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The Canucks could have traded Ryan Miller. They passed. This stunner was dropped at the team’s raucous Summer Summit with season-ticket holders. It wasn’t exactly greeted with a warm hug. Trevor Linden and Jim Benning took on a series of pointed questions from fans who were still riled up over recent moves. None wa...
Dec 13, 2015; Oklahoma City, OK, USA; Oklahoma City Thunder forward Kevin Durant (35) and Thunder guard Russell Westbrook (0) react after a play against the Utah Jazz during the fourth quarter at Chesapeake Energy Arena. Mandatory Credit: Mark D. Smith-USA TODAY Sports Although the Golden State Warriors “Death Ball” l...
The recent derailment of an Amtrak train in the Northeast was tragic in human terms and will no doubt result in future enhancements to improve passenger safety. But the incident has rekindled the debate over taxpayer subsidized rail transport in an era of numerous free-market alternatives and a $17 trillion national de...
Chris Langan’s CTMU is a metaphysical/philosophical theory of everything, a “theory of theories” in another term. It explains the deep nature of reality, its emergence, where it is headed and what its purpose is. The theory is infamous for being difficult to understand, and this has unrightfully drawn (in place of fai...
Image copyright Reuters China on Wednesday launched a new type of domestically built warship in its latest bid to modernise its military, state media said. The launch comes after China presented its first home-produced aircraft carrier in April. Amid ongoing tensions in the South China Sea, Beijing is taking an incr...
Gezi Park is now a utopic ‘Freetown’ ISTANBUL- Hürriyet Daily News Two people walk beside a wrecked police car left on Taksim Square. Istanbul’s city center is now a surreal, timeless place, completely occupied by people following the police withdrawal. DAILY NEWS photo, Emrah GÜREL At the entrance of Copenhagen’s f...
ES News Email Enter your email address Please enter an email address Email address is invalid Fill out this field Email address is invalid You already have an account. Please log in or register with your social account Major League Baseball is set to be the next big American sport to travel to London after Sadiq Khan ...
February 15, 2014 — nobreadcrumbs Good morning/afternoon/evening. I want to tell you how I made a “No Breadcrumbs” blog, and by that I mean I’ve made this blog without a trace, I think. Before we begin, let me tell you a little about what I was used. USB Stick (4GB, but I would prefer if it was 8GB) Ubuntu Live CD...
The nation’s public investment in family planning not only helps women and couples avoid unintended pregnancy and abortion, but also helps them avoid such negative health outcomes as cervical cancer, HIV and other STIs, infertility, and preterm and low-birth-weight births. In addition, this investment produces billions...
Debate is raging on movie message boards over whether a plump, jowly woman who briefly features as a train passenger in North by Northwest was actually the acclaimed film director in drag. Hitchcock was known for making quirky cameo appearances in his movies, but was never previously thought to have played a woman. T...
Inside the lobby of the Jeff Jacobs JAM Center is a panel listing the donors and the monetary ranges of their contributions to San Diego State’s $15.8 million basketball practice facility that opened in August. Not listed is the biggest single contributor: the university. Following a protracted request under the Cali...
Aquaponics Plumbing is a large topic that will require several individual guides in order to cover an appropriate amount of material. This initial guide is to describe some general considerations for aquaponics plumbing, and I hope is worth reading through before moving on to the next guides, which will be more practic...
NEW DELHI: Six months 10 days after Geetika Sharma committed suicide at her northwest Delhi residence, her 62-year-old mother, Anuradha Sharma , also committed suicide by hanging herself from the ceiling fan of her flat in Ashok Vihar on Friday evening. The cops have recovered a suicide note from the spot and are inve...
One of the problems with trying to track the flood of wingnuttery emitted daily by Rush Limbaugh is that there's so much of it, and it's so ceaseless, that one becomes overwhelmed trying to keep up with it. But there's been a thread in his commentary this past week that's particularly dangerous, and it needs calling ou...
