The NYT reports hot an humid conditions today.
``Saturday, one meteorologist said with scientific precision, was looking to be “one of those just downright awful summer days.”''
``The stifling heat blanketing the mid-Atlantic this summer seems to be part of a global trend. So far, 2010 is on track to overtake 2005 as the warmest year ever recorded for the planet, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.''
Here in Chilpancingo it is pleasant. On the radio I heard that today and tomorrow is going to rain in most of the state. It is not hot is 84°F and 78% humidity.
Some places in the US it has been over a hundred Fahrenheit.
Hurricane Bonnie, has something to do with it. Mexico has a thin middle part, compared to the US, so we get humidity both ways, the Pacific, and the Atlantic.
I do not think we can know for sure, if more and more extreme weather will happen. My gut feeling is that from now until I die, we will see some big heat waves. I better find ways to keep cool. Here though, so far so good.
Saturday, July 24, 2010
Mexican Electric Workers Won!
Last night the Calderón administration in Mexico conceded defeat. A long and portrayed hunger strike forced a cabinet member out, and the incoming Interior Minister, conceded defeat!
Read in Spanish all about it, here.
The government didn't put it like that. But, what the hell, this is my blog!
Read in Spanish all about it, here.
The government didn't put it like that. But, what the hell, this is my blog!
Friday, July 23, 2010
The Haves and the Have Nots
``There were times when Ms. Jones fed her children food that neighbors had given her. Once, a neighbor recalled, Ms. Jones divided a gyro sandwich in fourths to make a meal for her and her three oldest children. “If you offered, she would take it, but she never asked anyone for anything,” Ms. Fleming said.
Ms. Jones had been looking for a way to get ahead, and in June, she enrolled at the Cosmetology Career School of New York on Staten Island, hoping to get a beautician’s license.
On Friday, some of Ms. Jones’s family from Washington arrived on Nicholas Avenue, driving up to get a glimpse of the scene. Jermaine’s paternal grandmother, Patty Hassock, 52, said, “Since the baby was born, we never heard anything from her.”
As the day went by, people stopped by the fire scene — neighbors, relatives and strangers. A man knelt on the sidewalk and sobbed as he prayed for a family he had never met. A woman left a candle and a Teddy bear on the street, then walked away.
Ms. Jones’s mother, Marcia Anderson, had also driven from Washington along with her sons and Ms. Scott. Despite the warm day, Ms. Anderson shivered as she walked away from the house. “There’s nothing left for me here,” she said, and then she walked back to the car, asking her children to take her away.''
Taken from the NYT.
The boy seems to have burned the apartment where they lived.
Sad :(
Ms. Jones had been looking for a way to get ahead, and in June, she enrolled at the Cosmetology Career School of New York on Staten Island, hoping to get a beautician’s license.
On Friday, some of Ms. Jones’s family from Washington arrived on Nicholas Avenue, driving up to get a glimpse of the scene. Jermaine’s paternal grandmother, Patty Hassock, 52, said, “Since the baby was born, we never heard anything from her.”
As the day went by, people stopped by the fire scene — neighbors, relatives and strangers. A man knelt on the sidewalk and sobbed as he prayed for a family he had never met. A woman left a candle and a Teddy bear on the street, then walked away.
Ms. Jones’s mother, Marcia Anderson, had also driven from Washington along with her sons and Ms. Scott. Despite the warm day, Ms. Anderson shivered as she walked away from the house. “There’s nothing left for me here,” she said, and then she walked back to the car, asking her children to take her away.''
Taken from the NYT.
The boy seems to have burned the apartment where they lived.
Sad :(
All Time Winner
The post in my blog that has had the most viewers according to Blogger, is:
Oppose Lama Project
It has 111 viewers so far.
That tells me that when one joins the people's business, one gets a listen.
Oppose Lama Project
It has 111 viewers so far.
That tells me that when one joins the people's business, one gets a listen.
SciCast Awards 2010
Check the best films according to Planet Science in the UK.
