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Ladies Who Code was created in 2011 as a collective of professional coders meeting to share knowledge and ideas. It was started by two Mint Digital employees who saw an opportunity to bring people who use code in their jobs together or people who just like to use code to create things. One of these Mint Digital employe...
“We are re-evaluating the current practice of primarily being complaint driven and are looking at ways we can routinely visit the interior of public areas without waiting for complaints," said Ames Police Chief Chuck Cychosz.
Ames police say they are "re-evaluating" how they address camping on public property.
Iowa State student and star golfer Celia Barqin Arozamena was killed Sept. 17 at an Ames golf course. The suspect is believed to have been a drifter living in the woods adjacent to Coldwater Golf Links. The slaying prompted safety concerns from the public, Ames police said.
In a memo to the mayor and city council, City Manager Steve Schainker said staff will be prepared to answer questions at the council meeting Tuesday about what the city will work on to further promote safety in its parks and trails.
Previously, Ames police reacted to complaints by posting "no camping" signs and monitoring specific areas. Police also utilize local social service agencies to find safe housing for homeless people. But the city is now "exploring a more proactive approach to homelessness," the statement read.
A review of current practices will continue over the coming weeks, Cychosz said.
“Celia Barquín Arozamena’s death is shocking, and we are looking at every community resource to address the safety of those who live in our community or visit,” said Cychosz.
Ames Mayor John Haila encouraged residents to be proactive in sharing concerns "when something seems amiss."
“As citizens of Ames, we appreciate our city because it is safe, and we value the many organizations working together to continue making Ames a safe place to live,” said Haila in the statement.
Ames police, with the city's parks and recreation department, said it will heighten its focus on safety-related visibility issues like lighting and vegetation management in public parks and green spaces, among other efforts.
Safety initiatives already in place include a five-person Ames Police Safe Neighborhoods Team, crime prevention reviews in multiple agencies and a community-driven Park Watch program, the statement said.
To report non-emergency information to the Ames Police Department, call the non-emergency dispatch number at 515-239-5133 or the anonymous tip line at 515- 239-5533. You may also contact Crime Stoppers of Central Iowa at 515.223.1400. Online anonymous tips may be submitted to www.crimestoppersofcentraliowa.com.
Our memories are inaccurate, more than we’d like to believe. And now a study demonstrates one reason: we apparently add current experiences onto memories.
Study subjects examined the location of objects on a computer screen against a background of an underwater ocean scene. Researchers then showed the subjects a fresh screen with a different background, this time a photo of farmland. And the subjects had to place an object in the same position it was in on the original s...
The researchers then presented three objects on the original ocean background. One was in the original location, another was in the location the subject just chose in the previous task and the third was in a new location. The subject was asked to pick the original location of the object in the original ocean background...
The researchers note that recent and easily retrievable information “can overwrite what was there to begin with.” Consider that next time you hear eyewitness testimony.
Unemployment is low nationwide, but when it comes to job hunting, all states aren't equal. Louisiana ranks the worst. Connecticut tops the bottom 10.
Unemployment is down, but when it comes to job hunting, all states aren't equal.
Looking at a range of factors – from the jobless rate, to how much house workers may be able to afford based on pay – career search site Zippia ranked which states are best and worst when it comes to job prospects.
Louisiana, with one of the lowest median incomes and highest jobless rates in the nation, ranked at the bottom. Connecticut meanwhile offered the best possibilities among the 10 worst-performing states.
More than £256,000 of taxpayer’ money has been spend on redundancy payouts at Central Bedfordshire Council, only for many of those laid off to be re-employed - some within months of leaving.
Figures dating from October 2010, to September 2014, reveal not only were staff given generous redundancy packages, some returned to jobs with the same department, on higher wages.
The statistics were passed to Central Bedfordshire’s Independent group by the late Dunstable councillor Julian Murray before he died in December.
The positions made redundant include roles in children’s services, libraries, housing and waste, with payouts amounting to £256,532.
