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The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the strikes on the market in Idlib province's Maaret al-Numan were probably carried out by regime forces.
Syrian rebels began to leave the last opposition-held district of Homs city on Saturday under an evacuation deal that will see President Bashar al-Assad's government take back the area.
PNBE-GAYA MEMU PASSENGER (63243) departs from PATNA JN Railway Station at 06:30.
PNBE-GAYA MEMU PASSENGER reach on day 1 to GAYA JN Railway Station. The arrival time of PNBE-GAYA MEMU PASSENGER at GAYA JN Railway Station is 09:30.
A state representative lodged a campaign-finance complaint against Gov. Bill Ritter today, kick-starting a second investigation into campaign funds Ritter has said were spent incorrectly.
The complaint, from Rep. Kent Lambert, R-Colorado Springs, prompts the process for reviewing campaign-finance violations. Without the complaint, it is unclear whether the Secretary of State’s Office could have begun a formal inquiry.
Last week, Ritter, a Democrat, announced that his former campaign manager, Greg Kolomitz, wrongly used inaugural funds to pay off more than $200,000 in campaign debt and also overpaid himself by about $83,000.
Kolomitz has repaid the salary overage, and Ritter took out a loan to repay the misspent funds. Ritter had also turned over information to several officials, including the state attorney general, for investigation. Arapahoe County District Attorney Carol Chambers has been tapped to investigate if criminal charges are warranted.
“If there are other parties who believe that other agencies should also review this, we welcome that,” said Evan Dreyer, Ritter’s spokesman.
Deputy Secretary of State Bill Hobbs said his office has three days to send the complaint to an administrative law judge, who then has 30 days to hold a hearing and issue a decision.The complaint, which Republican attorney Scott Gessler submitted on behalf of Lambert, asks that both Ritter’s campaign and inaugural committee be fined if the violations are sustained.
Clarksville, TN – As you know, there are SO many great things about being a biker.
Since I began this journey, I’ve tried to share as many experiences as I could along the way. I feel as though many of you who have been longtime bikers would appreciate the perspective of a “new” rider and it would take you back to your beginnings. But better than that, if offers me the opportunity to learn from you. Your experience is invaluable to me and others here.
Selfishly though, I share these stories for me. I needed this journey to wash over me and cleanse me of my past. To leave it where it belongs. Sort of like a good hot shower, but with PIPES!
Clarksville, TN – Let me first apologize for not posting any updates in the last week. The flu bug/stomach bug has made the rounds through my household, so me and the “porcelain throne” have become “besties” this week.
I try to visit any and ALL dealerships when I’m on the road, especially Harley Davidson, because I collect Poker Chips.
Leeds, AL – Since I began this journey, I’ve been amazed at some of the people and places I’ve discovered along the way. When a college buddy told me about the Barber Vintage Motorsports Museum, I was intrigued. After doing some research, I discovered that this place is probably as close to “heaven on earth” that a biker can experience.
The Barber Vintage Motorsports Museum is the masterpiece of George W. Barber, a businessman, racer and philanthropist. His vision to build the world’s best and largest motorcycle collection is what stands before us in Birmingham Alabama. In fact, the Guinness Book of World Records has certified the museum as the world’s largest motorcycle collection.
Clarksville, TN – Every biker wants to ride the legendary Route 66. Many of you have, and if you’re like me, you have it on your bucket list. Two friends of mine recently completed that trek, logging nearly 5,000 miles before they got home.
Riding along Route 66 was just the beginning of their 3 week adventure. They visited the world’s largest Mcdonalds, the Route 66 Museum, and had dinner at The Big Texan, a legendary steak house.
Auburn, KY – On a beautiful Saturday morning, I did what I so often LOVE to do. Go get a fresh hot cup of coffee, then take an early morning ride somewhere. The mornings are so peaceful and cool, with very little traffic. It’s perfect!
