3. Information asymmetry among staff leads to repeated explanations and lost context due to a primarily verbal communication culture.

Because documentation is written retroactively (typically at the end of the day or the next day), the most up-to-date information is acquired by asking around. This leads to manhunts, tracking down individuals around the building to acquire a specific piece of information that could have easily been written down.

Data collection and tracking start as soon as you drive a new car off the dealership lot, with drivers unwittingly consenting when they’re confronted with warning menus on dashboard touch screens.

Experts say that some of the data collection is baked into the system, you can revoke your consent by going back into the menus. 

“There are permissions in your settings that you can make choices about,” said Lauren Hendry Parsons of Mozilla. “Go through on a granular level and look at those settings where you can.”

This paper describes several dramatic hístorical experiences which I believe difficult to be consistent with the “rational expectations” view, but which seem to reconcile with the “momentum” model of inflation. The idea is to stand back from our current predicament, inflations under and to examine the measures that successfully brought 1920s. I and Poland, the passage The basic drastic control in several European countries in the many, after tions. data all are four spectacular. shall describe and interpret events in Austria, Hungary, Gereach of which experienced a dramatic “hyperinflation” in which, of several months, price indexes assumed astronomical propor- data to be studied are the price indexes in figures fit the on a price 2-4. These recorded in countries, a logarithmic and especially graphs also reveal scale, so Germany, that in that the they rise will in page. level For was The each case inflation stopped abrupt- ly, rather than gradually. I shall also briefly deseribe events in Czechoslovakia, a country surrounded by neighbors experiencing hyperinflations, but which successfully achieved a stable currency itself. My reason for studying these episodes is that they are laboratories for the study of regime changes. Within each of Austria, Hungary, Poland, anà Germany, there occurred a dramatic change in the fiscal policy regime, which in each instance was associated with the end of a hyperinflation. Further, though it shared some common problems with its four neighbors, Czechoslovakia deliberately adopted a relatively restrictive fiscal policy regime, with the avowed aim of maintaining the value of its currency.

For example, what I discovered on the 57 program was that while we had a really good core team when we started, the developmental team, when the program got authorized, engineers started coming on the program at 200 to 300 a week. The culture very quickly shifted to what I call a traditional culture, because the core team was the minority all of a sudden. Everybody, in my words, set up camp the way they had always set up camp.

More than 500 citations were issued on Whitney Way alone, among the most of any street in the city. U.S. 151, which overlaps with East Washington Avenue, John Nolen Drive and part of the Beltline, also drew over 1,100 speeding tickets last year.

French wine critic Michel Bettane says the overall technical standard of Chinese wines now surpasses what he and his team often encounter in their annual tastings in France — a sign, he believes, that China is undergoing an “astonishing awakening of terroir.”

Sir Richard FitzHerbert’s family acquired Tissington in Derbyshire in 1465, replacing the manor house there with the present mansion 150 years later. FitzHerbert has been learning more about the plight of others this year, while serving as the senior (albeit largely honorary) legal figure in his county. This has reinforced the paternalistic feelings often associated with the traditional aristocracy: “I have seen a great deal in my year as High Sheriff [of Derbyshire] about the polar opposites of our society. If I were to inherit a fortune, I think it would be imperative to join those two sectors together.”

A live map that tracks frontlines of the war in Ukraine was edited to show a fake Russian advance on the city of Myrnohrad on November 15. The edit coincided with the resolution of a bet on Polymarket, a site where users can bet on anything from basketball games to presidential election and ongoing conflicts. If Russia captured Myrnohrad by the middle of November, then some gamblers would make money. According to the map that Polymarket relies on, they secured the town just before 10:48 UTC on November 15. The bet resolved and then, mysteriously, the map was edited again and the Russian advance vanished.

To find the Marvelous Spatuletail, Turek and Orellana hiked through Peru’s Huembo Reserve, stopping in front of five nectar feeders known to attract the species. They were prepared to return the next day, and the day after that, if the bird didn’t show. But it appeared after only three minutes, a blaze of white, green, blue, and bronze. “All I could hear was David Attenborough’s voice in my head. I started crying,” Turek says. “Somewhere on that trip, it clicked: This is what I want to do. I want to photograph all of them.”

For twenty years, the Venezuelan regime sent spies into your country—many are still there, some disguised as members of the Venezuelan opposition. Cuban intelligence showed me their networks inside your naval bases on the East Coast. They bragged about having sent thousands of spies over decades, some now career politicians.

My former coworker—the composite of three people for anonymity—now believes she’s both unqualified for AI work and that AI isn’t worth doing anyway. She’s wrong on both counts, but the culture made sure she’d land there. Seattle has talent as good as anywhere. But in San Francisco, people still believe they can change the world—so sometimes they actually do.

The flows in the diagram represent $4.9 Trillion – but they also trace every medical decision made in America last year. Every dose administered and every diagnosis delivered. Every ambulance ride and every rehabilitation. Every birth and every final goodbye.

Did you know that Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has been using his own custom $2 bills for over 30 years? He doesn’t print the money itself, which would be illegal. Instead, he legally purchases large, uncut sheets of genuine $2 bills directly from the U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing

OEM Bergen Engines has secured a contract to supply a 400MW power plant for a new AI data center on the US East Coast. Operating fully off grid in true islanded mode, it will be the first medium-speed reciprocating engine power plant in North America designed for AI-driven workloads.

It speaks for itself. I’ll just add if he’s surprised by the missing data …..he’d be further surprised by the data we do capture: fragmented, delayed, and built for billing, not clinical insight. It tells us very little about human disease and how to truly treat it.

Epic Systems is at the center of this monumental failure.

Simply put: AI cannot reach its full potential in medicine while Epic Systems controls the underlying data architecture. The ideas are fundamentally oppositional at their core.

Cattle drive over the interstate.

Most characters in the film Idiocracy wear Crocs because the film’s wardrobe director thought they were too horrible-looking to ever become popular. 

A longtime ICE agent said he had accompanied undocumented immigrants on deportation flights to more than fifty countries and stayed in numerous three- and four-star hotels. A White House rooftop sniper said that she’d had “amazing experiences in foreign countries” and that the camaraderie of her sniper team reminded her of her college volleyball team.

I wish I could tell you I respected the improbability of the windfall by immediately retreating to my suite. But no, I churned through 100 more bucks—back at the blackjack table—before finally listening to my better angels. Back in my room, I lay in bed and splayed out the cash in my hand, sending a photo of the bounty to my wife, who was surely fast asleep. The horrible truth, for all of us gamblers, is that a delirious trip to Las Vegas is still possible. All of the disappointments dissipate with one lucky spin. I guess they’ve got me for life.

