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Is An Online Degree Right for You?
(ARA) - With the ever-changing job market and increasing competition for stable, well-paying jobs, more and more adults are seeking additional education to help them in their current professions or to prepare them for a career change. For people who are working full time, online learning, sometimes referred to as distance learning, can be a great choice. Taking courses online enables you to pursue an advanced degree without sacrificing the time you spend with your family or the momentum you have in a career track. Online programs allow learners to take courses when it's convenient for them. Without set classroom time, learners can work on assignments from home, the office, or on the road -- as long as they have access to e-mail and the Internet.The practicality and convenience of online learning has helped it become a popular choice among busy adults.
Court hints at norms on police speaking on cases
BANGALORE: The Karnataka High Court on Friday indicated that it would issue certain guidelines to the police on granting interviews to the media on the statues and progress of on-going cases but that it could direct the media from reporting on issues. The court made these remarks when it was dealing with a contempt petition by a Bangalore-based advocate, A.V. Amarnathan, against two private Kannada television channels, Udaya TV and ETV, for telecasting crime-based serials Crime Story and Crime Diary and for violating an interim order of the court. The court said it would like to know the stand of the State Government on the issue before issuing guidelines or directions to the police and said though the State is a party neither the Advocate-General and the State Public Prosecutor (SPP) were present.
WFP reaches 3.5 million people in Pakistan
ISLAMABAD: The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) reached nearly 3.5 million food insecure people in Pakistan last year under its two separate programmes.
Amjad Jamal, a spokesman for the WFP, told Daily Times on Sunday that the agencys Post Earthquake Relief and Recovery Operation (PRRO, 2006-08) and the Country Programme (2005-09) had yielded positive results so far.
Of the 3.5 million people, over 847,799 individuals took part in the programme activities directly, while 2.7 million family members were supported indirectly through take-home food and non-food assistance, he said. In the aftermath of the October 2005 earthquake that killed nearly 75,000 people, the WFP immediately launched an emergency operation in the affected regions of NWFP and Azad Kashmir and initiated the PRRO in April 2006.
Newspapers offer a pulse in the community
Since the dawn of the Internet era people have said that newspapers would follow in the footsteps of dinosaurs and become extinct. However, over the last decade, newspapers have held their own against rival online competitors and television media. This is likely because newspapers offer advantages over the two, mainly in the form of an unsurpassed local connection.
While the public may look to television or the Internet first for breaking news stories, most come back to their local newspaper to read through the in-depth coverage of a specific event, largely because newspapers can devote the time and energy to relay a detailed story. And though many people are interested in national events, a large percentage of newspaper readers are looking for the events that are unique to their communities.
You keep the top jobs, guys
There was something so depressingly retro about last weeks sex and power report from the Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC) that I had to put down my soya latte to check whether Id picked up a back issue of The Manchester Guardian circa 1970 by mistake. Once more, the EOC audit found that men were in charge almost everywhere, from the courts to parliament to the boardrooms of the FTSE 100, and that 6,000 women had gone missing from the top 33,000 jobs in Britain. Once more, we heard Jenny Watson, EOC chair (yes, thats right, just chair, as if it would be unfair to either gender to define her otherwise) remind us that women make up only one in 10 judges or directors, and the proportion of women in parliament, at 20%, is lower than in Iraq, Afghanistan and Rwanda.
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Whirled Peas
For the two or three readers who opened last Wednesday's paper and were disappointed not to find my smiling face and bright, shiny column in this space, I'm sorry. I was out with the flu.It actually started a few days before, on a Friday. We were at a dinner party playing a game when Phyllis turned to me and said “You look terrible."Usually, this comment is directed more to my wardrobe choice than physical appearance. Like most males, I lack the style gene. Like most guys, my philosophy is if it's clean, it goes together.
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Residents claim success in toxic site cleanup
A bird's nest nestled in the tall grasses of a wetland symbolizes the end of a 20-year struggle to clean up a site contaminated by radioactive material from a former Cold War-era uranium processing plant. After years of often-contentious public meetings, lawsuits and relentless lobbying, the land is now devoid of 1.5 million tons of its most dangerous waste and has begun its transformation into an undeveloped park and wildlife haven covered with woods, prairie and wetlands.
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Concord Historical Society on the move again
The Concord Historical Society has announced it will close the museum it runs inside the first-floor rooms of the Kelly House in May when the lease runs out.
The building's owner put the early 1900s-era home on the market this week, and the society -- which has never had a permanent display space of its own despite fundraising and search efforts spanning several years -- will once again be on the hunt for new digs.
"We decided not to try to buy the house because it'll probably be too expensive," said society president Kay Massone of the home at 1987 Bonifacio St.
The society took up residence inside the Kelly House in May 2005 -- a year and a half ago.
"We've loved our time there, and it's a great house, but it's really too small for our needs," Massone said.
