| GM Exec Stands by Calling Global Warming a “Total Crock of Shit”
I hope, however, that their willfull ignorance has not slowed us down so much that it is too late. perhaps though… we needed a huge dose of reality to force us ALL to come to that awareness… by all.. I mean the magic number of folks that will tip the scales into our favor of saving this planet and the survival of our planet in sustainable ways. Namaste .
MyDomain Launches National TV Campaign to Support Its Start Your Dream ...
VANCOUVER, Wash., Oct. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- MyDomain, the Internet Domain Name and Web Hosting powerhouse, announces the launch of a national multimillion dollar TV campaign to support its Start Your Dream Business website for $1 promotion. The one of a kind deal gives customers use of a domain they choose and all the tools needed to quickly publish and launch a website for $1. Because this groundbreaking offer is like nothing out there, MyDomain is kicking off a national cable advertising campaign to ensure that people across the country can take advantage of this unique program. Beginning on October 1, 2007, MyDomain plans to run its Start Your Dream Business commercials on Bravo, CNBC, the Discovery Channel, MSNBC, Discovery Times, The Movie Channel, SCI-FI, Soap Network, SPIKE TV, and USA.
Reforming Selective College Admissions
So, rather than spending junior year searching for colleges, visiting colleges, testing for colleges and preparing to apply to colleges, and senior year applying to colleges, interviewing at colleges, nervously waiting to hear from colleges and recovering from applying to colleges, their child is postponing applying to college until she takes a gap year after high school. They are negotiating with the school to provide its usual level of college counseling during the gap year, so their child can concentrate on getting a fine high school education for four full years. So, what would I ask selective colleges and universities to change about the admissions process? A lot. (1) Adopt a policy that your institutions will not provide information to or cooperate in any way with the rankings done by U.S.
Rawlings-The Idi Amin of Ghana.
On Monday February 11, Mr. Bernard Manu, wrote a piece posted on Ghana web with the caption Much ado about Rawlings". He raised several interesting points which, I believe, require far more thoughtful analysis than the feeble attempt by the author. First and foremost, those of us who are seeking justice for the many victims of Rawlings are not on a warpath to "pull him down-PhD", as Mr. Manu puts it. No one is pulling Mr. Rawlings down. We are demanding a measure of justice for the thousand of victims who met their ultimate fate in the wake of Rawlings' misguided junta. Rawlings and his men massacred thousands of Ghanaians with impunity. Remember that some of those generals, who were massacred by Rawlings' AFRC thugs, had constitutional protection from any prosecution. Their constitutional protection meant very little to their murderous intentions.
Microsoft Finally Makes Its Move on Yahoo
If it goes through, we suddenly have a two-horse race on the Net, with Microsoft-Yahoo the one force with a chance to slow down search giant Google. But what a messy combination this will be, for months and even years to come. Maybe Yahoo is just too compelling a property for Microsoft, perennially struggling to stem the Google tide, to pass up. Clearly, Yahoo hasn't managed to get its act together fast enough. But neither has Microsoft—even less so vs. Google than Yahoo. And putting together two huge organizations like this is going to slow both down for a long time, while the Google juggernaut merrily barrels down the road, more focused than its competitor. What's more, big tech mergers often don't work. Even less often do hostile takeovers work. Put them together, and the results won't be pretty.
Defense, ha! Playoffs reward playmakers
The folks in Warner Robbins need to troop right back to church and take up a collection to build a monument to Marques Ivory right in front of the school. That was a Hall of Fame performance if ever there was one. Still, one hopes the Ware County coaching staff was paying attention. Sunday morning a neighbor of mine who is casual football fan spotted me walking the dog and came flying down the driveway with one question: "Were the Tucker coaches completely brain dead in the second half?" Knowing Ivory's mobility was probably limited, the Tucker defense made no effort to force him to move choosing to sit back in that 3-4. If Ware County can get some pressure on him they have a chance; if they let him stand back there and throw darts they're just as dead as Tucker. I won't spend a lot of time talking about the Wing-T.
