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Old Glory flies in Havana again, poets dream, but freedom remains the most heavily guarded hostage of the dictatorship.
The sea is wide between us.
Clínica Santa Catalina is having an Ultrasound Fair tomorrow from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., offering a variety of ultrasounds for ¢20,000 (about $34). The clinic is 400 meters east of the Pops in Jacó. For more information, call 2643-5059 or e-mail direnfermeriasc@gmail.com.
Halloween weekend is almost upon us, and Jacó will have lots of parties to choose from. Hotel Docelunas will host its annual Halloween Masquerade Ball Oct. 30, while Halloween night will see the annual pregame party at Los Sueños Hook Up Bar, parties at Monkey Bar and Vibe, and Los Chupacabras performing at the Backyar...
Also on Oct. 31, Club del Mar will continue its annual holiday tradition of celebrating British Guy Fawkes Weekend with the re-creation of the demise of Guy Fawkes. The event will include horseshoes, darts, cricket on the beach and more. For more information, call 2643-3194.
And there’s more to look forward to in November. As of the beginning of the month, Bubba’s Fish Tacos will be relocated to El Bohío Grill on the beach in the center of Jacó, with extended hours and new menu items. In Herradura, the annual bullfights the first weekend of the month will raise funds for the Jacó Catholic ...
Next month will also see two cool surf events. The 2009 Pura Vida No Pro will be held Nov. 21 at the Pelican Hotel in Esterillos Este. This event began in 2002 when a group of surfers came together to introduce the sport of surfing to kids from the orphanage in San José. Since then it has turned into an annual gatherin...
The following weekend, Nov. 28 to 29, the Jacó Surfing Association is putting together a contest to promote surfing and education. Students from grade school through university will compete in their respective age groups, and will have to bring letters from their school directors or their last grades to be allowed to p...
Elon Musk is the man of the future.
He makes rocket ships that will carry humans into space and makes cars that don’t require gasoline. But he can’t solve all of humanity's challenges. We found the companies that can.
During the three-days of the event, participants make as many observations of living things in the park and document them in photos.
Springtime in Texoma brings bluebonnets, birds and a BioBlitz!
Copper Breaks State Park – near Quanah, Texas – will be hosting a BioBlitz on the weekend of April 20-22.
During the three-day event, participants make as many observations of living things in the park and document them in photos.
Once photographed, they then upload them to the free iNaturalist website at www.inaturalist.org, or just use the iNaturalist app to upload directly from a smart phone.
Once a participant signs in, the state park asks that they join the Copper Breaks State Park BioBlitz created by Park Superintendent Edwin Quintero.
Insects, reptiles, amphibians, birds, mammals and plants of all types are available to be photographed. Participation will help document the biodiversity of this state park and help preserve a record of the species for Texas.
Visiting a state park is a great outdoor family adventure and for a small entrance fee, you get to explore a very big backyard, a press release stated.
Several members of the Rolling Plains Texas Master Naturalist and the Environmental Student Organization from Midwestern State University will be at the park to help participants.
For more information, contact Lynn Seman, rlynnseman@gmail.com, or visit the park anytime that weekend and take photos to add to this project.
3 How Do I Set Meeting Agendas?
4 How do I Effectively Take Meeting Minutes?
When you run a professional meeting, it's common to have a secretary or trusted employee take meeting minutes. This minutes contain a summary of the most important occurrences, details and decisions made during the meeting. One item on a standard meeting agenda is the reading of minutes from the previous gathering to c...
Create four columns in a journal or plain piece of paper with the headings "Point of Discussion," "Responsible Party," "Details," "Action Taken." You can also bring a laptop to the meeting and enter the meeting minutes in a spreadsheet or word processing document containing these columns. Fill out each subsequent row a...
Write in the business name, full date, start time, end time, location and the name of the person who has called the meeting at the very top of the minutes sheet.
Enter the topic that you plan to discuss under the "Point of Discussion" column. Keep in mind that each row represents a separate topic that is brought up during the meeting. In some cases you can simply use the meeting agenda to fill out the "Point of Discussion" column before you start, but keep in mind that sometime...
