After 10 years out of practice while serving in Afghanistan and Iraq, an active-duty army ranger placed #3 in a worldwide competitive pastry chef competition.
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Active-duty Army Ranger named world’s #3 pastry chef
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Republican County Supervisors propose secession from California
jackbird
13 Southern California counties (conspicuously not including LA) are considering a proposal to secede from California to form the new, heavily-republican state of “South California.”
The governor’s spokesman Gil Duran responded thus: “If you want to live in a Republican state with very conservative right-wing laws, then there’s a place called Arizona.”
View Link [pe.com]
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Floppy rubber sculptures of Levittown houses
jackbird
Brian Tolle, the artist responsible for lower Manhattan’s Irish Hunger Memorial, made these oddly fascinating sculptures of the cookie-cutter houses of Levittown, NY reimagined as characters in 1950s suburban life.
View Link [mysite.verizon.net]
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An inside view of Japan’s disaster preparedness
jackbird
A western engineer living and working in Japan describes his experience with the obsessive disaster preparedness that kept the quake from being much, much worse. a choice excerpt:
Ogaki has approximately 150,000 people. The city’s disaster preparedness plan lists exactly how many come from English-speaking countries. It is less than two dozen. Why have a maintained list of English translators at the ready? Because Japanese does not have a word for excessive preparation.
View Link [kalzumeus.com]