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Episode 79 – Castles of Burgundy Direct Download or Media Player or RSS Feed In our seventy-ninth episode, Aaron and Quinten are joined by special guest co-host Joe O’Brien from the Glass Cannon Podcast. We get to know Joe’s board gaming background and we talk about the games we have been playing lately. We also review... |
Is there such a thing as a progressive Republican? Is it possible that the party whose right wing reflexively attacks everything prized by progressives could ever change its mind? A century ago, there indeed were progressive Republicans. They took bold stands against that era’s most powerful corporations and supported ... |
Announcer: On January 22nd, North Korean sailors boarded and seized the U.S.S. Pueblo, an American Intelligence ship which was sailing in the Sea of Japan. The 83 crewmen were taken to North Korea as prisoners and were accused of sailing their ship in North Korean waters. The furor in Congress was overwhelming, but the... |
Let me explain what I mean by locality and repetition. The current crop of configuration management tools decouple the configuration from everything else even when it is somewhat detrimental to do so. One case where it is detrimental is in application configuration. I believe that application configuration should live ... |
WINNIPEG A day before history is made, there was no trash talk, no finger pointing — nothing that would serve as bulletin-board material. As the Winnipeg Blue Bombers walked off the field on Wednesday following a laid-back walk-through and, a few hours later, as four RedBlacks and coach Rick Campbell spoke to media, ar... |
Every summer, the Israel Antiquities Authority holds a reception at the Rockefeller Museum in Jerusalem for foreign archeological teams excavating in Israel. This year's reception in early July was attended by over 200 archeologists from over 50 different Israeli and foreign projects, who are investigating sites rangin... |
Touhou Project is the name of a series of danmaku games (also know as "bullet-hell shooters") Bullet-hell shooters is a genre of 2D shooters based on really complex patterns, which are beautiful and interesting to look at, and impiles great difficulty, memorizing patterns and fast player reaction. Touhou Project games ... |
New Delhi: The Delhi Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Harsh Vardhan on Sunday said the first issue he will take up for the city with the new Prime Minister would be grant of full statehood to the national capital as it would help overcoming the problem of multiplicity of authorities. Vardhan, who was BJP’s chief ... |
Yesterday was the big day for Sony's 4K projector (still no exact price, but reps mentioned it would be sub $25k -- we know you can afford that) and the US debut of its funky 3D helmet , but now that the CEDIA show floor is open we stopped by its booth and got our hands on a couple of other treats. In one corner we've ... |
‘Quit Feeling Sorry For Yourself And Make An Effort,’ Citizens Say WASHINGTON—Saying that things are only going to keep getting worse unless it’s willing to step up and make some changes, millions of frustrated Americans wondered this week why the nation’s struggling mental health system couldn’t just snap out of its f... |
Today I finally did it. The day I had been putting off but knew I needed to do. I took down all of the photos of my son, Haze, that hinted he could have been anything other than your typical boy. I took down the one of him in a tutu, layer upon layer of tulle, swallowing his little one-year-old frame. I remember giddil... |
Image copyright Thinkstock Image caption The NHS is rich in data and Google is the world's biggest data mining firm Google's artificial intelligence unit DeepMind is getting serious about healthcare - with ambitious plans to digitise the NHS - but first it needs to convince patients to hand over their medical records. ... |
According to a report from The Washington Post, White House Communications Director Omarosa Manigault was harassed and called "Trump's whore" by fellow customers on Saturday while bridesmaid dress shopping for her upcoming nuptials to fiancé John Allen Newman, a pastor from Florida. Manigault, 43, and her five bridesma... |
New Jersey Squanders Transit By Surrounding Stations With Sprawl New Jersey is the most population-dense state in the country, and many residents get to work via one of its several transit systems. But too many of New Jersey’s transit stations are surrounded by single-family housing, severely limiting the number of peo... |
Mark your calendars for March 4th and 5th. There's a brand new by-developers/for-developers conference called Code PaLOUsa. Inspired by the instantaneously-sold-out CodeMash (including the non-profit part), Code PaLOUsa is in downtown Louisville, KY at the Seelbach Hotel. There are a whole bunch of great speakers lined... |
And the industry has already had one of its first failures: Tinker Tailor, which made custom luxury women’s apparel, closed last year after funding dried up. These are still early days for 3-D printing, said Uli Becker, the former chief executive of Reebok and an investor in Feetz. The offerings are not very diversifie... |
The medicine has relatively minor side effects and appears to have prolonged the lives of patients who have stage four lung cancer. CIMAvax stimulates the body's immune system to fight the lung cancer. In this way it's a vaccine, but one that you take to stop the spread of late-stage cancer rather than prevent it in th... |
