குடியரசுக் கட்சி ஜனாதிபதி வேட்பாளர்கள்: டொனால்டு ட்ரம்ப்

தேர்தலுக்கு இன்னும் இரண்டாண்டுகள் இருக்கின்றன. அமெரிக்காவில் டிசம்பர் 2024ல் ஜனாதிபதித் தேர்தல் நடக்கும். அந்தத் தேர்தலில் அனேகமாக ஜோ பைடன் டெமொகிரட்ஸ் சார்பாக நிற்பார். அவருக்கு எதிராக ரிபப்ளிகன் சார்பில் எவர் நிற்பார்?

எல்லோருக்கும் முன்பு முந்திரிக் கொட்டையாக டானால்ட் ஜே. டிரம்ப் ஆஜராகி விட்டார். சென்ற தடவை போல் மந்தையாக நிறைய பேரை நிற்க வைத்தால் வெறும் 25% வாங்கி வெற்றி பெறும் வழிக்கும் கால்கோள் இட்டுவிட்டார்.

அவரை எதிர்த்து ப்ரைமரியில், முதல் கட்ட உள்கட்சித் தேர்தலில் எவரெல்லாம் நிற்பார்கள்?

1. நிக்கி ஹேலி – தெற்கு கரோலினா
2. ரான் டிசாண்டிஸ் – ஃப்ளோரிடா
3. கவர்னர் லாரி ஹோகன் – மேரிலாந்து
4. கவர்னர் கிளென் யங்கின் – வர்ஜினீயா
5. கவர்னர் கிறிஸ் சுனுனூ – நியு ஜாம்ப்ஷைர்
6. முன்னாள் துணை ஜனாதிபதி மைக் பென்ஸ்
7. முன்னாள் வெளியுறவுத்துறை அமைச்சார் மைக் பாம்ப்பேயோ
8. ஜான் ஆர் போல்ட்டன்
9. லிஸ் சேனி – வையோமிங் (முன்னாள் துணை ஜனாதிபதியின் மகள்)
10. செனேட்டர் டிம் ஸ்காட் – தெற்கு கரோலினா

ஊர் ரெண்டு பட்டால் டொனால்டிற்கு கொண்டாட்டம்!

National Book Critics Circle Finalists – 2014

Source: National Book Critics Circle: NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE ANNOUNCES FINALISTS; Sandrof Award to Toni Morrison – Critical Mass Blog

AUTOBIOGRAPHY

1. Blake Bailey, The Splendid Things We Planned: A Family Portrait (W.W. Norton & Co.)
2. Roz Chast, Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? (Bloomsbury)
3. Lacy M. Johnson, The Other Side (Tin House)
4. Gary Shteyngart, Little Failure (Random House)
5. Meline Toumani, There Was and There Was Not (Metropolitan Books)

 

BIOGRAPHY

1. Ezra Greenspan, William Wells Brown: An African American Life (W.W. Norton & Co.)
2. S.C. Gwynne, Rebel Yell: The Violence, Passion and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson (Scribner)
3. John Lahr, Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh (W.W. Norton & Co.)
4. Ian S. MacNiven, “Literchoor Is My Beat”: A Life of James Laughlin, Publisher of New Directions (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
5. Miriam Pawel, The Crusades of Cesar Chavez: A Biography (Bloomsbury)

 

CRITICISM

1. Eula Biss, On Immunity: An Innoculation (Graywolf Press)
2. Vikram Chandra, Geek Sublime: The Beauty of Code, the Code of Beauty (Graywolf Press)
3. Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric (Graywolf Press)
4. Lynne Tillman, What Would Lynne Tillman Do? (Red Lemonade)
5. Ellen Willis, The Essential Ellen Willis, edited by Nona Willis Aronowitz (University of Minnesota Press)

 

FICTION

1. Rabih Alameddine, An Unnecessary Woman (Grove Press)
2. Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings (Riverhead Books)
3. Lily King, Euphoria (Atlantic Monthly Press)
4. Chang-rae Lee, On Such a Full Sea (Riverhead Books)
5. Marilynne Robinson, Lila (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

 

GENERAL NONFICTION

1. David Brion Davis, The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation (Alfred A. Knopf)
2. Peter Finn and Petra Couvee, The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle over a Forbidden Book (Pantheon)
3. Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Henry Holt & Co.)
4. Thomas Piketty, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, translated from the French by Arthur Goldhammer (Belknap Press/Harvard University Press)
5. Hector Tobar, Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle that Set Them Free (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

