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Angela Merkel, incontrando Matteo Renzi domani, si chiederà quanto il potere abbia cambiato l’uomo politico che lei ebbe la lungimiranza di invitare tre anni or sono a Berlino, quando egli aveva perso le primarie del Pd ed era solo il sindaco di una relativamente piccola città italiana. L’impressione deve esser... |
Astronomers have used NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to take the most detailed picture to date of a large, edge-on, gas-and-dust disk encircling the 20-million-year-old star Beta Pictoris.
Beta Pictoris remains the only directly imaged debris disk that has a giant planet (discovered in 2009). Because the orbital period... |
Update 3 p.m. October 6, 2017: Principal Bertie Simmons was told in a meeting with her supervisor Jorge Arredondo this afternoon that she is suspended for another week and that the investigation into her performance is being expanded. *See below for more details.
Dr. Bertie Simmons, the longtime and much-acclaimed pri... |
The James Bond Gun Barrel Sequence
Summary The Gun Barrel Sequence is the scene that typically opens any James Bond film, game, or other video media. It features James Bond walking along a white backdrop, shown through the view of the barrel of a henchman's gun. Realizing he is about to be killed, Bond quickly whips a... |
Internet giant says renewable energy is increasingly lowest cost option and it will not rule out investing in nuclear power
Google’s data centres and the offices for its 60,000 staff will be powered entirely by renewable energy from next year, in what the company has called a “landmark moment”.
The internet giant is ... |
In this article we’re going to quickly explore 7 Angular development tools which can make our everyday life easier. The purpose of the list is to not be opinionated architecture wise. This means that we’re not going to discuss tooling which has impact over our choice of application state management, data layer, etc. Fo... |
Preventive health care is a powerful tool for keeping medical costs down. Contraception is cheaper than pregnancy and childbirth; a cholesterol test is cheaper than a triple bypass. It is therefore in society’s interest to encourage the use of preventive health care services like cancer screening, especially for elderl... |
Hi everyone!
First of all, many apologies for the last month update skip.
A few crucial things have happened in the last couple of months and some very important decisions have been made as well as we'll try and explain.
1. Additional Funding Acquired
This has been lurking over the dev team for almost a year now an... |
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AMY GOODMAN: For the first time, 25-year-old U.S. Army Private Bradley Manning has admitted to being the source behind the largest leak of state secrets in U.S. history. More than a thousand days after he was arrested, Manning testified Thursday before a mi... |
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Looking for the inventor of head-carry devices and techniques is like asking who invented shoes. No single origin story exists for a piece of leather, fabric, or rope that is knotted, looped, or buckled around a load and worn across the top of the head. The tumpline precedes even the backpack. It has been used a... |
The Nets CEO Brett Yormark wants to offer Kentucky coach John Calipari a job as head coach and president, Yahoo’s Adrian Wojnarowski reports.
The Nets fired head coach Lionel Hollins on Sunday and reassigned general manager Billy King to a different role within the organization.
Calipari, 56, has been a rumored NBA t... |
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Money Lover makes personal finances management easy for everyone. This app will help you simply track and manage everything from cash, credit cards, bills, receipts, and saving accounts, etc in one secure place.
