m Amazon Fire Kids Edition Tablets Are Back at Cyber Monday Prices By www.pcmag.com Published On :: For a limited time, the 7-inch Fire 7 Kids Edition is $40 off while the 8- and 10-inch models are both $50 off. These tablets make a great gift for 3-to-12-year olds. Full Article
m Deals: Roomba 675, Fire HD 8 at Black Friday Prices, More By www.pcmag.com Published On :: The popular Roomba 675 is just $199 today, the 8-inch Amazon Fire HD 8 is only $50, and the 2TB Crucial MX500 2.5-inch SSD is back on sale for $200. Full Article
m Deals: 10.2-Inch iPad, 65-Inch Vizio 4K TV, Amazon Echo Buds By www.pcmag.com Published On :: The 10.2-inch Apple iPad with 128GB of storage is $100 off, a 65-inch Vizio 4K TV is $500 off and includes a $250 Dell gift card, and you can score the first discount on Echo Buds. Full Article
m Dell Latitude 7220 Rugged Extreme Tablet By www.pcmag.com Published On :: Dell's Latitude 7220 Rugged Extreme Tablet lives up to its name by laughing at drops, splashes, and temperatures that would blow the average slate to smithereens. It's ideal for first responders and factory floors. Full Article
m iPad Air (2019), iPad Mini 5 Join Apple's Refurbished Lineup By www.pcmag.com Published On :: Grab a refurbished third-generation iPad Air or fifth-generation iPad Mini from Apple to save big while getting nearly the same experience new tablets offer. Full Article
m Microsoft Cancels Surface Hub 2X Upgrade Cartridge By www.pcmag.com Published On :: The cartridge was meant to upgrade the processor and GPU in the Surface Hub 2S so as to allow rotation and multiple hubs to work together. Full Article
m Tom Gordon: Nicola Sturgeon should end her insulting referendum sham By www.heraldscotland.com Published On :: Sat, 25 May 2019 05:00:00 +0100 IT’S strange the different things people took away from Theresa May’s teary goodbye in Downing Street yesterday. Full Article
m FMQs sketch: Pick a policy, blame a Tory By www.heraldscotland.com Published On :: Thu, 20 Jun 2019 18:26:31 +0100 LIKE Nicola Sturgeon, I blame the Tories. Not, like her, for everything everywhere, but for an off-key outing at FMQs. Full Article
m FMQs sketch: Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right By www.heraldscotland.com Published On :: Thu, 27 Jun 2019 18:56:03 +0100 THE last day of term before recess saw MSPs attempt more jokes than usual at FMQs, some of them even bordering on approaching the mildly funny. Heady days. Full Article
m Tom Gordon: Citizens Assembly backlash is of the SNP’s making By www.heraldscotland.com Published On :: Sat, 29 Jun 2019 05:00:00 +0100 WELL that didn’t take long. Scotland’s latest experiment in direct democracy was all but killed off this week, barely two months after Nicola Sturgeon announced it. Full Article
m FMQs sketch: Carlaw Crash By www.heraldscotland.com Published On :: Thu, 03 Oct 2019 19:21:04 +0100 WHAT a difference a Prime Minister makes. There used to be a time, back before it wasn’t an obstacle to promotion, that Jackson Carlaw was aghast at the idea of a no-deal Brexit. Full Article
m David Torrance: The SNP's independence proposition resembles another Brexit-like leap into the unknown By www.heraldscotland.com Published On :: Mon, 19 Feb 2018 04:00:00 +0000 In “Painting Nationalism Red?”, an engaging new pamphlet published by Democratic Left Scotland, the journalist Neal Ascherson pays tribute to Tom Nairn as Scotland’s “pre-eminent political intellectual”. Full Article
m David Torrance: 'The SNP don’t really want to make nice with wicked Tories in London' By www.heraldscotland.com Published On :: Mon, 26 Feb 2018 04:00:00 +0000 Shortly before the second general election of 1974, the late John P Mackintosh attempted to explain the rise of the Scottish National Party to a predominantly left-wing (and English) audience in an essay for the New Statesman. Full Article
