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"I can tell you, if you go out and look at other Home2 Suites and the architectural style, it's going to look a lot different and not fit into the corporate mode," he said. "That's why we have architectural standards."
Carmichael added that moving forward the project faces a couple of obstacles. One is storm water management and the other is traffic. The land for the hotel is located less than one-half mile from the highly congested intersection with Daniel Drive.
"We'll look at that closely," Carmichael said. "Obviously there will be more than one way into the hotel, and some traffic when it leaves the complex will go through Daniel Drive and we'll have to look at it as well."
April 22, 2019, 2:46 p.m.
HARRY KANE has vowed to make it seven and hell for Liverpool.
The striker is expected to lead the line for Tottenham in their Premier League crunch at Anfield on Saturday.
Second-placed Spurs are four points ahead of the Jurgen Klopp’s men in fourth and Kane is aiming to heap more misery on the Kop.
Kane said: “We want to build the gap. If we beat them next week then we go seven points clear of them and that is what we want to try and do.
“We want to catch Chelsea and it is important we stay as high up the table as possible.
Kane’s penalty earned Tottenham a 1-0 home win over Middlesbrough on Saturday.
He said: “My last penalty away at Southampton went 50 rows into the stand and I had been waiting for that one to put it right. So I was happy to put it away.
Victory over Boro moved Tottenham three points ahead of rivals Arsenal and ensured they remained nine points behind runaway leaders Chelsea at the top of the Premier League table.
Kane said: “We don’t know if they are catch-able. All we can do is win our games.
“Hopefully they drop a few points here and there. They look good at the moment and all we can do is concentrate on ourselves.
“This was an important win with a couple of other teams dropping points.
Singer-songwriter Fred J. Eaglesmith is also getting in on the secret-show action a la The White Stripes.
He’ll be performing at a “mystery location” on Friday at 8 p.m.
The only clues? The show is 20 minutes from Edmonton — and will go rain or shine.
The location and directions will be posted on Eaglesmith’s website this Friday.
Fredheads can buy tickets through Tix on the Square.
Psst … I’ve just been told the White Stripes performed at a baseball diamond in Thunder Bay, Ont. Their tour just keeps getting better and better.
A teacher at Tecumseh Elementary School in Xenia lost his teaching license permanently in January after he was convicted on a misdemeanor charge of assaulting a 7-year-old student.
The April 12, 2017, incident was caught on camera and occurred with children close by. The video shows the child was seated on steps behind the gym teacher, Eric Salter, who was supervising the class. The boy appears to kick Salter, who responds by grabbing the child, shaking him and tossing him to the floor.
A statement from school principal Cathryn Petticrew — obtained from Salter’s personnel file — says Salter initially reported the incident the same day, saying a student kicked him and would be referred to the principal’s office. The next day, the principal hadn’t received the referral but got a call from a parent sayin...
After reviewing the video, Petticrew notified parents and called the Greene County Sheriff’s Office. Salter was immediately suspended.
The child’s parents reported that the boy had a large hand print on his chest area.
The incident was reported to the Ohio Department of Education Office of Professional Conduct on April 19, 2017.
Salter wrote a letter of resignation on July 4, 2017, effective in August of that year.
“I sincerely appreciate the opportunities and support provided to me during my 31 years teaching elementary level students, and I am pleased with the positive impact and contributions that I have given to assist students’ learning and development,” he wrote.
Greene County Prosecutor Stephen Haller in October denied felony charges, writing that though the child did have bruises as a result of being grabbed and pushed to the floor, the injury suffered didn’t rise to the level of felony assault.
Salter was charged with misdemeanor assault in November 2017, and he surrendered his teaching license that same month. He pleaded guilty to the criminal charge and was sentenced in January to 60 days in jail. The Ohio Board of Education also permanently revoked Salter’s license in January, after he declined to particip...
Salter did not return calls seeking comment.
A court filing arguing for leniency in sentencing further argues that his untreated diabetes caused him to act out of character. After the filing the judge reduced Salter’s sentence; it was originally 90 days.
Police investigating an arson attack in Alton are appealing for information and witnesses.
At around half past midnight on Tuesday December 13 a van was set alight on the driveway of a property in Geale’s Crescent. The fire then spread to a car also on the driveway and then to the house.
Two adults and children were in the property at the time of the fire. They all managed to escape unharmed.
Police would like to hear from anyone who was in the area at the time or who has information about the attack.
Detective Constable Iain Turner is investigating and said: “Thankfully everyone managed to leave the property safely but this fire could have ended as a dreadful tragedy.
Anyone with information is asked to contact Alton CID on 101 or call Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.
At a protest against government surveillance in Washington in October, a poster of Edward Snowden declares him a hero.
WASHINGTON — Insiders like Edward Snowden who leak secrets about sensitive U.S. intelligence programs pose a potentially greater danger to national security than terrorists, America's spy chiefs warned Wednesday in their annual report to Congress on global security risks.
