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All you really need to know is that the currency has switched from hats to pennants. Instead of +20 per sports fan, it’s +30. The Daily Training completion bonus has also gone up from +1,200 to +2,000.
This is all just boring mathematical stuff. If you were able to unlock all the prizes in acts one and two, you should... |
A restaurant that started life as a small family business in a working class neighbourhood in Catalonia, and is still run by three brothers, was has been named the finest place to dine on the planet at the restaurant industry's most prestigious awards.
El Celler de Can Roca, in Catalonia in north-eastern Spain, was vo... |
Let's see, I walk about an half hour to work, then jump in the metro for the last fifteen minutes. A yearly metro pass costs approximately $400 per year and my employer pays for it. If I feel like it, I can take a "Velib", a "free" bicycle, the yearly pass, a mere forty US bucks. When I head down to the Mediterranean f... |
The list of political fellows coming to Harvard University now includes former White House press secretary Sean Spicer and former Army intelligence officer Chelsea Manning.
Both are among a group of political figures joining the Harvard Kennedy School's Institute of Politics this fall as visiting fellows.
Spicer serv... |
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Athenian general in the fifth century BC. Statesman credited with expanding the city-state’s democracy. Proponent of sea power.
A lion’s roar
According to Greek historian Herodotus, when Pericles’s mother was pregnant, she dreamed she was going to give birth to a lion, a symbol... |
Ponte delle Tette on rio di san Canciano
Ponte delle Tette is a small bridge in Venice, Italy. It takes its name ("Bridge of the Tits") from the use of the bridge by prostitutes, who were encouraged to stand topless there to entice and convert suspected homosexuals.[1]
The Carampane di Rialto was one of the red-light... |
As part of his first executive orders, Donald Trump signed the global gag rule with the amendment that it will apply to "all" global health funding. WATCH
Montevideo - A court in Uruguay has blocked a woman from terminating her eight-week pregnancy because her ex-boyfriend says he wants to keep the baby, media reporte... |
Jordan Grand Prix was a Formula One constructor that competed from 1991 to 2005. The team is named after Irish businessman and founder Eddie Jordan. Jordan and his team were well known for an easygoing attitude which added colour and character to Formula One in the 1990s. The team was based at Silverstone, UK but raced... |
BitTorrent is used by many to download missed TV shows Bill Thompson believes Virgin Media has decided it likes record companies more than its customers. The chances are that I'll be getting a letter from my internet service provider (ISP) in the next few weeks telling me that they've been watching my network activity ... |
A group of attendees at the Outside Lands music festival said they buried this bottle of whiskey in Golden Gate Park several days before the event. (CBS) A group of attendees at the Outside Lands music festival said they buried this bottle of whiskey in Golden Gate Park several days before the event. (CBS)
SAN FRANCIS... |
AdSense Player. This player has full sharing enabled: social, email, embed, etc. It has the ability to go fullscreen. It will display a list of suggested videos when the video has played to the end. The Obama administration is reportedly considering airstrikes on Sunni militants who have trapped tens of thousands of pe... |
At $349, Nvidia's Shield portable game console has a lot to prove, but one celebrity is already making the leap: Luke from Modern Family. In this week's episode, it looks like the youngster's Nintendo 3DS has been at least temporarily displaced by the Android-based Tegra 4 handheld. But the significance isn't what gadg... |
As Bruce Arena lamented under heavy breath during yesterday’s post-game presser, the regular season is one long year.
The MLS Cup playoffs are no different. Taking home the cup is another grueling adventure, and yet the winning formula isn’t rocket science: As a team, you need to be in form, you need circumstances to ... |
THE sweeping Democratic midterm losses last week raise serious questions for President Obama and a lame-duck Congress. Voters want government brought closer to the vision the framers outlined in the Constitution, and the first test could be the fate of the flawed New Start arms control treaty, which was signed by Presi... |
IT swooped from the sky and it was the size of an RAF fighter jet - and it's become the latest breed of dinosaur discovered by researchers at Hampshire universities.
