[ARCHITECTSJOURNAL.CO.UK] An army of robot-crane hybrids will be assembled to build Google's new headquarters in Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,, according to the latest design papers posted by the IT giant
Mock-ups of the so-called 'crabots' are featured in lengthy planning documents submitted to the City of Mountain View Council in Silicon Valley and seen by AJ this week.
As revealed last July, the tech firm has commissioned Thomas Heatherwick, BIG and engineers AKTII to design its extended HQ, which will house 20,000 Google staff.
The 'crabots' are described in the documents as a mash-up of flexible crane and robotic machine.
Much of the internal design of Google's new HQ will depend on the success of the robots which will roam under the gigantic canopies of the sprawling site and lift and shift pre-fabricated components, furniture and services.
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Probably as half-assed as most Google projects, it will be abandoned when their corporate ADD kicks in and they will ahve to finish it the old fashioned way.
[OBSERVER] As part of the PEN World Voices Festival, the international press freedom organization scheduled an event this afternoon titled, "Finding Security in Unsafe Passages: United Nations ...aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society... Event about Protecting Journalists' Safety and Rights." The panel, according to PEN's website, will "delve into the wide range of risks journalists face every day. Experts will offer safety tips, share advice for protecting sources and copyrights in all types of media and address cybersecurity risks."
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[REUTERS] Britons voted on Thursday in the tightest election for decades; one that could cause government gridlock, push the world's fifth-largest economy closer to leaving the European Union and stoke a second attempt by Scotland to break away.
Final opinion polls showed Prime Minister David Cameron's Conservatives and Ed Miliband's opposition Labour Party almost in a dead heat, indicating neither will win enough seats for an outright majority in the 650-seat parliament.
However, the surveys suggested there had been some late movement toward Labour.
"I'm not asking you simply to vote Labour. I'm asking you to vote to reward hard work again and to build a future for all our young people," Miliband said on Twitter after casting his vote. "Today is the day we can change Britain." Oooh! Look! Hopey-changey stuff!
Or possibly Cameron will remain prime minister. The Telegraph is carrying results live here. All sorts of interesting articles on the election on their front page, should you be interested, dear Reader.
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Conservatives win.
The Odious Galloway lost by a large margin ranting about Zionist conspiracies.
h/t Gates of Vienna
People in Belarus who work less than half the year will have to pay the government for their idleness.
The parliament on Wednesday passed the proposal by authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko, which requires work-capable people who work less than 183 days a year to pay a yearly fine of $250. Disabled people, pension recipients and people with young children are exempt.
A statement from the parliament, where the measure passed by a vote of 100-2, said "it's necessary to stimulate citizens who are capable of work and ensure they fulfill their constitutional obligation to take part in financing state expenditures." Labor Minister Marianna Shchetkina told the parliament the measure would be temporary.
Belarus' economy is stumbling in the wake of economic troubles in neighboring Russia. Of course, as I understand, there's no work to be had in Belarus.
[Praag.org] Opponents to a proposed asylum center in the Swedish town of Gullberg came up with a plan to deter Muslim immigrants from coming.
Residents in the Swedish town of Gullberg opposed to controversial plans to build a center to house asylum seekers in the town, sent a letter to the Swedish Migration Board threatening to build a pig farm next to the building if the plan goes ahead, reports Sveriges Radio.
The letter, signed by 'The interest group for Gullberg's survival,' outlined plans to build the farm next to the disused school building in the municipality of Mark, with "only an electric fence between the animals and the school, of about 20 meters."
"It's probably an impossible situation for certain religions. Above all Muslims."
Politician Henry Sandahl, from the Mark branch of Sweden's Countryside Party told P4 that though he had nothing to do with the letter, he supported the sentiment:
"It's as big an inconvenience to asylum applicants if they are not comfortable with the pigs as it is for neighbors to get 60 asylum seekers. The principle is the same, they are both a nuisance but on different planes."
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Residents in the Swedish town of Gullberg opposed to controversial plans to build a center to house asylum seekers in the town, sent a letter to the Swedish Migration Board threatening to build a pig farm next to the building if the plan goes ahead, reports Sveriges Radio. I like it! Innovative push-back.
[Dawn] Standard and Poor's, one of the world's big three credit-rating agencies, on Tuesday revised Pakistain's average real GDP growth projection for 2015-17 to 4.6 per cent from 3.8pc. It also revised the country's long-term 'B minus' credit rating to positive from stable.
"Pakistain has made significant progress in stabilising its economic, fiscal, and external performance. Financing conditions have also eased considerably," said a statement issued by the agency's US headquarters.
"We are, therefore, revising the outlook on the long-term ratings on Pakistain to positive from stable. We are also affirming our 'B minus' long-term and 'B' short-term sovereign credit ratings on Pakistain," the statement said.
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h/t Gates of Vienna
War and violence displaced a record-breaking 38 million people within their home countries in 2014 -- a figure equivalent to the total population of London, New York and Beijing combined.
Sixty per cent came from just five countries: Iraq, South Sudan, Syria, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Nigeria. All have been wracked by war or the metastasising effects of jihadist violence. Don't bother us---we're busy battling microaggression.
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The children (all too often in adult bodies) fail to grasp due to their fairytale upbringing is that war and conflict have been a 'natural' aspect of man and history. Bouts of peace, particularly expended periods, are far more 'unnatural'. Man, by his nature, is territorial and hierarchical. We are returning back to the natural state because we lack a ruling caste that grasps the concept that either you ride the tiger or the tiger eventually eats you. That means having to spend the resources, efforts, blood and capital to 'manage' it or you and your environment will be hostage to the changes. The children are in charge and the world burns.
h/t Gates of Vienna
In about the most extreme example of slut shaming yet, a prayer leader in Tehran has blamed earthquakes on women who dress provocatively and tempt people into promiscuity.
"When promiscuity spreads, earthquakes increase," Hojatoleslam Kazim Sadeghi said during prayers on Friday, a video of which was later posted on YouTube. No sillier than AGW, or gender interchangeability equality, if you ask me.
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A friend sent me an article about CO2 emissions at the Hawaii Observatory reaching 400ppm as proof of global warming. He retracted part of his assertion when I pointed out the observatory is on an active volcano and volcanos emit CO2. The level of CO2 is much higher on an active volcano than on a normal mountain. Even volcanos considered dormant emit CO2.
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A friend sent me an article about CO2 emissions at the Hawaii Observatory reaching 400ppm as proof of global warming.
Given that CO2 levels have risen during the entire period of the temperature pause, one must wonder about claims of causation outside the lab.
h/t Instapundit
Students at Dartmouth College launched a petition drive demanding the newly-elected student body president resign after they say he was disrespectful to the plight of American blacks and other marginalized groups.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
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[ARCHITECTSJOURNAL.CO.UK] An army of robot-crane hybrids will be assembled to build Google's new headquarters in 
[OBSERVER] As part of the PEN World Voices Festival, the international press freedom organization scheduled an event this afternoon titled, "Finding Security in Unsafe Passages: 
[REUTERS] Britons voted on Thursday in the tightest election for decades; one that could cause government gridlock, push the world's fifth-largest economy closer to leaving the European Union and stoke a second attempt by Scotland to break away.
[Praag.org] Opponents to a proposed asylum center in the Swedish town of Gullberg came up with a plan to deter Muslim immigrants from coming.
