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VR:n toimitusjohtaja Mikael Aro on irtisanoutunut VR:stä.
VRLeaks kertoi tässä uutisessa VR:n rahoitusarvopapereiden tasearvon olevan yli satakertainen Finaviaan verrattuna. VR:n operatiivinen tulos on ollut tappiollista koko sen ajan, jonka Mikael Aro on toiminut VR-Yhty... |
University student Matthew Forti has been sentenced to at least 12 months' jail for supplying the "purple speaker" ecstasy pills that led to the death of former private school girl Georgina Bartter.
In the Downing Centre District Court on Friday, Judge Deborah Sweeney sentenced Forti to a maximum 22 months' jail for t... |
The US-led coalition has finally begun its military campaign against the Islamic State (IS) and other extremist groups inside Syria, plunging this war-torn nation into yet more uncertainty and turmoil. There is widespread rejection of the coalition strikes across the dividing lines inside Syria. Contrary to their polit... |
FORT MYERS, Fla. -- It has been inevitable for the past few weeks, but the Boston Red Sox on Thursday made it official: Eduardo Rodriguez will open the season on the disabled list.
Rodriguez emerged from his bullpen session Wednesday "relatively fine," according to manager John Farrell. But since it was the first time... |
YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK… Obama Administration Helped Organize Trayvon Martin Race-Baiter Rallies
In March 2012 Barack Obama weighed in on the Trayvon Martin shooting. Barack told reporters,
“If I had a son he’d look like Trayvon.”
Now this…
Newly released documents detail how the Obama Justice Department helped or... |
Our weekly Dungeons and Dragons podcast was created to provide guidance to our heroes and deliver new and reusable material for both players and DMs. We hope to inspire you with creative content that you can bring with you on your next adventure. Our show may not be suitable for young children, but neither is our D&D g... |
More than a year after a stranger smashed a glass in her face for speaking Swahili at a Minnesota Applebee’s restaurant, Asma Jama forgave her attacker and urged her to “choose love over hate.”
“My religion teaches me to forgive so I can get on with my life,” Jama told Jodie Burchard-Risch at a sentencing hearing in A... |
Say what you will, but IBM Watson is one resourceful supercomputer. We’ve previously seen the AI describe the contents of photos, predict the most popular toys during Christmas season and gauge your emotional state – all of that with an exceptional accuracy.
Now IBM Watson has added yet another skill to its arsenal as... |
Photo: John Ratzenberger
John Ratzenberger has played many roles in a distinguished career that reaches back decades.
Best known, perhaps, for the irrepressible “Cheers” barstool savant, Cliff Clavin. (a character shaped from the clay of actual Bridgeport know-it-alls Ratzenberger had encountered in his hometown), he... |
It was announced by manager Dale Sveum that the team will use Pedro Strop as their closer for the remainder of the year.
Strop was acquired (with Jake Arrieta) from the Baltimore Orioles trade in July that sent starting pitcher Scott Feldman and catcher Steve Clevenger to the O’s in exchange for both pitchers.
So far... |
GHB Enchanter, January 30th, 2017 06:43 pmBy: Glen Sim(Piper ) Read my other reviews I recently purchase the GHB Enchanter whistle as a substitute for my practice chanter and Highland bagpipe playing as I have a condition that causes headaches and eye pressure. The GHB Enchanter gives me the freedom to play any highlan... |
The two jumbo jets designated specifically for presidential transport have now been in service for more than a quarter century. Although these two modified Boeing 747-200Bs, known as VC-25s, are a couple of the most technologically advanced aircraft in the world, with encrypted communications and electromagnetic pulse ... |
A Christchurch tech company has hit the big time on crowdfunding website Kickstarter, after building what it's calling the "most advanced gaming mouse ever made".
Swiftpoint has raised more than US$80,000 in just three days for 'The Z', and is on track to substantially exceed its US$140,000 target.
Despite having jus... |
Two men have been charged with animal cruelty for their role in cutting down a tree in May where migratory birds were nesting in Newport Beach.
