| Scavenging for Superdelegates
As we went to bed last night, the juicy New York Times headline "Black Leader, a Clinton Ally, Tilts to Obama" tucked us in. The story explained the soon-to-be defection of Georgia Rep. John Lewis from Hillary Clinton's camp to Barack Obama's. Lewis is a superdelegate and a civil rights leader whose district voted overwhelmingly for Barack Obama in Georgia's Super Tuesday primary. If he officially defected, his change of heart was thought to be a bellwhether for all of Clinton's superdelegates whose districts voted for Obama. The Times reported that Lewis "said Thursday night that he planned to cast his vote as a superdelegate for Senator Barack Obama in hopes of preventing a fight at the Democratic convention," but that Lewis was still weighing whether to officially endorse Obama. But after changing his mind on Clinton, he may be changing his mind on Obama.
PATH train riders travel for free
A Monmouth University/Gannett New Jersey poll released today showed Obama leading Clinton 57 percent to 24 percent among black voters, while Clinton held an identical 33-point lead among white voters, with 60 percent to 27 percent for Obama. Patrick Murray, director of the Monmouth University Polling Institute, estimated that one in five voters in Tuesday's Democratic primary will be black. Continue reading "N.J. black voters torn between Obama, Clinton" » .
Popular bar closing doors
We hope to acquire that land sometime in the near future," Ball said. "If we do acquire it, we would plant some trees and grass and shrubs. There could possibly be other uses later, but initially our plans would include landscaping."Long, who also owns Huddle House restaurants in Greenwood, Saluda, McCormick and Seneca, said the time was right to sell his sports bar."Greenwood has changed," Long said. "There's no telling how many restaurants have opened since we opened. With the office burning down next door and us clearing that lot, it seemed like the right time. A businessman in town made us an offer, and he has an agreement with Lander."We couldn't come up with a price with Lander. Then (the businessman) came in and made a good offer on both pieces of property."Long said it has been a strenuous and sad time as he prepares to close the business.
Marine donates kidney to man he barely knew
Staff Sgt. Darren Smiley was sitting at Thanksgiving dinner in 2006 when he made a decision: He needed to see if he could help a man he barely knew by giving up a kidney. Within weeks, Smiley, a reservist with Charlie Company, 4th Reconnaissance Battalion, started a lengthy testing process that led him to an operating table Jan. 30 at UCLA Medical Center in California. His left kidney was removed and placed in Daniel Haven, 43, an X-ray technician and father of a 4-year-old girl. Days after the surgery, Smiley, a 31-year-old father of three who has served two tours in Iraq, shrugged off the donation. "I have a young son myself, and the waiting list is usually seven or eight years," he said in a Feb. 5 phone interview from California. "I would hope that someone would do the same for me if they had the chance." The surgery has brought together two clans that had a familial connection but did not know each other particularly well.
Ottawa fires nuclear safety commission head
The federal government has fired the head of the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission, days after she publicly accused Natural Resources Minister Gary Lunn of interfering with the independence of the arm's-length watchdog. The former head of the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission, Linda Keen, says she will appear at a parliamentary committee about the reactor closure on Wednesday.(CBC) "The president was aware of the importance of maintaining Canada's and the world's supply of medical isotopes," said the statement from Lunn's office. "However, given the growing crisis, she did not demonstrate the leadership expected of the president under the existing legislative provisions of the Nuclear Safety and Control Act to put the commission in a position to address the situation in a timely fashion." Lunn and Keen have been at odds since the 50-year-old Chalk River nuclear reactor was shut down in November, prompting a worldwide shortage of medical isotopes.
From San Diego's favorite son ... to spoilsport
The most intriguing at-bat of 2007 is leaking into 2008. You can sense it by the way a 25-year-old wannabe struts through his February workouts. You can sense it by the way a 40-year-old shoulder shrugs at the line of questioning. You can sense it by the way a Hall of Famer is uncomfortably stuck in the middle. And you can sense it by the way a filthy rich man stares into space. On Sept. 29, 2007, Tony Gwynn Jr., for all practical purposes, knocked Tony Gwynn Sr.'s team out of the playoffs. But it's much crueler than that. He did it with two outs and two strikes in the bottom of the ninth -- against his Uncle Trevor. He did it with the champagne on ice and the Colorado Rockies on life support. He did it against the franchise that clothed and fed him and against a fan base that, 81 days a year, walks down Tony Gwynn Drive to the turnstiles.
FETC 2008: Learning management and eLearning systems
AVE Intervision Network discussed its synchronous and asynchronous class environment, AMVONET VCR, available online. AMVONET, or the Advanced Manageable Video Network, offers a choice of interactive tools that are included in the software, as well as a module for real-time recording and playback of the class session online. .
Who calls the tune in the new music age?
And Radiohead, as everyone knows, released the download version of In Rainbows from their own website, asking us all to pay whatever we wanted. (About £4, it's estimated; though a significant number coughed up £40 for the deluxe package.) One music business insider described that to me as 'a bomb going off in the industry'. In addition to all of this, there's an entire generation of teenagers that's grown up never paying a penny for music. It's just there, innit? You download it illegally, or you Bluetooth it from a mate's phone or rip it from their computer. All for free. Even when they're offered something more tangible, they don't want it. There was a great story in The Economist recently which said that, as recompense for some focus-group research, a major label offered a group of teenagers a selection of free CDs.
What’s in an Endorsement?
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Super disk cloning
But even without a major OS upgrade in the wild, savvy users know that you should always have a good, working backup of your Mac's hard drive. One way many users get such a backup is to “clone"—make a mirror image of—their drive. Not only does this approach let you perform an Erase and Install of OS X, using Migration Assistant to restore your data and applications from the clone (as explained by Joe), but it also means that if anything should ever happen to your main hard drive, you can be up and running from the clone in no time. Unfortunately, because of invisible files and permissions issues, you can't simply drag the contents of one volume onto another to get a good copy, as you could in Mac OS 9 and earlier. In the past, my favorite utility for cloning my hard drive has been Carbon Copy Cloner; unfortunately, it's not yet compatible with Tiger.
Can You Say, “Legacy”?
Egyptian manufacturers participating in Qualified Industrial Zone (QIZ) agreement can start putting a little more local love in their products: Trade talks last month led to a signed agreement that reduces required Israeli contribution to QIZ products by 1.2 percent. Under the original QIZ deal, Egyptian manufacturers in designated zones can export any goods to the United States duty free, provided an Israeli company furnishes one third of the required 35 percent content of local origin (11.7 percent in total) and both manufacturers finance a minimum 20 percent of the costs of production. Following an October meeting between President Mubarak and Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Eliyahu Bichai, the required Israeli component was reduced to 10.5 percent. Minister of Trade and Industry Rachid Mohamed Rachid was quoted in the local press as saying that the move increases the percentage of Egyptian raw material, hence raising local profit and job opportunities.
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