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He said that ever since he first ran for office, he did not believe the country was as divided as politics would suggest.
“There are good people on both sides of every issue,” he said.
He said people have to listen to one another to move forward.
At the event, state Rep. Diana Urban, D-North Stonington, sat near Meg Staunton, co-founder of grass-roots organization March for Change.
Obama’s visit was important because it would keep the gun control conversation alive, Staunton said.
Obama said the day of the Newtown shooting was the toughest day of his presidency.
“But I’ve got to tell you, if we don’t respond to this, that will be a tough day for me, too,” Obama said.
Pippa Richardson, mum Lynn and sister Alex. The family have fostered 47 children in total.
Twin sisters Alex and Pippa Richardson, 19, grew up surrounded by foster children. Their parents Lynn and John began fostering when the girls were aged eight and in that time, they have welcomed 47 children of varying ages and ability levels into their home.
But whilst some might wonder what impact fostering as a family might have on their own children, Alex and Pippa, who are both now studying at university, maintain it has helped shape who they are today.
Alex, now in her second year at the University of York, said: “Particularly in the early days Pippa and I would look forward to having new children come to stay.
As well as the lasting legacy on their future careers, both Alex and Pippa still keep in touch with some of their foster siblings and have been able to discover first-hand the difference it can make.
Kirklees Council is hoping other families will follow suit. It is hosting a drop-in information evening on fostering at at Huddersfield’s John Smith’s Stadium on Tuesday, October 9.
Larimer County is looking for 31 residents to help it roll out behavioral health policy and spending priorities.
More than 60 percent of Larimer County already voted to support the rollout of tax-funded behavioral health services. Now residents can help steer how those services shape up.
The Behavioral Health Policy Council is looking to add six at-large community members to its ranks and is creating a 25-member technical advisory committee to advise the council on policy.
The council is currently comprised of elected officials from towns and cities within Larimer County's border. It's chaired by Larimer County Commissioner Steve Johnson.
Policy council members will be selected to three-year terms and have voting power to make recommendations to the county commissioners on how to spend the behavioral health tax dollars. The council is expected to meet quarterly.
The technical advisory committee will serve for one-, two- or three-year terms. It will be made up of health and behavioral health professionals and interested community members who are selected by the council.
Applications for either board are due Feb. 1. The applications are at www.Larimer.org/Boards.
For more information, contact Behavioral Health Services Director Laurie Stolen at 970-498-7126 or stolenle@larimer.org.
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Gender equality is a moral and a business imperative. But unconscious bias holds us back, and de-biasing people’s minds has proven to be difficult and expensive. Diversity training programmes have had limited success, and individual effort alone often invites backlash. Behavioural design offers a solution. By de-biasing organisations instead of individuals, we can make smart changes that have big impacts. Presenting research-based solutions, Iris Bohnet hands us the tools we need to move the needle in classrooms and boardrooms, in hiring and promotion, benefiting businesses, governments, and the lives of millions.
What Works is built on new insights into the human mind. It draws on data collected by companies, universities, and governments in Australia, India, Norway, the UK, the US, Zambia, and other countries, often in randomised controlled trials. It points out dozens of evidence-based interventions that could be adopted immediately and demonstrates how research is addressing gender bias, improving lives and performance. What Works shows what more can be done—often at shockingly low cost and surprisingly high speed.
Listing of content published in the FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin in June 2014.
The word Sunapee is derived from the Algonquian Indian words suna—meaning “goose”—and apee—meaning “lake.” The phrase “Lake of the Wild Goose” is depicted on the patch of the Sunapee Police Department at the bottom of the town seal.
The Virginia Division of Capitol Police is the first organized policing agency in America. Its roots originate in 1618 at the first permanent English settlement in Jamestown. Based today in Richmond, the agency has evolved with the state’s seat of government over the past 396 years.
Part one of a four-part series on criminal investigative analysis, providing a history of offender profiling, case examples and perspectives, the results of a research study, and inherent misunderstanding surrounding its definition.
Officers Brian Pierce and Ryan Myers of the Cleveland Clinic Police Department helped save an intoxicated man who said he was attempting suicide.
This handcuff key, well-designed for concealment, is approximately ¾ inch in length. With a small clip, the key easily attaches to clothing and has low visibility due to its nonreflective matte. It fits handcuffs manufactured by various companies.
A poem helps remind us of what is really important.
Some of the reasons officers are accidentally killed are the result of common-sense errors, such as driving unnecessarily fast, not wearing seat belts, and defensive driving errors.
