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Do you have any advice for the incoming student reps?
A: Although I don’t have a vote, I have the opportunity to express ideas of a younger generation. I have the inside scoop and I believe the other board members appreciate that type of input … The next students should be aware of the school security issue. We’ve had intense meetings since the [Newtown shootings]. I had time to get used to the school board meetings before that. The next student will have to jump right into it.
FOUR out of every five winter house fires were linked to cooking incidents last year, prompting the MFS for homeowners to be more vigilant this year.
COOKING fires were responsible for four out of every five winter house fires last year, prompting a warning from the Metropolitan Fire Service for homeowners to be more vigilant this season.
Statistics show cookers were involved in 221 of the 279 winter-related house fires attended by the MFS and Country Fire Service between April 1 and September 30, 2012.
In the past four years, four people have died and 10 have been seriously injured from cooking fires in South Australia.
The warning comes ahead of the first official day of winter tomorrow as fire crews today battled a house fire at Port Noarlunga.
The Benny Ave home went up in flames just after 10am. The blaze is understood to have started in the kitchen and caused extensive damage.
No one was injured and fire cause investigators are attending the scene.
MFS Community Safety and Resilience commander Greg Howard said unattended cooking was one of the most common causes of house fires.
"Each winter MFS and CFS firefighters respond to hundreds of cooking fires. The damage these fires cause can range from partial or total house loss, through to burn injuries and fatalities," he said.
"One of the key home fire safety messages I would like people to remember this winter is never leave cooking unattended. If you leave the kitchen, turn the power off."
Home heating - including wood fires, gas and electric heaters and chimney/flue fires - were responsible for 47 of the 279 fires last year, electric blankets six fires and clothes dryers five fires.
* Never leave cooking unattended.
* Use extra caution when cooking with oils and heat cooking oils slowly.
* Never throw water on to an oil or fat fire. Use a fire blanket, cooking utensil lid or a dry chemical powder fire extinguisher.
* Never try to move a pan that has caught on fire. This may result in spillage, injury and the spreading of fire.
* If a fire starts in the oven, turn the oven off and leave the oven door closed to smother the fire. If the fire does not go out within 60 seconds, evacuate your home and call triple zero for help.
The MFS said homeowners should buy a fire blanket and a portable fire extinguisher that meet the Australian standard allowing them to be kept safely in the kitchen.
A dry chemical powder fire extinguisher with a minimum rating of 5B(E) is recommended.
The MFS has also advised homeowners to install photo-electric smoke alarms that are less than 10 years old and prepare a home fire escape plan.
Would you adopt a greyhound this Sunday?
Angelina Jolie made a two-day visit to Libya Tuesday to help facilitate humanitarian aid deliveries after thousands of people fled their homes during a revolution against Moammar Gadhafi.
seek to rebuild their society and institutions.
The U.N. agency said last week that it was discussing a bigger role for Jolie after receiving $5 million in donations from her over the past decade. The A-list actress has visited dozens of countries to promote the cause of refugees during her tenure as goodwill ambassador.
SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Two Indian soldiers were killed in firing by Pakistani troops along the highly militarized frontier that divides disputed Kashmir between the two rivals, India’s army said Tuesday.
Pakistani soldiers used mortars and automatic gunfire overnight to strike at Indian positions in Sunderbani sector along the Line of Control in violation of the cease-fire accord of 2003 between the nuclear-armed neighbors, said Indian army spokesman Col. Nitin Joshi.
There was no immediate reaction from Pakistan.
In the past, both countries have accused the other of initiating border skirmishes leading to casualties on both sides.
This year, soldiers from the two nations have been engaged in fierce border skirmishes along the rugged and mountainous Line of Control, as well as a lower-altitude 200-kilometer (125-mile) boundary separating Indian-controlled Kashmir and the Pakistani province of Punjab.
The fighting earlier this year sent thousands of border residents to temporary shelters for days.
India and Pakistan have a long history of bitter relations over Kashmir, a Himalayan territory claimed by both in its entirety. They have fought two of their three wars since 1947 over their competing claims to the region.
Walled Lake Western actors bring 'Joseph' and his technicolor dreamcoat to the stage.
Walled Lake Western High School Performing Arts Department presents "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" Nov. 11-12 and Nov. 18-20 at Walled Lake Western High School, 600 Beck Road, Walled Lake. Evening performances will begin at 7:30 p.m. and the Sunday matinee will begin at 2 p.m.
