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Your browser does not support HTML5 video tag.Click here to view original GIF In The Martian, Mark Watney claims to be “the great botanist” on Mars—but is he really? Join us as we go down the rabbit hole to try and claim the greatest fictional Martian farmer crown for ourselves. Top Image: Greenhouse on Mars / NASA Wha... |
Vancouver's Queer Long Weekend Jam is back at Fortune Sound Club for an extra special PRIDE SUNDAY! To celebrate Babes on Babes: Pride Edition, we are bringing you 10 international & local Queer, Lesbian & Trans Deejays, 4 different party rooms with 4 different vibes including house, hiphop, trap, 90s & y2k jams, dance... |
a list of applications, alfred workflows and various tools that make my macOS experience even more amazing He use a lot of applications on his mac. Here is a list of the ones that he love and use the most in his day to day life, sorted by their importance this is by far his favorite application that he have. It saved h... |
He had received a call on Saturday evening from some of the protesting students he knew, AD recalled. They had apprehended trouble and requested him to keep his house open in case they needed to take shelter, he added. Tension was building up through Saturday when girl students came out on the street to have a word wit... |
Last week Microsoft released Windows 10 build 16288 which causes a problem that prevented the Surface Pro 3 from starting up after being shutdown. Today Microsoft have posted a workaround to get the Surface up and running and prevent it from happening again. Future builds (>16294) will include the fix but if you are af... |
Description: FIELD The subject matter herein relates to implementation of bit-fields in computer software. More specifically, the subject matter herein relates to a set of bit-field macros that can be used to implement compiler-independent bit-fields. BACKGROUND Sometimes programmers desire to subdivide a single “machi... |
Holdover 'The Fate of the Furious' continues to rule the road as new offerings 'Phoenix Forgotten' and 'Free Fire' also sink; the only new film to hold its own is Disney nature doc 'Born in China.' It is bombs away at the Friday box office, where four out of five new films are badly struggling, according to early retur... |
A flurry of economic numbers were released this morning, many of which provide important updates on the state of the American economy. The numbers, which include MBA Mortgage Applications, Personal Spending, and Initial jobless claims, give progress reports about various intimate aspects of the American lifestyle. The ... |
Just as Donald Trump broke through the “blue wall” of Democratic-leaning states for his upset win, Marine Le Pen hopes that populist rage will enable her to break through the “republican front” blocking her way to the French presidency. The high polling numbers for the leader of France’s far-right National Front make i... |
What if Obama had 'reached out' to white voters the way Trump talks about African Americans? President Obama addresses the National Urban League Conference in New Orleans on July 25, 2012. (Photo: Bill Haber, AP) Imagine if Barack Obama were running for president now. Struggling at the polls after a clumsy convention f... |
Blynk is a new platform that allows you to quickly build interfaces for controlling and monitoring your hardware projects from your iOS and Android device. After downloading the Blynk app, you can create a project dashboard and arrange buttons, sliders, graphs, and other widgets onto the screen. Using the widgets, you ... |
Good news for Pocket Edition players wielding Windows Phones: if you can update your phone’s operating system to Windows 10 Mobile, you’ll automatically receive an upgrade to the Windows 10 Mobile version of Minecraft for free! What does that mean? It means Achievements! It means Realms! It means a torrent of awesome n... |
As the Lok Sabha poll is approaching, CPI(M) seniors are receiving bulk offers from Arvind Kejriwal's Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) to join the party and fight elections. A top CPI(M) leader said Tuesday that after the party veteran VS Achuthanandan, other Central Committee (CC) members too, have been offered Lok Sabha tickets... |
Greg convincingly describes how the issue of abortion is truly no different than the issue of slavery. The issue to be considered is the issue of human rights. Let me ask you a question. Are you against slavery? Do you believe that the issue of slavery is a moral position? Are laws legislating that particular moral pos... |
San Diego commuters who switch from driving a car to riding public transportation can save an average $883 a month and $10,592 a year, according to the national transit advocacy coalition American Public Transportation Association. In the group's monthly "Transit Savings Report," San Diego is 10th in savings among the ... |
How We Made It: Greg Koch and Steve Wagner The founders of Stone Brewing Co. have earned a cult-like following for their powerful, bitter Southern California beers. After struggling early, it has become one of the largest craft breweries in the U.S. Stone, a private company with 556 employees, sells many of its beers i... |
Deciding his character issues outweighed his enormous talent and salary-cap hit, the New Orleans Saints will release outside linebacker Junior Galette pending a physical, his agent, Alvin Keels Jr., confirmed to The Associated Press. Galette, 27, signed a four-year, $41.5 million contract extension last September. But ... |