Stephen John Esser, 47, of Dana Point and David Roger Stanley, 40, of Downey have each been charged with misdemeanor counts of animal cruelty, unlawful possession and destruct... |
Just because cannabis is legal for adults in Oregon, that doesn't mean kids aren't still getting arrested for trying to sell it to each other. Now, though, things are different. Now, kids have Snapchat.
Take Brayden Garza, 18, a high school student in Scappoose, who was arrested on Jan. 6 after police served a search ... |
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Monday told a group of Johns Hopkins students that President Obama ought to sidestep the wishes of Congress and order swift new executive gun control measures.
“There are steps that President Obama can take without congressional approval at any time he chooses with just one str... |
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During a busy DICE where Quantic Dream's David Cage took the industry to task for acting like irresponsible teenagers by promoting gratuitous violence, GamesIndustry International sat down w... |
Just one day after GLORY announced that its 21st event would take place on Friday, May 8, at the Valley View Casino Center in San Diego, the night’s headliner, middleweight champion Artem Levin, spoke about the event.
The Russian recently relocated to Southern California and believes it will ensure he remains one of t... |
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Background Estrogen deficiency is associated with the onset of depressive and anxiety symptoms, cognitive impairment, and adverse consequences. We investigated depressive-like behaviors in ovariectomized rats and ketamine's effect on this behavior.
Methods Twenty-eight female Wistar adult rats were initially... |
by Jerome Kehrli
Posted on Saturday Jan 28, 2017 at 11:05AM in Agile
A few years ago, I worked intensively on a pet project : AirXCell.
What was at first some framework and tool I had to write to work on my Master Thesis dedicated to Quantitative Research in finance, became after a few months somewhat my most essent... |
Good evening everyone! Tonight I have the lovely Winter Nights Collection to share with you guys from Emerald & Ash. I am loving all of these nontraditional blends this year! While I love my Christmas polish, I also loving getting something versatile that I can rock all year.
First up tonight is Impending Snow. This b... |
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US Treasurys are surging following an ABC News report suggesting that Michael Flynn will testify that President Donald Trump told him to contact Russians.
No other media outlet has been able to confirm the report.
Flynn, the former national security adviser, was charged Friday with one count of making f... |
Authorities in Chicago released this surveillance video Jan. 14., which shows a white police officer fatally shooting 17-year-old black carjacking suspect Cedrick Chatman. Editors note: The Washington Post edited this video to include spotlights on key subjects. (City of Chicago)
CHICAGO — Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel d... |
Chicago Headed Toward First Teachers Strike in 25 Years
CTU files 10-day strike notice with labor board; strike date has not been set
CHICAGO – Today, the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) filed a 10-day notice with the Illinois Education Labor Relations Board indicating more than 26,000 public school teachers, clinicians... |
Last week, the NY Times broke the story that Roger Ailes had urged various colleagues to lie to Federal investigators; (David Corn explains the background to this here).
NYT:
“It was an incendiary allegation — and a mystery of great intrigue in the media world: After the publishing powerhouse Judith Regan was fired b... |
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Toyota Motor Sales, USA Inc. is conducting a Toyota safety recall of nearly 112,500 vehicles. Affected are the following vehicles:
2,500 model-years 2012-2014 RAV4EV vehicles
110,000 model-year 2015 Camry, Camry Hybrid
The problem in RAV4EV models is that the part of the propulsion syst... |
Conservative new media figure Andrew Breitbart revealed last night on Hugh Hewitt’s radio show that he pays a salary to James O’Keefe, the filmmaker who was charged yesterday in an alleged attempt to tamper witt the phones of Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA).
But Breitbart, who runs the Big Government site where O’Keefe’s no... |
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Over at Discover blogs I have two posts up, Republicans, the middle class party and Republicans still the party of the rich. Also, if you want to talk about limousine liberals, note that there is only one precinct in Manhattan where Republicans outnumber Democrats, the downtrodden southwest corner of the Upp... |
Canadian Dimension Interviews Linda McQuaig
When Linda McQuaig, well-known author and Toronto Star columnist, announced that she is vying to be the New Democratic Party candidate in the Toronto Centre byelection, CD contacted her for an interview. The interview, by CD editors Cy Gonick and Andrea Levy, was conducted o... |
Khartoum, Sudan.
