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Some councillors revved up over free pubic transit service
Is Hamilton ready to provide free transit to residents? Ward 4 Councillor Sam Merulla thinks so. Mr. Merulla authored a motion last week which was accepted by his council colleagues that asked city staff to investigate implementing a free fare or a small fee only public transit service. Mr. Merulla was the lone politician who opposed council's recent decision to increase bus fares for the second time in less than a year. "God bless Sam," said Hamilton Mountain councillor Terry Whitehead. "This is a vision. I think you will see free transit in Hamilton. It makes a lot of sense to reduce gridlock and improve the environment." Mr. Merulla pointed out reducing bus fares encourages more people to get out of their vehicles, which, in turn, cuts pollution and overall improves the environment.
MRSA case confirmed; doctors say risk being overblown
Remain calm.That is the message from doctors and school officials following confirmed reports of a local case of drug-resistant staph infection."I think this is being blown all out of proportion," said Dr. Louis Schenfeld, a Johnstown-based infectious disease specialist.MRSA, or methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, has been around since 1963, Schenfeld said. It usually is confined to a boil that should be lanced by a doctor and then usually goes away on its own."Staph is the most common form of skin infection," he said. "MRSA is the most common type of staph infection."For years, MRSA was confined to hospitals. But it began appearing in the general population during the late 1990s and is being seen more outside hospitals and nursing homes.News of a confirmed infection in a Conemaugh Township High School student brought a deluge of phone calls to the district, Superintendent Joseph DiBartola said."We kind of fielded those (calls) to let parents know what had occurred and what we were doing," DiBartola said.
Editorial: ‘Gifted’ funds lost in space
Since 1995 as I have a memorandumm dated that far back, this district never intended to nor will it ever be truthful about funding and services. The memorandum clearly stated that a program for gifted will be set in place in the district. As of yet I see no concentrated effort to do so or do I see any Board member challenging the lack thereof. You cannot follow the money here. Everthing is posted per line item.but where it goes only the staff knows. Now you all know you have been lied to repeatedly and the only thing they have done was created a bigger,bloated bureaucracy by hiring all those gifted coordinators to appease the parents. So now they will tell you there is no money left. More lies. They are trying to force gifted into the defunct I B program or the AP program. If gifted were that simple there would not be a separate funding for them.
New £130million grassroots grants programme seeks local funders
Local third sector funders across the country are today invited to become a local partner in delivering a ground-breaking £130million fund that will give grass roots third sector organisations access to grants for as little as £250. As well as providing much-needed small grants for third sector organisations, the Grassroots Grants programme will also help local funders to build endowment funds to provide a continuous source of small grant funding, by matching the money that the local funder raises in the community. The Community Development Foundation (CDF) is administering the programme nationally and the search has begun for local funders.. The £130 million fund, which will run from 2008-2011 will be divided into two parts: an £80 million small grants fund for community organisations; and a groundbreaking £50 million endowments programme to enable local funders to generate additional donations on a matched basis and invest them in endowments, thereby building their capacity to provide long-term funding for frontline community organisations.
'You must stop this manhunt!'
On the first floor of Société Générale's giant glass tower in Paris' business district La Défense, the normally sedate corridors thronged with people in crisis management. Daniel Bouton, the chief executive of France's second biggest bank emerged to explain why the discovery of one of the financial world's biggest ever frauds - a rogue trader who lost nearly €5bn committing hidden transactions from his desk - was not all bad news. But the one question that eluded the big bosses of Société Générale was the issue all were trying to comprehend: who was this lone trader in his 30s? What motivated an intelligent, young man to commit a fraud five times greater than the infamous rogue trader Nick Leeson who caused the collapse of Barings bank in 1995? At Société Générale's head office, the men in charge shrugged their shoulders, saying they wouldn't name him.
Talk of Blair EU role played down
But Europe Minister Jim Murphy said Mr Blair was "already busy as an envoy in the Middle East and he has a fantastically important job to do". He was speaking after French President Nicolas Sarkozy said Mr Blair would be a "good choice" for the new job. 'No discussion' Speaking at the conclusion of the EU summit in Lisbon, Mr Sarkozy told reporters: "I saw Tony Blair two nights ago. He is a very remarkable man. .
Drunk last night? Don't show your boss on Facebook
Don't be tempted to boast about it on social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace, or worse provide pictures of yourself behaving like a complete buffoon. For would-be employers could be digging for digital dirt. Readily available -- and possibly embarrassing -- information is just a mouse click away. "The best advice is -- don't put anything on your profile you wouldn't want you mother to see," said Andy Powell, director at the international recruitment agency Badenoch & Clark. He warned social networking devotees not to post pictures of debauched parties, to go easy on details of romantic trysts and never to complain about their current job or boss. "More and more recruiters are taking note of 'net reputations,'" Powell said.
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