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Barney Frank, long known as America’s crankiest liberal, is actually not feeling too bad. Frank retired from Congress in 2012, after three decades of representing Massachusetts’s Fourth District, then wrote a memoir, became a director of the Signature Bank, and took his curmudgeon act on the road as a lecturer. But the...
shadow person Many of us might be inclined to describe our exes as "crazy." After all, divorce doesn't normally bring out the best in folks. But according to Dr. George Simon, some divorces may be exceptionally toxic because one party suffers from what he terms a "character disorder" (CD). Divorcing a disordered perso...
OLYMPIA, Wash. -- A Black Lives Matter protest of about 30 people dressed in black vandalized several downtown businesses and city hall Sunday night, according to Olympia Police. Video released by the department from a security camera above city hall shows the group shooting projectiles at the building while also vand...
You can find the full article published here on the Charisma on Command blog. Imagine, you’ve just met someone new on a networking event. . . Maybe a potential investor, partner of a supporter. Maybe a senior VP or an old colleague who can get you in touch with the right people. It's very important to make a good imp...
So the latest crazy in low carb, keto cooking is Shirataki noodles. If you’re not familiar, Shirataki noodles are an asian noodle substitute made from devil’s tongue with between 0 and 1 carb per serving depending on the type. Since this is an asian noodle, what goes better than Kimchi? If Shirataki isn’t your style, m...
This is a signboard located on the Makran Coastal Highway. The signboard can easily be ignored by any passersby but ignoring it means ignoring a history of around 9000 years. The signboard points a traveler to the historic Hinglaj Devi Temple located in Hinglaj of Balochistan region in Pakistan’s southwest. It is one...
Yesterday, Softbank Mobile announced its Fall 2015/Winter 2016 product lineup. While some here may have been impressed at the carrier’s offering Huawei’s Nexus 6P, the event arguably had greater significance in what it didn’t contain: plans to release either the Galaxy Note 5 or the Galaxy S6 Edge+. As both NTT docomo ...
(Image: Iztok Noc/Getty) Man’s best friend may be a very old friend indeed. An analysis of a bone from a newly identified ancient wolf species suggests dogs may have split from wolves as early as 40,000 years ago – with or without being domesticated at the same time. Exactly when dogs started to be domesticated and s...
Scorching sun. Vomit. The thud of plastic. Football training camps mean pain, which has long been held as a good thing for the guys sweating through this annual rite of passage in the weeks before the season kicks off. And here, in this particular culture, no suffering gets more love than that which comes at the end o...
The Conservatives have their balanced budget — barely. Finance Minister Joe Oliver has managed to keep the Conservatives' 2011 election promise to return Canada to a surplus in 2015 with a federal budget that has the government spending $1.4 billion less than it takes in — despite a spate of pre-election tax cuts anno...
Arya Stark from Game of Thrones Ygritte from Game of Thrones Margaery Tyrell from Game of Thrones Sansa Stark from Game of Thrones Melisandre from Game of Thrones Jesse and Walter White from Breaking Bad Hector Salamanca and the Cousins from Breaking Bad Skyler White from Breaking Bad Gus Fring from Breaking Bad Tortug...
One often discussed question is whether it’s better to keep your laptop plugged in, or if you should use it on battery power. Turns out, the answer isn’t entirely straightforward. Let’s take a look. Know Your Laptop Battery For both types of batteries, the following statements are true (for modern laptops ): A batt...
Slovak Prosecutors Go After Far-Right Party One president, at least, spoke out in favor of values this week in Europe. Andrej Kiska, president of Slovakia, told attendees at the GLOBSEC summit in Bratislava on Friday that “Our values are our strongest survival weapon against any enemy.” He went on, furiously subtweet...
President Trump has demanded that the House of Representatives vote on the Republican health care bill Friday, even though he doesn’t have the votes lined up. If the vote is taken and the bill goes down, it will be a tremendous political embarrassment to the new administration. But if this gambit works, it will be rem...
