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The program trains volunteers how to effectively respond to natural disasters.
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If they complete the class they are eligibile to be deployed by the Salvation Army for relief efforts.
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Those deployed become liasons for emotional and spiritual care.
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The class is Oct. 13th and costs $20.
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Lt. Rachel Johnson says relief efforts can last months to years, but it's the volunteers and first responders that make all the difference.
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"I grew up in the Salvation Army and I've actually never experienced a volunteer base quite like this in the Lafayette core," said Johnson. "It's the place where hashtag everyone knows your name."
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The deployment lasts for two weeks.
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Click here for the link.
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Select training and then select Indiana.
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FILE - Police guard a wooden boat carrying ethnic Rohingya refugees from Myanmar. Australian officials say their policies have prevented asylum seekers from risking their lives at sea trying to reach Australia by boat.
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Australia’s refugee policies were condemned during a review by the United Nations Human Rights Council.
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The criticism comes as officials said violent disturbances at a center for migrants on Christmas Island were being contained.
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Australia automatically detains asylum-seekers who arrive in the country without visas. Hundreds of detainees are sent for processing to offshore camps in the South Pacific in Papua New Guinea and Nauru.
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At a hearing in Geneva Monday, more than 100 countries spoke out against Australia’s refugee policies, with many calling for Canberra to scrap the detention of children and offshore processing.
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Divya Khosla, U.S. representative to the U.N. agency, said Australia must ensure that detainees are treated fairly.
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FILE - An Australian Navy boat, left, is positioned near a boat carrying 50 asylum seekers after it arrived at Flying Fish Cove on Christmas Island. The island's detention center for migrants was recently the scene of violent disturbances.
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“We encourage Australia to ensure humane treatment and respect for the human rights of asylum-seekers, including those processed offshore in Papua New Guinea and Nauru,” Kholsa said.
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But Steve McGlynn of Australia's Immigration and Border Protection Department told the hearing that the policies had prevented asylum-seekers from risking their lives at sea by trying to reach Australia by boat, and put pressure on people-trafficking syndicates.
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“Australia's border policies have been successful in severely damaging the insidious people smuggling trade, and by extension have saved countless lives at sea," McGlynn said.
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"The ensuing substantial and sustained reduction in maritime ventures as a result of Australia's managed approach to migration has resulted in Australia being able to settle more refugees for our humanitarian programs,” he added.
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At the Christmas Island detention center, authorities said disturbances that broke out Sunday have ended.
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They were sparked when a Kurdish-Iranian inmate who had escaped the camp was found dead outside. Inmates lit fires and barricaded themselves in a compound with weapons.
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Officials said that calm has been restored following negotiations with detainees.
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Christmas Island is located about 2,500 kilometers northwest of the Australian city of Perth and 380 kilometers south of the Indonesian island of Java.
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The Denver County Fair is this weekend. Here's everything you need to know.
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DENVER – If you’re up for a fair-ly weird adventure this weekend, we recommend you head out to the Denver County Fair at the National Western Complex.
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A total of 35 attractions await those seeking the thrill of their life, including carnival and unicorn rides, games, bouncy houses, waterballs and more.
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Is this like all the other county fairs?
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Highly unlikely. At the Denver County Fair, you’ll get to experience a mullet 5k run, an alpaca obstacle course plus costume contest, roller derby, a drag queen pageant, extreme midget wrestling, and metalachi (the world's first and only Heavy Metal Mariachi Band, according to organizers). But that's just a fraction of what you'll see this year.
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This year, the fair will also feature a freak show, a cake decorating contest, a bug-eating contest, 80s retro happy hour, a gardening Q&A, among many other things.
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For a full list of this year's schedule, click here .
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OK, I'm in! How much cash will I have to dish out?
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Daily admission to the Denver County Fair is $10 for adults and $3 for kids 3 through 11 years of age. This does not include the carnival rides.
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If you want to get on all the rides at the carnival plus see all the other things on the ground, your best bet will be to pay for the unlimited carnival experience. Tickets are $20 for adults and $10 for kids under 12 years of age.
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Oh! And there’s also a Beer and Wine Fest. Information about those tickets can be found here .
