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UK unveils powers to spy on web use, raising privacy fears

Britain unveils plans for sweeping new surveillance powers, including the right to find out which websites people visit, measures ministers say are vital to keep the country safe but which critics denounce as an assault on freedoms.

Leonard Peltier ‘Cruel and Unusual Punishment’

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CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENTby Leonard PeltierAmendment VIII—Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.The Eighth Amendment is supposed to be about dignity, humanity and decency. It is intended to prohibit “deliberate indifference to serious infliction of unnecessary or wanton pain or physical torture or lingering death

Builders work to complete 5 homes for Habitat project (PHOTOS)

1218521710153679413584836691759950389074Five Greensboro families on Friday will have a place to call home.

More than a dozen homebuilders from across the Triad came together this week — and even some over the weekend — to tackle the Raising Roofs 2015 challenge: five homes, five days.

With rain forecasted for the beginning of the week, work began early last Friday and continued into the weekend to complete framing, insulation and roofing, said Jeanne Johnston, chief development officer for Habitat for Humanity of Greater Greensboro.

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Obamacare expansion: Chinese Hospital, health plan add hundreds of new doctors to network

brenda-yee*100xx542-542-0-38.jpgChinese Community Health Plan, a fast-growing subsidiary of Chinatown’s Chinese Hospital, is contracting with hundreds of doctors affiliated with Hill Physicians Medical Group to augment its Covered California network in San Francisco and northern San Mateo County.

The move comes as Chinese Hospital scrambles to settle a legal dispute with its own longtime physician group partner, and plans to open its rebuilt $160 million acute-care facility next spring.

Its San Francisco health insurance plan…

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Poems by Ismat, Safdar to vanish from Rajasthan textbooks – The Times of India

JAIPUR: In its ongoing mission to revolutionize school education, the Vasundhara Raje government plans to omit from Hindi text books stories and poems written by noted Urdu writers Ismat Chugtai and Safdar Hashmi and short narratives that revolve around Muslim characters. The move has drawn flak from educationists.

Source: Poems by Ismat, Safdar to vanish from Rajasthan textbooks – The Times of India

Garth Brooks And Trisha Yearwood Join Jimmy Carter To Build Homes In Memphis

Country music stars Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood raised walls on a Habitat for Humanity home this week in Memphis, Tennessee, alongside former President Jimmy Carter and former first lady Rosalynn Carter.

Trisha Yearwood helped build a home in Memphis, TennesseeTrisha Yearwood helped build a home in Memphis, Tennessee

They will return next year to build and repair more homes during Habitat’s 33rd Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter Work Project, scheduled to take place Aug. 21-27, 2016.

Garth Brooks helped build a home in Memphis, TennesseeGarth Brooks helped build a home in Memphis, Tennessee
Credit/Copyright: Ezra Millstein/Habitat for Humanity

Each year, President and Mrs. Carter join Habitat for Humanity volunteers in a different location to build homes and improve communities, and raise awareness of the critical need for decent and affordable housing in the U.S. and around the world.

President and Mrs. Carter helped build a home with Habitat for Humanity in Memphis, TennesseePresident and Mrs. Carter helped build a home with Habitat for Humanity in Memphis, Tennessee

“Rosalynn and I are thrilled to play a role in helping Habitat continue the great work underway in the Uptown neighborhood of Memphis,” said President Carter. “We look forward to returning in August next year and by then, I know a wonderful family will have made this house we are starting today a home – where they can find the strength and stability they need for a brighter future.”

Since 1983, Habitat for Humanity of Greater Memphis has been dedicated to eliminating substandard housing throughout the city, where more than 29 percent of the population lives below poverty level, according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey. Habitat for Humanity has served more than 445 Memphis families through new home construction and an additional 80 families through critical home repair projects in the Uptown neighborhood. With support from volunteers and donors, Habitat will help improve living conditions for Memphis families during the Carter Project, as well as continue to improve communities in the city and surrounding areas.

Habitat’s Carter Project volunteers will conduct multiple projects during the build week, including new home construction, beautification projects such as minor repairs, painting and landscaping, and Aging in Place projects, including critical home repairs, weatherization, and modifications to enhance accessibility and mobility for low-income seniors.

“We are excited to work alongside President and Mrs. Carter, our volunteers and the partner families in Memphis next year,” said Jonathan Reckford, CEO of Habitat for Humanity International. “The efforts in Uptown are great examples of what can happen when members of the public, private and social sectors invest in a neighborhood. Tremendous opportunities lie ahead for families who will have a mortgage they can afford and the stable foundation they need to build strength and self-reliance.”

Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood’s involvement in the 2016 Carter Project will make it the country music stars’ eighth time to volunteer with President and Mrs. Carter. Brooks and Yearwood have been supporting Habitat since 2007, including building homes after Hurricane Katrina and in Haiti following the 2010 earthquake.

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Mortality Rates Rising Among Middle-Aged White Americans, Study Finds | News | PND

Ellen Meara and Jonathan S. Skinner noted that the least educated also faced the most financial distress. Increases in mortality rates for middle-aged whites rose in parallel with increases in indicators of pain, poor health, and distress, said Deaton, which provided the rationale for the increase in deaths from substance abuse and suicides.In their commentary, Meara and Skinner considered a variety of explanations for the trend — including a pronounced racial difference in the prescription of opioid drugs and their misuse, and a more pessimistic outlook among middle-aged whites about their financial futures — but said they could not fully account for the effect. “It is difficult,” they wrote, “to find modern settings with survival losses of this magnitude.”

Source: Mortality Rates Rising Among Middle-Aged White Americans, Study Finds | News | PND

October: 74 Palestinians killed, 2355 injured | PNN

The Palestinian Ministry of Health Ministry on Monday said that during the month of October, 74 Palestinians, including 17 children and two women, have been killed by Israeli army fire, and more than 2355 have been injured.The Ministry also said that 2355 Palestinians were shot with live rounds and rubber-coated steel bullets, including many who suffered fractures and bruises after being repeatedly beaten by soldiers and paramilitary settlers in the West Bank, including occupied Jerusalem. The percentage of wounded children is 21.The names of those killed by IOF in October:

Source: October: 74 Palestinians killed, 2355 injured | PNN