As I was watching the sun coming up, I was wondered which direction I would ride. Then it hit me, that on my way back from Arkansas last week, I came through Kentucky, down highway 68/80. I passed a familiar road sign to the “Shaker Museum.” From Clarksville, it’s a beautiful ride, and as so many bikers have, I’ve passed it many times.
I thought today would be the day I would visit to learn more.
Crossville, TN – On a beautiful day in May, I joined several other bikers for a day trip to Crossville, Tennessee. We were going to visit the Military Memorial Museum.
And of course, ride the beautiful Cumberland Plateau.
In all of my years, I had never known that this museum existed, much less, that Tennessee was the home to four POW Camps during the war.
“Camp Crossville” along with Camp Forrest in Tullahoma, Camp Campbell in Clarksville, and Camp Tyson in Henry County is where German POW’s were sent. There isn’t much evidence of the other camps today, but in Crossville, what remains of the actual camp is now a 4-H camp. The Military Memorial Museum houses the memories of the war.
Clarksville, TN – On Friday, July 22nd, LEAP Youth held a Car Wash and Bake Sale fundraiser from 11:00am until 2:00pm. The event was held behind LEAP Plaza located at 1860 Wilma Rudolph Boulevard in Clarksville.
A car wash was $5.00 and the bake sale goodies ranged from $0.50 to $2.00.
“We do a lot of outings with the kids to teach them that nothing is free in the world. So we had them put together a couple of fundraisers to help pay for the trips they will be going on throughout the year,” said Malcolm Luster, LEAP Counselor.
LEAP Youth working hard at their Car Wash Friday.
Bowling Green, KY – Crowds of construction personnel, media, Museum visitors and staff cheered as the first Corvette, the 2009 “Blue Devil” ZR1 emerged from the depths of the sinkhole this morning at approximately 10:35am CT. The process was streamed live on two of the Museum’s web cams with thousands of viewers tuning in all over the world.
“It’s wonderful… just seven more to go,” said Mike Murphy, construction manager for the project.
Clarksville, TN – LEAP is preparing for its 4th Annual Youth Summer Trip to New Orleans from July 9th to July 13th, 2014. They would like to extend an invitation to all local youth ages 11 to 18 to participate.
The purpose of this trip is to provide students with with entertaining and educational summer trip in New Orleans that will consist of the following.
Jim Meyer was raised on a livestock- and grain-producing ranch in northern Idaho. His undergraduate studies at the University of Idaho were interrupted by three years (1943-46) in the Marine Corps, including service in the Pacific. He returned to complete his BS in Agriculture in 1947 and went on to complete MS (1949) and PhD (1951) degrees in Animal Nutrition at the University of Wisconsin.
In 1951 he joined the faculty of the Department of Animal Husbandry at UC Davis, rising to the rank of professor in 1962. His research focused on mineral nutrition, alfalfa utilization, compensatory growth, and evaluation of feeding value and feeding standards. He made important contributions to the development of the Net Energy system of feed evaluation, a major advance in animal nutrition. In 1961, Jim received the American Feed Manufacturers' Award for research in Animal Nutrition from the American Society of Animal Science. He served 3 years as department chairman before becoming dean of the College of Agriculture in 1963. As dean, he led the college to change its name to the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences to emphasize the relationships of agriculture and the environment and the importance of environmental quality. As dean he organized a thorough overhaul of the undergraduate curriculum, one result of which was doubling of enrollment during his 6-year tenure. He became Chancellor at the height of the period of student protest of the Vietnam War. His steady and non-confrontational handling of those protests at Davis was credited with preventing a very volatile situation from getting out of hand.
Throughout his 18 years at the campus' top post, Jim Meyer demonstrated the courage to hold to his convictions, an understanding of his constituency's diverse needs, and a belief that all facets of the campus community should be involved in the decision-making process. Eleven major teaching and research facilities were constructed under his leadership. The Graduate School of Management was created, students increased in numbers and in diversity, the work-learn program was begun, as were the General Education Program and Peer Advising. He was dedicated to ensuring that students receive a broad education to prepare them not only for a career, but also for life.
