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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida officials say thousands of mailed ballots were not counted because they were delivered too late to state election offices. The Department of State late last week informed a federal judge that 6,670 ballots were mailed ahead of the Nov. 6 election but were not counted because they were not received by Election Day. The tally prepared by state officials includes totals from 65 of Florida's 67 counties. The two counties yet to report their totals are Palm Beach, a Democratic stronghold in south Florida, and Polk in central Florida. Three statewide Florida races, including the contest for governor, went to state-mandated recounts because the margins were so close. In the battle for agriculture commissioner, Democrat Nikki Fried won her election by 6,753 votes. Republican Gov. Rick Scott ousted incumbent Democrat U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson by slightly more than 10,000 votes. Under Florida law, ballots mailed inside the United States must reach election offices by 7 p.m. on Election Day. Overseas ballots are counted if they are received up to 10 days after the election. A group called VoteVets Action Fund along with two Democratic organizations filed a lawsuit a few days after the 2017 election that argued the ballots should count if they were mailed before Election Day. But U.S. District Judge Mark Walker said the restriction was reasonable and that Florida election officials have a right to establish deadlines. He turned down an emergency request that all properly postmarked ballots received up to 10 days after the election be counted. The lawsuit, however, is still pending and Walker asked that state election officials report how many ballots were mailed before Election Day but ultimately were not counted. Walker was the judge involved in a half-dozen lawsuits that were filed following the razor-thin elections in Florida. In a separate lawsuit filed last month, Walker gave voters extra time to fix their mail-in ballots if they were not counted because their signature on their ballot envelope did not match the one on file with local election officials. State officials testified in court that nearly 4,000 mailed-in ballots were set aside because local officials decided the signatures on did not match. The Department of State last week informed Walker that his ruling resulted in 637 votes being counted in the final totals.
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Red Alert is a real-time strategy video game of the Command & Conquer franchise, produced by Westwood Studios and released by Virgin Interactive Entertainment in 1996. The second game to bear the Command & Conquer title, Red Alert is the prequel to the original Command & Conquer of 1995,[3][4][5][6] and takes place in the alternate early history of Command & Conquer when Allied Forces battle an aggressive Soviet Union for control over the European mainland. It was initially available for PC (MS-DOS and Windows 95 versions included in one package), and was subsequently ported to PlayStation. The PlayStation version was also re-released as a download on the PlayStation Network for PlayStation Portable and PlayStation 3.[1] On August 31, 2008, Electronic Arts who acquired Westwood Studios in 1998 rendered Command & Conquer: Red Alert freeware.[7] In collaboration with Petroglyph Games, EA announced a remaster of this game along with the original Command & Conquer on 14th November 2018. Players can queue commands, create unit groups that can be selected by a number key, and control numerous units at a time. The game features two factions with differing styles of play.[8] Like Tiberian Dawn, the game has split routes for most missions. The objective stays the same but the map layout differs. The single player campaign is complemented by live action cinematic sequences. Red Alert requires each player to use their side's strengths in order to compensate for their weaknesses, in contrast to games such as Total Annihilation or Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness, in which both sides have units with similar abilities and rely on outnumbering or possessing a better balanced force than their opponent. Players acquire credits to purchase structures and equipment by mining for ores and minerals (as Tiberium in the regular C&C series has not yet been discovered in this timeline). Rare gems generate more credits, but unlike ores, do not regenerate within the map. Players can gain more credits and increase their buying power by building more ore refineries and ore trucks. Game play
