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  1. Hype for the Future 173C: City of Toccoa, Georgia

    Overview The City of Toccoa is a city located in and the county seat of Stephens County, Georgia, home to the Currahee Military Museum and the Historic Ritz Theatre along with Country Hearth Inn and Suites and the Puerto Nuevo Mexican and Seafood Restaurant in the nearby area. To the northwest is the site of Toccoa Falls College.

    novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026

  2. europesays.com/fr/858822/ WTA – Linz > Mirra Andreeva, toujours aussi vache avec sa coach, Conchita Martinez : « On avait besoin de faire une pause parce qu’on se fait vraiment chier l’une et l’autre » #Andreeva #FR #France #Sports #Stephens #Tennis

  3. Stephens ist ein sehr schönes thematisches Expertenspiel um die Glasproduktion im historischen Portugal / Lissabon.

    BGG Wertung ist 7.1 und die Schwierigkeit wird mit 3.11 angegeben.

    Es ist auf deutsch und kann mit 1-4 Personen gespielt werden. BGG sagt am besten zu dritt. Meine Erfahrung ist, zu zweit funktioniert es auch, aber nicht so gut. Es ist eines der Spiele, welches vom Person 4 profitiert.

    „Der Verkauf erfolgt natürlich unter Ausschluss jeglicher Sachmangelhaftung“.

    #brettspiele #boardgames #gesellschadtsspiele #verkauf #stephens #secondhand

  4. Tamkin imagines antisemitism is a partisan problem and rehashes every failed approach the mildly left of center US DemSoc crowd has proposed forever, like its new and provocative. 😴

    "The question is not whether we should try to fight #antisemitism. It’s how. What if we took [Brett] #Stephens’s premise — that these efforts aren’t working — and imagined what could?

    Since Stephens’ speech, our communal reaction has been too focused on the smaller-scale issues he raised. Was his critique of the #ADL reasonable? Was he right that #Jews are hated because of our “virtues and successes,” and that antisemitism is too powerful for appeals to tolerance and education to work? By focusing on such questions, we risk missing the bigger picture. Antisemitism will never be fully eradicated. Still, if, as one study suggests, some 45% of #Republicans under the age of 44 feel that Jews are a threat to the #American way of life, the answer can’t be to shrug."

    forward.com/opinion/807286/ant

  5. "There is now a #Jewish debate about fighting #antisemitism. And we need to consider what exactly we are arguing about when we argue about it.

    [Brett] #Stephens’s thesis might seem provocative now, but it wouldn’t shock medieval #Jews. #AvrahamGrossman points out that #Rashi often depicts the nations of the world as “lying in wait to attack and devour the #Jewish people.” #Grossman writes that this is not surprising, considering that the renowned medieval commentator’s community was massacred during the #FirstCrusade, and endured multiple #antiJewish edicts.

    In his commentary on the #Torah, Rashi quotes the phrase from the #Midrash saying that “it is a rule that #Esau hates #Jacob.” This means that antisemitism is a metaphysical reality; the spiritual heirs of Esau will always hate the descendants of Jacob. Antisemitism will never end.

    Rashi’s attitude to antisemitism remains influential today."

    jpost.com/opinion/article-8874

  6. "Every organization that fights #antisemitism has its own list of action items.

    The question remains: With all these groups fighting the same general problem, why is the problem getting alarmingly worse?

    It’s too facile to counter that things might be even worse without those efforts. Even if that were true, it’d be like saying that very bad is better than very very bad. Lame consolation.

    Maybe that’s why #BretStephens struck a nerve with his much-discussed “State of World #Jewry” address, when he called the fight against antisemitism a “well-meaning but mostly wasted effort.”

    We can debate whether that was an exaggeration (as I have), but we can’t deny that #Stephens put his finger on the most uncomfortable question in #philanthropy: Is my money making a difference?

