Next one will be named Debby; path towards land is uncertain
NOAA via AP
This satellite-based image taken Saturday shows the system that could turn into a tropical storm.
More offshore oil workers in the Gulf of Mexico were being evacuated and oil production shut down on Saturday after a weather system was given a 90 percent chance of becoming a tropical storm this weekend.
The move is intended to fight drug smugglers who have been pushed to the ocean by greater border surveillance. But the unmanned aircraft have a limited record of success over the open water.
President Obama has expressed confidence that the Supreme Court will uphold his health care law. In private, however, White House aides are not as certain.
Two
bodies discovered at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, where singer Whitney
Houston died in February and where the Emmy awards for Daytime
television will take place later on Saturday, were believed to be the
victims of a murder-suicide, police said.
Beverly Hills police said in a
statement on Saturday that they responded to a call late on Friday night
and found the bodies of an elderly man and woman at the hotel.
"Investigators believe they are the victims of a murder-suicide," said police spokesman Mark Rosen.
The identities of the two people were not released and no other details were given.
Houston was found dead in a bathtub at the same hotel on February 11. Her death was ruled as accidental.
A new report suggests that the common blood pressure drug olmesartan
(Benicar) can cause symptoms that mimic celiac disease, leading to
misdiagnosis and unnecessary treatment.
It's not clear how often people who take the blood
pressure-lowering drug will develop the gastrointestinal problems that
are similar to those caused by celiac disease. For the moment, though,
the side effects appear to be unusual, said Dr. Peter Green, director of
the Celiac Disease Center at Columbia University Medical School, who
was not involved with the study.
Plenty of threats plague the rural grocery. Aside from the shrinking
populations of the towns these markets serve, some food suppliers impose
minimum buying requirements that are beyond what a local store can
sell—forcing these small shops to pay surcharges for their minimal
orders.
Then there are big-box stores. As massive competitors like Walmart
Supercenters pop up in cities within sometimes an hour-long drive of
these rural towns, residents are enticed by the low prices and other
attractions of their more populous neighbors.
"We're about 45 miles from Sioux City, Iowa, and 60, 70 miles from
Omaha," says Jon Bailey, director of research and analysis at the Center
for Rural Affairs, located in Lyons, Neb. (population: 851). "A lot of
people go to work in those cities, so we're close enough that if you're
able to drive and can afford to drive, you can go to one of those cities
to shop."
To be fair, driving so far to get groceries is less of a chore for
many rural residents than it may seem to someone living eight blocks
from an urban Safeway. But for some elderly residents of these small
towns, says Bailey, it may be too dangerous to drive to the nearest
store, and there may not be any family members around who can help.
And elderly or not, these rural customers are also spending extra money on round-trips that can last hours.
Oscar Fuller gets just one year in the slammer for punching Lana Rosas over a parking spot in Feb. 2011, the New York Post reports.
Fuller’s punch forced Rosas to the ground, smashing her head in the
process. Rosas was in a coma for eight days and bed-bound for three
weeks.
Google's latest doodle is a brain twister befitting the man it is meant to honor -- the late British mathematician Alan Turing, who would have turned 100 on Saturday.
Without Turing's work, computers as we know them would not exist, or at least the trajectory of their development would have been altered or delayed. As the first to map out the digital universe, his work now lies at the root of everything involving computer science.
After nearly a month of voting on NewsOne’s Reparations Survey, with between 500 and 700 voters making their voices heard, NewsOne brings you the results of the survey.
In the first and second installments of our NewsOne’s Reparations Series,
we discussed how much money Black Americans whose ancestors went
through the American slave experience have lost and presented the
political and legal opinion of former attorney and current U.S.
congressman, Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN).
“No one wants to stare this thing in the face,” said Ellison. “From a
White standpoint, it’s ‘look, that happened a long time ago, let’s move
on.’ From an African-American standpoint, it’s ‘it happened a long time
ago and it still affects me today, but I don’t want to be reminded of
the pain.’”
Read more of this article - click here, or the article heading to learn the results of the survey.
Four men have been arrested following yesterday’s fatal shooting in
Santee, Orangeburg County Sheriff Leroy Ravenell said Friday.
