| Dubai to host 2008 World Jewellery Confederation Congress
This is the first time that this prestigious global gathering of jewellery trade organisations and professionals has been held in the Middle East. The choice of Dubai for this three-day event, which will be held under the patronage of DMCC, comes in recognition of the emirate's increasingly central role on the global jewellery stage. Among those expected to attend this high-profile meeting are leading members of the international jewellery trade, as well as government and United Nations representatives, all of whom will convene in Dubai to address the global outlook for a broad range of industry issues. DMCC will host the conference and a wide variety of related activities over the course of the three days. An international confederation of national jewellery trade organisations, CIBJO was founded in 1926 as a purely European organisation, becoming genuinely global in 1961.
Despite tension, Jason Kidd doesn't forget good times
It didn't end the way either side wanted. What breakup ever does? This fresh start with an old team has yet to inspire the confidence Jason Kidd or the Mavericks sought. Kidd doesn't dwell on such weighty matters. All he knows is that the Mavericks need a win tonight at American Airlines Center. The possibility that win will come against New Jersey is secondary. After all, this isn't the first trip around the NBA block or the first trade for the 34-year-old point guard. "You know, we achieved a lot of great things there," Kidd said of his 6½ seasons with the Nets. "Nobody can take that away. They can say what they want. "You take a team from being trash to being respectable, nothing can change that." The Nets were 26-56 before they acquired Kidd in July 2001.
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MINNETONKA, Minn. The ruins of the Minneapolis bridge collapse are all cleaned up now, but Garrett Ebling is still picking up the wreckage it made of his life."Every step I take I'm sore, so that's a reminder. Every time I look in the mirror and see my new nose, it's a reminder. My mouth gets sore every time I chew that's a reminder," said Ebling, a 32-year-old journalist who was among the worst injured when his Ford Focus plummeted 60 feet into the Mississippi River.
For most Minnesotans, what happened on Aug. 1 has receded from daily notice. Answers from a federal investigation into the cause are months away, and at the state Capitol the doomed bridge has become just another subject of partisan feuding.But for Ebling, and an estimated 15 or so others seriously injured in the catastrophe, the last few months have been just the beginning of a long struggle to regain their health.Ebling's "new sense of normal," as he calls it, means recovering from the numerous bones broken in his face and jaw, two broken feet, a compound fracture in his left arm, a severed colon and a collapsed lung."You try to find milestones," Ebling said.He has a few: The day he left the hospital, two months after the collapse; walking for the first time without a walker, right before Thanksgiving; and his first day back at work for a few hours, about four months after the collapse.Before Aug.
Obama's Fate in Texas Hinges on Volunteers
Davis started a blog, TexansForObama.com. By the time Sen. Obama announced his run last February, Mr. Davis's blog had received offers from 5,000 potential volunteers. Shortly thereafter, when Sen. Obama came to Austin for a rally, 20,000 people showed up, many of them recruited by Mr. Davis. He collected as many names as he could, filing them in the laundry baskets. As Sen. Obama campaigned in early primaries, Mr. Davis's book club got more and more political. Without much encouragement or oversight from the official campaign, it grew, as did similar groups in other cities. Mr. Davis and other volunteer coordinators began holding weekly meetings to plan leafleting, door-knocking and the like. A Powerful Tool As the voting in Iowa and New Hampshire approached, Mr. Davis and thousands of other Texans took advantage of a powerful tool available on the Obama campaign's national Web site, MyBarackObama.com.
Hulkmania Hits the Water
MINNEAPOLIS, Feb. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Hulk Hogan, one of the most charismatic icons of popular culture and co-host of the new wildly popular NBC-TV show, "American Gladiators," has teamed up with FLW Outdoors to become the celebrity spokesperson of its world renown professional angler fishing tournaments and its new FLW Fantasy Fishing game in 2008, the largest and richest fantasy sports game in the world. Fans the world over have followed Hogan from his beginnings as the world's biggest pro wrestling star to his induction into the World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) Hall of Fame, to his many movie and television roles, including his most recent success as the co-host in the over-the-top reality TV show hit, "American Gladiators." The show ranked No. 2 in prime time in the January 14 Nielsen ratings with 10.7 million viewers, according to a report in the New York Times.
Tegrity Achieves Record Sales, Customer Acquisition and Retention in ...
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Dec. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Tegrity, provider of the leading Web 2.0 Class Capture System to the higher education market, announced today that once again, it has exceeded aggressive goals for sales, customer acquisition - increasing customer acquisition more than 50 percent - and maintaining customer retention levels close to 100 percent during 2007. The company credits its exclusive focus on the higher education market as well as its continuing program of product enhancements around its unique, easy-to-use Web 2.0 solution for the strong gains. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20070430/NEM020logo ) Tegrity attributes its success to increased awareness, acceptance of its award-winning technology, continued investment in product development and focused sales and marketing programs in 2007, which included hosting the first-annual Tegrity User Group conference in San Francisco.
You Gotta Eat: Ken's Gourmet Chili
Eric Shangraw is sampling the menu at Ken's Gourmet Chili in this week's You Gotta Eat. Ken's Gourmet Chili is a little spot on North Sheridan. Its' so small, there's no seating, only a kitchen and cash register. Owner Ken Garner says he's perfected a 20–year–old chili recipe, which is his business staple. He makes two kinds each morning. I do one that is 93–percent fat free beef. And there is one with a higher fat content. People that are diabetic can eat the one that has the low fat content, said Garner. It seems everyone has an opinion about what makes good chili. Good meat. Some spice. But not so hot that (it hurts your throat). I like a little spice. That's what she says we have here, said customer Sharlene Webb. We ordered two eight ounce chili's...
Mozilla may be eyeing online services space à la .Mac, Windows Live
Mozilla Labs vice president Chris Beard has expressed interest in the possibility of creating an open and extensible infrastructure for developing online services similar to Windows Live and .Mac. Beard is intrigued by the possible advantages of closing the gap between the browser and the Internet cloud. "It seems that as the Web continues to evolve and as more of our lives moves online, we could do more to broker even richer online experiences," writes Beard. "We've been thinking about this a lot lately. And, in particular, how the blending of the desktop and the Web—through deeper integration of the browser with online services—could further enhance the user experience, increase user control over personal information, and provide new opportunities for developers to build innovative online experiences." Beard notes that existing web services aren't broadly designed with browser integration in mind.
Economy shrinks by 63,000 jobs in February
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Outlook Bleak for Joshua Trees
One of the questions I guess we talk about, at least internally, on an informal basis, is 'What do we have here without Joshua trees?'" says Joe Zarki, a longtime ranger. Joshua trees are a type of yucca that grow 30 feet or taller. The ends of their short branches are covered with clusters of green leaves with spiny tips. An early explorer named John Freemont called it the "most repulsive plant in the vegetable kingdom," Zarki says. "People nowadays, I think, look at it and see this really distinctive, sort of whimsical plant," Zarki says. "I like them. It's a plant with character." Jim Cornett, an independent ecologist who has been studying Joshua trees for almost 20 years, doesn't buy Ken Cole's grim prediction about the trees disappearing from the park.
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