Although I love spending time outdoors, I have never been a big fan of hunting. I like archery and even can see the fun in shooting at targets, but I really don’t think I would enjoy killing an animal. However, I grew up in a state that has a school holiday for the first [...]
The Last and the Worst: Most people don’t put the IRS at the top of their priority list and here’s why: If you don’t pay your electric bill, they cut off your power. If you don’t pay your car insurance, they terminate the policy. You could go years without hearing anything from the Federal Government. [...]
A well-loved bronze sculpture in downtown Cleveland has been getting some restoration work from a local nonprofit firm. But midway through the work, a competing restoration firm has publicly complained that the sculpture is being treated improperly1 Vote(s)
Here's an interesting idea out of Mississippi. Axe poor performing superintendents as though they were...principals. This from the Daily Journal: Bill eyes school district leadersJACKSON - The House is expected to consider legislation that would allow superintendents, both appointed and elected, to be replaced if their school districts are low performers for two consecutive years...... "We're talking about the lowest performing school districts in a state that is the lowest performing in the country," state Superintendent Hank Bounds said in arguing in favor of the legislation in House committees.""At some point we have to say we are going to change directions. Perhaps that change should begin at the top." ...
Former Bush-Administration officials discuss the dysfunctional foreign policy that has put us on a path for war with Iran; a policy which every Republican candidate save Ron Paul wants to emulate.Military historian Gabriel Kolko says many in the armed forces think Bush and Cheney (and presumably, by extension, their toady cheerleaders) are "out of control", a claim buttressed by the impressive fact that most campaign contributions from military personnel are going to the two antiwar candidates, Ron Paul and Barack Obama.(Thanks to Georg Thomas for the Spiegel article)
SCI - First For HuntersIn the Crosshairs -- e-news from SCI's Washington OfficeThe latest and hottest news on federal, state, and internationalpolitical and conservation eventsMay 14, 2007Namibia UpdateLast week SCI brought you a story about leopard trophies from Namibia being confiscated by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service because they were tagged incorrectly. According to the TJ Safari Weekly Newsletter, the Namibia Professional Hunting Association jumped right in to set things straight. They released the following statement: ‘It came to the fore that U.S. Fish and Wildlife had confiscated two separate leopard skins exported by Namibia due to the apparent use of incorrect identification tags. The Ministry of Environment and Tourism has been making use of the current tagging system for the past fifteen 15 years. Those leopards exported with the old tags will still be accepted. MET has now submitted a new tag for approval by U.S. Fish and Wildlife. In the event of your clients
The New York Times reports:Most people would probably not consider the average high school chess club to be a hotbed of disorder or immorality. But a club is a club, and Utah has decided that student groups need some stern policing and regulation.Next month, a 17-page law will take effect governing just about every nuance of public school extracurricular clubs, from kindergarten jump rope to high school drama. How groups can form, what they can discuss in their meetings, who can join, and what a principal must do if rules are violated are addressed.But the school clubs law, signed last week by Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr., was not really intended to rein in the rowdies down at the audio-visual club, some lawmakers said. The real target was homosexuality.“This is all about gay-straight alliance clubs, and anybody who tells you different is lying,” said State Senator Scott D. McCoy, Democrat from Salt Lake City, who voted against the law.State Senator D. Chris Buttars, a Republican from the
SCI - First For HuntersIn the Crosshairs -- e-news from SCI 's Washington Office The latest and hottest news on federal, state, and internationalpolitical and conservation eventsMarch 16, 2007Predator / Prey Meeting Sponsored by SCI/SCIFOn Tuesday, March 20th, SCI/SCIF will be co-hosting an all day workshop entitled Predators and Prey: Integrating Management to Achieve Conservation Objectives at the 72nd North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference. Key sessions will include Integrating Mountain Lion and Ungulate Management; Integrating Wolf and Big Game Management: Case Studies; and Predator Management Implications for Waterfowl and Upland Birds. Each session will cover societal, scientific and policy issues. This all day event will take place at the Hilton Hotel in Portland, Oregon. The workshop is primarily intended for wildlife managers but anyone is invited to attend. The Wildlife Management Institute, the sponsor of the conference, is also co-hosting the event. Y
A new attack technique increases the risk of commonly found bugs in Oracle’s database software, a security researcher has warned. It was previously thought that an attacker needed high-level privileges on the database to exploit so-called PL SQL injection vulnerabilities. With a new attack technique, that’s no longer true, David Litchfield, a database [...]
