text stringlengths 9 93k |
|---|
"We have to understand the challenges complex markets like India and Africa face and work towards enabling IT as a means for development. This pan-Africa e-network project is a significant step towards allowing this expertise to benefit African countries in their developmental efforts," he said. |
The 17 Indian and African hospitals will be then connected to 53 remote facilities in Africa. The tele-medicine and video conferencing capabilities will enable e-diagnosis and advice for patients at these facilities. |
Similarly, the 12 Indian and African universities will be further connected to 53 learning centres in the pan-Africa project providing remote learning and virtual classroom education to students in the continent. |
"There is a huge potential for increasing the pace of development in Africa by usage of IT by institutions of learning," Chowdhry added. |
The network will also connect all 53 heads of states of the African continent through data, voice and video. |
PITTSBURGH – A western Pennsylvania woman heard "crazy voices" telling her to push her sons underwater before she sat on the boys in the bathtub, drowning her 3-year-old son and leaving his 6-year-old brother in critical condition, police said in a criminal complaint. |
Laurel Michelle Schlemmer, 40, of McCandless, was jailed without bond after she was arraigned early Wednesday on charges including criminal homicide, aggravated assault and child endangerment. |
Schlemmer told Allegheny County detectives she tried to drown her two youngest sons, 6-year-old Daniel and 3-year-old Luke, after her 7-year-old son, whose name was not listed in the complaint, left for school Tuesday morning. |
She put the older boy on his school bus at about 8:40 a.m., then told the younger boys to take off their pajamas and get into the bathtub. |
"Schlemmer said after the boys got into the tub she got into the tub 'fully clothed' and 'crazy voices' were telling her to push the boys down into the water," the complaint said. "Schlemmer explained that at one point she (was) sitting on top of boys while they were under the water in the tub." |
The detectives said Schlemmer went on to explain she "thought she could be a better mother" to the oldest boy "if the other two boys weren't around and they would be better off in heaven." |
Schlemmer pulled both boys out of the tub and laid them on the bathroom floor while she called 911. She told police she never attempted CPR because she did not know how to do it. |
Word that the two little boys were found unresponsive stunned neighbors in the quiet, upscale bedroom community a few miles north of Pittsburgh. They described the family as religious and said Schlemmer was a stay-at-home mom whose husband, Mark, was working at the time. |
Nobody returned a message left on the home's voicemail early Wednesday. The greeting featured a female voice telling callers to have a "blessed day." |
Court records don't list an attorney for Schlemmer, who faces a preliminary hearing April 11, but indicate this wasn't the first time she encountered police regarding the treatment of her children. |
She received a citation for leaving a toddler unattended in a parked car on Sept. 5, 2009, in nearby Ross Township. Court records don't indicate which child was in the car, but police said the car's interior was 112 degrees when officers arrived. The child wasn't injured and Schlemmer paid a small fine, ... |
On Tuesday, emergency crews took Luke and Daniel Schlemmer to UPMC Passavant Hospital, where the younger boy was pronounced dead at about 10:50 a.m. The older boy was transferred to the pediatric intensive care unit at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh at UPMC, where police said he remained in critical condition. |
Schlemmer was jailed without bond because in Pennsylvania bail is not granted to people charged with criminal homicide, except in rare circumstances. |
Police also charged Schlemmer with attempted homicide, reckless endangerment and tampering with physical evidence, for allegedly hiding her wet clothes in a trash bag and then hiding that bag under three other bags. |
Gathering to protest carbon emissions often makes the evening news. But when hundreds gather to hear scientists from various disciplines argue that global warming isn’t the dire threat the media claim ... crickets. |
Heartland Institute’s Tenth International Conference on Climate Change is happening June 11 and 12, 2015, in Washington, D.C. Policymakers, scientists and other experts will speak on the issue of climate change. And if history repeats itself, ABC, CBS and NBC will say virtually nothing about it. Many newspapers have al... |
The first conference was held in New York City in March 2008, with 100 speakers and panelists including Czech President Vaclav Klaus. It garnered press attention from many places, but barely an acknowledgment from the broadcast networks. ABC “World News Sunday” aired a profile of S. Fred Singer, a speaker at the confer... |
In fact, the conference has never been named by the networks since March 2008 and The Heartland Institute has been mentioned in only two unrelated stories in that time period, according to Nexis. |
The tenth conference will feature professors of physics, meteorologists, geologists, statisticians, astronauts, and policymakers. Radio host Mark Steyn, Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas, and Professor William Happer of Princeton will give the keynote addresses. |
