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"May I explain out of the loop?" Bush replied. "No operational role." |
Bush would go on to win a single term in the White House, years that were dogged by Walsh, the independent prosecutor, trying to get to the bottom of how much the 41st president had known about the arms-for-hostages-for-arms scandal – and how much he'd held back evidence of what he'd known and when he knew it. |
WESTMEATH were overwhelmed by Waterford at this All-Ireland hurling qualifier at Cusack Park, Mullingar yesterday in a victory every bit as decisive as the 14-point winning margin would suggest. |
There was nothing spectacular about the Waterford display but, once Ken McGrath’s prodigious free from deep inside his own half went all the way to the Westmeath net in the 22nd minute, the game was effectively over. |
Another goal three minutes later, this time by John Mullane, stretched the Waterford lead to 13 points (2-11 to 0-4) and only their margin of victory remained to be determined. |
However, if there is a cause for Waterford concern, it will be that they were matched on the scoreboard in the second half by Westmeath; clearly many of the Waterford players believed that by half time the game was done and dusted. However, there was just a brief flurry of concern for the winners when Brendan Murtagh c... |
McCarthy said the game was an important work-out for his charges ahead of their vital clash with Galway on Sunday week. |
“After our loss to Tipp its good to get to winning ways,” he said. |
Westmeath led just once, and briefly, with lively full-forward Daniel Carty pointing inside a minute. Bennett gave an inkling of what was to come when he levelled from a 50 metre free and pointed from play in the 3rd minute to give Waterford a lead they never again surrendered. |
With Bennett and the magnificent Ken McGrath totally dominant at midfield the supply of ball to the attack was constant. The forwards seemed satisfied to pick off long range points rather than go for goals. |
Despite the hopelessness of their cause Westmeath battled all through the second half with wing-back John Shaw leading by example. Shaw was brilliant throughout and deserved better than to end up on the losing side. |
They could consider themselves unlucky to have Brendan Murtagh’s goal ruled out for a square infringement within five minutes of the restart. However, there was no question of illegality about Murtagh’s goal strike in the 49th minute. |
Scorers: Waterford: D. Bennett (0-7, 0-5 f)); K. McGrath (1-3, 1-1 f)); J. Mullane (1-2); D. Shanahan (1-2); S. O’Sullivan (0-3); E. McGrath (0-2); T. Browne, M. Walsh and J. Kennedy (0-1 each). Westmeath: J. Shaw (0-5, 0-2 f) B. Murtagh (1-1); D. Carty (0-3); A. Mitchell(0-2, f); E. Loughlin, B. Kennedy and D. McNicho... |
WATERFORD: C. Hennessy; E. Murphy. T. Feeney. D. Coffey; T. Browne. J. Murray. B. Phelan; K. McGrath. D. Bennett; D. Shanahan. S. Prendergast. S. O’Sullivan; J. Mullane. M. Walsh. E. McGrath. |
Subs: J. Kennedy for Prendergast (half time); D. Prendergast for Phelan (47 mins); A. Kearney for Coffey (59 mins); P. O’Brien for O’Sullivan (61 mins); K. Moran for Browne (65 mins). |
WESTMEATH: M. Briody; C. Jordan. C. Murtagh. P. Greville; J. Shaw. D. McCormack. N. Gavin; G. Gavin. E. McLoughlin; D. Devine. B. Murtagh. A. Mitchell; B. Kennedy. D. Carty. J. Clarke. |
Subs: D. McNicholas for Devine; P. Gilsenan for Mitchell (38 mins); J. P. Murray for Gavin (62 mins); D. Faulkner for Clarke (65 mins). |
A new study by the Centers for Disease Control ranks the potentially preventable deaths across all 50 states. Southeast, time to shape up. |
A new study by the Centers for Disease Control ranking potentially preventable deaths (from the five leading causes of death) across all 50 states reveals a gaping hole in America’s strive to be healthy—particularly in the Southeast. |
Using National Vital Statistics System mortality data from 2008–2010, the CDC looked at the number of observed deaths from heart disease, cancer, chronic lower respiratory diseases, stroke, and unintentional injuries. Using the three states with the lowest mortality rate as the benchmark, they determined where the syst... |
The number of lives that could have been saved is staggering: an estimated 91,757 deaths from heart disease, 84,443 from cancer, 28,831 from chronic lower respiratory diseases, 16,973 from stroke, and 36,836 from unintentional injuries—and that’s just in one year. Mississippi led the pack for preventable deaths from he... |
But overall, the region with the worst numbers was the Southeast. So what is Mississippi and its sister states doing wrong? |
While Dr. Yoon hopes the study will inspire state health officials in the Southeast to establish disease prevention goals, priorities, and strategies, no state should consider itself healthy enough. |
“All of the states, even the ones with low rates, could do more,” she says. |
The Minister for Sanitation and Water Resources, Cecilia Abena Dapaah, has said the government is working expeditiously to provide water for all Ghanaians. |
It is the vision of President Akufo-Addo, who is also a co-chair of the Sustainable Development Goals, for every Ghanaian to have access to "good portable water." |
