Susan Napier, a professor at Tufts University in the United States and author of “Miyazakiworld: A Life in Art,” agrees. “In Ghibli, you have ambiguity, complexity and also a willingness to see that the darkness and light often go together” unlike good-versus-evil U.S. cartoons, she says.
I’d be surprised if the Where2 guys were reading any of these specific papers as they developed the product that became Google Maps, but the quad tree as a thing in computer science was pretty well established by then so they probably didn’t need to go that far back in the literature to land on this idea.
Drive Pilot only works in the right lane, requires a lead vehicle, and disengages in poor weather, construction zones, or when emergency vehicles are present.
Twenty years ago, in winter and spring 2005, President George W. Bush embarked on a nationwide tour to promote his plans for Social Security reform, which included slowing the growth of benefits for middle- and high-earning individuals and establishing voluntary personal accounts in which workers could invest part of their payroll taxes. Bush’s changes to traditional Social Security benefits, termed “progressive price indexing,” would have addressed about two-thirds of the program’s long-term funding gap. By summer 2005, however, his efforts had fallen short; his plan never received a vote in Congress. But what if Congress had enacted Bush’s plan for Social Security? I model total Social Security benefits for individuals retiring in 2025, incorporating Bush’s progressive benefit changes and personal account balances based on investment market returns. Workers with very low, low, and middle earnings would have received total Social Security benefits 3–8 percent above those scheduled in current law, while high-earning employees and those earning the maximum taxable wage and above would have received benefits 2–4 percent below scheduled levels.
Oil 2025 looks beyond the short-term horizon covered in the IEA’s monthly Oil Market Report (OMR) to provide a comprehensive overview of evolving oil supply, demand, refining and trade dynamics through 2030. This Report presents detailed forecasts and analysis of oil demand fundamentals across fuels, sectors and regions as well as the supply outlook from planned upstream and downstream projects around the world. The results provide valuable insights on the prospects for spare oil production capacity, product supply and trade flows through 2030. Oil 2025 also explores the implications of surging output of natural gas liquids (NGLs) in an era of petrochemical-driven demand growth.
Carbon County Sheriff Alex Bakken had just finished a meeting Monday night with emergency dispatchers in Saratoga, Wyoming, when he jumped in his car and saw an alert for three missing hikers lost on Medicine Bow Peak.
Find out about quantum-secure encryption in TLS and how to check if your organisation’s web servers are ready.
An international club where dull people meet online to share the tedium of everyday lives is immensely popular. But for one man it’s a place of poignant connection.
The book is a revelation. What becomes clear is that, in policy circles, it is now impossible to express any opinion which is pro-car or in favor of roadbuilding. The only approved vision of the future involves extracting people from their cars and cramming them into some form of mass transit. This is obvious nonsense. While trains and buses are fine for very specific journeys, for the overwhelming number of journeys we make day to day, the car is either irreplaceable, or else supreme. If it’s raining, if you have luggage, if you have children, if you want to transport anything heavier than a suitcase, if you want to travel at an unusual time or anywhere remotely rural, the car or van wins hands down. And I write this as someone who really likes trains.
Jon Ossoff and his wife announced the birth of their new baby on 6/2.
Unsurprisingly, he has missed almost every single vote since the end of May, as he should.
But he came back for the first time yesterday….to vote for the crypto industry’s GENIUS Act.
Although perhaps the biggest changes are still to come, AI tools are already reshaping how films are written, sold and made in big ways.
A former employee at Austin, Minn.-based Hormel emailed recipes and proprietary information to his personal account before joining brat-maker Johnsonville, a federal lawsuit alleges.
What its marketing literature barely mentions is perhaps one of the car’s secret selling points, at least at home. The R5 comes with an optional and detachable tubular basket known as a porte-baguette, or baguette-holder, to store the only accessory motorists in France really need. ?
Renowned Chinese scholar Lu Feng makes the case for why China needs more–not less–industrial development, particularly in its showdown with the US.
Obviously, if Hill can get this information from public data, Iran has it and far more. Iran has the targeting coordinates of these sites and far more than that (on-the-ground spies). Hill isn’t even in Israel. Hill isn’t giving Iran anything they don’t easily have themselves.
Thomas Jefferson & John Jay wrote this report of their meeting with a Muslim ambassador from Tripoli in 1786. Tripoli was enslaving American sailors at the time. Even though it is one of the only documents where Thomas Jefferson mentions Islam, PBS omits it entirely from their documentary on “How Muslims influenced Thomas Jefferson and America’s Founders.”
But WPR’s budget troubles predate those moves in Washington. The prospect of layoffs at the organization was publicly reported in May, and there is a planned merger between WPR and PBS Wisconsin, both part of the Division of Public Media. Multiple employees said that the prospect of layoffs was first raised almost a year ago.
Here’s our response to @HHSGov’s RFI re: building a tech ecosystem that prioritizes patients’ access to their info, ensures physicians can base care decisions on complete and accurate medical records, and reduces administrative burden by improving payer-provider communication.?
She wants men to play by her rules. She misses them. How pitiful.
The negligible usage reflects implementation barriers, not lack of need. The dissatisfaction stems from execution challenges that Epic has not resolved.
The latest technologies have transformed maritime warfare, much the way they have rewritten the script for land wars in Ukraine—forcing militaries to adapt in real time. The U.S. is developing fresh ways to intercept the newest drones and missiles but still relies largely on expensive defense systems.
Researchers have studied the relationship between beauty and usability for decades. In 1995, researchers at Hitachi discovered that users consistently rated more visually pleasing interfaces as easier to use—even when the underlying functionality was identical (1). Later, researchers coined this phenomenon the aesthetic–usability effect: the tendency for people to perceive attractive things as more usable (2). In other words, if something looks well-made, we believe it will work well—even before we’ve interacted with it.