“Our investigation indicates that one of the suspects,
who had an ongoing disagreement with the male victim, saw the male
victim cashing a check at a local store. The male victim left the store
and Deshaun Fordham and Donte Stokes opened fire on the male victim’s vehicle
in the roadway of Highway 6 near Live Oak Church, striking the female
victim,” Ravenell said. “The male victim was able to drive away and
notified law enforcement at a business in Santee. The male victim was
able to provide a description of the suspect vehicle."
The deceased woman is 31-year-old Kathy Mack of Jamison Avenue in Orangeburg.
SANTEE, S.C. (AP) — Authorities say a woman's body was found inside a parked van in Santee.
Investigators say it appears 31-year-old Kathy Mack of Orangeburg was shot to death, but an autopsy has been ordered to confirm how she died.
Authorities told the Times and Democrat of
Orangeburg that the body was found in the van around 4 p.m. Thursday.
Witnesses say crime scene technicians looking for evidence in the van
also found a small puppy.
GREER, S.C. (AP) - A woman has been hospitalized after Greenville County deputies say her husband stabbed her during a Bible study meeting.
Deputies say they arrived at the Kingdom Hall in Greer on Thursday
afternoon and found several congregation members in the sanctuary
holding 46-year-old Leonard Edwards Jr. Edwards' wife was on the floor
with a stab wound to the back.
A sweep carried out by multiple law
enforcement agencies at the Woodside Manor subdivision in Ladson netted
13 arrests, drugs, and 4 handguns early Friday.
Charleston County Sheriff's Office Major Jim
Brady said agencies executed seven search warrants around 5:30 a.m. As a
result, 39 arrest warrants were served and 13 people are already in custody.
The warrants are a result of investigations
into increased criminal activities in the community over the past
several months including drug sales and several drive-by shootings, some
of which had not previously been reported to the Charleston County
Sheriff's Office, Brady added.
The murder of 17-year-old Marley Lion
happened in a parking lot right off of Savannah Highway in West Ashley.
The shooting was caught on surveillance video and the shooter was last
seen heading into the Ardmore Neighborhood.
Charleston Police Officer Nate Fry patrols the Ardmore Neighborhood just about everyday and night.
"I wish I was working
at four o'clock in the morning when the homicide occurred, we would
have been right here. We would have had a good chance to catch the
suspect," said Fry.
Fry said the Ardmore Neighborhood was the only place for the shooter to run.
"In order for them to have any type of escape
route it would be into the Ardmore Neighborhood. I think it's unfair
that the people that don't live in this neighborhood. Thinks it's
automatically someone that lives in that neighborhood. We don't know
that. Nobody will know that until we find that suspect," said Fry.
Investigators say a woman broke into the
homes of her Facebook friends after finding out they were out of town by
their posts on the social networking site.
Deputies say 39-year-old Candace Landreth and
44-year-old Robert Landreth Jr. burglarized several Anderson County
homes over the past two months.
Investigators say they turned the tables on
the pair, arresting them after they were identified in surveillance
photos the sheriff's office posted on Facebook selling stolen
merchandise at a Greenville video game store.
Undervalued and overpriced, the beleaguered bachelor's degree is losing its edge as the hallmark of an educated, readily employable American.
Doubts about the value of a bachelor's degree creates new routes to careers. This is part of the cover story project in the June 18, 2012 issue of The Christian Science Monitor Weekly magazine.
AP/File/Illustration by John Kehe/Staff
The children of white middle-class, college-educated parents, Hugh Green and Turner Jenkins are just the kind of kids everyone would expect to be stepping out into the world one sunny June day,bachelor's degrees in hand. But they both veered from the traditional American educational route.
One decided that a bachelor's was never going to be enough, while the other concluded it was unnecessary.
Once the hallmark of an educated and readily employable adult, the bachelor's degree is losing its edge. Quicker, cheaper programs offer attractive career route alternatives while the more prestigious master's is trumping it, making it a mere steppingstone.
Studies show that people with four-year college degrees earn more money than those without over their lifetime, that they are more likely to find jobs and, once employed, are almost twice as likely to be selected for on-the-job training.
This has prompted a stampede through college and university gates.
But studies are like photographs: They record the past. They say nothing about the clear and present danger that the bachelor's degree is losing value.
"As more and more people get a bachelor's degree, it becomes more commonplace," says Linda Serra Hagedorn, immediate past president of the Association for the Study of Higher Education and associate dean and professor at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa.
And, she adds, "not all bachelor's are equal." In many communities around the country, the bachelor's is not enough to make you stand out. " 'A bachelor's in what?' that's the question," Professor Hagedorn says.
