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Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act prohibited discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. That excluded a pretty significant portion of our population: LGBT Americans.
Alas! We have some good news to report.
LGBT protections have been added to President Johnson's signature legislative ... |
Twenty-seven people have been hanged since lifting of moratorium
KARACHI / JHANG: Pakistan hanged 12 male convicts on Tuesday, an Interior Ministry spokesperson said, the largest number of people executed on the same day since an unofficial moratorium on capital punishment was lifted in December.
Prime Minister Naw... |
A number of newspapers have today reported a link between larger thighs and reduced mortality and cardiovascular disease. The Independent_
_ , for example, says that “big thighs could be the key to beating heart disease”. Behind this and the other reports is a large study that looked for a link between certain physica... |
Book packaging image for 'The Elf on the Shelf.' (Photo: The Elf on the Shelf)
A 7-year-old New Jersey girl panicked after she touched her Elf on the Shelf and called 911 for help.
In the popular holiday book, the elf loses its magic if it is touched or moved. So, after Isabelle LaPeruta accidentally knocked her fami... |
Millennials could become the school choice generation—but advocates still have a lot of work to do.
According to a survey released by EdChoice in October, millennials are more in favor of many kinds of school choice reform—charter schools, voucher programs—than older Americans, but only when they are educated about th... |
Link ready to throw the Remote Bomb in LoZ: BotW. Remote Bomb is one of the Rune Abilities in the game.
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The Remote Bomb is a Rune Ability in the game The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.
This rune lets you create bombs that can be detonated from afar.
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Houston Dynamo midfielder Christian Lucatero been added to the MLS Homegrown Team’s roster, which will face the Mexican Under-20 national team in the 2016 Chipotle MLS Homegrown Game on Wednesday, July 27 at Avaya Stadium in San Jose, California. Lucatero is an injury replacement for Seattle Sounders FC midfielder Aaro... |
The Syrian Arab Army’s 104th Airborne Brigade of the Republican Guard (Harss Al-Jamhouri) – in cooperation with members of a local tribe – has captured Wadi Al-Taym after violent clashes with members of the Islamic State of Iraq and Al-Sham (ISIS).
This was an ongoing operation for the 104th Brigade, as their counterp... |
Last month's World IPv6 Day created some excitement about IPv6. Once it was over, however, everyone went back to work—which for most people doesn't include anything IPv6-related.
The idea behind World IPv6 Day on the 8th of June was to flush out broken IPv6 setups by simultaneously turning on IPv6 across a large numbe... |
Sweden's Jewish community temporarily shuts down synagogues as a precautionary measure against possible terrorist attacks.
Sweden's Jewish community has temporarily shut down synagogues across the country as a precautionary measure against possible attacks by terrorist groups, The World Jewish Congress (WJC) reports o... |
JLo rocked the Hinduja wedding. TheShilpaShetty/Twitter A member of India's billionaire Hinduja dynasty got married on Thursday and the multi-million-dollar-affair was the place to be for India's rich and famous.
Sanjay Hinduja, the son of business legend Gopichand Hinduja and chairman of Gulf Oil International, marri... |
ComebackTown is published by David Sher to begin a discussion on a better Birmingham.
David Sher is Co-Founder of AmSher Compassionate Collections and past Chairman of Birmingham Regional Chamber of Commerce, ONB, and CAP.
Let's turn Birmingham around. Click here to sign up for our newsletter. There's power in number... |
A registered nurse who sacrificed his life to save his wife. A veteran of the war in Afghanistan whose last Facebook post, from July, starts, “What’s it like being shot at?” A beloved special education teacher. A grandmother of five who died in the arms of her husband of 32 years. A high school secretary described as a... |
A donkey sacrificed in Canaanite ritual, found in situ at Tell es-Safi (Gath). Analysis of its teeth showed that it was born and bred in ancient Egypt.
