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Opponents, however, accuse him of trying to delay a presidential election due in for November in order to hold on to power. The United Nations and rights groups say the government is cracking down on dissent through arrests and intimidation of opponents.
The government denies both of these charges. Stearns is a former coordinator of the UN panel of experts in Congo and author of a widely read book about the country’s civil wars from 1996-2003.
HOWARD — The Highland Scots ran away from the East Knox Bulldogs in the second half to cruise to a 56-29 win in Howard and the win gave the Scots the Knox-Morrow Athletic Conference title outright.
Highland started quick out of the gates, with a 16-8 lead thanks to four 3-pointers in the frame, two from both Andrew Wheeler and Mack Anglin. Cody Cockrell hit a late three in the frame for the Bulldogs to cut the lead heading into the second down 16-11.
After 25 combined points in the first quarter, the two teams put up 10 total points in the second. Anglin had four points to lead the Scots to a 6-4 edge in the period to head into the locker room up 22-15.
Returning to the floor, the Bulldogs started chipping away at the lead. East Knox cut the lead to 22-19, but Highland started pulling away.
The Scots really attacked the boards. Highland got extra looks at the basket due to rebounds and turned that into 12 points, with six coming from Anglin. Getting beat on the glass limited the Bulldogs’ offensive opportunities and the team was held to six points.
Highland used the same mentality on the boards in the fourth quarter to close the game out. Between second-chance opportunities and free throws, the Scots amassed 22 points in the final frame. The visitors went 10 of 14 in the fourth quarter to seal the deal. Shane Knepp splashed home two 3-pointers late in the game, b...
The game was won on the glass, where the Scots hauled in 35 boards to only 13 from the Bulldogs.
Anglin led the way for the Scots, turning in 22 points, four boards, an assist and two blocks. Wheeler was next in the scoring column with 14 points. Carpenter chipped in eight points and Jordan Bellamy kicked in another six. Branton Howard, Ian Taylor and Noah Dado each notched two points in the win. Dado and Carpente...
Weston Melick finished with eight points on the night, including three from behind the arc. Cockrell turned in seven points and Knepp accounted for six. Braydon Burkhart and Anthony Gilmore each finished with four points. Cockrell and Gilmore each finished with three rebounds, while Knepp topped the stat sheet with two...
The Bulldogs, who are now 11-7 overall and 7-5 in the KMAC, will look to come together today in a quick turnaround. East Knox hits the road for a game against Loudonville, starting at 6 p.m. tonight. The Scots improved to 14-6 on the year and they face off against Buckeye Valley tonight with JV starting at 6 p.m.
Due to recent icy conditions, do you think something should be done to make Middle Path safer, and if so, what?
Longtime Dover head coach Brian Schmoyer was honored after the last rivalry game of his career. The Eagles defeated the Bulldogs 65 to 58.
Keith Davis (4) guards Kelvin Matthews (1) during the boys' basketball game between Dover and West York, February 1, 2019 at Dover Area High School. The Eagles defeated the Bulldogs 65 to 58.
Talks are being held over possible industrial action at supermarket giant Asda.
Discussions come as the GMB union prepares to ballot thousands of members in the company's 21 distribution depots about whether to launch a campaign of action.
The dispute is over national bargaining on pay and conditions as well as bonus pay with the balloting process due to start on April 24.
The union said the talks in London between its acting general secretary Paul Kenny and Andy Bond, Asda chief executive, were at the request of the company.
GMB delegates to the Scottish TUC in Perth on Monday tabled an emergency motion calling on the Scottish labour movement to support its members in Asda.
Harry Donaldson, GMB Scotland Secretary, speaking at the conference, said unless the company changed its approach to the GMB and collective bargaining, it was hard to see how "the yawning gap" could be bridged at Tuesday's meeting.
He added: "GMB members in the depots are determined to secure a proper national bargaining framework with this company and they want the company to pay the unpaid bonus and to agree work regimes that are safe and healthy.
"The GMB is determined to secure pay and condition arrangements in the company that are fair and also to secure ways of arriving at these arrangements which are fair."
