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steve2470's JournalPost your favorite IT/nerd song: "Write in C"
BTW, Merry Christmas/Happy Hanukkah/Happy Festivus to everyone in CHaS!
and of course, this one:
The Day The Routers Died...
Nearly Dying In Childbirth: Why Preventable Complications Are Growing In U.S.
https://www.npr.org/2017/12/22/572298802/nearly-dying-in-childbirth-why-preventable-complications-are-growing-in-u-sLeah Bahrencu's kidneys and liver shut down. Samantha Blackwell spent a month in a coma. Cindel Pena suffered heart failure. Heather Lavender lost her uterus.
Every year in the U.S., nearly 4 million women give birth, the vast majority without anything going amiss for themselves or their babies. But more than 135 expectant and new mothers a day — or roughly 50,000 a year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — endure dangerous and even life-threatening complications that often leave them wounded, weakened, traumatized, financially devastated, unable to bear more children, or searching in vain for answers about what went wrong.
For the past year, ProPublica and NPR have been examining why the U.S. has the highest rate of maternal mortality in the industrialized world. That relative high rate of death, though, has overshadowed the far more pervasive problem that experts call "severe maternal morbidity."
Each year in the U.S., 700 to 900 women die related to pregnancy and childbirth. But for each of those women who die, up to 70 suffer hemorrhages, organ failure or other significant complications. That amounts to more than 1 percent of all births. The annual cost of these near deaths to women, their families, taxpayers and the health care system runs into billions of dollars.
Top general tells Marines to be prepared for a big fight
Source: Washington Post
The Marine Corps commandant told about 300 Marines in Norway this week that they should be prepared for a “bigass fight” to come, remarks his spokesman later said were not in reference to any specific adversary but rather intended to inspire the troops.
“I hope I’m wrong, but there’s a war coming,” Gen. Robert Neller told the Marines on Thursday, according to Military.com. “You’re in a fight here, an informational fight, a political fight, by your presence.”
Neller was visiting a Marine rotational force near Trondheim, about 300 miles north of Oslo. The Marines have been stationed there since January. Their presence in Norway is intended to support operations by NATO and the U.S. European Command, as well as to help the Marine Corps facilitate training in cold weather and mountainous conditions.
But Neller and other Corp leaders told the force they should be prepared for a change in their peacetime mission, should the need arise. In particular, Neller predicted the Pacific and Russia to be the focus of any conflict in the future outside of the Middle East, Military.com reported.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2017/12/23/theres-a-war-coming-top-marine-corps-general-tells-u-s-troops
Uplifting news, courtesy of Reddit
https://www.reddit.com/r/UpliftingNews/In case you need a smile at times
Investors yank billions out of market following Trump's tax bill win
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/investors-yank-billions-out-of-market-following-trumps-tax-bill-win/ar-BBHa31G?ocid=mmx&PC=EMMX01As Congress moved the tax bill forward, investors pulled the highest amount out of equities funds in more than three years, suggesting some investors may see "tax cuts" as already priced in.
According to Bank of America Merrill Lynch, redemptions from equities funds and ETFs totaled $14.5 billion, the fourth largest on record, and the biggest since August, 2014, just weeks after Brexit.
For the week ending Wednesday, redemptions from bond funds overall totaled $3.2 billion, the largest in a year. High-yield bond funds were down $5.3 billion, the eighth consecutive week of outflows and the longest streak since the financial crisis in 2008.
"I think the reaction was notable this week, after the tax reform passage. The outflows were remarkable," said Jared Woodard, global market strategist at BofA. Woodard said investors sold value, small caps, and financials, all "Trump trade" sectors that should benefit from the sweeping tax bill.
Something for the ardent Trumpians to ponder.....
https://twitter.com/Ancient_Arcane/status/944651794407411713Rand Paul (LibertarianIdiot-KY) zings Trump on Twitter
https://twitter.com/RandPaul/status/944590330166431745Free 15-image Windows theme (Northern Lights)
https://twitter.com/Windows/status/944583382566146048I know in W10 you get it from the Store, not sure about W8.1 or W7. Also not sure if you can just download it from MS directly.
Best wishes to all during this holiday season
I do hope everyone has at least one person for support. I know not everyone has family (or family is toxic), and I know sometimes people are isolated. We're here for support, and hopefully one person in RL can be counted on for support.
Merry Christmas/Happy Hannukkah/Happy Festivus/Happy Holidays to all.
Twitter Festivus threads
https://twitter.com/search?q="Happy%20Festivus"&src=tren&data_id=tweet%3A944562046682755072
https://twitter.com/Kate_Springer/status/944550328778846209
Nvidia's hugely powerful $3,000 Titan V PC GPU is fastest ever
https://www.cnet.com/news/nvidias-3000-titan-v-gpu-offers-massive-power-for-machine-learning/(a few weeks old but still interesting)
Looking for a way to turn your home computer into a deep-learning AI super-monster? Nvidia has an expensive answer.
The new Titan V GPU promises a crazy amount of processing for deep learning and AI applications. It's nine times more powerful -- at 110 teraflops -- than last year's Titan X, Nvidia's last massive desktop graphics processor aimed at machine learning applications.
The Titan V is based on Nvidia's newer Volta chip architecture, which is also being used in Nvidia's Xavier self-driving car system and for data centers. This is the first desktop-based use of the new chip, and it costs $2,999 or £2,700 (about AU$4,800). Hardly a consumer purchase, but it's meant for people who want a massive dose of machine learning processing. Developers, labs, AI researchers... or anyone who wants an insane supercomputer.
It's available now on Nvidia's store.
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