Alas, his mistake was making the play just as the global economy hit a downturn, which ultimately led to being unable to service debt and led to the crumbling of the sports group. In the midst of a storybook season, the Rangers were sold at a bankruptcy auction in 2010, denying Hicks the opportunity to be on the stage the first time the Rangers went to the World Series. Liverpool was sold the same year to Fenway Sports Group, chaired by Boston Red Sox owners. The Stars were sold to Tom Gagliardi a year later.

“That’s one fully functional orbital gigawatt every week if I feel spicy”

2. Discussing Blackwell’s Shortcomings
   Having said some nice things, this chapter will discuss some shortcomings, mainly to dispel the mystique.

While a thousandfold increase in compute capacity sounds ambitious by itself, Vahdat noted some key constraints: Google needs to be able to deliver this increase in capability, compute, and storage networking “for essentially the same cost and increasingly, the same power, the same energy level,” he told employees during the meeting. “It won’t be easy but through collaboration and co-design, we’re going to get there.”

McMaster is able to provide such intuitive searching and filtering because everything that they sell is highly legible – it’s all defined by quantitative specs. There is nothing intangible to deal with, like brands, product photos, or other marketing fluff. Even still, they do a much better job than other industrial websites like Grainger, DigiKey, or Home Depot.

In 2025, business podcast Acquired evaluated its success to date while determining if, and how, it should change its well-established and revenue-generating processes to continue to scale. The podcast had doubled its audience year-over-year since its founding. The hosts controlling all portions of its operations, but they lacked indefinite capacity. They needed to determine a way forward.

What you are actually doing here is to bribe nokia to put these jobs into Canada by paying hundreds of thousands of dollars per job from taxpayer money. What this does is to lower the cost basis of nokia per employee. This has been going on for decades, called FDI which all civil servants think is a good thing. I spent a lot of time explaining to civil servants in ottawa that its not good for our economy that American and Oversees branch offices can employ Canadians at half the cost to all the canadian companies around them due to these subsidies. We should not do them at all, they are toxic, at least in the tech sector.

Someone just uploaded a 6 hour recording of the court martial of Xu Qinxian, the Chinese general who refused to take his army to Beijing in 1989. Astonishing stuff.

It’s cool to finally see 3D printing become capable of this sort of high-scale production. The shift to 3D printing also provides a significant benefit for sustainability nerds like ourselves: Apple reports that this process saves 33% to 50% in material consumption over traditional forging methods. At a time when overconsumption is a major concern, efficient resource use is a welcome development.

Under a state law signed by Gov. Brian Kemp earlier this year, defendants in dismissed cases in which the prosecutor was disqualified because of improper conduct maybe reimbursed for “all reasonable attorney’s fees and costs incurred by the defendant in defending the case.”

The bill originally focused solely on allowing criminal defendants to recover attorney fees and legal costs if the prosecutor of their case is disqualified for misconduct and the case is dismissed. any defendant in such circumstances and initially won unanimous support in the Senate.

I am beginning to realize what a gift this was. The world, the flesh, and the devil are working very hard to conceal or blunt the bad news. Sick? There’s a pill for that. Aging body? There’s a nip-and-tuck. Lonely or worried or restless or afraid or heartbroken? There’s shopping and sex and bourbon and YouTube. Anything, anything rather than facing the bad news that I will, that I must, sicken and die and decompose and be forgotten from the face of the earth because of my inheritance of Adam’s curse, and my complicity in that same curse by my sins.

Analysis of a recent event involving an A320 Family aircraft has revealed that intense solar radiation may corrupt data critical to the functioning of flight controls.

This dataset can be used to walk through the design, sizing and performance aspects for a large scale, real world vector search application built on top of user generated, textual data.

Meta transferred the Hyperion data center project into JVCo, which is owned 80 percent by Beignet and 20 percent by Iris Crossing LLC, an indirect Meta subsidiary. JVCo, in turn, owns Laidley LLC (Landlord). None of this is unusual except for the part where Meta designs, builds, guarantees, operates, funds the overruns, pays the rent, and does not consolidate it.

“I don’t think many of the tech mafia wives realize… they were used to set the groundwork for what Klaus Schwab calls The Great Reset. Their money especially was being conscripted through a network of NGO advisors, Hollywood, Davos, and their own companies. A really small group of people… completely blind to how their groundwork is being used to enable these Great Reset policies.”

Everything is lock-in. The question engineers should be asking is not “how do I avoid lock-in?” but rather “what do I get in exchange for being locked in?” It better be good.

Full list of business leaders and politicians at tonight’s MBS dinner:

This car ?, the 2026 version of France’s Renault Twingo, is the first Western car engineered in China and made in Europe – a complete reversal of what used to be.

The web has a superpower: permission-less link sharing. I send you a link and as long as you have an agent, i.e. a browser (or a mere HTTP client), you can access the content at that link. This ability to create and disseminate links is almost radical against the backdrop of today’s platforms. To some, the hyperlink is dangerous and must be controlled:

If engineers are successful, it would turn shale from a sprinter into a marathon runner. The impact won’t be another gusher, but a steady flow of barrels far longer into the future than the industry anticipated. And the more the US provides, the less other sources — above all, the OPEC+ cartel — can pump without undermining prices.

Beyond this major upgrade, Blue Origin also announced other modifications intended to improve the overall performance of the rocket:

Here’s all of the lecture slides from my Introduction to the Electricity Sector: Engineering, Economics and Regulation course, including lectures on wholesale markets. Handbook on Electricity Markets.

He said that park rangers should have assessed the weather to decide whether to close the treacherous route they were taking, but were not working on the day of the incident because of mandatory voting in Chile’s presidential election.

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) released its preliminary report of the UPS Boeing MD-11F accident of Nov. 4 in Louisville (KY). Included are photos of the dramatic moment the No. 1 engine separated from the airplane, which had just lifted off on take-off.

Interestingly, none of those big wars happened right after the key technologies were introduced. There was always a substantial lag. Most of the bow and stirrup technologies that made the Mongols so fearsome were invented a millennium earlier by the Xiongnu (the predecessor of the Huns). Cannon and muskets were invented a century before the cataclysms of the 1600s. The World Wars saw rapid innovation, but the machine gun, the howitzer, the ironclad battleship, and other key technologies were pioneered earlier. There were constant incremental improvements in all of these technologies, of course, but it’s unlikely that they reached some special threshold of lethality that caused wars to suddenly get much much bigger and deadlier.

