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- Lindsey O. Graham, A Politician in Full
When then-Rep. Lindsey O. Graham first ran for the Senate in 2002, it was the end of an era. Graham was seeking to replace the soon-to-be-100 Sen. Strom Thurmond, and South Carolina’s junior senator, Fritz Hollings, was eyeing retirement two years later. It was the dawn of the 21st century, and South Carolina had been represented in the Senate by Thurmond since 1955 and Hollings since 1967. The question was self-evident: Could anyone fill those shoes and be as consequential as those two legendary lawmakers? In nearly a quarter-century of service, Graham, who died Saturday at 71, answered the question with an emphatic yes. In South Carolina, Washington and especially overseas, he wielded enormous influence over federal spending, the courts and national security. No other Republican in the last decade did more to nudge President Donald Trump toward projecting American force while retaining traditional alliances than the orphaned son of rural South Carolina who learned politics in a pool hall. And I’m not sure there was a more deft, pure politician in the Senate in this era than Graham. What other Republican could defy his party on immigration, the environment and much else — yet skate through primaries in South Carolina three times since 2014? Graham happily explained his gift earlier this year when, as ever, he was fulfilling his self-assigned role as ambassador without portfolio. At the time, he was trying to simultaneously pacify Trump and NATO over the president’s designs on Greenland. “I’m bilingual,” he said with his signature chuckle that even over the phone doubled as a wink. Discussing all the characters he had to navigate in his parents’ joint, the Sanitary Café, Graham said: “I speak European and Trump.” But that access to the corridors of power came with a price. Graham, as much as any GOP lawmaker, embodied the bargain Republicans made after Trump’s hostile takeover of the party. The choice was to adapt or leave, and that was no choice at all for Graham, who was first elected to Congress in 1994. Politics was his life, his love, even his oxygen. As with 20th-century giants of the Capitol such as Richard B. Russell, Graham was a lifelong bachelor, married only to the work. And nobody I’ve covered got more joy from serving in office nor more deeply craved the influence it conferred. He’d always laugh about speculation that he’d join the cabinet — as… [TheTopNews] Read More.3 weeks ago - The GreatGold.fm Music Stream Legend Is Back and Lives On
GREATGOLD NEWS- THE LEGENDARY GREATGOLD music stream is back, lives on, and resumes playing our exclusive mix of the greatest rock and roll and pop hit songs, plus Wannabees and outstanding special favorites from the GreatGold music library. We’re putting the finishing touches on the playlist nearly every hour of every day and will soon… [TheTopNews] Read More.4 weeks ago - Athlete blames burrito for four-year ban
Shelby Houlihan says she has been banned for four years after testing positive for a prohibited substance - which she blames on a burrito. [TheTopNews] Read More.5 years ago - Scaleway launches Mac mini cloud instancesCloud hosting company Scaleway is adding a new type of instances today — Mac minis powered by Apple’s M1 chip. The new instances cost €0.10 per hour, around $0.12 at today’s rate — there’s a minimum commitment of 24 hours. Scaleway is hosting those new computers in its DC4 data center in Paris — it’s a former underground nuclear fallout shelter. Right now, the Mac minis aren’t available in the company’s other data centers in Amsterdam or Warsaw. When you boot up a Mac mini from the console, you get an entry-level Mac mini with 8GB of RAM, 256GB of SSD and macOS Big Sur. And of course, it uses Apple’s first Arm-based chip, the M1. After that, you can connect to the instance using VNC — you’ll see the desktop environment and you’ll be able to use it like a normal Mac. You can also connect to the instance using SSH directly in case you only need a command line interface. Scaleway isn’t the first company to offer Mac mini instances. Amazon Web Services recently launched its own Mac mini instances, but they rely on Intel i7 CPUs and costs $1.083 per hour — or $26 for 24 hours. The company will likely roll out M1 minis at some point in the future. There are also several Mac-focused hosting companies out there, such as MacStadium, MacinCloud, MacWeb and Mac Mini Vault. An M1-powered Mac mini with 8GB of RAM and 256GB of storage currently costs $109 or €109 per month on MacStadium — that’s slightly more expensive than Scaleway. If you keep a Mac Mini instance for 30 days on Scaleway, it costs €72 (or $87 at today’s rate). You can use Mac servers for development purposes, and specifically for continuous integration and delivery. Building an iOS app requires a Mac. You can’t just build the app on an Ubuntu server. So if you want to build your app on a server, you have to rent a Mac. But you may have different use cases for a Mac server. You might want to use it to test your macOS app on Apple silicon before releasing it. Or you might just want to play around with the M1. [TheTopNews] Read More.6 years ago
- Entercom Relaunches WSTR as ”The New Star 94” in AtlantaEntercom has announced the relaunch of WSTR-FM as "The New Star 94, the rhythm of Atlanta," effective immediately. The upbeat station will be home to Atlanta's largest music library, delivering a unique blend of curated music from artists like Prince, Bruno Mars, [TheTopNews] Read More.6 years ago
- Rhino release: Epic journey to freedom in RwandaFive zoo-born eastern black rhinos have been transported from Europe to Africa. [TheTopNews] Read More.7 years ago
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