01/trump-border-wall-fraud-investigation-caddell-construction-242270
États-Unis. Le mur de Trump n’est pas près d’être achevé
USA Today a déployé de gros moyens pour enquêter sur le projet d’un mur courant sur toute la frontière avec le Mexique. Verdict : les obstacles sont considérables, tant sur le plan politique que légal et logistique.
▻http://www.courrierinternational.com/article/etats-unis-le-mur-de-trump-nest-pas-pres-detre-acheve
Here Are the Makings of Trump’s Border Wall
This is the start of something.
Here are among the first photos of prototypes for President Donald Trump’s promised U.S.-Mexico border wall — actually two walls — that are being constructed near San Diego.
Four prototypes are being made of concrete for the wall the will face the U.S. And four others for the wall that faces Mexico will be made of other materials that allow that wall to be seen through. Six contractors were hired to construct the eight prototypes, which will range from 18-30 feet high.
’The last stronghold’
In remote #Starr_County, federal agents say a wall will slow smuggling as landowners and nature tourists question the need for a border barrier.
Trump Insists Border Wall Money Must Be Part of #DACA Deal
“The Democrats have been told, and fully understand, that there can be no DACA without the desperately needed WALL at the Southern Border and an END to the horrible Chain Migration & ridiculous Lottery System of Immigration,” Trump said in a Twitter message Friday from his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida.
▻https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-29/trump-insists-border-wall-funding-must-be-part-of-any-daca-deal?cmpid=soc
How Donald Trump’s border wall fared in the $1.3 trillion spending bill he just signed
“We funded the initial down payment of $1.6 billion,” Trump said of border wall funding Friday. "We’re going to be starting work – literally – on Monday on not only some new wall ... but also fixing existing walls.”
▻https://www.texastribune.org/2018/03/23/donald-trump-border-wall-16-million-funding-restrictions-attached
Trump suggests the military might build the border wall
President Trump hinted in a tweet on Sunday that the military could be tasked with building a wall on the Mexican border after a $1.3 trillion spending bill failed to include the funds he sought to erect the structure.
“Because of the $700 & $716 Billion Dollars gotten to rebuild our Military, many jobs are created and our Military is again rich,” Trump wrote in a posting about the increase in military spending. “Building a great Border Wall, with drugs (poison) and enemy combatants pouring into our Country, is all about National Defense. Build WALL through M!”
▻https://nypost.com/2018/03/25/trump-suggests-the-military-might-build-the-border-wall
Proposal to use Pentagon funds for border wall is ill advised
The Fiscal Year 2018 Omnibus Appropriations bill includes some funding for so-called “border security” but not as much as the president wanted. At the start of negotiations for the omnibus, he requested $1.6 billion for 74 miles of new wall barriers plus $1.1 billion for border security technology.
▻http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/homeland-security/380807-proposal-to-use-pentagon-funds-for-border-wall-is-ill
Who Owns the Border?
Before Trump’s wall can be built, landowners need to agree. Not all of them are enthusiastic about it.
Government officials meet with Starr County leaders about border wall’s location
Starr County residents will soon find out how border wall construction will affect them.
That’s because notices for landowners in the western edge of the Rio Grande Valley will begin arriving in about three weeks, according to Roma Mayor Roberto Salinas.
Salinas said that information was conveyed to him and several officials from other cities in the county Monday during a meeting with U.S. Border Patrol and U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
Last week, CBP and Border Patrol officials confirmed that landowners in Hidalgo and Starr counties would “immediately” begin receiving notices regarding construction along the U.S.-Mexico border as it pertains to their land.
The meeting Monday with Starr County leaders was directly related to that announcement last week — in which CBP and U.S. Army Corp of Engineers officials said they would begin reaching out to landowners in the Valley to conduct “#Rights_of_Entry_for_Survey,” or (#ROE-S), in order to commence the real estate, environmental and design processes for the border infrastructure projects that were funded in CBP’s 2018 fiscal year plan.