The difficulty of distinguishing between truthfulness and deception and how investigators can overcome it during their cases.
BURLINGTON, Mass., March 24, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Avid® (Nasdaq:AVID) today announced that ITV, the UK's largest commercial broadcaster, has adopted Avid Everywhere™ to drive its new regional news production capabilities. Powered by the Avid MediaCentral Platform, ITV's end-to-end HD news workflow facilitates collaboration between its regional studios, resulting in improved efficiency and reduced operating costs, while enabling it to deliver higher quality content.
To produce high-quality compelling news content more quickly and cost-effectively, ITV needed to enable its project teams dispersed across different regional studios to collaborate together, boost production capacity without increasing costs, and maximize the speed and efficiency of its multi-site workflows. It also needed end-to-end HD capabilities.
"ITV News operates a network of regional news centre across England and Wales. At the heart of all our media production and exchange are our Avid systems," said Paul Stevenson, Director of Technology and Technical Operations for ITV News. "Key to providing an effective, modern news service is the requirement for robust, reliable media production systems able to freely handle, exchange, safely store and retrieve, produce and publish content, from widely dispersed sources."
ITV's end-to-end workflow comprises solutions from the Avid Media, Avid Storage and Avid Artist Suites. With Interplay® | Production and ISIS® | 5500 shared storage, ITV benefits from fast, collaborative production workflows, while AirSpeed® | 5000 delivers resilient ingest and playout. Editing is handled by Media Composer® | Software with Media Composer | NewsCutter® Option.
"Our ambitious Avid rollout required a very tight engagement with the whole Avid team across all disciplines," said Stevenson. "This included building and operating an Avid 'test' system, which we ran for several months ahead of the rollout starting. With this, we fully piloted and tested the ITV News Avid design for hardware, software, workflows and training plans ahead of deployment across our regional news centres."
In addition to designing and delivering the system, Avid Global Services also provided training to help ITV's staff adapt to the new workflow.
"ITV is a long-standing Avid customer, and over the years our relationship has grown into a true strategic partnership," said Tom Cordiner, VP of International Sales at Avid. "By embracing Avid Everywhere, ITV now has the efficient, integrated workflow its needs to deliver more and higher quality news content to succeed in today's challenging media environment."
Through Avid Everywhere, Avid delivers the industry's most open, innovative and comprehensive media platform connecting content creation with collaboration, asset protection, distribution and consumption for the most listened to, most watched and most loved media in the world—from the most prestigious and award-winning feature films, music recordings, and television shows, to live concerts and news broadcasts. Industry leading solutions include Pro Tools®, Media Composer®, ISIS®, Interplay®, and Sibelius®. For more information about Avid solutions and services, visit www.avid.com, connect with Avid on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn, or subscribe to Avid Blogs.
ITV is the largest commercial television network in the UK. It is the home of popular television from the biggest entertainment events, to original drama, major sport, landmark factual series and independent news. It operates a family of channels including ITV, ITVBe, ITV2, ITV3 and ITV4 and CITV which are broadcast free-to-air, as well as the pay channel ITV Encore. ITV is also focused on delivering its programming across multiple platforms including itv.com, mobile devices, video on demand and third party platforms. ITV Studios produces and sells programmes and formats in the UK and worldwide, and comprises of ITV's UK and international production operations, international distribution, home entertainment, publishing, merchandising and licensing.
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A local wrestling tournament took a turn for the worse when adults got involved earlier this month.
KIMBERLY - A youth wrestling tournament took a turn for the worse when a fight broke out among adults earlier this month.
A video that surfaced on Twitter Monday showed multiple adults arguing about a wrestling match going on at the Kimberly Youth Wrestling Tournament, hosted at Kimberly High School on Feb. 3 by the Kimberly Youth Wrestling program. The argument quickly turned into a physical altercation.
Capt. Jeremy Slotke of the Fox Valley Metro Police Department confirmed to USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Tuesday that officers responded to Kimberly High School for an incident at the tournament. He said more information is expected to be released Thursday.
The video of the fight, shared by the Slinger Wrestling Twitter account, made its way around Twitter Monday and was re-posted by Barstool Sports. The video has since been deleted by Slinger Wrestling.
As the argument started, one man confronted a woman and another man intervened. A fight among them and a second woman quickly broke out. Multiple adults standing near the incident jumped in to break it up.
The group of adults was pushed onto the wrestling mat before they were eventually separated. One of the tournament referees also was forced to stop a match going on near the fight.
