The best way to keep money in perspective is to have some." - Louis Rukeyser
Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal warned that the Gulf Arab kingdom needed to reduce its reliance on crude oil and diversify its revenues, as rising U.S. shale energy supplies cut global demand for its oil.
An excerpt from George R.R. Martin's upcoming novella was published Tuesday on the Tor website. The novella, The Princess and The Queen, or, The Blacks and The Greens, is set two centuries before the events of his popular Game of Thrones series, and recounts "the Causes, Origins, Battles, and Betrayals of that Most Tragic Bloodletting Known as the Dance of the Dragons."
A book asks a fascinating question: Apparently poetry preceded prose, did music precede language?
John Newton wrote the hymn "Amazing Grace." His autobiography ("An Authentic Narrative of some Interesting and Remarkable Particulars in the Life of John Newton," 1764) makes clear how lost he was. After several failed attempts as a sailor, he was press-ganged into service on an English man-of-war. He was such a trouble-maker that he was released to a slave-trader then abandoned by the trader to the whims of his "African princess" concubine, who starved him, and encouraged the natives to jeer and throw rocks at her white slave. He eventually returned to England and "was found."
Mexican migration to the U.S. declined sharply in 2008 and has continued to decline. Part of this story is the increase in border protection, but the dominant engine has been the economic shifts on both sides of the border – it has become easier for poor Mexicans to improve their quality of life in Mexico and harder to do so in the United States.
"The Way, Way Back" is one of those coming of age stories that usually become formulaic and silly with a moronic resolution but this one is pretty good. Good acting, not too much reach, and one very well written character who structures the whole story. Worthwhile, if simple.
Paparazzi is the plural of paparazzo, from the name of a photographer in Federico Fellini's 1959 film La Dolce Vita.
After over 40 years of secrecy, the real cause of death of Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin has been made public. Soviet pilot Yuri Gagarin (1934-1968) became the first human to journey into outer space on April 12, 1961. Gagarin died in 1968 when the MiG-15 training jet he was piloting crashed. According to a declassified report, there is a human factor behind the tragic incident - an unauthorized SU-15 fighter jet was flying dangerously close to Gagarin’s aircraft, passing close to Gagarin, turning his plane and sending it into a tailspin – a deep spiral – at a speed of 750 kilometers per hour. The specifics had been withheld because of the significance of his death to the program and the nation, the factor of error, as well as the usual State paranoia.
Who was...Mary Jo Kopechne?
K2, the world's second highest mountain behind Everest, was climbed for the first time in 1954. For every four people who have reached the summit, one has died trying.
Golden Oldie:
Gas production in Southwest Pennsylvania jumped 100% from July 2012 to July 2013. Production from that comparatively small area provided 1% of all of America's gas in 2012 and now 2%. The general Marcellus region now supplies about 10% of America's natural gas.
The Congressional Black Caucus is pushing Jackson-Lee to replace Napolitano at Homeland Security, a very curious candidate. Jackson -Lee is famous for wanting to see a picture of the American flag on Mars, placing her in the marines-might-tip-Guam-over intellectual subset, but also is closely connected, financially and presumably philosophically, to CAIR, an unindicted co-conspirator in terrorist money laundering. A strange candidate for Homeland Security. At one annual fundraiser for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, she presented the group with a congressional recognition award — even though the FBI has banned the group from outreach meetings. "How proud I am to have been associated with CAIR's legislative work," she said at a 2007 CAIR event. "We need CAIR and we need all of you supporting CAIR."
Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal warned that the Gulf Arab kingdom needed to reduce its reliance on crude oil and diversify its revenues, as rising U.S. shale energy supplies cut global demand for its oil.
An excerpt from George R.R. Martin's upcoming novella was published Tuesday on the Tor website. The novella, The Princess and The Queen, or, The Blacks and The Greens, is set two centuries before the events of his popular Game of Thrones series, and recounts "the Causes, Origins, Battles, and Betrayals of that Most Tragic Bloodletting Known as the Dance of the Dragons."
A book asks a fascinating question: Apparently poetry preceded prose, did music precede language?
Univision ranked No. 1 among all networks in the adults 18-49 and adults 18-34 demographics during the July sweep period (June 26-July 24), according to Nielsen, a first for the Spanish-language network in any sweep period.
John Newton wrote the hymn "Amazing Grace." His autobiography ("An Authentic Narrative of some Interesting and Remarkable Particulars in the Life of John Newton," 1764) makes clear how lost he was. After several failed attempts as a sailor, he was press-ganged into service on an English man-of-war. He was such a trouble-maker that he was released to a slave-trader then abandoned by the trader to the whims of his "African princess" concubine, who starved him, and encouraged the natives to jeer and throw rocks at her white slave. He eventually returned to England and "was found."
Mexican migration to the U.S. declined sharply in 2008 and has continued to decline. Part of this story is the increase in border protection, but the dominant engine has been the economic shifts on both sides of the border – it has become easier for poor Mexicans to improve their quality of life in Mexico and harder to do so in the United States.
"The Way, Way Back" is one of those coming of age stories that usually become formulaic and silly with a moronic resolution but this one is pretty good. Good acting, not too much reach, and one very well written character who structures the whole story. Worthwhile, if simple.
Paparazzi is the plural of paparazzo, from the name of a photographer in Federico Fellini's 1959 film La Dolce Vita.
