A few new (or recently added) features to which I’d like to draw your attention:
Hovering over the category for an article, or any of its tags, pops up a tooltip listing the last five articles in that category or tag. The new feature: clicking on the category or tag now takes you to an index page for all articles with that category/tag. The index pages all have a ‘Show More Articles’ button at the bottom, allowing you to load 10 more articles in that category/tag.
New feature: hovering over the title of an LGF Page in the ‘Featured’ or ‘Recent’ sections now pops up a tooltip showing a plain text excerpt of that article.
Feature change: the maximum size for a user icon has been increased from 32K to 100K. (See Account Settings.)
I’ve made up my mind about wanting to go back to Oklahoma.
I have also made up my mind that I will be giving a parting shot to someone who I thought was a close friend who upped and abandoned me when I began to implode late June last year.
That person will the one who gets vented at for the last 1+ year of hell.
I’ve made up my mind about wanting to go back to Oklahoma.
I have also made up my mind that I will be giving a parting shot to someone who I thought was a close friend who upped and abandoned me when I began to implode late June last year.
That person will the one who gets vented at for the last 1+ of hell.
I’ve made up my mind about wanting to go back to Oklahoma.
I have also made up my mind that I will be giving a parting shot to someone who I thought was a close friend who upped and abandoned me when I began to implode late June last year.
That person will the one who gets vented at for the last 1+ year of hell.
Me. A portion of the pent up anger will be let off. I’ll be able to put this behind me.
That person did teach me a lesson though. I am on my own emotionally.
I’ve personally found that it doesn’t really let me put anything behind me…more like getting more pissed off because the person doesn’t appear to be bothered at all by the confrontation. I’ve found that it’s simply best to write them off and move on. It takes so much energy to carry that much anger towards someone. It’s not healthy and I refuse to let that stuff mess up my life. The anger isn’t hurting anyone except for me and I like myself enough that I won’t do that to myself (and my family because then they get to deal with an unhappy me).
I’m afraid I know the kid who died in this report:
A 12 year old was accidentally shot and killed by his cousin in Calhoun County Tuesday, according to investigators. The sheriff says it’s a tragic accident that leaves two families are devastated.
Tuesday afternoon turned tragic for two families in Calhoun County after an accidental shooting involving two 12 year old cousins at a residence on Macon Johnson Drive.
“I don’t think this child again had any intent other than to show off his Christmas present,” said Calhoun County Sheriff Larry Amerson.
That present was a 20 gauge shotgun.
“The person who lived there, that cousin, had gone into the home to get the shotgun that he had gotten at
Christmas. After he brought it back out the other boy was on the trampoline there on the yard and he was going to show him the shotgun. At some point during that interaction the shotgun was discharged and it struck the boy on the trampoline in the chest which of course ultimately led to the loss of his life,” said Amerson.
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A friend of mine came in a few hours ago and told me a local man’s son died in an accident with a gun, and he couldn’t remember where it happened, but it was wherever the mom moved to after their divorce several years ago. I sold them a bike for this, their oldest, and a couple of their subsequent kids. I saw the kid play drums with his dad’s band several times (just for one song) starting when he was six.
I can’t imagine how devastating this is for everyone, especially the other 12 year old.
This is a terrible tragedy. Aaron Swartz was a brilliant guy - a huge loss for the Internet on so many levels. The story of the investigation into his so-called “hacking” at MIT just stinks. Such a shame.
This is a terrible tragedy. Aaron Swartz was a brilliant guy - a huge loss for the Internet on so many levels. The story of the investigation into his so-called “hacking” at MIT just stinks. Such a shame.