For the first time, the risk of unauthorized disclosures of classified material and state-sponsored theft of data was listed as the second-greatest potential threat to America in a review of global perils prepared by the U.S. intelligence community. The risk followed cyber attacks on crucial infrastructure but was list...
U.S. officials previously have said it will cost billions of dollars to repair or revamp communications surveillance systems in the wake of the disclosures by Snowden, a former contract employee at a National Security Agency listening post in Hawaii who began leaking classified documents to the media in June and who la...
Appearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee, James Clapper, the director of national intelligence, said the leaks represent the "most damaging theft of intelligence information in our history." He urged Snowden to return the material, saying he made "the nation less safe and its people less secure."
"We've lost critical foreign intelligence collection sources, including some shared with us by valued partners," Clapper said. "Terrorists and other adversaries of this country are going to school on U.S. intelligence sources, methods and tradecraft, and the insights that they are gaining are making our job much, much ...
Army Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, who directs the Defense Intelligence Agency, said the leaks had endangered the lives of intelligence operatives and troops. Matt Olsen, heads of the National Counterterrorism Center, said they had made it tougher to track Al Qaeda and its affiliates.
"What we've seen in the last six to eight months is an awareness by these groups … of our ability to monitor communications and specific instances where they've changed the ways in which they communicate to avoid being surveilled," Olsen said.
Investigators believe Snowden copied 1.7 million documents from NSA servers, the largest breach of classified material in U.S. history, although only a fraction have been disclosed so far. Last summer, a military judge sentenced Army Pvt. Chelsea Manning, who was born Bradley Manning, to 35 years in prison for sending ...
Both Snowden and Manning have been condemned by critics as traitors and hailed by supporters as whistle-blowers who exposed government wrongdoing.
Only critics spoke at the hearing. Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), said the classified documents Snowden downloaded, if printed out, would form a stack more than three miles high.
"It is evident to me that most of the documents stolen by Mr. Snowden have nothing to do with the privacy rights and civil liberties of American citizens or even the NSA collection programs," she said. "They pertain to the entire intelligence community and include information about military intelligence, our defense ca...
Although President Obama has denounced Snowden's actions, he announced plans this month to increase judicial review of the NSA's collection of domestic telephone records and to limit eavesdropping on friendly foreign leaders, two of the programs Snowden exposed.
In an interview with German television this week, Snowden said he was seeking to thwart undemocratic mass surveillance by U.S. intelligence. He repeated his claim that an NSA analyst could tap anyone's email account, including that of the U.S. president, an assertion current and former NSA officials hotly deny.
The 27-page "Worldwide Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intelligence Community," a report required by Congress, does not mention Snowden by name. But it warns that others may seek to follow his example.
"Trusted insiders with the intent to do harm can exploit their access to compromise vast amounts of sensitive and classified information as part of a personal ideology or at the direction of a foreign government," it reads. "The unauthorized disclosure of this information to state adversaries, non-state activists or ot...
The report repeatedly cites Russia and China as the leading state intelligence threats, both for theft of digital data and for disruption of computer systems, and for more traditional espionage operations aimed at stealing secrets from the U.S. government, the defense industry and elsewhere.
"They seek data on advanced weapons systems and proprietary information from U.S. companies and research institutions that deal with energy, finance, the media, defense, and dual-use technology," the report says.
The report cites deepening concern about Al Qaeda splinter groups in Syria, Iraq, Yemen and parts of North Africa. But it says a major terrorist attack on America is increasingly unlikely.
The threat of complex, sophisticated and large-scale attacks from core Al Qaeda operatives against the U.S. "is significantly degraded," the report says, although it warns that the threat to U.S. facilities overseas has increased.
It says Iran has made "concessions on its nuclear program" in order to get relief from international sanctions in a six-month deal with six global powers. "We do not know if Iran will eventually decide to build nuclear weapons," the report says.
It adds that Iran has made technical advances that "strengthen our assessment that Iran has the scientific, technical and industrial capacity to eventually produce nuclear weapons. That makes the central issue its political will to do so."
In the new video for her David Guetta-assisted single 'LaserLight,' British pop diva Jessie J steps out of the dark and into the (laser) light.
She's the centerpiece and the star of the clip. For the verses, she is seated in a dark movie theater and in the backseat of a car, with her hair slicked back off her forehead and giant hoop earrings. She's ever-fashionable, especially in that leather jacket with pointed, protruding spikes on the shoulders. Those are f...
When she rockets into the upbeat, bouncy chorus, she comes alive and springs to her feet, dancing, singing and surrounded by laserlights. Jessie is incredibly animated, using her hands, her face, her mouth and her eyes to express herself.
She also shows off her ripped, J. Lo-like abs in a black crop top and white leggings in her dancing scenes.
Jessie is actually dancing quite a lot throughout, which is to be expected since the song gets a boost from DJ and beloved EDMer Guetta.
Vitamin Water also gets a gratuitous plug, sitting on her vanity while she's getting ready.
THE road to recovery is long for many Deepwater residents after the worst bushfires in the state's history devastated their community, and most are still picking up the pieces.