Blackboard Rumble: Why Are Physicists Hating On Philosophy (and Philosophers)? What is learning for if it doesn't lead to wisdom? That's a question worth asking in light of an ongoing cosmological street fight being waged (remarkably) in broad media daylight. The rumble tumbled into the public eye with Lawrence Kraus...
You might have heard the frightening news last year suggesting half of all Americans had some form of diabetes. A survey in the journal JAMA was covered extensively, including by NBC, WebMD and the Los Angeles Times. But as the HealthNewsReview blog later pointed out, almost none of the media coverage raised questions...
Unlike Alien vs. Predator, which sated fans with tons of tie-in merchandise during its years in development hell, Freddy vs. Jason never really had anything to hold the hungry fan base over during the ten-year period that it took to get made. All we really saw was a KB Toys exclusive “Jason vs. Freddy” set of the Movie...
By Jake Donovan Saturday’s middleweight championship showdown between Miguel Cotto and Daniel Geale is no longer a weighty issue. Both combatants came within the contracted 157 lb. catchweight in place for their headliner at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. Cotto tipped the scales at a lean and ready 153.6 lbs....
Fluid Bed Gasifier Plant. Credit Advanced Plasma Power In Jim Kunstler's World Made By Hand, the former motorheads in town mine the dump for resources. There is a lot of valuable stuff in dumps; it has been cheaper to bury stuff than to recycle or compost it. They are also filling up, and nobody wants new ones in thei...
The American toy shop Toys “R” Us appears to have quietly withdrawn a range of drug dealer dolls based on the television series Breaking Bad after facing criticism from parents. Although a spokesman for the retail giant had defended the collection as recently as yesterday, the models are no longer available online. Th...
Femininity isn’t something mainstream games tend to embrace. Masculine, ‘tough girl’ tropes? Sure, Tomb Raider is kind of a thing. Sexualized femininity? Hoo boy, do videogames have that covered. But it’s almost never that we have a game celebrating femininity for its own sake – as a virtue or as a strength. However, o...
When Defense Secretary Leon Panetta opined earlier this month that an Israeli attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities could “consume the Middle East in a confrontation and a conflict that we would regret,” the Israelis went ballistic behind the scenes. Michael Oren, Israel’s ambassador to Washington, lodged a formal diplom...
“JUSTIFICATION: Murder is not morally justifiable. Self-defense may be argued if the victim has knowledge which may destroy the resistance organization if divulged. Assassination of persons responsible for atrocities or reprisals may be regarded as just punishment. Killing a political leader whose burgeoning career is ...
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) survived another round at the highest court in the land last week. It was one of the many battles that have been fought over it., but the resounding 6-3 decision in support of the ACA may make it one of the last, at least for a while. But while Obamacare proponents celebrate the Supreme ...
Ivanka Trump, President Trump's daughter and White House adviser, took Mr. Trump's seat during a meeting of G-20 leaders in Hamburg, Germany, on Saturday as Mr. Trump stepped away during the proceedings. A photo posted to Twitter by a Russian official attending the session during the last day of the G-20 summit shows ...
Please enable Javascript to watch this video Donald Trump spent the day in Redding, California, where thousands turned up to hear him speak. Today's event was violence-free, and that's a change from the mobs of protesters that attacked Trump supporters earlier this week. There is still no word on whether or not the a...
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The Orlando Magic inducted team owner Rich DeVos into the franchise's hall of fame on Tuesday. DeVos, who turned 90 years old earlier this month, will be the lone inductee this year, a team official said. DeVos, who purchased the Magic in 1991, was honored in an on-court ceremony a few minutes before the Magic tipped...
THE ELECTION RESULTS ARE IN ON AN ALL-NEW EPISODE OF SOUTH PARK PREMIERING ON WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9 AT 10:00 P.M. ET/PT ON COMEDY CENTRAL ——– All-New Season 20 Episodes will be Available to Stream in HD Exclusively on SouthPark.cc.com and Hulu ——– NEW YORK, November 7, 2016 – The new administration has plans for...
