On Friday morning, students from on-campus Lutheran Episcopal ministry the Table packed into Pastor Laura Sinche's car and drove down to Gather Baltimore's Sisson Street warehouse.
Gather Baltimore is a volunteer-based food pantry that collects surplus produce and sells them by the $7 bagful to Baltimore residents who couldn't otherwise afford healthy food.
Sinche wanted her students to experience Gather Baltimore because the Table is named for Jesus feeding others around the table. She also hoped they would feel the sense of community that stems from volunteer work.
Gather Baltimore volunteer Inez Craddock has worked at the pantry for two years and says the customers are what keep her coming back to work every weekend.
Friday morning at the warehouse started off slowly. Volunteers waited for truckloads full of food to arrive and about 10 customers were told to come back later. But Sinche's students still plan on volunteering throughout the year.
Haley Moreau, a sophomore forensic chemistry major, was a Girl Scout from age five to her senior year of high school.
"Volunteer work was the backbone of everything I did growing up," Moreau said, although this was her first time directly working in a food pantry.
"I feel like we're doing good work here," sophomore theatre studies major Alex Harrington said.
According to the pantry's website, as of 2015, one out of every four Baltimore individuals live in a "food desert," an area where affordable, healthy food is difficult to obtain. Through their pantry and community gardens in east Baltimore and the Harford Road area, Gather Baltimore hopes to provide accessible, nutritious food to people living in food desert regions.
Many of the fruits and vegetables that Gather Baltimore provides have come from gleaning, where volunteers collect leftover crops on farmers' fields after their harvest. The rest of the food comes from the Sunday night leftovers of local farmers markets, and from a warehouse of unsold produce in Jessup, Maryland.
In addition to providing Baltimore residents with fresh produce, Gather Baltimore also hopes to reduce food waste in a country where 40 percent of food doesn't get eaten.
Craddock hopes the pantry will see an increase in volunteers and in customers in the coming years.
Volunteers are welcome to collect produce every Sunday at the Baltimore Farmers Market and Bazaar and to sort produce at the Sisson Street warehouse Thursday-Sunday. To sign up or find out more, contact Gather Baltimore at volunteergatherbaltimore@gmail.com or 410-541-6166.


text:
War—beyond good and evil
On the subject of war, Germany doesn't exactly fare well in our culture. In fact, anti-German sentiment is integral to our shared past and our sense of ourselves. Every culture needs a mythic self-image to sell to its people and future generations, and our modern world defines itself by the defeat of Kaiser Wilhelm II and Adolf Hitler.
We associate the Germany of these men with war, injustice, destruction and cruelty. We, the Allies who defeated them, see ourselves as the epitome of peace, justice, progress and human rights. Each image is, of course, grossly simplistic and self-serving.
Great Britain, France and Russia—"the good guys"—were equally to blame for the escalating tensions that led to the outbreak of war in 1914. Had it not been for the greed, vindictiveness and stupidity of the future "Allies," including the U.S., during the interwar period, Hitler would likely never have come to power.
A complete, uncensored treatment of the 20th century would find plenty of blame to go around. Such candour would go along way toward disabusing ourselves of the myth of Western democratic moral superiority, and negative German stereotypes, since there is much we can learn from the Germans about war...
The odds of such an enlightenment happening any time soon, though, are remote since our cultural mythology requires us to pay homage to the anachronistic symbols and quasi-religious trappings of The Great Victory over "evil." The recent V–E Day commemorations in Moscow are such an example.
Nevertheless, such an enlightenment is urgently needed, because the stereotyping of Germany does more than nurture false memory syndrome; it has fostered an irrational belief that peace can be an instrument of policy, as well it has bred a dangerous disrespect for war.
Because of its association with Hitler and the Kaiser, calculated national war has been reduced to something "evil" that only bad countries commit. Yet war is not evil, and to pretend that it is forecloses any attempt to wage it properly or defend against an enemy. Thus it is that the "non-evil" Western armies are committing torture and other atrocities in Afghanistan and Iraq, and losing wars they don't know how to fight.
It was the great 19th-century general and strategist Carl von Clausewitz, who gave us the most valuable definition of war, most commonly, but superficially, translated as:
"War is the continuation of politics
The full quote from Book VIII of Vom Kriege (On War) is much more powerful:
"The only source of war is politics—the intercourse of governments and peoples; but it is apt to be assumed that war suspends that intercourse and replaces it by a wholly different condition, ruled by no law but its own. We maintain, on the contrary, that war is simply a continuation of political intercourse, with the addition of other means…War in itself does not suspend political intercourse or change it into something entirely different. In essentials, that intercourse continues irrespective of the means it employs."
To this I'll add this quote from Book II: "War is not an exercise of the will directed at inanimate matter… In war, the will is directed at an animate object that reacts."
For Clausewitz, war had rules and served a national political purpose. The logic and candour of this principle is lost on us modern democrats, who have anathematized the idea of war as an active instrument of politics. All acts of national violence are now justified in the name of national defence, which means the decision to go to war—and I'll use that term loosely for the time being—is purely reactive, devoid of any rational political calculations.
"The only source of war is politics—the intercourse of governments and peoples; but it is apt to be assumed that war suspends that intercourse and replaces it by a wholly different condition, ruled by no law but its own. We maintain, on the contrary, that war is simply a continuation of political intercourse, with the addition of other means.…War in itself does not suspend political intercourse or change it into something entrely different. In essentials, that intercourse continues irrespective of the means it employs."
—Carl von Clausewitz, Book VIII, On War, 1832
The U.S. and its coalition of the clueless are getting their asses kicked in Afghanistan for this reason.
The official story is that the U.S. bombed and invaded Afghanistan after the Sept. 11, 2001, World Trade Centre attack because the Taliban government would not surrender Osama bin Laden, whom the U.S. blamed for the attack despite having no evidence whatsoever.
The truth is that bin Laden was, and is, irrelevant. The U.S. wanted to overthrow the Afghan government solely because it would not let a U.S.-led consortium lay a pipeline across the country. The attack was an act of intimidation not defence. Well, it succeeded in changing the government, but nine years on, the U.S.-led imperial invasion force is still there. Now were told it's there to rebuild Afghanistan, fight the Taliban and "bring democracy" to the Afghan people. Since when is that the job of an army?!
None of these reasons resembles an army, much less an enemy, that can be defeated. We are rebuilding a country that we destroyed; the Taliban is only an economic enemy; and exporting democracy is a noxious euphemism for subjugation.
We have no army to fight, and no defensible political objectives to attain. There is no war! Yet the killing, torture, destruction and abject stupidity continue, contrary to the national interest. Nevertheless, the press and our governments continue to go to great lengths to present the operation as necessary for peace.
If we compare our farrago in Afghanistan to the 19th-century military expansionism of Germany—Prussia, really—I see little reason to object to Chancellor Otto von Bismarck's limited wars of aggression against Denmark (1863), Austria (1866) and France (1870) to expand and consolidate Prussian power.
Our fetish with peace also inhibits our ability to recognize mistakes. Once we wrap ourselves in the mantle of noblesse oblige, it becomes difficult to leave without tremendous loss of face. At this point, war degenerates into an exercise in public relations fueled by delusions and sentimentality.
On April 3, a group of relatives of Canadian soldiers killed in Afghanistan, appealed to the federal government not to pull out in 2011.
"I don't want him to die in vain," said Myles Kennedy, whose son Pte. Kevin Kennedy died in a Sunday 2007 roadside bombing. "We came in to do a job. And our job will not be complete, if [the government] pulls out the whole group."
This bereaved father would have the government send other people's children to die in Afghanistan just so he could feel better about losing his own son. As selfish as that sounds, it comes close to capturing the self-defeating insanity of modern warfare.
In Vietnam, the U.S. lost a 15-year war because its motives were entirely selfish. As I wrote in my book The Host and the Parasite—How Israel's Fifth Column Consumed America:
"On Nov. 6, 1961, Asst. Secretary of Defense John T. McNaughton sent the following summary of U.S. war aims to Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara:
"(a) 70 percent—To avoid a humiliating U.S. defeat (to our reputation as a counter-subversion guarantor).
"(b) 20 percent—To keep [South Vietnam] (and then adjacent territory) from Chinese hands.
"(c) 10 percent—To permit the people of SVN to enjoy a better, freer way of life. Also—to emerge from crisis without unacceptable taint from methods used. Not to 'help a friend,' although it would be hard to stay out if asked.
"When military force becomes its own justification…a self-destructive dynamic develops: The longer an insurgency goes on, the greater grows the threat to the U.S.'s ego; the greater the insult, the more violent the retaliation; the more violent the retaliation, the greater the insurgency; the greater the insurgency, the greater the ego investment; the greater the ego investment, the greater the insult; and so on."
We have forgotten how to fight wars, because we no longer fight armies. We kill civilians indiscriminately, and invent invisible enemies like "terrorism" to justify mass murder in the name of self-defence, which brings me back to the WTC bombing.
Alan Sabrosky, former director of Studies at the Army War College, has found conclusive proof that Israel was responsible for the attack: "I have had long conversations over the past two weeks with contacts at the Army War College and at Headquarters Marine Corps, and I have made it absolutely clear in both cases that it is 100% certain that 9/11 was a Mossad operation…period."
If we need a modern analog to Nazi Germany, we need look no further than Israel, which treats Palestinians at least as cruelly as Hitler's Reich treated Jews, only it does it with our acquiescence.
The dichotomies—Germany, war, evil; Allies, peace, good—are all rubbish. A premeditated, co-ordinated attack on Israel would be an entirely justified and justifiable war.

