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The NYPD Is an Embarrassment to the City of New York
Andy Cush @ Gawker - A ceremony at Madison Square Garden yesterday morning marked the graduation of 884 new officers into the New York Police Department. When Mayor Bill de Blasio took the podium to address the graduating class, praising them for their courage and determination, he was greeted like an unpopular high school principal: with boos, jeers, and the turning of backs. When he talked about the officers facing "problems [they] don't create," someone in the audience called back: "You created them!"
Don't blame any incoming officers for the outbreak, however—they were only mimicking the hysterical fits their elders have been throwing in public for the past month. Read more.
Pope Francis Calls for Action on Climate Change & Capitalism on a Planet "Exploited by Human Greed"
Black Lives Depend on a Free and Open Internet
Patrisse Cullors @ The Hill - In 2012, I watched as cable news stations posthumously put Trayvon Martin on trial for his own murder, and broadcasted his killer's acquittal, George Zimmerman.
Black Lives Matter was born as a social media response to this verdict, meant to interrupt a public narrative that criminalizes and devalues Black people's lives in America. With support from techies, designers, artists and thousands of activists across the country...read more.
After 11 Years Without Charge Or Trial, 5 Men Released From Guantánamo
Sarah Lazare @ Common Dreams - Five men, each of whom spent more than 11 years detained in the Guantánamo Bay without charge or trial, have been transferred from the U.S. military prison in Cuba to Kazakhstan, the Pentagon announced Tuesday. Read more.
'No more waiting': Palestine to set date for joining ICC, other intl bodies
RT.com - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has signed the Rome Statute, the founding treaty to join the International Criminal Court, a day after the UNSC failed to adopt the Arab coalition's bid for the creation of a Palestinian state. Read more.
CIA fingerprints' all over Kiev massacre – Oliver Stone
RT.com - The armed coup in Kiev is painfully similar to CIA operations to oust unwanted foreign leaders in Iran, Chile and Venezuela, said US filmmaker Oliver Stone after interviewing Ukraine's ousted president for a documentary.
Stone spent four hours in Moscow talking to Viktor Yanukovich, who was deposed from power during the February 2014 coup...read more.
IMF Austerity Helped Fuel Ebola Crisis: Researchers
Andrea Germanos @ Common Dreams - The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has through its strict lending policies contributed to the Ebola crisis, professors from three British universities have charged.
In a report published online last week in...read more.
2-year-old boy accidentally shoots and kills mom inside daho Wal-Mart
StarTribune (Minnesota) - A 2-year-old boy accidentally shot and killed his mother after he reached into her purse at a northern Idaho Wal-Mart and her concealed gun fired, authorities said Tuesday.
Veronica J. Rutledge, 29, was shopping with her son and three other children...read more.
Zombie Apocalypse and the Politics of Artificial Scarcity
Colin Jenkins @ The Hampton Institute - Dystopian narratives have long been an alluring and thought-provoking form of entertainment, especially for those who take an interest in studying social and political structures. From classics like Nineteen Eighty-Four and Brave New World to the current hit, The Hunger Games, these stories play on our fears while simultaneously serving as warning signs for the future. Read more.
Congress continues concealing full 9/11 report from public scrutiny
RT.com - A request by US Rep. Alan Grayson to access a portion of a 2002 congressional report on the September 11, 2001 attacks was denied by the House Intelligence Committee based on political reasons, the Florida Democrat said.
Grayson's request pertains to 28 pages of Congress' Joint Inquiry that were ordered to be redacted by then-President George W. Bush. Read more.
Methane leaks from 40,000 gas wells hovering over Southwest US
Washington Post - The methane that leaks from 40,000 gas wells near this desert trading post may be colorless and odorless, but it's not invisible. It can be seen from space.
Satellites that sweep over energy-rich northern New Mexico can spot the gas as it escapes from drilling rigs, compressors and miles of pipeline snaking across the badlands. In the air it forms a giant plume...read more.
AirAsia plane wreckage found, bodies being recovered
RT.com - Over 40 bodies have been recovered from the missing AirAsia flight, the Indonesian Navy said. Objects resembling parts of the plane, as well as what was thought to be the plane's outline underwater, were seen in the search area. Read more.
Greed Kings of 2014
Paul Buchheit @ Common Dreams - As schools and local governments are going broke around the country, companies who built their businesses with American research and education and technology and infrastructure are paying less in taxes than ever before. Incredibly, over half of U.S. corporate foreign profits are now being held in tax havens, double the share of just twenty years ago. Corporations are stealing from the nation that made them rich. Read more.
Gay to straight therapy conversion deemed illegal in Beijing, China
Gay Star News - In the first case of its kind in China, Beijing's Haidian District People's Court last Friday ruled that the Xinyupiaoxiang Counseling Center in Chongqing had no medical basis to offer a cure for homosexuality. Read more.
Indonesia Search Chief: AirAsia Jet Likely 'on the Bottom of the Sea'
Voice of America - Indonesian Vice President Jusuf Kalla said 30 ships and 15 aircraft - both planes and helicopters - are involved in the search for the missing AirAsia flight that went missing early Sunday. Read more.
Before Freedom Rings, Some Bitter Pills Must Be Swallowed
Max Eternity @ MaxEternity.com - How does one reconcile the archetype of a great noble protector, upon discovering that same entity has carried out some very evil deeds…not once or twice, but over and over again?
When a person discovers that a childhood hero is also a serial rapist—literally and metaphorically—where does the mind go to make sense of this? Read more.
Vermont celebrates the closure of its nuclear power plant
Jon Queally @ Common Dreams - Residents throughout New England have reason to celebrate on Monday as Vermont Yankee, the sole nuclear power plant in the state of Vermont, powers down for the final time after years of grassroots organizing and political opposition. Read more.
Missing AirAsia flight QZ8501
RT.com - An AirAsia flight with over 160 people on board travelling to Singapore from the Indonesian city of Surabaya went missing after losing contact with air traffic control, the company said on Sunday. A search mission is underway. Read more.
Native Americans Confront History of Dispossession
Gorbachev says Putin saved Russia from disintegration
RT.com - Russian President Vladimir Putin saved the country from falling apart, former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev said during the presentation of his new book 'After the Kremlin.' Gorbachev also commented on the situation in Ukraine and NATO expansion. Read more.
DC Activists Disrupt Xmas Shopping as Another Teen Killed Near Ferguson
Vice President Biden, Gov. Cuomo, Mayor de Blasio and Commissioner Bratton eulogize Officer Rafael Ramos at Queens funeral
New York Daily News - Officer Rafael Ramos was celebrated in a teary Saturday funeral as truly one of New York's Finest — a hero cop, a pious role model, a devoted husband and dad.
The slain officer's widow, flanked by her two young sons in their black suits, joined an overflow crowd estimated at 20,000 in bidding farewell to a man revealed in his death as one of the city's great treasures. Read more.
Mourners from around the nation attend funeral for slain NYPD Officer Rafael Ramos
New York Daily News - A Texas police chief traveled light to reach Officer Rafael Ramos' funeral: He brought only a Bible signed by his entire department.
"We've come to deliver it to the Ramos family," said Chief Gerald Arismendez of the Mathis Police Department. "He was a man of faith, and I too am." Read more.
France's second largest city issues Nazi-style 'yellow triangle' homeless badges
RT.com - France's second-largest city, Marseille, is in the firing line after requiring its homeless population to wear "yellow triangle" ID cards detailing chronic diseases. Critics fear the cards, which should be worn visibly, are reminiscent of the Nazi era.
The cards, an initiative of Marseille's city hall and Samu, a municipal humanitarian emergency service, identify homeless people...read more.
Cuba, Be Careful What You Wish For
Mike Gravel to Senator Mark Udall: Make Full Torture Probe Public
New Russian military doctrine says NATO top threat
Associated Press - Russia identified NATO as the nation's No. 1 military threat and raised the possibility of a broader use of precision conventional weapons to deter foreign aggression under a new military doctrine signed by President Vladimir Putin on Friday. Read More.
Concealed Crminal Admissions, The NSA Dumped Its Spying Violations While You Were Waiting on Santa
Gizmodo - The U.S. government has released proof that it repeatedly spied on American citizens without being allowed to... and you probably missed it. The National Security Administration finally dumped a heap of redacted documents revealing the surveillance violations made over the last decade. Read more.
