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Under the changes, both social housing tenants in employment and those in receipt of housing benefit will be affected by the bedroom tax if they are found to be under-occupying their homes. |
From April households under-occupancy will see their benefits slashed by about £13 a week for one bedroom or £22 for two bedrooms. |
Mrs Bell, who is currently out of work, and Mr Bell, 37, a part-time taxi driver are Housing Hartlepool tenants and receive about £40 a week in housing benefits. |
With the introduction of the bedroom tax they will need to pay £672 a year for Becky’s room. |
Becky's parents visited their local MP Iain Wright to appeal for help. Mr Wright described the circumstances as “heartbreaking” and has sent a letter to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, Iain Duncan Smith, expressing his dismay at situation. |
A spokesman for housing association, Housing Hartlepool, described the Bells’ situation as a “unique and difficult case” and expressed the association’s sympathy. He explained the association has already set up an advice service. |
Can she ride the blue wave? |
Liuba Grechen Shirley hopes an anti-Trump message will let her challenge Peter King. |
Liuba Grechen Shirley points to a faint scar on her right wrist to tell an engaging story about her brand of politics. She says she got the scar at age 3, during a period when her mother participated in the campaign to close the Shoreham nuclear power plant. When Grechen Shirley overheard that part of the campaign had ... |
Now she has the scar, and she’s running an outsider, activist campaign for the Democratic nod to take on Rep. Peter King, the Seaford Republican seeking a 14th term. |
Grechen Shirley, 37, is a textbook example of what might be called the blue-wave hopefuls, candidates moved to run by President Donald Trump’s 2016 win. The Amityville resident once worked in international development, then started a civic group, New York’s 2nd District Democrats. |
“I just kept posting action alerts, and that is what kind of got me through the first months of Donald Trump’s presidency,” she says. |
Some of those actions targeted King, who did not originally support Trump but has become a big booster. Grechen Shirley says she and other activists asked King to hold an in-person town hall forum. “He told me it would diminish democracy,” Grechen Shirley says. This is the origin story for her run. |
Parts of Grechen Shirley’s campaign make it clear why the much-heralded blue-wave hopefuls think something big is coming. She has become a good fundraiser, in the first quarter of this year outraising her main primary challenger, Suffolk County legislative Presiding Officer DuWayne Gregory, Democrat of Copiague, by mor... |
But there are also signs of the difficulties challengers face ahead of the midterms from inside and outside the Democratic Party. In the June 26 primary, Grechen Shirley will first face Gregory, who has the backing of Rich Schaffer, the Suffolk County Democratic Party chairman. Grechen Shirley has tussled with Schaffer... |
Beyond county politics, Grechen Shirley hasn’t always played nice with local power brokers. When King opposed the Senate version of Trump’s health care legislation, the union-backed Healthcare Education Project took out an ad in Newsday praising his position. Grechen Shirley in turn wrote a blistering online post sayin... |
She has received endorsements from new progressive groups. But she didn’t win the nomination of the Working Families Party, which supports Gregory. |
There don’t seem to be many policy differences between the two Democrats. Largely, the choice seems to be between a longtime Democratic politician who is rallied around by the party faithful and a new face for the Trump era. |
OCTOBER 4, 1S28 THE ROYAL^AIR FORCE London Gazelle, September 25, 1928.General Duties liranch The follg. are granted short-service commas, as Pilot Officers on probationwith effect irom and with seniority (Sept. 14) :—A. G. Aduams ; A. F. P. Aiming (Lt., 69th Bde., R. A., f. A.) ; A. R. Armstrong ; J. F. Ballin ;A. C. ... |
We are looking for a Key Stage 1 or Key Stage 2 teacher who can create a positive ethos for learning. If you are innovative, inspirational and dedicated to learning then your energy, imagination and high levels of motivation are the qualities we are seeking. This post is suitable for both a NQT and an experienced teach... |
We are a growing, ambitious school with a caring ethos and seek to inspire every one of our pupils to achieve their full potential. |
We take the progress of our staff and pupils seriously and can offer you the chance to work alongside other dedicated teachers, ensuring you have a high level of professional development and become part of a very successful team. |
Our school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. The successful candidate will be required to provide excellent references and to undertake an enhanced DBS disclosure. |
Visits to the school are encouraged and you will also find a wealth of information about our school on our website. |
To arrange a visit or an informal conversation please contact the school office on 01732 462221. |
