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They should use a type of wood which may not be the best burner, such as oak, but a wood which is quick to grow, such as poplar or willow. |
The homes must also be built with much better insulation than the vast majority of Britain's ageing housing stock. |
While most older homes let cold wind rush through gaps in the doors and windows, a zero-carbon home would not let in a breath of wind, which means there is less need for central heating. |
All the household appliances, such as fridges, freezers and washing machines, would have to be the most energy-efficient. |
A former Windsor resident who was convicted at trial of sexual assault, but had the conviction thrown out on appeal, pleaded guilty Wednesday and will receive a sentence of time served. |
Norman Pryce was in a relationship with the woman at the time of the sexual assault and forced himself on her against her will, he admitted Wednesday in Superior Court in Hartford. |
The woman went to Windsor police several days later because she was physically injured during the assault. |
Pryce took his case to trial and was convicted and sentenced to 34 years in prison, suspended after he served 24 years, and 10 years of probation. The state Appellate and Supreme courts found that the judge made a mistake during the trial and overturned the conviction and ordered a new trial. |
With his guilty plea Wednesday to sexual assault, the case is essentially over. Pryce’s victim was in court to watch him plead guilty and plans to speak at his sentencing on March 14. |
Prosecutor Sharmese Hodge explained to Hartford Superior Court Judge Laura F. Baldini the case’s history. The assault occurred in August 2012. After a domestic disturbance during which Pryce assaulted the woman, Pryce went into her bedroom and raped her. The woman suffered a rectal tear during the assault and was not a... |
The case went to trial and Pryce was convicted on Dec. 19, 2014. The case was overturned in 2018. |
Hodge said the state’s offer to resolve the case was a function of the state of the case in 2019, six years after the crime. The victim also agreed to the disposition, she said. |
Pryce’s lawyer, Anthony Spinella, said the sentence Pryce will receive, eight years in prison suspended after he serves 41 months, followed by 10 years of probation, will essentially be a time-served sentence. Pryce was in prison for that period after his initial conviction and before the Supreme Court’s action, Spinel... |
I was out at the Ingliston Shopping Arcade recently, when I noticed that they also seem to have aeroplanes flying in and out. |
This could have a security area near to the arrival and check-in areas, leading directly to the gates, without the need to walk three quarters of a mile past shops. |
It would also cater for people who need to drop off or pick up those who aren’t travelling into the city, or who need assistance; such facilities would be free of charge. |
The new airport could be called “Edinburgh Travel Airport”, or perhaps even Turnhouse, the old name for Edinburgh’s original airport. |
With the court-ordered deadline for fixing New York’s school finance system nearing, the state legislature has adjourned without producing a plan—and it has not scheduled any sessions to work on one. |
As a result, the advocates who sued the state are urging its three most powerful political leaders to put aside their animus and get a solution by the July 30 deadline. |
"I’m angered, and I’m frustrated as hell," said Michael A. Rebell, the executive director of the New York City-based Campaign for Fiscal Equity. "They should have done their job." |
Mr. Rebell concedes that the state still could solve the problem in time to meet the deadline. Because the legislature’s rules vest so much power in each chamber’s leaders, Gov. George E. Pataki could broker a closed-door deal with them and rush it through the legislature. |
The problem is, he said, that the Republican governor; Senate President Joseph L. Bruno, also a Republican; and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, a Democrat, are known not to like one another. |
Even as the legislature adjourned late last month, the three took potshots at one another for failing to address the school funding dilemma, election reform, and other pressing state issues. |
Gov. Pataki "has denied the court’s findings [in the school finance case] and, to date, has abdicated his responsibility to the children of this state," Speaker Silver said in a June 23 statement. |
If the political process doesn’t work, Mr. Rebell is confident that the court will be on his side. |
The state’s highest court assigned the original trial judge the task of overseeing the state’s remedy. That same judge gave the Campaign for Fiscal Equity an extremely favorable decision in 2001, Mr. Rebell said. |
"We’ve done well in court in the past," he said. "If it goes back to the court, we’re confident the court will enforce its judgment." |
Perhaps the only problem with that route would be political: The high court’s ruling ordered a solution only for New York City, but a court-ordered resolution that leaves out other cities and towns in the state might cause an uproar. |
