| NOTES | Brennaman signs extension with Reds
Broadcaster Marty Brennaman signed a three-year contract extension to remain with the Cincinnati Reds through the 2010 season, team officials said yesterday. Brennaman, 65, has been the lead voice of Reds radio broadcasts since 1974. His previous contract, signed in 2004, was set to expire after this season. Brennaman was inducted into the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association Hall of Fame in Salisbury, N.C., in 2005, the same year he was inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame in Chicago. The Reds broadcaster also was a 2000 recipient of the Ford C. Frick Award from the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y. The award is presented each year by the Hall of Fame to a broadcaster for major contributions to baseball. Minor-league umps balk at background checks If a minor-league umpire refuses to allow Major League Baseball to perform credit checks, it might cost him a job in the big leagues.
Kinston Housing Association staffer to receive national award
Although she has more than enough to do in her current position of family self-sufficiency coordinator, Kinston Housing Authority (KHA) leaders approached Michelle Gooding this spring and asked her to develop a safety program for an annual contest put on by the agency's insurer. "I just felt that, because of the type of person Michelle is, this was a project she could develop a winning idea, and she did," said Assistant Executive Director Vivian Perry, who encouraged Gooding to come up with a submission. Gooding received a letter on July 2 informing her that she had won the Housing Authority Insurance Group's 2007 Housing Authority Risk Retention Innovation Award. Her Resident Education Daily Light Program, or RED Light, involves running a DVD of five short safety videos on television units in the lobbies of four KHA apartment complexes.
DOT: Stop waving E-ZPass transponders
The state Department of Transportation has a message to turnpike drivers: Stop waving those E-ZPass transponders! After observing a third of E-ZPass users holding and waving their transponders back and forth, toll plaza attendants posted new signs: "Transponder Waving Causes Violations." Properly used, E-ZPass transponders are attached to car windshields so they can be electronically read. Drivers who treat transponders like hand-held devices, waving them to and fro as they drive through the tolls, cause a couple of problems, said Transportation Department spokesman Bill Boynton. First, transponder readers often can't recognize transponders that aren't fixed to a stationary point on a windshield, Boynton said. That means transponder wavers sometimes aren't getting charged as they drive through.
Tram ticket machines arrive early
THE ticket machines which will be used for travel on Edinburgh's trams are being installed on the city's streets. Thirty-two of the brightly coloured machines are being installed around the city at a cost of £95,000 by Lothian Buses. Bus passengers will be able to use them almost straight away in a move designed to help speed up bus travel. .
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Bird Patrol guided tour
Experience the beautiful birds of Bunche Beach with a Bird Patrol guide Friday, July 20, from 8 to 10 a.m. Bring binoculars, sun protection, shoes that can get wet, a bottle of drinking water and your curiosity and love of nature.
This event is free and provided in cooperation with Lee County Parks & Recreation. Bird-watchers should meet in the parking lot at Bunche Beach (one of the best birding sites in Lee County), located in South Fort Myers, off of Summerlin Road.
16-07-2007: Transmile responds to Moores Rowland controversy
Moores Rowland Risk Management's scope of work as Transmile Group Bhd's internal auditor differed from its functions as special auditor in the wake of accounting irregularities in the company, the air cargo carrier said. Transmile and Moores Rowland both responded in writing to the Minority Shareholders' Watchdog Group's (MSWG) prodding for a statement on the controversial decision to appoint Moores Rowland to undertake the special audit when it has been contracted as internal auditor since 2004. They detailed the areas of responsibility defined in the accountant's role as auditor and investigator. The almost identical letters to the MSWG state that as internal auditor, Moores Rowland was responsible for largely operational areas. These included spares procurement and management; material planning, maintenance repair and overhaul centre; planning, maintenance and engineering, technical records section; Subang line station; and flight operations.
Beijing’s ‘war on terror’ hides brutal crackdown on Muslims
THE CHINESE executioners came for Ismail Semed before 9am. They led him out of his cell as the sun climbed over the Tien Shan mountains in the land he called East Turkestan. The day before, he had seen his wife, Buhejer, his son, 7, and his daughter, 6, for the last time. After three years in prison and 15 months of uncertainty since a secret trial, they had 10 minutes to say farewell. Semed was 37, a Muslim and a political activist. He was not guilty of murder nor any act of violence. Three Chinese judges sentenced him to death for "attempting to split the motherland" and possession of firearms and explosives. He said he was tortured into a confession. Two men whose evidence was used against him were already dead, having been executed in 1999.
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