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They will be joined by another group of demonstrators who will be protesting against stringent new abortion laws currently being considered in Parliament. |
While activists told Al Jazeera they are encouraged that the European Union is taking a proactive stance on the case, they hope it will follow through with further measures. |
"We hope that European Commission will also request interim measures in the form of a suspension of the application of the legislation on the Supreme Court until the case has been adjudicated by the Court of Justice," said Maia Mazurkiewicz, a communications manager, European Front, a coalition of pro-European NGOs, pa... |
"We know that it is just a beginning, but we hope that it will stop politicisation of the Polish Supreme Court." |
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Saying the city of Compton has failed to enforce its own marijuana laws, Compton school officials have sued the city for allegedly allowing pot dispensaries to set up shop near schools. |
State law prohibits dispensaries from operating within 600 feet of educational institutions, but Compton's municipal ordinances go a step further. In 2007, the City Council banned marijuana shops. |
In a lawsuit filed Wednesday, the Compton Unified School District alleges that a dozen pot shops are now operating in city limits, three in the restricted zones of an elementary school, two middle schools and a high school. |
"We are working to get our students college- and career-ready and these dispensaries impede that progress," said Micah Ali, Compton's school board president. |
A tour of the sites named in the lawsuit, however, revealed an industrial complex, a tobacco shop and a storefront with blackened windows. |
The city said it had been working with law enforcement for years to combat illegal dispensaries that operate without a business license or proper permits. Six dispensaries were shut down last year, said City Atty. Craig Cornwell, but he said they often pop back up in new locations. |
"The allegation that we are not enforcing our ordinance is not true," he said. "We will continue to address this complex issue, uphold all ordinances and help keep the citizens safe." |
In late 2013, a task force was created to find alternative measures to close illegal operations such as hourly motels and marijuana dispensaries. The city is looking into imposing hefty fines on property owners who lease space to such businesses. |
Mayor Aja Brown said the issue was hardly unique to Compton. Other cities have similar challenges eliminating underground dispensaries that operate off the grid. But the city hopes its tougher approach will discourage building owners from turning a blind eye to the illegal activity occurring on their property. |
Officials were shocked to learn Thursday that the school district had filed a lawsuit against the city. Cornwell said he received a letter Thursday from the school board notifying the city of the problem. The board threatened litigation if the dispensaries were not shuttered within five days. |
Cornwell said he was preparing a response when The Times called inquiring about the complaint. |
"I'm at a loss as to why this approach would be taken on this matter," Cornwell said. |
The suit asks the court to force the city to "abate the nuisance" and shut down all of the dispensaries near the schools and in the city. |
Though illegal, some dispensaries often operate in plain sight. A life-size green cross is plastered on a white building facing Long Beach Boulevard, a major thoroughfare. The awning above the gated windows reads "Greenlife." Others keep a lower profile. |
One of the sites identified in the lawsuit as being near Gen. Benjamin O. Davis Middle School on Rosecrans Avenue has dark tinted windows and no signage. But beefy security guards roam outside the doors. |
"No one I know thinks a marijuana dispensary near a school is a good idea," Ali said. "If we just enforce the law, this problem can be solved." |
London-based startup Kano, which makes a software platform and DIY computer kit built atop the Raspberry Pi to encourage kids to learn coding, has a new building block of its own to announce today: $15 million in Series A funding, led by Jim Breyer of Silicon Valley VC firm Breyer Capital. Other investors in the round ... |
Kano is also offering its users and the wider tech community the chance to invest in the round, via the Quire equity crowdfunding platform — with up to $500,000 available for community backers. “The round is basically over-subscribed so whatever the community will take they’re going to have a certain amount that we’re ... |
The Quire community outreach follows Kano’s use of the Kickstarter crowdfunding platform, back in 2013, to get its first product to market. It raised around $1.5 million via that platform, shipping its first batch of 18,000 Kano kits to Kickstarter backers last fall. It’s now shipped more than 40,000 kits to more than ... |
Raz-Fridman tells TechCrunch the new funding will be used for four main goals: firstly extending the product platform — by creating more software content that runs on the Kano OS, and also by developing add-on hardware kits to expand into additional plug and play modular hardware (something Klein has previously hinted ... |