m David Torrance: How Brexit vote has left the SNP making the same historical error By www.heraldscotland.com Published On :: Mon, 19 Mar 2018 04:00:00 +0000 “Scotland”, declared a young Alex Salmond in May 1975, “knows from bitter experience what treatment is in store for a powerless region of a common market.” Full Article
m David Torrance: Standing up for Scotland may be an impossible task for Ruth Davidson By www.heraldscotland.com Published On :: Mon, 02 Apr 2018 05:00:00 +0100 In his new book, “The End of British Party Politics?”, the political scientist Roger Awan-Scully captures the paradox of last year’s general election in Scotland. Full Article
m David Torrance: Sturgeon faces some hard choices at home when selling Scotland abroad By www.heraldscotland.com Published On :: Mon, 09 Apr 2018 04:00:00 +0100 The sight of Scottish ministers boarding flights to far-flung destinations in order to “sell Scotland to the world” has been a familiar one for more than half a century. Full Article
m David Torrance: Airstrikes in Syria are far from ideal, but it’s better than nothing By www.heraldscotland.com Published On :: Mon, 16 Apr 2018 04:00:00 +0100 Today in the House of Commons, the Prime Minister will explain her decision to authorise airstrikes against Syria alongside France and the United States. Full Article
m David Torrance: The rise of political tribalism has little to do with policy and everything to do with identity By www.heraldscotland.com Published On :: Mon, 23 Apr 2018 04:00:00 +0100 A couple of weeks ago, I attended an “in conversation” event with the American sociologist Arlie Russell Hochschild at Harvard University. Full Article
m Belle Robertson endures in game of great longevity By www.heraldscotland.com Published On :: Fri, 20 Mar 2020 05:00:00 +0000 Belle Robertson has played just one round of golf this year. She’ll double that tally with another today. Full Article
m Liam Johnston accepts the new reality for tour pros stuck at home By www.heraldscotland.com Published On :: Sun, 22 Mar 2020 10:01:56 +0000 What do professional golfers do in this coronavirus-induced hiatus? Full Article
m Link up with an Open champion aids Clare-Marie Macaulay's golf drive By www.heraldscotland.com Published On :: Tue, 24 Mar 2020 05:00:00 +0000 In this country, where the dank, grim days of winter are as short as a resigned sigh, the onset of some decent, dry spring weather doesn’t half raise the morale. Well, it would if the coronavirus wasn’t lurking all over the parish. Full Article
m If the 2020 golf season is a wipe out, there are things we won't miss By www.heraldscotland.com Published On :: Tue, 24 Mar 2020 05:10:00 +0000 THERE will be many of us who embrace technology with all the ham-fisted ineptitude of a fumbling, muttering old colonel trying to unravel the stubborn, sticky wrapping of a barley sugar. Full Article
m Golf clubs need members 'more than ever' in coronavirus crisis By www.heraldscotland.com Published On :: Wed, 25 Mar 2020 05:00:00 +0000 It wasn’t that long ago that health experts were championing golf as a soothing, morale-boosting haven away from the ravaging rigours of the coronavirus. Full Article
m Back in the Sporting Day: 1970, Billy Casper wins the Masters By www.heraldscotland.com Published On :: Fri, 03 Apr 2020 21:24:06 +0100 It was 50 years ago this week that one of the greatest golfers ever to grace the greens set out on his quest to win his first US Masters championship. Full Article
m Golf and coronavirus: Why Covid-19 may be the final straw for outdated clubs By www.heraldscotland.com Published On :: Sun, 05 Apr 2020 05:10:00 +0100 To say that amateur golf in Scotland has been slow to adapt to change is putting it kindly. But where the rise of the nomads, the Equality Act, the credit crunch and repeated faltering reform efforts have failed, perhaps Covid-19 will finally be the shock that thrusts the sector into a meaningful if seriously belated overhaul. Full Article
m The Open 2020 golf championship cancelled due to coronavirus crisis By www.heraldscotland.com Published On :: Mon, 06 Apr 2020 16:01:39 +0100 THE Open Championship will not take place at all this year. Full Article
