text stringlengths 13 81.7k |
|---|
The Mo Ibrahim Foundation, an African non-governmental organisation established to promote good governance and responsible leadership, on Tuesday disclosed that there is no winner of the 2016 Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership. |
The Chairman of the Independent Prize Committee, Dr. Salim Ahmed Salim, disclosed this in a statement he issued after deliberation on the candidates for the 2016 Prize by the Mo Ibrahim Foundation’s Board. |
Salim, Secretary-General of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) between 1989 and 2001, disclosed that no winner had emerged for the Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership for two consecutive editions. |
The chairman specifically explained that no candidate for the prize met the requirements of a truly exceptional leader, which he said, was an uncommon quality not just on the continent, but also across the world. |
Land close to town with Hwy N frontage! Close to town outside city limits. Great place to build a home with some land. |
High potential property. Edge of town location. Mostly all wooded. Located just off of the 4 lane. |
Quick Fact: NY Post's Goodwin falsely claimed Bush had "a record of zero successful attacks on America after 9/11" |
In his January 6 New York Post column, Michael Goodwin advanced the false claim that former President George W. Bush had "a record of zero successful attacks on America after 9/11." |
The images that stick are the ones out of Hawaii, with the president in vacation mode -- no tie, a perfunctory appearance on Dec. 28, no questions, then off for more fun in the sun. Behavior doesn't get less serious or more callow. |
The images accurately reflect a troubling mindset that borders on religious faith about how to combat terrorism, with Obama himself the high priest. He is a war president who defiantly shuns the mantle. |
So be it. The Oval Office and the choices are his. And so is the responsibility. |
If America gets hit again, it's on him. All of it. |
Obama often complains about the problems he inherited from George W. Bush, but he also inherited a record of zero successful attacks on America after 9/11. If Islamic terrorists succeed on his watch, he can't blame Bush. |
2002 attack against El Al ticket counter at LAX. In July 2002, Hesham Mohamed Hadayet opened fire at an El Al Airlines ticket counter at Los Angeles International Airport, killing two people and wounding four others before being shot dead. A 2004 Justice Department report stated that Hadayet's case had been "officially... |
Frederick, Perino, Crowley ignore attacks that occurred during Bush term. As Media Matters for America has documented, other conservative media figures also have denied that terrorist attacks occurred under Bush after 9-11. Bush White House Press Secretary and current Fox News contributor Dana Perino falsely claimed on... |
Already the subject of intense scrutiny, this new kernel will be the first major revamp of the Linux kernel in two years. We at Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) have worked with Linux developers and together completed more than 4,000 tests on publicly available development versions of this kernel. |
A fast and deep entry into the market would be a distinct change from what happened with Linux 2.4, when adoption took longer than the industry anticipated. This time around, however, the development community, including OSDL, has tested the kernel so extensively that we believe adoption will come much, much faster. |
There are eight reasons why CIOs will decide to upgrade to a Linux distribution based on 2.6: seven related to performance and the eighth, and critical, factor being cost. At OSDL, we divided the key 2.6 kernel feature improvements into seven categories: performance, scalability, availability, clustering, I/O, manageme... |
Businesses can save big money by implementing the new Linux kernel on Intel architecture-based servers. Amazon's move from Solaris to Linux on HP NetServer systems helped Amazon slash its technology capital budget more than 25% in the first year alone. There's more: businesses can achieve lower training costs, and addi... |
To borrow an insight from Clayton Christensen's book, The Innovator's Dilemma (HarperBusiness, 2000), Linux is a disruptive technology. The new kernel is going to allow Linux to pass Christensen's "good enough" test. This means that many organizations are going to begin moving their core data center operations over to ... |
"Does Linux scale?" is often the first question an IT manager will ask when evaluating whether Linux can replace an enterprise Unix server. Our tests indicate that the Linux 2.6 kernel will scale much better than the 2.4 kernel. Most of the development of the 2.4 kernel was done on single-processor systems with some te... |
