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Unfortunately, Sullivan to the contrary notwithstanding, I notice no decline in the New York Times’s fecklessness with the facts and in its constant page-one axe-grinding since the advent of the blogging phenomenon. But the desire to expose, embarrass, and shame the media pooh-bahs is clearly a driving force. From Sull...
Inner City Press: In South Sudan, there’s been another incident in which the Juba Monitor newspaper has been seized, the full press run has been seized by the Government national security forces of Salva Kiir. I wanted to know if UNMISS is aware of that and what they think of it?
Deputy Spokesperson Farhan Haq: I don’t have any reaction from UNMISS on that.
After the March 18 Security Council meeting, while neither Ladsous nor the UN's envoy to South Sudan Hilde Johnson came to answer questions, the president of the Security Council for March, Sylvie Lucas of Luxembourg, did.
Regarding your Monday noon briefing question about the Juba Monitor, we have received the following information from the UN Mission in South Sudan: UNMISS is aware that copies of the Juba Monitor were seized by security authorities in Juba on Monday. The Mission has received reports that the copies of the newspaper wer...
The Core Infrastructure Initiative (CII), a Linux Foundation collaborative project, has announced the first round of CII Best Practices badges. The recipients include Curl, GitLab, the Linux kernel, OpenBlox, OpenSSL, Node.js and Zephyr.
CII is a result of collaboration between many industry players including Microsoft, Bloomberg, Facebook, and Qualcomm, among others. The primary goal of the project is to determine security, quality and stability of open source software.
While open source projects boast of being more secure compared to proprietary solutions, the fact is not every project has resources or mechanism to ensure security. In many cases there are not enough eyeballs to render all bugs shallow.
CII enables technology companies, industry stakeholders and esteemed developers to collaboratively identify, fund and improve the security of critical open source projects.
And it’s already working. “The latest round of badges includes an assessment of OpenSSL, the open source software responsible for most encryption on the Internet, both before the Heartbleed vulnerability and after it received support from CII. Prior to Heartbleed, OpenSSl failed to meet more than one-third of the CII B...
The project is spearheaded by David A. Wheeler, an open source and security research expert who works for the Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA) and is also coordinating the CII’s Census Project, and Dan Kohn, a senior adviser on the CII. Wheeler and Kohn are working with open source developers to make the certificat...
Courtney Act is the bookies' favourite to win Dancing with the Stars next week.
But according to former Bachelor contestant Keira Maguire, Samuel Johnson will most likely win the competition due to his history with Channel 10.
Keira said on her podcast The Buzz that because Samuel is 'Channel 10 talent', the network obviously wants him to come out on top.
'[Courtney Act] is not going to win. Samuel Johnson is,' Keira said on Tuesday, reflecting on the show's current betting odds.
'No, but I'm serious! You've got to remember you're dealing with Channel 10 and this is Channel 10 talent and they obviously have something in line for him,' she added.
Samuel has starred in several Channel 10 shows in the past, including The Secret Life of Us, Thank God You're Here and police drama Rush.
However, before his appearance on Dancing with the Stars, Samuel's last on-screen role was in the Channel Seven mini series Molly in 2016.
He eventually won a Gold Logie for his performance as Ian 'Molly' Meldrum, before announcing his retirement from acting.
Keira added that she believes Courtney Act will place second in the Dancing with the Stars finale, with blogger Constance Hall placing third.
It comes after Monday night's semi-final of DWTS saw Jett Kenny and his dance partner Lily Cornish eliminated from the competition.
Russia’s chief weather forecaster vowed Friday.
only sub-tropical region of Russia.
Vilfand told the Itar-TASS news agency.
dozens of kilometers (miles) away from the coast.
Wormholes -- popularised by the 2014 sci-fi film Interstellar as 'shortcuts' to distant points in space and time -- may actually exist, but pan-galactic travel through these portals would be slower than taking a direct route, according to a Harvard study.
Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity supports the existence of wormhles that could connect extremely long distances billion light years apart, different points in time, or possibly different universes.
While they have been objects of interest for scientists and science fiction writers alike, whether wormholes actually exist remains to be seen.
Daniel Jafferis, from Harvard University in the US, has shown although that wormholes can exist, it is not useful for humans to travel through.
"It takes longer to get through these wormholes than to go directly, so they are not very useful for space travel," Jafferis said in a statement.
Despite his pessimism for pan-galactic travel, he said that finding a way to construct a wormhole through which light could travel was a boost in the quest to develop a theory of quantum gravity.