An Asda spokeswoman confirmed the meeting was taking place and said the company hoped for "a constructive and open dialogue".
She added: "We are genuinely bemused as to why the GMB keeps moving in the direction of a ballot. We feel that colleagues would be better served by spending the time working together rather than preparing for industrial action. The ballot would involve 13% of our colleagues who are GMB members."
Sarah Isgur will just be a political analyst at CNN -- putting the network in the same hole it found itself in before this mess even started.
On Friday, Isgur posted a tweet explaining that her role had changed. CNN’s Oliver Darcy quoted a network spokesperson as saying, “We can confirm that when Sarah came to us and proposed her role be adjusted to a political analyst instead, we agreed and we look forward to her starting in that role."
It’s been a great vacation but I am back on twitter! And news: I will go to CNN as a Political Analyst instead. Will start next month on air and on line. See y’all soon!
Isgur’s hire was controversial for a number of reasons, among them her lack of journalism experience; reports that she pledged loyalty to President Donald Trump; questions about whether she was involved in Fox News’ spread of a conspiracy theory about a murdered Democratic National Committee staffer; and the complete a...
The rollout was an absolute mess, with CNN staffers left in the dark about what her exact responsibilities would be amid conflicting reports. Vox published a statement from CNN that Isgur would not be “leading, overseeing, or running political coverage.” On February 26, The Daily Beast reported that the DNC was told Is...
While the value of adding another pro-Trump voice to CNN's stable of analysts -- especially one who may have signed a nondisparagement agreement -- is debatable, it’s also concerning that CNN doesn’t seem to have learned anything from this debacle. Presumably, if Isgur had not asked for the change in roles, she would h...
Illustrating the utter lack of self-awareness within the network, CNN chief media correspondent Brian Stelter was quoted today saying, “We should, in newsrooms, be as transparent as the people we cover.” When it came to Isgur, CNN failed that simple mission.
Cable news leaders — whose decisions help shape the contours of election coverage — are making some of the same sorts of mistakes they made last time.
For CNN, though, the appeal [of hiring Isgur] is simple: It “strongly suggests that the network’s big thinkers — including head honcho Jeff Zucker — are aiming for a kind of false fairness: a defensive, both-sides-are-equal kind of political coverage that inevitably fails to serve the voting public,” The Washington Pos...
CNN has consistently failed to grapple with its unique vulnerability to this form of false balance. Cable news networks traditionally hire a coterie of partisan contributors and turn them loose to discuss the issues of the day. This leaves viewers confused about where the truth may lie as a representative from one part...
Read the whole piece here.
CNN’s lack of transparency has been one of the more troubling aspects of this saga.
It’s not uncommon for media outlets to hire people with political backgrounds -- a fact Isgur’s supporters have sought to exploit in response to the turmoil her hiring caused.
But those hires almost always become contributors, analysts, or reporters -- positions in which their names are publicly affixed to their work in a way that allows the audience to judge the results.
But CNN has hired Isgur for a position that will take place at least in part behind the scenes, making it impossible for its viewers to know exactly how she’s influencing the network’s coverage.
And rather than publicly addressing the controversy, CNN executives have allowed contradictory details about the contours of her role to drip out over the last week. Meanwhile, other outlets reporting on her job have mostly included descriptions that are sourced to anonymous CNN spokespersons and do not include direct ...
While initial reports suggested that Isgur would be playing a senior role in helping to oversee the network’s politics coverage, CNN has subsequently sought to dispute that description. The network’s president reportedly told staffers that she would be “coordinating coverage” rather than “making decisions about” it. Th...
It’s also unclear whether CNN’s spokespeople botched their initial explanations of Isgur’s role, whether reporters misunderstood their descriptions, or whether CNN has been scaling back her responsibilities in response to criticism.
The result has been widespread confusion within and outside the network.
Here’s a timeline of how the story of what Isgur will be doing at CNN has developed.
CNN media reporter Brian Stelter reported in his nightly newsletter that “CNN PR confirmed that she would report to political director David Chalian but otherwise declined to comment.” He added that his “understanding” is that Isgur “will be joining a group of several political editors who coordinate coverage. This ent...
