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If the Week 12 Power Rankings are anywhere near as good as the Monday night game, we're cooking with grease ... That was a fun one. Both the Patriots and Panthers played quality football to the bitter end, proving that neither will be a tough out come January. Here are a couple of thoughts on that last sequence: a) ...
By Fawzia Sheikh / Inter Press Service An indigenous group in the Amazon rain forest took its anti-oil message to Canada in a case rife with accusations of social and environmental damage that highlights the issue of securing consent prior to commencing exploration operations. Peas Peas Ayui, president of the Nationa...
Image caption Breakfast, lunch and dinner? A recent article about how little money someone can realistically live on generated a big response from readers. It looked at whether it was possible to eat healthily for £12 a week, how much in the way of clothes a person needed, and other budget essentials in the wake of t...
The Trump administration wants to back down from the 54.5 mpg fuel economy mandate for automobiles and back away from the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan. Businesses in general like the new plan, as do automakers and coal miners specifically. They say fewer rules lowers manufacturing costs and makes American fa...
This was a lot to eat in one sitting. Hollis Johnson/Business Insider It's a well-documented fact that President Donald Trump loves fast food. And as attested to in a new book written by two of his former campaign aides, his go-to from McDonald's is quite the tall order. The president's typical order at the Golden A...
Citigroup (C) has claimed that it's the best-capitalized big bank in the country, a distinction that means very little given how often it's been bailed out. But even that claim may not mean very much. Rolfe Winkler explains how a major portion of its capital base may not be as real as investors might like. According ...
On May 1, 1969, Fred Rogers stepped before the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Communication and explained what exactly his job entailed. Rogers, the man behind the PBS show “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood,” had gone to Washington, D.C., to defend public television from budget cuts. President Richard Nixon had proposed slash...
About 90 minutes after teenagers Natalie Henderson and Carter Davis were killed behind a Roswell supermarket, Jeffrey Andrew Hazelwood used Henderson's debit card at a convenience store nearby, Roswell police said Thursday. Investigators were able to place Hazelwood's cellphone at both the murder scene and at the conv...
George Monbiot is correct (The rich want us to believe their wealth is good for us all, 30 July) in his praise of Thomas Piketty’s proposal for a wealth tax to counteract the insane levels of inequality now generated in our world, and in pointing out that only the Green party is prepared to back this obvious idea. Howe...
By: Anand Harsh Buy your limited Super Early Birds for The Untz Festival NOW: www.theuntzfestival.com Our dream is becoming a reality. Since TheUntz.com got off the ground six years ago, it's been a goal of the senior staff to hold a super intimate friends and family camping gathering with incredible performances fro...
FURIOUS mid-ranking Tory ministers are trying to engineer a coup of mass resignations in a bid to oust Theresa May this Autumn, The Sun can reveal. Fears the Prime Minister is a “horse with a broken leg” propped up by a “self-indulgent” Cabinet, have left junior members of the government despairing. EPA 4 Tory minist...
A Florida mom's blood-alcohol level was more than five times the legal limit when she drove to an elementary school to pick up a child, police say. Renata Congleton, 27, registered a .413 BAC after she was arrested, but not before she allegedly attacked officers and smashed up her vehicle, according to WFLA. The mayh...
Midday mark of respect planned and flags lowered to half-mast as bodies of 30 Britons continue to be repatriated and UK police contribute to investigation Britain will hold an official minute’s silence at midday to mourn the British tourists killed in a gun massacre on a Tunisian beach last week. Flags are being flow...
Portrait of Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837) Zibaldone: The Notebooks of Leopardi, by Giacomo Leopardi, edited by Michael Caesar and Franco D’Intino, Penguin Classics, RRP£50/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, RRP$75, 2,592 pages During his lifetime the Italian poet Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837) published a brilliant collection o...
5 Useful Ways to Use Closures in Go In this article we are going to explore several different real world use cases for closures and anonymous functions so that you can get a better understanding of when closures are a good fit, and see how they are applied to different situations. This article is part of a series Thi...
