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Current News for June 18, 2008

Employers Get Tough on Workplace Gossip

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 13:28:04 PDT
That Little Bit of Juicy News You Spread at Work Might Get You Fired

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Wed, 18 Jun 2008 13:29:12 PDT
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Hezbollah Assaults US Envoy

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 13:34:48 PDT
Lebanon's state-run National News Agency (NNA) said that the US envoy to Lebanon's motorcade was ...

Golden Flybook in US: Cool but hefty $3,000 price tag

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 13:37:43 PDT
Good news: the golden Flybook has now reached the US just in time for the mini-notebook craze. But bad news: the price tag is so hefty at $3,000 way far from the current sub-laptop prices. The expensive laptop runs an Intel Core 2 Duo ultra low voltage processor, bringing it to the powerful and pricey category. Other features of the Flybook incl

I Want To Be Number Two: Bobby Jindal - 236 - News

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 13:44:19 PDT
John McCain is considering Bobby Jindal, governor of Louisiana, for the VP. He's young, and he's currently being pushed by Newt Gingrich. Whether that hurts or helps is an open question.So who is Bobby Jindal and why is he here?

Introduction To Aviation Cost Analysis

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 13:46:42 PDT
The ever increasing cost of airplane tickets and the increased prevalence of baggage fees are constantly in the news. However, I have not read any articles that actually deal with the calculations that are done by the airlines to determine what price a ticket should cost or if they really need to charge for that first bag.

Muslim Women demand apology From Obama

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 13:59:25 PDT
They were barred by campaign volunteers from appearing in visible seats behind Barack Obama, because they were wearing Muslim headscarves. A campaign official apologized to them when it became a news story. But that’s not good enough; they won’t be happy...

Give good head - the art of media interviews

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:05:13 PDT
The media wants news. Information, statistics, trends, research, human interest stories, success stories, failures, anomalies, personalities, conflict, content. How to give them the perfect sound bite.

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Tonya Harding gets verklempt a lot now

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:11:32 PDT
Weekly roundup of ice skating, figure skating and hockey news from an interesting and innovative (mostly) figure skating website.


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4:59 AM

May 15, 2008 Breaking News

At The Churchill Club: The Top 10 Tech Trends - Barron's Blogs


At The Churchill Club: The Top 10 Tech Trends
Barron's Blogs - 4 hours ago
I’m at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose tonight, for the Churchill Club’s annual Top 10 Tech Trends Dinner. This is the club’s 10th annual tech trend panel. ...


Identifying Outsourcing Trends in Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology Contract Research (Centre Daily Times)

Wed, 14 May 2008 06:02:30 PDT
Frost & Sullivan launches new Voice of the Customer studies on outsourcing trends, perceptions, selection criteria and other important dynamics to contract research organizations (CROs). These studies include detailed interviews with more than 150 executives within the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry who are involved in outsourcing to CROs. Additionally, Frost & Sullivan seeks to gauge ...

Emerging Trends in India-Nepal relations

Wed, 14 May 2008 07:58:02 PDT
A conference has started in Patna of Bihar on Saturday to discuss the dimensions of Indo-Nepal relations under new circumstances. With a distinguish panorama in the kaleidoscope as the indo-nepal relation is concerned, In the last week of April a jumbo delegation of Nepal led by Minister for Physical Planning and Works Hishila Yami had been in Patn

French Bedroom Furniture

Wed, 14 May 2008 08:02:43 PDT
It's always interesting to follow the trends worldwide in fashion and design, but if you really want to know what the newest styles and ideas are, you should track the developments in Paris.

DESIblitz | Fashion for Asian Weddings

Wed, 14 May 2008 08:06:58 PDT
Great article on the fashion trend for South Asian weddings in the UK. Include videos and photos of British Asian fashion catwalk shows.

The Largest Freezer in the World

Wed, 14 May 2008 08:19:45 PDT
Article looks at the rising corn prices and offers investment advice based on this trend.

Trend Alert: Art Deco

Wed, 14 May 2008 08:37:26 PDT
According to Style.com, Art Deco trend is back. Now, you can dig through your grandma's closet and find bits and pieces that would suit the Art Deco theme. But for those who don't like vintage, here's the modern interpretation of the trend.

