Scotland manager Alex McLeish has attempted to quashspeculation he might walk away from his job in the wake ofSaturday's defeat to Italy.
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rt teachers believe art is an important content area for the schools. Some colleagues, administrators, and members of the public agree. However, based on national surveys, most of the public, teachers, and administrators believe that art is not a major content area.' There is a continuing contrast between the two belief systems which negates the teaching of art. For example, art was not considered a basic content area by the American Association of School Administrators in a major publication (Uchida, Cetron, & McKenzie, 1996). "Knowledge of Arts and Humanities" was a one-page topic separated from the more important aspects of education. A state Commission on Educational Excellence …
Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards have begun a military exercise with a warning that Israel and the U.S. naval force in the Persian Gulf would be prime targets if Iran is attacked.
The guards' official Web site does not say when or where the exercise is taking place but adds that "missile squads" are involved.
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DOVER, Del. - Ask defending MBNA Platinum 400 champion DaleJarrett about his best rides over The Monster Mile, and he mentionshis victory last year only in passing.
It was anything but memorable because there were no patentedJarrett runs through the pack to the front. In fact, he won bydefault.
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DAN RUTHERFORD (R), ILLINOIS STATE TREASURER, IS INTERVIEWED AT BLOOMBERG TV
MAY 26, 2011
SPEAKERS: MARGARET BRENNAN, BLOOMBERG NEWS
DAN RUTHERFORD (R), ILLINOIS STATE TREASURER
11:15
MARGARET BRENNAN, BLOOMBERG NEWS: Illinois State Treasurer says the state is on the verge of a financial disaster and it's running out of time. Treasurer Dan Rutherford joins us now.
Welcome back to the show. Mr. Treasurer, you've got, what, five days to pay off $8 billion?
DAN RUTHERFORD (R), ILLINOIS STATE TREASURER: Thank you.
BRENNAN: Is Illinois going to pay its bills?
RUTHERFORD: Well, Illinois will pay its bills. The biggest concern that I have as a State Treasurer of Illinois is the recourse that the general assembly and its governor looking at is to go into long term borrowing further debt.
And I put together a complete white paper on a compilation of the problem we have right now. In 2002, Illinois had long-term debt of about $12 billion. Today, we're at $45 billion.
And the recourse is being discussed right now at our state capital in Springfield is to go into the market and borrow another $8 to $9 billion to add further to our debt just for the operations of the state government. And I've said that this is not something that I think we should be doing.
I've been very much opposed to it.
BRENNAN: Right. And you've said publicly that you're willing to call up the bond houses, call finance companies and say, don't give my state money because the governor does, in fact, want to do that. Have you made those calls?
RUTHERFORD: No, I've not made those calls. And this was the point of the last resort. I think just by my having come out as publicly as I have and explained in real detail that the debt at every household in state of Illinois has libel (ph) on their back right now just in bonding (ph).
Every household is $10,000. And it's $42,000 if you were to take in the unfunded liability for our pension systems. But I can tell you upfront that the rating companies have already been very much aware of the problems Illinois has had. And we are rated literally...
BRENNAN: Right.
RUTHERFORD: ...only above California by two of the agencies. And actually, Moody's had sent me e-mail after they saw my statement and said, we want to clarify - Illinois is worse than California according to the Moody's rating operations.
BRENNAN: Which is why they've given you that credit rating. But I mean, if you're opposing the borrowing, legally, you can't prevent it from happening, though.
RUTHERFORD: Yes.
BRENNAN: So what can we expect by May 31st?
RUTHERFORD: Well, here, no, I can't legally stop it. But it has to pass by a 3/5 vote of the Illinois general assembly. And my desire is to please encourage my legislative colleagues not to go with the 3/5 vote, to go into the further long-term debt.
Here, the governor's proposed budget in the state of Illinois was $1.7 billion more in spending than the previous year. And according to the Civic Federation of Chicago, the governor's proposed budget is $2.4 billion greater than anticipated revenue. You know, it's pretty simple.
And I don't make it so elementary but it's pretty simple. You don't spend more than you did the previous year. And you absolutely don't spend more than the cash anticipated to come in. And let me add one more thing.
That cash coming in includes a 67 percent income tax increase...
BRENNAN: Right.
RUTHERFORD: ...that was put into effect.
BRENNAN: Right.
RUTHERFORD: So Illinois has just got to get off the addiction of debt. They have to stop borrowing for the operations of state government.
BRENNAN: So in the near term with this May 31 deadline, what are you suggesting - an extension of that maturity?
RUTHERFORD: No. Here, when you say in the May 31 deadline, let me clarify. That is just when the budget needs to be passed...
BRENNAN: Right.
RUTHERFORD: ...and go into effect on July 1. So what I'm saying is pass a budget in Springfield that is not above what's projected revenues are. If you do that, then you've actually started to curtail some of the spending that Illinois' government's got going on.
Of the $45 billion in debt in general obligation bond debt, 58 percent of this - that's a significant part - 58 percent of that was borrowed just to put it into the public pension systems.
There is no dedicated revenue stream to pay it back like you were to do if you were to do road construction bonds and you've got your motor fuel tax to pay it back. Illinois legislators and this governor have got to learn that they have to live within their means and not go out into the market and continue to borrow more money.
BRENNAN: So what gets cut? What doesn't get paid?
RUTHERFORD: Well, here, well, a couple of things. First of all, we've got up until June 30 to receive a 57 percent match from the federal government for Medicaid.
I've said as a Treasurer of Illinois, I will work with the administration on interfund transfers, cash that isn't in treasury right now, short-term, put it out there, capture the 57 percent. That generates well over a hundred and some millions of dollars that we get in the additional seven percent.
Get that done before July 1. The other is in looking at where we are at in regards to spending. You know, you can't come in.
