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World Cup-winner Jason Robinson said: 'It looks like he is back on top of his game and that is great news for him, for Saracens and for England. Watching him play on Saturday, I could tell that his confidence has returned. He was hungry for the ball, he was getting stuck in defensively too and he scored tries, which is what really makes him happy. |
England's record Test try-scorer Rory Underwood has been similarly impressed by the renaissance, adding: 'Ashton was buzzing at Twickenham. Some of his link play with his team-mates was fantastic. He also showed that he is back to his poacher's best when he pounced on that loose ball and made a try for himself. |
WHO'S WAITING IN THE WINGS FOR ENGLAND? |
January 30, 2003 The government says the nation's gross domestic product grew just 0.7 percent during the last quarter of 2002, a steep decline from the 4.2-percent growth during the preceding three months. NPR's Bob Edwards talks to NPR's Jim Zarroli. |
January 30, 2003 Water levels in St. Louis reach their lowest in more than a decade, affecting the barge transportation business and companies that depend on the Mississippi River to transport cargo. Tom Weber of member station KWMU reports. |
January 29, 2003 Microsoft's announcement that it will begin paying cash dividends to shareholders receives a lukewarm response from other technology companies, which face increasing pressure to follow Microsoft's lead. NPR's Elaine Korry reports. |
January 28, 2003 Record companies settle a $67-million class-action lawsuit filed by attorneys general from 41 states, agreeing to pay money to anyone who purchased a CD between 1995 and 2000. The suit alleged that major record labels conspired to keep CD prices artificially high. NPR's Jack Speer reports. |
January 27, 2003 Philip Morris, the global tobacco, food and beer conglomerate, changes its corporate name to the Altria Group. The change reflects the company's view that it's no longer just a tobacco business. But critics say the company seeks a less controversial image. NPR's Debbie Elliott reports. |
January 26, 2003 His clothes may have been seen by more people than any other tailor on earth. And you probably don't know his name. On Tuesday, you'll get a chance to see his work, when the President of the United States gives his State of the Union speech in a hand-made suit from Georges De Paris. NPR's Kitty Eisele talks with the man known as "Tailor to the Presidents." |
January 25, 2003 Super Bowl Sunday has turned into a major launching pad for ad campaigns. Highlights this year include a controversy over Miller Lite's beer ad featuring buxom, brawling women and Cadillac's continuing Led Zeppelin motif. And BMW is using a Web site to offer short films in an innovative promotional effort. NPR's Scott Simon and Barbara Lippert, ad critic for Adweek magazine. |
January 25, 2003 The NFL's Washington Redskins ask Virginia lawmakers to exclude players injured on the field from workers' compensation benefits. The NFL Players Union is fighting the move. NPR's Adam Hochberg reports. |
January 24, 2003 Mutual funds hold enormous power in the corporate world by controlling large chunks of stock in various companies. Until now, they haven't been required to divulge how they use their proxy voting power. But a new SEC rule will make mutual funds report those votes once a year. NPR's Jim Zarroli reports. |
The fact that the Chicago Cubs are currently playing in their first World Series in 71 years has prompted something close to delirium in their ardent fan base. Cubs' fans are blessed, and cursed, with long memories, though, and I'm beginning to see a tinge of sadness as the reality of their triumph sinks in. |
But this nostalgia extends beyond missing celebrities for many Cub fans, who are today remembering their fathers and mothers, grandfathers and grandmothers, uncles and aunts and other relatives and friends who suffered through the Cubs' historic drought but didn't live long enough to see it end. |
I've been working on a biography of Banks lately and in the past few days I've checked in with his sister, Edna, and brother, Walter, in Dallas, and his twin sons, Jerry and Joey, who live in Los Angeles. They are thrilled about the Cubs' victory, of course, but also sad that Banks, who was associated with the team for more than sixty years, died less than two years before his dream was realized. |
Anyone watching the Cubs on television these days can hardly escape their fans, singing "Go, Cubs, Go," which for some fans brings a sadness all its own. The song was written by the Chicago songwriter Steve Goodman, whose most famous composition was the railroad anthem "City of New Orleans." Goodman died of leukemia in 1984 at the age of 36 so he's not around to join the party either. |
