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I live in a three-story townhouse with a single heating/cooling zone. It's very common for the different levels to be at slightly different temperatures. In order to monitor the temperature and humidity I've created a simple ESP8266-based device which tracks that data and sends it to Home Assistant via MQTT. Hardware T... |
Temperature readings from the Arctic and Antarctic used to estimate the effects of global warming are nothing more than guesswork, a climate researcher has said. Dr Benny Peiser heads up the Global Warming Policy Foundation, which last month announced its intention to launch a wide-ranging review of the data underpinni... |
Protesters gathered outside of Ontario Housing Minister Chris Ballard's Basic Income Guarantee consultation on Thursday evening, demanding the province bypass its proposed pilot project that wouldn't be complete before the 2018 election. THUNDER BAY -- Most of the 50 people demonstrating outside of Ontario's basic inco... |
With the mounting allegations of sexual harassment and predatory behavior against Kevin Spacey, author and journalist Gay Talese had some choice words for the “House of Cards” star’s first accuser. Speaking to media at an event in New York City, Talese was asked for his thoughts on the recent litany of people coming fo... |
After yesterday’s news that Brad Pitt, of all people, was being lined up to play Nathan Summers, another name has been added to the ever-growing list of actors who are being mooted to play Cable in Deadpool 2: Man of Steel’s Michael Shannon. The Hollywood Reporter are, uhh, reporting that Michael Shannon is “leading th... |
TL;DR: I sent a friend a link to Kotaku that had the word pizza, and a Dominos ad showed up magically at the top of my browser. I disabled my settings not knowing these are enabled by default. Long version: Today I was surfing Kotaku for kicks and started laughing as I was skipping through the YouTube video / article a... |
Share If you recall just a day ago, First Lady Melania Trump sparked a viral storm after she refused to hold the hand of the President following her arrival in Tel Aviv, Israel. While rumors have been circulating that the President and First Lady’s marriage is on the rocks, there hadn’t been all too much evidence of su... |
Players who are stunned by a Scout now take 50% less damage Increased the minimum distance to stun a player with the Sandman Fixed problem where clients were unable to join a team or maintain a connection to the server Fixed Scout taunt kill achievement firing for people who didn't actually qualify Fixed client crash i... |
Author: Hemingway watched Che’s firing squad massacres ‘while sipping Daiquiris’ Author Humberto Fontova says you don’t know squat about Cuba. “[A]lmost everything most people (except Cuban exiles) think they know about Cuba isn’t just wrong — it’s almost the exact opposite of the truth,” Fontova, a refugee from Castro... |
Central banks will use distributed ledger technology (DLT) to settle high-value interbank payments within the next five to ten years, predicts the chief executive of Ripple. Brad Garlinghouse was speaking to Bloomberg at the recent FinTech Festival in Singapore which has gathered the great and good of the fintech marke... |
The bar above this text allows you to do several important functions. Undo & Redo: Forward or backward action that allows you to go back to earlier selections, undo your last action, or go forward to your most recent change. Reset: refreshes the entire page to let you start from scratch. Share: provides two options 1) ... |
Washington (AFP) - Donald Trump's controversial senior adviser Steve Bannon will have a permanent seat at White House National Security Council (NSC) meetings, solidifying his role as one of the most powerful members of the president's inner circle. In an executive memorandum signed on Saturday, Trump elevated Bannon, ... |
+ T - Поделиться: Над Сирией безоблачное небо, и это порождает некоторую тесноту в воздухе. Россия требует «очистить» лазурь от американских самолетов. Пентагон отклоняет это предложение, тем не менее фронтовая авиация РФ бомбит объекты в пригороде Хомса, неформальной «столицы сирийской революции», что возбуждает новые... |
Advertisement This map shows how Europe would look if every separatist movement was granted its dream of independence. With the Scottish referendum just days away, the issue of regions breaking away from their traditional rulers is looming large over the continent. The map features well-known separatist movements, such... |
NYPD Officer Larry Jackson was awarded $15 million by the city after he was falsely arrested and beaten by police inside his own home in 2010, according to his lawyer. View Full Caption Flickr/s_falkow QUEENS — An off-duty NYPD officer who was falsely arrested and beaten by fellow officers inside his own home was award... |
Pope Francis greets the crowd before his general audience at St Peter's square on October 30, 2013 at the Vatican. AFP PHOTO / GABRIEL BOUYS (Photo credit should read GABRIEL BOUYS/AFP/Getty Images) An Italian magazine is reporting that the National Security Agency (NSA) spied on internal communications at the Vatican ... |
For the first time, the State Department on Wednesday declared China and Russia among the worst offending countries on human trafficking, a designation that will lead to sanctions against both countries. With the release of the State Department’s 2013 report on Trafficking in Persons (TIP), the State Department officia... |