And that's the part that is so hard for people to understand apparently in Springfield, is you can't go out and be planning a budget that's already going to be $2.4 billion more than you've got your projected revenues coming in.
BRENNAN: So you said, you're on a verge of financial disaster. Do you think it's going to be averted?
RUTHERFORD: You know, it's going to determined what's going to happen in the last few days here at this general assembly. I think that...
BRENNAN: Yes.
RUTHERFORD: ...if we go into further debt - let me just be real clear - if Illinois goes into further long-term debt, I think that it just continues to exacerbate. It has a halo effect.
BRENNAN: Are there banks signed (ph) up (ph) to lend to Illinois?
RUTHERFORD: I beg your pardon?
BRENNAN: Are there actual banks that are ready to lend to your state?
RUTHERFORD: You know, it's one of these things. They're probably ready to lend, but we are paying such a premium on the interest rates and the insurance on the bonds more so than any other states in the nation.
BRENNAN: OK.
RUTHERFORD: So for example, Illinois, went into the market in April of this year for a $3.7 billion bond program to help put money into the pension funds. It cost Illinois more 17 percent - it would have been 17 percent less if it was the state of Kentucky.
BRENNAN: Right.
RUTHERFORD: Thirty-four percent less in the interest if it was Missouri and 41 percent if it was the state of Washington. So sure, there's always going to be somebody out there that's willing to lend to Greece and Iraq and Illinois.
But it's not at a rate that the taxpayers should be willing to have to take the consequences for.
BRENNAN: That's a heck of a group you just put yourself in. Thank you so much, Treasurer. We've got leave it there and pay our bills here at Bloomberg with this commercial break.
RUTHERFORD: Have a good day.
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A World Health Organization spokesman says the agency may raise its pandemic level to its highest alert, signifying a swine flu pandemic. WHO uses a six-level scale to assess the world's risk.
Last Wednesday, the agency raised the level to 5. Level 6 means a global outbreak of swine flu is under way. WHO spokesman Dick Thompson says Monday the direction WHO will take "will be dictated by the virus."
In an interview with the Spanish newspaper El Pais published Monday, WHO chief Margaret Chan implies the agency might raise the level to 6, but cautions that "Level 6 does not mean...we are coming near to the end of the world."
Without that explanation, Chan worries, raising to level 6 could cause "unnecessary panic."
BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union's competition regulator deepened its probe into the planned takeover of NYSE Euronext by Deutsche Boerse Thursday, citing concerns over the combined exchange's weight in derivatives trading and clearing.
The $10 billion takeover would create the world's largest exchange, which would not only control important stock markets on both sides of the Atlantic, but also have a potentially dominant position in the trading of derivatives. Derivatives are complex financial products that allow investors to bet on movements in areas such as interest rates, stock indexes or commodity prices.
"The proposed merger would remove a strong competitor from the market and would give the merged company by far the leading position in derivatives trading in Europe," the EU's Competition Commission Joaquin Almunia said in a statement. "The Commission needs to make sure that markets which are at the heart of the financial sector remain competitive and efficiently deliver to users."
The in-depth probe gives the Commission until Dec. 13 to decide on whether to approve the takeover and what, if any, concessions to demand from the two companies to mitigate competition concerns.
Deutsche Boerse said the Commission's decision "was fully anticipated and does not in any way prejudge or prejudice the ultimate outcome."
The merger would combine Europe's two largest derivatives markets, Deutsche Boerse's Eurex and NYSE's Liffe.
It would also extend Deutsche Boerse's business model of integrated trading and clearing to the world's largest exchange, potentially giving it the power to control prices or lock competitors out of some of the most lucrative areas of financial markets.
Deutsche Boerse runs a so-called vertical silo, in which trades made on its exchanges are also channeled to its clearing house. Having one dominant exchange in charge of such a silo could make it very difficult for a rival company to set up a clearing business, the Commission said.
A clearing house acts as intermediary between buyers and sellers and absorbs losses if one party defaults.
The Commission said it is concerned that "the merger would have a negative impact on innovation in derivatives products and technology solutions," and reduce fee competition among different exchanges. It said higher prices could hurt pension funds, mutual funds, retail banks, as well as professional brokers and investment banks.
The takeover has already been approved by competition regulators in the U.S.
SAN DIEGO - The Navy called off a search Saturday for three missing crew members of a helicopter that crashed in the ocean about 50 miles off California's southern coast.
Friday's crash during a training mission left one sailor dead, and the Navy had searched for the remaining crew through the night and into Saturday afternoon.
"The cold water temperature and the time that elapsed since the crash occurred led Navy officials to conclude that aircrew survivability is extremely unlikely," said Navy Lt. Cmdr. Elizabeth Meydenbauer.
Meydenbauer said the Navy knew the location of the sunken helicopter, but had not decided whether the wreckage would be brought up from the ocean floor.
The MH-60S Sierra helicopter, based at Naval Air Station North Island in Coronado, went down around 5:30 p.m. EST Friday. It was on a mission off the USS Bonhomme Richard.
The pilot radioed a mayday but gave no indications of mechanical malfunctions or fire, Meydenbauer said.
One sailor was pulled from the water but died while being treated on the Bonhomme Richard.
Identities of the helicopter crew members would not be released until relatives were notified, Meydenbauer said.
However, Jim Helman of New Richmond, Wis., said Navy officials informed him that his son, Cory Helman, 27, was one of the crew members and had pronounced him dead.
The Bonhomme Richard is an amphibious assault craft that took Marines to Indonesia after the 2004 tsunami.
The MH-60 Sierra is a twin-turbine craft based on the UH-60L Black Hawk and the Navy's SH-60B Seahawk, according to the manufacturer, United Technologies Corp.'s Sikorsky Aircraft. It is designed to operate off aircraft carriers, cruisers, destroyers and frigates, ranging up to 100 nautical miles from a ship.
