Sennheiser is an audio device maker who has a new product aimed directly at the PC gamers out there called the PC 373D. This over the ear gaming headset has an open acoustic design and delivers 7.1 Dolby Surround Sound. The headset also has a sensitive noise-cancelling microphone to pick up your voice for in-game chats. “The PC 373D incorporates … Continue reading
A new photo of an unannounced Sony phone that has been rumored in the past has leaked. We are talking about the image of the Xperia F8331 at the top of this story, which is tipped to launch as the Xperia XR smartphone. The leaked image comes with a new rumor that the smartphone might launch at IFA 2016. There … Continue reading
It’s been awhile since Professor Layton has graced the 3DS with a puzzle-filled adventure, but the famous detective is finally back. Sort of. Level-5 has announced that the next game in its long-running puzzle series will star not Hershel Layton hims…
“Fight Song” has been an unofficial anthem for Hillary Clinton’s campaign, which unveiled a star-studded a cappella version of Rachel Platten’s feel-good tune at the Democratic National Convention this week.
But there’s something missing from that video. Two somethings, to be exact: Stephen Colbert of “The Late Show” on CBS and John Oliver of HBO’s “Last Week Tonight.”
Check out the clip above as the late-night stars ― and former “Daily Show” correspondents ― crash the “Fight Song” party.
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BEIRUT, July 28 (Reuters) – Syrian President Bashar al-Assad offered an amnesty on Thursday for rebels who lay down their arms and surrender to authorities within three months.
The amnesty offer, announced on state media, came as pro-government forces tightened their control around rebel-held districts of the northern city of Aleppo, where at least 250,000 civilians are believed to be trapped.
Russia, which is supporting Assad, said on Thursday three corridors would be established by the Russian and Syrian militaries for civilians to leave the city.
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As part of HuffPost’s “Reclaim” project, HuffPost Taste will focus the entire month of July on simple ways you can reduce food waste in your own home.
Juicing is a great way to get healthy fruits and vegetables in your body, but it leaves behind so much waste. Plus, all those fruit and veggie fibers have a lot of good-for-you nutrition in them. No one wants to waste that.
The solution is to cook with the pulp. If you think about it, that gives you double the mileage out of your produce ― you get to drink it and eat it, too.
There are lots of good ideas for ways to use juicer pulp. Repurposing it to make stock is one of those. Sneaking it into pancakes is another idea. And then there are these recipes below. One of them makes for a great dessert. So get juicing ― and cooking!
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When it comes to summer produce — like zucchini, apricots and eggplant — we’re pretty gratuitous with our adoration. We’ve waxed poetic about peaches and have loudly sung our praises for the little blueberry. We may have even claimed at one point that each of these fruits and vegetables were our all-time favorite; sometimes we just get carried away. But when we say it about the tomato, we mean it. This summer fruit (which you eat more like a vegetable) is where our heart truly belongs.
Red, purple, yellow or green, tomatoes are the reason summer meals are so beloved. Between the fresh tomato salad recipes and the cold gazpacho soup recipes, we don’t think we’d could get through this sunny season without them. Here are the best tomato recipes we could find — to make sure you eat them all summer long.
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With its North American textbook and testing market shrinking, with profits and stock prices in decline, and with its African and Philippine ventures drawing the attention of critics, Pearson (Mis)Education hopes to restore profit at the expense of millions of poor people in India. Once “innovations” are in place, there is nothing to stop the Pearson virus from infecting schools in United States communities.
A new study by Dr. Sangeeta Kamat of the University of Massachusetts, Dr. Carol Anne Spreen of New York University, and Indivar Jonnalagadda of the Hyderabad Urban Lab, for Education International documents how Pearson, with collaboration from Indian government officials, is undermining public education in Hyderabad, a city of about 4 million people and the capital of the central Indian states of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh.
The study charges “Private for-profit multinational corporations are making billions of dollars by charging poor families around the world to go to school. Governments are diverting significant funds and attention to what global corporations have posited as ‘the solutions’ to the crisis in education, loosening regulations or outright ignoring the many violations of laws and standards by multinational companies.”
