Groria Hevia en Los Porches 2015
Vdeo grabado durante la realizacin del Concurso de Salto en Los Porches (Arteixo). Compitiendo Groria Hevia para la Escuela de Hpica de Belelle (Ferrol). ...
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Five Porches Pastor Gary Coates 02 15 2015 John 5 1 18
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Jon Ronson's forthcoming book, So You've Been Publicly Shamed, can't reach front porches soon enough, assuming it resembles the adaptation published in The New York Times. The journalist and humorist revisits the stories of mostly obscure people who showed bad judgment (as every Internet user has done at one time or another) but were unlucky enough to become the focus of an angry digital mob. The nature of their transgressions varies. But in each case, the punishments arbitrarily urged or meted out by callous strangers on social media affected their lives for years, costing them jobs, causing them to flee from their homes, stressing their loved ones, and sending them into states of existential despair.
Those subjected to death threats, harassment, termination, and mass outpourings of digital hate were not examined and found to be particularly malign or odious individuals. They just made a mistake that happened to go viral, often in ways that would've been extremely difficult to anticipate beforehand, and they were judged as if their transgressions alone defined them. Sometimes whole controversies unfolded on Twitter or Facebook. Other times, a digital journalist directed the ire of the Internet at a given target. Sam Biddle reflected on playing the instigator's role in an apology he posted on the one-year anniversary of helping to shame someone into unemployment, writing that when his target contacted him, "I realized suddenly that I felt very guilty about havingI assumeddestroyed another person on what was basically a professional whim."
Many people participate in digital mobs, and yet, they have few public defenders. Indeed, many who engage in digital pile-ons hardly realize what they're doing or contemplate the consequences of their actions. Take two instances of shaming that Ronson describes in his book excerpt:
One person I met was Lindsey Stone, a 32-year-old Massachusetts woman who posed for a photograph while mocking a sign at Arlington National Cemeterys Tomb of the Unknowns. Stone had stood next to the sign, which asks for Silence and Respect, pretending to scream and flip the bird. She and her co-worker Jamie, who posted the picture on Facebook, had a running joke about disobeying signssmoking in front of No Smoking signs, for exampleand documenting it. But shorn of this context, her picture appeared to be a joke not about a sign but about the war dead. Worse, Jamie didnt realize that her mobile uploads were visible to the public.
Four weeks later, Stone and Jamie were out celebrating Jamies birthday when their phones started vibrating repeatedly. Someone had found the photo and brought it to the attention of hordes of online strangers. Soon there was a wildly popular Fire Lindsey Stone Facebook page. The next morning, there were news cameras outside her home; when she showed up to her job, at a program for developmentally disabled adults, she was told to hand over her keys. (After they fire her, maybe she needs to sign up as a client, read one of the thousands of Facebook messages denouncing her. Woman needs help.) She barely left home for the year that followed, racked by PTSD, depression and insomnia. I didnt want to be seen by anyone, she told me last March at her home in Plymouth, Mass. I didnt want people looking at me.
Instead, Stone spent her days online, watching others just like her get turned upon. In particular she felt for that girl at Halloween who dressed as a Boston Marathon victim. I felt so terrible for her. She meant Alicia Ann Lynch, 22, who posted a photo of herself in her Halloween costume on Twitter. Lynch wore a running outfit and had smeared her face, arms and legs with fake blood. After an actual victim of the Boston Marathon bombing tweeted at her, You should be ashamed, my mother lost both her legs and I almost died, people unearthed Lynchs personal information and sent her and her friends threatening messages. Lynch was reportedly let go from her job as well.
Many of the individuals who shamed and harassed these women likely thought of themselves as doing something like telling a stranger, at a military cemetery or a Halloween party, "Hey, that's messed up, you jerk." In fact, they were helping to mete out a much more severe punishment, akin to thousands of angry people gathering around a person at a military cemetery or Halloween party to aggressively menace them. As a mob, their effect was to terrify and traumatize people. The punishments they imposed did not fit the crimes.
With more exposure to stories like these, I hope that more people will refrain from participating in what they'll now recognize as digital pile-ons-in-the-making.
Meanwhile, I propose a new social norm. My strong suspicion is that we'd all be better off if Americans developed a broad aversion to people being fired for public missteps that have nothing to do with their jobs. That norm would do more good than bad even if you think some people deserve to be fired. Sure, I'd advise against taking flip photographs at a military cemetery. But whatever one thinks of that error in judgment, there's no reason it should cause a woman to lose her job helping developmentally disabled adults.
