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Category:July 28, 2010US adds 173,000 jobs in August; unemployment rate drops to seven year lowMonday, September 7, 2015
The US economy added 173,000 jobs in August, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported on Friday. The unemployment rate fell from 5.3 to 5.1 percent, the lowest since April 2008.
Although August job gains were lower than most economists forecast, job growth numbers for June and July were revised upwards by a combined 44,000. Average job gains over the past three months stand at 221,000, compared to March-May’s 189,000 monthly average. Over the past twelve months, job growth has averaged 247,000 per month.
Average hourly earnings rose 0.3 percent, or 8 cents, marking the largest increase in earnings in seven months. Hourly earnings had risen by 6 cents in July. Wages have risen by 2.2 percent over the past year.
Job growth in August was primarily concentrated in the health care and social assistance, financial activities, and professional and business services sectors. Those three areas of the economy added a combined 108,000 jobs. Food service and drinking places employment increased by 26,000 over the month, and other economic sectors saw employment hold steady. Manufacturing, on the other hand, saw employment decline by 17,000 in August. A stronger dollar and worldwide economic weakness make US exports less desirable, leading to a flattening in manufacturing employment so far this year after steadily rising in the early years of the US economic recovery.
The solid overall job gains led analysts to slightly raise expectations for a decision by the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates this month. Investors raised the likelihood of a September rate increase from 26 percent before the jobs report to 30 percent, and stocks dropped by over one percent on Friday. “The payrolls data is certainly good enough to allow for a Fed rate hike in September,” said Deutsche Bank’s head of currency strategy, Alan Ruskin. “The big question is still whether financial market volatility will scupper the plans.”
“This is the first time the market has looked at a Fed meeting and really has no idea what the Fed is going to do,” said Mark Kepner, a New Jersey equity trader with Themis Trading. “Right now you’re looking at the overall uncertainty and that’s what’s hanging on the market. I don’t think this number in and of itself changes how somebody’s going to vote.”
Wikimedia Foundation announces departure of general counsel Mike GodwinWednesday, October 20, 2010
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The Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization which administers online collaborative websites including Wikipedia and Wikinews, announced yesterday that its general counsel Mike Godwin will leave his position this Friday. The author of Cyber Rights: Defending Free speech in the Digital Age, Godwin is a former fellow at the Yale Center for Internet Studies and staff counsel for the Electronic Frontier Foundation who has served as chief lawyer for the Wikimedia Foundation since July 2007.
Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation Sue Gardner announced the news in a public email. She wrote, “Hi folks, I want to let you know that as of this Friday, October 22, 2010, Mike Godwin will be leaving his role as General Counsel for the Wikimedia Foundation. Mike’s transition out of the role will be a fairly lengthy one: he will continue to be available to the Wikimedia Foundation to provide information and advice for several months to come.”
| The Wikimedia Foundation believes Mike has always acted in what he believes to be the Wikimedia Foundation’s best interests. | ||
Gardner stated in a “Q and A” below the text of her email that Godwin was leaving the organization due to “a confidential personnel issue”, and explained that the foundation would not elaborate upon this due to privacy concerns. Gardner noted, “The Wikimedia Foundation believes Mike has always acted in what he believes to be the Wikimedia Foundation’s best interests.”
Godwin has focused his legal career in the areas of free speech and Internet law. In an article regarding his 1999 selection as a fellow at the Yale Center for Internet Studies, The Hartford Courant characterized Godwin as “a noted cyberspace lawyer and civil libertarian”.
He is noted for writing “Godwin’s Law”, an Internet maxim which states, “As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.”
Godwin became the first attorney to join the Electronic Frontier Foundation after its formation in 1990. In a 2007 interview with The New York Times, Godwin commented on the issue of defamation online, “The fear of defamation on the Internet is very strong. We’re going to be riding that social panic for a little bit.” He described his role at the Wikimedia Foundation, “Part of my job is to prevent restrictive rules from being put in place that prevent people from participating in massively democratic participatory media. And then let the new norms settle.” He acknowledged he empathized with others that had been criticized on the Internet, “Look, I have been smeared online. I know how bad it feels. It hurts. If democracy were comfortable, everybody would have it.”
