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Brattleboro Select Board: 6:15 p.m., Select Board Meeting Room, Municipal Center, 230 Main St. It is anticipated that the Board will enter into executive session at 5 p.m. and reconvene the regular business meeting at 6:15 p.m. |
Dover Select Board: 6:30 p.m., Dover Town Office. |
Halifax Select Board: 7 p.m., Halifax Town Office. |
Putney Public Library Board: 6:30 p.m., at the Library. |
Wilmington Select Board/Sewer Commission: 6 p.m., at Wilmington Town Hall. |
Brattleboro Arts Committee: 1 p.m. in the Hanna Cosman Meeting Room at the Municipal Center. |
Brattleboro Representative Town Meeting Finance Committee: 5 p.m. in the meeting room at the Brattleboro Tennis Club (202 Cedar Street). |
Brattleboro Community Television Inc. Board of Directors: 6 p.m. in Room 305 of the Brattleboro Municipal Center. |
Brattleboro Town School Board: Special meeting, 7 p.m. in the Hanna Cosman Room-2nd Floor of the Municipal Building. |
Brookline Select Board: 6:30 p.m., Brookline Town Office. |
East Dover Volunteer Fire Co.: 7 p.m., firehouse. |
Winhall Select Board: 6 p.m., Town Hall, 3 River Road, Bondville. |
Athens Select Board: 7 p.m., at the Athens Town Office. |
Brattleboro Traffic Safety Committee: 8 a.m. in the Select Board Meeting Room at the Municipal Center. |
Marlboro School Board: 6:30 p.m. at Marlboro Elementary School. |
Wilmington Cemetery Commission: Special meeting, 5:30 p.m. at the Wilmington Firehouse, 18 Beaver St. |
A swag of high-tech bushfire detection cameras are being rolled out across some of the most remote and fire-prone parts of NSW. |
Eight cameras are now in place, and two more will be installed, allowing authorities to pinpoint fires using video footage capturing 360-degree views of bushland and national parks. |
""Every minute counts when fire threatens and these cameras are helping protect our communities by giving early warning if a bushfire breaks out," acting NSW Premier John Barilaro said on Thursday. |
Sam Fender has announced details of a huge homecoming show, due to take place this summer. |
The gig will be the 2019 BRITs Critics’ Choice winner’s biggest headline show to date and will follow a sold-out UK tour in the spring. |
Fender will play North Shields’ Tynemouth Castle on July 11, where he’ll be supported by Little Comets. More local support acts will be announced in due course. Tickets will go on pre-sale at 9am on Wednesday (February 13) with remaining tickets available on general sale on Friday (February 15). |
In a press release, the musician said of the show: “It’s so surreal for us to be playing at Tynemouth Castle. It couldn’t be much closer to home. I’ve got so many mad stories of us all running around here as kids and it’s mental that we’re going to be playing at an actual castle! |
Before that, Fender will head out on a sold-out tour of the UK, including two nights at London’s O2 Shepherds Bush Empire in May. |
He was announced as the Critics Choice winner in December 2018, beating Mahalia and Lewis Capaldi to the prize. |
Fiona Simpson (LNP) since 1992. |
Maroochydore was created by the one-vote one-value redistribution ahead of the 1992 election and won at its first contest by current MP Fiona Simpson. Originally semi-rural, the electorate is now almost entirely urban. At the 2001 election, Labor led on first preferences only for Simpson to pull ahead after the distrib... |
Skinner was born and educated in Nambour and completed a Bachelor of Arts at the University of Queensland before working for Ansett Airlines for 2 years in Public Relations. She later moved to Sydney to pursue an acting career and worked as both an actor and an English Language teacher before returning to the Sunshine ... |
46 year-old Simpson was first elected to Parliament at the 1992 election. The holder of a Bachelor of Arts majoring in Japanese, Journalism and Government, she lived in Japan as an exchange student and has also worked as an interpreter for Japanese tourists. Before her election to Parliament, she was working as a freel... |
Barber is a Coolum Beach lawyer and former Labor MP for Cooroora 1989-92. He was elected at the 1989 election when the Goss government was elected, winning Cooroora on the retirement on National MP Gordon Simpson, the father of Maroochydore's current MP. Barber was defeated contesting the new seat of Noosa at the 1992 ... |
globeandmail.com: Ingram 2.0 - Who is Tay Zonday? |
If the name Tay Zonday doesn't mean anything to you, it's probably because you have managed to escape the latest viral-video fad sweeping the Interweb: the musical stylings of a young singer who has become a YouTube sensation after uploading a homemade video clip of himself singing a bizarre tune called Chocolate Rain ... |
Like many recent viral explosions of Internet weirdness -- including the "lolcatz" phenomenon -- Zonday arose from a site known as 4chan.org (Warning: Some content is for adults only). However he arrived on the scene, Tay's version of his signature tune has gotten more than 5 million views on YouTube, and has spawned i... |
