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Wednesday, April 19th, 2006
2:55 am	Feelings and Egos Get in the Way of Making Money: Matthew Lynn Feelings and Egos Get in the Way of Making Money: Matthew Lynn Bloomberg.com - Tue, 18 Apr 2006 23:34:25 GMT April 19 (Bloomberg) -- One of the enduring mysteries of the finance world is also one of the simplest. How do seemingly intelligent, well-educated people make so many bad decisions? Letters to the Editor - 4/18/2006 North County Times - Tue, 18 Apr 2006 23:27:00 GMT Supervisor Bill Horn and his chief of staff, Joan Wonsley, did a great job of blowing smoke in their interview with the North County Times ("Horn defends home deal," April 7). Here are the questions they did not answer: First, why has Horn still not released his agreement with Wonsley on the Carlsbad property as the terms continue to morph on his lawyer's advice on damage control? Do This Now: Seven Steps to Stop Procrastinating Fox News - Tue, 18 Apr 2006 23:18:43 GMT Is procrastination hurting your life and stressing you out? Here are some signs you have a problem, and seven steps for kicking the procrastination habit. Book reviews for February 2: Raymond Khoury, "The Last Templar"; Greg Rucka, "Private Wars"; Rennie Airth, "The The Davis Enterprise - Tue, 18 Apr 2006 22:27:39 GMT Published Feb 03, 2006 - 15:41:26 CST. Two of this month's novels, Raymond Khoury's “The Last Templar” and Greg Rucka's “Private Wars,” are outright thrillers. NC man dies after being shot with Taser gun WIS-TV Columbia - Tue, 18 Apr 2006 22:26:13 GMT (Dublin, NC-AP) April 18, 2006 - Authorities in Bladen County, North Carolina, say a man has died after a sheriff's deputy shot him with a Taser gun. Billy Ray Cook of Dublin died in the emergency room at Bladen County Hospital on Sunday. Gold hits 25-year peak on fund buying Reuters.co.uk - Tue, 18 Apr 2006 22:14:37 GMT LONDON (Reuters) - Gold surged to a new 25-year high on Tuesday and silver hit its highest level in 23 years as a blistering rally in commodities lured more players into the sector, dealers said. Rule No. 18: Be Flexible TheStreet.com - Tue, 18 Apr 2006 20:31:43 GMT In this special look at Jim Cramer's latest book, he lays out the necessity of adapting to changing conditions. Philip Hersh's blog: Putting U.S Boston finish in perspective Chicago Tribune - Tue, 18 Apr 2006 20:29:12 GMT R-CALF: Half of Canadian BSE Cattle Born After Feed Ban CattleNetwork.com - Tue, 18 Apr 2006 18:36:20 GMT Billings , Mont. – Canada announced on Sunday yet another case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), this time in British Columbia , in a dairy cow born in mid-2000. Alone with the enemy Granma Internacional - Tue, 18 Apr 2006 18:36:14 GMT WHAT we refer to as the October Crisis and others prefer to call the "Missile" Crisis of 1962 featured what experts say was the largest number of U.S. naval forces ever deployed in the Caribbean Sea. Now, all signs are that that huge operation pales in comparison with the one currently underway, dubbed "Partnership of the Americas," which began under U.S. leadership in April and is to last until Links: Lexus RX300 Lexus LX 450 Lexus Lexus GS 400 Lexus LS 600h Lexus GX 470 Lexus SC400 Lexus ES 300 Lexus JX Lexus IS 250 Lexus LF Lexus GS 450h (Comment on this)
Thursday, April 13th, 2006