Three Lancaster County hospitals are telling smokers to butt out.
Ephrata Community Hospital, Heart of Lancaster Regional Medical Center and Lancaster General health system have agreed to become tobacco-free. Heart of Lancaster plans to enact its policy Aug. 1, while the other hospitals chose an effective date of Jan. 1, 2008.
The move means that virtually all hospitals in the midstate are or plan to be tobacco-free. Four hospitals in York County decided early last year to go tobacco-free, and several hospitals and insurers in the Harrisburg area followed suit.
The Tobacco Free Coalition of Lancaster County approached the county's hospitals last year about banning smoking and other tobacco products. The coalition gave the hospitals sample tobacco policies and information about how they could implement such policies, said Myka Diller, eastern division program director with the Lancaster office of the American Lung Association of the Mid-Atlantic. The Lung Association also is offering smoking-cessation programs to help employees, patients and hospital visitors adapt to the new rules.
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There's an important weighty problem at Hawthorne today. It hasto do with the assigned weights for the $500,000-plusBudweiser-Hawthorne Gold Cup.
Cutlass Reality, the heavy favorite, was handed top weight of124 pounds by racing secretary Frank Arsenault, who has weighted somany horses for handicap races he's planning to become a weightguesser at the carnivals.
Howard Crash and Jim Hankoff's Cutlass Reality, a likely 3-5favorite, is going to be hard to catch once he gets into high gear inthe 1 1/4-mile grind.
Local owner Phil Teinowitz' stretch runner Cryptoclearance,next high weight with 117, is going to try to catch Cutlass Realitywith his patented stretch run.
Manzotti and Nostalgia's Star were given 113 pounds and localhorse General Silver gets 108 pounds.
Did Arsenault overweight Cutlass Reality, who ran in Californiaand took all the gold? Cutlass Reality, winner of $1,110,330, wonmost of that money with five straight victories since June 12. Hedefeated Alysheba and Ferdinand, who were rated the nation's 1-2handicap horses.
Cutlass Reality was a nice allowance horse until June 12. Thenhis life changed. He's got a new lease on life. He began ridingjets.
Cutlass Reality carried 116 pounds compared to 126 for Alyshebawhen he won the Hollywood Gold Cup. He toted 123 pounds when he wonthe San Diego Handicap at Del Mar in his last start.
I heard Crash and Hankoff scream about the weights. I toldArsenault he handed the Gold Cup to those two men.
Crash and Hankoff were really bitter about Cryptoclearance'sweight of 117. When Cryptoclearance lost to Lost Code in theMassachussetts Handicap at Suffolk Downs, somebody thought he hadlead in his shoes. He was beaten a dozen lengths.
Ibelieve Cryptoclearance will regain his best form now that hehas had a three-month layoff. Cryptoclearance has won only one racethis year, and seven in 29 starts.
We'll learn today whether Crash and Hankoff had a right toscream or whether Arsenault gave Cutlass Reality the correct weight.If Cutlass Reality annihilates his field, Arsenault should havegiven him more weight and Crash and Hankoff should apologize toArsenault. I would have given Cutlass Reality 126 pounds.
Cutlass Reality could be a blockbuster, and may be the besthorse in the United States. If he wins today and captures the $3million Breeders' Cup Classic Nov. 5 at Churchill Downs, he should becrowned a few times. His owners said they were going to nominate andenter their horse at a cost of $360,000 for the Classic.
Cutlass Reality may wheel into the stretch five lengths infront. There will be Cryptoclearance moving up very fast. I'mpicking Cutlass Reality to outlast Cryptoclearance by a couple oflengths. The only fly in the ointment for Cutlass Reality is hemight want a lightning-fast strip. Hawthorne's strip is cushionedand tiring. I thought I lived a pretty good life until I visitedArlington's Ditka's. Ditka's is heaven. All areas have televisions,mutuel machines, buffet, two bars and plenty of seats and tables.
As you enter, to your left is the main Ditka's restaurant, witheverything from toothpicks to betting machines. I told Ditka's JimRittenberg that for a book joint, the one at Arlington is great. Youcan even have holes in your shoes and not worry about slivers. Thewhole joint is carpeted.
Dayle Duchossois had a hand dolling up the place. Ditka's is sorich and homey, it could become too much of a lure for the BDH.Dayle, who is well into making the new Arlington a palace, should belisted as the leading racetrack interior decorator.
Dick Duchossois built and owns the intertrack building. WhenArlington opens next summer, intertrack Ditka's will remain open.
My message to operator Rittenberg is if you want to soak thosein the main dining room $2 for a Coke, maybe they can afford it. Butplease cut the cost of that Coke in the other areas, where my peopleneed those extra quarters to bet.
China's leaders wrapped up an annual strategy meeting Monday vowing to keep economic stimulus and easy credit policies in place to support a stable recovery, while improving the quality of the country's often chaotic economic growth.
The metng inBejig,prsiedovr y reidntHuJita ad Prmir WenJiabao, ended as expected with calls to ensure the recovery from the global crisis remains stable, the official Xinhua News Agency said in dispatches posted on the government's main Web site.
Officials attending the three-day Central Economic Work Conference agreed that the global slowdown had added to the urgency for China to adjust its model of economic growth, which many economists say is excessively dominated by state-led industries, rather than more sustainable, consumer-led demand.
China's economy is forecast to grow 8.3 percent this year, after dipping to a low of 6.1 percent in the first quarter and since recovering to 8.9 percent in July-September.
Like other major economies, China remains wary of pulling back from stimulus policies put in place late last year, given the weakness of key export markets in the U.S. and Europe, where unemployment has continued to rise despite signs the worst of the crisis may be past.
