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A TRAFFICKING ring which sold teenagers and women for as much as £10,000 has been busted in Glasgow, say police.
Women who it’s suspected were raped, abused and forced to work as prostitutes were led to safety prior to the major police raid in Govanhill.
Dozens of officers from Police Scotland’s Specialist Crime Divi... |
What a strange time. Last week I was literally walking the red carpet at the Hollywood premiere of Michael Mann’s Blackhat, a crime thriller that I had the good fortune to work on as a "hacker adviser" (my actual screen credit). Today, all I’m thinking is, please, God, don’t let anybody in Congress see the film.
I’ll ... |
Industrial production was down 0.4% m/m in May, broadly in line with below-consensus expectations. This is consistent with an annual growth rate of 1.6% y/y, up from 0.9% y/y. April data were revised down 0.1pp to 0.0% m/m, while Q1 growth was slightly revised up to 1.0% q/q. This confirms that euro area industrial pro... |
Story highlights Experts say drill, called Yildirim, or "lightning bolt," is a warning from Turkey to Syria
Relations between nations had warmed in past decade; pair once had joint border maneuvers
But Turkey has watched Syrian government's crackdown on civilians with growing concern
As relations continue to deterio... |
With MPs voting today on a new, 42-day detention limit for terror suspects, Lee Glendinning spoke to a 23-year-old student about what it is like to be detained under the existing terrorism legislation
"A minute goes like an hour and an hour like a day inside a cell … You lose all concept of day or night. There are no ... |
Building An Office Of Shipping Containers
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In the beginning of the recession, shipping containers began stacking up on American shores. Architects saw an opportunity to recycle these relatively cheap building materials into homes and other living spaces.
In Pro... |
When determining a pre-sale estimate for a car, the auction experts at RM Sotheby’s look at the vehicle’s condition, ownership history, how rare it is and whether it had a racing career (or enjoyed any other historical significance).
While it never had a famous owner, we’re guessing this 1959 Ferrari 250 GT LWB Califo... |
MongoDB is evil. It...
... loses data (sources: 1, 2)
... in fact, for a long time, ignored errors by default and assumed every single write succeeded no matter what (which on 32-bits systems led to losing all data silently after some 3GB, due to MongoDB limitations)
... is slow, even at its advertised usecases, and... |
Turkey has asked NATO to extend for another year the deployment of Patriot missile batteries sent to Turkey by NATO countries after Ankara requested the Patriots last year to fend off a Syrian attack, according to a Turkish Foreign Ministry official, Today's Zaman reported.
"There has been no change at the Syrian bord... |
According to a new study published in Psychopharmacology, psilocybin may be useful in treating alcohol dependence. The research was conducted at the University of New Mexico by a research team including lead author Dr. Michael Bogenschutz, and Dr. Rick Strassman. Yes, that Rick Strassman — the one who performed pioneer... |
The mainstream media is melting down after Infowars received White House press credentials, underscoring how the establishment wants to monopolize the news coming from the White House to undermine President Trump.
Infowars posted a short article on Monday morning showing DC correspondent Jerome Corsi inside the White ... |
On July 16, 2002, a survey crew from the Department of Transportation found Pam Kinamore's nude, decomposing body in the area along the banks of the Mississippi known as Whiskey Bay, just west of Baton Rouge. The police tested the DNA and quickly realized that they were dealing with a serial killer: the same man who ha... |
WASHINGTON (RNS) Critics who raised objections to a video at a Smithsonian exhibit that showed ants crawling on a crucifix are unsatisfied with new policies intended to prevent future controversies.
The Smithsonian Institution's Board of Regents advisory panel on Monday (Jan. 31) issued a report calling for greater pr... |
The day before Survivor: Cambodia — Second Chance began, it was hard to get a sense of who would fall where in the weeks ahead. Everyone talked such a mighty game, everyone felt sure about their potential, and everyone had their eye on people to beat. If there was a consensus about any group of individuals, however, it... |
A nationwide strike crippled Greece's public sector once again Thursday as the parliament was expected to pass a pension system reform bill.
