The former secretary of state is scheduled to visit Southern California at the end of the month, on Wednesday, Oct. 30, for a luncheon benefiting TerryMcAuliffe's Virginia gubernatorial campaign.
Taking place at the Beverly Hills home of mogul Haim Saban and his wife, Cheryl, individual tickets are being sold at $15,000 per person, while couples can attend for $25,000.
Clinton, who has close ties to McAuliffe, is hosting a $25,000-per-couple fundraiser on Tuesday, Oct. 15, in New York City as well as an evening reception Saturday, Oct. 19, in McLean, Va.
Prior to her Hollywood trip, Clinton will be making her way to New York City on Monday, Oct. 21, in a reception benefiting Bill deBlasio's New York mayoral campaign.
Tickets for that are selling for $1,000 per person.
Clinton will also visit Washington, D.C., on Thursday, Oct. 24, for a Center for American Progress event.
This comes after CNN and NBC scrapped plans for documentaries about Clinton, though conservative organization Citizens United is moving forward with its untitled movie. Temple Hill and The Arlook Group are also continuing to develop a biopic of the former first lady, Rodham.
Your favorite Angry Birds characters, now on wheels
It's no secret that Rovio has a line of hits on its hands with the Angry Birds franchise, and the latest installment in the series is a downhill racing game. Any Birds Go! is not unlike kart racing games of the past like Mario Kart, with side-by-side racing taking you through difficult obstacles, collecting coins and taking out opponents along the way.
Rovio is also telling us up front that the game will be free-to-play, with several game modes and features included from the start. But we know there will be some kind of catch here, and can expect things such as kart customizations and unlocks to be managed through in-app purchases.
Ready to play? Rovio says that the game will be hitting Android (as well as other platforms) on December 11th.
As week two of the government shutdown winds down, it appears to be business as usual in the tech sector -- surprisingly so, considering the high stakes for the industry.
Directly or indirectly, the shutdown can have a major impact on the tech industry, starting with third-party government contractors -- from big players, like Google or Microsoft, to the millions of workers who provide IT services to the government through smaller firms. Many of those companies will struggle in dealing with their employees' pay or resort to layoffs should the stoppage drag on.
IT employment has largely been a bright spot in the U.S. jobs market, but as eWeek notes, employment experts are concerned because of the federal government's long reach in IT. OMB data shows the government buys more than $80 billion in technology each year. "The effects could be deep and wide long term," Mike Durney, CEO of Dice Holdings, parent company of the Dice.com career site, told eWeek. "Near term, the shutdown is likely to be haphazard in its effects, but the longer it goes, the impact could be felt in a lot of different places."
Among the other consequences of the shutdown, tech companies can expect delays in the review of patent applications; no more processing of H-1B visas; delayed IPOs, as the SEC rejects new applications and slows the processing of existing ones; delayed processing of Employer Identification Numbers by the IRS, holding up business for innovators in Silicon Valley; and suspension of work on NIST's cyber security framework.
Yet, with all that's at stake, the major players in the tech sector have chosen not to weigh in about events playing out in Washington. As NYmag.com writes:
While you might think that an issue like the shutdown of the entire federal government and a looming debt-ceiling disaster that could throw the U.S. economy back into Lehman Brothers territory would make the denizens of Silicon Valley look up from their mini iPads, you'd be wrong...
It is remarkable how narrow the tech world's vision can be. As long as the venture-capital money is still flowing from Sand Hill Road, the logic goes, why does it matter if federal workers are being furloughed, cancer patients are having their treatment delayed, and the global economy's stability is one default away from disaster?
The prospect of a government default on the debt does unnerve at least some in the industry. "It is unthinkable that the United States could default on its financial commitments, and it would be the height of irresponsibility for any public official to consider such a course," said AT&T Chairman and CEO Randall Stephenson in a statement. "In fact, even the discussion of default poses great risk to our economy and to our country."
Over the past couple years, Silicon Valley has sought to reverse its longstanding aversion to politics. Lobby shops for companies like Google and Facebook have ballooned, campaign contributions have started to flow, new organizations have formed, and high-profile advocacy campaigns have made headlines across the country. On the fight over the government shutdown and debt ceiling, though, they've been almost entirely absent.
