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In the Capital Improvement Plan approved by the board in November, Caltrain listed a 10+ year, $600 million program to upgrade its platforms to provide level boarding. Now that Caltrain is running all-electric trains between San Francisco and San Jose Tamien, it is possible to get started on this valuable program that will cut dwell time at stations, saving nearly as much time for passengers as the $2 billion electrification …

In this week’s issue of The Savvy Diabetic: FDA Petition to Approve Sotagliflozin Dexcom & Oura Late Eating Alters BG Levels PharmaSens NEW Insulin Pumps FDA Approves Medtronic InPen Smart Insulin Pen PBMs sue FTC over Insulin Litigation YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE! Help Impact the FDA’s Decision to Improve Glucose Control in People with Type 1 Diabetes Who are Also Living with Chronic Kidney Disease with an Oral Medication. …

My daughter loves the music of Wicked. Because I talked her into going to see Beetlejuice Beetlejuice so to repay her I said I would go see Wicked with her. No offense but I feel that Ariana Grande is annoying and not htat great of an actress, but Wicked changed that for it! The movie was absoluting amazing and one of the best movies I have seen in years! Wicked …

How do you take a classic and often revived comedy, beloved of professional and amateur dramatic companies, where almost everyone in the audience will know some of the lines and find something new to say about it? For Max Webster, directing this very high profile version of Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest, the […]

The 1800s saw a major change in the presentation of novels: the widespread introduction of illustrations. In the run up to Christmas we explore how this phenomenon started and exploded, and the culmination in the “Christmas Gift Book”. In the early 1800s, novels were largely published either unillustrated or with just a frontispiece, these often being a stock decorative illustration with little connection to content of the tale. Growth in …

The orange flavor of Tic Tac Orange Mints unfolds like the experience of eating an orange out of hand. Flavor chemists want you to think of the real thing even if the candy doesn't have the same form factor as orange fruit. The result? Candy plays pretend, and our brain consciously plays right along with it because candy tastes good, inspires memories and is fun to eat. Mass-produced candy

Lesley Wheeler’s “Rhapsodomancy” appears in her forthcoming poetry collection Mycocosmic. The title is an invented word that riffs on bibliomancy, randomly opening a book and stabbing a passage with your finger to tell the future. The 22-line poem (published online at the ASP Bulletin) also riffs on the tarot deck, one line for each card of the Major Arcana. But for me, the poem is a comics script. I’ve been …

As a lover of all things vintage and archival, there are few things that excite me more than a project that plumbs the historical trove of a company or design movement and resurfaces its forgotten gems; it’s the same thrill I get shopping a flea market or antique mall and discovering something incredible that had previously gone unnoticed or been cast aside. Which is why I felt a pang of …

Patreon Thanks to my supporters on Patreon.com/KnifeSteelNerds. Thanks to your support we can do studies like this. Come join us on Patreon if you want support knife steel research too. Video I also have a video covering this same material: Cold Forging and Rolling I already have a separate article about the mechanisms behind cold forging and rolling, so I will not recap much of that here: Cold Forging of …

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Tap to view at full size. Mine’s going through its greatest era. (And no, there’s nothing secret or security-compromising on my laptop screen in these photos — in fact, it’s documentation that I wrote for Writer, and you’re supposed to see that.) Tap to view at full size. Tap to view at full size. The post What does YOUR workspace look like? appeared first on Global Nerdy.

Instead of adding document.startViewTransition at various places in your JS, use a MutationObserver to watch for DOM mutations. In the Observer’s callback undo the original mutation and reapply it, but this time wrapped in a View Transition. ~ # The need for automatic View Transitions Today on BlueSky, Cory LaViska wondered the following about Same-Document View Transitions: I wish I could opt certain elements in to View Transitions so all …

Migrations in Laravel are a great way to manage your database schema. From the ability to easily create and drop tables, to the ability to add and remove columns, migrations are an essential part of any Laravel application. And though migrations covers everything related to a database schema under the sun, there might be a few things that might be missing. Like when you upgrade your application to use a …

On 25th November 1974, Nick Drake passed away in his parents home in Tanworth-in-Arden. His work was not well known at this time and it would take until the end of the decade that his profile began to rise. By the mid 80s, he was being mentioned by a number of musicians as an influence and in the following decade, his gained further exposure due to the BBC broadcasting radio …

This is a guest post by Ryn Cole, who was an intern this summer in the Office of Communications. It appears in slightly different form in the November-December issue of the Library of Congress Magazine. The fourth Thursday in November today means family, food and giving thanks. The national holiday of Thanksgiving, however, did not come quickly or easily. The precedent for a national Thanksgiving holiday can be attributed, in …