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The Westin Hotel is located in the Buckhead area of Atlanta. The Westin is pet-friendly with a non-refundable fee upon check-in. The hotel does not offer any pet-sitting services, so if you must leave the hotel your pet will remain in your room until your return. The Westin offers a full-service business center, high-s... |
Berry, Terrie. "Pet Friendly Hotels in Georgia." Travel Tips - USA Today, https://traveltips.usatoday.com/pet-friendly-hotels-georgia-31949.html. Accessed 23 April 2019. |
Meet Director Cheryl Toussant said, "When our youngest stars are breaking records that represent the very best of nearly a half million participants over forty years, it's a sign that track and field as a sport is still alive and well in 2015." |
BROOKLYN, N.Y., Jan. 7, 2015 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — If you missed who was likely the nation’s fastest eight year-old this time last year, no worries, she’s just broken her own record on her ninth birthday. With four decades of top talent in the Colgate Women’s Games track and field series to beat, Avery Lewis of Chest... |
On Sunday, December 21, In the Elementary A division of the nation’s largest track and field series for women, Lewis of Friends Central scored a double win in the 55 meter run (7.8) and 200 meter run (30.0). At the final preliminary meet held last season at NYC’s Armory, Lewis created a three-way tie on the record book... |
This past Saturday, a capacity crowd at Pratt, saw hometown favorite Brooklyn’s My’khiyah Williams clear the high Jump bar at 5 foot 6 inches, tying a Mid School record set in 2002 by Alexandria Coppadge. |
Two more preliminary meets and a semi-final at Pratt will determine finalists who will compete at the New Balance Track and Field Center at the Armory in New York City on Saturday, February 7, 2015 where trophies and educational grants-in-aid from Colgate-Palmolive Company are awarded to top place-finishers in each age... |
Coaches, recruiters, athletes, fans and press can follow scores by division and hopeful young track stars can also find information about the program at http://www.colgategames.com/. |
*PHOTO for media: Send2Press.com/wire/images/15-0106-avery-lewis-300dpi.jpg . |
*Photo Caption: YOUNG STARS SHINE BRIGHTEST AT 41ST ANNUAL COLGATE WOMEN’S GAMES – Nine Year-old Avery Lewis of Parkesburg, Pa. may be the nation’s fastest third grader. On her birthday (12/21), she broke her own record in the 55 meters (7.8), the fastest time in the Games’ 40 year history! |
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The United States has escalated its unilateral strikes against al-Qaeda members and fighters operating in Pakistan’s tribal areas, partly because of anxieties that Pakistan’s new leaders will insist on scaling back military operations in that country, according to U.S. officials. |
Washington is worried that pro-Western President Pervez Musharraf, who has generally supported the U.S. strikes, will almost certainly have reduced powers in the months ahead, and so it wants to inflict as much damage as it can to al-Qaeda’s network now, the officials said. |
Over the past two months, U.S.-controlled Predator aircraft are known to have struck at least three sites used by al-Qaeda operatives. The moves followed a tacit understanding with Musharraf and Army chief Gen. Ashfaq Kiyani that allows U.S. strikes on foreign fighters operating in Pakistan, but not against the Pakista... |
About 45 Arab, Afghan and other foreign fighters have been killed in the attacks, all near the Afghan border, U.S. and Pakistani officials said. The goal was partly to jar loose information on senior al-Qaeda leaders, including Osama bin Laden and his lieutenants, by forcing them to move in ways that U.S. intelligence ... |
The strategy is called the “shake the tree” method, a way to make enough disturbance to force everyone to find new shelter. In the confusion, intelligence assets hope to flush targets into the open and eliminate them quickly. Several of the sources for the Washington Post give pessimistic odds for finding Osama bin Lad... |
Musharraf knows his days are numbered in power, and has proven a little more cooperative as a result. Both he and his Army replacement, General Kiyani, have agreed to let the US strike at AQ and foreign-fighter targets. They do not want the US to attack Pakistani Taliban militants, for two reasons. First, the deaths of... |
