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IF they are indeed doing so illegally, then they are in great danger of Jeopardizing their Case against this ‘Dudus / Coke’ person. |
We need this in West Bay and George town…maybe we can get the US upset about someone here and have RCIP ‘borrow’ some of their intel. Just a thought. |
That’s exactly what we need here in Cayman (SIMS), to point out all the drug dealers and gang members to put them away for good, PERMANENTLY!!!! |
Ahem… it just shows you the "invasion of privacy" upon a soveriegn nation. No wonder why U.S. is hated so much overseas. |
If the Prime Minister of Jamaica, don’t want to hand over the man – Then what!? |
Are you going to survey Bruce Golding to??? |
Survey them all. Invade and take out all the criminals in Cayman and Jamaica. Maybe they can put an end to all this corruption. |
If we have nothing to hide then nobody should care who is watching. My father always say, "people that like the dark always have something to hide." Big brother shine the light bright. |
(Cairo) Gaza Freedom Marchers approved today a declaration aimed at accelerating the global campaign for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Israeli Apartheid. |
Roughly 1400 activists from 43 countries converged in Cairo on their way to Gaza to join with Palestinians marching to break Israel's illegal siege. They were prevented from entering Gaza by the Egyptian authorities. |
As a result, the Freedom Marchers remained in Cairo. They staged a series of nonviolent actions aimed at pressuring the international community to end the siege as one step in the larger struggle to secure justice for Palestinians throughout historic Palestine. |
We therefore reaffirm our commitment to the United Palestinian call of July 2005 for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) to compel Israel to comply with international law. |
To that end, we call for and wish to help initiate a global mass, democratic anti-apartheid movement to work in full consultation with Palestinian civil society to implement the Palestinian call for BDS. |
7) Campaigns against charitable status of the Jewish National Fund (JNF). |
We appeal to organisations and individuals committed to this declaration to sign it and work with us to make it a reality. |
Jeff Bezos is defending Amazon’s work with the Defense Department, saying his company will continue to bid on U.S. government contracts amid protests by employees. |
Amazon’s CEO made the comments during an interview Monday at the Wired 25 conference in San Francisco. |
He didn’t mention one of Amazon’s biggest competitors, but he didn’t have to. Google, which saw employee protests and resignations over Project Maven, its artificial intelligence work with the Pentagon, said in June it will ot be renewing the contract. Google CEO Sundar Pichai said at the same conference Monday that th... |
“One of the jobs of the senior leadership team is to make the right decision, even when it’s unpopular,” Bezos said. |
Amazon employees have also protested the company’s other government work, including over Rekognition, its facial recognition technology, to police departments and government agencies. |
The other company headed by Bezos, Blue Origin, last week was awarded its first big government contract, worth $500 million, to develop rockets for launching national security satellites. It’s one of three companies sharing a more than $2 billion Air Force contract. |
Have you ever wanted to print an animated image? Well now you (almost) can. A maker named Abhishek Singh has created an instant camera that outputs a little box that contains a Raspberry Pi connected to a PiTFT screen. When you take a picture the camera transmits a short video to the screen which then plays it over and... |
Wouldn’t it be cool if you could 3D print a camera that printed out a flip book? Maybe that could be Singh’s next project. |
Anthony Pellicano, known as "Hollywood's Fixer" was released from prison on Friday, March 22. |
SAN PEDRO, CA—Anthony Pellicano, 75, known as “Hollywood’s Fixer” was released from prison on Friday, March 22, after serving 15 years in Terminal Island Federal Correctional Institution in San Pedro, CA. Pellicano was released on his 75th birthday. |
Pellicano was indicted on 110 accounts of wiretapping and conducting illegal background checks. Some of his clients included attorneys, executives, and A-list celebrities including actors Tom Cruise, Sylvester Stallone, and Roseanne Barr. |
Officials indicated a non-refundable retainer fee of $25,000 was charged to spy, and violate privacy, including defamation on his clients behalf. |
