Wednesday, February 04, 2009
Tuesday, February 03, 2009
A bit of everything...
TV show: In New Show, Couples Will Have Arranged Marriages, this is a crappy show. Are they for real? Please stop this.
Music: Andrew Bird Live In Concert With Loney, Dear, he is coming to Portland.
Book: Examining The Fiery Legacy Of Andrew Jackson, may be I will get it in the library after my read to John Adams and 1776.
Movie: Soderbergh's 'Che': A Big Life, In Small Moments, this sounds really good
Music: Andrew Bird Live In Concert With Loney, Dear, he is coming to Portland.
Book: Examining The Fiery Legacy Of Andrew Jackson, may be I will get it in the library after my read to John Adams and 1776.
Movie: Soderbergh's 'Che': A Big Life, In Small Moments, this sounds really good
Heart CT Scans May Pose Risk
迪士尼逆市加價18%, will you stop going to HK Disney land? Let's do boycott, wait a min., I haven't been! Nah. Boringfish, get behind the pick up line.
Greenest & Meanest
Swedish truck maker Scania is to cut 2,000 jobs
Scandinavian airline SAS is to axe 3,000 jobs
PNC bank, based in Pittsburgh -5,800; Liz Claiborne -725; airplane maker Hawker Beechcraft Corp. -2,300; aerospace company Rockwell Collins, based in Cedar Rapis, Iowa, -600; Huntington Bank, based in Ohio -500, King Pharmaceticals, based in Bristol, TN, -520. link
How Can Mathematicians Have Best Job In U.S.?
Why Is Lehman Brothers Still Hiring?
Are Outsourced Jobs Coming Back?
Don't go to work if you're sick -- please!
迪士尼逆市加價18%, will you stop going to HK Disney land? Let's do boycott, wait a min., I haven't been! Nah. Boringfish, get behind the pick up line.
Greenest & Meanest
Swedish truck maker Scania is to cut 2,000 jobs
Scandinavian airline SAS is to axe 3,000 jobs
PNC bank, based in Pittsburgh -5,800; Liz Claiborne -725; airplane maker Hawker Beechcraft Corp. -2,300; aerospace company Rockwell Collins, based in Cedar Rapis, Iowa, -600; Huntington Bank, based in Ohio -500, King Pharmaceticals, based in Bristol, TN, -520. link
How Can Mathematicians Have Best Job In U.S.?
Why Is Lehman Brothers Still Hiring?
Are Outsourced Jobs Coming Back?
Don't go to work if you're sick -- please!
Canadian folks are not smiling either, this is not funny, we are all operating in surviving mode, some are better than others.
Catalyst to curtail newsprint and market pulp production; Crofton and Elk Falls mills in British Columbia as well as its Snowflake, Arizona mill, 55,000 tonnes of newsprint from production in the first quarterof 2009.
Tembec takes downtime to adjust to market conditions, 1 newsprint mill in Pine Falls, Manitoba.
In Dec 08, Fraser Papers Announces Downtime on Two Paper Machines for about 1 month and took out 5100 tons of capacity, now they are selling paper to Brookfield Paper. Fraser Papers Announces Sale of Specialty Printing, Packaging and Groundwood Papers, very interesting
MWV Announces Plans to Close its Washington Court House, Ohio, Primary Plastics Packaging Facility, here we go, they are going to Mexico.
MeadWestvaco to Close Envelope Facility in Connecticut, what we don't use envelope? Oh I forgot, people don't mail shit no way, it's all electronic... oh. did I say shit, I meant sheet!
Tembec takes downtime to adjust to market conditions, 1 newsprint mill in Pine Falls, Manitoba.
In Dec 08, Fraser Papers Announces Downtime on Two Paper Machines for about 1 month and took out 5100 tons of capacity, now they are selling paper to Brookfield Paper. Fraser Papers Announces Sale of Specialty Printing, Packaging and Groundwood Papers, very interesting
MWV Announces Plans to Close its Washington Court House, Ohio, Primary Plastics Packaging Facility, here we go, they are going to Mexico.
MeadWestvaco to Close Envelope Facility in Connecticut, what we don't use envelope? Oh I forgot, people don't mail shit no way, it's all electronic... oh. did I say shit, I meant sheet!
We need more free food from time to time?
Denny's gives away free Grand Slam breakfasts, did you get your free Grandslam this morning?
Morgan Stanley plans to cut 1,880 jobs
Porsche scales back worker hours
Hitachi to cut up to 7,000 jobs
Drugs giant GlaxoSmithKline is set to announce 6000 of job cuts
Honda's four-month break begins at its UK plant in Swindon
WSJ Lies About Network Neutrality
Macy's cutting 7,000 jobs
Why Costco investors are smiling?
