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The women’s game has truly hit new heights. This has been a FIFA Women’s World Cup of fabulous goals, wonderful games, and a sporting tournament that has truly made an impact across the globe. The #FIFAWWC has inspired girls & women around world. Ask your Federation how to get involved. http://t.co/jTyEQmI8Cc pic.twit...
Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Ala.) and Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) unveiled a new bill this week requiring all groups that spend money independently of campaigns, candidates, or parties to influence a federal election or nomination to disclose their donors. Although we have concerns with the bill, the senators' hearts are certai...
There’s no denying that we live in a golden age of personal vaporizers and mechanical mods. The market is full of devices of every kind of size, shape and function. We’ve come a long way from the simple e-cigarette just a few short years ago. In no small part, we can thank the incredibly creative small businesses and ...
SWAK — And Baked Goods! For Christmas, my grandparents sent me a gift card to Williams Sonoma. That afternoon, I scoured the store’s website, as excited as a kid in a candy store as I browsed page after page of rolling pins, cookie cutters, and grill pans. During my search, I discovered two differed sizes of pretty go...
MICHIGAN STATE (US) — Training young children in spatial reasoning can improve their math performance, according to a new study. The researchers trained 6- to 8-year-olds in mental rotation, a spatial ability, and found their scores on addition and subtraction problems improved significantly. The mental rotation train...
TL;DR Perl already won once - in the nineties it was the technology that powered the whole web. It got a market share that none of the 'cool' languages will ever be able achieve - be that Python, or Ruby, or Go, or Node, or whatever. Be that backed by Google, Facebook, Twitter, Craigslist or Booking.com. PHP is coming...
The year is ninety-four, in my trunk is raw In my rear-view mirror is the motherfuckin' law Got two choices y'all, pull over the car or (hmm) bounce on the Devil, put the pedal to the floor And I ain't tryin' to see no highway chase with Jake Plus I got a few dollars, I can fight the case So I, pull over to the s...
The rift between President Obama and FBI Director James B. Comey over the impact of the Black Lives Matter movement deepened Thursday, with the White House again disputing Mr. Comey’s assertion that it’s the cause of spiking crime in major cities. “We just need to make sure that our policy approach to addressing this ...
Sebastian Gorka had already raised eyebrows as President Trump’s deputy assistant and one of his chief advisers on foreign policy due mainly to his long history of associations with fringe anti-Muslim groups, many of whom indulge in Islamophobic conspiracy theories. Numerous critics have argued that Gorka’s background ...
The wave of unrest that erupted in the Arab world last year reached Syria in March, with widespread protests against President Bashar al-Assad. Assad's troops began a series of harsh crackdowns, in some cases shelling and occupying residential areas. The UN estimates more than 5,000 Syrians have been killed in the past...
They say breast is best when it comes to nurturing a baby. That message doesn’t translate well when it comes to baked goods. An unnamed mother has stirred up outrage on Facebook after she made brownies with breast milk for a school bake sale. A post on the Sanctimommy Facebook page revealed the mother’s dilemma when...
Clear your calendar for 12/23 at 5 pm, well . . . then you might as well clear your calendar for Christmas Eve, too, because you’re going to need some serious recovery time after you see what Gerard Robertson at Coalhouse Pizza in Stamford has planned for you. Yes, it’s true: some of New England Brewing’s best beers w...
According to an article posted on The Recorder Online by Chris Demorro, the Toyota Prius, the most popular hybrid is not actually that efficient. Their ultimate ‘green car’ is the source of some of the worst pollution in North America; it takes more combined energy per Prius to produce than a Hummer. In order to fully...
More than 70 Humber College students at a campus residence fell ill Thursday night with some type of gastrointestinal illness, but the cause of the sudden outbreak remains unknown. The students all live at the one residence on the north campus at Highway 27 and Finch, and started reporting feeling ill late in the afte...