The Minister made the comments when the board of the Ghana Water Company Water Limited paid a courtesy call on her in Accra. |
"We have a lot of projects lined-up," she said, disclosing that "some have reached Cabinet; some will be getting to Parliament while others are also in the pipeline." |
Mrs. Dapaah, who was reshuffled from the Aviation Ministry to the Sanitation and Water Resources Ministry last year, said the visit of the GWCL board was "long overdue" and promised to reciprocate the gesture. |
She told the board, chaired by Alexander Afenyo Markin, Member of Parliament for Efutu, that the Ministry was ready to support GWCL. "And we should work hand-in-hand so that we can achieve our aim," she said. |
On his part, Mr. Markin bemoaned production and revenue losses within the GWCL, pointing out that without reforming the system, production and revenue losses would continue unabated. Often, he noted that reforms are resisted by workers because it is not a pleasant venture. |
Mr. Markin assured the Minister of the cooperation of the board, saying that human resource competence is not a problem at GWCL. "What we need to enable you to succeed is reforms," he added. To achieve this, he called for the support of the Ministry to implement far-reaching reforms at GWCL. |
Mr. Markins also called for the cooperation of the workers of the GWCL, saying they often misconstrue the intentions of the board. |
The weather in Leeds is set to be a mixed bag today as forecasters predict both sunshine and some small light showers throughout the day. |
This morning is set to see sunny spells, with a temperature of around 12C, reaching 13C by lunchtime. |
Early afternoon will be overcast, before the sun returns late afternoon. However, light showers are set to occur at around 4pm. Maximum temperature of 15C. |
Early evening will see sunny spells, which will continue until just after 7pm. Temperatures will continue to be around 14C, until they begin to cool at 8pm. |
Rain is expected throughout most of the day tomorrow, accompanied by periods of cloud and a maximum temperature of 16C. |
Sunday will then be brighter, with a mixture of sunny spells, cloud and some light showers. |
Although a town of considerable historic interest, Perth,because of its location on the plains below the Great Western Tiers and because of the rather simplistic nature of some of its Georgian buildings, is not as interesting as its historic antecedents would suggest. |
Perth (the name comes from Perth in Scotland) was chosen as a future township by Governor Lachlan Macquarie when he passed through the area in 1821. It was proclaimed a township in 1836 and consequently has a considerable number of interesting and important historic buildings dating from both the Georgian and Victorian... |
The area was first explored by Europeans as early as 1806 shortly after the establishment of Launceston (Perth is only 19 km from Launceston) and it was passed through by Governor Macquarie on his first exploration of 1811. Ten years later, on 30 May, 1821 he stood near where the Perth bridge stands today. Subsequently... |
The first settler in the area was Thomas Massey, the Chief Constable of Launceston, who established a farm in the district in 1814. Famously the farm was raided, and the barn was burnt down, by the bushranger Matthew Brady in 1824. |
The town was laid out in 1833 and a bridge across the South Esk river was constructed by convict labour three years later. The construction of the bridge was largely the result of the actions of a Captain Wood who petitioned the governor. In 1835 a Lieutenant William Kenworthy, the Inspector of Public Works, designed t... |
Today Perth is a quiet historic village which has largely been by-passed by the tourism which has turned many of Tasmania's other historic villages into centres full of gift shoppes and antiques retailers. |
The National Trust brochure, available around the town, lists no fewer than 41 building heritage buildings. These range from hotels, to private homes, to old shops. It is an invitation to wander around the town and explore its heritage. |
More correctly the Leather Bottell Inn, is the oldest building in Perth. It was built in 1830 and, in its artless simplicity, it looks like the kind of house that children draw. It is named after a hotel in Cobham, Kent, England which was a popular watering hole for the novelist Charles Dickens. Some of the walls are o... |
Located on Norfolk Street, the Jolly Farmer Inn was opened by Alan McKinnon in 1826 and was a popular coaching inn for most of the 19th century. It was turned into a private home many years ago and was the residence of little known Australian poet, Norma Davis, in the 1940s. |
Located in Clarence Street this ornate brick building (constructed in 1889) with a domed iron roof and large panelled doors. It is an exceptional building which has been created as an octagon. |
A particularly grand and attractive two-storey residence dating from 1870 with a three level tower, two-storey bay windows and a number of outbuildings. It is a fine example of a Victorian Classical mansion. It is located at the southern end of town on the Midland Highway just past Drummond Street. Its name is derived ... |