Second, the Pakistani Taliban has political connections that make military confrontations difficult, even for Kiyani and Musharraf. Even Baitullah Mehsud has sympathizers in mainstream politics, and an American attack on his strongholds would create a political disaster. The PPP, whose leader got assassinated by Mehsud... |
It’s a tightrope act, but we cannot just allow the problem to fester in Pakistan. The trick is to keep our actions from making it worse. |
Turkish hackers took down the site of the European Jewish Press news site overnight Wednesday. |
According to Yossi Lempkowitz, chief editor of the site, the attack began immediately after he posted a news story about the criticism against actress Scarlett Johansen for her representing Israel's SodaStream drinks company. |
Earlier Thursday, Johansen announced she was stepping down as an ambassador for Oxfam, over opposition to the NGO's policies of boycotting Jewish businesses in Judea and Samaria. |
The site, said Lempkowitz, had more than a million users, and was quoted by dozens of news services around the world. |
“We will not surrender to attempts to shut us down or to boycott us,” he said. “We will continue to distribute reliable information about Jewish life in Europe, to the whole world,” he said. |
Whatever the hackers' arguments with Israel, said Margolin, they were targeting the wrong people. |
“We have in recent weeks been working closely with Muslim leaders in several European countries in an effort to fight efforts by politicians to ban ritual circumcision and slaughter, issues that greatly concern both our communities,” he pointed out. |
This article was corrected on April 22, 1994. Rory Kelly is the director of “Sleep With Me,” which will be shown in Un Certain Regard at the Cannes Film Festival. His name was misspelled in Thursay’s story. |
With U.S. pix taking a relatively low profile on the Croisette this year as predicted, the competition selections of the 1994 Cannes Film Festival are dominated by titles from France and Italy. |
A number of entries from Asian nations and some seldom-represented Third World countries also add to the unusual mix. |
As forecast, the competition will open and close with American films, the Coen Brothers’ “The Hudsucker Proxy” from Warner Bros. and John Waters’ “Serial Mom” (out of competition), respectively (Daily Variety, April 20). It also features U.S. cult favorites Quentin Tarantino with “Pulp Fiction” and Alan Rudolph with “M... |
Current favorite rumor among gossipy French wags is that the Hollywood majors are staying away this year in retaliation for their losing fight against the French over the GATT. |
Cannes continues its passion for Far East pix with Rithy Panh’s highly touted Cambodian film “The People of the Rice Paddies” and two Chinese-language pictures, Edward Yang’s “The Confucian Confusion” from Taiwan and “To Live” from mainland Chinese helmer Zhang Yimou, whose 1991 “Raise the Red Lantern” won the Golden L... |
Canadian director Atom Egoyan will make his debut in the competition with “Exotica,” and Romanian filmmaker Lucian Pintilie returns with “An Unforgettable Summer.” Two countries rarely repped in the competition, Iran and India, will be on hand with Abbas Kiarostami’s “Under the Olive Trees” and Shaji N. Karun’s “Swaham... |
A special out-of-competition screening will be held of Jean Labib’s biographical docu, “Montand,” as in Yves. |
Un Certain Regard, the official, non-competing sidebar, will open with Marco Bellocchio’s “The Dream of the Butterflies” from Italy and close with “The Wild Reeds” from French helmer Andre Techine, a Cannes favorite whose last film, “My Favorite Season,” opened the official competition last year. |
Rounding out the selections are Merzak Allouache’s “Bab El-Oued City” from Algeria, Portuguese helmer Pedro Costa’s “Casa De Lava,” Polish filmmaker Jan Jakub Kolski’s “Jancio Wodnik,” Bernard-Henri Levy’s “Bosna!” from France, Francisco Lombardi’s “Without Compassion” from Peru, Sana Na N’Hada’s “Xime, the Sons of Ial... |
Members of the Cannes competition jury are Clint Eastwood, president; Catherine Deneuve, vice president; French journalist Marie-Francoise Leclere; Italian director Pupi Avati; Cuban-born writer Guillermo Cabrera Infante; Japanese/British author of “The Remains of the Day” Kazuo Ishiguro; Russian actor/director Alexand... |
▪ Keep a garden diary. Write down what I planted when – and where. So when time comes to figure out what grew well and what didn’t, I’m not searching for crib notes scribbled on seed packets or nursery receipts. |
▪ Make new garden labels – and a new map. Weather has wiped away the writing on most of my metal markers. And since the last time I made a map of my flower beds, some rose bushes have died and been replaced. Asters have meandered from one side of the Mediterranean mound to the other. Bulbs could be anywhere. |
