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Toroid

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This guy can't control himself.
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Conor McGregor is arrested following fight with a fan in Miami Beach | Daily Mail Online
An arrest report says Conor McGregor and a fan were leaving the Fontainebleau Miami Beach hotel just after 5am Monday when the altercation went down
  • Surveillance footage allegedly shows McGregor slapping the fan's phone out of his hand as he was taking a photo and then stomped on it several times
  • Police say McGregor then walked away with the phone valued at $1,000
  • The Miami Beach Police Department released McGregor's mugshot on Monday
  • The MMA fighter is charged with criminal mischief and strong-armed robbery

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pigfarmer

tall, thin, irritable
New York gets aggressive chasing rich residents fleeing the state's high taxes to low-tax havens like Florida with invasive audits on dentist visits, vet bills and even refrigerator contents
  • Gov. Cuomo blames a $2.3 billion budget shortfall due to federal tax law changes limiting state deductions on wealthy New Yorkers fleeing the state
  • As the rich try to escape to states like Florida with no income tax, the Empire State tax collectors have become more aggressive, and creative, in auditing
  • Wealthy former residents can expect to have cellphone records, dentist visits, and refrigerator contents checked to prove where their 'domicile' truly is
  • The tax burden in New York is high enough to have also been touted by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's mother in why she moved to the Sunshine State

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Well, I'm in no danger of being called wealthy and suffering an invasive audit but Gov.Putz is a real piece of work. With all the corruption around him it's like the sewage plant exploded and he walked out of it in a white Panama suit without a fleck on him. Like the Clintons and Whitewater. Unlike them, honestly, I think he's just a nitwit. In one of the several corruption trials a secret recording was made public in which the felons were thanking Italy for producing beautiful women, fabulous cars and the Cuomos.

NYC is a liberal mess wasting b-b-billions and accomplishing very little in terms of education and public housing. If those involved were truly concerned about the underprivileged they could serve them best by stepping aside and letting someone who knows what the f**k they are doing take over.

Not sure how to compute AOC trumpeting the loss of Amazon HQ. The tax breaks would have done nothing for the state funding issue and it would have only added to the congestion, but damn, it would have been a large employer and had secondary effects on a myriad of local businesses. She's having her ass wiped for her on the public dime and brags about her acute 'bullshit detector' acquired as what, a bartender? I got one too and I know what it's telling me.

Sometimes I want to just move into an abandoned missile silo out in North Dakota and just pull the blast door shut over my head.
 

nivek

As Above So Below
Sometimes I want to just move into an abandoned missile silo out in North Dakota and just pull the blast door shut over my head.

I think about that sometimes myself...:Whistle:

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nivek

As Above So Below
Actresses Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman are among 50 people charged in massive college entrance exam cheating scandal in which parents paid up to $6M in bribes to get their kids into elite schools like Yale, Georgetown and Stanford



Full House star Lori Loughlin and Oscar nominee Felicity Huffman are among the many parents accused of being involved in a plot to get their children into schools including Georgetown, Stanford, UCLA, University of San Diego, USC, University of Texas, Wake Forest, and Yale. The scheme was uncovered by the FBI and federal prosecutors in Boston, and involved parents paying bribes of up to $6 million to get their children into these elite schools.

In many instances, the children were unaware that their parents had paid these bribes according to federal documents (inset). Huffman has two daughters with husband William H. Macy (pictured together main) – 16-year-old Georgia (left in main) and Sofia, who is 18 (second left in main). Lori Loughlin (right) and her designer husband Mossimo Giannulli also have two daughters: Olivia, 19, (left of her mother) and Isabella, 20 (right of her mother). Macy was not charged but Giannulli was named alongside his wife in the papers.

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wwkirk

Divine
Actresses Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman are among 50 people charged in massive college entrance exam cheating scandal in which parents paid up to $6M in bribes to get their kids into elite schools like Yale, Georgetown and Stanford



Full House star Lori Loughlin and Oscar nominee Felicity Huffman are among the many parents accused of being involved in a plot to get their children into schools including Georgetown, Stanford, UCLA, University of San Diego, USC, University of Texas, Wake Forest, and Yale. The scheme was uncovered by the FBI and federal prosecutors in Boston, and involved parents paying bribes of up to $6 million to get their children into these elite schools.

In many instances, the children were unaware that their parents had paid these bribes according to federal documents (inset). Huffman has two daughters with husband William H. Macy (pictured together main) – 16-year-old Georgia (left in main) and Sofia, who is 18 (second left in main). Lori Loughlin (right) and her designer husband Mossimo Giannulli also have two daughters: Olivia, 19, (left of her mother) and Isabella, 20 (right of her mother). Macy was not charged but Giannulli was named alongside his wife in the papers.

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This news doesn't surprise me, though I wasn't familiar with the actresses.
Someone must have blown the whistle, otherwise it would been hard to detect the scheme.
 

