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Month: March 2018

Is Selling Retail Online Worth the Initial Costs?

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Moving a retail business online may seem formidable at first. But with the help of experts and a willingness to adapt, your business can soon be thriving on an online platform. Initial setup costs should be factored into the budget and plan, but these can be managed in ways to reduce the outlay, so your company begins to quickly generate profit on the web. Here are some other things you can do to mitigate costs and get your online business up and running. Establish a Web Presence Begin by designing…

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How Will Self-Driving Cars Change DUI Convictions?

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It’s a modern world, and self-driving cars are finally hitting the roads. Although self-driving cars aren’t commonly used by the general public yet, they could be a normal form of transportation in the not-so-distant future. If autonomous cars no longer use humans behind the wheel, it can raise some serious questions about driving laws and traffic-related offenses. Would an individual inside of a self-driving car still be held responsible if that car were to crash? In addition, would current DUI laws still apply to a situation involving a driverless car?…

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Death Penalty for Drug Dealers? Be Careful What You Wish For, President Trump

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(Garrison) – In his first 2020 re-election campaign appearance in New Hampshire, US president Donald Trump addressed some of his typical bombast to the so-called “opioid crisis.” “If we don’t get tough on the drug dealers,” said Trump, “we’re wasting our time. That toughness includes the death penalty.” An odd take, considering that one of Trump’s few worthwhile campaign promises was to leave the legal status of marijuana up to the states. That promise should have been kept, and extended to other drugs as well. Instead, he turned Jeff “good…

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City Councillor and Leading Rights Activist Shot Dead in Downtown Rio de Janeiro

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Brazil (GV) – Less than two hours before she was murdered on the evening of March 14, Rio de Janeiro city councillor Marielle Franco was speaking at a roundtable of black women activists about “young black women moving the structures”. As Franco was leaving the site, a car pulled up to the side of her own vehicle and fired nine shots into it. Franco and her driver, Anderson Pedro Gomes, were killed on the spot. The councillor’s press officer, who was in the backseat, was hit by glass fragments and injured but…

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Eroding Protection Under the Law

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Washington DC (ProPublica) – At the age of 50, the federal law that seeks to protect older American workers from age bias has been enfeebled by court decisions that have widened loopholes for employers and narrowed the ways employees can seek redress. When Congress enacted the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) in 1967, the law was treated as something of an addendum to the Civil Rights Act, which had been passed three years earlier and banned bias on the basis of race, gender, religion and, later on, sexual orientation, among…

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Surprise: Violence Increase in Cities Where Trump Speaks

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“It appeared to be a phenomenon that’s unique to Donald Trump’s rally,” Christopher Morrison, the lead author of the study, told the New York Times on Friday. Researchers evaluated 31 campaign events held by Trump and 38 held by his Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton, during the general election. They found an average of 2.3 more assaults in cities on days that Trump rallies were held. There was no correlation between an increase in violence and Clinton rallies. By DonkeyHotey – Donald Trump – Caricature, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons On a normal day in 2016, US cities noted an average of 19.4 violent incidents….

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Wicked witches and evil queens: why children’s books need more female villains

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World Wide (Conversation) – This year, women’s history month follows what seems an unprecedented upsurge of events that revealed the widespread abuse of women in both professional and private life. So it is not surprising to also see an increased interest in the representation of gender in literature – or rather, as a recently published big data study shows, a significant under-representation of women in literature. Both female writers as well as female protagonists have been lagging behind their male counterparts for centuries. Gender inequality has naturally become a contemporary…

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‘Sainthood’ Status of US Police Must Be Challenged for Police Culture to Change

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Chicago (Sputnik) – On Tuesday it was announced that Chicago branch of Black Lives Matter, the Illinois chapter of the ACLU and a coalition of other community groups would be involved in an upcoming consent decree between the Chicago Police Department and the state’s attorney general’s office. The move would give the non-police groups a chance to influence reforms meant to improve the troubled police department by, for example, objecting to initiatives that fail to go far enough or pressuring officials if measures aren’t being followed through, according to reports. “It’s really setting up the community groups as watchdogs…

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Clueless Students Engaging in Protests? Chicago High Schoolers Beg to Differ

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Illinois, United States (LRMC) – As student protests continue at high schools across the United States, they’ve been met with responses ranging from liberal support, right wing condemnation, and quite a mix from the left. The reasons why rest in the issue at the forefront of the actions happening nationwide: gun control. But is this the only demand of the students? Regardless, critiques of Democrats attempting to use these kids as political props are well-founded. Democrats attach themselves to any popular social action in order to gain electorally, though the track…

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How an indigenous woman left her mark on a tumultuous presidential campaign in Mexico

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Mexico (OpenDemocracy) – “Mexico has been kidnapped by those in power, and with your help we’re going to get her back!” said María de Jesús Patricio at a political rally on 11 February. Her supporters filled the plaza outside the Palacio de Bellas Artes – a historic cultural hub in the heart of Mexico City – to listen to the woman that they hope can bring about a radical change in Mexican society. Marichuy, as Patricio is commonly known, is an indigenous Nahua healer from the state of Jalisco in western…

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