Family of ‘murdered’ UK teenager reacts to death

Saturday, April 5, 2008

The family of the 19 year old who was ‘murdered’ in a pub car park two days ago have made a statement regarding the death of their child. They said that “Jack is obviously dearly missed by all of his family. He was a much loved son and brother.”

“Nothing can ever fill the hole that has been left in our lives,” they continued. “We know that Jack had a lot of friends, but we have been amazed by the amount of messages that people have left. “

The family continued “we can not believe Jack has gone, we all keep expecting him to walk back in. Jack was an angel, he was amazing.”

The death, which was treated as murder, resulted in two arrests. The murder, which occurred on Wednesday evening, took place near Highridge Road in Bishopsworth, Bristol.

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Explore New York Shopping, Dining And Monuments

Submitted by: Larry Austin

New York, one of the most amazing, fascinating and exciting cities in the world, features the world s best collection of museums, shops and restaurants. The 20 square miles of Manhattan features a unique culture and it s made a name as a place where all the big arty fads begin.

The spectacular skyline of the city is well known all over the world. The skyline comprises of some of the most famous buildings, which are well worth exploring, including the Empire State Building, the art deco sky scraper and famous New York landmark, and the Statue of Liberty, an iconic symbol of freedom and independence in America and famous historical and cultural monument. Other must sees in the city include the United Nations Building, Times Square and the Immigration Museum at Ellis Island.

Wander through and explore the city s different neighborhoods; Chinatown, Theatre District, Greenwich Village, Harlem and Little Italy, each offering a unique atmosphere but very much American. The neighboring boroughs of Brooklyn also boast several attractions such as the 52 acre Brooklyn Botanical Gardens and the famous amusement park as Coney Island.

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Another joy of the mix of ethnicities and culture brings is the different cuisine and music. The city s cultural diversity offers a range of restaurants serving different ethnic cuisine. The borough of Queens is popular amongst visitors to New York for the amazing selection on foreign restaurants scattered through the area.

New York also offers the most incredible shopping experience ever! With world class department stores, such as Bloomingdales and Bergdorf Goodman, designer boutiques on Fifth Avenue, street markets and even specialty stores, New York features the whole spectrum of shopping.

This city is also home to greatest collection of museums in the world, most of which are easily accessible as they are located on the Museum Mile along the edge of the Central Park. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, colloquially known as the Met, features a permanent collection exceeding two million exhibits. This permanent collection ranges from classical antiquity, Ancient Egypt, the very best of the European Masters and Modern American Art. The Met is also home to one of world s largest galleries.

With so many pleasures awaiting you, for the best New York experience a visit to this wonderful city should essentially be based around Manhattan. Manhattan boasts a range of accommodation options – a choice of star class luxury hotels to boutique hotels to budget hotels to self serving apartments. For the best lodging options and deals check with your travel agent or simply do your research online. Most online travel option providers feature the best seasonal rates and package deals on New York Hotels. For lodging close to all the New York attractions try the Marmara Manhattan Hotel New York. Providing easy access to restaurants, shopping malls and museums, the hotel’s influential neighbors are the Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art, Central Park and the Columbia University. The hotel location also provides easy access to public transport and it boasts all modern facilities and well equipped comfortable rooms, making it the ideal option for those wanting to explore shopping, dining and monuments in New York.

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Chicago Metra considers selling naming rights for train lines, stations

Sunday, February 14, 2010

Chicago’s Metra is currently considering the possibility of selling the naming rights to its train stations, rail lines, and even bridges to generate more revenue. 

The regional rail system for Chicago and its surrounding suburbs has been experiencing revenue shortfalls, along with other public transportation agencies such as the Chicago Transit Authority and Pace. They all rely on sales taxes and fares to fund their services, but the recent recession has reduced sales tax revenues, and unemployment has caused ridership to fall. Compared to 86.8 million trips in 2008, Metra reported that only 82.3 million trips were provided in 2009. As spokeswoman Judy Pardonnet said, “We’re looking at any opportunity to increase non-fare revenue.”

A law approved by former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich in 2008 granted free rides to all seniors regardless of income, adding to the decreasing fare revenues as well. State lawmakers are trying to restrict the free rides to low-income seniors; Metra has not yet commented on the issue, however. 

New designs put on the agency’s website last September has attracted more traffic, and Metra is considering selling advertising space online. In addition, advertising space could be sold on the outside of train cars as well. As for the naming rights to stations and routes, Metra plans to hire a consultant that would figure out the details of such a proposal. Spokesperson Meg Reihle did not know how much money Metra could gain from the sale or which organizations would be interested in buying. 

According to Ms. Reihle, public transit agencies in other cities have sold naming rights as well, such as the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority in Cleveland and Long Island Rail Road in Long Island. TECO Energy sponsors a rail line in Tampa’s Hillsborough Area Regional Transit for US$1 million over ten years. 