Halliburton is the cofounder and CEO of Sazmining, a company that operates bitcoin mining hardware on behalf of clients—a model known as “mining-as-a-service.” Halliburton is based in Peru, but Sazmining runs mining hardware out of third-party data centers across Norway, Paraguay, Ethiopia, and the United States. As Halliburton tells it, he had flown to Amsterdam the previous day, August 5, to meet Even and Maxim, two representatives of a wealthy Monaco-based family. The family office had offered to purchase hundreds of bitcoin mining rigs from Sazmining—around $4m worth—which the company would install at a facility currently under construction in Ethiopia. Before finalizing the deal, the family office had asked to meet Halliburton in person.

The shift from combustion engines to EVs is more than a power train change; it is an industrial revolution reducing vehicle production complexity and democratizing manufacturing. Foxconn’s “Android for EVs” platform, MIH, transforms automotive production into a service, effectively outsourcing the capital risk of establishing factories and complex supply chains.

Valar Atomics has been criticized by nuclear experts for making exaggerated safety claims for its products, even claiming a person could safely hold spent nuclear fuel from their reactors in their hands while receiving only a mild dose of radiation.  This at the same time they announced they were joining a lawsuit with other companies and the states of Texas, Arizona, Florida and Utah in suing the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, claiming the agency is holding back innovation. It’s a maneuver that critics say misinterprets the law to claim a safety exemption the company has simply not proven that they deserve. Valar Atomics also made news for securing $21 million in venture capital funding to build its first advanced test reactor.

Manufacturers figured out how to game the system. Introduce a new product at an inflated price, which Medicare will pay for the first 6 months. Then, phase it out and introduce an almost identical, but new, product. CMS now covers that product at whatever price the manufacturer set. Five years ago, the most expensive skin substitute was $1,000/sq in. Today it is $21,000/sq in.

The Stahl House listing was first noted in a fall/winter 2025 magazine issue published by the Agency, a luxury real estate outfit. The exact asking price for the home wasn’t specified in the brief item, but a new online listing that went live after publication has since put the house at $25 million.

Couric worked with a British royal to advocate moving the United States away from a First Amendment mdoel and toward EU-style speech enforcement using a program so bonkers, it gave an ex-Soviet deja vu. But sure, Bari Weiss is the problem.

macOS is no longer just a Unix system. It is a distributed system running on a single die, governed by a hypervisor that doesn’t exist in software. The kernel is dead; long live the Monitor.

This flashy little royal scoop became the first of scores of exclusives during Helen’s seven years with the paper, most of them far more substantive in news value. For her first anniversary on staff, the editors featured her in a five-column promotional house ad titled “War and a Woman,” which called her articles “clear as crystal, accurate as a radio beam, prompt as the crashing impact of the happenings they record”; her dispatches arrived in Chicago by cablegram at “machine-gun tempo”—three, four, sometimes five times a day. Her beat was all of England and Ireland and General Charles de Gaulle and his London-based Free French Movement. Later, there would be lengthy forays to Algeria, Italy, France, Germany, and elsewhere in Europe—wherever war news flowed.

How have the acquisitions performed? What’s the underlying organic growth rate? How much does Bending Spoons pay for M&A? Crucially, how does one reconcile non-stop acquisitions of tarnished heirlooms like Vimeo ($1.4B price tag for a business generating c.$50M in free cash flow) with Bending Spoons’ $11B valuation? 

In this humble observer’s view, Nvidia’s greatest moat isn’t something that can be explained in just a sentence or two. There is a lot of controversy surrounding the CUDA ecosystem or SIMT. But its true moat lies precisely in having handled a lot of the “dirty work” cleanly within the entire architecture, combined with full-stack capabilities from algorithms to systems to chips. This is also a point of inspiration for many domestic [Chinese] chips, especially in the subtle details where they balance ease of use/programmability vs. performance. Another factor is their excellent timing in bringing architectures to market and their marketing execution. As the saying goes, “Being one step ahead makes you a pioneer; being half a step ahead makes you a god.”

“providing advanced medical care to all people via Optimus.”

Based on Béteille’s market research, the A300B was optimised for fuel efficiency. The team stripped out unnecessary weight by using composite materials and raised the cabin floor to add cargo space. Hawker Siddeley’s wings, which would go on to influence industry standards, were designed with a curved shape on top to reduce air resistance, allowing greater lift and fuel efficiency. At a time when almost every commercial jet had three or four engines, Airbus opted for a twin-engine design. The plane could theoretically fly on one and the company concluded that only a single extra engine was needed to provide redundancy for safety. The much cheaper twin-engine design is now the industry standard, even for ultra long-haul flights.

Measured as a percentage of total gross patient revenue (charges), total uncompensated health care at GMS hospitals was 1.6 percent in FY 2023 and 1.9 percent in FY 2024. Specialty hospitals’ total uncompensated care increased from 1.7 percent in FY 2023 to 1.9 percent in FY 2024. For all hospitals combined, this measure increased from 1.6 percent in FY 2023 to 1.9 percent in FY 2024.

Media coverage focused on the 40% jump in pre-tax profits compared to the previous year. But in truth, that statistic said as much about the difficulties Ryanair had with revenue last year, due to a much publicised battle with online travel agents. With those issues now behind them, today’s results demonstrated a strong recovery.

From the 1980s Europe began legislating on topics with little to no connection to economic integration or peace – the amount of fruit in marmalade, the conditions under which a piece of clothing could be considered sustainable, or what constitutes appropriate political advertisement. What started as functional integration – removing barriers to trade – morphed into the superstition of regulation for the sake of integration. Each new regulatory text justified the next, creating a governance culture where ‘more Europe’ became the answer to every question, regardless of whether European intervention added value.

The Dutch then entered a dialogue with Zhang Xuezheng, the founder of Wingtech and chief executive of Nexperia in the Netherlands, to ensure the company’s independence. Demands included the establishment of an independent supervisory board and a requirement that Zhang no longer act as both CEO and head of human resources.

How Minneapolis-Saint Paul became the Medicaid fraud capital of the USA

As soon as the AWACS spotted the aircraft they informed NATO at the Combined Air Operations Centre in Udem, Germany right on the border with the Netherlands, which ordered two Italian F-35’s to take off from their Estonian air base at Amari on the coast. They took off under compete operational silence. This was done through NATO secure encryption and the F-35’s were operating without radars active and without alerting the Russians. The F-35’s however could see exactly where the Russians were and what they were doing via NATO Datalink-16 shared from the AWACS. No need to use their own radars, which made them effectively invisible to the Zaslon radar on the Foxhounds.

What an absolute disgrace. What a perfect example of the bias and warped nature of PBS/CPB that those of us right-of-center have complained about for years. Add this to the wall of shame. That being said, BZ to Kerger for finally giving the green light…but so much time has passed. A few years after the battle, I served with a guy who was a company commander during the Battle of Fallujah. Perhaps now more people will know a sliver of what he did not talk about.