The ancient Canaanites living in Gath some 5,000 years ago weren't sacrificing their own livestock to appease the gods. They were importing animals from ancient Egypt,... |
Members of the Scottish Liberal Democrats have voted for a proposal to lift the moratorium on unconventional gas extraction, often known as fracking, at the party’s spring conference in Edinburgh.
Members in the Assembly Rooms backed an amendment to a motion on tackling climate change which proposed “lifting the morat... |
“The court denies defendant’s motion for release from custody,” Epps wrote in the decision, “and finds by clear and convincing evidence that no condition or combination of conditions will reasonably assure the safety of the community; and by a preponderance of the evidence that no condition or combination of conditions... |
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Dick Eastman
The Truth Hound
When Henry Kissinger and David Rockefeller met with Zhou Enlai in China in 1973—just after President Richard Nixon had visited China establishing official relations—an understanding was reached whereby the U.S. would supply industrial capital and know-how to China.
In return Kissinge... |
The bad news for Eli Apple: He was inactive again Sunday. The good news: It gave him more time to enjoy the performance of a former teammate — against his own team — and tweet about it. The worst news: He broke the NFL’s social media policy by doing so.
Apple tweeted three times during the Giants’ 30-10 loss to the Co... |
A long-lost Beatles demo disc sent to Cilla Black has been rediscovered 52 years later.
A long-lost Beatles demo disc sent to Cilla Black has been rediscovered 52 years later.
Black had a UK Top 10 hit with the Lennon/McCartney-penned It's for You in 1964, which was produced by George Martin at Abbey Road Studios.
T... |
As regulators grapple with autonomous technology, conflicts between country-specific laws could impede the adoption of this technology. The United Nations has a forum (“WP29“) which aims to avoid such problems by harmonizing vehicle regulations. Many aspects of technical regulations for wheeled vehicles are discussed i... |
• Detainees' letters claim US keeps numbers artificially low • US admits it has recorded video of Guantánamo force-feedings
Recent letters written by Guantánamo Bay detainees on hunger strike accuse the US military of manipulating data about the strike and using force-feeding techniques as a method of punishment.
Let... |
Prince Harry has reportedly told friends he is appalled at the “ludicrous” sentence handed to a Royal Marine sergeant convicted of murdering a Taliban captive.
The Prince is frustrated that his royal position means he cannot joined a high profile campaign pushing for a review of Sgt Alexander Blackman’s life sentence.... |
In A Rare Speech, Japan's Emperor Hints At Abdicating
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Japan's emperor is hinting he wants to leave the Chrysanthemum Throne. 82-year-old Emperor Akihito gave a rare televised address Monday — only his second in history — in wh... |
Though Cedar Point has been closed through the week, construction crews and the newest RMC creation have been hard at work! Steel Vengeance’s highest point of 205 feet is finally in place at the lift was topped off:
Starting off with a wider look at the coaster, we can see how it will add to some of Cedar Point’s skyl... |
A fire that occurred on the eighth floor of Ida Sproul Hall in Unit 3 on Thursday evening has displaced many residents from their rooms, causing distress for affected residents one week before campus final exams.
UCPD first received a call reporting the fire about 8:18 p.m. Thursday, according to UCPD spokesperson Sgt... |
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced Thursday he plans for the Senate to vote on four of President Trump’s circuit court judges next week, speeding up the pace on judicial confirmations.
His efforts come after he expressed frustration with Democrats this week for attempting to filibuster all but one of Mr. Trump’... |
Ford copies Firewatch official art for Freedom Sales Event promotion The Ford Freedom Sales Event has started, and apparently, Ford has the freedom to ripoff work of indie game developers.
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, so Campo Santo should feel extremely flattered considering Ford completely copied Fir... |
Carabiners are incredibly strong used correctly. However, it is worth being aware of ways that carabiners can interact with bolts that will dramatically compromise their integrity, and how this feeds into their design.
