| Pro-Death: Religious Conservatives Are Responsible for High Abortion ...
Who carries the greatest responsibility for the deaths of unborn children in this country? I accuse the leader of the Catholic church in England and Wales, His Eminence Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor. I charge that he is partly to blame for our abnormally high abortion rate. Let me begin with a point of agreement. "Whatever our religious creed or political conviction," Murphy-O'Connor writes, the level of abortion in the UK "can only be a source of distress and profound anguish for us all". Quite so. But why has it climbed so high? Is it the rising tide of liberalism? The absence of abstinence? Strange as it may seem, the evidence suggests the opposite. Last week the cardinal sacked the board of a hospital in north London. It had permitted a GP's surgery to move on to the site, and the doctors there, horror of horrors, were helping women with family planning.
SLM hires Hewes in new job as credit chief
SLM Corp., the largest US student lender, has created the position of chief credit officer and hired industry veteran John Hewes to fill it. Hewes will oversee credit risk management and underwriting policies for private student loans, SLM, of Reston, Va., said yesterday in a statement. Hewes spent the last 22 years at MBNA Corp., the world's largest independent credit-card issuer, where he headed the consumer finance and business lending divisions, SLM said. MBNA was acquired by Bank of America Corp. in 2006. SLM, known as Sallie Mae, said in January that subsidy cuts for US-guaranteed loans are driving its focus on higher-margin private loans, and that it will become more selective in screening borrowers. Some for-profit education companies, including Corinthian Colleges Inc., have said Sallie Mae halted loans for students deemed high credit risks.
Arnold's Advice for McCain
Can a cheap headline featuring hot-button words "Kos" and "Coulter" goose a blogger's hit count? The stats are in and the answer is ... unfortunately ... yes. ... P.S.: But the hed does refer to an actual item, which is here. 11:55 A.M. Monday, July 10, 2006 Kos mocks Sen. Lieberman for naming his ad hoc independent party "Connecticut for Lieberman:" It's still about him. It's always about him. Hmm. What's the name of Kos's site again? Daily Netroots? Daily People Power? ... [Stolen from reader C.] 5:39 P.M. The Atlantic's editors have hit on a way to make you hate them: Blogging to let you know what a challenging, "thought-provoking" time they're having at the Aspen Ideas Festival listening to E.O. Wilson, Alan Greenspan, Bill Clinton and Karl Rove, among others: At 6.30am we glided out of Aspen in a fleet of silent shining limos (furnished by Lexus, one of the meeting's sponsors: I could get used to it).
Garrett says funds short for promises
Oklahoma schools, which haven't been given any new operations funds in several years, are already cash-strapped with higher utility and fuel costs.
Prorating state aid payments would short districts the state funds they've already factored into their budgets.
The Board of Education is expected to hear Garrett's request to ask for supplemental funding at its regular meeting next week. If approved, the measure would then head to lawmakers for consideration.
Angel Riggs (405) 528-2465 angel.riggs@tulsaworld.com
By the numbers
If the State Superintendent's request is approved, the Board of Education will ask lawmakers this session to approve
$43.1 million in supplemental funding to cover a: $37 million House Bill 1017 fund shortfall.
A blog about technology from BBC News
And for years the multi-national companies behind many of the fims, music and TV programmes we enjoy have been looking for a way to shut down the website. But it's been a game of cat and mouse, made more difficult because The Pirate Bay does not keep its servers in the same country its founders are based in, and because the website itself does not store any copyrighted files - it points in the direction of copied material that are "out there" on the internet. In effect, The Pirate Bay is a global address book for copied and copyrighted material. It takes advantage of a program called BitTorrent, which makes it easy to share files among large groups of people. Each BitTorrent file comes with an addresss, a tracker, and it's the location of that address that The Pirate Bay publishes on its site.