4:25 pm	This `Glass' is half-empty This `Glass' is half-empty San Jose Mercury News - Thu, 13 Apr 2006 11:14:58 GMT Dusting off ``The Glass Menagerie'' requires the greatest possible care. More delicate than a Chihuly, even the slightest manhandling and the 1944 classic starts to crack in your hands. Berkeley Joins Nation in Day of Action for Immigration Rights Berkeley Daily Planet - Tue, 11 Apr 2006 16:04:06 GMT Hundreds of demonstrators flocked to Sproul Plaza at UC Berkeley Monday to protest proposed federal immigration reform and to shore up support for immigrant rights. Political fatigue Malta Today - Mon, 10 Apr 2006 18:03:32 GMT There are no better moments than those which make you to want to believe in people. The other day in a corridor in one of the most beautiful located of all hospitals in Malta, a hospital employee waved a shy hand as I walked past. No-vote campaign overshadows TRT Bangkok Post - Sat, 08 Apr 2006 20:03:27 GMT The vigorous campaign urging people in the South to mark ''abstention'' on ballots in the second round of voting continues to cast a shadow over Thai Rak Thai candidates embarrassed by the high rate of no-votes in the April 2 general election. Five patrolmen, six officers sworn into service The Woonsocket Call - Sat, 08 Apr 2006 07:06:33 GMT WOONSOCKET -- The rising stars of the Police Department shone at Woonsocket High School on Friday night. In the case of Deputy Chief Richard A. Dubois, how long they can hang in the sky remains to be seen. 'The Swamp' New York Times - Sat, 08 Apr 2006 05:26:26 GMT "Today, everyone agrees that the Everglades is a national treasure. . . . But there was once just as broad a national consensus that the Everglades was a worthless morass . . . " At Least 71 Die as Bombers Hit Mosque in Baghdad New York Times - Sat, 08 Apr 2006 04:10:22 GMT The mosque is the religious bastion of the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq, the country's most powerful Shiite party. 3 bombers kill scores at Shiite mosque International Herald Tribune - Sat, 08 Apr 2006 00:10:47 GMT The attack came as the U.S. ambassador, Zalmay Khalilzad, said that a sectarian war in Iraq could erupt if a unified government is not formed soon and that such a war could engulf the entire Middle East. Local talent vies for spot in Gospelfest Seattle Post-Intelligencer - Thu, 06 Apr 2006 05:41:27 GMT You'll hear plenty of singing -- and also see some praise dance in action -- when McDonald's Gospelfest makes its Seattle debut Saturday. :: Metro Pulse Online :: Metro Pulse - Wed, 05 Apr 2006 16:16:25 GMT When director Robert Hahn opted to tackle Lanford Wilson’s 1970s hit Hot L Baltimore , he probably didn’t foresee that it would be so timely in regard to the current local and national “definition of family” controversy (see CityBeat on page 11). The play, which depicts the residents of a dilapidated Baltimore hotel all struggling to define themselves, could be seen as a commentary on the state Links: Lexus RX 300 Lexus LX 470 Lexus Lexus IS 200 Lexus LS400 Lexus GX 470 Lexus SC400 Lexus ES 330 Lexus JX 470 Lexus IS 200 Lexus LF-C Lexus GS 430 (Comment on this)
Monday, April 10th, 2006
6:30 pm	`Dream' documentary is dynamite `Dream' documentary is dynamite Akron Beacon Journal - Mon, 10 Apr 2006 15:15:28 GMT Dream A Little Dream: The Nearly True Story of the Mamas and the Papas is both a wistful and joyous account of the rise and fall of the iconic 1960s pop band. BREWING DREAMS Fort Worth Star-Telegram - Mon, 10 Apr 2006 02:18:10 GMT On any given night, a dream is being realized at Artistic Blends Coffeehouse and Theatre. An 11-year-old pianist is playing through her repertoire -- arabesque, sonatina, Strawberry Fields Forever -- for tips and applause. A banker-who-shoulda-been-an-artist is hanging his watercolors in the art gallery, placing price tags underneath. Or an aspiring comedian is trotting out his favorite lines to 'I'm not such an awful human being' Daily Telegraph - Mon, 10 Apr 2006 01:05:11 GMT Media bad boy and arch self-publicist Piers Morgan is desperate to show Jan Moir he has another side. Monks and their monasteries go into retreat as recruits dwindle Daily Telegraph - Mon, 10 Apr 2006 01:01:11 GMT Britain's monks and their monasteries are in danger of all but disappearing within a generation, as a life of contemplation and prayer no longer pulls in sufficient recruits, new figures have suggested. Overshooting the mark NorthJersey.com - Sun, 09 Apr 2006 15:45:23 GMT It is Tuesday, April 4, the official release date of 19-year-old Kaavya Viswanathan's eagerly-awaited, intensely buzzed-about debut novel. Surely this must be a celebratory time for the teen from Franklin Lakes, Harvard's so-called six-figure sophomore. 