Islamabad, Pakistan - Pakistan's cabinet has approved a plan to introduce widespread political and administrative reforms to its tribal areas on the border with Afghanistan, bringing landmark changes to an area that has long been a sanctuary for armed groups. The changes, which include the extension of fundamental con...
​Image: Shutterstock/360b The FBI hopes to indict the hackers responsible for infiltrating Sony Pictures Entertainment's computer network in US courts, according to FBI Assistant Attorney General for National Security John P. Carlin. Carlin said today at the Cybersecurity for a New America: Big Ideas and New Voices c...
Martha Nussbaum is the Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago. Her most recent book is "Not for Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities." Cuts in the humanities are bad for business and bad for democracy. Even if a nation’s only goal were economic prosperity, the...
A piece of biochar Biochar is charcoal used as a soil amendment. Biochar is a stable solid, rich in carbon, and can endure in soil for thousands of years.[1] Like most charcoal, biochar is made from biomass via pyrolysis. Biochar is under investigation as an approach to carbon sequestration,[1] as it has the potential...
As more planets are discovered outside Earth's solar system, scientists must update estimations about the likelihood that life has formed somewhere other than Earth. SALT LAKE CITY — What are the odds that alien life exists elsewhere in the universe? At a major physics meeting, experts talked about updates to historic...
(This post started out life as a comment to Robert Brook's Not Everything Is a Game post.) I remember when I stopped beating my wife. I used to beat her regularly without ever wondering why. Without really considering how it made her feel, the effect on our relationship or the effect it had on me. Beating her was jus...
OWYHEE COUNTY - Two dogs took charge - and one was bitten in the process - while protecting a child from a rattlesnake in Owyhee County. Rodney Bacon and his family live out in sagebrush and grassland, near the Idaho and Nevada state line in Owyhee County. On Monday evening, Rodney, his 3-year-old daughter, Harper, an...
Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice is a two-and-a-half hour movie trailer, a Frankenstein’s monster of corporate ambition and fan service gone overboard. The first hour or so of Zach Snyder’s new film serves its purpose well enough as a sequel to the filmmaker’s 2013 Superman reboot, Man of Steel, exploring the issues...
Wivenhoe put to the ultimate test Updated Brisbane's main defence from a catastrophic flood is facing an unprecedented test as heavy rain continues to inundate southern Queensland. The Brisbane River has already broken its banks in part of the city and evacuations are underway in some suburbs. Further upstream the ...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association has increased efforts to keep people away from harbor seals after two pup deaths this season. A harbor seal pup died after a beachgoer in Westport, Wash. took it home in a tote bag, spurring new efforts from the NOAA to caution against interacting with wild animals. Th...
A small update has been pushed to the PBE! While theVU andare still being tested, today's update includes tentative balance changes for, and more!Continue reading for more information! (Warning: PBE Content is tentative and iterative - what you see may not reflect what eventually gets pushed to live servers! Manage yo...
Posted Monday, March 3, 2014 --- 10:05 a.m. Kaleem Caire will be stepping down as president and CEO of the Urban League of Greater Madison to pursue other opportunities. According to the Board of Directors of the Urban League of Greater Madison, Caire has agreed to stay on until March 31st while the Urban League sear...
This week’s Silly Sunday is on silly rules and customs in the office, another ranking survey from goo Ranking. The fieldwork was conducted over the 24th and 25th of October 2007, but no demographic information was given, nor was there a breakdown by sex, sadly. At my workplace, I wish they’d quit doing 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, ...
Image caption BP and Halliburton are locked in a legal battle and a damages trial over the disaster Oil giant BP has asked its contractor Halliburton to pay for all costs and damages that arose from the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The claims were made in a filing by BP's lawyer Don Haycraft in a US Federal court...