A message left for the Kimberly Youth Wrestling Club president was not immediately returned Tuesday morning.
Two undefeated Pop Warner Football teams, the Huntington Beach Green Chargers and Saddleback Valley Black Wolverines, collided Saturday to determine the leader in the Orange Empire Jr. Pee Wee Division standings.
When the dust settled, it was the Green Chargers who emerged with a hard-fought, 20-13 road victory and sole possession of first place.
Saddleback Valley struck first in the contest, scoring on its opening possession. The touchdown was the first given up this season by the Green Chargers' defense. But the Huntington offense responded immediately by moving 50 yards in six plays on its first drive, culminated by a touchdown pass from Griffin O'Connor to EJ Ginnis. A successful onside kick by Logan Harris later gave the Green Chargers possession and they proceeded to march down field and score when Karson Ayres drove over several Wolverine defenders from four yards out. It was the first touchdown of the season for Ayres. Ginnis put Huntington on top for good by scoring Huntington's first successful extra-point kick of the season for a 14-13 lead.
From there, defense dominated the remainder of the game. For Huntington, Chase Ault led the team in tackles, with Cameron Gonzales and Zane Webster holding up the middle. Shaun Colamonico sealed the victory when he intercepted a pass and returned it 75 yards for the clinching touchdown with a minute to play.
The Green Chargers (6-0) host the Anaheim Rams at 8 a.m. Saturday at Edison High.
H.B. Blue Vikings 28, La Habra 0: The Blue Vikings ran their record to 3-1-1 by dominating the Lions.
Matthew Clark returned the opening kickoff 65 yards to set up a four-yard touchdown run by Brandon Laszlo. Nick Paulson added the two-point conversion kick. The Blue Vikings then recovered an onside kick and marched down field, a drive highlighted by runs of 17 and 28 yards by Peter McCoy and Andrew Schiffner, respectively. Laszlo completed the drive with an 11-yard scoring run.
Huntington's defensive also got into the scoring act when JJ Muratore intercepted a pass and returned it 52 yards for a touchdown. Conrad Myers added a three-yard conversion run to up the lead to 21-0. McCoy scored the final touchdown on a 13-yard run and Bryan Bravo ran in for the conversion.
The Blue Vikings defense stifled La Habra by not allowing a single first down in the opening half and just three total in the game. That defense was anchored by Laszlo, Myers, Paulson, Schiffner, McCoy and Matthew Zimmerman, with big contributions from Bravo, Jonathan Vanegas and Cameron Prohaska and Bravo.
The Blue Vikings host the Yorba Linda Rams at 9 a.m. Saturday at Marina High.
Garden Grove 20, H.B. Green Chargers 12: In a tight contest, the Garden Grove Bulldogs led the entire way and scored the clinching touchdown in the second half to overcome the Green Chargers.
Huntington drew to within 7-6 on a touchdown run by Jesse Sparks and was within 13-12 at the half after second-quarter runs by Sparks, Joey Valenta and Tanner Gunnell set up a two-yard touchdown run by Gunnell.
In the second half, Ryan Easterday and Phil Overturf had key tackles, Gavin Shappell, Jacob McLaughlin and Mar Yawn Washington held down the trenches and Jeremy Alcorn and Jaedon Davis both recovering fumbles for the Green Chargers.
H.B. Chargers 32, Garden Grove 6: Huntington overcame an early 6-0 deficit to rout the Orange Bulldogs for their first home win of the season. Quarterback Jerian Operana scored three touchdowns and Nick Daniel and Ethan Quick both scored once.
Huntington led, 14-6, at the half.
Affordable. Easy to install. Quiet operation. Offers proximity locking and unlocking.
Wi-Fi bridge costs extra. Does not work with other home automation devices. No auto-lock feature. Tap to Unlock didn't work in testing.
Thanks to this new integration, Nest X Yale Lock users will be able to lock their door with a simple voice command, remotely check the status of their lock from anywhere, and include locking the door in an Assistant Routine.
UPS is only using Latch systems to enter buildings, not individual apartments. When making a delivery, the UPS delivery driver will receive a unique credential which can be used for access.
A convicted drug dealer was arrested Thursday night after an officer stopped his moped for speeding on a street in east Athens and subsequently found bags of cocaine and marijuana, Athens-Clarke police said.
An officer was on patrol on Nellie B Avenue about 8:15 p.m. when a moped sped past him from the other direction, police said.
The officers estimated the moped was traveling at 40 mph in a 25 mph-zone. When the officer stopped the scooter near the Nellie B Homes public housing complex, the driver admitted he had been speeding, according to police.
