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Groundbreaking Web Site Holds Answers to Life's Questions
LINCOLN, Neb., Feb. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- A groundbreaking new Web site launched today, eXtension.org, promises to be a gateway to answering all of life's little questions -- from parenting, to saving and investing, entrepreneurship and vegetable gardens. eXtension experts are the brains behind eXtension.org, a sort of "next-gen Google," where curious minds can find a range of information including how to calculate their retirement readiness score, tips to easing credit card debt, how to grow the best tomatoes on the block or ways to set a schedule for a new born baby. Even better, if the consumer can't find the information he or she is looking for, real live authorities in their area of interest monitor and answer questions through the Web site. And all of eXtension's resources are available to knowledge-seekers at no cost.
Holiday Mathis horoscopes for Feb. 28
People on your team are smart enough to handle whatever business you throw their way, so delegate. CANCER (June 21-July 22): You take complete responsibility for the impression you make on others. Know what you want to say and how you want to portray yourself. Soon you have a constituency of supporters. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): You are your word. But what about the situation where you didn't actually say anything directly, maybe just implied it? Make good on those implications, and the people you're dealing with will not only trust you but also love you. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): You're forging an even stronger connection with that person who makes you laugh. (Taurus and Capricorn fit the role). Together, you'll find solutions for today's strange and random problems.
Fighting for Survival
Instead, Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff asked the judge to "consider, along with the jury verdict, my whole life." In the end, Walton said he respects those who choose to pursue public service but, "I also think it's important we expect and demand a lot from people who put themselves in those positions." Libby now faces the prospect of becoming the first high-level White House official to go to prison since Watergate. The threat became even more real when Walton said he was not inclined to allow Libby to remain free on bail during any appeals because his conviction is unlikely to be overturned, but the final decision will be made next week. The Los Angeles Times says Walton's reluctance to let Libby go free on bail, "appeared to throw the defense team off guard." USA Today emphasizes that Libby and his attorneys now have to show there is at least a chance that an appeal would be succesful.
JetBlue expands service, Singapore Airlines to fly Airbus A380
NEW JETBLUE FLIGHTS. JetBlue announced Tuesday that it will begin flying from JFK to LAX, Los Angeles' major airport, starting May 21 as part of the airline's expansion in the West.
There will be three daily nonstop flights each way.
A sale fare of $129 each way is being offered on the new flights through Feb. 22 for travel through June 14. Tickets must be booked online, and other restrictions apply.
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Destruction Of Sumatran Forests Driving Global Climate Change And ...
This groundbreaking report gives U.S. businesses a roadmap for getting the biggest bang for their buck," said Adam Tomasek, managing director of the Borneo and Sumatra program at WWF-US. "An investment in Riau Province would both protect some of the world's largest carbon stores and safeguard endangered tigers, elephants and local communities." Carbon emissions are likely to increase, the study predicted, as most future forest clearance is planned for areas with deep peat soils. "The loss of Sumatra's carbon-rich forest ecosystems is not just Indonesia's problem - this affects the environmental health of the entire planet," added Tomasek. The report by WWF, Remote Sensing Solution GmbH and Hokkaido University breaks new ground by analyzing for the first time the connection between deforestation and forest degradation, global climate change, and population declines of tigers and elephants.
Wanted in Michigan: Entrepreneurs
Schox spent six years as an attorney with Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione in Ann Arbor before starting his own practice. He accumulated several Michigan clients, including companies like Accuri Cytometers and NeuroNexus Technologies, before moving to San Francisco a few years ago and continuing his practice. Every six weeks or so, Schox travels back to Ann Arbor for about five days to meet with clients and occasionally teach at U-M. He has a firsthand look at the differences between the entrepreneurial environment in California and the environment in Michigan. One of the key differences, he said, is that Californians applaud entrepreneurial spirit and generally accept failure. Schox has never had a Michigan client go out of business. Several of his Californian clients have.
Phila. groups helping late borrowers
Regina Taylor was in a heap of financial trouble last month. The payment on the $78,000 adjustable-rate mortgage for her house in Mount Airy climbed from $515 to a scheduled $1,010 this month. Taylor, 53, a grandmother of eight, had fallen behind the year before after a job loss and couldn't catch up, barely escaping a sheriff's sale last summer. Then last month, Countrywide Financial Corp. agreed to modify her loan, giving her a fixed payment of $535 a month, including taxes and insurance. "Everything worked out really well," said Taylor, who went to Cleveland last month to meet with Countrywide officials as part of the Philadelphia Unemployment Project's campaign to switch delinquent borrowers to affordable fixed-rate mortgages. A menacing increase in delinquent subprime loans like Taylor's drove Countrywide, the nation's largest mortgage lender, to be rescued from possible bankruptcy by Bank of America Corp., which said yesterday that it would pay $4.1 billion in stock for Countrywide, of Calabasas, Calif.
Go & Do - Seacoast events
Guarding Sing Sing," today at 5 p.m. in the Memorial Union Building, Theatre II, as part of the University of New Hampshire Writers Series. It is free and open to the public. Conover's chronicle of his 10-month stint as a corrections officer at New York's maximum security prison Sing Sing — undertaken without the knowledge of prison authorities — earned a Pulitzer Prize nomination and a National Book Critics Circle Award.
Caring for your aging parentsThe Seacoast Women's Network will hold a dinner meeting, "Ten Tips for Talking to Your Aging Parents About Their Care," from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 26 at Portsmouth Sheraton Harborside, 250 Market St., Portsmouth. The meeting will give communication strategies to help with the maze of long term care issues and concerns for loved ones.
Police Violence and Abuses in Detention
They are crowded together in unsanitary conditions, with no privacy and little respect for their personal integrity. Detained children are vulnerable to mistreatment from staff members and from other detainees, sometimes with staff acquiescence. They are left in the hands of untrained and unqualified personnel. All of these conditions contravene international standards. As titular head of the Social Welfare Office (Oficina de Bienestar Social), First Lady Patricia de Arzú is responsible for Guatemala's juvenile detention centers, or "re-education centers," as some of them are known. Claiming a lack of resources and corruption among their own staff, the First Lady's office has virtually abdicated control over the juvenile facilities by inviting in REMAR (Rehabilitación de los Marginados), a Spanish evangelical organization, which purportedly provides its services free of charge.
888 ups its game with doubling of revenues
888, the online gaming group, said yesterday that net gaming revenue rose 55 per cent in the fourth quarter, despite being the first full year since the company was forced out of the US market. The gaming group, which has set itself a target of tripling profits and doubling revenues by the end of 2010, said that net gaming revenue in the last three months of 2007 was $63 million (£32.4 million), with its casino games bringing in $35 million and $21 million coming from its poker sites. The group said that 2008 trading had "started strongly", as it reported a jump in revenue from non-US internet gamblers. 888 was forced to withdraw from the US in 2006 after Congress passed a law outlawing online gambling. .
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