Hooking-up on the more traditional style of bolt is an example of this: where the square edge of the... |
Guys, it's happening. It's really happening – a real guitar amp simulator is available on Android. IK Multimedia's Amplitube is one of the most popular amp sims on iOS, and the company has been working with Samsung to bring it to Android. But, of course, there's a catch: it's only for the Note 4 and Note Edge for now.
... |
Eugene List (right) and Carroll Glenn in 1953
Eugene List (July 6, 1918 – March 1, 1985) was an American concert pianist and teacher.
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Eugene List was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He spent his formative years in Los Angeles, where his father Louis List (originally Lisnitzer) was a language ... |
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is returning to the early presidential caucus state of Iowa on Saturday where he is slated to speak at two events.
The potential 2016 Republican presidential contender is scheduled to speak at a luncheon for Rep. Steve King's (R-Iowa) annual pheasant hunt north of Akron before keynoting ... |
Reports that a former monk has set himself on fire is a further sign of the ongoing tensions in Tibet.
A teenage former monk in Tibet has reportedly set himself on fire, the eighth self-immolation this year in what has become an increasingly restive region.
Reuters reports that the 19-year-old former monk at the Kirt... |
Yesterday, while browsing one of my favorite non-photography websites, the topic of HDR came up in a comments discussion and one of the comments contained the following quote:
"HDR=The autotune of the photography world"
This ignorant commenter is relating the use of autotuning in the music industry - the process of d... |
We report that adult nutcrackers ( Nucifraga columbiana ) and newborn domestic chicks ( Gallus gallus ) show a leftward bias when required to locate an object in a series of identical ones on the basis of its ordinal position. Birds were trained to peck at either the fourth or sixth element in a series of 16 identical ... |
The company logo of Mossack Fonseca is seen inside the office of Mossack Fonseca and Company (Asia) Limited in Hong Kong. Picture: Bobby Yip
Parliament - The South African Revenue Service has identified roughly 1 700 local citizens whose names appear in the offshore records contained in the Panama Papers. This is acco... |
Interesting tidbit from Ben Caspit in Al Monitor. He quotes a “long-standing diplomatic source” described as “an expert regarding the entire historical background of Israeli-US relations” who is extremely critical of AIPAC’s decision to push for a U.S. strike on Syria:
“It is not wise, it is not correct, it is excessi... |
I decided to write this entire article up using a pen and paper, with the intention of typing it up once I was done. I only got about four paragraphs in before my hand started to ache, and my paper was a mess of scrawls, crossed out sentences, quickly becoming more and more illegible as I went further down the page.
T... |
A mother who’s being called Autumn Lily Speaker on Reddit was supposedly outraged when her daughter’s second-grade teacher refused to serve students a tray of vagina cookies.
Reddit user JPStudly is friend’s with the teacher and shared her first-person account in a post published two days ago. With only a screen shot ... |
A rocket exploded in Ashkelon beach after being fired from the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, despite no Code Red siren being sounded. There were no casualties in the incident and no property was damaged.
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Shortly after the launch, Hamas began evacuating security posts for fear of an ... |
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Actress Sherri Shepherd has lost her appeal of a Pennsylvania court ruling that found her responsible for a child born to a surrogate before she divorced.
The state Supreme Court says Tuesday it won't hear the case.
Surrogacy advocates say the lower court ruling in her case is the first to declar... |
The winds of change are blowing through the world of atheism, as it seeks a softening of its ‘Dawkinsian’ attitude to religion and a more inclusive approach
ATHEISTS ARE on the march. Census results published last week showed there was a four-fold increase in the number of people who said they had no religion, or were... |
I am developing a shell and a language called NGS. I keep repeating it’s domain specific. What are the unique features that make NGS most suitable for today’s system administration tasks (a.k.a “Operations” or hype-compatible word “DevOps”)?
This post is first in series that show what makes NGS unique.
Execute and pa... |
WORCESTER - One man was injured in a shooting on Dartmouth Street that scanner reports said may have included as many as 16 shots fired.
