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- Brown Shoe buys Bennett Footwear for $205 million (BizJournals) Brown Shoe Co. Inc. agreed to acquire Bennett Footwear Group for $205 million in cash, it said Monday. Read On |
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- The short version of my weekend: Friday Work Happy hour w/ cohorts from The Paper @ Mars Bar (2 beers) Visit from Ami & Eric Take-out Drinks w/ Abby @ Chapel (1 cocktail) Dancing w/ Abby @ Neighbors (2 cocktails) Vomiting @ Abby's (4 times) Stumbling home Saturday Awaken w/ stomach rot, but no hangover Out w/ realtor (South Seattle) Bid on house @ realtor's office (North Seattle) Dinner w/ Dre's cousin (who happens to be my coworker) and family way up in Lake Forest Park Housewarming party @ Tim's house Sunday 2 hr. yoga class Smoke w/ Evil Twin Ariel Brunch w/ Dre, Owen, ET Ariel @ Thumper's for Dina Martina drag performance (entertainment: delightfully bad, food: just bad) Hooping w/ Evil Twin Ariel @ Volunteer Park Cleaning house (note to self: |
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- Today's news items Yesterday's news items |
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- In 2002, the federal government announced it had devised the Canadian Strategy for Cancer Control, a plan to improve the coordination and delivery of treatment, prevention, palliative services and research in Canada. To date, the Canadian Strategy for Cancer Control is still an idea on a shelf. Fed up with the federal government?s lack of action, the National Cancer Leadership Forum launched its |
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- A form of vitamin E not found in most manufactured nutritional supplements but is plentiful in many nuts and seeds might halt the growth of prostate and lung cancer cells, according to a new study. A research team led by Dr. Qing Jiang (pronounced "ching zhang") of Purdue University found that gamma-tocopherol, which occurs naturally in walnuts, pecans, sesame seeds, and in corn and sesame oils, |
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- Overweight and obese people face a much higher risk of dying of cancer than their counterparts who are not overweight, according to a massive 16-year study by the American Cancer Society. |
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- Cancer patients seem to be taking far more alternative therapies than previously thought, but usually only divulge they are doing so when directly questioned by their doctors. It is important that doctors know about cancer patients' use of alternative remedies because some of them can interfere with conventional cancer treatments. |
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- Allow me to present you my last work, Recherche. Enlarged picture here It is made of three parts, each measuring 40x40 cm. Leaving the parts together, total size is 120x40, but I would recommend spacing each canvas by another 40cm. The result would then be 200x40. It could potentially look great. |
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- As promised, I just added the painting-knife definition to the Wikipedia. It is not great, but in any case, better than nothing. Sooner or later, someone will expand it, so that what I write today serves as a base for tomorrow. |
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// Impasto (Mar 14 2005 21:59 GMT) - Not being totally happy with the definition of impasto provided in Wikipedia (it was a stub), I took the liberty to complete it, hoping it gives you a better understanding of a favored technique of mine. Follow the link to read the new impasto definition. My small contribution to mankindI love Wikipedia! It is a great open project that proves we can still make this world a better place. Note: |
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- Our party split in town, for all had different duties to attend. The barbarian had some friendly wrestling training in a temple nearby, the Halfling found a job in a laundry, and I was introduced to the League of Boot and Trail.As an apprentice of the League, Aikanaro learned about another Merythian location, at four to five marching days West from town. The place is a rich farm, built on the |
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- Ken Lay says his name is synonymous with scandal ā€” and for good reason. When his Houston-based energy company, Enron, collapsed in 2001, there had never been anything like it. Lay admits there were criminals at Enron. |
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- The Project for Excellence in Journalism's State of the American News Media 2005,¯ released late Sunday, disputes charges of antiwar media bias. In fact, the idea that Americans are engaged in "partisan" news consumption isn't supported by the research. With the exception of Republicans who prefer Fox News, most media use mirrors the general population, the study found. |
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- re: attack on Italian Photographer I'm not blaming anyone on the ground. I'm blaming the bozos at the top. This entire thing has been a huge quagmire from the start. We saw at the beginning of the war how American soldiers were being asked to do "Rolling Road Blocks". |
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- I am having a problem getting technorati.com to work properly with "rel" tags. First of all bbcode doesn't have a way to handle the "rel" tag and most blogs don't allow you to include them in your links. Is this because XML already does the formatting on rel tags by topic or is it because places like KOS don't want to get spammed with them? Any help with how to properly format the links would be appreciated. |
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- AUTHOR: jasmin POSTED: Mon Mar 14, 2005 3:57 pm (GMT -6) TOPIC REPLIES: 2 shooot.... |