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


I love mind maps. Not only do they give me a creative outlet, but they give me a better way to conceptualize ideas and study various topics.
This article won't be a tutorial on mind maps. Rather, this article discusses how mind maps can help you with your goals and your learning. If you're not sure of what mind mapping is, I would suggest visiting this site first before continuing: https://www.mindmapping.com.
What's great about mind mapping is you don't need software to create maps unless you want to use it. You can use good old-fashioned paper and colored writing instruments. When I'm brainstorming a work-related task such as planning out a business or understanding system relationships, I use a software tool called XMind (https://www.xmind.net). When I'm studying, I'll use paper and markers, which helps me get a better grasp of the topic.
Most people write their goals in a list. Lists are useful if you need to keep track of what you're going to do today, but for the long term, like a career or life goal, seeing the goals in a vibrant illustration can help inspire you to achieve those goals. If you're on social media, you see people post different quotes all the time. Which ones get the most reaction – the person who just writes the quote in their status, or the person who posts an image or illustration that contains the quote? More often than not, it's the person who posted the image. The same concept works with goals. Which one is going to motivate you to achieve your career or life goal more – a written list, or an illustration?
Illustrating the goals in the mind map also inspires brainstorming versus a list. By seeing our goals in a map with pictures and words, it helps inspire more ideas versus just seeing the words.
You don't have to limit using mind maps for personal goals. You can also use these for business goals. Whether you're plotting out a brand new website navigation, or you're trying to map out operational processes, mind maps help organize the information in a visual layout to help encourage brainstorming (for new projects) or ensure that nothing is missed (for processes).
Here's an example of using a mind map: One of my passions is to provide nutritional and exercise information for people with limited mobility. I had a soft launch of a website and channel, and based on the launch, I know that I need to do more. Instead of trying to write everything in a list, I did a mind map using XMind. Note that I don't have everything on this map, but I have enough to illustrate how it looks.
We take notes during lectures. We highlight passages in our book. We may even make flashcards to help us memorize topics and vocabulary. Mind maps take it a stage further. It utilizes our natural human ability to learn better through pictures over words. The combination of pictures and words helps improve learning and memory by 10-15% over conventional note taking and studying techniques.
Here's an example: I'm working on increasing my fluency in Spanish. Knowing what tense to use and how to conjugate requires memorization. I like to use songs, but sometimes I need to see the text. Using paper and markers, I drew a mind map of the imperfect tense, a past tense to use when talking about things that one "used to do". I needed to know when to use it, how to conjugate the verbs, and how to conjugate the verbs that don't follow the regular pattern.
Numerous research projects prove that we learn better through pictures rather than words. The Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) did a study with patients with mild Alzheimer's disease, and they found that the patient recognizes topics and subjects better with a picture versus with a word or words.
If you're interested in seeing the more scientific explanation of how humans remember better with pictures than with words, I referenced some of the studies in this post under Additional Materials.
Do you mind if I quote a few of your articles as long as I provide credit and sources back to your website? My blog site is in the very same niche as yours and my visitors would genuinely benefit from a lot of the information you provide here. Please let me know if this alright with you. Cheers!


text:
«Доброе утро, страна!» — музыкальная телепередача, выходившая в эфир обычно по субботам и воскресеньям на канале РТР (1997—2002) в 10:00, позже в 12:20. Также транслировалась в повторах на украинском канале «1+1» с 1997 по 1999 год.

О программе
«Доброе утро, страна!» — это полчаса популярных видеоклипов, её ведущими были кабаре-дуэт «Академия», и вместе эту программу они вели около 5 лет. Изначально в 1995 году передача выходила слитно со схожей передачей «Утренняя почта». 12 января 1997 года программа стала выходить на РТР до самого закрытия. В 2002 году после развода с Александром Цекало, который ушёл из программы ради других проектов (в том числе и программы «Алчность» на НТВ), Лолита Милявская стала вести одна (первый эфир — 9 марта 2002 года). И поэтому в конце каждой программы рядом с Лолитой был приглашённый артист. Так же с 1997 по 1998 год была рубрика «Сам себя не похвалишь», где показывали интервью артистов.

Закрытие
Программа прекратила существование в 2002 году из-за ухода Лолиты. С июля по август выходили повторы. В последний раз передача (повторная) вышла в эфир 24 августа 2002 года.

Менее чем через год после закрытия шоу Цекало как продюсер выпустил на СТС похожий по формату проект «Утро с Киркоровым», в котором певец представал на экране одновременно в двух разных образах, которые беседовали между собой в перерывах между клипами, сценарии к этому шоу писал ранее работавший над программой «Доброе утро, страна!» Георгий Конн. Программа имела стабильные телевизионные рейтинги и просуществовала до марта 2005 года.

Примечания

Телепередачи телеканала «Россия-1»
Телепередачи, запущенные в 1997 году
Телепередачи, закрытые в 2002 году

Музыкальные телепередачи
Телепередачи фирмы «АРС»
Телепередачи России

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaWikipedia


Rebecca from Lush Vegan Food based near Fareham in Hampshire has just added a shop her business facebook page. Currently they are collect only (fresh or frozen) but she will look into postage options soon. Muffins, torte and banana bread are amongst the offerings so far, with the range sure to expand soon.
She has lived in good ole Stubbington all her life, and last month she quit her 14 and a half year job to do something she loves and hopefully will be successful in. There is a beach nearby, so why not make a day of it at the beach and collect some sweet treats to take home.
Rebecca hopes to branch out to extend her range with frozen meals too!
UPDATE: She now does savoury meals including Yorkshire puddings!


SRINAGAR, JAMMU KASHMIR, India (AA): Five Kashmiri militants were killed in a gun battle by Indian armed forces in southern Kashmir on Sunday.
"Based on a credible input about the presence of terrorists in the Kellam area of Devsar in District Kulgam, a cordon and search operation was launched today. In the ensuing encounter, five militants were killed and the bodies were retrieved from the site of the gunfight," police said in a statement.
All the slain militants have been identified as local Kashmiris.
In a separate incident, several people, including seven members of the Indian forces, were wounded in a grenade blast in the city of Srinagar.
"Four policemen, three paramilitary personnel, and four civilians were injured in the grenade attack," police said.
According to several human rights organizations, thousands of people have been killed in the conflict in the region since 1989.


When the date datatype field does not specify the 'format', we use the rounded date and specify the format in the query, the query result is incorrect.
When the 'format' is specified, the query result is correct.
I'm sorry, but that Elasticsearch version has not been supported for quite some years, and we will not provide any bugfixes for that version. Please use a recent version (like 7.0) and provide an example that can be fully reproduced by copy/pasting, so we can see if your issue still exists.


With new "intelligent" features, VMware Workspace One is part of a growing field of machine learning (ML)-infused business applications.
Before taking a closer look at the new capabilities, it's important to understand exactly what VMware Workspace One is. For the uninitiated, the platform lets IT departments remotely manage all employee devices and programs no matter where they are. This includes everything from mobile devices and virtual desktops to apps such as customer relationship management (CRM) platforms. In turn, the solution provides users with self-service access to their favorite apps via the VMware Workspace app on their machine, where they simply enter one set of login credentials for their programs. When we reviewed the VMware Workspace One solution last year, we were impressed with its features, awarding it our 4-star "Excellent" rating.
Workspace One Intelligence was the first of their newly announced capabilities for the platform. By using ML, the software will now monitor and harvest data from the customer's network to help spot opportunities for improvement. The platform also offers visualization tools to make understanding these insights simpler.
For example, let's say your company deployed a new app for employees and usage of the app is far below what you had hoped. Workspace One Intelligence, which is now able to track app performance, would tell you that most of your employees are using a slower, outdated version of the app. By using the new Intelligence capability, you now have the insights to spot the problem and instruct your employees to update the app. Workspace One Intelligence's features are available now.
VMware also announced the launch of its Workspace One Trust Network. Essentially, VMware has opened up the platform's application programming interfaces (APIs) to a select network of partners, including Crowdstrike, McAfee, Symantec, and other major security players. VMware has also allowed these companies to feed data into the platform. Let's say a security threat is present in your network that affects unpatched Windows PCs. In theory, these partners, with their wealth of knowledge in the latest cybersecurity threats, would be able to feed an alert regarding the unpatched systems into VMware Workspace One. You can even set up a rule to automatically push those kinds of updates.
VMware's infusion of "smart" capabilities for VMware Workspace One is similar to what we've seen in other parts of the business software landscape. This month alone, Microsoft announced a new set of tools with so-called "intelligent features," including new capabilities for its Microsoft Power BI platform. AI chatbots are taking over our customer service software and AI-laden products are becoming more ubiquitous in the workplace.
"ML is only as good as its models and not all models are created equal," said Baker. "Furthermore, it's very difficult to test ML models because it's almost impossible to get the same output from two identical runs. And it's very difficult to modify, correct, or manage a model that you can't test." According to Baker, this is known in the research field as the "ML reproducibility crisis."
Regarding the security promises VMware and other vendors have made when it comes to ML, Baker was equally cautious. "Vendors often tout predictive capabilities for security purposes but take that with a grain of salt," she said. "ML works reasonably well with behavior analytics in predicting insider threats, and it works reasonably well in the prediction and early detection of known security threats. But it can't predict a security threat or vulnerability that is unknown. The key is to understand its limits but leverage its strengths."
To put it in more nerd-friendly terms, Baker used an interesting metaphor. "It's not Batman. That would be a dedicated security analyst," she said. "ML is Robin, the helpful sidekick. But Batman still needs his utility belt."