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Interested in the mullet 5k? That'll cost you between $34-$37 until July 13. To register for the run, click here . The race starts and finishes on E. 47th Avenue & Humboldt St. on the east side of the complex. It starts at 8 a.m. on Saturday, July 14.
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Luckily, the Denver County Fair is taking place at the National Western Complex and not in downtown Denver, so you are guaranteed to find parking within 10 minutes of arriving there.
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You will need to pay for it, though. To view a map of the available parking spots, click here .
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The Denver County Fair will take place Friday, July 13 from 12 p.m. to 11 p.m.; Saturday, July 14 from 10 a.m. to 11 p.m.; and Sunday, July 15 from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.
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View of Detroit from the Windsor sky camera Dec. 6, 2018 at 8:38 p.m.
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Recreational marijuana is now legal in Michigan, but even with the new law, there's still plenty that people can't do, such as buy pot.
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GM CEO Mary Barra is in D.C. and lawmakers are grilling her over the decision to close plants, cut jobs. Read more.
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Infant and fetal remains were removed from Metro Detroit cemetery crypts. Learn more.
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A man is facing an assault and battery charge after allegedly telling a woman a bug crawled in her boot so he could touch her feet. Read more.
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LARA shut down Knollwood Cemetery in Canton Township due to improper storage of remains. Learn more.
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A 10-year-old boy was charged Thursday after he brought a loaded gun to Charles L. Spain Elementary-Middle School on Wednesday in Detroit.
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Sledgehammers knocked down the first of countless bricks Thursday at the old, run-down Shapero Hall in Detroit's Lafayette Park.
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Thursday is Tons of Toys Day at Children's Hospital in Detroit, which means Southeast Michigan's youngest hospital patients received brand-new holiday gifts straight from the North Pole.
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Consumer investigator Hank Winchester has some tips and tricks on how to make sure all the gifts end up wrapped and under the tree this holiday season instead of snatched up by porch pirates.
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Bandhan Bank Ltd’s initial public offering (IPO) approached the halfway mark on the first day on Thursday led by institutional investors.
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The public issue comprising 83.49 million shares, excluding the anchor allotment, received bids for 35 million shares. The book was subscribed 42% at the end of day one, stock exchange data showed.
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Institutional buyers bid for 29.98 million shares, or 1.25 times the portion reserved for them. High net-worth individuals and corporate bodies bid for a handful of shares from their quota, the data showed.
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The portion set aside for retail investors, who cannot individually bid for shares exceeding Rs 2 lakh in value, was covered 11%.
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The IPO will close on Monday, 19 March.
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The Kolkata-based microfinance lender had raised Rs 1,342 crore ($207 million) from a clutch of anchor investors, including the sovereign wealth fund of Abu Dhabi and Singapore state investment firm Temasek Holdings (Private) Limited, a day ahead of the IPO.
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Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA), which has come in as an anchor investor in IPOs of several Indian companies over the past year, bought about 1.07 million shares.
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Seatown Swordfish Pte Ltd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Temasek, bought 2.66 lakh shares.
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In all, the lender sold 35.78 million shares to 65 anchor investors at Rs 375 apiece, it said in a stock-exchange filing.
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Other investors mostly included mutual funds and insurance companies.
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Bandhan Bank, which counts Singapore sovereign wealth fund GIC Pte Ltd and International Finance Corporation (IFC) among its backers, has set a price band of Rs 370-375 per share for the IPO.
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On Tuesday, Iran’s Guardian Council confirmed the list of approved candidates for Iran’s June 14 presidential elections — and with it the suspicions of many that this will be a less-than-exciting election season. In whittling down 686 presidential hopefuls to just eight finalists, the Council arguably left off the two most interesting contenders: former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s hand-picked successor Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei.
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So who are the 1 percent of aspirants deemed fit to rule Iran? These eight may all be symbols of the status quo and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s considerable influence in the political realm. But between them they have some pretty colorful qualifications for the job.
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Iran’s current nuclear negotiator, Jalili is also considered the race’s frontrunner — not to mention Khamenei’s choice for president. A former member of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps, he lost his right leg in the Iran-Iraq war during the 1980s.