Citigroup Becomes Its Own Self-Serving Lawmaker
Jim Hightower @ Common Dreams - Congress, which has long been so tied up in a partisan knot by right-wing extremists that it has been unable to move, suddenly sprang loose at the end of the year and put on a phenomenal show of acrobatic lawmaking.
In one big, bipartisan spending bill, our legislative gymnasts pulled off a breathtaking, flat-footed backflip for Wall Street, and then set a dizzying new height record for the amount of money deep-pocketed donors can give to the two major political parties. Read more.
Silicone Valley: How One of the Wealthiest Cities in America Treats Its Homeless
AlterNet - When San Jose dismantled the "Jungle," the nation's largest homeless encampment, many of its residents with nowhere to go scattered. They found hiding places in the scores of small, less visible encampments within the city, where more than 5,000 people sleep unsheltered on a given night. Read more.
California mandates increase in living space for factory farm chickens
Bloomberg BusinessWeek - Starting on Jan. 1, every egg sold in California will have to come from hens that have enough space to lie down, stand up, spread their wings, and move freely. The state's Department of Food and Agriculture says that means each bird needs at least 116 square inches of living space in its coop—a 73 percent increase from the industry standard of 67 square inches per bird , or less than a sheet of letter paper. Read more.
Stopping Imperialistic Wars Could Radically Reduce Terrorism
Naill McLauren @ Buzzflash - Sydney is a lovely city of about five million, lazily sprawled along the sandy beaches of the cerulean South Pacific. Most visitors to Sydney enjoy their stay and are left with a favorable impression of the laid-back Sydneysiders. Monday, 15th December, the central city area went into "lock-down" after an alleged Muslim "fanatic" armed with a shotgun took seventeen people hostage in a well-known cafe in the heart of the city. Fifteen hours later, after some hostages had escaped, special police forces stormed the building. When the dust settled, the kidnapper and two hostages were found dead. Read more.
Dear Starbucks, Let's Get Real
Katherine Paul @ Common Dreams - Starbucks is taking a lot of heat from consumers lately.
Multiple organizations, including OCA, have appealed to CEO Howard Schultz to switch to organic milk.
And recently, hundreds of thousands of consumers signed petitions, including ours, demanding Starbucks drop out of the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA), a lobbying group that is suing Vermont to overturn its GMO labeling law. Read more.
René González, First Freed Member of Cuban 5, Speaks Out from Havana
'God stronger than darkness & corruption': Pope delivers Christmas message
RT.com - Pope Francis wished courage and warmth for the world in his Christmas Eve mass homily, as God is stronger than "darkness and corruption." He also made a phone call to Iraqi refugees who fled ISIS violence, saying that they are "like Jesus" on this night. Read more.
Protests Erupt as Officer Cleared in Killing of Unarmed Dontre Hamilton
Video with mother of latest black teen killed by police in Berkeley, Missouri
Independent security experts says Sony hack most likely an inside job
CBS News - Cybersecurity experts are questioning the FBI's claim that North Korea is responsible for the hack that crippled Sony Pictures. Kurt Stammberger, a senior vice president with cybersecurity firm Norse, told CBS News his company has data that doubts some of the FBI's findings. Read more.
Outrage Mounts After News of Another St. Louis Police Killing
Lauren McCauley @ Common Dreams - On the Eve of the Christmas holiday, national outrage over the police killing of people of color once again came to a head on Wednesday after news spread that a St. Louis area police officer shot a black teen late Tuesday evening.
According to reports, 18-year-old Antonio Martin was shot just after 11 PM in a Mobil gas station parking lot in the St. Louis suburb of Berkeley, Missouri. The St. Louis County Police Department alleges that the unnamed Berkeley officer, who is reportedly white, fired three shots after Martin drew a handgun. Read more.
Thousands rally at anti-Islam protest in Germany
RT.com - At least 17,500 people took part in a protest against Islamization in Germany's eastern city of Dresden, according to police. The Monday rally comes as the latest round of demonstrations organized by the rising far-right PEGIDA movement. Read more.
Peru village evacuated after isolated tribe attacks with bows & arrows
RT.com - Peruvian authorities have started evacuating Monte Salvado village situated in a remote southeastern region, after around 200 men from an 'uncontacted' tribe attacked the settlement with bows and arrows and stole food and equipment.
The evacuation began on Tuesday after around 200 men of the Mashco Piro tribe attacked Monte Salvado close to the border with Brazil twice last week. The residents, a total of 55, had to flee to save their children. Read more.
Police Kill Another Young Black Man In Missouri; 'It's Not What People Portray,' Mayor Says
NPR - Protests over a police killing have returned to the St. Louis area, after a Berkeley, Mo., police officer shot and killed an 18-year-old black man Tuesday night. The authorities say he was armed; the shooting took place shortly after 11 p.m. outside a gas station in the St. Louis suburb that's just 2 miles west of Ferguson.
Police officials say the Berkeley officer shot the young man after the man pointed a handgun at him. Read more.
LAPD body camera footage won't be released to the public
RT.com - As the Los Angeles Police Department prepares to outfit its force with body cameras during interactions with the public, civil rights groups are concerned over the idea that footage won't be made public outside of court proceedings.
Body cameras are being touted as one way to increase accountability by recording police interaction with the residents, but questions are looming about what happens to the recorded footage and who controls the material. Read more.
Jordan Baker was shot by officer Juventino Castro in January
Nadia Prupis @ Common Dreams - A grand jury on Tuesday cleared a Houston police officer for the fatal shooting of Jordan Baker in January.
Juventino Castro will not be charged for killing 26-year-old Baker, who was unarmed, in a decision that comes amid growing civil rights protests against police racism and brutality. Read more.
The Police Union's Irresponsible Reaction To Shooting Of Two NYPD Officers
Marjorie Cohn on Drone Warfare: Illegal, Immoral and Ineffective
Leslie Thatcher @ Truthout - Law professor, writer and social critic Marjorie Cohn explores human rights and US foreign policy, and the frequent contradiction between the two...read more.
Public transit use reaches record high, in spite of low petrol prices
Andrea Germanos @ Common Dreams - Despite plummeting gas prices, public transportation ridership in the U.S. hit a record high.
According to a new report by the American Public Transportation Association (APTA), 2.7 billion trips were taken on public transit systems in the third quarter of 2014. That marks a 1.8 percent increase from the same period last year, and makes it the third quarter with the highest ridership since 1974. Read more.
This Moment Must Be About Black-Ness
Lisa Gray-Garcia @ Poor Magazine - First and foremost this story goes out to peoples, conscious or not, who have never had to fear a kkkop, security guard or default klan member stalking them for attack, murder, arrest or random harassment solely because of their race, color or culture
Additionally, for all of my fellow poor, disabled, houseless folks, non-Black POC's, migrante peoples who have walked with the terror of other serious oppressions, I am also speaking to you. Read more.
Argentine court extends human right to freedom to orangutan
RT.com - In an unprecedented decision, an Argentine court has ruled that the Sumatran orangutan 'Sandra', who has spent 20 years at the zoo in Argentina's capital Buenos Aires, should be recognized as a person with a right to freedom. Read more.
Bush & Cheney Should Be Charged with War Crimes Says Col. Wilkerson, Former Aide to Colin Powell
Ex-Bush Official: U.S. Tortured Prisoners to Produce False Intel that Built Case for Iraq War
Spanish Government Strips Away Protesting Rights
Care2 - Spain is showing signs of fascism with its new anti-protest legislation nicknamed the "Gag Law." This past week, Spain's lower parliament okayed the law, pushing it much closer to reality. Read more.
China pledges to help Russia overcome economic hardships
RT.com - China's foreign minister has pledged support to Russia as it faces an economic downturn due to sanctions and a drop in oil prices. Boosting trade in yuan is a solution proposed by Beijing's commerce minister. Read more.
Pope declares Vatican suffers from 'spiritual Alzheimer's', lists 15 sins
RT.com - To the Catholic Church's "seven deadly sins," Pope Francis has added the "15 ailments of the Curia."
Francis issued a blistering indictment of the Vatican bureaucracy Monday, accusing the cardinals, bishops and priests who serve him of using their Vatican careers to grab power and wealth, of living "hypocritical" double lives and forgetting that they're supposed to be joyful men of God. Read more.
Calls for Calm After NYPD Union Says Mayor, Protesters Have Blood on Their Hands for Cops' Murder
The CIA Didn't Just Torture, It Experimented on Human Beings