text:
Car News By Brand
Celebrity Car News
Laugh Brake
NY Auto Show
Added on April 16, 2014 Kyle Johnson 2015 Mazda Miata , 2015 Mazda MX-5 , 2015 Mazda MX-5 Miata , 25th anniversary , 25th anniversary of the Miata , mazda miata , Mazda Miata 25th Anniversary Edition , Mazda MX-5 , Miata 25th Anniversary , Miata 25th Anniversary Edition , new miata , New York , New York International Auto Show , nyias
Mazda Shows Off Miata 25th Anniversary Edition at NYIAS
The Miata 25th Anniversary Edition will be limited to 100 examples, which means you better get on it if you wanna get hold to one.
The Mazda Miata 25th Anniversary Edition was unveiled this morning at the New York International Auto Show.
It's hard not to feel a little bit disappointed by the fact that Mazda didn't break out a brand new Miata (although we did get a peek at its chassis, which is still pretty nice). Mazda didn't totally leave MX-5 junkies out in the cold, however, unveiling the MX-5 Miata 25th Anniversary Edition during the first day of the 2014 New York International Auto Show.
The Miata 25th Anniversary Edition will be sold as a 2015 model and will be limited to a mere 100 examples in the United States. So, you know, if you want one, you might want to hustle up.
"The original concept behind the MX-5 was so simple: to offer the pure joy of a lightweight sports car that moves precisely as the driver intends," said Takashi Yamanouchi, chairman of the board, Mazda Motor Corporation, in a statement. "While responding to increasing safety and environmental requirements, in the 25 years since its launch we have had to continually reinvent the MX-5 – far beyond a simple evolution – in order to stay true to that original ideal. The history of the MX-5 is one of changing everything in order to stay the same, a history of innovating in order to preserve."
So what makes the Miata 25th Anniversary Edition so unique? Mazda calls it a heartfelt "thank you" to Miata enthusiasts, with a meticulous eye paid to details both inside and out. The special edition MX-5 will get a Soul Red metallic premium paint scheme with Brilliant Black A-pillars, windshield surround, outside mirrors, and Power-Retractable Hard Top (PRHT). The contrast of black against the Soul Red is continued with black front combination lamp bezels and 17" Dark Gunmetal 10-spoke aluminum alloy wheels hugged by Bridgestone® Potenza RE05A 205/45R17-84W tires.
The red/black theme also carries over into the interior, which uses satin chrome finish on the louver rings, gauge cluster meter rings, and inner door handles. Brilliant Black is also utilizes in the seatback garnish with Piano Black spokes for a steering wheel wrapped in genuine black leather. The parking brake level, armrests, and shift lever will all also be wrapped in black. Red stitching will be used at all premium touch points.
Naturally, the Miata 25th Anniversary Edition will have signifying badging, with the logo etched into the leather headrests and on the stainless steel door scuff plates. A single 25th Anniversary badge will be mounted onto the driver side front fender with a serial number.
The Miata 25th Anniversary Edition is expected to go on sale later this spring and can be pre-ordered at www.MazdaUSA.com.
Stay tuned to The News Wheel for more images and information as it becomes available.
So, tell us: how bad do you want this?
Kyle S. Johnson lives in Cincinnati, a city known by many as "the Cincinnati of Southwest Ohio." He enjoys professional wrestling, Halloween, and also other things. He has been writing for a while, and he plans to continue to write well into the future. See more articles by Kyle.
About The News Wheel Contact Us Our Staff Advertising on The News Wheel Archives Privacy Policy Franchise


Hi i am Honor and i am Colonel of The Royal Rangers a Holdfast N.A.W regiment. I have a passion for gaming especially holdfast. Non Deficere & #TRR.
The two other guys wait in anticipation until about five minutes later he comes back into the waiting room dancing like a maniac. "I've got the smallest feet in the world" he exclaims. The others are so excited for him and they all dance and joke around.
After a little while the last guy who thinks he has the smallest♥♥♥♥♥♥♥is called back and sure enough, just like the others he comes walking back into the waiting room about five minutes later but he is dragging his feet and obviously upset. The other two jump up and ask him "what's wrong"? .. He replies what the hell is Francis Lombardo?
Three guys are trying to get into the Guinness book of world records.
The guy thinking he has the smallest hands is called and goes to the back room. About five minutes later he comes out fist pumping and jumping up and down. He tells the others "I've got the smallest hands in the world!" The other two are so excited for him, they all high five and talk about his experience until the guy thinking he has the smallest feet is called back. Nervously he walks into the back room.


Google's "Made for Google" program should make it easier to find third-party accessories for your devices.
Google's "Made for Google" program will recommend third-party accessories to accompany your devices.
The company will now recommend third-party accessories to accompany your Google-brand devices, so you can easily add them to your shopping cart when you buy your next Pixel phone.
The accessories range from adapters to headphones, phone cases and more; some are already listed in the Google Store.


text:
Home News Archive 2009/2010 ISIS Malaysia Reappoints Tan Sri Mohamed Jawhar Hassan as Chairman & Dato'...
Archive 2009/2010
ISIS Malaysia Reappoints Tan Sri Mohamed Jawhar Hassan as Chairman & Dato' Dr Mahani Zainal Abidin Made CEO
The Institute of Strategic and International Studies (ISIS) Malaysia has reappointed Tan Sri Mohamed Jawhar Hassan as Chairman of the institute's Board of Directors and the appointment of the Director-General, Dato' Dr Mahani Zainal Abidin as Chief Executive Officer, with effect from 9 January.
Tan Sri Mohamed Jawhar has served as Chairman and CEO of ISIS Malaysia since January 2006. He joined the institute in 1990 after serving the Government in various capacities. Tan Sri Jawhar is a member of the ASEAN Regional Forum's Expert and Eminent Persons Group and a Distinguished Fellow of the Institute of Diplomacy and Foreign Relations (IDFR). He is also a member of the Advisory Board of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission. His other appointments include Chairman of the New Straits Times and board member for Ekuiti Nasional Berhad (Ekuinas).
Dato' Dr Mahani graduated with a PhD in development economics from the University of London. She joined ISIS Malaysia as its Director-General in 2007. Dato' Dr Mahani previously served as Deputy Director-General of the Higher Education Division in the Ministry of Higher Education and as Professor in the Faculty of Economics and Administration, University of Malaya. She is currently a Council Member of the National Economic Advisory Council (NEAC) and a trustee for Yayasan 1Malaysia.


This registry is designed to help you build what you need for a lifetime of entertaining and living. We offer top quality exclusive products you will not find any where else as well as some of the most sought after product lines.
Looking for a Gift Registry? Search for registries below.
Register for gifts for your home, choose from fine china, unique gifts, to crystal. Check back frequently since we will be adding more product lines you can register for.


Watertown Children's Theater will present a workshop which will include acting, music, movement, improvisation, and dance in a fun format based on group activities and games.
A is for Atrium" is a series of FREE Tuesday morning programs at Atrium School for young children and their parents or caregivers. The programs are from 9:30-11:00am and will include: the featured program of the month, Tobias Potyranski and his magical Gym Bus, a story with Atrium PreK teacher, Rachel Davenport, songs, art projects, and a nutritious "nut-free" snack.


text:
EA Cancels College Football 15
By Pete Haas published 28 September 13
EA is taking a break from developing college football games. Due to the ongoing legal situation with the NCAA and former student-athletes, they've decided not to release a new game in 2014.
The former athletes have accused NCAA and EA Sports of using their likenesses without paying them. College athletes are restricted from receiving payments. However, these former athletes contend that they should be compensated for appearing in games after they've graduated.
"For our part, we are working to settle the lawsuits with the student-athletes. Meanwhile, the NCAA and a number of conferences have withdrawn their support of our game. The ongoing legal issues combined with increased questions surrounding schools and conferences have left us in a difficult position – one that challenges our ability to deliver an authentic sports experience, which is the very foundation of EA SPORTS games."
The New York Times reports that EA will be settling with these athletes for $40 million. The lawyer for these players confirmed the figure to the Times. They still have to work out how the funds will be distributed among the players.
Even if the athletes have settled with EA, their case against the NCAA is still going. As such, the NCAA is still skittish about licensing additional games and opening themselves up to further litigation. They announced this summer that NCAA Football 14 would be the last game featuring their name and logo.
"We are confident in our legal position regarding the use of our trademarks in video games," the NCAA said at the time. "But given the current business climate and costs of litigation, we determined participating in this game is not in the best interests of the NCAA."
After the NCAA made that announcement, reports suggested that EA would begin a new series called College Football. College Football 15 would feature powerhouse schools including Alabama, Ohio State and Oregon. EA would negotiate directly with the schools featured in the game rather than the NCAA. Maybe these schools are hesitant to make any plans before the NCAA lawsuit is completely over with?
EA says that their decision not to release a college football game next year won't affect their support of NCAA Football 14. Does that mean they're going to release free rosters updates for NCAA 14 next year? It wouldn't be an unprecedented move. They did the same for NBA Live 10 after cancelling NBA Elite 11.
The company hasn't given up on producing college football games in the future, either.
"At EA SPORTS, college football has always been a labor of love, and it is unfortunate that these business and legal issues have impacted our ability to make next year's game. This franchise has been developed by a team that is deeply committed to the tradition and culture of this sport – that's why fans have always loved it. We are working to retain the talented people who are part of the team by placing them elsewhere within the EA SPORTS organization."
Pete Haas
Staff Writer at CinemaBlend.
Archive 81 Showrunner Answers Two Of Our Big Season 1 Finale Questions
How Bob Saget Was Honored On The Series Premiere Of How I Met Your Father
Will FBI Replace Kathleen Munroe's Rina After Being Killed Off? Jeremy Sisto Weighs In
Spider-Man: No Way Home Has Crossed Yet Another Box Office Milestone After A Month In Theaters
Danica McKellar, Candace Cameron Bure And More Send Love To Jodie Sweetin Over Big Engagement News


