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Once tucked away near the elevator in the cafeteria, the Renaissance Room, will have glass walls. People walking by will be able to see the diners inside. In addition to their view of the open public area, diners will also be able to seef the kitchen where their food is prepared.
The design, focused on learning, will give kitchen staff the experience of being viewed and even assessed while learning their culinary skills.
When construction is complete the building will not only have a have a new look, it will have a new name. In keeping with the theme of learning, the Center Building will be called the Center for Learning And Student Success.
SAN DIEGO — The military planes and helicopters that roar on training runs over this city's crystalline bay are a reminder of how deeply woven the armed forces are into the fabric of freshman Rep. Scott Peters' congressional district.
The question of whether the United States should intervene in Syria looms large here. Dotted with seven bases for the Navy, Marines and U.S. Coast Guard, the district is home to voters who have a profound understanding of the need for military force, a deep pride in their region's role in keeping the nation safe — and ...
It also looms large for Peters, a Democratic former city councilman who eked out a victory last November in an election in which Syria was an afterthought, if that.
"This is certainly the toughest thing I have faced in my eight months in Congress," he said during a telephone town hall Thursday night with thousands of his constituents.
Peters initially planned to hold a conference call about education during the final days of the congressional recess. But his office heard from so many concerned about possible American intervention in Syria that it abruptly shifted the call's focus. That allowed Peters to hear directly from constituents before he retu...
The next day, President Obama will try to sell the nation on limited strikes on Syria, prompted by the suspected chemical-weapon deaths of more than 1,400 people, including hundreds of children. And soon after that, Congress will vote.
It's a debate roiling town halls across the nation. But it has special resonance here, in a county that is home to more Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans than any other in the nation.
"This is not merely a theoretical debate for a lot of families in a district like this. A lot of us know people who are pilots and may be dropping these bombs. That adds a human and immediate dimension to what is an otherwise far-away political issue," said Thad Kousser, an associate professor of political science at U...
Across the district, there is a general weariness about getting entangled in another overseas conflict and a skepticism that it will be as limited in scope as the president is promising. Concern cuts across party lines: Hawkish voters are skeptical of this military engagement, and Democrats are divided over a proposal ...
"To look at what's happening there is really awful.... No one wants to see anyone get hurt," said San Diego resident Jeannie Foulkrod, a Republican whose father is a retired Marine who completed two tours in Vietnam. But "there is somewhat of a battle fatigue. San Diego is such a huge military town. We have so many vol...
Aaron Burden, a 31-year-old Democrat, served in the Navy for nearly a decade, deploying to Iraq and the Philippines and on aircraft carriers around the globe.
"I can't see the benefits outweighing the risk of another extended engagement on the ground of another Middle Eastern country," said the UCSD senior, who is studying communications and political science. "Personally, I didn't feel justified going into Iraq," where soldiers remained for years, he said.
The complicated, lengthy entanglements in Iraq and Afghanistan weighed on many voters here. Still, others in Peters' district said the United States has a moral obligation to intervene when a nation has violated international norms forbidding the use of chemical weapons.
"My feelings on it are, you look back 60, 70 years ago, we had a big war called World War II. There's a saying out there, 'Never again.' I feel if we are in a position to do something about it, we should do something about it," Democrat Jared Nelson said as he served grilled yellowtail tacos and porchetta sandwiches at...
Peters, a 55-year-old economist-turned-lawyer with no military experience, heard many of the same sentiments during his town hall, as well as at other times during the recess. More constituents have called his office — and approached him in the grocery store, at restaurants and on the street — about Syria than any abou...
"People have been very vocal and forthcoming," Peters said. "It's the vote that I think about the most. This is with me every moment I am awake, both because I think it's such a hard problem and I'm not sure there are good answers. I'm not sure we'll know the right answer till months from now. But the consequences of i...
Though he hasn't made a decision, he is clearly as skeptical about the proposal as many voters are. He said he needs to know more about the intended objective if the United States decides to intervene, expected results and level of support from other nations. A member of the Armed Services Committee, Peters said he won...