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But you have to give Jalili credit for his optimistic lemons-into-lemonade attitude. “At least over the past few years when I have been carefully following the effects of sanctions, I see that they can be easily bypassed and turned into opportunities,” he added. Jalili did not elaborate as to how.
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One of the country’s self-styled conservative “principlists,” Adel, along with Ali Akbar Velayati and Mohammed Baqr Qalibaf, positions himself in direct opposition to the reformists who attracted many Iranians during Iran’s contentious presidential election in 2009. He’s also a favorite of Khamenei’s as both an advisor and a relative (his daughter is married to Khamenei’s son).
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Iran’s longest-serving foreign minister (from 1980 to 1996), he is currently Khamenei’s senior advisor on international affairs. Velayati is credited with helping shape Iran’s tough stance toward the West, but he might be more willing to engage than it seems. In 2009, as Velayati contemplated a bid for president, an aide reached out to U.S. diplomats expressing interest in cooperating with the West and asking that some sanctions be lifted in order to help raise funds for Velayati’s campaign, according to leaked cables. A doctor by training, Velayati studied pediatrics at Johns Hopkins before the 1979 revolution.
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Velayati has also been implicated in authorizing the Mykonos operation in 1992, during which three Iranian Kurdish political figures and a supporter were murdered while dining in a private room of the Mykonos restaurant in Berlin.
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A past presidential contender who came in third in 2009, Rezaei has said he’s “in it to win it” this time around. In addition to being the former commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, Rezaei is also the secretary of Iran’s Expediency Council, which advises Khameini. In 2009, he memorably stated that he would include women in his cabinet if elected.
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Not-so-fun fact: Rezaei has the distinction of being on Interpol’s wanted list for his alleged complicity in the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center in Argentina that killed 85 people, in the deadliest attack in the country’s history. Rezaei, for his part, vigorously denies involvement in the incident (Velayati, above, is also a suspect in the attack).
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Rowhani is the closest of the remaining candidates to a reformist. In April, Roberto Toscano — a former Italian ambassador to Iran — told Al-Monitor that “if the reformists do not run their own candidate or one who is insignificant, Rowhani could get a lot of votes.” He went on to note Rowhani’s “impeccable CV” — if you’re really interested you can see it here — which includes over 100 publications.
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Rowhani’s candidacy brings the nuclear issue to the forefront, as he was Iran’s most cooperative — if short-lived — nuclear negotiator between 2003 and 2005. But although he is close to Rafsanjani, don’t expect too much of a departure from Khamenei. Rowhani has also been an advisor to the supreme leader since 1989 and has close ties to the political establishment.
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Aref was Iran’s vice president during President Mohammad Khatami’s second term (2001 to 2005). Though he is a bit more on the reformist side than many of the other candidates, as a current member of the Expediency Council he remains an advisor to Khamenei.
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Though you might not expect it from his long political career, Aref’s educational background is actually in statistics. He received a Ph.D. from Stanford. If you’re interested in seeing an example of the potential future president’s academic work (or if you want to learn about a “mathematical model for a general single-source single-sing communication network”), check out his thesis here.
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Qalibaf succeeded Ahmadinejad as mayor of Tehran in 2005, after losing to him in that year’s presidential election. And what a mayor he has been. In 2008, he came in eighth place in the World Mayor Awards (a bienniel award aiming “to raise the profile of mayors worldwide and honour those who have served their communities well”). According to the organization, he beat out other global mayoral heavy weights “for his modernisation of the capital’s infrastructure and public services.” The foundation also described him as “a keen student of other metro areas around the world, actively investing in monitoring innovation in traffic management and public transport.” Is there a better recommendation for president than that?
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On the flip side, Qalibaf recently took heat for acknowledging his role in vigorous government crackdowns on political protests in 1999, 2003, and 2009.
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The Guardian Council’s inclusion of this former minister of petroleum and parliamentarian has left many scratching their heads. Unlike his fellow nominees, Gharazi has been out of the political spotlight for over a decade and faded into relative obscurity.
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One website, Iran’s View, says it all with an article entitled “Everything About Mohammad Gharazi, Unknown Qualified Presidential Candidate.” Word count: 240.
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Marya Hannun is a Ph.D. student in Arabic and Islamic studies at Georgetown University. Follow her on Twitter at: @mrhannun.
