The Wall Street Journal (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago
Turnaround expert who led Delphi becomes chairman effective Tuesday. On his time working with troubled companies, Mr. Miller says: "it really can take the stuffing out of you."
- Are You Riled Up? - (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago
Bill Hooper’s Cornish Roundup » Blog Archive » BRITISH & IRISH CUP … Camborne continue to lead at the top of the table after another good win at home against Tiverton 36-0 thanks to tries from Sam Matavesi (2), Joe Parma, Laurie Manna, Dave Roberts and Tom Notman. Dave Mankee banging over three … Crash into me [...]
Nouse.co.uk (Free subscription) | yesterday
Competition for ‘York Come Dancing’ seems to be heating up following a brief press conference at last night's rehearsals
Nouse.co.uk (Free subscription) | yesterday
Over the last few months Christopher Young and I (Mr Bulley) have fallen in love. There. It’s out there. We’re proud to admit it. Not with each other mind. Oh no (although that’s surely not far off). Mr Young and I have fallen in love with Dance. The Dance. Who knows what our lives were [...]
The Business First of Louisville (Free subscription) | yesterday
Churchill Downs, which has played host to acts such as The Rolling Stones and The Police, is planning a three-day music festival in July 2010 with 65 acts, including Bon Jovi, Kenny Chesney and Dave Matthews Band.
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
Blues guitarist John "Curley" Cooke reaches a new generation through his Pacific Northwest Blues in the Schools.
Outside My Window (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Fall is a good time to cut down diseased and dying trees so I was not surprised when Tony Bledsoe told me he saw a diseased ash tree being cut down at Pitt’s campus. When he mentioned the location, I remembered seeing a tree there that looked like this one dying of emerald ash borer [...]
TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Or, rather, don’t be fooled into thinking that “self-publishing” and “vanity press” mean the same thing. Recently, we reported on “lies told by the self-publishing industry”. Here is some more advice on the same subject: Fledgling co-author Sharon Lee posted to her LiveJournal yesterday a warning that those considering self-publishing should take to heart....
TV Scoop (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
Fat Families is an imminent new six-part series that sees "straight-talking fat-loss expert" Steve Miller moving in with some rotund relatives. Like a new Gillian McKeith (we didn't need the old one, but there you go) he'll use a range...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
Poor newspaper circulations in the United States are even worse than the latest figures suggest because of changes to the way in which Audit Bureau of Circulations counts electronic subscribers. Until this year, newspapers that sold print/digital subscriptions in a single package could only count them once. Under new rules from April onwards, individuals who got the bundled subscription deals could...
Madville Times (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Anti-Nanny-State Free-Market Advocates Silent on South Dakota's Continued War on Small Family Farms Friends in the dairy industry let me know about a South Dakota Department of Agriculture proposal to effectively ban raw milk sales. Small dairy operators could still get permits to sell their product directly to local buyers, but the proposed rules would require small operations to buy the same costly...
Word Magazine blogs (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Anyone else been turned on by this? It's taken me forever to get around to ripping compilation albums for the i-Thingy and this morning I dusted down this album of 'Protest, Sorrow, Hobos, Folk and Blues' compiled by Jon Savage in 2005. God it's good. Everything released in 1970, hence some truly great stoner/mellow classics. I was familiar with some of the songs (Free's Mouthful of Grass, Rod Stewart's...
Suburban Scrawl (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
I'm really thinking, with it being November 18th and all, that I should change the perpetual calendar that hangs in my kitchen so it reflects the current month. I'd hate for December to arrive without my getting to enjoy a few days of a November calendar. That's how life in this house is, though, lately. Time keeps on slippin', slippin', slippin' Into the future... ( Steve Miller 's words, not mine.)...
Aceshowbiz.com (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
In 'The Last Song', rebellious teenager Veronica Miller is sent to spend the summer with her estranged father in a quiet Southern beach town, where she will find her first love.
TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Fledgling, by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller, is a fun return to their Liaden universe, the first half of a bildungsroman for a character who has been the subject of Liaden fan curiosity for the longest time. That being said, it also makes a good jumping-on point for people new to the Liaden universe. [...]
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