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Free six-bedroom house available in New Jersey - as long as you can move it

Looking for a house? Well, there’s a free one in New Jersey if you want it. You just need to come and get it. Literally.




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NYC Council bill seeks to make free summer camp available to all city students

Two city Council member proposed universal summer camp.




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Nutrition labels aren’t enough to predict diet’s effects on gut microbes

To predict how diet shapes a person’s gut microbiome, researchers came up with a new way to categorize foods.




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Lab-grown mini-brains highlight developmental differences between humans and great apes

In a new study, brain-like organoids made from human cells were slower to mature than their chimpanzee and macaque counterparts.




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Video: Enjoying the Fruits of Your Labour



When you build it, you send it.
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The resumption of NBA season might rely on protocols not yet available

Before NBA play can resume, a number of medical protocols should be in place to protect players, staff and arena workers. Medical experts say that is a problem.




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After six years, the Dodgers' channel will be widely available in L.A. What happened?

Old-fashioned horse trading helped bring AT&T and Charter to resolve long-standing differences that blacked out Dodgers games in most parts of L.A.




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Ariana Grande confirms new beau’s identity in ‘Stuck With U’ video, her collaboration with Justin Bieber

We’re stuck on this reveal. The music video for Ariana Grande and Justin Bieber’s new song, “Stuck With U,” dropped early Friday and with it, some new information.




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New Colts QB Philip Rivers accepts HS coaching gig in Alabama for when he wraps up NFL career

New Indianapolis Colts quarterback Philip Rivers has his post-NFL life figured out already.




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Alabama receiver Henry Ruggs is on fastest track to NFL draft

Alabama's Henry Ruggs appears to be the fastest receiver to enter the NFL draft, and he thinks he can be better in the pros.




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Soledad 'Chole' Alatorre, pioneering labor organizer and Latina activist, dies at 94

The Mexican immigrant, who arrived in the 1950s, was 'possibly one of the best organizers that I have ever known, male or female,' an activist noted.




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Fashion's missing player joins Prada as label's co-creative director

Belgian designer Raf Simons will share the design spotlight with Miuccia Prada at Italian luxury brand Prada.




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Coronavirus energizes the labor movement. Can it last?

The COVID-19 pandemic is unleashing a wave of labor unrest harnessing front-line workers' fear and anger across California and the nation.




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Antibody tests aren't always reliable or available. But businesses are racing to use them

There's been talk of creating immunity passports for workers using coronavirus antibody tests, but they're in short supply and not 100% accurate.




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What's available from L.A.-area farmers and beyond during the shutdown, and how to get it

A list of currently available produce from local farmers.




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Mom, 13 cats, Bogart, a restless dog and no WiFi: Rick Bragg self-isolates in Alabama

The journalist has plenty of space in Alabama, but it still gets lonesome. Luckily there's Larry McMurtry, Humphrey Bogart and Jerry Lee Lewis.




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Hot Property: Shia LaBeouf finds new scenery in Pasadena

Beach Boys member Mike Love has listed his estate in Rancho Santa Fe for $8.65 million. Also: Shia LaBeouf has bought a home in Pasadena, and the former Miami home of LeBron James has resurfaced for sale.




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Actor Gary Sinise seeks $3.8 million for Calabasas farmhouse

Oscar-nominated actor Gary Sinise is asking $3.795 million for his two-story farmhouse in the hills of Calabasas after 12 years of ownership.




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Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel labelled 'nervous' by Max Verstappen's father



Lewis Hamilton, Sebastian Vettel and Max Verstappen have enjoyed some interesting battles over the years.




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Jeff the Chef Foods recalls five products because of incorrect date labelling

Jeff the Chef Foods Ltd is recalling a variety of Chicken Parmo and Doner Kebab products because they have been labelled with a ‘use by’ date of 1 April 2020 or 2 April 2020 instead of 1 March 2020




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FSA March 2020 Board meeting now available online

A recording of the March 2020 Board meeting is now available




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Clarification – Labour tax bombshell UBI would cost taxpayers £520 billion – 27/01/20



On 23 September 2019, we published an article headlined 'Labour's tax bombshell: Corbyn's benefits splurge plot would cost taxpayers £520 billion' the article focused on Labour's potential objective of introducing a universal basic income and its associated costs.




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National Theatre streaming: Which new shows are available to stream? List in FULL



THE National Theatre has been streaming its shows online in a fantastic new service - but which new shows are being made available online?




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We are suffering in a pandemic, we don’t need to be labelled too, says VANESSA FELTZ



LABELS, who needs them? Do you really want to be branded a lockdown "accepter", "sufferer" or "resister"? What is the point of shoving us into personality pigeonholes as if we are predestined to capitulate, throw in the towel, or give up?




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New York City to buy 50,000 coronavirus test kits weekly from Indianapolis lab

New York City will be purchasing 50,000 coronavirus test kits weekly from an Indianapolis lab, Aria Diagnostics, owned by a Carmel resident.