POETRY

1. Saeed Jones, Prelude to Bruise (Coffee House Press)
2. Willie Perdomo, The Essential Hits of Shorty Bon Bon (Penguin Books)
3. Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric (Graywolf Press)
4. Christian Wiman, Once in the West (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
5. Jake Adam York, Abide (Southern Illinois University Press)

 

NONA BALAKIAN CITATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN REVIEWING: Alexandra Schwartz

JOHN LEONARD PRIZE: Phil Klay, Redeployment (Penguin Press)

 

2014 Lannan Literary Awards and Fellowships: Author Recognitions by NYRB

Source: Literary Awards by Year – Lannan Foundation

1. Steve Erickson, 2014, Award, Lifetime
2. Mitchell S. Jackson, 2014, Fellowship, Fiction
3. Adrian Matejka, 2014, Fellowship, Poetry
4. Jamaal May, 2014, Fellowship, Poetry
5. Jill McDonough, 2014, Fellowship, Poetry
6. Claudia Rankine, 2014, Award, Poetry
7. Joseph Stroud, 2014, Award, Lifetime

Cultural Freedom awards and fellowships

• Bryan Stevenson, Cultural Freedom Prize
• Max Blumenthal awarded 2014 Cultural Freedom Award for An Especially Notable Book
• Dave Zirin awarded 2014 Cultural Freedom Fellowship
• Alexis Bonogofsky awarded 2014 Cultural Freedom Fellowship

Most Read Books: Facebook 2012 Trends

Thanks: Facebook Stories – People using Facebook in extraordinary ways

1. The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1) – Suzanne Collins
2. Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2) – Suzanne Collins
3. Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3) – Suzanne Collins
4. Fifty Shades of Grey (Fifty Shades, #1) -E.L. James
5. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (Harry Potter, #1) – J.K. Rowling
6. The Help – Kathryn Stockett
7. Twilight (Twilight, #1) – Stephenie Meyer
8. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
9. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
10. Water for Elephants – Sara Gruen

Person of the Year: Top Choices from the Time.com Poll Results

Thanks: Time

1. Kim Jong Un
2. Undocumented Immigrants
3. Mohamed Morsi
4. Aung San Suu Kyi and Thein Sein
5. Gabby Douglas
6. Ai Weiwei
7. Malala Yousafzai
8. Sheldon Adelson
9. Bashar Assad
10. E.L. James
11. The Mars Rover
12. Psy
13. Felix Baumgartner
14. The Higgs Boson Particle
15. Pussy Riot
16. Sandra Fluke
17. John Roberts
18. Mo Farah
19. Marissa Mayer
20. Tim Cook
21. Mario Draghi
22. Xi Jinping
23. Bo Xilai

Top Searches from Yahoo! News: 2012 – Year in Review

Thanks: 2012 Year in Review — Yahoo! News

#1 Elections

#2 iPhone 5

#3 Kim Kardashian

#4 Kate Upton

#5 Kate Middleton

#6 Whitney Houston

#7 Olympics

#8 Political Polls

#9 Lindsay Lohan

#10 Jennifer Lopez

The 10 closest states in Election 2012: US Presidential Results

The 10 closest states in Election 2012

Top 10 closest states, ranked from narrowest margin — by percentage — to widest. If less than 100 percent of precincts are reporting in a state, according to the Associated Press, that is noted in parentheses.

1. Florida: 0.6 percent (Obama 49.9, Romney 49.3.)
2. Ohio: 1.9 percent (Obama 50.1, Romney 48.2)
3. North Carolina: 2.2 percent (Romney 50.6, Obama 48.4)
4. Virginia (99% reporting): 3.0 percent (Obama 50.8, Romney 47.8)
5. Colorado: 4.7 percent (Obama 51.2, Romney 46.5)
6. Pennsylvania (99% reporting): 5.2 percent (Obama 52, Romney 46.8)
7. Iowa: 5.6 percent (Obama 52.1, Romney 46.5)
8. New Hampshire (99% reporting): 5.8 percent (Obama 52.2, Romney 46.4)
9. Nevada (99% reporting): 6.6 percent (Obama 52.3, Romney 45.7)
10. Wisconsin: 6.7 percent (Obama 52.8, Romney 46.1)

The World’s Best Countries in Science

 

Source: The World’s Best Countries in Science: Scientific American

A: RESEARCH PAPERS: Score, on a 100-point scale, based on science papers in top journals (Digital Science, 2011)
B: PATENTS ISSUED: Number of patents (U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, 2011)
C: EXPENDITURE: Gross domestic expenditure on research and development (2009*)
D: HIGHER EDUCATION: Number of science and engineering doctoral degrees awarded (2009*)

