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Columbus police will review their recruit-training procedures after a tumultuous morning in which three cruisers were wrecked in a chain-reaction crash, and tear gas carried by wind to an elementary school irritated the throats and eyes of several children and a pregnant, asthmatic teacher.
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In a secret operation that took five years to complete, Germany’s central bank moved 374 metric tons of gold, worth around $15 billion, out of vaults in Paris. The final batch of 91 metric tons was shifted back to Frankfurt this year, the bank announced yesterday.
The bank is keeping a fair share of its gold in New Yo... |
This Friday, Patrick Brice‘s V/H/S-esque Creep series continues with a new tape and more insanity from Aaron (Mark Duplass).
While initially pegged as a trilogy, Brice revealed at the Telluride Horror Show that the films were pre-sold on one condition, that there be two sequels.
Meredith Borders led an interesting an... |
This week, we’re doing something slightly different than usual. Similarly to last month, I played in the Magic Online Legacy Challenge and did not do well. This will be a short tournament of sorts, although this time around, the bigger picture things are not nearly as interesting as some of the smaller decisions I had ... |
Ted Aljibe / AFP | Philippine Senator Leila De Lima is escorted by police officers and her lawyer Alex Padilla) after her arrest at the Senate in Manila on February 24, 2017.
The highest-profile critic of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's brutal drug war was arrested Friday on charges supporters said were meant t... |
Date: January 15, 2016
Location: Indiana State Fairgrounds; Indianapolis, IN
Commentary: Ian Riccaboni & Mr. Wrestling #3
Dalton Castle (w/The Boys) vs Will Ferrara
No Kevin Kelly tonight on commentary, he must have been still recovering from not contributing at all to the NJPW commentary on January 4th & 5th. It’s... |
Xiaomi‘s second anniversary in India is coming up and to celebrate, the company is planning a massive three-day festival of price drops, flash sales and giveaways. Between July 20-22, Xiaomi fans in the sub-continent will get to enjoy all manner of discounts, games, surprises and other things designed to make buying el... |
In a strange crime that involved an unusually high risk-to-reward ratio, a Fort McMurray, Alta. thief risked fiery death in exchange for a few dollars of stolen gasoline.
“That’s the messaging we want to get out there, ‘hey, this isn’t the safest thing to be doing if you’re a thief,’” said Cpl. George Cameron with the... |
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When you coordinate the worst pass defense in NFL history, your job is not safe.
Saints coach Rob Ryan is finding that out the hard way today, Alex Marvez of FOX Sports reports that the Saints are firing Ryan.
The Saints’ pass defense has been abysmal this season. Yesterday, Kirk Cousins torched the Sai... |
The New Jersey Devils All-Access Podcast is the official podcast of Jersey's Team. Join hosts Arda Ocal and Amanda Stein as they bring you up to speed on everything happening with the Devils - on and off the ice.
Each week, Arda and Amanda will dive below the headlines and final scores to give you the lowdown on what'... |
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Shadow chancellor Ed Balls: "A VAT cut is the fastest and fairest way to do a temporary boost to demand to get confidence moving"
Labour shadow chancellor Ed Balls has called for "decisive action ... to boost growth", offering suggestions for tax cuts in next ... |
A German group that has made headlines – and drawn criticism – worldwide by organizing mass marches against the supposed "Islamisation of Europe" has now spawned a chapter in the United Kingdom, one that wants to hold demonstrations in two English cities in the coming weeks.
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Visiting Bratislava for the second time now, I gathered some ultimate tips to master the cute city during a weekend trip. Check the previous post about Bratislava I wrote to have more tips for a weekend in Bratislava. So, let’s go, 10 things you can do.
#1 Join a free walking tour
We run into the tour by accident and... |
At the big anti-carbon-tax rally in Calgary on Sunday, about 1,000 Albertans gathered to register their opposition to the carbon tax, the NDP government … and the media.
Haley Jarmain, a 23-year-old student and part-time reporter, was there to cover the rally for NewsTalk 770, the big talk radio station in Calgary.
A... |
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Cops in Casey Anthony Case Missed Internet Search for 'Fool-Proof Suffication'
Police investigating the disappearance of Caylee Anthony overlooked an Internet search for the misspelled phrase “fool-proof suffication” on the family computer.
The pr... |
A conservative group filed suit on Monday seeking to remove special counsel Robert Mueller from the Justice Department's investigation into Russian meddling.