As part of OSDL's charter we provide outside developers access to enterprise-class machines. Testing on multiprocessor machines is a vital part of the Linux development process and has resulted in an improved scheduler, kernel native threading, and overall refinement of the locking granularity. |
We also did a lot of testing of these larger machines with databases, which are a classic resource-intensive, business-critical workload. OSDL provided the Database Test Suite, a fair-use implementation of Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) benchmarks. These database performance test results comparing the... |
"Is Linux stable on larger systems?" is probably the second most frequently asked question. OSDL put a lot of time and resources into testing the Linux 2.5 kernel through the Linux Stabilization Project. A description of the tests and results is available at www.osdl.org/projects/26lnxstblztn/results. Based on these te... |
There is a companion project to test scalability in a repeatable scientific environment. OSDL's Scalable Test Platform (STP) and Patch Lifecycle Manager (PLM) provide the Linux development community with an open, easy-to-use resource for testing custom kernels. STP works as the testing engine. PLM makes it easy to mana... |
Because of the improvements in scalability, stability, performance, and availability in the kernel, Linux has reached the level where it can replace more expensive Unix servers. IT managers need to evaluate Linux suitability for their data centers based on the features it will have at the time of deployment. The rapid ... |
The Linux 2.6 kernel will support more hardware platforms, bringing businesses savings in reduced management costs through a reduction in the number of operating systems under management. Instead of a variety of Unix versions, businesses can standardize on Linux on a range of hardware architectures. Most of Linux runs ... |
When IT managers plan for the future, they should keep in mind that Linux server use is growing and Unix server use is shrinking. According to industry research firm Gartner, hardware vendors shipped over 425,000 servers with Linux last year, up from 286,823 in 2001. During the same time period, shipments of Unix machi... |
With the release of the new kernel, OSDL is refocusing much of its work on end-user Global 2000 corporations. We're interested in learning more about your plans to use Linux. What challenges remain before you are prepared for production deployment? With classic disruptive technologies, much like the original personal c... |
Learn more by visiting www.osdl.org, the OSDL site. Here you'll find information on Carrier Grade Linux, Data Center Linux, OSDL Database Test Suite, Linux Stabilization Project, Scalability Test Platform, Patch Lifecycle Manager, and much more. |
There are two types of Linux kernels, development and production (or stable). Development kernels end in an odd number (e.g., 2.3 or 2.5). Production kernels end in even numbers (e.g., 2.4 or 2.6). |
This numbering scheme divides Linux users into two categories. The first category consists of developers and testers, who use the odd-numbered kernels, which are changing and may be unstable. The second category consists of production users, who use even-numbered kernels, which change as little as possible. |
Although there will be some settling of the fine points of kernel feature implementation and a deferral of features that aren't ready for production, a look at the 2.5 kernel will give a fairly good view of what the 2.6 kernel will become. |
Dave Fuller brings more than 25 years of data center technical and marketing experience to his current position leading the technical marketing group at OSDL, where he participates in both the Linux kernel stabilization project and the Data Center Linux working group. Prior to OSDL, Dave led IT activities at a start-up... |
A total of 66 baby names got the boot last year and some are so ridiculous it’s clear why they’ve been completely banned. |
What’s in a name? Well, usually letters, for a start. |
New Zealand’s Department of Internal affairs has released a list of baby names it rejected last year — two of which were not names, but Roman numerals II and III. |
A total of 66 names got the boot and included a mix of royal titles, military ranks and one that was possibly a kind of lipstick. |
Six babies missed out on being called King, two applications were received for the name Queen and three bubs missed out on being dubbed Royalty for life, the NZ Herald reports. |
Saint was always a popular choice with parents — with three applications received (and denied) for that moniker. |
There was also a number of names with unique spellings that could have passed as a royal title. |
Other parents felt their little ones were on equal levels as the Almighty — depending on what you believe in — and offered the likes of Allah, Emperor, Emprah, Messiah and Majesty. |