Part of what has drawn so much attention is the somewhat inscrutable lyrics of the song, which appear to have something to do with racism (one of Zonday's parents is reportedly black), as well as the deep baritone the singer uses -- which he says is natural, but seems at odds with his youthful appearance -- and his som... |
So who is Tay Zonday? According to several interviews, including one in the Toronto Star, Zonday's real name is Adam Bahner, and he is a 25-year-old student in American Studies at the University of Minnesota who writes music in his spare time, but until recently had never performed in public. He has since shown up on b... |
And now, he is the current heir to the throne established by previous alternative heroes, including William "She Bangs" Hung from American Idol and YouTube performer Gary Brolsma, also known as the "Numa Numa guy." |
Jim Bullington from United States writes: Opie and Anthony are on XM. |
Mathew Ingram from Canada writes: Damn. Thanks, Jim. |
Rob Howell from Summerside, PEI, Canada writes: I'm not quite sure what's weirder - the video itself, or seeing 4chan linked in the Globe. |
I always enjoy reading your column but this has to be a first. The fact you are writing about a meaningless youtube upload that has had 5 million views suggests to me that you had run out of real news worthy stories. |
Its obvious American talk shows enjoy promoting people who can't sing. In Canada we call that Canadian Idol. |
Voxana ACIDplanet from Madison, United States writes: Tay Zonday's "Chocolate Rain" has been covered by John Mayer, featured on Jimmy Kimmel and has now landed at ACIDplanet.com. This is your chance to join the internet sensation that Tay started with his YouTube video of his original song! |
Come and remix "Chocolate Rain" |
To me, the fact that the clip has been viewed five million times by definition makes it meaningful, in some sense at least. Not as meaningful as the war in Iraq perhaps, but still worthy of note. |
Dog Curtains from Canada writes: A link to 4chan /and/ ED? What has science done? |
I sure hope it's paying his tuition. |
Edward Baker from Sonora, United States writes: I would like to point out that your warning next to the 4chan link is not strong enough at all. 4chan is a thing that can scar the unprepared mind, regardless of whether you're an adult or not. Proceed with all possible caution if you're foolish enough to go there. |
Mathew Ingram is the Communities Editor at the Globe and Mail, and this is where he writes about things the Globe is doing to connect with readers online, and the interaction between the Web and media in general. Feel free to send him an email at mingram@globeandmail.com if you come across an interesting link, or post ... |
We broke the news yesterday that Google was planning to announce today that the +1 button is going to be added to partner websites. The news leaked after one of the partners, Clearspring, leaked the news. The official announcement has just been posted on Google’s blog, with a few more details on the partnerships. |
As you heard in March, the +1 button allows you to recommend content to your friends and contacts directly from Google search results and ads. Google is now releasing +1 buttons to the whole web, allowing select publishers and site owners to embed the button on their sites. |
Initial partners include HuffPo, Bloomberg, BestBuy, Nordstrom, O’Reilly, The Washington Post, Reuters, TechCrunch and a host of others. Google also says it plans to add +1 buttons to many of its own properties, including YouTube, Android Market, Blogger, and Product Search. |
The functionality on partner sites is similar to the way you interact with a Facebook ‘like’ button. When you see a +1 button on these sites, you can recommend a product, news article, movie or other content to your friends. When your Google connections search for content or a site, they will see your +1’s their search... |
What’s interesting about this announcement is that +1 could eventually alter search results (if you are logged out). So the more +1’s a piece of content or product has, the higher the search result for that page. It would be another signal social data is a key strategy for Google going forward and we heard back in Marc... |
Bahujan Samaj Party president and UP Chief Minister Mayawati said today that she had reached an understanding with Congress president Sonia Gandhi regarding the UPA candidate for the presidential election. |
All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) supremo Jayaram Jayalalithaa today categorically denied that the newly formed third front of regional parties was backing Vice-President Bhairon Singh Shekhawat as an independent candidate for the presidential election slated next month. |
Are existing measures enough to check child labour? |
An investigation report of the state Vigilance Bureau placed before the Supreme Court by the Punjab government in the multi-crore Ludhiana City Centre scam has claimed that the Amarinder Singh government had kept the trustees of the Ludhiana Improvement Trust (LIT) totally in the dark about the project. |
