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The 2024 Copa America tournament will be played in the United States, CONMEBOL confirmed on Friday after an agreement between the South American football confederation and CONCACAF. The format will feature 16 teams, 10 from CONMEBOL and six from CONCACAF, with teams from the North, Central American and Caribbean confederation qualifying via the 2023-24 CONCACAF Nations League tournament. Discussions with some U.S.-based potential venues are already underway, according to sources, and it's possible that several of the cities set to host World Cup games in 2026 would also be used for the Copa America. For women's national teams, CONCACAF has...

Yesterday the Concerned Household Electricity Consumers Council (CHECC) filed a corrected version of its opening brief challenging the EPA’s Endangerment Finding as to CO2 and other greenhouse gases. The brief can be found here. The bizarre reason for the “corrected” filing was that the clerks at the DC Circuit rejected our initial filing on the ground that we used an excessive number of acronyms. They have a rule encouraging you not to use too many acronyms, but the rule gives no clue as to how many is too many. When you use the term “greenhouse gases” thirty times, should you...

Fear not: the asteroid, named 7335 (1989 JA), will soundly miss our planet by about 2.5 million miles (4 million kilometers) — or nearly 10 times the average distance between Earth and the moon. Still, given the space rock's enormous size (1.1. miles, or 1.8 km, in diameter) and relatively close proximity to Earth, NASA has classified the asteroid as "potentially hazardous," meaning it could do enormous damage to our planet if its orbit ever changes and the rock impacts Earth. This asteroid is one of more than 29,000 near-Earth objects (NEOs) that NASA tracks each year. NEOs refer to...

The San Francisco Unified School District's recent vote to rename schools over the reckoning of historical figures and their flawed legacies has been widely seen as an incompetent, embarrassing mess. The near-unanimous vote on Monday to rename 44 schools by the San Francisco Board of Education came after years of debate. The canceled names include campuses named after former presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln and Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein. And as if spending valuable time (and a lot of money) renaming a third of the schools in the district when every student is still stuck at home...

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Parent involvement key to keeping kids safe online. These days, kids let their fingers do the talking, instant messaging or texting their "BFF's" at any time of the day or night. BFF is "best friend forever" in Internet shorthand. ... Do you know what "POS" means in kid lingo? That's "parent over shoulder." Don't worry, the three dads we asked didn't know either. We stumped another mom with "ASL." That's "age-sex-location," a phrase swapped liberally throughout the Internet when strangers meet.

Why is I. S. I. S. pronounced as isis, but U. S. A. is pronounced U S A?

A female CofE vicar yesterday insisted she has not sinned against God by putting an obscene bumper sticker reading 'WTFWJD' on the back of her car. The Reverend Alice Goodman stuck the sticker, standing for ‘What The F*** Would Jesus Do?', on the back of her red Subaru Legacy - sparking outrage from members of her parish. But the Reverend insists the sticker is harmless and even the former Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams was happy to accept a lift in her car in the past. The sign - a play on the Christian motto ‘What Would Jesus Do?’...

Central Intelligence Agency Codes for MK ULTRA/MONARCH/MK SEARCH/MK NAOMI/ARTICHOKE/DERBY HAT (Unorthodox Means of Communication: Integer sequence codes, phonetics, anagrams, acronyms) MK ULTRA, an acronym for Martin Luther KING, Jr. or niTRAM rehtUL gniK=CIA Project MK ULTRA aka The Negro Project which began in 1953(http://www.wanttoknow.info/050626mkultra) niTRAm rehtUL gnik=ULTRA. ULTRA was the name for British military intelligence signals. (http://www.historynet.com/world-war-ii-ultra-the-misunderstood-allied-secret-weapon.htm) CIA identifier code: baraCkhusseInobAma=Integer sequence code when C=0:0,+7,-7=CIA(https://www.cia.gov/) barackhuSSeinObama=OSS(https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/books-and-monographs/oss/index.htm MONARCH, an integer code anagram within the name of Barack Hussein Obama which is found in this manner when M=0 on an integer scale: bARaCkHusseiNObaMa M, M-3, M-4, M+3, M+4, M+6, M+8 and the...