▪ Divide and conquer. Crowded flower beds are overpacked with perennials and flowering bulbs. Pretty but relentless, the bright orange crocosmia is a thug, choking out primroses and peonies. The bearded irises have stopped blooming; they need to be re-situated and revived. It’s time to dig a lot of things up and redist... |
▪ Take out more lawn. Those extra perennials and bulbs need to go somewhere. They’ll use less water than turf, too. |
▪ Work on smarter irrigation. While recent rain washed away thoughts of drought, come summer, that dry reality will be back. It’s time to set up a climate sensor, fix driplines and take a serious look at plants’ water needs. I know my hydrangeas suffered in 2016. |
▪ Plant tomatoes earlier. Due to changing weather patterns, the last weekend in April – Sacramento’s traditional tomato planting date – may be too late for the best yield. In 2016, tomatoes planted in late March were much more productive. |
▪ Plant varieties with high yields. Space (with full sun) is too precious in my little veggie garden to put up with heirloom vines that bear just one tomato or one melon. Instead, I’ll stick with what’s prolific such as Juliet, Early Girl and Big Boy tomatoes; those varieties filled a lot of canning jars this year. |
▪ Create a garden scrapbook. Sure, I take loads of digital photos of my flowers and veggies, but how many do I actually print out? Filled with memories of summer days and (hopefully) bountiful harvests, such a scrapbook would bring warm smiles on cold winter days. |
▪ Make time to smell the roses. That’s why I planted so many varieties; I love their beauty and fragrance. In 2017, I resolve to bring more bouquets indoors. So even if I can’t spend as much time as I’d like outdoors, I can still appreciate the garden’s beauty – and feel inspired to garden more. |
Much of what the FBI seeks to explain involves the scientific trail, which included 19 outside laboratories at a cost of $10 million, that led investigators to Ivins. The Justice Department yesterday continued to discuss whether it can shutter one of the most perplexing investigations in FBI history and unseal the bulk... |
"We crossed a number of scientific barriers in this case," said one senior FBI official who has been ordered not to talk about the case publicly. "We literally were inventing science as we went along." |
Law enforcement sources and published scientific papers indicate that the investigation gained traction through technological and scientific advances that dramatically speeded up the process of differentiating the genetic makeup of hundreds of distinct but closely related strains of bacteria. |
Coupled with a fresh scientific understanding of the subtle differences between the strains and a new system for analyzing them, the rapid "sequencing" machines made it possible to detect the minuscule differences and link the one used in the attacks to a single laboratory. |
At the time of the attacks, the knowledge to accomplish this in less than decades of laborious work did not exist. But the science of reading and analyzing DNA was on the verge of an explosion, one that the anthrax attacks may have helped to speed up. |
Bruce Budowle, an FBI scientist at its lab in Quantico, reported to an international conference in September 2003 that a new field of forensic science — known as microbial forensics — had evolved as a result of the investigation. The letter attacks, he said, showed the "need to enhance our capabilities for forensic att... |
J. Craig Venter, former head of the Institute for Genomic Research, said such investigation was impossible before the recent advances. "This is just applying that same technology to forensic purposes. It's more the use of it to solve a particular criminal problem rather than [to] make advances in science," he said. |
New findings announced today reveal the origins of one of the world's most enduring and mysterious sites: Stonehenge. That's the looming circle of huge, hewn stone in the British countryside about 100 miles southwest of London. It was built about 4,500 years ago at the time of the Egyptian pyramids. Beyond that, we hav... |
BRAND: Now, excavations funded in part by the National Geographic Society suggests that Stonehenge was part of a much larger religious complex. On this NPR National Geographic radio expedition, NPR's Rob Gifford takes a look. |
