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The Navajo Water Utility Authority is working its way down a long wait list to connect homes with a public water system – a list that includes Arviso’s own family. Without the nonprofit work of the mission and its partner, Digdeep, filling in the gaps, more than 150 families would risk turning to their wells for water ... |
Doug Brugge is a leading public health researcher at Tufts University School of Medicine. “It bothers me that it’s taken so long and so little has been done about it,” he said, considering agencies have known old uranium mines have been laying to waste on Navajo lands for decades. |
Sometimes a short-term fix is the only option. Thanks to an EPA grant to monitor home well water, Doyle and his team can tackle a new challenge: Testing home well water. He now knows that more than half of local wells harbor at least one exceedance in E. coli, uranium and manganese – a contaminant associated with diabe... |
They’re now educating homeowners and providing water coolers for those with contaminated wells. Doyle admits it is far from a permanent solution, but it’s the best they can do to keep people safe for now. |
Navajo residents in Sanders, who recently found out their drinking water was contaminated with uranium for over a decade, have learned that the fight for clean water must become a community priority – with home-grown leaders dedicated to the cause. |
The Apsaalooke in Montana also found its most powerful resources come from within. |
“We started from nothing, just a small group of people that had the community health in mind,” Doyle said. He said they don’t have a new water plant yet, but they have safe water lines running to homes. |
“You can quit and walk away from it, or you can decide that you're going to try to do as much as you can to get it done,” Doyle said. |
This report is part of a project on drinking water contamination in the United States produced by the News21 program at Arizona State University's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Communications. For the complete Troubled Water project, visit troubledwwater.news21.com. |
March 31, 2019, 10:31 p.m. |
KYLIE Jenner has shared a picture of boyfriend Travis Scott cradling her stomach - just one week after sparking pregnancy rumours. |
Earlier this month, the star triggered speculation that she and Travis are expecting again after captioning a sweet Instagram post with: "Baby #2?" |
And just hours after throwing their daughter, Stormi, arguably the most extravagant first birthday party in history, the couple fuelled the hype with their sweet pre-Grammys party pose. |
In the picture, posted to 21-year-old Kylie's Instagram Story, Kylie is wearing a stunning strapless red gown with a thigh-high split. |
She has her raven black hair loose and completed the look with sultry make-up, including a bright red lipstick that expertly matches her dress. |
Travis, 26, is wearing a white shirt and black suit jacket and trousers, and the rapper has his hands affectionately clasped over his girlfriend's stomach, with Kylie holding onto his hands with hers. |
Kylie previously sent fans wild when she shared a cryptic Instagram post of herself cuddling Travis, with the tell-tale caption. |
While some fans argued that this was confirmation that Kylie is pregnant again, others believed that the reality star was simply calling Travis her second child. |
When a fan directly asked Kylie if she was pregnant, she seemingly put the rumours to bed by replying: "No, lol." |
Earlier today, Kylie left her followers stunned when she gave them an insight into her daughter's lavish first birthday celebrations. |
Inspired by St0rmi's dad's third album, Astroworld, Kylie created Stormiworld and guests were greeted at the party by a massive inflatable head which looked like the tot. |
A Stormi Store was also erected for the occasion, with the a-list guests encouraged to purchase the baby's merchandise. |
The newest version of Lotus Notes and Domino will push e-mail, contacts and calendar items to iPhone users. |
Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5.1 includes a few other incremental updates to functionality. But the main new feature is the addition of Microsoft's ActiveSync protocol in Lotus Notes Traveler, the software that supports replication of Notes e-mail, calendars and contacts to smartphones. |
IPhone users today can check their Notes e-mail through an optimized Web site. However, they must refresh to get new messages. "Web-based access has been good," said Ed Brill, director of end-user messaging and collaboration for IBM Lotus software. "But push e-mail is something people wanted." |
