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Like Sullivan, Obama somehow left that <\/a>out in his invocation of Churchill as a model for the United States at war. Properly understood, Churchill provides a great model. Sullivan, however, is an obstacle to understanding, as vividly demonstrated this week by President Obama following him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

plucky<\/a> little Mazda continues with its icon, and still consistently sells around 1,500 of them every year in the UK across roadster and hard-top Retractable Fastback (RF) body styles. We\u2019ve selected the purer canvas-roofed version here.? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYou are America. Unconstrained<\/a> by habit and convention,\u201d reads the text along the top of the new Obama Presidential Center in Jackson Park. But I don\u2019t think President Barack Obama meant that a future president should be loosed as Trump has been to inflict his poorly conceived designs on America. The remainder of the Obama text invokes \u201cwe\u201d as the essential ingredient in our shared public experience and future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

LNA<\/strong> aerospace analyst Bjorn Fehrm explains in Part 3<\/a><\/strong>of his series on Airbus\u2019 next clean-sheet aircraft that, in A350 production, a full cycle of curing<\/a> wing top covers takes 24 hours, and only two covers fit inside the chamber at a time. Operating two production sites equipped with autoclaves\u2014in Stade, Germany and Illescas, Spain\u2014Airbus produces about 10 A350 airframes per month. It is attempting to increase that rate to a dozen A350s monthly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rights<\/a> issues keep top-end still cameras from transitioning to video cameras to get higher frame rates. Do pro sports photographers need more than 20 fps? No. It just increases their workflow, and they can\u2019t use the 30 fps+ output as video due to video rights being owned by others.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Federal Trade Commission and the attorneys general of Virginia, Arizona, New York, Connecticut and Washington go to trial on August 24 in Alexandria, over the $100 million payment<\/a> Zillow made to Redfin to become the exclusive provider of multifamily rental listings on Redfin\u2019s platforms. That is the Rentals business. That is the growth engine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, the West was exceptional. Within it, a man was, whatever his rank, generally free<\/a> from arbitrary authority, free from the ravages of anarchy, and part of an ordered social system in which one\u2019s position was generally defined but mutable if one possessed a great deal of ability or overly much fecklessness. So wastrel lords fell from grace, new men rose in their place, and society generally prospered while they did so. Then World War I killed that. Everywhere from America to Germany saw high inflation, astoundingly high income taxes, high death taxes, and an unbelievably high loss of life that saw all of society\u2019s best, from the top to the bottom, wiped out in an orgy of pointless bloodshed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the bearing is only the near cause<\/a>. The hearing surfaced a deeper one. A February 2011 Boeing service letter had already named this exact failure\u2014bearing races cracking at the same machined groove, on other airplanes, years earlier. A redesigned bearing without the offending groove existed. Its installation was recommended, not required, and the old part was never prohibited. Across the fleet the failure recurred\u2014by the NTSB\u2019s accounting at least 10 times since 2002, four on FedEx MD-11s alone between 2017 and 2022. The reporting scattered exactly as a broken aggregation system would predict. Of the 10 incidents, seven reached Boeing, four reached the FAA, only two reached both\u2014and the most recent, in December 2022, reached no one at all. Pieces of the picture existed but nobody put it all together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Adherence to the Powell Doctrine could have prevented those losses. It could also help Trump chart a way out of the extended purgatory his conduct of the war has produced. At one extreme, he could use it to justify accepting a loss. Acknowledging the lack of public or international support<\/a> for and the mounting costs of the war, Trump could camouflage defeat by making the case that he achieved his most important objectives: the practical destruction of Iran\u2019s nuclear program and the significant degradation of its conventional military.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Per a memo to staff today, Bloomberg employees now have to pay healthcare premiums<\/a>. The company previously covered the costs. \u201cBloomberg\u2019s approach of not asking employees to contribute to healthcare costs lasted longer than any of our peers,\u201d the company told employees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The forgotten wonder of being alive<\/a>. It always brings forth tenderness the fact that, when a human being cannot find words to describe what is happening, they give up searching for them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I then attempted to ask Hong to explain what she meant with her 2021 comment that \u201cpolice exist to uphold white supremacy,\u201d she began to answer before two of her aides moved swiftly to usher her out of the spin room<\/a>. As striking, if less vira<\/a>l, was what happened after Hong left.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For generations, canned sardines<\/a> were seen as a cheap, humble pantry item. That changed recently as social media trends and a growing interest in high-protein, healthy foods turned tinned seafood into a viral food craze.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Transform any topic into peak LinkedIn cringe<\/a>. Our AI-powered engine analyzes current trends and generates authentic thought leadership\u2122 guaranteed to make your followers shudder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr. Zhu, who worked under Jiang Zemin<\/a>, the Communist Party leader at the time, contributed more to liberalizing<\/a> the Chinese economy and making it more internationally competitive than any other recent leader except Deng Xiaoping. Mr. Zhu\u2019s initiatives propelled rapid growth in China that lasted, with a little slowing along the way, until the housing market began to crash in 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The collateral<\/a> is aging more like an aircraft than a smartphone as feared.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Courtesy of KARE-11’s Lou Raguse, here is the current status of all 80 Feeding Our Future defendants<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The lab that made Europe believe it could compete at the frontier is turning into an installer<\/a> of other people’s models. And the models are Chinese.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trucking<\/a> is booming again. And the drivers are still unhappy. @tracyalloway return to one of our favorite beats, with the great @lostisreed to learn why a host of supply- and demand-side factors are causing mile rates to surge once more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Abundant humility<\/a> is necessary when attempting to predict what the distribution of global power will be over the next fifty years, much less what relations among the great powers will look like. Nevertheless, this endeavor provides benchmarks that can help inform one\u2019s thinking about where great power competition is headed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That is the short-term case, and I believe it. But a second argument runs the other way on a longer clock: OPEC+ is raising<\/a> output for the sixth month running, the UAE has walked out of the cartel, and the IEA now expects global oil demand to fall this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My Chart<\/a> Takeout.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recall at a time when Russia was producing upwards of 250-350k monthly shells<\/a> per the West\u2019s own estimates, pro-Ukrainian cheerleaders promised us the indomitable American MIC would easily catch up to the impoverished Russians. It turns out the US is physically incapable of course-correcting its obvious industrial decline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This example will probably be quoted<\/a> to death by every VC over the next decade, and honestly it deserves to be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today\u2019s For You release is in the open-source repo<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Notable updates:<\/p>\n\n\n\n