“What could be the most striking image, one that would clearly illustrate the destructive involvement of the United States in Sudan?” I ask. “In short, what should I photograph, that could show the suffering of the Sudanese people?”
“Let’s go and photograph what is left of the Al-Shifa factory,” I am... |
You know what’s chill? Smoking weed in Las Vegas. You know what’s decidedly unchill? Going to Las Vegas hoping to score some legal, locally grown marijuana, only to find out the whole state has completely run out of bud.
The state of Nevada legalized the use of marijuana for anyone older than 21 in November 2016, but ... |
From a Storm of Swords. (spoiler warning, volume 3 of Song of Ice and Fire).---"I dreamed of you."------This is another fanart of "A Song of Ice and Fire" / Game of Thrones / Le Trône de fer (VF)Done with Photoshop CS5 + Painter Tool SAIJaime and Brienne in Harrenhal, against the (giant) bear!! I hope we'll see that sc... |
On Thursday late night, a wife allegedly threw hot oil on her husband after he asked her to stop adultery when the heated argument led to his two daughters being burnt. Now, the trio are recuperating at JJ Hospital.
According to the police, the victims have been identified as Shantaram Khale, daughters Vaishali and Sa... |
For nearly 60 years, cities in the west San Gabriel Valley were defined by their pro or con positions on extending the 710 Freeway — a line in the sand that created tensions but little progress.
On Wednesday, these same cities came together with the united purpose of doing something about the horrible rush-hour traffi... |
A recurring argument from EV naysayers and the fossil fuel industry is that electric cars are not really as green as perceived because they consume electricity produced by polluting power plants.
While persistent and still believed to be viable by a large part of the population, this argument has been crumbling in rec... |
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A few weeks ago I was thirstily on the hunt for open source beer – and I’m pleased to report that I’ve found one! Two, even.
One was right under my nose here in Berlin, and the other, a little further afield: My brother came to visit this week, bringing a bott... |
Let me start this article by saying I’m a huge fan of Spotify both as a music fan and a record label owner.
Spotify makes up a big chunk of our labels monthly revenue and seems to be contributing a bigger slice of the pie every month. Spotify is also where I consume around ~90% of all the music I listen to outside of ... |
NEW YORK — Dow Chemical says it will eliminate about 2,500 jobs worldwide, or about 4 percent of its workforce, which is tied to the recent restructuring of its ownership in Dow Corning.
Dow Chemical announced earlier this month that it was now the sole owner of Dow Corning’s silicones unit, which had previously been ... |
An adventurous musician has realised a dream and become the first man to play bagpipes at the South Pole.
Scot, Jak Kennedy, 29, had to defrost his instrument and wore hand warmers as he braved -30C temperatures to play just for a minute.
He performed ‘Scotland the Brave’ at the ceremonial South Pole and ‘Teribus’ at... |
Feds speed up Silver Line funding
By Derek Kravitz
The Federal Transit Administration announced Monday it is speeding up its payments for construction of Metrorail's new service to Northern Virginia, in an attempt to reduce costs and provide financial investment in the region.
A $19.8 million grant for the so-called... |
The Greek government stands on the point of collapse, with the country set for a general election over membership of the euro rather than the referendum planned for early December.
Calls for a national unity government embracing the opposition also intensified as EU political leaders and financial markets demanded an ... |
Elliott Smith began his career like most aspiring musicians in the Northwestern states: putting in the requisite hours in a grunge band. Being a team player, however, is not Smith's forte. After those buzzy shows in the bars of Portland, OR, he would retreat backstage with his acoustic guitar and whisper his own quiet ... |
'Consumer Reports' Chief Backs Health Overhaul
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In a historic step this week, the nonprofit Consumers Union, which publishes Consumer Reports magazine, unveiled the first television advertisement in its 72-year history: a spot that encourages Congress to overhaul health care this year.