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A massive storm brought snow, sleet, and freezing rain across a wide swath of the South on Sunday — causing dangerously icy roads, immobilizing snowfalls and power losses to hundreds of thousands of people. Accidents on snow-covered interstates caused major delays, hundreds of flights were canceled and drivers in North Carolina and Virginia got stuck in snow or lost control on icy patches. Meanwhile, kids and the young at heart took advantage of the early winter snow with snowball fights, sledding and snowmen. Police in North Carolina and Virginia said they'd responded to hundreds of snow-related traffic accidents as of Sunday afternoon, as cars, trucks and tractor-trailers all struggled with the snow and ice. North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper strongly urged residents to stay off the roads Sunday, asking drivers not to put lives of first responders needlessly at risk. Cooper said emergency crews, including the National Guard, worked overnight to clear traffic accidents on major roadways. "Stay put if you can," Cooper said. "Wrap a few presents, decorate the tree, watch some football." Five members of a dive team searched the Neuse River in Kinston, North Carolina, for a missing truck driver Sunday after a tractor-trailer ran off a road and into the river, WRAL-TV reported . Police just outside of Charlotte said a driver died when a tree fell on a moving vehicle. Governors and local officials in several states declared emergencies ahead of the storm crossing several Southern states, which hit portions of North Carolina and Virginia particularly hard. Virginia State Police said Interstate 81 in far southwest Virginia was particularly dangerous, with snow coming down faster Sunday afternoon than crews could clear it. Police said several tractor-trailers slid off the highway. Slideshow by photo services Officials warned residents to prepare emergency kits and stay off roads in impacted areas. Several schools districts in North Carolina and Virginia announced they'll be closed Monday. "Virginians should take all necessary precautions to ensure they are prepared for winter weather storm impacts," said Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam. The National Weather Service said a "prolonged period of snow" began late Saturday and would last until Monday in the region, with the heaviest snow expected in northwest North Carolina and southern Virginia. Some areas of North Carolina and Virginia saw more than a foot (30 centimeters) of snow by Sunday afternoon. More than 300,000 power outages were reported across the region with the majority of those — about 240,000 — in North Carolina, according to poweroutage.us. Parts of Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia also saw outages. Charlotte Douglas International Airport, the sixth busiest airport in the country, said American Airlines reduced its operations, with more than 1,000 flights canceled on Sunday. American Airlines also issued a travel alert for nine airports throughout the Carolinas, Tennessee, and Virginia, meaning passengers may be able to change travel plans without a fee. Travelers were advised to check their flight status before heading to the airport. Cancellations were reported on flights from as far as the Midwest.
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chas smith general manager of Roku’s hardware business, plans to retire and is expected to leave the company at the end of the first quarter of 2019, Roku announced. The company said it has a search underway with an executive-placement firm to find a successor for the exec. Smith is senior VP and GM of Roku TVs and players, overseeing retail sales and partnerships for the company’s line of hardware products. Roku CEO Anthony Wood credited Smith with the idea for Roku’s smart TV business, leading the company’s efforts to be the top licensed smart-TV platform in the U.S. The lineup of Roku TVs includes models from brands including Best Buy’s Insignia, TCL, Sharp, Hisense, Philips, Sanyo, RCA, Hitachi and Magnavox. “Over the last several years, Chas has been instrumental in transforming our business. We all wish Chas a long, healthy and happy retirement as he enters this new chapter in his life,” Roku CEO Anthony Wood said in a statement. Smith, who is 58, joined Roku in March 2010 as VP of sales, leading online sales of the company’s media players. In August 2012, he assumed the role of GM of original equipment manufacturing to lead the Roku TV business. In December 2015 he was promoted to his current role. Prior to Roku, Smith headed his own consulting company, catering to companies in the digital media market on sales and marketing strategies. Before that, he worked at Avid Technology for 10 years, most recently as GM of its worldwide video division. Before joining Avid in 1996, he worked at Digidesign, a digital-audio technology company, where ran worldwide sales and marketing. Earlier in his career, Smith was a keyboard player for a Scottish rock band and was a music writer for radio and TV advertising jingles.