Early last year, Apple licensed ActiveSync so that businesses could push their corporate Exchange e-mail messages to iPhones. Since the ActiveSync client is already embedded in the iPhone, adding ActiveSync to the Traveler product was a good way to enable push Notes e-mail to the iPhone, he said. |
Launched for 600 beta users on Tuesday, version 8.5.1 of Notes and Domino will become more widely available later this year. In a month or two, the update will be published on the Lotus Greenhouse test site, where anyone who registers can start using the software, Brill said. The full commercial release is scheduled fo... |
Users of other kinds of phones can already get Notes e-mail pushed to their phones. With the SyncML standard, Notes pushes e-mail to Windows Mobile and some Symbian devices. |
Businesses can also push Notes e-mail to the iPhone using third-party products. Sybase iAnywhere, for example, supports push Notes e-mail on the iPhone through its Information Anywhere Suite. That offering launched in March and only supports e-mail, not calendar or contacts sync. |
Earlier this year, IBM said it planned to support ActiveSync in order to push data to iPhones, but it didn't say when. |
The new BlackBerry 10 phones run a lot of Android apps, but BlackBerry doesn't want that to be the future of the platform. |
The new BlackBerry 10 OS will launch with about 70,000 apps - or 100,000, if you believe what BlackBerry CMO Frank Boulben said in a Q&A at the BlackBerry 10 launch. How does a new OS get to such heights? |
Well, about 40 percent of those are Android apps, BlackBerry vice president Martyn Mallick said at another Q&A at the BlackBerry 10 launch. While he didn't do the following math himself, 40 percent of 70,000 is about 28,000 Android apps running on BlackBerry 10 right now. |
Just wrapping up Android apps is an easy way to fill up a store, but it isn't RIM's goal, Mallick said. That's good, as when you find Android apps on BlackBerry 10, they look odd, with dialog boxes and other UI elements that don't look quite right on the BlackBerry Z10. (See the slideshow for details.) They run smoothl... |
BlackBerry agrees. Only truly native apps are eligible for RIM's $10,000 bounty program, and top developers are strongly encouraged to create native apps. That's resulted in 90 percent of the apps from "top app partners" being native, Mallick said. |
To try to even the score, RIM is targeting the top 100-200 apps in terms of usage in each of the countries it serves, Mallick said. BlackBerry has teams in each country identifying apps and knocking on doors to try to get popular apps' developers to write for the platform, he said. |
"There are three components to it. One is the statistical analysis - month by month, who are the top downloads on competing platforms," he said. "The second one is looking at ComScore data to say, what are the brands and services that are getting attention? The third is what I call gut feel: they live in these markets,... |
RIM's launch event spotlighted well-known games like Asphalt 7: Heat, Jetpack Joyride, and Angry Birds; news apps including The Economist and The New York Times; business apps like SAP, communication apps like Skype and WhatsApp, and many more. |
That said, there are a slew of super-popular apps I can name off of the top of my head that weren't in the BlackBerry 10 preview. Streaming video apps are extremely weak - no Netflix, no HBO. Amazon showed but not Barnes & Noble. Instagram is AWOL. |
It's difficult to assess how successful BlackBerry's efforts to nurture developers are, because the phones aren't going on sale here in the U.S. for another two months. Mallick promised that many more apps will appear in BlackBerry World by then. |
"A lot of partners were able to hit a date of January 30th, but frankly, some other partners have other schedules … what you see in the store today doesn't reflect what's going to be there at availability of the devices," Mallick said. |
For more, check out PCMag's hands on with the Q10. Also see BlackBerry Z10 vs. Apple iPhone 5: Spec Showdown and Unboxing the BlackBerry Z10. |
Questioning the relevance and value of the Commonwealth of Nations is nothing new for such has occurred ever since the modern Commonwealth was created in 1949. However, doubts have intensified in recent time about the voluntary association of now 53 countries. Claims are repeatedly made that the organisation is no long... |
The Commonwealth is now, once again, at a crossroads. Its member states can allow it to continue a slow march to oblivion, or they can rejuvenate and re-energise it to make it work in their mutual interest and for the benefit of the global community. |
While the Heads of Commonwealth governments are at the centre of these options, the organisation’s Secretary-General and the Secretariat have very special roles. Heads of Government are busy managing the affairs of their own countries, and responding to pressing challenges within their regions and internationally. |