"Further blurring the line of what a bachelor's degree is and what it really means," she notes, are new attitudes and options in postsecondary education, such as the explosion of online and for-profit institutions, the proliferation of graduate degrees, and a much publicized malaise over the quality and value of undergraduate education.
Bartenders with bachelor's degrees
"A bachelor's is what a high school diploma used to be," suggests Caryn McTighe Musil of the American Association of Colleges and Universities.
Bullied bus monitor Karen Klein, who was nastily bullied by middle schoolers earlier this week, has received more that $443,000 in donations from around the world. Three of the students have issued written apologies as of Thursday night.
A video of four seventh-grade boys mercilessly taunting a 68-year-old bus monitor in New Yorkstate that went viral has turned the victim into an international fundraising juggernaut and opened her tormentors to an onslaught of threats and abuse.
Karen Klein Bullies Apologize: Boys Express Their Regret On A360 (VIDEO)
A week ago, they were leading the NBA Finals. And now, the Oklahoma City Thunder are heading home for the summer to ruminate over lessons doled out by the Miami Heat.
Favorites coming into the series, the Thunder fell in Game 5 of the finals Thursday night, as Miami finished off its run to a championship by beating the Thunder 121-106. Oklahoma City’s 11-point win in Game 1 is long forgotten and irrelevant now, considering that for the first time in more than three years, the Thunder have lost four straight games.
At a press conference Thursday, Greece Police said school bus monitor Karen Klein does not want to file criminal charges against the four students accused of bullying her on the school bus Monday.
A 10 minute-long video recorded by a student Monday includes vulgar and often vicious remarks aimed at 68-year-old Klein.
In the press conference Thursday, Greece Police said the four students involved are all seventh graders at Greece Athena Middle School.
Greece Police Captain Steve Chatterton said in New York State in order to charge someone under the age of 13, the action must rise to the level of a crime and they are still trying to determine if a crime occurred.
Police spoke with Klein at her home on Thursday about her options and she decided not to file charges at this time. Police say she is happy with the Greece Central School District's response to the situation and will let the school handle the disciplinary action against the students.
Police said the students and their families have been cooperative, no one has denied accountability, and they are taking responsibility for their actions. Chatterton also added that the students' families have been threatened.
Guess many McDonald's customers aren't lovin' it. McDonald's finished last in a ranking of its restaurant peers in a report released Tuesday by the American Consumer Satisfaction Index(ACSI). Fast food restaurants Papa John's, Subway and Taco Bell all scored better than the burger giant. Among restaurants specializing in burgers, Wendy's led the pack, followed by Burger King.
Initiative geared toward diverse student population
The International Baccalaureate organization, best known in the
United States for its prestigious two-year diploma program for juniors
and seniors, will enter new terrain this fall as it formally rolls out
an initiative centered on a variety of career pathways that includes
engineering, culinary arts, and automotive technology.
The move comes as the IB presence in U.S. public schools rapidly
grows and as the organization has made a concerted push to expand access
to a more diverse student population.
Billed as blending academic and practical skills, the IB Career-related Certificate has been piloted at eight U.S. schools. They include Binghamton High School, in New York state, which this month is graduating its fifth group of students to complete the program.
Principal Albert Penna said he believes the new offering may eventually eclipse the flagship IB diploma program in popularity.
"Every public high school in the United States has large cohorts
of students who could be potential IBCC candidates," he said. "It
prepares kids very well for the world beyond their school and community,
very well for the 21st-century world of work, and gives them
opportunities to advance to postsecondary education."
Binghamton High offers two career pathways for its pilot program, business and engineering.
More Americans than forecast filed
applications for unemployment benefits last week, indicating the
labor market continues to struggle.
Jobless claims decreased by 2,000 to 387,000 in the week
ended June 16, Labor Department figures showed today in
Washington. The median forecast of 45 economists surveyed by
Bloomberg News called for 383,000. The four-week average, a less
volatile measure, climbed to the highest of the year.
ConAgra says that a lawsuit claiming its Hebrew National products aren't kosher is without merit.
(ConAgra screenshot)
ConAgra Foods Inc.,
the company that makes Hebrew National hot dogs and other meats, said a
lawsuit questioning the product’s kosher status is “without merit.”
The
complaint, filed in federal court in Minnesota, claims that Hebrew
National charges high prices for a designation that it doesn’t deserve.