The more newsworthy part of this essay is a reference to the effects of online comments after articles about science and technology topics. Brossard and Scheufele refer to a recent conference that covered this topic, and the results of a study in which subjects were exposed to the same story but with different types of comment sections:
Disturbingly, readers’ interpretations of potential risks associated with the technology described in the news article differed significantly depending only on the tone of the manipulated reader comments posted with the story. Exposure to uncivil comments (which included name calling and other non–content-specific expressions of incivility) polarized the views among proponents and opponents of the technology with respect to its potential risks. In other words, just the tone of the comments following balanced science stories in Web 2.0 environments can significantly alter how audiences think about the technology itself.
Anyone who reads comments sections following news articles surely will have noticed the rotten wealth of trolls and other idiots who inhabit such forums. I thought about Brossard and Scheufele’s piece again today when I read a post by Dan Conover at Xark: “Why I shut down comments”. The post reflects on how blog communities have changed since the early days of blogging in 2005. This timeframe has coincided with the growth of social media of other types, such as Facebook and Twitter, which have given many people a closed community for sharing comments and perspectives with like-minded folks. Conover observes that the trolls and spam are more persistent, causing a rapid degradation of the value of comment sections of many blogs.
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Comments on professional news websites are almost always useless, misguided, or malevolent. Combine this with Brossard and Scheufele’s claim that the tone of comment sections affects readers’ comprehension of science and technology stories, and I propose a hypothesis: Professional news websites may be the worst way to communicate science, because their comment policies undercut science comprehension.
All one has to do is read the comments at a story on CNN, Yahoo, or any of a number of other outlets, to see this kind of stuff.
re: #21 HoosierHoops
Hi Hoops? How is the new year treating ya?
Hmm, which might be the better new avatar? Just put up a larger version of the one I have had for a couple years but what of these?
New bones attributed to Homo floresiensis — aka the “Hobbit Human” — along with other recent findings, are helping to reveal what members of this species looked like, how they behaved, and their origins.
The latest findings, described in a Journal of Human Evolution paper, are wrist bones unearthed on the Indonesian island of Flores. Since they are nearly identical to other such bones for the Hobbit found at the site, they refute claims that H. floresiensis never existed.
The carpals from the Homo floresiensis type specimen (LB1) lack features that compose the shared, derived complex of the radial side of the wrist in Neandertals and modern humans. This paper comprises a description and three-dimensional morphometric analysis of new carpals from at least one other individual at Liang Bua attributed to H. floresiensis: a right capitate and two hamates. The new capitate is smaller than that of LB1 but is nearly identical in morphology. As with capitates from extant apes, species of Australopithecus, and LB1, the newly described capitate displays a deeply-excavated nonarticular area along its radial aspect, a scaphoid facet that extends into a J-hook articulation on the neck, and a more radially-oriented second metacarpal facet; it also lacks an enlarged palmarly-positioned trapezoid facet. Because there is no accommodation for the derived, palmarly blocky trapezoid that characterizes Homo sapiens and Neandertals, this individual most likely had a plesiomorphically wedge-shaped trapezoid (like LB1). Morphometric analyses confirm the close similarity of the new capitate and that of LB1, and are consistent with previous findings of an overall primitive articular geometry. In general, hamate morphology is more conserved across hominins, and the H. floresiensis specimens fall at the far edge of the range of variation for H. sapiens in a number of metrics. However, the hamate of H. floresiensis is exceptionally small and exhibits a relatively long, stout hamulus lacking the oval-shaped cross-section characteristic of human and Neandertal hamuli (variably present in australopiths). Documentation of a second individual with primitive carpal anatomy from Liang Bua, along with further analysis of trapezoid scaling relative to the capitate in LB1, refutes claims that the wrist of the type specimen represents a modern human with pathology. In total, the carpal anatomy of H. floresiensis supports the hypothesis that the lineage leading to the evolution of this species originated prior to the cladogenetic event that gave rise to modern humans and Neandertals.
“Hobbits”, hmm…. next thing you know they’ll discover dragons.
Hi Hoops? How is the new year treating ya?
Hmm, which might be the better new avatar? Just put up a larger version of the one I have had for a couple years but what of these?