       




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Carmel mayor's promotion of coronavirus testing lab Aria Diagnostics raises concerns

Some ethics experts say Carmel Mayor Jim Brainard's push for coronavirus testing at Indianapolis lab Aria Diagnostics raises flags.

       




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Colts QB Philip Rivers lands 'peace of mind,' post-NFL life as Alabama high school coach

Rivers has been named the coach in waiting at St. Michael Catholic High School in Fairhope, according to an AL.com report.

       




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Talabani BBC'ye konuÅŸtu

Iraklı Kürtler, özerk Kürt bölgesine yeni bir başkan ve parlamento seçmek üzere yarın sandık başına gidiyor. Irak Cumhurbaşkanı Celal Talabani seçimlere ilişkin BBC'nin sorularını yanıtladı.




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Restaurants are selling groceries during the coronavirus pandemic. Here's what's available.

Restaurants struggling during the coronavirus pandemic are becoming grocery stores to survive. Here's where to score groceries around Indianapolis.

       




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Colts QB Philip Rivers lands 'peace of mind,' post-NFL life as Alabama high school coach

Rivers has been named the coach in waiting at St. Michael Catholic High School in Fairhope, according to an AL.com report.

       




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Coronavirus: Chinese state media take aim at US 'lab theory'

State media says US claims that the coronavirus originated in a research laboratory are "absurd".




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Coronavirus: Is there any evidence for lab release theory?

BBC News examines allegations that the coronavirus was accidentally released from a lab.




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News24.com | Niger labour minister died from coronavirus - public TV

The novel coronavirus caused the death of Niger's minister of employment and labour, Mohamed Ben Omar, public television has announced.




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Alabama is still more likely to lose the national title than win it

People are talking about some College Football Playoff scenarios as though they're certainties. That needs to stop. As good as the Tide are, the odds are still not in their favor. (Yet.)




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College Football Playoff projections: Alabama, Clemson at the top, but don’t count out Tier 2

Michigan, Georgia and Oklahoma scrambling for final spots.




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Week 13 waiver wire tips: A newly minted starting RB is available. Snag him.

The running back situation in Philadelphia is gaining clarity, and the starter is available in more than a third of fantasy leagues.




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Week 14 waiver wire tips: Pass-catching back, defense with weak schedule are available

The Ravens' Ty Montgomery figures to take on a larger share of the workload in Baltimore over the remainder of the season.




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Week 15 waiver wire tips: Two helpful defenses available for the fantasy football playoffs

The fantasy football regular season has come to an end but that doesn’t make the waiver wire any less important, especially if you have been streaming quarterbacks and defenses to make it this far.




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Alex Acosta gave a pass to Epstein years ago. He’s still at it as labor secretary.

His department has ignored visas for trafficking victims.




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oscon: High Availability in MySQL - how to pick a solution that best matches your use case http://t.co/PItdw0maTj @h_ingo #oscon #tutorial

oscon: High Availability in MySQL - how to pick a solution that best matches your use case http://t.co/PItdw0maTj @h_ingo #oscon #tutorial




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strataconf: Read our initial findings of @amplab's open source benchmark for tracking large-scale Query Engines http://t.co/rGgOVeTHQ8 #strataconf

strataconf: Read our initial findings of @amplab's open source benchmark for tracking large-scale Query Engines http://t.co/rGgOVeTHQ8 #strataconf




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strataconf: Building Big Data applications now easier http://t.co/jaATalPL4P Hadoop analytic engines simplify creation of low-cost, scalable apps

strataconf: Building Big Data applications now easier http://t.co/jaATalPL4P Hadoop analytic engines simplify creation of low-cost, scalable apps




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Fin24.com | Blue Label hopeful of Cell C's prospects - despite its stake sitting at R0

Blue Label Telecoms wrote down its entire stake at Cell C in 2019. And after calling in a valuation specialist, its value remained at R0 in the first half of the group's 2020 financial year.




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AT#409 - Travel to Mobile, Alabama

Hear about travel to Mobile, Alabama as the Amateur Traveler talks to Carla Rountree from theinconsistentnomad.com about her home state. There are beautiful beaches. It is an area that was founded in the early 1700s so there is lots of culture, lots of history and it is even the area where Mardi Gras actually started in the USA. 

 




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AT#464 - Travel to the Tennessee Valley (Tennessee, Alabama)

Hear about travel to the Tennessee River Valley as the Amateur Traveler talks to Chuck Prevatte from foodwinebeertravel.com about the region from Chatanooga, Teneesee to Huntsville, Alabama.




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AT#613 - Travel to Alabama

Hear about travel to Alabama as the Amateur Traveler talks to travel writer Larry Bleiberg about his adopted home state.




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America, Iraq and the Legacy of Ahmad Chalabi

Ahmad Chalabi helped lead the U.S. into war in Iraq, but if he ever had regrets about his role in the invasion, and the years of violence it unleashed, "he never voiced them to me," writes FRONTLINE correspondent Martin Smith.




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Centre on Global Health Security collaborates with the Gates Foundation at the Munich Security Conference

22 February 2016

Support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has enabled Chatham House to develop a global health security track at the Munich Security Conference (MSC).