Independent Group leader and Potton Ward Councillor Adam Zerny said the figures show one person was given redundancy of £24,593 and then taken back on a salary of £27,668 less than a month later. Another was paid redundancy of £21k and re-employed a month later, while two more staff members were paid redundancy in exce...
Councillor Richard Wenham, Executive Member for Corporate Resources said, “Over the past five years the council has had to make £75m savings in response to financial pressures on the council. As part of making these savings we have had to review services and to make a number of posts redundant over that period.
He added: “If people are made redundant they are entitled to redundancy pay which they accept on certain conditions, which are set out in law and uniform across all councils. One of these conditions is that they must have a break in service of at least 4 weeks.
Sensei Sandeep Desai leads a Tai Chi class by the sea. Courtesy Kala Ghoda Association.
India’s largest multicultural festival is currently sweeping Mumbai, bringing together a diverse group of creatives to fill the streets with colour and homegrown talent.
Over the past 20 years, Mumbai’s Kala Ghoda Arts Festival (KGAF) has grown from strength to strength, celebrating the city’s diverse cultural heritage and developing into a world-class event of massive proportions. In its latest outing, the festival takes over 31 venues and encapsulates everything from food to the v...
KGAF is held under the patronage of the Kala Ghoda Association, which was formed in 1998 to preserve the art and heritage of South Mumbai. Festivities stretch across the city – encompassing suburbs historically known as Old Mumbai – from Colaba, at the southern tip of the city, to Mahim and Sion.
The architectural remnants of colonialism are at their charming best in this area; buildings such as the Town Hall – which now houses The Asiatic Society of Mumbai – David Sassoon Library, St Xavier’s College and Victoria Terminus are all found here, remarkably restored and carefully conserved. A slice of this area, n...
The outer half is flanked by Marine Drive, the historic seaside boulevard dotted with some of Mumbai’s landmark buildings, such as the Air India office and Oberoi Hotel, as well as historic Art Deco properties built by wealthy Parisians nearly a century ago.
In a sense, the district is an urban museum in itself. “The street is where the KGAF was born,” says Varsha Karale, the festival’s curator of street performances.
Every artistic section of the festival is curated by a different individual, uniquely placed to bring out the best aspects of participants and performers alike. For instance, the stand-up section is being curated by Jeeya Sethi, comic, producer and founder of FemaPalooza, an outfit that produces women-only comedy show...
The festival’s stand-up nights will boast a bevy of India’s brightest comic talent, headlined by Vaibhav Sethia and Anirban Dasgupta and featuring rising stars such as Sonali Thakker, Anu Menon, Siddharth Dudeja and Niveditha Prakasam.
Entries include wide-ranging installations that demonstrate time travel, as well as chariots, hourglasses, pictorial reflections of captured moments in time, a wish-fulfilling tree, and even a knight in shining armour.
But Khubchandani and Akhaury say the exhibits to watch out for are Kali Peeli (a vibrant take on the art found in Mumbai taxis); Ulta Sawaal (an installation of mirrored windows where the viewer becomes a part of the work itself; and Kalchakra (two chakras placed horizontally and vertically next to each other, whose ...
“One would think after 20 years of art on the street, one has seen it all, but we’re astounded by the interpretations of time that have come through – thought-provoking and refreshing,” say the curators.
The street performance section is another that will draw crowds this year – India’s myriad native genres tend to attract hordes of eager spectators. This year, you can catch kachchi ghodi, nat kartab and bahurupia performances every evening until Saturday at Rampart Row and Cross Maidan.
Whereas kachchi ghodi is an Indian folk dance where men don a horse costume, bahurupi (literally translated as “many faced”), is where artists portray several characters in one act, and is one of India’s oldest art forms. Nat kartab is the native art of tightrope-walking, often while balancing objects on the head for g...
Cinema-lovers too will enjoy the line-up of events, screenings and exhibitions at this year’s festival.
