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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Atkingani Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 13 2016 at 07:36
https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2016/

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2016



Edited by Atkingani - October 13 2016 at 07:36
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Finnforest Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 13 2016 at 19:57
Supermoon 2016.  Best view since 1948.  Step out and get a look tonight and tomorrow night.  We had a clear sky tonight and while the size wasn't all that much bigger, the brightness was noticeably more intense. 

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It was gorgeous--  to me it is simply a bright harvest moon, but Supermoon will do.  
"Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought."   -- John F. Kennedy
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Finnforest Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 13 2016 at 20:27
^ 14% larger than a typical full moon but honestly I couldn't tell any size difference.  I could see the man in the moon pretty well. 

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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote A Person Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 13 2016 at 20:56
gonna be honest: it looked like a normal moon to me
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In West Japan it's rainy or cloudy today. Cry
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Dean Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 14 2016 at 01:45
It is very difficult to gauge the size of the Moon without having something close-by to reference it which is why the best Supermoon pictures are those taken just after moonrise or just before moonset so the photographer can frame the image with a structure or tree to give the illusion of scale. 

The difference between a normal Moon and a Supermoon is about the same as the difference between a US penny and a dime (or between a Euro 20¢ and a Euro 50¢).


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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Finnforest Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 14 2016 at 13:43
RIP Gwen Ifill of Public television Washington Week. 

One of the few class acts in TV journalism.  Didn't agree with her quite often, but she never let her politics affect the objectivity, and thus, the quality of her work.  Very sad losing her and John McLaughlin in the same year. 

Image result for gwen ifill democrat


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^ Sad news and way too young at 61.  RIP Gwen.
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Really saddened me, one the best telejournalists of her time.   Unfortunate timing as well; we could've used her thoughtful but cool & wary approach to politics now.

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They had a full hour tribute on the News Hour tonight with all her colleagues and friends.  I got a little verklempt watching that. Cry
 

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RIP Fidel
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Carrie Fisher passed away this morning.
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^R.I.P. Princess
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Flight123 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 18 2017 at 03:08
PM Theresa May's speech on Brexit yesterday made me sick to the core.  The EU is far from perfect but how a British PM can be sucked in by anti-immigration rhetoric is beyond me.  Meanwhile, Trump is stirring it by talking to our far-right, anti-immigration politicians.  The world is about to turn really nasty.  What's more, the use being made of anti-elite rhetoric to get these clowns elected - what a joke - as the picture of Trump and Farage in a gold-plated lift testifies.  (That's enough issues covered in one post - Ed.)
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Catcher10 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 18 2017 at 08:09
^ " The world is about to turn really nasty"........Where have you been the last 20 years??? Disapprove
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote dr wu23 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 18 2017 at 12:47
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38663522

CIA releases 13m pages of declassified documents online





btw.....why do some copied links not show up as active links when I post them here but they do on other forums..? Is there an issue with PA?
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Edited by dr wu23 - January 18 2017 at 12:48
One does nothing yet nothing is left undone.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote rushfan4 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 18 2017 at 13:49
I used to be able to paste links to PA and they would show up active, but lately, I have had to insert the link between {url} and {/url}   (using brackets for both).


http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38663522


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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Tillerman88 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 18 2017 at 14:21
^From the site:

"Abraham Zapruder's footage became emblematic of the growing mediatisation of public events in the 1960s.
A decade that began with disasters still happening in far away countries of which we knew very little and saw virtually nothing, ended with the emaciated stick-figure victims of the Biafran war lolling listlessly on our television screens, intercut with near-live film of US Army helicopters strafing Vietnamese villages with heavy-calibre machine guns.
Kennedy's assassination was the epitome of this new phenomenon, fitting as it did celebrity, glamour, tragedy, bloodshed, sex and power within the compass of a single lens."

Astonishing how the same old story keeps repeating itself to death...... add to it: money rules the world  Ouch Dead
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