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Actually I am 100% sure someone else has not only done a Sandman/Inception crossover but dunnit far more eloquently (I got tired after page 4, re-read it and said WAIT WHAT IS THIS EVEN ABOUT)Spoilers for ... |
The ASUS Eee Pad Transformer is quickly becoming the darling of the Android tablet world. With all the specs (dual-core, Android 3.0, keyboard dock - the list goes on) and a price tag at $400, this may just be the one Honeycomb tablet to rule them all. Alas, when a great product and a great price meet, there is great d... |
Clinton and Sanders at the debate in January. (REUTERS/Randall Hill)
For all of their comments about having been colleagues in the Senate, Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton spent about as little time there together as is possible. Clinton was first elected in 2000, leaving at the beginning of 2009 when she was appoin... |
Kentucky political blogger Jim Higdon reports on a response from the Rand Paul campaign to a question about his stance on the construction of an Islamic community center at a location in Lower Manhattan formerly occupied by a Burlington Coat Factory:
Given all the bad crazy going around regarding allegedly small-gover... |
Trade unionists fighting the French government's labour reform, as well as sectoral disputes, targeted refuse incinerators, railway stations and power supply on Thursday as 16 of France's 19 nuclear power stations were on strike. Protesters picketed the company of bosses' union chief Pierre Gattaz in protest at his des... |
Thanks for all of your help, after following a myriad of advice, I still have no idea which one worked, as none worked right away but after one last attempt of restarting before taking it in to a professional to look at, it just started working. Either way, it works again, I can finish the translation. I will have the ... |
In interviews with House Oversight Committee investigators, Cincinnati IRS employees said that they believed that targeting of conservative groups came from Washington, not from a couple of “rogue agents. “
Sunday the House Oversight Committee released partial transcripts of Oversight Committee investigators’ intervie... |
October 2017 (version 1.18)
Update 1.18.1: The update addresses these issues.
Downloads: Windows | Mac | Linux 64-bit: .tar.gz .deb .rpm | Linux 32-bit: .tar.gz .deb .rpm
Welcome to the October 2017 release of Visual Studio Code. There are a number of significant updates in this release and we completed several popu... |
DetroitPlanner said: First tier suburbs are in a real pickle. . Click to expand...
My personal view is that maybe this is changing. Think of Denver.. or San Diego. The infill redevelopment of the inner ring is practically the only thing going on in those two cities right now. They are denser, more transit accessible, ... |
Growing tensions in the book publishing industry have led Amazon to block pre-orders from Hachette, the publisher home to popular writers such as Malcolm Gladwell and James Patterson.
The move by Amazon is the culmination of an ongoing contract dispute between the two, with Hachette believed to be taking a stand again... |
With Donald Trump’s election to the White House, accusations are now being thrown around every which way by progressives seeking to blame anyone apart from themselves for America’s collective decision. Rather than looking inward, the media’s progressive left has turned once again towards the ever-reliable bogeyman of G... |
OTTAWA—The Harper government’s decision to grant Bell Helicopter Canada a special weight exemption for one of its aircraft strained relations between Transport Canada and aviation safety regulators in the U.S. and Europe, federal documents show.
A Bell 429 helicopter lands on a hospital landing pad following a test fl... |
One of the greatest moral buzzwords of our age is “inclusivity.” It has become a favorite on the lips of politicians, executives, celebrities, academics, and pastors alike. Like “fairness,” “peace,” “dignity,” or “diversity,” it has quickly achieved the coveted status of moral obviousness: What kind of person could be ... |
Dr. Warren Hern has been performing abortions in Colorado for 42 years and has been the target of many violent threats.
The first death threats came at 3 a.m. It was November 1973 and I had just started performing abortions at a small nonprofit clinic in Colorado. Now the phone was ringing at my home in the dead of ni... |
SAN ANTONIO (July 11, 2016) – San Antonio Spurs forward Tim Duncan today announced that he will retire after 19 seasons with the organization. Since drafting Duncan, the Spurs won five championships and posted a 1,072-438 regular season record, giving the team a .710 winning percentage, which is the best 19-year stretc... |
Discrimination and Worker Evaluation
NBER Working Paper No. 21612
Issued in October 2015
NBER Program(s):Labor Studies
We develop a model of self-sustaining discrimination in wages, coupled with higher unemployment and shorter employment duration among blacks. While white workers are hired and retained indefinitely... |
NEW YORK – D.C. United entered Yankee Stadium enjoying their best form of the season, riding a six-game unbeaten streak that pushed them above the playoff line in the Eastern Conference.
But coach Ben Olsen knew there was bound to be some pain. And it came late in the second half of a 3-2 loss to New York City FC Thur... |
Cubbington’s ancient pear tree - which is set to be destroyed by the proposed HS2 rail line - has been named as the winner of the 2015 England’s Tree of the Year.
