No one in the meatspace is going to the Black Rock Desert this year. So I soared into the sprawling digital reconstruction that is BRCvr.
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CRIMINAL SEASON 2 | Official Trailer | Netflix
Four new cases, four new suspects, one room that changes everything. Criminal returns September 16th with guest stars Kit Harington, Kunal Nayyar, Sharon Horgan and Sophie Okonedo. Every suspect has their story. Whose will you believe? SUBSCRIBE: http://bit.ly/29qBUt7 About Netflix: Netflix is the world's leading streaming entertainment service with 193 million paid memberships in over 190 countries enjoying TV series, documentaries and feature films across a wide variety of genres and languages. Members can watch as much as they want, anytime, anywhere, on any internet-connected screen. Members can play, pause and resume watching, all without commercials or commitments. CRIMINAL SEASON 2 | Official Trailer | Netflix https://youtube.com/Netflix Seeking answers inside the interview room, investigators question suspects over four confounding cases, including alleged rape, abduction and murder.
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Tuesday, September 1, 2020
How to Install Moodle Learning Platform in Ubuntu 20.04
Moodle is the world’s most popular, robust, free, and open-source online learning (e-learning) management platform built for web and mobile. It offers a wide range of activities and educational tools that enable schools, universities,
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The global pandemic's newest luxury traveler? Your pet
Pet adoptions are soaring during the Covid-19 pandemic, and the travel industry has taken notice. To entice travelers, hotels are rolling out packages that pamper pets as much as their owners.
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Listening to immigrant and indigenous Pacific Islander voices
After Kevin Lujan Lee came out to his parents, he found another family in Improving Dreams, Equality, Access, and Success (IDEAS), an undocumented student advocacy and support group at the University of California at Los Angeles. After joining the organization to support his undocumented partner at the time, he fell in love with the group and community around it, and became involved in organizing alongside undocumented youth. When Lee found himself struggling to make ends meet upon graduation, it was his then-partner’s parents who took him in and cared for him despite their limited means and the constant threat of deportation.
“I would be nothing if it weren’t for IDEAS, if it weren’t for undocumented people sheltering me and giving me food,” Lee says. “This was the spirit that the group embodied. People who were more than willing to just fork out what they didn’t have.”
The third-year PhD candidate credits the family and mission of IDEAS for every subsequent step he has taken, from his master’s degree at the University of Chicago to his current research in MIT’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning.
“I really don’t think of myself as a researcher,” Lee says. “I’m first and foremost an organizer. That’s where I gained my purpose. That’s where I learned what love is in its most unconditional and revolutionary form.”
Lee’s priority is to give back that sense of unconditional love to the communities who have made him who he is, a scholar with broad interests in equitable community and economic development. His research has ranged from the political engagement of Pacific Islanders in Hawai‘i and Guåhan, to the role of worker centers — many of which serve undocumented immigrants in the informal economy –– in California’s workforce development system.
“When you work with people and in geographies that are invisible, you need power,” Lee says. “That’s why I’m here.”
“You have to make a decision”
The people Lee met through IDEAS have become crucial points of access that make his research possible on a day-to-day basis. Organizing has always built itself on interpersonal trust, and for Lee, shared connections in the immigrant labor world allow him to engage with the organizations he studies. For instance, it was through a collaboration with Sasha Feldstein at the California Immigrant Policy Center that he pursued his first research project as an MIT student, which looked at the way gaps in organizational networks prevent marginalized populations from accessing the resources that are supposedly for them.
When it comes to workforce development, social scientists have identified the problem of “creaming,” wherein nonprofits focus their resources on the populations that are easiest to serve in the face of tightened budgets, leaving behind the most marginalized in the process.
Inspired by the centrality of interpersonal relationships in the organizing world, Lee identified an additional, network-based mechanism through which the most marginalized are excluded from workforce development nonprofits. He calls this “structural creaming.” One of the ways in which federally funded job training providers exclude marginalized populations, he says, is by failing to establish or maintain relationships with smaller nonprofits specifically oriented toward meeting those populations’ needs.