“The #Rio_Grande_Valley sector is slated for 25 miles of new levee wall along the Rio Grande River and 8 to 12 miles of bollard wall in Starr County, #Texas — closing gaps along the border in the RGV sector is also part of the border wall project,” CBP announced following the omnibus bill’s passage at the end of March.
According to Salinas, landowners in the Starr County area will receive notification from the federal government within three weeks regarding the segment of wall and fencing in the county.
Salinas said he and other city officials were told during the meeting that the wall construction would begin east of the Fronton area and extend 5.5 miles into #Escobares, but uncertainty remains regarding the downtown area.
Border Patrol spokesman Daniel Tirado confirmed Monday’s meeting with Starr County leaders — stating that RGV Sector personnel met with city officials to provide “the most current information available regarding the proposed infrastructure construction in Starr County.”
“The topic of discussion was the approximately 8-12 miles of border barrier in Starr County and the preliminary barrier alignment proposals which are still pending survey and engineering approval,” Tirado said in an email. “It was also mentioned that potential impacted landowners in Starr County will soon receive a right of entry request letter from the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers to begin the necessary studies.”
The mayor also said that in addition to himself, he was joined by officials from Rio Grande City, Escobares and La Grulla.
▻http://www.themonitor.com/news/local/article_c87953b8-47d5-11e8-a2bd-073986b06d8e.html
Congress may snub Trump on wall, risking shutdown
Senate Republicans privately acknowledge that they’re unlikely to pass a funding bill that will satisfy the president.
▻https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/17/trump-border-wall-congress-funding-bill-snub-649563
Congress to push stop-gap funding bill with no border wall money
The U.S. Congress, aiming to avoid a partial government shutdown at the end of this week, began advancing legislation on Wednesday to temporarily fund several federal agencies through Feb. 8, but without money for a U.S.-Mexico border wall that President Donald Trump demanded.
“We’ll soon take up a simple measure that will continue government funding into February so that we can continue this vital (border security) debate after the new Congress has convened” in January, said Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
A Senate Democratic aide said the appropriations bill, which would keep the Department of Homeland Security and several other agencies operating on a temporary basis, was expected to pass the Senate either on Wednesday or Thursday.
The House of Representatives would then have to pass the bill and hope that Trump signs it into law, avoiding a shutdown because existing funding for the agencies will expire at midnight on Friday.
By postponing decisions on spending for the agencies that also includes the departments of Justice, Commerce, Interior and Agriculture, Democrats will be in a somewhat stronger bargaining position next year when they take majority control of the House.
Democrats and many Republicans have challenged the wisdom of giving Trump $5 billion this year, and ultimately a total of at least $24 billion, to build a wall that they argue would be less effective in securing the border than building on a mix of tools already in place.
In a last-ditch attempt to resolve the impasse this year, Trump and McConnell on Tuesday proposed giving Trump a $1 billion fund that he could use at his discretion for border security.
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer labeled that a “slush fund” that would lack the votes to pass Congress.
On Wednesday, McConnell attacked Democrats for rejecting it, saying, “It seems like political spite for the president may be winning out over sensible policy.”
The Ongoing Border-Wall Fight and the Limits of Public Attention
What with crowing over the end of Robert Mueller’s investigation and vowing revenge on his enemies, President Trump seems to have forgotten all about the national emergency at the southern border that he declared just a few weeks ago. Much of the public has moved on, too. The rest of the government, though, continues to deal with the consequences of Trump’s decision. Earlier this month, the House and Senate voted—with what these days constitutes significant bipartisan support—to block Trump’s declaration, seeing it for what it was: a way for the President to run around Congress and grab billions of dollars for a border wall that lawmakers wouldn’t otherwise give him. Trump then countered Congress with a veto. (“VETO!” he tweeted, as if he were Michael Scott, the boss character on “The Office,” declaring bankruptcy.)
On Tuesday, the House voted on a measure to override Trump’s veto. Democrats hold a thirty-eight-seat majority in the House, and the entire caucus voted for the override, with fourteen Republicans joining them. But the measure fell short of the two-thirds majority it needed to pass. Despite more grumbling than usual, congressional Republicans have once again let Trump have his way. Separation of powers, the power of the purse—these things are not worth angering the base over, evidently. And why anger the base if you’ve got the judicial branch as a backstop? The fight over Trump’s national emergency will now move to the courts, where rulings, appeals, and more rulings await. Let judges sort it out.
