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April 22, 2008 Breaking News
70 below recorded in northwest China
Tue, 22 Apr 2008 09:08:26 PDT
A cold front that killed thousands of livestock swept through northwest China, bringing sandstorms, snow and bitter cold to the region. The Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region experienced Siberian-like temperatures of at least 70 below zero, though forecasts predicated a warming trend, China's official Xinhua news agency reported Tuesday.
10 Ways to Make an Impact for Earth Day
Tue, 22 Apr 2008 09:19:10 PDT
How businesses are joining the trend to save the earth — and 10 ways your IT department can lead the way.
TextStyle - Twinkle Twinkle's
Tue, 22 Apr 2008 09:38:24 PDT
Visit the quirky, often topsy-tervy world of a fashion addicted 17 year old. Features my personal take on trends, designers and life in general as well as my day-to-day outfits and musings.
The Mullet Strategy New (Hair)Styles in Media
Tue, 22 Apr 2008 09:41:53 PDT
Exploring cyberlinguistics and new terms/trends in online media
UKidney.com Launches online blood pressure logging tool
Tue, 22 Apr 2008 09:50:24 PDT
UKidney.com announces the launch of a new service called MyBP: Personal Blood Pressure Log. This excellent FREE service allows patients to:1. Record blood pressure readings2. Trend results3. Record medication lists and notes on individual readings4. Export readings to PDF for printing, to Excel files for analysis and to email
Wall art and Canvas Photos in Home Interior Designs
Tue, 22 Apr 2008 09:53:49 PDT
Beautiful furnishings, wall hangings and other materials help a large way in decorating the interiors of the home. Most of the people take special care in designing the interior parts of the home with lovely wall arts and in the recent trends canvas photos too. Actually the room makes an impact when some fine art prints are placed on the walls. In fact, wall pictures are needed accessory for one’s home and provide a great tie in matching the color and style accent of the room. It is important
Inequality: multiple explanations acceptable
Tue, 22 Apr 2008 09:55:49 PDT
AS I noted yesterday, and as Greg Mankiw discussed in the New York Times over the weekend, a healthy portion of the rise in income inequality in recent decades seems to be due to slowing growth in educational attainment. Dani Rodrik writes today that this doesn't seem right, since the most impressive trend in income divergence is the skyrocketing earnings of the very rich. I don't see how the two explanations are incompatible. It certainly seems as though financial globalisation has enabled the
Investing Questions Answered
Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:02:00 PDT
Today I am responding to readers' questions about how I'm handling the stock market turmoil in my own portfolio. As a reminder, I use FundX Upgrading -- read more about how I invest by clicking on my investing archive. One of the things I like about the Upgrading methodology is that there's a multitude of ways to tailor it to my individual intent, style, and risk tolerance. (This means, of course, that my investing choices and strategy are not right for everyone and should not be construed as
Magic Ingredients
Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:03:06 PDT
Brand Strategy recently attended branding specialist Dragon’s Healthy Balance seminar which looked at the challenges the continually shifting health agenda present to brands. No longer simple, healthy food is now a multi-dimentional concept argues Dragon’s head of consumer brand Kate Waddell. “Some of the wealth of advice going out to consumers includes the concepts of ‘you are what you eat’; ‘eat filling food over fattening’ and ‘drink plenty of water’”. What is not in doubt is that health i
Part 3 of Logo Redesign — and Win a Free Logo Design Yourself
Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:04:36 PDT
Editor’s Note: This is Part 3 in our series about designing a new logo. In the previous installments, I outlined steps in the process of having a professional logo designed through Logoworks by HP. I now have been through three different rounds of of logo design and revisions. (Go here to read Part 1 and Part 2.) With each successive step we kept refining the design concepts. At this point, it is time to make a final choice. If you recall from the earlier two installments of this series, I com
“Getting California on Track: Seven Strategies to Reduce Global Warming Pollution from Transportation” is Our Site of the Day
Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:05:18 PDT
The California Public Interest Research Group (CalPIRG) has released just in time for Earth Day reading and reflection: “Getting California on Track: Seven Strategies to Reduce Global Warming Pollution from Transportation.” This timely and well researched 46 page report comes as the Schwarzenegger administration is developing a much-anticipated plan to reduce global warming emissions statewide by nearly 30 percent by 2020. Among its findings: • Transportation is the largest source of globa
Red Lake Exploration Inc. (RLKX.OB) to Present at EQUTIES Third Annual Mining Conference
Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:13:04 PDT
EQUITIES Magazine today announced its Third Annual Mining/Resource Conference will be held at the Princeton Club of New York Thursday, April 24, 2008. Emerging mining companies such as Red Lake Exploration Inc. (OTCBB: RLKX) will present their knowledge of the mining sector and their own business highlights to brokers, hedge fund managers, portfolio managers and private investors. EQUITIES Magazine serves retail and institutional investors by exploring industry trends, analyzing opportuniti
The return of the global intellectuals poll
Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:14:15 PDT
Three years ago, you may recall, we teamed up with Foreign Policy magazine to produce a list of the world’s top 100 public intellectuals and to ask our readers to vote for their top five. This year we’re repeating the exercise, with a new list that we believe better reflects the current trends in global ...]
