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For some people, a passion for space is something that might develop over time, but for Patrick Junen, the desire was there from the beginning. With a father and grandfather who both worked for NASA, space exploration is not just a dream; it remains a family legacy. Now, as the stage assembly and structures subsystem […]
“I’ve always been drawn to team activities, and exploration is the ultimate team endeavor,” Junen says. “On the football field, it takes a strong team to be
Calling my podcast ... man, the excitement is building to a fever pitch ...
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Since I already have laurenweinstein.org (obviously) and youtube.com/laurenweinstein (for many years) anything else is just spinning wheels unnecessarily. Been there. Done that.
One more thing: While checking out your YT channels I discovered that recording of Ray Bradbury but unfortunately the audio consists just of a lot of what sounds like hiccups to me. Tried two different browsers.. same thing
@darkobserver It appears that YouTube trashed it during one of their reencoding cycles at some point. I haven't played it recently but it always played fine for me, and you can see there are comments on there from people who listened to it obviously OK over the years.
This pisses me off and might only be the tip of the iceberg regarding ruined uploads especially of older videos. I've taken it private for now.
I'm looking into this issue via my own contacts at G.
@darkobserver I'm in discussion with YT engineering about this. Something is clearly amiss, and we don't know what yet, though I had a clue that may bear fruit. Should be more action on this next week. Thanks again for pointing it out.
@darkobserver YT just informed me that they were able to restore the audio. It sounds fine and I've moved the video back to public. I don't yet know (and may never know in detail) how the audio was damaged, but all's well that ends well as far as this video is concerned. Thanks again, and enjoy! -L
@darkobserver I actually didn't have to reupload or do anything except coordinate with them for tests as they dug into the issue. They fixed the video in-place. The hope is that the procedure can be used with any other videos in the corpus found to have the same problem, if any.
precision but only because i was revisiting ok computer yesterday and in awe of how good the low end on that album sounds 😀 with respect to hardware... i use a g&l asat bass and they come with these giant chunky bridges that really augment the sustain. i would personally look for a big heavy bridge.
x% of y Rewrite: (x * (1 / 100)) * y Associativity: x * ((1 / 100) * y) Commutativity: x * (y * (1 / 100)) Commutativity: (y * (1 / 100)) * x Rewrite: y% of x
We have been made aware that this person has made an appearance at two different anti-fascist events this month.
He made an appearance at #Northland during an anti-fascist rally where by he attempted to disrupt the action unsuccessfully. He attempted to assault an anti-fascist but was unable to move them with his feeble attempt at a shove before he was whisked away by his mates in blue.
Teaches a bunch of subjects and helps develop problem-solving skills; its soundtrack has zero right to be so bitchin' but it is
Was asking about this today because I couldnt remember the name or franchise and Lemmy came thru, reuniting me with yet another thing I could remember sound of but not the content or name, long thought lost to the sands of time
Bush Sr. was the first US President of my lifetime to go to war in the Middle East. He was the fifth Republican President of my lifetime, after Eisenhower, Nixon, Ford, and Reagan.
The following is based on lists in Wikipedia. It is a not-quite-up-to-date list of conflicts, some of them all-out wars, that the USA has been involved in.