As lawmakers debated the bill, about 12,000 protesters gathered in front of the parliament building, peacefully shouting slogans such as "Get the money you stole back" and "We do... |
Update, January 2019: I would like to point out that using Drupal VM to build production servers is not officially supported, and though it may work pretty well, you are own your own if you do use it in that capacity. Please see Drop 'official-ish' support for using Drupal VM to run production servers for more details.... |
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Dust clouds reveal how quickly stars form
Starburst A new and more accurate way of predicting star birth rates, one of the most fundamental processes in the universe, has been developed by researchers.
The study reported in the journal Science, will help astronomers researching galactic evolution, an... |
This morning's game against the Barbarians represented two notable landmarks in All Black rugby.
Photo: Photosport NZ
Firstly, it was more or less the first ever offshore All Black trial, funded by a third party and attended by a record crowd. Secondly, NZ Rugby were offering the game as a pay-per-view event, which y... |
We all grew up learning that the lion is the king of the jungle. And now that we're not little any more, we know just how vulnerable they are. In fact, when exposed to man's devices, lions are extremely fragile.
The latest weapon being used against them is poison. As 60 Minutes first reported last March, African herde... |
JEFFERSON CITY — A Joplin man who was appointed to the Missouri Board of Education and then blocked from voting on the fate of the state education commissioner is suing Gov. Eric Greitens in order to remain on the board while discussions continue.
Greitens appointed John T. Sumners to the board in October but after Su... |
Obama administration officials were so concerned about the investigation of Russian meddling in the 2016 election that they created a list of document serial numbers to give to senior members of the Senate Intelligence Committee, NBC News reported Friday.
The network cited an unnamed Obama administration official who ... |
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What do you think of when you ponder immortality? Most probably think of living forever. I would agree. My WordWeb dictionary states that immortality is “Perpetual life after death.” But what does this really mean? And what about Biblical immortality? What does the Bible mean by such a concept?
Tradi... |
Different Breeding Populations Evolved Differently
When life or death depends on your ability to follow a certain way of life, you are necessarily being selected for certain heritable characteristics. Some of these are dietary—an ability to digest milk or certain foods. Others, however, are mental and behavioral, thin... |
The label “conspiracy theory” is commonly used to try to discredit criticism of the powerful in government or business.
For example, just this week – after Tony Blair was confronted by the Iraq Inquiry with evidence that he had used lies to sell the Iraq war – Blair dismissed the entire Iraq Inquiry as simply being pa... |
'Sad And Lonely Girl Crying With A Hand Covering Her Face' [Shutterstock] http://tinyurl.com/q88mwes
A Seattle mother who began looking into the Seattle School District after it refused to investigate the alleged rape of her daughter for six months said that she has found “numerous” other sexual assaults that had also... |
Chris Pratt has hyped up the release of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 by lampooning the hype surrounding Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2.
He described it on Facebook as “the greatest movie in the history of movies” and prophesied that “candy will fall from the sky” upon its 5 May release (28 April in the UK).
“On May... |
Republican candidate tells Phoenix audience there will be no amnesty and lays out vision of a Mexico border wall and mass expulsion of criminal ‘illegal aliens’
'No amnesty': Trump vows to deport millions during 'first hour in office'
Donald Trump has vowed anew to deport millions of undocumented people and to build ... |
Clean up your Vue modules with ES6 Arrow Functions
Jacob Bennett Blocked Unblock Follow Following Nov 26, 2016
Recently when refactoring a Vue 1.0 application, I utilized ES6 arrow functions to clean up the code and make things a bit more consistent before updating to Vue 2.0. Along the way I made a few mistakes and ... |
I belong to that generation of Asian nationalists who looked up to India’s freedom struggle and its leaders Mahatma Gandhi and Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru.