The primary objectives of this three-year partnership are to integrate consideration of global health security challenges into the MSC agenda, highlight the threats from infectious diseases and stimulate discussion of the importance of investment in global health, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. 

At the 2016 MSC, the Chatham House Centre on Global Health Security facilitated a roundtable on civilian access to health care during conflict and a panel session entitled 'The Plot Sickens – The Health-Security Nexus'. This marked the first time health security had been featured in the main conference, and highlights the growing significance of health security to broader global stability and security. Chatham House produced, with support from the Gates Foundation, a short film including insights from UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Melinda Gates to introduce themes that were discussed as key security threats on the health-security nexus.

Initiated in 2015, the collaboration will continue with a Chatham House roundtable and a plenary session at the MSC’s Core Group Meeting in Addis Ababa in April, and further contributions to the 2017 MSC agenda.




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Supporting the US Economy by Improving the Mobility of High-skilled Labour Across the Atlantic

27 September 2017

US policymakers should give special consideration to a more open immigration policy for highly skilled professionals from the EU. This would ultimately benefit the US economy.

Marianne Schneider-Petsinger

Senior Research Fellow, US and the Americas Programme

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Businessman on bicycle passing skyline of La Defense business district in Paris, France. Photo: Getty Images.

Summary

  • The United States and the European Union are deeply integrated economically in terms of movement of goods, services and capital across the Atlantic, but this is not matched by the mobility of labour. Freer movement of high-skilled workers across the Atlantic has a potentially critical role to play in maintaining and strengthening the bilateral economic relationship.
  • Both the US and EU seek to attract high-skilled labour through the use of temporary visa programmes. Various routes are available for highly skilled workers from the EU to temporarily work in the US (for instance, through the H-1B visa for foreign nationals in ‘specialty occupations’, as well as other visa categories for treaty traders and investors, intra-company transferees, and international students seeking work authorization in the US before or after graduation). The main ways for highly skilled workers from the US to temporarily work in EU member states are through EU-wide schemes that apply in 25 out of the 28 member states (for holders of EU Blue Cards or intra-company transferees); or via member states’ parallel national schemes.
  • The experiences of US and EU employers and workers under the US H-1B programme and the EU’s Blue Card scheme differ greatly. The EU Blue Card scheme avoids many of the drawbacks of the H-1B visa. It does not have an annual cap on the number of visas issued. It also grants greater autonomy to the worker by not requiring the employer to sponsor long-term residence, by providing greater flexibility to switch employment, and by having a longer grace period for visa-holders to find new employment after dismissal.
  • The US visa system hampers America’s economic growth. Restrictive policies such as an annual limit on the number of H-1B visas issued, and the associated uncertainty for employees and employers, hinder the ability of US companies to expand and innovate. The complex and costly visa application process is a particular burden for small and medium-sized enterprises. Problems around the timely availability of visas frustrate investors both from the US and from abroad (including from the EU). European firms face difficulties in acquiring visas for intra-company transferees, and not all EU member states have access to the treaty trader and treaty investor visa categories. At times, this impedes foreign direct investment and restricts US job creation. In addition, current policies hinder the economy’s retention of EU and other graduates of US universities. This is of particular concern given that skilled graduates have a critical role to play in addressing the US’s growing shortage of workers in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields.
  • Given the comparability of US and EU wages and labour markets, US concerns about foreign workers ‘stealing’ their jobs or depressing wages generally do not apply to EU citizens. On the contrary, a more open immigration policy for high-skilled workers – in particular for EU citizens – would benefit the US economy.
  • Efforts to reform visa systems for high-skilled labour are under way in both the US and EU. In order to facilitate the movement of highly skilled workers across the Atlantic, this research paper recommends (1) creating a special visa for highly skilled EU citizens to work temporarily in the US; (2) extending the availability of treaty trader and investor visas to all EU member states; and (3) increasing efforts to eliminate fraud and abuse in the H-1B system. These measures could potentially help to create more investment, jobs and economic growth in the US.




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Webinar: Weekly COVID-19 Pandemic Briefing – The Role of International Collaboration

Members Event Webinar

8 April 2020 - 11:30am to 12:15pm

Online

Event participants

Professor David Heymann CBE, Distinguished Fellow, Global Health Programme, Chatham House; Executive Director, Communicable Diseases Cluster, World Health Organization (1998-03)
Chair: Emma Ross, Senior Consulting Fellow, Global Health Programme, Chatham House
 

The coronavirus pandemic, first detected in Wuhan, China, continues to expand with most countries affected facing unprecedented social and economic impacts. At this moment, what do we know – and what do we not know – about the COVID-19 pandemic? 

The third in a series of interactive webinars on the coronavirus with Professor David Heymann helping us to understand the facts and make sense of the latest developments during the global crisis. This week we will be focusing on the role of international collaboration, after briefly discussing key current debates, including the role of masks for the general population.

Professor Heymann is a world-leading authority on infectious disease outbreaks. He led the World Health Organization’s response to SARS and has been advising the organization on its response to the coronavirus.