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Leading scorers: Christoval, Cunningham 14; Morton, Ross 17, Hall 10, Bracken 10. Record: Morton 19-13.
COLLEYVILLE - Tess Bruffey scored 15 points and Hannah Harbin added 11 as the Lubbock Titans defeated the Dallas Home School Athletic Association in the semifinals of the Texas Home School State Basketball Championships.
Jauslynn Shepard and Haven Middleton added nine and eight points, respectively, for the Titans (21-11), who will play for the state title at 4:30 p.m. today against the Fort Worth THESA Riders.
Tori Phillips scored nine points for Dallas HSAA.
The Titans advanced to the semifinals with a 77-32 quarterfinal victory Thursday against the Lake Houston Conquerors. Bruffey scored 28 points, followed by Shephard with 18.
TITANS - Shephard 4 0-0 9, Middleton 4 0-1 8, Hoage 0 0-0 0, Harbin 4 3-4 11, Kac. Thornton 0 2-2 2, Kar. Thornton 0 0-0 0, Bruffey 4 7-10 15. Totals 16 12-17 45.
DALLAS HSAA - Goudy 1 0-0 2, Steele 0 0-0 0, Thompson 0 0-0 0, Day 0 0-0 0, Phillips3 1-2 9, Bowden 0 0-0 0, Baniewicz 0 0-0 0, Thomas 1 0-0 2, Williams 1 2-4 4, Weinzatsel 2 0-0 4. Totals 7 3-6 21.
3-point goals: Titans 1 (Shephard), Dallas HSAA 2 (Phillips 2). Total fouls: Titans 9, Dallas HSAA 16. Fouled out: Baniewicz. Record: Titans 21-11.
Leading scorers: Titans, Bruffey 28, Shephard 18, Harbin 10.
Matt Warman, MP for Boston and Skegness, has welcomed new research showing that superfast broadband has boosted the turnover of local businesses across the UK by £9 billion.
The research claims the boost to the UK economy has created 49,000 jobs, showing the clear benefits that superfast broadband provides.
Nationwide superfast broadband coverage has now reached 95.39% due to the Government’s focus on hard to reach areas, and in the East Midlands 97.12 percent of homes and businesses can now access superfast services. Work is ongoing to extend coverage, with more than one million extra UK homes and businesses estimated to...
The Government has introduced a Universal Service Obligation, meaning everyone will have access to fast and affordable broadband by 2020. It is going even further than this, having set out plans to deliver nationwide full fibre connectivity by 2033 as part of the modern Industrial Strategy.
Commenting, Matt said, “These new figures show that extending superfast broadband is making a real difference to local businesses, boosting turnovers and reducing unemployment.
“Broadband is still one of the top issues in my postbag, so this is great news for businesses in Boston and Skegness as we move into an increasingly digital economy, and it’s great news that over 97% of homes and businesses across the East Midlands now have access to superfast broadband.
Utah's electronic gateway initiative, which will provide an online portal for citizen access to government services, is underway after the selection of a vendor in May, according to Dave Moon, Utah's chief information officer.
The project, called E-Utah, will include a redesign of the state's World Wide Web site set to be finished in mid-August, a statewide calendar and press release system and real-time access to driver record information for insurance and rental car companies, Moon said last week.
"This is an ongoing initiative for a central coordination of efforts to move government services online," Moon said. "The project will never be 'done,' but the first application involving the driver record information should be going live by the end of July because it had a limited set of customers [insurance and renta...
Utah Interactive Inc., a subsidiary of the National Information Consortium, will act as the gateway and network manager to develop applications and assist state agencies in moving their services online. NIC has helped Indiana, Kansas and Arkansas with similar projects.
Last month, Gov. Michael Leavitt (R) created the Utah Electronic Commerce Council, which will act as the oversight and advisory board for the E-Utah project and state agencies' electronic commerce activities. The council will include representatives from the business and consumer sectors, the CIO's office, state agenci...
Future plans for the E-Utah project include more applications for specific customers such as the trucking industry and online payment and billing options for social services. "Our goal is to accelerate the number of things citizens can do with the government online," Moon said. "This can be the catalyst for all agencie...
Moon also reported that "PlanIT," the new IT portfolio management system for tracking IT projects and plans by state agencies, was up and running as of last month. The new PlanIT system streamlines the process for IT managers in agencies across the state to submit plans and projects for review and approval electronical...