George Washington Northwest Indian War American - Algerian War John Adams Quasi-War Thomas Jefferson First Barbary War James Madison Tecumseh's War U.S. Annexation of the Republic of West Florida Patriot War (Florida) War of 1812 Creek War Nuku Hiva Campaign Second Barbary War James Monroe U.S. Conquest of the Republic of the Floridas during the Amelia Island Affair First Seminole War Arikara War John Quincy Adams Aegean Sea anti-piracy operations of the United States Winnebago War Andrew Jackson First Sumatran Expedition Black Hawk War Andrew Jackson through John Tyler Second Seminole War Andrew Jackson through Ulysses S. Grant Texas Comanche Wars Martin Van Buren Patriot War Second Sumatran Expedition Bombardment of Upolu John Tyler Battle of Drummond's Island Ivory Coast Expedition Capture of Monterey James K. Polk Mexican–American War James K. Polk through Franklin Pierce Cayuse War Polk through Coolidge Apache Wars Polk through Andrew Johnson Navajo Wars Millard Fillmore Johanna Expedition Franklin Pierce Battle of Muddy Flat Pierce through Lincoln Bleeding Kansas Franklin Pierce Bombardment of Greytown Battle of Ty-ho Bay Rogue River Wars Puget Sound War Franklin Pierce and James Buchanan Third Seminole War Yakima War Second Opium War James Buchanan Utah War Reform War Pig War John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry First and Second Cortina War Paiute War Abraham Lincoln American Civil War Bombardment of Qui Nhơn Lincoln through Grant Yavapai Wars 1st Battle of Shimonoseki Straits and the following Shimonoseki campaign Colorado War Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson Snake War Andrew Johnson Powder River War Red Cloud's War Formosa Expedition Andrew Johnson and Ulysses S. Grant Comanche Campaign Ulysses S. Grant United States expedition to Korea Modoc War Red River War Las Cuevas War Great Sioux War of 1876 Buffalo Hunters' War Rutherford B. Hayes Nez Perce War Bannock War Cheyenne War Sheepeater Indian War Victorio's War White River War Chester A. Arthur Egyptian Expedition Grover Cleveland Crow War Benjamin Harrison Ghost Dance War Garza War Grover Cleveland through Woodrow Wilson Yaqui Wars William McKinley Second Samoan Civil War Spanish–American War Philippine–American War William McKinley through Woodrow Wilson Moro Rebellion William McKinley Boxer Rebellion Theodore Roosevelt through Calvin Coolidge Crazy Snake's War William Howard Taft and Woodrow Wilson Mexican Border War William Howard Taft Little Race War William Howard Taft through Herbert Hoover United States occupation of Nicaragua Woodrow Wilson Bluff War United States occupation of Veracruz Woodrow Wilson through Franklin D. Roosevelt United States occupation of Haiti Woodrow Wilson through Calvin Coolidge United States occupation of the Dominican Republic Woodrow Wilson World War I Russian Civil War Warren G. Harding Posey War Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman World War II Harry S. Truman Operation Beleaguer Harry S. Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower Puerto Rican Nationalist Party insurgency Korean War Dwight D. Eisenhower through Gerald Ford Vietnam War Laotian Civil War Dwight D. Eisenhower Permesta Rebellion Lebanon crisis John F. Kennedy Bay of Pigs Invasion Lyndon B. Johnson Operation Dragon Rouge Dominican Civil War Ñancahuazú Guerrilla Campaign Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard Nixon Korean DMZ Conflict Lyndon B. Johnson through Gerald Ford Cambodian Civil War Jimmy Carter Operation Eagle Claw Ronald Reagan Multinational intervention in Lebanon United States invasion of Grenada Bombing of Libya Tanker War George H. W. Bush United States invasion of Panama Gulf War George H. W. Bush through George W. Bush Iraqi No-Fly Zone Enforcement Operations George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton First U.S. Intervention in the Somali Civil War Bosnian War and Croatian War Bill Clinton Intervention in Haiti Kosovo War George W. Bush through Joe Biden War in Afghanistan George W. Bush through Donald Trump US intervention in Yemen Operation Freedom Eagle US intervention in the War in North-West Pakistan Second US Intervention in the Somali Civil War (also Joe Biden) George W. Bush and Barack Obama Iraq War Barack Obama Operation Ocean Shield International intervention in Libya Barack Obama and Donald Trump Operation Observant Compass Barack Obama through Joe Biden US-led intervention in Iraq Barack Obama through second Donald Trump US intervention in the Syrian civil war
The guy in charge of sending masked men to kidnap people keeps going on TV saying how much he loves sending masked men to kidnap people and that if any politicians stop his masked men from kidnapping people he will kidnap those politicians, is now saying that he is afraid that masked men will kidnap him.
"When the author of a book states that all sales of those books will contribute to an anti-trans fund, the only way we can choose not to participate is by not selling the books any longer. "
À son alliée Marine Le Pen, Eric Ciotti offre aussi une proposition de loi sur mesure, visant à abroger l’exécution provisoire des peines d’inéligibilité. Le texte sera défendu par l’ancienne maire de Montauban, Brigitte Barèges, condamnée à cinq ans d’inéligibilité en 2021 en première instance pour détournement de fonds publics. #AnticorVeille liberation.fr/politique/a-lass…
Le groupe d’extrême droite du député niçois aura pour la première fois la maîtrise de l’ordre du jour, jeudi 26 juin. Au menu : une brouette de textes régaliens piochés chez les autres… pour gêner le bloc central.