I've gotten a ton of criticism from people about the I Am a Geek video that launched yesterday, and I feel the need to respond to it. After watching the video yesterday, I was impressed by the production values, and I thought it was really awesome that it was just one small part of a larger project. I love that the wh...
Date Thu 28 July 2016 Tags ansible , python , devops The Problem Whenever I'm building a server or simple local infrastructure for testing code, I start by looking at the available ansible roles, hoping to find one that JustWorks for my use-case right out of the box. One thing that annoys me though is that even for r...
Welcome to the largest Swiss Tournament to meet the known universe. All may enter but only one person walks out with the title of the Universal Commander. A Swiss-system tournament is a non-elimination tournament format. There are several rounds of competition, but considerably fewer rounds than in a round-robin tourn...
The storage facility of prohibited items collected at Newark Liberty International Airport (Photo by Katherine Frey/The Washington Post) CJ Ciaramella is a reporter at the Washington Free Beacon and a contributor to Vice. If the past 10 years have taught us anything, it’s that, one way or another, the TSA is going to...
The approach of a national holiday in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King provides an opportunity to reflect on one of the hot topics in education reform today: the racial achievement gap. Everyone wants to close the gap. Or so it would seem. Despite the hope many invested in President George W. Bush's "No Child Left Behi...
Boeing And Iran Air Sign Jetliner Contract Worth $16.6 Billion Enlarge this image toggle caption Behrouz Mehri/AFP/Getty Images Behrouz Mehri/AFP/Getty Images Iran Air has finalized its historic purchase of 80 U.S.-made passenger jets, signing a deal with Boeing that's the first of its kind since the overthrow of Ira...
Ray Jackendoff (born January 23, 1945) is an American linguist. He is professor of philosophy, Seth Merrin Chair in the Humanities and, with Daniel Dennett, co-director of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University. He has always straddled the boundary between generative linguistics and cognitive linguistics,...
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Top247 defensive back Chauncey Gardner visit Florida with his family this past Saturday. The trip to meet with the Gators’ new coaching staff ended with the 6-foot, 185-pound prospect recommitting with the Gators. Gardner previously committed to Florida last June, but backed off that pledge in Janu...
Japanese game corporation Gungho Online Entertainment plans to bring upcoming social puzzle game Puzzle and Dragons Z to North America, Siliconera reports. In an interview with Siliconera, Kazuki Morishita CEO of GungHo Online Entertainment confirmed that GungHo Online Entertainment America will publish the game in th...
In banking parlance, zombies have little net worth but are backed by the government and continue to meet their obligations. Amid an environment in which new regulations demand that banks hold more capital and lending demand is uneven and likely to be taken over by smaller institutions, Whitney said the big companies f...
“Mounting Evidence for the Book of Mormon,” Ensign, Jan. 2000, 19 Serious study of the Book of Mormon by Latter-day Saints is flourishing today as never before.1 And, with more study, the book’s sturdiness and richness and the remarkable accomplishment of its translator, the Prophet Joseph Smith, become more apparent ...
I started breaking down football as an analyst in 2007, on a weekly basis in 2009, and in 2010 I broke down every game at least twice. I saw every snap of Chris Clemons' time in Seattle probably more than I've watched old games. I know this guy in and out. When the Seahawks brought him back, I thought it was an April F...
Robbie Rogers is officially a member of the LA Galaxy, a move that makes him the first openly gay man to play for a team in top-tier American professional sports. The trade between the LA Galaxy and Chicago Fire both allows Rogers to play professionally near his family and hometown, but as players such as Omar Gonzale...
CEDAR RAPIDS — Two restaurant chains with stores in northeast Cedar Rapids opened locations on the Edgewood Road SW perimeter of Westdale. Firehouse Subs and Freddy’s Frozen Custard and Steakburgers are leasing space in a 7,500-square-foot building that eventually will have a third tenant. Firehouse Subs, founded by ...
