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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE PR- 378-09 August 14, 2009 MAYOR BLOOMBERG APPOINTS EIGHT MEMBERS TO THE NEW YORK CITY PANEL FOR EDUCATIONAL POLICY Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg today appointed eight members to the Panel for Educational Policy, which was re-established when Governor Paterson signed the New York City school governance legislation into law on Tuesday. The eight members, whom the Mayor announced on his weekly Friday morning radio show on WOR Radio, are Philip A. Berry, Linda August 16th, 2009 by Jeff ATags: ex-Twins, Happy BirthdayIf you like old baseball nicknames, this is your day:Hick Carpenter Baby Doll Jacobsen Fats Fothergill Tiny Bonham Gene Woodling Puddin' Head Jones Buck Rodgers Mike Jorgensen Al Holland Rick Reed Xavier Hernandez Damian Jackson Roger Cedeno Pitcher Rick Reed was drafted out of Marshall University in the 26th round by the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1986.  HThis week’s National DUI roundup is a whopping 54 articles long and we skipped on some we may otherwise report on. Our ongoing DUI report is by no means everything that’s going on in the Nation with respect to DUI deaths and serious repeat offenders, but we scour every news source we can so we can get the most important ones of the week in the report. This is our ongoing mission to shed continued and constant light on this preventable plague on our nation and the world. Some say we’re making pro

The funeral for Eunice Kennedy Shriver was held today. Celebrities such as Oprah Winfrey , Stevie Wonder and Jon Bon Jovi attended, as well as family members including her daughter, California First Lady Maria Shriver and Maria's husband, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger . During the service, titled "Celebrating The Transformative Eunice Kennedy Shriver," Oprah could be seen crying. Later, Gov. Schwarzenegger went to the podium for a reading. Her grandchildren also spoke, expr

by Shelby Hunt Until recently, if you wanted to watch a movie, a trip to a video store like blockbuster was your only option. The next generation it seems will be getting their movies from movie downloads, avoiding any trips to the store. Below, is a sample of some of the movies you can find using movie download sites. Communion: Mental thriller with Walken well cast as author Whitley Strieber, who finds himself visited by odd beings. Does he need a psychiatrist or an exorcist? A tad long i

Touching drama, silly zombie confrontations and X-Men — there are plenty of great films this week! All times ET. Aug. 14 A Raisin in the Sun “What happens to a dream deferred?” asked Langston Hughes, poet of the Harlem Renaissance. Lorraine Hansberry provided an answer in her play about a young, struggling African-American family and their turn of fortune when a large insurance payout offers the chance to change their future together. Starring Sidney Poitier in one of many career-defby Shelby Hunt For years now, the video store was the way to get movies. Now, with internet usage exploding, movie downloads are becoming very popular. Just about any movie every made can be attained through a movie download site now. Check out these samples. Communion: Mental thriller with Walken well cast as author Whitley Strieber, who finds himself visited by odd beings. Does he need a psychiatrist or an exorcist? A tad long in the tooth and the dramatic scenes between Walken and spouse  Awesome night last night!  Who knew accounting software demos would be so fun? It looks like hit an attendance record  — which blows my mind because I thought people took vacations in August.  Just about 300 people stopped by last night to see some great new tech.  Amazing! And did you see Asa Murphy’s article, " SF New Tech is a fun factory for serious entrepreneurs "  in the Examiner?  Wow!   As promised to all you who took the feedba

POLICE officers with former Zambia intelligence chief Xavier Chungu get into a motor vehicle after a court hearing in LusakaFORMER Zambia Security Intelligence Services director general Xavier Chungu has gone home after he was discharged from the University Teaching Hospital and met bail conditions in all the cases. Chungu’s lawyer, Nicholas Chanda, said in an interview in Lusaka yesterday that his client was discharged yesterday and was recuperating from home after he met the bail by Shelby Hunt U ntil recently, if you wanted to watch a movie, a trip to a video store like blockbuster was your only option. The next generation it seems will be getting their movies from movie downloads, avoiding any trips to the store. Below, is a sample of some of the movies you can find using movie download sites. Consenting Adults: Richard and Priscilla Parker have a normal mundane life. When Eddy and Kay Otis move next door, everything is going to change. When thing escalate to wAugust 12th, 2009 by Hank Dudek In 1988 Texas brought Tom Penders in to turn around a lifeless program whose appeal was non-existent. Texas had the personality and image of a football school and the basketball program under Bob Weltlich was as exciting to watch as a bass fishing tournament, no offense to fishermen on this one. Enter Penders fresh off his Rhode Island run through the NCAA tournament. Here was a coach with a little Northeastern swagger that might allow Texas to bring