Sparkling Wine
2005 Failla Estate Vineyard Sonoma Coast Syrah ($56) Ehren Jordan's day job as winemaker at Turley Wine Cellars keeps him plenty busy, but it's his own wines under the Failla label (his wife's name) that captivate us, including a Syrah from Napa's Phoenix Ranch. His new Syrah from Failla's estate vineyard on Gualala Ranch, along the Sonoma Coast, simply blew us away. A powerhouse nose of lavish white and black pepper, sweet game meat and hints of tar, touches of oak and ripe boysenberry give way to an edgy palate and nuanced, fine-grained finish. Simply extraordinary. 2005 Jaffurs Santa Barbara County Grenache ($28) Craig Jaffurs is better known for his Syrah, but here he has taken on the other great Rhone grape, and coaxed impressive berry and nutmeg and toasted spice flavors out of his fruit.
The case of the dubious diamond dildo.
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The Daily Weekly
Outfitted at each desk with a flat-screen TV and three Xbox 360 consoles, the testers are checking that Xbox 360's latest boredom-eradicating features—which enable you to fast-forward through movies before they've finished downloading, and chat with your friends via MSN instant messenger while you download free game samples—can be installed and used without the system freezing or crashing. So far, it's touch and go. Days from now, every Xbox 360 user will be prompted to install the new upgrade when they boot up their machines. But the testers have to do it first, downloading the software, then performing the new tasks, over and over, on several units of each variation of the console: Those sold in North America, the European Union, Japan, and "Rest of Asia" all differ. Each row of testers has a designated "lead," who manages the team and copies down the data: IP addresses, software version, serial numbers.
Action sought against Virk
In a first-of-its-kind initiative aimed at rural development, the Oriental Bank of Commerce (OBC) proposes to set up a training institute for farmers and unemployed youth at Zira in Punjab. To be spread over an area of 10 acres and completed in 18 months the institute would impart training to the beneficiaries in various vocational activities with a view to increasing their family income, banks executive director Allen CA Pereira, told The Tribune here today. After training, the beneficiaries would get loans at subsidised rates for starting their ventures besides getting the benefits of the government's subsidy, Atul Gautam, general manager, informed. Pereira, who was here to inaugurate bank's onsite ATM in Sector 47 here, said the bank was also in the process of promoting solar energy projects in Rajasthan, Punjab, Haryana and Uttarakhand to help solve the power shortage problems in these states.
Taking the leap: Feb. 29 is becoming the big day for couples
Miller, 45, is still tweaking the fine print. "Well, yes, we'll do a big celebration every four years, but in between those years, we'll do something small and special, either Feb. 28 or March 1," Miller says with a wink in her tone. Tammy Degroot, a file clerk in the Macomb County Clerk's office, says the anniversary date question has even come up with the couples she's helped. "I had a bride ask, 'When do we celebrate our anniversary?' and I told her that was up to her and her husband-to-be. I think that's the point. You get to choose," Degroot says. Mary Green, who co-owns Victoria Wedding Chapel in Waterford Township, tells a similar tale. "Four years ago, I had a bride get married on Leap Day and just before she walked down the aisle, she turned to me in a mild panic and said 'Wait a minute.
Census Bureau: Companies spend $251 Billion on network and computer ...
US businesses spent $251 billion on information and communication technology equipment and computer software in 2006, an increase of a little over 6% from 2005, the US Census Bureau reported today. Not surprisingly the rapid pace of technological advances in computers, telephones, fax machines and electromedical apparatus and network gear, have resulted in these assets being replaced much more quickly than other types of equipment, the bureau said in its latest Information and Communication Technology Survey. Many companies write off the full cost of these assets during the year of purchase rather than depreciating the cost over two or more years, the study found. Of the total spending in 2006 on information and communication technology equipment and computer software, or e-business infrastructure, noncapitalized spending accounted for $90.8 billion (36%), and capitalized spending accounted for $160 billion (64%).
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