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A powerhouse in wired network testing and monitoring made a big move into wireless LANs on Thursday as Fluke Networks announced an agreement to buy AirMagnet.
Fluke makes a variety of products for both enterprise and service-provider networks, including cable testing gear, troubleshooting equipment, traffic analysis software and some wireless LAN analysis offerings. The planned acquisition, for which terms were not disclosed, will add a large lineup of wireless test, securit...
Wireless LANs are playing a growing role in enterprises as employees expect to have fast connectivity everywhere and Wi-Fi gear based on the 802.11n standard delivers client speeds comparable to most wired LANs. With the acquisition, Fluke will be able to offer customers visibility into their networks from end to end, ...
The acquisition is expected to close in the coming weeks after customary approvals. Fluke, in Everett, Washington, is a subsidiary of Danaher, a diversified technology company based in Washington, D.C. It has about 700 employees. AirMagnet is privately held and based on Sunnyvale, California, with about 80 employees an...
Turkey's ruling AK Party decided on Monday to re-submit Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul, an ex-Islamist, as its candidate for president, party sources said.
AK Party sources told Reuters Gul would visit opposition party leaders on Tuesday to try to garner support for his bid. He is then likely to hold a news conference in parliament to formally announce his candidacy, they said.
The secularists, including powerful army generals, derailed an earlier attempt to have parliament elect Gul as president, a move that triggered early parliamentary elections which the AK Party won decisively last month.
A first round of voting in the presidential election will be held next Monday.
Secularists oppose Gul because of his Islamist past and the fact his wife wears the Muslim headscarf. Gul, who denies any Islamist agenda, has already signalled he wants to run again.
The cabinet debated the presidential election on Monday and talks continued late into the evening at the AK Party's executive board.
Earlier, Deputy Prime Minister Mehmet Ali Sahin said ordinary Turks and AK Party officials favoured Gul's candidacy.
Gul is a gently spoken diplomat and an architect of Turkey's European Union membership bid, but the secular establishment fears he would erode the separation of state and religion if elected, a claim he strongly rejects.
The leader of the secularist opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) reiterated his objections to Gul's candidacy, based on his role in the cabinet ousted by the army in 1997 and what he might mean for Turkey.
"Gul is a conscious member of an ideological circle," Deniz Baykal told CNN Turk television. "Turkey would become a country in which the political balances were changing very fast, in which the Middle East identity would become more pronounced."
Erdogan, seeking to project a more liberal, modern image for his pro-business party, wants to put the presidential race behind him and press ahead with political and economic reforms.
Contrary to expectations, Sahin said Erdogan would probably present a new cabinet list for approval on Thursday to outgoing President Ahmet Necdet Sezer, a secularist critic of the AK Party, instead of waiting for a new head of state to be chosen.
Sezer has often vetoed AK Party laws and appointments in the past. His mandate expired in May but he has remained as interim president after parliament's failure to elect his successor.
To help soften secularist anger, newspapers have speculated that the AK Party might field several candidates in the presidential election. Erdogan himself spoke last week of "our candidates", suggesting there would be more than one.
But party officials on Monday evening made no mention of other candidates running alongside Gul.
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The government has revealed only now that the Pulse nightclub shooter’s father was an FBI informant for 11 years before the attack, lawyers for his widow said Monday.
Wed., Jan. 17, 2018, 9:35 a.m.
Detroit man deported to Mexico after 30 years in U.S.
A Boise father who authorities say endangered his two young daughters when he hid them in the Nevada mountains in May was sentenced to 20 years in prison.
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A judge was ambushed Monday morning as he walked toward the Jefferson County Courthouse, and the judge and a probation officer returned fire, killing the suspect, officials said.
Sun., May 14, 2017, 5:22 p.m.
The Washington State Patrol says a father and his baby were killed in a three-vehicle crash on Mount Baker Highway and two others were seriously injured.
