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Before the Flood Full Movie National Geographic

We are a channel who believes in Environmental Disaster , Its a not a problem that you can procrastinate saying there is still time , We do have to make Chan...

This is a very important documentary and you can watch it for free. If you love and care about our planet and the progeny of all of its species, something must change. It's not just about climate change, but also about the ignorance spread by a faction of people who profit from impeding an honest discussion. Relevant in our time of division. If we do not listen to each other there is no one responsible but ourselves. The best film about the impact of humans on the ecosystem since FernGully.

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I thought I wrote well thought out responses to some others discussing an article called “Hello World!” by Vikram Chandra (https://medium.com/backchannel/hello-world-cf8dd6fcb7f7). The article discusses how coding language has similar properties to writing. Here are my responses: 

  So I think what Chandra means by beauty in coding has to do with having a lot of experience programming websites and computer programs. His passion to recognize the beauty comes from his involvement with the process and thinking how to make end result flow and produce an effective/useful tool. When I was a child I couldn’t see the beauty in writing because at that time writing didn’t make sense to me. But through the years I picked up hints and cues to the things that made writing beautiful to me. Similarly, I think the familiarity and contact with coding can allow us to recognize a kind of beauty within it.

This may be a bit far fetched but I think that at times when I teach swim lessons I am creating art in the way that I explain/express what a student needs to do in order to perform a stroke effectively. When I am able to reveal to a child how to manipulate the form of their body to swim a certain way there is an element of the art of rhetoric. I can see the exactly when it clicks in their mind that they can do it. I am in essence persuading them to perform an action how I believe it should be performed (cuz rarely to I show them physically). So I think articles like this are good to make us think about how we perceive subjects like art or beauty, and look for elements in things we don’t usually consider them to be in.

I think what you a both talking about boils down to experience (like I have said elsewhere). In Malcolm Gladwell’s book “Blink,” he explores why people have automatic reactions to things such as, an art expert just knowing that a sculpture is fake but not knowing why she feels that way, or a seasoned police officer noticing a perpetrator giving up their fire arm in slow motion even though it happens in a second or two. They have studied and analysed their craft to a point that they can see the eccentricities of objects and situations so clearly that even they can’t explain why something is beautiful or out of place. To them it just is. It becomes instinct.

But I think the coding beauty he is talking about is in the “style” Debra mentions but also in the final result.

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Republicans and Democrats have moved further and further from each other over the last few decades. The result has been gridlock and partisan vitriol like many Americans have never seen in their lifetimes.

As it turns out, it’s not just about beliefs: according to a new report from the Pew Research Center, “the two parties look less alike today than at any point over the last quarter-century.”

Since 1992, the Democratic Party has grown more diverse, more educated, and less religious, Pew finds. The Republican Party has undergone those changes to much lesser degrees, and at the same time has grown older.

Republicans have made gains across lots of groups, according to Pew’s data, but interestingly, some of the biggest gains appear to be among groups that currently support Donald Trump.

White Voters Without College Degrees Are Fleeing The Democratic Party

Chart: Danielle Kurtzleben/NPR

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Vince Staples vs. The Internet on Pitchfork Video 

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HTML

This is me doing simple HTML on this thing.

Favorite Desserts

crumble

pie

cake

cheesecake

Favorite Deserts

Mojave

Sahara

Antarctica

Ann Arbor

For some reason it’s showing a bullet-point for desserts and no bullet-point for deserts. My code is right. This thing just doesn’t do it right.