The CBI was dealt another blow today when judge Harichi Doi of the first court of Eldorado ordered the prosecution to pay Ottavio Quattrocchi's legal fees. |
Embarrassed by Graham Ford’s refusal to become India’s cricket coach, the BCCI today appointed 72-year-old former skipper Chandu Borde as manager for the tour of Ireland and England, and decided to search afresh for a new coach. |
Former Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer died of natural causes, and was not murdered as initially suspected, the Jamaican police said today, bringing to an embarrassing close a three-month investigation that had gripped the cricket world. |
An estimated 12,000 ground staff of Indian tonight went on a nationwide flash strike accusing the management of going back on its assurances to them on their demands for wage arrears and better promotional prospects. |
The government has set three conditions to resume the stalled peace initiative with banned ULFA, that included a direct communication from the outfit's top leadership indicating their willingness for talks with the Centre, mediator for ULFA talks Indira Goswami said today. |
Persisting heat wave in various parts of this region has rendered milch cattle dry. During the past two days, when the day temperature hovered around 48° C, milk supply to various milk plants of cooperative milk unions had gone down by 40,000 litres per day. Besides, milk collection by private sector plants has gone do... |
...is the name of my new book on the economic crisis, just published by Harvard University Press. Of course the book covers some of the same ground as my previous book on the crisis, A Failure of Capitalism: The Crisis of '08 and the Descent into Depression (Harvard University Press 2009), but it is longer, more detail... |
These are matters of emphasis in the new book, along with a deeper exploration of the causes of the economic crisis and the mistakes of economists, which I describe compendiously as "forgetfulness of Keynes." |
The second book was completed, as I said, on January 4 of this year, more than two and a half months ago. And the world has not stood still. I have blogged about the new crisis-related issues that have surfaced since then, both in this blog and my blog with the great economist Gary Becker (now at a new Web address, htt... |
I want to make a small addition to my piece on the Greek crisis, and a correction to my piece on the Presidente's job-subsidy plan. |
What makes the Greek crisis particularly acute is that Greece does not have its own currency, and hence it cannot inflate or devalue its way out of its crushing indebtedness resulting from its fiscal improvidence (which resembles our own!). Devaluation would help, as I mentioned, because it would make Greek exports che... |
The correction is in the example I gave of why the job-subsidy plan would not add jobs. Here is the example: "The job-subsidy plan is not demand-focused, and so is unlikely to contribute to the economic recovery. Suppose a firm in a depressed economy sells 100 earth-moving machines a year, and employs 200 workers. If t... |
In this blog (my Atlantic blog), I began the year with criticism of a major speech by Fed chairman Bernanke, who, echoing Alan Greenspan, argued--unconvincingly in my view--that the Fed's drastically low interest-rate policy of the early 2000s was not a significant factor in the housing bubble and resulting economic co... |
The Gopher men's basketball team now has 4 scholarships to fill after point guard Isaiah Washington announced on twitter Monday that he is transferring from the University of Minnesota. He hasn't decided yet where he is going. |
Minnesota has been been linked to many unsigned high school seniors and some potential transfers after signing 6'5 shooting guard/small forward Tre Williams from Mount Pleasant, Utah this past fall. Williams is considered an athletic multi-positional player who moved from a 3-star recruit to a 4-star recruit during his... |
The High school seniors most likely to end up in Minnesota are 6'2 combo guard Grant Sherfield from Wichita, Kansas, 6'9 forward Isaiah Ihnen from Germany and 6'10 center Sam Freeman from Justin, Texas. Top in-state recruit Mathew Hurt from Rochester is expected to decide where he's headed April 19 but Minnesota is con... |
Sherfield visited Minnesota earlier this month and is visiting Wichita State this week and could decide where he's headed soon. Other schools interested in the 3-star recruit are Wake Forest, Iowa State, Purdue and Texas Tech. Ihnen is a lean 6'9 190 pound athletic power forward from Germany. The 3-star recruit has nar... |
The Gophers acquired three guards last spring due to transfers; Marcus Carr from Pittsburgh, Payton Willis from Vanderbilt and Brock Stull from Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Stull was a graduate transfer and played this past year and is leaving the program. Carr has 3 years of eligibility remaining while Willis has 2. Carr aver... |