A 25-year-old Boston man suffered a single gunshot wound to the back in the shooting around 2:19 a.m., according to police. The man walked into a local hospital with the injury. His ... |
Twelve months after shipping its long-awaited Roamio DVRs , TiVo has now released a recorder targeted solely at cord cutters: the Roamio OTA.
The Roamio OTA is virtually identical to the standard TiVo Roamio with the only difference being that it won't accept a CableCard. As a result, the only way the Roamio OTA can r... |
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On July 21, 1996, “The Daily Show” premiered on Comedy Central with a theme song that still survives in Trevor Noah’s iteration of the show 20 years later. The opening melody is arguably the most beloved theme song in news, becoming particularly icon... |
Image copyright Bromley Council Image caption Terence Nathan said his comment was "meant to be taken with a pinch of salt"
A UKIP councillor who said on social media that all Remain voters should be killed has apologised and said his comments were a joke.
Terence Nathan, a councillor in Bromley, south-east London, po... |
The meaning behind the flag
Orlando’s fountain at Lake Eola Park is the most distinctive and recognizable symbol in the city, one that is loved by our residents and enjoyed by our visitors. The water ascending from the fountain represents the continuous flow of energy and innovation that makes Orlando a city on the ri... |
A few weeks ago during the Vsinger live concert, we had the chance to hear Mo Qingxian and Zhiyu Moke for the first time. At the time, we did not know who the voice providers were, but now, Vsinger has revealed on their Weibo who these voice providers are!
Mo Qingxian
The voice provider for Mo is the singer 冥月(Ming Y... |
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RICHMOND, Va. – Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring has requested a criminal investigation after Virginia's Department of Veterans Services (DVS) discovered documents, including veterans' claims, that may have been in a former worker's storage unit for years.
The docume... |
President Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro attend a Major League Baseball exhibition game between the Tampa Bay Rays and the Cuban national team at the Estadio Latinoamericano in Havana on March 22, 2016. (Photo: Michael Reynolds, European Pressphoto Agency)
MIAMI — On the anniversary of renewed diplomatic relati... |
Global banks see market rally on Greek exit … Major global banks are advising clients to prepare for a stock market rally and a resurgence of the euro if Greece is forced out of monetary union, betting that world authorities will flood the international system with liquidity. Bank of America said EU authorities will pu... |
“I Am The Amazing Spider-Man™” Personalized Spider-Man™ DVD Video
Your child stars as “Spider-Man™” in this photo-personalized cartoon adventure! Now anyone can become the web-slinger himself, fighting crime spidey-style! Spidey is in full swing with more speed, strength and superhuman ability than ever! This action-p... |
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Quackademic medicine.
I love that term, because it succinctly describes the infiltration of pseudoscientific medicine into medical academia. As I’ve said many times, I wish I had been the one to coin the phrase, but I wasn’t. To the best of my ability to determine, I first picked it up from Dr. R. W. Donnell b... |
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SIR STALIN THE BEAR
SIR STALIN: That's a rare talent. Rayho's Mom can blow four of her own men at once.
COMMISSAR LT. KRUSCHEV: "If you cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen."
SIR STALIN: Sir Rayho isn't going to reach Sir Dogdu in time. I'll have to open that c... |
Authors' Quotes on Omega-3 and Prostate Cancer
(NaturalNews) Just how good are fish oils, flaxseed oils and other omega-3s at preventing prostate cancer? According to the experts quoted below, they may represent some of the most powerful anti-cancer nutrients available today!Read this large collection of quotes on ome... |
Jackie Brown
The last of Quentin Tarantino’s pre-pastiche (semi) real world films, Jackie Brown was even a departure from Pulp Fiction’s pop-culture, geek stream of consciousness cool. It demonstrated that the director was capable of working (largely) outside his comfort zone, and that he was able to find his own voic... |
This article is about the 1964 musical. For the film, see Fiddler on the Roof (film)
Fiddler on the Roof is a musical with music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, and book by Joseph Stein, set in the Pale of Settlement of Imperial Russia in 1905. It is based on Tevye and his Daughters (or Tevye the Dairyman) a... |
The politics of terrorism have returned with a vengeance for the midterm elections.