Really is nice to see how they value their employees.
The thing is, you have to pretty much be of like-mind to work for them. Yes. I know there are exceptions, but for the most part, you have to be in lock-step with the way the owners think.
In all my years of owning guns, I never felt the need to own an AR-15. If I need 30 shots to hit my target, I have no business owning a gun in the first place.
Jeff Wise in Slate has an essay about “World population may actually start declining, not exploding”.
A somewhat more arcane milestone, meanwhile, generated no media coverage at all: It took humankind 13 years to add its 7 billionth. That’s longer than the 12 years it took to add the 6 billionth—the first time in human history that interval had grown. (The 2 billionth, 3 billionth, 4 billionth, and 5 billionth took 123, 33, 14, and 13 years, respectively.) In other words, the rate of global population growth has slowed. And it’s expected to keep slowing. Indeed, according to experts’ best estimates, the total population of Earth will stop growing within the lifespan of people alive today.
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That might sound like an outrageous claim, but it comes down to simple math. According to a 2008 IIASA report, if the world stabilizes at a total fertility rate of 1.5—where Europe is today—then by 2200 the global population will fall to half of what it is today. By 2300, it’ll barely scratch 1 billion. (The authors of the report tell me that in the years since the initial publication, some details have changed—Europe’s population is falling faster than was previously anticipated, while Africa’s birthrate is declining more slowly—but the overall outlook is the same.) Extend the trend line, and within a few dozen generations you’re talking about a global population small enough to fit in a nursing home.
Notice how so many people who comment on the global population assume that human growth is a homogeneous process? That is, they understand that nations presently have different rates of growth, but conceive of them as being at different places in a process of Westernization. They treat the nations themselves as homogeneous entities.
That’s not the right way to think about the future. […]
Wise is trying to extrapolate current trends, homogenize them across different cultures, to get to his idea that human population will significantly decrease in the future. But as prof. Hawks points out, that’s not the way populations work.
Wise is also wrong with his claim that “the first time in human history that interval had grown” regarding adding a fix quantity of humans (in this case he used 1 billion). Population reductions have happened in the past, leading to great uncertainty in estimating population over differing periods. It’s best just to say that what is happening now, rather than guess at what happened in the past.
CAP’s proposals — which include requiring universal background checks, banning military-grade assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition clips and modernizing data systems to track gun sales and enforce existing laws — are all but certain to face stiff opposition from the National Rifle Association and its many allies in Congress.
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One of CAP’s suggestions to toughen federal regulation of gun sales is to make the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, which is currently an agency within the Department of Justice, a unit of the FBI. CAP says absorbing the ATF into the FBI would better empower the ATF to combat gun crime and illegal trafficking.
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CAP’s top recommendation is to require criminal background checks for all gun sales, closing loopholes that currently enables an estimated 40 percent of sales to occur without any questions asked. The organization also wants to add convicted stalkers and suspected terrorists to the list of those barred from purchasing firearms.
God she’s stupid. What does she think AR15’s are designed for?
The gun nuts have now grabbed on to a report that Lanza left the AR-15 in his car while he used the Bushmaster, therefore AR-15’s are “harmless.” Face-palming FAIL.
In all my years of owning guns, I never felt the need to own an AR-15. If I need 30 shots to hit my target, I have no business owning a gun in the first place.
I’ll admit one temptation, and that was to get one for a really demanding target shooting sport. It’s called 3 gun practical. One other sport is military service rifle competition. Some of those guys use the AR, some the old M1.
But these sports are enjoyed by a small % of gun owners. Most never compete. Maybe 100,000 people do target speed shooting.
And WaPo tries to maximize the heat they generate by wording the title as they did.
I’m not a fan of CAP but I really don’t see much “sweeping” about the proposals. I’m not sure they’ll be effective, I seriously doubt they’ll pass, but there’s not much there for me to object to.
