There’s a very interesting crosswalk, created by a Korean designer and apparently installed somewhere in Seoul, which is meant to make things safer for pedestrians (in part by expanding the pedestrian areas). You can check it out at this blog , and please report your experience if you’ve been in it
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The board that oversees Moorpark, Oxnard and Ventura colleges will consider using E-Verify to check whether potential employees are eligible to work in the United States.
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College district to consider using E-Verify for workers
Pakistan will soon bring terrorism charges against three men alleged to have helped the failed Times Square bomber meet up with militant leaders close to the Afghan border and sent him money to carry out the attack, a senior police officer said Wednesday.
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Pakistan to charge 3 over failed Times Square bomb
Cambodia’s U.N.-backed genocide tribunal expects to begin its second trial of former leaders of the Khmer Rouge before the middle of next year. But Tribunal spokesman Reach Sambath said Wednesday that the court has set no exact date to try Nuon Chea, the group’s ideologist; former head of state Khieu Samphan; former Foreign Minister Ieng Sary; and his wife Ieng Thirith, ex-minister for social affairs.
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Next Khmer Rouge trial expected by mid-2011
Sri Lanka’s Parliament voted to eliminate term limits for the president Wednesday, a move critics say could lead to dictatorship. The amendment also will tighten President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s hold on power by giving him total control over the judiciary, police and the civil service. The main opposition group, the United National Party, boycotted the vote and burned an effigy of Rajapaksa at a protest in the capital.
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Sri Lanka removes term limits for presidency
Police have arrested two suspects in the bombing of a bakery popular with foreigners in western India that killed 10 people earlier this year, an officer said Wednesday. One of the two Indians arrested this week has suspected links to a banned Pakistan-based Islamist rebel group, Lashkar-e-Taiba, senior police officer Rakesh Maria told reporters
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Police arrest 2 suspects in Indian bakery blast
Details of how a powerful political clan in Southern Philippines planned the gruesome massacre of 57 people, including 32 journalists and media workers, are now slowly coming out in the open as trial of the accused finally began Wednesday in Metro Manila. Government prosecutors presented its first witness, Lakmudian Saliao, who told the court how Andal Ampatuan Sr. presided over a meeting with his sons, daughters, in laws and close relatives to plan the murder of their political opponent over dinner days before the November 23 massacre.
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Ampatuan massacre: Plotting murder over dinner
Angelina Jolie on Wednesday condemned a Florida church’s threat to burn copies of the Muslim holy book to mark the ninth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. The 35-year-old actress spoke out against the proposed burning during a trip to Pakistan to raise awareness about the floods that have devastated the largely Muslim country over the last six weeks
By Tim Mandell, Richmond Register Technology, especially the Internet, has made it easier to take a college class from a different campus across state or even from the comfort of one’s own home. The Distance and Online Learning program at Eastern Kentucky University continues to grow as more and more students are able to enroll in classes without having to be on campus or give up their full-time jobs. During the 2008-09 school year, more than 18,500 course enrollments through distance education at EKU, which is a 40-percent increase from the previous year, according to EKU’s website.
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Online learning popular at EKU, but some concerned about tuition hike
by Kaye Spector, The Plain Dealer A Kent State University assistant professor hopes that online courses and part-time educators can help ease the nursing shortage. There are more students who want to be nurses than there are enough qualified nursing instructors to teach them. A Kent State University nursing professor has a plan to help fix that.
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Online learning courses, part-time educators aimed at easing nursing shortage
By Laura Raines, Atlanta Journal Constitution “Online learning has come a long way,” said Jean Pickus, RN, MSN, regional director of academic affairs and program chair for nursing and health care programs at the University of Phoenix. Barry Williams, Special Sandra Scott, a nurse in the oncology unit at WellStar Cobb Hospital in Austell, is studying for her bachelor’s degree through the University of Phoenix
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The value of online learning
AP : Panicked teachers in Thailand’s restive south stayed home from school Wednesday after two teachers were killed in broad daylight amid threats from suspected Muslim insurgents that 20 would die. … On Tuesday, a husband and wife, both Buddhist and primary school teachers at a public school, were riding to a morning market on a motorcycle before school started when they were shot and killed in a barrage of bullets fired from a suspected insurgent on the back seat of a passing motorbike, police said.
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Teachers under fire in the insurgency in southern Thailand
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 8, 2010 Joe Wills Public Affairs 530-898-4143 Joe Picard Continuing Education 530-898-6105 16th Annual CSU, Chico Conference on Excellence in Learning and Teaching October 6-8 California State University, Chico Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching will present the 16th Annual CELT Conference, Oct. 6-8, on the CSU, Chico campus.
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16th Annual CSU, Chico Conference on Excellence in Learning and Teaching October 6-8
questions about patients getting life saving drugs
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Pharmacist Sues State Over Employees Prescription Drug Plan
Chicago State University announced today that The Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools has reaffirmed the University’s continued accreditation, which it has maintained since 1941.
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Higher Learning Commission Reaffirms Chicago State University’s Continued Accreditation Status
The Labor Party is meeting Canberra today to decide on the make up of its new ministry. It is understood the new ministers will be formally announced next week, however, The ShadowLands has obtained this exclusive photograph of three new members promoted to Cabinet.
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Labor’s new Cabinet: A ShadowLands exclusive
With four terrorist attacks in a week, the ongoing flood tragedy, political violence in Karachi, spot-fixing scandals in cricket, and unfettered calls for a military-led French Revolution — someone should really tell Altaf Hussain that the French generals ended the French revolution, they did not start it — you might think Pakistan would be incapable of throwing up good news. You would be wrong.
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Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi, take a bow
Rumeal Robinson, who led Michigan to the NCAA men’s basketball championship in 1989 and later played in the NBA, was convicted in federal court Wednesday of borrowing more than $700,000 for a sham business deal and then spending the money on a condominium, expensive furniture and cars.
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Ex-Michigan G Robinson guilty of fraud (AP)
BURLINGTON, Vt., – A free online information session about Champlain Colleges first on-campus multi-disciplinary master’s program – a Master of Fine Arts in Emergent Media will be held Wednesday, Sept. 29 from noon to 1:15 p.m.
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Champlain Colleges New Masters Program Off to a Strong Semester
Incredible! This 10,000 pound, 65,000 foot-tall bicycle obelisk “ Cyclisk “, was build from 340 bikes and one tricycle. The bike sculpture was created by Santa Rosa, California artists Mark Grieve and Ilana Spector. Santa Rosa is also the home where this huge sculpture is standing
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Huge Bike Sculpture