Just two games into the prep football season, the Marquette Catholic Explorers are doing what they need to do. They are winning. Marquette is 2-0 heading to 2-0 Hillsboro on Friday. The Explorers defeated a rugged Pana team 32-8 on Saturday at Public School.
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Type: CE Title: Tunewear IPAD-WT-WEAR-01 Waterwear for iPad See all customer reviews Product Description: WATERWEAR for iPad/Tablet PC is a carrying case made from a durable, transparent material with a triple zipper design to lock iPad or a tablet PC safely inside and keep it away from water and dust. WATERWEAR uses a thin yet strong clear material enabling control of the device through the case. Bring it into the kitchen or into the bath and enjoy videos, web browsing and music wherever you are. The locking mechanism includes a combination of zippers, velcro and snaps to guard your device from the outside elements. An iPad optimized insert spacer is included for keeping iPad stable inside. There is extra space inside to accommodate a small pocket WiFi device or other items. Use WATERWEAR in the kitchen to search for recipes. Control the touch screen without worrying about getting iPad wet or dirty. Bring it with you when you take a bath or go outdoors by the pool or to the beach. The convenient strap lets you hang WATERWEAR from a hook or carry it around with you on your shoulder or neck. The strap is removable and the length of the strap can be adjusted. Features: Durable, transparent iPad carrying case Triple zipper design Use WATERWEAR in the kitchen to search for recipes Control the touch screen inside the protective case Bring your iPad with you outdoors, by the pool, or to the beach See the details
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High winds and heavy rainfall predicted across the UK Flood warnings were in place and some travellers faced difficult journeys as heavy rain and strong winds whipped across parts of the UK on Tuesday. Winds of up to 50mph were predicted on the south and south-east coasts of England and up to 50mm or rain was expected to fall within 24 hours in some areas of the north-east of the country and north Wales. The wet and windy weather is expected to continue throughout the week as a series of low pressure systems move through. Flood warnings (meaning flooding is expected) were in place on the River Conder in Lancashire and in parts of the Dyfi Valley in north Wales. The Environment Agency also put in place 20 flood alerts (flooding is possible) mainly in the north-east of England and north Wales. Some ferry services were delayed or suspended because of the poor weather across the south of England. Flights in the far south-west of England were also disrupted. Speed restrictions were imposed on the old Severn Bridge because of the high winds and drivers were being warned of difficult conditions along the M4 through south Wales. Fallen trees also caused delays in Monmouthshire and Swansea. Dan Williams, a spokesman for the Met Office, said the south-east of England was likely to bear the brunt of the strongest winds while the Lake District and Snowdonia were due to be the soggiest places. “It is likely to stay windy throughout the week with fast moving low pressure systems moving through,” he added. Sixteen sailors were rescued from a vintage ship on Monday evening after its mast snapped in the strong winds. The 120-year-old ketch, a training ship, was off the coast off Portland Bill, Dorset, when it was caught up in 40mph gusts. Its wooden 9m (30ft) tall mast broke in half and the sail and rigging fell into the sea. The crew, all young adults, were unable to retrieve the stricken mast in the poor conditions and called coastguards for help. They were towed to shore by the Weymouth RNLI lifeboat and none of the crew members were injured. Southend pier in Essex – the longest pleasure pier in the world – will be closed on Tuesday to allow engineers to assess damage from a contractor’s barge tethered to the pier. A statement on Southend-on-Sea Borough Council’s website said the barge was forced into the pier by high winds and a heavy swell. A council spokeswoman said the vessel had been moored alongside the pier to carry out scheduled maintenance work. “The pier is not about to fall down, or anything like that, but it has caused some damage,” she said. Weather Flooding Wales Steven Morris guardian.co.uk
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Tribunal jails ex-head of army for 27 years over military support to Bosnian and Croatian Serbs in massacres like Srebrenica A war crimes tribunal has sentenced the former chief of the Yugoslav army to 27 years imprisonment for providing crucial military aid to Bosnian Serb forces responsible for the Srebrenica massacre and deadly four-year campaign of shelling and sniping in Sarajevo. UN judges convicted General Momcilo Perisic on charges of providing troops, ammunition and logistical support to rebel Serbs in Bosnia and Croatia. Tuesday’s verdict underscored the Yugoslav army’s far-reaching support for Bosnian Serb forces and rebel Serb forces in Croatia responsible for the worst atrocities of the Balkan conflicts in the 1990s. However, the judges acquitted Perisic on charges that he was directly responsible for crimes as a superior officer to leaders of the Bosnian Serb forces. Serbia Europe Bosnia and Herzegovina Croatia guardian.co.uk
