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The mother of Saffie Rose Roussos, the 8-year old that died at the concert is still gravely wounded and still in the hospital. They finally told her of her daughter's death today. http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/manchester-concert-explosion/manchester-bombing-mom-victim-saffie-rose-roussos-out-danger-n767466

I expect Trump to remove us from the Paris Accords. This will only be temporary until then next administration comes along. CO2 build-up in the atmosphere is a long-term problem that will take 100 or more years to play out. If the US is out of some accord for 8 years, that is unfortunate, but we as individuals can still make the choices we want. In my personal opinion anyway we are doing the wrong things to limit carbon emissions. While more wind farms are nice idea, it is just play around at the edges of the problem. If we are serious we need to replace all the coal power plants with 3rd generation nuclear power plants. That and give incentives for people to drive hybrid/electric cars and put solar panels on roof, with a Tesla-like power wall for home level storage of power.

https://www.swimoutlet.com/p/speedo-aquatic-fitness-gloves-2032/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=google-shopping&color=10770&size=9323&gclid=CNe31OqIltQCFYF-fgodSq0K_g Would these work? They are for swimming, so might become dual use gloves. Any considerations at pull time, or for EPs with them?

I was with Reckendiver at the Tracking Byron contest. I'll add that the nearby roads were used as references for both the divers and judges on the ground. We tracked from full altitude to a predetermined pull altitude about 3,500 feet IIRC. This link is the map of the DZ. https://www.google.com/maps/place/Bay+Area+Skydiving/@37.8350153,-121.6371603,1962m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x808fe29769d5b49d:0xb4d6aafffac6bad8!8m2!3d37.8350153!4d-121.6327831 The jump run was offset from the normal jump run and parallel to the "Byron Hot Springs Rd". The skydivers used "Armstrong Rd." going across the map as a reference point on the direction to go. The judges were posted along road after it made it's turn. On that road were some electrical lines which could help as a reference. In practice it was subjective and some what open to the honer system. Tracking for a full 60 seconds was a bit of a workout and it gave you time to tweek you body position to see what worked best. A great learning experience. I wish drop-zones would to contests like this more often.

Here is the list of victims. Too often the villains become famous, and the victims become forgotten. When is should be the other way around. We have both the press and ourselves to blame for that. http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2017/05/world/manchester-terror-attack-victims/ JOHN ATKINSON COURTNEY BOYLE - 19 years old KELLY BREWSTER GEORGINA CALLANDER - 18 years old OLIVIA CAMPBELL - 15 years old WENDY FAWELL MARTYN HETT ALISON HOWE MEGAN HURLEY - 15 years old NELL JONES MICHELLE KISS MARCIN AND ANGELIKA KLIS SORRELL LECZKOWSKI - 14 years old LISA LEES EILIDH MACLEOD - 14 years old ELAINE MCIVER SAFFIE ROSE ROUSSOS - 8 years old CHLOE RUTHERFORD AND LIAM CURRY - 17 and 19 years old PHILIP TRON JANE TWEDDLE

I go to Safeway and buy these. Get a variety of types.

Some families like the following need to be removed from western society. From the linked report: "Members of his own family had even informed on him in the past, telling British authorities that he was dangerous, according to the intelligence official." Certainly not his father. The father is reported in the press as claiming he cannot believe his son is capable of it and didn't think he did it. This is the old "taqiya" line of it is ok to lie to people outside of the faith. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-05-24/manchester-bomber-s-father-says-son-made-regular-visits-to-libya If you look objectively at the stats often terrorists are 20-something year old sons if immigrants of sunni-muslim families. To say this terrorist was "home-grown" is misleading. To claim that loose immigration policies from sunni-tribal regions doesn't increase the chance of bombs going off at concerts for teenagers, or in shopping malls is disingenuous.

British born of Libyan parents who refused to talk to non-muslims. He got terrorist training over seas. The bomb used was rather sophisticated. It was not something created in a kitchen by some loser following a recipe off the internet. http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/manchester-concert-explosion/manchester-bomb-suspect-said-have-had-ties-al-qaeda-terrorism-n763691 Targeting teenagers at a concert. How it that not evil in anyone's book. Some families like the following need to be removed from western society.

I think that is just his narcissistic personality disorder showing through. I found and read this link several months ago, before he was sworn in as president, and think every word of it is true. Events are playing out pretty much as this article characterized. Coping with narcissistic personality disorder in the White House https://qz.com/852187/coping-with-chaos-in-the-white-house/

Uber is testing in Pittsburg IIRC, and I think Google has some in New York city. I live within a few miles of Google HQ and have about 4 self driving cars drive by per hour. I'm looking forward to seeing them on the road. Other topic, modernized nuclear power should really be considered for reducing our carbon emissions. It servers the same base-load role as coal plants and is IMO the preferred option for the future. One thing that is needed is an investment to modernize our electrical grid. Regardless, of Solar, Wind or Nuclear we are going to need "long haul" transmission lines and our current grid isn't up to the task. It is also vulnerable to hacking, and could fail nation-wide if we have a 1859's style X-class solar flare.(look up Carrington Event 1859) So we really need to be investing in an upgrade right now to our power system. If a Carrington-type flare happened today every transformer in the nation would be destroyed and it would take a year, to build and restore all the transformers. We had a near-hit in 2012. Imagine an entire year without power.

Berkeley Campus On Lockdown After Loose Pages From ‘Wall Street Journal’ Found On Park Bench http://www.theonion.com/article/berkeley-campus-lockdown-after-loose-pages-wall-st-55815

Can we make an airline company for skydivers like this? You throw out your luggage and chase it down. Call it "Bandit Air". The marketing tag line could be.. "The no-frills, all thrills airline". Too bad April 1st is so far away. It would also be nice for a quicker commute to work, bypassing all the traffic on the highway.