	RESEARCH PAPERS	PATENTS ISSUED	EXPENDITURE	HIGHER EDUCATION
	1. U.S.	1. U.S.	1. U.S.	1. U.S.
	2. Germany	2. Japan	2. China	2. Germany
	3. China	3. South Korea	3. Japan	3. U.K.
	4. Japan	4. Germany	4. Germany	4. Japan
	5. U.K.	5. Taiwan	5. France	5. France
	6. France	6. Canada	6. U.K.	6. Italy
	7. Canada	7. France	7. Russian Fed.	7. Brazil
	8. South Korea	8. U.K.	8. Italy	8. Canada
	9. Italy	9. China	9. Canada	9. Spain
	10. Spain	10. Italy	10. Spain	10. Australia
	11. Switzerland	11. Australia	11. Australia	11. Sweden
	12. Australia	12. Israel	12. Sweden	12. Switzerland
	13. Netherlands	13. Netherlands	13. Netherlands	13. Poland
	14. India	14. Switzerland	14. Switzerland	14. Netherlands
	15. Taiwan	15. Sweden	15. Austria	15. Turkey
	16. Israel	16. India	16. Turkey	16. Portugal
	17. Singapore	17. Finland	17. Israel	17. Czech Reublic
	18. Sweden	18. Belgium	18. Belgium	18. Austria
	19. Belgium	19. Austria	19. Finland	19. Belgium
	20. Denmark	20. Denmark	20. Denmark	20. Mexico
	21. Austria	21. Singapore	21. Mexico	21. Finland
	22. Russian Fed.	22. Hong Kong	22. Poland	22. Israel
	23. Hong Kong	23. Spain	23. South Africa	23. Slovakia
	24. Brazil	24. Norway	24. Norway	24. Denmark
	25. Finland	25. Ireland	25. Portugal	25. Greece

Top countries with the most competitive educational systems: Best Schools and Colleges

Source: Can U.S. Universities Stay on Top? – WSJ.com

Education Strength

The Boston Consulting Group’s new E4 index assigns points in four categories, each equally weighted in the final score. Of the 20 countries ranked, here are the top 10.

Country	Total points	Enrollment points	Expenditure points	Engineering grads points	Elite university points
U.S.	237	25	73	48	91
U.K.	125	4	26	46	48
China	115	86	17	4	8
Germany	104	5	25	37	38
India	104	90	4	3	6
France	87	4	24	41	18
Canada	85	2	25	39	18
Japan	72	7	31	19	16
Brazil	38	17	16	2	3
Russia	32	9	10	10	3

Source: Boston Consulting Group analysis

9 Foreign Terrorist Organizations that should NOT be there in the USA Terrorism Watch

Source: When is a terrorist no longer a terrorist? | FP Passport

• The Abu Nidal Organization — a PLO splinter group — was a major terrorist organization in the 1980s and 1990s, but has barely been heard from since Abu Nidal’s death in 2002.

 

• Aum Shinriyko, the Japanese cult that carried out the sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway in 1995, hasn’t carried out any attacks since.

 

• ETA — the decades-old Basque nationalist group, is thought to have fewer than 100 active members since hundreds were arrested by French and Spanich police, and hasn’t carried out a major attack since 2009.

 

• The Continuity Irish Republican Army may have fewer than 50 members, and these days spends more time on political infighting than planning attacks.

 

• Gama’a al-Islamiyya  was once Egypt’s largest terrorist group and it’s former spiritual leader, “Blind Sheikh” Omar Abdul Rahman is in jail in the U.S. for his part in the 1993 World Trade Center attack, but the group has largely renounced violence since the early 2000s and now has its own political party with seats in the Egyptian parliament.

 

• The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam were decimated by a Sri Lankan army offensive in 2009 and despite reports of regrouping abroad, the Tigers haven’t been able to mount any major operations since.

 

• The Morrocan Islamic Combatant Group was one of the organizations implicated in the 2004 Madrid train bombings but hasn’t been heard from since.

 

• Revolutionary Organization 17 November,  a leftist Greek militant group that targed U.S. and NATO targets in the 1980s and ’90s, hasn’t carried out any attacks since 2002.

 

• United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia — a right-wing paramilitary anti-FARC group — was mostly demobilized in 2010 and the elements of it that remain are more of a drug trafficking organization than a terrorist militia.