Human rights watchdog warns of 'entrenched' race inequality across Britain

Edit Belfast Telegraph 18 Aug 2016
The commission said there has been progress in some areas, citing an increase in the number of ethnic minority MPs and a rise in the proportion with a degree-level qualification across all ethnic groups. Mr Isaac c alled for the Government to introduce a comprehensive race equality strategy, arguing that the approach in recent years has been "stuttering"....

Run for a Council Position (City of Newberg, OR)

Edit Public Technologies 18 Aug 2016
The City of Newberg is extending the deadline to file for elections until 12 noon on Friday, August 19, 2016 ... The Biennial General Election in 2016 will be held November 8, 2016 where Council members will either be re-elected to a new term or new Councilors elected. The terms of office for Councilor Denise Bacon (District 3), Councilor Mike Corey (District 5) and Councilor Lesley Woodruff (District 1) will expire on December 31, 2016....

Boeing Delivers 50th 787 Dreamliner to ANA (ANA Holdings Inc)

Edit Public Technologies 18 Aug 2016
The airline operates more than 11 percent of all 787s around the world today and has flown an estimated 125,000 flights with the Dreamliner ... ANA recently showcased its 50th 787 Dreamliner at the Farnborough International Airshow, performing high-performance demonstration flights for thousands in attendance and wowing millions of fans around the world on the internet....

August 17, 2016 - Downtown Tree Pruning and Removal Scheduled to Start August 19 (City of Boulder, CO)

Edit Public Technologies 18 Aug 2016
Denise White, Parks and Recreation, 303-413-7258 ... This procedure is part of sustainable city practices that facilitate the maintenance of a healthy and diverse urban canopy. From August 19 through the end of September, Blue River Forestry and Tree Care, a city contractor, will be on site to prune or remove trees on all four blocks of Pearl Street Mall ... All other trees on the mall will be pruned for deadwood only....

Oakland Resident Sentenced To Nine Years In Prison For Being A Felon In Possession Of A Firearm (United States Attorney's Office for the Northern District of California)

Edit Public Technologies 18 Aug 2016
United States Attorney's Office for the Northern District of California) ... The sentence was handed down by the Honorable Jeffrey S ... During the same period, Coker also sold crack cocaine from his Oakland residence. On August 17, 2015, agents executed a search warrant at Coker's residence and the storage unit next to it. In the storage unit, agents seized two more handguns and ammunition that Coker admitted belonged to him....

Boeing Delivers 50th 787 Dreamliner to ANA (The Boeing Company)

Edit Public Technologies 18 Aug 2016
The airline operates more than 11 percent of all 787s around the world today and has flown an estimated 125,000 flights with the Dreamliner ... ANA recently showcased its 50th 787 Dreamliner at the Farnborough International Airshow, performing high-performance demonstration flights for thousands in attendance and wowing millions of fans around the world on the internet....

Openings, closings and Christmas...

Edit Topix 18 Aug 2016
A peaceful American Samoa will join Christians around the world tomorrow to celebrate Christmas, while today is already Christmas Day in some parts of the world such as in Samoa and Tonga, New Zealand and Australia. Since it moved across the International Dateline two years ago, Samoa was the first to welcome Christmas 2013 ... ....

Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day calls Trump 'f-----g Hitler': 'I wish I were over-exaggerating'

Edit The Washington Times 18 Aug 2016
Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong is using promotional interviews for the band's upcoming album to liken Donald Trump to World War II's Holocaust engineer. Adolf Hitler. Roughly 6 million Jews were exterminated during the Nazi regime's reign of terror. Over 60 million people around the world died as a result ... ....

Over 82,000 flee California wildfire

Edit Arabnews 18 Aug 2016
It began around 10.30 a.m ... The Summit Inn, a old-fashioned diner on the world-famous Route 66 that counted celebrities like Elvis Presley and Clint Eastwood among its clientele, the Los Angeles Times reported ... The Clayton fire, as it is called, has burned more than 4,000 acres and is being fought by around 1,700 fire personnel who have brought 35 percent of the blaze under control, according to Cal Fire ... World....

Comeback time: The rebirth of British watchmaking

Edit BBC News 18 Aug 2016
It employs around 30 watchmakers at a workshop in the Oxfordshire town of Henley-on-Thames, and makes many of its own parts at a factory in Silverstone, Northamptonshire ... The world sets its time by Greenwich, not by Geneva, and that is for a good reason." ... In 1800, Britain made around half of the world's timepieces - about 200,000 a year....

Why Battlefield 1 Isn’t Set in the Future

Edit Game Rant 18 Aug 2016
In an interview at Gamescom 2016, DICE design director Lars Gustavsson reflects on how and why World War I was the perfect setting for the studio’s next game. Despite the positive response for Battlefield 1‘s announcement, a question lingers around the upcoming online multiplayer shooter from EA’s DICE studio ... We’ve all learned about World War II, Vietnam, and the Cold War....

Hollywood Classic 'Ben-Hur' Gets Modern Remake

Edit Voa News 18 Aug 2016
"If you think about the climate of the world today – and this movie is set 2,000 years ago - you realize the world hasn't changed that much," Huston said at the film's Tuesday premiere. "Being a beautiful action movie with all of the thrills and ......

App Unites Diners and Restaurants in Fight Against Food Waste

Edit Voa News 18 Aug 2016
Between 30 percent and 40 percent of food produced around the world is never eaten because it is spoiled after harvest and during transportation, or thrown away by shops and consumers ... The problem has become so serious that halving world food waste by 2030 was included as a target in global development goals adopted by world leaders in 2015....
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