SF:SE hits Orlando this September: Dropping a wicked footprint on con culture. Orlando, Florida, February 4, 2015—Toting an impressive celebrity roster, Dirty Little Bookers credits ‘Indie love’ as their backdrop for the SF:SE inspiration board. Originally an Indie fiction review site, Dirty Little Bookers folded to c...
(CNN) At the heart of the deadliest migrant route in the world, a small number of rescue boats brave the choppy waters of the winter Mediterranean. They are picking up stranded migrants attempting to cross from Africa to Europe, with many telling horror stories of imprisonment, brutality and exploitation as they had pa...
Three years ago this month Toni Kroos made his last UEFA Champions League appearance for Bayern München. It was at home to Real Madrid, the club he now represents, in the second leg of the teams' semi-final. On Wednesday the midfielder will return to the scene of that 4-0 victory for the Spanish outfit when the sides ...
Have you ever looked at a dog, splayed out on a living room floor, and thought, “That lucky bastard has the best life?” Who wouldn’t want to sleep all day, interrupted only by eating, runs in the park, and licking your own balls? But the fantasy is fleeting. You wouldn’t actually want to switch places with your dog. B...
This article is about the Greek mythological monster. For other uses, see Gorgon (disambiguation) In Greek mythology, a Gorgon (; plural: Gorgons, Ancient Greek: Γοργών/Γοργώ Gorgon/Gorgo) is a mythical creature portrayed in ancient Greek literature. While descriptions of Gorgons vary across Greek literature and occur...
Last week, the House of Commons began debate on Bill C-22 — a measure which is “long overdue” according to Wesley Wark, a national security professor at the University of Ottawa. This legislation creates a special committee of members of Parliament and senators with extraordinary access to classified information, and ...
The morning of 22nd October 1996 could not stand clearer in the mind. Crisp, autumnal. The alarm went off, and the news sounded a curious lead item – given the many things going on in the world at the time. A helicopter had crashed on the way back from Chelsea's League Cup tie at Bolton. I'm sure many who heard it, l...
The Red Arrows teamed up with four of their European counterparts for this unique formation, flown last Friday over the Royal International Air Tattoo (RIAT) at RAF Fairford. Britain’s finest are celebrating the Red Arrows’ 50th anniversary this year. They were joined over the Cotswold countryside by the leaders of fou...
Hi, Another update on 2.35. 1) build3 was ‘somewhat’ done but needs to be rebuilt due to some misconfiguration on my part. It doesn’t mean that build3 is a bust. It isn’t. It’s just that it’s uploading the files to the wrong places. (First time it uploaded was to the nightlies tree. :P) 2) l10n repacks needs fixing....
Sharpe Centuri Platform — Exploring Sentiment Data #1 Since the launch of the Sharpe Centuri platform in early December 2017, our users have provided over a million predictions on the direction of S&P500 stock and cryptocurrency prices. We have performed an analysis of the first 5 months of predictions and will briefl...
Close The U.S. Department of Justice has just invested $23 million into 73 law enforcement agencies as part of the government's Body-Worn Camera Pilot Partnership Program, but 212 other police departments left the line with empty bowls. Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch updated the public on the Justice Department's ...
Future research should probe more deeply into whether people with different types of connection to Medicaid view the program differently, and, if so, how and why. Moreover, future research should also explore whether state‐level attempts to destigmatize Medicaid by renaming the program also serves to reduce knowledge a...
"Many women who do not dress modestly ... lead young men astray, corrupt their chastity and spread adultery in society, which (consequently) increases earthquakes," Hojatoleslam Kazem Sedighi was quoted as saying by Iranian media. Iran is one of the world's most earthquake-prone countries. It also has one of the worl...
The gripping drama being played out between Syriza and the rest of the Euro area is not just a struggle between creditors and debtors, or between countries who will play by the rules and one who thinks the rules are absurd. It is also an enthralling battle over the future of democratic parties in a variety of Euro area...