The result of a public on-line ballot organised by the Woodland Trust was announced on the BBC 1 TV Countryfile programme on Sunday November 8.
The wild pe... |
Houston rodeo removes offensive Disney cartoon begin sold at its fairgrounds
A display at the NRG Center during the Houston Rodeo features bootleg versions of the movie "Song of the South". The movie is widely considered offensive by today's standards.
Keep clicking to see other cartoons that are considered offensive... |
Every local authority in Scotland will ignore the terms of the Government’s contentious Trade Union Bill, making the legislation unworkable north of the border.
The Independent on Sunday can reveal that all 32 Scottish councils will refuse to implement the conditions of the bill when it becomes law. Those conditions i... |
Tony Brown being injured led to an opportunity for one of Alabama's young defensive backs.
Brown missed some practice last week due to a pulled muscle, so freshman Shyheim Carter stepped in for Brown at nickel back.
He did well, according to Tide star defensive back Minkah Fitzpatrick.
Fitzpatrick was asked this Wed... |
Researchers have developed a new material that demonstrates 'three-way shapeshifting' behaviour, changing its form in response to heat or light.
This is the first time scientists have achieved a single material that combines several smart capabilities – earlier efforts were limited to one function at a time.
The mult... |
I have always been a sucker for post-apocalyptic stories, and Just a Pilgrim by Garth Ennis fits that bill. It was originally released as a five-issue miniseries by Black Bull in 2001, but you can get the complete trade paperback now. Ennis, of Preacher and Punisher fame, combines a bunch of off-kilter ideas and charac... |
10. Louisiana
> Hate groups per 1 million: 3.2
> Number of hate groups: 15 (21st most)
> Adults with at least bachelor’s degree: 22.5% (5th smallest)
> Pct. pop. identifying as white: 62.9% (6th lowest)
There are 15 active hate groups in Louisiana, or 3.2 per 1 million state residents, the 10th highest proportion ... |
Headlines about virtual reality often focus on how it’s upending the world of gaming. But VR is also revolutionizing fields across everyday life — areas like medicine, architecture, education, product design and retailing.
A great example is Audi’s new virtual showroom, where you can explore each of their models in vi... |
Oil prices may have moved up over the past three weeks, but that has not kept gasoline prices in some areas of the United States from staying just above $1. In one small section of Arizona, the price is $1.13, compared to the U.S. average per gallon of regular of $1.75.
Two stations in South Tucson sell a gallon of re... |
Independent grocery chains affiliated with the Centrella cooperative are in negotiations to buy as many as 10 Dominick's stores, sources familiar with the talks said.
Grocers affiliated with Centrella, the brand name used by Joliet-based Central Grocers Inc., are looking to purchase stores as a group in both the city ... |
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More Pirates! More Adventure! More Monkeys! Relive the second hilarious swashbuckling misadventure of the wannabe pirate Guybrush Threepwood in signature special edi... |
Her mother was not happy. “She said, ‘That’s ridiculous – don’t think about the money, think about your health!’ ” Mrs. Francis said. “And people were telling me horror stories about things they’d seen on TV. So I didn’t go on about it to my parents after that.”
She got sick and “felt rotten for about a week” with a 1... |
About
What is "BLEAK"?
BLEAK is a Massive Fantasy Platformer for PC, Mac and Linux, that we've been developing for the past year. In it we have revived the lost art of storytelling to connect the gamer to a dangerous and vicious new world.
In short we're totally committed to creating the single player, lore-loaded, ... |
Yesterday, we reported on a strange article in which Fortune Magazine tried to make the case that Tesla should have disclosed the fatal Model S accident on Autopilot before raising capital through a secondary offering a few weeks after the fact. The publication claims that the accident was material to Tesla’s stock and... |
When the summer weather finally starts to fade, and the crisp air brings the changing of the seasons, one thing is for sure – fall is finally here and the holiday season has begun. First up? Halloween and two of our favorite things: costumes and candy.
