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A Bold Upstart With CIA Roots Fast-growing Abraxas Corp. was founded after 9/11 by agency veterans. But some fear security risks in such work. The company occupies an unmarked, third-floor office suite in McLean, Va., two miles from CIA headquarters. It has mainly specialized in providing veteran operatives and repor...
The Civilization family of games is without a doubt one of the most popular and long-running franchises out there for the PC. Developer Firaxis has big plans for the next title in the series, Civilization VI. Owners of Radeon graphics cards will be pleased to learn that AMD and Firaxis have joined forces to implement a...
by In her Flunking Sainthood posts, Jana Reiss has summarized some fascinating findings about Mormon attitudes toward the LGBT community. These statistics represent wide-scale shifts in attitudes in a very short period of time as well as double digit differences in attitudes between generations. I’ll review the findin...
A man running for the Kansas Board of Education declares on his website that he has decided to seek public office in “the evil city of Topeka” after “seeing the light of Westboro Baptist Church,” one of the nation’s most notorious hate groups. Jack Wu, a California native, writes that after elementary school he began ...
A few weeks ago I spoke on a panel at Middle of the Map Fest called “Home Grown Tech for Social Good.” One of the questions I was asked was “How do you prepare girls for sexism in the tech industry?” I tend to treat panels like Twitter, with short, succinct responses so other panelists have time to weigh in. My <= 140 ...
Is Film School Necessary? Top Indie Filmmakers Respond James Grey, Gregg Araki and Rian Johnson studied filmmaking at USC; Ang Lee, Martin Scorsese and Spike Lee went to NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts; Paul Schrader, Catherine Hardwick and Gina Prince-Bythewood studied at UCLA Film School. The list of filmmakers who a...
In the past seven days Donald Trump created a global backlash with his Muslim Ban, escalated the tension between the United States and Mexico, snubbed Australia, selected a Supreme Court nominee who would have been nominated by the other 17 Republican presidential candidates Trump's working class base rejected, and ask...
Donald Trump just said something that he was not supposed to say, and it is something that Barack Obama will never admit. During an appearance on Sirius XM’s “Breitbart News Daily” on Tuesday morning, Trump stated that the Turkish government “looks like they’re on the side of ISIS more or less based on the oil”. This ...
Tim Maudlin interviewed by Richard Marshall. Tim Maudlin is the Tekken Revolution of the philosophy of physics. He is forever brooding on why there is no deep fissure between philosophy and science, the brilliance of Einstein and John Stewart Bell, about how to work out how the world is, about how to solve the liar pa...
Dr. Paul Marik believes he's found a better way to treat a deadly infection that kills millions of people each year. A combination therapy of vitamins C, B and corticosteroids, Marik's treatment costs about $60 a dose. Its components are readily available at most hospitals. "My intention was never to discover the cur...
At first glance, it appears to be the world’s weirdest PhotoShop job. Or a still from an absurdly lifelike Pixar movie. But it’s very real: On Monday, Mar. 2, British photographer Martin Le May captured an incredible, real-life image while strolling through a park in East London—that of a baby weasel astride the back o...
Ivan Beshoff, the last survivor of the 1905 mutiny on the Russian battleship Potemkin, a harbinger of the Russian Revolution, died Sunday, his family said today. His birth certificate said he was 102 years old, but he contended he was 104. Born near the Black Sea port of Odessa, Mr. Beshoff abandoned chemistry studies...
Gas Plans Modi regime in search of a new energy policy. Headed for showdown with RIL on gas pricing. Could overhaul entire gas pricing arrangement Getting set to junk Rangarajan formula that doubles prices Would like an audit of cost of production of K-G Basin fields Possibility of seeking judicial review not rule...
Get the biggest daily news stories by email Subscribe Thank you for subscribing We have more newsletters Show me See our privacy notice Could not subscribe, try again later Invalid Email A student hate preacher who radicalised at least one British jihadi in Syria and seriously considered mounting a suicide bomb attack...