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Ohioans who buy their own health insurance should see an average out-of-pocket savings on premiums of 21 percent because of taxpayer subsidies under the Affordable Care Act, according to a new study by the Rand Corp., a widely respected think tank. Without the health care law, Ohioans who bought in...
LAFD Firefighters and Arson investigators were very busy through the night, extinguishing and investigating a series of eight fires in the North Hollywood and Sun Valley areas that may have been intentionally set. The suspected arson fires broke out beginning around 3 a.m. Sunday, October 25, 2015. The fires ranged fr...
LINCOLN SQUARE — Police are warning of robberies of businesses in the area, citing three cases where offenders with guns escaped with cash from registers. The robbberies all occurred on Jan. 20th. "In these casesm two offenders or three offenders entered the business, displayed a blue steel handgun and demanded money...
For other ships with the same name, see HMS Captain HMS Captain was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 26 November 1787 at Limehouse. She served during the French revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars before being placed in harbour service in 1799. An accident caused her to burn and founde...
Public Square’s big-ticket greening, updating and newfound popularity may shape the future of a 22-story office building bordering it that Optima Management Group has started to market for sale. The Miami Beach-based property owner has listed 55 Public Square for sale, potentially as a redevelopment property with CBRE...
Planning on filing your taxes on time? Feeling like a sexy San Franciscan? Lucky you! Trojan, the trusted condom company that caused quite a buzz when they announced they'll be giving away free vibrators on tax day earlier this year, will be doling out grown-up toys on Friday, April 12 at The Box in SoMa. According ...
Thou who seek solitude. We breathe gently. We watch the unexpected; We smile cleverly, We kindle the most intended. Then what does the prophecy proclaim? Our thoughts are haunted, Our actions are wounded. We live with no freedom. We move with permission; We cry with no reason, We bonded with discretion. One run...
Image copyright Oxford University Image caption These images produced by the researchers were 0.07mm across - smaller than the width of human hair Scientists have patented a new way to make ultra high-res displays that can bend and are thousandths of a mm thick. They used a miniscule layer of a phase-change material,...
I review a few dozen speakers each year, and listen to a bunch more. Most are pretty decent, a few are dreadful, and fewer still are truly remarkable. This year the ELAC Debut B6 bookshelf and Magnepan .7 panel speakers topped my list as terrific values, but the Harbeth 40.2 is the one I'll remember 10 years from now. ...
Saracens' Tim Streather tackles Dion Jones of Scarlets Anglo-Welsh Cup Scarlets (0) 17 Tries: Allen, McBryde Cons: Maynard, McBryde Pen: Maynard Saracens (18) 32 Tries: Tompkins, Gallagher, Ellery, Whiteley Cons: Malins, Whiteley 2 Pens: Malins Saracens all-but ended Scarlets Anglo-Welsh Cup hopes with a bonus-point ...
A split-second decision by woman to get back in a vehicle with a man after he’d exchanged gunfire with a Department of Public Safety trooper resulted in her being charged with a first degree felony, according to an arrest warrant affidavit. Ashley Elesha Simpson, 20, and Marcus Christopher Lott Jr., 23, the accused gu...
Photo: John Rogers/Northwestern University A soft, skin‐mounted microfluidic device for capture, collection and analysis of sweat. Advertisement Editor’s Picks Sweat Sensors Will Change How Wearables Track Your Health Sweat could be the next thing wearable devices sense to track your health, researchers say. A new mi...
1 in 6 Nodes Now Support Bitcoin Classic The Bitcoin block size debate is still in effect as we speak, and things are heating up once again between Bitcoin Core and Bitcoin Classic supporters. Now that a working client for Bitcoin Classic users has been released, various Bitcoin nodes seem to be favoring this solution...
Adil Charkaoui (in Arabic عادل الشرقاوي born 1974) is a Morocco-born Canadian citizen who was arrested by the Canadian government under a security certificate in May 2003.[1] Before issuing the certificate, evidence was submitted that he had trained in an anti-Soviet Jihadist camp in Afghanistan. The court was also no...