WELLINGTON (Reuters) - New Zealand Prime Minister John Key, who won praise for his economic stewardship after the global financial crisis, unexpectedly announced his resignation on Monday after eight years in power, backing his finance minister to take the helm. Bill English, deputy prime minister and finance minister...
In Abandoned, Europe / By Tom / 26 August 2013 (All images by Martin Vaissie Pictures (MartinVaissie.com, MVPrints, Pheizy), all rights reserved) Standing abandoned on the banks of the Meuse river in Liege, Université du Val Benoît takes its name from a Cistercian abbey that was damaged during the ‘Happy Revolution’ ...
Abortion may be a key issue for evangelical Christian voters, but Samantha Bee says that wasn't always the case. On Monday night, the "Full Frontal" host went back in time to the late 1970s to explain how the issue was manufactured by power-hungry leaders of the religious right and then legitimized by the Republican P...
On Saturday, Peter Holley of The Washington Post published an article effectively blaming a pro-Trump radio station for inspiring James Hodgkinson to attempt a massacre of Congressional Republicans in Alexandria, Virginia. Targeting conservative radio host Bob Romanik, who runs a show on KQQZ 1190 AM in Belleville, Ill...
NASA Chat: The Quest for Planets NASA's Kepler mission confirmed the discovery of its first rocky planet, named Kepler-10b. Measuring 1.4 times the size of Earth, it is the smallest planet ever discovered outside our solar system. The discovery of this so-called exoplanet is based on more than eight months of data col...
Daniell Staskos sentenced to mandatory 6 months in jail over police officer assault Updated A Perth woman has been sentenced to six months in jail for assaulting a police officer, with the magistrate noting he had no option as the charge carries a mandatory minimum term. Daniell Brook Staskos was found guilty of ass...
BEIRUT – The head of Syria’s Special Forces has died from injuries sustained in the fierce fighting between regime troops and rebels in the northwestern Idlib province. “A funeral service was held in Syria’s Tartous Governorate on Thursday for the commander of the Syrian Special Forces, Major General Muhyiddin Mansour...
Does it ever seem like every holiday is an occasion for candy? Are you looking for something besides candy to put into eggs? Or something in addition to candy to give to the little ones? Free printable Easter gift certificates are a great non-candy/non-food option to give your kids a treat without giving them sweets. I...
Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window) Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) David Beckham is trying to recruit Miami Heat star LeBron James as one of his investors in the Major League Soccer team he plans to launch in Miami. “The two have ha...
When listing all the ways humanity is going to ruin the future, one that doesn’t often come up is the sun being blocked out by a horde of drone advertising blimps. But that hasn’t stopped one Swiss firm from working hard to make it a reality. Skye Aero is a project to build 10-foot helium-filled balloons, with small p...
Your editorial (2 May) recommending a Labour vote at the general election acknowledges that “it would be good to hear Green voices in Westminster to press further on climate change and sustainability”. I agree - which is why I’d urge your readers to vote Green. The Greens are the only nationwide party to commit to urge...
The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) mocked congressional Republicans’ investigation of that group’s potential collusion with federal regulators Thursday. In a post on NRDC’s blog, David Goldston, its top lobbyist, said he received a letter from Sen. David Vitter David Bruce VitterBottom Line Bottom Line Top 5...
Why Science Matters: A Scientist’s Apology It seems somewhat paradoxical that at the start of a new millennium, during what we proudly refer to as the scientific age, many people still look back to apocalyptic prophecies with such fearsome awe. Think the Y2K bug and the shameless Mayan 2012 “end of the world” propagan...
Is There Something Special About Our Galaxy's Dark Matter? Astrophysicists offer a possible explanation for why dark matter seems to behave differently in the Milky Way. An artist’s impression of the Milky Way galaxy. The blue halo of material surrounding the galaxy indicates the expected distribution of dark matter ...