Company claims patent infringement over iTunes Allowances
There's usually a period of time after Apple releases a new product when a number of companies come out of the woodwork and file patent infringement lawsuits against the company (legitimately or not). Not so with Restricted Spending Solutions (RSS for the cool kids) and the iTunes Allowance feature, though. Although the featured made its debut in 2003, RSS waited Wednesday to file a lawsuit against Apple, claiming that the Allowance feature infringes on an RSS patent. For those not familiar with it, the Allowance feature allows parents to set up an account for their child (or children) and put monthly spending allowances on it. This allows the kiddies' to buy songs on iTunes without having to hand over full access to a credit card. According to the complaint, RSS filed a patent application covering a "Controlled entertainment spending account" in 2001, and was granted patent 7,143,064 in 2006.
Burlington office building sells for $21.3M
ELV Associates Inc. purchased Five Burlington Woods from New Boston Fund Inc. for $21.3 million. The three-story office building is located at 15 Mall Road in the Burlington Woods Office Park in Burlington, Mass. New Boston Fund purchased the 102,056-square-foot building in 2001 for $18 million. Five Burlington Woods is 94 percent leased with about half the building occupied by the engineering firm, Fay Spofford & Thorndike Inc. Other tenants include ACS Defense Inc. and Charles Schwab. The building was constructed in 1982 and is located on three acres of land directly off of Route 128. Amenities in the office park include a walking trail that connects to the 200,000-square-foot shopping center called Wayside Commons. Jones Lang LaSalle represented both the seller and secured the buyer.
Morton Grove man in ID theft case used phone, Internet to obtain ...
A Morton Grove man charged with identity theft spent much of his time on the phone with credit card companies, even disguising his voice as he pretended to be other people, a federal prosecutor said Thursday.
Instead of working, Mohammad Afzal Sodagar, 51, usually was on the phone or the Internet, trying to add to his collection of more than 400 credit cards, often "using a different voice" to disguise his identity, said Assistant U.S. Atty. Christopher McFadden.
Sodagar, a native of Pakistan, is accused of using the credit cards to commit fraud. Although Sodagar had no apparent job, police found $60,000 in cash in his closet when he was arrested Nov. 29, McFadden said. Authorities have not detailed how Sodagar allegedly used the cards for financial gain.
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Rivera Takes on Anti-Immigrant Fervor in 'His Panic'
No one calls me Jerry, and you can't call me Jerry unless you knew me before 1950.' " Rivera says the Hispanic assimilation experience is no different from that of previous immigrants. "Many of the most fervent anti-immigrant activists are themselves the children or grandchildren of immigrants," he says. "The style changes, the accents change, the geographical antecedents change, but it's the same. You can track headline for headline the response to the Irish wave of immigration in the mid-19th century to the reaction of the Minutemen and similar radical anti-immigration groups today." Those people who say they're worried about border security are being disingenuous, Rivera says. "Are you really concerned about 'border security,' or are you concerned about the changing demographic face of the United States? [For] example, if it is terrorism that you are concerned about and you want this fence built between the United States and Mexico, why don't you want the same fence built between the United States and Canada? Why isn't there this clamor ...
Who needs lawyers? Two more Chinese dissidents sue Yahoo
He moved to the US in January, 2006, and a month later learned to the Chinese dissident Li Zhi had been arrested after Yahoo turned over information to the Chinese government. Zheng had also used a Yahoo e-mail account to join the same political party that Li had. The news made him scared to return to China as he feared that he might meet a similar fate, so he remained in the US and lost "the real control of the two factories and his investment and property were under danger of being defrauded by others." Guo Quan was an associate professor at Nanjing Normal University, but he lost his job there after publishing a series of letters calling on Chinese leaders to allow multiparty democracy. His complaint about Yahoo doesn't concern the company's e-mail system at all; instead, Guo asserts that his personal name and the name of his garment company (which features his personal name) have both been blocked by yahoo.com.cn.
Romanov set to undertake Hearts surgery
True, but with a wage bill at £10m a season, is that not the very least you should expect? Given Rangers were absolute rank until Christmas, Hearts should have been in with a shout of 2nd again this year, too. Remember, until such time as Romanov decides to pay off the debt, it's YOUR money he's spending. So long as you're happy with that, carry on. What I find amazing is that a bit of idle speculation about possible signings has deflected Jambos entirely from the more important question - where will you be playing your football next season? www.welovefitba.blogspot.com .
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