Last week, Jack White took in a Chicago Cubs baseball game, and thus, Sad Jack White became the Internet’s new favorite meme. This evening, White headed back to the ballpark, this time in his hometown of Detroit. The Tigers happen to be celebrating Christmas in July, which might explain the above selfie. Yet, when it c... |
Photo by: John Dixon/The News-Gazette Melander Holdings employees Mark Kolb, left, and Leonel Nieto push a scaffold in front of the old Carmon's location in September 2012 in downtown Champaign after removing the neon letters that were on the front of the building for decades to make way for a sign for The Wedge Tequil... |
In the current scenario, CRM is very much popular in the corporate market due to its effectivity in creating customer relationship & increasing the market share. Here are seven benefits of CRM that can change your perspective which is as follow: Improved customer experience The foremost benefit of CRM is that it has a ... |
The team behind Trezor has announced an accessory for the Raspberry Pi that will turn it into a, somewhat chunky, Trezor wallet. Trezor is a dongle-sized computer that can be used to hold private keys and sign transactions. The project is still in its early days and its developers have made it open source so that anyon... |
The sutures in the skulls of young mammals have been advanced as a beautiful adaptation for aiding parturition , and no doubt they facilitate, or may be indispensable for this act; but as sutures occur in the skulls of young birds and reptiles, which have only to escape from a broken egg, we may infer that this structu... |
Voting began on Sunday in two pro-Russian separatist entities in eastern Ukraine in elections that Kyiv and the West have refused to recognize. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has described the polls in the self-declared "Donetsk People's Republic" and "Luhansk People's Republic" as "pseudo-elections" organized by... |
A Texas public school district is being criticized for not only posting Christian quotes on its walls. Many of the quotes are totally made up, according to the Freedom From Religion Foundation. Mount Vernon Independent School District painted quotes on walls that include this: “It is impossible to govern a nation witho... |
For the ones who are not aware of this amazing website, IMDB literally means Internet Movies Database. IMDB is “the world’s most popular and authoritative source for movie, TV and celebrity content” and by “popular”, we mean it: the website brings over 160 million visitors per month. IMDB visitors are mainly: Movies an... |
We know that Google has a growing appetite for buying enterprise companies. Here’s a bit of news to grease the rumor mill. The search giant is partnering with Box, the cloud storage company, to deliver more of Google’s apps to paying business clients. The companies announced the tie-up at the BoxWorks event on Wednesda... |
Two schoolgirls in China have committed suicide in an attempt to travel back in time. The girls decided to end their lives after one of them lost a remote control to a door, China Daily reports, via People's Daily. Xiao Hua told her best friend and fellow classmate, Xiao Mei, that she was worried about coming clean to ... |
We tell our kids they should aim for great things. Be the best student, make it to team captain, get the main role in the theatre play. We celebrate when they succeed and offer comfort when they fall short. We think we make their goals our own, when in truth they are often fighting for ours. It’s scary how excess has b... |
The BBC has approved a plan to transform the BBC 3 linear channel into an online-only service. Talk of shuttering BBC 3 as a linear service has been in the the air for some time. The BBC Trust on Tuesday released its provisional conclusions on a series of proposals from the Beeb’s executive branch. Regarding the BBC 3,... |
Horst Christian Simco[3] (born January 29, 1982), known professionally as Riff Raff (often stylized as RiFF RAFF),[4] is an American rapper from Houston, Texas.[5] He was originally managed by Swishahouse co-founder OG Ron C.[6] After being associated with rapper and producer Soulja Boy's imprint S.O.D. Money Gang Inc.... |
Nicholas Andrew turned up in village with broken arm and leg after his car careered into a ravine, killing a passenger A Malaysian man seriously injured in a car accident crawled through jungle for three days before arriving at an isolated village. The man, identified as Nicholas Andrew, showed up at the village on Wed... |
Amid historic flooding, people in Houston are abandoning their waterlogged cars in the streets and leaving their homes for higher ground. (Monica Akhtar/The Washington Post) (This post has been updated.) A flood event of excessive proportions has crippled Houston and a vast region surrounding it. Five to 17 inches of r... |
What happens when your political or ideological views are contradicted by the consensus of scientific opinion regarding the evidence? It appears that a common reaction (depending on how strongly held the ideological views are) is to reject science. Not only do people reject the science specific to their issue, they rej... |