The words of Singapore’s ‘founding father’ Lee Kuan Yew who transformed Singapore from just another nondescript colonial outpost and sea port to a global financial pow... |
A data leak at the meetOne dating site allowed anyone to access private data including the plaintext passwords, email addresses and real names of the site's approximately 900,000 members. To obtain the data, an attacker simply needed to increment a URL parameter. After they were informed by The H's associates at heise ... |
Welcome to the first edition of the Pittsburgh Steelers All-Time Greatest Plays Bracket. In honor of March Madness, we at BTSC have decided to select, what we thought, the top 16 Steelers plays of all-time. Once we made the selections, we ranked them in order of importance.
We have entered the Elite Eight of the Steel... |
How Moats Make a Difference
In our writing here we’ve made clear the the single most important element of our investment approach is focusing on companies that have a wide competitive moat. Usually when people talk about different kinds of moats, they are referring to the elements of the business model that give rise ... |
CLOSE Attack took place at the mental health unit Wednesday morning.
Sheriff Joe Arpaio holds a press conference. (Photo: (Photo: The Arizona Republic))
Four Maricopa County detention officers were injured, one seriously, when attacked Wednesday by an inmate in the mental health unit of the Lower Buckeye Jail, Sherif... |
A Fox TV camerawoman told a court hearing Tuesday that the Los Angeles police violently threw reporters and activists to the ground after an immigration rally, offering the most detailed testimony of a bizarre 2007 incident which she described as a “war zone.”
“The police officer threw her around like a rag doll,” Fox... |
Rush Limbaugh speaks to Fox News on Dec. 7, 2014. [Fox News]
Radio host Rush Limbaugh used the common conservative argument of comparing same-sex marriage to bestiality on Tuesday, seizing on a British tabloid story from last year in his defense of Indiana’s Senate Bill 101.
“This business of ‘who you love,’ where do... |
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Glenn Hoddle is set to join Queens Park Rangers this week as first team coach, writes Steve Bates in the Sunday People.
The former En... |
Harassment covers a wide range of behaviors of an offensive nature. It is commonly understood as behavior intended to disturb or upset, and it is characteristically repetitive. In the legal sense, it is intentional behavior which is found threatening or disturbing. Why must black men be subjected to this type of ridicu... |
There might be only 1,947 units of the 88 Tauri smartphone ever made, but each and every one of them is ridiculous. That’s the only way to describe Tonino Lamborghini’s $6,000 Android phone. With a stitched leather finish that’s the real deal (unlike a plastic Samsung) and gold-plated stainless steel surrounding this p... |
Hello! Ever since Eidolon of Blossoms was spoiled, I've wanted to piece together a competitive standard deck featuring it. Here's my second attempt! I'm looking for constructive criticism and ideas to make this a powerhouse!
The point of the deck is to land an Eidolon, and then start shoving enchantments down your opp... |
To answer any questions about whether or not President Donald Trump has a display of thin skin, take a look at who was invited to the White House's annual Hanukkah party. Actually, take a look at who wasn't invited.
No Democrats, and no Jews who weren't Trump sycophants.
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This wasn't a private event, e... |
Where the world's gold is held
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THE creditworthiness of a country used to be judged by the level of its gold reserves. Under the gold standard, a fall in reserves would lead to the central bank taking crisis measures. The countr... |
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Fernando Torres’ Liverpool legacy is not measured just by the goals he scored in the famous red shirt, writes Neil Moxley in the ... |
The WHO Farm (The White House Organic Farm)
Imagine a United States President that was aware – aware of Peak Oil (and all that this means for our ability to feed ourselves), aware of Peak Soil, aware of Peak Water, aware of the health implications of industrial agriculture, a system that locks us into a cycle of stupi... |
The Miami Dolphins played the Cleveland Browns in Miami on Sept. 25. And the Dolphins should have lost.