Why We Need Stronger Unions, and How to Get Them
彭定康﹕誰可在以巴的黑暗中 點燃燭光？
港擁30摩廈 全球第二, the most # of skyscrapers in the city, NYC ranks 1st, HK ranks 2nd..not bad.! Burj Tower is even taller than Tapei 101! The wiki list.
老牛不顧而去 小牛困坑; baby cow is running wild too.
貴婦狗跳下水道 消防營救; another doggie is running wild.
貼身護唇法寶, I gonns take care of my "pouty" lip.. :P
Save vs. Spend
Five Strategies For Putting Postal Service Back In The Black
Otterly Adorable, But Born To Be Wild, adorable, give me a break?
Business School Tests Its Own Philosophy, BGI?
Your Family May Once Have Been A Different Color
'Slumdog' Actor Dev Patel On 'Living The Dream'
Senate moves stimulus package with $13 million in OSU projects
Hard times give government jobs greater allure
Porsche scales back worker hours
Hitachi to cut up to 7,000 jobs
Drugs giant GlaxoSmithKline is set to announce 6000 of job cuts
Honda's four-month break begins at its UK plant in Swindon
WSJ Lies About Network Neutrality
Macy's cutting 7,000 jobs
Why Costco investors are smiling?
Why We Need Stronger Unions, and How to Get Them
彭定康﹕誰可在以巴的黑暗中 點燃燭光？
港擁30摩廈 全球第二, the most # of skyscrapers in the city, NYC ranks 1st, HK ranks 2nd..not bad.! Burj Tower is even taller than Tapei 101! The wiki list.
老牛不顧而去 小牛困坑; baby cow is running wild too.
貴婦狗跳下水道 消防營救; another doggie is running wild.
貼身護唇法寶, I gonns take care of my "pouty" lip.. :P
Save vs. Spend
Five Strategies For Putting Postal Service Back In The Black
Otterly Adorable, But Born To Be Wild, adorable, give me a break?
Business School Tests Its Own Philosophy, BGI?
Your Family May Once Have Been A Different Color
'Slumdog' Actor Dev Patel On 'Living The Dream'
Senate moves stimulus package with $13 million in OSU projects
Hard times give government jobs greater allure
Monday, February 02, 2009
Can't find shoe throwing segment yet...
Thu, Jan 29, 2009
The Colbert Report
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
The Colbert Report
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
Throwing pies is a nation sport, I endorsed it. Go pie!
Throwing shoes are overrated and overheated, forget about the shoes in the Middle east and Cambridge, UK. Get a pie and set the bar high!
Charge over Chinese PM shoe demo Chinese Premier's response to shoe thrower
Wow: What Shoe Throwing Taught Me About America, Mr.Bush should have gotten a grand -american- apple - pie!
Migrant row minister hit by pie in UK in Oct 2008
Thomas Friedman took a pie in the face at Brown University on Earth day 2008, (with video); Haven’t we all wanted to throw a pie at the New York Times?
American Beat: Pie-Faced, we are behind in times, this is 2005.
04, Ralph Klein, cream pies and the limits of political protes, my fellow Canadian, please keep the traditions alive
In 98, Bill Gates hit with cream pie; the movie; Gates gets creamed
Charge over Chinese PM shoe demo Chinese Premier's response to shoe thrower
Wow: What Shoe Throwing Taught Me About America, Mr.Bush should have gotten a grand -american- apple - pie!
Migrant row minister hit by pie in UK in Oct 2008
Thomas Friedman took a pie in the face at Brown University on Earth day 2008, (with video); Haven’t we all wanted to throw a pie at the New York Times?
American Beat: Pie-Faced, we are behind in times, this is 2005.
04, Ralph Klein, cream pies and the limits of political protes, my fellow Canadian, please keep the traditions alive
In 98, Bill Gates hit with cream pie; the movie; Gates gets creamed
Can you see me in the picture?
Newspaper woes send Longview plant seeking new customers
Sunday, February 1, 2009 12:14 AM PST
By Erik Olson @ TDN
The struggles of the newspaper industry are cutting into the core business at Longview’s Norpac newsprint plant, but the company is trying to “book” other business to compensate.
U.S. demand for newsprint — the paper newspapers are printed on — dropped 20.2 percent in October from the previous year, which was down 10.7 percent from 2006, according to the Pulp and Paper Products Council.
In response to declining revenues, many newspapers, including this one, are printing fewer pages and narrowing down “the web,” or width, of the paper.
“Narrower webs, reduced paper basis weights and fewer printed pages per newspaper all contribute to the current drop in demand for newsprint. The recent drop in advertising expenditures is also a major contributor to decreased paper demand,” Anthony Chavez, a Weyerhaeuser Co. spokesman, said Friday.
Norpac, also known as North Pacific Paper Co., opened in 1979 as a joint venture between Weyerhaeuser Co. and Japan-based Nippon Paper Products.