The 70 million year old fossil is that of a Hatzegopteryx, part of a family of pterosaurs, a breed of reptile thought to swoop its prey from the sky whic... |
That job listing was correct. City of Heroes developer Cryptic Studios is working on a Star Trek MMO, and its got the screenshots to prove it. Dubbed Star Trek Online, the game will be based on the Star Trek franchise. Says Cryptic chief creative officer Jack Emmert:
Star Trek was never about a single character, ship ... |
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How many times have you found yourself in this situation?
“I don’t know why he has to be so hateful. I only called him so I could tell him…”
No judgement here. I did this all the time before I realized what I was dealing with. Nonetheless, according to a forum on allaboutcounseling.com,
“... |
Rain and high tides in the southeastern US have led to the unearthing of some long-buried marine fossils, specifically massive shark teeth that once belonged to an 18-metre-long megalodon.
"Oh my God, like I said, I felt like I was a lottery winner or something," Denny Bland, who found a massive fossilised tooth on a ... |
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WEBVTT AJ?REPORTER REPRESENTATIVE CHARLIECOLLINS SAYS THERE IS A PROCESSINVOLVED IN SEEING THIS BILLTHROUGH.AND HE'S BEEN INVOLVED IN THATPROCESS FROM START TO FINISH.AND HE STRONGLY BELIEVES IT WILLTURN WHAT HE CALLS RAMPAGEKILLERS.MUCH LIKE THE ONES THAT KILL 12STUDENTS AND A TEACHER ... |
California and Colorado, move over. Higher learning is coming to the American Northeast.
The New England School of Alternative Horticultural Studies, a Rhode Island-based medical marijuana training center, announced on Thursday the September launch of its basic medical marijuana training class in Warwick, R.I., which... |
WASHINGTON— As reported yesterday, Russian President Vladimir Putin triumphantly outmaneuvered Barrack Obama in a cosmic chess match with global — As reported yesterday, Russian President Vladimir Putin triumphantly outmaneuvered Barrack Obama in a cosmic chess match with global repercussions. For decades, the White Ho... |
This SSL Checker will help you diagnose problems with your SSL certificate installation. You can verify the SSL certificate on your web server to make sure it is correctly installed, valid, trusted and doesn't give any errors to any of your users. To use the SSL Checker, simply enter your server's hostname (must be pub... |
NGO Seeks Two 'Tech Geeks' for Bitcoin Fundraising
An NGO listing on the United Nations Volunteers (UNV) site is looking for two volunteers to help with research and train staff members on how to use bitcoins for fundraising.
Also read: BitGive: Charity 2.0 Platform Will ‘Revolutionize Philanthropy’
Volunteer Progra... |
How to Convert Atheists
Continuing in the vein of Adam Lee’s The Theist’s Guide to Converting Atheists and How Not to Convert an Atheist, I’d like to give some advice to Christians on how they might convert atheists.
Be realistic
First, realize that most atheists can’t be persuaded. Most people are too entrenched in... |
Press junkets can be very long, difficult days, so it's no doubt a treat for an actor to have an adorable little girl like Miriam the Star Wars superfan sitting there ready for a chat. The fact that she actually asked great questions certainly didn't hurt, either.
When Miriam talked with Rogue One: A Star Wars Story s... |
Java ThreadLocalRandom Explained
In this blogpost I’d like to present some things I’ve found while trying to understand the implementation of the jdk8 ThreadLocalRandom class. What was my motivation for doing something like that? Over the weekend I was reading the Second Volume from Knuth’s TAOCP “Seminumerical Algori... |
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Second-quarter profit at one of the nation's biggest drugstore operators rose 15 percent to $886.5 million, or 60 cents a share, helped by strong pharmacy benefits revenue and a retail sales boost due to a later Easter. The results beat Wall Str... |
Commission
Opening the debate, Olli Rehn, the commissioner for economic and monetary affairs, said that the Commission would have preferred a more gradual adjustment for Cyprus, but this was not possible as member states were only committing €10 billion. Mr Rehn added it was time to stop the blame game.