ATD At the Doctor's BFF: Best Friend Fell BTW: Bring the Wheelchair BYOT: Bring Your Own Teeth CMB: Covered by Medicare CUATSC: See you at the Senior Center DWI: Driving While Incontinent FWIW: Forgot Where I was FYI: Found Your Insulin GGPBL: Gotta Go, Pacemaker Battery Low HGBM: Had Good Bowel Movement GHA: Got Heartburn Again IMHO: Is My Hearing Aid On LMDO: Laughing My Dentures out LOL: Living on Lipitor OMSG: Oh My Sorry, Gas ROFL.CGU Rolling on the floor Laughing and Can't get UP SGGP: Sorry Gotta go Poop TTYL; Talk to You Louder WTP: Where's the prunces...

The 2009 FreeRepublic LexiconAKA "The Freepism, Freepology, Lingo, Dictionary, Terminology, Lore Handbook" A revised and condensed version of The Lexicon of FreeRepublic, culled from Lexicon of FreeRepublic - 4th Edition and Freeper Lingo Thread (the history and meening of 'Freepisms' including pictures). Thanks to the many Freepers who contributed, especially Bugbear and Risky Schemer, the originators of the first lexicon! (see also The 2008 FreeRepublic Lexicon) I have attempted to include all definitions and histories provided to me and give credit to those who provided me the information. I apologize, in advance to those I failed to credit, but please...

The 2007 FreeRepublic LexiconAKA "The Freepism, Freepology, Lingo, Dictionary, Terminology, Lore Handbook" A revised and condensed version of The Lexicon of FreeRepublic, culled from Lexicon of FreeRepublic - 4th Edition and Freeper Lingo Thread (the history and meening of 'Freepisms' including pictures). Thanks to the many Freepers who contributed! (see also The 2006 FreeRepublic LexiconI have attempted to include all definitions and histories provided to me and give credit to those who provided me the information. I apologize, in advance to those I failed to credit, but please understand that it was very difficult to keep up with all the...

The 2007 FreeRepublic Lexicon (Draft)AKA "The Freepism, Freepology, Lingo, Dictionary, Terminology, Lore Handbook" A revised and condensed version of The Lexicon of FreeRepublic, culled from Lexicon of FreeRepublic - 4th Edition and Freeper Lingo Thread (the history and meening of 'Freepisms' including pictures). Thanks to the many Freepers who contributed! (see also The 2006 FreeRepublic LexiconI have attempted to include all definitions and histories provided to me and give credit to those who provided me the information. I apologize, in advance to those I failed to credit, but please understand that it was very difficult to keep up with all...

POS- Parents Over Shoulder PIR- Parents In Room PAW- Parents Are Watching P911- Parents Alert PAL- Parents Are Listening ASL- Age Sex Location MorF- Male or Female SorG- Straight or Gay KPC- Keeping Parents Clueless TD2M- Talk Dirty To Me IWSN- I Want Sex Now NIFOC- Nude In Front of Computer GYPO- Get Your Pants Off ADR- Address WYCM- Will You Call Me KFY- Kisses For You MOOS- Member of Opposite Sex MOSS- Member of Same Sex NALOPKT- Not A Lot of People Know This

The 2006 FreeRepublic LexiconAKA "The Freepism, Freepology, Lingo, Dictionary, Terminology, Lore Handbook" A revised and condensed version of The Lexicon of FreeRepublic, culled from Lexicon of FreeRepublic - 4th Edition and Freeper Lingo Thread (the history and meening of 'Freepisms' including pictures). Thanks to the many Freepers who contributed! In this latest update, I have cut the emoticons and standard acronyms (LOL etc - which are readily available on the web and previous Lexicons) for the sake of brevity. I have attempted to include all definitions and histories provided to me and give credit to those who provided me the...

@TEOTD At The End Of The Day 14AA41 One for All and All for One 2B or not 2B To Be Or Not To Be 2NITE Tonight 411 it means: info 4ever Forever 86 Out Of or Over it A/S/L Age/Sex/Location AAAAA American Association Against Acronym Abuse AAF As A Friend AAK Asleep At Keyboard AAMOF As A Matter Of Fact AAMOI As A Matter Of Interest AAR8 At Any Rate AAS Alive And Smiling AATK Always At The Keyboard AAYF As Always, Your Friend AB Ass Backwards ABT2 About To ACD Alt Control Delete ACK Acknowledgement ADAD Another...

I have a friend who has recently become an avid lurker and is, I hope, a soon-to-be poster. When I first started lurking there were threads with FReeper folklore, acronyms, definitions and even FReeper photos. Are any of those still around? They were so interesting and of great help to me in the beginning; I wanted to pass them on to our newest newbie. I've looked everywhere I can think of and can't find them. If, as I am wont to do at times, I've had a brain fart, flame away. If not, any help would be appreciated.