After stepping down as Chancellor, Jim returned to the Animal Science Department and to an office in Meyer Hall, the Agriculture building named after him. He came in to work almost every day, helped establish the Animal Science Development Board, led the Students First fund-raising campaign, researched, wrote, and spoke on the changing role of the Land Grant University in modern society, and was available to talk to anyone who dropped by.
EXCLUSIVE: Andrea Parker, Jud Tylor, Megalyn Echikunwoke, Madisen Beaty and Cody Christian have been added to the cast of NBC’s drama pilot Beautiful People. The project, written by Michael McDonald, is set in the near future in a society where humans co-exist with mechanical androids that look like people but are treated like second-class citizens. It centers on the very wealthy Lydia (Frances Conroy), whose late husband founded the firm that makes Mechanicals.
Parker will play the wealthy Roberta, whose life is turned upside down when her rebellious teen daughter (Beaty) starts a romance with a Mechanical boy (Christian), the son of Lydia’s Mechanical servant David (Patrick Heusinger) and his wife Susan (Tylor). Echikunwoke will play the boss of Lydia’s other son, attorney Gregory (James Murray).
The New York attorney general has begun an investigation of Exxon Mobil to determine whether the company lied to the public about the risks of climate change or to investors about how such risks might hurt the oil business. According to people with knowledge of the investigation, Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman issued a subpoena Wednesday evening to Exxon Mobil, demanding extensive financial records, emails and other documents. The investigation focuses on whether statements the company made to investors about climate risks as recently as this year were consistent with the company’s own long-running scientific research.
LONDON (Reuters) - British police officers must prove their fitness in annual tests or have their pay docked after a survey found that 53 percent were overweight and one in 100 was morbidly obese, a review concluded on Thursday.
The government-commissioned report into police pay and conditions suggested that officers who failed a fitness test three times should be disciplined and could lose 8 percent of their salary, as much as 3,000 pounds for some.
It follows a survey of more than 11,500 staff on London’s police force which found that 44 percent were overweight, 19 percent obese and 1 percent morbidly obese, the report said.
The review, which comes as the government seeks to make cuts of some 20 percent to police budgets as part of austerity measures, recommended other wide-ranging changes which would allow officers to be sacked, cut starting salaries, raise the pension age and require staff to have better qualifications.
The proposals, while generally welcomed by chief constables, have not gone down well with ordinary officers who are facing pay freezes, higher pension contributions and a cut in numbers.
“Police officers have had enough of the constant state of uncertainty and the deliberate, sustained attack on them by this government,” said Paul McKeever, Chairman of Police Federation of England and Wales.
As it pushes forward with its original-content and premium-subscription strategy beyond U.S. borders, YouTube is looking for character-centered dramas with international potential and comedies that depart from the usual sitcom template, said Luke Hyams, the online platform’s head of originals for Europe, Middle East and Africa.
He cited “On Becoming a God in Central Florida,” an upcoming YouTube original starring Kirsten Dunst as a woman in 1990s Florida who works her way up the ranks of a Ponzi scheme-like company that drove her husband to financial ruin.
On the comedy side, while he still likes the 30-minute format, Hyams said he was on the lookout for “more serialized half-hours than your usual sitcoms.” Standup performances, plenty of which exist on the online service already, are out.
Hyams was speaking barely a week before his new boss, outgoing FremantleMedia CEO Cecile Frot-Coutaz, is expected to take the reins of YouTube’s EMEA operations. His comments come as YouTube tries to promote its YouTube Premium subscription service (formerly YouTube Red) in a world where other platforms such as Netflix and Amazon have run ahead with original production.
Unlike those two giants, however, YouTube already has a vast array of free content and needs to convince viewers to switch to its premium service. That doesn’t mean taking popular YouTubers on the free service and simply moving them behind the paywall, Hyams said.