Located on the Midlands Highway, on edge of the town, is Gibbet Hill. It was here that they hung a bushranger named Mackay (or McKay) who had murdered a passenger on a mail coach. He was actually hung in Hobart and his body brought to the gibbet to hang as a warning to those who might feel like robbing a passing mail c... |
Eastern Kentucky is a key example. Coal-mining jobs in the region have dropped by more than half since early 2012, and CSX announced in October it would close its mechanical shops in Corbin and lay off 180 workers because of a drop in coal traffic on the railroad. |
The administration calls the funding focused on coal communities the Partnerships for Opportunity and Workforce and Economic Revitalization, or POWER, initiative. |
It is designed to provide money to more than half a dozen federal agencies, including ARC, for projects aimed at diversifying local and regional economies, such as re-training laid-off workers, helping entrepreneurs and expanding access to high-speed Internet service. |
“What we have here is an incredible opportunity for strategic investment in Appalachia,” Gohl said in an interview with the Herald-Leader. |
ARC received a similar $50 million in the current budget for the initiative. |
State agencies, local governments and community organizations can apply for the money, which is awarded through a competitive process. |
Several agencies and organizations in Kentucky received grant awards through the POWER initiative last year. |
The grants included $3 million to the state to try to boost economic opportunities that could come from building a high-speed broadband network in Eastern Kentucky; more than $500,000 for the Kentucky Center for Agricultural and Rural Development for a project aimed at improving markets for small farmers; $275,000 for ... |
The POWER program is a piece of a larger proposal by Obama to help places hurt by a transition away from coal. |
Obama first made that proposal, called POWER+, last year. Congress funded pieces of it, but not all. |
Obama renewed the proposal in the budget request released Tuesday, including a request to speed up the release of $1 billion from the federal abandoned mine land fund for reclamation projects designed to improve economic conditions, rather than just fix problems such as landslides at abandoned mines. |
Examples could include reclaiming an abandoned mine for use as a business site or for agriculture. |
U.S. Rep. Hal Rogers, a Republican who represents Eastern Kentucky and chairs the House Appropriations Committee, filed legislation last week that would accomplish the same release of $1 billion over five years. |
Supporters hope having Rogers and the White House both working for the proposal will increase the chance of getting it passed this year. |
Obama also renewed a call for funding to shore up funding for health and pension plans administered by the United Mine Workers of America that the White House said cover more than 100,000 retired coal miners and their families. |
HOUSTON, Texas--Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson recently penned a letter to Spanish-language media outlets, urging parents not to send their children to the U.S. illegally. There are no "permisos," or free passes, at the end Johnson claimed. The Secretary's rhetoric, however, juxtaposes the realit... |
The Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural) met today to begin its consideration of the rights of the child. |
When speaking of children’s rights, the suffering of children in the Palestinian territories could not be overlooked, he concluded. The international community was called upon to ensure respect of Palestinian children’s rights under the Convention and other international instruments. |
Programmes and plans for children’s welfare had been merged with those devoted to advancement of women and the family, he said. Among national accomplishments, he cited the provision of free and mandatory primary education to all, reduction of the infant mortality rate to 6.57 per 1,000, eradication of polio, establish... |
SAMIR KOUBAA (Tunisia) said the international community had many times decried the gap that existed between international norms on the rights of the child and their violation in situations of armed conflict. He expressed concern about the precariousness of the situation of many children worldwide – particularly in Afri... |
After struggling to raise funds to promote her film "Village Rockstars" in Hollywood as part of the Oscar campaign, filmmaker Rima Das is happy to have received financial support from the Assam government. |
"Village Rockstars" is India's official entry to the Academy Awards. |
"Promotions for Oscars are coming along all good. We got Assam government's money. We have received Rs 1 crore from them. We have started our journey, now let's see. We are hopeful," Rima told PTI. |
Last year, "Village Rockstars" was a festival favourite which bagged the National Award and even won the Golden Gateway Award at the Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival. |
In the 20th edition of MAMI, the director is part of the jury for Oxfam award. |