Toroid

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Researchers from the European Southern Observatory have measured the mass of the Milky Way at 1.5 trillion solar masses.
New Study Says Our Galaxy Weighs 1.5 Trillion Solar Masses - ExtremeTech
We know our Milky Way galaxy is big, but how big has been something of an open question. In the past, estimates of the total mass ranged from 500 billion to 3 trillion solar masses. It was difficult to pin down because of the unmeasurable dark matter making up the majority of the galaxy’s mass. Researchers from the European Southern Observatory (ESO) have managed to accurately measure the galaxy’s mass including all the dark matter. They say the Milky Way weighs in at a hefty 1.5 trillion solar masses.

The problem scientists have always encountered when trying to measure the galaxy is that dark matter could account for as much as 85 percent of all matter. We can’t detect dark matter with any known mechanism, as it doesn’t emit or absorb energy on the electromagnetic spectrum. But we know it’s there because of the gravitational effects on surrounding matter. For example, calculations show that galaxies would fly apart instead of rotating without all the hidden mass of dark matter.

The ESO team came up with a clever workaround to measure the Milky Way’s mass without directly observing dark matter. They employed NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and Europe’s Gaia spacecraft to study the movement of globular clusters orbiting the Milky Way. These clumps of stars are part of the Milky Way in some ways, but they also orbit independently. The team looked at 46 globular clusters — 34 of them with Gaia and 12 with Hubble. The most distant was about 129,000 light years away from Earth.

The velocity of the clusters has a direct relationship with the mass of the Milky Way (more mass makes clusters orbit faster), thus the team arrived at a total mass of 1.5 trillion suns. Technically, that’s the total mass present within 129,000 light-years of the galactic center. The disk of the Milky Way is about 100,000 light years across, but it’s smack in the middle of the range predicted in past studies.

Having an accurate measurement of the galaxy’s mass is necessary to better our understanding of the universe. The Milky Way is just one galaxy, but it’s the one we can study best. The distribution and effects of dark matter relate to the formation of structures in the universe like the Milky Way, but also distant galaxies stretching back to the dawn of the time. These objects should work much like our own galaxy, so knowing its mass is an essential piece of the puzzle.

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nivek

As Above So Below
Well, I'm in no danger of being called wealthy and suffering an invasive audit but Gov.Putz is a real piece of work. With all the corruption around him it's like the sewage plant exploded and he walked out of it in a white Panama suit without a fleck on him. Like the Clintons and Whitewater. Unlike them, honestly, I think he's just a nitwit. In one of the several corruption trials a secret recording was made public in which the felons were thanking Italy for producing beautiful women, fabulous cars and the Cuomos.

NYC is a liberal mess wasting b-b-billions and accomplishing very little in terms of education and public housing. If those involved were truly concerned about the underprivileged they could serve them best by stepping aside and letting someone who knows what the f**k they are doing take over.

Not sure how to compute AOC trumpeting the loss of Amazon HQ. The tax breaks would have done nothing for the state funding issue and it would have only added to the congestion, but damn, it would have been a large employer and had secondary effects on a myriad of local businesses. She's having her ass wiped for her on the public dime and brags about her acute 'bullshit detector' acquired as what, a bartender? I got one too and I know what it's telling me.

Sometimes I want to just move into an abandoned missile silo out in North Dakota and just pull the blast door shut over my head.

Looks like NYC is going to become bankrupt invthe near future...

New York City is edging toward financial disaster, experts warn

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New York City is careening closer to all-out financial bankruptcy for the first time since Mayor Abraham Beame ran the city more than 40 years ago, experts say.

As tax-fleeced businesses and individuals flee en masse, and city public spending surges into the stratosphere, financial analysts say Gotham is perilously near total fiscal disaster.

Long-term debt is now more than $81,100 per household, and Mayor Bill de Blasio is ramping up to spend as much as $3 billion more in the new budget than the current $89.2 billion.

“The city is running a deficit and could be in a real difficult spot if we had a recession, or a further flight of individuals because of tax reform,” said Milton Ezrati, chief economist of Vested.

“New York is already in a difficult financial spot, but it would be in an impossible situation if we had any kind of setback.”

De Blasio has detailed $750 million in savings for the preliminary fiscal 2020 budget, but that won’t be enough to stave off a bloodbath if New York’s economy is hit by financial shocks — including a recession, which some see on the horizon — analysts warn. Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s preliminary budget has $600 million in city cuts in the coming year.

But city spending, up some 32 percent since de Blasio took office — triple the rate of inflation — may need to be cut deeper, these analysts add. The city’s long-term pension obligations have escalated as well, as its workforce has soared by more than 33,000 in the last five years.

Other startling indicators:

  • New York state — and city — are ranked No. 1 nationwide in state and local tax burden.
  • Property taxes, almost half of the city’s revenue, are rising faster than any other revenue source — squeezing businesses and forcing homeowners, already hit by federal property tax deduction changes, to relocate to lower-tax states.
  • The top 1 percent of New York City earners pay some 50 percent of Big Apple income tax revenue.
“New York City could go bankrupt, absolutely,” said Peter C. Earle, an economist at the American Institute for Economic Research.

“In that case, the city would get temporary protection from its creditors, but it would be very difficult for the city to take on new debt.”


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