The 2008 campaign was great for armchair psychologists as we saw a good slice of color-aroused America that had been hiding its true feelings about the prospect of the country being led by a man of color. Is it me, or have the out-and-proud racist bigot stories have continued in a steady flow post-Inauguration as well? With Barack Obama now resideng at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, these same people have...
Hope yet for the tiger Total revamp needed to protect the species in Malaysia, says Natural Resources and Environment Minister Pauline Almeida Thursday, November 19th, 2009 07:33:00 IN line with the aspirations of the country to increase the wild tiger population, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment will be conducting an internal audit aimed at strengthening its enforcement sector. This...
WEEKEND VIDEO / TONIGHT IN CHICAGO! "Gouge Away" Doolittle 1989 iTunes July 13, 1989: Being picked up by a major label apparently hasn't brought any peace to Pixies singer-songwriter Black Francis. The same nightmares that inhabited the band's two brilliant independent LPs, Come on Pilgrim and Surfer Rosa , are in evidence again on Doolittle . That's disturbing for Black Francis but great...
Oh, here’s a shocker. From Townhall: James Taranto has a bit today in the Wall Street Journal where he looks at the Associated Press’ “fact-check” on Sarah Palin’s new book and the attention they are devoting to the Democrats’ health care overhaul: An Associated Press dispatch, written by Erica Werner and Richard Alonso-Zaldivar, compares the House and Senate [...]...
COLOGNE.- Georg Baselitz is the winner of this year's Cologne Fine Art Prize. Worth €10,000, the Prize is sponsored by Koelnmesse and the Cologne-based Bundesverband Deutscher Galerien und Editionen. The Prize is awarded every year in recognition of outstanding achievement and innovation in the fields of printmaking, photography, serial imagery and graphic reproduction techniques. An exhibition...
NOTE: News readers click here to watch the video. D ispatches from the Front: WASHINGTON, Nov. 20, 2009 -- Embedded above is a b-roll video of U.S. soldiers of 18th Ordinance Company, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, demonstrating a controlled detonation of a vehicle borne improvised explosive (VBIED) device, Nov. 19, 2009, Ramadi, Iraq. (Produced by Sgt. William Brown, Joint Combat...
Coming very soon--a provocative new Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook--'The Spare Room' by Dana Guthrie Martin (and with cover art by Keith Part2ism Hopewell). Enjoy a sneak peek of imagery and the title poem--and stay tuned. The Spare Room Here is where I bend over. This blue room. This daybed. Here is where I tremble. This parquet floor. This sheet set. After they pull me apart, they slide ligatures...
A Mossy Embrace A fellow graduate student forwarded along this link to a BBC news page reporting on the results of a photo competition. The photo that won the student category is a pair of moss sporophytes sticking out of the snow. (#13 in the series.) The photo is entitled Embrace. It is a great picture with nice imaginative imagery in the quote from the photographer. Some of the terms that she uses...
Telecom New Zealand recently launched their new brand imagery with “Light of Mine”, an integrated advertising campaign, online at www.lightofmine.co.nz. A television commercial featuring animated passions takes people to the site where they can share their passions and let Telecom know what little thing would make their spark shine brighter. “Spark” centres on the inner passion...
Just a few days ago, we started our 13F analysis series where we detail the position changes of prominent hedge funds. We covered the portfolio of Stephen Mandel's Lone Pine Capital and noticed that their newly acquired stake in VPRT was now gone . We found it a bit curious but nevertheless moved on with our hedge fund portfolio tracking. Fast forward to today and we see that Lone Pine has just amended...
A federal jury ruled for the defendants in Fair Isaac's lawsuit accusing credit-scoring firm VantageScore and credit-reporting agencies Experian and TransUnion of trademark infringement and unfair competition.
S.1796 Title: An original bill to provide affordable, quality health care for all Americans and reduce the growth in health care spending, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Sen Baucus, Max [MT] (introduced 10/19/2009) Cosponsors (None) Related Bills: H.R.3200 Latest Major...
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Well, the first thing you should do before you shop for your new home is to get a copy of your credit report and credit score! You can obtain a copy of your credit report and score from one or all of the three credit bureaus: TransUnion, P.O. Box 2000, Chester, PA. 19022,800-888-4213,www.transunion.com; Equifax, P.O. Box 740256, Atlanta, GA. 30374, 877-784-2528 ,www.equifax.com; Experian, P.O. Box...
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