Heartland will be livestreaming their event for anyone unable to attend in person. |
Three years ago today, The Guardian published the first story based on the huge archive of documents that that Edward Snowden stole from the National Security Agency while working as an NSA contractor. Then-Attorney General Holder’s Justice Department quickly charged Snowden with felonies for theft of government proper... |
This seems like an improbable claim. Snowden compromised scores of surveillance techniques, representing billions of dollars of investments over many years. U.S. firms that secretly cooperated with government intelligence agencies stopped doing so to the extent they could, and public defiance became the business-compel... |
The Defense Department claimed that the “scope of the compromised knowledge related to US intelligence capabilities” as a result of Snowden was “staggering.” This claim is unverifiable but seems plausible in light of the breadth of and reaction to the disclosures. The intelligence losses extend beyond counterterrorism,... |
And yet Holder is still right. At the dawn of the Snowden revelations, many wondered (and hoped) that the U.S. intelligence community would be destroyed. But the opposite has happened. Despite undoubted intelligence losses, new collection barriers, and diplomatic embarrassments, the community has emerged as a stronger ... |
Forced transparency meant that the intelligence community had to justify itself before the American people for the first time ever—about what it did in the domestic arena and abroad, about the legality of and accountability for its actions, and about its importance to U.S. national security. It had to open itself up to... |
First, the intelligence community opened up. It got much better at talking to the public. And the sky did not fall. |
Second, the intelligence community had a good story to tell. Credible public evidence emerged that the NSA was a thoroughly accountable institution performing a vital intelligence role. “Every program was authorized and approved, and whatever one thinks of the programs, it was not a case of running amok or exceeding it... |
Third, the main criticisms of the NSA ended up having silver linings. It emerged from the Snowden documents (and further voluntary releases by the government) that the NSA sometimes had problems complying with judicial orders, usually because of the difficulty of meshing legal directives with extraordinary complex tech... |
Another criticism of the NSA was that its aggressive collection processes abroad did not consider the rights and interests of foreign individuals and firms. The main response was Presidential Policy Directive 28, which imposed restraints on collection abroad in the interests of non-U.S. citizens. PPD 28 does not have s... |
Fourth, and perhaps most surprisingly, the intelligence community has been able to maintain and strengthen the legal authorities for its collection practices. The bulk telephone metadata program was legally and on the merits the most controversial program that Snowden revealed, and the one that the NSA seemed least int... |
The improbable preservation and strengthening of the bulk telephone metadata program—the least valuable and hardest-to-justify of the programs that Snowden revealed—is emblematic of the types of changes Snowden wrought. Few if any important intelligence collection programs have ended as a result of Snowden, and the USA... |
From the baseline of what almost everyone expected when the scale of Snowden’s revelations first became apparent, the intelligence community, and especially the NSA, have emerged in astonishingly good shape. The NSA is still very much in the business of aggressive signals intelligence around the globe. Its domestic leg... |
These are but some of the public services for which the U.S. government has Snowden to thank. |
THE legendary pop band ABC will perform as special guests at Tears for Fears’ Chester-le-Street concert this summer, it has been revealed. |
The band, led by charismatic singer Martin Fry, will be bringing their most popular hits to the stage at Emirates Riverside, home of Durham County Cricket Club, in Chester-le-Street on Saturday, July 27. |
They will perform their extensive catalogue of hits ahead of Tears for Fears' performance. |
ABC has enjoyed a glittering career to date, being one of several groups who kick-started the 80s with their own brand of pop. |
The band, hailing from Sheffield, fused the world of disco funk with their own unique new romantic post punk vision. |
On its release in May 1982, the band's debut album The Lexicon of Love went straight into the UK album charts at Number One, showcasing the hits songs Tears Are Not Enough, Poison Arrow, The Look Of Love and All Of My Heart. Voted by many as the best British album of the decade, it remains a classic. |
Countless albums have followed, including Beauty Stab, How To Be A Zillionaire, Alphabet City, Up, Abracadabra, Skyscraping and Lexicon Of Live, with its live renditions of their debut album The Lexicon Of Love. |
The last five years have seen ABC complete five successful American tours, four sell-out UK orchestra tours, the sell-out Steel City Arena tour and a string of country house shows in the UK. |