Babymetal are sweeping the world by storm. After catching the Internet off guard last year and quickly turning confused metalheads into believers, now everyone wants in on the action from members of Slayer, Deftones, Anthrax and Dragonforce to Lady Gaga. Babymetal are the next big thing! This much has been made clear ...
Massachusetts Register of Deeds John O’Brien is rejecting foreclosure documents signed by known robo-signers. O’Brien is one of a handful of officials nationwide who began pulling court documents following a 60 Minutes story on foreclosure fraud that featured a Palm Beach County homeowner. On Tuesday, Obrien said he ...
Clearly having a soul, or reason, is not required to spew one’s blather out into the social media world. Otherwise, social media would have ended pretty damn quickly ages ago. Twitter, like its fellow platforms, is a cesspool for all sorts of people, including the famous and infamous. Some are hilarious and endearing. ...
Boy around six weeks old was found wrapped in a Primark baby blanket on a path in Edinburgh almost two years ago The funeral of an unidentified baby boy took place in Edinburgh on Friday, nearly two years after he was found abandoned on a path, wrapped in a Primark blanket. He had no name and no known family, but more...
Welcome to Hell Notes, Multiversity Comics’ annotation column for the Hellboy Universe. Sorry this one is a little late. I had something entirely different planned for September and it fell through. For now, I’m going to look at the Heliopic Brotherhood of Ra. Spoiler Warning. I’ll be discussing huge spoilers for Fra...
Misconception:Mayim achronim (washing before bentching) is a chumrah (stringency) in which women need not participate. The water used for mayim achronim needs to either be covered or removed from the table. Fact: Mayim achronim is an obligation equally incumbent upon men and women. There is scant basis for covering or...
OSLO (Reuters) - (Release at 2301 GMT, Sunday Nov 3) Simple measures to reduce pollution from cooking stoves in developing nations could save a million lives a year and help slow global warming, a World Bank study showed on Monday. A woman cooks "roti" (Indian bread) on an earthen stove inside a farm house near the Jh...
JST, Genesis 50:24–38. Compare Genesis 50:24–26; 2 Nephi 3:4–22 Joseph in Egypt prophesies of Moses freeing Israel from Egyptian bondage; of a branch of Joseph’s descendants being led to a faraway land, where they will be remembered in the covenants of the Lord; of God calling a latter-day prophet named Joseph to join ...
Print Actions Print Author Topic: Spotlight Series: Quickdraw (Read 3600 times) MidfieldMarauder Moderator Rookie Extra info Extra info Spotlight Series: Quickdraw Spotlight Series: Quickdraw, the Mech for Any Mission History The Quickdraw first rolled off the lines of Technicron Manufacturing and Luthien Armor W...
The United States Must Prevent Disaster in Kurdistan You have to hand it to them. U.S. officials nailed it. Prior to the Sept. 25 independence referendum in Iraqi Kurdistan, they couldn’t have been clearer in setting out the parade of horribles that might come to pass if the vote went ahead. Tensions between the Kurdi...
This article is over 3 years old Official inquiry into death in September 2015 of eight Mexican tourists and four Egyptians is nearing completion, Mexico’s foreign minister says An official Egyptian investigation into an airstrike on a group of Mexican tourists that killed 12 people has suggested a travel agency they...
My recent self-reflections have turned to fundamental human needs. I already established in my previous writings that unwanted materialistic desires can be a miss-understanding of the true fundamental non-materialist needs we have. That we get confused by society, advertising etc to equate consumerism with fulfilling a...
Elderly Australians clinging to work for longer shows cultural shift: researchers Posted Older Australians are clinging to work for longer, a 20-year analysis of workplace participation rates has found. It is particularly true for women older than 60, whose labour force participation has jumped by 300 per cent. The...
Understanding narcissistic parents The effects of childhood trauma, including emotional neglect or abuse in childhood, can have alarmingly potent effects on our psyche as we enter adulthood, even to the extent of rewiring the brain (van der Kolk, 2016). The children of narcissistic parents, those who meet the diagnost...
