Archive for August, 2023

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Proud Boys leaders sentenced to a combined 32 years for Jan. 6 riot — NPR

Joseph Biggs and Zachary Rehl were convicted alongside former Proud Boys national chairman Enrique Tarrio and other fellow members of the group.

https://www.npr.org/2023/08/31/1196972258/proud-boys-sentence-jan-6-joseph-biggs

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US military plans to unleash thousands of autonomous war robots over next two years

The United States military plans to start using thousands of autonomous weapons systems in the next two years in a bid to counter China's growing power, US Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks announced in a speech on Monday.

https://techxplore.com/news/2023-08-military-unleash-thousands-autonomous-war.html

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Pressure grows on Clarence Thomas after more gifts from rightwing donor — Guardian US

Disclosures detail more flights and stays with Harlan Crow as Democrats vow to investigate scandal ‘in which this court is enmired’

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/31/clarence-thomas-gifts-harlan-crow-supreme-court

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‘I shot him’: Court orders 84-year-old to stand trial in Ralph Yarl shooting — The Kansas City Star

Andrew Lester will stand trial in the shootng of Ralph Yarl, a Clay County judge ordered following a preliminary hearing Thursday.

https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/crime/article278813394.html

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Educational Sensational Inspirational Foundational

A historical record of foundational web development blog posts.

https://esif.dev/

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US driver pulled over with huge African bull riding shotgun in car

Converted vehicle stopped in Nebraska with gigantic-horned Watusi bovine called Howdy Doody as passenger

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/31/bull-car-riding-shotgun-nebraska-watusi

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Tailwind, and the death of web craftsmanship

There's a worrying trend in modern web development, where developers are throwing away decades of carefully wrought systems for a bit of perceived convenience. Tools such as Tailwind CSS seem to be spreading like wildfire, with very few people ever willing to acknowledge the regression they bring to our field. And I'm getting tired of it

https://pdx.su/blog/2023-07-26-tailwind-and-the-death-of-craftsmanship/

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Project delay swings playground to 2024 install

The long-anticipated and discussed Riverside Park playground will not be in place this year. It is hoped that the project will be completed in time for Blossom Time, 2024.

http://www.chagrinvalleytoday.com/editions/chagrin_valley_times/article_2fdbfbaa-4758-11ee-9346-eb1dd2527502.html

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Slow process for DORA may include community input

The process of the village doing its due diligence with regards to Designated Outdoor Refreshment Areas, referred to as DORAs, is a slow one, with input from the downtown merchants

http://www.chagrinvalleytoday.com/communities/article_6cd59042-4759-11ee-953b-dfa908584d45.html

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Park’s passive designation emphasized by commission

Steps continue for the future Grove Hill Park, with Grove Hill Commission members reiterating last week the passive park atmosphere they desire when it comes to play elements.

http://www.chagrinvalleytoday.com/communities/article_b38b8d98-4759-11ee-89f8-9bc1938b3f69.html

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You Are Not The Man In The Arena

On a 1910 trip to Paris, Theodore Roosevelt delivered his famous speech about “The Man In The Arena,” which has since been widely adopted by a very specific kind of Silicon Valley cretin. It’s quite a long speech, but here’s the part that they love to share:

https://wheresyoured.at/p/you-are-not-the-man-in-the-arena

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OSM River Basins

A unique, topological, view on rivers & waterways in OpenStreetMap, showing how they are connected. Find mistakes and make better maps.

https://amandasaurus.github.io/osm-river-basins/#map=2/0/0

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BREAKING | Dundee-Crown High School on Lockdown

BREAKING | Dundee-Crown High School is on lockdown while police clear the building.This is a developing story.https://wgntv.com/https://wgntv.com/news/wgn-ne...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htEI3hMK7d0

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Soft Cell’s ‘Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret’ Set To Return In Super Deluxe Form

Soft Cell's legendary 1981 debut 'Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret' is set to be reissued in super deluxe 6-CD form on October 20, 2023

https://www.udiscovermusic.com/news/soft-cell-non-stop-erotic-cabaret-super-deluxe/

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Kremlin says Prigozhin plane may have been downed on purpose — Reuters

The Kremlin said on Wednesday that investigators were considering the possibility that the plane carrying mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin was downed on purpose, the first explicit acknowledgement that he may have been assassinated.

https://reuters.com/world/europe/kremlin-says-prigozhin-plane-crash-may-have-been-caused-deliberately-2023-08-30/

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Farmers Insurance Laying Off 11% of Workforce, Citing Industry Challenges

Farmers Insurance announced it will part ways with approximately 2,400 employees – 11% of its workforce across all lines of business. "Decisions like

https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2023/08/28/738095.htm

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A Sperm Donor Chases a Role in the Lives of the 96 Children He Fathered — The Wall Street Journal

It’s become easier to find the identities of sperm donors. The loss of anonymity can open up complicated questions about boundaries, responsibilities and sometimes ambivalent relationships.

https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/relationships/sperm-donor-family-children-146617c8

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The EPA removes federal protections for most of the country's wetlands — NPR

The amended EPA rule is to comply with a Supreme Court ruling this year that narrowed the scope of the Clean Water Act and the agency's power to regulate waterways and wetlands.

https://www.npr.org/2023/08/29/1196654382/epa-wetlands-waterways-supreme-court

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New school bus routes a 'disaster,' Kentucky superintendent admits. Last kids got home at 10 pm

Kentucky’s largest school system has cancelled the second and third day of school after a disastrous overhaul of the transportation system.

https://apnews.com/article/kentucky-school-bus-delays-jefferson-louisville-8a8e37aa62012c4f53d8d3ddf06dcac9

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‘Everything Is Alive’ by Slowdive Review: A Second-Act Success — The Wall Street Journal

