Listening phone conversations

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the victory of Donald Trump in the 2016 election felt like "a mule kicking you in the back" and convinced her to remain in politics, according to an upcoming biography. Assured that the Democratic contender Hillary Clinton would prevail over her GOP rival, Pelosi had an eye on retiring and spending more time with her family, according to the book written by USA Today Washington bureau chief Susan Page. But despite her confidence that she would be able to step down after 30 years in Congress and no longer hold the distinction of being, at that time, the highest-ranking woman in the history of the U.S. government, she described her visceral shock when Trump had won. She told the author that the feeling "was physical; it was actually physical," adding that it was "like a mule kicking you in the back over and over again." "I was like, 'How could it be that person is going to be president of the United States?'" Pelosi said, according to … [Read more...] about Nancy Pelosi Was Set To Retire From Politics Before Trump Election Win in 2016: New Book

LOS ANGELES (CBS) — A paramedic who was off-duty at the time Giants fan Bryan Stow was severely attacked at Dodger Stadium gave graphic details of the incident in court Wednesday. Stow was knocked unconscious when witnesses say several men wearing Dodger jerseys assaulted him in a stadium parking lot on opening day last year. READ MORE: 6-Year-Old Wounded After Gunfire Erupts At Sun Valley Apartment Complex Corey Maciel attended the game with fellow paramedic Bryan Stow and two others to root for the Giants on March 31, 2011. He testified Wednesday that he quickly realized the severity of Stow’s injuries after he saw the back of a friend’s head bounce off the pavement. Stow’s friend said he saw the assailant — whom he described as a Hispanic man between 20 and 30 years old — repeatedly kick Stow in the head with “full wind-up” kicks after knocking him to the ground with a “haymaker punch” to the left side of his head. “To my recollection, it was three times,” Maciel … [Read more...] about Friend Gives Disturbing Account Of Bryan Stow’s Beating At Dodger Stadium

Psychopaths are callous, remorseless, and exploitative individuals. Psychopaths have a characteristic way of communicating. Consider Ted Bundy, a serial killer who could likely meet the criteria for psychopathy : If you watch his 1977 prison interview, available in part on YouTube , you may find something peculiar about how Bundy talks, expresses emotions, and gestures. The question I would like to address in this post is whether we can identify psychopaths by examining how they communicate. To answer this question, I will summarize the findings of a recent study, published in the February issue of the Journal of Psycholinguistic Research , which reviews characteristics of psychopaths’ communication . 1 Psychopathy is sometimes confused with psychopathology (mental illness), psychosis (delusions and hallucinations ), and other similar-sounding words, so before discussing the present study, let me very briefly describe what psychopathy means. Who are … [Read more...] about You May Be Able to Identify a Psychopath by the Way They Talk

When I was 16, I spent a summer studying Spanish in Spain. Armed with a pocket-sized Spanish-English electronic dictionary—high-tech at the time— I stumbled through the country. Now language translation apps for smartphones can do much, much more than that old plastic device with the rubbery buttons and one-line display. Many of them let you speak or type a question in English and have that instantly translated into a foreign tongue, which the app can speak out loud or display on the phone’s screen. A response from a local can be translated right back into English for you. A single app may include the ability to translate dozens of languages—more than a backpack full of dictionaries. I put these promising features to the test by heading into Korean, Chinese, and Japanese neighborhoods in San Francisco with three translation apps—two on the iPhone and one that works on the iPhone or Android phones. The results were mixed. It’s quicker to use these apps than to look up words in a … [Read more...] about Apps That Keep You From Getting Lost in Translation

Bob Dylan's decades-spanning career has undergone numerous ebbs and flows. Armed with an intensely deep knowledge of American music, he first emerged from the Greenwich Village folk scene as the voice of dissent against various institutions of oppression. When he plugged in at the Newport Festival in 1965, the world's foremost protest singer received some backlash of his own . All was forgiven over the following years as he churned out classic album after classic album, sliding from one style or story to the next with unparalleled ease. To this day, he's still touring and putting out albums with surprising consistency. Like a modern-day Shakespeare, Dylan's created a canon so vast and vital that one need not peer behind the curtain to reap its endless rewards. That's not to mention his profound influence on a slew of contemporaries, including everyone from The Beatles to Bruce Springsteen. Put simply, the last half-century of music wouldn't be remotely the same if not for this … [Read more...] about The 25 Best Bob Dylan Albums of All Time