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short drabble- lake ghost! Arcade Gannon

WARNING!! FALLOUT SPOILERS AHEAD} SKIP POST IF YOU DONT WANT TO SEE!

Summary: After Boone's death at the hands of the Shady Sands bombing, Arcade is forced to flee the NCR and Brotherhood. He meets his untimely end at the hand of Lake Mead's water but gets a second chance.

What better way to spend his afterlife(?) than waiting for his husband's killer?

Inspired by "Get in the Water" from the Epic: The Musical soundtrack

Original song by Jorge Riveras-Herrans

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“Get in the water.” Arcade growls, spitting out slime of 219 years past. The waves rippled behind him, the waters of Lake Mead filled with righteous fury. The crumpled and ripped doctor's coat stuck to him, green with time and sludge.

Finally, after fourteen long years of waiting and biding his time, his husband’s killer was standing in front of him.

Hank can only look at him in horror and a bit of confusion. “W-What?”

“Get in the water.” The spirit spits out again, his blank eyes impassively moving over the former Overseer.

“Or I’ll raise the tide so fucking high, all of your vault friends will die.” Arcade smirks, a dark cruel thing.

“Please….” Hank raised his hands in an attempt to placate the spirit? Ghost? mutant? Whatever the fuck it is.

Why the hell is he so afraid of this thing?

“I’ll make tidal waves so profound, all of your family will drown!”

“NO!”

“GET IN THE WATER!”

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notes on chapter 5

The opening quote (pg 41) by Narayan is from his work "The Guide".

"... tears her into pisces" (pg 41) - This mistake, "pisces" instead of "pieces" comes up multiple times after this. - Fish imagery - Water imagery. Also, if I remember right, the other times that this mistake is made is in Johnny's footnotes or the letters in the back. It is not made in Zampano's text again. Reminds me of pgs 12-16, when Johnny added "Water" to "Water heater" in the manuscript. Does this make the manuscript unreliable, because Johnny has been making edits to it? Should we take typos like "pisces" as Zampano's mistakes and misspellings, or Johnny's?

"Adonta ta Mele" - Her still singing limbs. Translation originates from actual myth. The symbol that follows it is the alchemical symbol for Earth, and is the first of many in this chapter.

"In both cases, unfulfilled love results in the total negation of Echo's body and near negation of her voice." pg 41. But the chapter continues by showing all of the different ways that Echo's voice lives on, in and through other things. Interesting that this is told alongside all of the alchemical symbols, because as stated HERE: "The principle, or underlying, intent of alchemy is then understood as one of making of the body a spirit and of the spirit a body through transmuting the bodily consciousness into spirit and through fixing the spirit in the body." Alchemy and reanimating the dead often go hand in hand, too.

References to Ovid's Metamorphoses - these stories are all about creatures/people/beings in the wrong bodies, being forced into different forms.

Echo quote: the trees/leaves hide a being (pg 42)

The symbol on pg 42 is the astronomical sign for Pluto, the combination of a P and L in honor of Percival Lowell, who published a work called "Memoir on a Trans-Neptunian Planet", after a 10 year search for an as yet unseen planet. (note Neptune, Roman name for Poseidon, more water imagery). Fourteen years after his death, Pluto was discovered.

"To repeat: her voice has life. It possesses a quality not present in the original, revealing how a nymph can return a different and more meaningful story, in spite of telling the same story." (pg 42) - This is followed by a Don Quixote quote in the notes, calling to mind the ref to Dulcinea on pg 17, and the ref to a mother in the quote itself which perhaps brings out Grendel's mother refs again (back to the Mead Hall on pg 21), and foreshadowing to his own. That same note also holds another ref to WWII.

"Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote" is a short story by Jorge Luis Borges. Menard wants to rewrite Cervantes' work by perfectly setting up his life in such a way that the exact same story line and text would come to him naturally, as it did to Cervantes. The fragments that Menard "comes up with" are verbatim to the original text, but he claims they are better, more subtle and inspired, than the original. It was supposed to be satirical, calling out stuck up critics. Funny that Zampano plays along with the joke, acting like Menard really has come up with something original. Though Johnny responds in aggravation, he is doing something similar, as his own living situation and mental state seem to be mirroring Zampano's in the end.

"...or better yet listening to a bitter curse, realizing a whole lot wrong's being ushered into the world but still missing the words,... both written out on brown leaves of paper..." (pg 42)

"This much though I'm sure of: I'm alone in hostile territories with no clue why they're hostile or how to get back to safe havens, an Old Haven, a lost haven, the temperature dropping, the hour heaving & pitching toward a profound darkness, while before me my idiotic amaurotic Guide laughs..." (pg 43) - Heaving & pitching are distinctly marine terms, calling up Rime of the Ancient Mariner again.

Zonules of Zinn (pg 43), otherwise known as ciliary zonules, are the elaborate systems of extra cellular fibers that center the lens of the eyes, bringing distant objects into focus. Named after Johann Gottfried Zinn.

Symbols: first symbol on pg 43 - planetary alchemical symbol for Mars

Second on pg 43 - Planetary alchemical symbol for Mercury

First symbol on pg 44 - Waning moon (pinpoints ebbs and tides, life and death, also known as the sickle of the moon)

Second symbol on pg 44 - Planetary alchemical symbol for Jupiter

Third on pg 44 - Infinity, or Lemniscate, which comes from the Greek word for Ribbons.

Fourth on pg 44 - Planetary alchemical symbol for Omega, symbol for Death, or the End.

"Textual transfiguration" (pg 44)

"Literature's rocky caves" being marked by an omega.

Wordsworth poem ref'd on pg 44 is Ode to Duty.

"He becomes thence... an earthy, weake, worthlesse thing, and fit sacrifize for only eternal oblivion..." (pg 44)

Talaraia (pg 44) - "Of the ankle," referring to Mercury's winged sandals.

Occludes (pg 45): stop, close up, or obstruct (an opening, orifice, or passage).

Pgs 45-46 are spent discussing a typo in a poem: "cares" vs "caves" in relation to Echo.

""I beleive that sky opens & closes on certain periods..." (pg 46, footnote 59. Typo added by editor, not Johnny.

"Ironically, hollowness only increases the eerie quality of otherness inherent in any echo." (pg 46) This brings to mind Heidegger's unheimlich from previous chapter, the "uncanny", which also brings up Uncanny Valley vibes, especially in this context.

"Divinity seems defined by echo." (pg 46)

"...the hallowed always seems to abide in the province of the hollow." (pg 46)

The symbol that appears on pg 47 is the planetary alchemical symbol for the Sun. So, his formula reads:

(Sun) Sound + Time = Acoustic Light

"... his own creature darkness, taking me completely by surprise, a sudden protracting, and just so you understand where I'm coming from, I consider "... long past midnight" one claw and "empty hallways" another. (pg 48)

"Or even an ancient Samuel O'Reilly @ 1891..." (pg 48) Samuel O'Reilly patented the first electric tattoo machine on Dec. 8, 1891.

