August 25, 2017
Mohenjo
Breaking News, Crime, Human Interest, Political
amazon, business, Business News, CNN, current-events, Future, Hotels, huffingtonpost, human-rights, medicine, mental-health, research, Science, Science News, technology, Technology News, travel, vacation, Video, Washington
Click link below picture
.
President Donald Trump on Friday pardoned a notorious former Arizona sheriff who willfully violated a federal judge’s order by unlawfully detaining individuals his officers claimed might be in the country illegally.
Former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who had previously proclaimed himself “America’s toughest sheriff,” was convicted of criminal contempt last month for violating a 2011 order that barred Arpaio and his office from detaining individuals solely based on suspicions about their legal status. Arpaio, 85, was scheduled to be sentenced on Oct. 5.
“Throughout his time as Sheriff, Arpaio continued his life’s work of protecting the public from the scourges of crime and illegal immigration,” the White House said in a statement late Friday. “Sheriff Joe Arpaio is now eighty-five years old, and after more than fifty years of admirable service to our Nation, he is a worthy candidate for a Presidential pardon.”
.
.
.
Click link below for article:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-pardon-joe-arpaio_us_599da366e4b0a296083b9758?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009
.
__________________________________________
August 25, 2017
Mohenjo
Breaking News, Business, Human Interest, Science
amazon, business, Business News, current-events, Future, Hotels, human-rights, medicine, mental-health, research, Science, Science News, technology, Technology News, the washington post, travel, vacation, Video
Click link below picture
.
Harvey intensified into an extremely dangerous Category 3 hurricane as it closed in on the Texas coast Friday afternoon. The storm is set to become the first major hurricane, rated Category 3 or higher (on the 1-5 Saffir-Simpson intensity scale), to strike U.S. soil in 12 years when it comes ashore late Friday night or early Saturday.
The National Hurricane Center said it expects “catastrophic and life-threatening” flash flooding along the middle and upper Texas coast. An incredible amount of rain, 15 to 25 inches with isolated amounts of up to 35 inches, is predicted because the storm is expected to stall and unload torrents for four to six straight days. In just a few days, the storm may dispense the amount of rain that normally falls over an entire year, shattering records.
“Let’s set the expectations: Texas is about to have a very significant disaster,” said Brock Long, FEMA administrator.
.
(National Hurricane Center)
.
.
Click link below for article and videos:
Harvey upgraded to Category 3 hurricane, ‘catastrophic’ flooding expected in Texas
.
__________________________________________
August 24, 2017
Mohenjo
Breaking News, Business, Human Interest, Science
amazon, business, Business News, current-events, Future, Hotels, human-rights, medicine, mental-health, nbc news, research, Science, Science News, technology, Technology News, travel, vacation, Video
Click link below picture
.
Hurricane Harvey intensified to a Category 2 hurricane by early Friday as it moved toward Texas, with meteorologists forecasting that the storm could be a Category 3 “major hurricane” when it makes landfall late Friday or early Saturday.
No storm that strong has hit Texas since 2008.
Harvey is expected to stall after it hits land, dumping torrential rain over the southeast Texas region through Tuesday and causing potentially historic flooding, NBC News meteorologist Bill Karins said.
.
‘Be Nice Harvey’ adorns a boarded-up business Thursday in Port Aransas, Texas. Eric Gay / AP
.
.
Click link below for article:
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/hurricane-harvey-intensifies-it-roars-toward-texas-n795596
.
__________________________________________
August 24, 2017
Mohenjo
Breaking News, Crime, Human Interest, Political
amazon, business, Business News, CNN, current-events, Future, Hotels, human-rights, medicine, mental-health, research, Science, Science News, technology, Technology News, travel, vacation, Video, Washington
Click link below picture
.
The aide, Rick Dearborn, who is now President Donald Trump’s deputy chief of staff, sent a brief email to campaign officials last year relaying information about an individual who was seeking to connect top Trump officials with Putin, the sources said.
.
The person was only identified in the email as being from “WV,” which one source said was a reference to West Virginia. It’s unclear who the individual is, what he or she was seeking, or whether Dearborn even acted on the request. One source said that the individual was believed to have had political connections in West Virginia, but details about the request and who initiated it remain vague.
.
.
.
Click link below for article and video:
http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/23/politics/donald-trump-rick-dearborn-email-russia-investigation/index.html
.
__________________________________________
August 24, 2017
Mohenjo
Breaking News, Crime, Human Interest, Political
amazon, business, Business News, current-events, Future, Hotels, human-rights, medicine, mental-health, research, Science, Science News, technology, Technology News, travel, uTube, vacation, Video
Click link below picture
.
How do you replace bail in America? A new risk assessment algorithm in New Jersey promises to scrub the system of bias — but it’s no wonder drug.
.
Bail bias
.
.
Click link below for video:
https://www.youtube.com
.
__________________________________________
August 24, 2017
Mohenjo
Breaking News, Human Interest, Political
amazon, business, Business News, current-events, Future, Hotels, human-rights, medicine, mental-health, research, Science, Science News, technology, Technology News, the washington post, travel, vacation, Video
Click link below picture
.
The U.S. Navy on Wednesday relieved the admiral in charge of the service’s 7th Fleet based in Japan due to “loss of confidence” in his ability to command, it said in a statement. The move comes after four embarrassing accidents this year, two of which killed sailors at sea.
