In recent years it has become popular with Silicon Valley millionaires, and billionaires. Luxurious so-called “plug-n-play” camps have sprung up which use hired staff like cooks, builders and security, and allow international jetsetters to drop in for quick visits.
I call it a backup plan for ‘the cloud’ (it’s just someone else’s computer).
Nicknamed “Faster,” the 9,000-kilometer (5,600-mile) cable will connect Oregon to the coastal Japanese cities of Chiba and Mie. The connection will run 60 terabits per second, which is about 10 million times faster than the standard cable modem.
Source: Google’s underwater internet cable connecting US, Japan is going live – CNET
Another great print scanned by the USC Digital Library. This one shows the intersection of Westminster Avenue at Abbot Kinney. The perspective is looking to the southeast, in the southerly direction of traffic.
What’s most remarkable to me is how much of the original building structures is still intact today (2016). Many area structures were knocked down after the Long Beach quake in 1933. I had this print labelled as 1928, but now I’m not so sure. nearly a century after its construction.
The first building on the left is 1101 S. Abbot Kinney Blvd. It’s signage reads “Safeway Stores – California’s Leading Grocer,” but its current tenant is YAS (Yoga and S*). The parcel’s assessor records list the building’s original construction completed in 1913.
The first building on the right is 1100 S. Abbot Kinney Blvd. It’s signage reads “Washington Pharmacy – Drugs,” but its current tenant is Heist women’s boutique.The parcel’s assessor records list the building’s original construction completed in 1922.
So, the photograph is most likely from that era. But, it will take a bit more research to nail it down.
For the second time in recent months, scientists say they have picked up distortions in space and time. The find suggests smaller-sized black holes may be more numerous than many scientists thought.
Source: Gravitational Waves From Colliding Black Holes Shake Scientists’ Detectors Again : The Two-Way : NPR
So, there’s this cheery little quote I ran across today: “Iraq remains the center of what Jordanian King Abdullah now refers to as the Third World War.”
Source: World War Three may have already begun in Iraq and Syria
Let’s hope he’s wrong.
In other news mid-east news, the House of Saud has become the number three on the list of world’s biggest defense spenders.
In Eastasia, North Korea is trying to pop thermonuclear reentry vehicles on top of its Rodong-1 missiles.
Also, this past Monday the Peoples Republic of China announced it has sent nuclear missile subs to sit off the west coast of the US.
“This isn’t Pearl Harbor, but if people on all sides aren’t careful, it could be ‘The Guns of August.’”
-Kurt Campbell, former US Assistant Secretary of State for Asia
China’s also invoked Article 9 of its Friendly Cooperation Treaty (aka FCT, or ‘Treaty of Good-Neighborliness and Friendly Cooperation’) with Russia.
Article 9 states as follows:
When a situation arises in which one of the contracting parties deems that peace is being threatened and undermined or its security interests are involved or when it is confronted with the threat of aggression, the contracting parties shall immediately hold contacts and consultations in order to eliminate such threats.
Basically, invoking mutual defense. Why? Duh. Among other things, the ongoing dispute in the South China Sea.
Other reasons? I’d be willing to consider a narrative where China’s recent financial woes were the result of some new form of economic warfare. Possibly in retaliation for recent federal data breaches. But we’re getting to the point where I’d rather not be suggesting such things.
Russia’s probably helping North Korea with their missile tech. After all, the Rodong is just a SCUD missile.
Now, you’ll have to excuse me – I need to do some research on those Chinese subs.
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