Like many, I've been disturbed by the roiling of the financial markets and the sheeplike stampede to let the Treasury bail out the banks. Although worrisome in its own right, this is a topic for a different blog (one that I wrote about six months ago). No, what really has me freaked out is the gas going on in metro Atl...
Dec 4, 2016; Auburn Hills, MI, USA; Detroit Pistons guard Reggie Jackson (1) dribbles the ball against Orlando Magic center Bismack Biyombo (11) during the fourth quarter at The Palace of Auburn Hills. Magic win 98-92. Mandatory Credit: Raj Mehta-USA TODAY Sports The Orlando Magic look like being active before the tra...
The Presidency of Theodore Roosevelt began on September 14, 1901, when Theodore Roosevelt became the 26th President of the United States upon the assassination and death of President William McKinley, and ended on March 4, 1909. Roosevelt had been the Vice President of the United States for only 194 days when he succee...
After a heated bidding war, Fox Searchlight has walked away with “Patti Cake$” for $9.5 million, Variety has confirmed. The indie label beat out several other players, including Amazon Studios, Neon and Lionsgate, for the well-reviewed comedy about a rap star from New Jersey. It’s the second biggest deal of the festi...
The 5th season of Bob’s Burgers has been unleashed on Netflix and I have successfully finished all twenty-one episodes within three days. That kind of love for a show cannot go without some kind of testament to its glory of crude humor, incredible voice acting, and a whole lot of burgers. I, therefore, give you anothe...
MANILA, Philippines – Five more persons suspected of involvement in the illegal drug trade were killed in separate incidents across the country in the past two days, three of them by suspected vigilantes. Esperdio Blaza, 30, a resident of Barangay Mudeng in La Paz, Abra, was driving his motorcycle on his way to Bangue...
Dubai startup BitOasis announces its first round of funding Dubai based bitcoin startup BitOasis has secured a new investment of seed funding for an undisclosed amount led by Wamda Capital. BitOasis provides bitcoin exchange, wallet, and cross-border payment services in and around the UAE. According to Wamda Capital...
Performing better (while older or younger) Date: 29th May 2013 This spring I’ve put a fair number of days into sport climbing, and it has paid off. I’m climbing close–but not there yet–as hard on rock as I was in my mid-20s, even though I’m now 46. Yeah, that’s a dire number, I don’t know how I managed to live this l...
Polish game development studio CD Projekt RED has had more than 1.8 million user credentials stolen from its online forum, according to data breach notification website 'Have I Been Pwned?'. The studio, which is famous for developing the highly successful Witcher franchise, was breached in March 2016 when hackers targ...
In the web development world with MVC based back-end servers, nearly everything is kicked off with routes. Look at rails for example. If you want a list of items, you hit /items and the router executes the index method on ItemsController. Add a new item, view an item, edit an item and post the updates back to the serve...
What are things you dislike about bags/ packs/ pouches, that are still used for surveying? Gloves if I take them off Gloves if I take them off If you drop anything during survey, what is the most common? Do you find it difficult to read equipment because of elements (light glare, mud, water, ice, etc.)? Every time...
We all know that some climate change is natural, in fact, even without humans, the Earth’s climate changes. But, as we have added heat-trapping gases to the atmosphere, we have seen human influence “emerge” from natural variability. Droughts, one of the most intensely studied climate events, are a perfect example of a...
Make sure your home doesn't look like everyone else's by using some DIY know-how and hacks like these—and even more at IKEAhackers.net. 1. Coffee Table Hack Want to buy a mid-century style table? Be prepared to shell out lots of dough—unless you’re willing to go the DIY route. To pull off this easy hack from Triple M...
Sebastián Driussi 09/02/1996 Zenit St. Petersburg Striker From his River Plate debut at the age of 17 to his status now as a €15 million striker with Zenit Saint Petersburg, Sebastián Driussi has already been through a number of peaks and troughs in his young career. The prolific youngster’s exploits within River’s ill...
