| No Meds for This Depression
So that's where the US is... "voting" for the suit with the biggest hair on American Idol... so the "team" can "win." Soon we'll have to break for the Stupid Bowl... that's the one where the big guys crash into each other and throw the pointy brown thing, right? Salt lightly with the usual blather about getting "consumers" to consume more and run some beer commercials. Yeah, that will fix everything. .
Kevin Anderson joins the cast of 'Come Back, Little Sheba'
Epatha Merkerson's Lola in the Manhattan Theatre club revival of William Inge's "Come Back, Little Sheba," opening Jan. 24 at the Biltmore Theatre. In "Sheba," Lola, a blowzy, lonely Midwest housewife, is trapped in an unhappy marriage to Doc, a recovering alcoholic teetering on a relapse. When a pretty young woman, played by Zoe Kazan, rents a room in their home, the relationship between wife and husband is dramatically affected. .
Police chief explains Children's Theatre probe
The letter, released late Friday morning, says department investigators are working "tirelessly" to complete the probe and that the department understands the importance of the theater to the community. Johnson said the investigation to date has included: Witness and employee interviews. Review and analysis of thousands of city documents and e-mails. Search warrants served on numerous employee bank accounts (the average turnaround time for obtaining information from these searches is six to eight weeks). Search warrants served on three employee homes and a number of storage lockers. "My officers who are involved in this investigation are working tirelessly through their days off and on weekends to complete a thorough and objective case as fast as possible," Johnson wrote.
The Times Of India
Even though wild cards such as the US economy are looming overhead, the fundamentals are so solid that the market could very well beat our conservative expectations for 16.8 percent growth in 2008," he said.
Concerns that the United States could slide into a recession have hammered equities and financial markets worldwide. Economists say a slowdown in the world's biggest economy could also hit global economic growth.
Ma said computer sales this year should get a boost from a strong Chinese economy, and portable PCs will remain in demand "especially as the competition for sexy-looking consumer products intensifies."
Lenovo, which in 2005 acquired the personal computer business of US technology icon IBM, led the Asia Pacific market outside Japan with an 18.4 percent share, up from 17.4 percent in 2006.
CALDWELL'S TNA IMPACT REPORT 2/7: Ongoing coverage of Spike TV show
TNA Impact on Spike TV February 7, 2008 Taped Jan. 22 in Orlando, Florida Report by James Caldwell, Torch columnist The show opened with a video package on last week's show. "Friend...or foe?" is the theme tonight. Backstage: Borash was still sporting a neckbrace while holding the mic for a Robert Roode promo. Roode made fun of Sharmell having a broken jaw while Peyton Banks stood by his side. Roode then cut a promo in Booker's voice, which Borash didn't find humorous. Roode threw down his energy drink and grabbed the mic from Borash. He cut a promo on Booker T. for not returning his phone calls and emails. Roode said Booker really should thank him because Sharmell's losing weight and isn't bossing him around the house with her broken jaw. Roode said you're welcome, then said Booker will find out at the PPV that it pays to be Roode.
There's more to be wrung from state budget
Post a comment. View latest comments. There were no surprises in Gov. Jon S. Corzine's call for New Jersey to slash spending during his budget address yesterday before the Legislature. All in all, that lack of novelty was somewhat of a disappointment. So was the absence of an even more aggressive strategy to rescue New Jersey from the brink of financial ruin.
Corzine had telegraphed most of his budgetary maneuvers days in advance of his Statehouse speech, and those proposals that had anything to do with the streamlining of state government were especially welcome. The problem is such recommendations were few and far between. In fact, one special item aid to local education would get a significant bump of $550 million in state aid; the additional money is needed to float the state's new school-funding formula, which is designed to apportion more state dollars to economically disadvantaged students who live outside the state's poorest school districts, the so-called Abbotts.