Prettejohn said: “[Forward-deployed engineers] know that the only valuable software is not how exquisite its code is or how beautiful the language?.?.?.?It’s only valuable if it means something for the end customer.”

The United States military is upgrading a long-abandoned former Cold War naval base in the Caribbean, a Reuters visual investigation has found, suggesting preparations for sustained operations that could help support possible actions inside Venezuela. 

But in the space of its first three years, it leapfrogged incumbents to become the world’s third-largest handset vendor and expanded its product line-up to include everything from rice cookers to robot vacuums.

“Very few legacy automakers are positioned to compete with Tesla, Rivian or the leading Chinese EV makers when it comes to building a pervasive automotive operation system,” says Tsuguo Nobe, a former executive at Intel and Nissan who is now a professor at Nagoya University. Ultimately, analysts warn that the auto industry is likely to go in the same direction as smartphones and PCs, with a small number of operating systems like iOS and Android eventually dominating the software space.

Germans who choose to work beyond the retirement age will be able to earn up to €2,000 a month tax-free, as part of Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s push to tackle labour shortages and revive Europe’s largest economy. The government estimates that the measure will cost €890mn a year from the moment it takes effect, on January 1, according to draft legislation seen by the Financial Times. The figure represents the tax revenue shortfall for the 285,000 retirees who are already working and who will immediately benefit from the incentive, according to a person familiar with the matter.

This was Gen Con, the largest board-game convention in North America. More than 70,000 people were in Indianapolis to roll dice, deal cards, move meeples, lay tiles, deduce and deceive. Football would have to wait — the indoor kids had arrived. Across downtown, gamers gathered around a wild variety of scenarios, dilemmas and processes. Some games mirrored historical events. Some had wizards and dragons. Some asked players to consider the world as it is, and attempt to make better choices than those in power today have made — a task sometimes difficult and other times less so. While they do this largely for fun, the games industry finds itself in need of all the strategic prowess it may possess, as the Trump administration’s trade wars imperil its existence, from independent designers to major publishers.

Ferrero declined to comment on whether rising hazelnut prices could force it to increase the price tag for Nutella. Botta said confectionery makers in general would find a way to manage any “disproportionately high” prices by adjusting recipes to change flavours or reduce expensive ingredients.

20) Let me repeat that: Parties are a public service, you’re doing people a favor by throwing them. Someone might meet their new best friend or future lover at your gathering. In the short term, lovely people may feel less lonely, and that’s thanks to you. In the long term, whole new children may ultimately exist in the world because you bothered to throw a party. Throwing parties is stressful for most people, but a great kindness to the community, so genuinely pat yourself on the back for doing this.

It was one of those moments where something you once knew suddenly clicks again with fresh significance. Here was a URL doing far more than just pointing to a page. It was storing state, encoding intent, and making my entire setup shareable and recoverable. No database. No cookies. No localStorage. Just a URL.

A 77-year-old man was found alive after spending three days in a ravine in southern Lozère, following a cycling accident. The man, considered a true miracle survivor, owes his life to his shopping bag and an incredible survival instinct.

Community solar offers a promising, market-based tool to address these challenges. Unlike large utility-run projects or costly individual rooftop systems, community solar allows households, businesses, and organizations to subscribe to shared solar arrays built in their communities. In return, participants receive credits on their electricity bills, saving consumers money while growing the overall grid capacity.

Greetings to everyone pulling up my site on their phones from a voting booth. For your convenience I’ve put links to (hopefully) all of this year’s races. If you scroll and don’t find what you’re looking for, try searching a candidate name, but remember, I only write about races that appear on the ballot in Minneapolis or Saint Paul.

The Challenge of Benchmarking WebAssembly. The aforementioned suite of 24 benchmarks is the PolybenchC benchmark suite [5], which is designed to measure the effect of polyhedral loop optimizations in compilers. All the benchmarks in the suite are small scientific computing kernels rather than full applications (e.g., matrix multiplication and LU Decomposition); each is roughly 100 LOC. While WebAssembly is designed to accelerate scientific kernels on the Web, it is also explicitly designed for a much richer set of full applications.

The 512KB Club is a collection of performance-focused web pages from across the Internet. To qualify your website must satisfy both of the following requirements:

Johnston has also played a courageous and key role in this battle. In a quarterly meeting of the SEB on May 7, 2024, Johnston’s motion to refer SEB2023-025 to Georgia’s Attorney General was rebuffed due to a lack of votes. However, during the meeting Johnston made clear her concerns about the 2020 presidential election. She addressed clear violations of state laws, poor vote reconciliation, the pitfalls of voting machines, and the fact that the state continued to withhold physical ballots for review. “With over 140 violations of election laws and rules, it would be a travesty not to refer this to the Attorney General and let this ride,” Johnston said.

When published in 2023, Hu’s book became a bestseller in China. Readers lapped up anecdotes of the lives of some of the millions of couriers powering the country’s ultra-efficient e-commerce industry, which treats individual laborers as dispensable. Many also related to Hu’s experience with economic uncertainty, dwindling social mobility, unemployment, and unfulfilling work.

Higher levels of optimism have been linked to reduced risk of premature mortality (4); however, researchers have not considered the association between optimism and achievement of exceptional longevity (18–20). Although no standard definition for exceptional longevity has been established, it has been defined as surviving to older age, and age 85 is a commonly used cutoff (1, 21) as it is well beyond the average life expectancy of individuals born in the early 20th century, but not extremely rare. Using data from 2 long-running observational cohorts composed of men or women, we evaluated the hypothesis that higher optimism is associated with longer life span and a greater likelihood of achieving exceptional longevity. We considered associations in men and women, and accounted for potential confounders identified in prior work, including other psychosocial factors, baseline health conditions, and health behaviors (4, 6).

Scott Horton is the author of Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine. Horton is a libertarian and anti-war activist. He and Steve discuss the Russia Hoax and its connection to American foreign policy, in light of new evidence that has emerged since the first Trump term.

“I highly recommend booking a backup ticket on another carrier.”

Embraer’s largest aircraft are the E195-E2 and the KC-390 tanker-transport. Dimensionally, these are about the same size as the Boeing 737-8 and Airbus A320neo.

People was told that the CS100 (A220-100) would not sell well without the capability. Well, informally I told people around me that Airbus sold thousands of A320 aircraft family with only TWO aircraft having the steep approach capability. Those are the two A318 that were operated by British Airways until they dropped them. I dismissed the notion that the C Series can sell only if the CS100 had the steep approach capability.