The shoegaze group, which emerged in the ’90s only to go dormant for years, follows its 2017 comeback album with a more spare and mellow record.

https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/music/everything-is-alive-by-slowdive-review-a-bands-second-act-success-shoegaze-5d336645

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Chagrin Falls Schools to add security officers

Chagrin Falls Schools is planning to add school security officers to Gurney Elementary School and Chagrin Falls Intermediate School.

https://www.cleveland.com/news/2023/08/chagrin-falls-schools-planning-to-add-school-safety-officers.html

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Flag Color Codes HEX, RGB, CMYK, HSL & HSV

Explore flag color codes, such as HEX, RGB, CMYK, HSL, and HSV. Get more details about all the flags in our database.

https://flagpalette.com/

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ODOT: You Need To Fund Portland’s Billion Bollards Club

A billion bollards! That’s what we called for back in 2021—and one Strong Towns Local Conversation is answering the call. Now the Oregon Department of Transportation just needs to get onboard.

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2023/8/28/odot-you-need-to-fund-portlands-billion-bollards-club

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HISD to eliminate librarians, turn some libraries into discipline centers at 28 campuses

Houston Independent School District will be eliminating librarian positions at 28 schools this upcoming year and utilizing some of the libraries as ‘Team Centers” where kids with behavioral issues will be sent, the district announced.

https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2023/07/26/hisd-to-eliminate-librarians-turn-libraries-into-discipline-centers-at-28-campuses/

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When Kraftwerk Issued Their Own Pocket Calculator Synthesizer — to Play Their Song “Pocket Calculator” (1981)

Kraftwerk put out their eighth studio album in 1981, and they titled it presciently: Computer World was released into what humanity had only just begun to realize would become a world of computers.

https://www.openculture.com/2019/06/when-kraftwerk-issued-their-own-pocket-calculator-synthesizer.html

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Shaping isn't writing

Shaping isn't writing. It's not filling out a template or creating a document. It's getting to that "a-ha" moment together where the parts crystalize and we have something that will work. (Plus an example of how messy a real shaping session looks.)

https://www.feltpresence.com/shaping-isnt-writing/

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Wagner Group chief Yevgeny Prigozhin confirmed dead after genetic analysis, Russian officials say — NBC News

The Russian investigative committee said in a statement Sunday that the “the identities of all 10 dead were established” from last week's plane crash north of Moscow.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/wagner-chief-prigozhin-confirmed-dead-genetic-analysis-plane-crash-rcna102004

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How a Public Health Approach to Road Safety Could Save Lives

New research describes transportation engineers as part of the public health workforce, and argues they should emphasize strategies that reduce risk for greater proportions of the population.

https://www.governing.com/transportation/how-a-public-health-approach-to-road-safety-could-save-lives?apcid=0060f5c543b5b5bba5561f01

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Why Are We So Obsessed With Wegmans? - Philadelphia Magazine

Why do suburbanites go completely bonkers when a new grocery store comes to town? It’s less about what we want to eat and more about who we want to be.

https://www.phillymag.com/news/2023/08/24/wegmans-suburbs-opening/?apcid=0060f5c543b5b5bba5561f01

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3 people dead after gunman targeted Black people in Jacksonville, Florida, officials say — CNN

Three people were shot and killed Saturday at a Dollar General store in Jacksonville, Florida, in what law enforcement described as a racially motivated incident.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/26/us/jacksonville-florida-shooting-multiple-fatalities/index.html

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wavefont

Typeface for rendering waveform/data

https://dy.github.io/wavefont/

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Pentagon protested false Fox News report about fallen Marine, emails show — The Washington Post

Fox News quietly removed the story about Sgt. Nicole Gee’s burial expenses based on false claims from Rep. Cory Mills but did not apologize or correct it.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2023/08/26/fox-news-retracts-marine-story-nicole-gee/

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Power Outage Update: From First Energy

Contact the electric company for specific details about your service. Power restoration information plus more may be found at: https://firstenergycorp…

https://www.chagrin-falls.org/civicalerts.aspx?AID=45

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Admiration makes the team

When people talk about great teams, they'll talk about hard work, trust, respect, looking out for one another, etc. All good things. But there's one quality amongst teammates on great teams that often goes unrecognized by all but the most astute organizational observers: Admiration. Great teams are made of people who *admire* one anoth...

https://world.hey.com/jason/admiration-makes-the-team-a26570c3

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Government Stupidity Is By Design

Unwinding forty years of booby trapped bureaucracies takes time, but it's happening. And the billionaires are noticing.

https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/government-stupidity-is-by-design

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What we know about the crashed Russian plane that listed Prigozhin as passenger — The Washington Post

Yevgeniy Prigozhin and Dmitry Utkin, his deputy in the Wagner mercenary group, were listed on the manifest of a flight that crashed, killing all 10 on board.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/08/24/russian-plane-crash-passengers-prigozhin-dmitry-utkin/

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Nick Iacampo sexual battery charge dismissed

A felony sexual battery charge against Chester Township Police Officer and former West Geauga High School Resource Officer Nick Iacampo was formally dropped Friday morning in Chardon Municipal Court.

http://www.chagrinvalleytoday.com/editions/geauga_times_courier/article_d58c5c4c-41e1-11ee-b266-83be11bafe26.html

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Budget Commission says county has too much cash

This week, the Geauga County Budget Commission tabled the county’s annual tax budget submission, arguing that the county has too much cash and misrepresented the amount in its submission.

http://www.chagrinvalleytoday.com/editions/geauga_times_courier/article_efdd37b0-41e1-11ee-87fb-fbad0a68d274.html

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Window on Main Street: Why you may not live in Chagrin Falls