Without those relationships, such providers simply don’t reach these populations, and if they do, they might not provide them with the appropriate support or refer them to the right employers. As a result, people slip through the cracks. Small-scale service providers don’t receive the funding they could use to provide greater assistance to the marginalized populations they already reach.
“These small-scale organizations are not really in conversation with the mainstream workforce development systems,” explains Lee, who works on this issue along with Ana Luz Gonzalez-Vasquez and Magaly López at the UCLA Labor Center. “They often have a fraught relationship with American Job Centers [federally funded job-training providers under the U.S. Department of Labor]. And, these organizations are not often studied by economists, who wield tremendous influence in workforce development policymaking.”
Conversations about workforce development for the most marginalized need to move away from prioritizing the “average client,” scalability, and cost efficiency, Lee says.
“You have to make a decision,” he says of the nonprofits and agencies in this field. “Serving immigrants is not always cost-effective. It requires conducting targeted outreach, providing English as Second Language classes, offering ongoing support to address barriers to program participation, and high-quality employment — it’s a difficult process. But if you care about these populations, that’s what you'll do.”
A life of many edges
An organizing-first approach was what brought Lee to MIT’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP) to begin with. Advised by Associate Professor Justin Steil, Lee feels the department’s emphasis on interdisciplinary, applied research has allowed him to pursue his interests within the context of the academy.
“What he provides is unconditional support, a ready smile, and a lot of space to do what I want,” Lee says of his advisor. “There are a lot of wonderful junior faculty who are phenomenal, and I’m very grateful to them.”
Lee’s ability to range broadly over his interests in immigrant rights and equitable development has led him toward several collaborative projects on an issue that reaches into his own ancestry and past: indigenous Pacific Islander sovereignty.
An initial project with the Center for Pacific Island Studies at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa prompted him to learn more about indigenous sovereignty and colonialism. Now, he is collaborating with Ngoc Phan, a political scientist at Hawai‘i Pacific University, to analyze her Native Hawaiian Survey. And, alongside Patrick Thomsen of the University of Auckland and Lana Lopesi of the Auckland University of Technology, he is theorizing Pacific Islander mobilities. The Pacific has many “edges,” Lee says, alluding to the work of Pacific Studies scholar and activist Teresia Teaiwa, who emphasizes the deep heterogeneity of land, history, culture, language, religion and spirituality across the Pacific.
Within his own life, Lee has been grappling with the relationship between indigeneity and his own position as an immigrant and settler on Native American lands. Lee is an indigenous Pacific Islander himself; his mother is CHamoru, from Guåhan, and his father is Chinese, from Malaysia. Growing up in Malaysia, he remembers how his mother maintained her relationship to her family and to the island, in the face of a hierarchical and colorist society where she was required to overcome inordinate obstacles as a young mother. Through his research, he aims to reconnect to his Pacific Islander heritage and takes inspiration from his mother’s resilience.
“She is my connection,” he says. “She continuously demonstrates what it for me what it means to be CHamoru and what it means to be an Islander. It’s to have strength, and to stay connected to your homeland. You do it because it’s in your blood. You just have to.”
Since at least 2010, DUSP has only ever enrolled one PhD student who identifies as “Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander” — Lee himself. Thus, he feels a responsibility to make sure he is not the last Pacific Islander to come through his department. Inspired by the recent release of the Black DUSP Thesis, he also works alongside his colleagues to advance equity within his department. In the future, he hopes to help establish a pipeline of Pacific Islanders into urban planning.
“Sovereignty movements are very much alive in the Pacific, and people are trying to build their nations,” Lee says. “But there is no pipeline for Pacific Islanders into urban planning. How are you going to engage the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank about measures of development, how are you going to talk about community control, how are you going to talk about the military’s role in land use, if you don’t have these skills?”
With both his academic and organizing work, Lee acknowledges he has a lot on his plate. “I am deeply imperfect and often thinly stretched,” he says. “But when things matter so deeply in your bones, the energy just comes. It has to.”
