Archive for July, 2010
Life Insurance Company of LI Motivational Speaker Files Lawsuit
Principal Life Insurance, the life insurance company of Woodmere motivational speaker Jeffrey Locker, has filed a federal lawsuit saying that they will not pay the…
Schreker’s opera ‘Distant Sound’ heard at Bard
ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y. (AP) — His name is all but forgotten today, but a century ago Franz Schreker was considered perhaps the most important operatic composer since Richard Wagner. Now Leon Botstein, an energetic excavator of neglected music, has brought Schreker’s 1912 “Der Ferne Klang” (“The Distant Sound”) to the campus of Bard College for its first fully staged production in the U.S.
LA pushing to become nation’s mass transit leader
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The region famous for jilting the street car to take up a love affair with the automobile is trying to rekindle its long ago romance with commuter rail. If successful, the novel plan to borrow billions from the federal government, led by Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, would result in the largest transit expansion project in the nation. Los Angeles County voters agreed two years ago to pay a half-cent sales tax over the next 30 years to extend train and rapid bus lines, projects that would routinely require federal assistance.
Admiral: US-led drills not about sending message
HONOLULU (AP) — The commander of military drills in the Pacific says the focus of the exercises was training to combat terrorism, not sending a message to North Korea. Vice Adm. Richard W.
Pete Carroll all smiles to begin new Seahawks era
RENTON, Wash. (AP) — Pete Carroll is out running, clapping and smiling through the morning fog in his first NFL preseason since 1999. The new Seahawks coach had the rap music of Jay-Z pumping along with his fists Saturday as he led drills in Seattle’s first practice of training camp.
China setting milestone as economy passes Japan’s
BEIJING (AP) — China is set to overtake Japan as the world’s second-largest economy in a resurgence that is changing everything from the global balance of military and financial power to how cars are designed. By some measures it has already moved to second place after the U.S.