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Our Client is a long established quality provider of further and higher education.
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They have an exciting opportunity for a HE Lecturer in Music to join their team on a permanent, part time basis. This position is based at their Hull site working 28 hours per week.
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Within the role, you will work primarily with students engaged across a range of Higher Education courses and hold specialist industry experience in both music production and performance. You will be responsible for providing a high level of support to students, needed to achieve their programme of study.
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The successful candidate will need to be innovative in their teaching methods and the position requires flexibility, enthusiasm and most importantly a commitment to the student journey as you will deliver high quality teaching and learning to students of all ages and abilities.
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Having the ability to inspire learners is essential as well as being able to work as part of a well-established team of professionals. A Post graduate Teaching or Education Qualification or Certificate in Education is not essential however, you must be willing to work towards a teaching qualification.
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Candidates will need to have a subject specialism qualification, ideally a level 7 along with experience of working both in Higher Education or a related field and industry experience of both production and performance specialisms..
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Kurt Melcher was surfing the Internet one day when he decided to search for an old favorite: Starcraft. Melcher, 45, played the computer game during and shortly after college, and he wanted to see if he could find any news on it. He discovered the original 1998 game evolved into Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty in 2010. Melcher was surprised to find the sequel is played competitively. He also discovered League of Legends, another Microsoft Windows and OS X video game with a competitive following.
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"I was just shocked at the size and scope and scale and the passion of the community," Melcher tells ThePostGame. "It's played at the high school level and the collegiate level and even professionally."
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Melcher also happens to be associate athletic director at Robert Morris University-Illinois in Chicago. Rather than a hobby, he saw League of Legends as an opportunity to broaden the athletic department. Melcher brought the idea of giving out video game scholarships to Athletic Director Megan Smith Eggert, and the duo pitched the idea to RMU President Michael P. Viollt.
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"To his credit, he's forward thinking," Melcher says. "He looked at it and he thought it made a lot of sense."
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Robert Morris announced it is now offering gaming scholarships as part of its athletic program, specifically for the game League of Legends. The university is offering recruits money to study at the university and represent its colors in intercollegiate competitions.
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"At our school, we offer scholarships for a wide variety of the traditional sports and obviously the untraditional things like bowling, color guard and band," Melcher says. "It just seemed like a natural progression for students that have a skill set outside traditional sports. Maybe they couldn't make their high school team or didn't want to, but they have a different skill set. It's still operating in a team environment."
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The scholarships will not exceed 50 percent of tuition and 50 percent room and board. For reference, RMU costs $7,900 and housing with meals is $3,600 per quarter.
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RMU would like to get its newest student-athletes in front of monitors as soon as this September. The team will participate in the Collegiate Star League, a gaming conference of 103 institutions of higher education. Many of the schools are Division I institutions and feature opponents other Robert Morris athletic teams do not get to face in NAIA competition.
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RMU will be the only U.S. team offering substantial scholarships to its gamers. Melcher says colleges in Korea have already done this.
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The athletic department's first step was getting the word out. Now, the school needs to find a coach. With the help of Riot Games, the developer of League of Legends, the coaching search is off to a fast start in the first two weeks.
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"[Riot] has been providing a couple ideas and we've had a couple people contact us," Melcher says. "We've been going through that applicant base and we'll hopefully start interviewing next week."
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A few upperclassmen have embraced the team and announced their credentials in League of Legends. Melcher says students are also trying to recruit friends for the team. He is confident there will be enough demand for the first season this September, with the new coach making the necessary cuts.
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The players, or the coach for that matter, can be male or female. He says he has not personally crunched the numbers, but the administration is not worried about breaking any guidelines of Title IX.
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League of Legends now has its own page on the Robert Morris Eagles' Athletics website.
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As for League of Legends, it is one of the most popular video games in the world on Windows and OS X. In January, The Wall Street Journal reported about 27 million people play the game each day. Riot Games' annual North American Collegiate Championship provides a $100,000 scholarship prize to the winning team.
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Parents, if you are worried about your children's video game obsession hindered their abilities to get accepted into college, well, this may be your way out. If they get good enough, you may even save money.
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