“She is helping to coordinate coverage across TV and Digital – she is one of several editors,” the spokesperson added, going on to characterize Isgur’s role as making sure that stories are featured on the right shows and articles get posted online at the right time.
Her responsibilities will include making sure stories are showcased on the correct shows and scheduling Ms. Isgur isn’t running CNN’s coverage of the 2020 presidential campaign, according to a company spokeswoman. Her responsibilities will include making sure stories are showcased on the correct shows and scheduling th...
It’s unclear exactly how one could coordinate coverage without making decisions about what is covered, or how CNN can argue that “making sure stories are showcased on the correct shows” doesn’t involve such editorial decision-making.
To CNN’s credit, its media criticism show Reliable Sources covered the controversy. To its discredit, no CNN executive appeared to discuss the story. Instead, guest host John Avlon and conservative CNN host S.E. Cupp had to defend the hire (with Avlon citing his own past career as speechwriter for former New York City ...
CNN’s decision to hire former Trump official, longtime Republican operative, and journalism neophyte Sarah Isgur as its new political editor is shaping up as quite a public relations disaster for the network. CNN executives are busily trying to explain to their staff why no one should be concerned that Isgur -- who has...
Another problematic aspect of Isgur’s move to CNN is the fact that she was the chief spokesperson for the Department of Justice at a time when her boss, former Attorney General Jeff Sessions, was implementing a harsh crackdown on leakers who fed information to journalists -- a campaign that was launched, at least in pa...
This same DOJ flack who cheered on the prosecution of leakers and defended the seizure of a reporter’s communications data will soon be “coordinating” the political coverage of a cable news network. The reporters and journalists who work with Isgur and who have confidential sources within the administration will have t...
CNN has announced it hired former Department of Justice spokesperson Sarah Isgur Flores as a political editor to "coordinate political coverage for the 2020 campaign at the network." This hiring decision is surprising given Isgur’s lack of journalism experience, her conflicts of interest stemming from previous roles in...
It’s no secret that CNN employs and repeatedly hosts political commentators with ties to President Donald Trump’s administration. But with the announced hire of Sarah Isgur as a political editor, the network seems set on making its intended “facts first” approach a sisyphean labor -- particularly when it comes to abort...
Already, conservative media dominate cable news conversations about abortion with inaccurate information. And as a career Republican strategist, Isgur not only lacks formal journalism experience -- a seeming necessity for anyone in an editorial role -- but has also spent years promoting anti-abortion misinformation.
Isgur’s installation at CNN comes at a tenuous time for abortion rights. The Supreme Court appears increasingly likely to overturn or weaken Roe v. Wade, and Trump -- after weeks of sensationalized and inaccurate Fox News coverage -- is reportedly committed to spotlighting abortion misinformation in his 2020 campaign. ...
Here’s a sample of the anti-abortion talking points Sarah Isgur has promoted.
As it happens, I’m also pro-life. And I’ll admit that I’m simply stunned that people on the Left can argue with a straight face that a mother has a right to kill a baby that can live outside the womb. But, this week in particular, I’m even more stunned at the Left’s hypocrisy on gun control—demonizing conservatives who...
Simon & Schuster's Gallery 13 imprint has acquired the rights to the comic book adaptations of Stephen King's The Dark Tower previously published by Marvel Comics. First reported by Entertainment Weekly, the new editions are scheduled to begin this fall with The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger Born in August.
“I’m delighted to see my stories in this exciting format, where they can reach new readers,” King said in a statement.
Marvel published adaptations and ancilliary material of King's The Dark Tower from 2007 to 2017, collected into over a dozen trade paperback and hardcover editions.
According to EW, Gallery 13 will publish the "Beginnings" part of The Dark Tower twice-monthly starting with The Gunslinger is Born. In spring 2019, they plan to begin republishing The Gunslinger volumes.
Einstein once said that insanity is doing the same thing over and over again yet expecting different results.
In these times of austerity there is a tendency to avoid challenging the status quo and continue doing the same thing because people fear getting it wrong.
