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Walker, 44, was shot nine times.
No evidence showed Walker carried a gun and Ward’s trial lawyers never raised the issue.
Jurors rejected defense arguments for a life sentence.
Ward would be the ninth convicted killer in the U.S. to receive lethal injection this year and the fifth in Texas, the nation’s most active death penalty state.
THE HEAD curator at the National Gallery has been appointed as the new director of the Chester Beatty Library.
Fionnuala Croke will take up her role in the library at Dublin Castle on March 1st, succeeding Dr Michael Ryan.
The art museum and library houses the collections of Sir Alfred Chester Beatty which includes manuscripts, miniature paintings, prints and rare books from Asia, the Middle East, North Africa and Europe. It is a public charitable trust.
Ms Croke has held the post of keeper and head of collections at the National Gallery of Ireland since 2008. She had responsibility for managing the gallery’s permanent collection and exhibitions.
She joined the gallery in 1987 as a research fellow. In the 1990s, she was responsible for administering exhibitions and in 2000 was appointed head of exhibitions in anticipation of the opening of the gallery’s Millennium wing.
From Churchtown in Dublin, her master’s thesis at UCD was a study of the 18th century decoration of San Clemente Basilica in Rome. She also holds a masters in business administration from the UCD Smurfit school of business.
Library chairman Dr TP Hardiman welcomed the appointment of an “eminently qualified and experienced museum professional” as the library plans “for the next stage of our development in a challenging environment”.
Ms Croke said her appointment was a great opportunity to build on the tremendous work of the outgoing director. “With its magnificent collections, the library is truly a jewel in the heart of Dublin.” Raymond Keaveney, director of the National Gallery said she would be “sorely missed”.
Bravo is down one housewife. Sheree Whitfield, one of the stars of the Real Housewives of Atlanta, announces today that she's leaving the hit show because she is tired of all the drama (though, several sources claim she was actually fired over diva behavior and exorbitant salary demands).
"After four solid seasons of helping Bravo build the show into its most successful Housewives franchise, I have decided to leave," the RHOA castmember tells Wetpaint Entertainment. "The direction the show is going in is no longer a fit for my lifestyle. I'm tired of the fighting and the cattiness."
She goes on: "I want to be part of something that empowers and inspires women to not only be healthy, but to treat themselves with respect. I wish the rest of the women the best of luck."
Whitfield has been part of the hit reality show since it's inception four seasons ago, and has definitely pulled her fair share of the drama. Amongst her most notorious moments are the infamous wig-pull of season two, when she snatched off fellow castmate Kim Zolciak's tresses, and numerous altercations with frenemy Ne...
Housewives fans agree that Whitfield's trouble-starting presence will be missed on the show, but we doubt this will be the last we'll be seeing of the well-toned diva.
Wow. After that giant blow-up between Randall (Sterling K. Brown) and Beth (Susan Kelechi Watson) on tonight’s episode of “This Is Us” — a series of flashbacks recapping Beth and Randall’s relationship, which culminated in the end of a fight that saw Randall storm out on his wife to sleep at his office in Philadelphia ...
OK, now that that’s out of the way, TheWrap spoke with Brown about where things are headed for “R & B” — as Tuesday’s episode’s title dubbed them. And, uh, he’s a little worried, you guys.
While you might be terrified like Brown, the actor reassured us that at the very least you will discover the fate of Beth and Randall’s relationship come the Season 3 finale.
However, Sterling couldn’t promise us there won’t be more questions when that episode ends.
As for the fight itself — which was set off by that now-infamous voicemail and Randall’s desire for Beth to put her brand-new dance instructor career on hold so they can balance their lives with him in city council — Brown says his experiences with his own wife helped inform that.
The Season 3 finale of “This Is Us” airs next Tuesday at 9/8c on NBC.
‘SMILF,’ ‘This Is Us,’ ‘Dumplin” Stars to Help You Master #Adulting at BE Con 2019!
Getting green in the kitchen doesn't get much easier than this.
One of the best ways to minimize the ecological impact of your kitchen is to compost waste such as produce, coffee grounds and egg shells. Waste that otherwise would consume landfill space can be turned into rich fertilizer.
Trouble is, few people want to walk outside to a compost pile every time they peel an apple or fry an egg. But storing waste in a bucket isn't all that appealing, either. Which is what makes BioBag Food Waste bags so great.
These ultra-thin 3-gallon bags are made from corn and will decompose in as little as 10 days. Keep one under the sink, fill it up as you cook over a few days, then toss the whole thing on the compost pile.
