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Editorial: Put down those Skittles

Edit Boston Herald 22 Sep 2016
Metaphors are usually used to enlighten and explain — but not in the hands of Donald Trump Jr ... A spokeswoman for Wrigley, maker of Skittles, felt forced to weigh in with what seems the only possible response to the trivialization of a civil war that has killed hundreds of thousands and displaced millions.. “Skittles are candy. Refugees are people ... ....

City looks to get tough with dangerous dogs

Edit Toronto Sun 22 Sep 2016
Toronto councillors are trying to take a bite out of what they see as an increasing problem across the city with dangerous dogs. The Licensing and Standards Committee on Wednesday asked city staff to update bylaws that deal with dangerous dogs ... It would also increase fines for owners who repeatedly violate the rules ... “This is not something trivial, this is a health and safety issue that affects families,” he said....

It Might Be Difficult To Get Your Five-A-Day In Space

Edit IFL Science 22 Sep 2016
Among the many challenges of life in space, there’s one that is mostly ignored by TV shows and movies. eating fresh food. The capability to grow crops in space or in a colony, whether on the Moon or Mars, might be crucial for long-duration missions ... The paper reviews the many studies done on plants in space ... Technologies for large-scale space agriculture are yet to be developed, and constructing them might not be a trivial issue ... ....

'Peking University butcher' restarts pork business after 12-year hiatus (Beijing Municipal Government)

Edit Public Technologies 22 Sep 2016
(Source. Beijing Municipal Government). Lu Buxuan (right), founder of a pork retail chain, promotes products at a supermarket in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province.[Long Wei/for China Daily] ... After the initial controvery, Lu spent over a decade working as a public servant ... In fact, Lu said the trivial work he did in the archives neither improved his mind nor offered him a sense of fulfillment ... (noodl. 35475146) ....

Black Lives Don’t Matter: the Silenced Black Voice

Edit CounterPunch 22 Sep 2016
Contemporary issues of institutional racism and widespread poverty among black communities are trivialized by the media and disregarded by elected officials ... The first proposal to establish the museum was pitched in 1915 ... ... When issues regarding the black community are raised, the media trivializes the reality of the problem and uses the response of the black community to create further divisiveness between blacks and whites ... ....

Fogging drive starts, Kejri says no rocket science if parties join hands

Edit The Times of India 22 Sep 2016
New Delhi. Launching a month-long fogging drive from his official residence in Civil Lines on Thursday, chief minister Arvind Kejriwal reiterated that BJP and Congress must join the efforts to tackle dengue and chikungunya outbreak in the national capital ... He said political sparring over the issue was trivial considering mosquitoes don't bite "a Congress person and spare a BJP supporter.". "There is no point in blaming each other....

Mental health at university: 'Students shouldn't have to suffer like I did'

Edit The Guardian 22 Sep 2016
I had OCD, depression, and an eating disorder. It went on for years. More mental health support in universities could help prevent ordeals like mine. As a student, I used to have a ritual. I would wake up and immediately jump up and down 100 times. Then I would start work at 9.21am precisely ... Before going to bed, I would touch wood five times ... I didn’t feel I could seek help because my problems seemed so trivial compared to others’ ... ....

Mulayam Singh Yadav not ready to fade away just yet

Edit The Times of India 22 Sep 2016
LUCKNOW. The rumblings that continue in Uttar Pradesh's ruling Yadav family even after a truce was enforced last week have the clear stamp of its supremo's wrath ... Many of his supporters took it as an affront to 'Netaji' ... People close to Mulayam, however, refused to see this as a trivial incident, with some of them sharing their feelings with the party boss ... In fact, while speaking to TOI, Shivpal hinted that he was just following orders....

Mosul: Smuggled diary reveals life of fear under IS

Edit BBC News 22 Sep 2016
"Ahmed" was an engineering student at Mosul University when so-called Islamic State (IS) militants stormed into the city in June 2014. From that day, everything changed. The university shut and life became a daily struggle to survive. This summer, after two years, Ahmed (not his real name) managed to escape ... Ahmed has shared his diary exclusively with the BBC ... 'They kill anyone' ... They're robbing people of their lives for trivial reasons ... ....

There's a battle raging in the City over whether Britain is headed for a post-Brexit recession

Edit Business Insider 22 Sep 2016
Wikimedia Commons. When Britain voted to leave the European Union on June 23, economists almost universally predicted one thing — a technical recession would happen within a couple of years, as the UK adjusts to realities of leaving the EU. Now people are not so sure ... Morgan Stanley economists Melanie Baker and Jacob Nell, and strategist Anton Hesse said at the time (emphasis ours). ... £18 billion in damage is not a trivial amount ... ....

Explaining the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (Rutgers University)

Edit Public Technologies 22 Sep 2016
(Source. Rutgers University). Rutgers Election Watch 2016. This is the first in an occasional series examining hot topics in the 2016 presidential race. Protests agains the Trans Pacific Partnership at the Democratic National Convention ... opposition the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal ... Prusa. The U.S ... In addition, the U.S ... Prusa ... No one should trivialize the pain and hardship suffered by the workers and communities when this occurs....

Future, Lil' Kim, 50 Cent, T.I. & More Remember Shawty Lo

Edit Billboard 22 Sep 2016
Following the news of Shawty Lo's tragic death in a car crash on Wednesday (Sept. 21), many rappers took to social media to pay tribute to the Atlanta MC. Shawty Lo was the hitmaker behind 2008's "Dey Know," and a member of the Southern hip-hop group D4L, who released the Billboard Hot 100-topping hit "Laffy Taffy" in 2005 ... ---- ... Glad we matured beyond our trivial personal differences in time enough to have a laugh about it as neighbors....

Waiting to Exhale: Hillary, in Sickness and in Health

Edit CounterPunch 22 Sep 2016
What’s wrong with Hillary? Since her collapse on 9/11, that question has become inescapable ... Suddenly, the various videos of her strange tics, and the diagnoses thereof, have been less easy to dismiss ... If her head-shaking, coughing, and collapsing episodes are effects of discrete, trivial things like allergies and overheating, these episodes will stop, and she’ll continue merrily along with her campaign (and likely presidency) ... ....
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