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A day at a Florida manatee hospital

As Florida’s seagrass beds die off, manatees are starving. Can the seagrass–and the manatees–make a comeback?




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‘Red Flower’ copes with the carnage in Sderot


Also available is the docudrama One Day in October on Yes TV, by Daniel Finkelman and Oded Davidoff, which offers dramatized versions of four stories from October 7.




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Best cities to visit in Florida, from Miami to Jacksonville

The most popular US state for British tourists has plenty more to offer than Disney – experts Susan Veness and Simon Veness share eight destinations for a fun-packed city break




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My American family couldn’t visit me in London, so we went to ‘London’ in Florida instead

Having lived in London for four years, American Kassondra Cloos thought a trip see her adopted city as imagined by the Wizarding World of Harry Potter in Orlando would be fairly pointless – but instead she finds a home from home that’s suited to even grown-up kids




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'Devoram tudo que encontram': a ilha nos EUA com milhões de serpentes que ameaçam floresta

Guam tem 40 vezes mais aranhas do que as ilhas vizinhas — e uma população de cobras invasoras tão vorazes que acabaram com os pássaros das florestas.





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Majority of Floridians oppose impeachment of President Trump

While the growing majority of House Democrats support impeaching President Trump, and scheduled to take a vote to do so on Thursday, a new NY Times poll shows that while most Americans support an impeachment inquiry, Floridians do not suppose the potential measure.

The post Majority of Floridians oppose impeachment of President Trump appeared first on Shark Tank.




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FEMA Worker Being Scapegoated for Denying Hurricane Aid to Trump Supporters Says It was Agency Policy in Florida and The Carolinas

The FEMA official who was just fired for telling workers to avoid homes impacted by the hurricanes in Florida if they had Trump signs says that it was not “isolated” and that FEMA workers were instructed to do it in the Carolinas too. (X) The American people must get justice. Indict and convict. So, apparently this …




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Open Source Project DeFlock Is Mapping License Plate Surveillance Cameras All Over the World

An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: Flock is one of the largest vendors of automated license plate readers (ALPRs) in the country. The company markets itself as having the goal to fully "eliminate crime" with the use of ALPRs and other connected surveillance cameras, a target experts say is impossible. [...] Flock and automated license plate reader cameras owned by other companies are now in thousands of neighborhoods around the country. Many of these systems talk to each other and plug into other surveillance systems, making it possible to track people all over the country. "It went from me seeing 10 license plate readers to probably seeing 50 or 60 in a few days of driving around," [said Alabama resident and developer Will Freeman]. "I wanted to make a record of these things. I thought, 'Can I make a database of these license plate readers?'" And so he made a map, and called it DeFlock. DeFlock runs on Open Street Map, an open source, editable mapping software. He began posting signs for DeFlock (PDF) to the posts holding up Huntsville's ALPR cameras, and made a post about the project to the Huntsville subreddit, which got good attention from people who lived there. People have been plotting not just Flock ALPRs, but all sorts of ALPRs, all over the world. [...] When I first talked to Freeman, DeFlock had a few dozen cameras mapped in Huntsville and a handful mapped in Southern California and in the Seattle suburbs. A week later, as I write this, DeFlock has crowdsourced the locations of thousands of cameras in dozens of cities across the United States and the world. He said so far more than 1,700 cameras have been reported in the United States and more than 5,600 have been reported around the world. He has also begun scraping parts of Flock's website to give people a better idea of where to look to map them. For example, Flock says that Colton, California, a city with just over 50,000 people outside of San Bernardino, has 677 cameras. People who submit cameras to DeFlock have the ability to note the direction that they are pointing in, which can help people understand how these cameras are being positioned and the strategies that companies and police departments are using when deploying them. For example, all of the cameras in downtown Huntsville are pointing away from the downtown core, meaning they are primarily focused on detecting cars that are entering downtown Huntsville from other areas.

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Climate change supercharged Europe floods - scientists

A new study shows that the record-breaking rainfall was made more likely and intense by climate change.




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'My farm was destroyed by drought then floods - I am confused'

Climate change is wreaking havoc on farmers in Nigeria.




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'Dying of thirst' as climate-driven floods mix with oil

With swathes of South Sudan submerged, a whistleblower warns water sources are being polluted by oil.




