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Steps taken to ban cat declawing in New York

June 5, 2019 By admin 4 Comments

New York came closer to Becoming the first U.S. Nation to outlaw cat declawing on Tuesday. Both chambers of the state legislature passed a ban to the feline surgery except for therapeutic reasons.

Gubernatorial spokesman Jason Conwall said that Governor Andrew Cuomo hasn’t yet determined if he’ll sign it into law.

Linda Rosenthal, a Democrat from Manhattan, said that Cat declawing is dreadful, but often-practiced surgery that contributes to a lifetime of pain and distress for thousands of cats. “Now every kitty and cat in New York State lands on its feet as we all prepare to make New York the very best state for cats to live in America.”

The bill permits declawing only for therapeutic purposes like”trauma or abnormal state from the claw, an existent or recurring illness, and infection, which compromises your cat’s health.”

The fine for violation would be up to $1000.
Senate passed The bill with 48-12, stated Alexander Marion, spokesman for Senator Michael Gianaris, a Democrat from Queens who’s deputy majority leader and sponsored the bill from his chamber. It passed the Assembly with a vote of 92-27, based on live video of the proceeding.

The New York State Veterinary Medical Society rejected the suggested ban on declawing, also referred to as onychectomy.

“It must stay an available alternative when a cat’s health is at stake, but also every time a customer’s health needs suggest they should have their pet declawed and also the alternate is abandonment or euthanasia,” the non-profit society of 2,000 veterinarians said in a statement.

That may contain cats who often scratch and reside with an owner that has a weakened immune system and so faces a higher chance of infection.

Declawing is illegal in several European nations and a few U.S. cities.

California will use military technology to fight fires

June 4, 2019 By admin 3 Comments

SACRAMENTO (AP) — Gov. Gavin Newsom said on Monday that California has a new level of cooperation with the Pentagon as it attempts to prevent another dangerous, disastrous fire season.

The Defense Department has agreed to give data from a Cold War-era army satellite to help find new wildfires, and Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan gave the California National Guard blanket approval through year’s end to use UAV drones to find survivors, map fires and count destroyed houses.

Officials are attempting to find methods to prevent fires such as the one that ravaged the Northern California city of Paradise last fall, killing 85 people. Utilities are getting ready to shut down electricity during periods of high winds and low humidity to prevent wildfires from sparking, while Newsom is seeking almost $1 billion new funds to prevent and fight wildfires from lawmakers.

Adjutant Gen. David Baldwin, who manages both the air and military branches of the California Guard, said state officials found”a satellite technology which was produced from the Cold War” that can spot tiny wildfires before they could otherwise grow big enough to raise alarms.

“We will have soldiers and airmen monitoring those round the clock to signal CalFire quicker once those fires begin,” he stated, referring to California’s state firefighting agency.

Trump was harshly critical of California’s efforts to thin forests to help prevent wildfires. However, Newsom said the state is”finding methods to work well with the present government,” belying pressure between the Democratic governor and a Republican president.

Along with the satellite technologies, Shanahan is enabling the National Guard to utilize its UAV drones on almost any CalFire performance through year’s end. Previously, state officials needed to acquire independent Defense Department approval every time they desired to utilize the drones, though they have been used occasionally since 2013.

The individual authorizations occasionally took several days, said Rhys Williams,” Newsom’s senior advisor on crisis preparedness and management.

The newest technologies seem like they”might have a fantastic societal impact and net social good. However it is the operators of those technologies that raise few flags,” said Camille Fischer, a lawyer with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which advocates for privacy protections.

Security chief of Zuckerberg accused of misconduct

May 31, 2019 By admin 1 Comment

SAN FRANCISCO – Personal security chief of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s faces accusations of sexual misconduct and making racist and homophobic comments, according to a report by Business Insider.

In a comprehensive report, business news site cited official letters allegedly written by former employees of Zuckerberg’s household employees. The letters described discriminatory behavior and severe levels of battery and sexual harassment, including homophobic and racist remarks about members of Zuckerberg’s staff and his wife.

