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Media Note

Office of the Spokesperson

Washington, DC

May 21, 2018

Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs Kevin E. Moley will travel to Geneva, Switzerland, May 22-25 as part of the U.S. delegation to the 71st World Health Assembly. Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex M. Azar II will lead the delegation, which will engage with counterparts on a host of priorities, including global health preparedness, support for maternal... Читать дальше...

Media Note

Office of the Spokesperson

Washington, DC

May 21, 2018

Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs Kevin E. Moley will travel to Geneva, Switzerland, May 22-25 as part of the U.S. delegation to the 71st World Health Assembly. Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex M. Azar II will lead the delegation, which will engage with counterparts on a host of priorities, including global health preparedness, support for maternal... Читать дальше...

No, that’s not Draco Malfoy — it’s Prince George!

Of all the viral moments to come from Prince Harry and Meghan Markle‘s royal wedding weekend, the cutest just might be the comparisons of Prince George and the three other page boys to Slytherin students at Hogwarts — the fictional school of witchcraft and wizardry in the Harry Potter books and films.

“My father will hear about this Potter,” wrote one user, suggesting that Prince George’s ensemble looks straight out of the wardrobe belonging to Harry Potter’s nemesis. Читать дальше...

President Trump, in a meeting with top Justice Department officials Monday, was seeking that the Department turn over information about...

ORCHARD PARK — Richie Incognito’s playing days might not be over after all. The veteran guard is free to resume his career after the Buffalo Bills released him from their reserve/retired list on Monday. The move came six weeks after Incognito abruptly announced he was retiring on his Twitter account. The NFL Players Association confirmed...

NEW YORK (AP) — A media watchdog group is calling on Netflix to pull its "13 Reasons Why" series because of potentially harmful content. The Parents Television Council describes the second season of the series as "a ticking time bomb to teens and children." It wants both seasons yanked. A request for comment from Netflix wasn't immediately returned Monday. The first season of "13 Reasons Why" included a graphic depiction of a teen's suicide. The second season includes a story line about a student's thwarted plans to shoot up a school dance. Читать дальше...

SPRINGDALE (KFSM) — UPDATE: Barbara Norton was found safe at about 4:05 p.m. Springdale police are searching for a missing 80-year-old woman. Barbara Norton was last seen Monday in the area of Don Tyson and Turner Street, according to police. She was wearing a red t-shirt and pink sweatpants. She was also carrying an armful of plants. Police said Norton suffers from dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. If you have any information, contact the Springdale Police Department at (479) 751-4542.

Don Struthers the Saskatchewan couple was lucky that a pileup of trees stopped the vehicle from tumbling all the way down the cliff.

I know a lot of people love Google Photos, but sometimes you realize that the service is missing some elementary stuff. For example, there hasn’t been a Favorites feature until now. Google has announced that, over the next week, it’s rolling out that functionality. You’ll be able to tap a star at the upper right of any photo in your library, and it’ll automatically show up in Favorites.

Расширенное использование ИТ в производстве увеличивает риск постороннего вмешательства. Обеспечивая промышленную безопасность, мы хотим защитить не только человека и окружающую среду от опасностей, но также устройства, установки и оборудование от несанкционированного доступа и постороннего вмешательства. Это единственный способ обеспечить функциональную безопасность оборудования, поскольку атаки на ИТ могут также негативно повлиять на функциональную безопасность.

Following the disputed re-election of Nicolas Maduro, the future looks bleak for Venezuela, already mired in the worst economic crisis in its history that has left dire shortages of food and medicines and led to violent protests.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel famously admitted that there is a code of silence in the unrelenting furor over his handling of the Laquan McDonald shooting video.

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• Parenting looks different in every culture around the world.
• There is no perfect, fool-proof way to raise children, but there are certain parenting strategies that other cultures implement that the US can adopt, like teaching children about optimism.
• Here are 7 things people do to raise their kids in other countries that the US could learn from.

There really is no perfect, fool-proof way to raise children, according to Mei-Ling Hopgood... Читать дальше...

Actress Kirsten Dunst has sold her Manhattan penthouse in a celeb-friendly building for $4.42 million, according to city property records. The news was first reported by the Observer. Dunst, who won her first Screen Actors Guild Award for her role in “Hidden Figures,” bought the unit, at 477 Washington St. — on the southwestern edge...

How bad is the situation with Android emoji, despite Google’s attempts at an overhaul? So bad, in fact, that Twitter is updating its Android app with custom emoji because most Android phones are never on the same (or latest) software release, so users often aren’t seeing the same icons.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - The United States has spoken with both Chinese and Russian officials and warned them that the Venezuelan National Assembly is the only entity allowed to provide for the issuance of new debt in Venezuela, a senior administration official said in a press briefing on Monday.

Ex-AG: Time To End Mueller’s Investigation What’s the harm in giving special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation more time to finish its work? Plenty, says former US Attorney General Michael Mukasey at USA Today. First off, “the law requires that a special counsel investigate a specified crime based on specified facts, not try to be the...

Barack and Michelle Obama are getting into the television business with Monday’s announcement that they had signed a multiyear deal with Netflix. The former president and first lady have formed their own production company, Higher Ground Productions, for the material. In announcing a deal that had been rumored since March, Netflix offered no specifics on what shows they would make. Netflix said the Obamas would make “a diverse mix of content,” potentially including scripted and unscripted series, documentaries or features. Читать дальше...

• Subway is running an ad campaign centered around its "feta fetish" in Canada. 
• Customers are grossed out.

Subway is facing backlash over a "feta fetish" ad campaign. In recent weeks, some customers in Canada have spotted a series of bizarre Subway ads. 

With no football on offer until The Big Match on the weekend, Liverpool fans have the chance to take a breath and relish the moment. We are all time travelers whether we know that or not. What I mean is that we spend much of our lives either looking backwards at past events and hope to re-live the joys or make different choices to stem the pain. We hop forward into time and play with realities that have not yet come to pass as a way, I guess to amplify the chances that we re-live those experiences eventually with maximum joy and minimal pain. Читать дальше...

I've just posted this on the politics board - I've had an absolute mare today, I've asked Scoobers to move it, but he's bleedin' hopeless. :P

So here it is again.

I've just bought a copy of the Sports Argus. Well, perhaps not quite like old times, as I bought in on eBay, although it was only £3.That was about 10 minutes ago.

It's my mate's birthday coming up and I thought I'd get him a nice bit of nostalgia, so I was watching the Argus annuals on eBay at the weekend and went for them as well. Читать дальше...

I've just posted this on the politics board - I've had an absolute mare today, I've asked Scoobers to move it, but he's bleedin' hopeless. :P

So here it is again.

I've just bought a copy of the Sports Argus. :D

Well, perhaps not quite like old times, as I bought in on eBay, although it was only £3.That was about 10 minutes ago.

It's my mate's birthday coming up and I thought I'd get him a nice bit of nostalgia, so I was watching the Argus annuals on eBay at the weekend and went for them as well. Читать дальше...

Hedge-fund D.E. Shaw & Co. LP late Monday revealed a 5.1% stake in online-review site Yelp Inc. . A Securities and Exchange Commission filing showed that D.E. Shaw has accumulated 4.1 million shares, in what amounts to a passive stake in the company. Yelp's shares have climbed 10.7% so far in 2018, outperforming the market, with the S&P 500 index up 2.2%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average gaining 1.2% over the same period and the technology-laden Nasdaq Composite Index advancing by 7.1% thus far this year... Читать дальше...