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Spain floods: Before and after images show devastation

Satellite images and on-the-ground photos show the scale of destruction caused by the floods.




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FIU Poll: Majority of Floridian Cubans Support And Will Vote For Trump

A majority of Cuban Americans in South Florida support President Trump and are planning to vote for him in November, according to the latest Florida International University poll released Friday. According to the FIU Cuba Poll, it found that 59 percent of registered Cuban American voters will vote for Trump next month, compared to only […]

The post FIU Poll: Majority of Floridian Cubans Support And Will Vote For Trump appeared first on Hispolitica.




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Watch: Barcelona airport and highways hit by flooding

Video shows a flooded terminal inside El Prat airport and partially submerged cars on a highway.




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Watch: Cars washed away as new flash floods hit Spain

There were no immediate reports of casualties after heavy rain on Thursday.




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Protesters call on Valencia governor to resign after deadly floods

People are angry at the authorities' handling of floods which killed more than 200 people.




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News24 | Business as usual at Lebombo border post with traffic flowing between SA and Mozambique after unrest

It was business as usual at the Lebombo border post between SA and Mozambique on Saturday morning, with vehicles moving freely between both countries after a shutdown earlier this week.







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News24 | Patients lie on the floor at Uitenhage hospital - some with serious injuries

Patients lie on the floor at Uitenhage Provincial Hospital in Kariega, some with drips in their veins.




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Nerdiest Interview Ever: MPU Workflows Part II

MPU 046: Workflows with Merlin Mann II « Mac Power Users


I have the life that I have because I've made a lot of weird decisions, and they've worked out well.


Not gonna lie to you. I'm a huge nerd. Surprised?

Yep. I can recite big chunks of The Big Lebowski from memory. I can argue for an hour on the merits of Dick York over Dick Sargent. And, I can—and frequently do—catch myself thinking Catwoman, Batgirl, Princess Leia, and Emma Peel should have a light-hearted pillow fight that ends with an hour of genial french-kissing.

Pretty much like you, probably. I dunno, maybe your version includes Kitty Pryde. Po-tay-to/Po-taht-o, right?

Perhaps most saliently, by virtue of having spent a solid 2,399 days as a Fake Productivity Guru, I have been provided with an unquestionably Janusian monkey's paw of a gift; I now know a lot about workflows. Nerdy, nerdy workflows.

I can tell you a few things that almost always work, I can tell you a handful of things that almost never work, and—best or worst of all—I can tell you thousands of things that might work. Sometimes. Maybe. Kinda. For some people. For now.

And, at the risk of gay-marrying my arrogance to my hypocrisy, I can tell you that I also know enough about the unholy diarrhea of potential options for Theoretical Productivity to share two big patterns:

  1. Getting your workflow right matters.
  2. Getting your workflow right to the exclusion of the actual work is a fool's game.

But. Managing to get the most useful and most elegant and least fiddly mix of 1 and 2 right is super-hard. Especially for nerds. Especially for me.


So, as I type this today, I believe there can be no greater testament to these claims—or, at least, no greater place to test the veracity of these claims for yourself—than in this TWO AND A HALF HOUR-long interview for Mac Power Users.

It is reeeeeeeeally nerdy. Almost intolerably nerdy. Just…overwhelmingly nerdy.

But, man, is it ever really good, and really fat with the most insanely granular details of How I Work.

Lo, even these 928.5 days after officially retiring from productivity pr0n, my desire to not "vend stroke material for your joyless addiction to puns about procrastination and systems for generating more taxonomically satisfying meta-work" is tempered by a (widely under-reported) practical streak.

Yes: I continue to despise empty advice about rearranging deck chairs on The Titanic. But, yes: I do also still very much enjoy talking about how all the tips and tricks can or can't work in the context of work you care about. That matters. It really does.


So. Here goes. A one hundred and forty six minute-long, Joyce-ian amble through the Big Stuff and the Little Stuff. David and Katie were very patient.

How I name text files. Why I break iOS apps. Why I love the letter "x." Why I won't row out to islands any more. How a 115,000 word book manuscript is "like a house full of confederate money." How "The Cloud" broke in New Zealand. How I use MultiMarkdown, Scrivener, TextExpander, OmniFocus, TextMate, Notational Velocity, Dropbox, and an explosive combination of Elements, Notesy, Nebulous, Simplenote, CF Outliner, iThoughts, Instacast, Good Reader, and wow wow wow.