Politics, eh? One minute you're bemoaning how your party resembles a coma patient and you might as well pull the plug . The next, the patient is positively kicking the NHS blankets onto the floor and asking for a glass of water. As a word of explanation, there now follows quite possibly the most boring sentence on the...
For the past two weeks, Thamer Almestadi, 19, has been on trial for attempted murder, aggravated assault and assault with a weapon in connection with an attack that took place on October 4, 2016 on a fellow UBC student. Monday, both Crown counsel Daniel Porte and Almestadi’s defence counsel presented similar submissio...
We knew this was coming. The North Texas Tollway Authority kind of telegraphed it when the agency announced that some 6,000 of its top scofflaws would be referred to an outside law firm for possible litigation over their toll-ignoring ways. And now, it's here. The NTTA filed more than a dozen civil lawsuits yesterday ...
A former Kingston police officer has been charged with a series of historical sexual assault charges, after an SIU investigation into the allegations. The SIU was brought in to investigate by the Kingston Police Service on Dec. 8, 2014, after complaints of a sexual nature against an officer that were alleged to have t...
In an effort to save his pregnant wife and their child, a man walked through forest for about 40 kms in heavy rains carrying the ailing woman on his shoulders to get her to a hospital, but failed to save the baby. The tribal youth, Ayyappan, carrying his seven-month pregnant wife, Sudha set off for the hospital from t...
But in recent days a variety of officials involved in the deliberations say that after administration lawyers examined many of the cases, the mood shifted toward using military commissions to prosecute some detainees, perhaps including those charged with coordinating the Sept. 11 attacks. “The more they look at it,” s...
The move to end religious discrimination in admissions to Catholic schools is a belated recognition that our education system needs to catch up with the reality of modern life. File photograph: Dave Thompson/PA Wire Minister for Education Richard Bruton’s pledge to remove the “Baptism barrier” from access to Catholic ...
Back in the Great Britpop Wars of the mid to late ‘90s, I used to defend my corner when it came to some of the less successful or popular acts in the genre. I could often be found in an indie boozer, sporting a skinny t-shirt (sigh), providing covering fire for the likes of Rialto, Lodger, Gene, Hurricane#1, Silver S...
This looks like the group the Dolphins are sticking with for the next few seasons, like it or not. The men running this team were impressed enough by what they saw over the past year to push forward with multi-year contracts for Andre Branch, Kenny Stills, Kiko Alonso and Reshad Jones this month. That gives Miami 18 s...
Scientists have developed a graphene-based sensor that detects pollutants in the air, helping builders market homes with exceptional indoor air quality (IAQ). This new sensor system is being developed by scientists from the University of Southampton and the Japan Institute of Science and Technology, and its main goal ...
Does WADA know the secrets hidden in the blood bags of Operacion Puerto? LIMOGES, France (VN) — Could the world finally find out whose blood is inside those 200 bags linked to the Operación Puerto doping scandal? Perhaps. The Spanish digital newspaper El Español reported Tuesday that blood bag evidence has been in th...
Pakistani prime minister Nawaz Sharif added to growing international pressure over US drone killings on Wednesday by calling on Barack Obama to end all strikes in his country. At the end of a long-awaited US trip designed to smooth growing tensions between the US and Pakistan, Sharif told reporters that he had "emphas...
"Soldiers" of the Islamic State group carried out a deadly van attack in Barcelona on Thursday, the jihadist organisation’s propaganda outlet Amaq said. "The executors of the Barcelona attack were soldiers of the Islamic State," Amaq said on its Telegram messenger account, without naming those it claimed were behind t...
NEW YORK/VANCOUVER (Reuters) - Marc Faber, the Swiss investor based in Thailand, provoked a backlash from business television and investment management firms on Tuesday after comments in his latest newsletter suggested the United States had only prospered because it was settled by white people. Dr. Marc Faber, publish...
