Northern Ireland police report no injuries as City of Culture offices are targeted for the second time A bomb detonated outside the City of Culture office in Derry on Wednesday night, police said. There were no reports of injuries and police have yet to reveal details on the extent of the damage caused. It is the second time that the office has been targeted after a pipe bomb planted by dissident republicans in January caused minor damage to the building. Derry’s successful bid for title of UK City of Culture has secured cross-community support in Northern Ireland. The city’s Shipquay Street was closed off on Wednesday night by officers investigating the blast, which they reported at around 11pm. SDLP Foyle MP Mark Durkan condemned those responsible for the explosion, saying they ‘have shown complete and utter contempt for the people of Derry’. “Derry is a city with many challenges and with many difficulties. But the City of Culture is one of the opportunities we have,” Durkan said. “It has been strongly supported across our city, not just for the positive ongoing work to make it a memorable and successful year for Derry, but for the legacy that it will create long after 2013 as a springboard for future investment here.” He added: “This callous and dangerous act flies in the face of the efforts made by so many people to improve life here. Thankfully no one has been injured but those graces are no thanks to those who are behind this attack. “They are out to destroy and they don’t care if they injure or kill when they are at it.” Northern Ireland guardian.co.uk
Continue reading …Northern Ireland police report no injuries as City of Culture offices are targeted for the second time A bomb detonated outside the City of Culture office in Derry on Wednesday night, police said. There were no reports of injuries and police have yet to reveal details on the extent of the damage caused. It is the second time that the office has been targeted after a pipe bomb planted by dissident republicans in January caused minor damage to the building. Derry’s successful bid for title of UK City of Culture has secured cross-community support in Northern Ireland. The city’s Shipquay Street was closed off on Wednesday night by officers investigating the blast, which they reported at around 11pm. SDLP Foyle MP Mark Durkan condemned those responsible for the explosion, saying they ‘have shown complete and utter contempt for the people of Derry’. “Derry is a city with many challenges and with many difficulties. But the City of Culture is one of the opportunities we have,” Durkan said. “It has been strongly supported across our city, not just for the positive ongoing work to make it a memorable and successful year for Derry, but for the legacy that it will create long after 2013 as a springboard for future investment here.” He added: “This callous and dangerous act flies in the face of the efforts made by so many people to improve life here. Thankfully no one has been injured but those graces are no thanks to those who are behind this attack. “They are out to destroy and they don’t care if they injure or kill when they are at it.” Northern Ireland guardian.co.uk
Continue reading …A 52-year-old boxer wrongly imprisoned for 26 years is fighting his first professional match on Saturday. Dewey Bozella was convicted of the grisly murder of a 92-year-old New York woman in 1977 on the testimony of two convicted criminals. Since he insisted he was innocent, Bozella refused to admit any remorse over the crime–a gesture
Continue reading …A 52-year-old boxer wrongly imprisoned for 26 years is fighting his first professional match on Saturday. Dewey Bozella was convicted of the grisly murder of a 92-year-old New York woman in 1977 on the testimony of two convicted criminals. Since he insisted he was innocent, Bozella refused to admit any remorse over the crime–a gesture
Continue reading …Obama’s jobs council wants help for startups, but will that spur hiring?
October 13, 2011 No CommentPresident Obama’s jobs council is set to propose help for new start-up companies as a key component of its recommendations for encouraging hiring. But one expert on entrepreneurship says that’s the wrong approach to the present jobs crisis. The panel, which will hold its third meeting Tuesday, will propose that Congress eliminate taxes on income
Continue reading …Obama’s jobs council wants help for startups, but will that spur hiring?
October 13, 2011 No CommentPresident Obama’s jobs council is set to propose help for new start-up companies as a key component of its recommendations for encouraging hiring. But one expert on entrepreneurship says that’s the wrong approach to the present jobs crisis. The panel, which will hold its third meeting Tuesday, will propose that Congress eliminate taxes on income
Continue reading …Rick Scott, the Republican governor of Florida, said this week that he wants to move funding at the state’s colleges away from the humanities and social sciences and into engineering and the sciences. Scott singled out anthropology as an example of a field of study that should get less money from the state government because
Continue reading …Rick Scott, the Republican governor of Florida, said this week that he wants to move funding at the state’s colleges away from the humanities and social sciences and into engineering and the sciences. Scott singled out anthropology as an example of a field of study that should get less money from the state government because
Continue reading …Occupy Wall Street may lack a firmly articulated policy agenda or set of demands, but the movement may have something stronger–a individually created portrait of its numbers. “We Are the 99 Percent” is a blog created by the organizers of Occupy Wall Street; it consists of user-submitted testimonies of how ordinary Americans are coping with
Continue reading …Occupy Wall Street may lack a firmly articulated policy agenda or set of demands, but the movement may have something stronger–a individually created portrait of its numbers. “We Are the 99 Percent” is a blog created by the organizers of Occupy Wall Street; it consists of user-submitted testimonies of how ordinary Americans are coping with
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