When baseball season rolls around? |
In their ivy-covered burial ground? |
Call it one more relic of the bad old days gone by. |
Ron Rapoport was a sports columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times for two decades and covered more losing Cubs teams than he cares to think about. He lives in Los Angeles and contributes occasional posts to LA Observed. |
The Crawford County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a theft of approximately 37 Lindall Rachel campaign signs from Jefferson Township. According to reports, the signs were stolen from the area of Fairview, Beardsley, Knorr, Biddle, and Hammond roads. |
Officials said the thefts most likely occurred on the night of Oct. 7 or the morning of Oct. 8. |
Hello and welcome to the February 2019 Corrections.com article selection. Our topic this month is ‘Nutrition, Well-Being, and Fitness,’ dreaded words for some. Before I begin, I have a couple of questions for you to consider: Did you make a News Year’s resolution to improve your health? (Making better food choices, increase physical activities, or other). If so, are you still remaining proactive or have you slipped? Another question to consider, what are your food choices for the Super Bowl game? Will you discard the healthy food choices for this game or include some nutritional choices? Do you make healthy choices several times a week, or very few? A large percentage of our population continues to make unhealthy choices. No, I am not the food police but I have learned if I over indulge today or for a couple of days, I back off the other days. |
I have concerns with the growing health issues related to poor nutrition, and our officers and staff well-being. These areas also lead to health problems and concerns, and stress. As if we do not have enough stress dealing with the inmate population on a daily basis. Ask yourself, when was the last time you had a physical? If areas were identified where medication would be necessary, did your physician also advise to watch your weight and exercise? Some tough areas, decisions to make, and do you find yourself not being able to take the next step for improvements? When you arrive home, do you decide to drink a few alcoholic beverages to unwind and relax in the easy chair, or do you stop off from work at one of the local bars/taverns? |
Time to wake up and improve your overall health. Your family would like to see this and keep you around awhile and hopefully healthy. We also know from research, the more we neglect our bodies, this leads to other health concerns. We all know we work in a stressful environment and one where many people are not able to work. By being somewhat physically fit and maintaining a healthy diet, you are not only setting an example for your family but others as well. Also, do not forget, the inmate population recognizes if you are in shape and your dress is professional. This will increase your pride, self-esteem, and confidence. |
You do not have to stop all at once, if you did you would probably put your body into additional shock. Research your human resource department and check for any discounts for being healthy, or other incentives. There are little changes we can begin to take and eventually these will increase. One big issue I found is I like to eat. I found it difficult to push away and had to learn moderation. If I eat foods today that are not healthy, then the next couple of days I will eat healthy. I used to work out and run when I was younger, now that I reached the senior category and several knee surgeries, I walk 5-6 miles Monday thru Friday. This is to maintain my cardiac and physical well-being. Do you have any specific activities or routines you use to be physically active and eat nutritious meals? |
Our lives in corrections are hectic and chaotic at times. In a second an incident can occur, it may be life threatening, and you respond. Do you have the necessary stamina to then engage in physical confrontations? Or do you find yourself out of air and trying to catch your breath. Let’s face it, we are older and perhaps not able to perform as we did previously. Be smart and decide to make good choices. At the end of the day, we want to go home in one piece. This is not only the physical component but also maintaining a positive mindset. We have enough stress and distractions in work and life without adding to this. When we arrive home, there is supposed to be family and quality time. Or are you exhibiting behavior with the message; ‘do not bother me.’ Excuses are made and our children begin to see this and expect this daily. Guess what, our children may begin to emulate us. Are you involved in family activities or choose to be by yourself? If you have children, you can enjoy family time with a variety of activities including healthy lifestyles. |
