We all had commercials in our dreams but you don’t see us running off to buy brand name merchandise at low low prices.

The MPC is a standalone unit. It is a DAW so you don’t need a PC. You can make an entire song on it without ever needing a pc or external editing software, you can connect instruments mics right to it. It’s basically a portable studio.

You can even download updates, instruments, sample kits right on the unit.

It is annoying tho since they started adding features to the PC version of the software that aren’t available in the standalone versions. But you get access to them if you own the hardware.

Cmdchallenge is similar to Linux survival. But is mostly command line basics like moving around directories, searching, etc. It also gives a list of solutions that people have used for each exercise, which is interesting just to see different ways of doing things.

If you have libreOffice installed I believe you can edit pdfs in Draw.

You can also try Inkscape.

Well first I got up I had a piece of toast… then I brushed my teeth. Then I went to the store to buy some fish.

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To the Board of Directors at OpenAl,

OpenAl is the world’s leading Al company. We, the employees of OpenAl, have developed the best models and pushed the field to new frontiers. Our work on Al safety and governance shapes global norms. The products we built are used by millions of people around the world. Until now, the company we work for and cherish has never been in a stronger position.

The process through which you terminated Sam Altman and removed Greg Brockman from the board has jeopardized all of this work and undermined our mission and company. Your conduct has made it clear you did not have the competence to oversee OpenAl.

When we all unexpectedly learned of your decision, the leadership team of OpenAl acted swiftly to stabilize the company. They carefully listened to your concerns and tried to cooperate with you on all grounds. Despite many requests for specific facts for your allegations, you have never provided any written evidence. They also increasingly realized you were not capable of carrying out your duties, and were negotiating in bad faith.

The leadership team suggested that the most stabilizing path forward - the one that would best serve our mission, company, stakeholders, employees and the public - would be for you to resign and put in place a qualified board that could lead the company forward in stability. Leadership worked with you around the clock to find a mutually agreeable outcome. Yet within two days of your initial decision, you again replaced interim CEO Mira Murati against the best interests of the company. You also informed the leadership team that allowing the company to be destroyed “would be consistent with the mission.”

Your actions have made it obvious that you are incapable of overseeing OpenAl. We are unable to work for or with people that lack competence, judgement and care for our mission and employees. We, the undersigned, may choose to resign from OpenAl and join the newly announced Microsoft subsidiary run by Sam Altman and Greg Brockman. Microsoft has assured us that there are positions for all OpenAl employees at this new subsidiary should we choose to join. We will take this step imminently, unless all current board members resign, and the board appoints two new lead independent directors, such as Bret Taylor and Will Hurd, and reinstates Sam Altman and Greg Brockman.

1. Mira Murati
2. Brad Lightcap
3. Jason Kwon
4. Wojciech Zaremba
5. Alec Radford
6. Anna Makanju
7. Bob McGrew
8. Srinivas Narayanan
9. Che Chang
10. Lillian Weng
11. Mark Chen
12. Ilya Sutskever

We’ll see son. We’ll see.

You better download 2 cuz I’m not sharing.

There are watches that have an actual 24hr face as you describe the normal 6 position is 12 and 12 becomes 24. Which I think are fairly uncommon, I don’t recall ever seeing one in person.

More common to just see analog watches with dual time markings say a 24 under the 12.

An image search along the lines of “24hr watch face” will show some examples.

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BRIEF HISTORICAL CHRONOLOGY OF PUERTO RICANS IN THE UNITED STATES (PART I)

The Center for Puerto Rican Studies

PUERTO RICAN HERITAGE POSTER SERIES

Poster Content by Dr. Edna Acosta-Belen

Poster Series Design by Jorge Fish Rodriguez

PUERTO RICAN CULTURAL ROOTS c. 1200 - Late 1700s

Development of Taíno indigenous culture on the island. According to Spanish chroni-cles, Taínos called the island Borikén. The name was adapted into Spanish as Borinquen and native islanders were identified as borinqueños or boricuas.

(Poster by Rafael Tufiño, c. 1972). [MDB]

Evidence of the Taíno culture can be found in preserved petroglyphs (rock engravings in island towns such as utuado, Jayuya, Ponce, and vieques. Puerto Rican Spanish is also filled with indigenismos [words of indigenous origin], and some names of towns or cities, such as Loíza, Mayagüez, and Utuado, are also of Indian origin.

