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“I felt like I had a positive impact on a lot of guys in that clubhouse and I was always trying to have an open ear to everybody,” Donaldson said Thursday night.
Thanks to a paid interconnection deal announced in April, Verizon FiOS has surged to the top of Netflix’s ISP Speed Index for September, unseating Cablevision Systems as the best performer among the 16 major U.S. broadband providers ranked each month by Netflix.
Verizon FiOS ,with an average Netflix streaming speed of 3.17 Mbps, rose nine spots in the rankings, up from the 2.41 Mbps average Verizon FiOS turned in for August 2014. Verizon DSL averaged 1.68 Mbps in September (beating its 1.31 Mbps average for August), good enough to move it one spot ahead of now last-place Clear...
Among the other major ISPs ranked by Netflix, Cablevision’s 3.17 Mbps average was good for the second spot, followed by Cox Communications (3.04 Mbps); Bright House Networks (2.99 Mbps); Charter Communications (2.95 Mbps); Comcast (2.92 Mbps); Suddenlink Communications (2.91 Mbps); Time Warner Cable (2.87 Mbps); AT&T U...
A new study out of Oregon State University says biodiesel and ethanol are not going to solve our energy problems.
I know there are people like my fellow talk show host Jeff Kropf who believe that biodiesel, ethanol, and things of that nature are going to solve our energy problems, stop global warming, and end our dependence on foreign fuel. the problem is that they are wrong. It is not just me saying this, Oregon State University ...
And finally you have another phenomenon that is interesting. If we have to buy twice as much fuel and burn it just to make more fuel. Well, then the government is going to collect more taxes, and we are going to generate twice as much pollution. Ever thought of that?
From Lars Larson NW Reports.
Entertainment Weekly reports that "American Idol" producers issued a statement Thursday saying "Idol" winner Kelly Clarkson did not break the contest's amateur eligibility rules when she had recorded five songs for an album with three veteran pop songwriters before she appeared on ''Idol'' this summer. Separately, a la...
Jay Cooper, who represents Goffin, Blum, and Goldberg, told EW.com that the Star story was ''completely wrong,'' and that Clarkson's agreement with the songwriters did not constitute a talent representation pact or a recording contract but were merely demo tracks. Cooper added that his clients are hoping to sell some o...
It's Putin time! He stands up to declare the Games open. And then applauds himself. Hey, it's Russian tradition.
Poland in the house! My peeps here to finish 13th in every 12 person race. Only kid the ones I love.
I have always thought Oly uniforms were like bridesmaid dresses. Where you gonna ever wear em again without getting laughed at?
Torch lighting still more than an hour away. @brinkeguthrie Did Pooter really have his GF light the torch? Seriously?
Yes, @SanJoseSharks fans, that is Sandis Ozolinsh carrying the Latvian flag at front of team. He's 41,still playing in KHL. Happy for him.
I like this strategy: Athletes enter very early & seats are saved for them so they can watch the rest comfortably--no standing on infield.
Gotta say: If Sochi has palm trees, isn't this one Opening Ceremony that you want without a roof?
We're following the Russian alphabet. That explains why Zimbabwe just entered.
Photos of the Opening Ceremony of the Sochi Winter Olympics at the Fisht Olympic Stadium on February 7, 2014 in Sochi.
After a near 20-point victory over St. Bonaventure, Eastern Michigan University women’s basketball team lose at home to the Monmouth University Hawks 75-68, Monday night, at the Convocation Center.
The Eastern Michigan men’s track team opened up the season on Friday, December 9, at the Findlay Oiler Open in Bloomington, where they sent out two heptathletes and six throwers.
The Eastern Michigan wrestling team defeated Cleveland State, 38-12, and then fell to Indiana, 25-12 as they kicked off their home schedule with a tri-dual on Saturday, Dec. 11.
The No. 27 ranked Eastern Michigan men’s cross country team claimed their seventh consecutive Mid-American Conference Championship on Saturday, Oct 29 in Kent, Ohio.
The Speicher Group has joined forces with Long & Foster and will now operate out of its Bethesda office.
The modern real estate agent is no longer the gatekeeper of information, but must be a master of the local and regional market, according to Chris Speicher.
The husband-and-wife-owned real estate agency had turned down several offers in past years to join other firms until Long & Foster came calling.
“We are no longer the information gatekeepers. We are so much more than that,” said Chris Speicher, co-founder of the Speicher Group. Long & Foster Real Estate recently joined forces with the Speicher Group to head up the Bethesda Avenue Office.
Accountant Claire Smith is warning other brides-tobe to be quick off the mark if they are planning a hen night abroad.
She has called off her bash in the Spanish resort of Alicante in June after discovering the cheap flight deal would cost £120 more for her party of 10 than she bargained for.
The 24-year-old hadn't taken into account that the price of budget airline deals can change by the minute as seats are sold.