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Campbell (I) campaigns at Burke rail station Allen Newell – Desires and Diversions Public Square Squared – Zeynap Tufekci – EN robertnhahn says: RT @ CallieSink : Wacky Maryland uniforms draw scorn on Twitter http://t.co/8iw4rTI
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Ex-Labour MP who claimed for dry rot treatment on home more than 100 miles from her constituency to appear before magistrates facing 21 charges The former Labour MP who claimed for dry rot treatment on a home more than 100 miles from her constituency will be charged with fiddling her expenses by more than £60,000, prosecutors said today. Margaret Moran, one of the last politicians investigated over the scandal, will appear before magistrates facing 21 charges relating to her parliamentary claims. Moran, former MP for Luton South, will appear before City of Westminster magistrates’ court on 19 September, the Crown Prosecution Service said. More details soon . . . MPs’ expenses House of Commons Margaret Moran guardian.co.uk
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Racing driver found at fault for flying recklessly and causing crash in which he and three others died, by judicial inquiry The former world rally champion Colin McRae has been held totally to blame for a helicopter crash that killed himself, another man and two children, including his son, after a judicial investigation. Sheriff Nikola Stewart said the racing driver was guilty of “imprudently” and “unnecessarily” taking the helicopter on a dangerous low-level flight into a heavily-wooded valley in 2007 to thrill his passengers, despite having no pilot’s licence for the aircraft. The crash in Mouse valley near Larkhall, Lanarkshire, killed McRae, his five-year-old son John “Johnny” McRae, a six-year-old family friend and neighbour, Ben Porcelli, and another friend, Graeme Arthur Duncan, aged 36, leaving wreckage scattered across the hillside. Ben Porcelli’s distraught parents, Mark and Karen Porcelli, said at the time that McRae had never asked permission to take their son on the flight. Police investigators at the crash site said the impact was so severe, it was difficult to tell that a helicopter was involved. In a lengthy and damning ruling following a fatal accident inquiry into the crash, Stewart found that McRae, 39, was guilty of a series of dangerous, reckless and unjustified manoeuvres during the flight, including flying at very low level and failing to follow basic rules of airmanship. She confirmed the driver, who became world famous for endorsing the hit computer racing games Colin McRae Rally and Dirt, did not have the correct flying licence or authorisation for operating that type of helicopter, and was flying illegally. She recorded how the flight had been partially filmed by Duncan, which showed that McRae had flown as low as 275 ft , apparently to buzz some farm buildings, and then banked the helicopter sharply in a series of aerial stunts. “He undertook significant manoeuvring at low level and the helicopter seems to have encountered significant g-loading as a result, to the evident enjoyment of his passengers,” the sheriff recorded, in a judgment issued on Tuesday. “The episodes of extremely low-level flying and the excessive manoeuvre parameters, particularly the descent into the valley by Larkhall, all as captured on the video recording, are indicative of an aircraft being flown imprudently, without due regard to the principles of good airmanship, and in such a way that normal safety margins would be reduced. “The deaths and the accident resulting in the deaths might have been avoided had Mr McRae not flown his helicopter into the Mouse valley. Such a precaution would have been entirely reasonable. There was no necessity to enter the Mouse valley. There were no operational or logistical reasons to enter the Mouse valley. “Mr McRae chose to fly the helicopter into the valley. For a private pilot such as Mr McRae, lacking the necessary training, experience or requirement to do so, embarking upon such demanding, low-level flying in such difficult terrain, was imprudent, unreasonable and contrary to the principles of good airmanship.” The families of McRae and Ben Porcelli have not yet responded to the findings. Scotland Severin Carrell guardian.co.uk
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Ten years after the 9/11 attacks, two-thirds of Americans say it’s OK to sacrifice some rights and freedoms in the fight against terrorism, says a poll by the AP and the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago. (Sept. 6)