The security leader, Liam Booth, has been with the family’s charitable Initiative since 2017, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, and is a former Secret Service officer, according to his LinkedIn profile.

A spokesperson from the family office of Chan and Zuckerberg stated Booth had placed on administrative leave pending an investigation of unspecified misconduct allegations. The spokesperson said the office takes workplace misconduct complaints seriously.

Iconiq Capital, the firm that manages the affairs which includes safety of Zuckerberg, didn’t return a message for comment.

Facebook spent $20 million on security for Zuckerberg and his family at his houses and while traveling in 2018, according to a regulatory filing.

Kurdish Leader Calls End To Jail Hunger Strikes in Turkey

May 26, 2019 By admin 7 Comments

Imprisoned Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan has called for an end to jail hunger strikes in Turkey, his lawyer Nevroz Uysal said on Sunday.

“I expect the action to conclude in light of the broad statements to be created by my two lawyers,” Ocalan said in a message read by his lawyer in a press conference at Istanbul.

Ocalan, the co-founder of the rebel Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), was permitted to see his lawyers this month for the first time in eight years.

Approximately 3,000 Kurdish prisoners have been holding hunger strikes since November to protest Ocalan’s isolation and improved conditions for him, and eight have killed themselves over the issue as stated by the pro-Kurdish People’s Democratic Party.

Nevroz Uysal said earlier this month that the leader wanted the hunger strikers to limit their protests.

“We respect the resistance of our clients inside and outside prisons but want them to not take this into a direction which may threaten their health or lead to death,” Uysal quoted Ocalan as saying.

Turkey seized Ocalan in February 1999 and imprisoned him where he’s been kept for two decades.

Ankara, United States, Nato the United Kingdom and other Western allies blacklisted PKK and declared terror group. The conflict has claimed over 40,000 lives.

Mehmet, Ocalan’s brother, was allowed to visit him in prison in January for the first time since 2016.

Kurdish leader was sentenced to death for treason by Turkish agents in Kenya, but this was commuted to life imprisonment if Turkey abolished capital punishment in 2002 at a time when it seemed close to securing membership of the European Union.

George Clooney Worried For Security of His Family

May 24, 2019 By admin 1 Comment

Rnrn George Clooney says he and his family have been at risk — since his attorney wife, Amal is bringing a case against ISIS in French court.
We’ve got security issues on a daily basis,” RnrnGeorge told the Hollywood Reporter’s”Awards Chatter” podcast.

“We do not want our kids to be targets, therefore we must pay attention.”

So while”I’ve got a gorgeous wife and two lovely kids. . . I miss being able to walk together with our children in Central Park.”

The 58 years old American director and actor said that he is worried about his kids Alexander Clooney and Ella Clooney.

WHO Wants To Halve Number of Snakebite Deaths

May 24, 2019 By admin 1 Comment

The World Health Organization published its global strategy prevention and control of snakebite envenoming. The WHO aims to halve the number of people killed or disabled by snakebites by 2030.

Snakes each year bite Almost 5 million people, resulting in more than 100,000 deaths. Last week, Britain’s Wellcome Trust declared a $100 million program to tackle the issue, stating that there were new potential drugs which could be tested.
“We are cautiously optimistic that the WHO’s snakebite strategy could be a turning point in tackling this disease,” Julien Potet said, neglected tropical diseases policy advisor for Médecins Sans Frontières(MSF) Access Campaign.

The agency called the issue of snakebites” a hidden epidemic” and stated most snakebites are curable.

WHO’s strategy includes strategies to improve access to anti-venom and treatment.

Nun Killed in Central African Republic

May 22, 2019 By admin Leave a Comment

BANGUI — A 77-year-old French-Spanish nun killed in the Central African Republic, where she taught sewing to poor girls and women.