PlanIT also allows agencies to better track actual IT budget costs vs. budget forecasts by automatically referencing information from the state financial system for IT projects, FINET. Beginning in fiscal 2000, agencies must use the CIO office's Risk/Value Assessment Mode for all IT project plans submitted through the ...
The central importance of talent reflects a broader issue in the IT field today: a structural mismatch between in-demand roles and the skills and experience of the talent available in the marketplace. The Hackett Group believes that a comprehensive strategic workforce plan is required if IT organizations are to avoid t...
"CIOs are struggling to meet demands for revenue-driving innovations with IT organizations that, during the Great Recession, were stripped down to do not much more than support back-office transactional systems," said The Hackett Group IT Transformation Practice Leader and Principal Mark Peacock. "Every company's IT tr...
It’s unlikely I’ll forget this year’s spring break. It started with the hospitalization of my mother-in-law, 92, with pneumonia.
In declining health for several years, doctors could offer no good medical options. She and her husband of 64 years had already decided that they did not want to receive any extraordinary medical interventions to artificially prolong their lives.
After just a few days in the hospital, the agonizing decision was made to move her to a hospice facility. She lived only three more days. Spring break ended with her funeral.
I was called upon to write her obituary.
Phyllis (Toshach) Haase was born on July 19, 1919, in Drumheller, Alberta, Canada. Her parents, Enos and Myrtle (McGill) Toshach, were early settlers and prominent citizens there; owned the main store in town, Toshach’s Department Store; and was the prime sponsor of the hockey team known as the Miners.
Gene was serving in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II and was stationed in Canada where he was working on the Alaskan Highway project.
They were married in Canada on July 9, 1947, and moved to Muskegon, where Gene had grown up. Upon returning, he initially worked at Grossman’s Department Store as a buyer and director of merchandising during the late 1940s and early 1950s before he opened his own business, Hasse Hardware, on Laketon Avenue in Muskegon.
Phyllis was instrumental in instilling a love of nature and animals in her children.
After Phyllis’ funeral, we returned to Gaylord, planning to return in two weekends to visit with Gene. His son spent the weekend after the funeral with his dad.
Then we got terrible news. Gene had been admitted to the hospital less than two weeks after Phyllis’ funeral. Gene, who had been Phyllis’ caretaker for the previous few years, had a life-threatening medical condition that had gone untreated, and now was beyond reasonable treatment.
In good spirits until the end, he asked to go to the same hospice where Phyllis had been. And in just five days, 22 days after Phyllis’ death, “Sarge” joined her in heaven.
Plans to make water companies add fluoride to tap water in areas where health bosses and the public request it have been backed by the House of Lords.
The measure, included in an amendment to the Water Bill, would take decisions on fluoridation out of the hands of the privatised utilities which now control the water supply.
But critics claim the move would be tantamount to mass poisoning.
They fear fluoride could be linked to increased risks of cancer, hip fractures, kidney trouble and birth defects.
The government has previously insisted there is no evidence to support claims of health risks from adding chemicals to drinking water.
Peers backed the move by 153 votes to 31, in a debate on the amendment on Wednesday evening.
Water companies have had the power to do add fluoride to water supplies since 1985 but have not done so for fear of legal action from those opposed to it.
Under the amendment, local health authorities will indemnify water companies if local people agree to fluoridate supplies, where it is necessary for public health.
Fluoridation will only take place if a water authority has been asked to do so by a strategic health authority, after consultation at local level has shown sufficient support for it.
Last week, public health minister Melanie Johnson said there was a "strong correlation" between fluoridation and better dental health.
She told MPs: "What we are enabling is for local communities to decide what they want to do on this matter.
"No fluoridation scheme will go ahead unless there has been wide-ranging consultations in which both the proponents and the opponents of fluoridation have been encouraged to participate and the majority of the population have indicated that they are in favour."
The move was welcomed by Andy Burnham, Labour MP for Leigh, who said: "Can I thank you for ignoring the bluster of the flat earth society and agreeing to bring forward an amendment that will help improve children's health in this country."
But Andrew Murrison, the Conservative MP for Westbury, said countries including Canada, Finland, Cuba and parts of Germany were abandoning water fluoridation but not seeing any change in tooth decay rates.
"Why should we be considering bucking that trend in this country and introducing this illiberal measure?"
Large area of the east of England have naturally-occurring fluoride in their water supplies.
Fluoride is already added to the water supplied to approximately 5 million people in areas such as Birmingham.
Jane Jones, of the National Pure Water campaign group, has coordinated opposition to the fluoridation of water supplies.
