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As far as Will Ferrell films go, 'Semi-Pro' is minor league
Say hello again to the magnificent, cheesy, infamous and long-gone Virginia Squires. It was the local professional basketball team of the 1970s, the one with the worst winning percentage in American Basketball Association history. So why bring up that rarest of things, a local professional sports team? The new movie "Semi-Pro," which opens today, is the culprit. Shameless buffoon Will Ferrell stars as a pop singer who owns, coaches and plays on a small-market team as the ABA nears extinction. Indeed, as shown in the movie, the ABA did come to an end in 1976, allowing four of its teams to merge into the NBA. The Virginia Squires was not in that final four. In the movie, the struggling team at the center of things is the Flint Tropics, a fictitious outfit centered in Flint, Mich., where Ferrell's character, Jackie Moon, is as famous as Henry Ford.
Company Builds $1 Billion Juice Business
From that introduction, Morton and his business partners capitalized on a new brand category of liquid "super-fruits" that is "doing gangbusters," said Jeff Hilton, a partner at Integrated Marketing Group, a branding and packaging consultant. XanGo has more than two dozen competitors that sell fruit juices, powdered drinks and vitamin fizz tablets. Tahitian Noni International Inc. sold $2 billion worth of noni juice, from the French Polynesia fruit, in its first 10 years by 2006. MonaVie, also of Utah, bottles a blend of acai juice from the Amazon basin berry. Pure Fruit Technologies Inc. underprices XanGo on a mangosteen-based juice that sells in health food stores. XanGo, a private company that doesn't reveal financial statements, said at the October convention that since its launch five years ago, sales of the mangosteen-based juice topped a cumulative $1 billion.
New guidelines for schools warn of online dangers
William Fralin, R-Roanoke, sponsored the measure. The department prepared a 43-page manual that contains recommendations and cautions for school administrators, teachers and parents, as well as resources for information about online safety and potential threats to children. "We're really happy to have this in place," said Lan Neugent, the state assistant superintendent for technology. "We think that it's a great step forward." The report, which was published last month, contains several pages of Web-based links to sources covering topics such as filtering, instant messaging and identity theft. The cover has an ominous image of adult-size hands reaching through a computer screen toward a frightened-looking child behind a keyboard. Fralin said the guidelines will help parents and teachers better safeguard children, who often possess more sophisticated knowledge about computers and the Internet than adults.
This week's calendar
Welcome to this week's calendar. From concerts to comedy clubs, this is where you'll find information on what's hot on the entertainment scene. Area arts and entertainment events are listed through Thursday. Unless otherwise noted, tickets (in those items with prices listed) are available at Ticketmaster outlets -- Macy's, Music Planet and Perani Arena in metro Flint. Ticketmaster patrons can charge by phone, (248) 645-6666, or online, www.ticketmaster.com. Concerts
Today • NELLIE MCKAY, 7 and 8:30 p.m., Detroit Institute of Arts, 5200 Woodward Ave., Detroit. Free with museum admission. (313) 833-7900, www.dia.org. • ROOTSTAND/ME & JOE SMITH, 8 p.m., The Pike Room, 1 S. Saginaw St., Pontiac. $8 in advance, on sale at the box office.
Cibola falls to Coyotes in quarterfinals
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I'm the Idiot Who Bought an HD-DVD Player
At Digg, active users have more of a de facto authority over the site's goings-on (though there are persistent rumors that the site has "secret moderators" who delete content). But officially speaking, while the site's algorithm seems to favor devoted users, no individual Digger has the power to unilaterally delete a post. While both sites effectively function as oligarchies, they are still democratic in one important sense. Digg and Wikipedia's elite users aren't chosen by a corporate board of directors or by divine right. They're the people who participate the most. Despite the fairy tales about the participatory culture of Web 2.0, direct democracy isn't feasible at the scale on which these sites operate. Still, it's curious to note that these sites seem to have the hierarchical structure of the old-guard institutions they've sought to supplant.