Whether you decide to get decked up and go all out for Halloween o... |
Now, all the political engagement around heroin has helped create what Timothy Rourke, the chairman of the New Hampshire Governor’s Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse, says is an impetus for change, not unlike the confluence of events that finally produced a response to the AIDS epidemic. “You have a lot of people dy... |
The news Wednesday that Portugal is repealing four of its national holidays to spur greater economic growth has gotten people thinking about what the balance should be between free time and the need to keep the economy going.
And apparently Canada leans towards keeping the economy going -- more so than any other devel... |
THE PROJECT
Kentucky 120 is the culmination of my 10-year quest to make landscape photographs of every county in Kentucky.
This on-again, off-again journey on the back roads of Kentucky produced nearly 10,000 images. After culling down to a few hundred images, I enlisted artist friends to select the strongest image f... |
10 Feb 2014
No city in the United States faces as grave a threat from flooding, hurricanes, and rising seas as New Orleans, part of which lies below sea level. But New Orleans architect David Waggonner and his associates, learning lessons from the Dutch , have proposed a revolutionary vision for New Orleans that seeks... |
Almost a decade after Microsoft made an unsolicited bid to acquire Yahoo for $50 billion, moments ago Verizon confirmed recent rumors that it would acquire Yahoo operating business for approximately $4.83 billion in cash, far below initial estimates floated several months ago that the segment could sell for as much as ... |
Introduction
If you develop AngularJS applications, then you have probably heard of Protractor. It is an end-to-end testing framework built specifically for AngularJS. It allows you to create tests that interact with a browser like a real user would. One of the greatest features of Protractor is its ability to “be sma... |
The 2014 AFL Grand Final is upon us. Reigning Premiers Hawthorn take on the highly fancied Sydney Swans at the MCG in Melbourne on Saturday afternoon. We hope you can watch the match wherever you are in the world, one way or another.
The international broadcast details for the match and highlights packages can be seen... |
A fun, quick listen for fans of Doctor Who
Audiobook: I was unfamiliar with Kevin T. Collins prior to listening to this book, but I'll be keeping an eye out for him in the future. He reads clearly at good volume and does a few voices as well. Tom lucked out with a good narrator who added a little something extra to th... |
“Humor is a rubber sword – it allows you to make a point without drawing blood.”
-Mary Hirsch, Humorist
In perhaps his most famous sketch, African-American comic Dave Chappelle plays Clayton Bigsby, a blind white supremacist who has never learned that he’s black. In one scene, Bigsby rants about hating African Americ... |
Story highlights Inmates built, transported and hid two computers in the prison's ceiling
A prison program employs inmates to disassemble old gadgets for recycling
(CNN) Lax security allowed inmates at an Ohio prison to build two computers and connect them to the state's Department of Rehabilitation and Correction's ... |
The anti-fascist movement, also known as antifa, has a long history of physically confronting white supremacist and neo-nazi groups, aiming to deny them a platform to speak and establish their hateful agendas within the realm of “legitimate” political debate.
Recently, the movement has seen a resurgence in response to... |
France is set to roll out over 1,000km (621 miles) of solar road that will deliver an eco-friendly way to produce enough energy to power millions of households. The project was announced by Ségolène Royal, the country's minister of ecology and energy, and will see these electric avenues hit highways over the next five ... |
You might not know it but New Zealand has a ban on commercial parallel importing of DVDs that were bought legally overseas. Australia doesn’t have a ban, and neither does the U.S. When the government previously reviewed the ban in 2008 their own studies showed that the argument for retaining the ban was “weak” but desp... |
You read that right: ONE HUNDRED classic gaming backgrounds, prescaled and optimized for our favorite little handheld device. If viewing this article on your iPhone, simply save the image, view it in your Photos app, then hit the lower left button and select "Use as Wallpaper."
Above: Don't mind the empty spaces - We'... |
Panoramic view of the community of Chavez Ravine, circa 1952. Photo by Leonard Nadel , courtesy of the Photo Collection, Los Angeles Public Library.