Tears For Fears features Roland Orzabal (vocals, guitar and keyboards) and Curt Smith (vocals, bass and keyboards). With sales of more than 30 million albums worldwide, their songs have resonated and resounded throughout popular culture since 1981. |
Liz Doogan-Hobbs of LHG Live, said “Tears for Fears have amassed fans across the globe and continue to enthral through their unequivocal catalogue of hits. |
Tickets for Tears for Fears at Emirates Riverside start at £32.50 plus booking fee and will be available online from tearsforfears.com, ticketmaster.co.uk, lhgtickets.com or durhamccc.co.uk or Ticketmaster’s accessibility line on 0800-9884440. |
What is the name of Tears for Fears’ 2017 greatest hits album? |
Send your entries, including a telephone number and (if possible) email address to: Tears for Fears Competition, The Northern Echo, Priestgate, Darlington DL1 1NF or email your entries to ents@nne.co.uk with Tears for Fears Competition in the subject line, to reach us by noon on Friday, April 26, 2019. The prize is non... |
Snipe is the UK’s first sniffer dog to be specially trained in finding leaking water mains. |
United Utilities recruited the pup to help pinpoint problem pipes in rural areas where the water does not always show on the surface. |
And this week he struck gold by finding a hidden leak on a pipeline running beneath a farmer’s field near Broughton. |
The 20-month old Springer/Cocker spaniel cross was a stray rescued in Ireland before he was headhunted to begin his training for the water company. |
Snipe has been going through a rigorous training programme to help him learn how to recognise the tiniest traces of chlorine used to disinfect water supplies. |
He can detect the smell at levels as low as one part in a billion parts of water. Now he is learning how to put this into practice in a live environment, working with the leakage detection teams at the water company. |
Hannah Wardle, leakage manager at United Utilities, said: “Tackling leakage is a real priority for us and we’re always looking for new and innovative ways to do the job more effectively. |
“The North West of England is a notoriously wet region, and sorting the leaks from the puddles especially out in the fields can be real challenge. |
“This is where we hope Snipe will really come into his own, as his sensitive nose can detect mains water at incredibly low concentrations. |
”With leakage detection it’s all about building up the evidence using a range of different technologies. |
The new Metro ads that call Muslims "savages" and encourage riders to "Support Israel. Defeat Jihad." are not just hateful and discriminatory. They send a message that Muslims are not welcome in the D.C. community. |
The ads are an attack on Muslim Metro riders and Muslims across the city — people who are my neighbors, coworkers, and partners in the community. |
In light of these ads, it's not enough for WMATA to just say that it doesn't support discrimination. |
The ad buy means that WMATA is making money from advertising that attacks its customers. |
I hope WMATA will take a stand to stop discrimination and choose to donate all proceeds to the District of Columbia Human Rights Commission. WMATA shouldn't profit from hate. |
The questions that WMATA needs to answer, would they allow hatemongers to put up ads that targeted African Americans? Would they allow Muslim Americans put up similar ads voicing their hate against Christians and Jews? |
For six years, I had an amazing teacher. She brought such energy and importance to what she taught. |
For six years, I had an amazing teacher. She brought such energy and importance to what she taught. In my mind, I can see and hear her as though it happened yesterday. If you attended Jefferson Elementary School in the sixties, you surely must remember Miss Ruth Sproul. She wasn?t much to look at and her voice was a mi... |
This incredible woman made sure that we learned songs, lots of songs. In particular, she insisted that we learn Christmas carols. That was very important to me, because it opened an inviting world of which I was unfamiliar. You see, my sisters and I were raised in a non-Christian home. That fact was hidden from many an... |
It doesn?t matter that I do not understand what motivated her insistence that we learn the songs. I do know I am closer to the Lord when I sing the songs I learned in my youth. I can?t help but wonder how many other children led similar lives and they too learned of Jesus, courtesy of Miss Sproul. I thank God that I we... |
I will forever be indebted to her and her persistence, and I am a better person for having been her student. |
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, speaking from the floor, said President Trump will sign the spending bill, but also indicated that he would be issuing a national emergency declaration. |
McConnell said a vote should happen shortly. |
"I've just had an opportunity to speak with President Trump, and he would, I would say to all my colleagues, has indicated that he's prepared to sign the bill. He will also be issuing a national emergency declaration at the same time. And I've indicated to him that I'm going to prepare -- I'm going to support the natio... |
Fortuitous large trades in your own employer's stock will get your broker's compliance department to send your account info to the SEC without even pausing for breath. You'd think the head of their Insider Trading program would *know*, with absolute certainty, how easy this is for them to find and prosecute. |