The San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department is not commenting on a photo shown in court as part of an ongoing civil trial that a plaintiff says shows a deputy dressed in a Grinch costume intentionally and illegally driving a patrol car through a stoplight in Victorville to prompt a red-light camera to snap a souveni...
The popular replacement browser Skyfire has been updated to version 3.0 for Android, which adds additional social networking support. Skyfire has enhanced Facebook Connect to allow the user to easily stream videos shared from friends, and to make it easier to share content with your friends. Skyfire 3.0 also adds Face...
ADVERTISEMENT Wouldn't it be nice if we could just get all the Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump garbage out in the open now, pour it in some toxic news dump and sift through it for a week, air out all the shiny pieces, then go back to talking for six months about which policies are better for America? If your answer ...
Almost a decade after Microsoft made an unsolicited bid to acquire Yahoo for $50 billion, moments ago Verizon confirmed recent rumors that it would acquire Yahoo operating business for approximately $4.83 billion in cash, far below initial estimates floated several months ago that the segment could sell for as much as ...
Security officers are seen outside the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals building in San Francisco on Thursday, Feb. 9, 2017. A federal appeals court refused Thursday to reinstate President Donald Trump's ban on travelers from seven predominantly Muslim nations, dealing another legal setback to the new administration's...
Some guys might like this too, but for some (totally not PC) reason I thought that most of these things would generally be more appealing for females, rather than males. 11 Unique gifts that some girls may find interesting. 11 Unique gift ideas for girls – s'il vous plait. Kitty nail stickers Price: $0.47 A mere $...
Little Orbit announced a new Cartoon Network game earlier this year, but without any sort of details. However, information has now been made public. Cartoon Network: Backlot Party is the full title of the new game. Game Machine Studios is handling development. Cartoon Network: Backlot Party will include five differen...
GitHub repo: https://github.com/runeksvendsen/restful-payment-channel-server Hello everyone This server allows the operator to receive instant Bitcoin payments (no waiting for confirmations) from a single, pre-defined sender; paying the Bitcoin transaction fee only once, when the channel is closed. One could imagine, f...
The Los Angeles LGBT Center wants to spread the word about PrEP, and about AB 2640, a new California Bill which would educate people about PrEP and help stop the spread of HIV in California. The bill is simple. If you test negative for HIV, you should get information about PrEP. That simple. AHF’s Rand Martin, howev...
Duct tape is the number one repair material for a wide variety of situations. The combination of strength, adhesion and ease of use duct tape offers has made it literally the tape of 1,000 uses. It has been used for everything including patching clothes, patching wounds, building a cardboard fort for kids to play in an...
Let's examine the "so-called proofs" of the earth's rotundity. Most people automatically assume that the hull of a ship disappears before the mast of the ship. This is based on a false premise that the earth is a sphere causing ships to bow below a curvature that doesn't exist. Since most do not think about ships far o...
Breaking News Emails Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings. Feb. 18, 2017, 9:47 AM GMT / Updated Feb. 18, 2017, 7:03 PM GMT By Corky Siemaszko Chicago is the poster city for violent crime to President Trump, but he’s got some mean streets right in h...
ST. GEORGE — Saturday night, police officers were notified that at dusk a 17-year-old boy had run from a youth wilderness program’s campsite in a rugged, uninhabited area of desert backcountry close to an area known as Jackson Springs near the Gunlock Reservoir. On the way to search for the boy, a member of the Washing...
Q: Most of Dion Waiters' minutes should go to Tyler Johnson. Dion is just not a player worth investing in. I'm sure he puts maximum effort. Some players have it and some just don't. -- Chris, Orlando. A: These certainly are interesting times with the Heat, with Dion standing somewhat as the focus of the Heat's perimet...
Commencement May 18, 2003 Honorary Degree: Religious Studies Conferred on Bernard J. Cooke Candidate presented by: Philip Rossi, S.J., Professor and Chair of Theology Bernard J. Cooke, internationally recognized theologian and educator, has been a pioneer in shaping Catholic theological education in colleges and un...
