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Syrian activists say a government air strike on a bakery killed more than 60 people Sunday, even as international peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi began another visit to negotiate an end to Syria s civil war. The attack occurred in the rebel-controlled town of Halfaya in Hama province. If confirmed, it would be one of the deadliest incidents in the 21-month conflict. The number of casualties is expected to rise because some 50 of those wounded are listed in critical condition. It is not clear if the bombed out, one-story building was actually a bakery, but video posted online showed men working frantically to free people, including at least one woman, from the debris. Bloodstained bodies littered the surrounding area and street. Activists also reported government airstrikes in Aleppo province and on the eastern outskirts of Damascus, as troops loyal to President Bashar al-Assad attempted to drive rebels from his seat of power. Brahimi arrived in the Syrian capital after driving from Lebanon, since fighting near Damascus airport has intensified in recent weeks. The U.N.-Arab League peace envoy is expected to meet President Assad on Monday. Syrian Information Minister Omran al-Zoubi told a news conference that the government remains open to resolving the conflict through dialogue, but he warned the rebels and their supporters that time is running out for such a process. Rebels and exiled Syrian opposition groups have refused to negotiate with Mr. Assad, demanding instead that he step down from his 12-year rule. More than 40,000 people have been killed since the Syrian president began a violent crackdown on what began as a peaceful opposition uprising in March 2011. Western powers and their Arab allies have repeatedly called for the departure of Mr. Assad, whose few remaining allies include Russia, Iran and Lebanese militant group Hezbollah. In recent days, Moscow s support for Mr. Assad has slipped, with Russian officials saying they will not stand by him at any price and will welcome any foreign offers to grant him safe passage into exile. Some information for this report was provided by AFP, AP and Reuters.
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Immigrants who once came to the United States for a better life are, in increasing numbers, taking their education and entrepreneurial spirit to places where there are more opportunities.A new report from the Kauffman Foundation, an organization that specializes on entrepreneurial activity, finds that the number of high-tech, immigrant-founded startups in the United States has stagnated and is on the verge of decline.The report blames this reverse brain drain on an unwelcoming immigration system. But there could be other reasons. When any country becomes wealthier and starts becoming a country of immigration, the first step toward that is the return of their own diaspora members says Madeleine Sumption, Senior Policy Analyst at the Washington based Migration Policy Institute. China is now becoming a more attractive destination for people who have studied in the U.S. or in the U.K., for example , she said.In addition to the recent graduates, Sumption said experienced researchers are being enticed to seek their fortunes elsewhere. The Chinese government has actually put in place some policies to try to encourage diaspora researchers, particularly in the sciences, to go back to China by offering them access to newly established research labs and so forth, said Sumption.Sumption said there is a smaller, but growing, group of highly skilled workers born in the United States who are looking at opportunities offered by multinational companies in China.This change in migration patterns has some benefits. One of the major effects is the opening up of trade and research cooperation between countries, Sumption said. Another, she said, the surge in the number of students coming to the United States has added to the circulation of candidates for employment worldwide.The other major Asian beneficiary of this reverse migration is India. The Indian government has put in place policies to make it easier for people of Indian origin to get working resident s rights, Sumption said. And India reports more people who are interested in setting up tech startups are returning home. We previously had a traditional model of people moving from developing countries to developed countries, said Sumption. Now people have more options when deciding where to take their skills. For traditional destinations like the U.S., said Sumption, They may have to start to compete a little harder for some of these immigrants if they re really worried about losing them.
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With a background in nonprofits, Squier was said to bring an advocate's zeal to his work when Mayor Tom Bradley appointed him to lead the newly created Housing Preservation and Production Department. Since 1987, he had served as Bradley's housing coordinator, overseeing restructuring of the city's housing policy. He had also helped launch programs to address a severe shortage of units for low-income residents."With Gary, it was always the human dimension of housing that mattered," said Alice Callaghan, a longtime advocate for Los Angeles' poor. "He created lots and lots of housing and he knew that in every one of those units lived a family whose life was better and more hopeful because that unit was there."In the late 1980s, Squier served on a mayoral committee whose recommendations led to creation of the housing department. When he was named the department's first general manager, a Times editorial called him "an inspired choice."After the Northridge earthquake in 1994, Squier helped secure more than $300 million in federal funding to reconstruct 14,000 damaged housing units in Los Angeles. Nearly all were rebuilt within three years, but an audit later criticized some aspects of the effort, including the city's failure to ensure that carpenters were paid federally required union wages."In attempting to put together a massive recovery program, this union wage-monitoring question just slipped through the cracks and shouldn't have," Squier said in 1997 in The Times and noted that the issue was being remedied. He resigned the same year to become a private developer of affordable housing.City Controller Wendy Greuel, who helped oversee the earthquake response as a top official in the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, said Squier "worked from morning to night to make sure we rebuilt that hou <a href=http://www.downcoatmoncler.com/54-moncler-echarpe-chapeaux>Moncler Enfant Vetement</a> sing.""He said, 'This is unlike anything that's ever happened,' " Greuel recalled this week. " 'How do we change city policy and even our own department rules to be nimble in how we address this problem?' He was an effective leader."Gary William Squier was born Aug. 29, 1951 in Portland, Ore. He later joked that he all but grew up on construction sites; his mother June was an interior designer who refurbished Victorian houses and an electrician grandfather often worked on remodeling projects. His father George was in the grocery business.After earning a bachelor's degree in geography and journalism in 1975 from the University of Oregon, Squier arrived in Los Angeles as a VISTA program volunteer. Assigned to assist the Catholic Worker group with housing preservation on downtown's skid row, he later headed several nonprofits focused on housing and community development, including the Los Angeles Community Design Center and the Community Corporation of Santa Monica.
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