Change is always difficult for a variety of reasons. Yet, you and I have control over this, provided we recognize lifestyle changes are necessary. When you accept positive changes, recognize results are not going to be immediate and there are some hurdles along the way. We have to work on our physical and mental well-being. |
Many of you have faced the recent brutal cold and how physically draining this can be. A wakeup call may be necessary and recognize this before a medical emergency. I have some physical limitations and I recognize them. I can learn to adjust and live with this, or become bitter and stop seeing the positive things in life. Make those changes now, your family and co-workers will appreciate this. Somethings I have control over and some I don’t. I recognize this and made positive adjustments I have control over. Look in a mirror and like what you see and make sure you stop making excuses and make the proactive changes. |
Colorado soundly defeated anti-abortion "personhood" ballot initiatives in the last two election cycles. Voters found the move to grant fertilized human eggs all of the rights of adult citizens of the state absurd and untenable. Personhood supporters have vowed to try again next cycle, saying they're fighting an educational and moral battle and that winning will take time. The same battle is now waging in Georgia, where hard-core Republican Christian Rep. Bobby Franklin's personhood legislation is drawing an outraged response from women's rights supporters around the nation. |
Looking for another opportunity to break away from the casino and enjoy some fresh Reno air? Consider paying a visit to Greater Nevada Field, home to the city's minor league team – the Triple-A affiliate of the Arizona Diamondbacks, the Reno Aces. While the park doesn't offer skyline views, it does boast a stellar vantage point of the surrounding mountain range. Aside from its location along the Truckee River, the ballpark received praise from recent visitors for its cleanliness and variety of concession food. During the offseason, the city offers ice skating from November through February at a skating rink set up in the plaza in front of the ballpark. |
Game tickets vary in price, depending on where you choose to sit and the opponent. The ballpark doesn't have its own parking garage, but there are 20 downtown nearby lots within walking distance of the park. To view a season schedule and read more about the ballpark, visit the Greater Nevada Field's website. |
The film will be in 3D, and this trailer is in 2D. So much for stuffing the teasers with the selling points. |
At their best, these films are quite like a death match between Wile E. Coyote and a Heath Robinson contraption. At their worst, they’re lots of boring stereotypes wittering on about destiny and how you can’t cheat fate. Every single installment to date has mixed both of those elements, to greater or lesser degrees. |
Newly laid-off freelance? Here’s a list of been-there, done-that tips from a journalist who lost his job a year ago and was thrown headfirst into the land of freelance. |
You don’t have to be the mug! Stand tall, freelancers! |
92, of Papaikou, Hawaii, died in Hilo, Hawaii on Sunday, November 13, 2016. She was born in Kalaoa, Papaikou, Hawaii. Private services were held. |
Now that Michigan’s anti-union laws are on their way to the books, organized labor faces a couple of questions. First, locally in Michigan, whether to take on a statewide initiative to get union rights back, or whether to focus instead of trying to win back control of the legislature and the governorship, or both. Any one of those items would be a challenge. Second, at the national level, there’s the question of whether any states might try to follow Michigan in stripping union rights, the way Michigan followed Indiana. Wisconsin, maybe? Kentucky? Or Ohio? |
REPORTER: Governor, have you been what’s been going on up in Michigan with the right of work debate over the last few days? |
KASICH: Not real closely. Look, you know, I have a very aggressive agenda for ‘13 and ‘14 that includes things like education reform, both at the university level, community college level, K through 12. We have a big change coming with our infrastructure program, tax reform, managing a lot of these businesses including fracking. And that’s the agenda that I’m focused on and what I’m going to continue to be focused on. |
KASICH: That’s all I’ve got to say. |
SECOND REPORTER: Would what happens in Michigan affect Ohio competitively, if Michigan and Indiana both have Right to Work? |
KASICH: I have an agenda that I think is going to benefit the state of Ohio. We are doing very well, vis-a-vis the rest of the country now, and I think if we continue to pursue the agenda I have, and the legislature has, I think we’ll continue to be successful. |