According to highly reliable Pitpass sources, F1's powers that be are seriously considering a switch to 1.5 litre powerplants in 2013 together with the return of turbochargers. For many, the turbocharged era (1977 - 1988) was one of the greatest in the history of the sport, the ultra-fast machines, widely considered t...
It is full steam ahead for China's railway sector as construction on 35 new railway projects will start in 2017 as the country plans to expand the network, according to a recent report in Xinhua-run Economic Information Daily.Construction will begin on 2,100 km of new rail line, 2,500 km of double-track lines and 4,000...
A recent report from IHS Screen Digest, a company that analyzes trends in digital media, says that movie studios will cease producing 35mm film prints for major markets by the end of 2013 (the US, France, the UK, Japan, and Australia are considered "major markets"). IHS predicts studios will stop producing film for the...
Kotaku East East is your slice of Asian internet culture, bringing you the latest talking points from Japan, Korea, China and beyond. Tune in every morning from 4am to 8am. Recently in Tokyo, the mainstream Japanese media attended an exhibit about the history of video games and had no clue it was talking to one of the...
Earlier this year, I rescued a hollow mortise chisel bit from a garage sale that we held at my parents’ house. This tool had been hidden away in a tool box for a number of years. It cleaned up quickly with some steel wool. A file put a nice edge onto it. The only thing left to do was to add a handle to it so that I can...
While AMD AIB partners will be able to come up with their own versions of the Radeon R9 Nano graphics cards, AMD will not allow them to significantly change the specifications, making the difference between a reference design and custom versions minimal. According to a report from Expreview.com site , AMD AIB partners ...
“Part of the reason coral reefs work is because animals play a big role in moving nutrients around,” said lead author Jacob Allgeier of the University of Washington’s School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences. “Fish hold a large proportion, if not most of the nutrients in a coral reef in their tissue, and they’re also in...
Chhattisgarh – one of India's three largest mineral-producing states – has had enough of industries like mining, power, metals and cement. The local government says it doesn’t want any more such projects, although the state has long relied on these industries for growth. Instead, Chhattisgarh is keen on reinventing i...
In September 2012, New Yorkers were offered a first glimpse of what the Low Line will look like - New York City’s newest subterranean park, designed by co-founders James Ramsey and Dan Barish. According to the New Yorker, the exhibition, entitled “Imagining the Low Line,” on view through September 27, 2012, allowed vis...
The child was rescued and was “shocked but unharmed,” Mr Brandet said. Five detonations or shots were heard by millions on live television while Mr Brandet spoke to reporters as police stormed the home. “Negotiations were opened but it became clear that they would not succeed and police then entered the home, where th...
My Tinder match decisions had grown more rapid and decisive. Handsome but no bio and all shirtless gym selfies? Dick is abundant and low value. Lists only an Instagram as a bio? Dick is abundant and low value. Quotes Jack Kerouac’s “The only ones for me are the mad ones…” Dick is abundant and low value. Went to Burning...
A 3D perspective view of the topography of the Hawaiian islands and seafloor relief viewed from just south of Hawaii's Big Island. The colors show gravity anomalies. Red represents a strong pull, and the blue shows a small deficit in the pull o The biggest active volcano in the world is a towering stack of lava layers...
Drive 30 minutes south of Salt Lake City, past the modest homes and businesses that dot the city of Lehi, and you’ll come across a building in the shadow of Mount Timpanogos, whose unassuming façade doesn’t match the importance of what goes on inside. This is IM Flash Technologies (IMFT), and though you may not have he...
Ivan Marcano, an off-duty NYPD cop, was sitting in the car with his girlfriend when he saw two punks pistol-whipping a man in the street (stay classy, New York). Had this been a buddy cop movie, Marcano would've announced that he was too old for this shit before reluctantly cocking his gun. But unfortunately for the th...
I was pretty sloshed as I put another shot of tequila to my now-benumbed lips, but the same thought kept going through my whirling head: Total Fed Credit (also referred to as Federal Reserve Credit), zoomed $70.3 billion last week! Yikes! $70.3 billion of new credit appeared, as if by magic, in the accounts of banks in...