The
suit, filed by 11 consumers and seeking class action status, accuses
ConAgra of using dirty animals for its meats. Kosher standards demand
healthy and clean livestock.
Kathleen Finch, senior vice president and general manager of HGTV.
(June 18, 2012)
From bait-and-switch marriage proposals to wig-pulling,
cocktail-tossing catfights, it's safe to say we've grown accustomed to
absurd contrivance and scripting in "reality" television. But who would
expect such dramatic puppet-mastering on HGTV?
Apparently
we all should have. Earlier this month on the website Hooked on Houses,
former "House Hunters" participant Bobi Jensen called the show a sham.
Jensen writes that the HGTV producers found her family's plan to turn
their current home into a rental property
"boring and overdone," and therefore crafted a narrative about their
desperation for more square footage. What's more, producers only agreed
to feature Jensen's family after they had bought their new house,
forcing them to "tour" friends' houses that weren't even for sale to
accommodate the trope of "Which one will they choose?"
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An online fundraising effort to assist a bus monitor who was verbally abused by students raised more than $85,000 in its first day.
The effort was set in motion by a 10-minute video of profane taunting endured on Monday by bus monitor Karen Klein.
Klein didn't report the behavior and said she figured she had just ended the school year on a bad note.
But one of the kids on the Greece Athena Middle School bus captured the incident on a cellphone camera.
The video was pulled off of Facebook late Tuesday and was posted to You Tube. By early Wednesday, it had gone viral around the world.
In the video, Klein does her best to ignore the harassment.
"I was trying to just ignore them, hoping they would go away, and it doesn't work," Klein said. "Trust me, they didn't go away."
The vile chorus included profanity, taunts, insults, jeers, physical ridicule and outright threats to Klein's person and home.
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You've seen our stunning planet, but never quite like this.
(Photo: Electro-L Satellite)
Sure, you may have seen NASA’s epic photograph
of the spinning blue marble we call home. But unlike that snapshot,
which was actually a composite image, a new 121-megapixel photograph
making the rounds is a single-shot.
It was snapped by a new Russian weather satellite, the Electro-L, reports Gizmodo.
Israel has responded to the failure of the latest nuclear talks between world powers and Iran with a familiar refrain: sanctions must be ramped up while the clock ticks down toward possible military action.
Jordan says a Syrian air force pilot has flown his Mig-21 fighter jet
to the kingdom and asked for political asylum, the Associated Press
reports.
"The jetfighter landed at 10:45am and the government is
currently considering the pilot's request," Jordanian Minister of State
for Information Samih al-Maaytah told The Jordan Times Thursday without elaborating further.
Reuters quotes al-Maaytah as saying the "is being debriefed at the moment."
Reuters says Syrian state television identified the pilot as Col. Hassan Hamada, reporting that he was on a training mission near the border when communications with the plane were lost.
HONOLULU
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Oracle CEO Larry Ellison has reached a deal to buy 98% of the island of Lanai from its current owner, Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie said Wednesday.
For months now, New York officials have been highlighting how the city has regained all the jobs lost during the long recession and then some. But by several measures, the city’s recovery has left black New Yorkers behind.
Ángel Franco/The New York Times
Kevin Starkes, right, who lives in the South Bronx,
said he had been trying for about 10 weeks to find work as an
accountant.
More than half of all of African-Americans and other non-Hispanic blacks
in the city who were old enough to work had no job at all this year,
according to an analysis of employment data compiled by the federal Labor Department.
And when black New Yorkers lose their jobs, they spend a full year, on
average, trying to find new jobs — far longer than New Yorkers of other
races.
Nationally, the employment outlook for blacks has begun to brighten:
there were about one million more black Americans with jobs in May than
there were a year earlier, according to the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics.
But that is not the case in New York City, where the decline in
employment since the recession began here, in 2008, has been much
steeper for blacks than for white or Hispanic residents, said James
Parrott, chief economist for the Fiscal Policy Institute, a liberal research group.
So, finally we have it. The Republican "Tax Cut Plan" in all its glory.
Mitt Romney and his Republican colleagues were intent on
putting forth what they thought would be a nice series of tax cuts and
popular, new, simple, reduced tax brackets.
Oops.
