Concrete is vital for protecting our coastlines – but it comes at a huge environmental cost. An Israeli startup has found a way to make concrete sea defences that get stronger over time, while encouraging life to thrive. This Green Tech is Bringing Life Back to the Sea Source: Bloomberg The post appeared first on The Big Picture .
Source: Living Concrete
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Interesting concept. Wonder how long it will take for it to become a “standard”?
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So, how do you pay your Apple Card bill if your iPhone is misplaced or stolen? You could always wait until you buy a new phone, or recover your old one, but a late payment would result in interest charges which, obviously, would not be ideal. Because Apple’s support website doesn’t say, BuzzFeed News posed the question to a customer service representative through Apple’s phone and text message support system (Apple Card is currently available to a limited number of people and members of the press).
Source: Here’s What To Do If You Have An Apple Card And Lose Your iPhone
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Have to think very carefully about some of these flaws.
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Shaw contends, in court papers and his books, that Pataky was helping Kilgallen’s enemies, including Mafia boss Carlos Marcello, who wanted the reporter dead to quash her ongoing investigation into the JFK assassination.
Source: Author wants to exhume Dorothy Kilgallen’s body for DNA evidence
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I read his book and he makes a good case that she was unraveling the JFK assassination conspiracy.
She was not just a pretty face, but a hard-nosed investigative journalist.
And, the Deep State couldn’t take the risk she’d live up to her reputation!
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What happens when you drop your cell phone and the screen cracks? Do you repair or replace the phone? Many of us just continue to limp along with a broken screen until it becomes unusable. Eventually, we get a new phone. Unfortunately, phones are getting more and more expensive.
Source: Repair or Replace Phone? Here’s Why You Need to Fix That Broken Phone
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There’s even a rise in a psychological issue known as ‘nomophobia’, which is the fear of being offline or not having your phone on you to be able to look something up or post on social media, for example.
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Is this a real word?
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Iraqi woman fails Swiss citizenship test after answering ‘uh’ over 200 times despite living there for 20 years and claiming to speak German
Source: Iraqi woman answered ‘uh’ over 200 times in Swiss citizenship test | Daily Mail Online
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Maybe English fluency should be required for admission to the US or citizenship?
If Switzerland can do it, why not the USA?
And, we should borrow their foreign policy too!
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TULSI 2020
Source: Tulsi Gabbard for President – Official Website – TULSI 2020
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As a little L libertarian, who is anti-war and pro-peace, I urge you to donate a dollar to keep her in the Democratic debates. Yes, I know, that on many policies, she is as terrible as the rest of the socialist aka communist candidates.
BUT, (and there is always a BIG butt),
https://www.vox.com/2019/6/12/18660068/democratic-debates-2019-candidates-rules-lineup
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And though July’s second debate uses similar rules, the DNC announced late last month that starting with September’s third debate, it will be a good deal tougher to make the cut.
First, the polling threshold for inclusion will be raised to 2 percent, in at least four polls between June 28 and August 28.
Second, and even more worryingly for much of the field, candidates would also need 130,000 unique donors to qualify (with at least 400 donors each in 20 states). Meaning they can no longer get in through polling alone, as seven candidates seem likely to do for the first debate. And even those who already reached the 65,000-donor level would have to rake in a lot more support.
Candidates who rely on traditional big-dollar fundraising, self-funders, candidates focusing intensely on early states at this point, or those who are simply less nationally known may have a very tough time meeting that standard.
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So, even if you just donate a dollar, that will make you a “unique donor”!
So, if you want to keep the “anti-war” candidate on the debate stage, then you have to act.
I think of it as a way to send a message to all “We, The Sheeple” that “anti-war” questions should be asked of all the candidates.
Call it hacking the Democratic Debates.
Think of it as part of a “peace commercial” for a dollar!
Please.
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Recently, the doc changed my from OLMESARTAN MEDOXOMIL to amLODIOine.
There’s nothing wrong both are for High Blood Pressure.
So, I have about ⅔ of a ninety day supply that I can not use.
What can I do with it?
So, being fat old white guy injineer, I said there must be some poor person out there who needs the drug and can’t afford it. I’ll just give it to them.
Doc says he can’t do that. My pharmacist friend says that’s illegal.
But I can put it in the local medical disposal dropbox for safe destruction.
Argh!
Anyone see a problem here?
And everyone wonders why drugs are so expensive?
It’s not like anyone can get high on it?
Quite the opposite, someone can lower their BP and pee a lot.
But Big Gooferment and Big Pharma won’t get a cut of that donation so it must be destroyed!
Argh!
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This is interesting — if ax 2 + bx + c = 0, then It’s called the citardauq formula — citardauq is quadratic spelled backward. It’s explained above by the inimitable James Tanton; here’s a Facebook discussion ; and see the second answer here regarding questions of numerical instability.
Source: The Citardauq Formula
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Never knew it had a “name”; did you?
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… … buy any drug?
I have a friend that has no medical insurance and prostate problems.
Why does he need a
“Gooferment permission slip” aka a prescription on a
Gooferment approved form from a
Gooferment approved bureaucrat aka a doctor to go to a
Gooferment approved store to be waited on by a
Gooferment approved bureaucrat aka a pharmacist to buy a
Gooferment approved product aka a “drug”?
And then everyone is surprised when medical care and drugs are so expensive.
Is someone afraid that he might buy his drug without Gooferment approval?
Argh!
What have we become but a Nanny state?
Argh! Argh!
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Copenhagen | In the world’s biggest covered-bond market, a Danish bank says it’s now ready to sell 10-year mortgage-backed notes at a negative coupon for the first time.
Source: Did you hear the one about the negative-coupon mortgage-backed bond?
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Does this make ANY economic sense at all? I’m baffled. As soon as they off me a “negative” interest rate, I think I’ll take it. They are going to pay you to take a mortgage? Maybe I’m old fashioned, but I do NOT understand the logic of this.
Maybe it’s a version of Three Card Monte I’ve never seen, but I’ve been around a long time?
If you understand it, please explain it to me, but use small words, I’m real old.
Remember the sources of my education! I’m just a fat old white guy retired injineer who’d now a poor old senior citizen on a fixed income with:
* Law “degree” from watching Judge Judy;
* Medical “degree” from watching Doctor Phil;
* Building “degree” from watching “Holmes on Homes”;
* Investing “degree” from reading about Bernie Made-off;
* Finance “degree”from listening to Ric Edelman;
* sensitively managing Human Resources from watching Chef Ramsey; and
* creating loving / caring human relationships from studying the movie roles of Gunny Ronald Lee Ermey
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