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Harry Dean Stanton , died yesterday, September 15, at age 91 peacefully at Cedars Sinai hospital in Los Angeles. Stanton was an American actor, musician, and singer. Since 1956, for over 60 year’s career he appeared in about 70 movies and many TV shows. As an actor Stanton played himself dressing his strong physical presence with the character’s wardrobe giving a meaning to the roles which weren’t always leading or supporting roles. "Harry Dean Stanton was one of those actors who know that his face is the story,” said his friend and college Sam Shepard in “Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction.” documentary. Stanton worked with many of Hollywood’s most notable directors, including Frances Ford Coppola at “ The Godfather Part Two ”, Martin Scorsese at “ The Last Temptation of Christ ”, and Ridley Scott at “ Alien ”. The 2001 parody film " Not Another Teen Movie " paid tribute to Stanton by naming the high school's athletic field "Harry Dean Stadium". Stanton was always singing but he wanted to be an actor, so he decided to do it all. With the “ Harry Dean Stanton Band ” he played regularly guitar and harmonica in Los Angeles nightclubs or on tour around USA. Stanton was born July 14, 1926, in West Irvine, Kentucky. His father, a tobacco farmer and his mother a hairdresser divorced when Stanton was in high school. While attending the University of Kentucky, Stanton became interested in acting and pursued acting at the prestigious Pasadena Playhouse in California. In World War II Stanton was U.S. Navy solder. During the Battle of Okinawa Stanton served as a cook aboard Landing Ship Tank. Harry Dean Stanton never married and to the question, “how he would like to be remembered?” Stanton replied: “ It doesn’t matter.” #MartinScorsese #RidleyScott

An "improvised explosive device" was detonated on a Tube train in south-west London during Friday's morning rush hour. The blast, at Parsons Green station on a District Line train from Wimbledon, is being treated as terrorism. Twenty-two people have been treated in hospitals, mostly for burns, though at least eight have now been discharged. A hunt for the person who placed the device is under way and the area around the station has been evacuated. Specialist officers have been securing the remains of the improvised device and ensuring it is stable. Prime Minister Theresa May condemned the "cowardly" attack, which she said had "intended to cause significant harm". She said the UK's terror threat level would remain at severe - the second highest - but would be under review. Speaking in Downing Street after chairing a meeting of the Cobra emergency committee, she said there would be an increased armed police presence on the transport network in London. Hundreds of detectives and MI5 are investigating the attack, which took place at 08:20 BST on an eastbound train. Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley earlier refused to say whether anyone had been arrested. Pictures taken of the train show a white bucket on fire inside a supermarket bag, with wires trailing on to the carriage floor. The BBC understands the device had a timer. BBC security correspondent Frank Gardner said the bomb appeared not to have gone off. Had it worked as intended, it would have killed everyone around it and maimed everyone in the train carriage for life, he said. Read More

Online grupe pro-imigracionit në bashkëpunim me Partinë Demokratike Amerikane po punojnë për të mbledhur fonde për e rinovimin e legjislacionit të DACA-së si edhe për të ndihmuar ekonomikisht të prekurit e këtij legjislacionit. Emigrantët të ardhur në SHBA në mënyrë të paligjshme me prindërit e tyre, të njohur si “Endërrimtarët”, duhet të aplikojnë para datës 5 Tetor për të rinovuar lejet e tyre të punës për dy vitet e ardhëshme. "Shumë prej emigrantëve që janë studentë ose me paga të ulëta nuk mund ta përballojnë tarifën e aplikimit prej 495 dollarë", tha në një deklaratë për shtyp përfaqësuesi i Lobit FWD.us. FWD.us, e financuar kryesisht nga sipërmarrësit e Silicon Valley, është një grup pro-imigracionit që punon për ndryshime në politikat e emigracionit të SHBA. E udhëhequr nga themeluesi i Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, FWD.us, synon të përmirësojë sistemin arsimor amerikan në shkencë dhe teknologji. Sot FWD.us po mobilizon komunitetin Amerikan të teknologjisë për të ndihmuar “Endërrimtarët”, emigrantët e ardhur në Shtetet e Bashkuara të Amerikës si fëmijë, të riaplikojnë në një program të ri i cili i mbron ata nga dëbimi. Sipas një raporti të FWD.us, 91 për qind e emigrantëve të legjislacionit DACA janë të punësuar. Të paktën 75 përqind e kompanive më të mëdha në Amerikë përfitojnë nga këto “Endërrimtarë” sepse ata kanë punonjës që identifikohen si emigrant të legjislacionit DACA. Kompanitë teknologjike si Apple Inc, Google Inc., Microsoft Inc., dhe Facebook Inc, kanë bërë deklarata të forta publike kundër politikës së Trump për të mbështetur punonjësit e tyre të prekur nga legjislacioni DACA. #Facebook #MarkZuckerberg #Apple #MicrosoftCorp #GoogleInc #DACA

