“Like the nation overall, Oregon is transitioning down to more sustainable rates of growth. Job gains are roughly in-line with what underlying demographics suggest the state needs to hold the unemployment rate steady.”
“This morning the Oregon Office of Economic Analysis released the latest quarterly economic and revenue forecast. For the full document, slides and forecast data please see our main website. Below is the forecast’s Executive Summary.”
“We know the cost of living varies considerably across the country. It can even vary significantly just across town. But what really drives these differences? In a word, housing.”
“A few months ago I took a pleasant holiday to the south of Spain. On my adventures I spent a couple of nights in the very picturesque city of Granada.”
“One last prediction for the 2020s: Oregon will see more brewery closures. In fact we are likely to see a dozen or more closures every year in the decade ahead. This is mostly due to the fact that Oregon has seen considerable growth in the number of breweries in the past 10-15 years.”
“Either way, having loose ligaments and tendons may play a role, too, since people who have tight ligaments and tendons typically aren’t able to shift in ways that allow them to actually “crack” their back, Dr. Anand says.”
“Economically, the 2010s were a disappointment. Now, the U.S. economy went the full 10 years without a recession, a first in history. However we began the decade at the bottom of the worst recession in a long time. As such much of the decade was about regaining the lost ground.”
“This is a rocket engine. Really, all it is is a heat and pressure machine whose end goal is to convert that heat and pressure into workable thrust. The more that gets converted the better. This conversion is usually done by a large bell nozzle.”
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“Ew go to the washroom when you do that. /s”
“Tim Berners-Lee, a British engineer credited with having invented the World Wide Web in 1989, has released an ambitious plan detailing steps for better online governance, addressing problems like misinformation, data surveillance and censorship.”
“Astronomers have confirmed the first example of a galaxy cluster where large numbers of stars are being born at its core.”
“The nature and origin of turbulence and magnetic fields in the intergalactic space are important problems that are yet to be understood. We propose a scenario in which turbulent-flow motions are induced via the cascade of the vorticity generated at cosmological shocks during the formation of the large-scale structure.”
“Jimmy Lai is one of the richest people in Hong Kong. And in some ways, the story of his rise is the story of Hong Kong itself. Jimmy was born in mainland China. In 1960, when he was 12 years old, he snuck out of China and into Hong Kong by hiding in the bottom of a fishing boat.”
“According to various databases, out of the twenty possible first moves from White, the move 1.b4 ranks ninth in popularity.[1] It is considered an irregular opening, so it is classified under the A00 code in the Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings (ECO).”
I fairly consistently have a bug where there is no audio on my MacBook Pro and switching to a different sound output doesn’t fix it. Until today I always restarted the computer but I did a little searching and found that killing the coreaudiod process in Activity Monitor quickly does the trick. Little victories.
“Illustration depicting the layers of the heliosphere. Credit: NASA/IBEX/Adler PlanetariumOut at the boundary of our solar system, pressure runs high.”
“How did this get to be standard practice?”
“In the most general sense the term Queen’s Pawn Game can refer to any chess opening which starts with the move 1.d4. It is the second most popular opening move after 1.e4. The name is usually used to describe openings beginning with 1.d4 where White does not play the Queen’s Gambit.”