The name Royale got two applications, Royelle one, Roil one and another mum just wanted everyone to know how special her wee one was with the name Royale-Bubz. |
Jeff Montgomery, registrar-general of births, death and marriages, said there were boundaries put in place that made sure names did not cause offence, were of reasonable length and did not unjustifiably resemble an official title or rank. |
“The name of any baby born and registered in New Zealand must comply with New Zealand’s rules, regardless of the nationality of the parents,” he said. |
“For example, you’ll need to rethink swear words, names of more than 70 characters, numerals or anything unpronounceable — like a backslash or a punctuation mark. |
Of the almost 60,000 children born in New Zealand each year, less than 1 per cent of babies had their name personally considered by the registrar-general — something that happened if families wanted to present their reasons behind a certain name that had failed the criteria. |
Last year’s top baby names were Oliver and Charlotte; the same as 2017. Top favourites for Maori baby names were Nikau and Mia. |
Owsley "Bear" Stanley's long, strange trip has ended. |
The counterculture icon who was a major LSD producer in the 1960s and was celebrated in song by The Grateful Dead and Jimi Hendrix, has died in a car crash in Australia. |
Stanley was a core figure in the drug scene that underpinned hippie culture, producing an estimated one pound of pure LSD - enough for roughly five million trips. |
His pioneering role made the name "Owsley," a popular slang term for the drug. |
Stanley stood firm in his belief that the drug was beneficial to society, despite serving two years in prison in the early 1970s. |
"I wound up doing time for something I should have been rewarded for," he told the San Francisco Chronicle in 2007. "What I did was a community service." |
Stanley was also a skilled audio technician who worked with The Dead creating their legendary sound system. Stanley inspired the band's bear logo - which became a fixture on the back of Volkswagen buses for decades. |
"His death is grievous loss to his family and the tens of thousands of people from the '60s who were influenced by his work with the Grateful Dead," said long time friend Sam Cutler. |
Stanley was the grandson of one-time Kentucky governor and senator Augustus Owsley Stanley. |
The counter-culture figure moved to Australia in the 1980s after growing convinced that the northern hemisphere would be subsumed by another ice age. |
He was killed when the car he was driving swerved off a highway Saturday and down an embankment into a tree. His wife, who was with him in the car, suffered minor injuries. |
In announcing his death, his family called Stanley "our beloved patriarch." |
He is survived by his wife, Shiela, four children, eight grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. |
If Donald Trump's instinct proves right and the pair find common ground, then the summit may take the heat out of some of the world's most dangerous conflicts including Syria. |
President Donald Trump headed into his first summit with Vladimir Putin on Monday determined to forge a personal bond with the Kremlin chief and adamant that only "stupidity" by prior administrations had brought US-Russian ties to their present low. |
Hours before the Helsinki summit, Trump was asked if he would press Putin over Russia's alleged manipulation of the 2016 election that brought the mercurial property tycoon to power. He said only: "We'll do just fine." |
Democrats had called for the summit's cancellation after new revelations surrounding the election meddling. But Trump has insisted it is "a good thing to meet", as he attempts to replicate with Putin the sort of personal rapport he proclaims with the autocratic leaders of China and North Korea. |
If his instinct proves right and the pair find common ground, then the summit may take the heat out of some of the world's most dangerous conflicts including Syria. |
But the Washington-Moscow rivalry has rarely been more bitter, and there are many points of friction that could yet spoil Trump's hoped-for friendship. |
Trump began the day's talks by meeting Finland's President Sauli Niinisto, who has loaned his harbour-front palace for the occasion. But first he took a moment to fire a Twitter broadside at his domestic opponents, blaming the diplomatic chill on the investigation into Russian election meddling. |
"Our relationship with Russia has NEVER been worse thanks to many years of U.S. foolishness and stupidity and now, the Rigged Witch Hunt!" Trump tweeted. |
After a stormy NATO summit in Brussels last week, Trump was accused by critics of cosying up to Putin while undermining the alliance. |
But, over breakfast with Niinisto, he insisted NATO "has never been stronger" and "never been more together" thanks to his insistence on all allies paying their fair share. |