Online pro-immigration groups with close ties to the Democratic Party are working to raise money for The DACA Renewal Fund operated. The immigrants brought into the U.S illegally by their parents, known as Dreamers, should apply before Oct. 5 to renew their work permits for another two years. “ Many of the immigrants who are students or low-wage earners can’t afford the $495 application fee .” said in a statement FWD.us. FWD.us, primarily funded by Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, is a pro-immigration group lobbying for changes to U.S. immigration policies. Headed by the Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, FWD.us, is aiming to improve the US science and technology education system. Today the FWD.us is mobilizing the tech community to help undocumented immigrants brought to the United States as children to reapply for a program that shields them from deportation. According to a report by FWD.us, 91 percent of DACA recipients are employed. At least 75 percent of the largest companies in America are benefiting from “Dreamers” because they have employees who identifies as a DACA employee. Technology companies such as Apple Inc, Alphabet Inc’s Google Inc, Microsoft Corp and Facebook have made strong public statements against Trump’s policy and voiced support for employees affected by the change. #MarkZuckerberg #Facebook #DACA #Apple #AlphabetInc #GoogleInc #MicrosoftCorp

The construction of a wall along the length of the U.S. border with Mexico and the DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) legislation were the top subject on the Chines dinner at the White House with President D. Trump, Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer and House of Representatives Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi. “We agreed to enshrine the protections of DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) into law quickly, and to work out a package of border security, excluding the wall, that’s acceptable to both sides,” Schumer and Pelosi said. All year, Democrats have insisted that they will block any legislation that contains funding for a wall along the length of the U.S. border with Mexico, a top Trump campaign goal that many Republicans in Congress also do not support. Throughout his 2016 campaign for president and since taking office in January, Trump has demanded the construction of a wall to keep out illegal immigrants and drugs. He initially said Mexico would pay for the wall but has requested money from the U.S. Congress after the government of Mexico refused to pay. While White House officials have suggested legislation on DACA could move forward without wall funding, White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders disputed the characterization that a deal had been reached to leave it out of any legislation focused on the Dreamers. “While DACA and border security were both discussed, excluding the wall was certainly not agreed to,” she said on Twitter. The dinner was the latest effort in a new initiative by Trump to work with opposition party Democrats on major legislation. President Donald Trump and Democratic leaders in the U.S. Congress have agreed to work together on legislation to protect “Dreamers,” the illegal immigrants who were children when they entered the United States, the lawmakers said on Wednesday, although a dispute erupted over exactly what had been agreed. Following the dinner, a White House official said the president, Schumer and Pelosi discussed tax reform, immigration, border security, infrastructure investments and trade as part of Trump’s bid to reach out to Democrats. The administration looks forward to continuing these conversations with leadership on both sides of the aisle,” the official said. Over a dinner of Chinese food, Trump and the Democratic leaders also discussed issues related to U.S.-China trade, according to a congressional aide briefed on the meeting. Schumer and Pelosi also said that they urged Trump to make permanent government subsidy payments under the Affordable Care Act, also known as “Obamacare.” “Those discussions will continue,” the lawmakers said. Trump and most Republicans in Congress have demanded the repeal of Obamacare but have been unable to agree on a replacement for the healthcare program that became law in 2010. Using his executive powers, Trump canceled Obama’s DACA program in which about 800,000 undocumented young people have escaped the threat of deportation and been able to apply for work permits in the United States. Trump argued that Obama over-stepped his authority in creating the program. But Trump gave Congress six months to come up with a replacement program in the form of legislation to be enacted into law. "The president said, he would not insist on wall funding as part of a Dreamers bill, but would pursue it on other, future legislation." told reporters Democratic Representative Henry Cuellar, who attended a White House meeting with Trump earlier on Wednesday. Cuellar said Trump urged lawmakers to link a Republican bill to cut legal immigration to the United States with protections for Dreamers. But many Democrats oppose lowering the cap on annual legal immigration. #ReutersNews #RichardCowan #SteveHolland #DACA #bordersecurity #PresidentDonaldTrump #NancyPelosi #ChuckSchumer #HenryCuellar #Dreamers

