Yostivanich

“North Korea has agreed to hold talks with South Korea this week, a day after it test-fired short-range mis­siles. The talks will be on how to avoid cross-border flood­ing, and arrange­ments for reunions between fam­ily mem­bers divided by the Korean War. The agree­ment to the talks came amid reports that the North may be prepar­ing to launch more short-range missiles.”

“A Sen­ate com­mit­tee has approved a bill to reform US health­care, a key step in Pres­i­dent Barack Obama’s attempt to over­haul the sys­tem. Sen­a­tors voted by 14 votes to nine to pass the bill, with one Repub­li­can join­ing Democ­rats on the Sen­ate Finance Com­mit­tee in vot­ing in favour.”

“Sec­re­tary of State Hillary Clin­ton said Mon­day she would not run for pres­i­dent again, and brushed off sug­ges­tions that she is being mar­gin­al­ized in the Obama White House.” Makes sense and no she isn’t marginalized.

“Did you get that? He thinks the Mor­mons, who are try­ing to deny a civil right to another minor­ity and reserve it to them­selves, are exactly like a minor­ity that were denied a civil right and had to fight to get their equal­ity recognized.”

“By shut­ting down, McD’s over­whelmed their com­peti­tor into paral­y­sis. They gave all of their nor­mal cus­tomers a chance to try the new guy (which they would have anyway)….all at once….on his worst day.”

Two thirds of Amer­i­cans live in a “bor­der” zone and thus the Bor­der Patrol con­sid­ers their 4^th Amend­ment Right void.

“Any­ways, if you do need to print HTML tables here is a lit­tle hint. You know how a table will usu­ally have head­ings on the first page, and then no head­ing on sub­se­quent ones, forc­ing you to flip back and for­ward to see which col­umn is what? Well, you can actu­ally make most browsers to repeat your head­ings on each printed page using the method below.” Neat trick.

“The James Randi Foun­da­tion put together its first skep­tics’ con­fer­ence in 2003. That first year in Fort Laud­erdale, the event drew just 150 atten­dees. In the years since, it has grown to become the largest gath­er­ing of crit­i­cal thinkers, doubters, heretics, and non­be­liev­ers in the world. More than 1,100 con­fer­ees paid about $300 each for admis­sion this year. They come to hear some of the most famous voices in crit­i­cal think­ing — Adam Sav­age, San Francisco–based cohost of the Dis­cov­ery Channel’s Myth­Busters; Bill Prady, cocre­ator of CBS’ The Big Bang The­ory — and to dis­cuss Randi’s favorite topic, skep­ti­cal inquiry, a dis­ci­pline devoted to debunk­ing psy­chics, faith heal­ers, con artists, and ghost whis­per­ers through the holy mir­a­cle of old-fashioned sci­ence.” Awe­some life story of James Randi.

“This is every­thing that crosses my mind after I stop with the excuse. I think about all the throw-away phrases I use where I could have actu­ally said some­thing valu­able. I once wrote, “Every time you say blah blah blah, a cre­ative writ­ing teacher dies,” and I meant it. Each time you open your mouth, you have an oppor­tu­nity to build some­thing. That’s the per­spec­tive you want dur­ing the uncom­fort­able dead silence, not the victim-based emo­tion of excuse.”

“You only get one chance to make a first impres­sion; why have it be “junk”? Once that’s asso­ci­ated with your name or project, it’s tough to scrape off. Even peo­ple who didn’t see it them­selves may have heard about it second-hand. And once they hear about it, they’re not likely to see for them­selves. Life’s too short to waste it on junk.”

“I thought I would never sell my com­pany. I started it as a hobby in 1997. When NPR did a story about me in 2004, I said I’d stick it out until the end, and I meant it.”

“This mid-infrared image was taken in the last min­utes of the LCROSS flight mis­sion to the Moon. The small white spot (enlarged in the insets) seen within the dark shadow of lunar crater walls is the ini­tial flash cre­ated by the impact of a spent Cen­taur upper stage rocket. Trav­el­ing at 1.5 miles per sec­ond, the Cen­taur rocket hit the lunar sur­face yes­ter­day at 11:31 UT, fol­lowed a few min­utes later by the shep­herd­ing LCROSS space­craft. Earth­bound obser­va­to­ries have reported cap­tur­ing both impacts. But before crash­ing into the lunar sur­face itself, the LCROSS spacecraft’s instru­men­ta­tion suc­cess­fully recorded close-up the details of the rocket stage impact, the result­ing crater, and debris cloud. In the com­ing weeks, data from the chal­leng­ing mis­sion will be used to search for signs of water in the lunar mate­r­ial blasted from the surface. ”

“Folks can now help us con­quer spam by call­ing our atten­tion to a pro­file they find ques­tion­able. Click the “Report as spam” but­ton under the Actions sec­tion of a profile’s side­bar and our Trust and Safety team will check it out to see what needs to be done. No auto­mated action will be taken as a result of report­ing a user as spam (in other words, it can’t be used to incite an angry mob against an account you don’t like.) And once you report a pro­file it will auto­mat­i­cally be blocked from fol­low­ing or reply­ing to you. You nailed it!” Awe­some stuff.