LOS ANGELES — Johnny Depp has played a loopy pirate, a mad hatter and a demon barber. But will he be a convincing Donald J. Trump? The humor website Funny or Die on Wednesday began streaming a 50-minute comedy that finds Mr. Depp portraying the businessman turned politician, full-blown comb-over and all. Kept a secret...
This morning, Atlantic Media General Counsel Aretae Wyler shared the following memo with The Atlantic staff on a scam in which individuals posing as editors and senior leadership have been sending fraudulent job offers to unwitting freelancers and individuals seeking employment. Anyone targeted by this scam may email ...
What do Jon Corzine, Eric Holder and MF Global all have in common? Besides fraud. Law firm Covington & Burling. --- You want the Department of Justice to prosecute financial fraud? Does anyone really expect the Attorney General to turn on his former clients. Reuters - Top Justice officials connected to mortgage ba...
Men's Swim Shorts and Trunks When it’s time for some fun in the sun, shop Original Penguin men’s swimwear for men. We have a large selection of men's swim shorts and short swim trunks so you can dive into summer in style. Whether you’re bold enough to embrace the mod revival and show some skin with the Fixed Box Swim ...
Please enable Javascript to watch this video Virginia Beach, Va. - Court records show Officer Christopher Skinner was one of Virginia Beach's most productive cops. He won an award for his relentless pursuit of drunk drivers. But he was under investigation for what was happening after some of those arrests. Multiple l...
FOR Pararoo James Hunt, the chance to represent Australia at the World Championship qualifier in Denmark is a dream come true. But after losing their Australian Sport Commission funding in 2014 owing to an insufficient world ranking, the Rosebery teenager and his team mates are more determined that ever to raise the $...
A Muslim deputy is suing the Orange County Sheriff’s Office for racial and religious discrimination. The complaint was filed Thursday morning by the Council on American-Islamic Relations on behalf of Waleed Albakri, who claims he was arrested and fired out of retaliation. The details of this civil rights lawsuit descr...
Organiser of open letter, which had been signed by Troye Sivan, Guy Pearce and Missy Higgins, apologises for offence A high-profile petition calling for a new anti-bullying program in schools has been withdrawn as a result of criticism from the LGBTI community of its stated aim of “tolerance”. Ben Grubb, a Sydney PR ...
Thylacine Studios will bring Siralim 2, the sequel to the developer’s first game Siralim, to the PS Vita and PS4. Siralim 2 is an old-school monster catching RPG with light roguelike elements. The player takes on the role of a mage who summons powerful creatures to fight in his stead. Players will journey through an e...
If you’re reading this in line under the sweltering sun at Jack Layton Ferry Terminal, you are doing it wrong. That’s the message from Mayor John Tory as the city looks to tackle line-ups in the rush of summer. Mayor John Tory helps scan pre-paid tickets at the Jack Layton Ferry Terminal's wicket 9 ahead of announceme...
The Mumbai crime branch have arrested six people, who include three policemen attached with the Sakinaka station, for allegedly picking up a small-time model from a five-star hotel in Andheri and booking her for prostitution. In her complaint to police commissioner Rakesh Maria on Wednesday, the victim said that the p...
The Conservative riding association in Brent Rathgeber's Edmonton riding says it wasn't consulted before the MP's resignation from the Tory caucus. A statement issued Friday from the Edmonton-St. Albert Electoral District Association (EDA) for the Conservative Party of Canada expresses "full support for the policies o...
At Scala Days 2011, Robert Hundt presented a paper titled Loop Recognition in C++/Java/Go/Scala. The paper implemented a specific loop finding algorithm, such as you might use in a flow analysis pass of a compiler, in C++, Go, Java, Scala, and then used those programs to draw conclusions about typical performance conce...
Puerto Rico’s governor, Alejandro García Padilla, told the US Senate on Tuesday that the troubled Caribbean island has “no cash left” and can no longer repay its $72bn debts. The territory announced it would honor a $354m debt payment due on 1 December as Padilla was testifying, but Padilla said austerity measures ha...
Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen are Bad Neighbors andare "disruptive, intrusive and totally disrespectful," according to neighbors in their West Village neighborhood. The Olsen twins, who rent two floors of a West 13th brownstone for $12,000 a month, are "two spoiled brats" who "change the character of the neighborhood," ...
Research shows that making a positive impact on biodiversity can be as simple as changing our diets. There is a global crisis when it comes to the loss and degradation of the world’s remaining wild spaces, and intensive animal agriculture is the “predominant driver” of the crisis. As wilderness around the world has be...
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption The plans have provoked much opposition from members of the public who attended a council meeting France is going through one of its periodic bouts of "secularitis" - that disease of the national soul whose symptom is loud and prolonged agonising over the encroachments of rel...
Can a baby step towards sobriety be the BEST approach to quit drinking? It can IF quitting seems like an impossible task, requiring more strength than you have. If you approach it as a baby trying to crawl before walking, you can steadily move in the direction of sobriety. This can be motivating, as these very small s...
Rally was the latest protes­t sparke­d by a draft bill aimed at forcin­g NGOs to disclo­se foreig­n fundin­g they receiv­e BUDAPEST: Thousands of protesters marched through Budapest on Sunday in a demonstration against tough laws targeting foreign-backed NGOs and higher education institutions, amid rising tensions bet...
That's awfully white of you. That's awfully white of you. “I’m not offended by our flag or the Confederate flag for that matter,” Barbour said. “But some people are. [...] Other politicians may have suddenly made up their minds that maybe the symbols of slavery and segregation ought not hang from state flagpoles any...
By Jeromy Farkas City council recently rang in the new year with something pretty unusual for Calgarians these days: a pay raise. It’s a good time to be in local government. In just five years, council salaries have quietly risen nearly 20 per cent, from $97,551 to $116,313. Meanwhile, our mayor’s salary, which last ...
The 40 players selected by the NHL join the four captains, who were voted in by fans earlier this month, to take part in the 2017 Honda NHL All-Star Weekend at Staples Center in Los Angeles. The 2017 Coors Light NHL All-Star Skills Competition is Jan. 28 at Staples Center (7 p.m. ET; NBCSN, SN, TVA Sports). The 2017 Ho...
A controversial year has changed the Duggars’ family dynamic. In a moving exclusive clip from the new special Jill & Jessa: Counting On, John-David and Joseph Duggar break their silence about older brother Josh and the havoc his August cheating scandal wreaked on their family. “After everything started to settle down...
John Bostock seems to have failed to land a deal to remain with the San Jose Earthquakes after being on trial with the club for recent weeks. That would normally not be of interest to Toronto FC fans but for the fact that at least one source is reporting that San Jose's lose might end up being Toronto's gain as the att...
Wow, I'm so blown away by the generosity of my Secret Santa!!! I told my santa I didn't need a gift, but that I would be really grateful if they donated to a cause that helped those less fortunate. Well, my santa not only donated to an amazing cause, but also sent me two gifts and a card!!! I'm incredibly touched. Fir...
Last month Drupal, the open source platform and collaborative community, asked one of its popular, long-time members to withdraw from the community due to “views that are in opposition with the values of the Drupal project,” according to a blog post by Drupal founder Dries Buytaert. Buytaert didn’t give a specific rea...
This release is a hotfix addressing a regression introcuded in 1.1, that caused map markers to not be saved correctly and then removed when such a save is loaded. We encourage all users of Arx Libertatis 1.1 to upgrade to 1.1.1 as soon as possible. map marker with label Updated Windows, Linux and FreeBSD binaries are...
Heading into next season, the Vegas oddsmakers have rightfully pegged the Chicago Cubs as the sole favorites to win the World Series and repeat their historic 2016 run. Amongst the heaviest front-runners to take home the hardware are the Red Sox, Dodgers, and Nationals, followed relatively closely by the second-tier m...