Weyerhaeuser initially controlled 80 percent the mill, but now the two companies have equal shares. Some of Norpac’s paper is sold in Japan, but figures were not available.
The mill, which employs about 500, is the largest newsprint manufacturer on the West Coast. Customers include the Seattle Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Gannett newspaper chain and Lee Enterprises, which owns The Daily News. The company’s average production is about 2,900 metric tons of paper per day, with a maximum production of 4,000 tons per day.
About half of its output is newsprint, and the other half is paper products used to produces paperback books, comic books and publication-grade paper, Chavez said.
The company’s foray into producing book paper five years ago has been growing, especially when it stumbles on a hit, Chavez said. Paper for the paperback copies of the “Twilight” novel series — a teen vampire thriller that got a boost from a movie last summer — was manufactured at Norpac, Chavez said.
“Breaking Dawn,” the third book in the trilogy, sold 1.3 million copies on its first day out last summer, and an additional 3 million copies have been ordered.
It’s a stable product line for Norpac, said Paul Latta, a forest-products industry analyst with Seattle-based McAdams Wright Ragen brokerage.
“It doesn’t seem like books are going to disappear soon,” Latta said.
However, the success of Norpac still is linked closely to the newspaper industry, which is struggling against the recession and Internet competition. Two Norpac-supplied metro daily newspapers — the “Seattle Post-Intelligencer” and the “Tucson Citizen” — are expected to close this spring unless an unlikely buyer emerges.
Nationwide, daily newspaper circulation fell 4.6 percent from March to September last year, and the rate is growing, according to the Audit Bureau of Circulations, which releases figures every six months.
Reducing news space, eliminating sections and cutting the number of pages of newspapers is becoming an industrywide trend, said Rick Edmonds, a media business analyst for The Poynter Institute, a St. Petersburg, Fla.-based journalism think tank.
“That all adds up to a fairly abrupt fall of demand,” Edmonds said.
Lee Enterprises, which owns 52 other daily newspapers in addition to The Daily News, cut its newsprint consumption 24 percent. Norpac produces newsprint for nine of those papers.
The cuts in production costs save newspaper companies money, but they can’t continue indefinitely or else readers will be turned off by the lessened value of the product, he said.
“My sense is that the industry itself realizes that (newspapers are getting) dangerously small,” Edmonds said.
Businesses are cutting their advertising budgets during the recession, which has hurt newspapers, Latta added.
“To the extent that the economy recovers, I suspect we’ll see a stabilization,” Latta said. “The newspaper industry is in a structural change because of the Internet.”
Readers are moving away from the printed newspaper, but they might come back, Latta said. After the VCR was invented in the early 1970s, movie theaters suffered a severe decline but rebounded as people rediscovered the joy of seeing films on the big screen, he said.
“Maybe the newsprint industry is in a similar sort of hit,” Latta said. Readers could grow tired of looking at computer screens all day in a decade, he added.
Newsprint demand isn’t slumping everywhere. Internet service is less prevalent in South and Central American countries and more regulated in Asia, leaving more people relying on the printed product for news, said Martin Hamel, vice president of the Pulp and Paper Products Council, a trade group based in Montreal.
“Long-term, the prospects are (in Asia and Latin America) better,” Hamel said. link, I am not in the picture.
Winter Classes for Men at THE ADULT LEARNING CENTER
REGISTRATION MUST BE COMPLETED by Frida y, January 30th, 2009
NOTE: DUE TO THE COMPLEXITY AND DIFFICULTY LEVEL OF THEIR CONTENTS, CLASS SIZES WILL BE LIMITED TO 8 PARTICIPANTS MAXIMUM
Class 1
How To Fill Up The Ice Cube Trays--Step by Step, with Slide Presentation.
Meets 4 weeks, Monday and Wednesday for 2 hours beginning at 7:00 PM.
Class 2
The Toilet Paper Roll--Does It Change Itself?
Round Table Discussion.
Meets 2 weeks, Saturday 12:00 for 2 hours.
Class 3
Is It Possible To Urinate Using The Technique Of Lifting The Seat and Avoiding The Floor, Walls and Nearby Bathtub?--Group Practice.
Meets 4 weeks, Saturday 10:00 PM for 2 hours.
Class 4
Fundamental Differences Between The Laundry Hamper and The Floor--Pictures and Explanatory Graphics.
Meets Saturdays at 2:00 PM for 3 weeks.
Class 5
Dinner Dishes--Can They Levitate and Fly Into The Kitchen Sink?
Examples on Video.
Meets 4 weeks, Tuesday and Thursday for 2 hours beginning
at 7:00 PM
Class 6
Loss Of Identity--Losing The Remote To Your Significant Other.