The company also makes kitchen bags, lawn and leaf bags, dog waste bags and litter box liners.
My Answer to the Question--Why on Earth Would Anyone Vote for Bernie?
With the general election a few days away, more and more details are coming out about the crimes and corruption of both worser-of-two-evil candidates. While many progressive voters are leaning towards Jill Stein, she does not have a chance of winning this time around. In this article I explain how Bernie still has a pa...
The reason we are writing in Bernie is because he is the person who won the primary, and we believe in democracy. Even after all the election fraud we saw happening in state after state during the primaries, Bernie still won the first floor vote at the DNC convention, and some observers say there were actually two floo...
Voting for Bernie is not a feel-good protest vote. Bernie still has a path to the White House. (Jill Stein does not in this election cycle.) The path is described as opdeny270. To summarize, most states are winner takes all: whoever gets the most votes wins that state's entire Electoral College vote. A candidate needs ...
As far as the oft-heard refrain that "Bernie does not want to be president any more," it's hard to for me to fathom how anyone can seriously believe this. He sacrificed what are supposed to be his and Jane's relaxing retirement years to campaign his heart out, giving sometimes two speeches a day to crowds of thousands ...
Although Bernie is unable to officially endorse the write-in effort without losing his position in the senate if HRC were to win, he did actually say on video recently that he supported the write in campaign in VT. Which as I explained above, is the key state for this strategy. He also said on the Bill Maher show a cou...
There are many other clues as to his true feelings, some of them coming from Jane Sanders' tweets: When a saboteur named Nicole Guerin who was pretending to be a write-in-Bernie organizer, announced to the world that she privately met with Jane Sanders, and that Jane told her that people should not write in Bernie, Jan...
I'll end my article by describing a dream that someone posted on facebook. She was at a large legislative-like meeting, sitting next to Bernie Sanders. Suddenly, in the middle of the proceedings she stood up and shouted "Bring Back Bernie." And to her amazement all the legislators in the room then stood up and shouted ...
Bernie took his campaign as far as he could take it before he hit a brick wall. Now it's up to us to take it the rest of the way.
that if no one gets to 270 electoral college votes, it throws the election to the US Congress. The newly elected House of Reps elects the president (it would obviously be Trump) and the Senate chooses the next vice president. So, what you are suggesting won't work. Sorry.. Must vote for Hillary to keep out a sociopath.
TARA Biosystems, Inc. provides predictive, in vitro human cardiac tissue models for use in drug discovery and safety assessment. TARA’s cardiac tissues are produced from human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes, matured to an adult-like phenotype, and interrogated to provide direct measures of cardiac...
With this investment, we will build our commercial operations in NYC and are enthusiastic to be a part of its growing life science community.
LISBON — The Tri County 4 Wheelers will host their first mud bog of the year at noon Sunday at the club grounds, 9327 Scroggs Road.
Admission is $10 for adults and $5 for ages 65-and-over. It is free for children ages 12 and under and for active duty military.
With a knack for aural fantasy, the genre benders of Banda Magda come into their own on Tigre.
There has always been a strong sense of playfulness in the globally focused music of Banda Magda. Led by Greek-born singer and bandleader Magda Giannikou, the group has members from four continents and, like so many of today's leading transcontinental bands, has links to Snarky Puppy. While debut album Amour, t'es là w...
The lack of straight-up kitsch is refreshing. A Banda Magda live performance is always more fun for its winks to tackiness, but it doesn't always translate well into an entire album. As exaggerated as Tigre is, though, it never feels too garish or childlike. It isn't a disinterested kind of cool, either; it's an exciti...
Greek-language track "Ase Me Na Bo", heard in a previous version on Snarky Puppy's Family Dinner - Vol. 1, includes a refrain that translates, per Giannikou herself, as "Open your window and let me in / To light your dark seabed with stars / And make it shine turquoise." On Tigre, Banda Magda's light burns more brightl...
Another would-be Geithner deputy withdraws, but the stock market shows signs of life.
President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden remind states to spend their stimulus allowances wisely or have them revoked. The Treasury Department still has a lot of empty corner offices, but at least the Dow is up—even though Obama’s stock is down among blue-chip economists. Obama scores a 10 on the Change-o-Meter.
The president dropped by a daylong personal finances 101 class for states—except Idaho, which didn’t show up—on how to responsibly spend their share of the $787 billion stimulus largesse. Biden, who’s heading up the oversight effort, delivered a parental warning to state officials about how to use the funds responsibly...