It’s been three months since Trump shut down the government over border-wall funding, and two months since the shutdown ended. There’s been much else to occupy the public’s attention in the past few weeks: the end of the Mueller investigation, nascent Democratic Presidential campaigns, various congressional inquiries, March Madness. Will the border-wall fight end up like the travel-ban fight, Trump’s other signature effort to reimagine the nation’s borders? In the case of the travel ban, cycles of public outrage and Administration retrenchment gave way to a legal fight that ultimately resulted in the travel ban, if altered, being implemented. Last year, thirty-seven thousand people from eight countries—Chad, Iran, Libya, North Korea, Syria, Venezuela, Somalia, and Yemen—were denied visas to the U.S. under the authority of the ban, yet public debate has all but evaporated. The slog of federal legal proceedings is not conducive to sustained public attention. Last month, more than a dozen states sued the Trump Administration over the emergency declaration. The courts are the venue where the border-wall fight is going. Public attention should follow, too.
▻https://www.newyorker.com/news/current/the-ongoing-border-wall-fight-and-the-limits-of-public-attention
Dissecting Trump’s Most Rabid Online Following, by Trevor Martin | FiveThirtyEight
▻https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/dissecting-trumps-most-rabid-online-following
▻https://espnfivethirtyeight.files.wordpress.com/2017/03/thedonaldtrumpsubredditalgebra-16x9.jpg?w=2667
Comparing subreddits, with Latent Semantic Analysis in R
▻http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/03/comparing-subreddits.html
The article looks at various popular and notorious subreddits and finds those that are most similar to the main subreddit devoted to Donald Trump and also to the main other contenders in the 2016 campaign for president, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders.
#machine_learning #LSA #gensim #R #howto #trolls #reddit #text-mining
La loi sur les multinationales amputée de ses sanctions
Ce texte déposé par le groupe socialiste de l’Assemblée, soutenu par de nombreuses ONG, avait mis fin à un marathon législatif de près de cinq ans. Emmanuel #Macron, alors ministre de l’Economie, s’y était opposé mais Michel Sapin avait ensuite donné son feu vert après sa réécriture.
Les groupes Les Républicains (LR) et UDI de l’Assemblée et du Sénat avaient saisi le Conseil constitutionnel estimant, comme le Medef, que cette loi allait « nuire à la compétitivité » des entreprises françaises et à « l’attractivité de la France ».
Le texte a pour objet de tirer les enseignements de l’effondrement en 2013 de l’immeuble #Rana_Plaza à #Dacca (Bangladesh) qui avait fait 1.135 victimes, des ouvriers de firmes textiles travaillant pour des donneurs d’ordres étrangers, notamment de grandes marques occidentales.
#textile #multinationale #travail #compétitivité #medef
▻https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/france/230317/la-loi-sur-les-multinationales-amputee-de-ses-sanctions
#mur_de_paye Dommage !
Le Conseil constitutionnel censure partiellement la loi sur le devoir de vigilance des multinationales
►http://multinationales.org/Le-Conseil-constitutionnel-censure-partiellement-la-loi-sur-le-devo
Le Conseil constitutionnel a décidé de censurer la loi sur le devoir de vigilance des multinationales sur un point central : la possibilité d’infliger une amende aux firmes qui ne respecteraient pas leur obligation de « prévenir les atteintes graves envers les #droits_humains et les libertés fondamentales ». Une nouvelle demi-victoire (ou demi-défaite) pour cette législation au parcours laborieux. Le Conseil constitutionnel a rendu sa décision : il censure partiellement la loi sur le « devoir de vigilance » des multinationales.
