| Rallies could make the difference in a close race
Barack Obama's or Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign, putting South Texas and the Hispanic vote squarely in the spotlight. The candidates and their high-profile supporters have been criss-crossing the Rio Grande Valley as well. But how well do these whistlestops translate to votes? How much does an undecided voter really learn about the candidates? Corpus Christi resident Annika Gunning, 24, decided she wouldn't learn much, so she didn't go to either candidate's rally (though she watched Obama's on television). "I feel like I need to research what they're all about," said Gunning, who works at the consulting firm Olivarri & Associates. "I don't know how much you learn at a rally except to cheer them on." Charlton McIlwain, a political communication specialist at New York University, agreed that issues aren't the most important part of the campaign stops.
Wikipedia, Google, Israel And Free Speech
But now something very new and exciting is taking shape for those seeking answers to life's many questions. It's called Wikipedia. Wikipedia or Wiki as many refer to it as is a free encyclopedia on the Internet. The largest of it's kind which has gathered such potency that when performing a Google search today on almost any popular topic, a Wikipedia link will most likely appear on the first page. Wiki has an abundance of articles on far more subjects in many more languages than Encyclopedia Britannica or any other encyclopedia. But can you trust it? You see, the wiki part of the name is a tech term, meaning a web site that allows lots of people to contribute: creating, changing, or erasing information. Not all of these people who edit Wikipedia are professional editors nor are they thoroughly objective and balanced in their editing and research skills.
'Asian hate' writer suspended
I didn't want to hurt anybody. . . . It was a mistake for me not to see how more people would take this. I've learned more in this last week than I have in my entire 22 years of life." After the meeting, Hewlings said she did not intend to resign. Charles Gilford III, one of the three leaders of the CU student government, said he respects freedom of speech but that it was no excuse for publishing the column. "You have no right to isolate and marginalize certain people," he said. "You have no right to attack a member of our family, and that's what's happened." Gilford suggested that campus officials evaluate the column in light of federal anti-discrimination laws. Peterson listened and took notes during the meeting. At the end of the 90-minute session, he said he would direct students and staff to examine if anyone's civil rights had been violated.
Not your average student-athlete
Their brief story was supposed to end here, with Johnson presumably finding another instructor at the Paseo Racquet Center in Glendale, Ariz. and Prudomme beginning to assemble his first team at Grand Canyon University, yet somehow Johnson's insistence on having Prudhomme as her instructor and his need to recruit the best tennis players in the area led them back to each other. It was a math problem that even Johnson wasn't sure that she could solve. "There was obviously a huge age difference, I hadn't played competitively in 30 years and was out of college for just as long," says Johnson, who graduated from Arizona State with a master's degree in secondary education. "I wasn't sure if I could go back but I thought it would be fun find out." If Prudhomme had been hired at any other time by any other school, Johnson would likely be serving volleys with her fellow retirees at the tennis club, but he was hired by Grand Canyon, an NCAA Division II program that had gone winless the previous season, a month before the school year started.
Lawrence police probe GPS, tire thefts
LAWRENCE — Thieves stole four tires and rims from one car, and a GPS device from another in separate incidents reported to police Tuesday. Officer Todd Allard was sent to 264 Ames St., at 5:20 a.m. Tuesday where he spoke to the owner of a 1996 Acura. The owner told Allard she found her car up on cement blocks with all four tires and rims, valued at $500, missing. Later that morning, a resident of 486 Andover St. reported his work vehicle — a Volkswagen owned by Best Buy — had been broken into while parked at his address and a Garmin Street Pilot GPS 2720 stolen, police said. The car window was broken. Copper pipes stolen from Lawrence home LAWRENCE — Thieves stole copper pipes from the basement of a three-decker on Pleasant Street, police said. Officers were sent to 28-30 Pleasant St.
SNP 'not fit to govern'
Here he seems to have missed a rather basic point. The SNP are proposing a tax cut. They have made that point clear, describing it as the largest tax cut in a generation.Mr. Midwinter says that moving from the council tax to the local income tax will raise £831 million less in tax than at present. That is half true. £450 million less will be raised. Put another way (and one I suspect that will ring more true to taxpayers) that means £450 million will be returned to Scottish taxpayers. That is a central feature of the SNP plans.This leaves £381 million in dispute. This £381 million is the amount of the current council tax rebate. Mr. Midwinter assumes that this money would be lost to Scotland in the maw of the Treasury.What we know from the Burt Review is that arrangements are flexible enough to deal with their proposed alternative to Council Tax.
British Oscar hopes given a beating by Academy voters
The Best Foreign Language Film nominations are almost entirely out of the blue. The outstanding duel will be the shoot-out between the Coen Brothers and Paul Thomas Anderson. No Country for Old Men and There Will Be Blood odds-on to lift Best Picture and/or Best Director. The other overly-worthy contenders will be shredded by the cross-fire. .
Dialight's New LED Strip Light Alternative to Fluorescent Tubing Set ...
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