While it might be unreasonable to expect Silicon Valley lobbying to have an impact on negotiations over the budget and debt ceiling, when Wall Street lobbying has thus far failed, it would still be nice to see tech players weigh in. Perhaps, as NYmag.com suggests, "if Washington really wants to get Silicon Valley's attention, it should declare the Creamery a national park and then shut it down."
First evidence that dust and sand deposits in China are controlled by rivers
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Contact: Tanya Gubbay tanya.gubbay@rhul.ac.uk Royal Holloway, University of London
New research published today in the journal Quaternary Science Reviews has found the first evidence that large rivers control desert sands and dust in Northern China.
Northern China holds some of the world's most significant wind-blown dust deposits, known as loess. The origin of this loess-forming dust and its relationship to sand has previously been the subject of considerable debate.
The team of researchers led by Royal Holloway University, analysed individual grains of fine wind-blown dust deposited in the Chinese Loess Plateau that has formed thick deposits over the past 2.5 million years. As part of this, they also analysed the Mu Us desert in Inner Mongolia and the Yellow River, one of the world's longest rivers, to identify links between the dust deposits and nearby deserts and rivers.
The results showed that the Yellow River transports large quantities of sediment from northern Tibet to the Mu Us desert and further suggests that the river contributes a significant volume of material to the Loess Plateau.
"The Yellow River drains the northeast Tibetan plateau and so the uplift of this region and the development of Yellow River drainage seems to control the large scale dust deposits and sand formation in this part of China," said lead researcher Tom Stevens from the Department of Geography at Royal Holloway.
"Identifying how this dust is formed and controlled is important, since it drives climate change and ocean productivity and impacts human health. Its relationship to the river and Tibet implies strong links between tectonics and climate change. This suggests that global climate change caused by atmospheric dust may be influenced by the uplift of Tibet and changes in major river systems that drain this area."
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Contact: Tanya Gubbay tanya.gubbay@rhul.ac.uk Royal Holloway, University of London
New research published today in the journal Quaternary Science Reviews has found the first evidence that large rivers control desert sands and dust in Northern China.
Northern China holds some of the world's most significant wind-blown dust deposits, known as loess. The origin of this loess-forming dust and its relationship to sand has previously been the subject of considerable debate.
The team of researchers led by Royal Holloway University, analysed individual grains of fine wind-blown dust deposited in the Chinese Loess Plateau that has formed thick deposits over the past 2.5 million years. As part of this, they also analysed the Mu Us desert in Inner Mongolia and the Yellow River, one of the world's longest rivers, to identify links between the dust deposits and nearby deserts and rivers.
The results showed that the Yellow River transports large quantities of sediment from northern Tibet to the Mu Us desert and further suggests that the river contributes a significant volume of material to the Loess Plateau.
"The Yellow River drains the northeast Tibetan plateau and so the uplift of this region and the development of Yellow River drainage seems to control the large scale dust deposits and sand formation in this part of China," said lead researcher Tom Stevens from the Department of Geography at Royal Holloway.
"Identifying how this dust is formed and controlled is important, since it drives climate change and ocean productivity and impacts human health. Its relationship to the river and Tibet implies strong links between tectonics and climate change. This suggests that global climate change caused by atmospheric dust may be influenced by the uplift of Tibet and changes in major river systems that drain this area."
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Welp it's been a good run. Nice work humanity, you produced a lot of cool stuff on the internet. But now that ghostsingles.com is live there isn't much else to do. Time to learn how to rock climb or read War and Peace.
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah is set to become the first state to reopen national parks within its borders as other states also consider whether to send money to the federal government to save lucrative tourist seasons.
In southwest Utah, Zion National Park superintendent Jock Whitworth said Friday that staff members began opening gates and removing barriers and expected to have the park fully operational Saturday.
The Obama administration on Thursday announced it would allow states to foot the bill for reopening parks.
Utah is the first taker, with Gov. Gary Herbert wiring $1.67 million to federal officials to reopen five national parks and other national park units by Saturday.
At least four states had asked for the authority to reopen their parks because of the financial hit caused by the closures.
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