"Bars of an EKG" (pg 48) - EKG, Electrocardiogram. Records signals from the heart to check for different heart conditions.

"QRS complex" (pg 48) is the combination of 3 of the graphical deflections seen on a typical EKG.

"... The failure which began it all in the first place, probably right after one burning maze but still years ahead of the other loss, a horrible violence, before the coming of that great Whale... Spanish gold..." (pg 48)

"Sleep... that bloody handmaiden..." (pg 49)

Truant: A student who stays away from school without leave or explanation." from Middle English, referring to a person begging through choice rather than necessity. Or, Scottish Gaelic: wretched.

"...confined to the sharp oscillations of yellow and blue..." (pg 49) There is an uptick in color being noted from here through the rest of the chapter. Best guess on this one: Yellow = maize (corn/maze/land) Blue = water (pisces, Neptune, sea)

"Of course, Lude didn't see it. He was blind. Maybe even right." (pg 49) Further proof of Lude being Johnny's Virgil.

The entirety of footnote 62 is a doozy, but not much is written on it. General consensus seems to be that it is all about Johnny's traumas, which is definitely fleshed out in Appendix II-C and the Whalestoe letters later.

"At least the next step was clear.//Some act of violence would be necessary.// And so it was that before another synapse could fire within my bad-off labyrinthine brain, he was already lying on the floor." (pg 52) - Should we take these "visions"as daydreams, or hallucinations?

Colors from 51: Cinnabar: bright red mineral consisting of mercury sulfide. It is the only important ore of mercury and is sometimes used as a pigment.

Lemon.

Celadon: a willow-green

Indigo.

(red, yellow, green, blue, like the keys later on in the chapter).

"...Out of nowhere. Out of the blue." - pg 52

"I love how enthralled she remains by this festival of living." (pg 54)

"...always talking blue streak to my boss..." (pg 54)

"...For this year's ruling April fool." (pg 54) maybe no actual relation but calls to mind the Fool from the Tarot deck, who is seen as the "main character" on a journey of self enlightenment.

"...a goddamn spatial rape." (pg 55) Brings to mind Greek mythology, Zeus, especially Ovid's Metamorphoses.

"Karen is upstairs, sitting on the bed playing with a deck of tarot cards..." (pg. 56) Not so off base with the Fool theory from pg 54 then?

"Karen spent every night of her fourteenth year composing that smile in front of a blue plastic handled mirror." (pg 58) Blue again

Aphonia: loss of ability to speak through disease of or damage to the larynx or mouth.

Pyritic - a brass colored mineral... also called Fool's Gold

pg 58-59 shows Navidson avoiding his and Karen's trauma. Perhaps their avoidance of their traumas and focus on the House simply transfers/gives power to those traumas, and the House reflects that.

"Karen's attacks, which I suspect stem from early adolescent betrayal, increase proportionally with the level of intimacy - or even the threat of potential intimacy - she experiences with Will Navidson or even her children." (pg 59)

"The ensuing tension is more than temporary." (pg 10)

"The bad bodhi wall." From footnote 72 on pg 60 - Bodhi is a fig tree considered sacred in Buddhist practice. Cont. tree imagery. Also, descriptions of the ill will exuding from the walls include the word "oily", which is not the last time in this chapter that word is used.

"Unfortunately, as he twists the last key, the accompanying sound contains a familiar ring. He grips the red kye and tries it again. As the dead bolt glances the strike plate, the resulting click creates an unexpected and very unwelcome echo." (pg 61) - could the typos be related to when the House gains strength, as it defies reason/structure such as proper language?

"Blue seracs" (pg 68) Blue again.

Margaretha Geertruida Zelle. (pg 69)She was a Dutch exotic dancer and courtesan who was convicted of being a spy for Germany during WWI and executed by firing squad in France. Her name has become synonymous of the seductive female spy. Also went by Mata Hari.

Moither: (Yorkshire) bother or harass (UK) toil, labour, perplex, confuse. (70)

Black and purple (pg 70). Reference back to pg 26, list of colors includes lilac, mauve (purples), and pelican black (pelicans will come significant later), in addition to rootbeer (will come significant later), midnight blue, south sea green, maize (yellow), and cochineal (red)

"Dis(as)embling...." (pg 71) Odd phrasing.

"What wail embattled break." (pg 71) - Whale.

"Another Maldon or no Maldon at all" - The Battle of Maldon in Essex, in 991 AD

"... The already foreseen dissolution of the self." (pg 72) - Reference to his mother?

"My face has been splattered with purple... preserving me." (pg 72)

"...in the spirit of the dark; in the spirit of the staircase - "Known some call is air am." Which is to say - "I am not what I used to be." (pg 72)

We have hit a significant moment. The monster from the story seemed able to physically mar Johnny in the present. He has seemingly changed moving into the future. And we are invited now into his past.

"...Daisy, wearing a red and gold dress, barges in and begins tugging on her father's sleeve." (pg 73) Red and Gold significance?

Neologism: newly coined word or expression.

Selah.

[goalhofer]

2024 Tampa Bay Rays Roster

Pitchers

#11 Shane Baz (Houston, Texas)

#14 Tyler Alexander (Southlake, Texas)*

#24 Zach Eflin (Oviedo, Florida)

#29 Pete Fairbanks (Webster Groves, Missouri)

#34 Aaron Civale (East Windsor, Connecticut)

#38 Colin Poche (Flower Mound, Texas)

#40 Jacob Waguespack (Ascencion Parish, Louisiana)*

#44 Ryan Pepiot (Westfield, Indiana)*

#45 Taj Bradley (Stone Mountain, Georgia)

#47 Jason Adam (Overland Park, Kansas)

#48 Chris Devenski (Cerritos, California)

#52 Zach Littell (Mebane, North Carolina)

#57 Drew Rasmussen (Spokane County, Washington)

#59 Jeffrey Springs (Belmont, North Carolina)

#60 Garrett Cleavinger (Lawrence, Kansas)

#64 Shawn Armstrong (Vanceboro, North Carolina)

#88 Phil Maton III (Chatham Township, Illinois)*

Catchers

#30 Ben Rortvedt (Verona, Wisconsin)*

#50 René Pinto (Maracay, Venezuela)

Infielders

#2 Yandy Díaz (Sagua La Grande, Cuba)

#6 Davis Walls (Cordele, Georgia)

#7 José Caballero (Ciudad Panama, Panama)*

#8 Brandon Lowe (Suffolk, Virginia)

#10 Germán Rosario (Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic)*

#17 Isaac Paredes (Hermosillo, Mexico)

#25 Curtis Mead (Adelaide, Australia)

