Topic: DRUGS - on June 25, 2012 at 1:09:00 PM CEST
How to Deal With an Alcoholic Parent
Alcoholism is a chronic disease that makes a person's body dependent upon alcohol. The person may be obsessed with alcohol and unable to control how much they consume, even though they know that their drinking is causing serious health, relationship, and financial problems.[1]
Alcoholism is a problem that spreads far and wide, and is one that affects people of all walks of life. Many families are affected each day by alcohol abuse. The problem often goes beyond just getting drunk - emotional abuse, money problems, and even physical abuse can contribute to alcoholism. Dealing with an alcoholic parent is never easy, but there are ways to cope.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on June 25, 2012 at 1:03:00 PM CEST
Verhaftungen in Belgrad, rund um die Betrugs Kredite bei der Mafia Bank: Hype Alpe Adria
Ten persons have been arrested on suspicion that they incurred more than CHF 15mn worth of damages to Hypo Alpe-Adria-Bank, Serbian police (MUP) has stated
They are suspected of using documentation of companies and off-shore firms they owned to file for long-term loans at the Hypo Alpe-Adria-Bank, claiming the funds were intended for the purchase of shares in privatized companies.
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Topic: EU - on June 25, 2012 at 1:01:00 PM CEST
Eurozone crisis live: Spain formally requests banking aid
11.28am: Vincent Forest, economist at the Economist Intelligence Unit, has sent his thoughts on the Spanish request for banking aid:
Although no document has been signed yet, it is now official that Spain will request aid from the euro zone institutions to shore up its banking sectors. Many details are already known, such as the necessity for the funds to be channelled through the Fund for Orderly Bank Restructuring, also known as FROB.</p>
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Topic: SECURITY - on June 25, 2012 at 1:00:00 PM CEST
NSA: It Would Violate Your Privacy to Say if We Spied on You
The surveillance experts at the National Security Agency won’t tell two powerful United States Senators how many Americans have had their communications picked up by the agency as part of its sweeping new counterterrorism powers. The reason: it would violate your privacy to say so.
That claim comes in a short letter sent Monday to civil libertarian Senators Ron Wyden and Mark Udall. The two members of the Senate’s intelligence oversight committee asked the NSA a simple question last month: under the broad powers granted in 2008′s expansion of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, how many persons inside the United States have been spied upon by the NSA?
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Topic: LEGO - on June 25, 2012 at 12:54:00 PM CEST
How To Build Your Own LEGO Turing Machine
In honor of Alan Turing’s hundredth birthday, Davy Landman, Jereon van den Bos, and Paul Klint built a Turning Machine out of LEGOs. And if you like, you can build one too.
You can buy the LEGOS on the web, and the three Dutch researchers have posted the machine’s software to GitHub, the popular code repository and software version control service.
“The beauty of the Turing Machine is that it is conceptually a very simple device,” Landman tells Wired.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on June 25, 2012 at 12:52:00 PM CEST
Turing suicide enigma challenged
Evidence gathered after the death of the scientist from cyanide poisoning at the age of 41 in 1954 was "overlooked" and he could have died as a result of inhaling the poison he used in amateur experiments rather than deliberately ingesting it, according to Professor Jack Copeland.
Prof Copeland, director of the The Turing Archive for the History of Computing and author of a new biography of the academic to be published shortly, spoke as events took place around the country to celebrate the centenary of the under-appreciated scientific genius's birth.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on June 25, 2012 at 12:50:00 PM CEST
How Britain drove its greatest genius Alan Turing to suicide... just for being gay
With his shabby sports jacket, trousers held up with garden string and fingernails bitten to the quick, Alan Turing could not have looked more like an eccentric scientist.
But hidden behind his shambolic appearance and his awkward, halting speech was a formidable brain that made the British mathematician one of the great unsung heroes of World War II.
By breaking the German military's secret codes - created using the famous Enigma machine - Turing helped British Intelligence stay one step ahead of Hitler, allowing the Navy to defeat his U-boats and win the Battle of the Atlantic.
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