The Biblical saga of Joseph and his coat of many colors comes to vibrant life in this delightful musical parable. Joseph, his father’s favorite son, is a boy blessed with prophetic dreams. When he is sold into slavery by his jealous brothers and taken to Egypt, Joseph endures a series of adventures in which his spirit and humanity are continually challenged.
He is purchased by Potiphar where thwarting advances from Potiphar’s wife lands him in jail. When news of Joseph’s gift to interpret dreams reaches the Pharaoh (wryly and riotously depicted as Elvis), Joseph is well on his way to becoming second in command. Eventually his brothers, having suffered greatly, unknowingly find themselves groveling at the feet of the brother they betrayed but no longer recognize.
After testing their integrity, Joseph reveals himself leading to a heartfelt reconciliation of the sons of Israel. Set to an engaging cornucopia of musical styles, from country-western and calypso to bubble-gum pop and rock ‘n’ roll, this Old Testament tale emerges both timely and timeless.
In recent years, audiences have been amazed by the Broadway-like productions of :Les Misérables," "Ragtime," "The Phantom of the Opera," "Hairspray" and "Shrek" produced by Walled Lake Western. "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" is presented by Walled Lake Western students with a cast of over 75 actors and dancers, an orchestra of 20 instrumentalists, and student technical crew of 25.
Students in leading roles include Tony Olshanky as Joseph, Kelsey Miller as a Narrator, Imani Edwards as a Narrator, and Abbey Phillipson as a Narrator.
For tickets, call the ticket hotline at 248-956-4625 or purchase tickets online anytime at www.wlwmusical.com. Tickets range in price from $16-$22 and all tickets are reserved. Information about group sales for 12 or more patrons may be obtained by calling the hotline and leaving a message.
Java creator James Gosling sits down with ZDNet Editor in Chief Dan Farber during JavaOne for a Face to Face interview. Gosling, CTO for Sun's Developer Products group, talks about the future of the Java language, the impact of Sun's settlement with Microsoft on the direction of Java development, the debate about open sourcing Java and whether Java is in danger of being bifurcated as IBM, BEA and others work outside the Java Community Process.
James Gosling at JavaOne: 'We're not a .Net company' Java creator James Gosling sits down with ZDNet Editor in Chief Dan Farber during JavaOne for a Face to Face interview. Gosling, CTO for Sun's Developer Products group, talks about the future of the Java language, the impact of Sun's settlement with Microsoft on the direction of Java development, the debate about open sourcing Java and whether Java is in danger of being bifurcated as IBM, BEA and others work outside the Java Community Process.
Yesterday was the second-warmest September day on record for Gisborne.
The mercury climbed to a summery high of 25.1.
Since records started in the airfield area in 1905, this has only been beaten once before — on September 24, 1955, which recorded the all-time September high of 25.4 degrees.
Yesterday was also the first time since the temperature passed the 20-degree mark since May 21.
The last time the mercury rose beyond 24 degrees was on April 17 when it hit 24.1 degrees.
In the all the years since 1905, September has hit above 24 degrees only five times - in 1988 (24.5), 1998 (24.7), 2003 (24.4), 2006 (24.9) and 2008 (24.7).
Elsewhere yesterday, private thermometers recorded over 26 degrees at Makaraka and 27 degrees further inland.
At a largely disappointing G20 summit last September, one of the few bright spots was the agreement that member nations would phase out fossil fuel subsidies. But as G20 prepares to meet this week in Toronto, it looks like that commitment will be substantially watered down.
We reviewed progress made to date in identifying inefficient fossil fuel subsidies that encourage wasteful consumption and we agree to continue working to develop voluntary, member-specific approaches for the rationalization and phase out of such measures.
It’s not yet known which G20 member(s) are responsible for the less-ambitious language. It might not be the US this time, despite America’s reputation when it comes to international agreements. Obama’s 2011 budget called for the elimination of 12 tax breaks for oil, gas, and coal companies, which is expected to raise $39 billion in the next 10 years. Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) and several other senators have drafted a bill that would follow through on that, which looks likely to be included in the Senate’s energy, oil spill, and (possibly) climate legislation next month.
The G20 meeting starts Sunday in Toronto.