Now fifty years old, Dodger Stadium has become a Los Angeles landmark, steeped in baseball nostalgia and traffic angst. But the Dodgers' recent change of ownership has br... |
Paras Khadka: "We have an amazing fan following back home. The number of cricket fans that we have matches any Test-playing country." © AFP
Nepal captain Paras Khadka strode into the press conference room at a Dhaka hotel impressively. He stressed how Nepal have been working for more than a decade to get to this level... |
Looks like Google Street View cars may have been "officially" riding dirty and Google may get slapped hard for its Wi-Spy fiasco. A federal judge did not dismiss the case against Google; instead in the first such decision of its kind, the judge ruled that sniffing open Wi-Fi packets might violate the Federal Wiretap Ac... |
How well I remember the sweetness of it. I was sit ting on a plane, reading a copy of The Spectator. Taki Theodoracopulos had written one of his “High Life” columns taking off after the sodomites of the Big Bagel (as he thoughtfully described the gorgeous mosaic of gay life in Manhattan). It was a spirited piece, made... |
Should you visit Roald Dahl Plass on Google Maps, you will notice a jovial waving woman. She resembles a nanny who adheres to the philosophy that a small heap of sweetener allows medication to travel effortlessly down the gullet in a manner that most satisfactory. This appearance has not been lost to Tumblr user FireFl... |
In Minnesota, Abandoned Wheelchairs Are Just Part Of The Landscape
Enlarge this image toggle caption Elizabeth Baier/MPR News Elizabeth Baier/MPR News
Anyone who has spent much time in Minnesota's "Med City" can't help but notice that wheelchairs are everywhere.
From city parking ramps and downtown sidewalks to park... |
NEW YORK (AFP) – Security scanners which can see through passengers’ clothing and reveal details of their body underneath are being installed in 10 US airports, the US Transportation Security Administration said Tuesday.
A random selection of travellers getting ready to board airplanes in Washington, New York’s Kenned... |
A new paper by Brookings Institution scholars and Tax Policy Center colleagues Bill Gale, Adam Looney, and Samuel Brown is generating lots of media buzz. Even Barack Obama has put his spin on it with a campaign ad that says if you are middle class, Mitt Romney wants to raise your taxes by up to $2,000 even as he cuts t... |
We’ve all wanted to recapture that one great moment. From to day to day we will often think back on a specific time where we felt an explosion of emotion towards someone or something, but it can be difficult to properly recall it. There are some of us, however, who can masterfully parcel up that one significant memory ... |
There’s nothing Hollywood loves more than a wildly popular book that’s ripe for adapting—except, of course, for a wildly popular series of books that’s ripe for adapting. Today The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 hits theaters, the third of four planned movies based on Suzanne Collins’ best-selling young-adult trilogy.... |
If the first thing that comes to mind when you think about ants is "industrious," you might be in for a surprise. In 2015, biologists at the University of Arizona reported that a sizable chunk of the "workers" that make up an ant colony spent the vast majority of their day engaging in one task: doing absolutely nothing... |
Lenin was absolutely indifferent to alcohol, from time to time he threw back just a few German beers or a glass of Italian chianti. He would also refuse Russian strong drinks flatly and just hated drunk people. He was also a strong advocate of the dry law, which was carried into force in 1914. He had a horror of drunk ... |
After weeks of speculation, Jimbo Fisher is leaving Florida State and will accept the head coaching job at Texas A&M:
The deal between Aggies and Jimbo Fisher has been done. Sources with knowledge of the process say 7.5 million /yr. For “Likely” 10 yrs. Negot. Began with at least 5 yrs..I am told he will arrive Sunday... |
US Border Patrol agents along certain sectors of the US-Mexico border are sharing rifles after malfunctions and quality concerns on their Colt brand M4s lead to many being pulled.