The 30-second ad... |
MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (AP) — The Republican campaign for South Carolina turned deeply personal on the eve of Saturday's high-stakes presidential primary, as New York businessman Donald Trump eyed a delegate sweep and his Republican rivals jockeyed for a southern surprise.
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, the son of a pastor, evoked ... |
Super Mash Bros. are back, and damn are they back with a vengeance. After a hiatus in which even I was left wondering what was going on, they drop this exclusive track for Earmilk. "¡Holy Guacamole!" (more like holy hell) is a sensational multi-mash that starts off right where Nick, Ethan, and Dick left off with their ... |
AP Rolling Stone's Jon Dolan is reporting rock pioneer Lou Reed has died.
According to the New York Times' Ben Ratliff, the cause was liver disease.
Reed had undergone a liver transplant earlier this year.
Quite recently, he'd been promoting a new book of photos taken of him and other music legends by photographer M... |
Under a tree in Uganda’s Budongo forest in 2013, Catherine Hobaiter first mentioned the strange chimp behaviors she'd seen two years before. Hobaiter, a chimpanzee researcher at the University of St. Andrews in the UK, told fellow primatologist Thibaud Gruber that she had witnessed a group of chimps using a mix of moss... |
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio's capital city has stopped enforcing its panhandling law after similar laws were challenged successfully using a 2015 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in an Arizona case about church signs.
Assistant city attorney Joshua Cox says that First Amendment case had "an unintended consequence" on panhandl... |
DENVER – Drivers in Colorado will notice an increase in police officers, sheriff’s deputies and state troopers on the roads Tuesday.
That’s because law enforcement agencies statewide are teaming up for another round of “Move Over” enforcement campaigns.
The “Move Over” law requires drivers to change lanes in order to... |
Turkey launches operation in Syria ‘for security’
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Turkey has announced the beginning of a new military operation into Idlib province in Syria as part of a deal with Russia and Iran, in an attempt to create de-escalation zones and also prevent Syrian Kurdish groups from building a “terror corridor” along the Sy... |
Model behaviour! Ireland Baldwin strips down to a bikini in a behind-the-scenes look at her new fashion campaign
Ireland Baldwin is certainly stepping out of her famous family's shadow, with the teenager now the face of a hot new fashion campaign.
The 18-year-old has just been revealed as the face of label Rampage, m... |
Some players may shy away from wearing No. 13. It's unlucky, they may say.
Not Arkansas Razorbacks forward Dustin Thomas. Instead, it has tremendous significance.
This "Beyond the Game" story, which first aired on KATV's Razorback Basketball Special on Friday, Dec. 15, chronicles a difficult upbringing for Thomas.
A... |
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On Friday, Republican front-runner Donald Trump tried to woo evangelical voters at the Values Voter Summit, the annual gathering of social conservative voters hosted by the Family Research Council where Rick Santorum-style social conservatives are mor... |
MOGADISHU, Somalia — A truck bomb detonated outside a hotel in Mogadishu, Somalia’s capital, minutes before gunmen on foot stormed the building on Saturday afternoon, killing at least 23 people and wounding at least 30 others, the police reported.
Speaking to The Associated Press by telephone from the scene, Capt. Moh... |
Do you know what a “Bagel Girl” is? It is a Klown slang term for a girl who has a woman’s body (tits and pubes I’m guessing) but the face of a child. This is the most desired version of the female form in this deeply fucked, unredeemable social shithole. You see, the Klown men want to feel as though they are fucking a ... |
The Daily Beast has printed an Editor's Note regarding the allegations made against the Cordish Companies, saying that the most serious of them "were later recanted in non-public depositions." As a result, they have taken down the original article referenced below, and apologized. The note reads, in full:
On January 1... |
ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Officials in Minnesota are revoking a resident's vanity license plate seen as offensive toward Muslims.
The plate in question reads "FMUSLMS." Soon after media reports appeared on the plates, a Department of Public Safety spokesman said they would be removed immediately.