Throughout its 26-year history, Metra has named several of its locomotives and renamed two stations: Ogilvie Transportation Center, which was previously named North Western Station, and Millennium Terminal, which was previously called Randolph Street. No transactions were made in renaming those two stations, however. There is also a Station named after the candy maker Mars, but that station was named before Metra took it over, and the company doesn’t pay Metra for any naming rights. 

I think the business community recognizes that transit is positive for their advertising benefit

Execuive Director Phil Pagano sees the proposal as a way for businesses to advertise themselves. “I think the business community recognizes that transit is positive for their advertising benefit,” said Mr. Pagano at a board meeting. In addition to businesses, hospitals located near the train stations could purchase naming rights as well. However, Mr. Pagano has also stated that “the agency would be selective about the type of businesses it partners with.”

Metra has said that it will be sensitive to the wishes of the communities near the stops, and town names will not be removed from station names. Rather, both the municipality and the sponsoring organization would share the naming rights, such as in renaming Naperville Station to “Naperville Boeing Station”. “I’m not sure whether [the old name] is first or second, but definitely it’s going to have to be there,” said Mr. Pagano.

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Oral Roberts University president accused of illegal political donations and financial misappropriation

Friday, October 5, 2007

Richard Roberts, the President of Oral Roberts University, and his wife, Lindsay Roberts, are accused of illegal political contributions, financial wrong-doing, and wrongful firings in a lawsuit filed Tuesday.

The lawsuit was filed by three former professors who claim “they were wrongfully dismissed after reporting the school’s involvement in a local political race.” According to KTEN television news, “Roberts’ statement says personal expenses are charged to him and he personally pays them on a monthly basis.” On October 3, Roberts “told students and faculty during his weekly chapel Wednesday that the lawsuit is about intimidation, blackmail and extortion.”

Richard has been president of ORU since his father, Oral Roberts university founder and former faith healer, “semi-retired” in 1993.

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Healthcare Compliance Is Hipaa Compliance

Perhaps the Risk Manager had a Compliance hat she wore when the occasion demanded. While there were compliance responsibilities with regard to medical records, they were mostly to do with ensuring that the all forms were completed (such as Operative Reports, or Discharge Summaries).In the late 1990’s, the trend toward digitization of electronic health records raised new health care compliance concerns: privacy and security. HIPAA, an act instituted in ’96, was not originally meant to deal with healthcare compliance directly. The focus was portability. The intent was to enable employees to move between jobs without losing their health insurance due to denials of enrollment by the new employer’s insurer due to preexisting conditions (in fact the legislation in essence, forbade denial of enrollment on the ground of preexisting condition, when an employee was hired by a subscribing company within a certain period of time). Yet, HIPAA lawyers (yes, the term was coined during this time) realized that health insurance companies had to perform certain actuarial calculations in order to assess risk and set premiums, and, to that end, they had to review the claims experience. The only practical way to do that was to review the codes used for those claims.The problem is that these codes are not standardized. Every state has their own set of codes. This incited aides to the Congress and Dept. of social services to create a single, unified set of claims codes. Yet, as with most things legislative, this begat another concern: with all this very sensitive information being transmitted on a regular basis, there was the potential for abuse if the patient data were to end up in the hands of those unauthorized to view it, and who would perhaps use it for non-benign purposes. As a result, DHHS allowed for comments about medical privacy issues. They received nearly 40,000 comments about health information that had been mishandled with regard to its privacy. As a result of this massive inquiry, HIPAA privacy rules were established dealing with criteria and disclosure of medical information. Soon after, there were a number of rules instituted that dealt with the manufacturing of, the storage of, and the ultimate disclosure of protected health information. These six-hundred pages were the beginning of what has come to be known as HIPAA law.Since then those who know HIPAA law has become almost a cottage industry within the area of healthcare law. As Healthcare law has become more robust, and areas like healthcare compliance have been added, lawyers have had to learn more and more about the industry especially with regard to how changes affect security and privacy. Yet, as more and more health information was created, stored and transferred electronically, the hospitals and medical practices established many offices like the office for a position of Chief Information Security.This trend was given a significant boost in 2004, when President George W. Bush issued an Executive Order setting in motion a national transition to an interoperable electronic health record system by 2004. After Bush’s executive order was issued, Congress established funding to help with the transition. Hillary Clinton sponsored one of the first bills allotting funding. As a result of thin margins and slow reimbursement, a number regional hospitals were slow to adopt the new measures. This hurt national coordination efforts. Medicare stopped taking paper claims submissions, but there was still significant resistance among care givers to give up the pen and paper.In February, 2009 legislation was passed which would almost require every Risk Manager and Compliance Officer to have at least a rudimentary knowledge of HIPAA law, as it pertained to electronic health records. As part of the “Stimulus Package” Congress passed another law known by its acronym HITECH. In a reprise of the concerns which led to the implementation of the HIPAA Privacy and Security standards, HITECH did three things that will change the daily activities of Risk Managers, hospital counsel, Privacy Officers and IT and Security Officers. It provided for Thirty Billion Dollars in incentive payments to be used to accelerate the transition to an interoperative health record system. The law, enacted on Jan. 13,2010, establishes criteria for access to those funds, allowing only those who can exchange data in an accurate and secure manner. In addition to all that, the third way in which it affects the healthcare industry is that it requires that all information is accessible in a way that is consistent and buttressing old HIPAA privacy and security standards. Such a mandate is made even harder, however, by the fact that HIPAA rules were expanded and strengthened as a result of the act.As hospital staff are made aware of these new regulations, despite being in the middle of a recession, there is no doubt that lawyers will we be called upon by hospitals. Healthcare compliance will truly become HIPAA compliance.