Of special significance is the public premiere of Hamid, set in Kashmir and directed by Aijaz Khan. It’s about eight-year-old Hamid, who learns that 786 is God’s phone number and tries calling him for answers. Zoo by Shlok Sharma is the first Hindi feature shot entirely on an iPhone, while Bismillah of Benares is a f...
The dance category features classical and fusion performances, as well as Latin dance (tango), folk (chhau), flamenco, contemporary, hip-hop and dance theatre. In music, festival-goers can get back to old Mumbai with a jazz concert; there’s also Urdu and Kashmiri poetry rendered to contemporary music, fusion rock, Su...
But it’s not just an event for the adults. The spirit of this festival is inclusivity, so there’s plenty of activities for children, too. It’s held to raise awareness of India’s diverse culture and to encourage people to donate towards the maintenance of the district.
Children are exposed to fun literature and can also participate in a long list of workshops that teach everything from creating mandalas and dreamcatchers to painting, tribal music and dance, storytelling, writing, ornithology, and science-based activities, from making balloons with dry ice to experimenting with (sa...
Meanwhile, the Children’s Literature section will hold hourly story time. “I wanted to make sure that there was something for each child, young and old,” says section curator Yashasvi Vachhani.
SINGAPORE - A forensic pathologist who performed an autopsy on Madam Low Foong Meng, whose charred body was found inside her husband's law firm in the Afro Asia Building four years ago, found three cuts on her body which were likely to have been caused by a knife or a cleaver.
She also had five fractures to her skull, and the damage to her brain possibly rendered her unconscious, said Associate Professor Dr Gilbert Lau.
The senior consultant forensic pathologist with the Health Sciences Authority found the cause of Madam Low's death to be from the inhalation of fire fumes and extensive severe burns.
Prof Lau took to the witness stand on the second day of a murder trial in the High Court on Wednesday morning.
Govindasamy Nallaiah, 70, a former client of Madam Low's husband, Rengarajoo Rengasamy Balasamy stands accused of her murder.
The prosecution's case is that Govindasamy, angered over a legal fee dispute, took out a bicycle chain and padlock from his haversack and hit Madam Low, 56, on the head several times until she collapsed at her husband's firm on 10 Aug, 2011.
He then allegedly used a lighter to set some files on a table in the office on fire, and watched it spread, before leaving Madam Low unconscious inside the burning unit.
Prof Lau told the court that two of the threecuts he found on Madam Low were "defensive injuries". One almost sliced off the tip of her left middle finger, while another was a cut on her elbow.
The wounds were caused by "a sharp, cutting instrument", such as a knife or a cleaver, he said.
Madam Low's head injuries, meanwhile, caused some bleeding in the brain, but would not have been serious enough to cause her death, Prof Lau testified.
The presence of "copious amounts of soot" in her airways and lungs, and a "lethal" level of carbon monoxide in her blood, also meant that she must have been alive at the time of the fire, he added.
Prof Lau will be crossed-examined by Govindasamy's lawyers at a later date.
Security officer Mohamed Amin Arshad also took the stand on Wednesday morning, and testified that he saw Govindasamy entering the building that day.
Deliveryman Marco Jap is expected to take the stand on Wednesday afternoon. He supposedly saw Govindasamy holding on to a bicycle chain with a padlock in the office, and later heard loud "thud" sounds and a female voice screaming inside, before noticing smoke coming out of the office. Mr Jap then went to alert a securi...
In just one example, peanuts are trucked into Oklahoma. But that doesn't stop a peanut butter manufacturer from getting a "Made in Oklahoma" brand. Here's why.
Corrections & Clarifications: A previous version of this story gave an incorrect location for Route 11 Potato Chips. It has a processing plant in Mount Jackson, Virginia.
As local-food sales grow into a $20 billion industry, a USA TODAY Network investigation found that state-branding programs designed to inform consumers and support local farmers are deceptive and virtually unregulated.
These "buy local" programs purport to connect shoppers with food from their states by affixing logos and stickers.