Tomorrow the Supreme Court will release an opinion that could open the door to a slew of state laws that frustrate internet users' First Amendment rights to access sexual speech and make them less secure online. Here's what you need to know. eff.org/deeplinks/2025/01/five…
Texas’ age verification law robs internet users of anonymity, exposes them to privacy and security risks, and blocks some adults entirely from accessing sexual content that’s protected under the First Amendment.
"When the author of a book states that all sales of those books will contribute to an anti-trans fund, the only way we can choose not to participate is by not selling the books any longer. "
I need a big favor. My friend @Aseelsehwel lives in Gaza, & she & her brother are currently trying to raise money to feed their family, care for their father who is suffering from kidney complications, & eventually leave Gaza for Egypt. They are a family of 6 & it looks like their estimated costs to cover everything would be $50,000.00. So far they are at $32,583.00, can we try to get them over the finish line? Here is a link to their GoFundMe:
The trial and sentencing of Ruslan Sidiki has exposed both the terror of an authoritarian state and the power of clandestine direct action ~ Josie Ó Súileabháin ~ At the Ryazan garrison military court, Judge Oleg Shishov on 23 May sentenced Ruslan Si…
Hey there! Ever wondered why some companies hire a company secretary while others don't? It's all about weighing the costs against the benefits. Let's break it down and see if hiring secretarial services is worth it for businesses.
What Does a Company Secretary Do?
Before we dive into the costs and benefits, let's quickly recap what a company secretary does. These professionals handle a bunch of important tasks like: - Making sure the company follows all the legal rules - Keeping important company records - Organizing meetings for the board of directors - Communicating with shareholders
Basically, they're like the backstage crew that keeps the whole show running smoothly!
The Costs of Hiring a Company Secretary
Now, let's talk money. Hiring a company secretary isn't cheap, but the costs can vary depending on a few factors: Salary or Service Fees If a company hires a full-time company secretary, they'll need to pay a salary. According to some job websites, the average salary for a company secretary in the U.S. is around $50,000 to $80,000 per year. That's a pretty big chunk of change!
Alternatively, some businesses use external secretarial services. These might charge by the hour or have a monthly fee. While this can be cheaper than a full-time salary, it can still add up.
Training and Development Company secretaries need to stay up-to-date with changing laws and regulations. This means companies might need to pay for ongoing training and professional development. It's like paying for extra classes to keep your company secretary at the top of their game.
Technology and Resources To do their job effectively, a company secretary might need special software or access to legal resources. These tools can be expensive, adding to the overall cost of secretarial services.
The Benefits of Hiring a Company Secretary
Now for the fun part - what do companies get in return for all this investment? Turns out, quite a lot! Legal Compliance One of the biggest benefits of having a company secretary is staying on the right side of the law. They make sure the company follows all the rules and regulations. This can save the company from getting hit with hefty fines or legal troubles down the road. It's like having a personal referee making sure your company plays by the rules!
Time Savings for Management By handling all the paperwork and administrative tasks, a company secretary frees up time for the company's leaders. This means the big bosses can focus on growing the business instead of getting bogged down in paperwork. It's like having someone do your homework so you can focus on the fun school projects!
Improved Corporate Governance A good company secretary helps keep the company running smoothly and ethically. They make sure important decisions are made properly and that everyone in the company is held accountable. This can lead to better decision-making and a stronger company overall.
Better Investor Relations Company secretaries often handle communication with shareholders. By keeping investors informed and happy, they can help the company maintain good relationships with the people who own parts of the business. Happy investors can mean more money for the company to grow!
Risk Management By staying on top of legal requirements and keeping good records, a company secretary can help identify and manage risks before they become big problems. It's like having a early warning system for potential issues.
Is It Worth It?
So, is hiring a company secretary or using secretarial services worth the cost? For many companies, especially larger ones or those in complex industries, the answer is a big yes! The benefits of staying legally compliant, saving time, and improving company operations often outweigh the costs.
However, for smaller companies or startups, it might not make sense to hire a full-time company secretary right away. They might use part-time secretarial services or have another employee handle some of the tasks until the company grows bigger.
