Yes, there's a little black rectangle on the floor of the shuttle, likely a phone or a or maybe a ticket, saying "PASS"
It's not like the S&P500 committee is going to make wild and crazy decisions based on a hunch. It's still very much based on replacing older shrinking companies with newer more vigorous representatives in the same industry.
The Helsinki Commission is an interesting US congressional organization, consisting of members from the Senate, House and the Executive branch.
Even more interesting, is it's currently chaired by a Republican, Joe Wilson, aka the "You lie!" guy whom you would expect to be MAGA partisan.
This is why you shouldn't put your money into human-managed mutual funds.
Humans make idiotic decisions like helping Musk buy Twitter.
When they get their orders and talking points directly from Russia's FSB, they don't have to hire legislative staff to work for their constituents, do research on issues, and solve problems.
They can use the money for political campaigning instead. No wonder they're successful!
Good thinking! /s
p.s. The Workshop Battle will be in one week on October 6th! Another cours? https://x.com/Crunchyroll/status/1832789063708860708?t=ZJDYO5Lsl0oqrtwrDs7p3w
It is said that this sequence of the manhwa is very long at 100 chapters, so maybe 1 or 2 cours of this...
We've all been there Khun...
So the setup for the Workshop Battle begins...
There's an odd thing where the team leaves on a ship, leaving Khun and Dan behind, then Wangnan wakes up, and they load on the ship for real to go to the test.
I'm flipping through the manhwa to try and figure out what went on there...
edit: Apparently it just happens like that in the manhwa. After Khun wakes up with the notification that they're invited to the Workshop Battle, we just see his team on the shuttle home exhausted or asleep, having passed the test offscreen.
I'm not sure how well Superintendent Matt Wayne's plan for keeping 15% of teachers out of the classroom will work...
Around 350 San Francisco Unified School District teachers have been found to lack an active teaching credential, according to a Friday press release from the district.
Out of 2316 in SFUSD total...
Another day, another mayoral debate (Mission Local coverage of Unity Council debate at the Gray Area)
Four of the five major mayoral candidates came out to the Mission on Saturday, talking policing, housing, billionaires, and more.
Mark Farrell didn't show up.
A standard vented coffee bag has... a vent. So some smell is expected.
I just keep old coffee bags around if I need to store grounds or separate smaller quantities of beans.
I believe the objective is to reduce beans' and grounds' exposure to air, to reduce oxidation and flavor oil evaporation, so a standard coffee bag is the best way. Just squeeze out most of the air as you're resealing it.
Storing in airtight jars leaves too much air, IMO.
It's a different brewing method using pressure through a filter, resulting in a more fragrant brew.
I use a recipe that just brews in an inverted Aeropress for 10 seconds, so it comes out faster too, although most recipes call for brewing for longer.
But the quick method is great if I'm in a hurry that morning.
One downside to Aeropress is consuming paper filters, but I also have an aftermarket reusable metal mesh filter, and it works great.
Another downside is the dreaded "inverted Aeropress" disaster, which I recently experienced. I hold it by the plunger now ;-)
I alternate using both french press and Aeropress to keep from getting bored with my coffee.
For some reason, I get the opposite effect. I feel that the resulting brew from my plastic Aeropress loses more heat than my glass french press, so I have to preheat my coffee mug if I'm using my AP.
Giving it some thought, the effect may not be the AP material itself, but the heat loss from the high surface to volume ratio of the droplets as they come out of the filter, as opposed to the stream as the liquid is poured out in a single thick stream out of the french press.
i.e. A glass Aeropress may not reduce temperature loss significantly over plastic.
But my desire for a glass Aeropress is more for reducing plastic use, and risk of shedding microplastics into foods that I consume.
What would a funnel be for? I can't think of a use for one off the top of my head.
I pour my old grounds out of my storage bag into a small bowl, pour my new grounds into my storage bag, then I pour the old grounds on top of my new grounds, and they should get used first.
I don't shake my storage bag to mix the old grounds and the new evenly.
That depends on state and county law.
If a recall is possible, the same would dictate what the procedure for a recall is.
In the US, sheriffs are elected officials, i.e. they can't be fired.
When you need to escape bad conditions by migrating to Syria, things must really be bad.
In a sleepy Calif. town (Lodi), there’s a shrine to a 105-year-old fast food chain (A&W)
I love articles like this about obscure and interesting places with local history!
To paraphrase badly: "You can take the boy out of Afrikaners, but you can't take Afrikaners out of the boy"
Pretty good episode!
They forgot to add Sharon's hair to the potion!
Justice – Neverender (Starring Tame Impala) (Official Video)
80s anime-style music video.
The song is decent too!
Or breaches even. Breeches are pants.
The news came just hours after the SFUSD's top leader narrowly avoided termination.
> San Francisco Mayor London Breed announced Sunday that she’s lending some of her own staff to help the city’s troubled public school district, whose top official narrowly avoided termination just hours earlier.
> Hours after the San Francisco Unified School District’s governing board wrapped up a meeting in which it considered firing Superintendent Matt Wayne, accepted the mayor’s offer.
> In a news release Sunday afternoon, Breed said she’s carving out $8.5 million for the School Stabilization Team to help SFUSD overcome its dysfunction.
> Money for the mayor’s effort comes from a 2022 measure that unlocked city money to help SFUSD with so-called Student Success Funds for urgent needs. That’s on top of the $100 million the city already provides annually to its K-12 district.
