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DETROIT NEWS: Brooks’ legacy is already at risk
Oakland County Board of Commissioners “a pack of self-serving rats.”
- “The underhanded dealing to determine who will replace Patterson as county executive began as soon as he died on Aug. 3, and should make residents uneasy about how quickly their county could become ordinary or worse, instead of the good government pace-setter it’s been under his leadership.”
- “The priorities of a leader matter. Brooks was committed to doing everything possible to keep Oakland County’s stellar bond rating, which is higher than that of the United States’ and nearly 200 other countries.”
DETROIT FREE PRESS: Democrat Dave Coulter, mayor of Ferndale, named Oakland County executive
PRIDESOURCE: County Commissions Take Lead on Expanding LGBTQ Rights in Michigan
- “I think it really speaks volumes to have a bipartisan vote in support of expanding protections for the LGBT community,” [David] Woodward said, adding that they will ask members of the state legislature from Oakland County to be “champions and leaders” on this issue.
DETROIT FREE PRESS: Democrats: The new Oakland County is under construction. Please pardon our dust.
JON KYL: Why Conservatives Don’t Trust Facebook
In 2016 Facebook employees were accused of suppressing conservative articles in the news feed’s now-discontinued “trending” section. In April 2018 Congress grilled Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg about anticonservative bias, from blocked content to suspended accounts.
In response to mounting criticism, Facebook asked me [Jon Kyl] to conduct a survey to hear from conservatives directly. Following substantial public interest in the project and in light of policy changes Facebook has recently made, we have decided to share our findings at this time.
We cast a wide net to include as many aspects of conservatism as possible—from organizations focused on Christian values or protecting free expression to those focused on tax policy and small government. We identified individuals, groups and lawmakers who either use, study or could potentially regulate Facebook, and interviewed 133 of them.
CP: ‘Veggie Tales’ creator: ‘Matter of time’ before Christian kids’ shows are ‘forced’ to address LGBT issues
Phil Vischer, Co-Creator of Veggie Tales:
“…when the PBS children’s show “Arthur” featured a same-sex wedding, there was a “shot heard through the Christian parenting world.”
“I think it will have to be addressed at some point; I do think it’s a matter of time,” he said. “But right now, I think it would be difficult for a couple of reasons. First: the nuance of how to treat LGBT issues isn’t agreed upon within the Church; and secondly, some parents may want to have that talk with their kids. It’s tricky because it’s so divisive. It would be hard to do it in a way that works and matches everyone’s expectations.”
CP: Founder of Auntie Anne’s shares how Christian faith saved her from sexual abuse, suicide
HEATHER MACDONALD: Trump Isn’t the One Dividing Us by Race
“Overcoming racial divisiveness will be difficult. But the primary responsibility rests with its main propagators: the academic left and its imitators in politics and mass media.”
WSJ: The Truth About Faster Internet: It’s Not Worth It
Broadband providers such as Comcast Corp., Charter Communications Inc. and AT&T Inc. are marketing speeds in the range of 250, 500 or even 1,000 megabits a second, often promising that streaming-video bingers will benefit. “Fast speeds for all of your shows,” declares one online ad from Comcast.
But for a typical household, the benefits of paying for more than 100 megabits a second are marginal at best, according to the researchers. That means many households are paying a premium for services they don’t need.
Peter’s median usage over 35 viewing minutes was 6.9 Mbps, 5% of the capacity he pays for. For the portion when all seven of his streams were going at once, he averaged 8.1 Mbps.
At one point, for one second, Peter reached 65% of his capacity. Did his video launch faster or play more smoothly? Not really. The researchers said that to the extent there were differences in video quality such as picture resolution or the time it took to launch a show, they were marginal.
“For many people they are not going to see huge differences between 50 Mbps, 100 Mbps and a gigabit per second,” said Nick Feamster, a University of Chicago network-performance expert and part of the research team on the Journal project. Some 61% of U.S. households had speeds of 100 Mbps or higher as of December 2018, according to research firm Kagan.
We found similar results across our 34 testers who ran five, six or seven streams at once. The eight users with speeds 100 Mbps or higher who had seven streams going used only about 7.1 Mbps of capacity, on average.