Chinese Tech Support: Microsoft is using engineers in China to help maintain the Defense Department's computer systems -- with minimal supervision by U.S. personnel. read more
For weeks, Army Ranger School students put their bodies through a physical ringer, carrying heavy loads and marching far distances with little to eat and sparing sleep. But when Army researchers measured the course's grueling toll, they found that female soldiers experienced fewer physiological changes than their male counterparts.
Earth's climate systems are inexorably and often unexpectedly interconnected. ... Among the most influential planet-shaping forces is the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), an immense Atlantic Ocean current system that acts as a planetary conveyor belt. It brings balmy water northward from the tropics to Europe, then cycles the cooled water back south along the seafloor.
The Federal Communications Commission will vote to repeal the National Television Ownership Rule that is supposed to prevent a single broadcast station owner from reaching more than 39 percent of all TV households in the US. The proposed change sets up a likely court battle over the FCC claim that it has authority to repeal a limit set by Congress. read more
Paramount's owners were planning to have secured firm control of Hollywood rival Warner Bros. Discovery by the end of this week. A federal judge's ruling Monday in response to a major antitrust lawsuit filed by a dozen states has ground the process to a halt.
Taylor Farms lettuce is still focus of cyclospora investigation despite false positive test, FDA says
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... A sample of lettuce from Taylor Farms that had tested positive for cyclospora was a false positive, the Food and Drug Administration said Sunday. But the FDA said Monday that its investigation and data "continue to converge on shredded iceberg lettuce from Taylor Farms locations in central Mexico."
In the statement announcing the false positive, the FDA said that as of Sunday it had not found any "confirmed positive sample results for product testing for Cyclospora."
In a subsequent statement Monday, it said, "To clarify, this false-positive lab sample DOES NOT change the basis for FDA's ongoing outbreak investigation or the overwhelming epidemiological data supporting the current voluntary recall by Taylor Farms." ...
@#9 ... Boston also had a "stake in the ground" underground station like WNEW-FM in NYC. Unfortunately, it is too long ago and I no longer recall the call letters ... :( ...
Possibly WBCN?
WBMX
en.wikipedia.org
... WBMX (104.1 FM) is a radio station in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, serving Greater Boston with a hot adult contemporary format. The format started at 98.5 FM on February 9, 1991, and moved to 104.1 FM, replacing WBCN on August 12, 2009, to allow for the launch of WBZ-FM at 98.5 the next day. Its studios are located in Brighton, and its transmitter is on the upper FM mast of the Prudential Tower in Downtown Boston.
The 104.1 MHz facility went on the air in 1958 as WBCN.
A classical music station for its first ten years, beginning in 1968 WBCN featured a rock format for 41 years.
Known as "The Rock of Boston", WBCN became a legend in the rock music industry for breaking many bands, including U2.[3] ...
@#7 ... a fringe (often "underground") appeal ...
Maybe take a peek at WFMU ...
WFMU
en.wikipedia.org
... WFMU (91.1 MHz) is a non-commercial, listener-supported, independent community radio station licensed to East Orange, New Jersey, with studios in Jersey City. It is owned by Auricle Communications, broadcasting a free-form radio format. ...
I receive the station over-the-air here.
Yeah, "free-form" is a proper appellation for the station.
My guess is that they also have a streaming link ...
@#1 ... AMOC ...
More on AMOC ... (and, no, this is not AOC in Congress...)
Atlantic meridional overturning circulation
en.wikipedia.org
... The Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) is the main ocean current system in the Atlantic Ocean.[1]:2238
It is a major component of Earth's ocean circulation system and plays an important role in the planet's climate system.
The AMOC includes Atlantic currents at the surface and at great depths that are driven by changes in weather, temperature and salinity.
Those currents comprise half of the global thermohaline circulation that includes the flow of major ocean currents, the other half being the Southern Ocean overturning circulation.[2]
The AMOC is composed of a northward flow of warm, more saline water in the Atlantic's upper layers and a southward, return flow of cold, less salty, deep water. Warm water from the south is more saline ('halocline') because of the higher evaporation rate in the tropical zone. The warm saline water forms the upper layer of the ocean ('thermocline'), but when this layer cools down, the density of the salty water increases, making it sink into the deep.