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SAN FRANCISCO — Eight months after one of Uber’s self-driving cars struck and killed a pedestrian, the ride-hailing company is close to putting its autonomous vehicles back on the road in a drastically reduced version of earlier efforts. Uber was driving its autonomous vehicles on public roads in four cities — sometimes at night — at speeds as high as 55 miles an hour when testing was halted after the accident. Starting within a few weeks, it plans to run the vehicles on a mile loop between two company offices in Pittsburgh. They won’t operate at night or in wet weather, and they won’t exceed 25 m.p.h., Uber said Wednesday. But even as the company has lowered expectations, its autonomous car technology has faced considerable issues. The cars have reacted more slowly than human drivers and struggled to pass so-called track validation tests, the last step before returning to city streets, according to a dozen Uber documents and emails as well as interviews with seven current and former employees, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not allowed to talk publicly about the company. At a recent staff meeting, Dara Khosrowshahi, the chief executive, acknowledged errors in Uber’s earlier driverless car efforts. “We did screw up,” he said in comments provided by Uber. The San Francisco company took its autonomous vehicles to Arizona in 2017, deploying more than 100 on roads around Phoenix. In March, a woman in Tempe was fatally struck at night by one that was going 39 m.p.h. along a 13-mile route. It was one of about 200 Uber self-driving cars being tested on roads in Arizona, Pittsburgh, San Francisco and Toronto. Some test drivers had worried that Uber was too aggressive. They complained, for example, that a software update had led to erratic driving by the cars, including once when the vehicles started running red lights, two self-driving vehicle test drivers said. After the crash, Uber vowed to keep its autonomous cars off public roads until it could ensure they was safe. The company issued a 70-page safety report and added more rigorous testing on closed tracks and in simulations. But as recently as a few weeks ago, the company’s autonomous vehicle unit, Uber Advanced Technologies Group, or A.T.G., was still experiencing track testing “failures” on different versions of its software, according internal company emails. To match the reaction time of a human driver at 25 m.p.h., the cars needed to drive “20% slower than a human,” Brandon Basso, a director at A.T.G., said in a Nov. 1 email. Even at slower speeds, the cars were passing only 82 percent of track tests, according to company documents. A week later, Eric Meyhofer, who heads the unit, declared that Uber was going back to 25 m.p.h. The faster speed would prove that the cars were “unequivocally worthy of being back on the road,” he wrote in an email. Some engineers thought there was another reason: Mr. Meyhofer wanted to demonstrate progress to his boss, Mr. Khosrowshahi. And they worried that Uber was taking shortcuts to hit internal milestones, according to two current employees. An Uber spokeswoman, Sarah Abboud, said the company would not compromise safety to meet development goals. “As we have said many times before, our return is predicated on successfully passing our rigorous track tests and having our letter of authorization from the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation in hand,” Ms. Abboud said. While Uber’s cars have been off the streets, its competitors have pushed ahead with similar projects. Google’s autonomous vehicle unit, Waymo, started a driverless ride-hailing service in Arizona on Wednesday. Another contender, Lyft, started a robotic ride-hailing service in Las Vegas this year with the manufacturer Aptiv. General Motors acquired the self-driving start-up Cruise in 2016, has since netted major investments from SoftBank and Honda, and has been testing the vehicles in San Francisco and other locations. Mr. Meyhofer was confident that Uber’s cars could resume street testing in the summer, and he instructed engineers to start planning a party to celebrate their return, according to five people familiar with the plan. But employees worried that a party would appear insensitive, and it was set aside. Some changes were easy. When the Uber self-driving car struck a pedestrian, its solo safety driver was watching a television show on her phone and didn’t hit the brakes until after the impact, according to findings from the National Transportation Safety Board and the local police. To prevent conflicts between Uber’s software and Volvo’s, Uber had also disabled an emergency braking feature that was standard in the Volvo sports utility vehicles the company used. Government guidelines for autonomous vehicle testing are, at best, piecemeal. But under rules the company set for itself, the testing vehicles would always have at least two people driving and monitoring their systems — a standard among its competitors — and the braking system would be turned on. “It’s kind of like the wild West,” said John P. Thomas, a research engineer specializing in autonomous vehicle safety at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “Everyone is just doing what they think is best.” In July, Uber put its self-driving cars back on the road in Pittsburgh, but with human drivers. The resumption of autonomous testing on city streets would take longer. Uber laid off the majority of its vehicle operators in Pittsburgh and shut down an autonomous trucking unit to focus exclusively on cars. Still, Uber received an important vote of confidence in August with a $500 million investment from Toyota with a plan to install Uber’s self-driving system in a fleet of Toyota minivans. By late summer, Uber was planning for an Oct. 12 return date. But executives worried that testing on closed tracks had been “uncoordinated and slow” at a September software leadership retreat in Montana, according to internal documents. When the deadline passed, Mr. Khosrowshahi wrote a public blog post cautioning that Uber would not rush. “We are committed to anticipating and managing risks that may come with this type of testing, but we cannot — as no self-driving developer can — anticipate and eliminate every one,” he wrote. Uber pushed the return date to Nov. 28. But when a test in early November ran Uber’s vehicles through more than 70 categories at 25 m.p.h., they failed in 10 of them, including being slow to recognize another car that didn’t yield. In an email, Jon Thomason, who leads the software efforts at A.T.G., urged employees not to “panic,” because this wasn’t the latest version of the autonomous software. Ms. Abboud, the Uber spokeswoman, said that some of the failures involved “intermittent” braking, but that the company did not consider it a safety issue. A number of engineers on the team anticipated that they would miss another deadline, but Mr. Meyhofer sent an email on Nov. 27 declaring that, as of 6:30 p.m. that day, Uber’s autonomous system was ready for on-road testing. Uber still hadn’t received permission from the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, but management was ready to declare victory. Ms. Abboud said that as of Wednesday, the company had not received a response from the state. “This is a huge win,” Mr. Meyhofer wrote. “We are nearly there! I can hardly wait to see us hit this milestone.”
