“Let’s assume we’ve got a fundamentally corrupt government, in the precise sense that the dependence upon ‘funders’ corrupts the intended dependence upon ‘the people alone,’ and that too many within that system are too deeply connected to it to push for its change. That means any effective movement for change has got to come from the outside. But how would that be done? How would a grassroots movement in the Internet Age motivate enough outsider force to create the pressure such a change would require? How would the people who exploded the internet, who brought the Internet to scale, tackle this problem?”
But how would that be done? How would a grassroots movement in the Internet Age motivate enough outsider force to create the pressure such a change would require? How would the people who exploded the internet, who brought the Internet to scale, tackle this problem?”
"We were having lunch and said, 'God, we just got our furlough notices, so as directors, what are we going to do to help morale?' So we started developing the idea to do a run ... It just started morphing, and people started buying in and finding a positive outlet to deal with the stress," said Christel Fonzo-Eberhart, who along with fellow employee Beth Flores came up with idea of a "race" to boost employees' spirits. [...] As they readied for the jog, the DOD employees joked ad nauseum that they would only go at 80 percent intensity -- the same percentage of time they would now be working. Many wore T-shirts that read, "Doing our best, four days a week."
As they readied for the jog, the DOD employees joked ad nauseum that they would only go at 80 percent intensity -- the same percentage of time they would now be working. Many wore T-shirts that read, "Doing our best, four days a week."
State Sen. Andy Sanborn, a potential Republican candidate for governor next year, said he is sorry for comparing Obamacare to the plane crash at the San Francisco airport that killed two people and injured dozens more.
[That program] is now entering its second decade, with ambitious plans including a permanent space station, manned lunar missions, and a possible manned mission to Mars in 2040-2060. Two weeks ago, the Shenzhou-10 spacecraft landed safely with a crew of three in inner Mongolia. The mission was the longest yet for China—15 days in orbit, including a successful docking with the Tiangong-1 Space Laboratory, the first module in a planned space station. To date, China has successfully put eight astronauts into orbit in five missions. Chinese authorities are vague about announcing future missions, so no specific launch dates have been announced for Shenzou-11 or Tiangong-2 (2nd module of the Tiangong program space station). gathered here are images of the Shenzhou-10 mission, and several other highlights from the past decade of Chinese manned spaceflight. The photo shows the Zhang Xiaoguang, Nie Haisheng and Wang Yaping (China's first female astronaut) after they emerged from the re-entry capsule of the Shenzhou 10 spacecraft after it landed in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region two weeks ago.