You can’t save daylight by moving around the hands on your clock, of course. So daylight saving time remains as absurdly named as it ever was. The general pointlessness of DST was the subject of a Rachel Maddow interview Friday (video below) with the author of a whole book (!) on the subject. What’s germane here is tha... |
This is the eighth and final post in my “Get a job, Ken!” series. In this post I’ll talk about what follows job interviews: job offers, second visits, the negotiation process, and signing the contract. The Job Offer After each interview I was given an approximate timeline for the committee’s decision. Once that timelin... |
President Obama has presented Congress with a spending request of $3.8 trillion for the next fiscal year in 2011, but with a third of it not paid for with taxes, thus resulting in a $1.3 trillion deficit (a whopping 8.3 percent of GDP). The small piece of good news is that this deficit is smaller as a portion of the na... |
Goblin fans will be treated to a special episode on January 14 in place of a supposed Episode 14 slot. Unlike the special episode presented by The Legend of the Blue Sea over a week ago, which only consisted of a review of the past 13 episodes, Goblin will instead dedicate the special screening to explain the complexit... |
A Portland judge dealt a crushing blow to one of Portland’s most prominent real-estate developers, Jordan Schnitzer, by denying his attempt to keep his former girlfriend from seeing the baby they created using his sperm, her egg and a surrogate. Multnomah County Circuit Judge Amy Holmes Hehn on Tuesday declared Cory Sa... |
A Bognor Regis police sergeant who visited women for sex romps during his night shifts has been sacked from the force. Alan Ward, an officer with Sussex Police, admitted to a misconduct hearing that he met two women on 27 out of 56 shifts between January and September. He had been reported by colleagues, police reveale... |
WASHINGTON -- Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) defended Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney on Sunday for his opposition to the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, saying he supports the principle of equal pay for women but not the bill itself because it could be a boon for trial lawyers. "I think anyone who is working out ... |
14th annual Superior Chili Fest partners with first-year Boulder Valley Beer Fest Flatz restaurant employees Hannah Brennan, left, and Sean Rush load up a tray of chili during a past Superior Chili Festival. The annual festival returns to Superior Community Park on Sept. 6. (Doug Pike / Hometown Weekly file photo) Chil... |
A woman says her four-year-old therapy dog has been shot and killed by a hunter who mistook the animal for a wolf near Whistler. Vale Calderoni said she and another handler were finishing a hike with 10 dogs on Monday when she heard a loud bang and instinctively crouched down. “It was really, really loud, right next to... |
RALEIGH - The North Carolina House has passed a bill allowing alcohol sales on Sunday mornings. The proposal approved Tuesday would let local governments pass ordinances permitting restaurants and retailers like grocery stores to begin selling alcohol at 10 a.m. on Sundays. Currently, beer, wine and liquor sales are pr... |
EMPLOYMENT Crafting a resume that will grab recruiters Some old rules no longer apply. Creativity can help, but going too far can ruin your chances for a job. In these tough times, many companies are concerned with just staying afloat. Show how you can boost revenue, increase productivity or cut costs for your prospect... |
Economists use a range of goods to gauge consumer prices in different countries around the world. Beer is one consumable that can be used for such purposes, although not often omitted. I believe this is because unlike a bottle of Coca-Cola, the local varieties of beer can result in significant price differences. Which ... |
So we are lucky to still be in the Europa League after last night’s performance and victory via an penalty shoot-out. I thought it was a very poor performance and there are some things that we really need to eradicate if we are to continue with our European adventure. The first thing that the players don’t seem to have... |
Get A Free P-38 Get a free P-38 (Best Army Invention Ever) if you sign up for our mailing list! Click this link: Free P-38 We’d love for you to repost this link on facebook, moto bulletin boards, local moto clubs and email listservs, or just email it around to your moto buddies. That’s what we’re hoping will happen. As... |
U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross is warning that his country will extract "concessions" from Canada and Mexico in renegotiations of the North American free-trade agreement, and that a deal likely will not be finished until late next year. While U.S. President Donald Trump last month spoke only of "tweaking" the trad... |
Mark your calendars! Sept. 9 is hereby declared Debugging Day. It's been associated with removing bugs for more than 50 years now but is rarely formally celebrated. So let's start the tradition this year. It all began with a log entry from 1947 by Harvard University's Mark II technical team. The now-classic entry featu... |
