💢 Local reports indicate five Palestinians were killed in an Israeli strike on Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, including surgeon Dr. Rezeq Abu Sha’ira.
Medical sources at the hospital say the strike appears to have hit the second floor, where surgical wards are located, with damage extending upward. The fourth-floor recovery unit, including operating theaters, is reportedly out of action due to smoke.
"It has to be admitted that, speaking quantitatively, the greater part of the influence of the Poetics on our writers has consisted in unverified beliefs that Aristotle said this or that, which he did not say."
— L. J. Potts
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Scott Colom will defeat Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith in a major upset to become the first Democrat that voters in deep-red Mississippi have elected to the chamber in more than four decades, CNN projects. cnn.it/4iEnxUo
The Eterna cal 1466. Those 7 tiny ball bearings supporting the automatic-winding rotor were Eterna's great innovation. Eventually everyone switched from using a central post to this design, even Rolex.
I realize some of the people making mechanical watches now are quite earnest, but the result inevitably ends up being artificial. In the golden age, mechanical watches were urgently needed precision instruments. Now they are expensive men's jewelry.
Eterna is a great example of a brand whose vintage watches are underpriced because the current brand ranks low in prestige. Back in the day they were highly regarded.
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Reminder that the “datacenters use too much water” problem is fake.
In Europe, some small settlements have a formal status of city because they received city status and rights in Middle Ages.
Kostanjevica na Krki is formally considered a city in Slovenia despite having only 700 inhabitants.
It received the status of city in 13th century under the Spanheim dukes of Carinthia due to its strategic and defensive position in lower Carniola, situated on the southeastern edge of the Spanheim territories. During that time it was specifically mentioned in sources as 'civitas' (city) and in 1249 it received important trade rights and later also gaining formal city privileges.
This city of Kostanjevica is situated on an artificial island that was created by cutting a canal across a meander. Because of this defensive position, it didn't need any walls. The original German name for this city was Landestrost ("defence of the land").
However from 15th-16th centuries this city declined due to Ottoman raids. During that time the city basically became a rural settlement, however the city privileges were never formally abolished. It only lost its civic autonomy in late 18th century.
Republic of Slovenia recognizes the formal city status of Kostanjevica na Krki to honor this tradition and history of this settlement.
This is similar in many other Central European countries.
For example Opatowiec in Poland is considered a city with only 338 inhabitants. The history of this settlement as a city goes way back to 1271 when Duke Boleslaw V the Chaste granted Opatowiec a city charter under Magdeburg law.
I should also note here that in Central Europe, there is no distinction between city and town. There is no word for 'town' in any of the local languages. The settlements that received city rights are referred to as cities no matter how small they are.
This is why such settlements continued to be referred to as cities even today (eg. Stadt in German, mesto/grad in Slavic languages, város in Hungarian).
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Been running Opus 5.5 agents over the notebooks of Gauss, Riemann, Hilbert and Grothendieck. around 12,000 pages so far. Heres the best finding so far:
Riemann's 1860 shock wave paper is famous for getting the energy part wrong however his unpublished sheets at Göttingen have it right the Rankine Hugoniot conditions a decade or two before Rankine and Hugoniot plus results usually dated 19061937, all in his own notation. A second sheet in another folder has the same physics.
There are probably thousands of potential undiscovered stuff in the research papers of the smartest ever to live imo all of them should be made public and reviewed by ai years of work can probably be transcribed by agents in days
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Across our projects @GoogleDeepMind, we are witnessing a genuine phase transition in the pace of scientific discovery. You will see a glimpse of this in our releases in the next few weeks.
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"One research group wanted to study ten men in the North of England who ate five or more servings of fruit and vegetables a day. They couldn’t find any, though, so had to lower their target to three servings."
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Maybe both parties keep mistaking voter rejection of their opponents’ agenda for an endorsement of their own sweeping platform, when voters really just want a president who fixes the proverbial potholes.
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'Two Lily Bulbs.' (1952) Eliot Hodgkin was a meticulous painter of still life and as good at detail as the 18thC German botanist and artist Georg Ehret or Pierre-Joseph Redouté; it has botanical accuracy, aesthetic appeal and is painted with great affection for his subject.
Andrew McCarthy in The National Review on what caused the Republicans to lose so badly in the midterms.
20 years ago there was a building in SF that was nicknamed the Y Scraper because so many YC founders lived there. They just had a reunion and it makes me so happy to see them all. One thing you can say for sure about YC: no investor's founders become closer friends.
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I admit that I completely broke down today. I cried uncontrollably. I couldn’t hold myself together after witnessing what I saw with my own eyes.
Today, we went to film a journalistic report inside the displacement tents along the seashore. I swear, what we witnessed was beyond what any human being should have to endure.
I saw men crying bitterly. Men I had never seen cry when they lost their children or when their homes were destroyed. Today, I saw them crying because they were powerless to do the simplest thing: protect their children from the water and the cold.
We spoke to families who told us they had spent the entire night carrying their children in their arms after floodwater covered the floors of their tents and soaked their mattresses. They couldn’t find a single dry place to put their children. They couldn’t even give them a few hours of sleep.
I saw children no older than five, without proper clothes to protect them from the cold, without heating, and without a dry place to sleep. Children shivering inside tents that cannot keep out the rain, protect them from the wind, or provide even the most basic sense of safety.
What more must happen for this world to act? How much more suffering must people endure before someone remembers that they are human beings?
I am sick of this world. I am sick of its hypocrisy and empty slogans. To hell with a world that talks endlessly about human rights while leaving children to drown inside their tents. To hell with everyone who has witnessed this suffering and chosen silence, and to hell with the governments and institutions that have the power to act but continue to turn their backs on us.
The famous Zenith cal 135. The competition version won the Neuchâtel trials every year from 1950 to 1954. The secret is the huge balance wheel (the gold wheel at lower left with the coiled spring in the middle).
it's inspiring to see your passion to old mechanical watches. i wonder if you understand from ground up how they are made such that you could build one yourself.
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