US: Disappointing jobs report makes rate hike less likely this month
By Joel L. Naroff From Newsmax INDICATOR: August Employment Situation and July Trade Deficit KEY DATA: Jobs: 151,000; Private Sector: 126,000; Unemployment Rate; 4.9% (unchanged); Hourly wages: +0.1%/ Trade Deficit: $5.2 billion narrower IN A NUTSHELL: “Given how robust job…
Best computer prog. Countries
These are the 10 best countries for computer programming — and the US didn’t make the list By Lori Janjigian From Business Insider This week HackerRank published a study showing which countries have the best developers. HackerRank is a free…
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The View from Europe: The media and the linguistic divide
By David Jessop From Caribbean News Now In the middle of last month Danilo Medina was sworn in as president of the Dominican Republic for a second term. His inauguration was attended by many senior figures from the Americas including…
A fourth US Navy littoral combat ship has broken down in the span of a year
By Hope Hodge Seck, Military.com From Business Insider The littoral combat ship USS Coronado is returning to Pearl Harbor from the Western Pacific after experiencing an engineering casualty earlier Tuesday, officials with the Navy’s Third Fleet confirmed. The incident comes…
American woman indicted in China on charges of spying
From CBS/AP BEIJING — An American woman detained in China for more than a year has been indicted by prosecutors on charges of spying, a court confirmed Tuesday. The Nanning Intermediate People’s Court in southern China accepted the case against…
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Fear of tweaks
By Paul McGowan From PS Audio Change can be tough for me, especially when the means to an end make no sense. Like green pens on CD edges, demagnetizers, magic stones, voodoo dots, resonators aligning the earth to my stereo…
This new Mercedes might look like a frog, but it drives like a sports car
BY NICK JAYNES From Mashable For those who want the performance and handling characteristics of a mid-size coupe with the body of a crossover (mostly), Mercedes has a sporty new vehicle for you: the 2017 GLC43 Coupe. Think of it…
Kosovo: RSF seeks protection for broadcasting chief after attack, threat
From Reporters Without Borders Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns a bomb attack on the home of Mentor Shala, the head of public radio and TV broadcaster RTK – the second attack of this kind targeting RTK in less than a week –…
US: Twin cities-area insulators secretary, business manager charged [trips to Cayman Islands]
By Carl Horowitz From National Legal and Policy Center Scot McNamara liked the Caribbean. Unfortunately, his travel there didn’t have anything to do with union business. On July 20, McNamara, former financial secretary for International Association of Heat and Frost…
Cricket: WICB chief executive officer to quit in October
From Guyana Chronicle WEST Indies Cricket Board’s chief executive Michael Muirhead will step down from his position after a four-year stint in the role.Muirhead’s contract was up for renewal on October 14, but he has opted to quit the WICB….
