Tom Brady says:

Drink at least one-half of your body weight in ounces of water daily

Politico reports:

Earlier this week the Pentagon allowed National Guardsmen protecting the Capitol to carry lethal weapons in response to the credible threats of violence from militia and extremist groups. Prior to the riot, city and federal officials had deliberately sought to limit the military’s role in response to the protests.

Thursday’s increase in Tesla’s share price pushed Musk past Jeff Bezos, who had been the richest person since 2017 and is currently worth about $184 billion. Musk’s wealth surge over the past year marks the fastest rise to the top of the rich list in history — and is a dramatic financial turnaround for the famed entrepreneur who just 18 months ago was in the headlines for Tesla’s rapid cash burn and his personal leverage against the company’s stock.

 For weeks, the far-right supporters of President Donald Trump railed on social media that the election had been stolen. They openly discussed the idea of violent protest on the day Congress met to certify the result.

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I think that Judaism has the same problem that any thick civilization has in a world in which, as you say, context is stripped away. And not only is context stripped away, but attention to any one thing is scanter and less than it used to be.

And here’s the next paragraph..

Conceived as an “eatertainment” chain, the restaurant paired the usual food and drink offerings with arcade games and karaoke sessions for what it termed “serious foodertainment and real-world funning.” But the coronavirus put Punch Bowl Social in an impossible situation.

Hello, this is Tim Langeman, creator of CiteIt.net — setting a higher standard of citation, for academics, news organizations, and web authors.

1) The Problem of Out-of-Context Quotations

Often when I read a quotation I think to myself.. “that’s a nice quote but I wonder what it says two sentences prior or two sentences later.” In other words, what’s the context and how do I know this quote wasn’t cherry-picked?

Jefferson Memorial

In Washington DC, the Jefferson Memorial has a badly cherry-picked quote etched into the northeastern wall. Here it is:

“Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free.”

That sounds great, but it’s just an excerpt.

If I’m quoting it with CiteIt.net, I can lookup the original source and link the quote to the full text, making it possible to click on the blue down arrow and reveal the quote’s next 500 characters.

“Nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government. Nature, habit, opinion has drawn indelible lines of distinction between them. It is still in our power to direct the process of emancipation and deportation.

If you look at the text above the quote, you can see that Jefferson was arguing that African Americans should work for a period of time as slaves and then be deported at a “proper age.” Sometimes added context changes everything.

Given how CiteIt.net exposes cherry-picked quotations, no news organization or author attempting to deceive their readers would use it. CiteIt.net isn’t about exposing anyone. Rather, it’s a tool for responsible news organizations and authors who choose to differentiate themselves by holding themselves up to a higher standard, giving readers confidence in their integrity and a greater understanding of their sources.

Let’s now look at a second example — this time where the author is not trying to cherry-pick but rather to provide their readers with an easy way to learn more about a quote’s context.

2) Inline Quotations using the “q” tag

You may have seen T-shirts with the quote Well-behaved women seldom make history.

In this case, since the quote doesn’t belong to its own paragraph, the text has been turned into a contextual popup, which lists the source in the lower right.

3) Wikipedia: sample articles

So what would CiteIt look like if it were widely used?

Here few sample Wikipedia articles I converted.

1. Ruth Bader Ginsburg
2. Pride and Prejudice
3. Hamlet
4. Hillary Clinton
5. Donald Trump

I’m looking to bring CiteIt’s Contextual Citations to all of Wikipedia. This would require a lot of work to extract URLs from Wikipedia’s footnotes. If you have machine learning expertise and  you’re interested in helping me convert the existing Wikipedia article base to use CiteIt.net’s Contextual Citations, send me an email.

4) Video Citations: Quoting YouTube

Many Americans distrust Press Coverage. For a forth example, Let’s take a look at how authors can use the CiteIt.net WordPress plugin to link quotations to a YouTube video and transcript.

BBC: Quotation from White House Press Conference

Here’s a sub headline from the BBC about a Trump Administration Press conference. Note the quote is “100%“, without any additional context from the press conference.

US President Donald Trump says he is “100%”
willing to speak under oath about his conversations with ex-FBI chief James Comey.

• Publishers would always reveal the context of their quotes by linking them to a transcript/video of the original.
• Citizens would be able to easily examine the original event cited by news quotations.
• Politicians would no longer able to excuse their statements by hiding behind the claim that the media took their quotes out of context.

• expanding quotes,
• contextual popups, and
• contextual video and transcripts

• verify the context and
• learn more.

Apple’s fall product launch this year is expected to touch off a wave of upgrade purchases, analysts say, with fans eyeing the iPhone’s rumored new 5G capabilities and boxier look, similar to that of the iPad Pro.

There are some minor hardware changes, too: the charger is a 15W barrel plug, instead of USB-C (to match Google’s other smart home products), the case is now made out of partially recycled plastic, and the logo on top has been lightly updated.