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Perry L. Weed: Where have all the good jobs gone?

Edit The Providence Journal 23 Jun 2016
The good jobs are disappearing. Those that predated the digital revolution are dropping away altogether or being replaced by low-paying service jobs and other less secure employment. These include part-time jobs, freelance contracting and gig opportunities ... For employers, it offers new efficiencies [...]> ... ....

Family, lawyer denied contact with Canadian professor jailed 2 weeks ago in Iran

Edit CBC 23 Jun 2016
Homa Hoodfar, the Concordia University professor arrested two weeks ago in Iran, has not been allowed any contact with her family or her lawyer. Conservative Iranian media are reporting she was fomenting a feminist revolution, which her family says is absurd ... ....

Daughters of the American Revolution chapter to honor Vietnam War veterans at The Mirage

Edit Review Journal 23 Jun 2016
Daughters of the American Revolution Valley of Fire Chapter will honor more than 80 Vietnam War veterans during a 5 p.m. ceremony Thursday at The Mirage, 3400 Las Vegas Blvd. South ... ....

Iran hopes Boeing deal speeds up Airbus contract

Edit Arabnews 23 Jun 2016
Attached Files. . ID. . 1466625998210323600. Publication Date. . Thursday, June 23, 2016. DUBAI. Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said he hoped that Tehran’s deal with US planemaker Boeing would pave the way for finalizing another contract with its European rival Airbus ... The tentative agreement marks Boeing’s first sale of aircraft to Iran since the country’s Islamic Revolution in 1979 ... Main category.  ... ....

Goldman Sachs says it will cut 98 New York jobs

Edit The Salt Lake Tribune 23 Jun 2016
Goldman Sachs has told 98 employees in New York that their jobs are being eliminated, bringing the number of dismissals disclosed to state officials this year to at least 353 ... An earlier document in April cited 146 cuts, and a March filing detailed 109 dismissals. The employees, who worked across a variety of businesses, were notified in April, May and the fir... ....

Kindergarten sued over running tracks

Edit China Daily 23 Jun 2016
The Liu Shikun Wanxiang Xintian Kindergarten, with about 500 students, was accused of refusing to demolish its synthetic tracks－which have been alleged to have caused vomiting, nosebleeds and skin reactions among the students－since they were renovated in April ... A resident surnamed Jiang said her child showed symptoms on April 21, followed by more children, after a sports meet was held on April 26 ... ....

Report: More California drivers spotted using cellphones

Edit The Oklahoman 23 Jun 2016
SACRAMENTO, Calif ... The CHP wrote 13,496 tickets for distracted driving violations during the survey period in April, during National Distracted Driving Awareness Month. But that was a 27 percent decrease from April 2015 ... The CHP had more than 300 educational presentations in April, while the Office of Traffic Safety had a social media campaign urging drivers to Silence the Distraction ... That can include warnings as well as citations ... ....

Periscope and the battle of the live-streamers

Edit The Independent 23 Jun 2016
It all arrived, fittingly for a company that would help make Twitter even more excitable, in a flurry ... Then, at the South by Southwest festival (SXSW) in Texas, Meerkat and Periscope – as their names implied – popped up almost out of nowhere and brought with them a revolution that may have changed the media forever. Meerkat is now mostly gone ... Rather like Periscope founder Kayvon Beykpour is doing now ... Beykpour isn’t worried....

With Swayam in space, CoEP gains ground

Edit The Times of India 23 Jun 2016
Pune. When Swayam, one of the two satellites built by Indian students, was successfully launched from Sriharikota on Wednesday at 9.26am, a crowd that had gathered inside College of Engineering Pune's auditorium clapped and hugged each other ... The satellite was conceptualized and built by the students of the college with Rs 50 lakh funding ... The satellite has a revolution period of 90 minutes and will pass over Pune four times ... RELATED....

Baltimore Man Pleads Guilty in Two Murder-for-Hire Schemes (Federal Bureau of Investigation - Baltimore Field Office)

Edit Public Technologies 23 Jun 2016
On April 26, 2013, at the FBI's direction, an undercover officer met with Slowe, and Slowe agreed to meet her again at a later date to receive the handguns and money ... On April 29th, the individual spoke with Slowe and worked out details concerning the murder for hire ... On April 30, an arrest operation was planned in which the undercover officer was ......

Media release 19 June 16 Economy-wide sales dip again: Commonwealth Bank BSI Keep reading (Commonwealth Bank of Australia)

Edit Public Technologies 23 Jun 2016
The BSI fell by 0.1 per cent in May after a similar decline in April and a flat result in March ... The annual growth rate had held at above-normal levels of between 7.0 and 7.6 per cent between November 2015 and April this year. The more volatile seasonally adjusted BSI fell by 1.6 per cent in May after rising by 1.9 per cent in April and falling by 0.8 per cent in March....

Union urges M&S; to open talks about pay and pension changes

Edit The Guardian 23 Jun 2016
Thousands of shopworkers concerned about proposed cuts to Sunday and bank holiday pay, says Usdaw. @whatbutlersaw ... M&S staff need a voice.” ... “They are saying they are offering two years of compensation [until April 2019] but the figures don’t tally. This barely covers me to April 2018.” ... As part of the proposals being discussed with staff, M&S has increased basic pay by 15% from next April to £8.50 an hour, helping 62,000 staff ... ....

Colorado man gets probation for flying unregistered plane

Edit The Oklahoman 23 Jun 2016
CHEYENNE, Wyo ... Scott Michael Lewis, 27, of Englewood, Colorado had pleaded guilty in April. In sentencing him, U.S. District Judge Alan B. Johnson of Cheyenne followed a federal prosecutor's recommendation to dismiss a second charge alleging conspiracy to operate an unregistered aircraft ... The U.S ... of Denver in January ... Wiles pleaded guilty in April to aiding and abetting the operation of an unregistered airplane ... 27, 2014 ... ....
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