#54 Austin Shenton (Bellingham, Washington)**

#62 Jonathan Aranda (Tijuana, Mexico)

Outfielders

#1 Richie Palacios (Brooklyn, New York)*

#15 Josh Lowe (Marietta, Georgia)

#21 Jonny DeLuca (Agoura Hills, California)*

#22 José Siri (Sabana Grande De Boyá, Dominican Republic)

#43 Harold Ramírez (Cartagena De Indias, Colombia)

#56 Randy Arozarena (Merida, Mexico)

Coaches

Manager Kevin Cash (Tampa, Florida)

Bench coach Rodney Linares (Brooklyn, New York)

Hitting coach Chad Mottola (Ft. Lauderdale, Florida)

Assistant hitting coach Brady North (Lebanon, Tennessee)

Pitching coach Kyle Snyder (Sarasota, Florida)

Assistant pitching coach Rick Knapp (Baltimore, Maryland)

Bullpen coach Jorge Moncada (San Cristóbal, Venezuela)

1B coach Michael Johns (Fernandina Beach, Florida)

3B coach Brady Williams (Salt Lake City, Utah)

Field coordinator Tomas Francisco (Santiago De Los Caballeros, DR)

Assistant coach Mikael Dworken (Boca Raton, Florida)

Assistant coach Jonathan Erlichman (Toronto, Ontario)

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Arozarena's HR Helps Rays Take Series.

Rays 5 Twins 4 W-Kelly (5-2) L-Jax (6-10) SV-Stephenson (1)

The Minnesota Twins stole a game from the Rays last night to even the series. The rubber game was this afternoon at Target Field. The Rays struck first in the second inning as Curtis Mead led-off with a triple to right. Oslevis Basabe knocked in a run on an RBI groundout and Chrstian Bethancourt singled to right. With two outs, Yandy Diaz drove in a pair with a double to left and the Rays led by three after two frames. Tampa Bay got back to work in the third as Isaac Paredes walked and Curtis Mead doubled him home. This gave the Rays a four-run lead and the Twins would answer in the bottom of the third. Matt Wallner smacked a Taj Bradley fastball out to center for a solo homer. Kyle Farmer followed with a blast off a Bradley cutter and the back-to-back jacks got the Twins within a pair. The Twins would rally again in the fifth when Eddie Julien and Jorge Polanco drew one-out walks. Max Kepler drove in two with a triple to right to even the game at four apiece. The bullpens held serve until the ninth when Griffin Jax entered the game. Randy Arozarena smoked a slider out to left for a solo homer as the Rays took the lead. Colin Poche got the first two outs of the ninth and the Twins got pinch-runner Andrew Stevenson to second base. Robert Stephenson came on and struck out Christian Vazquez to end the game. The Rays took the series from the Twins on a beautiful day.

-Final Thoughts- Dallas Keuchel wasn't sharp and the Rays knocked him around a bit. He went four innings and allowed four runs on six hits with three walks and three strikeouts. Dylan Floro got out of Keuchel's mess in the fifth, Emilio Pagan threw two shutout innings, and Caleb Thielbar fanned two in a perfect eighth. Griffin Jax gave up the game-winning homer to Arozarena in the ninth. The Twins scattered five hitsand hit 1-for-9 with runners in scoring position. They left six men on base. Jorge Polanco was activated off the bereavement list and Gilberto Celestino was optioned back to St. Paul. The team heads out on a seven-game road trip starting in Chicago. Kenta Maeda will start against the White Sox tomorrow night.

-Chris Kreibich-

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Globe Soccer Awards : La Liga à l'honneur pour l'édition 2022 !

La 13e édition des Globe Soccer Awards, aura lieu ce soir. Les prix seront remis aux meilleurs du football masculin et féminin en 2022 lors de la traditionnelle cérémonie. Les meilleurs joueurs, entraîneurs, dirigeants, agents et légendes du football mondial y seront présents. Le Conseil des sports de Dubaï assure l'organisation depuis 2010 au somptueux complexe Madinah Jumeirah. Benzema et Putellas à l'honneur au Globe Soccer Award Cet événement, dont MARCA est le journal officiel, s'est imposé comme un événement de référence. L'industrie du football y a trouvé sa place, non seulement au Moyen-Orient, mais dans le monde entier. Mohamed Salah, Sergio Ramos, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Paolo Maldini, Francesco Totti, Romario, Unai Emery, Rui Costa, Adriano Galliani, Jose Angel Sanchez, Wayne Rooney et d'autres encore fouleront le tapis du Globe Soccer Gala. Le prix principal du meilleur joueur dans la catégorie masculine a Benzema, Haaland et Salah comme finalistes. Des personnalités du football figurent parmi le jury. Ils ont  désigné le gagnant après la sélection des votes du public lors des deux tours précédents. Lire aussi : Meilleur buteur Coupe du Monde 2022 : Qui sont les favoris ? 33 124 813 votes de plus de 150 pays différents ont exprimé leur vote pour choisir les finalistes des principales catégories. Le vote s'est fait par le biais de la plateforme TikTok. Parmi les 21 prix remis lors du gala, l'un des plus attrayants pour le public est le prix TikTok du meilleur joueur choisi par les fans. Les finalistes sont Karim Benzema, Thibaut Courtois, Kevin De Bruyne, Erling Haaland, Robert Lewandowski, Mo Salah, Lionel Messi et Cristiano Ronaldo. Il y a trois finalistes pour le prix de la meilleure joueuse. Alexia Putellas, qui l'a remporté l'an dernier, est la grande favorite. L'Anglaise Beth Mead (Arsenal) et la Colombienne Linda Caicedo (Deportivo Cali) sont les deux autres prétendantes. De nouveaux prix décernés Le Real Madrid, Manchester City et Liverpool sont les finalistes pour le prix du meilleur club masculin. Dans la catégorie féminine, on retrouve Barcelone, le Real Madrid et Lyon. Les finalistes du prix CNN Off the Field sont Didier Drogba, la Fondation Real Madrid et la Fondation AC Milan. Cela récompense la contribution à la société par le biais d'œuvres caritatives, Lire aussi : TOP 5 : Les meilleurs joueurs de football du monde en 2022 Florentino Perez (Real Madrid), Khaldoon Al Mubarak (Manchester City) et Paolo Scaroni (Milan) seront en compétition pour le prix du meilleur président. Les finalistes du prix du meilleur directeur sportif sont Julian Ward et Michael Edwards (Liverpool), Cristiano Giuntoli (Naples) et Paolo Maldini et Frederic Massara (Milan). Le prix du meilleur agent concernera Jorge Mendes, Rafaela Pimienta et Leon Angel/Frank Trimboli. Pour le meilleur scout, les finalistes sont Juni Calafat (Real Madrid), Barry Hunter (Liverpool) et Goffrey Moncada (Liverpool). Enfin, pour le meilleur journaliste sportif, Fabrizio Romano, Gerard Romero et Gianluca DiMarzio sont en lice. Dans la catégorie du meilleur entraîneur, Carlo Ancelotti fait figurede favori. Il sera en concurrence avec Pep Guardiola, Jurgen Klopp, Jose Mourinho et Abel Ferreira, entre autres. Et dans le nouveau prix Power Horse de la meilleure révélation, Fede Valverde, Eduardo Camavinga et Gavi seront opposés à Jude Bellingham, Julian Alvarez, Rafael Leao et Victor Osimhen. Lire aussi : Ligue 1 : Classement des 7 meilleurs joueurs de la saison Read the full article