Yet most state food-branding programs certify products as "local" even if half the ingredients come from another state or country. Many states have no minimum ingredient requirement.
Think of it like this: Coffee beans don't grow in Utah. They must be imported. "But if you roast the beans here, you're qualified for the program," said Wayne Bradshaw, marketing and economic development division director for the Utah Department of Agriculture and Food, which runs the Utah's Own program.
The same is true for tea brewed in Alabama, peanut butter processed in Oklahoma and potato chips cooked and bagged in Virginia. The main ingredient can come from around the world or across the country.
Over the past four months, USA TODAY Network reporters reviewed food-branding programs in the 45 states that have them. They analyzed rules, enforcement actions, and the criteria each state requires to be considered local.
18 states set no minimum on the percentage of locally grown ingredients a product must contain to get a state brand.
20 states brand food as local as long as the company making them is headquartered within the state.
36 states have no formal annual review process to check whether companies are following program rules. About two dozen states let companies sign up and call their food local without verifying the source of ingredients.
40 states have no record of enforcement actions in the past five years and no record of removing specific companies from their programs.
Program officials in nearly every state say they aren't attempting to fool consumers by tapping the farm-to-table-movement. But they acknowledge the programs are more about marketing efforts to promote the local economy and create jobs.
"It’s a way for small- to medium-sized businesses to inform consumers that their products are locally made," said Lori Panda, director of the Ohio Proud program. "It’s a good way for consumers to feel good about supporting the local economy."
But many programs emphasize food in slick marketing campaigns that food and farm researchers say make shoppers think they are buying products made with local ingredients or that come from local farms.
Across the country, 20 programs use the words "grown" or "fresh" in their names. The rest of the programs trade on that concept with "made," "proud," "taste" and "preferred" in their titles.
Brochures and websites often picture crisp produce, cultivated fields and profiles of farmers.
Click on the Georgia Grown website and you are transported to an agricultural display of in-season crops, farmers market bulletins and directories about Georgia pecans.
"Georgia Grown is also a brand with deep roots in sustainability, quality and integrity," according to the website.
The program requires produce to be grown in the state to use the label. But Georgia officials do not annually inspect farms or verify food sources. The Georgia Grown label can be put on products manufactured in the state, so long as the "key ingredient" or at least 50 percent of ingredients in processed food comes from...
The visibility of these state brands depends on where you live. Shoppers in Arizona might have trouble finding branded items in stores. In Kentucky, however, some grocery stores feature kiosks crammed with branded products.
The overwhelming majority of state-branding programs rely on taxpayer funds and are managed by state departments of agriculture.
IN NEW YORK: What do those New York-made labels really mean?
IN SOUTH CAROLINA: How local is your "locally grown" South Carolina food?
Budgets are supported primarily through a combination of state funds and membership fees paid for by farmers or business that use the labeling.
Some food researchers say the lack of uniform regulations and the number of food-branding programs not only undermine consumer confidence, they devalue the meaning of "local" food.
"The word local is chic; it sells things," said Cindy Fake, horticulture and small-farms adviser for the University of California Cooperative Extension. "So it's used by everybody and anybody."
Fake said the word "local" has no clear definition and consumers are easily misled.
"They are likely to be deceived," she said. "Consumers are thinking one way and the marketers know that. They know consumers want local, so they say it's local."
Most states allow food products to be labeled local even when ingredients are trucked in from elsewhere.
Milo's Tea Company in Alabama makes iced tea. A lot of it. The family-owned company distributes as many as 100 semiloads of tea across the country every day. Its gallon jugs with their distinctive red labels can be found in most major stores.
Milo's Tea Company is part of the Buy Alabama's Best branding program, which does not require that local ingredients be used in products bearing the brand.
The company's signature sweet tea has three key ingredients: Water, pure cane sugar and tea. It goes through seven tons of tea leaves a day, which are recycled and turned over to the city of Bessemer for composting.
But Milo's doesn't get its tea leaves from Alabama farmers.

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