“ I don’t have a house. I don’t have a job. I have nothing ,” said Mercedes Lopez, 50, whose family fled north from the Florida Keys town of Marathon last Friday and rode out the storm at an Orlando hotel, only to learn their home was destroyed, along with the gasoline station where he worked. “ We came here, leaving everything at home, and we go back to nothing ,” Lopez said. His and three other families from Marathon planned to venture back on Wednesday to salvage what they can. Hurricane Irma evacuees began returning to the storm-ravaged Florida Keys on Tuesday to find homes ripped apart and businesses coated in seaweed amid a debris-strewn landscape where an estimated 25 percent of all dwellings were destroyed. The death toll from Irma, previously ranked as one of the most powerful Atlantic storms on record and the second major hurricane to strike the U.S. mainland this season, climbed to more than five dozen. Of those, 43 were killed in the Caribbean and at least 18 in the Southeastern United States. Read More #AndySullivan #HurricaneIrma #FloridaKeys #Caribbean

Galaxy Note 8 smartphone premium është në rrugë të mbarë. Shitja e tij fillon të Premten, ndërkohe që para-pagesat për këtë aparat kanë thyer të gjitha rekordet për serinë e Note-ve. Brënda pesë ditëve mbi 40 vënde të botës kanë para-porositur përreth 650,000 celulare Note 8 duke tejkaluar në 2,5 herë më shumë shitjet e jetë-shkurtrit Note 7. Për shkak të baterisë, telefoni smartphone Note 7, mbijetoi në treg vetëm pak muaj duke i kushtuar miliarda dollarë kompanisë më të madhe të smartfonëve në botë. "Ne vendosëm ta ruajmë markën Note pas një sondazh ku pasqyroi se 85 për qind e 5.000 përdoruesve të Galaxy Note shprehën besnikëri ndaj markës." tha për mediat dje presidenti i kompanisë Samsung Electronics Ltd, DJ Koh. Siguritë e mbrojtjes në treg të Galaxy Note 8 Premium do të zbulohen nga Samsung Electronics Co Ltd gjatë pasdrekes të së Martës. Çmimi i Galaxy Note 8 do të variojë nga 930$ deri në 960$, ndërkohë që analistët presin të kapërcejë shumën prej 1,000 dollarëve. Për të konkurruar me Galaxy Note 8, Apple Inc, po përgatitet të zbulojë një edicion të veçantë celulari iPhone i cili pritet të dal në tregun perëndimore pak kohë përpara sezonit të festave të fundvitit. Notë 8 Premium vjen edhe me qëllim rritjen e shitjeve në tregun Kinez i cili faktikisht është tregu më madh në botë i telefonav. Krijuesit Kinez të celularëve si Huawei, Vivo dhe Xiaomi reduktuan shitjet e Samsungut në muajt Prill-Qeshor deri në 3 për qind. "Ne po studjojmë tërësisht çështjet që duhet të kapërcejmë, pasi nuk duam të bëjmë vetëm disa shitje në treg. Ne synojmë të dëgjojmë se Samsung ka krijuar një produkt shumë të mirë.” Tha DJ Koh dhe shtoi, "do të na duhet kohë për t'u rimëkëmbur në Kinë por ndryshimet e këtij viti, si emërimi i një shefi të ri në sektorin e marketingut, ristrukturimi dhe përqëndrimi tek blerësit kryesorë besojmë se do të jenë efektivë ".