This is an important part of the motor of the AMOC system. The limbs are linked by regions of overturning in the Nordic Seas and the Southern Ocean. Overturning sites are associated with intense exchanges of heat, dissolved oxygen, carbon and other nutrients, and very important for the ocean's ecosystems and its function as a carbon sink.[3][4]
Changes in the strength of the AMOC can affect multiple elements of the climate system.[1]:2238 ...
... Upon its release, "Like a Rolling Stone" quickly stood out given its unusually long length of 6:13. In those days, songs played on the radio were usually around three minutes long, as the New York Times noted in 2004. ...
Yeah, back in the day when "Like a Rolling Stone" was released, most radios were AM only.
Car radios were not required to receive FM until the 1970's.
When Did FM Radio First Become Available in Cars?
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Was there ever such a AM/FM mandate for non-vehicle radios, i.e., those in homes?
I cannot find one.
There was the non-duplication rule, though ...
FM Non-Duplication Rule
en.wikipedia.org
... The FM Non-Duplication Rule was adopted by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on July 1, 1964, after a year's consideration.
It limited holders of FM licenses in cities of more than 100,000 who also held AM licenses to simulcasting no more than 50 percent of their AM signal on the FM station.
The commissioners considered the excessive simulcasting wasteful and an impediment to the development of FM broadcasting.
A year later, the FCC reaffirmed the rule, and, after a delay requested by broadcasters, set its effective date for October 1965; some stations were granted exemptions if they could demonstrate their simulcasting served the public good. ...
As I was growing up, we always had an AM/FM radio in the house. I remember listening to WABC in NYC on their FM channel, 95.5.
That non-duplication rule, though, gave rise to FM stations that would broadcast songs longer than the three minute limit of the AM stations.
Can you say WNEW-FM (102.7)? I knew you could.
Pres Trump to Americans ...
Opal - Happy Nightmare Baby (1987)
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Lyrics excerpt ...
...
Happy nightmare, baby
Happy nightmare, baby
Cause you're mine, all mine
We're gonna go for a ride
Gonna go for a ride
Down in the city tonight
Gonna be my baby
Will you be my baby?
Tonight, tonight
Our love is gone
Our love is gone
Into the night, into the night
Close your eyes, come along with me
Down into the bottom of the sea
Happy nightmare, baby
Happy nightmare, baby
Cause you're mine, all mine
...
Related ...
Palm Beach County rejects huge AI data center near Trump's Mar-a-Lago after resident backlash
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... "Not only is this AI Data Center a threat to the health, well-being, and safety of the hardworking, tax-paying residents of Palm Beach County and their families and children, it becomes a more extreme problem due to the fact that it will be constructed within 1,200 feet of Saddle View Elementary School and the preexisting Arden community and neighborhood," opposition organizers wrote on the NoToProjectTango.com website. ...[emphasis mine]
Meanwhile, towns and cities across the country are pausing or outright banning data center developments. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed an executive order earlier this week imposing the nation's first statewide moratorium on large-scale data centers.
Trump, in a post on Truth Social on Wednesday, slammed the move, saying, "New York State has made a terrible decision."
"Data Centers are tremendous WINS for the States and Communities that are lucky enough to get them. New York should change its Policy, IMMEDIATELY," wrote the president, who called data centers "Money Machines." ...
Related ...
'Not compatible': Palm Beach County rejects controversial Project Tango AI data center
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... Following months of mounting tension, Palm Beach County commissioners voted to deny a controversial expansion for Project Tango, officially blocking plans for a massive hyperscale data center near Loxahatchee's Arden neighborhood.
The final decision came after a high-stakes, marathon 12-hour hearing that drew massive crowds -- requiring overflow rooms to accommodate the public -- and drew intense responses that forced officers to escort a few residents out of the Robert Weisman Governmental Center.
The decisive 5-1 vote, with Commissioner Maria Marino as the lone yes vote, effectively halts the proposed 3.6-million-square-foot hyperscale artificial intelligence data center campus slated for the western part of the county. ...
@#10 ... Who's next, after illegals? ...
Pres Trump has called Democrats the enemy from within.
Aside from calling his fellow Americans, the enemy ...
Has he ever ascribed such an appellation to immigrants?
So then, who might those detention centers actually be built for?