| Meet North Yorkshire’s new top cop
The county's police force has named Grahame Maxwell as the new chief constable to replace Della Cannings when she retires in May. Mr Maxwell, who is currently deputy chief constable of South Yorkshire Police, said policing ran in his family. His sister is a serving officer and his father and brother-in-law were also policemen before they retired. He said when he rang his father to tell him about his new job he joked "it's taken you all this time to get to the same rank as I was" - because he was the chief constable of the village he policed many years ago. Mr Maxwell said he was "delighted" to join a force with a "fine reputation" and that the role was the pinnacle of his career. He said his top priority would be to make North Yorkshire Police the leading force in the whole of Britain in terms of neighbourhood policing.
Panel restores ex-Merrill Lynch broker's job
Former Merrill Lynch broker Hydie Sumner won a protracted battle: She'll get her old job back as a broker in the firm's San Antonio office and attend the firm's management training course. In a ruling that brings a years-long clash to a conclusion, a three-person arbitration panel said Merrill must reinstate Sumner "forthwith" as a financial consultant in San Antonio. The panel also said Merrill must place Sumner in its Management Assessment Course, a training program that Sumner, in court documents, said she wanted to attend. The panel's terse, two-page order repudiates Merrill's most recent argument, made last year, that it had fulfilled the arbitration panel's original ruling of July 2004. Merrill argued that it should be let off the hook because the firm twice offered Sumner a job as a financial consultant in its office in Oakland, Calif., an offer she twice rejected.
Ukrainian PM: Solve political crisis through negotiation
KIEV, April 4 (Xinhua) -- Ukrainian Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich urged President Viktor Yushchenko to find solutions to the current political deadlock through negotiation during a meeting on Wednesday, saying the government is ready to make concessions. ; Yanukovich said that depending on the president's decision, a chance of solving the current standoff still exists, according to reports by Interfax-Ukraine News Agency. He added that the president must revoke his decree to dissolve parliament, and if he takes that move the government will make concessions. Ukraine's parliament and government have vowed to defy the president's order to dissolve the legislature and hold elections on May 27. The decree was announced on Monday after a months-long power struggle following the March 2006 parliamentary elections that brought Yanukovych to power at the head of a leftist coalition.
NeoCon® Xpress LA Contract Show To Debut In August
Debra K. Ertel-Hernandez, CFM, CFMJ, FMA, senior facilities operations administrator at Toyota Motor Sales, USA, Inc., will discuss Making the Business Case for Sustainability at Toyota, on Wednesday, August 22. Ertel-Hernandez will take a close look at Toyota Motor Sales Business Case for Sustainability and their Global Earth Charter moving forward in the 21st Century and explore why the initiatives of major corporations like Toyota are becoming a major focus of the design industry.
On Thursday, August 23, Cameron Sinclair, co-founder of Architecture for Humanity, will discuss his current projects which include working in six countries on projects ranging from school buildings, to tsunami and hurricane reconstruction, to developing mobile medical facilities to combat HIV/AIDS.
Nigeria: FG-ASUU Negotiations
TODAY, the Gamaliel Onosode-led Federal Government team will resume negotiations with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). It will be recalled here that, earlier negotiations between the two sides broke down. And indeed, it was in the wake of this break-down of negotiations that ASUU proceeded to declare an indefinite strike. The consequence of this strike is that once again, the academic calendar of Nigerian universities has been disrupted. This is a very sad development, if only because in recent times, the universities were beginning to achieve a stable academic calendar as it was in those days, and as it obtains in the rest of the world. This disruption in the academic calendar is a clear pointer to the fact that, the Federal Government is still very casual towards a sensitive and crucial issue like higher education.
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