Lisa Hajjar @ The Nation - Human experimentation was a core feature of the CIA's torture program. The experimental nature of the interrogation and detention techniques is clearly evident in the Senate Intelligence Committee's executive summary of its investigative report, despite redactions (insisted upon by the CIA) to obfuscate the locations of these laboratories of cruel science and the identities of perpetrators.
At the helm of this human experimentation project were two psychologists hired by the CIA, James Mitchell and Bruce Jessen. They designed interrogation and detention protocols that they and others applied to people imprisoned in the agency's secret "black sites." Read more.
Ferguson Reverberates Around the World
Margaret Kimberly @ Black Agenda Report - President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder will not be given deference should they choose not to pursue federal prosecution in the Michael Brown case. They are finally being taken to task and will not be able to explain a decision to let Darren Wilson get away with murder. Read more.
Hollywood, the Police and the Poor
John Steppling @ Truthout - There is no more stark example of Hollywood and corporate media mystification than the presentation of American landscape in film and TV. This is true of both contemporary narratives, and of period pieces. And, really, of fantasy and futuristic stories. The vast majority of TV shows is set either in Los Angeles or New York. There are certainly exceptions, often Chicago is a stand in for New York, and San Francisco has long been a staple, but with only a handful of exceptions do cities such as Atlanta or Milwaukee or Philadelphia or Orlando or Cleveland become the backdrop for big-budget projects. Read more.
Abolishing the CIA
Robert C. Koehler @ Common Dreams - The shock resonating from the Senate Intelligence Committee's CIA torture report isn't due so much to the revelations themselves, grotesque as the details are, but to the fact that they're now officially public. National spokespersons (except for Dick Cheney) can no longer deny, quite so glibly, that the United States is what it claims its enemies to be.
We're responsible for the worst sort of abuses of our fellow human beings: A half-naked man freezes to death. A detainee is chained to the wall in a standing position for 17 days. The stories have no saving grace, not even "good intelligence." Read more.
Anti-police brutality rally paralyzes Mall of America
RT.com - Riot-equipped police have made at least two dozen arrests after a massive rally in one of America's largest shopping malls, where activists were protesting against racially charged police violence and interrupting the last pre-Christmas shopping weekend. Read more.
2 New York cops murdered in 'execution style' ambush
RT.com - Two NYPD officers have been shot dead at point blank range by a suspect who ambushed their patrol car 'execution style' in Brooklyn. The perpetrator fled the scene and committed suicide, authorities confirmed.
Both officers have succumbed to gunshot wounds after being admitted to hospital in critical condition, authorities have confirmed. Read more.
3D-printed legs gives disabled dog the joy of running
The Oil Price Crash of 2014
Post Carbon Institute - Oil prices have fallen by half since late June. This is a significant development for the oil industry and for the global economy, though no one knows exactly how either the industry or the economy will respond in the long run. Since it's almost the end of the year, perhaps this is a good time to stop and ask: (1) Why is this happening? (2) Who wins and who loses over the short term?, and (3) What will be the impacts on oil production in 2015? Read more.
Deemed Unsafe: Fracking shut down in New York and elsewhere
How One Indigenous Woman Took On a Multinational Mining Corporation... And Won
Sarah Lazare @ Common Dreams - For over three years, indigenous Peruvian farmworker Maxima Acuña de Chaupe has refused to allow a U.S.-based multinational corporation to turn her land into an open-pit gold mine, withstanding multiple violent eviction attempts by corporate and state agents.
On Wednesday, Acuña de Chaupe finally saw victory when a Peruvian appeals court struck down a lawsuit levied by the Yanacocha mine—which is 51 percent owned by Colorado's Newmont Mining Corporation—that had sought to expel and imprison the family for "invading" their own land. Read more.
War Crimes Case Against Bush Administration Filed in Germany
Obama authorizes 'economic embargo' on Russia's Crimea
RT.com - US President Barack Obama has authorized sanctions against individuals and entities operating in Russia's Crimean peninsula, according to the White House statement. Read more.
Chevron cancels Arctic drilling plans
The Hill - Chevron Corp. is suspending indefinitely its plans to drill for oil in the Beaufort Sea in Canada's Arctic.
Chevron told Canadian regulators of the cancellation Wednesday in a letter...read more.
NYC sued over violence against young inmates at notorious Rikers Island jail
RT.com - Federal prosecutors sued New York City on Thursday, alleging that the city has not sufficiently moved to reform the city's notorious Rikers Island jail, where "force is used against adolescents at an alarming rate," according to the US Justice Department.
In August, the Justice Department released a graphic 79-page report, which found a "deep-seated culture of violence" aimed at young offenders held at Rikers Island. Read More
Obesity can be viewed as disability – EU court
RT.com - Obese people can be considered disabled if extra weight hinders their "full and effective participation in professional life," the EU Court of Justice has ruled. The decision could have dramatic consequences for employees across the continent. Read more.
New York bans fracking because of uncertain health effects
The Verge - New York state officially banned fracking today, following a six-year-long moratorium on the practice. The ban means that New York is the largest region in the US to reject the economically advantageous practice for fear of increasing its inhabitants' exposure to various health risks. Read more.
New York State Just Banned Fracking
Mother Jones - New York is the second state to ban fracking, after Vermont did so in 2012. That move was largely symbolic, since Vermont has no natural gas to speak of. New York, by contrast, would have been a prize for the fracking industry, thanks to its massive share of the Marcellus shale formation. Read more.
US and Cuba to Restore Diplomatic Relations in Historic Overhaul
Nadia Prupis @ Common Dreams - Following Wednesday's momentous prisoner swap, U.S. officials said the country will restore full diplomatic relations with Cuba for the first time in more than 50 years, including re-opening of the American embassy in Havana which has been shuttered for nearly half a century.
In a speech on Wednesday, President Barack Obama called the U.S. embargo against Cuba "a failure." Read more.
Was Key Grand Jury Witness in Michael Brown Case a Racist, Mentally Ill, Lying Ex-Felon?
Despite Warnings of Future War, Obama to Impose New Russian Sanctions
Jon Queally @ Common Dreams - Instead of negotiations designed to end crisis over status of Ukraine, White House says president will sign quietly passed bill that critics says will solidify new Cold War. Read more.
Los Angeles lawyers stage die-in protest against police (VIDEO)
Guardian UK - Lawyers and law students in Los Angeles stage a die-in demonstration on Tuesday in protest against recent grand jury decisions not to indict white officers who killed unarmed black men. Read more.
Reporter James Risen Faces Subpoena in CIA Whistleblower Case
S.C. boy executed for 1944 murder is exonerated
CBS News - A 14-year-old South Carolina boy who was quickly convicted of murder and then executed in 1944 has been posthumously exonerated.
Judge Carmen Tevis Mullen vacated George Stinney, Jr.'s conviction on Wednesday, stating that the boy's prosecution was marked by "fundamental, Constitutional violations of due process." Read more.
Prosecute the Prosecutors: A Way to Justice in Staten Island, Ferguson and Cleveland
Michigan Chronicle - Thousands are protesting across the nation to seek justice in the Staten Island, Ferguson and Cleveland cases. Leaders from President Obama to members of Congress to state and local officials are joining an outraged public in calling for conversations about how and why unarmed young Black men and children have been killed by police in recent weeks. Angriness with police actions in African American communities has been simmering for decades. Read more.
Despite fierce NRA opposition, Vivek Murthy confirmed as new Surgeon General
Mark Karlin @ Buzzflash - Vivek Murthy, MD, was confirmed on Monday as the nation's next surgeon general - despite a strong lobbying push against him by the NRA, because he views gun violence as a public health problem. Read more.
Mike Gravel to Senator Mark Udall: Make Full Torture Probe Public Like I Did with Pentagon Papers
"Psychological Torture is Enshrined in U.S. Law": Complicity in Abuses Began Long Before Bush
Taliban attack Pakistan school killing mostly children
France 24 - At least 126 people, most of them students, were killed on Tuesday after Taliban gunmen stormed an army-run school in Pakistan's northwestern city of Peshawar, in the worst attack to hit the country in years. Read more.
Haiti PM steps down amid anti-govt protests
RT.com - Haitian Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe has announced his resignation following an eruption of long-brewing political discontent, and a commission's recommendation that he step down.
