Annual salute ceremony honors Austin Teachers and Partners in Education
Austin Partners in Education (APIE) hosted the Annual Celebration of Excellence in Austin ISD- Salute 2011 at the Long Center for the Performing Arts. Police Chief Art Acevedo led the event as master of ceremonies while Austin ISD Superintendent Dr. Meria Carstarphen, the AISD Board of Trustees, and APIE Chair and Wells Fargo Community Bank [...]
East Austin Band students play at Stubbs with their Music Pro Mentors
Anthropos Arts, an Austin-based nonprofit that offers opportunities for educational, social, and personal growth to underserved students in grades 6-12 held their Twelfth annual end-of-year concert at Stubb’s Waller Creek Amphitheater. The show featured performances by East Austin music students with their musician-mentors who had spent the last several months receiving individual instruction from some [...]
Obama connects with Irish roots
MONEYGALL, Ireland – President Barack Obama paid a joyful visit Monday to the small Irish village where his great-great-great grandfather once lived and worked as a shoemaker, an improbable and memorable pilgrimage for America’s first black president into his Irish past. Along with first lady Michelle Obama, the president walked the thronged Main Street of [...]
How Believers’ react to the world not ending
OAKLAND, Calif. – The hour of the apocalypse came quietly and went the same way — leaving those who believed that Saturday evening would mark the world’s end confused, or more faithful, or just philosophical. Believers had spent months warning the world of the pending cataclysm. Some had given away earthly belongings. Others took long [...]
Mike Tyson: ‘Hangover’ sequel’s lowest paid star?
The Smoking Gun has uncovered the amount Mike Tyson was paid for his role in the sequel to the blockbuster film The Hangover — and it’s less than you would think. Tyson received $200,000 both for his small role as well as for recording a cover version of the song “One Night in Bangkok” (although [...]
When Oprah says goodbye, will she really be gone?
The sun will come out on Thursday. Bet your bottom dollar. Moreover, the Earth will almost certainly still be spinning on its axis. Even in Chicago, the city Oprah Winfrey is abandoning, life is pretty sure to continue as normal. Expect the pizza to be as tasty and the gusts off Lake Michigan to be [...]
Hopkins becomes oldest champion at 46
MONTREAL – Bernard Hopkins became the oldest fighter to win a major world championship, taking the WBC light heavyweight title Saturday night from Jean Pascal at the age of 46. Hopkins (52-5-2) broke the age record set by George Foreman in a heavyweight title victory over Michael Moorer in 1994. Hopkins won at 46 years, [...]
Armstrong accuser says UCI covered up positive test
A former team mate of Lance Armstrong alleged on TV’s “60 Minutes” on Sunday that cycling’s world governing body had helped the seven-times Tour de France winner cover up a positive drugs test. Tyler Hamilton told the U.S. version of the show, broadcast on CBS television, that Armstrong had told him he tested positive for [...]
Baby boomers fueling boom in knee, hip surgeries
We’re becoming a nation of bum knees, worn-out hips and sore shoulders, and it’s not just the Medicare set. Baby boomer bones and joints also are taking a pounding, spawning a boom in operations to fix them. Knee replacement surgeries have doubled over the last decade and more than tripled in the 45-to-64 age group, [...]
Dentists hesitate to treat kids on Medicaid
Dentists were less willing to see kids who needed an emergency appointment if they were covered by Medicaid than if they had private insurance in a new study based in Cook County, Illinois. Even dental practices that were enrolled in the state’s Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program were more willing to treat a kid [...]
