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No deal has been reached in Doha after twelve hours of marathon oil talks. The world's major oil players were trying to negotiate a production freeze in a bid to halt tumbling prices. RT's Paula Slier has been following the talks in the capital of Qatar.
 

Severe flooding has brought chaos to Santiago as heavy rains have been battering the region since Friday. An estimated four million people have been left without drinking water and, according to police reports, at least one person has been killed as a result of the floods so far. The capital was deluged after the Mapocho River overflowed its banks for the first time in 30 years.
 

6 minutes ago, Carmen Erwin said:

I'm using I phone and safari browser 

It works on Safari on Mac. But not on my iPhone as well   Thanks for letting me know    

IPhone must have a privacy setting that doesn't allow it.  

I see some advantages to the fixed categories of this forum than the user created endless disorganized reddit forums.

Of course I am biased. What do you think?

20 minutes ago, Carmen Erwin said:

how come i cannot see any videos you post are they not for the general public? I understand if they aren't. Just wondering if it is a glitch in the site or not. Thank You. 

Can you tell me what operating system and browser you are using? It is working for most people.

I use mostly Apple products but a friend uses a PC mostly while at work. Is there a good solution to use iMessage via the web?

Making Home affordable’ s Unemployment Program (UP) can help keep your job seekers in their homes.  https://www.makinghomeaffordable.gov/pages/default.aspx

An Official Program of the U.S. Department of the Treasury & the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

Footage from the surveillance video shows the pedestrian crossing the road while the garbage truck just arrived intersection. Out of nowhere, the blue dump truck comes into the picture after making a U-turn. The back end of the dump truck just misses the pedestrian, but it crashes into the driver's side of the garbage truck. The dump truck then flees the scene of the accident. While the pedestrian escaped the accident unscathed, the driver of the garbage truck suffered a head injury as a result of the crash. According to the police, the slippery road may have been the cause of the accident.

PENNSYLVANIA LEGALIZES MEDICAL MARIJUANA!

A bus has exploded in Jerusalem, leaving around 16 injured, Israeli media report, citing emergency medical services

According to a gentleman in Ecuador many people saw a bluish-green light in the sky during the earthquake.... Has anyone heard of anything similar before?

Here is his comment in Spanish:

Bolas de fuego? Interesante. Una luz azulada verdosa durante el sismo? que raro.

Un puente destruido en la Avenida de las Americas tras un sismo de 7.8 con varias personas atrapadas debajo

A bridge collapsed at Avenida de las Americas after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck Ecuador's coastline, killing at least 41 people and causing widespread destruction in the vicinity of the epicenter. Several people are trapped under the bridge and one person has died, according to reports.
 

So I've been thinking more and more lately about how much of my life is already controlled or affected by algorithms. I've decided to make a list maybe you can help add to. Here goes:

• Newsfeed on FB, Twitter etc...
• Search "bubble' created (censored by Google)
• Credit scores
• Medical report "score" (used by insurance companies to determine care or lack of)
  • Organ transplant donor matches
  • Drug interaction warnings at the pharmacy
  • Da Vinci robotic surgeries
  • LASIK eye surgeries ... etc...
• Insurance rates on home, auto, life etc....
• What is available to me at the big box retailers (only merchandise that sells)
• Airport runway queues (let's pilots know exactly when to depart the terminal for the runway)
• Traffic light sequencing on major streets
• Computer in the car controls many functions simultaneously. (not referring to self-driving cars soon to come)
• Water quality
• Sewage processing
• Love matches online (1 out of 4 couples now meet this way)

and I'm sure there are hundreds more to go.... Can you add one below as a reply?

Sounds grandiose. 

We already have satellite coverage everywhere. The problem is equipment on the ground to receive the signals. Also, how does he propose to power these billions of iPhones everywhere?

Nevermind the purchase of these billions of devices.  Where will they get the $ in the first place.  

He wants more eyeballs on Facebook. I get that.  However you can't squeeze blood out of turnip. If they don't have the $ in the first place who will want to advertise to the penniless?