Police called to investigate after tenant draws swastikas in landlord’s house

Thursday, September 6, 2007

82-year-old Jewish Bowmanville, Ontario woman Ms. Marion Schwarz’s house has been found vandalized with graffiti showing neo-Nazism expressions, as well as swastikas. Broken windows and walls were found ripped open.

The terms “Kike”, “Fuck Jews,” and “White Power” were written in white around the house, as well as a large green swastika.

The woman’s husband Mr. Allan Schwarz, was returning home to their house on King Street East, the town’s center, to bring home a present for their 40th wedding anniversary when he found the house not the way he left it.

Bought to start an antique store, the Schwarz’s started a cattle business instead and later rented it out. Ten years ago their tenant started to rent the house, just five months ago he stopped paying rent saying he was on welfare. Ms. Schwarz offered to lower his rent. He vandalized and fled, with his son and daughter, from the house on Tuesday morning, the day he was to be evicted. She was accompanied by her son Alan, two police officers, and a locksmith.

“I don’t know what happened to him … Up until the last while, I never had a day’s trouble with him. He was friendly,” Ms. Schwarz said.

Durham Regional Police are now investigating what they refer to as an “incident”, and what lobby group B’nai Brith Canada has argued constitutes a “hate crime”.

“A swastika on its own, as per the Criminal Code of Canada, is not a hate crime,” said Sgt. Paul McCurbin. “It doesn’t have the proper components to be considered a hate crime. For example, if I said that I was going to kill a race of people or we should kill a race of people, that would be considered a hate crime.”

A local neighbor, who asked not to be named, swept glass from the broken windows off the sidewalk, worried that dogs could cut their feet. She said the tenants were private people.

A Prisoner of War (POW) camp was located in Bowmanville during World War II (WWII). [1] [2] Named Camp 30 it held captive German army officers from the Afrika Korps, fliers from the Luftwaffe and naval officers from the Kriegsmarine. Many of them were transferred from England. Among them was famous top U-boat ace of World War II Otto Kretschmer. He was involved in the Battle of Bowmanville.

The Bowmanville boys’ school was the building holding the prisoners. The facility had been designed to house 300 boys. Surrounding the existing school buildings was a barbed wire fence. It was not the typical POW camp, having good food and prisoners being well treated. It had gardens and even a swimming pool was built. Movies were shown each week, music concerts were held, and stage plays were produced.

Mr. Schwarz fled from Germany to Canada in 1938. Marion, a Toronto native, and her husband moved to Bowmanville to start a new life.

“In 1938, we found safe haven in Bowmanville,” said her son Alan. “It was wonderful place to settle and my parents have been here basically for 70 years. They never anticipated ever facing the same kind of symbolism they had to leave Germany for.”

The investigation still continues. The tenant’s name has not been released.

“We couldn’t foresee anything like this because human beings don’t do things like this.”

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The Benefits Of Using A Penis Health Creme

The Benefits of Using a Penis Health Creme

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John Dugan

Although the penis is such an important appendage to most men, few give much thought to caring for it beyond showering on a daily basis. However, in order to maintain a healthy and fully-functional penis, greater attention to genital health care is needed. A daily regimen that includes cleaning and grooming, as well as regular self-examination, is advised. In addition, applying a penis health crme that contains penis-specific nutrients (health professionals recommend Man1 Man Oil) is suggested to increase sexual pleasure nand prevent uncomfortable skin conditions and infections, as well as more serious problems that can affect penis health in the long term.