SciCast Awards 2010 - Winners - Planet SciCast Blog
SciCast Awards 2010 - Winners - Planet SciCast Blog
Introduction to Matrices
A matrix is an array of numbers. In $$\LaTeX$$ we represent it like this:
The characteristic polynomial $\chi(\lambda)$ of the
The characteristic polynomial $\chi(\lambda)$ of the
$3 \times 3$ matrix \[ \left( \begin{array}{ccc} a & b & c \\ d & e & f \\ g & h & i \end{array} \right)\] is given by the formula \[ \chi(\lambda) = \left| \begin{array}{ccc} \lambda - a & -b & -c \\ -d & \lambda - e & -f \\ -g & -h & \lambda - i \end{array} \right|.\] Neat; eh?
Poor vs. Rich; That is the Question.
``Ms. Sherrod came to the realization, as she witnessed the plight of poverty-stricken white farmers in the South more than two decades ago, that the essential issue in this country “is really about those who have versus those who don’t.”''
From Bob Herbert the NYT.
From Bob Herbert the NYT.
Workers Win!
``Local television showed hunger strikers being carried on stretchers through a cheering crowd in Mexico City's main plaza early Friday morning.''
Taken from: Google News.
The NYT is not a Mexico City newspaper. Few people in the US knew of the heroic struggle of Mexican Electric Workers.
They Won!
The NYT does care about Mexicans in the US.
Here you have something about a hunger strike by illegal Mexicans in the US.
These strike was three days long, the one in Mexico was a 90 days one. I guess if you are a Mexican and are in Mexico legally, American don't care.
Wise up, people: we are all brothers and sisters. Ask a geneticist.
Taken from: Google News.
The NYT is not a Mexico City newspaper. Few people in the US knew of the heroic struggle of Mexican Electric Workers.
They Won!
The NYT does care about Mexicans in the US.
Here you have something about a hunger strike by illegal Mexicans in the US.
These strike was three days long, the one in Mexico was a 90 days one. I guess if you are a Mexican and are in Mexico legally, American don't care.
Wise up, people: we are all brothers and sisters. Ask a geneticist.
Thank God for Google!
I upgraded my Firefox in Ubuntu today. All of a sudden my Tex the World plugin was not working. I finally installed the Latex Composer plugin in Firefox. Nifty calculator like widget to see Latex code, problem was I wanted it for blogger. So I go to yourequations.com. Nice; I see though that by October 31, 2010 they finish the service, and I am welcome to run my own Web Server, with the free JavaScript ready to go; problem is I really do not want to be in charge of keeping my PC all night to provide the service to the whole world. My son is already having trouble hosting, Fuck the Titanic at home; all I get is cashed page that my son would hate; in http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://www.fuckthetitanic.com/
No, no. I hope somebody, (Google?) will host this site instead.
But come to think about it, Google Chrome is very happy with [;\Tex;] [; the \hfill World;]. I guess somebody that actually knows how to make money is already thinking this through.
No, no. I hope somebody, (Google?) will host this site instead.
But come to think about it, Google Chrome is very happy with [;\Tex;] [; the \hfill World;]. I guess somebody that actually knows how to make money is already thinking this through.
What Causes Hurricanes?
``How do hurricanes form?
Hurricanes are huge heat engines that run on warm water, capable of producing roughly 200 times the entire world's electrical generating capacity with rain and cloud formation alone. Their power source is the sun, which heats up tropical sea water all spring to have the engines building and revving themselves by early summer.''
Taken from Mother Nature Network (mnn).
Mario Livio: What a Find!
This prolific astronomer, besides writing books like: Is God a Mathematician?, just discovered a Hypervelocity Star!
Some people just never seem to have enough!
Some people just never seem to have enough!
Daniel Schorr: R.I.P.
“I consider my presence on the enemies list,” he said in a 2009 interview with The Gazette of Montgomery County, Md., “a greater tribute than the Emmys list.”''
Taken from NYT.
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