Quote [–]Reddit4Play 4 points 3 days ago Giving the thief that move led to some weird readngs where other characters couldn't hide, I was reading this thread before I submitted any questions and this actually leads into one: as the fighter gets "Bend Bars, Lift Gates" as a move, what might you do if somebody else, y...
LAMENTATIONS 1 « Jeremiah 52 | Lamentations 1 | Lamentations 2 » How Lonely Sits the City 1:1 How lonely sits the city that was full of people! How like a widow has she become, she who was great among the nations! She who was a princess among the provinces has become a slave. 2 She weeps bitterly in the night, with...
This week, filmmaker Whitney Dow launched "The Whiteness Project," a non-satirical, "deadly serious" multi-platform investigation into "how Americans who identify as 'white' experience their ethnicity." You can see the first round of interviews with 24 Buffalo, New York residents on the website here, and a preview of t...
Love is at the core of what the global Ahmadiyya sect of Islam conveys every day, and has done so for well over 100 years. Yet this is not covered by the global news narrative. "An unstable individual commits an atrocity in the world, and in his distorted state of mind claims it to be in the name of religion and this ...
Joseph Schooling's rise from relative unknown to Asian Games gold medalist has been nothing short of spectacular. As a 14-year-old, he served notice of his potential by clocking a time in the 200m butterfly than was almost three seconds faster than the US age-group mark. But it was not until the former Anglo-Chinese Sc...
V for Vendetta, a thriller film produced in 2005 about a near-future dystopian society, previously censored in China, was aired on China Central Television Station (CCTV) Channel Six on December 14, 2012. Many people are surprised by the screening, in particular the mask of V, which has been used by activists all over ...
When Dani Weingarten first joined UB’s Alpha Phi sorority, the one thing she felt UB was missing was a Greek row – an area devoted to fraternity and sorority housing. She had visited her friends at other universities who lived in sorority houses located in a Greek row near the campus. Weingarten may get her wish next ...
An upcoming event combines laser-tag technology with horrifying zombies in a spectacular first-person shooter video-game event. (Credit: IRL Shooter) The game's called Patient 0, and it's pretty much exactly what the studio name, IRL Shooter, suggests: a first-person shooter in the real world, in a game that combines...
March 1, 2012 TENS OF millions of workers took part in a one-day general strike in India on February 28 in the country's largest industrial action since its independence in 1947. This is the first time that India's main trade union federations, which are all affiliated to one or another political party, have come tog...
Government spending cuts could cause growth only if they increase the other components by more than spending was cut. There's a common argument that this could happen in the long term. Less federal spending allows the government to take in fewer tax dollars. If you believe that the private sector better promotes econom...
https://41.media.tumblr.com/9ae523c9a04d7a99f8de3aa75f0272fc/tumblr_o0wm4sa14c1qk32lpo1_1280.png > > "The Freljord will bow to me, else it shall shatter beneath my heel.” > > The noble and benevolent Queen Ashe once guided the people of the Freljord with a firm yet gentle hand. The course of history was forever changed...
Last year for Easter, I made a set of 6 superheroes with long ears : But apparently Marvel superheroes and DC comics superheroes didn’t get along with each others very well in that egg box (especially Batman and Superman, who know why :p). So this year, I thought I would separate them in two different sets ! 1. The A...
Rhus javanica, a medicinal herb, has been shown to exhibit oral therapeutic anti-herpes simplex virus (HSV) activity in mice. We purified two major anti-HSV compounds, moronic acid and betulonic acid, from the herbal extract by extraction with ethyl acetate at pH 10 followed by chromatographic separations and examined ...
BP corporate network Find out more about: With over 1000 affiliate companies, BP controls a complex network of corporate entities. OpenOil, in partnership with OpenCorporates, developed a network of BP’s subsidiaries that aims to shed light on the corporate structure of the oil multinational, active in more than 80 j...