text:
Viewing posts in category favorites...
(view all posts instead) next
s Tom 7 Entertainment System Hero (show and demo reel) (16 Apr 2009 at 20:14)
Hey, okay. Finally I have the videos ready to reveal secret project 7H, which is called Tom 7 Entertainment System Hero.
This is part video game and part performance art piece. The video game is essentially an implementation of Guitar Hero, where the songs are Tom 7 Entertainment System tunes. Some of these are ridiculously intricate and most have weird time signatures, which makes for advanced play. It supports keyboard on Mac, Windows, and linux or real USB guitar controllers (like the XBox 360 ones) on Mac and Windows. That includes accelerometers and whammy bar. The best introduction is to watch the demo reel:
Tom 7 Entertainment System Hero
As usual, for best results click through to the HD version, or download the 1080p AVI from that page.
This video has a bunch of clips in it, mostly from the Show at Belvedere's. You'll see a bunch of things. One is that I actually mess up a lot when playing. I'm better than this but two things contributed to my mistakes: (1) I was kinda drunk since the show started like 3.5 hours late and I got free beer for being a "musician" and (2) in the last week before the show I was sprinting to get all the software and hardware working, so I actually didn't practice hardly any of these songs more than the one time it took me to decide to put them in the setlist. Once it's available publicly I will challenge you to high-score battle to prove it. Hardware you ask? I didn't build the guitar or drums of course, but I did build the Laser Suspension Womb, which to be more pithy I sometimes call my "USB laser hat." It's a hardhat with a bunch of very bright LEDs and actual laser diodes embedded in it, powered by 1.5A, worn on the head, and connected to the computer via USB implemented on a custom circuit board with a PIC microcontroller. The in-game music and events ("drums were kidnapped!") trigger the lights and lasers to play along. I have a clever hack so that it doesn't need special drivers on any platform, though that's not helping penetration much because there's only one of them. This was my first real hardware project in my adult life, but now that I know how to do it I hope to do more (especially input devices, i.e., "instruments"). It's much better in 2009 than I recall from sticking paperclips and resistors in the parallel port in 1993.
Rock Band drums are supported too. Unlike the guitar, which has a goal pattern for you to match, these are totally freeform. Commodore 64 samples are played in response to drumhits. I wish the controller supported some kind of velocity sensitivity, because that is kind of important for drum expressiveness, but too bad so sad.
Techno details: The implementation is almost all in Standard ML using SDL, except for the low-level sound synthesis thread and the interface to the USB laser hat. That stuff's in C. It's easy to mix them. The code has some shortcuts in it for sure and deserves to be cleaned up (lots of them introduced in that last week sprint) but it also has some really nice parts, like the algorithm that matches your input to the score. The matching is ambiguous, so there's an on-line dynamic programming algorithm to be maximally generous to your playing. (I don't think Guitar Hero II had this maximally generous algorithm, which was one of the reasons I started working it out like a year and a half ago, but I do think that GH III and on do it right.) The finger patterns you're supposed to match with the guitar, which I call the "score", is generated automatically from MIDI files. To turn a T7ES MIDI file into a T7ES Hero game file, I have to assign instruments to each of the tracks, and then pick which tracks or track parts are supposed to be played on the guitar. The rest is automatic, save some tuning parameters. "genscore" has a model for how closely a candidate score matches the original MIDI (for example, if consecutive MIDI notes are rising in pitch, then it's better for the fingers to also be rising on the fretboard) and then it solves for the optimal assignment, measure-by-measure. I thought that I would need to modify the score after this to get good quality, but it actually works amazingly well. Some of the stuff it comes up with is super fun, like I would assume was created by a human with a good sense of fun. No. Only cyber-brain.
Here's the last two songs of the regular set in full. In this you see that you can actually play drums and guitar at the same time if you're good enough (I am not). 2 player mode? Maybe soon:
Live Belvedere's 27 March 2009
I don't know if I'll ever get the opportunity to perform this again (befriend T7ES Band Page on Facebook for guaranteed notification), but maybe. Either way, I'm looking forward to sharing the software with you guys, which I will do as soon as I finish the auto-update and high score table, so that we can compete with each other and I can release song packs.
Categories: favorites drawings hacks video t7es video games (31 comments — almost 12 years ago) [ comment ]
g Pac Tom: August 2008 Update (17 Aug 2008 at 19:04)
1000×874 version
Pac Tom project:
site · all · map
Okay, time for our bi-monthly Pac Tom project update. This summer has been very productive for pac-running, mainly because of the long daylight hours, free weekends, and need for introspective time. That's even given the marathon training and now the Great Race training, which mostly consists of running the same course over and over every day. (The upshot is that being in good shape means that on those weekends I can go a lot farther, and since my Pac-efficiency is dominated by the amount of the graph that I can cover once I get out to some distant neighborhood, being able to run twice as far in one go means much more than a 2x improvement in Pac-coverage. I mean if six of my ten miles are just getting to the neighborhood and back, then if I add another ten miles, all ten of those can be used to cover the streets in that 'hood.) Progress update below but first some recent running tales.
Last weekend when I got back from California I must have still smelled like San Francisco or something because I was offered the opportunity to buy drugs by this not-drug-dealer-looking middle-aged woman. I think it is pretty weird, because she was just sitting at a bus stop and then I run by and I don't think I'm like exuding "hey, sell me some pills," and also if her biz is based on waiting for people to jog by this bus stop with cash, she is probably going to not be doing a lot of volume because I would not be surprised if I'm the only person to have run that particular street in 50 years. Anyway she's like, "Excuse me," in a whisper, "Do you know anybody that needs some Vicodins®?" Vicodins® plural, which is not how I'd say it. Normally I like to answer solicitations in very genuinely polite but confusing ways, to decline in a totally new style with no easy retort on the person's solicitation flowchart (to use a Chess metaphor, I like to get "out of book" as quickly as possible) because that is more or less pleasant for both of us and funny to me. For example, when the other lady on the phone is trying to sell me the Caller ID feature, I tell her as genuinely as I can, "I like the uncertainty of not knowing who's calling," and how can she argue with that? I'd like to have provided a similarly confusing answer but really, she had me out of book on the first move, so I was just like, "Uhhh, sorry!". And this wouldn't even be that remarkable (even though it's the first time I was ever offered drugs by a stranger in Pittsburgh) except that less than an hour later on the same trip but in a different neighborhood some kids ask me when I run past, "Do you have any marijuana?" And I'm like whaaa? To be truthful I think these kids were just making fun of me, which is pretty common when I am running in places where I am out of context and I am totally okay with that, but I don't really know why that would occur to them or in what sense that was making fun of me. Some cut-elimination or market-optimization part of me thinks I should have pointed the kids in the direction of the Vicodins® lady to solve two problems. (Once I saw a funny thing in the classifieds section, which might have even been some weird art-joke, which was two adjacent ads, one being a Want-To-Buy ad and the other being a For-Sale ad, both for the same object, described in an unusually and apparently fortuitously similar way. I wish I had saved that.) But I don't really believe in the free market or getting drugs in the hands of kids. Also I feel compelled for some reason to remind readers that I do not do drugs unless you count beer and coffee, which maybe you should count, but I would not use the word "do" for those. Once Percocets® by prescription for the wisdom teeth.
Yesterday I ran 18 miles in Homewood to try to finish it off, with a carefully prepared map and everything. It (the temperature) was hot. When I was finishing up I was super thirsty and I remembered that my favorite Pittsburgh beer-brewery, East End Brewing Co. was having its "Growler hours" at that very time, which hours are a way of selling their beer in jugs in an atmosphere that is almost pub-like without requiring a liquor license or drink-tax liability. And that brewery happens to be in Homewood. So even though I was sweaty-gross and only had three emergency dollars, I figured I'd never be running through this neck again especially during 'hours and boy was I thirsty, so I'd pop in and see if they'd be willing to sell me a non-jug-sized "sample" for those three bucks. I told them my deal and the dudes were like, sorry, but you cannot buy samples because they are free. But it was explicitly cool with them to get several samples even though I was very clear that I was not buying a growler just then (though I drink these dudes's beer all the time so I don't know why I felt like I was scamming them or something and I left my three emergency dollars as a tip), so that was awesome of them and man does cold beer taste good after one runs 16 miles in the sun. The two miles after that are a little bit jostly in the stomach though, I mean because of the CO2. I don't know how the Hash House Harriers people do it. So but when I got back I checked my work and I was happy that I had found all the little side streets and dead ends and had covered them, and as I was about to mark this neighborhood off as done, I saw this gaping, glaring section missing from one of the main thoroughfares through the neighborhood, which I guess I missed because Google Earth colors such majorer roads in as yellow instead of white. Whatever. That sucks, so today I made another ten mile trip out there to get that segment, and also to finish up Point Breeze North while I was at it because it sucks to make a long trip for just three blocks, even if I'm kinda beat.
The name of the game these days is making a serious concerted effort to finish off neighborhoods for good. I can typically finish off one or two neighborhoods each trip. You can see from the blackened areas which neighborhoods I've finished completely; relative to last time this number is greatly increased. 19 neighborhoods remain in the target area, so probably no more than 19 long trips left. I'm a little sad to be done with some of these places and to probably not have occasion to go back, but oh well. Exploring new places is better. Numerology:
Since the beginning of time, 476 distinct running events. (This includes everything, races, training, Pac Tomfoolery) Total time running: 11 days, 14h53m13s. Total distance run: 2020.096. Finally broke the 2 kilomile barrier!
Categories: pac tom favorites (10 comments — almost 11 years ago) [ comment ]
e emacs lost-mode (07 Jun 2008 at 00:31)
Spoiler alert! This emacs mode contains spoilers for the TV show Lost (Season 2). (I always wanted to say that, heh heh.) It will also make no sense to anyone who hasn't seen the show or used emacs.
Now that Lost Season 4 is over, I know you need something to tide you over for 9 months or whatever until it comes back. Therefore please enjoy this emacs mode simulating the Swan station computer from Lost. The modeline countdown timer will follow you in every buffer, ticking down the seconds.
When reaching the 4 minute mark, you can use the Swan computer and do what you gotta do:
If you don't do what you gotta do, then you might get some System Failure:
System Failure used to kill emacs without saving your buffers, but I decided this was a bit too cruel. Now you can live with System Failure indefinitely, meaning that you can safely run lost-mode as part of your regular day-to-day emacs use. If you have emacs I recommend trying it yourself so you can see the animations (particularly the timer reset animation). Put
lost.el
in a place where you like to store your emacs files (say, "/home/desmond/elisp") and then add
(load "/home/desmond/elisp/lost.el")
to your .emacs file (or the equivalent for your platform; don't forget to escape backslashes on win32). The mode is then activated on startup and cannot be disabled.
Categories: favorites hacks (18 comments — 9 years ago) [ comment ]
l Inverse Mutton-chops! (18 Apr 2008 at 23:15)
Behold, inverse mutton chops. (Or would you call these reverse sideburns or something?) I always wanted to try this, so when there was a 3-week beard contest I decided to go for it. I didn't win, but it got a lot of good feedback. Maybe if there were a category for lengthiest beard? This ironic "GQ Cover" glossy is courtesy of Mike.
I'm not quite comfortable looking this stupid in person in front of people I don't know; I wore a hat when I was outside today, even though it was like 80°. So, they are gone now. The regular beard part is still on, since I'm past the itchy phase and I'm not sure what to do with it yet. Maybe you have a suggestion.
Category: favorites (21 comments — almost 5 years ago) [ comment ]
l Open letters (18 Feb 2008 at 17:23)
Do you guys know what open letters are? I don't mean like a piece of post that you've unsealed, or typographical glyphs with holes in them like the vowels 'e' and 'o', I mean like when someone writes a complaining letter to a company or politician but instead of sending it postally (obviously it would end up in the comment box incinerator anyway) he posts it on his blog, like as if a company or politician has ever thought, oh, I gotta go check my open-mailbox by searching the whole internet for letters that happen to be addressed to me. This is I guess because posting complaints in letter form rather than just in lj-whine style gives them automatic gravitas and posterity, for just the small price of having to write "Dear such-and-so" and "very truly yours" and if for some strange-ass reason you compose your blog posts in Microsoft Word then some dog jumps out of like nowhere and goes wtf dude are you trying to write a letter? And now you have two open letters to write. Anyway I find this phenomenon amusing and so today is Open Letter day on Tom 7 Radar.
Dear someone that makes shaving razors,
How come you think all dudes want to have close shaves that make their faces feel like a baby's smooth bottom? What if grizzled hard-style guys like the hombres in Lost or pretty much any movie with guns or horses (except if it's a unicorn horse or animated) want to freshen up a bit and they want to do it with a new store-bought razor and not some rusty old thing that they've been saving for a special occasion? What kinda extra rough shave offering do you have for these men?
Bet you didn't think of that but now you did,
Dear assholes who think that cars are supposed to have the right of way through crosswalks with active walk signals, especially in the rain or snow but also any time, even just for thinking that and not merely when you are actually doing it,
You are assholes.
Dear dogs,
If I had to pick one thing about you (in general) that is my favorite, it would be the eagerness. If I had to pick one thing that is my least favorite, it would be all the pooping.
Try using a toilet,
People whose job it is to write on hand lotion and soap packaging,
I hereby forbid you from using "science" words or mathematical symbols. Examples of things now disallowed: "With amino proteins!" and "Vitamin E + Jojoba oil = moisture"
Dear Thinsulate Company,
Sometimes when I put on black gloves it makes me feel like a murderer.
Love you forever,
Dear lawyers who sign cease and desist letters "Very truly yours",
Extremely truly yours,
Category: favorites (15 comments — almost 13 years ago) [ comment ]
l Harris Grill catches fire (12 Aug 2007 at 00:49)
1200×800 version I used to think that I had some kind of special connection to Harris Grill because I ordered the very last lentil burger that they ever served. I've been going there ever since moving to Shadyside six years ago (then it was originally under a different owner and I like the second incarnation better, although they should not have discontinued the lentil burger!). But now I have a new special connection: I was eating there when it burned down this evening. Cortney and I were getting dinner and beer to celebrate her returning safely from DC and me recovering the 7th Pure Heart in Super Paper Mario, and we were just finishing up our beers like so many other pleasant trips to Harris, when one of the staffers came upstairs and said, "We have to evacuate! The side of the building is on fire!" I've been in buildings before when they were "on fire" so I didn't think this was a huge deal, but on the way down the stairs I could feel the heat and see the flames through the ice brick glass window... only a few feet from us. Clearly scare quotes were not warranted. Everyone got out fine before the fire really started to get out of control and shooting flaming debris and stuff (props to the Harris Staff for a safe and efficient exit). Right under the side of the building that was on fire is the parking lot, so a bunch of people (somewhat crazily, in my opinion) were getting in their cars and getting them the hell out of there, hitting each other a little bit, as people were evacuating and other people in the various bars in that area were emerging with beer in hand to take a gander. I thought it took a long time for the fire department to arrive, especially since there's a fire station only about two blocks away. But a lot of fire trucks and fire fighters did come. We were watching the licking flames crawl up the side of the building and devour its wooden (!) fire escape, but then there was some kind of hissing sound and someone declared that it was a gas leak, which even though I did not particularly believe this tattooed nose-pierced authority, I still thought it was probably safer to not be standing merely on the other side of the street as if two empty lanes could protect us from an explosion, so we moved a bit further out until the FD got the fire under control. I grabbed my camera from my house and took the above shot of firepeople climing the fireladder. (Click for a much larger version.) You can see the damaged ice brick window I was talking about; inside that burned door where the oxygen tank guy is, is the second floor where we were seated. The Great Divide Hercules Double IPA is a good beer, by the way. I didn't get any pictures of the licking flames but if there is some site where you can search people's shitty cell phone camera pictures, just search that because there were several hundred bargoers around who couldn't stop triggering their fake shutter noises.
Of course it's too soon to know if they'll be able to reopen the restaurant any time soon, but a 3-alarm fire is pretty serious, so Shadyside will probably have to (again) live without one of its gems for a while. Sorry to see you go, Harris!
Categories: popular momentous favorites (24 comments — almost 14 years ago) [ comment ]
h Song of the Month, June 2007 = So Begins Our Alabee (09 Jul 2007 at 17:02)
All my websites were down this morning while I updated the arbitrary unique number that identifies my computer on the internet. I think they should be working now, but since I haven't changed that in 6 years there might be some problems still. Let me know if so. Also Song of the Month:
✂ clip 'n save
This months's song of the month is So Begins Our Alabee by of Montreal. I got both Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer? and The Sunlandic Twins at the same time so I can't really tell them apart, but this is a Sunlandic tune.
Back in college I listened to Of Montreal a little bit and played them on WRCT but mainly as a kind of methadone treatment while we waited for other mainline elephant 6 artists like Neutral Milk Hotel (never came) and The Apples in Stereo (maybe not a monotonic plummet but certainly Cauchy) and The Olivia Tremor Control (likewise implosion) releases or even stuff like Belle and Sebastian that I always associate with Elephant 6 even though they are like not even distant cousins.
And sometimes I have this sad thought that some band that I own one of their CDs and they are moderately interesting okay music that I once saw unenthusiastically open for some other mildly successful indie band, that this band is so low on my radar it is almost undetectably low, like when top guns fly their jets below the radar to avoid detection, but here's it's because their wings are too small or something like that, not because they are deliberately dodging the radio waves. That this band is borne out of the absence of music, the raw embarrassment that mostly empty record store shelves would feel if they only had the discs from the real good bands. And the sad thought is not that B-movies and B-bands and B-sides exist but that probably some of the people in these bands think that their bands are not weekend side projects but actually really super, that they have written some really standout original pop tunes and are just working their way to the top and wondering if maybe they should only have started their band's name with A or 0-9 or Zyzzyvas for the minor abecedarian advantage bestowed for such early or late placement in otherwise arbitrary orderings. Like that they take themselves far seriouslier than their CMJ ranking justifies. This is sad to me, sadder even than when a formerly great band starts Cauchying to 0.
So Of Montreal was a shoe-in for this month's song of the month artist since I used to kind of think that this band maybe should have changed its name to Zyzzyvas but holy moly have they made a turn for the A-list. (Thanks to jaked1 for making me listen. I responded to his e-mail: "dude these are some fucked up motherfuckers") Both of these albums are filled with great songs, and as I write this "Alabee" is my current favorite, but other highlights include Forecast Fascist Future, The Party's Crashing Us, Requiem for O.M.M.2, Suffer for Fashion, Cato as a Pun, etc. The width of their sound is mind blowing. It's clear Kevin Barnes (that's the pilot of this jet craft) is kind of a messed up insane genius, but in the recording asylum is the perfect place for such people. Don't stop!
Categories: favorites song of the month (19 comments — almost 14 years ago) [ comment ]
l Free Hotel Wireless (27 Jun 2007 at 19:25)
Hey I made it! I have a little chill time so let me tell you some travel tips and an in-flight movie review.
Travel tip #1: Since basically all US airlines are part of the same government-bailout conglomerate—we might call it the FAA—sometimes when you're supposedly flying on one airline (the dudes you bought your ticket from) you're really flying on another. It is important for a variety of reasons to understand this fiction. One reason, this is tip #1, is that if you get to the airport and there's a 999999-bajillion km (that's kiloman, here man meaning man, woman, or child) line for the United checkin counter at 6:45am, then you should instead go to the US Airways desk because that's which airline you're really flying and they have a much shorter line and if you waited in the United line you might have been sent over there when you finally got to the front anyway. (This last thing is especially true for connections with international airlines.) Don't be a chump: If it says "X Airlines flight 1234 Operated by Y," then behave as if you're flying Y Airlines. Tip successfully employed!
Mini-review: I was watching Lost re-runs on my laptop so I missed the first 3/4 of it, but do you ever get a phrase stuck in your head like you sometimes get a song stuck in your head, repeating? Because when I was watching the last 1/4 of this movie The Astronaut Farmer I had a Spanish-language phrase running through my head and that was muy idiota. Wow, maybe I just missed out on the continuity in that film because they cut out some important not-family-safe scenes or because I missed subtle dialogue in the right stereo channel, unable to reach me in my airplane-incompatible headphones, but damn what a dumb film. Synopsis. Billy-Bob Thorton is a farmer (also his name is Farmer, making the title of the film a clever double entendre) who wants to go into space so he builds a rocket ship in his farm. Then he shoots off into space, with his family being like mission control. Success! There's a montage of the other farmers in his village and some local policemen looking off into space, slapping their thighs with their cowboy hats and mouthing, "Well I'll be!", I am not exaggerating at all here. BUT THEN SOMETHING GOES TERRIBLY WRONG... a nearby satellite causes his radio to fail and he can't talk to his family. Can you hear me, Major Tom? And how is this crisis resolved? He sees his wedding ring somehow floating around in the space cabin, so he takes his space glove off (the whole time he is wearing a bubble-head space suit, but I guess it is just for fashion or something) and puts the ring on. Then he hits the control panel and he can communicate with mission control again. Right? It's a Power Ring. Why does he need to communicate with mission control? So his son can tell him the "coordinates" for his farm, because he couldn't have just written down the coordinates of his farm before he left for space with his Radio Shack POS radio. What the? Then they get pizza and that is the end of the movie.
Travel tip #2: This is some kind of weird nom de net hotel that I booked online where their phone number doesn't work and they aren't in the yellow pages, so I have to find another hotel with a very similar phone number and address, because although they say they have a complementary shuttle in the online info, the bus drivers tell me that these dudes do not have a shuttle. Sorry, this should be in the 2nd person because it is a travel tip. The bus drivers told you that these dudes do not have a shuttle. Anyway, so you finally find the hotel where you are actually booked and they call you a complementary taxi and ask what airline you flew, and you say "United or US Air"—you've already screwed up! Because those are different parts of the SFO. You need to be on top of your shit and apply travel tip #1 proactively because the hotel and cab are not going to be on top of your shit even though this is like their business. You are waiting in the wrong place where you were told to go for like 45 minutes, and keep seeing your cab drive by and you wave at him but he is like, "wrong place, dude!" but eventually relents and on the ride you kinda wonder if you're the weakest link in this game show, but then when he eventually drops you off at the wrong hotel and tries to explain to the understanding-faced but obviously context-lacking concierge why you're so late because miscommunications etc., you can be pretty sure it's not you.
Category: favorites (6 comments — almost 14 years ago) [ comment ]
l SIGBOVIK'd (02 Apr 2007 at 14:43)
Well, the faux/real SIGBOVIK conference on April 1 was a staggering success. Basically, Harry Q. Bovik is a fake graduate student that the Computer Science Department uses for various purposes and in-jokes. His 64th birthday was this Sunday so we had a conference filled with joke papers and presentations in his honor.
The website has a full draft proceedings, and I think soon you'll be able to get a bound printed copy to enhance your office's gravitas or to place with randomly generated call numbers into your university's engineering and science library.
My papers were the utterly nonsensical "Generalized Super Mario Bros. is NP-Complete" (by Vargomax V. Vargomax), the one-joke "Level-of-Detail Typesetting of Academic Publications" and the entirely too much effort "Wikiplia: The Free Programming Language that Anyone Can Edit") (winner of the "Freedom to Receive Awards" award at SIGBOVIK).
If you hate reading you can watch the totally pre-recorded version of "Generalized Super Mario Bros. is NP-Complete" (make sure your sound is on, and wait for the whole thing to load before starting it) (warning: this is very immature) or look at the talk for Wikiplia (but this mostly consists of words). Both need the newest Flash player. Since I really implemented the latter (I think the only SIGBOVIK paper that comes even close to being real) you could also just use it, at least until I eventually shut it down for taking up too much of my office machine's resources.
Categories: hacks favorites video talks sigbovik (29 comments — almost 9 years ago) [ comment ]
l Back from Germany! (03 Feb 2007 at 00:26)
Hello everyone. I am writing this post 37,000 feet above the Atlantic Ocean in an airplane. Last time that I was in this location the in-flight entertainment—which was a very slowly moving low resolution map that showed our progress and a few interesting and slowly changing facts about our autopilot altitude and velocity—indicated that the oudoor air temperature was a soul splintering -95° F. To imagine this temperature, first begin relaxing your mental self on the beach with basically no clothes on except for a mental bikini bottom or whatever you wear on the beach in your sexy mental self-image. Hey, toasty. Now go from 95° down to 0°F, which is 32 degrees below freezing. You aren't allowed to put any clothes on now in your imagination. That's cheating. At 32 degrees below freezing you can do stuff like pick up bananas that have fallen on the beach and hammer nails into blocks of wood with them. Quite a difference right? Now take that difference and repeat it: -95° is to 0°, naturally, what 0° is to 95° in terms of chilliness. I don't know what other kinds of things freeze enough to hammer nails into blocks of wood with at that kind of temperature, but I'm sure it includes ocean water, and anyway you've already hammered in all the nails with all the bananas, so there goes your nice imaginary tropical vacation. Plus you're nearly naked, heh heh!
Wow, gee, enough about that. This conference was good, I think, better than your average conference. I often hear from my academic advisors that the real action at a conference is not at the talks, but "in the corridors," which I think is true (at least it definitely is once you've established yourself as a researcher that people might kind of want to talk to). This meeting, which was not a publication venue so the focus was not really on talks, and also we were isolated in the middle of Nowhere, Saarland so there was basically nothing to do but go down to the wine cellar of the castle and drink and talk about various research ideas. Plus my whole entire stay including all my meals was only like €200. Danke Schön, German government!
I was happy about how receptive people were to the ideas in my thesis work. It's possible that we had almost everyone in the world who would be interested in the room, so maybe in an absolute sense that's indistinguishible from complete disinterest, but it was surely enough enthusiasm to populate a thesis defense oral. There also was a nice sense of coherence among the people doing research in this area: More groups than I thought are building "tierless" web programming languages that compile to JavaScript, and I think that they are grappling with some of the exact same issues I am, and that I have relevant and elegant type theoretic solutions to some of those problems. Hooray. I also gave a post-prandial reprise of my ICFP Programming Contest talk (by request).
Can you tell this flight is boring? I've now killed about 15 minutes out of 521.
There is literally only one thing to do in the Dagstuhl environs, which is to go to the ruins of the original Castle Dagstuhl from whatever hundred years ago. This activity takes about ten minutes. I even ran through essentially the entire town of Wadern to verify. So on Wednesday we took an excursion to Trier, the oldest city in Germany. It dates back to the year -20 or so. (If you like you can imagine how long that is by first getting naked on the beach, imagining how long ago the year 1010 was, etc.) There was a lot of cool stuff there, especially including the well preserved Roman architecture. Their ridiculously extravagant church also is where they keep Jesus's purported tunic. Carbon dating demonstrates the artifact was actually made around the same year that the chick that found it said she uncovered it (many hundred years ago) but still you'd think the thing was Ben Roethlisberger's jersey by the way they protect it: It's locked inside an air-conditioned glass case, which itself is sealed in a larger wooden box, that box inside a display case that is inside a small room that you can only just see into through a small metal gate all of which is at essentially the crux of the apse of the ridiculously extravagant church in the center of the city, and they've only taken it out 3 times in the entire 20th century. Well, whatever, I saw fake Jeeze Fleece in The Passion of the Christ so no big loss.
Trier is also home to Karl Marx's former house, which is now an eyeglass store. The store doesn't even take advantage of its previous owner's fame, by naming itself SocialEyes or something like that, it was just called "Martin Optik," I think. I was a little tempted to get the socialists to fix my snapped in half eyeglasses, but then maybe I wouldn't have been able to answer certain questions truthfully when returning through passport control in the US. But in Trier I also saw a store specializing in models, like model Flugzeugs und Bahns und dinosaurs, in which I finally found some superglue. This was a little tricky because even though I knew they'd have it, the bottle was labeled "Skin" not "Superglue" and the back label was covered up by the price tag, and then when I peeled it off it said "Cyana acryl." instead of "cyanoacrylate" but I was able to figure it out and buy it without the guy figuring out that I wasn't German even though he probably spoke English anyway. And then of course I've already broken them again on this plane trip.
Germans love board games. They are the kings of board games, and not stupid shit like Chutes und Ladders, simple but really deep board games especially of the strategic sort that computer scientists like. Let's say that naked Germans on a beach are to board games what naked Japanese on a beach are to video games. When I was there I spotted 6 Nimmt!, which is a game I've actually played at Schloß Spopix; in America it is imported as a game about hurricanes called Category 5 that, despite some fluff text, has nothing to do with hurricanes. (I didn't play because I don't actually think that game is that good, at least from the one time I played it, even though it's like a Spiel des Jahres winner I think.) I was hoping to spot a cool expansion pack or something for Settlers of Catan, which we have been playing a lot of recently, but no dice so to speak.
The thing that sucked about Trier was that when we got on the bus to go to the wine tasting/dinner that followed on our itinerary, the bus driver drove us all the way back to Dagstuhl and then was like oops, I forgot to bring you to the wine tasting place. So then we had to drive all the way back to Trier and we were really late and hangry and I didn't drink any wine anyway. But I guess that's not a thing about Trier, that's a thing about our bus driver. You suck, driver.
Oh, the last thing is probly not news to any of you blogosphere readers but I had a good chuckle at the news about how Boston thought that these lite-up ads for the upcoming Aqua Teen Hunger Force movie were bombs. I don't know why they think that a bomb would light up, or have cartoon characters on it. In particular this clueless local report is very funny to watch, especially the part where they use a water cannon on the device to "render it safe."
That is all! In 6 or 7 hours I will be back in Pittsburgh and more or less ready to see you folks again (unless you are one of the people who is visiting my web-site after meeting me at Dagstuhl, in which case the opposite) and for some Superbowling, at least after a nice night's rest!