You might remember Governor Kasich in January warning his party off Right to Work, fresh from a citizens’ repeal of bill to take union rights away from public workers. “Once in a while the shark eats you, OK?” Kasich said. |
It’s official: Microsoft’s brand new operating system, Windows 7, will be available to buy online and in shops from 22 October 2009. |
While the original Release Candidate was posted to the Microsoft Developers Network and to TechNet subscribers for download on 30 April, followed by availability for the general public on 5 May, the date for General Availability (GA) was cautiously set to the holiday season 2009. |
However, Microsoft employee Brandon LeBlanc wrote in a post on the official Windows 7 Team Blog: “Our milestone-to-milestone approach for Windows 7 is built on a great deal of feedback from customers and testers. This has been pivotal to the development of Windows 7. |
For consumers buying a new PC before this release date, Microsoft has introduced the Windows 7 Upgrade Option Program: “This program enables participating retailers and OEMs to offer a special deal to upgrade to Windows 7 for customers purchasing a qualifying PC,” LeBlanc said. |
The Release To Manufacturing (RTM) date has also been announced; the RTM code for Windows 7 will be available to Microsoft partners sometime in the second half of July, with the same expected timeframe for Windows Server 2008 R2. |
OFFICIALS in Oddar Meanchey province are seeking the arrest of a village chief and a Royal Cambodian Armed Forces officer who they say have illegally convinced 200 families to settle in a protected forest area and pocketed payments for plots of land. |
Von Bunthoeun, the head of administration for the Forestry Administration office in Samraong town, said officials planned to arrest Kim Saruon, the chief of a village located some 50 kilometres away from the protected forest area. Von Bunthoeun said they were also seeking a deputy provincial chief of the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces, whom he could identify only as “Sok”, and “other leaders who have encouraged some soldiers and villagers to seek illegal shelter in the protected forest community”. |
“We cannot ignore them anymore,” Von Bunthoeun said. |
He said 200 families had settled in the protected area, and that the vast majority of them had arrived since the beginning of this year. He said they had paid between US$300 and $350 for 30-by-50-metre plots of land. |
“Kim Saruon has cheated the people by selling this protected forest land to them and by acting as a village chief in the area,” he said. |
Mlis Hoeurt, who administers the protected forest area, said it was granted protected status last June, but that 10 families moved there towards the end of 2009. The increase from 10 to 200 families has occurred since January, he added. |
“They have destroyed a lot of forest in this community, because they cut down the forest to take over the land,” he said of the families. |
Samraong governor Thon Nol said he had received a complaint from the military and also from the families requesting to stay on the land permanently. |
Srey Naren, provincial coordinator for the rights group Adhoc, said the actions of “Sok” and Kim Saruon indicated a lack of respect for the government. |
The two men could not be reached for comment on Wednesday. |
Jeffrey R. Cuss, 57, was struck by a passing car on Landis Avenue. |
Vineland police confirm a man was killed Saturday morning crossing Landis Avenue at Delsea Drive. |
VINELAND – A 57-year-old Vineland man was killed around 6 a.m. Saturday when he was struck by a passing car. |
Police said Jeffrey R. Cuss, of the 800 block of Landis Avenue, was struck as he crossed Landis Avenue near the former Sears store at the Delsea Drive intersection, according to a statement from police. |
A preliminary investigation indicates the motorist was driving a 2009 Honda Accord traveling west on West Landis Avenue when she struck a pedestrian in her travel lane, according to the police Traffic Safety Unit. |
No charges have been filed against the driver, police said. |
The investigation is ongoing. Anyone with information is encouraged to contact police at 856-691-4111, ext. 4247. |
Actress Laura Ramsey has scored major roles in features like She's the Man and The Ruins, yet hasn't quite broken through the crush of cute and compelling ingénues in Hollywood. But she may have just cemented her shot at stardom as Deadline reports Ramsey is the latest addition to Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner's long in-development, feature directorial debut You Are Here. |
