In honor of LGBT Pride Month, we wanted to take a little walk down LGBT history lane to explore the origins of Pride, and take a closer look at those electrifying evenings in June when the LGBT community decided to stop hiding and start fighting.
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The BMW 4 Series Coupe has been unveiled, with the auto maker boasting that this fourth generation Coupe “embodies the very essence” of the segment, doing so with a mixture of new technology and design. The changes over the BMW 3 Series Coupe are numerous, including a larger body that sits lower to the road
WASHINGTON — The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) on Friday made public what it calls the most extensive collection of records on offshore accounts in history, encouraging sleuths to ferret out possible tax evasion.
The online portal, called the Offshore Leaks Database, contains hundreds of thousands of records showing corporations set up in so-called “tax-haven” countries, gleaned from the contents of about 2.5 million emails and financial documents that ICIJ said it received in early 2012. Over the past year, the data have been used by journalists around the world to detail alleged tax evasion by billionaires, oligarchs, emirs, princes and multinational corporations on nearly every continent.
Publication of the documents may heighten scrutiny of some of the world’s largest financial institutions and their clients. Governments worldwide have renewed efforts to stamp out tax avoidance as fiscal authorities, including those from Europe and the United States, confront record budget deficits and slow-growth economies.
Do you remember the good ol’ days when YouTube didn’t have any ads yet? Or the slightly worse but still pretty good days when there weren’t any annoying pop up ads that stayed on top of your video? Or the definitely worse but still pretty cool days when you could skip every commercial after five second days? What ever happened to that. Now it’s ads on ads on ads.
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We need to respect the oceans and take care of them as if our lives depended on it. Because they do.
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ELSA hits back by bringing you their latest graphics card, the GeForce GTX 770 SAC. Based on the NVIDIA’s reference design, the card sports 1536 CUDA Cores, a 256-bit memory interface, a core clock of 1070MHz (Boost Clock 1100MHz) and a 2GB of GDDR5 memory set @ 7GHz. Not to mention, the card is also equipped with 2x silent SAC cooling fans and has DVI-I, DVI-D, HDMI and DisplayPort outputs. The ELSA GeForce GTX 770 SAC is priced at 59,800 Yen (about $628). [ELSA]
You may have heard of the concept of "inclusive growth," the idea that the increasing economic prosperity should benefit everyone, including the poorest. Thursday in Budapest, some of us were challenged to go beyond that — to treat the poor, in the words of Amartya Sen, as "active agents of change, rather than passive recipients of dispensed benefits." It requires growth in consciousness, not just economies.
We were challenged Thursday at the graduation ceremony for the impressive Central European University – the most densely international university in the world – where Sir Fazle Hasan Abed received the Open Society Prize, given to "an outstanding individual whose achievements have contributed substantially to the creation of an open society." Previous recipients include Sir Karl Popper, author of The Open Society and its Enemies, after which the prize is named; Vaclav Havel, writer and first president of the Czech Republic; Richard Holbrooke, U.S. diplomat; Kofi Annan, former secretary-general of the United Nations; and Aryeh Neier, an architect of the international human rights movement.
Sir Fazle has spent the last 41 years creating opportunities for the poor to serve as agents of positive change for themselves, their families, and their neighbors. Abed bhai, as he is affectionately known to friends and colleagues ("bhai" is a friendly honorific in Bengali meaning "brother"), said Thursday in his commencement speech, "Poor people, especially women, can be organized for power…With right set of organizational tools, they can become actors in history. This, to me, is the meaning of an open society – a society where everyone has the freedom to realize their full human rights and potential."
Days after Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) appointed the student who would sit on the state Board of Regents, the administration announced that it would keep looking.
Thursday morning, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported, an aide of the governor called Joshua Inglett, a University of Wisconsin-Platteville rising junior, to tell him he was not getting the position after it came to light the student signed a petition to force Walker’s 2012 recall election.
“They had four months to look this up and Google-search me,” Inglett told the Journal Sentinel. “I looked it up online yesterday. It took me 15 seconds.”
Dell has released a new Full HD monitor ‘E2414H’ for the mass market. Adopting a TN panel, this new 24-inch LED-backlight monitor provides 1920 x 1080 Full HD resolution, 1000:1 contrast ratio, 250 cd/m2 brightness, 5ms response time and 170/160 degree viewing angles, and features DVI-D and D-Sub connectors. The E2414H is available now for 16,980 Yen (about $178). [Dell]
Last Saturday as I came out of a restaurant and was walking to my car, another man was walking toward the restaurant on the same sidewalk. As we met, we smiled at each other and, in a spirited tone of voice, I said, “Hello, it’s a beautiful day.” That was an appropriate thing to say because we had had lots of rainy days, and this day was clear, sunny, and yet in the 70s. He replied, “Hello, how are you?” And he kept walking. That’s not unusual. Many people do that. But it caused me to remember a professor at Yale Divinity School by the name of Robert Calhoun.
When you said to Dr. Calhoun, “How are you today?” he assumed that you actually wanted to know, and he proceeded to tell you how he was on that particular day–how his day was going so far, the good things and the disappointing things. And after he told you how his day had gone thus far, he, in turn, would say, “And how are you today?” And he would expect you to tell him how you felt and how your day had been going. Such an exchange would usually take three to five minutes.
Truth be known, the man who met me on the sidewalk outside the restaurant didn’t give one iota how I felt. That’s pretty typical these days. But I still remember, even as a busy student, how interesting and unique it was to hear Dr. Calhoun talk about how his day was going. And it was nice to have someone who cared about how my day was going and, if my day was not going well, who was genuinely concerned, taking the time to offer suggestions or to offer himself if there was anything he could do. Always a rewarding exchange!
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