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Rebecca "Beckie" Scott,[1]OC MSM (born August 1, 1974) is a Canadian former cross-country skiing athlete. She is Chair of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Athlete Committee, and served as an International Olympic Committee member by virtue of being elected to the IOC Athlete's Commission along with Saku Koivu betwee...
Today, we’ve released Opera 22 for Windows and Mac – a safe and highly compatible browser that gives you one of the best experiences of the web. Not only is Opera fast and powerful, it’s also beautiful. If you’re already running Opera, you will receive this update automatically. A new web browser with a fresh look We...
Because of a belief that academia skews too far to the left, the Texas Board of Education voted 10 to 5 in favor of buying history and social studies textbooks that adhere to a more conservative ideology. Here are some of the changes they are mandating: Inserting paragraph clarifying that the poor guy Rosa Parks would...
It won’t just be Britain that is doing the leaving after the Brexit vote. A number of large companies, particularly banks, are likely to pack up at least some of their workers and move them out of London now that the U.K. has voted to exit the EU. In all, the city that has long been considered the financial capital of...
The lens that I watch baseball through has shifted many times. Growing up, the game was a thing I aspired to, a dream for my future. Somewhere along that path, the internet became a thing, and somehow, I ended up seeing baseball as a thing to write about, as I found community with other fans while I lived thousands of ...
Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Middleweight number one contender Chael Sonnen is familiar with controversy. To take it one step further, he's also no stranger to controversy that pertains to failed drug tests because of elevated testosterone levels. So it should shock no one that Sonnen, while doing his regular ...
Many of you are fed up with Left bias in the media. The US election campaign highlighted MSM prejudice against candidates who are patriotic, respect sovereign democracy, reject supranational rule and defend Western values. Google came under fire after Wikileaks exposed its involvement in the Democrat campaign. Repeated...
Official word arrived Thursday that the co-op that formed to figure out a path forward for iconic 50-year-old SoMa nightclub The Stud has succeeded in securing funds to purchase the business from current owner Michael McElhaney, with hopes to preserve the club and keep it alive for decades to come. Organizer Mica Sigou...
Loading ... Loading ... Just over a month ago we wrote about the curious case of Frank Ranelli of Alabama and the growing problem of asset forfeitures all across the United States. Ranelli, who owned a local computer repair shop in Ensley, Alabama, showed up to work one day in 2010 only to later be raided by local pol...
Russian Spy Met Trump Adviser Carter Page and Thought He Was an ‘Idiot’ Russian intelligence agents working in New York City met with Carter Page, a one-time foreign-policy adviser to President Donald Trump, and attempted to recruit the business consultant as a spy in 2013. While the effort was ultimately unsuccessfu...
It's not just the bees that are harmed by controversial crop pesticides called neonicotinoids – the birds are also disappearing in places where there are high concentrations of the pesticide in the environment, a new study suggests. The study led by researchers at Radboud University in the Netherlands compared concent...
I've been intrigued by the new Handoff capability in iOS 8 and OS X Yosemite since I saw it demoed in June at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference. It's a brilliant idea: Let apps notice when they're running on another device you're using and offer to transfer the activity to them. For example: Entering an email on ...
An ad for the Superland amusement park. One incident of racism, though small in relation to the decades of massive, institutionalised discrimination exercised by Israel against its Palestinian Arab citizens, has triggered an uncharacteristic bout of Israeli soul-searching. Superland, a large amusement park near Tel A...
Voters head to the polls in the 2016 D.C. Primary Election. Here's what you need to know. WASHINGTON — Democrats in D.C. will head to the polls on Tuesday to choose their party’s nominee for president and for several District Council seats. Republicans and the D.C. Statehood Green party will also hold a primary but h...
FRISCO, Texas (Friday, Feb. 20) – FC Dallas downed DC United, 3-1, tonight in a preseason match at Toyota Stadium. FC Dallas nearly unlocked DC United’s defense in the eighth minute when Mauro Diaz played a cutting pass to the back post for right back Atiba Harris. The defender timed his run well and played a first-to...