Please accept my apologies for what I am about to say. Again! It is not what many of you want to hear. Again! I get it. You will complain that

http://www.chagrinvalleytoday.com/viewpoint/columnists/article_52a2a85a-41db-11ee-a0da-ab0c9bfc86de.html

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Teachers union, board find ‘some’ common ground

Chagrin Falls teachers were back in the classroom today to begin the 2023-2024 school year following a closed-door meeting last week between the Chagrin Falls Education Association (CFEA) and Chagrin

http://www.chagrinvalleytoday.com/editions/chagrin_valley_times/article_0463f222-41d9-11ee-810f-bfa77dcf8b3b.html

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Kenston superintendent says PI levy will bring long-term financial stability

Kenston Superintendent Steven Sayers said this week that funds generated from the upcoming permanent improvement (PI) levy will enable the district to focus on permanent improvements while streamlining its operations

http://www.chagrinvalleytoday.com/editions/chagrin_valley_times/article_0f0a8c6c-41da-11ee-bff0-a7ec179586dc.html

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Downtown Chagrin Falls crosswalk safety is a major concern

Crosswalk safety, especially in the downtown, has been an ongoing focus of Chagrin Falls village officials and safety forces following an incident earlier this month in which two pedestrians were

http://www.chagrinvalleytoday.com/communities/article_b04aea78-41de-11ee-87ad-1f5fef744b43.html

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Everyone Involved Was Following The Law

Illegal driving, reckless driving, and unsafe driving are three different things. Most drivers don’t intuit the difference, but our system and our traffic engineers should if they want to help prevent deadly outcomes.

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2023/8/23/everyone-involved-was-following-the-law?apcid=0060f5c543b5b5bba5561f01

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Scatter

Scatter. Scatter is the silent killer at work. Scatter is tools siloed by teams. Scatter is multiple apps to do one thing. Scatter is doing the same thing at the same time in multiple places. Scatter is asking around rather than doing it right now. Scatter is pulling people off this to jump on that. Scatter is wondering where something...

https://world.hey.com/jason/scatter-8a4a1e4a

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Philadelphia officer seen in video fatally shooting man seconds after police arrive will be fired, authorities say — NBC News

Eddie Jose Irizarry, 27,, was shot and killed on Aug. 14 after police said they saw him driving erratically. Attorney's say the video contradicts official claims that Irizarry lunged at police.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/video-shows-philadelphia-police-fatally-shoot-man-seconds-officer-step-rcna101374

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Officials say a jet crash in Russia kills 10 and Wagner chief was on passenger list

A business jet en route from Moscow to St. Petersburg has crashed Wednesday, killing all ten people on board, Russian emergency officials said. Officials say mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin was on the passenger list, but it wasn’t immediately clear if he was on board.

https://apnews.com/article/russia-wagner-prigozhin-jet-crash-a7859e4e57f2efa2547dfbe5bdbaa1b2

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The Historic Bancroft Home - Chagrin Falls, Ohio - Architectural Afterlife

The Bancroft home in Chagrin Falls is easily one of the most notable, and recognizable historic structures within the community. Standing tall atop Grove

https://architecturalafterlife.com/2022/04/bancroft-home-chagrin-falls/?amp=1

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Nearly A Third of Downtown Salt Lake City is Covered in Parking

Nearly 1 in every 3 acres in the broader Downtown area in Salt Lake City is covered in parking, according to new research shared on Monday.

https://buildingsaltlake.com/heres-how-much-of-downtown-salt-lake-city-is-covered-in-car-parking/

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This 1919 Cartoon Depicting the Use of a ‘Pocket Telephone’

In March 1919, the Daily Mirror newspaper published a cartoon by the English cartoonist and caricaturist, William Kerridge Haselden (1872–1...

https://www.vintag.es/2023/08/the-pocket-telephone.html

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97% of Detroit Taxpayers To Get a Reduction in Property Taxes

Detroit’s mayor is endorsing a land value tax plan that could lead to 97% of the city’s homeowners getting a 30% reduction in their taxes.

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2023/8/14/97-of-detroit-taxpayers-to-get-a-reduction-in-property-taxes?apcid=0060f5c543b5b5bba5561f01

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Trump promised this Wisconsin town a manufacturing boom. It never arrived. — The Washington Post

A half-hour from Milwaukee in Mount Pleasant, facilities owned by Taiwanese manufacturer Foxconn have not made good on promises touted by President Donald Trump.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/08/22/foxconn-wisconsin-trump/

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Blue-light glasses may not reduce eyestrain from screens, study says

Blue-light filtering glasses may not reduce eyestrain linked with computer use. Their effect on sleep quality and eye health is also unclear, researchers say.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2023/08/17/blue-light-filter-glasses-eye/

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Aphex Twin at Field Day review with Bonobo, Fever Ray - ‘Punishing set closes day of dance and electronica’

Field Day took over Victoria Park for a day of electro and dance on Saturday, August 19, headlined by Aphex Twin and Bonobo.

