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Central Maine Power customers, already struggling to pay for electricity, are urging the Public Utilities Commission to reject the utility’s latest proposed rate increase. Roughly 100 people filled the room at Lewiston Public Library Tuesday night for the second and final public hearing in CMP’s latest rate case before the commission. “Every time I look […]
Central Maine Power customers, already struggling to pay for electricity, are urging the Public Utilities Commission to reject the utility’s latest proposed rate increase. Roughly 100 people filled the room at Lewiston Public Library Tuesday night for the second and final public hearing in CMP’s latest rate case before the commission. “Every time I look […]
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Rady Children's to continue to provide gender affirming care to patients as part of a court settlement with the state of California.
Rady Children's to continue to provide gender affirming care to patients as part of a court settlement with the state of California.
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در گفتوگو با مهدی قدسی از رکوردشکنی رشد نقدینگی و همزمانی انتشار آمارهای بانک مرکزی با بحث آزادسازی داراییها گفتیم. قدسی تأکید میکند انتشار این دادهها از سوی بانک مرکزی، پیامی روشن به مخالفان توافق با آمریکا دارد مبنی بر اینکه ادامه وضعیت موجود بدون توافق میسر نیست.
در گفتوگو با مهدی قدسی از رکوردشکنی رشد نقدینگی و همزمانی انتشار آمارهای بانک مرکزی با بحث آزادسازی داراییها گفتیم. قدسی تأکید میکند انتشار این دادهها از سوی بانک مرکزی، پیامی روشن به مخالفان توافق با آمریکا دارد مبنی بر اینکه ادامه وضعیت موجود بدون توافق میسر نیست.
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Ana Carolina Marson prevê impacto nas eleições no Brasil, mas destaca que Banco Master terá maior influência Fonte
Ana Carolina Marson prevê impacto nas eleições no Brasil, mas destaca que Banco Master terá maior influência Fonte
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The pay increase won’t be approved by a council vote. A City Charter amendment previously approved by voters automatically ties elected officials' salaries to HUD income estimates. The post Why El Paso’s mayor, city representatives are getting a 15% pay raise appeared first on El Paso Matters.
The pay increase won’t be approved by a council vote. A City Charter amendment previously approved by voters automatically ties elected officials' salaries to HUD income estimates. The post Why El Paso’s mayor, city representatives are getting a 15% pay raise appeared first on El Paso Matters.
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(The Center Square) – Four years after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled overturned the right to abortion nationwide, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed legislation he and lawmakers said will protect reproductive freedom in Illinois. The Reproductive Health Records Privacy Act, sponsored by state Rep. Mary Beth Canty and Sen. Celina Villanueva, will seal reproductive health records from being accessed outside of the state without the consent of patients. Laws in states across the country have been passed to restrict and sometimes make some reproductive healthcare services illegal in the years since the Court overturned Roe V. Wade. The governor blamed the Trump administration for its policies toward reproductive healthcare for creating an unsafe environment in receiving care. “Whether it's attacks on medication abortion, efforts to undermine patient privacy, attempts to intimidate providers or schemes to allow other states to punish people for seeking legal care here,” Pritzker said. Villanueva folded in gender-affirming services, like hormone treatments, when talking about protecting the right to abortion and reproductive healthcare. Those records are also covered under the law, according to the lawmaker. Megan Jeyifo, executive director of the Chicago Abortion Fund, described Illinois as a safe haven to provide reproductive healthcare and abortion services. “Today, one in four people who travel out of state for an abortion come to Illinois and CAF supports nearly half. That did not happen by accident. It happened because providers, advocates, and elected leaders made a conscious decision,” Jeyifo said. Republican state Rep. Bill Hauter, a licensed and practicing medical professional, questioned the purpose of the bill before it passed through the General Assembly last month. “This bill fundamentally misinterprets and mischaracterizes what the medical record is for, a private protected communication between healthcare professionals to take care of patients,” Hauter said. “The governor wants it passed, he wants to campaign on it, and we’re going to lose a very important thing. That is a complete and accurate medical record.” Director of the Illinois Department of Health Dr. Sameer Vohra announced that alongside the new law, he’s imposing an update to a standing order to expand access to contraceptives. The update specifically will allow pharmacists to dispense and sell an expanded suite of prescription contraceptives, which will now be required to be covered by Medicaid and state healthcare plans. Pritzker penned a Substack post, released through his gubernatorial campaign Wednesday, reflecting on the status of reproductive healthcare in the state, and nationwide. The article took a more political angle, making statements about Republican states and putting the Trump administration in his crosshairs. “I enacted the Reproductive Health Act in 2019 to protect the right to a safe abortion and critical reproductive care long before Trump’s Supreme Court took that right away. That’s why when it happened, Illinois was ready,” Pritzker wrote. He noted that he has since taken to pushing back against “right-wing extremism” nationwide through an advocacy group he started, Think Big America, in part by providing assistance to women traveling to Democrat-led states to access reproductive and abortion services.
