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"That play was working a lot during the game," Drysdale said. "Coach made a great call and I saw it open up. Our two linemen hit both of the linebackers and there was a straight hole right down the middle."
Records: Brookfield 12-2; Berlin 11-2.
The combat fatigues and the Kalashnikov have given way to a smart red embroidered ensemble. In place of the trademark talisman of her fellow fighters - a cyanide capsule on a leather necklace - is a gold chain and matching earrings.
As leaders of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, one of the world's most ruthless and effective guerilla armies, sat down yesterday with Sri Lankan Government officials to begin talking peace after 20 years of war, a slim, unsmiling woman took her place at centre stage.
It has been a long journey for Adele Balasingham from Gippsland nurse to Tamil freedom fighter to international peacemaker. And if the Tigers are ready to change their stripes, the movement's most powerful woman can at least make a sartorial statement.
But the former Adele Ann Wilby, of Warrigal, Victoria, has been more than an accessory to the Tamil struggle since she met and married a Marxist student, Anton Balasingham, now the Tigers' chief ideologue and international spokesman for commander Velupillai Prabhakaran.
Before the couple quit the Tigers' stronghold in the northern Jaffna peninsula and moved to London three years ago, Mrs Balasingham took a prominent role in training the women fighters and met visitors to the Tigers' lair armed and in military uniform.
In a 1993 book she praised as an affirmation of women's liberation the role of the 3000 women Tiger cadres credited with some of the movement's most deadly attacks, including the suicide bombings that killed the Indian prime minister Rajiv Gandhi and the Sri Lankan president Ranasinghe Premadasa.
"This tells society that they are not satisfied with the social status quo; it means they are young women capable of defying authority; it means they are women with independent thoughts," she wrote.
At the height of a conflict in which more than 65,000 have died, Mrs Balasingham and her husband were refused visas to visit her family in Australia. They are still thought to be on an Immigration Department watch list.
With the Tigers still a proscribed terrorist organisation in the United States, Britain, India and Australia, Mrs Balasingham faces prosecution under Australia's Foreign Incursions Act, which prohibits citizens fighting in foreign wars.
But during an opening ceremony at a hotel in the Thai resort city of Pattaya yesterday, Anton Balasingham, the chief Tiger negotiator, was introduced by Norwegian diplomats brokering the process as one of Sri Lanka's most eminent figures, and Adele Balasingham as a distinguished member and secretary of the Tamil team.
The initial three days of talks now under way at a naval base near Pattaya are the first step in a process expected to lead to the creation of a largely autonomous region in northern and eastern Sri Lanka under de facto Tiger rule.
Under a seven-month ceasefire the Government has lifted an economic embargo on the north and begun rebuilding areas devastated by a civil war that has pitted the country's Tamil minority against the Sinhalese majority.
Australia yesterday announced a $7.5 million package to help the process.
Until now, using a third-party touch keyboard on the iPhone meant giving up convenient access to voice dictation. To translate speech to text, you had to switch back to Apple’s own keyboard.
Google now has a workaround in its free Gboard keyboard for iOS: Long-pressing the space bar opens a voice prompt within the Gboard app, and anything you say gets copied back into the text field. This isn’t as slick as Apple’s built-in dictation, as it temporarily removes you from whatever app you were using, but it’s better than nothing if you can’t live without Google’s gesture-driven keyboard or built-in search features. Here’s hoping Microsoft’s Word Flow and Nuance’s Swype follow along.
City Council Questions Con Ed About What Caused 'Astoria Borealis'A malfunction at a Con Ed substation in Queens created an arc flash of blue light that could be seen for miles.
Con Ed Unveils $100 Million Plan To Keep Power On This WinterThis past march, a series of storms resulted in power outages for thousands of Westchester County customers.
Con Ed, NYSEG: We Will Respond Better To Storms This WinterEarlier this year, storms left families without power for more than a week. So utilities that service homes in Westchester County are already planning for winter, with new plans to keep the power on.