Include the name of the person responsible for presenting that element of the meeting agenda in the "Responsible Party" column.
Write in details of what the responsible party and others discussed during that point in the meeting in the "Details" section.
Record the final decision made at the end of the discussion in the "Action Taken" section of the meeting minutes. Even if the action is simply to discuss the issue more later, include that information in this column.
Present the meeting minutes to the person who called the meeting (if applicable) for approval or approve them yourself for distribution at the next gathering.
Balle, Louise. "How do I Create Minutes of a Meeting?" Small Business - Chron.com, http://smallbusiness.chron.com/create-minutes-meeting-3158.html. Accessed 22 April 2019.
McKay Coppins writes the best piece in a burgeoning genre: The rise of Taggart Romney.
If Romney wins the presidency, his five successful, well-educated sons could provide the necessary building blocks for a political dynasty — and no one is more valuable to that future than Tagg, according to advisers, family friends, and campaign insiders. Already, his advice to his father is beginning to supersede wha...
Greg Sargent talks to Stan Greenberg, who assigns great power to Mitt Romney’s on-the-spot listmaking.
Zach Carter and Jason Cherkis dive 10,000 feet deep into Bain Capital’s business deals in post-Soviet Russia.
John Dickerson tries to bring some reason and sanity to the great gaffe debate.
And Rick Hasen worries, fairly reasonably, about whether Republicans will accept a Romney loss.
In 1996, before the 2000 Florida meltdown ending with the Supreme Court’s decision in Bush v. Gore, about 10 percent of people believed the way the election was run was somewhat or very unfair, with almost no difference in Republican views and Democratic views. By 2004, when George W. Bush won re-election over John Ker...
1989's "Nick of Time" didn't just win Raitt an armload of Grammys. It was also a state-of-midlife album, a sparkling portrait of a woman's coming into post-youth freedom only to hear the ticking of the biological and emotional clocks. So what next? A self-satisfied preview of incipient dotage?
Not on your life. Or not on Raitt's life, which is what this album, more than any of the others from her 20-year recording career, is about. Where "Nick" dealt with fear of independence, "Luck" looks at fear of interdependence--Raitt, as you may have read, is in love.
In fact, her new husband, actor Michael O'Keefe, wrote the lyrics to "One Part Be My Lover," about being on the receiving end of those fears. The three songs Raitt wrote on her own cover similar ground, as do songs she chose from such mature writers as John Hiatt and Paul Brady.
But if the lyrics are of fear, the music is all of confidence. Working again with "Nick" producer Don Was, Raitt has fashioned recordings that are among her friskiest ("Something to Talk About"), funkiest ("Tangled and Dark") and most elegant ("I Can't Make You Love Me"). Raitt's own top-notch blues singing and slide g...
The grant is to support research on lightweight multi-functional advanced materials.
Alabama State University has received a $600,000 grant from the U. S. Department of Defense to support three years of research on "lightweight, multi-functional advanced materials."
The goal, according to a news release, is to develop materials to use for the next generation of U.S. Air Force systems and for advanced aircraft, such as the F-35 Lighting II fighter jet.
Derrick Dean, ASU professor of Biomedical Engineering and director of the Integrated Bioengineering and Advanced Materials Center, will serve as the research's principal investigator, with Elijah Nyairo, a chemistry instructor, to serve as its co-principal investigator.
ASU was selected for the grant, Dean said in the release, because of a solicitation he noticed from the DoD's Historically Black College & Universities Research and Education program.
Dean said the grant will expand research at the university and increase its visibility in research networks.
Additionally, it will provide scholarships for up to four students, "who will be exposed to cutting-edge research, and help provide a pipeline of scientists and engineers prepared to immediately contribute to helping the U. S. Air Force and Department of Defense fulfill its mission," he said.
After leaving Hauser, a small town just across the state line from Spokane, the train continued along BNSF lines, following the Columbia River to Vancouver, Wash. There, seven more tank cars were found to have slow leaks from valves on top of the cars, which were inspected by both BNSF and the Federal Railroad Administ...
The train was inspected again in Auburn, Wash., where another six cars were found to have leaking top valves and were pulled off the train, Wallace wrote.