It does mean working, at times, with big-name talent such as Dunst and also Robert Downey, Jr., who is working with YouTube on a documentary series on artificial intelligence, said Hyams. But he said that the service is “really trying to keep a balance” between known and emerging figures.
Lee Chapel and Museum presents “Remembering Robert E. Lee” with a speech by noted historian, professor and author Dr. Christian B. Keller on Monday, Oct. 13, at 12:15 p.m. in the Lee Chapel Auditorium. The public is invited at no charge.
There will be a book signing of Keller’s book, “Chancellorsville and the Germans: Nativism, Ethnicity, and Civil War Memory” at 10:30 a.m. in the Lee Chapel Museum Shop on the morning of his talk. The book will be available for purchase at that time.
Along with many scholarly articles focusing on the ethnic experience in the Civil War, Keller is co-author of “Damn Dutch: Pennsylvania Germans at Gettysburg” (Stackpole, 2004).
He is currently working on a study of Confederate strategy in 1862-1863 and a military history of Pennsylvania (Westholme Publishing, forthcoming).
Keller is professor of history in the Department of National Security and Strategy at the United States Army War College in Carlisle, Pa. He previously served as professor of military history for five and a half years at the Army Command and General Staff College in Ft. Belvoir, Va.
He has taught at numerous civilian institutions, including Shippensburg University, Gettysburg College, Dickinson College and Washington and Lee University. In 2001-2002, Keller was a Fulbright Professor of American History at the University of Jena in Germany.
Former WorldCom bigwig Bernie Ebbers will face criminal charges as early as today relating to the alleged multibillion-dollar swindle at the bankrupt telecommunications giant, it was reported last night.
The Oklahoma state attorney will file charges alleging that Ebbers and five other company execs violated the Oklahoma Securities Act, The Wall Street Journal reported on its Web site.
Profits at WorldCom were inflated by more than $9 billion from 1999 until spring 2002, when Ebbers was forced out as chairman and chief executive, the company has admitted.
Oklahoma State Attorney Drew Edmondson will charge that Ebbers willfully presented investors with false information about the company, sources told the paper.
Ebbers, who left WorldCom with a $500 million payout in April 2002, has been under investigation by Manhattan U.S. Attorney Jim Comey for more than a year, but has yet to be charged.
Five other WorldCom execs, including former Chief Financial Officer Scott Sullivan, have been charged with fraud in New York. Four have pleaded guilty.
Ebbers has maintained he was unaware that his lieutenants were cooking the books.
His lawyer, Reid Weingarten, declined comment.
Oklahoma is also planning to file charges against the company, which is now operating as MCI, the report said.
Edmondson has said that Oklahoma’s pension system lost more than $64 million in WorldCom-related investments.
The company, then based in Clinton, Miss., filed America’s largest bankruptcy case in July 2002 amid an accounting scandal that has since ballooned to $11 billion.
A company spokesman said it had not been notified of any pending charges.
In an effort to promote and build awareness for its original shows, NBC and its cable siblings have employed an aggressive repurposing strategy.
The most recent example: a six-week repurposing run behind the Peacock’s Revelations on Bravo. But NBC Universal executives say that more NBC shows are expected to gain exposure on USA Network, Bravo, CNBC and Sci Fi Channel in the near future. Moreover, NBC could be home to more encore plays for shows that originate on the cable networks.
Bravo has been repeating each new Wednesday night episode of the Bible-tinged show several times each week since Revelations bowed April 13. Bravo president Lauren Zalaznick said Revelations fits the network’s brand message of providing high-quality dramatic programming.
Through May 1, Bravo’s Revelations repeats averaged slightly below a 0.3 household rating.
“Our expectation is that it will improve the time period rating within our target adult 25-to-54 demo,” she said.
Revelations isn’t the first NBC show to reair on one of its sister cable networks. Shows like The Apprentice, The Contender, The Office and The Biggest Loser have all had one or more episodes repurposed on either USA, Sci Fi, Bravo or CNBC over the past year.