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/aphex-twin-bonobo-fever-ray-221849674.html

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Marion prosecutor’s sister-in-law holds expiring liquor license that helped ignite furor

Marion County Attorney Joel Ensey will decide whether to bring criminal charges in the investigation that led to the raid of the Marion County Record.

https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article278388049.html

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She hung a Pride flag at her shop. She was killed over it, officials say. — The Washington Post

Laura Carleton hung a Pride flag outside her California clothing store, Mag.pi. A man fatally shot her after criticizing the flag, the sheriff’s department said.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/08/21/pride-flag-store-shooting-california/

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Linear-GitHub Sync

Full end-to-end sync of Linear tickets and GitHub issues. An open-source project by Cal.com and Neat.run.

https://synclinear.com/

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Confidential affidavits detail reasoning for police raid of Kansas newspaper — The Washington Post

The search of the Marion Record’s offices had its origins in a dispute between a restaurant owner and her estranged husband, records and interviews show.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2023/08/19/confidential-affidavits-detail-reasoning-police-raid-kansas-newspaper/

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The real story behind that photo of a weirdly unscathed house in the rubble of Lahaina — Los Angeles Times

A red-roofed house appears untouched amid the devastation of the Lahaina fire. Its owner says recent renovations may have helped make it fireproof.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-08-18/how-did-the-red-house-survive-the-lahaina-fire

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Amsterdam to use "noise cameras" against too loud cars

Amsterdam has started the fight against noisy motorcycles and cars. On Friday, the city placed electric road signs in two places to warn road users if their vehicles are too loud. The warnings will eventually be replaced by “noise cameras,” which, like speed cameras, automatically send a fine to the offending driver, Parool reports.

https://nltimes.nl/2023/08/11/amsterdam-use-noise-cameras-loud-cars

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Chagrin Falls upgrades baseball field at River Run Park

Renovations have started at the baseball field at River Run Park in Chagrin Falls, in addition to new picnic tables and "coyotes" installed at Riverside Park.

https://www.cleveland.com/news/2023/08/chagrin-falls-upgrades-baseball-field-at-river-run-and-makes-additions-to-riverside-park.html

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Walt Disney’s Corporate Strategy Chart

From 1957, this is a drawing of the synergistic strategy of Walt Disney Productions, or what Todd Zenger of Harvard Business Revie

https://kottke.org/15/06/walt-disneys-corporate-strategy-chart

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Remember when Mickey Mouse decided to commit suicide?

Unless you lived in the 1930s or are a fan of vintage comic strips you might not be aware of the attempted Mickey Mouse suicide. But it was a very real thing that ran in the Mickey Mouse comic strip from October 8th to the 24th of 1930. It is a grim series of strips, with a happy ending, that really demonstrate how culture and entertainment, especially surrounding death, have changed over the years.

https://www.retroist.com/p/mickey-mouse-suicide

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Uncured bacon really isn’t a better alternative. It’s still bacon.

Little practical difference exists between cured and uncured bacon in terms of health. Both are cured in the true sense of the word, meaning they are preserved.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2023/08/14/uncured-bacon-health-nitrites/

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Short session expiration does not help security

When logged into a web application, the session does not remain valid forever. Typically, the session expires after a fixed time after login, or after the user has been idle for some time. How long should these times be?

https://www.sjoerdlangkemper.nl/2023/08/16/session-timeout/

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Threats, slurs and menace: Far-right websites target Fulton County grand jurors — NPR

Some far-right websites are circulating addresses supposedly of grand jurors involved in the Fulton County indictment of former President Donald Trump. Their calls for violence are causing alarm.

https://www.npr.org/2023/08/18/1194471162/trump-indictment-fulton-county-grand-jurors-threats

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Make Hollywood Great Again

FTC Chair Lina Khan talks to Hollywood strikers. Meanwhile the Writer's Guild, and the chattering class in Tinseltown, begin calling for the break-up of the studios.

https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/make-hollywood-great-again

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The Shawshank Redemption and The Bends by Radiohead

The Bends has always been the unofficial soundtrack to The Shawshank Redemption for me.

https://www.albumofrecord.com/p/the-shawshank-redemption-and-the

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The genius plan that could bring down skyrocketing home prices — Business Insider

Imagine a bustling neighborhood with a mix of single-family homes, triplexes, apartment buildings, businesses, and public amenities. Rent growth is slow, home prices are reasonable, and there are plenty of affordable-housing options. Families, young people, retired folks, and businesses are all able to coexist, making the area diverse and vibrant. Unfortunately, most American neighborhoods don't look like this. Instead, huge parts of the country have zoning laws that make it illegal to build

https://www.businessinsider.com/america-lower-rents-home-prices-build-more-houses-new-zealand-2023-8

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David Byrne Regrets Talking Heads' Bitter Split: 'I Was a Little Tyrant' — Variety

The forthcoming re-release of the Talking Heads' 1984 classic "Stop Making Sense" -- which is universally regarded as one of the greatest concert films ever made -- has put the long-defunct group more in the spotlight than they've been in decades. A day after it was announced that the four members will be onstage together for the first time since 2002 for a Q&A at the Toronto Film Festival, frontman/songwriter David Byrne has expressed some regret over the group's contentious split in the late

https://variety.com/2023/music/news/david-byrne-regrets-talking-heads-split-little-tyrant-1235698801/

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The Man Who Made the Suburbs White — Slate

J.C. Nichols pioneered racial covenants in Kansas City’s surrounding enclaves. The country is still grappling with them.

https://slate.com/business/2023/08/jc-nichols-covenants-segregation-development-zoning.html

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Management of Nuisance Geese on School Properties and Public Spaces

Abstract. Conflicts with Canada geese (Branta canadensis) (Linnaeus, 1758, Anseriformes, Anatidae) have increased during the past three decades. Goose conflicts

https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jipm/pmac025

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Opinion: How American vs. Danish Pedestrian Laws Stack Up

The subtle wording of American pedestrian safety laws reveals a lot about whose lives we prioritize on our roads — especially compared with the same policies in Denmark.

https://usa.streetsblog.org/2023/08/17/opinion-how-american-vs-danish-pedestrian-laws-stack-up

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Beyond 'KSI': How DOT Can Identify Unsafe Streets Before Tragedy Strikes - Streetsblog New York City

Is there a better guide for safety redesigns than the total number of people killed or severely injured at any given location?

https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2023/08/17/beyond-ksi-identify-unsafe-streets