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American Indian Movement spokesperson dies, age 75Wednesday, October 17, 2007
Vernon Bellecourt, once the primary spokesperson for the American Indian Movement, died recently at age 75. Bellecourt, an Ojibwa who fought for Native rights, was perhaps best known for his opposition to Native names and mascots for sports teams.
First in the headlines in 1972, Bellecourt organized a cross-country caravan of the Movement, to Washington. Once there, members of the group occupied the Bureau of Indian Affairs offices. His goal of international recognition for Aboriginal nations and their treaties found him meeting with figures like Libyan Colonel Muammar el-Qaddafi, and Palestine’s Yasir Arafat. In 1977 Leonard Peltier was convicted and sentenced to two consecutive life terms for the murder of two FBI Agents during a 1975 shoot-out on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation; Bellecourt led the campaign to free him.
Most recently, he visited Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, to discuss getting free or cheap heating oil for reservations.
His work as president of the National Coalition on Racism in Sports and Media made a much wider known mark, though. Bellecourt emphasized that he believed such names perpetuated racial stereotypes, clouding the real identities and problems facing natives.
Teams with native-related names could almost guarantee on Bellecourt showing up at major games. He twice burned an effigy of Chief Wahoo, the Cleveland Indians baseball team mascot, and both times was arrested. When the Washington Redskins of the National Football League made the Super Bowl, Vernon was there to protest. The United States Commission on Civil Rights was critical of such names by 2001, calling them “insensitive in light of the long history of forced assimilation”. Some newspapers have stopped using the names of teams with Native origins.
None of his “big four” targets have shown any indication of changing: the Washington Redskins, the Kansas City Chiefs, the Cleveland Indians or the Atlanta Braves.
Post-season use of American Indian mascots were banned by the National Collegiate Athletic Association in 2005, suggesting the names are “hostile or abusive”. Bellecourt was pleased with the NCAA sanctions, but suggested such actions were only going “half way”.
The Florida State Seminole and the Illinois Illini were among the 18 colleges affected by the ban. Florida president T.K. Wetherell threatened legal action in response. The Florida Seminole tribes have endorsed the University’s usage of the name, but some out-of-state tribes were “not supportive”, according to the NCAA vice president for diversity and inclusion.
Born WaBun-Inini, Bellecourt died from complications of pneumonia on October 13, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States.
Mike Tyson set to retire after lossSunday, June 12, 2005
| Mike Tyson | ||
|---|---|---|
| Career Snapshot | ||
| Born | June 30, 1966 | |
| Professional Debut | March 6, 1985 | |
| Total Fights | 58 (2 No Decisions) | |
| Won | 50 | |
| Lost | 6 | |
| Drew | 0 | |
| Knockouts | 44 | |
| Titles Won | Heavyweight | |
Mike Tyson’s boxing career appears to be over after the infamous fighter became fatigued against his journeyman opponent Saturday. Tyson later told the media he was quitting the sport to become a missionary.
Despite being heavily favored, the 38-year old Tyson became desperate in the sixth round and resorted to his trademark bizarre tactics against Irishman Kevin McBride (33-4-1). When an attempt to break his opponent’s arm failed to end the fight, Tyson landed a head-butt that opened a cut near McBride’s left eye. Still desperate and low on stamina, Tyson proceeded to hit below the belt before sagging to the canvas in the closing seconds of the round. When Tyson refused to answer the bell for the seventh, veteran referee Joe Cortez “looked stunned,” according to the Boston Globe’s Ron Borges. Tyson led on two cards and trailed on a third when the fight was called, but he was clearly out of gas and momentum was not with him.
“I do not have the stomach for this,” Tyson told Showtime interviewer Jim Gray after leaving the ring. “I don’t have the guts to be in this sport anymore. My heart is not into this anymore.” He also apologized to the 15,472 paid attendance at the MCI Center “whom had roared his name when he entered the ring less than an hour earlier,” according to Borges.