After over 40 years of secrecy, the real cause of death of Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin has been made public. Soviet pilot Yuri Gagarin (1934-1968) became the first human to journey into outer space on April 12, 1961. Gagarin died in 1968 when the MiG-15 training jet he was piloting crashed. According to a declassified report, there is a human factor behind the tragic incident - an unauthorized SU-15 fighter jet was flying dangerously close to Gagarin’s aircraft, passing close to Gagarin, turning his plane and sending it into a tailspin – a deep spiral – at a speed of 750 kilometers per hour. The specifics had been withheld because of the significance of his death to the program and the nation, the factor of error, as well as the usual State paranoia.
Who was...Mary Jo Kopechne?
K2, the world's second highest mountain behind Everest, was climbed for the first time in 1954. For every four people who have reached the summit, one has died trying.
Golden Oldie:
Gas production in Southwest Pennsylvania jumped 100% from July 2012 to July 2013. Production from that comparatively small area provided 1% of all of America's gas in 2012 and now 2%. The general Marcellus region now supplies about 10% of America's natural gas.
The Congressional Black Caucus is pushing Jackson-Lee to replace Napolitano at Homeland Security, a very curious candidate. Jackson -Lee is famous for wanting to see a picture of the American flag on Mars, placing her in the marines-might-tip-Guam-over intellectual subset, but also is closely connected, financially and presumably philosophically, to CAIR, an unindicted co-conspirator in terrorist money laundering. A strange candidate for Homeland Security. At one annual fundraiser for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, she presented the group with a congressional recognition award — even though the FBI has banned the group from outreach meetings. "How proud I am to have been associated with CAIR's legislative work," she said at a 2007 CAIR event. "We need CAIR and we need all of you supporting CAIR."
Reportedly, the New York Rangers were going after Cooke and offered him more money than the Minnesota Wild did. However, according to a source, Cooke would only go to the Western Conference, partly out of respect to the Penguins and also the Penguins reportedly promised Cooke a job when he retires. Is this preemptive tampering?
Eric Brynjolfsson points out in a TED that Watson, the IBM AI project, having successfully amassed enough everyday knowledge to defeat the grand champions on Jeopardy!, was "now applying for jobs at call centers, and getting them. In finance, and in law, and getting them." The problem will be jobs, he later told an interviewer. "The human mind did not evolve to multiply triple-digit numbers. The robot mind has. "
Eugene O'Neill dedicated "Long Day's Journey Into Night" to his wife, Carlotta. Attached to the original manuscript were O'Neill's instructions, communicated to Carlotta and to Bennett Cerf at Random House, that the play could not be published until twenty-five years after his death, and not performed ever--ostensibly to protect his family from the play's implications. Just two years after O'Neill's death in 1953, Carlotta had the script withdrawn from Random House, and donated to Yale University, with a view to publication and production. She pointed to the disintegration of the family O'Neill's ban was intended to protect -- Eugene Jr. dead by suicide, Jamie lost to heroin (he would commit suicide also), Oona disinherited for having married Charlie Chaplin -- and to a claim that O'Neill had given her permission to publish should she need the money.
A Bucharest court is investigating the October 2012 theft of seven paintings from the Kunsthal museum in Rotterdam. The works, together worth tens of millions of dollars, are by Pablo Picasso, Claude Monet, Lucian Freud, Henri Matisse, Paul Gauguin and Meyer de Haan. A man named Radu Dogaru has been arrested and suspected accomplices are being pursued. It is believed the suspect's mother burned the evidence. Apparently, destruction of stolen art is common after the thief realizes how hard stolen art is to sell. We need better educated thieves.
AAAAAAaaaaaaaannnnnnnnddddddd......a graph:
Eric Brynjolfsson points out in a TED that Watson, the IBM AI project, having successfully amassed enough everyday knowledge to defeat the grand champions on Jeopardy!, was "now applying for jobs at call centers, and getting them. In finance, and in law, and getting them." The problem will be jobs, he later told an interviewer. "The human mind did not evolve to multiply triple-digit numbers. The robot mind has. "
Eugene O'Neill dedicated "Long Day's Journey Into Night" to his wife, Carlotta. Attached to the original manuscript were O'Neill's instructions, communicated to Carlotta and to Bennett Cerf at Random House, that the play could not be published until twenty-five years after his death, and not performed ever--ostensibly to protect his family from the play's implications. Just two years after O'Neill's death in 1953, Carlotta had the script withdrawn from Random House, and donated to Yale University, with a view to publication and production. She pointed to the disintegration of the family O'Neill's ban was intended to protect -- Eugene Jr. dead by suicide, Jamie lost to heroin (he would commit suicide also), Oona disinherited for having married Charlie Chaplin -- and to a claim that O'Neill had given her permission to publish should she need the money.
A Bucharest court is investigating the October 2012 theft of seven paintings from the Kunsthal museum in Rotterdam. The works, together worth tens of millions of dollars, are by Pablo Picasso, Claude Monet, Lucian Freud, Henri Matisse, Paul Gauguin and Meyer de Haan. A man named Radu Dogaru has been arrested and suspected accomplices are being pursued. It is believed the suspect's mother burned the evidence. Apparently, destruction of stolen art is common after the thief realizes how hard stolen art is to sell. We need better educated thieves.
AAAAAAaaaaaaaannnnnnnnddddddd......a graph:
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