With Washington and Moscow at loggerheads over Ukraine, Iran and trade tariffs as well as Syria, even Trump has cautioned that he is not approaching the Putin summit "with high expectations". |
The 72-year-old brash billionaire has been president for 18 months, while the former KGB officer, 65, has run Russia for the past 18 years. |
In an interview with CBS News that aired before he touched down in Helsinki, Trump admitted that Russia remains a foe, but he put Moscow on a par with China and the European Union as economic and diplomatic rivals. |
The Kremlin has also played down hopes that the odd couple will emerge from their first formal one-on-one summit with a breakthrough. |
Putin, who played host at the World Cup final in Moscow on Sunday and was due to arrive in Finland later Monday, has remained terse in the run-up to the summit. |
On Friday his adviser Yuri Ushakov also played down expectations, saying: "The state of bilateral relations is very bad.... We have to start to set them right." |
Indeed, after the bad-tempered NATO summit and a contentious trip by Trump to Britain, anxious European leaders may be relieved if not much comes out of the Helsinki meeting. |
Those leaders are already fuming over Trump's imposition of trade tariffs on various countries, including Russia. |
European Union President Donald Tusk called on the United States, China and Russia to work together to cool the global trade tensions, warning that they could spiral into violent "conflict and chaos". |
For their part, protesters have been on the streets of Helsinki to denounce the policies of both Trump and Putin. Greenpeace draped a giant banner down a church tower urging: "Warm our hearts not our planet." |
Trump is also under pressure from Britain to press Putin over the nerve agent poisoning of four people in the city of Salisbury. |
One of the victims, Dawn Sturgess, has died and her 19-year-old son Ewan Hope told the Sunday Mirror newspaper: "We need to get justice for my mum." |
Many fear that Trump -- in his eagerness to prove that he was right to seek the summit with Putin despite US political opposition -- may give up too much ground. |
Ahead of the talks, Trump has refused to personally commit to the US refusal to recognise Russia's annexation of Crimea, leaving open the possibility of a climb-down linked to a promise by Putin to somehow rein in Iranian influence in Syria. |
If Washington were to de facto accept Russia's 2014 land-grab, this would break with decades of US policy and send tremors through NATO's exposed eastern flank. |
And there will be outrage at home if Trump does not confront Putin over the election scandal. |
But the US leader would not say whether he would demand the extradition of 12 Russian intelligence officers who were indicted last week by US special prosecutor Robert Mueller, for allegedly hacking Trump rival Hillary Clinton's computer server. |
Tim Neary doesn't mind fools and suffers them happily. As long as they're interesting. Dull ones he minds. He is close to deciding what to do with his life after school. |
Stephen Strasburg’s 14-strikeout debut performance for the Washington Nationals on Tuesday night didn’t just meet the expectations, it took the expectations out on a date, romanced them, and then married the expectations in a lavish beachside ceremony attended by Tom Cruise and Barbara Streisand. |
Never before has a player started a game with more hype and then lived up to it in such grand fashion. And that’s not hyperbole; Strasburg was the most anticipated prospect to make his debut in this hyper-covered world of the 24-7 sports news cycle. The closest approximation to Strasburg’s debut is that of LeBron James... |
I’m wondering if Victoria will stop trusting her governess now that the jumping advice didn’t prevent a pregnancy. |
Albert is super excited and calls the news about the baby “magnificent”, but Victoria is not happy at all. She’s sick, miserable and—even worse—scared. |
She is queen, in part, because her Aunt Charlotte died in childbirth. We don’t hear about people dying in childbirth that often anymore, but back then, childbirth was perilous. |
So, while Victoria is just barely pregnant, she and Albert decide to take a babymoon disguised as a tour of their country. |
Albert shows how astute he is at shooting and he charms everyone. He also wants to get involved in the locomotive industry. She tells him no, he can’t ride on a train. |
He wants to anyway, so he decides to ask for permission rather than forgiveness and goes on a train ride. |
She’s at home and has no idea where he is, so she flips out. |
While the pair don’t initially agree on how awesome trains are, they do agree that, if Victoria dies but her baby lives, Prince Albert should become the regent. |
And everyone loses their minds. They don’t want a German prince ruling Great Britain. |
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.