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The Injury Lawyers Blog (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
A school in Lincolnshire has been fined £19,000 for ignoring safety procedures, leaving a 16 year old girl with terrible burns to her hands and the loss of all but two of her fingers. According to The Times, the girl was attempting to make a sculpture of her own hands during an art lesson using a [...]
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The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
A 16yearold girl lost eight of her fingers when they were burned off after becoming set in plaster of Paris during a school art lesson a court has heard.
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
School fined after pupil suffers 'terrible burns' and is left disfigured after trying to make cast of her hands with plaster of paris A school was ordered to pay nearly £20,000 in fines and legal costs today after a pupil lost all but two of her fingers in an art lesson. The penalty was increased on the Giles foundation school in Boston, Lincolnshire, because staff failed to report the "catastrophic"...
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Times Online (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
A school was ordered to pay £19,000 today after a 16-year-old girl lost most of her fingers when a bucket of plaster of Paris set around her hands during a school art lesson.
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Providence Journal (Free subscription) | 09/17/2009
PROVIDENCE –– City, state and federal officers arrested 16 wanted individuals in an early morning sweep on Tuesday, state police said Wednesday.State police detectives, Providence police and U.S. marshals took part in the roundup, armed with warrants charging drugs, firearms and other offenses.State police said the officers acted after an investigation by the Rhode Island State Police Violent...
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Providence Journal (Free subscription) | 09/16/2009
By Thomas J. Morgan PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- City, state and federal officers arrested 16 wanted individuals in an early morning sweep on Tuesday, state police announced on Wednesday. Carrying warrants issued by the Superior Court, state police detectives, Providence police and U.S. marshals took part in the roundup. The warrants were issued after the suspects failed to appear in court on a variety of charges,...
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 09/15/2009
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has warned companies to manage transport in the workplace after a man was killed when his forklift truck was obstructed in its path, toppled over and crushed him. Trackline (International) Ltd of 9 Spencer Parade, Northampton was today fined £7,500 and ordered to pay £6,690 costs at Lincoln Crown Court.
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Market Wire (Free subscription) | 09/12/2009
SPRINGFIELD, IL (MARKET WIRE) Illinois' largest education employees' union has named a former teacher and local association president with strong education reform credentials as executive director.
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 09/09/2009
• Liverpool fan Shields released after four years • Justice secretary refuses to reveal reason for U-turn Michael Shields left prison after more than four years today with a shy thumbs-up and a wide grin when he heard how his father had learned the longed-for news. The Liverpool window-cleaner was up a ladder when his mobile beeped and local councillor Jo Anderson told him: "We've won....
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PREA Prez (Free subscription) | 09/02/2009
A struggle is emerging over who will authorize charter schools in Illinois. Reporting in Catalyst: The Illinois State Board of Education is assembling a task force to study plans for a new, independent authorizer of charter schools—a controversial idea that supporters say would lead to higher-quality charters and help Illinois capture some of the nearly $5 billion [...]
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PREA Prez (Free subscription) | 07/02/2009
Arne spoked to about 5,000 delegates and friends this morning. It was not part of the general RA. They called it a Town Hall. IEA President Ken Swanson hyped it at the morning state caucus as a news making event. It wasn’t. It was Arne’s basic stump speech. It did have added emphasis on how change needed to [...]
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AtonementOnline (Free subscription) | 06/08/2009
This article titled “Eight Habits of Highly Effective Bishops” was written by Mary Jo Anderson, and first appeared in the February 2005 issue of Crisis Magazine. Here are the eight points, but do read the whole article . Eight Habits of Highly Effective Bishops 1. A bishop must be personally holy. 2. A bishop must promote and defend the authentic Catholic Faith. 3. A bishop must be committed...
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The Lair of the Catholic Cavemen (Free subscription) | 06/03/2009
Eight Habits of Highly Effective Bishops I wonder how man measure up What qualities best equip today's bishop to fight the culture war? That's the question Mary Jo Anderson posed in a survey of Catholic authors and activists, priests and scholars. Here is a synopsis of the results but read the entire article in California Catholic 1. A bishop must be personally holy. 2. A bishop must promote and defend...
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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 05/05/2009
Report details crisis nationally and in 12 largest states with proposed solutionsWASHINGTON /PRNewswire/ -- Today, a groundbreaking report on the nation's dropout crisis disclosed 6.2 million largely Black and Hispanic American youth have dropped out of school and proposing the HOPE USA $2 billion annual federal incentive grant program to re-enroll 480,000 high-school dropouts every year, giving them...
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PREA Prez (Free subscription) | 03/25/2009
I’m not bowled over by Arne’s appointments at the Department of Ed. I’m also not a head counter. Judge ‘em but what they do. But I was glad to see two union appointments. And one, Jo Anderson, I was very glad to see. Jo is leaving as Executive Director of the IEA to a post as [...]