Huckabee, Obama Win in Alabama
MONTGOMERY, Ala. Mike Huckabee turned out evangelical voters and Barack Obama captured black and young voters as both won Alabama's presidential primaries Tuesday. Huckabee, a former governor of Arkansas, defeated Arizona Sen. John McCain and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, who ran third. Huckabee, with strong appeal to fellow Southern Baptists, earlier won his home state and Georgia. "It's hard for this old Razorback to say 'Roll Tide Roll,' but I'm saying it tonight," Huckabee said. Obama, the Illinois senator, defeated New York Sen. Hillary Clinton, who did not visit Alabama during the closing days of the primary. With more than 90 percent of Alabama's precincts reporting, Huckabee had 41 percent, McCain 38 percent, Romney 18 percent and Ron Paul 3 percent.
Category: Social networking
Between the Lines Latest Post | Last 10 Posts | Archives EIC Podcast: iPhone and business; Mix '08 wrap; Facebook's new hire Posted in: General Software Infrastructure Web Technology Podcasts Between the Lines podcast Apple Google Microsoft iPhone Social networking Telecommunications Facebook This week we launch a newly constituted podcast called EIC squared, which to most folks will be the same as our Between the Lines podcast with a different acronym. In other words, Dan Farber and I, are reconvening our weekly podcasts with a new moniker to reflect that the two of us have new gigs. Dan is editor-in-chief at News.com and I took over for Dan at ZDNet. In this installment, we examine the iPhone's impact in the enterprise, the potential ROI and the importance of Web applications in making Apple a player in corporate America.
Humanitarian Aid and Nation Building: Can Outsiders Really Help?
All of these are life saving activities.
The second obligation is governance and capacity building. We need to assist governments at all levels to develop transparent and accountable governments, promote rule of law, and develop civil society. This is not the same as elections. I would not suggest that elections are an immediate requirement in a nation-building exercise. They should come later, but rule of law is a critical element in governance and capacity building.
The third obligation is disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration, and that's an activity that the military has to do. If you look at Haiti and at the current events in Iraq, the military is very reluctant to engage in the disarmament of populations. It is not really what they do.
Just Plain Neighbors: 1912 employees' outing gets royal treatment
How would you like to join 599 marchers and go to Greenfield's Boston & Maine railroad station for a short trip to Brattleboro, Vt. and have a field day in Island Park in that town? Richard Sautter of Cape Elizabeth, Maine, who has done extensive research on Greenfield when he is in town, sent me the entire program and news release for Saturday, August 3, 1912. On that day, the FIRST annual field day for the employees of Wells Brothers Company and Wiley & Russell Mfg. Co. took place. The official program, oh yes, there was an official program, says, under General Orders: ''Employees will be expected to punch clocks at factory at seven o'clock, where line of march will be formed for each company. Each foreman will be expected to line up his department at once.'' (They always worked on Saturday mornings, as well as five week days.) The news story says more than 600 employees were involved (no mention of spouses.) Wells was at the corner of North and Sanderson streets, Wiley & Russell on Deerfield Street.
Auto Mercedes Shows Off 40 MPG Vision GLK BlueTec Hybrid Concept
It looks like German automakers are really stepping up their efforts in the realm of diesel-electric hybrid vehicles. Over the past two weeks, DailyTech has brought you information on the Volkswagen Golf Hybrid which achieves an astonishing 69 MPG. BMW soon followed with its Vision EfficientDynamics hybrid concept vehicle (based on the X5 Sport Activity Vehicle) which achieves 36 MPG. Mercedes-Benz is now stepping into the diesel-electric hybrid fray with the Vision GLK BlueTec Hybrid concept. As its name implies, the vehicle is based on the upcoming GLK compact SUV which will do battle with the BMW X3, Infiniti EX35 and the Audi Q5. The vehicle will slot under the mid-size ML SUV. In concept form, the GLK BlueTec Hybrid the uses the mild hybrid system co-developed with BMW -- the hybrid components are also used in the BMW Vision EfficientDynamics concept.
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