Most low-income students who attend top colleges thrive. Merely going to college isn’t enough to change a teenager’s life. The benefits of college – higher income, better health, greater life satisfaction – generally depend on graduating, research shows. Which is one reason you sometimes hear worries about whether low-...
Asus and Nvidia Announce Purpose-Built Cryptocurrency Mining GPUs Leading graphics processing unit (GPU) manufacturers Asus and Nvidia have announced the release of new GPUs targeting the cryptocurrency mining market. Also Read: Sapphire Technology Announce Production of Graphics Cards Designed Solely for Cryptocurre...
A national statistic shows 90-percent of the dollars spent by African Americans go to businesses that are not African American owned or invested. So a new program called Reverse 90 hopes to change that. The African American Chamber of Commerce designed it with the hope that discounts and deals would draw customers to ...
The price of the bitcoin (BTC/USD) cryptocurrency has galloped past $450, according to CryptoCoins News. The 52-week high bitcoin price is $462.99, which was observed in early December 2015. Activity among market participants over the past 24 hours has taken prices from the near-$430 level to volatile trade near $460. ...
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An accused burglar is dead in an unusual turn of events after a homeowner caught him breaking into his Leroy residence on Friday night, Washington County Sheriff Richard Stringer said. In an attempt to stop a string of burglaries at his mobile home, Stringer said Nathanial Johnson, 68, of Spurgeon Road set a trap. Jo...
I'm back! Jets Tweets My take on Simms vs. Boyd is that the Jets like Simms' arm a lot, and he has a chance to show Jets he has more long-term upside. We'll see — J.P. Pelzman (@JPPelzman) June 8, 2014 Jets had Weeb, Babe & Boozer. Could be names of Bo & Luke's extended family. RT @KeithBrownx: @Dameshek one of the ...
Yorkville’s former deputy police chief pleaded not guilty today to charges that he stole addictive narcotic painkillers from the department’s drug collection program, Kendall County State’s Attorney Eric Weis said. Dave Delaney, 37, of Yorkville, was charged in May with illegal possession of a controlled substance and...
Copyright by KRQE - All rights reserved LOS LUNAS, N.M. (KRQE) - It's official, Facebook is coming to New Mexico. The internet giant announced Wednesday it's building a sprawling server farm in Los Lunas and New Mexico politicians are hoping other companies will follow. This deal has been in the works for about a yea...
How to be a better NodeJS Module Maintainer This post will share with you some of the lessons I’ve learned as a developer and maintainer of some NodeJS modules available on NPM, and from watching what others do with their projects. Naturally, this is just going to be the way that I do things. Others may have completel...
The year 2008 is far more complex — and exhilarating — than the old templates would have us believe. Of course we’re in pain. More voters think the country is on the wrong track (81 percent) than at any time in the history of New York Times/CBS News polling on that question. George W. Bush is the most unpopular preside...
It was not exactly a perfect night in Washington for Fourth of July fireworks this year, when fog and rain blanketed the sky and made the Independence Day show from the National Mall less impressive than usual to those who had staked out a spot nearby. But if you had tuned in on Monday to watch the fireworks on PBS or...
On Thursday, the United States activated its missile defense system in Romania. The $800 million dollar system is the first of its kind in Europe, and aims to defend the US and Europe from, "rogue states," namely, Iran. Russia, however, insists that the US aim is to neutralize Moscow's nuclear arsenal long enough for ...
The Devils completed their coaching staff today, naming former Lighting assistant Adam Oates to the same position with the organization. Oates will fall under the role of “offensive assistant” that new coach John MacLean spoke about during his introductory press conference. With the Lightning, Oates helped improve the...
It took Ahmed Ismael two years to earn minimum wage in Turkey. Like countless Syrian refugees living in the country, he worked six days a week, 12 hours a day in a textile shop to make about half of the 1,300 Turkish lira (395 euros/ $440) a legal resident would make for doing the same job. Then he got a raise in Janua...
