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    United Airlines drags out new campaign, solving 'Overbooked Flights'!

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    New United Airlines Motto’s:
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    "Drag and Drop"

    "We put the hospital in hospitality"

    "Board as a doctor, leave as a patient"

    "Our prices can’t be beaten, but our passengers can"

    "We have First Class, Business Class and No Class"

    "Not enough seating, prepare for a beating"

    "We treat you like we treat your luggage"

    "We beat the customer.  Not the competition"

    "And you thought leg room was an issue"

    "Where voluntary is mandatory"

    "Fight or flight.  We decide"

    "Now offering one free carry off"

    "Beating random customers since 2017"

    "If our staff needs a seat, we’ll drag you out by your feet"

    "A bloody good airline"

    The number of extremely poor people in the world, reduced by more than half between 1981 and 2013, mainly in China

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    A review of global poverty in The Economist makes the claim:

    Quote: "The World Bank, which tracks poverty, estimates that 1.9bn people were extremely poor in 1981. In that year, the poor accounted for 42% of the world’s population. In 2013, by contrast, only 767m people were poor. Because the world’s population has grown so much in the interim, the share of poor people in the population has fallen even faster, to just below 11%. The single biggest reason for this delightful trend is China. In 1981, almost unbelievably, 88% of Chinese (and 96% of rural Chinese) seem to have lived below the poverty line. In 2013 only 2% of Chinese were extremely poor."

    Reference: http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2017/05/economist-explains-1?cid1=cust%2Fddnew%2Fn%2Fn%2Fn%2F2017053n%2Fowned%2Fn%2Fn%2Fnwl%2Fn%2Fn%2Fap%2FDaily_Dispatch%2Femail

    However, The Economist predicts that it will be more difficult to make further reductions in the number of people living in extreme poverty.

    Quote: "That leaves a rump of poverty in South Asia and, especially, sub-Saharan Africa. In 2013, for the first time, more than half of the paupers in the world were African. Poverty will be much harder to root out in those places. South Asian countries like Bangladesh and India have decent economic growth but feeble welfare systems. Africa doesn’t even have the former, especially considering how quickly its population is increasing. Besides, poor Africans often live on much less than $1.90 a day. It is hard to pull exceptionally poor people (sometimes called the “ultra-poor”) over the line. Even African countries that are growing fairly well, like Ethiopia and Rwanda, will have huge poor populations for many years even if incomes rise across the board."

     

    Poverty reduction in India:

    We could think that India would be able to quickly make quick progress in poverty reduction. But a closer examination makes this doubtful, the illustration below shows a scene that is all too common in India.

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    As this attempt at mapping Indian poverty seems to indicate:

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    and its in some of the areas mapped as suffering from extreme poverty that the long-running naxalite rebellion continues. 

    Why is it that India has this persistent problem? The answer seems to be rooted in the political and social problems which the Indian ruling elite have not been interested in solving.

    When I click on the site to see the topic it says. Forbidden. Why?

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    Because when our site was supposedly experiencing a DDoS attack during a very heavily trafficked day our hosting company decided to block ALL AT&T phones. My phone still shows “forbidden” as well.
     
    Invision Power Services seems to think it is not them though but rather another service that is preventing ALL AT&T phones from accessing their website.
     
    I wonder if this has blocked ALL AT&T phones from EVERY IPS 4.x website out there?
     
    Are there any other admins experiencing the same problem?

    The Newsroom

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    I've just started watching The Newsroom on Amazon video and I must say it is riveting to see Jeff Daniels play this role. The first episode has already got me hooked.

    The op-ed and dialogue are an amazing message sent over a carrier wave of a busy news network full of drama and interweaving lives. The character development seems enthralling and almost believable.

    Definitely high on my recommendations list going forward.

     

    Superships - Launching a Leviathan

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    The TI Class of supertankers are currently the four largest ships in the world (by displacement, deadweight tonnage ≈ cargo mass, and gross tonnage, a formula value based on internal volume, not mass). The class comprises the ships TI Africa, TI Asia, TI Europe and TI Oceania, where the "TI" refers to the VLCC Tanker Pool operator Tankers International L.L.C. The class were the first ULCCs (ultra-large crude carriers) to be built in 25 years.[2]

    Compared to the TI Class, the Maersk Triple E class container ships are longer and have a higher cargo volume, including above deck containers. The previous largest ship, the supertanker Seawise Giant, was scrapped in 2010.

    Earth From Space LIVE Feed

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    How appropriate for a "World Forum" ....

    The International Space Station - ISS - circles the earth at 240 miles above the planet, on the edge of space in low earth orbit.

    The station is crewed by NASA astronauts as well as Russian Cosmonauts and a mixture of Japanese, Canadian and European astronauts as well.

    As seen from the Nasa space video ISS live stream on the International Space Station - 
    A real astronaut view of Earth!

    Live ISS stream of planet earth from space courtesy of nasa HDEV High Definition Earth Viewing Cameras aboard the international space station.

    Enjoy!

    @admin

     

    How did viruses evolve? An accidental discovery at a sewage treatment plant may hold the answer....

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    An artist's conception of what Klosneuvirus might look like

    The possibility of self-sufficiency might suggest that viruses hail from a fourth domain of life (the other three being bacteria, archaea—another type of single-cell microorganism—and eukaryotes—multicellular organisms like humans). The fourth-domain theory was first floated back in 2003 when evolutionary biologist Jean-Michel Claverie and his team discovered another giant virus, Mimivirus. Claverie believes there’s a good chance that viruses were once full-fledged, single-celled organisms capable of living on their own. They evolved into modern viruses, he says, by flushing out unnecessary bits of genetic code as they became more entrenched in the parasitic lifestyle.

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