As NASA continues to develop their plans for delivering humans to the Martian system in the 2030s, a Technical Interchange Meeting has outlined two potential hardware launch sequence options for NASA’s upcoming heavy lift rocket, SLS, that would enable the space agency to utilize SLS’s capabilities while realizing huma...
This time last year, the Connecticut Whale had just suffered their first ever loss. Their 2-1 defeat to Boston made their record at the midpoint of the season 8-1-0. A year later and they are currently sitting on a very mediocre 4-5-0, considering their previous achievements. So what’s going wrong for the Whale this ti...
APTN National News The trial of a former senior adviser to Prime Minister Stephen Harper has been pushed back to Sept. 14, according to an Ottawa court official. Bruce Carson, who was once an acting chief of staff in the Prime Minister’s Office, was scheduled to stand trial Sept. 8 on a charge of influence peddling. ...
All delinquent borrowers living in properties worth less than the outstanding balance of the loan will be offered a loan modification in lieu of a foreclosure because the banks can’t absorb the losses. Prior to the housing bust, lenders always foreclosed on delinquent borrowers — always. They had no incentive to kick ...
CAPE CORAL, Fla. — Police shot and killed a man suspected of killing two others here Sunday. The incident began when the suspect shot and killed a motorcyclist about 5:45 p.m. ET. Then, the suspect went to a Circle K gas station on Cape Coral Parkway and fatally shot one person and injured another. Four minutes later...
So what are the options you look at when you go out to buy furniture? Wood, metal, even plastic? How about getting home some bamboo furniture the next time you go shopping? Not only will you be making an environmentally friendly choice, you will also be providing employment opportunities to millions of rural and tnriba...
Dengue mosquitoes were found in indoor plants during a recent inspection of RJ Malishka's home. RJ Malishka, a popular voice on the radio, has been served notice by Mumbai's civic body BMC or Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation warning of action over dengue mosquitoes breeding in her home. The notice overlaps Malishka'...
Netanyahu stakes West Bank claim BelfastTelegraph.co.uk Israel's prime minister has declared his country would retain parts of the West Bank forever - a statement sure to provoke Palestinians and complicate the year-old peace mission of a visiting US envoy. https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/breakingnews/breakingnews_w...
Over on Return of Kings, one brave gamer dares to ask the question of our age: What will the world look like after the inevitable triumph of GamerGate? I know, I know, just humor him for a few minutes. Because he has a rather, well, revealing notion of what triumph will look like, and it’s not one that’s compatible wi...
Exhibit invites visitors to perch where a statue of the former Soviet leader stood until it was toppled during protests in 2013 For decades, Vladimir Lenin enjoyed a splendid view over Kiev’s Besarabsky market, until the monument to the former Soviet leader was pulled down from its perch in December 2013 by crowds who...
FOTO: MEDIAFAX Silviu Ionescu fusese condamnat în primă instanță de Judecătoria Sectorului 3, la 27 martie 2013, la trei ani de închisoare cu executare. Silviu Ionescu a fost trimis în judecată în 1 iulie 2010, de către procurorii Parchetului instanţei supreme, care l-au acuzat de ucidere din culpă, vătămare corporal...
Such condolences would become a familiar refrain. Of the 70,000 or so Americans who live to be 100, only some two dozen are typically alive at 110. Once that milestone is reached, as Mr. Clement quickly learned, the chance of dying within the next year is roughly 50 percent. After 113, the odds are closer to 66 percen...
Story highlights Trump has said she supports the women's health group The meeting didn't result in further contacts Washington (CNN) Ivanka Trump, President Donald Trump's daughter and top adviser, met with Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards in January, sources confirm to CNN. The sit-down brought together...
Windsor Mayor Drew Dilkens wasn’t exactly popping champagne corks this week when he learned the clock is now ticking on our free-spirit prime minister’s grand plan to make Canada a pothead paradise. Fifteen months from today, on Canada’s birthday, of all days, this once-proud country will join banana backwater Uruguay...