To counter the slump in exports, Beijing announced a 4 trillion yuan ($586 billion) stimulus package and urged state-controlled banks to lend lavishly to support a slew of public works projects.
Now, the emphasis is shifting to promoting consumer spending and private investment _ drivers of domestic demand that are seen as crucial for future growth.
While consumer demand has remained resilient despite the slowdown earlier in the year, it still accounts for less than half of China's economic activity _ well below the levels in many other major economies.
Meanwhile, the government is struggling t cntolth epasin ofinusris ieedasaleay verhete, suc as steelmaking and cement.
The rapid credit expansion has added to risks in China's banking sector, the Basel, Switzerland-based Bank for International Settlements warned in a quarterly report issued Sunday.
Apart from the easing of standards to allow banks to issue some 8.95 trillion yuan ($1.3 trillion) in new loans in January-October, up from a total of 4.2 trillion yuan the year before, future tightening of monetary policies might leave some projects short of funds before they are completed, leading to a buildup of bad loans, it said.
Meanwhile, inflows of outside capital into the world's fastest growing major economy are adding to inflationary pressures, especially in real estate and stock markets, the BIS report warned.
"Chinese policymakers may face significant constraints on their monetary and credit policy in the years to come," it said.
(ITV1, 8pm). Ray Mears is the chap you want on your side if itall goes pearshaped and you find yourself back in the woods livingon squirrel. And with the economy looking in the shape that it is,we should all be trying to make friends with him very soon. He'sback on ITV doing what he does best. This series features intimatefootage of some of Britain's most fascinating, charismatic and rarecreatures in their natural, wild habitats, with expert guidance fromRay. In the first episode of the new series, Ray explores thestunning Caledonian Pine Forest in the Scottish Highlands.
Substitute Morten Nordstrand scored in the 83rd minute to give Danish league leader FC Copenhagen a 2-1 comeback victory over Odense on Sunday.
Odense took the lead with a goal from Espen Ruud two minutes into the second half. But Canadian Atiba Hutchinson equalized just three minutes later with a shot from long range.
Nordstrand notched the winner with a powerful shot that flew in off the post.
Copenhagen, coming off a 2-0 loss against struggling Esbjerg a week ago, tops the standings with 46 points.
Brondby, which beat Randers 2-0 away Saturday, lies second on goal difference, while Odense stayed in third place with 41 points.
In other 21st round matches, it was: Esbjerg 1, Aarhus 0; Horsens 0, Vejle 0; and Nordsjalland 3, SonderjyskE 1.
On Monday, defending champions Aalborg hosts Midtjylland.
Oil rose to near $82 a barrel Tuesday in Asia after a jump in U.S. stock markets boosted investor confidence and helped extend a four-week rally in crude prices.
Benchmark crude for February delivery was up 31 cents to $81.81 a barrel at midday Singapore time in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract climbed $2.15 to settle at $81.51 on Monday.
Oil traders often look to stock markets as a measure of overall investor sentiment, and equities rose in the first trading day of 2010 as investors eyed signs of improvement in U.S. and Chinese manufacturing.
The Dow Jones industrial average rose 1.5 percent on Monday while the Standard & Poor's 500 index gained 1.6 percent. All major Asian stock indexes were up in early Tuesday trading.
Crude prices also rose due to colder weather in the U.S., which traders expect will spur higher demand for oil products such as heating oil.
"Should the stock market maintain its upward momentum amid a further weakening of the dollar, it appears that the oil complex should be well equipped to advance further," Galena, Illinois-based Ritterbusch and Associates said in a report.
Oil has surged about 15 percent since mid-December.
In other Nymex trading in January contracts, heating oil rose 0.56 cent to $2.20 a gallon and gasoline gained 1.31 cents to $2.12 a gallon.
In London, Brent crude for February delivery rose 36 cents to $80.48 a barrel on the ICE Futures exchange.
Thousands of Chicago area houses are selling so fast that realestate agents don't even have time to post "for sale" signs.
It took less than a day to sell 6,189 homes in the year endingAug. 3 - that included 30 houses going for more than $1 million, aswell as others selling for much less.
"When you're a buyer, you don't have the luxury of time in thismarket," said John Andrus of the Chicago Association of Realtors.
Consumer confidence, a healthy economy and big demand arecombining to produce a seller's market, in which some houses areselling before they are even listed in the multiple listing serviceused by real estate agents, Andrus said.
"People feel good about the economy," he said, "and they're in themarket to buy homes." Details, Pages 8-9A
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Jeremy Sowers had already seen what the Kansas City Royals could do to an opponent's early lead. He gave them little chance to do it to him. Given a five-run cushion in the first inning, Sowers scattered six hits over seven innings and earned his first win of the season in the Cleveland Indians' 10-3 victory Thursday night.
"We played great defense, hit the ball well and I actually pitched decent, finally," said Sowers, who won for the first time since beating Toronto 7-2 on Sept. 5, 2006. "Whether it's a turnaround, time will tell - but it's a step in the right direction."
Despite Sowers' early-season struggles, manager Eric Wedge said he had not lost confidence in the young left-hander.
"I trust him, first of all - as a person, in his ability and as a kid who does the work," Wedge said. "He's very cerebral in his work, which for a young player can work against you at times. But I think he's pointing in the right direction."
The Royals, who came back from first-inning deficits of 2-0 and 3-0 to win the first two games of the series, couldn't get out of the hole this time.
Jason Michaels capped Cleveland's five-run first inning with a three-run homer. Casey Blake added a three-run triple and also doubled for the Indians, who have the majors' best home record at 17-4 but are still two games under .500 (11-13) on the road.
Ryan Garko had three hits for Cleveland, including a two-run single in the first.
Sowers, who had one walk and one strikeout, was relieved by Roberto Hernandez to start the eighth.
