
Thursday, September 30, 2010
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tony curtis
tony curtisIn 1958, the Hollywood Foreign Press Assocation named Mr. Curtis "the world's favorite movie actor." He was Hollywood royalty, married to a fellow movie star, Janet Leigh (they would divorce in 1962), and the father of a future movie star, Jamie Lee Curtis.
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
recession over
Recession OverThe National Bureau of Economic Research, a Cambridge-based non-profit research organization that announces start and end dates of economic recessions, declared Monday that the recent U.S. recession officially ended in June 2009—well over a year ago.
The report was released by the NBER Business Cycle Dating Committee, a seven-person committee that includes three Harvard faculty, and established that the trough in national economic productivity occurred in June 2009.
Since then, measures of economic performance such as gross domestic product have indicated that the nation has entered the recovery stage.
This evaluation, however, does not address the fact that the economy still remains far from its pre-recession level of activity.
As political economy professor James H. Stock, a member of the NBER’s Business Cycle Dating Committee, said, “businesses are keenly aware that economic activity remains well below its potential.”
Several key indicators suggest economic weakness and hint against the progression of a robust economic recovery.
Stock noted that the consumer savings rate, currently at 5.9 percent, has remained extremely elevated since the trough of the recession, a problem that continues to plague small business owners by causing a lack of aggregate demand.
Consumers have continued to act as if the prospects of recovery are dim, and their unwillingness to spend hampers the recovery of consumer-driven businesses.
And while GDP has rebounded significantly, unemployment levels—a measure that typically lags behind productivity when a country is emerging from a recession—are still high, said Stock.
Of an estimated 8.5 million jobs lost during the recession, only 1.3 million have been recovered.
“From an employment perspective,” Stock said, “we are not anywhere near where we want to be. There are an enormous number of people without work.”
salons
salonsSix salons from Carrollton and Villa Rica participated, creating atypical hairstyles showcasing the talents of local stylists. A mixture of hairdos were on display throughout the night as the models, with hair piled through and around a variety of hair pieces, walked around the show at Sunset Hills Country Club.
Jamie Best, owner and stylist at J. Best Hair Co., said she participated last year with a different salon.
Monday, September 20, 2010
boardwalk empire
boardwalk empirePerhaps it's not surprising that, as the show's sumptuous pilot unfolded and Nucky and company dug into a lavish supper, a food analogy came to mind.
If 'Boardwalk Empire' were a meal, it would be an incredibly delicious traditional dish. It's not experimental; it's not giving us flavors we've never tried before or taking radical chances with familiar ingredients. 'Boardwalk Empire' is a classic dish prepared with exceptional skill and attention to detail.
herriman fire
herriman fire• A fire that first danced across a ridge top plunged downward late Sunday, sweeping into Herriman’s southern neighborhoods.
Responders and residents sprinted away from homes as 50 mph winds fanned flames from a wildfire that began Sunday afternoon at a machine gun firing range at Utah National Guard’s Camp Williams.
“It’s chaos,” said Salt Lake County sheriff’s Lt. Don Hutson as he helped move residents out of their homes.
At least 1,400 homes had been evacuated as of midnight and some had caught fire, said emergency responders who descended on Herriman from across the valley and pushed through crowds of onlookers.
Meanwhile, as many as 250 evacuees waited for updates at a Red Cross center at Herriman High School.
Saturday, September 18, 2010
kinesiology
kinesiology
Chris Lundstrom, Kinesiology Ph.D. student and elite marathoner, was a proud member of Team USA in the World Mountain Running Championships in Slovenia recently. Lundstrom competed in the national qualifying race in June. He finished 8th, but one runner dropped out and another was injured, and Lundstrom was next on the list. He ran the 12-kilometer race in the Alps in 1 hour, 4 minutes, finishing 6th.
Read the Star Tribune article on Lundstrom's experience and training regimen at
mark zuckerberg
mark zuckerbergIt was late December 2005 in Palo Alto, California, and Silicon Valley’s newest wunderkind wasn’t feeling the holiday glee. Upstairs in a busy loft decorated with Christmas lights and Family Guy posters, Facebook’s 21-year-old founder Mark Zuckerberg ambled from an elevator. I had come to talk with him about his life and site, which was just then gaining steam. He was followed by his business partner and former Harvard roommate, Dustin Moskovitz, on a Razor scooter.
“You want to ask us some questions about sexual harassment?” Zuckerberg asked me, half-jokingly, as he flopped into a chair and kicked off his worn Adidas sandals. Moskovitz brandished a fistful of papers with an impish grin. The two had just left a lengthy seminar on the subject, a requirement for doing business here and a small part of being the Internet’s next big thing.
oktoberfest

oktoberfest
The beer tents at Oktoberfest were packed Saturday even before the mayor of Munich, Christian Ude, had officially inaugurated the annual festival beer with two whacks of a hammer to open the first keg.
This year's Oktoberfest, set to run till October 4, is the first where smoking is banned. Munich is standing by for 6 million visits.
At noon, Ude, wearing Bavarian leather shorts and a green apron, performed the traditional opening ceremony: hammering a tap into the first wooden barrel of beer using a 3-kilogram hand mallet. He then handed out mugs of beer to VIP guests.