Besides the bans, the rest should be pretty common sense. If one supports background checks for dealer sales, why not private sales? And what is the argument against modernizing the background checks system besides the NRA’s delusion that anything gun control related is leading to imaginary Hitler?
Comment right now at the top of the list on that WaPo article:
lutonmoore
4:50 PM PST
“We voted to limit the further harm of brain dead Republican economic policies.”
You poor thing. You’re probably all for a trillion-dollar coin to be minted by the Treasury, right? Y’all have a good evening. I want to read about the Title IX housing voucher riots in Detroit today…
My take on the WaPo these days is that they’ve figured out that they deserve a share of the money the idiot Fox fans have too. The headline writers at WaPo, and the editorial board, is getting far to vested in the ball game of “librul” vs conservative.
Well, I’m quite suspicious of the headline writer and the author. Those are hardly “sweeping” proposals, and whatever CAP is, it does not speak for the rather diverse group of Obama “supporters”, or “base”.
My take on the WaPo these days is that they’ve figured out that they deserve a share of the money the idiot Fox fans have too. The headline writers at WaPo, and the editorial board, is getting far to vested in the ball game of “librul” vs conservative.
Josh Marshall pretty nicely wrapped up the whole platinum coin thing, namely that it would not only make Obama look bad by giving the GOP “proof” that he’s trying to bypass them in order to continue spending, but it would also too easily allow the GOP off the hook of a potential default. It makes declarations not to negotiate on the debt limit useless if you’ve got an “out” to utilize in the event that the other side calls your bluff.
re: #54 freetoken
The gun owning community will regard national regs as “sweeping” as in all 50 states. And *sigh* the headlines are going to stay lurid on this topic no matter who or what is up.
I’m afraid I know the kid who died in this report:
A friend of mine came in a few hours ago and told me a local man’s son died in an accident with a gun, and he couldn’t remember where it happened, but it was wherever the mom moved to after their divorce several years ago. I sold them a bike for this, their oldest, and a couple of their subsequent kids. I saw the kid play drums with his dad’s band several times (just for one song) starting when he was six.
I can’t imagine how devastating this is for everyone, especially the other 12 year old.
But when it comes to wrapping someone in tentacles that keep them from seeing and hearing the truth when they encounter it, that is precisely what Ken Ham and Answers in Genesis do!
Any educator will tell you just how resistant students in classes can be if they have been indoctrinated with the falsehoods that Ham and others like him peddle about the Bible and the natural world.
Worried about exposure to foul language, immodest dress, peer pressure and other inappropriate behavior, Susan Brown didn’t want her two daughters attending public schools — even though she’s a substitute teacher in a public school in Minnesota.
Brown initially home-schooled her daughters until a friend told her about the Minnesota Virtual Academy, an online public school that is fully accredited. She liked the curriculum and preferred how the school provided supplies.
“You can’t give your kids an effective moral and religious upbringing if you only see them a couple of hours a day,” said Brown, a Catholic whose daughters, in the 10th and 12th grade, started virtual school in the second and fourth grade.
Since Florida became the first state to try virtual public schools in 1996, they have grown dramatically, some of it due to religious families. Like home-schooling parents, parents of virtual public school students like having their children home so they can integrate religion and values into the school day.
In the 2011-2012 school year, 275,000 students were enrolled in online K-12 programs, up from 50,000 a decade ago, according to “Keeping Pace with Online and Blended Learning: A Guide to Policy and Practice 2012,” a report from the Colorado-based Evergreen Education Group.
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These schools generally cater to students who have had problems succeeding in traditional school environments, but also attract students who need extra flexibility to devote several hours a day to athletics, music, art or other pursuits.
That flexibility also attracts families of faith who want their children to be able to attend daytime prayer services or be involved with other religious activities.
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The largest virtual school operator is K12 in Herndon, Va., followed by Baltimore-based Connections Education, which was recently acquired by Pearson, the British textbook publisher. The rest of the industry consists of smaller operators and some nonprofit virtual schools.