'Election,' 'Perhaps Love' win at Hong Kong film awards CBC - Sun, 09 Apr 2006 14:56:21 GMT Johnnie To's gangster film Election was the big winner at the 25th Hong Kong Film Awards on Saturday, taking best film, best director and best screenplay. Abundant Living silent auction fundraiser draws art lovers Salisbury Post - Sun, 09 Apr 2006 12:19:11 GMT "It's her," Connie Shurtz exclaimed as she walked into the Heritage Room Saturday night and saw Frances Collins standing beside her own portrait. Eye of the Tiger: Former boxer has not let missed opportunities knock him down Norwalk Advocate - Sun, 09 Apr 2006 10:35:16 GMT Maybe they've never heard of Joe Louis or Rocky Marciano, but Coleytown Elementary School students know their bus monitor is a former boxer. crack open a new book San Jose Mercury News - Sun, 09 Apr 2006 10:16:33 GMT A braver reviewer would tell you to go away. Turn the page. Find the Target circular and leave me be. But I'm not half as clever as Michaela Muntean. And even if it is, sigh, difficult to write with you standing over my shoulder, I don't want you to miss out on Muntean's belly-buster of a book. LBGP: Sex sizzles - and sells - at GP Long Beach Press-Telegram - Sun, 09 Apr 2006 09:35:06 GMT LONG BEACH — For advertisers, one cardinal rule still applies: When in doubt, use women in revealing clothing to attract customers. Thematically the gimmick was fitting for the annual Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach, often touted by fans as Southern California's biggest beach party. Links: Lexus RX400h Lexus LX Lexus Lexus RX 400h Lexus LS 460L Lexus GX 470 Lexus SC 400 Lexus ES330 Lexus JX 470 Lexus IS350 Lexus LF-A Lexus GS 400 (Comment on this)
Sunday, April 9th, 2006
6:50 am	Read Ahead II Read Ahead II INQ7.net - Sun, 09 Apr 2006 01:22:12 GMT “Curacao Cure and Other Stories” by Paulino Lim, Jr., Anvil Publishing, Inc. Weintraub: Thou shall not remake the movie classics Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - Sun, 09 Apr 2006 00:55:50 GMT On the upside, the visitation of the plagues and the parting of the Red Sea in ABC's two-night, four-hour, super-duper remake of "The Ten Commandments" are much cooler than the same scenes in the 1956 version. On the down... Barbara Ellen talks to Simon Amstell and Miquita Oliver, bowing out of Popworld Guardian Unlimited - Sun, 09 Apr 2006 00:51:54 GMT Media: As Simon Amstell and Miquita Oliver bow out of Popworld, Barbara Ellen bids them a fond farewell. Bands on the run The Observer - Sat, 08 Apr 2006 23:55:12 GMT Certain music industry bigwigs may be delighted at the news that Simon Amstell and Miquita Oliver, the presenters of Channel 4's weekend morning must-see chat-and-pop fixture Popworld, are stepping down after six years at the helm. EKREM DUMANLI Zaman Online - Sat, 08 Apr 2006 21:18:17 GMT Tension in the Southeast of Turkey is rising again. Children throwing stones at soldiers and police officers; behind them several turbaned men, smashed window panes, burning tires. The outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) organization orders shop owners to pull down their shutters. Letters to the Editor The Burlington Free Press - Sat, 08 Apr 2006 09:52:32 GMT The measure of success that the Take Back the Air Guard campaign enjoys is in knowing that despite universal opposition from all of Vermont's elected officials including the governor, two U.S. senators, our U.S. representative and the entire City Council that we were still able to garner 42 percent of the vote! The Antidote-Classic Poetry for