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Matt Nachtrieb/Staff Photo (L to R) CarolAnne Crossan and Jacki Finley, with A Changing Season, move furniture and other belongings for a client from Sterling House in Denton to Lewisville. This photo is available at www.scntx.com. production/flowermound/datedfolder/01-19/front .
Coalition hopes to bridge gaps between refugees, natives
The group is hoping to open a dialogue with members of the Somali community and get them organized so they can reach out to the rest of Bedford County, develop leadership and participate in the community more effectively. TIRRC is made up of a coalition of immigrants, refugees and their American-based supporters who work to "improve the rights and the public's perception of Tennessee's rapidly growing foreign-born population." Among participants in the meeting were David Lubell, director of TIRRC; Ahmed Dahir, civil liberties organizer for the group; Catalina Nieto, public awareness coordinator for TIRRC; Imam Haji Yousuf, the spiritual leader of the Somali Muslim community in Shelbyville; and Salaad A. Nur, outreach coordinator with the Somali Community Center of Nashville.
Gillette case expected to set precedent for pension trials - Headed to ...
Jamaica's Appeal Court's ruling that scores of former workers of Gillette Caribbean are entitled to a share of a $42 million surplus in the company's pension scheme is heading for the Privy Council for final resolution. Initially, the funds were earmarked for sharing between the firm and the two employees still on the payroll when the scheme was discontinued in 2001. Appeal judges on Monday gave conditional leave for lawyers representing Vivion Scully and Morven Richardson, who argue that they should be the only beneficiaries, apart from Gillette, to proceed to London with the case, whose outcome, lawyers say, could be influential on other pending pension cases here. Changing interpretation "There are a number of pension cases in the pipeline, turning on the interpretation of the rules governing the scheme," one senior lawyer explained on Monday after the appeal judges gave attorney Wentworth Charles the green light for the final appeal.
Breast Cancer On the Rise Among Young Women
And, she says, it was risky, because she had to undergo a mastectomy and chemotherapy during her pregnancy.
"I really didn't want to. I was begging my doctor to wait until the baby was born, but it was aggressive enough that we needed to get started," she says. "Then in the day after my last treatment, my son was born. He was healthy."
Johnson is a breast cancer survivor, and so is her friend, Kim Carlos. She was diagnosed with the disease at age 30 while she was planning her son's second birthday party. "When I was diagnosed, the first thing I obviously thought of was my son," she says. "He was just turning 2 and I wanted to be here to see him grow up."
During their treatment journey, Carlos and Johnson formed a support group with two other friends.
Sights and sounds of a decaying Forth Road Bridge
We need to be investing in improvements to shared transportation systems - trains, buses, trams, car-pooling - rather than finding ways to accommodate more and more individual metal boxes for commuters. And we need to end the practice of building commuter belts and housing estates so far away from employment centres that commuting is necessary in the first place. .
Copying goes hi-tech
The age-old parchi system which used to do the trick during the examination season is now a thing of the past. Enter the low cost hi-tech Chinese pens which students are using to take them through the examinations. Though education minister Upinder Jit Kaur has said no instance of copying will be tolerated during the board exams and the erring officials will be dealt with strictly, a Chinese pen, costing around Rs 20 has come in handy for the inventive students who have added this invisible-writing pen to their cheating devices. Sources in the education department said after it decided to go strict with instances of cheating and the staff on examination duty become vigilant no paper slips or chits were being allowed in the examination centre. The sources said during one such frisking exercise during the exam of the plus-two science stream a few days ago, a teacher found that some of the students had pasted white-blank papers on their clip boards.
The SNP and the mystery of the vanishing bobbies
THE Scottish Government suffered a major and embarrassing setback yesterday when Kenny MacAskill, the justice secretary, admitted his long-awaited plan to put an additional 1,000 police on Scotland's streets might not deliver a single extra officer. .
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