Hernandez gave up Shane Costa's RBI single and left after walking Alex Gordon to load the bases with two out. Aaron Fultz walked Ryan Shealy, forcing in a run that got Kansas City within 10-3.
Mike Koplove relieved Fultz and ended the threat when he got John Buck, who had already homered twice in the series, to line out to left field.
The Indians, who also denied Kansas City its first series sweep of the year, took advantage of early control problems by starter Jorge De La Rosa (4-4) as the Royals lost for just the third time in their last 11 games.
De La Rosa allowed a career-high seven walks - one intentional - and hit a batter in 4 1-3 innings. He gave up nine runs and six hits with two strikeouts, and his ERA went up from 3.59 to 4.65.
"He didn't establish his fastball early," manager Buddy Bell said. "He didn't get a strike call here or there, and he didn't know where to go with it. You've still got to keep throwing the pitch. He didn't seem like the same guy."
Joel Peralta relieved De La Rosa with the bases loaded and one out in the fifth. Peralta got Andy Marte to pop out in foul territory, but then walked Grady Sizemore to force in a run that put Cleveland up 7-1.
Blake followed with a bases-clearing triple down the line in right field, making it 10-1.
Three of De La Rosa's walks came in the Indians' five-run first. All the runs scored with two out.
Travis Hafner walked, and Victor Martinez's single and a walk to Jhonny Peralta loaded the bases. Garko's single to left scored Hafner and Martinez, and Michaels followed with his homer to left field for a 5-0 lead.
"He lost his composure," Bell said. "Two out, nobody on, and before you know it, we're down five runs."
Hafner walked again in the second, increasing his league-leading total to 42, and Martinez's RBI single later in the inning put the Indians up 6-0.
Esteban German matched a career high with four hits for the Royals. Three were infield singles.
Notes:@ Fultz faced two batters in the series, and gave up bases-loaded walks both times. ... Michaels was denied another RBI in the sixth inning, when Garko tried to score from second on Michaels' single but was thrown out from left field by German. The Royals' 15 outfield assists tie them with Minnesota for the AL lead. ... Both of German's four-hit games have come against the Indians. He did it Sept. 12, 2006 at Cleveland. ... Cleveland's win gave each team 243 wins against the other, in a series dating to the Royals' expansion season in 1969. ... The Royals started German in left field to give Emil Brown a rest. Bell said Brown has a sore back but could play if needed. ... Kansas City's David DeJesus extended his hitting streak to eight games.
The Connecticut General Assembly won't take up a bill this session banning a long list of wild and potentially dangerous animals as pets.
The legislation stems from the February attack on a Stamford resident mauled by a 200-pound chimpanzee.
Rep. Richard Roy, co-chairman of the legislature's Environment Committee, told the Connecticut Post on Friday that the bill is being abandoned because some lawmakers want to protect a family-owned elephant farm in Goshen.
Many state politicians were outraged that potentially dangerous animals were allowed as pets after learning of the chimpanzee attack on Charla Nash, who lost her hands, nose, lips and eyelids in the assault.
But Roy said Goshen-area lawmakers fought the bill.
"It's dead because there's a piece that was put into the bill that would have not allowed the Commerford family to bring in any new elephants in the years ahead, thereby, essentially closing the business down," he said.
The farm has several elephants, a petting zoo and a variety of exotic animals, including zebras and camels. Commerford brings the animals to fairs and malls along the East Coast.
"The Commerford Farm is a community fixture up in Goshen and it would be sad to see that business have to terminate what it does as it moves into the future," said Rep. Roberta Willis, D-Lakeville.
Even though the legislative session ends on Wednesday, Roy said it won't be brought up because the debate will take up too much time.
Sen. Andrew McDonald, D-Stamford, was surprised by the bill's demise. The legislation has been supported by the Attorney General and the Department of Environmental Protection _ which is hosting an exotic animal amnesty day in July to persuade residents to turn in their illegal and legal exotic pets.
"The legislation is extraordinarily important and I understand that there were concerns expressed by some legislators, but there's certainly no excuse for not coming up with a reasonable compromise that would assure the safety of the people of our state," McDonald said.
Besides the Commerford dispute, the legislation also faced challenges from lawmakers who wanted to propose various amendments, such as grandfathering existing exotic animals to legalizing bow hunting on Sundays.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Friday he is hopeful a U.N. commission will be established in the near future to investigate the assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.
On the eve of Saturday's first anniversary of Bhutto's assassination, Ban assured the Pakistani people and government of his commitment to search for truth and justice.
Bhutto died in a gun and suicide bomb attack on Dec. 27, 2007 as she was leaving a rally in the garrison town of Rawalpindi, just outside the capital of Islamabad, where she was campaigning to return her Pakistan People's Party to power in parliamentary elections.
Her assassination shocked the world, fanning revulsion at rising militant violence in Pakistan as well as conspiracy theories that the country's's powerful spy agencies were involved.
The government at the time, led by President Pervez Musharraf, blamed Baitullah Mehsud, a Pakistani militant commander with reported links to al-Qaida, citing a communications intercept in which Mehsud allegedly congratulated some of his henchmen. A Mehsud spokesman has denied any involvement.
Musharraf's government said Bhutto died from the force of the blast and not a gunshot wound but many of Pakistan's 160 million people, already skeptical of Musharraf, questioned that account.
Bhutto's party demanded a U.N. probe, and her widower, Asif Ali Zardari, who became Pakistan's president after parliamentary elections in February, lobbied for a U.N. inquiry.
Ban agreed to Pakistan's request for a U.N.-authorized independent probe into Bhutto's killing after a meeting in July with Pakistan's Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi.
The secretary-general said broad agreement was reached on the commission's funding and membership, and on its unfettered access to information, but he said additional talks were needed with Pakistan and U.N. officials to hammer out all the details.