Tyra Banks' Fly Ombre Bag
Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:16:29 PDT
Here is Tyra Banks arriving at LAX airport. Her outfit is cute minus the cheetah head scarf. I have no idea what she was thinking putting that on. The hottest item she is rockin' is her bag. OMG! I love the ombre hued bag. Ombre is a huge trend right now, that almost every celebrity is picking up on.
My Own Private Euphoria: an incomplete post
Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:16:36 PDT
Contents » Guestbook » My Poems » Blogroll » Inam, with whom I jammed once here, wrote this commenting on my rather ‘weird’ last post: I like it that your love, your lust and your dreams are overpoweringly solid and real. Actually i am getting quite angry (sigh) with all these middle-aged women who have taken to writing poetry to complain against their husbands and middle-aged men who continue to write about daffodils in order to appear intellectual to women! You might think I ha
World IP Day on Thursday, the 24th of April
Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:23:29 PDT
I again post regarding: IPI’s Third Annual World Intellectual Property Day Event WASHINGTON, D.C.–In our global knowledge-based economy, intellectual property (IP) is the key driver of economic growth, trade—and controversy. Debates over IP policy now rage both within and between countries, affecting domestic legislation and international agreements. Join the Institute for Policy Innovation (IPI) on April 24 for this year’s third annual World Intellectual Property Day policy forum, as we exami
Future trends for social media
Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:28:54 PDT
Throughout our recently released Contagious report, we’ve been examining the current social media landscape and asking just how we can measure the types of activities that are going on there. In looking at this world of blogs, podcasts, forums, wikis, crowdsourcing, and endless conversations, it is possible also to detect some new developments. In this essay, we identify these emerging trends – which are the sort of phenomena that we’ll be applying our social media metrics to in the future.P
Of Holy Grails, Resumes, Job Postings, and Social Media
Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:34:14 PDT
A “holy grail” for some with respect to online recruiting would be data standards that would enable job postings to essentially serve as a query against any segment of the world-wide set of resumes or CVs on the Web. The vision is that this might evolve into a real electronic market where talent supply and demand could be matched in a precise, on-demand way. What stands in the way of this automagic, world-wide matching of talent supply and demand? This sometimes perplexes those coming at the qu
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Hot News | Hot Trends | Trends
Tue, 22 Apr 2008 09:08:26 PDT
A cold front that killed thousands of livestock swept through northwest China, bringing sandstorms, snow and bitter cold to the region. The Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region experienced Siberian-like temperatures of at least 70 below zero, though forecasts predicated a warming trend, China's official Xinhua news agency reported Tuesday.
10 Ways to Make an Impact for Earth Day
Tue, 22 Apr 2008 09:19:10 PDT
How businesses are joining the trend to save the earth — and 10 ways your IT department can lead the way.
TextStyle - Twinkle Twinkle's
Tue, 22 Apr 2008 09:38:24 PDT
Visit the quirky, often topsy-tervy world of a fashion addicted 17 year old. Features my personal take on trends, designers and life in general as well as my day-to-day outfits and musings.
The Mullet Strategy New (Hair)Styles in Media
Tue, 22 Apr 2008 09:41:53 PDT
Exploring cyberlinguistics and new terms/trends in online media
UKidney.com Launches online blood pressure logging tool
Tue, 22 Apr 2008 09:50:24 PDT
UKidney.com announces the launch of a new service called MyBP: Personal Blood Pressure Log. This excellent FREE service allows patients to:1. Record blood pressure readings2. Trend results3. Record medication lists and notes on individual readings4. Export readings to PDF for printing, to Excel files for analysis and to email
Wall art and Canvas Photos in Home Interior Designs
Tue, 22 Apr 2008 09:53:49 PDT
Beautiful furnishings, wall hangings and other materials help a large way in decorating the interiors of the home. Most of the people take special care in designing the interior parts of the home with lovely wall arts and in the recent trends canvas photos too. Actually the room makes an impact when some fine art prints are placed on the walls. In fact, wall pictures are needed accessory for one’s home and provide a great tie in matching the color and style accent of the room. It is important
Inequality: multiple explanations acceptable
Tue, 22 Apr 2008 09:55:49 PDT
AS I noted yesterday, and as Greg Mankiw discussed in the New York Times over the weekend, a healthy portion of the rise in income inequality in recent decades seems to be due to slowing growth in educational attainment. Dani Rodrik writes today that this doesn't seem right, since the most impressive trend in income divergence is the skyrocketing earnings of the very rich. I don't see how the two explanations are incompatible. It certainly seems as though financial globalisation has enabled the
Investing Questions Answered
Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:02:00 PDT
Today I am responding to readers' questions about how I'm handling the stock market turmoil in my own portfolio. As a reminder, I use FundX Upgrading -- read more about how I invest by clicking on my investing archive. One of the things I like about the Upgrading methodology is that there's a multitude of ways to tailor it to my individual intent, style, and risk tolerance. (This means, of course, that my investing choices and strategy are not right for everyone and should not be construed as