"I want to keep an open mind. I'm not sold today," Peters said. "But I think it's important for me to do my homework. I'm looking forward both to going to the briefing and seeing the classified documents people have been able to review."
His decision has political consequences, since he is among the most vulnerable congressional Democrats in the nation. His narrow November win came as Obama's presence on the ballot lured Democrats to the polls. Next year's midterm turnout will be tougher, and moneyed forces are aligning to try to topple Peters. Even be...
Peters insists the stakes are too great for politics to play a part in his decision. "Look, I assume that my political opponents will hammer me with any vote I take on any issue. I don't care what the politics is, particularly on this issue," he said.
Instead, he pointed to a ceremony he attended at Camp Pendleton on Thursday after recruits completed the "Crucible," a rigorous three-day exercise in which, with little sleep, they hiked 48 miles carrying heavy gear and were subjected to physical and mental tests before officially becoming Marines.
"You see what they put up with, you see their faces, it makes you think really seriously about whether you want to put them in harm's way," Peters said. "I never do unless I'm really convinced about the necessity…. It's much more about that kind of thing than what political hacks are going to say about me."
TEHRAN, Iran — A powerful 7.3 magnitude earthquake near the Iraq-Iran border killed over 350 people across both countries, sent residents fleeing their homes into the night and was felt as far away as the Mediterranean coast, authorities said Monday.
Iran’s western Kermanshah province bore the brunt of the temblor Sunday night, with authorities saying the quake killed 348 people in the country and injured 6,603. Kermanshah is a rural, mountainous region where residents rely mainly on farming.
The quake was centred 19 miles (31 kilometres) outside the eastern Iraqi city of Halabja, according to the most recent measurements from the U.S. Geological Survey. It struck at 9:48 p.m. Iran time, just as people began retiring for the night.
It could be felt on the Mediterranean coast, some 660 miles (1,000 kilometres) away.
The earthquake struck 23.2 kilometres (14.4 miles) below the surface, a shallow depth that can amplify damage. Magnitude 7 earthquakes can be highly destructive.
The semi-official ILNA news agency said at least 14 provinces in Iran had been affected by the earthquake. Behnam Saeedi, a spokesman for the country’s crisis management headquarters, told state TV that casualty figures stood at 348 killed and 6,603 injured.
In Iraq, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi issued a directive for the country’s civil defence teams and “related institutions” to respond to the natural disaster. Brig. Gen. Saad Maan, an Interior Ministry spokesman, gave the casualty figures for Iraq.
Kerem Kinik, the Turkish Red Crescent’s vice-president, told The Associated Press from Habur border crossing that 33 aid trucks were en route to the northern Iraqi city of Sulaimaniyah, carrying 3,000 tents and heaters, 10,000 beds and blankets as well as food.
Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) stepped in front of a group of tech executives in Washington this morning to deliver a caffeinated and surprisingly sharp defense of network neutrality. Pledging to use "every ounce of my energy to protect network neutrality," Wyden had a message for ISPs who might be pondering new charges for var...
Wyden delivered his ultimatum at a Computer & Communications Industry Association conference in DC, where he cast the entire network neutrality debate in terms of a legislative compromise. Years ago, Congress began protecting ISPs from the twin threats of regulation and taxation; in return, ISPs were expected to delive...
The two specific pieces of legislation encompassed by this threat are the Communications Decency Act and the Internet Tax Freedom Act. While much of the CDA was tossed out by a federal judge on the grounds that it unconstitutionally limited free speech, section 230 of the act survived. 230 provided a safe harbor to ISP...
The Internet Tax Freedom Act has also kept most taxes from being applied to Internet connections, even though states have repeatedly shown interest in taxing these links.
In return for helping out ISPs, what did Congress get in return? "Monopolies," according to Wyden, or, in other cases, duopolies where one or two main gatekeepers controlled access to the 'Net for most US citizens. Wyden's rhetoric grew downright militant as he contemplated the various ways that these ISPs might start ...