Worldwide spending on education currently exceeds $4 trillion, but this figure is expected to rise sharply. In India, the mobile education market should expand dramatically if rural areas and urban slums receive reliable Internet service. According to some estimates, their use in schools could make the annual global market for electronic devices like I-Pads and tablets alone worth more than $32 billion by 2020.
Multinational technology giants, education programming companies, and curriculum providers are poised to exploit these opportunities even if there are negative impacts on families, communities, and nations. In Hyderabad, Pearson has been at the “forefront’ of a network of multinational corporations, private foundations, consultants, non-government organizations and local entrepreneurs are building what they call an “educational ecosystem” to support the commercialization and profit-making capacity of all aspects of education.
They are active in other parts of India as well. In Andhra Pradesh, the state government is in the process of out-sourcing education to Bridge International Academies, a Pearson partner, which plans to operate 4,000 “low-fee” private schools there. In violation of local and national laws, these for-profit academies employ “unqualified teachers” and operate from residential buildings rather than equipped schools. Pearson has also developed MyPedia, marketed as an “integrated learning solution for Grades 1-5” designed to “transform education delivery in school classrooms across India.” To diversify and profit as much as possible, it has ties to edu-corporations operating a Delhi-based coaching institute, testing services, and a network of pre-K schools.
In 2012, Pearson established the Pearson Affordable Learning Fund (PALF) to promote private equity investment in for-profit education companies that provide ‘affordable’ education services in developing countries. PALF originally invested largely in sub-Sahara Africa. But according to the report, Katelyn Donnelly, PALF CEO, sees India as a “test market” for Pearson before it expands its operations to other developing countries.
This means Pearson will be marketing hope to make money off of some of the world’s poorest people. Two-third of India’s population earns less than $2 a day and over 40%earn less than $1.25 a day. India, families must spend at least one-fifth of their monthly income per child to enroll them in these for-profit schools. This usually means sending only one child, usually a boy, to school.
Meanwhile governments trying to do more with less are complicit. The authors accuse local, state, and national authorities of permitting “exemptions or loopholes for private providers” while failing to fund or enforce the Indian Right to Education (RTE) Act.
In India, education budgets are around 3.8% of the national gross national product. This underfunding is considerably short of the 6% recommended by the United Nations and constitutes a crime against the Third World poor, a crime facilitated by Pearson (Mis) Education.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia has strengthened its southwestern flank as NATO builds up its military presence and Ukraine remains unstable, Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Wednesday in remarks the United States called contrary to efforts to lower tensions.
Moscow has deployed more air defense systems in the southwest and has also deployed a “self-sufficient” contingent of troops in Crimea, Shoigu told a meeting at the Defence Ministry broadcast on state television.
“Since 2013 … we have formed four divisions, nine brigades and 22 regiments,” he said. “They include two missile brigades armed with Iskander missile complexes, which has allowed to boost fire power to destroy the potential adversary.”
Shoigu said “terrorist” groups were also active in the North Caucasus.
John Kirby, a spokesman for the U.S. State Department, said Washington had seen the comments and “if true, we believe that this would appear to run counter to ongoing efforts to stop violence and de-escalate the tensions in eastern Ukraine.”
Kirby said the United States expected Moscow to fulfill its obligations under the Minsk agreement to halt the war in eastern Ukraine and the Vienna document that attempts to provide transparency about military movements in the region.
He noted that the reports indicated the Russian buildup included troops in Crimea, which Moscow seized and later annexed.
“Crimea is and always will remain part of Ukraine. We’re not going to allow … the borders of Europe to be redrawn at the barrel of a gun,” Kirby said, calling for an “immediate end to the Russian occupation there.”
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Amazon UK has announced a new gadget that will make it easier for Londoners who live in a postal code serviced by AmazonFresh to get their grocery orders without having to go to the store. Dash is a small device that facilitates placing grocery orders on Amazon.co.uk. Using Dash the customer can scan a product barcode or say the name … Continue reading
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