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The Sept. 11 attacks on New York and Washington killed about 3,000 people in 2001, prompting U.S. officials to fear that al Qaeda was plotting other mass casualty events, possibly including the detonation of a nuclear device. |
But Napolitano said the failed May 1 car bombing in New York's Times Square and the Dec. 25, 2009, attempt to bomb a Detroit-bound airliner showed a shift toward attacks that require less extensive planning and coordination. |
Both attacks caught U.S. authorities off guard. |
As a result, Napolitano warned that the United States faces a growing threat from roadside bombs like those used against American troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as small arm attacks of the kind used to devastating effect in the 2008 Mumbai rampage that killed 166 people in India. |
The list of potential targets now includes hotels, sports stadiums and other public areas as well as famous landmarks, airliners, chemical plants and ports. |
"Unlike large-scale, coordinated, catastrophic attacks, executing smaller-scale attacks requires less planning and fewer pre-operational steps. Accordingly, there are fewer opportunities to detect such an attack before it occurs," Napolitano said. |
The threat of home-grown terrorism has also taken on a higher profile with the March indictment of Colleen LaRose, a blond Pennsylvania woman known as "Jihad Jane" who is accused of plotting over the Internet to kill a Swedish cartoonist for depicting the Prophet Mohammed in a manner offensive to Muslims. |
About two dozen Americans have been arrested on terrorism charges since 2009, according to Napolitano. |
"While it is not clear if this represents an actual increase in violent radicalization ... it is nonetheless evident that over the past 12 months efforts by violent extremist groups and movements to communicate with and recruit individuals within the United States have intensified," she said in her testimony. |
You can’t actually run Photoshop on the iPad or an Android tablet, but you will soon be able to use your tablet to work with the copy of Photoshop running on your desktop. |
Adobe recently announced an expansion for Photoshop CS5 that provides a new Touch Software Development Kit (SDK). Developers can use this SDK to create new Android and iPad apps. These new apps will help you bridge the divide between a tablet with the heavy duty work machine, thus enabling you to do more interesting th... |
Adobe is hoping that developers will come up with their own apps, but it will also release several apps for the iPad in May. |
[USA], Oct 21(ANI): American film director Danny Leiner who directed the popular slacker comedies like 'Dude, Where's My Car?' and 'Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle', died at the age of 57. |
Leiner's representative confirmed his death to The Hollywood Reporter and said that the director died on Thursday at his home in Los Angeles after a long battle with cancer. |
The 57-year-old also helmed episodes of such series as 'The Sopranos', 'Sports Night', 'Strangers With Candy', 'Arrested Development', 'The Office', 'Felicity', 'Everwood', 'Gilmore Girls', 'Freaks and Geeks', 'The Mind of the Married Man', 'The Tick and Party of Five' among others. |
'Harold & Kumar' stars John Cho and Kal Penn also remembered Leiner on Twitter. |
"Danny was so sharp, so funny, and a great dinner companion. To his friends and family, my deepest condolences," wrote Cho. |
Maynard James Keenan of Puscifer performs as part of the 2013 Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival at the Empire Polo Field on April 13, 2013 in Indio, Calif. |
The new album "Money Shot" drops Oct. 30 via Puscifer Entertainment. |
New music from Maynard James Keenan is here. It's not a new Tool album, but it is another dose of his electro-rock side project Puscifer. The Arizona collective dropped news of a new studio album today (July 28) via a cinematic music video for a new song called "Grand Canyon." |
That's a pretty accurate title, huh? The "Grand Canyon" video (directed by Adam Rothlein) is a series of fancy panoramas, similar to what you'd see at the IMAX theater at a big-time museum. When Keenan and Carina Round sing, "Witnessing the majesty, standing on the edge of forever," a flyover shot of the canyon is abou... |
As for the Puscifer album, it's called Money Shot and drops Oct. 30 via Puscifer Entertainment. It's the band's third album overall and follows 2011's Conditions of My Parole. |
"It's extremely satisfying to witness simple conversations and ideas transform into completed sonic landscapes. And to have these stories go above and beyond the initial ideas makes my grumpy heart swell three sizes," the apparently Grinch-like Keenan said in a press release. |