CBS Minneapolis reported th... |
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- An Ohio death-row inmate can't donate his organs to a family member because he wouldn't have enough time to recover from the operation before his execution, a state prison official said Friday.
Gov. John Kasich postponed Ronald Phillips' execution from last November to this July to see whether he wou... |
Non‐Black Women Have Jacked Twist Outs and are Calling it “The Rope Trick”
Beauty and DIY vlogger AlexandrasGirlyTalk’s “rope trick” tutorial was featured on Bustle.com yesterday. The only problem is that her “rope trick” is literally the same thing as a twist out – a style achieved by creating two‐strand twists in sm... |
As part of a special Halloween promotion, Gameloft is offering two of its premium titles (as well as Uno) on the Android Market for a paltry $0.99 each for a "limited time." We assume this means until Halloween, but Gameloft's app descriptions don't specify.
Order And Chaos is the largest (and really only) MMORPG on A... |
A slow-moving emergency is lapping at California’s shores – climate-driven sea-level rise that experts now predict could elevate the water in coastal areas up to 10 feet in just 70 years, gobbling up beach front and overwhelming low-lying cities.
The speed with which polar ice is melting and glacier shelves are cracki... |
PARIS (Reuters) - A French company wants to turn the Eiffel Tower into a heaving, breathing, botanical giant by draping its mass of metal struts and rivets under a mantle made of 600,000 plants.
An aerial view of the Eiffel Tower in Paris on Bastille Day July 14, 2011. REUTERS/Charles Platiau
The plan to transform on... |
2013 was a very good year for sports-entertainment. And not just in the sense of the spectacle, the pageantry, and the general ballyhoo that WWE brings. Bearing heroic displays of heart, Herculean feats of strength and Olympian conquests of World Championship gold, 2013 was a great 365 days for the actual art of wrestl... |
Herding Automation Infrastructure
For every commit to Firefox, we run a battery of builds and automated tests on the resulting source tree to make sure that the result still works and meets our correctness and performance quality criteria. This is expensive: every new push to our repository implies hundreds of hours o... |
It is not unprecedented for a player to have more than one Tommy John surgery in their career. Indeed, the leader in this area appears to be Jose Rijo, who had the operation three times (often reported as five, but it appears to be three TJ and two other arm surgeries), causing him to go almost seven years between majo... |
House Republicans on Wednesday passed a controversial Veterans Affairs reform bill that would make it easier to fire department workers despite concerns of prominent Democrats that the changes would do little to provide better services.
The measure also includes an overhaul of the department's benefits appeals process... |
“Clean air and a healthy environment are vital for a strong environment and a healthier future," he said. "So much of North Carolina’s economy relies on protecting our treasured natural resources, and I’m committed to maintaining the quality of the air we breathe for generations to come.”
Brian Powell, communications ... |
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Sheriff's deputies in Lancaster were investigating the discovery of a hidden cellphone camera recording video inside the ladies bathroom at a Starbucks in Lancaster on Thursday.
A woman, who asked not to be identified, told KTLA that her 5-year-old son made the discovery a... |
Two books have been in my mind lately. Firstly, this week was the 130th anniversary of the publication of the Unua Libro, the first book in Esperanto, which makes it one of the few languages in the world to have a birthday. On the 26th of July 1887, L.L. Zamenhof created an international language that he hoped would br... |
Your computer could be secretly mining cryptocurrency—piggybacking on your computer’s processing power to confirm transactions and generate new and potentially lucrative coins—and you wouldn’t even be profiting from it. Incidents of malware containing crypto-mining tools have surged six-fold this year, according to IBM... |
Create Development Certificate
To run an app on an iOS device you need to create it with a development or an Ad Hoc distribution provisioning profile. To create a development provisioning profile, you need a development certificate signed by Apple. With this development certificate, you can code sign an app during dev... |
Thanks to some gutsy journalists at NJ Advance Media we now know Muslims did celebrate as thousands of Americans burned on 9-11. This is news because the entire establishment came down on Donald Trump for saying that he saw thousands of celebrating Muslims in 9-11. Sympathetic observers and those who reside in the area... |
Carles Puigdemont, the deposed leader of Catalonia who fought hard for the region to break free from Spain, now says he is willing to accept a new relationship with Madrid which does not involve independence.