U.N. deputy spokeswoman Marie Okabe said Friday that the U.N. Secretariat "has been in consultations with the government of Pakistan to determine the nature of the commission, the scope of its mandate and the modalities for its establishment."
"The Secretariat has also been in consultations on this matter with members of the United Nations Security Council," she said.
The U.N.'s most powerful body must authorize any U.N. investigating commission.
"The secretary-general is hopeful that, with the progression of the discussions, the commission could be established in the near future," Okabe said.
With key Republicans admitting FBI powers must be curbed, activist Robert Starks Sunday said agents failed to detect terrorists because they were too busy racially profiling Blacks and Africans.
Starks agreed with U.S. Senator Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) who on ABC's "This Week" and NBC's "Meet the Press," said if FBI Director Robert S. Mueller, 57, wasn't briefed by his staff as to the CIA's knowledge that at least two of the terrorists were in the U.S. "heads should roll."
However, a closed-door congressional Intelligence Committee hearing will begin today to find out how both the FBI and the CIA missed so many clues some feel could have prevented the 9-11 attacks.
FBI Director Robert Mueller admitted: "We have got to do a better job of putting the pieces together.
During an interview on ABC's "This Week," U.S. Attorney John Ashcroft said: "The information we now have does not indicate that there was a substantial likelihood of detecting this."
However, Starks said the revelations published in Times and Newsweek magazines that the FBI dropped the ball and that a top secret report warning the FBI months prior to the Sept. 11 attacks had been ignored doesn't surprise him.
"It points out the fact that Sen. Cynthia McKinney was right in what she said a month ago."
Starks said these reports only "vindicates her." He added: "There is no doubt that the FBI, the CIA, the president, and congress dropped the ball because neither one connected the dots" that led to the 9-11 terrorist attacks.
"The CIA, congress and the president have been so busy watching African Americans especially Africans thinking they were the terrorists, they missed the real terrorists.
"Hey they were looking at us and missed the right-wing white folks. They missed the boat on the European and Asian terrorists," said Starks.
"They are so obsessed with watching Black people that they let the real terrorist go free which only points up their white supremacy," charged Starks.
Time and Newsweek connected those dots they say were missed by both the FBI and the CIA.
The heads of these agencies will have to answer to a congressional hearing with Grassley calling for oversight authority over the FBI.
In listing the activities of suspected al-Qaeda operatives, Time Magazine reported that in Phoenix: "Hijacker Hani Hanjour lived in Arizona for years (in February 2001, the FAA questioned him).
"On July 10, 2001, FBI agent Ken Williams sent HQ his now famous memo proposing a sweep of other Middle East students at flight school."
Along the border of the U.S., Time reported in Canada, Algerian Ahmed Ressam "hatched his plot to blow up LAX Airport, but he was foiled by alerted officials when he tried to cross into the U.S. in December 1999."
In San Diego: Time reported hijackers Nawaq Alhamzi and Khalid Al-Midhar lived in California in 1999 and 2000, receiving visitors and taking flying lessons.
In Phoenix: hijacker Hani Hanjour lived in Arizona for years (in February 2001, FBI agent Ken Williams sent headquarter's his now famous memo proposing a sweep of other Middle East students at flight schools).
In Minnesota: Zacarias Moussaoui was detained in August 2001 after arousing suspicion at a flight school.
A local FBI agent says a HQ `roadblock' thwarted a pre-Sept. 11 investigation.
In Oklahoma: In 1993, years before suspected "20th hijacker" Zacarias Moussaoui flunked out of flight school in Norman, alleged al-Qaeda affiliate Ihab Mohamed Ali got his pilot's license here.
In Forth Worth: Essam al Ridi testified in the embassy-bombing trial that in 1993 he bought a $210,000 plane for Osama bin Laden and flew it from Dallas-Fort Worth to Khartoum, Sudan.
In Minnesota: Zacarias Moussaoui was detained in August 2001 after arousing suspicion at a flight school. A local FBI agent says an HQ `roadblock' thwarted a pre-Sept. 11 investigation.
In Toronto: An Ontario official last week admitted that authorities discovered an al-Qaeda sleeper cell, thought to have been based around Toronto, some months ago.
Its members have since left Canada. Nabil Al-Marabh, arrested in Chicago after Sept. 11, lived in Toronto for six-years.
In Pennsylvania: Passengers' heroic efforts sent Flight 93 into the ground near rural Shanksville. The intended target was the White House.
In Maryland: Flight 77 hijackers arrived in the Washington suburb of Laurel in the final month before the attacks.
In Washington: American Airlines Flight 77 smashes into the Pentagon, killing 189 people.
New Bern, N.C.: Abdul Hakim Murad, who authorities said trained at flight schools here and in three other states, confessed in 1996 that he was part of an elaborate plot that included bombing U.S. jetliners in midair and flying a small craft loaded with explosives into CIA headquarters.
In New Jersey: Hijackers Nawaq and Salem Alhamzi lived in Fort Lee and Wayne; all Flight 93 terrorists gathered in Newark before the attacks.
In New York: The World Trade Center's Twin Towers are leveled in the Sept. 11th attacks. Recent threats targeted the Statute of Liberty and the Brooklyn Bridge.
In Boston: American Airlines Flight 63, heading from Paris to Miami on Dec. 22, was diverted and alleged show bomber Richard Reid arrested.
Time Magazine reported on July 5, 2001 Bush asked Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice to find out what agencies are doing with al-Qaeda threat intelligence.
On July 6, a National Security Council group, led by Richard Clarke, met to talk about intelligence and potential attacks overseas. Nonessential travel by counter-terror staff is suspended.
In mid-July, Bush reportedly was warned by the CIA about a possible al-Qaeda attack at the G-8 summit.
On Aug. 6, Bush hears the CIA's report on this terrorist group. It is based largely on past intelligence and raises hijackings as a possible threat but also cites other methods, including truck bombs, boat bombs and bio-weapons.