The Browns used an emergency kicker after their regular kicker got hurt in practice that Friday. Cody Parkey, the last-minute replacement, missed three field goals in regulation, including one on the final play. The... |
So much #Corsi in those last few minutes. #DidWeDoThatRight? — Winnipeg Jets (@NHLJets) October 17, 2015
Ondrej Pavelec has faced 41 of his 94 shots in the 1st period. 14 - BOS 16 - NYI 11 - CGY. He’s allowed three goals in that span. #NHLJets — Scott Billeck (@ScottBilleck) October 17, 2015
Flames Doused in Jets Hom... |
I realize that I am going out on a limb with what might be an alarmist column. Nonetheless, I will bow to my febrile imagination, which has been overwrought for the last few days, as I have pondered the overall effect that the new net neutrality rules mooted by the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) might have.... |
With White House Help, Clinton And Trump Start Transition Planning
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Now that the political conventions are over, it's time to start thinking about the transition to the next president.
Yes, really.
As of Aug. 1, the federal... |
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After weeks of debate, two controversial papers describing forms of the H5N1 avian influenza virus capable of transmitting between mammals should be published in full. That was the unexpected outcome of a meeting convened last week in Geneva, Switzerland, by the World Health Organiza... |
We all know that buildings don't always turn out like the renderings. Last-minute changes and real-life materials can all cause discrepancies between the vision and reality of a project. In our weekly Flash Forward Friday feature, we take a look at how different projects stack up.
The completed Shenzhen Stock Exchange... |
Hagerstown native steps into colonel suit to become face of KFC Video
HAGERSTOWN, Md. - Watch out Ronald McDonald and step back Wendy -- there's a new face of Kentucky Fried Chicken, and he calls the city of Hagerstown home.
Fifty-seven-year-old Christopher Boyer, Kentucky Fried Chicken's new colonel, grew up on the ... |
Pop star Justin Bieber (AFP Photo/Timothy A. Clary)
A Republican congressman from North Carolina criticized Bruce Springsteen’s decision to cancel a concert there because of the state’s new anti-trans law in an interview with the Hollywood Reporter.
“Bruce is known to be on the radical left,” Rep. Mark Walker said. “... |
The show echoed John Oliver's intervention in 2014, when he did a brutal takedown of then-Chairman Tom Wheeler's early stab at an Open Internet order. | Getty John Oliver again fires up net neutrality debate
The Republican-led Federal Communications Commission has been marching along with its effort to roll back the a... |
Parent Shaming.
Charlie, who is 6 and High Functioning, needs new shoes for school, and here you sit, in the middle of the shoe department. Charlie has been trying so hard to keep it together. He is on his 5th pair of superhero light up shoes. You know they are the right size, but to your son, they don’t feel right.
... |
Trump came into office touting his “America First agenda,” disdaining NATO, and asking “Why is it a bad thing to get along with Russia?” He told us he abjured “regime change” and held up Libya as an example of bad policy. Now he’s turned on a dime, bombing Syria, and welcoming tiny (and troubled) Montenegro into NATO. ... |
Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, in a wide-ranging editorial board interview with The Chronicle today, offered her own views on the bombshell book by former White House press secretary Scott McClellan, who charges that the Iraq war was a bungled policy and the Administration was in ”damage control” over Hurricane... |
Canadian environmentalists are hoping a new project will create a network of landing spots for bees and butterflies across Canada this spring.
The Great Canadian Butterflyway Project, being launched by the David Suzuki Foundation, involves the planting of wildflowers in patches to provide food and shelter for native w... |
This year’s best spy thriller isn’t fiction – it’s history. David Talbot’s previous book, the bestseller “Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years” explored Robert F. Kennedy’s search for the truth following his brother’s murder. His new work, “The Devil’s Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of Ame... |
I just read an article on Coindesk about gas price explosion of ETH due to its price spike in recent months. There is an example of a "smart contract" of a simple user registration, which was around $1 back in January, but is around $7 now and makes several applications on ETH useless / too expensive.
