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By TRACY HARMON THE PUEBLO CHIEFTAIN CANON CITY - City officials have joined the fray with Pueblo in crying foul about the Colorado Department of Corrections selection of Colorado Springs for its future headquarters building. Canon City Manager Steve Rabe launched a no-holds-barred protest Tuesday by penning a two-page letter to James Ramsey, DOC facility management services director.
CinemaTech's Scott Kirsner sent me an email alerting me to a really interesting project he's done with ITVS. From his email: Earlier this year, ITVS asked me to interview a group of documentary filmmakers who were working on the vanguard. Specifically, we wanted to focus on three things: 1. Opening up production in new ways, communicating and collaborating with the audience while a film is
Hey, whoa, we never meant to buy that bit A formatting fubar involving an Excel spreadsheet has left Barclays Capital with contracts involving collapsed investment bank Lehman Brothers than it never meant to acquire.…
Sometimes, for no good reason whatsoever, I overlook some important or semi-important developments in the day's news because I'm so intently focused on Tina Palin, or Oprah, or Cloris Leachman. So to catch up with some recent, semi-notable stuff,...
Hurricane Katrina's third anniversary roughly coincided with the Republican and Democratic national conventions. If the two presidential candidates haven't talked enough about our national shame in New Orleans, documentary filmmakers are ready to remind them. Spike Lee had his say with HBO's exce...
"Are you worried about the crisis?" asked the Doc yesterday morning "What crisis?" I asked naively. The Doc looked at me incredulous. "Oh, that crisis." Well the real answer is no. At the moment apart from the family, I'm pretty worried about the blokes from the local gas board digging a huge trench at the end of my street. I've got to take the long way round to get home, and as the trench slowly...
Over in California, champagne corks are popping. In the offices of the MPAA and RIAA, lawyers turned lobbyists are dancing jigs. In houses all around the US however, people are left dumbfounded by the passage of a bill based on appeasement to big money, at a time when the country is in economic turmoil.
The review, according to the Viet Nam Association of Seafood Exporters and Processors (VASEP), will determine whether revoking these tariffs would likely lead to a continuation or recurrence of material injury to US interests. Currently, anti-dumping tariffs for Vietnamese catfish exporters are set at an average of 64 percent.The US Department of Commerce (DoC) is required by law to revoke an anti-dumping...
When my friend T broke up with his boyfriend J, the saddest part was what to do about their baby, E. They arranged an elaborate custody agreement, that lasted until J moved to the UK. My other friend... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
From the Ask The Doc column in the Jamaica Gleaner : Q: My 10-year-old son is acting like a girl. I beat him almost every day for this. People tell me he is going to be gay and that it doesn't matter how I beat him since the female hormones will be there because the Lord made him that way. I am planning to send him to his father in Kingston who says he can beat it out of him. What should I do? He is...
A longtime reader sent me this classic post-layoff notice in response to our plea for more crowdsourced content. Instead of just telling me a story in text, he gave me a Word document mailed to all... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Miratech Corporation announced a new integrated diesel oxidation catalyst (DOC) exhaust manifold kit, designed to allow operators of diesel locomotives and marine vessels to meet EPA Tier 0, 1, and 2 emission standards.
