BARNET residents will be consulted on the boroughs leisure services as part of a strategic review aiming to cut costs and improve service delivery. The review, which is set to be discussed and approved at next week’s cabinet meeting, aims to identify residents’ needs and what the council’s involvement in offering those services should be, while reducing council spend. The cabinet report says that the review needs to present options that will make a contribution to a savings target of [...]
Daily Archives: September 24, 2011
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San Carlos tries other side of contracting with Half Moon Bay
After outsourcing so many of its services, San Carlos is getting a taste of how it feels on the other side. With the new fiscal year July 1, the city began managing recreation services for Half Moon Bay and is ramping up to provide it with rec-related classes this fall. Laura Snideman, Half Moon Bays city manager, said the coastside city had been operating its recreation department with two part-time employees because of budget challenges, which didnt provide very good [...]
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NEWave Launches Software v4 at Global Gaming Expo, Giving Casinos a Complete …
LAS VEGAS, NV, Sep 20, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) – NEWave, the leading software supplier to the casino gaming industry, is coming to the Global Gaming Expo 2011, with a major step forward in its product offerings and pricing models and new ways of delivering its products. NEWave will be in G2E booth #1337, where it will be discussing its Software Update v4, a complete solution package that helps protect casinos against fraud, streamlines operations, increases productivity and adds to [...]
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Australian, Indonesian Activists Detained Researching Minority Muslim Sect
Prominent Human Rights Watch activist Andreas Harsono and an Australian researcher were taken into custody by police in Sampang, East Java, on Monday as they attempted to investigate the local Shia Muslim population. The Shia and Ahmadiyah, another minority Muslim sect, are facing growing persecution and discrimination from local people in Indonesia. The rising intolerance against minority groups in the country has received international condemnation, including from HRW. Setara Institute and Democracy researcher Ismail Hasani, said Andreas and his colleague [...]