D86 board president Richard Skoda. If you thought the Tea Party crazies on the Hinsdale board of education are off the rails, things just got weirder. The latest episode began when the teachers posted an article about the District 86 negotiations on their Facebook page. The article was from a local online news site ...
Thank you to Little Sunshine Boutique for providing me with product, free of charge, in exchange for this honest blog review. All opinions are 100% my own. As a mother to five kiddos, I’ve really come to appreciate some of the awesome products I’ve discovered over the years. One of those such things is kid-friendly ma...
Share: September 30, 2016 | By Dr. Ronald Hoffman Dan Aykroyd made his way into the annals of comedy fame with his hilarious impression of chef Julia Child in a now-legendary skit on Saturday Night Live. “Save the liver!” he trilled while demonstrating how to cook a chicken, managing to cut off his thumb in the proce...
Attorney Phillip Allen Lacovara of Sanibel was counsel to Watergate special prosecutors Archibald Cox and Leon Jaworski. He delivered oral arguments in the Supreme Court case that led to Richard Nixon being forced to turn over recordings of Oval Office conversations. (Photo: SPECIAL TO THE NEWS-PRESS) A former top att...
Over the past week many more details have emerged about the HTTPS-breaking Superfish software that Lenovo pre-installed on its laptops for several months. As is often the case with breaking security incidents, most of what we know has come from security engineers volunteering their time to study the problem and sharing...
Barack Obama wants you to know that nuclear power is good for you. He really and truly does. He’s warned of “the worst consequences of climate change” unless new nuclear plants sprout from the land. And of countries like China eating our technological lunch. And of unemployment getting even worse, due to the loss of g...
The ceremonies to commemorate the centenary of the Battle of the Somme were a sombre reminder of Europe’s blood-soaked history. The ironic coincidence that they almost exactly coincided with the United Kingdom’s decision to leave the European Union will not have been lost on European leaders attending these events. The...
Four former Marion County sheriff's deputies received prison sentences Wednesday afternoon in connection with the use of excessive force. OCALA — Four former Marion County sheriff's deputies were sentenced to prison terms Wednesday afternoon for their roles in a violent drug arrest in 2014. All had previously pleaded...
Buy Photo Rapid Fired Pizza will open a location in Florence, Ky in the spring. The location, pictured, in Montgomery opened in Nov. (Photo: Marika Lee/ The Community Press)Buy Photo Residents of Florence can look forward to a new pizza joint this spring. Rapid Fired Pizza has signed a lease at 7555 Mall Road, it wil...
The evolution of the event has been startling. At my first combine in 1992, there were eight members of the media in attendance. I thought it was the league's best-kept secret. The combine was the only week in the NFL's calendar year that every general manager, personnel director, scout, head coach and assistant coach ...
A longtime pal of Mayor de Blasio has collected $862,550 as a lobbyist for 14 clients since the mayor took office in 2014 – compared to $61,305 off a single client the previous 12 years, according to city records. Harold Ickes – a mentor of the mayor and former Clinton administration official – operated out of Washing...
Western Australia is the only state set to get a public holiday for Anzac Day next year. In 2015, Anzac Day falls on a Saturday. The other state government have chosen not to allow a Monday public holiday. "The purpose of Anzac Day is to respect, commemorate and remember the brave soldiers who sacrificed so much for ...
Last week’s recess offered little respite to the Republican senators supporting the Better Care Reconciliation Act, or BCRA. After the bill failed to gain enough support for a vote before the recess, opponents of the health care reform legislation — which would entail major cuts to Medicaid and the loss of health cover...
Buy Photo The Springfield school board voted unanimously to approve benefits for married same-sex couples. (Photo: Claudette Riley/News-Leader)Buy Photo With virtually no fanfare, the Springfield school board voted 7-0 Tuesday to extend health benefits to married same-sex couples. The amendment, to the district's hea...