I know about dyn... |
How much a child's pupil dilates in response to seeing an emotional image can predict his or her risk of depression over the next two years, according to new research from Binghamton University.
According to Brandon Gibb, professor of psychology at Binghamton University and director of the Mood Disorders Institute and... |
A transformer, but not that kind Compact, infinitely customizable keyboard
77 programmable keys, plus a function key for switching and a display bar
Automatically switch between different layouts depending on the current OS language or active application
Just as all our screens are transitioning to touchscreens - wa... |
That’s really the only way to describe it.
DIY big-to-smaller hoodie
I’ve seen too many cute little hoodie refashions around to not make one myself. This old sweatshirt used to be one of my brother-in-laws. Not sure which one. But don’t worry, I washed it on HOT! (jk, thanks for the sweatshirt!)
This hoodie was an X... |
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Git
Git is now more or less working in Redox. This primarily required fixing a variety of bugs and Posix incompatibilities, primarily in newlib and redoxfs. Newlib wasn’t passing environmental variables on exec; I’ve fixed that although the... |
DNC emails show hostility to Sanders; one calls campaign chief 'damn liar'
CLOSE An email allegedly shows DNC staffers plotting to hit Sen. Bernie Sanders on his religious beliefs. Video provided by Newsy Newslook
PHILADELPHIA — Just days before Hillary Clinton will be crowned the Democratic nominee in Philadelphia, ... |
The Rockies have acquired RHP Pat Neshek from the Phillies, per a team announcement. Colorado is also receiving cash considerations and will send three prospects back to Philadelphia in return.
It was recently reported that Colorado was looking for right-handed relief help and aggressively so. Now the Rockies have fou... |
Is this the world's most gruesome food market? Dogs, rats, bats and monkeys among the animals roasted WHOLE in Indonesia
Dogs are flamed-roasted whole at Tomohon Traditional market in Indonesia
Before being killed by hanging from a tree, the dogs are kept in tiny cages
They are made to watch other dogs being killed,... |
Amazon
For Amazon and its drones, the FAA must seem like a heavy cloud cover that just won't lift.
The online retailer has ambitious plans to try out home delivery of goods via small unmanned aircraft, but needs clearance from the US Federal Aviation Administration to do flight tests outdoors -- clearance that, in Am... |
Buffalo Place brightening up downtown Buffalo Copyright by WIVB - All rights reserved Video
BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB)- The Buffalo Place organization, with the help of developer Rocco Termini, wants to bring downtown Buffalo back to it's holiday heyday.
A few decades back, window displays and decorations alone were enough... |
grep has gained a few competitors over the years. ack and grin both aim to fill in the gaps in grep's functionality, and provide a style of interaction that is focused on searching large code repositories. By default, they search recursively, colorize their output, and ignore certain "obvious" files that no one general... |
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They won’t be coming soon to a multiplex near you, but movies showing the growth of platinum nanocrystals at the atomic-scale in real-time have blockbuster potential. A team of scientists with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the Univ... |
This morning, Apple’s chief executive, Tim Cook, came out in an essay for Bloomberg Businessweek. “While I have never denied my sexuality, I haven’t publicly acknowledged it either, until now. So let me be clear: I’m proud to be gay, and I consider being gay among the greatest gifts God has given me.”
As he indicates,... |
The Christmas holiday seemed to be winding down as a terrific one for Lori Freni.
Her 19-year-old son Austin, a soldier in the U.S. Army, made a surprise trip home for the holidays from Fort Benning, Georgia — all arranged by a stranger after Freni struggled to pull together money for her son's airfare, WXTF-TV report... |
Image via Creative Commons.
Last week, we saw high-level arguments over whether or not men can, or should, be feminists. The New York Times and The Atlantic published pieces on the topic after Charles Blow wrote an op-ed for the former discussing why all men should be feminists. The Atlantic's Noah Berlatsky wrote a p... |
PARIS (Reuters) - Armed robbers stole gems worth 85 million euros ($108 million) from luxury jewelers in the heart of Paris, during a raid described by French media Friday as the most lucrative heist in France’s history.