In a televised address early on Sunday morning, Lamothe said he was leaving his post "with a sense of accomplishment." Read more.
War by Media and the Triumph of Propaganda
John Pilger @ Truthout - Why has so much journalism succumbed to propaganda? Why are censorship and distortion standard practices? Why is the BBC so often a mouthpiece of rapacious power? Why do The New York Times and The Washington Post deceive their readers?
Why are young journalists not taught to understand media agendas and to challenge the high claims and low purpose of fake objectivity? And why are they not taught that the essence of so much of what's called the mainstream media is not information, but power? Read more.
Russia Pivots to Eurasia for Trade and Military Alliances
Black Youth-Organized Millions March NYC Draws Tens of Thousands in Movement's Biggest Protest Yet
Bush 'Intimately Involved' with CIA Torture, says Rove
Lauren McCauley @ Common Dreams - Former President George W. Bush knew and was "intimately involved" in the CIA's practice of torture, former Bush adviser and Republican strategist Karl Rove confirmed on Fox News Sunday.
Despite arguments made in the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee's report that the CIA had not alerted Bush and other top about the extent of the abuses until 2006, Rove told the morning show: "He made the decision." Read more.
Beverly Johnson: Bill Cosby Drugged Me. This Is My Story.
Beverly Johnson @ Vanity Fair - Like most Americans, I spent the 60s, 70s, and part of the 80s in awe of Bill Cosby and his total domination of popular culture. He was the first African American to star in a dramatic television series, I Spy, a show my family in Buffalo, New York, always watched. Cosby cut a striking figure on-screen then. He was funny, smart, and even elegant—all those wonderful things many white Americans didn't associate with people of color. In fact, as I thought of going public with what follows, a voice in my head kept whispering, "Black men have enough enemies out there already, they certainly don't need someone like you, an African American with a familiar face and a famous name, fanning the flames." Read more.
Protesters against police violence march in D.C., NYC
USA Today - A chanting crowd of about 10,000 protesters marched to the U.S. Capitol on Saturday to call for an end to racial profiling by police. A few hours later, a larger protest wound through the streets of Manhattan. Read more.
The Ominous 'Cromnibus,' A Budget Bill That Should Have Died
Campaign For America Future - With all of the justifiable anger directed at what's in the 2015 spending bill – the omnibus continuing resolution or "cromnibus" – that the House struggled to pass late Thursday, there is also a major story to be told about what's not in the bill. It's a story of missed opportunities that is as significant as the Wall Street giveaways, the kowtowing to fossil fuel interests and gratuitous swipes at conservative boogeymen that were written into this monstrosity. Read more.
GRIT tv: Noam Chomsky on slavery and the extermination of the indigenous population
Moyers & Company: Democrats, Not Just Republicans, Are Bowing Down to Wall Street
Convicted With No Evidence by an All-White Jury, Black Community Leader Faces Life in Prison
Truthout - As reports escalate of police assaults and murder of unarmed black men for "suspected" crimes, a jury trial certainly sounds like welcome justice.
Not so for many in Michigan, where a 66-year-old black activist, Rev. Edward Pinkney, convicted of felony election fraud by an all-white jury, faces a life sentence, amid accusations of trumped-up charges and no direct evidence of wrongdoing. Read more.
Silencing Dissent: U.N. Bars Climate Protesters from Putting "Keystone," "Kerry" or "U.S." on Signs
#WhiteCoatsforBlackLives: Medical Students Stage Nationwide Die-Ins
Jon Queally @ Common Dreams - Medical students at universities across the United States held dramatic die-in protests on Wednesday to show their solidarity with a growing protest movement against police brutality and other forms of systematic inequality taking place in low-income areas and communities of color nationwide. Read more.
Alternative Nobel: Fidel Castro wins China's Confucius Peace Prize
RT.com - Cuba's former leader Fidel Castro has been awarded the Confucius Peace Prize, China's alternative to the Nobel. Castro was praised for "important contributions on eliminating nuclear war after his retirement," and will get US$15,000. Read more.
Top Canada court rules cops don't need warrants to search cell phones
RT.com - In a major blow to privacy rights, the Supreme Court of Canada has decreed that police are allowed to conduct limited searches of suspects' cellphones upon arrest, without obtaining a search warrant, though officers must follow strict guidelines. Read more.
What They Haven't Told Us About the European Financial Crisis
Michael Nevradakis @ Truthout - University of Cambridge economist Ha-Joon Chang, author of 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism, discusses the ongoing financial crisis in Europe, the economic situation in Greece, the myths surrounding the crisis and the new economic bubble, which he argues is about to burst. Read more.
Latin American Indigenous Groups Decry Corporate Destruction of Land
San Francisco, California whacked by 'Pineapple Express' storm
SF Chronicle - A powerful storm churned down the West Coast Thursday, bringing strong gales and much-needed rain and snow that caused widespread blackouts in Northern California and whiteouts in the Sierra Nevada.
The brunt of the storm hit the San Francisco Bay Area, flooding freeways, toppling trees and keeping thousands of people home from work and school. Read more.
California Flooded: Torrential rains close schools and highways
USA Today - A ferocious storm system pounded a huge swath of the West Coast with heavy rain, hurricane-force winds and power outages Thursday, even forcing San Francisco to shut down its famed cable car system.
In some parts of northern California, the storm produced sustained, hurricane-force winds of 78 mph and one gust of 147 mph in the Sierra. Read more.
Udall blasts Obama for breaking word on CIA torture disclosures
Denver Post Politics - A day after the Senate made public its report on CIA abuses following the 9/11 attacks, Sen. Mark Udall of Colorado took to the floor of the Senate to disclose more details about the agency's treatment of terrorism suspects.
He also blasted President Barack Obama on Wednesday for breaking his word to shine light on what Udall has dubbed a "dark chapter of our history." Read more.
Holiday Season Survival: Low Wage Workers and the Gutting of Christmas
Guardian UK - Winter is coming – and the ranks of the survivalists are growing.
Every holiday season, argues accounting giant PwC, there are two kinds of consumers: survivalists and selectionists.
Survivalists earn less than $50,000 a year and have to make sure they can afford every purchase. Read more.
There Should Be "No Impunity" for US Torture
Inter Press Service - The timing was inadvertently impeccable as two stinging reports on harsh interrogation techniques – by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in the United States and former military regimes in Brazil – were released on the eve of the 30th anniversary of the U.N. Convention Against Torture. Read more.
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Interrogations that lasted for days on end. Detainees forced to stand on broken legs, or go 180 hours in a row without sleep. A prison so cold, one suspect essentially froze to death. The Senate Intelligence Committee is finally releasing its review of the CIA's detention and interrogation programs. And it is brutal. Read more.
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But our nation is distracted by race. And millions of white Americans are under the illusion that what was done to Michael Brown and Eric Garner can't happen to them. Read more.
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Assange shared an enlightening story about a Kurdish TV station that had been shut down in Denmark. The story, like so many others – from diplomatic cables with undiplomatic comments to hundreds of uninvestigated war crimes in Iraq – came to his attention through a leaked cryptogram. Read more.
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China opens 32 high-speed rail routes in grand expansion
RT.com - China is launching 32 high-speed train routes on December 10. The network extension includes a link between the biggest city Shanghai and the manufacturing hub of Guangzhou right next to Hong Kong. Read more.
Supreme Court Orders BP to Pay Up
Sarah Lazare @ Common Dreams - Despite BP's public relations blitz and high-priced team of lawyers, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected the oil giant's challenge to a settlement of billions of dollars for the 2010 Deepwater Horizon explosion oil spill.
The challenge was just the latest attempt by the company to avoid paying those impacted by the disaster. Read more.
Senate CIA Torture Report Details 'Ruthless' Brutality of Bush Era
Jon Queally @ Common Dreams - Senate Intelligence Committee's report says CIA abuse violated 'U.S. law, treaty obligations, and our values.' Journalists, experts and human rights advocates say that torture program under the Bush administration was systematically orchestrated by top officials. Read more.