Image caption The participants in Channel 4's The Undateables The world of disability and dating is being examined in new series The Undateables. But what are some of the dating complexities that disabled people face, asks Damon Rose. It goes without saying that you can't lump all disabled people together when discus...
To hear Telltale tell the tale, The Walking Dead wasn’t built to be a wildly acclaimed game of the year award magnet. A good game? Yes. A great story? Clearly. But not a bowling ball catapult into zombified super stardom. With all eyes suddenly on the once-unassuming developer, “that Fables game” has an incredibly toug...
A gay couple on Wednesday filed a federal lawsuit challenging Michigan's refusal to recognize their out-of-state marriage. Bruce T. Morgan and Brian P. Merucci, who married in New York last year, argue that a separate ruling currently on hold striking down Michigan's ban on gay marriage means the state must recognize ...
[Haskell-community] Next Steps in Downloads Page Discussion Hi all. Let me try to sum up the state of the discussion and propose next steps -- please feel free to disagree with my summary if you are so inclined. I'm trying to capture the current state and help move discussion, so if people feel this doesn't capture it...
Train traffic is again moving this morning after a 13-car derailment near Peers, west of Edmonton early Sunday morning. Patrick Waldron, a spokesperson for CN Rail, said the train derailed around 1 a.m. MT Sunday near Peers in Yellowhead County, about 180 kilometres west of Edmonton. Waldron said the 137-car train wa...
Hillary's Espionage and the Statute of Limitations Alger Hiss was a U.S. State Department official who was accused in 1948 of being a Soviet spy. Hiss's indictment stemmed from alleged espionage in the form of secret State Department documents spirited out of Foggy Bottom and into the hands of persons "not authorized ...
[JURIST] The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit [official website] ruled [opinion, PDF] Tuesday that probable-cause warrants are not required to access cell phone location information. In a 2-1 decision, the Fifth Circuit reversed lower court decisions that said the location data was protected by the Fourth Am...
Our original plan was to go to the schools on Monday. But there happened to be a district wide strike called. The schools are in Morigaon which is about 1.5-2 hours one way from Guwahati and traveling the long distance during the strike was not recommended. We headed out on Tuesday and were completely floored at the w...
Family members among 157 asylum seekers being detained on the high seas in separate rooms on a customs vessel are allowed out for meals and ''approximately three hours'' of daylight a day, according to a document lodged with the High Court on Tuesday. While it was previously stated 153 asylum seekers were on a boat th...
The jihad sisters: Bubbly and exceptionally bright, these twins with 28 GCSEs were set to train as doctors. Now they're in Syria 'training to be killers' Twins Salma and Zahra Halane left their parents’ home in middle of night They then caught a flight to Turkey, before crossing the border to Syria Sisters appeared ...
The Tanzanian prosecutor investigating worldwide misconduct by BAE, Britain's biggest arms company, confided to US diplomats that "his life may be in danger" and senior politicians in his small African country were "untouchable". A leaked account of what the head of Tanzania's anti-corruption bureau, Edward Hoseah, te...
Fargo revels in parables and symbolism, and one of the recurring images in the series so far has been the presence of fish, whether in the background or front and center. I’ll be upfront with you, dear reader, I’m stumped, I don’t have a fucking clue what exactly the fish mean. Seven episodes in and writer Noah Hawley ...
Please enable Javascript to watch this video Authorities said a Virginia Beach man is being kicked out of the country after his mother was convicted of creating a fake family. It’s been a dramatic fall for Natallia Liapina. A year ago, the woman from Belarus was married to a doctor, living in Virginia Beach with her ...
I often wonder why riders who say they want to win or be better riders never utilize the one thing, the one FREE thing that is at their disposal all the time. Riding outside the ring. I hear every excuse in the book, and I could care less what yours might be, but riding outside the ring is the of the most underutilize...
Bellman is a Rust-language library for building zk-SNARKs — small, cheap-to-verify zero-knowledge proofs of arbitrary computations. The goal of bellman is to make it easier for the general public to use and experiment with zk-SNARKs, and also as a step forward for improving the security and performance of Zcash’s next ...