Conclusion
In the end, whether to hire a company secretary comes down to each company's specific needs and resources. While it can be a significant expense, the benefits of having professional secretarial services can be huge. From keeping the company out of legal trouble to improving overall operations, a good company secretary can be worth their weight in gold (or at least in paperwork)!
So next time you hear about a company hiring a secretary, you'll know there's a lot more to it than just answering phones. It's a strategic decision that can have a big impact on a company's success!
Corporate secretarial services are an integral part of business management and compliance, particularly in the context of corporate secretarial services in Singapore.
Great insight! A cost-benefit analysis really highlights how hiring company secretary services can save time, ensure compliance, and reduce risk. While there’s an upfront cost, the long-term efficiency and legal peace of mind often outweigh the expense—especially for growing businesses!“ интернет казино
RTF Lecture invitation: How did Anti-Slavery and the Struggle Against the British East India Company Lead to the First Continental Congress in 1774? Ben Franklin's International Role matthewehret.substack.com/p/rt…
🇩🇪 #Germany: Unknown individuals torched six #military trucks at a logistics facility in #Erfurt, all reportedly linked to the #Bundeswehr's strategic logistics command.
The vehicles bore #German military markings and plates. Damages are estimated at €2.5 million. Authorities have launched an arson investigation.
When people ask me questions about my heritage, history, values or political opinions I don’t automatically assume they hate me and everyone with any association to me.
And I feel like it would be odd if I did get offended about that wouldn’t it?
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🇩🇪 #Germany: Unknown individuals torched six #military trucks at a logistics facility in #Erfurt, all reportedly linked to the #Bundeswehr's strategic logistics command.
The vehicles bore #German military markings and plates. Damages are estimated at €2.5 million. Authorities have launched an arson investigation.
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Only Trump admitting that the Iranian missile attack on the American Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar was pre-arranged with Tehran to ensure no casualties. Nothing to see here, move along...
In the last five years, we've gone from "employees will never have to go into an office" to "employees need to be in the office because creative and innovative work can only be done face-to-face between humans" to "lol we don't need humans"
If "creative and innovative work" is to be done by "AI" and can allegedly only really be done on-site, can we require the neural networks to run on-premise rather than in the cloud? 🤔
While not talked about as much as the Intel CPU security mitigations, Intel graphics security mitigations have added up over time that if disabling Intel graphics security mitigations for their GPU compute stack for OpenCL and Level Zero can yield a …
Ye Gods. @pluralistic goes straight to the heart: advances in surveillance technology make it possible for the oligarchs to push our society deeper into democratic debt. Until... What? 100 families eat UK the world's entire wealth? The guillotines come out?
The "dictator's dilemma" pits a dictator's desire to create social stability by censoring public communications in order to prevent the spread of anti-regime messages with the dictator's need to know whether powerful elites are becoming restless and plotting a coup:
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
My garden has 3 core functions. Recreation and play, Growing vegetables and fruits, and givin nature more room. The so called Controlled Wildernes. I Love to see all the different species the are coming by. But i always want to make it better, especially the combination of space for family and nature. Ive got inspired by the book The Garden Jungle from Dave Goulson. It just gave me more ideas and motivation to protect the smal animals, and make the garden usefull for more. But what about you? What books, articles, documentary etc, did inspire or would give me some ideas to let nature have more space in af garden?
I wouldn't say any book, but the news. Our planet is failing quickly, with no concerted effort to stop it. My zone has had massive collapses in insect and wildlife year over year, and I aim to help combat that as much as possible by planting native plants, providing extra fruit and vegetables for the wildlife (I keep a decoy garden for them), and doing it all as resource conscious as possible. Nothing but good things can come from having even a few native flowering plants around for bees and hummingbirds, and going a bit of an extra mile to compost to keep the good insects that contribute to that process happy and expanding their colonies.
We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter.
"Belgian peace organization Vredesactie filed a criminal complaint on June 26, accusing FedEx of violating international and national law by facilitating the transfer of US-made F-35 components to Israel via Liege Airport. "
"The shipments, linked to Lockheed Martin, arrived between 20 and 24 June from US military hubs and were marked for final delivery to Nevatim air base, from which Israeli jets have taken off to bomb Gaza and, more recently, Iranian territory." "The complaint, lodged under Belgian criminal law, claims the shipments constitute “punishable cooperation in war crimes,” referencing the Arms Trade Treaty and Belgium’s export control regulations."