(The Center Square) – Four years after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled overturned the right to abortion nationwide, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed legislation he and lawmakers said will protect reproductive freedom in Illinois. The Reproductive Health Records Privacy Act, sponsored by state Rep. Mary Beth Canty and Sen. Celina Villanueva, will seal reproductive health records from being accessed outside of the state without the consent of patients. Laws in states across the country have been passed to restrict and sometimes make some reproductive healthcare services illegal in the years since the Court overturned Roe V. Wade. The governor blamed the Trump administration for its policies toward reproductive healthcare for creating an unsafe environment in receiving care. “Whether it's attacks on medication abortion, efforts to undermine patient privacy, attempts to intimidate providers or schemes to allow other states to punish people for seeking legal care here,” Pritzker said. Villanueva folded in gender-affirming services, like hormone treatments, when talking about protecting the right to abortion and reproductive healthcare. Those records are also covered under the law, according to the lawmaker. Megan Jeyifo, executive director of the Chicago Abortion Fund, described Illinois as a safe haven to provide reproductive healthcare and abortion services. “Today, one in four people who travel out of state for an abortion come to Illinois and CAF supports nearly half. That did not happen by accident. It happened because providers, advocates, and elected leaders made a conscious decision,” Jeyifo said. Republican state Rep. Bill Hauter, a licensed and practicing medical professional, questioned the purpose of the bill before it passed through the General Assembly last month. “This bill fundamentally misinterprets and mischaracterizes what the medical record is for, a private protected communication between healthcare professionals to take care of patients,” Hauter said. “The governor wants it passed, he wants to campaign on it, and we’re going to lose a very important thing. That is a complete and accurate medical record.” Director of the Illinois Department of Health Dr. Sameer Vohra announced that alongside the new law, he’s imposing an update to a standing order to expand access to contraceptives. The update specifically will allow pharmacists to dispense and sell an expanded suite of prescription contraceptives, which will now be required to be covered by Medicaid and state healthcare plans. Pritzker penned a Substack post, released through his gubernatorial campaign Wednesday, reflecting on the status of reproductive healthcare in the state, and nationwide. The article took a more political angle, making statements about Republican states and putting the Trump administration in his crosshairs. “I enacted the Reproductive Health Act in 2019 to protect the right to a safe abortion and critical reproductive care long before Trump’s Supreme Court took that right away. That’s why when it happened, Illinois was ready,” Pritzker wrote. He noted that he has since taken to pushing back against “right-wing extremism” nationwide through an advocacy group he started, Think Big America, in part by providing assistance to women traveling to Democrat-led states to access reproductive and abortion services.
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In his book, Inventing America, the liberal scholar Garry Wills argued that the Declaration owed much to previous Anglo-American history. This is correct. English parliamentary bills originated as petitions by the people’s representatives to the king. These petitions listed grievances and requested relief. When the king assented to a petition, it became law. Although by the 18th century, parliamentary bills were no longer merely petitions, the standardized petition form survived, and petitioning was recognized as one of the rights of Englishmen. During the 1760s and early 1770s, American conventions and legislatures sent a series of petitions to the king. They followed the form of listing grievances and requesting relief. The Declaration follows much the same pattern—except that after its list of grievances, it requests nothing. Instead, it makes an announcement. The Declaration also owes much to the English Declaration (or Bill) of Rights of 1689. After an uprising forced the oppressive King James II to flee Britain, an informal parliament (“convention parliament”) issued the Declaration of Rights to proclaim: a list of some of the core rights of Englishmen;that they believed that William of Orange and his wife Mary Stuart, would respect those rights; andthat, with that understanding, “the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons . . . do resolve that William and Mary, prince and princess of Orange, be and be declared king and queen of England . . .” The Declaration of Independence features structural similarities to the English Bill of Rights. This is not at all surprising, because, according to the American revolutionaries, they were merely reclaiming from an abusive British government the rights that all Englishmen had secured in 1689. (In addition to influencing the Declaration, the English Bill of Rights also exercised considerable influence on the American Bill of Rights.) Furthermore, the Declaration of Independence owed a debt to a more recent historical document: The resolution of the First Continental Congress of 1774, which both detailed grievances due to British actions and affirmed the rights of the colonists as Englishmen. Although the Declaration did not itself create law, it did have some legal implications. The second paragraph—the portion laying out the Founders’ assumptions—makes important assertions about natural law. God created men (i.e., people) to be legally equal. He endowed them with certain rights (in this context, a synonym for “powers”). Although some of these rights/powers are alienable (transferable) and may be handed over to government, others—life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness—are not. People give governments alienable rights/powers so that government may protect the unalienable ones. Moreover, governments have only those powers that the people, by consent, have given them. When a government no longer serves its rightful purpose, the people may reorganize or remove it. These ideas commonly are attributed to the English philosopher John Locke (1632-1704), although they stemmed from other sources as well, and during the Founding-era, they were very much “in the air.” Almost all the Founders seem to have accepted them. As I point out in my book, The Original Constitution, understanding those ideas is crucial for understanding the otherwise enigmatic Ninth Amendment. Advocates for an unlimited federal government sometimes argue that it inherited powers from the Continental