Time Warner Cable has shelved its controversial plans to charge their Internet customers according to how much bandwidth they use. In a statement posted online, Time Warner Cable said it will hold off on its tiered billing until customers can be better educated. The Triad was set to be a test market for the new tiered billing system.
*Organizers of a scheduled ‘protest’ against the tiered billing system will continue as planned on Saturday from 11 to 5pm at the Time Warner Cable office on Spring Garden Street in Greensboro. http://www.myfox8.com/wghp-time-warner-090416,0,5286112.story
Do you have ‘sensitive documents’ lying around that need to be shreded?
The Better Business Bureau of Northwest North Carolina is sponsoring a “Secure Your ID” Shredding Day tomorrow (Sat, April 18) from 9 til Noon in the parking lot of the Joel Coliseum in Winston-Salem. You can bring up to three large containers with standard-size paper documents containing personal identifiers. They will shred it for you -- on the spot.
Plus learn how to protect your personal information in other ways.
Details: Phone: 336-813-8200 Email: secureid@nwncbbb.com
If you see police officers on the roofs of two area Chick-fil-A restaurants today and tomorrow…it’s for a good cause.Greensboro police officers are participating in the “Cop on Top” fundraiser today and Saturday from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. at the Chick-Fil-A restaurants on Pisgah Church Road and the Brassfield location on Battleground. Officers will be on the ground collecting money for Special Olympics.
http://www.news-record.com/content/2009/04/15/article/cops_to_perch_atop_chick_fil_a_to_benefit_special_olympics
No more t-shirts and blue jeans for Lexington City School students.A ‘standard mode of dress’ new dress code will be in force this coming school year. The school board approved the policy at a special meeting Wednesday.
Brenda Fox will be the new county manager in Guilford County.
Fox, who has been serving as an interim manager since David McNeill retired in December, has also worked as the county's finance director.
(From Thursday) On the second anniversary of the mass killings at Virginia Tech University, the families of two slain students are suing the state, the school and its counseling center, several top university officials and a local mental health agency, claiming gross negligence. Relatives of Julie Pryde and Erin Peterson are seeking damages of $10 million dollars. They were the only families who did not agree to an $11 million settlement with the state last June. BTW: 32 students plus the gunman died on April 16, 2007 at Virginia Tech.
Civil liberties officials at the Homeland Security Department did not agree with some of the language in a controversial report on right-wing extremists, but the agency issued the report anyway. In the report, right-wing extremism was defined as hate-motivated groups and movements, such as hatred of certain religions, racial or ethnic groups. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano defended the report on Thursday, but she said the definition of right-wing extremism that was included in a footnote should be changed. www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/04/17/right-wing-extremism-report-issued-despite-objections/
Open Doors USA, a support ministry to the persecuted church, is asking that Christians around the world to pray for fellow believers in India. Parliamentary voting began this week and goes on through May 16th. Open Doors USA says an increase in anti-Christian violence in India was driven by rising anger among Hindu extremists over Christian conversions last year.
A TEAM OF ARCHAEOLOGISTS BELIEVE THEY ARE ON THE VERGE OF UNEARTHING THE TOMBS OF CLEOPATRA AND MARC ANTONY. It's believed the two leaders took their own lives and were buried in the same location after a disastrous military defeat in 30 BC. Archaeologists believe they may have discovered that burial site near the port city of Alexandria, Egypt.
You’re invited to the WBFJ Dove Awards Party Thursday, April 23rd from 7-10pm
at Confluence Coffee on Hwy 150 in Winston-Salem. VOTE now for Dove ‘Artist of the Year’ and ‘New Artist of the Year’ at www.wbfj.fm
The National Day of Prayer is the first Thursday in May (Thursday, May 7)
Theme: "Prayer... America's Hope" based on the verse…Psalm 33:22
"May your unfailing love rest upon us, O Lord, even as we put our hope in you."
To find an event in your area: www.ndptf.org/custom/events/eventSearch/
Beth Moore is the ‘Honorary Chairperson’ of the National Day of Prayer Task Force