Washington state officials at the Utilities and Transportation Commission were alerted to the leaking train after cars had already been removed. The FRA, a UTC partner agency, asked the state’s lone federally certified hazardous materials inspector to take a look, according to testimony that UTC Chairman David Danner g...
The incident is currently under investigation, and official details may not be available to the public for about a month, said Jason Lewis, UTC transportation policy adviser.
Neither the UTC or BNSF would comment on what might have caused the leaks, leaving that to be revealed by the investigation.
The cars involved were higher-standard CPC-1232 cars, which some oil companies have started using after several fiery derailments caused concerns about older DOT-111 rail cars, which have been found more likely to puncture or burst. The 1232 cars have thicker shells, head shields and improved fittings on top the car. A...
BNSF regularly inspects all 32,500 miles of its tracks, Wallace said. Most key routes are inspected four times per week, more than federally required.
“If there’s a car leaking, they will do a visual on-site, on the tracks, and if it needs to, beyond that as well,” Wallace said.
As dueling oil safety bills are making their way through the Washington State Legislature, UTC Chair Danner told legislators the incident highlights the commission’s glaring need for more rail inspectors. In this case, the UTC inspection was delayed as the hazardous materials inspector had to travel from Eastern Washin...
The commission, which currently has only four FRA-certified inspectors for the state, has requested more funding as lawmakers work on the next biennial budget.
The oil safety bill before the House committee on Tuesday, HB 1449, was introduced at the request of Gov. Jay Inslee. Among the measures it would implement is an increase in the oil spill response tax, currently levied on crude oil transported in the state by marine vessels.
The bill would expand the tax so it is also levied on crude oil transported by pipeline and rail car in the state, and increase the portion that pays for spill prevention from four cents to 10 cents per barrel. That increase would help in part to pay for improvements like new inspectors for the UTC.
Oil and railroad company representatives at the hearing said they would support levying the tax on crude by rail, as it would make up for the amount of money lost by transporting crude on trains instead of ships. However, they expressed their concern with the increase in the tax.
Another oil safety bill, sponsored by Sen. Doug Ericksen, R-Ferndale, is making its way through the Senate. That bill, SB 5057, also would extend the barrel tax to oil-by-rail, but not to pipeline, and does not include the increased tax rate.
Rep. Jessyn Farrell, D-Seattle, primary sponsor of the House bill, also testified at the Feb. 3 hearing, saying there are significant gaps in state oil regulations.
In that case, Federal Railroad Administration inspectors found oil stains on the sides and wheels of a tank car that was being unloaded at the refinery. An inspection revealed an open valve and a missing plug.
The incident was not initially reported to any local or state officials, though there are state and federal hotlines for reporting spills. The state requires any spill of hazardous materials to be reported within 30 minutes to a 24-hour hotline.
The Department of Ecology, which responds to inland oil spills, the U.S. Coast Guard, which responds to spills along navigable waterways, and the Whatcom County Unified Emergency Coordination Center all first learned of the November incident when a McClatchy reporter contacted them for information on Jan. 21.
Federal and state regulators are also investigating that case.
The Jan. 12 incident was reported to the state’s hotline on Jan. 23, said Karina Shagren, spokeswoman for the state Emergency Management Division.
When asked why the incident was reported more than a week later, Wallace replied that BNSF staff members thought they were following proper protocols, and amended their Washington reporting policy following discussions with the UTC in January.
“We take these matters very seriously, and will continue to be vigilant in inspections, working closely with our customers and the FRA,” Wallace wrote.
In response to the apparent gap in protocols, the UTC is sending letters to all railroad companies that travel through the state to remind them the commission requires reports of any release of hazardous materials “within 30 minutes of learning of the event” (emphasis as it appears in the UTC letter, which McClatchy ob...
McClatchy reporter Curtis Tate contributed to this report.
Muslim men arrive at the Id Kah Mosque for the morning prayer on Eid al-Fitr in the old town of Kashgar in China’s Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region.
The United Nations has received credible reports that China is holding as many as a million ethnic minority Uighur Chinese and other ethnic minorities in internment camps for the purpose of “political reeducation.” The UN report, released August 10, said that the Chinese government has created what is essentially a “ma...