She says: "To medicate the whole population against their will is not the way to deal with tooth decay."
But the idea is backed by the British Dental Association (BDA), which believes fluoridation would have a significant positive impact on the health of children's teeth.
John Renshaw, of the BDA, said: "Dentists welcome this decision which has the potential to remove the needless pain and misery of tooth decay for thousands of people in the future.
"This simple step will give children across the country a better start in life."
He added: "There is strong evidence that targeted fluoridation reduces tooth decay and no evidence that fluoride at the levels that would be added to water supplies is harmful.
"We will continue our campaign to ensure this vital measure becomes a reality."
O'Connell told his students Friday that 60% of students and 30% of staff were displaced or homeless as a result of the storm, and some still are. One of his students, Ryan Panetta, shares a temporary one-bedroom apartment with his parents and three siblings about an hour away from school. He has been waking up before 6...
“A lot of times I had to wake him up and say, 'We’re at your bus stop and now.' He has definitely been tired, it’s hard getting him up in the morning. We’d go back to sleep with him still doing his homework,” Karen Panetta said of her 13-year-old son.
Friday morning, a bus took him to his old school, cutting out a major step in a long commute.
The rest of his life won’t stabilize for some time. After months of repairs, the Panetta’s home has been declared irreparable and will be demolished. At $3,100 per month, the temporary apartment has become too costly. They plan to rent an apartment near their old home, and hope to raise enough money to rebuild.
Karen Panetta worries about how the displacement will affect her son's love of learning. Teachers stuck with their lesson plans, she said, but classes were much larger. Scholars' attended classes in cafeterias, auditoriums and hallways.
“I’m glad he is where he belongs now,” Panetta said.
About 1,750 schools were damaged by the storm, although many were able to reopen quickly. Nine schools reopened after the holiday break, sending 5,400 students back to schools they had not seen since the day of the storm. Two schools have reopened but will have some students attending classes in nearby facilities until...
The night of the storm, Scholars' Academy surveillance cameras captured water pouring in, overwhelming the basement boiler, electrical grids and the entire first floor. Afterward, the school was looted and lost an estimated $100,000 in equipment, including a new shipment of computers and iPads.
Scholars' Academy was so badly damaged that it needed new floors, walls and furniture. Band instruments and sports equipment were soiled with sewage, computers were submerged and office equipment destroyed. For months, O’Connell walked the halls watching his school ripped down to a skeleton.
The city allocated $200 million to make repairs to schools like Scholars’ Academy and the schools have been teeming with construction crews ever since. O’Connell marveled at how quickly the infrastructure was repaired, but all the supplies, books, uniforms, instrument, computers and other perks are lost.
Friday morning, the principal cut a thick, red ribbon while students cheered. O’Connell said he hoped the experience would remind them of what’s important in life.
"There is going to be a time when we look back on this and say 'Wasn’t that great?'” O’Connell said.
I agree with Patrick Flynn, East Rockaway High School is still closed and not expected to open until next year.
"Afterward, the school was looted and lost an estimated $100,000 in equipment, including a new shipment of computers and iPads." Wow, must be some kind of a neighborhood.
Should have had some armed guards.....taxpayer supported new York city police.... failed again.
Seriously, the headline is inaccurate. The problem with that, is that some people read headlines without clicking on stories. An accurate headline is that the the last school in NY opens. The Jersey Shore and other areas are still in need of a lot money and rebuilding. Schools are still closed!!! Without clicking on th...
Your headline is inaccurate. My daughter's school in Jersey City is still hosting kids from a neighboring school in Hoboken because their school has not reopened. While the text of the article states that the last New York school has reopened, you should take more care in assuring that your headlines are also accurate.
Ummm...this may be the last NYC school to re-open, but East Rockaway Junior/Senior High in East Rockaway, Long Island (in NY state) is still in two separate rented buildings that the students have to be bussed to as it is in another town. Many of the teachers have to go back and forth during the day to each of the buil...
that is a good news.
Since the government has no clue about how to run a rescue effort it should be put out to the private sector where people are responsible for their actions and work and live on a budget. In California when the then Governor Pete Wilson offered private sector contractors millions of dollars in bonuses for repairing cata...
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Sandy had destroyed the lives of a lot of our fellow Americans but the best thing about us is we never ever give up.No matter how much crap the world throws at us we will always jump back to our feet.I'm glad to know that even the school children are filled with an unbreakable spirit.It will take a while before every o...