Expanding Kano’s content and ecosystem is a crucial piece, given that the startup’s ambitions to scale beyond being just another bit player in an increasingly crowded learn to code movement. Its mission and vision is to build an entire computer company. And for that ecosystem is all. |
Secondly, the funding will go on expanding the business. Kano has sold kits to 86 countries to date, but its core markets remain the U.K. and the U.S. — and it’s keen to expand beyond those two, spying opportunities for a creativity and education focused (relatively) low-cost computing platform to gain traction in deve... |
The third focus is on its philanthropic arm, the not-for-profit Kano Academy (not to confused with the Khan Academy) which has been set up to broaden access to Kano products and encourage social entrepreneurship. “We’re talking to several global brands about a co-operation,” Raz-Fridman says, without going into specifi... |
The fourth spending push will go on stepping up a gear on the hiring front to allow Kano to ramp up activity across all business functions. “We’re planning to use some of the funding to build a team, build professional managers that can help us scale the business, bring more committed, talented developers, designers, p... |
“We are setting for ourselves a significant product design and development challenge. Which is to take this new world of small, cheap, open, hackable devices and make it truly friendly for the next 500 million,” adds Klein, who heads up product for Kano. “We believe fundamentally that there is a moment now, an inflecti... |
In addition to the new funding, Kano has today announced a new version of its core product — which it’s calling the New Kano. This takes advantage of the new 6x faster Raspberry Pi 2 (announced back in February) to offer additional apps and creative projects that can run more smoothly on the beefier Pi hardware. The pr... |
“You can now make art with these beautiful step by step spells, you’re making gradients, fractals, characters, it’s sort of like a generative painting program where everything you create is immediately accessible to another artist, maybe all the way across the globe,” says Klein. |
Another new project is a text adventure game called Terminal Quest where kids use Linux commands as magic spells to solve the mystery and learn some coding along the way. “It connects back to the core Kano idea of using simple step-by-step story telling to make technology feel human,” he adds. |
Other additions are new code blocks for existing games for the Kano OS, such as Minecraft and Pong. And on Kano World, its social platform, Klein notes there’s a new project where kids can build their own WhatsApp client. |
Existing Kano boards are not being obsoleted by the New Kano. The team has come up with what it’s calling a “power up kit” — costing $89 — that will let kids repurpose their Pi 1 board into a Internet of Things device by incorporating an LED shield into the mix so they can use it for other DIY hardware projects like an... |
“We feel that this is not only a good way to get our current customers upgraded to the new board but a nice way to show that cheap computing, even devices from the last lifecycle can be creative and playful if you put it together with a story and some projects,” Klein adds. |
Existing Kano users wanting a lower cost way to upgrade their hardware can of course just buy the Pi 2 themselves (for $35) and switch over the boards, rather than shelling out for a whole new Kano kit. Kano notes that existing customers can get the latest version of its Kano OS via an on-kit software update. |
The Delta Tau Delta house at 416 Beacon St. was damaged by a fire on Jan. 1. The exact source of the fire is still unknown but probable causes include a fallen lamp or cigarette. Damage from the fire was limited to one room but water damage was more widespread. Residents of the house have not been forced to relocate. |
George X. Torres '99 heaves the 35-pound weight in an indoor track meet against U. Mass Boston and Tufts University last Saturday. MIT won the event. |
IAP SPORTS - Jeremy G. Todd '01 of MacGregor House scores a goal in a D-league Intramural hockey match against Chi Phi. MacGregor won 7-5. |
Larry Gonick, author of The Cartoon Guide to Physics, demonstrates basic cartooning techniques at the Intensive Cartooning Workshop on Monday. |
Union Minister Arun Jaitley on Tuesday slammed opposition parties backing West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's ongoing sit-in protest against the Centre and called them the "Kleptocrat's Club" that "aspires to capture the reigns of India". |
In a blog, Jaitley hit out at Banerjee, dubbing her act as a "disproportionate over reaction" aimed at projecting herself as a "nucleus" of opposition parties. |
"Mamata Banerjee's disproportionate over-reaction to the CBI wanting to interrogate the Kolkata Police chief has flagged several issues for a public discourse. The most important being that a Kleptocrat's Club now aspires to capture the reigns of India," he said. |