Sept. 11th--"Too late: Bush gets the news of the World Trade Center attacks."
Time Magazine reports that the FBI failed to pass key memoirs and data to the White House.
Photograph (Robert Starks)
NEW ORLEANS-The Federal Emergency Management Agency has extended the registration deadline for Individual Assistance for survivors of Hurricane Ike to January 12, 2009. Individual Assistance includes temporary rental assistance or hotel stays as well as grants or loans to repair or replace damaged property and belongings.
"It is good news that Louisiana's Hurricane Ike survivors have an extended period to register for Individual Assistance to help them get back on their feet," said U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., following the extension announcement.
Twenty Louisiana parishes have been designated Federal Disaster areas as a result of Hurricane Ike and are eligible for the …
The U.S. and South Korea have pinpointed 11 underground sites in North Korea where it could conduct a third nuclear test, a newspaper reported Monday ahead of a summit between the two allies on the communist regime's growing atomic threat.
South Korean President Lee Myung-bak departed on a trip to Washington for summit talks Tuesday with President Barack Obama, which are expected to be dominated by the North's nuclear and missile programs.
Tension on the Korean peninsula spiked after North Korea declared Saturday it would step up its nuclear bomb-making program by producing more plutonium and uranium, two key ingredients.
The North also threatened …
PUERTO CABEZAS, Nicaragua - U.S., Honduran and Nicaraguan soldiers searched the land and sea Thursday for survivors and the dead from Hurricane Felix's rampage, as the death toll neared 100. Villagers in canoes helped, paddling through waters thick with fallen trees.
Two days after the storm hit, the bodies of many more Nicarguans were recovered, bringing the toll to at least 98, according to Abelino Cox, the spokesman for the Regional Emergency Committee in Puerto Cabezas. At least one Honduran also died in the tempest.
Nicaraguan officials previously put their toll at 65 dead, but Cox did not say where the other 33 deaths occurred.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS …
2001 MAR 15 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) --
by Michael Greer, staff medical writer -- Disadvantaged children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) have a much poorer prognosis than children from higher socioeconomic classes, researchers say.
Marcos Borato Viana and colleagues in Brazil reviewed 30 years worth of data on the impact of class and associated variables on ALL outcomes.
While these studies supported the idea that economic status plays a major role in the course of ALL, some of their conclusions were surprising,Viana et al. reported in the online edition of the journal Haematologica.
Discrepancies in the outcome of the disease …
NEW HAMPTON, Iowa - Hillary Rodham Clinton has taken the lead among Democratic presidential candidates in an Iowa poll, an encouraging sign of progress toward overcoming a big hurdle in the race.
Although the New York senator is the clear front-runner in national surveys, Iowa has remained an elusive prize. She has been in a tight race with John Edwards and Barack Obama in the state that begins the primary campaign voting in three months.
Clinton was supported by 29 percent of the 399 respondents to the poll conducted Oct. 1-3, compared with …
Byline: JOE PICCHI - Staff writer
Another union has replaced the Civil Service Employees Association as the bargaining unit for more than 900 Rensselaer County employees following an election on Tuesday.
The vote was 289 for United Public Service Employees Union Local 424, compared with 202 votes for CSEA, according to Paul Burch, regional director of Local 424.
Burch said that although some ballots were challenged and void, they would not change the outcome of the election.
The results were immediately challenged by CSEA local president Vickie L. Halse, who said "the election process was flawed in several significant ways that could …
As fighting spread in eastern Congo and a fragile cease-fire appeared close to unraveling, more than a dozen bodies lay scattered Thursday inside the mud-walled homes of this rebel-occupied town.
Villagers who began trickling back to Kiwanja after two days of fighting said rebels had killed those suspected of supporting a local pro-government militia known as the Mai Mai. Rebels, however, said the dead, mostly men in civilian clothes, had been armed militia fighters.
Tears streaming down her cheeks, one woman said rebels killed her 17-year-old son.
"They came to kill the people," said Ajeni Niragasigwa. "They did not come to …
The first day of school screeched to a halt for 4,500 students inCrete and Monee today because of a school bus driver strike.
The strike by drivers for Kickert Bus Lines affects districts allover the south suburbs, but Crete-Monee District 201U Supt. SteveHumphrey canceled classes because of the unusual size of the busoperation …
FLINT, Mich. - Although cutbacks and relocations often are in a company's best interest, it is the city and its people who suffer. Flint is no exception.
Nancy Pendergast, 38, a gas station attendant, is like most people in Flint in that she has several relatives - including her father and grandfather - and a number of friends who all work for General Motors.
``The town would be dead without GM,'' Pendergast said. ``And I think GM is kind of copping out on the people by moving away to places like Mexico where they don't have to pay as much and don't have to give medical benefits.''
As General Motors moves jobs out of Flint, the employees are …
AFTER going missing from home for six days, a 12-year-old Bridlington girl has turned up safe and well.
Police sent out an appeal to find Victoria Louise Welsh after she disappeared from the Lansdowne Road area of Bridlington …
Byline: Kenneth C. Crowe II Staff writer
The merger that created the Columbia-Greene Medical Center in January 1988 is providing a base for health care in the two counties, but the medical center must work on correcting its financial problems and diversifying its health services, according to a recent report.
The study conducted by the Health Systems Agency of Northeastern New York came after representatives of the state Health Department asked the agency to study the medical center and make recommendations on the merger and appropriate follow-up actions.
"The HSA affirms that the merger was the appropriate path to take to ensure the provision of …
Responding to two recalls and facing the prospect of another one, Toyota dealers across the country were repairing thousands of cars Saturday, the first weekend day that many drivers had a chance to take action.
Although many dealers expected a long line of customers, most drivers seemed far from panicked.
