| Hamline University remembers ‘The Last Days of King’
Instead of highlighting Martin Luther King, Jr.s life and accomplishments, Hamline University in St. Paul chose a different approach in its annual commemoration of the late civil rights leaders life, philosophy and legacy.
The Last Days of King, a two-hour, multi-generational program held January 22 in Sundin Music Hall at the schools St. Paul campus, looked at the final days of Dr. King, leading up to his death in April 1968. Several faculty members vividly recalled those days.
Hamline professor Earl Schwartz showed CBS News footage that was aired the night of April 4, 1968, a few hours after Dr. King was assassinated in front of his motel room in Memphis, Tennessee. [The idea for showing the clip] came up in a planning session a month ago [and was suggested] by a student, said Schwartz on the black-and-white news clip.
Lawndale sexual abuser gets 10 years
Nelson pleaded "open" to the two counts of engaging in three or more acts of substantial sexual conduct with a minor over a period of three or more months. The open plea meant Hourigan decided his punishment outside of any deal with prosecutors. The charges carry a maximum of 20 years in prison, according to Deputy District Attorney Christine Von Helmolt. The two girls, who were 8 and 11 years old at the time of the abuse, were the daughters of family friends. When the family "fell on hard times," they came to live at the same residence as Nelson, Von Helmolt said. During 2005 and the beginning of 2006, while their parents were traveling for work, Nelson sexually abused them repeatedly, Von Helmolt said. Nelson confessed to the crimes during a taped telephone call made by a sheriff's detective who used a ruse to elicit the statement, Von Helmolt said.
Arrowhead and Spacenet Ink Deal to Sell Connexstar Services to U.S ...
FAIRFAX, Va. --(Business Wire)-- Arrowhead Global Solutions Inc., a provider of integrated global communications solutions to the government, today announced that it has signed an agreement with Spacenet Inc. to become a Value Added Reseller (VAR) of the Connexstar(TM) turnkey VSAT solution.
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They’re building the EIGERlab of aviation at RFD
We think of Chicago Rockford International Airport as a place to board a plane or as an airfreight hub. But it is about to become Chicagoland's center of aviation technology and aerospace education. It's going to be a job-creating engine, helping to grow the airport and the local economy. I wrote two years ago about the importance of building a first-class aviation school at the airport. Rock Valley College offers a propeller-based program that graduates about 20 students a year. My efforts in 2006 to convince RVC to ramp up the program to provide more aviation mechanics to meet the airport's growing demand went nowhere. Even when I reminded people that such jobs start at $50,000 to $60,000 a year, they just shrugged. The airport then took the lead, and has built a partnership among government, industry and academia, including Northern Illinois University and Kishwaukee College.
The new world
So the film My Big Fat Greek Wedding is not complete fantasy? They both shake their heads. "Not that far off," says John. "Exaggerated, but not far off."Marilena's mother came to Stirling and stayed for four months to help with Maria. That's the way Greek families are. "Family life seems a bit different here," says Marilena. Behind the bar, Patrik agrees. Albania is not in the EU, so his family cannot get visas, and if he can afford to, he spends £500 twice a year to go back to see them. "But you get brothers and sisters here, one who lives in Stirling and the other in Glasgow, and they don't see each other for six months," he says, clearly baffled.The human instinct to explore, to aim further than home, has always fuelled immigration, but as people get older, they also often experience the homing instinct.
Conservative commentator William F. Buckley Jr. dies at 82
His prominent family also included his brother James, who became a one-term senator from New York in the 1970s; his socialite wife, Pat, who died in April 2007; and their son, Christopher, the author and satirist ("Thank You for Smoking"). A precocious controversialist, William was but 8 when he wrote to the king of England, demanding payment of the British war debt. After graduating with honors from Yale University in 1950, Buckley married Patricia Alden Austin Taylor, spent a "hedonistic summer" and then excoriated his alma mater for what he regarded as its anti-religious and collectivist leanings in "God and Man at Yale," published in 1951. Buckley spent a year as a low-level agent for the CIA in Mexico, work he later dismissed as boring.
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