Could have been worse, I suppose; he could have decided to pick up options trading. |
Sure, if you have the money, paying income taxes with a credit card is stupid. The transaction fees levied by nearly every tax authority out there are indeed spendy; usually 2+%. |
But if you *don't* have the money on-hand, most advisers *do* advise you to pay with a credit card if you have one because the transaction fees + credit card interest, while high, are a *lot* less than what the IRS is going to charge you. |
Looking at the source article, these were not even For Official Use Only documents, just a mix of ITAR-regulated stuff (so, not for export) and similarly unclassified material. |
This is embarrassing, and somebody might earn a mild reprimand, but not the sort of thing any sort of scandal is made from. |
The V9000 also uses the SVC/Spectrum Virtualize/V7k/V5k code base (though maybe this FS9100 is the successor to the V9k? Looks like it...) The A9000/A9000R run on XIV/Spectrum Accelerate code, while the FS900 (which I believe is the internal fast-flash-storage building block for the V9k, FS9100, and A9k) runs an IBM-i-... |
I guess you could say that IBM has a current all-flash option no matter which storage array from them you've used in the past, but it's a fair criticism to point out that three entirely different flash storage lines is a little crazy, as each has advantages the other does not. |
Really the V9k (and I think the FS9100) are a marketing bundle of the SVC and FS900. If you already own the SVC/Spectrum Virtualize, you can just put an FS900 behind it, turn on EasyTier, and call it a day; unless there's some sort of pricing games that make the FS9100 a cheaper way of doing that, and you have a good w... |
*sigh* Another inside-trader that didn't get the memo that a 1st-time short-term options purchase that pays off handsomely will have your account records sent directly to the SEC so they can look for the source of your foresight. Double-Bonus Points for not even going through an intermediary AND congrats on completing ... |
If the SEC started the case in the morning they probably sent out the first nastygrams by lunchtime. |
I guess going after small-fry like this is way easier than actually punishing serious misconduct resulting in $B's in losses. |
I remember my late 90’s Hennessy and Patterson, and I remember it being one of my better-written textbooks. Not quite at the level of sublime terse perfection that was the ANSI K&R, but still quite good, and the price was not completely ludicrous. |
The FCC's enforcement division literally has a fleet of vehicles equipped with direction-finding gear and spectrum analyzers to get to the bottom of problems like this one. They cut the roof off and replace it with fiberglass with the antennas hidden underneath. |
This is not surprising in the least. I'm a big proponent of the idea that until 100% self-driving gets figured out, we can't really advance beyond adaptive cruise and lane-keep assist. |
The Virginia Tech center for transportation (or whatever they call it) routinely does driver observation studies, outfitting ordinary Americans cars' with interior and exterior cameras, radar, microphones, the works. And they use this to develop stats on things like distracted driving, use of driver aids, exactly what ... |
While they've produced a lot of useful information, the most striking point is how quickly people forget there are cameras pointing at the driver at all times. They didn't go into details, but have said that the undergrads they hire to review the footage have seen some pretty freaky things on those cameras, and even th... |
Google's Big Hardware Bet: Is this what a sane business would do? |
I think this is more a case of Google wanting to bring it's "Model Phone" development in-house as a way of demonstrating to OEMs of what Google is thinking as a basic Android platform. Yeah, they'll sell some phones themselves along the way, but that's not really the point. |
That said, you have to wonder why, if this was such a great idea, they unloaded Moto to begin with. |
I have no doubt that if you ask Nutanix for pricing, the sales goon pulls up some internal website, selects the appropriate drop-downs, and out pops a price quote. But it would not surprise me if some government agency (or other large procurement organization) required published price lists in order to cut down on shen... |
It's probably easier to program the pricing system to produce this ridiculous document than it is to make the pricing system itself a publicly-available (and public-quality) service. |
So I guess somebody else will have to be brought up to speed on their B.S product claims? |
I guess this means that some new guy will have to learn all their B.S. claims well, so he doesn't conflict with the utter nonsensical and mathematically impossible crap they've been telling the press so far. |
ElReg did an interview with these guys, but instead of asking difficult questions about how they are apparently they can violate the laws of mathematics, the idiot of an interviewer asked what the blinky lights on top were for, and why the Magical Hardware Module plugged in the back instead of the front. |
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.