ROB GIFFORD: The mystique of Stonehenge has somehow permeated every age of English history. It's located here, beside a rather busy main road in an otherwise very beautiful but blustery part of southwest England. And the man behind the recent discoveries here at Stonehenge is Mike Parker Pearson, professor of archeolog... |
Now, this recent discovery of yours, which is now being announced by National Geographic, tell me more about that. What's the significance of that? |
Professor MIKE PARKER PEARSON (Archeology, University of Sheffield): Yes, we've just found an enormous village site. And what we think it is is the village of the builders of Stonehenge, the place where they actually lived while they were putting up the great monument. |
GIFFORD: And why is that significant? |
Prof. PEARSON: That's really given us a whole insight into how they lived their everyday lives. And I think one of the really exciting things to come out of this is the rubbish. We have a huge amount of what we call feasting debris. In other words, it's party city. So they're not just working hard, but they're playing ... |
GIFFORD: A sort of Neolithic Woodstock, perhaps. |
Prof. PEARSON: Yeah, very much so. This is the first free festival. |
GIFFORD: And apart from the trash, apart from the rubbish that you found in the houses, you've also found another avenue, is that right? Just tell me briefly about that. |
Prof. PEARSON: Yes, that's right. Stonehenge has his own avenue, aligned on the midsummer sunrise. And we found another one with the wooden version of Stonehenge, which is just less than two miles away. Just like the Stonehenge one, it also leads down to the river. This time, it's aligned on a different axis - that is ... |
So what's really interesting is the wooden monument in its avenue, and stone one in this avenue form a pairing, if you like. They're opposites within the same grand scheme. |
GIFFORD: Great, well, let's go over and take a look at this other avenue. |
Prof. PEARSON: Now we're two miles away from Stonehenge, up the river. And this is the area I was talking about. It's a valley, in the middle of which there's a timber version of Stonehenge, and an avenue leading from that, down the valley to the river. On the other side of the avenue, this is where there were houses e... |
This entire valley was filled up with them. Of course, you can't see them now. And I think this is the beginning of the processional route to Stonehenge. |
GIFFORD: And having said that, let's do our little re-enactment down to the river, shall we? I'm afraid I didn't bring my bearskin tunic, and you'll have to imagine the drums and the trumpets. But okay, we're walking down. We'd be carrying, will we? Or several bodies? |
Prof. PEARSON: Well, given what we find at Stonehenge, it's more likely we'll have the ashes of our ancestors with us in little bags. And we're taking then now to river to deposit. Yes, probably all manner of noise, and, of course, there's going to be thousands of people on this. |
The river was the gate to the underworld. It's the way that you moved out of this transient life represented by things that decayed - the timbers - into that world of eternal permanence, of eternal life beyond the grave. And that is what Stonehenge is all about. It's the great monument to the transition into the afterl... |
GIFFORD: Well, bang those drums and blow those trumpets. We're just reaching the river now, and then we'll head back to Stonehenge to see the end of the journey of these Neolithic people. |
GIFFORD: So now, we're back at the Stones themselves. And from the river, this other avenue will, what? Bring the dead up to the stones in front of us here themselves, yeah? |
Prof. PEARSON: Yes. Our guess is that most peoples' remains ended up in the river - the ashes being thrown into the river, maybe the bones or even the bodies as well. We've actually re-enacted the voyage, the journey that was made on Midwinters day four and a half thousand years ago. |
GIFFORD: So finally, you've made yourself this amazing archeological discovery just in recent months. But do you think we're ever going to really know all the secrets of Stonehenge? |
Prof. PEARSON: I think we've made some huge jumps, some huge new insights. That said, it's archeology, it's prehistory, it's before there was writing, and I think this monument and the surrounding landscape will keep various aspects of its mystery for eternity. |
GIFFORD: Well that's a rather good note to end on. Thank you very much indeed, Mike Parker Pearson of the University of Sheffield. For Radio Expeditions, this is Rob Gifford, NPR News at Stonehenge. |
