Trump Has Clear Edge on Handling Israel, Ukraine Wars, WSJ Poll Shows
The outcome of the election could have profound consequences for both conflicts given the broad disagreements between Trump and Harris on how they should be resolved.
10.12.2024
The (very) bumpy road ahead
Animal crimes
Large snake found 'trespassing' inside Colorado family's home
Alligator lunges out of Milton floodwaters, bites vehicle's tire
[Mary Roach wrote a book about animal crimes. It's called Fuzz.]
In Chicago, serving on the school board seems like a big deal
School board campaign donations top $2.3 million a month before election, as money pours in from teachers union and charter groups
“We see it as investing in a process to yield a school board member (who is) independent, who thinks and puts student interest first and isn’t beholden to political interests,” said Andrew Broy, president of the Illinois Network of Charter Schools, somewhat ironically.
The Chicago school board comprises 21 members, 11 of which are appointed by the mayor.
In a related story…
Fifty-five schools in Chicago say students can’t do math or read at grade level
10.11.2024
If it''s live you can at least believe it's live
And about CBS's interview of VP Harris…
Trump’s complaints about ’60 Minutes’ put a spotlight on editing at the nation’s top newsmagazine
CBS said the need to make the “60 Minutes” interview segment concise prompted the editing. The full interview with Harris took 45 minutes, and it was fit into a 20-minute slot on the broadcast.
OK so far, if "concise" means "short." But neither of Harris's two answers presented by CBS was especially concise if concise means, well, concise, in my redoubtable opinion. They kinda blew this one.
But.
We all know that newspaper stories are edited, right? Edited for clarity, edited for available space, blah blah. TV news stores are edited too, for much the same reasons. I've participated in doing that myself from both sides of the camera.
There's something about TV and actually seeing people talking that makes a story seem more real than the same story in print. But it's not. Unless it's live. And live means televised directly as it happens. (And there's still some wizardry to contend with, but it's managable.)
If it's live, it's real. If it's not, it's Memorex.*
Who owns the wind?
There’s a new term for attempting to own the wind: ventography
If wind can be owned, it can also be stolen. Wind theft occurs when one entity, typically a nation, builds a wind farm close to and upwind of an existing wind farm. Those new turbines, especially when built offshore, can slow wind speeds and decrease power generation at the old turbines.Also if wind can be owned…I'm just wondering here…can the owner of such wind be sued for damages if the wind gets out of hand?
Any opinion on that, Milton?
10.10.2024
Police cameras in Chicago
Many cameras. Little focus. Blurry results.
Two decades, hundreds of millions of dollars and thousands of cameras later, an Illinois Answers Project and Chicago Tribune investigation has found that reality has fallen far short of those early promises. While installing thousands of police surveillance cameras has undoubtedly helped catch criminals and solve crimes, Chicago’s ever-growing system has yet to become the crime-fighting panacea Daley predicted.
Increasingly it appears surveillance technologies employed by law enforcement are not worth the price of the privacy they invade and the mistrust they breed.
Can't control the weather but…
…we really need to be doing something about this rickety electric grid.
PowerOutage.us reports, at the moment, 63,000 customers still without power in North Carolina due to Hurricane Helene and more than 3,000,000 in Florida due to Milton.
And wait…NOAA reports a strong solar radiation storm in progress now which may disrupt communications and the power grid. (Also possibly produce Northern Lights as far south as Alabama.)
10.08.2024
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