m Golfers warned to respect lockdown restrictions as government confirms no date has been set to reopen courses By www.heraldscotland.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 14:28:19 +0100 Scottish Golf today revealed that no date has been set for the sport in this country to restart and stressed that lockdown restrictions will remain in place for the foreseeable future. Full Article
m Drink with Gerard Richardson: The magic of malbec By www.heraldscotland.com Published On :: Sat, 30 Nov 2019 05:00:00 +0000 IF you’re under 40, or as I like to call it these days, "pre-arthritis", you probably won’t remember the dark days of malbec when you had a 50-50 chance of opening something that would be as rough as sandpaper. Full Article
m Scotch Whisky Association's Karen Betts: Three reasons Scotch is the 'lifeblood of communities' By www.heraldscotland.com Published On :: Sun, 01 Dec 2019 11:07:57 +0000 Chief executive of the Scotch Whisky Association Karen Betts explains why she thinks the Scottish 'water of life' is so special. Full Article
m Drink with Gerard Richardson: When it comes to rioja, aim high By www.heraldscotland.com Published On :: Sat, 07 Dec 2019 05:00:00 +0000 CHRISTMAS is coming, the goose is getting fat and there's no wine as flexible with the varied foods of the season than rioja, so let’s take a seasonal look at our favourite Spaniard. Full Article
m Christmas wine choice, by Gerard Richardson By www.heraldscotland.com Published On :: Sat, 21 Dec 2019 05:00:00 +0000 WELL, here we go again, folks. It’s time to take a look at the perfect wines for Christmas so sit back, relax and let’s go down the rabbit hole together. Full Article
m Food and drink: How to make the perfect DIY margarita in lockdown By www.heraldscotland.com Published On :: Sun, 03 May 2020 05:03:23 +0100 While lockdown has seen some people turn to DIY, it doesn't all have to be on the home or garden. Full Article
m Construction of NHS Louisa Jordan complete confirms Scottish Government By www.heraldscotland.com Published On :: Sun, 19 Apr 2020 15:12:51 +0100 Construction work on the NHS Louisa Jourdan will conclude today with the hospital standing operationally ready to treat patients from tomorrow. Full Article
m SNP MP Steven Bonnar apologises over altercation with neighbour By www.heraldscotland.com Published On :: Sun, 19 Apr 2020 15:57:24 +0100 SNP MP Steven Bonnar has apologised after a heated altercation with a neighbour. Full Article
m Opinion: Kevin McKenna: Coronavirus aftermath makes independence more vital than ever By www.heraldscotland.com Published On :: Sat, 25 Apr 2020 05:20:02 +0100 YOU could call it state-sponsored sanctimony. In times of crisis or national emergency we’re all urged to pull in the same direction and put partisan politics behind us. How dare you talk about inequality and the plight of the disadvantaged at a time like this? Those who tend to be loudest in rebuking these social pariahs are often those who stand to benefit most from any suspension of scrutiny. Full Article
m Readers react to reports Nicola Sturgeon 'missed six coronavirus Cobra meetings' By www.heraldscotland.com Published On :: Sun, 26 Apr 2020 11:50:34 +0100 Readers have been quick to voice their opinion after it was reported that Nicola Sturgeon missed six emergency coronavirus Cobra meetings. Full Article
m Coronavirus: PPE shipment from China remains at Prestwick Airport due to 'labelling issue' By www.heraldscotland.com Published On :: Sun, 26 Apr 2020 16:07:13 +0100 MILLIONS of face masks to protect Scottish health and care workers against coronavirus could be stuck in limbo at Prestwick airport for a week, it has emerged. Full Article
m Health boards spend £17m on sending scans away to be read By www.heraldscotland.com Published On :: Mon, 27 Apr 2020 08:34:30 +0100 HEALTH boards across Scotland have spent almost £17 million on sending scans to other parts of the country and across the world by private companies amid a staffing crisis. Full Article
