- Undocumented Man in Coma After Taser Incident With Border Patrol | Colorlines – Asraa Mustufa
- Jose Gutierrez was a longtime L.A. resident and film engineer, married to U.S. citizen Shena Wilson, with whom he had two children. He was brought to the U.S. as a child and has never returned to Mexico since. …
CBP claims that while at the second inspection at San Luis, Gutierrez "got scared and tried to run back" to Mexico, and became combative with CBP officers, who then attempted to subdue him with a taser. They have refused to provide any additional information or allow access to a surveillance video.
Guiterrez and his family's shocking ordeal follows other media reports in recent weeks of transgressions by federal immigration agencies. CBP wrongfully deported four-year-old Emily Ruiz, who was fortunately reunited with her family last month. ICE agents in Detroit surrounded an elementary school in order to target undocumented parents dropping off their children. …
- Sorting algorithms demonstrated with Hungarian folk dance | FlowingData – Nathan Yau
- …folks at Sapientia University in Romania demonstrate how different sorting algorithms work with numbered people dancing around and arranging themselves from least to greatest.
- Tell Me About Yourself: What’s Your Story? | Tim’s Strategy – Tim Tyrell-Smith
- Open ended questions are awesome opportunities to take charge of an interview or meeting. They allow you to initiate a more conversational interview. Where real issues get discussed and you get a chance to show off what you know and to illustrate your specific value.
Here’s more good news.
There is an art to storytelling and a huge benefit to you when you can use a story to draw someone in to your life and your work accomplishments.
- Contraceptive Use Is the Norm Among Religious Women | Guttmacher news release
- …a new Guttmacher report…confirms that policies making contraceptives more affordable and easier to use reflect the needs and desires of the vast majority of U.S. women and their partners …
The analysis, based on a nationally representative U.S. government survey, has important implications for health policy, which is still at times shaped by the mistaken belief that contraceptive use runs counter to strongly held religious beliefs. The new report counters this myth and shows that opposition to contraception by the Catholic hierarchy and other socially conservative organizations is not reflected in the actual behaviors and health care needs of Catholic and Evangelical women.
- Walker admits it | The Plum Line
- Under persistent questioning on the Hill today, Governor Scott Walker finally admitted something he’s refused to acknowledge throughout the Wisconsin controversy: He never campaigned explicitly on any proposal to roll back the collective bargaining rights of public employees.
…Labor and Dems have argued that their reaction to Walker’s proposal — from the Dems’ fleeing of the state to the decision to initiate the recall drives — has been justified by the fact that Walker never leveled with voters about his truly radical intentions.
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