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Talking Heads to reunite for Stop Making Sense live Q&A

Talking Heads’ David Byrne, Tina Weymouth, Chris Frantz, and Jerry Harrison will reunite for a live Q&A celebrating the 40th anniversary of Stop Making Sense.

https://consequence.net/2023/08/talking-heads-to-reunite-for-stop-making-sense-live-qa/

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OAPSE, board meeting deemed ‘productive’

Five members of the Ohio Association of Public School Employees (OAPSE) spent three hours Monday behind closed doors with the Chagrin Falls Board of Education and district administration, nearly three

http://www.chagrinvalleytoday.com/editions/chagrin_valley_times/article_d9426b38-3c5a-11ee-af31-6fac0f2c0e42.html

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Columbarium at Evergreen Hill Cemetery need is growing, too

While a moratorium remains in place until next month on pre-need in-ground graves for Evergreen Hill Cemetery in light of capacity issues, above-ground burial space for cremations is filling fast

http://www.chagrinvalleytoday.com/communities/article_04e9f818-3c5c-11ee-a197-c758b9827a04.html

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All sidewalk options are on the table, committee says

About 40 residents living along Carriage Stone and Monticello drives packed council chambers last week for a meeting of the Streets and Sidewalks Committee to hear plans of a potential

http://www.chagrinvalleytoday.com/communities/article_3cb2d468-3c5c-11ee-95ad-4fddec1346dd.html

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Warrant for Kansas newspaper raid withdrawn by prosecutor for ‘insufficient evidence’ — The Kansas City Star

The Marion County, Kansas prosecutor withdrew the search warrants for the police raid of the Marion County Record & is returning computers.

https://www.kansascity.com/news/state/kansas/article278300178.html

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Special counsel obtained Trump's Twitter direct messages — The Hill

Special counsel Jack Smith sought to review former President Trump’s direct messages, draft tweets, and location information as his office battled for information related to his account on the platform now known as X.

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4155004-special-counsel-obtained-trumps-twitter-direct-messages/

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Three "what about...?" questions when considering Shape Up

Questions about roadmaps, betting at the last minute, iterations, and how shipping what we intended is like driving a car.

https://www.feltpresence.com/three-what-abouts/

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Six Changes To Look Out For in the Next Edition of the MUTCD

The Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices is getting its first update in over a century. Will it make people who move outside of cars safer, or endanger them even more?

https://usa.streetsblog.org/2023/08/16/six-changes-to-look-out-for-in-the-next-edition-of-the-mutcd

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Mike Kurzinger pleads ‘not guilty’

Geauga County Department of Water Resources Network Administrator Mike Kurzinger pleaded not guilty at his arraignment Wednesday morning before Judge Carolyn Paschke in Geauga County Common Pleas Court.

http://www.chagrinvalleytoday.com/editions/geauga_times_courier/article_05546b0e-3166-11ee-b96c-b708bb45067a.html

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Joann Meyer, Longtime Editor of a Besieged Newspaper, Dies at 98

She collapsed a day after the police raided her home and the offices of The Marion County Record, a weekly paper in Kansas.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/15/business/media/joann-meyer-dead.html

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Sask. engineer slapped with an 18-month suspension after designing bridge that collapsed hours after opening | CBC News

The engineer's suspension ends this December because it is backdated to when he was first ordered to pause his work as a professional engineer in the province.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/engineer-18-month-suspension-bridge-collapsed-1.6936657

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Incredible Shots Show The Pilots Ejecting From The MiG-23 During Airshow In Michigan

Photographer Scott Belanger took some impressive shots of the pilots ejecting from the MiG-23 Flogger that crashed at Thunder Over Michigan airshow. As reported in detail, two pilots successfully ejected from a privately owned two-seat MiG-23UB Flogger, registration N23UB/1038107, on Aug. 13, 2023. The aircraft was taking part in the Thunder Over Michigan airshow at

https://theaviationist.com/2023/08/15/incredible-shots-show-the-pilots-ejecting-from-the-mig-23-during-airshow-in-michigan/

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Vitra Design Museum Explores 200 Years of Chair Design

Vitra Design Museum has debuted Chair Times, a 90-minute film that describes the history of seating furniture.

https://www.archdaily.com/939135/vitra-design-museum-explores-200-years-of-chair-design

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How to create isometric diagrams using SVG

Looking to create interactive isometric diagrams? Here's a method to create and implement them using the open source library JointJS.

https://www.jointjs.com/blog/isometric-diagrams

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A police raid of a Kansas newsroom raises alarms about violations of press freedom

Law enforcement officers raided the office of a local newspaper and a journalist's home. First Amendment experts are calling it a likely violation of federal law.

https://www.npr.org/2023/08/14/1193676139/newspaper-marion-county-kansas-police-raid-first-amendment

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How great ideas happen and how they get built | Ryan Singer (Basecamp, Shape Up, Felt Presence)

I sat down with Ryan Singer, the Head of Strategy at Basecamp for 17 years, and author of Shape Up, one of the holy grails for product builders. A builder at...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYdcMeAWv0o

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Chagrin Falls council bans cell phones while driving, pushes to keep Intermediate School: Village Council recap

Chagrin Falls Village Council unanimously passed an ordinance banning cell phone use while driving and asked the school board to keeping Intermediate School rather than building new.

https://www.cleveland.com/chagrin-valley/2015/03/chagrin_falls_council_unanimou.html

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Shaping Up Your Development Process With Shape Up — Martin Snyder

37signals pioneered “Shape Up” a macro-level methodology focused on product/engineering collaboration, which was developed by their former Head of Strategy, ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kh1n69gFbOY

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‘What you rapping all Yorkshire for?’ How Leeds defied the doubters to become a hip-hop haven

