May 18, 2018 - Articles

[pokerplayer]

Rubies ? Really ?

 

  Heres a Trophy to lessen the sting Umbertino. Have a great Easter Sunday !

 

  Cheers, pp

Edited April 21, 2019 by pokerplayer
spelling, what else ? lol

[umbertino]

1 hour ago, pokerplayer said:

Rubies ? Really ?

 

  Heres a Trophy to lessen the sting Umbertino. Have a great Easter Sunday !

 

  Cheers, pp

 

Thanks my dear Friend.....Hope you're having a blessed Easter

 

 

Best

[umbertino]

 

Today here in Italy is also a celebration day  (following Sunday Easter) and it's called "Pasquetta" ( literally "little Easter") or "Lunedi dell'Angelo"  ( Angel Monday)....Most offices and shops are closed

[umbertino]

Melting permafrost in Arctic will have $70tn climate impact – study

 

Study shows how destabilised natural systems will worsen man-made problem

 

 

Jonathan Watts Global environment editor

Tue 23 Apr 2019 10.00 BST

 

 

 

 

Greenhouse gases, which have been frozen below the soil for centuries, have already begun to escape

Photograph: John Mcconnico/AP

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/apr/23/melting-permafrost-in-arctic-will-have-70tn-climate-impact-study

[umbertino]

Millions more Americans breathing dirty air as planet warms – report

 

Forty-three percent of Americans live in places where they’re breathing unsafe air, according to American Lung Association

 

 

Emily Holden in Washington

Wed 24 Apr 2019 05.01 BST

 

 

 

High-rise buildings in downtown Los Angeles, California, on a hazy morning on 21 September 2018

Photograph: Frederic J Brown/AFP/Getty Images

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/apr/23/americans-unsafe-air-quality-report

[umbertino]

Police seize 'super obedient' lookout parrot trained by Brazilian drug dealers

 

Bird was taught to alert criminals to officers’ presence, according to reports: ‘As soon as the police got close he started shouting’

 

 

Tom Phillips, Latin America correspondent

Wed 24 Apr 2019 18.16 BST

 

 

 

The parrot has been handed over to a local zoo

Photograph: Mike Pitts/BBC

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/apr/24/brazil-drug-parrot-trained-as-lookout-for-dealers

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

'Don't mess with our beers': outrage in Mexico over motion to ban sale of cold beer

 

A lawmaker in Mexico City proposed outlawing the sale of the cold drink in a bid to reduce public and underage drinking

 

 

David Agren in Mexico City

Thu 25 Apr 2019 06.43 BST

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/apr/25/dont-mess-with-our-beers-outrage-in-mexico-over-motion-to-ban-sale-of-cold-beer

[umbertino]

"Dallas" star Ken Kercheval dies at 83

 

Actor played hapless Cliff Barnes and appeared in numerous films and TV shows

 

 

Lanre Bakare Arts and culture correspondent

Thu 25 Apr 2019 10.06 BST

 

 

 

 

Ken Kercheval achieved worldwide fame as Cliff Barnes in Dallas. The actor died in Clinton, Indiana

Photograph: Daily Mail/Rex/Shutterstock

 

 

 

More pics

 

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/apr/25/ken-kercheval-cliff-barnes-dallas

[umbertino]

Nearly 170m under-10s unvaccinated against measles worldwide

 

Figure includes half a million in UK, as Unicef warns the disease could ‘spread like wildfire’

 

 

Sarah Boseley Health editor

Thu 25 Apr 2019 00.01 BST

 

 

 

Simon Stevens, the chief executive of NHS England, said vaccine rejection was ‘a serious and growing public health timebomb’

Photograph: Owen Humphreys/PA

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/apr/25/nearly-170m-under-10s-unvaccinated-against-measles-worldwide

[umbertino]

US farmers count cost of catastrophic 'bomb cyclone' in midwest

 

With grain stores ruined and many fields still under water from last month’s extreme weather, producers are facing devastating losses

 

 

Susan Cosier

Sat 27 Apr 2019 09.00 BST

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/apr/27/us-farmers-count-cost-of-catastrophic-bomb-cyclone-in-midwest

