Two Americans killed in Brussels bombings, Kerry offers help
Two Americans were killed in Tuesday’s suicide bombings in Brussels, a senior U.S. official said on Friday, as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry met with Belgian leaders and offered condolences and help following the attack.
The official did not offer specifics on where the Americans died, saying only that two had been confirmed killed.
Kerry, traveling back to Washington after talks in Moscow, stopped in Belgium to demonstrate solidarity after the attacks, which killed 31 people and injured hundreds of others.
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Ferguson police shootings condemned by Barack Obama
The city has become the focal point of a national debate about race and policing
US President Barack Obama says there is “no excuse” for criminal acts in Ferguson, Missouri, one night after two police officers at a protest were shot.
He said the protesters had “legitimate grievances” but described the shooters as “criminals” who should be arrested.
Wednesday’s shootings happened during a demonstration after it was announced the Ferguson Police Chief would resign.
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“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”
Thomas Edison, inventor of the lightbulb (among other things) and natty dresser.
What can we, as writers, photographers, artists, and bloggers learn from American inventor Thomas Alva Edison? Plenty, as it turns out. Edison is famous for many inventions, including the phonograph, a commercially viable lightbulb, and the motion picture camera.
His success resulted from trial and error, and many, many failed experiments before creating a lightbulb that could last 1200 hours, just as an example. He could have stopped. He could have given up. He chose to frame his work in a positive light:
“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”
Edison’s philosophy is particularly compelling to anyone who does creative work:
Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety nine percent perspiration.
How many rough drafts, spoiled drawings, and blurry photos have you created before that stroke of serendipity? Are you looking at a…
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How to Share Your Work with a Targeted Audience
We’ve touched on similar topics in the past, from creating boundaries between your blog persona and real-life one, to keeping your daily life safe from online intrusions.
The great thing about having your own site is that with one click of the Publish button, you can reach the entire world. Or at least that subset of the world with an internet connection, a bit of free time, and a keen interest in knitting / vegan brownies / attachment parenting / haiku writing / [insert your favorite topic(s) here].
What do you do, though, when you want to keep that public stage open — but also share some of your work in a more discreet way? Sometimes you might feel like writing a more personal post than you do usually. Or you might want to get feedback on a work in progress you’re not entirely happy about yet. There are all…
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Obama: 50 Years After ‘Bloody Sunday,’ March Is Not Yet Over
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| President Obama speaks near the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., on Saturday, to mark the 50th anniversary of the “Bloody Sunday” civil rights march. Gerald Herbert/AP President Obama, speaking in Selma, Ala., at an event marking the 50th anniversary of the “Bloody Sunday” civil rights march that witnessed hundreds of demonstrators attacked and beaten by police, said the nation was much closer to racial equality, but that the march is not over yet. “There are places, and moments in America where this nation’s destiny has been decided,” the president said at the Edmund Pettus Bridge, where Alabama state troopers converged on protesters on March 7, 1965. “Selma is such a place,” he said. “In one afternoon 50 years ago, so much of our turbulent history – the stain of slavery and anguish of civil war; the yoke of segregation and tyranny of Jim Crow; the death of four little girls in Birmingham, and the dream of a Baptist preacher – all that history met on this bridge,” Obama told those gathered, including former President George W. Bush, Rep. John Lewis of Georgia, an Alabama native who was among the marchers and about 100 other members of Congress. Charter buses from around the country brought thousands into the Alabama town of about 20,000 on Saturday for a day of commemoration and speeches. After the speech, the president and first lady walked over the historic bridge. Continue reading Obama: 50 Years After ‘Bloody Sunday,’ March Is Not Yet Over |
Two charged with Nemtsov killing include Chechen officer: report
(Reuters) – Moscow authorities have charged two men with involvement in the murder of Kremlin critic Boris Nemtsov, one of whom served in a police unit in the Russian region of Chechnya according to a law enforcement official.
A total of five men were frogmarched into a Moscow courtroom on Sunday, forced by masked security officers gripping their bound arms to walk doubled over, a Reuters reporter at the court said. Three of them have not yet been charged and are being treated as suspects, said court spokeswoman Anna Fadeyeva.
Court officials named Anzor Gubashev and Zaur Dadayev as those charged, and said Gubashev’s brother Shagid was one of the three suspects. Russian media reports said they originated from Chechnya, the mainly Muslim southern republic that has seen violent separatist insurgencies over the past two decades.
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