"That scares lots of people in other parts of the state, for obvious reasons," Mr. Rebell said. |
Which school are you in? |
It’s a subject all parents obsess about: schools. How few good ones there are and how to get their children into them. The International Baccalaureate (IB) or the Indian School Certificate Examinations (ICSE)? How to make it to South Mumbai’s Cathedral & John Connon School (Maureen’s Head Start playschool is the way), ... |
Or, should you just skip those traditional schools that are stressful, competitive and ramshackle and opt instead for that growing set of new schools which come with an “international" tag? There are plenty of options: The number of Indian schools offering the University of Cambridge International Examinations (CIE) ha... |
At the conveniently located École Mondiale World School at Juhu, there are few open spaces. But the classrooms are large, the corridors eye-catching and the laboratories gleaming (as parents will tell you, they allow nail polish and don’t insist on braided hair and, oh my god, what parties those kids have). |
At Dhirubhai Ambani International School in Bandra, one of the few international schools you can’t really chequebook your way into, the academic pressure is intense. Parents may complain that teachers aren’t accessible enough or that the no-preference-to-siblings policy is family unfriendly, but it’s a glamorous school... |
Most of this, though, comes at a price: International schools charge anything between Rs3 lakh and Rs10 lakh a year. At an average cost of Rs3,500 per school day, this is five-star education indeed, without the slog and swot of the national boards. But is it worth it? Or is it just the easier way out? |
As Narayana Murthy of Infosys once said, he sent his son to Cornell because he couldn’t make it into IIT and many of these swanky imports do just that— provide good education alternatives for children who find it tough to get into traditional schools. Students usually find themselves in the red either because they are ... |
Indus International (which looks like the Bangalore version of the White House), with its sprawling 40-acre campus, swimming pools and riding range, was a good choice for India-returned Intel analyst Aarti Rao. “I could speak to my daughter Sanjana’s teacher anytime on her mobile, even during school hours," says Rao. S... |
Regular schools, with their crowds, chips and cracks, are like roadside India. Withstand the Indian schooling system and you’re set to tackle anything, as scores of successful immigrants will testify. Which is why London-returned Kavitha Rao ran the rounds of regular school admissions and her eight-year-old daughter Ma... |
Like Kavitha and Sanjeev, many parents stay away from international schools. Singapore International is starting with just five to seven students per class, Billabong International in Santacruz, Mumbai, has two per class in secondary school and École Mondiale has around 15 students per class. |
A few kilometres away from École is the 30-year-old Jamnabai Narsee School. Here, the kids eat their lunch standing around corridors or sitting down on the school grounds. There’s no air conditioning and the children have to learn a lot of stuff by heart, including their tables. But the waiting list to get into this in... |
It’s a demand imbalance that could simply be due to the fee factor: École is about Rs8 lakh a year while traditional schools are in the range of Rs30,000-60,000 per year. |
Plus, many take issue with the five-star qualities of next-gen schools. As a parent, you could side with Shujaat Khan, managing director at Blue River Capital. Khan points out that infrastructure in Indian schools, as in the rest of the country, must improve. The VC fund manager, whose children are all set to go to Éco... |
And finally, which is the better curriculum? IB/IGCSE or CBSE/ICSE? IB maybe the trendiest acronym in academics today, but it’s questionable whether the Geneva-based IB-trained kids can easily move to Indian colleges. After an IB, it’s difficult to get into the traditional college system and, indeed, almost all IB grad... |
But IB converts say it’s project-based learning over “spit and rote". Entrepreneur and investor Mahesh Murthy and poet wife Manisha Lakhe’s son Agni goes to the Cambridge IGCSE-affiliated Billabong International School in Mumbai. “He wants to go to school on Sunday," says Lakhe, explaining how stimulating studies can b... |
Still, IB can get a little too international. Shalini Advani was principal of the British School, New Delhi, but her daughter Keya studied at the traditional Sardar Patel Vidyalaya: “If you are Indian, you need to study Indian history in your growing years; you need to do Hindi seriously." IB schools study world geogra... |
And the international school curriculum is far removed from the realities of competitive exams. For IIT-minded students such as Ishaan Sethi of DPS R.K. Puram, these schools don’t cut much ice. “It looks like a resort," he complains of a Gurgaon-based international school which he visited during an inter-school match. ... |