Part of the reason that the issue gets so much traction is because network neutrality has become one of those wonky crossover issues that stirs up passions even among normal 'Net users. Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-CA), speaking at the same event, issued a reminder of how much popular traction the idea has gained: when she goes ...
With Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA) holding an important network neutrality hearing this morning in the House, Eshoo expressed her confidence that Markey's bill would be taken up by Congress but that it would face a serious challenge on the House floor. Should it fail there, "I think the Capitol would fall down around members' ...
Rep. Mike Doyle (D-PA) agreed with Eshoo and noted that the two sides are separated by what now seems to be "almost a religious difference." Doyle chalks up some of the antagonism to a generational divide, as the only people of his generation who grew up using the Internet were the people who invented it. 'Net neutrali...
Or, as FCC Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein put it later in the day, "Anyone who messes with the open Internet does so at their peril."
Swords, peril, wild plans, and a crumbling Capitol; all we need are wild animals in the streets and possibly a rider on a pale horse for the network neutrality debate to officially complete its ascendancy from a network management issue to a millenarian apocalyptic battle cry. Despite the rhetoric on this issue, it loo...
Frankfort Boy Scout Troop 1 and Frankfort Cub Scout Pack 30 will host an open house from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 8, at the Frankfort American Legion, 128 S. Litchfield St. Registration will take place during the open house.
There will be displays and exhibits to promote scouting activities, and a demonstration on Dutch oven cooking with samples to taste.
For information, visit http://bsatroop1.clubspaces.com or http://bsapack30.clubspaces.com, or e-mail troop1@twcny.rr.com or pack30@twcny.rr.com.
Club memberships with the East Utica Sno-Riders will be available at the Herkimer County Power Sports Expo taking place from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 8, and from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Sunday, Sept. 9, at the Herkimer County Fairgrounds, state Route 5S.
The expo will include booths and vendor displays from major manufacturers, parts and accessories, overstocks, vintage sleds and motorcycles, and swap meet. Vendor space is still available.
Grandstand events include an ATV pull and demolition derby.
Register to see if you are “tough enough” to win the Central New York Arm Wrestling Open.
The Village of Herkimer Bicentennial Commission is planning a Party in the Park to take place Saturday, Sept. 22, in Myer’s Park as part of the village’s Bicentennial activities.
The event will include Hawkin’s rides, food court, live entertainment and more.
Nonprofit organizations are welcome to participate as food vendors.
The commission is seeking entertainers including jugglers, magicians, puppeteers and face painters to donate their time at the event.
For information, call Connie at 866-3525.
The 2007 Mohawk Valley Pageant of the Stars and the 2007 Miss Mohawk Valley Teenager Pageant will take place Saturday, Sept. 29, at the Mohawk American Legion, 43 W. Main St.
— Baby girls and boys ages 0 to 12 months and 13 to 24 months.
— Girls and boys ages 2 to 3.
— Girls and boys ages 4 to 5.
— Girls ages 6 to 8.
— Boys ages 6 to 10.
— Girls ages 9 to 12.
The Mohawk Valley Teenager Pageant is open to all single girls ages 13 to 18.
The pageants will accept contestants from surrounding counties.
For information, call Gillespie Pageants at 877-596-9152 or visit www.gillpag.com.
The YMCA of the Mohawk Valley, 83 E. Main St. will offer its fall session for Times for 2’s and Times for 3’s programs beginning Monday, Sept. 24.
— Times for 2’s will take place from 10 a.m. to noon Tuesdays and Thursdays.
— Times for 3’s will take place from 10 a.m. to noon Mondays and Wednesdays.
The program is designed to provide socialization and peer interaction opportunities for 2- and- 3-year-olds. It incorporates arts and crafts, music, stories, letters, shapes, numbers, colors and snack time.
A parent or guardian must accompany the child for the duration of the class. The cost is $3.75 per class.
For information or to register, call 866-6570.
