| The GOP's Fake Tough Guys
That would make the extra GOP downturn among Hispanics more like a mere 2%! But that would be hardly be worth writing a big report about. No wonder Pew didn't mention it. ... P.S.: What are the chances that the Pew Hispanic Center is going to conclude that Hispanics are not important or distinctive--they're really just like everyone else and really not worth studying much? I'd say close to zero. The study would be more credible if it came from the Pew Hellenic Center. ... Update: Steve Sailer says I'm being unfair to Pew. ("Robert Suro and the others at the Pew Hispanic Center are willing to publicly state, for example, that the Hispanic vote isn't as big or powerful as the media typically assume."**) But this report, not written by Suro, seems pretty egregious--and it does hype Hispanic voting power.
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Between the Lines Latest Post | Last 10 Posts | Archives Amid lackluster IT spending, CIOs say ERP back en vogue Posted in: General IT Management Software Infrastructure Hardware Infrastructure Security Linux Microsoft SaaS SAP IBM Oracle Business Intelligence VMware virtualization Salesforce.com ERP Enterprise 2.0 CIOs are expected to increase their technology spending by 2.7 percent in 2008, but the more notable change is the number of executives citing ERP software as their main priority. That's the takeaway from a quarterly survey put out by UBS. According to UBS, 69 percent of more than 120 respondents said they expect their IT budgets to rise. That's down from 74 percent in 2007. More importantly: 60 percent of respondents said that a slowing economy wouldn't hamper their spending plans.
Kempenfelt Community Players presents The Music Man
An affectionate paean to Smalltown, U.S.A. of a bygone era, Meredith Willson's "The Music Man" follows fast-talking traveling salesman Harold Hill as he cons the people of River City, Iowa into buying instruments and uniforms for a boys' band he vows to organize - this despite the fact he doesn't know a trombone from a treble clef. His plans to skip town with the cash are foiled when he falls for Marian the librarian, who transforms him into a respectable citizen by curtain's fall. With musical standards including "Seventy-Six Trombones", "Lida Rose", "Trouble" and "Marian, the Librarian" this show has been charming audiences since 1957. Director - Scott A.Hurst Musical Director - Edwina Douglas Tickets are $19 and will be going on sale mid December so keep your eyes and ears open. There will be both evening and matinee performances.
Banfield Announces Fittest Pet of the Year Winners
PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- The inspiring Pets that won the title of Banfield's Fittest Pets of the Year are a Labrador mix, named Tyson Collins, from Tucker, Ga., who lost an astounding 20 pounds and a feline, Boris Bivins from Overland Park, Ks., who lost 15 percent of his body weight. As the winners of Banfield's PetFit Challenge, each Pet receives grand prizes for their weight loss achievement, including a one-year Banfield Optimum Wellness Plan and a brand new refrigerator overflowing with Hill's Pet food! With medical guidance from Stacy Lettsome, DVM at the Tucker Banfield, long walks with his owner and Hill's Science Diet r/d Canine low calorie Pet food, Tyson Collins safely lost 20 pounds in 6 months on the PetFit Challenge. "Tyson has been my Pet, child and companion for more than seven years and thanks to the PetFit Challenge, I feel like I have prolonged our time together by improving his health," says Tyson's owner, Sarah Collins.
'AMC' stars dish on Angie-Jesse reunion
When "All My Children" actors Debbi Morgan and Darnell Williams arrived at the New Hope, Pa., train station to film their 20-years-in-the-making reunion this month, Morgan found herself facing a myriad of emotions. "I felt Angie's desolation walking down those tracks and then her joy at seeing Jesse," Morgan explains. "On another level, it wasn't really like acting. It became an out of body experience for me. I'm so thrilled to be working with Darnell again. For me on a very personal level, I was responding emotionally to seeing my best friend." .
Open Thread
He has recently said he wants Roe v Wade to stay in place because all those poor girls would die in backalley abortions without it. He also said he would not consider abortion when looking for judges. Think I'm lying? The Washington Post quoted him. .
US: Microsoft pioneer Weiland's estate gives US$65M for gay rights ...
The estate of Ric Weiland, a high school classmate of Microsoft Corp. founders Bill Gates and Paul Allen and one of the first five people to work at the software giant, has left US$65 million to gay rights and HIV/AIDS organizations. The bequests were announced Sunday by the Pride Foundation of Seattle, where Weiland was a board member for several years. The foundation called it the largest single bequest ever given to gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender causes. Gates and Allen hired Weiland in 1975, the year they founded Microsoft. He worked as a project leader for the Microsoft Works word processing and spreadsheet software, and was a lead programmer and developer for the company's BASIC and COBOL systems, two of the first personal computing interfaces. He left Microsoft in 1988. .
Bad News Bear
No. Proto-imperialist? Maybe. While we're unlikely to see a rivalry as bitter as in the permafrost days of the Cold War, Russia and America will clash on a host of issues. Russia's feisty President Vladimir Putin steps down in March but he's expected to keep the real power, probably re-emerging as prime minister or "national leader." Certainly, his handpicked successor, Dmitry Medvedev, will closely cleave to "Putinism." Since taking office in 2000, Putin worked to stabilize the Motherland and re-establish Russia as a global force - on par with the United States, China and the European Union. Medvedev's Kremlin is sure to continue pushing back against any "encroachment" on Russia's traditional sphere of influence in Eastern and Central Europe, the Baltic, the Caucasus and Central Asia - what Moscow calls its "near abroad." Most recently, Russia objects to the United States putting a radar in the Czech Republic and deploying 10 interceptors in Poland to counter the Iranian nuclear and ballistic missile threat.
New fishing rules no cause for panic
The first focus was on Little Rock, where memories still exist of the little, but popular, AGFC pond on the State Capitol grounds. Quite a few Arkansans who spent their formative years in Little Rock tell of riding bicycles and even city buses to fish in the midtown pond.That pond disappeared in the 1970s when the Capitol complex expanded and AGFC moved its headquarters to West Little Rock.Now there are 29 Family Fishing waters around the state. Most of them are accurately called ponds.The newest ones at Salem City Lake, Armory Pond in Magnolia and Mattocks Park Lake in El Dorado are now regulated as Family Fishing areas. Mike Freeze England Community Fishing Pond is now regulated with special community fishing regulations. The others are Benton City Lake, Cabot Community Pond, Wells Lake at Fort Smith, Mike and Janet Huckabee Youth Pond at Hope, Family Park at Hot Springs, Little Rock Air Force Base Pond at Jacksonville, Craighead Forest Youth Pond at Jonesboro, Lake Village Community Pond, Valencia Lake at Maumelle, Campbell Lake at Burns Park in North Little Rock, Martin Luther King Jr.
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