Officers from the Los Angeles Police Department and Beverly Hills Police Department were bribed in order to access confidential information Pellicano also used employees from phone companies to listen and tap the phones for specific victims on his list for exposure. |
The FBI raided Pellicano’s office on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood on November 2002 after former Los Angeles Times journalist Anita Busch reported a dead fish with a rose and note in its mouth which stated, “Stop” on her car’s windshield. The note allegedly served as warning for Busch to refrain from publishing article... |
The FBI found practice grenades and C-4 explosives, but it was not enough evidence to arrestthe star who later served 30 months for possession of dangerous materials. |
Some suspects connected to the Pellicano scandal were also convicted of crimes, including his girlfriend at the time, Sandra Will Carradine, “Die Hard” director John McTiernan, officer Craig Stevens of the BHPD, and LPAD Police Sergeant Mark Arneson. |
A demonstration has been held in south- east Afghanistan accusing US troops of insulting Islam after they distributed footballs bearing the name of Allah. |
The balls showed the Saudi Arabian flag which features the Koranic declaration of faith. |
The US military said the idea had been to give something for Afghan children to enjoy and they did not realise it would cause offence. |
The footballs were dropped from a helicopter in Khost province. |
Some displayed flags from countries all over the world, including Saudi Arabia, which features the shahada, one of the five pillars of Islam - the declaration of faith. |
The words, which include the name of Allah, are revered, and Muslims are very sensitive about where and how they can be used. |
Saudi Arabia has complained to the World Cup's ruling body in the past about the use of its flag on footballs. |
Mullahs in Afghanistan criticised the US forces for their insensitivity, and around 100 people held a demonstration in Khost. |
Afghan MP Mirwais Yasini said: "To have a verse of the Koran on something you kick with your foot would be an insult in any Muslim country around the world." |
A spokeswoman for the US forces in Afghanistan said they made "significant efforts to work with local leaders, mullahs and elders to respect their culture" and distributing the footballs was an effort to give a gift the Afghan children would enjoy. |
"Unfortunately," she added, "there was something on those footballs we didn't immediately understand to be offensive and we regret that as we do not want to offend." |
VIDEO: Is this ‘banned’ Grey Poupon ad too dirty for TV? |
RICHMOND, Va. – It’s a classic line from a series of old school television commercials. |
For years the question “Pardon me, would you have any Grey Poupon?” was used to sell the fancier-than-plain-old-yellow mustard. The line was generally delivered by a stuffy gentlemen in fancy vehicle. |
Now a YouTube video titled “Banned Grey Poupon Ad” makes an edgier sales pitch. While we’re not totally sure the commercial was actually banned – or even sanction by Grey Poupon – it did makes us laugh (in a middle school humor sort of way). |
The clip was posted by OBVS on June 15. It racked up more than half a million page views in two days. |
Beatrice Mompremier scored 23 points and had 13 rebounds as No. 25 Miami kept Pitt winless in the Atlantic Coast Conference with a 65-51 victory on Sunday. |
Miami (21-5, 9-2) led by one after the first quarter then opened the second period with 13 straight points. Pitt's only points were a pair of free throws in the final minute to cut the deficit to, 32-20, at halftime. Pitt missed all 10 field-goal attempts in the period. |
Amazon has agreed to buy video doorbell startup Ring, Axios has learned. |
No word yet on price, although a source calls this Amazon's second-largest acquisition of all time (behind Whole Foods). That would seemingly mean it's above $1.2 billion (the amount Amazon paid for Zappos), which is in line with earlier reports that Ring was fundraising at around a $1 billion valuation. |
Why it matters: Not only is this another connected home play for Amazon, but it also could further its plans to enable delivery people to leave packages inside of buildings. |
Sources also tell Axios that Amazon had earlier made a play for smart-lock company August (which instead was bought by Assa Abloy), while Walmart had discussed buying Ring. |
Late last year, Amazon also purchased home security and video doorbell Blink, although that's a much smaller business. |