Congress outside the Constitution, and therefore not limited by the Constitution. In various respects, this argument is deeply flawed. One of its principal flaws is that it relies heavily on the claim that the states were never fully sovereign and the Continental Congress exercised its own sovereign authority. But as Garry Wills also notes, however, the text of the Declaration disproves this. It did not announce the emergence of a single new nation, but of thirteen. In its reference to the “united States,” the initial “u” is small but the initial S is large. The language of the Declaration’s final and “operative” portion is: “That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States . . . and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and things which Independent States may of right do.” In fact, the Continental Congress did not receive its authority from a magical assumption of sovereignty, but from power delegated by the states themselves. On the other hand, you may notice that the Declaration treats Americans as a single “People” rather than as thirteen separate ones: “When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people [i.e., the Americans] to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another [i.e., the British] . . . .” Of course, there is nothing unusual about a single people being divided into multiple sovereignties. When Thomas Jefferson wrote those words, the German people—or, if you prefer, the German ethnic group—was divided among the many sovereignties of the Holy Roman Empire. In fact, Germans lived under separate sovereignties until 1870, and throughout much of the 20th century as well. Today this remains true of Koreans, Arabs, and many other discrete “peoples.” For reasons I explain in The Original Constitution, the formulation in the Declaration of Independence—a single people governed by thirteen new sovereign states—is important for understanding why the Constitution could become effective after approval by only nine states, rather than all thirteen. The Declaration presents other fascinating questions: Exactly what did it mean by characterizing humans as “equal?” Why did Congress soften the harsh language about the slave trade that Jefferson included in his first draft? And what immediate effect did the Declaration have? But another question is easily answered: Does the Declaration still matter? And the answer to that is clear: It remains one of the four most influential secular documents in Western political history: Magna Carta, the Digest of Justinian, the U.S. Constitution, and the Declaration of Independence. Final installment: The Legacy of the Declaration of Independence. Rob Natelson, a former University of Montana constitutional law professor, is Senior Fellow in Constitutional Jurisprudence at the Mountain States Policy Center, an independent research organization based in Idaho, Montana, Washington and Wyoming. Online at mountainstatespolicy.org. Rob authored the book “The Original Constitution,” and Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court have cited his constitutional research repeatedly.
In his book, Inventing America, the liberal scholar Garry Wills argued that the Declaration owed much to previous Anglo-American history. This is correct. English parliamentary bills originated as petitions by the people’s representatives to the king. These petitions listed grievances and requested relief. When the king assented to a petition, it became law. Although by the 18th century, parliamentary bills were no longer merely petitions, the standardized petition form survived, and petitioning was recognized as one of the rights of Englishmen. During the 1760s and early 1770s, American conventions and legislatures sent a series of petitions to the king. They followed the form of listing grievances and requesting relief. The Declaration follows much the same pattern—except that after its list of grievances, it requests nothing. Instead, it makes an announcement. The Declaration also owes much to the English Declaration (or Bill) of Rights of 1689. After an uprising forced the oppressive King James II to flee Britain, an informal parliament (“convention parliament”) issued the Declaration of Rights to proclaim: a list of some of the core rights of Englishmen;that they believed that William of Orange and his wife Mary Stuart, would respect those rights; andthat, with that understanding, “the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons . . . do resolve that William and Mary, prince and princess of Orange, be and be declared king and queen of England . . .” The Declaration of Independence features structural similarities to the English Bill of Rights. This is not at all surprising, because, according to the American revolutionaries, they were merely reclaiming from an abusive British government the rights that all Englishmen had secured in 1689. (In addition to influencing the Declaration, the English Bill of Rights also exercised considerable influence on the American Bill of Rights.) Furthermore, the Declaration of Independence owed a debt to a more recent historical document: The resolution of the First Continental Congress of 1774, which both detailed grievances due to British actions and affirmed the rights of the colonists as Englishmen. Although the Declaration did not itself create law, it did have some legal implications. The second paragraph—the portion laying out the Founders’ assumptions—makes important assertions about natural law. God created men (i.e., people) to be legally equal. He endowed them with certain rights (in this context, a synonym for “powers”). Although some of these rights/powers are alienable (transferable) and may be handed over to government, others—life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness—are not. People give governments alienable rights/powers so that government may protect the unalienable ones. Moreover, governments have only those powers that the people, by consent, have given them. When a government no longer serves its rightful purpose, the people may reorganize or remove it. These ideas commonly are attributed to the English philosopher John Locke (1632-1704), although they stemmed from other sources as well, and during the Founding-era, they were very much “in the air.” Almost all the Founders seem to have accepted them. As I point out in my book, The Original Constitution, understanding those ideas is crucial for understanding the otherwise enigmatic Ninth Amendment. Advocates for an unlimited federal government sometimes argue that it inherited powers from the Continental Congress outside the Constitution, and therefore not limited by the Constitution. In various respects, this argument is deeply flawed. One of its principal flaws is that it relies heavily on the claim that the states were never fully sovereign and the Continental Congress exercised its own sovereign authority. But as