The number of people sleeping outdoors in San Francisco dropped to under 3,000 in January, the lowest the city has recorded in a decade, according to a federal count.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/29507311
> The number of people sleeping outdoors dropped to under 3,000 in January, the lowest the city has recorded in a decade, according to a federal count. > > And that figure has likely dropped even lower since Mayor London Breed — a Democrat in a difficult reelection fight this November — started ramping up enforcement of anti-camping laws in August following a U.S. Supreme Court decision. > > Homelessness in no way has gone away, and in fact grew 7%, to 8,300 in January, according to the same federal count. > > But the problem is now notably out of the public eye, raising the question of where people have gone and whether the change marks a turning point in a crisis long associated with San Francisco.
How to watch or listen to tonight's (9/19/24) Mayoral debate at 7pm
What to expect and how to tune in for tonight's San Francisco mayoral debate, co-presented by the San Francisco Chronicle and KQED.
- KQED channel 9
- KQED radio 88.5FM
- Livestream on SFChronicle.com and app
Hopefully Mayor Breed will show up this time...
Mark Farrell asked (SF mayor's office) for favor to rush his home renovation permits, mayor claims
Mayor London Breed told The Standard that, after he left the mayor's office, Mark Farrell asked for a special favor to speed up his home renovation permits. Farrell called the allegation a "bold face lie."
Farrell's response regarding this incident doesn't make sense.
If he was purely interested in how long the issuance of the permits would take, why not call the DBI directly instead of Mayor Breed's office?
It’s beginning to look a lot like Nuru with a pattern uncovered during mayoral candidate Mark Farrell’s time on the Board of Supervisors, as a report details how he got $1.2 million in donations directed to a nonprofit where his wife serves on the board.
As Supervisor, Mark Farrell requested noticeably more "behested" payments from companies that had business before the city than other Supervisors.
Athletes Go Super Saiyan for Anime - NY Times gift article link
Young professional athletes are increasingly broadcasting their obsession with anime like “Pokémon” and “Naruto,” upending preconceptions about kinds of fandom.
More and more high profile athletes are displaying their love of anime.
p.s. That's a closeup of My Hero Academia's All Might's eyes on the NFL player's visor
Sword From The Orient For Sale
High quality oriental sword that took over 2 years to transport across the Silk Road.
Kept in my cellar in ideal storage conditions.
Don't try to lowball me, I know what I got.
Long-shuttered SF Walgreens (at Cesar Chavez and Mission) to become a locally owned grocery store (Casa Guadalupe)
Personally, I don't think it's a great location due to lack of foot traffic, and cars can't stop there...
Three Russian companies with links to the government were allegedly using the domains as part of a coordinated effort to influence the upcoming election.
A pretty good summary of the DOJ documents in the Russian propaganda campaign.
Review: Blue Lock - Episode Nagi
The movie just recently became available for streaming, so I got a chance to watch it.
Mostly a recap of the first 2 seasons, but from Nagi and Reo's point-of-view.
I felt disappointed by this:
Nagi isn't the most captivating or motivated character. He has a one-dimensional personality and this movie does nothing to change that.
He spends most of the movie moaning about what a hassle it is to do just about anything: Playing soccer, brushing his teeth, even eating.
Incredible football super powers aside, he just isn't interesting enough to be the subject of a 90 minute movie.
It was nice to watch the group elimination stage from Team V's point of view, but it's presented almost as quick highlights, with maybe the best part being against Nico's Team Y, although more screen time is given to their fateful match against Isagi's Team Z.
And that's a problem, because we already saw what happened in V vs Z in excruciating detail in the TV episodes.
Assuming anyone who is investing time and money to watch this has already watched the show already knows exactly what happens, so what was the value add here?
Although the production did animate just about everything from scratch for the movie, there was disappointingly little actual new story.
And the movie production quality was also not that great.
The TV show is famous for its Powerpoint-style graphics, and the movie was only slightly above that.
It felt like a missed opportunity to "fill in the gaps" of the action that's happening between the Powerpoint slides.
To sum up, it feels like a lot of poor production and concept decisions.
The proposed combined company of Paramount and Skydance is valued at around $28 billion. The deal is expected to close in September 2025, pending regulatory approval.
Paramount Signals Closer Consideration of Edgar Bronfman’s Bid
Shari Redstone's company had agreed to a merger with Skydance Media in July.
Just when you thought it was over...
Redstone/Paramount to consider a competing bid for the company...
GRRM Confirms That He's Hasn't Worked On ASOIAF Since 2022
Apologies for the slightly off-topic post...
It's not looking good, folks...
George R R Martin confirms he hasn't written anything for the 2 remaining A Song Of Ice And Fire books since 2022.
He wishes that they were finished.
The last published book in the series, A Dance With Dragons, was published in July 2011, now 13 years ago.
Obligatory song that's now 12 years old... https://youtu.be/j7lp3RhzfgI
Knife Behind Back (2000) - Yoshitomo Nara and the dark side of Japanese 'cuteness'
How Japan's "most famous" artist, and others, are subverting the country's cute "kawaii" aesthetic to question the world we live in.
A little off topic, but the whole Japanese "utsukushii" and/or "kawaii" aesthetic... Where does it come from?
Descriptions of "utsukushi" things and moments in "The Pillow Book" from the Heian period goes back to the year 1002.
Note: Thumbnail URL is from a different article that is referenced in the linked article https://news.artnet.com/market/yoshitomo-nara-hong-kong-1671325
Re:Zero Season 3 (premiere episode) Leak Explained
Apparently unrelated to the massive Netflix anime leak, the Re:Zero movie length premiere has also leaked.
This one appears to be related to a canceled showing at Japan Expo in Paris, similar to the massive CR premiere leak from a convention in Washington couple of seasons ago.