The $5 million payday will erase only a fraction of an enormous debt that caused Tyson to declare bankruptcy in 2003. One report says he owes more than $40 million [1].
The disgraced former champion also told reporters he is “going to look into my missionary work,” according to Reuters. “There is some Christian missionary work that was interested in letting me come to Bosnia, go to Rwanda, go to different countries to help with aid and food for people that are in dire need.”
By Amit K Sharma
A big issue for people that have Crohn’s disease is “can Crohn’s disease effect other parts of the body?”
Crohn’s Disease is a disease that can affect any part of the G.I. Tract. If you have been diagnosed with Crohn’s you probably already know this. Crohn’s can also lead to further complications as the disease progresses. But do not get scared. The fact of the matter is Crohn’s is an auto immune disorder, which means the body is actually attacking itself because it thinks it has been infected.
Crohn’s can lead up to colon cancer and this is a result of malnutrition, stress and other variables. Keep in mind however Colon Cancer can strike anyone, in fact cancer can hit anyone no matter what age or how healthy you are. Just look at Lance Armstrong, if you don’t already know he beat cancer and won the tour de france several years running, as part of his mission in fighting against cancer.
So the truth is, YES, Crohn’s disease can effect other parts of the body. Should you be very worried if this has not already happened? I would say, no. Once you have been diagnosed with Crohn’s you need to follow your specialist’s instructions for the most part. There are various drugs on the market that can put you in remission. Remission is when you don’t have any symptoms of Crohn’s disease and for many people; some people will even forget they have the disease all together. Remission can last anywhere from a week to a couple years. So the key is to really become your own doctor. Listen to your body and try other things.
Doctors are trained to basically just hand you a prescription. Sadly enough for something like Crohn’s disease there is not enough evidence available to back up cures, and if you think about it logically why would pharmaceutical companies want to make a cure anyways. They make thousands of dollars feeding patients with crohn’s the drugs you take everyday and will have to take for most of your life. Now this does not mean I’m bashing the drug industry all together. But I know for a fact there are people everyday that rid them selves of disease. In fact I know individuals that have cured there crohn’s disease to the astonishment of doctors. It’s actually really funny when you go to the Doctor’s office one day and your specialist and they don’t seem to give you an answer for how you have been healed. Secretly, I think they knew all along it was possible, but then they don’t research in depth how the individual has been cured, or follow anything like that. Kind of weird.
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Google to discontinue social networking application Google WaveThursday, August 5, 2010
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Google has decided to retire the Google Wave social-networking service after one year, citing lack of user adoption.
Urs Hölzle, Google senior vice president for operations, said in a blog post that “Wave has not seen the user adoption we would have liked. We don’t plan to continue developing Wave as a stand-alone product.” Hölzle also said that as a “web app for real time communication and collaboration, it set a high bar for what was possible in a Web browser. We weren’t quite sure how users would respond to this radically different kind of communication.” Google says that it will continue the service until the end of the year.
In May 2009, Google launched Wave as a private beta. A year later, it became open to the public. Wave is an email service that integrates social media features and capabilities into emailing. It integrates IM-like features into its service. The company released components of Google Wave as open source for those to create a similar service. “The central parts of the code, as well as the protocols that have driven many of Wave’s innovations, like drag-and-drop and character-by-character live typing, are already available as open source, so customers and partners can continue the innovation we began. In addition, we will work on tools so that users easily “liberate” their content from Wave,” Google said.
Wikinews interviews Joe Schriner, Independent U.S. presidential candidateSaturday, April 17, 2010
Journalist, counselor, painter, and US 2012 Presidential candidate Joe Schriner of Cleveland, Ohio took some time to discuss his campaign with Wikinews in an interview.
Schriner previously ran for president in 2000, 2004, and 2008, but failed to gain much traction in the races. He announced his candidacy for the 2012 race immediately following the 2008 election. Schriner refers to himself as the “Average Joe” candidate, and advocates a pro-life and pro-environmentalist platform. He has been the subject of numerous newspaper articles, and has published public policy papers exploring solutions to American issues.
Wikinews reporter William Saturn? talks with Schriner and discusses his campaign.