Garry Wills also notes, however, the text of the Declaration disproves this. It did not announce the emergence of a single new nation, but of thirteen. In its reference to the “united States,” the initial “u” is small but the initial S is large. The language of the Declaration’s final and “operative” portion is: “That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States . . . and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and things which Independent States may of right do.” In fact, the Continental Congress did not receive its authority from a magical assumption of sovereignty, but from power delegated by the states themselves. On the other hand, you may notice that the Declaration treats Americans as a single “People” rather than as thirteen separate ones: “When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people [i.e., the Americans] to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another [i.e., the British] . . . .” Of course, there is nothing unusual about a single people being divided into multiple sovereignties. When Thomas Jefferson wrote those words, the German people—or, if you prefer, the German ethnic group—was divided among the many sovereignties of the Holy Roman Empire. In fact, Germans lived under separate sovereignties until 1870, and throughout much of the 20th century as well. Today this remains true of Koreans, Arabs, and many other discrete “peoples.” For reasons I explain in The Original Constitution, the formulation in the Declaration of Independence—a single people governed by thirteen new sovereign states—is important for understanding why the Constitution could become effective after approval by only nine states, rather than all thirteen. The Declaration presents other fascinating questions: Exactly what did it mean by characterizing humans as “equal?” Why did Congress soften the harsh language about the slave trade that Jefferson included in his first draft? And what immediate effect did the Declaration have? But another question is easily answered: Does the Declaration still matter? And the answer to that is clear: It remains one of the four most influential secular documents in Western political history: Magna Carta, the Digest of Justinian, the U.S. Constitution, and the Declaration of Independence. Final installment: The Legacy of the Declaration of Independence. Rob Natelson, a former University of Montana constitutional law professor, is Senior Fellow in Constitutional Jurisprudence at the Mountain States Policy Center, an independent research organization based in Idaho, Montana, Washington and Wyoming. Online at mountainstatespolicy.org. Rob authored the book “The Original Constitution,” and Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court have cited his constitutional research repeatedly.
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O chanceler alemão Friedrich Merz afirmou nesta quarta-feira (24) que a Ucrânia continua forte e que o apoio europeu ao país não está diminuindo, ao receber em Berlim o presidente francês Emmanuel Macron e os chefes de governo da Polônia, Itália e Reino Unido para uma reunião preparatória da cúpula da Otan, prevista para o início de julho.
O chanceler alemão Friedrich Merz afirmou nesta quarta-feira (24) que a Ucrânia continua forte e que o apoio europeu ao país não está diminuindo, ao receber em Berlim o presidente francês Emmanuel Macron e os chefes de governo da Polônia, Itália e Reino Unido para uma reunião preparatória da cúpula da Otan, prevista para o início de julho.
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Levantamentos da PF indicam que Alan Cavalcante, dono da mineradora Fleurs, é chefe de grupo criminoso Fonte
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Levantamentos da PF indicam que Alan Cavalcante, dono da mineradora Fleurs, é chefe de grupo criminoso Fonte
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(The Center Square) — The Empire State took a dramatic turn to the left Tuesday after New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani's slate of democratic socialist candidates defeated Hakeem Jeffries' endorsed moderates in several key congressional primary races. Mamdani-backed former City Comptroller Brad Lander soundly defeated two-term U.S. Rep. Dan Golden in New York’s 10th Congressional District, which includes Lower Manhattan and parts of Brooklyn. Claire Valdez, another Mamdani-backed candidate, bested Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso in New York’s 7th District, which includes sections of Brooklyn and Queens. Valdez had 58% to Reynoso's 32%, according to Tuesday night's results. Meanwhile, Darializa Avila Chevalier — whom Mamdani endorsed just days before the primary — ousted five-term Democratic U.S. Rep. Adriano Espaillat in New York’s 13th Congressional District to complete the mayor's political trifecta. All told, nine Democratic incumbents including state lawmakers and two congressmen lost their seats as Tuesday's wave of anti-establishment sentiment fanned by Mamdani set shockwaves through the state's political establishment. Most of those hosted on Tuesday had been endorsed by House Minority Leader, Hakeem Jeffries, who was also on Tuesday's ballot unopposed. "We are showing that last June, a year ago tomorrow, was not an anomaly," Mamdani said in remarks Tuesday night. "It was not the end. It was the beginning." Republicans ripped Mamdani's big night at the primaries, claiming the election is the latest sign that the New York Democratic Party is being taken over by socialists. “The Democratic Party of New York has been captured by a movement that is fundamentally hostile to free enterprise, American institutions and the values upon which our nation was founded," New York Republican Party Chairman Ed Cox said in a statement. "The Democratic Socialists of America isn’t just a faction within the Democratic Party anymore — it IS the Democratic Party in New York, and Kathy Hochul, Chuck Schumer, and Hakeem Jeffries are too weak to stop them and too afraid to condemn them," he said. "This is a group that has hosted rallies for Hamas, wants boys competing in girls’ sports and views the free market and nuclear family as things to be dismantled." The National Republican Congressional Committee sarcastically posted a photo of flowers and a card left outside of Jefferies' Capitol building office, expressing condolences for his loss in Tuesdays primary. "Please 'enjoy' our Condolences for your incumbents who got crushed by Zohran Mamdani-backed, America-hating Socialists last night," the NRCC posted on X. "The Democrat Party now: full socialist takeover, defund police, open borders and anti-American extremism." Rep. Mike Lawler, a Hudson Valley Republican who will face Democrat Cait Conley in the November elections, said the results of Tuesday's primaries show that "the Democratic Party has officially become the party of Zohran, AOC, & Bernie."
