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At this bar, blockheads are welcome. A clever rooftop bar in Braunschweig, Germany, allows guests to play Tetris and other classic arcade games on the side of a tall building

Images of a modified Land Rover designed by the Duke of Edinburgh to carry his coffin The Duke of Edinburgh began creating his own hearse in collaboration with Land Rover in 2003, the year he turned 82. The duke, who served in the Royal Navy in World War Two, requested that the original Belize Green bodywork be switched to Dark Bronze Green, a colour used for many military Land Rovers. The Defender was made at Land Rover's factory in Solihull and the duke oversaw the modifications for several years, making the final adjustments in 2019, the year he turned 98....

You can perform various Microsoft Defender Antivirus functions in Windows-10 with the dedicated command-line tool mpcmdrun.exe. This utility is useful when you want to automate Microsoft Defender Antivirus use.

Redmond's anti-malware now coming to a Mac near you Microsoft nudged the Windows brand further out of the limelight today by thwacking its anti-malware package with the rebranding stick. Behold, Microsoft Defender ATP.The change is necessary, as Microsoft is unleashing its endpoint protection platform onto the hitherto virgin territory of macOS.Windows Defender first put in an appearance in Windows XP as an anti-malware component, evolving over the years until being renamed Windows Defender Antivirus as the software dug itself deeper into the Windows 10 operating system.The Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) incarnation extended the functionality for Microsoft 365 customers, adding in...

Others still can't even get that far Updated It has been a trying time for Microsoft punters after a Windows Defender update left some PCs unable to boot last week, while other folk continue to struggle to even get to the update service.How do you make a PC super secure? Don't let it boot A tweak to Windows Defender slowly creeping its way over PCs has an issue that can stop Windows 10 booting (and a few iterations of Windows Server – Microsoft points to Server 2016, but some users have reported problems with Server 2019).Some admins have been in...

A Turkish court on Wednesday sentenced Omer Faruk Gergerlioglu, one of the country’s leading human rights advocates, to two-and-a-half years in jail for a 2016 Twitter post advocating peace. A former head of Mazlumdar, a prominent Turkish human rights group, Gergerlioglu was sentenced for “disseminating terrorist propaganda”, a charge he denies.The 53-year-old human rights activist was sentenced for a message he posted on Twitter on October 9, 2016, when he downloaded a photograph of a World Peace Day demonstration featuring Kurdish mothers protesting behind two symbolic coffins, one draped in the Turkish flag and the other in a Kurdistan Workers’...

LISTEN HERE TO PART TWO OF THE HILLARY TAPES Bill and Hillary Clinton discussed the future president’s compulsive personality, his struggles with the loneliness of public office, his ambitions for the future, and the future first lady’s career and hopes for her daughter Chelsea in a series of interviews with an Arkansas journalist between 1983 and 1987. The interviews, recorded on more than five hours of audiotape and donated to the University of Arkansas Special Collections archives by the Arkansas reporter Roy Reed, were supposed to make the pages of Esquire. The story, which would have marked the Clintons’ first...

The facts are these. In 1975 Hillary Rodham defended a child rapist in Arkansas court. She was not a public defender. “Hillary Clinton took me through Hell,” the victim said. The woman told The Daily Beast Clinton intentionally lied about her in court documents.

The Defense Department is working with environmental groups and local governments to create buffers around bases where development threatened to encroach on combat training. -- Many of the nation's 440 military bases were established in what were once sparsely populated hinterlands where soldiers trained without complaints from neighbors about the roar of warplanes and the sound of gunfire and explosions. Now, with urban sprawl pushing up against perimeter fences, the U.S. Department of Defense has quietly become a major protector of wilderness and ranch lands. Working with conservation organizations and local governments, its Readiness and Environmental Protection Initiative has helped...

A well-known public defender who has represented controversial clients, including the "Unabomber," has been appointed to defend Jared Lee Loughner, the man accused of shooting Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D) this weekend. Judy Clarke will appear with Loughner, 22, at his initial court appearance Monday afternoon and the Federal Public Defender's Office in Phoenix has recommended that she be appointed as his attorney, according to the Arizona Republic. CNN also reported Clarke's role. Loughner faces two federal murder charges in connection with the killings of federal judge John Roll and Giffords aide Gabe Zimmerman. He also has been charged with...

