Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan and Suffolk District Attorney Rachael Rollins are among the people scheduled to attend a news conference Monday to announce the lawsuit.
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Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan and Suffolk District Attorney Rachael Rollins are among the people scheduled to attend a news conference Monday to announce the lawsuit.
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The Stone Flower fountain in Moscow.
The Stone Flower fountain in Moscow.
Photographs of smoke coming from the Stone Flower fountain at the All-Russia Exhibition Center (VDNKh) have emerged on Facebook.
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The food giant targeted nine farmers in the western Indian state of Gujarat with lawsuits demanding they pay damages for using a variety of potatoes protected by copyright. The court action, PepsiCo said, is meant to protect other farmers, who buy the seeds directly from the company and sell the produce back at a price determined by the company. One of the lawsuits filed by the multinational against four farmers was heard in the city of Ahmedabad on Friday.
The company offered two options to settle the dispute out of court. One would be to sign an agreement to stop planting the seed variety. The other one would be to come into the fold and sign a standard farming contract with the giant. The latter would give the defendants "access to higher yields, enhanced quality, training in best-in-class practices and better prices,"the company stated.
But the four farmers rejected the proposed settlement.
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More than a third of south Parkdale residents live in poverty, but hipsters have been changing the neighbourhood.
More than a third of south Parkdale residents live in poverty, but hipsters have been changing the neighbourhood.
From Brunswick to the Bronx, the gentrification of working-class and disadvantaged inner-city areas, and the subway-tiled cafes that inevitably follow, is a regular feature of 21st-century urban life.
But in Parkdale, the most visible symbol of change is different. A group of vegan restaurants has moved in - and the backlash has been fierce.
Parkdale's vegan-vs-locals clash began in earnest when Vegandale Brewery, whose signage bears the slogan "morality on tap", opened last year.
Comment: There's something supremely arrogant and narcissistic about moving in to a neighborhood, particularly one with as rich a history as Parkdale in Toronto, and assuming you can subvert it to your own ideological framework. New immigrants and low-income families, who comprise a good percentage of the residents of Parkdale, likely have little-to-no interest in veganism. It's the ultimate in corporate hubris to try to pull a stunt like this.
See also:
- Attack of the 'white spaces': San Diego professors claim that farmers' markets cause 'environmental gentrification'
- Gentrification and homelessness in the land of technology dreams
- Upper-class UK cafe attacked by 'anti-gentrification activists'
- Raging class war: Anti-gentrification protest in Camden, London ends in violence
- San Francisco: Gentrification and the suburbanization of poverty
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As part of efforts to become predator free by 2050 the Australian government is trying to wipe out the feral cat population already blamed for 20 extinctions.
As part of efforts to become predator free by 2050 the Australian government is trying to wipe out the feral cat population already blamed for 20 extinctions.
The country is trying to cull two million felines by 2020 in order to save native species which the animals are preying on.
Officials are already trapping and shooting cats but now the authorities are turning to a less conventional weapon - sausages.
Chunks of kangaroo meat are combined with chicken fat, herbs, spices and 1080, a poison predominantly used in New Zealand to kill invasive species like rats, the New York Times reports.
The cats that eat the treats meet their maker within 15 minutes.
Comment: While pest control and mitigating the effects of human activity on local ecosystems are understandable, mass culls and even rewilding efforts can have disastrous unforeseen consequences:
- Environmentalists attempt at 'wild reserve' leads to thousands of introduced animals being shot or starved to death in the Netherlands
- Rewilding fail: Rare Iberian lynx released in Portugal then spotted in Barcelona to be recaptured
- Rabbits Devastate Island Wildlife
- Darwin, we've got a problem: Reverse speciation and environmentalists playing god
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A Boeing 737 MAX plane is seen during a media tour of the Boeing plant in Renton, Washington, U.S. 7 December 2015
A Boeing 737 MAX plane is seen during a media tour of the Boeing plant in Renton, Washington, U.S. 7 December 2015
A source familiar with the matter says the hotline submissions involve current and former Boeing employees describing issues related to the angle of attack sensor -- a vane that measures the plane's angle in the air -- and the anti-stall system called MCAS, which is unique to Boeing's newest plane.
All of the 737 Max planes worldwide have been grounded.