(The Center Square) — The Empire State took a dramatic turn to the left Tuesday after New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani's slate of democratic socialist candidates defeated Hakeem Jeffries' endorsed moderates in several key congressional primary races. Mamdani-backed former City Comptroller Brad Lander soundly defeated two-term U.S. Rep. Dan Golden in New York’s 10th Congressional District, which includes Lower Manhattan and parts of Brooklyn. Claire Valdez, another Mamdani-backed candidate, bested Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso in New York’s 7th District, which includes sections of Brooklyn and Queens. Valdez had 58% to Reynoso's 32%, according to Tuesday night's results. Meanwhile, Darializa Avila Chevalier — whom Mamdani endorsed just days before the primary — ousted five-term Democratic U.S. Rep. Adriano Espaillat in New York’s 13th Congressional District to complete the mayor's political trifecta. All told, nine Democratic incumbents including state lawmakers and two congressmen lost their seats as Tuesday's wave of anti-establishment sentiment fanned by Mamdani set shockwaves through the state's political establishment. Most of those hosted on Tuesday had been endorsed by House Minority Leader, Hakeem Jeffries, who was also on Tuesday's ballot unopposed. "We are showing that last June, a year ago tomorrow, was not an anomaly," Mamdani said in remarks Tuesday night. "It was not the end. It was the beginning." Republicans ripped Mamdani's big night at the primaries, claiming the election is the latest sign that the New York Democratic Party is being taken over by socialists. “The Democratic Party of New York has been captured by a movement that is fundamentally hostile to free enterprise, American institutions and the values upon which our nation was founded," New York Republican Party Chairman Ed Cox said in a statement. "The Democratic Socialists of America isn’t just a faction within the Democratic Party anymore — it IS the Democratic Party in New York, and Kathy Hochul, Chuck Schumer, and Hakeem Jeffries are too weak to stop them and too afraid to condemn them," he said. "This is a group that has hosted rallies for Hamas, wants boys competing in girls’ sports and views the free market and nuclear family as things to be dismantled." The National Republican Congressional Committee sarcastically posted a photo of flowers and a card left outside of Jefferies' Capitol building office, expressing condolences for his loss in Tuesdays primary. "Please 'enjoy' our Condolences for your incumbents who got crushed by Zohran Mamdani-backed, America-hating Socialists last night," the NRCC posted on X. "The Democrat Party now: full socialist takeover, defund police, open borders and anti-American extremism." Rep. Mike Lawler, a Hudson Valley Republican who will face Democrat Cait Conley in the November elections, said the results of Tuesday's primaries show that "the Democratic Party has officially become the party of Zohran, AOC, & Bernie."
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O “Qué digital”, um veículo de mídia hiperlocal de Mar del Plata, utilizou imagens de arquivo, entrevistas e ferramentas de IA para produzir um documentário que enfrenta uma onda crescente de negacionismo. The post Uma redação local investiga as feridas que a ditadura argentina deixou em sua comunidade appeared first on LatAm Journalism Review by the Knight Center.
O “Qué digital”, um veículo de mídia hiperlocal de Mar del Plata, utilizou imagens de arquivo, entrevistas e ferramentas de IA para produzir um documentário que enfrenta uma onda crescente de negacionismo. The post Uma redação local investiga as feridas que a ditadura argentina deixou em sua comunidade appeared first on LatAm Journalism Review by the Knight Center.
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Vigilantes do Distrito Federal entraram em greve na noite desta terça-feira (23) por tempo indeterminado. Segundo a categoria, todas as atividades exercidas pelos trabalhadores estão suspensas até que “uma proposta de convenção coletiva” seja assinada. A paralisação foi motivada por falta de reajuste salarial e deve impactar setores dependentes de segurança patrimonial, como hospitais, bancos, […] Fonte
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Vigilantes do Distrito Federal entraram em greve na noite desta terça-feira (23) por tempo indeterminado. Segundo a categoria, todas as atividades exercidas pelos trabalhadores estão suspensas até que “uma proposta de convenção coletiva” seja assinada. A paralisação foi motivada por falta de reajuste salarial e deve impactar setores dependentes de segurança patrimonial, como hospitais, bancos, […] Fonte
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С начала чемпионата мира по футболу во Франции многократно выросла популярность бесплатных приложений, позволяющих делать прогнозы результатов футбольных матчей вместе с друзьями или коллегами и набирать очки в зависимости от точности предсказаний.