Puscifer's lineup has shifted greatly over time; for this album cycle, it will include Keenan, Round, Juliette Commagere, Devo Keenan, Tim Alexander, Jon Theodore, Jeff Friedl and Matt McJunkins. |
Thursday, June 28, 2018: US papers are reeling from the retirement of Supreme Court "swing" judge Anthony Kennedy - a change left-wing papers say could lead to the end of abortion rights and gay marriage. Also, Le Parisien interviews refugees who have settled in France. And German tabloid BILD is "speechless" after the... |
Donald Trump today misspelled the word 'unprecedented' as 'unpresidented' in a tweet on China. |
Hundreds of new tweets have inundated the #unpresidented hashtag page. |
One of the Twitter users who noticed Trump's spelling error was former J&K CM Omar Abdullah. |
NEW DELHI: US President-elect Donald Trump today misspelled 'unprecedented' as 'unpresidented,' in a tweet on China seizing an unmanned US Navy drone in the South China Sea . |
Although he later published a corrected version of his tweet, his gaffe inspired several Twitter users - including former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah - to use the hashtag #unpresidented to mock him. |
And here are the puns Omar Abdullah promptly came up with at Trump's expense. |
The ex-Jammu and Kashmir CM wasn't alone in poking fun at the US President-elect. |
#unpresidented You demanded Obama's birth certificate, I in return demand written proof you passed 3rd grade. |
This jibe mocks something Trump actually said during his election campaign. |
This isn't the first time Trump has misspelled a word in a tweet. Last week, he misspelled ridiculous as 'rediculous' in a tweet in which he alleged that the American news channel CNN was reporting fake news, AP reported. |
Today, hundreds of new tweets inundated the #unpresidented hastag page before Trump could publish a corrected tweet. |
China today said it seized the drone to guarantee the "safe navigation of passing ships," and that it had "decided to transfer it to the U.S. through appropriate means," the AP report said. |
Yesterday, the Pentagon said in a statement that China had "unlawfully seized" a US Navy drone - an unmanned underwater vehicle or UUV - on December 15, and asked China to return it immediately. |
The Chartered Institute of Taxation (CIOT) has welcomed the government’s commitment to bring forward detailed proposals on how frameworks for employment rights and tax could be aligned, but has warned that it will be difficult to do this while ruling out changes to national insurance in relation to employment and self-... |
Additionally the CIOT’s Low Incomes Tax Reform Group (LITRG) has said the Good Work Plan will not do enough to tackle ‘false self-employment’ (see below). |
“There is much in today’s paper to welcome, especially in terms of protecting low paid workers from exploitation. However it is difficult to see much progress being made on aligning and simplifying employment and tax frameworks within the constraints the government have imposed on themselves. |
“In particular, by ruling out changes to the rates of National Insurance Contributions (NICs) in relation to employment and self-employment, the government are denying themselves many of the tools they need to tackle the issues Taylor identified around employment status. |
“The biggest element of the differential between the NICs burden on employment as compared to self-employment is in fact employer’s NI. At 13.8 per cent, this creates a significant incentive for employers to try to engage with people ‘off-payroll’. This persists despite efforts to deal with the situation by successive ... |
“LITRG welcomes the government’s plan to legislate to improve the clarity of the employment status tests as well as the guidance and online tools available to help people understand their status. These changes have the potential to benefit many low income workers. However we are disappointed that these measures will no... |
“The government are taking these actions to address the fact that often, given the reality of modern working relationships, employment status is genuinely difficult to establish. However, LITRG ‘s experience is that this is not necessarily the issue in cases of ‘false self-employment’, where self-employment is foisted ... |
“HMRC need to focus on policing the boundary between employment and self-employment as a matter of priority, to dissuade those engagers considering ignoring the rules for their own gain. This would safeguard both workers and compliant businesses that are currently being undercut by unscrupulous businesses saving themse... |