Criticism
ME... |
An International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) working group is recommending that new aircraft delivered after 2020 come equipped with a tracking data broadcast system that sends regular position updates to airline operators, a flight data recorder that automatically deploys (and floats) after a crash and a tamper... |
Intro
Hey , remember the cartoons of the 80’s? So many great shows like He-man and the Masters of the universe, She-ra, Transformers and G.I.Joe. Tons of classic movies and styles came from the 80’s that really defined a lot of people today. I had been waiting for this game to come to Linux for along time when I first... |
The U-T's Editorial Board wrote the following yesterday: Editorial 7 reasons to hire John Gruden. There were no number listings in this editorial. There were no bullet points. The UT is a g*ddamn paper of record, my good man!
There were paragraphs however. Nine to be precise. You are about to read an introduction foll... |
Recession Sex Workers #4: There’s No Place Like Porn: The Unstoppable MILF Zoey Holloway
“They thought to use and shame me but I win out by nature, because a true freak cannot be made. A true freak must be born.” – Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
You’ve heard the clichés about sex workers: apparent sexual abuse, an absen... |
Assuming everything goes to plan, over the next six years, the Amazon rainforest will get 73 million new trees. The mass planting is part of a project sponsored by Conservation International, the Brazilian Ministry of Environment, and a number of other NGOs and corporations. As John Converse Townsend at Fast Company re... |
It was her first Halloween at the Valley View apartments in Redmond, and Arpana Jinaga was eager to celebrate. It was 2008, and Jinaga, an accomplished software developer, had recently moved to the area to work at a technology company. She decked out her apartment in Halloween decor and donned a red cape purchased earl... |
A Reverse proxy is a cool way to remotely access your media server’s web interfaces. When you are done with this guide you will be able to use your free dynamic DNS address (Windows Afraid DNS Guide) like htpcguides.crabdance.com/sabnzbd instead of htpcguides.crabdance.com:8080. This means fewer open ports on your rout... |
NATHAN CHAN/THE VARSITY
The executive candidates for Reboot UofT, a slate running for the University of Toronto Students’ Union (UTSU) elections, have been issued 10 demerit points for violating pre-campaigning rules, as ruled by the Chief Returning Officer (CRO).
On February 14, The Varsity revealed Reboot’s tentati... |
Film director Uwe Boll has announced his decision to quit crowdfunding movies in an expletive-filled most definitely NSFW YouTube tirade.
Boll, who helmed numerous video-game-to-big-screen attempts such as BloodRayne, Alone in the Dark and Far Cry, released the rant to concede defeat for his third crowdfunding campaig... |
Let us begin with the clear statement that asking whether you have to believe in climate change in no way alters the fundamental scientific consensus, or the tens of thousands of peer reviewed papers. I personally think the evidence for anthropogenic climate change is very clear. But that doesn't change the fact that g... |
On Exhibit: Kelp Forest
along the coast from Santa Cruz to Turtle Bay, Mexico and along the temperate coasts of South America, New Zealand, and Australia
Natural History
This majestic giant of the kelp forest grows faster than tropical bamboo—about three to five inches each day in our exhibit and 10 to 12 inches in ... |
Looking back on early quantum physics—not for purposes of admonishing the major figures, or to claim that we could have done better if we’d been born into that era, but in order to try and learn a moral, and do better next time—looking back on the dark ages of quantum physics, I say, I would nominate as the “most basic... |
The first passports have been handed out to the new Russian citizens in Crimea on Wednesday, the head of the Federal Migration Service said.
The treaty of Crimea's accession to Russia "was signed yesterday… And all, who appealed to the Federal Migration Service in the Crimea, will receive their passports. This work ha... |
Summer breaks are meant for relaxing, but finding an escape from the hustle isn’t always easy. If you’re feeling stressed, tired or overworked, we might have the secret to help you unwind: read.
