If you have the opportunity, check out the Esopus Spitzenburg apple (discovered in the Hudson River valley). It's really tasty - aromatic and tart.
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Be sure to click through to the Atlas Obscura article, which is better.
Thank you for this!
The Ninth Circuit's Stunner in Rosenow, and Thoughts on the Way Forward
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> doola is a financial technology company and is not a bank. Banking services provided by Piermont Bank; Member FDIC.
How does the actual bank fulfill KYC/AML requirements in this scenario?
Writer’s essay on why she plagiarized her book removed for plagiarism
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The optical performance of the telescope continues to be better than the engineering team’s most optimistic predictions. ... The image quality delivered to all instruments is “diffraction-limited,” meaning that the fineness of detail that can be seen is as good as physically possible given the size of the telescope.
Congratulations, Webb team!
Photographic prints were re-shot through halftone[0] film (or 'screen') producing a 'screened' version of the image, with dots at various sizes instead of continuous tones. The screened image was then used to expose a sensitized plate, which would be developed to produce a half-toned negative in metal. The high spots took ink and carried it to the paper. More dots, more ink -> darker.
Typical newspapers might use a screen with 80 dots per inch because they are running very fast and using cruddy paper. Art printers on shiny clay paper use much finer screens and get results approaching the original prints.
As a new rider I was surprised to find that when it's hot enough, going fast on a motorcycle is not cooling; you're just moving through more hot air. The only way to cool off is to ride to the mountains.
> fiber7 costs only 65 CHF per month and comes with a symmetric 1 Gbit/s connection.
65 CHF = US $67.89
The big ORM-D* sticker was a pretty good clue as well.
*'Other Regulated Materials - Domestic'
Concise, on point, unexpected - a perfect specimen.
There's a significant downside to congregating (e.g.) solitary bees - they can get cleaned out by predators. We had every tube in a 30-tube hotel opened and emptied over a weekend by some kind of parasitoid wasp.
Now we leave old flower stalks up over the winter.
> were never as good as I wanted them to be
It's kind of like chess - hours to learn, a lifetime to master.
I've made thousands of b&w prints and there are two, maybe three, that I thought were as good as they could possibly be.
In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, nor to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to.
- 'Theodore Dalrymple' (Dr. Anthony Daniels)
The remaining XB-70 would be reason enough to visit the US AF Museum (Dayton, Ohio) - it's a stunning plane. That said, the museum is easily worth two days.
Yep, Passover Coke with cane sugar comes in 2L bottles with a yellow cap.
That plugboard brings back long-suppressed nightmares of bad wire-wrapping jobs.
Maybe they don't need to go to bat for you; maybe they just don't jump on the chance to throw you under the bus.
Edwardian Life: Lost Photographs
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