#UGK Super Tight... Super #Samples
▻http://www.swampdiggers.com/UGK-Super-Tight-Super-samples
Septembre 1994. Dallas, #Texas. Ride en Chevy au milieu des puits de pétrole. Lone Star en canette et Stetson sur la tête. La bande son ? Question idiote. Onze titres. Pas d’intro. Pas d’outro. Pas d’interludes non plus. Pas d’invités prestigieux, juste les amis (Smoke D et 3-2 des Blac Monks). Pourtant en s’attardant sur le livret un nom ressort : Leo Nocentelli. Pour l’aider à produire ce classique Pimp C a fait appel à trois musiciens, et parmi eux le légendaire guitariste des Meters (groupe (...)
/ #Sélections, #Compilation, Samples, UGK, Texas, #Samplediggers
False information on the internet is hiding the truth about onions
▻http://www.marketplace.org/2017/03/14/tech/internet-falsehoods-are-hiding-truth-about-onions
▻https://cms.marketplace.org/sites/default/files/styles/primary-image-900x500/public/GettyImages-491510374.jpg?itok=c1nIKjgi
En gros : un article démontant une fausse information, très bien référencé par Google, devient alors la cause de la propagation de cette même fausse information, car il évoque celle-ci au tout début du texte, et donc Google considère que c’est ça la réponse à la question.
Très pauvre analyse de texte malgré ce que sait sûrement faire google avec des gros ordis et des gros algos.
cc @fil pour l’analyse de texte par des programmes…
The biggest problem for Trump’s border wall isn’t money. It’s getting the land.
Tamez fought the government in federal court. During seven years of litigation and negotiation, she became famous for resisting the border fence. The government eventually paid her $56,000 for a quarter-acre the fence sits on and gave her a code to open a gate so she can access her land to its south.
Imagine this playing out over and over again along the 1,300 miles of borderlands that President Trump wants to wall up. “We will soon begin the construction of a great wall along our southern border,” Trump promised Tuesday night in an address to Congress. “It will be started ahead of schedule, and, when finished, it will be a very effective weapon against drugs and crime.”
▻https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2017/03/03/the-biggest-problem-with-trumps-border-wall-isnt-money-its-getting-the-land/?postshare=2361488659805129&tid=ss_tw
#aménagement_du_territoire #terres #murs #barrières_frontalières #résistance #frontières #USA #Etats-Unis
cc @daphne @albertocampiphoto @marty @reka
Sur le même sujet dans le passé...
Donald Trump’s Great Wall of eminent domain
Randal John Meyer of the Cato Institute has an interesting article explaining how Donald Trump’s plan to build a wall across the Mexican border would require the use of eminent domain to forcibly displace large numbers of American property owners: What Donald Trump doesn’t want you to know about his plan to build a “Great Wall” between the U.S. and Mexico: He’d need to steal private property from Americans to build it.
▻https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2016/04/01/donald-trumps-great-wall-of-eminent-domain
#propriété_privée
Landowners Likely To Bring More Lawsuits As Trump Moves On Border Wall
Hundreds of irate landowners along the river have protested what they call a government land grab to install the controversial fence. Their cases landed before U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen in Brownsville. He calls himself “the fence judge.”
▻http://www.npr.org/2017/02/23/516895052/landowners-likely-to-bring-more-lawsuits-as-trump-moves-on-border-wall
‘Impenetrable, physical, tall’: Colbert uses Trump’s speeches to calculate border-wall costs
If President Trump is the finicky client describing what he wants for a monstrous wall-building project along the Mexican border, Stephen Colbert is the flummoxed architect trying to fashion a blueprint from his bombastic adjectives.
▻https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/style/wp/2017/03/11/impenetrable-physical-tall-colbert-uses-trumps-speeches-to-calculate
#coût #prix #satire
Americans and Mexicans living at the border are more connected than divided
During my travels, I started thinking of the space between the two countries as a kind of “third nation.” I confess, I’ve never heard anyone in a border city refer to their turf as a third nation. Locals have many other ways of describing their special connection across the line, like “twin cities” and “ciudades hermanas” (sister cities). Some even call themselves “transborder citizens” living in a “transfrontier metropolis.”
▻http://www.sanluisobispo.com/opinion/article138142578.html
#liens #connexions #échanges
Texans Receive First Notices of Land Condemnation for Trump’s Border Wall
The government offered $2,900 for 1.2 acres near the Rio Grande. If Flores chooses not to accept the offer, the land could be seized through eminent domain.
