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dusk from Jasmine Leeward on Vimeo.

Poppy, a young woman, suddenly finds herself violently treading water in the mouth of a river. Alone, lost, and confused, she scrambles to the shores of a strange island. While searching for safety, she is overcome with visions. People, she can't place, out of time, traversing the same land. Questioning their meaning, and her place here, is Poppy ready for the answers the land has to offer?

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“Making Things Better: Redefining the Technical Possibilities of CSS” by Rachel Andrew—An Event Apart video from An Event Apart on Vimeo.

Over the last few years, rapid browser implementation of advances in CSS have given us the ability to do many of these previously impossible things. We can use our new powers to build the same designs faster, or we can start to ask ourselves what we might do if we were solving these problems afresh. In this hour-long talk recorded live at An Event Apart DC 2019 (aneventapart.com/event/washington-dc-2019), Rachel Andrew (aneventapart.com/speakers/rachel-andrew) looks at the things coming into browsers right now which change the way we see web design. By understanding the new medium of web design we can start to imagine the future, and even help to shape it.

Enjoy all the presentations in An Event Apart’s video library (aneventapart.com/news/videos)! There are over 60 hours of great talks for you to enjoy and learn from—all absolutely free! For more insightful presentations by the industry’s best and brightest, come to An Event Apart (aneventapart.com/)—three days of design, code, and content for web and product designers. And for free regular updates on all things web, design, and developer-y, subscribe to our mailing list (aneventapart.com/subscribe).

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Have you tried listening? - Robert Nyman - Google from DevRel Summit on Vimeo.

Robert will share learnings and experiences from doing Developer Relations at Mozilla and Google, talking about developer interaction, types of developer personas, why acknowledgement is key, and more.

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Participatory Cities - What they are and why they are so important from Participatory City on Vimeo.

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User Research: Can LOD Help Users Engage with and Make Better Use of Digitized Special Collections? from CNI Vimeo Video Channel on Vimeo.

User Research: Can LOD Help Users Engage with and Make Better Use of Digitized Special Collections?

Timothy W. Cole Mathematics Librarian and Elaine & Allen Avner Professor in Interdisciplinary Research University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Katrina Fenlon Assistant professor, The iSchool/College of Information Studies University of Maryland, College Park

Harriett Green Associate University Librarian for Digital Scholarship and Technology Services Washington University in St. Louis

See cni.org/topics/assessment/user-research-can-lod-help-users-engage-with-and-make-better-use-of-digitized-special-collections for more information.

Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) Fall 2018 Membership Meeting December 10-11, 2018 Washington, DC cni.org/mm/fall-2018/

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Hiding In Plain Sight: The Value of Machine-Processable Copyright Data from CNI Vimeo Video Channel on Vimeo.

Hiding In Plain Sight: The Value of Machine-Processable Copyright Data

John Mark Ockerbloom, University of Pennsylvania Greg Cram, New York Public Library Melissa Levine, University of Michigan

See cni.org/topics/information-access-retrieval/hiding-in-plain-sight-the-value-of-machine-processable-copyright-data for more information.

Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) Fall 2018 Membership Meeting December 10-11, 2018 Washington, DC cni.org/mm/fall-2018/

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Libraries Leading the Way: Academy-Led Publishing, Academy Owned Infrastructure from CNI Vimeo Video Channel on Vimeo.

Libraries Leading the Way: Academy-Led Publishing, Academy Owned Infrastructure

Melanie Schlosser, Library Publishing Coalition Joshua Neds-Fox, Wayne State University Catherine Mitchell, California Digital Library, University of California Charles Watkinson, University of Michigan

See cni.org/topics/publishing/libraries-leading-the-way-academy-led-publishing-academy-owned-infrastructure for more information.

Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) Fall 2018 Membership Meeting December 10-11, 2018 Washington, DC cni.org/mm/fall-2018/

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The Shadow Acquisitions Budget: APCs and Open Access Publications at a Research University from CNI Vimeo Video Channel on Vimeo.

The Shadow Acquisitions Budget: APCs and Open Access Publications at a Research University

William H. Mischo Head, Grainger Engineering Library Information Center and Berthold Family Professor in Information Access and Discovery University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Thomas H. Teper Associate University Librarian for Collections and Technical Services and Associate Dean of Libraries University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

See cni.org/topics/assessment/the-shadow-acquisitions-budget-apcs-and-open-access-publications-at-a-research-university-2 for more information.

Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) Fall 2018 Membership Meeting December 10-11, 2018 Washington, DC cni.org/mm/fall-2018/

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Dataproofer from EJ Fox on Vimeo.

Get it now: github.com/dataproofer/Dataproofer

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Drawing shape-outside from Mikael Ainalem on Vimeo.

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Roel Nieskens | I □ webfonts from Fronteers on Vimeo.

Een introductie tot het werken met fonts op het web. Om je teksten er mooier uit te laten zien, om strakke schaalbare retina-proof icoontjes te maken, of om rare dingen mee te doen: custom webfonts zijn leuk speelgoed voor de webdeveloper. Webfonts worden goed genoeg ondersteund om écht te kunnen gebruiken, en er zijn genoeg valkuilen en gotchas om écht even op te letten waar en wanneer je ze gebruikt. Roel Nieskens deelt zijn bevindingen, tips en openstaande vragen zodat je hierna zelf aan de slag kunt.

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Henry Rollins: An Introduction

A collection of works by everyone’s favorite aging punk rock icon. Keep in mind that this list is not complete and will be added to over time(and will be linked to in our profile). I’m going to try and find a place that has each season of “The Henry Rollins Show”, in particular. I think this is a pretty decent start though. Please let us know if any of these links become dead or the download otherwise doesn’t work.

Music

State of Alert: No Policy

Black Flag: Damaged

Black Flag: My War

Black Flag: Family Man

Black Flag: Slip It In

Black Flag: Live ‘84

Black Flag: Loose Nut

Black Flag: In My Head

Black Flag: Who’s Got The 10 ½?

Black Flag: Everything Went Black

Black Flag: Wasted… Again

Solo: Hot Animal Machine

Henrietta Collins and The Wifebeating Childhaters: Drive By Shooting

Rollins Band: Life Time

Rollins Band: Hard Volume

Rollins Band: Turned On

Rollins Band: The End Of Silence

Rollins Band: Weight

Rollins Band: Come in and Burn

Rollins Band: Insert Band Here

Rollins Band: A Clockwork Orange Stage

Rollins Band: Get Some Go Again

Rollins Band: Nice

Rollins Band: A Nicer Shade of Red

Rollins Band: Rise Above: 24 Black Flag Songs to Benefit the West Memphis Three

Wartime: Fast Food For Thought

The Flaming Lips with and Stardeath and White Dwarfs with Henry Rollins and Peaches: Dark Side of the Moon

Henry Rollins and William Shatner: I Can’t Get Behind That

Spoken Word videos

Uncut from Israel: parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

Henry Rollins Goes to London: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

Uncut from NYC: parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

Up For It: parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

Shock and Awe: parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

Provoked: parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14

Talking from the Box: parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Live in the Conversation Pit: parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11

“Live At Luna Park” and “Live and Ripped In London” cannot currently be found online(for free). Until then, your best bet is torrents.

Henry on the radio(archived KCRW/Harmony in my Head broadcasts, categorized by year)

2004

2006

2007

2008

2009

2010

2011

Audiobooks

Get In the Van: Disc One | Disc Two

Black Coffee Blues

Nights Behind the Tree Line

Spoken word releases

Think Tank

Eric The Pilot

Human Butt

Big Ugly Mouth

A Rollins in the Wry

Live at McCabe’s

Live at the Westbeth Theater

Talk Is Cheap, Vol. 1 (2003)

Talk Is Cheap, Vol. 2 (2003)

Talk Is Cheap, Vol. 4: Part 1 (2004)

Talk Is Cheap, Vol. 4: Part 2 (2004)

Provoked

Live at Luna Park

Live in London

Everything

In Conversation

Talking From The Box

Sweatbox: Part 1 | Part 2

The Boxed Life: Part 1 | Part 2

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Norfolk Southern PULSE from Pitch Interactive on Vimeo.

This video depicts the visuals we created for a large-scale animated installation that pulls from live train data to show the routes and performance of the Norfolk Southern train system. This animated visualization is bird’s eye view of their railway networks zooming in on trains that complete their routes and zooming out to give a large picture of the network status as a whole. Using length to show distance traveled, colors to indicate velocity, height of each route block to indicate volume transported and Train ID we were able to give Norfolk Southern a comprehensible visual of how their train system performed within the last 24 hours.

This installation lives in the lobby of Norfolk Southern’s headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia.