In all of JavaScript, I’m not sure there is a more maligned piece than eval() . This simple function designed to execute a string as JavaScript code has been the more source of more scrutiny and misunderstanding during the course of my career than nearly anything else. The phrase “eval() is evil” is most often attribut...
We imagine that food delivery drivers see their fair share of customers under the influence of any number of legal and illegal intoxicants. But unless the customer becomes belligerent or refuses to pay, it’s pretty rare to hear about the authorities being called in. That’s why a man in Colorado is fuming mad at his Pap...
features How to commemorate catastrophe Remembering World War I, 100 years after Three Lions/Getty Images 1914 gave birth to one of the iconic figures of the twentieth century and after: vthe refugee. Here, Belgian refugees in a French town in 1915 read messages written in Flemish by other refugees. View full image Mor...
When Art Villa found out, after one too many boating accidents, that he needed a total knee replacement, he began asking around to see how much it would cost. The hospital near his home in Helena, Mont., would charge $40,000 for the procedure, he says. But that didn't include the anesthesiologist's fee, physical therap...
— A 27-year-old Wisconsin woman said she answered an apartment ad she saw on Craigslist and wound up being held captive as a sex slave in Brooklyn for more than a week. John Hopkins, 45, has been arrested. The alleged victim said Hopkins held her in his East Williamsburg apartment on Humboldt Street for eight days. Ho...
Sergey Gorshkov/ Wildlife Photographer of the Year; WINNER: Wildscapes On 29 November 2012, Sergey received the call that he had long hoped for. Plosky Tolbachik -- one of two volcanoes in the Tolbachik volcanic plateau in central Kamchatka, Russia -- had begun to erupt. "I’ve gone to the area many times, but it had b...
Allrounder Mitchell Santner gets the plaudits for his first ODI wicket at Edgbaston, from Kane Williamson, left, and Brendon McCullum. Kane Williamson has hit the top of the charts and will next month take over from Ross Taylor as New Zealand Cricket's highest-ranked player and potential $350,000 man. Williamson is u...
If Don Meredith is kicked out of the Senate or resigns, a second investigation into allegations of workplace harassment may never see the light of day. The Office of the Senate Ethics Officer confirms that any ongoing probe is automatically halted if the subject is no longer a member of the upper chamber. "If a senat...
Calling it one of “the most senseless, tragic acts” she’s ever come across, a Palm Beach County judge sentenced a 33-year-old Loxahatchee husband and father to five years in prison Wednesday for a 2014 wreck that killed his wife as they had sex while he drove drunk. »RELATED: Woman’s estranged husband accused of killi...
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull may be forced to call an election after just two years of the Coalition's current three-year term, political hardheads believe. Senior figures in the Liberal and Labor parties confirmed to Fairfax Media on Monday they are working to be "campaign ready" by June or July of next year, with...
A year and a half after Doris and an F-rated roll-out later, Earl Sweatshirt released I Don’t Like Shit, I Don’t Go Outside on Monday. Earl dubbed his third full effort (including his eponymous 2010 mixtape) his most transparent yet. “This is the first thing that I fully stand behind, like the good and the bad of it,” ...
(Corrects paragraph 6 to Tom Gores instead of Tom and Alec Gores) * Novell’s board may be considering alternatives-source * Alternatives may include remaining independent-source * IPO or partial sale may also be considered-source By Nadia Damouni NEW YORK, Sept 22 (Reuters) - The auction of Novell’s NOVL.O NetWare...
IN “SKYFALL”, the latest James Bond movie, 007 is given a gun that only he can fire. It works by recognising his palm print, rendering it impotent when it falls into a baddy’s hands. Like many of Q’s more fanciful inventions, the fiction is easier to conjure up than the fact. But there is a real-life biometric system t...
On his radio program today, Bryan Fischer asserted that “President Obama is a guy that envies dictators” and wishes that he could be one. Fischer was discussing Obama’s recent trip to Cuba, which he said left the president wishing that he could wield total control over this nation in the way that foreign communist and...
