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  1. Throwing in a hoop sequence to mix things up.
    If anyone knows the names of any of the moves, please let me know, I'm not as familiar with hoop names.

    #Lyra #AerialHoop #AerialArts #Spin #Splits

  2. 𝗙𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗲 𝗙𝗹𝗼𝗱𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝘇𝗲𝘁 𝗯𝗼𝗲𝗹 𝗼𝗽 𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗹𝘁𝗲𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝗲𝗲𝗿𝘀𝘁𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝗲𝗹𝗱𝗲𝗻 𝗻𝗶𝗲𝘂𝘄𝗲 𝘀𝗽𝗶𝗻-𝗼𝗳𝗳

    Videoland heeft de eerste beelden van de nieuwe spin-off 'Kees Flodder' uitgebracht. Hoewel de serie pas vanaf 18 mei op de streamingsdienst te zien is, krijgen fans alvast een voorproefje met de trailer. Daarin wordt duidelijk dat de beruchte familie Flodder opnieuw verzeild...

    rtl.nl/boulevard/artikel/55934

    #FamilieFlodder #spin-off #beelden

  3. US tests spin fuel in 180-million-degree Fahrenheit plasma for reactors

    Scientists in the US have been testing spin-polarized nuclear fuel inside tokamaks operating at around 100 million degrees…
    #NewsBeep #News #Physics #CA #Canada #Energy&Environment #Fusion #InventionsandMachines #Jeffersonlab #Power #Science #Spin-polarizedfuel #tokamakreactor #usa
    newsbeep.com/ca/608962/

  4. US tests spin fuel in 180-million-degree Fahrenheit plasma for reactors

    Scientists in the US have been testing spin-polarized nuclear fuel inside tokamaks operating at around 100 million degrees…
    #NewsBeep #News #Physics #AU #Australia #Energy&Environment #fusion #InventionsandMachines #Jeffersonlab #power #Science #Spin-polarizedfuel #tokamakreactor #usa
    newsbeep.com/au/611640/

  5. A quotation from Garry Wills

    This is always the danger with propaganda, that it becomes at last more credible to its disseminators than to its targets.

    Garry Wills (b. 1934) American author, journalist, historian
    The Kennedy Imprisonment: A Meditation on Power, ch. 18 (1981)

    More about this quote: wist.info/wills-garry/4211/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #garrywills #foolingyourself #agitprop #belief #credibility #credulity #disinformation #lies #propaganda #selfdeception #spin #truth

  6. Apparently Pierre Poilievre is receiving many positive reviews for his performance on the U.S. BROcast Joe Rogan. Here's a link to a somewhat less nuanced review. #cdnpoli #manosphere #tarsands #fossilfools #spin
    youtube.com/shorts/kLERHw5OyJ8

  7. A quotation from Samuel Johnson

    Among the calamities of war, may be justly numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates, and credulity encourages.

    Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
    Essay (1758-11-11), The Idler, No. 30

    More about this quote: wist.info/johnson-samuel/5636/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #samueljohnson #belief #credulity #deceit #deception #disinformation #meme #nationalhonor #nationalinterest #nationalism #patriotism #propaganda #publicrelations #spin #war

  8. A quotation from Samuel Johnson

    Among the calamities of war, may be justly numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates, and credulity encourages.

    Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
    Essay (1758-11-11), The Idler, No. 30

    More about this quote: wist.info/johnson-samuel/5636/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #samueljohnson #belief #credulity #deceit #deception #disinformation #meme #nationalhonor #nationalinterest #nationalism #patriotism #propaganda #publicrelations #spin #war

  9. A quotation from Samuel Johnson

    Among the calamities of war, may be justly numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates, and credulity encourages.

    Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
    Essay (1758-11-11), The Idler, No. 30

    More about this quote: wist.info/johnson-samuel/5636/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #samueljohnson #belief #credulity #deceit #deception #disinformation #meme #nationalhonor #nationalinterest #nationalism #patriotism #propaganda #publicrelations #spin #war

  10. A quotation from Samuel Johnson

    Among the calamities of war, may be justly numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates, and credulity encourages.

    Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
    Essay (1758-11-11), The Idler, No. 30

    More about this quote: wist.info/johnson-samuel/5636/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #samueljohnson #belief #credulity #deceit #deception #disinformation #meme #nationalhonor #nationalinterest #nationalism #patriotism #propaganda #publicrelations #spin #war

  11. A quotation from Samuel Johnson

    Among the calamities of war, may be justly numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates, and credulity encourages.

    Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
    Essay (1758-11-11), The Idler, No. 30

    More about this quote: wist.info/johnson-samuel/5636/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #samueljohnson #belief #credulity #deceit #deception #disinformation #meme #nationalhonor #nationalinterest #nationalism #patriotism #propaganda #publicrelations #spin #war

  12. 𝗛𝗼𝗼𝗳𝗱𝗿𝗼𝗹𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗠á𝘅𝗶𝗺𝗮 𝘁𝗲 𝘇𝗶𝗲𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝘀𝗽𝗶𝗻-𝗼𝗳𝗳 𝗠𝗮𝗯𝗲𝗹 & 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗴𝗮𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗮

    De hoofdrolspelers van de Videoland-serie Máxima keren allemaal terug in de spin-off Mabel & Margarita. Dat vertelt Elsie de Brauw, die de rol van koningin Beatrix vertolkt, in gesprek met het ANP. Claire Bender, die prinses Mabel speelt, voegt eraan toe dat de voorbereidingen in volle gang zijn.

    rtl.nl/boulevard/entertainment

    #Máxima #spin-off #MabelMargarita

  13. Old issues are free to download! Automata are storytelling toys(?) using mechanized movement, usually with a hand crank on the side of a box.
    Also check out Oliver Pett in the U.K.
    #automata #magazine #mechanical #toy #automaton #mechanized #movement #gear #crank #spin #shaft #raise #lower #tip #hat #kiss #cheek #magic #trick #rabbit #disappear
    automatamagazine.com/the-magaz

  14. Old issues are free to download! Automata are storytelling toys(?) using mechanized movement, usually with a hand crank on the side of a box.
    Also check out Oliver Pett in the U.K.
    #automata #magazine #mechanical #toy #automaton #mechanized #movement #gear #crank #spin #shaft #raise #lower #tip #hat #kiss #cheek #magic #trick #rabbit #disappear
    automatamagazine.com/the-magaz

  15. Old issues are free to download! Automata are storytelling toys(?) using mechanized movement, usually with a hand crank on the side of a box.
    Also check out Oliver Pett in the U.K.
    #automata #magazine #mechanical #toy #automaton #mechanized #movement #gear #crank #spin #shaft #raise #lower #tip #hat #kiss #cheek #magic #trick #rabbit #disappear
    automatamagazine.com/the-magaz

  16. Old issues are free to download! Automata are storytelling toys(?) using mechanized movement, usually with a hand crank on the side of a box.
    Also check out Oliver Pett in the U.K.
    #automata #magazine #mechanical #toy #automaton #mechanized #movement #gear #crank #spin #shaft #raise #lower #tip #hat #kiss #cheek #magic #trick #rabbit #disappear
    automatamagazine.com/the-magaz

  17. @ProjectFearlessness Grand bit of #spin and #greenwashing there. You make it all sound throughly handknitted.

    But #AngelikaStogia's opponents are unlikely to buy into this novel picture of a good corporate lobbyist. Spin it how you like, it's still privatisation of public planning.

  18. 𝗦𝗽𝗶𝗻-𝗼𝗳𝗳 𝗟𝗲𝗴𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗕𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗲 𝘃𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗳 𝗷𝘂𝗹𝗶 𝗼𝗽 𝗣𝗿𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝗩𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗼

    Elle, de spin-off van de film Legally Blonde, heeft een releasedatum gekregen. De serie, met nieuwkomer Lexi Minetree in de hoofdrol, is vanaf 1 juli op Prime Video te zien. Dat maakte actrice Reese Witherspoon, die de rechtenstudente in de film uit 2001 speelde, bekend op Instagram.

    rtl.nl/boulevard/artikel/55575

    #LegallyBlonde #spin-off #PrimeVideo

  19. Wie viel von der Zeit um parlamentarische #Anfragen zu beantworten geht dafür drauf, möglichst nichtssagende Antworten zu schreiben, #Informationen zurückzuhalten oder mit einem #Spin zu versehen?

    Und wie viel Zeit könnte gespart werden, wenn alle Parlamentsmitglieder direkten #Lesezugriff auf alle verwaltungsinternen #Dokumente hätten, die nicht spezifisch geheim sind oder Daten von Privatmenschen beinhalten?

    #Transparenz #Dunkelkammer #Demokratie

    srf.ch/news/dialog/parlamentar

  20. “This is the most complicated thing that you could possibly imagine,” said Mike Williams, a physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

    “In fact, you can’t even imagine how complicated it is.”

    The proton is a quantum mechanical object that exists as a haze of probabilities until an experiment forces it to take a concrete form.

    And its forms differ drastically depending on how researchers set up their experiment.

    Connecting the particle’s many faces has been the work of generations.

    “We’re kind of just starting to understand this system in a complete way,” said Richard Milner, a nuclear physicist at MIT.

    Proof that the proton contains multitudes came from the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) in 1967.