Senate accuses CIA of torturing prisoners, overstepping legal boundaries
RT.com - The intelligence committee of the United States Senate has released its long-awaited congressional report detailing the CIA's use of torture on prisoners in the wake of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
On Tuesday, the executive summary of the roughly 6,000-page report was finally published by the Senate Intelligence Committee, for the first time exposing the panel's findings following a four-year-long investigation conducted at a cost of more than $40 million. Read more.
Extinction Rate Rivals That of Dinosaurs, 2014 Likely Hottest Year Ever
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French black justice minister under fire after slamming Ferguson police brutality
RT.com - The French justice minister has been critical of US police violence after the Ferguson decision. She tweeted Bob Marley's lyric "Kill them before they grow" referring to teenagers shot down by law enforcers. Read more.
US seeks to overthrow political leadership in Russia - Foreign Ministry
RT.com - By imposing sanctions on Moscow, the US aims to change the political leadership, says the Russian Foreign Ministry, adding that Washington is "twisting the arms" of its allies so that they can continue an "anti-Russian front." Read more.
At Lima Talks, Nations Worst Hit by Global Warming Say Climate Aid Isn't Charity, But Reparations
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RT.com - The US has taken up Uruguay's offer of resettling six detainees from Guantanamo Bay detention center, which has stained the reputation of Barack Obama after he promised to close the facility in 2008.
Six individuals who have been held more than 12 years at Guantanamo Bay have been transferred to Uruguay where they will be resettled as refugees...read more.
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RT.com - Protests against police brutality have turned violent in Berkeley, California, as officers are resorting to rubber bullets, flash bang grenades and tear gas in a tense standoff with demonstrators demanding justice.
The scene in this liberal college town remains chaotic Saturday night as reports of injured protesters at the hands of the police begin emerged. The protesters took to the streets to express their anger over a series of high-profile incidences involving the death of black Americans at the hands of white police officers - all of whom were cleared of any wrongdoing by the courts. Read more.
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"One of the pieces (of bones) belongs to one of the students," a federal official told the AFP news agency on Saturday on condition of anonymity. Read more.
The Police Killings of Unarmed Black Men is about a Larger State of Official Terror
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1000s protest police violence across US for 3rd night
RT.com - Thousands of people in New York and other US cities protested for a third night against the use of lethal force by police against minorities, as prosecutors pledged to consider charges against an officer in the killing of an unarmed black man last month.
The killing of 28-year-old Akai Gurley, who was gunned down in November by a police officer in a darkened public housing stairwell in Brooklyn, is the latest in an avalanche of deadly police actions across the country which many deem racially-biased. Read more.
'Don't Waste Our Time': Angry Mother Denounces Ferguson Commission
NBC News - Anger and anguish greeted the first meeting Monday of the Missouri governor's commission tasked with figuring out the "social and economic conditions" contributing to violent protests after the shooting death of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown by a white Ferguson police officer.
The meeting, at the Ferguson Community Center, was supposed to be largely devoted to organizing the proceedings, but community members quickly let the commission know they wanted progress now. Read more.
"It was Criminal": Retired NYPD Detective Slams Eric Garner Grand Jury Decision
A Racist and Unjust System? A Discussion on Policing in Wake of Michael Brown and Eric Garner Deaths
Pioneering Politician Herman Badillo, the First Puerto Rican Elected to Congress, Dies at 85
Congress gives Native American lands to foreign mining company with new NDAA
RT.com - Congress is poised to give a foreign mining company 2,400 acres of national forest in Arizona that is cherished ancestral homeland to Apache natives. Controversially, the measure is attached to annual legislation that funds the US Defense Department. Read more.
Unarmed black man killed by white Phoenix officer
USA Today - It's "open season for killing black men," according to a community leader in Phoenix where another unarmed black man is dead at the hands of local police. An officer said he felt threatened by Rumain Brisbon before shooting him twice in the torso. Read more.
The decision not to indict Eric Garner's killer is just the latest story in a long history of violence against black men
Fania Davis @ YES! Magazine - I am among the millions who have experienced the shock, grief, and fury of losing someone to racial violence.
When I was 15, two close friends were killed in the Birmingham Sunday School bombing carried out by white supremacists trying to terrorize the rising civil rights movement. Only six years later, my husband was shot and nearly killed by police who broke into our home, all because of our activism at the time, especially in support of the Black Panthers. Read more.
Brazil and Uruguay begin process of dumping US dollar
RT.com - Brazil and Uruguay have switched to settling bilateral trade with local currency to stimulate turnover, bypassing the US dollar.
Payments in the Brazilian real and Uruguayan peso started on Monday. The agreement was signed on November 2 by...read more.
Selling Individual Cigarettes or Walking Down the Street Are Not Grounds for Killing People
Mark Karlin @ Buzzflash - An excellent piece in Colorlines by Kai Wright, "The Ugly Idea That Killed Eric Garner," focuses on the "broken windows" policing policy - applied in cities across the nation - but most prominently in New York City as a "vaunted" law enforcement policy: read more.
CIA torture report to be published on Monday without the word 'torture'
RT.com - The long-awaited publication of the so-called "CIA torture report" is expected to finally occur early next week, but would-be readers, be warned: according to leaks, the executive summary will be absent any and all use of the word "torture."
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-California), the chair of the United States Senate Intelligence Committee, now says that the public will be able to read the executive summary of her panel's years-long investigation into the CIA's use of enhanced interrogation techniques next week, with journalist Jason Leopold reporting that the release of the document will come as early as Monday. Read more.
Another Unarmed Black Male Killed: Phoenix police shooting is latest to ignite outcry
Miami Herald - The deadly shooting of a black, unarmed drug suspect by a white Phoenix police officer who mistook a pill bottle for a gun demonstrates the challenges law enforcement agencies face at a time of unrest over police tactics.
Phoenix police say the officer feared the suspect was armed during their struggle...read more.
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Jon Queally @ Common Dreams - Black rivers of crude oil could be seen flowing across the desert sands in the eastern part of Israel Thursday morning and people on both sides of the border with neighboring Jordan were rushed to hospitals after inhaling toxic fumes from the massive spill that occurred after a major pipeline ruptured, possibly by a maintenace crew. Read more.
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USA Today - Time and again, athletes are told they should be role models. That people -- young people in particular -- are watching their every move, and they should act accordingly.
Jared Cook and his St. Louis Rams teammates did exactly that. Read more.
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RT.com - World-famous physicist Stephen Hawking told the BBC he believes future developments in artificial intelligence (AI) have the potential to eradicate mankind.
The Cambridge professor, who relies on a form of artificial intelligence to communicate, said if technology could match human capabilities "it would take off on its own, and re-design itself at an ever increasing rate." Read more.
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ABC News - A large crowd of protesters took over a section of Manhattan's West Side Highway and were in a standoff with police Wednesday evening, hours after a grand jury declined to indict a white police officer in the death of an unarmed black man on Staten Island earlier this summer — in a case that was recorded on video and showed the dead man crying "I can't breathe." Read more.
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Q: Update only first row of pandas dataframe in every iteration I am iterating over pandas dataframe where on a given condition it selects a subset of dataframe. On the selected dataframe I want to update on first row of a specific column
I have tried with replace method of pandas but it replaces everything. I just want to update first row and nothing else
for unique_master_pr in same_date_PR_unique:
    dataframe_from_master = pr_event_data_copy[pr_event_data_copy['PR'] == unique_master_pr].reset_index(drop=True)