This is not actually reducing the burden on middle class families, it is increasing it. A new Joint Economic
Committee Study exposes this sham of a plan. Making President George
W. Bush's tax cuts permanent and further reducing the top rate to 25
percent is truly class warfare, Robin Hood in reverse, stick it to the
middle class. The fact is that to close the so-called loopholes and
get rid of the credits, many of which help the middle class, we are seeing a further redistribution of wealth to the wealthy.
The Romney-Ryan plan would increase taxes on wage earners
who make between $50,000 to $100,000 by $1,300. It would increase taxes
on those who make between $100,000 to $200,000 by $2,600. Another
great idea for taking us back to the Bush-era, on steroids.
If you make between $500,000 and $1 million, you get another nice check for $35,000—go buy a new car
or a big diamond ring. And if you happen to make over a million
dollars, the average redistribution of wealth comes to an unbelievable
$285,000.
Whether it's the solitude you get after a long and busy day or the independence -- you can walk around in your underwear all the time!
-- living alone has
its perks. Some people are perfectly happy to be alone all the time.
But being isolated and feeling lonely may put you at higher risk for
functional
decline and even death, new research finds.
Silly as it sounds, living by yourself carries a small if obvious
danger. When family members and roommates are around, they can intervene
in a medical
emergency. Being on your own means that, well, you're on your own.
With more than $4 million in the
hole and lingering questions over money surrounding the James Clyburn
Transportation Center, another audit has surfaced at SC State
University.
The Clyburn Transportation Center is nearly
15 years behind schedule and one building is all they have to show for
the $80 million research center.
State auditors the center may never be finished.
"If these types of issues aren't corrected,
you might end up in a situation where the university is debarred from a
particular grant," said former SC State internal investigator and former
head of SLED Reggie Lloyd.
Nearly two years ago Deputy Tick Wilson found out he lost his job with Kershaw County from a voice mail.
It said: "Tick - 'Tick, I no longer wish to employ you. Turn your stuff in."
The call was similar to the one his friend and department veteran Jim Miller got that same June night.
It was the day after
the election and Miller said he had told the Kershaw County Sheriff that
he was not voting for the man the Sheriff was hoping would be elected
to succeed him.
"He told me 'Jim,
this is the Sheriff and I no longer need your services.' I said 'yes
sir', and he says 'you can turn your car in tomorrow. But I turned it in
that night," said Miller.
Miller said he wasn't surprised.
"Because that's the way business is done sometimes, for the pleasure of the Sheriff," he said.
Charter schools
across the country, and in most individual states, enroll a smaller
percentage of students with disabilities than traditional public
schools, though the factors behind those disparities remain unclear, a
new report from a federal investigative agency concludes.
The report from the Government Accountability Office, released late Tuesday, says some charter schools
may be discouraging students with disabilities from enrolling or
denying them admission, a charge that has been periodically levied at
the independent public schools over the years.
But the GAO also explains that much of the information it could
gather on that point is anecdotal, and that other factors are likely at
work—such as individual families deciding that charter school with
distinct missions or academic approaches are not the right fit for children with specific needs.
In other cases, the decision about whether to place special-needs
students in a charter school may not belong to individual charters, but
rather to school districts, the report said. State funding formulas can
also influence whether students with disabilities end up in charters.
"[T]here are no comprehensive data to determine the extent to which
charter schools may be discouraging students with disabilities from
enrolling or the extent to which such practices actually contribute to
differences in enrollment levels," the GAO states.
WASHINGTON — Republicans on the House oversight committee on Wednesday
voted to recommend holding Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. in
contempt of Congress in a dispute over internal Justice Department
documents related to the botched gun trafficking operation called “Fast
and Furious.”
The 23-to-17 vote, which fell along party lines, came after President Obama
invoked executive privilege to withhold the documents and
communications among Justice Department officials last year as they
grappled with the Congressional investigation into the case. As part of
the operation, weapons bought in the United States were allowed to reach
a Mexican drug cartel.
It was the first time that Mr. Obama
asserted the privilege since taking office, and it sharpened the
long-festering dispute between Mr. Holder and Representative Darrell
Issa, Republican of California, the chairman of the House Committee on
Oversight and Government Reform. Democrats called for the panel to hold
off voting on the contemptcitation during an often acrimonious partisan
debate, but Republicans pressed forward with it.
Sharp introduced its new 90-inch Aquos LED
TV on Tuesday -- what it's calling "the largest TV on the planet." At
4-ft. tall and 6-ft., 8-in. wide, it's sure to dominate the room -- and
this week, at least, the consumer electronics conversation.