Manhole Fire Halts Traffic On Upper West SideCrews arrived just before 10 a.m. to find smoke pouring from the manhole at the intersection of Broadway and W. 64th Street.
Westchester Legislators Meet With Reps From Con Ed And NYSEGRecent nor'easters left tens of thousands of customers in the dark for days, some for more than a week.
Con Edison Offers To Reimburse Customers For Spoiled Food, MedicationsCon Edison is offering some relief to customers who lost power during the back-to-back nor’easters that slammed the Tri-State Area.
Puerto Ricans Prepare To Spend Thanksgiving In NYC, While Local Workers Help Island RebuildHundreds of New Yorkers will spend the holiday helping Puerto Rico, including dozens of Con Ed workers toiling 16 hours a day to restore power.
Cuomo Tours Subway Power System, Orders Modernization Within One YearGov. Andrew Cuomo went underground Wednesday for a top-to-bottom view of the dilapidated Metropolitan Transportation Authority subway power system.
4 Workers Rescued After Being Trapped In Elevator 200 Feet Below The Surface At Brooklyn Con Ed PlantFirefighters were called to the Hudson Avenue plant at around 7:40 a.m. to rescue the workers.
Meter Mix-Up Leaves Woman Paying Big Con Ed Bill For Upstairs Neighbor's ApartmentA Con Edison billing mistake cost a Brooklyn woman thousands of dollars over several years, and no one can explain how it happened.
Gas Leak Prompts Evacuation Of Several Buildings In Ozone ParkThe incident began at 7:45 a.m. when an odor of gas was reported at 118th Street and Liberty Avenue in Ozone Park.
As Temperatures Rise, Tri-State Area Utilities Urge Customers To Conserve EnergyUtilities across the Tri-State area are assuring customers they're ready for what could be the start of the first heat wave of the summer.
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While the Sox struggle, the Sea Dogs execute a masterful performance in a 7-3 win over the Mets.
PORTLAND – After every Portland Sea Dogs game, the manager and coaches open their laptops and send reports to the Boston Red Sox brass.
The descriptions from Monday’s game were glowing — and couldn’t they use some good news in Boston?
The Sea Dogs beat the Binghamton Mets 7-3 at Hadlock Field.
• First baseman Lars Anderson continued to stroke the ball, going 2 for 4, including his second home run to right field in two days. He also is looking slick in the field and made a quick diving catch on a low liner.
• Ryan Kalish also bashed a home run to right, his second of the season.
• Starting pitcher Felix Doubront (2-0) picked up his second win. He gave up six hits and three runs over five innings, looking sharp until the fifth.
• Reliever Robert Coello retired 9 of 10 batters, striking out four.
• Bryce Cox finished the game with 11 pitches in the ninth — nine for strikes, including a knee-buckling curve to end it.
Anderson was not the only one to flash the glove.
• Shortstop Jose Iglesias went to backhand a grounder. It took a bad bounce. Iglesias jerked his glove up, tipping the ball in the air, and then snagged it. He fired to Anderson for the out.
• Third baseman Ray Chang dived for a sizzling grounder and, while sitting down, threw out the runner.
Portland led from the first inning. Anderson’s blast off a change-up made it 5-1 in the third.
He is batting .316 and hitting the ball hard every time he connects.
Kalish came up with the bases loaded in the second inning and popped up on the first pitch.
“I just learned something from that at-bat. I had to chill out, relax, see the ball and hit it,” said Kalish, whose two-run homer came in the sixth.
Doubront began the game in the strike zone, needing only 36 pitches (30 strikes) through three innings.
He gave up his first walk in the fourth, and then allowed a walk and three hits in the fifth.
But he was picked up by both his relievers and his infielders who dazzled.
Sea Dogs Manager Arnie Beyeler played middle infield in his playing days but he said it wasn’t the way Iglesias plays, with the quickness that allowed him to snag that bad bounce.
“It’s instinct for him. He does that stuff all the time,” Beyeler said. “A lot of energy, quick hands. He can do that stuff and not a lot of people can.