Ring first came to prominence as a Shark Tank reject, but went on to raise hundreds of millions in venture funding from investors that included Amazon's Alexa Fund. |
Amazon: Ring’s home security products and services have delighted customers since day one. We’re excited to work with this talented team and help them in their mission to keep homes safe and secure. |
Ring: Ring is committed to our mission to reduce crime in neighborhoods by providing effective yet affordable home security tools to our Neighbors that make a positive impact on our homes, our communities, and the world. We’ll be able to achieve even more by partnering with an inventive, customer-centric company like A... |
Unlike the Ohio voters who touched Romney and Obama’s name appeared, this change happened out of sight, after I’d finished, but fortunately I re-read the entire ballot to be sure my vote was mine. |
Take a paper ballot, folks. There’ s no way to prove the machine has corrected itself, and no paper trail except for a big roll of register tape in case a legitimate question arises. |
There’s not a lot new here, but the vintage footage is fab, as is the much-needed reminder that the supposedly innocent past was hardly innocent at all. |
In remastered footage from the 1965 Shea Stadium concert, you can actually hear the music, not just the screaming of fans. |
That said, many of the details are fun and fascinating, and the vintage footage — some of which has not been seen before — is, well, fab. (If you see Eight Days a Week in a cinema, stick around after the film for 30 minutes of remastered footage from the 1965 Shea Stadium concert. You can actually hear the music, not j... |
Perhaps the best thing about Eight Days a Week is the reminder — desperately needed these days, when nostalgia for a supposed “greater” time is obscuring the horrors of recent history — that the supposedly innocent past was hardly innocent . Amidst the conflict of the civil rights struggle in 1960s America, for instanc... |
The idea of loving ourselves may seem strange, confusing or utterly ridiculous. It may seem selfish, abstract or out of reach. |
When psychotherapist Kirsten Brunner, MA, LPC, talks to her clients about loving themselves, she says it’s similar to how we’d want a parent to love a child: unconditionally with compassion, grace and firm boundaries. |
Which is one reason people have a hard time practicing self-love: Many of us didn’t grow up with a healthy attachment to our parents, said Brunner, a perinatal mental health and relationship expert in Austin, Texas. |
Maybe your parents didn’t express their love. Maybe they were completely and utterly absent. Maybe they were harsh and shaming. |
And, of course, it doesn’t help that we see Photoshopped, filtered images on social media, and all around us all the time, added Brunner, also co-author of the forthcoming book Birth Guy’s Go-To Guide for New Dads: How to Support Your Partner Through Birth, Breastfeeding & Beyond. |
But it’s OK that you didn’t learn how to love yourself. It’s OK that you’re not head-over-heels enamored with who you are and how you look. It’s OK because you can still care for yourself with compassion and grace. You can still be loving toward yourself. |
Reparent yourself. Brunner recommended doing this exercise with a trusted therapist, but you could always try it on your own, as well (or with your partner or a trusted friend). Begin by listing how one or both of your parents used to talk to you. |
Cross off the negative statements. Look at the positive statements, and add to them by answering the question: How do I wish my parents, or another trusted adult, would have talked to me as a child? When you’re done, read these statement once a day for a week (or as needed). |
Speak loving words. Pay attention to your thoughts. How do you speak to yourself? How do you speak to yourself when you wake up, when you make a mistake, when you forget something, when you don’t accomplish everything on your to-do list, when you get into a fight with a friend? |
If you’re not sure what a loving action really looks like, ask yourself these questions, which I mentioned in this piece: What would I do if I loved myself? What would I do if I believed wholeheartedly that I deserved good things? |
Loving yourself also means being honest about behaviors and relationships that aren’t serving you, Brunner said. It means setting boundaries that protect your time and energy. It means having a sense of humor and forgiving yourself. |
And if “self-love” or “loving yourself” sounds too woo-woo or odd or annoying, then forget those terms. But do remember to engage in activities and habits and relationships and self-talk that nurture, serve and support you. |