SESSIONS: You have to watch out, because people will be asking you do to [sic] things you just need to say no about. Do you think the attorney general has the responsibility to say no to the president if he asks for something that's improper? A lot of people have defended the [Loretta] Lynch nomination, for example, b...
FREDERICTON (GNB) – The provincial government today released an overview of its consultation and engagement activities with the First Nations as it relates to recent natural gas exploration. “There have been questions about the government's role in the consultation process,” said Energy and Mines Minister Craig Leonar...
Activist Post Protests against the globalist-backed Shinawatra regime in Thailand are beginning to resemble the backlash witnessed in Egypt within “The Arab Spring.” As Tony Cartalucci has pointed out, violent pro-government protests occurred in Thailand during 2009 and 2010, but were not met with anywhere near the le...
Unions and individuals figured prominently in $6.2 million in political contributions raised by the NDP in 2016, show figures released by Elections B.C. The data provides the first details of donors to the NDP last year, already revealed for the B.C. Liberals in disclosures they released in January. The NDP had decli...
THE Coalition's citizenship spokeswoman Teresa Gambaro has apologised for comments about immigrant hygiene and the need to teach them how to form queues. After a furious reaction erupted online Ms Gambaro issued an apology this afternoon saying her comments did not reflect coalition policy and were taken out of contex...
I wrote earlier about what the jobs numbers mean for the 2012 election (hint: they are not good for the current administration). But at some level, who cares? This is the aspect that concerns Washington most, but it is surely the least important consideration: neither Barack Obama, nor his staff, are going to have any ...
Ralf wrote: Valve/HTC unfortunately thought otherwise as it seems. I’ll preorder as soon as possible, so leave the first 10 minutes after preorders start to those who really need one. 😉 Well, I will get back from work early this monday and try to steal ’em all away from you 😛 But I don’t know if I really should get...
Constructing Universal Map Of Knowledge keyuno Blocked Unblock Follow Following Aug 29, 2017 By designing a system of economic incentives that will provide access to reliable information to anyone with an internet connection. Structure: The universal map of knowledge consists of two parts: A method to record and c...
SCOTLAND has offered to mediate between Spain and Catalonia as the two Iberian nations enter a constitutional crisis. Catalan nationalists swept back in to power this weekend in parliamentary elections widely billed as a proxy referendum on independence. The government in Barcelona is now firmly on a collision course...
The notorious gang rape in Visby, Gotland, in which a wheelchair-bound lady in her thirties was raped by five migrants at asylum centre after asking to use toilet, led to some islanders declaring their interest in multicultural development over. As the five men initially arrested for the crime were set free later, indi...
During a CNN town hall held by Sen. Bernie Sanders last Monday, the Vermont senator and progressive icon tried to drive home a point that he has frequently made in the past: There is widespread support for most of the economic policies that he ran on, even if they were often portrayed as radical and divisive by the med...
A picture distributed on Facebook, shows the ambulance heading to a horrific crash scene in Sofia has been provided free access during an anti-government protest. The Sofia City Prosecutor's Office has requested from the City Hall to provide a written statement on allegations that the anti-government protest rally had...
swiggle1 dot pattern2 Image Source: Image Watching “reality television” requires you to suspend your disbelief, surprisingly, a lot more than if you were watching an as-presented “fictional” show. Audiences want to believe what they’re watching is real, thereby allowing themselves to be taken along for the ride. HGTV...
GRAND RAPIDS, MI - U.S. Rep. Justin Amash spent the evening Wednesday justifying his vote for a healthcare bill some of his constituents say is inhumane and immoral. The congressman from Michigan's 3rd district voted yes earlier this month on what he called a "tweak" to the Affordable Care Act, drawing boos and insult...
Well that was fast. Last Thursday, the Fractale Production Committee told FUNimation that they were stopping their simulcast of Fractale. What they wanted FUNimation to do was "eliminate all unauthorized videos of the anime on the internet, including streaming sites, file-sharing networks, and file servers." Riiiiiiii...