Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
But Palm Beach County sheriff Ric Bradshaw's going to try: Florida House and Senate budget leaders have awarded Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw $1 million for a new violence prevention unit aimed at preventing tragedies like those in Newtown, Conn., and Aurora, Colo., from occurring on his turf. Bradshaw plans to use the extra …
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Looks that way: The Pentagon has released a statement confirming that soldiers could be prosecuted for promoting their faith: "Religious proselytization is not permitted within the Department of Defense...Court martials and non-judicial punishments are decided on a case-by-case basis...”. As I noted last year in my piece Go Where the Future Is: That last point …
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As a slight departure from the usual subjects of this blog, we offer this paper for discussion and consideration: This article is an overview of the current state of both forward and inverse analysis of wave propagation in piling. It begins with a summary of the typical acceptance procedure for the wave equation as applied …
I recently noted an article about how the American Dream has downsized. The decline of our society as "aspirational" is one of the biggest shifts in attitude that has taken place in my lifetime, and is one I have noted on many occasions. But in the middle of the article, a survey was taken with …
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Standpoint's Mary Eberstadt hits the nail on the head: Specifically, because the churches need vibrant families — including families that reproduce themselves, as secular people tend not to do — they must also understand that strengthening the natural family is the first order of business in bringing people back to God. As has been amply documented by the British …
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That, unfortunately, is where our government is at: In his State of the Union address to the American people earlier this year, Barack Obama declared that he was "confident" of achieving "our objective of defeating the core of al-Qaeda". Although he acknowledged the need to pursue the "remnants" of the terrorist group and its affiliates, …
In Palm Beach, where else? In its unanimous approval of the repair project, the board also gave Smith permission to replace wood transom windows above the front doors with bronze windows in a style that would closely match the door pattern. Smith plans to replace the church’s announcement sign with a slightly smaller bronze-framed case …
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The Witherspoon Institute is hopeful: The international press was shocked on November 17, 2012, when hundreds of thousands of French citizens took to the streets to fight against a parliamentary bill redefining marriage to include same-sex relationships and legalizing same-sex adoption. Less than a decade ago, France symbolized all that American conservatives despised and all …
My last post on STEM education in Florida has gotten an extensive response from Charles Richardson. This is a topic very much in vogue and deserves further treatment, although some of what I have to say in response to him--and others who don't find my strong position on the subject to their taste--I've covered in …
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That's part of the underlying assumption behind the pushback against Florida Gov. Rick Scott's latest STEM initiative: A crusade by humanities professors against Florida governor Rick Scott may be, contrary to their intentions, another sign of the suicide of American education. Scott has proposed lowering tuition rates for students majoring in STEM (science, technology, engineering, …
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