(Photo or Taino petroglyon at Caguana ceremonial rark in Utuado, PR). [MDB]

1493:

Christopher Columbus arrived on November 19, 1493 to the island he named Isla de San Juan Bautista during his second voyage to the New World. The island’s main port in the northeast was named Puerto Rico, later on, the names of the island and the capital were interchanged and the port city became San Juan, the capital of Puerto Rico.

(Engraving of Columbus’ arrival to the New World by Theodor de Bry, c. late 1500s). [PD]

1508:

Spanish colonization begins under the command of Juan Ponce de Leon. He established the first settlement in 1509 and was appointed governor of the island. The Spanish conquest produced a rapid decline in Puerto Rico’s indigenous population.

(Drawing of Ponce de León, c. 1500s). [PD]

1511-1513:

Major Taíno rebellions against the Spaniards.
(Drawing of Indian rebellion, c. late 1500s). [PD]

1519:

Beginning of the importation of large num- ners of enslaved black Africans to Puerto Rico. Within a few decades, Africans outnumbered the Spanish population.

(Drawing of enslaved Africans, c. late 1500s).[PD]

1765:

Field Marshall Alejandro O’Reilly was sent by Spanish authorities to visit Puerto Rico. He recommended economic reforms and the colonial government began to promote immigration from Spain to Puerto Rico.

Runaway enslaved Africans from other Caribbean islands and from increased slave trafficking also added to Puerto Rico’s population during the late 1700s and early 1800s.

(Drawing of African slaves working in a sugar mill, c. 18005). Ediciones Santillana, 2008

The Taíno, Spanish, and African represent the three cultural and racial roots of the Puerto Rican nation and of its racially mixed population.

(Mural at the Plaza de las Tres Culturas in San German, PR; photograph of mural by Edna Acosta-Belen). [EAB]

BEGINNINGS OF PUERTO RICAN PRESENCE IN THE UNITED STATES 1815-1897

1815:

Spain grants Puerto Rico the Real Cédula de Gracias [Royal Decree of Graces] which introduces reforms for promoting economic development and the opening of trade with other countries besides Spain. Spanish immigrants received land grants to come to the island and contribute to agriculture production and the expanding trade. In later decades, immigrants from more than a dozen countries-France, Corsica, Ireland, Germany, Great Britain, and Italy, among them-also received land grants to immigrate to the island, if they were Catholic and professed loyalty to the Spanish crown. With the expansion of trade in the 1820s, the United States becomes Cuba and Puerto Rico’s major trading partner in the Americas.

1821-1848:

Numerous rebellions of Puerto Rico’s enslaved Africans take place. One of the largest was in 1841.

1850:

Journalist and political figure Julio L. Vizcarrondo, one of the earliest and most prominent abolitionists in Puerto Rico, was sent into exile because of his liberal views. He lived in New York and later Boston for four years; places where he could freely advocate for the end of slavery. In 1865, while living in Madrid, he founded the Sociedad Abolutionista Espanola [The Spanish Abolitionist Society]

1865:

The Sociedad Republicana de Cuba y Puerto Rico [Republican Society of Cuba and Puerto Rico] is established in New York by expatriates to fight for the independence of the two islands from Spanish colonial rule New York became one of the main destinations for Cuban and Puerto Rican pro-independence exiles, also called separatists at the time. Today, they are commonly referred to as “the pilgrims of freedom.”

1867:

The Comité Revolucionario de Puerto Rico is founded in New York City by Puerto Rican independence patriot and abolitionist Ramon Emeterio Betances and others. Betances releases his proclamation “Los Diez Mandamientos de los Hombres Libres” [Ten Commandments of Free Men] encouraging Puerto Ricans to take up arms against the Spanish colonial government and declare independence.

(photo of betances). [PD]

1869:

On September 23, an unsuccessful armed revolt in the mountain town of Lares proclaims Puerto Rico’s independence from Spain. This event is known as the Grito de Lares [Cry of Lares or Lares Revolt].