One UT Austin expert says reading in any form — from turning pages in a hardback to listening to audiobooks during your comm... |
Warning: This story contains major spoilers from Agent Carter‘s season finale. Read at your own risk!
Did Marvel’s Agent Carter answer a question we’ve been wondering since the show’s inception?
After Peggy (Hayley Atwell) expelled the Zero Matter from Whitney Frost (Wynn Everett) and essentially saved the world, she... |
Brazil stands at an ideological crossroads. Socialist ideas have had generations to grow in Brazil since they first took root there more than 100 years ago, interrupted by a long period of authoritarian military dictatorship in the late 20th century. The country is now facing some of its most difficult times. The econo... |
Manipur observes Patriot's Day 2015
Let Us Be United To Safeguard Territorial Boundary Of Manipur: Chief Minister
Source: Hueiyen News Service / NNN
Imphal, August 13 2015: Patriots Day was widely observed with great enthusiasm on Thursday in memory of brave Manipuri martyrs who were hanged to death on August 13, 18... |
Halloween weekend passed without major incident for the third year in a row, with total arrests down nearly 50 percent from 2015.
Friday had only one arrest and seven citations, and Saturday had 12 arrests and nine citations, according to Kelly Hoover, Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Department spokesperson.
Hoover sa... |
The force fractured his C2 vertebra – the second bone from the top of the spine. Trent will have his head and neck in a steel brace for 12 weeks but doctors are confident he will make a full recovery. “I don't remember the pain, all I do remember is me screaming," Trent said. "That's when I knew something really bad ha... |
GOLEM's tech team published a nice find today -- a vulnerability for any service that takes user-generated withdrawal addresses and passes them in unaudited to a transfer function.
From their post at https://blog.golemproject.net/how-to-find-10m-by-just-reading-blockchain-6ae9d39fcd95:
The service preparing the data ... |
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MOSCOW -- When it comes to finding original ways of virtually stealing real money, Russian criminals are in a class of their ow... |
Can I use Plyo’s before Muay Thai skill training? This short video explains the relationship between activation and fatigue, and how it relates to strength/power movements preceding Muay Thai technical and tactical training.
Triggered by a question on my Aerobic Plyometric Routine post, I felt the topic of post activa... |
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Yemeni Forces Send Another Saudi Warship Down
TEHRAN (FNA)- Yemen's army and Ansarullah fighters targeted another Saudi warship in Ta'iz province early on Saturday, the seventh Saudi vessel sinking in waters offshore Yemen in the last three months.
The targeted ship had repeatedly fired rockets on residential ... |
Last friday Iranian citizens from all over the world were experiencing stress as the presidential election was being held worldwide. This stress was caused by the fact that the two main candidates could lead the country to a very different path from each other.
Iran’s moderate President Hassan Rouhani trounced a hard-... |
The World Famous KROQ shocked the world earlier tonight with their special surprise guest act at their annual Weenie Roast Concert in Irvine California.
Moments after Vampire Weekend finished their set, Stone Temple Pilots appeared with their brand new singer, Chester Bennington. Dean, Robert and Eric were joined by t... |
DETROIT (Reuters) - Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, once seen as a rising star in Democratic Party politics, was convicted on Monday on two dozen federal charges of corruption and bribery during his seven-year tenure.
Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick leaves the U.S. District Court after he was convicted on... |
Kenichi Yamamoto, who led the engineering team that produced a commercially viable rotary engine at the company now known as Mazda Motor Company and later became its president and chairman, died on Dec. 20 in Kanagawa Prefecture, near Tokyo. He was 95.
His death was confirmed by Mazda, which was called Toyo Kogyo unti... |
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In the latest in a series of such tragedies that occur across the country, on October 15, G Muniyandi and D Viswanathan died of asphyxiation while cleaning a manhole. The Dalit men, employed by the Madurai Corporation, were only in their twenties. They were using none of the protective gear m... |
A barrister-turned-politician who defended clients during the Troubles has said some of the recent dissident sentences which the News Letter has highlighted would have been “laughed out of court” in decades gone past.