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Glitz, glamour, now guilty: spectacular fall of New York's socialite scammer

 

Anna Sorokin let Manhattan’s elite believe she was a German heiress but to one of her victims she was ‘the malignant child of the Instagram age’

 

 

Edward Helmore in New York

Sat 27 Apr 2019 06.00 BST

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/apr/27/anna-sorokin-new-york-socialite-scammer-guilty

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Disney heir on CEO's $66m pay: 'No one on the freaking planet is worth that'

 

Abigail Disney condemns family firm for spouting ‘neoliberal claptrap’ and derides Amazon’s Jeff Bezos: ‘It is possible to say no to money’

 

 

Adam Gabbatt in New York

Sat 27 Apr 2019 06.00 BST

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/apr/26/abigail-disney-bob-iger-amazon-jeff-bezos

[umbertino]

San Diego synagogue shooting: one dead and three injured

 

• Suspect in custody for attack mayor describes as “hate crime”
• Shooting took place during Passover celebration

 

Staff and agencies

Sat 27 Apr 2019 21.50 BST First published on Sat 27 Apr 2019 21.33 BST

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/apr/27/san-diego-police-shooting-synagogue-poway-reports

[umbertino]

San Diego synagogue shooting: one dead and three injured

 

John Earnest, 19, arrested at gunpoint by police as mayor says Passover shooting was ‘hate crime’

 

Charles Davis in Poway, Jamiles Lartey and Molly Blackall

Sun 28 Apr 2019 02.11 BST

 

 

Members console one another outside the Chabad of Poway synagogue, where one woman was killed and three people injured by a gunman

Photograph: Denis Poroy/AP

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/apr/27/san-diego-police-shooting-synagogue-poway-reports

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Four killed in Seattle after crane collapses from new Google building

 

Two crane operators and two people in cars die after machine falls from top of building under construction

 

 

Associated Press in Seattle

Sun 28 Apr 2019 07.58 BST

 

 

 

 

Part of a crane lies on top of cars in Mercer Street, Seattle

Photograph: Lindsey Wasson/Reuters

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/apr/28/crane-collapse-four-killed-in-seattle-as-cars-are-crushed

Edited April 28, 2019 by umbertino

[umbertino]

One dead, seven injured, in Baltimore after gunman fires on street barbecue

 

Associated Press

Mon 29 Apr 2019 03.48 BST

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/apr/29/gunman-baltimore-street-barbecue-death

[umbertino]

Boyz N the Hood director John Singleton dies aged 51

 

Singleton, who was the first African American to be nominated for the best director Oscar, led a resurgence in mainstream black film-making in the 1990s

 

 

Andrew Pulver

Mon 29 Apr 2019 21.38 BST Last modified on Tue 30 Apr 2019 10.02 BST

 

 

 

Vid

 

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/apr/29/john-singleton-boyz-n-the-hood-director-dies-aged-51

 

 

[umbertino]

North Carolina university lifts curfew after shooting that killed two

 

Several people seriously wounded at UNC Charlotte campus

 

Suspect Trystan Andrew Terrell, 22, taken into custody

 

 

Guardian staff and agencies

Wed 1 May 2019 13.59 BST

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/apr/30/uncc-shooting-north-carolina

[umbertino]

Labour Day 2019: Four facts you should know about the international holiday

The holiday also goes by the name Workers' Day

 

 

 

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/labour-day-2019-google-doodle-international-workers-may-1-holiday-countries-a8893756.html

[umbertino]

Billionaire founder of opioid firm guilty of bribing doctors to prescribe drug

 

• John Kapoor, 75, also guilty of defrauding insurance companies
• Prosecutors say fentanyl drug Subsys fuelled opioid epidemic

 

Chris McGreal in Kansas City

Thu 2 May 2019 20.17 BST

 

 

 

John Kapoor, right, oversaw Insys’s marketing strategy of hiring doctors as seminar speakers as cover to pay them more than $1m to prescribe high doses of Subsys

Photograph: Brian Snyder/Reuters

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/may/02/john-kapoor-opioids-billionaire-founder-guilty-of-bribing-doctors-to-prescribe

[umbertino]

 

This is somebody I know because he's from Trento ( which is a small town...100,000) and we're nearly same age ( he's 2 years younger than me)...Just somebody I know...Not a friend...