“'This transit is in violation of the Arms Trade Treaty,' said Hans Lammerant of Vredesactie, 'and constitutes punishable cooperation in war crimes under Belgian criminal law.'”
Despite regional restrictions and a lack of permits, US-made fighter jet components transited through Belgium en route to Israel, prompting a war crimes complaint from a local peace group
I can't really decide between sidebar navigation and top navbar navigation. It's going to be simple, so I'll stick with top navbar until I decide to refactor the entire project next week. The Etsy replacement is going to take a long time to complete, but I hope to have something out within the next couple of months, depending on how things go.
If anyone is looking for #CAD work in the #Highlands #Scotland, the company I work part time for needs somebody. Fun place to work, fascinating industry (specialist glassblowing etc) uk.indeed.com/cmp/Glasstorm-Lt…
@gabriel fundamentally, the issue is that the data requires code execution to access, and that code will require the key material.
A drive that allowed you to approve access levels/modes, and used bio-metric to confirm your identity, I think would be closer to the ideal.
I had the chance to talk with an Offensive Security penetration team, and they more or less told me that, their time in Africa made them realize that, in a physical environment, the person will always be the weak link. (aka rubber hose attack)
And, personally, if I sit down and think about it, I buy very little privacy or protection from encrypting. But, I lose performance, and make the possibility of losing access to my own data much higher.
The Andromeda galaxy, also known as Messier 31 (M31), is a glittering beacon in this image released on June 25, 2025, in tribute to the groundbreaking legacy of astronomer Dr. Vera Rubin, whose observations transformed our understanding of the universe. In the 1960s, Rubin and her colleagues studied M31 and determined that there was some unseen […]
Israeli Channel 13 project that Netanyahu would win an election if it was declared today
Prior to the war with Iran, all polls concluded that he would fail to secure the seats necessary to form a government. The poll claims he would win 62 seats.
The war with Iran has increased the popularity of both #Netanyahu & #Likud Party, while decreasing support for the war in #Gaza
@OmegaProkect there must be an online formula that a person can use to calculate how many messages deep a wine topic, goes before someone brings up mad dog 20/20. 🤣
Holy shit! A guy 4 homes down the road just had a baby boy. I wanted to show up with a bottle of scotch and congratulate, but then I was told they fuckin' name the kid Guido! I shit you not, folks. They literally name an Italian kid fuckin' Guido! How's that not child abuse? 🤣
Almost a third of all of Tuvalu’s residents have put in requests for the first batch of climate visas from Australia, as scientists fear the Pacific nation will be uninhabitable within the next 80 years.
You know what? I am absolutely sick of the MSM This is not honest, objective reporting/journalism anymore. It is, quite simply and profoundly, un-American. And anyone who is in this industry and supports the lies and fiction coming from the fake news, in order to degrade and denigrate the truth, is un-American.
Israeli settlers went on a rampage in the town of Kufr Malek, northeast of Ramallah, killing three Palestinians. The attack is the latest in an escalating wave of settler pogroms against Palestinian communities between the Jordan Valley and Ramallah.
Le système français a longtemps fonctionné (et fonctionne encore parfois) avec une grande confiance dans l'intime conviction du juge, ce qui peut mener à des condamnations sans preuves irréfutables, sur la base de récits ou d'indices faibles.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- GE Appliances announced a nearly half-billion-dollar project Thursday that it says will create 800 new jobs and shift production of clothes washers from China to its massive manufacturing complex in Kentucky.
The $490 million investment positions the Kentucky home appliances company to rank as the biggest U.S. manufacturer of washing machines, it said.
GE Appliances has announced a nearly half-billion-dollar project that will create 800 jobs and shift production of clothes washers from China to its manufacturing complex in Kentucky
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in reply to Dark Observer • • •@darkobserver It appears that YouTube trashed it during one of their reencoding cycles at some point. I haven't played it recently but it always played fine for me, and you can see there are comments on there from people who listened to it obviously OK over the years.
This pisses me off and might only be the tip of the iceberg regarding ruined uploads especially of older videos. I've taken it private for now.
I'm looking into this issue via my own contacts at G.
Thanks for pointing this out.
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