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Security personnel stand guard outside an Anglican church before a service, a week after a string of suicide bomb attacks across the island on Easter Sunday, in Colombo, Sri Lanka April 28, 2019.
Security personnel stand guard outside an Anglican church before a service, a week after a string of suicide bomb attacks across the island on Easter Sunday, in Colombo, Sri Lanka April 28, 2019.
Two brothers believed to be the main suspects behind the series of bombings that targeted several churches and luxury hotels have been arrested and handed over to the Criminal Investigation Department of the Sri Lankan Police, Ada Derana reported.
They have been reportedly identified as Mohamed Saadik Abdul Haq and Mohamed Saahid Abdul Haq.
Comment: RT reports more on the recent arrests:
The elder brother of two suicide bombers believed to have participated in the deadly Sri Lanka Easter bombings has been detained outside the country's capital with two swords, local media have reported.
News portal Ada Derana said that the brother, identified as Mohamed Ibrahim Mohamed Ifran Ahmed, was in possession of two swords when he was arrested in a suburb outside Colombo. His younger brother is suspected of carrying out a suicide bomb attack at Colombo's five-star Shangri-La hotel. Another brother is said to have attacked a restaurant at the luxury Cinnamon Grand hotel.
Their father, a wealthy spice trader, was taken into custody after the deadly attacks, which killed at least 253 people and injured hundreds more. Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIL/ISIS) has claimed responsibility for the bombings.
Before we dig into the long-term trends, let's talk about what we just learned.
According to CNBC, initial claims for unemployment benefits just rose by the most that we have seen in 19 months...
Initial claims for state unemployment benefits jumped 37,000 to a seasonally adjusted 230,000 for the week ended April 20, the Labor Department said on Thursday. The increase was the largest since early September 2017.
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"The opinion protects Michigan citizens and visitors against unreasonable police searches," said Michael Faraone, the Lansing-based attorney for the passenger whose case sparked the decision. "It is a change in Michigan law. State and local police will need to be retrained on what is allowed."
On Monday, the court ruled in favor of a passenger, Larry Mead, who claimed his rights were violated when police in Jackson County searched his backpack in May 2014 without his consent.
A sheriff's deputy had stopped the car he was riding in with an expired plate driven by a woman Mead had met earlier that night. The driver was giving him a lift, the ruling said.
The deputy looked in Mead's backpack after the driver consented to a search of her car. The backpack held marijuana and methamphetamine.
Mead eventually was arrested, convicted as a fourth-offense habitual offender and sentenced to serve two to 10 years in prison.
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From left, Eric Idle, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Michael Palin and Terry Jones of the comedy group Monty Python pose for photographers during a photo call in London Monday, June 30, 2014, to promote their reunion for a series of concerts. The group had its first big success with the Monty Python's Flying Circus TV show, which ran from 1969 until 1974, winning fans around the world with its bizarre sketches.
From left, Eric Idle, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Michael Palin and Terry Jones of the comedy group Monty Python pose for photographers during a photo call in London Monday, June 30, 2014, to promote their reunion for a series of concerts. The group had its first big success with the Monty Python's Flying Circus TV show, which ran from 1969 until 1974, winning fans around the world with its bizarre sketches.
In an interview published Monday by The Wall Street Journal, Mr. Gillam spoke about Monty Python's 1979 comedy film "Life of Brian" and how "it would be a fight" to get some of those jokes onscreen today.
He also addressed comments made last year by BBC comedy chief Shane Allen, who said any modern-day sketch show wouldn't feature "six Oxbridge white blokes."
Comment: Gilliam isn't the first comedian to lament the death of comedy in the age of political correctness. The idea that no one should have to be exposed to anything that may be considered subjectively offensive simply does not jibe with comedy which, by it's very nature, causes offense at some level. If people would just set aside their self-importance and recognize that jokes are just jokes and that offense causes no actual damage, we might still be able to laugh.
See also:
- Monty Python's Terry Gilliam weighs in on the BBC's diversity push: 'I'm a black lesbian'
- The 'Woke' crowd and the Nuremburg trials of comedy
- The New War on Comedy, and Free Speech, by the Intolerant Left
- Can anyone take a joke? The death of comedy in the age of outrage
- Hateful liberal derangement is killing comedy in the Age of Trump
- Mel Brooks: 'We have become stupidly politically correct, which is the death of comedy'
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