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Returning to the topic of Biden's victory
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The lake in the crater at Crater Lake is named "Crater Lake".
The island in Crater Lake is named "Wizard Island".
The island in Crater Lake is named "Wizard Island".
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"I'm not gunna cut Social Security like every other Republican. I'm not gunna cut Medicare or Medicaid." Candidate Donald Trump 15/05/26
"I am going to take care of everybody. I don't care if it costs me votes or not. Everybody's gunna be taken care of much better than they're taken care of now." Candidate Trump 15/09/27 to CBS Scott Pelly
"You're going to have such great healthcare at a tiny fraction of the cost."candidate Trump 16/10/25 from campaign podium
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Jonathan Kozol had been teaching for six months when he decided to read his students a Langston Hughes poem. By the following morning, Boston Public Schools had ended his career over a single classroom decision.
Kozol was 28 years old in the spring of 1965. A Harvard graduate and Rhodes Scholar, he had come to Roxbury by choice, taking a substitute position in a neighborhood that most young teachers from his background would never have sought out.
His class was fourth grade. The students were Black children in a Boston school system that was, at that moment, one of the most racially divided in the northern United States.
On a day in May, Kozol read them "The Ballad of the Landlord" by Langston Hughes. The poem, published in 1940, takes the voice of a tenant demanding repairs from a landlord who refuses to fix a broken stoop and a leaking roof. When the tenant protests, he is arrested. The poem was not on the approved reading list.
That was enough.
The school principal reported the incident. The district reviewed it. Kozol was told he had used "curriculum materials offensive to the community" and was dismissed. He had been in that classroom for one day of that particular assignment.
The firing might have disappeared quietly. Instead, Kozol refused to go quietly.
He wrote about what had happened, about the schools in Roxbury, about the condition of the buildings and the thinness of the resources and the way the system sorted children before they had any say in the matter. That writing eventually became a book, published in 1967, called "Death at an Early Age."
It won the National Book Award.
The poem that cost him his job. The classroom that the district wanted forgotten. The children the system had already decided were not worth the best of what a teacher could offer.
None of it stayed quiet.
Jonathan Kozol. Fired for reading Langston Hughes to a fourth-grade class in Roxbury. The teacher Boston tried to silence, and the book that made sure it didn't work.
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Hardly trivial to those affected
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Hunger grips a rural community hit by Trump’s cuts
Those on the front lines of feeding their neighbors in West Virginia’s coal country say they face unprecedented challenges brought on by Washington.
Hunger grips a rural community hit by Trump’s cuts
Those on the front lines of feeding their neighbors in West Virginia’s coal country say they face unprecedented challenges brought on by Washington.
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West Virginia, a "red" State? Voted for Trump?
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In the mid-1970s, after graduating from law school and taking a position at a Louisiana insurance company, Kim Gandy went to enroll in her employee benefit plans.
To her shock, the human resources department informed her that state law required her husband's written consent before she could receive her own employee benefits.
Investigating the matter further, Gandy uncovered a shocking legal reality buried inside Louisiana's civil code: the state's archaic "Head and Master" law.
Under this century-old doctrine, a husband was designated as the sole, absolute controller of all joint marital property. He possessed the unilateral legal right to sell the family home, empty shared bank accounts, or mortgage property without his wife's knowledge, consent, or signature, effectively reducing married women to the legal status of minors.
Gandy refused to submit to the policy. Joining forces with grassroots activists and the National Organization for Women (NOW), she used her legal training to organize public campaigns, build legislative strategies, and challenge the law in court.
Despite fierce opposition from conservative lawmakers who claimed altering the code would undermine traditional family structures, the mounting legal and public pressure forced Louisiana to officially repeal its "Head and Master" law in 1979.
Two years later, in the 1981 landmark case Kirchberg v. Feenstra, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the remaining remnants of such laws nationwide, ruling the "Head and Master" doctrine unconstitutional under the Equal Protection Clause.
Gandy later served as the national president of NOW from 2001 to 2009, continuing a career dedicated to institutional reform and equal rights under the law.
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Reminds me of Tom Hanks.
According to the European Space Agency's space debris statistics, updated October 14, 2026, approximately 47,140 objects are regularly tracked in Earth's orbit. That figure includes functioning satellites, inactive spacecraft, rocket bodies and debris.
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Fine.
Got any plan to clean up the mid-ocean garbage patch?
Giant robotic claws will grab dead satellites in space
Britain's $81 million space cleanup mission will use robotic claws to capture dead satellites and help clear dangerous debris
By Kurt Knutsson, CyberGuy Report Fox News Published October 25, 2026 8:54am EDT
Giant robotic claws will grab dead satellites in space
ClearSpace UK's robotic spacecraft with giant claws will chase down dead satellites at 17,000 mph, with a 2029 launch from Scotland planned.
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Fine.
Got any plan to clean up the mid-ocean garbage patch?
Why Do Some Ships Have Bulbous Bows?
Mark Cowley Sat, October 24, 2026 at 5:15 PM GMT-5
Modern ships come in a huge array of shapes and sizes, but aside from some super-specialized ships that look different from almost anything else, many of them have a few shared characteristics. One of those is a bulbous bow, which can be seen around the ship's waterline and usually protrudes from the main hull. Bulbous bows have been used for decades because they can improve a ship's efficiency by reducing drag.
Assuming that a ship is traveling sufficiently fast, the bulbous bow creates a separate wave from the one that is generated by the ship's hull. When the two waves interact, they will be out of phase, and they can either partially or totally cancel each other out. A reduced or canceled-out wave reduces resistance on the ship as it travels through the water, which in turn can help make it more efficient. Depending on the ship's speed, the design of the bulb, and the shape of the hull, the efficiency gains can vary significantly. The type of conditions the ship is operating in can also make a big difference, with ships navigating icy waters gaining an extra advantage because the bow can tip ice floes to slide more easily along the side of the hull.
Why Do Some Ships Have Bulbous Bows?
Some ships have a strange, rounded protrusion at the waterline called a bulbous bow, but others don't. The difference has more to do with function than style.
Note:
Similar story on airliner winglets.
Airliners encounter 2 forms of aerodynamic drag:
a) parasitic
b) induced
a) Parasitic drag may be the more obvious, it's friction the atmosphere imposes on the aircraft.
Flying at 36,000' altitude means lower air density. That means reduced parasitic drag.
This high altitude efficiency gain justifies both the energy consumed by the aircraft climbing to that altitude,
plus the pressurized cabin to keep most passengers conscious at cruise altitude.
b) Induced drag includes the vortex the wing generates at the wingtip.
Energy is required to generate these vortices. Jet fuel is the source of that energy.
Reducing the vortex reduces induced drag, which reduces fuel consumption, which increases $profits.