"The real import of this work is in its relation to the black hole information problem and the connections between gravity and quantum mechanics," Jafferis said.
The theory was inspired when Jafferis began thinking about two black holes that were entangled on a quantum level.
Although this means the direct connection between the black holes is shorter than the wormhole connection -- and therefore the wormhole travel is not a shortcut -- the theory gives new insights into quantum mechanics.
"From the outside perspective, travel through the wormhole is equivalent to quantum teleportation using entangled black holes," Jafferis said.
Jafferis based his theory on a setup first devised by Einstein and physicist Nathan Rosen in 1935, consisting of a connection between two black holes. The term wormhole was coined in 1957.
Since the wormhole is traversable, Jafferis said, it was a special case in which information could be extracted from a black hole.
"It gives a causal probe of regions that would otherwise have been behind a horizon, a window to the experience of an observer inside a spacetime, that is accessible from the outside," said Jafferis.
To date, a major stumbling block in formulating traversable wormholes has been the need for negative energy, which seemed to be inconsistent with quantum gravity.
However, Jafferis has overcome this using quantum field theory tools.
"I think it will teach us deep things about the gauge/gravity correspondence, quantum gravity, and even perhaps a new way to formulate quantum mechanics," Jafferis said.
Courtesy of the bizarrely-named Obama Pacman, here is a look at the iPod/iPhone dock, with built-in taser, inspired by Batman.
The user determines they need to activate the arc device, then pull out the safety pin. The user then presses their fingers against the pressure button in the palm of the glove. The user can deter a person by pressing the pressure button and activating the demonstration electrodes making a loud sparking sound. If aggre...
If interested in ordering, you can simply fill out a request for a quote, provided that you are looking for at least ten at a time. With how cool this thing looks, the built-in taser, and the backing of the product by co-owner Kevin Costner, how can you not?
Just hope the Penguin doesn’t track you down with GPS.
SHIPWRECKED returns to E4 next week after seven years off air and The Sun can exclusively reveal the nine contestants battling it out for £50,000 prize money.
It's the Tigers versus the Sharks as the popular format is back but with a few surprise twists awaiting the hopefuls.
They won't have to worry about fashioning shelters out of bamboo shoots as the camp is already built with a shower, kitchen and toilet replacing the frightful long drop.
Strictly's Vick Hope, 29, is the voice of the reboot replacing former narrator Craig Kelly.
The show will go out every weeknight from January 28 for three weeks at a later slot of 9pm – allowing for more rude language and bust-ups.
Liv is a 19-year-old model who describes herself as "fiery" and a "hot head"
Model Harry has been approached for several reality shows including Channel 5's reboot of The Bachelor but insists he's not interested in "airing dirty laundry"
ANN ARBOR— The link between emotions and eating has been well established but new research from the University of Michigan shows that children as young as 4 who experience stress eat more in the absence of hunger, beginning a cycle that could possibly mean extra pounds down the road.
“We know from previous studies that people who have extremely adverse life experiences and stress in childhood have a tendency toward overweight and obesity. We know less about the pathway that might contribute to that,” said Alison Miller, associate professor of health behavior and health education at the U-M School o...
In their study, Miller and colleagues found that greater stress exposure correlated to increases in eating in absence of hunger and in emotional overeating.
Unlike previous cross-sectional research, this study focused on behavior over time. The researchers followed 207 low-income children from 2009 to 2015, recorded stress exposures and observed their eating behaviors.
The researchers define early life stress as chaotic home environments, and exposure to other negative life events, such as witnessing violence or trauma or experiencing material deprivation. Children in poverty are extremely vulnerable to violence exposure, food scarcity and worry over limited resources. These stresses...
Miller said the public health response should be to screen for these risks at early life health appointments, address community issues like food scarcity, encourage physical activity, support parents so they can promote healthy habits, and work to improve stress regulation skills during childhood.
“One way to do this is by teaching coping and mindfulness (self-calming) skills to disrupt the link between stressful experiences and maladaptive health behavior,” she said.
Queen Elizabeth II turns 90 on Saturday, June 11, and that’s reason enough to celebrate, but one company has gone a step beyond the cake to celebrate Elizabeth’s love of corgis.
Spoonflower, a website that lets users design, print and sell their own fabrics and wallpaper, has put together a collection of 90 corgi dog pillows and one life-sized body pillow of her royal majesty.