Can the LG Hecto's combination of a laser projector and a 100-inch screen revive interest in home-projection TV? |
It's ironic that months after Mitsubishi finally killed the rear-projection TV, LG is creating its own maverick big-screen projector. The "LG Laser TV," code-named Hecto, is essentially a deconstructed rear-projection television -- the only thing that's missing is a cabinet. |
Available this April for the hefty sum of $8,999, the Hecto is a unique product. It consists of the projector unit itself, designed to sit atop a low cabinet, and an included 100-inch screen. The distance between the screen and the projector is very short, fixed at just 22 inches. Through the magic of modern technology... |
In person, the Hecto behaves more like a TV than a traditional projector. You can get up and walk around the room without casting a shadow on the image, or having to mount it on the ceiling. And much like a TV, the Hecto is designed to produce an image that doesn't wash out in normal room lighting. |
In a casual demo I saw of a close-to-shipping version, the first thing I noticed was brightness of the image. Under moderate lighting, with indirect sunlight on a cloudy day and dim overhead lights, the picture appeared relatively punchy, and it was easy to believe LG's claim of 150 nits light output. For comparison, w... |
Interestingly however, LG's specification is not better than what we measured from the Epson 5020UB ($2,600), a traditional long-throw projector we lauded in a recent review. It hit an insane 274 nits on our 120-inch Stewart StudioTek 130 G3 screen. Those numbers aren't directly comparable because the screens used in e... |
But before you write off the Hecto's light output based on a few numbers, it's important to consider the major factor that affects how we perceive TV images in brighter rooms: how the screen handles ambient light. In my quick demo, the Hecto's included screen performed very well with reflections. Its matte-like, black ... |
LG's closed system -- the projector won't work properly with another screen, nor does LG plan to release a larger (or smaller) screen as an up/downgrade for the projector -- is a result of the screen's unique design, which is in turn dictated by the short throw distance. The screen focuses light quite aggressively towa... |
One downside is that the screen throws a sort of blurry, elongated reflection onto the ceiling, but an LG engineer told me they're working to minimize that, and are planning a new screen that might ship with the Hecto in June or July. Potential buyers annoyed by this issue may do well to wait until then. |
The DLP light engine is lit not by the typical lamp, but instead by freakin' lasers. One benefit is that you won't need to replace it for 25,000 hours, which works out to about 13 years at 5 hours of TV time per day. Typical projector lamps last around 4,000 hours, or about 2 years, 2 months. |
LG touts a special "eye protection" mode that disables the image if someone (like my inquisitive 2-year-old) approaches close enough to risk the light entering the eye directly. I didn't ask what would happen, but suffice it to say the Hecto is not designed to perform Lasik surgery. |
As a DLP projector it's also subject to the rainbow effect, an artifact that appears as occasional, brief flashes of color as the eye perceives the color wheel's imperfect construction of light. In my demo, rainbows appeared infrequently enough to be nothing more than a minor nuisance, and about as often as with other ... |
Installation is not a DIY affair, although LG hopes retailers will include initial setup in the cost of the unit. The projector must be lined up an exact distance and angle from the screen, typically on a low credenza (not included...) or on the ceiling -- although due to the fixed angle, higher ceilings might make for... |
The unit comes with a special spacer and mounting plate with tiny adjustments for zeroing it in. After the first few hundred hours the positioning typically needs to be tweaked (something I was told is DIY) due to initial aging of the projector's internal components. In any case, I'd want my installer to bolt everythin... |
The Hecto is a regular 1080p resolution LG TV in most other respects, although it lacks 3D. It features an ATSC tuner, a Smart TV suite, and onboard 10-watt speakers. Like many LG TVs this year, it also ships with a Magic Motion Remote. For inputs it has three HDMI ports, Ethernet, composite, and component. |
LG promised to send CNET one to review soon. |
This article was updated March 22 with hands-on impressions, pricing, and additional details. The video below was shot in January and so contains some outdated information. |
A little bit of help goes a long way, especially when it comes to paying for school! |
