Archive for March, 2007

Nine Inch Nails’ Year Zero Preview: Beginning To Solve The Mystery 

Nine Inch Nails’ Year Zero Preview: Beginning To Solve The Mystery 
MTV News begins to solve the intricate mystery by walking you through Nine Inch Nails’ Year Zero, due April 17.

Laughter is best medicine 
Jeri Palmer has often made me grin and laugh. In the short time I have known her, she has made me think and made me wonder, and I have come close to crying with her, too. Like the rest of us, Jeri is dying. Unlike many of us, though, Jeri is really living. Jeri was diagnosed with lung cancer in 2000.

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Complete coverage

Complete coverage
New Orleans Times-Picayune - Still, with a number of buildings damaged beyond repair — in sections of the city where just a small fraction of the population has returned — a number of schools will probably disappear from the landscape forever, except in local memory, creating

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Deuel mailroom workers sift through inmates’ letters
Record - The mail room has taken over what was a vocational watch-repair shop, when the prison’s purpose was better aligned with its You write a letter; it’s 2 o’clock. You look up; it’s 4 o’clock. You’ve stayed out of trouble for two more hours, he said.

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Friday wild card

Friday wild card
Spokane Spokesman-Review - Sorry for only having one post today - we’ve had some breaking news this afternoon, and I know I’ve got more stuff coming down the pipeline so I’ll go ahead and throw out the wild card for today. The big guy will be back next week, and the weekend

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The clock doc
Independent Record - Eliza Wiley IR Staff Photographer - Evan Smalley stands alongside the mechanism from a European bell tower clock in a recent photo. The antique is one of more than 3,000 timepieces from around the world that Smalley maintains and repairs. Any

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It’s Friday . . . And So, The Readers Speak

It’s Friday . . . And So, The Readers Speak
Syracuse Post-Standard - I went to an SU men’s basketball game recently after a very busy week dictated by the clock and a hurried schedule. And what did I get? Two very busy teams going at it, dictated by the clock and a hurried schedule — racehorse, fast-break basketball

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Milch surfs back to HBO
Variety - hosted a private screening of the first two episodes of the coming final season of “The Sopranos” at the Museum of Modern Art. In the time-honored fashion of making those who love “The Sopranos” wait for it, the screening, which indicated “7 o’clock

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February 2007

February 2007
Herald & Review - McCubbin is working on a book about her great-grandfather, and is looking to interview those with memories of the man. Mike The clock started, I flipped my board over, and in 45 seconds, my laughter bordered on maniacal. There were 10 questions on

Sue Ramsett’s Blog
WSAW - Hi All, Thanks for your comments. My responses have been limited for the past several weeks as I’ve taken on the responsibilities of Interim News Director. As the title implies - I’m just filling in until the position can be filled permanently. While

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SCAVENGER 

SCAVENGER 
When it comes to ideas for novels, Im a packrat. My office shelves are crammed with file folders dating back several decades. Scribbled summaries of radio reports and TV interviews are bundled with yellowing pages ripped from magazines and newspapers. Stacks of them.

The daylight-saving time of his life 
An 18th century clock - worth thousands. The precise repair work necessary to keep it ticking - sometimes measured in mere millimeters. A profession where you actually get to have the time of your life - priceless.

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Iraqi Christian, American Muslim find sisterhood

Iraqi Christian, American Muslim find sisterhood
San Luis Obispo Tribune - But the clock is ticking. Ansam’s latest unit rotates out of Anbar this week and she still doesn’t have her passport, even Ansam’s grandfather was so angry that his son had married a Christian that he disinherited him in court and cast him from the

Nouvel up by one at start of fourth quarter
MLive.com - Nouvel Catholic Central High School’s Panthers lead Charlevoix 46-45 in the quest to head to the state Class C basketball finals. At the close of the third quarter, Nouvel guard Tim Ryan led the team with 16 points. The teams are playing at East

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Another Week, Another Seven Dollars

Another Week, Another Seven Dollars
RPGamer - I think that it’s good for a company to play up on hype in order to boost sales, but only if it means that they continue to Yesh, three hundred and forty-four hours and fifty-eight minutes on the clock. Why did I just spell that all out? Because

Zimbabwe: Two Dailies Forced to Close Because of Lack of Funds
AllAfrica.com - Tick, tock, tick, tock, the clock ticks,” he wrote. Tichaonoa Chifamba, the head of the company that owns the “Daily Mirror Thereafter sales plummeted to as low as 2,000 copies a day and it accumulated 500 million Zimbabwean dollars (about 1.5