BIRMINGHAM, Alabama - Peter M. Johnson took a winding path to become the first black Mormon regional leader in Alabama. Johnson grew up in New York, was recruited to play college basketball for a Mormon university in Hawaii, later moved to Utah and worked as an accountant in Salt Lake City, before eventually taking a j... |
Delineations of Fonthill (1823) View of the west and north fronts from John Rutter's(1823) Cross section of the Abbey (Rutter, 1823) The Abbey's hall (Rutter, 1823) Fonthill Abbey—also known as Beckford's Folly—was a large Gothic revival country house built between 1796 and 1813 at Fonthill Gifford in Wiltshire, Englan... |
Travis Kalanick, Founder and CEO of Uber. (Photo: WILL OLIVER, EPA) NEW YORK — Uber Technologies is battling efforts by a handful of drivers to sue the ride-hailing company on behalf of the company's entire California fleet. Thursday, Uber asked a San Francisco federal judge to reject the request by the drivers — Dougl... |
A few weeks ago, Adela Cortina, one of the most important moral philosophers in Spain, was interviewed on the journal El País. “This should be the easiest interview in the world,” said the journalist by way of introduction. Adela Cortina asked why. “Because of your profession. Professors of Ethics never lie, right?” “P... |
We are excited to announce the immediate availability of Micro instances for Amazon EC2, a new, low cost instance type designed for lower throughput applications and web sites. Micro instances provide 613 MB of memory and support 32-bit and 64-bit platforms on both Linux and Windows. Micro instance pricing for On-Deman... |
REP. STENY HOYER (D-MD): We just announced that we're going to be going back to Congress a week from now and we're going to put a discharge petition in and get the minimum wage on the calendar. We hope our Republican colleagues will join us so that we give the incentive for people to work, and when they work, they won'... |
Acclaimed comic book writer and novelist Warren Ellis has recently returned to DC to work on the characters that made him a household name among comic book fans. He has curated a new pop-up imprint called WildStorm and is authoring the imprint's first title, a complex, sophisticate thriller called THE WILD STORM, which... |
4th Amendment Search and Seizure Protections The Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects personal privacy, and every citizen's right to be free from unreasonable government intrusion into their persons, homes, businesses, and property -- whether through police stops of citizens on the street, arrests, or sea... |
SHA-2 (Secure Hash Algorithm) – is a set of cryptographic algorithms – single-aimed hash functions including SHA-224, SHA-256, SHA-384 and SHA-512. Hash functions are designed to create “imprints” of messages of a random bit length. They are used in various applications or components related to information security. SH... |
Several members of the Afghan security forces were killed on Friday when a US military aircraft opened fire during an overnight operation in Helmand province, according to officials. The incident took place in the Loy Bagh area of Nad Ali district on Friday, said Razia Baluch, a provincial council member from the south... |
The state of Washington switched to a mail-in voting system back in 1993. It has done wonders for voter participation, with 84.61% of registered voters returning their ballot in the 2008 election. Even in mid-term elections, the state of Washington had a 71.24% turnout of registered voters in 2010. In absence of mailin... |
Remember the sacrifice of Noble Team who ensured one of humanity’s darkest hours became one of our finest. Remember where it all began. Remember Reach. Available for a limited time, each Memories of Reach REQ Pack includes 3 Permanent REQs, if available*, selected from 12 new REQs launched with the Memories of Reach co... |
A School Security Expert on Why Giving Guards AR-15s Isn’t the Best Way to Protect Students A Colorado district bought 10 military-style guns. They would be better off focusing on “environmental design,” John White says. A Colorado school district is arming up. Beginning in May, 10 authorized security officers in Dougl... |
Billions of cubic meters of natural gas is flared annually at oil production sites around the globe. Flaring gas wastes a valuable energy resource that could be used to support economic growth and progress. It also contributes to climate change by releasing millions of tons of CO2 to the atmosphere. During oil producti... |
A Pink member Bomi recently revealed her own ranking of fellow group members based on their looks in real life. On the August 9 broadcast of KBS 2TV’s variety program “The Human Condition,” Bomi made an appearance by joining the cast, which included Kim Sook, Kim Ji Min, Kim Young Hee, Chun Yi Seul, and Park Eun Ji for... |
Pentagon wanted to arm the Syrian opposition Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey were in favor of the plan last year advocated by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and CIA Director David Petraeus to arm the Syrian opposition, Dempsey testified Thursday. On Feb. 2, the New Yo... |
Expand Dmitri Bulatov at the corner of Bankovskaya and Luteranskaya street in Kiev, 3 December 2013 (Kiev) – One of the leaders of Kiev’s protest movement has been missing since January 22, 2014. Dmytro Bulatov, 35, is the third protest activist who has disappeared in the past week. Human Rights Watch called on Ukraini... |
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