Traditional schools have these strengths, especially progressive ones such as Shri Ram and Sanskriti in New Delhi, Besant Montessori in Mumbai and Krishnamurthy Foundation’s “The School" in Chennai. And they don’t have to be frogs in the well. As Advani points out: “A good solid Indian school looks outward. It has its ... |
1. How much would you be willing to pay for your child’s education? |
2. Would you like to send your child abroad after 10+2? |
3. Do you feel competition helps children do better? |
4. Do you feel discomfort (such as lack of an AC) is good for kids? |
5. What do you value the most? |
Mostly ‘a’s—You are very mainstream. Stick to the tried and tested traditional schools. |
Mostly ‘b’s—You are somewhat more flexible and open to trying either option. |
Mostly ‘c’s—You are inclined to the next-gen international. Go for it—you certainly have a great choice of schools. |
Twitter's international focus grew Thursday with the appointment of two former Google execs. Shailesh Rao will serve as Twitter's vice president of international revenue, while Stephen McIntyre will support international expansion of Twitter's self-serve ad platform, which it plans to roll out in the U.S. next month. |
The plan is to grow ad revenue with the self-serve platform through promoted tweets and promoted accounts. eMarketer estimates that Twitter's global ad revenue should reach $540 million by 2014. Advertising revenue at Twitter grew 213% to $139.5 million in 2011 -- up from $45 million in 2010, according to the data firm... |
Rao, former Google VP of media and platforms across Asia-Pacific, will set up Twitter's direct sales teams. Throughout his career, he supported YouTube, Google Display Network, DoubleClick Ad Exchange, and the mobile display business, including AdMob. |
McIntyre will support Twitter's self-service ad platform from Dublin -- a role similar to his position at Google for the past seven years in Ireland. The goal to get small businesses worldwide on its self-serve marketing platform and achieve the same influences as Google's AdWords and AdSense. |
Twitter will compete with Facebook globally. Facebook's worldwide ad revenue should exceed $5 billion this year to reach nearly $8 billion by 2014 -- more than double its 2011 revenue, eMarketer estimates. Growth will continue, although at a slower pace, dipping significantly in 2013 and 2014 to 32.8% and 13.7%. |
In the U.S., Facebook will garner $2.58 billion this year, contributing 51% of its total worldwide revenue. That’s down from 55% in 2011. It will drop further to 49% in 2013 and 2014 as international markets begin to contribute a larger share of ad revenue. This year, Facebook will account for 6.5% of all online ad rev... |
Julia Roberts’ Homecoming protagonist may be a therapist — but we’re starting to think she could use one herself. |
Amazon on Thursday released a full-length trailer for its upcoming psychological thriller, which will drop on Friday, Nov. 2. |
Co-created by Sam Esmail (Mr. Robot), Homecoming stars Roberts as Heidi Bergman, who once made a living as a caseworker at the Homecoming Transitional Support Center, a facility meant to help soldiers transition back to civilian life. Four years later, though, Heidi lives with her mother and has started a new life as a... |
Stephan James (Shots Fired), Bobby Cannavale (Boardwalk Empire), Sissy Spacek (Castle Rock) and Dermot Mulroney (aka Roberts’ My Best Friend’s Wedding co-star) round out the cast. |
In the trailer above, Heidi suspiciously has trouble remembering exactly what her duties were at her caseworker job. But based on the footage we see of the facility, it seems Homecoming may have had more sinister motives all along. |
Watch the Homecoming trailer above, then drop a comment below and tell us: Will you be watching? |
Rose (Calbone) Civello, 87, of Moon Township, on Friday October 23, 2009. |
Born July 13, 1922, in Pittsburgh, PA, daughter of the late Salvatore and Concetta Dolce Calbone. Beloved wife of the late Joseph "Ned" Civello. Loving mother of Anthony N. (Colleen) Civello of Raleigh, NC; Connie (John) Soczik and Debra Lynn (Larry) Bufalini, both of Moon Township, and the late Theresa Civello. Grandm... |
Rose was an avid Steeler fan and devoted animal lover, especially her Toy Fox Terriers. She was a wonderful mother, homemaker and cook. |
Visitation will be at the COPELAND MOON TOWNSHIP FUNERAL HOME, 981 Brodhead Road, today from 4 to 8 p.m. A Mass of Christian burial will be on Monday 9:30 a.m. in St. Joseph's Church. |
Memorial donations may be made to Animal Friends, 562 Camp Horne Rd, Pittsburgh, PA 15237-1109, in Rose's memory. |
The drugmaker's stock got a much-needed lift from Trump's victory last month. |
According to data from S&P Global Market Intelligence, Bristol-Myers Squibb's (NYSE:BMY) stock climbed higher by more than 11% last month. This double-digit move northward appears to have been triggered by the unexpected victory of Donald Trump over his Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton, perhaps signaling the end -- ... |
Prior to this rally, Bristol's shares were having trouble finding a bottom following the failure of Opdivo's pivotal stage study in front-line non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). In short, this critical failure opened the door for Merck's (NYSE:MRK) rival immunotherapy Keytruda to enter the market as the only approved ... |