    temp_frame  = dataframe_from_master['t_code'].iloc[0].replace('Change Purchase Requisition', 'Create Purchase Requisition')
    print(temp_frame)

Input :
PR number   Tcode
  PR1     change PR
  PR1     change PR

Output :
PR number   Tcode
  PR1     create PR
  PR1     change PR

A:
I am iterating over pandas dataframe where on a given condition it selects a subset of dataframe. On the selected dataframe I want to update on first row of a specific column

To accomplish this:

*

*Create a subset of dataframe:
new_df = original_df[original_df["condition_col"]==unique_master_pr]

*

*Update first row of a specific column
new_df.iloc[0, specific_col_number] = updated_value
Note, I'm not sure this is the most efficient method to achieve your outcome, but I would need more information on the problem to optimize it further.

A: One of the way
dataframe_from_master['Tcode'].iloc[0] = "create PR"

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There are valuable methods, various tricks and tips that can be applied with any search tool, and innumerable ways to define an issue before entering the first keystroke. Yet for reasons of economics or habit, most of us will limit our efforts to application of a few comfortable strategies or engagement with one or two tools.
If there were but one way to do it right, then legal research technology would either be a natural monopoly (no more than one is necessary, and once that platform accrues dominant market share, there's no market opportunity for the a second), or a pure commodity (if there's only one way to research then everyone can build to that standard). But imperfect information, different tool sets, and variety of user types and needs means that at best an individual might be able to find alignment of all elements, but that provides no assurance that the next user will get equivalent or any value from following in lockstep.
Courtesy of a tweet from LSO's David Whelan, I learned of a fascinating comparative study out of the UK on the information retrieval habits of different professionals, including legal professionals. The legal group was comprised of 108 researchers (which, through self-identification, included 51 associates, 27 partners and 16 librarians) who responded to a survey posted in the LexisNexis-sponsored LexTalk legal community forum. Now, whether we should expect legal researchers to possess a diligence and commitment to the task on par with medical or patent researchers (or recruitment professionals) is an open question (spoiler alert: we don't), but I was still quite surprised by results that suggest a fairly lackadaisical approach to research.
Prior to the advent of AI-driven or even natural language query-augmented research tools, it was accepted that digital legal research required at minimum, an understanding of your database contents, the time and cranial capacity to review and understand your findings, and either a wizard-like skill at crafting sophisticated Boolean query strings or a Sisyphean patience for the drudgery of trying again, and again, and again….and again, with different keyword and approaches to ensure you exhausted all possibilities. Whereas the patent analysts surveyed in this UK steady fit that description, reporting 12 hours as a median search session time and 15 being the median number of queries, our colleagues in the legal profession barely warmed their terminals with a 15 minute median for search sessions and 3 (three!!!!) being the median number of search queries. With respect to evaluation of the results, legal researchers reported engaging with an average (median) of 21 results for an average (median) of 5 minutes per result.
Imagined as a behavior of the single researcher, we have a picture of a lawyer who enters a search, scans the first page of results for a few minutes, maybe reads a few documents. Does this a couple more times and then wraps up the effort.
This may be entirely appropriate to the circumstances of a given lawyer for a given matter. After all, just as there isn't one way to research, there isn't one reason to research. And someone who knows his or her area shouldn't have to spend more time than necessary to grab the insight or find the document needed.
The UK study also showed that legal researchers have a much greater propensity than the other groups to rely on the relevance rankings of their tools and to prioritize currency/recency of content over precision relative to the query. Another way of describing this, is that legal researchers are more likely to go in with an idea of what they want and they stop looking when they find it, whereas health care or patent researchers are more inclined to go in with a theory and stop when their theory is proved and alternate theories are disproved.
All digital legal research tools shine light into the darkness of their records. Page 1 of the results to an initial query shines light in one spot. It's up to the research to call on the tool(s) to shine more light, yet we don't seem to do that, nor do we appear inclined to do it.
This should come as no surprise. We've already accepted that in that other high-volume-of-information-needle-in-a-haystack parts of legal practice like litigation discovery or M&A due diligence, information gets missed and augmenting human limitations with technology has effectively become necessary to ensure a minimum standard of competence. Yet compared to other professional research groups, we've collectively shown remarkably little interest in improving the ways in which our research tools can help us. As shown in the image below, when asked about the ideal search engine, the highest value legal researchers placed on a search system feature set – recency of retrieved results – was essentially table stakes for other professions and in other applications.
It's time we start thinking differently about how we research the law. Of equal importance, it's time we start talking about how we do it. That UK study? It highlights how we keep our bad habits to ourselves and how there aren't enough people out there sharing the good habits, with over 50% of legal researchers saying they don't share their strategies with others and less than 5% indicating they share strategies beyond their organization.
There isn't one right way to research the law. The Boolean string is but one approach, and an approach we aren't even coming close to using to its fullest potential. Yet even as we re-learn our original training, we need to look beyond Boolean, and we need to open up discussions about alternate methods.
So much more is possible. What is it going to take to get us going?
Does hourly billing having any relevance to the way in which legal professionals carry out their research?
Also, does having fragmented databases effect research methodology. This may have some contribution to the fact that researchers are hesitant in sharing their strategies – in the sense that having access to relevant information and on which database is part of the strategy. Researchers aren't necessarily subscribing to the same databases and databases have varying amounts of information. So then legal research methods and strategies are a part of the competitive edge for each firm and researcher.
I am a legal research lawyer, and for several years I participated in CPD training where I shared my tricks for expert boolean searching. Unfortunately, some of my best tricks are no longer functional now that the platforms are catering to people who want to use the platform like Google. I have asked repeatedly to have the old functionality added back, but the platforms just keep releasing more gimmicky features.
The statistics on the amount of time spent researching in legal matters vs. other matters is shocking! There are so many times I have found the most relevant case after patiently passing through dozens of irrelevant cases in a single search.
Just imagine working in a dual law system Island (Puerto Rico): Civil and Federal. And on top of that duality, our two languages (Spanish and English). There are many things to consider to really call yourself a "legal researcher". And believe me, I do not think I will be able to ever call myself that. (I would be lying to myself and to others). It means too much to say, specially in a world where the battle is who does it better for the money you can afford to pay!
Since the eighties I have seen how the legal research have been changing, specially how we have had to try to adjust rapidly to one platform or the other making the best with the information you can find in those numerous databases.
Legal researchers should be consider magicians in the legal world!


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That makes sense...if you believe that the future is a linear extension of the past. In other words, if the competitor that might be your biggest future challenge is one of those that vexes you today; and if the innovative solution that tomorrow's customers will embrace is an adaptation of one you use today.
Except that's not how most companies rise to their prominence, much less preeminence, in an industry.
More often there's a substantial change - for instance an entirely new category of equipment, or a radically different business model (like PaaS) that interrupts the linear evolution and catches industry stalwarts unawares.
Manufacturing companies are inherently linear. Products get visualized, prototyped, then manufactured. Materials come in one end of the factory and finished goods leave from the other. Process gets dissected step-by-step in pursuit of improvement.
That's valuable where it provides structure for consistent improvement and quality, but it's a liability when it interferes with adaptation.
And a startling number of companies which are meticulous about monitoring metrics in manufacturing are quite cavalier about analogous opportunities on the front-end of the business. For instance hesitating to implement CRM or marketing automation because "we've never used that and our people would be uncomfortable with the change."
You still use a fax?
An example about which we can probably all chuckle is the lingering presence of fax numbers on business cards and websites.
At least most of the machines were upgraded from rolls of coded paper to plain paper sheet fed mechanisms some years ago. But the persistence as a communications mode defies both practicality and efficiency.
Except...it's not really funny. It illustrates the problem with linear adaptation. Today letters & proposals should be delivered with technology that provides tracking metrics around opens, reads, shares and even online secure execution of agreements with integrated payment options.
That's at least an email step removed and possible further.
Yet the fax machine "mentality" anchors companies' expectation. That is inconvenient for prospects and customers in the near term, and it confounds buyer expectations in the longer term.
The trend toward conversational marketing is a great example.
Most people in the B2B sales space are aware of having seen live chat. Some have engaged. Often the exposure is only in their role as consumers because few B2B industrial companies have yet implemented the technology.
Particularly fascinating (and perhaps telling) is the evolution I've seen a couple times as B2B complex sales companies have tried it.
It works. In fact it works so well that buyers (you know the ones whom you're not sure how much they really use your website) engage: consistently and vigorously. And the engagement reflects the entire buyer experience - awareness, consideration and decision stage prospects, existing customers and tech support.
Think about this for a second. If your switchboard was flooded with calls would you unplug the phone line? Of course not. You'd figure out how to answer, route and satisfy the callers.
Why are these conversations any different? Clearly they're not for the customers....they're only different for the seller. And the difference is in the anchoring effect and expectation of linear adaptation.
Is a website owned by IT? By marketing?
Although the latter is vastly preferable to the former, the mindset that it's solely resident with one function or phase in the customer experience is faulty. It leads to the expectation that live chat is a marketing function, to be staffed and supported by small staffs focused on graphic design, trade show planning and content creation.
Your prospects, buyers and customers DON'T CARE about your organizational silos. They want to speak to someone who can answer their questions and provide insights. You've almost certainly packed your website with all your specs and data sheets...so anyone who's contacting you wants more than simple info. They expect expertise.
And without exception, every sales team with whom I speak laments the difficulty they have connecting with prospects and customers for meaningful conversations.
And yet....live chat is ignored.
It's time to change that, and industrial companies have an opportunity to be early adopters - pioneers almost.
Live chat has become an effective tool for conversational marketing and is quickly branching into conversational sales and conversational service.
The technology is easily implemented - not only to put the tools on a website, including natural mobile optimization - but also to naturally route and transfer inquiries, to set on/off duty or availability, to respond appropriately by page content and more.
In fact the conversion forms which have become increasingly common in recent years are gradually giving way to chat, often with quick multiple choice questions for lead qualification and customer routing.
Affordable and intelligent bots are readily available. I'll grant that the marketing team that canned chat because it was too successful did spend a lot of time answering the same questions repeatedly. Easily programmed and conversational bots are easily implemented and help visitors quickly get the answers to the typical 20% of queries which constitute 80% of the interactions. Seamless transfer from bot to human is easy - so visitors aren't frustrated with experiences like the auto phone attendants which are the stuff of comedy shows.
And the technology is reasonably priced.
Behind decisions like this lies a fundamental mindset question. Is your company naturally inclined to establish your framework and then try to guide customers accordingly...or do you solve for customer/buyer/prospect expectations and build your experience around them?
That's likely emerging as the single most important predictor of competitive success.
Is conversational marketing or sales the acid test for that? No. But it's a representative example and could be indicative of mindset.
If you're interested in learning about how conversational sales, service or marketing could enhance your buyers' experience and improve your results....well, then you know what's coming. Let's chat!