She found flights from Coventry airport with thomsonfly.com for £111 each and booked two seats.
Miss Smith, of Glenmore Drive, Longford, who will marry fiance Barry Maguire, 32, in July, booked hotel rooms for her friends immediately.
But when she tried to book the second pair of seats just a few minutes later, she discovered all the cheaper seats had gone and the price had increased by £12 to £123.
She had wanted to book a total of 10 seats, but on different credit cards to ensure the bill was spread out.
There were only six seats in the £123 price bracket, meaning the final two seats would be £135 each.
When she inquired how much it would cost to book the entire party she was told £1,230 - £120 more than she expected.
Worse still, when she tried to cancel her booking for the first flights she was told the tickets were non-refundable.
She said: "I just think it's disgusting they will not cancel it. I phoned up straight away - it wasn't like I waited a week and then changed my mind."
A Thomsonfly spokeswoman said: "When people make a booking they agree to abide by our terms and conditions. It clearly says bookings are nonrefundable.
"We say that all big parties should contact the call centre to avoid this."
A former Australian Secret Intelligence Service officer and star witness for East Timor in a bitter dispute with the Abbott government over $40 billion in oil and gas revenue is facing criminal prosecution.
Fairfax Media has learned the Australian Federal Police sent a brief of evidence to prosecutors in February following an investigation that lasted 14 months.
East Timor's Australian lawyer Bernard Collaery: "We are facing an unprecedented attack on the Rule of Law."
A spokeswoman for the Commonwealth director of public prosecutions, meanwhile, described the case as "ongoing", indicating it is actively considering laying charges.
The AFP investigation came at the request of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation, the domestic spy service that raided the home of the former spy and East Timor's Australian lawyer Bernard Collaery in December 2013.
Attorney-General George Brandis authorised the raid on "national security" grounds, saying it was a criminal offence to communicate "any information or matter" regarding ASIS, Australia's foreign spy service.
The former ASIS spy, known as Witness K, also had his passport seized in the raids.
Without a passport, the ex-spy can't travel to The Hague to appear for East Timor before an international arbitration tribunal which will rule on whether a treaty governing the share of oil and gas reserves in the Timor Sea should be annulled.
East Timor claims the treaty was not negotiated in good faith citing an ASIS operation to insert listening devices in the government offices of the fledgling nation in 2004. At the time, the two countries were negotiating the treaty.
Witness K led the operation where agents infiltrated East Timor under cover of an aid program to place the devices inside the wall cavities of its government palace in Dili.
He is among a group of former and current spies angered by the espionage and broader cultural and workplace issues at Australia's highly secretive foreign spy service.
"Any prosecution of Witness K will be a showdown between good and evil and justice will triumph so long as our courts are able to operate," Mr Collaery said.
"We are facing an unprecedented attack on the Rule of Law and all that we have fought for over the years is now at stake."
Mr Collaery acts for Witness K. It is understood the former independent national security legislation monitor, Bret Walker SC, has also taken up the ex-spy's case.
In a speech earlier this month, Mr Collaery said the ASIS operation itself was illegal, as it did not amount to the "proper performance" of an ASIS function.
Instead, Mr Collaery argues the operation largely benefited private commercial interests, most notably Woodside Petroleum, which leads the consortium hoping to develop the lucrative Greater Sunrise oil and gas fields, he said.
The minister for foreign affairs, Alexander Downer, who ordered the ASIS eavesdropping in 2004, later worked for Woodside as a consultant. The then head of the department of foreign affairs Ashton Calvert joined the energy giant's board after he retired. ASIS is part of the foreign affairs department.
The Herald is not suggesting they made their decisions to assist Woodside.
Meanwhile, the director general at ASIS in 2004 was David Irvine. Mr Irvine was head of ASIO when he directed it to raid the homes of Witness K and Mr Collaery in 2013.
Amid outrage from East Timor, the International Court of Justice ordered Australia to cease spying on East Timor and seal the documents and data it seized.
Last month, Senator Brandis agreed to return the material to Mr Collaery and East Timor's government.
At the time of the eavesdropping, ASIS was grappling with a spate of terrorist attacks directed at Australians in Indonesia.
"ASIS employees are in our front line. They serve our national interest," said Mr Collaery, a former ACT attorney-general who has acted for Australian security personnel for 30 years.
"ASIS staff are not there to serve private or party political interests. Witness K is an Australian hero, a veteran who drew the line at corrupt misuse of ASIS."
Mr Collaery added that Witness K should have his passport reissued and be allowed to travel to The Hague.
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Power couples don't come any more powerful than this.
That's right, Ron and Tammy are still going strong.
Nick Offerman and Megan Mullally may play a monstrously dysfunctional couple in Parks and Recreation, but in real life they have been together for 18 years — a fact they both celebrated yesterday on Twitter.
