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The swing shift is about to start at a plant that is about to close. Late winter sunlight casts long shadows from workers crossing the parking lot, where stray cats skulk among the cars.Only two weeks left, and the routine is unchanged: clocking in at 5 p.m., heading to the locker room, trading street clothes for work wear. If anyone feels sadness or loss, no one shows it. They have a newspaper to put out.“We’re trying to do this with a little class and dignity,” said shift supervisor Kal Hamalainen.Sixteen months ago,…

BERKELEY —  A massive contingent of law enforcement officers converged on People’s Park in the wee hours of Thursday morning, intent on clearing the way for crews to wall off the storied green space near the UC Berkeley campus in preparation for construction of a much-contested housing complex for students. The university launched the extraordinary operation — designed to double-stack metal cargo containers around the entire park perimeter — around 12 a.m.On their arrival, police surrounded the park. Inside, they were…

Yesterday in Helsinki, this editor interviewed four of the six general partners at Benchmark, the nearly 30-year-old, Silicon Valley firm that’s known for some notable bets (Uber, Dropbox), paying each general partner exactly the same way, and for continuing to raise similar-size funds over its many years rather than balloon in size.  We were speaking at Slush, a major event for the European startup ecosystem, so I naturally asked why the firm was making such a big showing, given that it’s hard enough getting the…

Good morning, and welcome to the Essential California newsletter. It’s Friday, Feb. 17. I’m Jessica Garrison, the Northern California correspondent at The Times.The big political news in the state this week is the announcement from Sen. Dianne Feinstein — California’s longest serving senator — that she would finish out her term but would not seek reelection.The move sets the state for what is expected to be an expensive and bitter fight to replace the Democrat in 2024.It has also prompted a flood of reflections about…

During the 30th anniversary NIS stream, the company announced two new titles. First, Disgaea 7: Vows of the Virtueless, which adds samurai and catgirls with laser guns to its hellish SRPG formula. Second, Rhapsody: Marl Kingdom Chronicles, which brings two classic JRPGs to North America and Europe for the first time.Disgaea 7 is set in the netherworld Hinomoto, inspired by historical Japan. The game follows the demon warrior Fuji and his companion Pirilika, a catgirl with a gun. Among the more than 40…

Porsche made waves at the Frankfurt international motor show in 1963 when it unveiled a new car with a six-cylinder engine designed to succeed its 356 model. 1- Story of 911- The manufacturer originally intended to call it the 901 — but Peugeot had already laid claim to all the three-digit numbers with a zero in the middle, prompting Porsche to settle for 911. The number is now strongly linked to the brand — to call the company, 911 is on every phone number after the local dial code. The company’s capital amounts to 911…

Update 09/22/2022 3:00 pm PTAmazon Germany has listed the Arctic MX-6 for a whopping price of €28.75 (opens in new tab) ($23.76 without VAT) per 4 grams.Original ArticleArctic's MX-series thermal compounds are among the most popular, among PC builders, and the company's MX-5 is widely considered the best thermal grease that it produces. But earlier this week MX-5 status was changed to end-of-life at the company's website (as discovered by @momomo_us) as apparently it is readying all-new MX-6 thermal paste.  The biggest…

Taking a break from shooting a movie in the late Sixties, Richard Harris chartered a private plane. The actor and his entourage travelled to Hamburg to visit the brothels, and then went on a day trip to Ireland, spending an afternoon at one of Harris’s favourite pubs. They weren’t sober for a moment of the jaunt, which was chronicled by a photographer sent along for the ride. The story of their antics is told in Adrian Sibley’s new feature documentary The Ghost of Richard Harris, a world premiere at the Venice Film…

On 16 May, planetary scientist Laurie Leshin became director of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), one of the world’s leading labs for robotic space science. Coming off the successful landing of the Perseverance rover on Mars, JPL is readying several more flagship missions for NASA, including a probe of Jupiter’s icy moon, Europa, and a complicated campaign to gather the rock samples collected by Perseverance and return them to Earth. Prior to JPL, Leshin spent 8 years as…