Interior secretary hints border wall could be on Mexican land
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke on Tuesday said America can’t give away the Rio Grande to Mexico in the process of building President Trump’s signature border wall, implying the structure could wind up standing partially on Mexican land.
▻http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/326292-interior-secretary-on-wall-were-not-going-to-cede-rio-grande-to
Why some Trump voters in Texas oppose Mexico border wall
With more than 300 acres, the #River_Bend_Resort is one of the few areas left in Brownsville, Texas, without a border fence. Many of the retirees who live there want to keep it that way, reports CBS News correspondent David Begnaud.
▻http://www.cbsnews.com/news/mexico-border-wall-proposal-deadline-brownsville-texas-river-bend-resort
Las grietas del muro
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▻http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/entrada-de-opinion/articulo/carlos-heredia-zubieta/mundo/2017/04/2/las-grietas-del-muro
The Trump Administration is Hiring 12 Attorneys to Seize Land for His Border Wall
The Trump administration is hiring a small army of attorneys to fight landowners so the government can seize the property needed to build the wall on the U.S.-Mexico border that President Donald Trump promised his supporters.
It is not clear how many Americans will have their land seized, how long the process will take, or how much it will cost, according to a new report published by Democrats on the Senate Homeland Security Committee Monday. But the administration is gearing up for a fight nonetheless.
▻http://www.newsweek.com/trump-administration-hiring-12-attorneys-seize-land-his-border-wall-710444
Le « mur » de Trump va bientôt traverser leur jardin
Dans la vallée du Rio Grande, la plupart des terrains où le mur de Donald Trump doit être construit sont privés. Les propriétaires tentent de résister face à un État qui a tous les droits, y compris celui de les flouer. Deuxième volet de notre série de reportages au sud du Texas, à la frontière mexicaine.
Rio Grande Valley Landowners Plan To Fight Border Wall Expansion
President Trump last week vetoed a congressional measure aimed at blocking his national emergency declaration. The next battle over that emergency declaration will likely be in the courts.
Meanwhile, planning for extending the border wall is already happening in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley.
More than 570 landowners in two counties, Hidalgo and Starr, have received right-of-entry letters from the government asking to survey their land for possible border wall construction.
Eloisa Tamez lives in El Calaboz, a small town outside of Brownsville, Texas. In 2007, she received a phone call that she describes as life-changing.
“I was notified by two border patrolmen, that ’did I know that my property was in the path of the planned construction of the border wall,’” Tamez said. “I told them I did not know.”
The government wanted permission to access her land to survey it, but she refused, so they took her court, where her case dragged on for months, but, eventually — she lost her case.
“Within 24 hours after he gave the order, they built that,” Tamez said, referring to the wall that now sits behind her property.
Next, came the battle for compensation.
The government originally low-balled her, she said, so she sued for more.
“The settlement that I got, which was $56,000,” Tamez said. “I converted some of that for scholarships for graduate nursing students.”
Tamez said she didn’t want the money and just wanted her land, without a wall.
Tamez’s experiences in dealing with the government back then is similar to what other landowners went through — they fought, they lost, the wall was built.
Now it seems like those legal skirmishes will begin again.
Efrén Olivares, director of the racial and economic justice program at the Texas Civil Rights Project, said this time around it seems more people will be impacted, but is hopeful more residents now know their rights.
“What happened last time ... a lot of people didn’t know they didn’t have to accept the first offer, so they signed without knowing they were giving up their rights,” Olivares said.
Olivares said landowners in the Rio Grande Valley should know the courts can weigh in on the surveying and the compensation amounts.
In this latest effort to extend the wall, Congress has required the federal government to meet with local officials to discuss design and alignment of the border barrier.
In Starr county, Roma Mayor Roberto Salinas said he met with local Border Patrol officials three weeks ago to try to negotiate on behalf of his community.
“Right now what’s planned below the center of town is an 18 feet steel fence,” Mayor Salinas said. “We think that would be a detriment to tourism, instead what we would like to see is something more like a concrete barrier built with some decorative fencing on top of it that would enhance tourism.”