While virtual school providers develop secular curriculums, religious parents can interject religious views into courses.
When her daughters’ history course came to the Protestant Reformation, Brown said she gave the lesson a “Catholic slant.”
“I wasn’t bashing Martin Luther, but just saying, this is how we do it, and this is how they do it, and why,” Brown said.
On chapters involving evolution, some religion parents stress that evolution is a theory, and also raise creationism.
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Is this the future of “public” education? An online service paid for by tax dollars, that parents then use, but add to or take away from as they see fit to teach their religion?
I can imagine how some parents will teach American History….
They’ll speak his name in the same hushed, dark tones they do of Clinton and Carter. And Bush Sr on those days when they get reminded of how they lost ‘92.
They’ll speak his name in the same hushed, dark tones they do of Clinton and Carter. And Bush Sr on those days when they get reminded of how they lost ‘92.
As they do with Valde… Vald… Val… aw, you know who.
Oil output from North Dakota’s portion of the Bakken shale formation slipped in November for the first time in 20 months after producers began pulling rigs out of the state.
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What the magickal-thinking wingnuts refuse to accept: economics.
Petroleum production in ND only happens because oil product prices are high enough to entice drillers to do the expensive type of drilling needed in the Bakken formation.
When you don’t want to pay high prices, the drillers stop drilling. And the production from wells in ND decrease rapidly after they’re open.
What the magickal-thinking wingnuts refuse to accept: economics.
Petroleum production in ND only happens because oil product prices are high enough to entice drillers to do the expensive type of drilling needed in the Bakken formation.
When you don’t want to pay high prices, the drillers stop drilling. And the production from wells in ND decrease rapidly after they’re open.
What always amuses me is the ones who swear up and down that oil shale is what we should be heavily investing in, because the oil companies have conned them into believing they can have $60/bbl oil flowing in under a decade. This, of course, is the same sort of con game they’ve been playing since the 80s.
US oil production will jump by a quarter by 2014 to its highest level in 26 years, figures suggest.
… “Total oil production is about to rise,” Fatih Birol, chief economist at the IEA, told the BBC.
“We estimate total oil production to reach about 100 million barrels a day, about 20 million higher than today.
“This growth comes from unconventional [shale] oil.”
The discovery of shale oil means global oil production will not peak in the next 20 years, Mr Birol added.
Of course I get the feeling a whole pile of stuff was left out, but I can’t fisk these kinds of things like you can.
Great new features, Charles. I especially like the ability to preview an excerpt of a Page without having to click through—that’s a real time saver when trying to decide what to read first. Thanks for all your hard work.
I just tried MSIE again and it was slow. Might be my freaking ISP or something.
Freaking ISPs can be a freakin’ pain.
I drove 150 Kms out today to install a server, then fought for 3 hours trying to get the system configured just to find out their ISP was screwing with a new subnet and DNS setup.
Freaking ISPs can be a freakin’ pain.
I drove 150 Kms out today to install a server, then fought for 3 hours trying to get the system configured just to find out their ISP was screwing with a new subnet and DNS setup.
Freaking ISPs can be a freakin’ pain.
I drove 150 Kms out today to install a server, then fought for 3 hours trying to get the system configured just to find out their ISP was screwing with a new subnet and DNS setup.
Started yesterday. After 5 minutes I gave up. Decided to wait until today. Same thing. Loading now and will see what happens with a video playing. Ran Spybot, Malwarebytes and Kaspersky. Nada.
Any chance for RSS support? I’d like to get LGF’s main page, maybe the Featured Pages section, in Google Currents, but without at least RSS support, that’s not happening.
Huffington Post, ThinkProgress, and Talking Points Memo all have Currents pages, so I’m presuming it’s RSS or somesuch, but… Maybe it’s some other syndication method?