It doesn’t matter so much what you call how you relate to yourself. What matters more is that you relate to yourself with compassion, fairness and respect, infusing your actions with these words—the way perhaps a good enough parent would do. |
Photo by Will O on Unsplash. |
Home > Miscellaneous > Blog Administration > Programming Note: Rosh Hashanah 5779 - Shana Tova! |
Programming Note: Rosh Hashanah 5779 - Shana Tova! |
This is a programming note that Monday and Tuesday is Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year and I will be offline the next two days. I will be offline Monday and Tuesday, September 10th and September 11th. |
There will be stories posted each day, all of them were pre-written on Sunday, September 9th, and scheduled to be posted. Just like this post was scheduled to be posted this morning. |
I apologize for any comments that slip through that should note while I am offline, I will do my best to catch up late Tuesday night after nightfall. |
Thank you all for reading, commenting and sharing every day - I appreciate it. |
I wanted to wish all my Jewish readers a happy, healthy, successful and sweet new year! |
After blaming an internal technical glitch, Google now says it's not sure why people in China have had trouble using its search service. |
Earlier Tuesday, some people in China reported being unable to perform Google searches even though they could access the Google search page at google.com.hk, where the company is directing Chinese users. |
Some observers thought the Chinese government had started blocking the site, but Google said the problems were due to a change the company had made to its servers. |
"In the last 24 hours 'gs_rfai' started appearing in the URLs of Google searches globally as part of a search parameter, a string of characters that sends information about the query to Google so we can return the best result," Google said earlier Tuesday. "Because this parameter contained the letters rfa the great fir... |
However, later in the day Google reversed course. "Having looked into this issue in more detail, it's clear we actually added this parameter a week ago. So whatever happened today to block Google.com.hk must have been as a result of a change in the great firewall," the company said. |
Still, for some reason search traffic in China is now back to normal, without any changes on Google's end. "We will continue to monitor what is going on, but for the time being this issue seems to be resolved," the company said. |
Google said in January that it would stop censoring its search results in China after discovering the theft of some of its intellectual property during a cyberattack originating in the country, and learning that the Gmail accounts of some human rights advocates had been broken into. |
It closed the censored version of its search service last week, redirecting visitors to its Hong Kong-based site. Since then, observers have wondered how the Chinese government will react because people in China can now find uncensored results from the Hong Kong site. |
The News Corp-owned social networking site has licensed audio fingerprinting technology developed by Audible Magic, which is able to help identify the origins of a video's soundtrack, so that unauthorized content can be blocked. |
With pressure mounting on Google-owned YouTube to make available the copyright filtering software it's long promised, MySpace has upped the anti by delivering first. The News Corp-owned social networking site has licensed audio fingerprinting technology developed by Audible Magic, which is able to help identify the ori... |
MySpace's move leapfrogs YouTube's efforts to roll out the ability to identify and block videos uploaded by users without copyright permission. YouTube does not screen for copyright-protected videos during the uploading process. In a conference call, Google CEO Eric Schmidt said the company would roll out the system in... |
But some of the companies that have signed deals with YouTube have grown impatient. |
When The Baltimore Sun inaugurated its Peeps Recipe Contest this year, it was a way to acknowledge the unstoppable force that has become the Peep. |
Once, the marshmallow treat was mere Easter candy. Those days are over. |
Peeps are cultural touchstones with fan clubs, a clothing line and even a store devoted to them at National Harbor. They've inspired people to make sculptures and videos, and even to write books and songs. So on this, their 60th birthday, we wanted to see what else folks could do with these bunnies and chicks. |
Baltimoreans had already been celebrating Peeps. |
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