The Harry Winston chain, long a favorite among the world’s rich and famous, once provided jewels t... |
(CNN) Covered in blood, Ronda Rousey crumpled to the Octagon floor, knocked out from a kick to the neck.
It was November 2015 in Melbourne, Australia, and the previously undefeated Rousey was on the losing end of arguably the biggest upset in UFC history, succumbing to Holly Holm in UFC 193.
Dropping to 12-1-0, Rouse... |
The self-described “commanding officer” of a militia group patrolling the U.S.-Mexico border was arrested this week on federal weapons charges, along with another “patriot” group member.
Kevin “KC” Massey was charged with possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and was taken into custody Monday by agents from the... |
Photo credit: Alexey Shevchenko
There have been some absurd rumors floating around Russia that former Capital Sergei Fedorov is considering a comeback at age 43. While that is about as likely as the Redskins changing their name, Fedorov has been skating with the team he is the general manager of, the KHL’s CSKA Moscow... |
[Haskell-cafe] ANN: darcs 2.3.0
Hello! I'd like to announce immediate availability of a new stable release of darcs, 2.3.0. There is a number of improvements and bugfixes over the previous stable release, 2.2. Moreover, work has been done to improve performance of "darcs whatsnew" for large repositories. As in the pas... |
What are the core values of the INFP?
INFPs value authenticity and want to be original and individual in what they do. They are often concerned with a search for meaning and truth within themselves. Following tradition holds little appeal for the INFP; they prefer to do their own exploration of values and ideas, and d... |
Amendments
2014—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 113–79, § 12308(b)(1)(A), substituted “Sponsoring or exhibiting an animal in, attending, or causing an individual who has not attained the age of 16 to attend,” for “Sponsoring or exhibiting an animal in” in heading.
Subsec. (a)(1). Pub. L. 113–79, § 12308(b)(1)(B)(i), (ii), subst... |
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Ranking Member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Democrat Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) said on Friday that the Kremlin got the message that Donald Trump welcomed their help on the election.
“Today’s report that a former Russian ... |
Confirmation of the TCG Pack’s size and contents.
After a four year hiatus, Duelist Packs return to the Yu-Gi-Oh! TRADING CARD GAME with the biggest set ever assembled in Duelist Pack: Battle City! Based on the famous Battle City story arc from the classic Yu-Gi-Oh! animated TV series, Duelist Pack: Battle City contai... |
Story highlights Federal agents raid Florida clinic of Dr. Salomon Melgen for the second time
They don't say why ,but Melgen is being probed for Medicare and Medicaid billing practices
He's also been a donor to Sen. Robert Menendez, who questioned an audit into Melgen
Menendez flew on Melgen's plane, paid him back a... |
We’ve seen punches, slaps, head-butting and even a few kisses. But a takedown attempt? That’s a rare one on weigh-in day.
In the above video (via Facebook), though, we get an up-close look at the attempt – one that failed rather miserably.
Ahead of Friday’s Extreme Fighting Championship 52 event in Cape Town, South A... |
An escaped circus elephant killed a German man early Saturday morning in the woods near Buchen, the Associated Press reports. The man was 65 years old; the elephant is 34 years old: her name is Baby, and she is an African elephant. She was captured and returned to the circus.
Police are investigating the incident. “Th... |
To celebrate what would have been Andre the Giant’s birthday today, we asked Box Brown, author of the new graphic novel “Andre the Giant: Life and Legend,” to share some fascinating facts about the massive star from his wrestling secrets to his obsession with (fine) food and more.
Andre the Giant. (Photo: Russell Turi... |
John V of Armagnac (Fr.: Jean V, comte d'Armagnac) (1420 – 5 March 1473), the penultimate Count of Armagnac of the older branch. He was the son of John IV of Armagnac and Isabella of Navarre.