Second, permits. The U.S. permitting process is slow, fragmented, and expensive. In Australia, no permit is required for a standard installation—you simply notify the distributor and have an accredited installer certify safety. In Australia, a rooftop solar panel is treated like an appliance; in the U.S., it’s treated like a mini power plant.

Most BC homeowners have no idea: your “fee simple” property is almost certainly overlapped by one of the 200+ unresolved Aboriginal title claims. Courts are now declaring Aboriginal title over private lands (e.g., Cowichan 2025 ruling). Here is a link to a Govt website where you can see if your land title is being claimed by First Nations: bctreaty.ca/map/

“This is a troubling pattern of secretive negotiations and agreements that have real and direct impacts on our members and the general public. The economic repercussions and uncertainties are being felt across our province.”

If people can’t figure out how to feed themselves in Glenview, IL then maybe we need more financial literacy education.

A MUST-read interview with a high-ranking $MSFT employee on data centers and what is happening right now ( $NVDA/ $AMD, liquid cooling, and HHD):

The U.S. permitting process is slow, fragmented, and expensive. In Australia, no permit is required for a standard installation—you simply notify the distributor and have an accredited installer certify safety. In Australia, a rooftop solar panel is treated like an appliance; in the U.S., it’s treated like a mini power plant. Germany takes a similar approach to Australia, with national standards and an “as-of-right” presumption for rooftop solar that removes red tape.

Someone has a single-trigger acceleration on termination clause in their vesting agreement that they finagled during the M&A haggling. HR convo is a bit different when you’re holding a billion-dollar gun to their heads.

It is with a great appreciation and heartfelt emotions that we write to share some sad news. After more than 200 years of sharing a unique blend of weather, wit and wisdom, we’ve made the very difficult decision to write the final chapter of this historical publication. The 2026 Farmers’ Almanac will be our last edition.

The B.C. filing also drew attention to how the sought-after designation of Aboriginal title would include tracts of privately owned land. “In the previous Aboriginal title cases brought to the Supreme Court of Canada, no claim was made against lands held privately,” B.C. noted. “This case will require the courts to consider such claims.”. Such was the situation when the province filed its amended response nine years ago this month.

Trump allies launched the super PAC last month after Massie voted against Trump’s signature “Big, Beautiful Bill.” The Kentucky lawmaker has also criticized the president on a range of other issues including war powers and the Epstein files. MAGA KY has spent $1.2 million so far on ads opposing Massie, according to AdImpact, as the group aims to take him out in next year’s primary.

The group has lost 60 percent of the four million members and supporters it counted in 2019. It has held three rounds of employee layoffs since 2022, trying to climb out of a $40 million projected budget deficit. Its political giving has also dropped. Federal campaign-finance records show $3.6 million in donations from the Sierra Club during the push to defeat Donald J. Trump in 2020, but none as Mr. Trump stormed back to the presidency in 2024.

The 65-year-old Wyoming diesel mechanic spent seven months in federal prison for tweaking and removing emissions systems on ailing engines. He was originally sentenced to one year and one day in prison, but was released early to home confinement with an ankle monitor in September. He and his business Elite Diesel were also fined $52,000

Smart Beds Helped Them Sleep on a Cloud. Then the Cloud Crashed.

A week ago, I set up an infinite nonsense crawler trap – now it makes up 99% of my server’s traffic. What surprised me is that feeding scrapers garbage is the cheapest and easiest thing I could do.

TV’s top creator has just closed a massive deal with rival NBCUniversal for film and TV when his commitments with Paramount are up. It’s a major move for the ‘Yellowstone’ and ‘Landman’ creator, but perhaps an even bigger coup for NBCU’s Donna Langley—and suggests that her company is still playing to win.

Why does Prime Minister Mark Carney’s “Buy Canadian” policy exclude Albertan oil? How can Canada become a self-sufficient energy superpower while importing crude oil into Ontario, Quebec and the Atlantic provinces? Canada spends approximately $20 billion annually importing oil into eastern Canadian provinces. Every year eastern Canadians convert $20 billion Canadian dollars into USD to pay for the imported oil they consume. Essentially $20 billion Canadian dollars are exported from Canada’s economy annually.

Today, it has the highest GDP per capita of any city in Germany. Yet, much like the country, it looks to the future with fear. As its entire existence depends on the ailing German car industry, Wolfsburg worries: will it become the next Detroit. At first glance, Wolfsburg might seem an unlikely symbol of Germany’s economic unease. Neat, prosperous, and meticulously planned, it is dominated by the monumental VW plant, which still ranks among the largest car factories in the world. Yet to look closely at Wolfsburg today is to glimpse the deeper structural malaise afflicting Germany’s once-mighty industrial power. As Detroit once did for the United States, Wolfsburg mirrors the fate of its nation’s manufacturing heart – a city built on the dream of mobility, modernity and prosperity, now confronting the limits of its model.

Unfortunately, big clients are cottoning on to the advantages too. One finance chief of a large UK company outlined the issue for Breakingviews via an illustrative example. Say an outsourced project costs the client $1 million to do themselves, and Accenture and the like have historically been able to do the same job for $200,000. With the advent of machine learning, companies can do the same work for just $10,000.

Money is almost no object. The new government managed to exempt all defence spending above 1% of GDP from the country’s once-rigid fiscal rules. While larger items on the wish list will still have to be signed off by a parliamentary committee, the scale of the overall plan suggests that the government expects consensus on the general direction of rearmament.

Now, almost a year later, OKDiario released a new report claiming that Apple is installing more than 100 cameras at Santiago Bernabéu Stadium, Real Madrid’s home, to conduct tests during the Wednesday match against Juventus.

These observations suggest that strategic assessments of emergent technology and novel weapons are shaped by several cognitive biases: (1) a tendency to assume the future techno-strategic setting will resemble the present; (2) the belief that strategic assessments are universal and are not driven by the somewhat idiosyncratic influence of strategic culture and the pressing political and bureaucratic imperatives of the moment; and (3) a tendency to embrace a “one-size fits all” attitude that fails to consider how black swan events could upset the applecart. Indeed, that black swan took flight on September 11, 2001, a few short years after Gray tapped into another strategic theme of the day — that low-intensity conflict was on the strategic horizon.

And while the US had successfully built thousands of ships very rapidly during the war, it had come at a cost: the US cargo ships, using modern methods, were more expensive to build than similar British ships. Though some British shipbuilders recognized the potential of welding and prefabrication, they weren’t clearly worth reorganizing the entire industry around.

England and Germany got into printing very slowly because the numbers were so small. But Luther’s 95 Theses printed over 5,000 copies in two weeks (1517) Luther’s prolific German established his language instead of clinging to Latin, which was the norm of scholars. 

