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April 08, 2008 News and Trends
B-boy dancer Frosty Freeze dies at 44 (CBC)
Thu, 03 Apr 2008 14:29:06 PDT
Wayne Frost, a hip-hop pioneer known as Frosty Freeze, who contributed his acrobatic performance in the 1983 movie Flashdance, died Thursday. He was 44.
US News Expands The Ranking Service
Tue, 14 Aug 2007 08:14:05 PDT
US News&World Report, an authoritative source for US university rankings has launched an auto ranking website in what seems to be an expansion move towards a general online ranking service.
XSketch.com - Pictionary Online
Tue, 08 Apr 2008 11:50:00 PDT
What it does Remember Pictionary, that childhood game of yesteryear that either ended with some version of a stick figure or lots of circles and boxes? Now there’s Xsketch, the Web 2.0 version of Pictionary. It’s online, of course and you’ll need to register to play. Once you’ve got your account and user name up, you can start playing. Like Pictionary, one person is the sketcher and the rest are guessers. As the sketcher, you get points someone manages to guess what you’re drawing, and the per
CBC Newsworld shuts Calgary operations - Times Colonist
Forecast for Today’s News, March 18
Tue, 18 Mar 2008 10:48:21 PDT
Forecast for Today’s News, March 18 ...UPDATING through the day... • U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke will lower rate by up to a full point. • Barack Obama will make speech on “race” to deflect his hidden agenda in light of revelations about his pastor and his apparent anti-white-man, anti-American beliefs. • Yesterday’s federal By-election: Media will celebrate it as a Liberal victory—despite the fact that it really demonstrated Conservative gains—highlighting and totally fo
CBC’s oft-used source for political experts —the Huffington Post —in new hate du jour
Wed, 26 Mar 2008 02:15:20 PDT
CBC’s oft-used source for political experts —the Huffington Post —in new hate du jour Here’s a bit of a post from the infamous Huffington Post web site, the web site which the state-owned CBC seems to use as a go-to place to secure folks to act as guest political experts for their Newsworld news channel. They ask questions of the Huffington Post experts in order to fully inform Canadians, CBC-style. Canadians, bereft of news otherwise, could, the CBC may well think, benefit from this kind of
A Review of European Gas and Power Price Trends Provides an Examination of the Wholesale Gas Price Trends in Europe's ... (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
Tue, 08 Apr 2008 01:44:00 PDT
DUBLIN, Ireland----Research and Markets has announced the addition of "Monthly Price Brief - A Review of European Gas and Power Price Trends: December 2007" to their offering.
ETFs Furthest from Their 50-Day Moving Averages (pfblogs.org)
Tue, 08 Apr 2008 10:27:21 PDT
Hickey and Walters (Bespoke) submit: Yesterday we highlighted the stocks in the Russell 1,000 that were trading the furthest above their 50-day moving averages. Below we highlight the ETFs that are trading the furthest above and below their 50-days. From our daily ETF Trends reports at Bespoke Premium, we gathered more than 200 actively traded US ETFs to find the ones most overbought and oversold. As shown below, the Homebuilders ETF (XHB) is currently the most overbought at 12.44% above its 50-
the only thing amy carter had to be embarassed about was billy beer
Tue, 08 Apr 2008 11:53:02 PDT
Via HuffPo comes video of Chelsea Clinton being asked about Monica Lewinsky again. Her answer, essentially, "None of your beeswax". She then called the reporter a "meanie meanie fo feenie", then ran off the stage crying and threatening to tell her mother. (Editor's note: I actually think Miss Clinton has every right to tell reporters who ask about Lewinsky to go eff themselves. It's not relevant to the present Clinton campaign, and such questions are clearly only being asked out of a weirdly
CBS in talks to use CNN for news gathering: report (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Mon, 07 Apr 2008 22:51:20 PDT
CBS Corp has been talking with Time Warner about a deal to outsource certain news operations to CNN, a move that would help it cut costs, the New York Times reported online, citing two executives briefed on the matter.
Sun's fickle heart may leave us cold - climate-change - 25 J
Tue, 08 Apr 2008 09:21:21 PDT
This article is just over a year old, but I thought the research was terribly interesting in the discussion of what may be the cause of warming trends on earth.
Real-Time Local News Now Blankets Michigan
Tue, 02 Oct 2007 00:00:01 PDT
Ann Arbor, MI (PRWEB) October 2, 2007 -- There is always something happening in Michigan and once-a-day news can't cover it all. The days of waiting for traffic or weather reports or the latest...