The Uighur ethnic group is primarily Muslim. More than 10 million Uighurs live in northwestern China in the autonomous Xinjiang region, an area with valuable oil deposits. However, the region has only been under Chinese control since 1949, and some Uighurs want their freedom back. Ethnic tensions there are high. After ...
China’s Communist government strictly controls religion; religions not approved by the government are persecuted or banned. China officially recognizes five religions: Buddhism, Islam, Catholicism, Protestantism and Taoism. However, each of these religions is directly supervised and controlled by a state-run organizati...
One way China does this is through reeducation camps.
Chinese Muslims who have been released from reeducation camps tell stories of being arrested because they showed signs of “extremism.” These signs can include wearing Islamic-style clothes, having a long beard or a Muslim name, praying at a mosque more than once a week, being caught with religious content like Koranic ...
A former instructor from one reeducation camp in Xinjiang explained how the process works. Once arrested, religious prisoners often sit in jail for days, weeks or months before they are taken to reeducation camps, where they are forced to watch hours of propaganda videos denouncing extremism. They are required to memor...
Islam isn’t the only religion targeted. In 2017, China declared that Christianity was a “national security threat.” Chinese Christians have been told to replace Christian symbols in their homes and businesses with images of Xi Jinping. This month, the Chinese government commanded that all religious buildings fly the Ch...
Mao Zedong ruled China as chairman of the Communist Party for decades, exercising authoritarian rule, establishing a cult of personality, “reeducating” dissenters, and killing somewhere between 30 million and 70 million people.
Since coming to power in 2013, Xi has cemented his control over the Chinese government. In March this year, the Communist Party announced that it was abolishing term limits for the president, meaning that Xi can rule China for as long as he pleases. As long as Xi, who is also the head of the Communist Party of China, s...
A used-car dealer is hoping Melbourne's restriction against displaying more than four flags at once won't fly in federal court.
The car dealer, George Abchal, cited for flying too many American flags, filed suit Friday in Orlando, claiming Melbourne's ordinance is unconstitutional.
"The city has no right to say how many flags a person can fly," said David Wasserman, one of Abchal's attorneys. "It's all of our flag, not the city of Melbourne's."
Wasserman and Abchal's other attorney, Scott R. Rost, also asked a federal judge Friday to prohibit the city from enforcing its ordinance until the case goes to trial.
The attorneys had hoped U.S. District Judge G. Kendall Sharp would rule on the request by today, Flag Day, but he did not.
Melbourne's city attorney, Paul Gougelman, said the city isn't enforcing its ordinance, which fines people from $250 to $500 a day for flying too many flags.
He said the ordinance has been put on hold until July when the definition of a flag is clarified.
Regardless, Gougelman said he is anxious to hear what the judge has to say: "We are all ears and interested to hear how we can give special dispensation to the American flag."
Abchal and the city have been feuding since he was cited in late February for flying about two dozen 11 1/2 -by-16-inch flags on his cars at A & B Auto Sales.
Until last year, Melbourne allowed residents to fly as many American flags as they wanted but prohibited them from flying more than four other types of flags.
The city began also restricting the number of American flags after an appeal court ruled that a similar ordinance in Clearwater was unconstitutional.
The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said in August that Clearwater was violating free-speech rights by restricting the flying of one type of flag but not another.
Melbourne officials have said the city regulates the flying of flags for safety and aesthetics. They said the flags, often used to promote businesses, could distract motorists.
But Abchal's attorneys say their client, a Vietnam vet, displays his flags to show patriotism.
"We find it ironic that you can burn as many flags as you want in the city of Melbourne, but you can't display more than four," Rost said.
VALPARAISO, Ind. (AP) — Chris Duncan threw for 302 yards and three touchdowns to power Valparaiso to a 48-30 victory over Jacksonville in Pioneer Football League play on Saturday.
Freshman Ryan Markoff tossed his first career touchdown pass — on his only pass of the game — a 2-yard strike to Mason Sutter on Valparaiso's first possession of the second half for a 34-10 lead.

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