"If the United Kingdom collapses, it will not be because a majority of Scots are hell-bent on leaving but because the UK government is giving up on saving it"
Who wins, who loses in the Twitter/Google deal
Twitter has signed a deal with Google to allow the tech giant to index the firehose of all tweets.Google had previously been able to index tweets until ...
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Senior Citizen Audit Program
The Senior Citizen Audit Program was created by the Rutgers University Board of Governors to permit retired New Jersey residents, age 62 or older, to attend courses on a space-available, noncredit basis. There are no tuition costs for auditing courses. Courses listed as “closed” in the online Schedule of Classes—those that have reached maximum capacity—are not open to auditors. Auditing is a courtesy offered at the discretion of the professor.Courses are available on all three regional campuses. For more information on the Senior Citizen Audit Program, call 732-932-7823, ext. 682 or visit the program website.
Video Games Are Used by Gun Makers as Marketing Tool
By BARRY MEIER and ANDREW MARTIN
Through product placement, the makers of firearms and the producers of violent video games have quietly forged a mutually beneficial relationship.
Washington's new gun rules shift constitutional debate
In 2008, the Supreme Court overturned the District of Columbia's ban on handguns. In its place, the city has crafted rules that are proving a new, powerful deterrent to residents who want to buy firearms.
Lost U.S. Weapons May Be Going to Taliban, GAO Says
Tens of thousands of assault rifles and other firearms in Afghanistan are at risk of being stolen because U.S. officials have lost track of them, according to a congressionally ordered audit that warns that some weapons may already be in Taliban hands.
(By Joby Warrick and R. Jeffrey Smith, The Washington Post)
Definition of fire hose in English:
NOUN
1.1(usually firehose) Computing An unfiltered, real-time stream of data produced by a social mediawebsite or other online service:two companies with access to Twitter’s firehose of tweets
audit
Syllabification: au·dit
Pronunciation: /ˈôdit/
noun
verb (audits, auditing, audited)
[with object] Back to top- 2North American Attend (a class) informally, not for academic credit.
More example sentences
- You may be able to audit classes, attend without receiving any academic credit.
- While auditing a class taught by Robert Lowell at Boston University, Sylvia met another poet hell-bent on suicide, Anne Sexton.
- Then for my final grade, the university said I was auditing the class, even though I got an A.
Origin
late Middle English: from Latin auditus 'hearing', from audire 'hear', in medieval Latin auditus (compoti) 'audit (of an account)', an audit originally being presented orally.group noun [S]
the elected group of politicians in the US who are responsible for making the law, consisting of the Senate and the House of Representatives:
Congress has rejected the recent presidential proposal on firearms.
congressional Show phonetics
adjective [before noun]
belonging or related to the US Congress:
a congressional committee
congressional elections
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