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CNN is launching “a new and expanded race team” after the weeks-long national conversation around race and racism, network president Jeff Zucker told staff Monday.
“Today, I am pleased to announce that we are making an even more significant, sustained commitment to ensure race coverage is a permanent part of our journalism.”
– The Wrap / July 13, 2020
The non-black network president then used several more Anglo-Saxon words in a race-based discussion about race for a non-black racial period of time, while paying scant racial attention to Australian Aborigines, the Japanese, and Pacific Islanders races.
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Multifunctional e-Glasses Monitor Health, Protect Eyes, Control Video Game
American Chemical Society via Phys.org / May 27,2020
The researchers built the glasses’ frame with a 3-D printer and then added flexible electrodes near the ears (EEG sensor) and eyes (EOG sensor).
They also added a wireless circuit for motion/UV sensing on the side of the glasses and a UV-responsive, color-adjustable gel inside the lenses.
When the sensor detected UV rays of a certain intensity, the lenses changed color and became sunglasses.
The motion detector allowed the researchers to track the posture and gait of the wearer, as well as detect when they fell.
The EEG recorded alpha rhythms of the brain, which could be used to monitor health.
Finally, the EOG monitor allowed the wearer to easily move bricks around in a popular video game by adjusting the direction and angle of their eyes.
Wait . . . could I just ask you a few questions about the part I put in boldface, please?
[To the tune of “Thunder Road”] by Bruce Epstein
♫ ♫
The cell door slams
A wary press waves
Televisions wink out in surveillance rooms as the radio plays
Whitewash as bad as Tom Sawyer’s —
Hey, I’m Epstein, and I want my lawyers —
Don’t unscrew the bulb again
I just can’t beat myself to a pulp again
Don’t run back outside, Warden, you know just what I’m here for:
Pols are scared and they’re thinking that maybe I ain’t that strong anymore
Show a little faith in the magic of blackmail
You ain’t on duty, but that’s just a detail
Oh, and the alt-right can’t get me
♩
You can hide behind a cover story, study your plan
Make excuses when discovered, throw somebody in a van
Spend your summers from now on in Milan
Ignoring the word on the street:
Well, I’m like Nero, I’m like a god
All the extortion I can offer (girls) is beneath this dirty facade
With a chance to make it pay somehow
Hey, what else can they do to me now?
Except, why are they rolling up a towel and letting my roommate out the door?
With this story busting open these headlines soon won’t be there anymore
We have one last chance to get that witch —
Did I remember a dead man’s switch?
Screens all black . . . no one’s watching or even keeping track . . .
Uh, oh, overplayed my hand
Checking out tonight so others won’t take the stand
Oh, oh, oh, oh, Under Oath
Oh, Under Oath, oh Under Oath
Lying out there, when you’re Prisoner #1
Hey I know it’s karma, we can’t fake it or run
Oh, oh, oh, oh, Under Oath:
These lies
Take hold
Under Oath
♩♩♪
Well, they got to the guards and they learned how to make me not talk
And the coroner’s out back if you’re ready to take that long walk
To the front page from my bedsheet
The story’s there but the writers ain’t free
And I know they’re happy for words that I ain’t spoke
Tonight they’ll be free, and my mistress will be broke
There were ghosts in the eyes of all the victims we threw away
They haunt that disgusting beach condo in the frame-ups and porno pedo ways
They scream my name at night in the street
Saturation media lies like rags about defeat
And as they only try to blame Don
You hear their anchors roaring on
But my secrets and fortune are gone on the wind:
Very clandestine —
In a story full of losers
But “I didn’t kill myself”
For the win!
♫ ♫
♫ ♫ ♫ ♫
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Black Portland Police Officer Describes Racist Treatment From White Black Lives Matter Potesters
The Blaze | July 15, 2020 | Breck DumasA black police officer from the Portland Police Department is gaining attention online for his testimony describing the racist treatment minority members of his force received from white protesters during Black Lives Matter demonstrations.
The city of Portland, Oregon, has experienced nearly 50 days of ongoing protests following the death of George Floyd in late May, and the abuse from activists toward law enforcement has led members of the PPD and their families to speak out.
One of those speaking out is Officer Jakhary Jackson, who described to Lt. Tina Jones last week during press availability what it has been like on the other side of the nightly protest lines.
“I’ll say this,” Jackson began, “I got to see folks that really do want change like the rest of us that have been impacted by racism, and then I got to see those people get faded out by people who have no idea what racism is all about — who have never experienced racism, that don’t even know that the tactics they are using are the same tactics that were used against my people.”
Officer Jackson recalled the treatment during demonstrations.
“A lot of times, someone of color — black, Hispanic, Asian — would come up to the fence and directly want to talk to me,” he said. But often, “someone white comes up, ‘F the police, don’t talk to him.’ “
The officer said it became a pattern.
“I even had a young, African American girl tell me, ‘Why is you guys aren’t talking to us,’ I said, ‘Honestly, this is now the 23rd day of doing it, every time I try to have a conversation with someone that looks like me, someone white comes up and blocks them and tells them them not to talk,’ and then right when I said that this white girl popped right in front her.”
Jackson continued:
“It says something when you’re at a Black Lives Matter protest you have more minorities on the police side than you have in a violent crowd. And you have white people screaming at black officers, ‘You have the biggest nose I’ve ever seen.’ You hear these things and go, ‘Are these people, are they going to say something to this person?’ No.
“And that’s just one example. Having people tell you what to do with your life, that you need to quit your job, that you’re hurting your community but they’re not even a part of the community. Once again, you as a privileged white person telling someone of color what to do with your life.”
Thanks everyone for your help with the music, lots of good ideas that you will see showing up in the future.
I need your help again.
We are coming to the end of the current Babesleaga so I want some suggestions as to who you may like to see, group themes and the like for the next League.
I thank you in advance for your suggestions.