 

The "48 hours " crew got here 1 or 2 months ago to interview his old mother, his uncle who flies regularly to the States to visit him, and  some of his best friends.....They also interviewed Chico in the States

 

 

 

The Chico Forti case ( CBS "48 hours")

 

 

 

https://www.cbsnews.com/video/sneak-peek-the-case-against-enrico-forti/

 

 

 

I do not take a stance on this...Just reporting....Even here in Trento ( his hometown) the opinions differ

 

 

http://chicofortifree.blogspot.com/p/english-version.html

 

 

[caz1104]

Ban everyone from Trento!!!!!!!!! problem solved..........I'm really liking this Lib mind frame......so much easier when you don't have to use common sense or brain matter

[umbertino]

Passengers escape after plane skids off runway into river in Jacksonville, Florida

 

Boeing 737 was landing at a naval airport when it ended up in the St Johns river but 143 passengers and crew survive

 

 

Guardian staff

Sat 4 May 2019 06.25 BST First published on Sat 4 May 2019 04.20 BST

 

 

 

There were 136 passengers on the military charter plane which ditched into the St John’s river in Jacksonville

Photograph: AP

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/may/04/passengers-escape-after-plane-skids-off-runway-into-river-in-jacksonville-florida

[umbertino]

Justine Damond's family awarded record $US20m settlement from Minneapolis

 

The settlement calls for them to donate $US2m to a Minneapolis foundation aimed at addressing gun violence

 

 

Australian Associated Press in the US

Fri 3 May 2019 23.16 BST

 

 

 

Justine Damond, formerly from northern Sydney, was shot dead by a Minneapolis police officer in 2017 after calling 911 to report a possible rape in her neighbourhood

Photograph: Reuters

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/may/04/justine-damonds-family-awarded-record-us20m-settlement-from-minneapolis

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

German police shut down one of world's biggest dark web sites

 

Arrests in Germany, Brazil and US relate to sale of drugs, stolen data and malicious software

 

 

Staff and agencies in Berlin

Fri 3 May 2019 22.56 BST

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/may/03/german-police-close-down-dark-web-marketplace

 

 

[umbertino]

Cancer Town : 'Almost every household has someone that has died from cancer'

A small town, a chemical plant and the residents' desperate fight for clear air

 

Jamiles Lartey and Oliver Laughland

Mon 06 May 2019 06.00 EST

 

 

 

Vid & pics

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2019/may/06/cancertown-louisana-reserve-special-report

[umbertino]

A fierce desire to stay: looking at West Virginia through its people's eyes

 

Photographer Matt Eich and poet Doug Van Gundy went to Webster county, West Virginia, to find a place where people still celebrate their community

 

 

Tue 7 May 2019 08.00 BST

by Elisabeth Catte. Poetry by Doug Van Gundy. Pictures by Matt Eich.

 

 

 

Pics

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/may/07/a-fierce-desire-to-stay-looking-at-west-virginia-through-its-peoples-eyes

[umbertino]

Denver: one student killed and seven injured in shooting at school

 

Several are in critical condition, sheriff’s department says, and the two suspected shooters are in custody

 

 

Associated Press in Denver

Wed 8 May 2019 13.47 BST

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/may/07/denver-shooting-stem-school-suspects-injuries

[umbertino]

Amanda Knox to return to Italy for first time for 'trial by media' conference

 

Nick Squires

8 hrs ago

 

 

 

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/uknews/amanda-knox-to-return-to-italy-for-first-time-for-trial-by-media-conference/ar-AAB4g5r?li=BBoPRmx

[umbertino]

Biodiversity in danger: UN report predicts massive extinctions

 

May 7, 2019 10:33 AM CDT By Seth Borenstein

 

 

 

https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/biodiversity-in-danger-un-report-predicts-massive-extinctions/