By Darryl Howerton #21 Welcome to the seventh annual NBAge Draft Rankings 2017 where we rate the best prospects and compare them to the NBA general managers’ picks as the years go by, using win shares as the defining criteria to who drafted better. Through the previous six NBA Drafts, we have outperformed NBA GMs by ...
New data from the National Snow and Ice Data Center shows that the average Arctic sea ice extent in July set a new monthly record low--even though the rate of ice loss slowed "substantially" in the last two weeks of the month. Average sea ice extent for July 2011 was 3.06 million square miles, 81,000 square miles lowe...
The buzz around Broadway smash Hamilton isn’t dying down anytime soon. After releasing the cast recording and being awarded the MacArthur Genius Grant, show creator Lin-Manuel Miranda announced Thursday that he would begin working on the next Hamilton-related project: The Hamilton Mixtape. He announced the news on Twi...
Internationally, Disney is experiencing a nice run, with Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales crossing $100M in China and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 set to pass $800M worldwide today. The news comes as Pirates chalked up another $39.4M on Tuesday to bring its total now to $365.7M For Pirates, the stron...
I woke up the first time before dawn and felt around the edge of my sleeping bag for my hiking boots. I shook out my glasses and phone to check the time: 4:20 a.m. A canopy of stars was spread overhead. The notched fin of the Elder Range cut a dark silhouette against the speckled depths. I watched the sky until I saw a...
WINTER: ’tis the season of reduced friction. Depending on where you are, you might be anticipating the first icy days of the year’s coldest season, or already be well attuned to its attendant dangers. Ice plus incaution, we all know, equals slips, slides, broken bones and mangled cars and bicycles. Not your problem, y...
10 Points about the Day of ‘Arafah The day of ‘Arafah is the most important day for a Haji. Whilst only a select few of the Ummah are chosen by Allah Ta’ala to physically be on the plains of ‘Arafat on the 9th of Dhul Hijjah, there are several virtues and deeds mentioned regarding the day of ‘Arafah which apply to tho...
Baltimore's liquor board is reforming the way it does business — cutting staff, adding supervision and imposing new work rules — after a state audit revealed a lax work ethic and spotty enforcement, its chairman told lawmakers Tuesday. "We're changing everything," Stephan Fogleman, chairman of the Baltimore City Board...
http://ceoworld.biz/ceo/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/Mark-Zuckerberg.jpg When we last left the story about the upstate New York man who is claiming he owns 84% of Facebook (Paul Ceglia), we had concluded that the digital "contract" Ceglia had produced was probably a fake. We had also noted that Ceglia needed to answer t...
Zaza Pachulia did not hold back in 1-on-5 pickup game against the Warriors' kids Curious where the Warriors and their kids vacationed last offseason? Click ahead to find out. Zaza Pachulia doesn't go easy on the opposition, regardless of age. Curious where the Warriors and their kids vacationed last offseason? Click ...
This story is part of our feature on independent Japanese studio Platinum Games. Check out the rest of our stories here. It's safe to call Hideki Kamiya the whimsical mad genius of Platinum Games. When we first begin talking he breezily answers my questions, cool and collected. His glasses look like an accessory pulle...
Three Years On, It Appears Snowden's Leaks Have Damaged The NSA So Badly It's Healthier Than Ever from the like-pruning-a-bush-with-a-bunch-of-microphones-hidden-inside-of-it dept Every time the anniversary of the first Snowden leak rolls around, everyone reassesses the damage... or lack thereof. Did Snowden actually...
Why is Hamburg so cool? So I have been traveling around Germany for quite a while now, visiting different cities and areas and enjoying my time. Visiting Hamburg is incredible every time and there are a lot of reasons why and hopefully these will help you to consider this amazing city before it’s hipster brother Berli...