The driver, 47-year-old George Kenneth Terrell, handed the officer a driver's licence that police said had been suspended.
The officer placed Terrell under arrest, police said, and while searching the man he found a cigarette pack containing seven small bags of cocaine and two bags of pot, police said.
He was charged with possession with intent to distribute cocaine, possession with intent to distribute marijuana, and possession with intent to distribute drugs within 1,000 feet of public housing.
At the time of his arrest, Terrell was on probation for previous drug-related convictions.
In December, he pleaded guilty in two separate cases, one involving possession with intent to distribute cocaine and the other on charges of possession of marijuana, carrying a weapon without a license and disorderly conduct.
As part of a plea agreement, prosecutors dismissed pending charges of aggravated assault and possession with intent to distribute marijuana. The charges stemmed from a May 2012 arrest after he allegedly brandished a knife while threatening a woman, according to court records.
For both remaining cases, Judge H. Patrick Haggard sentenced him to one year in confinement and eight years on probation. Terrell served just a portion of that time in jail because the judge credited him with time already served following his arrests.
It's time to check on snow conditions and dust off skis in preparation for hitting the slopes. If a ski trip is in your plans this winter, you can do no better than Colorado.
Colorado has 54 mountains taller than 14,000 feet, making it the highest of all states and a hot spot for skiers (with nearly 12 million ski visits a year). Aside from an abundance of deep powder for five months of the year and perfectly groomed trails marked green, blue and black (respectively, gentle, less gentle and "make out your will"), Colorado's ski resorts have little in common. Each has its own personality.
Whether you're looking for après-ski glitz and glamour or a place to take the whole family, the state has a resort for you.
Tim’s sour grapes are obvious here, but at least he’s not using his father as a prop to sell books this time around. That said, we wish him well on his latest self-promotion tour.
Join Len Downie, Jr. in a washingtonpost.com online chat.
Richard Stengel named managing editor of Time.
TUCSON, Ariz. — The latest Cirque de Soleil's arena production is in Tucson.
The show is called Corteo.
It tells a story of a clown, who watches his own funeral taking place in a carnival-like atmosphere.
Organizers say this show is different because the stage is in the middle of the audience.
The show runs April 3 through April 12 at the Tucson Convention Center.
There will be seven shows.
If you have some money to blow ($220 worth of spare change, to be exact), want to taste fare prepped by a handful of top Charleston chefs, and religiously follow @ChsFoodWriter on Instagram, then be sure to scoop up a spot at Candice Herriott's upcoming book release party at Bowens Island Sun. June 24.
Local food writer and blogger Herriott is launching her new book, Provisions to Plate: A Charleston Seasonal Collective, with a party starting at 5:30 p.m. There will be music from the Blue Stone Ramblers and plates from contributing chefs including Emily Hahn, Joe DiMaio, Vinson Petrillo, Jacques Larson, Anthony DiBernardo, Leila Schardt and Tito Marino, Blair Machado, and Shuai Wang with treats from Sugar Bakeshop.
It's a Saturday morning and you reach for your phone out of habit. Scrolling past a low quality Android selfie from a high school classmate, and a bar video from the night before that you refuse to turn your sound on for, lies Instagram gold: perfectly stacked slices of bacon atop a golden omelette, with a crisped brown biscuit on the side and an inscrutable breakfast sandwich on rye bread in a separate dish — an overindulgent visual targeting your brain (and wallet) more than your actual digestive capacity.
Herriott's book features these chefs, plus local farmers, fishermen, and products. There are photo spreads capturing the Lowcountry's vibrant food scene, plus interviews and recipes. "I loved working closely with the farmers, chefs, fishers, bakers, and mixologists to create this book, which shares the heart and soul of where our food comes from," said Herriott in a press release.
All guests will receive a copy of the book, and will learn more about Herriot's process during the dinner. Proceeds from the party will go to the ongoing support for publication of the book, its production, and contributors.
Senior Hess strikes out 15 as Spartans defeat Ardsley, 8-4; Minisink Valley next for M-E on Saturday.
Looked like a mismatch early on, but Maine-Endwell’s softball team faced some uncertain moments on its way to a Class A state first-round victory.
Amanda DeSantis’ three-run homer in the first inning and two-run double in the second led to the Spartans to a six-run lead. Section 1’s Ardsley answered with four straight runs, but Mere Rose’s two-run homer in the sixth all but sealed M-E’s 8-4 victory Thursday at Union-Endicott.