Therefore, the task of creating a vision and purposes for the Commonwealth that would appeal to leaders of the Commonwealth and invoke their support falls substantially on the Secretary-General. |
If the Secretary-General does not proffer a vision of the Commonwealth that is politically appealing to, and motivational for, Heads of Government, and if the Secretariat does not deliver work that excites the imagination of governments, non-governmental organisations, the media, academia and the people of Commonwealth... |
For Britain, the single largest contributor to the budget of the Commonwealth Secretariat and its technical assistance arm, the Commonwealth Fund for Technical Co-operation (CFTC), the Commonwealth will have to find a broader base of relevance—other than an association of Britain and its former colonies—to sustain comm... |
As for its former dominion members, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and India, the Commonwealth, as it now stands, holds little attraction for advancing their interests in today’s major issues; such as increasing trade, enhancing security, safeguarding against terrorism, and managing the challenges of climate change. |
Largely, this is because, apart from climate change, the Commonwealth has not taken on these issues; not even as a facilitator of inter-governmental discussion and a catalyst for international initiatives. |
Even on climate change, the effort made to focus attention at the 2009 Summit in T&T has not been followed-up in ways that stimulated governments to see the Commonwealth as a beneficial forum. |
The governments of bigger developing Commonwealth countries in Africa and Asia are also struggling to find meaning for their priorities in the work of the Commonwealth. With the exceptions of South Africa and India, they continue to be side-lined in the major economic and financial decision-making bodies of the world a... |
The small member states of the Commonwealth—now numbering 31 and defined as having populations of 1.5 million or less—increasingly question the attentiveness of larger Commonwealth countries to their severe challenges. |
Low attendance by Heads of Government and Ministers of the big Commonwealth countries at meetings create misgivings in the minds of leaders of small states about the usefulness of the Commonwealth as a mechanism for addressing their concerns. |
Small states are at a critical juncture in their history. |
Increasingly, they are marginalised in the international community. Both large developed countries and International Financial Institutions behave as if small nations are not only irrelevant, they are a nuisance. Hence the concerns of small states are either ignored or barely tolerated. |
Development assistance is drying-up; terms of trade are worsening; access to concessional financing has virtually disappeared. This is occurring at a time when climate change and sea level rise are threatening the existence of some small states and materially affecting the economic life of others. In these circumstance... |
The Commonwealth Secretariat must, therefore, become machinery for such strong and effective advocacy. For the Secretariat to do so, the Secretary-General must be someone who has fought in the diplomatic and negotiating front line for small states and who has not only the sensitivity to their plight, but the knowledge ... |
The Commonwealth is the most important of all multilateral organisations for small states because it is the only forum which provides the opportunity for leaders of small states to meet regularly (and as equals) with leaders of larger and more powerful countries. No other organisation provides the chance for the Head o... |
In recent years, an increasing focus by Australia, Britain and Canada (ABC) on democracy, human rights and the rule of law in Commonwealth countries, has led to a widening division within the organisation. |
The argument is raised continuously by representatives of developing countries that the ABC’s emphasis on these matters is at the expense of economic development upon which the governments of developing countries place high importance. While this perception is mistaken, there have been inadequate efforts to demonstrate... |
These fractious and divisive conditions have arisen from years of neglect in which the Commonwealth could have been reformed and inspired by its leadership. Its slide away from its fundamental purposes should have been arrested and new ways created to maintain its collegiality. |
The absence of vibrant initiatives to keep Heads of Government fully engaged in preserving and strengthening the association has led to the inertia and lack of enthusiasm in which it now languishes. |
Should Duprey get back Clico? |
“Electronic visa will soon replace paper visas,” Iranian consul general in Erbil Morteza Ebadi said, ANA reported. |
“Print copies of visas have been done away with, meaning that now we will no longer waste a passport page by sticking visas on them,” Ebadi told Rudaw on Friday. “Entrance and exit stamps will no longer exist,” he added. |
Applicants would receive confirmation they have been granted a visa from the consulate in Erbil but nothing will be inserted into their passports, Ebadi explained. “They can also apply online,” he added. |
Iran’s tourism department has announced it would end the practice of stamping visitors’ passports in a bid to save the industry while the United States ramps up efforts to isolate the Islamic Republic. |
Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts, and Tourism Organization Director Ali-Asghar Mounesan, said in November that the government would introduce protectionist measures to support the tourism industry. Police and the Foreign Ministry backed the move to stop putting entry and exit stamps into visitors’ passports. |
Some two million Iraqi nationals visited the country during the first seven months of the current Iranian calendar year (started March 21, 2018), constituting Iran’s largest source of tourists. |
According to Iran’s tourism body, people of Iran’s neighboring countries were used to visit Iran for pilgrimage, trade and work but nowadays Iraqi and Azerbaijani nationals are mostly pursue medical services, a kind of tourism which usually fetches good income for the country. |
NCIS - Now Do I Have Your Attention? |
02:35 — McGee and Bishop question a recently captured terrorist. |
03:17 — Gibbs consoles a Colonel who feels personally responsible for the death of a fellow soldier. |
Minnesota Twins fans, you're doing your job. Very well, actually. |
Major League Baseball released its fourth voting update for the 2017 All-Star Game on Tuesday, which showed thatMiguel Sano has increased his lead in the American Leaguethird basemen race to over 410,000 votes. |
Sano is in the middle of his best season as a pro, hitting .286/.384/.556 with 16 home runsand 48 RBI in 63games. In second place is Jose Ramirez of the division-rival Cleveland Indians. Ramirez had 11 hits, four RBI and two home runs in the Indians' sweep of the Twins at Target Field this past weekend. |
The next voting update will be announced on June 26. |
The table below illustrates that the 2011 "Sell in May and Go Away" trade has generated the highest return of the past 35 years. That is, if you sold or shorted the S&P500 at the close (June 15) of the last trading day of April, you'd be sitting on a 7.2 percent return as of today's close. Note also the S&P500 has trad... |
Lot's of records, near records, and streaks this year. Makes you kind of think we're in the midst of some sort of market climate change, no? |
Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, Texas is known for innovations in everything from automotive and aircraft performance to space exploration. Now, this institute is pioneering research in human performance. We go into the lab to learn more. |
Is life on Mars a possibility? |
Dave Mosher discussed the potential of colonizing Mars. |
A group of highschoolers hack the deep sea. |
Ways to safeguard Honey Bees; Algae Blooms; A journey to the Artic; and the Ebola Vaccine. |
Detecting fake ID’s; the ironing board; religion and the brain; and 3D printing for space. |
Our changing climate, extinction, The Liberty Science Center, and GPS on Birds. |
Predicting clouds, planetary protection, an innovative church, and gravity. |
Bats, concussions, interaction between surface water and groundwater, and mudslides. |
Everyday items saving lives, future cars, improving memory, and wrong way drivers. |
Black Moshannon State Park, discovering planets, science & religion, and the Witte Museum. |
Space rocks, spacesuits, technology innovations, and degradable bones. |
Drawing dinosaurs, wearable tech, blind fish, and goats. |
Bugs, 3D printing submarines, James Webb telescope, and a defense against earthquakes. |
A wearable that reads brainwaves, tires from lettuce, controlling noise, and pollution. |
UPDATED: Thu., Nov. 16, 2017, 4:34 p.m. |
After big win, Eastern Washington faces another tall task Friday night. |
Fresh off a landmark 67-61 nonconference win at Stanford, the Eagles face another physical team Friday night at UNLV. |
The Runnin’ Rebels are anchored in the paint by 7-foot, 250-pound freshman Brandon McCoy, who had 25 points and 18 rebounds last week in a 108-66 win over Florida A&M. |
On Wednesday, McCoy had a double-double with 15 points and 11 rebounds in just 21 minutes against Prairie View. |
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