С начала чемпионата мира по футболу во Франции многократно выросла популярность бесплатных приложений, позволяющих делать прогнозы результатов футбольных матчей вместе с друзьями или коллегами и набирать очки в зависимости от точности предсказаний.
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Unanimous ruling requires prosecutors to provide defendants with information about facial recognition tools used in investigations
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Unanimous ruling requires prosecutors to provide defendants with information about facial recognition tools used in investigations
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تدعم هذه المبادرة التزام الفندق بالمسؤولية البيئية من خلال تقليل المسافة التي تقطعها الأغذية، والحد من الهدر، وتعزيز ممارسات الزراعة المستدامة شبكة بيئة ابوظبي، دبي، الإمارات العربية المتحدة 24 يونيو 2026 كشف فندق أوكس بوابة ابن بطوطة دبي عن مبادرتين للاستدامة تُسهمان في تقليل البصمة الكربونية للفندق، وذلك من خلال الحد من هدر الطعام، وترشيد استهلاك المياه، وتحسين كفاءة العمليات التشغيلية. هذا ويقع هذا الفندق ذو الخمس نجوم، الذي يضم 411 غرفة، بجوار ابن بطوطة مول، وهو مملوك لشركة “سيفن تايدز إنترناشونال” وتديره شركة “ماينور هوتيلز”، ويعتمد الفندق حالياً على منتجاته المحلية من مزرعة “الخوانيج” في دبي، تساهم هذه المبادرة في تعزيز جودة ونضارة واستدامة الطعام المقدم في الفندق من خلال تطبيق نهج “من المزرعة إلى المائدة” مباشرةً. وبهذه المناسبة قال غاري عبد المجيد، رئيس الطهاة التنفيذي في فندق أوكس بوابة ابن بطوطة دبي: “تشمل منتجاتنا العضوية الخيار، والطماطم، والطماطم الكرزية، والفجل، والفلفل الأخضر، والفلفل الأصفر، والفلفل الأحمر، والكزبرة، والبقدونس، والشبت، والبصل الأخضر، والخس، حيث يتم تزرع جميع خضراواتنا باستخدام ممارسات زراعية مستدامة لضمان الجودة العالية والنضارة والمسؤولية البيئية”. هذا ويتم مراعاة أحجام الإنتاج بدقة مع مستويات إشغال الفندق والاحتياجات الموسمية، مع تقليل الاعتماد على سلاسل التوريد الخارجية، كما تدعم هذه المبادرة التزام الفندق بالمسؤولية البيئية من خلال تقليل المسافة التي تقطعها الأغذية، والحد من الهدر، وتعزيز ممارسات الزراعة المستدامة. وأضاف عبد المجيد قائلاً: “من خلال الحصاد القائم على الطلب، يمكننا خفض انبعاثات الكربون المرتبطة بالنقل والتعبئة والتغليف وسلاسل التوريد الخارجية بشكل ملحوظ، ويمكن أن يساهم استخدام المنتجات المزروعة محليًا في خفض انبعاثات الكربون بنسبة تتراوح بين 30 و70% مقارنةً بالمنتجات التقليدية التي تتطلب الاستيراد والتخزين المبرد والتوزيع”. ويستفيد الفندق أيضًا من وفورات في التكاليف، حيث يتم تعويض تكاليف التأسيس والتشغيل الأولية بمرور الوقت من خلال الإمداد المستمر، وتقليل تقلبات الشراء، وتحسين استخدام المنتجات. وبشكل عام، تدعم المزرعة نموذجًا أكثر كفاءة واستدامة في عمليات الشراء، يربط بين إدارة التكاليف والمسؤولية البيئية. ومن المبادرات الأخرى التي أطلقتها إدارة فندق أوكس أيضاً هي إعادة تعبئة المياه في زجاجات، والتي يتم تنفيذها داخل الفندق. كما تم تخصيص منطقة لإنتاج المياه المعدنية العادية والغازية، حيث يتيح هذا النهج الداخلي مراقبة الجودة بشكل كامل، ويقلل الاعتماد على الموردين الخارجيين، ويدعم جهود الاستدامة من خلال تقليل نفايات النقل والتغليف. ويرتبط إنتاج الزجاجات ارتباطًا مباشرًا بمستويات إشغال الفندق لضمان إمداد فعال يلبي الطلب، وفي المتوسط، يتراوح الإنتاج بين 500 زجاجة يوميًا خلال فترات انخفاض الإشغال، ويصل إلى 1500 زجاجة يوميًا خلال فترات ذروة الطلب. وفي هذا السياق قال عبد المجيد: “أُطلقت هذه المبادرة لتوفير إمدادات مياه عالية الجودة ومستدامة ومكتفية ذاتيًا لنزلاء الفندق. ومن خلال إنشاء محطة تعبئة مياه داخلية، يضمن الفندق تحكمًا أكبر في معايير الجودة والاتساق والكفاءة التشغيلية”. وأضاف عبد المجيد قائلاً: “تساهم مبادرة تعبئة المياه في الموقع في خفض انبعاثات الكربون بشكل ملحوظ، وذلك بالاستغناء عن النقل الخارجي، وعمليات التعبئة اللوجستية واسعة النطاق، والتغليف أحادي الاستخدام”. وبينما يعتمد مقدار التوفير الدقيق في انبعاثات الكربون على مستويات الإشغال والإنتاج، فإن أنظمة تعبئة المياه الداخلية تُقلل الانبعاثات عادةً بنسبة تتراوح بين 40 و80% مقارنةً بالمياه المعبأة من مصادر خارجية. ومن خلال إنتاج المياه داخليًا، يُقلل الفندق أيضًا من تكاليف سلسلة التوريد الخارجية، حيث تتمثل النفقات المستمرة الرئيسية في زجاجات المياه القابلة لإعادة الاستخدام. إضافةً إلى ذلك، وبفضل اعتماد هذه المبادرة على نموذج خالٍ من البلاستيك أحادي الاستخدام، يُمكن تحقيق المزيد من التخفيضات في الأثر البيئي، مما يدعم التزام الفندق الشامل بالاستدامة والإدارة المسؤولة للموارد. ظهرت المقالة فندق أوكس بوابة ابن بطوطة يطلق مبادرات مستدامة في مجال الأطعمة والمشروبات للحد من انبعاثات الكربون والنفايات أولاً على بيئة أبوظبي.
