The bleeding has begun on Wall Street and there be a scarcity of bandages. S&P 500 sinking to its lowest since October 2014, while oil prices go below $30 per barrel and fears grow about economic troubles in Asia.
Get used to it: Big drops for stocks are back again http://hosted2.ap.org/APDEFAULT/f70471f764144b2fab526d39972d37b3/Articl…
BBC News - Shares on both sides of the Atlantic sink in investor sell-off http://www.bbc.com/news/business-35321087
They are multilingual but Hispanics may not identify with being Latino, not the same way in reverse.
Latinos I know have no problem being identified as Hispanics, but that is not always the case in reverse. Latinos refers to geography and Hispanics to the language, try explaining that to a Hispanic and insist they are Latinos.
US now has more Spanish speakers than Spain and the second most in the world, according to a recent study.
US President Barack Hussein Obama II answered questions live on YouTube.
The interview, conducted by YouTube personalized Destin Sandlin, Ingrid Nilsen and Adande Thorne (aka sWooZie), including questions submitted on social media using the hashtag #YouTubeAsksObama.
https://www.youtube.com/user/whitehouse
The YouTube Interview with President Obama https://youtu.be/Tjl8ka3F6QU via @YouTube
How will it look next year and what does Wikipedia mean to you? This is the question the massive online database is asking. This free digital collaborative encyclopedia has grown from 500,000 English-language articles in 2005 to more than 5 million in 2015.
Wikipedia is written in English. It started in 2001 and currently contains 5,056,252 articles. Many other Wikipedias are available; some of the largest are listed below.
More than 1,000,000 articles: Deutsch Español Français Italiano Nederlands Polski Русский Svenska Tiếng Việt
Up, not down: the rise of happiness. A new University of Alberta study finds it gets better as we age, refuting old claims that happiness slumps in mid-life.
Happy people live longer, they are healthier and are more likely to engage positively in their communities, and they also cost less to the health-care system and to society in general. Happy people may be cheap, but does happiness decline as young people move into early adulthood and midlife, and then increase again, as various proponents of the “U-curve of happiness” have argued?
Retirement Plan Access and Participation across the 50 States has been studied by Pew and indications are that workers in the United States accumulate the vast majority of their retirement savings through employer-based plans, but large gaps in coverage exist. Pew’s analysis shows that more than 30 million workers report they do not have access to an employer-based retirement plan.
According to Pew Research, Privacy and Information Sharing is fine for many Americans, who say they might provide personal information, depending on the risk and a deal being offered.
NYC’s El Diario/La Prensa is ober 100 years old and has served as the voice of New York Latinos, especially during the times when they didn’t have a voice.
Founded as a weekly under the title La Prensa in 1913 in lower Manhattan, the newspaper merged with El Diario de New York decades later, leaving it with a compound name.
The paper’s audience has evolved with the times, serving a New York Latino population that has seen distinct waves of Puerto Rican, Dominican, South American and Mexican immigrants
Paranoia and vigilante-like behavior are the tools of destruction that do not necessarily come with bombs, explosions and fallout.
They're dangerous thoughts, attitudes, and prejudices that are found only in the minds of mortals. Prejudices can harm and suspicions destroy.
The thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all its own. And the pity is that these things cannot always be be controlled.
Spending a half million dollars for this? Check out City Island's BELDEN PARK, which cost NYC taxpayers around $420,000.
http://cimages.me/content/belden-point-project
http://cimages.me/content/building-belden-point-park
http://cimages.me/content/belden-point-park
Was it worth waiting for? After a half dozen on again and off again announcements over the years, NYC Greenstreets has finally picked on City Island. The citywide program to convert paved, vacant traffic islands and medians into green spaces has nearly finished building on Belden Point.