Weiner has been struggling for years to get this road trip comedy rolling in a journey staggered with false starts. In 2009 he had lined up Jennifer Aniston, and The Hangover bros Bradley Cooper and Zach Galifianakis to star in his story about two thirty-something roommates who wallow in the manchildhood together, until the death of one's father forces him to take on some serious responsibilities, including running the family's store back in his hometown. However, Mad Men's hectic shooting schedule forced Weiner to shelve the project until the following year. For his second attempt, he scored Jack Black, Matt Dillon and Renee Zellweger with hopes to go into production in early 2011. Well, that never came to pass, but it looks like the third time's the charm. |
Just last month, Weiner's latest lineup was announced. Galifianakis was back on board, but is now slated to appear opposite Owen Wilson and Amy Poehler. It may have taken a while, but this is the strongest team-up yet. Galifianakis will play the film's lead, Ben, the schlubby heir who must grow up fast to take on the responsibilities his father's will bestows. Wilson will portray Steve Dallas, a swinging bachelor and local weatherman who is Ben's best friend, while Poehler will tackle the role of Ben's bullying sister, which seems a part pregnant with sidesplitting potential. For her part, Ramsey will join the funny fray as a pretty young widow who serves as a love interest for Wilson. |
You Are Here will go into production—at long last—in May in North Carolina. |
Poeltl is questionable for Wednesday's game against Atlanta due to left hamstring soreness, Paul Garcia of ProjectSpurs.com reports. |
It's unknown as to when this latest injury cropped up, but his status for San Antonio's upcoming matchup is in jeopardy at this point. He'll likely test the hamstring in either morning shootaround or pregame warmups before a decision on his availability is made. |
QUEENSLAND's $500 million greyhound racing sector could face a terminal blow unless sweeping recommendations are adopted as outlined in a report into the industry's live baiting scandal. |
The scathing report into the controversial practice revealed there were systemic failures at every level resulting in the inability, or unwillingness, of racing authorities to manage animal cruelty issues. |
It also found those engaging in live baiting practices did so with impunity and others simply turned a blind eye. |
The Queensland Government ordered the inquiry after a Four Corners expose that showed sickening vision of possums, rabbits and piglets being strapped to lures for greyhounds to chase down, savage and devour at training tracks in Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria. |
The report, handed down on Monday, made 15 recommendations but did not focus on the 23 individuals who have been charged with criminal offences. |
Recommendations include requiring each greyhound pup be registered and micro-chipped so it is fully traceable, scrap funding to the greyhound breeding incentive program and review racing rules to ensure any training activity occurs only on registered tracks. |
Inquiry commissioner Alan MacSporran said despite little evidence to prove live baiting was widespread, it would be naive in the extreme to conclude it was not happening on a grand scale. |
"That it was allowed to happen at all in this day and age is a sad reflection on the state of the greyhound racing industry and those who participate in it whether for pleasure or profit," he said. |
"Public confidence may have been dealt an almost terminal blow by the exposure of what is likely to have been a widespread practice of live baiting in the greyhound racing industry. |
"To put it simply, if those in the industry have participated in the archaic and barbaric practice of live baiting, they have let the entire industry down and have treated the public with disdain." |
Other recommendations include establishing a new authority to ensure the integrity of the racing industry and appointing a full-time, independent racing integrity commissioner who answers directly to the minister. |
Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said she would address State Parliament about the report's content and the government's response when it resumes tomorrow. |
She said the images aired earlier this year were emotionally distressing and those responsible would be brought to justice. |
"This is animal cruelty on a scale never seen before," she said. |
"It was confronting, it was horrific and I cannot believe in this day and age it was happening." |
Opposition Leader Lawrence Springborg said the LNP supported any action that ensured the abhorrent practice of live baiting in the greyhound industry was stamped out once and for all. |
"The LNP will be closely following this process and we look forward to going through the report findings in further detail," he said. |
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