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Better Together: Virginia Should Help Make Work Pay by Strengthening Both the Minimum Wage and Earned Income Tax Credit

Every child in Virginia should go to sleep at night without worrying about whether there will be food for a full day’s meals, and every Virginia parent should know that if they go out and work a full-time job they’ll bring home enough to feed their family and keep a roof overhead. But for too many families, that isn’t the case – not because they’re not trying hard, but because their job doesn’t pay enough to make ends meet. Two of the most-discussed ways to help make sure work pays for every family are raising the minimum wage and improving the earned income tax credit. These proposals, rather than being alternatives, have been shown to work better together by complementing and strengthening the income-boosting and work-encouraging aspects of each. Together, strengthening the minimum wage and earned income tax credit would boost incomes, widen the path into the middle class, and put children on a path to a better life.

Work Isn’t Paying Enough to Make Ends Meet for Too Many Virginia Families

While some people in Virginia are poor because they don’t have a job, almost two-thirds of Virginia families with incomes below the poverty threshold – $20,780 for a family of three – have at least one adult in the household who is working. And there are around 273,000 working adults living in Virginia households with incomes below the poverty threshold. Hundreds of thousands of additional families in Virginia have incomes that are above the official poverty threshold, yet they struggle to make ends meet due to the high cost of living in so many parts of Virginia.

And the problem of wages that are too low to make ends meet is particularly acute for families of color who have faced barriers such as under-resourced schools and discrimination in the job market. While wages for Black and Hispanic workers in the United States (let alone Virginia) have never matched white wages, in recent years it’s actually gotten worse. The typical white worker made almost $22 an hour in 2017, $0.82 more per hour than in 2007 after adjusting for inflation, while Black and Hispanic workers typically made only about $15 an hour, $0.58 and $0.31 less, respectively, than in 2007.

Making work pay is particularly important for families with children because research shows that when working parents are better able to meet the needs of their children, those children go on to do better in school and earn more in adulthood, setting all of us up for a brighter future.

Raising the Minimum Wage Would Increase Take-Home Pay for Hundreds of Thousands of Working Virginians

Virginia’s current minimum wage, set at the federal minimum of $7.25 an hour, is the lowest in the country compared to both the statewide median hourly wage and the typical cost of living in the state as measured by the MIT living wage index. As a result, while Virginia is a high-wage state for people at the high end, we’re a below-average state for wages for workers at the lower end.

Raising Virginia’s minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2024 would directly boost wages for about 786,000 working Virginians who would otherwise make under that amount, and would indirectly increase wages for another 524,000 working Virginians who would benefit from employers seeking to continue rewarding seniority, according to an April 2017 report by the Economic Policy Institute. (Because Virginia saw some real wage increases among lower-income workers during 2017 and likely will again in 2018, the number of people expected to directly and indirectly benefit from increasing the minimum wage to $15 will be somewhat lower than those estimates.) In total, about one in three working Virginians would see their wages increase through raising the minimum wage to $15 with a reasonable phase-in schedule.

The vast majority of working Virginians (nine out of 10) who would benefit are not teenagers, the majority (60 percent) work full-time, and almost half (49 percent) have at least some college education.

More than one in four Virginia children has at least one parent who would benefit from increasing the state minimum wage to $15 an hour. And between 40 and 50 percent of Black and Hispanic workers are expected to benefit.

And most academic literature on the impact of raising the minimum wage shows that reasonable increases have little to no impact on employment levels and positive impacts on total income for working families, including reducing poverty rates. The importance of raising the minimum wage – or at least restoring it to its 1968 level – is particularly striking for communities of color. Nationally, Black and Hispanic poverty rates would be almost 20 percent lower had the minimum wage remained at its 1968 inflation-adjusted level.

Strengthening the EITC Would Provide a Targeted Boost for Low-Income Working Families with Children

The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) helps 600,000 hardworking Virginia families with low and moderate incomes get the resources they need to get to their jobs, keep the lights and heat on, and put food on the table. And this added stability helps set children on a path to a successful adulthood. In general, families in Virginia who qualify for the federal EITC also can claim the state EITC, and many do. But Virginia unnecessarily restricts its current work credit, preventing many families from receiving the full value that they’ve earned, leaving many hard working families economically unsteady. Strengthening Virginia’s EITC by making it refundable would go a long way to boosting the economic security of working Virginians, particularly working families with children.

An extensive body of research shows the EITC rewards and encourages work. Past EITC expansions increased work rates among unmarried mothers and helped them enter or remain in the workforce. Earnings also grew faster for women who were eligible for previous EITC expansions relative to similarly situated women who were not. In addition, the increased time spent in the labor force results in greater Social Security benefits for women, which reduces poverty among women later in life. Making the state EITC refundable would also help balance out Virginia’s upside-down tax system.