How I try not to fiddle—how I sometimes succeed and often don't. But, how I try.

Anyhow. There you go. A perfectly nerdy bookend to last year's first Magnum Opus MPU interview on these same topics, Mac Power Users Episode 46 is just insanely nerdy. And, what have you.

I hope you like it. I hope it's useful. I hope you don't use it to replace real work.

And, as ever, I really hope Batgirl starts having more sexy pillow fights.

Enjoy. And, God save you.


MPU 046: Workflows with Merlin Mann II « Mac Power Users

Nerdiest Interview Ever: MPU Workflows Part II” was written by Merlin Mann for 43Folders.com and was originally posted on March 27, 2011. Except as noted, it's ©2010 Merlin Mann and licensed for reuse under CC BY-NC-ND 3.0. "Why a footer?"




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Investigation: Waste of the Day – Florida Hospitals Spent $566 Million Caring for Illegal Immigrants

Investigation by Jeremy Portnoy originally published by RealClearInvestigations and RealClearWire Topline: Florida hospitals spent $566 million providing care for illegal immigrants in the last six months of 2023, according to a recent report from the state’s Agency for Healthcare Administration. Key facts: Gov. Ron DeSantis passed a law in May 2023 instructing all hospitals that …





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What is the future of cross-border data flows?

What is the future of cross-border data flows? 16 September 2024 — 6:00PM TO 7:00PM Anonymous (not verified) Chatham House and Online

Navigating long-standing tensions and newfound difficulties for unlocking shared prosperity among modern, digital economies.

Cross-border data flows can unlock shared prosperity among digital economies, advance international security, and address cybercrime and global crises. But ensuring the free flow of data across borders involves navigating complex regulatory, security, trust, political, and technical challenges. Developing effective frameworks and agreements to support data flows is a significant undertaking.

Recent bilateral and multilateral agreements and initiatives have advanced data-sharing, respecting the right to privacy and upholding notions of sovereignty. This has contributed to clearer rules and (potentially) better solutions such as the OECD declaration on government access to data held by companies. Further progress, supportive of public safety and national security, is on the horizon, like G7 support for data free flow with trust and industry-led, trusted cloud principles on protecting human rights and competitiveness.

More work is needed to operationalize commitments and advance ongoing negotiations, like US–EU negotiations on e-evidence in criminal proceedings. This is key for ensuring ‘hard’ legal and regulatory mechanisms complement OECD principles. Stakeholders from law enforcement, national security, data protection and industry must confront tensions between sovereign prerogatives and cooperation. They must also overcome traditional silos between law enforcement and national security work. On the horizon are newfound challenges (for example, in harmonizing legal frameworks and responding to advances in technology). All the while, stakeholders must work together to promote economic interests, data protection, privacy and cybersecurity.

This expert panel discusses the future of cross-border data-sharing, raising questions including:

  • What value does cross-border data-sharing bring and where are its current ‘pain points’?
  • To enable data free flows, how should principles complement ‘hard’ legal and regulatory mechanisms?
  • Beyond states, law enforcement, major industry players and international organizations, what roles should SMEs, the technical community and civil society stakeholders play in shaping and operationalizing principles?
  • Looking ahead, where is progress in data-sharing principles and arrangements expected or possible?

A drinks reception follows the event.

This event is supported by Microsoft as part of a project on data sharing. The project has benefited greatly from the insights of a multi-stakeholder taskforce and concludes with an open-access special issue of the Journal of Cyber Policy.




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Undercurrents: Episode 40 - Illicit Financial Flows, and Geopolitics in the Indo-Pacific




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From geodesic extrapolation to a variational BDF2 scheme for Wasserstein gradient flows

Thomas O. Gallouët, Andrea Natale and Gabriele Todeschi
Math. Comp. 93 (), 2769-2810.
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Characterization of ????-concavity preserved by the Dirichlet heat flow

Kazuhiro Ishige, Paolo Salani and Asuka Takatsu
Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 377 (), 5705-5748.
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Still flooded from Milton, Emerald Lakes homeowners wait – and wait




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She heard knocking beneath the floor of her home for weeks. Police make a disturbing discovery




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Bridge over troubled water - Bushy Park residents construct new walkway after floodwaters sweep away old one

After parking his taxi cab along the sidewalk, Leon Thompson exited his vehicle and held on tightly to the tiny hands of his four small passengers. They all walked towards a makeshift bridge, and Thompson lifted each child, making four trips,...




