| In eyes of L.A., to err is a fine
On a recent morning while Glenn Geraghty was away, the security alarm at his Watts home went off. When Los Angeles police officers arrived, a neighbor with a key to the house offered a sheepish apology: Geraghty's dog, Checkers, had pawed open the gate on his cage and tripped the alarm's motion sensors.
The police left, only to be summoned back hours later when the dog got free a second time. That should have been the end of it. A city law grants only two false alarms every 12 months. Any more than that and police aren't required to respond unless someone at the scene verifies that the alarm is real.
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Free, Downloadable Training Program Helps Teen Drivers Anticipate And ...
ScienceDaily (Jan. 31, 2008) A free, downloadable training program developed by researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst teaches teen-age drivers how, when and where to anticipate and avoid potentially fatal traffic hazards. It’s called a "Risk Awareness and Perception Training (RAPT) Program," and all the training is done on a personal computer. .
Gates lauds Afghan mission, allies
His words were not 'Allied troops don't know how to wage war' or 'those Canadian troops aren't very tough.'
Counter-insurgency is a specific type of battle. Since WWII it's been the primary domain of specialized units such as the SAS and US Special Forces.
That said, the comments were definitely ill-timed. But American generals haven't always been the most media-savvy! Posted 17/01/08 at 11:06 AM EST | Alert an Editor | Link to Comment .
Supply-Chain Council Selects IDS Scheer's ARIS Platform to Develop New ...
ORLANDO, Fla. --(Business Wire)-- IDS Scheer, the leading provider of Business Process Management (BPM), today announced at ARIS ProcessWorld 2008 Americas it has reached a three-year partnership agreement with the Supply-Chain Council (SCC). Under the agreement, IDS Scheer is providing its ARIS Platform for the SCC to develop and maintain its different reference models and release new versions of the Supply-Chain Operations Reference Model (SCOR), Customer-Chain Operations Reference Model (CCOR) and Design-Chain Operations Reference Model (DCOR) in a multi-user BPM repository.
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Hamas Protests Israeli Blockade of Gaza
The Palestinians and Israelis are negotiating a final peace settlement, which the Bush administration hopes would lead to the creation of an independent Palestinian state later this year. Complicating matters, Abbas' government is locked in a power struggle with Hamas for control of the Palestinian territories. Abbas rules the West Bank, and Hamas controls Gaza. In the West Bank, Abbas' government announced Monday that the town of Jericho hooked up to the Jordanian electricity grid, with an eye toward a regional power supply. "This will enable us to be independent from Israel in providing electricity," Palestinian Foreign Minister Riad Malki said. ——— Associated Press writer Dale Gavlak in Amman contributed to this report.
Et tu, YouTube
It makes it the copyright holder's job to find infringing content on a site like YouTube, and to request the content be removed. "If YouTube takes stuff down when they get a notice, they're pretty much protected by the safe harbor, no matter how many people post copyrighted content," Schultz said. Despite the protections of the Copyright Act, a copyright holder can still try to sue YouTube for copyright infringement and seek damages. Nguyen said one suit has already been filed against YouTube by Robert Tur of Los Angeles News Service, alleging a video he shot of the 1992 beating of Reginald Denny was posted to YouTube without his permission and seen more than 1,000 times. Tur's lawsuit, filed in July, claims the copy on YouTube limited his ability to profit from the video by licensing it.
Pope warns of 'seductive' science
'Man is not the fruit of chance or a bundle of convergences,' Pontiff says in reviving science-versus-religion debate ...Read the full article This conversation is semi-moderated What is moderation? | How do I report a comment? Post a comment Skip to the latest comment .
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