Canada’s poised to welcome the first planeload of Syrian refugees Thursday evening as part of the federal Liberals’ much-touted pledge to resettle 10,000 (formerly 25,000) by the end of this month. But the government still hasn’t followed through on its election promise to reverse health cuts to refugee care made unde...
Artistic impression of what a psittacosauras, a 'parrot-lizard' dinosaur looked like They also found other remains including limbs and feathering of both herbivorous dinosaurs and predators. The trawl in a dinosaurs graveyard on the banks of the Olov River includes body parts from the smallest such creatures ever fou...
Here, too, the most interesting moment in the video isn’t the rant; it comes when an aghast patron intervenes. “Do not talk to other people that way,” he says. The two then discuss whether they should “step outside” and settle things, before the Trumpeter leaves the shop grumbling about the “absolutely ridiculous” expe...
“It’s obvious to anyone who picks up a newspaper or turns on the news that the nation is in the midst of a crisis,” FBI Acting Director Andrew McCabe said at a July 13 press conference at the U.S. Department of Justice, where he joined Attorney General Jeff Sessions and the heads of the Department of Health and Human S...
Mr. Gunter, who helped clients with software issues, said he was barely six months on the job at Vurv when the family car broke down. He had to ask a neighbor for a ride to work that day, and he feared his new job was at risk. That same day, Vurv bought him the used car. “It wasn’t the nicest car,” he said. “It wasn’...
People need to understand exactly what was going on before forming conclusions.The layers of the securization process go very deep. In simple terms: 1. Bank lends you the money 2. They sell the loan into securization 3. The loan is then bundled with many other similar loans 4, Then the whole bundle is divided into ...
Where the First Empire was born of a remnant of the Student Men, on the eastern coast of Bluewine Bay on the Telsion peninsula and the Dragons Teeth a new civilization emerged from the ground up from the Dark Ages following the War of Four Centuries. Between 3000 and 2600 BIA Small towns and villages grew into City-Sta...
© COLUMBIA PICTURES - ANNAPURNA PICTURES - POINT GREY - 2016 CTMG, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Non, le fourrage d’un petit pain par une saucisse, aussi salace soit-elle, ne risque pas de « corrompre les mineurs ». Pas plus que le frottement l’un contre l’autre de deux paquets de céréales, ou l’entrechoquement d’un pot d...
Freddie Gibbs nearly lost his life last night during a shooting that took place after his concert in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The show actually went off without incident on Tuesday evening (Nov 3) at the Rough Trade record store. Following the successful performance, Gibbs was in a black SUV parked at North 9th Street n...
Signup to receive a daily roundup of the top LGBT+ news stories from around the world Estonia has legally recognised the marriage of a gay couple for the first time. On appeal, a court in the country’s capital Tallinn recognised the marriage of a same-sex couple, in a hopeful sign that full marriage equality may not ...
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The myth of 'mum and dad' property investors Updated Property groups want us to believe that average income earners dominate property investment and negative gearing - a closer look at the statistics shows that's a furphy, writes Michael Janda. There's no doubt that a lot of ordinary, average-income Australians own ...
True Justice Must Be Served For Guantanamo Detainees President Barack Obama lifted a moratorium on transfers of Guantanamo bay detainees to Yemen – a moratorium he put in place. Why Obama put this moratorium into place after vowing, on a multitude of occasions, to do whatever he could to restore justice and shut down ...
Ironically, Uzi fans are waiting on new music because they're listening to his old music so much. Before people started talking about Lil Uzi Vert jumping 20 feet off a sound tent into the crowd at last weekend's Rolling Loud festival in Miami, the conversation surrounding the 22-year-old Philly native mostly centered...
Hasbro is now facing an international boycott of its Nerf products after tricking a fan blogger into giving the company his address in order to send legal notices. Hasbro’s problem was with a post published by Martyn Yang on his toyblaster review blog Urban Taggers last year—a review of the N-STRIKE ELITE “RAMPAGE” BL...
