| Battlemind: Returning troops find new difficulties at home
Like a lot of troops serving overseas, Staff Sgt. Dustin Heger had a high-stress job. Like the paratroopers now returning home from Iraq to Fort Richardson, he needed to remain vigilant, or people could die. At the same time, Heger's particular responsibilities were unique. .
Looking Up!
Initially, we were no wiser than dishing out the usual guesswork — yes, no, maybe. None at the table had signed up for 3G service, despite heavy promotions from service providers. The general consensus — it wasn't the cost but the lack of a compelling reason to move up to 3G. What could really make it fly will be one or maybe two "killer" applications — tools or services people find useful and can't do without, like short messaging system (SMS) that has heralded in an entirely new subculture of non-voice communication, even across office partitions. How convenient it is when you need to "talk" privately to your loved ones while travelling on the airport express train or the city bus. Nobody could eavesdrop on your private non-verbal communication, apart from the irritating beeps and shrills when messages are received.
Concha Buika stands proud from flamenco crowd
Concha Buika has a confession to make, one that could irreparably damage flamenco. Preparing to make her British debut at Sadler's Wells theatre in London on March 14, the hottest property the world of traditional Spanish music has seen in many years tells me that she prefers going to bed early over trawling Andalusia's bars caterwauling until dawn. "I live a quiet, healthy life," she says, "and I only go to flamenco clubs occasionally, when my manager isn't looking." The 35-year-old singer tells me this only after I have risked developing cancer through passive smoking in La Carboneria, Seville's most notorious late-night flamenco bar. If you've ever felt short-changed after a show packaged up for tourists on the costas, this is the antidote. It is 3am and, accompanied only by an acoustic guitar, a middle-aged woman with dyed orange hair and an elaborate white dress is stomping around a tiny stage entertaining a crowd of students with tales of a life in which she has been dealt just one bad hand too many.
Finding a Common Thread in the Online Haystack
Disaboom, which launched in the fall of 2007 and left beta last week, is a startup to watch. Along with acquiring the Lovebyrd.com dating site for people living with disabilities, Disaboom has apparently impressed Madison Avenue, as its partners list includes Ford, General Motors, Johnson & Johnson, Avis and RE/MAX. Free Report from Keynote Systems 2007 Trends and Observations of the Mobile and Connected World examines how technologies, from the Web to the mobile phone, are specifically impacting key vertical industries, from financial services to new media. Download yours here. .
McCain looks confident; Democratic race tightens
Look through the pages. The reliance on proxies like his wife is photographically documented. His rhetorical reliance on blackness is apparent on the first page, where front and center feature words who's author is no doubt Axelrod: There is no better advocate for African Americans than Barack Obama. Barack knows your story, because it is his story. The causes that you hold dear have been the causes of his life. Barack has spent his entire career fighting for justice — as a community organizer in the streets of the South Side of Chicago, as a civil rights attorney, a constitutional law professor, an Illinois state Senator and a U.S. Senator. In Chicago Obama was charge with rape when he was 17 years old charges droped after his dad payed off some cops ???? Crucial to Obama's primary success, are his advisers unabashed beliefs that they can turn our hopes and emotions to their advantage.
Darkroom Productions Keeps the Good News Coming
We get a number of boastful e-mails from local hip-hop labels, and trust us when we say they're not all newsworthy. But pretty much anytime Juan Donovan, who along with Jamal Roberts makes up Darkroom Productions, sends out an e-mail blast, he's got something genuinely exciting to tell us. Every few weeks there's another major-label rapper they're collaborating with, or another show on MTV that they're composing original music for. And this morning came a whole slew of information from Donovan, including the release date for Darkroom's first nationally distributed album, among other things. In January, Donovan first announced that Darkroom Productions had signed a deal to release Hamsterdam The Album with distribution from independent hip-hop giant Koch.
Coveting the many talented gifts of Tiger Woods
This has been apparent to golfers since the world's No. 1 player cut his famous Nike commercial 12 years ago. Although the ad played to his connection to galleries diverse in age, ethnicity and social and economic backgrounds, golfers of all stripes quickly discovered they can hardly associate their games with his. "If you ever get half as good as Tiger, you'd be a pretty good golfer," PGA Tour pro Geoff Ogilvy said last year when Woods won seven times, captured his 13th major, at the PGA Championship, and won the inaugural FedExCup playoffs. "We almost expect him to win all the tournaments that he's playing," frequent practice round partner, good friend and colleague Charles Howell III said last week. As Woods tees off at 2:02 p.m. ET Wednesday (2-6 p.m., Golf Channel) in the first round of the WGCAccenture Match Play Championship in Marana, Ariz., near Tucson, he's firing on all cylinders again.
Supreme Court Allows EULAs On Seeds
In 2006 I had a failed crop of tomatoes in my backyard vegetable garden, and only 16 plants survived the combination of unusually dry, hot season, and cucumber blight that didn't restrict itself to cucumbers. In 2007, I rotated my crops, as I always do, but managed to get 12 tomato plants sprout in my pepper area. Do I now owe Burpee money since the seeds I planted the prior year resulted in new plants this year? That said... even though it's a stupid law, if you're going to replant, still buy seeds in slowly diminishing quantities to stay off the radar of the "obviously infringing" people. Sad to say, but something like this could eventually wipe out the naturally sustainable food sources. Finally, the seeds SHOULD be free, because they are ONLY resistant to that brand's herbicides, meaning guaranteed herbicide sales.
Watercooler Stories
CARTHAGE, Mo., Nov. 28 (UPI) -- A gun-toting grandmother in Missouri foiled a pair of would-be burglars.
Police, who did not release the 63-year-old woman's name, said she temporarily captured Faith Barrick of Carthage and a teenage boy, the Joplin Globe reported. The pair escaped when she went to her telephone to call police but two suspects were arrested three hours later based on the description she gave.
The grandmother was eating lunch with one of her grandchildren when she saw a woman in her yard, Lt. Aaron Richardson of the Jasper County Sheriff's Office said. She got her gun and waited while the teenager broke through her door.
Barrick contacted police before her arrest, claiming she had stopped at the woman's house because of car trouble and the woman pulled a gun on her, Richardson said.
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