A courageous defender of America takes you behind the scenes at the UN and the State Department -- during his fiercest battles Surrender Is Not an Option by John Bolton Candid, plain-spoken, and indomitably courageous, John Bolton served for sixteen tumultuous months as our Ambassador to the United Nations. While there he engaged in furious battles with weapons-of-mass-destruction proliferators, terrorists, Islamic supremacists, and rogue states such as Iran and North Korea -- all of which he carried through with verve, eloquence, and unapologetic patriotism. Now, in Surrender Is Not an Option: Defending America at the United Nations and Abroad, John...

I have been having a recurring problem with this Windows Update for the last few months.  No matter how many times I accept the update, install it, it always "returns" at another time.  If I uncheck and then check "do not notify me about this update again", it still returns anyway.  Has anyone else had an issue with this? Maybe I would just be better off to uninstall Windows Defender?  

The SUV that Kerry's family owned... not his - is up for auction on eBay. Kind of a rust bucket if you ask me. City Motor Group is Honored to offer this 1995 Land Rover Defender 90 to our savvy online shoppers. This Defender comes with outstanding pedigree!!! Previously owned and driven by family of former Presidential Candidate. Bottle of Notable Ketchup is not included in the purchase. This Defender has spent the majority of its spoiled life in Nantucket.

ST. PAUL, Minnesota (AP) -- A Roman Catholic priest denied communion to more than 100 people Sunday, saying they could not receive the sacrament because they wore rainbow-colored sashes to church to show support for gay Catholics. Before offering communion, the Rev. Michael Sklucazek told the congregation at the Cathedral of St. Paul that anyone wearing a sash could come forward for a blessing but would not receive wine and bread. A group called the Rainbow Sash Alliance has encouraged supporters to wear the multicolored fabric bands since 2001 on each Pentecost Sunday, the day Catholics believe the Holy Spirit...

With over 2,000 references and 1,500 names cited, this is the definitive biography of the Archbishop, written by one of his closest associates, Bishop Bernard Tissier de Mallerais a scholar in his own right. Critics have said of the original French edition: "magisterial," "well-researched, serious, and honest," "reveals unsuspected facets. A very complete work," "a rich, important contribution to contemporary religious history," "a literary event," "a landmark." Influential French traditional Catholic publisher Jean Madiran said, "...the fruit of several years of considerable labor. The book is rich in documentation, often unpublished, and in many theological observations." Marcel Lefebvre’s (1905-91) career...

News of the death of William C. Koneazny reached me late on the evening of June 16, 2004. He had died around the time of the Angelus earlier that morning, according to an e-mail sent to Richard and Silvana Cowden-Guido by his daughter, Mrs. Jean Koneazny Pollock. There will be a Solemn High Requiem Mass for this indescribable apostle of the Catholic Faith at the former Saint Patrick Church in Falls Village, Connecticut, on Wednesday, June 23, 2004, at 10:00 a.m. As one who met Bill Koneazny and his remarkable family nearly eighteen years ago, I want to take this...

NEVER FORGET ...Washington D.C. Attorney LANNY DAVIS, who lied to the Amerian People thru TV in order to have his clients the CLINTONS skate right past their Impeachment from our Oval Office during the 1990's... ...is now also defending convicted multiple Killer KEVIN COOPER against Gov. ARNOLD's properly executing him 21 years after this Killer's dastardly deed. ...Yesterday Gov. ARNOLD refused to commute KEVIN COOPER's Feb. 10th execution, saying... .."I have carefully weighed the claims presented in KEVIN COOPER's plea for clemency. Everything establishing his guilt is overwhelming, and his conversion to faith and his mentoring of others, while commendable,...

Lawyer for former attorney general Dan Morales first rate Associated Press SAN ANTONIO (AP) - The public defender representing former Attorney General Dan Morales in his federal fraud case is viewed as a top-notch lawyer by some colleagues and clients. William Ibbotson, 48, a former military lawyer, is the principal buffer between Morales, who insists he is innocent, and prosecutors, who want to convict the politician on multiple charges including bank and tax fraud. Nearly broke and battling a federal prosecution, New Braunfels businessman Tom Chaffe was in a similar jam. Then, a judge appointed Ibbotson, an assistant federal public...