Kathryn Bigelow’s Detroit, a film about the unrest of 1967, failed to provide needed context surrounding the uprising. It is an incomplete narrativeDetroit’s unrest in the summer of 1967 forever shaped the identity of the city. It all began with a 23 July early morning police raid of a “blind pig” – an illegal after-hours drinking club. It was this raid that set the city on fire. The resulting clashes between police and the black community lasted five long days and claimed 43 lives – of which 33 were black and 10 white. More than 7,000 arrests were made. To those watching from a far, the unrest was a symbol of the tension between black and white people, which had already played out in similar race riots in New York, Newark, New Jersey, and Los Angeles from 1964 to 1967. To Detroiters, it was a reminder of what the writer James Baldwin once said: “To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.” Continue reading…

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Police chief says 2,000 people already rescued from heavy floodsMillions of Texans stranded in their homes awaiting helpIt’s a fact: climate change made Hurricane Harvey more deadlyTropical storm Harvey – live updatesThe full scale of the disaster unfolding in Houston and across large parts of Texas and Louisiana was emerging on Monday, as authorities warned that 30,000 people would be forced to seek shelter from an epic deluge of historic proportions.The official death toll from the catastrophe now stands at eight, though the figure could rise substantially as flooded neighborhoods are cleared. KHOU reported that six of the dead were believed to have come from a single family, after an elderly couple and their four great-grandchildren aged six to 16 were trapped inside a white van that was engulfed in the flood waters. Continue reading…

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President will sign order to revive program that provides departments with surplus military equipment such as high-caliber weapons and armored vehiclesUS police will again have access to high-caliber weapons, grenade launchers, heavily armored vehicles and other surplus military equipment that the Obama administration had limited after critics said its use was militarizing the police and inflaming confrontations with protesters, often in racially sensitive situations.Donald Trump plans to sign an order undoing the Obama-era directive, the US attorney general, Jeff Sessions, on Monday told a national convention of the Fraternal Order of Police, one of the groups that have urged Trump to revive the military program. Continue reading…

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Gasoline futures up by 5%, their highest price since July 2015Shutdown along Texas’s Gulf coast means prices at the pumps likely to riseTropical storm Harvey – follow the latest updatesUS gasoline prices have increased to a two-year high as crude oil refineries along the Texas Gulf coast shuttered in the wake of Hurricane Harvey.Prices at the pump are expected to rise after gasoline futures – the wholesale prices charged to gas stations – increased 5% early Monday, to their highest prices since July 2015. Continue reading…

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Funny Party Ice Breaker

We invited friends over for dinner a few months ago, and while eating pasta and emptying a few bottles of rosé, we were having a nice time chatting in little groups.… Read more
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It’s no surprise we’re big fans of easy dinners — the ones that require no extra grocery shopping and very little prep. So today, as we continue our month of cheese, we’re happy to share this five-ingredient pasta from Food52’s cookbook A New Way to Dinner.… Read more
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As reported earlier this month by CBC News, Australia’s government is planning a mail survey beginning Sept. 12 of Australians on the issue of same-sex marriage. However it is facing a court challenge arguing that the government does not have authority to conduct this type of plebiscite without obtaining authority from Parliament.  Meanwhile the Sydney Morning Herald reported yesterday that Catholic bishops in Australia have threatened that if same-sex marriage is legalized, parish employees, including teachers in Catholic schools, who marry a same-sex partner may well be fired.

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Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:Nicholas Aroney, Religious Authority in Public Spaces: The Challenge of Jurisdictional Pluralism, (August 11, 2017).John Infranca, (Communal) Life, (Religious) Liberty, and Property, Michigan State Law Review, (Forthcoming).Dwight G. Newman, Implications of the Ktunaxa Nation / Jumbo Valley Case for Religious Freedom Jurisprudence, (in Dwight Newman, ed., Religious Freedom and Communities (Toronto: LexisNexis, 2016)).Caroline Mala Corbin, ‘Terrorists are Always Muslim But Never White’: At the Intersection of Critical Race Theory and Propaganda, (Fordham Law Review, Forthcoming).Paul H. Robinson

In Johnson v. Barnes, (IN App., Aug. 17, 2017), an Indiana appellate court dismissed as moot a case in which the trial court had removed three trustees of the Pilgrim Baptist Church and ordered new elections. Those former trustees challenged the trial court’s action in removing them.  The appeals court held that since new elections have been held, the choice of trustees by church members in those elections is controlling.

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Many modern NLP systems rely on word embeddings, previously trained in an
unsupervised manner on large corpora, as base features. Efforts to obtain
embeddings for larger chunks of text, such as sentences, have however not been
so successful. Several attempts at learning unsupervised representations of
sentences have not reached satisfactory enough performance to be widely
adopted. In this paper, we show how universal sentence representations trained
using the supervised data of the Stanford Natural Language Inference dataset
can consistently outperform unsupervised methods like SkipThought vectors on a
wide range of transfer tasks. Much like how computer vision uses ImageNet to
obtain features, which can then be transferred to other tasks, our work tends
to indicate the suitability of natural language inference for transfer learning
to other NLP tasks.

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