This approach reflected a belief by the policymakers that property ownership could strengthen community responsibility and social stability. During the war, the federal government rented these homes to workers at regulated rates designed to be fair, while covering maintenance costs. After the war, the government began selling the homes – often to the tenants living in them – through affordable installment plans that provided a practical path to ownership.
One thing I’ve noticed in watching people photograph—and I do that any chance I can get, because it’s so informative—is just how many people are (a) get to a place; (b) pick up the camera; (c) take a quick photo; and (d) move on. No time contemplating, no time checking or making settings, no questioning their choices, and often very bad handling because they’re moving so quickly doing things. I expect those folk to fail.
The propaganda was the purpose, all ramping up Islamophobia to justify the Western destruction of Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya. When the Manchester Arena attack eventually did happen, it turned out that MI5 had been the perpetrator’s sponsor and he and his father had been ferried from Libya by the British armed forces. Sponsorship of terrorism abroad is always likely to result in blowback at home.
Just in: The American Land Title Association (@ALTAonline) has compiled title insurance industry financial data? for 2024. I always like to break this down in a big ?to share what I think is important. Glad to hear your thoughts, too.
Toyota mounts software challenge to Tesla and Chinese rivals.
It is easy to think of examples of software which has made work more prescriptive or structured, from real-time tracking of logistics workers to the use of tools which allow managers to keep track of white-collar workers’ productivity. Felstead describes this trend as “discretion-sapping technological change.”
The in-house system, known as Arene, will provide over-the-air updates to help drivers with manoeuvres such as lane keeping and parking, as well as multimedia and entertainment features. It will debut in the next-generation RAV4 sport utility vehicle.
The software platform is central to Toyota’s efforts to lay the groundwork for autonomous driving, accumulate driving data and catch up with competitors that have banked on the provision of digital services — paid and unpaid — to add value to cars.
It is the first fruit of seven years of labour by the entity that became Woven by Toyota, a subsidiary established by the automaker to boost software development competitiveness and break from its slower-moving car manufacturing culture.
Anton has risen to the top by playing his cards close to his chest and deftly navigating the right’s warring foreign policy camps.
If Mark Papko is confirmed this spring as the Dane County Regional Airport’s new leader, one of his first priorities will be securing an international designation for the travel hub.
That’s because the bird in Charlie’s Angels is, I believe, the wrongest bird in the history of cinema—and one of the weirdest and most inexplicable flubs in any movie I can remember. It is elaborately, even ornately wrong. It has haunted not just me but, as I’d later learn, the birding community at large for almost a quarter of a century.
“We weren’t expecting to automate so many processes in China, but the Chinese suppliers’ pricing is very low,” says Tobias Liebeck, Audi’s head of manufacturing engineering at the Changchun plant. China now has more robots per 10,000 workers than Germany.
That was the case, until Frank Luntz (American political commentator commonly seen on CNBC, Bloomberg, who also has a 400,000+ follower count on Twitter) somehow saw my tweet and took interest in the site.
Tariff court decision
Once implemented, the second-home tax approach will divide residential properties into two tiers, applying higher rates to second homes and short-term rental properties in an effort to backfill residential cuts and minimize spillover onto business properties. The package also includes several rate tiers that lean the tax system harder on high-value homes in an effort to focus more relief on lower-value properties.
- U.S. providers conducted 42 orbital launches in Q1
- Chinese providers conducted 17 launches
- A total of 900 spacecraft were launched globally
- Satellites under 1,200 kg accounted for 98% of spacecraft launched and 85% of total upmass
If you go more south and inland, you get the edge of the Sahara Desert. I’ve seen plenty of that before in Mauritania but I didn’t have much experiences with oases, which are quite cool with their palm groves growing in the middle of the desert. Better yet, completely unbeknownst to me before going and presumably to the rest of the world too, Tunisia has an Aral Sea thing going on with at least two large lakes in the south called Chott el Djerrid and Chott el Gharsa. If you look at them on Google Maps, you’ll see two blue bubbles:
Congress can’t give this power over from the legislature to the executive just by passing a normal law. That would take a constitutional amendment. But it can pass laws to delegate part of its power to the president in limited ways.
On Henry James and the State of Literary Criticism
As things stand today, he said, “I will not recommend this for anyone else unless they have a stomach of titanium.”. The relocation, if it takes place, will come almost exactly a year after Madison developer Brandon Cook transported a four-story brick apartment building about two blocks — from 438 W. Dayton St. to 531 W. Mifflin St. — over the course of three days, at a cost that topped $1 million. Cook’s ambitious project nearly fell through at the last minute, and he ran out of time to move a second structure to the West Mifflin Street lot before it was demolished. But the main building reached its destination intact.
Graham’s crackers were intentionally bland and reportedly tasted like bran saltine crackers without the salt. Free from spices or sugar, these graham crackers were invented with the goal of suppressing undesirable passions.
If we do this well, AI models will become capable of the same kind of online learning that humans can do: instead of having to work inside bespoke RL environments with custom graders, we will be able to deploy them in the real world for them to learn from their successes and failures. The most plausible way for models to reach this level of meta-learning skill goes through RL, which will require environments of much greater volume and quality than the ones that are available today.
Terrible legacy media and how they went after Elon Musk. Now they are defending Cory Booker for the same hand gesture