Share. So this is why he's known as the Merc with a Mouth. So this is why he's known as the Merc with a Mouth. Deadpool breaks the fourth-wall like he breaks faces: violently and unapologetically. It’s the most striking aspect of the first game to star the Merc with a Mouth as its lead character. Until now he’s always...
A new Washington Post poll has Hillary Clinton leading Donald Trump by one point in Texas (Photo: MGN Online) VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) — With Labor Day behind them, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are pushing ahead in top presidential battlegrounds in the South, including Texas. According to a new state-by-state pol...
Software developed by professors and graduate students from the University of California at Berkeley? That will never fly in the semiconductor industry, right? Maybe they said that about SPICE, four decades ago. The jury is still out on RISC-V (pronounced risk-five) the modular, open-source instruction set architectur...
Citizens, Activists and Leaders Rally and Roll Up to the White House with 51 foot “Joint” on Saturday, April 2 at 2 p.m. Mass Consumption of Cannabis to Occur at 4:20 p.m. On Saturday, April 2 at 2 p.m., DCMJ — the organization that played a critical role in passing Ballot Initiative 71, which legalized marijuana in ...
Sexing Up Science Won’t Solve a Dearth of STEM Majors According to a survey, nearly 90% of 16- and 17-year-olds have no interest in a STEM (science/technology/engineering/math) career. The climate is crashing, the NSA is tracking our porn, and the 99% haven’t gotten a raise in decades, but the party organ of America’...
Abstract: Italy has not, so far, faced the same level of jihadi terrorist threat as European countries like France, Germany, the United Kingdom, and Belgium. This is attributable to a variety of factors, including the fact that Italy does not have as acute a radicalization problem, has seen lower foreign fighter flows ...
Gunman Clive is finally playable on Gameboy! If you felt the HD Collection was a bit too high resolution here's the version for you! Some time ago I started aching to do a bit of coding for retro consoles, and after releasing Gunman Clive HD Collection for Wii U and struggling to get started on a new project I thought...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Conservative U.S. Supreme Court justices on Wednesday expressed doubt about whether the Obama administration had the authority to issue a regulation aimed at encouraging efficiency in the electricity market by having electrical grid operators pay users to reduce consumption at peak times. Dual e...
Will we see a return to form for the Nashville Predators’ goalie Pekka Rinne this year? This season will mark a return for a player, who may be considered one of today’s elite goaltenders in the NHL. When on his game, Rinne has shown he is difficult to beat. The Finnish goaltender came into the league in the 2005-2006...
Partially Applied Functions in C There are some functions in the standard C library that takes a function pointer to be used as a callback later on. Examples include atexit() and signal(). However, these functions can’t receive an arbitrary pointer (which could hold some important program state) in addition to the fun...
Tesla earlier today began pushing out version 7.1 of its software to Model S and Model X owners and, suffice it to say, it’s a doozy of a software update. While we’ll get to the full changelog shortly, we first wanted to highlight a feature called Summon which enables users to park their cars without having to be insi...
Former NFL player and scout Bucky Brooks knows the ins and outs of this league, providing keen insight in his notebook. The topics of this edition include: -- Why Brett Hundley can lead the Packers to the playoffs. -- The driving force behind Andy Dalton's rebirth. But first, a look at why the Colts should seriously...
Okay Written by: WildArm "I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you." ― Friedrich Nietzsche {break} "Come on, baby girl. I gotcha..." I nearly slid on the pool of blood that was forming beneath my feet from the doctor whose neck had recently been introduced to his own scalpel...
It’s right before the test when I start to get nervous. Like, my heart starts pounding, which is strange because we’ve been talking about this test for the last 30 minutes and I felt just fine. We’re in the N3rd Street offices of Biomeme, a venture-backed startup that’s developing a smartphone diagnostics lab. Drexel...
Often, websites seem to exist primarily to put something into a database in order to pull it out later. While other database methods, such as NoSQL, have gained popularity in recent years, data for many websites still resides in the traditional SQL database. This data often consists of valuable personal information suc...