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National security dominated the first election cycles after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, with Democrats fearful of being labeled unpatriotic if they criticized then-President George W. Bush.
The Republican advantage e... |
LAS VEGAS — Solutions Recovery Inc., a leading addiction treatment center in Las Vegas, is celebrating its 10-year anniversary this September, recognizing a decade of providing successful treatment throughout the community. The organization will mark this occasion with a free, family-friendly celebration on Thursday, S... |
Only about eight percent of the Foreign Ministry’s annual budget is being used for diplomatic activity, with the rest spent on manpower, security and other logistical and administrative needs.
In 2015, just NIS 132 million ($33 million) of the ministry’s total budget of NIS 1.65 billion ($423 million) was spent on wha... |
“If you are one of the Afghan oligarchs, where you put your money and where you live is an open question now,” Seth Jones, an analyst at the RAND Corporation , said. “That means you are thinking about moving your money and finding a backup option about where to live.”
The president’s family — many of whom are American... |
Yesterday, Underwater Thrills: Swimming with Sharks a commentary on the need for standardizing protocols for SPOT (Smart Position and Temperature) tagging of breeding-age great white sharks at Isla de Guadalupe. Accompanying the commentary was the video seen below.
It’s hard to argue with the points made over at the U... |
BORIS Johnson has demanded a version of Europe that came to him in a dream.
The massive blond-haired child said he had dreamt of a Europe where all the other countries would re-arrange everything to our advantage because we invented puppies.
Johnson added: “Francois Hollande, dressed as Lady Gaga dressed as Napoleon,... |
In an attempt to stem rising migrant flows, the Italian government completed a draft code of conduct for non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that carry out search and rescue missions in the Mediterranean Sea, an official said on Wednesday.
Italy's 11-point plan reportedly includes new rules that would ban charity bo... |
With just two weeks remaining until the World Cup kicks off in Brazil, those who believe the global event is too much of a burden for the country’s struggling economy have found a new way to channel their protest energy – with graffiti.
Street artists have covered walls in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo with pictures wh... |
Most of us have a good handle on what Ubuntu ‘convergence’ is (or what we think it is).
But it never hurts to have a big ol’ reminder.
And the video we’re cushioning with over wrung sentences is just that: an appetiser for great things to come.
They say the proof of the pudding is in the eating. It’s a good job we c... |
After canceling a planned announcement from the balcony of the Ecuadorian Embassy in London (due to security concerns), Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is now planning to appear via video link Tuesday morning at Wikileak’s tenth anniversary celebration in Berlin.
According to @wikileaks, Julian Assange will appear vi... |
On 23 May 1949, Lionel Gamlin, producer of the Light Programme’s Hello Children, wrote to Enid Blyton to ask whether she would be willing to be interviewed about the best holiday she could remember. ‘Dear Mr Gamlin,’ Blyton wrote the next day. ‘Thank you for your nice letter. It all sounds very interesting but I ought ... |
Unless you've been living under a rock these past few months, you've probably heard of Your Name, the Japanese coming-of-age anime about body-swapping teens. You've heard how it's broken box office records. You've heard how its director, Makoto Shinkai, has been hailed as the next Hayao Miyazaki. But you probably haven... |
Survivor US is about to embark on a landmark 35th season.
But after just four seasons of the Australian edition, host Jonathan LaPaglia believes his version is 'bigger and better,' than the US production - at a quarter of the cost.
'I admit I questioned how they were going to make it bigger and better than the US, bu... |
After all the companies in the world producing cosmetics have wondered why did they fail in creating a face cream which could solve all the problems for women of any age, the answer came from a MIT student, who discovered that the human skin needs special carrying, according to the age of the person. Thus, wrinkles, zi... |
The majority decision relies heavily on the rights of individual states to govern marriage laws, noting that by refusing to recognize legal same-sex marriages as valid under federal law, DOMA directly and intentionally undermines a state’s authority.