Now, Opdivo may eventually break into the NSCLC front-line setting as part of a combination therapy, but there's no doubt that Merck's first-mover advantage isn't a major setback for Bristol and its shareholders. After all, this clinical miss may have wiped away approximately $4 billion in sales off of Opdivo's peak co... |
Having said that, the good news is that Opdivo continues to rack up other important clinical hits and regulatory approvals. Last month, for instance, the FDA approved the drug for recurrent or metastatic SCCHN (squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck). In other words, this miss in front-line NSCLC appears to be mo... |
Bristol's shares, however, are arguably on the expensive side after this hefty surge based on its current forward price-to-earnings ratio of 18.7. So, it's probably not the most compelling buy in the pharma space at the moment. |
Nonetheless, the drugmaker does offer deep value with Opdivo's overall stellar track record in the clinic, combined with its broader immuno-oncology pipeline that is among the best in the industry. That's why this stock may be worth picking up right now, despite its sizable premium compared to many other large-cap heal... |
Hours before a 13-year-old boy shot his 6-year-old nephew, the teen's father handed him the loaded revolver used in the shooting, prosecutors said. |
The allegations came out at the bond hearing for Napoleon Walker, the teen's father and the younger boy's grandfather, prosecutors said. |
Walker, 50, of the 1700 block of West Steuben Street, was ordered held on $150,000 bail after being charged today with unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon, police and prosecutors said. |
Walker's grandson, Marshown Means, was shot Sunday morning while playing with his 13-year-old uncle in their home in the 1700 block of West Steuben Street. The uncle has been cited as a juvenile. The Tribune is not using his name because he is a minor. |
After the shooting, police recovered the .38-caliber revolver which contained four live rounds and one spent shell casing, said Assistant Cook County State's Attorney Erin Antonietti. |
Prosecutors said Walker handed over the loaded handgun to his son but gave no motive as to why. Walker refused to give a statement to police. |
Records show he was convicted in 2002 for unlawful use of a weapon and in 2006 was convicted of a misdemeanor weapons charge. |
The child is still in critical condition after being operated on after the bullet nicked the boy's liver, according to Antonietti. |
Marshown’s family has said the boy is expected to survive the shooting. |
The teen also appeared in juvenile court this morning after being cited in a juvenile petition with reckless discharge of a firearm and unlawful possession of a firearm, said Tandra Simonton, a spokeswoman for the Cook County state's attorney's office. |
The teen was not allowed to return home but rather was placed in custody of the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services, Simonton said. |
The state agency is investigating the grandfather, uncle and the 6-year-old boy's mother for neglect in regards to the incident, said a DCFS spokesman. The father is also being investigated for abuse in the case. |
The family had earlier said the teen uncle was able to get the gun out of a locked safe and fire at the younger boy in what family said was a cops and robbers game. |
Find Aja at Ala Moana’s Makai Market Food Court. |
Diners can discover their “Aja” moment at Aja Sushi & Bento by enjoying a host of menu items in a convenient, inviting setting within Ala Moana Center’s Makai Market Food Court. |
As its Korean meaning suggests, Aja’s customers are encouraged to “go for it” when selecting everything from pupus to lunches and combination plates. Patrons can pair together a wide range of flavors, including, if one so chooses, pork adobo and kimchee. Similar to a local-style pot luck, Aja Sushi & Bento brings dishe... |
Some of the flavors Aja Sushi & Bento specializes in are Japanese, Korean, Filipino and local inspirations. The restaurant is built on a foundation of family influences and the popular garlic chicken actually stems from Yoo’s grandmother’s recipe. |
Smaller, snack-like choices also are available at Aja Sushi & Bento’s “grab-and-go” area, including Spam Musubi ($1.92) and Onigiri ($2.58) composed of salmon, ume or konbu. Korean Sushi ($4.68) is perfect as a snack or small meal and includes bulgogi, choy sum, egg, daikon and carrots, along with a special dipping sau... |
Popular salad selections also grace the menu and include Garlic Chicken and Salmon ($7.49 each) varieties. Mini Bento ($7.49) is a smaller, yet flavor-packed offering that allows guests to pick a main item such as shoyu chicken, garlic chicken or salmon and pair it with white or brown rice and two vegetable selections. |
“It’s hard to find tasty, local food coupled with fresh vegetables and healthy options, but we aim to do just that at Aja Sushi & Bento,” Yoo says. |
Monday-Saturday, 8 a.m.-9 p.m.; Sunday, 9 a.m.-7 p.m. |
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