| REM returning to Old Trafford
REM are to play at Old Trafford Cricket Ground on Sunday, August 24. Lancashire say they are able to hold the concert on that date as it will take place after the county's last home fixture of the season. The county's last home match of the 2008 season at Old Trafford will be several weeks earlier than usual on Sunday August 17 against Middlesex Crusaders. .
DTCM hosts CNBC talk show during Cityscape
The German TV host was in Dubai as part of her coverage of top international events being organized in major cities of the world. This time it was Cityscape Dubai. 2007 which pulled her in for her episode titled, Global Land Grab: Building Sustainability. The popular TV show in English will be aired tomorrow (Saturday) as part of Christiansen's worldwide talk shows on the CNBC TV coming out of Dubai. Mr Hamad bin Mejrin, DTCM Director Missions, said: 'The DTCM is always on the lookout for promoting Dubai internationally as a commercial and touristic destination and we succeeded in hosting this popular CNBC talk show which has a viewership of 350 million households all over the world and the show will help us reach out to that many viewers thus enhancing the appeal of Dubai worldwide.' Added Mr bin Mejrin, 'A majority of CNBC viewers are investors and businessmen which gives us the golden opportunity of reaching out to the people who matter and thus to promote Dubai as a year-round family destination.' The shooting was done in Emirates Towers' Jumeirah Hall which served as a studio and the Al Badeah Hall that doubled up as a broadcasting and meetings area.
The Joy of Commuting and Other Stuff
Why do weather Web sites list the current temperature and then right next to it say "feels like" another temp? And the numbers are usually very close. Do they do this so they can cover their butts if they are way off? Here's what AccuWeather has on its Web site for the temp in NYC right now: 44°F RealFeel® 38°F Weather.com 44 Feels like 39 Does a meterologist stand outside with a thermometer, get a reading and then look to a colleague and say, "I don't know. It says 49, but I really think it feels like 47. What do you think?" If only this scale applied to other situations in life. "Your coffee is $1.75." "But it feels like it should cost $1.57." "The scale says I weigh 143." "But I really feel 129" In case you're wondering, Weather.com says it's currently 77 degrees in Los Angeles and feels like...77! Hmmm.
Myanmar Rejects UN Call For Independent Referendum Observers
YANGON (AP)--Myanmar's military government has rejected a suggestion from the U.N. that it allow independent observers to monitor the upcoming national referendum on a new constitution, state radio and TV reported Saturday. U.N special envoy Ibrahim Gambari had made the suggestion during a meeting Saturday with the state body overseeing the May referendum, saying it would enhance the credibility of the vote with the international community, said the report. His idea was rejected as infringing on sovereignty, it said. (END) Dow Jones Newswires March 08, 2008 09:35 ET (14:35 GMT) Copyright (c) 2008 Dow Jones & Company, Inc.
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Israel kills 20 in Gaza
The latest spike began Wednesday, when five Iranian-trained Hamas militants, including two rocket masterminds, were killed in an Israeli airstrike in southern Gaza. In retaliation, Hamas fired dozens of Gaza-produced Qassam rockets, as well as longer-range Iranian-made Grad rockets smuggled in via Egypt. Several Grad rockets slammed into Ashkelon, 11 miles north of Gaza, on Thursday, including one that hit an apartment building, slicing through the roof and three floors below, and another that landed near a school, wounding a 17-year-old girl. .
TurboTax, TaxCut court Mac users with new versions
Good news, tax procrastinators—since this is a leap year, you have an extra day to put off filing your 2007 taxes. The bad news, of course, is that even with 24 more hours to table your taxes, you'll still have to finish the job eventually—that April 15 deadline isn't going anywhere. With February soon giving way to March and bringing us another calendar page flip closer to the filing deadline, it's time to pick a program for preparing your tax return. Fortunately, the makers of tax-preparation products have updated their offerings to reflect this year's ever-changing tax laws and to add features aimed at making this annual chore more efficient. For Mac users, the leading providers of tax-prep software are Intuit, with its TurboTax product line, and H&R Block, which makes TaxCut.
Kathleen said she had no will, lawyer recalls
While she was divorcing Drew Peterson, Kathleen Savio said she didn't have a will, her former lawyer said Friday. Attorney Harry Smith's statement raises new questions about a two-page, handwritten will that Drew Peterson unveiled 15 days after his ex-wife drowned in her bathtub in 2004. .
Pendulab Releases Upgraded Version of Advanced Audio/Video Chat Server ...
ChatBlazer P2P AV brings new efficiencies to popular internet chat server software. The new application allows users to chat face to face via web cameras in real time with user-friendly and cost effective Flash chat software. Winston-Salem, NC (PRWEB) August 22, 2006 -- Pendulab, a leading provider of collaborative solutions for small to large enterprises worldwide, today announced a new feature in its already advanced ChatBlazer Flash chat server software. The new program allows users to chat face to face via web cameras, through a peer-to-peer (P2P) network. The real time Flash chat software is user friendly and cost effective. ChatBlazer Peer-to-Peer Audio-Video chat is revolutionary in Internet communication technology. "ChatBlazer Peer-to-Peer AV is incredibly advantageous for business communication.
Domestic artworks favored by bidders
The industry expressed its recognition at this point and agreed that the success of classical Chinese paintings and calligraphy is attributed to years of accumulation in the classical Chinese painting and calligraphy market, improved knowledge levels of collectors and increasingly identified value of classical painting and calligraphy. In the classical Chinese painting and calligraphy session, the Red Cliff by Qiu Ying, a painter in the Ming Dynasty, set a world auction record. In addition, another auction artwork in the same session, Red Trees and Green Mountains, by Hua Yan was also auctioned at a high price of RMB 19.60 million. Gong Xian's Landscape, a 4-section screen, was auctioned at a price of RMB 4.928 yuan million. The classical Chinese painting and calligraphy department also held the special session titled the "Dan Qing Zhu Yan Zhai Collection of Classical Calligraphy and Painting in Ming and Qing Dynasties" which sold all of its 13 artworks.
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