Thu, 03 Apr 2008 14:29:06 PDT
Wayne Frost, a hip-hop pioneer known as Frosty Freeze, who contributed his acrobatic performance in the 1983 movie Flashdance, died Thursday. He was 44.
US News Expands The Ranking Service
Tue, 14 Aug 2007 08:14:05 PDT
US News&World Report, an authoritative source for US university rankings has launched an auto ranking website in what seems to be an expansion move towards a general online ranking service.
XSketch.com - Pictionary Online
Tue, 08 Apr 2008 11:50:00 PDT
What it does Remember Pictionary, that childhood game of yesteryear that either ended with some version of a stick figure or lots of circles and boxes? Now there’s Xsketch, the Web 2.0 version of Pictionary. It’s online, of course and you’ll need to register to play. Once you’ve got your account and user name up, you can start playing. Like Pictionary, one person is the sketcher and the rest are guessers. As the sketcher, you get points someone manages to guess what you’re drawing, and the per
CBC Newsworld shuts Calgary operations - Times Colonist
CBC Newsworld shuts Calgary operations Times Colonist, Canada - Apr 5, 2008 CALGARY -- CBC News is shutting down its Newsworld operations in Calgary, slashing 32 jobs in the process while opening up a slew of new positions for local ... |
Forecast for Today’s News, March 18
Tue, 18 Mar 2008 10:48:21 PDT
Forecast for Today’s News, March 18 ...UPDATING through the day... • U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke will lower rate by up to a full point. • Barack Obama will make speech on “race” to deflect his hidden agenda in light of revelations about his pastor and his apparent anti-white-man, anti-American beliefs. • Yesterday’s federal By-election: Media will celebrate it as a Liberal victory—despite the fact that it really demonstrated Conservative gains—highlighting and totally fo
CBC’s oft-used source for political experts —the Huffington Post —in new hate du jour
Wed, 26 Mar 2008 02:15:20 PDT
CBC’s oft-used source for political experts —the Huffington Post —in new hate du jour Here’s a bit of a post from the infamous Huffington Post web site, the web site which the state-owned CBC seems to use as a go-to place to secure folks to act as guest political experts for their Newsworld news channel. They ask questions of the Huffington Post experts in order to fully inform Canadians, CBC-style. Canadians, bereft of news otherwise, could, the CBC may well think, benefit from this kind of
A Review of European Gas and Power Price Trends Provides an Examination of the Wholesale Gas Price Trends in Europe's ... (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
Tue, 08 Apr 2008 01:44:00 PDT
DUBLIN, Ireland----Research and Markets has announced the addition of "Monthly Price Brief - A Review of European Gas and Power Price Trends: December 2007" to their offering.
ETFs Furthest from Their 50-Day Moving Averages (pfblogs.org)
Tue, 08 Apr 2008 10:27:21 PDT
Hickey and Walters (Bespoke) submit: Yesterday we highlighted the stocks in the Russell 1,000 that were trading the furthest above their 50-day moving averages. Below we highlight the ETFs that are trading the furthest above and below their 50-days. From our daily ETF Trends reports at Bespoke Premium, we gathered more than 200 actively traded US ETFs to find the ones most overbought and oversold. As shown below, the Homebuilders ETF (XHB) is currently the most overbought at 12.44% above its 50-
the only thing amy carter had to be embarassed about was billy beer
Tue, 08 Apr 2008 11:53:02 PDT
Via HuffPo comes video of Chelsea Clinton being asked about Monica Lewinsky again. Her answer, essentially, "None of your beeswax". She then called the reporter a "meanie meanie fo feenie", then ran off the stage crying and threatening to tell her mother. (Editor's note: I actually think Miss Clinton has every right to tell reporters who ask about Lewinsky to go eff themselves. It's not relevant to the present Clinton campaign, and such questions are clearly only being asked out of a weirdly
CBS in talks to use CNN for news gathering: report (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Mon, 07 Apr 2008 22:51:20 PDT
CBS Corp has been talking with Time Warner about a deal to outsource certain news operations to CNN, a move that would help it cut costs, the New York Times reported online, citing two executives briefed on the matter.
Sun's fickle heart may leave us cold - climate-change - 25 J
Tue, 08 Apr 2008 09:21:21 PDT
This article is just over a year old, but I thought the research was terribly interesting in the discussion of what may be the cause of warming trends on earth.
Real-Time Local News Now Blankets Michigan
Tue, 02 Oct 2007 00:00:01 PDT
Ann Arbor, MI (PRWEB) October 2, 2007 -- There is always something happening in Michigan and once-a-day news can't cover it all. The days of waiting for traffic or weather reports or the latest...
