| New York Philharmonic arrives on unprecedented visit to North Korea
North Korea has made unprecedented accommodations for the orchestra. It allowed a delegation of nearly 300 people, including musicians, staff and journalists to fly into Pyongyang on a chartered plane for 48 hours.
The Philharmonic's concert tomorrow will be broadcast live on North Korea's state-run TV and radio. That's unheard of in a country where all events are carefully choreographed to bolster the personality cult of leader Kim Jong Il.
The New York Philharmonic accepted the North's invitation to play last year, with U.S. government encouragement, at a time of rare optimism in the long-running nuclear standoff. ©2008 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Long Island Briefs: Bike accident inquiry
Police are still investigating why a 52-year-old man was lying in a Brentwood street before a car ran over him after he apparently fell off his bicycle. The man, whom police have not identified, was struck by a car on American Boulevard at 7:47 p.m. Friday despite the efforts of two people who tried to shield him from oncoming traffic. The man was transported to Southside Hospital in Bay Shore, where he was listed in critical condition on Friday evening, with multiple facial fractures, broken ribs and a punctured lung. His condition was not available yesterday. The driver of the car that hit the man was not charged. .
Preparing to move ... again
As it has all week long, the sun lit up the city in all ways brilliant. But for most of the week, there was always something different about the view as it rose towards its highest point of the day. If you were on the Lewvan, and looked to the east, the sight was almost frightening. The city's downtown skyline was shrouded in narrow wisps of rising smoke. These strings of grey and white and dark grey seemed moving ever so painfully into the sky. At times, if you looked to the southeast, there might even be the faded image of a rainbow. And, on the road, a wind carried slithering fingers of loose snow across the pavement, like snakes winding their way across a desert. Everything, it seemed, was shivering. Late into February, winter hung on, so cruelly. But it did not seem to want to let go.
minazione e resistenza irakena
The U.S.-led coalition killed 14 road construction workers in airstrikes in eastern Afghanistan because of mistaken intelligence reports, Afghan officials said Wednesday. The engineers and laborers had been contracted by the U.S. military to build a road in mountainous Nuristan, and were sleeping in two tents in Nurgaram when they were killed Monday night, said Sayed Noorullah Jalili, director of the Kabul-based road construction company Amerifa. There were no survivors, he said. "All of our poor workers have been killed," Jalili said. "I don't think the Americans were targeting our people. I'm sure it's the enemy of the Afghans who gave the Americans this wrong information." Nuristan Governor Tamim Nuristani said the coalition conducted air strikes after receiving reports that "the enemy" was in the area, and hit the road construction workers as they were sleeping.
Hip-Hop Rumors: Illseed Fired From AllHipHop.com! And some rumors!
In a few years, he and the kid and do the Crank Dat dance together in the club. I guess its safe to say, ol' girl is gonna "Lois Lane that n-word."
KATT WILLIAMS EXPLAINS CHICAGO
Now, Katt Williams pissed the good people of Chicago off on that fateful New Year's Eve show 2008, where they said he was high as an eagle, over an hour late and unfunny. Nobody quite knows what happened but my girl Kendra G got to the bottom of it. For the record, Katt charges he gave the audience back their money, but some are saying they never received any such kick back.
Kendra G: Your first show in Chicago, you gave the whole audience their money back.
Keep it simple on Egg Harbor Rd.
Business owners on Egg Harbor Road want to see the city of Sturgeon Bay keep any reconstruction of the high traffic road as simple as possible. The city sent a letter out to Egg Harbor Road business and property owners Jan. 31 informing them of a public meeting scheduled for Feb. 5.
On the docket were staff recommended road surface improvements and a two way left turn lane in the center of the road for the 3,000 foot stretch between the Georgia Street/8th Avenue intersection and the 14th Avenue intersection.
Estimated project cost for reconstructing the road surface and creating the TWLTL was $575,000.
In addition to discussing options for improving the road surface were such infrastructure options as constructing pedestrian walkways, bicycle paths/lanes, traffic flow improvement and storm water management.
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