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Proper Penis Care Following the steps described below can help to keep the penis healthy, as well as functioning at top form. Daily Washing Failure to keep the penis clean and dry can result in a number of unpleasant conditions: Fungal infections Unwashed skin is prime territory for the development of fungal infections, which can cause redness, itching, soreness and rash. Keeping the area clean and dry can prevent fungal infections such as jock itch from taking hold. Bacterial infections Penis skin that is not clean can develop microscopic fissures which allow harmful bacteria to enter the bloodstream, resulting in infections which can affect not only the penis, but the rest of the body, as well. Washing and moisturizing with a penis health crme can prevent problems caused by harmful organisms. Dry, flaking skin Washing the penis every day and wearing clean, loose-fitting clothing can prevent dryness, flaking and chafing, which can lead to discomfort or soreness during masturbation or sexual intercourse. Foul odors it goes without saying that unwashed skin can result in some highly unpleasant odors. Washing the genital area every day keeps away odor-causing bacteria and preventing that distinctive and off-putting smell. Grooming While trimming the hair in the genital area is not on every mans to-do list, keeping the area well-groomed is useful for preventing chafing and itching; in addition, removing excessive hair growth can prevent foul odors from developing. As an added advantage, many women find a well-groomed man to be more attractive. Self-Examination Since the key to treating nearly any health disorder successfully is early detection, conducting a regular self-examination is recommended. Men should make it a habit to check over the penis and genital area on a regular basis, looking for moles, warts or other unusual growths, as well as lesions, rash, or bumps under the skin. In most cases, these conditions are easily treated, but problems that do not respond to treatment at home within a few days should be checked by a doctor. Maintaining a Healthy Lifestyle A healthy lifestyle which is characterized by eating a balanced diet, limiting alcohol consumption, drinking plenty of water, and avoiding the use of tobacco products can prevent a wide range of health problems and promote good penis health. In addition, it is important to choose sexual partners with care and use proper protection during sex. Prevent Problems and Keep Your Penis Healthy with a Penis Health Crme In addition to all of these measures, health care professionals advise that a penis health crme, (health professionals recommend Man1 Man Oil) containing penis-specific vitamins, minerals and other essential nutrients be used daily. The benefits of using a penis health crme include keeping the skin clean and moisturized, as well as protecting this sensitive organ from bacterial or fungal infections and environmental contaminants that may lead to more serious penis health issues. Evidence has shown that men who use a penis health crme experience fewer penis problems and enjoy a more satisfactory sex life than men who neglect penis care.

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Ontario Votes 2007: Interview with Progessive Conservative candidate Tyler Currie, Trinity-Spadina

Monday, October 1, 2007

Tyler Currie is running as an Progressive Conservative candidate in the Ontario provincial election, in the riding of Trinity-Spadina. Wikinews’ Nick Moreau interviewed him regarding his values, his experience, and his campaign.

Stay tuned for further interviews; every candidate from every party is eligible, and will be contacted. Expect interviews from Liberals, Progressive Conservatives, New Democratic Party members, Ontario Greens, as well as members from the Family Coalition, Freedom, Communist, Libertarian, and Confederation of Regions parties, as well as independents.

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Indian Human Resources minister to reform technology sector

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Kapil Sibal, India’s Minister of Human Resource Development (HRD) held a meeting Monday to present his reform plans for the Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) sector by increasing the entrance percentage to 80% and above in the class XII (final year) board exams. A three-member committee was set up to review the proposal.

Sibal said, “The present criteria is that students need to secure 60% in class XII for appearing in IIT-JEE. This is not acceptable”, pointing out that the current criteria where students getting more than 60% in the board exam of the twelfth class are eligible for IIT-JEE is not good enough and that it has to be raised to 80-85%.

He also stated that students undervalue final year board exams, preparing instead for the Indian Institute of Technology Joint Entrance Examination (IIT-JEE); they enrol in coaching institutes and concentrate on their study material in order to enter IIT. He wants to abolish these “teaching shops.”

The meeting decided that they would set up two committees, one headed by Anil Kakodkar, Atomic Energy Commission (Chairman) and other by T. Ramasamy, Department of Science and Technology (Secretary). The first committee is scheduled to decide final year board percentage and the second one is scheduled to set the curriculum.

The Kakodkar committee also plans to decide how to abolish coaching institutes and how to move IIT field forward with a greater emphasis on research. The committee is expected to submit its report in the next six months. The minister also clarified that some of these will be implemented from the 2010 academic year and some from 2011.

The meeting was also expected to reduce the fee for African and South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) countries as their fees are higher than those of Indians. The review committee says that people of other countries are tempted to study in India but they refrain due to high fees. The Ramasamy committee is expected to submit its report in the next three months.

Lastly, the meeting said that it will appoint board members and directors on the basis of nominations and independent rank and power to ensure IIT’s activity.

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NHL: Sharks defeat Predators, take 1-0 lead in series

Wednesday, April 11, 2007

Sharks lead series 1-0. (Best of Seven)

San Jose Sharks 5 4 Nashville Predators
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