Medieval Times is Trendly

Wed, 14 May 2008 08:59:41 PDT
Looking for a trendy and friendly family activity that combines violence, Cornish Game Hen, and possible spread of the Bubonic Plague? Well fret no longer Lords and Ladies of Trendcestershire...the Trendliest heartily recommends checking out Medieval Times.


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1:38 PM

April 26, 2008 Hot Trends

Free MP3s from the Promo Pile

Sat, 26 Apr 2008 09:29:53 PDT
Free MP3s from the Promo Pile April 26th, 2008 by Dave Allen Pic from SharkvsBear I’m getting caught up with the promos finally. Here’s some more for you to check out. My favorite this week is from Dawn Landes. Listen up Portland, Dawn plays at Doug Fir on April 30th. In other news you may have noticed that we have added a new page that has a complete list of all of the MP3s that have been sent to us here for you to download. Dawn Landes - Bodyguard The Boxing Lesson - Dark Side of the Mo

Carrie Makes the Cut

Sat, 26 Apr 2008 09:30:28 PDT
Carrie has been admitted to the Montessori preschool that Pearl attends. The acceptance letter was waiting for us when we got home from our trip. We read it aloud to the girls, but in all the excitement of being back home, we weren't even sure if they understood. I must confess to you that even though there is no admission criteria beyond first-come first-served, no test or interview, nothing, I still felt extremely proud of Carrie. I can remember feeling the same way when Pearl's letter ar

Bad news for Gordon Brown in ICM Marginals Poll.

Sat, 26 Apr 2008 09:30:36 PDT
I'm just off to work so I don't have time to blog about an ICM poll for the News of the World. The poll shows the expected results in many of the marginal seats around the country. However Iain Dale has covered it and it's terrible news for Labour. Read Iain's post by clicking HERE.

High prices & less land keep Haiti hungry (video)

Sat, 26 Apr 2008 09:30:41 PDT
Dandelion Salad AlJazeeraEnglish The rising cost of food is one reason that Haitians are going hungry. The other is a lack of land to grow crops. Deforestation has destroyed much of the farming land once used by Haiti’s rural communities. Al Jazeera’s Mike Kirsch looks at an environmental problem that’s further fuelling Haiti’s food crisis. see America’s Role in Haiti’s Hunger Riots Global Famine? Blame the Fed By Mike Whitney Crisis in Food Prices Threatens Worldwide Starvation: I

The Browser, 4/25: Del Toro wants puppets to invade The Hobbit?, Terrence Malick, Baby Mama, Standard Operating Procedure, Constantine’s Sword, more great Christian rock albums

Sat, 26 Apr 2008 09:30:49 PDT
The Browser: News and links to lift your eyebrows and furrow your forehead • Hobbit hype rising: Del Toro speaks, O’Hehir worries… At Arts and Faith, Peter Chattaway comes up with two interesting links on The Hobbit. The first one is an interview, in which Del Toro says things that make me want to cheer. The only thing I will be pushing for more in these films that the other three are full animatronics and animatronic creatures enhanced with CGI, as opposed to CGI creatures themselve

Kim Kardashian's first movie role

Sat, 26 Apr 2008 09:31:25 PDT
kim-kardashian-lingerie Kim Kardashian is to make the transition to the big screen after landing her first movie role. Kim, who stars in her family's reality TV show Keeping Up With the Kardashians, is now set to carve out a career as an actress after signing on to a new comedy film. The picture is rumored to be a spoof in the same vein as the Scary Movie franchise. And Kardashian is delighted by her new challenge. She tells E! News, "I have accepted a part in a major studio film. It's a comedy

SHOW ME THE MONEY AND A LITTLE MORE

Sat, 26 Apr 2008 09:31:33 PDT
SHOW ME THE MONEY AND A LITTLE MORE By Sidney Gendin April 26, 2008 Who’s up, who’s down? This is the Forbes list of celebrity money makers. Can anything be more important? Name…….. Pay ($mil). The ranking is based on several factors of which money is just one. Oprah would be number 1 even if she had ranked only 3rd as a money maker. 1 Oprah Winfrey 260 2 Tiger Woods 100 3 Madonna…. 72 4 Rolling Stones 88 5 Brad Pitt…. 35 6 Johnny Depp 92 7 Elton John.. 53 8 Tom Cruise 31 9 Jay-Z…….