I’m afraid I know the kid who died in this report:
A friend of mine came in a few hours ago and told me a local man’s son died in an accident with a gun, and he couldn’t remember where it happened, but it was wherever the mom moved to after their divorce several years ago. I sold them a bike for this, their oldest, and a couple of their subsequent kids. I saw the kid play drums with his dad’s band several times (just for one song) starting when he was six.
I can’t imagine how devastating this is for everyone, especially the other 12 year old.
They released the names in that case: that’s not the one with the local connection. Don’t go googling for shootings of kids. Too depressing. They’re all over.
I’ll admit one temptation, and that was to get one for a really demanding target shooting sport. It’s called 3 gun practical. One other sport is military service rifle competition. Some of those guys use the AR, some the old M1.
But these sports are enjoyed by a small % of gun owners. Most never compete. Maybe 100,000 people do target speed shooting.
Or the Knob Creek night shoot… YouTube that. Looks like so much fun. But lets be honest here. 99% of ARs will never be used there.
This is the LGF Pages posting bookmarklet. To use it, drag this button to your browser's bookmark bar, and title it 'LGF Pages' (or whatever you like). Then browse to a site you want to post, select some text on the page to use for a quote, click the bookmarklet, and the Pages posting window will appear with the title and text already filled in.
FitzSimmonds also told Tribbett that sex education has caused the spread of sexually transmitted diseases: "I believe that we don't recognize the causal effect between the type of sex education that we've been giving and the spread of STDs. We focus on things like abortion, cause it's a big pressure thing. I go into schools 15-20 times a year, I run a non-profit ...
Just don't tell Glenn Beck, Alex Jones, or Matt Drudge. In April, the Obama administration unveiled its 2014 budget proposal, which included $145.8 billion for agriculture, $520 million for the International Trade Administration, and a bunch of other stuff. It also included a $105-million initiative to lasso an asteroid, tow it toward Earth, place it into the moon's orbit, and claim the space rock ...
One of the chief authors of the Senate's Gang of Eight immigration bill is still hunting around for 60 votes in his chamber. Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) said in an interview set to be aired Sunday that the Gang of Eight does not have the votes necessary to break a potential filibuster on the Senate floor -- at least right now. More: Menendez: ...
On May 14, as Washington officialdom was transfixed by the IRS scandal, the Congressional Budget Office announced that the budget deficit will shrink this fiscal year to $642 billion, or just 4 percent of gross domestic product. It's the smallest deficit since 2008, and less than half 2009's record $1.4 trillion shortfall. Since February, the CBO has cut $200 billion off its deficit ...
eople in the U.S. are growing less likely to call themselves economically conservative, according to new data from Gallup. In all, roughly four in 10 now say they're economic conservatives, down from 51 percent in 2010 - a high water mark for the Tea Party movement. That drop, Gallup found, has coincided with slight increases in people calling themselves economic moderates and liberals. ...
Personal experience overrides ideological preferences, with 66 percent of Tea Party members who report personal harm from the sequester opposing the cuts. Overall, 56 percent of Americans oppose the cuts and 35 percent support them.
More: Poll: Sequester Damage Increasing - Kevin Robillard
The Department of Justice's claim that Apple led a conspiracy to raise e-book prices is on the verge of going to trial. It will be decided by a judge without the help of a jury--and that judge is already leaning toward ruling against Apple. "I believe that the government will be able to show at trial direct evidence that Apple knowingly participated in ...
Five years ago, an Air Force airman grudgingly married his pregnant girlfriend but began lacing her food with ground up abortion pills. She miscarried in her second trimester, after consuming a deviled egg. Caylinn Young, 25, of Oklahoma felt isolated in her experience until she read recently about a Lutz woman named Remee Lee, 26, who miscarried in March, reportedly under similar circumstances. ...
British counter-terrorism police arrested a man, who said he was a friend of a suspect in the Woolwich soldier killing, after he gave an interview to the BBC Friday night, the British broadcaster said. The man, Abu Nusaybah, was arrested on suspected terrorism offenses after telling on air how his friend had been approached by Britain's domestic intelligence service, known as MI5, according ...