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mark doty // jorge luis borges // salman toor // emery allen // margaret atwood // mead schaeffer // howard pyle // the fratellis // flyte // john keats // wisława szymborska

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Heading into the Knock-Outs

Ngl, it felt very weird to not be watching Euros football yesterday after 13 straight days with games, but don't worry, there's more coming up TONIGHT and we're into the knock-outs, so ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN. Here's what the rest of the tournament schedule looks like now that we're through to this stage:

Before I get into a preview, I really want to share this quote from the Denmark coach, Lars Søndergaard, after their team was knocked out of the tournament by Spain, just to take a moment in honour of those teams that have left the tournament:

Now for lil preview of the first two quarter-final games with lots of links to extra reading if you're super-keen!

England vs. Spain

Some tasty match-ups coming up, starting off with Spain vs. England, in a game that many would have tipped Spain to win prior to the tournament beginning, but now England look more likely to come out on top. Spain haven't been convincing in the way that many expected, maintaining a lot of the ball but not able to capitalise in the final third. Once again, I recommend reading Sophie Lawson for some of the reasons they've ended up here (besides the big absence of Alexia Putellas) and how they might be able to turn up in the knock-outs.

England on the other hand have been flying, handling a staunch Austrian defense in their first match and otherwise storming through their group. They've honestly been a blast to watch, especially since young players have been able to get opportunities on the pitch and excel. Alessia Russo has been particularly delightful in taking her chances coming off the bench, and this link up with Ella Toone was a great sign of things to come for England in the future.

This match-up will be really interesting, because Spain will likely have much more of the ball than England have given up so far this tournament, which may provide a different kind of challenge. So far Spain have yet to tap into an in-form scorer, while the Lionesses have had lots of offense, especially considering that Beth Mead is ON ONE on the way to leading the golden boot race.

Keep an Eye On . . .

Line-ups & Substitutions

Sarina Weigman is quite well known for not rotating her squad during major tournaments (and even said she prefers 'ryhthm over rotation'), but that doesn't mean she might not employ some slightly different tactics for Spain. She's deployed subs very well so far this tournament, so that could be another key, especially if the likes of Ellen White are stifled (can you tell I really want to see more of Alessia Russo?).

On the other side, Jorge Vilda did rotate in the group stage, but besides a core of Barça players in the midfield and backline, he has yet to settle on forwards that have found a finishing touch. Many fans have been clamouring for young culé Claudia Pina and Real Socediad star Amaiur Sarriegi to get more (and in Sarriegi's case some) time to make an impact. Here's Jessy Parker Humphreys writing bluntly on the subject of Vilda trying to replace Alexia Putella's creativity:

Vilda’s attempts to replace her have ranged from the bizarre to the downright ridiculous. He has used three different players in her place (Irene Guerrero, Patri Guijarro and Mariona Caldentey), none of whom have come close to helping link the midfield to the attack. It is hard to pin the blame on the individuals when it is hard to say anyone on the pitch for Spain looks like they know what they are supposed to be doing.

The big question is whether Jorge will continue to obstinately ignore the problem or decide to make some changes on the big stage.

These Players

For England, the midfield will be key, as even without Putellas, Spain have arguably the best options in the women's game. Georgia Stanway has had a great tournament and will need to be at her best to close down passing lanes and look to open up England's own in order to disrupt Spain's control. Keira Walsh has also been quietly having immense performances as a defensive midfielder and can cause problems for Spain's defense with her passing accuracy. Finally, Fran Kirby has been a key link between the midfield and front line, orchestrating the bulk of the Lioness attack. I may be biased, but she's also one of the easiest England players to root for.

For Spain, unless Vilda decides to mix things up, La Roja will need Mariona Caldentey to find some creativity and finishing and will likely look to Athenea del Castillo to attack England's flanks. Aitana Bonmat�� and Patri Guijarro have already been immense in midfield and are sure to cause England some problems, and Mapi León and Irene Paredes have been essential, both at the back and in set-pieces, for Spain in the tournament.

I also think Ona Batlle has had a very strong Euros, at right back, often coming up against some of the opposition's best attackers while managing to generate offensive runs herself, and it will be interesting to see her up against England's Lauren Hemp.

Great Analysis

I've linked to his work a lot, but another recommendation to check out Om Arvind's Tactical Rant newsletter--here's a preview of the England v. Spain match-up that's just fantastic in describing both teams and how they match up.

Germany vs. Austria

The other Group A/Group B match up is Germany vs. Austria, with both teams surprising based on pre-tournament expectations. The Germans have been (warning: stereotype incoming) a machine through the tournament, very efficiently handling every team in the Group of Death and looking set to head to the semi-finals. They've had star performances from all areas of the pitch, and the epic return of Alex Popp has been wonderful to watch (see Jay Harris for the Athletic--let me know if I can help with the paywall).

On the other hand, Austria was seen as a long-shot making it out of their group, but with Norway capitulating, the savy and well-organised team was able to make it through (this article from Sophie Lawson covers what went wrong for Norway but also so right for Austria). Though they'll still be in the underdogs in their quarter-final match-up, it's a role they've taken to well in this tournament, and if they can stand firm and frustrate the Germans for long enough, who knows! You'll note I have less to say about this match-up, partially because I'm based in the UK where there's more England coverage, and partially because I kinda think Germany have this game locked down already.

Keep an Eye On . . .

Defense

This has been a strong suit for both teams in the tournament, with Austria able to hold-off Engladn better than anyone else in their group and Germany smothering chances from all of their opponents. Both teams also have starting goalkeepers who are having very steady, calm performances, as Manuela Zinsberger only conceded one goal in the group stage and Germany's Merle Frohms came up with one of the saves of the tournament against Spain.

These Players

Lina Magull was given some rest in the group stage, to look after a little knock, but she was fantastic in their opener and if she's fully fit and in the line-up, she'll be a key difference-maker for Germany. I've already mentioned Popp, but Svenja Huth is another veteran who's been having a great tournament and Lea Schüller has been back training since having to isolate for COVID-19 and will be eager to make her mark in attack.