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (WTHI) - A little bit of help goes a long way, especially when it comes to paying for school! |
Ivy Tech Community College hosted "College Goal Sunday" this weekend. The school was one of more than 30 sites in Indiana participating in the program. |
Students and parents filled out the Free Application For Federal Student Aid, also known as FAFSA. |
Representatives from local universities were on hand to answer questions and make the process easier for students and their families. |
"Especially when it's their first year they haven't done the FAFSA application for awhile or ever," said Judy Wonderlin, Director of Financial Aid, "It can be a little bit discouraging and a little bit cumbersome thinking about it. So we're there to help make it seem easier." |
The FAFSA deadline is April 15th. |
If you couldn't make it to the event, Wonderlin says you can still get help by visiting your school's financial aid office. |
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Hillary Clinton has found her post-State Department home on the World Wide Web. |
HillaryClintonOffice.com is bare-bones so-far, sporting only a picture of the former Secretary of State and a contact form. According to registration data, the site was created Jan. 31, and was last edited Sunday. The URL was registered through GoDaddy.com. |
Clinton’s 2008 campaign site, HillaryClinton.com, now links to HillaryClintonOffice.com. |
Clinton has remained coy about her post-Cabinet plans, but has said she plans to continue to advocate for women and girls, and pledged to be an outside advocate for the State Department in her valedictory address to department employees. |
Maybe managers have become so fantastically good that rarely do they cause anyone to want to leave. Or maybe, as other survey results suggest, something else is at play. |
None of this should shock the modern student of business or management, but it underscores points that Peter Drucker started making decades ago. The first, as we’ve noted more than once, is that knowledge workers are much more mobile than other sorts of employees. Their means of production resides in large part between... |
London: Novak Djokovic reached his fifth Wimbledon final on Saturday with a 6-4, 3-6, 7-6 (11/9), 3-6, 10-8 victory over Rafael Nadal in the second longest semi-final ever played at the tournament. |
Djokovic, the 2011, 2014 and 2015 champion, will face Kevin Anderson, the first South African in the final in 97 years, for the title after a 5-hour 15-minute marathon. |
Victory on Sunday for the 31-year-old Serb would take his career Slam tally to 13, four behind Nadal but still seven back from Roger Federer. |
It was a second day of epic drama at the All England Club after Anderson had needed 6 hours and 36 minutes to beat John Isner on Friday. |
That set the record for the longest semi-final at the tournament and became the second longest Grand Slam singles match ever played. |
It also meant that Djokovic and Nadal had been unable to finish their 52nd career clash on Friday night. |
The Saturday drama delayed the start of the women's final between Serena Williams and Angelique Kerber. |
"It's hard to pick the words. I'm just going through things, flashbacks to the last 15 months, everything I've been through to get here," said world number 21 Djokovic, the lowest ranked finalist in 15 years. |
"To win against the best player in the world, in one of the longest matches I ever played, I'm just overwhelmed. |
"It's very special. It really could have gone either way. It was clear very few things separated us." |
Djokovic finished with 23 aces and 73 winners and triumphed despite only converting four of 19 break points. |
"Until the last shot I didn't know if I would win. These are matches you live for and work for," he added. |
Former world number one Djokovic will take a 5-1 career lead over eight-seed Anderson into the final. |
The South African won his only match against the Serb in 2008 while Djokovic has beaten him twice at Wimbledon. |
"Hopefully we can first of all play!" an exhausted Djokovic said of his fellow marathon man. |
Anderson, who knocked out Federer in the quarter-finals, has been on court for 21 hours at the tournament. |
"He had a day off which means a lot. I wish I could have one, but it is what it is," Djokovic said. |
"I'm in the final of Wimbledon. That's an incredible achievement." |
Djokovic had been in control on Friday, leading two sets to one when the match was halted due the 11pm (2200GMT) curfew. |
Play in their 52nd career meeting resumed under the roof on Saturday despite bright blue skies and temperatures pushing 30 degrees. |
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