As a new rap exhibition opens in the city, west Yorkshire’s MCs remember how body popping gave way to bleak social commentary – and rap battles in their underpants

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/aug/07/leeds-hip-hop-exhibition

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S.B.F. is leaving campus. But Stanford’s ties to his case are deeper than previously known

Alleged fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried, his parents and a close circle of friends are fighting a slew of legal cases. Their relationships to Stanford are everywhere — and ongoing.

https://stanforddaily.com/2023/08/13/s-b-f-is-leaving-campus-but-stanfords-ties-to-his-case-are-deeper-than-previously-known/

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TBM 234: Maintenance, KTLO, and BAU

I've always been bothered by how teams use words and phrases like maintenance, keeping the lights on (KTLO), and business as usual. I get what they mean, but there always seems to be a stigma around this work. This is problematic because work in this category is often the highest leverage/value work a team might tackle.

https://cutlefish.substack.com/p/tbm-234-maintenance-ktlo-and-bau

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Police defend raid on Kansas newspaper amid backlash over 'brazen violation of press freedom' — Kansas Reflector

TOPEKA — Marion police on Saturday defended their unprecedented raid on a newspaper office and the publisher’s home by pointing to a loophole in federal law that protects journalists from searches and seizures.

https://kansasreflector.com/2023/08/12/police-defend-raid-on-kansas-newspaper-amid-backlash-over-brazen-violation-of-press-freedom/

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Raid of Small Kansas Newspaper Raises Free Press Concerns

The search of the Marion County Record led to the seizure of computers, servers and cellphones of reporters and editors.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/13/business/media/kansas-marion-newspaper-police-raid.html

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testing your animation refresh rate with css crimes??

(Seems to behave weirdly on multi-monitor mixed-refresh-rate setups. Also, if you use Reduced Motion, make sure to turn it off for the animation to work) To read it, look for the lowest number which isn’t turning and which appears in dark text (ie isn’t flickering on alternate frames). Original version, supports 30/48/50/60/90/120/144hz: Warning: flickering imagery, open at your discretion. A zoetrope-like disc covered with numbers carefully arranged in patterns. As it spins, the viewer's refresh rate remains visually stable amidst a flurry of other dancing numbers. [https://moonbase.lgbt/misc/cohost/2465593/wheel2.png] Even more ridiculous harder-to-read version, supports all of the above plus 75hz: Warning: flickering imagery, open at your discretion. A zoetrope-like disc covered with numbers carefully arranged in patterns. As it spins, the viewer's refresh rate remains visually stable amidst a flurry of other dancing numbers. [https://moonbase.lgbt/misc/cohost/2465593/wheel3.png]

https://cohost.org/lunasorcery/post/2465593-testing-your-animati

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Raid on Marion County, Kansas, newspaper shows why would-be tyrants fear journalists | Opinion

The publisher of this small-town news outlet is doing the work democracy demands. And he should sue police who tried to shut him down. | Opinion

https://www.kansascity.com/opinion/readers-opinion/guest-commentary/article278204212.html

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Ryan Singer: "Scaling Shape Up Beyond Bootstrapped Companies" | LPC Madrid 2023

Ryan Singer es desarrollador de productos, asesor, constructor y autor de “Shape Up”. Un libro que cambió la forma en que muchos equipos de software hablan s...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XG4HxI1hZOA

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Episode 53: Shape Up: Agile

In this episode, we delve into the innovative "Shape Up" methodology, a brainchild of Ryan Singer from the renowned software firm 37 signals, now known as Ba...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSyac7KVPJE

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Live in Brooklyn 2011 — Pitchfork

Dissolving three decades of music into a 17-song noise opera, this pivotal live album captures a peerless set from a band who knew its days were numbered.

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/sonic-youth-live-in-brooklyn-2011

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‘100,000 people are about to lose their minds!’ Four Tet on being the world’s unlikeliest superstar DJ — Guardian US

Kieran Hebden is now playing arenas in a bromance with Fred Again and Skrillex. In a rare interview, he talks authenticity, bootlegging Taylor Swift – and his landmark legal battle with his old label

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/aug/11/100000-people-are-about-to-lose-their-minds-four-tet-on-being-the-worlds-unlikeliest-superstar-dj

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Hell Hath No Fury Like a Writer Who Gets a Speeding Ticket

David Simon, creator of “The Wire,” was livid that he got a $50 ticket for going 36 miles per hour in a school zone. His response drew a lot of responses.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/11/nyregion/david-simon-wire-speeding-ticket.html

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Men charged in Montgomery brawl had been ‘trouble’ for riverboat, captain says

Jim Kittrell said Harriott II Riverboat staff previously “had trouble” with the boaters, and that he believed the assault on Damien Pickett was due to racism.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/08/09/montgomery-alabama-riverboat-brawl-captain/

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The Sisters Of Mercy - This Corrosion HQ

Notice:I am not the owner of this material so no copyright infringement is intended.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-RVJyNpfDk

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Conservative Case Emerges to Disqualify Trump for Role on Jan. 6

Two law professors active in the Federalist Society wrote that the original meaning of the 14th Amendment makes Donald Trump ineligible to hold government office.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/10/us/trump-jan-6-insurrection-conservatives.html

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New Ohio Law Promises to Tear Down Neighborhoods for Highways

An Ohio law would require state transportation officials to build highway interchanges every 4.5 miles — even if they have to tear down homes and businesses to do it.

https://usa.streetsblog.org/2023/08/10/new-ohio-law-promises-to-tear-down-neighborhoods-for-highways

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Clarence Thomas’ 38 Vacations: The Other Billionaires Who Have Treated the Supreme Court Justice to Luxury Travel — ProPublica