However, playing it safe is becoming the riskiest option and taking a (measured) risk will soon be the safest decision.
Local public services are constantly undergoing some form of change – this is the constant – and delivering successful change initiatives within the organisations and across communities needs to be aligned with a financial and social return.
Delivering a genuine return on financial investment that leads to better social outcomes can be achieved by harnessing the power of networks (both on and offline).
The starting position is identifying people with shared interests and connecting with them on their terms.
But the process requires effort, time and skill in identifying, designing and delivering a successful campaign.
The most important thing is to avoid ‘pushing’ the message, but pulling people into the issue that they already feel passionate about.
The art is in the science. This means proper planning and insight to identify and map the local network of activists.
The next step is to leverage the network and amplify the message in order to connect with other people who may be interested but not yet actively engaged.
This process of amplifying the network and message can quickly spread and generate a movement for change.
Godin’s point is that sustainable movement can be generated if you can identify, connect and leverage groups of people with a common interest.So don’t broadcast information, but connect and curate the conversations.
The people at Do Something Different are delivering something very similar. They understand the importance of starting small and scaling up and out.
Designed by two psychologists, DSD integrates neuroscience with behaviour change to achieve what it says on the tin – do something different.
One of their projects involved tackling truancy in a region of Norfolk. The outcome saw a significant change in the pupils’ behaviour and regular attendance at school.
Now consider the financial and social return this piece of work delivers for local public services.
Carefully constructed behaviour change campaigns can save money while improving social outcomes; and these are the sorts of outcomes that make a significant and measurable contribution to public services.
John Shewell is founder of CoLab and former head of comms at Brighton & Hove City Council.
About 3,200 students have gone on overseas stints in the past three years under a government scheme to help prepare them for global careers.
The Young Talent Programme, run by IE Singapore, is open to students in universities, polytechnics and the Institute of Technical Education.
The scheme allows them to get overseas exposure and market immersion, to support the national drive for local businesses to go global and play bigger roles in overseeing global markets.
Launched in 2013 for university students, the programme was extended to the polytechnics in 2015, and Institute of Technical Education (ITE) last year.
Since 2015, about 1,900 university students and more than 1,100 polytechnic and 200 ITE students have benefited, Senior Parliamentary Secretary for Education Low Yen Ling said in Parliament yesterday.
Ms Low also gave figures of another IE Singapore programme that funds skills training to help Singaporeans navigate complex overseas markets.
The SkillsFuture Study Award for International Business has supported 432 people since it was launched in October 2015, she said in her reply to Ms Sun Xueling (Pasir Ris-Punggol GRC).
Number of people the SkillsFuture Study Award for International Business has supported since it was launched in October 2015.
"The Education Ministry recognises the benefits overseas programmes bring. These experiences help young Singaporeans develop a global perspective, a healthy respect for other cultures, greater independence and adaptability to new environments," she added.
All institutes of higher learning also have overseas programmes, such as academic exchanges with foreign partner universities, community service projects and internships or industrial attachments.
Ms Low said that over a quarter of ITE students, nearly half of polytechnic students and almost two-thirds of university students have gone on an overseas programme.
New York Giants players and their staff apparently made a point to stand for the National Anthem before their preseason game against the New York Jets on Saturday night, according to a local reporter.
He’s received heavy public backlash in the wake of his comments, and some 49ers fans burned his jersey. Photos and videos of fans’ jersey burning were also shared on social media websites.
Several NFL players also reacted to Kaepernick’s comments.
The 49ers said they have no plans to discipline him.
Sunderland will be without skipper Lee Cattermole for tomorrow evening’s Barclays Premier League clash with Arsenal.
The 22-year-old midfielder starts a two-match ban after picking up his second red card of the season at former club Wigan last weekend.
Defender John Mensah, who has been struggling with a hamstring injury, is a doubt after picking up a knock in training, but Kieran Richardson and Ahmed Elmohamady are expected to be fit after returning from the DW Stadium with minor problems.
However, Michael Turner (ankle), Craig Gordon (fractured arm) and Fraizer Campbell and David Meyler (both knee) remain on the sidelines.

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