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Better view of star and tree and deer. I might have to add some deer to my Starry Woods pattern….
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Day: December 2, 2020
End of Semester Brain
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I did get some things done today. I spent several hours clearing out enough of the basement to get my sewing machine and ironing board set up properly down there ...
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Poor Broken Dragon
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Well, that’s just frustrating. I think I have to declare myself defeated by this candle mold — I’ve spent all day working on these candles, and after 8 separate attempts, ...
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Chris Aldrich 2020-12-02 22:35:42
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How cool would it be if the Hemmingway app were also a Micropub client? I’d love to be able to use it to publish to a variety of websites.Read More - Source: Chris Aldrich
UK Seeks Site For World’s First Fusion Power Station
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sciencehabit writes: The U.K. government today invited communities around the country to volunteer a site for a prototype fusion reactor, which would be the first -- it is hoped -- to put electricity into the grid. The project, called Spherical Tokamak for Energy Production (STEP), began last year w...Read More - Source: Slashdot: Your Rights Online
How do these people look at themselves in the mirror each morning?
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Louder presents The 50 Greatest Live Albums Ever, ignoring James Brown’s Live at the Apollo, B.B. King’s Live at the Regal, Frank Sinatra’s Sinatra at the Sands, Sarah Vaughan’s At Mr. Kelly’s, Thelonious Monk’s Live at the It Club.  What else?Thanks Dr. John.Read More - Source: Cultural Offering
Could trump Just Fade Away?
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Months ago trump predicted the coronavirus would just’ fade away.’ Fittingly, it is suggested he might be the one fading away. David A. Graham, writing in The Atlantic , ...Read More Source: Follow Me Here…
Follow Me Here… 2020-12-02 21:00:30
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“It is difficult to get the news from poems yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there.”
— William Carlos Williams
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Ordinary Grief
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‘Ordinary grief, militant heartheart without a shadow,not a handthe green idiom cycling throughits enclosureWords remembered in isolationschoolbook words, daysto be beyond all care...Read More Source: Follow Me Here…
Dec 2, Milwaukee Road’s Pacific Extension: Map, Abandonment & Last Train
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The CMStP&P's Pacific Coast Extension took three years to build between 1906 and 1909, and once completed it was the best engineered route to Seattle.Read More - Source: Trains! Trains! Trains!
My House
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‘i only want tobe there to kiss you
as you want to be kissed
when you need to be kissed
where i want to kiss you
cause its my ...
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David Sinclair 2020-12-02 19:49:51
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David Sinclair 2020-12-02 19:44:46
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The answer to today’s #WhatsItWednesday question, as correctly identified on Micro.blog and Facebook: a mushroomy fungus thingy on the back lawn.
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In Video, Trump Recycles Unsubstantiated Voter Fraud Claims
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Increasingly detached from reality, President Donald Trump stood before a White House lectern and delivered a 46-minute diatribe against the election results that produced a win for Democrat Joe Biden.The post In Video, Trump Recycles Unsubstantiated Voter Fraud Claims appeared first on Freaky Virg...Read More - Source: Freaky Virginia
Spotify Invents AI Tech That Will Police Songwriter Plagiarism
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Music Business Worldwide: According to a document published last week, Daniel Ek's company is seeking a patent for its "Plagiarism Risk Detector And Interface" technology, which pertains to "Methods, systems and computer program products..for testing a lead s...Read More - Source: Slashdot: Your Rights Online
The best books for 2020 recommended by VCs and TechCrunch writers (Part 1)
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TechCrunch: “…Books are no guaranteed antidote to the daily grind of the information economy, but they do provide room for readers and authors to breathe, to take stock of where we are and where we are going. Not in the moment, but of the moment. Whether that means escaping into the live...Read More - Source: beSpacific
GIPHY’s Most-Viewed GIFs of 2020
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Medium: “2020… how do we even begin to describe this year? It’s safe to say we haven’t experienced anything like it before. The world was shaken by a global pandemic that significantly changed everyday life for billions of people; we saw incredible solidarity as people came together to support...Read More - Source: beSpacific
Mason Student Services Center debuts central support phone number
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The Deadly Temptation of the Oregon Trail Shortcut
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In the summer of 1846, a party of 89 emigrants was making its way westward along the 2,170-mile-long Oregon Trail. Tired, hungry, and trailing behind schedule, they decided at Fort Bridger, Wyoming to travel to their final destination of California by shortcut. The “Hastings Cutoff” they ch…
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Whoa to Wow 2020-12-02 18:25:55
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Subfloor done. Flat and level. Ready for the flooring.
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Rhoneisms 2020-12-02 18:24:00
Busy December Sees Crew Ramping Up for Space Cargo
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How Prestige Journals Remain Elite, Exclusive And Exclusionary
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Forbes: “Last week, Nature journals unveiled their “landmark” open-access option. Nature journals will charge authors, starting in January 2021, up to $11,400 to make research papers free to read, as an alternative to subscription-only publishing. Scientists from around the world r...Read More - Source: beSpacific
The Rare Seeds That Escaped Syria for an Arctic Vault
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This piece was originally published in Wired and appears here as part of our Climate Desk collaboration.
In 2014, the remaining staff of the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas, or ICARDA, fled their beloved gene bank in Tel Hadia, 20 miles south of Aleppo. …
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Tuition Due Date has Changed for the Spring 2021 Semester
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The SU Family, Students, Faculty, and Staff, are excited and proud to have made it through the Fall Semester. We knew there would be challenges and there were. We knew ...Read More - Source: Shenandoah University