George Spiteri's property was one of the hardest hit during the disaster, and six weeks later he's still facing the mammoth task of cleaning up.
But it was good news for George who was yesterday inundated with an army of volunteers organised through Team Rubicon Australia who have been helping with the cleanup effort since Boxing Day.
Armed with tools and machinery, they descended on the Deepwater Road property to help in tidying it up.
George, a beekeeper and honey producer who has lived in Deepwater for thirty years, said without the help he'd spend the rest of his life cleaning up.
"I've got hundreds of people helping support me, as you can see there's a lot that needs to be done," he said.
"Rubicon have done a lot, they're a great bunch of people and it gives us a bit of a direction and a bit of a start so we can face it all.
"It's very humbling, there's so many people that are prepared to help it's unbelievable."
George's property is a shell of what it used to be, however he only lost fifteen of his hives with thirty or forty still standing after the fire burned around them.
Team Rubicon Australia estimated George's loss of bees and honey to be in the millions.
George said the fire that has destroyed his property is like nothing he's seen before.
"I usually prepare to block the fires from the northern boundary but it didn't actually come from that side this time, it came from the southwest side which was not as protected," he said.
"The trouble was the wind kept changing a little bit and had everybody running around in all directions.
"The day before I was pushing containment lines for the local fire brigade to try and stop the fire but it proved to be hopeless."
George is now living on a property about 30 kilometres from his home.
A montage of Herbert Lom scenes from the Pink Panther movies.
(Newser) – Herbert Lom, the Czech-born actor who starred as Inspector Clouseau's boss in the Pink Panther movies, died today at age 95. The London-based star appeared in more than 100 films, including Spartacus, El Cid and The Ladykillers, and acted alongside film greats including Charlton Heston and Kirk Douglas.
He always said that he wished he had never become addicted to the ILLEGAL TOBACCO DRUG!
Farewell, Herbert Lom. I'm pretty sure you won't be crazy in Heaven.
This week we hear from the Education Research Alliance for New Orleans. This post is by Jane Arnold Lincove, Associate Professor at the University of Maryland - Baltimore County and Non-Resident Research Fellow at Tulane University's Education Research Alliance for New Orleans.
Today's post is written from the researcher perspective. Stay tuned: Thursday we will share the second installment of this post.
The ideal of local, non-bureaucratic, control of public schools has substantial appeal. Each student arrives at school with unique needs that change daily, and each school faculty and staff has unique strengths and personality that transcend centralization and control. The successes of charter schools often come from b...
The shift to local control, however, also comes with challenges, many of which were not anticipated by advocates of market-based school reform. Nowhere is this more apparent than New Orleans, where, over the last 12 years, the centralized school district has transitioned to a majority-charter system. While evidence sho...
The latest study from ERA-New Orleans, authored by Lindsay Bell Weixler, Alica Gerry, and myself, offers insight into another struggle associated with a lack of central coordination: the provision of pre-K in New Orleans as the charter sector grew. Offering pre-K is optional for school districts outside a handful of st...
On the surface, there is no reason why charter schools would not want to provide pre-K; and in our study, we found that charter school leaders universally support the idea of pre-K, but many are unable to finance it.
Our interviews with charter operators suggest that they believe in the social and educational benefits of pre-K for students, communities, and schools. But, without sufficient funds to cover the daily costs, what is best for the school can be at odds with what is best for students and communities.
School leaders from schools that don't offer pre-K told us that they simply cannot afford to make up a substantial funding shortfall between the level of state per-pupil funding for pre-K and what it actually costs to provide a high-quality pre-K classroom. School leaders from schools that do offer pre-K told us that t...
We will discuss the results from our analyses that test these assumptions and the overall implications of our findings in Thursday's post.
"Human Rights Treaties: A Suggested Typology, an Historical Perspective" by John King Gamble, Teresa A. Bailey et al.
John K. Gamble, Teresa A. Bailey, Jared S. Hawk & Erin E. McCurdy, Human Rights Treaties: A Suggested Typology, an Historical Perspective, 7 Buff. Hum. Rts. L. Rev. 33 (2001).
1. Jerry Brown appeared to win last night’s debate with Meg Whitman, but because of low expectations for the ex-eBay CEO, it’s not clear whether the event changed voters’ minds. The Chron described Brown “as fiery, focused, and at ease,” and noted that Whitman looked “over-rehearsed.” But Sacramento Bee columnist Dan W...
2. UC Berkeley slashed five sports teams yesterday, including baseball, in a cost-cutting move, the Chron reports. Cal is attempting to close a $13 million annual budget deficit in its athletic program. The university also demoted men’s rugby and eliminated men’s and women’s gymnastics, and women’s lacrosse.
3. A federal judge has delayed the scheduled execution of Albert Greenwood Brown until next year in order to better review California’s revised methods for putting people to death, the Chron reports. State officials had pushed for Brown to be executed tomorrow because California’s supply of the lethal-injection drug, s...

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