Galaxy Note 8 premium smartphone is on the way. Its sales begin on Friday but the pre-orders over five days have hit the highest-ever for the Note series. Note 8 handsets pre-ordered numbers have reached to 650,000 beating its short-lived predecessor Note 7 by 2.5 times. Due to the battery issues the smartphone Note 7, lived just couple of months on the market costing billions of dollars to the world’s biggest smartphone maker company. The president of Samsung Electronics’ mobile communications business, DJ Koh, said at media event, “We decided to retain the Note brand after a survey showed 85 percent of 5,000 Galaxy Note users expressed brand loyalty” The device protection market dominance will be revealed by Samsung Electronics Co Ltd later on Tuesday. The Note 8’s U.S. price will vary from $930 to $960, which analysts expect to overcome $1,000. In order to compete with Galaxy Note 8, Apple Inc, is widely expected to unveil a special edition of iPhone for pre-holiday season sales in Western markets. The New iPhone will celebrate 10 years of the handset, and will be equipped with edge-to-edge screen and augmented reality. The Note 8 is tasked on boosting sales even in the world’s biggest smartphone market, in China, where local handset makers such as Huawei, Vivo and Xiaomi reduced Samsung’s market share to 3 percent in April-June. “We are digging thoroughly into several issues we must overcome, as we don’t want to just make a few, sell a few and be done. We want to hear that Samsung made a very good product.” DJ Koh said, “it will take time to recover in China but expects changes this year such as appointing a new mobile chief, restructuring and focusing on key buyers to be effective.” #Samsung #GalaxyNote8 #Note7 #DJKoh #iPhone #SamsungElectronicsCoLtd

Today, 16 years later, we still here to remember the unforgettable Tuesday morning of 9/11. We will always honour the 2,997 people killed by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda, and the other 6,000 people injured in New York City, Washington, DC and outside of Shanksville, Pennsylvania. The 19 al-Qaeda terrorists on September 11, 2001 tried to spread panic around the U.S., killing and injuring thousands of people and causing at least $10 billion damage in infrastructure and property. During the initial attacks and the collapse of the World Trade Center towers the heroes were, 343 New York City firefighters, 23 were New York City police officers and 37 were officers at the Port Authority. They ranged in age from twenty two to 85 years. Approximately 75-80% of the victims were men. On the day of the attacks, Mayor Rudy Giuliani proclaimed, "We will rebuild New York City. We're going to come out of this stronger than before, politically stronger, and economically stronger. The skyline will be made whole again." In a later address before Congress, the president George W. Bush declared, "As a symbol of America's resolve, my administration will work with Congress, and these two leaders, to show the world that we will rebuild New York City." The immediate response from World Trade Center leaseholder Larry Silverstein was that "it would be the tragedy of tragedies not to rebuild this part of New York. It would give the terrorists the victory they seek." Today, the first World Trade Center building rises to 1,368 feet (417 m), the height of the original north tower. Its antenna rises to the symbolic height of 1,776 feet (541 m) referring to 1776, the year in which the United States Declaration of Independence was signed. The construction of the 2 World Trade Center building is currently on hold. The 3 World Trade Center, stands across Greenwich Street. It was topped out in 2016 and is nearing completion; it is due to be fully completed in 2018. The 4 World Trade Center, is a skyscraper and it was opened to tenants and the public on November 2013. The 5 World Trade Center will stand where the Deutsche Bank Building once stood as the 42-story building for JP Morgan Chase investment banking headquarters. #911 #NewYorkCity #September11 #Giuliani #GeorgeWBush #WorldTradeCenter

From Brazilian gospel to Puerto Rican reggaeton and Dutch hip-hop, music streaming company Deezer is scouring the globe for gaps in the market where it can survive and thrive against Spotify and Apple. The French firm has little hope of success going toe-to-toe with its far bigger rivals in the mass-market realms inhabited by the likes of Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran. Instead it is focusing on local music genres in fast-growing, often non-English language markets, areas where it believes it can steal a march. It is targeting local listeners while also looking to position itself for a global audience as a “cool”, non-mainstream alternative. As part of this strategy, launched this year and called Deezer Next, it is dispatching local teams of “editors” to identify talent in niche genres and create original content, Netflix-style. The aim is not only to differentiate its catalog but also to reduce its reliance on the record labels that take the lion’s share of streaming services’ revenue. It has 40 editors globally, and is looking to recruit more. Deezer Chief Executive Hans-Holger Albrecht said he would target selected markets in Latin America, Asia and Africa where Spotify was not already predominant. They include Guatemala, Bolivia, Paraguay, Colombia, Nigeria, Senegal and South Africa. “I strongly believe in the localisation of content,” he told Reuters. “While Spotify is mainly playlist-focused, we are betting on local differentiation, and this has helped us become number one in gospel in Brazil.” But finding a path to profit represents a formidable task for the loss-making company.It has a similar "freemium" to market leader Spotify, whereby it attracts users by offering advert-supported free access and charges a monthly fee of about $10 for the full service. However it has only 12 million active users - about 9 million paying - compared with Spotify's 60 million paying subscribers, and brings in just a tenth of the Swedish firm's $3 billion annual revenue. (For a graphic on global subscribers click tmsnrt.rs/2jb01Uu) Deezer, controlled by billionaire investor Len Blavatnik, is nonetheless sinking tens of millions of euros into this local music drive. Its strategy is based on a bet that music streaming will continue to grow rapidly to eventually eclipse all other forms of music listening. The paid streaming market is expected to grow 16 percent to $28 billion by 2030 in terms of annual revenue, according to Goldman Sachs "Streaming is a very young market, with just about 10 percent penetration globally, so there is a lot of potential still,” said Albrecht. Read More #Spotify #Apple #Deezer #EdSheeran #LenBlavatnik #GoldmanSachs #HansHolgerAlbrecht #ReutersNews

