Tech Republic – by Conner Forrest

A new artificial intelligence tool created by Google and Oxford University researchers could significantly improve the success of lip-reading and understanding for the hearing impaired. In a recently released paper on the work, the pair explained how the Google DeepMind-powered system was able to correctly interpret more words than a trained human expert.

The tool is called Watch, Listen, Attend and Spell (WLAS), and the paper describes it as a “network that learns to transcribe videos of mouth motion to characters.” Using videos from the BBC, the team trained the system with a dataset of more than 100,000 natural sentences.   Continue reading “Google DeepMind AI destroys human expert in lip reading competition”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Private security guards have become a common sight across our society, whether they’re escorting cash in transit, patrolling shopping malls, conducting screening at airports or protecting VIPs. In many places, the guards dress like police officers and are equipped with firearms.

As Statista’s Niall McCarthy notes, private security is booming and the sector is worth approximately $180 billion, a number that’s expected to increase to $240 billion by 2020. That’s greater than the GDPs of 100 countries including Portugal, Romania and Hungary. An estimated 20 million workers are employed in the private security sector while its biggest company, G4S, has 585,000 employees and revenues of nearly $10 billion.   Continue reading “Where Private Security Outnumbers The Police”

Wolf Street – by Don Quijones

The first country to fully legalize the recreational use of marijuana, Uruguay, has suddenly found itself facing an unexpected obstacle: the international banking industry.

It all began a few weeks ago when one of the 15 pharmacies that had agreed to sell the two varieties of cannabis distributed by the Uruguayan State announced that it was withdrawing from the scheme after its bank, Santander, had threatened to close its account unless it stopped providing services for the state-controlled sales. Shortly afterwards it was revealed that other banks, including Brazil’s Itaú, had canceled the accounts of the private companies that had been granted a license to produce marijuana as well as some cannabis clubs.   Continue reading “Global Banks Sabotage Uruguay’s Efforts to Legalize Marijuana”

Intel News – by Joseph Fitsanakis

American officials have revealed more information about a mysterious sonic device that is believed to have caused numerous diplomats to suffer hearing loss and other serious ailments. Last month, the Associated Press reported that the first hearing-loss symptoms were reported by personnel at the US embassy in Havana in the fall of 2016. The news agency said that at least five embassy personnel reported suffering from sudden and unexplained loss of hearing. The symptoms were so serious that caused some American diplomats “to cancel their tours early and return to the United States”, according to the Associated Press.   Continue reading “More facts revealed about mystery sonic attacks on US embassy in Cuba”

Haaretz

Sara Netanyahu is expected to be indicted, pending a hearing, on charges of fraudulently receiving items worth 400,000 shekels ($111,851), Haaretz has learned. Attorney General Avichai Mendelblit is expected to inform Netanyahu, wife of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, of the charges against her in a few weeks.

Sara Netanyahu is suspected of ordering chef’s meals at the prime minister’s official residence, which is against regulations, and concealing the fact that she did so. She and her husband have accused the former chief caretaker of the official residence, Meni Naftali, who is currently leading protests against the prime minister, of inflating the residence’s expenses.   Continue reading “Sara Netanyahu Expected to Be Indicted for Fraud in Pocketing $110,000 in Goods”

The Goldwater

The Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office has said that Director of the Air Force’s School for Advanced Nuclear Deterrence Studies on Kirtland Air Force Base has been charged in the rape of a 4-year-old girl.

41 year old Adam Lowther was arrested and charged with the horrific crimes, being one charge first degree criminal sexual penetration of a child under 13 and two counts of criminal sexual contact with a minor.   Continue reading “US Air Force’s Nuclear Director in New Mexico Arrested for Raping 4 Year Old”

Journal Sentinel

As we celebrate Labor Day, we are reminded of the inherent dignity of work and the American worker. In America, we honor grit. We honor determination. We honor craftsmanship. And we honor the men and women who turn dreams into reality with their own two hands.

Earlier this year, I traveled to Wisconsin to sign the Buy American and Hire American executive order. With that action, we sent a powerful signal to the world that we are going to defend our workers, protect our jobs and put America first.   Continue reading “Trump: We must fix our self-destructive tax code”

NPR – by Ron Elving

Some years back a hit song filled the summertime airwaves with its chorus of “See You In September.”

It was meant to be a lover’s promise of joyful reunion at summer’s end.

But to use those words in Washington, D.C., right now sounds more like a warning … or even a threat.   Continue reading “On Capitol Hill, ‘See You in September’ Is A Refrain Without Romance”

Tucson.com

After months of tough campaign rhetoric, the Trump administration touted a steep decline in border-crossing arrests as evidence of a “new era.”

In Arizona, the arrest of an unauthorized immigrant at a Pima County court and a raid on a humanitarian aid camp near Arivaca offered further signs of an immigration crackdown.