The sea of corgis, plus the queen, is, of course, a clever way of promoting the website and encouraging folks to make pillows and other objects featuring their own pets, but there is an altruistic side of this, too. The website hopes to present the corgi herd to Queen Elizabeth, but supposing that she doesn’t want or n...
Sounds like a pip of an idea to me.
The Queen has owned more than 30 corgis (but none, as far as we can tell, with a name longer than two syllables).
Pembroke Welsh corgis are her favorite breed.
She has loved corgis since she was a small child, after first encountering those owned by the children of the Marquess of Bath.
The first corgi she ever owned was called Dookie, which her father, the future King George VI, brought home for his daughters, Elizabeth and Margaret, in 1933.
When still young princesses, Elizabeth and her Margaret, invented the “dorgi”, by cross breeding Elizabeth’s corgi, Tiny, with Margaret’s dachshund, Pipkin.
On her 18th birthday in 1944, the future queen was given a corgi named Susan.
She was so fond of Susan that she took her on honeymoon after marrying Prince Philip in 1947.
Susan founded a corgi dynasty, producing at least 10 generations of royal corgis.
Susan became one of several royal corgis to bite royal servants, when she nipped Leonard Hubbard, the Royal Clockwinder, as he was entering the Royal Lodge Windsor in 1954.
Holly and Willow, the Queen’s current corgis, are the last two remaining of a once 13-strong pack.
Holly and Willow seem likely to be the Queen’s last corgis, after the announcement last year that she had ended her breeding program.
JetBlue is feeling the crunch, and soon, so will its customers.
The company unveiled plans to cut legroom and charge baggage fees.
The changes are part of a cost savings and management plan that company executives rolled out on Wednesday. They projected a $400 million a year increase in profits once the plans are enacted.
Legroom cuts and baggage fees have become the industry norm. JetBlue (JBLU) and Southwest Airlines (LUV) bucked the baggage fees trend.
JetBlue said it would pare back the space between seats -- known in the industry as seat pitch -- by 1.6 inches to 33.1 inches. This will allow the company to add 15 seats to much of its fleet.
Even with the cut, it said it still expects its coach seats to have more legroom than similar seats at other major U.S. carriers like Virgin America (VA), American Airlines (AAL) and Delta Air Lines (DAL).
It does offer customers an option to pay more for increased legroom.
It will also change the way it prices tickets by introducing three tiers. The lowest level will not allow customers to check baggage, while the higher tiers offer one or two checked bags. Currently, it allows flyers to check one bag for free and charges for additional checked bags.
The company said the different levels "will enable JetBlue to tailor its offering to individual customers' needs in a way that is simple and transparent."
It made the announcements in a presentation to investors. The stock was up as much as 3% during the presentation and has climbed 53% so far this year.
KOTA KINABALU: Sabah Chief Minister Datuk Seri Shafie Apdal has said that he is not aware of the Education Ministry’s comments on the use of English as a medium of instruction at national school was a violation.
“I never realised that,” he said at the United Pasokmomogun Kadazandusun Organisation (Upko) Malaysia Day forum yesterday.
Shafie stated that three quarters of the conversation at parliament, for example, are carried out in the English language. He also mentioned that his granddaughter speaks to him in English.
Similarly, he said that while Bahasa Melayu is the national language of Malaysia, most proceedings in the courts are still conducted in English.
He added that he will ask the minister concerned for clarification if it was a violation to use English as medium of instruction at national schools in the country.
Shafie was replying to Deputy Chief Minister, Datuk Seri Panglima Wilfred Madius Tangau, who is also the acting president of Upko, when he raised the the issue at the forum.
Wilfred stressed that the Education Ministry’s reply that it was unlawful to teach in English was a serious statement.
“We cannot allow that to happen. If it is unlawful to study in English, how can our youths compete and attain jobs in the private sector which require them to be proficient in English,” he said.
Wilfred also said that Upko wants some schools in Sabah to be English medium schools.
The Education Ministry, in a written parliamentary reply to Batang Sadong MP, Nancy Shukri, said that it was against the use of English as the medium of instruction in national schools because it violates Article 152(1) of the Federal Constitution, the National Language Act 1963/67 and contravenes the letter and spirit...
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Must the Children Bear the Cost?
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PARENTING : Lessons on a Larger Scale : The guru-student method may not be the only way to learn music. Valley group programs find success. NANCY KAPITANOFF, SPECIAL TO THE TIMES; Nancy Kapitanoff writes regularly for The Times.

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