Wall Street rallied for a third day, for which the ‘Meter feels obligated to award Obama 15 points, given that it tends to dock him when the news is bad. But Obama and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner got an F and an F-, respectively, from a survey of 49 economists polled about their opinions of the administration’s...
As we noted yesterday, Obama tacked a signing statement onto the earmark-laden spending bill he signed to fund the federal government for the fiscal year that began last October. Further inspection of his statement finds it particularly Bushian. Using the same separation-of-powers arguments that defined George W. Bush’...
While the Central Bank of Nigeria is still thinking whether to accept cryptocurrency as a legal tender or not, the Managing Director, International Monetary Fund (IMF), Christine Lagarde has urged central banks globally to consider issuing digital currency to make transactions more secure.
Lagarde who disclosed this at a conference in Singapore, argued that state-backed cryptocurrencies could satisfy public policy goals related to financial inclusion, consumer protection, privacy and fraud prevention.
She said: “I believe we should consider the possibility to issue digital currency,” Lagarde said in her speech this week in Singapore which is at the forefront of driving fintech innovation.
In as extract from newsbitcoin.com, it explained that cashless transactions have soared around the world in recent years, unsettling many of the control freaks who work for various governments. Bitcoin, for example, was created to challenge the conventional financial system and return the ownership of money to the peop...
In addition, central banks could offer a more level playing field for competition, leaving space for private companies to concentrate on innovation. “Putting it another way, the central bank focuses on its comparative advantage — back-end settlement — and financial institutions and startups are free to focus on what th...
However, Lagarde’s calls for digital currencies sponsored by central banks are likely to be met with indignation by many cryptocurrency hardliners, who advocate the foundational principles of bitcoin. They tend to see bitcoin as a currency that was built for freedom by resisting any form of control, especially that exe...
“Faces of the Fleet” takes a look at YOUR Navy operating forward. These images represent the greatest Sailors in the greatest Navy in the world leading from the deck plates, and completing missions around the globe. This is your fleet and these are your Sailors! Hooyah, Navy!
Dave Lorenz, a deck operator for Northrop Grumman, acknowledges that he has control of an X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System (UCAS) demonstrator as he moves it via an arm-mounted controller on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77).
Aviation Ordnanceman Airman Ashanti Chapman, left, Seaman Yun Sung Yoi, from the Republic of Korea navy, and Aviation Boatswain’s Mate (Handling) Airman Princess Rosit conduct morning colors aboard the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68) during a port visit.
Electrician’s Mate 3rd Class Ryan Luke, from Victorville, Calif., turns on ventilation from the load center aboard the aircraft carrier USS George Washington (CVN 73).
Boatswain’s Mate 3rd Class Zachary Swift and Seaman Presley Hatasingh practice self-defense techniques during a security reaction force class aboard the guided-missile destroyer USS William P. Lawrence (DDG 110).
Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class Khiem Truong administers a small pox vaccination to Gas Turbine System Technician (Electrical) Fireman Tiffany Irons aboard the guided-missile destroyer USS Stockdale (DDG 106).
Quartermaster 2nd Class Shaun Carlton, middle, shows Quartermaster Seaman Christopher Carroll, right, and Boatswain’s Mate 3rd Class Marshal Toone how to plot a ship’s position on a chart aboard the guided-missile cruiser USS Monterey (CG 61).
What is your favorite photo? Leave us a comment below.
Obama Camp Runs Into Trademark Issue Over "Joshua Generation"
The Obama Campaign will not be using the name, “Joshua Generation” after all. In their attempt to reach out to younger faith voters, that WAS going to be the name for the effort. But the Home School Legal Defense Association contacted the Obama campaign explaining that they have the rights to that name. The Obama campa...
I wonder why the Obama campaign caved so quickly on this. The "Joshua Generation" is a fairly common name used by Christian faith communities to refer to the younger cohort -- those who will, pace the biblical Joshua, actually live in the Promised Land. It's sort of hard to trademark a biblical evocation, no?
The HSLDA's president, Mike Farris, was a chief backer of Mike Huckabee's presidential campaign.
LONDON: PR21, the consumer arm of the Edelman group, has closed its ailing London operation after a year of lost business and senior-level defections.
In a statement issued to PRWeek's UK edition, PR21 president and CEO Jerry Epstein said that PR21 UK had "now eroded to an unacceptable level" and that all London operations had been suspended.