Post the overwhelming response to her film across the world, Das said life has not changed much for her, personally and she is instead much more relaxed today. |
"You feel good that people are appreciating your films. It was very unknown for me how the world audience reacts. But when people from different age groups and part of the worlds accept it, it feels good." |
Dubbing "Village Rockstars" as a non-structured film, Rima said, "There's no background score, there are a lot of silences and yet we did well during our theatrical run. So everything is interesting." |
The theme for this year's award for MAMI Mumbai Film Festival, is "Cinema Beyond Stereotypes". |
The films in the reckoning for this year's Oxfam Best Film on Gender Equality Award are dramas in various Indian languages, that make compelling social commentary on the current times. |
Google said Friday that it is preparing to push its "Honeycomb" update to Google TV devices, pairing it with apps from the Android Market and improved interfaces. |
Android 3.1 will be pushed to Sony-branded Google TVs on Oct. 30, with the Logitech Revue receiving it shortly thereafter, Google said. |
Instead of trying to develop an experience that can replace a user's set-top box, Google is attempting to update Google TV by emphasizing quick access to both online and offline content. A year ago, Google took heat when consumers visited a network site like ABC.com and discovered that the network had blocked the Googl... |
For the update, Google will aggregate the available content that a consumer (and Google TV) has available to it under a new "Movie and TV" app, which organizes currently playing content inside a new interface. That app will present content, like a movie, that's currently available for viewing on network television, alo... |
But Google will also display movies from Netflix and Amazon's streaming service, YouTube, and "many other sites" as an alternative, Google said. Google's current Google TV iteration already does this, but the new version provides a simpler, more elegant format, a Google spokesman said. |
In addition, the Google TV home screen has now been reduced to a bar at the lower part of the screen. |
"Given so much choice, we're committed to delivering the best way to discover and engage with the high-quality entertainment on your television, whether that comes from your cable or satellite provider (DISH, Comcast, DIRECTV, etc.) or from the Web (YouTube, Netflix, and thousands more)," Mario Queiroz, vice president ... |
YouTube remains the most popular application by far on Google TV, and an additional revision tweaks the current, updated interface to allow users to "discover" more channels. According to reports, YouTube plans to push "channels (such as a "surfing channel" made up of YouTube surfing videos). |
The Google TV spokesman declined to confirm those reports, but did state that the top five "channels" on YouTube received as many viewers as the top five cable networks. Google said that it has improved the way that viewers can take a search (for "funny cat" videos, for example) and turn that into a channel with one vi... |
While customers have looked forward to apps from the Android Market on their Google TV, the Google TV spokesman downplayed that slightly, noting that Google will be cutting out many that require a touch screen or GPS to avoid a "lousy customer experience." Instead, TV-centric apps will be highlighted, with a total of 5... |
Google also plans to include a "pivot from play" feature that will allow users to preview other content, such as a YouTube video, without leaving the current "screen" of content they're viewing. |
In addition, Google's Chrome browser for Google TV and the way it displays photos will also be improved. |
Google's device partners endorsed the update. "The new version of Google TV for Logitech Revue addresses users' feedback to improve the overall experience and we're very excited about the results. Improvements include access to the Android Market, a more simple design and interface, as well as improved search capabilit... |
Will Amazon Introduce Kindle Devices in China? |
Could S.F. supe’s bid to halt building market-rate units work? |
The idea is counterintuitive, some even say crazy: Deal with the housing crisis by halting construction. |
But that’s just what many people are championing in San Francisco’s Mission District, where the influx of tech money has resulted in record numbers of evictions as housing prices soar and new developments change the face of the neighborhood. |
On Tuesday, Supervisor David Campos introduced legislation to halt market-rate residential developments in the area temporarily. A coalition of housing and progressive groups say they will push for a similar measure on the November ballot. And on Friday, some 400 people held a rally at City Hall in support of the idea. |
The idea of a moratorium on market-rate developments is unpopular with many economists and politicians. Mayor Ed Lee and others contend that the way to deal with the city’s housing shortage is to build more, not less. But there is a precedent for building moratoriums. For decades, cities and towns nationwide have impos... |
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