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Handheld horror stories

Handheld horror stories
Australian IT - ONCE upon a time, a desktop weather station and world clock was about as techie as exec toys got. Now almost everyone has We’ve had mobile system for years but users just want that one bit of information on their phone, such as a sales pipeline

Latest News
dBusinessNews.com - Well-Being Index Penny-wise Americans say they ll save, not spend, tax refunds and bonuses DES MOINES — With the clock GEICO provides consumers with outstanding sales, service and claims capabilities on its geico.com Web site 24 hours a day

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Samaritans repair damage from vandalism 

Samaritans repair damage from vandalism 
Just days after her home remodeling was finished, a vandal ruined almost everything in Norine Toledos Grimes home. When the workers who did the…

Dont look for a Y2K here 
An engineer will push a couple of keys early Sunday and digitally reset Union Stations trademark lobby clock.

No task is too tall for Pacifica’s ‘Spiderman’ 
Like most boys his age, Jim Phelan liked to climb. But instead of scaling fences or hills, the 12-year-old was a virtual Spiderman, crawling up tall church spires to do repairs with his father, never giving the height a second thought.

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Garmin introduces new entry-level version of navigator

Garmin introduces new entry-level version of navigator
Kansas City Star - Bartel, Garmin s vice president of worldwide sales. This is the ideal out-of-the-box, entry-level car navigation system. In addition to voice directions, the three units include a picture viewer, calculator, currency converter and world clock.

The Politics of Distraction
Washington Post - The CBS Evening News led its broadcast last night saying, ‘That ticking sound around Washington tonight may be the clock running out on . . . Gonzales.’ The pressure on him ‘is building,’ and ‘one Republican strategist close to the White House told

Do You Know Where Your Slogan Is?
New York Times - For instance, WNYW-TV in New York plans to celebrate tonight the 40th anniversary of The 10 O Clock News, now called it, it brings people back to their childhood and directly to the station, said Debbie von Ahrens, vice president and sales

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MOVIE TIME CLOCK

MOVIE TIME CLOCK
Newark Star-Ledger - MOVIE TIME CLOCK Night at the Museum. (PG) Fri. 7:10, 9:45.Sat. 2:00, 4:40, 7:10, 9:45.Sun. 2:00, 4:40, 7:10. Norbit. (PG-13) Fri. 7:10, 9:45

Cupola Crowns New Library
Cumberland County Sentinel - For almost a century, Thomas Brothers Country Store and Museum has been a landmark in the Biglerville community. Standing at Gracing the top of the library fireplace will be a brass mantle clock and matching candelabra given to the Thomas family by

Augusta, Georgia Hotel Celebrates Multi-Million-Dollar Renovation with
Forbes - Homelike upgrades and comforts include 32-inch flat-screen LCD televisions, MP3 compatible, stereo clock radios and the short drive from Riverwalk Augusta, the Georgia Golf Hall of Fame, Augusta Golf and Gardens and the Lucy Craft Laney Museum

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Clock tower mystery solved 

Clock tower mystery solved 
In “Dandelion Wine,” Ray Bradbury wrote that there were two moons in the sky above Green Town. Fifty years after he wrote that and made the old clock tower a supporting player in his homage to 1920s Waukegan, Bradbury decided last week to find out what happened to the city’s ancestral timepiece. Well, there’s good news. And bad news.

Deciding Desiderio 
PASADENA - As cracks appear in the affordable housing/art and environment center partnership for the Desiderio Army reserve site, both parties were advised to “cancel all shore leave” and work on a solid compromise for the City Council to consider March 19.

Documentary being shown at Scottdale church 
There will be a free film screening of “Iraq for Sale,” a documentary about corporations profiting from the war in Iraq, at 7 p.m. Saturday at Scottdale Mennonite Church, 801 Market St. “People for Peace” is the sponsor and the film running 75 minutes. Refreshments will be served and discussion will follow. For more information, call 724-887-5019 or visit: www.iraqforsale.org.