Salinas said the border patrol officials were receptive, but there’s no official contract.
Mayor Salinas said he understands both sides of the wall debate.
“Border Patrol and Homeland Security say they need the fence in order to do their jobs. I’m a big supporter of Border Patrol and Homeland Security and if they say they need it, I think we should comply and give them what they need,” Salinas said.
The mayor said border officials assured him no homes would be displaced during the construction of a new border wall, but he’s skeptical because they’ve walked back commitments in the past.
Ninety-year-old Elvira Canales lives in Salineño, a 15-minute drive west of Roma.
She said she recently talked to the Army Corps of Engineers about an upcoming road construction project near her property by the Rio Grande. Canales said she’ll take legal action if the government tries to take her land for the road, or for the proposed wall.
“I won’t sell it, or I won’t give it permission because it’s my property for generations and generations,” Canales said.
The Canales family has not yet received an official letter from the government asking for permission to survey their land.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials provided NPR with a statement saying they prefer to avoid homes and other structures, and are in the preliminary stages of planning and designing in Starr County. CBP also said it has not finalized border wall construction timelines for the county.
▻https://www.npr.org/2019/03/19/704116416/rio-grande-valley-landowners-plan-to-fight-border-wall-expansion?t=155306324746
Border wall goes up, landowners continue to fight
The #Cavazos family is still taking a stance against the border wall as construction continues in other parts of the Valley.
Freddy Cavazos, property owner along the US-Mexico border, is reminded of what his grandmother useD to say to him when we was kid.
“She said never sell this property, our grandma kept telling us,” said Freddy Cavazos.
The Cavazos family hasn’t sold it, instead they’ve continued to fight against the federal government’s eminent domain.
“We were supposed to have this all cleared up in June, but they keep postponing and postponing,” said Freddy Cavazos.
The 60-acre property is owned by several family members, Reynaldo Azaldua Cavazos is one of them.
“How much are you getting? $3.98,” responded Reynaldo Azaldua.
The Cavazos family settled for $350 for the government to access their land for 12 months.
An offer that originally stood at $100.
“It just shows, the low ball offers, the pennies on the dollars, that the government is willing to offer these border wall properties,” said Rick Garza, Staff Attorney for Texas Civil Rights Project representing the Cavazos family.
Now government officials have made their way onto the Cavazos family ranch for the next step.
“We had appraisers here last week, they looked at every structure here,” said Reynaldo Azaldua.
According to the Texas Civil Rights Project, the government’s offer can come in the next few days or even months.
For now, it’s a waiting game and family members say they are willing to play as long as they try to keep their grandmothers ranch.
“She would probably tell us keep fighting, hijos keep fighting, even if you lose in the end,” said Freddy Cavazos.
The Cavazos family’s next court date is scheduled to be in December.
▻https://valleycentral.com/news/local/border-wall-goes-up-landowners-continue-to-fight
Trump admin preparing to take over private land in #Texas for border wall
The Trump administration is preparing court filings to begin taking over private land in Texas to build a border wall as early as this week, say officials.
▻https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/trump-admin-preparing-take-over-private-land-border-wall-n1082316?cid=sm_np
Your ultimate safe haven and private resort community providing luxury life assurance
▻https://www.tridentlakes.com
#underground #souterrain
Going underground: The subterranean doomsday village complete with golf course, spas, helipads and an equestrian center that’s set to be built in Texas
Detailed plans for a luxury underground doomsday village complete with golf courses and spas have been revealed in Texas.
Trident Lakes is a $300million development in the small city of Ector, Texas, where investors are plotting to create the subterranean world over 700 acres of land.
They plan to build enough bunkers for 1,000 people and accompany them with luxury amenities including an equestrian center, gun range and several white sand lagoons.
The complex will be signposted above ground by a massive fountain with a statue of Poseidon towering 50ft in the air, making it visible from Highway 65.