About 1.8 million homes and businesses went out of power today as the powerful Hurricane Irma flooded the streets of the currently ghost town, Miami's. Around 5.6 million people, a third of the state’s population, had been ordered to evacuate southern Florida. “There is a serious threat of significant storm surge flooding along the entire west coast of Florida. This is a deadly storm, a life-threatening situation.” Governor Rick Scott told a press conference. Irma, the most powerful hurricanes ever seen in the Atlantic, started early on Wednesday, September 6th, hitting Caribbean islands as Category 5 storm with packing winds of 185 miles per hour (295 km per hour). On Sunday morning, September 10th, the storm dropped down to Category 3 hitting southern Florida with maximum sustained winds of 120 miles per hour (195 kph). Tornadoes are also spotted through the region. Irma has killed, until now, 28 people in the Caribbean and one man in southern Florida. The storm have destroyed thousands of homes and business buildings and is expected to cause billions of dollars in damage to the third-most-populous U.S. state, a major tourism hub with an economy that generates about 5 percent of U.S. gross domestic product. The National Hurricane Center forecast that Irma’s center eye will move near or over the state’s west coast later on Sunday. #HurricaneIrma #Miami

19-vjeçari, i biri i Eric Bolling, një nga personalitetet e FOX NEWS, vdiq pak orë pasi rrjeti Televiziv njoftoi ndarjen me babain e tij. Fëmija i vetëm i Eric Bolling, u gjet i vdekur dje në Boulder te Kolorados ku kishte shkuar për të studiuar shkencat ekonomike në Universitetin e Kolorados Boulder. Shkaku i vdekjes së të riut Eric Chase Bolling mbetet akoma i panjohur. Për sa i përket dyshimeve të shumta për vetëvrasje, babai i tij ka shkruar në Twitter: "Autoritetet na informuan se deri tani nuk ka asnjë shenjë vetëdëmtimi. Autopsia do të kryhet javën e ardhshme. Ju lutemi respektoni periudhën tonë të pikëllimit." Fox News Channel konfirmoi vdekjen e të riut Bolling me deklaratën e mëposhtme: "Jemi shumë të pikëlluar për largimin nga jeta të djalit të Eric Bolling. Eric Chase ishte një i ri i mrekullueshëm. Mendimet dhe lutjet tona shkojnë tek e gjithë famila Bolling ". Personalitete anembanë SHBA-së si Donald Trump Jr, Sean Hannity i Fox News, Don Lemon i CNN dhe disa komentatorë të TV-ve, shkëmbyen ngushëllimet e tyre për familjen Bolling nëpërmjet llogarive të tyre personale në Tweeter. Eric Bolling, ish-presantuesi i kanalit Fox News, u dëbua nga rrjeti me të cilin bashkepunonte pasi u akuzua nga media HuffPost për Sexting. Gazeta HuffPost muajin e kaluar publikoj një raport të detajuar duke zbuluar se Comentatori Ekonomik i nje prej stacioneve televizive më të fuqishme të Amerikes kishte dërguar mesazhe me tekst të papërshtatshëm tek kolegët e tij të sex-it femër. Eric Bolling, si edhe tragjedia e tij familjare, janë tashmë një nga viktimat e shumta të Sexting. #HuffPost #EricBolling #FoxNews #DonaldTrump