"Worse than not keeping pace, the London operation has diminished to the point where there is no other real option," he said. "Over the course of the last couple of years, the management team was unable to even sustain what was a thriving operation."
Epstein and PR21 UK did not say what would become of the remaining six-person team, led by director Kevin Redfern.
Epstein also added that PR21 would concentrate on its US operations and would re-enter the European market when "market conditions allow."
The PR21 UK closure marks the end of a turbulent two-year period in which the company has hemorrhaged key clients, such as Speedo and Conduit, and lost its European CEO, Beverley Kaye.
PR21 entered the UK market through the acquisition of Rowland Communications in 2000, inheriting a large amount of blue-chip clients in the process. Following a review of the company's finances last year, a merger of PR21 UK into Edelman's consumer operation was discussed with Kaye.
However, when Kaye resigned from the company in September of last year, Epstein confirmed that the operation had been scaled down, and that directors Jonathan Hopkins and Neil Honor had accepted voluntary redundancy.
(CNN) -- Journalist Roxana Saberi landed in Vienna on Friday after being freed from an Iranian prison, according to the U.S. Embassy in Austria.
Roxana Saberi smiles outside her home in Tehran, Iran, on Tuesday.
Saberi made a brief statement to reporters, thanking all the people who supported and lobbied for her freedom.
"I came to Vienna because it is a calm and relaxing place, and also the Austrian ambassador in Tehran and his family were very helpful to me and my family during this period," Saberi said. "So I want to thank him again and his family and all the other people in the world who helped us during this time.
"I heard that certain people, many people, went through a lot of troubles because of me, and someone went on a hunger strike. Both journalists and nonjournalists around the world, I've been hearing, supported me very much, and it was very moving for me to hear this," Saberi said.
It is not clear whether she was headed immediately to the United States. But her father, Reza Saberi, had said earlier that she and her parents would return as soon as possible.
Saberi, an Iranian-American journalist, had lived in Iran since 2003. Her parents flew there from their home in North Dakota to push for their daughter's release.
She received international support after she was jailed in Iran in January, becoming a symbol of the fight for journalists' freedoms worldwide.
Saberi, 32, was convicted last month on espionage charges in a one-day trial that was closed to the public.
She was sentenced to eight years in prison after being accused of spying for the United States.
A judge changed Saberi's sentence during an appeal hearing Sunday. The court agreed with her lawyers that, because Iran is not at war with the United States, Saberi cannot be punished for cooperating with agents of a hostile nation, according to her spokesman, Abdolsamad Khorramshahi.
In her statement to reporters Friday, Saberi alluded to inaccurate information being released about her ordeal.
"There have been various statements made about my case over the past few days," she said. "And I think that if somebody is supposed to speak about my case from now on, nobody knows about it as well as I do. I will talk about it more in the future, I hope. But I am not prepared at this time."
Published reports have quoted Saberi's lawyer, Saleh Nikbakht, as saying that Saberi had obtained a classified document. Sources close to Saberi confirmed Nikbakht's remarks.
The document, which dealt with the U.S. war in Iraq, was from the Expediency Council, where Saberi had worked as a translator, the sources said. The council is an influential body that advises Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei.
Nikbakht also said that Saberi had a document from the Strategic Studies of the Office of the President of Iran, but that he was able to convince the judge that this one should not be considered classified, sources close to Saberi said.
Iranian sources had previously told CNN's Christiane Amanpour that Saberi was arrested because she was allegedly found with sensitive documents and allegedly had been in contact with Iranians who were linked to "foreign intelligence" agencies. Sources said at the time that her case would depend on whether she was judge...
Saberi herself has not commented on the reports about these documents. But she has denied any wrongdoing or espionage.
A national steering committee should be formed to help states develop a data-sharing system for tracking welfare recipients across state lines, according to recommendations in a forthcoming agency report mandated by Congress.
The committee would evaluate creation of a system that would act as a central clearinghouse for the states on information about welfare recipients, said Mark Ragan, director of the Department of Health and Human Service's Office of State Systems Administration for Children & Families.
The Family Assistance Case Tracking System could be built in two to three years for less than $20 million but Congress must provide the necessary funding, Ragan told attendees at a National Association of State Information Resource Executives conference in Williamsburg, Va.
"We think the proposal to set up a steering committee is exactly the right way to go," said Jay Kayne, policy studies director for the National Governors' Association. "The states are the stakeholders in a devolved system of welfare reform and therefore should be taking the lead on the national system that would put it...

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