Few motorists were seen on the streets of Florida’s capital city, and virtually no businesses are open. Tallahassee’s abundant live oaks, which line many residential streets, remain in good condition before noon, but residents warn they are vulnerable to high winds once the soil becomes soaked.
In a semirural Chaires community, houses were boarded up and horses sheltered in barns and beneath trees in the steady rain.
https://www.apnews.com/c595b9e6ccb84b969d59c5b270f58cce
«“You are taught when you are young that you ignore bullies and eventually they will leave you alone,” Parker said. “But as time went on, and my other girls were getting older, I realized they weren’t stopping and some of this was getting worse and getting more personal.”
Parker is now part of a lawsuit against Jones, has testified before Congress and pushed for changes on social media platforms, such as YouTube, which announced this month it will prohibit videos that deny the Sandy Hook shooting and other “well-documented events.”
“It wasn’t until the lawsuits and until it became a mainstream news story that people realized they were being complicit in this and started to moderate the content,” Parker said.»
“big if true” it’s a perfect demo of…
https://twitter.com/Delafina777/status/989901335960043520?s=20
“big if true” it’s a perfect demo of…
https://twitter.com/Delafina777/status/989901335960043520?s=20
Happy Juneteenth, y’all.
Question, actually: should companies add to their corporate holiday calendars Juneteenth, MLK Day, or Election Day, if they can only pick one?
Hmm, I should do a poll.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/18/opinion/pregnant-athlete-sponsor-climber.html
Since she’s such a meticulous planner and a pro, I have to assume she’s totally on top of the “fatal fall” scenario. That being said…
«Topping out on a 5.14 is great, but creating this discussion was the most empowering thing I’ve done in my career.
Regularly now I’m contacted by other professional women outdoor athletes — skiers, snowboarders, fellow climbers, who are terrified about planning or announcing a pregnancy and in need of advice on how to maintain their careers. I don’t have all the answers but I do have one: Find a sponsor who will support you. Almost all the brands who sponsor elite athletes sell the vast majority of their merchandise to people who don’t climb or run or ski for work. They sell to people who have full lives. If they sell to women, they sell to mothers.»
https://www.businessinsider.com/why-3-shark-attacks-in-north-carolina-2019-6
Thank you, global warming. At least we’re getting a Northwest Passage out of this.
«”Global climate change has prompted warmer water temperatures farther northward,” Burgess said. That means more fin sightings in places historically considered shark-free.
A 2018 study published in the journal Scientific Reports noted that between 2011 and 2016, bull sharks moved their nurseries farther north, into North Carolina waters. The study authors found that the bull shark presence near the Pamlico Sound was correlated with water temperature: When temperatures in Pamlico Sound dropped below 22 degrees Celsius, no juvenile bull sharks were observed in the area.
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“Bull sharks are animals that want to continue their attack after the first bite and don’t give up,” Burgess said. “Not all sharks are that way.”
Naylor said Winters’ father was smart to intervene during his daughter’s attack.
“It was exactly the right thing to do, he likely saved her life by upending the animal,” he said.
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“Bull sharks like brackish water and are known to even ascend into freshwater rivers that are farther inland to hunt,” he said.
These river deltas, where fresh and salt water mix, are also prime fish habitats for fish — another factor that draws sharks closer to shore.
“Bull sharks … pursue a variety of prey and interesting objects, which occasionally include people,” Naylor said. “They’re large animals, and quite tenacious.”
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“If people are playing in the same waters, sharks will encounter the people, mistakes happen and someone gets bitten,” he said. “If you see schooling fish, you’d be well advised to get out of the water.”
Burgess said another factor in the higher number of shark attacks is simply that North Carolina’s tourism industry has attracted more visitors to the state’s beaches than in years past.»
Here we go.
«The vista had dissolved into an undulating sea of hummocks – waist-high depressions and ponds known as thermokarst. Vegetation, once sparse, had begun to flourish in the shelter provided from the constant wind.
Torn between professional excitement and foreboding, Romanovsky said the scene had reminded him of the aftermath of a bombardment.
“It’s a canary in the coalmine,” said Louise Farquharson, a post-doctoral researcher and co-author of the study. “It’s very likely that this phenomenon is affecting a much more extensive region and that’s what we’re going to look at next.”
Scientists are concerned about the stability of permafrost because of the risk that rapid thawing could release vast quantities of heat-trapping gases, unleashing a feedback loop that would in turn fuel even faster temperature rises.»
Interesting emphasis on organic innovation for a software company. Who’d’a thunk?
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/17/magazine/elizabeth-warren-president.html
Another good article.
This:
«But Wall Street and its allies “are more afraid of her than Bernie,” Zingales continued, “because when she says she’ll change the rules, she’s the one who knows how to do it.”»
I have always felt that Sanders is more interested in posture than effect.
«Two years later, Warren asked Mann, whom she had met at a conference, to marry her. He gave up his job at the University of Connecticut to join her in Houston.»
🙂
«Biden’s tiny state, which allowed credit-card companies to charge any interest rate they chose beginning in 1981, would become home to half the national market. One giant lender, MBNA, contributed more than $200,000 to Biden’s campaigns over the years, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. Biden strongly supported a bill, a version of which was first introduced in 1998, to make it more expensive to file for bankruptcy and more difficult to leave behind debt. He was unpersuaded by Warren’s charts and graphs showing how the change would increase the financial burden on families. “I am so sick of this self-righteous sheen put on anybody who wants to tighten up bankruptcy,” Biden said during a Senate hearing in 2001.
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And a major effort to narrow the path to bankruptcy may have an unintended effect, according to a 2019 working paper released by the National Bureau of Economic Research, by making it harder for the country to recover from a financial crisis.
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The answer raised “a troubling specter of women exercising powerful political influence within a limited scope, such as rape laws or equal educational opportunity statutes.
Warren wanted feminism to be wider in scope and centered on economic injustice. She urged students to take business-law classes. “If few students interested in women’s issues train themselves in commercial areas, the effects of the commercial laws will not be diminished, but there will be few effective advocates around to influence those policy outcomes,” she wrote. “If women are to achieve true economic equality, a far more inclusive definition of a women’s issue must emerge.”
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Warren has work to do to persuade people of color to support her. In the last couple of Democratic primaries, these voters started out favoring candidates who they thought would be most likely to win, not those who were the most liberal.»
Pragmatism, again.
«When Warren makes the case about what needs to change in America by leaning on the period from 1935 to 1980, she’s talking about a time of greater economic equality — but also a period when people of color were excluded from the benefits of government policies that buoyed the white middle class. In a video announcing that she was exploring a presidential bid, Warren acknowledged that history by saying that families of color today face “a path made even harder by generations of discrimination.”
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In “The Two-Income Trap,” [2003] Warren called these kinds of loans “legally sanctioned corporate plans to steal from minorities.”
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Luigi Zingales, the University of Chicago economist, comes from Italy, and he feared Trump’s rise back in 2011, having watched the ascension of Silvio Berlusconi, the corrupt billionaire tycoon who was elected prime minister of Italy in the 2000s as a right-wing populist. After Trump’s victory in 2016, Zingales pointed out in a New York Times Op-Ed that the two candidates who defeated Berlusconi treated him as “an ordinary opponent,” focusing on policy issues rather than his character. “The Democratic Party should learn this lesson,” Zingales wrote. He now thinks that Warren is positioned to mount that kind of challenge. “I think so,” he said, “if she does not fall for his provocations.”»