I was wondering the same thing, sorta. I'd like to see the rationale for using an above-ground-level detonation rather than a ground penetration. Comparison might make an interesting PBS Special... If they can get it to explode right inside an entrance, the pressure wave from the air blast could propagate through the entire tunnel system. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xREme2D3xDA This might be video from the actual event. It is near Achin which is just across the board from Pakistan, and also not too far from Jalalabad. It looks like a smaller explosion happens just before the larger one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xVTy3fXB3Y

I was wondering the same thing, sorta. I'd like to see the rationale for using an above-ground-level detonation rather than a ground penetration. Comparison might make an interesting PBS Special... If they can get it to explode right inside an entrance, the pressure wave from the air blast could propagate through the entire tunnel system. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xREme2D3xDA

Well except Putin actually did meet with Tillerson. He was just huffing and puffing for a while, after the airstrike. Regardless, of a meeting or no meeting, hopefully this means Russia will prevent Assad from using chemical weapons in the future.

A lot of the chemical weapons were already removed with Russia's involvement. Perhaps Putin can be convinced that removing the rest of them is the right thing to do. Short answer... maybe. It is up to Putin.

Ranking members of the Intelligence sub-committee, both Democrats and Republicans were informed of what was about to happen. Russia was informed via the "militray-to-military de-confliction channel" so they could get anyone on the base away from danger.

It projects more strength than doing nothing, which is what happened in 2013 after a chemical attack in a civilian area caused about 1,000 deaths.(I couldn't find a solid figure on it. It was between 281 and 1,600, but a consensus seems to be near 1,000) The goal is to make sure Assad doesn't use chemical weapons against civilian populations again. Hopefully we can work with Russia to make sure that chemical weapons are completely removed from Syria.

I'm not sure what you were expecting, but not telling Russia that the air strike was coming would be putting thier soldiers lives at risk, and that would be stupid. We will want to work with Russia to help find a political solution to end this Syrian civil war. In this case what needs to happen next is the world needs to remind Russia of what it said it would do in 2013, which is remove chemical weapons from Syria. Then, after ISIS is removed from Syria, it seems that a political solution needs to be found to permanently end the fighting. Which to me seems to allow for a federated government where the Alawites(Shia), Sunnies and Kurds, each have a separate government as part of a federated Syria.

It isn't certain if Assad or Putin wanted this chemical attack, but what is certain is Russia promised to remove all chemical weapons from Syria in 2013 and they failed to do that. Russia under Putin could do the world some good by helping to get rid of those chemical weapons and broker a political end to the civil war in Syria. Unfortunately doing good doesn't seem to be in Putin's character. And (many) Russians in that country are too afraid stand up to him and instead are content to be subjects of a mafia-boss run country.

You're a tool. Everyone knows where those chemical weapons came from. They are Syrian. Stop pretending otherwise. The question we should be asking is what were Russians doing at the airfield where Syria launched it's chemical weapons attack. Didn't Putin promise to eliminate chemical weapons from Syria in 2013? Is Putin incompetent, or was he a cynical liar that supports dictators using chemical weapons against its' own people. Where do you stand on that?

You need to add one more option. "Didn't vote for any of the above, and happy with that decision". Regardless who you voted for... candidate A, B, C or T, I think most people would agree that if Clinton and Trump are the top two candidates for POTUS, then that selection process is VERY, VERY broken. We need to change the presidential primary system which unfortunately suits the interests of our polarizing political parties more than it does the common interests of us citizens of the U.S. FYI. I did a write-in for Elon Musk, and have no regrets about that choice.

And in the meantime 30 civilians died in an airstrike against a school in Raqqa and 130 civilians died in an airstrike in Mosul but sure, the level of concern for 5 white people in London is the real global tragedy here. Jake, Regarding the civilian deaths in Mosul. I've heard that it was an airstrike against roof-top snipers and the building collapsed on civilian being held in the lower floors. The speculation is that ISIS rigged with explosives and baited ISOF into calling an airstrike against it. When they did, they detonated the explosives to collapse the building and then attempted to create a media event for it, hoping that the bad publicity would make the airstrikes stop or less effective. Regardless, I hope you understand the difference between terrorist trying to kill civilians and our military which is trying hard to not.

Interesting that "the science is settled" for some when it comes to canopy deployment, but not so much settled when it comes to climate change. You're confusing science with engineering and physics. This science isn't that hard. Increased CO2 and greenhouse gases WILL increase the average temperature of the planet. This was settled in the scientific literate back in the 1880s. The debate is just over how quickly, and that depends on if some feedback loops are positive or negative contributors to the rate of increase. Having a position that is "yes the planet will get warmer... so what" is a viable debating position. But saying the "the science isn't settled" isn't. That is just just denying the truth, to avoid the real debate that needs to happen.

But it's wrong far less often than American right wing politicians. The American right has being wrong and convincing themselves that they are correct down to a science. Maybe they really are scientists! I disagree a little with this. Science is a method for getting to the truth. It doesn't belong any political ideology, left or right. Carl Sagan says it best. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZOT_xAIWbA "Science is a self correcting process. To be accepted new ideas must survive the most rigorous standards of evidence and scrutiny. ... The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion or politics, but it is not the path to knowledge, and there is no place for it in the endeavor of science." How ever regarding climate change you are correct the attack in science is coming from the right. But on other subjects like GMOs that assault comes from the left. Frontline "Climate of Doubt" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0rGnTgG0nE This is how sciences gets polluted.