Delia Lloyd may be a mom, but she knows she's still navigating adulthood. Thank goodness she has her kids to help her, and she writes about it at the Real Delia, so we can grow up with them.
“Yeah, but I only have one person on it,” she responded.
In my case, my husband is Jewish, we’ve been to Israel as a family, and my 9-year-old could practically write a book on World War II at this point. So somehow I don’t really think that we could “hide” the Holocaust from my daughter, even if we wanted to. But I also feel strongly that the Holocaust is quite recent world history. And at some point children need to know that the Holocaust happened in order to comprehend its magnitude and horror and very possibility, if for no other reason than to guard against it happening again.
But the Holocaust isn’t the only evil we’ve talked about with our kids. I moved to London 3 1/2 years ago, the day before a group of home grown British terrorists was arrested for a “liquid bomb plot” at Heathrow airport. The next day, as we tried to settle our new home/country/life, there were TVs on everywhere we went. People were jittery. My then 5-year-old son asked me what was going on. Should I have lied to him? Perhaps. But I didn’t.
As I wrote about subsequently, 9/11 and all that has come since has permanently changed the way Westerners perceive and experience terrorism. It’s no longer something that happens “over there.” It is woven into the very fabric of our daily lives through things like threat levels (ours just went up to “severe”), how much freedom of speech is permissible at universities, even what kinds of liquids we can bring on board an airplane. Living -- as we now do -- in that sort of environment alters the equation for what kids need to become aware of at an early age.
You could also extend this line of argument to encompass natural disasters like the recent earthquake in Haiti (while understanding that this is a very different form of tragedy). Is it distressing for a 6-year-old to learn that 150,000 people just died in an earthquake because they happened to live in the wrong place at the wrong time? Sure it is. But my daughter and I have talked about Haiti too. Whether that’s to make her appreciate just how fortunate she is or to begin to teach her about charitable giving, it’s a worthwhile lesson, IMHO.
So, at the end of the day? I’m totally down with the I Hate Hitler list.
But how about you? When do you think we ought to begin discussing the reality of “unnatural” deaths with your children? And are there certain topics that ought to remain taboo?
Our series of mom bloggers we love runs throughout May in honor of Mother's Day. Click here to see them all.
Thread: Another case of a baby being found in a dump. WTF!
OK, Over the past decade or so, i have seen more and more cases of women who kill their kids, dump babies in trashbags (or just in the trash), breast feed while taking drugs (killing them) and so on.
All this is making me honestly wonder, when will enough be enough? First off i feel any parent who KILLS their kid in such a manner should not only lose any other kids they have, but lose the capacity to HAVE further kids (forced sterilization). 2ndly i feel they should be charged with 1st degree murder, not manslaughter..
ARSENAL’S kids were turfed out of the Carling Cup last night by Burnley as two-goal hero Kevin McDonald earned the Championship side a place in the semi-finals.
Burnley’s victory was no surprise to manager Owen Coyle, who was thrilled by the quality of his team’s performance.
“There was no difference tonight. That’s the standard we have been setting ourselves,” he said.
“It was a real football atmosphere here and went a long way to adding to the history of this football club.
laying the blame at the feet of his misfiring strikers.
Wenger said: “We had six one-on-ones with their goalkeeper and we did not score with any of them. And we were a bit fragile at the back too.
“We had plenty of chances, but when you do not score, you have to ask why. You can praise their goalkeeper, but also question your own strikers.
“We just did not have the right focus in front of goal and that made the difference. We lost a game we should never have lost.
“The cup provides good education for our young players and you see as well those who have the quality to cope with the pressure and those who are maybe not completely up to it yet.
Goalkeeper Brian Jensen – the hero of the penalty shoot-out win against Chelsea in the previous round – was the man-of-the-match again with a series of brilliant stops.
He said: “It was always going to be a massive task for us so full credit to the lads because we are in the semi-finals.
NEW YORK & RALEIGH, NC--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Reveal Mobile, the mobile audience insight platform, and Unacast, the number one platform connecting beacons and other proximity sensors to online marketing platforms, at scale, globally, are collaborating.
The partnership helps both brands and advertisers to increase their mobile audience data and to reach more scale to deploy proximity retargeting and attribution based campaigns.
Unacast PROX already includes more than 47 of the world´s leading Proximity Solution Providers (PSP) in the world. What is unique in this new partnership is how Reveal Mobile addresses one of the largest challenges in todays industry – scale.