I read Andrew Keatts’ “North Park Presents a Big Test for the City’s Climate Action Plan” story and wanted to write to say I’m excited about the increased density that the North Park Community Plan update provides. I do own a UPS Store in the neighborhood, but I also live in North Park and my enthusiasm isn’t financia...
IT IS a quiet morning on the outskirts of Mumbai, the air still mild. Dusty streets are dappled with sunlight, a stray dog rummages through some rubbish, the shutters are lifted on a few tiny shops. A man pushes a cart bearing a pyramid of oranges. And a delivery boy named Anil is already racing along his route on a mo...
Ever since Hideo Kojima’s ambitious demo, P.T. (2014), got cancelled there has been a slew of similar games announced, all looking to carry its torch. Some of them have since been cancelled, while others are still ostensibly in the throes of development, with rare updates on how things are going. However, an eight-pers...
The Bury Your Gays trope came to a forefront this past television season when a multitude of LGBTQ characters were killed off shows including “The Walking Dead,” “Empire” and most notably, “The 100.” Javier Grillo-Marxuach — who wrote the highly controversial episode of the CW show that killed off Lexa (Alycia Debnam-...
Sharod Lamor "Roddy" White (born November 2, 1981) is a former American football wide receiver who played his entire professional career with the Atlanta Falcons. He played college football at UAB, and was drafted by the Falcons in the first round of the 2005 NFL Draft. Early years [ edit ] White attended James Islan...
dogstile suggests: Why not just make massive fines for companies who are obviously suing on a case that would never win. Or better yet, if the little guy fights and wins, the losing company has to pay all their legal fees. The second point is called loser pays and is a popular idea. (Le_Lisra can feel smug that most ...
Rolf Harris once starred in a 20-minute no to child abuse video, produced in 1985 titled Kids Can Say No! Copyright owner: Rolf Harris Video. BY THE time Rolf Harris’s educational program alerting kids to the dangers and prevention of child sexual abuse was released, he had already indecently assaulted three of the fo...
Russia’s Gazprom may have leveraged its dominant position by obtaining unrelated commitments on pipelines from its customers, as a condition of supplying gas to Bulgaria and Poland, says Margrethe Vestager. Margrethe Vestager is the EU’s Commissioner for Competition. She spoke to EURACTIV’s Georgi Gotev and Sarantis M...
Surveillance video shows the moment a Philadelphia police officer was struck by a hit-and-run driver early Thursday morning in Manayunk.Police have identified the officer as 55-year-old Joseph Cain Jr., a 5th District Sergeant and 26-year veteran of the department.Twenty-one-year-old Colin Murphy has been arrested and ...
The European Court of Justice' | John Thys/AFP via Getty Images Top court rules EU countries not required to give humanitarian visas The European Court of Justice deferred to national governments in decision over whether to issue visas to asylum seekers. The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled that "member state...
The Liberal Democrat membership surge is about to take the party to a landmark 100,000 members – thanks to a staggering 12,500 joining since Theresa May announced the snap General Election last Tuesday. Reaching six figures makes the party bigger than it has been since the mid-1990s and puts it on course to reach its ...
Let it never be said that the National Security Agency (NSA) can't detect a threat when it sees one, no matter how clandestine. For its eagle-eyed security staff were able, on April 8 this year, to determine that when two men without security clearance tried to gain entry into its Fort Meade headquarters in a Ford Must...
New Delhi: Aam Aadmi Party on Tuesday condemned the government's approval of an ordinance to protect convicted MPs and MLAs from facing immediate disqualification, saying it exposes the intentions of the political class which has "stooped" to a new low to save the corrupt. "The Cabinet passed an ordinance undoing the ...
Exterior of Swedish Royal Palace Gardens at Swedish Royal Palace Drottningholm Palace has been the home of the Swedish royal family since 1981. It is one of the most well-preserved royal castles built during the 1600‘s It is a very fine example of all European architecture from the period and is on the UNESCO world he...