Help Line Support and Support Groups.
Meets 4 Weeks, Friday and Sunday 7:00 PM
Class 7
Learning How To Find Things--Starting With Looking In The Right Places And Not Turning The House Upside Down While Ranting.
Open Forum
Monday at 8:00 PM, 2 hours.
Class 8
Health Watch--Bringing Her Flowers Is Not Harmful To Your Health.
Graphics and Audio Tapes.
Three nights; Monday, Wednesday, Friday at 7:00 PM for 2 hours.
Class 9
Real Men Ask For Directions When Lost--Real Life Testimonials.
Tuesdays at 6:00 PM Location to be determined
Class 10
Is It Genetically Impossible To Sit Quietly While She Parallel Parks?
Driving Simulations.
4 weeks, Saturday's noon, 2 hours.
Class 11
Learning to Live--Basic Differences Between Mother and Wife.
Online Classes and role-playing
Tuesdays at 7:00 PM, location to be determined
Class 12
How to be the Ideal Shopping Companion
Relaxation Exercises, Meditation and Breathing Techniques.
Meets 4 weeks, Tuesday and Thursday for 2 hours beginning at 7:00 PM.
Class 13
How to Fight Cerebral Atrophy--Remembering Birthdays, Anniversaries and Other Important Dates and Calling When You're Going To Be Late.
Cerebral Shock Therapy Sessions and Full Lobotomies Offered.
Three nights; Monday, Wednesday, Friday at 7:00 PM for 2 hours.
Class 14
The Stove/Oven-- What It Is and How It Is Used.
Live Demonstration.
Tuesdays at 6:00 PM, location to be determined.
Upon completion of any of the above courses, diplomas will be issued to the survivors.
REGISTRATION MUST BE COMPLETED by Frida y, January 30th, 2009
NOTE: DUE TO THE COMPLEXITY AND DIFFICULTY LEVEL OF THEIR CONTENTS, CLASS SIZES WILL BE LIMITED TO 8 PARTICIPANTS MAXIMUM
Class 1
How To Fill Up The Ice Cube Trays--Step by Step, with Slide Presentation.
Meets 4 weeks, Monday and Wednesday for 2 hours beginning at 7:00 PM.
Class 2
The Toilet Paper Roll--Does It Change Itself?
Round Table Discussion.
Meets 2 weeks, Saturday 12:00 for 2 hours.
Class 3
Is It Possible To Urinate Using The Technique Of Lifting The Seat and Avoiding The Floor, Walls and Nearby Bathtub?--Group Practice.
Meets 4 weeks, Saturday 10:00 PM for 2 hours.
Class 4
Fundamental Differences Between The Laundry Hamper and The Floor--Pictures and Explanatory Graphics.
Meets Saturdays at 2:00 PM for 3 weeks.
Class 5
Dinner Dishes--Can They Levitate and Fly Into The Kitchen Sink?
Examples on Video.
Meets 4 weeks, Tuesday and Thursday for 2 hours beginning
at 7:00 PM
Class 6
Loss Of Identity--Losing The Remote To Your Significant Other.
Help Line Support and Support Groups.
Meets 4 Weeks, Friday and Sunday 7:00 PM
Class 7
Learning How To Find Things--Starting With Looking In The Right Places And Not Turning The House Upside Down While Ranting.
Open Forum
Monday at 8:00 PM, 2 hours.
Class 8
Health Watch--Bringing Her Flowers Is Not Harmful To Your Health.
Graphics and Audio Tapes.
Three nights; Monday, Wednesday, Friday at 7:00 PM for 2 hours.
Class 9
Real Men Ask For Directions When Lost--Real Life Testimonials.
Tuesdays at 6:00 PM Location to be determined
Class 10
Is It Genetically Impossible To Sit Quietly While She Parallel Parks?
Driving Simulations.
4 weeks, Saturday's noon, 2 hours.
Class 11
Learning to Live--Basic Differences Between Mother and Wife.
Online Classes and role-playing
Tuesdays at 7:00 PM, location to be determined
Class 12
How to be the Ideal Shopping Companion
Relaxation Exercises, Meditation and Breathing Techniques.
Meets 4 weeks, Tuesday and Thursday for 2 hours beginning at 7:00 PM.
Class 13
How to Fight Cerebral Atrophy--Remembering Birthdays, Anniversaries and Other Important Dates and Calling When You're Going To Be Late.
Cerebral Shock Therapy Sessions and Full Lobotomies Offered.
Three nights; Monday, Wednesday, Friday at 7:00 PM for 2 hours.
Class 14
The Stove/Oven-- What It Is and How It Is Used.
Live Demonstration.
Tuesdays at 6:00 PM, location to be determined.
Upon completion of any of the above courses, diplomas will be issued to the survivors.
Sunday, February 01, 2009
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