After hauling in the cages at his island oyster farm near Biddeford, Maine, Mark Green’s boat is loaded with crusty marine life. Baskets of oysters are there, but so are green crabs — invasive and inedible. “My boat will be full,” Green says. “The bottom will just be this undulating mass of green crabs by the end of th...
KALAMAZOO, Mich. (NEWSCHANNEL 3) - Police in Kalamazoo identify a man hours after he was found unconscious and bleeding from his head. Authorities thought his distinctive boots would help identify him, instead it was a tip. Kalamazoo Police are not releasing his identity and won’t disclose the tip that uncovered his ...
Paul Manafort said the New York Times story, describing internal struggles on direction and messaging within the Trump campaign, was “not correct.” | AP Photo Manafort denies reports of chaotic Trump campaign Donald Trump’s campaign chairman Sunday echoed his candidate’s complaints about a recent story in The New York...
The ingenious Gentleman Miss Rainbow Dash of Cloudsdale.Crossover of The ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha. Fortune is arranging matters for us better than we suppose to be desired: because you see there, my dear Scootaloo, where thirty, or a little more, incontinent giants with whom intend to do battle and ...
If you want to understand the psychopathology at the root of the Zionist psychosis, you must go to the heart of their delusion, like an analyst placing a mentally sick person on a couch - and today there is no better place to see that psychotic colonial fixation at work than in an article, titled, Of Course Jerusalem I...
When does a movie’s sense of romance collapse into abject mawkishness? When do we inch back from the edge of our seats and suppress the urge to laugh? If the movie is Avengers: Age of Ultron, it’s somewhere in the middle, about the time when Linda Cardellini shows up as Mrs. Hawkeye and prevails upon her superguests to...
Paleo has received a lot of attention in the media over the past couple of years—some of it positive, and some of it negative—and there are a lot of misconceptions about what a Paleo approach to nutrition and lifestyle means for most people. With this in mind, here are 20 things I think everyone should know about Paleo...
1 of 74 Full Screen Autoplay Close Skip Ad × Here’s what President-elect Donald Trump has been doing since the election View Photos He has been holding interviews and meetings as he prepares to enter the White House. Caption He has been holding interviews and meetings as he prepares to enter the White House. Jan. 19, 2...
Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt, makes a point during a Democratic presidential primary debate at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Thursday, Feb. 11, 2016, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Morry Gash) (CNSNews.com) – Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) called for an ...
A Nova Scotia human rights organization blames a lack of political will to explain why the Canadian government has delayed changes to the Access to Information Act. The act, which allows Canadians to request federal government files that would otherwise be unavailable to the public, hasn't been significantly updated s...
On the outset, “Ouija: Origin of Evil” has all the appearances of a shopworn affair: a sequel to a movie based on a board game about a young girl bedeviled by diabolical spirits. That’s a logline plenty of films could sport (save for the board game element). You’ve seen innumerable iterations of the “demonic child thre...
Researchers believe that humans have evolved to prioritise quick thinking over fast movement, which helped our ancestors to survive. Metabolically speaking, human brains are expensive, requiring a lot of energy to run. The new study suggests that when forced to choose between fuelling the brain or the muscles, the bod...
Congressional Democrats are poised to mount a major offensive tying Republicans on the ballot to Donald J. Trump’s presidential campaign. Aiming to exploit Mr. Trump’s drastic unpopularity with swing voters, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee will spend over $1 million on advertisements casting the Republi...
by William Norman Grigg Recently by William Norman Grigg: Foreign Aid Is a Tool of US Imperialism Robert Paudert refers to May 20, 2010 — the day his son Brandon was killed — as the "worst day of my life, ever." Given that losing a child is the most horrible thing that can happen to a parent, Paudert isn't exaggerati...
Learnings from early adopters: As part of SQL Server 2016 technology adoption program, during development, we work with many customers validating their production-like workload in a test environment and opportunistically take some of these workloads to production running on production-ready preview build. In one such...