تدعم هذه المبادرة التزام الفندق بالمسؤولية البيئية من خلال تقليل المسافة التي تقطعها الأغذية، والحد من الهدر، وتعزيز ممارسات الزراعة المستدامة شبكة بيئة ابوظبي، دبي، الإمارات العربية المتحدة 24 يونيو 2026 كشف فندق أوكس بوابة ابن بطوطة دبي عن مبادرتين للاستدامة تُسهمان في تقليل البصمة الكربونية للفندق، وذلك من خلال الحد من هدر الطعام، وترشيد استهلاك المياه، وتحسين كفاءة العمليات التشغيلية. هذا ويقع هذا الفندق ذو الخمس نجوم، الذي يضم 411 غرفة، بجوار ابن بطوطة مول، وهو مملوك لشركة “سيفن تايدز إنترناشونال” وتديره شركة “ماينور هوتيلز”، ويعتمد الفندق حالياً على منتجاته المحلية من مزرعة “الخوانيج” في دبي، تساهم هذه المبادرة في تعزيز جودة ونضارة واستدامة الطعام المقدم في الفندق من خلال تطبيق نهج “من المزرعة إلى المائدة” مباشرةً. وبهذه المناسبة قال غاري عبد المجيد، رئيس الطهاة التنفيذي في فندق أوكس بوابة ابن بطوطة دبي: “تشمل منتجاتنا العضوية الخيار، والطماطم، والطماطم الكرزية، والفجل، والفلفل الأخضر، والفلفل الأصفر، والفلفل الأحمر، والكزبرة، والبقدونس، والشبت، والبصل الأخضر، والخس، حيث يتم تزرع جميع خضراواتنا باستخدام ممارسات زراعية مستدامة لضمان الجودة العالية والنضارة والمسؤولية البيئية”. هذا ويتم مراعاة أحجام الإنتاج بدقة مع مستويات إشغال الفندق والاحتياجات الموسمية، مع تقليل الاعتماد على سلاسل التوريد الخارجية، كما تدعم هذه المبادرة التزام الفندق بالمسؤولية البيئية من خلال تقليل المسافة التي تقطعها الأغذية، والحد من الهدر، وتعزيز ممارسات الزراعة المستدامة. وأضاف عبد المجيد قائلاً: “من خلال الحصاد القائم على الطلب، يمكننا خفض انبعاثات الكربون المرتبطة بالنقل والتعبئة والتغليف وسلاسل التوريد الخارجية بشكل ملحوظ، ويمكن أن يساهم استخدام المنتجات المزروعة محليًا في خفض انبعاثات الكربون بنسبة تتراوح بين 30 و70% مقارنةً بالمنتجات التقليدية التي تتطلب الاستيراد والتخزين المبرد والتوزيع”. ويستفيد الفندق أيضًا من وفورات في التكاليف، حيث يتم تعويض تكاليف التأسيس والتشغيل الأولية بمرور الوقت من خلال الإمداد المستمر، وتقليل تقلبات الشراء، وتحسين استخدام المنتجات. وبشكل عام، تدعم المزرعة نموذجًا أكثر كفاءة واستدامة في عمليات الشراء، يربط بين إدارة التكاليف والمسؤولية البيئية. ومن المبادرات الأخرى التي أطلقتها إدارة فندق أوكس أيضاً هي إعادة تعبئة المياه في زجاجات، والتي يتم تنفيذها داخل الفندق. كما تم تخصيص منطقة لإنتاج المياه المعدنية العادية والغازية، حيث يتيح هذا النهج الداخلي مراقبة الجودة بشكل كامل، ويقلل الاعتماد على الموردين الخارجيين، ويدعم جهود الاستدامة من خلال تقليل نفايات النقل والتغليف. ويرتبط إنتاج الزجاجات ارتباطًا مباشرًا بمستويات إشغال الفندق لضمان إمداد فعال يلبي الطلب، وفي المتوسط، يتراوح الإنتاج بين 500 زجاجة يوميًا خلال فترات انخفاض الإشغال، ويصل إلى 1500 زجاجة يوميًا خلال فترات ذروة الطلب. وفي هذا السياق قال عبد المجيد: “أُطلقت هذه المبادرة لتوفير إمدادات مياه عالية الجودة ومستدامة ومكتفية ذاتيًا لنزلاء الفندق. ومن خلال إنشاء محطة تعبئة مياه داخلية، يضمن الفندق تحكمًا أكبر في معايير الجودة والاتساق والكفاءة التشغيلية”. وأضاف عبد المجيد قائلاً: “تساهم مبادرة تعبئة المياه في الموقع في خفض انبعاثات الكربون بشكل ملحوظ، وذلك بالاستغناء عن النقل الخارجي، وعمليات التعبئة اللوجستية واسعة النطاق، والتغليف أحادي الاستخدام”. وبينما يعتمد مقدار التوفير الدقيق في انبعاثات الكربون على مستويات الإشغال والإنتاج، فإن أنظمة تعبئة المياه الداخلية تُقلل الانبعاثات عادةً بنسبة تتراوح بين 40 و80% مقارنةً بالمياه المعبأة من مصادر خارجية. ومن خلال إنتاج المياه داخليًا، يُقلل الفندق أيضًا من تكاليف سلسلة التوريد الخارجية، حيث تتمثل النفقات المستمرة الرئيسية في زجاجات المياه القابلة لإعادة الاستخدام. إضافةً إلى ذلك، وبفضل اعتماد هذه المبادرة على نموذج خالٍ من البلاستيك أحادي الاستخدام، يُمكن تحقيق المزيد من التخفيضات في الأثر البيئي، مما يدعم التزام الفندق الشامل بالاستدامة والإدارة المسؤولة للموارد. ظهرت المقالة فندق أوكس بوابة ابن بطوطة يطلق مبادرات مستدامة في مجال الأطعمة والمشروبات للحد من انبعاثات الكربون والنفايات أولاً على بيئة أبوظبي.
