Earlier this week, I presented my proposed budget for fiscal year 2008-09 to the Jacksonville City Council. This budget provides for the core functions of our city government, supports economic growth and jobs for our citizens, and funds efforts to improve the health of the St. Johns River. Most importantly, it invests significantly in Jacksonville's war on crime. It does all this without rais...
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Advocate business staff report Published: Jul 20, 2008 - UPDATED: 12:05 a.m. Comments ...A 540-calorie Big Mac? NY chains post calorie info...
NEW YORK (AP) — Customers at big fast-food chains in New York City are finally facing the facts about their meal choices. And for some, the truth may be hard to swallow — like 1,130 calories for a Big Mac, medium fries and a medium soda.
After months of resistance, the city's chain restaurants have begun obeying a first-of-its-kind rule requiring them to post calorie counts...
Scientists to discuss climate risk posed by wetlands destruction...
SAO PAULO (AFP) — Moves around the world to drain marshes and other wetlands to make space for farming could be hastening climate change, scientists gathering in Brazil from Monday will be hearing.
Around 700 researchers from around the world are to descend on the central western town of Cuiaba for a four-day conference to discuss ways to preserve wetlands, the UN University, a gro...
Alaskan outpost offers uncommon beauty...
This is a town where lupine grows 4 feet high under a summer sun that rises at 4 a.m. and refuses to set until after 10 p.m. It's a town where plus-size ravens squawk for attention, sandhill cranes grace the sky and eagles preen on pilings.
Fifty miles west of Juneau, Gustavus serves as the Gateway to Glacier Bay, a 65-mile-long fjord where the land embracing the water ranges from sea le...
FRIDE: BRAZIL AS A NEW INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT ACTOR, SOUTH ......
Brazil's position in the global system is marked by different factors: Being aware of its hybrid position between the North and the South, and the external perceptions that identifies Brazil as an important and crucial country for the regional stability and development (concept anchor country launched for example by the German Development Agency), Brazil projects its global identity as a “voic...
Pope urges Australian youths to spurn materialism...
SYDNEY, Australia (AP) — Pope Benedict XVI said Sunday a "spiritual desert" was spreading throughout the world and he challenged young people to shed the greed and cynicism of their time to create a new age of hope for humankind.
Speaking at a Mass before some 350,000 Roman Catholic pilgrims and a likely television audience of millions more, Benedict wrapped up the church's six-da...
Happy hour drinking ban considered...
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Gaming technology used in drone planes...
It looks like the ultimate new video game: the operator on the comfortable leather chair uses dextrous thumbs on a hand-held console to manoeuvre an aircraft, whose trajectory is shown on three large flat screens.
But the chair is for a qualified pilot and the landscape on the screen is downtown Baghdad - US defence company Raytheon Inc. is providing a first glimpse of its new control sys...
300000 more offered cancer vaccine...
Girls aged 17 to 18 will be offered a new vaccination to protect against cervical cancer, the Department of Health has said.
The new vaccination programme is now available to an extra 300,000 girls between the age of 17 and 18 who, under original plans, were not to be given the treatment. This figure has been extended from girls aged 12 to 13 who will receive routine vaccination.
Fr...
Surgeon bonus plan 'too simplistic'...
Paying bonuses to surgeons based on the outcomes of operations is too "simplistic" and could discourage doctors from treating high-risk patients, the British Medical Association has warned.
The professional organisation for doctors added its voice to other critics of proposals to extend NHS cash reward schemes to reflect performance against a number of quality indicators such as mobility ...
For Iraqi refugees, the wait drags on to enter the United States...
ISTANBUL, Turkey — Their lives have become like dying clocks, slowly winding down to a stop. They skip meals, they sleep longer to avoid the expenses that simply being awake brings. One woman sells her blood to earn a bit of cash.
For some Iraqi refugees, the wait for their fate to be determined means stripping their lives bit by bit to a bare minimum and stretching whatever money ...
Baseball: Rats no longer running wild at Angel Stadium...
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Unlike McCain, many seniors depend on the Web...
NEW YORK — If Sen. John McCain is really serious about becoming a Web-savvy citizen, perhaps Kathryn Robinson can help.
Robinson is now 106 — that's 35 years older than McCain — and she began using the Internet at 98, at the Barclay Friends home in West Chester, Pa., where she lives. "I started to learn because I wanted to e-mail my family," she says — in an e...
Fuel's surge a headache for home health providers...
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Stethoscope? Check. Bandages and medications? Check. Money for fuel? Uh-oh.
U.S. home health care workers, particularly those in rural areas, are suffering from financial headaches caused by the escalating cost of transportation, forcing some to borrow cash from co-workers in between paychecks and others to consider leaving the industry altogether.
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Penguins dripping in oil rescued off Argentina...
BUENOS AIRES (AFP) — Environmentalists rescued some 20 penguins covered in crude oil off Argentina's mid-Atlantic coast, two of which have died and four are in critical condition, the Patagonia Natural Foundation (FPN) said Sunday.
The Magallanes penguins were found far from their natural habitat for this time of the year, and were severely undernourished and suffered from dehydra...
Doctor back in Australia to face charges in deaths...
Dr. Jayant Patel, an Indian-born, American-trained surgeon charged with three counts of manslaughter in the deaths of patients at a Queensland state hospital, arrived back in Australia on Monday more than 18 months after being charged with the offenses.
The 58-year-old Patel was escorted without handcuffs by two Queensland police officers on a Qantas flight from Los Angeles. He had been i...
Alabama Man Turns 112, Still Spends Days Drawing...
This June 2008 handout photo released by the Alabama Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation shows artist Frank Calloway, 112, at the Alice M. Kidd Nursing Facility in Tuscaloosa, Ala. (AP Photo/Alabama Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation) By KATE BRUMBACK
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. -- Bent over or sitting at a table, gripping a ballpoint pen, marker or crayon, Frank Call...
Massachusetts patient tested for mad cow disease...
Public health officials in Massachusetts are investigatingwhether a patient in a Cape Cod hospital has the human form of madcow disease.
Dr. Alfred DeMaria, the state's director of communicabledisease control, confirmed Sunday to The Associated Press thattests were under way to see if the patient has Creutzfeldt-Jakobdisease, and whether it's the variant attributed to madcow.
Ther...