For Austria, the midfield duo of Sarah Zadrazil and Laura Feiersinger has been essential to their ability to keep calm and controlled in games, not to mention generating attacks, and Laura Wienroither has had a big impact in the games she's been able to play in (another player who missed some action with Covid). Finally, Nicole Billa opened her account in the tournament with a goal against Norway and has the potential to make things difficult for Germany, as she, along with many of her teammates, are well acquainted with the Frauen-Bundesliga.

[citylightsbooks]

5 Questions with Kate Crawford, author of Atlas of AI

Kate Crawford is a leading scholar of the social and political implications of artificial intelligence. She is a research professor at USC Annenberg, a senior principal researcher at Microsoft Research, and the inaugural chair of AI and Justice at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris.

Katie Crawford will be discussing her new book, Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence (published by Yale University Press) with Trevor Paglen in our City Lights LIVE! discussion series on Friday April 30th, presented with Gray Area!

*****

Where are you writing to us from?

Sydney, Australia. I normally live in New York, so visiting here is like being in a parallel universe where COVID-19 was taken seriously from the beginning and history played out differently.

What’s kept you sane during the pandemic?

Cooking through every cookbook I own, talking to good friends, listening to records, and trying to improve my sub-par surfing skills.

What books are you reading right now? Which books do you return to?

Right now I’m reading Jer Thorp’s Living in Data: Citizen's Guide to a Better Information Future, the excellent collection Your Computer is On Fire from the MIT Press, Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future, and The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey Into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein. Yes, I have a problem - I never just read one book at a time.

In terms of books that I return to, there's a long list. Here’s just a few: 

- Geoffrey C. Bowker and Susan Leigh Star's Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences

- Ursula M. Franklin's The Real World of Technology

- Simone Browne’s Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness

- James C. Scott’s Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed

- Gray Brechin’s Imperial San Francisco: Urban Power, Earthly Ruin

- Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower

- Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison's Objectivity

- Oscar H. Gandy’s The Panoptic Sort: A Political Economy of Personal Information. Critical Studies in Communication and in the Cultural Industries - such a prescient book about classification, discrimination and technology, published back in 1993!

Which writers, artists, and others influence your work in general, and this book, specifically?

Atlas of AI was influenced by so many writers and artists, across different centuries - from Georgius Agricola to Jorge Luis Borges to Margaret Mead. More recently, there’s been an extraordinary set of books published on the politics of technology in just the last five years. For example:

- Meredith Broussard’s Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World

- Ruha Benjmain’s Race After Technology

- Julie E. Cohen’s Between Truth and Power: The Legal Constructions of Informational Capitalism

- Sasha Costanza-Chock’s Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need

- Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein’s Data Feminism

- Virginia Eubanks’ Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor

- Tarleton Gillespie’s Custodians of the Internet: Platforms, Content Moderation, and the Hidden Decisions That Shape Social Media

- Sarah T Roberts’ Behind the Screen: Content Moderation in the Shadows of Social Media

- Safiya Noble’s Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism

- Tung-Hui Hu’s A Prehistory of the Cloud

And that’s just for starters - it’s an incredible time for books that make us contend with the consequences of the technologies we use every day.

I’m also influenced by the artists I’ve had the privilege of working with over the years, including Trevor Paglen, Vladan Joler, and Heather Dewey-Hagborg. Vladan and I collaborated on Anatomy of an AI System a few years ago, and he designed the cover and illustrations in Atlas of AI, which I love.

If you opened a bookstore, where would it be located, what would it be called, and what would your bestseller be?

This may not be the most practical choice, but I’d open a library for rare and antiquarian books near Mono Lake. I’d call it Labyrinths, after Borges’ infinite library of volumes. One of its treasures would be a copy of John Wilkins’ An Essay Towards a Real Character, and a Philosophical Language (1668), where Wilkins tries to create a classification scheme for every possible thing and notion in the universe. It would be a cryptic joke for the occasional passer-by.

[moon-calvary]

Here's my friend Víctor as Rocío Banquells xD

So, i was bored and decided to draw some of my Friends as singers. Here's two of them as Ana Gabriel and Fernanda Meade (Esmeralda's spanish singer)

[mostlysignssomeportents]

San Diego's Mysterious Galaxy bookstore is saved!

With just days to go before it would have to close its doors forever, San Diego's beloved science fiction bookstore Mysterious Galaxy has found a new location and new owners: Jenni Marchisotto and Matthew Berger have bought the store and will run it at its new home, 3555 Rosecrans St. Suite #107 San Diego, CA 92110.

Everyone's keeping their jobs, too. It's a Christmas miracle. I'm looking forward to having lots more events with them in the years to come!

From Jenni: The first books I ever loved, the ones I read over and over again until the bindings practically disintegrated, were The Song of the Lioness and The Immortals quartets by Tamora Pierce. I spent much of my childhood dreaming about having purple eyes and debating whether Alanna should have ended up Jonathan or George with my cousin Courtney. As an adult I still get carried away by reading. For my degree I focused on disability in 20th century Anglophone literature. I could talk about James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and Shani Mootoo for hours. I’m also a sucker for romance and fantasy. Some of my favorites include Helen Hoang, Sarah J. Maas, J. R. Ward, Richelle Mead, and Jasmine Guillory. I'm currently reading Arora Blazing by Jessie Mihalik & Moving Forward Sideways Like a Crab by Shani Mootoo.

From Matt: I have spent far too much time trying to figure out how to make a lightsaber work. Like, how do you get light to take a shape? Growing up, my days were filled with thoughts about the worlds authors built in my favorite series: Star Wars, Harry Potter, Feist’s Magician series, Eragon, and countless others. In college, I decided to think some more about books, so I studied literature, including Latin American authors such as Jorge Luis Borges and Ricardo Piglia, and classic authors like James Joyce and Franz Kafka. I’m always looking for a new world to stumble upon. I'm currently reading: Iron Gold by Pierce Brown & The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen.