What?! When?! Why wasn't I warned?! She did not announce her visit. It seems she was in a hurry. God drat it! Close the gates! Lock all the doors! Release the moat sharks! She's already here, sire. Oh crap oh crap oh crap. Uh, tell her I'm out. No, tell her I'm dead! Sire. You misunderstand. She's here. Marthip...
Algerian flags mingled with Antifa banners as migrants and left wing extremists gathered on the streets of Paris to attack police and protest deportations in a “March for Justice and Dignity”. The event was nominally organised to protest alleged police brutality in the case of an individual identified in the media as ...
Although many factors — both in scheme and execution — contributed to Ohio State's national championship playoff run, one of the most critical was the diversity of Urban Meyer's spread run game. By being able to mix and match gap and zone run schemes, the Buckeyes could respond to a variety of defensive fronts and sta...
However, the price of crude oil has recovered to around $28 a barrel. The international benchmark in this domain, Brent crude, improved to $28.86, BBC News notes. Meanwhile, US crude recovered to a price of $28.65 a barrel after having dropped to as low as $28.36.According to industry analysts, the price of crude oil h...
The rumor that raced through Washington last week of an atom bomb someplace in the city being readied for the next terrorist atrocity had a familiar ring to me. In late July 1961, President Kennedy, just back from the grim Vienna summit with Khrushchev, asked me to dinner in Palm Beach. After daiquiris and Frank Sinat...
It looks like our bet to the 2016 Miss Earth pageant has a very…unique…sense of humor. Perhaps, in an attempt to deflect the controversy surrounding her, reigning Miss Philippines-Earth Imelda Schweighart jokingly likened herself to Albert Einstein. In case you didn’t know, Einstein regarded as the most influential p...
UPS Insists That It Is Not Helping The NSA 'Interdict' Packages To Install Backdoors from the not-us! dept UPS, which Cisco has used since 1997 to ship hardware to customers around the world, said on Thursday that it did not voluntarily allow government officials to inspect its packages unless it is required to do so...
Uber, already dealing with a litany of crises — including a lawsuit brought by rival Alphabet — could also be facing an exodus of key talent. Some of the startup’s engineers are actively looking to get out of the company, according to multiple sources. The situation is being prompted in part by Alphabet’s case against...
Madden NFL 16 Tennessee Titans Team Breakdown The Tennessee Titans will be a really fun team to play with in Madden 16. Drafting Marcus Mariota and Dorial Green-Beckham instantly made the Titans a lot better. We have the full Madden 16 Titans team breakdown below. Team: Tennessee Titans Offensive Strategy: Marcus M...
In a new call to “leaders of Buddhist Networks across America,” the North American Buddhist Alliance (NABA) is looking for those who wish to meet virtually, “possibly in support of one another and those who may wish to develop other regional Buddhist networks in the U.S. and Canada” in order to share “advice, resources...
A gaping hole in the street near McNichols and Hull, just off of I-75 has been turned into a fish pond by the neighborhood. The large concrete cutout has been filled with algae and water for the last four years according to Uncle Zeke and Auntie Na (that is short for Sonia Renia Brown) who live on the street. They de...
May 17, 2017 Fabien Potencier Symfony 3.3.0-RC1 has just been released. Here is a list of the most important changes: bug #22715 [FrameworkBundle] remove Security deps from the require section (@xabbuh) bug #22613 [Process] Fix incorrectly calling PHP process when path contains space (@maryo) feature #22680 [DI] Fi...
Buy Photo University President James Ramsey. (Photo: Marty Pearl/Special to The C-J)Buy Photo University of Louisville President James Ramsey last year was paid 2 ½ times more than the average of the Atlantic Coast Conference's other 14 presidents and chancellors — all of whose universities are ranked far higher acade...
Who moved my cheese, 1Password? Kenn White Blocked Unblock Follow Following Jul 13, 2017 For the impatient, feel free to skip to the TL;DR summary. You may have read about some controversy recently over the widely-used password app 1Password. Through an odd turn of happenstance, in the span of a few days, several se...