Admiral Scott Swift, commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet relieved Vice Adm. Joseph P. Aucoin from his duties at the 7th Fleet’s Yokosuka base in Japan. Rear Admiral Phil Sawyer, the Pacific Fleet’s deputy commander, will immediately take command. He had been scheduled to assume the post on Sept. 7.
The incidents include the deadly collision Monday of the destroyer USS John S. McCain with a much heavier oil tanker off Singapore, and a June 17 accident in which the destroyer USS Fitzgerald was ripped open by a larger Philippine container ship.
.
Admiral relieved
.
.
Click link below for article and videos:
Navy to relieve admiral in charge of Japan-based … – Washington Post
.
__________________________________________
August 23, 2017
Mohenjo
Breaking News, Business, Human Interest, Science, Technical
amazon, business, Business News, current-events, Future, Hotels, human-rights, medicine, mental-health, nbc news, research, Science, Science News, technology, Technology News, travel, vacation, Video
Click link below picture
.
Ever since the 10-story Home Insurance Building in Chicago was called the first “skyscraper” in 1885, architects have been striving to create ever-taller buildings. Ten stories quickly became 20, 20 became 50, and on and on. In 2009 the Burj Khalifa in Dubai became the world’s tallest building, with its 154 floors towering above ground level.
So why is the mayor of Portland, Oregon, calling a modest 12-story tower set for completion there next year “a true technological and entrepreneurial achievement?” It’s not the affordable housing the building affords, nor its dozens of bike racks or even the roof farm that has Ted Wheeler gushing. It’s that the Framework apartment building will be made almost entirely of wood.
Once completed, Framework will be America’s tallest wooden building and its first “plyscraper” — a high-rise building built with panels made of cross-laminated timber (CLT). These modular sheets are made from cheap, sustainable softwood that are glued or pinned together in layers — a bit like super-strong, super-thick plywood. – Eco-Friendly ‘Plyscrapers’ Are on the Rise.
.
Mark Harris
Framework is slated to become the first mass timber high-rise in the U.S. Artist’s rendering courtesy of LEVER Architecture .
.
Click link below for article:
https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/tech/eco-friendly-plyscrapers-are-rise-here-s-why-ncna793346
.
__________________________________________
August 23, 2017
Mohenjo
Breaking News, Human Interest, Political
amazon, business, Business News, CNN, current-events, Future, Hotels, human-rights, medicine, mental-health, research, Science, Science News, technology, Technology News, travel, vacation, Video
Click link below picture
.
“I really question his ability to be — his fitness to be — in this office, and I also am beginning to wonder about his motivation for it,” Clapper told CNN’s Don Lemon on “CNN Tonight.”
.
Hours after Trump delivered a defiant speech in Phoenix, Arizona, Clapper said he found the President’s rally “downright scary and disturbing.”
.
Clapper denounced Trump’s “behavior and divisiveness and complete intellectual, moral and ethical void.”
“How much longer does the country have to, to borrow a phrase, endure this nightmare?”
.
“He should have quit while he was ahead after last night,” Clapper referring to Trump’s announcement on US strategy in Afghanistan. “Again, I think the real Trump came through.”
.
.
.
Click link below for article:
http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/23/politics/james-clapper-trump-phoenix-rally-don-lemon-cnntv/index.html
.
__________________________________________
August 23, 2017
Mohenjo
Breaking News, Human Interest, Political
amazon, business, Business News, current-events, Future, Hotels, human-rights, medicine, mental-health, Phoenix, research, Science, Science News, Slideshow, technology, Technology News, the washington post, travel, vacation, Video
Click link below picture
.
Just before President Trump strolled onto the rally stage on Tuesday evening, four speakers took turns carefully denouncing hate, calling for unity and ever so subtly assuring the audience that the president is not racist.
Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson proclaimed that “our lives are too short to let our differences divide us.” Alveda King, the niece of Martin Luther King Jr., led everyone in singing a few lines of “How Great Thou Art.” Evangelist Franklin Graham prayed for the politically and racially divided nation and asked the Lord to shut the mouths of “those in this country who want to divide, who want to preach hate.” And Vice President Pence declared that “President Trump believes with all his heart … that love for America requires love for all its people.” Meanwhile, a supporter seated directly behind stage even wore a T-shirt that stated: “Trump & Republicans are not racist.”
Then Trump took the stage.
.
Protests were held against President Trump as he hosted a rally inside the Phoenix Convention Center in Arizona.
.
.
Click link below for article, videos and slideshow:
As Trump ranted and rambled in Phoenix, his crowd slowly thinned …
.
__________________________________________
August 22, 2017
Mohenjo
Business, Crime, Human Interest, Medical
amazon, business, Business News, CNN, current-events, Future, Hotels, human-rights, medicine, mental-health, research, Science, Science News, St. Augustine Florida, technology, Technology News, travel, vacation, Video
Click link below picture
.
LJ was born with severe cleft lip and palate, which explained the strange eruption, as well as the constant ear infections that no antibiotic could remedy.
.
With her son in terrible pain, Meredith Stroud arranged for surgeries to fix his problems.
.
But just days before the procedures were to take place, the surgeons’ office called to cancel them.
.
Like nearly half of all children in Florida, LJ is on Medicaid, which has several types of insurance plans. The state had switched LJ to a new plan, and his surgeons didn’t take it.
.
Florida hurt sick kids
.
.
Click link below for article and video:
http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/18/health/florida-sick-kids-insurance-eprise/index.html
.
__________________________________________
Older Entries
Newer Entries
James' World 2 