I applaud his desire though. 

I would first ask him to respect people's privacy with the 1.5 billion people he has before he tries to take on entire new continents. 

Hugs Zuckerberg. 

He is making a powerful statement by doing this. 

Most likely they are Muslims as well. 

Despite steady job growth, Washington’s unemployment rate remains at 5.8 percent

U.S. unemployment increases slightly to 5 percent

OLYMPIA – While Washington added 9,000 new jobs from February 2016 to March 2016, the state’s unemployment rate held steady at 5.8 percent, according to the state’s Employment Security Department (ESD).  The state released the seasonally adjusted, preliminary jobs estimates from the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics as part of its March Monthly Employment Report.

“Washington continues to enjoy steady job growth but surges in the labor market are impacting the state’s unemployment rate,” said Paul Turek, Washington’s state labor economist. “The state added nearly 100,000 new jobs since last year, but at the same time, 92,500 more people entered the labor market to compete for those jobs—and that’s been keeping the unemployment rate from declining ”

The U.S. unemployment rate increased slightly from 4.9 percent in February to 5 percent in March.

Unemployment in the Seattle/Bellevue/Everett area dropped from 5 percent in February 2016 to a preliminary 4.9 percent in March 2016.

ESD paid unemployment insurance benefits to 69,916 people statewide in March. 

Labor force continues to grow in Puget Sound and across Washington
The state’s labor force increased by more than 13,000 to nearly 3.62 million from February to March. The labor force is the total number of people, both employed and unemployed, over age 16. In the Seattle/Bellevue/Everett region, the labor force grew by 7,300 to nearly 1.61 million over the same period.

Washington enjoys job growth in all but two sectors in March
This month’s report shows the greatest job growth in professional & business services with 2,200 new jobs from February to March.

Financial activities saw no growth, and education & health services lost 1,600 jobs.

Year-over-year growth remains strong with continued gains in public and private sectors
Washington added 98,200 new jobs from March 2015 to March 2016, not seasonally adjusted. The private sector grew by 87,600 jobs and the public sector added 10,600, according to ESD’s Monthly Employment Report.

From March 2015 to March 2016, 11 of 13 major industries saw growth while the number of jobs in the mining and logging industries dropped by 600 and manufacturing lost 2,300 jobs.

The top four industry sectors with the largest employment gains from March 2015 to March 2016, not seasonally adjusted, were:

·         Professional & business services with 17,100 new jobs;

·         Retail trade with 14,900 new jobs;

·         Leisure & hospitality with 14,300 new jobs; and

·         Construction with 10,900 new jobs.

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Web links

·         Monthly employment report

·         Labor market information website

·         State and local trends and projections

·         Three-month comparisons, county-to-county (Excel spreadsheet) ~ click “Current estimates” under “Not seasonally adjusted” on the right

·         Historical data (Excel spreadsheet) ~ click “Historical estimates” under “Seasonally adjusted” on the right

·         Employment Security website

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Great resource for suspended License restoration.

https://www.clark.wa.gov/district-court/driver-license-restoration-program

My 2008 Cadillac CTS LCD Radio display went dark this morning. The radio, CD etc.. all still work. I just can't see anything on the LCD to navigate anywhere.

This and the previous issues in a premium car with less than 100,000 miles.

Sorry Cadillac, but I am no longer a believer.

A closer look at the next generation of food.
 

Christie's auction house in New York is auctioning off a pair of pistols owned by South American revolutionary hero, Simon Bolivar. (April 11)
 

Labour MP Dennis Skinner has been suspended from Parliament for the day for calling the Prime Minister "dodgy Dave". He was speaking in the Commons after David Cameron went there to defend his own financial affairs in the wake of the so-called Panama Papers scandal. The Commons Speaker John Bercow asked Dennis Skinner to withdraw his use of the term "dodgy" but the MP repeated the word - forcing Mr Bercow to eject him from the Commons.