As a result, agents in sectors like Tucson, Arizona, are passing the same set of M4 carbines from one set of hands to another from shift to... |
Our quest this month is all about Nomad, and he has been a very, very, naughty man…
You’ll find yourself in the Underworld, leading an army of the undead, reuniting with old friends thought lost to Death’s touch, and laying siege to Nomad’s fortress as you try to stop another of his power-hungry schemes. Be prepared f... |
Something strange happens on the Moon for 5 days during every lunar cycle. Its surface becomes electrically charged. Dust kicks up suddenly. It might even swirl into a light “storm” as particles electrically repel each other.
These are the 5 days when the Moon’s orbit crosses Earth’s magnetotail, the vast region of th... |
Help! How do I know?
How do you tell a scientist from a non-scientist? Where does science end, and propaganda, politics, and opinion begin? You only need to know one thing: …
… Straight away, this sorts the wheat from the weeds. We don’t learn about the natural world by calling people names or hiding data. We don’t l... |
Summary (details follow)
Google provides an early-stage variant of a general-purpose AI (GP-AI).
Other providers of an early-stage GP-AI include IBM, Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon, Apple, and Samsung.
Google and its AI competitors are likely to be operating under the assumption that one GP-AI could become the runaway ... |
Jeff Bezos, CEO of AMAZON, introduces new Kindle Fire HD Family and Kindle Paper white during the AMAZON press conference on September 06, 2012 in Santa Monica, California. Photo by JOE KLAMAR/AFP/GettyImages
Over the weekend, Henry Blodget had a good experience with Amazon that cost them some money, a tendency he dec... |
Le Snoot offers art without the "snooty side" of art, as founder Logan McDonald described it. The play on words and Le Snoot's iconic portly swine mascot define the antithesis of what McDonald did not want to see in his art gallery.
Le Snoot was founded in 2012, and the latest exhibit is called "A Tribute to Adult Swi... |
According to the independent pollster, the latest decline in Najib’s support was rooted in Malaysia’s lagging economy, as well as the impending implementation of the GST in April. — File pic
KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 27 — Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s approval rating as prime minister fell again in the latest Merdeka Center survey... |
Strikeforce is targeting a light heavyweight fight between former 205-pound champion Rafael "Feijao" Cavalcante and Ovince St. Preux at a yet to be announced July event, MMA Fighting has learned from sources close to the fight.Feijao vs. OSP has been discussed by all parties involved, however, Strikeforce officials rec... |
A Florida pastor says his church will never burn a Quran (Koran), even if a mosque is built near Ground Zero.
Pastor Terry Jones had threatened to burn the Muslim holy book on the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks over plans to build an Islamic center near where militants brought down the World Trade Center nine yea... |
The popular nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) used for the treatment of arthritis pain, Celebrex, has undergone intense scrutiny in a marathon securities fraud case against the manufacturer, Pfizer. This week, The New York Times reported that thousands of internal documents were unsealed by a federal judge, a... |
An 88-year-old horse lover’s wish to see the animals again came true when a Shetland pony paid a visit to her care home.
Betty Burchett, a Sunrise of Eastbourne resident, has had a life-long passion for horses, having owned, trained and loved them from a young age.
Having been in low spirits for some time, it was Bet... |
Boris Johnson has demanded the advocacy group Cage "stop crying Islamophobia” and focus its "wrath" on Isis militants during a furious exchange with the organisation's research director over Jihadi John suspect Mohammed Emwazi.
Asim Qureshi rang Mr Johnson’s LBC weekly phone-in to challenge criticism he has received f... |
Former US President Bill Clinton and his wife Hillary, the current Democratic Party presidential nominee, have attracted billions of dollars to their own foundation to trade power and influence, Wall Street investor and analyst Charles Ortel told Sputnik.
© AP Photo / John Amis After Hillary Criticises Comey, FBI Rele... |
Audiosource is a Web audio / video mixer for Youtube, Soundcloud and Jamendo.
You can also create and share your music with sequencer and modular synths.
Be creative in your Live sessions and Sessions you can play also songs, you can use the pads to play your jingle.
