Thursday, June 1, 2017
Effective...
It’s a huge morning of news from Andy Rubin’s Essential: a new Android phone with a unique edge-to-edge display, a modular accessory system, a new 360 camera for that system, and a new intelligent speaker with a huge circular display.
Ambient calls this “activating” your home, and says the Ambient OS is an “API” to all those things in combinations, allowing new kinds of applications to exist on top of them — like flashing your lights when a timer goes off.
Wednesday, May 31, 2017
Young...*
The song was inspired by an event at the dawn of the psychedelic and counterculture eras in November 1966, of the passage of strict (10:00 p.m.) curfew to reduce congestion from crowds of young club patrons.
This was perceived by young and music fans as an infringement on their civil rights, Fliers were distributed inviting people to demonstrate.
Hours before the protest one of L.A.'s rock 'n' roll radio stations announced there would be a rally at Pandora's Box club. The Times reported that as many as 1,000 youthful including Jack Nicholson and Peter Fonda, erupted in protest against the curfew.
Though often mistaken for an anti-war song, it was this first of the "Sunset Strip riots" by Buffalo Springfield "For What It’s Worth", recorded on December 5, 1966.
Buggy...
The greatest concentration of Amish is in northeast Ohio, about 78 miles south of Cleveland. Next in size is in northeastern Indiana. Then comes the Amish settlement in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
Amish church groups seek to maintain a degree of separation from the non-Amish world, i.e. American and Canadian society. There is generally a heavy emphasis on church and family relationships. They typically operate their own one-room schools and discontinue formal education after grade eight, at age 13/14. Until the children turn 16, they have vocational training under the tutelage of their parents, community, and the school teacher.
Walk...
The stated goal of Gunwalking was to continue to track the firearms as they were transferred to higher-level traffickers and key figures in Mexican cartels, with the expectation that this would lead to their arrests and the dismantling of the cartels.
The tactic was questioned by including ATF field agents and cooperating licensed gun dealers. During this operation, the largest "gunwalking" probe, the ATF monitored the sale of about 2,000 firearms, of which only 710 were recovered as of February 2012[update].
As of October 2011, none of the targeted high-level cartel figures had been arrested.
Guns tracked by the ATF have been found at crime scenes on both sides of the Mexico–United States border, and the scene where United States Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was killed December 2010. Dissenting ATF agents came forward to Congress in response. Revelations of "gunwalking" led to controversy in both countries, and diplomatic relations were damaged.
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