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Siderordromophilia, Or Mad about Trains

Siderordromophilia, Or Mad about Trains
Kommersant - conductors, including trainers, were put on round-the-clock alert. Arrivals and departures were announced on the public address system. In the dark station, such as Paveletsky, reserve diesel generators were turned on. There is power and ticket sales

Luxury Car Makers Try to Help Customers Understand and Appreciate High
Wall Street Journal - How to reset the clock in their Mercedes to adjust for daylight savings time ( See the email ). It’s not that Mercedes customers Verrill say Audi sales people are downloading the videos to use as prompts when they are guiding buyers around their new cars

WPMI-TV fires well-known news anchors
Everything Alabama - Amid lackluster ratings and management changes, NBC affiliate WPMI-TV15, a station on the sales block, fired its three I was called up to the general manager’s office after the 6 o’clock show on Friday and basically told I was no longer

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Ceradyne: profits made with pride

Ceradyne: profits made with pride
Lexington Herald-Leader - More than 300 employees working 12-hour shifts keep three production lines going around the clock to turn out most of the Ceradyne’s revenues nearly doubled and its profits almost tripled in 2006, when roughly three-fourths of its sales were

Daylight Savings Time tomorrow
Delaware Online - Says losing daylight savings time each year hurts his pumpkin sales, because it gets dark early and customers have a hard Daylight Savings Time may push the clock ahead one hour tomorrow morning, but Middletown-area farmer John Filasky Jr. s isn

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How to Avoid Lawsuits by Tech-Driven Employees 

How to Avoid Lawsuits by Tech-Driven Employees 
With increasing numbers of workers expected to be on call 24 hours a day via personal wireless devices, there is a growing threat that employees will grow resentful and decide to take legal action against their employers. Possible claims could include dependency, stress-related illnesses and carpal tunnel syndrome, as well as overtime pay claims by nonexempt employees. Law professor Frank C. …

Fool on the Street: In the Prime of Amazon’s Life 
The leading e-tailer wants to nail you to its virtual doorstep.

Online Ad Spending Hits $4.8 Billion in Q4 2006 
The IAB and PricewaterhouseCoopers expect total 2006 revenues to reach $16.8 billion.

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Mercury Rising

Mercury Rising
Baltimore City Paper - Their son “picked up a lot of Spanish and worked out a schedule of studying language lessons on records at 4 o’clock every grandmother died of a brain cancer, my brother is a life-long sufferer of extreme intellect w/ no social skills, my grandfather

Huckleberries Online
Spokane Spokesman-Review - DFO: Idawa came “in from the cold” earlier today, identifying himself to me. He’s a young man with deep roots in North Idaho who currently lives in the Seattle area. A top-notch dude. I was thrilled to get to know him a little via e-mail. It’ll make

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Thomas Dolby No Longer ‘The Sole Inhabitant,’ Heads to SXSW with Jazz Mafia Horns 

Thomas Dolby No Longer ‘The Sole Inhabitant,’ Heads to SXSW with Jazz Mafia Horns 
NORTHERN CALIFORNIA — If you’re wondering what Thomas Dolby has done in the two decades since he cunningly fused pop and electronic music, the answer is in the palm of your hand: Twelve years ago Dolby left music and proceeded to develop the Beatnik software technology used in two-thirds of the world’s cell phones.

Couple enjoys collecting, decorating with antiques sartifacts 
VIDALIA For Greg and Donnie Young of 506 Locust St., collecting antique artifacts reminds them of a simpler time when a community banned together. The couples garage is adorned with antique collectables like bow saws, cotton scale weights, and coal-oil lanterns used on trains.

FBI Looking For Bank Robber 
The bank robbery happened just before closing time at the Bank of America on Transmountain and Kenworthy. Monica Balderrama reports: Bank Customer Recalls RobberySign Up For E-Mail News Alerts

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Chalkware has value as folk art 

Chalkware has value as folk art 
There’s no chalk in chalkware. The sought-after decorative pieces are molded, painted plaster.

Secrets of Nijinsky 
In December 1917, Vaslav Nijinsky, at that time the most celebrated male dancer in the Western world, moved into a villa in St. Moritz with his wife, Romola, and their three-year-old daughter.

William I. Donaldson 
WHAT DO YOU THINK? Register here to share your opinion on our reader forum. William Irving Donaldson, age 84, of the Tellico Village Community in Loudon, Tenn., passed away in Knoxville, Tennessees University of Tennessee Medical Center on Feb. 25, 2007.

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GDP growth weaker than expected 

GDP growth weaker than expected 
The economy grew at a sluggish 2. 2 percent pace in the final quarter of last year, the government reported today in one of the steepest…

iMainGo iPod Speaker System: A Pint-Sized Powerhouse 
iMainGo is a tiny iPod stereo speaker system that sounds a lot better than a speaker system so small has a right to sound. Measuring just 5.7 inches by 3.8 inches by 2.4 inches, and weighing in at a mere nine ounces, iMainGo is a teeny, tiny titan that fills a small room with surprisingly loud, pleasant, crisp and undistorted sound.

Intel, AMD vie for server attention 
Dueling chipmakers try to steer attention to tomorrow’s battleground for quad-core server processors.

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