| Social network sites link to town's seven suicides
Do nice things. Sing and Rejoice. Fix something. Make someones day. Raise and love a child. The choices made now belittles who they were; makes them insignificant to the world. Hurts others. Makes it worse. Is selfish. Accomlishes nothing. Leaves an empty hole for others to stare at. So be a friend to the departed by stopping this idocy and go an make a real difference! .
Castillo-Alvarez guilty on murder, kidnapping charges
Once the diplomatic channels could be navigated, the extradition process came together quickly in October 2006. Federal authorities used an arrest warrant to bring Castillo-Alvarez over the border to Harris County, Texas. He was detained on a charge of flight to avoid prosecution. Castillo-Alvarez was then transported to Houston and taken before a magistrate where the flight to avoid prosecution charge was cancelled and he was held on Clay County warrants for murder, kidnapping and conspiracy. Castillo-Alvarez was charged with state offenses as part of an agreement with Mexican authorities. Federal charges could have carried the death penalty and would have hindered extradition for the State Department. "I believe the proper charge was first-degree murder, but we couldn't do that," because of diplomatic negotiations, Zenor, said.
Heath found his 'Little Australia' in New York
HEATH Ledger lived in an apartment not far from a neighbourhood in lower Manhattan that probably felt like home: "Little Australia". In the wake of the Australian actor's death, the tight-knit community has received renewed attention as tourists and reporters flocked there to get a better understanding of how and where the movie star spent his time. Ledger's attraction to the area, located slightly north of Little Italy and below the East Village, was clear. The place is teeming with Australian expats who have started a slew of businesses and carved out a life thousands of kilometres from their rugged, beautiful land. "I knew there would be some Australians when I came here but I didn't realise there were this many," said Zack Perinoni, 29, a Melbourne native who moved to New York about four years ago and works in the neighbourhood.
Archbishop of Greek Orthodox Church dies
He helped create church Web sites and radio stations, and frequently issued detailed checklists on how black-clad Orthodox priests should conduct themselves in public. He was regularly named Greece's most popular public figure in opinion polls, the AP reported. But his abrasive tactics also made him enemies in the church and the media, who openly called for his resignation when several senior clerics were accused of embezzling funds, involvement in sexual scandals, and even trial-fixing in 2005. E-mail to a friend Copyright 2008 CNN. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Associated Press contributed to this report. .
Monte Carlo Hotel-Casino In Vegas Catches Fire
He said it took about 10 minutes to walk single-file down the stairs to get to ground level. "There were a couple of ladies crying, but it was pretty calm," he said. Another guest, Renza Badilla, 45, said she exited through the hotel kitchen to find burning debris and embers falling from the roof. "I think people were shocked when they saw the smoke," said Badilla, who said she was in the buffet on the main casino level when fire alarms sounded. Investigators were trying to determine whether the fire had simply burned the resort's facade or penetrated rooms in the upper floors, which contain suites. Guests were being taken the MGM Grand Garden Arena and employees were evacuated to the adjacent New York-New York hotel, Absher said. There was no immediate indication of criminal activity or arson, Smith said.
RateMyProfessors — or His Shoes Are Dirty
In the meantime, somehow or other, I ended up with a number of teaching awards, all starting from student nominations and campaigns. This was over a span of a bit better than 30 years, incidentally, so it appears that there was a fair amount of consistency in whatever I was doing. They were All — University ones, not departmental. So, although I always read and thought about the written comments, a number of which alerted me to things I had not been aware of, I have tended to ignore the numerical scores. They simply did not tally at all with anything I could identify or do anything about. I never seem to have made it into RATE. Oh yes, I started in physics and moved into mechanical engineering, but have taught all sorts of things for non-scientists as well. So — it looks to me as though we don’t really have anything yet that is of much help in the improvement of instruction.
Everyone is paying the price for metal thieves
Westar Energy and its 219,000 electrical customers in Wichita and the suburbs are among those who feel the greatest impact. The utility estimates that 10,000 to 20,000 utility poles in the metro area are missing sections of ground wires because copper thieves snipped them off, said Marc Anderson, a Wichita-based Westar manager. All of the suburbs have been hit, and in some Wichita neighborhoods an intact ground wire is becoming the exception, Anderson said. Thieves clip out a section of ground wire from near the ground to as high as they can reach. Each section might net the thief about $2 from a scrap buyer. But it costs the utility about $150 to send a truck and a worker to replace just one section, Anderson said. The cost ends up in people's electric bills.
The Grass Isn't Greener
Odds are, you've never walked its length, and in your mind's eye the notion of a "greenway" conveys some sense of meandering parkland, a cool, green respite from urban rigors. Far from it. The Greenway is less a park than a series of disjointed "parklettes." Officially, there are four (Chinatown, Dewey Square, the Wharf, and the North End). In reality, it's more like 15, with each of the spaces cut up by cross streets. The parklettes are filled with the various gimcracks beloved by landscape architects who try to "define" spaces, inject "whimsy," and "echo" history, but which really look more like leftovers from a giant Tonka Toy. I walk the Greenway at noon on a pleasant winter's day, and it feels as if I'm on the world's most expensive median strip. Three lanes of traffic travel on each side of me, two roaring and honking mechanistic rivers.
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