    In earlier experiments, researchers had pelted it with electrons and watched them ricochet off like billiard balls.

    But SLAC could hurl electrons more forcefully,
    and researchers saw that they bounced back differently.

    The electrons were hitting the proton hard enough to shatter it
    — a process called deep inelastic scattering
    — and were rebounding from point-like shards of the proton called quarks.

    “That was the first evidence that quarks actually exist,” said Xiaochao Zheng, a physicist at the University of Virginia.

    After SLAC’s discovery, which won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1990,
    scrutiny of the proton intensified.

    Physicists have carried out hundreds of scattering experiments to date.

    They infer various aspects of the object’s interior by adjusting how forcefully they bombard it and by choosing which scattered particles they collect in the aftermath.

    Even SLAC’s proton-splitting collisions were gentle by today’s standards.

    In those scattering events, electrons often shot out in ways suggesting that they had crashed into quarks carrying a third of the proton’s total momentum.

    The finding matched a theory from Murray Gell-Mann
    and George Zweig,
    who in 1964 posited that a proton consists of three quarks.

    Gell-Mann and Zweig’s
    “quark model” remains an elegant way to imagine the proton.

    It has two “up” quarks with electric charges of +2/3 each and one “down” quark with a charge of −1/3,
    for a total proton charge of +1.

    But the quark model is an oversimplification that has serious shortcomings.

    It fails, for instance, when it comes to a proton’s #spin,
    a quantum property analogous to angular momentum.

    The proton has half a unit of spin,
    as do each of its up and down quarks.

    Physicists initially supposed that
    — in a calculation echoing the simple charge arithmetic
    — the half-units of the two up quarks minus that of the down quark must equal half a unit for the proton as a whole.

    But in 1988, the European Muon Collaboration reported that the quark spins add up to far less than one-half.

    Similarly, the #masses of two up quarks and one down quark only comprise about 1% of the proton’s total mass.

    These deficits drove home a point physicists were already coming to appreciate:

    The proton is much more than three quarks.

    The Hadron-Electron Ring Accelerator ( #HERA ),
    which operated in Hamburg, Germany, from 1992 to 2007,
    slammed electrons into protons roughly a thousand times more forcefully than SLAC had.

    In HERA experiments, physicists could select electrons that had bounced off of extremely
    low-momentum quarks,
    including ones carrying as little as 0.005% of the proton’s total momentum.

    And detect them they did:
    HERA’s electrons rebounded from a maelstrom of
    low-momentum quarks and their antimatter counterparts, antiquarks

    The results confirmed a sophisticated and outlandish theory that had by then replaced Gell-Mann and Zweig’s quark model.

    Developed in the 1970s, it was a quantum theory of the “strong force” that acts between quarks.

    The theory describes quarks as being roped together by
    force-carrying particles called #gluons.

    Each quark and each gluon has one of three types of “color” charge, labeled red, green and blue;

    these color-charged particles naturally tug on each other and form a group
    — such as a proton
    — whose colors add up to a neutral white.

    The colorful theory became known as #quantum #chromodynamics, or #QCD.

    According to QCD, gluons can pick up momentary spikes of energy.

    With this energy, a gluon splits into a quark and an antiquark
    — each carrying just a tiny bit of momentum
    — before the pair annihilates and disappears.

    It’s this “sea” of transient gluons, quarks and antiquarks that HERA,
    with its greater sensitivity to
    lower-momentum particles,
    detected firsthand.

    HERA also picked up hints of what the proton would look like in more powerful colliders.

    As physicists adjusted HERA to look for lower-momentum quarks,
    these quarks
    — which come from gluons
    — showed up in greater and greater numbers.

    The results suggested that in even higher-energy collisions, the proton would appear as a cloud made up almost entirely of gluons
    quantamagazine.org/inside-the-

  21. A quotation from Mark Twain

    Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.

    Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
    Interview (1889) by Rudyard Kipling, Elmira, New York, From Sea to Sea, Part 2, ch. 37 “An Interview with Mark Twain” (1899)

    More about this quote: wist.info/twain-mark/3960/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #marktwain #distortion #facts #information #invention #lying #mathematics #misrepresentation #perspective #reality #slant #spin #storytelling #truth #writing

  22. Also this

    “The Funding Trail Just Shattered The BBC’s #Venezuela #Spin

    via Kernow Damo in Damo Rants on Patreon

    @BBC5Live
    @BBCRadio4
    @BBCNews

    “The BBC has [..] done what it always does when Western power moves toward confrontation: it has selected the expert whose framing serves the moment, it has omitted the context that would expose the alignment, and it has presented the resulting narrative as the reasonable centre-ground view”

    patreon.com/posts/funding-trai

    #Press #UK #BBC #US #Omission