Conservative lawyer Larry Klayman, the founder of the watchdog group FreedomWatch, filed a complaint in U.S. district court that seeks to force the Justice Depar... |
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Footie ace Mamadou Sakho moves into Liverpool boss Brendan Rodgers’ marital home in what looks like the weirdest transfer of the s... |
LG G Flex 2 coming to South Africa April 2015, exclusive to Vodacom
South Africa has announced that its first-quarter flagship, the LG G Flex 2, will be available to the South African market from April 2015, which is a long time to wait in all honesty.
The phone is definitely one of the more daring additions to the l... |
Tinkering with systemd’s predictable network names
I’ve talked about predictable network names (and seemingly unpredictable ones) on the blog before, but some readers asked me how they could alter the network naming to fit a particular situation. Oddly enough, my Supermicro 5028D-T4NT has a problem with predictable na... |
Hello my dearies and Happy Valentine’s Day from Key Biscayne, Florida. Marc and I have escaped the kids for four days and are down here enjoying the deep ocean views on a little romantic getaway.
Yesterday, I caught up with some of my dearest college friends and law school buddies. My friend Ana and I attended both co... |
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With two days of mysterious teasers popping up on the band’s website, leaving everyone scratching their heads at what was up, we finally have answers.
Premiered by BBC Radio 6’s Chris Hawkins, the new single The System Only Dreams In Total Darkness is the first cutting from the band’s long-awaite... |
Republicans Block Effort To Repeal 1099 Tax Reporting Rules
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After spending much of the past eight months or so criticizing the new 1099 reporting requirements contained in the Affordable Care Act, and even trying to repeal them back in July, Republicans are now blocking a Democratic eff... |
The Hilarious Reason Ezra Miller Is Excited For Fantastic Beasts and Justice League By Conner Schwerdtfeger Random Article Blend Ezra Miller is about to blow up in a major way. Although he's become an incredibly popular actor in smaller indie roles, he has never really stepped up to any major blockbusters -- until now.... |
A just-formed lobbying group of content producers, equipment makers and internet gatekeepers said Thursday that internet service providers should embrace filtering.
Behind the lobby are AT&T, Cisco Systems, Microsoft, NBC Universal,
Viacom and the Songwriters Guild of America. Among other things, the lobby, called Ar... |
Last year was kind of a tough time for MMORPGs, don’t you think? Of course, those MMORPGs that had already been going strong for some time continued doing what they do, but last year felt like a bloodbath for those entering the market.
Of course, there was all the drama surrounding ArcheAge as the game promptly set sa... |
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Apple CEO Tim Cook took the stage at the Newseum in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday to accept the institute's 2017 Free Expression Award, for which the tech mogul was honored in the Free Speech category. AppleInsider was there live, and offers highlights from the event.
Apple CEO Tim Cook (right) accepts Newse... |
Steve Biko once wrote, “I write what I like.” The founder of South Africa’s Black Consciousness Movement, he was also one of the students that launched the South African Students’ Organisation (SASO); Biko belonged to a generation that resisted apartheid, in any manner that they could.
Biko was detained and interrogat... |
Zombie gameplay comes to XCOM 2 with War of the Chosen, the expansion launching next month on PlayStation 4, Windows PC and Xbox One. Here, Firaxis offers a look at the first mission within a mode so big the game's creative director said it could have become a full-on sequel.
In War of the Chosen, the player will make... |
Hundreds of migrants and refugees are storming the roads near the Channel Tunnel in Calais, some 'armed with iron bars and hammers,' according to reports.
According to a vigilante group in the French port town, there have been clashes between riot police and migrants as dozens tried to storm the tunnel and climb into ... |
Criticism is picking up again over Nestlé bottling B.C. water while wildfires burn across the province and a drought prompts water bans on residential use.
Nestlé — the world's biggest bottler of water — currently packages up more than 300 million litres of water from B.C. every year for free. Under new provincial rul... |
The people of Tottenham will not be electing a Conservative or Liberal Democrat MP three days from now or three decades from now either. The constituency and its predecessors covering the same north London patch have been returning Labour MPs since 1935. Tottenham is one of the party’s safest seats anywhere in Britain.... |
A new era for Ottawa Fury FC is already underway as the club prepares for its USL debut on April 1 in St. Louis. Part of the new era will see new leadership in the squad and on Thursday the club announced that midfielder Lance Rozeboom was appointed captain – the third in club history.
“Lance is a fantastic leader and... |
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While doing research for a book I was writing on wildfire, I posed two questions to a number of experts: “Do you think there will be another Fort McMurray-like fire in the future? If so, where do you think it will happen?”