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(The group Able Bodied Christian Men shovels snow from in front of a Philadelphia home. Photo by Cherri Gregg)
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PHILADELPHIA (CBS) Three volunteers from Southwest Philadelphia were traveling around the city today to shovel the sidewalks, driveways, and porches of people in need.
Jackie Wleh (wearing white t-shirt in photo) is founder of the nonprofit group, Able Body Christian Men (ABC Men), Inc. Today, he and two youth volunteers packed into a small car packed with shovels and salt, heading for jobs in Southwest Philadelphia, Drexel Hill, Upper Darby, and elsewhere, to remove snow from the sidewalks and steps of senior citizens, the disabled, and others who need help.
This is our best way to show love, Wleh says. This is the best way we know to show how much we care for our seniors.
Beverly, who lives near 60th and Christian in West Philadelphia, called ABC to help her 82-year-old mother, Dorothy. Beverly says she fell the last time she tried to clear her mothers property of snow.
Its nice, she said afterward. And look we didnt ask for the car, and they did the car!
Fifteen-year-old Varney (wearing tan jacket at right) is an ABC Men volunteer and says the experience is teaching him respect for my neighbors.
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Porches. - Mood (Live In The Crane Room)
Porches. performs a song from their new record "Mood" live at the Applejam show on Feb. 5.
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In solidarity with belt-ditchers everywhere, Zep Tepi, has cooked up the ultimate lo-fi snack for the front porch swingers everywhere. Limited run cassette a...
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Valentine's Day mean lots of surprise deliveries - but with the ice and snow on the ground - that could mean injuries.
"I was looking at that house," said William Boyd. "Lucky I don't have to go over there."
You are hearing the true confessions of a flower delivery driver forced to deal with snow and icy covered sidewalks, porches and steps as he delivers flowers.
"I got my boots on, but you know, I look like I could fall down going up these steps," said Boyd from Livernois-Davison Florist.
He has been delivering flowers for nearly 20 years and this Valentine's Day weekend he knows he will be busy, but he also wants to be safe.
"You just have to watch out," he said.
"A lot of times we go to big businesses so it's shoveled but for residential areas it's a little more sticky," said Titania Askew of Front Page Deli.
When Askew has to make a delivery in snowy conditions she scopes out the area first.
"When it comes to snow and ice I try to find a level ground so I can walk and I'm not slipping," she said.
But she says one of her coworkers wasn't so lucky
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Porches. - Headsgiving (Live In The Crane Room)
Applejam put on a killer show featuring gggghosts, Peaer, and Porches. Here #39;s Porches. doing "Headsgiving" featuring Mulan.
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Families hang out at the Mueller farmers market in Austin, Texas, on a Sunday. In a state where cars are king, planners designed Mueller with pedestrians in mind. Julia Robinson for NPR hide caption
Families hang out at the Mueller farmers market in Austin, Texas, on a Sunday. In a state where cars are king, planners designed Mueller with pedestrians in mind.
This is the first story in a two-part report on the Mueller neighborhood for the NPR Cities Project.
In Texas, a state where cars and private property are close to a religion, there is an acclaimed master-planned community that's trying something different.
When Austin's municipal airport closed 16 years ago, it created a planner's dream: 700 acres of prime real estate close to the city core. What emerged from years of public/private/neighborhood collaboration was the Mueller Community often spoken of as a masterwork of smart urban design.
Mueller is the product of the "new-urbanism" concept: the idea that a built environment can create meaningful community. Planners minimize the supremacy of the automobile and shape the environment around pedestrians.
Greg Weaver, Mueller project manager with Catellus Development, is walking on a crushed-granite path that circles a man-made lake complete with a fountain and diving ducks.
"The people in the park over there with the dog, the guy fishing over there ... the birthday party over here is something that was always envisioned in paper and in theory and it's become a reality out here," Weaver says.
A model of the Mueller master plan. With its goals of environmental sustainability and mixed-income home ownership, Mueller has become a model for development nationwide. Julia Robinson for NPR hide caption
A model of the Mueller master plan. With its goals of environmental sustainability and mixed-income home ownership, Mueller has become a model for development nationwide.
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