| Uganda: Kibaki's Payrise Shows Leaders' True Colours | | Posted Wednesday, December 13, 2006 1:25:22 PM by Blog57 Team | | It is unfortunate and unacceptable that Kenyan parliamentarians a few days ago increased President Mwai Kibaki's salary by about 70 per cent in spite of the daily challenges of life experienced by million of Kenyans who live on only less than $1 a day. This is typical for an African leader who having taken power, riding on the lofty promise to save his people from dire poverty and bad government only to dash those hopes and instead steal from the very mouths of those who voted for them. How does a president of a third world country with about 50 per cent of its population living in abject poverty, and barely able to defend themselves against the ravages of nature like severe droughts and floods, maintain a straight face with such earnings? Kibaki will now earn $528,000 (about Shs924 million) per annum.... | |
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| | | Estrada shows entrepreneurs way to success | | Posted Monday, November 13, 2006 3:47:14 AM by Blog57 Team | | Ruben Estrada is the chief executive officer and chief small business architect of Estrada Strategies, the founder of the Estrada Strategies CEO Club and the monthly online Executive Estrada Strategies CEO TELE CLUB. Impressive titles, but Estrada's greatest success in the region can be measured by the many successful entrepreneurs he has advised, nurtured and helped to bloom. He is the author of the upcoming "6 Disciplines of Business," a must-read for fledgling entrepreneurs and for CEOs who need to turn their companies around. He created his company in 2000, and by 2004 was successful enough to create the Estrada Strategies Foundation to serve those small businesses who were not in a financial position to invest in an Estrada Strategies program. Estrada is an internationally recognized keynote speaker and an Inland Empire community leader, serving on several corporate and community boards.... | |
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| | | 'Daily Show' on Ohio road trip | | Posted Tuesday, October 31, 2006 11:33:45 AM by Blog57 Team | | COLUMBUS, Ohio Comedy Central's "The Daily Show" is gearing up for a week of pre-election shows in Ohio. Yesterday, host Jon Stewart and members of his crew fielded questions from students at Ohio State University during a special appearance that was set up after spaces for four nights of tapings filled up. Stewart asked the crowd: "A buckeye is a gay acorn, right?" The audience roared when Stewart announced a party in his dorm room. Stewart says they chose Ohio for the "Midwest Midterm Midtacular" because it was such a key state in the 2004 election. Many big-name politicians have begged off on appearing. Tomorrow's featured guest at the first taping is Cleveland Cavaliers basketball star LeBron James. Copyright 2006 Associated Press. All rights reserved.... | |
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| | | P990 smartphone brings local TV shows to handset | | Posted Wednesday, October 18, 2006 11:15:20 PM by Blog57 Team | | TV additcts can now watch their local TV shows on the Sony Ericsson P990 smartphone using Sony's LocationFree, a system that redirects TV shows from the user's home television to a compatible mobile device. The LocationFree system is made up of the LocationFree Base Station by technology company Sony, together with LocationFree Player software supplied on the P990's Memory Stick or by download. The Base Station plugs into the user's existing home network, which can later be accessed by the P990 when the user is away from home. The user can watch TV or a DVD (if it's in the DVD player) on the handset. He can also control his set top box or DVD/HDD recorder to record programmes. The LocationFree Base Station is available to buy in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and UK.... | |
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| | | Study shows "Daily Show" does real news | | Posted Friday, October 06, 2006 7:12:12 PM by Blog57 Team | | BLOOMINGTON, Ind. Jon Stewart may call "The Daily Show" fake news. But a telecommunications professor at Indiana University says her research shows it has just as much substance as traditional network news. Julia Fox points to real questions asked of guests like Pakistan's president, who last week said he doesn't know where Osama bin Laden is, and former Senator John Edwards, who announced he was running for president on the show. Fox says the Comedy Central program is first and foremost "clearly a humor show." But she adds there's also significant information being exchanged, calling it "a legitimate source of news." The first academic examination of Stewart's shtick is called "No Joke: A Comparison of Substance in The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and Broadcast Network Television Coverage of the 2004 Presidential Election Campaign." Copyright 2006 Associated Press.... | |
