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Big Island - rent a kayak and go to the Captain Cook monument and snorkel. Kauai - make the drive to Ke'e beach.

With interest rates declining and Treasuries less attractive - tell me why Altria (MO) is essentially flat YTD, has a P/E of 11.2, and a 7.2% dividend? It seems too good to be true?? Is the dividend essentially a liquidation to the share holders? This is for my 90 year old father who is...

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-04048-7 China is leading research in nearly 90% of the crucial technologies that “significantly enhance, or pose risks to, a country’s national interests”, according to a technology tracker run by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) — an...

Someone will lose a job for teaching about when similar groups on a double bond/ring are on opposite sides.

Personally, while I'd like to say it was a book like The Selfish Gene or a chemistry set, it was almost certainly receiving an Atari 2600. Our family could afford it as my mother went to work and it is thus also associated with transition to latch key kid status. Anything stand out?

God hating the Detroit Lions is an empirical fact.

They now have 4 semester long classes X2 instead of 7 year long classes. So by using electives on the next class in a series the kids can go twice as fast on select subjects. So e.g., you can take pre-Calc and BC Calc in the same year (Fall then Spring) or AP English or Spanish Lang and Lit in...

I went to a small private HS out of state a long time ago - writing was emphasized including 'writing camp' in the summer. Now, in Chapel Hill/Carrboro schools they seem to be aligning writing assignments with AP exam prep. Mostly templated, timed, etc. The impact of LLMs is still being worked...

Or try to sell some/much of it off?

https://subtbiol.pensoft.net/article/162344/ We report the discovery and detailed analysis of an extraordinary colonial spider assemblage in Sulfur Cave, a chemoautotrophic sulfidic ecosystem located on the Albania-Greece border. The colony, comprising an estimated 69,000 individuals of...

Russian robot falls from 6 story window.

Are you getting out or holding? I hope you made enough for a trip to Tara Iti.

I'm old and very likely don't appreciate what is going on. That said, the cost of tickets is now around median $135. With secondary market prices for top acts often over $1000. So likely significant selection in attendance at live events. One also wonders how Spotify impacts habits and tastes vs...

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Is the voting age for dogs 18 or 18 in dog years?