    To put it more delicately, if we assume that we all want the same thing– reduce antisemitism while building a thriving #Jewish future—what is the best way to allocate resources?"

    jewishjournal.com/commentary/c

  7. The Defense Tech Newcomers,
    Venture capital executives like
    #Joe #Lonsdale are well positioned to profit in the second Trump administration

    A founder of the A.I.-powered data analytics giant #Palantir Technologies, he has more recently delivered billions of dollars to defense sector start-ups such as #Anduril and #Epirus and #Saronic.

    Executives at these defense technology firms have been frustrated at the slow pace of the Pentagon’s shift away from traditional contractors like Lockheed Martin
    to venture-capital-backed start-ups selling cutting-edge tools like A.I.-powered drones.

    “Current regulatory regime still favors the legacy defense corporations and crowds out upstarts,”
    Mr. Lonsdale, who donated more than $1 million to Mr. Trump’s affiliated political groups,
    said in an email to The New York Times.

    #Trae #Stephens, another defense-tech venture capitalist and donor to Mr. Trump, said that the open question will be if the president-elect can limit turnover in leadership at the Pentagon, which was a problem during his first term.

    “You need to have enough stability that someone can come in and take a leadership position and drive to a better outcome,”
    Mr. Stephens, who works at #Founders #Fund and is a founder of #Anduril, said in an interview last week.

    #Harold #Hamm, the billionaire founder of the Oklahoma-based oil and gas giant Continental Resources, donated more than $4 million to political groups that supported Mr. Trump.
    Most of it came after Mr. Hamm and other oil-industry executives attended an April dinner at Mar-a-Lago, Mr. Trump’s Florida residence and club,
    where he pressed the executives to contribute to his campaign, suggesting they would save far more than that in avoided taxes and legal fees after he repealed environmental regulations.

    More recently, Mr. Hamm has been part of Mr. Trump’s transition team, which is pushing to
    eliminate a ban on new natural-gas export terminals
    and to abolish the Biden-era tax credit on electric vehicles
    — meaning more continued demand for oil and gas, as Reuters first reported last week.

    “The mineral wealth of the U.S. government is tremendous, but you have to develop that,” Mr. Hamm said in an interview last week with an industry trade publication, Hart Energy. “Certainly, Trump will do that.” Mr. Hamm declined a request to comment.

    nytimes.com/2024/11/17/us/poli

  8. The Defense Tech Newcomers,
    Venture capital executives like
    #Joe #Lonsdale are well positioned to profit in the second Trump administration

    A founder of the A.I.-powered data analytics giant #Palantir Technologies, he has more recently delivered billions of dollars to defense sector start-ups such as #Anduril and #Epirus and #Saronic.

    Executives at these defense technology firms have been frustrated at the slow pace of the Pentagon’s shift away from traditional contractors like Lockheed Martin
    to venture-capital-backed start-ups selling cutting-edge tools like A.I.-powered drones.

    “Current regulatory regime still favors the legacy defense corporations and crowds out upstarts,”
    Mr. Lonsdale, who donated more than $1 million to Mr. Trump’s affiliated political groups,
    said in an email to The New York Times.

    #Trae #Stephens, another defense-tech venture capitalist and donor to Mr. Trump, said that the open question will be if the president-elect can limit turnover in leadership at the Pentagon, which was a problem during his first term.

    “You need to have enough stability that someone can come in and take a leadership position and drive to a better outcome,”
    Mr. Stephens, who works at #Founders #Fund and is a founder of #Anduril, said in an interview last week.

    #Harold #Hamm, the billionaire founder of the Oklahoma-based oil and gas giant Continental Resources, donated more than $4 million to political groups that supported Mr. Trump.
    Most of it came after Mr. Hamm and other oil-industry executives attended an April dinner at Mar-a-Lago, Mr. Trump’s Florida residence and club,
    where he pressed the executives to contribute to his campaign, suggesting they would save far more than that in avoided taxes and legal fees after he repealed environmental regulations.