Rising from the underground is no easy feat. Racing to gigs, grinding out studio sessions and developing a unique motif is all part of the hustle. It's undoubtedly a battle, but for Detroit duo Golf Clap it's a journey they've wholeheartedly embraced.
Hugh Cleal and Bryan Jones have been making music and DJing since well before Golf Clap became a reality in 2013. United by a shared passion for house, they've quickly garnered a cult-like following through original productions and their record label Country Club Disco. That said, a major reason for the massive buzz surrounding these artists is their unparalleled skill at delivering dancefloor bumping DJ sets. Whether it's at Movement for an early daytime set, deep in the forest at Electric Forest or an impromptu b2b with their peers Mija and GRiZ on Holy Ship, revelers are drawn to their infectious energy like moths to a flame. It's this clear cut reason that Mixmag has tapped them to deliver the next Impact mix.
What's up guys, what've you been up to lately?
Hey what's up, its good to talk to you guys. We've been back in the studio more than ever recently. Just signed a couple EPs that are coming out this Summer. Recently remixed Zeds Dead & Illenium as well as Codes. Just got back from playing a bunch of shows in Miami for MMW. Been lining up our new US tour as well that will be announced this week. We've also updated our Spotify playlist with songs from the mix and some other stuff we're playing.
Tell me about the inspiration behind your Impact mix?
We played lots of stuff coming out soon on our label Country Club Disco. We hit up a lot of producers and labels privately to get some good exclusive stuff for the mix. We generally try to play a little more chill stuff on mixes and play less things with vocals. Songs with vocals and big hooks tend to sound great the first few times you listen to a mix. They are instant gratification songs that we play more at parties. We try to make mixes you can listen to over and over without getting sick of the songs. Usually it ends up being more subtle songs with less vocals.
You're based in Detroit, how has the city shaped or influenced your style or sound?
When we first started Golf Clap, we were playing a ton in Detroit, so naturally the things that work in this city started to find their way into our sets. We take influence from not only the techno godfathers, but also the scenes that are currently dominating the Detroit scene. Everything from Dirtybird to GRiZ. You learn how to play for each one of those fanbases after doing enough shows with them. Festivals like Movement and Electric Forest help influence the sound people listen to in Detroit and in Michigan in general as well.
You are a fixture on the US festival circuit and are a major draw for people looking for a bumping party, what's your approach to delivering this to patrons?
One thing is that we consistently play new music and do a lot of DJ tricks. We also have been building the Country Club Disco brand and branching out the parties to other cities. Whenever we go to a new city, we try to meet as many people as possible. When we go back, we put them on the guestlist and get them to come out with their friends. We also try to get our DJ friends that are in town to come out and jam with us whenever we can.
Your DJ sets are filled with loads of intricate DJ tricks, how did you develop that unique style?
We've both been DJing for a long time now. But when we first linked up, we were DJing a lot together in Detroit and we got really used to using the Pioneer Nexus gear. Some nights when we were opening, we'd try to learn a couple new tricks every night. Pick one of the effects and figure out how to do something cool with it before people started showing up. We also edit out little vocal parts and acapellas from other songs and have those in a separate folder ready to go. There's always 4 decks when we play, so we can be loading up the next songs or dropping in DJ tools.
Your label Country Club Disco has been running strong for while now, what's your vision for the label and what do you look for in the music you release?
We've been going for about 5 years now. We've got a heavy release schedule lined up including a Lux Groove EP coming out at the end of April. Building up the label is a big focus for us this year so we can really push the artists that we believe in. We try to release music that we would want a label sending to us on promo. Stuff that we play in our sets. On top of that though, we are really trying to find people who are in this for the long haul and are tour ready or close to it. The label is like family to us, so finding people we get along with and want to be around is also very important. We love playing shows with our friends and some of the people on our label are our best friends. We are drawn to people who are passionate about what they do.
You also have a really interesting relationship with your fans, you are very open with them and like to give back, why do you feel it's important for you to be like that?
It sounds cliche, but we think of them as friends/family and not fans. These are the people we see all the time in different cities. If somebody comes up and says they love your music and have seen you at a million shows, you appreciate them. It's a lot less lonely on the road when you know you have friends that you're excited to see in every city. We are grateful for everyone's support and are always trying to think of cool little things we can do to give back to show our appreciation.
What's next for Golf Clap?
Our remix of Autograf's new song 'Dead Soon' is coming out in early May. We've got a couple big EPs coming out this summer. Big Country Club Disco parties coming up in Detroit including Hot Since 82 and more at The Russell Industrial Center. We're playing at Movement and have a Country Club Disco after party that weekend on Monday night at The Works. We are announcing a second bigger after party very soon for Sunday night that weekend as well, watch out! Announcing our new US tour this week. Very exciting stuff going on right now. Can't wait to see you again on tour!