The Bloomington, Illinois Police Department has just announced that a grand jury has indicted Gabriella Calhoun. Calhoun is an honor student who says that she was knocked unconscious by police after being assaulted by an officer. But the police have a different account that they are sticking to, claiming that Calhoun w... |
There are roughly 256,000 apartment units in the City of Toronto, and let’s face it: There is very little to recommend most of them besides affordability and not having to traipse to the laundromat. By the spring of 2011, after three-and-a-half years, I was well sick of my Yonge-and-Eglinton one-bedroom. It was big, bu... |
Story highlights About 10,000 people join a rally in support of ERT workers, police say "We are in a state of shock. The news is overwhelming," says an ERT journalist New unemployment figures show another increase, to 27.4% overall A new radio and TV broadcaster will be set up with fewer staff, government says Greek wo... |
The FCA Alumni web site hopes to chronicle the experiences, memories and achievements of life in one of Florida's most popular boarding schools. We are always looking for photos or stories related to FCA life. If you would like to share stories or photos, please contact us. We will have a email contact address soon. Al... |
(Inoyamanaka79) (Inoyamanaka79) Walmart has agreed to pay more than $4.8 million in back pay and damages to more than 4,500 current and former vision center managers and asset protection coordinators. The workers had been treated by Walmart as exempt from overtime requirements but were found by the Department of Labor ... |
Of all the information that came out of the infamous Sony hack a couple years ago, one of the most intriguing and ridiculous things we found out was Sony was tossing around the possibility of crossing over the 21 Jump Street franchise with Men in Black. After we let that thought simmer for a while, that actually sounde... |
CO 2 stored slowly in the deep solid earth and released rapidly from continents has had a much greater role in shaping climate variations than previously thought stored slowly in the deep solid earth and released rapidly from continents has had a much greater role in shaping climate variations than previously thought C... |
If you don’t know the names, Kevin and Elizabeth Schatz, Lydia Schatz, or Michael Pearl’s book, To Train Up A Child , you should. Kevin and Elizabeth are the names of two parents convicted, respectively, of murder and manslaughter in the case of their 7 year-old daughter Lydia. Pearl is the self-proclaimed minister/aut... |
The Donald got nixed. On Friday morning a rep from Donald Trump's Manhattan organization asked the city's top cop to let the candidate speak to a 3 p.m. roll call at the NYPD Midtown North Precinct. The request came in the wake of the murders of five Dallas police officers Thursday during a protest over police shooting... |
Mexico drought is worst in 70 years MEXICO A cow tries to eat from a dried out cactus on a field near the city of Torreon, Mexico, Thursday Dec. 1, 2011. Mexico is seeing the worst drought since 1941, when the country began recording rainfall. Drought will continue to plague northern Mexico during the winter months, an... |
Planned Parenthood shut down its website Wednesday after it was hit by a second cyberattack within one week. Officials confirmed Wednesday evening that the group was hit by a “denial of service attack” — a tactic that sends massive amounts of traffic to a site at one time to shut it down. ADVERTISEMENT “We deeply regre... |
In order to make sense of his life, a white-collar widower decides he has to tear it all down in “Demolition,” dismantling appliances, smashing furniture and even going so far as to bulldoze his own house in search of a catharsis that never comes. It all could have gone horribly awry, were it not for the top-of-their-g... |
ALMOST 150 Melburnians cycled through the city wearing only their helmets yesterday, stripping for what organisers called an ''all-purpose naked protest'' that ''exposed the vulnerability of cyclists on our roads''. The World Naked Bike Ride was a family event, said organiser Heidi Hill, with counterparts in London, Ro... |
A hacker group known as “Lizard Squad” has claimed responsibility for attacks targeting both Microsoft’s Xbox Live and Sony’s PlayStation Network (PSN) on Wednesday evening. FROM EARLIER: The iPhone 6 might be low-res, but Apple’s highest-resolution device ever is coming soon Microsoft’s Xbox Live went down for Xbox 36... |
Twenty years ago, a signal cabin controlled its last trains on the London Underground, but now a team of enthusiasts are attempting to restore this lost piece of tube history to working order. The remarkable signal cabin was not just ensuring that passengers trains ran along the Central line, but was also one of the la... |
Is your cable television on the fritz? One explanation, scientists suspect, may be the weather — the weather in space, that is. MIT researchers are investigating the effects of space weather — such as solar flares, geomagnetic storms and other forms of electromagnetic radiation — on geostationary satellites, which prov... |
Microsoft has released patches for two critical security vulnerabilities that affect every supported version of Windows. The software giant released the patches Tuesday as part of its monthly release of security updates. All users running Windows Vista and later -- including Windows 10 -- are affected by two flaws, whi... |
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