We are both unbelievably thankful to Terry Gilman, Maryelizabeth Yturralde, and Jeff Mariotte, for creating a space welcoming science fiction and fantasy lovers of any age. They have given us, as the bookstore's name suggests, countless galaxies to explore through reading. Ones that just happen to exist every time you open a book and are never farther away than the next page. We would also like to thank store manager Kelly Orazi, and the rest of the Mysterious Galaxy staff for their support through this transition. We know the expert team of booksellers is much of what makes Mysterious Galaxy special. The store wouldn’t be the same without them. They are always ready with the perfect recommendation for any customer. We wouldn’t want to embark on this journey with anyone else. *insert Lord of the Rings pun here*

Moving forward, we plan to uphold all that makes Mysterious Galaxy special. We respect and value the store’s reputation as an integral part of the literary community in San Diego. We hope that as we enter this new chapter, you will trust us to preserve that identity. We have always seen Mysterious Galaxy as a safe place for anyone interested in exploring new worlds and never want that to change.

https://boingboing.net/2019/12/15/3555-rosecrans-st.html

[tabloidtoc]

Time, April 29/May 6

Cover: The 100 Most Influential People -- Dwayne Johnson

Cover: Taylor Swift

Cover: Gayle King

Cover: Sandra Oh

Cover: Nancy Pelosi 

Page 9: Contents 

Page 10: Contents 

Page 14: From the Editor 

Page 18: Behind the Scenes 

Page 20: The 100 most influential people in the world 

Page 22: Points of Origin -- Where this year’s Time 100 were born 

Page 25: Pioneers -- Sandra Oh

Page 26: Sandra Oh by Shonda Rhimes, Barbara Rae-Venter by Paul Holes

Page 27: Fred Swaniker by Mo Ibrahim 

Page 28: Ninja by Juju Smith-Schuster, Chrissy Teigen by Eric Ripert 

Page 29: Lynn Nottage by Martha Plimpton 

Page 30: Naomi Osaka by Chris Evert 

Page 32: Aileen Lee by Kirsten Green, Tara Westover by Bill Gates 

Page 36: Massimo Bottura by JR 

Page 38: Jay O’Neal and Emily Comer by Dolores Huerta, He Jiankui by Jennifer Doudna 

Page 40: Marlon James by Salman Rushdie, Arundhati Katju and Menaka Guruswamy by Priyanka Chopra 

Page 41: Shep Doeleman by Lisa Randall 

Page 45: Leah Greenberg and Ezra Levin by Ayanna Pressley 

Page 46: Hasan Minhaj by Trevor Noah 

Page 47: Adam Bowen and James Monsees by Tom Miller, Samin Nosrat by Alice Waters 

Page 48: Indya Moore by Janet Mock 

Page 50: Motivating factors -- which books, movies, shows, songs and places they turn to for inspiration 

Page 53: Artists -- Dwayne Johnson 

Page 54: Dwayne Johnson by Gal Gadot, Ariana Grande by Troye Sivan 

Page 55: Rami Malek by Robert Downey Jr. 

Page 56: Regina King by Viola Davis 

Page 57: Richard Madden by Kenneth Branagh 

Page 58: Brie Larson by Tessa Thompson, Luchita Hurtado by Hans Ulrich Obrist 

Page 59: Emilia Clarke by Emma Thompson 

Page 60: BTS by Halsey 

Page 65: Mahershala Ali by Octavia Spencer, Chip and Joanna Gaines by Tim Tebow 

Page 66: Glenn Close by Robert Redford, Clare Waight Keller by Julianne Moore 

Page 68: Ozuna by Daddy Yankee 

Page 69: Yalitza Aparicio by Alfonso Cuaron, dream hampton by Tarana Burke 

Page 71: Khalid by Alicia Keys 

Page 72: Motivating factors 

Page 75: Leaders -- Nancy Pelosi 

Page 76: Nancy Pelosi by Hillary Rodham Clinton, Mahathir Mohamad by Clare Rewcastle Brown 

Page 77: Donald Trump by Chris Christie 

Page 78: Ren Zhengfei by Charlie Campbell 

Page 79: Jane Goodall by Leonardo DiCaprio, Matteo Salvini by Steve Bannon 

Page 80: Leana Wen by Cynthia Nixon, Xi Jinping by Jon Huntsman 

Page 81: Robert Mueller by Sally Yates 

Page 82: Abiy Ahmed by Feyisa Lilesa, Cyril Ramaphosa by Vivienne Walt 

Page 83: Jacinda Ardern by Sadiq Khan 

Page 84: Zhang Yiming by Kai-Fu Lee, Benjamin Netanyahu by David French 

Page 86: Imran Khan by Ahmed Rashid 

Page 87: Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador by Jorge Ramos, Mitch McConnell by John Boehner

Page 88: Juan Guaido by Juan Manuel Santos 

Page 90: Pope Francis by Archbishop Charles J. Scicluna, Hoesung Lee by Ban Ki-Moon

Page 91: Brett Kavanaugh by Mitch McConnell 

Page 92: Jair Bolsonaro by Ian Bremmer, Greta Thunberg by Emma Gonzalez

Page 93: Zhang Kejian by Scott Kelly 

Page 94: William Barr by Rod Rosenstein, Crown Prince Mohamed Bin Zayed by Ryan Bohl 

Page 95: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez by Elizabeth Warren 

Page 102: Motivating factors 

Page 105: Titans -- Mohamed Salah 

Page 106: Mohamed Salah by John Oliver, Jeanne Gang by Anna Deavere Smith 

Page 107: Pat McGrath by Beverly Johnson 

Page 108: Gayle King by Ava DuVernay 

Page 109: Ryan Murphy by Jessica Lange 

Page 110: Jennifer Hyman by Diane Von Furstenberg, Mark Zuckerberg by Sean Parker 

Page 111: Jerome Powell by Janet Yellen 

Page 112: LeBron James by Warren Buffett 

Page 114: Vera Jourova by Margrethe Vestager, Alex Morgan by Mia Hamm

Page 115: Mukesh Ambani by Anand Mahindra 

Page 116: Tiger Woods by Justin Timberlake, Marillyn Hewson by Penny Pritzker 

Page 117: Bob Iger by Michael R. Bloomberg 

Page 118: Motivating factors 

Page 121: Icons -- Taylor Swift 

Page 122: Taylor Swift by Shawn Mendes, Loujain al-Hathloul by Sarah Leah Whitson 

Page 123: Pierpaolo Piccioli by Frances McDormand 

Page 124: Spike Lee by Jordan Peele, Grainne Griffin and Ailbhe Smyth and Orla O’Connor by Ruth Negga 

Page 125: Desmond Meade by Stacey Abrams

Page 126: Christine Blasey Ford by Kamala Harris 

Page 128: David Hockney by Edwin Becker 

Page 130: Caster Semenya by Edwin Moses, Mirian G. by Kumail Nanjiani 

Page 131: Maria Ressa by Madeleine Albright 

Page 132: Lady Gaga by Celine Dion 

Page 134: Radhya Almutawakel by Bernie Sanders 

Page 135: Michelle Obama by Beyonce Knowles-Carter 

Back Cover: Simon Baker for Longines 

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LOS CANDIDATOS DE MORELOS Y SUS REDES SOCIALES

EN TWITTER

El candidato Cuauhtémoc Blanco Bravo, alcalde de Cuernavaca con licencia, abanderado por la coalición Juntos Haremos Historia (Morena-PES-PT), tiene dos cuentas de Twitter.

En la cuenta @cuauhtemocb10, que está verificada, creada en noviembre de 2010, tiene 2 345 477 seguidores.

Ahí ha publicado 4303 tuits y sigue 114 cuentas.