He said that the West Bengal chit fund fraud was unearthed in 2012-13 and its investigations were handed over to the Central Bureau of Investigation by the Supreme Court. |
"If a police officer is required to be interrogated, how does it become a 'super emergency', 'assault on Federalism', or 'destruction of Institutions?" he asked. |
The senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader said Banerjee's strategy in inviting all other opposition leaders to join her protest in Kolkata was to defocus from other opposition aspirants for the highest office and to project herself as the nucleus of India's opposition. |
"Her speeches attack Prime Minister Modi but her strategy is aimed to defocus some of her other colleagues in the opposition and hogging the centre stage," he said. |
Justifying the CBI action, he said the Constitutional framework clearly defines the sharing of functions between the Centre and the state and does not permit an overlap. |
"There are Central agencies and organisations which conduct legitimate investigation in states. Today the CBI is being brutally prevented by physical force and detention of its officer from investigating a crime legally within its jurisdiction, in the state of West Bengal. |
"It is a textbook illustration of a state government assaulting federalism. Can a state government prevent the Income Tax Department from collecting taxes? Can another state government prevent the NIA from proceeding to arrest a terrorist located in the state? Can the Enforcement Directorate be prevented from investiga... |
Jaitley said that if any of these was visible, it would be a case of the state assaulting federalism. |
"The prevention of a central investigating agency discharging a function given to it by the Supreme Court is a direct assault on federalism," he said. |
Slamming the Banerjee's supporters, he said they themselves were battling serious economic improprieties, criminal misconduct and even corruption allegations. |
"Can 'new India' be ever run by this Kleptocrat's Club?. |
"Most of them, or their affiliates are today being investigated, prosecuted and in some cases have also been convicted for crimes of corruption. Her ally from Bihar represents the party of the convicted. The friend from Andhra Pradesh runs a party of contractors, 'thekedaars' and money-launderers. |
"Her two friends from Uttar Pradesh represent the scandalous legacy of corruption. Her anarchic brother from the Delhi government is at his wits end because the penny stock companies of his ministerial colleagues have been found out," he said referring to opposition leaders: Rashtriya Janata Dal's Lalu Prasad, Andhra P... |
Continuing his attack, Jaitley slammed Congress President Rahul Gandhi for "shoulder-to-shoulder" support to the scamster. |
"This somersaulter belongs to the first family of the Congress where most members of the family are on bail." |
He said India cannot afford instability because position is going in for a non-ideological short-lived coalition. |
"It has also been argued that the choice in the next Election will be either Modi Vs. Chaos or Modi Vs. Anarchy. |
"Mamata Banerjee's latest acrobatics are the best evidence of the kind of governance India's opposition can provide," he said. |
The stand-off between the Centre and the West Bengal government entered its third day on Tuesday as Banerjee continued her sit-in against the Narendra Modi government accusing it of misusing central agencies. |
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday he expects a medical examination he is to undergo on Friday will go well and that he would be surprised if it did not. |
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday he expects a medical examination he is to undergo on Friday will go well and that he would be surprised if it did not. Answering questions from reporters after an event on prison reform at the White House, Trump said with a smile, “It better go well, otherwise the stock mark... |
Michael Wolff, author of “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House,” has charged in promoting the book that Trump lacked the mental fitness to serve as president, drawing fire from Trump, his aides and supporters.Trump’s physical exam is not expected to include a mental acuity test.White House spokeswoman Sarah Sand... |
The students studying abroad react to the shooting and the wildfire. |
A return to campus: Malibu and Calabasas after the Woosley Fire. |
Students and faculty describe what it was like to shelter in place as the Woolsey Fire approached. |
Communities throughout Southern California have united to bring relief to Woosley Fire victims. |
Experts describe fighting the Woolsey Fire at Pepperdine. |
Although social media can sometimes be a meaningless way to waste time, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram played key roles of communication in the days following the tragic Borderline shooting. |
The Irish Cancer Society is to criticise as “truly shocking” underfunding of the country’s national cancer strategy. |
The chief executive of the society Averil Power is due to appear before the Oireachtas Health Committee on Wednesday morning to discuss the funding of the strategy and the National Cancer Control Programme. |