Speaking to Belgian newspaper Le Soir, Puigdemont said that “another solution which isn’t independence is poss... |
Ideology is as much about understanding the past as shaping the future. And conservatives tell themselves a story, a fairy tale really, about the past, about the way the world was and can be again under Republican policies. This story is about the way people were able to insure themselves against the risks inherent in ... |
Johanna Friederike Charlotte Dorothea Eleonore, Princess of Bismarck, Duchess of Lauenburg (11 April 1824 – 27 November 1894) was a Prussian noblewoman and the wife of the 1st Chancellor of Germany, Otto von Bismarck.
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She was born at Viartlum manor near Rummelsburg in the Prussian Province of Pomerania ... |
"EmpyreaL was founded by Celyth, Heimdelight and Writhen in 2014. At first it was just supposed to be a close knit group of competitive players, but we came to the conclusion that we wanted to compete in MRBC and other leagues. TwinkyOverlord, Araara and Imminent joined soon after from SWK with the desire to get back i... |
It’s not middle-out compression, but it’s the next best thing.
Researchers at Google are working on a way to use neural networks, the building blocks of modern artificial intelligence, to make our picture files smaller without sacrificing quality. To consumers, smaller files means more available space on phones, table... |
Sayed Parwez Ahmadi, 36, and his six-year-old daughter wait at the Hungarian transit zone where they have now been for over two weeks. © UNHCR/Zsolt Balla
RÖSZKE, Hungary – Sayed Parwez Ahmadi looks concerned as he puts another twig on the fire burning in front of their family tent in the makeshift camp near Röszke on... |
The Ferrari Testarossa is one of the brands most iconic models so it is surprising to learn the company has reportedly lost the rights to the name.
According to Zeit and Spiegel, Ferrari had to relinquish the rights following a lawsuit by Nuremberg-based toy manufacturer Kurt Hesse and his company Autec AG.
The case ... |
U.S. officials can at least temporarily continue to block refugees with formal assurances from resettlement agencies from entering the United States after the Supreme Court intervened again Monday to save a piece of President Trump’s travel ban.
Responding to an emergency request from the Justice Department, Justice A... |
'Flash' runs to victory for Royal Navy
A Royal Navy sailor from Plymouth nick-named 'Flash’ has scooped the title of the fastest man in the UK’s armed forces.
Leading Seaman (Logistics (Logs)) Olusoji Fasuba, serving in the frigate HMS Somerset, won the 100-metre sprint title at the Inter-Services Athletics Champions... |
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Dead to Me
A powerful friendship blossoms between a tightly wound widow and a free spirit with a shocking secret in this darkly comic series.
American Jesus
A 12-year-old boy learns he's returned as Jesus Christ in a final effort to save mankind and must step into his destiny. Based on Mark Millar's com... |
Once an ordinary day, in an ordinary land,
Graced an ordinary town, where lived an ordinary
man,
Who did ordinary things, and dreamed ordinary dreams,
Where his ordinary neighbors made ordinary schemes.
They would shop and browse ordinary stories,
And grow bitter and angry and fight ordinary wars,
Court and make... |
Even before Southern California began its frantic fight against six major fires that have been raging through dry shrubland this week, 2017 was in the record books as the worst season ever for wildfires in California.