Poet Lola Rodríguez de Tió writes the poem "La Borinqueña, which was adapted to music and adopted as the revolutionary hymn of the Lares insurrection. Because of their pro-independence ideals, she and her husband Bonocio Tió, faced exile on two separate occasions and lived in Venezuela, Cuba, and New York.

(Photo of Rodriguez de Tió). [UPRPC]

1869:

Puerto Rican independence patriot Eugenio María de Hostos arrives in New York City from Spain and becomes editor of the newspaper La Revolucion [Revolution] an advocate of the independence of Cuba and Puerto Rico. (Photo of Hostos).[PD]

1873:

African slavery is abolished by the Spanish colonial regime in Puerto Rico.

1875:

José Celso Barbosa, a Puerto Rican of African descent, arrives in New York and, after studying English for two years, leaves the city to attend medical school at the University of Michigan. He graduated at the top of his class, went back to Puerto Rico to practice medicine, and also became involved in politics. After the U.S. invasion of Puerto Rico, Barbosa founded the Partido Republicano Puerto Rico [Puerto Rican Republican Party] 1899), which for several decades was the main supporter of the U.S. regime and eventual statehood for Puerto Rico. (Photo of Barbosa). [PD]

1887:

In Puerto Rico, supporters of autonomy or independence from Spain continue to face persecution, imprisonment, or exile. Many emigrate to New York City and other U.S. cities, or to countries in Latin America and Europe.

1889:

Afro-Puerto Rican journalist, writer, and typographer Sotero Figueroa and his wife, Inocencia Martínez de Santaelle, arrive in New York City where they join the Cuban and Puerto Rican separatist movement. Figueroa starts a printing press and a few years later becomes administrative editor of the newspaper Patria, founded by Cuban patriot José Marti in 1892.

1880s - 1920s:

Expansion of the tobacco manufacturing industry in cities such as Tampa and Key West in Florida, New York City, and Philadelphia. Tobacco workers were a progressive and militant artisan class of self-educated workers. They used to hire lectores [readers] at the factories, turning their workplaces into halls of learning. Large numbers of Spaniards, Cubans, and Puerto Ricans worked in U.S. tobacco factories and shops, including those in New York City.

(Photo of reader in a New York tobacco factory).[NYPL; PD]

1891:

Francisco Gonzalo “Pachín” Marín and Arturo Alfonso Schomburg arrive in New York and also join the separatist movement Marín, a typographer, journalist and poet revives his previously censored island newspaper El postillón [The Messenger], and turns it into an advocate of revolution against Spanish colonial rule.

1891:

Schomburg, worked in a printing shop in San Juan before migrating to New York City, where he joined the separatist movement and became one or the founders and secretary of the Club Dos Antillas (The Two Islands]. In the early 1900s, Schomburg, became a collector and bibliographer of the African experience around the world. The Schomburg Center of Research in Black Culture of the New York Public Library bears his name.

(Photo of Schomburg) [NYPL; PD]

1892:

Founding in New York of the Partido Revolucionario Cubano (PRC) [Cuban Revolutionary Party] by José Marti. Other separatist groups emerged, such as Club Borinquen, started by Puerto Rican male expatriates, the Puerto Rican and Cuban Club Las Dos Antillas, ane the women’s group Club Mercedes Varona.

1885:

The Sección de Puerto Rico [Puerto Rico Branch] of the Partido Revolucionario Cubano is founded in New York City. This year also marks the outbreak of Cuba’s Second War of Independence from Spain. Sección members Julio J. Henna and Roberto H. Todd supported Puerto Rico’s independence from Spain, but later on also supported the U.S. takeover of the island and its annexation to the United States.

1886:

The women’s separatist group, Club Hermanas de Ríus Rivera, is established in New York by Inocencia Martinez Santaella and others. The Club bears the name of a Puerto Rican General who fought in the wars for Cuban independence from Spain. Exiled from Puerto Rico and then Cuba by Spanish officials, Lola Rodriguez de Tio settles in New York with her husband and daughter and was elected Vice President of this Club. The Club engaged in fund-raising activities to support the Cuban rebel troops with medicines and other supplies.

(Photo of Martinez Santaella, c. mid-1800s, from Patriotas cubanos by Ana María Luján, 2007).

1897:

Spain granted a Charter of Autonomy that allowed self-government for Puerto Rico, although the island remained a province of Spain.

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