That should make Beyeler’s report to Boston.
NOTES: Infielder Yamaico Navarro sat out his third straight game with a sore right wrist that is still being evaluated. … The paid attendance was 3,071.
• Christopher M. Femmer, 33, of 141 E. Independence Ave. was arrested about 8:15 p.m. Friday on a charge of domestic battery.
• Kenneth D. Armstrong, 35, of 21428 Palmerton Road, Virginia, was arrested about 9:20 p.m. Friday on charges of methamphetamine delivery, possession of drug paraphernalia, improper use of registration or title, driving while license is suspended or revoked and operating an uninsured motor vehicle.
• Ronnie A. Shade, 43, of 615 W. Prairie St., Roodhouse, was arrested about 8:40 a.m. Saturday on charges of driving while license is suspended and operating an uninsured motor vehicle.
• Someone stole a purse and medication from a vehicle in the 200 block of East Court Street, according to a report filed at 12:26 a.m. Saturday.
• Giorgio V. Caples, 30, of Chicago was booked into the Morgan County jail at 11:11 p.m. Friday on charges of having no valid registration, operating an uninsured motor vehicle and speeding and on a warrant accusing him of failing to appear in court on a contempt of court charge.
• Jacob A. Paul, 36, of 19 East St., Bluffs, was booked into the Morgan County jail at 9:40 p.m. Friday on a charge of criminal damage to property and on a warrant accusing him of failing to appear in court on a contempt of court charge.
It’s been a while since we’ve heard from Arlen Specter. The former Pennsylvania senator switched parties in 2009, then lost the Democratic primary and ended up leaving the Senate. Now Specter has a new book out claiming that after joining the Senate Democrats and becoming the 60th vote needed to bring the Affordable Care Act to the Senate floor, he was left out to dry by the Obama administration.
Specter’s memoir, Life Among the Cannibals, contains many interesting anecdotes about his political career, including a confession from Bob Dole that he would have left the GOP if he was in Specter’s position, but it is Specter’s retelling of how President Obama and the Democratic party treated him after he changed his alliances that is bound to attract the most attention.
Specter accuses the Obama administration of not following through in their promise to offer him their “full support” when he ran for reelection in 2010 against Congressman Joe Sestak (who ended up losing to Pat Toomey).
Specter writes that Obama turned down a request to campaign with him in the final days of the primary, because the president’s advisers feared he would look weak if he intervened and Specter lost.
“I realized that the president and his advisers were gun-shy about supporting my candidacy after being stung by Obama’s failed rescue attempts for New Jersey governor Jon Corzine and Massachusetts attorney general Martha Coakley. They were reluctant to become victims of a trifecta,” he writes.
Specter also has some harsh words for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who allegedly promised Specter he would be treated the proper seniority instead of a brand-new Democrat. Had Reid’s promise been followed through, Specter would have chaired the Labor, Health, and Human Services Appropriations Subcommittee, but Specter found out in an e-mail that Reid stripped him of any seniority in the party. Specter says if he had been given the proper seniority, he wouldn’t have been such a risky candidate in 2010 and could have won reelection easily.
But did Charlie Sheen appear?
The "How I Met Your Mother" spinoff "How I Met Your Dad" has hit a roadblock, as CBS told Mashable that "it is not among the eight shows we picked up."
Ashton Kutcher Promotes His Tech Investments on "Two and a Half Men"
BOSTON — A joint investigation by local police, state prosecutors and federal agents has yielded three arrests on human trafficking charges.
Search warrants were executed Thursday afternoon on Putnam Street in East Boston and Bradstreet Avenue in Revere, according to an announcement by the Suffolk County District Attorney’s office, Boston, Revere and Woburn police departments, and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations Boston.
Arrested on charges of trafficking in persons for sexual servitude were: Cesar Aldana-Carranza, 48, of Revere; his wife, Elda Munoz, 42, of Revere; and his sister, Nabia Enamorado, 50, of East Boston.
