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Sean P. Dolan is the perfect spokesman for Bishop William Murphy [\"Church's good deeds ignored,\" Letters, June 21]. When the bishop's actions are just plain wrongheaded because the bishop decides to change programs without regard to those connected with his targeted programs, Dolan makes it appear that the bishop is reasonable and fair. Orwell's doublespeak has become Dolan's churchspeak. As an active Catholic in the Diocese of Rockville Centre, I've come to believe that Bishop Murphy does not accept criticism very well. If he did, he would not have banned Voice of the Faithful, but would have met with its members and taught them what he believes to be the error of their ways. The diocese is in a very sad state. Orthodoxy is king today to the detriment of thinking Catholics who believe the church is big enough to handle nondogmatic views other than the bishop's. While I wish for healing, I wish more for a bishop who is less autocratic and more in tune with all his flock. Amnesty International has declared June Torture Awareness Month. When are Muslims all over the world going to condemn our soldiers' being tortured? We have the president of the United States publicly denouncing torture on many occasions. And now we have the leader of al-Qaida in Iraq bragging about purposeful, bloody torture and murder. I don't hear enough people protesting when hostages' heads are sawed off.
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Superman, Action Comics. Vol. 4, The new world
Superman's life has been changed forever...yet if feels the same as it's ever been. But that doesn't mean change isn't on the horizon -- Lois and Clark are moving back to Metropolis from the farm, and Jon isn't looking forward to being a city Super kid. Meanwhile, unbeknownst to Superman, sinister forces are gathering in dark corners of the globe. Someone is uniting Superman's deadliest enemies into a Revenge Squad, hell-bent on destroying the Man of Steel once and for all. Metallo, Mongul, Eradicator, Cyborg Superman...on their own, they're formidable. Together, can they defeat Superman? But the Revenge Squad has one more member in their sights, and he's being held deep within Belle Reve Prison, home of the Suicide Squad. With General Zod on their side, revenge is finally in their grasp...and Superman's rebirth might prove to be very short-lived. -- back cover.
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Language from police body camera footage shows racial disparities in officer respect
Using footage from body-worn cameras, we analyze the respectfulness of police officer language toward white and black community members during routine traffic stops. We develop computational linguistic methods that extract levels of respect automatically from transcripts, informed by a thin-slicing study of participant ratings of officer utterances. We find that officers speak with consistently less respect toward black versus white community members, even after controlling for the race of the officer, the severity of the infraction, the location of the stop, and the outcome of the stop. Such disparities in common, everyday interactions between police and the communities they serve have important implications for procedural justice and the building of police–community trust.
Journal Article
Nightwing : the gray son legacy
\"There's a new team in Nightwing's hometown of Blüdhaven--and they will have to learn the hard way that fighting injustice doesn't mean you're cut out to be a superhero. As the newly formed team calling themselves the Nightwings deal with a fiery threat they never saw coming, reluctant recruit Ric Grayson has to make the choice between a carefree life without capes or answering the call that's been ringing his entire life--the call to be a hero. Join Ric Grayson and the Nightwings as they learn what it takes to be a team--and what happens when you fight who you truly are.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Measuring the Evolution of a Scientific Field through Citation Frames
Citations have long been used to characterize the state of a scientific field and to identify influential works. However, writers use citations for different purposes, and this varied purpose influences uptake by future scholars. Unfortunately, our understanding of how scholars use and frame citations has been limited to small-scale manual citation analysis of individual papers. We perform the largest behavioral study of citations to date, analyzing how scientific works frame their contributions through different types of citations and how this framing affects the field as a whole. We introduce a new dataset of nearly 2,000 citations annotated for their function, and use it to develop a state-of-the-art classifier and label the papers of an entire field: Natural Language Processing. We then show how differences in framing affect scientific uptake and reveal the evolution of the publication venues and the field as a whole. We demonstrate that authors are sensitive to discourse structure and publication venue when citing, and that how a paper frames its work through citations is predictive of the citation count it will receive. Finally, we use changes in citation framing to show that the field of NLP is undergoing a significant increase in consensus.
Journal Article
The long payback
\"This nonstop, all-out action-packed volume pits Terry McGinnis, the original Batman Beyond, against a gauntlet of villains. While Gotham struggles to put society back in order, someone has taken over the city's defense system, turning it against its citizens! Unable to fly, Batman's forced to battle an array of old and new villains at ground level while unveiling a brand new Batsuit.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The Paleozoic origin of enzymatic mechanisms for lignin degradation reconstructed using 31 fungal genomes
Wood is a major pool of organic carbon that is highly resistant to decay, owing largely to the presence of lignin. The only organisms capable of substantial lignin decay are white rot fungi in the Agaricomycetes, which also contains non?lignin-degrading brown rot and ectomycorrhizal species. Comparative analyses of 31 fungal genomes (12 generated for this study) suggest that lignin-degrading peroxidases expanded in the lineage leading to the ancestor of the Agaricomycetes, which is reconstructed as a white rot species, and then contracted in parallel lineages leading to brown rot and mycorrhizal species. Molecular clock analyses suggest that the origin of lignin degradation might have coincided with the sharp decrease in the rate of organic carbon burial around the end of the Carboniferous period.
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Batman beyond. Vol. 4, Target: Batman
\"After the events of 'The Long Payback' we find Batman with his mysterious new partner--but can this new partner be trusted? You never know when it comes to the corrupt city of Gotham. Follow Terry as he dives deeper into the secrets of the city and the true idenity of his new partner\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Citation Classification for Behavioral Analysis of a Scientific Field
Citations are an important indicator of the state of a scientific field, reflecting how authors frame their work, and influencing uptake by future scholars. However, our understanding of citation behavior has been limited to small-scale manual citation analysis. We perform the largest behavioral study of citations to date, analyzing how citations are both framed and taken up by scholars in one entire field: natural language processing. We introduce a new dataset of nearly 2,000 citations annotated for function and centrality, and use it to develop a state-of-the-art classifier and label the entire ACL Reference Corpus. We then study how citations are framed by authors and use both papers and online traces to track how citations are followed by readers. We demonstrate that authors are sensitive to discourse structure and publication venue when citing, that online readers follow temporal links to previous and future work rather than methodological links, and that how a paper cites related work is predictive of its citation count. Finally, we use changes in citation roles to show that the field of NLP is undergoing a significant increase in consensus.
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