The fullest accounting yet shows how Thomas has secretly reaped the benefits from a network of wealthy and well-connected patrons that is far more extensive than previously understood.

https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-other-billionaires-sokol-huizenga-novelly-supreme-court

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How Fanatics Is Building a Weird Monopoly Over Sports Trading Cards

Fanatics has rolled up power in all areas of sports merchandising. And now it's coming for baseball, football, and basketball trading cards.

https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/how-fanatics-is-building-a-weird

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Window on Main Street: CDFF gala request deserves another look

As of this writing, Chagrin Falls Mayor Bill Tomko is running unopposed for re-election in November, but there were still a couple of days left before the Cuyahoga County Board

http://www.chagrinvalleytoday.com/viewpoint/columnists/article_66d30102-36e2-11ee-9650-37ccdf0ab270.html

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Pedestrians recovering after being struck

Two out-of-town pedestrian females walking in downtown Chagrin Falls Monday were hospitalized and initially in stable condition after being struck by a landscape truck and trailer.

http://www.chagrinvalleytoday.com/editions/chagrin_valley_times/article_4ddaf374-36df-11ee-bc8f-4b80307036ae.html

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Voters torch the move by Frank LaRose and Matt Huffman to derail democracy in Ohio: Today in Ohio

Editor Chris Quinn hosts our daily half-hour news podcast, with impact editor Leila Atassi, editorial board member Lisa Garvin and content director Laura Johnston.

https://www.cleveland.com/news/2023/08/voters-torch-the-move-by-frank-larose-and-matt-huffman-to-derail-democracy-in-ohio-today-in-ohio.html

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Cleveland OH Local News, Breaking News, Sports & Weather

Get the latest Cleveland, OH local news, sports news & US breaking news. View daily Northeast Ohio weather updates, watch videos and photos, join the discussion in forums. Find more news articles and stories online at cleveland.com.

https://www.cleveland.com/

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Coding prototypes

Write what you need to test a hypothesis. Then throw that code away.

https://adactio.com/journal/20386

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In Conversation With An Expert: Tristan Cleveland of Happy Cities

We talk with Tristan Cleveland, an urban planner and research specialist for Happy Cities, about how to design safer streets.

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2023/8/7/in-conversation-with-an-expert-tristan-cleveland-of-happy-cities

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State Issue 1 campaigns make final push for voters ahead of high-stakes Aug. 8 election

Despite surprisingly high early vote turnout, both sides see the race as more about mobilizing their faithful voters, rather than persuading the general public.

https://www.cleveland.com/news/2023/08/campaigns-make-final-push-for-voters-for-and-against-state-issue-1-ahead-of-high-stakes-aug-8-election.html

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Two pedestrians struck by landscape trailer in downtown Chagrin Falls

Two pedestrian females walking in downtown Chagrin Falls are in stable condition Monday following an accident involving a landscape truck and trailer.

http://www.chagrinvalleytoday.com/editions/chagrin_valley_times/article_091ff23e-3577-11ee-8594-f73aee635315.html

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The First Big Antitrust Trial of the Century Is About to Start

Google's monopoly is going on trial starting September 12. This is the big one. Or rather, it's the start of a series of big ones.

https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/the-first-big-antitrust-trial-of

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Relative times

Messing around with Intl.RelativeTimeFormat on The Session.

https://adactio.com/journal/20377

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Trump Indictment Mystery: Where Is Mark Meadows? — The Wall Street Journal

Chief of staff was in close contact with Trump during effort to overturn election but isn’t mentioned much in indictment compared with other officials

https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-indictment-mystery-where-is-mark-meadows-30e0b575

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Apple's Hidden Social Network

As I cataloged our wedding photos in iCloud (there were a lot), I realized that Apple has quietly been building a decentralized social network. Apple Photos, Messages, and Contacts have already silently replaced much of what we did on Facebook. Tagged Photos (Social Graph). The nucleus of Facebook was tagged photo albums. There was an inherent virtuous cycle — users upload albums, people get tagged, others get notified, and connections and reposts are made through an activity feed. While many

https://matt-rickard.com/apples-hidden-social-network

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Possibilities

As a (relatively) new parent, one of the questions that preoccupies me is: how can we show our son that anything is possible, and that

https://werd.io/2023/possibilities

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Chagrin Falls wants to hike income tax to 1.875 percent: Q&A

Chagrin Falls residents will vote on an income tax increase, to 1.875 percent, in November. Have questions? We've got answers.

https://www.cleveland.com/chagrin-falls/2014/10/chagrin_falls_needs_income_tax.html

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Judge clears way for DOJ’s antitrust case against Google to go to trial

The government’s case alleging Google has an illegal monopoly in the search engine business will go to trial in September.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/08/04/google-doj-search-trial/

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Fancy backgrounds with CSS gradients

A collection of background patterns made with CSS gradients by Temani Afif

https://css-pattern.com/

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Apple Calendar Can't Save Event to Exchange - Fix

In this post, I'll explain how to fix the pesky "Calendar can't save event X to Exchange Server" issue with Apple's Calendar in OS X or macOS.

https://michaelkummer.com/tech/macos-calendar-issue/

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Cops still take more stuff from people than burglars do

Let’s get one thing out of the way: it’s not normal to stuff $100,000 in cash into a suitcase and then check said suitcase on to a domestic flight. It’s extremely weird, in fact, not something you’d expect a typical person to do in their lifetime. However, doing so is emphatically

https://thewhyaxis.substack.com/p/cops-still-take-more-stuff-from-people

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System settings that aren’t in System Settings

Where would you set the default call handler for macOS? And where in System Settings do you set the default web browser?

https://eclecticlight.co/2023/07/29/system-settings-that-arent-in-system-settings/

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Pepper Pike sidewalks issue may be on November ballot

Pepper Pike City Council concluded another discussion of walkways at its regular July 26 meeting by scheduling a special meeting Aug. 8 that could put the sidewalk issue on the

http://www.chagrinvalleytoday.com/communities/article_98648b88-3164-11ee-9dd9-afa488941896.html

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Hittin’ the sidewalks!

