New York is losing its diversity cred. Affluent Starbucks-swilling, kale-grazing white people are taking over the citys multiracial ecosystem. At least thats what the sophisticates tell us. The truth is Gothams population even apart from the famously immigrant-rich Queens County is way more diverse and way less white than it was 25 years ago. According to the Census Bureau, 43 percent of the denizens of the five boroughs were white in 1990. As of 2010, the figure was only 33.3 percent. Over the span of those same two decades, the total population of the Big Apple increased by...
No, gentrification isn’t making New York City less diverse
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What Apple Did Not Release: A certain technology threatens to make Apple's cash-cow obsolete.
I am not going to go over the new hardware being brought out by Apple. Fanboys are already cooing over the new iPhones. But something â something that flew under the radar to all but techies â is about to substantially alter the power and cost of computing. To those following the Apple event, one item was missing: the Mac Mini.  The Mac Mini was and is Apple's desktop option for those who want to buy just the core computer and provide their own monitor, speakers, keyboard, et al. In its heyday (the 2012 Server Model), the Mac Mini...
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Scientists hope to restore extinct Galapagos tortoise
QUITO, Ecuador (AP) -- Scientists in Ecuador's Galapagos islands are hoping to restore a tortoise species believed extinct since the 1800s. The Chelonoidis elephantopus lived on Floreana Island and was captured by seamen in large numbers for food during long journeys across the Pacific. The species is thought to have disappeared shortly after Charles Darwin's celebrated visit to the treasured archipelago. But a group of international scientists who collected 1,700 blood samples from tortoises on Isabel Island farther north during a research expedition in 2012 made a surprising discovery: 80 had genetic traces of the lost species. "This is a...
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Cultural Innovation District To Bloom Below Interstate 10
People in New Orleans, Louisiana, have been voicing their discontent about the intrusion of the Interstate 10, or I-10, Freeway in their lives ever since it was completed in 1990. After years of debating and studying, they are ready to repair the damage it has caused with what they are calling a Cultural Innovation District. The community will not remove the Interstate since the city cannot afford it, and in the end, the cost of removing it wouldnât measure up to its value, according to studies conducted. As a result, the city and designers decided to meet halfway and resurrect...
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America Out of Asia-Pacific? Think Again
It has become conventional wisdom to prematurely claim that the days of American presence in Asia Pacific are numbered, and that the region will eventually be incorporated into Sino-centric system where, of course, Beijing will be ascendant. Proponents of this argument are quick to point out the halting of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and Obamas Pivot to Asia, which failed to come to fruition. It is true that Americas relative influence is declining and its ability to have an impact on internal developments among the regions actors will be limited. But is America ready to exit the region, and are...
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US sanctions 4 countries for not accepting deportees
The Department of Homeland Security announced that the US would impose sanctions on 4 countries for not accepting their nationals who have been deported from the United States. Cambodia, Eritrea, Guinea, and Sierra Leone will not be allowed to issue visas for various classes of individuals. The sanctions had been discussed for several months as the US is at odds with several countries over returning their nationals who entered the country illegally. Fox News: âInternational law obligates each country to accept the return of its nationals ordered removed from the United States,â Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Elaine Duke...
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Sky Views: A new French Revolution?
Most of France, famously, takes the whole of August off. Emmanuel Macron, the new President, did not. He was busy holed up in the Elysee Palace working on what he intends to be the biggest shake-up of France's labour laws since at least the Second World War. Frankly, it's amazing he and his circle of advisers did it all in a month. The 'Code du Travail', as it is known, is a complex 3,448-page document enshrining working practices that, in some cases, date back to the French Revolution more than two centuries ago. The code sets a maximum number of...
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Where Would Trump Be If He Had Run as What He Is: the Amnesty Candidate?
One of the great ironies of the 2016 campaign is that Donald Trump, who has run as the immigration scourge, is actually the amnesty candidate.Trump has expressly vowed to give legal status to millions of illegal aliens. For any other candidate, such a promise would have been the campaign death knell. To compare, John Kasich -- who is openly pro-amnesty -- has lost 38 of 39 primaries (the sole exception being his own state) and has never been a plausible contestant. When it comes to Trump, however, it seems that the all-important amnesty fine-print of his immigration position has been...
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The LGBT Agenda vs. Religious Freedom: Which Will Dominate Society?
One day in 2012, Charles Craig and David Mullins entered Jack Phillips Masterpiece Cakeshop in Lakewood, Colorado, to order a wedding cake. Phillips, a Christian and self-described cake artist who custom-designs cakes for various occasions, politely declined, citing his religious beliefs.Having previously, in the words of his lawyer, refused to bake cakes for Halloween, or with anti-American, anti-family, or what he considered profane messages, Phillips also would not design a cake to celebrate an event in violation of his understanding of Leviticus XX, 13.Craig and Mullins promptly filed a complaint alleging discrimination on the basis of their sexual orientation...
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Watch out for that Shrapnel!