Everyone agreed on the first question. Fort McMurray was not an ano... |
Even Wolf Blitzer Denounces Ted Cruz Birtherism (While Engaging In It)
RUSH: Listen to this real quick. This is Wolf Blitzer. This is CNN. This is after Ted Cruz’s announcement he’s running for president. He’s speaking with the national political correspondent for CNN, Peter Hamby, about Ted Cruz announcing his candid... |
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Dear friends, allies, and supporters of No One Is Illegal-Toronto,
As we move into another year, it’s important to take a step back and look at everything we were able to accomplish in 2010. Our victories, our most inspiring moments, and our growing links of solidarity, which are at the heart of the work we... |
The end of the Infinite Warfare season was signaled bytrophy at the Amway Center, confirming their position as the greatest Call of Duty team of all time. Whilst they were celebrating, rival professional players immediately got to work trying to work out how to beat the reigning champions when everything returned to bo... |
When confusion and misinformation get together in the dark, paranoia is born. Fears of war, violence, and oppression fester and grow in the minds of the populace pushing everything but a misguided assurance of certain doom into the shadows. Out of this cramped and huddled mindset we get the bastardized half-brother of ... |
What's up, KFC? First you give us the Double Down and now you're Dublin Up? Indeed, the product planners at KFC China have come up with something unique: “Taste of Ireland” chicken!
The late Colonel Harlan Sanders could hardly have imagined that it would come to this. Thirty years after he sold his rights and interest... |
America’s favorite sex move is officially romance, according to a study of sexual behaviors published in PLOS One. Researchers found that couples—both men and women!—spurned watching pornographic movies for romantic ones, and preferred kissing during sex and whispering sweet nothings to BDSM and rough sex.
“We imagine... |
Canadian football is a game built on stars. Those guys you see on all the flashy television game promos and on billboards around your town, they’re how teams hope to get you to games. We connect with stars because we want something to cheer for or against. With so much player movement in the CFL off-season we want some... |
What is Detailing?
Part One - Washing
Detailing is more than just a term used to describe a niche in the car wash industry. It's much more than just a term used to describe cleaning cars. Detailing is a mindset. A lifestyle. An industry of people who are so neurotic, so obsessed with perfection, that they spend their... |
(I’m still looking for a new position. Please check out my resume and contact me if you’re looking for a great Perl developer.)
Perhaps I should title this entry “Building a Slightly Less Horrible Form Library.” When I mentioned form processing in the Moose IRC channel recently, mst said “form modules are … satan”. Th... |
Rather than let all their sewage go to waste, the city of Oslo recently announced that it plans to cut carbon emissions by converting 80 public buses to run on biomethane generated from raw sewage. These poo-powered buses are part of the city’s plan to become carbon neutral by 2050, and stand to cut around 44 tonnes of... |
One of the items on my bucket list is to see the Northern Lights. I have always been fascinated by space, and this celestial phenomenon is something that I could feasibly see if I chose to do so. My Secret Santa put me one small step closer by gifting me my own personal aurora borealis! And if that weren't enough, they... |
Image copyright AP Image caption Huge numbers of people queued after the polls closed, amid accusations of poor planning
Votes are still being counted in Hong Kong after its first major election since the 2014 pro-democracy protests.
The announcement of full results was delayed by several hours because of the highest... |
Fears are growing for three mountaineers last seen relatively close to the summit of Gasherbrum I (8,068m) at around 2:00pm Friday the 9th March.
At 10:30am that day Austrian Gerfreid Goschl, using a Thuraya satellite phone, contacted someone in Austria to say he, Cedric Hahlen (Switzerland) and the accomplished Pakis... |
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I have really mixed feelings about healthy desserts.
That being said, today’s dessert is a rock star of a raw dessert that closely resembles our family favorite, Fruit Pizza. There’s no sugar cookie crust here – wahhhhh! But honestly, I’m going to blow your mind and my own mind right now... |
Ed Miliband is steadying the Labour ship. A win on school sports and support for electoral reform has been followed by a hard strike on the VAT rise. Recognising that 71% of voters didn't back Labour and new support has to come from somewhere, he has wisely opened up to the Liberal Democrats. Miliband also knows that L... |
The Hard Rock brand, owned by Florida’s Seminole Indians, may finally make its way to Atlantic City. An important meeting will be held on Thursday, January 28th, by the New Jersey Casino Control Commission, in order to potentially begin the process of approval for the brand to establish a casino on Atlantic City ground... |
Egyptian film “Youm Lel Setat” (A Day For Women) won the Grand Prize in the African Cinema Festival in Khouribga, Morocco. The film directed by prominent director Kamla Abu Zekry and starring Elham Shahin, Nelly Karim, Ahmed EL-Fishawy, and Mahmoud Hemida.
