| Councilman MikeK Recalls Knievel Action Figure
The card goes everywhere with me; it's one of my favorite things. Evel was a good person, demonstrated quite recently by the fact that he forgave the rapper Kayne West before he died. I guess that was one of his last acts. "Happy Landings," Evel. RIP/Brent Andrews. .
Radio & TV Talk
Dallas McCade survives, though she might end up at Kicks. I spoke too soon about it being a quiet day. (See my previous blog entry.) Instead, we've got what is already being dubbed the Leap Day Massaacre. Management at Eagles and Kicks Friday dumped nearly the entire on-air staff in what appears to be a severe cost-cutting measure. The only major survivors: Cadillac Jack, Dallas McCade and Bill Celler. I hear traffic guy Greg Talmadge will remain, too. Gone? Veteran Kicks news man Jim Vann, Eagle morning man Rhubarb Jones, Kicks morning co-host Kristen Gates, Kicks afternoon DJ Wylie Rose, Eagle afternoon jock Steve Mitchell and Eagle mid-day gal Sandy Weaver, Kicks night-time jock Scotty O'Brien, and promotions guru Buck in the Truck, to name a few.
Filed under: NFL
-The worst month for sports is what were going through right now. The NBA is hitting the mid-season and there is yet to be any real excitement. You have the NFL that just got over a month ago, and yes, we're all sad because that marks the end of football for another 6-7 months. College Football recruiting is always fun, but we all know that in a sense it is just a waiting game that is boring. We have College Basketball hitting conference schedules real hard which is truely fun to watch, but we then enter the conference tournaments and they mean nothing. MLB isen't even heard of in this month, and NASCAR has qualifying on the week before Daytona. Isen't that just interesting. The month of February is a complete let-down. This month is almost worthless in the world of sports. I mean, the NBA season may be shaping up, but there is another 40 games to be played.
A ‘Rainbow’ Approach to Admissions
Sternberg left Yale University last year to become dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at Tufts. "If we are interested in developing future leaders, we need to expand the way we think about student abilities," Sternberg said. The college admissions process to date focuses "on a sliver of what we need to know" and completely ignores "skills that are important for success in college and life." Unlike some colleges that are frustrated with the current admissions system, Tufts isn’t eliminating the SAT, curricular requirements or anything else. All of that matters, Tufts officials say, and the problem is making decisions solely on the basis of that information. In fact, Sternberg said that many of the admissions reforms considered at other colleges — talk about looking at "the whole applicant" and so forth — aren’t rigorous enough.
Don't let phishers hook you
In Montana, fishing involves luring trout with dry flies in the summer or jigging in winter with tackle and bait. On the Internet, phishers consider you to be the catch, and you might not recognize them for what they are.Botnets and scammers send out spam messages 24/7, trying to bait recipients into opening an attached file that will install malware that runs invisibly on PCs.But not all spam contains Trojan horses or spyware, or links to them; some appears to be genuine e-mail from your financial institution or an online store. They urge you to check your account or confirm your account information, playing on your fears by saying the account has has been "accessed" by someone else and will be locked if you don't take action. These e-mails are phishing scams, and the point is to get you to click on a link to an impostor Web site that will steal your information.
Shoppers become stingy with gift cards, the latest sign of consumer ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Here's a sign of how shaky the economy has become: Wal-Mart says its shoppers are redeeming their holiday gift cards for basic items — pasta sauce, diapers, laundry detergent — instead of iPods or DVDs. Merchants had hoped shoppers armed with gift cards would provide a lift after a dismal holiday shopping season — partly because shoppers tend to spend even more than the value of the card. But that didn't seem to happen last month, and retailers are feeling the pain. Yesterday, the nation's retailers turned in their worst January in almost four decades as high gas and food prices, a slumping housing market, tighter credit and a tougher job market pushed consumers to the edge. Sales at 43 retailers surveyed by the UBS-International Council of Shopping Centers rose just 0.5 percent in January, well below the original 1.5 percent forecast.
Company in which O.C. has invested $80 million faces default
A company in which Orange County has invested $80 million may default Thursday. County Treasurer Chriss Street said he believes the county ultimately will get all its money back because "the underlying assets are paying." But the company, Whistlejacket Capital Ltd., just lost its would-be savior and is facing a cash crisis. Whistlejacket's woes point out the risks of Street's purchase of structured investment vehicles, or SIVs. Standard Chartered, the British bank that manages Whistlejacket, said Jan. 31 that it was going to put Whistlejacket on its books to prevent any loss to investors. Later, however, Whistlejacket's assets plummeted in value, leading to the appointment of a receiver and the bank's decision Wednesday not to bail out the $7 billion SIV.
Financial Straight-Talk
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