Captain Underpants and the Sensational Saga of Sir Stinks-A-Lot is the twelfth and final book in the Captain Underpants series, written and illustrated by Dav Pilkey.[1] The book continues after the eleventh book, as George, Harold, and their clones switch places, but to find their gym teacher Mr. Meaner turning into S... |
(CBS) —Garrett McNamara now has the Guinness World Record for the largest wave ever surfed after riding a 78-footer in November off the coast of Nazare, Portugal. Mike Parson had the previous mark, riding a 77-footer off the Southern California coast in 2008. The ruling became official on Friday by a panel of experts f... |
Increased snowfall will not prevent the continued melting of glaciers in the northern Antarctic Peninsula, according to new research published in the journal Nature Climate Change. An international team of researchers, led by Dr Bethan Davies, from Royal Holloway, University of London, has discovered that small glacier... |
In a moment when the powers at be can't even fund the country’s shambling roads and bridges, the 2,000 organizers and volunteers who run Burning Man put together—and then take apart—a 70,000-person city in the space of two months. — Wired As Burning Man is taking it's 31st annual round, Wired takes a look at how the fa... |
Customs and Border Patrol analyst Phil Haney tracked members of the Islamist Deobandi movement with which Sayed Farook and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, were affiliated. But the Department of Homeland Security deleted the records, then disciplined and retaliated against him when he blew the whistle, he says. Haney said he ... |
A New York judge has ordered Twitter to divulge the tweets and account information allegedly connected to an Occupy protester. The case, which the judge called one of "first impression," concerns Malcolm Harris, who was among hundreds arrested Oct. 1 in an Occupy movement march along the Brooklyn Bridge. Prosecutors so... |
New relapsing MS medications recommended for the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme At the November meeting of the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee (PBAC), two new medications for the treatment of relapsing remitting MS received positive recommendations for inclusion on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme. A modif... |
(Andrew Harnik / Associated Press) Hillary Clinton has widened her lead over Donald Trump in Wisconsin, a virtual must-win state for the Republican, and now outpaces him by 15 points among likely voters, the state's leading poll has found. The numbers from the latest Marquette Law School poll in Wisconsin are the lates... |
Urban beehives are becoming more and more popular, offering people living in the city a chance to reconnect with nature and their communities whilst producing a sustainable local product and protecting our dwindling bee population. One concern though, is that the levels of pollutants and contaminants may be higher in h... |
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Ivy League Presidents Try Appeasement. With their campuses rocked by social justice protests, anxious Ivy League presidents are trying to appease campus radicals with huge payouts to left-wing identity programs. Peter Salovey, the president of Yale, apologized to protesters (“we failed y... |
In a measure of just how quickly medical marijuana has gone mainstream, the Florida Democratic Party has given $200,000 to People United for Medical Marijuana, the group pushing for passage of Amendment 2. The Dems in 2014 officially supported Amendment 2, but this month’s contribution represents the party’s first fina... |
Image copyright AFP/Getty Images Image caption There are 500,000 cars with VW engines registered in London, 80,000 of which were fitted with the "defeat devices" Car firm Volkswagen (VW) has said it will not pay the £2.5m the mayor of London claims it owes in missed congestion charge payments, following the 2015 emissi... |
The new Verizon MAP (minimum advertised list) is out and it includes two devices you have all been waiting for. First, you’ll see the Samsung Galaxy Nexus dropping in at a minimum price of $299 (contract price of course) followed by the HTC Rezound at that same $299 level. Those are pretty standard for all of Verizon’s... |
A NSW farmer has provided proof that size doesn't always matter in bush battle with a video of a daddy longlegs spider that ensnared a young brown snake. Weethalle cereals farmer Patrick Lees posted a video of the unlikely match-up on his "Aussie Farmer" Facebook page last Friday. Mr Lees said it was the first time he ... |
Two men were arrested Sunday night and early Monday in separate attempts to gain access to the White House grounds, according to the U.S. Secret Service. The first incident occurred about 11:30 p.m. along East Executive Avenue NW, near the Sherman monument. Brian Leary, a spokesman for the U.S. Secret Service, said a m... |
Coffee in my cup: Starbucks Verona Paper: Muji A5 Plantation Paper Sharpener: KUM Magnesium Single Pencil Cost: Staples: $5 [$1.67/dozen, $.14/pencil]; Amazon: $20 I purchased a pack of 36 Staedtler Norica HB #2 pencils at Staples yesterday for $5. That’s $1.67 per dozen or $.14 per pencil. Quite a deal for a high qual... |