The case was brought by New York resident Edith Windsor, now 83 year... |
Lent buns
Semlor
Semlor (Lent buns) are cardamom-scented buns filled with almond paste and whipped cream. Originally they were only baked on fettisdagen (Shrove Tuesday, Mardi Gras or, literally, Fat Tuesday), which this year is on Tuesday 5th March.
Such is the popularity of semlor that they are now widely availabl... |
After having been given $1,000 by his grandma at only 13-years-old, Erik Finman, now 17, made the risky decision to invest in the notoriously volatile Bitcoin market. His investment very much paid off.
When he was 15, only a year and a half later, he liquidated his Bitcoins, making a cool $100,000. He’s now crowdfundi... |
I’ve said it before, and, as is the nature of these things, I’ll almost certainly say it again: your database performance is only as good as your indexes.
That’s the grand thesis, so what does that mean? In any DB system — SQL, NoSQL, NewSQL, PostSQL, … — data gets ingested and organized. And the system answers querie... |
There are Lies, Damn Lies, and Benchmarks
Pure Python
Hello again, today I would like to share some remarkable benchmark findings that demonstrate the way Python may be boosted by embedding Lua into Python code. The process has started with simple task my friend asked me to fulfil in order to compare Python to other ... |
Posted 6 years ago on Nov. 27, 2012, 7:39 p.m. EST by OccupyWallSt
Tags: occupy la, occupy fights foreclosures, occupy our homes, eviction defense, california, los angeles
Update, 1:45pm Eastern time, 11/29: In an act of civil disobedience, an activist has suspended himself from a street light, saying he's not coming... |
"The back-to-back, double whammy announcements that PepsiCo is ditching high fructose corn syrup in Gatorade along with the results of a scathing new study from researchers at Princeton make it official -- allies of the controversial sweetener have lost the war," BNET writes.
For years, the Corn Refiners Association h... |
UNSW chemists have invented a new, cheap catalyst for splitting water with an electrical current to efficiently produce clean hydrogen fuel.
UNSW chemists have invented a new, cheap catalyst for splitting water with an electrical current to efficiently produce clean hydrogen fuel.
The technology is based on the creat... |
Ahmedabad: An FIR was registered yesterday, against Congress leader Shaktisinh Gohil under Representation of Peoples Act for promoting enmity between two classes in connection with elections for his remark that Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi is a "fake OBC".
"An FIR has been registered against Shaktisinh Gohil f... |
By Brian Eberly, Contributing Writer
What was originally announced as a three race ARCA schedule for the 2017 season back in March has expanded to seven races for Natalie Decker as the 20-year-old driver has experienced success and gained valuable experience behind the wheel of a Venturini Motorsports Toyota.
Decker ... |
WASHINGTON — Days after President Barack Obama announced he will not sign any executive actions on immigration until after the election, a group of Republicans called on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to allow a vote that would stop any expansion of the 2012 program that gave legal status to some undocumented immigr... |
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Tonawanda Coke study kicks off with soil sampling
Citizen scientists will conduct about 300 soil samples from sites near the Tonawanda Coke plant. The samples will be tested using a state Department of Health-certified laboratory and cutting-edge soil-analysis techniques at UB and SUNY Fredonia to deter... |
Buy Photo Rochester RazorSharks owner Sev Hrywnak says that he would be interested in buying the Rochester Rhinos. (Photo: Mike Bradley)Buy Photo Story Highlights The USL says "several interested parties" have reached about buying the Rhinos.
The USL took over control of the team Monday and is running its 2016 USL cha... |
Oh dear. Since Jeremy Corbyn became Labour leader, he has had an at times difficult relationship with the ‘Mainstream Media’. From hacks being booed at press conferences to Corbyn avoiding questions, it’s safe to say that the media feel a little bit unloved.