In addition to being large, the TV also delivers a high-quality
consumer experience, according to the company, with "stunning" picture
quality. Content is displayed at 1080p, the highest resolution
available.
[ Sharp's 90-inch Aquos TV] --------->
The TV has a suggested retail price of US$10,999.99. It's fairly
light, considering its size, weighing only 141 pounds without the stand.
It's 5-in. deep, making it compatible with a sturdy wall mount, and
it's also relatively efficient, using less energy than two 75-watt light
bulbs.
The Aquos is a full HD active 3DTV, with two 3D glasses included. It
also features AquoMotion 240, which makes fast-action motion appear
seamless. The TV has built-in connectivity, offering users direct access
to services like Netflix (Nasdaq: NFLX) and Hulu, as well as Aquos Advantage Live, a free service that puts users in touch with customer support representatives via the Internet.
Facebook (Nasdaq: FB) has changed its payment
system, doing away with its Credits program as well as allowing app
developers to offer subscription billing.
Facebook currently sells in-app purchases for Credits -- digital
tokens that allowed users to buy virtual goods within games or apps. But
the company found that Credits didn't catch on as a Facebook currency,
and many developers introduced their own virtual coinage, such as Farm
Cash in Zynga's
(Nasdaq: ZNGA) "FarmVille" game. To streamline the monetization process
across the platform, Facebook will support local currencies rather than
just Credits.
YouTube's attorneys have sent a cease-and-desist letter to
YouTube-mp3 demanding that it stop allowing users to extract audio clips from YouTube videos in order to copy them onto personal devices.
YouTube-mp3 is a highly user-friendly service. All a user must do is enter a video's URL, and the audio is generated within moments. That process is the main reason for being for these sites.
SHINER, Texas (AP) — Hearing his 5-year-old daughter crying from
behind a barn, a father ran and discovered the unthinkable: A man
molesting her. The father pulled the man off his daughter, authorities
say, and started pummeling him to death with his fists.
With his daughter finally safe, the father frantically called 911,
begging a dispatcher to find his rural ranch and send an ambulance.
“Come on! This guy is going to die on me!” the man is heard screaming
on the recording, which authorities played during a news conference
Tuesday where they announced that the father would not face charges. “I
don’t know what to do!”
With a 100-pound scrotum dragging in front of him everywhere he goes, Wesley Warren Jr.
has a bulging problem on his hands. Though he’s received offers to get
it surgically fixed for free, he allegedly prefers the notoriety that
his condition has brought him, reports the Daily Mail.
Patrick Dye is the pastor of the church; and while he is white, he
said he feels it is his obligation to speak out on the issue.
"I cannot be silent and just say that's somebody else's problem or
I'm not dark enough to care about that issue. I can't do that," he said.
"This is the crime of America."
Ms. Woods’s current job has not been meeting her needs. When she began
driving a passenger van last year, she earned $9 an hour and worked 40
hours a week. Then her wage was cut to $8 an hour, and her hours were
drastically scaled back. Last month she earned just $233. So Ms. Woods,
who said that she had been threatened with eviction for missing rent
payments and had been postponing an appointment with the eye doctor
because she lacks insurance, has been looking for another, better job.
It has not been easy.
“I’m looking for something else, anything else,” she said. “More hours. Better pay. Actual benefits.”
These are anxious days for American workers. Many, like Ms. Woods, are
underemployed. Others find pay that is simply not keeping up with their
expenses: adjusted for inflation, the median hourly wage was lower in
2011 than it was a decade earlier, according to data from a forthcoming
book by the Economic Policy Institute, “The State of Working America, 12th Edition.”
Good benefits are harder to come by, and people are staying longer in
jobs that they want to leave, afraid that they will not be able to find
something better. Only 2.1 million people quit their jobs in March, down from the 2.9 million people who quit in December 2007, the first month of the recession.
“Unfortunately, the wage problems brought on by the recession pile on
top of a three-decade stagnation of wages for low- and middle-wage
workers,” said Lawrence Mishel, the president of the Economic Policy
Institute, a research group in Washington that studies the labor market.
“In the aftermath of the financial crisis, there has been persistent
high unemployment as households reduced debt and scaled back purchases.
The consequence for wages has been substantially slower growth across
the board, including white-collar and college-educated workers.”