Cute Rescue Story: "TinCat" —Ace of Spades A feral cat had gotten its head stuck in a tin can and couldn't get it off. Some people saw the cat and couldn't get the can off, either. But they contacted a rescue group and their vet managed it. The cat turned out be pretty adorable. Never judge a book by its cover. Or a...
WASHINGTON — Tensions rose Sunday over security preparations ahead of the Winter Olympics in Sochi, as several congressional leaders expressed concern about Russia’s willingness to share information about terrorist threats, while President Vladimir V. Putin asserted that he would “do whatever it takes” to protect the t...
The Unbalanced Design of Super Smash Brothers: Part 2 December 9, 2014 Welcome to the second installment of The Unbalanced Design of Super Smash Brothers. The first part was, dare I say it, a smashing success. With almost 600,000 views it has been read more times than everything else I’ve ever written combined. There ...
The wreck of Australia's first submarine HMAS AE1 has been found more than 103 years after it disappeared. A new search effort to find the submarine started last week which located the old vessel in more than 300 metres of water off the coast of the Duke of York Islands in Papua New Guinea. HMAS AE1 was lost off Raba...
Using Keras & Theano for deep learning driven jazz generation I built deepjazz in 36 hours at a hackathon. It uses Keras & Theano, two deep learning libraries, to generate jazz music. Specifically, it builds a two-layer LSTM, learning from the given MIDI file. It uses deep learning, the AI tech that powers Google's Al...
JOHANNESBURG — Mamphela Ramphele, a respected veteran of the struggle against apartheid, announced on Monday that she had formed a new political party to compete against the governing African National Congress, calling on South Africans to “join me on a journey to build the country of our dreams.” The party is called ...
Antholojam is a collection of fifteen (!!!) browser-based games resultant from a month-long game jam based around themes from the Golden Age of Sci-Fi. Meant to be enjoyed in less than an hour apiece, each game pays tribute to its inspiration with a wide variety of engines, settings, and mechanics. Presented in their u...
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Facebook rebranded its Internet.org app as Free Basics in September A group of leading Indian academics have criticised Facebook's controversial Free Basics internet plan, saying it has "deep flaws". At least 50 professors of the Indian Institute of Technology and the Indian...
It sure looks like Kyle Rudolph will love working with Norv Turner. And vice versa. A week after catching just one pass for 22 yards, Rudolph, the Vikings starting tight end, led all first-half receivers with four catches for 89 yards, including a 51-yard catch-and-sprint touchdown as the Vikings rallied to beat the ...
(This article is going to have numerous spoilers about EarthBound, so be wary!) The credits have rolled, the epilogue has concluded, and it’s hard to write this article without a heavy heart in hand. EarthBound has wrapped up, my time with Ness, Paula, Jeff, and Poo has come to an end, and it’s sad to watch them move ...
By PoliceOne Staff WASHINGTON — Officers patrolling during the inauguration will not turn on their body cameras until police action is required, including making an arrest. According to WJLA, police working the event will not activate their cameras for the sole purpose of monitoring or identifying demontrators. The c...
Neighbour William de Cothi, 17, photographed the animal after he spotted it on the roof about six feet off the ground. The Sixth Form student said: "I was looking out of my window when I saw the cow. "At first I thought that it was an illusion and that it was in the background and not really on the roof. "But after ...
PURORESU DICTIONARY Version 2.4 by Mike Lorefice Have you ever said yourself or heard someone else say, "I wish I could understand what they were saying," or "I'd enjoy it more if I knew what they were talking about?" If you are reading this page, I'd say the chances that you have are incredibly high. There is certa...
Image copyright Kiira Motors Image caption Kiira Motors now hopes to attract partners to help mass produce the bus A solar-powered bus described by its Ugandan makers as the first in Africa has been driven in public. Kiira Motors' Kayoola prototype electric bus was shown off at a stadium in Uganda's capital, Kampala....
Dear Abby Distilled 1. Wake up and smell the coffee. 2. M.Y.O.B. 3. If she’s as intelligent as you say she is, she already knows. 4. See a therapist. 5. Call animal control. 6. Call the cops. 7. Quit blaming yourself. 8. Laws vary state to state. See a lawyer. 9. Give back the ring. 10. There is no polite way...