While GOP president candidate Mitt Romney suggested in a TV interview aired Sunday that he laid out a detailed policy plan for Afghanistan in a recent speech to the American Legion, his comments to that group late last month said nothing about what substantive policy the U.S. should follow in the decade-plus-long confl...
In an interview for NBC's "Meet The Press," host David Gregory pressed Romney about his failure to mention Afghanistan during his Republican National Convention acceptance speech. Romney said in reply that too much focus was being put on his rhetoric and on that single high-profile address.
A casual viewer of the NBC interview would likely think that Romney laid out a detailed policy prescription on Afghanistan in his August 29 speech to the Legion. However, as I and my colleague Reid Epstein noted before, the GOP nominee did not. In a 16-minute speech, he devoted, at most, 15 or 16 seconds to Afghanistan...
Here's precisely what Romney said to the Legion on Afghanistan: "Of course, we are still at war in Afghanistan. We still have uniformed men and women in conflict, risking their lives just as you once did. How deeply we appreciate their sacrifice. We salute them. We honor them. We respect and love them."
Romney's speech to the Legion did contain some specifics, just not about Afghanistan. Mostly they were in the spending area: rejecting "reckless defense cuts" including the half-trillion-dollar sequestration of defense funds that could begin soon if Congress and the White House can't agree on a deficit-reduction packag...
In other fora, Romney has offered some substantive comments on Afghanistan but none of it amounts to a clear path forward. The discussion of the issue on his campaign website faults President Barack Obama for setting a public timetable to wind down the war, but doesn't say whether that timetable is correct, too fast or...
Last weekend, I (here and here) called out Obama for campaign-trail exaggerations of his Afghanistan policy after he used a couple of speeches to suggest he was proposing a full withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan by 2014 when, in fact, he has not. The White House dismissed those reports as "profoundly unsophist...
While Obama talks about having a plan and being "specific," his policy still has a substantial amount of wiggle room in it. The pace of troop withdrawals between now and 2014 has not been established yet. Nor has the size of the U.S. force that will stay on. And there are signs that even the modest goals the U.S. has s...
However, Obama's prescription for Afghanistan is a model of clarity compared to Romney's. The GOP nominee's comments in this latest interview have failed to refine his position at all and are simply calling attention to the all-things-to-all-people quality to his current stance on the protracted U.S. war in South Asia.
WASHINGTON, Jul 29 2014 (IPS) - As the killing and destruction rages on in Gaza, and as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Hamas leadership exchange recriminations and threats, key regional and world players must accept a central truism: No peace can be achieved between Israel and the Palestinians withou...
The Gaza wars have failed to liquidate Hamas; on the contrary, Hamas has emerged stronger and better equipped despite the pummeling it frequently receives from Israel.
The current Israeli war on Gaza plus the two previous ones in 2008-9 and 2012 have not really been about the perceived existential threat Hamas poses to Israel. These conflicts have been rooted in the failure of the so-called peace process.
At the same time, Israel’s assault on Gaza reflects Tel Aviv’s concern about the region as a whole, not just about Hamas. Such concerns are driven by the rise of Islamic radicalism in Gaza and across the region, the growing influence of right-wing radical Jewish groups and political movements in Israel, the brutal civi...
Israeli worries also stem from a resurgent Iran, a potential nuclear agreement between Iran and world powers, and the perceived diminishing influence of the United States across the region. Unable to influence these “seismic shifts” in the region, Israel has resisted any long-term workable accommodation with the Palest...
The Obama administration and other governments must work to end the 47-year-old occupation of the West bank and the blockade of Gaza. The Gaza Strip is considered the world’s largest open-air prison, blockaded on three sides by Israel and on one side by Egypt. This economic and political encirclement must be broken if ...
Poverty, unemployment, poor health and hygiene, and a lack of power and clean water have generated anger and hopelessness, which have often resulted in the frequent firing of rockets toward Israel. While mostly ineffective, these rockets have terrorised Israeli residents in the southern part of the country. This too mu...
The bloody confrontations between West Bank Palestinians and the Israeli forces in Jerusalem at the Kalandia crossing, and between Arabs in Israel and Israeli police demonstrate that the Gaza war has spread to other parts of Palestine. This bodes ill for Israel and neighbouring countries.
Israel’s glee at the Egyptian government and media’s enmity toward Hamas is ephemeral and transitory. The Sisi autocratic regime would be unable to withstand its people and other Arabs’ anger at what they view as Israeli aggression against the Palestinians.

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