In her opening statement Ms Power is expected to highlight serious issues with funding of the strategy, which is designed to improve cancer prevention. |
“Not only have resources not been given to the [programme] to deliver the new initiatives promised in the strategy, inadequate funding has been provided to deliver existing services to a growing number of cancer patients. |
“This is truly shocking and will have a major impact on patients and their families,” says her opening statement, seen by The Irish Times. |
She is also expected to state that it is “disappointing that there appears to be very little momentum” behind the delivery of the strategy. |
Ms Power is expected to outline how the society recently heard from a woman whose GP had recommended she attend a breast clinic to investigate some worrying symptoms. |
Ms Power will outline how “by the end of 2018, 95 per cent of people classified as having breast cancer symptoms needing ‘urgent’ investigation were meant to be seen within two weeks but less than 75 per cent were”. |
Separately, “nine out of 10 patients with certain cancers were to have surgery within the timelines set out in the strategy”, but “only seven out of 10 did”. |
“Every missed target affects real people. The mother with a lump in her breast, the father who had blood in his urine that won’t go away, the healthcare professional trying to do their best in a chaotic system,” she will say. |
Ms Power will also say that the 2017 publication of the national cancer strategy was a step forwards but “underfunding and underperformance are two steps back”. |
Navin Khemka said that he is excited to continue his GroupM journey with MediaCom. |
New Delhi: GroupM-owned media agency MediaCom Monday named Navin Khemka as chief executive of its South Asia operations, effective 16 July. Based in Gurugram, Khemka will report to the incoming GroupM South Asia CEO Sam Singh and Mark Heap, CEO, MediaCom Asia Pacific. |
He takes over the position from Debraj Tripathy who has moved on. A statement from the agency stated that Tripathy joined MediaCom in 2011 and under his leadership, the agency grew rapidly to service clients like P&G, Mars, online travel agent MakeMyTrip, Future Group, motocycle brand Royal Enfield, Dell, Shell and Pay... |
“WPP and GroupM are making many investments into areas that will further enhance our market-leading capabilities in India and South Asia. We are excited to see Navin take on this role. With his experience and energy, we are sure he will take MediaCom to even further heights by leveraging all that our group has to offer... |
Mark Heap, chief executive, MediaCom APAC said, “In Navin, we have a leader with stellar raw talent and a real thirst for growth, who can capitalise on the enabling assets of the MediaCom global network and the strength of GroupM and WPP India." |
Khemka is currently the managing partner (North and East) and new business development lead for the GroupM agency Wavemaker India. He has over 20 years of experience working with brands such as Perfetti Van Melle, Pernod Ricard, Paytm, Nokia, Samsung and Reckitt Benckiser among others. He had joined GroupM to lead the ... |
Talking about his new role, Khemka said he is excited to continue his GroupM journey with MediaCom. “Given MediaCom’s dominant global position and aggressive plans, [I] am confident we will able to drive growth and lead the agency to the next level," he added. |
MediaCom is a member of WPP, the world’s largest marketing communications services group. According to Recma (Research Company Evaluating the Media Agency Industry), the agency has billing of $33 billion globally. It employs 7,000 people in 125 offices across 100 countries. |
Hong Kong (AFP) - Hong Kong rebel lawmakers swore, shouted, banged drums and railed against "tyranny" Wednesday when they took their oaths of office in the city's parliament, as calls grow for a split from Beijing. |
The chaotic first meeting of the new term of the Legislative Council (Legco) came after a citywide vote last month saw victories for several lawmakers advocating more autonomy or even independence for Hong Kong. |
The city is semi-autonomous under a "one country, two systems" deal sealed when Britain returned Hong Kong to China in 1997. |
The arrangement protects Hong Kong's freedoms for 50 years, but there are increasing concerns those liberties are disappearing as Beijing tightens its grip. |
Lawmakers are required to recite a short oath in Legco before they can officially take up their seats. |
That oath declares repeatedly that Hong Kong is a "special administrative region" of China. |
The government had warned lawmakers in advance they risked losing their seats if they did not take the oath properly. |
Nathan Law, 23, Legco's youngest lawmaker and a former pro-democracy protest leader, delivered an impassioned speech ahead of taking the oath. |
"You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body - but you can never imprison my mind," he said, quoting India's independence leader Mahatma Gandhi. |
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