This is a guest post by Richard Heinberg. Richard is a Senior Fellow of the Post Carbon Institute and author of five books on resource depletion and societal responses to the energy problem. He can be found on the web at www.richardheinberg.com and www.postcarbon.org. Everyone agrees: our economy is sick. The inescapable symptoms include declines in consumer spending and consumer confidence, together with a contraction of international trade and available credit. Add a collapse in real est             The main reference to write this article, “A Preface to History” ,  written by Carl G. Gustavson, is a well organized book, and the reader gets involved with the reading because he starts explaining us the reasons one could like reading his book, and then, brings in a different didactic perspective, some of the dimensions we could be in touch, by recognizing the importance of certain evidences, concerning historical facts. His narrative is also analytical, emphasizing reason, lI am back once again to deliver bite-sized nuggets of comic book goodness! It’s random thoughts time! Get excited! Random Thought! Came across a poll on the CBR forums asking who people think is the worst Marvel editor-in-chief ever. The results are horribly questionable because the votes skew to the last four EICs heavily since, surprise surprise, those are the only ones people really remember as being EIC! Anyone before that has been glossed over with lovely rosey nostalgia, and an utter

by Franklyn Calle I took a break from covering the weekly commitments during the month of July as the live recruiting period was on full swing and prospects were getting a chance to meet new coaches and their programs. It always seems like commitments diminish during July while de-commitments amplify.  But now that those days are history, SLAM will continue to give you commitment updates on the weekly basis. So here we go. Last week’s most notable commitment without any doubt has to be Domby Ross Everett Today, the Comedy Story sits on the same spot and has for over twenty years. In it’s earlier incarnation it was Ciro’s, and it was for a time the center of the entertainment universe. From the early 1940’s until it closed on the eve of the 1960’s, Ciro’s launched countless entertainment icons along the path to superstardom. It was one of the first major venues to host Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin before they took over the comedy world in 1950. A year later, an unheralded op

NAOMI SIMS, PIONEERING BLACK FASHION MODEL         Visit Guest Book NEW YORK – Naomi Sims, the barrier-breaking African-American fashion model who in 1968 became the first black model to appear on the cover of Ladies’ Home Journal, has died. She was 61. Sims, said by some to be the first black supermodel, died Saturday of cancer in Newark, N.J., her son Bob Findlay told The New York Times. It had been decades since she left the runway to become an author and launch her own beSTARS Juan Martin del Potro beat Andy Roddick 3-6 7-5 7-6 to win the Legg Mason Tennis Classic title in Washington, DC, USA Flavia Pennetta Flavia Pennetta beat Samantha Stosur 6-4 6-3 to win the LA Women’s Tennis Championships in Los Angeles, California, USA Feliciano Lopez won the ATP Open Castilla y Leon in Segovia, Spain, defeating Adrian Mannarino 6-3 6-4 Andreas Seppi beat Potito Starace 7-6 2-6 6-4 to win the San Marino CEPU Open in San Marino Mar

Tourism veteran Francisco Xavier Lopez Mena will be heading up the Mexico Tourism Board , Mexico ’s tourism promotion agency, focusing his efforts on consolidating the strong growth that has positioned Mexico as one of the top travel destinations worldwide. Mr. Lopez Mena brings with him decades of public and private sector experience in tourism and related sectors in Quintana Roo State, home to such important tourism destinations for Mexico as Cancun, Cozumel, Isla Mujeres, the Mayan Ri