Author: Eric Brooks

Web & Graphic Designer, Blogger, Musician, Evil Clown. I also code websites and promote people for a living. Still kind of a jerk, though. Approach with food.

Top Headlines for August 16, 2017

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Headline News from the Associated Press
  • Charlottesville to mourn woman killed at rally in memorial

    CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — Mourners will gather in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Wednesday to honor the woman who was killed when a car rammed into a crowd of people protesting a white nationalist rally that descended into violence last weekend….
  • Defiant Trump renews criticism of ‘both sides’ in protest

    NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump defiantly blamed "both sides" for the weekend violence between white supremacists and counter-demonstrators in Virginia, seeking to rebuff the widespread criticism of his handling of the emotionally-charged protests while showing sympathy for the fringe group's efforts to preserve Confederate monuments….
  • 10 Things to Know for Today

    Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today:…
  • China urges US, North Korea to ‘hit the brakes’ on threats

    BEIJING (AP) — China has urged the United States and North Korea to "hit the brakes" on threatening words and work toward a peaceful resolution of their tense standoff created by Pyongyang's recent missile tests and threats to fire them toward Guam….
  • Rising tensions with North Korea bring back nuclear fears

    LOS ANGELES (AP) — After the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, the era of nuclear nightmares – of the atomic arms race, of backyard bomb shelters, of schoolchildren diving under desks to practice their survival skills in the event of an attack – seemed to finally, thankfully, fade into history….
  • Firebrand judge Moore forces runoff in Alabama Senate race

    MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama's famed Ten Commandments judge, Roy Moore, has forced a Senate primary runoff with president-backed incumbent Sen. Luther Strange, setting up a September showdown that could be closely watched for clues about Republicans' prospects in 2018 midterm elections….
  • Utah mayor shrugs off attacks, wins GOP primary for US House

    SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah mayor overcame nearly $1 million in attacks from out-of-state groups to win a three-way Republican primary in a race to fill a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives vacated by Jason Chaffetz….
  • Labor-short Japan more at home with automation than US

    MORIYA, Japan (AP) — Thousands upon thousands of cans are filled with beer, capped and washed, wrapped into six-packs, and boxed at dizzying speeds – 1,500 a minute, to be exact – on humming conveyor belts that zip and wind in a sprawling factory near Tokyo….
  • Iraqi Shiite cleric’s Saudi, UAE trips show Gulf realpolitik

    DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — An influential Iraqi Shiite cleric, notorious for his followers' deadly attacks on U.S. troops in Iraq over a decade ago and thought at times to have ties to Iran, has two new stamps in his passport – from the two fiercest Sunni critics of Tehran in the Gulf….
  • Trump leaves top strategist’s future in limbo: ‘We’ll see’

    NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump is saying "we'll see what happens" with top strategist Steve Bannon….

[#YouTube #Tips] How to Make Your YouTube Subscriptions Private

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How to Make Your YouTube Subscriptions Private

By Tips 4 The Tube
Published: Dec 02, 2016

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Tips 4 The Tube Learn how to make your youtube subscriptions private. Maliek Whitaker shows you how to make your subscriptions private so that visitors to your channel can’t see which YouTube channels you are subscribed to. If you don’t want others to know about your favorite channels this is the way to keep them hidden from prying eyes. The great things about this feature is that your privacy is better prote… [READ MORE]

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[#Cool #Toys] Interactive Finger PCs – The MUV Interactive 'BIRD' Finger Wearable Turns Surfaces into Touchscreens (TrendHunter.com)

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From TrendHunter.com – Cool Gadgets and Gifts –Interactive Finger PCs – The MUV Interactive 'BIRD' Finger Wearable Turns Surfaces into Touchscreens (TrendHunter.com):

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Interactive Finger PCs - The MUV Interactive 'BIRD' Finger Wearable Turns Surfaces into Touchscreens (TrendHunter.com) (TrendHunter.com) The touchscreen revolutionized the user experience for cellphones and beyond, so the MUV Interactive ‘BIRD' finger wearable looks to help push the innovation in this sector to new heights….

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Top Headlines for August 15, 2017

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Headline News from the Associated Press
  • Deadly rally accelerates removal of Confederate statues

    In Gainesville, Florida, workers hired by the Daughters of the Confederacy chipped away at a Confederate soldier's statue, loaded it quietly on a truck and drove away with little fanfare….
  • Protesters topple Confederate statue in North Carolina

    DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — Protesters in North Carolina toppled a nearly century-old statue of a Confederate soldier Monday at a rally against racism….
  • 10 Things to Know for Today

    Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today:…
  • Both Korean leaders, US signal turn to diplomacy amid crisis

    SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea's military on Tuesday presented leader Kim Jong Un with plans to launch missiles into waters near Guam and "wring the windpipes of the Yankees," even as both Koreas and the United States signaled their willingness to avert a deepening crisis, with each suggesting a path toward negotiations….
  • Analysis: To launch or not? Either way, North Korea may gain

    SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — If, after all the fanfare, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un doesn't actually launch missiles toward Guam, many may write the whole episode off as another of the North's seemingly endless bluffs. But from Pyongyang's perspective and in the eyes of some U.S. military experts, Kim and his generals have already won this round….
  • Dubai magnate tied to Trump brand seeks new ventures abroad

    DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — During recent trips to Croatia and Malta, a Dubai-based billionaire and business partner of the Trump Organization looked more like a head of state himself – mingling with government dignitaries, receiving a presidential reception and visiting the glittering Mediterranean Sea….
  • High-tech US plants offer jobs even as the laid-off struggle

    NORWOOD, Ohio (AP) — Herbie Mays is 3M proud, and it shows – in the 3M shirt he wears; in the 3M ring he earned after three decades at the company's plant in suburban Cincinnati; in the way he shows off a card from a 3M supervisor, praising Mays as "a GREAT employee."…
  • Science Says: Lightning is zapping fewer Americans, not more

    WASHINGTON (AP) — Lightning – once one of nature's biggest killers -is claiming far fewer lives in the United States, mostly because we've learned to get out of the way….
  • US vet returns dead Japanese soldier’s flag

    HIGASHISHIRAKAWA, Japan (AP) — Tatsuya Yasue buried his face into the flag and smelled it. Then he held the 93-year-old hands that brought this treasure home, and kissed them….
  • Scaramucci: If it were up to me, Bannon would be gone

    NEW YORK (AP) — Short-lived White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci says if it were up to him, top adviser Steve Bannon would be gone from President Donald Trump's administration….