To return Americans to the Moon, SpaceX aligned Starship development along two paths: development of the core Starship system and supporting infrastructure, including production facilities, test facilities, and launch sites — which SpaceX is self-funding representing over 90% of system costs — and development of the HLS-specific Starship configuration, which leverages and modifies the core vehicle capability to support NASA’s requirements for landing crew on and returning them from the Moon. SpaceX is working under a fixed-price contract with NASA, ensuring that the company is only paid after the successful completion of progress milestones, and American taxpayers are not on the hook for increased SpaceX costs. SpaceX provides significant insight to NASA at every stage of the development process along both paths, including access to flight data from missions not funded under the HLS contract. ……. To date, SpaceX has produced more than three dozen Starships and 600 Raptor rocket engines

Dr. Räsänen and Bishop Pohjola were first charged with hate crimes in 2021 for the publication of a 2004 booklet which articulates historic Christian teaching on human sexuality, with Dr. Räsänen charged as the author and Bishop Pohjola as the publisher. Dr. Räsänen was also charged for a 2019 tweet which included a picture of a Bible verse and for comments made during a 2019 radio program. The two stood trial in 2022 at the Helsinki District Court, where they were unanimously acquitted by a panel of three judges who declared: “It is not the role of the district court to interpret biblical concepts.” An appeal by the prosecution was subsequently heard in the Helsinki Court of Appeal, with the two again unanimously acquitted on all charges in 2023.

In August, a B.C Supreme Court judge ruled the Cowichan Tribes have Aboriginal title over the land on the Fraser River, that Crown and city titles on the land are defective and invalid, and the granting of private titles on it by the government unjustifiably infringed on the Cowichan title.

Powell’s Books’ flagship store on West Burnside Street downtown represents the world’s largest independent bookstore, according to the company’s website. They have other locations, including on Southeast Hawthorne Street, among others, around the Portland area. “As with many businesses right now, we’re seeing expenses rise faster than sales. This has been an ongoing challenge since the pandemic, and while we’ve taken many steps to grow revenue and control costs, this most recent action was an unfortunate but necessary step to help ensure the long-term stability of Powell’s Books,” Solly added.

But how? The most important thing rich countries — including China — can do is to fully open their markets to these countries’ products. The economic literature is pretty conclusive that this raises economic growth in poor countries, at least somewhat. There are many instances in which rich countries have actually done this, and there are a lot of ways we can evaluate the results of those experiments. For example, Romalis (2007) found that when America reduced its tariffs under the Most Favored Nation program, poor countries sold more products to the U.S. and grew faster as a result:

Orion and SLS have burned through nearly $100b to date. If I took $100b in $20 bills and stapled them end to end, they would run from my office, down the hall, out the front door, down the drive, onto the road, onto the ramp, down the local freeway, past the crumbling remnants of JPL, up the mountain, then up into the sky, through the troposphere, past the space station, between 10,000 Starlink satellites, past geostationary orbit (my string of bills is now longer than a space elevator!), all the way to the Moon, around the entire lunar equator, between all the legs of all the lunar landers of all the missions that have landed there, then all the way back to the Earth, through the atmosphere, down the mountain, down the road, through my front door, and back to my desk. At the present rate of NASA’s budget, additional bill consumption, stapling, and ejection from my office desk would break the speed of sound. 

I think it’s safe to say the lens manufacturing industry is undergoing a seismic shift. As Chinese manufacturers start delivering more and more lenses with a high degree of optical sophistication, they’ll also iterate on the remaining features that are lacking, such as image stabilization and faster autofocus motors. Much of this technology is locked by patents, though, so that is one area where Canon, with its massive patent library, may have an advantage over these manufacturers. I’m not entirely convinced, though, that it’s going to stop the manufacturers for very 

The interface is restless, needy, less predictable, less legible, and constantly pulling focus rather than supporting seamless access to content. Instead of smoothing the path for everyday tasks, iOS 26 makes users relearn basics while enduring a constant parade of visual stunts.

…… that they can build an Apollo Lunar Module-like lander within 30 months. Amit Kshatriya, NASA’s associate administrator, favors this government-led approach, sources said.

A good figure from the Nobel Prize Foundation’s Scientific Background to the Mokyr, Aghion and Howitt Nobel. The figure shows that firm exit rates and job destruction rates are positively correlated with growth in labor productivity; creative destruction in a nutshell.

Now, that era of power transitions is ending. For the first time in centuries, no country is rising fast enough to overturn the global balance. The demographic booms, industrial breakthroughs, and territorial acquisitions that once fueled great powers have largely run their course. China, the last major riser, is already peaking, its economy slowing and its population shrinking. Japan, Russia, and Europe stalled more than a decade ago. India has youth but lacks the human capital and state capacity to turn it into strength. The United States faces its own troubles—debt, sluggish growth, political dysfunction—but still outpaces rivals sinking into deeper decay. The rapid ascents that once defined modern geopolitics have yielded to sclerosis: the world is now a closed club of aging incumbents, circled by middle powers, developing countries, and failing states

gonna go out on a limb and say that 99% of the journalists snarkily-quote tweeting this clip haven’t actually watched it, because what Luckey is saying is not only uncontroversial but basically identical to Toni Morrison’s comments on the same topic circa 1989.

But Araque and many other pioneers of next-generation geothermal tech are undeterred. If humanity can someday economically drill wells more than 6 miles deep, he says, we can tap energy that amounts to more than double all the electricity used on earth today. Others, like researchers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, have calculated that in the U.S. alone, thousands of times as much energy as Americans use in a year is already available at much shallower depths.

The NYC Voting Guide for People Who Aren’t Insane:

“Look, you can pull statistics up but our murder rate has been cut in half.”

This is part 1 in a 5 part series about challenges and solutions in accelerating heat pump adoption across the US. Stay tuned for the next issue!

Launched in June 2024, JupyterGIS was introduced as a collaborative, web-based GIS environment built on the JupyterLab framework. Its objective is to bring QGIS-inspired workflows into the browser, enabling real-time collaborative editing, seamless integration with notebooks, and support for core geospatial data formats.

….. but rather because of the single sensible — if very belated — thing they have done in recent memory, which was to usher a doddering Joe Biden out of the 2024 presidential race.

We cannot trust crime stats in America. They have been widely corrupted to serve a racist agenda.

“As an economist, I don’t think it’s a problem that there are different prices for the same (items) across town,” Stevens said. “That actually makes a lot of sense.”. It might seem concerning at first, he said, “but when you dig under the hood, it’s like, ‘Oh yes, there are lots of reasons that could be true.’ It’s a complicated ecosystem of retail and food sales.