text:
Oregon Lottery says it will launch full mobile sports wagering book for NFL season
Matthew Shelby a spokesperson with the Oregon Lottery joined me on the radio show on Thursday to talk about the planned return for sports wagering during the upcoming NFL season.
Listen to the full interview here.
The Oregon Lottery is targeting the NFL regular season opener to launch mobile gambling on sports events.
"We're targeting NFL this year, launching our sports betting offering," Shelby said. "We're going to go mobile first just because it's faster and then follow up with a sports-betting kiosk... it's going to be much more than that sports action we offered. We're looking at a full sports book."
On how the mobile wagering will work:
"We are essentially purchasing an off-the-shelf sports book. We're not building this from the ground up. It will look very similar to what the mobile betting sites are doing in New Jersey."
On what the Oregon Lottery sees with sports gambling:
"When we look at sports betting we see an opportunity to raise additional revenue while bringing in new players."
On the mission:
"We have a two-pronged mission -- maximum profit commensurate with public good."
The interview is worth a listen. Shelby talked about some of the opposition, and the very real possibility that Oregon's Native American tribes might follow the lottery into sports gambling.
Listen to more with Shelby here:
https://www.oregonlive.com/beavers/2019/05/oregon-lottery-says-sports-wagering-will-launch-full-mobile-sports-book-for-nfl-season.html
FROM OREGONLIVE