Pakistan, U.N. Agency Launch Pilot Initiative To Improve HIV Control Efforts Among Women

Sat, 26 Apr 2008 09:33:15 PDT
Pakistan and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime on Tuesday launched a pilot project that aims to improve current HIV impediment social welfare supposing to female injection drug users, wives of male IDUs and female prisoners, The International News reports. as it should be to Pakistan's National Drug Abuse appraisal 2006, there are an estimated 125,000 IDUs in the country, 50% of whom are married. More: - From the site

Mittal tops British rich list again, Hindujas are fourth

Sat, 26 Apr 2008 09:33:21 PDT
London, April 26 (IANS) Indian steel tycoon Lakshmi Niwas Mittal has once again topped the Sunday Times Rich List - the definitive rundown of Britain’s wealthiest people. Mittal and the Hinduja brothers Srichand and Gopichand are the two Indian business conglomerates that dominated the list for 2008 in the midst of a global credit crunch. The 57-year-old Mittal, worth an estimated 27.7 billion pounds, tops the list for the fourth year running. He was valued at 19.2 billion pounds in last ye

Apple looking to Immersion for haptic technology on iPhone?

Sat, 26 Apr 2008 09:34:23 PDT
Filed under: Cellphones, DisplaysImmersion, the same folks responsible for adding haptic technology (force feedback from touch panels, pretty much) in a fleet of Nokia handsets, could be looking to do the same with Cupertino's one and only. While VibeTonz isn't specifically mentioned by name, a recent report (which should certainly be filed as a rumor for the time being) is suggesting that bigwigs from both outfits are in ongoing meetings "over licensing and implementation issues of iPhone hapt

Designing a logo - the definative guide

Sat, 26 Apr 2008 09:34:30 PDT
Taking a quick root around our website this morning, it occurred to me that while we’ve featured a mass of logo design tips, examples, design articles and technical file format guides, we’ve never actually sat down and developed a ‘how-to’ design guide - a soup to nuts instruction manual on how you can develop a own company identity, whether for yourself, or if you’re a designer, for one of your clients. This happened, partially due to economic self-interest - we’re a logo design studio after a

Reason to celebrate

Sat, 26 Apr 2008 09:35:03 PDT
I just opened our escrow statement for the year and I can’t believe it our house payment finally went down some. Down to $1200.00 a month! After paying $1500.00 for the past year to cover a mistake in the escrow, this is great news. All the more reason to enjoy a few drinks tonight! Whoo hoo !

Untitled

Sat, 26 Apr 2008 09:35:04 PDT
The other day I wrote about mainstream media coverage of a religion story involving my church body, the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod. I wrote about the cancellation of the LCMS’ only nationally-syndicated radio program (“Issues, Etc.”) and sudden firing of its host and producer in an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal last month. I also attended a worship service in St. Louis to pray for the men who were fired, ate some bratwurst at the fundraising dinner following the service and took part

Staying In - Calgary Herald


Staying In
Calgary Herald, Canada - Apr 25, 2008
Newsworld, Ch. 15, 8 pm Robson Arms Take in a marathon viewing of the first two seasons of the series set in a wacky Vancouver apartment, building up to the ...


This doc hip hops to the top of the world - Winnipeg Sun


This doc hip hops to the top of the world
Winnipeg Sun, Canada - Apr 18, 2008
On Sunday CBC Newsworld has the BBC documentary Massacre at Virginia Tech. It recalls the horrible shooting spree by Seung-Hui Cho on April 16, 2007, ...


BROADCASTER'S WEDNESDAY PODCAST—EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH RICHARD ... - Broadcaster


Broadcaster

BROADCASTER'S WEDNESDAY PODCAST—EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH RICHARD ...
Broadcaster, Canada - Apr 22, 2008
Mr. Stursberg oversees all aspects of CBC's English language services, which includes, among other things, the main network (CBC), Newsworld (a 24-hour all ...



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