Maurizio Arrivabene says Ferrari is not given up on the title race, arguing his team's lack of results is largely down to bad luck. Ferrari's lead over Red Bull for second place in the constructors' championship has been cut to just nine points following a disappointing result at the British Grand Prix. The Italian te...
The Formation of Vegetable Mould through the Action of Worms: with Observations on Their Habits by Charles Darwin London: John Murray (1881) Jelly-Fish, Star-Fish, and Sea-Urchins: Being a Research on Primitive Nervous Systems by George John Romanes London: Kegan Paul, Trench and Co. (1885) Mental Evolution in Animals ...
The Native Council of Nova Scotia says a new system for validating the identity of Mi'kmaq hunters in the province is discriminatory. The Assembly of Nova Scotia Mi'kmaq Chiefs and the Nova Scotia government have agreed that Mi'kmaq can only use status cards from one of the 13 bands as proof of Aboriginal hunting righ...
The Three Main Rules If any of the following rules are broken more than once by a single member, it will result in consequences. Don’t be purposefully malicious in any way The purpose of this rule is simple. To provide a happy and enjoyable environment not only in the Star Citizen universe, but also in and around th...
California hip-hop group Cypress Hill is known for many things, including the nasally stylings of lead vocalist B-Real and its annual and self-explanatory Smokeout Music Festival event. But a wacky new science experiment involving neural control and a Longfin Inshore squid is bringing new meaning to the group's hit 19...
Vice President Joe Biden might have stirred the pot about his ambitions after the Obama administration packs up shop, saying that he might run in 2020 against President-elect Donald Trump. He would be approaching 78 years of age by the time the next presidential race comes around; a stinging reminder that the Democrati...
DETROIT -- The Detroit Tigers have upset some Roman Catholics who are unhappy that the club's home opener is scheduled during holy hours on Good Friday. Traditional Christian belief says Jesus hung on the cross from noon to 3 p.m. on Good Friday. All 30 American and National League teams play April 10, but the Tigers...
NOFX's Fat Mike Published Jun 26, 2011 Truly a man who needs no introduction, NOFX frontman Fat Mike is a living legend in the modern era of punk. Proving that you don't need to overdose on drugs and die early or give up entirely in your old age, the 44-year-old born Michael Burkett continues to push himself hard in ...
Visitors touch the names inscribed at the South Pool of the 9/11 Memorial at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum in New York. | AP Photo House plans to vote to allow 9/11 lawsuits against Saudi Arabia The House will vote this week on a controversial bill allowing the families of 9/11 victims to sue Saudi Arabi...
Blackberry frozen yogurt with blueberries makes for the best summer treat! Can be made vegan with coconut yogurt. When I planned out our 2 year traveling route I wanted to make sure we followed the warm weather for as long as possible. Sure, a snowy white Christmas is romantic and picturesque but let’s face it usually...
The former Brazilian president Lula da Silva has been taken into custody for questioning as part of a probe by police into claims of bribery and money laundering. It is an aggression against the law ... unjustifiable Investigators are looking into allegations that Lula benefited from illegal kickbacks at the state oi...
A two-mile stretch of Southern California coastline has been renamed “Whale Beach” by the operator of a whale-watching business who’s reporting an unusually high number of gray whale moms and calves stopping to rest and play in the area’s tranquil coves. Donna Kalez, general manager of Dana Wharf Whale Watching, says ...
Otakar Leminger was a little-known Czechoslovakian chemist who worked for years in industry and lived on the banks of the Elbe River in Ústí north of Prague. When he retired in the early 1970s he published a paper entitled “A Contribution to the Chemistry of Alkoxylated Phenethylamines” in which he describes the synthe...
With the help of a protein, researchers now have a more precise way to see brain activity — right down to what's going on in a single cell, in living brains. A team of researchers at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Maryland has found a protein that binds to calcium particles in the brain and changes color from ...
On the heels of its acquisition by Axiomatic, Team Liquid has signed its first non-endemic sponsor, Monster Energy. The energy drink maker is working with the team and its players just as it does with extreme athletes around the world. Team Liquid’s director of operations, Mike Milanov, told [a]listdaily that the energ...
