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President Obama announces new lending initiatives that will help small businesses have more access to credit during a visit to Metropolitan Archives in Landover, MD. October 21, 2009. (Public Domain)

Magnitude: 7.6
Wednesday, September 30, 2009 at 10:16:09 UTC
Wednesday, September 30, 2009 at 05:16:09 PM at epicenter
Location: 0.789°S, 99.961°E
Depth: 80 km (49.7 miles)
Region: SOUTHERN SUMATRA, INDONESIA
Distances: 45 km (30 miles) WNW of Padang, Sumatra, Indonesia
220 km (135 miles) SW of Pekanbaru, Sumatra, Indonesia
475 km (295 miles) SSW of KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia
960 km (590 miles) NW of JAKARTA, [...]

The U.S. government has declared the swine flu a public health emergency. As of April 27, 2009, there have been 40 cases of confirmed swine flu in the states of California, Kansas, New York City, Ohio and Texas. The swine flu outbreaks anguish many countries all around the globe. The World Health Organization (WHO) coordinates [...]

His case highlights the technology industry’s argument that the United States will struggle to compete if it cannot more easily hire foreign-born engineers.
“We are watching the decline and fall of the United States as an economic power — not hypothetically, but as we speak,” said Craig R. Barrett, the chairman of Intel.
Mr. Barrett blames a [...]

“It just doesn’t seem rational that any political leader would say, let’s give millions of foreign workers permanent access to U.S. jobs when we have millions of Americans looking for jobs,” said Roy Beck, executive director of NumbersUSA, a group that favors reduced immigration. Mr. Beck predicted that Mr. Obama would face “an explosion” if [...]

NEW YORK (AP) — New York University officials weren’t laughing when hundreds of people mistakenly received word that they’d been accepted to grad school on April Fools’ Day.
NYU says it sent out acceptance e-mails April 1 to 489 applicants to the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. Those applicants should have received rejection [...]

The WTFPL (Do What The Fuck You Want To Public License) is an uncommonly used, extremely permissive free software license, the March 2000 Version 1.0 was written by Banlu Kemiyatorn who used it for Window Maker artwork.[3] Samuel “Sam” Hocevar, a French programmer who was the Debian GNU/Linux project leader from 17 April 2007 to [...]

The initial run of Open for Questions came to a close with the President’s online town hall this morning. With almost a hundred thousand participants and more than three and a half million votes, it was an eye-opening experience and showed the potential of what this kind of open engagement can accomplish. The online town [...]