District Court in Albuquerque swamped by DWI appeals
The state appealed the case, which sat with District Judge Carl Butkus for a year before he took himself off it in November 2007. Now District Judge Stan Whitaker has the case, but he must wait for the On-Record Appeals unit to make its review, research the implications of possible rulings he might make and recommend action, said Duran. Because of the backlog, Duran said she did not know if the unit will get to the Jones case this year. Chief Deputy District Attorney Gary Cade said his office has patience and understands the On-Record Appeals unit is swamped with cases. His office is, too, prosecuting a 13 percent increase in the number of DWI cases filed following arrests and a 55 percent increase in felony DWI cases, for suspects arrested on the fourth or subsequent DWI arrest.
Council to consider mandatory garbage, recycling service
The Eureka City Council can take another step Tuesday toward making universal curbside garbage and recycling collection a way of life. Special Projects Manager Gary Bird will ask the council to authorize city staff to bring back a universal curbside collection ordinance intended to assist the city in meeting state waste diversion mandates, and in reducing the amount of illegal dumping within city limits. The roots of the ordinance go back 18 years, to when California passed the Integrated Waste Management Act, which required cities and the state to cut their total garbage production in half by the year 2000. California Integrated Waste Management Board Chair Margo Reid Brown announced last September that California exceeded those goals, diverting 52 percent of its waste away from landfills -- a sizable accomplishment considering 90 percent of the state's waste ended up in landfills as recently as 1990, according to the waste management board.
Two dead after Valentine's Day tiff
A Northern Territory man shot dead his partner and stuffed her body in a freezer on a rural property outside of Katherine, before turning the gun on himself. Police found the bodies of the unemployed couple in the Helena Road area, 8km north-west of Katherine, about 4am (CST) on Valentine's Day morning. They had been called to the property 12 hours earlier - and cordoned off the area and evacuated several houses - following reports of a disturbance involving a gun. The couple, known in the neighbourhood for their recent relationship problems, were believed to have been aged in their 50s and had been dating for about two years, today's NT News reported. A neighbour told the paper the dead man, known only as Wayne, and his girlfriend Jacqueline Morrison were drinking at the property on Wednesday when they got into a heated argument.
Rumor Control
What we heard: In late October, an internal memo leaked out of EA's Mythic studio that suggested the megapublisher was on the verge of wide-scale layoffs to get "costs in line with revenues." The cost-cutting measure hinted at was subsequently explained away as routine turnover affecting a "small" number of individuals, and was associated with the end of a variety of projects. "Small" turned out to be a relative quantity, considering that EA CFO Warren Jenson said during a recent postearnings conference call that around 350 people of the nearly 8,000 that work for the publisher would be affected by the restructuring plan. The first to be hit by the layoffs turned out to be EA's Chertsey office in the UK, which will be shuttered in the next few months. Since then, speculation has surfaced about where else EA might make its cuts.
Chaffee council sticks to business
Forty people sat watching the city council review its business. The Florsheim building was appraised at $240,000. The police department has advertised for a patrolman and a dispatcher. Police chief Jesse Chisum told the board he has put cell phones in three cruisers and provided the numbers to the city clerk. Officers will get training in the field and on writing reports; classes on grant writing and responding to active shooters is also in the department's future. Chisum said his officers made 62 traffic stops since the first of the month, issued nine citations, responded to 15 calls for service and wrote 26 reports. Officers also cited two people for driving while intoxicated and made two warrant arrests. They responded to six domestic calls. City Clerk Diane Eftink reported gas bills for city vehicles: $1,597.74 for police and $622.07 for public works.
Review: 'Definitely, Maybe' a ho-hum affair
This may be the most aptly-titled movie I've ever reviewed. It almost certainly has an ending - provisionally, at least - though it perhaps won't come soon enough for you. Speaking entirely for me. Definitely, Maybe tells the long-winded story (in flashback, mostly) of peripatetic gadfly Will Hayes (Ryan Reynolds, sporting a range of expression that would put most department store mannequins to shame), who must explain to his daughter Maya (wunderkind Abigail Breslin, acting rings around him) why it is that he's getting divorced from her mom. We are constrained from revealing the identity of that actress/character because the mystery surrounding which of three individuals she actually may be is what carries the drama portion of this melancholic romantic dramedy along to its eventual blessed conclusion, nearly two hours into your movie-viewing future.
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