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📝Editor note: Due to this article's unexpected attention, I've included a few more alternatives that people suggested. I've also added some contextual notes you should know before diving into these options.Due to gestures vaguely, everything going on right now with WordPress, I thought I'd put together a list of alternative CMSs that better fit the criteria someone might have for their website. The modern CMS landscape is super broad, with …

The article notes that the prize actually went to two humans, but this headline from MIT Tech Review may just be ahead of its time. Are we one generation of tech away from a Nobel Prize going to a machine itself — assuming the next gen is more autonomous in terms of what it applies […]

The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation has awarded a $12,000 grant to the New York Genealogical & Biographical Society to support a Fellow for their New Netherland Settlers project. I am honored to announce I have been named in that position. As a Fellow, I will research underrepresented and underexamined populations within New Netherland such as free and enslaved individuals, Indigenous people, and the many others who contributed to the diverse, …

It's October, and that means it's inversion season in Washington.Tuesday's 5 a.m. sounding, a vertical snapshot of the atmosphere measured by a weather balloon launched by the National Weather Service, shows a stout inversion above Spokane. The red temperature line increases sharply to the right in the lowest levels of the atmosphere. The surface temperature was a cool 46°F but warmed to a balmy 63°F approximately 1300 feet off the …

We had a longer run planned for the 3rd so I kept it local for Wednesday 2nd Oct. and had another Warriston wander. The sun shone and the place seemed alive with insects enjoying the balmy weather before Winter closes everything down. There was a brief appearance from a red admiral sunbathing on the walls of the crypts but nothing more spectacular: no birds of prey or woodpeckers. I also …

Duskmourn is already well underway, so this set recap for Bloomburrow is coming in super late! Carrot Cake: One of the best limited commons in the set. Arena Limited Stats Events Win Loss Total Winrate Archetype Total 12 42 35 77 0.5455 With splash 1 18 18 36 0.5 By Main Colors WU 1 0 3 3 0 Bird Fliers WB 1 4 3 7 0.5714 Bat Gain/Lose Life WR …

A couple of free festivals I went to in north London's Finsbury Park back in 1996. Not sure of the date of the first one - 'Festival of Environmental and Global Rights'/Big Sexy Festy Party - but flyer says 'bank holiday weekend' so assume it was either in August or perhaps May. The party included Dub Tent, Free Party Stage, House Zone and Chill Out Zone. The map also shows …

Pricing & AvailabilityWhat comes in the box?Design & ConstructionSize & MeasurementsUser InterfaceEmitter & BeamMode ChartRuntimeDriver & RegulationSwitch Carry & ErgonomicsBatteries & ChargingCompetitionConclusion Pricing & Availability Olight sent me this light in exchange for an honest review. Here is the official product page where you can see current pricing. At the time of writing, it’s $120 USD. That’s a tracked link so they know I sent you, but I have chosen …

You can find all of my Tokyo Game Show 2024 coverage hereMetal Gear Solid. Like a Dragon. Monster Hunter. Dragon Age. My choice of demos at Tokyo Game Show was very predictable. Very me. So I thought I'd mix things up towards the end of Day Two and try something a little different. And that's how I ended up playing Level 5's Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road.To be fair, there were …

There are several species of parakeet present in European cities alongside the Rose-ringed, or Ring-necked, Parakeet, Psittacula krameri, also known as the Kramer Parrot. The others are Blue-crowned Parakeet, Thectocercus acuticaudatus, the Alexandrine Parakeet, P. eupatria, and the Monk Parakeet, Myiopsitta monachus. If we’re talking parrots in general, there’s also the Common Parakeet, perhaps better known as the Budgerigar, Melopsittacus undulatus. Rose-ringed Parakeet The Rose-ringed Parakeet is well known in …

By Camilla Gree, Evlyn Moreau10d10 ToadsOSE"Low Levels" Upon which is agreed, An old stone wall separates the family farm from a field they say is cursed. Deep within the wheat, two forgotten idols once balanced the spirits of the crops. One has been destroyed and bal- ance is gone, The Noon Lady rises and the crop spirits grow cruel. The Polotnikovs have disappeared into the field and their farm is …

Hey folks, Proud Prison Journalism Project contributor here! Check out my newest collaboration with Kashawn Taylor and Caesar Hernandez: “What Prison Has Taught Us About Politics” at prisonjournalismproject.com Also–if you’ve found your way to this page as a supporter of Kashawn or Caesar, please pass on to them my love and appreciation for their contributions … Continue reading "What does prison teach prisoners about politics? Kashawn Taylor, Caesar Hernandez and …

Christopher Martin has two aims for his book, Spinoza’s Argument for Substance Monism: Why There Is Only One Thing.The first is to explore and defend Spinoza’s arguments for the claim that there “must and can only be one independent existing thing” (1), while the second is to “provide readers curious about Spinoza, or Modern philosophy more generally, with an illustration of what one living philosopher who focuses on the era …

The Friction project collects strategies for removing and adding friction so organisations function better. Here are some choice cuts. Why friction is good and bad We soon learned that the goal of becoming a “frictionless organization” is misguided. Yes, the people who run most organizations create too much debilitating friction. But many also ignore the opposite side of the coin, making the wrong things too easy for employees and customers. …

Sent from my iPad ZELDIN AGAIN I sometimes feel real sympathy (possibly unwanted) for actors who, trained and motivated to channel and express extreme and painful emotions, do their absolute and skilful best but find themselves having to do it in a mediocre play. Even if it is preceded by long rehearsal analysis of their character, and garlanded with learned programme notes about Sophocles and essays about how we don’t …