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From decay to dazzling, Ford restores grandeur to Detroit train station that once symbolized decline
https://apnews.com/article/michigan...ord-mobility-49c55d18ee0b377fa54c70f389168639A significant project - as it was in the beginning in In numbers:
6 years ago - Vacant for decades, Detroit’s train station may get new life
https://apnews.com/general-news-8ecf0661667348b7ad7263b83f4882a1
The Michigan Central Railroad was originally chartered in 1832 to establish rail service between Detroit, Michigan, and St. Joseph, Michigan. The railroad later operated in the states of Michigan, Indiana, and Illinois in the United States and the province of Ontario in Canada.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan_Central_Railroad
It was absorbed into the New York Central System, which subsequently merged with the Pennsylvania Railroad in the ill-fated PennCentral, which went bankrupt, with freight operations becoming Conrail, while the intercity passenger service was taken by Amtrak, and commuter services teken over by local, regional or state authorities.
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Traders who scooped up Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway shares at a massive $620,000 discount during glitch will have their deals canceled by the NYSE
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/traders-scooped-warren-buffett-berkshire-105754520.htmlI heard about this yesterday, when someone on the radio commented on Warren Buffett stock down 99%. I immediately thought that can't be right. It wasn't, except for a reporting glitch.
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Sounda like the whole Monopoly board being restored.Astronuc said:
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Fun with airlines. My wife wanted to take a girls' trip to visit her friend. All day, the price was stable until we went to book it and then it more than doubled. We cleared cookies, changed browsers, etc. to no avail. It wasn't until she selected a different destination and then came back to her original one that the price finally returned to its previous price.
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Which website/airline?
(would really like to avoid them!)
(would really like to avoid them!)
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It was United but I think that it was just a glitch. Their web site has actually improved a lot over the last few years. Also, this travel is occurring within the next two weeks which is when a lot of airlines tend to increase their prices (last minute travel is expensive). Fortunately, the price returned to normal and we were able to book it. This morning the price is back up again (from my work computer) so we probably snagged it just in time.Tom.G said:
From what I've seen, it's pretty common in the industry to try to scare people into making a purchase before it "goes up in price again". Whenever I book any travel or hotel rooms, I make sure that I have one option open and then try the same search from another browser that has had its cookies cleared. Patience usually wins the day but this particular incident was a little tougher to overcome.
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How do they do this?
I wrote ##e^{i\pi}+1=0## somewhere on the internet, but behind what is publically visual in an unreleased WordPress document, and on my computer in a corresponding tex-file. Then I got this FB ad:
How do they know?
I wrote ##e^{i\pi}+1=0## somewhere on the internet, but behind what is publically visual in an unreleased WordPress document, and on my computer in a corresponding tex-file. Then I got this FB ad:
How do they know?
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https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/collection-of-lame-jokes.25301/post-6930480jack action said:
Yeah, not really. More like 1.04 pounds per (US) gallon. I don't know where that "a pint's a pound, the world around" thing comes from. google, google... I think 16 imperial fluid ounces of water weigh 1 pound. But an imperial pint is 20 imp fl oz, which would weigh 1.25 pounds. Maybe one of you older Brits (I won't name names) can comment.jack action said:
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gmax137 said:
Guinness drinkers will confirm that 1 pint (as in an imperial pint) is 20 fluid ounces.
But outside the subject of beer, a pint is 16 fluid ounces, and a pound is 16 ounces.
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Confusing... so imperial pints are used only for beer?collinsmark said:
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gmax137 said:
In my practical, present-day experience, beer is the only thing where 20 oz is sometimes considered a "pint."
And not all beers at that -- only certain beers; Guinness, Smithwicks, maybe Boddingtons are some of the 20 oz examples. If I were to order a pint of Budweiser, it's understood to be 16 oz.
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In the UK, beer and milk is sold by the (imperial) pint (= 20 fl oz), but all other liquids are sold by the litre. We never had a 16 fl oz pint.