Two further points to make. By Tim Colwill on September 9, 2014 at 1:17 pm I posted this article following two weeks in which high-profile female developers and critics were subjected to violent threats from an angry minority of gamers. These types of threats are not welcome on games.on.net, and while passionately ar...
Important Notice: You have to update your device’s firmware if you purchased your device before 6th October 2016 for Arbites Innova 2 to work properly, using Arbites Innova 2 on a device with the older firmware will not work. Diverge, Diverge TM, Terminus Series Firmware Update Guide Terminus Mini, Felix Firmware Upd...
Get answers from your peers along with millions of IT pros who visit Spiceworks. Here are some stories we’ve found across the internet from tech support folks we’d love to share. Each of them is full of fun and drama. 1. Making users liars since 1975 Once, I had a user come in… User: My MacBook air is really slow....
Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey is one of the best films ever made. Almost 50 years after its release, it remains a topic of heated discussion and great reverence. It’s one of those films you could only dream to own a part of. But now you can. The San Francisco Art Exchange is selling a collection of work call...
Clinical-stage drug company Cempra Inc. CEMP, +0.15% said Thursday it has received a complete response letter from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration regarding its new drug applications (NDAs) for solithromycin, a treatment for community-acquired bacterial pneumonia. The letter says that the FDA cannot approve the N...
Psychiatry (Edgmont) . 2007 Oct; 4(10): 40–47. PMCID: PMC2860525 PMID: 20428310 Psychotherapy with a Narcissistic Patient Using Kohut's Self Psychology Model , MD Jamie McLean Drs. McLean and Gillig are from the Department of Psychiatry, Boonshoft School of Medicine, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio Find articles ...
Exclusive Preview | Justice League # 45 The epic showdown between Darkseid and the Anti-Monitor appears to have been decided. And the Anti-Monitor has won! But the Darkseid War continues within the pages of Justice League # 45. In “Darkseid War: Gods and Men,” several of the Justice League members have been given the...
Photo Credit: Sergei Belski/USA TODAY Sports The Vancouver Canucks and the agent for Ryan Miller gently disputed some of the details of a report that surfaced on Wednesday from TSN’s Farhan Lalji, which suggested that the Canucks’s starter was not going to return to action within his original four-to-six week recovery...
In late 2006, the writer John Green came up with the idea of communicating with his brother, Hank, for a year solely through videos posted to YouTube. The project wasn’t quite as extreme as it sounds. John, who was then twenty-nine, and Hank, who was three years younger, saw each other about once a year, at their paren...
Jose Mourinho has led Manchester United to a 15-game unbeaten run in the Premier League Jose Mourinho feels the praise for the playing style he has implemented in English football is long overdue. Manchester United scored three goals in eight minutes to defeat Premier League champions Leicester City 3-0 on Sunday and...
The Seattle Seahawks talked Tuesday about their plans for veterans Chris Clemons and Brandon Browner, each players recently re-signed to the team. Tuesday offered the first official words from the Seahawks about the recent re-acquisitions of cornerback Brandon Browner and defensive end Chris Clemons — each members of ...
A VIGILANTE commuter who boldly confronted train vandals and filmed them says they had to be taught a lesson. The man, known only as Mark, said he was sick of seeing taxpayers' money wasted on cleaning up graffiti on trains before he boldly confronted the train vandals and filmed them, saying they had to be taught a l...
SPOONER, Wis. — Two recent and credible reports of feral hogs running wild in the woods of Washburn County spurred the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources on Friday to remind hunters and landowners to shoot the animals on sight. “Go ahead and poke them. We want them dead as soon as possible,” said Mike Zeckmeist...
THIS WEEK 6 | NewScientist | 20 July 2013 BONES. That is all the passing millennia have left us of the Neanderthals and the more elusive Denisovans. Until recently, the main insights gleaned from these bones have been physical: what our cousins might have looked like, for instance, and how they moved. But cutting-ed...
