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Here we are again; A Friday Afternoon at the Haikulodeon
by MrSmith1 5/10/2013 - 1:49 pm
Yet another Friday Afternoon at the Haikulodeon
by MrSmith1 4/26/2013 - 2:22 pm
Here's this week's heap of haikus:
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The scent of jasmine
scatters as the door is slammed
and she walks away.
A Cold, Rainy Friday Afternoon at the Haikulodeon
by MrSmith1 4/12/2013 - 2:26 pm
Here's this week's heap of haikus:
Warmed-over coffee
fills my mug like an old friend
who slept on the couch.
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An island sunset,
the sky aglow with passion …
here I sit ... alone.
A Very Late Friday Afternoon at the Haikulodeon
by MrSmith1 4/5/2013 - 5:50 pm
A Pre-Sprung Spring Friday Afternoon at the Haikulodeon
by MrSmith1 3/22/2013 - 1:56 pm
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by MrSmith1 3/15/2013 - 2:54 pm
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Criticism of Veterans Affairs Secretary Mounts Over Backlog...
By James Dao, New York Times, May 18/19,2013
[....] As of Monday, just under 600,000 claims qualified as backlogged, meaning they had been pending for over 125 days.
Though the numbers have grown, delays in processing disability claims are nothing new, and neither are complaints about the backlog. Just last year, some veterans advocates tried to make the backlog a presidential campaign issue. They failed. But this year, something changed: the criticism grew louder and perhaps more partisan, and began reaching a wider audience.
A new conservative-leaning nonprofit organization, Concerned Veterans...
Read the article at http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/19/us/shinseki-faces-mounting-criticism-over-backlog-of-benefit-claims.html?src=recg- Add new comment
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DOJ Report: US Attorney Leaked Memo To ‘Undermine’ Fast And...
By Hunter Walker, TPM Muckraker, May 20, 2013
In a scathing new report Monday, the Department of Justice’s Office of the Inspector General accused onetime Arizona U.S. Attorney Dennis K. Burke of leaking confidential documents to a reporter in a politically-motivated attempt to “undermine” a whistleblower who helped spark the investigation into the “Fast and Furious” operation.
Burke, a former aide to Janet Napolitano while she was Arizona governor and then secretary of Homeland Security, was appointed as U.S. attorney by President Obama in 2009. He resigned as he was initially being questioned about the leak in 2011.
The Inspector General...
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Justice Dept. Investigated Fox Reporter Over Leak
By Brian Stelter and Michael D. Shear, New York Times, May 20/21, 2013:
The White House on Monday defended President Obama’s support for aggressive investigations into national security leaks despite new disclosures about a 2009 case in which the Justice Department searched a reporter’s personal e-mails and attempted to track his movements.
Details of the government’s investigation of the reporter, James...
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Build(ing) a Supercomputer Replica of the Human Brain
Even by the standards of the TED conference, Henry Markram’s 2009 TEDGlobal talk was a mind-bender. He took the stage of the Oxford Playhouse, clad in the requisite dress shirt and blue jeans, and announced a plan that—if it panned out—would deliver a fully sentient hologram within a decade. He dedicated himself to wiping out all mental disorders and creating a self-aware artificial intelligence. And the South African–born neuroscientist pronounced that he would accomplish all this through an insanely ambitious attempt to build a complete model of a human brain—from synapses to hemispheres—and simulate it on a supercomputer. Markram was proposing a project that has bedeviled AI researchers for decades, that most had presumed was impossible. He wanted...
Read the article at http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/05/neurologist-markam-human-brain/all/
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