The Gophers could add at least one transfer. Options include 6'7 power forward Anthony Duruji. He is leaving Louisiana Tech after his sophomore year after averaging 12.2 points and 6.1 rebounds a game. The Gophers have reportedly reached out to Duruji. |
Graduate senior options who could play right away include 7'1 240 pound center Derrik Smits from Valparaiso, 6'9 245 pound forward Nate Sestina from Bucknell and 6'9 260 pound center Dominik Olejniczak from Ole Miss. Sestina is visiting Kentucky this week. |
The Division I men's college basketball late signing period goes from April 17 - May 15. |
Nevada City’s city council on Tuesday voted to extend its interim urgency ordinance regarding the regulation of wireless facilities. |
The council had previously adopted an urgency ordinance in mid-October, with a 45-day time period that was set to expire on Nov. 24. This new version extends the ordinance for 10 months and 15 days. This enacts a temporary moratorium so that the city has time to draft, review and approve a permanent ordinance. |
The permanent ordinance was proposed after Verizon lost a bid to install a wireless array downtown but indicated it would like to install “small cell facilities” on existing power or telephone poles. The ordinance would limit co-location of small cell facilities on PG&E poles and other utility-company owned structures,... |
[ Academia ] as a Related Elective for those interested in Decision-Making : Lawyers frequently occupy leadership positions in the public, private and non-profit sectors. However, few have received any formal training in preparation for the unique aspects of this role, e.g., strategic planning, management, communicatio... |
Our daughter is in her sophomore year at Marymount Manhatten College in NYC. She has been awarded both a merit (talent) and a scholastic scholarship for all four years that covers about 30% of the cost. She had been trying to get onto the "RA" staff, and my wife and I were supporting that. She finally got the position ... |
In absence of that, we were planning on funding as much of the remainder of her school costs as possible through loans from our 401K and cash. Now our burden is significantly less, and in order for our daughter to have some "skin in the game", we have offered to save that money for her until she graduates. If she is ab... |
I'd highly recommend the RA program if your student child has a willingness to go for it. |
Published: Jan 02, 2018 at 3:14 p.m. |
I took a break from preparing for the holidays and attended Ashley MacIsaac’s Celtic Christmas at the Port Hawkesbury Civic Centre on Dec. 22. |
What an amazing concert it was. |
Anytime MacIsaac, who is one of Cape Breton’s number one fiddlers and all-around top entertainer performs, it is bound to be incredible. |
Performing along with MacIsaac were Hilda Chaisson on piano and Maxim Cormier on guitar, and Richmond County’s Trina Samson and the Island Steppers as well as Robert Bouchard, one of Nova Scotia’s best country entertainers. |
During the evening MacIsaac performed many favourite Christmas carols and a number of traditional fiddle tunes, to the delight of the audience. |
It was very touching when he played a special song for his mother, who was seated in the audience. It is always so special to have your children with you at Christmas time, but I am sure his dedication of the tune made this Christmas extra special. |
MacIsaac also made Christmas special for Trina Samson’s Island Steppers, by asking them to perform as part at the Celtic Christmas concert. |
Samson and the Island Steppers performed some of their classic step-dancing numbers, ending the evening with one of their signature numbers where they added a special surprise for the audience. Like a moment from a magician’s show, their dance dresses magically changed right in front of the audience’s eyes, leaving man... |
Another highlight of the evening for me was Robert Bouchard’s performance. He has always been one of my favourite country artists and he certainly did not let the audience down. |
It was typical for a Cape Breton native to take time out of his regular routine to acknowledge a member of the audience — Viola Tousnard, who will turn 95 years of age in a couple of weeks — was sitting in the front row, and he asked her if she had any requests she would like to hear. |
Quite a night in Port Hawkesbury for sure. |
Ann Marie Yorke’s column appears every two weeks in the Cape Breton Post and she can be contacted by email at annmarieyorke@hotmail.com. |
Are you ready to build your own new home? Here is a Nice residential building lot for you! Good development with several newer homes. City utilities available. |
It has been a deeply ingrained habit to wish everyone ‘Happy New Year’ and I confess to enthusiastic participation in this annual ritual for a long time. Increasingly though, I am beginning to suspect I really don’t understand the phrase or the words it is made up of at all. |
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