What's the best way to describe the Canadian government's avoid-the-topic-at-all-costs approach to climate change? Critics have called climate-related media censorship under its 2006 communications policy "Byzantine," "Orwellian" and "definitely a scandal." We also might want to try, as Katie Gibbs, executive director ... |
Fast Track to Nowhere Don’t use newly approved drugs. In a surprise announcement, FDA officials recently advised consumers to avoid taking any new drugs approved by the agency. An FDA spokesman explained to reporters that drug approvals are often “fast tracked” so pharmaceutical companies can get valuable new drugs to ... |
The Fire Brigades Union have today voted to affiliate to the Labour Party – 11 years after breaking off ties. The decision was made at a special conference in Blackpool. The news that the union, which has 38,000 members, wants to rebuild links to Labour has been welcomed by Jeremy Corbyn who said the move “marks a mile... |
Foto: Scott Eells / Bloomberg News RIO - A inesperada anulação do processo de impeachment na Câmara caiu como uma “bomba” no mercado financeiro no início da tarde desta segunda-feira, fazendo com que, em poucos minutos, a Bolsa de Valores de São Paulo (Bovespa) despencasse 3,49% e o dólar disparasse 4,90%, a R$ 3,677. ... |
Vice President Mike Pence Michael (Mike) Richard PenceVenezuela's Maduro says he fears 'bad' people around Trump 'And the award for best political commentary by an Oscar nominee goes to...' UN nuclear watchdog: Iran maintains compliance with 2015 pact MORE on Friday delivered 13 boxes of emails to the Indiana Statehous... |
Please enable Javascript to watch this video HOWARD BEACH, Queens — A man is in police custody in connection with the murder of Howard Beach jogger Karina Vetrano, police sources said. The man, said to be in his 20s, was found in a housing project in East New York and is being questioned by police Saturday night, sourc... |
Story highlights Boston, Connecticut airports to reopen About 459,000 remain without power At least nine people are killed, including 14-year-old Boston boy Warnings are lifted as the blizzard heads out to sea The worst of the storm has passed, but the recovery effort is just beginning. A mammoth blizzard that dumped a... |
Friday, February 1st, 2013 (10:57 am) - Score 1,621 As expected the UK communications regulator, Ofcom, has today proposed to allow 4G (LTE) superfast Mobile Broadband services to also be delivered over the 900MHz, 1800MHz (EE are at present the only one allowed to do this) and 2100MHz radio spectrum bands that are cur... |
news Long-time Internode managing director Simon Hackett has broken his pledge to customers that he would continue to lead the company he founded after its acquisition, signalling today his intention to leave his formal executive role at Internode and instead take up a role on the board of Internode’s new parent iiNet.... |
After years of complaints from travelers, the TSA’s body scanners will no longer show a TSA officer physically revealing images of a scanned travelers. Replacing the previous image is a generic image of a passenger’s body. Along with its invasive pat-down searches, the scanners — or Advanced Imaging Technology systems ... |
I was thinking the other day how this 2014 Steelers offense has the potential to be one of the most diverse in recent memory. Over the past decade, we've alternately been able to run the ball well but were limited in the passing game (the Bus/Willie Parker years) and been able to throw it well but lacked an effective r... |
The Minnesota Vikings won't make a kicker swap yet, but working out some options this week seems to have concocted the intended desire. We posited Monday that the workouts could be a motivational tool to try and snap Blair Walsh out of his mental funk. According to special teams coordinator Mike Priefer, that's what ha... |
Our fire service has recently been issued with Motorola APX6000 portable radios. Unfortunately they weren't supplied with any sort of mount to secure them in our fire trucks. This design consists of a cavity shaped to accept the radio and a few different types of mounts design around the cavity including a basic cradle... |
Masada Backpacker hostel in Kota Kinabalu has both dorms and rooms. The dorms are approximately $8 per person which is pretty cheap while the Standard Twin room was $21 per person. We decided to take the Standard Twin room since we were going to be there for a while. The hostel was larger than we expected. There were r... |
An image of what is alleged to be Samsung's Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge has been leaked to CNET Korea. The publication mentioned that the leak came from a South Korean electronics distributor, with the image itself featuring a render of both the Galaxy S6 and a Note Edge -style variant of the device. The leftmost phon... |
The land that creates North Carolina existed long before European settlers took over. It's very old and very mysterious, with unexplained natural occurrences and legends that date back to the 1600's. Many legends began with the Native American people, to describe occurrences they could not explain -- and those strange,... |
I have to say my skepticism about this new medium has now disappeared. Without it, one wonders if all this could have happened. A reader notes a few facts: Ahmadinejad's and Khamenei's websites were taken down yesterday - I saw the latter go down within a couple of minutes because of a DDOS attack organised via Twitter... |
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