Family members say the victim of an apparent road-rage shooting in Federal Way was a 32-year-old father on his way to see his wife and newborn son in a hospital.
The Laney High School defender out of Augusta, Georgia was considering Florida and had scholarship offers from power five schools including Louisville and Ole Miss.
Truesdell provides significant size up front coming in at 6-foot-3, 335-pounds. At his current weight, he would be the biggest defensive lineman on Auburn’s roster.
Bethenny Frankel has been very busy over the past couple of months, as she’s filmed two reality shows for Bravo. She is currently filming The Real Housewives of New York, where she’s traveling to South America with her co-stars. Frankel also filmed another show for Bravo called Bethenny & Fredrik, a show where she and ...
According to a new tweet, Bethenny Frankel revealed that she and Bryn stayed in the apartment one night because her own apartment isn’t done. On the previous season of The Real Housewives of New York, Bethenny purchased a massive apartment that needed plenty of renovations. Over the past year, Frankel has been renovati...
“I’m in my apartment I invested in w Fredrik Eklund w my daughter tonight bc my new home is ready in the am. I have no TV so living through your tweets about Shark Tank,” Bethenny Frankel revealed on Twitter, sharing that she’s currently in transition.
It’s possible she sold her apartment that she renovated after moving on from her divorce. When she returned to The Real Housewives of New York after a few years away from the franchise, she was living in hotels. She had finally found a home for herself and her daughter, but the apartment needed a makeover. Now she’s do...
Bethenny Frankel is currently moving into the new place while wrapping up filming for The Real Housewives of New York.
Can America Survive as a Post-Christian Nation?
We’re giving man back to his human nature.
If I had to pick one of the most under-appreciated and under-reported stories of 2017, it would be that a post-Christian America is a more vicious America, and that the triumph of secularists is rendering America more polarized, not less. Remove from the public square biblical admonitions such as “love your enemies” an...
For years, political commentators dreamed that the culture war over religious morality that began in the 1960s and ’70s would fade. It has. And the more secular, more ferociously national and racial culture war that has followed is worse.
In spite of these alarms, much of the elite media celebrates religious decline without seriously and realistically grappling with the consequences. There is so much underlying ignorance of and hostility toward orthodox Christianity in elite media circles that I fear they’re still trapped in the false belief that less C...
Much of this ignorance and hostility is rooted in the idea that Christianity itself is the source of contemporary cultural conflict. In reality, a propensity toward division and conflict is deeply embedded in human nature. Tribalism reigns in the human heart. Religious differences can of course be a source of conflict,...
Flannery O’Connor once wrote that the South wasn’t “Christ-centered,” it was “Christ-haunted.” “The Southerner . . . is very much afraid that he may have been formed in the image and likeness of God.” Ghosts, she said, “can be very fierce and instructive.” While the South may be the most Christ-haunted American region,...
For example, as Beinart notes, the civil-rights movement was not only firmly located within the Christian church, it consistently (constantly, even) made explicitly Christian appeals to the larger American culture — appeals to moral norms that Americans were supposed to share. The great civil-rights leaders weren’t inv...
Younger Millennial activists — such as the leaders of Black Lives Matter — are much less likely to make explicit religious appeals and increasingly operate outside the church. Part of this is the natural byproduct of the fact that today’s young Americans attend church far less frequently than their parents or grandpare...
As countless commenters have noted, modern politicians often focus more on mobilization than on persuasion. While divisive, this approach represents the path of least resistance. It’s far easier to energize people who share your worldview than it is to persuade men and women who often don’t share your starting presumpt...
Some would argue that American Christian culture is being replaced by a separate, feel-good faith called Moralistic Therapeutic Deism — a vague belief that while God exists, he’s not particularly involved in human affairs and mainly wants people to be nice and happy. It’s a common moral code that applies to the conduct...
