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By most accounts the next silicon valley is in Israel where the most innovative of startups are now rising.
We are good friends with Israel and the same strategy that Singapore employed would be useful to us.
Get Israeli support and training. Implement a professional reserve army none of the ROTC bullshit but the more practical stuff like outdoor training and the like.

https://joeam.com/2016/07/12/two-filipino-diplomats-and-patriots-men-of-law-and-peace-and-determination-let-history-so-record/

Read Bernie Sanders’ and Hillary Clinton’s Remarks From the Endorsement Rally – http://time.com/4403264/bernie-sanders-hillary-clinton-endorsement-full-transcript/

Black Lives Matter Protest in New York Attracts New People – http://ti.me/29ZZtIY

Andy Murray Beats Milos Raonic for Second Wimbledon Championship – http://ti.me/29x1Fcj

Watch Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Final Hamilton Curtain Call – http://time.com/4400157/lin-manuel-miranda-hamilton-curtain-call-final-show/

Weekend Reading: Tim Dunlop: Journalism, Power and Taking Sides – http://www.bradford-delong.com/2016/07/weekend-reading-tim-dunlop-journalism-power-and-taking-sides.html

I just woke up from a dream where I was a bandit a robinhood type. The action sequences was early 90s late 80s. I died while being chased by the police through teachers village. It was a weird dream in the sense that I felt I was in the Ben tambling  movie except it was me and that I spouted liberal ideology. 

Go to the waterparks in this city on any hot summer day and you see the true potential of Toronto. The meaning of multiculturalism in Toronto is not theoretical; it is not found in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms or in the decisions of the refugee board. The meaning of multiculturalism is found in the waterparks, among the slides and fountains, and lazy rivers and wave pools: a collection of various people of various shades speaking various languages, lounging in the shade, drinking overpriced rum drinks

Source: Welcome to the new Toronto: the most fascinatingly boring city in the world | Cities | The Guardian

It sounds like something you’d never need, but sometimes, when you distribute end-user software, you may need to install a java program as a Windows service. I had to do it because I developed a tool for civil servants to automatically convert and push their Excel files to the opendata portal of my country. The tool has to run periodically, so it’s a prime candidate for a service (which would make the upload possible even if the civil servant forgets about this task altogether, and besides, repetitive manua

Source: Installing a Java Application as a Windows Service – DZone Java