With Donald Trump’s election to the White House, accusations are now being thrown around every which way by progressives seeking to blame anyone apart from themselves for America’s collective decision. Rather than looking inward, the media’s progressive left has turned once again towards the ever-reliable bogeyman of G...
Free Boxsona Box Contest! ❮❮ Newer Download | Full View Older ❯❯ Submission © 2016 BoxsonaOfficial Main Gallery 108 submissions Free Boxsona Box Contest! - by BoxsonaOfficial Submission information: Posted: Category: All Theme: All Species: Unspecified / Any Gender: Any Favorites: 7 Comments: 19 Views: 534 ...
Chris Hess, his wife Angela, their teenage daughter and her boyfriend were on a mountain biking excursion near Brightwood when they crossed paths with David and Pamela Gathwright. The Mother's Day 2013 confrontation began with two meandering dogs and culminated with David Gathwright pointing a handgun at Chris Hess' h...
1) Riot is scum for mind ****ing you guys. The psychological aspect of being cheated hurts your play and TSM got a free ride. A complete and easy free ride that they didn't earn or deserve. Seeding is seeding messing with it is in breach of everything competitive systems represent. As FIRST you are ENTITLED to playing ...
Wintzell's Oyster House is shuttering its Huntsville store today after six years in business. The Mobile seafood chain announced the closure Sunday on Facebook. No one at the Sanderson Street restaurant was available this morning for an interview about the closure. Wintzell's continues to operate restaurants in Gunte...
I Bought It Affiliate Links I received the Su:m 37 Skin Saver Melting Cleansing Balm yesterday from 11st (they have an AMAZING international EMS shipping deal right now–check out my Facebook post on how to get the 40,000 won-off coupon; this balm cost 26,000 won plus 2,500 won for domestic shipping and it arrived one ...
Corey Kluber of the Cleveland Indians was named the American League's top pitcher, winning his first Cy Young Award. Kluber captured 17 first-place votes and 169 points, narrowly edging out Felix Hernandez of the Mariners who earned the other 13 first-place votes and 159 points. White Sox LHP Chris Sale finished third...
A little bit ago AMD sent out an announcement updating their official outlook for the second quarter of 2015. Though we don’t typically publish financial projections, the long and short of it is that AMD is looking to brace investors for a worse than expected Q2, after an already difficult Q1. Soft APU sales are being ...
This article is over 4 years old CPS confirms no further action will be taken against man who was arrested last December and who has not been named A sixth man held over the murder of black teenager Stephen Lawrence will not be prosecuted due to insufficient evidence. The Crown Prosecution Service has confirmed no f...
It would just be so awesome if he hadn't. With so much money bet against bitcoin I would like to see him lose it all. It would just be so awesome if he hadn't. With so much money bet against bitcoin I would like to see him lose it all. It would just be so awesome if he hadn't. With so much money bet against bitcoin I...
This has been the softest launch of a game I’ve ever done. I spent about $100 total on facebook post boosts, I tweeted, I blogged and I posted to the ProductionLine facebook page. Since then…thats it, I’ve been pretty much going along on word of mouth, and even then, sales have exceeded my expectations! This is really ...
You might not know it but New Zealand has a ban on commercial parallel importing of DVDs that were bought legally overseas. Australia doesn’t have a ban, and neither does the U.S. When the government previously reviewed the ban in 2008 their own studies showed that the argument for retaining the ban was “weak” but desp...
Mindfulness has become a trendy word that is used to describe everything from yoga exercises to colouring activities. It can be hard to find a simple way to explain it, especially to children. This is how I explain modern secular mindfulness to both kids and adults. I try to keep it simple. How to explain mindfulness...
Do you know how to turn a simple sunflower seed into a piece of delicious meat? If not, ask the Russians – some of them know nice ways of how to survive the crisis… First of all, buy a packet of sunflower seeds. Go to the nearest place with the high concentration of pigeons. Throw the seeds on the ground. Wait till ...