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- AUTHOR: free ur mind POSTED: Mon Mar 14, 2005 3:54 pm (GMT -6) TOPIC REPLIES: 2 u painted a powerful picture here, one that bought sadness yet towards the end bought a glimpse of happiness, the realisation that we are strong and we can overcome the many stuggles of life _________________support me.... |
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- Every 12 hours, I get an email generated by my office server. It reads:SUBJECT: Spam Report: Mon, Mar 14 2005 - Zero Spam! |
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- mdoneil writes "The City of Clearwater is looking for a new library director. The current director is going to Atlanta to be their director(not a job I would apply for but good luck John). The city has posted the position. What is most amazing is that an MLS is preferred. Not required but preferred. |
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- From the Enquirer: News of cuts to both purchasing budgets and personnel at the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County. And from the editors, their plaint to keep libraries open, particularly in economically disadvantaged areas of the city. Next year, they'll be looking for a tax increase as opposed to enduring further cuts. |
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- This announcement has been posted to several lists.nbsp; Please feel free to forward it where appropriate As a step into the continuing growth of Wi-Fi in libraries, I am starting a blog called Wireless Libraries. It is at: http: |
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- The New York Times has more readers of their on-line version than their print version, and they are not alone. Now, nearly a decade after newspapers began building and showcasing their Web sites, one of the most difficult questions in newspaper economics endures: should publishers charge for Web news, knowing that they may drive readers away? Advertising of course is a deciding factor. Bill Keller, executive editor of The New York Times, said "My main concern is that, however we distribute our work, we have to generate the money to pay for it. |
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- What are kids reading these days? Many are reading manga, the Japanese graphic novels that can offer extreme sexist stereotypes and gratuitous situations, atypical if what you're used to is the American version of comic book heroes and villains. At Deering High School in Portland ME, the manga collection is so popular that it needs to be kept under lock and key to prevent theft. This story from the Portland Press Herald tells how many middle and high school students find the novels both fascinating and off-putting; parents, librarians and comic-book store owners weigh as well on this popular genre. |
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- Cortez writes "March 13-19 has been deemed Missouri Sunshine Law week, a week that deals open meetings and records. More from St. Louis Today. Here's another piece about open records from the News Observer. " |
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- Cortez writes "Last year, roughly 936,000 people walked along the Amsterdam canals to visit the Anne Frank House, the hiding place where Anne Frank wrote the major part of her famous diary during World War II. But only a few miles away in the quiet southern part of the city, the apartment where Anne Frank lived for nine years before the German occupation remains unknown to most of the outside world. Now the flat will be restored to the Frank-era and become a place of sanctuary for writers." |
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- Forrester Research survey of IT executives shows a renewed willingness to open up the wallet. |
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- Forrester Research survey of IT executives shows a renewed willingness to open up the wallet. |
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- (tecCHANNEL.de, 14.03.2005 21:59) Kunden von Computer Associates (CA) sollten unbedingt die von dem Anbieter bereitgestellten Patches installieren, um so die Sicherheitslecks innerhalb der Lizenzsoftware ... |
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- OCLC has updated the tutorial about how to establish deep links to your library?s catalog with information for the Endeavor Voyager system in addition to additional details for several other library systems. You may access the updated version of the deep linking tutorial."Deep" linking enables users of Open WorldCat functionality to link from their search results (in Yahoo!, Google or other partner sites) to the Find in a Library interface and then directly to the item's record in your library's online catalog. |
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- Nokia on Monday announced the plans of making three new phones for the U.S. Market in hope of increasing its share of the US market. They also said that they hope to sell the phones in Mexico, Argentina, and Brazil. The phones will be based on a wireless technology used by Verizon Wireless and Sprint Mobile, CDMA. |
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- British record companies applauded Friday's ruling in court that gave them the right to obtain the identities of people who use file sharing programs from Internet service providers. The labels were looking for the identities of 31 persons suspected of uploading large numbers of illegal files onto various P2P services. "Today's result is a blow for illegal uploaders who believe that the law simply does not apply to them," Geoff Taylor, general counsel for the British Phonographic Industry, a music trade group, told reporters. |
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Jack's Back (Mar 14 2005 21:58 GMT) - Jack is a typical radio format. It will come. It will go. It will more than likely be forgotten by all except those whom enjoy such triviality. My issue with this latest format trend isn't what the stations using it are doing. |
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