Jim Allister QC said the sentences being meted out nowadays are “failing to provide [a] deterrent” to... |
Newswise — Boston (March 28, 2015) — A nation-wide analysis of grocery purchases reveals that highly processed foods make up more than 60 percent of the calories in food we buy, and these items tend to have more fat, sugar and salt than less-processed foods.
“Many Americans have strongly held opinions and beliefs abou... |
In January 2013, the Ohio Army National Guard 52nd Civil Support Unit conducted a “training exercise” for a scenario in which “two school employees…[became] disgruntled over the government’s interpretation of the Second Amendment” and launched a terror attack.
Details of the training are just now beginning to emerge.
... |
Whether they're in-ear, on-ear, or over-the-ear, we put headphones (technically earphones for the first group) through the wringer at the PC Labs to find out which sound best. But what exactly does that mean? Here's how we test every pair we review.
Headphone Types and Design
There are several different types of head... |
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) Medical School, in partnership with Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center, are unveiling the country's first Mobile Stroke Unit Monday.
According to a news release the ambulance is equipped with a computed tomography (CT) scanner that allows a mobile ... |
The clash between players and coaches from both sides occurred in the fourth minute of the match
Norwich City and Sunderland have each been fined £30,000 by the Football Association for failing to control their players during the Premier League match between the sides on 16 April.
Players and coaching staff from both... |
Contributed by Nicholas Hopkins
A Glimpse of the lives of American soldiers constructed with materials of the 3rdArmored Division Archives, housed at the University of Illinois Archives Research Center.
Experiencing WWII from the inside of a M4 Sherman tank was famously dangerous. Henry J. Earl retells his experience... |
Mr. Nutterbutter and John Oliver, living their best lives. HBO
Coal baron Bob Murray, who Dave Weigel once called “history’s greatest monster” in a Slate headline for laying off 156 people the day after Barack Obama was re-elected and blaming it on the election, was apparently very, very unhappy with how he was treate... |
A design for Townsville's new $250 million stadium has been revealed, with the facility resembling the region's Pandanus tree.
The winning design was unveiled on Tuesday in Townsville, with a tapered roof opening up to views of the regional centre and Magnetic Island, with construction expected to be completed in time... |
By Kathryn Doyle
(Reuters Health) - In the 1960’s, before conflict of interest disclosure was required, the sugar industry sponsored research promoting dietary fat as an important cause of coronary heart disease, and downplaying the role of sugar, according to a special report in JAMA Internal Medicine.
A 1967 litera... |
Since past few versions, Java has started giving importance to concurrency. Java 8 goes one more step ahead and has developed a Streams API which lets us think about parallelism. Nowadays, because of the tremendous amount of development on the hardware front, multicore CPUs are becoming more and more general. In order ... |
From minefields in Bosnia to military bases in Indonesia, from Holocaust museums to Julian Assange’s embassy, Pokémon seem to be everywhere. As Pokémon Go takes over the world, Saudi clerics have renewed a fatwa against the gaming series and Japan’s authorities have released safety guidelines in preparation for the off... |
Sen. Kamala Harris Kamala Devi HarrisSanders: 'Damn right' I'll make the large corporations pay 'fair share of taxes' Warren Buffett: I would support Bloomberg if he ran for president Kamala Harris hits Trump on Fourth of July tweet: 'It’s America’s birthday, not his birthday' MORE (D-Calif.) accused President Trump Do... |
It took a while for my gifts to arrive (although the wait wasn't that hard due to the digital games my santa gifted me before) , but when I came home today, a package was waiting for me... I was really excited to unpack this thing, and felt like, well, a kid on Christmas :-) (Sorry, I just had to make that joke...)
In... |
THE ONLY UT WE NEED TO PLAY
OK, so listen, y'all. I don't post often, but when I do it's because I have something important to lay on you stupid people, so just take this all in. Finally, we're playing those UT bastards again, and we get to shove this putrid orange mass back to where they belong, Knoxville.