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Styled Viscount de Lomagne while his father lived, John succeeded him as Count of Armagnac when he died (5 Novem... |
As I posted yesterday, CNN spent two days of a growing wave of demonstrations in Iran pointedly ignoring that it was even happening. The reason for this is pretty simple. CNN might as well have been part of the Obama administration and they fluffed relentlessly for the Iran nuclear deal. So if things are going south in... |
Astronaut Stephen Robinson, a veteran of four space shuttle missions, is hanging up his spacesuit and returning to the University California, Davis, this fall as a professor in the College of Engineering's Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. Robinson, who earned his bachelor's degree in mechanical and a... |
"20 years, 4 branches: Servicemember is part of exclusive club"From: Stripes--CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — When Jesus Yanez joined the Marine Corps in 1993, military service became a way of life.Over the years, the El Paso, Texas, native went from one job to the next, one command to another. He requested downrange deployment... |
An important rant (though long) from the Founder of Screenwriting Staffing, Jacob N. Stuart.
My motivation as I was writing this column, similar to the mom who “beat” her son for throwing rocks at police cars in Baltimore, does not come from any sort of deep-rooted hatred towards “certain” screenwriters, but rather my... |
A conflict took place between Interior Minister Arsen Avakov and Odessa governor Mikheil Saakasvhili. According to Avakov’s post at Facebook, it happened during the recent meeting of the National Council for Reforms chaired by President Petro Poroshenko. The event took place at the Presidential Administration in Kyiv.
... |
The headline should have been a clue as to what to expect, if the name of the author had not done the trick already: “The Good News on Brexit They’re Not Telling You”. But given that the opinion piece in today’s New York Times was by Daniel Hannan MEP, past experience more or less guaranteed that untruths would abound.... |
As Microsoft continues its trend of converting Windows into an operating system of spyware, more and more computer users are discovering the security, privacy, and liberty of Linux. Now, the company behind the world’s most popular Linux distribution has publicly pledged that there will never be any back doors built int... |
The "memorandum of understanding," a non-binding agreement, only needed a simple majority to pass but was approved by all present council members at Los Angeles City Hall to the delight of a standing room only crowd, which cheered after the vote was announced.
"This is a significant project for our city and it will br... |
Leif Skoogfors / Corbis A sniper team trains with .50 caliber rifle
The three Navy SEAL snipers who killed the pirates off the coast of Somalia last weekend were lucky the buccaneers were gullible enough to allow their lifeboat to be towed farther out to sea by the U.S.S. Bainbridge. The shortened towline turned what ... |
In another shocking instance of crimes against women, a German girl volunteer has been allegedly raped by a man in a moving train bound for Chennai.
The 18-year-old girl had boarded a train bound for Chennai from Mangalore in Karnataka on January 10 and was sharing the lower berth with Chandan Kumar, a 22-year-old car... |
As you may have seen, I’m a huge fan of a big, glorious beard.
Hold on, that sounded weird.
I love big, beautiful beards.
Nope, still weird.
How about this. Last week a great photographer in his own right, Derrick Wess (website, Facebook page) asked me if I would be a subject of his ‘Beard’ series. Only downside wa... |
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HARTFORD, CT — U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy said insurance companies are circumventing the 1996 mental health parity law by erecting “bureaucratic hurdles” for patients who want to a... |
However, the path from legal to illegal is complex.
Experts say crime guns end up in the hands of Canadian criminals in several ways. Most are still trafficked from the United States, where gun laws are not as strict. Others are stolen from licensed Canadian owners, or from "straw purchasers" who legally buy guns and ... |
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SALT LAKE CITY -- A federal judge has overruled Utah Governor Gary Herbert's directive that state agencies can no longer funnel federal dollars to Planned Parenthood of Utah.
In an abruptly scheduled hearing on Tuesday, U.S. District Court Judge Clark Waddoups granted Plan... |