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Fourteen alleged loyalist paramilitaries face charges including murder, after two UVF members turn state’s witness Loyalist demonstrators have gathered outside Belfast’s Laganside courts as the first major terrorist “supergrass” trial in Northern Ireland begins. The relatives of 14 men accused of murder, blackmail, intimidation and a range of other charges have arrived with placards to protest against the use of two informers in the case. The testimony of two brothers, Robert and David Stewart – self-confessed members of the illegal Ulster Volunteer Force – will form the crown’s main case against the accused. The families of the accused are being led by Progressive Unionist party spokesman, Ken Wilkinson, who has accused the authorities of selectively targeting loyalists for past crimes while ignoring those committed by republicans during the Troubles. It is the first “supergrass” trial in 26 years and a huge security operation is under way to prevent trouble in the courts district for a trial that will run for at least three months. The last “supergrass” system put dozens of IRA, Irish National Liberation Army and loyalist paramiltaries behind bars from 1982 to 1985 when a high court judge questioned the reliability of one of the self-confessed terrorist turned witnesses. Nine alleged UVF men, including former leading member Mark Haddock, are charged with the murder of UDA leader Tommy English in October 2000. They and another five alleged UVF men also face a range of other charges. English was shot dead in front of his wife at their home in Newtownabbey on the outskirts of north Belfast during a feud between the UDA and the UVF. The 14 defendants will be represented by 24 barristers and eight firms of solicitors and the trial is expected to last for 11 weeks. The police investigation that led to the arrests was triggered by a damning report from the former Northern Ireland police ombudsman Nuala O’Loan, in 2007. She said a UVF gang based in the Mount Vernon estate in north Belfast had been involved in up to 15 murders and that Special Branch had allowed its informers within the UVF to act with impunity as state agents. Northern Ireland UK security and terrorism Henry McDonald guardian.co.uk
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Move – which effectively devalues the Swiss franc in an attempt to protect the economy – sparks fears of new currency war Switzerland sparked fears of a new currency war on Tuesday after it pegged the Swiss franc against the euro in an attempt to protect its economy from the European debt crisis. The Swiss National Bank in effect devalued the franc, pledging to buy “unlimited quantities” of foreign currencies to force down its value . The SNB warned that it would no longer allow one Swiss franc to be worth more than €0.83 – equivalent to SFr1.20 to the euro – having watched the two currencies move closer to parity as Switzerland became a “safe haven” from the ravages of the eurozone crisis. The move stunned currency traders, and sent the Swiss franc tumbling against other currencies. Jeremy Cook, chief economist at currency brokers World First, said it was “intervention on a grand scale”, and the start of a “new battle in the currency wars”. “That was the single largest foreign exchange move I have ever seen … The Swiss franc has lost close on 9% in the past 15 minutes. This dwarfs moves seen post Lehman brothers, 7/7, and other major geo-political events in the past decade,” Cook said. The SNB pledged to enforce a “substantial and sustained weakening of the Swiss franc”, adding that it might move to an even lower exchange rate against the euro if needed. “The current massive overvaluation of the Swiss franc poses an acute threat to the Swiss economy and carries the risk of a deflationary development,” said Switzerland’s central bank. The Swiss franc settled around SFr1.2026 against the euro, having earlier hit SFr1.1020. Stock markets rallied on the news, with the FTSE 100 jumping 87 points or 1.7%. The main Swiss stock market gained more than 5%. Jennifer McKeown of Capital Economics, said the SNB’s intervention was a “bold move”, but warned that Swiss exports will probably still suffer as the franc still remains strong in historical terms. Giles Watts, head of equities at City Index, warned that Switzerland could find itself in a battle with currency speculators to hold the value of its currency down. “Most interventions in the currency markets by the authorities of late have only helped prices in the short term at best. If the euro crisis intensifies there is every chance the market could test the SNB’s resolve to hold the cross rate above the 1.20 level,” Watts said. Back in April, one euro was worth SFr1.32. The strength of the Swiss franc has made the country’s exports much more expensive and harmed its tourism business, and also encouraged some Swiss residents to cross the border into Germany to do their shopping . Currencies Euro Switzerland Europe Europe Graeme Wearden guardian.co.uk
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