But what exactly has changed along Arizona’s border with Mexico? Continue reading “Big talk, little change on Trump’s border”

Fox 10

HOUSTON (FOX26) – KATY, TX – For some of the residents of the counties surrounding Houston, Texas, relying on each other for supplies through Hurricane Harvey has become a hallmark of the strength of their communities.

Active duty Soldiers assigned to the 36th Engineer Brigade and other supporting units from Fort Hood, Texas are continuing their efforts to build on each community’s strengths and give the residents additional help as they recover from the devastation the hurricane caused.   Continue reading “Soldiers begin re-supply and recon Houston area”

NPR – by Scott Neuman

Updated at 12:05 p.m. ET

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley tells the U.N. Security Council that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is “begging for war,” with the latest nuclear test that Pyongyang says is its first fusion device, a much more powerful weapon than it has exploded in the past.

“Enough is enough. War is never something the United States wants. We don’t want it now. But our country’s patience is not unlimited,” Haley told an emergency session of the 15-member Security Council in New York.   Continue reading “Haley: North Korea ‘Begging For War’”

Need to Know

Leftist militant groups, Antifa and By Any Means Necessary (BAMN), are led by public school teachers. BAMN organizer, Steve Conn and his wife, who also was a teacher, were fired from a Detroit high school for leading a protest which involved the use of pepper spray.  They sued and got their jobs back plus $300,000.  Conn was elected president of the Detroit Federation of Teachers in 2015.  Last year, 17 different BAMN members ran for elected positions on the Detroit Federation of Teachers.  BAMN also ran five candidates for different national leadership positions with the NEA in 2017. [If you think it is time for peaceful and sane people to hold positions of leadership and authority, Freedom Force awaits you.] –GEG

Public school teachers are behind a leading far-left militant group that is part of the Antifa network that federal officials say is committing “domestic terrorist violence.”   Continue reading “Antifa and BAMN Leaders Are Seeking Positions of Authority – And Obtaining Them”

Jacksonville.com

Dave Hlubek, a founding member of Jacksonville-based rock band Molly Hatchet, has died.

The band announced the news via its Facebook page:

“It is with great sorrow to announce the passing of our beloved friend and band member Dave Hlubek. Dave was one of the founding lead guitarists of Molly Hatchet. Amongst his many contributions to southern rock is “Flirtin’ with Disaster.” Our condolences and our prayers go out to his family during this time of loss. He will be missed but never forgotten, as the music lives on through his legacy in Molly Hatchet.”   Continue reading “Dave Hlubek, founding member of Jacksonville band Molly Hatchet, dead at 66”

Rolling Stone

Walter Becker once explained Steely Dan’s most affectionate satire, “Deacon Blues.” “The protagonist is not a musician. He just sort of imagines that would be one of the mythic forms of loserdom to which he might aspire. And you know, who’s to say that he’s not right?”

Mythic loserdom was the turf Steely Dan chronicled like no other rock & roll band. They dwelled in Raymond Chandler’s L.A., not Brian Wilson’s or Jackson Browne’s. (Although they shared plenty with Wilson and Browne as well.) And Walter Becker was the more elusive half of this most elusive of duos – the invisible genius of Seventies rock, rarely photographed, never speaking a word in public. Long hair parted in the middle, about two-fifths of a beard, glasses designed to hide behind. If you can find a 1970s photo where this guy isn’t sneering at you, I’ll shake your hand.   Continue reading “Farewell, Walter Becker: Remembering the Elusive Genius of Steely Dan”

New York Post – by Mark W Sanchez

The Cleveland police union will protest the national anthem in protest of national anthem protesters.

Under the thinking that you can’t protest a flag that doesn’t exist, the union said it will launch an upcoming counter-protest, in which they vow they won’t hold the American flag for a pregame ceremony during the Browns’ season opener Sept. 10. A dozen Browns players, including the first white anthem protester, took a knee during “The Star-Spangled Banner” in an Aug. 21 preseason game.   Continue reading “Cops are launching their own national anthem counter-protest”

Fox News

President Donald Trump is expected to announce the end of an Obama-era program that allowed undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. as children stay and contribute to the country, sources told Fox News late Sunday.

An official announcement to the end of the program will be on Tuesday, the sources said. After the announcement, Congress will have a six-month window to act.

The program, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, was established in 2012. DACA, as it is usually referred to, protected young immigrants who came to the U.S. as children without legal status.   Continue reading “DACA: Trump expected to end ‘Dreamers’ immigration program”

Fox News

City officials in San Diego declared a public health emergency Friday over an outbreak of hepatitis A that has been linked to at least 15 deaths and 400 hospitalizations.

The liver disease outbreak started last November, with the homeless population affected most. The emergency declaration will help the city access state funds and provide legal protection for new sanitation measures, the Union-Tribune reported.     Continue reading “San Diego declares health emergency to combat hepatitis A outbreak”