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Q: received sms from special number go to my program and other received sms go to inbox of phone I wrote send and receive program in android. when sms received from special number, sms go to my program and body of sms , show in text. but for received sms from other phone number, sms go to inbox of phone and program isn't opened.
Now in my program , for every received sms, program is opened and body of sms is shown in textview.
if condition didn't work!!!
i put my code, please check my code.
SmsReceiver.java
import android.content.BroadcastReceiver;
import android.content.Context;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.telephony.SmsMessage;
public class SmsReceiver extends BroadcastReceiver {
    public String str = "";
    static final String ACTION =
            "android.provider.Telephony.SMS_RECEIVED";
    @Override
    public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) {
         if (intent.getAction().equals(ACTION)) {
        Bundle bundle = intent.getExtras();
        SmsMessage[] msgs = null;
        if (bundle != null) {
            Object[] pdus = (Object[]) bundle.get("pdus");
            msgs = new SmsMessage[pdus.length];

            for (int i = 0; i < msgs.length; i++)
            {
                msgs[i] = SmsMessage.createFromPdu((byte[]) pdus[i]);
                String msg_from = msgs[i].getOriginatingAddress();
                if(msg_from.equals("+9891--------"))
                {
                str += "SMS from " + msgs[i].getOriginatingAddress();
                str += " :";
                str += msgs[i].getMessageBody().toString();
                str += "\n";
               }
            }
            Intent act = new Intent(context, MainActivity.class);
            act.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK);
            act.putExtra("message", str);
            context.startActivity(act);
            }
        abortBroadcast();
        }
    }
}

A: You should do the context.startActivity(act); in the if condition. I think you mistakenly put it out of the if condition.
Also the abortBroadcast() should be in if condition coz that makes sense, if the msg is not from the special number it should go to the inbox....RIGHT :)
Edited:
public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) {
    if (intent.getAction().equals(ACTION)) {
        Bundle bundle = intent.getExtras();
        SmsMessage[] msgs = null;
        if (bundle != null) {
            Object[] pdus = (Object[]) bundle.get("pdus");
            msgs = new SmsMessage[pdus.length];

            for (int i = 0; i < msgs.length; i++) {
                msgs[i] = SmsMessage.createFromPdu((byte[]) pdus[i]);
                String msg_from = msgs[i].getOriginatingAddress();
                if (msg_from.equals("+9891--------")) {
                    String str = "SMS from " + msgs[i].getOriginatingAddress();
                    str += " :";
                    str += msgs[i].getMessageBody().toString();
                    str += "\n";
                    Intent act = new Intent(context, MainActivity.class);
                    act.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK);
                    act.putExtra("message", str);
                    context.startActivity(act);
                    abortBroadcast();
                }
            }

        }

    }
}


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Locked-out Regina refinery workers fight to defend pensions
By Joe Young
Over 700 workers at the Coop Refinery in Regina, Saskatchewan, are fighting to defend their pensions. They were locked out Dec. 5 after they voted overwhelmingly to strike.
Unifor, the workers union, mobilized hundreds of members from across Canada Jan. 20 to defy an injunction that limits pickets. The bosses are bringing managers and strikebreakers to try to keep production going. They got the courts to impose a 10-minute limit for the picketers stopping scab vehicles from getting into the plant. There were 14 arrests, including Jerry Dias, the national union president. The union now faces fines of 100,000 (Canadian dollars) for violating the injunction ($75,963).
"It's in the tough times that solidarity means something," Sophie Albert, president of Unifor Local 522 in Montreal, who came to support the locked- out workers, told the Regina Leader-Post. "Maybe one day it's going to be my local that needs some help, and we're going to need people coming our way." The Canadian Labour Congress and several national unions have pledged their support.
The owners want to get rid of the workers' defined benefit pension plan that is completely paid by the company. They demand workers choose between a new plan that doesn't guarantee what workers will get or keep the present plan with workers having to pay part of the costs.
Kevin Bittman, union president at the refinery, told this Militant worker-correspondent in a phone interview that without the union workforce in the plant there are major safety issues. "They have taken 280 process workers and replaced them with 120 managers," he said. "The company is bringing people in with helicopters and has built a camp to house 500."
There are no negotiations scheduled and the company says it won't negotiate as long as the picketers' blockade is in place.
"The employer [made] $2.5 billion in the last three years," said Scott Doherty, chief negotiator for the union. "There is no reason this employer can't afford to continue to make the pension contributions it does."
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INNOVALGA
Boosting the emerging and sustainable microalgae and seaweed industry in Spain: diversification of species and applications with high commercial and environmental value. Funded in grants to groups of entities that carry out investment and reform projects in research for technological development, innovation and the balance of the commercialisation chain in the fisheries and aquaculture sector within the framework of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan (PRTR).
REBECASeaweed
Implementing an ex situ Culture Collection of seaweeds from the Macaronesian region with increased interest in aquaculture and biotechnology. Funded under the Safe Seaweed Coalition's first call for projects in 2021.
Proyecto Algas 2021
The Algas 2021 project aims to test the production of microalgae in vocational training school laboratories in order to subsequently develop different applications. Funded in the 2021 call for grants for the implementation of innovation and applied research projects and knowledge transfer in vocational training, by the Ministry of Education and Vocational Training.
CCOST SeaWheat
CA20106 COST Action - Tomorrow's 'wheat of the sea': Ulva, a model for an innovative mariculture. Funded in the Open Call - collection 2020 (OC-2020-1), COST "European Cooperation in Sicience and Technology".
FP – Programa Primera Experiencia en las Administraciones Públicas de Canarias
Hiring by public administrations and public institutional sector entities of unemployed young people over 16 and under 30 years old, in the form of internship contracts. Grant for the first professional experience programme in Public Administrations in the framework of the EU-funded NextGenerationEU Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan. Call 2021.
ALIZIO
Canary Islands algae, blue biotechnology associated with biodiversity. Project co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) with a co-financing rate of 85% in the framework of the Canary Islands ERDF Operational Programme 2014-2020 and the other 15% by funds from the Government of the Canary Islands.
REBECA / REBECA-CCT
Network of Excellence in Blue Biotechnology. Consolidation, Certification and Transfer. Project co-financed 85% with ERDF funds from the Territorial Cooperation Programme INTERREG V A Spain-Portugal MAC 2014-2020, in its second call for projects.
IS_MIRRI21
Implementation and sustainability of microbial resource research infrastructure for the 21st century. This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation programme, under the Grant Agreement no 871129.
NEWTECHAQUA
New technologies, Tools and Strategies for a Sustainable, Resilient and Innovative European Aquaculture. This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 Programme under grant agreement no 86265.
Boosting Research Excellence & Innovation Capacity in Outermost Regions. This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 824550.
CIGUARISK
Food risks associated with ciguatoxins: monitoring and tracking the toxins and toxin-producing organisms in marine ecosystems (CIGUARISK). This project receives funding from the "R + D + I Projects" RETOS INVESTIGACIÓN "program of the General Directorate of Scientific and Technical Research, General Subdirectorate of Research Projects (Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, AEI, FEDER).
The Spanish Bank of Algae participates in the Blue Biotechnology and Aquaculture Platform (BIOASIS Gran Canaria) leading the VALORA, BIORREFINERÍA, BIORREM and AQUACIRCULAR projects. This initiative is promoted by the Cabildo de Gran Canaria through Sociedad de Promoción Económica de Gran Canaria (SPEGC) and is funded by the Ministry of Science and Innovation (formerly the Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness).
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Q: iOS and Android Installation (direct testing) Is is possible to directly deploy apps on ios or android devices just for testing?
My Background:
I am currently developing iOS and Android apps but using only emulators.
Maybe you can consider me as an intermediate mobile developer but newbie in direct installation of application created.
Also, I'm afraid my iPhone or my android devices get destroyed if I will try some of the blogs tutorials found on the net.