This comes only a few days after the film female stars Nelly K... |
Story highlights Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders appeared on NBC's "Tonight Show" on Tuesday
He criticized Donald Trump's proposed ban on all Muslims entering the United States
(CNN) Bernie Sanders condemned Donald Trump's call for a ban on Muslims entering the United States, calling the Republican fro... |
SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - A San Diego policewoman who was shot in the neck during a gun battle after a high-speed pursuit that ended in the death of an armed suspect has undergone surgery and will recover, the city’s police chief said on Monday.
Officer Heather Seddon, a five-year veteran of the force, was shot on Sunday ... |
US officials investigated Brown after he was accused of inappropriate behaviour at a party in Samoa and was alleged by one woman to have stared at her breasts
Scott Brown: more complaints surface over behaviour of US ambassador to New Zealand
It was a balmy 32 degrees when the US ambassador to New Zealand, Scott Brow... |
Pity those planning the memorial service for legendary comedian Jerry Lewis reportedly scheduled for Labor Day weekend, at least when it comes to figuring out which of Lewis’ sometimes feuding—or possibly missing—children will show up.
One thing seems certain: Lewis’ daughter Danielle, 25, whom he and his second wife ... |
Most of Puerto Rico is still without power following Hurricane Maria, so it's difficult for people on the island to communicate with friends and family in the United States, but a group of radio-loving New York City teenagers is using their skills to pass along 25-word messages that are then displayed on large boards i... |
A sign is seen in front of a foreclosed home November 19, 2008 in Rio Vista, Calif. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
Irresponsible lending might have been one of the many causes of the financial crisis -- but not just irresponsible lending to poor people, according to a new study.
"The large majority of mortgage dollar... |
Here’s your good news of the day. The New York Times reports that the Food and Drug Administration has ruled that farmers and ranches will “need a prescription from a veterinarian before using antibiotics in farm animals, in hopes that more judicious use of the drugs will reduce the tens of thousands of human deaths th... |
Good news for owners of LG Android devices as they have partnered with popular cloud storage provider Box to offer 50GB free storage for personal accounts.
If you wish to claim the 50GB of free storage, simply download the free Box Android app and login before March 31, 2012. The promotion is valid on all LG phones an... |
One of President Trump's most vocal supporters in conservative media ripped his newly unveiled strategy for the war in Afghanistan on Monday, arguing that it continues an unsuccessful policy.
Radio host Laura Ingraham asked Monday night what Trump's "measure of success" for the war in the country would be in response ... |
Once upon a time, Netflix was proud enough of its public API which enabled third-party services and apps to serve up its data and content in different ways that it opened a gallery to display them. Unfortunately, times have changed since 2009 -- the old App Gallery is gone and now, so is public API access for new devel... |
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There’s no problem between Romelu Lukaku and Jose Mourinho.
Since jo... |
Late Wednesday, Twitter released a report showing what's become a very familiar story in Silicon Valley: That its workforce is mostly white and mostly male. By the company's own admission, Twitter has "a lot of work to do." Seven out of 10 employees there are men.
Meanwhile, nearly two-thirds of Twitter is staffed by ... |
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Players can now swap the left and right sticks on a control pad
"Legacy" controls option has been added:
Left stick up/down moves forward/backward
Left stick left/right turns left/right
Right stick up/down aims up/down (these can be inverted)
Right stick left/right strafes left/right
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As Bridget rules the UK chart for the third week, ahead of new opener Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, we analyse the maths behind such extraordinary audience domination
The winner: Bridget Jones’s Baby
The Bridget Jones’s Baby success story at UK cinemas writes another chapter as the film cracks £30m in ... |
The Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) is a joint United States Navy – United States Air Force command located in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The JTWC is responsible for the issuing of tropical cyclone warnings in the North-West Pacific Ocean, South Pacific Ocean, and Indian Ocean for all branches of the U.S. Department of ... |
An al-Qaeda instructor killed himself and 20 of his pupils when he accidentally set off a car bomb during a bungled training session in Iraq .
The explosion took place at an insurgents' camp near the town of Samarra, 60 miles north-west of Baghdad.
