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Willie Simmons, a 62-year old Black man from Alabama, has been behind bars for the last 38 years for stealing $9. He was convicted of 1st-degree robbery and was sentenced to life without parole in 1982 due to Alabama's Habitual Offender law. He already had 3 prior convictions.
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WANT TO DO SOME GOOD TODAY? - MAKE THIS VIRAL... I checked various news sources, appears story is very real - and SO this message is addressed to President Trump - this guy needs your help *********************************************************************** Further research I found: Article 72 says that the president shall have the power to grant pardons, reprieves, respites or remissions of punishment or to suspend, remit or commute the sentence of any person convicted of any offence. 
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Clearview AI’s facial recognition database opened a Pandora’s box of privacy concerns. But you might want something similar someday—if you can opt in.
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moving toward a Dystopian society? . .
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American military leaders issued an executive order this week that mobilized the entire Department of Defense to prepare for a potential pandemic-level outbreak of the coronavirus COVID-19.
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Coronavirus precautionary action...
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Climatologist Alan Robock from Rutgers University and his team studied what an all-out nuclear war between world nations could look like.
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if it happens, my preference is to be in the center of it all - those who survive will be worse off.... and here is the video simulation of the end: https://youtu.be/2jy3JU-ORpo . .
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Grace Nguyen, a student at UT Dallas, recently shared an email from her professor, Dr. Gayle Schwark, that will make you believe in the power of good teachers. Gayle emailed all her students to let them know she would have shelves of food available in her office for any student that needs some nourishment — for any reason, at any time, and they don't even have to be her student.
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not a new story, but one i have heard many times before - at first, i was shocked but no more... we feed the world, and those who have come to expect it.... but our kids struggle with hunger?
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It has been a tough decade for brick-and-mall retailers, and matters seem only to be getting worse. Despite a strong consumer economy, physical retailers closed more than 9,000 stores in 2019 — more than the total in 2018, which surpassed the record of 2017. Already this year, retailers have announced more than 1,200 more intended closings, including 125 Macy’s stores. Some people call what has happened to the shopping landscape “th
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A different POV on the retail apocalypse…. . .
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A year after it launched, the delivery service that takes back its packaging to be reused is expanding, and you’ll soon be able to find its innovative packaging designs at retail stores.
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"returnable packaging instead of single-use plastic, would customers buy it"?
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Andrew Barnes, author of The 4 Day Week, argues that a reduction in working hours generates higher productivity because of better work-life balance.
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4 day work week - thoughts? . .
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With fears of the coronavirus — and flu season — here's how to stay safe on a plane.
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wishing everyone safe travel... . .
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Who owns your DNA? You should, according to this biodata bill of rights
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Who does own your DNA? . .
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The virus in the simulation was a fictional one called CAPS, but it bears some similarities to the Wuhan coronavirus.
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Their simulation showed it could kill 65 million people... . .
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It is now 100 seconds to midnight, closer to midnight than at any point since the clock's creation in 1947.
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does anyone pay attention to the doomsday clock anymore? . .
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Astrobiologist Samantha Rolfe has published an essay explaining how invisible aliens could already be living on Earth — and how they might have gotten here.
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not all of them are invisible - some of them are driving cars.... . .
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Most drivers get their cars treated because they see bed bugs, get a complaint, or are just taking precautions after a ride an exterminator said.
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business travel delight.... . .
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Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
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a visit to Cuba..... . .
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Tiger Ye — not his real name — is a 21-year-old student in Wuhan, the central Chinese city where the new virus first emerged. Ye, who doesn’t want to be identified for fear of being ostracized, first suspected he’d caught the illness that’s spread around the world on Jan. 21, when he felt too weak to finish dinner. He checked his temperature, and it was up.
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What It’s Like to Survive Coronavirus... . .
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Harvard University's astronomy department chair has a theory about fast radio bursts coming from a distant galaxy: an alien civilization.
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looks like ET may have made it home - and now he is trying to call back here..... .
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The U.S. service industry has been heavily criticized for its employment practices. Restaurants can get away with paying their servers and bartenders just a few dollars an hour and then rely on customers to tip and top up their pay. That's opposed to simply raising the price of food so that workers can be paid a decent hourly wage, and we can do away with tipping altogether.
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something seriously wrong here! would you work for pennies? "Mom Shares $9 Paycheck After Working Over 70 Hours as a Server"
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This is a problem that stretches across the banking services sector and beyond, and it shows that not only are the providers of services often not culpable for the failure of their service, they’re often unwittingly involved in engineering its failure themselves—whether they know it or not.
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have you ever checked the dark web to see if you are out there - i am, 7 times since last checked.... it is not a good place... . .
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The operation, known first by the code name “Thesaurus” and later “Rubicon,” ranks among the most audacious in CIA history.
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“It was the intelligence coup of the century,” ... . .
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They are among the most studied, discussed, and well-known figures in history, yet there are always new facts about U.S. presidents to unearth.
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never once imagined George was a redhead! . .
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Researchers have developed dancer-recognition software that's astoundingly accurate.
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the way you dance is like a fingerprint - no one else dances like you - so HIT IT BABY.... . .
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Mixing conservation with death care, a new start-up offers permanently protected memorial trees that solve a slew of problems.
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this memorial has appeal to me - what are your thoughts? . .
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In a cryptic tweet, the official Mr. Peanut account shared that Mr. Peanut, the Planters mascot, has died at the age of 104. People on Twitter had a field day with this.
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Mr Peanut - is dead? . .
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A biological anthropology professor has written a book suggesting that it's not extraterrestrials piloting UFOs, but time-traveling humans from the future.
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OK, so when they land DON'T SHOOT - might be your great, great, great, great, Niece Janeway... . .
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