m Jim Sillars says SNP may have to be replaced by new independence party By www.heraldscotland.com Published On :: Mon, 27 Apr 2020 05:00:00 +0100 THE SNP is so rotten it may have to be replaced by a new independence party, its former deputy leader has said. Full Article
m Coronavirus: Dumbarton police station temporarily closed after staff member showed symptoms By www.heraldscotland.com Published On :: Tue, 28 Apr 2020 11:38:29 +0100 Dumbarton police station has temporarily closed after a member of staff showed symptoms of Covid-19. Full Article
m Derek Mackay can pick up a ‘golden goodbye’ of £12,000 this week By www.heraldscotland.com Published On :: Mon, 04 May 2020 08:25:04 +0100 DISGRACED former finance secretary Derek Mackay will be entitled to a £12,000 golden goodbye payment this week – despite not being seen in public for three months. Full Article
m Pitch competition offers $30,000 in funding for student entrepreneurs By news.psu.edu Published On :: Thu, 16 Jan 2020 10:52 -0500 The Pennsylvania Technical Assistance Program (PennTAP) at Penn State is looking for undergraduate entrepreneurs from any Penn State campus to compete in the 2020 Inc.U Competition. Six finalist teams will earn a spot on “The Investment,” a production of WPSU-TV, giving them a chance to pitch their company for a share of $30,000 in funding. The 2020 Inc.U Competition submission deadline is Feb. 7. Full Article
m Take the Penn State Community Survey beginning Feb. 3 By news.psu.edu Published On :: Mon, 03 Feb 2020 08:00 -0500 On Feb. 3, all students, faculty and staff members at every Penn State campus location will receive an email to take the Penn State Community Survey to share their attitudes and experiences of community, diversity and inclusion at Penn State. Every 100 survey takers will have a chance to win an Amazon or Starbucks gift card. Full Article
m Upcycled Art Contest becomes popular event at Shenango Earth Fest By news.psu.edu Published On :: Mon, 03 Feb 2020 16:10 -0500 Penn State Shenango's Upcycled Art Contest will be held in conjunction with the campus' annual Earth Fest on Saturday, April 4. Full Article
m Shenango campus to hold virtual celebration after spring commencement By news.psu.edu Published On :: Thu, 30 Apr 2020 11:38 -0400 Following the University-wide commencement ceremony on May 9, Penn State Shenango will host a virtual celebration for the Class of 2020. Full Article
m Coronavirus: Wizz Air announce plans to resume flights By www.heraldscotland.com Published On :: Sat, 25 Apr 2020 13:51:52 +0100 Low-cost European carrier Wizz Air has announced plans to resume some flights from Luton Airport on May 1. Full Article
m We CAN build a bridge to Ireland: firm's plan for eco-link across Irish sea By www.heraldscotland.com Published On :: Sun, 26 Apr 2020 05:20:12 +0100 THE Scottish Government has been formally approached by Swedish architects proposing that a bridge to Northern Ireland can be built ... and combined with 140 wind turbines to power hundreds of thousands of homes. Full Article
m Coronavirus: Scottish Government urged to help allocate more space for cyclists on roads By www.heraldscotland.com Published On :: Tue, 28 Apr 2020 05:00:00 +0100 THE SCOTTISH Government has been urged to empower the country’s towns and cities can be transformed into healthier hubs for walking and cycling amid the Covid-19 pandemic. Full Article
m Eurostar says its passengers must wear face masks By www.heraldscotland.com Published On :: Sun, 03 May 2020 12:44:17 +0100 Eurostar says all its passengers must wear face masks as a safeguard against Covid-19, effective from Monday. Full Article
m Coronavirus: UK Government 'actively looking at' quarantining UK airport arrivals By www.heraldscotland.com Published On :: Sun, 03 May 2020 14:05:42 +0100 THE UK Government is “actively looking at” quarantining people arriving from abroad as criticism mounts over the country dragging its feet compared to other parts of the world. Full Article