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Alien Shooter is an isometric top-down shooter video game developed and released by Sigma Team in 2003. It is the first title in the Alien Shooter series to be followed by Alien Shooter: Vengeance. Alien Shooter has two expansions, Fight for Life and The Experiment, each of which has five new levels and include the conclusion to the Alien Shooter story. Game play: The characters have 4 stats: Strength (), Accuracy (better accuracy and damage), Health and Speed. Players can start with a male character (stronger and has more health) or a female one (faster and more accurate). Alien Shooter is presented in top-down view (3/4 perspective). The game consists of 9 levels with increasing difficulties. The objective of each level is to kill all the aliens. To achieve this, player need to access all areas of the level (by reactivating power generators, destroying walls, disabling force fields, etc.) and kill the alien creatures. Later levels have teleportation devices, which spawn enemies infinitely and can only be destroyed by special explosives scattered throughout the level. The killed aliens drop pickups, consisting of money, health and ammo among other items. Between levels, players can purchase more powerful weapon in a shop. It is also possible to purchase permanent upgrades to the 4 stats. Temporary upgrades can be purchased include "Lives", Body Armor, Attack Drone, etc. Most items in the shop can also be found in the levels.[1] game play
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Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle have both been decorated for Christmas. Towering trees dripping with lights, baubles, and ornaments are the focal points. There are even special royal decorations, such as mini velvet crowns and embroidered state carriages. While some of us go for kitsch and others prefer classy, the royal family will only ever choose one style of Christmas decoration: classic. And this year is no exception - the Buckingham Palace Christmas decorations for 2018 have been revealed. The traditional decor was shared in a video posted by the royal family on social media. Every Christmas, three trees are placed in the Marble Hall, as well as a garland dripping in colourful baubles along the grand staircase. The 15 foot tall trees are grown in Windsor and delivered to Buckingham Palace at the start of December. Naturally, they're as resplendent as you'd hope, towering tall and decked out with hundreds of twinkly lights and regal decorations including mini velvet crowns and embroidered state carriages. While the trees aren't erected by the royal family themselves, tradition dictates that they will add the final decorations. Needless to say, many people expressed their love of the trees and decorations on social media, describing them as "fantastic," "spectacular," and "beautiful."
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Since the 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump’s aides and advisers have tried to convince him of the importance of tackling the national debt. Sources close to the president say he has repeatedly shrugged it off, implying that he doesn’t have to worry about the money owed to America’s creditors—currently about $21 trillion—because he won’t be around to shoulder the blame when it becomes even more untenable. The friction came to a head in early 2017 when senior officials offered Trump charts and graphics laying out the numbers and showing a “hockey stick” spike in the national debt in the not-too-distant future. In response, Trump noted that the data suggested the debt would reach a critical mass only after his possible second term in office. “Yeah, but I won’t be here,” the president bluntly said, according to a source who was in the room when Trump made this comment during discussions on the debt. The episode illustrates the extent of the president’s ambivalence towards tackling an issue that has previously animated the Republican Party from the days of Ronald Reagan to the presidency of Barack Obama. But for those who have worked with Trump, it was par for the course. Several people close to the president, both within and outside his administration, confirmed that the national debt has never bothered him in a truly meaningful way, despite his public lip service. “I never once heard him talk about the debt,” one former senior White House official attested. Marc Short, who until recently worked for Trump as his legislative affairs director, said he believed the president recognized "the threat that debt poses" and he pointed to Trump's concern "about rising interest rates" as evidence of his concern over the matter. "But there’s no doubt this administration and this Congress need to address spending because we have out of control entitlement programs," Short said, adding, “it’s fair to say that...the president would be skeptical of anyone who claims that they would know exactly when a [debt] crisis really comes home to roost.” Recent reports have suggested that Trump is determined, at least rhetorically, to address the issue. And Hogan Gidley, a spokesman for the president, noted that the president and his team have proposed policies to achieve some deficit reduction, "including in his first budget that actually would’ve balanced in 10 years, a historic, common-sense rescissions proposal." But Gidley also passed the buck to the legislative branch. "While the President has and will continue to do everything