In fact, it’s becoming plain that even some of our churches are becoming less “Christ-haunted,” to say nothing of “Christ-centered.” It’s a simple fact that our pews have long been filled with non-believers. Christ himself noted that the wheat and tares grow up together, and the non-believers in the pews are a reflecti...
When a nation lacks a common moral language and common religious culture, it frequently devolves into tribalism.
When a nation lacks a common moral language and common religious culture, it frequently devolves into tribalism. Secular progressives have long seemed to assume that as Christianity receded, their own worldview would advance: Post-Christian America would look like post-Christian Europe, where it seemed that a particula...
Moreover, Europe hardly represents the secular ideal that many progressives imagine. It faces a strong challenge from Islam, and it’s seeing the reemergence of separatist forces that were once thought long vanquished. The Brexit vote captured the international imagination, but it’s easy to forget that less than two yea...
In short, America is in the process of replacing a general worldview that prioritized love, hope, and truth with an individualized moral buffet that prioritizes personal satisfaction. We’re giving man back to his human nature — a nature beset by original sin and prone to tribalism. No one should assume that America can...
This column has gotten its grubby hands on the full memo.
As interesting as the raw numbers is the corresponding analysis from Romney's chief pollster, Jan van Lohuizen.
in some states did not materialize in South Carolina.
In other words, Romney's support rises among those respondents who recalled seeing a Romney television advertisement.
van Lohuizen interviewed 400 Republicans using his own likely voter screen, which is a fairly healthy size sample.
Finally, we continue to have ground to gain. The best indicator of this is name id.
we have seen in Iowa and New Hampshire.
Manhattan: I disagree strongly with Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt’s prescriptions for “turning the tide of hate” (Op-Ed, Nov. 2). Driving “hate speech” underground is exactly the wrong approach. If there is an antidote to anti-Semitism and racism in the world of social media, it has to be through the a...
Odious ideas must be exposed, contested and rebutted, never censored, labeled or walled off as unrighteous. Lillian Smith, the famed anti-segregationist Southerner, showed that the thinking and habits of the racist need to be answered, in part because openly putrid beliefs are oftentimes embedded in customs, and felt p...
As a lad, I was weaned on anti-racist literature in the ADL’s library. It had a treasury of films and books that explored anti-Semitic and racist ideas. It was through the ADL’s resources — and also the assigned readings in my high school and college classes — that I learned from the works of the bigots themselves as t...
US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has admitted that the US had no fresh intelligence about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq before going to war.
It was increased worries about terrorism, not new evidence of Iraqi preparations, that was the key reason for going to war, he told the Senate Armed Services Committee.
"The coalition did not act in Iraq because we had discovered dramatic new evidence of Iraq's pursuit of weapons of mass destruction. We acted because we saw the evidence in a dramatic new light - through the prism of our experience on 9/11," he said.
Mr Rumsfeld said that WMD would eventually be found in Iraq.
He said that the terrorist attacks on the United States in September 2001 "changed our appreciation of our vulnerability - and the risks the US faces from terrorist states and terrorist networks armed with powerful weapons".
One Republican Senator, James Inhofe, argued that the whole controversy over WMDs was a "diversionary tactic by the media".
Mr Rumsfeld stated off in an ebullient mood as he appeared before the committee along with General Tommy Franks, who has just stood down as commander of US forces in Iraq.
Republicans and Democrats alike were eager to praise General Franks for his quick and decisive victory in war, and for his new style of warfare.
But the defence secretary soon faced tough questioning on the current situation in Iraq - and the justification for war.
Mr Rumsfeld attempted to downplay the significance of Tuesday's admission by the White House that allegations that Iraq had tried to buy uranium from the African state of Niger were based on forged documents.
He told the committee that "the fact that the facts change from time to time with respect to specifics does not surprise me or shock me at all; it is all to be expected. It is part of the intelligence world we live in."