En su cuenta @CuauhtemocBco, creada en julio de 2014,  tiene 52380 seguidores.  En esta cuenta ha publicado 4838 tuits y sigue a 178 cuentas.

Jorge Meade Ocaranza, ex delegado de Sedesol en Morelos y candidato del PRI a la gubernatura, tiene la cuenta @Jorge_Meade, creada en mayo de 2010, también está verificada de todos los candidatos a gobernador de Morelos.

Meade Ocaranza tiene 9409 seguidores, sigue a 3164 cuentas y ha publicado 725 tuits.

    El candidato independiente Fidel Demédicis Hidalgo, senador de la República, tiene en su cuenta @FidelDemedicis 5913 seguidores.

Él sigue 1178 cuentas y ha publicado 2053 tuits desde 2009.

Rodrigo Gayosso Cepeda, hijo del gobernador Graco Ramírez y ex presidente estatal del PRD, es candidato del partido del Sol Azteca y el Socialdemócrata (PSD) a la gubernatura de Morelos, tiene en su cuenta de Twitter @rodrigogayossoc 3526 seguidores.

La cuenta fue creada en septiembre de 2011

El perredista ha publicado 7955 tuits y solo sigue 305 cuentas.

    El médico Víctor Caballero Solano, ex secretario de Salud en Morelos y diputado en el congreso local, es candidato del PAN y el Partido Movimiento Ciudadano.

Con su cuenta @CaballeroSolano, creada en septiembre de 2010, ha publicado 1178 tuits.

Tiene 2046 seguidores y sigue a 462 cuentas.

Nadia Luz María Lara Chávez, magistrada del Tribunal Superior de Justicia (TSJ), la única mujer candidata a gobernadora de Morelos, postulada por el Partido Verde Ecologista de México,  creó su cuenta @LaraNadiaLuz  en enero de 2017.

Tiene 777 seguidores. Ha publicado 530 tuits y sigue 1038 cuentas.

  Mario Rojas Alba, candidato del Partido Humanista, médico de profesión, creó su cuenta @mariorojasa en agosto de 2011.

Ha publicado desde entonces 724 tuits. Tiene 221 seguidores y sigue 138 cuentas.

    Finalmente Alejandro Vera Jiménez, ex rector de la Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos y candidato del Partido Nueva Alianza (PNA) al gobierno estatal es el político que participa en la contienda por ese cargo de elección popular que más reciente creó su cuenta de Twitter.

El académico e investigador creó @AlejandroVeraJm en abril de 2018 y apenas ha tuiteado 15 veces.

Tiene 71 seguidores y sólo sigue dos cuentas.

¿Ya los sigues?

    LOS CANDIDATOS DE MORELOS Y SUS REDES SOCIALES

[dachi-chan25]

November 2019 TBR

This month is our spooky month here in México, and with Día de Muertos just around the corner I selected all my spooky books (horror,thrillers, paranormal romance, etc) and put them on my wheel, this month I selected 16 books cuz I hate myself apparently so let's see how I do.

"The Girl who Loved Tom Gordon" by Stephen King

"Día de Muertos:Antología de cuento mexicano" by Jorge Volpi.

"Vampire Academy" (Vampire Academy #1) by Richelle Mead

"The Mysterious Affair at Styles" by Agatha Christie

"Battle Royale" by Takami Koshun

"Marked " (House of Night #1) by PC Cast

"Practical Magic" by Alice Hoffman

"Dracul" by Dacre Stocker

"Final Girls" by Riley Sager

"Bone Music" by Christopher Rice

"Society of Wishes" by Elise Kova

"Hemlock Grove" by Brian McGreevy

"The Tale of the Body Thief" (Vampire Chronicles #3) by Anne Rice

"The Graveyard Book" by Neil Gaiman

"Hidden Bodies" (You #2) by Caroline Kepnes

#Murdertrending (#Murdertrending #1) by Gretchen McNeil

All in all, I really dig this list, and yessssss I will finally advance in my Vampire Chronicles re-read.

[twins2994]

Tampa Bay Rays @ Minnesota Twins 9.13.23

Tampa Bay Rays Lineup Minnesota Twins Lineup

1.) Yandy Diaz 1B 1.) Eddie Julien 2B

2.) Randy Arozarena LF 2.) Jorge Polanco DH

3.) Harold Ramirez RF 3.) Royce Lewis 3B

4.) Isaac Paredes DH 4.) Max Kepler RF

5.) Curtis Mead 3B 5.) Alex Kirilloff 1B

6.) Josh Lowe CF 6.) Ryan Jeffers C

7.) Osleivis Basabe 2B 7.) Willi Castro CF

8.) Christian Bethancourt C 8.) Matt Wallner LF

9.) Vidal Brujan SS 9.) Kyle Farmer SS

SP Taj Bradley RHP SP Dallas Keuchel LHP

(5-7) 5.44 ERA (1-1) 4.78 ERA

(2023 MLB Stats)

-Chris Kreibich-

[progressivemillennial]

If the Trump administration and its allies continue to pursue their reckless course in Venezuela, the most likely result will be bloodshed, chaos, and instability.

The following open letter—signed by 70 scholars on Latin America, political science, and history as well as filmmakers, civil society leaders, and other experts—was issued on Thursday, January 24, 2018 in opposition to ongoing intervention by the United States in Venezuela.

The United States government must cease interfering in Venezuela’s internal politics, especially for the purpose of overthrowing the country’s government. Actions by the Trump administration and its allies in the hemisphere are almost certain to make the situation in Venezuela worse, leading to unnecessary human suffering, violence, and instability.

Venezuela’s political polarization is not new; the country has long been divided along racial and socioeconomic lines. But the polarization has deepened in recent years. This is partly due to US support for an opposition strategy aimed at removing the government of Nicolás Maduro through extra-electoral means. While the opposition has been divided on this strategy, US support has backed hardline opposition sectors in their goal of ousting the Maduro government through often violent protests, a military coup d’etat, or other avenues that sidestep the ballot box.

Under the Trump administration, aggressive rhetoric against the Venezuelan government has ratcheted up to a more extreme and threatening level, with Trump administration officials talking of “military action” and condemning Venezuela, along with Cuba and Nicaragua, as part of a “troika of tyranny.” Problems resulting from Venezuelan government policy have been worsened by US economic sanctions, illegal under the Organization of American States and the United Nations ― as well as US law and other international treaties and conventions. These sanctions have cut off the means by which the Venezuelan government could escape from its economic recession, while causing a dramatic falloffin oil production and worsening the economic crisis, and causing many people to die because they can’t get access to life-saving medicines. Meanwhile, the US and other governments continue to blame the Venezuelan government ― solely ― for the economic damage, even that caused by the US sanctions.