After about a month of speculation, Facebook has finally announced its acquisition of Israeli facial recognition technology Face.com.
We’ve heard from multiple sources that the acquisition price was
around $100m, with others reporting that the price was between
$80m-$100m. (Update: We’re now hearing from a source
familiar with the matter that the price was between $55 and $60 million,
and that it was a mix of cash and stock. The exact value of the deal
will be changing depending on the price of Facebook’s stock.) This is
absolutely not an acqui-hire, as Facebook will be taking full advantage
of the company’s technology and the advancements it’s made on mobile —
perhaps to finally include mobile tagging options for photos.
As Face.com’s speciality is mobile facial recogition, it could
potentially allow you to upload a photo to Facebook while on the go,
instantly receive suggestions of whom to tag, and confirm the tags with
one click.
This is important to Facebook because right now there’s probably a
ton of untagged mobile photos getting posted. Those are lost
opportunities for engagement because when you get notified that you’ve
been tagged in a photo, you probably visit Facebook immediately to check
it. These tags also help Facebook understand who a photo is relevant
to, so it can feature it in the news feeds of your closest friends.
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Publisher's Note:
Approximately six years ago, I'd warned people of Facebook, and its growth potential. I've never believed in telling people who I'm related to, nor how they are related to me. I don't think it's anyone''s business, and yet, Facebook ask you to reveal ALLLLLL of your business by putting it into another pretense for you to do so.
The bottom line: Millions of people have gotten suckered into the FB hype, and for so many, it's too late! They got you! If you don't believe me, try 'deleting' your photos, posts, or any other info you've already submitted. And if you did somehow succeed in your deleting efforts, I assure you that more than likely, your info is still there to be seen by someone at anytime.
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The South has emerged as ground zero in the HIV/AIDS crisis in the USA.
Roughly half of all new AIDS diagnoses are occurring in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee, according to federal estimates.
Overlying that dismal reality is another: There's a severe shortage of HIV
specialists in the South, which exacerbates access to treatment for
people living with the disease in the region, according to one of the
nation's leading AIDS advocacy organizations.
"This disease is no longer a metropolitan problem," says Sen. Jeff Sessions,
R-Ala., a host of the roundtable. "In fact, infection rates in the
rural South are among the fastest-growing in the country."
WASHINGTON — The 1,000-page “farm bill” being debated in the Senate is
somewhat of a misnomer. Four of every five dollars in it – roughly $80
billion a year – goes for grocery bills for one of every seven Americans
through food stamps.
German sports apparel maker Adidas has canceled the release of the
controversial JS Roundhouse sneaker, which featured rubber ankle
shackles, after a huge public outcry, reports CNN.com.
The advertising for the shoe premiered on the Adidas Original Facebook page on June 14 with the caption:
“Got a sneaker game so hot you lock your kicks to your ankles?”
“Wow obviously there was no one of color in the room when the
marketing/product team ok’d this,” said a commenter identifying herself
as MsRodwell on nicekicks.com.
Adidas defended the shoe’s designer Jeremy Scott by saying that he was just being “quirky” and “lighthearted,” but Rev. Jesse Jackson is but one of the leaders in the Black community who disagrees:
“The attempt to commercialize and make popular more than 200 years of
human degradation, where blacks were considered three-fifths human by
our Constitution is offensive, appalling and insensitive,” Jackson said
in a statement Monday.
The late-night talk show from CBS Television Distribution has
already been sold in all top 10 markets and 17 of the top 20, covering
52 percent of the country.
It's official: Arsenio Hall is returning to television, partnering with CBS Television Distribution for a late-night talk show.
The project will see the former host of The Arsenio Hall Show reteam
with CBSTVD, whose previous incarnation, Paramount Domestic Television,
oversaw his syndicated late-night talker that ran from 1989-94.
"We're excited to welcome Arsenio back to the family and partnering
on his new, late-night syndicated talk show,” CBSTVD president John Nogawski said in announcing the news Monday.
******************** Publisher's Note:
It's amazing how some of the news media outlets have conveniently omitted the fact that the reason why Paramount (named at that time) started to give Arsenio Hall a bad time back then is because of a particular guest he had on his show . . . namely, The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan.
And to this date, this is why I continue to respect Mr. Arsenio Hall for what he did!
So, please, let us not forget the history of Hall's television demise by a company who is now accepting him back after all of these years.