Attorney-General George Brandis fights order to reconsider giving Mark Dreyfus access to diary Updated Federal Attorney-General George Brandis is appealing against a tribunal decision forcing him to reconsider handing over his electronic diary to his Opposition counterpart. The ABC understands lawyers for Senator Br...
Bill O’Reilly may not approve of Jennifer Aniston’s “destructive” attitude towards parenting or Kim Kardashian and Justin Bieber’s irresponsible behavior, but he knows they’re good for ratings and WOULD have them on his show! No one can accuse Bill O’Reilly of looking a gift horse in the mouth. Although he’s bashed Je...
By Deanna Spingola On February 17, 1950, James Paul Warburg confidently declared to the United States Senate: “We shall have World Government, whether or not we like it. The only question is whether World Government will be achieved by conquest or consent.” […] A world government is a world without borders, national...
Michael Epps says he is considering his options for the 2018 season after sampling TCR-spec machinery for the first time, but would prefer to remain on the BTCC grid for a third straight year. Epps finished 18th in the BTCC standings this year with Team HARD, taking a best finish of fifth in the final race of the year...
BALTIMORE (RNS) Southern Baptists prayed Wednesday (June 11) that the Supreme Court would rule in favor of the Green family, the evangelical owners of the Hobby Lobby craft chain that challenged the contraception mandate in the Affordable Care Act. “God, we ask for a favorable, favorable ruling by the Supreme Court of...
Cara Maria, Camila, and Tori. Cara and Camila are on a completely different Challenge career stage than Tori. They have been on the show for almost decade while Tori is barely debuting. It’s a bit fair to say that Tori and Camila each had high expectations to begin their careers. Cara Maria’s debut show was the Challe...
A new study examining the rising use of road salt over the last 50 years points out how it has impacted water quality and wildlife in streams. Road salt running off pavement and into waterways has long been recognized as a downside of attempting to make wintertime driving safer. A new study by the U.S. Geological Surv...
Essence Festival will welcome Diana Ross, John Legend, Mary J. Blige, Solange, Erykah Badu and many more will it returns to the Mercedes-Benz Superdome from June 30 to July 2. 2017 will mark the first time that Ross has performed at Essence. The legendary singer and actress is best known for her time fronting beloved ...
The Legislature is on course to approve a spending plan that inflicts another round of cuts on Oregon schools, and hardly anyone is complaining about it. Maybe Oregon schools have been sliding toward mediocrity or worse for so long that no one expects anything different. Maybe people assumed that with Democrats in cha...
The first thing I did when I opened my tear-puffed eyes on November 9th was to delete all the dating apps off my phone. I wouldn't need those anymore in this new world. I'd never be able to focus on anything again that wasn't the constant swirl of horror and despair I now felt. How could I think about dating or even ju...
Bernie Sanders’ platform of social programs brought a packed arena to its feet in thunderous cheers Friday. The longest and loudest cheers greeted his promises of universal healthcare, free college tuition and a higher minimum wage, proposals he acknowledged many critics have told him were impossible and couldn’t be a...
Under the instructions of French Jewish interior minister Bernard Cazeneuve, the Paris prosecutor office has initiated an investigation into famous French comedian Dieudonne M’Bala M’Bala for mocking the faked beheading of James Foley by the notorious ISIS, a US-Israeli Project to demonize Muslims and Islam. I have to...
Talk Show Host AISHA TYLER Got Taken To The CLEANERS . . . Has To Pay Her UNEMPLOYED EX-HUSBAND $31K A Month . . . In 'HUSBAND SUPPORT'!!! THE TALK host Aisha Tyler's husband Jeff Tietjens just got a NICE COME UP. A judge has ordered Aisha to pay him monthly "husband support" payments to compensate him for what he's d...
Ministry of Environment and Climate Change tells restaurants to dispose of products Restaurants in the UAE have been told to throw out Japanese-made Kikkoman soy sauce due the brand having alcohol in some of its products. The UAE Ministry of Environment and Climate Change said "several samples of the product with dif...