Now the US and its allies, including OAS Secretary General Luis Almagro and Brazil’s far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, have pushed Venezuela to the precipice. By recognizing National Assembly President Juan Guaido as the new president of Venezuela ― something illegal under the OAS Charter ― the Trump administration has sharply accelerated Venezuela’s political crisis in the hopes of dividing the Venezuelan military and further polarizing the populace, forcing them to choose sides. The obvious, and sometimes stated goal, is to force Maduro out via a coup d’etat.

The reality is that despite hyperinflation, shortages, and a deep depression, Venezuela remains a politically polarized country. The US and its allies must cease encouraging violence by pushing for violent, extralegal regime change. If the Trump administration and its allies continue to pursue their reckless course in Venezuela, the most likely result will be bloodshed, chaos, and instability. The US should have learned something from its regime change ventures in Iraq, Syria, Libya, and its long, violent history of sponsoring regime change in Latin America.

Neither side in Venezuela can simply vanquish the other. The military, for example, has at least 235,000 frontline members, and there are at least 1.6 million in militias. Many of these people will fight, not only on the basis of a belief in national sovereignty that is widely held in Latin America ― in the face of what increasingly appears to be a US-led intervention ― but also to protect themselves from likely repression if the opposition topples the government by force.

In such situations, the only solution is a negotiated settlement, as has happened in the past in Latin American countries when politically polarized societies were unable to resolve their differences through elections. There have been efforts, such as those led by the Vatican in the fall of 2016, that had potential, but they received no support from Washington and its allies who favored regime change. This strategy must change if there is to be any viable solution to the ongoing crisis in Venezuela.

For the sake of the Venezuelan people, the region, and for the principle of national sovereignty, these international actors should instead support negotiations between the Venezuelan government and its opponents that will allow the country to finally emerge from its political and economic crisis.

Signed:

Noam Chomsky, Professor Emeritus, MIT and Laureate Professor, University of Arizona Laura Carlsen, Director, Americas Program, Center for International Policy Greg Grandin, Professor of History, New York University Miguel Tinker Salas, Professor of Latin American History and Chicano/a Latino/a Studies at Pomona College Sujatha Fernandes, Professor of Political Economy and Sociology, University of Sydney Steve Ellner, Associate Managing Editor of Latin American Perspectives Alfred de Zayas, former UN Independent Expert on the Promotion of a Democratic and Equitable International Order and only UN rapporteur to have visited Venezuela in 21 years Boots Riley, Writer/Director of Sorry to Bother You, Musician John Pilger, Journalist & Film-Maker Mark Weisbrot, Co-Director, Center for Economic and Policy Research Jared Abbott, PhD Candidate, Department of Government, Harvard University Dr. Tim Anderson, Director, Centre for Counter Hegemonic Studies Elisabeth Armstrong, Professor of the Study of Women and Gender, Smith College Alexander Aviña, PhD, Associate Professor of History, Arizona State University Marc Becker, Professor of History, Truman State University Medea Benjamin, Cofounder, CODEPINK Phyllis Bennis, Program Director, New Internationalism, Institute for Policy Studies Dr. Robert E. Birt, Professor of Philosophy, Bowie State University Aviva Chomsky, Professor of History, Salem State University James Cohen, University of Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera, Associate Professor, George Mason University Benjamin Dangl, PhD, Editor of Toward Freedom Dr. Francisco Dominguez, Faculty of Professional and Social Sciences, Middlesex University, UK Alex Dupuy, John E. Andrus Professor of Sociology Emeritus, Wesleyan University Jodie Evans, Cofounder, CODEPINK Vanessa Freije, Assistant Professor of International Studies, University of Washington Gavin Fridell, Canada Research Chair and Associate Professor in International Development Studies, St. Mary’s University Evelyn Gonzalez, Counselor, Montgomery College Jeffrey L. Gould, Rudy Professor of History, Indiana University Bret Gustafson, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Washington University in St. Louis Peter Hallward, Professor of Philosophy, Kingston University John L. Hammond, Professor of Sociology, CUNY Mark Healey, Associate Professor of History, University of Connecticut Gabriel Hetland, Assistant Professor of Latin American, Caribbean and U.S. Latino Studies, University of Albany Forrest Hylton, Associate Professor of History, Universidad Nacional de Colombia-Medellín Daniel James, Bernardo Mendel Chair of Latin American History Chuck Kaufman, National Co-Coordinator, Alliance for Global Justice Daniel Kovalik, Adjunct Professor of Law, University of Pittsburgh Winnie Lem, Professor, International Development Studies, Trent University Dr. Gilberto López y Rivas, Professor-Researcher, National University of Anthropology and History, Morelos, Mexico Mary Ann Mahony, Professor of History, Central Connecticut State University Jorge Mancini, Vice President, Foundation for Latin American Integration (FILA) Luís Martin-Cabrera, Associate Professor of Literature and Latin American Studies, University of California San Diego Teresa A. Meade, Florence B. Sherwood Professor of History and Culture, Union College Frederick Mills, Professor of Philosophy, Bowie State University Stephen Morris, Professor of Political Science and International Relations, Middle Tennessee State University Liisa L. North, Professor Emeritus, York University Paul Ortiz, Associate Professor of History, University of Florida Christian Parenti, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, John Jay College CUNY Nicole Phillips, Law Professor at the Université de la Foundation Dr. Aristide Faculté des Sciences Juridiques et Politiques and Adjunct Law Professor at the University of California Hastings College of the Law Beatrice Pita, Lecturer, Department of Literature, University of California San Diego Margaret Power, Professor of History, Illinois Institute of Technology Vijay Prashad, Editor, The TriContinental Eleanora Quijada Cervoni FHEA, Staff Education Facilitator & EFS Mentor, Centre for Higher Education, Learning & Teaching at The Australian National University Walter Riley, Attorney and Activist William I. Robinson, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara Mary Roldan, Dorothy Epstein Professor of Latin American History, Hunter College/ CUNY Graduate Center Karin Rosemblatt, Professor of History, University of Maryland Emir Sader, Professor of Sociology, University of the State of Rio de Janeiro Rosaura Sanchez, Professor of Latin American Literature and Chicano Literature, University of California, San Diego T.M. Scruggs Jr., Professor Emeritus, University of Iowa Victor Silverman, Professor of History, Pomona College Brad Simpson, Associate Professor of History, University of Connecticut Jeb Sprague, Lecturer, University of Virginia Christy Thornton, Assistant Professor of History, Johns Hopkins University Sinclair S. Thomson, Associate Professor of History, New York University Steven Topik, Professor of History, University of California, Irvine Stephen Volk, Professor of History Emeritus, Oberlin College Kirsten Weld, John. L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences, Department of History, Harvard University Kevin Young, Assistant Professor of History, University of Massachusetts Amherst Patricio Zamorano, Academic of Latin American Studies; Executive Director, InfoAmericas