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A sergeant first class and officer in charge of the “health, welfare and discipline” of cadets at the United States Military Academy at West Point has been accused of videotaping female cadets without their consent, including when the women were showering or otherwise unclothed.
Venus Probe Success/Fail
May. 22nd, 2013 02:40 pmJust for my own curiosity
Is this right?
* Counting partial failures as 1/2
** Second try coming up in 2016.
Is this right?
Total Fail Success Success Rate
1960s 19 14 5 26%
1970s 11 3* 8 73%
1980s 8 .33 7.67 96%
1990s -- -- -- --
2000s 3 3 100%
2010s 1 1** 0%
* Counting partial failures as 1/2
** Second try coming up in 2016.
Saturn's moon Titan might be in for some wild weather as it heads into its spring and summer, if two new models are correct. Scientists think that as the seasons change in Titan's northern hemisphere, waves could ripple across the moon's hydrocarbon seas, and hurricanes could begin to swirl over these areas, too. The model predicting waves tries to explain data from the moon obtained so far by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Both models help mission team members plan when and where to look for unusual atmospheric disturbances as Titan summer approaches.
India Mars Probe articles
May. 22nd, 2013 12:57 pmAs reported at the Planetary Society Blog:
Mars is an oddly difficult target, with about two-thirds of Mars probes failing before planned mission end, some before observations began. Break a leg, India.
A couple of articles on India's Mars Orbiter Mission were published on the news website The Week yesterday, and they're much more in-depth and insightful than the norm.
Mars is an oddly difficult target, with about two-thirds of Mars probes failing before planned mission end, some before observations began. Break a leg, India.
Re Duffypocalpse and the Cheque of Doom
In the House of Commons yesterday, Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird, temporarily reverting to his former role as partisan fire extinguisher, said no, Harper knew nothing about the deal until, like other appalled Conservatives, he saw it on the evening news.
Strangely, Harper himself did not say that in his speech to his caucus, at least the portion of it that was public. Nor did Nigel Wright on Sunday, in his resignation letter. Nor did the PMO last week. In his remarks Harper ignored the payment entirely. In the other two cases the language was ever so carefully crafted to allow for some knowledge on his part, though not of “the means” or “the details.”
Experience trumps youth
May. 22nd, 2013 11:13 amlast night Fig learned that if he tosses the catnip sacket into air in a fit of exuberance, Groucho can snag it out of the air as he gallops past. Cut to sad looking kitten watching a growling cat hunched over the sachet, sitting back to Fig.
The National Personnel Records Center fire of 1973,[1] also referred to as the 1973 National Archives fire was a fire that occurred at the United States National Personnel Records Center (NPRC) in Overland, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis, on July 12, 1973, striking a severe blow to the National Archives and Records Administration of the United States.[...] NPRC, the custodian of military service records, lost approximately 16-18 million official military personnel records as a result of the fire.[...]
[...]
The losses to Federal military records collection included:
80% loss to records of U.S. Army personnel discharged November 1, 1912, to January 1, 1960[2]
75% loss to records of U.S. Air Force personnel discharged September 25, 1947, to January 1, 1964, with names alphabetically after Hubbard, James E.[...]
Some U.S. Army Reserve personnel who performed their initial active duty for training in the late 1950s but who received final discharge as late as 1964.
None of the records that were destroyed in the fire had duplicate copies made, nor had they been copied to microfilm. No index of these records was made prior to the fire, and millions of records were on loan to the Veterans Administration at the time of the fire. This made it difficult to precisely determine which records were lost.
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford's woes over crack cocaine allegations are providing plenty of late-night television fodder for Jimmy Kimmel, Jon Stewart and other comedians south of the border.
At the one minute fifty second mark
May. 22nd, 2013 09:42 amI spotted the first evidence I noticed that this particular future still includes non-caucasians.
[showing I should have looked closer: in LJ comments it is pointed out that "There's an Asian woman at 0:39, a black man at 1:08 and, judging by the accent, a Latino at 1:21.]
Brought to my attention by The Dragon's Tales
This sure looks like a white-washed version of this 1970s era novel.
Does Ben Bova know?
[showing I should have looked closer: in LJ comments it is pointed out that "There's an Asian woman at 0:39, a black man at 1:08 and, judging by the accent, a Latino at 1:21.]
Brought to my attention by The Dragon's Tales
This sure looks like a white-washed version of this 1970s era novel.
Does Ben Bova know?
Jacob's Hands
A young man with the power to heal makes the mistake of healing an ambitious young lady. They both make their way to the Big City, where both of them are pretty much immediately corrupted by Big City. The healer eventually comes to his senses and flees back to the country.
Yeah, this was pretty bad. Several details differ from the story as described at wikipedia:
Jacob's Hands
A young man with the power to heal makes the mistake of healing an ambitious young lady. They both make their way to the Big City, where both of them are pretty much immediately corrupted by Big City. The healer eventually comes to his senses and flees back to the country.
Yeah, this was pretty bad. Several details differ from the story as described at wikipedia:
Jacob's Hands
Speaking of Cinderella-If the Shoe Fits
Lurene Tuttle and Vincent Price tell each other with what they feel is the best version of Cinderella. Tuttle presents the romantic version, more or less the one most of us know, while Price presents what he feels is a realistic one, in which Cinderella is a crooked lady wrestler who uses "borrowed" jewels, a stolen car, her looks and a striking knack for advertising to win her man.
A lot of the discussion felt oddly familiar.
Lurene Tuttle and Vincent Price tell each other with what they feel is the best version of Cinderella. Tuttle presents the romantic version, more or less the one most of us know, while Price presents what he feels is a realistic one, in which Cinderella is a crooked lady wrestler who uses "borrowed" jewels, a stolen car, her looks and a striking knack for advertising to win her man.
A lot of the discussion felt oddly familiar.
Jasmine's obit for Mr. Bean
May. 21st, 2013 02:52 pm
Long time Cardamom Addict readers know this handsome boy to the left--this is, of course, Mr. Bean. If you follow my @cardamomaddict Twitter account, you know things have been rough for this dear old cat these past few weeks. Unfortunately, one week after being diagnosed with both liver and pancreatic cancers, this lovely boy passed away.