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Bill Clinton has now spoken up briefly on the subject in response to a few lame questions posed by NBC’s Cynthia McFadden. The NBC segment and related report are posted here. As for those high-priced speeches whose price went up during Madam Hillary’s tenure as Secretary of State, Clinton explains: “I gotta pay our bil...
The video excerpt below runs less than 90 seconds. It suggests that even Bill Clinton has a tough way talking himself out of this particular corner.
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Nepal Rastra Bank – central regulatory and monetary authority – will start distributing new banknotes for the Dashain festival from October 7 to October 15.
A person can obtain lower denomination notes of up to Rs 27,000 and the notes will be distributed from the central bank banking office in Thapathali, Rastriya Banijya Bank and Nepal Bank Ltd, according to the central bank.
According to the Joint Spokesperson for the central bank Govinda Prasad Nagila, each person can obtain 100 units of banknotes of Rs 100 and 200 units each of Rs 50, Rs 20, Rs 10 and five rupees denominations from the central bank and designated branches of Rastriya Banijya Bank and Nepal Bank Ltd.
Laxmi Prapanna Niraula, head of the NRB banking office, has informed that people exchanged new lower denomination banknotes worth Rs 13 billion last year and the central bank has assumed that the demand for new notes will hover around the same figure this year as well.
The central bank scraps the old currency notes of an equal amount after circulating the new banknotes in the market.
U.S. and Russian ground commanders met this week to make sure "we don't fire upon one another" in the fight against ISIS in the eastern border area of Syria, a U.S. military spokesman said Thursday.
The face-to-face meeting at an undisclosed location in the Mideast is believed to be a first for U.S. and Russian ground forces, the spokesman said, and followed attacks by Russian warplanes last weekend on positions of the U.S.-partnered Syrian Democratic Forces in the region.
The bottom line is, "We need to know where they are, and they need to know where we are" in the fighting in the oil-rich eastern province of Deir al-Zour, said Army Col. Ryan Dillon, a spokesman for Combined Joint Task Force-Operation Inherent Resolve.
In a video briefing from Baghdad to the Pentagon, Dillon said the commanders exchanged maps and graphics on the locations of their partnered forces in the eastern region, where the SDF and forces of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, backed by Russia, are fighting ISIS on opposite sides of the Euphrates River.
The commanders' meeting was intended to make sure "we don't fire upon one another" in the pursuit of ISIS, Dillon said, but the effort at "deconfliction" did not signal that the U.S. will cooperate with the Russians or the Syrian regime.
Both the Russian and the U.S. commanders stressed the "prevention of accidental targeting or other possible frictions that will distract from the defeat of ISIS," he said.
Last weekend, SDF fighters charged that they had come under attack by Russian warplanes and Syrian regime forces. Moscow denied attacking the SDF and counter-charged that the SDF had fired across the Euphrates on Syrian regime forces and their Russian advisers.
In a statement, Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov, a spokesman for the Russian Defense Ministry, said, "A representative of the U.S. military command in Al Udeid [the U.S. operations center in Qatar] was told in no uncertain terms that any attempts to open fire from areas where SDF fighters are located would be quickly shut d...
"Fire points in those areas will be immediately suppressed with all military means," Konashenkov said.
The allegations by the Russians provided "all the more reason why the deconfliction measures must be discussed and really figured out to the gnats' details," Dillon said. "The convergence of forces next to one another just increases the need for these deconfliction measures."
He said the U.S. maintains separate lines of communication for deconfliction with the Russians -- one for air forces and one for ground forces.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Some 12,000 screenwriters went on strike against the U.S. film and television industry on Monday after the collapse of last-ditch contract negotiations aimed at preserving nearly 20 years of Hollywood labour peace.
Even as talks in Los Angeles had dragged on late on Sunday, the union’s East Coast branch declared it was going ahead with the walkout at 12:01 a.m. EST (6:01 a.m. British time), and the larger West Coast contingent joined the work stoppage three hours later.
The first picket lines went up outside General Electric’s NBC television headquarters at Rockefeller Plaza in New York City.

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