Saturday, January 04, 2020

Über Chain of Fire and Wine - Too Marvelous for Words


Men are like wine: some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.
Pope John XXII

Australia fires worsen as every state hits 40C BBC


Even 50-year-old climate models correctly predicted global warming Science


'This is terrifying': Celeste Barber raises more than $2 million for firefighters

The comedian's online fundraising effort reached its target just one day after its launch.


As the day unfolded: State of emergency declared as South Coast evacuations continue

  • by Josh Dyeand Matt Bungard


Here is a map of all the fires burning in Australia.
Here also is a map of Australia overlaid on Europe.
Sun, and sky, and breeze, and solitary walks, and summer holidays, and the greenness of fields, and the delicious juices of meats and fishes, and society, and the cheerful glass, and candle-light, and fire-side conversations, and innocent vanities, and jests, and irony itself—do these things go out with life?”

Do These Things Go Out With Life?' 


Rustic Made Chique
New rustic house designed by Sergiy Makhno. This is what I call a chique rustic house! Let's dive right in and see some of its elements and details. When you


Australia Burning







Those masterful images because complete

Grew in pure mind but out of what began?

A mound of refuse or the sweepings of a street,

Old kettles, old bottles, and a broken can,

Old iron, old bones, old rags, that raving slut

Who keeps the till. Now that my ladder’s gone

I must lie down where all the ladders start





“Wrong Number Number Two” by Ama Ata Aidoo #PoetryMonth

Minority writing is suffused with the agony of being misunderstood. What happens, Hua Hsu wonders, when it joins the  cultural mainstream?

A former investment manager alleges in a whistleblower complaint to the Internal Revenue Service that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has amassed about $100 billion in accounts intended for charitable purposes, according to a copy of the complaint obtained by The Washington Post.
  FASTER, PLEASE: Israeli Researchers Are Working To Produce The World’s First ‘Super Wine.’“Resveratrol is a stilbenoid, the family of molecules with the most beneficial properties among the components in red wine. The research is focused on increasing the level of stilbenes and resveratrol in the wine grapes.”


Debbie Millman’s Touching Letter to Children About How Books Solace Our Heartbreak and Salve Our Existential Loneliness

“Books — like dogs — are among a handful of things on this planet that just want to be loved. And they will love you back, generously and selflessly, requiring very little in return.”








 

Bridget Crawford (Pace), Tax Talk and Reproductive Technology, 99 B.U. L. Rev. 1757 (2019) (reviewed by Michelle Layser (Illinois) here):
The tax system both reacts to and helps create attitudes about the value of certain behaviors and choices. This Article makes three principal claims—one empirical, one normative, and one interpretative.
The Article demonstrates through data that a representative sample of fertility clinics in the United States does not make information about the tax consequences of compensated human egg transfers—commonly called egg “donation”—publicly available. In 2015, in a case of first impression, the United States Tax Court decided in Perez v. Commissioner that a compensated egg transferor must report as income any amount she receives for her eggs. Although the Tax Court missed an opportunity to clarify further complex questions about the tax consequences of transfers of human bodily materials, the basic holding of Perez was clear. Even so, a content-based analysis of public internet forums and bulletin boards suggests that compensated egg transferors remain unclear about their tax obligations. This confusion is due in large part to the absence of what this Article calls “tax talk” on the part of the fertility clinics themselves.







On this edition of Conversations, Buster Benson talks about Why Are We Yelling? The Art of Productive Disagreement. He's the editor of and writer for the “Better Humans” publication on Medium, creator of750Words.com which brings private journaling to a safe place on the web. He is also author of theCognitive Bias Cheat Sheet with over one million reads.


At $190,000, is this your cheapest ticket to a waterfront property?

Radiohead have uploaded all of their albums to YouTube where they are available for all of your streaming needs.