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It is the first time the Security Council has explicitly endorsed coexisting Palestinian and Israeli states. The resolution passed by a vote of 14 to 0, with Syria abstaining.The U.S.-sponsored resolution marked a shift in U.S. policy, ending years of Security Council reluctance to intervene in the region.John D. Negroponte, the U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., e stanley cup xplained the shift in stanley cup policy. Our intent in doing this was to give an impulse to peace efforts and to decry the violence and terror.Both Israel and Palestine saw the resolution as a positive step in peace negotiations.This is a helpfu stanley cup l resolution, Palestine U.N. Representative Nasser Kidwa said. It is the first time that the Security Council spells out the vision of two states.Israel Representative Yehuda Lancry called it a balanced resolution. Israel has long opposed Security Council involvement in resolving the dispute.U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said he hoped Security Council backing for a Palestinian state would encourage a cease-fire in the Middle East. He also announced plans to press Arab states to do more to resolve the conflict.Continuing Cycle of ViolenceAs U.S. envoy Anthony Zinni prepares to return to the region in a third bid for a cease-fire, Israeli tanks and troops continue to tighten their grip on Palestinian President Yasser Arafat Ramallah headquarters.Defying international concern, Israeli Prime Minister Sharon ordere Ydct Half of Nagorno-Karabakh s population flees in ethnic cleansing, Armenian government says
As the clock crawled towards midnight Thursday on the West Coast, Netflixs engineers sat around a conference table in the companys War Room and waited for the moment that season two of the companys original series House of Cards would debut across the world.And as many of Netflixs 40 m air max illion subscribers tuned in to the exploits of power-hungry Vice President Frank Underwood, the engineers kept track of each and every one of them, reported Queena Kim of Marketplace. We monitor what you watch, how often you watch things, said spokesman Joris Evers. Keeping track of viewing habits creates valuable analytic data for Netflix, allowing them to better understand what sort of television their customers crave. And, as the company develops more and more original content, that information will help them decide what to finance. House of Cards was obviously a big bet for Netflix, Evers said. But it was a calculated bet because we knew Netflix members like political dramas, that they like serialized dramas. That they are fans of Kevin Spacey, that they like David Fincher. And that bet p yeezy aid off. According to Forbes, 16 perce stanley cup nt of all Netflix members watched at least one episode of House of Cards in the 24 hours after season twos release. And 3.6 percent watched all of the first five episodes.In fact, as Kim reported for Marketplace, at least one subscriber watched all 13 episodes in only 13 hours 鈥?with just three minutes of break time.The success of Underwood and company |
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