The federal government has spent almost $65,000 waging a legal fight over home-equity assistance for a military member who lost $88,000 on the sale of his house when he moved for work. The Treasury Board Secretariat provided the figures at the request of the NDP, which asked how much Ottawa has paid out in legal fees ...
The Low Countries, with their openness to the great ocean and wealth of protected rivers and waterways inland, were ideal for trade, movement and consequent political development. The loess soil is dark and productive, even as the forests provided a natural defense. European antiquity was defined by the geographic hold...
It’s a pretty simple, but very ingenious idea that Glenn Berger started doing 14 years ago: Berger will travel to golf courses all around Florida, dive into the course’s various water hazards, retrieve all the golf balls, then sell them for a $1 a piece. Golf balls become relatively ineffective after 24 hours underwate...
Matt Renshaw saw the shadow people. They hadn't been there for four days, but someone had opened a door and now there they were, right in his vision, running, walking, swaying from side to side. Once he saw them he couldn't concentrate. He had to pull away as the bowler ran in. This enraged Ishant Sharma, who threw th...
Before Statsbot, the founders were all too familiar with the various platforms needed to extrapolate data every day — and the hours it took to do so. Google Analytics, Salesforce, Mixpanel, Stripe — log in, run reports, and compile statistics in Excel. On top of all that, they then had to build graphs and charts to dem...
21 Amazingly Nerdy Nail Designs Nail art has been around for centuries, but the trend has gained widespread popularity over the past couple years. However, today's manis are far from the prim and proper French classic. Reddit users of the nail art community RedditLacqueristas, among other web users, have turned stere...
Image copyright EPA Tributes are being paid to Princess Diana on the 20th anniversary of her death. Dubbed the "people's princess" by then prime minister Tony Blair, she died after a car crash in Paris on 31 August 1997 aged 36. On Wednesday, her sons - Prince William and Prince Harry - visited the growing floral tr...
It’s disturbing that police departments can grant people arrest powers, and arm them with guns, without putting them through the proper training first. Photo illustration by Slate. Photo by Thinkstock. On the afternoon of Sept. 8, 2012, a white police officer in the town of Alexander, Arkansas, shot and killed a 30-ye...
Help FIF Make the Album of your Dreams! We need your support now more than ever. The inspiration and energy to create an amazing record is there but this time we will be working without the support of a label. This gives us incredible artistic freedom, but it also means we need to raise our own financing. Our hope is ...
Get the biggest daily stories by email Subscribe Thank you for subscribing We have more newsletters Show me See our privacy notice Could not subscribe, try again later Invalid Email Throughout Welsh History Month, experts from Cadw and partners including museums, archaeological trusts and the Heritage Lottery Fund wil...
Soon we may get the first ever glimpse of the dark side of the sun. Well, no, there's no actual dark side of a luminous ball of burning gas, but there is an effective dark side, as in, the side of the sun we can't see at any given time. Scientists aren't content to get just half of the picture, so they've launched th...
My name is Kristin E. Stattel. I would like to share my personal experiences regarding residential treatment for adolescents. I will begin by saying that I appreciate the GAO and all contributors, for analyzing this “teen help industry”. It is such a major concern in our world, and it is very dear to my heart. I want t...
The crusade against High Frequency Trading which Zero Hedge started well over two years ago, is now coming to an end. Reuters reports that U.S. securities regulators have "taken the unprecedented step of asking high-frequency trading firms to hand over the details of their trading strategies, and in some cases, their s...
Highlights: Seattle 2-0 Vancouver SEATTLE, WA - Playing their third match in this year’s Cascadia Cup, Vancouver Whitecaps FC (10W-9L-7D) suffered a 2-0 away defeat to Pacific Northwest rivals Seattle Sounders FC (11W-6L-7D) in Major League Soccer on Saturday afternoon. Second-half goals by substitute Fredy Montero a...