in his power to rein in Washington’s out of control spending," he said, "the Constitution gives Congress the power of the purse and it’s time for them to work with this President to reduce the debt.” Those close to Trump say that one reason the issue of debt reduction has never been an animating one for him is because he is convinced that it can be solved through means other than tax hikes or sharp spending reductions. Stephen Moore, a conservative economist at the Heritage Foundation and an economic adviser to Trump’s 2016 campaign, recalled making visual presentations to Trump in mid-2016 that showed him the severity of the debt problem. But Moore told The Daily Beast that he personally assured candidate Trump that it could be dealt with by focusing on economic growth. “That was why, when he was confronted with these nightmare scenarios on the debt, I think he rejected them, because if you grow the economy… you don’t have a debt problem,” Moore continued. “I know a few times when people would bring up the enormous debt, he would say, ‘We’re gonna grow our way out of it.’” Moore has since championed this approach to tackling the debt as a key part of “Trumponomics,” and has co-authored a book supporting it. As Moore recalled, a belief that robust economic growth would solve all problems was the way Trump—starting in 2016—justified the cost of his ambitious proposals to slash taxes, pursue big infrastructure projects, and simply avoid massive cuts to Social Security and Medicare. Since then, the president has continued to show indifference over the national debt, to the consternation of more traditionally conservative associates. One current senior Trump administration official vented that Trump “doesn’t really care” about actually attacking the debt “crisis,” and prefers simply “jobs and growth, whatever that means.” For the most part, the Republican Party has gone along. Over the first two years of the Trump administration, congressional Republicans have slashed taxes dramatically while increasing defense and discretionary spending, all without giving much indication that they’re going to take a stab at dramatically gutting certain po[CENSORED]r entitlements. The results have not been what Trump and Moore have promised; at least not yet. Economic growth increased over the past year—including a robust 4.1 percent in the second quarter of 2018—but the federal deficit has ballooned as well, in part because the government has taken in less revenue because of the tax cuts. Current forecasts are not too rosy about the future economy. Recently, both Trump and some Republican lawmakers have hinted at regret over their approach. Earlier this year, Trump conveyed his disappointment with signing a large spending bill, particularly after he saw typically-friendly allies on Fox News tear into him for supporting legislation that they viewed as funding Democratic priorities, exacerbating the national debt, and ditching his pledge to build a gigantic border wall, according to a report at the time in Axios. Sources close to the president tell The Daily Beast that Trump was genuinely taken aback by the severity of this mini-revolt from MAGA loyalists. However, right-leaning reformers shouldn’t be holding their breath. The Washington Post recently reported that Trump had instructed his cabinet to devise plans to trim their budgets in an effort to reduce the federal deficit. But Trump also set strict limits on what sorts of programs could be cut—and quickly proceeded to propose increased spending in other areas of the federal government. “He understands the messaging of it,” the former senior White House official told The Daily Beast. “But he isn’t a doctrinaire conservative who deeply cares about the national debt, especially not on his watch…It’s not actually a top priority for him…He understands the political nature of the debt but it’s clearly not, frankly, something he sees as crucial to his legacy.” The former Trump official adding, “It’s not like it’s going to haunt him.”
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CD Projekt RED has been on a roll recently. Not only did the team unveil the first gameplay footage from Cyberpunk 2077 after Gamescom 2018, but the studio also released a new Witcher card game. While Gwent left Xbox Game Preview today, another adventure called "Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales" is also available on consoles. As you can see from the gameplay, Thronebreaker is an isometric role-playing game with card battles. The description says Thronebreaker "spins a truly regal tale of Meve, a war-veteran queen of two Northern Realms. Facing an imminent Nilfgaardian invasion, Meve is forced to once again enter the warpath, and set out on a dark journey of destruction and revenge." The game is currently available for $29.99 on various platforms like Xbox One and PlayStation 4. CD Projekt RED says that Thronebreaker lasts roughly thirty hours and features twenty different endings. Only a few are radically different from the others. There are also 75 different side quests to occupy your time. If you can't get enough of CD Projekt RED and loved Gwent, then this might be an experience to sink your teeth into. Keep in mind that battles occur through cards. You have to use the right solider at the right time to succeed. Instead of featuring traditional combat, you have to essentially play Hearthstone. That's probably the biggest consideration when it comes to purchasing Thronebreaker. game play