The German language has acquired strange new phrases since I emigrated. Spend enough time in a different country and your mother tongue moves on without you. One of those modern idioms I’ve never really got the hang of is: “Ist das Kunst oder kann das weg?” which loosely and lamely translates as: “Is this art or is it rubbish?” It was first introduced by a comedian and is now frequently used to poke fun at modern art, implying that the piece in question is so abstract that you can’t even tell it’s art and might mistake it for a piece of rubbish to be binned.

REPORT: How AARP Makes Health Insurance Unaffordable.

Subsidized debt drives up prices, sucks up wealth, and makes it hard for millennials to buy homes

But <output>? Most have never touched it. Some don’t even know it exists.

Toyota said that its new batteries could significantly enhance driving range, charging times, and output, potentially transforming the future of automobiles. Compared to current liquid-based batteries, which use electrolyte solutions, Toyota’s all-solid-state batteries utilize a cathode, an anode, and a solid electrolyte. According to Toyota, the next-gen battery tech “offers the potential for smaller size, higher output, and longer life.”

For both hiring and promotion, decision-makers have a legibility problem. This problem will inevitability lead to a focus on details that are easier to observe directly precisely because they are easier to observe directly. This is how fields like graphology and phrenology come about. But just because we can directly observe someone’s handwriting or the shapes of the bumps on their head doesn’t mean that those are effective techniques for learning something about that person’s personality. 

Instead, state inspectors documented nearly 100 alleged new violations of the agreement. The letter also accuses the company of failing to hire an independent environmental manager to regularly inspect its construction sites. State regulators counted 689 missed inspections. The Boring Co. is disputing the violation letter, a state spokesperson said.

That’s because for decades, May and his family have managed May Ranch near the Arkansas River — a major tributary of the Mississippi River — to encourage native habitat to thrive alongside their cattle. This region is part of a swath of grassland that sweeps from central Canada to northern Mexico, vital to many species of birds that migrate across North America.

He managed to leave Saudi Arabia and was attempting to build a new life for himself in Virginia. All he wanted to do was write— and writing for the Washington Post, especially when we translated his work into Arabic, meant the world to him, even as he came under great pressure.

I started wondering: for the Free Texting service, could I bypass the messaging app restriction and access other websites freely?

Geosynchronous (GEO) satellite links provide IP backhaul to remote critical infrastructure for utilities, telecom, government, military, and commercial users. To date, academic studies of GEO infrastructure have focused on a handful of satellites and specific use cases. We perform the first broad scan of IP traffic on 39 GEO satellites across 25 distinct longitudes with 411 transponders using consumer grade equipment. We overcome the poor signal quality plaguing prior work and build the first general parser that can handle the diverse protocols in use by heterogeneous endpoints. We found 50% of GEO links contained cleartext IP traffic; while link-layer encryption has been standard practice in satellite TV for decades, IP links typically lacked encryption at both the link and network layers. This gives us a unique view into the internal network security practices of these organizations. We observed unencrypted cellular backhaul traffic from several providers including cleartext call and text contents, job scheduling and industrial control systems for utility infrastructure, military asset tracking, inventory management for global retail stores, and in-flight wifi.

What emerged is one of the most complete pictures to date of the modern surveillance industry. The tracking archive is unprecedented in scope, and reveals how the company and its clients surveilled all types of people from all over the world. Reporters interviewed more than a hundred victims, as well as former employees and industry insiders. A trove of confidential emails and documents provide a detailed inside account of how First Wap’s tech was marketed to authoritarian governments and accessed by corporate actors. Behind closed doors, First Wap’s executives touted their ability to hack WhatsApp accounts, and laughed about evading sanctions.

So John Kerry is back, lecturing us that agriculture—the very foundation of human civilization—is a climate villain that must be “front and center” to be “solved.”. Let’s translate the globalist grift. He isn’t talking about Chinese coal plants or private jets. He’s talking about YOUR food. What John Kerry is really saying: “We’ve calculated that independent farming and ranching are incompatible with our centralized control model. Your steak is a symbol of sovereignty. Your local dairy farmer is a node of resilience we cannot monitor or manage.

Erebor was granted “preliminary and conditional” approval by regulators on Wednesday, just four months after its application for a national bank charter in June — a sign of the Trump administration’s initiative to lower regulatory hurdles and encourage new banking entrants focused on digital assets and services. The administration has encouraged new entrants to the banking sector including from technology groups, prompting a number of fintechs and cryptocurrency companies to seek bank charters this year.

The Fact Graph is a production-ready knowledge graph for modeling, among other things, the United States Internal Revenue Code and related tax law. It can be used in JavaScript as well as any JVM language (Java, Kotlin, Scala, Clojure, etc.).

The California decision was announced by Space Launch Delta 30 this week. Under the new approval, SpaceX will be able to launch both Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy rockets from its two pads — Space Launch Complex 4 (SLC-4) and Space Launch Complex 6 (SLC-6).

“Almost every reasonable AI company that’s out there is saying, listen, if it’s a fair playing field, then we’re happy to pay for content,” Prince said. “The problem is that all of them are terrified of Google because if Google gets content for free but they all have to pay for it, they are always going to be at an inherent disadvantage.”

The “New Stuff” that you’ll see here is the result of my journey into the world of digital art. Believe me, this has been a bit of a learning curve for me. I hail from a world of pen and ink, and suddenly I was feeling like I was sitting at the controls of a 747. (True, I don’t get out much.) But as overwhelmed as I was, there was still something familiar there—a sense of adventure. That had always been at the core of what I enjoyed most when I was drawing The Far Side, that sense of exploring, reaching for something, taking some risks, sometimes hitting a home run and sometimes coming up with “Cow tools.” (Let’s not get into that.) But as a jazz teacher once said to me about improvisation, “You want to try and take people somewhere where they might not have been before.” I think that my approach to cartooning was similar—I’m just not sure if even I knew where I was going. But I was having fun.

Then one day at a Berkeley community bulletin board “there was a posting that said, ‘I’m driving to Madison, Wisconsin, and I’m looking to split gas with someone.’ And my mother took it.”

For 32 years, competitors have come from around the globe armed with their spurtles, the tapered sticks Scots use to stir their oats, to see what they can conjure up in their pots in the allotted 30 minutes. It seems simple enough. In its traditional form there are just three ingredients to porridge: water, oats and salt. Yet so much can go wrong.

GREAT interview with @USComptroller:
?the bias of federal bank regulators “that only the largest banks can do innovation safely” must end (YES!)

This week, Canadian airline WestJet became one of the first to try to switch the ability to recline into a paid “perk” by announcing that it was reconfiguring 43 of its Boeing 737-8 MAX and 737-800  (BA)  planes to have what it classifies as a “refreshed range of seating options.”. In actuality, this means making customers pay for a seat that reclines.