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Chadwick Boseman’s ’42’ to return to theaters as tribute to actor
The star died after a long battle with colon cancer on Aug. 28, which also happened to be Jackie Robinson Day.
The Jackie Robinson biopic 42 is getting a theatrical re-release this weekend in honor of Chadwick Boseman.
Robinson was the first Black player in Major League Baseball in 1947, and Boseman played him in the 2013 sports drama. AMC Theaters will screen the film in more than 300 locations starting Thursday. Tickets will cost $5 and go on sale late Tuesday, PEOPLE reports.
The actor died after a long battle with colon cancer on Aug. 28, which also happened to be the same day the MLB celebrated Jackie Robinson Day. The tribute was initially set to take place on April 15 but was pushed back when the season was postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic.
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In the days since Boseman’s death, fellow celebrities and fans have flooded social media with tributes. His 42 costar Harrison Ford, described him as “compelling, powerful and truthful as the characters he chose to play,” Ford said in a statement to The Hollywood Reporter. “His intelligence, personal dignity and deep commitment inspired his colleagues and elevated the stories he told. He is as much a hero as any he played. He is loved and will be deeply missed,” he added.
The Jackie Robinson Foundation also paid tribute to Boseman.
“Chadwick was a dear friend of the Foundation – lending his time and visibility to help advance our mission,” the charity posted on Twitter Saturday. “Preparing for his starring role in ’42,’ he studied extensively and spent considerable time with [Jackie’s wife] Rachel Robinson. A consummate professional, he absorbed every story, every memory and every photo and film excerpt he could consume to help translate the soul of an American hero. And now, Chadwick will be etched in history as a hero in his own right, especially having shown millions of black and Brown children the power of a superhero who looks like them.”
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Meanwhile, Boseman’s final movie, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, co-starring Viola Davis, will be released posthumously on Netflix.
As we previously reported, the film follows the rising “tensions and temperatures over the course of an afternoon recording session in 1920s Chicago, as a band of musicians await trailblazing performer, the legendary ‘Mother of the Blues,’ Ma Rainey.”
Over the weekend, Twitter announced that Boseman’s final post was the most liked tweet ever in the history of the platform.
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Philadelphia mayor defends dining indoors as restaurants remain closed
Indoor dining in Philadelphia was halted on March 16 because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney (D) has addressed the criticism over a widely circulated photo showing him dining indoors at a Maryland restaurant on Sunday. Meanwhile, dine-in service inside his city is banned due to COVID-19 restrictions.
“I felt the risk was low because the county I visited has had fewer than 800 COVID-19 cases, compared to over 33,000 cases in Philadelphia. Regardless, I understand the frustration,” Kenney tweeted Monday.
“I understand the frustration,” the mayor continued. “Restaurant owners are among the hardest hit by the pandemic. I’m sorry if my decision hurt those who’ve worked to keep their businesses going under difficult circumstances.”
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He then reminded residents of the reopening of indoor dining on Sept. 8. “Looking forward to reopening indoor dining soon and visiting my favorite spots,” Kenney wrote.
The photo was shared on Facebook on Sunday by a Pennsylvania resident who was in the same Chesapeake Bay restaurant at the time. After the image went viral, Kenney’s office released a statement, The Hill reports.
“The mayor went to Maryland earlier today to patronize a restaurant owned by a friend of his. For what it’s worth, he also went to Rouge to enjoy outdoor dining in Philly on the way home. He looks forward to expanding indoor dining locally next week,” his office told 6 ABC Action News.
“Throughout the pandemic the mayor has consistently deferred to the guidance of the Health Commissioner, who in this case felt strongly about waiting until Sept. 8 to resume indoor dining,” the statement said. “If elected officials at the federal level had similarly deferred to health experts over the past five months, this might not even be an issue by now.”
Indoor dining in Philadelphia was halted on March 16 because of the coronavirus pandemic. Restaurant owners have since been greatly impacted by the closure, and many were outraged over the photo of the mayor enjoying indoor dining with no mask and not social distancing.
