Gerrymandering, the politicians’ practice of drawing district lines to favor their party and expand their power, is nearly as old as the republic itself. Today, we see it in Ohio’s “Lake Erie Monster” and Pennsylvania’s “Goofy Kicking Donald Duck.” But where did the name come from,...
U.S. Nutter Butter is an American sandwich cookie brand, first introduced in 1969 and currently owned by Nabisco, which is a subsidiary of Mondelez International. It is claimed to be the best-selling U.S. peanut butter sandwich cookie, with around a billion estimated to be eaten every year...
IN THE DAYit was called Hoberg's Desert Resort, and guests reveled in the star-studded night sky. We did the same recently, after hiking and biking the retreat and exploring nearby Palm Canyon. The stars -- like the inn itself -- have a timeless appeal. Information: To book a room at...
The days are getting longer, with about 3 minutes of more daylight each day. Yet, sunbreaks are still a welcome sight during the frequent cloudy ‘dark’ days of the winter season. But where did the term sunbreak originate? The term itself describes the sun peeking through a nearly solid ...
The term ‘farm-to-table’ has become as clichéd as a hipster’s waxed moustache. But in Sonoma County, an hour’s drive north of the Golden Gate Bridge, the phrase is more than just words punched onto menus with a vintage typewriter: it’s a way of life. Here, farms and ...
Where did the term 'lambda' come from? Java lambda expressions explained Due to various language constraints, lambda expressions had, until recently, never made it into the Java language. The concept had long been baked into other languages, such as Groovy and...
Most firms employ mechanisms that facilitate the identification of short-term solutions, i.e., local search, or potential longer-term breakthroughs, i.e., distant search (Hargadon and Sutton, 1997). Understanding the underlying search space is at the heart of the boundary spanning mechanism (...
pretty cookie-cutter, darn near everything is Cloud based. With being Cloud based we just need WAN access. We have roughly 18 VLANs, even for a few simple things like printers, those go on a dedicated VLAN. Also, I take the approach of “if it has a network port, make it wired”...
Russia also is preparing for a March presidential election that is all but guaranteed to give Putin another six-year term. The Kremlin has cracked down heavily on dissent during the war, and the death Friday of imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny has silenced the voice of Putin's most...
with a reliable and easily understood consistent structure. However, this homogeneity did not always meet the needs of every application with different data needs. Thus, the solution was to create multiple databases with different structures, sometimes with the same underlying information — a difficult...