Delwyn Wright, a 51-year-old truck driver, had heard about Toyota's troubles on the news but got the accelerator on his wife's Camry fixed Saturday after it was suggested by a dealer in Columbia, South Carolina, where Wright had taken the car for an oil change.
"We ain't never had no problem with it," Wright said.
Toyota …
PITTSBURGH - Backup catcher Damian Miller homered twice during a four-hit night, including a grand slam in Milwaukee's seven-run seventh inning, and his seven RBIs matched a club record as the Brewers beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 10-3 Monday.
Miller went 4-for-5 while playing for the first time since hitting a three-run, game-ending homer in the 11th inning to beat Houston on Wednesday - his first homer this season. Miller has three homers and 11 RBIs in his last two games after previously having no homers and six RBIs all season.
The Pirates should have known better than to pitch to Miller, given their recent problems pitching to backup catchers. They lost 3-2 to …
In a move that at once bolsters its own theatrical lineup while removing a key member from a rival's roster, HBO outbid Starz Encore on an eight-year output deal with Universal Pictures, beginning with films released in 2003.
The pact, during its term, is expected to be worth in excess of $1 billion, with pictures carrying an estimated value of $8 million per rifle. Starz has an output deal with Universal through 2003. During the first year of the deal, HBO has the fights to 50% of Universal's films. Thereafter, the premium channel will have exclusive access to the studio's pictures.
The HBO-Universal accord follows last year's agreement between Starz and …
Byline: AE
Baghdad, Jun 6, (VOI) a" An Iraqi government spokesman denied that the strategic agreement yet to be signed with the United States provided for setting up more than 50 bases under U.S. control, adding "the British newspaper the Independent reports in this respect lacked credibility."
"Permanent bases in Iraq can never be accepted. This is a settled issue as far as the Iraqi side is concerned. Even the U.S. side has stated in more than one occasion that it does not plan to keep permanent …
Byline: LINDA GREENHOUSE New York Times
WASHINGTON -- Two years after overturning an anti-gay rights amendment to the Colorado constitution, the Supreme Court on Tuesday left intact a similar measure barring protective legislation for gay people in Cincinnati.
The court refused to hear a challenge to the Cincinnati charter amendment, which voters adopted in 1993 and which a federal appeals court found last year to be constitutional. On the surface, the justices' action sent a confusing signal about whether the court still meant what it said, by a 6-3 majority in the Colorado case, about the Constitution not permitting gay people to be stripped of legal …
The Obama administration on Friday waded into thorny territorial disputes over islands in the South China Sea, declaring their resolution to be a U.S. "national interest" in a move likely to irritate China.
At a regional security forum in Vietnam, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Washington was concerned that conflicting claims on the Spratly and Paracel island chains interfere with maritime commerce, hamper access to international waters in the area and undermine the U.N. law of the sea.
"The United States has a national interest" in resolving the claims, she said. "The United States supports a collaborative …
La Final Internacional FestiVegas 2010 se llev� a cabo con la participaci�n de un nutrido grupo de talentoso compositores, cantantes y poetas de diferentes partes del mundo.
La novel cantante salvadore�a Jesenia Monterrosa fue la ganadora del Primer Lugar, trofeo "FestiVegas de Oro", en la categor�a "Int�rpretes de Canciones Conocidas", por su magn�fica interpretaci�n del tema �Fuera de mi vida! Este galard�n significa sin lugar a dudas un triunfo muy importante y un merecido incentivo para esta joven y talentosa int�rprete que se enorgullece de ser salvadore�a.
En la categor�a "Canciones Originales Folkl�ricas", el primer puesto "FestiVegas de Oro" fue para el compositor …
(ADPnews) - May 31, 2010 - Finnish property investor Citycon Oyj (HEL:CTY1S) said today that it signed an unsecured term loan of EUR 50 million (USD 61.4m) with Pohjola Bank Plc (HEL:POH1S), in a bid to finance strategic investments, such as shopping centre redevelopment projects, and refinancing of maturing debt. …
Byline: DEB RIECHMANN Associated Press
NORTHFIELD, Minn. -- Despite his disagreements with Syrian President Hafez Assad, President Clinton said the Arab leader who died Saturday was ``open and straightforward'' and desired a lasting peace in the Middle East.
White House spokesman Joe Lockhart announced later that Secretary of State Madeleine Albright would represent the United States at Assad's funeral.
Under questioning, Lockhart confirmed that neither Clinton nor Vice President Al Gore would attend the service. ``I think the President believes that Secretary Albright is the appropriate person to attend,'' he said. He declined to say whether …
President Barack Obama's plan to limit banks' size and risky trading habits could help to avoid a new financial crisis, the head of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said Tuesday.
Obama's plan, outlined last week, would bar the biggest banks from proprietary trading _ when banks use their own money to make high-risk bets. If those bets go bad and a bank goes under, taxpayers could be on the hook.
By separating core commercial banking from such higher-risk activities, the plan "could help to avoid a new financial crisis by resolving some major risk inherent to the …
In Memory of Richard B. Davis. Canberra: The Richard Davis Fund and the Department of Anthropology, Research School of Pacific Studies, The Australian National University, 1992. 342 pages. Map, figures, line drawings, references, index. ISBN 0-7315-1408-4.
Patterns and Illusions: Thai History and Thought, a collection of essays on various aspects of Thai culture, was published in memory of the American anthropologist B. Davis, who died in 1981 at the early age of 38. I was acquainted with Davis when he was a Peace Corps volunteer in Thailand during the late 1960s, and helped him publish his first book, A Northern Thai Reader (1970), which has since become a standard work in the field of northern Thai studies. His next book, Muang Metaphysics: A Study of Northern Thai Myth and Ritual, published posthumously in 1984, also demonstrates his outstanding scholarship regarding the northern Thai …