Today The Epoch Times - Sat, 08 Apr 2006 07:17:17 GMT Ever been down on your luck? The Embankment (The fantasia of a fallen gentleman on a cold, bitter night)Once, in finesse of fiddles found I ecstasy, In a flash of gold heels on the hard pa... Take a seat in the `Smoking' section The Charlotte Observer - Sat, 08 Apr 2006 06:14:40 GMT Ivan Reitman last made a watchable film when Bill Clinton was inaugurated. So when I heard that his 28-year-old son, Jason, was debuting with a comedy at the Toronto International Film Festival -- to which the Reitman family donated land for a new festival center -- my nepotism detector went off like a fire alarm. Reader blasts Farm Bureau's Frank Priestly AG Weekly - Sat, 08 Apr 2006 04:16:56 GMT I am one of those city people who live among the pollution and crowded conditions. We city people are not stupid; we know when our country is "fleeced." Depth of Wilder's style evident in set Contra Costa Times - Sat, 08 Apr 2006 01:16:37 GMT While some might consider it libelous to compare Cameron Crowe's book "Conversations With Wilder" to Francois Truffaut's great film-by-film analysis, "Hitchcock/Truffaut," there are decided similarities. Links: Lexus RX 330 Lexus LX450 Lexus Lexus GS 400 Lexus LS400 Lexus GX Lexus SC 400 (Comment on this)
Thursday, April 6th, 2006
10:45 am	JetBlue hits turbulence JetBlue hits turbulence Miami Herald - Thu, 06 Apr 2006 07:37:33 GMT As the U.S. airline industry unraveled over the past five years, JetBlue Airways proved that a carrier with the right mix of low overhead, cheap fares and distinguished service could succeed during a punishing downturn. New Apple software lets Macs run Windows Baltimore Sun - Thu, 06 Apr 2006 07:36:35 GMT Mike Himowitz Great news! We can finally buy a PC that runs the Macintosh operating system. Or is it a Mac that runs Microsoft Windows? Creditors Object to Delphi's Job-Cutting Plan Los Angeles Times - Thu, 06 Apr 2006 07:35:06 GMT Delphi Corp. creditors objected in court to a company job-cutting plan that might require the ailing auto-parts maker to repay billions of dollars in labor costs to General Motors Corp. ‘Dateline’ tactics rile NASCAR Kansas City Star - Thu, 06 Apr 2006 07:32:37 GMT NASCAR was critical of reporters at “Dateline NBC” on Wednesday, saying the news show targeted one of its race tracks last weekend for a possible segment on anti-Muslim sentiment in the United States. Consumers Hesitant To File Auto Insurance Claims PR Web - Thu, 06 Apr 2006 07:29:00 GMT A study by the Nebraska Autobody Association found that consumers were disinclined to file automotive claims. [PRWEB Apr 6, 2006] Tigers' win improves postseason chances Baltimore Sun - Thu, 06 Apr 2006 07:28:19 GMT In a game that offered the winner some insurance of gaining a postseason selection, No. 12 Towson staved off a tying bid by No. 13 UMBC in the final two minutes and scored an 8-7 lacrosse victory before 1,318 last night at UMBC Stadium. By: Ramzy Baroud Al Jazeera - Thu, 06 Apr 2006 07:28:10 GMT What is currently transpiring in the occupied territories is by far a worst-case scenario, ironically one made possible with the direct help of many Palestinians themselves. News in Brief The Philadelphia Inquirer - Thu, 06 Apr 2006 07:27:37 GMT HARRISBURG - Gov. Rendell holds a lopsided lead over Republican challenger Lynn Swann among black voters, according to an independent poll released yesterday. No More Gambling on N. Korea Los Angeles Times - Thu, 06 Apr 2006 07:23:56 GMT China's Macao, its casinos looking for U.S. funds, has dropped a pariah bank client. For $50G, ‘shot caller’ can go free Trentonian - Thu, 06 Apr 2006 07:23:56 GMT TRENTON -- Bernard Porter, the self-admitted "shot caller’’ of the Sex-Money-Murder gang who turned himself into police as a murder suspect last week, can walk out of jail with $50,000. Links: Lexus GX 470 (Comment on this)