| Md. roads ready for inclement weather
Even people dreaming of a white Christmas probably don't look forward to driving in winter weather.The Baltimore and Washington metro area receives an average of seven winter storms per year, according to statistics released by the Maryland State Highway Administration, which has been preparing for winter weather throughout the summer.The administration spends the summer months stocking up on salt and making sure its equipment is ready to clear the roadways, said spokesman Chuck Gischlar.The highway administration has set aside 338,000 tons of salt for use on roads during the winter season.It has budgeted $21 million for plowing, salting and other winter operations in fiscal year 2008.According to numbers released by the highway administration, annual expenditures for the past nine years have averaged around $42 million.Gischlar said the administration always figures conservatively in its budget estimates and the legislature has always given it as much money as it needs to keep the roads safe.The best advice for driving in winter conditions is to slow down, said Amanda Knittle of AAA Mid-Atlantic.
Steve Lantner: An Introduction
Steve Lantner's current run of creative output may be below the radar, but the quality of his recordings is off the charts. His debut as bandleader came in 1997 alongside longtime cohort/violist/violinist Mat Maneri in an adventurous set of duets that had Lantner playing both acoustic piano and a synthesizer set ninety degrees apart [Reaching (Leo)]. Lantner furthered his exploration of microtonalities on Voices Lowered (Leo 2001), where he played two pianos tune ¼ pitch apart alongside Joe Maneri and Joe Morris playing electric violins. Notably, the multi-talented Morris' first recording as a bassista debut Lantner prefers to take no credit forcame just one year later on Saying So (Riti, 2002). A graduate of the Berklee College of Music and subsequent student of Joe Maneri's at the no-less-esteemed New England Conservatory, Lantner's What You Can Throw (HatOLOGY, 2007) sees the avant-garde pianist teamed again with drummer Luther Gray and Morris.
Principal plagiarism report gets people talking
Six more letters have arrived in The Express-Times' mailbox about the newsletter column a Phillipsburg High School principal wrote that contained several paragraphs of a Texas therapist's work without crediting him. Mary Jane Deutsch first denied she plagiarized the essay about the virtues of modesty, then apologized for a mistake she called inadvertent. Get more background information here, and keep reading for six newspaper readers' views. (The editorial board takes a stand here.) A Lopatcong Township man says the story didn't belong on the front page of the newspaper. "Please leave the front page for principals who allegedly sit naked at their desks and allegedly deal drugs from their offices," Richard McQuade writes, referring to former Nitschmann Middle School Principal John Acerra.
As we face rising sea levels, famine, disease and the loss of the most precious treasures of our planet, UN warns it ...
THE Earth faces "abrupt and irreversible changes" that will make the planet unrecognisable unless urgent action is taken, the most definitive report on climate change so far has revealed. The UN's Nobel-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) also warned of inevitable human suffering and the threat of species extinction. .
Over the hill? No reason to stay off the ‘net
For most people in Viet Nam the internet belongs to the young, to business people, to officials; but recently, the elderly have discovered the use value of being able to comfortably engage with new technology. Though the internet now connects billions of people across the world, it only became popular in Viet Nam around seven years ago. Since then it has spread across the nation, making Viet Nam one of the countries with the most rapid internet-spread worldwide. And as people use it more, they require it more, so that now, everyone from students to engineers, in rural to urban areas now find the internet an indispensable element in their daily lives. Some elderly are still slow to catch on. Many don't know what the internet is, and others wonder how it works. For me, my grandparents were surprised when I told them I'd learned from Yahoo Messenger what my brother has been up to while studying abroad.
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YANGON, Myanmar - More than 100 Buddhist monks marched and chanted in northern Myanmar for nearly an hour Wednesday, in the first public demonstration since the government's deadly crackdown last month on pro-democracy protesters, several monks said.The monks in Pakokku shouted no slogans, but one monk told the Democratic Voice of Burma, a Norway-based short-wave radio station and Web site run by dissident journalists, that it was a continuation of the protests last month."We walked around the town and chanted. ... We are continuing our protest from last month as we have not yet achieved any of the demands we asked for," the monk told the radio station."Our demands are for lower commodity prices, national reconciliation and immediate release of (pro-democracy leader) Aung San Suu Kyi and all the political prisoners," said the monk, who was not identified by name.He said they had little time to organize the march so it was small, but "there will be more organized and bigger protests soon."Up to 100,000 people took part in demonstrations in Yangon last month that were crushed when troops fired on protesters Sept.
Briefly in Tompkins
As part of the commemoration of World AIDS Day, Dec. 1, the Tompkins-Cortland Community College Gay-Straight Alliance, with support of the College Entertainment Board, will host five sections of the internationally celebrated AIDS Memorial Quilt. The quilt will be on display 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and until 8 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 28 through the week in the TC3 Forum. Other events are planned, including remarks at 11 a.m. and noon today by a student and a speaker from Planned Parenthood; at 7 p.m. Thursday, a showing of "Bloodlines," a documentary of HIV-positive young adults; and an information table staffed by STAP on Thursday. .
There are two Gordon Browns living in Downing Street
To his fury, Gordon Brown was accused of plagiarising phrases from the speeches of American politicians in the address he gave to his party conference. That allegation certainly cannot be levelled against the lecture 'On Liberty' he delivered to an audience at the University of Westminster. Says one of the Prime Minister's friends: 'He wrote it all himself.' That I believe. The copyright on the title of the Prime Minister's lecture belongs to John Stuart Mill. But the content and style were clearly all Mr Brown's own work. Indeed, they couldn't be anyone else's work. I can think of no other leading Anglophone politician who could or would deliver such a self-consciously intellectual speech. .
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