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Comparison Between Brain and Cerebellar Autoradiography Using [18F]Flortaucipir, [18F]MK6240, and [18F]PI2620 in Postmortem Human Brain Tissue

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Problem Notes for SAS®9 - 66542: The initial loading of a rule set and a rule flow takes significantly longer in SAS Business Rules Manager 3.3 compared with release 3.2

In SAS Business Rules Manager 3.3, the initial loading of a rule set and a rule flow takes significantly longer than it does in release 3.2. When this problem happens, long time gaps are evident in the local




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Problem Notes for SAS®9 - 58465: SAS Life Science Analytics Framework 4.6 - Group membership removal fails with an exception for Process Flows that exist in the Recycle Bin

In SAS Life Science Analytics Framework 4.6, group membership removal fails with an exception if a user is set as assignee, a candidate, or a notification recipient in a user task for a Process Flow . The Process




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Problem Notes for SAS®9 - 66095: The message "ERROR: Could not move and link one or more files to..." occurs while running a job-flow instance

In SAS Infrastructure for Risk Management, the message "ERROR: Could not move and link one or more files to..." occurs while running a job-flow instance if an orphaned folder exists in the persistent area.




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Problem Notes for SAS®9 - 66494: A SAS Real-Time Decision Manager flow cannot be opened

In SAS Customer Intelligence, a decision campaign can become corrupted and impossible to open. When you try to open the campaign, an error message is displayed that asks you to check the SAS Customer Intel




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WITHDRAWN: Structural and mechanistic studies of hydroperoxide conversions catalyzed by a CYP74 clan epoxy alcohol synthase from amphioxus (Branchiostoma floridae) [Research Articles]

This manuscript has been withdrawn by the Author.




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Quelle est la meilleure recette minceur à base de biscuits aux flocons d’avoine ?

Pour beaucoup de personnes, la perte de poids rime obligatoirement avec une période de privation. Mais contrairement à ces idées reçues, il est bien possible d’observer un régime pour perdre du poids tout en vous faisant plaisir. Découvrez notre recette minceur de biscuits croquants sans beurre aux flocons d’avoine qui raviront vos papilles sans pour autant vous apporter […]

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U. of Florida football to keep coach Billy Napier despite lackluster record

Billy Napier will remain in place as head football coach at Florida, despite the Gators producing another lackluster campaign during his third season, athletic director Scott Stricklin announced Thursday.




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Kangaroo captured after three weeks on the loose in Florida

A kangaroo that escaped from its Florida enclosure while fleeing from a bear has been safely returned home three weeks later.




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Haiqu Releases Open-Source Rivet for Quantum Workflow Execution

June 24, 2024 — Haiqu, a quantum computing startup, announced the release of its new open-source toolkit – Rivet. This new toolkit is made to help developers streamline the execution of […]

The post Haiqu Releases Open-Source Rivet for Quantum Workflow Execution appeared first on HPCwire.





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ALCF Team Wins 1st Place and Best Workflow at 2023 IEEE SciVis Contest

Nov. 2, 2023 — Researchers from the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF), the University of St. Thomas, and the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) won first place and “best workflow” […]

The post ALCF Team Wins 1st Place and Best Workflow at 2023 IEEE SciVis Contest appeared first on HPCwire.




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Famous birthdays for Nov. 11: Leonardo DiCaprio, Calista Flockhart

Actor Leonardo DiCaprio turns 50 and actor Calista Flockhart turns 60, among the famous birthdays for Nov. 11.




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SpaceX matches launch record with Starlink mission liftoff from Florida

SpaceX launched 23 Starlink satellites from Cape Canaveral Space Force Center on Wednesday to match its own record of launches in one year.




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Virus worries latest hurdle in Florida school shooting case




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Florida mayors plead with governor to take action on virus