Dunton Green Primary School is a friendly village school of 165 pupils. We are entering an exciting period of change. We are a loving school which puts children at the heart of all our decision making and have a strong family ethos. |
Authorities said a person spotted stuffing a purse full of DVDs and other items got a little more than expected Tuesday when a store employee gave chase across a busy Morton Avenue and into a culvert. |
Police were called to Shopko shortly after 5 p.m. after store security said they tried to stop a suspected shoplifter who pushed the guard and ran off. |
An employee started a foot chase across the street and through the parking lot of Walmart. The person ran into a culvert on the east side of the retail store. |
When police arrived, the person being chased complained of chest pains because of asthma and was treated by emergency workers. |
Police said they found a red purse with more than $150 worth of items, according to Jacksonville Police Lt. Joe Tapscott. |
The security guard did not want to press charges for being shoved. Nancy E. Hankins, 57, of 404 W. Reid St. was arrested on a charge of retail theft. |
Hello friends and welcome back to another episode of TCBTC, TechCrunch’s weekly podcast on all things bitcoin. |
This episode we were joined by Sonny Singh of BitPay, one of the largest bitcoin companies around, to talk about the state of bitcoin itself, as well as the firm’s recent deal with Neteller. |
As a small production note, Skype was irksome during our recording session, and I, Alex, have a cold. So the audio isn’t glorious. We hope the content makes up for the static. See you all next week. |
Theme music by Glass Lux. |
For the annual Midsummer Night Swing festival, which ingeniously presents world music in the context of an outdoor ballroom on the Lincoln Center Plaza each summer, Rebecca Weller, the founding producer, will fly halfway around the globe to hear bands recommended by her trusted network of connoisseurs. Once she finds t... |
From the sights and sounds of things, the salsa evening during the opening week of the festival, which began on June 24, qualified as a good dance. Music was provided by the 21-piece Puerto Rican orchestra El Gran Combo, an outfit more than 40 years old that still drives dancers to plant little kisses on their partners... |
Last Friday night one could see vibrant interpretations of the salsa, a strutting dance with odd, syncopated waits that Stacey Lopez of the University of Puerto Rico had taught at a preperformance lesson. There was an aerobic double-time version, where both dancers took two steps to each musical count. There was the Je... |
Then there was the version practiced by a pair of 20-year-olds named Alejandro Sierra and Marguerita Stofan. The effect of this one depended in part on Ms. Stofan's costume: sandals with four-inch-high heels, a tailored suit with a miniskirt that bared her legs for about the length of a city block and a hip-length jack... |
Ms. Weller's rules create the climate for certain kinds of dance music, especially the kind conducive to steps and figures more demanding than sheer rhythmic improvisation. For young American clubgoers, who grew up with a rock-influenced dance called ''nouvelle generation'' compas in New York, the music of Haiti's L'Or... |
Septentrional, which is celebrating its golden anniversary as a dance band this year, specializes in the Haitian k'onpa, from which the word compas is derived. An ensemble of some 25 musicians, with a large complement of brass players, it offers complex and courtly arrangements of music to accompany a dance that will b... |
Septentrional's appearance at the festival is special. The band, which still includes some of its founding musicians now in their 70's, doesn't travel easily in its entirety and when members have toured in the New York area, they have performed exclusively for Haitian communities. Last year, one of Ms. Weller's regular... |
The location was easy to find, he recalls, because of the many off-duty taxis, carrying Haitian drivers and their families in party clothes, making a beeline there. Ms. Weller, enchanted by the music, immediately made up her mind to take the band to the festival. |
This year, Midsummer Night Swing features more orchestras than ever, many with well-known guest instrumentalists and vocalists. A few large ensembles, like the swing band of the tenor saxophonist Illinois Jacquet, who closes the festival on July 25, are working dance bands of long standing. Others are made up of vetera... |
The Chico O'Farrill Afro-Cuban Jazz Big Band is an all-star band. For the Midsummer festival and a few other appearances, it will play a special repertory of classic big-band swing, relying on period dance charts. The band is conducted by its founder, an arranger for Count Basie and Benny Goodman and one of the innovat... |
Despite the band's comparatively recent origins, however, Mr. Angeloro points out that it has ''a lot to say,'' like Septentrional, which is why each has been given a full evening alone. |