Detailed plans for Trident Lakes, an underground doomsday village in Ector, Texas, have been revealed. They include three lagoons, a golf course, chapel, shopping center, equestrian center and rifle range
▻http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3928772/Texas-investors-build-community-doomsday-scenario.html
#bunkers #Ector #Texas #USA #Etats-Unis #paranoïa #aménagement_du_territoire
Dans les magasins #Primark, des salariés pressurés, surveillés, terrorisés
▻http://multinationales.org/Dans-les-magasins-Primark-des-salaries-pressures-surveilles-terrori
La chaîne de vêtements et de #Textile Primark ouvre de plus en plus de boutiques en France. La marque est réputée pour le bas coût de ses produits. Elle a aussi été sous le feux des projecteurs lors de l’effondrement de l’usine #Textile du Rana Plaza, au Bangladesh, qui a fait plus d’un millier de morts. Moins connues sont les #conditions_de_travail de ces vendeurs, ici, en France. Le magazine professionnel du secteur Boutique2Mode a récolté les témoignages d’employés à travers le pays. Constat : entre (...)
/ Primark, A la une, Textile, Textile, conditions de travail, #santé_et_sécurité_au_travail, #droits_des_travailleurs, #travail_digne, #chaîne_d'approvisionnement, impact (...)
#impact_social
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Great Literature Is Surprisingly Arithmetic - Scientific American
▻https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/great-literature-is-surprisingly-arithmetic
almost all novels and plays provide one of only six “emotional experiences” from beginning to end—a rags-to-riches exuberance, say, or a rise and fall of hope (below, top). Researchers at the University of Vermont graphed the happiness and sadness of words that occurred across the pages of more than 1,300 fiction works to reveal the emotional arcs and discovered relatively few variations.
A different study coordinated by Poland’s Institute of Nuclear Physics found that sentence lengths in books frequently form a fractal pattern
reminds me of Kurt Vonnegut’s shape of stories ▻http://www.openculture.com/2014/02/kurt-vonnegut-masters-thesis-rejected-by-u-chicago.html
►https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oP3c1h8v2ZQ
bon je crois qu’on vient de franchir une étape : l’analyse de 100 000 récits à partir de leurs résumés sur wikipedia
▻http://varianceexplained.org/r/tidytext-plots
Cette étude semble tout casser
▻http://www.romanklinger.de/publications/kim2017a.pdf
Une autre étude du même genre :
▻https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13423-016-1051-4
(via @freakonometrics — mais qui ne cite pas Kurt Vonnegut !)
du coup il suffit de dessiner un arc narratif pour générer un roman :
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_y6drm6af8
Le #textile lyonnais en pôle position (Libération)
▻https://www.wereport.fr/economie-2/le-textile-lyonnais-en-pole-position-liberation
Enveloppes pour dirigeables, fibres connectées, filets agricoles… Tandis que France Stratégie a publié jeudi un rapport encourageant sur les pôles de compétitivité, en Rhône-Alpes, #Techtera a soutenu de nombreux projets innovants. En dressant le bilan de dix ans de pôles de compétitivité, jeudi, France Stratégie a donné un satisfecit à ces structures regroupant les mondes scientifiques et économiques d’un même territoire. Au moins côté recherche....
Hours after Trump signs Muslim ban, Texas mosque goes up in flames
▻https://thinkprogress.org/islamic-center-of-victoria-fire-8a683f632a7a
A Texas mosque was set on fire just hours after Trump signed an executive order restricting migration from Muslim-majority countries.
à suivre la timeline de @asteris qui était très bon pendant la dite crise grecque, pour ce qui se passe aux EU en ce moment : ▻https://twitter.com/asteris
le seul espoir qui me reste, c’est qu’on est aux EU et que ce couillard de Trump prenne une balle dans le crâne.
@gwyneth bison les agressions contre les musulmans ne date pas de Trump mais de l’ère bush après le 9/11 : assassinats, agressions verbales et physiques, menaces, et le FBI qui surveille ces citoyens plus que d’autres, laissant croire qu’ils sont des terroristes en puissance. Le Patriot-Act de BUSH et le NDAA voté par Obama ne font que rendre cette situation encore plus précaire pour les musulmans de ce pays.