The attackers broke into her room on the night between Sunday and Monday and took her to the centre she was running for the young girls, where they beheaded her. The body of sister Ines Nieves Sancho found beheaded early Monday in the village of Nola.
Local authorities condemned the killing, but they indicated that it might not be connected to the sectarian bloodshed between militia groups. The reason for the attack is unclear.
A local member of parliament said that this brutal murder could be linked to trafficking in human organs.
“Elsewhere it is the rebels who murder, but in Nola people kill to become wealthy,” an official Jean-Marc Ndoukou said.
Ndoukou pledged that the attackers would not go unpunished, and also the nation’s parliament called for an investigation.

On Wednesday, Pope Francis led tens of thousands of men and women in prayer for Nieves Sancho, saying she was”barbarously murdered” in the area where she taught. The Vatican said she’d worked with the poor for decades.

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NASA Completed Mars 2020 Spacecraft

May 21, 2019 By admin 1 Comment

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory(JPL) uploaded a picture taken on May 9, 2019 in which an engineer inspecting the completed spacecraft that will carry NASA’s next rover to the Mars.
Reconnaissance Orbiter, NASA’s Curiosity rover and InSight lander are doing outstanding work on and around the Mars, but that is not preventing scientists from pushing forward with plans to send another bit of high-tech hardware into the Martian surface. The Mars 2020 assignment will send a second rover to Mars, and this mission will launch from CCAFS in July/August of 2020, and it will land at Jezero Crater on Feb. 18, 2021.

In a blog article, JPL revealed the completion of an essential piece of hardware. The Mars 2020 spacecraft that will carry the rover to its destination through its trip from Earth is almost ready for the time from the spotlight, but there is still some work to be done.

The Mars 2020 assignment will be NASA’s most enthusiastic Mars mission, and the rover is packed with tools and accessories which have not been sent to Mars before. The rover also includes new sample-gathering tools which will send surface material samples to vehicles will fly all of the way back to Earth where scientists could examine them in detail. The duration of this mission will be at least one Mars year (687 Earth days).

Manchester City Won The FA Cup Final

May 19, 2019 By admin 4 Comments

Manchester City get a historic victory in Football Association Challenge Cup (FA cup) final.

Manchester City became the first men’s team in history to win the English domestic treble as they beat Watford 6-0 in the FA Cup final at Wembley.
First-half goals from David Silva and Gabriel Jesus — although there was an argument regarding as Raheem Sterling got the last touch — gave City a deserved lead in the break, although it was not all plain sailing.

Roberto Pereyra had an excellent opportunity to give Watford the lead early but was not able to find a way beyond Ederson to complete a scintillating counter strike.

It proved to be the wake-up call MC needed, and it did not once seem like relinquishing the lead later Silva started the scoring only a couple of minutes later.

Kevin De Bruyne finished the closing as a competition on the hour mark, getting the ball from Jesus before demonstrating remarkable composure to round Heurelho Gomes and slot into an empty net.

MC got a fourth point shortly after through Jesus and had more history in its sight. In FA Cup final history it happened twice when a team scored more than four goals — Blackburn at 1890 and Bury in 1903.

It’d soon equal Bury’s record for most significant FA Cup final victory, as Sterling scored two quickfire goals within the last ten minutes to make it 6-0.

Although it was a painful day for everybody involved at Watford, the Watford supporters never stopped supporting their team.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic Banned For Two Matches

May 18, 2019 By admin 5 Comments

Los Angeles Galaxy striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic has been banned for two games after grabbing the neck of an opposition goalkeeper.

Former Sweden forward Ibrahimovic,37, and NY City goalkeeper Sean Johnson were booked after wrestling each other to the floor last week.

Major League Soccer(MLS) susspended Zlatan Ibrahimovic for two games for violent conduct.

New York City won the match with 2-0. The incident took place in the 86th minute of the match.

“Zlatan is a talented player – he knows what he’s doing. He’s a smart boy’and you know, it’s part of the game,” Johnson said after the game. “I’d be frustrated if I were him too. Can’t blame him due to his frustration at that point in the match.”

He Had given a red card for slapping Montreal’s Michael Petrasso in last May. He was also accused of threatening to hurt Real Salt Lake defender Nedum Onuoha.