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Ao reinterpretar Marx, Lukács demonstrou que o capital enfrenta limites, em seu esforço para ocultar a exploração – verdadeira natureza das relações sociais. É provável que o maior sintoma desta dificuldade seja a imensa força da luta pela redução da jornada de trabalho The post O fetiche da mercadoria, a dura realidade e… a escala 6×1! appeared first on Outras Palavras.
Ao reinterpretar Marx, Lukács demonstrou que o capital enfrenta limites, em seu esforço para ocultar a exploração – verdadeira natureza das relações sociais. É provável que o maior sintoma desta dificuldade seja a imensa força da luta pela redução da jornada de trabalho The post O fetiche da mercadoria, a dura realidade e… a escala 6×1! appeared first on Outras Palavras.
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The restaurant occupies a long narrow basement on the Lower East Side. It is packed with a hundred Jews who fill the air with a fog of blue tobacco smoke as steak and lamb grills over charcoal. Everyone, it seems, has a glass of red Romanian wine, including the cymbalom player who is banging out... The post A klezmer virtuoso, Joseph Moskowitz was a cymbalist of Jewish progress in America appeared first on The Forward.
The restaurant occupies a long narrow basement on the Lower East Side. It is packed with a hundred Jews who fill the air with a fog of blue tobacco smoke as steak and lamb grills over charcoal. Everyone, it seems, has a glass of red Romanian wine, including the cymbalom player who is banging out... The post A klezmer virtuoso, Joseph Moskowitz was a cymbalist of Jewish progress in America appeared first on The Forward.
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“Each of the scientists in the film has faced severe backlash from their research,” says the director of Second Nature.
“Each of the scientists in the film has faced severe backlash from their research,” says the director of Second Nature.
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A passagem da esquerda pelo poder chegou ao fim na Colômbia depois que o sucessor de Gustavo Petro, Iván Cepeda, reconheceu, nesta quarta-feira (24), a derrota para o candidato da extrema-direita, Abelardo de la Espriella, na eleição presidencial mais acirrada e com maior participação eleitoral da história do país sul-americano.
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La detención del tercer antisocial, identificado como el sujeto que amenazó directamente a la dueña del local con una pistola a fogueo adaptada para el disparo, se logró tras la continuidad de las diligencias lideradas por la SIP de Carabineros, unidades que ya identificaron al resto de la banda y mantienen una intensa búsqueda para dar con su paradero. Este artículo Detienen a un tercer antisocial involucrado en violento robo a almacén de Antofagasta: amenazó con un arma fue publicado originalmente en El Diario de Antofagasta.