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DrGreg said:
Agreed; all this may depend on geography/location.
In the US, most draught beer (i.e., beer out of the tap) is served in these 16 fl. oz pint glasses that look like this:
But there are exceptions, as previous noted, that are served in 20 fl. oz "imperial pint" glasses such as this pint of Guinness:
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I wish the beers here in the US were 20 oz lol. Often the so called "pints" are closer to 12 oz. The glass is 16 ounces to the rim; they're typically served as shown in @collinsmark 's photo, really only 12 oz of beer.
For outdoor keggers we use red solo cups but that's another thread.
For outdoor keggers we use red solo cups but that's another thread.
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gmax137 said:
The only pubs/bars I frequent have two sets of glasses: the 20 fl. oz "imperial" pints for Guinness, Harp, Smithwicks, Bass, maybe Boddingtons, etc.; and the 16 fl. oz glasses for everything else (including Budweiser, Coors, Miller, any local microbrews, most anything else you can think of).
If a newbie bartender accidentally serves a Guinness in a 16 fl. oz glass it is generally considered a travesty and a crime against humanity. Riots may ensue.
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I'm relieved they figured this out with water and not beer.jack action said:
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https://news.yahoo.com/news/finance/video/space-janitor-astroscale-enjoys-stellar-065018394.html
Space janitor Astroscale "aims to develop an orbital gripper that can catch old satellites and other garbage, and then nudge them back towards Earth to burn up in the atmosphere." The see an opportunity in cleaning up the mess of "growing cloud of junk, made up of dead satellites and the like."
Space janitor Astroscale "aims to develop an orbital gripper that can catch old satellites and other garbage, and then nudge them back towards Earth to burn up in the atmosphere." The see an opportunity in cleaning up the mess of "growing cloud of junk, made up of dead satellites and the like."
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Popular science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein reiterated that expression while writing a series of novels aimed at teens. In "Have Spacesuit -- Will Travel", principle character named Clifford ("Kip") Russell uses "pint a pound, the world around"as a mnemonic. Given paucity of tools except for pint ration cans, Kip uses an empty pint can to estimate time required to fill an underground prison by blocking a water outflow, using a pint can and counting seconds to measure flow rate.gmax137 said:
Kip calculates quite often, to fill the empty hours during long voyages and while imprisoned. Kip's dad, a retired mathematician, encourages Kip to study mathematics, also Latin and Spanish. These skills help Clifford when discussing the nature of reality with a 4C.E. Roman centurion in yet a different prison in another galaxy. This children's novel brought the word adiabatic to my attention while discussing spacesuit designs.
Heinlein novels still have a market in US.
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That's one of Heinlein's books I never read.Klystron said:
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Part of a series roughly twelve books including "Citizen of the Galaxy" and "Starship Trooper", the latter spawning a raft of films. An educated 1960s living space included a much thumbed copy of Heinlein's "Stranger in a Strange Land".gmax137 said:
Heinlein was a guest commentator during televised Apollo 11 landing broadcasts due to popularity of his first novel "Rocketship Galileo" imagining a team of teen rocket enthusiasts led by a nuclear physicist as lunar pioneers, and successful screenplay "Destination Moon".
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Does anybody remember Catweazle? The Germans made a movie (watching).
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Certainly! A British children's TV show that I believe was also sold to other countries. Never saw the German film, though.fresh_42 said:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catweazle
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How do they know?
That was the question asked by this lady when looking at a map of the Mall, the part that read " You are Here ".
That was the question asked by this lady when looking at a map of the Mall, the part that read " You are Here ".
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So this guy, his name is Joel, he emphasizes the last vowel, "El". Awkward moment when I asked him if he was one of the Superman-related characters.
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That took a moment.WWGD said:
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Bad language and offensive words are hard to translate. Their severity gets lost or added, depending on the case. So can someone describe to me how severe it is if someone calls someone else a **** (a four-letter word beginning with a "j")? Is it jovial, an insult in any case, an everyday word, how severe is it?