I measured my reputation with mail-testerand got a 10/10 score. The missing PTR record did give me negative points, but those were offset by 2 free points for “trusted relay”. I’m also not on any blocklists, so my IP really is lucky 🙂

NEON CLASSES: BENDING BASICS

The art of neon and the bending of neon tubes is a fascinating craft! Learn the basics of neon and glass bending.

The Space Force is paying SpaceX $714 million for the five launches awarded Friday, for an average of roughly $143 million per mission. ULA will receive $428 million for two missions, or $214 million for each launch. That’s about 50 percent more expensive than SpaceX’s price per mission.

Summary: People often over-engineer solutions, and it leads to them running into problems with their CSS. In this article, we’ll take a look at the least amount of CSS that you need to make a decent looking page.

The book provides enough details to piece together how the early Standard Oil business model worked. The reality seems different than many popular accounts and is much more logically consistent.

That effort turned into the Clinton administration’s first crisis, but over time, what is now called diversity, equity and inclusion won out. President Barack Obama ended Mr. Clinton’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy in 2010, allowing lesbian, gay and bisexual people to serve openly in the armed forces. He approved women in combat in 2013 and in 2016 opened all combat positions to women, revising some physical training requirements in the process. In 2016 he also opened the ranks to transgender soldiers.

Once the New York Times held out as unconnected contractually to the NFL – free to criticize its public subsidies, billionaire ownership class and bad examples set for young people. No more

Software quality was already collapsing when AI coding assistants arrived. What happened next was predictable.

Doctors say insurers are automatically downgrading their claims and paying less. Insurers say it’s their duty to prevent overbilling.

The 25 most interesting ideas I’ve found in 2025 (so far).

This is exactly my problem. Tech arrives as an option and ends up as an obligation.

But history doesn’t quite bear this out. Galileo was in his forties when he published his most radical works. Thomas Paine was forty when Common Sense reshaped political thought. Susan B. Anthony was fifty-two when she cast her first illegal vote. The assumption that genius peaks young has always been a convenient myth. It flatters the ambitious and terrifies the hesitant. It also blinds us to the fact that many of history’s breakthroughs came from people who had been around long enough to see patterns others missed.

7th edition of the Map of Near and Middle East Oil. Published by B. Orchard Lisle, International Oil Consultant, Pertroleum Technologist, Research Analystd, 1965. Majestic Bldg., Fort Worth Texas

It’s widely accepted that rosin potatoes hail from the South’s turpentine camps, where workers chipped and slashed and scraped pine trees to collect oleoresin (aka resin or gum), the trees’ natural defense mechanism. When a tree’s bark is breached — by a beetle, fungus, or a woodsman’s hack — it oozes gum, not sap, from the wound. When fossilized, oleoresin transforms into amber. When distilled, it yields turpentine and rosin, whose uses range from paint thinner and Vicks VapoRub to rubber cement and chewing gum, respectively.

Did you know we created an Excel chart with drivetrain part prices taken directly from official service catalogs – precisely to stop the misinformation pushed by mainstream media? The truth is that the most expensive vehicles to maintain are actually: 1) hybrids, 2) fossil-fuel cars, and only after that come EVs.

The Software Essays that Shaped Me

An effect that’s being more and more widely reported is the increase in time it’s taking developers to modify or fix code that was generated by Large Language Models. 

If you’ve worked on legacy systems that were written by other people, perhaps decades ago, you’ll recognise this phenomenon. Before we can safely change code, we first need to understand it – understand what it does, and also oftentimes why it does it the way it does. In that sense, this is nothing new. What is new is the scale of the problem being created as lightning-speed code generators spew reams of unread code into millions of projects.

It’s September 2025. We have Claude Opus 4.1. GPT-5. Nano banana. There has never been a better time in the history of computing to build software. Here are a few ideas I wish existed.

The Boat Race ins’t a cocktail party for gilded Oxbridge types. It’s free to watch, pulls two hundred thousand ordinary spectators to the Thames every year, and has always been a working-class London day out. Rowing may have its posh stereotype, but the event is about rivalry, endurance and spectacle – things any nation should be proud to show the world. Yet the BBC’s cultural gatekeepers have a deeper allergy: tradition that isn’t re-branded, rewritten, or apologised for. They can throw millions at “inclusive” events nobody asked for and wall-to-wall virtue TV. But a British crowd on the riverbank waving flags? That’s suspect. That’s “exclusive.”

Second, I speculate that the round circle carved into the stone, the centerpiece of the image, is not the sun but instead represents the North Celestial Pole (Earth’s projected rotational axis) as it appeared at some point in the distant past—based upon our knowledge of the Precession of the Equinoxes. Finally, I presume that the stone’s artist was both skilled in their knowledge of the night sky over their home and bore a desire to communicate an important message to those generations who followed.

After all, the transformation of the microcomputer hobby into a large-scale commercial enterprise came as a surprise to most outsiders. In 1977, the established mainframe and minicomputer makers remained cooly aloof from the microcomputer business. Clearly, computer enthusiasts had found in the Altair and its successors a fascinating gadget to occupy their spare hours. It did not necessarily follow that these toys had anything to do with the “real” computer business, any more than model rocketry had to do with putting a man on the moon. In a la of the leading minicomputer makers, Hewlett-Packard and Digital, were offered ready-made micro designs by computing-loving engineers within their ranks (Steve Wozniak and Dave Ahl, respectively), but both rejected the idea, unwilling to pursue a fringe market that seemed to have nothing to do with their business.[2]

The purpose of this article is to articulate how NASA ended up falling behind China, and more importantly, how the Western world could realistically retake the lead. But first, space policymakers must learn from their mistakes.

The effects of hospital systems acquiring physician practices are hard to determine, because until now, there has been no comprehensive source of data about these mergers and the effects of integration on pricing can be hard to isolate. New research by Yale SOM economist Fiona Scott Morton tackles these challenges, determining the scale of hospital-physician mergers and examining their effects on pricing. In their study, Scott Morton and her co-authors—Yale economist Zack Cooper; Stuart V. Craig and Ashley T. Swanson of the University of Wisconsin–Madison; Aristotelis Epanomeritakis of Harvard University; Matthew Grennan of Emory University; and Joseph R. Martinez of the University of California, San Francisco—found that these integrations significantly increase prices for consumers, because competition decreases.

No details due to encryption.

The guarantee structure (a more accurate way of saying it than “buyout”) is an interesting one, allowing the school some relief based on performance, and only up to 75%.  Of course, head coach candidates with more leverage would fight a clause like that and probably keep it out.