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A lot of people here about don't really want to do an even cursory examination of the history. There's the perpetuation of the lost cause ("it wasn't about slavery, it was about states rights (to keep slaves over the Federal Government's objections)", "it wasn't about slavery, it was about economics (because the wealthy couldn't maintain their wealth without the forced labor of slavery)" etc) without examination most likely because people kind of know the lost cause won't stand up to scrutiny, so it has to be taken on faith. Its possible this may have to do with keeping private donors happy, but its frustrating to read something like continuing the happy slave narrative from a supposedly educational historical location. (There was a local situation in the last year or two where the demographics of an area with a private museum changed. And a recently elected representative expressed concern / complained about a the museum flying the "confederate flag" which ultimately led to the private donor of the items pulling the items and the museum closing. It was silly considering the flag known as the modern "confederate flag" never flew over the confederacy; its proportions are wrong to be the battle flag of the southern regiments and its colors are wrong to be the 2nd naval jack and only the second and third confederate flags even sported a red/blue St. Andrews Cross. So all of this could have been avoided by, perhaps, displaying the actual 1st flag of the confederacy that might actually be able to be viewed as the part of history it is. But instead they decided to die on the hill of the modern re-interpretation of the Confederacy). Regarding the monument upkeep, I imaging the majority of that funding goes to keeping up period plantations, battle sites and museums with relatively little for things like upkeep of markers, columns, statues and such that have no personnel involved daily.

I will hold that omission against you forever. I haven't seen Beast Wars since it originally aired.

SEE SCIENTISTS CREATE A LIVING BRAIN! WATCH IN HORROR AS THE BRAIN CONTRACT ITS MIGHTY MUSCLE! STARE IN DISBELIEF AS SCIENCE'S UNHOLY CHILD CHALLENGES THE WORLD!

Typically colleges will have some sort of review process and appeals process for students in this matter since they're already admitted (when false records or cheating is discovered when they're just an applicant the applicant is generally just denied admissions if it warrants it, although usually there are still ways to appeal). The hope is that the rush to distance themselves as much as they can from the scandal doesn't rush to judgement with respect to the kids and give them a fair review. That said some of the stuff that's been reported - if true - implies either a complicity in the scheme at worst or an almost staggering amount of naïveté at best.

Students found to have been dishonest in the admissions process face expulsion. Film at 11. This is the normal course of action in these cases. Its generally speaking, from my experience, actually stated on the application itself that falsifying or lying in the application can result in expulsion. A lot of times minor omissions (like not telling that you went to a previous school where you wrecked your GPA and ended up owing the college money so you can't get a transcript) won't lead to expulsions just holds until the student provides all of their information. Other things - like lying about prior convictions, providing falsified transcripts or test scores - can. There's no surprise here that schools would look at their options within their policies to address these charges.

Yes, I forgot that DiTillio was a writer on Beast Wars.

I usually think of him first as the apprentice assassin in THE MECHANIC (aka Killer of Killers) Although thanks to repeats in the 1970s, the first thing I remember seeing him in was the DANGER ISLAND tv segments of THE BANANA SPLITS...

I think it was first reported last week that Jan Michael Vincent had passed.

Also cartoonist Tom K. Ryan (TUMBLEWEEDS) and writer Larry DiTillio (co-creator of the She-Ra cartoon with JMS, writer on Babylon 5)

Whenever the power goes out here and its dark, I get sleepy.

I don't disagree with you. But I can turn my phone off for days and not be stressed about it. For younger groups, as I understand it from this talk, they rate parents and siblings as their biggest influences on their life, then friends and people on the internet. For most younger people the cell phone is how they connect to these people, and a broken cell phone means they're disconnected from everything that (at least at this point in their lives) matters most to them.

Can do both... Its interesting, I was at a lecture on stress, and while on the face of it, it may sound silly to us, one of the things the study they were talking about (not this one) was that the generation after millennials is even more stressed over technology because they don't feel like they can disconnect from it, which in turn means they're stressed when they're on it and stressed when they're off it.

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The thing is they're not being charged for cheating on the admissions to the colleges. Normally if an applicant or student is caught lying on their application, the admissions decision is rescinded or the application denied. Cheat on a test, the test is invalidated (and the test company may bar you from testing). The parents are being charged because Singer was allegedly laundering the money they were paying him to get into these schools through "donations" to Singer's non-profit which was in turn avoiding taxes on the money he was getting as a "non-profit". This led to a number of conspiracy to launder money, conspiracy to commit racketeering, and conspiracy to defraud the US charges for Singer. The parents are being charged with "mail fraud" for - as I understand it - allegedly having wired or transferred money into the money laundering scheme disguised as donations to the non-profit, when instead it was payment to Singer and his cohorts for their work and the bribes being paid out to testing officials and coaches to guarantee the students got admitted. Edit: I think the people who took bribes are charged with conspiracy to commit racketeering as well.

It was preempted; Fox aired the iHeartRadio Music Awards last night. Last episode of the season for The Orville is 3/21.

She smirks as she says it, I took it she was being funny. I don't recall the line being in the movie. Doesn't mean it wasn't, I just don't recall. That horrible "I'm going to end it" line definitely isn't. Its when they're driving and Fury says something like "So, Skrulls are the bad guys. And you're Kree. A race of noble warriors?" And Carol follows up with "Heroes. Noble warrior heroes" and smirks or smiles when saying it, like she's not really being serious about it, recognizing the pomposity of the Kree's self-image even though she at that point still sees herself as Kree.

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She smirks as she says it, I took it she was being funny. That scene doesn't spoil the movie and they can't leave it out of Endgame. It would be very strange. And imho even the (really funny) post-credits scene is all right to watch, although it does reveal something that happened in the movie. I didn't say it'd spoil it and I did say I thought it'd be in Endgame, so not sure what you're replying to...?

Typically the 'quid pro quo' / legacy admissions is uncommon outside of the Ivy League anymore, I believe (and some debate whether it could be found unconstitutional if challenged in court) and even there its capped at I think 10% of a class admissions. Outside of being a huge breach of professional efforts, I'm not sure if its enough to jeopardize accreditation, but could be. It certainly can jeopardize a things like the ability to keep their sports teams or the ability to continue to offer tests from the affected vendors if not bigger issues like ability to receive federal funding, being opened to lawsuits from students denied admissions, etc.

In the case of the athletics thing, coaches were paid to label certain kids as "prospects" allowing them to bypass the normal admissions process despite the fact they'd never played the sport. Neither did they join the team when admitted, nor did they have a scholarship to get in for the sport (so weren't getting a free ride). Article on the indictments from INSIDE HIGHER ED - https://www.insidehighered.com/admissions/article/2019/03/12/dozens-indicted-alleged-massive-case-admissions-fraud

The MMO came out in 2015; Japan only. Apparently Hideaki Itsuno was given the opportunity to make DD2 or DMC5 and opted to go with DMC5. So a lot of fans are hoping with DMC5 out that Itsuno will turn back the the DD franchise.

Who would poo-poo Pluto Nash?

Did no one learn the lesson from Mortal Kombat? You don't use Annihilation as a subtitle for a video game adaption!!!

I enjoyed SUICIDE SQUAD. No caveat to that. I also acknowledge that it's a narrative mess, and possibly over edited.

I think the invention isn't the tram (as pointed out, already invented) but that they're using the autodriving technology to create a system where the train can travel on a virtual track.