| Travel safely- advice from The Travel Clinic Ltd, Cambridge
First and foremost be aware of the possibility of security risks. Realistically considering security concerns while not spoiling your trip through becoming over anxious is a delicate balance. Discussing these issues with friends, hosts, hotel staff and tour company couriers, for example, is important. To reduce the risk of mugging it is best to travel in groups, avoid areas recognised as risky especially after dark, keep on the move, carry an alarm or an anti-personnel spray (may be illegal in some countries), wear modest clothing and do not display wealth (e.g. wearing a camera around the neck). · Most authorities say that travellers should not resist if mugged. It is better to lose valuables than be injured or worse. Where possible report incidents to police services or at least to your hosts or hotel staff.
Mission recovery: Injured Iraq vet focuses on future
The rocket-propelled grenade that exploded about 13 inches from Spc. Kevin Spangler's face shortened his Army career.But the blast that almost killed the 21-year-old soldier, leaving him deaf in his left ear, failed to make a dent in his cheerful spirit or vibrant sense of humor.An Alaska native who settled in Shelbyville after marrying an Army buddy's sister, Spangler received a medical discharge in June.Spangler, now 23, considered staying in the Army but decided to return to civilian life because his handicap might put other soldiers in danger."I didn't want to be a liability," said Spangler, now 23. "If there was another attack, and I didn't hear something, someone might be hurt because I didn't hear."Spangler had been in Iraq just six weeks when an insurgent took aim at him from a nearby rooftop.A member of 3rd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, Spangler was serving as top gunner on a Humvee in a small town northwest of Baghdad on Feb.
Guns and the higher-ed grading system
A gun is just a handier way to kill or hurt, both good and bad. You can do the same with a pencil or pen. Should we not allow them also? How about them heavy books? You could certainly cause a lot of harm with one if it was used as a weapon. What it boils down to is there are weapons all around us at all times. Most will never use any. others will so we need to be able to defend ourselves as we choose from those who don't respect our rights. Your sister has nothing to fear from legal gun carrying youth in her class room any more than she would during hunting season driving down the roads of this state. rd: You'd like my sister. She's sassy, like you. And she's open to considering arguments like those you present. She's also been teaching for almost 40 years at the high school and college levels, so far without having any crazies with with guns come charging into her classroom.
You've been spotted: UD vs. Duquesne
KETTERING — James Free Jewelers will announce Friday plans to build a new showroom, according to Dave Tellman, marketing director for the jewelry company. "We're going to tear down the existing building," Tellman said of the current showroom, located at 3100 Far Hills Ave. Once the new building is built, the location of the current building will turn into parking lot for the new building. .
University takes tough stand on student drinking
That program is on the record and has been provided to surrounding mayors, police chiefs, local state legislators, county Prosecutor Luis Valentin and to the Press. We seek ways to improve that program by interacting with and surveying best practices at other colleges. It must be, and is, an evolving and improving program. Despite best efforts, sometimes citizens, even student citizens, make mistakes. And sometimes they get caught. The newspapers are replete with stories of all kinds of people who have strayed beyond the boundaries of the law. When that happens at Monmouth, the citizen student "faces the music" within the municipal legal system. Unlike others, however, when a police report finds its way to the university, the citizen student faces a second round of judicial proceedings governed by the student code of conduct.
Muscatine! the Musical update: Costumes inspired by fashions of 1896
MUSCATINE, Iowa — Ostrich plumes and parasols swaying in a sea of frothy lace and bodacious bustles will dress up the stage at the world premier of "Muscatine! the Musical" Friday, Oct. 12. The original costumes for the play are inspired by the fashions of 1896, the year of the musical’s setting. Marie and Peter Press of Muscatine wrote the book for the musical, which is built against the backdrop of a bustling river town that once hosted the historical characters of Buffalo Bill Cody and Mark Twain and fancy world travelers, such as the musical’s leading lady, Lulu Belle Larkin. Marie plays the role of Lulu Belle, who dresses up Muscatine’s late 19th century social scene with elegant Parisian fashions. Costume concepts for the production began with a technological walk through history, via the Internet.Peter selected images that represented the era and the spirit of the musical and printed them out to create a scrapbook of ideas."The more authentic the costume, the better the audience will understand the time period and the nuances of that time period in the script," said Peter.He passed his ideas on to the mother-and-daughter design team of Mary Taeger and Lisa Cameron-Babcook of Burlington.Cameron-Babcook opened a costume shop in Burlington in 1995.
Northport man charged in $68M scam
Having spent time in prison for stock fraud, a Northport man did not go legitimate, but instead switched confidence schemes to go into fraud involving foreign-currency exchange, federal prosecutors said yesterday.
Michael MacCaull, 36, was charged yesterday with bilking hundreds of customers out of more than $68 million by setting up a company, Razor FX, with offices in Great Neck and Saddle River, N.J., that purportedly could earn investors astronomical returns by trading in foreign currency.
In fact, the company was a Ponzi scheme, which did almost no trading in foreign currency but rather paid interest out of the money from new clients, according Benton Campbell, the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District. In addition, the money from investors also was used to support MacCaull's luxurious lifestyle, which included an upscale condo in Northport and an Aston Martin automobile, Campbell said.
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