Only Enamorado was arraigned on Thursday. East Boston Municipal Court Judge John McDonald imposed $5,000 cash bail and ordered her to surrender her passport and wear a GPS monitor if she posts bail, according to the Suffolk County DA’s office.
She will return to court on June 28. Aldana-Carranza and Munoz are expected to be arraigned on Friday.
Boston Police Commissioner William B. Evans said human trafficking is not a victimless crime.
The arrests were based on evidence developed in multiple joint surveillance operations, the analysis of phone records obtained pursuant to a search warrant, detectives’ detailed observations on web-based prostitution platforms, and plainclothes operations in which “dates” were arranged through those websites and subsequently called off, according to the DA’s office.
The investigation arose out of a Woburn narcotics investigation during which a cell phone was seized, examined, and found to contain text message exchanges that strongly suggested commercial sexual exploitation, prosecutors said.
Human trafficking, upon conviction, is punishable by up to 20 years in state prison.
The boys are getting back together. Justin Timberlake will reportedly reunite with his former band *NSYNC at Sunday’s MTV Video Music Awards.
According to Page Six, Timberlake’s former bandmates including J.C. Chasez, Lance Bass, Joey Fatone, and Chris Kirkpatrick will join him on stage at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center on Sunday, Aug. 23.
Timberlake, who had previously been announced as a performer, is nominated for six awards at this year’s VMAs and will receive the prestigious Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award.
On Friday, the *NSYNC crew was spotted in the VIP section at Timberlake’s final “Legends of the Summer” concert with Jay Z at Sun Life Stadium in Miami.
In addition to a possible *NSYNC reunion, the VMAs will include performances from Lady Gaga, Kanye West, Bruno Mars, Katy Perry, Robin Thicke, Miley Cyrus, and Macklemore & Ryan Lewis.
Stuart Karle has played an important role in creating the organisation we are today. However, my being here, the strong GM team that Stuart put in place, much tighter coordination with other business units, and finance, HR and legal being well covered, mean there is no longer a role for a chief operating officer and Stuart will be leaving at the end of the year.
Karle came to Reuters in 2011. He previously worked as general counsel for The Wall Street Journal, a role he held for 16 years.
The number of headteachers working in more than one school in Scotland increased by around 64% within seven years, according to new figures.
A Freedom of Information (FOI) request obtained by TES Scotland indicates that between 2010 and 2017, 76 headteachers started working in multiple schools, representing a total of 194.
The total number of headteachers working in the country also fell during that period, from 2,228 to 1,989.
Primary school headteachers made up the majority of those working in more than one school, with 390 in 2017 - up by 151 on the figure for 2010.
The figures also indicate that the greatest increases were seen in headteachers who worked at schools considered to be either 'accessible rural' or 'remote rural'.
The statistics outlined in the FOI were documented in a report produced by the Scottish Government's Working Group on Headteacher Recruitment in September 2018.
The report made recommendations to work to improve the attractiveness of headteacher jobs.
It stated: "Scotland is not alone in encountering issues in respect of headteacher recruitment.
"The apparent reduction in the attractiveness of the role of headteacher is a complex societal issue the solutions to which are, in some cases, beyond the control of the Working Group and the Scottish education system itself.
"However, this report and its recommendations represent a clear attempt by a range of key partners to take shared action to increase the attractiveness of the role and increase the number of teachers willing to undertake a headship role".
Labour Education spokesman Iain Gray said that budget cuts and difficulties in bringing people into the teaching profession had created the problem.
Mr Gray said: "The growing practice of schools having to share head teachers is just one more consequence of the SNP's mismanagement of our schools.
"The combination of a recruitment crisis and a £400m cut to school budgets is what lies behind this development. It can only reduce the effectiveness of leadership in our schools.
"While John Swinney sounds off about empowering headteachers, this is the reality on the frontline of his failure to protect schools."
Woman to visit the entire continent of Africa.
Woman appropriately adorns herself to visit Africa.