As brands, advertisers, and companies deploy beacons at a rapid rate among retailers, one of the main challenges is having an audience size large enough to make a meaningful impact on revenue. Additionally, retail apps are one of the least retained and least frequently used app categories, according to a study by Flurry. This infrequent use limits the ability to collect meaningful audience data over time.
Reveal Mobile collects beacon data directly from technology embedded inside hundreds of frequently used apps across the US. This is where Reveal Mobile and Unacast´s partnership creates a synergistic and new opportunity for proximity retargeting.
Reveal Mobile CEO Brian Handly remarks, “We see over 600K active users per day, which frequent the apps four to five times per day. The audience isn’t one person using a shopping app once every 2 months.” The nearly 300 news and weather apps using the Reveal Mobile SDK reach millions of users every month, detecting over 2.0M Bluetooth beacon signals. From this raw data, Reveal Mobile located and classified over 100,000 beacons since its launch. Many of these beacons can be seen at TheBeaconMap.com.
“We are thrilled to bring Reveal Mobile into the the Unacast PROX network. Their accurate proximity data will now be activated through Unacast´s partnerships with media and advertising platforms. We continue to increase our datasets, helping advertisers to get a scaleable solution for proximty data. With the inclusion of Reveal Mobile’s beacon-powered data, we continue to deliver on this. We enable advertisers to retarget customers at scale based on hyper local proximity data, encouraging their audience to visit their brick-and-mortar or online stores”, said Thomas Walle, Unacast CEO and co-founder.
The ability to connect what customers do offline in the real world to what they do online – combining their physical and digital behaviors - means greater convenience, faster shopping, immersive experiences, more relevant communications and tailored products and offers. Customers increasingly expect real-time customized services and personalized interactions based on their interests through their smartphones, but the logical progression to convergence between physical and digital wasn’t possible at scale until the creation of the Unacast PROX network. This rapidly growing network, now further bolstered by Reveal Mobile, finally unleashes the power of proximity data.
Unacast is the world’s largest network of beacon and proximity data, connecting the physical world to the digital. Through the Unacast PROX network, we provide a scalable solution for retailers, brands and the marketing industry to use beacon and proximity data for online retargeting and attribution. We call this continued engagement.. Unacast holds best practice in offline data management and privacy guidelines. Unacast never discloses recognizable customer data and partners always retain full control over their own data sets. Visit http://www.unacast.com/ to learn more, and to sign up to PROX.
Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are still deprived of the basic elements of social justice due to the Israeli blockade on the coastal enclave, a report says.
Israel announced six months ago that they will ease up the blockade, but the siege is causing the economy of Gaza to suffer greatly, a Press TV correspondent reported from Gaza on Sunday.
The United Nations General Assembly had proclaimed February 20 as the World Day of Social Justice in 2007 to pursue social justice for all and to promote development and human dignity.
The UN has repeatedly warned of a humanitarian crisis for Gaza’s 1.5 million residents. Even human rights groups have criticized the international community for its silence on the siege on Gaza and the 22-day Israeli war shattering the stagnant economy of the territory.
With poverty rate at almost 70 percent and unemployment hovering around 50 percent, many Gazans live on handouts from relatives and local aid agencies as they spend most of their dwindling monthly income on food.
Experts say the blockade will further deteriorate besieged Gaza’s economy and will increase unemployment and poverty rates.
In June 2007, Israel and Egypt placed the territory under siege and imposed an unprecedented blockade on nearly all movement and supplies in and out of the sliver.
Poverty, unemployment, lack of medicine and medical equipment are the main issues in the Gaza Strip, while most children are physically stunted from malnutrition.
These gigs show a lot of promise.
It always helps to know exactly what you're getting into — especially at the start of your career.
Personal finance website WalletHub recently released its rankings of the best entry-level jobs out there.
WalletHub assigned points to each occupation, based on three metrics: immediate opportunity, growth potential, and job hazards.
More specifically, the category of immediate opportunity included median starting salary, number of job openings, and unemployment rate.
Growth potential included median annual salary, median tenure with employer, schedule flexibility, on-the-job training, income growth potential, projected job growth by 2024, and the likelihood of the occupation being replaced by computers.
And job hazards included fatal occupational injuries per 100,000 employees in the past three years and how typical it is for someone with each job to work more than 40 hours a week.