“Good luck explaining this to restaurant owners in Philadelphia who are gonna go out of business. So it’s not ok for us to do it here but you can,” tweeted former NHL player Colby Cohen about the mayor’s decision to dine indoors in Maryland.
When indoor dining resumes in the city next week, the capacity will be limited to 25 percent and no more than four people seated per table.
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Florida couple arrested after shooting at Black father, son returning U-Haul
Wallace Fountain and his wife Beverly insist the shooting had nothing to do with race.
A white Florida couple was arrested last week after shooting at a Black father and his son who were dropping off a U-Haul van.
Charles McMillon Jr. was with his 10-year-old son and childhood friend Kendrick Clemons when they returned the rental to a U-Haul facility in Tallahassee Thursday night (Aug. 27). McMillion says they were sitting in his truck preparing to leave as a gunshot rang out.
That’s when he and Clemons noticed an older couple approaching the truck shouting at the men “Don’t move!” and to surrender, McMillon told the Tallahassee Democrat. Rather than comply, as racists often demand of Black people, McMillon sped off to the sound of more gunfire.
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“It was a life-threatening situation,” McMillon said. “I didn’t even know where I was going. I had my head down and I was making sure my son was covered. And I just pushed the gas to the floor. Didn’t know if I was going to hit something or not.”
A police officer happened to be in the parking lot at the time and confronted the couple. The shooters were later identified as Wallace Fountain, 77, and his wife, Beverly Fountain, 72, the owners of the strip mall. They were arrested that night on three counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon without intent to kill, according to the report.
The Fountains had been surveilling the location inside a U-Haul of their own, claiming they were having problems with people stealing gas from their fleet of U-Haul trucks. During their arrest, officers found a shotgun in their U-Haul and the couple were carrying several pistols, including a .357-caliber Magnum and a Glock 19.
“They saw three Black people, unarmed, dropping off a U-Haul,” McMillon said. “They got guns, they started shooting. That’s why it’s racially motivated.”
Beverly told the Tallahassee Democrat that the shooting had nothing to do with race.
“Were they Black?” she asked. “We weren’t going off on that at all. You’ve got vandalism and theft going on at your property. Trying to protect your property — that’s the only issue.”
The Fountains claim they did not notice the men’s skin color, they were simply trying to protect their property.
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McMillon and Clemons are speaking publicly about the incident to make sure they get justice. They now intend to sue U-Haul and the property owners.
“This country is seeing a wave of anti-Black vigilantism,” said one of their lawyers, Charles Gee. “And what we’re seeing that almost happened … is someone taking the law into their own hands and serving as cop, judge, jury and ultimately executioner.”
Beverly said this entire situation has been “out of proportion.”
“The whole country has gone to hell with all these riots,” she said. “One incident was blown out of proportion.”
The Fountains were released without bond and ordered to surrender their firearms until the case is resolved.
“If we’re the ones shooting at them, we would still be in jail right now, probably with no bond, probably with intent to kill,” Clemons said. “But they got to walk free.”
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‘I Like to Move It’ DJ Erick Morillo dies at 49
The “I like to Move It” DJ was found dead at his Miami home
Famed DJ Erick Morillo, known for his hit “I Like to Move It,” has died at the age of 49.
Miami Beach Police Department found Morillo dead in his Miami Beach home on Tuesday, People reports. They responded to a call that came in at 10:42 a.m., according to MBPD public information officer Ernesto Rodriguez. The manner of Morillo’s death remains under investigation until the medical examiner can determine the exact cause.
“Detectives are currently on scene and in the preliminary stages of the investigation,” Rodriguez wrote in an email to People.
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Morillo’s loved ones told the outlet that he would be deeply missed.
“He was well-loved by his family and he had a lot of love to give,” they said.
The tributes began to flood in for Morillo who left an imprint on music with his signature 1993 song “I Like to Move It” which he performed under the stage name Reel 2 Real. Sacha Baron Cohen covered the song for 2005’s Madagascar and Morillo produced it.