Now, it seems Labour’s high command is keen, too, that party... |
Turkey blackmailed EU: either €3bn per year & EU accession or we send buses full with refugees to Europe
In internal EU memo obtained by Greek media reveals the blatant Turkish blackmail on the refugee crisis. The memo contains a summary of the dialogue between Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan with European Comm... |
The US government has officially renamed the tallest mountain in North America. What was previously Mount McKinley, in Alaska, is now Denali. Denali is one of the ancient Native American names for the mountain.
Who was William McKinley?
William McKinley was the 25th president of the United States, and famously had ab... |
The Return Of The King had the highest body count of any movie in history, according to a website for film fans.
Director Peter Jackson killed off 836 characters in the third part of the Lord Of The Rings saga, made in 2003, which featured one of the biggest battles seen on film, according to the website moviebodycoun... |
[time-nuts] US New Year countdown - accurate?
Hi folks, Ignoring the travesty of a lyric change on John Lennon's classic song, did anyone check to see if the clock countdown in Times Square was actually accurate? In times gone past countdowns have been notoriously off (worst I saw was a tv personality using his own wa... |
Guest Post: “Losing A Friend” By Lance Blackstone
I’m touched and moved by this wonderful share that follows from Lance. Read it. Enjoy it and share it.
Marcia
Losing a Friend
by Lance Blackstone
I have to admit… being childfree has been fairly easy for me. First and foremost the woman I’ve been married to for 18 ... |
To celebrate the finals of IEM Katowice 2016, Kinguin will do a giveaway for all CS:GO fans!
The finals of IEM Katowice 2016 are getting closer. To make the most of them, Kinguin prepared something special for all CS:GO lovers!
IEM Katowice is one of the biggest international esports tournaments held in countries aro... |
Though they're still holding down a playoff spot in the rough and tumble Western Conference, the Vancouver Canucks have been limping along of late.
Vancouver has only won four of its past ten games, and the Canucks' underlying numbers have cratered significantly over the past month.
Some of the club's recent struggle... |
In the nearly five years since we launched Content ID , it has helped everyone from large media companies to up-and-coming creators manage their content when it appears on YouTube. More than 3,000 content owners have supplied more than 500,000 hours of reference files to the system. Content ID hasn’t stood still over t... |
The 81st Annual Academy Award winners have been announced. Check out the list:
BEST PICTURE
“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”
“Slumdog Millionaire”
“Frost/Nixon”
“The Reader”
“Milk”
ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
Richard Jenkins (”The Visitor”)
Frank Langella (”Frost/Nixon”)
Sean Penn (”Milk”)
Brad Pitt (”The C... |
ARLINGTON, Texas - In a move to add greater clarity and fairness to ball specifications related to bowlers not using their thumb while delivering the ball, the United States Bowling Congress has modified the specifications on bowling ball gripping holes.
Under the new rule, any thumb hole that is not used for gripping... |
Swagger Ain't REST - is that OK?
If you’ve spent much time with me, you’ve undoubtedly heard me ramble on at length about linked data. And in those conversations, you’ve likely heard me say something to the effect of “linked data is REST”. However, I haven’t really spent much time talking about REST by itself - especi... |
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – White lives do not matter, according to a student debater/activist from the University of West Georgia.
Miguel Feliciano, along with fellow West Georgia student Damiyr Davis, reportedly participated in a recent debate with other students at Harvard University.
During an exchange with their opponent... |
The historian Richard S. Ellis wrote that the great American hero Daniel Boone was happiest when he had the “privilege of wandering with gun and dog” on the American frontier. “Nothing can be more pleasant to the American boy,” Ellis wrote, “than just such a life as followed by Daniel Boone — wandering for hours throug... |
KARACHI, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistan has rejected U.S. criticism of its efforts to fight terrorism, saying it should not be made a scapegoat for the failure of the U.S. military to win the war in Afghanistan.
FILE PHOTO: Khawaja Asif speaks during an interview with Reuters at his office in Islamabad March 6, 2014. R... |
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