When shooting at Tannerite, great care must be taken. Or else bad things happen. Witness how a refrigerator door almost claimed the life of this Tannerite shooter. This shooter almost gets hit by a refrigerator door that quickly turned into a piece of flying shrapnel. The only thing that he did right was to take cover behind a tree. Shooting binary explosive mixtures such as Tannerite can be addictive. Bigger is always better right? Well that thought might just get you injured or even killed. In this video shared by Avery Ball we see a shooter taking aim at an...
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Vanity - POTUS, Donald J. Trump...the only game in town!!!
IMHO, If you gather together "all" the politicos of both major and independent party stripes, across the board in Washington DC, not one of them even comes close to being the leader, the decision maker, the activist, the "get-things-done", man-of-the-hour, that POTUS, Donald J. Trump brings forth every day he is on the job, working for the good of all the American people, all the time. Thanks, "TRUMPIE"!!! Fact is Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell, Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, John McCain, etc. are not only incompetent, useless and ineffective excuses for human beings, but they are are procrastinators, do nothings, and...
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Jan Morgan: My American Dream(2A)
Most people might describe the American Dream in terms of career success, monetary wealth, or accumulation of things. For me, it is not that simple. My American Dream is to wake up one day to discover I no longer have to fight. My dream is a victorious end to the constant attacks on our Constitution and Bill of Rights by our own citizens and an out-of-control government. Our Founders envisioned this internal war that many citizens today fail to see or refuse to fight. Upon leaving the Constitutional Convention, Benjamin Franklin was asked by a group of citizens what sort...
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Sucking the Joy Out of Everything
Remember when people used to let things go? When people would just get along, not hunt for secret meanings behind actions and ways to be offended for the sake of being offended? Thanks to the progressive left that day is done.These guys suck the joy out of everything. The simple things, the complex things â everything is now fertile ground for being offended, for outrage, for an opportunity to attack Republicans, especially President Trump. Being a victim is now a coveted status on the political left, so liberals aspire to it by creating asinine things such as âmicroaggressions.â A microaggression, for...
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Folsom School Warns ‘USA’ Chant Could Send ‘Unintended Message’
FOLSOM (CBS13) Controversy erupts at Vista Del Lago High School in Folsom over students chanting USA. Its a popular way to for students to show pride during sporting events and rallies, but school and district officials are now warning students that the chants could appear inappropriate and intolerant. I wasnt angry, but I was definitely like Why cant we chant USA?' said senior Ryan Bernal, To say USA, you know, were all the same. Were all American. It doesnt matter what your skin tone is or where youre from. The chants are now causing chatter campus-wide after school staff...
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Antifa activists say violence is necessary(fasctifa)
Anti-fascist activists, or antifa, increasingly mobilized in the wake of President Trumps election, are unapologetic about what they describe as the necessary use of violence to combat authoritarianism. While both experts on the movement and activists within it emphasize that not everyone who participates in anti-fascist activism engages in violence, they say the use of force is intrinsic to their political philosophy. The justification [of the use of violence] is that Nazi ideology at its very core is founded on violence and on wielding power by any means, said Mike Isaacson, who is one of the founders of Smash Racism...
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Puerto Rico Opens Arms to Refugees From Irma's Caribbean Chaos
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (Reuters) - Saddled with economic problems and its own damage from Hurricane Irma, Puerto Rico is taking thousands of refugees from the U.S. Virgin Islands whose homes were destroyed by the storm, with a cruise ship carrying up to 2,000 more due to set sail for the U.S. territory on Wednesday. Visibly shaken residents from St. Martin and the Virgin Islands arrived on Tuesday on U.S. military aircraft, bringing tales of terrifying winds and a breakdown of law and order. "The people of Puerto Rico - what big hearts you guys got because our (local) government...
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US jobless claims fall, but impacted by Harvey and Irma
* The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits unexpectedly fell last week. * The data was impacted by hurricanes Harvey and Irma. * Initial claims for state unemployment benefits declined 14,000. The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits unexpectedly fell last week, but the data was impacted by hurricanes Harvey and Irma, making it difficult to get a clear pulse of the labor market. Initial claims for state unemployment benefits declined 14,000 to a seasonally adjusted 284,000 for the week ended Sept. 9, the Labor Department said on Thursday. A Labor Department official said hurricanes Harvey and Irma...
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Trump Says No Deal Made on DACA With Democrats, 'Massive' Border Security a Must
WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday said any move on illegal immigrants brought to the United States as children would have to be tied to security, disputing Democratic congressional leaders who said they had reached a deal with him on the issue. "No deal was made last night on DACA. Massive border security would have to be agreed to in exchange for consent. Would be subject to vote," Trump wrote in one of a series of posts on Twitter. He was referring to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program created by former President Barack Obama. "The Wall...
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Question Court Nominees Should Expect: Are You Now, Or Have You Ever Been, A Christian?
There's something refreshingly honest about those Democrats revealing their bigotry in the halls of the United States Senate.They did so in questioning Amy Coney Barrett, a law professor at Notre Dame, a Catholic and woman of impeccable academic credentials, who has been nominated to the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago, a Catholic town.Democratic U.S. Sens. Dick Durbin and Dianne Feinstein are applying a religious test to public office, something expressly forbidden by the Constitution. And by their questions to Barrett, they reveal themselves.This evokes a line of inquiry from an earlier age, one asked of leftists during the...
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