| First, Step Up
With no money and no organization, seven of us launched StepItUp in January 2007. Before the year was out, we'd helped organize 2,000 demonstrations in all 50 states-and helped take our once-radical demand for an 80 percent reduction in U.S. carbon emissions by mid-century into the halls of power. We haven't won yet-but we're way beyond what we could have expected when we began. Last November, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi stood at a podium in front of 7,000 college students gathered from around the country at the University of Maryland and led them in a chant: "80 percent by 2050." I'm as cynical as the next guy, but it feels like our democracy is starting to work. It will need to work much better, though. We'll need to see a whole new level of commitment-to nonviolent protest, to electioneering, to endless lobbying.
Al’s and Vic’s and veggie falafels
I think the menu is best described as exotic fast food. The first time I had lobster and lamb sliders, the second raw oysters on the half shell and an ostrich burger. It's nice the two bars are connected by a door inside. You can have a classy dinner in one, go get your drink on at Al's & Vic's, and never have to worry about the weather outside. .
Kentucky Chamber announces 'New Agenda' results
The initiative, launched last April, was designed to encourage Kentuckians to suggest ways to improve the state, and funnel those ideas into an action agenda that will be presented to Gov. Steve Beshear and other policy officials. A task force of business executives and entrepreneurs was formed to guide the process of developing the agenda and help solicit ideas from the public through a designated Web site, community meetings, outreach to civic organizations and community groups, and interviews with experts and opinion leaders. The task force was led by Craig Grant, regional president of PNC Bank, and included local business leaders such as Ed Glasscock, co-managing partner of Frost Brown Todd LLC; Joan Coleman, president of AT&T Kentucky; Sean O'Leary, CEO of Genscape Inc.; Steve Sexton, president of Churchill Downs; Chris Spalding, president of the Young Professionals Association of Louisville; and Stephen Williams, president and CEO of Norton Healthcare Inc.
Israel broke law with use of cluster bombs in Lebanon: HRW
Human Rights Watch said Sunday that Israel breached international law when it bombed southern Lebanon with cluster weapons in 2006.
A 131-page report "Flooding South Lebanon: Israeli Use of Cluster Munitions in Lebanon in July and August 2006", made available to reporters at the United Nations Headquarters, said that Israel violated international humanitarian law with hundreds of "indiscriminate and disproportionate cluster munitions attacks on Lebanon."
Human Rights Watch said Israel had rained as many as 4.6 million submunitions, or cluster bomblets, across southern Lebanon - mostly in the final days of the war.
The report's lead author, Bonnie Docherty, said the United Nations must investigate whether Israel deliberately targeted civilians with the munitions.
As Windows Server 2008 RTMs, Customers and Partners Adopting with Help ...
REDMOND, Wash., Feb. 4, 2008 –Approaching the company's largest enterprise launch in its history, Microsoft reached another important milestone today with the release to manufacturing (RTM) of Windows Server 2008. The response from IT professionals and developers has been strong as the company moves toward the worldwide launch of Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008 on February 27. One indication of the momentum that is building around the latest server operating system is the number of beta and evaluation versions that customers and partners have obtained: more than two million. IT professionals face increasing pressure from rapidly changing technology, increasing costs and security concerns, and expanding business needs. Windows Server 2008 helps alleviate these pressures by automating daily management tasks, tightening security, improving efficiency and increasing availability.
Live Music: The Growers, Savage Henry entertain at Wild Buffalo
On Friday night, local band The Growers played the its CD release show at the Wild Buffalo. With Savage Henry opening the show, The Growers played three separate sets, which was awesome. In between sets, a guy dressed in a tight white sailor outfit gave out raffle prizes, including special brownies and the chance to shave off one of his eyebrows on stage. It was pretty entertaining. But all three of the Growers sets were solid and the crowd seemed to get more and more into the music, with people dancing and moving around. The jam funk fusion band was perfect for the Bellingham crowd. Check out more on the Growers at www.myspace.com/thegrowers. Everyday Music is hosting free, weekly in-store performances on Sunday nights. Last Sunday, local band The Braille Tapes played. The band released a new EP on cassette tape only, titled Uncle BT.
On immigration, the MSNBC-free Comcast service, police activity and ...
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And the Johnny Goes To...
If David Stern could only figure out what in the world to do about the Knicks... Best Story in College Basketball: Drake. My apologies to Bruce Pearl and Tennessee and Steve Donahue and Cornell, which is 10-0 in conference play and about to become the first school other than Princeton or Penn to win the Ivy League since 1988. Drake hasn't been in the NCAA Tournament since 1971, and Coach Keno Davis, who took over this season from his dad, the great Dr. Tom Davis, has the team at 24-3 with two one-time walk-ons, one handles the ball on every possession while the other leads the Missouri Valley Conference in rebounding, leading the way. Drake-Butler on Saturday was a much better game to watch than Memphis-Tennessee. Team Everyone Will Try to Schedule Next Season: New Jersey Institute of Technology.
Time to Dump IE?
The tight ties to Windows means that the slightest IE security issue becomes an OS-wide panic. It's not just IE, either: Windows Media Player, Outlook Express, and even DirectX, are all, in my opinion, overly integrated and give hackers too much access to core PC functions. But corporate users don't spend a lot of time playing with DirectX-based games, listening to Windows Media Player, or checking e-mail with Outlook Express. They do spend a lot of time in IE, and the more they surf the more they're vulnerable to its eccentricities. That's why more than a few corporations, not to mention individual users, are looking at alternativesany alternativeto the built-in browser. Browsing the Alternatives
Despite dire predictions from Netscape (now a unit of America Online, which, weirdly, continues to bundle IE with its software), the market for non-Microsoft browsers didn't go away.
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