As of December 3, fire officials had tallied 8,747 fires that burned through more than 1 million acre... |
Dinner to benefit Vietnamese HIV patients
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A capacity crowd joined Father Tai Nguyen and several other entertainers at Saint George Catholic Church’s Kuzy Hall Jan. 31 for a dinner and concert to benefit Vietnamese HIV patients. Father Tai prepared Vietnamese cuisine, as... |
IBM (IBM), the worldwide technology giant, may be getting closer to making a major investment into the blockchain space. According to a report by Coin Desk, the venture wing of the tech company, IBM Ventures, has been exploring the new technology by investing "employee time and energy" into the space. Now, it appears t... |
Top 10 Interesting Facts About The Celts
10. The Celts didn’t fight naked
As opposed to a widely spread misconception (stemming mostly from Roman texts), the Celts worn sophisticated armours and were quite skillful smiths as well. They were using leather padding and worn both metal plates and mailles. They also used ... |
One woman wrecking machine.
art matters
Last night I went out to see The Monuments Men with my wife (good movie that could/should have been amazing) and I drove the babysitter home it dawned on me that I was without a post topic for this week, so I asked the sitter for her thoughts.We bantered around a couple ideas w... |
Remember when I told you that the initial ruling dismissing Barnes & Noble's patent misuse defense was not the end of the story? Here's the next chapter: Barnes & Noble has now filed a petition for review of the order on the following bases: The ALJs decision rests on both erroneous conclusions of law and a misstateme... |
Lately I have been noticing some common patterns between my life and the lives of others. The two themes that keep popping up are the desire to “control” something while simultaneously being at “peace” with it. While these goals seem reasonable on the surface, they can often be paradoxical in practice, sometimes even p... |
For China most teams have opted for a mix of the three compounds available – Medium, Soft and Supersoft. Laptime and degradation evaluation will be carried out during the second practice session to determine the best race strategy – a two stop using medium and soft or perhaps a more aggressive three stop with soft and ... |
The distress in the financial markets manifested itself on many fronts. Shares of MBIA and Ambac, two bond guarantors that have big exposures to faltering mortgage securities, tumbled Thursday after credit ratings firms said they would re-examine the companies financial health weeks after affirming the firms’ ratings. ... |
Romney and Ryan had planned to split up on the trail. The Romney-Ryan united front
Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan plan to campaign together again sooner than aides had originally planned, likely twice next week, as part of a new offensive to take on the touchy issue of Medicare, campaign officials tell POLITICO.
Despite t... |
Fernando Torres knows what awaits him. The deafening din that erupts within Stamford Bridge when his name is announced prior to kick-off, a discordant tumult of adulation from all sides and rasped chants of "traitor" from those in one corner of the Shed end will testify to the emotion exposed by his leaving Liverpool. ... |
Tottenham are close to agreeing a contract extension with Toby Alderweireld - in a deal that would see the club end his existing £25million release clause.
Rival clubs can trigger the Belgian’s clause in the summer of 2019, if Tottenham take up a one year option to extend his deal to 2020.
And while there is no immed... |
LA Kings Insider: At development camp, do you get a sense that what happens off-ice – what the players are experiencing and learning – is as important as what they accomplish and learn on-ice?
Dean Lombardi: I think one of the things that happens, particularly with the job these guys do – I told Mr. Anschutz when he c... |
Hey everybody, we're pleased to introduce the newest member of the Giant Bomb family: Jan Jerome Ochoa. He'll be helping out Jason in getting our Quick Looks, live streams, and other video products up on the site. Here's a few bullet points as to where he's coming from. Please welcome him in the comments!
“Hey everybo... |
State Reps. Jeff Irwin and Adam Zemke, both Democrats from Ann Arbor, have joined other House Democrats in announcing a package of bills to allow same-sex marriage in Michigan.
The announcement came Monday morning with the U.S. Supreme Court due to release a ruling on Proposal 8 and the federal Defense of Marriage Act... |
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The Ninth Circuit’s decision against President Trump’s immigration order is worse than wrong. It is dangerous.
To review, Trump issued an executive order blocking entry by refugees and aliens from seven Muslim-majority countries. The travel restriction is to be short-lived: a peri... |
Faraday Future might as well pack it up and call it a day. The company has reportedly abandoned plans to build a massive factory in the Nevada desert. This facility was going to cost $1 billion to build and employ 13,000 people. The state of Nevada awarded the company massive tax breaks to get the project done. The Nev... |