Traffickers’ town
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Tenancingo is a Mexican town built on sex trafficking – with little alternative employment, it’s become the only way to make money.
Pushing Employers to Offer Better Retirement Plans
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While business owners have always had a fiduciary obligation to ensure their retirement plans benefit their employees, a new federal rule will put even more onus on employers to decide if the costs involved are reasonable as required by the 1974 federal law, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act.
Issued in February, the Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration’s new regulations are designed to shed light on how much employees are paying in retirement plan fees and investment fund expenses. They take effect this summer: By July 1, pension plan providers must send disclosure to employers; by Aug. 30, employers (or the plan provider, if the employer designates) must send disclosures to employees.
‘Adaptive Radio’: The Next Big Thing in Wireless?
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James Collier is loping in a broad circle on the Midsummer Common in Cambridge, England, holding aloft a two-foot fiberglass antenna. Cables snake from the antenna to a flat green box about the size of a vinyl record sleeve, which he’s carrying in a backpack. About 10 yards away, another antenna and another green box are connected to a laptop, receiving Collier’s signal and tracing his oval-shaped path on a map. “Of course,” he says, “this will all be much smaller.”
Collier runs Neul, the Cambridge startup that makes the green boxes, which house a new technology called “adaptive radio.” Today, anything that transmits long-range signals over the airwaves—radios, cell phones, television networks—broadcasts on a single, fixed frequency. Think of the 106.7 that appears on your radio dial. Both broadcaster and listener have to be tuned to the same wave. Each cell phone, similarly, has its own allotted frequency to communicate with nearby towers. Carriers must spend billions to license chunks of spectrum to make sure their subscribers can connect wherever they go.
Portland Is Top Bike-To-Work City As Lawyers Hit Street
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In other cities, welders pull up to a job in oversize pickup trucks rattling with tools and pressurized tanks of gas. In Portland, Oregon, at least one arrives by bicycle, towing his gear in a two-wheeled trailer.
Mike Cobb pedals around town fixing iron handrailings and welding kettle stands for coffee-roasting companies. He built the frame on one of his six bikes himself and souped up his trailer with racing wheels and high-pressure wheelchair tires.
Jets scrambled amid security scare on US Airways flight
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Two F-15 fighter jets have been scrambled to escort a transatlantic flight diverted amid a passenger’s suspicious behaviour, say US officials.
The plane was due to land in Charlotte, North Carolina, but was sent over 900 miles (1,400km) away to Bangor, Maine.
The US Airways flight, with 179 passengers and nine crew, had taken off from Paris Charles de Gaulle at just after 11:00 local time on Tuesday.
The Boeing 767 landed safely in Bangor at around noon.
Eurozone crisis ‘threat’ to global economy
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The eurozone financial crisis could threaten the global economy, according to Organisation for Economic Development and Co-operation.
The 17-nation eurozone will see its economies shrink by 0.1 per cent, before rebounding to 0.9 per cent next year, the Paris-based organisation said in its latest report released on Tuesday.
Pier Carlo Padoan, the OECD chief economist, said «the crisis in the euro area has become more serious recently, and it remains the most important source of risk to the global economy».
Lebanese Shias kidnapped in Syria
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Rebels in northern Syria have kidnapped at least 11 Lebanese men and their Syrian driver in Aleppo province as they were headed back home by bus from a pilgrimage in Iran, Lebanon’s national news agency says.
Opposition activists said the abductions prompted raids by Syrian security forces in Aleppo.
Al Jazeera’s Rula Amin, reporting from Beirut in Lebanon, said the women in the group were separated from the men but were not seized during Tuesday’s incident.
«We spoke to one eyewitness, a woman within the group, who said they had just crossed the border from Turkey into Syria when their bus was stopped by gunmen. Eleven men were abducted along with their Syrian driver.»
Joplin Tornado Video Captured By St. John’s Mercy Hospital Security Camera Released (VIDEO)
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A newly released security camera video from St. John’s Mercy Hospital in Joplin, Mo., shows footage of the EF-5 tornadopassing through the emergency waiting room.
The footage was posted to YouTube by theJoplin Globe just days before the one-year anniversary of the destructive twister that claimed 161 lives and left the southwestern Missouri town in shambles on May 22, 2011.
Five patients and one visitor were killed at the hospital on the evening of the tornado, according to CNN. St. John’s Regional Medical Center was destroyed during the storm, and a new facility named Mercy Hospital Joplin is being rebuilt several blocks from where the original clinic once stood.
Artists Wanted
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Join The Competition
Over the past five years Artists Wanted has provided over $1.5 million in cash and awards to artists, photographers and designers like you. This summer Chashama and the Times Square Alliance is working with Artists Wanted to present artists from around the world in brilliant lights on a massive scale in one of the most iconic locations in the world. You are invited to participate in: Art Takes Times Square .
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