As a valued friend of the GIANTS you can access 4 x FREE tickets to the GWS GIANTS match at Spotless Stadium this Saturday in Sydney Olympic Park. The match details are below: WHEN MATCH TIME Saturday, 30 April GWS GIANTS v Hawthorn 4.35pm To register for your tickets simply follow the steps below and see you at the...
Tim Campbell, a third-year campus doctoral student in computer science, died Sept. 15 at age 26 after living with cancer for four years. He is remembered by friends and colleagues for his positivity and his innovative mind. At UC Berkeley, he studied human-computer interaction, a discipline that examines how humans en...
Good try, (insufficiently-)Evolved. Makes me think you, not every Trump hater (that would be to stereotype, surely unfairly to some), think some people can't do with statistics whatever they like, think the NYT, CNN, the three used-to-be major networks, and WaPo are as close to objective truth in everything they say ...
Marshall Lytle's '40s Epiphone B-5 there's one thing we have in abundance around here, it's reverence for the tools of rock 'n' roll. Guitars, drums, basses; we think all that stuff is great. Every once in a while, though, we come across an instrument that's so historic, so iconic, and so badass, that it truly blows u...
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan returned from an overseas trip today, greeted by a rally organized at the airport by the ruling party while the rest of the country saw anti-government protests continue, and demands for Erdogan’s resignation grow. It wouldn’t seem like staying the course is even an option a...
My second (and last) Hobonichi order arrived this week, so I'm finally all set for 2017. I've changed my mind a few times in the past couple of months about what setup I want for my 2017 planners, and no doubt I'll change my mind throughout the next year, as well. But for now, I'm set on what I'll start the year with, ...
AUSTIN -- Texas isn't shying away from new abortion legislation after suffering a major blow in the Supreme Court this summer. Lawmakers filed multiple bills Monday that aim to further regulate the practice in the state, all of which will be brought up in the legislative session next year. Possibly the most contentio...
DRAM and Neil Young’s long-rumored song is finally coming out. It’s called “Campfire,” and it appears on the soundtrack to the new Netflix film, Bright, starring Will Smith. The soundtrack album is due out December 13 via Atlantic Records. It also features tracks from Ty Dolla $ign, Migos, A$AP Rocky, Tom Morello, Alt-...
NINGGUO, China, Oct. 31 (UPI) -- Officials in a Chinese province faced online ridicule for releasing a poorly doctored image of administrators meeting with a 103-year-old woman. The photo, captioned "love and consideration for the elderly is a cherished Chinese tradition. They should feel the warmth of the party and t...
Today, T-Mobile quietly released a new data-free cell phone plan: unlimited talk & text only for $25/mo, with taxes and fees included. Both new and existing T- Mobile customers can get unlimited talk & text only, but it's not available for No Credit Check or prepaid accounts. Unlimited Talk & Text Only: features This...
Co-founded by Lochlainn Wilson and Yuka Kojima, the project has a very prominent supporter: Philip Rosedale, who tells me he plans to make his new VR-compatible world High Fidelity compatible with the FOVE. In fact, he believes the eye-tracking technology is so important for the future of VR, it'll become standard in t...
Putting solar panels on your rooftop just became way more affordable: Customers can now pay for just the power they get from the solar panels. A new law took effect Wednesday that allows financing for residents who want to lease rooftop solar panels. Bo Finau, vice president of business development with Creative Sola...
This is police state stuff. Two men were shot and killed, in public, in February. Police know who did it, but they will not tell us. They say no charges should be laid in the case, but they will not tell us why, or give us the information they uncovered in their investigation. Police have security-camera video of the i...
Created Last update By This (almost) daily post intends to follow up the activity changes of volcanoes all over the world. This post is written by geologist Rodger Wilson who specializes in Volcano seismicity and Armand Vervaeck. Please feel free to tell us about new or changed activity if we haven't written about it...