| This week's calendar
Welcome to this week's calendar. From concerts to comedy clubs, this is where you'll find information on what's hot on the entertainment scene. Area arts and entertainment events are listed through Thursday. Unless otherwise noted, tickets (in those items with prices listed) are available at Ticketmaster outlets -- Macy's, Music Planet and Perani Arena in metro Flint. Ticketmaster patrons can charge by phone, (248) 645-6666, or online, www.ticketmaster.com. Concerts
Today • NELLIE MCKAY, 7 and 8:30 p.m., Detroit Institute of Arts, 5200 Woodward Ave., Detroit. Free with museum admission. (313) 833-7900, www.dia.org. • ROOTSTAND/ME & JOE SMITH, 8 p.m., The Pike Room, 1 S. Saginaw St., Pontiac. $8 in advance, on sale at the box office.
ISTA Pharmaceuticals Reports Fourth Quarter and Full-Year 2007 ...
To access the live conference call, U.S. and Canadian participants may dial 866-831-6270; international participants may dial 617-213-8858. The access code for the live call is 99457780. To access the 24-hour audio replay, U.S. and Canadian participants may dial 888-286-8010; international participants may dial 617-801-6888. The access code for the call is 57762235. This conference call will also be webcast live and archived on ISTA's website for 30 days at http://www.istavision.com/. ABOUT ISTA PHARMACEUTICALS ISTA Pharmaceuticals is an ophthalmic pharmaceutical company. ISTA's products and product candidates addressing the $4.7 billion U.S. prescription ophthalmic industry include therapies for inflammation, ocular pain, glaucoma, allergy, and dry eye. The Company currently markets three products and is developing a strong product pipeline to fuel future growth and market share.
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As always, I'm on the free-speech side of this issue. Each site's proprietor has a responsibility to not allow his comment sections to become racist, sexist, violent cesspools, and some sites are better at fostering a decent comment culture than others. But just because some sites become nasty is not a reason to demand regulation of the Internet, as Bill sometimes suggests, or to suggest that because some people in a comment section are juvenile jerks, that a site is Nazi-like in any way. The best way to deal with coarse commentary on the Internet is to point it out, shine a little sunlight, and push site proprietors to foster cultures of decency on their own sites. Comments sections can be nasty places, and there are very few sites that can claim theirs are totally and completely clean (including this one), no matter what moderation policies are in place.
County running club thriving
Winter generally puts a damper on the running calendar, but the 2008 Xtreme Running Film Series got started on a snowy evening in February with Dancing the Bear, a film about two women at the Bear 100 Mile Endurance Run. "I think it was an interesting and in some ways unique opportunity for runners to chat other than in a racing or training setting," said organizer Mike Casper. The next film in the series, on March 19, is Without Limits, which tells the story of American running legend Steve Prefontaine. Appalachian Outdoors is hosting the series at 123 S. Allen St., in State College. Viewers meet at the store at 7:50 p.m. and the film starts at 8 p.m. The Tussey mOUnTaiNBACK 50 and the Nittany Valley Running Club are sponsoring the series, which is scheduled to run through June.
CC Apaches hang on to beat Glendale 107-99
Bruce Whetten / The Daily Dispatch Cochise College's Steve White puts up a shot in the second half of the Apaches ACCAC game with Glendale Saturday. White finished with a team high 30 points as the Apaches came away with a 107-99 win. Cochise is at Pima on Wednesday. .
World Markets See-Saw As Dollar Hits Record Low And Oil Prices Soar
News on Thursday showed that foreclosures, or repossessions, had hit a record high in the fourth quarter of last year while house prices look to be in freefall.
Analysts said the latest numbers were as good as confirmation that the U.S. economy was already in recession as a result of the housing market collapse and sub-prime mortgage crisis, which has already claimed victims across the globe, including Northern Rock.
'The debate should no longer be about whether there is or is not a recession, only about how deep it will be. Private employment has now fallen for three months in a row,' said Nigel Gault, economist at Global Insight. 'The Fed has to be more aggressive,' said Richard DeKaser, chief economist for National City Corporation in Cleveland, Ohio.