There are photos from this dig, including one overhead shot of the foundation of an old home from there. It's tiny. Go to npr.org/radioexpeditions. You can get the Podcast there too. And Radio Expeditions is a co-production of NPR and the National Geographic Society. |
Problems with the Ministry of Education's new payroll system are a "nightmare" and "absolutely unacceptable", PPTA president Robin Duff says. |
Mr Duff said the system's many faults and errors were the most "severe" of their kind he had encountered in 38 years in secondary education. |
He was gathering further information and intended to write to the secretary of education raising the PPTA's concerns. |
It was still unclear if the problems were fixable or the new system, which had already cost $30 million, was a "dog" which would ultimately have to be replaced. |
There had been "a whole range of problems", including a new "rounding" system which resulted in many people being underpaid by small amounts, and it seemed no one thing could be done to fix the problems. |
Mr Duff yesterday visited Kavanagh College, King's High School and Kaikorai Valley College in the latest in a series of school field trips as president. |
Problems with the Novopay system were "placing a huge amount of pressure" and imposing "a huge amount of work" on school administrators. |
Long-serving staff working 40 hours a week appeared to face fewest problems with their pay, but part-timers, and school support staff were among those facing difficulties. |
Kavanagh College principal Tracy O'Brien said college staff had recently put in up to 40 hours of extra work, including checking financial information line by line, and the payroll challenges had caused "a lot of stress". |
The Catlins Area School principal Alex MacCreadie said the new system was a "mess" and "incredibly frustrating". Of the school's first 14 pays handled by the system a fortnight ago, nine were incorrect and five had sizeable problems, including one which was 20% underpaid. And there had been delays of up to two hours in... |
Ministry of Education chief information officer Leanne Gibson said the ministry "fully acknowledged the frustrations of schools" over the issues and was "working very closely with the payroll provider, Talent2, to ensure it addresses them as a matter of urgency". |
It was too early to consider compensation for schools that had spent extra time on payroll work "during these early weeks of implementation", she said. |
The ministry would "cover all costs such as penalties or missed interest payments incurred by staff because of a missing or incorrect pay", she said. |
South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, nominated to be the new US ambassador to the UN, told the Senate she would “always stand by Israel” and took a hard line on Russia, clashing with positions taken by President-elect Donald Trump. |
Haley’s opening remarks at her confirmation hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee revolved around the recently adopted UN Security Council Resolution 2334 condemning Israeli settlements, which she blamed on the Obama administration’s decision to forego the US veto. |
“I will never abstain when the United Nations takes any action that comes in direct conflict with the interests and values of the United States,” Haley told the lawmakers. |
Admitting a lack of experience in foreign policy, the US-born daughter of Punjabi Sikh immigrants – seated behind her, along with the rest of her family, in-laws and friends – Haley argued she could bring a fresh outlook to the UN. She also reassured the foreign policy establishment rattled by Trump’s election that she... |
“I will be a strong voice for American principles and American interests, even if that is not what other UN representatives want to hear. The time has come for American strength once again,” the governor said. |
Haley reassured Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-New Hampshire) that she would try to persuade the president about the importance of the UN and change his mind on issues such as NATO, “an alliance that matters.” She agreed with Sen. Todd Young (R-Indiana) that Russia was complicit in the “genocide” taking place in Syria, for ... |
On the subject of Russia, Haley agreed with Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Maryland) that Crimea is part of Ukraine. The peninsula overwhelmingly voted to join Russia after the February 2014 coup in Kiev. |
Trump’s announcement that he would nominate Haley to replace Samantha Power as the US envoy to the UN came as a surprise, because the governor was very much a part of the Republican establishment that opposed him during the primary campaign. |
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