 job creation, with speakers including Congressman Tim Bishop (D-Southampton), Lawrence Mishel, president of the Economic Policy Institute in Washington, D.C., Luis Valenzuela of the Long Island Immigrant Alliance, Roger Clayman, executive director of the Long Island Federation of Labor, John Coverdale, regional director of the NYS United Teachers, and economist and author Michael Zweig.
It will be held in the Multipurpose Room, Sondra and David S. Student Center, North Campus, beginning at 10 a.m. Admission is free.
Conference sessions include:
• 10 a.m.-11:05 a.m. Government Policy and the Jobs Crisis
• 11:15 a.m.-12:40 p.m. Economic Inequality and the Labor Movement,
• 12:50 p.m.-1:45 p.m. Immigrants and Immigration Reform,
• 1:55 p.m.-2:50 p.m. Trade and Off-Shoring Jobs,
• 2:55 p.m.-4:20 p.m. Youth, Education and the Job Future
“At a time of fragile job and income growth, analysis of the employment implications of the national and local elections are very timely,” said Gregory DeFreitas Ph.D. and director of the Labor Studies program and the Center for the Study of Labor and Democracy. “As we struggle to better come to grips with a global recession, clear thinking about its main causes, full dimensions, and most effective remedies will be vitally important in shaping solutions with broadly shared benefits.”
The conference is part of Hofstra’s University’s Debate 2012 series, a slate of events organized around the university’s hosting of the second presidential debate on Oct. 16,2012. It is co-sponsored by Hofstra University Honors College, the Office of University Relations and the departments of Economics and Political Science.
For more information and other conference details visit: hofstra.edu/laborstudies.I’m on the couch, watching TV, but I couldn’t tell you what’s playing. I have no clue what’s been said or done during the show because the entire time it’s been on, I’ve been browsing through Instagram.
Apparently I’m not alone. At last public count, Instagram users numbered over 5 million and it continues to grow every day. But what is it about this app that sets it over the top? Why do we see applications on other platforms that have the sole purpose of letting you view Instagram photos? What’s so important that we have to print out these photos onto postcards?
There’s no short answer to these questions, and Master’s Cantidate at Cambridge University Zachary McCune knows that better than just about anyone. Over four months of work has gone into McCune’s 80-page dissertation in which he examines the ins and outs of what makes Instagram the whole of what it has become.
Popularity within the network requires both publishing and interaction.
Instagram users are concerned with being unique in their work.
Even popular locations will often have a unique vantage in the photo to set them apart.
Users are not tied to one app, often times using multiple ones to produce a single upload.
There is a near-equal gender split, and the app is popular across a wide range of ages.
McCune notes in his findings that people often share photos on Instagram for the very same reasons that they do otherwise — to share in experiences with others. However, that “instant society” justification of their work continues to be a strong force in the app’s adoption and widespread use.
McCune’s findings are pared down in a 5-page executive summary which I’ve embedded here. For the full, 80-page report plus a bit of insight from McCune himself, hit up his portfolio site.
The Rock’s latest blockbuster delivers exactly what it promises.
Warning: You might be confused and infuriated when Skyscraper opens with a dinky single-story cabin in Ash Lake, Minnesota. Don’t worry! The skyscraper is coming. This is just The Rock’s paint-by-numbers backstory, when he fails to defuse a hostage situation and loses a leg—leading to a prosthetic that serves, admirably, as a major asset for the rest of the movie.
Just as importantly, The Rock emerges from the incident in Minnesota with a wife (Neve Campbell) and a couple of kids (McKenna Roberts and Noah Cottrell). Such a beautiful family. Wouldn’t it be a shame if someone… trapped them in a burning skyscraper?
The skyscraper is very tall. A promotional video helpfully explains that it dwarfs the Empire State Building and the Burj Khalifa and every other skyscraper ever built. It has a 30-story waterfall park and a state-of-the-art room that makes dozens of reflections of its inhabitants and is perfect for a climactic shootout. The Rock calls the skyscraper "Fort Knox in a mile in the sky," and I guess he’s making a reference to Goldfinger, because that’s exactly how easily it’s penetrated by a bunch of bad guys with guns and explosives. The baddies are led by Danish actor Roland Møller, who attacks the skyscraper—and the billionaire who had it built (Chin Han)—for reasons that are eventually, fuzzily explained. Møller’s plan also involves a couple of of double agents working for him from the inside—whom you’ll spot instantly, because their performances are just a step removed from whispering, "pssssssst… I’m bad" at the camera and winking.
But you don’t care about any of that, right? You care about the skyscraper, and The Rock climbing around on it. On this score, Skyscraper happily delivers. If you’ve seen the trailers, you’ve already seen the bit where The Rock leaps from a crane into a hole in the building, and guess what? It rules even harder on the big screen. Skyscraper knows where its strengths lie, because it soon manufactures yet another insane reason for The Rock to climb around outside the skyscraper. This time, he uses duct tape as climbing gear.
We should probably talk about Die Hard, which Skyscraper is unapologetically ripping off. (The Rock, social media extraordinaire, even tweeted out a movie poster that cheekily acknowledges the influence.) But the strength of Die Hard wasn’t just Bruce Willis’ everyman performance; it was the surprisingly well-drawn ensemble the movie surrounded him with. Skyscraper makes an admirable effort with Neve Campbell, who isn’t just a hostage—she’s a veteran combat surgeon who gets a couple of solid action sequences in her own right.
Unfortunately, nobody else in Skyscraper rises to the level of comment. It’s probably worth noting that this movie is a Chinese co-production. It’s also set almost entirely in Hong Kong, with an unusual number of Chinese actors, speaking in their native language, for a Hollywood blockbuster. And while the rise of China as a box-office force has inspired a lot of hand-wringing in Hollywood, I don’t see any reason that a more globally diverse blockbuster shouldn’t be a better blockbuster. It just needs to be executed with more care and specificity than Skyscraper, which casts actors from Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore in marginal roles while reserving its juiciest scenes and setpieces for English-speaking westerners.
Yes, in the end, Skyscraper is essentially The Rock’s show—and he sells it hard, quipping and flexing his way through a series of lovably ludicrous jumps and falls. If nothing else, Skyscraper is confirmation that The Rock the best action star in the world right now. He’s the only actor I know who can make an audience wince and cackle and cheer in a scene that’s basically just him pulling on some ropes really hard.
So should you see Skyscraper? I don’t know. I guess so. It’s 2018, and everything is very bad. There are worse ways to take a break than watching The Rock jump around on a very tall building for a couple of hours.
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