This stor... |
edit] C++2a features
Note that this list may change, as the draft C++2a standard evolves.
edit] C++17 features
edit] C++14 features
edit] C++11 features
* - hover over the version number to see notes
edit] References
Individual vendor compatibility checklists (these are more up-to-date than the table above)
GCC... |
Bionic hands are plentiful. Problem is, most injury victims can’t use them. But an innovative surgical procedure could change all that, according to a new study.
Even three years ago, we had at least one mind-controlled robotic arm that could ostensibly grip with the speed and skill of a human hand. But bionic arms re... |
Surprises of the Haskell module system (part 1)
While the basics of the Haskell module system are easy to understand, there are certainly interesting corner cases and non-obvious (mis)features.
All of these are documented in the Haskell report, but the tricky details may be hard to notice. Another good read on this s... |
At 3:50 a.m. Sunday morning Tulsa police officers responded to a shooting on the 2500 block of East First Street.
Upon arriving, police made contact with the female homeowner and then found a 19-year-old male who had been shot in the backyard.
The initial investigation shows that the 19-year-old male had entered the ... |
It's the news that Joey Jordison fans have been anxiously waiting for! Jordison's brand-new act Scar the Martyr are streaming their debut self-titled album in full right now.
Scar the Martyr boast an all-star roster of musicians. Along with Slipknot drummer Joey Jordison, the recording lineup of Scar the Martyr is com... |
pondering how to cure cancer
Update The War Doctor and the Twelfth Doctor -
I blame the sixth Doctor. I was sitting around one daythinking about panties and it occurred to me that six must wear rainbow underpants.Then of course then I had to ponder the rest of the incarnations of the Doctor.The follow up to this ----... |
Beery surprises. Everyone loves them, right? That little thrill of finding something new and having your expectations turned upside is surely what enjoying beer is about; always knowing that somewhere out there is a brewery you just might be missing out on. Despite constant reminders from Andy Mogg that Truefitt Brewer... |
ROCHESTER -- Lauryn Williams' life has been a whirlwind since she became part of Olympic history last month.
She has criss-crossed the country making appearances, both with and without her partner, Elana Meyers, with whom she won a silver medal in women's bobsled in Sochi, Russia.
But one thing was important to the R... |
There are plenty of web-based chat clients out there. Most of them are built to emulate your instant messenger. They offer you tons of settings. They can join multiple networks, let you edit your profile, and even manage your message history. Candy is different. It's built for your community.
Setup & Usage
Prerequisi... |
He prayed alongside well-known Muslim Brotherhood figures, including the leaders of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR.
But his objective was not worship. In fact, he was not even a Muslim. Chris Gaubatz grew a beard, went through a “conversion” ceremony at a notorious Northern Virginia mosque and beca... |
Godrej and Boyce, the last company in the world still manufacturing typewriters, has closed its doors. As a result, if you still want to buy such a device, you'll soon only be able to find used ones, and they'll likely only be available in antiques shops or the like.
Update: After the news about typewriters going the ... |
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How many times you have sent a message by mistake and wasted your units ?
How many times you have sent an email by mistake or a voice record in whatsapp which you didn't mean to ? or called someone by mistake ect.....
Confirm2Proceed fixes that for you by launching UIAlert to confi... |
Preservationists are trying to stop the demolition of the home at 1648 W. Armitage Ave. in Belmont Cragin, one of the first homes built on the Northwest Side of Chicago. View Full Caption Chicago Patterns/Gabriel Michael
BELMONT CRAGIN — Preservationists and an alderman are trying to stop the demolition of one of Chic... |
The Sunlight Foundation took a look at the 2012 election and found that not a single candidate for federal office won without taking a donation from the 31,385 people who make up the top 1 percent of the top 1 percent of American politics. The median contribution from this group was $26,584 — which is more than the med... |
As far as predicting events goes, the last calendar year has been pretty rotten. I thought I had found the love of my life, but I didn’t. I thought Hillary Clinton would win the presidency by a mile, but she didn’t. And I predicted the Atlanta Falcons would win the Super Bowl. For three and a half quarters, I was happy... |
Organisers of the 2015 UCI Road World Championships in Richmond, Virginia say their plans for the race are coming together ahead of schedule, and they may be ready to announce the course as early as January. Related Articles Richmond announces bid for 2015 world championships
Darach McQuaid sees no conflict of interes... |
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This resource center is your one-stop hub for everything you need to know about Featured Snippets in search. You’ll learn here how to get Featured Snippets for your content, common myths about how Featured Snippets are earned, and why Featured Snippets can come and go.