A military dog has allegedly been captured by the Taliban. According to the Washington Post, an individual who distributes Taliban propaganda posted a video to Twitter that shows the animal chained by armed Taliban fighters. A Taliban spokesman, Zabiullah Mujahid, told the Post that the dog carries the rank of colonel...
Call for more practising Indigenous doctors in Australia to help improve health of communities Updated Currently in Australia, there are fewer than 200 practising doctors from an Indigenous background. Health experts have long called for more medical professionals with cultural understanding to help close the gap in...
Something that Vienna does that you’d never see in America is ball season. Balls for everything. They’re the big, expensive parties that you’ve only dreamed of – a live band is playing waltzes or jazz, everyone dressed to the nines swirling around on an open dance floor, chandeliers lit and everything glowing with in t...
Lane United FC is very pleased to announce that the Willamalane Center for Sports and Recreation will be its home venue for the 2014-2016 seasons. Lane United managing director Dave Galas and Willamalane deputy superintendent Seve Ghose signed a contract in mid-December that keeps the Reds at Willamalane for at least t...
Choir singing is known to promote wellbeing. One reason for this may be that singing demands a slower than normal respiration, which may in turn affect heart activity. Coupling of heart rate variability (HRV) to respiration is called Respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA). This coupling has a subjective as well as a biolog...
After 50 days of watching BP's pathetic failure to stop the oil from gushing and hearing stories of more corruption, cronyism and incompetence, I still don't get it. Why are we giving oil companies a free pass to drill a mile below the ocean's surface, where the pressure is so intense it causes oil to shoot out like a...
Badar N'D'D was a member of the Antican species, who were enemies of the Selay. In 2364, he served as the chief delegate to the Parliament conference, where his people attempted to resolve their differences with their enemies, the Selay. Both the Anticans and the Selay wished to join the United Federation of Planets, ...
Moscow and Beijing have a lot in common: a 2,500-mile border, a $400 billion gas deal, strongman leaders with a ken for opposing the U.S-dominant West — and a mutual love of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Heads of both states are motivated by keeping the U.S. sphere of influence — whether in Ukraine or the South Ch...
Welcome to Letter from Silent Heaven A site dedicated to Konami's horror-adventure game Silent Hill 2. Here you will find a variety of unusual, unique, or otherwise interesting pieces of information based on the renowned horror title. Further into the site you will find rare media for Silent Hill 2 not seen anywhere el...
After bits and pieces of census data have been announced, official results of the 2011 census are expected to be released soon. The long-awaited data from India’s 2011 census is expected to be made public in coming days, after months of delays and setbacks. Typically, the census data is quantified and released within ...
Jay Z and Kanye West are two of the biggest musicians in the world, so it's no surprise that they have elaborate tour riders for when they hit the road. But, are they THAT crazy? According to the riders—unearthed by TMZ—Jay and Kanye each like to have their pre-concert rooms set up in a very specific ways. Jay reporte...
You're a bartender. You've recently been diagnosed with an awful form of amnesia. Because of this, your boss told you that you need to serve 64 happy customers before your shift ends; or you're fired. It doesn't matter how you make a drink so long as you remember your recipe. TL;DR: Make drinks, make up recipes, re...
THREAT REMOVAL Petya RaaS Operator Leaks Decryption Keys for Rival Chimera Ransomware We may not think of cyber crime as a “business sector” that also generates rivalry, but it doesn’t mean that cyber crime groups do not compete with each other. Having said that, it shouldn’t be too surprising that the author of one ...
An Irish betting market is so confident that Hillary Clinton will beat Donald Trump that it is already paying off bettors. Irish bookmaking market Paddy Power said it would close its U.S. presidential election book. The market would be paying slightly more than $1 million altogether for people who bet on a Clinton vic...
Pictured: Jon Gosselin pulling gun on paparazzo trespassing on his property... as ex-wife Kate says she's 'not surprised' by his actions Photographs have emerged showing Jon Gosselin pulling a gun at a paparazza outside his Pennsylvania home on Friday, According to TMZ, Jon brandished his firearm when he saw the snap...