Eighteen years is a long time, but going by Megan Mullally's current pinned tweet (which went up two years ago) that doesn't mean they've stopped adventuring as a couple.
Unsurprisingly the Parks and Recreation fandom expressed their joy at the news.
I want so badly to hate this.
But my cold dead heart has been officially thawed.
So congratulations to Offerman and Mullally, may your love never resemble your on-screen romance.
Rahul Gandhi told Congress MPs that "we must ensure" that the forces of hate, division and violence that are trampling the Constitution are prevented from coming back to power.
The people of India, he asserted, are demanding change and will no longer be fooled by Modi's magical train that is headed for a "bad accident".
NEW DELHI: Congress president Rahul Gandhi today alleged that corruption, economic failure, incompetence and spread of social divisiveness have peaked under the Narendra Modi government and asked party MPs to provide an alternative.
Addressing the Congress Parliamentary Party (CPP) meeting in Parliament House, he said there is a rising tide of anger against the ruling dispensation and party MPs must work hard to give people an alternative to the "bogus promise of Modiji's 'Achche Din'."
People of India are looking up to the Congress and its allied parties to help remove the Modi government and replace it with one which will listen to them, understand their problems and provide solutions to help reduce poverty, unemployment and inequality in the country, the Congress president said.
"There is a great responsibility that is being placed on all of us today, to win this historic struggle between the forces of democracy and social justice versus those of autocracy and social hierarchy," he said.
Gandhi told Congress MPs that "we must ensure" that the forces of hate, division and violence that are trampling the Constitution are prevented from coming back to power.
"We are meeting here today at a time when the crisis of governance in India under the Narendra Modi government - marked by corruption, total economic failure, incompetence and spread of social divisiveness - is at its peak.
"There is a rising tide of anger against the current ruling dispensation that calls upon all of us to work very hard to give the people of India the alternative they deserve - an alternative to the bogus promise of Modiji's 'Achche Din'," he said.
Adding an emotive touch, Gandhi asked members of the party to restore hope in the eyes of the Indian farmers and youth, give relief to ordinary families being crushed under the dual burden of household debt and rising prices of essential goods, ensure the safety of women and the protection of Dalits in order that they ...
The Congress chief recalled Modi's remarks in 2014 when he was elected that India had been a slow 'passenger train' for 70 years after Independence and would become a sleek and shining 'magical train' destined for 'achhe din' under his guidance and rule.
"Give me your votes, said Modiji, and 'I will take you on the best and most comfortable journey of your life'. Four years of Modi rule later, sadly, India today looks more like a train that is being driven to disaster by an autocratic, incompetent and arrogant driver, who does not care what happens to the passengers he...
He noted that the Congress had helped in building the nation, constructed on the back of institutions designed to be the voice of the people.
"Since the RSS and the BJP have come to power, we have seen a systematic attack on every single one of our institutions. In modern India, these institutions were called temples of democracy and today RSS is intent in destroying every single one of them. Every single institution is being penetrated by their people and n...
Dish Network and Univision Communications said they have reached a long-term carriage deal, ending what had been a nine-month blackout of the Spanish-language network for the satellite company’s 13 million customers.
Starting today, the following channels are once again available to Dish and DishLATINO customers, depending upon their programming package: Univision, UniMás, Univision Deportes Network, Galavisión, Tlnovelas and FOROtv. A full list of packages is available at both dishlatino.com and dish.com.
Current and former commanders of the USS Scranton, a Navy Los Angeles-class submarine named after the Electric City, marked the 25th anniversary of the boat's commissioning and its ties to the city during events Monday.
Most of the sub's 11 commanders, including its current commander, Ronald Stowe, took part in events Sunday and Monday.
The USS Scranton was commissioned Jan. 26, 1991, in Norfolk, Virginia.
Monday's events including a meeting with local eighth-graders at the Scranton Public Library and visits to the Gino J. Merli Veterans Center and the Commonwealth Medical College.
Since August 2014, the Scranton has been undergoing a two-year engineered overhaul at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, Maine. Once the overhaul is complete, the sub will head to San Diego, where it likely will serve out the last 10 or so years of its active-duty life in the Pacific as part of the Navy's West C...
Given the circumstances, Burger King's fish fillet sandwich, The Whaler, is appropriately named.
Burger King buys fish for its sandwiches from suppliers providing Icelandic fish. The environmental group Greenpeace, pointing out that Iceland is one of the few nations still actively engaged in whaling operations, has begun an international campaign to boycott Icelandic fish. Burger King, one of Iceland's biggest cus...
The hope is that such economic pressure will force Iceland to bring its practices into line with much of the rest of the civilized world. A successful boycott should have a significant impact on the Icelandic economy, where fish sales now account for about 75 percent of export revenue, with 25 percent going to the Unit...