RBTH presents a selection of views from leading Russian media on international events, featuring coverage of the APEC summit currently taking place in Beijing, as well as a report on ongoing talks on Iran’s nuclear program and the possibility of lifting sanctions against Tehran. Nezavisimaya Gazeta The Nezavisimaya G...
Image A label from a personalized wine. Viniv caters to clients who are willing to commit the time, travel and expense — and break a Bordeaux taboo. Mr. Bolger offers customers three grape varietals from 13 different vineyards, allowing them to mix a cabernet sauvignon from Pauillac with a merlot from Pomerol. For the...
Over the course of the Mike Duffy Senate spending scandal, the Conservatives have made different statements about the issues. Here are some of the contradictions that have emerged through the courtroom testimony and evidence: The issue: The existence of documents related to an expense repayment deal struck between t...
SLEEPOVERS are supposed to be good, clean fun. But for one 11-year-old an overnight party last week turned into a disturbing, confusing nightmare after he was exposed to a bombardment of hardcore porn on mobile devices. "The night he had to endure makes me sick to my stomach," said mum Karen, after her son Ben was sh...
The former head of Hamilton's police officer union is running for the NDP in Niagara West-Glanbrook. Mike Thomas will carry the orange banner in the Nov. 17 byelection in a riding formerly held by Conservative leader Tim Hudak. Thomas is the former head of the Hamilton Police Association. The Binbrook resident was al...
Optimizing things in the USSR As a data scientist, a big part of my job involves picking metrics to optimize and thinking about how to do things as efficiently as possible. With these types of questions on my mind, I recently discovered a totally fascinating book about about economic problems in the USSR and the team ...
I just pushed some stuff to github that you may find useful if you're either a git user, a vim user, or (best of all) both. git-multidiff For git users, there's git-multidiff , which works kind of like git difftool , except that it invokes your tool of choice once on the entire set of files, instead of once for each ...
The integrity of our circulatory system is maintained by critically balancing the tendency to leak, with that to clot. In an intracerebral hemorrhage, blood leaks into the brain, and then forms a massive clot. Treatment with drugs is a precarious path because those that break down clots can also make any residual leak ...
The Rochester Americans announced today the details of the Frozen Frontier presented by Rochester Area Honda Dealers, an outdoor hockey festival taking place at Frontier Field this December 13-22. It was also announced that the Lake Erie Monsters will be the Amerks’ opponent in their regular-season outdoor game at Fro...
In the context of a recent outbreak of deadly meningitis among gay men in New York City -- at least 22 cases since 2010 with seven fatalities -- there is growing talk of associations and misunderstandings about how the disease spreads. As Duran went on to say, though, importantly, "Please don't call this a gay disease...
Next year Minnesotans will decide on whether to approve a constitutional amendment codifying the state’s ban on same-sex marriage, and in effort to promote the ban Archbishop John Nienstedt today released a prayer for the cause of mobilizing fellow Catholics to “defend” the so-called divine “plan for marriage.” Verbat...
The 24th Japan Movie Critics Awards announced its list of winners on Saturday. The winners honored films from the 2014 calendar year. Toei Animation and Seiji Mizushima's Expelled from Paradise film won the Best Animation of the Year Award. Additionally, Hiromasa Yonebayashi won the Best Animation Directors Award for ...
Since my knowledge of White House operations is culled specifically from Aaron Sorkin’s West Wing, I imagine this is what’s happening in the White House right now: The real-life Josh Lyman just burst through the door of the real-life C.J. Cregg to reveal the news just posted by New York Magazine. “C.J. Cregg” then burs...
We've learned a lot about the upcoming iPhone 8 thanks to HomePod firmware that Apple accidentally released to the public, and the latest detail highlights what we can expect from the front and rear cameras in the device.Uncovered by Brazilian site iHelp BR , code within the firmware seems to hint at front and rear cam...