How can I schedule an exam at DSS?
Only students who are registered with DSS and have approved testing accommodations are allowed to schedule exams with our office. If you are not yet a registered student please fill out a Student Profile Form and bring the completed form to the DSS Office and schedule an appointment with one of our accommodation specialists. If you are a registered DSS student, have been approved for alternative testing and are wanting to schedule a test at DSS please review our Test Access Policy and Procedures then bring your completed Exam Proctor Form to our DSS Office at least 72 hours in advance prior to taking the exam.


text:
int ValidateAsset(const char* asset_dir_path, unsigned long current_version);

#endif

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


Whether you're a competitive runner or looking for an exhilarating & social activity to share with family and friends, register today for the legendary Corona del Mar Scenic 5K! That's right, burn those calories while enjoying the pristine ocean view streets of a village by the sea. Whether running the 5K course, participating in the 2-mile Celebration Walk, or simply cheering the kids on in the Youth and Dolphin Dash series, all registered participants are hosted to a complimentary restaurant row feast of local eateries. Don't miss the festive post event party complete with live entertainment, unique vendors, awards ceremony and more. Participants also receive a commemorative runners shirt and goodie bag of local merchants swag.
For children 12 and under: 2 Mile timed Run with awards for 3 age groups; 8 & younger ,9-10. 11-12.
Event Day Registration: Fees increase $7.00 for registration at the event on Race Day.
Closes at 6:00am on Race Day (June 2nd).
Race Day registration opens at 6am -(Fees increase $7.00 on Race day Regstration).
LOOK FORWARD TO SPENDING THE DAY WITH YOU!