Better Together

Improving the minimum wage and earned income tax credit, rather than being a one-or-the-other choice, works best when done together. While strengthening the earned income tax credit would primarily benefit families with children, including many working parents who make above the minimum wage yet struggle to make ends meet, raising the minimum wage would primarily benefit the lowest-wage workers, including many working adults who do not have dependent children. And both would benefit working parents who currently have very low wages, providing an extra boost to the families who need it the most. That’s because for many low-income working parents, the value of a family’s EITC grows as their wages increase. For example, a mother who works 25 hours a week while her two children are in school would see her Virginia earned income tax credit grow from $832 to $1,108 as her wages grew from $8 an hour to $15 an hour, but would only get the full benefit of the $1,108 if Virginia’s EITC is strengthened through refundability.

Raising the minimum wage and making the earned income tax credit refundable also represents a balanced, shared-responsibility model of making sure work pays for every Virginian. While employers of low-wage workers would primarily pay the cost of a reasonable increase of the minimum wage, the state would pay the cost of making the earned income tax credit refundable. (There would also be some public savings from both proposals due to reduced need for public services such as help with putting food on the table.) And the two proposals work on different schedules, with a higher minimum wage providing families a boost every payday to help with covering regular bills while the earned income tax credit provides a once-a-year tax refund that can be used to pay off car repair bills or cover a security deposit to move into more stable housing.

Strengthening either the minimum wage or earned income tax credit would help move Virginia toward a commonwealth with real opportunity for every Virginian. Doing both would be even more powerful – encouraging work and raising incomes for hard-working Virginians, providing an extra boost for the lowest-wage working parents and their children, helping work pay for today’s parents, and setting their children on a path for success.

– Laura Goren, Research Director

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Scott House

AKA, Frederic W. Scott House, Scott-Bocock House 909 West Franklin Street Built, 1911 Architects, Noland & Baskervill VDHR 127-0228

The original RVA preservation nexus.

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Speak Out Against Virginia’s Costly Work Documentation Program Proposal

More than 200,000 newly eligible adults have gained access to quality and affordable health insurance on January 1 through Virginia’s expanded Medicaid coverage. Despite this early success of expansion, there is a separate threat to the Medicaid program in the form of a work documentation requirement and the imposition of monthly premiums that would kick roughly 26,800 people off of coverage. A waiver to impose these new requirements is currently under consideration by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and the public has until this Sunday to submit comments.

Submit a fully customizable comment in a few minutes with the easy-to-use portal.

The waiver would create the COMPASS program, which will cost an estimated $38.4 million to administer and will require certain Medicaid enrollees to meet and report monthly work activities. The program is by no means a done deal for Virginia and must undergo federal approval. And, if approved, the program is likely to face litigation.

The program is seeking to enforce a rule that the overwhelming majority of adults covered by Medicaid are already abiding by or are exempt from. Medicaid enrollees are working, disabled, ill, caretakers, pregnant women, students, retired, or looking for work. Only around 1 percent of non-elderly enrollees don’t fit into one of those categories, according to national data.

Arkansas is currently the only state to fully implement work requirements for Medicaid and the program has been plagued with administrative and technological issues resulting in difficulty reporting work hours, inefficient outreach to enrollees, and other challenges. Nearly 17,000 Arkansans have been kicked off of coverage within the first 6 months of the program – nearly 22 percent of all enrollees that have been subjected to the work requirement. Stories have made national news of individuals who are working sufficient hours yet have been kicked off of coverage due to issues navigating the online portal or the complicated details of the program.

Arkansas’s program has seen very limited success in actually promoting secure and steady employment – just a half percent of all individuals subject to the state’s work requirements have obtained new employment, with no clear indication that these gains are due to the program. The majority of Medicaid enrollees in Arkansas, like the rest of the nation, are already working or exempt. This experience suggests the program will ultimately just create new hurdles for people who are already working and fail to help others find meaningful work.

Instead of spending $38.4 million to essentially kick 26,800 people off of health coverage, Virginia could invest the funds in other, more productive ways – providing comprehensive dental benefits to adults in Medicaid, improving the state’s behavioral health services, or even standing up a more comprehensive work and training program for everyone in Virginia, regardless of Medicaid eligibility. The proposed work documentation program is a bad deal for the state and the people who it is supposed to help.

– Freddy Mejia, Policy Analyst

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