A coalition of groups including the Ecology Action Centre, SumOfUs and Greenpeace wants the the Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Board to revoke its recent decision to grant approval to Shell Canada Ltd.'s plan to drill off the coast of Nova Scotia. On Wednesday, the groups delivered a petition with more than 233...
Some customers were charged despite the game's delay It's not news that Forgotten Empires is taking more time to finish Age of Empires: Definitive Edition (the game was delayed to 2018 almost a month ago), but there is more to that story than the typical "Sorry for the wait" and "Thanks for understanding" messages. It...
Mario Balotelli feels joining Liverpool was the worst decision he has ever made and has taken aim at Brendan Rodgers and Jurgen Klopp in the process. The striker left AC Milan in favour of a move to Anfield in 2014, but failed to make an impact at Anfield. Balotelli spent last season on loan back at Milan before exit...
Alexandros Michailidis / SOOC Ξεκίνησε κλασικά, λέγοντας «δεν είμαι ομοφοβικός» και συνέχισε αποδεικνύοντας το αντίθετο συγκρίνοντας τους γκέι με κτηνοβάτες και με ζώα, λέγοντας: «Καλά, ο Ομπάμα μπορεί και να τους παντρεύει αν θέλει. Και στη Γερμανία έχουν αποφασίσει να κάνουν οίκο ανοχής για κτηνοβάτες, θέλει ο άλλος...
You never heard of the Millenium Falcon? It's the ship that made the Kessel Run in 12 parsecs. I've been working on a parser combinator library called trifecta, and so I decided I'd share some thoughts on parsing. Packrat parsing (as provided by frisby, pappy, rats! and the Scala parsing combinators) and more traditi...
Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D) said Tuesday that he is “very confident” that the FBI will find no wrongdoing in its investigation of donations to his 2013 campaign and his personal finances. (Win Mcnamee/Getty Images) The surprise news of an FBI inquiry into Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe has uncomfortable parallels...
CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- With 11:17 left in the fourth quarter on Wednesday the Portland Trail Blazers needed an answer. Thanks in part to Wesley Matthews, they'd come from down 11 at the half against the Hornets even as LaMarcus Aldridge struggled. The possession before, Kemba Walker had converted an And-1 opportunity to p...
HARRISON, N.J. — After conceding four second-half goals and losing to a New York Red Bulls side that was essentially their third-team, you would think Jose Mourinho would have some concerns. You’re wrong. After the match, Mourinho said Chelsea has “no fragilities,” and believes if they were to play the Red Bulls nine...
Editor’s note: I met Aaron over the Internet just a day or two after his initial Good Samaritan incident and spoke with him at length about it at that time. We kept in touch and he has since become a student and a friend. I’ve followed the developments and the evolution of his thoughts on his decision to act and how he...
PITTSBURGH (Newsradio 1020 KDKA) Double-M Pizza in Charleroi was robbed late Saturday night and owner, Mark Miller, has a plan to fight back. He says his employees will begin carrying weapons. He has even placed a sign in front of his shop saying, “We Now Carry.” The suspect entered Miller’s restaurant around 10:45 Sa...
"The last couple of years he's had a bit of a blind spot when it comes to the alt-right, nationalist part of his support base." Steve Helber / AP White supremacists marched into Charlottesville, Virginia, on Saturday brandishing shields, batons, and pepper spray, and the result was shocking violence — with the deaths...
A quarter of a century ago, India threw off the shackles of Nehruvian socialism and embarked on economic liberalization. Since 1991, socialist-era thinking has been steadily discarded in a growing number of areas such as foreign policy, but it remains firmly embedded in how Indian cities are planned. This is the ultima...
We took apart the new 15" Retina MacBook Pro with the hopes that Apple made it more repair-friendly than the debut Mid 2012 model. Unfortunately, things didn't really work out in our favor; in fact, they took a turn for the (slightly) worse. Even the headphone jack is now soldered to the logic board, which is definite...