text:
Lakers Defeat Miami Heat To Win NBA Championship
The NBA has a new champion.
MIKE BREEN: And that's it. It's over. This historic 2020 NBA championship belongs to the Los Angeles Lakers.
KING: LeBron James led the Lakers to their 17th title, their first in 10 years, and the first, of course, since Kobe Bryant was killed in a helicopter crash earlier this year. They beat the Miami Heat in six games. And remember, it did not seem like it would even get this far. The NBA stopped play back in early March when a player for the Utah Jazz got coronavirus. Back then, playing the season seemed like a fantasy. So League Commissioner Adam Silver decided to bring the season to Disney World.
ADAM SILVER: And so what we've come up with now is playing at a single site at Disney World of Sports Complex.
The league started up again in a bubble. All players, coaches and staff had to quarantine before entering. Everyone got tested regularly. Stuck inside the bubble, the isolation started getting to players, even LeBron.
LEBRON JAMES: I've had numerous nights and days of me thinking about leaving the bubble. I think everyone has. It probably crossed my mind once a day.
MARTIN: But the bubble did work. Here's league commissioner Adam Silver again right before the finals.
SILVER: We have had zero cases among players, among team staff working on campus. This program is working.
KING: Which got us to the playoffs. The Lakers were heavily favored over the Miami Heat. But the Heat's star player, Jimmy Butler, did not make it easy.
BREEN: Butler drives, falling away. Got it again. Jimmy Butler puts the Heat back up by one. James drives, goes inside, layup - missed it. Got the rebound. The following banks it home. James and Butler throwing haymakers at each other.
KING: The Heat suffered some injuries. And that helped bring the Lakers to the championship.
JAMES: We just want our respect. Our organization want their respect. The Laker Nation want their respect. And I want my damn respect, too.
(CHEERING)
KING: I think you got it, LeBron. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


text:
Varia Sight
Inner Court - Hall of Knights
Hofweg 1, The Hague
Step through the famous entry gate into the historical Binnenhof (Inner Court) in the heart of our democracy. This is the place where the most important events in the nation's history took place. It is also where the future is created. The Inner Court in The Hague is studded with monumental old buildings testifying of eight centuries of governing in the Low Countries, but it also has several ample open spaces, all freely open to the public. The Binnenhof is a must-see if you're in The Hague. Take a stroll through the courtyard and admire the fairytale-like splendour or take the time to take a tour through the various halls. You won't be disappointed!
During a tour by ProDemos, take a look inside the House of Representatives. Climb the stairs to the Hall of the Knights with its many historical details and view the throne on which King Willem Alexander deliveres his realy speech on Prince's Day.
The Binnenhof is situated in the heart of The Hague's city centre. It has been the location of meetings of the Dutch parliament, the Staten-Generaal, since 1446, and has been the centre of Dutch politics for many centuries. The grounds on which the Binnenhof now stands were purchased by Count Floris IV of Holland in 1229, where he built his mansion, next to the modest lake that has been called Hofvijver or 'Court Pond' since the 13th century. More buildings were constructed around the court, several of which are well known in their own right, such as the Ridderzaal (Great hall; literally Knight's Hall), where King Willem-Alexander holds his annual speech at Prinsjesdag (Prince's Day).
One of the towers, simply known as het Torentje ('the Little Tower'; directly next to the Mauritshuis) has been the office of the Prime Minister of Holland since 1982.
A large modern building at the south side of the Binnenhof since 1992 houses the House of Representatives, the lower but more important of the Dutch democratically elected Houses of parliament.
Famous neogothic fountain
A gold neogothic fountain adorns the main square and one of the few Dutch equestrian statues (of King William II) guards the main Stadtholder's Gate, that dates from around 1600.
Court Pond
Standing at the Hofvijver, 'Court Pond', the artificial lake beside the Binnenhof, one has a splendid view at numerous buildings from different centuries. The Hofvijver was first dug out by the counts of Holland in the late 13C. Originally a natural body of water among the sand dunes, the Court Pond was extended over the years. The excavated sand was piled up on the north side of the lake to form the elevated area known as the Lange Vijverberg, now occupied by a graciously curving line of mostly 18C mansions. The 17C buildings along the short side of the lake, the Korte Vijverberg, include the King's Cabinet and the city's historical museum.
Hofweg 1, 2511 AA, The Hague
prodemos.nl/binnenhof
https://goo.gl/maps/gBbt6
info@prodemos.nl
Events at Inner Court - Hall of Knights
Mon 4 May 2020, 11:25 AM
Herdenking omgekomen agenten 2e Wereldoorlog operatie Englandspiel op het Binnenhof
Dudok
Hop & Stork
Novotel Den Haag City Centre ****
Boutique Hotel Corona ****
Prince William V Gallery, a princely collection
Pavilion de Witte
Big Church
Kneuterdijk Palace


text:
Government & Press
AP RIPS NBC for Deal with Communist China: 'Olympics Were a Disaster'
February 23rd, 2022 1:08 PM
Even the liberal Associated Press observed that NBC's multi-billion dollar Olympics bet on pro-communist China just went up in flames. The Associated Press (AP) called the Olympics a "disaster" for NBC, especially after it secured a $7.75 billion deal for exclusive rights to cover the Games through 2032.
STUDY: Over 800 Cases of Big Tech Censoring COVID-19 Debate
Joseph Vazquez and Gabriela Pariseau
February 9th, 2022 11:05 AM
Big Tech speech restrictions turned COVID-19 into the most pro-censorship environment in the U.S. at least since World War II. Media Research Center has found more than 800 examples of bans, deleted content, and other speech restrictions related to the virus, as well as to resultant vaccines masking and government policies.
Rolling Stone RAILS Against Rogan, Peterson for Climate Discussion
February 1st, 2022 5:05 PM
The left-wing orthodoxy has spoken: Podcast host Joe Rogan must be banished from society. Rolling Stone slammed Rogan and clinical psychologist and University of Toronto professor emeritus Dr. Jordan Peterson in a self-righteous article. Rogan and Peterson's crime? Having the nerve to discuss climate change and race.
#BidenBoom? WashPost Puts Crazy Spin on Biden Economy
January 31st, 2022 12:00 PM
The Washington Post championed a report from the Bureau of Economic Analysis showing a 5.7 percent increase in gross domestic product (GDP) last year as the "latest snapshot of a resilient recovery" in President Joe Biden's economy.
Study: Soros Leaves His Mark with a $2.3 Billion Education Behemoth
January 10th, 2022 8:31 AM
Billionaire George Soros said he is working to "bend" the arc of history "in the right direction." In Soros' case, that direction is far to the left. To do it, he donated over $32 billion to his Open Society Foundations since 1984, to further leftist ideology and activism well beyond his own lifetime. Soros has committed a combined sum of more than $2.3 billion to create a global university…
MSNBC's Alcindor: Fox News Is 'The Fringe Wing of the GOP'
January 5th, 2022 11:09 AM
Tuesday's episode of Nicolle Wallace's MSNBC show offered a triple-header of obtuse liberal hypocrisy. Yamiche Alcindor accused Fox News of being a "fringe wing of the GOP," ignoring the fact that she and her MSM cohorts are a key wing of the DNC. Katie Benner of the New York Times said there is "no reason" for Sean Hannity not to testify before the January 6th committee.
CNN Exposes Biden WH Trying to Shape Econ Coverage in Its Favor
December 7th, 2021 10:36 AM
CNN took a sudden detour from its love affair with President Joe Biden and accused his White House of trying to quietly shape the media coverage of his atrocious economic agenda. The Reliable Sources newsletter reported that the "The White House, not happy with the news media's coverage of the supply chain and economy, has been working behind the scenes trying to reshape coverage in…
MRC's Gainor RIPS Chris Cuomo for Violation of Journalistic Ethics
December 1st, 2021 1:31 PM
Media Research Center Vice President Dan Gainor went on Fox Business to dismantle disgraced liberal CNN host Chris Cuomo for his blatant violation of journalistic ethics concerning his brother.
USA Today Owner Could Get Millions from Biden's 'Build Back Better'
November 30th, 2021 2:05 PM
There's nothing that screams potential conflict of interest like a major newspaper's owner getting millions in subsidies from the federal government it's supposed to be objectively covering. The New York Times reported that part of President Joe Biden's "Build Back Better" (BBB) catastrophe includes funneling nearly $1.7 billion into local news outlets. Guess what? One of the…
UK Big Tech Reg Would Greatly Increase Censorship Incentive: Report
Catherine Salgado
November 1st, 2021 3:39 PM
A proposed law in the United Kingdom (U.K.) would reportedly regulate social media like a "hazard industry," with new methods of censorship. Free speech advocates should be concerned.
Libs LOVE LA Times Columnist: 'Both-Siderism' Is Failing the Public!
Liberal partisans who want to crush any shred of fairness in reporting are latching on to a Friday column in the Los Angeles Times by Jackie Calmes, who was an "objective" reporter for decades. The headline was "Why journalists are failing the public with 'both-siderism' in political coverage."
Peter Doocy Presses Psaki on Preposterous 'Zero Costs' Argument
In Monday's White House briefing, Fox reporter Peter Doocy prompted White House press secretary Jen Psaki to restate that the massive "progressive" spending package being debated costs "zero."
Trumpy? Biden Slams American Press Corps as Badly Behaved
September 26th, 2021 12:12 PM
The Acostas and Stelters and Tappers would rage when President Trump "demonized" the press corps as badly behaved brats. But apparently, it's okay when Joe Biden does it. It wasn't CNN, but the RNC that noted Biden's latest outburst when he sat down with Indian prime minister Narendra Modi in the White House.
Dems Use Section 230 Repeals to Gun for Online Firearms Marketplaces
September 20th, 2021 5:39 PM
The left wants to censor more! Big Tech has continued its onslaught of censorship of free speech online at the behest of the left. And now the left is gunning for online firearms marketplaces with a proposed repeal of certain Section 230 protections.