I won't be shedding a tear over this but here's a reminder of where far right hate originates from. While prejudice and bigotry are a part of every country, in the US organized extreme right philosophy originated in Europe. Even in the Neo-confederate South the roots of their philosophies descended from France's proto-fascist colonialism, which is why the tribal nationalist Napoleon III lent unofficial ...
Here we go again. Two freight trains collided and derailed early Saturday in southeast Missouri, then triggered the collapse of a highway overpass when several rail cars struck a support pillar. Seven people were injured, including two personnel on the trains and five individuals in cars on the overpass on Highway M near Scott City, about 120 miles south of St. Louis, NBC affiliate ...
While pregnant teens are being shamed for making bad choices in the US, a new ad campaign in Britain is tackling the other side of the spectrum with an arresting image of a pregnant old woman. The campaign, sponsored by the pregnancy testing company First Response, purports to warn young women that their childbearing years are numbered. The average British woman bears her ...
The second-highest official in the Archdiocese of Newark is stepping down in the wake of a sex scandal involving a former priest accused of violating an agreement with law enforcement barring him from working with children. Church officials say Monsignor John Doran resigned Friday as vicar general and will no longer hold a leadership position with the archdiocese. Doran signed the agreement the ...
And the Republican field is likely to keep growing: state Sen. Joni Ernst, Secretary of State Matt Schultz and Iowa GOP Chairman A.J. Spiker have expressed interest in the race. Mark Jacobs, a wealthy former oil executive who heads an education nonprofit, has also popped up at local GOP events in recent weeks and met with the National Republican Senatorial Committee. Democrats, meanwhile, ...
Spacecraft could determine their position anywhere in the solar system to within five kilometres using signals from x-ray pulsars, say astronomers. Navigating in space is a tricky business. The usual method relies on Earth-based tracking stations to work out a spacecraft's distance using radio waves, a process that is accurate to within a metre or so. That's fine for the radial distance, but ...
Nice, right? Anyway, here's my thesis: Raiders of the Lost Ark is not an action-adventure movie about an archaeologist who plays by his own rules and saves the day. Instead, the film is an exploration of Marion Ravenwood's crippling drug addiction. An addiction that was born from her unhealthy relationship and continued association with Indiana Jones. Is it true? Who cares. Can I prove ...
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett (R-PA) brushed away a question about Latinos working in his administration during a roundtable discussion at The Union League in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on Friday, telling the moderator, "If you can find us one let me know": MODERATOR: Do you have staff members that are Latino? CORBETT: No, we do not have any staff members in there. If you can ...
More: $40 for Case of Bottled Water? 'Preying' on Oklahoma Tornado Victims Investigators with the Oklahoma Attorney General's office have already uncovered evidence of businesses taking advantage of the recent tornado's devastation by price-gouging in the weather-ravaged region, including a grocery store accused of charging consumers $40 for a case of water. Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt told ABC News that 30 investigators from ...
there's no such thing as Flickr Pro, because today, with cameras as pervasive as they are, there is no such thing really as professional photographers, when there's everything is professional photographers. Certainly there is varying levels of skills, but we didn't want to have a Flickr Pro anymore, we wanted everyone to have professional quality photos, space, and sharing." - Marissa Mayer, Yahoo ...
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It has long been part of the Washington game for officials to discredit a news story by playing up errors in a relatively small part of it. Pfeiffer gives the impression that GOP operatives deliberately tried to "smear the president" with false, doctored e-mails. But the reporters involved have indicated they were told by their sources that these were summaries, taken from notes ...
This is a really nice place. Don't f*ck it up. -- Chrysler Hall, Norfolk, Virginia in the Spring of 1984. A very genteel place to see fine compositions performed live. Usually the opera folks hang out there.
Frank says:
