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"We pleaded with the crew to turn and steer the boat closer to shore. But they ignored us and told us get back to our cabins," said Mohammad Iqbal, a survivor waiting on the river bank for news of his missing wife and sister. |
Hasina Begum, a school teacher, wept in front of the body of her 2-year-old daughter, Mithila, who died in the accident. |
"I could not save my daughter. I've no right to live," said Begum, who was returning to her home in southern Bangladesh after attending a conference in Dhaka. "My little daughter wanted to see Dhaka city." |
Bangladesh media reports said the ferry was carrying up to 400 passengers, but some managed to swim ashore. |
"The death toll is certain to rise," said Selim Newaz Chowdhury, public relations officer at the Bangladesh Fire Brigade, which is conducting the rescue work. "No one really knows how many people were on board the ferry or how many of them survived." |
Ferries in Bangladesh do not always keep a list of passengers, making it difficult to determine the exact number. |
Earlier Monday, the ML Majlishpur ferry, carrying about 90 members of a wedding party, capsized in the Meghna River, 50 miles northeast of Dhaka. |
Authorities said about 30 passengers swam ashore, but the others, including the bride, were missing and feared dead. Five bodies were recovered by Tuesday, said Priyatosh Shah, a government administrator in the area. |
In response to the two accidents, the government banned nighttime travel by ferries and other river vessels during the April-May storm season, the Shipping Ministry said. Authorities also ordered inquiries into the two disasters. |
The accidents occurred as strong winds and rain lashed the South Asian country. During storms in the north Monday, at least a dozen people were killed and hundreds of flimsy homes were damaged by falling trees and electricity poles. |
Tropical storms are common this time of year in Bangladesh, a delta nation of 130 million people, as are boating accidents. On Sunday, storms killed at least seven people and injured 50 others, officials and news reports said. |
Twenty-two people died when a double-decker ferry carrying about 200 passengers sank April 12 in the Nagchinni River in northern Kishoreganj district. |
Aegri Somnia - Endtime Psalms |
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Aegri Somnia returns with his long awaited second album on Cryo Chamber. |
The hum of the Endtime Psalms echo through burnt out buildings. Awaiting impending death as the sky grows dark. Black smoke wheezing from charred windows. We we're born from stardust, but are but puppets in a mindless game of DNA manipulation, life. |
Deep analogue drones rumble under the heavy boots of the human machine. Aegri Somnia plays the role of field recorder and audio manipulator with surgical precision. |
1. C.A.H.R. (06:42) |
2. Archives (06:10) |
3. Endtime Psalms (05:53) |
4. DNA Cult (05:44) |
5. Mundus Moriens (06:10) |
6. Borg Sands (05:49) |
7. Puppets (05:39) |
8. Metamorphosis (05:30) |
9. We Were Stardust (05:43) |
Aegri Somnia - Endtime Psalms |
As MLive reports, late Friday afternoon, a Federal Court of Appeals voted 2-1 to reverse Monday's decision by a Federal court to allow selfies in Michigan's voting booths. |
(Photo by Andrew Burton/Getty Images) |
The majority opinion on the ruling, written by Jeffrey Sutton, said Joel Crookston of Portage raised a very good question regarding rights to vote vs. right of free expression, but there just isn't enough time to prepare and hear all the arguments before the November 8th election. |
Secretary of State Ruth Johnson also issued a statement agreeing the the Appeals court ruling, saying there just wasn't enough time to re-train all the state's election workers for any possible changes. |
"Voters can continue to vote with confidence and without the potential for outside influence. The timing is good because it takes into account the 1,603 local clerks who would have had to establish and train over 30,000 elections workers on what would have been new rules." |
While government officials are happy about today's ruling, a quick peek show shows others are not. On Facebook, Katrina Jameson said: |
Taking a selfie while voting is my right. I can vote for whomever I want and I can tell or not tell anyone I want.. Because we're a free country. And I can sit in that booth as long as I want going over my choices and even taking a selfie if I so choose. Acting like this will increase wait times is just silly, its just... |
The penalty for taking a selfie in a voting booth is the loss of that vote. |
Here is the the first two paragraphs of today's ruling by the 6th District Court of Appeals in Cincinnati. |
SUTTON, Circuit Judge. One hundred and twenty-five years ago, Michigan enacted alaw designed to protect the secret ballot by forbidding voters from exposing their marked ballots to others. Nine years ago, Apple introduced a cell phone capable of taking photographs and uploading them to the Internet. Thirty-two days ago... |
and post it on social media. Four days ago, the district court granted his motion, which state officials immediately asked us to stay.Timing is everything. Crookston’s motion and complaint raise interesting First Amendment issues, and he will have an opportunity to litigate them in full—after this election. |
With just ten days before the November 2016 election, however, we will not accept his invitation to suddenly alter Michigan’s venerable voting protocols, especially when he could have filed this lawsuit long ago. For these reasons and those below, we grant the Secretary of State’s motion to stay the district court’s pr... |
Five Thoughts on The National Last Night - NBC New York |
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Five Thoughts on The National Last Night |
1. The National originally only announced a few end-of-the-year shows at the Beacon Theatre. Due to popular demand, they kept adding dates until they had a week's worth of shows lined up at one of New York's swankiest venues. I guess there are people in this city who can relate to tales of urban desperation and try... |
2. These guys! For such a somber band, Matt Berninger and the Dessners were a fine comedy pair last night. Berninger talked at length about going for a jog and hurting his leg, to which Aaron deadpanned: "Yeah, I was wondering why you did that in the middle of a six-night show." Later, Berninger recounted a story a... |
3. Jenn Wasner of openers Wye Oak came out to play guitar and sing backing vocals on "Sorrow" and "Bloodbuzz Ohio." The added mournful harmonies and guitar acrobatics were much welcome, as was Wasner and Berninger's interplay. (There was much accusing the other group of being the best group in the world.) |
4. There are a lot of valid concerns to be had about the homogenization of indie rock and the NPR affect about what music gets the spotlight, but when a group of stylistically different artists are unfairly lumped together and dismissed as Dad Rock, I want to say "hipster, please. The National go hard." They can br... |
5. The night ended with a lovely, and completely unplugged, sing-a-long to "Vanderlyle Crybaby Geeks," featuring the band's horn and string section and Wye Oak singing along sans microphone. It felt seasonably appropriate, even if the song has nothing to do with the holidays. Also, the National should feel proud o... |
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How Mobile Devices are Shaping Websites and Software - Part 2 |
30th July 2015 |
In 'Part 1' of this article we talked about how mobile devices have changed the way we use and access information on the web. Here we will discuss the historical shifts in popular technology trends. |
The problem (and the thrill) for technology companies trying to keep pace with the speed of innovation is that the fundamental drives and habits of consumers alter as new 'disruptive technologies' become available. As it is very, very hard to predict what the next habits of mainstream society will be, large companies n... |
desktop computer and various other devices |
An example of a major, historical technological shift was IBM's misjudgement of the importance of the pc. In the early 1980's, the company was the leader in the IT market - in both software and in hardware. They then approached 19 year-old college drop-out, Bill Gates who was a co-founder of Microsoft, to provide them ... |
Another of the largest technological revolutions to date revolves around Microsoft's rival, Apple. In 1997 the company was on the verge of bankruptcy, but was ironically saved when Microsoft invested $150 million in the company. Microsoft's thinking behind the move was partially to prevent accusations of monopolizing t... |
As awareness of the nature and increasing frequency of disruptive technologies increases, companies realize that to stay relevant they need to predict future trends. As part of their search for direction, Microsoft have made an attempt to bridge the gap between various mobile devices and pcs/laptops and to consequentia... |
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کتاب: انسان خردمند / فصل 16 |
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16 - The Capitalist Creed |
MONEY HAS BEEN ESSENTIAL BOTH FOR building empires and for promoting science. But is money the ultimate goal of these undertakings, or perhaps just a dangerous necessity? |
It is not easy to grasp the true role of economics in modern history. Whole volumes have been written about how money founded states and ruined them, opened new horizons and enslaved millions, moved the wheels of industry and drove hundreds of species into extinction. Yet to understand modern economic history, you real... |
For most of history the economy stayed much the same size. Yes, global production increased, but this was due mostly to demographic expansion and the settlement of new lands. Per capita production remained static. But all that changed in the modern age. In 1500, global production of goods and services was equal to abou... |
Economics is a notoriously complicated subject. To make things easier, let’s imagine a simple example. |
Samuel Greedy, a shrewd financier, founds a bank in El Dorado, California. |
A. A. Stone, an up-and-coming contractor in El Dorado, finishes his first big job, receiving payment in cash to the tune of $1 million. He deposits this sum in Mr Greedy’s bank. The bank now has $1 million in capital. |
In the meantime, Jane McDoughnut, an experienced but impecunious El Dorado chef, thinks she sees a business opportunity – there’s no really good bakery in her part of town. But she doesn’t have enough money of her own to buy a proper facility complete with industrial ovens, sinks, knives and pots. She goes to the bank,... |
McDoughnut now hires Stone, the contractor, to build and furnish her bakery. His price is $1,000,000. |
When she pays him, with a cheque drawn on her account, Stone deposits it in his account in the Greedy bank. |
So how much money does Stone have in his bank account? Right, $2 million. |
How much money, cash, is actually located in the bank’s safe? Yes, $1 million. |
It doesn’t stop there. As contractors are wont to do, two months into the job Stone informs McDoughnut that, due to unforeseen problems and expenses, the bill for constructing the bakery will actually be $2 million. Mrs McDoughnut is not pleased, but she can hardly stop the job in the middle. So she pays another visit ... |
How much money does Stone have in his account now? He’s got $3 million. |
But how much money is actually sitting in the bank? Still just $1 million. In fact, the same $1 million that’s been in the bank all along. |
Current US banking law permits the bank to repeat this exercise seven more times. The contractor would eventually have $10 million in his account, even though the bank still has but $1 million in its vaults. Banks are allowed to loan $10 for every dollar they actually possess, which means that 90 per cent of all the mo... |
It sounds like a giant Ponzi scheme, doesn’t it? But if it’s a fraud, then the entire modern economy is a fraud. The fact is, it’s not a deception, but rather a tribute to the amazing abilities of the human imagination. What enables banks – and the entire economy – to survive and flourish is our trust in the future. Th... |
In the bakery example, the discrepancy between the contractor’s account statement and the amount of money actually in the bank is Mrs McDoughnut’s bakery. Mr Greedy has put the bank’s money into the asset, trusting that one day it would be profitable. The bakery hasn’t baked a loaf of bread yet, but McDoughnut and Gree... |
We’ve already seen that money is an astounding thing because it can represent myriad different objects and convert anything into almost anything else. However, before the modern era this ability was limited. In most cases, money could represent and convert only things that actually existed in the present. This imposed ... |
Consider our bakery again. Could McDoughnut get it built if money could represent only tangible objects? No. In the present, she has a lot of dreams, but no tangible resources. The only way she could get her bakery built would be to find a contractor willing to work today and receive payment in a few years’ time, if an... |
Humankind was trapped in this predicament for thousands of years. As a result, economies remained frozen. The way out of the trap was discovered only in the modern era, with the appearance of a new system based on trust in the future. In it, people agreed to represent imaginary goods – goods that do not exist in the pr... |
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