Security forces were drawn to the area by the sound of the explosion.... |
Today’s Campaign Update
(Because The Campaign Never Ends)
President Trump’s decision announced Monday night to increase the U.S. presence in Afghanistan by sending up to 4,000 additional troops and military advisers into that already 16 year-old war is both disappointing, and encouraging. The disappointment comes in ... |
The number of voters who believe terrorists are winning the fight against the United States and its allies continues to grow, while views of Muslims in general and U.S. relations with the Islamic world have worsened.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just 29% of Likely U.S. Voters believe th... |
NEW DELHI: IndiGo today said that its fleet size has increased to a 100 Airbus A320 aircraft after the delivery of ‘VT-IDR aircraft’ that joined its fleet on December 23, 2015.“The aircraft puja was done today, 24th December 2015, at Terminal 1D Delhi,” it said in a release."Ten years ago we had dreamt of one day being... |
Getty Cavuto warns GOP candidates not to look like 'whiners and babies'
One of the moderators of Tuesday night's Fox Business Network debate has a message for the Republicans about to hit the stage: this is a whine-free zone.
“I understand candidates getting annoyed, but they better be careful about looking like whin... |
Captain’s Log, U.S.S. Pastak,
One of the great honors of being a Starfleet captain is making first contact with a new civilization. As a Temporal Agent, one of the greatest honors can be making first contact with a civilization taking their fledgling steps into time travel.
Protecting the integrity of the timeline is... |
CLOSE The Inquisitor (voiced by Jason Isaacs) engages in a lightsaber fight with the Jedi outlaw Kanan (Freddie Prinze Jr.) in an exclusive clip from an upcoming episode of the animated series "Star Wars Rebels." Lucasfilm
The Inquisitor (voiced by Jason Isaacs) faces off in a lightsaber dual with the Jedi Kanan (Fred... |
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Although HTC has hardly even hinted at a Vive 2, the company is continuing to make subtle improvements to their first headset that’s been selling in stores since April 2016. In addition to a 15% reduction in weight, the latest headsets are shipping with tweaked SteamVR Track... |
REC Silicon to miss Q3 polysilicon production, sales forecast
September 23 (SeeNews) - REC Silicon ASA (STO:RECO) said on Friday it does not expect to meet its previous guidance for third-quarter (Q3) polysilicon production and sales.
The reason for that are the effects of the ongoing solar trade war between the US a... |
This is going to be a slightly different article from me this time, I initially wrote something similar to this for a friend of mine, and realised that this would be a good ground to base one of my articles off of.
What is gold?
Gold is the lifeblood of the game, with it you purchase items that can protect you, or he... |
Arsene Wenger: Coy on any possible move for Wayne Rooney
Rooney's future at Old Trafford is shrouded in doubt with the player requesting a move and United insisting the England international is not for sale.
A whole host of clubs, including Arsenal, have been linked with a move for Rooney should new United chief Davi... |
Musically speaking, Charli XCX, on the left, is the real standout on the no. 1 hit by Iggy Azalea (right). Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images
Three decades ago, in an interview with chart-trivia master Fred Bronson for his Billboard Book of Number 1 Hits, Blondie lead singer Debbie Harry said the following about 1981’... |
by Irma Arkus
Large Hadron Collider, the multi-billion dollar machine that just won’t start up, has been plagued by numerous problems since the moment of announcement that “she’s ready to go captain.”
Last year, we’ve patiently awaited its start, and since then, the damn thing was breaking and facing numerous technic... |
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Registration for the 2017 YakAttack Benefit Tournament is now open! This year entries are set at a maximum of 185 participants. Details on how to enter, location, schedule of events, and rules of the tournament are listed below.
When - May 19 - 20, 2017
Where - Cedar Crest Con... |
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Best things that happened in GNOME 3.10,
1. GNOME 3.10 its self. An amazing improvement over 3.8 in almost every aspect till the last “bit”. GNOME continues to surprise with the quality of development in each release and looking to gain the trend share from the very popular... |
Iodine, a new health start-up from a former Wired editor and Google engineer offers an easy-to-use database of drug information.
The database, which launched on Wednesday, uses Google surveys to get consumer information on a wide variety of both over-the-counter and prescription drugs. Users can search a specific drug... |
New research on the subject emphasizes the importance of safety, above all, on a woman's decision to ride. Writing in the International Journal of Sustainable Transportation, a study group led by Gulsah Akar of Ohio State University conclude that "women are less likely to feel safe" on a bike than men — particularly in... |
Micro-Deliverability is a relatively new concept in the email marketing domain. It involves drilling down into deliverability by domains, or ISPs or SMTP Relay servers and then segmenting the email list or campaigns based on the results to get best deliverability and performance for the marketing campaigns.
