The above data also only considers changes in construction productivity, and doesn’t have anything to say about absolute levels, and it seems obvious to me that, in many cases, US construction practices lag behind European ones for things like transit construction. The US has a lot to learn from other countries for how to catch up to the efficient frontier, especially for certain types of construction (ie: transit) and in certain places in the country (ie: expensive coastal metros). But this data suggests that driving that frontier forward is a much thornier problem.
The C.I.A. laid out a bold plan. A group of American alpinists working for the agency would slip into the Himalayas undetected, drag several backpacks stuffed with surveillance equipment up the slopes and install a secret sensor at the top of a mountain to intercept radio signals from Chinese missile tests. The climbers scampered down the mountain after stashing the C.I.A. gear on a ledge of ice, abandoning a nuclear device that contained nearly a third of the total amount of plutonium used in the Nagasaki bomb. It hasn’t been seen since. And that was 1965.
Former world 100m silver medallist Marvin Bracy-Williams was banned for more than three and half years last month after admitting doping offences, while fellow American Erriyon Knighton was banned for four years in September after testing positive for steroids. Women’s marathon world record holder Ruth Chepngetich was banned for three years in October after her sample showed a banned diuretic commonly used as a masking agent.
She attributes her ability to work for Mr. Trump to growing up with an alcoholic father, the sportscaster Pat Summerall. “High-functioning alcoholics or alcoholics in general, their personalities are exaggerated when they drink,” she said. “And so I’m a little bit of an expert in big personalities.” While Mr. Trump does not drink, she said he has “an alcoholic’s personality” and operates with “a view that there’s nothing he can’t do. Nothing, zero, nothing.”
To envision what comes next, we need to comprehend the ongoing turning point. If Trumpists are pursuing such a brutal and desperate policy, it’s because they don’t know how to respond to the country’s economic decline. Measured in purchasing power parity – meaning the real volume of goods, services, and equipment produced each year – China’s GDP surpassed that of the US in 2016. It is currently more than 30% higher and will reach double the US GDP by 2035. The reality is that the US is losing control of the world.
Robotaxi Tracker: Real-time fleet data, trip logging, and analytics for Tesla robotaxis.
This is where the situation starts to feel a little too reminiscent of past accidents. One bad press release on a Friday is often all it takes to expose a structure everyone assumed was stable. Silicon Valley Bank collapsed over a weekend because of one press release on a Friday after hours, causing confidence to evaporate all at once. In my opinion, moments like Blue Owl stepping away are exactly the kind of catalyst that can shift market psychology from complacency to reflexive risk reduction. Redemptions don’t wait for perfect information.
Former top regulator named new president of Alliant Energy’s Wisconsin utility business.
Among other things, the lawsuit accuses Epic of violating antitrust laws, based on the company’s sheer market volume; requiring employees to sign non-compete agreements limiting their ability to work for a Texas-based health system; advertising software features that hospitals cannot access; and providing software that allows health systems to restrict a parent’s access to their child’s medical records.
The accounting rules don’t define “probable” in percentage terms, but it is a higher bar than “more likely than not.” In practice, some accountants peg the threshold at 70% or higher.
Track what they do. I make a point of knowing all the meds that are being administered and the schedule when I’m there. When nurses come into administer them, I ask them exactly what they’re administering. (I have a good memory for this stuff, but it’s not a bad idea to take notes). If something new appears in the mix, ask about it — who prescribed it and why. If they don’t administer something on the list, also ask why. In my experience, they make mistakes. You may also be able to get them to back off on checking vitals multiple times in the middle of the night so that your patient can get some sleep. (And so that you can!)
If the myth of Watergate can be summed up in a phrase, it’s “the imperial presidency.” Postwar liberalism’s greatest historian, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., popularized that expression at the start of Nixon’s second term. Conceived largely to attack Nixon’s centralization of foreign policy in the executive branch, the phrase came to indicate widespread presidential abuse of power, regarding Nixon as an anti-constitutional actor who subjected the American system to its ultimate trial.
Bill Hagan felt his head push beyond the pillow and into the headboard. As he came to consciousness, he realised it was not a headboard but the reinforced plastic bulkhead of a plane. At the moment he realised he was on a plane, he remembered that he was the captain of it. His feet were pitched up at 30 degrees in the flight crew’s bunk, at twice the angle of take-off. His first thought was that his two co-pilots had pulled up the aircraft’s nose because of oncoming traffic. When the plane banked sharply to the right, he wondered whether they’d swerved to avoid space debris. For a few seconds the aircraft seemed to level, then rose again, before turning sharply to the left and beginning to fall on its side.
In case your phone gets lost, you can see who stole it and exactly where it is!
Open Shortcuts ? Automation
Tap Create Personal Automation
Choose Message ? When I receive a message
Set a trigger word (example: LOST)
Actions (in this order):
- Set Low Power Mode ? ON
- Take Photo ? Front camera (preview OFF)
- Get Current Location
- Send Message ? your number (photo + location)
Turn Ask Before Running ? OFF
Turn Notify When Run ? OFF
Anytime that keyword is sent from any phone, it runs automatically.
“We’re a program that hadn’t been .500 in 20 years or so, hadn’t had a lot of success, so by having an identity and playing fast, just got our guys in an attacking mindset going back to 2020 when we changed it,” he said. “So like, it has a lot more to do with us and how we can control what we’re doing out on the field and dictating the game.”
In the fall of 2015, Koenigsmann wrote a detailed report about SpaceX’s findings and presented it to NASA and the Federal Aviation Administration. The report concluded that “material defects” were the most probable cause for the broken rod end. This essentially put the blame on the rod end’s supplier. NASA’s own, independent findings leveled a harsher judgment more directly on SpaceX. NASA attributed the failure to a “design error” by SpaceX. The space agency also said SpaceX’s quality control process should have identified the substandard rod ends before they were installed on the rocket.
The concern isn’t theoretical. Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) Karim Khan reportedly lost access to his Microsoft email after Trump sanctioned him for criticizing Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu, though Microsoft denies suspending ICC services. Beyond US complications, Jestin questions whether European cloud providers have sufficient scale. “If you asked me today if we’ll find a solution, I’d say 80/20.”