    More recently, Mr. Hamm has been part of Mr. Trump’s transition team, which is pushing to
    eliminate a ban on new natural-gas export terminals
    and to abolish the Biden-era tax credit on electric vehicles
    — meaning more continued demand for oil and gas, as Reuters first reported last week.

    “The mineral wealth of the U.S. government is tremendous, but you have to develop that,” Mr. Hamm said in an interview last week with an industry trade publication, Hart Energy. “Certainly, Trump will do that.” Mr. Hamm declined a request to comment.

    nytimes.com/2024/11/17/us/poli

  9. The Defense Tech Newcomers,
    Venture capital executives like
    #Joe #Lonsdale are well positioned to profit in the second Trump administration

    A founder of the A.I.-powered data analytics giant #Palantir Technologies, he has more recently delivered billions of dollars to defense sector start-ups such as #Anduril and #Epirus and #Saronic.

    Executives at these defense technology firms have been frustrated at the slow pace of the Pentagon’s shift away from traditional contractors like Lockheed Martin
    to venture-capital-backed start-ups selling cutting-edge tools like A.I.-powered drones.

    “Current regulatory regime still favors the legacy defense corporations and crowds out upstarts,”
    Mr. Lonsdale, who donated more than $1 million to Mr. Trump’s affiliated political groups,
    said in an email to The New York Times.

    #Trae #Stephens, another defense-tech venture capitalist and donor to Mr. Trump, said that the open question will be if the president-elect can limit turnover in leadership at the Pentagon, which was a problem during his first term.

    “You need to have enough stability that someone can come in and take a leadership position and drive to a better outcome,”
    Mr. Stephens, who works at #Founders #Fund and is a founder of #Anduril, said in an interview last week.

    #Harold #Hamm, the billionaire founder of the Oklahoma-based oil and gas giant Continental Resources, donated more than $4 million to political groups that supported Mr. Trump.
    Most of it came after Mr. Hamm and other oil-industry executives attended an April dinner at Mar-a-Lago, Mr. Trump’s Florida residence and club,
    where he pressed the executives to contribute to his campaign, suggesting they would save far more than that in avoided taxes and legal fees after he repealed environmental regulations.

    More recently, Mr. Hamm has been part of Mr. Trump’s transition team, which is pushing to
    eliminate a ban on new natural-gas export terminals
    and to abolish the Biden-era tax credit on electric vehicles
    — meaning more continued demand for oil and gas, as Reuters first reported last week.

    “The mineral wealth of the U.S. government is tremendous, but you have to develop that,” Mr. Hamm said in an interview last week with an industry trade publication, Hart Energy. “Certainly, Trump will do that.” Mr. Hamm declined a request to comment.

    nytimes.com/2024/11/17/us/poli

  10. Many GOP billionaires balked at Jan. 6. They’re coming back to Trump.

    Trump’s team has used a soft touch with the billionaires and has shown more sophistication than some expected

    At the center of some of the discussions has been top Trump aide #Susie #Wiles, who often comes armed with data and is viewed as “impressive and professional,”

    Trump is also growing his fundraising team in Palm Beach, where Republican National Committee employees and others are expecting to move to raise money.
    
At Wiles’s suggestion, Trump has engaged in “#call #time,” dialing billionaires himself. In the past, he had been resistant to such measures.
    
Trump could desperately use the cash infusion as his campaign and the RNC trail Biden and the Democratic National Committee, and as he faces growing legal bills.

    Next month, he is planning a fundraiser hosted by a range of billionaires, including
    oil tycoon #Harold #Hamm,
    sugar magnate #Jose “Pepe” #Fanjul,
    real estate mogul #Howard #Lutnick,
    megadonors #Rebekah and #Bob #Mercer,
    wealthy business executives #Todd #Ricketts and #Warren #Stephens
    and real estate magnate #Steve #Witkoff,

    washingtonpost.com/politics/20