Thousands flocked to downtown Chagrin Falls for the annual Merchant Association Sidewalk Sale presented over four days this past weekend. Shoppers perused numerous items from the various businesses, all of

http://www.chagrinvalleytoday.com/editions/chagrin_valley_times/article_432e38ac-3147-11ee-8502-d36d19dba0a3.html

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Bainbridge police have suspects in The Hive break-in

Bainbridge police are investigating last week’s break-in at The Hive on Honey Hill, the former Chagrin Cinemas site, and have as suspects juveniles who live nearby within Geauga County, but

http://www.chagrinvalleytoday.com/communities/article_1cefc8c4-315e-11ee-a47f-87d3dc1b1a06.html

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Village hopes third time is the charm for bridge project bid

Cuyahoga County plans to re-bid next month the long-anticipated North Main Street bridge project, with a start date pushed to next year and a price tag on the rise.

http://www.chagrinvalleytoday.com/editions/chagrin_valley_times/article_e56d5ff2-3157-11ee-bc75-ffef73d525dc.html

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CDFF opening event location request rejected

The Chagrin Documentary Film Festival is searching for a location for its opening celebration this fall following a denial by the village administration for an event along North Franklin Street.

http://www.chagrinvalleytoday.com/editions/chagrin_valley_times/article_f968723a-3157-11ee-802e-23f889103a55.html

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Trump indictment portrays Pence as crucial figure in special counsel's case

In the indictment, Pence is portrayed as the central figure resisting the alleged schemes to delay the transfer of power after the 2020 election.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-indictment-mike-pence-2020-election-january-6/

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When This Beetle Gets Eaten by a Frog, It Heads for the 'Back Door'

New research details how this Japanese water beetle travels through the bowels of its predator to emerge out the other end, alive and unharmed

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/when-beetle-gets-eaten-frog-it-forces-its-way-out-back-door-180975484/

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A property owner found a new $1.5M house on his land. Now police are involved. — CT Insider

For the last two years, the online land records page in the town of Fairfield has offered a “fraud alert” service. Anyone can sign up to see legal filings on their property. It’s part of the careful new world – but no one could anticipate the situation that’s unfolding on Sky Top Terrace, near Sacred Heart University.

https://www.ctinsider.com/columnist/article/house-built-on-fairfield-lot-18261063.php

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Automated Web Testing

Reflect is an automated end-to-end testing platform that makes tests easy to create and maintain.

https://reflect.run/

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Paste Without Style • furbo.org

I agree with Buzz Anderson: “Paste-with-styling is one of the worst software inventions of all time.” Every time I mention the workaround shown below, there are many retweets and favorites. Clearly, there are a lot of people that feel the same as Buzz and me. The solution is surprisingly simple: make Paste and Match Style […]

https://furbo.org/2015/03/30/paste-without-style/

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Opportunity

When life gives you lemons, build a better mousetrap.

https://adactio.com/journal/20363

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Why Are People Bicycling on This Street?

When members of a local committee had questions about cyclists on a street in Santa Barbara, CA, this nonprofit set out to find the answers.

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2023/7/27/why-are-people-bicycling-on-this-street

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Florida police report details arrest of Boston Heights police chief accused of assaulting homeless man

Boston Heights Police Chief Chad McArdle has been placed on paid administrative leave pending the outcome of his hearing scheduled for Aug. 17, Mayor Bill Goncy said.

https://www.cleveland.com/crime/2023/07/florida-police-report-details-arrest-of-boston-heights-police-chief-accused-of-assaulting-homeless-man.html

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Man found dead after concert at Brooklyn music venue in 2nd disappearance in weeks — NBC News

John Castic, 27, was reported missing after he went to a music venue. His body was found Tuesday in a nearby creek. The body of Karl Clemente, 27, was found in the same creek in June.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/man-found-dead-concert-brooklyn-music-venue-2nd-disappearance-weeks-rcna97629

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Trump Indictment: Jan. 6 Riot Was ‘Fueled by Lies’ From Trump, Special Counsel Says (Gift Article)

Former President Donald J. Trump was charged with four counts in connection with his efforts to subvert the will of voters in 2020. “Despite having lost, the defendant was determined to remain in power,” prosecutors wrote.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/08/01/us/trump-indictment-jan-6

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An abortion ban made them teen parents. This is life two years later. — The Washington Post

Brooke and Billy High, first featured in a widely read Washington Post story last year, are caring for their twin daughters in a new city, trying their best to hold it all together.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/interactive/2023/texas-abortion-law-teen-parents/

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5 Ways That Buying a Car Has Drastically Changed — The Wall Street Journal

Car sellers and car buyers confronted a whole host of challenges in the pandemic, and now it’s clear that some of the challenges are here to stay. ‘Normal is not our benchmark anymore.’

https://www.wsj.com/articles/5-ways-buying-car-changed-pandemic-643cb2c0

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The open source Product OS

PostHog is the all-in-one platform for building better products - with product analytics, feature flags, session recordings, a/b testing, heatmaps, and more.

https://posthog.com/

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Why the Nation’s Gun Laws Are in Chaos — The Wall Street Journal

Judges clash over history a year after Supreme Court upended how courts decide Second Amendment cases—‘the whole thing puzzles me’

https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-the-nations-gun-laws-are-in-chaos-587ded3f