You can also control all decks and mixer via midi... |
The German noun »Licht« means »light«, while the adjective »lichte« translates as »sparse« and is not to be confused with »leicht«, »light« in English, which is another established term in the anatomy of type in both languages. Therefore »light« is actually an unfortunate, but common translation of »lichte«. »Inline« b... |
The Ohio legislature voted this week to ban abortion at first detection of a fetal heartbeat, which is banning the procedure before some people even know they are pregnant, which is largely indistinguishable from banning all abortion. Now Republican Gov. John Kasich will sign it or veto it. Either way, the measure has ... |
Alvo de denúncia do Ministério Público de São Paulo ao lado do ex-presidente Lula, o primeiro escalão da Cooperativa Habitacionbal dos Bancários (Bancoop) renunciou. A debandada inclui os membros da diretoria e dois integrantes do Conselho Fiscal. Deixaram seus cargos o diretor presidente Vagner de Castro e a diretora ... |
The White House issued a statement on Saturday once again calling on Syria to uphold commitments it has made in recent months, “including the full implementation of a cease-fire.” The statement added, “We are consulting with our international partners regarding next steps toward a Syrian-led political transition” calle... |
YPSILANTI, MI - A dark side of Ypsilanti's history is being acknowledged Friday afternoon with the unveiling of historical markers at the site of Parkridge Homes.
Officials from the Michigan State Historic Preservation Office planned to unveil three markers during a ceremony from 4 to 6 p.m. Friday, May 5 at the Parkr... |
In the latest episode of Sonic Touch, Nick and Gaz dig into the new Arturia iMini, and even compare it to a Model D Minimoog.
Here’s an earlier comparison between Arturia iMini and the desktop version, Mini V.
Features:
Minimoog sound.
3 Oscillators
24db per octave filter.
Simulated headphone jack/external input ... |
Elon Musk took to Twitter early this morning to sketch out a new plan to disrupt traffic on American roadways by digging tunnels underground to circumvent congestion.
Specifically, Musk wants to open The Boring Company, which he says will actually happen. In a series of four tweets, Musk didn’t reveal exactly how he w... |
Premier League: Villas-Boas insists he has the confidence of Spurs board and players
Andre Villas-Boas denies reports of a rift between himself and the Tottenham players and boardroom. Andre Villas-Boas denies reports of a rift between himself and the Tottenham players and boardroom.
Newspaper reports claimed Villas-... |
A mid-'70s visa scare had Chrissie Hynde contemplating desperate measures to stay in the U.K. — even marrying a couple of her friends in the Sex Pistols .
The future Pretenders leader made her way from Ohio to London in 1973, and as she later told the Daily Telegraph , she quickly fell in love with the city. "I knew n... |
While Germany’s Rekordmeister have traditionally rolled on when first choice players were out, the absence of Bastian Schweinsteiger in the middle of the park could well prove to be devastating.
Philipp Lahm may be the captain; Manuel Neuer may be the best in the world protecting the ol’ onion bag; „Robbery“ may be th... |
As the dust settled in Paris on Sunday following the adoption of a landmark global climate agreement (pdf), the question remains, what happens next now that the world has reportedly reached the "end of the fossil fuel era?" And for many, the answer is simple: Kick the big corporate polluters out of the policy-making pr... |
This post will have a lot of UPG. Take it for what you will.
Hiraeth, a Welsh word with no exact English definition. There are a few variations of the meaning scattered on the internet. But there are two definitions that really make sense to me. The first one is from Wikipedia, “It is a mix of longing, yearning, nosta... |
Today we thank the Southeastern Conference for reminding us it’s almost college football season, when big-time educational institutions hit the “hold” button on their ethical standards and all but light candles daily in hopes that their school does not end up at the top of the N.C.A.A. enforcement police blotter. This ... |
President-elect Donald Trump (L) and United Steelworkers Local 1999 president Chuck Jones (R). John Moore/Getty Images/CNN Chuck Jones, a union leader who accused President-elect Donald Trump of misrepresenting the scope of an agreement to preserve some manufacturing jobs in Indiana, says he has been receiving threaten... |
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