[#YouTube #Tips] What is that Bell? | YouTube Notifications Update & Fix – 2017

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What is that Bell? | YouTube Notifications Update & Fix – 2017

By Tips 4 The Tube
Published: Dec 31, 2016

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Tips 4 The Tube Learn how to use the YouTube notifications bell to see comments, channel subscription uploads, videos, and more. With all the 2017 updates and changes to the notifications system we decided to explain them to you in this video. Previously, the bell icon in the upper right hand corner only included notifications for comments because it was a Google+ notification bell. With this update, it is now a … [READ MORE]

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[#Cool #Toys] Hanging Air Purifiers – The Sharper Image Closet Ionic Air Purifiers Hide the Appliance Out of Sight (TrendHunter.com)

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From TrendHunter.com – Cool Gadgets and Gifts –Hanging Air Purifiers – The Sharper Image Closet Ionic Air Purifiers Hide the Appliance Out of Sight (TrendHunter.com):

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Hanging Air Purifiers - The Sharper Image Closet Ionic Air Purifiers Hide the Appliance Out of Sight (TrendHunter.com) (TrendHunter.com) More consumers are looking for means of making their home a healthier environment, so brands are creating products like the Sharper Image Closet Ionic Air Purifiers that can be incorporated…

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Top Headlines for August 14, 2017

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Headline News from the Associated Press

[#Adobe #Design] How to Create the Reveal Transition in Adobe Premiere Pro CC (2017)

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How to Create the Reveal Transition in Adobe Premiere Pro CC (2017)

By AdobeMasters
Published: Jul 24, 2017

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If you want to learn more about the Adobe products. Here are a couple of cheap courses I learned from.

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[#Cool #Toys] Top 35 VR Trends in August – From VR Espresso Machines to AR Dancing Instructors (TrendHunter.com)

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From TrendHunter.com – Cool Gadgets and Gifts –Top 35 VR Trends in August – From VR Espresso Machines to AR Dancing Instructors (TrendHunter.com):

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Top 35 VR Trends in August - From VR Espresso Machines to AR Dancing Instructors (TrendHunter.com) (TrendHunter.com) The August 2017 VR trends raise fecund metaphysical questions. Reality is a matter of perception; there's no such thing as reality except in that people are able to process it. Who's to…

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Top Headlines for August 13, 2017

Posted on by Eric Brooks
Headline News from the Associated Press
  • 3 dead, dozens injured, amid violent white nationalist rally

    CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — A car rammed into a crowd of protesters and a state police helicopter crashed into the woods Saturday as tension boiled over at a white supremacist rally. The violent day left three dead, dozens injured and this usually quiet college town a bloodied symbol of the nation's roiling racial and political divisions….
  • Trump: ‘Many sides’ to blame for violent clashes in Virginia

    BEDMINSTER, N.J. (AP) — President Donald Trump on Saturday blamed "many sides" for the violent clashes between protesters and white supremacists in Virginia and contended that the "hatred and bigotry" broadcast across the country had taken root long before his political ascendancy….
  • North Korea still mastering how to deliver a nuke to US

    WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. intelligence officials are pretty sure North Korea can put a nuclear warhead on an intercontinental missile that could reach the United States. But experts aren't convinced the bomb could make it all that way intact….
  • Iran lawmakers raise missile, Guard spending to challenge US

    TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran's parliament voted overwhelmingly Sunday to increase spending on its ballistic missile program and the foreign operations of its paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, chanting "Death to America" in a direct challenge to Washington's newest sanctions on the Islamic Republic….
  • White House’s Omarosa Manigault jeered during panel talk

    NEW ORLEANS (AP) — White House official Omarosa Manigault-Newman clashed with a veteran news anchor during a panel discussion on policing in black communities held at the largest gathering of black journalists in the country….
  • Lawmaker seeks probe after AP reveals maggots in NY facility

    ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A New York state lawmaker is demanding a federal investigation into New York state's care for the disabled following a recent Associated Press story that revealed the case of a man infested with maggots in a state-run group home….
  • Trump’s verbal shots against McConnell complicate his agenda

    WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump's attacks on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell come at the worst possible time, if the president's goal is actually to advance his agenda on health care, infrastructure and taxes that he's goading his GOP ally to pass….
  • Texas Senate OKs restricting insurance coverage for abortion

    AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Republican-controlled Texas Senate backed a plan Saturday night to restrict insurance coverage for abortions, over the objections of opponents who expressed concern it could force some women to make heart-wrenching choices because no exceptions will be made in cases of rape and incest….
  • The Latest: 3 arrested in connection to violent clashes

    CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — The Latest on the white nationalist rally being held in Charlottesville (all times local):…
  • After 6 months on job, education chief still highly divisive

    WASHINGTON (AP) — Among the paintings and photographs that decorate Education Secretary Betsy DeVos' sunlit, spacious office is the framed roll call from her Senate confirmation. It's a stark reminder of the bruising process that spurred angry protests, some ridicule and required the vice president's tie-breaking "yes" vote….
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