A: You can try your application on actual mobile devices on both platforms.
With Android is pretty straightforward: just plugin your device to your computer's USB port. If you happen to have proper drivers for it, whenever you run your application from Eclipse IDE, you will be asked if you want to run your application directly on the device. Make sure you enable debugging on your device.
With iOS, it's also fairly easy. Just plug your iPhone/iPad/iPodTouch to your Mac, launch XCode and select device before pressing run. You might need to create a provisioning profile for it (you will need a Apple iOS Developer Account for this).
I don't think you will ruin any device just by following (and installing) tutorials from the net.

A: For Android: Yes, you can run the apps directly from Eclipse or Netbeans on your device, works exactly as with the emulator. To make real apps you have to test them on real devices!
You wont destroy your device. Read the Android SDK "getting started" stuff.
Can't really say about iOS though.

A: You can always buy a second hand cheap phone and use it.
I started developing apps in the Android emulator and I was surprised about the big difference between the emulator en a real device, which really made it worth to buy one of these terminals.


Deconsecrating is a 14 letter long Word starting with D and ending with G. Below are Total 3402 words made out of this word.
Note There are 5 vowel letters and 9 consonant letters in the word deconsecrating. D is 4th, E is 5th, C is 3rd, O is 15th, N is 14th, S is 19th, R is 18th, A is 1st, T is 20th, I is 9th, G is 7th, Letter of Alphabet series.


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2008 Reds
Short Hops
—The Reds have hired former Angels and Mariners GM Bill Bavasi as a special assistant. Bavasi, of course, has spent the last five years destroying the Seattle organization. Crosley Field Terrace is not impressed.
–Reds AA farmhand Sam Lecure took a perfect game into the 8th inning last night in Chattanooga.
–Aaron Harang is returning to the starting rotation on Sunday. Let us all rejoice.
–CFT points to this Forbes study about fan loyalty in sport. It's an interesting topic, though the methodology seems to be screwy.
Reds Trivia 8/9/08
Stay optimistic!
Blame Chad for creating this mess. Chad launched Redleg Nation in February 2005, and has been writing about the Reds ever since. His first book, "The Big 50: The Men and Moments That Made the Cincinnati Reds" is now available in bookstores and online, at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and wherever fine books are sold. You can also find Chad's musings about the Cincinnati Reds in the pages of Cincinnati Magazine. You can email Chad at chaddotson@redlegnation.com.
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A fully featured recipe database app enabling you to create recipes, meal plans, shopping lists and even ebooks of your favourite recipes. Allows importing of recipes from supported websites quickly and easily and has the ability to "clip" recipe text from existing documents or websites not supported by the app. Has comprehensive sorting and search functions and can sync with an accessible iPhone companion app. Also enables recipe sharing via email, blog posting and other methods. This app is designed for those who love cooking or collecting recipes and are serious about organising and collating them. The app has some very advanced features, such as creating calendar-integrated meal plans and is not for someone after a simple database with no frills. In saying that, it's probably the best Mac app in my collection and is well worth paying for if, like me, your passion is cooking and sharing recipes. 98% of the app is accessible and the parts that aren't, such as some unlabelled buttons, are either for very advanced users or can be labelled easily for OS X 10.7 Lion VoiceOver users. Someone who just wants to import/manually enter recipes and perform searches should have no trouble. Recipe importing is the easiest way to get your recipes into Mac Gourmet Deluxe, especially for beginning Mac users or to gain familiarity with the app before manually adding recipes. The importing process is straightforward and can be accomplished in several different ways, the simplest being to select the text of the recipe from start to finish and then "clipping" it by either performing a copy and paste into the "clippings" category in the app or via a keyboard shortcut attached to an option in the "Services" menu. The keyboard shortcuts for clipping recipes first need to be enabled in Safari, Mail, Text Edit, Pages etc and instructions for doing this are very well documented in the accompanying user guide for the app.
The only caveat is that when first setting up the app after installation, you should use the "normal/mail" view for best accessibility rather than the "wide screen" view. Using the normal mode presents the app much like the Apple Mail app which most users will be familiar with. This means information is presented in columns and tables, and recipe text is presented in HTML format for easier navigation. This app has a wealth of keyboard shortcuts which are especially useful when importing recipes. Most functions can be accomplished through the menu system if not through keyboard shortcuts or on-screen buttons. There may be the occasional button that is not labelled, but this is easily remedied using VoiceOver's label function. All buttons do have help tags associated with them, so if you have the option enabled in VoiceOver, you will eventually hear the help text spoken which tells you each button's function for easier labelling. Many of the intuitive Mac shortcuts, such as Command I to bring up an information dialog about a recipe work well. Manually entering a recipe can seem a bit daunting at first but is mostly made up of tables, edit fields, combo boxes and check boxes, all familiar controls. However, edit fields from within a table, such as when typing an ingredient name, do require you to press VO Space twice to activate the edit cursor and combo boxes sometimes require a VO Space. (This will become intuitive once done a few times.) You may also find the last text you typed is spoken and automatically typed into the next edit field when in the ingredients table. Either delete this text or just keep typing. Mac Gourmet also learns over time which ingredients and measurement units you use and will try to intuitively enter this information for you once you start typing. This can be useful when entering a lot of ingredients to save time, but if you don't want the option presented to you, just keep typing. These quirks I've only found happen in the Ingredients table of the new recipe dialog. This is why I suggest importing a recipe first or downloading one of the freely available recipe sample databases until you get the hang of things.


Our company is a leading athletic retailer offering the best selection of brand dress like Gina Bacconi and Adrianna Papell and Whistles . Our company operates more than 50 online stores in around worldwide.
Our mission is to connect to young, fashion conscious individuals through a premium brand experience featuring the best selection of authentic inspired products. We define this premium experience through our product, our presentation, and our people.
We offer the best selection of premium brands and styles—delivering a relevant product assortment that connects with our customers' dynamic lifestyle. This premium experience, for our consumers, is driven by quality and not price. Our assortment is focused on everyday sport footwear (products that are made for sport but primarily worn for fashion or every day use), but we also carry the best performance and athletic casual footwear in the mall and online.
We create a premium presentation in-store and online by telling fresh, compelling stories about the brands, categories and styles we carry. By creating an engaging environment, we help the customer easily navigate through our great selection and find the product that is right for them. Our presentation is clean, well organized and highlights key products that attract the attention of mall and web shoppers.
The key to creating a premium experience is our people. Our focus is to hire people who are passionate about womens wear and servicing customers. Associates who maintain or exceed our standards of excellence help bring our brand to life in-store and online.
We are not here just to sell more athletic dress. We believe that a new dress can change a person's – day, week, month or year. We can change a person's outlook on life with the right dress.