Magic Ingredients
Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:03:06 PDT
Brand Strategy recently attended branding specialist Dragon’s Healthy Balance seminar which looked at the challenges the continually shifting health agenda present to brands. No longer simple, healthy food is now a multi-dimentional concept argues Dragon’s head of consumer brand Kate Waddell. “Some of the wealth of advice going out to consumers includes the concepts of ‘you are what you eat’; ‘eat filling food over fattening’ and ‘drink plenty of water’”. What is not in doubt is that health i
Part 3 of Logo Redesign — and Win a Free Logo Design Yourself
Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:04:36 PDT
Editor’s Note: This is Part 3 in our series about designing a new logo. In the previous installments, I outlined steps in the process of having a professional logo designed through Logoworks by HP. I now have been through three different rounds of of logo design and revisions. (Go here to read Part 1 and Part 2.) With each successive step we kept refining the design concepts. At this point, it is time to make a final choice. If you recall from the earlier two installments of this series, I com
“Getting California on Track: Seven Strategies to Reduce Global Warming Pollution from Transportation” is Our Site of the Day
Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:05:18 PDT
The California Public Interest Research Group (CalPIRG) has released just in time for Earth Day reading and reflection: “Getting California on Track: Seven Strategies to Reduce Global Warming Pollution from Transportation.” This timely and well researched 46 page report comes as the Schwarzenegger administration is developing a much-anticipated plan to reduce global warming emissions statewide by nearly 30 percent by 2020. Among its findings: • Transportation is the largest source of globa
Red Lake Exploration Inc. (RLKX.OB) to Present at EQUTIES Third Annual Mining Conference
Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:13:04 PDT
EQUITIES Magazine today announced its Third Annual Mining/Resource Conference will be held at the Princeton Club of New York Thursday, April 24, 2008. Emerging mining companies such as Red Lake Exploration Inc. (OTCBB: RLKX) will present their knowledge of the mining sector and their own business highlights to brokers, hedge fund managers, portfolio managers and private investors. EQUITIES Magazine serves retail and institutional investors by exploring industry trends, analyzing opportuniti
The return of the global intellectuals poll
Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:14:15 PDT
Three years ago, you may recall, we teamed up with Foreign Policy magazine to produce a list of the world’s top 100 public intellectuals and to ask our readers to vote for their top five. This year we’re repeating the exercise, with a new list that we believe better reflects the current trends in global ...]
Tyra Banks' Fly Ombre Bag
Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:16:29 PDT
Here is Tyra Banks arriving at LAX airport. Her outfit is cute minus the cheetah head scarf. I have no idea what she was thinking putting that on. The hottest item she is rockin' is her bag. OMG! I love the ombre hued bag. Ombre is a huge trend right now, that almost every celebrity is picking up on.
My Own Private Euphoria: an incomplete post
Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:16:36 PDT
Contents » Guestbook » My Poems » Blogroll » Inam, with whom I jammed once here, wrote this commenting on my rather ‘weird’ last post: I like it that your love, your lust and your dreams are overpoweringly solid and real. Actually i am getting quite angry (sigh) with all these middle-aged women who have taken to writing poetry to complain against their husbands and middle-aged men who continue to write about daffodils in order to appear intellectual to women! You might think I ha
World IP Day on Thursday, the 24th of April
Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:23:29 PDT
I again post regarding: IPI’s Third Annual World Intellectual Property Day Event WASHINGTON, D.C.–In our global knowledge-based economy, intellectual property (IP) is the key driver of economic growth, trade—and controversy. Debates over IP policy now rage both within and between countries, affecting domestic legislation and international agreements. Join the Institute for Policy Innovation (IPI) on April 24 for this year’s third annual World Intellectual Property Day policy forum, as we exami
Future trends for social media
Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:28:54 PDT
Throughout our recently released Contagious report, we’ve been examining the current social media landscape and asking just how we can measure the types of activities that are going on there. In looking at this world of blogs, podcasts, forums, wikis, crowdsourcing, and endless conversations, it is possible also to detect some new developments. In this essay, we identify these emerging trends – which are the sort of phenomena that we’ll be applying our social media metrics to in the future.P
Of Holy Grails, Resumes, Job Postings, and Social Media
Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:34:14 PDT
A “holy grail” for some with respect to online recruiting would be data standards that would enable job postings to essentially serve as a query against any segment of the world-wide set of resumes or CVs on the Web. The vision is that this might evolve into a real electronic market where talent supply and demand could be matched in a precise, on-demand way. What stands in the way of this automagic, world-wide matching of talent supply and demand? This sometimes perplexes those coming at the qu
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