On 10 of the festival's 24 evenings, two (and in one case, three) bands have been paired. Ms. Weller derives particular delight from planning the mixed programming, which offers her a freedom to make connections similar to that enjoyed by disk jockeys. |
Among her most imaginative groupings is the one on July 14, when Tanguardia, an American band well regarded among tango dancers for its Argentine tangos, milongas and waltzes, will share the bill with Orquesta la Moderna Tradicion, which specializes in the lovely, soft, yet structurally intricate Cuban dance form, danz... |
The tango, which emerged on the waterfront of Buenos Aires at the turn of the last century, and the danzon, which wended its way during the 1800's from Haiti to Cuba (and, in a varied offshoot, to Mexico), differ in their challenge to dancers. The tango is much more complex, but both traditions include a spectacular we... |
Learning about the traditions of the musical styles presented at the Midsummer festival -- whether swing, country western or soul calypso -- is a way to see the dynamics of immigration. Today, these far-flung influences are called ''multiculturalism.'' They could also be called, simply, music. |
Even a strictly traditional acoustic band that specializes in a native musical repertory, like Moving Cloud (playing on July 23), virtuosos of historic Irish jigs, reels and hornpipes, range into related music from other continents; they also acknowledge diverse influences in their Irish tunes. Moving Cloud's founder, ... |
The story of Irish music since the first wave of emigration during the great famine of the 1840's, he points out, is the story of Irish musicians traveling to distant lands, affecting and being in turn affected by the music they encountered there, then bringing the new music back to Ireland. In the 20th century, when m... |
Lincoln Center, which has sponsored the Midsummer festival since its first year in 1989, reports that roughly four-fifths of its audiences are listeners or dancers outside the bandstand. The remaining fifth are dancers who each pay $10 to enter the set for an evening: 850 of them when the ballroom is filled to capacity... |
This year's roster of teachers includes staff or guest faculty members from several of New York's major dance studios, including world champions in competition dance like Pierre Dulaine and Yvonne Marceau, co-founders of American Ballroom Theater (teaching on July 16, before the American Theater Orchestra), Sandra Came... |
There will be a class in mambo with the masters Eddie and Maria Torres (July 18, Azucar Negra) and in the hustle with Maria Torres (no relation), president of the annual Hustle U.S.A. Dance Championship, of which she was a co-founder (July 8, Loleatta Holloway and Rochelle Fleming). On July 14, the Argentine tango will... |
Every evening, too, Midsummer dancers have a good view of the demonstrations by dance virtuosos that take place onstage during the band's break. |
Last Saturday afternoon, a scowling sky notwithstanding, several hundred children, their parents in tow, presented themselves to Mr. Dulaine, the ballroom dancer and teacher extraordinaire, for an ''Iced Tea Dance'' lesson to recorded music. Mr. Dulaine, who has a thriving program of ballroom dance classes for students... |
''How do you spell tango?'' he shouted into a microphone wrapped around his movie-star profile. |
By the end of an hour, children so small that their partnering parents had to hunch down to hold them properly in a ballroom ''frame'' had more or less gotten the idea. Then, just as the storm clouds were breaking, Mr. Dulaine gathered the audience before the bandstand for a demonstration by young ballroom dancers of e... |
What makes music danceable? All the Midsummer dance teachers and musicians asked mentioned a consistent tempo, but perhaps the most detailed answer was offered by the venerable master of Southwestern guitar styles, Clarence (Gatemouth) Brown, who appeared during the festival's first week with his Big Easy band. |
Here is the schedule of Midsummer Night Swing programs at the Fountain Plaza at Lincoln Center. Dance lessons are offered at 6:30 P.M. and dancing lasts from 8:15 to 11 P.M. Tickets are $10, except where noted, and are available at the Lincoln Center box office or by calling (212) 721-6500. |
TODAY, L'Orchestre Septentrional, a Haitian dance band, plays compas and rumba. |
TOMORROW, ''Saluting Armstrong and America,'' David Ostwald and His Gully Low Jazz Band, with Jon Faddis, plays 20's and 30's swing. |
TUESDAY, the Loren Schoenberg Big Band and George Gee and His Make-Believe Ballroom Orchestra play swing. |
WEDNESDAY, Loleatta Holloway and Rochelle Fleming do the hustle, as Coati Mundi traces the history of the dance in a musical narration. |
THURSDAY, Miles Pena plays salsa with an ensemble conducted by Ralph Irizarry, and Johnny Almendra y Los Jovenes del Barrio plays charanga and son. |
JULY 10, Steve Ross and His Deluxe Orchestra, featuring Paul Lindemeyer, and Bob Hardwick and His Orchestra, play 30's society music and swing. |
JULY 11, the Chico O'Farrill Afro-Cuban Jazz Big Band plays big band swing, mambo and cha-cha. |
JULY 14, Tanguardia, with Isabel de Sebastian, and Orquesta la Moderna Tradicion play Argentine tango and Cuban danzon. |