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Photos: Viruses and Trojans come to life
Security software firm MessageLabs, has turned a number of cyber threats into works of art using the malicious computer code which forms them. Alex Dragulescu created the images for six cyber security threats using code detected by MessageLabs, including viruses, phishing, spam, spyware and Trojans. This is the Ghost spyware which saves the keystrokes, screen shots and websites visited. The information gathered can then be used for criminal purposes. Picture credit: MessageLabs .
About 100 bodies found in mass grave
IRAQI security forces found about 100 badly decomposed bodies in a mass grave north of Baghdad, the US military said today, one of the largest such finds in the country for months. US and Iraqi security forces said it was not clear who was responsible for the grave near Khalis, 80km north of Baghdad, or when the victims had been killed. "Initial reports indicate it may contain the remains of approximately 100 people," US military spokesman Major Winfield Danielson said. Iraqi police said they suspected those in the grave were likely to have been killed some time after the 2003 US-led invasion to topple Saddam Hussein. Tens of thousands of Iraqis have been killed in sectarian fighting between majority Shiites and minority Sunni Arabs and in a mainly Sunni Arab insurgency since the invasion.
Neiman Marcus Marks its 100-Year Milestone; Luxury Retailer Celebrates ...
DALLAS, Oct. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- One hundred years ago, three young entrepreneurs, Herbert Marcus, Sr., his sister Carrie Marcus Neiman, and her husband A.L. Neiman, invested just over $75,000 to open the first Neiman Marcus store in Dallas, TX. Today, the specialty retailer operates 39 full-line stores in 18 states and the District of Columbia, an e-commerce web site and a successful catalog operation. To celebrate the 100th anniversary, the downtown Dallas flagship store is hosting a special centennial exhibit honoring the past and looking forward to the future. The exhibits, which are on display from October 13, 2007 to November 3, 2007, include one-of-a-kind designs from the world's leading fashion designers; a look at the future of jewelry, furniture and art; special artist installations; and an opportunity to write a wish for the future to be added to the Future Tree.
EFI Inks Licensing Agreement for Paid Inc.'s Patented Online Shipping ...
BOSTON & FOSTER CITY, Calif. --(Business Wire)-- EFI, the world leader in customer-focused digital printing innovation, and Paid, Inc. (OTCBB:PAYD) announced today that the two companies have signed a license agreement that enables EFI to integrate Paid's real-time online shipping calculation technology into its PrinterSite order system via an application protocol interface (API). The licensing agreement with EFI marks the first API integration since the United States Patent and Trademark Office issued the patent for portions of Paid's online shipping calculation technology in January 2008. Under the annual renewable contract, EFI will pay Paid, Inc. an annual licensing fee that will allow EFI's system to access Paid's AuctionInc server to calculate or recalculate shipping costs in real time for customer orders.
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Gonzales, a college student and executive director of Campus Alliance for Progress. He said he discovered the problems in Dukes' reports after reviewing several candidates' files for a friend. He denied being part of Thompson's campaign: "I never met Brian Thompson." Dukes' violations, which she's acknowledged, is hardly news. It was first reported in December and she promised to correct the reports. Her opponent, Brian Thompson, has complained because it's been more than 40 days and Dukes has not corrected the reports. "Elected officials should never be too busy to follow the law, nor should they act as if they are above the law," Thompson said. Dukes said her opponent is just trying to distract her from their March 4 Democratic primary showdown.
LITH man stabbed 8 times
A 21-year-old man from Lake in the Hills remained in fair condition Monday at Sherman Hospital after being stabbed eight times in the chest early Sunday morning at an Algonquin home that advertises weekly parties on the Internet.Jonathan R. Rainbolt, 22, of 10210 Wilmette Ave., Algonquin, is being held on $500,000 bond on a charge of attempted murder for allegedly stabbing Adrian E. Blach in Algonquin, police said. Police said they had been called to the home for other problems related to the parties.Algonquin police were called to the party, at 438 W. Algonquin Road, about 3:49 a.m. Sunday for a fight involving a knife. After they arrived, Algonquin police arrested four juveniles for underage drinking. Rainbolt was arrested later Sunday afternoon in the 1000 block of Wilmette Avenue in Algonquin, police said.Rainbolt is being held at McHenry County Jail.
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