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BREAKING NEWS — EARLY-BIRD PRE-SALE STARTS TOMORROW FRIDAY AT 10.00 CET.
FortKnoxster Blocked Unblock Follow Following Dec 14, 2017
We are pleased to announce, that our early-bird pre-sale will start tomorrow Friday the 15. December 2017 at 10.00 CET.
Contributions are accepted in ETH and BTC.
The bonus tiers can b... |
California’s 4th District (Division 1) Court of Appeal just held that the Second Amendment does not apply to semi-automatic firearms like “AK” platform rifles. Click here to read the decision. “We construe Heller as standing for the proposition that the right secured by the Second Amendment is ‘not a right to keep and ... |
Dear President Obama,
I read that when you and Rahm Emanuel were faced with the tough decisions you had to make every day, you would joke about opening a t-shirt shack in Hawaii that only sold medium-sized, white t-shirts. So I decided to make it for you.
Your t-shirt shack is called Medium White Tee. It’s in Ward Vi... |
Sen. John McCain took the Senate floor on Thursday afternoon to respond to Sen. Rand Paul‘s filibuster about drones — and made it abundantly clear that he does not in fact “stand with Rand.” Reading from the critical Wall Street Journal editorial urging Paul to “calm down,” McCain tore into Paul’s arguments.
“I saw co... |
Just in case you needed more reasons to be concerned about the stability of the Middle East, new research using data from NASA’s gravity-sensing Grace satellites shows a substantial decline in the volume of groundwater reserves in the Tigris and Euphrates river basins. Data gathered between 2003 and 2009 show the seaso... |
The Philadelphia Police Department has launched an investigation into the fatal shooting of an unarmed driver by an officer during a traffic stop. Commissioner Richard Ross said Wednesday the officer was on foot when he attempted to pull over 52-year-old Richard Ferretti in a minivan. Ferretti refused to stop and attem... |
Raikkonen's benchmark was achieved in the final season of the 3.0L V10 engine era - an era that, as many lap records still attest, was a particularly fruitful period for performance highs. The nature of performance in F1 tends to be cyclical, with the regulations deliberately shifted at regular intervals when cars get ... |
CANNABIS in America is fast becoming a legitimate business. Four states, as well as Washington, DC, have now legalised marijuana consumption for recreational use, and a further 21 allow it for medicinal purposes under a panoply of state laws. Colorado, which became the first state to sell recreational marijuana in Janu... |
Google and Cisco today announced a new partnership around helping their customers build more efficient hybrid cloud solutions. Unsurprisingly, given Google’s recent focus, this partnership centers around the Google-incubated Kubernetes container orchestration tool, as well as the Istio service mesh for connecting and s... |
Jennifer Marshall Graves, an Australian biologist, is probably best known for a dire prediction: the human Y chromosome, which makes males male, could disappear in the next 5 million years. In the last 190 million years, the number of genes on the Y has plummeted from more than 1,000 to roughly 50, a loss of more than ... |
The eclectic creator of Vagrant Story and Final Fantasy Tactics discusses his new ventures: a whole new setting, with its games designed in collaboration with digital board game specialist Playdek.
I've long been a fan of Yasumi Matsuno -- not just for the dense, challenging games he creates, but also for the unique a... |
Scotland Yard says terror group used recognised codeword to claim responsibility for sending packages to offices in Britain
The republican terror alliance known as the new IRA has said it was responsible for a series of parcel bombs sent to army recruitment offices across England.
Scotland Yard has confirmed that the... |