| Peebles on CNN | | Posted Friday, December 01, 2006 1:18:01 PM by Blog57 Team | | Faculty from Peebles Elementary School, along with officials from the Iberia Parish School System, have made it to the big screen. Camera and news crews from the national television station CNN were in town Wednesday to talk with officials from the Iberia Parish School System and record a segment for the Anderson Cooper 360 television show.Peebles Elementary was left with approximately three to four feet of water after Hurricane Rita flooded the school. For 14 months, the Iberia Parish School Board thought it was going to get anywhere from $3.5 million to $3.7 million from the Federal Emergency Management Agency for a new school that would merge students from Grand Marais Elementary and Peebles Elementary schools. The school board purchased property on Darnell Road for $392,000 in the spring.... | |
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| | | The Election Goes To Cnn | | Posted Sunday, November 12, 2006 7:24:24 PM by Blog57 Team | | CNN was among those scoring an upset victory in this week's elections, claiming the most total viewers and the most in the adults 25-54 demographic group on Wednesday, both in primetime and total day compared to the Fox News Channel, the usual news leader. As on election night, the two cable news networks effectively wound up in a dead heat for the day, with CNN averaging 1,147,000 viewers and FNC 1,142,000, according to Nielsen figures, a difference of less than 1/2 percent. However, in the demo preferred by advertisers, CNN was the clear winner with an average of 425,000 viewers versus 379,000, a 12 percent difference. 10/11/2006 .... | |
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| | | A pediatric dentist's tricks for treat night | | Posted Tuesday, October 31, 2006 3:18:03 AM by Blog57 Team | | Halloween can be a scary time of year for dentists and orthodontists. Dr. Kaneta Lott, pediatric dentist, spoke with CNN medical correspondent Judy Fortin about the best and worst kind of treats and how to care for your children's teeth. Fortin: How do cavities form? Lott: Cavities are formed by the fact that we all have bacteria in our mouths. The bacteria take the food that we eat and use it as their food. When they use that food they produce an acid. That sticks to the tooth and the acid begins to dissolve the enamel. Fortin: What is the best way to prevent cavities? Lott: We need to start out preventing decay with babies. After that, it's not what you eat -- it is how many times a day you eat it. If I drink my soda within ten minutes and you drink your soda all day long, you're going to have more cavities than I will.... | |
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| | | US Aides:Indications N Korea Preparing 2nd Nuclear Test-CNN | | Posted Wednesday, October 18, 2006 3:12:38 PM by Blog57 Team | | NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- Bush administration officials say there are indications that North Korea is preparing a second nuclear test, Cable News Network reported Tuesday. CNN, citing Bush administration officials, also said that there are now " reported statements" from senior North Korean military officials that North Korea intends to conduct multiple nuclear tests. The officials said that activity at a North Korean site is similar to that which preceded the country's nuclear test earlier this month, CNN reported. CNN said U.S. intelligence believes buildings and other structures are being built on the surface at a second site. That, CNN said, could be an indication that North Korea will try to conduct final preparations for a test without being seen by spy satellites.... | |
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| | | Rutland Superintendent Blasts President Bush on CNN | | Posted Friday, October 06, 2006 11:15:07 AM by Blog57 Team | | Rutland Northeast Superintendent William Mathis appeared on CNN Thursday to criticize President Bush's signature education plan, the No Child Left Behind Act. The program is up for renewal next year and President Bush is pushing for Congress to renew it. Mathis has been very critical of the law that requires schools to meet stringent new standards in order to receive federal funding. He says the program is under funded and that the required tests do not adequately measure student performance. "I think that we're going to have to actually be a little more conservative in one sense, we need to get back to thinking and remembering that no one size fits all. The federal government has a one size fits all strategy. I think Vermont traditions of town meetings and locally elected boards is a very strong thing.... | |
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| | | Six hurt in truck blast | | Posted Sunday, September 24, 2006 11:14:45 AM by Blog57 Team | | SIX people, including three policemen, were injured by an explosion in front of a police building in the eastern Turkish city of Igdir, CNN Turk TV said overnight. Igdir police chief Yusuf Calkavur said the explosion was in a truck parked in front of the police building, the state Anatolian news agency reported. The cause of the explosion was not known, said Mr Calkavur. Turkey has been on edge after a bomb killed 10 people in the southeastern city of Diyarbakir earlier this month, sparking protests by thousands of people. Turkish authorities blame the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) for such incidents in eastern Turkey. The PKK has denied any involvement in the Diyarbakir bombing. Far-left and Islamist groups have also carried out bomb attacks in Turkey in the past.... | |
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| | | Watch CNN's 9/11 Footage For Free | | Posted Tuesday, September 12, 2006 1:14:39 AM by Blog57 Team | | If you're interested, CNN is playing their footage from 9/11 on their Pipeline service (which they're also making free for the day) starting at 8:30am eastern time, 7:30am central time. I'm a Pipeline subscriber myself and have to say that I enjoy the service, even if it is from CNN which I'm really not a fan of. .... | |
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| | | Americans' Support for Afghan Military Action Drops in CNN Poll | | Posted Sunday, September 03, 2006 3:18:37 PM by Blog57 Team | | Sept. 2 (Bloomberg) -- The number of Americans who approve of U.S. military action in Afghanistan dropped to 56 percent in a CNN poll last month, down from 92 percent in November 2001. CNN today released results of a poll of 1,047 adult Americans, which Opinion Research Corp. conducted by telephone on Aug. 2 and 3. The poll's margin of sampling error was plus or minus 3 percentage points. The U.S. invaded Afghanistan in October 2001 and ousted the Taliban regime that harbored the al-Qaeda terrorist forces that claimed responsibility for the Sept. 11 attacks. Many Taliban fighters have now returned or come out of hiding. Violence has increased as a U.S.-led coalition, troops of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the Afghan military have cracked down on insurgents in more remote areas of the country.... | |
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| | | 'Not long' before US troop withdrawal | | Posted Monday, August 28, 2006 1:50:29 PM by Blog57 Team | | IRAQ'S Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said overnight it "will not be long " before US troops can start withdrawing from his country but would not commit to a timetable. Mr Maliki told CNN Iraqi security forces were growing stronger alongside the 138,000 US troops still in Iraq nearly three-and-a-half years after the invasion to oust Saddam Hussein. "The more our security agencies have developed, the less the period will be for the (American) forces to remain," Mr Maliki said through an interpreter. "And I think this period will not be long because we have begun to have security responsibility in the provinces," he said, according to the translation provided by CNN. But Mr Maliki would not be drawn into a discussion of exactly when the Americans could think about leaving the country, beset with escalating sectarian violence as well as a stubborn insurgency.... | |
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| | | Tuesday, August 22 | | Posted Wednesday, August 23, 2006 3:15:31 AM by Blog57 Team | | (CNN) -- Afghan and coalition forces captured three "suspected terrorists" during a pre-dawn raid in eastern Khowst province Tuesday, a coalition military statement said. "The purpose of this operation was to capture a known al Qaeda facilitator," the statement said. "Credible intelligence linked the targeted individual to suspected terrorist activities and attacks against the Afghan and Coalition forces in Khowst Province." The operation took place near the village of Paru Kheyl. According to the coalition, the three suspects are being questioned to determine their involvement in any militant activities. (Posted 3:05 a.m.) Ramsey suspect Karr faces extradition hearing Tuesday LOS ANGELES (CNN) -- John Mark Karr, the man who claims to have been involved in the death of child beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey a decade ago, could be headed back to Boulder, Colo., as soon as Tuesday, pending results of an extradition hearing.... | |
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