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| | | Once-a-Year Shot Shows Promise for Osteoporosis | | Posted Sunday, September 24, 2006 11:13:34 PM by Blog57 Team | | PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Scientists report encouraging test results on an experimental, once-a-year treatment for bone-thinning osteoporosis. Preliminary study data from final stage human testing shows the drug, Reclast, appears to prevent spine and hip fractures even though it's given only once a year, eliminating the need for daily pills. The infusion takes about 15 minutes. A just-completed, international study of more than 7,700 postmenopausal women who have osteoporosis shows the drug also reduces the risk of fractures elsewhere. Novartis says side effects are generally minor and short-lived and says it plans to apply early next year for US approval to sell Reclast. The data was presented September 16th at the annual meeting of the American Society of Bone and Mineral Research in Philadelphia.... | |
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| | | Nine Melbourne - Daily Ratings for Monday September 11 | | Posted Tuesday, September 12, 2006 9:14:02 AM by Blog57 Team | | Nine Melbourne continues to lead week 37 of the official OzTAM television survey period, with a 27.6 per cent All Audience prime time share in the week-to-date (Sunday-Monday) rankings. Ten follows with 27.2 per cent, while Seven is in third position with 25.4 per cent. Nine had the highest-rating local news bulletin and four of the Top 10 shows last night as the Network went into its second night of 50 Years of Television celebrations. National Nine News (458,000) was again the preferred choice by viewers, beating Seven News (451,000). Hosted by Mike Munro, the two-hour 50 Years 50 Shows retrospective special attracted an audience of 364,000, prevailing over Seven's The Great Outdoors (309,000) and Ten's Law & Order: SVU (354,000). Nationally, 50 Years 50 Shows was a strong performer with 1.271 million.... | |
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| | | Despite constraints, `Hollywoodland' shows dark side of TV's Man of Steel | | Posted Sunday, September 03, 2006 11:28:58 PM by Blog57 Team | | Superman fears energy-sapping kryptonite. Warner Bros. and DC Comics, a subsidiary of Time Warner, fear anything that could tarnish their Man of Steel's reputation or reveal him to have Clark Kent-like feet of clay. The movie ``Hollywoodland'' (opening Friday) does exactly that. The low-budget biopic -- set in the late 1950s and starring Ben Affleck as TV Superman George Reeves and Adrien Brody as a private eye investigating Reeves' suicide -- shows the actor to be an adulterer, a drunk and an industry laughingstock. It also floats the theory, via Brody's down-and-out gumshoe, that Reeves didn't commit suicide in 1959; that he was murdered by a jealous studio exec and that the Hollywood police and press not only bungled the investigation but also may have facilitated a coverup.... | |
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| | | Survey shows Beijing leads the nation in per capita monthly income | | Posted Monday, August 28, 2006 11:31:10 PM by Blog57 Team | | A recent survey by the National Bureau of Statistics reported a per capital monthly income of 998.53 Yuan on average, for urban households nationwide in July. The figure for Beijing stood at 1822.26 Yuan, ranked as first and closely followed by Shanghai. The survey reportedly covered 31 provinces, municipalities (Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin and Chongqing) and autonomous regions nationwide, in which a total number of 56,090 urban households, around 2,000 in each region, were surveyed. The survey found that Beijing and Shanghai lead the nation in both total and disposable income, Beijing has the highest capital monthly income (1822.26 Yuan) and the second highest disposable income (1612.56 Yuan). Shanghai has the second highest total income (12.42 Yuan less than Beijing) but has the highest disposable income (12.96 Yuan more than Beijing).... | |
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| | | Lumberjack Thrill Shows | | Posted Wednesday, August 23, 2006 11:12:44 AM by Blog57 Team | | As you are lumbering your way through the 2006 Kentucky State Fair, be sure to find time for the Lumberjack Thrill Shows in the South Wing parking lot. In addition to obstacle pole relays and speed pole climbing, lumberjack events include crosscut sawing, axe throwing, chainsaw carving, log rolling, hot sawing and chopping. .... | |
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