JULY 15, the Derailers, Don Walser and the Pure Texas Band and Jesse Dayton play country and western. |
JULY 16, ''Broadway Swings,'' the American Theater Orchestra, conducted by Mike Berkowitz and featuring Debbie Gravitte, plays swing, fox trots and the waltz. |
JULY 17, Ricardo Lemvo and Makina Loca, from the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Arrow play salsa, soca and rumba. |
JULY 18, the American debut of the Cuban band Azucar Negra, playing salsa and son with the singer Haila. |
JULY 21, Geno Delafose and French Rockin' Boogie and Balfa Toujours play Cajun and zydeco. |
JULY 22, ''Fifth Annual Evening of International Dancing and Desserts,'' with Brave Combo, featuring Peter Ostroushko and Lewis Kahn, leading various dances, including the two-step, fox trot, polka, hora and charanga. Tickets: $25 for desserts and dancing. |
JULY 23, the Irish band Moving Cloud plays sets and ceilis. |
JULY 24, Marce et Tumpak, from Martinique, and Joseito Mateo (El Rey del Merengue), from the Dominican Republic, play merengue, compas and zouk. |
JULY 25, the saxophonist Illinois Jacquet plays swing with his big band. |
NOT FADE AWAY: THE ON-LINE WORLD REMEMBERS JERRY GARCIA, edited and with introduction by David Gans (Thunder's Mouth Press, $14.95). |
SYNOPSIS: Fans of the Grateful Dead use cyberspace to react to the news of Jerry Garcia's death, recollecting the deep impact the band has made on their lives. "The first book produced primarily from the Internet." |
REPRESENTATIVE QUOTE: "The summer of 1971, I was living with some buddies from high school and college, in La Jolla (most of us went to UCSD). One day Bob and I were returning from driving up to Del Mar to score a lid, and up on the mesa just north of the campus we saw a hitchhiker...[another 100 words never mentioning... |
NOTEWORTHY FLAW: "No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form, or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, digital, or otherwise), without the prior written permission ..." |
HOW TO TALK WITH YOUR ANGELS, by Kim O'Neill (Avon Books, $4.99). |
SYNOPSIS: Everyone in the world has at least two guardian angels who are constantly trying to impart information about the future, if only people are open enough to receive it. Communicating with angels is easy and anyone can do it. |
REPRESENTATIVE QUOTE: "Reviewing your list of questions, choose the one you feel is most important, and then say aloud: 'I wish to speak with my Angels. This is my first question....' In the beginning, it is important to speak out loud to your Angels to establish in your mind that you are actually communicating with so... |
NOTEWORTHY FLAW: Criticizes "thinking" as an interference with angelic insight and gives tips on how to avoid it. "How will you know if your brain has shut off? By the peace you feel internally." |
18 NATURAL WAYS TO LOOK & FEEL HALF YOUR AGE, by Norman D. Ford (Keats Publishing, $10.95). |
SYNOPSIS: People get old because they fail to maintain a healthy diet and vigorous exercise regimen. Doing so will keep your body from aging and prevent the disease normally associated with it. |
REPRESENTATIVE QUOTE: "Science has also discovered that it is actually abnormal to feel old and feeble before age 82. Some physicians even believe that most deaths before age 82 might be considered a form of suicide caused when people choose to throw away their youth and health." |
NOTEWORTHY FLAW: Back in the days when most people had hardly any body fat, engaged in hard physical labor, and ate minimally processed foods and rarely any meat, the average lifespan was about 40. |
Art accompanying story in printed newspaper (not available in this archive): Graphic Box. |
The Gem has a new logo, slogan and website debuting in January, thanks to the efforts of the La Jolla Village Merchants Association (LJVMA). |
Robert Lane of the group’s promotion committee, who is also advertising manager of La Jolla Light, presented a preview of “La Jolla: Take It In,” at the association’s Dec. 14 meeting at the Cuvier Club. |
The LJVMA consists of nearly 1,250 businesses in a 30-block area around the Village. Each pays a tax to the district with its business license fee, and the association contracts with the city to run the district. |
Formed earlier this year, the LJVMA has been working to lay the groundwork for promoting the interests of La Jolla businesses by establishing four working committees — design, organization, promotion and economic development. |
The promotion committee also handles branding and special events. Other members include Michelle Lerach, Claudette Berwin, Nancy Warwick, and Leon Chow. |
In a slideshow presentation, Lane unveiled the “La Jolla Take It In” slogan, printed in a hand-drawn script. He talked about the thinking behind the business community’s new brand and imagery. |
Lane said the branding for the new website also explores the community’s diversity. |
“The visual campaign is a contrasting campaign — from a beach community to a wealthy community, from flip-flops to loafers, from low tide to high fashion, from coffee bar to caviar, from eyewear to I do: La Jolla — Take It In,” he said. |
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