Joseph Cirincione, director of the Non-Proliferation project at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, said that he was "shocked" by Mr Rumsfeld's comments, and that public statements by senior Bush administration figures had repeatedly claimed that there was new, fresh evidence for WMD programmes in Iraq.
He added that the failure to find any weapons was proof that the much-criticised UN inspections process had been more effective than previously believed.
And former key intelligence official in the State Department, Greg Thielmann, said that the Iraqi intelligence estimates "had been misrepresented on the part of the administration", with both "misleading summaries" and "inaccurate formulations" clouding the accuracy of key public statements.
Mr Thielmann, who stood down as military affairs director of the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research in October, noted that his boss, Colin Powell, had not repeated the claims made by President Bush about Iraq's nuclear programme in his testimony to the UN.
He said that his agency had rejected such evidence as not well-founded.
He had been "surprised and then appalled" when he heard the nuclear claims had been made by Mr Bush in the State of the Union speech.
Mr Thielmann also said that there was little evidence linking al-Qaeda and Iraq.
Many senators had more local concerns. They wanted to know when the American troops would be coming home, and why Iraqis were still shooting at them.
General Franks admitted that the US would have to maintain its current force levels, of around 145,000 soldiers, in Iraq "for the foreseeable future."
Mr Rumsfeld said that the US was hoping that forces from other nations, including Britain and Poland, would replace some US divisions in the future, with up to 30,000 coalition forces in place by the autumn.
He seemed unable to answer a question by Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, who voted against the war, as to how much the occupation of Iraq would cost.
Mr Rumsfeld's staff later said that current US operations in Iraq cost $4bn per month, or nearly $50bn per year, while Afghanistan costs nearly $1bn per month.
Republican Senator John McCain urged the Bush administration to "give the American people a concrete plan" on the costs and duration of the US occupation in Iraq "even if this is a pessimistic scenario".
"The White House is increasingly feeling political heat"
NEW YORK, Nov 14 (Reuters) - Oil prices bounced up on Wednesday, as hopes for output cuts fueled a partial rebound from the previous session's steep decline, and the euro and sterling gained as British Prime Minister Theresa May obtained her cabinet's backing for her Brexit deal.
A gauge of global stock markets fell for a fifth straight session, following a volatile session on Wall Street that left major U.S. indexes well in the red.
U.S. natural gas futures surged 17.9 percent and are at their highest levels since the polar vortex winter of 2013-14 on forecasts for frigid weather. Oil rose after 12 straight days of losses on the prospect that OPEC and allied producers will cut output at a meeting next month.
U.S. crude settled up 1 percent at $56.25 per barrel and Brent settled at $66.12 a barrel, up 1 percent. Benchmark Brent has fallen more than 20 percent since early October on concerns about excess supply and slowing demand.
"Maybe some of the fears of extra supplies and reduced demand have finally been priced into the market, but I wouldn't say that a bottom has set in yet," said Gene McGillian, vice president of market research for Tradition Energy in Stamford, Connecticut.
Major U.S. stock indexes slid but ended off of session lows.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 205.99 points, or 0.81 percent, to 25,080.5, the S&P 500 lost 20.6 points, or 0.76 percent, to 2,701.58 and the Nasdaq Composite dropped 64.48 points, or 0.9 percent, to 7,136.39.
Financial shares dropped 1.4 percent, after Representative Maxine Waters, poised to head the U.S. House of Representatives Financial Services Committee in January, made clear she intends to push for stricter rules on the financial sector.
The technology sector fell 1.3 percent, continuing its decline since October. Shares of Apple, the largest U.S. company by market value, dropped for a fifth straight session.
"Once you question the largest factor in the market, everything becomes a jump ball," said Peter Tuz, president of Chase Investment Counsel in Charlottesville, Virginia.
The pan-European STOXX 600 index lost 0.60 percent.
European shares hit their lowest in two weeks in a broad-based sell-off across oil, mining, technology and banking stocks amid renewed worries about a global economic slowdown and Italy's budget crisis.

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