NBC Universal cable president Jeff Gaspin said the broadcast network is pursuing a bifurcated repurposing strategy of promoting the broadcast series on cable, while looking to increase time-period ratings for the networks that repurpose the shows.
The parallel objectives certainly were at play for Revelations. Prior to Bravo’s commitment to repurpose all the episodes, the skein’s April 13 premiere also aired on USA, Sci Fi and CNBC.
And the promotional efforts work both ways: NBC aired Sci Fi’s Battlestar Galactica miniseries, before original episodic installments made their cable debut in January. Also, Sci Fi aired three episodes of Bravo’s Project Greenlight.
Gaspin said NBC Universal is not approaching advertisers about cross-network purchasing opportunities with the repurposed runs. But from NBC’s perspective, he says the effort builds momentum and awareness of a new show among viewers without cannibalizing or pulling viewers away from the network.
At this point, though, the jury is still out on the ratings impact on Revelations. The limited series’ April 27 episode scored a 6.3 national household rating, after registering an 7.8 the prior week. The show generated a 10.1 in its April 13 debut.
LANSING — A Republican gubernatorial candidate was rebuked by colleagues Thursday for peddling “conspiracy theories” about Muslims on the floor of the Michigan Senate.
State Sen. Patrick Colbeck in a Thursday speech defended unsubstantiated claims of the Muslim Brotherhood installing “civilization jihad” in the U.S. The comments came two days after Buzzfeed News reported he made similar statements in a private meeting this month.
On the Senate floor, Colbeck also alluded back to unfounded claims that Abdul El-Sayed, a Democratic candidate for governor and Muslim-American doctor, has ties to the Muslim Brotherhood. He argued that the organization has support from the Muslim Student Association, which El-Sayed participated in while attending the University of Michigan.
The Muslim Student Association is a network of college students at campuses nationwide who meet to celebrate Islamic culture.
Michigan’s Republican Party distanced itself from Colbeck’s “conspiracy theories” in a statement by spokeswoman Sarah Anderson, but GOP politicians vying to replace Gov. Rick Snyder are largely sidestepping the controversy.
Republican front-runner Bill Schuette, Michigan’s attorney general, believes “all people must be treated with dignity and respect,” spokesman John Sellek said.
Schuette’s rival, Lt. Gov. Brian Calley, did not respond to a request for comment, while the fourth candidate, Dr. Jim Hines from Saginaw, said Colbeck should understand his constitutional pledge to not discriminate based on faith. Republican leadership in both chambers declined to comment.
Polls have shown Colbeck in the single digits.
Republican political consultant Dennis Darnoi said he doesn’t believe Colbeck’s sentiments will have much sway on Michigan’s GOP base this year. Colbeck’s speech was a “self-serving” stunt, he said.
“He will do and say anything he possibly can to make sure his gubernatorial candidacy has wings,” Darnoi said. “It’s a pathetic attempt to try to draw attention to himself and has no place in the Republican Party, period.”.
Ravens General Manager Ozzie Newsome said he wasn’t completely sure what led to his trip to a Chicago hospital last night, but he knows where he’s headed this afternoon.
That’s a quick turnaround after he was taken from Solider Field in an ambulance, and didn’t make the team flight home.
The hope is that there are no further problems, and that he isn’t pushing himself by returning to the office so quickly.
Sitting around watching T.V. all day will do that to you.
Determined not to let a little health scare upset his routine, Ozzie will be back in the film room for the next 12 hours, with some nice takeout food, a case of soft drinks, a giant urn of coffee and a large box of doughnuts.
I’m really glad he’s OK. Really. To help make him feel better I’m going to Fed-Ex him some bratwurst and deep dish pizza.
Not sure if breaking down the film of yesterday’s game will make him feel better.
@thegreatgabbert ozzie works out multiple hours every day.