He also earned two wins as the DJ Awards’ best house DJ, last receiving the honor in 2009, and three wins as best international DJ.
“Can’t believe it,” tweeted DJ Yousef. “Only spoke to him last week… he was troubled, less than perfect but was always amazing to me and helped us get circus going in the early days, and we had many amazing times over the 20 years we were friends. Genuinely gutted. RIP.”
Morillo’s unexpected death came a month after he turned himself in to authorities in Miami on charges of sexual battery. The Miami Times reported that A fellow DJ accused him of raping her at his home last December.
The unidentified woman contacted police on Dec. 7 alleging that Morillo invited her and another woman back to his residence after she had worked as a DJ at a Star Island party.
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The woman accused Morillo of offering her a drink and after she changed into a bathing suit to join him in the pool, he then began to make advances that were “sexual in nature.”
She says she felt disrespected and changed back into her clothes. Morillo then apologized for his alleged behavior, and she accepted the apology.
Her complaint says that after she went to sleep on the second floor of his home, she woke up undressed with Morillo standing over her naked. She claimed to have experienced “flashes” of a rape.
Morillo denied the accusation, saying he’d only had sex with another woman at his home that night and was surprised to find the DJ in his bed. However, in July, a rape kit linked him to the accuser and he turned himself in on Aug. 6.
The New York-born DJ was raised in Columbia where he started his career, ultimately releasing 2 albums as Reel 2 Reel, 1994’s “Move It!” and 1996’s “Are You Ready for Some More?” In 2017, he admitted his struggles with alcohol abuse and ketamine addiction to Skiddle.
“I went to rehab three times and even after all three I never gave up alcohol,” he told the outlet. “That was what seemed to keep pulling me under. So, besides the fact that I hurt so many people, I think the most difficult part was coming to the realization that I was going to have to go completely sober.”
He said therapy had helped him overcome his addictions.
According to the Associated Press, Morillo was free on a $25K bond and had a court hearing on Friday.
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Brandy, Monica Verzuz battle draws over 1.2 million viewers
The two dynamic singers have been musical rivals since the 1990s, and this highly-anticipated event revealed that the tension between them is still thick.
It was a battle for the ages.
Since it was announced over two weeks ago, the Verzuz battle between Monica and Brandy has been one of the most highly-anticipated of the series.
The two women have been musical rivals since the ’90s, and the event revealed that the tension between them two is still thick.
More than 1.2 million viewers tuned in on the Instagram platform alone. The numbers for viewers who watched on Apple Music have not yet been released.
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“New record tonight: 1.2M+,” Verzuz tweeted. The announcement prompted some viewers to advocate for more battles between female musicians.
The event kicked off with a surprise call from Democratic vice presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris, who thanked the two for their contributions to the culture. Harris encouraged the viewing audience to vote in this November’s pivotal election.
“You both used your voices in such a powerful way,” she said, “and an extension of our voices is our vote, right?”
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There were tons of stars present for the live stream. Former First Lady Michelle Obama, Keke Palmer, Fantasia, Solange, and Queen Latifah joined in. So did collaborators Missy Elliott and Johnta Austin.
Fans had been calling for the pair’s matchup for months. In a May interview with Atlanta’s V103, Monica said that she would only participate in the event if it was a “celebration.”
“I understand the idea of (Verzuz), and I think it’s really, really entertaining and it is an incredible idea,” Monica said of the phenomenon founded by producers Timbaland and Swizz Beatz in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic.
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“One thing that has happened to me my whole career is being put against someone else that I’m not even remotely similar to,” she said. “I think the reality is us being polar opposites makes it dope.”
The differences between the two singers were on full display Monday night. Monica was even dressed smartly in Fendi while Brandy sported a bohemian jacket and jeans.
Billboard crowned Brandy the winner of the 21-round battle, but social media will assuredly continue to debate results for days to come.
Here are some Twitter reactions:
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