The best S... |
Russian leader Vladimir Putin on Friday dismissed a question about whether his nation interfered with the U.S. presidential election, instead ripping Democratic leaders for blaming their loss on Russia.
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“Democrats are losing on every front and looking for people to blame everywhere,” Putin said during h... |
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- One of the five gang members accused in a shooting that killed a 12-year-old girl and wounded three women at a graduation party in June is sentenced to life in prison.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- One of the five gang members accused in a shooting that killed a 12-year-old girl and wounded three women at a ... |
The budget proposal released by House Republicans on Tuesday promises it can repeal Obamacare and save the government a lot of money in the process. But the document relies on some vague accounting to justify this claim.
It is easy, of course, to save the federal budget a lot of money by simply eliminating the spendin... |
Plated counterfeit coin of the Roman emperor Domitian (81-96 AD). By using a copper core covered in a silver coating, the coin has a much lower intrinsic value, while face value remains the same.
Coin counterfeiting of valuable antique coins is common; modern high-value coins are also counterfeited and circulated.[1] ... |
This week, House Speaker John Boehner raised eyebrows by turning down an offer to ride on Air Force One with President Obama and others headed to a memorial service in Tucson. Instead, he appeared at a reception for Republican operative Maria Cino. Now, on the heels of renewed calls for bipartisanship and toned-down po... |
An alarming number of people are reporting that the new e-mail address Facebook forced on users this week is changing their address books while intercepting and losing unknown amounts of e-mail.
Facebook users say contacts' e-mail addresses on phones and personal devices have been altered without their consent -- and ... |
Despite more than five years of Syrian war agony, the survivors of rebel-held eastern Aleppo have never seen such intense bombardment as they have over the past two weeks. Devastating barrel bomb attacks and airstrikes have targeted hospitals and White Helmet emergency workers, leaving nearly 400 dead.
Syria and Russi... |
Half of Americans (48%) say two is the ideal number of children for a family to have, reflecting a decades-long preference for a smaller family over a larger one.
But that hasn’t always been the case, according to Gallup. In 1971, there was a shift in attitudes, as Americans’ “ideal” family switched from four kids (19... |
A report from The New Zealand Herald reveals the efforts police went to to save a man taken by a great white off the Auckland coastline. Courtesy: New Zealand Herald
FRIGHTENING footage has emerged of the moment a police officer shot at a shark which mauled a man to death in New Zealand.
Father-of-one Adam Strange, 4... |
Lessons from the Weimar Republic (updated)
I decided to become a political scientist in the spring of 1976, while I was attending the Stanford-in-Berlin overseas study program. I had already declared an International Relations major, but was trying to decide between going to law school (the supposedly safe option) or ... |
It all began because Allison Anderson’s shower wasn’t working. She went to a neighbor’s house on Mansion Road to take a shower, and coming back she saw two young people walking on the side of the road. One of them, a young woman, was sobbing, and looking a little worse for wear. Allison asked the couple if she could he... |
How cool is all of this stuff?!
I was not expecting it to come today since it is Labor Day so this was a pleasant surprise!
I teach a class of 20 students, half Pre-K and half Kindergarten. We love books in my class and I just received 7 new books! Who doesn't love Berenstain Bears??
I wear a smock at my school and ... |
A label on an antistatic bag featuring the circle symbol on the left and the reaching symbol on the right
An antistatic device is any device that reduces, dampens, or otherwise inhibits electrostatic discharge; the buildup or discharge of static electricity,[1][2] which can damage electrical components such as compute... |
DAYTON, Ohio -- A federal judge on Friday again rejected a star basketball player's bid for reinstatement to the University of Dayton after a suspension linked to a female student's sexual assault accusation.
Dyshawn Pierre's one-semester suspension ends soon, but he had hoped for a ruling to help clear his record and... |
The Philadelphia Phillies reportedly are open to moving Jonathan Papelbon, perhaps as part of the very changes he's calling for.
And if losing is the alternative, Papelbon is ready to pack his bags.
"I definitely didn't come here for this," the Phillies' closer told MLB.com.
Philadelphia lost its eighth straight gam... |
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BOSTON -- The Red Sox have placed third baseman Kevin Youkilis on the 15-day disabled list because of what manager Bobby Valentine called a lower-back strain, and promoted Will Middlebrooks from Pawtucket to take his place.
Valetine also announced that Josh Beckett will miss his next scheduled start, Saturday against ... |