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Police concerned for missing man at Blue Mountains
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Police are appealing for assistance to locate a man missing from the Blue Mountains.
Michael Morrell, aged 46, was seen leaving a home on Hillview Road, Katoomba, about 8.30am yesterday (Sunday 11 April 2021).
Officers from Blue Mountains Police Area Command were notified after he didn’t return home as expected.
Information has been received that he was last seen at Katoomba Railway station at 1.33pm yesterday (Sunday 11 April 2021) boarding a City bound train.
Concerns are held for his welfare as he lives with Cerebral Palsy and a mild intellectual disability.
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LIVERMORE Directors of Spruce Mountain Regional School Unit 73 on Thursday approved the first reading of policy changes that would allow more students to attend summer school.
Changes include lowering the passing grade from 50 to 30 for eligibility, and removing the stipulation that students with 30 or more absences are not eligible. The policy is for students in kindergarten through grade eight.
While reviewing the last trimester grades to tally how many of the 350 students at Spruce Mountain Middle School in Jay were failing at least one class, Principal Carolyn Luce got through the first 162 and realized that wasn’t a feasible list.
Frances Townsend and Jim Stavridis on maintaining U.S. technological superiority
April 7, 2021 / 6:00 AM / CBS News
In this episode of Intelligence Matters, guest host Sandy Winnefeld interviews Frances Townsend, homeland security adviser to President George W. Bush, and Admiral James Stavridis (ret.), former supreme allied commander at NATO, about their work for the American Edge Project, a political advocacy group that promotes investment in U.S. innovation and technology. Townsend and Stavridis explain the links between technological advancement and national security, and explain why China s autocratic approach to technology in particular poses an increasingly serious threat. They outline several proposals to address known challenges, including the establishment of cyber norms to on-shoring certain critical industries. They also identify priority areas for the Biden administration to address.